Newberg graphic., April 06, 1905, Image 2

REWBER6 GRAPHIC
■. n.
Great Irrigation Project fo r Southern
Idaho Receives Approval.
WOODWARD.
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EN RIC H TH E LAND .
■ r i n
THIN ON THE WATER
P O IS O N F O R BABES.
Adulterated Infant Food Kills H alf a
Million a Year.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
Chicago, A pril 3. — Nearly half a
Washington, April 4.— The Payette-
m illion b a b i« died in the United
Boise irrigation project in Idaho has
jBtatea last year from the effects of adul­
received the formal approval of the sec
L IT T L E W H E A T IN U M A T IL L A .
P R O T E S T T O G O V E R N M E N T.
terated infant foods, poisons used in
rotary of the Interior, who recently set
coloring butter and candy, formalde­
hyde in milk, and other impure a r t ic l« Removal - o f Land O ffice to Portland Only One Large Lot o f 40,000 Welts
aside $1,300,000 for initiating thè
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of
diet turned out by fraudulent manu-
Coming o f Assessor.
work of construction. This action 1ms
it Bitterly Opposed.
been anticipated for some time, and is
Pendleton— Assessor Strain report!
Oregon City— 1
There w lil be vigorous
ut largely the result of the splendid enter-
but one lot of w hretof any consequence
opposition
offered
to
the
proposed
re­
the executive committee of the National
in the county to be assessed thia year.
prise of the citisene of that section.
association of State Dairy and Food moval of the land offire from this city
The claim that the removal of the This is 40,000 bushels belonging to the
Departments,
which
met
today
at
the
For more than a year the landowners, Engineer Davis Proposes to W stef
office to Portland is being made for Balfour-Guthrie Warehouse company
Grand Northern hotel.
o f ths L u i Important but organised into a water-users’ associa­
economical reasons ia not accepted as in this city. A ll other large lots have
Large Section South o f the
A
bitter
war
in
the
ranks
of
the
asso­
Interesting E vanta
been disposed of long ago and most o f
tion, have labored indefatigably to har
Columbia River.
ciation is expected to be „revealed. genuine by Oregon City people, wbo
o f tha Past Weak.
it shipped from the county.
monise the many conflicting claims of
Food commissioners from different think they see in the plan a move pre­
- The Puget Sound warehouse reports
liminary.to
the
consolidation
of
the
states, health officers and officers of the
private interests in lands, canals, and
the purchase of a small lot of 1,600
government’s
land
business
in
this
National
association
are
in
attendance.
Russia w ill float another internal water rights, y ith the result that today
Washington, A pril 1.— The prospect
bushels of w h « t from Oliver
Oo.,
D tfferenc« of opinion concerning the state in a central office with headquar­
loanof $100,000,000.
practically the valley as a unit stands for government irrigation in the Uma­
ters at Portland. A t prerent there are grocers of this plare, but aside from
alleged
adulterations
are
said
to
be
re­
Congreeamen say Ban to Domingo pledged to the government en te rp ri«. tilla country has materially brightened
that there are practically no « 1 « .
Paul Pierce aix land offices in the state, those other
in the last few days, s i n « the receipt sponsible for the strife.
needs a prote to rate.
Great as the satisfaction of the citi­ of a report from Edward I . Davis, as­ of Chicago, and R . Allen, of Kentucky than in this city being located at The Some of the farmers who had seed
Payne aaya the coming congreaa w ill sene may be on account of the favor­ sistant engineer in charge of the Uma­ secretary of the association, are the D a li«, La Grande, Lakeview, Roreburg wheat saved over from last fall, which
and Burns. A t any rate it is believed they did not need to use, are offering
not change the present tariff laws.
able action of the secretary, it is no tilla project. A fter making exhaustive leaders of the two factions. Mr. Allen here that a cons didst ion of the Oregon that for sale, and some small purchaa«
Government receipts for March ex­ greater than that felt by the reclama­ topographic surveys, Mr. Davis reports has come to Chicago to look after his City and Rbe< burg offires could be have been made.
ceeded the expenditures by nearly $1,- tion service, which has long recognised that he has devised a scheme by which interests.
