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CLEAN U P T O W N . The Estacada News San Francisco Making Preparations for Battleship Fleet. 1* mm S tack ThursSsr ESTACAD A ............... OREGON l i i Condensed Form for Ou Busy Readers. A Resume o f the Less Important but Not Lesa Interesting Events o f the Past Week. A Chicago man believes he has solv ed the perpeetual motion problem. A Chinese Y . M. C. A . ia to be es tablished in New Ycrk. Plans for a building are being prepared. There is talk in Russia of double tracking the Siberian railroad, which w ill cost nearly $80,000,000. The emperor of Germany w ill go yachting in the Mediterranean in March and King Edward, of England, in April. The paraffin works and two oil tanks of the Standard Oil company near Bal timore, injuring one man badly. Loea, $160,000. Ban Francisco police have just arrest ed two men who are believed to have beenp erpetrating many of the hold-upe and robberies. A New York policeman has just un dergone an operaiton which proves! suc cessful. His intestines were pierced six times by a bullet. Ban Francisco, Jan. 28.— San Fran cisco will make extraordinary prepara tions during the next three months to “ tidy up’ ’ before the arrival of the fleet. Work ou the downtown streets will be pressed in order that trie gateway of the city may take on the appearance of freshness rather than dilapidation. W hile the supervisors are busily en gaged on this problem, the special com mittee, of which James D. Phelan is chairman, intrusted with arrangements for the entertainment of tiie visitors, has already organizer! and mapped out its plans in a general way. The first donation to the fund of $1(K),000 which ia to be raised was made by a local Chi nese merchant, who accompanied his check for $100 with a note expressing apprecition of the protection afforded by the Stars and Stripes. A unique feature of the celebration will be a floral parade, the first S sh Francisco haB undertaken. The parade will be under the auspices of the Native Sons and Native Daughters. It w ill resemble in general scheme the pa geants made famous by Los Angeles and Pssadena. San Francisco lias lost the rural atmosphere which the cities in the southern part of the state which have retained, and a floral parade will entail an amount of preparation that haa seldom been attempted here before. Special attention Is being paid the entertainment of the enlisted men. A clubhouse is to he erected where the bluejackets can make thelr headquarters while on shore. A large pavilion will lie provided for drill«, concerts and ex hibitions. NEW S Y S T E M OF SU RVE YS. The Illinois Central railroad has been lined for shipping beer and whis Bill to Give Commissioner Authority ky into Herrin, III., after that place to Employ Men. had become anti-saloon. Washington, Jan. 28.— In ills annual An interuiban electric car left the report Land Comissioner Ballinger rec tracks near Salem, O., and plunged ommended the abolition of the Dresent down a 30-foot embankment. Fifteen system of making public land surveys passengers were injured, none fatally. under the contract system and urged British goods are being boyootted in congress to authorize the employment by the government of competent sur India. The Union Pacificjhas greatly reduced veyors, whose sole duty shall be the surveying and resurveying of public working forces. lands. Representative Mitchell, of All Germany is celebrating the kais Wyoming, chairman of the house com er’s bltrthday. mittee on public lands, has introduced Cheyenne scoured the next meeting a bill in the house giving the commis sioner authority to employ such sur ef the Dry Fanning congress. veyors for the purpose stated, but al The Chinese long war in San Fran- lowing him also to use his discretion as eisoo has claimed another viotim. to the udvisabllity of making a part of The torpedo flotilla has arrived at the surveys under l he old contract sys Buenos Ayres. Its stay will he short tem. There are some surveyors on govern at the Argentine capital. ment work who have pr. duced satisfac Several warships now at Magdalena tory results, but tiie chief criticism of will soon return to the Mare.Island the old contraot eystem is that it aavy yard for extensive repairs. waates a great deal of time, and re Rockefeller has ordered 300 Italian quires two or three years from the workmen discharged and their places time of application to get a given tract ■lied by Americans who are out of surveyed and the survey accepted. The Mondell bill will form the basis of work. whatever legislation congress may at The Nevada special polios bill may tempt on the subject this winter. yet be killed in the house on account of friction between members and Goldfield minaowners. WAR ON R A J S . The Dominion government w ill loan $4,000,000 to the farmers of Alberta San Francisco Determined to Exter and Saskatchewan province, whose minate D iteete Spreaders. erope were failures last year. San Fraaolsco, Jan. 28.