CONTROL THE CASH. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST NEWS OF THE WEEK FOI NE I d Repeal of Tim ber and stone) Desert Acts Probable, ADVICE OF LAND I a Condensed form for Our Busy Readers. i A Hi tor ir i, Senators Want Hand in the Allotment of Reclamation Funds. France Assure* United States She Respects Monroe Doctrine. Washington, Jan. 22 - The senate Washington, Jan. 23.—Convinced of committee on irrigation today discussed .OREGON the sincerity of the assurances received FOREST GROVE. ths proposition to amend the national LAND TR A D E IN D ISP U TE . from France regarding her loyalty to irrigation law by placing the distribu­ IOO STAMPS AT GOLD COIN. the Monroe doctrine and all that it in­ tion of the reclamation fund in the volves, the Washington government Extensive Preparations Made to Con­ Deal Involving 4,000,000 Feet of hands of congress, instead of the secre­ Lumber in Court. tinue Operations. has given the Paris government a free tary of the interior, as at present. Baker City—A land trade between hand in the execution of the program Baker City—Or. T. H. White, one Strong sentiment in favor of the change for the solution of the Venezuelan prob­ of the three owners of the Gold Coin Stoddard Bros, and Henry Hewitt is developed. Several senators on the d occupying public attention. Hewitt lem. The conference on this phase of mine, has just returned from Portland, the question occurred some time ago, where he arranged for the addition of filed an action at law against the Stod­ committee believe it unwise to permit Appraisal and Sale of Tint* ^ and M. Jusserand, the French ambas­ 100 stamps to their ten-stamp mill al­ dards, asking $2.852 damages, because the secretary of the interior to have by Auction — Permanent Resums of the Less ImporUnt but sador, has final assurances that the ready in oneration, and purchased a he alleges the defendants in that action undisputed control of this fund, now dence on Desert Claims. Ì Not Less Interesting Events efforts of France to obtain diplomatic new hoist to be shipped to the mine at cut sawlogs on bis property. TheStod aggregating $32,000,000. No bill for of the Past Week. dard Brothers have come back with a treatment for her charge d’affaires at once. The machinery will all be made crossbill in equity, alleging that they this purpose was pending, but probably Caracas will not be interrupted at in Portland. traded Hewitt a quarter section of land such a bill will be introduced and Washington, Jan. 23. — Tl Washington as in any violative of the Since the favorable decision in the France ia not quite ready to whip Monrore doctrine. injunction case by the Circuit court, for a like amount of property in this passed this session. every reason to believe that ini] Castro. The first move in the execution of given the other day, the mine will be county. The discussion today was Incident to public land legislation will be Under the agreement, they say, they The United Mineworkers of America the French program may be expected at in full operation the balance of the a debate on Heyburn’s townsite bill, during the present session of were to build a railroad spur onto the lian voted for an increase in waxes. any time, but on this point the French winter. land and cut the timber thereon, and which authorizes the withdrawal of but the situation has not yet lull; government is observing the strictest Managing Owner James A. Panting, The government hae opened ita case Hewitt was also to cut immediately the in the trial of the packing trust at Chi­ secrecy. M. Taigny, the retiring French of the Gold Hill mine, in the Durkee timber on the land they traded him. land for townsite purposes on govern­ veioped and it is too early to ment irrigation tracts, and provides what modifications will be msdei] charge, who, it is believed, is now at camp, 26 miles southeast of Baker City, cago. Curacoa, will come to this country on is here and reports that he has had a The party eecuring more than $1,900,- that money derived from the salu of Serious anti-Jewish rioting occurred his way home, and on his arrival at full force of men at work retimbering 000 feet of good sawlogs was to put up town lots shall be turned into the re­ existing land laws. Any !i in Bessarabia during the celebration of New York he will find an invitation some of the tunnels and stopes, and the difference to the other. They ask clamation fund for expenditure on town that is enacted will follow, ins Red Sunday. from the French ambassador at Wash­ that he has cut the main ledge ten feet that Hewitt be