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indi strial development and
UNPEEP ABED FOB WAB.
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
WILSON GROUP BONDED.
Engineers’ Visit Expected to Result
In Mining Activity.
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Wailowa—An offer to bond the Wil-
gon Basin mines a t $40,000 has been
made to the Wilson Basin Mining com
pany. which has run development
shafts into two claim s on the Wilson
Basin ledge 20 miles south of Wallowa.
This offer is the resu lt of an investi
gation into the m ining possibilities of
this county by H. Stanley Hoskin, a
mining engineer from Tucson, Aril.,
who has made a careful survey. Hog-
kin also examined several other ledges
and informed the Wilson Brothers that
they were throw ing talc and carbonates
on the dump th a t carried from $500
to $600 a ton. H oskin’s v isit to this
county is looked upon by mining men
as a forerunner of g re a t mining ac
tivity.
It has been known for some time
that good values existed in the ores of
this county, but capital for develop
ment is lacking. The offer to bond
the Wilson Basin mines for $40,000 in
sures the necessary capital, and the
owners of the m ine will accept i t
Assays from this mine show values in
gold, silver, copper, tungsten and tin,
besides traces of silvinite. An assay
of ore taken out a t a depth of 20 feet
showed 3 per cent tin .
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Secretary of War Declares United States
Could Not Bepel Invasion.
, Washington.-The full text of the
confidential report to congress, prepared
MODEL OBCHABD.
¿a , h 8er et.a7 a 0f war‘ which declares
Twelve Thousand Apple Trees on Pro that the luited States is unprepared to
repel
invasion, has been secured by the
ject In Irrigated District.
press. It is the report which the house
t, _ ,
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etused to receive in secret, and which
eewater.—A model orehard of 160 T3*, w“ hdrawn bT order of the Presi
acres is being established near this
rpi
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Place. J. H Hall of F W -o f
J
*"e .r tP?rt declares that the regular
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18. 'Jeficient in number and de-
C. M. Hall of Wall
in» »v
’ -° Wa a WalIai are financ- j Jfetlve in other enumerated respect*,
mg the project.
It says that the organized militia al.o
A large force of men has been en- mem i
1.n, n.umber> laekinf in equip-
(fact to Joa.tbao, W in.wp BQ, Rom,
Beauty apple trees. This section can
now boast of a single tract containing
over 12,000 trees Water for
i j
will be’ t a k e n f r o m I w
ample water to supply th/ontTre
The w a t e r . i l l v P »
, „ 6 tra e t-
fen,os
¡n , , LN[im, nll d ,
;immunition, the report goes on.
B The total authorized strength of the
army,
including the Philippine
and In-
a
7' lf»nn+a
‘“ciuaing
Philip
tU T)_».
Z * Z T *
' P°rt°- R,co r**‘ment
and ‘h hosP,ta11 c°rP8> 18 90,790 officers
and m en- Deductions of non-combat
ST™: rs& avti r : r “»
°T
sa a
^ * ^ ornia system, 76 trees to the nients of infantry 3 hstiaHn
s tne tract. One thousand Caro- troops, and 17 OOO ar- » , » , . ¡ . . 1
I z r ^ e 3" . 1 a 1 » . h e f n p ’Mted 170 companies i f coast artillery.
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BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY’
WORK OF NATION’S LAWMAKERS
Wednesday, Dec. 21.
is $31,038, and the umount to the recla
.W ashington,
Dec.
21.—Declaring mation fund is given as $983,721.
’’calendar Wednesday” was ” pecu
DBY DOCK BIDS OPENED.
liarly sacred,” Speaker Cannon today
refused to permit the immediate con Meyer Will Not Baise Eight-Hour Ques
sideration of a special message sent
tion on Work.
to congress by President Taft. Less
Washington, Dee. 23.—Bids for the
than eighty members were present, in construction of the eaisaons for the dry
spite of the fact that it was ‘‘calen docks now in process of building at
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, naval station,
dar Wednesday. ’ ’
the
’u Puget Sound, Washington, nary
Most of the session was taken up yard,
and the New York navy yard
with a discussion of the Moon bill for were opened at the navy department
a revision of laws relating to the ju today.
