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Iitkiügtw County I m iM H i t a t W a t P O R S T G R O V E .______ OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form lor Our Busy Senders. A Resume o f the L est Important bu' Not L e s t Interesting; Events o f the Past Week. Germany denies she w ill Interfere in Poland. Thomas Lawson for libel. has been arrested Balfour threatens to resign if follow ers don't unite. Russian workmen new general strike. have ordered a Garfield is at the head of an inquiry into rebates on oil. New York has had storm of the winter. its first snow Secretary Root is working on the new treaty with Germany. Burke, a mining town in West V ir ginia, has been entirely destroyed by fire. Advices from Singapore, China, says the anti-American boycott is strong there. London proposes to establish its own electric lighting system at a cost of »40,000,000. The State department knows nothing of the proposed Anglo-Japanese canal at Nicaragua. Washington’s congressional delega tion w ill work for an appropiiation for the mouth of the Columbia. American residents on the Isle of Pines will send a delegation to congress to prevent ratification of a treaty con veying the the island to Cuba. Riots are occurring in Vladivostok. The American Mining congress is in session at El Paso, Texas. W itte has determined to crush the rebellion in Poland with iron heel. Prosecutor Heney is arranging for land fraud trials at the national capi tal. An American cruiser has been sent to Cronstadt, Russia, to protect Ameri can citizens. Suit under the Likins law has been begun against the Pabst brewery and several railroads. Christians are fleeing from the in terior of China and America has sent a squadron to Canton. Speaker Cannon denies that he is a candidate for president and predicts legislation on railroad rates. The national committee for the relief of Russian sufferers reports having re ceived »182,685 raised in the United States. Tho Reclamation service has asked Secretary Hitchcock to reconsider hie decision relative to the Umatilla irriga tion project. Tammany w ill rely on a decision of Judge Parker, made several years ago, to prevent a recount in the New York mayoralty fight. An earthquake has been felt in Utah ad Idaho. Russian Socialists, led by Gorki, are agitating for a republic. A Texas mob lynched three negroes who had murdered a farmer. More frauds are being discovered in the recent New York election. Oregon and *Wazhlngton Suffer From “ T o o Many C ooks." Witte's Health Is Breaking. Great Britain has perfected the basis of an agreement with Russia in which London, Nov. 15.— The 8t. Peters Germany is slighted. burg correspondent of the Daily Tele A former minister of Boston has been graph sends an interesting picture oF indicted for swindling. His operations Count W itte attending a cabinet coun cil for many hours on Monday until are said to involve »1,000,000. long after midiiigbt. Then, being People in all parts of the United affiicted with a severe headache and States are raising funds for the Jews of unable to sleep, the premier devoted Russia. Portland expects to send the whole night to arrears of official about »13,000. work. “ My private opinion,” eats the France and Venezuela have reached correspondent, “ is that, unless these an agreement. It is said that in this conditions change, Count W itte's mar velous staying powers will lie subjected ease Venezuela was in the right. to a very dangeros strain.” Reed Smoot has fallen into disgrace In Halt t.ake City by dragging the Re Suez Route is Favored. lief society into politics. This has been Washington, Nov. 15.— The Navy the only Utah institution on which the department has been informed that the Mormon and Gentile have united. charges for the passage through the Senator Barton has been indicted Suez canal of the floating dry dock built again. (or the Philippines will be about »20,- Norway is naming her ministers to 000 or to give favorable consideration to the Suez route, and, in fart, all foreign countries. preparations contemplate that route. ▲11 foreigners are leaving Odessa, Work is being hurried on the colliers fearing the disorders. Caesar and Brutus and the supply ship A strike may tie np the Chicago Glazier, which are being fitted with towing machinery. light and water works. >. Every tenth man among the Cron stadt mutineers is to be executed. An Ohio doctor is accused of nine murders, inclding his whole family. A New York grand jury has issued 12 Indictments in connection with the •taction. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST Washington, Nov. 15.