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Washington Bounty Rows C O N FE R E N C E D E LA YS BREAK Qiscussion o f Sakhalin Postponed by Peace Envoys. W M B T GROVE._____ X M W jan NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. A Resume o f the Less Important but Not Less Interesting Evsnts o f the Past Week. Two cases of yellow fever have peared in Indiana. The British fleet has sailed rcuise in the Baltic sea. for ap its Slight skirmishes continue between the troops in Manchuria. One of Hawaii’s volcanoes showing signs of activity. is again Governor Folk, of Missouri, is ar ranging to attend the Lewis and Clark fair. The quarantine at New Orleans is causing a banana famine in Kastern cities. Attorney General Moody says he has recom mended Judge it. 8. Bean, of Salem, for Federal judge. Standard Oil dividends for the quar ter ending September 15 are $6 per share, less than for some years. Charles M. Schwab is going abroad for the purpose of investigating in Ger many a new and secret procss for the manufacture of steel, which may have bearing on the future of that industry. Portsmouth, N. H ., Aug. 16. — The crisis in the peace negotiations upon which the eyes of the world are fastened is approaching rapidly, and the end of this week or the first of next, at the latest, should witness the deadlock and the end, if the conference is to go to pieces. Two more of the 12 articles, Nos. 4 and 6, were disposed of yester day. Article 4 consists of mutual pledges to observe the integrity of China and the policy of the “ open door” for the commerce of all nations, and article 6 covers the surrender of the Russian leases of the Liao Tung peninsula, Port Arthur, Dalny and the Blond and Ellfott islands. To article 4 both parties gave ready assent and the official statement of the adoption of that article took care to state that it was agreed to “ unani mously.” Article 5, the consideration of which was passed until later, pro vides for the cession of the island of Sakhalin. Discussion appearing just at this stage on account of the firm negative given in the Russian reply, it was decided upon the motion of the Japanese to defer its discussion, thus revealing the Japanese intention of postponing to the end the life and death struggle. This is the usual procedure followed in diplomatic negotiations, enabling the negotiators to come to an accord upon all possible points before tackling the cruical issues, and the fact that the Russians acquiesced in the propo sition shows that they too are as care ful and as anxious as are the Japanese that the world should not accuse them of being responsible for precipitating the break, if break there is to be, and wrecking the conference. GAME IS FREEZE-O U T. Experiments made with wireless te legraphy on engines running over the Charge Made Against Private R efrig tracks of the Chicago & Alton railroad erator Car Lines. have proved so successful that the Washington, Aug. 16.— The Inter management has taken steps to equip all the engines of the company with state Commerce commission, on its ow n intitiative and as a result of complaints the apparatus. against private car lines, today unex Russia is buyinfg supplies heavily in pectedly began an investigation of the America. relations of railroads and refrigerator Russia may propose a joint govern lines, both of which, it is charged, are violating the act regulating interstate ment of the island of Sakhalin. commerce in several specified particu Oyama is ready to tight at once lars. The complaint is directed against should peace negotiations be broken off. the Armour car line, the American Re Yellow fever in New Orleans is on frigerator Transportation company, the the decrease, but is increasing on plan Santa Fe Refrigerator Despatch, and 11 railroads, including the Atchison, To tations near the city. peka & Santa Fe and the Southern Pa Graft in the army has been found in cific. connection with contracts fo* supply The railroads and refrigerator lines ing clothing and other supplies. are made respondents in proceedings President Roosevelt is said to have which require that specific answer to selected a Federal judge for the district allegations be made to the Interstate of Oregon, hut w ill not make the an Commerce commission by Septemlier 5. It is charged that by way of rebate or nouncement for some time. other devices, the refrigerator lines are The contract for a new custom house acting for the railroads as authorized at San Francisco has been let. The agents, and the railroads, acting building is to be finished by March 1, through the refrigerator lines, are col* 1908, and w ill cost $1,194,000. lectting and receiving for the refrigera Chairman Shonts, of the Canal com tion of fruit and vegetables lower