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WILL REFUSE LANDING. The Estacada Progress I« ..* tack TkorW ar ESTACADA OREGON RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS President C astro Will Be Asked to Apologize First. Paris, Dec. 8.—If President Castro, of Venezuela, comes to Bordeaux, he \vi 1 not te allowed to set foot on French soil until after he has offered a formal apology for the fashion iu which he has flaunted France. This decision was made by the cabinet, but was kept a secret, as it was expected that Castro would disem bark at San tander, Spain. But should he arrive at Bordeaux, anil his illness not be serious, permission to land will be made con ditional upon the dispatch of an official telegram of apology to the French gov em inent and the dispatch of tele graphic instructions to Caracas for the immediate execution of the arbitral award iu the m atter of the French claims. l)r. Domingo Castillo, the Venezuelan consul general at Hamburg, and D. Fa calant»*, consul general ut Liverpool, •assed through P aris today on the way to Santander, presumably to meet Presi •lent Castro. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON IRRIGATION GIVEN IM PETUS. PLAN RABBIT DRIVE. LIVEb BEYOND INCOME. England Must A ppropriate B g Sum for S tronger Navy. London, Dec. 7 —Estim ating that by the beginning of the next fiscal /e ar in March, England will be living $100,000.000 annually beyond its in come, the adm inistration is gradually breaking the news to the country tha there must be a heavy increase i taxation shortly. Forced by circum stances to dvclar or a stronger navy, the cabinet ha undertaken a program involving $30, 000,000 unanticipated expenditures for ships. To escape a quarrel with the vari ous religious denom inations over sec tarian education in the public schools financial concessions have been necessitated to tlie extent of $7,500, ooo. Old age pensions, paym ent which will begin on January 1. will cost at least $35,000,0 H), and relief o the country’s idle will foot up $30. 000 000 Chancellor <>f the Exchequer Lloyd George figures on m aking up the deficit as follows: Incom e tax increase $20,000,000; in creased taxation of urban land, $20, »on; increased death duties. $5 000. 000 ; increased cost of liquor license $25 ooo.ooo; diversions from payment to sinking fund m aintained for g ad uni paym ent of national debt. $32, 500.000. H ints of the necessity for increase taxes have been thrown out from time to time for m onths past in speeche by the various cabinet m embers an I in the Liberal party newspapers. A »lain statem ent of the situation ha finally been made by the chancel accompanied by an outline of his plan for a remedy. TAFT PROPOSES LONG PROGRAM Important Points In Polity of New COSGROVE CANNOT LIVE. Condition of W ashington’» Governor- Eelect Becomes M ore Serious. Paso Robles, Cal., Dec 4.—Gov ernor-elect Cosgrove’s condition has become more serious An operation has been performed by Drs. D resser wy«i Dr Dresser says; "I don’t think he can hold out two weeks longer.” A specialist of Berkeley is here on the case and said: “Chronic disease is getting him Even if he survives for some time, he will cer tainly nut be able to return to his home state for inauguration as gov ernor.” A fter a consultation the specialist said that he thought everything was being done for the governor and ap proved the course of treatm ent, and it was decided to continue the course as heretofore. Paso Robles, Hot Springs, Cal., Dec. 4.—Governor elect Cosgrove of W ashington was reported late last night to he somewhat improved. Dr. F. G. Reinhardt, of the University of California, was in consultation yester day with Dr Dresser, the attending physician, regarding Mr. Cosgrove’s condition and approved the course of treatm ent that is being adm inistered to him. Dr. Dresser said shortly be fore m idnight that the patient was resting well and that he had appeared to he som ewhat stronger. The report that the Governor-elect had under gone an operation yesterday is un founded. _ ________ TRY TO LOCATE MONEY. Vigorous Campaign Begun by Com P ests of W esterh Umatilla County Administration. mercial Club of La Grande. Face Extermination. La Grande W ith the avowed inten Pendleton - Spurred by the destruc tion of running a prelim inary survey tion of fields of young alfalfa and the Tariff Revision Com es First—Large from Meadow Brook canyon up the serious injury to newly set out fruit General Review o f Im portant Hap Number of M easures to Govern Grand Ronde river, down the river to trees, left unprotected, settlers in the penings Presented in a B rief and T ru sts—Reform Injunction L aw - its entrance into the Grand Ronde val- Hermiston country are planning a rab* Com prehensive M anner for Busy ley, following the proposed course of bit drive which will help exterm inate Extensive Im provem ents to Rivers Readers—National, Political, His the main channel of the gigantic irri- the w orst pest the farm ers in th at end Beginning With Ohio. torical and Com m ercial. gation scheme now being fostered, and of the county have to contend with, establishing the probable route of the The drive will probably be pulled off laterals, that the land owners may be late in December. H ot Springs, Va., Dec. 5.