Washington County News
Issued Each Week
FOREST GROVE.............OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
WAR ON MINER i U N IO N .
S T A R T W ITH N O N -U N IO N MEN
Owners Will Open Up Golcfiald Mines
Wednesday.
Goldfield. Dec. 10.— Wednesday
has been definitely decided upon as
the day for reopening the mines in
Goldfield.
An authoritative statement was
made tonight that already sufficient
men are on the ground to work the
mines.
The total number o f those
that have been quietly brought in
and those who have secretly made
application to return to their former
positions is placed at 1000.
There
are about 1.500 Western Federation
men out. The men who are to take
the places of the strikers ure not to
be housed at the mines, but will be
scattered through the camp and pro­
tected, for each Individual w ill be
guaranteed protection by the Mine-
owners' Association.
Two propositions have been posi­
tively decided upon, the making of
an open camp for all time and the
early lowering of the wage scale. At
the same time the MinLowners’ As­
sociation Is going to begin a vig o r­
ous crusade to lower the cost o f liv ­
ing in Goldfield.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
L
UHe. H I à I OHIO M O N E Y.
300 U. S
Regulars Now in Camp at
Goloficld, Nevada.
Goldfield, Dec. 9.— Encouraged,
doubtless, by the presence of federal
, troops in Goldfield, the Goldfield
Mineowners’ Association held a meet­
RUSH hA LHO a D W O RK.
ing yesterday afternoon, and last
«
.
.
.
.
r, . . . night gave out a statement In which
Southern P .c fic A, x,ou, to
T t ia operrly said that the members of
Klamath rai s
jthe association have decided to make
Kiamath Falls— The Southern Pacific a determined struggle to free Gold-
company seems lent on extending the Held of union domination and make
California Northeastern railway into the ,thi8 au open camI’ -
Klamath basm at an early .late, as I The statement of the purpose of the
..
| t
^
’ rw#
mineowner» is direct and uuequivo-
there has been no cessation of work c
and throw„ down the gauntlet to
since the financial flurry made its ap- the Western federation of Miners,
pearance. There have, of course, been | officers of the association refused
urnors that work is to be discontiu- 't 0 say if any steps have already been
ue«l, but the methoils being pursue«! by taken toward importing non-union
the contractors indicate that the work miners in sufficient numbers to re­
to be rushed rather than delayed. open the mines, which are now Idle
Ericks n & Peterson, the contractors, and rapidly filling with water, but
who are now building roadbed near stated that many telegrams are being
Mount Hebron, in the south end of received hourly, offering men, and
that within 4 8 hours the mines could
Butte creek valley, are incieasing their
be opened with the same number of
forces, and Archie Mason, who has the men as were formerly at work in
«•ontract for building the dike across them. One concern In San Francisco
Klamath marsh, ju«t below this city, It Is said, offered to send 1,000 men
has also incieased his force and has an­ on an hour's notice.
other large dredge en route to be used
The officers of the association say,
however, that In their belief there
on the work.
Little can be learned as to the plans are enough men In the camp who
of the Southern Pacific and the engin­ w ill leave the union now to make
eers in charge of the California North­ the importation of men unnecessary,
eastern extension make no further and they are looking for these men
to make application early In the
statement than that they have orders
week. It Is impossible, the operators
to construct the road in the least pos­ say, for them to get enough men In
sible time.
the mines at present to operate the
The disiance from Biay, the present pumps and keep them clear of water,
terminus, to Klamath Falls is about Cave-ins are constantly taking place,
37 miles. Nineteen miles of this, the and other damage Is being wrought
distance across Butte creek valley, is a by reason of the inactivity,
level sagebrush plain and construction | No unusual excitement was caused
of a road across it w ill require but a ^ the arrival of the first detachment
of troops and the crowds that gath­
short time.
ered at the depot quickly dispersed
after the troops had marched to the
W A N T S A N O TH E R ROAD.
mess, in the northwestern part of the
city, where they have gone into tem­
Southern Oregon Hopes for Lessened porary encampment. Goldfield is
quiet and there are no indications of
Rates in Competition.
impending trouble.