— “ The Mal heur irrigation project in Eastern Ore gon is reeking with graft,” said a high P O R TA G E ROAD W IL L PAY. official of the Interior department to day, “ and until this graft has been Low Water in River Has Interfered With Its Traffic. eliminated the government w ill not adopt and build the project which the Salem— “ That the Portage railway Reclamation service has prepared. The w ill be self sustaining when regular traffic has been established, there is no government does not propose to be held doubt,” said Superintendent L. S. up. Cook, of the Celilo Portage railway, This statement was made by an offi when in Salem to attend a meeting of cial very close to Secretary Hitchcock, the Portage commission. “ For various and he, apparently, knows whereof he reasons we have not been getting the business we should have had at the speaks, for he but recently returned start, but present difficulties w ill be re from Malheur county, where he mads moved and avoided in the future. “ Low water has made it impossible careful investigation into the entire ir rigation situation, and found such con for the boats on the upper river to take on wheat at some places to bring it ditions as warranted him in recom down to Celilo. For example, at mending against the immediate con Quentin there was 12,000 sacks of struction of that project. It is his wheat piled up on the shore, but the candid opinion that the time is remote water was so low the boats could not when the government w ill undertake get near enough to load. Some 150,000 sacks of grain along the Upper Colum tiie construction of the Malheur project; bia have been shipped out by rail, when indeed, he has doubts whether that under normal conditions of water, it project w ill ever be built by govern would have come down by boat and the portage road. ment aid. “ I cannot give exact figures at pres There is no just reason why the ent concerning the expenditure and in Umatilla project should be delayed one come, because we have not made settle day. It has been demonstrated that ments with transportation companies there is money available; the technical when the charges are collected by one In objection is trivial and ought to be line and the amount apportioned. round numbers I should say that it waived. The Maxwell company mere costs us »800 a month to operate the ly asks to retain 300 acres, with water road and our income is about »600 a right, but Mr. Hitchcock rules that, month. If we were getting all the under the law, this company can have traffic that is available ami naturally tributary to the portage road, we would but 160 acres, with water right, over have an income of »1,200 a month and looking the fact that the three members an expense of perhaps »1,000. We of the Maxwell company, should they have handled 10,000 to 15,000 sackB of make entry individually, could each wheat this month, whereas we would hold 160 acres, or 480 acres in all, with have handled much more if the boats could have reached it.” water rights attached. The eame thing is true of the Sunny- W A N T W ATER FOR C A N A L. side project in the Yakima valley, in Washington. The Sunnyside canal owners are w illing to sell out for »1,- Deschutes Irrigation & Pow er C om 500,000, but they ask to retain more pany Files on Water Rights. than 160 acres of the land they now Salem — The Deschutes Irrigation A own, with water right attached, and Power company has made two water the secretary is unwilling to grant them filings to secure new sources of water this privilege. Ho he holds up that supply for its extensive irrigation sys project, which in the opinion of the re tem near Bend. The present source of clamation engineers is very attractive supply is about two miles above the and can be acquired to advantage at town of Bend, hut it is understood that this time. the land upon which the headgate is Representative Jones, through his located is owned or controlled by A. M. secretary, today made inquiry as to Drake. The Deschutes con pany liaB why Mr. Hitchcock refused to approve now made a filing for 1,000 cubic feet the Tietan and Okanogan projects, and of water per second about three miles found, as previously stated, that both further up the stream. The filing is were sidetracked “ because there is no ior the purpose of securing water for money.” \eariy a year ago Mr. Hitch tho Central Oregon canal. The other cock allotted »2,800,000 for the con filing is for 1,500 cubic inches per struction of the Palouse project, but second at a point about 10 miles above the reclamation engineers recommended Bend, at Beham falls. The filing is indefinite postponement of this under for the purpose of securing water for taking, and it has been temporarily the Benham falls canal, which w ill ex abandoned because of