—The better apprised of the exact course, the This will be the first big rabbit drive The closing argum ents in the Ruef Commercial club is searching for com- in this part of the country since H. C. W orld is able to present here the trial have begun. petent civil engineers to do the work W’illis started his famous rabbit can- principal legislative program of the W omen art- making a hot fight for immediately. nery at Echo, several years ago, and fa it adm inistration: suffrage in Chicago. There is policy in the movement, started in to run opposition to the T ariff revision is the prim ary rea Physicians now say Cosgrove has When the prelim inaries have been run, Sw ifts and the Armours. The drives son for the extra session that will be a chance of recovering. John Sm ith will know’ how near his held then, in which tens of thousands called im m ediately after M arch 4 DEPO SITS TOO LARGE. The cashier of a llealdsburg. Cal., farm is to be from the main channel or of rabbits were killed, were conducted 1909, but the next President sees no bank is short $ 100 , 000 . principal lateral, and Mr. Jones will just across the U m atilla river from reason why, during that extra session, Pat Crowe has become a Christian Remarkable Conditions Existing With have sim ilar information. The sudden Hermiston. Since the days of the spurt of interest and determ ination ex- Willis drives, however, a mysterious the Sherm an anti trust law should not Canad an Banks. and will be an evangelist. presses another highly laudable fact plague has made serious inroads into be so am ended that railroads may Ottawa, Out , Dec. 8.—A very Charles A. Ekstrom er, Swedi has been discarded for the the hordes of the long-eared pests until make rate agreem ents under the strict vice consul at St. Louis, committed m arkable condition of affairs is dis —lethargy supervision of the interstate com dosed by the Canadian governm ent 'i unanimous decision to push the work today there is not one rabbit where suicide. merce commission. It is not likely statem ent for October, just*issued until Union county’s greatest noon then there were hundreds. The ranch Government investigation shows im bank that m ore subjects than the tariff and It is shown th at the people of this stands secured. ers, however, have found that the num mense profits of the Standard Oil country are saving money at a very • n am endm ent to the Sherm an act ber rem aining is sufficiently large to company. will be named by Mr. T aft iu calling much faster rate than the banks an High School Debating League. cause great damage and the campaign the extra session, though he may de Governor Gillett, of California, i business men of the dominion can dis The November number of the Uni of exterm ination has been arranged. cide later to m ention all of the prin seriously ill in a hospital, and is not pose of in profitable investm ents. of Oregon Bulletin, contains W ith the building of the main feed cipal laws that he hopes to see en Prosecution in Ruef Trial Trying to The result of this condition of tilings versity allowed to see visitors. canal for the reclamation project, the list of officers, constitution and acted. These are: s th at deposits in Canada increase the Prove Bribery. by laws, propositions for debate, bibli country in which the coming drive is French officials deny that Great luring 1. Putting a lim itation on tlie issu October to the extent of $11, ographies, Britain, France and Russia are about 3(52,879, to be held is almost entirely surrounded debate libraries and an ance of interstate bonds and stocks. San Francisco, Dec. 4 In the Ruef while the business of the coun to conclude an alliance. 2. A uthorizing railroads to make bribery trial yesterday the prosecution trv absorbed by way of current and nouncements for the year 1908-09, of by w ater, the Columbia river being rate agreem ents which otherw ise endeavored to show by the testim ony Von Buelow approves the Ameri call loans only $3,332,014 more than the Oregon High School Debating one one side, and the U m atilla on the a i>ulil be in violation of the anti trust of Adam Dahler, acting treasurer of REBEL AT ROUTING RULE. league. The league consists of 34 other. This fact, together w ith the can-Japanese agreem ent, and say during the previous month. law, subject to the approval of the the United Railroads, that the $200,- When it is remembered that the crop schools, divided geographically into five entirely open district, W’ill make possi Germany has a sim ilar one. •Commerce commission. 