The caissons are built in the shape of
diciary.
and constitute the gates to the
T aft's special message recommended vessels,
dry docks.
the adoption of a law authorizing Pres
The labor problem raised in eonnec-
ident Taft and officials of the state 11 ion with the work, involving applica-
tion
of the eight-hour law to the con-
of Texas to mark the boundary be1
. .
mu struetion of the caissons, was not de-
tween Texas and New . Mexico.
The eided by the attorney general, who aaid
message was read and its consideration the question was beyond his jurisdie-
The attorney general aaid the
suggested but the speaker objected.
The senate today adjourned at 2 question was one for the courts to de
cide in case the issue were raised.
o ’clock. It will reconvene January 5.
The navy department informed bid-
The senate this afternoon adopted lers that the point would not be brought
the recommendatniou of the president "I’ bF the government, but the depart
authorizing him to settle the Texas tuent, of course, was unable to apeak
for the labor interests. In the event
New Mexico bouudary question.
The physical valuation of railroads is ilie unions raised the question, it would
a subject for judicial determination.
demanded in the report of the inter be The
lowest bidder for the New York
state
commerce
commission
submitted
s u ie commerce commission suuumieu caisson was the Snare k Trieet C
Com-
today to congrees. The report refers
of New Tork whoge
to “ the well known fact that no court, 4 , 22 , 980 . The Morai Company, of
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8«‘
commission, accountant or financial [ attle, was the lowest bidder
for the
writer would for a moment consider other twd caissons, their proposal for
that the present balance sheet in the the Pearl Harbor eaisaons being $110,-
statement p u rp o rtin g to give cost of 000 , nd fo r th , p n _ t
property su g g ests even rem otely or iu
000
a re lia b 'e measure either the money in-
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vested or the p re sen t value of the r a il
SATISFY
BOTH
FAIR CITIES.
roads.”
ally from b1 P " d vei7 systematic- militia is 119,660 officers and me* De-
a“ -v from beginning to end. There is ducting the ¿umber of. men who e„old
m left for a house on each 10 acres, not respond to a call, leaves anDroxi
erything will be uniform matelv 86,200 combatant o fficer and
d everythin?
throughout.
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j men, of whom 82,000 are organized into
troops of artillery, cavalry and infantry,
Growers Hold Hops.
and 4,200 are organized for coast de-
Portland.—With only a handful of i fense.
hops remaining in control of the grow
ers, and with the visible supply in all
Bean C rop $150 An Acre.
hands in this state extremely limited,
POSTAL BANKS JANUABY 3.
Medford—Amos McKee, a farm er in growers are asking 20c a pound for
the Applegate valley, has disposed of their hops, and some have entirely with-1 Western Postmasters Confer with
his crop of brown beans to Medford drawn them from sale.
Hitchcock About System.
| ‘The market is entirely blocked at
merchants a t a price of
cents a
this
time,”
says
Herman
Klaber.
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Washington.—Postmaster
General
pound. His h arvest from six acres
amounted to 14,000 pounds.
Each ‘‘Growers will not let go Some are Hitchcock says that everything will b
asking 20c a pound, while others w ill:'“ readiness for the Postal Savings
acre produced gross returns of $150. not sell just now at any price.”
Tuesday, December 20,
Let San Francisco Have Panama;
| Banks to receive deposits on January
Three years ago Mr. McKee paid $41
Deepwater for New Orleana.
