The Estacada Progress
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ESTACAD A
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BRIEF NEWS OE
THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in a Manner to
Catch the Eye o f the Busy Reader
—Matters o f National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.
The Bpecial train o f the president's
party is composed of plain coaches.
The president gives assurance that
Vancouver barracks will not be moved.
The National German Alliance of
America will take up the cry o f anti
prohibition.
President T aft spent two days in
Portland and declared them the pleas
antest of his trip.
Harriman's interests will be handled
by three men, Robert S. I.ovett, J. C.
Stubbs and Julius Kruttachnitt.
NO PERPE TU AL RIGHTS.
Mining Congress Proposes American
Law on Water Power.
Goldfield, Nev., Oct. 5.— The Ameri
can Mining congress closed its 12th
session here after adopting a resolu
tion calling upon the national govern
ment to legislate against perpetual
franchises for water power or water
rights in Western states, and urging
that similar state legislation be passed
without waiting for congressional ac
tion.
The apex law, under which the dia
coverer of a mineral lode or vein can
follow it outside the lines o f his claim
was another subject of discussion, and
its repeal, with the substitution of a
law making the side lines of a claim
its limits when continued downward
vertically, was urged.
Wildcat mining schemes were placed
under the ban by the congress, which
urged state and national legislation to
prevent the operators of such schemes
from diverting money of investors that
might otherwise be used in developing
legitimate properties.
J. H. Richards, of Boise, Idaho, the
retiring president of the congress, was
given a handsome service by the dele
gates.
L ob Angeles and Spokane have de
veloped a lively rivalry for the next
session of the congress, This^question
will be decided by the executive com
mittee.
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The chairman o f the Republican
county committee of New York will FARMERS FLO CK TO CANADA
try to stop the voting of dead men’s
names.
Fully 70,000 American Settlers Havt
The Kansas state board o f health
Crossed Border.
has declared itself against the wearing
Winnipeg, Man., Oct. 5.— American
o f beardB and will try to have its rul
farmers by the tens of thousands are
ings enforced by law,
now pouring over the boundary into the
A wealthy Grand Army veteran was Canadian West. According to a state
so badly crushed in the rush to see ment made by the deputy minister of
T aft at the Portland armory that he interior at Ottawa, the invasion of
died on the way to the hospital.
Americans into Canada will total ovei
Charles W. Morse, New York finan 70.000 for the present year.
In the beginning of this across-boun-
cier, convicted oy violating national
banking laws, has paid off $7,500,000 dary movement the newcomers were
of his indebtedness, and says he will largely from the Middle states, but this
year they are coming from a'most ev
son pay the remaining $50000,0.
ery state in the Union. Not only is
Severe fighting between the Span the quantity satisfactory to Canada,
iards and Moors contiues.
but the quality of settlers is rather im
Sir Thomas Lipton would like an proving than otherwise.
Practically, the official report sayB,
other chance at the America yachting
60.000 Americans this season entered
cup.
Canada, and every man, woman and
Chief Forester Pinchot fears trusts child was possessed on an average of
are after water power sites in the $1,000 in stock, cash and effects, mean
West.
ing that they brought into this coun
An American fishing vessel has been try nearly $60,000,000.
W. J. White, head of the Canadian
seized for poaching on Mexican fishing
Immigration agencies in the United
preserves.
States, says this year’s immigration
A fter a long fight Mrs. Yerkes has
from the United States has increased
been granted a third of the estate of
fully 30 per cent and that next year he
her husband.
expects to see about 115,000 Ameri
General Grant sayB he will quit the cans settling in the Canadian West,
army i f need be and give all his time
to temperance.
NINE DEAD IN ROSLYN MINE.
The survey has begun on the last
link o f the California railroad into the Fire Follows Gas Explosion—Shaft Is
Furnace Blast.
Klamath country.
NEWS ITEMS OE GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
BIG INCREASE AT COLLEGE.
HAW LEY W ILL AID.
Enrollment at O. A. C. 820; Gain o f
14 6 Over Last Year.
Pledges His Support for a Deeper
Harbor at Tillamook.
Oregon Agricultural College, Corval
lis— A t the opening of the regular col
lege work, 820 students had registered.
This is an increase of 14.5 per cent
over the registration on the op -ning
day last year. I f this percentage of
increase holds throughout the registra
tion period, the attendance this year
will reach 1,545. No increase was ex
pected this year on acci unt o f raising
the standard of the college work, which
reduces the freshman class very mate
rially.