excessive cost. tend eastward and northward a distance It has been decided to withdraw this of 30 to 40 miles, bringing the water allotment, which contains enough to Prineville and irrigating large areas money to build the Tietan and Okanog of land north of the canal. an projects, and purchase the Sunny The Portland Irrigation company, side canal as well, yet the department represented by Edwin Mays, of Port still cries “ no money.” There is much land, has filed on 15,000 inches of quibbling among officials over the exact water in Chewaucan creek, Lake coun status of irrigation projects in Oregon ty, the point of diversion being in sec and Washington, but the situation is tion 34, township 33 south, range 18 as represented: There is money enough east. in both states for immediate work, but Mr. Hitchcock refuses to authorize its Fruit Drier Closes Down. expenditure. Freewater — J. P. Mc.Minn, proprie tor of the large fruit drier north of Freewater, has closed for the season, Bargain In Irrigation Works. Washington, Nov. 15.— A nonpartis •fter a very short run, owing to the an delegation from New Mexico called scacrity of prunes and the active de on the president to discuss with him mand and high price paid for the green the proposed sale to the government of fruit, 76,000 pounds being the output an irrigation project which has been this year as compared with 200,000 Heretofore he has built to irrigate the Pecos valley. The pounds last year. dam and its contingent system were shipped his prunes east, disposing of constructed by private individuals at a the same in the large cities at prices cost of »750,000. Ijist spring a flood from 3 to 3t* cents a pound. He has carried away a part of the dam and left sold half of this year’ s output at 6 the reservoir practically dry. The cents a pound to Pendleton and Walla farms, orchards and gardens, which Walla merchants. Brewers oppose prohiition in Okla homa, saying l>eer is not intoxicating. were irrigated by the system, are threatened with total destruction unless Yellow fever has broken out in Cuba. the dam is rebuilt. The delegation The first victim at Havana to die was proposes to sell the entire plant to the an American. government for »160,000. The presi A court martial has been ordered on dent promised to give full consideration Midshipman Meriwether, who killed a to the proposition. companion in a fight. The merit system w ill be adopted for the American diplomatic service. SELL IR R IG A T IO N M UDDLE. Mutiny at Vladivostok. 8t. Peters'jnrg, Nov. 15.— The latest advices from Vladivostok, received at in early hour this morning, state that the mutiny there is now under semi control, although the danger is by no means over. The Chinese quarter has been entirely destroyed by Are, and the lots of life is reported to be very large, bat. owing to the strict censorship, it is impossible to secure details. Sandlake May Talk. Cloverdale — The Cloverdale Tele phone company this week completed ten miles of new telephono line to Sandlake. The company has also late ly compieteti its line to Dolph. This gives Tillamook City telephone connec tion with every voting preeinct in the south part of the county. There is hardly a farm house from Tillamook to Blab creek that has not telephone ¡con nection, and it is hoped next year w ill see the system extended to the valley by way of Wiliam ina. The system now embraces over 60 miles of wire. NEED N O T V A C C IN A T E . Children Cannot Be Forced to Take Precautionary Measures. Salem— In answer to an inquiry from State Health Officer Robert C. Yenney, of Portland, Attorney General Craw ford has rendered a decision holding that the State Board of Health has no authority to require that children shall be vaccinated before gaining admission to the public schools. The attorney general quotes from the law cieating the board of health, show ing that the board has general super vision of the health of the state and power to establish quarantines. The vaccination rule would not be in the nature of a qua-antine; hence the board cannot find its authority in that provision. Neither does Mr. Crawford think the clause giving the board general super vision w ill authorize them to establish a new qualification for admission to the public schools unless there is apparent danger of an epidemic of smallpox. AIDS TH E C A T A L O G U E HOUSES. Baker City Merchants Protest Against Numbering o f Rural Boxes. ad ulterated seed . Agricultural Department Blacklists a Long List o f Dealers. Washington, Nov. 14.