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The Estacada News lawMd l a c h T haced «y ESTACADA OREGON NEWS OFTHE WEEK t i i bndeued Farn lor to B u y le a d e n A Raauma o f th* Lea« Important but Not Lata Interesting Evacui of tho Paat Weak. Ib e dead in the Canaan, N. H., train wreek number 26. Engineers and firemen on the Mis souri Pacific railroad may strike. The postmaster general will urge con gress to establish postal savings banks Worry over the outcome of bis trial Is causing Tlrey L. Ford much loss of •leep. H. H. Rogep, vice president of the Standard Oil company, has suffered a stroke of paralysis. Unconfirmed reports say the Associ ated Press is about to grant the de mands of Its striking telegraph opera tors. Evidence gathered at the court mar tial of General Stoessel shows that he oould have held Port Arthur at least another week A passengerr on the Southern Pacific was put off near l.os Angeles liecause he would not pay his fare. He shot at the conductor and was killed by the train crew. The railroads affected by the boiler makers’ strike are getting new men as fast as they can. Over 1,000 men walked out and the railway officials claim the strike was not authorized. A decisive struggle is on for control •f Zion city. The numher of railroad accidents in Great Britain is increasing. Three persons were killed by the ool lapse of a building in Cincinnati. Secretary Straus Is formulating plan for an Industrial peace commis- sion. Two of the largest copper mines in Minnesota have decided to decrease their output 50 per cent. Many Japanese who have passports tor Mexico land in the United States but fail to go on to their destination H. H. Rogers is in such poor physi cal health that he is unable to appear In court in a case against the Standard Oil company. James J. Hill, now that he has turn ed all business affairs over to his son, will spend the rest of bis life in recrea tion and rest. A grand jury at Jackson. Miss., has returned indictments against the Illi nois Central and Yazoo A Mississippi Valley railroads for giving passes. The government is trying to prevent another coal famine in the West. Secretary Metcalf urges the need of government drydocka on the Pacific. The Western Union claims there haa been a break in the operators' strike at Clevelad, Ohio. A newspaper office at Joplin, Mo., has been dynamited because it fought the lawless element Count Okuma says the San Francisco riots were backed by the city, while Vancouver fought the rioters An effort to have Stensland, the de faulting president of the Milwaukee avenue bank, Chicago, pardoned, has failed. Theie isa n unconfirmed report that the battleship fleet will leave for the Paoific November 17 instead of Decern her 17. MORE JAPANESE COMING. YEARN FOR STATEHOOD. Member o f Parliament Says Britain Should Bs Careful. Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 17. — Seven Governor o f Naw Mexico Urged to Call Convention. Santa Fe, N. M., Sept. 16.—Dele gate Andrews, national committenran, Lunar H. O. Bnrsum, chairman of the Republican central committee, ex-Unil- ed States Attorney Childers, Judge A. L. Morrison, General John P. Victoria, a Democrat, Poetmaater Walters and other citizens today called upon Gov ernor Curry to urge him to oall a con' stitutional convention within two months so that a constitution may be drafted, submitted and adopted by the people before congress meets alter the holiday*, with a plea for admission to statehood. It is proposed to call to gether the delegatee elected to draaft the constitution under the joint state hood plan a year ago, most of whom have expressed willingness to serve without compensation. Governor Curry declared himself in hearty accord with this plan and prom ised to take action after hia return from a consultation with President Roosevelt. Within the past few days nearly every newspaper in New Mexico has come oat in favor of holding a constitu tional convention thi* fall and senti ment for statehood is practically unani mous. thousand live hundred dollars is unoffi dally stated to be the amount o( dam agaa which will be paid by the Domin Ion government for Japanese windows smashed. The bill will be dispatched tomorrow to Ottawa snd is to be paid Immediately. In the mean time Mayor Hethune is today still trying to secure government oooperation to provide for the suffering Hindus. The condition is rendered ex ceedingly^bsd by the cold rain of the last day and a half. Many are in tents and when they get a chance to lie down it ia In pools of water with wind and rain blowing into their facee. The great eat crowd is at the Maple Leaf boarding house, an old shack