Cottage Grove Leader.
L. r . W O O L II, r o b ll.h .r .
IN LEGISLATURE
CONFERENCE ON LAWS FOR WEST.
liai
Preserves and Land Commission
u tm .
Considered by President
i
Lest Obstacle in W a y of Deschutea Irri-
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IS Robed in White.
Washington. Feb.
18 .— President What the Oregon Lawmakers are Roosevelt this afternoon advi-ed Kep-
reecntative Moody that he today ap-
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Roosevelt tonight h ell a conference
Doing at Salem.
CO TTAG E GROVE
OREGON.
ith Representative Jones, of Washing*
proved the map and contract with the gg y g g g g y WEATHER OF THE WINTER
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ton, Mondell, of Wyoming, and I.acey, pgo(jRESS OF SENATORIAL CONTEST _tate of Oregon permanently
segregat
of Iowa, at which the bill authorizing
ing 84,707 acres of land in the Dei- , Even the Sunny South Suffers From the
the president to set apart within forest j Bills ot importance Being Introduced and chutes valley, which it is proposal ;
.Storm Railway Traffic Impeied -
ml Important Happeainzs reservations areas to te known as game
shall be reclaimed nnder the Carey act
Passed in Both H o u se * -Measures
Worse Yet Is Predicted.
mi tbm Faat Weak in Brief mnd
; preserves, within which game, fish and
by the Pilot Bntte development com
Signed by the Governor.
C— pmhoashre Form.
pany, of which A. M. Drake is preil-
^birds shall not be killed, was briefly
Chicago, Feb. 18.— The whole com»
dent.
discussed. Both Jones and Mondeil
Monday.
try from the Atlauitc to the Western
This action ends the long contro
The 83d birthday of Satan B. An objected to the bill, asserting that it
elope of the Rocky mountains is suffer-
The vote— Fulton 32, Geer 15, Wood
versy, and so far as the general govern
thony February 15, was celebrated at
would render state game laws inopera 14 , Williams 17, scattering 3, absent ment is concerned, gives this company ing Irom the coldest weather! known in
her home in Rochester, N. Y ., Monday.
February for years. The snow storm
tive within such reserves, while Lacey anil paired 9.
the right to proceed with the immediate
which swept over the R ociv Mountain
The Senate— A joint resolution was
A local [laseenger train on the 'Frteco
construction of its irrigation system,
contended to the contrary. The presi
states has traveled east and south until
adopted calling upon congress to order
line was wrecked near Pittsburg, Kan.,
dent, while deeply interested in the a constitutional convention for the pur- according to the approved plans. Gov it covets the whole region as ftr i.
and five passengers were injured.
ernment officials here regaid this as
proposed legislation was inclined to j po6e 0y gaining an amendment for the the most important and most premising New York on the east and the Golf
Memorial service« for the late Presi
'
election of United States senators by
Carey act proposition « the state, and states on the south.
dent Charlee Kendall AdamB, of the admit the claim of The two opposing
Beginning in Wyoming and Utah,
further | direct vote. To fix salary of superin see no resaon why the project should
University of Wisconsin, were held at members, aud it is believed no
where extreme cold and deep snow hat«
tendent of public instruction at »3,000,
Madison, Wis.
effort will be made this session to pass passed. To regulate employment of fe not be carried through in the 10 years caused great loes of livestock on ths
allowed by law to successful comple
The Standard oil company has de the bill. The president also discussed males, passed.
range, the storm extended gradually
,
... until Kansas is under a foot of snow
clared a dividend of *20 per share, pay with these members pending resolutions
The House—To pay Indian war vet tion.
Under the terms of the contract witn
able March 1«, which is »10 more than providing for the appointment of a erans, indefinitely postponed.
The
the state, the Pilot Butte company and has a temperature below zero.
the last dividend.
public lands commission of five persons greater part of the day was taken up in will be allowed to charge an annual Oklahoma has had biiow to take tbs
The Carnegie trust will issue a to investigate and report apon the introducing new bills.
water rental ol »1 per acre, the lien of place of rain, aud Texas has snow a foot
Appropriations already provided for
deep. In the far Northwest, near the
scheme which it has drawn up for the workings of the timber and stone, des
the company amounting to »848,55i.
endowment of post graduate study in ert land and homestead commutation amount to »2,386,866.82.
