NEW LAN D P O L IC Y .
The Estacada News
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Sacralary Garfield Aida Entryman In'
ataad o f Hindering.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
hi i Condensed Forms lor Oor
Bosy Readen
A Raauma o f tha Laaa Important but
Not Loaa Interesting Evonta
o f tha Past Weak.
Black Hand
Chicago.
murders continue
KING IS MURDERED,
in
Japan is diverting many emigrants
to Booth America.
A new cabinet opposed to Franco has
taken office in Portugal.
A plotter against Prince Nicholas of
Montenegro has been captured.
The steamer St. Cuthbert was burned
off the coast of Nova 8cotla and 15 of
her crew drowned.
The higher officers of the battleship
fleet have been given a banquet by offi
cers of the Chilean fleet.
Heinxe has been sued for {97,500 on
account of alleged irregularities in the
msnagement of the Butte bank.
Japanese militarists are said to be
losing power, as the middle class is re
belling at the increased taxation.
Dynamite has been found In the coal
of one of the warships. I t Is believed
to have been left there by the miners.
It Is claimed by officers of the Ohio
National guard that inquiries have been
made regarding the number of m ilitia
men that could be dispatched to the
Pacific ciost on four hours' notice.
Bryan says Roosevelt is an honest re
former.
Washington, Feb. 4.— It is the pur
pose of Secretary Hatfield to so conduct
the Interior department and so inti rpret
the public laud laws as to actually aid
every bona fide entryman who is en
deavoring to establish a home on the
public domain.
Secretary (Jarfleld
holds that the land laws were enacted
(or a purpose, and eo long as the law is
not abused, he intends that the entry-
inan shall enjoy Its provisions, and so
long as he acta in good faith, shall have
the encouragement and aid of repre
sentatives of the department. In other
words, Secretary Garfield is proceeding
on the theory tliat every man is honest
until proven guilty; be is human
enough to recognise iliat honest men
may make errors which do not lay
them, or should not lay them liable to
the law. A reading of Mr. Garfield’s
annual report, made public yesterday,
will convince any man that there has
been a phenomenal— an almost incom
prehensible— change in the manner of
conducting the Interior department.
Under Secretary Hitchcock, the en
tire force of the Interior department
and general land office, on special in
structions from the secretary, proceed
ed on the theory that the public land
laws were enacted to prevent men ac
quiring public lands; every technical
failure to comply with the law was re
garded as ground for criminal prosecu
tion; every obstacle was planed in the
path of the honest, as well as the dis
honest entryman, and Mr. Hitchcock
retired from office with the astounding
record of having actually deprived hun
dreds of honest settlers of their lands,
while he permitted shrewd thieves to
gobble up large tracts under his very
nose. The repert of Secretary Garfield
will carry encouragement to every en
tryman who Is striving to acquire pub
lic land for an honest purpose. It is
a most cheering document.
Carlo*,
H O LD S W H E AT RECORD.
C LE A N U P O RCH ARD S.
Condon it Largest Primary Distribut Springbrook Fruitgrowers
ing Point in Country.
Traa Dixaasa.
Condon— The latest estimate of the
amount of grain already shipped and
that remaining to be shipped from Con
don ia 1,300,000 bushel*.
According
to this showing, Condon ia the largest
primary grain (hipping point in the
United States and, as far as can be
learned, in tlie entire world.
The
point which has heretofore elaime t the
honor of being the largest primary
grain shipping point in the world is
Ritsville, Wash., its supremacy being
claimd on the basis of shipping 1,260,-
000 bushels.
From figures obtained from the beat
authorities on the subject 1,100,000
huahela of wheat and barley have a l
ready been received by the warehouses
and m ill here. And to this must be
added the large amount that is yet Feat
ured over the country waiting to be
hauled to town before spring.
It ia
safe to any that there remains in Con
don’s territory 200,000 bushels yet to
be brought in, making a grand total of
1,300,000 bushels to be shipped from
Condon alone.
No less remarkable is the estimated
output of grain in e/ery section of G il
liam oounty, the total of the estimates
of the different stations exceeding the
mount to be shipped from Condon.
