Washington County News
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FOREST GROVE.
OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
DOINGS iN CONGRESS.
Wednesday, February 15.
The senate today continued but could
not conclude, consideration of the hill
making appropriations for the support |
of the government of the District of
Columbia.
In the 8wayne trial a number of wit
nesses were examined for the purpose
of ascertaining if the judge was in the
habit of traveling on passes.
MANY MINERS DEAD
_________
Over One «Hundred Entombed In
Alabama Mine.
EXPLOSION OF DUST TH E CAUSE
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
The question of what the nolicy of
the government shonld be with respect
to the upbuilding of the navy was again
threshed out in the house today. At
Details o f Cause o f Explosion Will
A Return« o f the Lest Important but the time of adjournment the navy ap
Likely Never Be Known— Relief
propriation
bill
was
still
under
consid
Not L e t t Interesting Events
eration .
Hurried to Scene.
of the Past Week.
Thursday, February 16.
A great battle is impending in Man-
Aside from two hours spent in rou
cburcia.
tine business the senate today gave its
Senator Mitchell w ill endeavor to entire attention to the 8wayne impeach
ment trial.
Two and a half hours of
have hia trial in April,
the time given to that case was spent
A life aaving station iff to be estab behind closed doors.
lished at Nome, Alaska.
Before taking up the naval bill,
llearst w ill be an independent candi- which occupied the greater part of/its
dte for mayor of New York.
time, the house today entered an em
The funeral of Grand Ihike Sergius phatic protest against the action of the
senate in amending the agricultural
will lie private for fear of terrorists.
b ill. After considering tiie naval bill
The government has begun a thor for the most of the day it was laid aside
ough investigation of the beef trust.
and several bills of minor importance
King Alfonso, of Spain, is to marry were passed.
Princess Victoria, of Prussia, daughter
of Kaiser Wilhelm.
Friday, February 17.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 2 1 .— By an
explosion in the Virginia mine, about
18 miles southwest of Birmingham, at
4 o’clock this afternoon, «between 110
and 135 union miners are entombed
and it is believed the entire nuraljer
suffered an awful death.
Scores of
vigorous rescuers are at work digging
into the mine to relieve their friends
and comrades in tiie inside.
The explosion is believed to have
been caused by an accumulation of
dust, although the mine has heretofore
been noted for being entirely free from
dust. It is also believeed that, as the
Japan has a stro lg Heet in the Indian
The house t<xlay rejected all changes entire quota has probably been killed,
oc an awaiting the arrival of the Rus in the original statehood bill by send
the details of the cause of the disaster
sian Baltic squadron.
ing it to conference without taking any
w ill never be known.
action on it.
Kansas will extend the investigation
The camp is almost isolated from the
The senate today passed a bill appro
of the Standard Oil to all the trusts
priating $9,940,000 for the District of rest of the world, there is no telephone
and other states offer aid.
Columbia, and the diplomatic and con
Two trainmen and two women were sular appropriation bill carrying $2,- station at Virginia, and the only wire
running to the place is a dispatcher’ s
seriously hurt in a wreck on the North« 156,000.
ern Pacific near Plains, Mont.
wire of the Birmingham Mineral rail
Only one hour was spent today on
way, on which V irginia is located.
Chinese junkmen have confessed to the Swayne impeachment trial.
having murdered a German and a
Details of the disaster were slow to
French attache and one other Europ» an
come in.
Saturday, February 18.
while they were attempting to escape
The class of miners employed was
from Port Arthur last August.
After an hour spent as a court of im
the best in the district, and all be
peachment
the
senate
today
took
up
the
The senate has ratified the treaty lie-
longed to tiie United Mineworkers of
tween prat ¡rally all nations for the ex appointment of a conference committee America. Since the strike has been on
emption of hospital ships in time of on the statehood b ill. The matter was in tiie Birmingham district, many of
war from the payment of all duties finally postponed until Monday, when the most industrious and thrifty miners
and taxes im|>OHed for the benefit of the the special order of the day, the eu of Pratt City and other important min
logies upon the character of the late
same.
ing points have removed to the V ir
Sentaor Quay, was entered upon.
ginia mines, so th a t(th e mines were
Fire destroyed two piers and two
The house passed the pension appro
being worked to their full capacity by
steamers at Boston.
priation bill, carrying $138,285,200.
the most skilled miners in the commu
Utah will s|ieiid $30,000 at the The District of Columbia appropriation nity.
b
ill
was
sent
to
conference,
a
bill
was
Is-wis and Clark fair.
