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HILLSBORO.
..OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
DEMOCRAT FOR GOVERNOR.
Oklahoma
U a Ccndenssd Form lor
Easy Readers.
Our
A Resume mf th. Lsa Important but
Not Last Interesting Events
of tha Pact Waak.
Tba Brace Arctic expedition ii be
.lieved to be lost.
Free trade In Philippine tobacco and
sugar ia likely to pas congress
The Thaw trial will likely be post-
puned from October to December
Alton B. Parker accuse Rooaevelt of
deaignlag to overthrow the coimtitu
tlon.
Both Great Britain and the United
State want W. II. A duett, who wai
arreated in Chefoo, China, lor murder.
A man baa been arretted who wai
trying to aee the president in ordei to
secure hia aid in collecting f 10,000,000
from Rockefeller.
Vitcount Aokl, Japanese ambassador
at Washington, mar he transferred 10
Berlin and Union Kaneko ia looked on
aa the new Washington appointee.
A Russian girl at St. Peterabnrg
made herself a living bomb ty dressing
In o-uncotton. Bhe intended to blow
up a police itation but waa detected
Thomaa R. Potter, treasurer of the
Masonic grand lodge of Pennsylvania,
Aceepta Constitution and
Prohibition.
Oklahoma City, O. T., Sept.
nkl.iinm.'a eonatitntion baa been
adopted by a majority all the way from
60.000 to 70 000, aUte-wid prohlbi-
tion haa carried and C. N. Haakell,
Democrat, baa been elected governor of
the new state, over Frank Franta, the
present territorial governor, according
to the limited report received op to
1:30 o'clock thie morning. In every
voting precinct there were three ballot
In, the voter to mark, in Oklahoma
CAtf there were foor. and the counting
proceea haa been extremely alow.
The telegraphera' strike end lack of
...i i - Lag. nrwwnteu Hie I
forrdin of return! to either of the
political atate headquarters here
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF
RECORD PRICE PAID.
New and Wonderful Hood Rlvar Apple
Bring 8 a Bo.
Hood River While the contest aa to
ho raiaed th biggest apple in Ore-
merrllT on, a Hood Kiver man
settled any diapute that may arise thif
vear aa to the highest price by an
nouncing, aal. of 40 boxes of apple.
-f 14 a. Dox. ju '' a"
ta.n A Co.. of Portland, and
... grown on the fruit farm of Oacai
- " i r .. .-a
.n.i.l,ilt. known aa xseuiau uum,
... - m I
few mile from una cuy.
... nr .,ih krue aie that they will
, , . .
tha buver aooui ii rauu
W.
" j MORE JAPANESE COMING. I
lvterest l
Has 4,
r i s linen. "
latET an- refaren
a i. "u" I w ... a
tu. ..i ri.Mt rn rr.A nnnLJLUituu i . - , , , .
r- . -Hhnnfc the I re I kin- cnirrcB.
conceded, although the majority tMg ,n6 ioe
n .... ma avua AVriMUXl . I " . 1
uoi . -i ...... n.thinB ever grown in ma appie
we niijor.17 iu ' r - . . . t IIlloj Klver or anywhere else
Th apple are of the variety known aa
Winter Banana, anu we "
E. L. Smith, who lornieny ownw uie
place Mr. Vanderbilt now
n .ineriment.
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The variety ia a rare one, nine ueiug
Standard Oil Haa Earned
70,000,000 a Year.
New York. Sept 18. Sensational
ha died leaving 12,000,000 to educate disclosure! retarding the fabuloua earn
and auoDort male orphan of Fenniyl- iM of Standard Oil were brought out
vania Maf on. yesterday at the bearing in tb euit ol
I. nl.m.1 at 2S.000 to 40.000.
. . a . I n t ! a ri
nun CajMlilT. or ice Mjrawrewu ""
mittee, eatimale it at 15,000, and ap-
rjroximately the aame nguree are giveu
out at Republian headquarter. ,
Tha .. atiftte elected nve coniir.
u 1 Aim.
nn i . m a m ir.r 1 1 1 1 nftttTuuu u.w- . . .
tTuthVRebncVn.eTpected to elect known of It, but U ha. provea .ucn.
...r.l,.te to Conirre.1 B. S. MoGuIre money gewer u. - '-i .
" r. i . u ariii mnnn fun d hdihi.
nd ex-Territorial Governor T. a. N::. wi.T.: n.n.n. -mi.
aueon reepectively. Tb. Third, Fourtb wn.or.pw " " " , ., 7
:.i ruth ,iiMtl,.t hud been conceded fucn a airong r
mux , j r.ur wrtMn ninrani
t. 4k. n...af. -mhr-xa nttmlli atpfl in lit ! p'v. " r-
Mi tllO i,Tii.itiaii waaw I . , . . ma-n a finV nf rhm
diatricta were Jame wnere u u.,u.
