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f s The Estacada Progress W O O L P O O L F A IL S . Buyers O ffe r H g h Prices and Break Proposed Com bine. j A WEEK WITH OUR STATE LAWMAKERS AT SALEM I A N T I-J A P A N E S E B IL L S . M easures B efo re C alifornia Legisla ture A ttrac t Attention. WOOLMEN TO TALK OVER WAREHOUSE READY FO R C A L H O U N . Heney Th inks T ria l W ill Be S h o rte r Than R u e t’s Last. San Francisco, Jan. 13.—Patrick Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 15. The Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 18. Chief Calhoun, pr< sident of the United Rail three anti-Japanese bills introduced in Forester Pinchot turne d down two inv i the assembly by Grove L. Johnson, of flanked by his corps of attor tations to attend the conventii n of the Monday, January 18. reclamation service by establishment Sacramento, and the one by A. M. I’ lnchol Sends ( uuslic Letter Which roads, neys. faced Judge Lawlor today at the National Woolgrowers’ association, Salem, Jan. 18. Speaker McArthur of experiment stations. Ownership of Drew, of Fresno, prohibiting aliens opening session of his trial on a charge RESUME OF THE which adjourned in this city Saturday. announced committee appointments to the Oregon City canal and locks by the from holding land in the state, have Hears cn (ira/irj Question- of offering a bribe of $4,000 to Super and although Statement No. 1 state, if congress will not purchase attracted such wide interest that the Mr. Pinchot's refusals v t re based on day, got visor Fred P. Nicholas. the better places, ull seem to them. Appointment of a visitorial 1,000 copies of each ordered printed WEEK’S DOINGS what he termed the selfish and narrow | | men board to guard against scandals in pri Assistant District Attorney Francis are already exhausted and there is a he was very fair in the distribu policy of the association toward the think vate asylums. Co-operation with the demand for more. tion. Among the measures appearing Association Not Favorable to E xist J. Heney, standing at the prosecution’s Oregon Historial society to celebrate The Johnson bills are designed to today are: G eneral Review o f Im po rtant Hap government forestry service. ing Rules o f G overnm crt Ques desk for the first time since he was admission as a state. Legis prevent Japanese being members of shot down during the trial of Abe Ruef, penings Presented ¡n a B rie f and On a final showdown on the Chicago To turn $50,000 per year from cor Oregon’s tion o f T a r if f on W ool Will Cause lation looking to the control of tuber began the preliminary motions of what corporations; to segregate all Japan Com prehensive M anner fo r Busy wool storage | reposition it was found poration fees into the interest account S h rrp D eb ate- Som e Will W ant It culosis. Legislation to make the pro promises to be the most renowned trial ese by defining the limits within which Readers— National, Political, H is that the signatures to the Chicago con of the common school fund. portional representation measure adopt in the history of California. Increased. they must live. The two first named The senate adopted a memorial to to rical and C om m ercial. tract were 4,500,000 pounds short of j the mayor of Philadelphia imploring ed by the people last June. Twenty months have elapsed since were introduced last session by Mr. In the house 30 bills were introduced Calhoun was first indicted on charges Johnson, and action upon them was the required 25,000,000 pounds neces ; them to send the Liberty bell to Port today and there were 18 in the senate. suspended at the telegraphic request of Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 14.—Questions of offering bribes to the men who com The father of Mrs. Corey died in sary to insure the Chicago market. At land for the rose carnival in June. President Roosevelt during the diplo of great concern to the aheepraisera of posed the boodling board of supervis Senator Parrish introduced a bill Among them are: poverty, ignored by his daughter. a meeting of those already signed up providing Providing for form for printing initi ors under former Mayor Schmitz. matic between the United for a fine of $10 to $100 for The lid has been put on in the fam it was found to be impossible to secure swearing in the presence of women. ative amendments; providing uniform States negotiations the United States and especially of the During that time three supplemented and Japan over the action of ous mining town of Deadwood, S. D. pledges of the required amount among He has another providing fines for sa eight-hour law in factories, etc; regu the San Francisco school board