It
must also be taken into consideration
that many thousands ofbnshels of grain
harvested along the borders of the coun
ty are shipped from nearby railroad
points in the adjoining counties. The
total of the number of bushels shipped
from these points added to the amounts
shipped from different stations in G il
liam cconly places the enormous out
put of Gilliam county at 2,750,000.
to Fight
Springbrook — The fruitgrower* o
Springbrook, Yam hill county, met last
week for an open discussion of tbeir
local interests. C. E. Hoskins spoke
at aome length on the necessity of a
more systematic and vigorous effort to
clean up orchards, and also introduced
the question ol getting in touch with
the Willamette Valley Development
league. Others present spoke of the
various phases of orchard work.
Resolutions were adopted declaring
for a vigorous campaign against the
San Joae scale and Indorsing the state
inspection laws and upholding the
oounty inspectors and courts in enforc
ing the laws where this is found neces
sary.
Cannary for Dallas.
Dallas— The matter of establishing a
cannery in Dallas to be conducted by
home stockholders, Is now well under
way, over two-thirds of the necessary
capital being already subscribed. The
capital stock has been divided into 100
shares of the par value of {25 each,
not more than two shares being sold to
any one peison or firm. A site for
the oannery has already been donated
in the north part of the city, and the
building w ill be started early in the
spring. There is enough fm it in and
around Dallas and vicinity to make the
proposition a paying one, and the wotk
w ill be gradually enlarged to keep pace
with the number of new trees being set
out.
Last o f Machinery Enrouts.
North Powder— The last wagonload
of the four carloads of mining machin
ery delivered here last week for the In-
diaona, or Muir, group of mines, 22
miles from North Powder, at the head
of Grand Ronds river, has started on
the new rood.
The Indiana Mining
company, which owns and spares no
exfiense in the development of the
Muir mines, has 40 men at work in
stalling a new concentrator, the capa
city of which is 100 tons per day.
There ia also an electrio hoist under
construction for the purpose of sinking
a shaft 1,000 feet below the present
level.
o f Portugal, and H it Hair
Killed by Plotters.
Lisbon, Feb. 3 — King Carlos, ol
Portugal, and the Crown Prince Luis
Philippe, were assassinated Saturday,
and the city ii in a state of uproar.
The king’s second ion, the Infant Man
uel. waa slightly wounded, but Queen
Amelie, who strove to rave the crown
prince’s lile by throwing herself upon
him, was unhurt.
A band of men waiting at the coiner
of the Praco de Cotnmercio and the Rua
de Arsenal suddenly sprang toward the
open carriage in which the royal family
was driving to the palace, and, leveling
carbines which they had conoealed
upon them, fired.
The police guard
fired upon the assassins and killed two
of them.
The royal family was returning from
V illa Viclosa, where it had been so
journing, and was on the way from the
railroad station to the palace. A strong
guard was in attendance, because of the
recent uprising in the city and the dis
covery of a plot to assassinate Premier
Franco and overthrow the monarchy.
But the band of murderers had selected
the moat advantageous spot for thecom-
mission of the crime, lor it was con
cealed from the eyes of the party until
the vehicle had come into the Praco de
Commercio, a large square.
The bodies of the king and crown
prince reat in the royal palace, and be
side them the queen sat throughout the
night, sometimes with her hand preas-
lng the forehead of King Carles and
sometimes stroking the face of the dead
crown prince. The condition of the
newly proclaimed king, Manuel, is
satisfactory to the physicians In attend
ance. His wounds are not severe, and
if there are no complications, of which
there are no signs now, he is expected
to make a speedy recovery. He carries
his arm in a sling, and declares that he
eudffers no pain.
The bodies of King Carlos and Prince
Luix were embalmed yesterday and will
lie in state according to the coatom of
the court.
The funeral will probably be held
February 10.
SCORES EVIL-DOERS
President Answers Critics ind
Proposes New Laws.
SAYS TRUSTS NEED CONTROL
Criminal
Rich
Bandad Togather for
Reaction— Employers' Liability
Laws— Leas Injunctions.
Washington, Feb. 1. — President
Roosevelt ye-terday sent to congress a
special message which is devoted
mainly to a vigorous defense of bis
policy aa regards railroads and trusts
from the aseaults of h il critics and an
even more vigorous denunciation of
those critic* and those whom they
champion.