rates mission, says one of the first considera for some shipments than they are con tions must be the proper housing of temporaneously receiving for similar employes, and buildings w ill have to be service rendered to other shippers. erected for them. GIVES AM E R IC A W ORST O F IT The Interstate Commerce commission MAKING PROGRESS Peace Conference Agrees Upon Terms on Three Points. HARD NUTS ARE ÏET TO CRACK Both Russia and Japan to Evacuate Manchuria and Respect T erri torial Integrity o f China. Portsmouth, Aug. 15. — Although very rapid progress was made with the peace negotiations yesterday, three of the 12 articles which constitute the Japanese conditions of peace having been agreed to by Mr. W itte and Baron Rosen on behalf oi Russia, neither of the two articles to which Mr. W itte in his reply returned an absolute negative was reached. The crisis, therefore, is still to come. It may be reached to day, as the cession of Sakhalin comes fifth in the list. The three “ articles found,” as they are officially designat ed in the brief communications author ized to be given to the press, which were disposed of yesterday, are in sub stance as follows: First— Russia’s recognition of Ja pan’ s “ preponderating influence” and special position in Corea, which Russia henceforth agrees is outside of her sphere of influence, Japan binding her self to recognize the suzeranity of the reigning family, but with the right to give advice and assistnace to improve the civil administration of the empire. Second— Mutual obligation to evacu ate Manchuria, each to surrender all special privileges in that province, mu tual obligation to respect the “ territo rial integrity” of China and to main tain the principle of equal rights of fall nations to that province (the open door). Third— The cession to China of the Chinese Eastern railway from Harbin southward. There was never any question about the acceptance on the part of Mr. W itte of these articles, the first two covering in more emphatic form the contention of Japan in the diplomatic struggle which preceded hostilities. T Y P H O ID IN W A S H IN G T O N . Many New Cases and Rapid Spread Due to Bad Water. Washington, Aug. 15.— Twenty-nine new cases of typhoid fever and two deaths from the disease were reported to the health officers today. The out break has passed in severity that of 1903, when the greatest number of per sons under treatment for the disease at any one time was 224, and it had spread rapidly. Health officials are bending every effort to fight the dis ease, including a house-to-house in spection of back yards and cel'ars with a view to remedying unsanitary condi tions. One bed of the new filtration plant will be opened probably tomorrow, thus w ill shortly increase the minimum per centage of air brakes used on freight Tow er tbbjects to German Discrimi reducing to that extent the danger from typhoid fever and other disease germs trains engaged in interstate commerce nation in Railroad Rates. which, it is believed, comes from to lessen the danger of accident. Washington, Aug. 16.— Although the drinking unfiltered water. subject has figured for several years There are now 340 cases of yellow fever under treatment in New Orleans. past in the diplomatic exchanges be REVENUE MEN SH A K E N UP. tween America and Germany, renewed It is believed Judge R. 8. Bean w ill interest is being taken by the State de be the next Federal judge for Oregon partment in the representations made Four Agents Have Been Requested to The Russian cruiser Pallada, which to the German government in behalf of Hand in Resignations. was sunk at Port Arthur, has been re the American lumber exporting trade Washington, Aug. 15.— The Star to relative to alleged discrimination by night says: floated. ' There has been a big Eleven boys from the Oregon state the government control led German shake-up among the agents of the in ternal revenue service, but just how far reform school made a tuccessful break railroads against American lumber. Ambassador Tower has been instruct it has gone is a matter of speculation. for liberty. ed to inform the German government It is stated, however, that four well The Peary expedition has left Labra that, as the United States makes no known revenue agents have been asked dor for the Greenland coast, and re discrimination between countries in for their resignations and that at least ports all well. the imposition of customs duties, Amer two of the four have come here for a ican imports into Germany should be Russia is angry f t the peace terms conference with Commissioner Yerkes, The of the Internal Revenue bureau. offfered try Japan. The whole nation treated in the same manner. Germans are stated to have drawn what These are Captain Charles H. In denounces them. the lumber exporters regard as a pure Work has lieen suspended on the ly fanciful line of difference between gram, in charge of New England work, stationed at Boston, and C. H. Burg, Culebra division of the Panama canal standard American and European |bard who has had a section of the Southwest on account of a shortage of funds. woods as a basis for imposing much under his charge and has been located City oil inspectors of Kansas City higher railroad rates on the former. in Texas. The names of the other two have found 2« out ot 35 measures used agents could not l>e learned today. by the Standard Oil company at that Expert on Ground. place to be short. New Orleans, Aug. 16.