T O RECA1 L T R O O P S . The Estacada News Nevada Mutt Nat Shirk Ratponaibll- ity. bays President. lastrad Cacti Thursday ESTACAD A OREGON NEWS OFTHE WEEK In a Condensed Form lor Our Busy Readers. A Resume o f the Lee* Important but Not Lese Interesting Events o f the Past Week. Tsft urges the government to with draw Iroin Cuba in the spring of 1909. The Roman Catholic church will soon announce new laws calculated to pre vent hasty marriage. Trial of Oregon’s land thieves has commenced at Portland with Judge Hunt, of Montana, presiding. A French aeronaut has devised an airshipheavier than air capable of mak ing a speed of 24 miles an hour. Ten persons were injured in New York by the explosion of three dyna mite bombs, which partially wrecked a tenement house. Mayor Taylor, of Has Francisco, has a huge task before him. One of the first things ins to piovide a water sys tem for fire fighting. H AR LAN 8CES WAR. Washington, Jan 14. — President Roosevelt has determined to withdraw the Federal troops from Goldfield, Nev., shortly sft r the legislature begins its special session t day. This intention was made known at the W hite House today, when the report of the special investigation commission was made public, together with a letter from the president to Governor Kparks, dated January 4. The president says he shall be governed by the recommenda tions in the report unlesB the governor can Bhow that the statements of the re port are not in accordance with the facts. The report says: "T h e conditions did not support the general allegations in the governor's request for troops, nor were his specific statements established to any such ex tent as to justify hie use of these state ments for the purpose of getting Fede ral troops.” “ But we must firmly believe that upon the assembling of the legislature, or within a few days thereafter, the troops should be removed, regardless of any request for their retention that may be made by either the legislature or the governor of Nevada, It being sb - sential that the state of Nevada shall understand this situation completely— shall recognizp the fact that there will, at that date be thrown upon it, and it alone, the primary responsibility of keeping order, and that, recognizing this responsibility, it may take such action as is the duty of the state and as will be sufficient in the premises.” The forty-fourth annual convention of the National Woolgrowers’ associa LAN D O FFICE FORCE S H O R T . tion, at Helena, was the most success ful ever held. The attendance was also unusually large. Commissioner Says Department is Handicapped in Efficiency. A t a meeting of 700 New York land lords it was decided to have introduced Washington, Jan. 14.— Commission In the legislature a bill making it a er Ballinger, of the general land office, felony for any political agitator to in has completed his annual report for cite tenantB to refuse to pay rental submission to congress. He asks an which has been agreed upon. At pres appropriation of $600,900 to carry on ent it is a misdemeanor. the field work of his bureau in the pro More mines are being opened at Gold tection of the public lands, an increase of $260,000 over the current appropria field. • tion. During the fiscal years of 1896-7 Council Bluffs, la., has started a war there was recorded for investigation on gambling. 24,469 cases of all kinds; of these the Great Britain is alarmed for her nav agents investigated and disposed of 12,- 104 cases, and 12,366 cases remained al supremacy. for examination July 1, 1907. The kaiser advocates the study of There were 2,243 land entries relin English in Germany. quished after the ease was in the hands The fire in the big New York sky of special agents for investigation, 363 scraper showed an insufficient water entries were cancelled after hearings had upon special agents’ charges: 367 supply. unlawful enclosures of public lands Mulai Hafld has been proclaimed were removed restoring 1 940,120 acres sultan of Morocco and he has started a to the open range. There were 27 con holy war. victions connected with these cases. The new Japanese ambassador to the The total of moneys recovered by the United States declares that all trouble government in all special agents’ cases w ill soon be over. was $386,261 and 2,372,224 acres of In a mad rush to get seats at a the land was either freed from fraudulent ater in Barnsley, Eng., 18 children claims to title or released from unlaw ful enclosure and oocupancy. ware trampled to death. The colors of the American man-of- M O R O C C O FACES C RISIS. war Chesapeake, captured by England in 1813, have been offered for sale in Sultan Abd El Aziz la Forced From London. Throne by Reports. General Manager Mohler, of the Un Tangier, Jan. 14.