Beginning with the recommendation
of new employers' liability bills, both
binding the government and interstate
corporations, and of laws restricting the
issue of injunctions, the message pro
ceede to renew the president's former
recommendations for legislation dealing
with railroads and monopolies. Then
it enters upon a reply to the criticism
of the president’s policy, not mincing
words in its characterisation of his an
tagonists as lawbreakedrs. It shows
their inconsistency in criticising Judges
Landis end Wellborn aftei having con
demned the prea dent’s much milder
criticism of other judges. It advocates
measures to prevent stock gambling,
attributes the panic to speculation and
high finance, and declares that, even
if the president's policy did contribute
to the panic, it is better than to allow
dishonest business to thrive. He de
clares bis purpose of continuing the
same policy without flinching
W hile the message was being read in
the senate, many senators simply scan
ned their printed copies at first, and
before it was half finished they gene
rally took up other matters.
When
the striking passages were reached,
many of the senators looked around the
chamber ar.d exchanged smiles. T ill
man seemed especially pleased with the
document; I a Follette paid very care
ful attention; Beveridge, McCumber,
Knox, Galllnger, Nelson, Elkins, He-
menway and Burrows, on the Republi
can side, and Culberson, Teller, Davis,
Bankhead and Overman, among the
Democrats, were especially attentive to
the document.
On the conclusion of the reading of
the message, Senator Davis, of Arkan
sas, promptly
moved that 10,000
copies of the message be printed as a
public document.
" I t is the best Democratic doctrine
that I have ever beard emanating from
a Republican source," said Davie.
The motion was agreed to, and with
out further comment the message was
referred to the committee on interstate
commerce. "
The reading of the message in the
house was listened to with intense in
terest. by the members, of whom there
was an unusually large number in at
tendance.
As the reading of the message pro
gressed in the house, numerous mem
bers were heard audibly to exclaim
“ most unusual," “ this is red-hot,” etc.
The president’s vigorous denunciation
of wrongdoers was greeted with loud
applause, as was his defense cf Federal
judges who punish offender* for viola
tions of the law.
The frequency of the applause in
creased as the reading proceeded. The
hum of conversation over the message
subsided and the members followed
every word. But the climax came when
the reading was concluded.
Without regard to party, the mem
bers loudly applauded, cheered, thump
ed their desks and gave other evidences
of their approval of the document.
After a moment’s silence, the applause
broke out again, several members, in
cluding many Democrats, arising from
their seats and clapping their hands.
The message then, on motion of
Payne, of New York, was referred te
the committee on the state of the Union.
IM P E R IA L V A LLE Y C O N TESTS
The entire middle West is suffering
May Trade Territory.
from a bilixxard.
Fifty Improved Claims o f Non-Resi
Albany— The residents of northern
dents Are Jumped.
Benton county are agitating for a
The Heinxe savings bank at Butte
GOES T O A S Y L U M .
w ill be reopened.
Imperial, Cal., Feb. 4.—Out of 1,600 change in the boundariee of Linn and
Benton.
It
is
proposed
to
make
an
Jury Acquits Thaw But Declares Him
Senator Forsker says Roosevelt Is the land claims in the Imperial valley, even trade and allow Linn to annex one
about 60 improved claims belonging to
Insane.
champion muckraker.
township
or
more
in
Benton,
immedi
nonresidents have been jumped on the
New York, Feb. 3.— Adjudged not
The new battleship Mississippi has ground of failure to comply -with the ately across the river from this city,
guilty of lb* murder of Stanford White
been placed in commission.
law. A recent decision of the commis and to exchange therefor a township
by reason of insanity at the time the
lying across the W illam ette from Cor
sioner
of
the
general
land
offices
revers
The government has brought suit to
fatal »hots were flred, Harry Kendall
vallis. It is thonght this plan will
es
the
practice
that
office
has
held
here
dissolve the llarrlman merger.
Thaw Saturday was held by the coat to
tofore that any person could take a meet with the approval oi the residents
be a dangeous lunatic and was whirled
The English expect a visit from number of assignments from claimants of the sections concerned and make it
away to the state hospital for the crim
Roosevelt as soon as his term is ended. so long as the total does not exceed 320 possible for them to have belter roads
School Children to Boost.
Eugene— The school children of Eo- inal insane at Matteawan.
I t is now held that a person and reoeive more benefita from the
Two of the smaller street oar systems acres.
The verdict came after 25 hours of
dazes paid for the care of roads and gene now have roady about 1,200 let
of New York nave gone into the hands can take but one assignment.
