The Estacada News
BST ACADA
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
l i i Condensed Fora for Bur
Busy Boade n
A Resume o f the Let* Important but
Not Let* Interesting Event*
o f the Past Weak.
Hall Caine in believed to be the
richest novelist in the world.
Nationalist* have a safe majority in
the newly-elected Philipine assembly.
An exploe on of firedamp in a Prus
sian mine killed 18 men and injured 11
others.
Germany cures mental and nervous
wrecks and dru kards by putting them
at steady employment.
Pacific Coa t lumbermen will fight
the proposed advance in lumber rates
o Mississipi valley points.
The railroads and the Steel trust are
wrangling over the question of broken
rails, each blaming the other.
One hundred nnruly members of the
Belfast, Ireland, police force have been
exiled and 150 more will follow.
Rich Americans can not escape taxes
by establishing residences in Kngland.
They will be subject to taxation unde
the English laws.
A German princess who systematic
ally stole silver plate from European
hotels has been exonerated on the
ground of insanity.
A blast of 6,000 tons of high explo
sive was fired in breaking up a moun
tain of fine marble in Italy, Itdis-
lodged 600,000 tona.
Five hundred brakemen and a num
ber of conductors on the Colorado
8 intern railroad have struck fur an
increase of 2 cents an hour.
On board the newest German-Amer--
can ste mera no regular meala are
served, but a regular short-order res-
aurant is always open.
T ' ree-flfths of t l'e output of the great
DeBeere diamond mines in South Af
rica is taken by American dealers and
prices are steadily rising.
VESSELS DISREGARD FOG.
REPORT ON STANDARD OIL CO.
Commiaalon on Corpora Iona 8aya It
Uaos Worst o f Methods.
Washington, Aug. 5.— Significant
revelations are made public In a re
port submitted to President Roose
velt by Herbert Knox Smith, Com
missioner of Corporations, concern
ing the operations of the Standard
Oil Company.
In a previous report the ways and
methods of the Standard were ex
plained. The present report sets
forth the results of these methods
and the effect they have had on the
consumption of oil and on the profits
of the Standard Oil Company. Com
missioner Smith says:
“ The Standard Oil Company is re
sponsible for the course of prices of
petroleum and its products during
the last 25 years. The Standard has
consistently used its power to raise
the price of oil during the last ten
years, not only absolutely but also
relatively to the cost of crude oil.”
The Standard has claimed that It
has reduced the price of oil; that It
has been a benefit to the consumer:
and that only a great combination
like the Standard could have fur
nished oil at the prices that have
prevailed.
"Each one of these claims,” says
Commissioner Smith, ” ls disproved
by this report.”
The Increase In annual profits of
the Standard Oil Company from
1896 to 1904 was over $27,000,000.
The report says:
"The total dividends received by
the Standard from 1882 to 1906
were $551,922,124, thus averaging
24.15 per cent a year. The dividends
however, were much less than the
total earnings.
It is substantially
certain that the entire net earnings
of the Standard from 1882 to 19
were at least $790,000,000 and pos
sibly much more.
"These enormous profits have
been based on an Investment worth
at the time of its original acquisition
not more than $75,000,000.”
The report of Commissioner Smith
shows that the Standard Oil Com
pany is responsible for petroleum
prices for the past quarter of a cen
tury because this company has con
trolled the Industry. The report
shows the price history of oil pro
ducts since 1866, or practically since
the beginning of the industry. This
gives an opportunity to compare the
course of prices during the earlier
competitive period with the course
of prices during the later monopolis
tic period. It also shows that prices
would have been lower during this
later period under normal competi
tive conditions and In the absence of
any such overshadowing combination
as has actually existed.
These prices show directly the ef
fect that the existence of this com
bination has had upon the consumer
and also the results that have ac
crued to the combination Itself by
way of profits. Just conclusion can
thus be drawn of the way the Stand
ard Oil has used its great Industrial
power.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
Estimate 140,000 Balsa
Salem— Estimates from the most
Wallowa Anxious to Contaat Honors conservative dealers of this district
, who have made a tour of the hop-
With Town o f Enterprise.
