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Washington County News t*»»# d Hack Weak N O T ENOUGH W ATER. Storage Reservoirs Are Needed for Yakima Valiey. Washington, May 24.— A. P. Davis, consulting engineer of the Reclamation service, who recently made a careful study of the irrigation situation in Eastern Washington, returned to this city today and had a long conference with Chief Engineer Newell. Mr. Davis confirms the previously printed reports to the effect that the govern ment . cannot undertake irrigation in A Resume o f the Less Important but the Yakima valley if the selection of Not Less Interesting Events 55,000 acres in that valley under the of the Past Week. Carey act in the interest of the Sunny- side canal company is approved by the ” The senate committee on railroad president. freight rates lias completed its inquiry. He says there is not sufficient water The Cumberland Presbyterian gener in the Yakima river to irrigate all the al assembly has voted for union with lands embodied in the various private the Presbyterian church. irrigation projects unless the flood The Russian admialty ridicules the waters ____________________ are stored and used. It is his stoy that Rojestvensky is dead, but has i t|ial when tl e Sunrysiile com no news from the rieet. pany undertakes to irrigate the land A number of prisoners, insane from which the state now seeks to acquire, the siege of Port Arthur, have been it w ill have to deprive the same area returned to St. Petersburg. of land elsewhere in the valley of water. Shanghai dispatches say Admiral Togo’ s rieet is still off Masampho, on According to Mr. Davis, the approval of the pending state selection w ill re the southeastern coast of Coea. sult in endless litigation and will bring ( A ll nego i it ions to end the Chief g > about any amount of confusion among strike have tailed. The trouble w ill water users in the Yakima valley. spread and troops w ill be called out. The only way, in his opinion, to August Machen has been sentenced avoid friction, would be to allow the to two years more in prison for con government to assume general super spiracy in government postal frauds. vision over all irrigation in the valley, build storage reservoirs at the head of A Tokio dispathc says that the rail the Yakima river and its tributaries, road to Vladivostok has been severed, and thus materially increase the as the result of which the fortress is amount of water available. Private isolated. enterprise has not stored any water, In a statementi ssued by M ajor W ill but uses only the natural flow of water iams and President Goode, of the ex of the Yakima river. This is not stiff position company it is assured that cient to irrigate the lands already taken there w ill be accomodations for all who "I'- __________________ visit the fair. NO M ORE HIDDEN TR E ASU R E A big crowd w ill be present at the opening of The Dalles-Celilo portage road, June 3. The governors of Ore Gang o f Artistic Swindlers Captured gon, Washington, Idaho and California by Spanish Authorities and a congressional delegation will be Madrid, May 24. — A t last the band present. It is possible Vice President of swindlers, which through statements Fairbanks will also attend. of “ hidden treasure” in Cuba, the The Servian cabinet has resigned. Philippines and even in Spain, have The bank at Goldfield, Nevada, has been buncoing the credulous of the failed. United States, Germany and Great Efforts to settle the Chicago strike Britain ever since 1898, is to be have been renewed. brought to justice. During the last The German empress fell down stairs seven years it is estimated that this and sustained severe injuries. scheme has brought to the coffers of Minister Russell is coming home to the gang backing it upwards of $1,- testify in the Bowen-Loomis dispute. 000 , 000 . The fraternal temple at the Lewis Recently the band swindled a resi and Clark fair has been formally dedi dent of Berlin out of $25,000 by selling cated. him charts showing where a large fort FO REST G R O V E ......... .OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. IS REPORTED DEAD Paris Report Says Rojestvensky Is No More. NEBOGATOFF NOW IN COMMAND C A N A L P O L IC Y U N C H AN G ED . Plain Statement is Given Out From War Department. Washington, May 23. — The follow ing statement was given out at the War department tonight: “ No little amusement has been cre ate«! in the administration at Washing ton and among its friends over the at Rich Strike Made in Southern Oregon Mine Creates Excitement. tempt to distort the facts about the Panama purchases, and especially in the Medford— A strike was made in the attempt to show that under pressure Opp mine last week that eclipses any