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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1909)
The Estacada Progress CHINESE PRETENDER KILLED Government Troops Stop Advance of Insurgent Army. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OE OREGON YIELD NEAR RECORD.; Northwest Wheat Crop Now Placed at 55.000.000 Bushels. TAFT PLANS HIS WESTERN TRIP MOURNED BY ALL. News ot Cushman's Death Shock to Friends in Congress. Washington, July 7.— News that Portland, July 9.— Estimates com Francis W. Cushi. sn, representative piled from duta received from more from Washington, had passed away in then 350 o f the principal wheat sta C O N T E S T CASES AFFECTED. LA GRANDE IS LIVELY. tions of Oregon, Washington and Ida Journey to Coast to Start on His New York yesterday morning, came as a great shock to his host of friends Work on New Water System to Be Entryman Need Not Seow Grazing ho, indicate the 1909 wheat yield for fifty-Second Birthday. the three states to bo approximately in both branches of congress. Morn Land Has Been Used. Completed Soon. 55,000,000 bushels, compared with 40,- ing papers contained dispatches an La Grande— A decision of the Inter 000,000 bushels last year, 60,000,000 La Grande— Now that the new city nouncing he had successfully passed charter has been adopted citizens are ior department which means the dis bushels in 1907, and a five year aver Will Go Direct to Raattle, Thence to his crisis and was on the road to recov looking forward to the time three missal of over 100 contest land cases age of 48,500,000. ery. It was not until the members of General Review o f Important Hap Portland, San Francisco, Los An congress reached the capitol that they on the Umatilla Indian reservation has months hence when the $160,000 muni O f the three states, Idaho has the penings Presented in a Brief and been received at the local land office. cipal water project is corhpleted. The best crop, with Washington showing geles, San Diego and Then on heard of his death, and even then word Comprehensive Manner for Busy contractors are building the 18 miles The decision was in the case of Dan- up exceedingly well, while Oregon, es Through Southern States — Visit spread Blowly among the members, for Readers—National, Political, His . X C n / l > i . w . 1 i . w v 1 n > m m a t\1r ' t iel ' P .M ifm o n il t w ] is Id U n ir iiy a u I A Bowman, and a r reversal of T o a pecially in the river counties, suffered of pipe line n and spending large l sums of . . 1 / C. the house was not in session. torical and Commercial. Sister and Brother, former ruling by the Interior depart- from dry weather to such an extent money for help and provisions. In conformity with Mrs. Cushman’s A large bulk of the $400,000 to bt | ment that an entryman, after showing that the damage could not all be re wish, there will be no congressional used for building the irrigation project his land fit only for grazing purposes, paired by the late rains. escort appointed to accompany the re Floods around Kansas City have de will also commence to percolate back : must also show that the land has Washington, July 10. — President mains to Tacoma, hut the body will be Some of the poor yields in Oregon layed mails. to the taxpayers, who bought $100,000 i actually been used. have been offset in the totals by an T aft today gave an outline o f the ten taken across the continent by a repre About 25 cases have been decided by increased acreage in new territory. tative plans for his trip through the sentative of the sergeant-at arms of in stock, for construction of the irri Trouble in Kansas may tie'up 38 coal gation ditches will soon commence and | the local land office officials contrary to The most noticeable increase o f this West and South this fall. mines, and throw 18,000 men out. the house, who went to New York this ! the ruling of the department, and the nature is along the Wallowa extension The president has abandoned ail idea morning. laborers will be in great demand. The house will not meet A tornado near Danville, 111., did of visiting Alaska this year, largely until Thursday. A t that time Cush While the Commercial club and the receijt decision from the secretary of o f the O. R. & N. considerable damage to property. publicity department has been doing the interior is a confirmation of thè Another locality in which new acre because Mrs. T aft will not be able to man's death will be announced, and ad The chances o f Thaw being freed these things o f greater moment, real rulings of the local officials. age will aid in swelling the totals is go with him. Upon his arrival here journment probably be taken out of re from the insane asylum now seem good. estate