0(10 drawn by Tirey L. Ford from the began very early this year districts. The Eastern Oregon district ble not only the almost complete ex Chicago Shippers O pposed to New interstate The Fidelity Funding company, one movement 3. Defining particular cases in which mint was never turned over to tlie iiul that farm ers were paid for their copmrises the high schools of Baker term ination of the rabbits, but will al Regulation of Railroads of the largest Catholic institutions tem porary restraining orders may is company. Mr. Dahler said that he re wheat ami other products promptly, it City, Crook county, Elgin, La Grande, so keep the number rem aining from the country, has gone under. Its will without notice, and prescribing tained all the gold coining in and de Chicago, Dec. 7.—The Tribune yes sue be understood th at several million Pendleton, Sherman county being recruited from the outside. head office is in New York. proceedings limiting their operation posited all currency and checks. He terday printed the following news ar 'ollars of the increase for the month Ontario, Union; Columbia river comprises said that after the graft inquiry had tide nn tlie new railroad traffic rule to the very shortest day. Roosevelt has announced his plan •u deposits mav be due to tlu* plentiful and Lebanon for Good Roads. storia, The Dalles, Gresham, Hood 4. Such am endm ents to the law o r begun in 1906. George F. Starr, the Shippers of Chicago and other citie ness of money iu the rural districts of A River, for his African hunting trip. Lebanon. A rousing good roads ganizing the bureau of corporations Newberg, Tillamook, Woodburn com pany’s treasurer, went east with considerably exercised over what House Dem ocrats have elected the W dominion. m eeting was held here last week by are is shall require certain large corpor a num ber of vouchers and books to they regard as another attem pt on the ations hatever the cause, however, bank and Yam hill; Central Oregon district, Judge .1. II. Seott, of Salem, president Champ Clark as their leader. doing an interstate business to be exported. Albany, Brownsville, Cottage Grove, part of the railroads to deprive them ers of Canada are confronted with the the State (Jood Roads association. of the right to specify the routing o submit to the scrutiny and examina George W ’lcutt, secretary of the The governm ent has launched a big fact that they have to earn interest on Eugene, Jefferson, Junction City, Leb of The opera house was filled principally tion of agents of tlie federal govern United Railroads, testified regarding 96,000,000 of capital and $07,000,00< anon, Salem and Silverton; Southern My farm ers from the surrounding coun reiglit shipm ents beyond the line of ment. collier at the Mare Island yard. initial carrier to which the freight 5. Reorganizing the departm ent of the books in his charge. The pro Oregon district, Central Point, Grants try, who arc becoming deeply interested is the delivered. General Simon has entered the of deposits. posed introduction of a letter which Pass, Klam ath county and Roseburg, in the good roads movement. At the This question has been the subiec justice, Haytian capital with his army. the interstate com m erce com W ilcutt said he had at his office, and and the Coos bay district Bandon, Co- BRITISH G.VE PROTECTION. close of the meeting a good roads the departm ent of com which is supposed to contain some Germany will provide several a long-standing controversy be mission and and labor quille, Marshfield, M yrtle Point and league was organized, with E. E. T ay of in respect to the jur reference to the $200,000 drawn hy tween the shippers and the roads. It merce schools in the Chinese territory it North Bend. lor, one of the county’s most progres isdiction exercised by them over in F<7fd, led to a wordy clash between renewal «t the present time is caused terstate corporations, American G unboats Leave During In holds. sive road supervisors, as president, and both railroads attorneys. by a rule iu the new west-bound surrection in China. Internal revenue officers have seized O regon Advertising M atter. I. Y. K irkpatrick as secretary. The transcontinental tariff, effective md others. It is Mr. T aft’s idea that W illiam M. Abbott, assistant coun :u>.000 pounds of oleom argarine at Pekin, Dec. 8.