near the waterfront. Here 250 are quartered. Temporary hunks were put up last night and the Hindus, surrounded by terrible conditions, lie in the succeeaive tiers of their stuffy quarters. Cook ing, sleeping, eating and bathing go on in one room and men are crowded so closely that only by ¡careful rnanipula tlon is the space large enough for all to stay indoors. The stench is frightful and the civic authorities fear epidemic. The steamers Woolich and Indiana are now overdue with more than 1,000 Japanese, the former from Yokomhama and the Indiana making her second trip from Honolulu. Tbe mayor believes there will be no further trouble when they arrive. R. G. MacPherson member of parliament for Vancouver, declares that Great Britain should be ware of another Boston lea incident, tiie flood of Japanese immigration allowed to continue. DISPATCHER BUNGLES ORDERS Trains Collide in New Hampshire and 2 4 Are Killed. White River Junction, Vt., Sept. 17 —A fearful head-on collision between the south bound Quebec express and a north bound freight train on the Con cord division of tiie Boston A Maine railroad occurred four miles north of Canaan station Sunday, due to a mis take in train dispatcher’s orders, and from a demolished passenger coach there were taken out 24 dead and dying and 27 other passengers, most of them seriously wounded. Nearly all those who were in tbe death car were returning from a fair at Sherbrooke, Quebec, 60 miles north. The conductor of the freight train was given to understand that he had plenty of time to reach a siding by the night operator at Canaan station, re ceiving, according to the superintend ent of the division, a copy of a tele graph order from the train dispatcher at Concord, which confused the train numbers .30 and 34. ROOT OF EVIL NO l REACHED Physicians Opposed to Compulsory Pasteurization or Milk Brussels, Set. 17.—Dr. Henry I. Colt, of Newaik, N. J., resident of the Amer ican association of medical milk com mission, is strongly opposed, in an ad dress today at the International Milk congress, tojthe compulsory pasteuriza tion of milk us a means of effectively improving the supply of milk. Dr. Colt said that to employ pasteurization as anything more than a temporary ex pedient would he undesirable, liecause it would remove the incentive to the public to compel the producer to ac complish an improvement. Pasteur ized milk in bulk is not only intrin sically less desirable than clean raw inilk, declared Dr. Colt, but is actually unsafe unless it ia consumed within 24 hours and ia kept at or belcw II) de gress centigrade—50 degrees Fahren heit. Dr. Colt also said: “ To resort to the compulsory pas teurization of the milk supply in large cities as a protection against tuberculo sis instead of taking more radical meas ures for itg eradication from milk herds, would tie protecting only thoee who live in the cities and would ex Roosevelt has approved the orders to pose all who live in the rural districts. Admiral FI vans to use his own judg. The only real safeguard lies in the ment in visiting Portland with the complete eradication of bovine tubercu fleet of battleships. losis.’’ The next encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held at Toledo, Ohio. Judge Charles Burton, of Nevada, Mo., was elected command er-in-chief at the Saratoga meeting just snuded. Hundreds of Jews are being tortured and burned in Russia. Admission of Oriental adults to the Chicago schcols is meeting with strong opposition. The jury in the Tirey L. Ford case, San Franciaoo, haa been secured. Japan deplores the outbreak against her subjects at Vancouver, B. C. French and Spanish troops have at tacked and routed the Moon and burn ed their camp. Striking telegraph operators In Chi sago have received strike pay and what ever diaeention existed haa dlaappeared. The trans-Atlantic llnsr Lusitania has established a new record for speed across the ocean, making the trip in lass than five days. Jamestown haa offered a prise of l> ,500 for the moat successful airship. The Anglo-American polar expedi tion under Mikkelson and Leflngwelt reports finding a deep sea north of Alaska but no continent. A Great Northern passenger train was held up near Rexford, Mont., by two masked men. They secured a large amount of registered mail but found the express safe, which they dy namited, empty. Telegraph operators on the Northern F m IH o are said to be considering a strike. The question of the battleship fleet visiting Portland haa been loft to A4- aalral Evans. The situation In the telegraphers' Strike at Portland remains unchanged. Few massages are being ssnt or re solved. Tbs trial of Tirey L. Ford chief coun sel of tho United Railroads of flan Francisco, charged with bribery, has Ships Bring Much Salmon. Han Francisco, Hept. 17.