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FRAUD IN LAND ENTRIES. LANE COUNTY LEADER NEED A STIR-UP. Report» on Suspension Show Them Den- eral In Coast States. Washington, April 28— The secre tary of the interior ia beginning to re ceive reports on the suspension of tim ber and stone land entriea in Catli- fornia, Oregon and Washington, and ao far as they go they confirm the order of suspension which was made last fall. There is a thorough conviction on the part of the officials of the interior de partment that many, if not moat, of the entries under the timber act which were made in the Pacific Coast states during the year 1902 were made in the interest of syndicates, and the protests received tim e the issuance of (lie order strengthen this conviction. Since then not a single entry under the law in the states covered by tne order has been allowed to go to patent without a thor ough investigation. There arc Many special agents in that field, and the new law permitting the compulsory attendance of witnesses in connection witli land entry investiga- tions is expected to prove of great as sistance to them in establishing the validity oi lack of validity of sueli en tries. In one state alone last year there was an increase in the entries amounting to about 140,000 acres in the course of three months. OREGON NEWS OF INTEREST Postoffiee Officials arc Lax In Methods — Too Anxious to Please, Washington, April 2».— It is the con census of opinion among fair men who CO TTA G E GROVE OREGON. FLOCK TO LAKH COUNTY. bave watched tbe postoffice department MARION COUNTY CROPS. of late years, and who are familiar Large Number of Men Waiting lor Snow with ita officials, thaP there is much Warm Rain Needed. Otherwise the Out to Melt In Order to Locate. look la Very Favorable. I more smoke than fire in that depart Timber men continue to arrive at Crops in Marion county are in good ment just dow , and that the investiga- i M m l Rsw4sw «4 l a f a i u t Hsrvsu ml tte teat Weak la B rial u t ! tion that bas been under war for sev condition as a general thing, and there Lakeview by every stage and from every eral weeks will make far less tensa- is nothing yet to discourage the farmer. direction, and the Lakeview land office j tional disclosures than have been pre- It would fce better for everything, how is working to its foil capacity. Several More serious rioting bai occurred at ^ dieted. Not but what the business ever, should there be a heavy, warm locators with scrip are waiting fur the French monasteries. j methods of tbe department will be rain, which would have a tw -fold ben snow to disappear, so they can get into A great ovation was accorded King shown to be lax in many respects, and eficial effect — it would supply toe ne the timber. Fidward on bis arrival in Rome. Silver Lake promisee to be the tim ! that remedies will be recommended, for cessary moisture now demanded in I t is reported that Mies Ruth Hanna this no one doubts, but it is reasonably many places, and it would bring the ber cruiser’s headquarters this year, wll tie married at Thomaaville, Ga., on | certain that very few officials will lose snow out of tbe Cascades, thus insur and with its two newspapers is expected Ja n e 9. their positions as a result of tbe ing warm spring weather, which it is to wield considerable influence in the Russia denies that she wants to close charges that have been filed and are be affairs of Lake county in the future. Manchurian ports and offers conces ing run down. Tyner is, of course, proverbial cannot be had until Table The extension of the railroad from already out, and Assistant Attorney Rock and tbe lower ridges of the moun sions to the United States. Shaniko.to Deschutes promises to divert General o( the Department Christianry tains are bare of their white coats. Fire destroyed a large part of the is suspended at his own request pend- all the trade north of Goose Lake Val Fruit is coming on in good shape, the ley from San Francisco to Portland, woods at W. K. Vanderbilt’s country i ing investigations. home, "Id le Home," on Long Island. Tbe postoffice is the biggest and toad of blossoms indicating a plentiful and give passengers a shorter and General Chaffee says the officers ac most extensive of all the government crop, but it is too early fo feel safe yet. better route via stage to the railroad, cused by General Miles have already departments. I t employs more men Tbe weather most dangerous to fruit in as there is a good road at all seasons been tried and their cases disposed of. and is more generally distributed over this country