Carter and Scott Fer- convey ne iue -
nr nan&naa namriiiK wujowhiii u w
vbtinitv
Several aample or ma iruu piaoeu
on dianlav in the window of a atore
her. weigh very clone to a pound apiece
the respective
Davenport, C. D.
rli.
ENORMOUS PROFITS.
Almoat
PROFITI N FRUfT.
The dead in the Canaan, N. II., train
wreck number 2A.
Ensineera and firemen on the Mil'
aouri Pacific railroad may atrike.
The poitmaiter general will urge eon
greet to eatabliah postal aavlngt bank
Worry over the outcome of hia trial
la Gamins Tlrev L. Ford much loa of
aleep.
II. II. Rotrer. vie creaident of the
Standard Oil company, hat Buffered a
atroke of paralyala.
Unconfirmed report ay tha Ataoci
ated Preaa it about to grant the de
mandt of ita atrlking telegraph opera
tort. Evidence gathered at the court mar
tial of General Stoeeael ahowa that be
could have held Port Arthur at least
another week.
A pariaengerr on the Southern Pacific
wai put off near Loa Angelea because
he would not pay hia fare, lie thot at
the conductor and waa killed by the
train crew. 1
The railroadi affected by the boiler
makera' ttrike are getting new men at
lattaa they can. Over 1,000 men
walked out and the railway ofBoialt
claim the ttrike waa not authorized.
A deciilve atrnggle ia on for control
of Zlon city.
The number of railroad accident In
Great Britain ia increaaing.
Three persona were killed by the col
lapse of a building in Cincinnati.
Secretary Straua Ii formulating a
plan for an Industrial peace comruia
aion.
the United Statea government to dit
tolve thecorporation. Adroit question
..... M
ina drew from the reluctant lipa oi
Clarence G. Fay, reaident comptroller
of the Standard Oil company of ew
Jersev. the admimion that in teven
yeara Standaru un a toiai pronu
amounted to $490,315, 734, or aoine
thing over $70,000,000 a year.
Mr. Fay was alao forced to admit tiiat
in 1899 the profit were nearly $80,
000.000 lnatead of $34,000,000, as let
forth on the booki of the company.
The Standard Oil managed tccover np
it great earnings In that year by delib
erately failing to credit the earnings of
19 subsidiary companies tiiat contrib
uted vast aumi to the parent corpora
tion.
Thia is the first time the wmpany't
earnings have been made public.
Figured on the capital stock now out
standing thit It an annual profit of
something over 70 par cent. Figured
on the baais of the Standard Oil trust,
which bad a capitalization of $10,000,
000 when it was dissolved and reorgan
ized into the present company without
any additional investment, the annual
profit ia something like 700 per cent.
DOCTORS TO FIQHT PLAQUE.
Central Oregon Country Is Rapidly
Coming to the Front.
Prineville A trip to the ranch of
William Boegli. which ia aituated
about 30 miles north of thia place on
the Crooked river, reveals to every one
the possibilities of Central Oregon as a
fruit growing section, me rancn is
just at the water's edge, and in a gorge
over l.OCO feet from the level of tin
grain growing section of Crook connty
Althoasu trier are but about vi
acre in tha body that la in bearing
orchard, fruit of all kinds la raited in
great Quantities, Including grapes of
the finest varietiea and other kinds
that are commonly classed as tropical
fruit.
This orchard three years ago pro
duced over 2,000 bushels of winter ap
ples, all of which were readily mar
keted at $1 per bnshel in the local
market. The value of the fruits mar
keted this year will exceed $4,000 and
doe not include vegetables, of which
Mr. Boegll raises an abundance.
Considering the fact that this ranch
was purchased but two years ago at ap
proximately $10,000, the profits on thit
kind of an investment are apparent.
Re-
Two of the largest copper mines In
Minnesota have decided to decrease
their output 50 per cent.
Many Japanese who have paxtporti
for Mexico land in the United Mates
but fail to go on to their destination.
II. Rogers Is In such poor physi
cal ntaun tnai ne M nnabie to appear
In court in a case against tb Standard
Oil company.
James J. Hill, now that he haa torn'
ed all business affairs over to hia ton
will spend tba rest of bis Ufa ia recrea
tion and rest.
A grand jury at Jackson. Miss., has
retnrned indictment against the Illi
nois Central and Yaxoo A Missitaippi
alley railroads tor giving paiwea.
The government ia trying to prevent
another coal famine in tha West.
Secretary Mvtcalf nrges the need of
government drydockt on the Pacific
The Western Union claims there haa
bxen a break in the operators' ttrike at
l levelad, Ohio.