Estimates are that not over 75,000
The claim of enormous fatality alhong effected to the improvement of the ser­
he b e lie v « it w ill be possible to irri­
000 , 000 .
bushpls remain in the county, and all
the fact that the Payette-Boire project gate anywhere from 100,000 to 250,000 infants last year resulting from impure vice. But so far as the move being in
the interest of economy, Oregon City three are in small holdings. Those
. Robert J . W ynne,'recently appointed
is one of the most attractive in the acres of extremely fertile land lying food is m a d e fy J. N. Hurty, secretary people laugh at the i d « . The Oregqn wbo have not sold w ill likely hold over
consul general at London, has left for
of
the
Indiana
state
board
of
health
arid West, and but for the many and just south of the Columbia river in
until another year, as the p r i c « of late
his post.
Mr. ilu rty produces figures to show City office nowoccupire a suite of five
rooms, for which a monthly rental of have been declining instead of advanc
complicated private and corporate in­ Umatilla, Morrow, Sherman and G il­ that 65 per cent of the total deaths
v The Japanese are making a turning
liam countire.
$30 ia paid, and it is argued that sim ing.
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a ivement on K irin, preparatory to an terests involved, would have been se­
I t was originally intended to utilise infants in America last year were ddb ilar rooms could not be had at Portland
to
poisons
administered
in
impure
foods
lected for the initial woik of the gov­ the floodwaters of the Um atilla river
' attack on Vladivostok.
w
T O C O N T R O L F R U IT P R I C E S ^
and the deadly concoctions placed on for several times that amount. In ad­
The Seattle representative of a Jap­ ernment in Idaho. The people, having for irrigating t h e « lands, but an ex­ the market by fraudulent food manu dition it appears that accommodations
anese concern has offered to furnish worked out satisfactory solutions to the haustive s « r c h failed to find any feas­ facturera.
H e p rod u c« statistics to must be prt vided for the' land office at Growers' Associations, Arrange fo r
20,000 Japanese laborers to dig tbs divers problems, are deceiving of the ible damsite on that stream. Engineers show that more than 700,000 infants Portland, a il available room having
Singta Sailing Agents.
found that the bed of the stream was
been otherwise appropriated in the gov­
Panama canal.
success which has finally crowned their of such l o o « structure that no reser­ died in the United States last year
Hood River— In order to prevent
ernment buildings.
In their present
The president has selected Theodore efforts.
voir could be built that would hold
. “ . I f Mr. Hurty’
_ s figures . are
. .. correct,’ quarters the officials of the Oregon City overstocking of the fruit markets, th «
P . Shonts, president of the Toledo, St.
* ,erc®> and I believe they
W h ile the citisene were straightening water. But Mr. Davis has discovert#
land office have no extra room and fruit associations of Hood River, Puy­
Louis A Western railroad, as head of out their d if fic u lt « the government what he b e lie v « to be a feasible plan are, an army of 455,000 infants was
could
not transact the business of the allup and Vaahon propose to unite in
murdered last year by food adulters
the new Panama canal commission.
having one representative salesman
engineers thoroughly invretigated the whereby the government can store the
office
in
more limited quarters.
tions.
They were poisoned by infant
each at Helena, Butte and Great Falla,
Nothing has been heard for several physical conditions and worked out flood waters of the John Day river- and
The
land
office
here
is
the
first
land
foods and dyre and chemicals contained
and also at other points east.
days of the Japanese army following com prelènsive plans for irrigation, by a long canal divert it onto the land,
in the diet their mothers have fed them office that was retablished in Oregon,
At local points it is proposed that
General Linievitch, and St. Petersburg which have been presented to and re­ originally intended to be irrigated from
and
one
of
the
first
created
west
of
the
W h ile his plan is in an effort to appease their appetites Mississippi river.
one broker shall act for the several as­
authorites are fearful that another sur­ ceived the approvalof the board of con­ Umatilla river.
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to satisfy their natural desires for nour­
sulting engineers. These in v«tigation s probably more expensive than would
sociations. Fruitgrowers are determ­
prise is about to be sprung.
ishment and rear them healthfully to
be
the
original
Umatilla
project,
had
it
show that the project is entirely feasi­
ined as much as possible to fix p r i c «
Relict From Jackson County.
Tnhe Venezuelan court has decided
ble from an engineering standpoint. been feasible, it seems to present the maturity.
in each of the different markets.
Job­
Medford—
The
curious
aud
interest­
gainst the American asphalt trnst, ac­
When such conditions as t h e « are
The lands to be reclaimed are of excel­ only solution of this great irrigation
bers and commission merchants w ill
ing
relics
found
in
an
Indian
grave
on
cusing it of aiding the recent révolu
harrassing our land, when three baby­
lent quality, and with the climatic problem.
handle the fruit on a fixed basia, and
tion. A decision has also been ran-
killing food adulterators are permitted the farm of J. H . Ring, Jackson
As
soon
as
convenient
Mr.