Many claims, including scores of bridges. At present the roads across ters to be sent to tbeir friends In differ waiting, and when every one connected
of a receiver.
well developed farms, are aff ■cted by the river in Benton county are badly ent sections of the United States telling with the case had abandoned all hope
A New York newspaper man claims
the reversal, and a number of contests neglected as likewise are the roada them of Eugene and Lane oounty, es of an agreement ever being reached in
W illiam A. Rockefeller, father of John
are tiled. The mutual water compan leading into Corvallis on the south side pecially dwelling upon the fine weather this or aDy other trial. Four hours
D., died in 1906.
ies have combined to send representa of Linn. The residents of these sec conditions here, mentioning the fact after the foreman's lips bad framed
Moat French newspapers commend tives to Washington and lay the matter tions are Baid to be generally favorable that not a snowflake has fallen daring the words "n o t guilty,” with the ac
the year and that flowers are blooming companying insanity clause, Thaw,
the recent special message of the presi before Secretary Garfield. An appeal to this change.
everywhere, and a iking their friendB of protesting he was sane, was on his way
will Ire taken from the decision of Com
dent to congress.
the colder regions why they do not to Matteawan. A little after nightfall
Weston Normal Leads.
missioner Dennet on the ground that
A Kansas City jury grand has just
Folded in each let he had been received In the institution
Pendleton— The high water mark in come here to live
returned 200 indictments for violation the Supreme court holds that an estab
lished ruling of a department of the the enrollment at Weston Normal ter is a rose petal, a violet or some oth under commitment papers which di
of the Bunday closing law.
rected his detention ' ‘ until discharged
government cannot Ire annulled by a re school was reached last week, when the er flower now in blossom here.
by due course of law.”
It Is believed the talk of war with versal of the ruling.
report for the first semester showed
Salem Druggists Censured
Japan will bring increased appropria
No apprehension is felt by claimants that 173 students are attending the
tions for the defense of the Paaclflc as to the outcome, but it is considered school. The dormitory facilities have
DEATH IN IT S P A T H .
Salem— Salem drag stores have been
coast.
necessary to present the matter to Sec been overflowing for several months, put under the ban of the state board of
and students have been quartered in pharmacy by a visit of Secretary Blake Tornado Kills Eight and Maim* 100
Hawaii fears a flood of Japanese retary Garfield.
cottages and private residences in Wes ley, who is authority for the statement
In Miaxiaaippi.
cojllea.
ton. The Weston normal leads all the that they are nof complying with the
W O O D CHIEF M A T E R IA L.
Wesson, Miss., Feb. 3.— Extending
Bryan praises the president's special
Oregon normal schools in point of at law which provides that the drug aDd
message to congress.
tendance, and almoet every county seat prescription business shall be in the 40 m ile« from west to east, the path of
Small Percentage o f Buildings Built east of the Cascade mountains is repre care of a registered pharmacist. Dis destruction made by Friday’s tornado
The battleship fleet has started
o f Cement or Brick.
trict Attorney McNary also recently just north of here was found to have
sented in the enrollment.
through Magellan straits.
made the discovery that no record of suffered a worse disaster than at first
Washington, Feb. 4.— In a report
The house committee on census wants
the sale of poisons was being kept as ia reported. In the tornado path the
Initiative Petition Filed.
today regarding building operations
known dead number eight, the fatally
a census of all standing timber in the
Salem— The petition for the initia required.
and the timber supply the geological
injured four and the seriously Injured
United States.
survey says that the increasing price of tive of the questiou of the division o(
at least 100. There are fears that the
Eight Miles o f Shade Trees.
President Ripley, of the Banla Fe, lumber and a rapidly increasing use of Wasco oounty and the creation of Hood
death list may reach 15 or 20, moat of
denies the charges of Roosevelt that his perfected Are proof svstms cf construc River county has been filed with the
■ Eugene— An order has been placed those believed to be dead being negrees
roid has granted rebates on oil.
tion should do much in holding down secretary of state by W. B. Andrus, of with an Oregon nursery by the citizens who have not been accounted for since
Benator Bourne says Roosevelt's spe the amount which forests are called the Hood River Commercial club. The of Fsirmount for 1,000 trees to be thelv cabins were crushed.
cial message is bound to carry him to upon to yield each year, but so far these petition is said to contain 10,367 sig planted along the streets of this suburb
The damage is eetimated conserva
more substantial materials have not de natures, and is composed of a number of Eugene. The trees are to be planted tively at {300,000 and may reach a half
the White House for another term.
creased the lum lrercutof the nation. of separate pamphlets, each of which about 50 feet apart on both sides of the m illion.