forced to comply, as improvements. This bill was referied way, the recommendations of the A shipment of 1,000,000 salmon eggs ington to spend several days here in wider on the lower levels. In doing they have been under expense in build­ to a sub-committee for report. lie Land commission, appointed The committee also gave attention to New Zealand has been made from conference with M. Jusserand, on whom this work he struck another stream of ing the railroad spur. the burden of an important phase of water in the mine, which will give him today to Fulton’s bill authorizing the years ago by the president to ini Tehama, California. Visit Excites Speculation. the Venezuelan negotiation naturally a sufficient supply to irrigate another condemnation of land needed as part of gate and report on the injurioat The Chinese commissioners in the falls, that he may have the benefit of 100 acres of the home ranch. He says Baker City — It is reported on good national irrigation nrojtcts. No action undesirable features of the present United States to learn our ways are the facts about the situation. It is the recent heavy snow storm will bene­ authority that George L. Thayer, of was taken, but members expressed the making many friends. not unlikely that M. Taigny will also fit both farming and mining interests. Walla Walla, engineer for the North opinion that such a law would be un­ and to lecommend such modi: The prosecuting attorney of Missouri see Secretary Root. western Gas A Electric company, who constitutional. This bill was drawn as are required in the interest ol The whereabouts of the French ships la actively engaged in taking testimony has been in this vicinity for the past particularly with a view to enabling bona tide settler and the general No Longer Superintendent. remain a mystery so far as the officials against the Standard Oil company. few days, has been investigating a pro­ the government to acquire private land The senate committee on public Salem — David E. Baxter, who was of the State department and French Burton has renewed his pledge to do embassy are concerned, it is said. It appointed county superintendent of ject for a mammoth reservoir at the under the Malheur irrigation project. lias already taken up the all in liia power to secure an appropria­ is assumed, however, that they are schools in November by the county Rock creek power plant, which at pres­ It will be acted npon later. stone- act, and is devoting conaiddH ent furnishes the current for Baker tion for the mouth of the Columbia. time to its consideration, fhejjj daily in touch with tire ministry of court of Wheeler county, ¡8 out of City’s lights. This reservoir would Ire office. The county superintendent SLAY W O R K M E N IN T H R E E S . Physicaina in attendance upon Gen marine at Paris, and aie awaiting used to furnish power for the plant pears to be little doubt that th™ died, and the county court appointed oral Joseph Wheeler say his attack of opportunity to take such action will be repealed, and in its stead Mr. Baxter to fill the vacancy. At­ during the dry season. Another report pneumonia is slight and they expect to their instructions may provide for. states a project is under consideration How Soldiers Strike Terror—Enraged torney General Crawford held that the act be passed authorizing the a have him out soon. Great interest is felt in diplomatic Reds Plan Reprisals. appointment was for the unexpired to cut Baker City off the Rock creek public timber at not less than ii,, circles here about the exact nature of a circuit, ami that the company will use A competitive examination will be term, and that Baxter would hold office St. Petersburg, Jan. 22.—It is be­ held at Whitman college, Walla Walla,, sentence found objectionable in the until 1908. Recently it was discovered that plant for power for the mines and lieved that workmen employed in the praise value. There will beopps February 10, for aspirants for appoint­ note of President Castro to M. Taigny that Baxter did not hold a first-grade Bourne alone, and will use the plant to the repeal, but apparently then „ ment as midshipmen. certificate, and again a question came being installed in 8outh Baker to fur government works are being shot after votes enough to wipe it off the >t nieh power for this city. brief trials by courts martial. It is re A bomb was thrown into a crowd of EUROPEAN CROPS IN DANGER. up as to Baxter’s eligibility to hold the books, if it can ever be jpought office. This time the attjiney general ported that the victims selected for vote. police at Odessa, Kuasia, injuing