—Reports have been re Portland__Over five tons of adver Lebanon organization will work in bar January, llii.s provides: “The rates the three departm ents should work sel for the United Railways, was Denver. •oived here th at the Americans in the tising m atter about Oregon were mony and in conjunction with the Al so that no one shall b called, but on advice, of his counsel are subject to tlie absolute and harmoniously, Yangtse K iang territory are indignant shipped by the passenger departm ent bany meeting, effected at the meeting therein over ground covered by another refused to testify on the ground that An Italian w riter has denounced on unqualified right of the initial carrier going held there last week. account of the withdrawal of the and so that there shall be no conflict he was under indictm ent in connection of the Harriinan lines from Portland Vmericans for claiming equality with American gunboats, which went to Ma to determ ine the routing of freight • f authority. U ltim ately cases han with the trolley franchise m atter. last week, hound for every point in the royalty. beyond its own lines.” Londoner Buys Mines. nila with the Pacific fleet for target United States and many of the princi lied by these departm ents m ust now Judge Lawlor overruled the objec If enforced strictly, this rule is re The schooner D. M. Clemson. ply nrnetiee, leaving no protection for pal (»rant’s Pass.—A mining deal of im go to the courts, but it is Mr. T aft’s tions and compelled him to testify. of Europe. In tin* shipment garded as apparently in conflict with idea g on Lake-Erie, is believed to have Americans during the recent insurrec were cities that a large num ber of cases can He then related the incident of his 57 cases weighing 200 pounds portance was consummated a few days adm inistrative ruling of the inter be disposed been lost. * ion at Nanking. Because of this the each, m aking the shipment amount to ago, when the Cook & Green copper the of finally and equitably trip to the mint with Ford, when the state com m erce commission American consul general at Hankow 11,400 pounds of Oregon advertising gold group of claims of Blue Ledge dis- Railroad officials said yesterday by the departm ents under the right latter obtained one of the install Rear Admiral Coughlan is dead of law. Ibam M artin, was compelled to ask m atter. The booklets and advertising ; trict was sold to ^ . A. Phillips, of ments of the $ 200,000 made payable The republic of Salvador has put under the com m ission’s ruling sort 6. Reform in the m onetary and to the order of Patrick Calhoun. ‘lie British representative to look after pam phlets are sent out at this time j London, England. Th consideration that down a revolution. the rule could not be enforced liter American interests at Nanking. banking system s of the country. This was not made public, I ut is kmtvvn to because of the travel next sum hut the fact rem ains that it is is recognized as one of the great The W estern Pacific railroad has Detailed reports of the revolutionary largely mer. The w inter months are conceded ! 1 ** a hirge amount, as this is one of the ally, stated in black and white in the tariff problem just finished a tunnel through the conditions PILLAGERS RULE CITY. the new adm inistra which prevailed show that to be the best time to distribute book- : richest and best developed mines of the shippers are w ondering how tion. but s before ierras, which is 7,306 feet long. it is not expected that it had the rebels succeeded in taking lets on the Pacific coast because the Blue Ledge. Mr. Phillips is owner of m far d the roads will go when the tariff will be taken up at the extra session T roops D isperse" Haytian Mob With An O regon boy won first honors Nanking, an insurrection would have trips made by most travelers to the J Hie famous Wolfram mine, of Devon- effect. 7. Conservation of the natural rc in an oratorical contest at Notre broken out in at least three or four roast are conceived and planned for be- *hire, and has unlimited capital behind takes Volley, Killing Twelve. The ^National Industrial Traffic of the country, including the places, which would have put the Ainer tween ( hristnlas and the spring months, j |ln'- lb* visited Blue Ledge this past Dame university Ind. He will rep eague, which since its organization sources Port au Prince. Dec. 4.—For many Appalachian bill. The question of the The advertising work being done for I Gill, and was highly impressed w ith the has resent the school in the state contest ican residents in great danger. insisted on the right of the ship constitutional power of the federal hours during the night following the Oregon at present is on the largest | ^plendid showing of the properties, per to control tlie routing, "is now Castro is believed to have deserted governm ent in this m atter is not yet flight of Nord Alexis riot and pillage ale in the history of advertising any preparing an am endm ent to the Hep Cabinet Tim ber in W heeler. Venezuela forever. prevailed in Port au Prince. The It can be said that Mr. T aft is Eugene Wants More Paving. wlier in tin* world, and lias far out burn law securing this right, which clear. ashington, Dec. 5.—W illiam R stripped in sym pathy w ith the end to be ac populace, maddened hy tlu* spirit of The international naval conference W W tin* famous work done for Cal- Eugene.