In the wreckage lie four
A tornado just north of Wesson, Notwithstanding the increased use of is previded with an artistic cover de street, and will stretch over a distance
churches, six cotton gins and several
Miss., laid waste a strip three-quarters cement and other fireproof materials, sign, with three luscious red cheeked of eight miles.
country stores.
of a mile wide and several miles long the last reports of the building opera apples on the obverse and a tempting
The tornado cut a path about half a
Six persons were killed and a number tions in 49 of the leading cities of the Btrawberry on the reverse.
Poultry Show at The Dalles.
mile wide. Relief parties have been
injured.
United States for the year collected by
The Dalle*— As the result of a meet sent ou t A ll streams are swollen and
Linn Stock Doing Wall.
ing of local poultry fanciers a poultry the country roods are strewn with fal
Officials of the Jspaneee government 'he geological survey, show that 59
say that they, like other nations, are per cent were of wooden construction.
Albany— Reports from all parts of ■how will bis held here some time dur len trees.
interested in the fleet's trip from the This does not include the large quan the county sre that cattle and sheep are ing February. Committees on arrange
Atlantic to the Pacific, as they want to tity of lumlier used for the construction wintering to better advantage than for ments are at work and the show will be
Japanese Spies Hava Gone.
of dwellings, stores and other buildings many years. On account of the mild open to any and all poultry enthusiasts.
know how the ships stand the strain.
Punta Arenas, Straits of Magellan,
in the thousands of small cities and ness ol the weather fields and pastures
Feb. 3 — Two Japanese who are re-
Ruef has pleaded not guilty to 14 towns, scattered over the country and
P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS .
poted to have landed here from the
charges of offering a bribe. The cases not included In the 49 cities on which furnish excellent graxing and unless
the
valley
should
experience
extreme
M ats T r r o p t on Pacific.
British steamer Orita, of the Pacific
w ill be set for trial February 14. a reckoning was made.
Butter— Fancy creamery, 30035c per
changes within the next few weeks it
Steam Navigation company, a little
Bohmltx, who is also indicted on these
Omaha, Neb. Feb. 1.— Added strength
pound.
is
thought
all
danger
of
a
hard
winter
over two weeks ago, and who were sup to the theory that the sending of Rear
same counts, has already pleaded not
Poultry— Average old hen*. 12912'yc
will have passed and the farmers not
Filipino Lads 8towaways.
posed to have come to Punta Arenas to Admiral Evans’ fleet to the Pacific may
guilty.
per
pound;
mixed
chickens,
11.4
912c;
be
obliged
to
draw
on
their
stored
sup
Han Francisco, Feb. 4.— l’ edro Jajo-
observe the passagee of the fleet through not be so much for mere naval practice
spring chickens, 12913c; roosters, 8 0
China looks on the movement of the ■nera aud Isaac Villannewra, Filipino plies of feed.
the Strait of Magellan, would appear as for possible protection was given to
10c; dressed chickens, 14c; turkeys,
Atlantic fleet as more than a pleasure stowaways, after having hidden in the
to have left this port.
Inquiry has day, when it developed here that the
live,
13c;
dressed,
choice,
16017o;
cruise.
Good
Quality
o
f
Lima.
coal bunkers for three days on the
(ailed to shed any light on the move national government is also making
geese,
live,
9010c;
ducks,
10017c;
Salem— J. Frank Hughes snd W . A.
Terror reigns supreme in Lisbon due transport Crook, which arrived today,
ments of the two travelers and their preparations for the mobilisation of
pigeons, 7 6 o 0 {l; squabs, {1 .5 0 9 2 .
to the arrest of conspirators against were driven by hunger from conceal Carter, of this oity, are successfully en
present whereabouts are not known to more troops on the Pacific coaet by the
Eggs—
Freeh
ranch,
candled,
26026c
ment. They came on deck and an gaging in the manufacture of lime at
the government.
the authorities.
time the fleet arrives there. Troops
nounced their willingness to be put to Gold H ill, with a plant that turns out per doien.
w ill be sent from Fort Crook, in Ne
Veal—
76
to
125
pounds,
9
0
9
jyc;
126
Ruef says he did not negotiate with work. Both were bright lade, having 100 barrels per day of an article that is
braska, Fort Leavenworth in Kansas,
Insurance Must B* Paid.
to
150
pounds,
7e;
160
to
200
pounds,
the graft defendants and that Iangdon gone to the public school at Honolulu claimed to be 98 per cent pure.
Mr.