Grants Pass — The announcement
The Nevada Workman, organ of
through the press that Moffatt it White the mine workers in Goldfield con­
are about to extend the Oregon Elec­ tains a statement by Charles K. Mac-
tric line through Rogue River valley kinnon, president of the Goldfield
has beeu received here with the great­ Miners' Union, In which he says:
“ There is no sane man in the dis­
est satisfaction. It has teen the dream
of the citizens that some «Jay another trict who will say that there was any
transportation company would find its need for the federal troops In Gold­
field.”
way into the valley.
The paper says editorially:
The annulling of trains 11 and 12 by
“ It Is evident that the Mineown­
the Southern Pacific company has ers’ Association Intends to re-enact
aroused the people to greater activity the tragic scenes of Colorado. The
and to stand ready to offer an induce­ coming of the troops means nothing
ment to a competing line. The re­ short of that. Violence and disorder
sources from the mills and mines and will ensue upon the arrival of the
the products of the field have been car­ troops and It Is apparent that the
ried for years by one railr<ad company, gloomy history of Colorado Is to be
rewritten."
with charges running up into thou­
A statement to the public by the
sands of dollars.
Goldfield Mine Operators Associa­
tion states in the beginning that “ re­
Electric Line Great Boon.
peated outrages agajnst individual
Freewater— The month of November rights and banishment from the camp
was a record breaker on the Walla of men desirous of investing in the
Walla Valley Traction company’s line. mines, open looting of every mine
They hauled out o( this city over 90 carrying high grade ore and deeds
of violence have become so unbear­
cars loaded with hay, apples and can­
able that the owners must either
ned fruit.
These cars were all for close the minus, hand them over to
points on thp Northern Pacific railway. the union, or make a desperato effort
The apple crop has been excellent this to gain the right to work them as we
year snd every apple of any account has please.
W e have chosen the latter
been marketed. The second-class ap- alternative, nnd propose to make one
plee were disposed of to the Freewater final struggle for the right to man­
cannery. Tiie total value of the fruit age our own property.”
crop in this vicinity is estimated at
$500,000.
KING O SCAR IS DEAD.
FLEET IS ASSEMBLEO
!
All rrep »rat ons Ccmpleted Lor
Great Nava! Movement.
Confederate Bills and Old State Bink
Paper in Circulation.
Pendleton— The Hood of counterfeit
money in the shape of Confederate
bills, old bank bills and paper money
issued before the war, which is now
being circulated in Eastein Oregon is
Voyage to Pacific Greatest Test Ever
A Resume o f the Less Important bif
causing the officials to begin a deter­
Undertaken in History o f the
Not Less Interesting Events
mined war upon this form of fraud.
American N ivy.
Every Fiastern Oregon town is being
o f the Past Week.
imposed upon by this form of money.
Many new, crisp clean Confederate
One person was killed anil two injur­
government bills of all the small de­
Old Point Comfort, Va., Dec. 10 —
ed in black hand outrages at Pittsburg.
nominations are being largely circulat­
The double-starred Hag of blue, em­
ed in Pendleton, I.a Grande and Baker
blem of tiie commander-in-chief of the
An unknown vessel is reported wreck­
City, and lawyers differ as to the possi­
Pacific hound battleship fleet, was Hung
ed a short distrauce south of Han Fran-
bility of conviction, as the money is
to the breeze from the main truck of
’ '
cisco.
not really counterfeit in a strict con­
ihe battleship Connecticut yesterday,
The court martial of General Htoessel
struction of the law.
and Rear Admiral Robley 1). Evans
is nering an end. The evidence lookH
District Attorney Ivanhoe, of La
formally assumed It in position as leader
bad for him.
Grande, has filed three informations
of the greatest nuval movement hi the
Denver, Dec. 10.— The executive against a man caught in the act of pas­
history of the American people.
Bu»ch, the great M lwaukee brewer,
Yesterday was assembly «lay for the
ha« declared for a restriction of the board of the W estern Federation of sing Confederate money, to-wit: For
.Miners tonight issued the follow ing passing counterfeit money, for obtain­
fleet, which is t ■ set sail next Monday,
liquor tratlic.