in ex Western range states will arise at the indictments were returned against the lating speed of automobiles; closed cluding Japanese youths from public three days’ convention of the National traction magnate and on one of them The Nevada legislature has broken delegates present at the Pocatello con loon and pool hall men who permit season for pheasants anil grouse be schools and assigning them to the in Woolgrowers' convention, which will he now faces the bar of justice. its rule and will allow female clerks. vention, and a campaign will be inaug minors to play games of chance. tween October 1, 1909, and October 1 stitutions set aside for “ Mongolians.” Senator Turner Oliver this morning The court’s ban has been placed on urated on the outside. It is understooud that Taft has not Wool buyers from Chicago ami St. introduced a bill carrying $15,000 for 1913; appropriating begin here today. $100,000 for In The Japanese claimed they were not delays. prosecution has announc yet selected his secretary of treasury. Louis have been active during the con the Eastern Oregon Experiment station dian war veterans of 1855-56; one Mongolians, and Assemblyman John The storage warehouse plan, which ed that no The further continuances will be board of regents for all state schools; son introduced an amendment specify is, in brief, to place the bulk of the asked and the defense has professed Emma Goldman has been bailed out in buying the 1909 clip at at Union. of the San Francisco city jail by East vention joint resolution has appeared in experiment station in Eastern Oregon; ing “ Japanese” in the law. It was wool crop in the hands of a co-opera itself ready for trial for several from 18 to 21 cents. Many weolgrow- the A senate asking congress to call a prohibiting sports on Decoration day; this measure to whose enactment the tive selling agency, to hold for what months. Calhoun, in his desire for a ern friends. ers, heretofore considered as staunch convention to provide for appropriating $75,000 for extension of president objected, and it was killed. speedy hearing, has instructed his at Another blizzard is raging in the supporters of the Chicago plan, have constitutional popular election of United States sen portage railway; abolishing Ashland The bill, relating to directors of cor is considered a fair price, meanwhile torneys to lay aside all technicalitys. East and all railroads are tied up in contracted their clips to private buy ators. porations prohibits aliens from being borrowing money on the stored pro Attorneys predict it will take but ers, allured by the remarkable prices. Senate bill 35 makes all able-bodied and Monmouth normal schools. the Dakotas. members of such boards, and its pur duct, will be the principal subject at two weeks to secure a jury and but Ogden was selected as the next place The government arsenal near Phila meeting. men between IS and 40 years members pose is to prevent competition of pow another two weeks to put in all the Changes in School Law . delphia is running day and night mak of Fred erful Japanese concerns with Ameri issue. A committee has been busy for evidence. Should this be the case, the of the militia. W. Gooding, of Sho-hone, Salem Superintendent Ackerman’s several months securing pledges of hearin will not e ual in length the ing cartridges. of school for every dis Idaho, was re-e.ected president; Six in months to require six months’ school in cans. the state is provided for in a bill The third Johnson bill is new. It wool and arrangements have been Ruef trial, which consumed four The American Red Cross fund for George S. Walker, of Cheyenne. Wvo., trict every district in the state is meeting introduced in the house today. municiapalities power to pre made to lease a warehouse in Chicago months. Italian earthquake sufferers has reach* again w'as eh< sen secretary, and Lewis bill Both favorable comment. It is gives took up the bills vetoed much scribe the limits within which “ unde or some other center as soon as the re Penwell, of Helena, Mont., once more by the houses ed nearly $1,000,000. thought the measure will be satisfac at the 1907 session. improper and unhealthy per S A N T A FE F IN E D . selected as treasurer. A. H. Knollin, The senate governor to all, as it is one that will in sirable, Igorrotes of the head hunting tribes of deferred action until Thurs- tory sons, or persons whose practices are quired 25,000,000 pounds of wool is Chicago, succeeded Joseph E. Wing, crease the educational standards of the raided a village and succeeded in get of Mechanicsburg, O., as Eastern vice di.y. In the house the measure appro state. It will affect the district* in dangerous