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About Washington County news. (Forest Grove, Washington County, Or.) 1903-1911 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 23, 1905)
C A S T R O REFUSES TO PAY MORE . • Keeps N t M CUiVIdtH C t N T t R ■ ■ oi dV J h jP,?,-, a8B ic iB /V-MB •J B ■ . " ‘ AD V AN C E IN PRICE OF_LOGS. T w o Mills Building and Three Under Logging Camps Soon to Shut Down, and Shortage is Expected. Consideration at Dallas. Astoria— W hile several of the loggers Dallas— Though situated in the midst •of a splendid fruitraising and hopgrow in the Lower Columbia river district ing territory, Dallas promises to become are under contract to deliver logs at * great lumtier center as well. In ad $7.50 per thousand until the first of dition to the Cone m ill, now being the year, the others have advanced the price for fir logs to $8 and a few sales built, and the Nap m ill, which w ill be are said to have been made at figures remodeled, three more propositions are a shade higher. In spite of this ad now before the business interests of the vance in price, the demand is excellent and the logs are being taken as fast as city f ir consideration. Plans f 'r the remodeling of the Nap they are put in tide water. A number of the larger logging companies will m ill are completed. The m ill w ill be close down their ramps for at leas* a rebuilt several hundred feet west of the month or six weeks as soon as the present location, and enlarged to a 50,- heavy rains set in and as, with the '000-foot plant. A pond w ill be exca- single exception of the Eastern & Western Luml>er company, none of the A * vated between the “ V ” tracks of the mills have a large supply of logs on Falls City railroad and w ill he ted with band, a shortage is looked for before water from tlie same source as the Cone the end of the winter season. Notwithstanding the advance in the mill. > ' ♦ * The C me pond is completed, and the price of fir logs, spruce is still selling at about $7. supers'rncture of the mill under cover, The saw ing frame« and carriage trucks Buys 2,000 Lambs. are he ng nut hi place and everything Prineville— Stockmen here are sti'.l indicates the early completion of the commenting on the sale recently of plant. Fv'eiy house in Dallas is occupied, 2,000 lambs by Williamson & Gesner and new cottages are springing up in to the Baldwin Sheep & Land com ' every quarter. The common comment pany, at $2 50 per bead. Such a large of all newcomers is that Dallas is a sale at this time of the year is consid , beautiful town and has tlie finest coijrt- ered as remarkable, particularly when If" house lawu in the state. Although the price is such a good one. In the * the Lewis and Clark -fair is said to spring there would be nothing extra have drained the valley of all the stray ordinary about the transfer. That such •change, the merchants say trade is a large band should be transferred just as the feeding season is coming on, and good. at a good figure, is taken to mean that there are indications somewhere of a Big Land Deal. good price for both mutton and wool Weston — Two of the largest real next spring. estate transactions consummated in this section for gome time were record West Coast Lumber in Demand. ed this week. One was the sale of 240 Portland— Within the last few weeks A acres of land, with fine improvements * by Mrs. Annie O’ Hara to Charles M. a new market has been openeud up for Price for $18,500. This is one of the Oregon and Washington lumber, and finest farms in this section of the coun already shippers are preparing to trans try, having upon it a handsome brick port by water more than 9,000,000 residence. Mr. Price also owns a third feet to New York. Part of this lumber interest in what is known as the Steen will go from Portland on sailing vessels place, located on Dry creek, consisting and part of it will be taken from the of 500 acres. This, it is said, he is mills of Puget sound. Outside of the extreme heavy timber heretofore there about to dispose of to his brothers. has been oractically no demand for Oregon and Washington lumber in the fr Old Picture of General Lane. New York markets, and the suddenness Salem — State Librarian J. B. Put and magitude of the orders of recent nam has received from New Orleans an date have come as a surprirse. old