is that which brings tbe of the year from Lakeview to the Des- chntes, and no mountains to cross. the country than any other branch of John D. Rockefeller. J r ., and his eon The season is very backward. No tbe governmeont, hence, the chances cold, beating, sleety rains late in April, ef the same name are in constant dread for fraud, for wrongdoing, and for evils when tbe pollen is in the blossom, to grass has yet started and sheepmen are of assassins and are guarded by de arising from lax methods are greater be wasbed cut by those rains, leaving anxious, as the lambing season is at tectives. than in any other department. At the the blosaom lifeless for fruitmakiug hand, and there is no grass, and nights Judge Kilpatrick, of the United same time, with so many employes on purposes. There is always a good crop are very cold. Heavy losses have been THEIR REVENUE IS AWFUL. States supreme court, in New York, has the rolls, and so many officials with of fruit when that class of rains comes sustained in the last two weeks, and if before the blossoming ia far advanced the weather do«s not get warmer in a ordered the receivers of the American varying grades of authority and or when the warm spring arrives with few days, the losees will be heavier British Rout Mad Mullah and Siay 2,000 bicycle company to accept the offer of rponribility, It will be an extremely than ever before. (3,000,000 made by the reorganization difficult matter to faBten onto any one out much rain at all. of His Followers. The hop crop is at that point where A few sheepmen have commenced : man the responsibility for sbcrtcomings company. Aden, Arabia, April 28.— Brigadier there is merely speculation as to the re shearing wethers, but many (ear to at A posse of citizens who were on the j that may be found. The service will benefit from the in- sults. Asusual, much is heard of mis tempt it yet, although it is far past tbe General Manning, after an engagement looaout had a running pistol fight with sing hills, damaged vines, and a heavy with the Mad Mullah’s forces, baa re six would-be bank robbers at Frank vestigiation, no doubt, for its moral in shortage in prospect for this year, but usual time to begin. fluence is good, and serves as a warning lieved Colonel Cobbe, near Gamburru, fort, Ind. The intruders escaped. past experience lias shown that in many Hanging of Armstrong. to all employes that the postmaster Somaliland, 45 miles west of Galadi. Governor Davis, of Arkansas, has general is after wrongdoers, and is years when similar predictions were An examination of tbe law governing made, the yield turned out reasonably the execution of death sentences, which About 2,000 of the Mullah’s men were signed an act of the legislature making ready to prosecute all be can find. good. ________ it unlawful for nonresidents to hunt or was passed by the last legislature, re killed. The British lose is not known. Ish at any season of the year in WORK OANO RUN DOWN. veals the fact that Armstrong, the mur The few details obtainable of the dis Sheep Shearing; in Umatilla. Arkansas. Twenty sheep shearers have arrived derer of Minnie Eusiuinger, at Baker aster to Colonel Plankett’s detachment Four burglars blew open the life of Ten Oreeks and One American Killed In a in Umatilla county from different parts City, will have to be executed in that April 17 show the Mullah’s forces con Kansas Smash-Lp. city, if the supreme court confirms the Munn & Sons’ private hank at Fortage, of the country, and will com niece work judgment of the lower court, when the sisted of 2,000 horsemen and 10,000 <)., and secured (3,000 in silver and Buffalo, Kan., April 29. — A north paper money. They made their escape bound Missouri Pacific stock train at once. This number will be consid case comes up on appeal in May. If spearmen. They surrounded Colonel en a handcar. erably increased within a week or ten the sentence of the court is carried out Plunkett’s force in the open, and the crashed into the rear end of » work Tbe New England manufacturers and train juBt north of this town at 7 days, as three crews are employed in it will he the first legal execution in Somalis, after a heavy rifle 8re, charged the section around Pilot Rock during the history of Baker county, since it repeatedly with their horsemen nnd erectors of structural steel work have withdrawn from the national associa o’clock last evening and 11 men were the shearing season, which lasts about was organized, over 40 years ago. In spearmen on all sides. The British Usually there are about 12 the early days there wua a lynching at detachment