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Washington County Hews
D O ING S iN C O N G RESS.
ARE BEATEN BACK
Thursday, January 26.
The agricultural appropriation bill
U »ated Each Week
waa considered in the house today, but
the debate turned principally upon the
FOREST GROVE.______OREGON
topic of restricting railroads in the
matter of freight rates.
The house
adopted a joint resolution appropriat-
j ing $40,000 to defray the expenses of
, the senate in conducting the trial of
Judge Swayne.
The senate passed the army appro
priation bill after modifying the provis
ion concerning the assignment of retired
army officers to active service with m il
itia organizations.
This w ill relieve Battle Carried On in Blizzard by Jap
A n e w m e o f the Lees Important but General Miles from its application,
anese When Forced to Fight
j The bill transferring the control of
Not Less Interesting Events
to Save Position.
forest
reservations
from
the
interior
to
o f the Past Week.
the agricultural department was passed.
Russian Advance Ends in Dis
astrous Defeat.
NEWS OF THE WEEK
AWFUL SUFFERING OF SOLDIERS
in a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
Three would-be assassins of the czar
have been captured.
A number of senators are opposing
the Malheur irrigation bill.
The Japanese have captured another
veeselb ound for Vladivostok with con
traband of war.
The federal grand jury working on
Oregon land fraud cases is still grind
ing out indictments.
Thirty-six Russian refugees from
Port Arthur on their way to Chefoo in
a junk were ¿aught by a storm and
drowned.
Grand Duke Vladim ir defends the
action of the Russian government and
says she has not deserved the fierce ex
ecrations of the world.
Russian officers declare before the
North sea commission that they saw
torpedo boats of a foreign country
among the fishing boats.
Governor Deneen ruges the Illinois
legislature to appropriate sufficient
money for the Lewis and Clark fair to
enable a buildng to be erected.
In the Colorado election contest case
Peabody urges that all fraud-tainted
precinct returns be thrown out.
A
number of ballots from precincts out
side of Denver have been examined
and found to have been made out in
the same handwriting.
The provincial council as warned the
czar to grant freedom or hate his crown.
Friday, January 27.
The Swayne impeachment case was
brought up in the senate today and af
ter several preliminaries bad been ar
range»! the time for the real trial was
set for February 13.
The rest of the
day was spent ia considering the joint
statehood bill.
Gallinger addressed
the senate in support of bis amend
ment prohibiting the sale of intoxicat
ing liquors to Indians.
The house today passe»! the agricul
tural appropriation! bill without ma
terial amendment. The usual discus
sion on the free seed distribution was
indulged in. The house committee on
naval affairs today decide»! that the bill
should provide for two battle ships of
16,000 tons each.
Three were asked
for. The bill carries approximately
$100,070,000.
Saturday, Jan. 28.
Eulogies upon the departure of the
late Henator Hoar, of Massachusetts,
particularly engrossed the attention of
the senate today.
There were 16
speeches by as many senators. After
the conclusion of the memorial serv
ices the senate adjourned out of respect
to the dead senator’s memory.
In a session of less than two hours
today the house passe»l 373 pension
bills and received for the calendar the
naval and diplomatic appropriation
bills. The session was devoted to leg
islation entirely devoid of discussion.
Tokio, Jan. 31. — The troope which
twice captured Port Arthur, once from
the Chinese and then again from the
Russians, have administered a defeat to
General Kuropatkin’s army from which
it cannot possibly recover during the
winter. Field Marshal Oyama has sent
a dispatch to the imperial headquar
ters indicating that the conquerors of
Port Arthur were sent by him to meet
the enemy in the bloody battle just de
cided, owing to their long practice un
der arms and their tried ability to
withstand the hardships of the awful
Manchurian winter.
The result of
the struggle so far has proved th e ’wis
dom of his course.
Every dispatch received from the
front tells of winter horrors such as no
other battling army ever had to contend
with. Many inches of snow cover the
country as far as the eye can see. The
ridges are snow-capped.
Avalanche
upon avalanche has tumbled into the
trenchs, inflicting untold suffering upon
the soldiers therein.
Field Marshal Ovama’s dispatches
have convinced the m ilitary authori
ties here that he was by no means anx
ious to engage in the battle, and, in
fact, permitted the Russians to take
several positions in his vicinity to save
the troops from the unspeakable strain
of fighting in the storm. But the Rus
sian advance was made withh such en
ergy and determination by large bodies
of troops occupying miles of ground
that Oyama finally decided to accept
the challenge.