R elief trains with surgeons and
passed to prohibit interstate transpor
The Cody, Wyoming, bank rohliers tation of insect |>ests, carrying with it a workmen were dispatched from both
Birmingham and Bessemer as soon as
have lieen caught in Utah.
tine and imprisonment.
the news of tiie disaster was learned.
Pennsylvania nil men w ill build a
They began the work of succor in earn
large refining plant in Kansas.
Monday, February 20.
est and at midnight had not dug half
A ll Panama canal commissioners took
The house passed the naval appro way through the mass of debris. It is
fees as Panama railroad directors.
priation bill carrying a total of $99,- thought it w ill be 10 o’clock tomor
row before the interior of the stope is
Russian university students have de 914,359. The provision for two battle reached.
manded reforms and suspended study. ships as reported by the committee on
The stopes are well arranged and
naval affairs was retained.
The president promises a thorough
Whether the senate conferees on the there has never been the least trouble
investigation o f the Standard Oil com statehood bill shall represent the party in the mines before. They are owned
pany.
that defeated joint statehood for A ri by the Alabama Steel & W ire company,
but are leased and operated by Reid &
Threatening letters sent to the czar zona and New Mexico or the party that
Co.
have caused martial law to lie pro fought for the retention of that provis
ion was debated at lengtli today, but no
claimed at Tsarskoe-Selo.
decision was reached.
E X T R A SESSIO N ON RATE LAW.
The Innian appropriation bill, as re
The Swayne trial was taken up at 2
ported to the senate, will contain no o’clock.
Two witnesses were exam
Will Be Called in October, Earlier
provision for church shcools.
ined. After the provisions of the Flor
Action Being Impossible.
Russian cavalry made a raid around ida statutes relating to suits of eject
Washington,
Feb. 2 1 .— President
ment
or
disqualification
of
judges
had
the Hank and rear of the Japanese
been read it was announced that the Roosevelt, who for weeks has lieen
army and drove in all small parties.
case of tiie house managers was con hopeful that some definite action might
Four men were killed and 14 others cluded.
The preliminary statement be taken at the present session of con
injured by an exploding boiler at the fur Swayne was not finished when the gress or. the railroad rate question,
Provident Coal company, Ht. Clairs- court adjourned for the day.
practially has relinquished the idea of
viile, Ohio.
securing legislation on tiie subject this
winter. It is reasonably certain that
The Oregon land fraud trials are to
Tuesday, February 21.
he w ill not call an extraordinary ses
be post|Mined until June.
Attorney
The house today passed the P h ilip sion of congress to meet in the spring,
lleney expects more indictments when
pine tariff bill, practically as it came but unless lie changes his mind, he w ill
the grand jury recovenes in A pril.
from the committee.
The river and call congress together, probably next
Nan Patterson is seriously ill with harts>r appropriation hill was then
October.
tonsilitis.
taken up hut it was soon laid aside and
Representatives Escli and Townsend,
The jHiwers have refused to allow several measures were passed, the most joint authors of the rate bill whieli
important of which was the authoriza passed the house, had a talk with the
Greece to annex Crete.
tion given the secretary of war to return president today.
They outlined tin
A re|sirt from Colon says that city is
to the several states the Union and Con nite situation ami conditions as they
now free from yellow fever.
federate battlefiags.
found it. They agreed with him thut
Three minor Russian officials have
The senate committee today reported the prospect for tlit* enactment of rate
been murdered or assaulted by terror that it would lx1 impossible to act on legislation at this session was remote.
ists.
the railroad rate bill at this session They imlieiited that if no action was
Con taken at this session, the subject would
Russian terrorists have threatened without ignoring the railroads.
the lives of nearly all of the imperial sideration of the Indian appropriatoin I h - considerisi thoroughly during the
bill was begun,
A short time was coming summer with the idea of pre
family.
given to the defense of Judge Swayne, senting a measure at the next session
The government has just contracted and the senate began the consideration which, very likely, would contain some
for 110,000 tons of coal to lie delivered of tiie bill for tile government of the additional features.
isthmian canal zone.
at Cavite, Philippine islands.
