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Vishinglon County Hews GROVE. H o use C h in ó t e D e c la r e B o y c o tt on J a p a n e se G oods luucd Each Week FO REST O F O N E O P IN IO N . B C N F M E O F C L O T H E Î. OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK I d a Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. R e s u m e o f th e L e s s Im p o rta n t but N o t L e s s In t e r e s tin g E v e n ts o f th e P a s t W e ek. China has invited the battleship fleet to visit her ports. China is very bitter ax»¡net the Jap anese and the boycott ie growing. Hope for the recovery of Governor Guild, of Massachusetts, is slight. A wind and rain storm in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama has done great damage to property. The health of Count Tolstoi, who has been ill for some time, has been re stored, and he is again at work. The Interstate Commerce commis sion has compiled figures showing the panic has not hint the railroads. The annual lumber cut in Michigan has dwindled to less than half of what it was in 1888. The total of 1907 was 1,713,584,000 feet. A letter addressed: “ Your I'.xcel- lency, 8ir Abraham Lincoln. Fifth ave nue, New York, U. 8. A .,” has just arrived in the foreign mail. The American Dredging company’ s $100,000 dredge burned to the water’s edge at Oakland, Cal. It was the larg est vessel of the kind on the Coast. An agent of the immigration bureau, who has been investigating the subject of undesirable foreigners, says thou sands of anarchists and indigeuts will be deported. Illinois is in the midst of a bitter liquor war. The American cruiser Tacoma is at La Guayara, Venezuela. Senator Borah says it was the pain people that saved the day in the recent money panic. A San Francisco Chinese woman wants to be deported to avoid prosecu tion for stealing $400. A ll union miners have been warned to stay away from Alaska until the la bor trouble has been settled. Two train robbers cut their way through four sets of steel bars at the county jail at Helena and are at liberty Dr. Hall-Fldwards, one of England's greatest physicians, has lost his left arm as a resu.t of constant use of the X-ray. Congressman Humphrey says that without ship subsidy Japan could whip the United States as easily as she did Russia. The largest crowd of sightseers ever in San Francisco is expected when the battleship fleet arrives. Accommoda tions are being artanged by the hotels for 250,000 people. Canton, March 24.—The greatest in dignation prevails here aaginst the gov ernment for yielding to the Japanese ( demands in the Tatsn Main case, it being considered that the government’s I action in this matter has brought dis- ' grace upon this province. The Self ¡Government society of Canten has or ganized several monster indignation meetings, at which resolutions were adopted that the anniversary of the re lease of the Tatsu Maru be observed as a day of publie mourning. The resolu tions also declared a boycott against Japanese goods. More than 50,000 persons attended the mass meetings held yesterday; buildings were draped in mourning and 20 or more orators delivered denuncia tory speeches. Among the speakers was a 12 year-old, whose declaration against the Japanese caused the greatest enthusiasm. A great number of those who had as sembled thereupon divested themselves of Japanese-made varments, including caps and handkerchiefs, and made a huge bonfire of them. One dealer in Jap inese goods offered to sacrifice his entire stock. The meeting recommended the im peachment of Yuan Shi Kai of the board of foreign affairs for weakness in yielding to the Japanese. IN F O R M A T IO N IS C O S T L Y . M o re I h a n $ 1 0 , CO O Fx p e r.d e d E n lig h t e n in g V o t e r s . A P P L E L A N D $ 1 ,0 0 0 P E R A C H E fo r G r o w e r S a y s it is W o r th T h a t W ith A p p le s $1 a B e x . I Hood R iver— The annual meeting Salem— The sending out of the pam phlets containing the measures to he of the Hood R iver H orticultural So voted upon at the general election in ciety, the largest auxiliary organiza June, together with the arguments for tion to the state society in Oregon, took place last Saturday. aud