Washington County News
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form tor Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume o f the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
o f the Past Week.
The d r»ft of a new Franco-Russian
treaty has been completed.
Arrivals of immigrants at New York
in July were atiout 48,000, against 36,-
000 in July, 1904.
Fire destroyed the m ill, warehouse
and elevator of the Kansas City Milling
company, at Kansas City. Loss, $100,-
000 .
James 8. Carnaham, commander-in-
chief of the Uniform Hank, Knights of
Pythias, ia critically ill at his home in
Indianapolis.
The Fagan Iron Works, in Jersey
City, were destroyed by tire, involving
a loss of $100,000 and throwing 800
men out of employment.
A cloudburst near Colroado
Colorado, flllod a c it on the
land railroad with Hand for a
of a mile and blocked trallic
line.
Springs,
Hock Is
distance
on that
INCREASE OF FEVER DEATHS.
T O CONSIDER CANAL.
High Temperature the Cause — More
Cases Outside New Orleans.
President Desires Congress to Decide
What Type Shall Be Built.
New Orleans, Aug. 2.— Today wit-
! nessed an increase in the number of
| deaths from yellow fever, a fact that
was not unexpected, in view of the
high temperature that has prevailed
the past two days.
There was, how
ever, the usual large preponderance of
Italian names in the list, both of new
cases and deaths, which has character
ized the reports since the time when
the fever was first officially announced
as existing here.
In spite of the increased mortality,
the health authorities exhibited no
concern over the situation, contending
that, with the accumulation of cases,
there must be expected an incerase in
fatalities to maintain the average death
rate of the fever. It is still possible to
trace all the new cases that are appear
ing to the original foci.
Meantime the health authorities and
citizens are making arrangements to
give the result of their observations of
the foci outside of the original district.
The scientists have declared that the
female stegomyia can only receive the
poison of a yellow fever patient into
tier system during the first three days’
linens, and that she is unable to com
municate it until 10 or 12 days there
after.
In from 17 to 20 days it w ill
become evident whether or not there is
to be a spread from any of the outlying
foci, and the health authorities w ill by
the beginning of next week include in
their daily tables, beside the appear
ance of new foci, the disappearance of
existing foci from which there has been
no secondary infection.
Washington, Aug. 1.— It it be true,
as reported from Oyster bay, that the
president intends to call an extra ses
sion of congress early in November, it
is not probable any attempt w ill be
made to force the prompt consideration
of a railroad rate b ill. That would be
out of the question ; at least it would
be impossible to secure final action on
such a bill within a month.
The probabilités arc, and observing
officials here believe, that the president
intends, at the early session, to have
congress take up and settle once for all
the question of whether the Panama
canal shall be built, as originally
planned, with locks, or shall be a sea-
level canal, as advocated by so many
prominent engineers. This is a ques
tion that congress must decide, and the
sooner it is out of the way the better
the men in charge of the canal can
operate.
The president has not taken the pub
lic into his confidence; he has not an
nounced what his object may be in
calling an extra session, but it is diffi
cult to figure out how anything could
be gained on a railway rate bill at a
session convening only three weeks in
advance of the regular session. It takes
that long for the house to orgainze,
elect a speaker, and for the speaker to
appoint committees, and the senate con
sumes almost as much time in its or
ganization.
Owing to divisions among parties,
Chile has been without a government
T O O FEW OLD O FFICERS.
for two months.
President Kiesco is
formiog a
provisional government
Commander Young's Defense in Ben
amgon his personal friends.
nington Explosion Case.
The Haytien government is having a
San Diego, Cal., Aug. 2.— The naval
dispute with its creditors about cus
toms reci i its deposited in the National court of inquiry which is hearing evi
bank, each party claiming them.