A newspaper office at Joplin, Mo
hat been dynamited because it fought
the lawleaa element.
Count Oknma taya the San Francisco
riots were backed by the city, while
Vancouver fought the rioters.
An effort to have Stensland, the le
faulting president of the Milwaukee
a von ue bank, Chicago, pardoned, ha
failed.
There isa n unconfirmed report that
the battleship fleet will leave for the
Pacific November 17 instead of Decern'
ber 17.
Rooaevelt haa approved the orders to
Admiral Evans to use his own jndg
ment In visiting Portland with the
fleet of battleships.
The next encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be held at
Toledo, Ohio. Judge Charles Burton
of Nevada, Mo., waa elected command
er-ln-chlef at the Saratoga meeting just
enaded.
Hundreds of Jews are being tortured
and burned in Russia.
Admission of Oriental adnlte to the
Chicago tchcols is meeting with stron
opposition.
The jury in the Tirey L. Ford case
San Francisco, haa been secured.
Japan deplore th. outbreak agalnat
her subjects at anconver, is. C
French and Spanish troop have at'
tcked and roated the Moors and burn
txl their camp.
Striking telegraph operators !ln Chi
eago hav. received strike pay and what
ever diaaention axis ted haa disappeared
Blu. Giv.n Four? Asaistante and
duces Work to System.
San Francisco, Sept. 17. Four sur
geons of the marina hospital service
have been ordered to the assistance of
Dr. Rupert Blue, who has been placed
by the Federal authorities, at the re
quest of the mayor, in charge of the
bubonic plague situation in San Fran
cisco, lhey are Drs. Creel and Vosel.
ho landed at Seattle last Saturday
from the Philippines; Dr. Rucke, de
tached fom duty at the Jamestown ex
position, and Dr. Roberta, ordered here
from Washington. Blue said tonight:
I consider the aituation In Ban
FranclBco well worthy of drastic meas
ures. I have now assumed full control
and established 12 district headquartes
in the city. The physician in charge
Of each district will report to me daily.
and hereafter eradication measurea will
take the form of recommendations bv
me to the board of health, which last
organization will order carried out.
More surgeons of the marine hospital
service will be ordered to my assistance
aa l need them."
Isle Is No Man'a Land.
Victoria, B. C, Sept. 18. According
to man advices from Toklo, Japan
claims uie right to occupv Prataa is
land, which waa recently taken posses
sion ol on behalf of Janan. on the
ground that, at it lies betv.ren the
twentieth and twenty-first parallels, It
was no man's land. A Japanese paper
just received says: "When Japan took
possesaion of Formosa, she extended her
dominion to the twenty-first parallel of
lainude, and when American took nos
session of the Philippines the extended
ner dominion to the twentieth."
Fir. Devours Three Stores.
Pan Francisco, Sept. 18. A fire
which started this morning in the sa
loon oi .March A Richmond on Van
eaa avenue, between Bush and Pine
streets, destroyed the aaloon, the Chin
ese bazaar of the Wah Sing Lung com
pany, a vacant storehouse and comma
nicated to the walls of the Bush street
police station. The toUl loss it aliont
f64S,OlH), that on the bazsar, which
waa insured for $19,000, being $35,000,
The three members of the Chinese firm
owning the bazaar were asleep at the
tim. and narrowly escaped death.
8hetl Kills Forty Japanese,
Tokio, Sept. 18. Forty of the crew
were killed and Injured on board the
Japanese battleship Kashima by 'the
explosion of a 12-inch ahell within the
shield, after target practice near Koret,
September 7. The fatalities included
a lieutenant, two cidets and one staff
ollVer. The explosion waa terrific an
the ship is badly damaved. The explo
sion followed an attempt to remove a
nnetploded ahell. A majority of the
bystanders were fearfully mutilated,
Battleships May Burn Oil.
Vallejo, Cal.. Sept. 18. Now that
th. monitor Wyoming haa been re
leased from the drydork, it ia stated on
th. yard that th. vemel will be ready
in about a month's time for her exper
imental trial tripe, ao that the naval
authorities may determine the advtsa
bllity of using oil as a fuel on board
th. larger naval ships in place of coal
Klamath'a Trad. Big.
Klamath Falls As an Indication of
the trade that will be established In
Klamath Falls with th. advent of th.
railroad, when the markets of the coun
try will be opened to this section, the
Long Lake Lumber company operations
fford a scale. Despite the fact that
their goods must be hauled 35 miles
over a stage road, thia company has
contracted with a California fruit ex
change for all the boxes they can pro
duce, and uiey are tending out every
week about two carloads. Even at the
freight rate they must pay, they make
fair profit, and will be on the ground
floor ready to do business when the
railroad arrives. They eroply 20 men
In the making of boxes and the quality
oi box put out is first-class.
