IRRIG ATIO N B ILLS KILLED.
Washir.gttn County News
F O R E S T G ROVE.
.......OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
In a
Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume o f the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting c.en ts
o f the Past Week.
John I). Spreckles is seriously ill.
Many coal operators w ill resist c<
cessions to the miners
American, French and British war
ships are going to Nanchan.
The senate w ill allow Arizona and
New Mexico to vote on union, thus de
feating statehood.
There is small hope of settlement of
the Moroccan dispute, though the czar
is trying to mediate.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
English Tonnage Exceeds by Far All
Others Entering Those Ports.
Issue« Fa b Week
Washington, Feb. 27.— Consul Gen
eral F’ield, at Valparaiso, in a report to
the State department, says that out of
a total of 17,000,000 annual tonnage of
vessels entering Chileau ports, those
flying the American flag represented
only 135,000 tons.
Great Britain’s
(lag covered 8,000,000 tons, and Ger
man ships aggregated 3,000,000 tons.
The trade of the United States fell back
from $11,000,000 in 1903 to $10,000,
000 in 1904, notwithstanding Chile
greatly increased her purchases.
The Chilean government, the consul
says, is planning many new railroads
and extensions.
The trans-Andine
railway, when completed, will shorten
the time between Chile and Europe 10
or 12 days.
Consul Leroy, at Durango, writes
that Mexico will soon import wheat.
Consul General Thackeray, at Ber
lin, reports that the United States pur
chased nearly $15,080,000 more mer
chandise from the empire last year
than in 1904, mostly manufactured
goods, but that the sales of American
manufactured goods to Germany, aside
from lard and petroleum, in 1905, did
not equal $15,000,000.
The president recommends the army
and navy to follow Togo’s advice and
be ever ready for war.
TRADE W ITH S C A N D IN A V IA .
$ 20 , 000,000
Since January 1 the Salvation Army United States Sells
of England has sent 4,000 of London’ s
More That It Buys.
unemployed to Canada-
Washington, Feb. 27.— According to
A cotton compress and lumber yard a bulletin issued by the department of
at La Grange, Texas, burned.
The Commerce and Labor, the trade of the
United States with the Scandinavian
loss is placed at 1200,000.
countries, under which term are in
Hepr«s;ntative Curtis, of Kansas,
cluded Sweden, Denmark and Norway,
favors giving most favored nations a 20
for the fiscal year 1905, amounted to
per cent re luction of the Dingley tariff.
$32,000,000, of which $6,000,000 is
Profeseor I-anglye, secretary of the imports from and $26,000,000 exportr
Rmithsonian institution, is dead. He to those countries. In 1895 the total
was also the inventor fo the Langley trade with these countries was $11,-
flying machine.
000,000, showing an increase of prac
Biz men were killed and 12 so badly tically 200 per cent in the last decade,
injured that msot of them are expected while our total foreign trade lias in
to die by an explosion in a coal mine creased but about 70 per cent.
The bulletin says that the Scandina
at Piper, Ala., near Birmingham.
vian population of the United States
The house committee on agriculture hears a larger ratio to the present pop
has voted not to recommend any appro ulation of their countries of nativity
priation to buy seeds for free dittribu than any other class of our foreign born
tionjiy- the department of Agriculture population.
This meanB a saving of $250,000 an
Imports from Sweden in 1905 aggre
nually.
gated $2,935,681, and exports to that
The deepest snow of the winter now country, $7,197,171.*5
Imports from Norway, $2,204,580,
covers the Middle West.
and exports. $4,420,469.
The government will try to bring
Imports from Denmark, $1,008,750,
Hermann to trial in March.
and exports, $14,881,668.
The Russian national assembly lias
C H E C K ON C H O LERA.
been called to meet May 10.
BOOM IN O RC H ARD LA N D S.
Homeseekers Looking fo r
on Hooe R|ver.
Forty persons were hurt in a street
car wreck in Pittsburg.
The rate b ill will pass the senate
without the court review amendment
Failure of the Moroccan conference is
now expected, but war is not looke
lor.