held out until its ammuni tion recently formed by 56 concerns in killed and 25 injured, 10 of the latter 60 days. Auburn, then the county seat, on seriously and four fatally. All were men to a crew. Those men are paid 7 various parts of the country. tion was exhausted and then charged Greeks except one. The cause of the and 8 cents a head for shearing stock which occasion s Chinaman was hung with the bayonet, but it was ultimately John D. Rockefellecr has signed tbe wreck is given as misreading of orders. sheep and 15 a.id 25 cents for pure-bred for murder. overwhelmed by weight of nuinbeis. eontracts by which the Rockefeller in Home of the men Tbe worktrain consisted of flatcars ewes and oucks. The British lurce fought until all of aift to University. stitute of medical research becomes and a caboose, all filled with labori rs. average $10 per day. Bheep will not owner of three blocks in New York on The men on the flatcars escaped by be sent to the mountains as early this The university of Oregon is again the its officers and 170 men were kilted. Most of the handful of men who reached which a laboratory is to be built. jumping, but hardly a man in the ca year as last, as there is no scarcity of recipient of the generosity of one of its the camp were wounded. The ardent supporters. Thomas Howell, feed. The work train was Three men blew up the safe in the boose escaped. of Oregon City, has donated his entire Somali’s losses are reported to have postoffiee at F'erguson, Mo., securing backing into town for the night and Big Timber Land Deal. herbarium collection, consisting of over been enormous. The Mullah’s forces (120 cash and $18 in stamps. The running at a good speed. The heavy Dr. Harry Lane, of are reported to aggregate from 3,000 to One of the biggest timber deals trans 10,000 specie*. noise aroused the citizens, who gave freight engine did not leave the track, 4,000 mounted men, and about 80,000 battle to the robbers. No one was hurt. but plowed the work train off the track, acted in Southern Oregon for some time Portland, recently donated his collec spearmen. was the recent transfer of some 42,000 tion of Otegon toadstools to the local leaving little of it except the car wheels John Wanamaker’s eon Rodney has acres of timber land on the Upper Rogue university. Also through the depart taken out a policy for an additional and kindling wood. Doctors of Buffalo, to W. H. Slrobridge. He has taken ment of agriculture the university has JAPANESE SPIES ARE MANY. assisted by townspeople, did heroic (1,000,000 on his life. He carries (2,- the tract on the Upper Rogue nntler just received a collection ef the fungi work among the injured bntil »be •00,000 insurance now. (600,000 more Fully Prepared to Blow Up Railroad which wrecking train from Neodesha and a bond, tbe price named being (25 an of commercial importance. than his father, but not as much as Russia Is Fortifying. acre, for 24,000 acres of the tract, and corps of half a dozen physicians ar King Kdward of England. Fruit Safe at St. Helens. rived. The dead and injnred were (20 per acre for the remainder. The Victoria, April 27.— Travelers who Great Northern trainmen will vote taken to Coffeyville, the latter to be total price ia (960,000. This belt of Orchardists at St. Helens claim have arrived here recently from North en a strike. temporarily cared for at the hospital timber is one of the finest in the south that the prospect for a good fruit crop ern part of the state. is excellent. The cold weather pre China, including well-posted armv offi Turkey is sending a vast army into there. The scene of the wreck for vented the trees from budding too early, cers, have told of how spies of Japan several hours looked like a battlefield Macedonia. School Bond Issue Defeated. and the conditions are favorable for a were at work in Manchuria, and of by the dazzling lijght of the burning Robbers held up a Burlington pas débris, with dead men strewn a (tout By a vote of 185 to 82 the taxpayers good yield. Japanese engineers disguised as iaboreis senger train, robbing the passengers. on the groqnd, where * they lay aftqr o f -»ho Pendleton school district de or commercial men, who had caches of Thirty-one Seining Grounds. feated the proposition of issuing (25,000 • explosives stored at various places The charge against Funston has been living taken from the wrqt-k. Tbe foreigners were near I/, _______ all mar bonds to erect a new eight-room school As near as can be learned, there will along the Russian railway, • ready to found to be unworthy of further in- ried and had large