Washington.—The spectacle of a con
Short interests are very much j3. tbe f»*»t working day of the new
an acre for his land, and each year it alarmed, and therefore trying to dis- i ,v,e ar- The task of drawing up regul
gressman desiring to withdraw from
Washington
— A compromise on the
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has produced three tim es its original lodge the growers from their” hold on tions, forms and instructions has pro committee a bill for a government ap
the market. Even were growers will gressed so far as to assure the begin propriation of $5,000,000 for his con- Panama exposition question may be
cost.
stitueucy and of another congressman considered when congress reconvenes
Beyond the labor expended, beans, ing to sell every bale they now possess, ning of operations.
One experimental office will be
according to Mr. McKee, are clear there would not be nearly enough hops
n p ~ -
profit, except for a few bushels of to fill the orders already taken by opened in each state and territory to Kahn, of California, moved that a house posed by congressmen not pledged to
Shorts are said to have sold make the first test of the service as
seed. The land on which he grows shorts.
fully 10,000 bales of Oregon hops for thorough as possible under the limited committee be discharged from cousider- either San Francisco or New Orleana
his beans is of a black gravel nature late delivery, but as there are only a appropriation. The offices designated ing a resolution introduced last Decem
and is under irrig atio n . A fter plant couple of thousand bales in the hands :’re. all of the second class and in lo ber asking federal aid for the Panama! that San Francisco shall have the ex*
ing, Mr. McKee harrow s his land three of all growers, and less than 10,000 calities where conditions are exception- exposition to be held in San Francisco position in 1915 to commemorate the
times and irrig ate s as often.
The bales in all hands, including dealers, ally favorable for the development of in 1915. I 11 making the motion, Kahn opening of the Panama canal, while
beans, when ripe, are pulled up by the the outlook from a short seller’s point a postal savings business. Several of declared that California no longer New Orleans shall hold an exposition
the offices selected are in communities needed a federal appropriation, having
roots and allowed to dry on the ground. of view is extremely gloomy.
in 1918 to commemorate, say, the be
inhabited by foreign-born Americans, raised $17,500,000 for the project.
When dry, they are thrown into a
Washington.—In order to conform ginning of work on the lakes-to-the
who are remitting annually considers
wagon box and threshed w ith a fan
PORTLAND MARKETS.
ble sums of money to their native with the pure food laws, all packages of gulf deep waterway.
ning mill. The hulls are the finest of
foods will have to bear a statement of
countries by postal money orders.
Wheat—Track
prices:
Bluestem,
73c;
It is said this plan has been sug
stock feed.
In the last few days, the postmasters the exact measure of the contents on gested at ,the White house and that it
club, 81c; red Russian, 80c; valley, 82c;
the label, if a substitute bill to be sub
at
the
twelve
offices
in
the
Rocky
40 fold, 82c.
mitted to the house by Representative has met with the approval of the pres
Poultry Show H eads Chosen.
Barley—Feed. $22.50 per ton; brew Mountain and Pacific Coast states have Mann, of Illinois, becomes a law. The ident. Taft and those who have openly
been in Washington at the request of
Pendleton— D. C. Gurdane, of Hepp- ing, $23.50@24 per ton.
substitute bill is intended to take the espoused the compromise proposition
ner, the man of B arred Plymouth Rock
Hay—Track prices: Timothy, Wiliam-1 the postmaster general for a confer place of Mann's original amendment to
chicken fame, is to head the Umatilla- ette Valley, $19@20 per ton; Eastern! ence. Among the postmasters taking the pure food law. Mann decided to are said to feel that in no event could
Morrow county Poultry association for Oregon, $21@22; alfalfa, $14; grain part were: Bebe, Coeur d ’Alene, Ida change his bill after a conference with New Orleana have a deeper interest
ho; Harper, Anaconda, Mont.; Emmitt,
than in the completion of, or at least
another year. He was selected for the hay, $14.50^15.50; clover, $13@14.
Klamath Falls, Ore., and Cavanaugh. Chicago and New York business men.
the undertaking of actual work en the
Corn—Whole,
$29;
cracked,
$30
ton.
