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I DOINGS OFTHEWEEK Current Events of interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. A New York girl committed suicide on the beach at Naples, Italy. Thirty-six hundred miners of Phoen ix and Greenwood, B. C., are on strike. >100,000 subscribed for a Lincoln monument funnd 40 years ago is loBt and cannot be located. Governor Hughes o f New York, has been appointed associate justice of the United States Supreme court. A sealing steamer with 187 men on board is believed to have gone down off the New Foundland fishing banks. Zeppelin II, one o f Count Zeppelin’s best airships was torn from its morings by a fierce storm and totally wrecked. RESIST RICE E X PO R TA TIO N . Crop Failures in China May Cause Serious Outbreaks. Pekin, April 26.— Attacks upon magistrates and several mission build ing at Changteh Fu and reports of dis turbances at other points in Hunan province have aroused diplomatic cir cles. Concern is felt lest the trouble started in Changsha may develop wide significance. The Chinese government, fearing revolutionaries may take advantage of the unrest growing out o f the food sit uation, is taking stringent measures to suppress disorder. Fuller advices from Changsha emphasize that the rioting is not primarily due to anti- foreign feeling, but was turned against foreigners only upon the discovery that the governor’s efforts to prevent the exportation o f rice were balked largely through foreign influence. Thousands are on the verge of starva tion, owing to the failure of the crops. Several weeks ago the governor, to prevent high prices, prohibited all ex portation of rice. British and Japan ese merchants and shippers engaged in the rice trade protested to their re spective legations at Pekin in an effort to induce the diplomatic corps as a body to protest. This was frustrated by the refusal o f the American and German legations to join. The British and Japanese then pro tested to the Wai Wu Pu, which, in view of the treaties now in force, was reluctantly compelled to instruct the governor that he must postpone his in hibition o f exports. A jump in the price o f the people’s food quickly fol lowed the suspension of the inhibition, and drove the poor in desperation to wreck the government buildings, and afterwards consulates, missions and other foreign buildings. Three men implicated in the recent bomb plot against the regent, arrested at Pekin, confessed their guilt. Two leaders, educated in Japan, professing to belong to the Sun Y at Sun party in San Francisco, say bomb methods are discountenanced, and hence ^the three men acted upon their own responsibil ity. _________ ________ INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE C OQUILLE T O EXPERIM ENT. BROGAN PR O JEC T READY. Station Will ¡Determine Nature o f Twenty Thousand Acres in Malhuer Soon to Be Irrigated. Crops Best Suited to S o ilj _ Marshfield- Realizing the great val ue of their farming land, the people of Coquille valley section of Coos county are planning to open an experiment station for the purpose of ascertaining for the benefit of the farmers just what crops are best adapted to the lo cality. William N. Russ, who owns several hundred acres o f bottom lands, has agreed to give the use of his land for the purpose. It is believed that the bottom lands of the Coquille, valley are particularly well adapted for rais ing garden truck and everything in the way of vegetables will be planted. It is possible that the government'or the state will be asked to aid in the work. While the state agricultural college has been of much assistance to the farmers, the land in the Coquille valley is different from other parts of the state and requires especial atten tion. It is believed that crops which are consumed by the canneries can be prof itably grown and the development work at an experiment station, it is hoped, will bring about the establish ment of vegetable canneries in the lo cality. Vale— Six hundred head o f horses and 306 men are at work on the canals of the Willow Creek Irrigation com pany, whose project will water 20,000 acres o f fine valley and bench land trib utary to Vale and the new town o f Bro gan. Fourteen miles of ditch for the Ore gon Fruit Farms must be completed this week, and the contractors, Hales & Crane, who have recently completed the Wood river project in Idaho, are rushing all the men available into the territory. The whole contract, consisting of 45 miles o f canals, must be completed by June 1. Messrs. Brogan and O’ Don nell, who are putting in the project, are constructing three reservoirs f«.