WasfeftM County lews 1 mm * Dm k W**k P O R JB T G R O V E ........... OREGON I . , NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. •---------------------- A Resume of »he Less Important but Not Less Interesting Events o f the Past Week. TLe Corean revolt is spreading. H Japan plans to monopoluze the trade gjj of the Orient. Fire at Los Angeles destroyed a bloc k > in the wholesale district. A number of Russian newspapers have been suppressed for printing news of the Bialystok massacre. The bouse has passed a hill granting - California 5 per cent of the net pro- ceeds of the sale of public lands. It is expected that the Italian gov­ ernment will soon issue an order for the complete exclusion of American I canned meats. I Count W itte expresses the opinion that ths Russian douma is becoming revolutionary in its character. lie I also says the Jews have brought their [troubles on themselves. A submarine eruption recently threw | up a small island near Boroslov, an is- ! land in Alaskan waters. Boroslov was jiH upheaved in the same way 100 years jfSago and another small island in 1882. Dr. W. T . Marric, commissioner of jieducation, has tendered his resignation >‘jto the president and the latter has an- nonneed the appointment of Dr. Elmer 'iiE . Brown, profisior of education at the California university, as his suc­ cessor. I — Revolutionary feeling is spreading in Russia. Tobacco trust officials have been in- idicted for conspiracy. I Evidence is being found that Dreyfus ¡¡¡was convicted by forgery. California is pushing the fight on “ six-bit” insurance companies. The president and house committee have agreed on a meat inspection bill. The Hermann land case trial at Port­ land is expected to take place the first >' July. The Russian nobility w ill refuse to iiv id e »heir estates with the peasants p n order to prevent a revolution. The 131st anniversary of the battle jfaf Bunker hill was celebrated at Bos- |ton, where the day is always regarded |is a holiday. NEW STAR IN UNION. C R Y IN G FOR H A R V E S TE R S . Unemployed Men fo r Kansas Grain Fields Hard to Find. Topeka, Kan., June 19.— Kansas is sending out the strongeat appeal of her history for men to work in the harvest fields. The difficulties of the last few years getting help to gather the wheat before it becomes dead ripe and scatters in the gathering w ill be intensified this year if the advance signs are token of what is to come. A t least 25,000 more men than are in sight now w ill be needed, and deeperate measures w ill be adopted to draft men into the service behind the self-binders. Competition for labor is stronger this year than ever before. There seems to be no idle men anywhere. Appeals have been addressed to the employment agencies in Chicago, St. Louis and other large industrial cen­ ters. The inswer has come hack in al­ most every nstance that it is impossi­ ble to fill the orders. Factories are running at full capacity all over the country. Building opera­ tions are going on'on a scale exceeding anything of the kind in past years. These activities, in addition to the many public improvements that are in progress, have absorbed the bulk of the labor of the country, skilled and un­ skilled. State F'ree Employment Agent Gerow holds that a number of railroads are largely to blame for the shortage of harvest hands. He says the railroads need every man they can get to com­ plete their own work, and for this rea­ son have refused to grant the 1 cent a mile passenger rate that is usually made for the harvest bands. They fear, it is said, that the call from the wheat fields, with the attractive wages, w ill draw away their laborers, who get only $1.25 for working on tracks. The Rock Island and Union Pacific have given the harvesters’ rate, but the other lines are obdurate. There w ill be no room for complaint on account of compensation. The farm­ ers, if need be, w ill pay as high as $3 a day for good men. The ordinary wage w ill be $2 to $2.50. Board and lodging are also given. Farmers w ill co-operate with each other, and there will be less "stealing” of the hands of others than in past years. The fiat has gone out unofficially that there must be no able bodied men in Kansas at harvest time. The loafer who mn work will be obliged to toil or leave the state. Local authorities in cities and towns hitherto have co-oper­ ated with the agriculturists in enlisting the whole available force for field work. They w ill do so again this year. Present indications are that Kansas will harvest 65,000,000 bushels of wheat. The usu*l migration from the Texas and Oklahoma fields w ill recur this year, but this source of aid of itself w ill not he sufficient. L IT T L E M A IL W AS L O S T . A I. L. Craig, general passenger agent rf the O. R A N ., has resigned to take U better position with the Great North- Surprising Amount o f Business Now }ir n . W illiam McMurray, of Portland, in San Francisco Postoffice. I will likely be Mr. Craig’s successor. Washington, June 19.