The Philippine tariff hill passed by
the house will soon come up in the
senate.
,
The Panama canal commission will
likely tie reduced from seven uieintiers
to three.
West V irginia’s governor hss appeal
ed tor aid to down tiie railroad trust in
that state.
Coal operators have offered a com
promise to the miners ami a strike may
be averted.
Russia is negotiating a new loan in
France of $240,000,000. The interest
w ill be 0 per cent.
W . K. Vanderbilt, Jr., was mohtied
and arrested in Italy for running down
a boy with his auto.
Three boys were burned to death and
nine injured ion a tire at Kenyon Mili
t ir y academy, Gamhicr, Ohio.
W itte'a cabinet is falling to pieces.
Japanese are said to be oppressing
Coreans.
Johann Hoch, the modern bluet«*ard
has been lunged.
Minister Kockhill says he fears no
trouble in China at present.
Attorneys for the Federation officers
have secured habeas corpus writs at
Boise.
Ordered to Shoot Suspects.
London, F'eb. 27.— Tiie correspondent
of tiie Tribune at Pekin says that
since the reported appearance of the
Chinese bandits in Tsinwantao, tIre
Germans and F'rench have been kept at
arms at Shanhaikwan, Tsinwantao and
Tongshan, while the Germans are pa
trolling tiie villsges with orders to
shoot all suspicious Chinese. The Ger
man officers, who formerly dined at the
hotel at Shanhaikwan, the correspond
ent adds, are now confined to barracks
after nightfall.
Bids for Mexican Silver.
Mexico City, Feb. 27.— The exchange
and currency commission has received
bids from both New York and London
I »ankers for another $1,000,000 silver
motley, in pursuance of the policy of
exchanging silver for gold to expedite
the work of placing the country on a
gold basis. Gold money is already en
tering into circulation, though in some
cases people who do not comprehend
that the change
is permanent are
hoarding the yellow money. The gen
eral financial situation is remarkably
good.
Will Clean Out Foreigners.
Willemstad, Curacao, Feb. 27.— Ad
vices received here from Venezuela are
to the effect that President Castro says
he will humble France, to break the
Monroe doctrine, clear out the F'rench
from Venezuela and then start on
Americans. Flnglishttien and Germans,
whom he declares are worse than Chi
nese. He is report«! as saying that he
w ill clear the country of foreigners.
He is very bitter against Americans,
The drydock Dewey has bad to put
who, he says, are after hie country.
in at late Palmas, Canary islands, for
re p a irs .
Dominion Loses Million.
Wilson Misner, the youthful husband
Ottawa, O at., Feb. 27. — The Do
o( Mrs. Yerkea-Mizner, baa agreed Ur a minion government loee is from $1,-
separation (or $20,000.
000 000 to $1.500,000 by fire that raged
The State department haa taken up in Moncton, N. B., late last night ami
with the Ruaaian government the al Lxlay, when the Inter-Colonial railway
lege»' holding up of postal ordert issued shop«, with 100 cars and several build
ings of different kinds, were destroyed.
by the United States.
One thousand workmen are thrown out
Detnocrsa control the senata com- of employment. There was no inaur-
» ance.
litte e on the ra»e bill.
Locations Candidate May Bun for Office on Tw o
Different Tickets.
Hood River — That Hood River is
getting its Bhare of the colonist traffic
is indicated by the fact that ten fami
lies have arrived here this week look
ing for land. The newcomers are from
Minnesota, North Dakota, Kansas and
Miesouri. They are anxious to go into
applegrowing, and real eetace men are
busy showing them over the valley.
Each day records several purchases of
land wtiicb is now set to apple treeB or
will be cleared for that purpose, and
indications are that there w ill be a
still greater demand for fruit laud.
The homeseekers who have arrived
say many more w ill come as soon as
spring opens in the Middle West, peo
ple there being slow to believe that
spring is so much earlier here.
