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HAPPENINGS HERE IN OREGON SALB OP BASTBRN OR BOO N PINB. Acre Tract Will Held for Higher Prlcee. LOOK FOB WATER OUTLET. Be Booth-Kelly Company May BnOd to Snlslaw Harbor. La Grande— One Of the largest tim «Eugene— Rumors here to the effect ber deals made in Oregon for some time that a railroad to the Siuslaw harbor is 'was that to George Palmer by Robert to be one of the enterprises of the Sm ith, president of the La Grande na Booth-Kelly company have gained some credence from the fact that cruisers tional bank, of 'the white pine tract have been at work in the timbered re known as the Stanley lands, about 25 gions west of hers. The company m iles from La Grande. This piece of denies any intention of such an under land comprises about 7,000 acres, and taking. The belief is general that they would was sold at near the $200,000 m a rk ., like to get possession of some of the Near this land is situated the Elgin good timber on the coast slope and be lumber company plant, which was in ■ in position to compete for business by •eluded in the sale. This company was means of water freights, but nothing organised in May, 1902, and has been definite has been done on that line as yet. The annual meeting of the stock -olosely connected with the development holders is to be held next week and -of lumber industries in Eastern Oregon. may result in some steps toward devel The annual output of this plant av oping business along the coast slope, erages 12,000(000 feet of lumber, which but nothing is looked for before that found a ready market as far east as M il time. There'is no doubt the interior m ills waukee and Chicago. The tract of tim all feel keenly the handicap under ber is one of the finest in Eastern Ore which they are laboring as compared gon, and consists principally of pine of with m ills to which water transporta unusual height and sise, standing upon tion is accessible. -comparatively level ground. A t some future time an extension of RJONBY FOB PUBLIC BOAD5. the O. R . & N. from its present termi nus at Elgin w ill tap this section and Oregon’s Share of •deveiop a large industry in lumbering, Over $90,000. and when the land has been cleared of Salem— The public road fund re timber it w ill still be valuable for agri ceived by the state from the United cultural purposes. Mr. Palmer, the purchaser, states States for the year 1903 is four times th at he bought these lands as an invest as large as ever before. The amount ment, and w ill not manufacture this is $90,135.24, and this amount w ill be tim ber, but w ill hold it for increased distributed among the counties in pro stum page. H e is a banker from the portion to their areas. The distribution utate of Iowa, and is very favorably im w ill be made some time this week. This money is 6 per cent of the pro pressed with Oregon, and w ill likely lo ceed» of sales of government land in cate here in the near future. Oregon for 1903. I t is donated to the state under an act of congress, and VALLEY PILLINQ UP. can be used only for public road pur poses. The state law requires that it be Advertising the Willamette Has Brought apportioned according to area and the Many to Oregon. large and thinly settled counties get Salem— The advertising which has the greater part of the money. The been carried on in the Middle West in apportionment is made in that manner because the needs of the counties for the last two years for the purpose of at road purposes depends more upon area tracting homeseekers to Oregon seems that upon population orvalue of prop to have produced good results. Nt>t erty. The increase in sales of public lands for many years has real estate been as in this state .is indicated by the in active as it is now, and still greater ac crease in this fund. tiv ity is expected before the close of the present year. for Wheat. There is no blind rush to buy land, Pendleton — M . L . Morrison, who and no effort is being made to “ boom " owns a large wheat ranch at Juniper this section of the valley, but many in the Um atilla district, and who is sales of farm