A significant feature of the registra
tion is the large number of high school
graduates entering for the work. One
hundred and eighteen have entered
from the high schools of the Bta e.
Ten enter from academies. 15 from oth
er colleges and universities and six
from normal schouls.
Tillamook — Congressman Hawley
paid this county a visit to ascertain
what is required in harbor improve
ments and to familiarize himself with
the the situation. The members of the
Port of Tillamook commission took
him to Tillamook bay, snowing him
the need of improving Hoquarton
slough, giving it a nine-foot channel
from Tillamook city to the bay, also
for the improvement o f Tillamook bar.
The business men honored Mr. Haw
ley with a banquet which was largley
attended, a delegation from Bay City
being present, as there is a great deal
of interest being taken at present to
get these two projects started. A ll of
the large timber owners are vitally in
terested in the improvement of the bar
on account of a large proportion of
their timber being matured and will
soon begin to deteriorate.
Congressman Hawley was warmly
received when he rose to speak, and
after commending the people o f the
county for the splendid improvements
which were going on, said he was hear
tily in sympathy with the people ind
emanding these improvements, for the
great timber resources of the county
demanded a waterway so that it may
be transported to all parts of the world.
The congressman was greatly disap
pointed in the adverse report of Cap
tain Mclndoe, and it was his intention
to appeal and make a strong fight for
the improvement of Tillamook bar and
to get the government to assist in the
straightening and deepening of Ho
quarton slough.
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Cash for Coos Bay Road.
Marshfield— “ Who are the people
back of Haines and Clark?’ ’ is the
question asked on every street corner.
Money haB been deposited in a Forth nd
iank by New York capitalists ready to
complete the buying of the right of
way of the Coos Bay, Oregon & Idaho
railway, according to a telegram re
ceived by President Grives.
A meeting of right of way and sur
vey certificate holders was held, lit
which were present Fred Haines, the
surveyor in the field, and Francis H.
Clark, attorney for the company, A
proposition was submitted to the sur
veyor and attorney to complete the
survey and build the railroad. The two
wired New York, and a reply was re
Railroad Assessment Boosted.
ceived saying the necessary money was
Medford—The Southern Pacific will
on deposit in a Portland bank for the
completion of the work. The company pay taxes on this year’s assessment on
a valuation of $38,060 per mile on its
will begin construction work by May
road through Jackson county.
The
1, 1910.
_ _ _
valuation on the taxroll for 1908 was
$30,000 a mile. The basis for the in
Lake County Gets Settlers.
crease in valuation made by Assessor
Lakeview— Many o f the landseekers
W. T. Grieve was that the Southern
who came here to participate in the
Pacific in an affidavit before the state
Oregon Valley Land company’s open
railroad commission had placed a cash
ing, who acquired good tracts, are
value of $65,000 per mile on its roads
planning on improving their lands. It
in Oregon.
The company has 68.2
is estimated that by next spring Lake
miles of road in Jackson county, which
county will have not less than 1,000
by the nev/ valuation will amount to
new people us a result of the land
$ 2 , 211 , 000 .
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drawing. The Oregon Valley Land
company is continuing its improve
Students to Study Farming.
ments and splendid progress is being
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
made in the construction of the canals.
vallis— The Pendleton high school has
Most of the water system will be com
established an agricultural course as
pleted next year. The project includes
one of the regular high school subjects
not less than 50,000 acres of fertile
and has requested the co-operation of
lands.
O. A. C. in making it a success. This
branching out along agricultural and
Newtown Pippins in Test.
industrial lines among the state high
Eugene—One thousand yellow New
schools is especially gratifying to the
town pippin trees will be set out about
O. A. C. faculty. It gives the people
three and a half miles west of Eugene
of the state a better appreciation of
in the open valley as a thorough com
industrial subjects and sends the stu
mercial test for the famous Oregon
dents to O. A. C. better prepared for
apple. Dr. George R. Bergess, of Col
the advanced courses.
orado, is behind the enterprise and the
orchard will be planted and cared for
Contractors Fail at Lebanon.
under the supervision of J. M. Morris,
Albany— The Lebanon school build
of Eugene. The tract of land has been
chosen by experts and is removed from ing will be erected at once, in Bpite of
any orchards that may have pests. As the fact that two men who were given
soon as the trees planted this fall are | the contract have failed to make good.
well started another 1,000 will be A. J. Brown, the second man who was
awarded the contract, has failed to se
added.
cure the required bond and the job has
been passed on to the third lowest bid
Stock to Be Shipped Through.