— Reports hy A severe snow storm is general the plague experts show that the dis throughout the East. ease lias been almost entirely eliminat The leader of the Portugese rebels ed from the city, but the battle against the rats is to he pressed with new hat escaped from bprson. vigor. There have been no new cases Several of the Russian Imperial fam for more than two weeks. Only two ily are sick with the grip. cases are now under treatment. De Ecuador has stopped a threatened spite these encouraging features, the force of men in the employ of the revelation by arresting the plotters. Harry Orchard has written to a health board is to be increased and the distribution of poison to be continued friend saying he is glad he confessed. on a larger scale. Walter Wellman says Wall street is A ll this ia to be done as a precau humble end admits defeat by Roose tionary measure. The theory held by velt. Dr. Rupert Blue, the Federal expert in Tbs senatorial deadlock continues in charge of the situation, is that the con Kentucky. Beckham has 49 votes out tagion is carried from the rat to the hu man being by the flea. In the winter ef 102. months the fleas vanish, to reappear Fire at Portland, Me., destroyed «11 with the spring and summer. An ex city records and property valued at $1,- amination of the rodents last Septem 0 * 0 , 000 . ber showed that one half of one per A plan is being perfected st Chicago oent were infected. The examination to raise $100,000 for the relief of un at the present time shows that one-half per oenl are infected. employed. Ths Thaw trial has been delayed be cause of a atoim which prevented the arrival of witnesses. Anthracite ooal Interests are consid ering the maintenance of present prices tkionghout the year instead of making a reduction for the five months begin ning with April. Three men were killed in a serioua •re at Boston. The United Mineworkers of America has emndoised woman suffrage. The Baltimore A Ohio railroad has aut the pay oi all high aalaried offi cials. Tha Beattie exposition appropriation w ill have a hard time getting through the house. Suffrage debates in the German reiohstag caused violent scenes and threat of duel. The battleship Miaeimlppi has been acoepted by the government. It was built at Philadelphia. Cheyenne wants the next meeting of the Dry Farming congress. Edward Mac Dowell, one of Amerioa's leremoat composers, is dead. Mlsa Gladys Vanderbilt, who is to marry Count Hsechenyi, has already re ceived presents to the valce of $1,000,- 000 . United States secret service men have discovered that aeveral Americans are taking an Important part In the latest Haytlen revolution. The National Livestock oonvention declared for the leasing system of pub lic lands and for a tariff revision. Tha movement to intervene in Congo affair« has been revived in England. A Chine#« company has been organ ised to work the iron mines at Awtow, China. Rnef may attempt to disqualify Is d | l Dunne and District Attorney I — gdou. H u g h « has admitted that he would b « willing to accept the presidential nomination. FULTON IMPLICATED Brownell Gives Testimony In Hall Case. FORCED OUT OF RACE BY HALL Telit How He Was Induced to Indorse Hall Because o f Veiled Threats o f Indictment. Portland, Jan. 26.— Senator Fulton was unfavorably oonuected with the Hall-Mays conspiracy case by the teeti rnony of George C. Brownell, ex-preel dent of tire Oregon state senate and for years a prominent Republican of the state. Brownell testified that be was forced to withdraw from the contest for appointment as United Btatee attorney for Oregon in 1903 because of the insin uations of Hall that the government was in possession of evidence on which Brownell's indictment for complicity in the Oregon land frauds was proba ble. The dethroned boea of Clackamas county politics further testified that in return for the indorsement of Hail for reappointment, which he was forced to make, Senators Mitchell and Fulton exacted from Hall a promise of immun ity from prosecution for Brownell and the latter’s former law partner, J. U. Campbell, also of Cackamas county. The purpose of Brownell’« testimony, which was admitted over the vigorous objection of counsel for the defendants, was to corroborate the charge of con spiracy