to the public morals and guaranteed. C alifornia Railroad Com m ission En ting three heads before driven off. It is not thought that much opposi president, and A. J. Delft*Iter, of Lara priating $750 per annum for the First forces Rate Law. remoter parts of the state, and health of a community,” shall live. The Federal Supreme court upholds mie, Wyo., succeeded Dr. J. M. Wil Central Oregon Agricultural fair, the tion will develop, but the details of San Francisco, Jan. 13. The Santa those who live in those districts are to Governor Peabody's act in arresting son, of Wyoming, as Western vice Crook county, and the one extending be ONE JU R O R PASSED. benefited by it. It requires the plan may be criticised and its feas Fe Railroad company was found guilty the closed season for elk to 1917 were that most Moyer during the famous Colorado president. there must be six months school que tioned. before the State Railroad commission passed over the veto. Consideration of In the resolutions adopted any reduc mine war. in every district, and if the district is Difficulty o f Securing Talesmen to T ry ibility the others was postponed indefi :nitely. Government regulations in relation today of carrying oil shipments be tion in the present tariff on wool and not able to meet the expense the school Roosevelt has asked Governor Gil- hides was opposed, and the proposed United Railroads Official Bakersfield and this city at a board may call upon the county school San Francisco, Jan. 15.—Patrick to grazing on forest reserves will un tween lett, of California, to hold up anti- January 13. lower rate than that fixed by state of a central wool market Salem, Wednesday, fund, or a special tax may be levied doubtedly be attacked. It was the Japanese bills, lest national interests establishment Jan. 13.—Memorials to con the county to meet the expenses in Calhoun, traction magnate on trial for known attitude of the association on law and fined $5,000 by unanimous in Chicago approved. be injured. vote of the commissioners. The com gress adopted by the legislatures of on giving of a bribe, adopted his the district requiring help to the ex alleged other states caused quite a tangle in tent expected defense today, when Attorney this point that prompted the chief for pany was also adjudged guilty on six The American consul estimates the of $300 for each district. N O C H A N G E IN P O L IC Y . the senate. They dealt with almost Stanley Moore, by his questioning of ester, Gifford Pinchot, to decline an in other counts charging unjust rate dis dead at Messina at 90,000. subject and were finally referred August Hansen, attempted to show vitation to the meeting in a sharp note crimination, but no penalty was fixed. Harriman says college graduates as a Dismissal o f Yuan Shi Kai Will Not every The specific charge on which the Rainbow to C hange Hands. to a committee. that the indictment was the result of a further strained the relations commissioners rule make good railroad men. acted was that the rail A resolution providing for a commit Baker City It is generally believed plot hatched by Rudolph Spreckels to which A ffect China. between the Forestry department and road company had carried oil shipments An anti-gambling law is expected Pekin, Jan. 18. Prince Clung, pres tee to prepare for a celebration of Ore here that the Rainbow mine, owned by make out a case against the head of the wool men. to be enacted by the California legisla ident of the board of foreign affairs, gon’s admission day was passed by the Portland capitalists, and located in the United Railroads. Other frag In his letter Mr. Pinchot advised the from Bakersfield to this city for the senate. ture. the Mormon Basin, Baker City, is mentary evidence of Calhoun’s scheme secretary of the association that he did Associated Oil company at 25 cents a has assured the American and British Abraham, of Douglas county, object about to be sold to the Newhouse min of defense has been brought out in the not care to attend the convention until barrel, whereas the legal rate fixed by President-elect Taft will install au ministers that the dismissal of Yuan ed to the word “ graft” in senate docu ing interests, of Salt Lake City. Ac examination of prospective jurors, it should show by its action that it w'as the board is 37.8 cents a barrel. tomobiles instead of horses and car ments and it was changed to “ waste.” cording to the best information obtain touching on the late car strike, the prepared to view the grazing question The board also found the Southern Shi Kai means no. change in Chinese riages. Pacific company guilty of rate discrim For the first time this session the able the