A large portion of General Nogi’ s
army, both his regulars and his re
serves, were placed in the vanguard.
Among them were thousands of veterans
of the C'hino-Japanese war, who, hav
ing done service in Manchuria in the
winter, were able to make progress and
use their arms where less seasoned
troops would have been paralzyed.
The victory gained over the fcuasian
right army is considered here even a
greater feat than was the capture of
Port Arthur, for, while the battle
raged, there were no trenches to seek
protection in and every shot of the
enemy was made more deadly by the
indescribable cold.
For this reason
the news from the front that Field Mar
shal Oyama is now following up his
advantage with relentless energy has
been received with amazement.
Monday, January 30.
Russians accuse British of inciting
The senate today agreed to vote on
the riots and Great Britain has asked
the joint statehood bill before adjourn
for an explanation.
ment on Tuesday, February 7, the
A canvass of the Denver vote in the amendments to lie considered on that
Colorado contest shows one-third of the date under the ten-minute rule. The
ballots to 1« fraudulent.
larger part of the day was occupied in
The thermometer
in
Manchuria general debate on the statehood b ill.
where the fighting is now in progress Fulton offered amendment!/ to the In
dian appropriation b ill referring to the
registers 20 degrees below zero.
court of claims of Chinook and Cath-
The residence of Governor Trepoff,
lamet Indians; also conveying title to
of 8t. Petersburg, was almost demol
persons who have purchased grazing
ished by a bomb.
The governor was
lands from the Umatilla Indians.
absent.
A lter a protracted debate the house
It is believed that Kuropatkin re adopted the conference report on the
ceived orders from Ht. Petersburg to as executive, legislatve and judicial appro
sume the offensive or else he would not priation b ill.
As agree»l to the bill
have moved against the Japanese at Carries $29,132,242. A bill was passed
dividing the state of Washington into
present.
two judicial districts, the Eastern and
Twenty members o f the Chicago
Western. The bill extending to the
Commercial cslub have gone to Cuba,
Philippines the provisions of the revis
C IT Y O F BLOOD.
where they will devote two weeks to
ed statutes concerning the extradition
studying the commercial possibilities
of fugitives from justice was passed.
of the island.
Battle Rages in Warsaw Streets with
No Respect to Age or Sex,
Kdwin Stone, of Albany, manager of
Tuesday, January 3l.
the Corvallis A Eastern raliroad, was
. Warsaw, Jan. 31.— Another day anil
The senute today continued the con
assaulted and the room in which he was
half a night of horrors have passed.
asleep set on fire.
The flames were sideration of the joint statehood full As this dispatch is sent, the city is
not discovered until, with the injuries with Nelson as the principal speaker. ruled by savage mobs and more savage
received from the assailant, they proved A number of bills were passed, includ soldiers. Both are intent upon killing.
fatal. There is no clew to the inur ing one largely increasing the fees for No official statements are obtainable at
stock companies in the Ditsrict of Co
derer.
this hour, hut when the cost in human
lumbia.
lives comes to l>e counted there w ill be
The naval appropriation bill provides
In the house the semate amendments
found dead by the hundreds— men,
ever 1100,000,000.
to the army appropriation bill were
women and children.
The Prussian government has ap disagreed to and the bill was sent to
Everybody— young and old, men,
conference.
Williams,
(Dem
.,
Miss.)
pointed a commission to investigate the
women and children— was attacked by
started a lengthy debate by bringing up
coal strike.
the soldiers and ruthlessly shot down.
the treatment by General Miles of
One soldier aimed a sabre blow at a
Chile has refused to sell war vessels
Jefferson Davis, president of the Con
woman. In self defense she drew a re
to an American firm, presumably for
federacy, when he was a prisoner at
volver and fired a shot, which went
one of the nations now at war in the
Fortress Monroe.
The nostoffice ap
wild. A second later a volley was di
Far East.
propriati! n bill was d< bated for an
rected at her, and she fell dead, riddled
Secretary Taft wants a reduction of hour.
by a score of bullets. This is but one
tariff on Philippine products and de
of a hundred instances.
clares the islands w ill ultimately be
May Shelve Statehood Bill.
For the most part the soldiers who
given their independence.
Washington, Jan. 27. — Numerous rode and tramped through the streets
Syin|>athizcrs with the Russian strik conferences were held on the floor of during the late afternoon of Monday
ers marched through the streets of the senate today regarding a vote on were drunk. They seemed to take a
Boston with a red flag, but they were the statehood bill. An effort was made particular delight in attacking harmless
not not allowed to make speeches.
to get Senator Beveridge to agree to persons. They killed for the mere
some order for voting on amendments. sake of killing.