photorgaph of General Joseph Lane, Oregon’ s first territorial governor and Can Corn at McMinnville. one of this state’ s first senators. The McMinnville — If present interest in picture bears no date, but was taken in Washington, D. C., presumably while the matter does not wane, next year Lane was delegate in congress or senat w ill see M cM innville with a large corn Several years ago or. No communication or explanation canning factory. came with the photo further than the samples of corn were sent to this coun words, “ Compliments of W illiam Beer, ty to test soil, climate and other con Howard Memorial library, New Or- ditions. The results sent back to the promoters show the quality first class Teaus, La.” in every particular. The Eastern peo ple contemplating building a factory Extensive Plant at Carlton. Carlton— The Carlton Lumber com here state the plant w ill be the same pany’ s new m ill and extensive plant, size as the one they now operate, pay representing an outlay of over a • m il ing out about $10,000 each year for the lion dollars, w ill be in full operation product and about $6,000 in wages. by A pril, 1906. With the natural ad Irrigating Harney Land. vantages Carlton already enjoys Burns — Ten thoueand acres of the through its position among the foot hills of the Coast mountains and the best sagebrush land in the state will other improvements now being made. be put on the market as soon as in Carlton expects soon to be numbered spected by the proper state official, as among the leading scenic and indus a result of the operations of the Port land Land company. It w ill ire sold in trial towns of the W illam ette valley. tracts of from 40 to 160 acres at $10 per acre, a lower price than that for Southern Pacific After G-avel. Eugene— Southern Pacific surveyors any irrigated land yet put on the mar have laid out a route for a spur in the ket in Oregon. This company was first northeastern part of the ci*y to the to get a contract from Oregon to irri gravel beds across the river, just out gate land. side the city limits. It is said that the P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS . company intends getting its ballast ma terial for its proposed new line from Wheat— Club, 71c per bushel; blue- Natron across the mountains from the stem, 73@74c; valley, 74@75c; red. «xtensive beds here. A trestle w ill have to be constructed across the river, 67c. Oats— No. 1 white feed, $26; gray, which is narrow at that point. $26 per ton. Barley— Feed, $21.50@22 per ton; River at Very Low Stage. brewing, $22@22 50; rolled, $22.50@ Eugene— The river at this point is 23.50. almost as low as it was during August Rye— $1.50@1.60 per cental. rand lower than was ever before known Hay— Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 'in November. Loggers find great scar @16 per ton; valley timothy, $11@12; city of water above here for driving clover, $8@9; grain hay, $8@9. logs, and would welcome a few days of Fruits— Apples, $1@1.50 per box; rain. There is plenty of snow high up huckleberries, 7c per pound; pears, on the mountains, which fell a month $1 25@ 1.50 per box; grapes, $!.40@ ago, but the weather has continued 1.65 per box; Concord, 15c pet basket; cold and the snow does not melt. quinces, $1 per box. Vegetables — Beans, wax, ' 12c per pound; cabbage, l @ l l i c per pound; Buys Indian Creek Mill. Elgin — J. G. Brown, of the firm of cauliflower, $1.75@2.25 per crafe; cel Shockley A Brown, sawmill men, has ery, 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 50@60c ? i@ lc per disposed of his interest in that firm to per dozen; pumpkins, his partner, and has purchased the pound; tomatoes, $1 per crate; sprouts, Cummins m ill, located on Indian 7c per pound; squash, J i@ lc per creek, together with 320 arres of timber pound; turnips, 90c@$l per sack; car land. H G. and H . E. Reed, experi rots, 65@75c per sack; beets, 85c@$l enced sawmill men, are interested in per sack. Onions — Oregon yellow Danvers, the deal. A new engine, edger and $1.25 per sack. gang lath m ill w ill be added. Potatoes — Fancy graded Burbanks, 65@70c per sack; ordinary, 55<®60c; Want Pay for Dead Cattle. Merced sweets, sacks, $1.90; crates, Elgin— F. E. Graham, of this town, $2.15. has presented a claim against Union Butter — Fancy creamery, 25@27)^c county, amounting to $290, for the loes per pound. of rattle killed by the collapse of the Eggs— Oregon ranch, 35c per doz»n. Wallowa bridge. Hector McDonald, Poultry — Average old hens, 11c; who was also driving a herd of cattle young roosters, S @ 10c; springs, | across the bridge at the time and snf- 11c; dressed chickens, 12 @ 14c; fered a similar loss, has also put in turkeys, live, 17@ 1 7 ^c; geese, live, " a claim against Wallowa county for 8>s @9c; ducks, 14@15c per pound. damages. Hops— Oregon, 1905, choice, 9 @ llc ; olds, nominal, 7*^@10c. No Right to Sell the Land. Wool— Eastern Oreogn average best, Salem— Attorney General Crawford 16@21c; valley, 24@26c per pound; has held that the State Land Board has mohair, choice, 30c. no antbority to sell land bequeathed to Beef— Dressed bulls, l@ 2 c pr pound; the state for the 8oldiera’ home. He cows, 3@4e; country steers, 4 @ 4 ^ c. holds that tbs board can sell land only Veal— Dressed, 3@7)<c per pound. when it has authority of law to do ao Mniton— Dressed, fancy, 7 @ 7 ){c per and its general authority extends only pound, ordinary, 4@5c; lambs, 7><@ to the sale of state land granted by the 8c. ^governm ent. Pork— Dressed, 6@7J*c per pound. Back Second Installment on Plumley Award. Paris, Nov. 17— The foreign office is advised that President Castro yesterday refused to pay the second installment of the Plumley arbitration award. The arbitration covered damages sustained by French citizens in Venezuela during the revolutionary periods prior to 1903. Judge Frank Plumley, of Northfield, Vermont, was president of the arbitra tion committee, Which met at North- field last year. The judgment was in favor of France, which was awarded about $650,000, and President Castro paid the first installment of the award three months ago. The second pay ment was due yesterday, but was not paid. Apparently the Venezuelan Presi dent’s failure to pay the installment was on the ground that diplomatic re lations between France and Venezuela i.rc interrupted. Tiie officials here de cline to admit that this justified Presi dent Castro in not paying the install ment. The incident is considered to be a further provocation. C ZA R H E LP S P E A S A N T S . Remits Millions Due on Lands and Makes Purchase Easy. London, Nov. 17.— A dispatch from St. Petersburg to Reuter’ s Telegram agency says that an imperial manifesto granting land concessions to the peas ants a as issued this morning. By its terms the land redemption tax pay ments irom January 14, 1906, w ill be reduced by one-half, and from January 14, 1907, the payments w ill be totally abolished. A t the same time the capital of the Peasant bank is increased and the bank is granted additional loan privileges with tlie object of facilitating to the utmost the purchase of lands by peas ants. It is estimated that the amount of taxation thus lifted from the peasants by the manifesto w ill aggregate $40,- 000,000, while the extension of the field of operations of the Peasants’ bank w ill enable vast tracts of crown and private lands gradually to become the property of the peasants. PRETENDER LEADS P E A S A N T S . STORM STOPS RIOTS Russian Capital Held in Grasp of Fierce Blizzard. FOREIGNERS TERROR STRICKEN Fear Escape May Be Cut O f f — Are Advised to Leave Country Without Delay. St. Petersburg, Nov. 16 —A fierce northeast blizzard and sn # which blew down on St. Petersbu tonight, prevented bloodshed in the Russian capital. The bitter cold, by forci ig the strikers to remain indoors, did more to preserve order than all the Cossack cavalry patroling the streets. Heavy m ilitary reserves are stationed in all tlie industrial districts, but up to midnight there was no rioting. There were rumors of collisions in different parts of the city, but on in vestigation they turned out to be false. The Social Democrats had an impres sive response on the part of all organiz ations of woikmen to their summons for a general political strike to de monstrate their Bolidatity with tlie struggle of their Polish comrades for autonomy, and to protest against the execution of tlie mutinous sailors at Cronstadt. The situation has caused a renewal of Czar Nicholas, who has signed avvac h s d esp otic pow ers, and the C zare the panicky feeling among the inhab wiich, who is destined to rule over t r e e Russia— a lim ited monarchy. itants, whose