The dence in the disaster to the gunboat
bank refuses to surrender the money
Bennington resumed its session at 10:30
until the courts decide the question.
this morning behind closed doors. No
A cholera epidemic prevails at Mad
one but witnesses is admitted to the
ras, British India.
meetings, and no disclosure of the pro
Norway and Sweden w ill not favor
ceedings w ill be made until the Iina4
making the Baltic a closed sea.
report is formulated, and then, prob
Germany is suspected of bad faith by ably, only after submission to Wash-
France in the Morocco matter.
ington.
It is understood that a portion of
The court of inquiry into the Ben
nington disaster has begun its sessions. this report will deal with the alleged
shortage of oflicers on the Bennington,
Suit has lieen commenced against the
to which reference was made by Com
direct irs of the Equitable to make them
mander Young in a letter to Admiral
return their ill-gotten gains.
Goodrich some days before the explo
Fire in Swift A Co.’ s packing plant sion, in which he said he had “ only
at South St. Joseph Mo., destroyed four duty officers, young and inexperi
over $250,000 worth of property.
enced, which is likely to destroy the
According to reports made by the tine record we have made for this ship,
and to keep up the standard I must
county assessor Portland has a popula
have two more experienced oflicers.”
tion of 110,500. This is 20,000 more
The Bennington is again at anchor in
than in 1900.
the stream, and probably w ill remain
Britain and Japan have nearly com here until the court of inquiry com
pleted a new treaty. The new alliance pletes its work, and will then be towed
will be decidedly more comprehensive north by the flagship.
than the present one.
Great Britain will press its claim for
T U R N S FROM PEACE.
pay for a number of steamers sunk by
Russian auxiliary cruisers after the
Czar Again Shows a Desire to Fight
battle of the Sea of Japan.
War to a Finish.
W hile a few new cases are appearing
Chicago, Aug. 2.— According to the
In New Orelans, the health authorities
St. Petersburg correspondent of the
believe they have the yellow fever situ
Daily News, the pending peace confer
ation in hand and that in a few days its
ence w ill fail and war with Japan will
spread will have been stopped.
continue. He says:
The Chinese lioycott has caused large
The announcement that two more di
orders from a San Francisco firm to lie visions of Russian troops are going to
cancelled.
the front next week indicates the czar’ s
A ll of the peace envoys are now in determination, since his recent confer
Washington excepting M. W itte and ence with Emperor W illiam , to carry
the war to the bitter end.
The chief
his party.
of the mobilization department said to
The kaiser and czar are said to be day to your correspondent:
contemplating declaring the Baltic a
The peace danger is over.
W itte’ s
closed sea.
trip to America w ill only serve to show
The Japanese now have an army be the Russian people that Japanese de
tween Vladivostok and the main Rus mands render peace impossible.”
Petitions in Russia are forbidden un
sian army.
less they are officially inspired.
This
Germany and Britain are at dagger's fact gives special signitiane to today’s
oint about sending the British fleet to official publication of a |>etition from
Ihe Baltic.
Kbaborovsk, Siberia, asking that the
Louisiana is quarantined on all sides czar “ carry the war to a successful end
and new cases of fever have broken out and break the foe’s last effort, giving
despite the efforts of the health author up not an inch ot territory and paying
not a ruble of indemnity.”
This pe
ities.
tition bears upon it in the czar’ s hand
In a row in th city council of Spring-
writing:
field, Illinois, the mayor came off vic-
“ I entirely share these sentiments.”
torios by calling in police, who used
their clubs freely on the city fathers.
No Welsh Coal for Germans.
Warren, Pa., was visited by a cloud
liOiulon, Aug. 2.— Questioned further
burst which did thousands of dolla.-i
in the house today on the reports of
worth of damage to property.
The
the purchase of a coal area in South
people escaped drowning by staying in
Wales by a German syndicate, Premier
second stories of buildings.
Balfour again stated that, so far as the
France and Germany are again quar government was aware, there was no
reling over Morocco.
German syndicate in treaty for any ana
Europe regards Roosevelt as arbiter containing steam coal used by the
Should the necessity
in case Japan and Russia deadlock in British navy.
arise to prevent any foreign syndicate
their peace conference.
obtaining control of such an area, he
Sweden is negotiating for a war loan. said that the government would pro
A national bank is to be organised at pose a modification of the law debarring
foreigners from holding teal property.
