Washington County News Issued Each Week Kootenai Falls Prey to Flam es and Sand Point is T hreatened. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OPEN NEW LANDS. Vast Area Available in W estern Can- ada in Septem ber. FIGHT HIGH RATES Ottawa, Canada, Aug. 11.—Next Spokane, Aug. 12.—A Sand Point, month will see radical changes in the OREGON Idaho, special to the Spokesman Re­ land policy of the Canadian govern­ view says: ment. The Oliver land act, which goes BIG APPLE CROP. MAY LOSE WATER. into effect September 1, will throw With the wind blowing a gale and to the public 28,000,000 acres of the adjacent town of Kootenai wiped North Pow der Company Has Prior Over 1,000 C ars of Shipping Stock open rich, arable land, in the odd numbered Will be Produced This Year. Right Over Farm ers. out, it seems that no power can save sections of Western Canada that are Portland -- Oregon will have over Sand Point. At 6 o’clock last evening liberally intersected by a network of Baker City—That the ranchers in I d a Condensed Form lor Our a small forest fire north of Kootenai some portions of the North Powder year, 1,000 cars of fine apples to ship this railroads, are adjacent to commercial as compared with about 600 cars markets and swarming with live, hust­ are to suffer the loss of water last year. Busy Readers. was blown into the town and the town country Crop prospects on the whole ling townships, with well established S tate Com mission Appeals to Inter­ at this important time of the year is of 300 inhabitants was burned to the are favorable, though some sections of police protection, municipal govern­ evident if the order goes into effect A Resume of the Lett Important but ground. state Board, Basing Complaint the state are doing better than others. ment, schools, churches and institutions that was made by the North Powder Not Less Interesting Events The Humbird Lumber company has a M. & M. company, which owns and Hood River will have its banner crop, essential on Valuation of Lines. for agrciultural prosperity. of the Past Week. $200,000 mill at Kootenai, which burn­ operates the flouring mill at that sta though it was feared earlier in the While the “ renter” and the man ed to the ground, and which was only tion. season that some damage had been limited loose cash is being given partly insured. At present the fire is The company has prior water rights, done. The shipments from Hood River with the opportunity owning his own Washington, Aug. 11.—The railroad Senator La Follette is going to start within 2,000 feet of the Panhandle but in the past has had a surplus of valley will be between 400 and 500 farm, unlike the of procedure heretofore commission of Texas today filed a for­ a newspaper. cars, against 200 cars in 1907. The followed in granting free homesteads, smelter, which seems doomed. water. It was decided to divide the Grand mal complaint with the Interstate Ronde valley is preparing to The homeless people of the little The Canadian Pacific is importing hamlet of Kootenai have been brought water with ranchers who would put send out 300 cars, double the number he is not asked to forego the advant­ Commerce commission against 67 rail­ strikebreakers from Europe. ages in settled districts and to go into land in cultivation, the division to roads and other common carriers, al­ shipped last year, while Medford grow­ here, and are being cared for by citi­ the wilderness to fight the hard fights continue until any time it was found King Peter, of Servia, is accused of zens. All of them lost their belong­ necessary to have the whole supply for ers expect to dispatch about 200 cars, of the pioneer. Instead of this, the leging a conspiracy on the part of the conspiracy against Montenegro. through the Southwestern as they did last season. In the other new instrument of the Canadian legis­ defendants ings. milling purposes. Crops have been apple sections of the state the condi­ lature gives the enterprising man free Traffic association for the suppression A ervere hail and thunder storm has Over 500 volunteers are fighting the planted and the desert soil responded tions are reported as good or a little land situated near flourishing towns, of competition and restraint of trade approach of the flames. Sand Point admirably to the tiller’s efforts. hurt the Kentucky tobacco crop. better they were last season, offering all the advantages and conve­ in the recent action increasing freight has a population of about 10,000. An J-N’ow, however, the water supply is Prohibition is to be the main issue appeal has