— Postmaster Presbyterian churches throughout the General Cortelyou has received final iDnited States are raising a fund of reports from the postmaster at San H300,000 with which to rebuild the Francisco, dealing with detailing the Jidifices of that denomination destroyed postal conditions during the great dis­ p y the Ban Francisco earthquake and aster there and pointing out that the lire . amount of mail lost was comparatively The postmaster reports that Japan has suppressed the outbreak small. May 2 the records of the canceling ma­ i n Corea. chines at the San F'rancieco postoffice Castro w ill resume the presidency of showed the collection of mail within ¡Venezuela July 6. 60,000 letters of the heaviest collection The army w ill soon abandon San on record in the office, while the stamp sales were within $300 of normal. 1 Francisco relief work. The postmaster says, however, that The czar is preparing for an open re- the mails of second-class matter were olt in Southern Russia. but a litttle over 20 per cent of the He A Texas negro has been sentenced to amount before the earthquake. adds that there has been no falling off ¡he penitentiary for 909 years. in the amount of registered mail re- I H alf of San Francisco’s present water cei ved. Jupply is wasted by leaks in the mainB. There were 20 employee of the post- The Blackfoot Indian reservation in office whose homes were burned out in lontana w ill Le opened to settlement. the fire, many of the men being left destitute,but eu far as known onlv one Germany is planning to spend $50,- employe, a carrier, lost his life, while 00,000 in widening and improving the one other is missing. The postmaster Ciel canal. general has written the postmaster, A pretended president of the Philip­ specially commending the action of pine republic has si rrendered to the certain employes and has called the at­ uthorities. tention of the secretary of the treasury The house committee on agriculture to certain officials in the custodian as agreed to Roosevelt's demands on service of that department. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST C H AN G E C R IM IN A L LA W S. W ILL S H IP 400 CARS. Attorney General C raw tord Would Bountiful Yield* From Grand Ronda Orchards is Assured. Remedy Many Defects. La Grande— It is estimated by the Salem— Attorney General Crawford has started a movement for the revieion principal fruit growers of Grand Rond* of the criminal laws of the state by re­ valley that the output for »his section moving delects and enacting new laws, this year w ill be 400 carloads. The es­ so that the guilty shall not escape upon timate on apples, which are the largest technicalities. H e has addressed a let­ crop, is 314 cars; prunes, 65 cars; ter to each of the prosecuting attorneys pears, peaches, plums and cherries, 20 of the state, asking them to submit to cars. These figures are considered reli­ him such recommendations npon the able, as there was but little variance in need of criminal legislation as they the different estimates given and the This may think beet, and he w ill lay the eetimates on prunes all agreed. whole matter before the judiciary com­ forecast is made on the expectation of a continuation of the present favorable mittee of the next legislature. In hie letter Mr. Crawford says that conditions, which could hardly be im­ probably every district attorney has in proved upon; the fruit is set on »he his experience found some laws which trees as full as it can be to give first- are so defective in their terms that men class quality. who are guilty cannot be convicted, In securing the foregoing report it and have found some offenses for which was also possible to obtain some inter­ no statute whatever is provided. He esting figures relative to the enormous says that the time to remedy the de­ increase in the apple orchard acreage. fects in the criminal laws is during a There are now 200,000 apple trees in session of the legislature, and, in order this valley and of this number 146,000 that this may be done properly, the are in bearing. That is to say, this is laws should be drafted before the legis­ the number of trees of five years old lature meets. and upwards. Five years hence, when The prosecuting attorneys, he thinks, the whole number of trees are in bear­ are in the best position to learn of the ing, the yield of an average crop year defects in the laws, and he wants them w ill be a million boxes, or about 1,666 to suggest the changes that should he car loads. It is not too much to say made. W ith recommendations before that within a short time the apple crop him from all the prosecuting attorneys, income of this valley w ill be a million the attorney general w ill be able to lay dollars a year. before the legislature information that Even at the cider factory price of $5 w ill enable that body to place the crim­ per ton, ten year-old trees will on aver­ inal laws in a much better condition age years yield at