Kingston, Jamaica, Feb. 3.— The and Fort Russell, in Wyoming, to var
broke his immunity contract.
and they paid for their voyage by shin Carter has just returned from the lime 6 0 « He.
Pork— Block 75 to 160 pounds, 6 0 English insurance companies that lost ious Coast barracks.
ing shoes, cleaning decks and waiting kiln« and the firm has secured orders
heavily in the earthquake and fire of
Japanese who are supposed to he
on table. The Filipinos sneaked on from the paper mills at Oregon City 7c; packers, 506c.
A fter Trade in the Orient.
spies have been at every port where
Fruits— Apples, {1 .2 6 0 2 per box; January, 1907, have had a farther ver
and Lebanon.
The Southern Pacific
board the transport at Honolulu.
dict handed down against them. Two
the battleship fleet or torpedo squadron
Seattle, Feb. 1.— The Chicago, M il
has made a rate to Portland of 15 cents peart, {1.25(41.75 per box; cranber test case« for the payment of losses
has stopped.
waukee A St. Paul w ill shortly begin
ries, {8 0 1 1 per barrel.
per hundred.
"Y e llo w Peril League.”
Vegetable«— Turnips, 76c per sack; sustained at the time of the earth an active campaign for its share of
Chinese printers have been excluded
Denver, Colo., Feb. 4.— Several hun
President A. J.
carrots, 65c per sack; beets, {1 per quake were recently decided adversely trade In the Orient.
Platting New Townaits.
under the alien contract labor laws, dred representatives of union labor, In
■ark; beans, 20e pet pound; cabbage. 1 to the companies. The companies ap Earling, who is in Seattle, M id: " N e
and New York Chinese papers are tem mass meeting this afternoon, former)
Oregon City— The Oregon Iron A
0 1 V per pound; cauliflower, {1 .7 6 9 pealed to the Supieme court. Today gotiations have been made for a line of
pararily tied up.
the "Y e llo w Peril Exclusion leagu e," Steel company has a force of surveyors 2 per doxen ; celery. {3 0 3 .5 0 per erat»; the Supreme court upheld the decision steamships between Puget sound and
J. II. Hiland, third vice
The battleship fleet has been sighted designed to prevent further influx of st work platting its property beyond onions, 16020c per doxen; parsley, 20c of the lower body, which had decided the Orien.
Asiatic coolie labor into the United the Tualatin river, near Willamette. per doxen; peas, 10c per pound; pep that the fire waa not of earthquake president of the St. Paul, and F. A.
at the entrance of Magellan straits.
States. One of the speakers said that The company has about 3,000 acres
origin.
Miller, general passenger agent, have
The government has plaoned a series thousands of Japanese were coming into there and It ia believed that the con pers, 8917c per pound; pnmkpins, 1 0
been sent to investigate traffic condi
of scientific re-seeding experiments on the United States through the port of struction of e railroad connectrng the 1V per pound; radishes, 20c per dox
Want« a Central Bank.
tions In China and Japan, and will re
several of the natlooal forest ranges to F.l Paso as students. A prominent Jap territory with Portland is a surety In en; xpinach, 6c per pound; sprouts, 8c
New York, Feb. 3.— Speaking at the port upon the poesibilitiM of trade de
determine how much damage done by anese of Han Francisco, he said, was at the future, ae the land is being platted per pound; squash. 1 9 1 V per pound.
annual banquet of the School of Com velopment."
Onions— {2.50 per hundred.
ever-graxing can be remedied.
the head of the enterprise and conduct Into tracts of two and one half, live and
Potatoes— 40076c per hundred, de merce, William J. Ridgeley, controller
Cut In Price o f Steel
The revolution in tfaytl Is said to be ed the business from a clothing agency ten acres.
livered Portland; sweet potatoes, {3.26 of the currency, expressed himself as
In the City of Mexico.
fearful that the political situation is
over.
New York, Feb. 1.— About 70 steel
9 3 50 per hundred.
Fruit Inspector Resign«
Wheat— Club, 84c; blaeetem, 86c; inch at present that the prospect* of men, representing the United State«
In the stomach of a coyote killed
Took Drydock to Manila.