two Change Site of Bridge. held that unless Baxter could show a slaughter are led out three at a time officers. Two bomb factories have been Weather is Unseasonably Warm and There will be even more oppoi Elgin—The judges of Wallowa and certificate as required by law, the office discovered and many arretts followed. Excessively Humid. was vacant. The court notified Baxter Union counties, with the .county com­ and executed before the eyes of their to the repeal or material amends» Fresh trouble has appeared in the Washington, Jan. 23. — The foreign to produce his certificate or give up the missioners, are now conferring with comrades, who are awaiting their torn tiie desert land law, and the cams Balkan states. crop report for December shows that office. He resigned. ,ce« ‘ soldiers. As soon as one tion clause of the homestead act, Chief Engineer Pollard, of the O. M to face«‘be withstanding the commission find«: over large areas of Europe the prevail­ N., in the effort to reach a definite batchf ‘ en dispatched, three other laws detrimental and working ii Rockefeller has given $1,450,000 to . ,tiers are , ing characteristics were unseasonably elusion as to how much the rail Many Men at Opp Mine. Chicago university. Vn9r , . ,,-med up in the same spot interest of the speculator and large ■ warm weather and excessive humidity. , shot. Fn Q{lg . K p Grants Pass—At the Opp mine, near will pay for moving the wagon bri and: „ has been heard at owner as against the bona fide m A bill to revive the canteen has been Crops lightly sown have germinated Jacksonville, over the Wallowa to its new location.! about 60 men are at work scenes oi - . . introduced in congress. finely and entered on the winter in in and around the mine. All the ma­ The company’s located line includes .A ont cessât!«1«™tion, continuing But the time will come before i resorted to V The military has when these laws will have to beia Taft denies that the Philippine com strong, healthy condition. Late sowing chinery, even the Bawmili, is operated about 40 feet of the old site, and when means of punning girls brutally ed, in compliance with the genen) mlasiouers speculate in land, as lias of crops, in Europe, however, were un­ by electricity. The company owns 240 the old bridge collapsed, some month n n id throughout the West. usually extensive, and some anxiety is ago, the O. R. A N. made a proposition tories of the c®hn>ent. acres covered with timber, and all the been charged. The timber and stone act, felt concerning them. to pav all extra expense if the counties ctiçpA have v-uelties that are being lumber for building purposes at the The government has abandoned the In Great Britain the winter wheat mine and the timbers used in the mine would change the location pv" . Jffbme nuified abont, as the most unjust of all public'• Harney irrigation project and will let area lias been extended. The acreage, aad lUey have entirely inflamed the laws, since the repeal of the lieu the private company go ahead with the however, is still believed to be dimin­ are cut by the sawmill. This is the Fruit Pests Must Go. revolutionists, who are planning re­ law, is accorded first considerate first sawmill in t.his part of the state to work. tiie commission and by the comma ished, as compared with last year. The be operated by electricity. prisals. Albany — Last week the orchardists All the The commission tfc j In the south of Russia there is a of congress Representative French, of Idaho, has growing crops have an improved ap main tunnels and drifts at the Opp of Linn county met at the courthouse Introduced a bill appropriating $10,000 pearanee. mine are lighted by electricity. The and listened to the newly appointed great congestion of grain, as it has heen two reports on this law, one on I In France the wheat area is the aver- company has just finished installing an fruit inspector explain the evils of ‘he accumulated for some time, and there 7, 1904, and another on Februsrj (ST experimental dry farming in semi- age. arid regiolns. various fruit peBls, and the means of is no means of transporting it, as the 1905. air compressor and power drills. In Germany weather conditions were eradicating them. Those present took authorities are too busy with their The Brazilian warship Aquidahan unfavorable and there was no marked home with them formulae for the de­ campaign of repression against the re­ “ Short Gulch” in Operation. blew up, \ killing all the officers and improvement. B U R T O N G O T MILEAGE struction of every pest that blights volutionists to think of the