—Four ships ol the salmon fleet put in an appearance today and among them they brought from tire Northern canneries 154,625 cases of salmon. At ail but one of the canneries the catch this season was poor, and the total pack will fall con siderably below the average. The shipe that arrived were Star of France, from Naknek, with 50,353 cases of salmon; James Nesmith, from Naknek, with 34,272 rases; 11. P. Cheney, from Nak nek, and Charles B. Kenney, from Nuahagak, each with 35,000 cases. No Thought o f Resigning. Boston, Hept. 17.—“ You may state positively that my resignation is not in tbe hands of the president, and there is no likelihood of its being offered,’’ said United Htates Attorney General Bona|*rte today preparatory to his trip to Chicago to take up the case of the government against the Chicago A Al ton railway. According to a dispatch in the morning papers, he had resigned on account of the granting of immunity to the Chicago A Alton by Mr. Morri son, who began the suit against the Standard Oil. Bookkeeper la Arreeted. Goldfield, Nev., Hept. 17.—Herbert Riggs, bookkeeper for Broker Paul New man, who was fonnd unconscious in Newman's office late Friday night and $1,150 miaalng from the open safe, haa been taken into custody. Whits there ia no direct evidence connecting him with the tobhery, hit conflicting state ments regarding the affair have led the police too suspect that he knows more than he haa told, and he will be held until the mystery haa been cleared up Eaminga Show Increase. Denver, Hept. 17.—The twenty-first annual report of the Denver A Rio Grande Railroad company, I ward yes terday by President FI T. Jeffrey, shows that the income of the company for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, was $21,625,430, an increase of $1,764 ,- 1*1, aa compared with tha previous year, and the net earnings were $6,156,- 92«. an increase of $574,986. PROFIT IN FRUIT. HAS NEW 8CHEME. Central Oregon Country Is Rapidly W. 8 . U'Rsn Would Elect Senator» by Coming to tha Front. Direct Vote. Oregon City— W. 8. U’Ren, the Prineville— A trip to the ranch of William Boegli, which is situated about 30 mi lee north ol this place on the Crooked river, reveals to every one the possibilities of Central Oregon as a fruit growing section. The ranch is just at the water’s edge, and in a gorge over 1,000 feet from the level of the grain growing section of Crook county. Although there are but about 12 acres in the body that is in bearing orchard, fruit of all kinds is raised in great quantities, Including grapes of the finest varieties and other kinds that are commonly classed aa tropical fruits. This orchard three years ago pio- duced over 2,000 bushels of winter ap ples, all of which were readily mar keted at $1 per bushel in the local market. The value of the fruits mar keted this year will exceed $4,000 and does not include vegetables, of which Mr. Boegli raises au abundance. Considering tbe fact that thia ranch was purchased but two years ago at ap proximately $10,000, tbe profits on this kind of an investment are apparent. Klamath's Trade Big Klamath Falla—Aa an indication of the trade that wit) be established in Klamath Fails with the advent of the railroad, when the markets of the coun try will be opened to this section, the Long Lake Lumber company operations afford a scale. Despite the facte that their goods must be hauled 35 miles over a stage road, this company has contracted with a California fruit ex change for all the boxes they can pro duce, and they are sending out every week about two carloadB. Even at the freight rate they must pay, they make a fair profit, and will be on the ground floor ready to do business when the railroad arrives. They empiy 20 men in the making of boxes and the quality of box put out is first-class. Irrigated Hops Do Well. father of the initiative and referen dum, has a plan to make Statement No. 1 nearly iionclad and to make the peo ple of Oregon dominant over the legis lature and any politiral party as well. He proposes to have a bill enacted into law next June through the initiative by which candidates for the legislature will be instructed to Bign Statement No. 1 .exactly as it is written in the law. The members of the legislature are further oommanded to vote for the candidate for senator who is the choice of the greatest number of people. Mr. U’Ren haa been working on such a bill for several weeks and now haa It drafted and all ready to spring. He believes that if the bill becomes a law there will be no question of the