—The city council has will be presented to congress at th heeler, assistant secretary of com complished. but that he will recom revolt, turned from the skiff that car is in session at London. passed three new paving ordinances coming session. merce and labor, is suggested bv the fornia. mend no legislation until he is satis ried the deposed president to tlie The prosecution has completed its politicians for a place in the cabinet and two more will come up for final Acres of Peach Pits. fied as to the exact length to which French training ship, Duguay Trouin, evidence in the Ruef trial. of President-elect Taft. A cabinet po and gave full vent to its passions. It the federal governm ent can go. DEATH LIST GROW S. Milton — The largest acreage of consideration next week. The or ition is conceded to the Pacific coast 8. Im provem ents of rivers and h ar looted stores and residences fought A P ittsburg broker is charged with and since the name of George A peach pits planted in the N orthw est is (finances passed for paving include over the booty and was held in check bors. The new adm inistration is com forging bonds for $609,000. Knight aroused discussion and opposi just being finished by the Milton nur Olive street, from Tenth to Eleventh; Storm on Upper Atlantic C oast Gets m itted to an energetic policy of im only hy an armed force hastily gath Elks of New York City are to spend lion the chances of W heeler have been series. Five acres of the seeds are be W est Eleventh, from Olive to Lin Many Victims. provement, particularly of inland ered together hy General Poidevin. $1,000 000 on a new clubhouse. liscussed. W heeler as assistant sec ing planted, over 3,000 pounds of the coln. and Pearl, from Sixth to Elev Halifax, N. S., Dec. 7.— More than waterways. The Ohio river nine-foot which fired a volley into the mob and enth. If the two ordinances which pits being re juired. The seeds are retary has had experience and is held channel from P ittsburg to Cairo is to drove the rioters from street to street A steam er and two docks burned to have shown himself capable of sue en have lost their lives off planted in long rows about three feet were up for passage, but upon which 50 seam at Portland. Me. Loss, $350,000. upper N orth A tlantic coast during the front at present. It will cost $61, and finally into seclusion. Twelve ceeding Secretary Straus if the latter apart, and the pits are dropped six action was deferred, pass, Eugene will the the last few days as the result of a 000,000, and the next president favors persons w ire killed and many wound M ontenegro has attacked an Austrian hould lay down the portfolio inches apart ip two lines about five have more than 75 blocks of paving storm of unprecedented severity. The the issuance of bonds to push the ed before order was restored. fort, and A ustria is hurrying troops W heeler, however, has shown adapr inches to her credit when the contracts are- So serious did the situation become from each other, the seeds being finished. reckoning, itemized as accurately as work. to the scene. ibility and another post in the cabi left alternately, that a com m ittee of public safety, so th at about every the m eager reports will allow, fol composed of the most prom inent mili Adjutant General Ainsworth report net may he his. low’s : BEGINS HOSTILE ACTION. three inches along»the row a tree is ex Rails for Eagle Valley. tary leaders, was organized. Scores that desertions in the army are on D ecem ber 3—-Seventeen members pected to grow. The planting is done Fleet Passes Singapore. citzens were placed under arm s to the decrease. ith great care, each seed being Baker City.—Several carloads of of the crews of three fishing schoon Dutch W arships Make Dem onstration of assist the loyal troops in patrolling Singapore, Dee. 8. The United States w placed drowned off tjic New Foundland steel for the new Eagle Valley rail ers A Los Angeles man has been ar Atlantic by hand at exactly the same Off Venezuelan C oast. the city and com parative tranquillity battleship fleet, under Rear depth under the surface. In this way road have arrived in this city from the coast. rested for having dies for counter Admiral Sperrv, reigns. passed through the it is expected that practically a full east, the steel being hauled along the Decem ber 4—Tw enty-eight mem W illemstad, Dec. 5 —H aving been now feiting money. The Am erican, French and German arbor hero today. Tho stately pro bers of the crew of the schooner Soo unable to obtain amicable settlem ent A Chicago grand jury reports grade that is completed for several City, which is believed to have sunk of outstanding differences with Ven m inisters decided early in the m orning impressed both tho exports and growth of tiny trees will result. they could trust in the arrange wholesale election frauds, particularly •ession miles into the country. Thousands of