values have gone up and there is the Haystack and Bukeoven country, today the president received word from spect to his memory. Dairy Business Profitable. prosperity in the winds for all of Union where there is an increase of about 20 Beverly that Mrs. T aft was rapidly Senator Piles, who was with Mr. Persian rebels have entered Teheran Tillamook— Never before in the his per cent in the acreage, with the yield improving in health. He feels, how Cushman when the end catne, returned county. Buildings are going up rapid and there has been much fighting in tory o f the dairying industry in Tilla about 10 per cent better than last year. ever, that she is hardly strong enough to Washington last evening. He said ly in the residence district and, while the streets. no large buildings are under construc mook county have the checks paid the Sherman county is somewhat spot to take the long Western trip this fall, Mr. Cushman passed away peaeefully, An explosion on the cruiser North tion, several smaller places in the bus- dairymen for the month of May been ted, and early in the season the outlook which will occupy about two months. being unconscious during his last Carolina killed Ensign Aiken and iness district are taking shape. Great- j so large as this year, while all the was poor. Rains in the latter part of As soon as the tariff bill is out of the hours. Heroic treatment was resorted blinded another man. er projects have been launched and sue- | cheese factories thus far report a large June helped, however, and there will way the preside nt will leave Washing to as soon as Mr. Cushman’s condition essfully carried on in La Grande this I increase in the amount of cheese manu- be a material increase over last year’ s ton for Beverly, to remain until Sep took a turn for the worse, but he was T aft and congress leaders have summer and spring than any other time I factured. Two years ago, in 1907, was output. Conditions in Wasco are sim tember 17, his 52d birthday —when he so weakened that he did not respond to agreed to reduce the corporation tax hopes to begin his Western trip. The treatment. He ssnk steadily through the banner year for the highest prices ilar to those in Sherman county. in the history of the city. from 2 per cent to 1 per cent. ever paid for butter faf in this county, Umatilla, the banner wheat county president will go directly to Seattle, the night and breathed his last at two A cloudburst at Orizaba, Mexico, when it averaged about 35 cents per o f the state, is not coming up to its stopping for brief visits en route at minutes past 5 yesterday morning. School Population 6,972. drowned 100 natives. The property Albany- There are 6,972 children of pound, but from present indications it usual standard. The light lands suf Denver, Salt Lake and Spokane. loss will reach $500,000. R I O T I N G IN B O L I V I A . A fter visiting the Alaska-Yukon- school age in Linn county, according to will go above that amount for this fered by the dry weather early in the Castro has renounced all clairrs to HOLDS UP BANK. the annual report of County School year, also for the quantity of cheese season, and the showers that came Pacific exposition, the president will manufactured and the excellent quality swing down to the Southwest, stopping later were not general throughout the the presidency o f Venezuela, but wants Mobs at La Paz Engage in Pillagirg Superintendent Jackson. Of this num of the cheese placed upon the market, for a time at Portland, Or., where ho county. to return home so that he may die on ber 3,524 are boys and 3,448 girls. and Looting. Heavily Armed Bandit Works in Broad for all the cheese turned out at the co Along the Arlington branch of the will be the guest of Senator Jonathan native soil. Daylight. La Paz, Bolivia, July 13.— La Paz The total enumeration is a gain of 404 operative association’s factories is ex Bourne, and proceeding thence to San O. R. & N. the crop is light until Con A French woman is in America offer is given over tonight to riot. The over the total number of school child amined and passed upon by an expert Everett, Wash., July 7.