Davis'
conditions prevailing are capable of
as
soon as any market ia likely to be
couaty,
a
few
days
ago,
w
ill
be
rent
to
derde against the French cable com-
sustaining a- d e n « population. The plan w ill be submitted to the board o f to stalk forth among us, blighting our Portland, as a part of the Jackson overstocked, the representativ« w ill
pany.
horn«, feeding on the l i v « of our
fertility of the lands now under irriga­ reclamation engineers, who w ill go over
county display at the Lewis and Clark advise the shipping associations to d i­
9
Oyaroa’ s army has resumed a general tion insures the financial soundness of the ground and determine npon its feas­ children to fatten their p u re«, is it not fair. In the grave, " besides the skel­ vert the shipments elsewhere.
advance.
the undertaking.
Nearly 90 per cent ibility. Reports seem to indicate that time that pure food workers regarded eton of the brave, there was found a
some other subject of greater import
of
all
the
irtfgable
land
in the valley is there is plenty of water in the John
Test Standard Ores.
Russell Sage has retired from active
than whisky, to the adulteration of decayed plainsman’s blanket, a U. 8.
Day
river
to
irrigate
at
least
200,000
pledged to repay the government its ex­
army coat, the buttons of which bore
Sumpter— D. L. Killen and E. F .
business.
which
they
have
lately
devoted
most
of
penditure for providing a permanent acres of very rich land. The reclama­
the dates of 1837 and 1487.
Three Warner, of the firm of K ilieu, Warner
Many Japanese prisoners in Russia water supply.
tion service is very anxious to construct their energy?”
Mexican dollars of the stamp of 1840
Co., mining promoterc, are now at
commit suicide.
The estimated cost of the entire sys­ an irrigation system in the Um atilla
were also found.
Then there was a Denver, where a tret is being made o f
REVENGE IS T A K E N .
scalping knife, beads of all sizes and the o r « of the Standard group, in the
Riusians say the Japanese are busy tem is $10,732,000, or an average coet country and is hopeful that Mr. Davis’
not to exceed $30 per acre for the land plan w ill prove practicable.
hues and other a r t ic l« taken by the Quartxburg district.
stirring up the boxers again.
This firm has
The withdrawals yreterday under this
which has no fa c ilit i« at present for
brave from unfortunate victims of In financed the Standard, and expects
--= The yellow peril scare against Japan irrigation . This amount includes main­ project are d « ir e d either for irrigation Russian Bom b-Thrower Mutilates an
dians during the early days.
targe returns from the immense body
Enemy fi f Socialisls.........
has been revived in Europe.
The new plans
tenance for ten years, also the value of or for rights of way.
of ore opened on the porperty.
Th e
Lodz, Russian Poland, A pril 3.— Po­
Bronze Statue o f Sacajawea.
The Bannockburn company may re­ existing works which would be utilized call for an extensive system of canals,
object of the tret is to decide upon the
but which would not have to be paid and the government, as far as possible, lice Commissioner Szabalovicz, of the
build its woolen m ills at Albany.
Portland— The clay model for the character of the reduction plant to be
for by the government, and the pur­ endeavors to protect rights of way of Second district, was seriously injured statue.of Sacajawea has been shipped installed at the mine this season for
The railway rate b ill w ill be ready
chase of rights of way, which w ill have this character, to prevent conflict with today by a bomb, which was thrown at from Chicago to New York, where the the proper treatment of the ores. The
in October, when the president w ill
him in the street.
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to be provided from the reclamation private owners.
bronze casting w ill be made. Miss Standard ia one of the many p r o p e r ti«
call congress together.
The p o l i « commissioner had been A lice Cooper, the sculptor, haa achieved
fund.
■hipping ore to the smelter here.
summoned by telephone to come to the a most remarkable success in her work
A ll reports of mediation, and peace
The full utilization of the water sup­
SE N D T H IS B O O K E A S T .
office of the chief of p o l l « , and started A fter the exposition the statue w ill be
are denied by Russian a u th o riti«, who ply in the P o i « and Payette rivers w ill
Cottags Grove Mill May Start.
on foot, followed by a policeman. The presented to the city of Portland. The
possibly be the complete reclanpition
w y the war w ill go on.