against them, has been begun by I The meeting started in the morn the secretary of state. Already over ing with S. F. Blythe as chairman, 60,000 have been sent out to voters and with an intermission at noon whose names have been submitted to lasted until late in the day. A. 1. tire secretary of state. | Mason, whose subject was "T h e A p The state printer has prepared 100,- ple,” stated as his opinion that the 000 of these pamphlets in all at a cost time was coining when districts of $6,373.75. Of this amount the per 'grow in g cheap and in ferior grades of sons submitting the measures and argu fruit would he forced to go out of business. ments w ill have to pay $2,797.34 as j J. C. Porter, who was on the pro their proportion, as fixed by law. The g ra m m e to speak on pruning, and total amount collected by the seiretary ¡who is one o f the most prominent of state from the filers of the arguments | growers at Hood R iver, or else- is $2,900. An adjustment w ill be made j where, stated that, even if prices for on a pet page basi9, and those who have apples should go to $1 a box, land paid more than their share w ill receive'at Hood R iver would still be worth a refund, while the others who have $1.000 per acre on account o f the not paid their full percentage will have ¡Immense return on the investment, to remit the difference. I Sproat, who was called on to speak on W hat Shall W e Do to .M arket the Future Apple Crop to these arguments w ill coat about $3,000,'Get the Begt Re8ult9?^ Pwas strong- ami the cost of $♦>,3/3./ ) will have to^jy j n favor o f raising the best grades be added to it before the actual expense and best quality of fruit, and in this of getting out the measures can be as connection, as a director o f the A p certained, the amount of postage, the ple-Growers’ Union, read a number cost for clerks engaged in mailing, o f letters from large buyers and im about $250, and the co9t of securing the porters in which they stated that OVER M ILLIO N U N E M P L O Y E D they had found it cheaper to pay names of voters. Secretary of State Benson, it is esti higher prices for fruit grown at Effects o f the Recent Panic in E a st mated, has saved about $3,000 in the Hood R iver than a less price for that grown elsewhere on account o f its getting up of the pamphlet by his ar quality and keeping properties. Mr. and Sou'h. New York, March 24.— In a canvass rangement of the measures. Professors Quiz Students. of the country to ascertain the number University o f Oregon, Eugene— of unemployed men, diepalches have A S K F O R IN S T R U C T IO N . The custom o f giving a quiz each been received from many industrial centers with reports of conditions, and U m a tilla F a r m e r s W a n t S u m m e r F a l month in the different subjects has become almost general among the from these it is estimated that more lo w T r a in different members of the faculty, than one m illion men are minus jobs. and as approximately a month o f the Pendleton— So successfully was the The reports indicate more than 600,000 second semester has elapsed, the unemployed in the chief cities and summer fallow train recently run by students are in about the same state nearly GOJ.OOO in the states outside the the O. R. A N. company through the of mind only in a lesser degree, as wheat belt of the Palouse country that during cities. examinations. Under this That there are more unemployed men Umatilla county fanners are making an system a student may encounter as and women in New York City today effort tn secure such a train for the many tests in one day as he has hours, while with the examinations than at any previous time in many wheat belt of this county. H all a dozen agricultural experts ac there is very little likelihood of hav years past is the belief of union leaders, ing more than two in one day. charity workers and students of eoeia) companied the train and lectured on conditions. Flstimatea of the number dry farming, antisummer fallowing aDd T r y to T h ro t tle U n iv e r sit y out of work vary from 100,000 to 500, deep plowing for the wheat districts, University of Oregon, Eugene— In 000. II is probable that half of the with the result that farmers were great