in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. lie many other spectators. Tho scout ezuela, 1 he N etherlands governm ent that Report of Southern Pacific. ents made oy the com m ittee to direct primary. ties are on the ground, also a large Decem ber 5—Seven m em bers of the has begun a naval dem onstration off m cruiser Yankton kept in constant com m aintain order, hut they jointly gave Physicians hold out some hope for munication with the fleet during its Salem—The gross income to the quantity of bridge tim bers. A. B. Ja crew of the barge No. 101, which the coast of the South American re that, if trouble occurred again, the recovery of Governor-elect Cos passage, but otherwise the battleships Southern Pacific from its Oregon and cobs. head of the construction depart went down off tlie coast of Nova public, and since W ednesday vessels notice would land forces from the w ar lid not communicate with the shore. California divisionn between Ashland metit, states that it will be but a short Scotia. flying the Dutch flag have steamed they grove, of W ashington. ships. • time until a construction train will be phe flagship Connecticut saluted the from Buero Cabello to La Guayra. at and Portland during the year ending The Union Pacific has reduced its port, and the salute was returned. Many June 30, 1908, according to the report running in and out of Baker City. Free Leather S cares British. distance of 3000 yards from th running time between Omaha and launches W ant Large W arehouse. and small vessels filled with filed w ith the Oregon Railroad commis London, Dec. 7.—The threatened shore. Portland two and one-half hours. PORTLAND MARKETS. spectators went out to meet the Ameri sion, was $2,714,600.25. Salaries and Helena, Mont., Dec. 4.— Montana abolition of the tariff on leather Admiring friends want to present can ships. sheepmen, including the members of Will Not Admit C harge. maintenance amounted to $5,968.81; i F ruits Apples, $75c(ir/$2 per box; w orrying English bootm akers. They Admiral Evans with a house at Los have decided to hold a m eeting to W ilm ington, Del., Dec. 5.—E. A the state board of sheep commission accrued taxis, $188,770.34; net in- pears, $l(iil.*25; grapes, $10/1.50 per Angeles, but he has taken warning Hunt Sea in Vain for Gold. means to he adopted in case Dupont, secretary, and Edw ard M ers, m et here today in conference w ith From this crate; quinces, $10/ 1.25 per box; cran- discuss from the Dewey incident and declined. New York, Dec. 8. The H arvard come, $2,519,861.10. the change should he made of the Chicago Associ amount current expenses are deducted, berries, $12.50 per barrel; huckleber- Mead, treasurer, of ^he several powder representatives ation of Commerce respecting the Mrs. Ycrkos Mizner has started a trasure seekers, as they have come to making w hat is called the net corporate j ries, 100/15c per pound; persimmons, English leather, which is considered companies against which suit has the best in the world, combined with been brought by the governm ent, were building in th at city of a wool w are contest of Ycrkcs’ will. l e known, returned empty handed to income in Oregon the past year $949,- $K<f,1.25 per box. night from Jam aica on the steam er Ad 813.76. The report also shows th at re- Potatoes -75((/85c per cw t.; sweet American m anufacturing ability, lead examined today before United States house to cost $400,000. Very liberal The Y. M. C. A has erected a fine miral ing dealers admit, would let the Amer Com m issioner Dewey. A fter the first chartered hy the gov term s have been offered and while no building at Seoul, Corea. icans establish a British trade that em inent counsel Mnhaffey, ssel, the old time racer Mayflower, ceipts from the sale of lands held by potatoes, 2(n2l4c per pound, in regard to the pur definite action was taken at4 h is afte r would drive the Englishm en out of chase of com peting An imperial edict has been issued in was abandoned, the men set out again the Southern Pacific in Oregon am ount-1 Onions $1(0 1.10 per cwt. companies the noon’s m eeting, the project is general China guaranteeing a constitution in on their mission, which was to recover ed to but $12,96$.87. j Vegetables—-Turnips, $1(01.25 per business. They would be able to put Dunont company, and an effort by was received. The sheep com hoes on the m arket at a price nearly nine years. j sack; carrots, $1; parsnips, $1.25; the gold sunken in a Spanish galleon made to show tlrat, during several ly favorably announces th at it has no im Mar o i Tax Roll. j beets, $1.25; horseradish, 8(01 Oc per a fourth lower tharM hat now charged years when no dividends were de mission ff the coast of Jam aica. They said Los Angeles civil service employes they had located several wrecks, pre Salem Marion county’s assessm ent pound; artichokes, 9Oc0z$l per dozen; dared, the money was used in pur portant recommendations to make. have been forbidden to visit- race sumably including that of the galleon, •11 for 1909 has been com pleted ami j beans, 10(014c per pound; cabbage, S torrow May Succeed Eliot. chasin" other companies, but they tracks to witness races. Tiny Boats’ Long Voyage. ■ ut the hulls were buried so deep that shows that the basis of values upon 1 M '/l V per pound; celery, 500/85c Boston, Dec. 7.