administra­ crew excepting 50. The dead will Grants Pass—The recent heavy rains In Roumania the area under whe'.t tion of every day affairs. Linn county fruit, and the crusade number 3od). is 25 per cent short of last year. The have Btarted all the giants in the placer against vermin will begin immediately. Senators Stand In with Evask The meunbera of the Montana Press 11)05 crop is now estimated at from 50,- mine* of Southern Oregon, and even The effort to rid Linn county of fruit Rules to Help Him. the “ short gulch” meu are at work. B U D S S W E L L IN C H IC A G O . association will leave Butte February 000,000 to 55,000,000 bushels. The pests will not stop with orchardists. Washington, Jan. 23.—On* o This is the first time in two years that „10 on aij excursion to law Angeles and bulk of it is said to be out of condition, most remarkable procedeurei f hence no important export movement they have been able to do any work of California points. Warmest Winter Day in History May Sawmill Closes Down. value. About a dozen giants are work­ to north of Europe points is expected history of the senate occurred to Injure Growing Things. * The mild weather throughout the Albany— The big sawmills of the ing on the Applegate that were not spring. order to avoid a technicality Kaat lias been followed by a blizzard. until Curtiss Lumber company, at Mill City, operated at all last winter. The rain Chicago, Jan. 22. — Something has No important definite news regarding In some sections a drop of 80 dgerees the condition of winter sown cereals in has been about half snow in the valley, on the Corvallis A Eastern railroad, gone wrong with the weather machine prevented Senatsr Burton, of l ia 12 hours has been recorded. Russia are reaching the outside world. and in consequence there has been a has shut down for a few days. It was All residents of this city are willing to from drawing his mileage for tht heavy fall of snow on the highet moun­ stated the mills needed overhauling, French and German delegates at the In order to h* The merenry ent session. tains, insuring a long run in the and the deep snow in some portions of swear to this fact. Moroccan conference have openly dis­ requisition honored, it is necei WHERE DID THE MONEY GO* spring. the Cascade mo intains has interfered reached 63 at 4 p. ro. today, breaking agreed. The debate may be the begin­ some official of the senate to tal somewhat with the logging operations all records since New Year’s day of ning ol fresh controversies between the of the company aod a shortage is the 1876, when it stood at 65 above. Gar­ that he had seen the senator V| New Industry for Gresham. Colorado Propounds Searching Ques­ two countries. Gresham — The Gresham Trading A result. This condition is not expected tions to Insurance Companies. deners at the parks and along the chamber, but since the indictm« ^ King Edward is ill. to prevail very long. Denver, Jan. 23.— All of the 222 in­ Packing company has begun work on a boulevards have become greativ wor­ conviction of the Kansas sens'.' *■ Fix men hate been killed by snow- surance companies doing business in cold storage plant, which will cost be­ has not appeared in the chambe ™ tween $3,000 and $5,000. The com­ P O R TLA N D MARKETS. ried The mild rains, light snows slides in Utah. this state have been asked, through There is no disposition on the el and general springlike weather of the any one to withhold the mileapge The Moroccan conference has so far their head ofiicials, to make oatli to re pany intends to engage in an extensive Wheat—Club, 71®72c; blnestem, 74 past two weeks have brought the sap plies to a list of questions compiled packing business, and will operate @75c; red, 68@69c; valley, 73c. the senator, therefore, was alt dodged the dangerous points. largely in dressed meats of all kinds into motion and buds are beginning to by the Colorado Insurance department. Few invitations will be issued to the Oats—No. 1 white feed, $27.50® swell. Maple trtes are said to be as step from the cloakroom into ti*cc and the storage of all perishable pro­ Home of the questions asked are her for a moment in order tl 28.50; gray, $27®28 per ton. Longworth-Roosevelt wedding. far advanced as they should be on might be seen by some official. 