(statement concerning the present ing goods under false pretenses, and
and of the 16 great fighting machines
Sousa’s band was in a train wreck in controversy between ’ he G oldfield for gross fraud. He believes that he
ordered to skirt tiie southern end of all
Association and the will be able to convict under one ot the
Michigan but only one member was Mineowners'
America and inaugurate a new naval
G oldfield Miners’ Union:
hart and he not fa ally.
three charges.
era in the Pacific ocean, there were but
“ On December 6. 1’ reBident Roose­
A concerted effort w ill be made by
Several naval vessels are equipped velt Issued a proclamation ordering
two laggards. These were the 16-0000-
with wireless telephones and experi­ federal troops to proceed to Gold­ Eastern Oregon district attorneys to
ton Minnesota, flagship «if Rear Admir­
ments thus far are satislaetory*.
field, Nev., ostensibly for the pur­ convict those passing this form of
al C. M Thomas, commander of the
pose of protecting life and property. money.
second squadron ol the fleet, and tiie
Chicago does n it want the National,,,,. . ,,
n
..
,
...
..
1 hat there was ever any danger to
Kentucky, whose pultiy 11,150 tens
Football Men Good Students.
D»m «x»s*icconvention and the wwHnit elther ,,
property is emnha
relegated her to a position at the end of
University of Oregon, Eugene—
rill doubtless be held either at st. Paul tlcally denied by the officers o f Es­
the armored column.
The Kentucky
or Louisville.
meralda county, and by the mer­ University of Oregon football men
during the season just past have
also
is
the
oldest
vessel
among
tiie 16,
Nearly 50,000 Italians have left the chants and citizens o f Goldfield. The made good records In the class room
having been laid down with her sister,
U ni'ed States since December 1. They only reason for the present trouble as well as on the football field. The
tiie Kearsa'ge, in 1898, at the beginning
was the decision o f the mine opera­
are retturning to the i home country
of the war with Spain. Nine years ago
tors to force upon the miners a scrip records o f the Registrar's office show
on account of financial stringency!.
is an ancient period in niodern battle­
that would not be taken at par by that of the twenty men composing
the regular squad, only half a dozen
ship con-driicticn, so great have been
The California Supreme court lias the railroad company, the Wells- have received grades as low as ‘D’
ihe strides in American naval archi­
sustained the special holiday statute re Fargo Express Company, the post- In any o f their subjects. There have
tecture.
cently passed by the legislature allow­ office, the stores or the boarding­ been no failures and their work as
houses. Neither would the mineown-
The collier Abnremla lias preceded
ing court sessions on specially called
ers guarantee that they would re­ a whole compares favorably with
the fleet south with coal.
There were
holidays.
deem this scrip at any time in the that o f last year, when in the final
examinations In February, the foot­
scenes ot activity on board the vessels
future.
A six-day bicycle race Is on in New
y«sterday. The crews of many of tiie
“ In refusing to accept this worth­ ball team ranked slightly better
York.
battle-hips were engaged in tilling tiie
less Bcrlp In exchange for their hard than the average for the whole stu-
|
dent
body.
The
records
show
also
bunkers with “ picked” coal, while oth­
Mrs. Louisa Taft, mother of Secre­ labor, the miners o f Goldfield are
¡that
for
the
two
months
just
past
ta r y Taft, is dead.
ers were engaged in loading supple­
taking a manly stand against the
usurpation of governmental func­ football men have cut fewer classes
mental magazine stores.
Gustav V, son of the dead monarch, tions by unreliable banking firms, than any other class o f students. R e­
ports
o
f
absences
of
all
students
are
la now king of Sweden.
which assume the right to set aside
sent to the Registrar's office daily
RECOVERING B O D P S .
Railroads w ill not grant reduced the legal money o f the nation.
and a careful record Is kept. The
“
We
desire
to
call
the
attention
of
fates to national conventions.
University
works
on
the
theory
that
the American people to the awful . , .
,, , ,
, .
.
Band of Rercuers at Monongah Are
American laborers are to replace [for­ disaster at Monongah, W. V a „ where *‘ Vde“ t8 are tht‘re1 first ° 8‘ u<1>r■ an<)
-....