lands have been made to livin g in Pendleton this winter, has just returned from a visit to that sec people who are pleased with this tion of the country. He says wheat country and have money to invest in conditions for the 1904 crop were never permanent homes. Though most of better. Mr. Morrison said: “ Grow the sales have been made at prices but ing wheat never looked better. W ith favorable conditions until after harvest, little above those asked three or four that district should yield 30 and prob years ago, the increased activity is ably 35 bushels per acre. Last season tending to raise values, thus giving J,he the yield was about 20 bushels to the realty market a strong tone. acre. In the different localities of the W ill amette valley land may be found in PORTLAND MARKETS. any stags of improvement. There are thousands of acres of land that still bear a heavy growth of timber, fit to Wheat— W a ll* Walla, 73c; blue- be made into fuel. There are thous stem, 78c; valley, 78®80c. ands of acres of land from which the Barley— Feed, $20 per ton; brewing, timber has been removed and upon $20®20.50; rolled, $21. which the decaying stumps still stand. Floor— V alley, $3.75®3.85 per bar Lying alongside these unimproved lands rel; hard wheat straights, $3.90®4.10; are farms upon which grain, hay, fruii. clears, $3.55®3.75; hard wheat pat hops, livestock, poultry and vegetables ents, $4.20 @ 4.50; graham, $3.75; of superior quality are grown. I t is whole wheat, $4; rye flour, $4.50@ upon these lands that a dairyman can 4.75. . ' support a cow to the acre, that hqp- Oats— No. 1 white, $1.07X 01.10; growers and prunegrowers have pro gray, $1.05@1.07 per cental. duced crops in one year sufficient to pay Millstuffs— Bran, $18®18.50perton; for the land upon which they grew. middlings, $26; shorts, $19.50®20; chop, $18; linseed, dairy food, $19. Hay— Timothy, $16® 17 per ton; Merging Sagar Fee tort**. La Grande— Word comes from Og clover, $12®13; grain, $12®13; cheat, ^ ^ den, Utah, to the effect that there w ill $12® 13. Vegetables— Turnips, 65c per sack; be a consolidation of all sugar fac carrots, 75c; beets, 90c; parsnips, 85c tories in the three states in the jiear @$1; cabbage, lX ® 2 c ; red cabbage, future, which is considered very prob able. Should it take place it would i X c ; parsley, per dosen, 25c; tomatoes. mean the consolidation of eight fac $1.50@2 per crate; cauliflower, 75c® tories, as follows: The Ogden, Logan, $1 per dosen; celery, 60c per dosen; Utah, and La Grande, Oregon, fac pumpkins, lc per pound. Potatoes— Fancy, 70@75c per sack; tories of the Amalgamated sugar common, 50@60c; sweets, 2 % c in company, the factories at Lehi and sacks; 2 X c crated. Garland, Utah, and the Lewiston, Onions— Y ellow Danvers, $1.10® Idaho Falls and St. Anthony factories 1.25 per sack. in Idaho. Honey— $8@3.50 per case. Fruits-AApples,. fancy Baldwins and Coming Event*. dpitsenbergs, $1.50 per hox; cooking, Poultry and cat show, Portland, 75c® $l; pears, $1@1.50; grapes, $1.50. February 9-15. Butter— Extra creamery, 32Xc per Republican club banquet, Portland, pound; fancy creamery, 30c; choice creamery, 26@27>$c;dairy, 20®22X c; February 12. Oregon Christian Endeavor conven store, 12@14c. Cheese — Full cfeaxn, twins, 14c; tion, Pendleton, February 19-22. Benton county gun shoot, Corvallis, Young America, 16c. Poultry— Chickens, mixed, ll® 1 2 c February 22. per pound; springs, small, 13@14c; College oratorical contest, Pacific hens, ll@ 1 2 X c ; turkeys, live, 17@ university, Forest Grove, March 13. 