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PUTER IS CAUGHT IN T H E L E G IS L A T U R E . and state treasurer until June 1, 1907. It is probable the b ill will pass. Salem, Jan. 31.— A bill was intro Salem, Feb. 3.— Nineteen bills were: duced in the senate today to suppress poolselling and poolrooms. Eleven introduced in the house today and four other new measures were introduced. in the senate. Appropriations asked of the Oregon Nine bills were passed, one of them appropriating $15,000 for fish hatcher legislature at this session aggregate ies. This bill has already passed the $2,340,000, but Chairman Farrar, of the senate committee on ways and house. The senate b ill authorizing the Lewis means, and Chairman Vawter, of the and Clark fair corporation to condemn corresponding house committee, Bay private property was passed by the they w ill endeavor to hold them down below $2,000,000. Bills are about all house. Ten new bills were introduced in the introduced, and next Tuesday is the house, one of them being the anti last day allowed for presentation of Prospective Irrigation Scheme on Kla cigarette bill, identical with that intro new measures, if the legislature is to adjourn February 17. duced in the senate. math Lands Would Have Been Senator M iller's bill to abolish all The house rejected the senate con Made to Yield Profit. current resolution for a joint assembly normal schools hut one and leave the tomorrow to consider a constitutional selection of this one to the state board convention. This stops any further of education, was today reported ad Salem, Feb. 4.— S. A . D. Puter, con possibilities of a constitutional conven versely by the senate committee on ways and means, though there was a victed of conspiracy to defraud the gov tion. Electric bells at railroad crossings is minority report recommending that the ernment in timber land cases, and the object of a b ill introduced in the bill be considered on its merits by the under indictment on further charges, house today. They are to be of suffi senate. "The b ill was made a special was caught today in an attempt to se cient weight and sound to be heard 100 order for Wednesday next at 10 a. m. A b ill to amend the initiative and cure title to 3,200 acres of state school yards and are to be placed at every land in violation of law, and the state crossing where a public road crosses a referendum law, introduced by Senator land hoard lias $2,000 of his good railway track where the view is ob Howe at the request of W . S. U ’ Ren, was today killed in the senate by in money and evidence sufficient to show structed either way. The b ill con the fraudulent nature of the transac 5 The houBe committee on mining fa definite postponement. vors the passage of the bill relieving tained some features recommended by tion. Basil Wagner, of this city, procured such mining companies of the annual Secretary of State Dunbar, for the pur the men to make the applications for license tax as have an annual output pose of simplifying the procedure, but ontained other features not satisfac the land. As each filed his application of less than $1,000. A new b ill in the house provides that tory to the judiciary committee. he told Clerk Brown that Wagner The b ill to amend the local option all sheep driven into the state for pas would call for the certificate of sale. Applications to purchase school land turage shall be taxed 20 cents a head law was reported in the house today near Klamath Falls were filed by nine and 5 censt a head shall be paid for and w ill come up for passage next residents of Salem, who swore that they each county through which the sheep | week. Other important bills yet to be con wanted the land for their own use and are driven. The Cascade county bill will appear sidered are: Those to make gambling lienefit, and had made no contract, ex a felony and to punish licensing of press or implied, to convey the land to in the senate tomorrow or Thursday. gambling by municipal authorities; to any other person. No certificates of Salem, Feb. 1.— Twelve bills were I tax gross earnings of telephone, tele sale were issued, but Clerk G . G. Brown called the attention of the state passed by the senate today and 15 by graph and express companies; to con land hoard to the suspicious applica the house. Five new bills were intro solidate normal schools; to create the duced in the senate and seven in the office of state examiner; to create a tions, and an investigation resulted. ! state tioard of control, and to establish One of the applicants was taken be house. Two bills were killed in the senate a mining bureau. fore the governor, where he was closely Both houses today adjourned until cross-questioned, until he admitted that today: For a constitutional convention he