nerves were already shat Kusaia nt last Is free. Nicholas, Emperor o f Russia, has signed the death tered by the events of the last fort night, and hundreds of persons who warrant of the Romanoffs. He gave the empire its civil liberty In the hope iiad just returned are again leaving for o f bringing to an end the revolution spreading through all his provinces. H e Finland. The foreign residents are be has proclaimed freedom o f the ballot for all. He promised that the new coming more and more alarmed, and Parliament should be supreme in Its legislative capacity and that the govern many of them are hastily preparing to ment would not interfere either with It or with the elections. He declared go abroad for the winter. In case the religious liberty throughout Russia, absolute freedom of the press, the right Finnish Socialists should join their o f meeting nnd the protection of the courts to the humblest person within Russian comrades and tie up the Finn hit domain. The newspapers may say what they will, either o f the Emperor ish railroad, the only egress would be or those who make up his council. No order of the government shall go Into by water, and tlie freezing of the gulf effect abridging the liberty of the people, except with the concurrence o f the of Finland a fortnight hence would Parliament that Is to be created. The act o f Nicholas may save his own close the last exit. life nnd continue his term as a sovereign, but In St. Petersburg it is recog nized to be a confession by the Czar and the members o f his bureaucracy that despotism In the empire Is at an end. Hereafter the people nre to rule. MAY BUY O U T THE S E T T L E R Possible Compromise, as War Depart ment Committed Itself. % Washington, Nov. 16. — Senor Que- 60,000 Supports Usurper's enda, the Cuban minister here, called at the State department today and Claim to Czardom. seemed to be considerably agitated over 8t. Petersburg, Nov. 17.— A false the news of the movement in the Isle emperor has suddenly made his appear of Pines to oppose the formal transfer ance near Penza, and already his fol of the ¡eland to Cuba. The contention of the American resi lowers number 50,000. This is the dents is that, as they own in fee simple startling report received this afternoon five-sixths of the ground, and as the re in a dispatch from Simbrisk. Penza is maining one-sixth is in the hands of in the heart of the vast region extend one or two Spanish families, the 1,200 ing westward from the Volga, where native residents being non-property agrarian uprisings on a large scale have owners, they should have a right to be occurred, and if the report turns out to heard by this gvernment. A sugges be true thattbe pretender to the throne tion has been made here that is known has placed himself at the head of the to have received serious official consid peasantry, the government w ill soon eration to the effect that, in view of face, besides its other troubles, a form the fact that the W ar department act idable agrarian rebellion. It required ually did at one time give ground for a a year to suppress the famous rebellion belief on the part of some persons that led by Pugaticheff, who impersonated the Isle of Pines was American, it the dethroned and murdered Peter I I I would be only just for this government in the time of Catherine I I . That up to pay these settlers for the land. rising was started in the same region on the banks of the Volga. T A F T IN W A S H IN G T O N AGAIN Army o f S T O R M C L O U D IN AFRICA. LA S T O F T H E R U S S IA N A U T O C R A T S . Denies Story He Will Transfer Canal Affairs to Root. CROWE A DARING BANDIT. K id n a p e r o f “ E d d ie " C u d a h y C a p tu re d A f t e r F iv e Y e a r « ’ S ea rc h . desperate character In the spring o$ 1890, in Chicago. He seized a woman and proceeded to tear her diamonds from her. She fought desperately and screamed. Crowe drew n revolver and shot her In the arm. Tw o policemen, attracted by the shots and cries, ran up and one of them was wounded; the other overpowered the young thug. For this crime Crowe was sentenced to eight years in the Jollot penitentiary. A fter serving two years, however, ha was pardoned. His next crime o f note was tha snatching o f a tray o f diamonds from the window o f a Jewelry store In Den ver. He was arrested, but a