just been sent to the Spo­ short, and the milling company was though it than rates to common points in Texas. The is known that some varie­ of modern life. of the Democratic state convention. kane fire department for aid. commission notice of this ties, Baldwins especially, will run niences forced to order all water belonging to to encourage railroad build­ complaint to will all forward the carriers Forest fires have broken out again in It was impossible at midnight to their water right to be turned into the lighter than last year in the Willam­ ing In in order the Dominion, the government and will give them 15 days to involved | reply, ette valley, and it is also said the val­ has given Canada and more towns are threatened learn the extent of the damage by fire canal that feeds the mill supply. the railroad companies the usual period allowed for answering at Sand Point. The telegraph wires The hardship that will be worked on ley Newtowns and Spitzenbergs will 32,000,000 to acres with destruction. of land during the down and connection is lost with those who have spent their time and not produce the crop they did a year last few years, and as a further induce­ a complaint being 20 days. The com­ Extravagant living since the war are the regular telephone line, but the work in cultivating lands that were ago. Prices that will be realized on ment they have been left absolutely mission will expedite this case as with Russia has caused corruption in operator as possible on account of its of the Independent Telehpone watered by the mill’s surplus will shipping stock will be governed by the Japanese army. in the choice of locality and much widespread importance. office at Sand Point, states that Sand probably be hard. According to the conditions in the Eastern states, where unfettered time of selection, but recently were The complaint King Edward and Emperor William Point is in no immeditae danger. The opinion undertakes to com­ ____ of many, however, there was the yields are reported to be compara­ the made to select their lands. The com­ met at Cronberg, Germany, and con­ town of Kootenai was burned, but the I nothinir else for the mill to do in order tively light. pare the alleged cost of maintenance panies have taken full advantage of ferred on a naval program. and operation of the railroads with the big mill of the Humbird company was , tQ protect its business, this generous provision and made a j actual Knights ot Grip Win. and the claimed debt which | Two masked men near Chico, Cal., saved. practice of leaving their j j g s u p p o cost, s e ( j to justify the increase, Reports are conflicting regarding the Salem—William McMurray, general constant THE STATE FAIR. held up 16 men as they came along at smelter in abeyance unless, after close-, with the actual debt. The railroad at Ponderay, near Sand Point, passenger agent of the Southern Pa­ grants different times and secured $700. watching the trend of immigration commission of Texas, one report declaring that it was burned Thousands of Dollars Being Spent to cific, has advised the committee of the ly it appears, has and settlement, they could make up appraised the cost of construction The five people arrested at Detroit while the other states that the forest and Travelers’ Protective association, hav­ Make It Success. their minds as to what tracts of land on instruction from Helena are wanted fire was near but the smelter was still j operation of the roads as well as the ing the matter in hand, that if the for safeblowing, burglary and forgery. safe. Salem—For the state fair in 1907 traveling men would withdraw their would best serve their interests. , actual debt upon which the rates may the Southern Pacific railroad handled be fairly based. before the railroad commis­ The Turkish minister to the United 215 carloads of stock and exhibits. complaint THOUSANDS PERISH. Eight freight schedules, which have sion 2,000-mile books would be imme­ States has been recalled and will be TRIBESMEN HOLD UP SHAH. This year, while the fair is yet more diately issued, good on all the Harri- recently been filed with the commis­ replaced by a reform movement man. six weeks away, 219 cars have man lines in Oregon, Washington and are made the basis of the com­ Holland seeks to know the American South China Scene of Desolation Fol­ than Prisoner in His sion, been ordered for hauling exhibits and Idaho, for the flat rate of $50. This Persian Ruler Own Held plaint and all are alleged to have been lowing Typhoon. policy in Venezuela. Palace. stock. Many favorable conditions are is what the traveling men have been brought about by an unlawful agree­ Hearst's Independent league is said Hongkong, Aug. 12.