18c; dressed 20c; ducks, $8@9 per Dog show, Portland, April 20-23. dosen; geese, live, 8c per pound. ■ 4k** Eggs—-Oregon ranch, 27@28c. Hops— Choice, 26@27c per bound; Looking for Fattened Hogs. Enterprise— E. E. Kiddle, a hog- prime, 25c; medium, 24c. Wool — Valley, 17® 18c; Eastern buyer of the firm of Kiddle Bros., of Island City, and La Grande, came in a Oregon, 12@15c; mohair, 32®35c. Beef— Dressed, 6@7Jic per pound. few days ago for the purpose of buying Mutton— Dressed, 6 ® 7 X c ; lambs, a load of fat hog». The weather is so cold now that they can be hauled in 7 X c. Veal— Dressed, 7®9e. wagons to the railroad with little or no Pork— Dressed, 5 X ® 6 X c . danger of death from suffocation. Mitchell Fathers BUI Which He Will Stroagty Urge. Washington, Jan. SO. — Senator M itchell has introduced a bill making further provisions for $ civil govern ment for Alaska, and w ill strongly urge its early passage. The b ill is as fol lows: Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled, That set ion 2 of title 1, chapter 1, of an act entitld:, “ An act making further pro vision for a civil government for Alaska, and for other purposes," approved June 6, '1900, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: “ Section 2. There shall be appoint ed for the district a governor, who shall reside therein during bis term of office and be charged with the interests of the United States government within the district. To the end aforesaid be shall have authority to see that the laws are enforced and to require the faithful discharge of their duties by the officials appointed to administer the same. H e may also grant reprieves for offenses committed against the laws of the district or of the United States until the decision of the president thereon shall be made known- He shall be ex-officio commander in chief of the m ilitia of the district, and shall have power to call out the same when necessary to the due execution of the laws and to preserve the peace, and to cause a ll able bodied citiaena of the Unhed States in the district to enroll and serve as such when the public ex igency demands; and he shall perform generally in and over said district such acta as pertain to the office of governor of a territory, so far as the same may be mails or become applicable thereto." RECOVERING DEAD REMAINS OP 71 PENNSYLVANIA MIN- ERS BROUGHT OUT. Work Has Just Bogun for One Hundred More Mon or* Sure to Havo 4-RoaaUs of Many are Crisp aad All an Bereaved are Stupefied with Qrtof. Pittsburg, Pa., Jan. 29.— Three days have elapsed since the terrible catas trophe at the Harwick mine of the A l legheny Coal company and tonight at midnight 71 bodies have been recovered and brought to the surface. Onlx one of these has been identified. The day has been one of horror in the little v il lage on the h ill above the pit mouth, but even while the blackened bodies were brought from the top of the shaft and than on sleds to the achoolhouse on the h ill above, where the undertak ers were ready to receive them, there seemed to prevail in the community as a clutch that repressed their natural feelings of passionate anxiety and sor row, the grim realization that there is still much work to be done before the lu ll extent of the catastrophe has been realized. Tbs Allegheny’ Coal company tonight in an official statement positively ad mitted that all of the men who were in the mine when the explosion occurred are dead. There are 171 names on the list, which does not include Selwyn M. Taylor, or the two men who were on the tipple above the mine shaft whan the explosion came. Nor does the list include the name of Daniel Lysle, of Ckstle Shannon, whose body was found in the mine this morning. H e was MUST MAKB WAR. one of the men who went down in the Russian Reply to Last Note Win Not mine to work last night but became separated from the rest and wandered - Be Satisfactory. off. His body was found sitting with London, Jan. 30. — It , was made his back to the wall of one of the known officially today that Russia had rooms. completed her reply to Japan. The Daily M ail professes to be able INCREASES PENSIONS OF MANY. to affirm that Russia’s draft of her reply has not yet been officially pre Hot BUI Makes $8 Instead of $4 Per sented to Japan, but that it has been Month the Minimum. communicated to M . Kurina, the Jap Washington, Jan. 29.— Representa anese minister at 8t. Petersburg, who tive Sulloway, of New Hampshire, has transmitted the contents to Tokio, chairm in of the committee on invalid whence it w ill be conveyed to the pensions, today introduced a distinctly friendly powers. • The Russian reply’ !