The
death
knell
of
‘‘suspension
of
the
third time a t the annual meeting held
Olympia, Wash.
deepening of the Mississippi river and
Oats—No. 1 white, $28@28.50 toa.
rules”
day
was
sounded,
so
far
as
the
in the armory a t the close of the show.
Poultry—Hens, 14%@15c; springs,, They were instructed how to put the present session is concerned, through the digging of the necessary canala to
James W. Brown, undertaker at the
the instrumentality of Speaker Cannon, make it an outlet from the Great
Baker furniture store and a chicken 13@14c;
turkeys, alive, 22@25c;
Lakes. An exposition to celebrate the
who thereby got a unique revenge.
fancier of the first w ater, was chosen dressed, choice, 23@25c; squabs, $2 per [
The house had finished the unanimous event would be in order, it is urged,
secretary afte r E. F. Averill had posi dozen.
consent calendar, and Speaker Cannon and New Orleana would be the proper
EMPLOYES SHABE PROFITS.
tively refused to take a third term.
Eggs—Oregon ranch, candled, 42%e;
called up the first bill on the calendar city in which to to hold it. With such
Eastern,
Aprils,
30@33c
per
dozen;
The date of the n ext show was left
of motions to discharge committees. a compromise, the Crescent city should
Steel
Corporation
Distributes
Bonus
of
The measure was a provision for revision be urged to withdraw its claim for the
with the executive committee, but it Eastern, fresh, 37%e per dozen.
$2,700,000.
Butter—City creamery, extra, 1 and 2
and codification of the postal laws. The Panama canal exposition and permit
is almost assured th a t it will be held
New York.—The United States Steel document contains hundreds of pages, San Francisco to hold thia celebration
in January, 1912, during either the pound prints, in boxes, 37c per pound;
less than boxes, cartons and delivery Corporation announced its plan for dis and probably would occupy all the time
second or fourth week.
extra.
tributing a bdhus to the officers and of a “ suspension day ” that would last without further oppoeition.
An effort will be made to obtain the
Pork—Fancy,
. , lie - per pound.
employes of the corporation and sub through the remainder of the session.
New Land C om pany at Eugene.
Veal—Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 13@ «¡idiarÿ corporations in accordance with Cannon's ruling will probably cut off consent of New Orleans to this plan.
all further attem pts to suspend the
Eugene—The Eugene & Great West 14c per pound.
its annual practice.
SHAKE-UP IS COMING,
Apples—King, 40@75c p_erJ)Oi; Wolf The sum to be distributed for 1910 rules.
ern Land company has filed articles of
The
appointment
of
Martin
A.
Knapp
River,
75e@$l;
Waxen,
75c@$l;
Bald-
amounts
to
approximately
$2,700,000.
incorporation w ith the county clerk
win, 75e (a% 1.25; Northern Spy, 75c@ The amount is determined by the annual to be a judge of the United State* com Rumored Four Important Changes
lare and the secretary of state at Sa $1.25;
merce court was confirmed by the sen
Snow Banana, $1.75@3.50; Bed earnings.
Will Occur in Cabinet.
lem with a capital stock of $100,000. Cheek Pippin, 75c@#1.25.
The bonus will be paid 60 per cent ate. Knapp ha» been chairman of the
The incorporators are O. H. Skotheim
Washington— Rumors of a coming
Sack Vegetables—Carrots, $1@1.25 1 ¡„ common stock at $70 a share and 40 interstate commerce commission for sev
*nd John Baird of Eugene and P. Aug hundred; parsnips, $1@1.25; turnips, ¡per cent ¡„ ca,h. Last year the bonus eral years.
shakeup in the cabinet have been re
ust Peterson, of A lbert Lea, Minn. $ 1 ; beets, $1.25@1.50.
i was paid 60 per cent in cash snd 40
newed.