Wallowa— The Wallowa Commer- growing territory and observed yard
clal Club has voted unanimously for , conditions closely, place the state
the beginning of a county seat fight. crop for 1907 at not to exceed 140,
John McDonald. S. T. Combs and Dr. 000 bales, as compared to approxi
G. W. Gregg were appoiated a com mately 150,000 for the season of
mittee on finance, while C. T. Mc- 1906, and this estimate may be re
Daniel, Mayor J. P. Morelock and'duced fully one-third more by rea-
Couuciiman Edgar Marvin will ar i son of failure to secure picking
| money.
range for the circulation of petitions j The crop seems to be coming on
to secure the vote next June. The very unevenly, and all yards, gen
meeting was well attended and the erally speaking, are more or less
promise of support from Joseph was spotted, while the number of missing
hills in most yards Is remarkable.
officially announced.
Many fields are well advanced and
The county seat is now at Enter the burrs are fully developed. These
prise and much dissatisfaction has give promise of an abundant yield,
been manifest for the past year. The with corresponding high quality,
while on the other hand, in the ma
county owns no public buildings and jority of yards, the vines are still In
is practically in the position of a new blossom, with a very small percent
county. The vote to be taken next age of burrs well set.
June will decide the location of the
New Buildings for Corvallis.
county seat definitely, and every ef
fort possible will be put forth on
Salem—-At a special meeting of
the State Board of Education, the
each side.
The aspirations of Wallowa have contract for the building of the new
Mechanics’ Hall In connection with
long been growing and have at the Agricultural College at Corvallis
length taken form. The struggle was awarded to A. F. Peterson, of
was provoked by the action of rest Portland, for $37,363, and for the
dents of Enterprise a week ago in steam-heating plant for the same
attempting to get the county court building to Gardner, Kendall & Co.,
to build a courthouse. Their offer of Portland, for $3,525. These were
was a site and $5,000 cash bonus the lowest bids offered. Each suc
for a $2 5,000 courthouse. The cessful bidder must furnish a bond
county court tabled the proposal in in the sum of 50 per cent of the
definitely, pending the action of the amount of the respective contracts
voters at the next election. The and the building must be completed
strength of the two towns is almost and ready for occupancy on or be
evenly divided with a large element fore February 1 of next year.
in the county as yet very uncertain.
Land Sales Drop.
Horsethieves Are Caught.
Salem— The total amount of col
Pendleton— Roy Connell and Jim lections for the sale of school, tide
Price, two members of the gang of and swamp land, interest on certifi
cates, etc., in the State Land De
horsethieves which has been terror partment for the month of July, as
izing the southern end of the county shown by the statement issued h
for several months, are now lodged Clerk G. G. Brown, of the State Land
in the county Jail. The former was Board, was $47,785.37, which is a
picked up in this city a few days considerable falling off from the
ago by Sheriff Taylor and the latter volume of business conducted last
was brought from Baker City this month, when the receipts reached a
morning by that officer. The offi total of over $100,000. This latter,
cers are also in possession of strong however, was due to the transactions
evidence against a third rustler, who incident to the cancellation and re
has apparently made his temporary purchasing of certificates resulting
from the land fraud investigations.
get-away.
COUNTY SEAT FIGHT ON.
Dasir* to Mak* Fast Tim* Causa of
Many Wracks.
8au Francisco, July 31.— The tes
timony of the officers of the steam
schooner San Pedro, before Captain
John Bermingham today, demon
strated clearly that the habit of
Coast skippers, said to be practically
universal, of running their vessels
at full Bpeed regardless of the fog,
was mainly responsible for the wreck
of the Columbia and ltB terrible con
sequences.
Chief Mate B. Hendricksen, who
was in charge of the San Pedro at
the time of the collision, testified
that, when he first heard the fog slg-'
nals of the Columbia, be did not slow
down and that, when the passenger
vessel loomed out of the fog, it was
too late to do anything but try to
make the collision as slight as pos
sible.
He appears to have acted with dis
patch and good judgment when he
sighted the Columbia; but at that
time, according to his testimony, the
ships were not more than a boat’s
length apart, and not much was pos
sible. There was no time to go to
starboard. He therefore blew the
danger signal, four short blasts, or
dered the engines stopped and threw
the helm hard aport. He did not or
der the engines reversed, he ex
plained, because he hoped to throw
the San Pedro arouad so as to strike
a glancing blow, and in order to do
this it was necessary to keep suffl
cient way on her. The San Pedro had
been making about eight knots, and
was probably making five when she
struck the Columbia.
MOYER FREE ONCE MORE.
Bond for Bail Furnished After Lorg
Wait for Cash.
Boise, Idaho, July 31.— After a de
lay of nearly 36 hours, Charles H
Moyer, president of the Western Fed
eration of Miners, was released from
the Ada county jail at a late hour
last night on a bond of 25,000 signed
by Timothy Regan and Thomas J.