the rate of $442.63 than they have ever been before. per acre. A very striking illustration of the W hile the apple is in the ascendancy defective condition of the criminal laws was found when the state land fraud as the commercial fruit oi this valley, Can­ prosecutions were begun in Marion the cherry plays quite a part. county something over a year ago. nery representatives are here now mak­ There was no law under which men ing contracts for cherries at 4 to could be convicted after they had sworn cents per pound. The La Grande fruit falsely in making applications for the growers w ill have about 20 tone to offer, but this includes only the sweet varie­ purchase of school lands. There was no statute making it a ties suitable for canning, such as Royal crime to sign a fictitious name to an ap­ Anns and Centennials. Old cherry trees in some orchards in plication for the purchase of school land. There was no law to be found the valley have yielded as high as 800 for the punishment of a notarv public pounds to the tree. The price paid is who affixed his seal to au instrument $80 per ton and at this rate old trees which he had drawn, and to which be w ill yield $3,200 and upwards per acre. A ll these figures and estimates are had signed a ficticious name. At nearly every term of court men based on as reliable facts as are obtain­ who are placed on trial escape punish able. It is not necessary to exaggerate ment, although proven guilty, because the fruit industry of Grand Ronde. the statute does not quite cover the The truth is good enough. crime committed. It is defects of this kind that Attorney General Crawford wishes to remove. He is not Beeking to make crimes of small offenses which are of no importance, but merely so to correct the laws that it w ill be possible to secure conviction when men are found guilty of acts which every one recognizes as criminal in character. Settlement Named A fter Wagon. Arlington — Some 30 years ago a few men settled on a fiat about 12 miles south of Arlington. In the crew was only one wagon— an old Bchutler. In some way they began calling this neigh­ borhood Schutler, from the old wagon. A few years later it was, as it ie now, known as Bchutler Flat. When the Condon branch railroad of the O. R. A N. Co. waB built, a station was estab­ lished near this place, and is named Bchutler. This is one of the finest farming sections in Gilliam county, and thus from an old wagon a name is found for a fine wheat belt. Special Prizes at State Fair. Salem — The state board of agricul­ ture has voted to offer three special prizes for the best individual farm ex­ hibits to be made at the state fair this fall. The prizes w ill be $75, $50 and $25 in cash and in addition the 8tude- baker company will give a $100 wagon, the E. S. Lamport company a $40 set ol harness and F. E. Shaler Saddlery company a $10 robe. It is expected that a large number of farmers will compete for these prizes. Secretary Durbin w ill supply applicants with all the necessary information. President Signs Statehood Makes It a Law. Bill and Washington, June 18 .— Another star was added to the Union Saturday when President Roosevelt signed the bill ad­ mitting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one state. The measure also pro­ vides that Arizona and New Mexico mav be admitted to statehood as the state of Arizona, provided the people of the territories vote in favor of admis­ sion on the terms submitted by con­ gress. . The signing of the measure was made the occasion of an interesting cere­ mony. Senator Beveridge and Repre­ sentative Hamilton, chairmen of the senate and house committees on terri­ tories, who have worked long and hard for the measure, were present, as also were Delegate McGuire, of Oklahoma, and a number of residents of Okla­ homa; Delegate Andrews, of New Mex­ ico; Secretary Loeb and others. Just before the president signed the bill, Ambassador Speck von Sternberg, of Germany, was ushered into the office, and he, too, witnessed the ceremony. The president uted two pens in Jsign- ing the measure, writing the first name, “ Theodore,” with a solid gold pen presented by the people of A ri­ zona, his family name, “ Roosevelt,” with an eagle’ s quill taken from an eagle in Oklahoma. Afte. signing thq bill, the president congratulated Mr. Beveridge and Mr. Hamilton on the completion of their long and arduous labors in connection with the measure. He also expressed the hope that the people of Arizona and New Mexico would avail themselves of the opportunity to come into the Union as a state. From every view point, he said, he regarded this as the wise thing for them to do, as the opportunity might not come again in a score of years. The president said that he had a personal interest in the admission of Arizona and New Mexico, as many of the members of his regiment, the Rough Riders, resided there PRELUDE T O GENERAL A T T A C K . Massacte at Bialystok Will Be Imitat­ ed in Other Cities. BIALYSTOK