Real estate purchases are not confined
to Eastern people, as Portland men are
investing in apple lands, going as far
as back of Mount Hood. They are re
lying on the effect tiie Mount Hood
railroad w ill have on land in the upper
valley. This road is now nearing com
pletion, and tiie first car of freight was
shipped over it last week, consigned to
Moro. Much of the wood formerly
burned in clearing fruit lands will soon
be marketable at a neminal expense,
thus reducing the cost of clearing land.
The warm wet weather of the past
few days has started plant life into ac
tivity and berry growers will soon com
mence cultivating.
Filipinos are anxious to organize a
Maritime Quarantine Found Effective
volunteer regiment to fight China.
at Manila.
Missouri’ s Supreme court has decided
Washington, Feb. 27. — A report of
that Standard Oil men must give evi
the public health and marine hospital
dence.
service, which has just been issued,
War between France and Germany is gives a summary of the quarantinable
declared inevitable on account of tiie diseases reported for the city of Manila
stand of Emperor W illiam .
during the calendar year 1905, shows
Roosevelt is suspicious of China, be that there were 254 eases and 225
lieving the officials are trying to lull deaths from cholera, 45 cases and 43
deaths from plague, and 27 cases and
this country into false security.
two deaths from smallp <x. The report,
The Cash Buyers union, a Chicago
discussing the cholera situation in the
concern which sold most of its stock to
provinces there, says that, while the
farmers, has failed.
The farmers are
number of rases has remained about
out $1,000,0 )0 and ineichants $260,000.
the same for several weeks, their loca
A special gran 1 jury at Pueblo, C ol tion is constantly changing, and adds
orado, has returned indictments against that cholera lias practically described
the Colorado Fuel A Iron company an entire circle of a radius of about 25
the Colorado Supply company and the miles around the city of Manila, its
American Smelting company for uaing course indicating, the report says, that
tiie “ scrip system’ ’ in paying their era tiie maritime quarantine has been en
tirely effective.
ployes, in violation of tiie taw.
In view ol the very few cases in the
Roosevelt favora tiie stiip subsidy
city of Manila and their sporadic char
bill.
acter, the outgoing inter-island quar
A ll parties in Russia are attacking antine placed on vessels has been con
W itte’ s cabinet.
siderably modified.
PRIMARY LAW CO NSTRU ED .
Salem— That one man may be tiie
candidate of both political parties has
been decided by Attorney General
Crawford in an opinion rendered in re
sponse to an inquiry from W. J Moore,
district attorney at Lakeview.
I lie
hypothetical case submitted was that
of a candidate who, in the primaries,
was on both the Republican and the
Democratic tickets and received a plur
ality vote for the office in each instance.
The ruling of the attorney general is
that the office seeker thereby becomes
the nominee of both parties, and his
name must be so printed on the general
ballot at the election in June
The same would be true if a man
were an aspirant fora Republican nom
ination and his name were written into
the Democratic primary ballots, there
by giving him a plurality of tiie Demo
cratic votes.
No Leave o f Absence or Condemna-
tion o f Private Land.
Washington, Feb. 26.— The senate
irrigation committee today adverse >’
reported Senator Heyburn’ s bill per
mitting homesteaders under govern
ment irrigation projects to 6hta n leave
of absence from their entries for six
months of each year up to the time
water is turned into the mam canal on
land to be irrigated. The luterior de
partment opposed the bill.
The committee voted to table Senator
Fulton’ s bill authorizing the condem
nation of land in private ownership
when required as part of any irrigation
project.
This bill was intended to
permit tiie acquisition of the wagon
road land under the Malheur project,
but the committee doubts the constitu
tionally of the bill and is furthermore
deterred by the fact that the Owyhee
High Line Canal company, of Boise,
now proposes to reclaim even more
land than was embraced in the govern-
ment Malheur project. If it be shown
that this company means business the
government will abandon the Malheur
project.
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BU LLETS FOR CHINESE.
Riot at Nanchany, China, [|
of the Massacre.
STORIES TOLD ARE CONFUr
Chinese Accuse
Publish*
ton Co
$ i.t
Priest of Bt-
Mission— Pekin Government C
.
nies Cause for Alarm.