.
.
;
this
means
regular
attendance
at
Making Slew Progress
¡this
eigners in the Pittsburg coke works.
500 coal miners were murdered by
the capitalist system in its greed for classes,
Monongah, W . Va., Dec. 10.— When
It is dellnietly known that the dead profits.
Had President Roosevelt
darkness came last night a total of 66
Want Graduates fo r Teachers.
In the Monongali mine exlosion w ill been as anxious to enforce the laws
bodies had been brought from tiie two
University of Oregon, Eugene—
reach 550.
In W est Virginia, had he considered The University o f Oregon is exper­
wricked mines at Monongah. Rescue
as
well
the
protection
o
f
the
lives
of
iencing the largest demand In Its
The Mineowners’ association of Gold­
work, while slow, was progressing
field, Nevada, is deteimined to have an those miners by demanding that the history fo r graduates, both men and
smoothly and as rapidly as due precau­
mineowners safeguard
their
em­ women, to take princtpalshlps and
open camp.
tion for the rescuers would permit.
ployes against unnecessary dangers, positions as teachers in the high
It is believed that close on to 100 of
Oregon national hanks have cash re­ as he is to send the regular army to schools o f the state.
Of the fifty-
the dead w ill have b«‘en rec"vere«l by
serves on hand far in excess of the legal crush an organization whose only three members o f last year's class,
aim Is to better the conditions and twenty are teaching In the high
lay light today. The fire which caused
requirements
make happier the lives of the work- schools and colleges of Oregon and
a suspension of rescue work Sunday and
The call for the Republican N’ nation- ing class, 500 blackened corpses (j,e Northwest, and the demand was
early Monday in mine No. 8, was ex­
■ 1 convention has been issued, to meet. would not today be laid upon the much larger than the supply. At the
tinguished, it is said, at noon yester­
altar o f greed at Monongah, W. Va.t present time there are a number of
In Chicago on June 16, 1008
day.
around which weep widowed wives positions vacant because there Is no
The fourth day was a repitltion of l 'l
The tramp steamer Sotoyome, en and orphaned children.
one available who is adequately pre­
three predecessors in the matter of pa­
route from Coquille river to San Fran­
pared to take them. The University
thetic scenes; hundred- of women re-
FO REIG NERS M U S T GO.
cisco with lumber, was burned at sea.
jyould be able next year to place as
maineil near the mines all day, scream­
The crew all escaped.
teachers some forty or fifty men and
ing and crying until they almost col­
J. D aliell Brown, general manager Eighty Thousand Will Be Replaced by woman, if its graduating class fu r­
lapsed. A- on forn e ■ days, hot coffee
nished that number.
The class of
Americans Near_Pittsburg.
o f a defunct Han Francisco trust com­
was served at inteivals by the company
1908 now numbers about sixty mem­
pany, is under arrest for felonious em­
Pittsburg, Dec. 10.— Independent
to keep the unfortunate women from
bers.
Likes
the
Ashland
Normal
bezzlement, and officers are after an­ cokeuiakers of the Pittsburg and
Beloved Ruler o f Sweden Sinks Pain­ falling to the ground in exhaustion.
Ashland— Hon. M ilt A. Miller, of
other official of the same company.
Connellsville district have decided to
Save Fruit from Frost
lessly to the End.
decrease the price o f producing coke
Portland— A t the suggestion of J. P Linrl county, is a member of the state
Taftl is on has way to the United by Increasing the price o f their
Stockholm, Dec. 8.— K ing Oscar is
textbook
commission,
a
regent
of
the
LO O K IN G BEYOND BALLO O N.
O’ Brien, general manager of the O. K
dead.
workmen. The day o f the foreigner
N. company, a rule has been prouiul- state university and deeply interest­
T aft’ s mother is much worse and all has passed, and hereafter none but gated liy which apple shippers can ship ed in the ««locational system of the
Stockholm, Dec. 8.— Although the American Army to Experiment With
hope of her recovery has been given tip. American horn or naturalized citi­ their products in car lots whether in state
He addressed tfce normal stu­
Aeroplanes
theaters and other places o f amuse­
zens o f the United Stat«>s will be em­
Japan has thanked Roosevelt for the ployed about the 20,767 ovens o f the refrigerator cars or in ordinary freight dents in chapel briefly and alter visit­ ment were open as usual last even­
Washington,
Dec. 10.— The army is
operators.