Jones of Boise.
Moyer will leave for Salt Lake to
night in company with William D
Haywood, who on Sunday was ac
quitted of the murder of ex-Gov
ernor Steunenberg. After a stop of
a few hours in Salt Lake City, they
will proceed to Denver, the head
quarters of the federation.
It was proposed to file a cash bond
In the sum of $25,000, but the
money did not arrive in time, and
rather than allow Moyer to remain
another night in jail, his attorneys
decided, after all, to let a personal
bond suffice.
Steve Adams who was expected to
be an important witness at the trial
but who was not called by either
side, was taken back to Wallace to
await a second trial on the charge
of murder there. HIs first trial re
sulted in a disagreement.
Formal application was made In
the District Court to have George A.
Pettibone admitted to bail. The mo
tion was submitted without argu
ment, and was promptly denied by
Judge Wood.
WILLPROVOKEJAPAN
Movement ol Fleet to Pacific
May Bring War.
HOODLUMS WILL START ATTACK
With Battleships in Pacific They Will
Become Bold and Japan Will
8urely Retaliata.
Washington, Aug. 3.—There waa
much jubilation on the pait of naval
officers today over the specific and un
qualified announcement at Oyster Bay
that the battleships of the Atlantic fleet
will be sent to the Pacific. Until this
statement was made by authority of
President Roosevelt there was a grow
ing feeling on the part of naval officers
that these vessels would not be sent
around Cape Horn.
One of the moet substantial officers
of the navy believes that the sending of
these battleships to the California coast
will cause so much irritation that war
between the United States and Japan
will be the result. They are already
figuring on promotions, as history has
shown that advancement In the naval
service is much more rapid during war
than in peace.
All naval officers are forbidden to
discuss international questions fer pub
lication, but privately they do not hesi
tate to declare that they believe that as
soon as the Altantic fleet starts on its
long voyage to ths Pacific the Japanese
government will send one of its Heels
to the coast of California or to the At
lantic coast.
They declare that the presence of the
liattleehips of Admiral Evans on the
Pacific will cause the people in that
part of the country to become more
bold in their attacks on the Japanese.
This, they say, will cause irritation,
which they fear will lead to Berious
consequences.
ADD NEW TRAIN.
Southern Pacific Will Inaugurate New
Express Service,
Portland, Aug. 3.— Harriman offi
cials, both in Portland and San Fran
cisco. are seriously considering placing
a special mail and express train on the
Portland-San Francisco run. It iB ex
pected that a decision will be reached
in a few days. Railroad officials are
inclined to think the additional service
is assured, although^the train will have
to be officially ordered by General Man
ager Calvin from the San Francisco
office.
The proposed new train will be re
served exclusively for handling mail
and express, and is being considered as
an expedient for relieving existing con
gested conditions, which, it is said, are
responsible largely for the unsatisfac
tory passenger service on this branch
of the Southern Pacific. This special
will carry no passengers. J
The express business on this line has
increased to an extent that it is impos
sible to handle it with the facilities
that are now provided in the passenger
trains and at the same time make
schedule time with these trains. By
ccmbining both the express and mail
business and handling it with a special
train, the railroad officials figure that
<t will be possible to operate its passen
ger trains on schedule time, since it is
the discharging and receiving of ex
press that invariably delays trains.
ANOTHER NEW YORK CRIME,
Brutal Murder o f Woman and Girla
in Metropolis Continues.
New York, Aug. 2.— "The grave
yard," aa the foreign populated
neighborhood on First avenue, be
tween Thirteenth and Fourteenth
streets Is known locally, gave up to
day a fresh crime, rivaling In atroc
ity the mysterious butcheries of last
week. The latest discovered victim
was au 8-year-old girl, and, like the
two youug women murdered, she had
been shockingly mistreated before
death and the body mutilated when
life was extinct.
The three murders were strikingly
similar. Last Thursday night a
woman was strangled in a Twenty-
second street boardinghouse; the
next morning the body of a still un
identified woman, who had been
choked to death, was found in an
areaway in East Nineteenth street.
Katie Prltschler, daughter of a res
taurant waiter, disappeared a week
ago today and was killed that night.
A ribbon placed about the throat and
drawn so tightly that it cut the
flesh, showed how she died.
Her
body was found today.
If the brutality of the murders
can be qualified, that of the Prltsch
ler girl ranks first. She was as
saulted, murdered and then her life
less form was horribly mutilated.