Nome, Alaska.
Japan w ill not cease hostilities pend
ing the outcome of the peace conference.
A new plot has been discovered
against the life of the sultan of Turkey.
Germany ia furious at the proposed
cruise of British war vessels in the
Baltic.
Huarriman wants to gather the I lli
nois Central railroad into his svetem.
Great Britain is planning to store an
immense amount of food for home use
in case of war.
Police has unearthed a counterfeiters
outfit in Portland and arrested six peo
ple in connection.
District Attorney Jerome of New
York is now taking a turn at the tricky
lawyers of that city.
NEW MINING TO W N.
Borealis
Falls Established at End of Government Rapidly Clearing Way for
Calapooia Road.
Klamath Irrigation.
Brownsville— Borealis Falls is the
name of a new mining town which has
just sprng intg existence on the Cala
pooia side of the Blue river mining dis
trict, 40 miles southeast of Brownsville.
The camp consists at present of four
loghouses and boasts a population of 13
souls, but this w ill be added to soon by
the addition of at lest ten more people.
The town is located practically in the
heart of the district, on the siuth bank
of the Calapooia river, near the falls of
the Calapooia, and is an ideal site for a
modern mining town. The site is at
the end of the Calapooia river wagon
road, now building into the district
from Brownsville, from which joint
roads w ill branch off to the many
mines of the district.
This road is
now under construction by Linn coun
ty, and when finished will give accesss
to the district by a direct route of con
siderably less distance than any other.
Already the road is completed 28 miles
above Brownsville, and the county is
lending every effort to complete it this
year. A small portion of the road
passes through a section of Lane coun
ty, and this will be built by the citi
zens of Linn county and mineowners.
Irrigation Congress Delegates.
Salem— The following persons have
been appointed by Governor Chamber
lain to represent Oregon at the Nation
al Irrigation congress in Portland, Aug
ust 21-24: W . P. Campbell, Chema-
wa; T. G. Hailey, J. H. Raley, A . D.
Stillman, Walter M. Pierce, Pendleton;
W. R. King, A. N. Soliss, C. W. Mal-
lett, Ontario; J. A . Woolery, lone;
Lee McCartney, E. A . McDaniel, Baker
C ity; E. J. Frazier, E. J. Young, Hen
ry Ankeny, Eugene; A. King Wilson,
R. C. Judson, M. A. Drake, Portland;
F. Holbrook, A. Bennett, Irrigon; S.
A. Lowell, S. A. Hartman, Pendleton;
F. 8. Bramwell, La Grande; J. R
Estch, Echo; R. M. Veatch, Cottage
Grove; John W. Gates, Hillsboro.
Orego.i Delegates to Congress.
Salem— Governor Chamberlain has
appointed the following delegates to
the Trans-Mississippi congress at Port
land August lfi-19: W. A. Munly, J.
M. Moon, H. M. Brunson, C. II. Meus-
dorffer, M. H. McMonies, Joseph Fried-
enthal, Sol Harris, D. C. Burris, M. A.
Raymond, Leo Peteison, F. A . Watts,
Daniel McAllen, W illiam Foley, E. B.
Duffy, A. W. Cauthorn, and Tom Rich
ardson, Portland; E. Hofer, George
Collins, A. M. Cannon ami £. T. Rich
ardson, Salem; Bert Huffman, Pendle
ton; W. A. Nash, Dallas; E. J. Fraz
ier, Eugene; F .A . Seufert, The Dalles;
E. J. Kaiser, Ashland.
Washington— The secretary of the
interior has authorized the purchase of
the Little Klamath Water Ditch com
pany’s rights and property, known gen
erally as the Adams ditch, for use in
connection with the Klamath Falls ir
rigation project in Southern Oregon.