* courteous, the service and age pension bill, which Daily Graphic continues, but it refuses, w ill give to each soldier who served 90 in uncompromising terms, to permit days and who reaches the age of 62 the reinsertion in the draft of the years, $8 per month; 66 years, $10 per treaty of the two words, guaranteeing month, and 70 years, $12 per month. the integrity and independence of In addition to the foregoing rates, his China upon which Japan insisted in b ill gives to the men who served two years or more an additional increase of her last note. The clause proposed by Japan was $2 a month in each of the above that Russia and Japan should mutually classes. The bill increases the minimum of agree to respect the integrity and inde pendence of China and Corea. Russia pensions allowed to $8 per month, in has now stricken out twice the word stead of $6, which w ill increase the “ C hina" and it is understood this w ill pensions of 12,394 soldiers who are now on the rolls at $6 per month. close the negotiations. The b ill further provides'that the pen I t is probable, the Daily Graphic goes on, that when this not has been pre sions of widows who married soldiers sented Japan w ill notify Baron De prior to January 1, 1870, and who are Rosen, the Russian minister at Tokio, now on the rolls drawing $8, shall be that she has no alternative but to take increased to $12. Heretofore the law up arms in defense of her interests, has been that they could not get $12 and that M. Kurina w ill be instructed unless their husbands die of disease to demand his passports. In the mean contracted in the service. time instructions have been sent to the QRBATBB NAVY IS FAVORED. two Japanese cruisers now at Colombo to proceed to Singapore. LARQB FIRE IN YUCATAN. Blaze at House Committee dntiens of Moody. Washington, Jan. 29. — Secretary Principal Port 9f Progresso Moody concluded his recommendations $ 2 , 000,000 today before the house committee on Mexico City, Jan. 30.— Fire at Pro- gresso, the chief port of Yucatan, des troyed an entire square of business houses and public buildings, including the market. The loss is $2,000,000. The railway offices were also consumed. The public buildings were not insured, and the loss on them is $300,000. Fifteen thousand bales of henequin were burned. The business quarter, in which the fire first broke out, is half a m ile from the wharves, and fronts on the Ala meda, the most beautiful plaza in Pro greso. The origin of the fire is un known. The square, which was con sumed, consisted for the most part of one story buildings occupied by busi ness houses. The market house, a large single story building, which fur nished the only means of obtaining food supplies, was destroyed. O regon S hort U ne naval affairs. He presented two plans prepared by the general board of the navy as the building plan for next year. The first was based on an ex penditure of $34,000,000, and included provision for one battleship, one arm ored cruiser, three protected cruisers, four scout cruisers, two squadron col liers and two submarine boats. The second plan provides for an expendi ture of $30,000,000, and is a duplicate of the first programme with elimina tion of two of the scout cruisers. The secretary recommended building naval stations at Guantanamo, Cuba, and Subig Bay, P. I. The station in Cuba, ultimately, is to cost $12,000,- 000, and the one in the Philippines $9,000,000. One m illion dollars is asked this year for the Guantanamo station, and a little less than that amount for the one in the Philippines. * nd union P ac ific TIREEc TRAINS ts tks EAST DAILY Fran Patini Through Pullman Standard ana Tourist sonali? conducted) weekly to Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis and Memphis; reclining chair Mrs (seats 1res) to the Cast dally. TIME SCHEDULI» A paiva Dar «BT Portland. Or. 4tMp.Sk Salt Lake. Denver, Chleage Ft. Worth,Omaha, Portland Kanaaa City, St. Spasisi Louls,Chleageand I b i . m. via la s t H a ltin g ton. A t'entlo Expresa . S:1S p.m. yla Huntington. 10 -JO a. im. •t. Paul Fast MaU. ' T 7 *6 a. m. St. Paul , , A tta b le Ripresa. Past U s i l i .