Salt Lake people are taking granting of immunity, and the juror’s in a more liberal spirit. The house proposes to investigate policy, but bitterness has arisen be senate today opened with a prayer. general sentiment in the matter of While all the delegates will be in ination on six counts, but no penalty over the property at $700,000. Ten fixed, as the board declared no Roosevelt's barber drawing govern tween the British and Japanese repre Senator Abraham introduced a bill per cent of this amount is to be paid unionism. of a tariff on wool, there may be was proper legal foundation for the pro ment pay. sentatives here on account of Japan’s that will do away with directed ver in at once, and the remainder is to be The third day of Calhoun’s trial saw favor a debate as to whether the present had been laid by the previous it becomes a law. paid in installments, according to the the first juror in the case temporarily Bonaparte has been summoned be refusal to join Great Britain in her dicts if county is sufficiaent. Utah w’oolgrowers, cedure board of commissioners. or city having over 10,- mine’s production. This is the prop passed. He is Joseph Dixon, a sales duty fore a senate committee to tell what representations to Prince Ching. The 000 Any and perhaps others, have adopted reso population is to be given power to erty that is said to have produced a man for Marcus Hart, a haberdasher. lutions asking that the present duty be he knows of the steel merger. British position is that Japan acts in establish a free sanitarium for the thousand dollars a day during the He sits subject to peremptory chal increased. In other quarters the pre S E C O N D M IN E H O R R O R . bad faith, while the Japanese legation The storm in California has abated. explains that it was agreed to concur treatment of tuberculosis by the pro greater lenge. Dixon was passed by the de vailing tariff is regarded as ample for part of last summer. With the ecxeption of the Sacramento, in the opinion of the majority and that visions of a senate bill. fense last night, and after a brief ex the needs of the industry. At Least O ne H undred M en C aught which is still rising, all rivers are fall a majority of the ministers favored the Those measures of the last session amination tnis morning was accepteud Lab o rers H ard to Find. in C olliery by Explosion. ing. which received the governor’s veto Baker City—There should no longer by the prosecution. During the exam taking of no action in this direction. S A IL W IT H F L E E T . Welch, W. Va., Jan. 12.—At least Governor Stubbs, of Kansas, refuses William M. Rockhill and Sir John after the legislature adjourned will be be any idle men in the Northwest, ac ination the clerk said he could try the 100 miners were trapped by an ex to live in the executive mansion. Sim Jordan, respectively the ministers to taken up next Monday by both houses. cording to General Manager O'Dell, of case thoroughly and squarely. ple life on a farm appeals more to China from the United States and A house bill provides for the codifi the Oxbow power project on Snake The juror said he knew Ate Ruef, Son o f T u rkish Ruler Will Probably plosion in the Lick Branch colliery cation of the laws of Oregon. but did not care to comment on his today, marking the second disaster in him. Return W ith Battleships. Great Britain, today expressed them Representative Dimick has a bill river. He stated recently that he was conviction, that he favored Calhoun’s putting every man to work who came stand in the last car strike, and that Constantinople, Turkey, Jan. 14.-» the mine within two weeks. Railroad officials place the blame for selves as pleased with the reception which makes highw’ay robbery punish to his camp and has plenty of work for he was at one time a union man, but Great excitement prevails among Turks Relatives of the victims of the pre the wreck at Dotsero, Col., with the accorded them by Prince Ching. They by life imprisonment. vious explosion, when 50 men were many more. Besides the Oxbow pro withdrew because of the hours he had engineer, as the train was nine min say the prince received them in the able A joint resolution w’as introduced in killed, are known to be in the mine to on account of the visit of the American ject, which is being built to harness spirit in which they came, as repre utes ahead of time. the house this morning protesting the Snake river for the purpose of gen to work. day. fleet to Turkish w’aters. Four battle sentatives of two friendly powers. He Three bankers and a business man of listened to Messrs. Rockhill and Jordan against the removal of tariff of timber erating electricity, the Northwestern