— The arrival Car Builders Combine. Philadelphia, Aug. 15.— Eight hun Excavatioi.s for the new newspaper of Dr. John Guiteras, the Cuban yellow building of M. H. DeYoung in San fever expert, and his tour of the seat of dred of the heads of the largest firms the worst infection, was the most inter in the country have engaged rooms in a Francisco have seriously endangered esting feature of the yellow fever situa local hotel for the second week in Sep the Chronicle building. tion today. Dr. Guiteras left Havana tember for a convention that is looked An automobile occupied by four to make an inspection of the Gulf cities forward to with hope by the business prominent men of Pueblo, Colo, was in connection with the Cuban quaran men as being the jmssible forerunner of struck by lightning near that town and tine, and to offer his assistance to the one of the greatest consolidations of campaign in progress here. His previ recent years. It is an open secret that one of the men instantly killed. ous important visit to New Orleans numerous conferences have been held France fears her Indo-China colonies was in 1897, when there was also an during the last six months and that by are in danger of Japanese domination. appearance of yellow fever before the absorbing works at St. Louis and Eliz- A petition signed by 100,000 French mosquito theory had been determined. abethport, a beginning has been made people urges the establishment of an toward a general consolidation. Decisive Result Soon. armistice and the conclusion of peace. Paris, Aug. 16.— M. W itte has re Volcano in Nevada. Charles M. Schwab w ill spend three ceiver! final instructions relative to the Reno, Nev., Aug. 15.— A volcano, months in Europe studying the latest extreme lim it of the Russian conces shipbuilding plants, and then erect sions, according to information received throwing off molton lava and in active operation, has been discovered in Neva plants at all Atlantic coast ports. this afternoon from its St. Petersburg da by cattlemen of Iaivelock. The vol It is now generally believed that correspondent, who says he learns in cano is bleated in Rye Patch, Humboldt Although that section has agents of Japan are behind the Chinese governmental circles that, should Ja county. boycott movement, as American goods pan insist on the payment of an indem lieen traversed for years, the crater has in China are being replaced by goods of nity, the negotiations w ill lie broken just been found for the first time. The off. The decisive result, the corre men were in search of cattle when they Japanese manufacture. spondent says, may be ex per'ted this came upon the stream of lava, and trac A heavy vote is expected on the re week. ing it to its source, located the vol ferendum in Norway. cano. All Oppose Feeding Law. Roosevelt tells China boycott is in Inquiry by Six States. Chicago, Aug. 16.— Secretary of Ag- violation of the Chinese treaty. ticulture Wilson held a cr nference to Lincoln, Neb., Aug 15.— Insurance Many ffremen were terribly burn«! day with about 50 cattlemen at the Auditor Pierce announcer! today that in a New York soap factory Are. stockyards exchange on the subject of the insurance department of Nebraska, livestoca transportation. The cattle working with Wisconsin. Minnesota, President Roosevelt makes vigorous men made it plain that they were op Louisiana. Kentucky and Tennessee, speech on Monroe doctrine and trusts. posed to the law which requires ship- would on October 1 begin an investiga Forest fires near Malian, Idaho, i pera to feed and rest cattle every 24 tion of the affairs of the Equitable, nearly smothered a number of miners hours. They wanted it extended to 36 New York Life and Mutual insurance companies in the states named. j hours. In a tunnel. , V O T E S T O FO R SAK E SWEDEN Citizens of Principal Cities Turn Out En Masse with National Colors. Chrisitana, Norway, Aug. 15. — The Norwegian people, in a referendum vote, have pronounced in favor of the dissolution of the union with Sweden with remarkable, though not unex pected, unanimity. Of 