This ditch system is to be used as part
of the project and the agreement to sell
includes also certain color of rights to
land now under water and which are to
be drained and used for irrigation pur
poses.
The secretary has also approved the
purchase of certain rights and property
of the Jesse D. Carr Land and Live
stock company from 8. L. Akins. This
purchase involves a large area of land
for the Clear lake reservoir site, also
rights of way for ditches to lie con
structed by the United States over these
lands and certain color of right to lands
now under water which will be drained
and irriagted.
The former purchase is to be made
for $ 100,000, less certain deductions
stipulated in the agreement, and the
latter for $197,500.
S L U M P IN C H IT T A M BARK.
Product
Goes from 20 Cents Down
to 3 Cents a Pound.
Albany— This is ail off year with the
chittam bark people. For the last two
years a great amount of money has
been put in circulation through the
medium of this medicinal bark, hun
dreds of people spending their outing
in the woods peeling the bark.
The
price of the commodity soared up past
the 20-cent mark, and those who were
fortunate enough to secure a valuable
belt of chittam timber netted a neat
income. Little boys who had never
earned a dollar in their life lined their
pockets last year and the year before at
the rate of from $3 to $7 per day.
As the result of the great increase in
price, many tons of the cascara, or
chittam, bark were gathered and sack
ed, only to lie in some warehouse un
sold. This overproduction caused a
stump in the market, and this year the
bark is going for 3 to 3 l4 cents per
pound.
Forest Fire in Clackamas.
Oregon City— A forest fire, one-half
mile in width and already having cov
ered an area one mile in length, is rag
ing at the head of Canyon creek, in the
foothills east of W ilhoit, this county,
and iu the vicinity of JameB.
Report
of the fire was brought to this city by
Dee W right, of Liberal.
The fire
started presumably from a campfire, on
the Hungate homestead, owned by Ilel-
For Bridge at Milwaukie.
vie A Jones.
Only underbrush and
Salem— Governor Chamberlain has second growth timber are being con
appointed State Senator C. W. Notting sumed, the flames not having reached
ham and Representative S. B. Lintlii- any of the valuable heavy timber.
cum and J. N. Bramhall as commis
sioners to investigate the project of
Mrs. Church T o Be Matron.
building a bridge across the Willamette
Eugene— The committee from the
river near what is known as the White
board of regents of the LTniversity of
House, in the vicinity of Milwaukie.
Oregon which i.ad in hand the selec
The appointments were made under the
tion of matron of the dormitory has at
authority of the house concurrent reso
last decided upon Mrs. S. C. Church,
lution 2, of the last legislative session.
of San Francisco.
She has accepted,
The plan is to have a bridge built by
and w ill assume her duties early in
Multnomah and Clackamas counties.
October. The present matron, Miss
The commissioners w ill serve without
Fitlia Williams, will open the dormi
expense to the state, and w ill report to
tory at the beginning of the school
the next legislature.
year and conduct it until Mrs. Church’s
arrival.
S. P. Puts Out Rangers,
Grants Pass— To prevent the out
break of forest fires in its timber do
main, the Southern Pacific company
has put out a number of rangers in ad
dition to those appointed by the gov
ernment. By reason of the unusual
dryness fires w ill spread easily in the
timber this year, and extra precautions
are being taken.
Violators of forest
reserve rules and earless hunters and
campers who leave camp fires burning
w ill be more severely dealt with thiB
summer, that the ravages of past sea
sons may not be repeated.
Take Out $ 8 6 0 in Five Days.
Sumpter— Another clean-up from the
Belmont group, Greenhorn district, has
been placed on display here. It repre
sented in value $8110 and resulted from
five days’ operation of the small m ill
on the property. The ore from which
the clean-up was made was taken from
the upper workings on the rich ledge
opened up some time ago and which
has made such a wonderful output since
that time. A shaft is now being sunk
on this ore body, and the output is ex
pected to Ire muon larger when a depth
has been reached.