alleged against Hall in the in dictment in that Hall controlled Bteiw- er's vote for senator in return for his failure to prosecute Bteiwer and ids as sociates for enclosing government land, hy showing that Hall used his office as district attorney to intimidate others and tc force them to indorse and sup port him for reappointment. This contention by Heney lias been support ed by the testimony of Bteiwer and Hendricks in the Butt« Creek com pany’s operations and by that of Brown ell yesterday, and Heney proposes by the introduction of other witnesses to day to show that Hal), together with the connivance of Fulton, prostituted his office as district attorney by protect ing violators of the law in two other specific instnees. W . W. Bteiwer, president of the Butte Creek company, completed his direct testimony yesterday and w ill be cross-examined this morning. He tee titied that his understanding with Hall was of such a favorable character that his company failed to remove the un lawful fences it was maintaining after he had the Interview with Hall. W O R K FOR U N E M PLO YE D . New York Uses f housandt to Shoval Snow. W ILL break m o no po ly STE IW E R P LE AD S G U IL T Y . . Bonaparte Starts 8uit Against Harri- man Roads. Washington, Jan. 27. — Attorney General Bonaparte directed that a bill in equity be filed to set aside the con trol by the Union Pacific Railway com pany and lta subsidiary corporation» of the Southern Pacific and the Ban Pedro, Loe Angeles A Balt Lake railroads; also to have declared illegal the ownership hy the Union Pacific or the Oregon Short Line of stock in the Santa Fe, the Great Northern and Northern Pacific, til of said lines being competitors of the Union Pacific. The attorney general Issued an offi cial sttement to this effect, which, after referring to the extended Investigation by the Interstate Commerce commission into the relationa existing among the various lines of road engaged in trans continental traffic, says: “ From the evidence so adduced and from independent investigation the de partment haa arrived at the conclusion that the stockholding of the Union Pa cific and ita subsidiary companies in the corporations mentioned above is in direct violation of the Sherman act. “ The department regards the suit as of first importance, as it ia Bought by means thereof to break up a substantial monopoly of the tiansportation busi ness of tiie country between the Mis souri river on the east and the entire Pacific coast-south of Portland on the west.’ ’ Aside from the railway companies above named, the other defendant« in the suit are the Farmers Loan A Trust company, of New York, which is the depository of all the stock of the Ban Pedro road under a contract by which it is required to give proxies to such persons as may be named by Mr. Har- rlman and Mr, Clark for a period of veara. There are also individual de fendants who are alleged to have con ceived and carried out the conspiracy complained of, towit: E. H. Harri- man, Jacob H. Bchiff, Otto U . Kahn, Janies Stillman, Henry C. Frick, Hen ry H. Rogers and W illiam A. Clark. W hile naming the individual defend ants the statement makes no mention of any intention to prosecute any of these officials personally^in any crim in al proceedings. M A Y 8 D ISM IJ8E D . Heney Saya Ha Cannot Convict Him o f Conspiracy. Portland, Jan, 27.— Franklin Pierce Mays, ex-state senator, was the princi pal witness for the government Satur day in the Hall-Mays conspiracy case in the Federal coart. A treaoherous and failing memory prevented the wit ness from positively associating his va rious conversations with Hall and the dates of the letters that passed between them. Probably the most damaging evidence against Hall, adduced from the witness, was his identification of a letter written by himself to Bteiwer in which Mays told of his successful efforts in dissuading Hall from Instituting criminal proceedings against the mem bers of the Butte Creek company for unlawful fencing. Before Mays was called into the court room, Heney announced that he wished the indictment dismissed aganist Mays, who was a co-defendant with Hall and Edwin Mays. In making this request of the court, Heney said that he did not consider that the government was in possession of sufficient evidence with which to convict Mays of the alleged conspiracy. Later in the examination of Mays, Heney repeated the declara tlon he made before, that it was not his intención to prosecute Mays on any of the other remaining indictments against him because of his physical condition. Judge Hunt consented to the dismissal of the indictment and at the same time exonerated the bond Mays had furnished. Mays was then sworn as a witness for the prosecution. Charles B. Moores, ex-register of the Oregon City land office, w ill undoubted ly be a witness for the government be fore the prosecution closes ita case eithei today or tomorrow. Just what Moores will testify can only be con jectured. New York. Jan. 26.