latter number, or 250,000, is about cor ly benefitted and have expressed a de dicative of the widespread interest in sire to hear more on these advanced the referendum movement against the rect. Umatilla county university appropriation, ie a letter The following estimate is given by lines of farming. responsible labor leaders: Carpenters, farmers are dissatisfied with summer President Campbell from President 10,000; tailors, 8,000; rockmcn and fallowing half of their valuable land Pritchett, of the Carnegie Foundation excavators, 8.000; bricklayers, 7,000; each year and desire to know what for the Advancement of Teaching, of laborers, 20,000; housesmiths, 9,000; crops can lie raised on alternate years New York, asking for ail the valuable asphalt workers, 2,000; paperhaDgers which w ill conserve the soil forces and data on the subject. President Pritch 2,000; painters, 7,000; rockdrillers, at the same time yield a profit. W itli ett mentions that this is the first case of 2,000; engineers, 2,000; pavers, 2,000; this end in view they will ask the O. ttiis kind and that, on this account, be plasterers, 2,000; etcamfitters, 500; R. A N. company toorganizea fa r m i's w ill make a study of the circumstances sheet metal workers, 500; compositors, train. U m a tilla R iv e r S w o lle n . 2,000; pressmen, 1,000; miscellaneous Pendleton— W arm rains followed trades, 20,000; unorganized labor, 145, W e a h e r G o o d f o r F a rm in g . by a chinook wind and then more 000; total, 250,000. Salem— Not for many years have the rain is taking the snow off the moun farmers of this part of the Willamette tains at a rapid rate. The Umatilla valley had as favorable a season as river is higher than it has been any D E C ID E S IM P O R T A N T C A S E . this for fall and winter work. W ith time this year, and though the water scarcely an exception all the farmers is rising rapidly, it is still far from In te rsta te C o m m e r c e C o m m is s io n . H a s got their plowing and seeding done in dangerous. The rains are being N o C o n tro l O ve r O cean. season and the work of pruning and hailed with delight by the farmers, Washington, March 24.— A decision spray ing orchards was favored by fair as the season has been exceptionally was promulgated today by the Inter weather daring the winter. The out dry. C o m m itte e V o t e s to R a ilr o a d L a n d G r a n t s F o if e ii Washington, March 23.— Two m il lion acres of land in California and Oregon vested in the Oregon A Califor nia Kailria.l company, owned by the Central Pacific and contro'ilel by E. H. Harriman, w ill be subjected to snit for recovery of title by the United States, if action taken by the committee or public lands is sustained by the house. The committee agreed to report favor ably without amendments a re-olution which has already passed the senate, empowering aud directing the attorney general to nring suits for the recovery by the United States of the title to the public lands granted to certain Western railroad companies in cases where the conditions stipulated in the grants have not bien complied with— such condi tions, for example, as governed the grant of land to the Oregon A Califor nia Railroad company in the sixties. Under the grant the land was to be thrown open by the company for saie to bona fide settlers of the United States at not more than $2 50 an acre and in parcels not exceeding 160 acres each It is charged that s< me of this land was sold by tiie Oregon A California railroad in violation of the conditions named The refusal of E. H. Harriman, an nounced by him at the Irrigation con grees at Sacrinento last year, to sell any portion of the remaining 2,000,000 acres, led t o t le intreduction by Senator Fulton of the resolution which the pub lic lands committee acted on favorably today. Chairman Mondell was author ized to draw the report of the commit tee, which he w ill do this week. R O O S E V E L T ’S PROGRAM. U n d e r t a k e s ta G et N e w L a w s T h r o u g h C o n g re ss. Washington, March 23.