there has been an alteration in policy. thing that has ever been made on the Ever since Secretary Taft and the Pacific coast, and even beats the great Panama commissioon, with the presi district of Tonopali and Goldfield, in a dent’s approval, announcced their in true-fissure vein that is between slate tention, there has not been the slight and porphyry, which averages 15 feet est change, and all statements to the in width. An ore chute was opened conirary have no foundation whatever.” which is 100 feet in length and feet in The statement seems to indicate some width, all specimen rock, which w ill difference of opinion between the nres- be exhibited at the Lewis A Clark fair, ident and Secretary Taft regarding the in Portland. This rock is literally cov policy of purchasing supplies for the ered with the yellow metal, and runs Isthmian canal wherever they can be $40,000 to the ton. secured at the lowest prices. One man took out $10,000 in one After the policy of buying supplies shift, and the ruck is now op exhibi either in America or abroad had been tion at the Medford permanent exhibi announced, great pressure was exerted tion building. Some sacks go as much by the “ stand-patters” to have the as $1,000 per sack. This strike has matter left for determination of con caused the greatest excitement among gress. Speaker Cannon was at the miners ami prospectors of anj'thing that White house and urged this course on has occurred since the great Gold H ill the president. The matter was pre excitement in 1885, which this exceeds. sented to the cabinet meeting Friday Dr. J. F. Reddy came to Medford and the subsequent intimation given from Spokane, Wash., one year ago, in that concessions had been made the search of a quartz property, and was ultra-protectionists to the extent that advised by many so-called experts that only necessary material would be pur there was nothing in the district that chased until an opportunity bad been would warrant an investment or expen given congress to enact legislation on diture of any capital along these lines, the subject. This is now followed by but as inasmuch as Dr. Reddy could a declaration from Secretary Taft that plainly see that nothing but surface there has been no change of policy. work had ever been done, save where a There w ill undoubtedly be a renewal mine had paid from the grass roots, and of pressure upon the president either having unbounded faith in the district, to have supplies bought from Americau after careful examination, he decided manufacturers at increased prices or to erect on this mine a ten-stamp [m ill, nothing done until after assembling of and since the erection of the same it congress. has earned $100 per diem net, which C R E D IT BASIS. ' Referendum Petitions Stop Projected Improvements o f State Institutions Salem — The filing of the petitions for the referendum upon the general appropriation bill with the secretary of state, throws the state upon its Russian Embassy Without News, Al credit until the next legislature makes good the deficiency, unless the people though It Is Admitted That It see fit to sustain the action of the last Might Be So. legislature and adopt the measure at the June election of 1906. The gen eral appropriation bill carries a total of Paris, May 23.— A sensation has $1,454,379.90, and the invoking of the been created here bj- the circulation of referendum upon it not only blocks the progress ot the normal schools, inclu a report that advices have been received sion of which in the bill was the direct by a well known firm of French bank cause of the referendum movement ers, who have been active in the past against it, but also seriously impedes in floating the Russian loans, from the contemplated work of improvement and enlargement of the asylum for in their confidential agent at St. Peters sane and other state institutions, shich burg, stating that Admiral Rojestven depend upon the appropriation for sky has died of dysentery and that Ad maintenance. miral Nebogatoff lias assumed command A ll this raises the question of what of the joint fleets of Rusdian Far East action tlie secretary of state and mem bers of the boards of trustees of the ern waters. different state institutions w ill take The report caused a semi-panic in upon the act adopted by the last legis certain quarters, but it is impossible to lature, providing that all employes of rt-ace it or to determine where it origin state institutions, educational, penal, ated. At the Russian embassy the reformatory, eelymosenary, etc., shall agent of the Publishers’ Press was in be paid monthly, instead of quarterly. formed that, while they had heard such This act prescribes that at the end of a report, they bad received no advices each