ThiB case is the firet one in Oregon boundary of North Dakota and Canadt,
Governor Chamberlain vetoed the
laws and to make recommendations for
Scottish universities.
under the Carey act to be approved by Williston is the coldest place in tbs
needed changes in these laws, together j bill classing bicycles with horses in the
United States, with the tenqierature 42
Nathan Doros, a diamond broker of with legislation looking to the disposal statute defining larceny; also the one> the president. It has lieen hung up in
the land office since early last summer. degrees below zero, and the thermom*
Philadelphia, was robbed of »7,000
of timber on unreserved public lands to prohibit stock running at large in Representative Moody throughout the ter registers from 20 to 30 Below all
worth of diamonds within 10 minutes
and providing an adequate means of Marion county.
session has lieen urging immediate ac through the Middle Meat.
after stepping from a train at Cincin
Friday.
regulating grazing on the public do
The enow reached New York list
tion on all Carey act cases'in Oergon,
nati .
The vote— Fulton 33, Geer 16, Mood but it was not until Commissioner night, when four inches had fallen, fol
main.
An effort is being made to locate the
The president and members agreed 16, Williams 17, scattering 3, absent 5. Richards took hold that he was able to lowing close ujion a sleet storm which
annual maneuvers of the regular army that such a commission properly con
had almost stopped traffic. The weath
The Senate— Tc declare press associa get this case “ jarred loose.”
and the state militias, as authoirzed by ducted would gather much valuable in
er bureau predicts gales, snow and ei-
tions common carriers, defeated.
To
the passage of the Dick bill, at Fort formation, which would be useful in
treme cold for the whole Atlantic coast.
COAL TO BE SCARCE.
provide a matron at the penitentiary,
guiding congress in future land legisla
Sill, Okla.
The same conditions prevail all along
passed. To repeal law granting rebates
tion.
The
resolutions
provide
for
five
Commander-in-Chief Thomas J. Stew
to owners of wide tired wagons, passed. Strike of British Columbia Miners Is Be- the lakes.
commissioners
at
»400
per
month.
The South is just escaping from
art, of the G. A. R ., left Harrisburg,
coming Serious.
The House— To use convict labor on
floods due to heavy rain, which extend
Pa., for San Francisco, to make ar- ^ This legislation will tie urged and prob
Victoria, B. C., Feb. 17 .- T h e strike from Louisville southeast to Georgis,
public
roads,
passed.
A
measure
was
ably
adopted
before
adjournment.
range.ienta for the annual encampment
introduced to regulate railroad rates. which haa been declared in the coal only to fall into the grip of the bitter-
of the G. A. R. in August.
MORE TRUST LEGISLATION.
To provide a great seal for the state, re mines of the Crows’ Nest Coal company, j egt storm of the winter.
Trains and
F uneral services over the body of the
at Fernie, Michel, .Morrisey and Coal telegraph lines are demoralized all
ferred to a special committee.
late Hear Admiral Frank Wildes were Senate Committee May Favor More Dras
creek will, it is feared, be almost aa through the West, and in many cities
Thursday.
held at the
Emmanuel Episcopal
grave in its indirect aa in its direct ! street cars run only with great diffi
tic Action on Question.
church, Wets Roxbury, Mass. The in
The vote— Fulton 34, Geer 15, Wood effects, which threaten to close every
Washington,
Feb.
18.—
There
is
pos-
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terment was at Kennebunkport, Me.
15, George 13, scattering 6, absent or smelter in th* Kootenai and Boundary culty.
sibly some embarrassment ahead for
NO
CHANGE
IN LAND LAWS.
paired
7.
countries.