The United States Cotton I tuck cor
Will Have Action on Rates.
poration in 1004 made a surplus of
Washington, Feb. 17. — Representa
$166,085, after paying interest on
tive Townsend, o f Michigan, one of tiie
bonds.
authors of the Ksch-Townsend freight
Two memtiera of the Panama canal rate hill, had a talk with the president
commission are on their way home to today regarding the pro»|K-ets for the
make recommendations to the canal enactment of the measure into law.
committee of congress for changes in Townsend expressed the opinion that
the plans.
there was a ehance for the passage of
New York society women intend to the hill. After his talk with the presi
build the Colony club on Madison ave dent, Mr. Townsend said that in the
nue, New York, for women exclusively. event no legislation on the rate ques
tion was enacted at this session, an
Special Attorney lleney has arrived extra session o f congress would t>e
in Washington and wilt make a report called by the president.
on the Oregon land fraud eases and as
sist in the llyde-l>imnnd land fraud
Mexicans Palmed O ff as Indians.
cases in California Indore the supreme
Kl Paso, Feb. 17.— II. B. Pears, agent
court of the United States.
for the United States Indian Bureau,
irf here investigating the report that
The cxar is said to have decided to
Mexican children have lieen sent to the
offer peace.
government Indian school irom various
France w ill build a warship of the parts of the country on false affidavits
largest tyjie to take the place of the one that they were of one-fourth Indian
blood. It is claimed that hundreds of
recently wrecked.
children have lieen rejected recently
Japan will not agree to peace unless
from the Oklahoma school for this rea
it is enduring.
son, while others, it is said, are to lie
The second trial of Nan Patterson lias found in all the Indian schools.
lieen set for March ft.
Castro Defiet Uncle Sam,
West Virfginia senators accuse Gov
Paris, Feb. 17. — A semi-official dis
ernor White of hoodling.
patch from Caracas, Venezuela, savs
North
Dakota lias
appropriated that under the pressure of President
Castro, the court has ordered the se
money for the l<ewis and Ulark afir.
questration of the landed property of
Women of Moscow have petitioned the American Asphalt company. The
the caarina to ask the osar to make decision in the case has caused excite
ment among Americans at Caracas.
peace with Japan.
Will Confer on Irrigation.
Washington, Feb. 21.— A conference
of reclamation engineers has been called
to meet at Klamath Falls, Arpil 1, to
eonsider plans and estimates for the
Klamath irrigation project.
At that
meeting it is hoped final plans may lie
made for buying out owners of the
small canals, including the rights of
the Klamath ( ’anal company.
The
government is willing to pay tiiis com
pany $150,000 to get out of the wav.
The company demands more, hut it is
believed fcw ill eventually accept this
figure.
Will Issue Philippine Bonds.
Washington. Feh. 21.— After eonsul-
tation by cable with Governor General
\N right, at Manila, Secretary Taft has
decided to avail himself immediately
of the provision of the Cooper bill au
thorizing the issue of bonds to defray
the cost of public works in the Ph ilip
pines
It is the purpose to issue $2,-
500,000 of these bonds bearing four
per cent interest and they are to run
for 30 years with the option of redemp
tion at the end of ten years.
Can’t Compel Judge to Act.
Washington, Feh. 21.— The case ol
the Caledonian Coal company vs. Ben
jamin I Baker, judge of the Supreme
court of New Mexico, to compel him to
take cognisance of an action against
the Atchison, Topeka A Santa Fe rail
road was decided by the Supreme coart
of the United States today against the
company.
T E R M S OF PEACE.
They
I
Have Been Practically Agreed
Upon by Japan and Russia.
I
St. Petersburg, Feb. 22. — Despite
the official denials, the Publishers'
Press correspondent is in a position to
state that the czar and bis advisers
have of late not only discussed the
question of peace with Japan, but have
also practically agreed upon certain
terms, which are acceptable to the em
peror, and, it is alleged, are almost
identical with those which have been
submitted by the Japanese government
to Russia through the agency of the
German emperor.
It is still denied
that such terms were submitted, but it
is nevertheless true that they have
reached tiie hands of the czar.
The terms acceptable to both nations,
and practically agreed to by the czar,
place Korea under Japanese suzerainty
and cede Port Arthur and the Liao
Tung peninsula to Japan.
Vladivostok, under the stipulations,
is to lie declared a neutral and open
port in place of Port Arthur, the neu
tralization of which Japan would not
agree to. This feature, it is stated,
proved one of the most objectionable to
Russia, as it was hoped that the dis
armament of Port Arthur and its trans
formation into a purely commercial
port, o[>en to all nations, would end the
vexing Manchurian question.