It was reported that the
Potatoes — Oregon, $1.25(81.35 Per per cent in preferred stock at $124 a
The object of th e compSny is to buy
changes said to be contemplated by
LAND
SALES
$12,198,460.
large tracts of la n d ,'s e t them to ap hundred; sweet potatoes, $3.50 per hun- 9hare, or common stock at $90 a shar<
President Taft involved the reaigna-
will
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.
| This year the usual opportunity wi
ples, pears and w alnuts, and sell them dred.
Reclamation Fund Secure* More Than L'0"* of Secretary Knox MacVeagh,
Buying
price,
$1.25
per
bun-
^
given
to
subscribe
for
shares
of
the
Onion
in smaller trac ts to people from the
Half of Stun.
Ballinger and poeaibly Wlleon.
corporation on a basis of $114 s share
Knox, it i* known, la dfa stlifled
East and Middle W est. Sixty or sev 'lr Green Fruits—Pears. $1.25(772
fl.Z.WZ per ¡0T preferred and $70 a share for the
Washington. — Twenty three states over hi* Iocs of influence in shaping
enty agencies w ill be established in box; grapes. $1.75@2; cranberries, $12 common stock.
j participated in the division of the the administration’* polieie*.
that part of th e country.
@12.50 per barrel.
Politicians say the time ha* arrived
! money received from pnblie lands dur
Vegetables—Beans, 12%e per ponnd
How
Cudahy
Settled
Estate.
eabbage. $1®1.25 per hundred; caul
Springfield W akes Up.
in g last year, according to 0gures given for President Taft to dismiss Balling
Chicago.—Michael Cudahy left an ea-
] out at the general land office. The total er.
Springfield— T h at Springfield will j flower, $2,@2.25 per crate; celery, Cali
fomia. $3 per crate; hothouse lettuce,. flt# valned at $11,000,000, only $2,000,-
A report that Congressman Charlea
soon be an im portant railroad center
$1,771.2.' per box; peppers. 10c per Ibd ¡000 of which is in real estate. Except amount received from the public land Scott of Kanaaa, will succeed Secre
was forecast by a statem ent of H. A. pumpkins. 1@ 1V P<r lh.: sprouts, 7@
sales totaled approximately $12,198,460, tary Wilson is generally credited.
for $25.000 bequeathed to various ehar
Brandon, of the Southern Pacific, who 8c- «anash. 1<®1*4 c per lb.
of
which $5,257,695 was placed in the The President’s secretary, Charles
has spent several days here with sur
Hop^-lillO crop. I4rf?16e; 1909 <np. ¡table institutions, the estate will be United States treasury as the net pro- Norton, la named by politicians to suc
held
in
trnst
by
Joseph
M.
Cudahy.
The
veyors, staking out the 63 acres of de 10c; contracts. 12@12%e.
will receive $30,000 annually. ceeds of the sales, $6,678,854 went to the -eed MacVeagh, who It is expected
fl-ool—Eastern Oregon, 13@l,e *D-i widow
pot yards th a t the road owns here. He
Mrs. William Cudahy, a sinter in law, credit of the reclamation fund, and will retire on account of ill health.
•aid: “ Your people will soon be on vallev 17(7719c per lb.
Senator Flint and Representative
Mohair-Choice. 30<fz33c per pood. will receive $6.000 annually for fivo $261.991 was turned over to the United
the main line of the Southern Pacific,
rears, and then $5.0«0 annnally. At
Tawney are mentioned aa posa ibis suc-
Cattle—Prime
steers,
$6.5007;
*ood
SfStes
as
it*
share
of
the
proceed*.
Only
•od it is only a question of a short
the close of five years six children of
ceaaor* of Ballinger.
rill divide the estate, after 15 states participated in the division*
■hall have reeeived $500,000 0f p ,, reclamation fund*. Those state*
DEAL IS CLOSED FOR DAM.