— New York is digging itself out of a foot of snow so unevenly divided that while exposed and unfrequented spots like Coney is land have been blown bare, the thoroughfares o( the millions are left piled high with drifts that impede the progress of man and beast and in the open districts have tied up streetcars and vehioles. Mercifully, the snow was acconpanied by moderate tempera ture and in its early stages was wel comed by the honest part of the 36,000 unemployed men in the city. A ll who sought employment from last midnight found it readily and at good wages. The street cleaning department requir ed 10,000 shovelers, the traction com panies as many more, and thousands of others earned many dollars from house holders hy cleaning off walks. Probably the sharpest distress was experience«] by several thousand genuine tramps who, having ridden into town on the hardtimes wave and since en joyed the city ’s bounty, awoke today to find themselves confronted with an un mistakable opportunity to work. Borne Tried to Win O ver Army. rose to the occasion, and others shifted C ool Heads .Sava Lives. Lisbon, Jsn. 27.— The government issued a statement tonight that the con Dee Moines, Ia., Jan. 28.— That there their lodgings. spirators in the recent plot to over were a number of oool heads in the Fails to Quash Indictmant. throw the state had procured revolvers Grand opera house prohably saved many Ban Francisco, Jan. 26. — James and bombs and other weapons and had lives last night. The Evans cafe, across the alley from tiie playhouse, was burn Treadwell, of the insolvent California unsuccessfully tried to win over the ing. and smoke issued through an open Safe Deposit A Trust company, this officers and soldiers of the army so that window ip the opera house. Some one morning before Superior Judge Dunne, they might bring a mutiny at the psy Continuing, the yelled “ F ire ," and tiie inevitable panic asked, through his attorney, ex-Dis- chological moment. followed. The most conservative kept trlct Attorney Lewis F. Byington, that statement says: The government haa their heads, hut a general rush A llow the indictments against him be dis taken all measures necessary to guaran ed. Much crowding and pushing was missed because five of the grand jurors tee public order and secure the main done in the gallery and balcony, and a who found the indictments were depos tenance of obedience and loyalty in the woman fainted. •> Many received alight itors in the defunot bank. It was his army. argument that a personal feeling enter injuries. ed into their findings and that they Strays G o A fter Fleet. had a feeling of malioe toward the de Troops Repel Tribesmen. Rio Janeiro, Jan. 27.— The police of this city have gathered up six sailors Tangier, Jan. 28.— Advices received fendant. here state that the Zenatia and Ouled from the American battleships, who New Railroad for Chile. A ii tribes attacked the’ French troop« had either deserted or failed to return Santiago, Chile, Jan. 26 — Congress on board before their vessels sailed from January 23, hut were repulsed with They w ill bn sent severe losa. The French lilloral and yesterday passed a bill authorising the here last week. mediouna columns had just effected a president to make contracts for a rail after the fleet on a collier. A dispatch junction when the tribesmen, in hattle road running north and south. The from Valparaiso savs the Chilean array, covering a front of about four bill limits Immediate expenditures to squadron which w ill welcome the miles, swept down in crescent forma about $37,400,000, but It ll intended American battleships to Chilean waters tion. The Bpahia bore the brunt of that the toad eventually w ill lie ex haa arrived al Valdivia. The British the attack, making several gallant tended to the northern and southern cruiser Bapho, which has been on the charges, which, however, interfered to frontiers. When completed the rail west coast, is now on her way down to some extent with the aerk of the at- way will run from the frontier of Pern Pnnta Arenas. to the Strait of Magellan, a distance of tillery. Spain Cementing Enpllsh Ties. about 2,000 mile«. Spur line« w ill be built tc coast ports and Into mining Lisbon Officials Afraid. London, Jan. 27.— Inquiries among Lisbon, Jan. 28.