- the storage o f water. They expect to be able to irrigate 2,000 acres of orch ards this summer. ROSEBURG LAND IS O PTIO N E D . Engineer Haines Pays 823,000 Lease on 12 Acres. for WOULD ABOLISH SLU M S. New Socialist Mayor o f Milwaukee in for Clean-up.* Milwaukee, Wis., April 23.— This was a busy day for the Socialists, who have just taken the reins of city gov ernment Mayor Seidel came out strongly for abolition of the slums, and declared that he would support any znovemet for carrying out o f plans of the central council o f philanthropists for the tearing down of tuberculosis in fested tenements and houses, and a general purification o f the city, moral ly and physically. Mayor Seidel declared that he would not issue permits for Saturday night dances in places 'in which dancehalls are connected with saloons, and that he would try to arrange for free Saturday night dances with municipally provided music in school houses. Mr. Seidel announced that he would pay a visit to Chicago and confer with Dr. Evans, health commissioner of that city, to secure ¡advice on the en gaging of a good man for health com missioner. Oustide of this program for the car rying out o f platform pledges, Victor Berger announced that’the central com mittee was so progressing in its work o f organizing the state that there would be 100,000 votes polled by that ticket this coming fall. Mayor Seidel said he would inspect a number o f institutions, hospitals, places o f charity and other buildings involved in the jurisdiction o f the health com missioner, when in Chicago. He w ill also continue inquiring for a commis sioner of public works qualified to fill the new $6,000 position as chief of the board, when the one-man plan goes into effecL The mayor Baid he is looking around for other experts. BIG LINER ASHORE! Coast Dwellers Rescue Much of Cargo From Waves. Thousands o f Tons o f Valuable Goods Jettisoned in Effort to Save Ship from Going to Pieces Hughtown, Scitly Islands, April 21. — Inhabitants of the Rocky Scilly is lands were famous wreckers o f primi tive times, but they will forever re member thiB us the greatest day in their history. The Atlantic transport liner Minne haha, wrecked Monday, disgorged part of her 17,000 tons o f valuable cargo, casting it upon the waters all day long, to be gathered up by those who cared to take the trouble. Farming and fishing were aban doned, and even school was dismissed, while most of the population o f the nearby islands, men, women and chil dren, devoted themselves to obtaining treasures from the waves. The salvagers decided to try to res cue the Minnehaha by cutting her in half, in the same way the Chicago White Star steamship Suevic, which went ashore near the Lizard in March, 1907, was saved. Every effort to lighten the ship is now imperative. Today the waves beat up too high and strong for the tugs to go alongside. Consequently goods were thrown overboard from the forward hold as fast as the stevedores could handle them. Huge cases, containing automobiles and pianos, followed one another over the side, striking the water with a great splash. Sewing machines and clocks went with them, while furniture floated everywhere. Many bales of cigarettes covered the face of the water, and tons of cheap American novels floated to the nearby shore of Bryhe, where they were piled like seaweed. Tioings of the jettisoning o f wealth spread early and a flotilla o f fishing craft and luggers scurried to the scene. As fast as the cargo hit the water, enterprising boatmen pulled up the smaller cases, while they took the larger ones in tow. The machinery was taken from the wreck and stored. Two hundred and twenty-four head o f cattle swam ashore, while ten were drowned. The seamen here think it will be im possible to save the Minnehaha, and look for the first strong wind to break her to pieces. HARRIMAN T ra in S w r u ir * » LINES PRO SPEROU S I m n m u H f i An il F n i l i n . Chicago, April 20.—“ There never was a time when the Harriman lines were in better condition physically or when they had better prospects,” said J. C. Stubbs, vice president and traffic director o f the Harriman system to day. “ They are ordering new equip ment, increasing the train service and facilities everywhere and give promise of continuing the improvements.” Mr. Stubbs has just returned to Chi cago from a five weeks’ inspection tour over the entire system in the United States and in Mexico. "Double-tracking on the Union Pa cific is being pushed as rapidly as pos sible, and as soon as the work can be accomplished the entire line from Omaha to Ogden will have two tracks. Roundly s|>eaking, 500 miles o f the 1,000 have been finished, and the en tire line from Omaha to San Francisco is now protected by block signals. It is probable that the San Pedro line'will be open fur traffic much eurlier than June 1.” COLORADO COUNCIL TO REGULATE SKIRTS Boulder, Colo., April 20.