1 whether money has ever been contrib­ ducts. It is the intention of the com­ Barley— Feed, $23 50@24 per ton; March 1, and many of the more or less Beet sugar men have planned a fight uted to campagin funds, particularly pany to conduct a business aggregating brewing, $23 50@24; rolled, $24®25. delicate vines are well along toward the dined, but an employe pngagej^r on the Philippine bill in the senate. during the last aix years, and if so, about $400,000 during the coming year, conversation in the cloakroom neS Buckwheat—$2.50 per cental. and it will be prepared for hot weather. spring rejuvenation. Now that a cold entrance to the chamber. ThttmML Several midshipmen at the Newport whether or not it is proposed to con Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, wave is predicted for tomorrow, with a navy yard have been attacked with tinue tiie practice, and also if the item Contract Let for Ties. $13 50® 14 50 per ton; valley timothy, drop of nearly 40 degrees, great fears suddenly turned the senatori “ legal expenses” in the report of 1906 faded the chamber and, the aUtMj ■potted fever. 9@10; clover, 9® 10; cheat, $8.50® Elgin—Another large contract for are expressed lest all vegetation now of the officials previously havini' included contribution to funds for cam­ Jacob Riis lias stirred up some sena­ paign purposes or to influence legiela ties for the Wallowa extension has 9.60; grain hay, $8@9. started may suffer such a set-back as Fruits — Apples, 75c@$l per box; will cause great loss in the floral and directed toward this door, hen*®®1 been let by the O R. A N. Co. to tors by declaring it possible that Roose­ tion. from the chamber. It was thenl9 choice, $1 2501.50; fancy, $2@2 50; George Edwards, of Spokane. Mr. Ed­ velt may run again. shruhbery display of the many milss of fled that Senator Burton was in pears, $1.25® 1.50 per box; cranber­ wards is equipping two camps and hir­ Short Shrift for Rebels. park and boulevards in the spring. ance and his mileage was paidk The Liberal victory in the recent _______________ car St. Petersburg, Jan. 23.—Dispatches ing men to commence work at once. ries, $13@13.50 per barrel. British elections assures Irish home Vegetables — Beans, 20c per pound; His contrac’ calls for 20,000 ties to be from Liibau and Mitan show that Gov rule snd radical labor laws. All States Should Act. Ensign Wade Acquitted TO i n o r General Sollofub continues to delivered by June. He has the privil­ cabbage, 1 * 4 ® 2 c per pound: cauli­ New York, Jan. 22. — A general de­ Washington, Jan. 23.—Enrifnlin A soldier from Fort laiwtnn was sen­ punish with merciless severity revolu­ ege of accepting another contract for flower, $2 per crate; celery, $3®3.50 cision that insurance reforms should per crate; bell peppers, 35c per pound; Wade, charged with responsibiiqe tenced to one minute’s imprisonment tionists in Courland caught with arms 30,000 more, if he so desires. pumpkins, \ @lc per pound; sprouts. be inaugurated immediately by state the explosion on the gunboat Be., in hand or convicted of participation in by the Beattie municipal jndge. To Build Railway. 6 S® 7c per pound; squash, l t 4 @li^c legislatures throughout the country ton in San Diego harbor, C sltf incendiarism or murder. Twenty-one Salem — Articles of incorporation per pound; turnips, 90c@$l per sack; was arrived at by the insurance com­ has been acquitted by the court« France is acting cautiously in the more persons have been tried by drum­ Veneauelan affair, not wishing to gain head court martial and shot near I.i- have been filed with the secretary of | carrots, 65® 75c per sack; beets, 85c® missioners of several states who con­ Thi- action was taken attei a nj ferred with the New York legislative erationof the case at the instana the ill will of the Uni'ed Htates. bau. The troops are now advancing on state for the United Railways company, j H per sack Onions — Oregon, No. The incorporators are W. D. Larrabee. Two French scientists will go as lar Fraunberg, which has become a revo­ M. H. French and J. Wnite Eveans. per sack; No. 2. 70®83c. 1, $1®1 15 committee which investigated the mat­ secretary of the navy, who was J ter. Conferences between this com­ tireiy satisfied with the origin* south as possible by boat and then en­ lutionary headquarters. Two leaders The road is to run from some point in Potatoes — Fancy graded Burbanks, mittee and the state commissioners acquitting the officer of the dial of an uprising among school teachers deavor to reach the pole by balloon. Portland to Peak, in Washington coun­ 70®75c per hundred; ordinary, 50® have covered a period of two days. who called the court’s attention have been executed near Mitau. Canal zone medical authorities have ty. The capital stock is $5,000, divid­ 60c; sweet potatoes, 2@ 2V‘ per Senator Armstrong, chairman of the tain evidence which he held di^ pound. ed into 60 shares of $100. imposed a six days quarantine on Co- New York committee, said that there tireiy justify the conclusion Arms to Overthrow the Czar. lombian and Venezuelan ports, as the Butter—Fancy creamery, 27vs ®32L! would probably be no more conferences. the first findings. Baltimore, Jan. 23.