People fleeing from Ht. Petersburg He saiil he was not oppnse»l to such an
for safety say the present half-calm is argeement and further, that he did not
All Agree with Hay.
only a periisl of prejiaration for greater care much whether a vote was had on
Berlin, Jan. 31.— The Russian gov
resistance to the government and that the statehood bill at the present ses
active smuggling of arms and dynamite sion. W ith 12 new senators coming ernment’ s reply to China's declaration
is going on across the Austrian frontier. in with the opening of the next con that she has not infringed neutrality,
nor |>ermitteil Japan to do so, is a reas
The president has issued an order, gress, he said, he felt that the bill sertion that she has done so. The Rus
would
be
passed
in
its
set
form.
effective March 1, taking into the com
sian note is such that it is inferred
petitive classified service all customs
that Russia is not likely to carry the
Will
Now
Build.
service positions in Alaska, except
discussion milch further. It is learned
tlnsie restricted to navigation season $ Sacramento, Jan. 27. — The lyrwis here that Russia found that all the
ami Clark appropriation bill, which powers, particularly Germany, held
only.
passe» 1 the senate on Monday by a views identical with those of the
The Russian strike has spread in unanimous vote, today
passed the Unite»! States on lim iting the zone
Poland and Baltic cities.
assembly. It w ill be signed by the gov of war and the keeping China out of
A plot against the life of the czar has ernor as anon as it can lie engroese»!. it.
The money appropriate») by this bill,
been frustrated.
with the appropriation of two years ago,
Run Down by Cavalry.
Pealssly declares he w ill conitnue
$90,000 in all, w ill be inime»liately
the contest for governor to the end.
London, Jan. 31.— The foreign office
available, uniter the direction of Gov
has received a telegram from Consul
The new cruiser Maryland exceeded ernor Pardee, who is authorized to act
Gneral Murray, at Warsaw, reporting
speed requirements on her trial trip.
in hia own diacretion.
that himself and Vice Consul Mucu-
Officials in charge of the canal zone
kain were charged by RiiseianI cavalry
Illinois Will Exhibit.
are employing drastic measures to
men engaged in clearing the streets of
Springfield, 111., Jan. 27.— With the Warsaw. It ap|>ears that Mr. Murray
stamp out yellow fever.
The cabinet has diaruaaed the advisa sanction and official approval of gov is partially deaf, and when he endeav
bility of teaching jiu-jitsu in the m ili ernor Deneen, a bill w ill be introduced ored to make known his personality, it
in both branches of the general assem was without avail. Ambassador Hard,
tary and naval academies
bly next Monday providing for an ap inge has been ordered to make urgent
labor Commissioner Wright says he propriation of $36,000 for an Illinois pr»»test at Ht. Petersburg.
fielieves both sides were to blame in building at the Is»wis and Clark cen
the Colorado labor trouble
tennial expnaition which w ill open next
Beef Trust a Monopoly.
June at Portland, Oregon. Along witM
Washington. Jan. 31.— The supreme
Workmen in Russia are returning to the bill w ill be presented a special mes
court of the United States today decid-
work, the government forcing conces sage from Govenor Deneen.
ed the Unite«l States vs. Swift A Co.,
sions from their employers in Ht.
known as the beef trust case, charging
Petersburg and Moscow
Burning the Factories.
conspiracy among the packers to fix
Father Gopon, th priest leader of the
Guidon, Jan. 27.— A dispatch from prices on fresh meats and like products.
strikers, is in the hospital recovering Ht. Petersburg late tonight to a news The opinion was handed down by
from wounils. As si sin as well he w ill agency here reports that Fahl’a factory Justice Holmes an<i affirmed the de
be court martialed ami if found guilty and a large cotton m ill have been set on cision of the court below, which was
w ill be hanged,
firs and are burning flarcly.
against the packers.
C O L D K IL L S TH E W OUNDED.
Stream o f Sufferers Pours Into Muk
den—Japanese Spread Dissension
Mukden, Feb. 1.— Constant streams
of wounded men are arriving here from
the right flank, including* Lieutenant
General Mistchenko, who is in excel
lent spirits and is receiving visitors.
According to the official army organ,
the wounded number 3,500. The cold
is intense and the condition of the
wounded causes the greatest anxiety,
because the exposure of their wounds
to the frost induces gangrene.