— Although the gov districts and agricultural areas. Spanish consular and commercial cir ernment apparently is master of the cle« in London make It clear that the Not Accountable for Coolies. proposal of the Spanish minister of situation, much nervousness ia mani Ban Francisco, Jan. 26.— Captain I. commerce to hold an exposition of fested in official oirelee following the plot to overthrow the monarchy and H. Hathaway, of the Pacific Mail Spanish arts and industries in London eetablish Portugal as a republic Pte- steamship Magnol a, was today exon in 1908 is warmly welcomed by the mier Franco, upon the advice of the po erated by Commissioner Heaoock of Spanish colony in the metropolia as ad lice, sleeps e«ch night in a different blame in connection with the escape of ditional evidence of the desire of King house, surrounded by cavalry. The Chinese immigrants from his vessel. Alfonso to cement yet more closely the police have discovered a number of It waa shown that under the revised Entente that already unite« the two pi acre where revolvers and bomb« have law officers of vemela cannot be held countriee. strictly accountable for the escape of been stored by the conspirators. coolie«, if they can show that reasona Encroaching on Norway. ble care waa taken to prevent evasion Record C rop o f Orange«. Stockholm, Jan. 27.— A mining en gineer who haa just returned here from San Francisco, Jan. 28.— The orange of the act. an exploring expedition In Northern crop of California ia now In fail seaaon Shut Down Locomotive Works. Norway, wi ere the Russian frontier and in quantity and quality promiaee to break all records. The fruit ex Providence, R. I., Jan. 26.— The approach«« within 16 m ile« of the changee of the state estimate that the local plant of the American Locomotive North Atlantlo at Lyngenflorm, say« total ontpnt of oranges alone w ill reach Works will be shot down the first week that he saw large bodies of Ruetian the enormous sum of 30,000 carloads, In February for an indefinite period. soldiers Installed in log barracks, en about 0,000,000 boxes and 1,350,000,- The force which in December number gaged in constructing ■ railway in Nor 000 oranges. The haivest w ill last ed 1,000 haa gradually been reduced to wegian territory in a wilderness many day« journey from th « highway. oootinoously until usxt Fourth of July. 600. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FARM ERS P LA N W AREH O USE I HAS 8 E E D .E 8 8 PEAR. Exportort’ T erm » Unsatisfactory to Hat Borne Fruit tor 20 Years Un known to Scientists. Woston Wheatgrowers. Pendleton,— Not suspecting that s Weeton— Farmers of the Downing neighborhood, near Weetou, which ia a seedless pmr was anything out of the region of 60-bushel wheat and $100-an- ordinary, R. L. Oliver, a prominent acre land, are planning to build their fruitiaiser two m'les west of this city, own »arehouee at Downing station. hae been growing pear« of that natuie The movement hag been under way ever for two decades. Much publicity has past three since the exporters raised tbeir handling been given during the charges and adopted a form of wheat months to a seedleaa pear diacoveied hy The tree bearing the receipt unsatisfactory to the farmers. A. I. Mr.ecn. They have just been given definite as seedless pear on the Oliver farm near surance by the O. R. A N. company this city waa growing on the place that the company has adopted an open when he bought it, 20 years ago. The policy and w ill grant warehouse room pears on the Oliver tree differ in de at Downing station or elsewhere at a scription from those of the Mason purely nominal charge. Tiie farinere farm, being very large and resembling interested in the movement are jubi the Flemish Beauty more than any lant, and w ill hold a mass meeting to other varitey. They are entirely seed airange for the building of the ware less and have only ths slightest tracing house. This, they declare, they will of core, being in effect coreiess as well certainly do unless the exporters reduce as seedless. The flesh is fine grained their handling chargee and change their and solid, the flavor is good and the pear form of receipt. Farmree here are cr- has many claim« for popularity aside ganixing along co-operative lines and from being a seedless and coreless vari have a very flourishing farmers’ union, ety. The tree bears lets, the fruit ripening in October. which meets regularly. Where the tree came from ia not known. The farm with the orhard on Sata Out Walnut Trass. it waa purchased from a nurseryman, Rlckreall— J. B. Stump, one of the who set the orchard out. leading farmers residing in