—At a meeting of Oregon Firms Dissolved. per pound. tone is now free from disease. Hebtews held last night in celebration Salem — Governor Chamberlain has Eggs — Oregon ranch, 27^@28c per Stevens for Lock Canal. Judge Hunt, of the Montana United of the anniversary of “ Red Sunday,’’ Tonquin Invaded, i n Htates court, says cutting of govern­ Jacob Pauken, of New York, aroused issued a proclamation, as required by dozen. Washington, Jan. 22. — Secretary Marseilles, France, Jan. Poultry — Average old hens, 12J,® Taft called at the white house tonight ment timber must stop. He has just the large audience to great enthusiasm law, dissolving about 5,000 corpora­ Chinese mail which arrived h«r*® tions that have not complied with the 13S,c per pound; springs, 12@13c; fined a man $200 and says each suc­ by his appeal for funds with which fo .J 5 - . - | an<*. furni8bed to the president the mi- brought an account of the inf eW ceeding conviction will bring a heavier purchase arms for the peasants and provisions of the corporation license tax ™ Ch‘l;k‘‘n8’1 11 ®.1 r c; brniler?. 1 norit>’ reP°rt “I the hoard of consulting Tonquin, French Indo-China. jd , law. Most of the companies have al­ 15® 16c; dressed chickens, 14® 15c;. engineers of the IsthmianCanaleom- nese regulars, who encountere< fine. working classes in Russia. “ The revo­ ready gone out of business. tnrkeys, live, 15c; turkeys, dressed, j mission. This report was prepared bv force numbering 400 men, of Senator Depew’s health has broken lution has begun,” said Pauken, “ and choice, 1,® 20c; geese, live, 9011; Chief Engineer 8tevens. who it is will never stop. It would be accom­ down. were Europeans. Three h o n il Subscribe Many Acres. i»ese, dressed, 12® 14c; ducks, 16® stated, is in favor of a lock canal The ensued, plishing more now, but the people have resulting in the defe Heyburn’s pure food bill is likely to no guns." Echo—More than 6,000 scree of land ' J C* ,, i secretary sUted that hie visit had noth- Chinese, whol oet 300 killed bs come a law. have been subecribed to the Umatilla Hops— Oregon, 1905, choice, 10® 11c ! to do with the \ eneznelan ques­ Waterusers' association. Therxecutive per pound; prime, 8 ^ 0 9 \ c ; me- tion, which is entirely in the hands of wounded. The French lost II It is said the United States will offer Drydock Dewey Spoken. the foreign legion and 20 At committee has met and signed the arti­ dinm, 7®8c; olds, 5®7c. to sell ths Philippine islands to Japan. the officials of the State department. Washington, Jan. 23.—The drydock cles of incorporation and the papers killed. Wool— Eastern Oregon average beet, Berlin fears farther Socialist riots Dewey, on the way to the Philippinee, havs been forwarded to the secretary of 16®21c per pound; valley, 24®26c; Cruiser Denver to Watch Castro. aad troops are being held in readineee. hae again heen heard from. The com­ state. General Wheeler III.) mohair, choice, 30c. mandant of the coaling station at San Wl » 'ngton, Jan. 22.—The protected Secretary Taft is investigating affairs Jnan, P. R, report* that the Dewey was New York, Jan. 23.—Briga l Beef—Dressed bulls, 2® 2*c per cruiser Denver, which has been tempo­ State Loans SOI,200. pound; cows, 3)* 3 IH*» country In the Philippines for s possible graft spoken Friday night by the cruiser eral Joseph Wheeler, Uniu| rarily detached from the fifth division army, retired, is seriously i i Salem—The State land board has steers, 4®5c by officials there. Maryland. The Dewey was in Istitnde approved 44 farm loans amounting to \ e a l - Pressed, 3<*®8*c per pound. of the Atlantic fleet, has sailed from residence of his sister, Chiei Engineer Htevens, of the canal, 27.62 north and longitude 48.29 west. $61,200. The money loaned belongs Mutton — Dreeeed, fancy, 7S,®8c; .,l*brV or 8an J u a n ‘ The Denver Smith, in Brooklyn. He ! has been elected vice preeident of the She waa traveling four knots an hour. to the state school fund and draws 9 will be detained io West Indian water* fined to bis bed for tb f w d f ordinary, 4®,5c; lambs, 7® 7*c. Panama railroad. All war* wall. ■ per cent interest. for the preeent, awaiting the turn bronheial affection. There Pork—Dressed, 6 « 7 * c per pound. events in Nenezuela. his illness may develop into p, & b< (j