had made the application at the in and to permit corporations to act as ad | Monday. stance of an agent of Puter, and made ministrators. Salem, Feb. 6 . — Two bills passed The house this afternoon voted down the initial payment with a bank draft the b ill for the appointment of a hoard over the governor’s veto in the senate furnished by Puter. today were made a special order in the Governor Chamberlain immediately of internal commerce commissioners house for tomorrow. One of the bills for the called a special meeting of the state and appropriating $25,000 I was that appropriating $5,000 for a land board to consider the matter, and opening of the Willamette river from I plant at the state university for testing Puter appeared before the board. He Portland to Eagene. | timber and stone; the other was the A b ill of Representative Steiner’s asked leave to withdraw the applica bill authorizing the Lewis and Clark fixing the terms of circuit court begin- tions and receive his drafts, but the fair corporation to condemn lands for ninfg on the second Monday in May land board refused to recognize his the exposition. and the third Monday in October, right to have the money returned. No irrigation code w ill pass at this The drafts w ill be returned only to passed the house this morning. session, but an act w ill be passed grant To permit district attorneys and the persons who deposited them, and ing to the United States the power to when these men appear, they w ill be their deputies to bid in for counties, condemn any water right that may be lands sold for delinquent taxes, a bill brought up on the carpet and ques necessary in the prosecution of its re tioned as to the truth of their affidavits. of Representative West's passed the clamation work and an appropriation of house bslay. Under the present law Whether the $2,000 will eventually be $6,000 to $10,000 a year w ill be made returned or w ill lie held by the board the county judge is required to do that for hydrographic survey work function, but sometimes is not prseent. as forfeited remains to lie determined. That the legislature w ill adjourn A b ill to empower juries to fix pun February 17 without day was indicated ishment in criminal trials was indefi tonight at a conference of the leaders of Enormous Losses in Texas. nitely postponed by the house this Fort Worth, Tex., Feb. 7.— Specials morning. The bill came fronr Smiith, both houses. County fruit inspectors are provided from a large numlwr of points in West of Josephine. for in a b ill passed by the house late ern Texas indicate that the present Salem, Feb. 2. — The senate today this afternoon. On petition of 25 fruit blizzard is the worst in 10 years. The whole northern portion of the state is passed the house b ill appropriating growers the county court shall appoint covered with frozen sleet. Cattle are $1,000 for the widows of the prison such an inspector. The house passed a b ill providing huddled in bunches and cannot be guards who were killed by Tracy and moved to water. Stockmen estimate Merrill at the time of the outbreak that a tax amounting to 10 cents for each child of school age in counties that losses w ill aggregate hundreds of three years ago thousands of dollars and that range | The senate bill appropriating$26,000 having less than 100,000 inhabitants cattle will not recover in six months for maintaining the portage railway shall be levied for the benefit of school libraries. from the damage done them so far. was passed by the house. The house passed the b ill appropriat The bill to exempt from annual cor There is no sign of the blizzard ahat- poration tax mininfg companies whose ing $600 for Jackson and Josephine «ntC ____________________ annual output is less than $1,000 was counties for district fairs, $1,800 is ap Russia Wants More Money. propriated for other Southern Oregon also passed by the house. London, Feb. 7.— It is stated in w ell: The senate committees on counties counties and a new appropriation of informed financial circles in London1 has practically decided to report favor $600 is made for the fairs in Lake and that negotiations have been completed ably on the house bill for the creation Klamath counties. for floating a new Russian loan of of Cascade county and the probabilities The bill providing for one board of $200,000,000 in Paris. The loan will are that the bill w ill pass the senate. regents instead of four for state normal bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent Abolition of the Drain normal school schools was passed by the house. per annum. The date of the issue has will be recommended tomorrow by the It is thought the modified Jayne bill not yet been fixed. for the amendment of the local option house committee. From five to 20 years' imprisonment b ill