NINE MEN CHOSEN.
Good Progress Made In Selecting
Jury to Try Haliey.
San Francisco. Aug. 2.— Compara
tively rapid progress was made yes
terday in the trial of Theodore V.
Halsey for the alleged bribery of
Supervisor Lonergan.
Halsey, as
former agent of the Pacific States
Telephone & Telegraph Company, is
the second of the public utilities cor
poration men to be brought to the
bar by the bribery graft prosecution
and the indictment on which he went
to trial is the first of 13 similar ones
that have been returned against him.
Forty-eight veniremen were ex
amined during the day, and of these
nine withstood the qualification tests
and were accepted, subject to per
emptory challenge by either side, ten
peremptories resting with the de
fense and five with the prosecution.
District Attorney La„gdon con
ducted the examinations for the pros
ecution. He is supported by Special
Counsel Hiram Johnson and Assist
ant District Attorney William Hoff
Cook. Bert Schlesslnger examined
for the defense. With him at the
counsel table in Halsey’s behalf are
Delphln M. Delmas and Henry H.
McPlke. If Judge Lawlor overrules
the objection of the defense to the
commencement of Louis Glass’ new
trial next Monday and requires it to
go on at that time, Mr. Delmas will
probably withdraw temporarily from
the Halsey case in order to take part
in the defense of Glass.
Activity on New Railroad,
Railroad Laborers Scarce.
Huntington— Work on the North
Corvallis— Grading on the Corval
west Railroad Is progressing slowly lis & A lsea River Railroad is to be
owing to the scarcity of men, who gin in a few days at Corvallis,rand it
prefer to work in the harvest fields, is stated that there will be work for
greatly to the Inconvenience of the all the men and teams that may ap
railroad contractors. Work will be ply. A dozen cars of steel rails have
The empress of China lias been or
gin next week of laying rails and already arrived, and several cars are
dered by her physician to quit smoking
putting in culverts of Iron pipes in arriving daily.
The statement is
8
ECOND
HEARING
BEGUN.
cigarettes, and according to Chinese
the large gulches leading from the heard that 15 miles of rails are en
Toraado Destroys Town.
mountain sides. This means a great route and due here as fast as the
custom a law will be made prohibiting
Victoria, Kan., Aug. 2— All efforts
cigarette smoking throughout the em Federal Courts Continue Investigation saving of time and money to the con West Side can transport them. The
to reach Marquette, reported to have
tractors, who now have to haul their line follows closely the right of way
pire.
o f Standard.
been destroyed by a tornado last
supplies 40 and 60 miles by wagon. of the Southern Pacific to a distance
SLY
OLD
JOHN
BULL.
night, have failed. The Missouri Pa
Chicago, Aug. 6.— The prepara
Rota, the fighting leader cf the Pula-
of five or six miles southward from
cific Railway telegraph operator at
janee in the island of Leyte, has been tions for the second federal investi
More Excuse for Increase.
Corvallis,
Marquette was notifying the agent at
Steal« March on Uncle Sam at The
sentenced to dtath. One companion gations of the relations between the
Geneseo, west of there, that the de
Pendleton— W ill Moore, manager
Hague Conference.
was seutei ced to imprisonment for life Standard Oil Company of Indiana for the Pacific Coast Elevator Com
pot was almost destroyed by wind,
Lane County Keeps Up
and four others were given 35 years. and the Chicago & Alton Railroad, pany, says, regarding the advance
The Hague, July 31.— The British
and that three Inches of water stood
ordered by Judge Landis of the
Eugene— The hop yield in Lane delegation
The tr al of Faustino Ablen, the chief United States District Court on Sat in warehouse charges: “ The ware
is
working
on
a
proposi
In the depot, when the wire failed.
county this year will approximate
of the Pulajai es, will take, place this urday, will begin tomorrow. The call house charges, even with the 50 per the crop of last season, if it is all tion, which, when it is presented, will
McPherson, southeast of Marquette,
week.
.
was reached by telephone. That place
for the special grand Jury will be cent advance, will still be so moder harvested.