— President Roosevelt has determined on a legists tive program the enactment of which w ill be urged upon congress in a special message which he said today w ill go in this week. Each of the measures to be proposed involves perplexing difficul ties and each w ill have far reaching effects on business and economic condi- tiens of the country. The program is the product of important conferences through which the president has been put in possession of the views of all in terest* concerned. Likewise the atti tude of the leaders in both branches of congress has been made known. Its success depends upon the combined effort, which he believes can be brought to bear in behalf of the whole plan by those affected especially by some one of its features. The program includes: A declaration in favor of revision of the tariff in a special season to be held after March 4, 1909. An amendment to the Sherman anti trust law so as to make important con cessions to combinations of both labor and capital. Lim iting the powers of certain courts in the use of the injunction in labor disputes. Paseage cf an employers’ liability bill. Passage of the Aldrich financial bill. L A B O R A S K S C A B IN E T S E A T . ANNULS STATE LAWS S u p re m e Court Sets A s’de Rail, ro a d R ate Statutes. ONLY JUDGE H A R IA N DISSENT! State Cannot Fo b d Resort to Unit« State» Court— Affaci a Mirn*. aota and North Carolina. Washington, March 24.— In refusing to grant to Attorney General Yonng, of Minnesota, a writ of habeas com* releasing him from the penalty imp» ed b, the United States District Court for the district of Minnesota on the charge of contempt of court in inetitut- ing a proceeding in a Btate court for forcement of the railroad late law after the Federal court had prohibited anchi course, and in affirming the decision ol Judge Pritchard, of the United btates Circuit court for the Western district of North Carolina, discharging from imprisonment James II. Wood, a tick« ageut of the Southern tailway at Ashe ville, after he had been sentenced by the Asheville police court to serve i term on the roekpile on the charge ol collecting for a ticket on that road i greater price thau was permitted by the state railroad law the Supreme court of the United States today added another to the series of decisions which h»w rendered notable the present term ol that oonrt. In both ca3es the right of states to fix rates for railroad transportation w»a the issue, aud both involved conflict! between the Federal and the state oourts. The decision in fach case wia opposed both to the slates and to their courts. The opinion of the court in both cases was announced by Justia Peckham and, with the exceptioa a Justice Harlan, ail the other member! of the court stood behind him in the announcement of the court’s finding. The court decided that by reason of the enormous penalties provided in the rate laws by way of fines against the companies and imprisonment of their agents and employes, the compaiM are in effect prevented from ever quo- tinning the validity of those laws, a the risk of confiscation of property soi imprisonment of agents in case lb eompanifs failed in their defense mu too much to undertake in order to ob tain a judicial decision of the questiot of such validity. The question of sufficiency of thi rates to enable the company to obtzil some return to its stockholders fa their investments has for many vetn been held to be one for the courts to deride, as it would lie a violat'd) of tbo constitution of the United States to hi rates so low as to be confiscatory, if en forced. The laws providing rates for tran»- portation of passengers and freight in the two cases under consideration have been held by the courts below to be so low as to be substantially confiscatory and should, thereiore, not be enforced until after further tiials. The court! had jurisdiction to make such an order. look now is for excellent crops of all PO RTLAND M ARKETS. kinds. The winter was a mild one and M U S T l EAVE IT ALONE. W ill U r g e C o n g r e s s to C re a t e G o v livestock came through in fine condi W h eat— Club, 82c; bluestem, 84c; e rn m e n t D e p a rtm e n t. tion, notwithstanding the scarcity and Valley, S2c; red, 80c. F e d e ra tio n o f L s b o r Loses Again to consequent high price of hay and m ill Washington, March 21.