Buy Rlualaw Timber.
Astoria Articles of incorporation of
the Siualaw Investment company, hav.
been Died by k. Z. Ferguson. C. R
Higglna and F. L. Warren, with cap
ital siocx nxed at iiou.uou. Th. com
pany has purchased 6,000 acres of tim
ber land on th. fiiulsaw river contain
ing many million feet of standing tim.
ner. lne following men have been
lected officers: J. T. Roes, president:
u. v. warren, vice president; E. Z
Ferguson, secretary; J. E. Higgins.
treasurer. Benjamin Sweet, of Win.
conain, ia also one of tha directors.
Organize to Fight Railroad.
caiem a concerted movement la on
loot to effect an organization of the
valley sawmill men with a view of
laaing np again the rate question on
rough and finished lumber thlDment
iu n i rancisco nay common points,
ine mm men are still atrivino t
bring about a restoration of thenlH r.t
of $3.60 per thousand feet and. if the
valley manufacturers csn be brought
together, it is proposed to take the
matter before the Interstate Commerce
commission at the earliest date nn..i
r!k. statement No,
taw . theinitiafv. by
which caVdTfllur the legiilatur.
will be In., I T sign Statement
No I'eti. written lath,
law. Th..r-2l th. legMtatur.
ar. further coZaflJ 10 ' ot? k 71
candidat. Cn:Sh0 to
.u. ' SHDI . -r,nl.
u. greats BUtf iUch
drafted aJ Zy to spring. Ua
hli- 7v U. '"."fill becomes a law
the .m-L 1 lZ ion of th. mem.
ber. of th. uTuuiri obeying th. pro-
"'"" i contains.
Mt Not fcrsad Ra.rv..
Pendu . . urr lust received
by County ntwton Well, from
J. II. Ackerm .tat school tuperin.
tendent, the hopes of a publio acnooi
for white chiM.JTca the reservation
are daah.l .... in since Professor
Wells wpn't. .uts superintendent
if a district mil,ht be established upon
tha Uatlll Indian reeervation. II.
had been asked to t tbe m,tter .VP
by raiioua white renter! living on th.
reservation .j -k have children oi
school ir..r. in hit reply So
Derinteml.n. . L-,m.n declared the
oounly has no rlnht whatever to extend
I 1 s . 1
'w acuoon to the reservaiiuu.
Livestock Exhibit Large.
Salem u k the 12 new stock
barns wer n. n on the state fair
grounds thit year it was thought there
was suniclent ftccommouauuu "
th. stock that would be exhibited for at
least five years to come. But it was
necessary to 8. nnsom. extra stalls in
an old building for whatever horses for
which there waa no accommodations in
the regular hami. There waa suffi
cient room for all tbe cattle, hogs,
sheep and goats but these barna were
filled nearly to the limit. The live
stock exhibits far exceeded in number
those of any for met state fair.
Irrigated Hope Do Wall.
Corva 11 it Irrigating hops pays in
this section of the Willamette valley.
This fact is proven beyond a doubt in
the experiment that has been carried
out at the Oswald West hop yard near
this city during the past several
months. Hops were exhibited In town
this week from the West yard, some
picked from vines that had been irri
gated and soma from vines that were
not irrigated. Those that had been
watered were vastly superior, both In
aize and quality, besides which the
vine show a much better growth.
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To Advertise Union County.
La GrandeThe Grand Ronde Boost
ers club has lust issued a four-page
illustrated newspaper descriptive of
Union county. One of these editions
will be handed to every person visiting
the exhibition ball from the trains.
The illustrations cover practically every
line of lndurtry in the county. In ad
dition to ths original 10,000, over 4,-
000 additional conies have been sub'
scribed byieV(,rai individual real estate
flrma, making in all 15,000 copies.
Member
of Parliament Save Britain
Should B Car.ful.
Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 17. Seven
thousand five hundred dollata la unoffi
cially ttated to b the amount of dam
aje which will be paid by th. Domin
ion government for Japanese window
amaihed. The bill will be dispatched
tomorrow to Ottawa and ia to be paid
Immediately.
In the mean time Mayor Bethune is
today atlll trying to secure government
cooperation to provide for the auffeiing
Hindus. The condition ia rendeied ex
ceedingly bad by the cold rain of the
l..t dav and a half. Many are In tent
and when they get a chance to lie down
it la in pools of water with wina
rain blowing into their facet,
greatest orowd is at the Maple
boarding house, an old aback
and
Th
Leaf
near the
SCORES 0. R. & N. CO.