Recently
the
miners
of
Seven men were held up, robbed and those senators who have arranged that
marched at the muzzle of revolvers into there shall tie no more trust legislation
The Senate— To require district at Nanaimo affiliated with the Western
the icebox in a South State street, Chi at this session than is contained in the torneys to render legal services lor Federation of miners, in direct antagon Repeal of Timber, Desert and Commuta
tion Acts Hopeless.
cago, saloon and kept prisoners for half Elkins act and Nelson amendment. school districts
without additional ism to Ralph Smith, M. P., who warned
an hour while their captors delibreate- Here is the judiciary committee of the compensation, passed. To create Baker them that in so doing they would 1«
Washington, Feb. 17.— The senate
ly sampled liquors. Two of the men senate pounding away on a measure, county the Eighth judicial district, imperilling the good relations which committee on public lande today or
have been captured.
and it may report the Littlefield bill, passed. To regulate sale of explosives have exi.-ted between them and the new dered a favorable report on the bill te
Vancouver coal com pa ay. It is now
so as to make it more drastic than as | to children, paseed.
repeal the timber and stone act, desert
considered likely that if the strike is
fK§®<§ ?® ® ® ® it»«*
®®
it passed the house.
Should the com
The House— To appropriate »20,000 not settled in Fernie, not only will laud act and commutation featured
mittee report it, it would mean that for experiment station at Union, passed.
homestead law. Amendments to omit
The Newspaper Deadhead.
the skillfully arranged program of the To regulate chid labor, passed. A reso there be great suffering there, but the repeal of commutation law and sell
Why should people ask for free
miners
of
Nanaimo
may
be
called
out.
senate leaders might be upset. Men lution that no bills be introduced
timber land on the basis of appraise!
newspapers, asks the Toronto
who know something about the feeling after February 13, except by commit- This would paralyze the coal trade of value were debated. Senators opposes
Evening Telegram, any more than
San
J
ranci
aco
.The
situation
^
v
ie
w
e
d
• willing m smetrack iegisiation'Dinr’ ih»
c i v i l « « , i n * warning STIczs, tree
. t n ♦ h i* K i l t aut>
*“ ■ — -
r - — r ot’ ® "
Littlefield bill that passed the honse
Wednesday.
collars, free cuffs or free beef
retailers are hurrying scows to Nanaimo its passage at this session.
The
action
of
the
committee
is no
unanimously.
steaks? Every copy of a news
The vote— Fulton 33, Geer 15, Wood to insure a good reserve supply in case [
significant, for there is no possibility ol
More than this, the reports that have 16, George 15, scattering 3, absent and of trouble.
paper is a product which costs
money. The tailor, the tobac
I been so generally circulated that the paired 8.
A special dispatch from Fernie says the bill paHsiug the house, even thougi
Littlefield bill was only a “ bluff,”
conist, the gents’ furnisher or the
the strike situation is not changed and it might be railroaded through the
The Senate — To authorize the con there is likely to be a long struggle. senate. Even this is improbable, bo-
grocer is not called upon to sup
have caused comment throughout the
ply free copies of the products
country of a character to ditsurb senat- struction of a portage railway between The miners are determined that the cause it is legislation that would pro
orve who are closely identified with big Celilo and The Dalles, passed. To in union shall be recognized, and the voke debate, and such debate is likely
which they handle. The people
crease term of office of assessor to lour manager of the coal company is abso- to prove fatal this late in the session.
corporations.
who are aggrieved if they cannot
get a free copy of a newspaper i
The imputation of bad faith on the years, passed. To make eight hours' lutey opposed to meeting them.
An attempt was made in committee
A
would not think of struggling for
part of the president may also have labor a day’ s work, indefinitely post deputation consisting of three miners to amend the bill to provide for the
poned.
a place on the free list o f a groc
j some effect. Because the president
from Morrissey, Michel and Coal creek sale of timber lands in tracts of 160
ery store, a dry goods store, or
j urged the Elkins bill and the Nelson
The House—To create the office of tried to present their grievances before acres to each settler, the price to be
butcher’ s shop.
amendment, it has beert asseerted that commissioner of labor statistics, failed Manager Tonkin, but he refused to lis governed by the appraised value ol the
he was aparty to a program of “ mild” to pass. To extend Australisn ballot ten. He will meet them individually timber thereon, but this substitute »•«
It is the principle more than
! trust legislation. As a matter of fact, to cities of 2,000 people or over, passed. but not collectively. .Manager Tonkin voted down.
the cost of the free newspaper
The committee also re
the policy of the president has been to To authorize Portland to constuct an says the miners are making letter jected a proposition to emit ths com
idea which is repugnant to all
j get all he could when he could.
He additional ferry, referred to Multno wages than in any other place in mutation clause from the acts to tare-
sound business notions.