this county, has planted 176 acres of hie large farm S C H O O L FOR C O N V IC T 8 . near Monmouth to English walnuts, and will make bis walnut grove a com Prison Reform ers Will Ask Permit to mercial proposition. The trees are Try Schema. planted with a spaoe of 60 feet between Salem— The superintendent of the rows one way and of 40 feet the other way. In the space between the rows of state prison, the governor of Oregon, St, Pierre and Portland walnut trees Royal Anne cherries are Chaplain plantad and as these latter will bear friends of prison reform have agieed quickly the land set to walnuts will on a plan for the construction of an soon be made profitable while awaiting aseembly hall and night school build the first crop from the walnut trees. ing that is to be added to the peniten Experiments made here in post years tiary by consent of the next legislature. with walnuts have been so satisfactory It is to accommodate about 800 per that Mr. Stump’s venture is not looked sons and besides serving as a chapel and amusement hall w ill be a school upon as an experiment. room and have tecitation rooms con nected with it. Brakeman Guilty o f Robbery. It is to be located as an addition to Pendleton— One ballot was required the east wing of the prison, and will for the jury to agree upon a verdict of be built of brick made by the convicts. guilty in the Shackelford case. Mark The prisoners aie to do all the con Shackelford is the O. R. A N. brake- struction work themselves, and thus re man atcuaed of robbing a man on the duce the cost to the state to a mini street Christmas day. Arthur Paine mum. and Harry Kelly were found guilty of Many of the prisoners can neither having assisted Shackleford and sen read nor write, and the work that is tenced to serve three years each in the being undertaken has the indorsement penitentiary. A strong effort was of the Prisoners’ Aid society of this made to prove an alibi for the brake- state. man, witnesses being introduced who swore that he was playing cards in an Clears River at Corvallis. other part of the city at the time. Corvallis— The United Btates snag- boat Mathloma, which has been operat Meeting o f Fruitgrower*. ing in the river about this city for the Albany— An educational meeting for past week, has finished its work in this fruitgrowers will be held here Tuesday, section. During the last freshet a January 28, under the direction of the number of large snags lodged in the Linn County Horticultural society. M. channel just above the Corvallis flour O. Lownsdale, president of the W il ing mills, seriously interfering with lamette Valley Applegrowers’ associa navigation on the upper river. Before tion, and L. T. Reynolds, secretary of leaving Corvallis the captain of the the same association, and ex-commis Mathloma gave a public exhibition of sioner of horticulture, w ill be speakers. scientific snag-pulling opposite the O. Mr. Lcwnsdale will give a practical C. T Co.’s dock for the benefit of the demonstration of how to pack apples college engineering class. for the market. Veteran Thresher Quits. Pendleton— After a career of 38 years as a threshing machine man, Joe Sny der, of this oity, is selling out his large outfit of threshers and horses at public auction and w ill retire frem the busi ness permanently. He is known as one of the most energetio thresher men in Eastern Oregon and has perhaps made the longes rnne each season of any man in ths county. He will retire to a ■mall farm on the Umatilla river west of Pendleton. Cheap 8alt for Oregon Sheepmen Pendleton— Oregon woolgrowere have purchased 60,000 shares of stock in the salt plant owned by the Idaho growers. By this purchase of stock in the mine or plant, the Oregon sheepmen w ill re ceive 600 tons of salt annually at just exactly what it costs to mine it and lay it down at its destination. At present prices this means a saving of $3 per ton, which is quite an item in the course of a year. The plant is located at Ogden. Wisconsin Man Want Timber. Klamath Falls— A party of four from Wisconsin have left hers with looal guides and timber cruisers for the tim ber near Bly. A great deal of Interest is taken in their movements, as it is announced they are here in the interest of a big land deal. They left for the timber equipped with everything need ed in a winter camp in the woods, in cluding snow shoes. People owning claims in that region expect to be able to dispose of them. New Bank Building in Bums. Burns— The Harney County National bank took advantage of Sunday to move into its new stone building, which is now undergoing the finishing touches on the interior. This is