saloon keeper gave ball for him In $2,500, and Crowe disappeared. Not long after that. In the latter part o f 1803, he was suspected o f tha robbery o f the safe of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad In Pennlaon, Iowa. H e admitted the robbery, but William A. Pinkerton, who vtalted him lit his cell, said that Crowe confessed merely to escape l>elng sent to Denver for trial on the Jewelry robbery charge. There was ample evidence against him In the Denver case, but not enough to eonvlct on the railroad robbery charge. It was decided to send him to Denver, but he saved the officers the bother oy escaping. In 1894 several daring train robber, lea were committed by him In the vi cinity o f SL Joseph, Mo., but for a long time he was not suspected, ao carefully did he work. A fter the Cudahy kidnaping Crowe says that he traveled around the world and fought with the Boers against England in South Africa. A fter five years’ search by the police In every section of the United States Pat Crowe, kidnaper und train robber nnd one of the most daring criminals In the land, was placed under a r r e st at Butte, Mont. Crowe i . had been a fugitive from Justice since the kidnaping In December, 1900, of ‘‘Eddie" C u d a h y , I Á sou of the million aire packer, Edward l ’ A T CROWE. A. Cudahy, Sr.^ of Omaha, Neb. The senior Cudahy paid $25,000 at the time for the release of his son, and Crowe, after the division of the money with his confederate In crime, disappeared. Although In the aggregate $100,000 wag offered for his capture, and notwithstanding that at Intervals Crowe would show himself In some large center of population, the police were utterly unable to capture him until lie was taken at Butte. Immediately after his arrest Crowe told a highly sensational story relative to the kidnaping. He says he was a successful butcher in South Omaha when Edward A. Cudahy built a pack ing house there nnd drove him out of business. He then entered Cudahy's employ and became acquainted with the family. It was young Cudahy him self, Crowe asserts, who suggested the kidnaping In order that they might "work the old man” for some money. Crowe Indorsed the proposition and selected another man as an aid. Young A l l I h e H a d O n e s H old. Cudahy, he claims, was never a pris “ I want a dozen eggs," aald the oner and proposed that the father young housekeeper, " I f you're aura they're fresh." "Oh, positive, ma’am,” replied the dealer; "w e haven’t any other kind to-day. You see, there was an ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ show In Ihe opera house, next door, last n igh t” — Philadelphia I ’r«sa. Germany Protests Against an Anglo- Washington, Nov. 16. — Secretary French Agreement in Liberia. Taft arrived in Washington from Washington, Nov. 17.— The State de Hampton Roads at 7 o’clock this morn partment has learned that Germany ing. Immediately after he called at the executive office and saw the president has protested to Great Britain and when the latter came to the office. France against the conclusion of certain Secretary Taft made it clear today negotiations now on foot between those that he had no intention of relinquish two governments and the government ing supervision of Philippine affairs. of Liberia. Liberia wished to borrow During his temporary absence in Pan some money and is w illing to hypothe ama it was reported that matters relat cate certain territory as security. Ger ing to the Philippines were to lie trans many sees in this proposition a threat ferred to the State department and of undue expansion of British and hereafter be under the direction of Sec French influence in that quarter of retary Root. Africa. The State department has not "T h a t story,” said Secretary Taft, felt called upon so far to take any ac “ originated in the mind of the man tion in this matter, and in fact regards who wrote it. There is absolutely no the communication merely as informa foundation for it, whatever.” tion. Charles Accepts the Throne. Want Statehood on Any Terms. Christiania, Nov. 16. — The govern Tucson, Ariz, Nov. 17.