— Alone rob Francisco. don is reached. Around Condon, how ren in the county in 1908. The report ing to sell one of her 29 titles. She Leaving San Francisco, the president ber held up Assistant Cashier E. C. Ol people swarmed into the streets and also shows that there are 230 teachers inspector before it leaves the factory, ever, the outlook is far from gloomy. says she needs the money and has been all first-grade cheese bearing his With the exception of about 20,000 will go to Los Angeles, where he will son, of the Bank o f Commerce, shortly offered $500,000, but wants a million. did much damage. The electric light employed in the county, of whom 57 stamp. acres, which have been taken by stop for several days with his sister. before the bank closed yesterday after wires were cut and pillaging was be are men and 173 are women. There Heat in Texas is causing much suf weeds, there will be a "pretty fair From Los Angshs the president will noon, wounded Cashier J. L. Lyen and are 124 school districts in the county gun on all sides. Shots were heard in S tr a w b e r ry Profits Goo d. go to San Diego and then into Arizona escaped with a few hundred dollars. yield. fering. and 128 school buildings, five of which He fled on a bicycle to the north end I f the weather is Wallowa— Strawberries are a profit every direction. The situation for for were erected during the past year. Morrow county is not quite so good and New Mexico Two arrests have been made in Chi eigners, especially Peruvian and A r able crop all over the Northwest, but as Gilliam, but there, as elsewhere in pleasant and his arrangements permit, of the city, then turned toward the cago for bomb throwing. gentine residents, is extremely serious. there are few places where they pro the river counties, some very short Mr. T aft hopes to visit the Yosemite waterfront. Here his pursuers found Rate Complaint Portland Boost. the satchel in which he carried his W. D. Conner will try to secure La duce larger returns than in the Wallowa stalks o f wheat are turning out well valley before going to Los Angeles. The guards: protecting the Peruvian Salem— In reply to the complaint Dep Folette’s seat in the senate. and Argentine legations were suddenly valley. There are no large fields of filled heads. Coming out of Mexico, the president money. I t contained only $15. filed recently with the Interstate Com Union county has an excellent crop will stop for a time at El Paso, where uties and citizens are searching for the Immigration officials are at El Paso, withdrawn last evening for some un merce commission by the Oregon State berries here, but there are many small ones that are yielding immense returns and 40-bushel yields will not be uncom he expects to meet President Diaz, of man. Bloodhounds have been secure!. When this became Tex., inquiring into Chinese smuggling. known reason. Railroad commission asking a reduc When the robber entered the bank Mexico. known, street mobs renewed their at for the labor and investment which mon around Elgin and Summerville. tion of wool rates from inland points j Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and three tacks. Senor Fozesca and his wife A fter his Btop at El Paso the presi he thrust two revolvers into Olson’s they represent. G. A. Miller last year The Willamette valley has ceased to on the Oregon Railroad & Navigation I children are at Naples, on their way to had a narrow escape. They made their received nearly $200 net from less than be a figure in the export wheat mar dent will visit San Antonio, where he face and commanding him to throw up company’s main line and branch lines j Rome. one-fifth of an acre. This year he has ket, but the yield is an important fac will inspect Fort Sam Houston, which his hands, laid down one gun and seiz way out of the legation and ran eight to transcontinental points on discrim ed all the money he could reach and he was instrumental in building up. E. E. Calvin, the Southern Pacific blocks, finally seeking protection in inatory grounds, the Oregon Railroad improved his fields and as the season is tor in the milling business. He paid no A fter visiting Austin and Dallas, the placed it in his satchel. one of the best he expects to greatly Washington reports are uniformly officer, is not yet out of danger, but is the home of the president o f Bolivia. & Navigation company sets forth that Manifestations have been numerous exceed that yield. good. Walla Walla, with its never- president expects to spend several days attention to tho few customers in the doing well. the water competition enjoyed by the in public places, and at a meeting heid failing foothill land, promises an out on the ranch of his brother, C. P. Taft, bank. Bryan says the time is at hand for Saturday a portrait of Figora Alcorta, city of Portland compels the railroad Cashier Lyen was in the rear end of put o f 4,500,000 bushels. Barley is at Corpus Christi, Tex. Fine Gymnasium for Milton all states to act in the ratification of president of Argentina, was held down to give Portland lower rates than can Continuing East, the president will the building. He ran down an alley- Milton— A gymnasium is to be erect also turning out well in this county, be given to inland points. the income tax. ward on a pole and stoned to pieces. ed