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receiving no fund* on this account hav*
no reclamation project* within their Mexican Concern to Build Lsvee on
Island Sinks Into Sea.
border* North Dakota lead* with the
Lower Colorado.
port Limon, Costa Rica.—At leset largent amount tam ed into the tress
Wood S carc e at Hood.
Washington—Arrangements between
seven
tv
families,
variously
estimated
Hood River—The large sawmill
at from 150 to 170 men, women and ary, $788,974; ranks first in the amount the State department and the Mexican
°P®r*ted at Dee by the Oregon Lumber
Children, were drowned through the reeeived by th* states, $39,448, but embassy have been concluded for the
company
j*
expected
to
close
down
.
» ” n expected 10 n w e uww" :
** «wss- eommon on 11s,
sinking into tho sea of their island takes third place in the amount given construction of a dam and levee on tho
"««Saturday. The mill has supplied bnlK
li?ht elves. | 7 |
to the credit of the reelaaaatioa fond, lower Colorado riv -r in Imperial val
i ° ' 1**n<j* of cords of slab wood for j3
,0
light ealvw. M f
h The island, in the eentsr of the Ilo
ley, Congress at th* last session ap
Pango lagoon ia Salvador, disappeared $882.714.
^««Hy. and cu ttin g off of this wood ■ ’ ’ 1\ t0 fhoie* heavy ealvss. $5
Snoth Dakota U second in all ths di propriated $1,000,000 for tho work.
after
s
»cries
of
earthquake
ehoeke
inP»wLy Wil1 m ,ke * » * te ri*1 difference 6; fgir t0 good b«*r T
■ ¡mod
Under the
... arrangements
__ „
. the
. . . r< .
»nd slid into th# depth* of tho lagoon, visions. Th* net proceed« converted P »
m arket here.
Wood ¡* 5 .25; common c a l v e s ^ ; ^ - ^
iato
the
treasury
from
the
nule
of
Inn*
»traction
will
be
carried
on
hy
the Cot
earrying with it nearly *11 th# inhabi
««edingly gcarce a t Hood River this t0 ehoiee stag«, $4 50@5, t m
ia that stats amounted to $701,395; th# orado Land company, a Mexican
fesr.
amount accredited to tbs stats is $33.- parution, the ■ tockbolder* ia which
Ballinger InquiiT *1S #44„
W ashington. - T h e Ballinger Plnehot 909, and ths amount for tho reclama are Americana. It ia provided that
the United States does not acquile
U te r o f Pig, Bring. Good Price * » £ ^ , 5 5 ? w«th«% P f Æ S
gresaioasl investigation coat the tion fund is #948.514
Th#
state ia the matter of aet
right of ownership or
Tho third
t*
*8Howa - Thoroughbred hogs »re H 7 * S T sM wetVnr orai* tr i. H*? country waetly »IM44. »ocordimg t o n
sad either in Mexican terre ¡lory or
gram fed- *»•'
e;]#a by ths secretary of tho as* praeaeds tamed iato tho t
into their own in Wallowa @4.50; choirs ewes i. was.
graia fed. $3 W
tT v n m for ste.ogr.pbsr* *he amo nut accredited t h . W J o p e ^
#ua*o$ad an Mexican 'ten ^ 'to 'r T .
»nd several sales of thorough- 4 ; good t o ;
3 * Hwice
« r n i The coat liest witness was those receiving money for tho
rill be located.
Th*
k,Te been reported within the @3 75; t r i V l
_ Fair
Fair- tioe
t i on fand.
fa ad. Montana take* this position,
t . choice. $*»'* Î**
i
_ s 0 cam* from
mileage The net proceeds la that state amounted work* aro to ha built fron
1** ,*v week*. A litter of pig» from
to $833,178. The amount to tho state proved by a Mexican «agi
Mistered Du roe J e n e y stock sold re-
aid lambs. 50«
J -
eentlJ st ) i o e*ch - lo
' r the males
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at 1
time.
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