mem bers of the legislature obeying the pro visions it contains. Batter Train Servie» Ordered. Salem—Orders have been issued by the railroad commission requiring tbe Southern Pacific company to put on a special train out of Roaeburg to make the run to Portland whenever north bound overland express train No. 12 is two hours behind schedule time of ar rival at Roaeburg and also to require the O. R. A N. company to run a pas senger train each way daily between Portland and Pendleton, the eastbound train to leave Portland in the morning and the westbound to leave Pendleton in the morning, and requiting the trains to atop at each station, eithar regularly or by lignai, for the accom modation of travel between these and intermediate points. Must Not Invade Reserve. Pendleton—In a letter just received by County Superintendent Welle from J. H. Ackerman, state school superin tendent, the hopes of a public school for white chtldren cn the reservation are dashed. Not long since Professor Wells wrote the state superintendent if a district might be established upon the Uatilla Indian reservation. He had been asked to take the matter np by various white renters living on the reservation and who have children of school age. However, in his reply Sn perintendent Ackerman declared the county has no right whatever to extend its schools to th** reservation. CITY BURNED LIKE TINDER. Particulars o f Hakodate Firs Show Destruction Was Great. Victoria, B. C., Sept. 16.—The steamer Shawmutt, which arrived last night from Manila via Japan and China ith a cargo of hemp, tea, silk and general freight and 40 saloon passen gers, including many naval, military and civic officers from tbe Philippines, brought further news of the great fire at Hakodate. It seems the big conflagration origin ated in a soap factory pear the Higa- shigawa school and spread with great rapidity, sweeping away hundreds of bamboo houses. During tbe fire a pow der magaiine at Kishomachie exploded, involving much loss ot life. In all 300 lives were loet daring the confla gration and 13,000 homes burned, a strong wind fanning the fire, which spread with great rapidity. All the foreign consulates, adminis trative offioes, banks, company offices, schools, theaters, etc., were burned with the exception of the American consulate, courthouse, railway station and the customs house. One steamer, the Nanaye Maru, was burned and sank In the harbor. SCORES 0.R.&N. CO. Car Shortage Is Caused by Lack ot Rolling Stock. ALL HARRIIAN LINES ARE SHORT Interstate Commerce Commlsloner Th nka Shipper* Have Caute for Complaint-?gainst Road*. Portland, Sept. 17.—Tliat the Ore gon Railroad A Navigation company not adequately equipped to handle the traffic entrusted to it, and that it is the wont offender in thia respect in the en tire territory of the Northwestern lines ia the verdict of Intentate Commerce Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, whose Investigations in Portland yesterday in eluded a look into the car shortage. He found the outlook very gloomy in this state. He talked with lumbermen and other shippeis during the day, and ex pressed himself freely on this subject last night. “ The car situation is very serious said be. “ Shippem have a legitimate cause for complaint at their inability to get equipment. The railroad men themselves admit they are unable to handle the traffio offered. The O. R A N. seems to be the worst road in this territory as far as car supply goes. “ There is some complaint of discrim ¡nation in the matter of cars. It is charged that the eastern end of the sys tem is favored as against this end There is no way to remedy this, except for the roads to get a larger number of cars. Of course the question is still unsolved whether the O. R. A N. is using all its equipment to the best ad vantage, but there is no doubt that for an originating road, it haa too little equipment. “ The Northern Pacific last year put into service four times as many new cars as the O. R. A N. owns today The O. R. A N. had on its line in June of thiB year about 6,421 cars, of which 4,900 were borrowed and 600 ite own The Oregon Short Line owns 7,000 cars and had in June approximately that number on its tracks. The O. R. A N. has 500 cars ordered, and the Oregon Short Line 600. “ The managers have on the Southern Pacific system a car pool, by which cats owned by any of the Harriman lines are treated as at home, no matter on which of the allied lines they are, but there is a strong rivalry between all parts of the system to make a showing, so that the O. R. A N., which is the worst off for cars of sny rood in this territory, has a difficult time of its own, owing to ite short equipment, in keeping within seeing distance of ite business.’’ Corvallis—Irrigating hops pays in this section of the Willamette valley This fact is proven beyond a doubt in the experiment that has been carried out at the Oswald West bop yard near this city during the past several months. Hops were exhibited in town this week from the West yard, some picked from vines that had been irri gated and some from vines that were not irrigated. Those that had been Buy Riuaiaw Timber. watered were vastly superior, both in CEMENT, SI A BARREL. Astoria—Articles of incorporation of size and quality, besides which the the Siuslaw Investment company, have vines show a much better growth. been filed by E. Z. Ferguson, C. R. Naw Factory in Montana May Become Higgins and F. L. Warren, with cap Boon to Northwest. Prune Crop Heavy. ital stock fixed at $150,000. The com Helena, Mont., Sept. 16.—Work has Eugene—The fruit evaporators in pany has puichaeed 6,000 acres of tim Lane county are generally in operation her land on the Siulsaw river contain began on the construction of a $600,000 now, the prunes coming in fast. The ing many million feet of standing tim cement plant at Three Forks, a town crop in this county this year la said to ber. The following men have been east of Helena, at the junction of the be nearly as large a the bumper crop of elected officers: J. T. Roes, president; Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivers, DOORS THROWN OPEN. last year, when tons of the prune« G. W. Warren, vice piesident; E. Z. on both the Northern Pacific and St went to waste becaue the evaporators Ferguson, secretary; J. E. Higgins, Paul railways. As a result of cheap could not handle them all. This year treasurer. Benjamin 8weet, of Wis basic materials, the company proposes Canada Will Not Restrict Japanese there are mote eva| orators, and the cld consin, is also one of the directors. Immigration. marketing the product at $1 a barrel onee have been enlarged, so it is prob as against $4 at present. Vancouver, B. C., Sept. 17.—Thirty- able that there will be no waste of any Albany 8hips Much Fruit. The plant will have an ultimate ca eight thousand Japanese have been great amount. Albany—More than 25 tons of Bart par ity of 1,000 barrels a day, and will given permission by the government to lett pears have been shipped out of Al be the largest of it« kind in this sec come immediately to British Columbia. To Advertise Union County. bany this season and a few more will of the Northwest. The company They will croes the Pacific as rapidly La Grande—The Grand Ronde Boost be sent out before the shipments are tion has a fully subscribed capital of $2,- as steamers can be secured to bring ers’ club has just issued a four-page concluded. More cherries were sent 400,000, and is said to have five mile* them. The news that Vancouver will illustrated newspaper descriptive of out of Albany this season than ever be of limeetone and silica lands. see an immigration hitherto unprece Union county. 0ne of these editions fore and, according to the amounts al James and Hyrum Pingree, of the dented was received today by the will be handed to every person visiting ready under contract, the biggest prnne Pingree bank, of Ogden, Utah, steamer Woolwich, which brought 230 the exhibition hall from the trains. shipment ever made from Oregon will are at the National head of the enterprise, while of the brown men. The steamer In The illustraticns cover practically every leave Albany this fail. If the prune line of industry in the county. In ad crop comes up to present expectations, C. Boettcher, of the Billings sugar fac diana is overdue now from Honolulu tory, F. T. McBride, a Butte lawyer, with 300. Best informed circles de dition to the original 10,000, over 4,- this big shipment will be realized. and Joseph Bcowcroft, of Utah, are the dare that the Dominion government 000 additional copies have been sub main factors. will do nothing at all to prevent the scribed by several individual real estate Profit* Pay for Land. further influx of Japanese despite the firms, making in all 15,000 copies. Jacksonville—Ten acre« of fruit land protest of Vancouver. Not Enough Coal at Home. within the corporate limits of Jackson The demand for labor is so great in Report on Reform School. New York, Sept. 16.