month and upon presentation of of that character from the home gov the duly verified and approved pay ernment, and the secretary declared rolls of any of the institutions by the that, if such a report had been received superintendent or other authorized offi at St. Petersburg, it would have been cial to the secretary of state, accom communicated to the embassy without panied by a surety bond in a sufficient delay. He was not inclined to believe sum to cover all liability, the secretary the rumor, although he admitted that of state is required to draw a warrant it might be so. only shows that Southern Oregon today in full of the amount of the payroll On the other band, persons best ac S T A N D A R D PIPE S IN K A N SA S. has more undeveloped resources than and in favor of the sueprintendent, quainted with Admiral Rojestvensky’ s any territory west of the Mississippi who is authorized to draw the money condition declare that the report may from the treasury and required to pay be well true, as the last information Connections Completed to Reach Half river. the employes the amount due them for Across the Continent. received from the Baltic fleet stated their labors. W O R K IN G N IG H T AND DAY. that he was very ill and had to have a Kansas City, Mo., May 23. — W. F. surgeon in constant attendance upon Gates, of Independence, Kan., superin C R O P O U T L O O K GOOD. him. tendent of all the pipe lines of the Pendleton Scouring Mill Has Bought Standard Oil company in Kansas, Mis Much Wool This Season. Wheat, Rye, Barley and Hay Promise MINE C AVES IN. souri, Indian Territory and Oklahoma, Pendleton — The Pendleton wool said today: to Eclipse Josephine Records. scouring mills have purchased 3,000,- United Verde in Arizona [Is* Reduced “ We are preparing to take care of all 000 pounds of wool this year and has Grants Pass— Farmers from the out the oil production in the Kansas field. its plant running day and night with lying district report the cereal crop for to Ruins. Prescott, Ariz., May 23.— Millions of The W hiting, I. T., pipe line w ill be shifts of 35 men each, cleaning the the Rogue river valley in excellent aompleted in a few days, and then we wool. Four thousand pounds of the condition this year, and to be heading tons of rock and earth caved in at noon can handle all the oil produced west of scoured product are turned out daily from two to three weeks in advance of today in Senator Clark’ s United Verde the Mississippi river.” from 16,000 pounds of the raw mater several years past. Larger quantities of copper mine, at Jerome, Ariz., the The Standard’ s pipe line at W hiting ial put through the vats. The wool wheat have been planted in the past ground dropping from the surface to from its Sugar Rock refinery is nearly shrinks about 74 per cent in the clean year in Josephine countv than every the 700-foot level. Crackling timbers established on the outskirts of Kansas ing process. The scoured wool is sell before, and it is believe*! that auumber gave the alarm and 30u miners fled for City, and will b* completed next Fri ing at 65 cents a pound f. o. b. Pen of men who have recently purchased their lives and escaped uninjured. day, according to officials who have dleton. This is being baled as fast as their farms, w ill pay off the first cost For several days the ground has been visited the local plant. The Whiting cleaned, and the grease wool baler w ill with the banner yield of this year. settling and timbers creaking. Today line, the construction of which was be be started next week to bale such wool Wheat all over the county is three to with a mighty crash the earth caved, gun last September, is to supply an as w ill be sent east uncleaned. four feet high, and has a uniformly carrying with it the new shaft, levels, outlet for 8,000,000 barrels of oil The Machen-Lorenz-Crawford post- une was h'dden just after the war with drifts and slopes. The Furnish warehouse has received heavy growth. From fissures on office fraud case is on trial in Wash Spain broke out, in a lonely spot near the surface come clouds of sulphur stored by the company at Humboldt, so far this season about 400,000 pounds A great deal of rye and barley is be Cienfuegos, Cuba. When the man who Bmoke from that part of the mine which Canea, Ramona and Neeilesha, Kan. of wool from north of the city, Echo ing grown on the lowlands of the Rogue ington. A t W hiting the pipe line w ill connect and from the Pilot Rock district, with river valley this year, and these are purchased the chart discovered that he The St. Paul railroad is to reach the had been swindled, he complained to has been on fire for several years. with the company’s lines to Bayonne, dozens of loads coming in daily. proving very