— An ordin ance to prohibit the wearing of long Roseburg Following the incorpora dreBses on the streets of Boulder was tion of the Coos Bay & Oregon Central Introduced in the city council last railroad A1 Creason, Roseburg’s cap night. I t provides that “ it shall be italist, announces that he has given an unlawful for any person whose wear option on 12 acres of his land in North Oregon Hen Breaks Record. ing apparel or skirt shall be of such The loss of the cotton crop in the Roseburg to the Coos Bay, Oregon & Bend— With the price of eggs soar length as to trail upon the ground and South from frost will total millions, Idaho railroad, whose interests have ing and the problem of the increasing become a dust sweeper or otherwise and is the worst calamity that section cost of living staring every one in the been taken over by the Oregon Cen obnoxious to the public health and re has known since the Civil war. face even more fiercely than how to tral. fined taste, to appear upon any side The option was taken through Engi Convicts in the state penitentiary at dodge the census man, a hen in a neigh walk in this city.” Canyon City, Colorado, revolted, and boring town, Tumulo, took it into her neer F. A. Haines, a little over three The document is entitled “ An ordi months ago, but no authentic an two are dead and two are badly wound head to break all records for big eggs. nance to promote public health and ed. One guard was wounded. None Her production in this line had the as nouncement to this effect was made by concerning displays upon the side escaped. tounding dimensions of 8J inches and Mr. Creason until now. walks,” which was interpreted by one The price involved is $23,000. The 6J inches around, in long and short, With her port bow smashod and her alderman to mean that “ i f the council about four routes. It is reported that the propri option will expire in boom and cathead carried away, the intended to define the length of Steubenville, 0 ., April 23.— The months. Haines is reported to be etor of the prize fowl has been offered barkentine Kohala put into San Fran skirts one way it must also define it the lives o f 18 miners were snuffed out in working for Hill. The survey between enough money for her to buy a lot in cisco in a disabled condition, the result other way.” The ordinance was urged a tremendous explosion in the Youg- Bend, but prefers to keep the famous Coos Bay and Roseburg, 90 miles, is hiogheny & Ohio Coal company’s mine of a collision with an unknown two- by the Women’s club. completed. egg-maker, believing that she will masted steamer, just off Farallón Is at Amsterdam last night. Seven men make a rich man of him. “ Buy a hen lands. bruised and burned were rescued from More Gasolene Cars for S. P. STO R M LOSS 830,000,000. OLD BUDGET INTRODUCED. and become independent,’ ’ is said to be the mine and their escape from death J. J. H ill and a party o f New York Portland— The Harriman system has the motto adopted by the central Ore is regarded as miraculous. bankers are en route to see the North Worst Blizzard in Many Years Rages gon hen owner. ordered two more gasolene cars for its Lloyd-George Comments Upon De The interior o f the mine was wreck service in Oregon and they will be west. Through Middle West. crease in Whisky Consumption. ed and all ventilation shut off. The brought out in a few weeks. The The proposed American South Polar 160 Acres to Apples. Chicago, April 25. — Western and points between which the cars will cause has not yet been determined. London, April 20. — David Lloyd expedition has been abandoned for this other fruit-pruducing states w ill be Lakeview— The Lakeview Orchard operate have not yet been designated. George, chancellor o f the exchequer, year. company has 160 acres of land broken called upon this year to supply all of 30 STU D E N TS ARE BURNED. To date the Harriman system has put re-introduced last year’s budget in the Coalition o f British Liberals and the Middle Western states, in addition and seeded to rye, preparatory to set four gasolene cars into service in this house o f commons today. He declared ting out a large orchard this fall. The to their regular business, for no fruit, Irish has blasted the hopes of the Tor state, one being operated between Mobs Set Fire to Technical School that he realized that the present deficit company has ordered 8,000 trees for with the possible exception o f straw ies in parliament. Pendleton and Wallula via Walla of $131,240,000 would be more than —Gunboats are Refuge. early fall delivery. berries and a few late grapes, will be Walla: another between Pendleton and wiped out when all arrears had been Edward Payson Weston passed Hankow, April 23.