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TIME CARD Oregon Water Power and Railway Company GRAFTING ON CANAL C O N F E R E N C E O N IR R IG A TIO N . Experts from Western Government Stations Meet in California. READY TO SPRING San Francisco, March 21.—At a small but very significant conference of half a Twenty-Two Japanese Warships dozen irrigation experts connected with in Track of Russians. the experiment stations of the United States Agricultural department on the Pacific coast, held yesterday and today ENGINEERS LEAVE IN DISGUST at the University of California, import WILL WAIT FOR THE ENEMY ant plans were made for the future of irrigation and drainage investigation in all the western states. The meeting Great Naval Battle Seems to Be Next B. D IM I C K W . A . D IM I C K Trouble is Said to Be Lack of Effi was attended by Professor Elwood cient Organization — Payrolls Scene in the Military Drama Mead, chief of the irrigation bureau of Already Padded. DIM ICK & DIMICK, in the Far East. the Department of Agriculture ; Profes sor Samuel Fortier, of Montana; Pro- Attorneys at Law lessor G. H. True, of Nevada; Professor London, March 16.—A dispatch to Chicago, March 18.—Walter Well N o tary Public. Estates Settled. Mortgages man, wiring from Washington to the O. L. Waller, of Washington; Profes Lloyds, dated at Singapore, 0 p. m., Foreclosed. Abstracts Furnished Record-Herald, says that graft has al sor J. H. Withycombe, of Oregon; and says British steamer Hongwan I Money Loaned ready made its appearance among the Professors E. W. Hilgard, R. H. Lough- reports the having passed 22 Japanese war employes of the United States on the ridge, and E. J. Wickson, of the agri ships off Horsburg, 20 miles east of OFFICE: 2, 3 & 4, GARDE BLDG, Panama canal, according to an Ameri cultural experiment stations at Berkley. O R E G O N C IT Y , O R E G O N can engineer who was on the isthmus chief task of the conference was Singapore, at the entrance to the only three weeks ago. It is evidently the The preparation of plans for experi Straits of Malacca. high time President Roosevelt was car ments determine the quality of water The appearance of Vice Admiral rying out his plan for a complete reor which to will give the best results in irri Togo’s fleet in the track that would be ganization of the canal commission. under dfferent conditions. This This engineer, who had exceptional gation is an undertaking almost limitless in used in any attempt by Vice Admiral B a rb e r opportunities to gather information as I i extent. In addition to this, a cam Rojestvensky to make for Vladivostok to conditions on the isthmus, declares paign of education Best work at popular prices is being arranged. is the most interesting news of the day. it is within his personal knowledge It is not known whether Vice Admiral Agency for the Professor Elwood Mead, who has just Togo (that payrolls are already being padded himself is with the fleet. STAR LAUNDRY. in California to commence his According ! and that various forms of petty graft arrived to the Daily Mails’ corres of annual lectures at the State are practiced. The trouble is said to series is very hopeful over the pondent at Singapore, who visited the be lack of efficient organization. Chief university, fleet, the officers were unusually reti on the coast. Engineer Wallace is working like a future of irrigation C h a r l e s L. T e r r y , cent. Two Japanese officers landed and Withycombe reported on conferred Trojan in the field and has almost the Professor with the Japanese consul, and its possibilities in Oregon. worn himself out trying to push the He work will return north and continue the ami it was understood by the corres Je w e le r and work at Culebra Hill and to bring measurements pondent that the squadron would soon of streams. order out of chaos in the organization. Optician. . . . Today’s conference is considered as sail again, as it required nothing. The present canal commission is de opening new possibilities in irrigation The presumption is that Rojest- ESTA CA D A , O R E G O N clared to be a failure by every man who on the Pacific coast,. vensky’s squadron is still off the coast has visited the isthmus during the last of Madagascar, but, as the ice in the six months. The commission remain harbor of Vladivostok is beginning to ed aj Panama just long enough to estab give way, the Russian admiral must Doctor C. B. Smith, S L A U G H T E R BY B U LG A R IA N S . lish certain iron-clad rules whose literal soon make a decision whether to dash PHYSICIAN and SURGE ON enforcement has been a great detri for Vladivostok or return to Russia. ment to the chief engineer and the Greek Village Attacked and All Male Naval experts here believe that Togo Office in Howe’s store. other officials who are trying to push Inhabitants Slain. will not come mush further in quest of Office hours at Estacada, 9 a. m. to 4 p. ai. the work. Then the members of the Constantinople, March 21.