The Eastern Chinese railway is to be
placed under a neutral international
administration, and, in order to pro
vide some sort of safeguard for future
peace in Manchuria, that country, as
far north as flarbin, is to lie restored
as an integral part of China.
The main difficulty in the way of
bringing about immediate peace seems
to lie the question of indemnity. It is
known that Japan w ill insist upon a
considerable money payment, ami Rus
sia is not w illing to submit to that con
dition. The difficulty, however, is by
no means insuperable, but if it should
prove to be a serious obstacle, the czar
w ill perhaps be w illing to risk another
battle in the hope of gaining a victory
which may make the Japanese more
amenable to tiie Russian arguments.
LIFE IN O N L Y ONE.
moved from Alabama Mine.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
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IN THE LE G ISLATU R E .
Salem, Feb. 15.— The Cascade coun
ty bill is only a memory.
The com
mittee having it in charge in the senate
reported favorably is tbmorning and a
vote was called for. The result was 18
against and 11 for.
Employes of state institutions will
lie paid monthly hereafter if the gov
ernor does not veto the b ill passed by
the senate.
The house bill providing for a com
mission to examine the subject of
assessment, taxation and collection ot
taxes was passed by the senate.
W ife Ex-aters are to receive punish
ment up to 20 lashes according to the
senate bill passed by the house.
County ami city boards of health are
created by a bill which has passed both
houses.
The committee having the Jayne lo
cal option bill in hand is still wrest
ling with the measure and does not ex-
j>ect to report before Friday.
It appears probable that the bill ap
propriating $70,000 for a new deaf
mute school building, passed by the
house this afternoon, w ill go through
the senate, as many in that Exxly
favor it.
According to joint resolution the leg
islature w ill adjourn Friday without
day. The work w ill be well cleared
off by that time, say President Kuyken
dall and Speaker M ills. No official
netice w ill tie taken of the develop
ments in the case of Senator Mitchell
and an adjourned session w ill not lie
held next w inter nor the present session
prolonged unless something unforeseen
shouhi happen in the next two days.
Forty-eight bills were passed by the
house today and eight faileil. In the
senate 16 bills were passed, besides 15
charter bills, and seven were indefi
nitely postponed. The governor today
signet! 14 bills.
Salem, Feb. 16.— The bill exempting
mining corporations producing less than
$1,000 a year from the corporation tax
was passed by the senate bxlav.
A bill was passetl tonight creating
the office of state engineer, to Eje ap
pointed by the governor.
Commence
ment of suits are authorized to condemn
property where the government may
wish to begin Construction of irrigation
systems.
An appropriation of $5,000
is also ina»le by the bill.
Two hours’ work are in sight in the
house for tomorrow, but 70 bills are
before the senate, besides the Jayne
local option bill, which w ill require
considerable time.
The bill taxing sheep driven in from
other states has been passe»l by both
houses.
The yearly pasturage tax is
placed at 20 cents per head, and when
sheep are driven through the state
the tax is 5 cents per head for t-ach
county traversed.
The bill prohibiting tiie sale of litjuor
to females under 21 years, and forbid
ding proprietors of saloons to permit
such females in their establishments
lias passed both houses.
Both houses held sessions tonight.
In the house 39 bills were pass»xl,
and six were inilefinitely (sistponed.
The senat«- passed 22.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 22.— The
scene at the Virginia mine this after
noon, where a terrific afterdamp explo
sion yesterday afternoon imprisoned
110 men 700 feet below the surface,
was the most gruesome and harrowing
that has ever been witnessed in this
section of Alabama.
Of the miners
who entered the mines yesterday after
noon, so far only 50 bodies have been
recovered. The recovery already of so
many dead bodies precludes the idea
that any livin g men remain among tiie
unfortunates still in tiie mine.
Tiie
corpses arc frightfully mangled and
disfigured and identification is almost
impossible.
Out of the 50 bodies recovered up to
this time, one was found about 4
o’clock which was barely alive. The
body was carefully taken-from the mine
and heroic methods resorted to to bring
tiie man to consciousness. He is still
Salem, Feb. 17.— A t 8 o’clock to
alive, but scant hope is held out for
night the 23d bienial session of the
his recovery.
Oregon legislature ended and the law
makers were adjourned without day,
FAVOR C O A S T SH IPYA R D S .
after 40 »lays’ labor.