at a cost of $3,000 by the Presby and has made some inroads on the stop at Houston and go to New Orleans way and entered by the front door to to attend the meeting o f the Deep take the robber by surprise and grap It is reported here that considerable A Detroit woman has confessed mis terian church of this city, of 4which wheat acreage. School Heads to Meet June 28 The robber shot three Columbia and Garfield counties are Waterways convention. A fte r attend pled with him. deeds in order to save her husband excitement prevails at Lima and Bue the Rev. Levi Johnson is pastor. The Salem— The annual convention of nos Ayres, and the Argentine govern from the gallows. location is east of the present church both expected to turn off record yields ing the convention, Mr. T aft wants to times, one bullet passing through I.y- ment’ s silence in the face of Bolivian county school superintendents has been building. The structure will be 60x80 of wheat and barley. This region was stop for a time in the Bayou Teche en’s jaw and neck, making a serious Canadian officials say the report is ailed by J. H. Ackerman, superin- protests is regarded as ominous. . , . * ... . . .. . - .¡fe e t , 40x80 of which will be used ex- favored with rain at a time when the country of Louisiana, the land o f Evan wound. The robber then fled, with false that the bars are to be let down tendent of public instruction, to meet , : . * ___ __ „ m, both Lyen ar.d Olson shooting at him. river counties in Oregon were missed. geline and Arcadia. u- a* m j a v. t no zX. a clusively for i gymnasium purposes. The to Chinese immigration. in h is orhi'f» M n nn .m np .... J r r ... in his office Monday, June 28. Among Amnncr His hat was shot off and it is believ From there the president will pro Whitman, the banner wheat county building will he open on terms which TW O -C E N T FARE C O S T L Y . the topics to be considered are school ed he was slightly wounded. He is Flood conditions along the Missouri will simply cover the operating ex of all the Northwest, gives excellent ceed to Jackson, Miss., thence to Mont supervision, how it may be made more and Kansas rivers have improved but Macon. supposed to have had a bicycle hidden penses. Though under the control of promise o f breaking records. The acre gomery, Birmingham and Roads Lose Heavily Because o f Re effective; school libraries, how to use little and much apprehenson is felt. the Presbyterian denomination the in age is large and the crop conditions are From Macon the president will go to in the vicinity, for he was next seen them; annual institutes, most import duction in Charges. riding furiously north on one. He was stitution will take the form of a Y far above the average. Estimates run Augusta. M. Sakao, president of the Japanese ant subject to emphasize for all insti Leaving Augusta the president goes seen by hundreds o f people, hut before from 9,000,000 to 12.000,000 bushels, Chicago, July 13.— The claim of Illi M. C. A. sugar company, committed suicide tutes this year; school sanitation, what the latter being generally regarded as to Savannah and thence begins his armed citizens and officers took up the when convicted of grafting by the gov nois railroads that the 2-cent rate, has been done, what should be done; too high, while 9,000,000 bushels is re northward trip to Washington, stop chase in automobiles he disappeared. while stimulating travel to a marked Portland Firms Get Contracts. ernment. school board convention, value of, how ping at Wilmington, N. C., and Rich degree, had reduced the revenues of Salem —Portland concerns got most garded as conservative. The Austro-Hungarian union is again roads from passenger traffic almost to to conduct. Lincoln county, which in “ light mond, Va. New York Tax Roll Out. of the contracts for improvements at menaced. land” years has come very close to the ruination point, is borne out by a the state capita! building. Tiling first New York, July 7.— Andrew Carne Linn Finances Good. Hundreds of new cases of cholera comprehensive investigation by the and second Honrs of the State House, Whitman’s yield, has suffered this year gie and Mrs. Russell Sage are each as DAM THREA TENS VALLEY. Albany—The Linn county treasurer’ s contract awarded to Empire Tile & by dry weather. are appearing daily in St. Petersburg. Santa Fe road. sessed as possessing $5,000,090 worth Adams county is still in the uncer The Illinois railroad commission in report for the month of June shows Mantle company for $5,470. General of personal property in New York City, Prince Miguel, son of the Portuguese sists the law has been beneficial to the $32,882.97 more in the county treasury repairs at State House, awarded to A. tain class, as the crop is late in that Great Pathfinder Structure Said to Be on the rolls presented to tho board of pretender, is to marry an American in Perilous Shape. roads. The latter say they have been than the same month a year ago. The F. Peterson, Portland, for $8,897. Con region and even the winter wheat aldermen today. John D. Rockefeller's woman. compelled to employ much additional balance July 1 of this year was $116,- crete work, driveways and walks, not out o f the woods. A t the best the Cheyenne, Wyo., July 10.