Horrible Details of Butchery « Jews (ilven Out. BODIES ARE MASHED INTO ¡[\[] Troop s Helped Mobs— Bullet and Bj onet Wounds Betray Work of Brutal Soldiers. St. Petersburg, June 19. — The hargo on news from Bialystok wasli|t!j today, and the Associated prei8 correspondent was for the first tizne^f lowed to telegraph directly fromtk sacked city a picture of the ruin and desolation left in the the mob. According to frequent bo] letins, order was restored this mornis. The story told by the Awociated Press correspondent is a dreadful one but there are indications that he h« been prevented by the censorship froo relating further details about the cot. dition of corpses, the utter bestiality oi the mob and the inabil ty of the troops to cope with the excesses during the first dayB of the rioting. It is evident from the dispatches that the excesses assumed the character o|, three cornered fight between the mili. tary, the mob and armed members ol the Jewish Bund, who, instead of mb. mitting passively to slaughter, as their unarmed co-religionists have done hers tofore, carried the war into the enemti camp and fought bravely. “ Merely saying that the corpses were mutilated,” the correspondent writee, “ fails to describe the awful e<-enee! The faces of the dead have lost all hu­ man semblance and the corpses simply are crushed masses of flesh and bone soaking in blood. It is impossible to conceive of Buch bestiality. The corpse of Teacher Aptstein lay in the grass with the hands tied. In the face sod eyes had been hammered three-inch nails. Rioters entered bis boms and after fearful outrages killed him and murdered the rest of his family of seven. When the corpse arrived at the hospital, it was also marked witn bayonet thrusts. “ Beside the body of Aptstein lay ths corpse of a child of 10 years, whose leg had been chopped off with an si. Here also were the dead from the Acb- lacter home, where, according to wit­ nesses, soldiers came and plnndersdtbi house, killed the wife, son and a neigh­ bor’ s daughter and seriously wounded Achlacter and his two daughters. “ I am told that soldiers entered the apartments of the Lapidus brothers, which were crowded with peoph who had fled from the streets for safety, and ordered the Christians to separits themselves from the Jews. A Chris­ tian student named Dikar protested and was killed on the spot. Then all the Jews were shot.” Berlin, June 18.— “ 3Ve have every reason to believe that the massacre oi Jews at Bialystok is a rehearsal for a wholesale repetition of the atrocities of last October,’ ’ said Dr. Paul Nathan, president of the Central Jewish R elief league of Germany. "O ur information indicates that the Bialystok massacre is the same sort of officially inspired counter revolutionary outbreak as was that at Odessa. We have learned posi­ tively that the government’s allegation that the trouble began in consequence of the bombs being thrown at a Chris­ tian religious procession by Jews is a ridiculous falsehood. Bialystok is still in the hands of the drunken Cossacks, who are determined that no Jews shall be allowed to escape or go unrobbed. “ The military have deserted the rail­ way station and every passing train is held up and the passengers plundered. Panic reigns in the neighboring v il­ lages, which fear they w ill be the next object of attack. Numerous German firms and individuals are among the O H IO ’S G O VERN O R DEAD. sufferers at Bialystok and cause the suggestion that German intervention be Bright’s Disease Carries O ff John M. invoked.” Pattison Suddenly. DISAGREE ON PIPE LINES. Cincinnati, June 19.— John M. Pat­ tison, governor of Ohio, died of Bright ! Rate Bill Conferees Thrash Over Old disease at 4:20 yesterday afternoon >t Straw Without Result. his home in M ilford, 15 miles ezitof Washington, June 18. — In the ab­ this city. On a beautiful hillside near sence of Representative Sherman, of bis home his body will be laid to r«t New York, who was out of the city, the on Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock alto conferees on the railroad rate bill were services in the Methodist church. in session less than an hour today, and His death came suddenly and wm reached no decision on any subject. unexpected even by his physicians and The pipe line amendment was dis­ family. Flarly Sunday evening tbs cussed, Senators Elkins and Tillman governor suffered considerable zente opposing any change in th i provision pain, but later he sank into a quist making them common carriers and con­ sleep. At 10 o ’clock yesterday morn­ tending that most of the companies ing Dr. Belt made his usual visit and that have protested the amendment are found hiB patient in a comatose state. subordinate companies of the Standard The governor never rallied and death Oil company. came peacefully at 4:20. Opponents of the amendment pro­ Andrew H . Harris, lieutenant gov­ posed that the amendment which pro­ ernor, who, under the constitution, be­ hibits a common carrier from