& found the Nelson amendment could be mah delegation.
pealed.
Canada.
procured, and that the ElkiDs bill could
The report today was made largely
A concurrent resolution was adopted
lie paseed, and he accepted both. By
BILLS FOR THE NORTHWEST.
for effect, and not with any intention
The blockade on Venezuelan ports
threats and methods scarcely in keep by both houses asking the historical
of passing the bill, for the senate com
has been raised.
ing with his office, he might have society to preserve the old blockhouse Report on Klamsth Treaty — Lifesaving mittee is fully advised that a majority
A Moro stronghold in the Philip forced more drastic legislation, bnt as on the Grand Ronde reservation.
of the public lands committee of the
Station for Tillamook Bay.
pines has surrendered.
the two propositions offered were as
house will not for a minute consider
Waehintgon, Feb. 17. — Representa
sured, he gladly accepted them.
If
PORTLAND MARKETS.
China’ i* buying arms in violation of
tive Moody this morning secured a fa the bill at this session.
more
can
be
obtained
he
will
be
the treaty with the allies.
vorable i sport on his bill introduced
'■ pleased, but if not, he, as chief execu
Wheat— Walla Walla, 76c; bine-
CORTELYOU PROMOTED.
yesterday providing for ratifying the
Mrs. Roosevelt is ill and has can tive, will see what an enforcement of
stem, 88c; valley, 7 8 * c .
Klamath Indian treaty.
He will try
celled all social engagements.
(he new legislation will biing about,
Barley— Feed, »23.50 per ton; brew- to have it put in the Indian appropria President Has Appointed Him Secretary
Beet sugar men have again blocked and when the next congresa assembles ing, »24.
of Commerce and Labor.
tion bill now in conference.
he
can
urge
such
additions
as
are
found
the passage of the Philippine tariff bill.
Washington,
Feb. 18.— The president
The
omnibus
public
building
bill
re
necessary.
Flour— Best grade, |4.30@ 4.85; grah
An exceedingly rich gold strike has
ported to the house today carries f 100,- today sent to the senate and the senste
am, $3.45@3.85.
been made in Josephine county, Ore
000 each for the buildings at Tacoma confirmed the nomination of George B.
CAN'T RESCUE FISHERMEN.
M illstuffs— Bran, »18019 per ton;
gon.
and Spokane, with which to begin con Cortelyou to be secretary of commertr
middliugs, »23 0 24; shorts, »1 9 0 20.
struction when plans have been com anil labor under the act creating tbs
The bill creating a"*department of Ice Still Blacks the W ey of Revenue Cut chop, »18.
pleted.
new department. The nomination xu
ter Gone to Their Relief.
commerce has been signed by the presi
Oats— No. 1 white, $1.15 0 1.20;
At the request of Senator Mitchell, a referred to the senate after the seal*
dent.
St. Johns, N. F., Feb. 18__ The gray, » 1 .1 2 * 0 1 .1 6 per cental.
bill was introduced in the senate todav went into executive session and ths
A bill has been introduced in the United States revenue cutter Seminole,
Hay — Timothy, »1 1 0 1 2 ;
clover, authorizing the establismhent of a life vote was polled on the floor.
Senator
house to prevent hasing at the Anna which is on her way to the Bay of » 8 0 9 ; cheat, (9 0 1 0 per ton.
saving station at the entrance of Tilla- Depew reported the nomination with*
Islands to cut ont a number of icebound
polis naval academy.
favorable recommendation.
He a«k«l
Potatoes— Best Burhanks, 60076c per mook bay.
American fishing schooners, is still un
Representative Jones today esenred for immediate action and, as there m
Senator Hanna is again trying to re
sack; ordinary, 40050c per cental,
able to enter tlu) Gnlf of St. Lawrence,
growers’ prices; Merced sweets, *2 0 an amendment to the sundry civil bill no opposition, Mr. Cortelyou was cot-
vive the ship subsidy bill, bat meets
and the conditions are most uncom 2.25 per cental.
with new opposition.
appropriating *22,000 for a lighthouse firmed.
promising.
The
Canadian naval
Few in American public life today
Poultry— Chickens, mixed, 1 2 * c - at Muckilteo point, near Everett.