lucrative crops. The hay The extent of the damage cannot as coast by connection with the Oregon the German government, which brought N. J., thus completing a line that will A second baling machine is being crop in the Upper Applegate, W’ illiams yet be ascertained, but if it is as bad Short Line. the matter to the attention of the Span as feared the great property w ill be reach half way across the continent. installed, which w ill handle a larger and Slate creek districts w ill show a TLe effect of the completion of the amount than last year, which was over heavier tonnage than ever before in The Hague arbitration tribunal has ish officials, and the arrests followed. closed and the existence of Jerome line to W hiting w ill be that the Stand 3,000,000 pounds. The larger part of the county, and the second crop of a l Nineteen persons were taken into w ill be doomed. decided that Japan cannot tax foreign The hoisting works, custody, and an enormous quantity of which are over the mine, have settled, ard Oil company w ill be able to handle the wool being brought to town is sold falfa and red clover is ready for cutting concessions. 75,000 barrels of oil a day. Already and as soon as baled w ill be shipped to in many localities. printed matter was seized. This latter A number of colliers accompanying showed how the plan was worked and and the machinery cannot be worked. pipe line superintendents of the com the Boston markets. The smelting plant has a’s > been shut the Russian fleet caught fire and will indicated that the Madrid police were pany are laying out new plans in an M otor Car Arrives. and all activity ceased. be total losses. ticipation of the completion of the in collusion with the band. Portland — The Southern Pacific’s Ready fo r the Water. The officials of the company take an W’ hiting line. One of these lines w ill A number of St. Louis fair exhibitors Pendleton — One of the many meri new motor car for service between optimistic view of the situation, and run from Paola to Rantoulo. The con torious irrigation enterprises under con Portland and Forest Grove has arrived have asked for a hearing, holding that say the damage is not irreparable, and S T O R M IN T E X A S . struction forces of the company are also struction in Um atilla county is the and is at the Southern Pacific shops in the awards were unfair. the smelter w ill be working again working on an order, recently issued, Hermiston project, being finished up East Portland. As soon as possible, it The president w ill call an extra ses Several Lives Lost and Many Houses within a month. for the construction of 150 tanks of 35,- by the Maxwell Land & Irrigation w ill be put in condition and given a sion of congress in October to act on 000 barrels capacity each. Are Wrecked. company of Maxwell, or Hermiston, four trial run over the West Side branch of the railroad rate question. miles west of Echo on the main line of the Southern Pacific. Some slight re Dallas, Tex., May 23.— Several lives S C H O O L LAND N O T AFFECTED . The divided Russian fleet will meet the O. R. & N. A dam was built across pairs must be made before the car is Fire Burns All Day Long. were lost and serious damage was done at the Babuyan islands, north of Luzon, operated, but it is expected that the Richards Decides State May Still Make Wilkesbaire, Da., May 23.— One of the Umatilla four miles above the to crops in many sections of Texas last and proceed to Vladivostok. townsite and water diverted into the trial run w ill be made in a few days Indemnity Selections. the most disastrous fires that ha» oc canal, which is about eight miles long. and as soon as practicable thereafter The Presbyterian general assembly night by the terrific wind and rain Washington, May 23. — Land Com curred in this city in years started early has decided on union, but the Cumber storm. Streams are out of their banks missioner Richards, in response to an today, and not until afternoon were the At present the company has 9,000 acres w ill be put in commission, running land Presbj’terians have not yet ami bridges have been washed away. inquiry, has advised Oregon State Land firemen able to control the flames. The under the ditch ready for cultivation regularly lietween Portland and Forest Grove, making stops at way points. reached a decision. The fire and has 160 acres in alfalfa and pota In the northwest ,part of Haskell Agent Oswald West that the act of loss w ill reach $300,000. toes to demonstrate what the land will originated in the millinery department county 14 houses were destroyed, the March 3, 1905, repealing the lieu land General Chaff*« will make a tour of Regents o f University o f Oregon. two children of W ill Townds were law has no liearing whatever