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