—A definite rumor would not adm it this. Two miners were killed and three atisfactorv exam ination was impos Newport News, Va., Dec. 4.—A haz fatallv injured in an explosion of gas Bible. which taxes will he computed is $31.- per dozen; cauliflower, 75c0/$l per was circulated am ong H arvard men Plots to Kill General. ardous journey, the like of which has cucumbers, $20/2.50 per box; in State street yesterday that the in a W est Virginia coal mine. 58,855. There are in the county 540 dozen; been undertaken heretofore only by the presidency of H arvard college, after Calcutta, Dec. 5.—Follow ing close eggplant, 11c per pound; lettuce, $10/ 479 acres of tillable land valued at 1.25 per box; parsley, 30c per dozen; Charles VV. Eliot leaves on May 1 upon the reported threats against the naval torpedoboat flotilla th at accom Ferry C rashes Into Mole. in the Standard Oil dissolution case Archbold has forgotten alm ost every Oakland, Dec. 8.— Missing her slip in $15,913,765. Railroads are assessed at peas, 12S*cper pound; peppers, 150/ next, had been offered to Janies J earl of M into and his family, three panied the battleship squadron from thing in connection with the com o almost im penetrable fog that had $2,076.590; the street railway of the 20c per pound; pumpkins, 10/1 >4c per Storrow . president of the Boston Bengal s were arrested today and the A tlantic to the Pacific, was begun settled down upon the bay and blotted ortland Railway. Light & Bower pound; radishes, 30c per dozen; spin school board, and a m em ber of the charged with plotting the assnssina here today when four small govern pany's business. thing from view, the ferry steam impany at $so,ooo, rolling stock at banking firm of Lee. Higginsoti & Co. tion of Lieutenant Governor Frazer, m ent mine planters, no bigger than Railroads and coal companies have or very Berkeley, crowded with commuters $160,635. Telephone and telegraph ach, 2c per pound; sprouts, 9 l^0/10c The rum or wns that the position had of Frazer was planning to tug«*, steam ed from Hampton Rord 9 been convicted of conspiracy in re returning home from San Francisco at •mpanies are assessed at $245,280. per pound; squash, 10/1 kjc per pound; been tendered unofficially to Mr. sail Bengal. in a little while for England, nnd at 4 o’clock this afternoon. Two of straint of trade at Salt Lake City. *8 last night, crashed into the bulk ivestock in Marion county is tomatoes, 50c0/ $ 1 .7 5 per box. Storrow by the H arvard overseers. the conspiracy as framed was to kill the tiny craft are destined for S eattle W heat Bluestem, 96c; club, 900/ at the end of the Oakland mole Assessed at $963,182. en Mr. Storrow him self was asked him while he was on his way to the via Ciape Horn, while the others ha' e Rabbi W ise attacked New York nd such force that one of the passen 01c; fifp, 900/91c; red Russian, 88c; about it. he said: “This is news to me. vessel. judges for banqueting Croker on the with The plot was only one of a been assigned to Manila and will pro ;ers was fatally injured, three serious Baker P repares for 300. 40-fold, 91c; valley, 91c. That is all l can say.” netw ork of conspiracies looking to ceed occasion of his visit to this country. nnd a score of others crushed and Baker City.—At least 300 delegates Barley Feed, $26 75 per ton; brew- there via the Suez canal. ward the m urdering of all British of Miss Elkins is said to have jilted tram pled upon in the panic th at fol arc expected in this city Decem ber 15 *nP* $27. Miles to Tour Africa. ficials and the driving of all white res Abrttzzi because she preferred Lieu lowed. O O n ats— l a XI. Sought Throughout Land. No. 1 white. $31.50 per ton. Paris, Dec. 7.—General Nelson A. idents from India. to attend the irrigation congress. Ar tenant Andrews, of the navy. Hay Timothy, W illam ette valley, Los Angeles, Dec. 4.— Theodore S. Miles leaves Paris in a few days for rangem ents are being made to enter $14 per ton; Eastern Oregon tim othy, Flood T hreatens Town. A Chicago man im ported a lot of Finds Infernal Machine. Lowe, formerly agent at a New York rugs and other articles, placing a Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 8. A con tain the delegates with a banquet and $160/ 17.50; clover, $12; alfalfa, $¡2 an extended autom obile tour of Al Stockton, Cal., Dec. 5.—W hat is he substation of the United State« Ex geria and Tunisia. French possessions value of $ 1.000 on them Chicago cus tinned rainfall and the consequent soft reception nnd probably a !»