—In a report is- working together harmoniously for a fighting for for two years past, and St. Petersburg, Aug. 11.—Special ment between the defendant carriers [ sued today from the headquarters of great fair at Salem next month. to be short of money. they are jubilant over the successful dispatches received here from Teheran and the Southwestern Traffic associa­ the government relief station it is Several thousand dollars have been outcome give a tragic-comic description of the tion, of which they are members or of the matter. Thaw’s creditors may oust his re­ stated that advices from Southern expended in enlarging the permanent position of the shah of Persia, who is whose members represent, through ceiver and name a trustee. China give details of appalling condi­ exhibit building. The grand stand has a prisoner in the hands of wild power of attorney, those who are not. Display Douglas Fruits. New York sheriff is accused of wink­ tions among the victims of the recent been enlarged so that it will accommo­ Roseburg—The contract for the hor­ virtually tribesmen to Teheran to It declares that the increased rates | typhoon, which laid waste an immense date one-third more people. Men have ticultural exhibit building to be erect­ protect the summoned ing at race track gambling. throne against revolu­ will fall primarily upon the commod­ territory along the coast and killed been at work on the grounds for some ed on the depot grounds, was awarded tionists, but have become the a greater ities of daily necessity; that they will President Falliere’s daughter has thousands of natives. weeks preparing them for the fair. menace to the monarch than his other seriously disturb trade relations, caus­ married the private secretary of the The report says that more than 1,- The shrubbery and grass is being cared to Contractor F. F. Patterson. Con­ foes. ing loss to shippers and the consuming struction work will begin in a few The tribesmen are extravagent in public, president. 500,000 refugees are at the point of for and skeletons for decoration pur­ days. and that the increased tax, so The building is to be mainly of President Roosevelt has started an death from exposure and starvation, poses are being erected. All prepara­ plate glass, making an excellent dis­ their demands for money, which the far as Texas alone is concerned, will ionvestigation for the improvemen of and that many thousands have suc­ tions are starting early. amount to $2,653,000. shah is unable to grant, and they play pavilion. Booster Zurcher has rural life. cumbed since the disaster. A feature that will greatly assist to threaten to destroy the palace and pill­ started on a collecting tour age tales of hardship and destitution make the state fair this year of more already Teheran. The $250,000 secured SH IP CHINESE HOME. Depositors of i . defunct San Fran- are The for native exhibits of fruits and vege­ pitiful in the extreme. Scores of and value will be the co-opera­ tables, so that the tourist may see from the Russiaon bank recently as a cisco bank will sue the directors for refugees in all quarters are without worth tion of the Portland Country club loan on the crown jewels of Persia al­ Large Party“Sm uggled Over Mexican $5,250,000. of any kind, forced to spend which is offering attractive purses for what is raised in Douglas county. ready is exhausted. General Liakhoff’s B order Sent to China. Holland is to send a second warship shelter and nights huddled together like the livestock exhibitions and races. Cossacks are unable to make any head­ San Francisco, Enlarge College Cam pus. for foreign duty and it is assumed days stormbound sheep. In some districts Aug. 11.—Eighty- against the tribesmen, who have Salem—State Superintendent Acker­ way Venezuela is the point. there is only sufficient food to supply five Chinese for deportation arrived Indians Are Contented. refused to permit the shah to leave the man his returned from Corvallis, and Turkey has recalled her minister to one meal a day. More terrible are the Pendleton — During the past 12 states that options have been secured camp at Bade Shakh for Saltana Bad, here today and were put aboard^the Si- beria, which sails tomorrow for the the United States, whose father is a conditions in other localities, where months the sum of $125,000 has been on the harem is now staying. in the vicinity of the Agricul­ where there is absolutely no food, and the paid