Car Shortage.!? Caused by Lack
ol Boiling Stock.
ALL HARRIMAN LINES ARE SHORT
waterfront. Here 250 are quartered.
Temporary bunkt were put np last
olght and th. Hindu, turrounded by
terrible condltioni, lie in the iuocelve
tier of their stuffy quarter. Cook
ing, sleeping, eating and bathing go on
in one room and men are crowded ao
oloaelv that only by careful inanipola- investigations In Portland yesterday in
tlon It the space large enougn lor an so dujej B look Into the car shortage. He
Interstate Comm.rc. Commieion.r
Thinks Shippers Hav. Causa for
Complaint Agalnat Roada.
Tortland, Sept 17. That the Ore
gon Railroad A Navigation company it
not adequately equipped to handle the
traffic entrusted to it, and that it It the
worst offender in this respect In the en
tire territory of the Northwestern lines,
is the verdict of Interstate Commerce
Commissioner Franklin K. Lane, whose
atay indoor. The atench ia frightful
and the civic authorities fear epidemic.
The steamers Woolich and Indiana
are now overdue with more than 1 ,000
Japanese, the former from Yokomhama
and the Indiana making ber second trip
from Honolulu. The mayor believes
there will be no further trouble when
they arrive. R. O. MacPheraon,
member of parliament for Vancouver,
declare that Great Britain should be
ware of another Boston tea incident, if
the flood of Japanese immigration ia
allowed to continue.
ROOT OF EVILNOI REACHED
Phyalclans Oppoa.d to Compulsory
Pasteurization or Milk.
Brussels, Set. 17. Dr. Henry I. Colt,
of Newark, N. J., resident of the Amer
ican association of medical milk com
mission, la strongly opposed, in an ad
dress today at the International Milk
congress, tothe compultory pasteurlxa
tlon of milk as a means of effectively
improving the supply of milk. Dr.
Colt said that to employ paateuriaation
at anything more than a temporary ex
pedient would- be undesirable, because
it would remove tbe incentive to the
public to compel the producer to ac
complish an improvement. Pasteur
ised milk in balk is not only intrin
sically lees desirable than clean raw
milk, declared Dr. Colt, but is actually
unsafe unleea it is consumed within 24
hours and is kept at or belcw 10 de
gress centigrade 60 degrees Fahren
heit. Dr. Colt also said:
"To resort to the compulsory pas
teurization of the milk supply in large
cities as a protection against tuberculo
sis instead of taking more radical meas
ures for Its eradication from milk
herds, would be protecting only those
who live in the cities and would ex
pose all who live in the rural districts.
The only real safeguard lies in the
complete eradication of bovine tubercu
losis."
found the outlook tery gloomy in this
state. He talked with lumbermen and
other thippera during the day, and ex
pressed himself freely on this subject
last night.
Hie car aituation is very serious "
said he. "fchippors have a legitimate
cause for complaint at their inability
to get equipment. The railroad men
themselves admit they are unable to
handle the trallio offered. The O. R.
A N. seems to be the worst road in this
territory as far as car supply goes,
"There is some complaint of discrim
ination In the matter of cars. It
charged that the eastern end of the sys
tem is favored as against thia end
There is no way to remedy this, except
for the roada to get a larger number
cars. Of course tbe question is still
unsolved whether the O. R. A N.
using aii it equipment to the best ad
vantage, but there is no doubt that for
an originating road, it has too littl
equipment.
"The Northern Pacific last year put
into service four times as many new
cars as the O. R. & N. owns today
The O. R. A N. had on it line in Jun
of this year about 6,421 cars, of which
4,900 were borrowed and SOU it own
The Oregon Short Line owns 7,000 ctrt
and had in June approximately that
number on Ita traokt. Tbe O. R. A N
has 600 cars ordered, and the Oregon
Short Line 600.
"The managers have on tbe Southern
Pacifio system a car pool, by which car
owned by any of the Harriman lines
are treated as at home, no matter on
which of the allied lines they are, but
there is a strong rivalry between all
parts of the system to make a showing,
so that the O. R. A N., which is the
worst off for cars of any road in this
territory, haa a difficult time of its
own, owing to its short equipment,
keeping within seeing distance of
business."
YEARN FOR STATEHOOD.
Governor of New Manico Urged to
Call Convention.
Santa Fe, N. M., Sept. 18. Dele
gate Andrewa, national committeman.
Lunar II. O. Bursum, chairman of the
Republican central committee, ex-Unit-d
State Attorney Childers, Judge A.