— Reports personal assessment is $2,500,000, and English suffragettes have succeeded equipment and more help to handle the 008.86, showing a most prosperious Wiesko Keenen, Portland, $5,950.75. crop will be only fair, except down in received here tonight indicate that con that of seven members of the Vander in reaching Premier Asquith with their increased t avel, which did not, by a growth of the county. More money Marble base for two floors, Schanen & the southeastern part o f the county. ditions at the Pathfinder dam at Alcova, bilt family aggregates $1,340,000. J. Douglas county lost the greater part said to be the largest in the world, are Pierpont Morgan is down for $440,000, petition. large sum, compensate them for the was spent the past month for road Blair, Portland, $1,190. work than in several years. The dis o f its wheat territory when the new most serious. The dam is held only by while the late H. H. Rogers and W il extra expense. Ambassador Reid has given a dinner county o f Grant was carved out this a temporary dike built on gravel foun liam Rockefeller are each assessed The Santa Fe worked under the bursements of the past month were : Train Service Very Poor. and dance to the king and queen of operation o f a similar law in Kansas, General fund warrants, $8,201.55; road Salem— Dr. Thomas W. Hoss, of year, and Grant, which has an in dations. Seventy men are working day $300,000. England. where a careful record was kept for fund, $9,784.12; school district, $185.- Astoria, has complained to the rail- creased acreage as well as a fair yield, and night to strengthen the dike. Bolivians have mobbed the Argen the first year. The Santa Fe carried 46 ; cities, $227 ; institute warrants, The government geological survey j road commission that trains on the gives promise of about 3,000,000 bush Gunnison Bore Finished. tine legation at La Paz, because of an 654,000 more passengers than it did 3.00. Astoria & Columbia River railroad are els. Some new wheat land in the has a force o f men scattered along the Montrose, Colo., July 7.— The last adverse aribitration ruling. northern part o f Douglas county will the year previously under the 3-cent river for more than 100 miles above round o f shots in the East heading for constantly late— “ not a period of a few Crater Lake Case Revived. There is an immense building in law. Meanwhile revenues from pas minutes, but hours.’ ’ It is alleged that make the yield for the old county in the dam. taking measurement’s o f the the Gunnison irrigation tunnel was fired excess of 500,000 bushels. senger traffic for the same period de Salem Attorneys for the respond river’s flow to give indications of any at 5 :30 o'clock this evening. crease in Chicago. A t the present rate the engines used are wholly inadequate A few Spokane county was in the moisture sudden rise in the stream. ents have filed in the office of the Su and that trains are from 30 minutes to 1909 will show a gain of 60 per cent creased $297,000. minutes later workmen from the two belt with Whitman, and as a result has Railway men say this does not begin preme court a transcript on appeal in i ? v,nnr„ i„*B over 1908. P/eparations have been made to dy headings shook hands through the open a fine crop in prospect. to tell the real loss, which is to be the case o f J. K. Sears vs. State Treas namite the dam i f the water carries ing. The tunnel is six miles long and A vigilance committee at Los Ange found in the great expense for equip urer George A. Steel and Secretary of Franklin county is somewhat behind away the temporary dike. PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. Arrange les prevented the elopement of a white ment and additional employes, the re State F. VV. Benson, known as the its neighbors in yield, and in the vicin ments have also been made toward haB been under construction four years and a half. This project has been car woman with a negro. The colored man vision of schedules and wear and tear Crater Lake road case, in which the | W heat— Bluestem milling, $1.30; ity of Connell the crop will be smaller warning the people living in the valley ried out by the Federal Reclamation was horsewhipped. than that of last year. Farther east below in case of danger. of property due to more constant use. plaintiff Sears obtained in Circuit club, $1.180/1.20; valley, $1.17. bureau at a cost of $3,500,000. It will courta perpetual injunction restrain- Corn— Whole, $35 per ton; cracked, the outlook is more favorable. John D. Rockefeller has given an furnish water for the irrigation of Klickitat county, which has always ing the state officials from issuing or j $36. other $10,000,000 to the General Edu Upper Air to Be Studied. 