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Chinook Running in Wallowa. »
Astoria— Fish Warden Van Dusen
has recieved a letter from A. D. Allen,
superintendent of the new state hatch
ery on the Wallowa river, stating that
the chinook salmon are now running
there and large numbers are alreadv in
the racks. Work on the construction
of the new hatchery is well under way,
and the plant w ill be ready for the tak
ing of eggs the latter part of the com
ing month. The plant w ill have a ca
pacity of 15,000,000.
Laid Low by Windstorm.
Beaunnyit, Tex., Aug. 2. — Word
reached here this evening that m e
white Iwiy and two negro boys were
killed outright and 20 other persons
were more or less seriously injured in a
heavy windstorm which struck l’ess-
may, La., this afternoon. The town is
situated in a forest of pine timber, the
wind uprooting several trees, which Grading Active on Tillamook Road.
fell on houses, killing and injuring oc
Hillsboro — Superintendent L. R.
cupants.
Telegraph and telephone Fields and Resident Engineer Donald,
communication is prostrated.
of the Southern Pacific lines in Oregon,
were here a few days ago conferring
Strict Quarantine in Arkansas.
with Engineer George I.. Davis, of the
T.ittle Rock, Ark., Aug. 2. — Gover Portland, Nehalem A Tillamook rail
nor Ih»via issued an order ’ directing way, relative to the junction to he
¡General Haynes, commander of the formed in this city between the two
state m ilitia, to detail as many men as roads. Active grading has already com
may be necessary to establish a strict menced on the Tillamook road, and the
state quarantine against all
points contracts for the bridge timbers and
tie« have been signed.
where yellow fever may exist.
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B U YS T W O DITCHES.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat— New club, 73>ic per bushel;
new bluestem, 78)^c per bushel; new
valley, 78c.
Barley— Old feed, $21.50(822 per ton;
new feed, $2C: rolled, $23@24.
Oats— No. 1 white feed, $29@30 per
ton; gray, $29.
H ay— Timothy, old, $13(815 per ton;
new, $11(812.50; clover, $8@9.
F’ ruits— Apples, new, 90c@$1.75 per
box; apricots, 90c per crate; peaches,
5e@$l per crate; plums, 75c per
crate; blackberries, 5@t>c per pound;
cherries, 50@ti0c per box; pears, $2.25
per box; prunes, 85c(8$l ; raspberries,
$1.25 per crate; watermelons, 1 @ 1 l^c
per pound; crabapples, 50c per box.
Vegetables— Beans, l@ 4 c per pound;
cabbage, 1 0 1 * 4 0 per pound; cauli
flower, 75@90c per dozen; celery, 75®
85c per dozen; corn, 75c®$l per
bag; cucumbers, 15(825c per box; let
tuce, head, 10c per dozen; parsley, 25c
per dozen; peas, 2®5c per pound; to
matoes, 5 0 ® 75c per crate; squash, 5c
per pound; turnips, $1.25® 1.40 per
sack; carrots, $1.25® 1.50 per sack,
beets, $1®1.25 per sa*-k.
Onions— Red, $1.25 per hundred;
yellow, $1.25.
Potatoes— Oregon new, 50c®$l.
Butter— Fancy creamery, 21 !^®25c.
Eggs— Oregon ranch, 22® 22 ^ c per
dozen.
Poultry— Average old hens, 13®14c;
mixed chickens, 12® 12*yc; old roost
ers. 10®10'^c; young roosters, 11®
12t*c; springs, 1A$ to 2 pounds, IR S ®
17c; I to I ty pounds, ltl® 17c; turkeys,
live, 18® 19c; geese, live, per pound,
fi®7c; ducks, old, 13c; ducks, young,
10® 14c.
Hops— Choice, 1904, 17 ® 19c per
pound.
Wool— Eastern Oregon average best,
19®21c; lower grades, down to 15c,
according to shrinkage; valley, 25®27c
per |<ound; mohair, choice, 31c per
pound.
Beef— Dresser! bulls, l® 2 c per pound;
cows, 3Sv ® 4 itc .