L. Morriaon, General John P. Victoria,
a Democrat, Postmaster Walter aud
other citiaena today called upon Gov
ernor Curry to urge him to call a con
stitutional convention within two
montli so that a constitution may be
diaftad, submitted and adopted by the
people before congress meets after the
holidays, with a plea for admission to
Statehood. It it propotted to call to
gether the delegates elected to draaft
the constitution under the joint state
hood plan a year ago, most of whom
have e i pressed willingness to serve
without compensation.
Governor Curry declared himself In
hearty accord with this plan and prom
ised to take action after hia return
from a consultation jaith President
Kooeevelt.
Within the past few dajs 'nearly
every newspaper in New Mexico has
com. out In favor of holding a constitu
tional convention this fall and senti
ment for statehood it practically unanimous.
CITY BURNED LIKE TINDER.
in
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DOORS THROWN OPEN.
DISPATCHES BUNGLES ORDERS. I Canada
Trains Collide In New Hsmpahir. and
24 Ar. Killed.
White River Junction, Vt., Sept. 17.
A fearful head-on collision between
the south bound Quebec express and
a north bound freight train on the Con
cord division of the B ton A Maine
railroad occurred four miles north of
Canaan station Sunday, dae to a mis
take in train dispatcher orders, and
Irnrrt . flAnifll ished Daseenuer coach
there were taken out 24 dead and dying
and 27 other passengers, most of them
seriously wounded.
Nearly all those who were In the
death car were returning from a fair at
Prune Crop Heavy.
Eugene Th fruit evaporators in
Lane county are Generally in operation
now, tbe Drnnea comina in fast. The
crop In thiieonntv this year is said to sharhrnok. Quebec. 60 miles north.
oe nearly al the bumper crop oi Tne conductor of the freight irain
tatt year. t,en tont of the prune ... i,an to understand that he bad
went to wait Waue the evaporators inf- tim- to reach a siding by the
wui.i , uv Dandle tnem nigbt operator ai ianaau atauiu, -there
are mors evaporators, and the eld celving, according to the luperintend
onet have been enlarged, to it is prob- nt o( tj,e division, a copy of a tele
able that there will be no wast, of any graph order from the train dispatcher
at Concord, wnicn coniusou mr uim
numbers 30 and 34
great amount
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Shloa Bring Much Salmon.
Wheat rt,,K R2c: bluestem, 84c; o F,npico. Sent. 17. Four ships
valley, 82C; red 80c. 0f the salmon fleet put In an appearance
wais h01 wlllte, Z3.oma)-; a'"'' today and among them tney Drought
(.1.50. from the Northern canneries io4,bjo
Barleypj 12.1(323.60 per ton;
xi art nf ha Imnn. At all but one of the
D'ewlng, t24.5o24.75; rolled, f-:- canneries the catch thia season was
S25.50. m. and the total pack will fall con-
Corn 1296130: cracked, vin-the averairtS. Theahipt
30-50. ' I that arrived were Star of France, from
Hay Vail ; moth v. No. 1, $170 v-knek. with 60.353 cases of salmon;
i per ton: p.atern Oregon timomy, , me(. jfegmith, from Naknek,
Will Not Restrict Japanese
Immigration.
Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 17. Thirty
eight thousand Japanese have been
given permission by the government to
come immediately to British Columbia.
They will cross the Pacific as rapidly
a steamers can be secured to bring
them. The news that Vancouver will
see an immigration hitherto unprece
dented was received today by the
steamer Woolwich, which brought 230
of the brown men. The ateamer In
diana is overdue now from ilonolul
with 300. Best informed circles de
clare that the Dominion government
will do nothing at all to prevent tl
further influx of Japanese despite the
Drotest of Vancouver.
The demand for labor is so great in
the interior of British Columbia and
on the prairies of the Northwest tha
as many Japs as wish to come will be
allowed. On the other hand, official
statements come from Ottawa that
Premier Laurier and Delegate Ishll will
confer tomorrow and arrange a nominal
limit. Nobody In Vancouver believes
that even if this ia declared it will be
adhered to.
There was no demonstration tods
on the arrival of the Japanese on the
steamer Woolwich.
Particulara of Hakodate Fir. Show
Destruction Was Great.
Victoria, B. C, Sept. 16. The
steamer Shawmutt, which arrived lio-t
sight from Manila via Japan and China,
with a cargo of hemp, tea. silk and
general freight and 40 aaloon passen
gers, including many naval, military
and civic officers from tbe Philippine,
brought further news of the great fire
at Hakodate.
It seems the big conflagration origin
ated in a soap factory near the Higa
ahlgawa school and I pread with great
rapidity, sweeping away hundreds of
bamboo houses. During the fire a pow
der magazine at Klshomachie exploded,
involving much loss of life. In all
300 lives were lost during the confla
gration and 13,000 homes burned, a
strong wind fanning the fire, which
spread with great rapidity.