The Japanese are taking goof care to
see that the Russian rank and file are
not left uninformed regarding the dis
turbances in Russia. They are carry
ing on a regular campaign to spread se
dition and discouragement among the
troops. Letters are daily thrown with
in the Russian lines declaring that all
Russia is aflame with riot and revolt,
arguing that the soldiers are shedding
their blood in vain, and calling on
them to surrender or desert. The sol
diers eagerly read and discuss these
communications, especially accounts of
the events at Ht. Petersburg January 22.
GIVES U P A T T E M P T .
Kuropatkin Will Not Try to Break
Through Oyama's Line.
Mukden, Feb. 1.— There is no appar
ent connection between starting of the
battle of January 26 and the domestic
excitement at Ht. Petersburg, nor the
orders just issued to abandon the plan
ned advance against the Japanese posi
tions. The effect of the trouble in
Russia is as yet inperceptible here.
The facts are not generally known.
Officers possessing information of oc
currences at home say that the disaf
fected are probably using the present
war as a pretext for their periodical
demonstrations, which are regarded no
more seriously that formerly.
The commander in chief’ s orders to
abandon the advance are reported to
reasons for stopping the
advance:
First, the losses sustained: second, the
failure of a quick attack upon which
the advance' depended. The precise
meaning of the above is not apparent.
Notwithstanding the o r '“ r to cease,
a tenacious conflict continues in the
vicinity of Sanchiapu, a fortified out
post on the Japanese left, where it is
reporte»l the Russians have taken the
outer works.
T O W N S ON IR R IG ATE D LAND
French
Proposes to Sell Lots
Water Rights fo r Fund.
and
Washington, Feb. 1 . — Representa
tive French, of Idaho, today introduced
a bill authorizing the secretary of the
interior to withdraw from entry any
public lands needed for townsite pur-
lioseH in connection with any irrigtion
project under the national irrigation
law and to subdivide them into lots.
Such lots shall be sold at public auc
tion to the highest bidder for cash, the
proceeds to be expended for the con
struction of water and sewer systems
and other municipal improvements and
for payment for rights to the use of
water. Money so expended for muni
cipal improvements shall be repaid by
the town authorities in 20 annual in
stallments into the reclamation fund.
The secretary may sell rights to the
use of water available under the recla
mation act for domestic, fire and other
purposes to any city or town establish
ed as above provided, and also to other
cities or towns.
DEAD IN HEAPS.
Warsaw Streets Full o f Human Bodies
as Result o f Battle.
Warsaw, Feb. 1. — More blood has
been shi-il in the streets of Warsaw
during Tuesday and early Wednesday
morning.
The number of strikers is
increasing, and conditions throughout
the city are fast becoming chaotic.
The worst disturbances occurred in
the suburbs, while the city proper was
somewhat more quiet.
Many streets in the city pro|>er are
like chanel houses.
In some disticts
the dead lie in heaps, as it has lieen
impossible to bury them all.
Author
ities admit that at least 700 corpses
are still in the streets. They are pu
trefying fast, and in some quarters the
stench is becoming unbearable.
Can't Collect Old Debts.
Washington, Feb. 1.— A ll the mem-
t>ers of the cabinet wen- present at the
meeting today except Secretaries Hay
and Wilson, the former still being con
fined to his home by a severe cold.
Again the president emphasized his in
terest in the arbitration treaties pend
ing before the senate. He holds that
the opponents of the treaties are pro
ceeding on wrong premises in maintain
ing that they may he used by foreign
countries as a basis for action against
certain of the Southern states in the
collection of old claims.
Must Obey the Court.
Washington, Feb. 1.— It can be said
by authority that unless the corpora
tions constituting the alleged beef trust
shall heed the injunction made perma
nent yesterday by the decision of the
supreme court of the United States,
the government w ill institute proceed
ings against the individual members of
the corporations to enforce the decision
of the court. The proceedings w ill he
tinder the criminal law. if such can he
instituted.
Carrying Out New Forestry Law.
Washington. Feb. 1.— By order of
the president, the forest division of
the general lan»l office was abolisbe»!
today, and its work w ill he continued
by the bureau of forestry of the de
partment of agriculture, under Chief
Forester Gifforti Pinchot.
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OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
IN TH E LE G IS LA TU R E .
Salem, Jan. 25.— A score of bills
dealing with the salaries of state and
county officers have been introduced in
the house, and more are to follow.
The most important of all is the bill
for flat salaries for state officers.
Speaker M ills was absent today and
Bailey, of Multnomah, was elected
speaker for the day.