Mutton —- Dressed, fancy, 5c per
pound; ordinary, 4c.
Veal— Pressed. 3 *t® 7 ttc perponnd.
Pork— Dresser I, 8®7t%c per pound.
S T A N D S BY ALLY.
Japan’ s Peace Conditions Will Receive
Endorsement o f Great Britain.
Washington, Aug. 1.— Japan comes
to the Washington conference assured
that, whatever her peace terms, they
w ill have the sympathetic approval of
Great Britain.
Several suggestions
from Washington to London that the
cause of peace would be served by an
explanation to Japan from her ally fa
voring moderation in.her demands up
on Russia have not availed to change
the British government in its apparent
ly unalterble determination to stand by
Japan, however severe she makes her
conditions of peace. Nor has the Brit
ish government seen its way clear to
render assistance to Washington in the
efforts which this government is mak
ing to obtain an armistice.
Advices reaching here show that
London is opposed to an armistice until
Japan has been satisfied that Russia’s
plenipotentiaries are prepared to do
more than discuss means of ending the
war. If Russia is ready to conclude
peace and has so empowered her pleni
potentiaries, Great Britain, it is said,
might favor an armistice, but even in
this event she would, it is said, not be
willing to offer Japan advice on the
subject.
E D IS O N ’S NEW B A T T E R Y .
AFTER BIB FELLOWS
'V
One Millionaire in Jail Worth a
Thousand Others.
STATEMENT OF ATTORNEY HENEÏ
Does Not Believe in Convicting Man
Who Has
Been
Bought and
Letting Buyer Go Free.
Portland, Aug. 1.— Scathing in his
denunciation of graft in public life,
merciless in his arraignment of the mo
tives of the defendants, severe in his
charges against the attorneys for the
defense, dramatic in his earnestness of
speeeh and effort, F’rancis J. Heney
made his argument yesterday in pre
senting the case of the government in
the Williamson-Gesner-Biggs trial to-
the jury.
Those high in public life who used
their offices for private gain and for the
practice of illegal business were held
up before the jury as men worse than
thieves and robbers.
“ It has been intimated by the de
fense in this case,” said Mr. Heney,
“ that I have told the witnesses when
they came before the grand jury as
witnesses that I was not after the little
fish, but after the big ones.
It has
been insinuated that Eiack of my move
ments lurked a political motive, but I
need only to bring th is to mind for you
to know how false it is.
Though the
defense lias never lieen able to get a
witness to say that I told him I was
after the big fish, I w ill say it myself.
I am after the big fish, and as long as
there is a hook and a line or a bit of
tackle in the government box I w ill
keep after them.
Graft is ruining
Russia today; graft ruined Rome, the
ancient empire of the woi.d, and, un
less the juries of the nation sustain the
laws of the United States, graft w ill
ruin this country.”
Turning to the defendants and their
motives, tfie attorney held that when a
guilty man attempts to prove defense
for himself he always hews as close to
the truth as possible.
“ But crime
leaves its scar upon the conscience and
the mind,” said Mr. Heney, “ until if
we open wide enough the windows of
ttie soul we can see the markings left.
It is this consciousness of scar that has
led the defendants in this case to plan
tiie defense they have. I am after the
big fish I do not want the poor devils
who have been seduced through the in
fluence ot power and wealth.
I want
the big fish. One millionaire in the
penitentiary is worth one thousand of
the pqor devils he bought, as an exam
ple to the world.”
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WAR WITH BRITAIN IM M INENT.
German Paper Says German Navy Is
Ready for Action.
Inventor Says It Will Be Cheaper and
Berlin, Aug. 1.— A very considerable
Lighter Than Present Ones.
sensation has been caused by the pub
New York, Aug. 1.— Thomas A. Edi lication in the Tegel Zeitung of a state
son lias made the declaration that he ment that a v;ar between Germany and
Great Britain is imminent. The paper
has solved the problem of providing
says:
cheap and serviceable electric traction
“ According to the most reliable in
for vehicles.
formation furnished to the editor, war
“ By October my light battery w ill be between this nation and England may
ready for the market, and we w ill be not be averted. A ll German warships
ready to equip automobiles of all de have lieen fully prepared for prompt
scriptions,” he said.