to the 1,000 Indians of the Uma­ tural land college Orient. They were brought here from fugitive in this country. Famine is reported to be imminent that will add about 15 people are dying by the hundreds. The tilla reservation. This amount has acres to the campus of the Oregon Ag­ in Southern Persia, and this promises the Southeast border in a special train The Canadian Pacific has placed dead are piled in heaps, no burial be­ been paid in sums varying from $10 ricultural college. It is expected that to bring about a crisis in political by United States Marshals Daniels, of guards at all its shops and denies that ing possible. Tuscon; Smith, of Albuquerque, and per capita per month to $500 each. at the meeting of the board of regents affairs in the autumn. it is importing strike breakers. Warden, of the Northern district of Every man, woman and child has re­ at Portland on August 13 orders will New Zealand wants her home gov­ Texas. ceived in the neighborhood of $125 be given to buy the land on which op­ MEXICANS USE TORTURE. DISCORD IN TU RK S’ PALACE. ernment to dissolve the Anglo-Japanese Nine Chinese from Texas were All of this vast sum has been tions have been secured. alliance and form a union with the T ear Out Americans’ Nails to Secure each. amongfthe 18 recently discovered in a spent directly in the channels of trade United States. Form er M inisters Blame Each O ther sealed boxcar. The immigration agent in Pendleton and is one of the chief Record by Land Board. Names of C onfederates. at El Paso became suspicious of the for III Luck. sources of business for the merchants Salem—Loans amounting to $40,500 The Wright airship has made a suc­ Pittsburg. Aug. 12.—Police officials of the city. But little dissatisfaction were made by the land board at its Constantinople, Aug. 11.—Discord car and, upon having it opened, found cessful flight in France. the 18 Chinese. They had provided have received news of the tortur­ is found among the Indians, and the meeting held last week. This reigns among the former ministers and themselves English churches are starting an agi­ here with a cask of water and ing of William Moffatt and Edward reservation is now in better condition monthly is the largest sum that has been loaned palace officials detained at the minis­ tation for church union. food sufficient to last for a week or Maloney, who were arrested recently than for years. out by the land board in a great many try of war. Men Dough Pasha, ex- two. The Chinese arriving today en­ The Baldwin airship has been ac­ in Mexico City on a charge of robbing years. The loans were uniform at 6 minister of the interior, is at logger- tered Mexico through the port of Sa- a bank messenger. Moffatt and Ma- Enlarge Salem Hatchery, cepted by the government. per cent. heads with Lahsin Pasha, the sultan’s lina Cruz, direct from the Orient. the police here say, were well University of Oregon, Eugene—Ac former secretary, who reproached him Japanese are declining to go to work loney, PORTLAND MARKETS. with not having adpoted his advice for the Canadian Pacific as strike known to them before leaving for 1 cording to reports received here, the SECOND CLOUDBURST. . I state salmon hatchery up the McKen- months ago to solicit the sultan breakers. Wheat—Club, 89c per bushel; forty­ three Two companions escaped the officers | zje rjver wjH not be abandoned, but to grant amnesty to political prisoners. The battleship fleet has arrived at when the Pittsburgers were arrested j fold, 93c; red Russian, 87c; bluestem, The secretary, who is suffering from Bisbee, Ariz., Again Sw ept by Down­ and arrangements will be 93c; Auckland, ami a warm reception was and the Mexican police demanded their ^ extended, valley, 89c. pour of W ater. made this fall so that trout as well as melancholia, replied that it was tendered it. names. Refusing to betray their com- ; salmon can be hatched. The citizens Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; roll­ acute better to have died than to witness the Bisbee, Ariz., Aug. 11.