Salem— As the result of complaints der, Edward Killfeather & Co., of
laid before the railroad commission by Portland, for $30,497. Mr. Killfeather
shippers, stock loaded on Southern Pa is in Lebanon at the present time with
cific cars in the vicinity of Portland a force of men.
Roslyn, Wash., Oct 5.— Fifteen men
The sultan o f Morocco has put El
Roghi, the pretender, to death, using are believed to have been killed or fa
tally injured in an explosion of gas in
the most horrible cruelty.
the shaft of mine No. 4, o f the North
W. A. Clark, J r„ son of ex-Senator
western Improvement company, at
Clark, of Montana, has discovered a
12:45 this afternoon.
process for smelting zinc ore and may
The mine in the neighborhood of the
become the zinc king of the ^country.
shaft is burning fiercely, flames rush
One man was killed and eight others ing through the shaft with an awful
injured in a collision between a pas roar. The electric pumps are cut off,
senger train and work train on the and the water supply in the city is very
Puget Sound railroad at Garrison tun low. It is thought the fire in the shaft
nel, Montana.
will not affect the other mines, but it
President T aft has declared himself may be six months before the shaft
can be put in working condition again.
in favor of ship subsidy.
It is said that the shaft is caving in
The Miners’ congress at Goldfield, and other explosions may occur at any
Nev., condemned the policy of Forester time.
Pinchot.
Shops Are to Be Doubled.
Dr. Cook is to dispatch a vessel
Sacramento,
Oct. 5.— Reports have will be carried direct to Seattle, or
North at once for his instruments and
been received here to the effect that points along the Northern Pacific or
the Eskimos who accompanied him.
the New York office of the Western Great Northern, without reloading.
In a speech at Seattle President Taft Pacific has sent back plans of the rail The practice always has been to reload
advocated the commission plan o f gov road shops to be built in Sacramento stock at Portland at the expense of the
ernment for Alaska, the same as now with instructions to prepare specifica shipper. When the matter was taken
used in the Philippines.
tions for buildings double in size. The up with the officials of both the Harri-
A Paris girl fater a quarrel with original plans called for an expenditure man system and the Hill road both
her sweetheart thrust herself between of $750,000 while the proposed shops consented at once to the new arrange
the bars o f a lion’s cage and was so under the new scheme will cost $1,- ment.
500,000.
badly injured that she died.
Further indication o f the move,
Potato Yield Heavy at Union.
Father Searle, a noted astronomer, as advanced by local railroad men is
Union—Commission men say the po
says the tail of Halley's comet may that the Westein Pacific contemplates tato yield in the Grand Ronde valley
hit the earth. May 28 the two bodies running lines up and down the state.
will be the greatest in years.
An in
will be closest to each other. /
creased acreage will bring the yield
Pope Too III to Receive.
20 per cent greater, while the output
Indications seem that the number of
paid admissions to the Alaska-Yukon-
Rome, Oct. 6.— For several days the is estimated at between 150 and 200
Pacific exposition will not equal those pope has been ill, but he continued to cars. The onions yielded heavily and
of the Lewis and Clark exposition.
see vistor», hoping to overcome what this vegetable was raised more exten
Bryan has withdrawn his offer to de is considered a slight indisposition. sively than ever before. About 10
bate the tariff question with Senator Yesterday he received in audience one cars will go forwaard from this city.
Bailey, of Texas. He says he wants of the archbishops, who noticed that Seven carloads of cabbage will be
public attention centered on the tariff the pontiff appeared tired and languid. shipped from this vicinity.
A fter the audience the symptoms be
issue, not on him and Bailey.
came aggravated, there being consid
Deficiency May Be Incurred.
T aft favors the issuing of bonds to erable pain and swelling in the leg,
Salem—In the opinion of Attorney
kid irrigation in the WeBt.
which indicated recurrence of the gout. General Crawford, the board of control,
In his speech at Spokane T aft praised Although the attack is slight, the created by the last legislature to have
pope’s doctors have insisted upon com control of the streams of the state in
both Ballinger and Pinchot.
plete rest and audiences i re suspended. reclamation work, will be justified in
The National Guard association will
incurring a deficiency to carry on the
hold it next meeting in St. Louis.
Germany Causes Alarm.
work of the board where it is necessary
Whitney believes that both Cook
Madrid, October 5.— Dispatches from to do so. The opinion was rendered at
and Peary reached the North Pole.