— At the con Barley— Feed, $26 per ton; rolled B u c k S t o v e & Rarge Company. feed. $28 ® 30 per ton. cluding session yesterday, of the execu Mlllatuffs— Bran, city, $26; coun tive council of the American Federation Washington, March 24.— Amencu try, $27 per ton; middlings. $30; of Labor it was decided to urge upon Federation of Labor President Gomperi E x p e c t B ig F r e s h m a n C la s s . University of Oregon, Eugene— Indi shorts, city, $27; country, $25 per the house committee on labor the neces and others of that organization wert ton; chop, $20® 25 per ton. sity for the passage of the pending bill permanently enjoined from "conspir cations are that Oregon's freshman Oats— No. 1 white. $27 @ 28 per creating a department of labor, the ing, agreeing or combining to restrain, class of next year will Ire the largest ton. ia the history of the university. Regis Corn— W hole, $32.50; cracked, head of which shall be a member of the obstruct or destroy ’ ’ the business of tbi Buck Stove A Rarge company in nd* president’s cabinet. trar Tiffany has received so far over 50 $33.50. It was decided to make a vigorous cision rendered by Chief Justice Cla- applications for university entrance, H ay— V alley timothy, No. 1. $1 while in previous years very few if any ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $19® effort to secure the passage of laws in bangh. of the Supreme court of ths caine in so early. University author 20; clover. $14'l l ! 5; cheat. $15; the various state legislatures for the District of Columbia today, rnakinj ities predict an entering class of close grain hay, $14® 15; alfalfa, 12®' 13 abolition of child labor. A memorial permanent the temporary injunction ol Domestic fruits— -Apples, $1.25 @ of protest similar to the one presented Justice Gould against the federation in to 250 next fall. The present enroll ment, exclusive of outside branches, is 3.50 per box. according to quality to congress yesterday is to be sent to that ease. The federation's eoun*l 418, and with the law, medical and cranberries, $8® 11 per barrel. organized labor and the public general immediately noted an appeal to it» Fresh Vegetables— Artichokes, 75 music department the total is brought ® 90c per dozen: asparagus, 25c per ly; it will be prepared by a committee District court of Appeals. up to 710. Today’s decision bar» the federatim pound; beans. 20c per pound; cab consisting of President Gompers, Secre bage. 1 % c per pound: cauliflower. tary Morrison and Vice President O’ Con- from in any manner calling the atten P la s t e r C a s t o f B ig M e te o r. tion of the public to the business of the $1.75® 2; celery. $4.25®4.75 per nell. The council was not notified that the Buck Stove A Range company or th( University of Oregon, Eugene— The crate: eggplant. 20c per pound; let university has received an odd addi tuce, head. 65c per dozen: hothouse. bill of grievances presented to Vice putting of that company on the “ unfair tion to the Condon museum, in the 50c® $1 per box; parsley. 20c per [’resident Fairbanks yest* rday « M laid list,” and from stat ng that the com The United States Steel corporation shape of a plaster of par s cast of the dozen; peppers, 17 H e per pound; before the senate and referred to the pany's product! should not be P®’ R o b b e r s M a k e R ic h H au l. made earnings of over $80,000,000 last chased either in Missouri or elsewher«. meteor which fell near Oregon Citv in radishes. 30c per dozen: rhubarb, committee on judiciary. Reno, Nev., March 24.— Three rob year. This is mote than $4 000,000 10c per pound; spinach 5c per 1905. The gift was marie by the W il pounds; sprouts 10c per pound; bers, heavily armed, overcame Edward above the earnings of 1906. Hoffman and a companion on a road iam-tte Steel A Iron company, of Port squash, 1 ® 1 > 4 c per pound; to In d ic tm e n ts A r e D is m is s e d . Ruef in Tw eeo'* Class- Anna Gould says she has hail enough two miles from Rawhide late this after land. The cast was made at the Smith matoes. rrates (6 baskets), $3® San Francisco, March 23.