The
prospective low cause considerable surprise. As al
ready cabled, the representatives of
had heard the report but could not
ate as to afTord the grain brokers
King Edward showed his apprecia issued and United States District At but little hope of getting in the same prices for hops and present high the United States have been private
communicate with Marquette. All
tion of labor in striking fashion during torney Sims will go over all the evi financial class with the farmers. Ac prices for labor may influence a few ly discussing with other leading dele
other wires are down. Marquette
dence presented at the recent trial
his visit tc Cardiff, the center of the of the Standard Oil Company, which cording to the statement of Mr to neglect the harvest, and there gates the advisability of the United
was destroyed by a tornado in 1905,
Welsh coal trade. He not only knight resulted in conviction and a fine of Moore, the advance in the charges have been three good but small States presenting a proposition for
27 persons being killed and over a
yards dug up this year, but the quan
ed Lord Mayor Cro-suun, of Cardiff, a $29,240.000, and will select the wit will mean just three-fourths of a tity of hops will not be materially the periodical meeting of the confer
hundred and fifty injured.
labor leader, hut he announced the in nesses to be subpoenaed.
It de cent a bushel to the farmers.
changed. The long, dry, cool weather ence, this proposition suggesting that
stitution of an order of chivalry for veloped that the reason for haste in
Rates to West Lowered..
has been Ideal for hopgrowing, and it should meet quinquennially June
miners. This new decoration, which this Investigation is that the statute
the quality at this time is above the 2, beginning in 1912.
Tramps Infest LaGrande.
Chicago, Aug. 2.— Reductions in
The
British
delegation
went
ahead
will bear King Edward’s name, will be of limitations Is running against the
La Grande— The town Is overrun average.
interstate fares from all the promi
of the Americans, having already
for heroes of tiie mine who distinguish government, and because of It the with hoboes and many thefts, some
nent places in the East to the prin
communicated
in
the
strictest
secrecy
Chicago & Alton will escape re-in- of considerable magnitude, have been
Wind Shakes Prune Tree*.
themselves in rescue work.
cipal points west of Chicago and St.
to only a few delegates its proposi
dlctment on between 80 and 100 committed. Nineteen tramps were
Louis will be made August 6 by the
Albany— The strange wind storm
Haywood wa* given a great reception counts of the 1,462 on which the run out a couple of days ago, among which swept this part of the state tion on the same subject, establish
Eight Injured in Elevator.
Eastern railroads, special permission
at Balt Lake.
Standard Oil Company was con whom was C. J. Dent, locally known last night played the strange freak ing that the conference should sit
Cincinnati, Aug. 3.— A peculiar to do so having been granted by the
septeniaily, but that two years be accident on an elevator In the Interstate Commerce Commission.
victed.
as
"the
Portland
Prince.”
He
has
of relieving prune-growers of the
Govern >r Hanley declares that Indi
This statute of limitations bars often been In the city Jail and boasts necessity of shaking their trees to fore the meeting special representa Power building, at Eighth and Syca Because of the reductions in inter
ana is solid for Fairbanks.
prosecution on offenses committed of having "done up" a Portland of thin out the yield. Many bushels of tives of Great Britain, France, Ger more streets, last evening, seriously state fares made by the Western
many, the United States, Russia Injured eight persons. The car was railroads, owing to the passage of
France lias invited Spain to join in more than three years before Indict ficer.
prunes were shaken ofT the trees by
________
Italy, Austria and Japan should meet
ment. Many of the shipments on
an expedition against Morocco.
the wind and the growers are thus to prepare the work for the confer running by electricity and a broken 2-cent fare laws by many states, pas
which the Standard Oil Company
saved considerable labor and ex ence, pre-arranging everything con connection In a switchboard extin sengers from Eastern and Western
Survey Route to Lakevlew.
John Burns proposes a British pure was convicted of accepting rebates
pense as many were planning to nected with its organization and the guished the lights and took from the points have been able to save from
Klamath
Falls—
A
crew
of
survey
food law to fight American packers.
occurred between September, 1903
shake their trees this week. Per matters to be taken under advise operator the power to control the $1 to $6 by buying a ticket over
ors
under
Chief
Engineer
Journey
and August, 1904. When the grand
car. As a result the crowd reached Eastern roads only to their Western
A band cf New York Chinese made a Jury convenes on August 14, a few has pitched camp Just east of this haps a few more prunes were shaken ment.
the bottom in safety, although in terminals and then rebuying over a
raid on Boston Chinese, killing three. days will suffice to present the evi city and has begun work on a rail down than the growers would have
darknesB, and then, by a sudden re Western line to their destination.
road survey to Lakevlew. The en
dence
against
the
Alton.
newal
of power, the elevator went to
New Line Across Rockies
Union Pacific will encourage coal
gineers say the purpose of the sur
PORTLAND
MARKETS.