— While the air is full of talk about graft, Secretary Wilson, of the department of Agricul ture, is going ahead quietly puncturing one form of graft that is imposed upon the farmers of the country— that oper ated by the fraudulent seed men. Un der a special act of congress Mr. W il son’s department makes an examina tion and analysis of seed sent in by iarmers who are suspicious that dealers are selling them adulterated goods. As a result of investigations recently made, the Agricultural department has issued a warning to farmers against buying red clover or alfalfa seed from a number of dealers who have been found disposing of adulterated seed. The dealers named on the 1 iat are: W. W . Hawson A Co., Boston; Ross Bros., Worcester, Mass.; W. H . Small A Co., Evansville, Ind.; The W . E. Barrett Company, Providence, R. I . ; Barteldes A Co., Denver, Colo; Cross man Bros., Rochester, N. Y . ; W. E - Dailwig, Milwaukee; J. A . Everett, Indianapolis; James Gregory A Son, Marblehead, MasB.; W. Grossman, Pe tersburg, V a.; Hamilton Bros., Cedar Rapids, la .; Huntington A Paige, In dianapolis; Jacob F. Kirchner, Pitts field, Mass.; McMillan Seed Companv, Atlanta, G a.; B. E. Martin, Salem, 111.; L. L . May A Son, St. Paul, Minn; National Seed Company, Louis ville, K y .; The Frank 8. Platt Co., New Haven; Rush Park Seed Com pany, Independence, la .; Steckler Seed Company, New Orleans, and Young A Halstead, Troy, N. Y . The names of these dealers are pub licly posted by the department, in reality they are blacklisted. This note is a warning to farmers who are in the market for red clover or alfalfa seed. Baker City— The merchants of Baker City are circulating a petition asking the postmaster general to withdraw his order to the effect that all rural mail boxes must be numbered in consecutive order. In thit work they have asked the aid of all the merchants from Boise to Spokane, and petitions have been sent to these towns for circulation. The merchants allege that the num bering of the mail boxes on the rural free delivery routes would give the cat alogue houses in the large cities like Xew York, Chicago and St. Louis a great advantage, as these big concerns would be enabled to send out their cat alogues and other literature to every ITS W O R K A FIASCO. patron along every rural free delivery route without knowing the names of the parties, as the literature could be Committee on Public Printing Does addressed to Box 24, or any number, Not Fix Blame fo r Waste. and reach its destination. Washington, Nov. 14. — Judging by results so far obtained by the “ joint Start Free Library. Baker City — Baker City now has a committee on printing,” the public free public library, the council having printing graft is not going to ba checked ratified the appointment of the library by congress this winter, as President commission as named by Mayor C. A. Roosevelt had hoped. After giving Johns. A special library tax w ill be hearings to officials of the government voted on the the next June election, and in the meantime Andrew Carnegie printing office, officials in charge of w ill be asked to renew the offer of senate and house documents and some »1,000 made about a year ago for the of the men in charge of publications in establishment of a library in this city. the various departments, the committee The present library was instituted by arrives at the conclusion that there has a private library association and con It is not able to analyze ducted for the benefit of the public at been waste. a small membership fee. the waste; it is not able to point out the manner in which the waste can be O. R. & N. Block System. checked; it is not able to fix the re La Grande — The construction gang sponsibility. In short, the committee at work erecting the block system on has brought to light nothing new. And the mountain division of the O. R. A now it has taken an indefinite recess. N., has almost completed its labors for But this class of investigation is typ the winter. The system is installed ical. It is about as effective as the well along the line between Meacham average congresaional inquiry. It ia and Bingham Springs, and when the parallel to the inquiry held in the last crew reaches the latter place work will congress for the purpose of clearing he suspended this season, although it senators and representatives of charges is likely that it will be extended on as made against them in the famous Bris far as Umatilla, at least by anotber tow postal report. year. NO BILL, SAYS B U R I ON. Nucleus o f Permanent Exhibit. Ontario— The Malheur county exhib it returned from the fair at Portland is Congressional Appropriations Must Be being installed in the office of Don Kept at Lowest Figure. Carlos Boyd. It is to be made the nu Washington, Nov. 14. — The Post cleus of a permanent exhibit of the tomorrow will say: products of the county. No