Al) the foreign consulates, adminis
trative offices, banks, company offices,
schools, theaters, etc., were burned
with the exception of the American
oonsnlate, courthouse, railway station
and the customs house.
One steamer, the Nanay. Maru, waa
burned and tank in the harbor.
CEMENT, SI A BARREL.
Albany Shipa Much Fruit
Albany Mor. thaa 25
im pears nave !een shipped ont of Al
wnj una Beano... ana a lew more will
eeni oiu Derore the sh nrani.
concluded. More cherries ....
out of Albany this season than ever be
'"' anu, aocoruina to th.
ready nnder contract, the biggest prune
shipment ever made from Oregon .in
leave Albany this fall. If th: , '
crop come tip to present expectations
una Dig shipment will be realised.
Report on Reform "School
Salem-The report of N. II, Lco,,,.
tnper ntendent of the state reform
trhool was presented to the state board
?L,MDMetln8- Durinth.m,h
two Inmatea were returned from parole
and two who had escaped, m.kmK the
total enrollment 8 aa compared si
t the ginning of the month. The
turn of 1238.30 wa, received from t e
national government a charge, on two
inmate from Alaska.
Buys Apple at La Grand..
La Grande Contract for th aal. i
mor. than 60.000 hn.- "" !
m20: lu.T. ills cheat, $11
grain hav iVVW alfalfa. $1213.
fwite-AppE,, HCA1.60 Pr to'!
cantaloup .i 51.60 per crate;
Pchet. 7iLU.,-ftfr rate: prunes, 60
75c per crat?' .melons, 1 1 H c per
Pound: m.'" Riva"6c per box;
'pes, Sou jo per crate;
casabas,
VeReUbGurnip, $l-2 P
carrots
per sack;
"ini ;
"'n, I la, J' -,."k: cocnmliers, 1
$15c per a "S. nnions. 15220c rr
2rn; Ph - 20c perdocen ; pePlrs
"lOc n7 7n,l- pumpkins. 1H
n; tDin.T"d.',, nound, squash, 60c
$1 De, C.' ..tnes. 40TS0c per
7,y(?l per
4o per
dozen ;
Ronde apple at 1.40 per box ha. 1
concluded between E. Z. Carh. .
thit connty, and C. E. wt fi of Ln
ra. City. Sixty ,honmnd l'
apple mean approximately no
lo.dt. Loading of thit mon.u, J?'
will begin aa oon m the apS
eommaneea, or, la oth.r ord., , 0"
PotatosJ v - II V' hundred.
Brntecreamery.
Veau!:i ponmls. 838i
125l'Vuni J5 50 to S
turksv. ,? drpr,. ireese,
geese,
candled, 30c per
Hop
. - ...lea. o - I
Pr ucn... .teri, "Ci
Wool.
lfV5,2-v
a. r.pocr-rHi
pound.".
Mi I9U anow. u
.versa beat, for th. I
t.OSoxdingtoSrink. waa$21
pootH.fV50riling to fine- 181, a
with
34.272 cases; B. P. Cheney, irom iax-
nek. and Charlea B. Kenney, irom
Nuahagak, each with 35,000 cases.
No Thought of Resigning.
Rmfcon. Sent. 17. "Yon may state
positively that my resignation is not in
the bands of the president, and there
s no likelihood of its being ottered,
said United States Attorney General
Bonanarte today preparato ry to his trip
tn Chicairo to take up the case of the
government against the Chicago A Al
ton railway. According to a dispatch
in the morning papers, he had resigned
on account of the granting of immunity,
to the Chicago A Alton by Mr. Morri.
on. who heiran the suit against the
Standard Oil.
Bookkeeper Is Arreated.
Goldfleld. Nev., Sept. 17. Herbert
Riggs, bookleeper for Broker Paul New
man, wno was lounu uuimiw iuui in
Newman s office late rriday night and
11.150 missing from the open safe, has
been taken into custody. While there
is no direct evidence connecting him
with the robbery, bis conflicting state
ments regarding the affair have led the
police too aufreet that he knows more
than he haa told, and be will beheld
until the mystery haa been cleared np.
Earnings Show Increase.
Denver, Sept. 17. Th. twenty-flrst
annual report of the Denver A Rio
Urande Railroad company, Issued jes
ter, lay by Fresident h. T. Jeffrey.
shows that the Income of the company
for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1907,
,o.'o, an increase of 11,704,.
comparea witn the prey ions
year, and th net earnings were $8,156,
929, an increase of $574,989.
Moors Hav. Had Enough.