The
Jury
will
consider
infractions
the
top of the shaft so rapidly that
mining hy independent oompaniee now
Helena, Mont., July
31.— The
vey
Is
to
determine
a
route
from
this
Buy Meat in Australia.
the balancing weights were thrown
that it has lost much of its coal land. of the Elkins Law occurring from city Into Lake county. The men are
Victoria, B. C., Aug. 2.— Major O.
Wheat—Club, 80c; bluestem, 82c; Northern Pacific has let a contract off and In falling struck several pas
August, 1904, until March, 1905.
In the employ of the Southern Paci valley, 80c; red, 78c.
to Shepard, Siems & Company for sengers.
Long, dispatched to Australia and
Irrigation work in California, Ari
fic Company.
New Zealand by the British army
Oats— No. 1 white, $25;
grey, the building of a new line over the
More Land Frauds.
sons and Nevada will be rut from $16,-
Rocky Mountains west from this city,
council
to Inspect the packing houses
nominal.
New Cruiser in Commission.
Log Angeles, Aug. 6.— The sudden
000,000 last year to $800,000 this year.
presumably for the purpose of head
Clackamas Furm Brings 816,000.
of the antipodes with a view to se
Barley— Feed, $21.50022 per ton; ing off the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
departure of United States District
Vallejo,
Cal.,
Aug.
3.—
With
ap
Oregon City— Robert J. Brown, brewing, nominal; rolled, $23.500
curing supplies of tinned meats for
The Alabama secretary of state has
Paul, which evidently purposes tap propriate ceremonies, the new cruis the British army, arrived by the
declared the franchise of the Southern Attorney Oscar Lawlor for Portland one of the potato kings of New Era, 24.60.
ping
Helena
on
its
line
from
Lom
er California, recently completed, steamer Manuka today, on his way
railread forfeited for breaking state and Seattle is considered significant, has sold his 2 70-acre farm IV, miles
Corn— Whole, $28; cracked, $29 per bard to Garrison. The route over was placed in commission shortly be to England, via Chicago, where he
when taken In connection with the east of New Era, to G. E. Pottratz, ton.
laws.
the mountains will be by way of Mc fore noon Thursday. Captain Thomas will look over the packing houses.
of Marlon county, for $16,000, or
recent disclosure of extensive land
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17@ Donald Pass, and will result in the
Four American school teachers who frauds In the Imperial Valley. When nearly $60 per acre, and the pur 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, abandonment of Mullan Tunnel, the S. Phelps, who will command the He said the supplies In future would
cruiser, made a brief speech and
have just returned from the Philippines he left the city Mr. Lawlor said he chaser has taken Immediate posses $21023; clover, $9; cheat, $0010; longest on the Northern Pacific sys then read the orders to the crew as be taken in greater quantities from
sion. Mr. Brown will remain in
Australia. Major Long said the bus
via Asia and Europe say wherever they wns called by important business, Clackamas county and purchase a grain hay, $9910; alfalfa, $13014.
tem.
sembled on the decks. This was fol iness In Australia was conducted
■topped, in India or other British pos but would not give any Information smaller farm.
lowed by the raising of the flag over under wholesale conditions.
Butter— Fancy creamery, 27)* (330c
sessions, Japanese were busily engaged as to Its nature. As the Investigation
the warship, which is the finest ves
Demand Better Wages.
per pound.
In making sketches of fortifications and is continued it Is believed the names
sel
that ever came to this yard. The
New York, Aug. 2.— A demand for
Trains to Wallowa 8oon,
Poultry— Average old hens, 1 2 4 9
Britain Build* Cruisers.
of prominent capitalists will be
harbors.
Elgin-— It Is conservatively esti 13c per pound; mixed chickens, 121* 0; 25 cents increase per day in wages, California was built by the Union
called with these desert land entries.
London, July 31.— During the
Iron
works,
but
was
turned
over
to
mated by engineers who have been spring chickens, 15016o; old roosters, affecting 17,000 machinists, was
Corean soldiers revolted against
course of a discussion of naval mat
over tKe grade that trains will he 899c; dreaaed chickens, 16017c; tur made today on all employes In and the government and completed
disbandment and fought Japanese to
ters In the House of Lords today,
Transport Break* Dcwn.
running from Elgin to Wallowa over keys, live, 12015c; turkeys, dreaaed, around New York city by the Inter
Seoul, but were quelled.
Baron Tweedmouth, First Lord of
San Francisco, Aug. 6— The trans the Wallowa extensloa of the O. R.