Shanghai, Feb. 27.— Som«*|g|
fused reports have reached hen
maesacre of missionaries at NaiJ
province of Kiangsi. As neatly J
be ascertained, six missionari*
killed and one child of anEt,
missionary wounded.
I t is alleged that after long
ued disputes between the
priests and the Chinese magii
Natichang,
the priests invite
magistrate to a banquet wbg,
tried to compel him to sign an,
ment lor tiie payment of a large
nity for tiie destruction oi Catiioii
sion property. According to
port, tiie magistrate became u
and committed suicide; theChii
sert that a priest attacked and
him.
The officials fearing to
Addre
If the N
era or is
¿te ettei
British Government Sends Munitions
Catch Salmon In Closed Season.
to Fleet.
^
Grants Pass— Fishermen on Rogue
London,
Feb.
26.—
The
British
gov
river, taking lessons from the cannery-
mon on the Columbia, are doing a b;g ernment takes a rather gloomy view of
business even if the season is closed. the Chinese situation ami is preparing
Warships
Last year they shipped from Grants for any {eventuality there.
Pass and Merlin over 200 tons of fish are being loaded with munitions on tiie
date, dr
to Portland. This year the shipments China station and heavy shipments are
se ves 11
will amount to considerable more, as being made to tiie commander of tiie
they are shipping more than a ton a Brilisli fleet in Chinese waters, so tlint upon tiie Catholics, according
day. A set net on the Illinois river, lie will be ab'.e to protect British inter Chinese version of the trouble, s T
From
Tbtfl
about 20 miles from where it empties ests should there be any serious upris to their own premises.
meeting of tiie Chinese develop«® State art
into Rogue river, is daily making big ings.
The missionary societies also have riot, in which, according to ooel in our d
catches of fine salmon. Fishermen on
Rogue river are also doing a good busi been warned to have their followers re stx of the Catholics were killed,»
Room fo r Settlers In Umatilla.
think so
main in touch witli the various British
later account says the ntufl
Pendleton — The rapid manner in ness.
legislatu
consulates, so that they can take refuge CathoDcs killed was four.
which Umatilla county is being settled
there,
should
it
become
necessary.
/
Fruit
Cannery
at
La
Grande.
subscrib
H. C. Kingman, a Protestor
has drawn attention of late to the fact
La Grande— An Eastern syndicate, Commercial bodies dealing with Chi sionary, and his wife also wen j would b
that there is much good wheat land left
nese
trade
believe
a
general
uprising
in
on what was once tiie Umatilla Indian through its special agent, George T.
and one of their two children
region o
reservation. A tract of this land was PowerB, has purchased from the Oregon China is imminent.
w ounded, tiie other being res«,
On
the
other
hand,
the
Chinese
lega
Produce
company
the
large
storage
bought by the government in 1897 and
only Protestant mission build*
sold in parcels at low prices to settlers. warehouse No. 2. In addition to the tion here declares there is not the stroyed were those of the fin
W e a!
ightest
danger
of
any
uprising
and
In many cases 80 acres out of a quarter plant purchased, Mr. Powers left in
Brethren.
section are to be found, on different structions w ith his agent here to select ptates that the disturbances in South
Fourteen Americans ecsapedii our can
parts of the reservation, wnich were sitee for a cannery, fruitdryer, a jelly, China have been due entirely to the in safety.
aré step;
then thought useless. With proper at vinegar and cider factory. The Oregon efforts of certain discredited leaders to
Minister Satow today inter is entitli
organize
a
revolution
to
take
over
the
tention this land may yet become as Produce company retains warehouse
the foreign office officials regard:
legislatu
good as tiie land that was sold. Some No. 1, and will buy and Bell, but will throne from the present emperor.
masascre. They expressed to kJ
of the land sold then, near Weston, not take fruit on Btorage or consign
no
one
deepest concern and regret, whit
Athena and Adams, at from $10 to $20 ment. It will give possession of ware W AN T EIGHT HOURS ON C A N A L. doubtedly was genuine, the goer
ment of
an acre, grows wheat of the finest qual house No. 2 June 1.
being particularly anxious to ,
Labor Leaders Ask President to Veto good relations with foreigners as yet.
ity-
_________
Elk for Harney County.