Committees from the Oregon and schooners Stanley and Mintoare already
By request of Represetative Jones, a are more widely or more favorably
Washington legislatures met at Olym frozen tip there, which is an indication young, 11012cl hens, 1 2 * c ; tnrkevs’
deputy United States marshal is here known than Secretary George B. Cor
of the probable fate of the Seminole
pia and discussed fish laws.
dre“ ed ’ 18920c; ducks,’
after to be stationed at North Y'akima tel you. For years he occupied a prom
» (0 7 .5 0 per dozen; geese, »708.50.
should she be caught in the ice.
George Cole, nnder arrest at Butte
Captain Delaney, the master of the „Cheese—Full cream, twins, 1 6 * 0 to prevent sales of liquor to Indians on inent place in the interest of the peopk
for the recent hoidnp of a Burlington
the reservation.
and the exemplary manner in whichbf
Newfoundland steamer Bruce, and the 1 7 * c ; Yonng America, 1 7 * @ 1 8 * c -
train in Montana, haa confessed. He
Senator Mitchell continues to im has met every emergency that bn
most experienced ice navagitor in this factory prices, 1 0 1 * « less.
implicates a man named George How
prove. Bad weather, however, pre arisen before him has won for him tbs
region, oelieves that the Seminole will
Batter— Fancy creamery, 3 O 0 3 2 *c vents his going out.
ard, who is still at large.
cordial esteem not only of those with
be nanble to venture toward the Bay of per pound; extras, 30c; dairy, 200
whom he has been intimately a
A campaign against the “ get-rich-1 Islands until the prolonged easterly * 2 * c ; store, 15018c.
Ladrones
Driven
Back.
dated, personally and officially, but
quick” offices which do business nnder winds drive the floes well off the shore.
Eggs— 23025 per dosen.
the name of turf investment companies
Manila, Feb. 14.— A hundred la also of the body of the American pafadic
Immigration Under New Head.
H ops-C hoies, 22027c per ponnd.
is now being conducted in New York,
drones attacked the »own of Nanjan, to whom be is known merely by repots
as wsll ss in Chicago and St. Louis.
Thè tion.
New York, Feb. 17.—.Commissioner
Woo!—Vallsfr t 1 2 * 0 1 5 c ; Eastern Island of Mindora, yesterday.
William
Williams,
of
the
bureau
of
im
Oregon,
8
0
1
4
*
c
;
mohair,
26028c.
constabulary
repulsed
them
after
a
scat
P i. R occo Brindisi, for 11 years the
General Miles Returns.
migration, who baa jnst returned from
Boef — Grow, cows, 3 0 3 * c per tering fight, which lasted several hours,
Italian conslnar agent at Boston, has
k
i
n
Yor k’ Feb- 18.— Lientiim»
Washington,
where
he
anpoared
before
during
which
one
ladrone
was
killed’
pound;
Steers,
4
0
4
*
c
;
dressed,
7
*
c
.
been appointed hy the king of Italy
killed General Miles, commanding the Units*
the senate committee to argue for cer
and one wonnded. Twentv women and
Veal— 7 * @ J * c.
vie* consul for New England.
tain clauses which he wants inserted in
children
living
in
the
town
were
in- rtates army, his wife and party aniw*
Mutton — Gross, 4c per
ponnd; jnred. Inspector Crockett, with a large here today on the steamship Lii.-sote
Reciprocity with Italy and no restric the new immigration law, says that
dressed, 7 * e .
The general, who has been abroad «*
tion of immigration to this country were it is virtually settled that the immi
Lambs — Gross, 4c per pound; force of mounted constabulary has tnonths, has in that time been arood
the keyontes struck by tbs speakers at gration department would be nnder the dressed, 7 * c .
swept through Northern Rizal and
the world. One of the features of tfc
the third annual banquet of the Italian control of the department of com
• onthem Baiatali, where ladroones have
Hogs — Gr.es, 6 * c
per pound:
trip across the Atlantic for the ge «
chamber of commerce in New York city. merce.
been
operating,
but
he
failed
to
find
a
dressed, 7 0 7 *i,
was the sending of a Marconigraoi *>
trace of them.
King Edward \ II on February 9.
W EEK’S DOINGS
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