Before the prosecution finished the ships are now at Smyrna, and four The explosion this morning occurred of Dixon the juror made just after the full quota of the day Pittsburg have received penitentiary respectfully, railroad is building rapidly down the examination inquired whether the supplies. Although the house adjourned until river, complaint to Judge Lawlor that an more are coming to remain until Janu shift had gone to work and it is known sentences for wrecking a bank. Each dismissal of who and the Utah Construction com Yuan Shi Kai meant a 2 o’clock Monday afternoon, the senate pany, which has the contracts, reports agent had approacted his wife yester ary 24. Admiral Schroeder, second in positively that 250 men were in the will have to serve five years. change in the policy of China. more saving of time and will meet day afternoon and questioned her in re command, is coming to Constantinople mine at the time. Separate statehood for New Mexico Prince Ching authoratively assured w’as 11 o’clock on that day. President lack of help. gard to her husband’s feeling in the in the battleship Louisiana. One of A relief train with surgeons and sup his callers that this was not so. This at and Arizona seems assured. Bow'erman will then be ready with his graft cases. Mrs. Dixon said the man was rushed from Bluefield and Bounty Law is Asked. assurance, it is understood, puts an end the sultan’s sons probably will go with plies The Hughes direct primary bill in to the bad impression that followed the committee appointments. claimed to be a real estate agent. the buildings about the shaft have Cottage Grove—A petition has been New York will probably fail. the squadron to America, and it is re been turned into hospitals. dismissal of Yuan Shi Kai. circulated here to be presented to the F L A Y F O R E S T R Y P O L IC Y . Tuesday, January 12. garded as certain that 30 Turkish offi The state mine inspector and four Three jurors have been provisionally Oregon legislature asking a bounty on assistants inspected the mine just be cers will go. Salem, Jan. 12.—Governor Chamber predatory animals that are depopulat accepted in the Calhoun case. Bodies of Cheneys Found. fore the previous explosion and pro The grand vizier, naval minister and lain’s biennial message to the legisla W o rk Is T o tal Failure, Gooding Tells ing the deer at a rapid rate. Twenty- Thornton Hains has been acquitted Washington, Jan. 18.—The bodies of ture was read in the house chamber at five dollars on a female wolf is asked, nounced it one of the safest and best naval circles generally are intensely S heepm en’s Convention. of complicity in the Annis murder. • the American Consul, Arthur S. Che 1:30 o’clock this afternoon, the senate $20 on a male, and $15 on a cougar. ventilated in the region. Another in interested in the visit of the fleet, as Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 15.- One thou and Mrs. Cheney were found in and house being in joint session. The Timber cruisers in this locality have will be the first occasion since the spection was made after the explosion, Afire at Fort Omaha destroyed all ney ruins sand sheepmen attended the opening this of the American consulate at chief points of the document are: revolution when warships of a great but did not reveal the cause. supplies, the wireless apparatus and the during the past few years found the session of the National Woolgrowers’ Messina yesterday afternoon by the Strict observance of the direct pri remains of hundreds of deer that power have entered the Ottoman ports. Switchback, the scene of the disas two balloons. convention in this city yesterday and sailors of the American battleship Illi mary pledge in the election of a United had been caught by the wild animals. Authorities are anxious to impress the ters, is in McDowell county, in the The United States and Great Britain nois, which arrived at Messina yes States listened to a bitter arraignment of the Uniformity of county One cruiser estimates that 20 deer are Federal forestry bureau by President visitors with the fact that they are center of the Flat Top coal fields. have entered formal protest against terday from Suez. The bodies were taxation senator. to make the state levy equit killed by wild animals to one killed by F. W. Gooding, of Shoshone. Declar thoroughly civilized now, and that the dismissal of Yuan Shi Kai. prepared for shipment and taken able. Use of convicts is on the road to become one of on roads, earn hunters. Kansas Wants R eform s. ing that the government in its admin Turkey aboard the American supply ship Cul- ings to go to their families’ W. I. Buchanan, special agent of the goa, the great naval powers of the world. support or Topeka, Kan., Jan. 13.