Deficiency Bill.
present time. Only last west K . New
Goes to Brazil as Missionary.
Burns— J. E. Wallace has returned
Chicago, Feb. 26.— Labor organize Ching, on representations by lb of the k
Peaiflc University, Forest Grove — from the southern part of Harney coun
tions of this city have appealed to anese minister and others that r be can<
Miss Grace C. Wood, who haa been an ty, where he went to get an elk pre-
President Roosevelt to veto the urgent of anti-foreign movementswerecn
instructress in Tualatin academy for sented to the Harney County Fair asso
deficiency bill, passed by congrees, telegraphed to all the viceroys to there is
the past three years, having come to ciation by the Pacific Livestock com
which abolishes the eight-hour work them to repress vigorously any! of W itcl
Pacific from Drnry college, Mo., has pany. It will be mounted and placed
day on the Panama canal.
The names such a movement and to punish along wi
left for Brazli to engage in missionary in the taxidermy display at tiie pavil
of President John Fitzpatrick and FT. who were circulating the rnmos
work, for which she will be peculiarly ion. The large elk on exhibition at
N . Nockels, of the Chicago Federation nese hostility, to Catholics att centric
adapted. Her position will be filled the Lewis and Clark exposition was
of Labor, were signed to a telegram Bent Christians has been prevalent he is ea
immediately by Mr. Zimmerman, from sold for $250 before the Harney county
to Washington as follows:
province of Kiangsi lately, as says 4 e-T I
Riverside academy, Portland. Before exhibit of birds and animals was re
“ Organized labor is unanimously provinces of Honon and Hupst
going to Brazil to commence her work, turned.
protesting against the urgent deficiency five papers report that the S Qulre th
she w ill attend the missionary conven
bill so long as it contains the provision bishop tiad trouble with the an: of them
tion, which is held at Nashville,
Sheep Bring High Price.
repealing the eight-hour law or any for issuing appeals for sub-crip: tjje ¡c j
Tenn., and from there she will go di
n o nlmi»»»l\
L 1 ..1. ... — . ..-fitter
Pendleton— About 10,000 head of part of it, and most respectfully re t the
church, n.
which
were written
rect to Brazil.
yearling sheep have been purchased quests a veto.”
official style, to which he hadn®lve UP
from Umatilla county stockmen within
The action of the local unions follow
It strike
School District o f “ First Class."
a few days by John Howard, of Dakota ed instructions from President Gompers
BOUNDARY C O N TEST Present t
Salem— State Superintendent Acker tiie ruling price being $3 a head. Those of the American Federation of Labor.
man has gone to Hood River to assist from whom purchases were made are A In a statement Mr. Gompers asserted
legislate
in tiie eampaign for tiie organization of Knotts, Charles Johnson,
Douglas that the law was intended as the be Supreme Court Will Try C.his duti
a school district of the first class by Belts and Charles Matthews. None ginning of an attack upon the eight
Jurisdiction Over Colur:
^ ,
consolidating six country
districts. of the sheep were select stock.
Washington, Feb. 27.__Th»P at^orrn
hour statute as applied to all govern
The object of the consolidation ¡ b to es
court today granted leave to which h
ment service.
tablish graded schools, and a district
Inspecting the Sugar Plants.
of Washington to file a h iU o lness 0f
high school. Under the law a majority
against the state of Oregon it
La Grande— H . T. Dyer, of Ogden
T H R E A T S FROM FOREIGNERS.
of voters in each district, ai they now Utah, general manager of the Amalga
brought to determine the j, matter,
exist, must vote in favor of the consoli mated sugar factories, is in the city
Exclusion From Black Hills Mines the boundary line betwe* one sho
dation
It is thought all the Wasco a tour of inspection. F. G. Taylor,
states in the Columbia river,Tight m
Causes Bad Feeling.
districts are favorably inclined r except L gan, Utah, accompanied Mr. Dyer
A ttorney General McDonald i . „ _
Lead, S. D., F'eb. 26.— As a sequel to for Washington, and Senate *"*•
one, and public sentiment favorable to and w ill take the place of factory super
Si
consolidation is gaining ground there. intendent at la Grande, succeeding the explosion at the home of a mine filing the reply of Oregon. limportai
Charles Woodhouse, who has resigned. foreman, letters have been received by decided that the testimony ¡resnect
Superintendent Grier, of the Home- closed by August 6.