— The situation in The fact that this is the first at Umatilla; a third between Albany and grown in six or eight states. collected and that there would be an through Syracuse, N. Y ., on his walk Hunan province is reported as critical. O f these Michigan and Missouri have tempt to set out an orchard on a com Springfield, and a fourth between actual surplus o f $14,800,000. across the continent. Women and children are fleeing for heretofore been counted upon for very mercial scale is centering considerable Grants Pass and Ashland. I f the budget had been passed as their lives from Changsha, the capital. Three lives were lost and six per large supplies, but they will be forced interest on the proposition. usual last year, he said, there would A number o f villages near the city But two varieties were selected, the sons are missing as the result of a ho to buy everything this Beason. New Bank at Salem June I. have been a surplus o f $21,000,000. have been burned by native mobs. tel fire in Cincinnati. Thirty million dollars is a rough es famous Winter Banana and the splen Salem— The Salem Bank & Trust The country is placarded with threats The chancellor commented upon the did Newtown Pippin, 4,000 trees of timate made tonight of the loss in this company will commence business June to kill all foreigners. remarkable decrease of 32 per cent in President T aft has ordered the re each variety. There were planted last year’s fruit crop by the cold tempera the consumption o f whiskey, a decrease 1. The bank has been incorporated moval o f the Alaskan district attorney This news was brought by mission tures and blizzardous condition which year 40 acres in Crooked creek valley for $50,000 with the following incor that he attributed mainly to the extra and the United States marshal. obtained through the Upper Missis by S. B. Turner and 60 acres by J. B. porators: W. G. East, J. L. Ahlers ary refugees, who arrived here today duty imposed. The loss in the revenue from Changsha and nearby stations. I t is believed that the Milwaukee sippi valley last night and today and Hughes, both o f Surprise valley, and from spirits, as compared with the es L. L. East, and prominent local busi Many of them had traveled 30 miles on road will tap W illapa Harbor, Wash., extended as far East as Ohio. 55 acres by Lauer Bros., near Alturas. timated figures, was $14,000,000. ness men are interested. The officers foot and reached the Yangtse Kiang and then build direct to Portland. Fears are expressed by conservative will be elected in the near future. W. river in rags. Their houses had been 830,000 Brick Block at Albany. RO O SEVELT IN PARIS. Charles J. Wezler, accused o f mur observers in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, G. East comes from the Kansas State burned and they lost all o f their per P IN C H O T PO LIC IES HIT. Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana Albany— A. C. Schmitt, vice-presi dering his mother-in-law at Gig Har bank association. He has been in the sonal effects. and Missouri that small fruits, with dent of the First National bank, will French Papers Give Warm Welcome bor, Wash., has made a full confession banking business for many years in The missionaries said that gunboats Colorado Commission Wants State to the exception of late strawberries, will erect a substantial two-story block, to Kansas. o f the crime. to the Colonel. in the river have their guns trained Control Power Sites. be a total loss. be built of white pressed brick, on the In an address before the highest in Paris, April 21.— Colonel Roosevelt upon Changsha and nearby points and Unofficial reports tonight are that property located at Third and Broadal- Big Log Drive Down Santiam. Denver, April 20.— The Colorado tellectual personages of France, Roose Kansas has suffered a loss o f $8,000,- bin streets. The structure will cover have afforded a refuge for many of the arrived here at 7 :33 o’ clock this morn Lebanon — W. H. Hobson, with a foreigners. Three thousand Chinese ing. The Paris morning newspapers Conservation commission today adopt velt put human rights always above 000; Iowa, $8,000,000; Michigan, $5,- a ground surface of 100x100 feet with crew of men, is making a big log drive property rights. 