150,000 acres of land. Man Convicted by Proxy. been in Portland territory, gives prom Oats— No. 1 white, $40@40.50 per paying warrants for the construction cation board. The board now has an San Francisco, July 13.— A meteor San Francisco, July 10.— An extra ise of a very good yield, with some in ton. of the road. endowment of $52,000,000. ological and astronomical observatory New Machine for Flying. dition case with unusual features came Hay—Timothy, Willamette valley, crease in acreage. A severe earthquake shock is re at an altitude of about 14,000 feet is Victoria, B. C., July 7.— An airsh'p The Horse Heaven country, lying up for hearing this afternoon before $17(//20 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $20 Ctatskanie Sawmill Burns. to be erected on Mount Whitney by the ported in India. just across the Columbia from the United States Commissioner Hancock. which, the inventor asserts, will right Clatskanie— The Kratz & Anderson @28; m ixed, $ 16 (0 20. Smithsonian institution. The work of river counties in Oregon, suffered from Mosys don Amaral, arrested on a State itself within a few feet when started The Colombian revolution has control preparing the trail up the mountain shingle mill at Hazel Grove, one and a Grain bags— 5 3j c each. the dry weather that cut down the department warrant, was accused of upside down and will fly from Victoria o f the chief port. Fruits— Apples, $1(7/2.50 per box; half miles from here, was burned to over which the material will be trans Oregon yield. Spring wheat in this murder committed on one o f the Azores to San Francisco in less than five strawberries, $2 per crate; cherries, the ground while the manager and crew English suffragettes have gained an ported by pack mules is already under district is almost a total failure, but islands, and though he had fled from hours, has been built by A. W. Gibson, 3/r/lOc per pound; gooseberries, 40/5c: were attending the Clatskanie celebra way. It is expected the station, which audience with the king. some o f the winter wheat will make a the country, was tried and convicted, a a Scotch engineer. The inventor pur will be temporary, will be completed tion. A spark from the sawdust pile, apricots, $1.250/1.50 per box; cur man appointed by the Portuguese court poses to make his first flighc from Vic fair crop. An association has been formed at rants, 734c per pound; loganberries, which was supposed to be safely out, is by September 1, when Professor W. Los Angeles to reform auto speed man Asotin county wa3 also in the rain representing him at the trial. Recent toria to the Seattle exposition and hs $1.35 per crate; raspberries, $1.75; theught to ha\e caused the damage. W. Campbell and Professor Abbott, of belt and promises to turn off a crop ly he was captured at San Luis Obispo offered to wager $1,000 that he can iacs. the Lick observatory, will go to Mount The mill was constructed only last black caps, $1.750/2. in this state, and now is resisting the go the distance in half an hour. The that may break records. Potatoes — $1041.75 per hundred; winter and gave employment to a crew Calhoun has been refused a change Whitnty to make observations. airship embodies entirely new princi The crop for the entire state of attempt of extradition. new, 2 14 @ 2 )fc per pound. of ten men. of venue and the second trial is set for ples and is propelled by an engine Vegetables— Aspargus, 750/90c per Washington will approximate 35,0000,- July I f . Tszetse Fly Gains Fame. weighing 222 pounds. Plague Spreads in China. 000 bushels. dozen; lettuce, head, 25c; onions, T o Locate Halibut Banks. New York, July 13.- The Tszetse Idaho has the be9t crop on record. Victoria, B. C., July 10.— Local Chi 12Ho/ 13c: peas, 4@6c per pound; rad The steamer Mauretania crossed the N ew port—The ga-oline fishing ship fly, the insect that jumped from scien-j Stock Must Be Watered. ishes, 15c per dozen; rhubarb, 30/3He There is not very much increase in nese are receipt of advices from Canton Atlantic in 4 days, 16 hours and 36 tific obscurity to public note on the Gazelle has left for Marshfield to se per pound; spinach, 5c. acreage, and there is a big crop o f bar that the plague is spreading with un San Francisco, July 7.