Gibraltar today say German steamers the request of State Engineer John H.
Eight sailors were drowned by the are disembarking cannon and large Lewis. The attorney general quotes
sinking of a collier on the Atlantic quantities of guns and ammunition at section 11 o f chapter 216, laws of 1900.
coast.
Morocco ports destined for the govern
Secretary Wilson, o f the Agricul ment. Great Britain and France, it
Boundary Line Located.
tural department, will resign Jan is said, have been informed of the sit
Albany — County Surv/yor Geddes
uary 1.
uation and while they are guarding has returned from Eugene where he
Speakers at the Mining congress at neutrally, they are seeking by diplo has been working with Surveyor
Goldfield, Nev., revived the silver macy to prevent a collision. The atti Collier, of Lane county, on the Lane-
tude of the sultan is said to have Linn boundary line which has recently
question.
caused ministerial anxiety. Fears are been surveyed. Thirty miles of boun
Horace Clark has been appointed entertained that he may desire to in dary had to be gone over as ordered by
general manager of the Denver & Rio cite a general war.
the last legislature.
The work was
Grande railway.
done jointly by the counties.
The re
Duel Over Girl Is Fatal.
ports prepared are to be presented at
District Attorney Jerome opposes
San
Diego,
Cal.,
Oct.
5.—
Earl
Davis,
the
next
term
of
each
county
court.
Judge Gaynor in his candidacy for
who was stabbed nine times by Earl
mayor of New York.
Lvnnell in a duel over a girl on the
Bridge to Span Willamette.
Bryan and Senator Bailey, o f Texas, night of Septebmer 18, died this after
Springfield— The Portland, Eugene
will debate the tariff question some noon of tetanus, or lockjaw. Davis
A Eastern bridge across the Willam
time in October at Atlanta.
was 17 years old; Lynell is also 17. ette here will be builL
The contract
The British steamer Clan Mackin Clotilde Montez, the Spanish girl over has been let to L. N. Roney, and the
tosh is reported to have blown up at whom the fight took place, is 14. cost will be about $40.000. There will
Lynnell took to the mountains and is be four concrete piers 10x30 feet at
sea and sunk with its crew.
still at large. The police are now the base and 30 feet high above low
A San Francisco highwayman has scouring the country for him. A knife water, supporting three spans o f 200
been sentenced to 50 years in the peni thrust produced blood poisoning.
feet of Howe truss design, and of suffi
tentiary.
cient strength to carry any load that
St. Yves to Run No More.
may be put on them.
More earthquakes are predicted for
Montreal, Oct. 5.— Henri St. Yves,
Sicily.
Growing Apples Successfully.
the famous French long-distance run
Spanish troops have burned many ner, collapsed in the 23d mile of a race
Cottage Grove— In 1894 Bales broth
Moorish villages.
here today. Physicians declared his ers set out 120 apple trees on raw
A French aviator has established a heart was affected and that he prob land. Th y now have 14 acres of fine
ably would be unable to ran again. bearing orchard. Four years ago they
new record in Germany.
His opponent. Hans Holmer, o f Que sold 500 boxes o f apples from four
A Boston bride weighs 210 pounds bec, fínishe I strong, covering the Mar acres, and two years ago they market
and stands 6 feet one high.
athon distance in 2:32:40, anew rec- ¡ ed 1,300 boxes from the same trees
Six children were badly injured in a ord, if the track is found to measure i with a net profit o f $800. A splendid
crop is being picked this year.
School fire at Jersey City, N. J.
correctly.
Prunes Bring Good Prices.
Eugene— Returns from green prunes
shipped to Eastern points this season
by members of the Lane County Fruit
Growers association show that they
sold for from 75 cents to $1.15 per 20-
pound box, which netted the growers
from $18 to $40 per ton.
PO R TLA N D M ARKETS.
THE KIND OF ENU M ERATORS
Farmers and Crop Reporters for the
Census of Agriculture.
Washington, Oct. 1. — Forty-five
thousand enumerators out of the esti
mated grand total o f 65,000, will be
engaged April 15th next gathering in
the required information concerning
agriculture for the Thirteenth Decen
nial U. S. census.