Return Money to Counties.
stake mine, and some of the mine fore
Salem — State Supenitendent of In
Oregon w ill contend that: t0 sa3
P O R T LA N D M A R K E TS.
men, threatening bodily harm unless diction extends to a lint
struction J. H. Ackerman, one of the
making
promoters of the Educational congress
Wheat— Club, 67; hlnestem, 68@70c; certain changes are marie in the man a “ point due west and owm W
agement. The governor has been asked middle of the nortli ship ciitw
at the Lewis ami Clark fair, lias pit- red, 66c; valley, 71 @72c.
to offer a reward for the apprehension tiie Columbia, thence east*1*
pared his rep >rt of receipts and expend
Oats— No. 1 white, feed, $28@29; of the writers.
itures of tiie committee. The money gray, $27.50@28 50 per ton.
middle of the widest chiB y
■
It is thought the letters result from point near Fort Walia 'Ti
which Mr. Ackeiman is accounting for
Barley— F'eed, $23 50®24 per ton;
an order prohibiting tiie employment Washington claims jiiriidirtf-ouniy
was donated on liis solicitaiton by the
brewing, $24@24.50; rolled, $24@25.
of men who could not speak or under many islands and fishing gr< inst. an
counties for expenses of the congress.
Buckwheat— $2 25 per cental.
stand English. It is considered that smith " f this line.
Theie is a balance of $269.86, wi.ich
Oreg tjje
Hay— Eastern Oregon timothy, $13
the safety of the other miners was en that the boundary be finai
will be returned to the counties in pro
@14 per ton; vallev timothy, "$8@9;
dangered by the employment of work lished as described above andtet*
portion to the amount contributed. In
*
clover, $7.50@8; cheat, $6@7; grain
men unable to understand the
all, $1,944 86 was received.
in the act admitting Ore? would
hay, $7@8.
Fruits— Apples, $1@2.50 per box;
Union- ______________. proMM
Logging Road on Rock Creek.
Will Fight Two-Cent Rate.
cranberries, $12.50® 14.50 per barrel.
La Grande— Work has been resumed
Four Companies Withdrthe Cap
Philadelphia,
Feb.
26.
—
Driven
to
Vegetables— Cabbage, 134 @ 2 14c per
on the Grand Ronde Lumber company’s pound; cauliflower, $2 per crate; cel the point of reorganizing their lines to
Jefferson City, Mo., Feb.: eeed i
railroad up R-ck cree$.
A large ery,$4 75@5 per crate; sprouts, 6 >a @7c meet the 2-cent-a-mile legislation re insurance companies have platforn
amount ol the grading and several per pound; squash, l ^ f a n ^ c
per cently adopted by the Ohio legislature D.- Vandiver, the Miesoori
miles of tracklaying were completed pound; turnips, 90c(3$l a sack; car and by threats of similar action in sioner, that they would witU|
last year, but work was discontinued m rots, 65 @ 75c per sack; beets, 85e@$l Pennsylvania, officials and representa the state March 1, when tk® public
account of the winter weather.
It is per sack.
tives of many big railroads met here licenses expire, because of I perquis
the intention now to continue the work
“ pd
Onion»— Oregon, No. 1, 65@70c a today and perfected plans for fighting ment that they file an annul
until the road is completed.
The road sack; No. 2, nominal.
all such legislation, in response to
statement.