—The attack minutes. eve of Theodore Roosevelt’s departure cure the exact location of the halibut Butter City creamery, extras, 28c ley and oats, so that the wheat yield precedented rapidity in the southern o f the Southern Pacific railroad upon The Missouri floods have begun to for Africa, received a certificate of j banks, situated midway between Ya- per pound; outside creamery, 26H(d may not quite reach that o f 1907. districts of China, and hundreds are the constitutionaltiy of the Federal en fall, leaving death and ruin in their character today at the Rockefeller in -' quina and Coos bay. E. Mitchell, of 27Hc; store, 18c. Butter fat prices Latah county will probably harvest dying despite the most strenuous efforts actments providing that cattle or sheep wake. Fully 2,000 people are homeless stitute. Dr. S. B. Mcltzer announced Portland, of the Oregon Deep Sea Fish average 1 He per pound under regular nearly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat, and on the part o f the foreign communities, in transit by rail must be watered and and the property damage will reah $1,- the dreaded sleeping sickness is carried ing company, wa9 on board to witness butter prices. Nez Perce and Idaho counties will have chiefly, to stamp it out. The dread fed every 28 hours, was repulsed by by the tszetse fly only coincidentally as the results of the investigation, which 500,000. Eggs— Oregon ranch, candled, 250/ from 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 bushels. disease is spread by the rats which in the United States Circuit Court o f Ap the common house fly may carry ty- i ¡9 being carr ed on by the master, fest the Chinese towns by millions, al peals today, the decision of the District 26c per dozen. Persian r« bels are near Teheran and phoid. The bite of the tszetse is not Clifford Baker. State in Oil Business. though the general foods consumed by courts beii g sustained. One of these Poultry- Hens, 12o/13c per pound; the shah has prepared to flee. venomous, the real offender is the only Galveston, Tex., July 9.— Independ the majority of the population are also cases involved a shipment of 1,355 springs, 16H 0fl8c; roosters, 80/9c; Th.- only bank conducted by Indians disease germ known to have the power Lumber Company Complaips. ducks, young, 120/13c; geese, young, ent oil dealers are complaining over the said to have much to do with its exten sheep, made from Corinne, Utah, to is at Fort Lapwai, Idaho,. It has a of locomotion— the trypanosum. Salem The Bridal Veil Lumber com 9®10c; turkeys, 18c; squabs, $20/2.25 state of Texas competing with them in sive plagues. South San Francisco in 1906. The capital stock of $10,000 and over $15,- pany has complained to the state rail per dozen. company sought a reversal on a purely the sale of oil from the Waters-Pierce Prince Names Successor. 000 deposits. The affairs of the bank road commission that the rates on lum Chinese Honor Traveler. technical ground. company's property, which is being Pork— Fancy, 10c per pound. are conducted by three Indians. Berlin, July 13.— The emperor has ber on the Mount Hood railroad are too Pekin, July 10.— Prince Chun, the Veal Extras. 80/8}sc per pound; operated under a state rpceiver9hip. asked Prince von Buelow who he would high. The Bridal Veil Lumber com Hill to Invade Canada. The independent dealers ssy the state regent of China, today received Tang Missouri crops have suffered greatly I ordinary, 7c; heavy, 6c. suggest as his successor in the chancel pany also claims that the Oregon Lum from the heavy rains. Hops 1909 contracts. 16c per pound; is operat ng the se:zed property under Shao Yi, who has just returned to the Helena, Mont., July 7.— There was lorship and the prince has recommend ber company is owned by the railioad 1908 crop, 110/12c; 1907 crop, 7c; a receivership which permits cheap capital from a tour o f the world, which filed with the secretary of state today Nine men vere killed by an explosion ed Dr. von Bothmann-Hollwegg, min and that this company gets a much 1906 crop. 4c. prices and an accumulation of great included in extended visit to the Unit an official resolution adopted by the of gas in a coal mine near Trinidad, ister of the interior and vice chancel lower rate than other shippers. Wool Eastern Oregon. 