000,000;Wisconsin, $1000,000; Illinois, full cement basement. It will cost ap down the Santiam river, to the new imperial soldiers are occupying the unite in warm expressions o f welcome ed a resolution declaring for exhaus tive state control of waterpower sites. proximately $30,000. The main floor mill pond of the Lebanon Lumber com strategic points o f the capital, and de to the ex-president. The Matin prints Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for $4,000,000, and Indiana $2,000,000. tachments are being hurried to the a message of eulogy from M. Pinchon, The resolution, which turned down the Lake Michigan, lashed into fury by will contain two commodious store pany, at this city. years as the richest and shrewdest Several million Pinchot policies as outlined by James business woman in the world, will a fierce northwest gale, tossed about rooms. Part of the second story will feet o f logs are being cut and put into outlying districts, where .rioting is re the foreign minister, who says M. Roosevelt ever was foremost in the R. Garfield, in his address last night, soon retire from active business life, it like corks all boats then on its sur be fitted up for offices, and there will the river to be cut into lumber by the ported. reads as follows: Many Chinese have been killed. In cause of peace. is understood, and will turn over the face, and kept within harbors all other probably be a large hall in the rear mill during the summer and following “ Resolved, That as the waters of “ W e French have more cause to re one instance a technical school was set that will be used for lodge purposes. handling o f her immense fortune, es craft. winter. The logs are run down the on fire and 30 students were burned member this than any one, ” says the this state are the property o f the The blizzard played a number of timated at $50,000,000, to her daugh river during the small freshets in the to death, their escape being prevented. foreign minister, “ for Mr. Roosevelt state, the powers developed by such Furnish-Coe Dam 8110,000. ter, Sylvia, now Mrs. Slyvia Astor freak pranks in Chicago, in one in late spring. When vessels approached Changsha is surely a faithful friend to France. water should remain forever under con stance liftin g the roof from a barn and Wilkes. Pendleton— With the letting o f the to rescue the imperiled ones the He has manifested friendship to us un trol of the state, and that all legisla Veneer Plant Finished. dropping it on a slowly-moving locomo contract for the completion of the Fur- As a sequel to the suspension o f D. tion tending to abridge or restrict such tive on the tracks of the Chicago, M il nish-Coe dam in this county, one of Bandon— The Perry veneer plant is Chinesee mob saturated junks with der all circumstances, with perfect dis control be discouraged.” P. Crawford and Harry Horton from kerosene oil from looted stations o f the interestedness. He has acted as a waukee & St. Paul railroad. nearing completion, and the machinery the most important transactions that Stanford by the student affairs com There was a general impeding of has ever been made in connection with is nearly all installed. The ' plant is Standard Oil company and, setting statesman who understands that the mittee, E. M. Leaf, editor of the col steam railway, elevated and surface the west end reclamation work was commodious and Famous Sealer Missing. convenient. The them afire, allowed them to float down two great republics owe each other lege magazine which published the stream in an attempt to destroy the on support, since they obey the same passenger traffic in this city and the consummated. main building is 39x80 feet.and togeth It means that the Victoria, B. C., April 20.— Captain charges which led to the dismissal of principles to carry out the same work coming steamers. Northwest. plans that have been under way for er with the annex has a floor space of Charles Spring, son of Captain W il the two athletes, was seized by a It is a Six Chicagoans, three o f them wo and have the same ideals. Several inches of snow fell in M il several months will be brought to a 50x96 feet. liam Spring, the founder of the British crowd o f students and thrown into friend we are going to receive, a men, are believed to be imperiled, per waukee during the storm, and the bliz speedy completion and that the lands Columbia pelagic sealing, has been Lake Laguintas. friend sincere, just and tenacious. Let St. Dennis Farm Brings 818,000. haps slain in Hunan province. Every zard extended into Northern Michigan, under the project will be supplied with missing since January 1 under circum Athena- The wheat farm o f the late where there is carnage and the future us honor him. Two Eastern postoffice thieves