— A number ment w ill present the result of the ple of leading business and professional biscite to the storthing tomorrow. The citizens held a meeting tonight to or official figures show that 257,710 votes ganize a campaign in the interest of were cast in favor of Prince Charles of immediate statehood for Arizona, on Denmark as king of Norway and 68,852 the best terfns congress w ill give. Ex- against him. The results in seven Mayor Charles Schumacher was made small constituencies have not yet been president. The meeting adopted the reported. A telegram was received to following resolution: “ Resolved, That day fr >m Prince Charles accepting trie we favor the admission of Arizona as a offer of the throne. Aecording to the state in the Union upon each terms as Aftenpost the prince w ill take the title should be asked to pay $50,000 ns a congress may grant, even accepting an of Carl V and the royal flag w ill he a ransom. This amount was cut to $25,- 000, and when the latter sum was paid nexation of New Mexico rather that re golden lion on a purple field. the money was divided among the main any longer a territory.” three, young Cudahy getting $6,000 as Favor Low Level Lock Canal. Battleship Idaho Not Ready. Waehington, Nov. 16. — The full his share. The kidnaped boy denies Washington, Nov. 17.— The Navy hoard of consulting engineers of the this story absolutely. Crowe Is a remarkable clrmlnal. epartment has not been advised by the Panama canal had an all day session Cramp Shipbuilding company that any today and continued the work on the Murder seems to be the only crime The result that has never been laid against him date has been set for launching the bat different typ s oi canals. tleship Idaho, although Senator Hey- was a ijciiU -.1 impression that a large nnd that apparently Is not his fault. burn has been informed that it w ill take number of engineers, especially the for At the very Inceptlo i o f tils career, so place December 9. The Idaho is only eign. at present favor a sea level canal, far as It Is known publicly, he shed 40 per cent completed. It is unusual but an intimation lias been given that human blood. How ninny persona he to launch ships in that early stage, and there might be a compromise on a low has shot or stabbed no one but himself it seems improbable that the launching level lock canal, which would be very can tell, for he worked with only him would be fixed for a date so near with satisfactory. self for counselor. Like the notorious out notifying the Navy department. Black Bart o f the Sierras, nnd the Battleship Oregon Ordered Home more ancient prototype. Jack Shep Standard Oil'« Big Dividend. Washington, Nov. 16.— Orders have pard, I ’at Crowe seldom had a con New York, Nov. 17.— The Standard been given by the Navy department for federate. H e wanted all ths spoils, Oil company has declared a quarterly the return of the battleship Oregon •and trusted no pal. Crowe went to the publics chools In dividend of $10 a share. The previous from the Philippines to the United dividend was $6 a share and the d ivi States st sn early date. Two ernisers Chicago and acquired an education dend at this time laet year was $7 a of the Denver class w ill be sent to the that would bavs enabled him to make •hare. Today’ s declaration brings the Philippines later on. The Oregon will a good honest living, fls was 20 ysars total dividends focr the year to $40 a bring back a crew of men whose enlist old wbsn, after a series o f petty thefts, ments are about to expire he leaped Into criminal annals as a •hare. Last year it was $36. Hope fo r lflm . "But,” said the lawyer, “ your case seems hopeless. I don't see what { can do for you. You adml. that you bent your wife.” “ Yea," replied the defendant "but my w ife's testimony will discount that. She’d never admit that abe w h s beaten.” — Philadelphia Press. L a te s t Schem e. Magazine Publisher— Yea; our neve depart »lent has about doubled our clr- culation. Casual Visitor— What department IS that? Magazine Publisher—Our chaperon department for young Indies on vaca tion.— Louisville Conrier-Jonmal. A q u i e t T r a n s a c t io n . “ George, you know that mamma said you mustn't disturb thoaa cookies.” "W ell, didn’t I tako my shoes off Jnat so's I wouldn't disturb ’em."— Cleveland Plain Dealer. A n A u to c r a t . “ Public opinion counts for a groat deal,” aald ths earnest citizen. “ Not In a baseball game," answered the umpire. A good many people are like little birds In a nest! When you praise them, thsy Ms still with their moetha wide open for more.