160/23c per profits. The complainants point to the ed States. An imperial edict was is board of directors o f the Great North Colo. lor. The opinion among government pound: valley, fine, 23c; coarse, 21 He; fact that the earnings o f the Waters- sued today making Tang Shao Y i ex ern railway, showing its purpose to Libby Sells Lumber Interests Pierce property for five weeks were pectant vice president o f one o f the construct a branch l.ne from Poplar, mohair, 240/25e. The mission steamer Abler is miss- \ officials appears to settle upon Dr. von Bethmann-Hollweg, especially as the Astoria George Libby, of this city, imperial boards, which is interpreted Valley county to the Canadian border, Cattle—Steers, top, $4.50; fair to $70,647, or 40 per cent. ing in the Arctic ocean with 19 per-1 widening circle learns o f Chancellor has sold his one-third interest in the as meaning that his services are to be a distance of 80 miles. sons. good, $40/4.25; common, $3.750/4; The inference von Buelow’s recommendation. The holdings o f the Palmer-Lifcboy Logging cows. top. $3.50; fair to good, $80/ recognized by the Chinese govem- is that the line will be extended furth Save Trees From Flames. Wheat has been damaged in Nevada emperor is expected in Berlin today. company to the Peninsular Lumber 3.25; common to medium. $2.500/2.75; ment. er north, tapping the grain fields of San Diego, Cal., July 9.— The La by the extreme cold weather. Iec company, o f Portland. The logging ealves, top, $50/5 50; heavy, $3.500/4; Jolla grove of Torrey p nes, said to be Saskatchewan, thus invading the Cana formed in many places. Frog Drifts Stop Trains. company owns a large tract of timber, hulls and stags, $2.750/3.25; common, the only grove o f those trees in South T o Guard Mexican Border. dian Pacific territory. with logging railroad and camp, near Utica, N. Y., July 13.— A message $20/2.50. ern California, had a narrow escape Damage from rain is reported from El Paso, Tex., July 10.— Daniel J. Hogs Best, $8.260/8.35; fair to from destruction by fire today. Occu Keefe, commissioner general of immi Use Cannon at Oil Fire. many points in Nebraska. A t Omaha from Gouvemeur tonight states that in Blind slough. a heavy wind and rain storm there j good, $7.750/8; stockers, $6o/.&50; pants of a passing automobile noticed gration; accompanied by F. W. Berk part of the streetcar system is out of Martinsville, III., July 7. — Fire, Fruit Sh-ppers Complain. thousands o f small frogs fell, covering China fats. $6.750i7. that the underbrush in the grove was shire, chief inspector for Texas, reach started by lightning in one o f the 35,- commission. the sidewalks to such an extent that Salem The Salem Fruit union has Sheep— Top wethers, $4; fair to burning and hastened to La Jolla for ed this ity today on a tour of icnapec- 000 barrel tanks o f the Ohio Oil com- Railroad blockades in various parts walking was difficult. The rails o f a made complaint to the railroad com good, $3.500/3.75; ewes. He less on help. A party of fire fighters was tion o f the entire Ri > Grande border, ! pany, was brought ur.der control to- o f Colorado, due to heavy rains, have railroad for half a mile were covered mission that fruit shipments to Seattle all grades; yearlings, best, $4.15; fair summoned quickly to the scene, preliminary to establishing stringent | night. The tank was punctured by a delayed more than 1,000 delegates to and rendered so slippery the speed of are handled roughly and that the fruit to good, $3.750/4; spring lambs, $4.75 several hours of hard work regulations to prevent smuggling o f ' cannon shot and most of the oil drained Co ventiona in the West. the trans was materially lessened. arrives ir i badly damaged condition. @5.25. were extinguished. Chinese across from Mexico. ou t This prevented an exploaion. ESTACADA OREGON RESUME OE THE WEEK’S DOINGS Pekin, July f t . —A remarkable story of the tragic fate of a youthful pre tender to the Dragon throne and large number of his followers comes through missionary channels from dis tant Yunnan province. Under the influence of Taoist priests a prosperous member o f the country gentry named Chu conceived the con viction that he himself was a descend ant of the Chus’ Ming emperors, and his son, aged 12 years, the rightful occupant of the throne. He rallied the clansmen and his neighbor t> the number o f upward of 2,000 men, variously armed with old guns, bows and spears. With the pre tender at their head, this insurgent army marched upon Yunnan Fu, the provincial capital, preaching ari anti Manchu crusade. Near Yunnan Fu a detachment of the viceroy's modern troops overtook attacked and routed the insurgents, Several hundred of them are reported killed and wounded. A ll the members o f the Chu family were promptly slaughtered by the viceroy’s orders. The youthful claimant, whose head was so lately adorned by the halo of the Son of Heaven, was after his execu tion, being paraded through the prov ince in a cage as an exhibit and warn ing to all questioners of authority in Manchu. I