— Judge San Francisco, March 2 4 — In or if of married life. sonian institute, and is an exact repro 5.50; Mexican, crates. $3. noon, threw tnem to the ground, and Dunne this morning dismissed the four to aid the District court of Appeal*:c Coant Leo Tolstoi is reported to be made off in their victims' two-horse duction of the orig nal. The meteor Root vegetables— Turnips. 75c per rrmaiuingextortion indictments against ieternduirg if Abe Rnef is held aw* HI at Yasnaya Polaua. rig, taking gold and bank notes amount fell on land belonging to the W illam sack; carrots. 65c per sack; beets. E. E. Schmitz, with the recommends- excessive bail, Francis J. Heney k w $1 per sack: garlic Sc per pound. Another afiidavit by Ruef says Burns ing to about $47,000 with them. The ette Steel A Iron company. Onions— Buying pricp, Oregons. tii n that the i ase be submitted to an- filed a number o ' hriefs showing *$•* money was consigned to the Coalition nsed threats to get false testimony. $2.50 ® 2.90 per hundred; Japanese other grand jury, and announced that Boss Tweed, of New York, was rtqub* V io la te d G a m e L a w s . Mining company at Rawhide to be used Theodore V. Halsey will be brought to to put up $5,00(1.000 while hi» tr* jobbing prices. $3.50. Abraham Hummel, prominent in the in paying miners' wages and to meet Albany— George W . Fisher, pro Potatoes— Buying price, 40® 65c trail for bribery as soon as se the comt waspending. Mr. Heney declares A* first Thaw trial, has been released from the final payment on one of the proper prietor o f the Brownsville glove fac is able to take up his case. Henry Ach, Ruef’s offenses are not lee« hen** per hundred, delivered Portland prison. ties purchased last week by the Coali tory, was convicted in the State C ir sweet potatoes, $3.50® 3.75 per hun attorney for Abraham Ruef, was in than those of New York's former boi»- cuit Court of violation of the game dred. formed by Judge i-awlor that he must The prosecutor also filed with tb«bi£ Miss W ilheim ina Crawford, of Low tion company. Posses are in pursuit. laws, by having fresh deer meat in | Butter— City creameries: Extra make a complete showing in the matter er court a i opy of Ruef’» testimony w ell, Mass , 29 years old, has adopted as h;> D tc r a to r I t . toag *f-1cream err. 10c per pound: state M a r in s C a s u a lt ie s H e a vy. her son James Butler, who is 46. ter the open season for k illin g deer (creameries, fanev creameries, 2 5® of affidavits in the immunity contract fore the stand jury, so that it may * Boston, March 24.— A review 'o f the had hearing by next Wednesday.’ *»------- directed ■■— *--* ¡ q c: store butter, choice. 16® 1 guided by it. - - - closed. ....... — Judge Bennett Old Benicia birrseks, near San Fran- marine casualties off the coast of New the jury to return a verdict o f guilty | cheese— Oregon fu ll rream twins eiaco, which h a s been an army post fo r , I ngiand and British North America without leaving the jury-box. Fisher 115c; Y o ung America, 1 6 ® 1 6 4 e per H ar-g P r is o n e r by W r is t s E n o r m o u s C a lifo rn ia Crops- 60 years, is to be abandoned, but the during the fall and winter season just was fined $100 and costs. He w ill pound Columbus, O., March 23___Senator Sacramento, Cal., March 24.—I*** arsenal w ill b e retained. ¡ended, shows that about 350 lives v.ere appeal the case to the state supreme Pou ltry— Averagp old hens. 1 4 ® Lamb, of Toledo, here today created a sponse to an inquiry from . , « * ., lost. Of this number 251 persons per- court. 15c: mixed chickens. 12® 13c; sensation by declaring that, while visit Jennings, manager of Alden a J0”*’’ Letters h a v e been received by Mayor ¡n the wrecks of ten vessels tre- spring chickens. 16® 20c: turkeys, ing the Ohio penitentiary, he raw a son, of the California frnit distrib«® Basse. Chief of Police «h ip p y and As longing to the French fishing fleet of live, 15® 17c: dressed, choice. 16® prisoner hanging by his wrists. “ I Reduce R a te * on S a c k s. the biggest shipping concern ¡6 ® •iatant Chief Schenttler, c f Chicago, in st. Pierre, last fall. These vessels Pendleton--Umatilla county farmers 20c; geese, live, per pound. S ® 1 0 c; was astounded.” continued the senator, state, today replied that more forming them they w ill be shot. ducks. 16 117c: pigeons. 