general river and harbor bill will P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS . be passed by congress at the approach ing session. This forecast was made by Wheat— Club, 73c per bushel; blue- Representative Burton, of Ohio, chair s em, 75c; valley, 74@75c; red, 69c. Oats— No. 1 white feed, »26; gray, man of the river and harbor committee, »26 per ton. before he left Washington for Hot Barley— Feed, »21 50@22 per ton; Springe, Va., for a short vacation. brewing, »22(322.50; rolled, »22.50@ There are two cogent reasons for not 23.50. enacting such legislation next winter, Rye— »1.50(311.60 per cental. according to Representative Burton— Hay— Eastern Oregon timothy, »15® first, because a large bill passed last 16 per ton; valley timothy, »11(312; session carried appropriations for all clover, »8 @ 9 ; grain, »8(39. projects deserving of immediate atten Fruits— Apples, » 1@1.50 per box; tion from congress; second, the neces huckleberries, 7c per pound; pears, sity of holding down appropriations to »1 25@1.50 per box; grapes, » 1@1.25 the lowset figure to prevent, if possible, per box; Concord; 15c per basket; another deficit in the treasury. quinces, »1 per lvox. Vegetables— Beans, wax, 10@12e per Sale o f Lots Postponed. pound; cabbage, l O l ^ c per pound; Washington, Nov. 14.— The sale of cauliflower. »1.75(32 per dozen; cel ery, 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50(360c lots in the new townsites of Heyburn per dozen; pumpkins, ?4 ® lc per and Rupert, on the rich Minidoka re pound; tomatoes, »1 per crate; sprouts, clamation project in Idaho, has been 7c per pound; squash, 34 ® lc per postponed from November 14 to 21 to pound; turnips, 90c® »1 per sack: car some date early in April. This action rots, 65®75e per sack; beets, 8oc(3»l has been taken by the secretary of the Interior upon the recommendation of per sack. Onions — Oregon yellow Danvers, the governor of Idaho and prominent citizens of that state. Bad weather is »1.25 per sack. Potatoes — Fancy graded Burbanks, (eared and lack of suitable accommoda 75®85c per sack; ordinary, 55®60c; tions for the puichasers. It is advisa Merced sweets, sacks, » ! 90; crates, ble to postpone the event until later, when prices w ill be higher. »2.15. W ork on Coquille Bar. Bandon— Work on the north jetty at Coquille bar is now fairly under way, and.will be completed probably within a year. This is part of the improve ments along the Coquille river, for which the government recently appro priateli »55,000. The jetty w ill be ex tended 555 feet seaward. Contractors Wakefield A Jacobean, of Portland, have the task in hand, and extensive work Butter — Fancy creamery, 25®27 lac had to be done before the actual work of building the extension was started. per pound. Eggs— Oregon ranch, 32 la ®35c per Winter Irrigation a Success. dozen. Poultry— Average old hens, 11® 12c Milton— W. T. Shaw, the well known Hudson bay rancher, was in the city per pound; young roosters, 9® 10c; recently and reports that irrigation on springs, 11 ® 12c; dressed chickens, the line of the Hudson Bay ditch is 12®14c; turkeys, live, 17®18c; geese, increasing. This ditch uses the sur live, 8®10c; ducks, 14®15c. Hope— Oregon, 1905, choice, 9 ® llc ; plus water of the W alla W alla river, and as a result it can only irrigate when olds, 7 i, ® 10c. W ool— Eastern Oregon average l>est, the ordinary irrigation season ends. 19®21c; lower grailes down to 15c, ac Car Shortage Felt. circling to shrinkage; valley, 25®27c Freewater— Owing to the scarcity of per pound; mohair, choice, 30c. cars on this division the Peacock and Beef — Dreesed bulls, 1 ®2c per Fagle mills are working at a great dis pounl; cows, 3®4c; country steers. advantage on account of storage capaci 4® 4 S c. ty being blocked with millstuff* ready Veal— Dreeseil, 3® 7S c per pound. to «hip. Manager J. H. Hall advisee Mutton— Dree ed, fancy, 7 ® 7 S c per he has 20 cars of flour and feed ready pound;ordinary, 4®5c: lambs, 7 S ® 8 c. t « move and can get bat one car a day. Pork— Dreesed, 6® 7S c per pound. Strikers Call to Arms. 8t. Petersburg, Nov. 14.— The strike leaders, after a conference which lasted until 1 o’clock this morning, drafted an appeal calling on all citizens to arm in defense of thei • homes and familiet. The delegates to the union of unions decided to again stop all traffic be tween Warsaw and 8t. Petersburg, and orders to that effect were issued. All workmen have been commanded to work not more than eight hoars a day heginging this morning. Buy Mountain o f Iron. El Paso, Tex., Nov. 14.