^ .m .1 •p o k e*. — — . ■ - •A ‘ > a O C E A N A N D R IV E R S C H E D U L E VKOH PO RTLAND . •SS p.m. *11 tailing dates subject to change S lM ftM k Far San Franelso»— Ball every S days • nivff Dally Kx.Sunday • :0U p.m. Saturday To Astoria and Way Landings. « 10:00 p. m. 6:00 p.m. kx. Sunday * MlllansHs [ i Mar 8 : » p. as. •:46 a.m. Tuet , T h « , Mon., Wed. Salem, Indepen Sat. and Fri. dence, Corvallis and way landing!. Yamhill River. p. Afta 7:00a.m. Mon., Wed. Tues., I'hur. Oregon City, Dayton and Fri. and Sat. and way landings. . • tasks River. Lv.La aristas Lv. Riparla •:00 a.m . 4:06 a. m. Riparla te Lewiston Dally except Dally exoapt Friday. Saturday A . L . C R A 1 Q , Passcagar Agent. Portland. On CORVALLIS & EASTERN RAILROAD. T i m e C a r d N o . 2 4 a No. 2 for Yaquina: Leave« Alban y............... 12:45 p. m. “* Corvallis......... ....2 :0 0 p. m. Arrives Yaqnlna................. 6:20 p. m. No. 1 returning: Leaves Y a q u in a ...«............ 6:45 a. m. “ C o rv a llis ............... 11:30 a. m. Arrive A lb an y................... 12:15 p. m. No. 3 for Detroit: Leaves A lb a n y .................... 7:00 a. m. Arrives D etroit.................. 12:20 a. m, No. 4 from Detroit: Leaves Detroit.........7....... 1:00 p. m. Arrives Albany.................... 5:55 p. m. . Train No. 1 arrives In Albany In time to counect with the 8. P. south bound train, as well as givin g two or three hours in Albany before the departure of the S. P. north bound train. Train No. 2 connects with the S. P. trains at Corvallis and Albany R iving a direct service to Newport and adjaoent beaches. Train No. 8 for Detroit, Breltenbnsh end other mountain resorts leaves A l bany at 7:00 a. m „ reselling Detroit at noon, giving ample time to reach the Springs tbs same day. For further Information apply ta E dw in S tonz , Large Coal Mia* to Work. Pueblo, Colo., Jan. 30.-—Circulars received in this city today from the general sales department of the Colo rado fuel and iron company are .taken by business men to mean the early re sumption of all departments of the big plant, which closed down two months ago because of the coal strike. The circulars say in part: “ W e are now pleased to announce that affairs have so shaped themselves as to enable us to resume operations." This announce ment is sent out Under the direction of the vice president and general manager. Japaa Taka* 20 Steamers. Manager. Victoria, B. C., Jan. 29. — The T s o i. C ocxkzll , Agent, Albany. H. H . C bonobz , Agent, Corvallis. steamer Kaga Maru, which arrived this morning, brought news that 20 steam ers had been commandered by the Jap anese government before she sailed, all for the naval department. The five BO YEARS* EXPERIENCE liners of the Australian line of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, including the j,ust completed Nikko Maru, had their fittings torn out and were hurried to Yokohama to be fitted as torpedo-car riers. Three steamers of the American route to San Francisco had been taken and w ill be made auxiliary cruisers. Destaras P atents Money to Remain Untouched. Will Be Russia’* Last Word. Panama, Jan. 30.— The constitution al convention today appioved a meas ure providing that of the $10,000,000 to be paid to the republic *of Panama by the United States for the right to use the canal zone $8,000,400 is to re main untouched for the future benefit of the new republic. Berlin, Jan. 29.— The Paris corres pondent of the Berliner Tageblatt claims authority for the statement that the forthcoming Russian note to Japan w ill be Russia’s last word in the mat ter . The correspondent says also that Russia is particularly opposed to the fortification of Mesampho. C o p y r ig h t s A c . A n yon e sanding a skat eh and deecr1ptl<m may sickly aaoartaln our opinion lickly oa r opim o fraa whether an ' atabla. Communie». rantlnn I« probably patant I an<1 book on Pat enta Stona atitetly confidential. Ha---------- S •ant free- Oldest agency for amarina patenta. Patenta taken tsm ogh Haan * Co. receive •pattai notice, without chama. 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