— There Is conster ion Pacific, declares the prohibition wave now sweeping the country will nation among Moroccan officials at the sensational news from Fez announcing stop expansive railroad work. the proclaiming of Mulai Hafid as sul A strike of ¡¡00 newsboys in Boston tan and the dangerous conditions now created quite a disturbance. Three po pre ailing in the city. Couriers who lice officers were assaulted, stripped of have arrived here announce also that their badges and one officer and a by the people of Mequinez have proclaimed stander seriously injured. Mulai Hafld sultan. According to the The jury in the Thaw case has been latest information from Fez, the Ule mas or wise men, were forced to decree oompleted. the overthrow of Abd El Aziz, the sul The battleship fleet has arrived at tan of record, and proclaim Mulai Hafid Rio Janeiro. sultan in his place, by the attitude of Warsaw, Russia, terrorists are busy the people, who were greatly ezoited over reports that Alid El Ariz had sold again and the city is in a turmoil. the country to France. T. C. Becker, of New York, is to The announcement hy the public assist Heney in the Oregon land frauds. criers was received witli frantic joy. France may insist on arbitration be Mulai Hafid was proclaimed snl an un tween the United States and Japan to der certain conditions, which hs must accept together with the title. Among prevent war. these are the following: Alton B. Parker attributes the re That lie reject the Algecitas act, ex cent financial panic to Roosevelt’« “ at pel the French troops from Morocco, tacks on property.” prohibit access to tlie interior for Euro The steamship Aki Maru, from the peans, who with the Jews, It is set Orient, has just arrived in Hcattle with forth, should be allowed to occupy only 1,200 tu n of fireworks to be used by quarters in the ports reserved for them; Coast Chinese in celebrating their New prohibit Moorish subjtcts from placing Years. themselves under the protection of for Heney has been stirred up by the eign consulates, secure Morocco's rights decision of the Appellito court in the in the frontier question with Algeria, Schmitz case and says he will push the and suppress taxation. other indiotments against send him to prison for life. Ruef and Four policemen were killed and fire nearly 30 injured in the burning of a New York skyscraper. The fire started on the fifth floor of a 12 story building and the structure is a total loss. The monetary loss is placed at $6,000,000 Only seven jurors have been secured In the Thaw case. Fire at Green Bay, W is., estimated loss of $80,000. causer) an Fire at Minneapolis destroyed a fur niture warehouse. Lore $126,000. Abysslniana have captured an Italian town and exterminated the garrlsion. Bonaparte says he will soon start a ■nit to dissolve the Harriman merger Rev. Johnston Myers, of Chicago has fed more than 2,000 hungry men In four days. Trains in the new Brooklyn subway are not well patronized and have not relieved the crush on the bridge. The round house and other buildings of the Lske Hhore railroad, at Elkhart, Ind., have been destroyed by fire. Loss. $126,000. There has been such ■ large reduc tion In the arrivals of immigrants that many of the 600 employes at Ellis Island, New York, have nothing to d- an I , a reduction in the force is prob able. Three jurors have been finally oepted in the Thaw trial. F. August Heinze has been arrested for falsely certifying his brother’* checks. Havana Floeded by 8ea. Havana, Jar. 14.—-A heavy northwest- gale yesterday drove high seas against the ocean front, sweeping over the Bea wall and inundating the lower part of the Prado and adjacent streets to the depth of several feet. The lower sec tion of Vedaila, a suburb, was aho in undated. Scores of residences on Gulf avenue were badly damaged. Entrance to or exit from the harbor was impossi ble during the gale. Great waves strik ing Mnro. hurled the spray 80 feet over the lantern of the lighthouse. The storm is soliaiding tonight.— Storm in East. Chicago, Jan. 14 — Chicago and its environs were cut off for several hours yesterday from wire communications from other points hy a enow and wind storm which l»>gan before dawn and raged without a break all day. Snow continues to fall. A northwest gale drove blinding masses of wet snow be fore it. The warmth of the atmwsphere caused the heavy flakes partly to melt and stick to whatever they touched. As a consequence overburdened wires and poles were put out of commission in all directions for hours. M ors Defenses Needed. Seattle, Jan. 1 4 — " W e realize the deeirabillty of providing additional de- fensea for Puget sound as rapidly as possible, and when 1 get hark to Wash ington I shall lay the facts before con gress and recommend additional fortifi cations,’ ’ said Lieutenant Colonel Fred erick V. Abbott, assistant to the rheif >f the engineer corps, United States army, having charge of fortifle d l me of the United States, Ia~t night, who ar rive«! here from Manila Wedneetlay. New York rent strikers threaten to bnm the tenements If they are forcibly Japanese Sands in ■ Bid. ejected. Honcluln, Jan. 14.