To
these cars. The railroad will permit a care­ ing the different department and look­ ing, the crowd, numbering thou­ already looking beyond ihe simple bal­
stand he take« on the Japanese exposi­ independent
ing
over
the
buildings
and
grounds,
sands,
patiently
waiting
in
a
pouring
Americans will be paid higher wages taker to accompany each carload oi
tion.
loon, tiie dirigible balloon and like
than was paid to tho foreigners, but apples crossing the mountains, and If expressed himself as being impressed rain in front of the palace, testified
Harry 8. New has been elected chair­ the operators expect to decrease the necessary, to the Eastern markets. The with the school and its work and to the popular sympathy for the aged contrivances for naviga’ ing tiie air, to
man of the Nationul Republican com­ cost o f production.
monarch, whose life was slowly ebb­ the n o e scientific aeroplane, and it
caretaker w ill be furnished with return pleased with the beautiful grounds.
was ann un -ed today that the chief sig­
ing.
mittee.
There are 20 «if tlioso independ- transportation. He w ill keep sufficient
ents who own 20,767 ovens, the H.
Within the palace, members o f the nal officer will soon call upon American
P
O
R
T
LA
N
D
M
ARKETS.
fire
burning
in
the
car
to
prevent
dam­
Large amounts of gold continue to C. Frick Coke Company, the fuel end
royal family, high ecclesiastics, the inventors to submit plans for a practi­
come to this country from London and of the steel corporation, owning and age to the fruit by Lost.
Premier and the Minister of Foreign cal machine, heavier than air, to be
Wheat
—
Club,
82(3-83c;
bluestem,
Paris.
operating 19,900 ovens.
Affairs had beeu assembled for sev­
84@85c; valley, 82(S-83c; red, 80 A81c. eral hours in the K ing’s study, to used instead of a balloon for military
Appeals to Commissioner.
In tho 40,667 ovens In the dis­
The Fort Pitt National hank of Pitta-
Oats— No. 1 white, $29: gray, $29. wfiich room His Majesty had been re purposes. Tiie terms of the advance­
trict, owned by both independents
Burnt— An appeal to the commis­
burg has closed. The bank was organ­
Barley— Feed, $27.50; brewing, $31; moved in bed at noon, when still ments are now under cons ileration.
and tho steel corporation, there are sioner of the general land office has
ise«! in 1859.
The beginning of experimentation in
unconscious This measure was taken
employed more than 80,000 men, the just b«>en file<l in the Burn* land offii-e rolled, $30.
Corn— Whole, $32: cracked, $33.
to enable all the family and the offi­ the use of aeroplanes, it is said, w ill
Secretary Cortelyou lias sold hut half m ajority o f whom are at the present from the decision of the register and
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $16 per cials to be present at the last mo not interfere with the War department
of the PananiH bonds. I’heothera will time foreigners. Thes«’ men are paid receiver in the important contest of the
plans now in execution for the training
ments without undue crowding.
an average o f $85 per month. The
be held until the money is noeiled.
Pacific Livestock company, protestant ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $20(3>
statisticians find that o f the $85 a
The physicians in attendance ad­ of selected men in the use of hallcons
23;
clover,
$15;
cheat,
$15;
grain
hay,
A mummy has just been brought to month which the foreigner makes, against the state of Oregon and the $1F@16; alfalfa. $15; vetch. $14.
ministered stimulants, consisting of nor with the projected construction of
New York which is said to be ttiat of a he puts back into circulation but $20 Harney Valley Improvement company,
Fruits— Apples, 75c@$2 per box; saline solution, camphor and digi­ at least two dirigible airships.
claimants,
involving
the
rights
of
the
a
month,
living
in
absolute
squalor
talis,
which were injected at Inter­
woman who lived about 4,000 years
peaches, 75c@$l perorate; pears $1.25
«luring his stay in this country. latter company to draw water from the
vals, and they relieved also as far as
ago.