Director Durand
purposes making every effurt to secure
progressive farmers and crop reporters
for these places. His action is based
upon the recommendations of Chief
Statistician LeGrand Powers and the
advisory board o f Bpecial agents com
posed o f professors of economics and
farm experts who have been assisting
in the formulation o f the schedule of
inquiries concerning farm operation
and equipment. It is believed that the
selection o f this class of men already
familiar with statistical methods of
securing data and reporting it in com-
prehendible form, will add greatly to
efficiency of the census and to the sci
entific value of the information ob
tained. Director Durand does not an
ticipate any difficulty in procuring
enumerators of this kind, as there are
in every state c f the Union hundreds
o f crop reporters acting for the depart
ment of agriculture, representatives of
state boards of agriculture, etc.
The agricultural schedule which is
to be placed in the hande o f these
enumerators is nearing completion by
the census bureau.
The advisory
board, who are acquainted with prac
tical agriculture, its varying condi
tions, and who are active in their re
spective states in assisting the farm
ers to improve their farm methods,
have been most earnest and no effort
is being spared to make the schedule
as simple as possible, and yet secure
the gieatest amount of important in
formation concerning agriculture.
There will be but one schedule for
agriculture. There may be a small
schedule for the enumeration of ani
mals in cities. This will be carried by
the city enumtrators and it w ill cover
horses, milch cows, chickens, etc.,
housed in barns, stables, etc., in the
cities. No attempt will be made to get
the area o f city gardens or vacant lot
cultivation.
TAR S JOIN IN PARADE.
Military Men o f Seven Nations March
With .Americans.
New York, Oct. 1.— Twenty-five
thousand men of arms marched yester
day before the massed representatives
and special envoys of 37 nations, while
2,000,000 citizens shouted themselves
hoarse in cheers. The great military
parade was the climax of the Hudson-
Fulton celebration.
The most conspicuous reception of
the day went to the sailors of the Ger
man fleet, a magnificent body of picked
men, who, as they reach/d the review
ing stand, fell into the formal slap-
slap of the parade goose-step and
burst into “ My Counry, ’Tis of Thee,”
with an overwhelming volume of bassos
and a fervor which took away the
breath of the listeners. The people sat
silent for a moment, and then rising to
their feet cheered until their voices
gave way.
So many men representing so many
branches of the war departments of
the world have not been seen on Amer
ican streets before, so many wearing
the colors have not been seen since the
days of the Civil war.
Inspection Ruins Plants.
Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 1.— Horticul
turists of Vancouver, Victoria and v i
cinity are so thoroughly ind gnant at
the way they have been treated by
provincial government officials that
they are getting up a signed protest to
the department at Ottawa to protest
against what they allege is wanton de
struction o f nursery stock consigned to
them from outside points.
A T ornamental nursery and green
house stock entering this province has
to be inspected and fumigated to guard
against pests which may infect the
plants. The complainants allege that
after this fumigation has taken place
the plants are passed to the provincial
department, which detains them for
some time, often so long that hundreds
of dollars’ worth of stock rots, is
spoiled or condemned.
Wheat— Bluestem, 96c; club, 89c;
red Russian, 8 6 * 4 c ; valley, 91c; Fife,
89c; Turkey red, 89c; forty-fold, 91c.
Barley— Feed, $26.50(3 26 per ton;
brewing, $26.50@27.
Oats— No. 1 white, $27(3,27.60 per
ton.
Hay—Timothy, Willamette valley,
$150116 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18
0/19: alfalfa, $14; clover, $14; cheat,
$130/14.50; grain hay, $15(316.
Second Calhoun Trial Resumed
Butter— City creamery, extras, 26c;
San Francisco, Oct. 1.— The second
per pound; fancy outside creamery,
trial of Patrick Calhoun on the charge
330/36c; store. 22%0/24c. Butter fat
of offering a bribe to former Superin
prices average lj^ c per pound under
tendent John J. Furey was resumed
regular butter prices.
before
Judge
Lawlor
yesterday.
Eggs - Oregon ranch, candled, 3201)
Twenty-six talesmen were examined
32 ^ c per dozen.
and rejected, the grounds for objec
Poultry— Hens, 15K(316c; springs,
tions in most cases being either that
15,S[0/16c; roosters, 9ft/10c; ducks,
the talesmen expressed a fixed opinion
young, 150/16c; geese, young, 100/, 11c;
or that their names d ii not appear on
turkeys, 20c; squabs, $1.75(32 per
the assessment rolls.
The attorneys
dozen.
for the defense declared they would be
Pork— Fancy, 9(39>£c per pound.
seriously handicapped by the absence
Veal— Extra, 10(3 10)$c per pound.
of one o f the leading counsel.