on the of the Isaac Long dry goods house in produce if water is put on it. the army posts in Alaska. Salem— Governor Chamberlain has killed and Mrs. Townds was found un right of the state to make indemnity the W ells building, on the west side of The Goulds will extend the Western conscious and w ill die. Mr. Townds appointed Judge R. 8. Bean to succeed Make First Payment. selections of land in place of school the public square, one of the handsom Pacific road from Winuemucca, Nevada, escaped with slight hru s ■■*. Giants Pass— C. N. Matthews, who himself as a member of the board of sections which the state may lose in est and costliest structures in Wilkes- to Portland. When first discovered the has been interested in mining proper regents of the University of Oregon. At Malone the Christian and Baptist forest reserves. Whenever school sec liarre. Rojestvensky Has left his slow ships churches and several other buildings tions are heieafter include*! in forest flames were promptly controlled by the ties on Sucker creek for a number of Senator M. A. M iller, of Lebanon, was in a French port and will make a dash were wrecked. reserves in Oregon or any other state, firemen in less than one hour. A sec years past, and who in conjunction appointed on the same board to succeed At Temple, Bertha Hunter, a colored the state w ill lie entitled to make in ond fire broke out in the basement of with his partner, M. F. H ull, has Charles Hilton, of The Dalles, whose with the fast ones. girl, was killed by lightning. demnity selection as heretofore, regard the building an hour after the first one reported some excellent properties in term has expired, and J. C. Ainsworth, The body of John Paul Jones w ill lie that district, was in the city this week of Portland, was appointed to succeed At Wasco several houses were un less of whether the school sections so had been subdued. brought to this country from France roofed . and reported the first payment of $1,- the late Judge O. B. Bellinger, whose included are surveyed or unsurveyed. with an escort of three warships. 000 on the $6,000 bond recently taken term on the board would expire in Fighting with Pulajanes. 1909. Jndge Bean and Senator M iller Parties in Philippines. Life Through Chemistry. Manila, May 23. — Colonel Wallace by Frank Fowler and his associates Negotiations to end the Chicago are appointed for a term of 12 years upon the Gold Pick mine, situated on Manila, May 24.— The convention of Taylor, of the constabulary, was se Berkeley, Cal., May 23.— Professor teamsters’ strike have again failed and Bolen creek, in the Sucker creek dis each. it is believed the strike will be extend the Federal party w ill reassemble May Jacques l» e b , the biologist of the Uni verely wounded in an engagement with 28. The plank prepared by the con versity of California, has, it is claimed, the Pulajanes, May 17, at Magtaon, on trict. Mr. Matthews reports the prop ed. S 2 0 0 Gold in a Day. servative wing indorses Secretary Taft’s succeeded in developing by artificial the coast of Samar. One private was erty showing up exceedingly well. Albany— Encouraging reports con Speaker Cannon says supplies and policy for a general assembly in 1906, chemical means the eggs of the sea killed and ten wounded in the engage tinue to come from the Blue river min Promising New Group. materil for the building of the Panama laiins that it was no fault of the urchin so that the larvae produced in ment. Many Pulajanes were killed. canal w ill be purchased in the United islands that the census returns were the laboratory cannot be distinguished Two companies of the Twenty-first in Sumpter— A new property is being ing district. Henry W inkley has jnst delayed for eight months: asks for the trotn the living forms produced during fantry w ill leave Catbalogan to rein developed in this district that gives come out from the mines and reports States. addition of two natives to the island the process of fertilization. Desultory promise of being developed into a pay greater activity than ever before. The The order force the constabulary. The Venezuelan supreme court has commissioners; asks for the reorgani of events in the process of fertilization fighting continues in the islands south ing proj*oeition. This is the Empire Great Northern mine, with a small cancelled the asphalt concession. four-stamp m ill, is taking out $200 zation of the municipal board and the is in both cases the same. Dr. Loeb’ s of Jolo. Major-General Wood, who group, consisting of four claims ,an*l The president has been asked to make representation of business and other in new method is in every respect a com recently conducted a campaign against is under the management of A. M. worth of fine gold daily, and before a national investigation of life insuiance terests; urges the redaction of the con plete imitation of natural fertiliza Moro outlaws, has arrived in Manila. Harris, who for some time past has July 1 w ill have a 65-stamp m ill at The company stabulary one-half. companies. been identified with the Sumpter dis work on the property. tion. trict, and is thoroughly posted as to its has delved in the ground only 250 feet, Duty on American Imports. Jndge Holt, of the United States Hold Bank Books and Mail. He has succeeded in but has much gold ore in sight. Will Pacify East Samar. St. Petersburg, May 32.