—The situation ville, Oregon, coet W. I. McIntyre, a with regard to the proposals issued by the interior of British Columbia and Halem—The report of N. H. Looney, well known orchardist of that city, $1,- superintendent of the state reform 900 a year ago. Thia year he will more the bureau of equipment ot the Navy on the prairies of the Northwest that school, was presented to the state board than have paid for the property with department for supplying coal for the as many Japs as wish to come will be battleship fleet on its voyage to the allowed. On the other hand, official at its last meeting. During the month the of fruit sold from the Pacific has assumed rather interesting statements come from Ottawa that wo inmates were returned from parole, tract proceeds this season. Mr. McIntyre ia an shape here by the statements ol several Premier Lanrier and Delegate Ishii will and two who had escaped, making the total enrollment 89 as compared to 85 enthusiastic fruit grower, who has agents of the larger coal mining con confer tomorrow and arrange a nominal at ¿he beginning of the month. The adopted scientific methods of producing cerns that they would not present bids. limit. Nobody in Vancouver believes Their reasons are that they have not that even if this is declared it. will be sum of $238.30 was received from the the different vatrietirs of fruit. the necessary quantity of coal on hand, adhered to. national government aa charges on two PORTLAND MARKE8T. There was no demonstration today aside from the quantity demanded by inmates from Ala»ka. private contracts which have been en on the arrival of the Japanese on the Cordwood Raady for Markat. steamer Woolwich. Wheat—Club, 82c; blueetem, 84«; teied into. Meachara—It is estimated that there valley, 81c; red, 79. are now 3,000 cords of excellent cord Oats—No. 1 white, $23.50024; gray, Moors Have Had Enough. 8trike Hampers Traffic. wood on the dumps of Meacham ready $23(5)23.50. Casa Blanca, Sept. 17.—With the St. Paul, Sept. 16.—A general strike for shipment to Pendleton and Walla Barley—Feed, $23023.50 per ton; of boilermakers on the Chicago A Great submission of all the tribes, which now Walla. Practically all oi the wood brewing, $24.50024.75; rolled, $24.50 Western, Great Northern, Omaha, seems practically assured, it would ap prepared in the forest has been hanled @25.50. Northern Pacific and Boo railroads was pear today that tbe misson whch took in and is now ready for the market. Corn — Whole, $29030 per ton; called Saturday. The boilermakers are General Drnde into Moroooo haa been At Karaela and other shipping points cracked, $30.50. aided in their fight by their helper* fully accomplished. Persons acquainted on the mountains there are also large Hay—Valley timothy. No. 1, $170 and in the caee of the Great Western with the country declare that the move quantitiea of wood. 18 per ton; Flaatern Oregon timothy, ment of the tribesmen ia over. They NEW RIOT AMONG CARMEN. San Francisco Police Ara Accused of 8hooting at Strikebreakers. San Francisco, Sept. 13.—Another scene of riot was enacted at the Twenty" fourth and Utah street* carbarn last night, following tbe srrest of William A. Bruce, a nonunion carman, on com plaint of two young women that be had annoyed them by a remark as they passed. Bince resisted arreat and waa severely clubbed. The police allege that they were thereupon attacked by numbers of nonunion men. A riot squad ot 25 patrolmen under Lieuten ant Tobin came up a od in a fight a score of heads were broken by club* of the police and a number of arieeta were made. Eventually the nonunion men were driven back into the car barn*. The police say that the carman who started the row is an ex-conviot. Mayor Taylor haa increased the Mission patrcl by 22 men, in accord ance with his promise of yesterday. The pickets’ tent at Twenty-fourth and Potrero streets, a block from the com pany's barn, is to be removed. It has been a headquarters for trouble for weeks past. Tbe Chronicle commenting upon the furious rioting in the Mission district, when five nonunion car operatives in the employ of the United Railroads were shot by union pickets and police men, charges flatly that the police am bushed the nonunion men and fought against them side by side with their union tormentors. The Chronicle points out that the patrolmen—Wade, Bigelow and Miller—who shot down the carmen, were appointed to the po lice force from the teamsters’ and car men’s unions soon alter the commence ment of the streetcar strike, when a Union Labor police commission and a crooked chief of police were in control. LAND HINDUS AT VICTORIA. Monteagl* Turns Back, Fearing Vio lence at Vancouver. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 13.