The punishment of wif»--beaters by
Humphrey Pleads for Differential on whipping was authorized; small min
ing corporations were exempte»l from
Naval Contracts.
Washington, Feb. 21.— An earnest the corporation tax; railroads are com-
effort is being made by coongressmen jxdltxl to make connections with each
other and transfer cars at reasonable
from the Pacific coast to have inserted
rates, and several fishing laws were
in the naval appropriation bill a pro
vision for a 4 per cent differential in enacted for the purpose of guarding
against the taking of fish on spawning
favor of shipyards on the West coast in
grounds.
the contract price for warships con
The total appropriations of the legis
structed in these yards.
Representa
lature aggregate something over $2,-
tive Humphrey, of Washington, today
000,000, of which $500,000 is for the
strongly urged the president to advo
state insane asylum.
cate such a differential.
I f adopted,
After six weeks of turmoil the Jayne
tiie differential would increase tiie eost
local option bill was indefinitely post-
to tlie governinnt of a battleship con-
pone«l by the senate.
struetd on ¿he Pacific coast about $150,-
Other measuros defeated were to
000. This sum, Humphrey explained,
make gambling a felony; to abolish ri
would not lx- in the form of additional
parian rights; to amend census law so
profit to the constructing company, as
tiie shipment from the East of neces as to make it more applicable to pres
ent n»-«*ds, and to croate a mining bu
sary material entering into the vessels
reau.
Thirteen bills were on third
would amount to $105,000.
reading in the senate at the time of ad
journment and ro»-eiv»*d no attention
Railroads Are Tied Up.
from the upper house.
St. Petersburg, Feb. 22. — The rail
Governor Chamtxirlain w ill l>e kept
road strike situation is reported to lie busy for the next four or five days scan-
growing worse in the southwest, and ning the many bills which were passed
private advices are to show the exist at the close of the session.
ence of a reign of terror in Tifiis ami
A compromise was effect»-»! by the
the Caucasus generally.
Many mur governor and the legislature whereby
ders by Tartars and Armenians are re
ported. Communication has been al
Lane County Teachers' Results.
most cut off, even the telegraphers
Kugene— Out of a cla«s of 85 appli
striking, the few who are still at their cants for teachers’ certificates at the
keys Vicing kept there with pistols at rocent examinations
conduct»-»! by
their heads.
The situation in Poland County Superintendent Dillard, 61
along the Austrian bonier is also caus were granteil the papers, the sujierin-
ing great uneasiness.
tendent and assistants having just com-
plet»-»! marking and grailing the papers.
Baltic Fleet at Nossi Be.
Of those who passed the examination,
Port Ixiuis, Mauritius, Feh. 22.— 13 were granted first-grade certificates,
Russia's Baltic Meet is still making 26 second-grade. 46 third-grade and
Nossi Be (Great Island), off the north one primary certificate.
Eleven per
west roast of Madagascar,its rendezvous. sons t<xik the examination for state cer
The whole fleet and colliers nuniEier 70 tificate«, and the papers have E>een sent
vessels of all kinds. Only a few co’ - to State Superintendent Ackerman.
liers remain at Diego Suarez, Mada
gascar. The Russian officers and sail
Broom Factory to Resume.
ors are enjoying themselves greatly.
Rosehurg— The Rosehurg broom fac
The fleet has been supplied with 50,000 tory. destroyed by fire last month, will
cases of potatoes and 10,000 hags of resume business. R. 8. Barker, man
Hour by local merchants.
ager ol the company, has purchase»! the
old Groat Central Headquarter« build
Investigate Texas Oil Also.
ing, and the factory w ill be operated
Houston, T ex., Feb. 22.— A petition there. Necessary machinery has been
is Vicing circulate»! here asking Con orderod ami several carloads ol broom
gressman Picknev to nsjuest President corn are already on their way to this
Roosevelt to include the Texas oil fields city from Oklahoma. As soon as the
in the investigation of the Standard Oil machiner}- arrives the factory w ill start
operations in Kansu.
on a larger s»-ale than before.
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tfie emergency clause was left off the
general appropriation bill and it was
signed by the chief executive. He had
already written the veto when the
change was made.
The senate today passe»! 49 bills ami
disp»ised of 19 otherwise. In the bouse
four bills were passed and five killed or
indefinitely post|Kine<l.
M ANY GIVE U P CLAIM S.
Relinquishments Order o f the Day in
Southern Oregon.