450,000 voters, 320,000 cast ballots. W hile the full result w ill not be known for some time, up to midnight returns show that about one person in 3,000 voted against disso lution. The difference between the total number of voters and the number of votes cast is attributable to absent ees, such as sailors abroad and others who are out of the country at present. There were scenes of the greatest en- tbusiasm everywhere. Thousands of women who did not have the right of franchise signed petitions in the stieets indorsing the dissolution. In Christ iana and other towns, the entire popu lation turned out, every one wearing long streamers of the national colors and pitures of Premier Michelsen. One of the members of the cabinet said to the Associated Press: “ The result surpasses the most san guine expectations. The next official steps w ill be taken after the storthing meets, August 21, when the result of the vote w ill be communicated to the Swedish government. The storthing w ill repeat the request that the riks dag declare the riksakt in operation and the union dissolved. "T h e storthing w ill also express a willingness to negotiate concerning the details of the dissolution. “ It is the earnest desire of Norway to conclude the dissolution amicably. Norway will never retract, but every thing will be done to meet the wishes of Sweden in other directions. “ If peace depends upon abolishing the forts they w ill be abolished. Nor way must remain a monarchy. The people do not desire a republic.” P L O T T O K IL L PR E S ID E N T Private Car Takes Roundabout Way on Return from Chautauqua. New York, Aug. 15.— That the Erie railroad fully arranged for the safety of President Roosevelt on his way from Chautauqua to Jersey City on Saturday is shown by the fact that the presi dent’s car did not come in over the main line. Instead, the Chautauqua special was broken in two at Suffren, N. Y ., and the presidential party was brought in by a roundabout way over two small branch roads. President Roosevelt is said to have objected to the unusual precautions taken, but acquiesced when positive orders from President Underwood of the Erie were shown him. These or ders were issued as the result of a letter received by the Paterson police which said there was a plot to blow up the president’s train near Ridgewood, N. J. The Chautauqua special was stopped at Suffren early Saturday morning. There was a consultation of railroad men, at which it was decided to send the president to Sparkill, a small town on the Hudson, three miles below Nyack, by a little singe-track road, known as the Piermont branch and thence into Jsrsey City on the Northern railroad, a branch having its terminals at Nyack President Roosevelt was awakened and told of the change in the schedule, as the officials did not like to take the responsibility without his consent. The president, after some discussion, said that he was “ in the hands of the E rie,” and while he had no fear of his train being wrecked on the main line, he would do what the railway men thought best. Slow time was made over the Piermont branch, and the Northern railway, and extra men guarded every part of both roads. FIRE WARDEN IS WIDE AW AKE. Arrests Farmers fo r Burning Slash ing Without a License. European Capital Secured to Explore Promising Property. Oregon City — F. Hendricks, deputy fire warden, discovered J. R. Hunt, A. M. Lull and D. O. Leavens, of W illam ette, burning slashing for which no permit had been procured of the county clerk. The men appeared before the acting deputy district attorney and pleaded ignorance of the amended law with the provisions of which the peo ple of this county are not acquainted. Agreeing to immediately obtain the required permit the men were not pros ecuted. Mr. Hendricks is patrolling the en tire county and posting notices warning settlers against the miscellaneous start ing of fires. In order to get around the objectionable feature of the law which requires a permit to be obtained ten days prior to the time the fire is to be started, the same to be burned only three days, a great many farmers are renewing their applications for per mits every three days, thus giving them practically indefinite time in which to wait for favorable weather. Otherwise, the weather during the three days covered in the original ap plication on which the permit is granted being unfavorable, the settler must experience a further delay of at least ten days intervening between the issuance of the permit and the starting of the fire authorized thereby. R. C. Lange, who recently returned from Europe, where he disposed of a large block of stock for the 8t. Helens Mining company, has gone to Denver to purchase machinery for the St. H el ens mines. The machinery will be