got where a fall of two feet was reported. water to irrigate them for 60 days. stances almost conclusively indicating ‘ Theodore Roosevelt appears to me holds out dark prospects. Mission Desire St. Dennis on the Umatilla In ten years and $6,000 fine for stealing A wind blowing 48 miles an hour ac that he has been lost with his steam dian reservation has just been sold at aries fear that at any moment they as a man without fear, who consults launch, on which he had embarked on a stamps. companied the storm. Prune Crop Outlook Good. only his own conscience and makes w il will be slaughtered right and left. Oakland — Several prominent prune an administrator’s sale and was bid in cruise around Vancouver island in I t is claimed Australian beef can la- lingly sacrifices to the inspirations This farm is one o f the growers of the Umpqua valley state at $18,000. search of new oyster beds. He was Revenue Man In Trouble. sold in the United States cheaper than thereof, notwithstanding the conse best on the Umatilla reservation. Bodies Dug From Debris. known to have spent New Year’s Eve the home product. Honolulu, April 25.— Alleging tech that the prospects for a bumper prune quences which might follow his action.” crop were never brighter. The outlook at Pender island, but since then no tid Birmingham, Ala., April 23.— Re PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. A Kansas woman lost her life trying nical violations of law, special agent is also fine for large crops of apples, ings either of the launch or its owner covery o f bodies from the mines at Man Drinks, Then Is Lost. to rescue the pictures o f her parents W. B. Thomas, o f the internal revenue pears, peaches and cherries. have reached his family. Several Wheat--Track prices: Bluestem, 90 Mulga today was very slow. service, has made a report to Washing When 28 from her burning home. Los Angeles, Cal., April 21.— W ith ton in which the removal from office of of the large orchards have been provid (a 92c; club, 86fir}87c; red Russian, had been brought to the surface, the in less than 24 hours after his marriage One Pittsburg Grafter Guilty. A big freight steamer, loaded ready collector o f internal revenue W. F. ed with smudge pots to be used in the 85c; valley, 90c. rescuers encountered a bad cave-in and to sail for Boston, was destroyed by Drake, of Hawaii, is recommended. event of a late frost, which is hardly Barley— Feed and brewing, $23.50 it was found necessary to remove tons to a Los Angeles girl, Thomas Hughes, Pittsburg, April 20.— Guilty as in- a temperance worker, who Lad been fire at her dock in Rotterdam. The report follows an investigation probable this season as balmy spring (// 24.50 per ton. of earth and rock. Some o f the rock icted, with a recommendation for ex Corn— Whole, $34; cracked, $35 ton. had to be blasted away. The rescuers engaged in anti-saloon and morality treme mercy from the court, was the of the affairs of the collector’s office weather is prevailing and the date for While playing in a farmer’s yard by Thomas, which, it is stated, reveal a possible late frost Is about past. Hay — Track prices: Timothy, W il secured four bodies under the debris, crusades in Cincinnati, Chicago and verdict returned today in the case of near Colfax, Wash., a 5-year-old child lamette valley, $20<f/,21 per ton; East but it took hours to extricate the more recently in San Francisco and ex-Councilman M. L. Sw ift Jr., the ed technical irregularities. was run over by a hog and its leg bro Class Rates to Be Investigated. ern Oregon, $23<rz<24; alfalfa, $16.50</z. mangled forms from the mass. Ex Oakland, disappeared and his bride ap first of the victims o f the graft scandal Thomas’ report is said also to rec pealed to the police yesterday to find ken. ommend the removal of Deputies Doyle Salem—The railroad commission is 17.50; grain hay, $17(iz 18. put on trial on the charge o f bribery. perts who have examined the mine are Oats— No. 1 white, $27<i;'28.50 ton. positive not one o f the entombed men him. He vanished after taking one The jury was out one hour and 45 min in receipt o f a copy o f the resolutions President Fallieres, o f France, ex and R. S. Johnstone. glass of beer, his w ife said. Hugnes Butter— City creamery, extras, 33c; adopted by the Open River and lives. Forty-two men were in the mine. utes. Attorney Marshall, for the de changed calls with Roosevelt and the married Miss Cora Beck, immediately creamery, 320/33c; Freights convention held at Albany, fancy outside fense, announced a new trial would be audience in a French theater ruse to Jury-Tampering Charged. after testifying at the trial o f a hotel store, 20c. Butter fat prices average greet him. asked. Assistant district attorney W. Smuggler o f Chinese Killed. Philadelphia, April 25.