cne of the handsomest and most substantial struc tures in the state, built of the stone which is plentiful in the hill upon which the city of Burns stands. The room heretofore occupied by this bank w ill be now added to the mercantile house of N. Brown A Bone. P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS . ^urna Land Office Butins««. Burn«— The land office in this oity for the quarter ending December 31 shows an increase over the same period in 1906. The year 1907 has been one of the liveliest years for the Barns land office since it waa establishd here, and it is expected that 1908 will be still better, as the country is getting better advertising t. an in former years, and ■ large rush of new settlers is expected here in the spring and summer. Portland Ratiraa Certificate*. Portland— It is stated by the com mittee of Portland bankers having in charge the banking operations of the Portland banks during the recent de pression, that all of the $1,000,000 of clearing house certificatee issued during that time have been redeemed, includ ing $26J,000 loan certificates issued to the suspended Merchants’ National bank. Weyerhaeuser* Buy Timbar. Oregon C ity— The Northern Pacific railroad haa sold to the Weyerhaeuser (and company 19,280 scree of land in Clackamas county. The deed has just been recorded here, but the price is not stated. The laud ia mostly timbered and runs along the west end of Clacka mas county, from the Clackamas river to the southern boundary. Pruning Trees. Freewater— Howard Evans, county fruit Inspector of Umatilla county, says ths trees In this vicinity are being pruned bust ae rapidly as men can do the work, and the prospects were never better for the growers becoming inter ested In the importance ot caring for trees. Great rare w ill be taken to •pray (or codlin moth. O at« Stata Contract. Sa lam— On opening bid* for lumber ths state hoard awarded the contract for the supplying «ta t« Institutions lo the Carila Lumber oompany, whose bid was $37 per carlead balew the aext bidder. Wheat— Club, 86c; Blueetem, 87c; valley, 85c; red, 83c Oate— No. 1 white, $27.60028; gray, $27.50028. Barley— Feed. $27.60 per ton; brew ing, $32; rolled, $29030. Corn — Whole, $32.60; cracked, $32.50. Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $18 per toa; Eastern Oregon timonthy, $21 0 2 2 ; olover, $16; cheat, $16; grain hay, $16016; alfalfa, $16; vetch, $14. Fruits— Apples, $ I <20 2.60 per box; pears, $1 2ft¿1.75 per box, cranber ries, $8011 per barrel. Vegetables— Turnips, 76c per sack; oar rots, 65c per sack; beets, $1 per n e k ; beans, J0c per pound; cabbage, lo per pound; cauliflower, $202.26 per doxen; celery, $3.2603.60 per crate; onions, 16020c per dosen; parsley, 20c per dosen; peas. 10c per pound; pep pers, 8 0 1 7o per pound; pumpkins, 1 0 l t i c per pound; radish««, 20c per dos en; spinach, 6c per pound; apronta, 8c per pound; squash, 101 per pound; tomatoes, $2 per box. Onions— $1.8602.15 per hundred. Potatoes— 60375c per hundred, de livered Portland; sweet potatoes, $3.25 03.50 per cwt. Butter— Fancy creamery, 30335« per pound. Poultry— Averageoid hens, 12012)4c per pound; mixed chickens, 1 1 1 4 0 1 * 0 ; spring chickens, 12313c; rooster«, 8 0 10«; dressed chickens. 14c; turkeys, live, 14015o; dressed, choice, 17018«; geese, live, 9310c; ducks, 16011«; pigeons, 7 5 c0 $ I; squab«, $1 6002. Eggs— Fresh ranch, candled, 27)4« per dosen. Veal— 75 to 128 pounds, 9 0 9 j«c ; 125 to 150 pounds, 7c; 160 to 200 pounds, 5 0 6 1 ««. Pork— Block, 76 to 160 pounds, 6 0 7c; packers, 607c. Hops— 1907, prim « and choice, 6 3 714e par pound; old«, 101e per pound. Wool— R>«tera Oregon average beat, 13320c per ponnd, according to ■brink- age; valley, 18020c per pound, accord ing to Oneness; metalr, chelae, 300 30c per pea ad. Heney Puts Him On Stand to Testify Agairst Hall. Poitland, Jan. 24.— Shortly before court adjourned yesterday afternoon, W. W . Bteiwer, president of the Butte Creek Land, Livestock A Lumber oom pany, pleaded guilty to the conspiracy indictment and was immediately called by Heney as a witness for the govern ment against his co-defendants, H all and Mays. Bteiwer related the sub stance of a conversation he had with Hall in Portland in 1900, when the district attorney told Bteiwer that it would probably be neceesary for him (H a ll) to prosecute the Butte Creek company for maintaining unlawful fences. Heney asxed the witness to give his “ understanding’ ’ of that cor- versation, but oounsel for the defend ants objected to that form of examina tion and Judge Hunt reserved his rul ing until 10 o’clock this morning, to which hour court