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, 3<n 10c per pound; made
a cure of lockjaw and claims to have j | were
that
he
must
live
and
render
to
also
flooded
with
mud
and silt.
their
torture
would
mean
international
peaches,
65cfu
$1
per
box;
prunes.
discovered the secret of the malady. complications.”
Eugene Company to Irrigate.
the nation an account of his doings. The general delivery
was
$1.25
per
crate;
Bartlett
pears.
$1.50
Eugene-
The
Bingham
Land
com
He has contributed $25,000 toward a destroyed. The stamps section
In an address at Warsaw, Ind., a
and
money
in
1.75
per
box;
plums,
40ftf50c
per
pany of this city intends to irrigate
fund to purchase two cruisers to be were saved, being carried to a place of
preacher advocated tatooingall married
grapes, $1.25f«rl.50 per crate; named
Allege Yankee Roads Allied.
300 acres of farming land which it box;
after the heroes of the revolu- safety as soon as the flood grew threat
women on the chin as a remedy for the
apricots.
$1;
blackberries.
$1.10(if
1.15.
Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 12. Reports owns in the McKenzie valley about 20 Potatoes — 90c (u $1 per hundred; tion.
divorce evil.
ening. A large force of men with a
here today that railroad lines miles east of Eugene. The company sweet potatoes, 5c per pound.
steam shovel is at work on the debris
The business world of France is de received
in
the
United
States,
particularly
the
has
filed
notice
of
appropriation
with
Full Force Restored.
tonight.
manding a revision of their tariff laws. New York Central line, are furnishing the county clerk of 200 miners’ inches Melons Cantaloupes, $2.50(<r3 per San Francisco,
Aug. 11.—When the
They say the loopholes in the present strikebreakers to the Canadian Pacific of the waters of Forest creek for irri crate; watermelons. $1.50 per 100 employes in the Southern
Pacific shops
Raise Insurance Rates.
law are too wide.
crated. >4c 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(<i 24c.
employes on socialistic papers, having forest fire which has te n raging along
to the convention that apples principal business men of this place, thirds,
Thaw has filed a bankruptcy petition, egates
Mixed chickens, lliu llli c started a strike, the employres have the south fork of the Stanislaus rver
this year will sell from $2.50 to $3 a is home after an absence of several j per Poultry
claiming the doctors’ fees and cost of barrel
pound; fancy hens, 12 ( 11 1 2 ^ 1 ; decided to declare a general lockout in for over a week is reported today to
the trees and that before the weeks in Pendleton and other railroad j roosters.
his trials have left him without any seasm on ends
8fn 9c; spring, 14c; ducks, all departments of labor tomorrow. have reached the south grove of the
they
will
be
selling
at
$7
thing.
i points. Mr. Davis took a number of old, 8(<i9c;
spring, lOoillc; geese, If a reconciliation is not reached be famous Calaveras big trees. Reports
with
$10
a
barrel
for
choice
ones.
; horses over the mountains. He says old. 8c; goslings.
New Zealand is making extensive
11c; turkeys, tween the epmloyers and the men. it from the scene of the conflagration at*
I they stood the trip remarkably well. old. 18ei 19c; young. 10»«»
s expected that the newspapers here meagre, as telephone lines are out of
20c.
preparations for the reception of the
Tornado in North Dakota.
He realized from $100 to $150 for sin- Veal Extra. S<ii8'sc per pound: will suspend publication for at least a order.
battleship fleet.
A brief message said today-
¡2 Marxian. N D., Aug. 12. A toma- I i gle
fortnight.
ordinary, 7f#i7lxc; heavy, 5c.
"The
fire
is still burning and reached
Roosevelt has assumed all responsi I do struck Mandan last evening and drivers.
Pork Fancy, 7c per pound; ordi
the
south
grove yesterday afternoon.
bility for the discharge of the negro ’ caused damage to the extent of $50.- I Reporter of Suprem e C ourt.
6c; large. 5c.
Meet Death in Flames.
The
main
grove
is safe.”
troops at Brownsville.
000. One boy was pick«! up by the | Salem Frank A. Turner, a Salem nary.
Mutton Fancy. 8(<r 9c per pound.
New York, Aug. 11.—Six persons
wind and earned three blocks. The j attorney, has been appointed Supreme Hop»
London is cleaning house and has roof
1907.
prime
and
choice.
4
Chicago
Gains 20 ,7 0 0 .
cere burned to death in a tenement
of the Inter-Ocean hotel was j court reporter to succeed Judge R. G. 5c per pound; olds, 2«i21,c ; contracts. louse
just succeeded in convicting 10 munic J loosened
at
332
East
One
Hundred
and
Chicago,
Aug.
11.—An increase of
and crashed into the dining- j Morrow, who resigned. Judge Mor- 10.
ipal officers of grafting.
Twelfth street, four children between 20,700 since last year gives 1 < 2 M J
room. The Dollar hotel was unroofed, row hail been reporter for the Oregon 9<<t Wool
— Eastern Oregon, average the ages of 8 and 12, an infant of 2 as the population of Chicago, estimât*
A San Francisco man lived 4$ hours Houses were tipped over and many Supreme court 16 years and had issued best, 10(<il6S|C
per pound, according months and an aged man. Other oc- ed by the Chicago Directory company.
a f t e r breaking hia neck and was con- windows shattered, but no fatalities j moro reports than all hia eight prede-
to
shrinkage:
valley.
15^il5V,c; m<- 'upants of the tenement were injured whose 1908 issue is now ready for di»-
I
occurred.
1
cessola
combined.
gcious a part of the time.
I hair, choice, lSiqlS^c.
by jumping from window*.
tribution.
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