carrying comes governor during the rest of the commodities it produces be changed to term for which Mr. Pattison was elect­ read: “ railroad carrying commodities ed, ie a Republican. He was born ia it p>-odU(.e (i” ;n order that thig amend. Butler county, Ohio, November l'i ment shall not conflict with pipe lines, 1835. He was admitted to the bar ia which are constructed for the so’e pur­ 1865. H j was elected lieutenant gov­ pose of carrying their productions. If ernor both times that William McKin­ this were done, they agreed to support ley was chosen governor. the pipe ilne amendment. Prunes Promise Great Yield. Salem— The rains of the past two weeks have not done as much damage to berries in this vicinity as expected, and a good crop ia being gathered. The wet weather has made pasturage excellent and an enormous crop is as­ sured. With few exceptions, prune groweis report bumper crops, and in some orchards the fruit is so abundant that weak limbB are already breaking. Grain Sack Problem Serious. A few cherries have been cracked by Pendleton— The grain sack problem the wet weather. promises to be serious for the farmers of Um atilla county, who w ill use 2,- PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS 000,000 this year. A t the present prices, 10 cents each, this means $200,- Wheat — Club, 72373c; blueslem, 000 in this county. Other Eastern 74@75c; red, 70371c; valley, 72c. Oregon counties, it is estimated, will Oats— No. 1 white feed, $31.50332; use at least 2,000.000 more, making a gray, $31.50 per ton. total of $4,000,000 for this section. Barley — Feed, $24324.50 per ton; This entails the expenditure of nearly half a million dollars for grain sacks, brewing, nominal; rolled, $25 3 26. which, together with the expense of Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $12.50 harvesting the crop, represents an n b ill and threatns to call au extra bloody October days. Only energetic Bend Ships Horses. i o . T * “ 0t Americ* n »oods, a, ■ion if action is not taken on the intervention can prevent a terrible W ool— Eastern Oregon average best, nrart’ practically no canned goods from Amer- Bend— Many horses are being ship­ zal. catastrophe. Peri) ie imminent. Ap­ ped from Bend and vicinity to Portland 183231*«; valley, coarse. 2234323 c- Punnr° DC®ri " * re ' “ Potted through the fine, 243 25c; mohair, choice, 28330c peal to all influences to help ne.” and other point* in the vslley. Many per pound. The naval bill provides $05,000 with w T f i . • T frmt. , " ’- bDt were C0l0“ i»l ***•*•» h and riders are out on the ranges ronnding Ich to establish wireless telegraph '• * 1 — Dreeeed. 437c per pound. Smoka From Shasta. up all available horse*. It ia feared tions along the coasts of Oregon, Redding, Cal., June 19.— Reports are that considerable horse thieving has — Dreeeed bulla, 3e per ponnd; Pass Three Big Bill*. ishington and California. being received here that smoke is pour­ been going on in this section, as a num­ cow*, 4343SH e; country steers, 536c. Washington, Jnne 18 — A conclusion The governor of California and mayor ing from the eon* of Mount Shasta and ber of valuable horse* are misting, and *• reached late thia afternoon by Mntton — Dreeeed. fancy, 738c per tan Francisco have joined in an ap- that daep rumbling* are heard in the aa some suspicion* characters have been pound; ordinary, 5 3 6 c ; lamb*, with wher*by the meat inspec'- T b * report* are not I aeen on the range* of late it ia feared pelt on 8 c. I to the insurance companies for a mountains. »on bill, the pure food bill and the im- credited. are deal to " in Francisco. that the animal* have been ran off. Pork— Dreeeed, 739c per pound. | »ig w tio n bill are all to be pa* ed this *eek in the order named. Cannot Enter Conspiracy. Pueblo, June 19.— Holding that * corporation cannot enter into a con’pi»- acy or commit a crim*, District Jodg* Dixon today sustained a motion toqxadj the indictment returned by ths g * “1 jury against the Colorado Fuel A company, and the Colorado Snpplj pany, charging them with the violatK® of the law hearing on the “ truck ip" tem.” Judge Dixon stated that ths in­ dictment was fatally defective in it failed to state connection Frank • Hearne, D. C. Mann, J .C Scbenckand others had with the companies. . a Total o f Dead Uncertain- Bialystok, Jnne 9.— Quiet reigns »*■ dav throughout this devastated 1®*"' Firing was heard at midnight on outskirts of Bialystok, near the tery, bat no further disorders h*v* ** rnrrecf. The total figures of the «•** alties are not available, but 70 _ were buried today. This is c1* ’ “1*?, he less than half the total of the kilJNj Jewish estimates say that not le* 1 , 200 were killed. The nnmb*» 01 wounded ia enormous. Counted 290 Jewish Dead. Odessa, Jnne 19.— The °, this city published a dispatch '« ■ from its correspondent at Bialf ^ saying. “ I personally conn tad Jewish corpse*, a great n0“ b#ItalT which were horribly mutilated, v* •»* Christiana were killed.”