families in the o ld '’house. The question at issue was not tie 31 seining grounds operated on the blow up the line if war is declared be • uiry. country. » • * . sc much tbe money, but the location of Columbia River during the coming sea tween Japan and Russia as a result of The Illinois legislaiture has turned a A At the new huiMing which the school son, a much larger number than ever the contretemps over Manchuria. n the n i x ? office u u iu c u u w u c i a i Superintend « u jiD n m - r u u * of i General down Speaker Miller and elected anoth etit Gould, in Kansas City, the blame board had selected. before, bat as yet none of them has Russia is also reported to have been er man. 4 for the wreck was placed on the con been started. making warlike preparations, for Ja p Run of Small Fish (lood. Religious riot? in France have again ductor and engineer of the construction anese papers received by the Empress Some Prison Improvements. The run of fish still continues good broken out. Numerous arrests are be trwia. The freight, which Was a regu of China tell of how, far from evacuat lar train, was on time and had the at Astoria for this season of the year, Superintendent James, of the stats ing Manchuria, the Russians have been ing made. righj of Way. and further np the river a number of penitentiary, ia making a number of fortifying their garrisons in differrent President Roosevelt has left Yellow improvements intended to better the sections. large fish are being caught. stone park for Bt. Louis to attend the OBJECTS TO TWO THINGS. condition of the prison and make it dedication ceremonies of the exposition. Building at Reform School. more secure. Probably no changes will Will Fight to a Finish. Tom Johnson has declined to become Conger Protests Against Russian Demands Plans are neaily complete for the be made in the construction of the pris Butte, Mont., April 28.—Indications a candidate for the presidential nomin new industrial school building which is on wall, but it will be more thoroughly now point to a fight to a finish between t Affecting Our Interests. ation. He prefers to see Cleveland run. Pekin, April 29.— Minister Conger to be erected at the state reform school guarded so as to prevent the introduc the Western Union telegraph company A brilliant meteor was seen to pass hastsent a no|p to Prinoe Ching, the at K cost of from (12,000 to (15,000. tion of weapons by that means The and the striking messengers. The The plans will be submitted to the number of day guards on the wall has overhead by citizens of Portland Friday grand secretary, protesting against two board of trustees by Architect'C. C. recently been reduced by the transfer striking messengers have, in a mea ure, evening. It burst while still in view dropped from view, and the atruggle features of Russia's proposed Manchur Lewis, of Portland, the first of next of cne guard to the shops. with a loud detonation. now is over the recognition ol the ian agreement, which [are considered week, and the board will immediately nnion, which organization the Western The Russian demand on Chiona is particularly antagonistic to American advertise for bids. PORTLAND MARKETS. Union officials announce will not be denounced as a breach of faith. The interests. The note objects to China recognized or treated with under any Snow Deep In Cascades. Unitdd States, Britain and Japan will promising not to open more towns to I t is stated that tbe R. N. Hoover, the well-known ehin- Wheat— Walla Walla. 70@71c; bine consideration. protest. China has rejected the de foreign trade, becaneq negotiations are Western Union is willing to grant the mand. proceeding in connection with the gle manufacturer of Detroit, save that stem, 7 5 9 78c; valley, 75@76c. scale of wages asked by the boys, or Barley— Feed, (21.50 pier ton; brew, to employ them on a commission basis. Agriculture in East Prussia, as wall AmeriAn commercial treaty for the snow in the Cascade mountains is deep as the sugar industry and trade, wul opening of Mukden and Taku Shan, er now than it has been before at this ing, (23. suffer from the prospective German- and it objects to promising that tlie season in the past eight years. Should Alaska’s Wireless System. Flour— Best grade, (3 .9 5 9 4 .2 5 ; grah foreign employes tn China shall be the weather turn warm suddenly so as am, (3 .4 6 9 3 .8 6 . Canadian tariff war. to m alt th* snow rapidly, lie believes APril 28.