Fruits— Apples, $10/2.25 per box;
pears, 50cO/$1.25; peaches, 76c0/$1.25
Colima Spoutirg Lava.
per crate; cantaloupes, 50c6/$1.25;
Guadalajara,
Mex., Oct. 1.— The
plums, 250/50c per b ox; watermelons,
le p e r pound; grapes, 80c0i$1.25 per Colima volcano is in one o f the most
It
crate; Concords, 25c per basket; casa- violent eruptions in its history.
bas. $1.50o/2 per crate; quinces, $1.50 began spouting fire and ashes today
and the discharge has increased con
per box.
Potatoes— 75c0/$l per sack; sweet stantly in violence since then. The
ashes cover a broad stretch o f country
potatoes, 2c per pound.
and are still falling thickly.
It is
Onions— $1.25 per sack.
Vegetables— Beans, 40/5c per pound; feared that the fall will cause damage
cabbage, lonl l4c; cauliflower, 75cOi to towns and plantations near the
$1.25 per dozen; celery, 50(<i75c; corn, mountain. Two large streams of lava
150/20c; cucumbers, 100/26c; onions, are pouring out of the newer craters,
12Hot 15a; peas, 7c per pound; pep which are located on the western side
of the mountain, much below the apex.
pers,
40/5c;
pumpkins,
squash, 5c; tomatoes, 50c per box.
Military Balloon Test Successful.
Hops— 1909 Fuggles, 200721c per
Los Angeles, Oct. 1.— A fte r re
pound; clusters, 21(322; 1908 crop,
maining in the air for two hours, the
17c; 1907 crop, 12c; 1906 crop, 8c.
Wool - Eastern Oregon, 160/23c per military balloon United States, bear
pound;
valley,
230/25c;
mohair, ing two members of the local division
of the signal corps, landed at Vineland
choice, 23(»/26c.
Cattle— Steers, top quality, $4.250/ station. The balloon test, the first of
4.60; fair to good, $4; common, $3.50 the kind ever attempted in the country
(U3.75; cows, top, $3.50; fair to good, by national guardsmen, was an unqual
$3(33.26; common to medium, $2.50(3 ified success, the signals between the
2.75; calves, top, $50/5.60; heavy, aeronauts and the automobile party
$3 500/ 4; bulls, $20/2.25; stags, $2.50 that followed the flight o f the balloon
being transmitted perfectly.
0/3.50.
Hogs— Best, $8; fair to good, $7.76
Trains Crash. Many Hurt.
0/7.85; stockers, $6(37; China fats,
$7.500/ 8.
Spokane, Oct. 1.— In a head-on col
Sheep—Top wethers. $4o/4 25; fair lision between two Great Northern
to good. $3.50(33.75; ewes, )$c lesson 1 passenger trains at Trinidad, Wash.,
all grades; yearlings, best, $46/4 25;' at 5 p. m. yesterday. Dr. J. W. Cox-
fair to good, $3.600/3.75;
spring' o f Superior, Wia., was injured, prob.
lambs, $5.25(36.50.
ably fatally, his skull being crushed,
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0. R. & N. MUST
CUT GRAIN RATES
Oregon Railroad Commission Issues
Order for Réduction.
Eecislon Follows Ruling in Washing
ton Against Northern Pacific—Hill
Road Has Made No Attempt to
Fight Regulation and Oregon Line
Is Expected to Submit.
Portland, Oct. 2.— The state rail
road commission of Oregon yesterday
handed down its findings in the matter
o f the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
company and its various branches in
Oregon, known as the grain rate case,
which has been before the commission
for several months.
The commission
declares the rates now in force to be
unjust and unreasonable and orders a
reduction equivalent to a cut of about
one-eighth in the present rates, which
will make a difference in the revenue
o f the railroads of approximately $75,-
000 per year on the volume of business
being done at this time.
The grain rate order was issued by
the commission from its office in Salem,
and while the general freight depart
ment of the Oregon Railroad & Navi
gation company yesterday was aware
that such an order had been if sued, on
ly its general terms were known.
W.
E. Coman, assistant general freight
agent, declined to express any opinion
as to whether the railroad company
would abide by the order or appeal to
the courts to prevent it enforcement
The order, in effect, is practically
the same aB that made by the Washing
ton railway commission, commanding a
flat reduction of 12>t per cent on grain
rates from points on the Northern Pa
cific to Puget sound.
