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
,
.