/'ve I fn 12.60; grain hay, $ 12.500113. to be an infernal machine was press company, was arrested in a local toms officials have seized them as ning of the already crum bling banks through Bowdcr valley, where there D .. n-* _ a a (ft in Africa, and hopes to be able to lieved found in the W estern Pacific con cafe tonight on a charge of emh» zzle- _B uttI r City creamery, extra*, 36 5 is renewed apprehension that it is not is much irrigated land. The Vale ! 37c; push on into Morocco, if the health oi they were worth $15.000. struction yards today by a workman ment, preferred by his form er employ fancy outside creamery, 32 S»(»/ his traveling companion, Colgate under that considerable additional Commercial club has forwarded an in a pile of ties. It consisted of Thaw ’s lawyers continue to fight to improbable 35c per pound; store. 17i(/20c. He is accused of having appro- ropert v loss may occur, not withstand vitation to the entire congress to vi*-it Hoyt, will perm it the journey. Later two-gallon can of dynam ite to ers. secure his release. propriated $450 of the company’s funds ng the rapid recession of the Arkansas that city immediately after the work Eggs Oregon se’ects, 400/ 45c; E ast F ncral Miles will gratify a long-cher which was attached a blasting fuse ern, 29(o'32 S j C per dozen Ivor, which at nightfall had fallen a in Baker is completed. ished wish to visit Corsica from one feet long T he workman took the three months ago. Officers throughout Minnesota, Montana and the Dakotas foot. The embankment protecting the Poultry—Hens, 120fl21«c per pound; end to the other and then sail from five infernal machine to an open field and the country have sought him since. are having zero weather. Run Mill Night and Day. wholesale district and county court spring, 11 \ 0 i \ 2 \ j c ; ducks, 14(o 15c; enoa for home in the spring set it off, the explosion shaking the Lowe intim ates that his people have are impaired to such an extent Marshfield The C. A. Smith Lumber geese, 90/1 Oc; turkeys, 16c dressed buildings within a radius of ten miles money enough to settle the difficulty. A Columbus, Ohio, city official has house that it is feared they will give away. Chicago’s Official Santa Claus. company, of this city, has begun run- turkeys, nominal, T here was enough explosive in the been convicted of grafting. ning night and day. The night shift Veal—E xtra, 8 V** 9c per pound; or- Chicago, Dec. 7.—Postm aster Camp can to have blown a business block Fired by Incendiary. Electrocution on Trial. A t the municipal elections ju st held bell yesterday received from the post gives employment to many millmen and dinary, 70/ 7 \ . c ; heavy, 5c. Red Lodge, Mont., Dec. 4.—General in M assachusetts, several citiea went I Trenton. X. J., Dee. 8__County will also increase the business of the Pork Fancy, 7 L*c per pound; large, m aster general an official letter that, Seventeen Die in Storm . Manager C. R. Claghorn, of tl e North Physician Frank O. Scammell an company’s lumber camp. The total 5 ^ 0 /tic. dry. in effect, makes John M Hubbard, St. Johns, N. F , Dec. 5.—Seventeen western Im provem ent company, who nouneed today th at he would try to daily output of the mill, w ith the night Hops 1308, choice, 8c; prime, 6 ui assistant postm aster, official Santa persons have perished in a storm i ne noons m Arxansas nave noi sun- . resuscitate the next man electrocuted shift on, will be between 40,000 and 7 ^ c ; medium, 5(d6cper pound; 1907, lau« of Chicago. The letter con which has lashed the New Foundland has made a thorough investigation of the cause which led to the g reat disas tided. The property loss will b eeno r-.-n the New Jersey state prison. He 500,000 feet of sawed lumber. This 2((/4c; 1906, 10fl **c. tained a letter addressed to Santa for 48 hours In all ten fishing ter mous. I ' ill do this in an effort to disprove will make the mill one of the largest Wool Eastern Oregon average best, Claus, care the postm aster general coast cn November 20, has come to the vessels have gone ashore, most of I the claim of phvsieians that electron»- l ocal m erchants have made arrange them breaking into fragm ents on the conclusion th at the fire in stope No. 2 producers of lumber on the coast. In- lOoi 14c per pound, according to shrink- The governm ent inquiry into the j„n q,,,., „.>t kill. John M aataiaana ments to have all these letters for The storm caused much dam was of incendiary origin, and today H arrim an m erger h a. begun at New n. un-ler nontenoo to be electrocuted crease of orders makes necessary the age; valley, 16^$ltic; mohair, choice, warded to them, with their guarantee , rocks. age to wharves and boats in the nu offered a reward of $2,500 for the a r 20-hour day. 18c. York. -«turiug the week of December 21. that every one will be answered. m erous harbors. rest and conviction of the guilty party. I , .