— That men this week, to the effect that each com proprietor, whose arrest he had caused. l j c per pound under regular butter mercial club and board o f trade in the E. Seymour tonight said Judge Frazer implicated in the couneilmanic scandal Santa"Ana, Cal., April 23.— Grato Attorneys, principals and clerks en prices. had signified his intention of consider in Pittsburg have raised- a large fund Willamette valley shall have at least Rio Espinosa is dead and four Chinese Germans Aid Riff Tribesmen. gaged in a general fight in a Sacra E ggj— Fresh Oregon ranch, 24Ji<; 25c ing the recommendation for mercy. to defeat the ends of justice and that one representative present at the hear are under arrest following a running mento court room. Deputy sheriffs Gibraltar, April 21. — What the Pork— Fancy, 130/13Jc per pound. fight at midnight with Federal officers. the present panel from which will be ing to be held Thursday, April 28, at separated them. Spanish govemmen calls a “ watch,” Veal— Fancy, 9$0/'10c per pound. Jail Beats Taxpaying. Salem, to investigate the class rates chosen jurors to hear the cases is be They surprised Espinosa and the but which really amounts to a block Lambs— Fancy, 12c per pound. Rafton, III., April 20.— Because J. Chinese in his store at El Toro. Four cases o f appendicitis in five ing tampered with, were allegations now in force by the Southren Pacific Poultry-—Hens, 20c; broilers, 270/ When the officers entered, Espinosa ade, of the R iff coaat has been estab J. Keon, a Socialist leader, refuses to years, and three of them within the made to the State Supreme court today company. lished in an effort to stop the landing pay a poll tax of $1.50, he began this 28c; ducks, 22i/>(23c; geese, 12ic; drew a revolver and fired several last six months, is the record of a Col by district attorney William A. Blake No Shooting at La Grand. turkeys, live, 200t22c; dressed, 25c: times. He dashed from the place with o f arms for the natives. Several Span afternoon to serve six months in jail. ley, of Allegheny county. Mr. Blake fax, Wash., family. ish fighting craft, varying from battle The city hall has been converted into La Grande— To forbid the sale and squabs, $3 per dozen. ley made his charges in filing his an the officers in pursuit. A score of ships to torpedo boats, are engaged in a jail by screening the windows with Apples— $1002.60 per box. The government cotton inquiry will swer to the petition of Max G. Leslie, use of fire crackers in La Grande in shots were exchanged before the fugi accordance with the ordinance, and to Potatoes— Carload buying prices: tive dashed into the cellar of an out the service. It is well known here chicken wire and Keon declares he will go deeper than originally expected. delinquent tax collector o f Allegheny that the Riffs have never ceased their serve his full time rather than pay the send four men to northwest cities to Oregon, 40oz 50c per hundred; new county, indicted in the scandal. building on the outskirts of the v il A daring thief has looted the cathe guerilla warfare against Spain and of tax or work it out at 75 cents a day. study paving questions was decided by California, 6c per pound; sweet pota lage, where he was found dying. dral o f Moscow, Russia, o f precious late it has been noticed that the na the council at its last meeting. A. V. toes, 3 JO/lc. He holds such a tax is unconstitutional. Steamer Crippled at Sea. ■tones from the pictures of the saints Andrews and W. J. Church for the tives are better armed. Germans are Keon’s meals will be taken from the Vegetables -Asparagus, 30/ 5c; head University Has Scandal. Seattle, April 25. A wireless dis and the image o f the virgin, to the suspected o f supplying the weapons. council, and W. H. Broknenknmaa and lettuce, 600/75c per dozen; hothouse city's leading hotel. patch from the steamship Princess May J. E. Foley for the property owners Washington, April 23.— As a result value of $500,000. lettuce, 50c0/$l per box; green onions, states that the steamship Bertha, of will visit towns to study pavnig. o f sensational testimony before the Apostles' Creed Dropped. 15c per dozen; radishes, 30c; rhubarb, Taft Asked for Pardon. An expedition will leave Copenhagen the Alaska ( ’oast company’s fleet, was house committee on the District of New Haven, Conn., April 21.— A 3c per pound; spinach, $1 per box; this summer to retrace Cook’s route disabled in Knox bay, Johnson strait, Washington, April 20.