—For the $25(u26; brewing, $26. The Crystal Palace, one of London’s panions, the men allege that they were Qf EUjrene will provide the money for ed. Oats present state of affairs. second time within week the Bisbee No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton; strapped by the wrists to the bars of , tho ¡mporUtion of trout eggs from the famous institutions, will be closed on their cells, while the < fflcials with for­ Zeekhi Pasha, who was recently dis­ postoffice was put a out gray. $26. account of financial troubles. East. It was rumored some time ago Hay Timothy. W’illamette valley, missed as instector of military schools, today by a cloudburst. of At commission the ceps tore the nails from their hands. that the hatchery would be abandoned, $14 per ton; Willamette valley, onli­ is also reported to be a prisoner at the same hour in the day as before about a heavy A hurricane destroyed a factory in Unable to bear the agony, the men but it is evident from a letter of the ministry of war, half demented and Hungary, burying 100 persons. A | gave the names of their companions. state fish commissioner that great im­ ne rv. $11; Eastern Oregon, $16.50; constantly requesting a revolver with rain came up and, when a cloud burst number were killed or injured. over Mule mountain, tons of rock and "I suppose,” said Captain of Detec­ mixed. $13; clover, $9; alfalfa. $11; which to end his life. will be made in the estab­ alfalfa dirt the postoffice, piling meal. $20. A Pittsburg doctor has just effected tives Edwin T. McGough today, “ if it provements To this request the response was nearly slid ten into feet high. The office was not for the record of the men. lishment. Fruits Cherries, 34c per pound addition­ at West Oakland went to work and supplying equipment which the gation and power purposes. The ditch al loose; yester­ Winnipeg. Man., Aug. 11.—Word ; casabas, $2.50 per dozen. The first act of violence in the Cana­ Canadian road is unable to repair in its to convey the water to the land will be Vegetables Turnips. $1.50 per sack; day they found that they were expect­ received here this afternoon that dian Pacific strike has been recorded. crippled machine shops, have greatly four feet wide at the bottom and three carrots. $1.75; beets. $1.50; beans. 5c ed to work nine hours instead of eight was the Canadian Underwriters’ asso­ A policeman on duty was brutally as­ agitated the strikers. The officials of feet deep. per day. Their pay, however, will be ciation today Fire per pound; cabbage, 2(n 2 >4c per on in Toronto considered saulted, but it is not known if strikers the union declared today that .if this basis. During the seriously the situation pound; corn, 25(u 30c per dozen; cu­ last the 60 nine-hour arising out of report is found to be true, sympathetic County T eachers Win. did it. days the railroad company has cumbers. $1 per box; eggplant. 10c the $3,000,000 losses sustained at the strikes will be declared on all roads La Grande- The Union county teach­ increased its working force in the Oak' More Turkish ministers have been furnishing men and equipment to the ers’ institute will be held some time in per pound; lettuce, head, 15c per Femie fire and increased rates were dismissed and arrested. dozen; parsley, 15c per dozen; peas, land shops until now it is as great as it decided upon. Partly for this reason Canadian Pacific. November at Baker City, jointly with 6c per pound; peppers. 8(iil0c per » as before the slump of several months and partly because the association re- A heavy rainstorm at Boston flooded the Baker county institute. This in­ pound; 12Lsc per dozen; ago. The increase of working hours is yarded existing rates on grain in ele- Up Goes Price of Apples. the streets, doing much damage. stitute will be held in connection with spinach. radishes, 2c per pound; 50c necessitated by the large amount of vators in the Western provinces too St. Louis, Aug. 12. The fifth an­ the Eastern Oregon teachers’ associa­ oitl per crate; celery, tomatoes. A Philadelphia woman provided in i low, it was decided to increase the 90c(u$l per work on hand.__________ convention of the American Ap- tion meeting. There will be a large her will for the care of her cats and nual dozen; artichokes, 75c per dozen. rates 33 per cent on that class of in* plegrowers’ association open«! here gathering of teachers at Baker from parrots. Danish Printers Strike. Butter Extras. 27'^c per pound; surance. tdoay with more than 100 apple grow­ all parts of Eastern Oregon. Copenhagen. Aug. 11.—Owing to the fancy, 25c; choice, 20c: store, 18c. Much timber is being destroy«! and ers from Central and Western states Eggs Oregon extras. 25c per doz­ typographers and other employes in Main Grove of Big T rees Safe. mining camps threatened by forest fires attending. Of imoprtance to the pub­ Realizes Good Prices on Horses firsts. 23oi24c; seconds. 21(n22c; the printing offices here, except a few Stockton. Cal.. Aug. 11.- The big in Montana. lic is the prediction of officers and del­ Drewsey I. M. Davis, one of the en: 15fu 20c; Eastern. 23(