—Governor istration of the national forests and which will carry them to Naples. to the state. Conveyance of convicts United States, will soon have terms of Arrangements The American vessels will carry the Walter R. Stubbs G rand Ju ry at Pendleton. delivered his first the reclamation service has failed woe Turkish are being made for the to the penitentiary by officials of that Pendleton—Though settlement arranged with Venezuela. shipment officers as guests, two officers message to the Kansas legislature that there are few fully, President Gooding urged that going on each battleship. of the bodies to the United institution. More money for State convened yesterday in its 16th bien Harriman has issued orders for the criminal cases on the docket for the congress be asked to name a commit The Illinois has returned to Fair premiums; more money for im January nial session. Mr. Stubbs earnestly Duilding of a road which will parallel States. term of the Circuit court, the tee of Western men to intesvtigate and Malta. provements on the grounds. Repeal of recommended the enactment of a puh N ew Shocks Cause Panic. the Colorado & Southern, the new Hill proceedings will be watched with more report any needed changes in the rules $50,000 insurance company deposit law the usual amount of interest, due and regulations governing these two Rome, Jan. 14.—A slight earthquake lie utilities law; asked the legislature line. H op G ro w e rs W ant B etter Rate. and creation of an insurance depart than that the new law makes the bureaus. shock was experienced at an early hour to pass certain amendments to the pres A 5-y« ar old child has been taken San Francisco, Jan. 18. Hop grow ment. Permanent settlement of the to the fact of a grand jury on the opening From nearly every Western state this morning throughout Lombardy, ent primary election law to make it from the ruins of Reggio, where it ers and dealers of this coast have asked normal school problem. Payment to polling the term compulsory and it is delegates are present. The biggest Venetia and Tuscany. No damage was still more effective, and urged careful had been entombed since the earth the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe to Indian war veterans for horses used or day of action of the grand jury on viola single delegation arrived from Boise, done, and no one was injured, but ow consideration of some safe bank guar quake. An officer was attracted by its give them a reduced emergency rate lost in the campaigns. No repeal of the tions of the liquor law which is expect Idaho. It included Governor Brady ing to the general uneasiness resulting antee plan; demanded a flat two-cent in order to enable them to meet strong the railroad commission law. Earnest ed cries. to furnish the excitement to those and a number of state officials, also from the recent visitations in Calabria passenger rate law, and said an anti competition in the East. The hop of the needs for expan interested. about half the members of both houses and Sicily, the people for a moment pass statute should be passed. A snowslide hit a Canadain Pacific people suggest a $1 rate, with a mini consideration sion of the state’s national guard. were thrown into a condition bordering of the state legislature. tra;n 100 miles east of Vancouver, B. mum weight of 20,000 pounds per car Appointment of a commission on the Flathead Tribe Starving. Good Prune Season. The forenoon session of the conven on a panic. According to the records C. The engine w'as knocked into the load; for less than car loads, $1.50. conservation of state resources, with a the observatories, and especially the Helena, Mont., Jan. 13.- Fred C. river and the engineer and fireman If this cannot be done to all Eastern small appropriation for it. Protection Albany—-The Northwestern Fruit tion was devoted entirely to the mid of winter sheep show. More than 600 establishment maintained at Florence Morgan, superintendent of the Flat- killed. points they want these reductions of the fishmg industry instead of pro association, of this city, which has had sheep by the Jesuit Fathers, the center of head Indian reservation, recommends are entered* a very successful season, has about mrde to Chicago and Mississippi river tection of the individuals engaged in it. Admiral Rojestvensky, who was de points and places west of them and to A complete code of water laws. Re completed the packing of its prunes the disturbance w as near Lembach. the government take immediate action feated by the Japanese in a naval bat New York via Galveston. for the relief of the tribe and until the No P rodigals A dm itted. for the present year. Seventy car servation of the unappropriated water tle, is dead. Indians can be moved to some reserva Burton Elected S enator. loads of commercially packed fruit has Redding, Cal., Jan. 15. - Because an powers for the benefit of the public. been shipped for the most applicant for citizenship papers who Columbus, Ohio, Jan. 14.