Casa Blanca, Sept. 17. With the
submission of all the trlhes, which now
seems practically assured, it would ap
pear today that the mlsson wheh took
General Drude into Morocco bat been
fully accomplished. Persont acquainted
with the country declare that the move
ment of the tribesmen ia over. They
are essentially agriculturists and they
are in a hnrry to return to their fields
for their first rains. It is understood
that when absolute calm Is re-estab
lished here the troops will be distrib
uted to eight seaport.
Express Trust In England.
London, Sept. 17. Baron Komura,
Japanese ambnsHador to Great Britain,
c.ted npon hir Kdward Grey at the
Foreign office thia afternoon and die
cussed the anti-Oriental disturbance in
Vancouver. The ambassador took with
him long dispatches which he received
from the Japanese consul at Vancou
ver and Ottawa and it it understood he
assured the foreign secretary that the
Japanese had the greatest confidence
that the Canadians would punish those
wno were responsible for the attack
npon the Japanese.
Reduce Rat.t One-Third.
re .
iopexa, Kan., fept. 17. The state
Doard ot railioad commissioner has
prepared a tariff sheet providing a re
ductlon In freight ratt of about 33 U
per cent, which it will present to the
legislature ll a special session is c.lUl
Governor Hoch has practically said he
wm can a special session if the roads
do not grant the two-cent far. rat.
This puts the question squarely np to
the railroads of either granting the
or oi iacing a tight.
Russians Emigrate to Siberia.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 17. A tele
gram received here from Riaxan sayt
that 61,000 emigrant hav. parsed
throngh there tince the beginning of
th. year, bound for Siberia.
N.w Factory In Montana May Become
Boon to Northweat.
Helena, Mont, Sept. 16 Work has
begun on the construction of a $600,000
cement plant at Three Forks, a town
east of Helena, at the junction of the
Gallatin, Madison and Jefferson rivers.
on both the Northern raciflo and St.
Paal railways. As a result of cheap
basic materials, the company propose
marketing the product at $1 a barrel.
as against $4 at present.
The plsnt will have an ultimate ra
pacity of 1,000 barrels a day, and will
the largest of Its kind in this sec-
Ion of the Northwest. The company
at a fully subscribed capita) of $2,-
400,000, and is said to have five tnilea
of limestone and silica lands.
James and liyrum Pingree, of the
Pingree National bank, of Ogden. Utah.
are at the head of the enterprise, while
V. iioettcher, of the Billings sugar fac
tory, F. T. McBride, a Butte lawyer,
and Joseph Scowcroft, of Utah, are the
main factors.
Not Enough Coal at Home.
New York, Sept. 16. The situation
with regard to the proposals Issued by
the bureau of equipment of the Navy
department for supplying coal for the
battleship fleet on ita voyage to the
Pacific has assumed rather interesting
shspe here by the statements of several
agents of the larger coal mlnina eon-
oerna that they would not present bids.
ineir reasons are that the v have not
the necessary quantity of coal on hand.
aside from the quantity demanded by
private coniracia wnicn nave been en
tered into.
Strik. Hampers Traffic,
alt. Taul, Sept. 16. A sennral arrik
of boilermaker on th. Chicago A Great
Western, Great Northern, Omaha,
Northern Pacific and Soo railroad. ...
called Saturday. The boilermaker are
aided In their fight by their helpers
and in the case of the Great Western
the machinist In the big shops at Oel
wein went out In sympathy. The
strike of boilermakers followed a re
fusal of the railroads to v.i. .
demand for 45 cents an hour east of
the Missouri river and 47) cent west
of that river.
Drude Threatens Vengeance.
Paris. Sent. 16 Mnlr.n nr..t.i -i
- ..." .iuiii e,
Hafig, it is reported, h.. .nn a
that he will pay the coat of tb. r...u
expedition to Morocco, on eonHl.i,.
hat the French evacnata th. ...
Only two columns of tribesmen are now
reported to be under arms In the Casa
Blanca district. The Utimt .,ii.-.
ceived from General
if the deltffatM from tha tri .... '
for peace did not appear at noon today,
he would destroy the Moorish camp.
Boycott Dishonest Road.
N Yo,k. s'Pt- 16. By the use o
rigid boycott on nnarnnnU,. n
and by the elimination of ini,ii,..,.
preference to favored shin
latter declared to U .,.,..r,
rebate, the railway magnate, of the
r-est propose to make a .tr.,,.,,.... ....
to re-luce the impendinst fall cs .K...
age which admittedly i. threatening
the Industrie of the entire country.
Oppot. All Expoaltlons.
Lincoln Neb. Sept. 16.-8en.tor
J. Burkett. who l.... .vi. ,
for Washington touy d,". t,7t
h would fight th Al..i,vi.
position appropriation in fVn wmm.m tl.
Zn'&V 4h7P
town had been a lamenUbl. failure and
sr""" ,och
t