“ To reach the action, having received secret instruc
goal for which I aimed and keep down tions that war is considered inevitable.”
Tegel is a Berlin suburb, where are
the cost to a trifling portion of what
present batteries cost to keep alive, I located the extensive works of Messrs.
determined upon a simple combination Borsig, the well known machine and
of iron rust, potash and nickel rust. gun manufacturers. This firm controls
For a time it failed me, but now I have the newspapers and the assumption is
accomplished the result with these in that the “ reliable information” eman
gredients, and a new light battery is an ated from that firm.
accepted fact. It will weigh one-half
of the present batteries in general use,
Distress Among Italians.
and w ill be about the same size, al
New Orleans, Aug. 1.— Much dis
though it stands somewhat higher in tress is beginning to appear among 'the
its proportion than the other.
As to Italian population growing out of the
its power, there can be no question. A practical suppression of the fruit busi
new factory wtiere the cell batteries are ness from Louisiana on account of the
to tie man factored is being erected in quarantines, and relief work is one of
Orange, and automobiles w ill be built the tasks which the Italian societies
and equipped there.”
and citizens’ committees w ill now have
to address themselves to.
W hile the
Milling Wheat for Mexico.
six-day detention order of the board of
San Francisco, Aug. 1.— The Kosmos health lasts, all the lines which have
steamer Thehen, which sailed today for been operated from the steamers into
the southern coast on her way to Eu New Orleans w ill divert their ships to
rope, carried 1,000 tons of m illing Mobile.
wheat for Guaymas, Mexico. For sev
Seek the Judgship.
eral months past the Mexican govern
ment has abolished the duty on wheat,
Portland, July 29.— The scramble for
owing to the short crop in the Hermo- the district judgship has begun afresh,
sillo district and steamers sailing from since W. W. Cotton threw away the
here have received consignments of plum, and aspirants for the job are
wheat sufficiently large to warrant slanting their eyes toward Clatsop
them in calling at Guaymas, far up the county, where dwells Senator Fulton,
Gulf of California. The duty will be and toward the third floor of the Fed
imposed again on August 31.
eral courthouse, where holds forth Dis
trict Attorney Francis J. Heney. That
Changes in Land Laws.
Mr. Fulton and Mr. ’ Henev have the
Washington. Aug. 1.— The public strongest pull of anybody in Oregon is
lands commission, appointed nearly realized by all the candidates.
two years ago to investigate and re
Rojestvensky Is Recovering.
port upon the operation and needed
modifications in the public land laws,
Tokio, Aug. 1.— Rear Admiral Ro-
hopes to submit a final and comprehen jestvensky’ s condition has made satis
sive report to President Roosevelt prior factory progress since the operation that
to the assembling of congress next fall. was performed on his forehead.
He
The commission has about completed was able to leave his bed and sit in a
its investigations as regards the home chair yesterday.
Pains in one foot,
stead, the desert land and timber laws, however, prevent his walking freely,
but not of the mineral land laws.
but no cause for uneasiness exists.
The admiral has expressed his sincere
War Party Has Upper Hand.
satisfaction with the treatment accord
St. Petersburg, Aug. 1.— News of the ed him.
utmost importance is daily expected
from the army in Manchuria. At army
Taft Party at Nagasaki.
headquarters there are evidences of
Nagasaki, Aug.
1.— The steamer
great activity, and there is no doubt Manchuria arrived here at 7 o'clock
that word fo a general engagement is thia morning.
The governor, mayor
looked for. The war party stilt has and other officiala went aboard and ex
the upper hand and there ia still little tended official welcome to Secretary ol
talk of peace.
War Taft and Miaa Roosevelt.
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