— The award of OUlcers of the Chicago Great West bids for material for the construction of ern railway deny that a receiver will improvements for Piarl harbor has be asked for their road. 'wen held up be«'an** the lowest bid A monument has been erected at der is a dummy for some Japanese con Point Loma. Chi., in memory of the tractor. Ik is probsb e that all bids dead of the Bennington. will be rejected. r OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST G R A F T O LD TR EE S. . D A L L A 8 AFTEW A C AN N E R Y. Diseased Orchards In Valley Are to Fruitmsn Believe i hey Will Have a Be Leid Low . j Marks! fo r Crop. Dallas— A committee appointd at the Corvallis— A movement is being launched here for a great campaign for meeting of the Horticultural society the renovation of old orchards in the last week for the purpose of securing Willamette valley and other parts of the co-operation of the fruit raisers of Oregon, president Newell, of the state this vicinity in the establishing of a board of horticulture, Mr. Lownsdale, cannery at Dallas, i hard at work. M i. Reid, and a large number of the | W ith the exception of the berry crop, fruit inspectors of the various counties sufficient fruit is raised wiihin a radius are on the ground and are identified of five miles around Dallas to easily with the plan. The first gun in the support a cannery, and it is believed campaign was fired by M. O. Lownsdale that the establishment of that industry in an address before the visiting horti in this city w ill result in the planting culturists and other winter short course - of enough of the small fruits to keep students in college chapel. The ad- ( the cannery in operation during the en dress met with a hearty indorsement, tire season each year. and aroused much enthusiasm. The | A company will be formed and the Agricultural college authorities w ill farmers, fruitgrowers and business men join in the plan, and in an edncaitonal will he solicited to take stock in it. way and otherwise co-operate to the ut Heretoforre the fruit crops of this vicin most extent in furthering the move ity weie shipped to the canneilea in Salem and Newberg. - ment. It is said that within three to five Msny Countiei Represented. years a complete new orchard can be University of Oregon, Eugene— The made out of the old one, and a profit of $6 to $10 per tree be realized. This following table, taken from the records was the assertion of Mr. Lownsdale in cf the register’s office, shows that the his address. He says he has accom students of the University of Oregon plished this result with old trees on his come from every county in the sta.e. farm, and that it can be done by any There are now in attendance in the de farmer who can do grafting or have it partments at Eugene, exclusive of mu sic, 400 students, which is the largest done. The thing to do, says Mr. Lownsdale, body of students of col lege rank enrolled That is to cut down the old trees. The best in any institution in Oregon. plan is to cut them close to the ground, they are not from the hemes of the rich leaving the roots Intact. This should is shown by the fact that nearly 70 per be done by the 1st of March. The next cent of them are either wholly or par Most of -reason, from the 10th to the 16tb of tially earning their own way. May, such varieties as are best for the them are registered from the smaller climate and for commercial purposes cities of the state that support good should be grafted on the three or four high schools. The following counties Baker, Clackamas, best sprouts. This is the easiest and are represented: most certain plan. Two feet of the old Clatsop. Columbia, Coos, Curry, Doug trunk may be left and the graft appliid las, Gilliam , Grant, Jackson, Joseph to it the first year, and a yrar of time ine, Klamath, Lane, Linn, Marion, in reproducing the orchard is gained, Multnomah, Polk, Sherman, Tillamook, but this requites an expert at grafting Umatilla, Union, Wasco, Washington, in order to be successful. By either Whashington, Wheeler, Yamhill. plan the trees will be in good bearing Car.iegie Library for Baker City. in from three to five years, and a reve nue of $5 to $10 each be realized. Baker City— It is an assured fact that Baker City is to have a Carnegie libia ry. The council at its last meeting ad M AKE WARFARE O N SC ALE . opted a resolution accepting Mr. Carne Marion County Fruitmen Learning to gie’s offer to erect a building in this city if the council would donate a etip Fight Dread Pest. ulated sum fot the maintenance of the Salem— The most practical, interest library. At a previous m< el ing of the lng and instructive discussion of San council the sum of $2,100 was appro Jose scale ever given in Marion county priated for library purposes. The was heard here last week when Coun question of a site has not yet been de ty Fruit Inspector E. C. Armstrong ad cided upon, but the council has express dressed the meeting of the Marion ed its willingness to donate city proper County Horticultural society. About ty for this purpose. 