thoroughly modern in all details, and w ill be installed just as soon as it ar rives. The holdings of the company are considered valuable, and workings on a much larger scale than heretofore w ill be begun at once. Two shifts w ill be maintained, and water power in plenty can be obtained close to the mines. Surface work has shown a strong vein which yields hiyh copper values in all the adits and shallow shafts sunk. Some of these copper samples run from 12 to 20 per cent in the red metal and carry some gold. The vein lias been established as a permanent fissure and w ill no doubt lie found with high grade ore at greater depth. Tunneling w ill begin at once to get at the ore at great depth. Earthquake Lasts Nine Hours. Hongkong, Aug. 15. — The inhabit ants of Macao, on the Canton river, were stricken with panic, owing to con tinuous earthquake shocks, which lasted for nine hours. Thousands flocked to the parks to get away from the shaking buildings, and the Chinese priests added to the alarm by prophe sving the destruction of the city. Steamers coming from Macao to Hong kong are crowded with refugees Shocks were felt at Hongkong. Fined fo r Illegal Liquor Selling. Oregon City— Mr. and Mrs. A . Corri gan and Mr. Cunningham, proprietors of a saloon at Estacada, were found guilty of selling liquor without a mu nicipal license and were fined $30 each. Cunningham paid his tine, but Corri gan ami wife w ill appeal. The defend ants contend that under the provisions of a license obtained from the County court last April they were regularly licensed to sell liquors, but the Esta cada city charter provides that the state law shall not apply in the licens ing of saloons and the traffic in liquor. This provision of the charter became operative January 31, and the city’ s attorneys held that the license granted by Clackamas county was void. Union Forests Aflame. La Grande— Word comeB from Elgin that forest 'fires are raging in that v i cinity, and that a large force of men is at work trying to check the fire and to protect and save property. The most damaging fires are in the neighborhood north of Elgin. The sawmills be longing to the First National bank, Galloway Bros, and the Elgin Lumber company are in danger and the m ill hands are working night and day to Fire Loss Is Heavy. protect the mills and to arrest the pro Grants Pass— Property losses by fire gress of the flames. Every available in Southern Oregon have been very man has been pressed into service. heavy the past ten days, due to the ex cessive dryness of the season. The Sugar Beets Don’ t Hurt Land. rainfall for last winter and this summer La Grande— A1 Good, a farmer who has been less than for several years lives two miles north of I.a Grande, past, and the least spark at once starts has threshed two acres of oats which a fire. In almost every valley of the yielded 202 bushels. The seed for this Rogue river basin forest fires are raging ground was less than a sack of oats. and much timber is being destroyed. It was also sown in alfalfa this spring, The farmers are losing much fencing and M r. Good expects to get a couple and several biuldings have burned. of tons of hay from this.same ground besides the crop of oats. Previous to Fires Near Mount Jefferson. this season the ground was planted in Albany — Fires in the timber east of sugar bests, and the above result Detroit, at the foot of Mount Jefferson, shows how much beet raising injures are spreading and doing great damage. the soil for other crops. A considerable tract of timber is already burned and the flames are spreading Farmers Fight Fire. eastward. A large force of men is fight Grants Pass — Forest fires have ing the fire, but making little headway reached the farming districts of West against it, owing to the high wind usu ern Josephine county, and are doing ally blowing up the Santiam canyon. much damage in the vicinity of the Rymer farm and the big arpple orchard Get Bridge Contract. of Eisman Bros. In order to keep the Astoria— The board of commissioners flames from the orchards, fields and of Wahkiakum county, Washington, at buildings, the people of that district, its recent meeting awarded a contract men and women, are fighting fire day to Feriruson & Houston, of this city, and night. For the past three days for the construction of a bridge across and nights entire families have been Gray’s river, near the Bergman place. working heroically at all hours to sub The cost of the structure w ill be about due the flames. $3,000. Weston Normal Closed. Pendleton— It is now defintiely set tled that there w ill be no normal school at Weston during the coming winter, as it has been found impossible to raise money sufficient to defray the expenses until an appropriation bill can be voted next June. President French has been very hopeful of being able to secure Oil Measures Are Short. sufficient money to pay the running ex Kansas City, Aug. 15.