—Advices from Vancouver' state that the mayor of Vancouver has warned tiie captain of the steamer Monteagle, which haa on boaid 114 Japanese, 149 Chinese and 941 Hindus, d«stined for this port, that he would be unable to guarantee a safe landing here, because the unionists have expressed their determination to resist the immigration of any more Asiatic laborers. The steamship au thorities feared to assume the risk and the vessel has been turned back to Victoria, where the Asiatics will be landed. Vancouver is reported as bein* com paratively quiet, but an outrage by two Chinamen yesterday has again inflamed tbe people. The Mongolians, while passing along one of the main streets, saw a white baby sitting on the door step They snatched it up and threw it into the middle of tbe street, which was busy with traffic. It fell among the horses’ feet and narrowly escaped death. Beyond being bruised it was not much the worse. An angry crowd started in pursuit. The Chinese had a good start and escaped. The fact that no arrests have been made has not tended to allay the temper of the peo ple. CHARGES AGAINST RUICK. Said to Have Forced Grand Jury to Indict Borah. Boise, Idaho, Sept. 13.—Judge Diet- rich in the Federal court yesterday ie- sued an order for a special grand jury to appear on Thursday, September 19. The order was issued at the instance of Judge M. C. Burch, special assistant attorney general of the United States, who is here for the purpose of inquir ing into matters in qonnection with the Idaho land frauds. It is understood here that the order was really the result of a plea in abate ment filed by the attorneys for Frank Martin, one of the men indicted with Senator Borah and others, which plea makes serious and eeneational charges of misconduct on the part of United States Attorney Ruick. These charges are that Ruick used force and coercion in securing the in dictments of Borah and his fellow de fendants, and are supported by the affi davits of three of the grand jarymen Hoch’s Fighting Blood is Up. Topeka, Sept. 13.—Kansas pclitl- cians are strongly of the opinion that Governor Hoch will call a special ses sion of the legislature if the railroads persist in their determination to igDore the 2 cent fare order. The governor has not been notified of the action of the roads except through the newrpa- pers. He declares that Kansas will have a 2-cent fare rate or it will be cancelled in the states uronnd her. A the machinists In the big ahope at Oel conference was held by Governor Hoch, $19020; clover, $11; cheat, $11; grain wein went ont in sympathy. The are eseentially agriculturists and they Attorney General Jackson and the at Buys Apples at La Grande. la Grande—Contract for the aate of hay, $11012; alfalfa, $12013. strike of boilermakers followed a re are in a hurry to return to their field* torney for the railroad commission. more than 60,000 boiea of Grand Ronde applet at $1.40 per box haa been concluded between E. Z. Carbine, of thia county, and C. E. Walker, of Kan sas City Sixty thousand boxes of apple* means approximately 110 car load*. Loading of thia monster ordsr will begin as soon aa th* apple picking commences, or, in other word*, atone*. Prune Dryers Start In Linn. Alhany—Prnne picking la In full blast in all the orchard* of thia part of the state and nine dryer* are running to their tallest capacity in the viainily of Albany. The prone crop is on* of tiie liest in years and Lnaslle Brother», of thia city, will aend 150 car* of driad prnne* to Eastern markets, th* biggest shipment of prunes ever made from the Facific Northwest. Malheur Win* Pardaa Cup. Ontario—E. A. Fraser haa received a telegram from Mayor Lackey, of this city, who ha* charge of the Malheur connty exhibits at the National Irriga tion cnngreaa, stating that thia county had been awarded the Governor Pardaa silver cap and a $200 cash prise. Tha exhibit was prepared and sent at the expense of the business men of Ontario. Oregon Flay for Alaska. Athens — Great quantities of fin* timothy hay are being brought down from the Weston mountains, and ia being sold In bales fo the Preston- Parton Milling company for from $16 to $18 par ton. This hay ia leaded on car* and thipped to fleattl* and TV , much of which is shipped from than to AF ‘ Batter—Fancy creamary, 30035c fusal of the railroads to accede to a per pound. demand for 45 cents an hour east of Veal—75 to 126 ponnda, 808tye; tbe Missouri river and 47X cents west 1?5 to 150 pound», 7 >yc; 160 to 200 of that river. poiradi, 6 0 7c. Pork— Block, 76 to 160 pooada, 8 0 Crude Three tana Vengeance. 8He; packer*, 7H 08c. Paris, Sept. 16.