200 growers of Marion and Polk coun ties were present, and it was the unzn C ow Earns Her Feed. imous opinion that if similar talks and Oregon Agricultural College, Corval demonstrations were given in every lis— A five-year-old Holstein at the part of the Willamette valley this win college dairy made a milk yield of 13,- ter, it would be but a short time until 744 pounds for the year ending Decem the great enemy of the frnit industry ber 31. The product carried a butter would be under control. That a very fat reccrd of 446.65 pounds, and yield large number of growers do not know ed 520.97 pounds of butter, that at scale when they see it, and therefore prices current during the year brought are in a very poor position to fight it, $170. She was not pushed in the feed was evident. Mr. Armstrong made his ing, but given the ordinary rations in address so plain and illustrated It so cident to any well-kept dairy. Her fully that no one who waa present will food for the year cost $40, leaving a ever have trouble in distinguishing this net profit of $130. pest. Corre'pondence Courses Arranged The December number of the Univer sity of Oregon Bulletin, a copy of which lias just been received, gives a full de scription of the correspondence courses that are now being offered bv the uni versity. The courses are arranged es pecially for teachers, students preparing for college or university, women’s alubs, teachers’ groups, granges, home makers. The university intends to add ad litional courses in Economics, P oliti cal Science, History, English Litera ture, Mechanical Drawing, C ivil Eng ineering, Education and othete as its resources permit. The correspondence work has met with a hearty reception in all parts of the state. More than two hundred students enrolled for the various courses during the past month. No Dels gate to Dry Farming Congress Portland— Oregon is the only one of the semi-arld states not represented offi cially in the Trans-Missouri Dry Farm ing congress, which will hold itB second session in 8alt Lake City, January 23- 26, and efforts are being made by Man ager Tom Richardson, of the Commer cial club, to secure someone from East ern Oregon. The Oregon Development league is willing to offer credentials to any representative citizen of the state who will attend the meeting. White and Yellow Races Must Fight fo r Supremacy. Washington, Jan. 13.— Justice John M. Harlan, of the Supreme court of the United States, peered into the distant future al the annual dinner of the Navy league of the United States and told of a day when the white and yellow races will meet in ■ conflict that will- shake the earth. The distinguished jurist was speaking in the interest of a mighty American navy. He said; ‘‘It I had the opportunity 1 would vote for an appropriation of $60,000,- 000 a year for a period of ten years for a larger navy. The great importance of a navy is shown m the constitution, which restricts the appropriations for the army, but sets no lim it to those for the navy. There is no such thing friendship between nations as between men. Nations make no sacrifices to preserve friendship and do not forbear to do certain things because it does not meet with the approval rif another na tion. Do you think England carea a cent for what we think of her navy, or Germany cares a cent for what we think of hers? “ The trend of the immigration of the white people in the past has been from east to west. There has been none from the west. Just across the water there is a country with an immense population whoee commerce we are seeking. W e refer to the people of Asia as the yellow race. There are 400,000,000 Chinese, as strong phyai cally and mentally aa we are. There is over there another nation whose people are progressive and ambitious. We may some dav see a skilled army in Japan of 6,000,000 to 10,000,000. They w ill say: “ ‘ You claim Europe as your country. This is onrs. Get'out.’ ” “ I don’ t think they have any such idea now, and we have no hostility to ward them. But there w ill be a con flict between the yellow race and the white race that w ill shake the earth. When it comes I want to see this coun try with a navy on both oceans that w ill be strong eonugh.” G R E AT A C T IV IT Y EVID EN T. Government la Rushing Work on Our Coaat Defenses. Washington, Jan. 13.— New coast defenses are being installed and old ones re-enforced at Pacific coast points, Gnam, Hawaii and Manila. This work of fortification is being carried forward swiftly and upon a gigantic scale. Coal depots are being replenished, huge searchlights installed, harbors mined, big guns placed and ammunition maga zines filled to overflowing. Bo quietly has this work been going on that few ontside cf the officials han dling the work have realized the enorm ous undertaking nndet way. This work was started last May, and it is expected that a year w ill see the completion of the outlined program. I t is acknowledge that the fortifica tions at Manila, Guam, Puget sound and Honolulu are inefficient ami it is at those points that the greatest work is being done. Ban Francisco and other coast points are declared to be perfectly equipped to repel attacks. W hile not acknowledging any appre hension, the administration is rushing the work with real vigor. It waa learn ed from an authoritative source today that one of the potent factors in determ ining the dispatch of the fleet to the Pacific was a realization of the weak ness at certain points. The presence ot the fleet in the Pacific remedies all de fects and strnctural weakness in coast defense points. As long as it remains there it will make up for any short ooming in coast fortifications. By the time the fleet leaves the wa ters of the Pacific ir is believed all the weak points will have been reinforce«! and the defenses w ill be of a modern and approved type. Twelve million rounds now enroute to the Fsr East furnishes enough am munition for a possible army of 50,000 men. The normal need of the army in the Philippines is about 2,000.000 rounds annually. Aside from this there is an exceptionally heavy draft of shells and torpedoes. WARNING TO JAPAN VE R D IC T DECLARED VOID. Court o f Appeals Rsvsrtes In S ch m iz Cato. Root Says She Most Stop Flood ot Coolie Immigrants. IXCLUSION U W MAY BE PASSED J spanate Government Attempt* Adroitly Dodge Issue— Root Staves O ff the Oriel*. Washington, Jan. 11.— Negotiations between the United States and Japan have reached a serious stage. W hile war as an eventuality ia not seriously apprehended, largely because of Japan’i unpreparedness, It ia known that the historic friendly relations are strained almost to the point of breaking. The official denial given at the State department of cabled reports of de mands having been made upon Japan are literally true in a diplomatic sense but the denial, in a measure, is an evasion. The “ oral representations’ and the exchange of “ memoranda, reduced to plan English, mean just this: Ambassador O’Brien, acting under instructions, has, since reaching his post last October, been attempting to secure from the Japanese government satisfactory assurances that under the pledge given at the time of the passage ot the immigration law last February the Japanese government wonld assist in restricting the emigration to this country of objectionable Japanese labor. Twice has he communicated to Secretary Root replies obtained from Count Hayaskl, in which the Japanese government attempts adroitly to dodge the issue. Mr. Root has submitted to the Jap anese government, through Mr. O Brien, statistics prepsied by the de partment of commerce and labor, show ing that the immigration of the unde sirable class of Japanese since the Japanese government gave its promisee has been monthly at least twice as large as before the promise was given and during some months four times as large. The presentation of cold statistics showing laxity, conpled with the inti mation that congress may adopt more stringent measures, possibly an excln .«ion law, broguht from the Japanese government the second reply, which rescued Mr. Root a few days ago in the form of a cablegram which cost several thousand dollars. Mr. Root is now preparing an an swer, with the assistance of several ex perts in Orients 1 affairs. The Japanese government will be informed that assurances cannot be given that an ex clusion act will not be passed, but that the administration will exeroise its influence to prevent such legislation, if possible, pending negotiations. The issue in official circles in Japan has caused acute agitation, and besause of the strained condition of affairs, Mr Root will not unnecessarily precipitate matters, with the battleship fleet so fsr from its base in the Pacifio. Estimates T oo Low. Washington, Jan. 11.