w ill pass the house tomorrow or Kuropatkin Tenders Resignation. in the penitetniary is the punishment the next day by a narrow majority. Foes of Cascade county have so 8t. Peterbsurg, Feb. 6. — General allowed under the senate bill to prevent marshaled themselves that the b ill to Kuropatkin has tendered to the czar train holdups passed by the house. his resignation of the command of the | The house sanctioned two appropria cut Wasco connty up now seems doomed forces in the Far Fast. General Grip- tions of $1,500 each for district fairs in to failure in the senate. Nineteen bills were passed by the I*nberg has been removed from the Eastern Oregon. The senate amended the flat salary house today and four by the senate. command of the 8econd Manchurian army at his own request, having de hill today by striking out the items for Eleven new bills were introduced in the clared that he had been dishonored by justices of the supreme court and the senate and two in the house. Ten bills Knropatkin's oders to retreat at the provision that the (aw shall not go were today filed by the governor with into effect as to the secretary of state the secretary of state. battle of the Han river. Attempts to Secure Big Tract of Oregon State Land. NINE MEN SWEAR FALSELY TO AID J U R Y DRAWS N E T . Tw o Indictments Said T o Be in Order for J . N. Williamson. Portland, Feb. 7.— The last week of the present Federal grand jury is at hand. The long series of investiga tions which have been taking the time of the jury for the past two months is drawing to a close and w ill end on Sat urday, if the plans of the government attorneys carry. The present week will 1« a busy one, for it w ill bring to light some of the entanglements of those high in the confidence of the state and the nation and w ill show still further the extent and scope of the land frauds which have been carried on in many cases to completion and in others practically to that stage during the past few years. During the week it was rumored that Representatirve J. N. Williamson will come under the notice of the Federal grand jury, not once, but twice. It is said that the next few days w ill see the junior representative of the state in dicted for his alleged connection with various land deals in the vicinity of his home at Prineville and also for fraudulent transactions in the Blue Mountain reserve. Just what the complaints are is a mystery which the government officials alone would he able, at this time, to tell. They have nothing to say. But in Bpite of this reticence, it is made known from various sources that the end of the week w ill see more persons implicated in the land frauds than have as yet hinted at or thought of. In addition to the names of Mr. Williamson are mentioned those of various of the former special agents of the government, and several of the ex special agents who have been sent to this territory to look into the alleged irregularities of the land department. Beyond a rumor that several of the special agents are under the eye of the grand jury, nothing definite can be learned. However, it can be stated with a reasonable degree of certainty that former employes of the Interior de partment in Oregon w ill be brouht to book for irregular work done by them during their terms of office. It is further safe to predict that Saturday w ill see the adjournment of the fury until the March term calls the men once more to the task of.probing into the irregularities of the land transac tions of Oregon. READY T O F IG H T . Warlike Talk of High British Official Causes Kaiser to Anger. Berlin, Feb. 7.— At the foreign office it was said this afternoon that Ger many would ask England for an ex planation of the prov<x:ative anti-Ger man speech made at East Leigh, Feb ruary 2, by Arthur I I . Lee, civil lord of the admiralty, in which he said that Britain would smash an unnamed en emy in the North sea liefore that enemy had time to realize that war hail been declared. The foreign office said: " W e hope that nothing will result from Lee’ s speech. We prefer to be lieve he spoke more as a naval expert than as a statesman or cabinet officer. Y et it is impossible not to put a polit ical construction upon his utterances. W e shall, of course, take up the mat ter.” Will Fight Near Sandepaa. St. Petersburg, Feb 7. — Military o|ierations in Manchuria continue at a standstill. No importance is attached by the war office to the Japanese move ments on the Russian center and left, which are regarded as merely demon strations. General Heisman, a war critic, expresses the opinion that the Russians are not likely to surrender the positions captured northeast of Sande- pas, and that a series* of encounters there w ill probably continue until the weather is favorable for a general ad vance.