—Saltan Mufai el Poultry— Avarageold hena, 13014a Hafig, it ia reported, has annonneed per pound; mixed chickens, 1IH S< that he will pay the cast of the French soring chickens, 12013c; old roost expedition to Morocco, on condition er*, 809c; dreased chicken*, 16017c; that the French evacuate tbe country. turkey*, live, 16016c; geee*. live, 8 0 Only two columns of tribesmen are now 9o; ducka, 14c. reported to be under arms in the Casa F’.gg*— Freeh ranch, candled, 28030c Blanca district. The latest advices re per doaen. Finite—Apple*, $101.60 per box; ceived from General Drnde said that, if the delegates from the tribes suing cantaloupe*, $1.2501.50 p*r crate; for peace did not appear at noon today, peaches, 75c@$l per crate; prunes, 60 he would destroy the Moorish camp. 0 7 6 c per crate; watermelon*, 101H * per pound; plums, 50075c per box; Boycott Dishonest Roads. pear*, 75c@$l.25 per box; grape*, 40c New York, Sept. 16.—By the tree of @$1.50 per crate; ca*afaaa, $2.25 per a rigid boycott on nnscrnpuloru line* doaen. Vegetable*—Turnip*, $1.26 per Mck; and by the elimination of insidióos carrots, $1.35 per sack; beets, $1.26 preference* to favored shippers, the per lack; cabbage, 1 H 0 1 H c per fatter declared to be worse than open pound. celery, 75c@$l per doaen; corn, rebates, the railway magnates of the $101.60 per lack; cucumber*. 10015c Katt propose to make a «trennon* effort par doaen; onion*, 15020c par doaen; to reduce the impending fall car short parsley, 30c per doaen; pumpkin*, IX age, which admittedly Is threatening @1 \ e per pound; rad lab«*, 20c par tbe industries of th* entire country. doaen; spinach, 6c per pound; eqaash, O ppose AH Expositions. 50o@$l per box; sweet potato**, Lincoln, Neb., 8ept. 16.—Senator per pound. E. J. Burkett, who leaves this evening Onion*—$202.25 per hundred. for Washington, today declared that Potatoes—Naw, $1 par hundred Hops— Fnggles. 6t*@7c par pound. he woo Id fight the A tasks-Yukon ex Wool— lantern Oregon, average beat, position appropriation in congress. He 16022c per pound, according to shrink- declared that tha exposition at Jasseo- age; valley, 20029s, according to flne- town had been a lamentable failure and be would oppose all such project* in neat; mo hail, choke, th* future. pound. for their first rains. It is understood that when absolute calm i* re-estab Await* Action on Injunction. lished here the troops will be distrib Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 13.—The State uted to eight seaport*. Railway commission today agreed to Expresses Trust In England. London, Sept. 17.—Baron Komura, Japan**» amh*s**dor to Great Britain, culled upon Sir Edward Grey at the Foreign office this afternoon and dis cussed the anti-Orientel disturbances in Vancouver. The ambassador took with him long dispatches which he received from the Japanese consuls at Vancou ver snd Ottawa and it is understood he assured the foreign secretary that the Japanese had the greatest confidence that the Canadians would punish those who were responsible for the attack upon the Japanese. Reduce Ratos One-Third. Topeka, Kan., Sept. 17.—The state board of railroad commissioners has prepared a tariff sheet providing a re dnetlon in freight rate* of abont 33 X per cent, which it will present to the legislators if a special aeasioo 1* called. Governor Hoch ha* practically said he ill call a special nasion If tbe road* do not grant the two-ceot fare rate. This pats the quest ion squarely up to tbe railroads of either granting the two-cent fare or of facing a fight. Russians Emigrate to Sharia. St. Petersburg, Sept. 17.—A tele gram received here from Riatan says that 51,000 emigrants hare passed through there since the beginning of the year, bound for Siberia. postpone indefinitely tbe further hear ing on grain rate reductions until the Federal court acts on the request of the railroads for a temporary injunction. The restraining order yesterday pre vented the commission from promul gating the new grain schedule. Sena tor Aldrick, attorney for the commis sion today asked the governor to call a special session of the legislature pro viding the new rates are tied np indefi nitely in the courts. Says LauHer Will Settle it. Tokio, Sept. 13.— TLe Hoobi, which was the most outspoken newspaper here in regard to the recent Japanese difficulties in 8*n Francisco, in an edi torial this evening says: “ The trouble in Vancouver appears to be over, and was confined to one city. Japan can safely leave her interests in the hands of Premier Lanrier, who alwaya haa been friendly. There is no reaeon why the people should feel uneasy over tha outcome.” No Hop* for Arbitration. The Hague, Sept. 13.—The belief ia rapidly growing among tha delegate* to the international peace conference that there is no hope for a permanent arbi tration court, owing to the German op position. The delegates are greatly diaronraged, although the kaiser’* op position to the plan has long been inti-