— Engineer only Rnasians. * Max Zeitler is about to recut tbe Bran, » ▼ (19 ton; Richard Plund and Assistant Engineer . Millstuff. .... . — „ ------ **' per ton The United States withholds expres the Willamette river will be high this great seal of the ifnited States, and middlings, ( 24; shorts, (19.50920 Herbert L. Welby.of the Marconi w ire year. sion regarding( tbe other demands, hut chop, (18. less telegraph company, left New York will lie closely shadowed by secret ser is prepared to insist on her treaty Deified a Franchise. vice men while at work in Philadel Oats— No. 1 white, (1.15 9 i . 20 ; today for Alaska, to complete the in- rights if infractions incur. The Bakei City conncil has refused gray. ( 1 .1 2 * 9 1 .1 5 per cental. phia. stallation there ol a series of wireless to grant a franchise to the Oregon Ida telegraph stations for the United 8tates Plagues Smfte Luzon. Mrs. Castro, wife of the president of Hay — Timothy, (1 3 9 1 3 .5 0 ; clover ho Central railroad company for a (1 0 9 1 1 ; cheat, (1 1 9 1 2 per ton. K t T u The*PP*f»‘ >>- original- Venezuela, will visit the United States Manila, April 29.— Cholera^* again right of way and terminal facilities to 1 en her return from Paris, probably threatening the Island of Luzon. The enter that city? This ia the proposed Potatoes— Beet Burbanks, 60c per / J ? " * i°,A la,ka ln charge ofJStanley 'th e company at Fort'.Giibon, reaching here during the ooming sum had Authreak in the Cameroons appa * Seven Devils roKti, a company for the sack; ordinary, 5 5 9 40c per cental, mer. ently la "spreading»northward. The construction of which waa organized ) growers’ prices; Merced sweets, (3 9 3.50 per cental. W. A. Shoemaker, representing New Cayagan valley is infected and it ia last fall, » York capital, proposes to give Pitts feared the recrudescence will extend Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 11912c- Hall Million from Britain. At the Penitentiary. burg. Pa., filtered water, and pay the all over the islands. * Past epidemics yonng, 13914e; hens, 12c; turkevs’ London, April 28._T h e first meet- three venrs. Superintendent C. W. James, of the city (500,000 a year for the privilege have gene-ally lasfFd 17c;a dr* * **d ’ 20< 9,2c’ ¿neks, ing of the royal commissioners for the There have been 101 cases of bubonic OregoYi State Penitentiary, has filed his t • - <f « t ’71A of operatthg the water system. «.50 ^ per dosen; geeee, $6#6.50. ■ L U n ,, expos,tion wiU take place at plague, mostly among the natives and first report with the Secretary of State, j The duke of Lonhat has agreed to Chinese, in Manila since Jannary. and for the quarter ending March 31, 1903. ^Cheese -—Full creara, twins, 16 Marlborough house today under the bear the entire cost of the work of ex the plague isapparcnU^gaining ground The earnings and receipts of the prison 17c; Young America, 17 9 1 7 * C;| factory price*, 1 9 1 * e lest. L U t l e t t e ° f the princ* of W alee- cavating in the island of Delos, the for the qnarter aggregates a total of nntll " L ^ P * " * 1 «0 be dote Yasqurz is Downed: Greek Pompeii. It will cost between Bntter — Fancy creamery, 22c per Am«,; $4,435.11, and the expenses (7,063.32. Wat*°" returns from (30,000 and (40.000 ponnd; extras, 21 c ; dairy, 209 221 «,c-l Santo Domingo, April 29.— As a re ---------1— store, 16918c. ^ Crook County Judge Resign*. I sult of the fighting between govern next week to arrange details for a site The revolution ia Nicaragua is ment forces and revolutionists here yee- •nd complete otner details Parl i County Jndge W. A. Booth, of — 16917e per doaen. spreading. ment, it is expected »In lla" ter lay the government has abandoned Crook county, has tendered his resig Hope-Choice, 19920c per ponnd *t least (ioo.ooo! ’ aPProPn*te The commission from the L ick’•ob San Carlos and Guida, and these nation to Governor Chamberlain. The Wool-Valley, 1 2 * 9 1 5 c ; Eastern servatory which is to establish observa snbnrhe are now occupied by the reh» resignation is to take effect May 1. tions in Chile has arrived at Santiago. el|. who became poser seed of the am Jndge Booth gave no reason for bia de Oregon, 8 9 1 4 * e ; mohair, 35936c Governor Uader Fire. Beef — Grose, cows, 3 * 9 4 c per Two Indians were killed in a fight munition, rifles and cannon left hv the sire to relinquish the office. Washington. April 28 , between outlaws and a posse on the government forces. The fighting of information received at the war d e ^ rt No Hop Pests In Polk. lookout for smugglers, headed by Dep yesterday has entirely change-1 the sit ment state, that Governor Gran? of Examination has beeiv made of num uty United States Marshal titling, in uation here, and it ia hoped th at peace t e S t a T S S h“ W n " ’ m.nonH