(»rants l ’ass— Since the recent inves
tigations a id indictments following the
probing of Oregon land frauds, there
has been a general skirmish on the part
of many holders of timber claims in
Southern Oregon to relinquish their
rights ami sell improvements t ( t the
government. A number who locate»!
as homesteaders, ami who feel they are
not living up to the requirements of
the law, desire to secure relinquish
ments on homesteads, ami file on the
claims in the regular way for purchase.
The relinquishments are far more
general in the matter of homestead en
tries than any other.
In years past
claims were taken up as homesteads by
the simple act of building a pen and
roof f o r a house and camping for a few
months on the property during the
summer, more as an outing than for
any other purpose. These people now
realize that slack methods w ill not be
tolerated in the future, and that the
claims are liable to be lost altogether
unless they are either “ homesteaded”
in the real sense of the word, or filed
on and bought as claims.
There are a numtier of cruisers in
this section, with hea»lquarters in
Grants Pass, ami these rep»-rt that the
land fraud cast's have not put a quietus
on the locating business, as might 1«
supposed, though the class of men now
locating are different entirely fromjthat
of formerly, as the present locators are
men who desire the claims themselves,
and not for
speculative purposes.
Homesteaders find no trouble in relin-
qtiishing ami selling their rights to
these.
HEAVY DAMAGE T O FALL W H E A T
Many Farmers Expect to Reseed the
Frozen Fields.
Pendleton— Farmers coming in from
the north and northwestern part of the
county believe that the fall sown wheat
w ill be a total loss, as the snow has
lieen blown from the hills and piled in
the hollows and has left the fiehis hare.
Some are so sure of the freeze that they
are in the city buying drills to reseed
their fiehis as soon as the weather per
mits.
In the northwestern part of the coun
ty, west of Adams and north of Echo,
in the low lands where the soil is light
very little snow fell and as the ground
was exceedingly dry the freeze w ill be
more s«-vere. In the vicinity of Athena
and Weston, where the snow was deep
er and did not blow off, the wheat is
»xinsidered safe anti w ill not have to he
reseeded.
Lost Mail Sack Found.
Grants Pass— After remaining in the
mud and water at the bottom of W il
liams creek for almost a year, a mail
pouch that was swept from the Grants
Pass-Williams valley stage during a
trip of the freshet of 11 months ago,
has lieen recovered. TEie pouch con-
tain»-d letters ami parcels of the first
class, and has lx>en forwarded by Post
master Harmon, of this city, to tiie
superintendent of the Pacific coast
mail servi»-e at San Francisco. The
pouch was still in gixxl condition wEien
uncovered.
Eastern Oregon Farmers’ Institute.
La Grande— A farmers' institute for
Eastern Oregon w ill be held at Sum
merville, in tiie Grand Ronde, 18 n i < s
out of La Grande, beginning March 6
and continuing two or three days.
It
w ill ix> conducteil by the prof»-esors of
tiie Oregon Agricultural college. le c t
ures w ill be delivered on agriculture,
horticulture, livestock and kindred top«
i»-s. Union county w ill put forth all
efforts for the entertainment of all
Eastern Oregon visitors on this occa«
sion.
Work for the Fair.
.
La Grande — Much interest is being
taken in this section of the county in
the Lewis and Clark fair to lie held in
Portland this summer, and everylxxly
from Grande Ronde and Wallowa coun
ties that can by h»xik or cr»sik attend
will lx; there, as the people ot this sec
tion of Oregon have the keenest desire
•that both Oregon an»i
Washington
should do their liest to advertise their
respective states and show outsiders
here what lies west of the Rockies.
PO RTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat — W alla Walla, 87c; blue-
stem, 94c; valley, 87c per bushel.
Oats — No. 1 white, $1.35 O 1.40;
gray, $1.40(31.45 percental.
Hay — Timothy, $14016 per ton;
clover, $11012; grain, $11(312: cheat,
$12@13.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, 220*2 >*e per
dozen.
Butter— Fancy creamery 271* 03 2 *«c .
Potatoes — Oregon fancy, 7 5 0 Rfi<G
common, 60O65c.
Apples — 4-tier Baldwins, $1.25;
Spitzenljgrgs. $1.2502.
Hops— Choi»-« , 25026c per pound.
Wool— Valley, 19O20c per ponnd;
Eastern Orog»>n, 12017c; mohair, 250
26c per pound for choice.