—Theodore tion or allotted land. The action taken Nicholas Gets O ff T h ro n e . An employers’ liability act to protect part to handled, The Great Northern has succeeded states. About $10,000 has lived in Modoc county six years E. Burton, of Cleveland, was elected by the Commercial club of Helena in getting some of its trains through Paris, Jan. 18. Prince Nicholas, of employes to the fullest. Restriction in wages Eastern been paid out this sea and earned $55 a month during that senator yesterday to succeed Joseph saved the lives of the starving women the snow in Montana. Montenegro, has abdicated in favor of of sale of deadly weapons. Suit by the son. The have local business has been un time admitted to the court that he had Benson Foraker. He will serve with and children. Many of the horses are his son, Prince Mirko, according to a state to settle the controversy with the | der the management of S. A. Laselle. saved nothing, but wasted his sub Senator Dick. Burton was born at dead and others must be killed. Mr. Rockefeller's physician says the oil dispatch owners of the canal and locks at Will received here this evening has asked for orders authoriz magnate's health is perfect and that from Vienna. The report lacks con amette Falls. Creation of a non-par stance in riotous living, Judge Raker, Jefferson, Ohio, December 20, 1851. Morgan ing Colonel Mann, of Fort Harrison, Big Irrig ation M e rg e r. he will live to be 100 years old. of Alturas, has refused to grant him He entered the practice of law in to firmation, though it is generally cred tisan judiciary. Greater protection Pendleton — According to an an the right to become an American. The Cleveland in 1875. He w’as elected to furnish forage for their ponies. had not met the full for bank depositors; perhaps by the Los Angeles jobbers have been given ited, as of Nicholas mn.de by J. W. Messner, applicant was fully qualifi* d in every congress in 1889 and returned in 1895, his subjects in his attitude Oklahoma law. Relief for the Su nouncement a hearing by the Interstate Commerce desires M ayor W ould Send Bell. of the Western Land & Irri oth< r way, but told Judge Raker that since which time he has served contin toward Austria. He was confronted preme court. Co-operation w’ith the president commission on switching charges. gation company, all the ditches on the he had spent his earnings on liquor and uously in the house of representatives. Philadelphia, Jan. 13.—Communica with the same situation as now’ con west side of the Umatilla river have gambling, whereupon the court reject He is chairman of the rivers and har tions from officials and clubs of the An explosion of firedamp in a Hun fronts King Peter, of Servia, whose T w o Y ears fo r Locks. bors committee and a member of the chief cities of the Pacific coast states consolidated with his company ed his petition. garian coal mine entombed 240 men. abdication is expected at any moment. Salem At the annual meeting of the been committee on banking and currency. requesting Mayor Reybum and the hereafter will take water from the All will doubtless be dead before Salem board of trade last week a me and members of the council to agree to P redicts f r e e Fam ine. main feed canal. This brings Uncle Sam Helps Braves. reached. morial to the legislature was drawn up same send the Liberty Bell to San Francisco, T a k e Evidence in East. 25,000 acres of land under the one pro Washington, Jan. 15.—“The time is requesting that a house bill, providing Helena, Mont., Jan. 18. The gov- ami Seattle during the com ________ The Japanese consul at Chicago de coming in this country when trees will Pittsburg, Jan. 13.