Recent action by the Northern Paci
tic has given the Washington commie
sion the understanding that the railroad
will obey the order without recourse to
the courts. The Washington commis
sion has made such an announcement,
but in the offices o f the North Bank
railroad, which of necessity in the pres
ervation of its business will be com
pelled to meet the cut, nothing definite
is known as to the purpose of the
Northern Pacific.
As to the points affected by the Ore
gon commission’s rate order, the issue
is almost solely ore for the O. R. & N
The Northern Pacific has a short
branch running into Oregon, but the
Northern Pacific is not affected by an
Oregon order nearly so much as is the
O. R. & N. by a Washington order re
ducing grain rates.
ORDERS NEW E Q UIPM EN T.
Harriman Railroads'Buy $17,000 OOO
Worth o f Rolling Stock
Chicago, Oct. 2.— Orders for equip
ment and power have juBt been placed
by Harriman lines which will bring the
total expenditure for this purpose
during the last six months up to fully
$17,000,000.
The latest order is for 1,500 steel
under-frame refrigerator cars, which
are being constructed by the Pullman
company, and an order for 500 all-steel
ballast cars.
Orders have alBo been
given which bring the Harriman lines
all-Bteel passenger equipment up to
nearly 600 cars.
Orders which are
now being delivered are for 480 all-
steel passenger cars, the largest order,
with one possible exception, that of
the Pennsylvania road, ever given.
In this connection it is stated that
the Harriman lines were pioneers in
the use of all-steel passenger cars in
the West, and that they will here
after u?e nothing in their passenger
service which is not all-steel and prac
tically indestructible
Hariman lines are also beginning to
receive the first of 5,400 freight cars
and 105 locomotives ordered less than
six months ago. The order for loco
motives calls for 33 o f the heavy Mai
let compound type.
These locomo
tives, it is claimed, will haul fully 10
per cent more than any two of the or
dinary locomotives in use.
RATES ARE SU STAINED .
Judge
Wolverton Upholds Oregon
Railroad Commission.
Portland, Sept. 29.— Laws establish
ing the Oregon State Railroad com
mission and the schedule o f railroad
rates estatdishvd by that body, were
declared valid in a decision handed
down yesterday morning by Judge
Wolverton, o f the Federal court.
One important result of this decision
will be to force the Oregon Railroad ft
Navigation company to refund about
14 per cent of the money the company
has collected while the case decided
yesterday before Judge Wolverton has
been pending, since May 26, 1908, for
freight carried between Oregon sta
tions.
Judge Wolverton’s decision wsb in
the form of an order dissolving the
temporary injunction granted the Ore
gon Railroad ft Navigation company
preventing the commission from enforc
ing its schedule of rates within the
limits of the state.
The restraining
order was requested on the assertion
by the company that the Railroad com
mission was organized in violation of
the Btate constitution and that the
rates established by it would influence
interstate commerce illegally.
It has been charged by the company
that the penalties provided by the
State Railroad commission were exor
bitant, but Judge Wolverton did not
agree with this statement.
He had
compared the penalties in question
with those in other traffic laws and
was unable to find that the Oregon
penalties were unjuBt.
H U D SO N -FU LTO N PARADE.
Great Floats Pass in Review Before
More Than I.OOO.OOO.
New York, Sept. 29.— American his
tory in visible form passed in review
today before the eyes of more than
1,000,000 spectators that lined the
route of the first Hudson-Fulton land
pageant from the upper end o f Central
park to Washington square. Thou
sands o f dollars and months of effort
were spent to make this parade o f 54
floats an accurate reproduction of the
life in New York state from legendary
Indian times that preceded the first
settlement to the first voyage of Cler
mont in 1807.
The line of parade had to be selected
with great care because e f the great
size of the floats, which are said to be
the largest and most eleborate ever
exhibited. They vary in dimensions
from 20 to 40 feet high, 32 feet lung
and 14 feet wide. They could not pass
under the elevated railroad, and even
the electric decorations o f the court
of honor and reviewing stand on Fifth
avenue, opposite the new public libra
ry, had to be changed at the last mo
ment to accommodate them.
Nearly 20,000 men, women and
children, most of them in costume,
representing every national and patri
otic society in the city, posed as his
toric personages on these floats or
marched between or beside them. The
cost o f the whole spectacle was $300,-
000 .
On every available spot along the
five mile line of march stands had been
erected for spectators and the sums
paid for seats varied from $1 to $5.
BANK IN SORE S T R A IT S .
