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About The Estacada news. (Estacada, Or.) 1904-1908 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1905)
CONFERENCE FAILS T U B E S Y S T E M FO R BAY C IT Y Mails Can Then Be Handled Greater Rapidity. With San Francisco, Aug. 21.— The pneu matic tube system, which is used with great success in Eastern cities, w ill at a near date be filling its important functions in the local poetoffice. E v erything is ready for the installation of the Bystem, and all that deters the postal authorities from giving this city that improvement is the proper loca- I tion at the ferries. The government forbids the placing Pressure Being Exerted at Tokio by of ths system in other than buildingB President Roosevelt and j which w ill insure permanency. The present building at the ferries occupied the Powers. by i he poetoffice is regarded as a tem porary structure, and the only location suitable will be in the Ferry building. Portsmouth, N. H ., Aug. 19.— Black The harbor commissioners have been pessimism reigns at Portsmouth. The applied to for space and if they grant prevailing view is that the fate of the the request the work w ill begin imme peace conferences is already settled, diately. About 90 per cent of the local mail that it has ended in failure, and that a ll that now remains is for the plenipo passes through the Ferry postoffice, and tentiaries to meet on Tuesday, to which when that station, with its force of day they adjourned yesterday afternoon clerks, is transferred to the new build upon completing the consideration of ing at 8eventh and Mission, the postal the Japanese terms, sign the final pro secrvice of this city is going to be tocol, go through the conventions and greatly hamphered. The business com bid each other farewell. In other munity of this city as well as others words, that the meeting Tuesday w ill were considerably interested over the be what diplomacy calls the “ seance matter, and the agitation resulted in the department at Washington giving d ’ adieu.” But there is still room for hope of a it serious attention. The tube is eight inches in the clear, com prom ise. Neither President Roose velt nor the powers will see the chance and each carrier w ill hold 450 letters. o f peace shipwrecked without a fianl At a test recently made at Chicago, effort, and that pressure is being exert 360,000 letters were sent through in ed, eepecialy at Tokio, to induce Japan one hour. San Francisco mail is about to moderate her terms, is beyond ques i 300,000 letters per day, and with the tion. Just what is being done or is to tube system local mail could be handled be done has not transpired. King Ed with great efficiency. The majority of ward is understood to be now lending a I the majl w ill be worked and sorted at helping hand and the financiers of the the main postoffice, and sent through world are known to be exerting all their the tube to the Ferry station, where it energies. At Tokio and Ht. Petersburg w ill be pouched for trains and steam ers. All incoming mail w ill be sent the final issue will be decided. directly to the main postoffice. The Dubois Lumber Company " Prevailing View That War in Far East Will Continue. of Estacada, Oregon^ - - -— ™ \ MANUFACTURERS OF ALL CLASSES OF Fir and Cedar LUMBER JAPAN ASKED TO MODIFY TERMS grade building material a specialty£££ If You Are Going to Build, We Can You Out to the Top Notch in Fit Every thing R e q u i r e d ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ g » Mouldings in All Styles C. E. DUBOIS, Manager W . A. JONES is our selling agent in Estacada, Oregon Telephone connection direct with mill Thos. <J. C U R T IS . . . . . P i o n e e r R e a l E s t a te M a n o f E s ta ca d a . . . ^ • Improved farms, W ild lands and Timber claims for sale Also some excellent town lots N O T A R Y P U B L IC P O R TL A N D M A R K E TS . Wheat — Club, 69i370c per bushel; bluestem, 74@ 76c; valley, 75c. Barley— Feed, $20.50 per ton; brew ing. $21. Oats— No. 1 white feed, old, $28 per to n ; gray, old, $27; white, new, $23® 2 3.50; gray, new, $22 per ton. Hay — Tim othy, old, $13(315 per • ton ; new, $11® 12.50; clover, $8@ 9. Fruits— Apples, 90c@$1.75 per b ox; peaches, 65@85c crate; plums, 75c@ $1 per crate; blackberries, 6 @ 6c per pou nd; cantaloupes, $1(32.50 per crate; pears, $1.50 per box; watermelons, l @ H i c per pound; crabapples, 60c per b ox; grapes, $1@ 