to the Gunsight country on the Mexican will soon he restored. The hospital* erous yards in Polk cnnnty and they all Lambs — Grose, 4 c per M sn.l. »0 answer complaint, that have border of Arizona. Rangers and citi of the city are filled with the wounded. show a healthy growth, with no peats dressed, 7 * e . ^ Pound, been made against him. and fa* rent will reinforce the marshal, eho is Tbs losses sustained by the government on the vines. TM cold weather has Hog»—Green, 7 9 7 * * p .. were heavy. not put yards hack ia that county .J believed to be in close quarters. dressed, 8 * » * * . ^ ponnd- W. C. < O N N K K , P u b lish er. W EEK’S DOINGS I M ILES’ RE] General Tells War De Doings in Philipp] REPEATS FORMER TALES OF And Also Makes Hany New r Report Ha* Been VY Ithlseld s Time as Being CunlW,,^ Washington, April 29__. purl meat has made publ'j, ¿*1 of tire report of General']!?" refers to misconduct ol soldiers in the Philippine, Root hae received several % this report, some 0f them sons in Boston, who statedtL| tains much matter that ns»*?" brought out in the * The secretary lias held that! port* were confidential inoswl officer making them might k j make such comments as t- but as it was learned that 1 Miles had no objection tot| cation of tlie report, it has public w ith a brief comm,Z eral Davis, judge advocate I ' lias charge of all matters pwtu the eubjoets referred to in thi,, of the report. The etatemesta by General Miles are the r e J tour of inspection in the py? last autumn and winter. 1 General Miles’ report on higl pine observations ia dated h b j 11*03, anil is addressed to the a of war. In brief, it stats«: That the people coni pi cm administration of the water trl that one man was burned it) that they were concentrated and suffered great indignities. 1 hat 600 people were crotj one small building and some 1 were suffocated. He tells again the story of tbsl of the guides in Cebu, of wlildl Glenn has been acquitted byra tial. He says three men in hsu subjected to the water cure. He stateB that Major Gist party known as “ Genn's brigs« moved Irom place to place | statements by torture. He has annulled all militi. which eeem to encourage crueJtj.l He condemns the sale uf rial military authorities to theum In reply to General Miles’J Adjutant General Davis wpi cases of alleged cruelty hsvek, jects of investigation and thin sales were a military necemarj. j SUCCESSOR TO TYNEJ. | Charles H. Robb, of VermM.li Vacant Office. Washington, April 29.- Rohb, assistant attorney hr 1 partment of justice, has heenl assistant attorney general for ] office to fill the place vacated^ N. Tyner, who was dismi* Robb has assumed the nt< t Mr. Iiobb, who ia irom V«d on leave of absence fromthil ment of justice, to which hsiilll as soon as the investigation of office is dosed, and the posim eral has time to choose a pera^ Blatant attorney general. Postmaster General Payns h ed Mr. Cbrietiancy an of absence. The charges recently lornul the Central labor anh n, of tii against the mail equipment [ have been filed. Mr. Payne today forwarded# ney General Knox additional i tion regarding the abstractiond from the assistant attorney f office by Mrs. Tyner last his letter of transmission he n " I am nnable to conclude I other papers were taken tha| submitted and returned. I* it clearly appears that cert« of the government were tu since, in my opin'on, presented tend to show a lation of law, I recommend! matter be referred to the attorney for this district, with J tions to submit the case totR jury, ae decided in onr ««*1 view.” Counterfeiters Caught *t ’ Berlin, April 29.—Sevenc ers have been errer-ted i“ ’ . Posen. Tbe men ro interfei**J coins, the coupon« o govern* and foreign coins, including 1 the United States. They have had American cOnnsctP rect inquiry at the court »1 information and details their American connection reply that the court could the query for several days, r animation of the prisonners. ---------- —7-------* Two-Thirds of Town I New York, April 2».— persons are destitute aI™^ the foothills near Pisagu*. >* vince of Taraposea, as*J*'| fir* which destroyed the V yi Herald dispatch *rom Chile. Eighteen blocks oft burned, including the Iran»*' ( schools, prisons, cable *■* offices, barracks »0^ house*. More than two-tn« port is in ruins. Five Burned with Molt»" Lancaster, Pa., April im plosion of mol »on metal horribly burned, two of tlte fatally, at Vesta fnrna* early today. Tbe men at the cnpola preparatory when the accident occur!" literally showered with • The accident was caused ( J . jectile being shot into th* “