Fir«s~Rage In Foothills.
choice, nominal; geeee, live, 8011c; national Association of Machinists
the
Admiralty had in mind a new and
and the Amalgamated Society of En
Choate baa made a powerful port Warren, which left Saturday & N. in 60 days. The grade Is prac ducks, 8014c.
Visalia, Cal., Aug. 3.— A disas extended cruiser construction policy,
gineers, to the number of 15,000 In trous fire haa raged all day along
speech for a permanent arbitration with a large contingent of troops and tically completed and the work of
which probably will be brought for
Kgga— French ranch, candled, 220 the former and 2,000 In the latter,
court at The Hague.
passengers, was compelled by a laying the track Is being rushed with 23c per dozen.
the foothills ten miles east of this
which consists of members of aobut city. The territory devastated will ward next year. "A fter all,” said he,
breakdown of machinery to put back all possible speed.
"the cruiser is the ship by means of
France, Spain and Italy are to She had hardly got outside the bay
Frnite— Cherries, 8 0 1 2 4 « a pound; 30 branches of the metal shop
probably amount to 75 or 100
■end an army to Morocco to put down when the officers In the engine-room
apples, $1.5002.25 per box; Spitsen- trades. The Increase Is to date from square miles. The entire population which we keep our dominance of the
Rhort
Crop
About
Lebanon.
seas.
The battleships are the police
the uprising.
hergs, $3.60 per box; cantalonpee, now. but the machinists. It was said, Is fighting the fire and reports re
noticed that her machinery was not
Lebanon— The first threshers In
men of the sea. It Is their business
will
wait
a
few
days
to
hear
from
$2.500.3.50
per
crate:
peaches,
6Or0
working
as
It
ought.
Chief
Engineer
ceived are very meager. From here to destroy the fleet of the enemy,
Roosevelt will positively not allow
Linn county started up a few days
the employers
the (lam™ could be seen late at leaving the cruisers to guard the
himself to be renominated for an Donnelly, of the Army Traruport De ago on this year’s crop of grain. The $1.25 per crate; raspberries, $1.250
partment,
made
an
exhaustive
ex
1.50
pef
crate;
blackberries,
507c
night, climbing the low-lying hills, waters.”
other term but will support Taft.
yield will not be up to the average.
amination of the Warren’s machin The hav crop In Linn county Is also per pound; loganberries, $1 per crate;
Gat Both Convention*.
apparently still beyond control. A
The Oklahoma Republican oonven- ery and Is In hopes that new con short this year and the prevailing apricot», $1.50062 per crate,
Chicago, July 31.— The effort to number of barns and outbuildings Too Young to Become an American
denser
tubes
can
be
Installed
by
tlon haa nominated Frank Frants for
price for good hay la higher than t Vegetables— Turnips, $1.75 per sack; obtain the republican and democra have been consumed, as well as
San Franclaco, Aug. 2.— When the
Tuesday.
governor.
for years.
carrot», $2 per sack; beets, $2 per tic national conventions for Chicago many stacks of hay and grain, be steamer Curacao reached port this
John Sharp Williams haa defeated
sack; asparagus, 10c per pound; heans, next year has resulted In such a de sides thousands of acres of wild feed. afternoon from Guaymas, one of her
England Gobbles Island.
Bids for Nsw Mail Routa.
Governor Vardeman for the Demo
,305c per pound; cabbage, 2 4c per gree of harmony that the financial
22 first cabin passengers was held
Port Arthur, Ont., Aug. 6.— Cap
Hainx» Buy* Min* and 8m »lt»r.
cratic nomination for aenator from
Baker City— Postmaster Lachner pound;
__
_ celery, $1.25
_
^
______ com,
_____ end of the enterprise for both con
per doten;
by United States Immigration In
Mississippi.
Basin, Mont., Aug. 3.— Repre spector de la Torre. This was See-
tain S. C. Young returned from tale has received orders from Washing- 25035c pei dozen; encumbers, 5Oc0$l ventions probably will be handled by
the republican committee. This was
|«ttnee. head, 26c per dozen, practically agreed upon today at a senting T. Augustus Helnze. W. A. ferlna Alvarado, a Mexican lad of
Coagressman Jenkins opposes the Royale In Iaike Superior, where he ton Instructing him to advertise for ^
,
; 5020c per doten ; peas, 405c meetiag of the Hamilton Club com Kidney purchased at sheriff’s sale 16. who was young enough Just to
state rights doctrine and predicts was successful In planting the Brit bids for a »»age Ine to operate from
here the property of the Basin Bay
ish flag, meeting with no opposition. Baker City to Unity and Hereford,
’ „V. .JT ;.*,— o r í.
civil war If It ta enforced.