75c u $ l ; foundered in Heavy gales which swept are rejoicing over the announcement “ and soon raw that the attendant twice as many men wool 1 be neadi^ squabs, $1.50® 2. Railroads w ill maintain low excur the Grand Banks. About 25 Newfound made by the Northern Pacific and O. E ggs— Fresh ranch. 16e per dozen. were trying to keep me away from this handle>he fruit crops thi* season land fishermen were lost in these storms. R. A N. railroads of a 40-cent rate per sion rates to the coast i l l summer. V eal— 75 to 125 pounds. 9® 9 4 c ; man. I insisted on seeing him, and last. From all parts of the state hundred on stain bogs from Portland, 125 to 150 pounds. 7c; 150 to 200 the man said to me: ‘ I have been reports of indications for enormous The roaring well near Beloit, W is. Tacoma and Seattle. This is a reduc pounds. 5 ® 6 U c Honored* Perish at Sea. hanging here since Thnreday, and they crops which w ill go fat toward so* sound* from which preceded the S*n P ork — Block. 75 to 150 pounds. 7 only let me down fot bread and water.’ ’ the great problem of the nnempkry Tokio, March 24.— The Mutsn Mara, tion of practically 35 per cent from the Francisco disaster, is again em itting s 900-ton coasting steamer belonging to present rate. © 7 4 c : packers. 5 ® 6 4 c. Hops— 1907. prim e and choice, 4 rumbling noieea and a strong wind. j tt,e Yueen Kaisha lire, was sank in a T illm a n S e r io u s ly ill. P r o fit s o f S u g a r Trust. © 5 4 c per pound: olds. 1 g 2c per Nsw Sheep Com nvtsioner. re t at the 'collision with the Midiyoehi Maru, 696 Boston. March 24.— The annual pound 1 Columbia, 8 C,, March 23.— United The United States navy Rifinì© Salem— Governor Chamberlain has I W ool — . ni^ nMl | tons, at 2:30 o ’clock this morning two Eastern Oregon, average ! Senator Tillman is seriously ill port of thr Ameri.au Sugar Midwav Island! l! fc> be abandoned miles off Tndohokke, near Hakodate. appointed A. L. Mackintosh, of Pani I beet. 12 24.1907, —j 16c per pound, accord in g!** hi* home at Trenton, this state. |company for Dicrr.ber -------- Rear Admiral Evans w ill he retired The captain of the Mntsn Maru. a ma ina, aheep commiMioner for the Second to shrinkage; valley, 18 ® 20c, ac- suffering from a nervous attack due, it issued to the thick bolder* t<vi*y- «sr*- to succeed Thomas Boylan, ' cording to fineness, a f's r ths fleet i cachis/ San Francisco jority of her 244 passengers and 43 of is believed by his physicians, to hard profit and loss ac<-mot shows net whose term expired March l i . I Mohair— Choice, 25c per pound the crew perished. »o rk . iDgi for the year 1907 of $8,749.iw* May 8 . Fulton says lie will return to Oregon state Commerce commission in one of the most Important cases it has been to answer Heney called upon to determine for some time. Senator Bryan, of Florida, is eerious- It is that of the Cosmopolitan Import ly ill with typhoid fever. ing company, a Philadelphia organiza There is a rumor that, Heney is in tion, chartered under the laws of New Jersey, against the Hamhnrg-American vestigating Chicago graft. Packet company, the North German Canada has appealed to Great Brit I.loyd Steamship company, the Wilson ain to keep out Asiatic labor. (H u ll) lines and the Scandinavian- Hearst’s Independence league intends American lines. to keep the old parties guessing. The complainant’s petition was filer! with the commission nearly a year ago. Roosevelt is to write a message on Some time subsequently the defendants amendments to the anti-ttust law. filed a demurrer, attacking the juris Travel to tire Coast from the Last diction of the Interstate Commerce w ill be $2.50 cheaper than last year commission. The opinion in the case, which is Fire destroyed the Grand Pacific ho very voluminous, was prepared by tel, Chicago, to the extent of $100,000. Commissioner franklin K. lame. The Susquehanna river is so high In briel, and in effect, the commis that the iron works at Harrisburg have sion decides against itself. It holds had to close. that it lias no authority over oceanic The Shanghai, China, council has transportation and thus determines the voted to reduce the number of opium case adversely to the contention of the complainant. ■moking dens by one-fourth. - * V V