— Because cf changed conditions from those existing in 1905, when the minority of the board of consulting engineers of the Pana ma canal submitted its report, it is now admitted in responsible quarters that the estimate made by that report for building the canal was far too lovf and that the cost may approximate $200, 000,000. This includes various inci dental items, such as administration sanitation and improvements aggregat ing several millions of dollars in Pana ma and Colon, which, however, will be refunded by the Panama government, and the expensee of the zone govern ment and various expenses incidental to the relocation and acquisition of the Panama railroetd. The estimate of the board in 1906 was that the cost would he $139, 765,200, but this estimate did not in elude expeneea on account of interest during construction, sanitation and zone government. Big Milton Ranch 8old. Milton— For the price of $28 562.50 Henry L. Frazier, of Milton, has sold his ranch near this place to W illiam H. Harder, and the deal represents one of the biggest Individual transactions made in this section of the country for many monthB. The Frasier ranch is Better Results in Fruit. located just southwest of Milton, and Oregon City— Bright prospects for contains 246 acres of wheat land. This the growth of belter fruit in Clackamas sale also included the Franzier resi county are indicated at the opening of dence in Milton. 1908. Eastern capital has been slowly coming in during the past few years, P O R T L A N D M A R K E T8 . and the realization of the vast natural Butter— Fancry creamery, 32$4(§35c resources of the county has awakened Tightens Grip on Peninsula. May Admit Trust Companies. the growers to the fact that while the per pound. Tokio, Jan. 13.— An imperial ordi New York, Jan. 11.— The clearing Veal— 75 to 126 pounds, 9c: 125 to field e*ists, the results have not been nance has been gazetted which provides house committee decided today to call attained, because of the apathy of 150 pounds, 7o; 150 to 200 pounds, 5 ® for the reorganization of the govern a meeting of the entire association next 6X<s. many of the farmers, whose orch ment of Kwang Tung peninsula 10 Monday to determine whether to admit Poultry— Average old hens, 14®16c ards have been allowed to grow for Manchuria. Directors general of for trust companies to membership in the years without proper care and culti per pound; mixed chickens, 14c; spring eign police affairs h^ge also been cre association of banks now composing chickens, 14c; rooetere, 8@10c; dress vation. ated. Japanese consults at Mukden, the Clearing house. The matter has ed chickens, 14c; turkeys, live, 16®17o; Kin Chow, Chang Chun and Antung been under discussion by the committee dressed, choice, 18@20c; geese, live, 9 Beets Do Wall In Klamath. have been appointed commissioners of since last November. The more con @10c; ducks, 15c; pigeons, $1(3)1.60; Klamath Falls— That Klamath basin police for South Manchuria. The pur servative bank presidents favor tha squabs, $2®3. is to become one of the leading sugar pose of the ordinance, it is believed, maintenance of a 25 per cent reserve Eggs— Fresh ranch, candled, 30® beet districts of the country is evidenc means the organisation of an active re by such trust companies as may be ad 32 tyc per dosen. ed hy the results of analysis of sugar form administration for the entire dis mitted to the association, while others Pork— Block, 75(3160 pounds, 6 ^ ® beets just received from C. O. Town trict. advocate an “ assixiate membership.” 7 «* «: packers, 6 ^ @ 7 ^ c . send, pathologist In charge of sugar Wheat— Clnb, 84c; blnestem, 86c; beet Investigations of the Department- N o t 0 « Many Idle Workmen. Rant Strikara Evlctad. valley, 84c; red, 82c. of Agriculture at Washington. The Chicago, Jan. 13.— Statistics gather New York, Jan. 11.— Eighty evic Oats— No. 1 white, $27.60®28; gray, sample sent was of three beets grown ed by the Chicago association of com tions of East Side rent rtrikera took $27 80®28. on a test patch of a quarter acre of land Barley— Feed, $27 per ton; brewing, merce tend to alleviate the pessimism place today, and Monroe street was a mile from Klamath Falls, or which felt concerning the local industrial sit filled with a picturesque litter of dis $32; rolled. $30. was produced 8 385 pounds of beets, or uation. In response to letters sent ont placed furnishings. I t is believed that Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33. nearly 17 tons per acre. Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1. $18 per to 616 business firms which s year ago tbs strike sitnation ia now near a sola ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $21022; gave employment to 97,000 persons, it tion, and claims of victory are being New Library Building Open. clover, $15; cheat, $16; grain hay, $15 is stated that theee firms are now em made by both aides. The indications University of Oregon, Eugene— Dur 0 1 6; alfalfa, $15; vetch, $14. ploying 86 400 persons, a decrease of are that the honors are about even for, ing the hoi ¡«lays many of the recitation Fruits— Apples. 