Thirteen bills were passed by the
house, of which eight related to charter
amendments or incorporation acts.
Twenty-eight new measures were pro
posed.
In the senate eighteen bills were
passed, a large majority relating to
municipalities.
One appropriates
$45,000 for Indian
war
veterans.
Eight new bills where introduced.
The house passed a concurrent reso
lution asking an investigation of the
methods by which the Northern Pacific
railway secured 400,000 acres of Ore
gon timber lands.
The house w ill pass a bill to grant
each county a prosecuting attorney and
do away with district attorneys.
Representative 8teiner, of Lake, has
a b ill intended to end range wars. It
forces the county in which the damage
is committed to pay one-half of the
value of the stock injured or destroyed.
The senate went on record to»lay
against making trainrobberv punish
able by death. A bill fixing imprison
ment at not less than 10 nor more than
40 years was favorably reported.
Salem, Jan. 26.— That the legisla
ture w ill not adjourn short of a 40 days
session was indicated today when the
house voted down the resolution for
final adjournment February 10.
A large number of bills were favor»
ably reported to the house by the vari
ous committees to which they had been
assigned. Twelve new bills were intro
duced. Three house bills were passed,
as follows: To extend time for Cottage
Grove to give notice of tax levy; to
authorize Clatsop county to erect a
court house; for deficiency and legis
lative appropriations. The senate con-
cured in the adoption of the house con
current resolution to investigate North
ern Pa ific land transactions. Fifteen
senate bills were passed by the senate,
among them being: Increasing the
penalty for train robbery to imprison
ment for 10 to 40 years; to create juve
nile courts and provide for control of
neglected children; to apppropriate
$25,000 for the operation of the port
age road at C elilo; to appropriate $45,-
000 for the Indian war veterans.
Eleven new bills were introduced in
the senate.
*
At the close of today's session 179
bills had been introduced in the senate
and 281 in the house. K ay’ B flat salary
bill passed the house today with only
two opposing votes. The yearly sal
aries proposed by this measure are:
Governor $5,000; secretary of state $4,-
500; state treasurer $4,500; supreme
judge $4,500; attorney general $3,600.
trict with Wasco.
Strong opposition
will develop in the senate, where the
Wasco people have centered their
forces.
Nine other measures were passed by
the house.
•
Th Jayne local option bill w ill be
amended by eliminating the emergency
clause and the reduction of the number
of voters required on a petition for a
prohibition election from 40 to 30 per
cent of the electors of a precinct.
Comparatively few salary bills have
been introduced in the senate thus far,
but it is known that others w ill be in
troduced later.
As a rule these bills
being local, they pass without question
upon the recommendation of the dele
gation from the counties affected.
Salem, Jan. 31.— A bill was intro
duced in the senate today to suppress
poolseiling and poolrooms.
Eleven
other new measures were introduced.
Nine bills were passed, one of them
appropriating $15,000 for fish hatcher
ies.
This bill has already passed the
house.
The senate b ill authorizing the Lewis
and Clark fair corporation to condemn
private property was passed by the
house.
Ten new bills were introduced in the
house, one of them being the anti-
cigarette bill, identical with that intro
duced in the senate.
The house rejected the senate con
current resolution for a joint assembly
tomorrow to consider a constitutional
convention.
This stops any further
possibilities of a constitutional conven
tion.
Electric bells at railroad crossings is
the object of a bill introduced in the
house today. They are to be of suffi
cient weight and sound to lie heard 100
yards and are to be placed at every
crossing where a public road crosses a
railway track where the view is ob
structed either way.
The house committee on mining fa
vors the passage of the b ill relieving
such mining companies of thp annual
license tax as have an annual output
of less than $1,000.
A new bill in the house provides that
all sheep driven into the state for pas
turage shall lie taxed 20 cents a head
and 5 censt a head shall lie paid for
each county through which the sheep
are driven.
The Cascade county b ill w ill appear
in the senate tomorrow or Thursday.
Talk New Railroad.
Tillamook— Another railroad propo
sition has been made to the citizens by
Mr. Simmons, who says he is backed
by Portland capital, to giçe Tillamook
county railroad connections. He made
a proposition to build a standard guage
railroaiLfrom either Forest Grove or
North Yam hill, and have it constructed
within one year, provided the citizens
could get a 100-foot right of way, give
$35,000 subsidy and a suitable site for
a depot in this city. It is the inten
tion to extend the line, provided it is
Salem, Jan. 27.— Nineteen bills were built to this city, to Netarts bay.
passed by the senate today.