P
Homage to New King.
W h ile the remaining $65 per month Si 1 vies river for the irrigation of about (3)1.75 per box; cranberries, $9.50(312 possible the vesical trouble from
A strong movement has developed is saved. '
per barrel.
Stockholm, Dec. 1 0 — Attended by
which the K ing had suffered severe
70,000 acres of land.
in Japan that may force the govern­
Vegetables— Turnips, 75c per sack !y all through the Illness '
the princes and his suite. King Gustav
ment to stop all enimlgration of labor­
carrots, 65c per sack; fleets, $1. per
Astoria Plants Cut Wages.
V at noon yesterday received the hom­
Great Britain Mourns.
ers to the Unite«) Slates and t’anaila.
age of the troops, who were drawn up
Astoria— On account of the disturber! sack; beans, 7<a9c per pound; cabbage,
London, Doc. 10.— The death of
Indict All Surdiy Actors
The National Rivers and Harbors King Oscar o f Sweden has caused condition o f the lumber market and in lc per pound; cauliflower, 75c(«t$l doz
Kansas City,
Dec. 9.— Drastic in a semicircle around the palace.
congress has petitioner! congress to ap­ the greatest regret in Great Britain. order to guard against a shutdown of celery, $4 perorate; onions, 15(320c measures were taken here yesterday The king addressed tiie troops briefly,
propriate $50 000,000 annually for the The relations between the two coun­ their plants, the Clatsop M ill company per doz; parsley, 20c per «loz; pens, lc to enforce the Sunday closing law as saying that it was his firm conviction
systematic and uninterrupteil improve­ tries and between the two royal ami the Astoria Box company have per pound; peppers, 8(317c per pound; a result of the resent campaign be­ that they would always be ready to fol­
ment of the national waterways.
fam ilies have been o f the closest for made a cut in the wages of their em pumpkins, 1(3)1 l4c per pound; rad­ gun by Judge W illiam H. W allace, of low him when the welfare of the coun­
many
years, but Englishmen o f the ployes of 25 cents per day on each man ishes, 20c per doz; spinach, 6c per the Criminal Court. The county try re«)Uired them to do so, The fun­
Managers of New York theaters have
present generation have a warm re- Tlie new scale became effective Decem­ pound; sprouts, 8c per pound; squash, grand jury indicted 228 traveling ac eral of the inte kirg is expected to be
deci«le«l to give no Sunday shows.
gar«l for the dead monarch because ber 2. The Tongue Point Lumber com 1(31 l4c; per pournl; tomatoes, $1.50 tors and actresses and employes of held December 19. Only the reigning
local theaters, charged with violating
Hungarians returning home from o f his friendly attitude during the I any is also said to have made a cut in per box.
sovereign of Sweden, among the crown­
the Missouri law forbidding labor o i
America ate causing riota on the fron­ South A frican War. K ing Oscar paid wages amounting to about 15 per cent
ed heads, is likely to attend.
Onions— $1.75(3:2 per cwt.
Sunday.
Of
this
number
41
were
ar­
his last visit to England in 1900,
tier.
Potatoes— 40(360o per hundred, de- rested and gave bond for $200 each,
Queer Schools.
when Cambridge University con-
livere.1 Portland; sweet potatoes. $2.25 while the others evaded the officers
Confess Land Stealirg
Senator Borah has left Washington ferr«>«i upon him the honorary de­
Albany— Linn
county
has one @ 2 50 per cwt.
Carson City, Pec. 10.— In the United
for Boise to take part in the Pettibone gree of I,L. D.
school without a single boy pupil and
Butter— lani-y creamery, 32>,(335c
States Circuit court yesterday Senator
trial.
Penny Arcades Closed.
another which no girls attend.
Of
Labor Troubles for Mex'co.
course both are In small remote dis­ per pound.
Cleveland.
O., Dec. 9.— W hile Williams and his brother, George B.
K in g Oscar, of 8we«len, is very low.
Veal— 75 to 125 pounds. 8(38 t^c; there have been no Sunday theatrical Williams, indicted for illegally appro­
District 84. In Fox Valley,
Mexico City, Deo. 10.— That Mex­ tricts.