76c®$2 per box; less than 12 per cent, and within «0 although most of the tenants paid the rooms ef the university were (amoved peaches, 76r0$2per crate; pea re, $1.26 days will have added 4,920 hands. rent asked when they saw that eviction from Villard hall to better quarters in 01.76 per box; cranberries, $9.60®12 David R. Forgmn, president of the asso was inevitable if they longer refnsed, the new library building. Occupancy ciation, declares that the statistics were others obtained oontrassions from land per barrel. of the new building has been delayed, Vegetables— Turnips, 75e per sack; gathered from every branch of industiy. lord«. owing to the fact that there has been ea-r Is, 66c per sack; beets, $1 per no money available for heat. The tack; beans, 15o per pound; cabbage, Surgeons Forget Tools. Convicted o f Illegal Fencing problem was solved by tnrning off the Red Lodge, Mont., Jan. 13.— A local Omaha, Jsn. 11.— Perry A. Yeast, a lc per pound; cauliflower, 75c0$l per heat from the entire upper floor of VII- dozen; celery, $3.26®3 60 perorate; surgeon who has performed an opera prominent cattleman who has been on lard hall and sending it through the onions, 16®20o per dozen; parsley, tion on Chsrlee Joakinen, a yonng trila for conspiracy to defraud the gov pipes into the library building. 2 0 cp e rd iie n , pess, 10c per pound; Finnish minister, for the removal of ernment in land entries, was today peppers, 8®t7c per pound; pumpkin*, the cause of pain iu hia cheet, found in found guilty and recommended to the Laying Out Reclamation Work. 1 0 1 1** per pound; _radishes, 20c per the cavity left by a previous operation clemency of the court by the jury Klamath Falls— The reclamation ser dosen; spinach. 6c per ponnd; sprouts, two pieces of rubber tubing four and Yea*t had many thousand acres of the vice has several surveying parties lay 8 ® 10c per pound; squash, 101 t*c per 8 vs inches long respectively. To one North Platte forest reserve under ille ing out next year's work on the K la ponnd; tomato««, $2 per b oi. wss attached a aafetypin. badly rusted. gal fence. However, the oount upon math project. One party is now en The rubber tubing waa nearly a half which he was found guilty wss of con Onions— $1.60®1.76 per hundred. gaged on the second unit in the Olene Potatoes— 40®60c per hundred, de- inch In diameter. Joakinen is recov spiring with old soldiers and widows to district, while Engineer Sargent has a I liversd Portland; sweet potatoes, $2 75 ering. obtain land fraudulently. force on the extension of the Keno (¿g p*r hundred. canael, paralleling the Klamath river. | Hope— 1907, prime and choice, 5® Vesuvius Still Spits Ashe*. Withdrawing Troops From Muncl*. south. j 7 V ’ per ponnd; olds, l® 2 o per pound. Naples, Jsn. 13 — Mount Vesnv4ns Mancie, Ind.. Jsn.l I . — Major Gen Wool— Eastern Oregon, average beet, continues to throw out ashes and incan eral McKee issued orders this afternoon Fulton Files " i t Petition. 13®20c per pound, according to shrink descent matter from its chief crater, for the return to their homes of three Salem— C. W . Fulton has filed a age; Talley, 19®20e, according to fine the cone of which, formed by the last mmapnieo of m ilitia now ip Mnneie. copy of hia petition for Republican ness; mohair, choice, *9®30e per eruption, coll*pees! recently, the earth Street care are now running on normal pound nomination 'or United States senator. ■ tramblingi being felt long distances. ■chad tile. Decision Ban Francisco, Jan. 10.— “ The judg ment and older are reversed and tho trial court is directed to sustain the de murrer to the indictment and discharge the defendant aa to «uch indictment.1' T h li waa the decision handed down yesterday by the Di«trict Court of A p peal« reversing the judgment of tho trial court in the case of ez-Mayoi Schmiti, aentenced to five year« in Ban Quentin on the charge of extortion baaed upon the alleged “ holding up” of the French restaurant« in the matter of liquor licensee and setting aside the indietment on which his conviction waa had. The trial was made notable by the appearance of Abraham Ruef, the po litical dictator who controlled the municipal administration, and practi cally placed Schmitz iu office, as a witness against the mayor, testifying that he had paid to Schmitz $2,600 of the $5,006 received by Ruef from the French restaurants, in order that Schmiti would ptrm it the board of police commissioners to issue liquor li censes to them. Ruef had, previous to this, dramatically pleaded