— News has come from Mexico tnat the United States Steel company has purchased the famous Solid Iron mountain, the rich est of its kind in the world, at Du rango. POINTS OF MESSAGE Measures President Will Recom mend to Congress. RATE QUESTION FIRST ON LIST Will Be the Longest and Most Re markable o f President Roose velt's State Papers. v< Washington, Nov. 14.— The proofs of the message that President Roosevelt w ill send to congress on the first Mon day in December are now in his hands for final revision. It is said by those members of his cabinet who have heatd portions of it read that it w ill be the longest and most remarkable document that has been written by President Roosevelt. Among other topics that have been treated in a striking manner are the following: Correction of the rebate evil and the regulation of railroad rates. Telling what has been done toward *!* r building tLe Panama canal and advo cating legislation that will expedite the work. Urging the reorganization of the dip lomatic and consular service. Advocating moderation in Chinese exclusion laws. • Suggesting methods for cementing up the cracks in the immigration laws. Recommending administrative re forms in governmental departments and 4^ the adoption of business methods in operating the government. r Urging the ratifi nation of the Santo Domingo treaty. Recommending better tariff relations with the Philippines and Porto Rico. Explaining the government’s right to inquire into corporations engaged in interstate commerce. Pointing to the benefits of a greater navy. m Preservation of Niagara Falls from 1 the encroachments of cm m erce. Statehood for territories. Federal supervision of insurance companies greatly desired. Other topics touched upon are: Treaty of Portsmouth, trade in the Orient, treasury deficiencies, publie lands, forest reservations, rights of la bor, Venezuela and economy in govern ments expenditures. J3 A G A IN ST T H t RAILRO AD S. i Washington State Commission Up holds All Complaints. Colfax, Wash., Nov. 14. — “ Found guilty as charged on each count of the indictment.” This is the verdict of the State Railroad commission rendered yesterday evening in the 8tate Railroad commission vs. the O. R. A N. Co., the Great Northern Railroad company — ( and the Northern Pacific Railroad com ^f. . y pany. Shipments from Puget sound for points on the O. R. A N. in Eastern Washington must not be routed via Portland unless requested by the ship per. Coal rates from Roslyn to points on the O. R. A N. in Eastern Washing ton must be lowered to that existing before the cancellation of the joint rates January 1, 1902, and joint rates must be re-established between all the railroads of Washington. In fact, the railroads have lost every point, and the commission has arbitrarily announced its intent to fix the rates to favor Puget sound at the expense of Portland. The O. R. A N. Co., by its attorney, James Wilson, announced just before adjournment of the commission, after all the testimony had been taken, that it would grant a rate of »2.55 on Ros lyn coal from Wallula to Colfax, mak- Y ing the total rate on both roads of »4.45, thus placing Roslyn coal on an equal basis with Wyoming coal. Commissioner McMillan asked if the O. R A N . and Northern Pacific would make the same rate on Roslyn coal to Colfax that the Northern Pacific makes to Garfield an i Pullman. Mr. Wilson p stated he has no authority to make such a rate. Concessions to Peasants. St. Petersburg, Nov. 14.— The gov ernment has decided to make an appeal to the peasants. W ith the workmen of the cities completely estranged and Liberals refusing to aid the authorities, there Is nothing left but to turn to the peasants, and the emperor has approved a ukase informing them that measures for the amelioration of their condition w ill receive immediate consideration. The discontent of the peasants and the danger of the spread of the agrariaxA. movement largely contributed to the J government's decision. Troops in Finland Mutiny. Helsingfors, Nov. 14.— A revolt broke out jesterday in the garrison of Svea- borg. Hundreds of the men assert that they have been retained with the colors from two to three years beyond the legal period of their service, and also complain of their conditions of life. The mutineers refused to obey orders, expelled the civilians from the pre cincts of the fortress and in several of the barracks threw beds, chairs and kitchen apparatus out of the windo iwoL Reviving a Dead Scheme. Mexico City, Nov. 14.— The Mexicen Herald p-ints a story claiming it has information that the governmente of Great Britain and Japan bave practical ly decided to construct a ship canal of their own across Nicaragua, practically on the lines of the plan rejected by the American government, Great Britain to furnish the capital and Japan the labor. I