The crown prince has been appointed ico, which for years has been free n«*nr Lyons, has eight pupils, all of 125 to 150 pounds, 7c; 150 to 200 performances allowed in Cleveland priating government land, through their
regent.
an«l District -----
119. pounds, 5(36 tgc.
for several years, the penny arcades attorney entere«! a plea of guilty. Sen­
from the question. Is to have her whom are boys,
.
Pork— Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 6(3 and street shows that have existed tence w ill be passed by Judge Farring-
labor problem, was made evident to- n,'ar Sweet Home, has only five stu-
A ll the boilies of the miners who
il«
iiis
and
all
are
girls.
day when It was announced that a
6**c; packers, 6(36tse.
by suffrance here, were closed Sun­ ron today. The United States grand
loat. their lives at Fayette City, Pa., meeting o f dt-legati'» from various
Poultry— Average old hens, l l ls (a day.
jury has brought in an indictment
Make Appointment Later.
have been recovere.1.
branches o f labor throughout tho
per pound; mixed
against A R. Hardin, one of the richest
Salem— Governor Chamberlain has
republic
would
he
held
early
next
Tronpa have b«»en aent to Goldfield,
Taft En Route Heme
l l t » c ; spring chickens,
•attie owners of Humboldt county, Nev.,
January. It Is planned at this con­ not considered the app«'intment of
Nevada, to prevent a miners' riot.
Cuxhaven, Dec. 9 — The steamship for illegal fencing of government land.
vention, by certain o f the newly cre­ successor to the late Circuit Judge Fra-,
r*'
c 1 •'•’ken*. 18@L>c;
President Grant, with Secretary of
Iiarrim an has onlered construction ated labor leaders, to organize a z r. an«l wiH not do » . for some «lays.! tnrkev®’
'^ s e i l , <*o.ce.
W ar W illiam H. Taft, and the mem­
work to pr«H'ee«l on his entire system. great union society simitar to the He says there Is no occasion for hasty 17(318o: g«ese, live. 9(310c; darks, 12
Reduction o* Wages
bers o f his party on board, left here
Federation o f Labor
action, and he w ill take time to oisult SiWlS'-jc; pigeons. $1(31.50; squabs, at noon today for New York via Bou­
Go'dfield, Nev. Dec. 10.— Late
The German reichxtag has smveeded
$293.
wiih members of the Multnomah coun­
•erday afternoon the Gol Ifie’d Miners’
logne and Plymouth.
in reducing the power of the cabinet,
l'ggs— Fresh ranch, candle«!, 37t,e
V ilu tb 'e Palntirg Stolen.
ty bar.
is«ociation ¡«sued its ultimatum to the
scoring a victory over Chancellor von
per doz.
Courtral. Belgium, D«*c. 10.— One
mine’ s in Goldfield, in the shape of a
Lid On In K a la m fz'o
Cash fo r Government Checks
Buelow.
H. ps— 1907, 5(36To per pouml; o’ds,
o f Van Dyke's gr«»at masterpieces
Kalamazoo, Mich., Dec. 9 — Mayor et of resolutions adopted at the meet-
Astoria — Arrangt ments have been nominal.
“ The Erection o f the Cross,” has
Governor Chamberlain says Decem­ been stolen from the Church o f the mule through the heal hanks by which
Thompson
Issued an order that all of ng which had been in progress all day.
.
W,*o)— Eastern Oregon average best,
ber 14 w ill end the legal holidays for Notre^Dam e.
the
theaters
here close during Sun­ These risolutione embody the new scale
The thievt's carefully j «U government checks w ill be paid in 1 13@2tV per ponn.i, c ordirg to shrink-
rf wages to be in vogue from this time
day. The order prohibits "entertain
Oregon unless some unforeseen rircum- cut off the canvas from the fram e ! «•ash in the future, aa money h
on. showing n hw erlng of the teal*
stane comes up.
and carried It away.
about 20 per cent.
I d a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
States.
1°C
.» o iM tr .h .te tifc .th u * * » ,.
chickens. 11(3
10l2(311c;
w
I’’™
A M I R A L EVANS IS IN COMMAND