Reports showed State Mining Company, Including come within the acope of the new Im
1 , Burnt
n .irnt River,
R iver a
a distance
about P*r P ° ani*> red ishe», 20o per doten, mittee on finance.
distance o of f about
When asked why he had made his « on
that sufficient money Is In sight to the famous Katie mine, hla million- migration law. which forbids landing
tomatoes, $101.25 per crate
expedition,
he
said
It
waa
for
the
40
miles.
_________
Haywood will tour the West and
of any foreigner under 16 years old
Potatoes— New, 1 4 0 2 c per ponnd. finance the two conventions.
dollar concentrator, a smelter, va who la not accompanied by his father
address all unions of the miners' purpose of opening correspondence
Veal— Dreaaed, 5 4 0 8 4 c per pound.
rious other mining claims and placer or mother.
between Ottawa and Washington,
Heavy Hay and Grain Yields.
federation.
Train Robber Caught.
locations along the Bonider River
Beef— Prraeed bulla, 3 4 9 4 c P®r
La
Grande— The
Amalgamated
Harrow and Rlchardaon, attorneys which would show that great Injus
$392.864.71. This waa the
Butte, Mont., July 31.— George for
In the defense of Haywood, cannot tice had been done Canada by the Sugar Company haa begun harvest pound; cows, 6 0 6 4 c; country steers,
Trunk With Money Loet.
smelter
used by Mr. Helnte under
Tower waa arrested today for the
agree and one or the other will with agreement which gave Isle Royale to ing the hay and grain on Its differ 6 4 0 7 c.
Watertown, Wls., Ang.
9.— A
lease
after
the
destruction
of
hla
the
United
States.
ent farms. They have 225 men and
Mutton— Drrmed. fancy, 809c per holdup of the North Coast Limited
draw before the Pettlbone and Moyer
trunk containing securltlea to the
75 teams at work. The crop yields pound; ordinary, 607c; spring lamb», In March and the murder of Clow, Butte plant by fire.
cases are called.
value
of
$200,000
has
been
found
John O Is Not Worried
the engineer. Towers gives no occu
are heavy.
________
9 0 0 4 c per prnad.
here and ta now on Its way to the
A strike haa been averted In the
pation.
He
Is
about
28
years
of
age.
Cleveland.
O..
Aug.
S.—
John
D.
Bind
McGee
Over
fer
Ferjury.
Pork— Dressed, 6 0 6 4 « per ponnd.
rightful owner. An expressman at
Northern Pacific shops at St. Paul.
McArthur Is Raspnolntad
The landlady of a lodging house
Rockefeller gives no Indication In
Bolae, Idaho. Ang. 2.— Dr. I. L. Chicago shipped for Otto Helnecken,
Hope—607 4 « per pound, according Identified him as a lodger who
A wreck on the Illinois Central public at least, that the decision of
Olympia— Announcrment la made to quality.
McGee,
of
Wallace
was
bound
over
a teacher of this city, the trunk con
near Milan, Tenn., resulted In four Judge Landis, fining the Standard at the executive office of the reap
brough“ lnto her house the night be
Wool— Eastern Oregon, average beat, fore the murder a valise In which by Probate Judge Leonard Thurs taining the bonds and left Mr. Heln-
deaths.
Oil Company the limit, affected him pointment of J. W. McArthur, of
day to answer the charge of ner- ecken’s trunk at Chicago. Mr. Hetn-
The Oeorgta legislature haa passed In the slightest. Aa far as appear-j Spokane, as a member of the State 16029c per ponnd, according to shrink was found the giant powder which | Jury lodged against him bees'
o f ecken notified the express company
and the governor «111 sign a prohi anres go. tha magnate haa not given Board of Pharmacy, to tak» effect age; valley, 20029c, according to flne- was to hare been nsed In blowing --------
certain testimony
testimony gives
give» by by him
I ta which made the exchange with great
bition law.
neaa; mohair rhotca, 99030c a ponnd »pen the expreea safe.
the matter a thonght.
November 1.
'the Haywood trial.
alacrity.
Howard Paul, the American enter
tainer, who die l in London in Decem
ber, 1905, and whose will has been in
litigation, bequeathed about $200,000
to London charities.