— The desir p)ssibilitiee. court, has ordered that John A. Benson interesting I>etroit capitalists who are Chefoo, May 24.— The officials of the Manila, May 23.— In response to the ability of securing the revocation of PO RTLAN D M ARKETS. be tried in Washington for defrauding Rusao-Chinese bank at Port Arthur, request of Governor General Wright, the imposition by Russia of the maxim able to carry on development. the government of land. since the capitulation of that fortress, Major General Corbin has detailed duty on American imports levied in Wheat— Club, 8 4 0 86c per bushel; Settlers fo r North Powder. The United States government has as have been unsuccessfully endeavoring Brigadier General William H. Carter, retaliation for the imposition of a blenstem. 90092c; valley, 85090c. North Powder— A letter received by yet taken no definite action towards ir to secure the release from the Japanese commander of the department of the countervailing duty by the United Oats— No. 1 white, feed, $28029 per rigating a tract of 55,000 acres in the of the books of the hank and over 100 Visayas, to assume the pacification of States on Russian sugars, which Am a prominent citizen of North Powder ton; gray, $28.50. Yakima valley and the state may pro bags of banking and other commercial the east coast of Samar. A ll the Fed bassador Meyer is trying to adjust, is states that 50 families, comprising Hay— Timothy, $14016 per ton; and private correspondence, delivered eral troops that are required have been assuming additional importance, owing about 200 people, from Iowa, Indiana clover, $11012; grain, $11(§12; ch. at, ceed under the Carey act. in care of the t>ank for dispatch from furnished. The native scouts who have to the fact that the new Russo-German and Illinois, have agreed to purchase $11(812. Chicago teamsters are seeking a way the besieged city. The mail was the The advance tariff, w ill form a basis for a “ most tickets tor this point. Eggs— Oregon ranch, 18c per dos. out of the strike, acknowledging their accumulation of the few days prior to been on civil duty on the island of Sa favored nation” clause. guard is expected to arrive within the Butter— Fancy creamery, 17H02Oe mar have returned. General Carter has defeat. the capitulation of the Russians next 30 days. per ponnd. •ailed to take the field in person. Pala, the outlaw Mora chief, has Reina Mercedes Repaired. Apples— Table, $1.5002.50 per box. been killed by the troops under Gene Will Sell Ripe Timber. Slgsbee Will Sail About June 8. T o Reopen Hatchery. Strawberries— Oregon, IQ(315c per Portsmouth, May 23.— The cruiser ral Wood. Washington, May 24.— The bureau Washington, May 23. — Orders were Reina Mercedes, captured at Santiago Eugene— J. A . Talbert, of Clacka pound. Potatoes— Old, $1.0501.15; new The fourth division of Rojestvensky’s of Forestry of the department of Agri prepare*! at the Navy department today during the war with Spain, sailed to mas, is at the site of the state salmon squadron w ill sail for the Far East culture has issued a eirrnlat announc directing Rear Admiral Sigshee, whose day for Newport, R. I., after having hatchery on the McKenzie river, 28 potatoes, 2 0 2 v,c per ponnd. ing that the mature timlier of the Na squadron has been selected for the trip been remodeled as a receiving ship. miles east of Eugene, making prepara Hope— Choice, 1904, 23 4 0 25c per June 14. tional forest reserves is to be offered for to France to bring to the United states The cruiser has been undergoing re tions to reopen it. He expects to be pound. Henry E. McGinn, of Portland, w ill sale. The supervisor of each forest is the remains of Paul Jones, to he ready pairs for nearly five veais and is said collecting spawn within a few days, as Wool— Eastern Oregon, beet, 190 likely lie appointed ags Judge Belling authorized to receive requests for the to proceed from New York not later now to be one of the beet equipped re the salmon are collecting in large 21c; valley, 27H e per pound; mohair, er’s successor. right to cut timlier. than June 8. ceiving ships in the navy. schools. choice, 31@32Hc per pound.