guilty to the same charge, at the same time making the enigmatical statement that he was innocent. On the ground that the indictment did not show that a public offense waa committed, because it did not allege any threat to injure property, the court holding that a liquor license was Dot property, but mere permission; that a threat to prevent the obtaining of a liquor license by one who had no au thority I d the premises did not consti tute a threat against property and be cause of numerous errors in the ruling of the trial judge— Super or Judge Frank H. Dunne— the Appellate court held that the indictment was invalid add the conviction null and void. In effect, the court held that Kcluniix was not given a fair and impartial trial. W hile the decision was not wholly a anrprlse, even tor the prosecution, and had been freely predicted by Schmitz’s friends lor some time, it did not fail to cause something of a sensation and waa the sole topic of conversation yesterday. The decision will have the effect of invalidating the other four indictments charging Schmitz as well as Ruef with extortion, and rende-s void the plea of guilty made by Ruef, as the Appellate court held that no crime was commit ted. By this reversal it is feared that the proeeoution lias 1« at its hold upon Ruef, and it was freely predicted last night that the former political boss would now refuse all overtures of immunity, wholly or in part, to testify in the bribery-graft cases, and fight every in dictment against him. Although the court oidered Schmiti discharged from custody on the extor tion indictments, neither Schmitz nor Rnef can take advantage of the reversal for 60 days, and even then there ia little likelihood that either of them ill be able to get the enormous bail required for their release. There are still pending against Ruef 126 indict ments charging bribery, on which the total ball is $1,170,000, and Schmiti would have to get bonds for $450,000 on the Indictments that remain against him. The prosecution has 20 days in wiiich to ask the Appellate court for a rehearing of the appeal, and the court has 10 days in which to decide the mo tion. The appeal would then go to the Supreme court, where the same length of time w oul^be required before the decision of yesterday can go into effect. Cut Rates on Atlantic Liverpool, Jan. 10.— The W hite 8tar line today announced a reduction in its second and third class passenger rates from English ports to New York and Boston. This step is taken because of the traffic that h*8 been deflected from the vessels of this line by the Lusitania and Mauretania, and tc the refusal of the Ounard company to concede differ ential rates fot vessels of the Baltio class. The second-class fares were re duced hy from $6 to $7.60 and the third class fares by from $4 to $b. The Cunard company immediately said that it would meet the cut. Loeb Goes Into Other Work. Washington, Jan. 10.— Investiga tions in local financial circles by Rep resentative Smith, of Michigan, chair man of the house committee on the District of Columbia, warrants him in saying that there is to be a consolida tion of the stieetcar companies of the District of Colombia, and that W il liam Loeb, Jr., secretary to President Roosevelt, is to be given the active management. Mr. Smith has been making inquiry into the streetcar situ ation, with the view of getting author ity for conatructing new lines. Takes Fresh Start. San Francisco, Jan. 10.— The last remnants of the Schmitz administra tion, under whiih this c mmnmty suffered for six years, were cleaned ont Wednesday. It was the Inng-antlci- pited 8th of January, and the officials voted into office last November assnmed the positions to which a regenerated electorate had raised them. Not one vestige of Schmitz or Ruef influence remains in the administration, for even the two officials elected on tl s McCarthy ticket have ahandoned the standard that flew from the county jt il. Lives Lost in Ch na. Victoria, B. C., Jan. 10.— Mail ad- vices from South China tell of a terri ble fire at Canton, where 300 live* wire loet in the burning cf a restaurant. A Chinese recently returned from Cali fornia bringing a cinematograph ma chine, and at a wedding feast at a Choi Chan restaurant he gave a cinemato graph exhibition. Several hundred Chinese had crowded into the place, when the film took fire. There waa « panic, and the building collapsed. Green* and Gaynor Go to Prison Macon, G a „ Jan. 10.— Benjamin D. Greene and John F. Gaynor were taken to Atlanta today to he placed in th e Fed«ral penitentiary to begin four year sentences for embezzlement of govern ment funds in connection with govern ment work In Savanna harbor. Thay had be&) in jail pending an appeal $0 the United 8;ate* Supteme court.