Commissioner Takes Charge o f Ok
lahoma Institution.
Oklahoma City, Okla., Sept. 29.—
Following a secret session o f the Okla
homa banking board, which lasted un
til 5 o’clock this morning, and included
several informal conferences today,
Bank Commissioner A. H. Young to
night announced that the Columbia
Bank & Trust company, with a capital
stork o f $200,000, was in his hands.
This bank holds $50,000 o f the $400,-
000 state bank guaranty fund. It also
holds $165,000 of the general funds of
the state.
Bank Commissioner Young admitted
tonight that the situation was very
delicate.
“ Should the bank close its doors to
morrow, however,” he said, "th e de
positors will lose» nothing. The bank
guaranty fund deposit and the assets
on hand will protect depositors to the
fullest extent.”
Mr. Young declined to give any hint
whatever of way the bank finds itself
in an embarrassed condition. It is be
Bond Timber for Capital.
lieved some light on this feature will
Alturas.'Cal., Oct. 2.— Thomas B. be forthcoming tomorrow.
Walker, Minnesota timber land king,
who owns hundreds o f thousands of
Jap Strikers Go Free.
acres o f tine timber in Northern Cali
Honolulu, Sept. 29.— The jury in
fornia, has deeded 187,000 acres to his
Red River Lumber company, and that the second trial o f the 10 Japanese
concern has given a deed of trust to the who were arrested on charges o f riot
same property to the Minnesota Land ing during the recent strike at the
& Trust company, to secure a bond is Waipahu plantation disagreed tonight.
sue o f $1,500,000, which sum is to be This amounts to an acquittal under the
used in funding debts of the company local laws, as the men cannot be tried
and building great mill and factories a third time. The men were among
to convert timber into merchantable those, it was charged, who besieged E.
M. Scoville, the plantation engineer,
products and railroads.
and Policeman Wells in a hut on the
plantation. As this was the most seri
Rebate Fine It Paid.
Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 2.— The ous disorder during the strike, it was
Southern Pacific railroad pleaded guilty decided to make an example o f them.
today in the United States District
court to rebating and was fined $1,000
by Judge Olin Wellborn. Through A t
torney C. M. Durbrow, of San Francis
co, the company entered a plea of tech
nical and unintentional guilt.
The
maximum penalty would have been
$10,000. The counts in the indictment
on which the fines were imposed were
the cases in which the Southern Pacific
granted rebates to the Penn Fruit com
pany and Harris- Newmark company.
Wireless Renders Aid.
Seattle, Sept. 29.— Word was re
ceived here tonight that the steamer
Cottage City, which sailed from Seat
tle for Skagway Sunday morning, lost
her propeller in Fitzhugh sound, 60
miles north of Vancouver island, last
night. The steamer Humboldt, which
sailed from Seattle for Skagway an
hour ahead of the Cottage City, was
communicated with by wireless, and
came to the aid of the disabled steam
er. The 29 passengers on board the
Suspected o f Piracy.
Mexico City, Oct. 2.— A special dis- C ittage City were transferred to the
ptch from Merida rays: The pilot boat Humboldt and taken to Skagway.
Colt, suspected of being engaged in
Criticises General Grant.
actual piracy, is equipped with several
Chicago, Sept. 29.— Protest against
rapid fire guns.
The suspicious con
duct o f the vessel caused the gunboat the appearance o f General Frederick
Bravo to run her Idown.
A corps of D. Grant in the uniform o f h;s rank in
customs officers has been sent aboard the United States army in the temper
for the purpose of making an inventory ance parade in this city last Saturday
o f her cargo and both cargo and vessel was sent today to Secretary o f War
will be declared forfeited to the gov Dickinson by the United States Socie
ties for Self Government.
Secretary
ernment.
Michalis asks if there is any rule of
Roosevelt's Return Delayed.
the War department governing such an
Naibrobi, B. E. A., Oct. 2.— Colonel appearance and requests that the reply
Rooeevelt, who was expected to arrive be in the form o f an open letter.
here October 15 from his hunting trip
Cures Sleeping Sickness.
in the Mweru district, will probably
not come in until October 23. The de
Paris, Sept. 29.— Dr. Laveran, o f
lay is caused by the indisposition of this city, has announced to the Academy
Edmund Heller, the soologiat o f the i f Science a new cure for the sleeping
expedition, who is suffering slightly sickness. It consists of sub-cutaneoua
from the pressure o f work.
onjections of an aniline emetic.