adjourned. Steiwer’ s confession and hia appear ance as a witness for tiie prosecution is another move by Heney by whioh the government expects convincingly to fasten the conspiracy charge against both Hail and Mays. The alleged cor - spiracy has been proved against Btei wer, Hendricks and Zachary, officers of the Butte Creek company, but the tes timony of these three witnesses is re lied on by the government further to associate Hail and May in that con spiracy. W hile the testimony of Hen dricks was material to the proeecutlon’« case, Bteiwer is considered a more im portant witness, since it is expected to show by him thi t Hall declined to proeecnte Bteiwer and his sg'ociatee in consideration of a political obligation to Bteiwer. PO LIC E R O U T MOB, Ceicago Unemployed Not Allowed to Parade (streets. Chicago, Jan. 24.— An attempt of Socialists to bring about a “ march o the unemployed” through the down town streets today resulted In two sharp fights with the police in which the would-be maichers were routed after a number of men had been club bed. Dr. B. L. Heilman, the originator of the plan to march through the streets, and two of hie followers, were arrested. For several days Reitman, who is a Socialist, had been making announcements of his Intention to hold a parade of “ hobos” and “ unemploy ed” despite the warning given by Chief of Police Bhipy that no march through the streets would be permitted. Reit man continued to defy the authorities and last night thousands of circulars were distributed through the downtown saloons and in the lodginghouee dis trict, calling upon ail men out of work to assemble at 2 o’clock on the lake front. The policemen early in the day reiterated their statement that tha march would not be permitted, and di rected that all the police force be held in reserve at the various stations. P L O T 18 DISCO VERED . Portugal Narrowly Escapes a Coup d'Etat by Republicans. Lisbon, Jan. 24.— An abortive at tempt to overthrow the monarchy and proclaim Portugal a republio was nipped in the bud last night by the prompt action of the government. The plot was organized by a small group of advanced republicans. As near as can be ascertained the plan was to assassi nate Premier Franco and then depend for success upon street risings, support ed by secret Republican and labor or ganizations armed with bombs and re volvers. The conspirators intended to take ad vantage of various festivities to carry out the coup d’ etat. The royal fam ily was at V illa Viciosa, entertaining the duke of Abruzzi. Most of the army and navy ofliceis who were in the oity were attending a gala performance at the theater, while many of the chief functionaries of state were present at a magnificent ball at one of the legations. Mrs. Stoestel a Grafter. St. Petersburg, Jan. 24.— Testimony showing the straits of tiie civil popula tion of Port Arthur during the seige was given at the court martial of Gen eral 8 toes eel today by Colonel Vershin in. According to Colonel Vershinin mere existence was ■ luxury, for c iv il ians. Prices were enormous, ■ cow coat $800, a pig $600 and eggs $1 each. He testified that Madame Stoessel had a large herd of cattle and a flock of chick ens and charged exorbitant price*. Shortly before the surrender, he said, she attempted to dispose of these. Says Japan Will Welcome Fleet. Ban Diego. Jan. 24.— That Japan, far from entertaining the possibility of a war with the United Btates, has not m ly the friendliest feelings towards this country, but is preparing to wel come the fleet of Admiral Evans upon ita arrival in the Pacific, is the asser tion of Bakuyei Takahaski, proferaeor of international law in the Imperial university of Tokio, who is s guest at the Hotel Coronado. “ The educated people of Japan,” he declared, "h ave only the friendliest of feelings toward America.” Rant Strikers Arretted Boyle, Ireian, Jan. 24 — Twen*y con stabulary visited the Geevagh district early today and took into custody 20 men charged with unlawful assembly and riot and having interferred with the mails. Every one of the 20 prison ers was caught in bed. The landlords, •gainst whom a “ no rent” combination has been organized, had sent ont pro cess«« and it was ths m ail« bearing these document# that were interferred with by the men arrested today. Restriction on Emigration. Honolulu, Jsn. 24.— Japan Consul Baito has received e cablegram from Foreign Minister Havashi notifying him that, beginning February 1, the coolie Japanese laborre who have been permitted to emigrate to Hawaii are those who are returning and who are 1 Turned late relative« ef those wh* at« them.