1.50. Vegetables— Beans, l@ 4 c per pound; cabbage, l ® l ^ c per pound; cauli flower, 76 @ 90c per dozen; celery, 75(3 85c per dozen; corn, 8 ® 9c per dozen; cucumbers, 10®15c per dozen; toma toes, 60@ 60c per crate; squash, 6c per pou nd; turnips, $1.25(31.540 per sack; carrots, $1.25(31.50 persaok; beets, $1 <31.25 per sack. Onions— Red, $1.25 per hundred; yellow , $1.25, Potatoes,— Oregon new, 75(380c per sack; Merced sweets, 3 ^ c per pound. Butter— Fancy creamery, 27 >4 (330c. Eggs — Oregon ranch, 22% c per dozen. Poultry — Average old hens, 13(3 1 3 % c; mixed chickens, 12(313c; old roosters, 10c; young roosters, 11 <3 l l ) { c ; springs, 1% to 2 pounds, 14® 14>^c; 1 to 1% pounds, 14J^®15c; turkeys, live 18<32 2 c; geese, live, per pound, 8 ® 9 c; ducks, old, 13c; ducks gray 13c; white 14c. Hops — Choice 1904, 17®19c per pound. W ool— Eastern Oregon, average best, 1 9® 21c; lower grades, down to 15c, according to shrinkage; valley, 2 5 ® 27c per pound; mohair, choice, 31c per pound. Beef — Dressed balls, l® 2 c per pound; cows, 3 ^ ® 4 H ; country steers, 4 ® 5c. Veal— Dressed, 3®7J^c. Mutton— Dressed, fancy, 6 )^ ® 7 c per pou nd; ordinary, 4 ® 6 c; lambs, 7® 7% c. P ork— Dressed, 4 ® 8cj>er pound. TROLLEY BROKEN IN PIECE8. Hit by Flying Freight C ar at a Butte Street Crossing. Butte, M ont., Aug. 22.— Ten persona were killed and more than a score were Injured, some fatally, here tonight, as the result of a freight car dashing into a crowded open trolley car at the cross ing of the street car and the Great Northern railroad tracks on Utah street. Passengers on the car, men, women and children, were returning from Co lumbia Gardens. The motorman, as usual, stopped his car before reaching the railroad crossing. At that moment a Butte, Anaconda A Pacific yard en gine was making a flying switch of loaded freight cars across Utah street. The motorman, thinking everything was clear, started across the railroad track, when the trolley car was struck by a freight car, thrown 25 feet and crumbled into kindling wood.. The freight car landed on top of the man gled passengers. TIME CARD Oregon Water Power and Railway Company Offices: 132 1-2 First St. Portland, Ore. Cars leave Estacada • t 7 : 37 . 9 : 37 . 1 1 : 37 > »• and , : 37 3=47. 5 :37 and 9 o ’clock p. m. Cars leave Portland at 7:30, 9:30, 11:30 a m and 1:30 3:40, 5 : 4 4 and 7:17 P m Way freight leave* Estacada at 7:10 a m for Portland, and leaves Portland at 10:30 a m for return A lati ear leaves Portland every Saturday night at 11 p m arriving at Estacada at 12:40 a m 50c round trip on Sundays Dr. C. B. Smith, P H Y S IC IA N S A N D SU R GE ON S Estacada office: In Howe’s Store Dr. Smith will be at hia home in Eagle Creek evenings and mornings William K. Haviland, M. D. PHYSICIAN ®®<f SURGEON. Office at tfca (rag store, - Night bell at Second St. entrance W . S. H Y D E , B a rber Best work at popular prices Excursions every Sunday at reduced (.tea, from either direction. Agency for the STAR LAUNDRY. Going to Fight Yankees. For further particulars inquire of New York, Aug. 22.— The Tribune tomorrow w ill say: “ Venezuela has E. L. M E Y E R S , placed orders in Europe for torpedo boats with guns and ammunition at Estacada, Oregon. the cost of about $2.500,000, a larger Local Agent, amount than that little South Am eri can republic has ever expended at one O . B. D IM IC K W . A . D IM IC K time for war materials. An American, who has just returned from Venezuela, D IM IC K & D IM ICK, is authority for the statement that President Castro recently declared that Attorneys at Law he was “ going to fight the Yankees,” which is giveu as the cause of the large N o tary Public. Estates Settled. Mortgages orders for war material. Foreclosed. CHARLES L. F E R R Y , Jew eler and Optician. ... OREGON ESTACADA. Livery Stable Abstracts Furnished All Oppoaa Feeding Law. Chicago, Ang. 16.— Secretary of Ag o m e n : a, 3 & 4 , g a r d e b l d o , riculture W ilson held a conference to O R E GON C IT Y , OREGON day with abont 50 cattlemen at the ■tockyarda exchange on the subject of liveatora transportation. The cattle Geo. C . BROW NELL men made It plain that they were op LAWYER posed to the law which reqniree ship pers to feed and real cattle every 24 AU business promptly attended to hoar*. They wanted it extended to 36 hoora. & Dray Line W . A. JONES, Prop. AM work give« prompt attention WOOD Dry, any length always on hand