—Testimony to be Portland has now taken charge of the for an exvension of two years for the ject. ing summer are arriving every day at clares that advances in transportation rnment be as scarce as diamonds, unless im used in five United States land cases the idigent band of Chippewa Indians, contingent appropriation of $300,000 High Bounties fo r V arm in ts. city hall. No replies have been rates will lose Oriental trade to hose pitable condition during the cold to assist in making free locks at Ore Astoria—The county court announces mediate steps are taken to preserve our now pending in Oregon w’ill be taken sent, but the mayor has declared him America. This was the dark picture here tomorrow before United States self pell excited the charitably disposed gon City, be passed. The commercial that it will pay a bounty of $20 each forests.” in favor of sending the bell if it in an address by Secretary of Commissioner William T. Lindsey. of the state in no small de- body elected the following officers for for cougar, $5 each for bear and $1 painted Statistics just issued show that dur psidents Agriculture Wilson at the 29th annual Considerable secrecy is maintained re can safely be done. ree, with the result that they were the year: President, C. L. McNary; each for wildcat scalps. These are the ing the Russian year just ended 1,957 fforded of the American Forestry as garding the cases, but it is known that every possible relief. The vice president, Thomas B. Kay; secre highest bounties ever offered here, and meeting persons were sentenced to death and overnment Find Judge fo r O il C ase. The secretary declared our five expert chemists, members of the has sent an Inspector here tary, A. F. Hofer; direct rs, H. W. are thought to be the largest in the sociation. 782 executed in the empire. fi re-try growth is getting career and Carnegie Technical school, have been Chi ago, Jan,. 13.—Judge Albert nd he has received instructions to pro- Meyers, II. H. Olinger, J. M. Lawrence, state. scarcer and we are using three times summoned aj witnesses and it is said a Anderson, of Indiana^! is, will preside Attorney General Bonaparte has ide clothing and food for them and M. O. Buren and Lot L. Pearce. number of prominent Fittsburgers will at the next trial of the cases against asked for the resignation of Hawaiian lis is being done. The Roseburg Commercial club has as much wood as we are growing. also be called. the Standard Oil company in which judge who borrow«! a minor’s money. Rival Boards in W rangle. moved into new and more commodious Judge K. M. Landis imposed a fine of Japan Takes S light N otice. No River and H a rb o r Bill. Pendleton Following a turbulent, quarters. All parts of Central and Northern Washington, Jan. 18. The house double meeting of the Umatilla Water Russia to B o rro w Again. $29,240,000. Judge Anderson will be Jan. 15.—Though certain of California are Hooded. Many railroad committee T. M. Dimick, of Marshfield, has the Tokio, in charge of the case Monday and will St. Petersburg, Jan. 14.—The Rus Japanese newspapers are seriously Users’ association at Hermiston, the on rivers and harbors has bridges are washed out, cutting com voted against a general appropriation organization is in danger of being per been appointed treasurer of Coos coun exercised over the a ti-Japanese bills sian finance ministry has closed an ar convene court to set the case for trial. munication with Oregon and the East. bill for river and harbor improvements. manently disrupted and disbanded by ty to fill the vacancy caused by the before the California legislature, rangement with a syndicate, including T u rk e y Agrees to Sell Soil. others style the matter as a tempest the principal banking houses of Paris, The Japanese imperial princess has The committee will report a bill pro the government. Two rival boards of death of John B. Dully. a teapot. There is no tendency to for a loan of 1,200,009,000 francs London, Jan. 13.—A central news viding for carrying on important work direct rs are claiming to be on the The biennial report of the Boys’ and in gone to Paris. sinister design in the increase in ($240,000,000) at 4 1.» per cent. A dispatch from Constantinople states begun, for surveys of urgent i legal hoard and the matter will prob- Girls' Aid society shows that 589 chil find rt of the loan will probably go to that Grand Vizier Kiamil Pasha has Harriman has headed off competition already ablyb ec arried into the courts for final dren from 27 counties were taken care the American navy, newspapers gene pa projects proposed and for any emer-1 expressing the opinion that other continental countries, but it does notified Austrian* Minister Pallavincini by buying Santa Fe stock. gencies which may arise. This bill settlement. The trouble was caused of during 1907 and 1908. The society rally for $14,000 to carry on the work America’s growing interests in the Pa not appear that the United States sub that Turkey accepts Austria’s indem A Pittsburg railroad president has will probably carry not to exceed $10,-, by the attempt of ore faction trying to asks scribed for any part of it. cific demand a stronger navy. nity offer of 310,800,000. for the next two yean. oust the other. been convicted of attempted bribery. 000 , 000 . ESTACADA.................. OREGON I