Freewater— County Fruit Inspector valley, 84c; red, 82c.
getting legislation to reform the coun Steel corporation, the Republic Steel
near Hants Rosa, d el., 42 chicken heads
Han Francisco, Feb. 4.— Otto Wer Howard Evans has reeisned, the death
Oats— No. 1 white, {2 8 ; gray, {28 try’ s banking system are far from company, the Bethlehem Steel com
were found.
ner, Charles Bradley, J. H. Van Horn, of hie father, James Evans, having in per ton.
bright. " A central bank and a credit pany, the Jones A Langhlin Steel com
T. Myers and W aller E Rudolph, en creased the demand* on his time to
Barley— Feed. {27 per too; brewing, currency," he Mid, "e r e Ihe things pany and the Pennsylvania Steel com
New York's police dogs are now in
gineer! who were in charge of the dry- inch an extent that be found him self' {32; rolled. {29930.
upon which we must rely, and not po pany, were in conference in tbie city
active service. They are on duty from
dock Dewey on its trip from the At- unable to attend to both private and
todey and tonight. None of those pres
Corn — Whole, {32.50;
cracked, litic«, to prevent panics."
10 p. m. to 3 a. m.
lant'c coast to the Philippine ialanda, public bustnees. The new horticultural {32.50.
ent would talk, but it was stated unoffi
reached
here
today
on
the
transport
society signed a petition asking that T.
Officers have just recovered what la
Bank Closed In Brooklyn.
cially that the (nbject of the confer
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, {18
believed to be a part of the loot of rob Cook and w ill proceed East tomorrow. L. Ragsdale be appointed in hi* place. per ton: Eastern Oregon timothy, {20
New York, Feb. 3.— The.Home Bank ence was a proposai to rsdnee the price
bery of the Pacific Express company's The Dewey left the Atlantic coast on
0 3 1 ; clover, {1 4 0 16 ; cheat, {16; of Brooklyn, an institution on which a of steel in general.
Elgin Livestock Shipments.
office in Kidney, Neb., In 1880. At l>«oember 28, 1905, and arrived at
grain hay. {1 4 9 15 ; alfalfa, {11.60; run was started, did not open for buai-
that time bullion valued at {127,000 Olong'po, Philippine islands, on July
Elgin— Dnrlng the pest week a great vetch, {14.
Workmen Bagging for Food
neee Saturday. The Home bank in a
10,
1906.
wps taken and but little of It was ever
many hog shipments have been made
Hope— 1907, prime and choice, 8 0 small institution, located In South
Buffalo, Feb. I .— The office of the
disposed of.
from the Wallowa and Elgin eountry. 7 % e per ponnd; old*, 102c per pound. Brooklyn. It has a capital stork of superintendent of poor at West Seneca
Mall From Fleet.
Several carloads have gone to Walla
Wool— Faatern Oregon, average best, {100,000 and a surplus and divided was besieg'd today by 60 men begging
Federal authorities are said to have
New York, Feb. 4.— The steamer W alla and about 10 loads went to 13020c per pound, according to shrink profile amounting to {63,870. The de for food. The partial suspension of the
taken steps to establish the largest Thespis which arrived todey from Rio Tronldale, while several carloads of cat age; valley, 1803Oe per ponnd, accord posits, which formerly averaged about
eteel end Iron industry there has
army depot In the United States at Han Janeiro brought 20 Mcks of mail from tle have gone to Portland in the past Ing to fineness; mohair, chaise, 290 {500.000, have been reduced greatly
censed much suffering among the for
Francisco.
the American battlrahipa.
several Jays.
30c per pound
since the October panic.
1 eign laborwa.
DRAWS N E T C L 0 8 E .
Hensy Has Evidence to O ffset
Testimony.
Hall's
Portland,
Jan. 31.----- Francis J.
Heney’a cross-examination ol John H .
Hail yesterday materially s'rengthened
the case of the go ’ernmeut. Une letter,
that w ill be followed by several others
today, was introduced by Heney show
ing that Hall in 1901 and 1902, when
frequent complaints were being re
ceived against the Butte Creek corp-
pany, took Immediate and effective
steps towards prosecuting settlers who
had from 200 to 400 acres of govern
ment laud enclosed.
The purpose of
these letters is tc show conclusively
that Hall did not molest Sleiwer’a
compauy, whose enclosuree of public
land embraced about 20,000 acres.
Neither were other large violators of
the fencing law distnibed, either by
civil or criminal proceedings.