—Advices the squadron, on the ground Office hours at Eagle Creek, sights A mornings commission, with the exception of Gen received from Salonica state that the that Baltic be cannot afford to run unneces eral Davis, returned to the United sary risks. ...All calls promptly answered... Bulgarian bands are again causing States and are here yet. Evidently they do not care to live on the isthmus trouble, and that reports of outrages and prefer the climate of New York are coming in rapidly. The result of C A S T R O S E IZ E D C O A L M IN ES. William K. Haviland, M. D. and Washington. by Italian Government On account of the unsatisfactory this is .that the relations between Protest for Entered PHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Operating Company. state of affairs on the isthmus, many Greece and Bulgaria are again stretched New York, March 21.— The Herald Office at the drug store, - f stacada engineers and other employes of the near to the breaking point, the former commission are givin up their jobs in government alleges that the Bulgarian this morning prints the following dis Night calls answered. disgust and returning home. is not making any effort patch from Port of Spain, Trinidad: Reports say that the commissioner government keep these bands under control but News has reached Port of Spain that Night bell at Second St. entrance who looks after the medicine supplies to permits them to ravage at will on con the governor of Barcelona, Venezuela, refuses to allow such medicines as are dition that they confine tfieir assaults has received from President Castro or required and in many cases such as are to Greeks and Turks. given out are badly adulterated. At a monastery near Vodena a band ders to take possession at once of the of armed Bulgarians attacked a party coal mines of Guantanaricual, situated of Greek priests and the latter must near Barcelona, and leased in 1808 for SA Y A M O U N T IS E X O R B IT A N T have been killed had not a party of years by the Venezuelan government Greeks come to their resue and at 83 to an Italian company. America and Britain Hold Out Against tacked the Bulgarians. The latter were The same day the Venezuelan troops beaten back, leaving 15 dead behind. Paying Samoan Claim. took possession of the mines by armed Angered at their losses the Bulgar force, as in the similar case of the New I.ondon, March 21.—The Associated ians attacked the villages of Moss • York Estacada feed and Press and ilermudese company, this, understands that there are no merion and ruthlessly massacred all of notwithstanding the protest of the Ital prospects of an early settlement of Ger the male inhabitants and carried off Livery Barn ian government. The action has been many's Samoan claims. A tentative the women and children. They then taken without a judgmnt of the court offer of $40,000 has been declimd. terrorized the entire district of Vodena of Caracas. Germany’s claim of $120,000, when and so far have managed to escape the The Italian legation has been notified divided betweed the United States and troops that were sent to punish them. and Baron Aliotti, Italian charge Britain, is conceded to be not Delivery and Great d’affaires, is represented as having worth haggling over, but the two gov entered a protest. ernments stand together on principle Express Line on the refusal to settle. BIG G U N S M AY T A L K . The claim for $120,000 includes P O R TL A N D M A R K E T S . moral damage, and the American and French Warships Ordered to Proceed ' At Once to Venezuela. British experts to whom the accounts Wheat— Walla Walla, nominal, 86 c; were submitted report that the claim Washington, March 21.—The French bluestein, B2c; valley, 87c, per bushel. represents ten times the actual losses. company complications have .Oats—No. 1 white, $1.37)6@1.42; DRY W OOD IN ANY LENGTH Germany has been informed that the Cable a crisis, and Minister Bowin gray, $1.50 per cental. ALWAYS ON HAND two governments are anxious to settle, reached lias informed the State department that Hay— Timothy, $14(910 per ton; and would be willing to pay any rea the French minister at Caracas, by in clover, $ 11 ( 9 1 2 ; grain, $ 1 1 0 1 2 ; cheat, sonable sum, as other claims are await structions of his government, has noti « 1 1 0 1 2 . ing the result of this settlement. fied the Vennyzuelan government thi t Eggs—Oregon ranch, 18c jier dozen. there must be no further proceedings Butter — Fancy creamery, 27)y(9 Witte Asked Peace Discussion. on its pj.rt toward the cancellation <f 32 '*c. All Business Carefully and Peris, March 21. — In the course of the company’s franchise or interference Potato** — Oregon fancy, P 0 c g $ l; an interview in the Matin today, Vis with its property. common, 70@85c. Promptly Attended to count Hayashi stated that M. Witte, Further, Mr. Bowen reports that two Apples— Fancy, $1.75(92.50 per box ; when in Berlin last July, sent an French warships, the crnisers Dtipleix choice, $1@1.25. emissary to London asking the Japanese and Jurien de la Qraviere, have been Hop»—Choice 1004, 23)*<824c per minister there to meet him to discuss ordered poat haste to Venezuela to act pound. peace. Minister Hayashi consented, in accord with the instructions of the Wool— Valley, l!l( 9 20c; Eastern Ore but received no further rommnnica- French minister. The warshipe are gon, 12(917r per ponnd; mohair, Estacada, Oregon. tion. now in the Caribbean sea. choice, 25(926 c per pound. Offices: First St. Portland, Ore. Cars leave Estacada: at 8 : 07 , 9 : 37 , 11:37 A. M. and 1 : 37 , 4 : 5 , 5 : 37 . and 9 P. M. Cars leave Portland: at 7:3°. 9:45. **'3°. A. M. and 1 : 30 , 3 : 40 , 5 : 40 , and 7:15 P. M. 132 1-2 W. S. H YDE , — --------------------------------------- j ------------------------— — w. A. JONES High Time to Make a Change in Isthmian Commission.