— Information penses of the institution until that has been field against George VV. time, but he has now abandoned the Mayer, manager, and W illiam Shaw, undertaking. local superintendent, of the Standard Oil company, charged with selling coal State Loses Grain by Fire. oil and gasoline from short measures. Salem— The state of Oregon lost 1 ,- Twenty out of 36 tank wagons’ meas ures tested were found short by the 600 bushels of new grain in a threshing city inspector. C. F. Wilson, president machine fire at the penitentiary farm The Morris of the company which makes the five- the first of the week. gallon measures used by the Standard threshing outfit, from Albany, had just Oil company, is on his way to Kansas finisned threshing the grain when a City, having been summoned here by spark from the engine caught in the separator and the flames spread so rap Mr. Mayer. idly that no grain could lie saved. The loss to the state is about $1,200 and to Many New Cases. Morris about $900. New Orleans, Aug. 15.— The heavy increase in the numoer of cases which One Woman Hunter in Union. began four or five days ago is beginning La Grande — Two hundred hunters’ to manifest itself in the death list, which can be expected to grow steadily licenses have been issued by the eounty for the next few days. The number clerk. The only woman to take out a of new cases today seems small in com license is Mrs. George Ackles, of this parison with yesterday’ s record, but it city. The oldest applicant for a license is really 19 short, as that number of is L. M. Fulton, of Elgin, aged 78 cases were turned in by an inspector years, and the youngest licensed nim- just after the hour for closing the re rod is Miles Borth, of Union, who is port. These w ill Ire included in tomor 13 years old. row’ s report. M A C H IN E R Y FOR S T. H ELENS Vote fo r Long School Term. Cottage Grove— A special seool meet ing was held here last week for the purpose of voting on a 10-mill tax to run the school nine months, and other incidental expenses. A large crowd was present and many spirited argu ments were presented. The tax was voted by ten majority. C rop Turning Out Well. La Grande— Threshing is well under way and the yield is far better than was expected. The hot weather cut the spring grain some, but notwithstanding Local Revolt in China. the crop in general w ill be better than Shanghai, Aug. 15. — The governor for the past two seasons. reports that the rising at Pu Chou Fu, in the province of Chansi, is purely New Oregon Postmasters. local. Of 143 soldiers sent out, only Washington—These Oregon postmas three have returned, the remainder ters have been appointed: Mayville, probably deserted. The officials at Tie F. J. Parson, vice Ella N. Angell, re Yuan Fn are sending a large force with signed ; McKee, Harry L. Shaner, vice artillery to the scene of the disturbanca. G. D. Ebner, resigned. New Rural Carriers. Washington — Rural carriers have been appointed as follows: Carlton route 2, Thomas E. Merchant, carrier; Solon K . Hoffman, substitute. P O R T LA N D M ARKETS. Wheat — New club, 70®71e per bushel; new bluestem, 73® 75c per bushel; new valley, 77c. Barley— Old feed, $21.50022 per ton; new feed, $20®21: rolled, $23®24. Oats— No. 1 white feed, $29@30 per ton; gray, $29. H ay—Timothy, old, $13® 15 per ton; new, $11@12.50; clover, $8®9. Fruits— Apples, new, 90c@$1.75 per box; apricots, 90c per crate; peaches, 40@85c per crate; plums, 75c@$l per crate; blackberries, 5@6c per pound; cherries, 50®55c per box; pears, $2 per box; prunes, 85 c@ $ l; raspberries, $1.25 per crate; watermelons, 1®1J4 c per pound; crabapples, 50c per box. Vegetables— Beans, l@ 4 c per pound; cabbage, l ® l l g c per pound; cauli flower, 75®90c per dozen; celery, 75® 85c per dozen; corn, 50® 75c per bag; cucumbers, 15®25c per t>ox; let tuce. head, 10c per dozen; parsley, 25c per dozen; peas, 2®5c per pound; to matoes, 4 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 sack. Onions— Red, $1.25 per hundred; yellow, $1.25. Potatoes— Oregon new, 75@90c. Butter— Fancy creamery, 25®30c. Eggs— Oregon ranch, 22@22)$c per dozen. Poultry— Average old hens, 12>g@13; mixed chickens, 12@12>*c; old roost ers, 9>g@10c; young roosters, 11® ll> $ c; springs, 1 ^ to 2 pounds, 14c; 1 to 1 pounds, 15c; turkeys, live, 18® 19c; geese, live, per pound, 6 ® 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 pound; mohair, choice, 31c per pound. Beef— Dressed balls, 1® 2c per pound; cows, 3)4® 4)kc. Mutton — Dressed, fancy, 6c per pound; ordinary, 4®5c. Veal— Dressed, 3 ® 7 !*c per pound. Park— Dressed, 6 ® 7 )tc per pound.