The companis
will be used exclusively in bringing
Potatotes— Fancy graded Burbanks, call from James McCrea, first vi__ Bankers’ L ife of New York, them ti
logs to tiie river from an extensive tim
60(370c per hundred; ordinary, nom president of the Pennsylvania railroad. Reserve L ife of New Vori»*'----
them.
ber district in tiie Rock creek territory.
inal; sweet potatoes, 2 14@ 2 ^ c per It is said that plans were laid, not mopolitan L ife of Freeport, '
I ’d
only to carry on the fight in Ohio, but the Northwestern Mutual Í 1
pound.
Building Boom on at Baker.
the
wo
in
any
other
state
neceesary.
Butter — Fancy creamery, 27la@3Cc
neapolis. Mr.Vandiver state
Baker City— The excavation for a one per pound.
vote.
saved him the trouble of
story stone building at First, and Court
May Postpone Meeting at Hague.
Eggs— Oregon rancL, J6@17c per
“ I ’d
streets, to cost about $6,000, marks the dozen.
Washington, Feb. 26. — Secretary
T w o Thousand KF
beginning of the building boom for
we
got
Poultry— Average old hens, 13(314c Root has issued a call for a meeting in
N e v York, Feb. 27. — *
which the architects have Eieen prepar per pound; mixed chickens, 12 c, (2 13c; Washington this week of the American
people
patch to the Herald, dated*
ing all winter. In the next six months broilers.20(222c; young roosters. 1 2 ^ c; delegates to the approaching Hague
tnra, Colombia, says: An* lions; a
more building w ill be done in Baker old
roosters, 10 <3 1 0 ^ c; dressed conference, Messrs. Choate, Porter and occurred at 25 minutes W
City than during any previous year in chickens, 14(315c: turkeys, live, 16@ Rose, for the purpose of considering
on han
morning of the 21st, iastin?11^ ^ ^ ^ ^
the history of the piace.
Plans have 17c; turkeys, dressed, choice 18(220c; the program of the conference and mak
minutes, tiie movement bS and, y<
been made and contracts let for a large geese, live, 8(29c; geese, dressed, 10@ ing the necessary arrangements for the
north to the south.
number of big business blocks, and 12c; ducks, 16@18c.
trip. It w ill be impossible for the con earthquake there was » '•'*
many fine residences and cottages will
d
Hops—Oregon, 1905, choice, 10@ ference to meet before next tall at the which was of no conseqoc:' ii he’
„
be erected.
10 V : prime, 8>*@9c; medium, 7@8c; earliest, and a further postponement is the reports from the co**1, "
olds, 5@7c.
probable.
an area of 50 leagues to thes- OTr pj(
Creamery at Wallowa.
Wool— Eastern Oregon average best,
that 2,000 were killed.
p*nam
Wallowa — The Wallow« Bui’ding 16@2lc; valley, 24@26c per pound;
Wealth Limit o f $10,000,000.
association has begun work on the mohair, choice, 30c per pound.
Washington, Feb. 26.— Representa
Yellow Fever on & ou^
creamery to be installed by the Blue
Beef— Dressed bulla, 2 V«@3c pound;
Washington, Feb- 27.—S*® 1
Mountain Creamery company, of La cows, 3 V . 2 c per pound; country tive Lloyd, of Missouri, by a resolution
in the house today, proposed an amend sral Wyman, of the Public 0 by pOJ
Grande.
The ice house is to be fin steers, 435c.
ment to the constitution, so as to limit Marine Hospi al servic*
ished by April 1. The same company
Mutton— Dressed,
fancy, 8i*@ 9c
will also have a plant at F iterp ;se per pound; ordinary, 4@5c; lambs, 8 private fortunes to $10,000,000. When the various government
ever the lim it is exceede.1 the excess station« of the appear«*«
This will secure a profitable induatiy @9 V .
- “ »
shall be deemed a “ public nuisance fever at Boras del Tor0’J T thelr n
to the farmers of Wallov a valley
'
— Praase»!, 3 Vj @8c per pound.
folly or peril,’ ’ and be forfeited to thè the usual measures ot
which it a perfect dairy count: y.
Fork—Dreated, OJ&c per pound.
United States.
detention w ill be adopted
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