— Representa Columbia regarding the conduct of new confession of faith which drops Railroad Builders at Work. sprouts, 9c per pound; turnips, $1 per through the Arctic and recover instru with her steering gear broken down. Eugene — The Lane County Asset sack: rutabagas, $lf/tl.25; carrots, affairs of George Washington univer the Apostles’ Creed and requires no tive Culloch, o f Indiana, presented to menta and supplies which Cook claims The Princess May asked the Bertha of company, which is promoting a rail sity, o f this city, there may be a con President T aft today a petition for the formal expression as to the divinity of 85cOz$l; beets, $10/11.25; parsnips, she needed aid, but the captain o f the road between Eugene and the coast, re to have left at certain points. gressional investigation. 500(75c. Christ has been adopted by the deacons pardon of John R. Walsh, the Chicago Bertha declined assistance, saying that cently sent to a surveying camp, lo Dr. (Phillips, former dean o f the and will be presented for adoption by banker. The petition was signed by Cattle— Best steers, $6.750/ 7: fair Six convicta in the Leavenworth, he would be able to proceed on his way cated on the Ellmaker place on Coyote to good steers, $6«/<j.50; strictly good medical school of the university, today the Center church. Congregational, of 22,000 residents o f the Second Indiana Kan., pen escaped by overpowering after temporary repairs were made to creek, three big wagon loads of sup cows, $5.750/6; fair to good cows, $5 charged that the Corcoran endowment this ¡city, an institution which has congressional district, into which the the crew o f a switch engine and forc his broker gear. plies. This is evidence to the doubters 0(5.50; light calves, $60/7; heavy cal fund o f $200,000, which was a sacred strictly held to Puritan orthodoxy for railroads built by Mr. Walsh extend. ing them to run the engine through as to the company’s intention o f build ves, $40/5; bulls, $40(5.25; stags, trust, had been flagrantly misused. more than 250 years. New members The president directed that the peti the gates and out into the country. Russia Gets Rockefeller Coin. ing a railroad, that it is in earnest $4.500(5.50. will only have to pledge themselves to tion be referred to the department o f Blizzard Hits Michigan. New York, April 25.— Russians here about the matter. a belief in a higher life and purposes. justice to follow the usual course. Hogs— Top, $11.100/11.25; fair to A Chicago doctor has been awarded good, $100(11. $100,000, payment in full of a contract have received advices from SL Peters Calumet, Mich., April 23.— A heavy Pledged 25 Cars Green Prunes. Aviator Breaks Record. Storms Menace Fruit Crops. to furnish all medical treatment for a burg to the effect that John D. Rocke Sheep Best wethers, $6o/6.50; fair blizzard, with a 50-mile wind from the Salem Practically 25 carloads of to good, $5.500/'5.75; good lambs, $80/ 9. north, struck Keewena yesterday and woman during her life. She lived feller has given a large sum— reported Charleville, France, April 21.— The Winchester, Va., April 20.—Snow about five years after the contract was to be $500,000 —to establish ■ sanitar green prunes have been pledged to the Onions—Oregon, $1.75 per hundred. reached its climax shortly before mid- French aviator, Roger Sommer, accom and hail fell at intervals this morning made, during which time the physician ium for tuberculosis sufferers at Ab- Salem Fruit union for shipment. The Hops— 1909 crop, 170/19c per pound; night. The storm swept from Duluth plished ■ remarkable feat today, which over the fruit belt o f Northern V ir bas-Tuman, a watering place in Trans- packing house will be enlarged during olds, nominal; 1910 contracts. 15ftfl<K. to the Soo. Three inches of show has established a new world’s record for ginia. The thermometer has taken a faithfully lived up to his agreement. Caucasia. A t the Rockefeller office at he summer, and the facilities for hand Wool Eastern Oregon. 16ot.20c per fallen and the temperature is now aeroplanes. He made a flight o f more decided tumble, falling 45 degrees W et snow is crushing trees and tele 26 Broadway no one could be found to ling the crops o f Polk and Marion coun pound; valley, 20o(22c; mohair, about 20 degrees, a drop o f 20 since than flve minutes across country w th since yesterday noon, approaching th« phone and telegraph wires in Ohio. ■ay anything about the reported gift. ties will be greatly increased. choice, 26Jc. morning. freezing point. four passengers. The bean crop in Mississippi has been totally ruined by the freezing weather. Ice half an inch thick was formed. OHIO COAL MINE DIS ASTER KILLS 18 MEN.