Twelve
Church Colpny fo r Oregon.
new bills were introduced. The house
Spokane — The
People’ s United
passe»! 21 of its measures.
A bill has made its appearance in the church, at the head of which is Bishop
senate intended to regulate the frater David N. Mclnturff, is to be disrupted
in Spokane and a colony formed in Ore
nal insurance orders in the state.
Bishop M cln
The Coe measure raising the age of gon or the Big Bend.
consent has been unfavorably reported turff has made arrangements to pur
by the committee and a substitute re chase 5,000 acres of land in one of the
ported favorably.
It is thought the places named, and every member of
the church w ill move to the new colony
new bill w ill pass.
The bill providing for agricultural after turning over all his worldly pos
institutes and carrivng a $2,500 appro sessions to the church. The church
priation passed the house with votes to has now $50,000 or $60,000.
spare.
Little Wheat is Left Over.
Salem, Jan. 30. — Sixteen new bills
Pendleton — E. W . McComis, agent
were introduced in the senate today. for the Puget Sound Warehouse com
One prohibits the sale of cigarettes to pany in this city, says that there is
minors and makes the use of them by only between 150,000 and 200,000 bush
a person under 16 years a juvenile de els of wheat left in the county out of
linquency which may be dealt with the 5,000,000 grown in Umatilla county
under the juvenile law.
Another is to last year. Nearly every farmer keeps
approppriate $50,000 annually for nor a supply of seed on hand, even for fall
mal schools.
sowing, in case of the grain freezing
Nine bills were passed by the senate. out. This seed is included in the
One of these is the bill raising the sal amount left in the county unsold.
ary of the assistant warden of the peni
tentiary from $900 to $1,200 a year.
Union Farm Sells fo r $18,000.
Another raises the salary of the clerk
Union— The sale of 400 acres of hay
of the state land tioard from $1,800 to land to W illiam Hutchinson by Floyd
$2,400 a year.
Wilson has been reported here. The
In the house the bill creating a state land brought $45 an acre, a total of
tax commission looking to a revision of $18,000, paid in cash.
This is the
the tax code was passed.
The b ill cre second largest land sale made in this
ating Cascade county
was passed. section this winter, the Nichols tract,
Hood River is given as the county which sold for $54,000 cash, being en
seat. It the new county is created it titled to first place.
w ill be in the judicial district with
Multnomah and joint legislative dis-
Union County's Hog.
La Grande— The big Union county
Will Abandon Contests.
hog which is being fattened by Kiddle
Ajax— Few nf the score-odd contests Bros, at Island City for the Lewis and
instituted against Gilliam county set Clark fair, which weighed 900 pounds
tlers in the vicinity at the instance of a few months ago when purchased from
W illiam Tw illey, of D evil’s butte, w ill Sam Brooks, now weighs 1,000 ponnds,
probably be carried to trial, most of and continues to grow fatter. It is in
the contestors having realized that sen tended to make it weigh more than the
timent in this community and in the prize St. Louis fair hog.
county generally is against them. In
the oast six weeks 22 homesteads in the
PO R TLAN D M ARKETS.
Ajax section have been
contested.
Three or four were heard at The Dalles
W h ea t— W alla W’ alla, 83c; blue-
and the rest were set for hearing before stem, 88c; valley, 87c.
the Gilliam county clerk at Condon.
Oats— No. 1 white, $ 1 .3 2 * # 2 .3 5 ,
Feeling isbitter against Tw illey.
gray, $1.35(31.40 per cental.
Hay— Timothy, $14016 per ton;
Not Much Snow in the Hills.
clover, $11012; grain, $11012; cheat,
Pendleton— The melting snows and $12(313.
falling rains of the past few days has
Potatoes — Oregon fancy, 86(390c;
filled the streams of the county. Water common, 800 75c.
is now plentiful enough to run all
Apples— Baldwins, $1.25; Spitsen-
mills that have heretofore suffered by bergs, $1.7502 per box.
the dryness of the fall. Irrigationists
Eggs— Oregon ranch, 27028c.
are fearing that there w ill not be a
Butter— Fancy creamery, 25030c.
sufficient
quantity of snow in the
Hope— Choice, 270 28c; prime, 26«
mountains to insure a flow of water per pound.
through the summer.
Usually there
W ool — Valley, 19020c; Eastern
is from five to six feet at Kamela, hut Oiegon, 10017c; mohair, 25026c per
now there is but a few inch««.
pound.