Further evidence, contradictory of
the testimony of Hall on direct exam
ination, was offered by Heney at last
night's session. It coneieteed of a letter
written by the department of justice to
Hall in November, 1902, in response
to a request from the department of the
interior on the application of Special
Inspector Greene, assigning Greene to
report to Hall foi the specific purpose
of investigating complaints of unlawful'
fencing by W. W . Brown in Harney
and Lake counties, that had been re
ported to the Interior department b y
Greene in the month of October, 1902..
H U R R Y O R EG O N B U ILD IN G .
Beaver 8tate Exhibit to Be in Place
When Hnattle Fair Opens.
Seattle, Jan. 31.— The Oregon state
building for the Alaska-Yukon-Paeiflo
exposition will be finished and the ex
hibit installed when the legislature
meets next winter, according to the
statement of W . H . Wehrung, chair
man of the Oregon commission, who
left for home tonight.
" I t is not our purpose to enter into a
building contest with other states, but
we have decided to have Oregon’s ex
hibit in place several months before
the exposition opens.
When every
thing is In readiness we shall bring the
fact to the attention of our legislature
and ask for an additional appropriation
of {50,000 to make it better. The ap
propriation already made is {190,000,
one-half of which will be used in erect
ing a building.
“ E. W. Rowe and I have been look
ing over the ground allotted to Oregon
for its exhibit, and we are immensely
pleased. The site is on Nome Circle,
just opposite the Washington state
building, and the location could not
have been more favorable. W e ih a il
go back and immediately arrange for
letting the contract. According to our
present plans bids w ill be opened
March 1, and the work on the building
w ill be started by March 15.”
A T T E M P T T O F L Y M E ANS D E ATH
Rumor o f Intended Escape Causes
O rders to Shoot.
San Francisco, Jau. 31.— The Call
says today:
Warned by a persistent and well-
defined rumor that Abe Ruef, grown
frantic on the eve of trt&l, has planned
in detail an escape from custody to be
accomplished on the lonely road be
tween this city and the county jail.
Sheriff Dolan has doubled the guard
over the prisoner and has taken every
precaution to prevent the carrying out
of the suspected plot.
Two deputy sheriffs, fully armed and
with instructions to keep Ruef prisoner
at any cost, now accompany him in hia
automobile during all the time he i*
absent from the jail, and the strictest
orders have been issued concerning the
methods to be adopted at the first sus
picious sign made by either the fallen
boes or the chauffeur in charge of the
car.
Should Ruef attempt to put into exe
cution the plan which it is believed has
already been arranged, the first appear
ance of a rescue party would be the sig
nal for action by the deputy sheriffd to
the end of preventing their prisoner
ever leaving the automobile alive.
Low Rate to Standard.
Washington, Jan. 31.— That a 6 cent
per hundred pounds rate on shipments
of oil from Whiting, Ind., to East 8t.
Louis, was charged the Standard Oil
company by the Chicago A Alton and
Chicago, Burlington A Quincy In the
period between September 1, 1903, and
June 30, 1906, was’established today in/
the hearing of the suit of the govern
ment for a dissolution of the Standard
Oil company, by the testimony of Mr.
Chandler, a special agent of the bureau
of corporations. The total difference on
314 cars amounted to {17,297.
Express O ffice Robbers Caught.
Mansfield, O., Jan. 31.— Shortly after
midnight last night two masked men
entered the office of the Adams Express
company at the Union station here,
knocked W illiam Depevf, the agent,
unconscious, and got away with {3,000,
while nearly 50 passengers stood about
the station waiting tor train*. A bag
containing {40,000 in gold lying near
the {3,000 was overlooked by the rob
bers. Telegrams were sent to the po
lice of all nearby towns, and s u r e -
suit John McCue and Joseph Stevens
were taken into custody at New London.
Freezing Out Japanese.
Loa Angeles, Jan. 31.— At least 200
Japanese have been dropped from ser
vice at prominent hotels and leading
clubs and in private families in South
ern California in the last week. The
movement has beer m i general, cn the
ground that the Japanese are "ondeeir-
able.”
On top of this has come the
failure of many Japanese restaurants in
this city. The prejudice aeainst them
has become eo strong that they get lit
tle patronage.
Loes in Indianapolis 81,000,000.
Indianapolis, Jon. 31.— Fire in the
warehouse of Henry Coburn A Cn. early
today "anaed a lose of {1,000,000, with
Inaoraoce of {576,000. Over one hun
dred firm* with goods stored in the
warehouse are loser*.
Marion connty
hod stored {100,000 worth of voting
machine«, on whieh there wee no ¡neur
one*. tig firemen were slightly h u t.