"
Cottagee
Grove— It is rumored that
of n « r l y 600,000 acres, which, divided Tall Your Friends About Oregon, former noticed, at the corner of Kon cost of the statue w ill be $9,000, of
Incendiaries set fire to the ship
the
Long
Bingham sawmill, which
stantinosk
and
Zawarski
streets,
i
Washington and Idaho.
into farm units of 80 acres, w ill mean
which $7,000 has been subecribed, ail
building works at Sevastopol, doing
poorly clad man carrying a basket. As but $200 of this amount coming from was recently sold to Eugene and other
7,500 farms, a rural population of 30,-
great damage to work under way.
The 1906 issue of “ Oregon, Washing­ Szabalovicz approached, the man sud­
p a r ti« , w ill soon be started up.
A
000, and a population in towns and
persons outside of Portland.
July 6, few meetings have been held between
ton , Idaho and Their Resources,” is­ denly hurled a bomb, which exploded
Dhring March 79,000 immigrants villages of double that number.
Sacajawea day, ail children under 15 the interested p a r ti« , and it is the ex­
came into this country through the
The agricultural w « l t h of the val­ sued by the passenger departments of with terrifie f o r « , blowing off the com years wearing Sacajawea b a d g « w ilt be
port o f New Y ork. Last year for the ley, «tim a te d on the basis of the last the Oregon Railroad A Navigatioa com­ missioner’ s feet and severly wounding admitted to the fair grounds upon pay­ pression that the m ill w ill start up in
the near future. This m ill was run
him in the breast. I t is feared his in- ment of 10 cents.
same month the arrivals were only 47,- census, would be approximately: Ir ri­
pany,, and the lines of the Southern
successfully for several months, as the
juries w ill prove fatal.
877.
gated land, $30,000.000; farm build­
timber was taken from the territory
Pacific in Oregon, is now ready for dis­
Heavy Rains on Arid Land.
The force fo the explosion is judgable
vAn anonymous threat to dynamite ings, $4,500,000; implements and ma­
8. E. Itail'oad .
tribution, 50,000 copire having b « n by the fact that it tore a hole in the
Irrigon— This whole section has re­ crossed by the’ O.
chinery,
$1,410,000;
live
stock,
$9,-
the Warsaw police has caused the offi­
George
II.
Keiljt,
of
the Booth-Kelly
ground
two
fret
deep
and
12
fret
in
qir
ceived such a drenching as the o l d « t
cers to beat everyone coming in the di­ 300,500; canals and rerervoira, $12,- issued. The book is divided into chap­
cumference. The accompanying police­ inhabitant never beard of at this sea­ Lumber company, and W . E . Brown,
000,000;
total,
$57,210,500.
In
1900
ters covering the following subjects:
rection oi the barracks, compelling
man drew his sword and wounded the son. The precipitation of last week of Eugene, have been invretigating the
the value o f farm property for the
them to go in another direction.
Climate, Dairying, Diversified Farm­ commissioner's assailant on the head. exceeds three week in c h «, and the en­
whole state of Idaho was $67,271,200.
H ayti is threatened with anti-Syrian It seems safe to assume that with the ing, Fish and Fishing, Fruit Culture, When the prisoner was searched
tire section east of the Cascad« and
Free Ferry to Lure Trade.
riots.
completion of the Boire-Payette project Grain Growing, G ra s s« and Forage loaded revolver and some cartridges west of the Blure is soaked down to the
Independence — Opposite Independ­
were
found
in
his
pockets.
He
is
re
gravel.
This
means
wonders
for
the
The kaisers visit to Morocco irritates the farm property of this section would Plants, H o r n « for Millions, Hop Rais
ence, on the Marion county side of the
have - a value equal to 50 per cent of ing, Irrigation, Lewis and Clark Ex­ ported to be dying from the sword cuts wheat belt in Morrow, Gilliam , Uma­
France and raises British h o p « ,
W illam ette river, is one of the most
rereived.
tilla
and
the
Horse
H
«
v
e
n
countries,
that of the whole state.
position, Lumber and
Lumbering,
A newly arrived Russian at New
The explosion was heard about five and to Irrigon it means that people populated hop sections of the state, and
The Boise and Payette valleys consti­ Markets, M i n « and Mining, Portland
it is the purpose of the people of this
Y ork has been found to have leprosy.
tute one of the most attractive sections the “ Rose C ity,” Railroads, Schools m i l « away. A ll the windows in the need not resort to irrigation for many
place to attract this trade by providing
In the past few years and C hurch«, Soil, Stock Raising, Veg- neighborhood were shattered. People weeks. Settlers have already put out
Japanese statesmen propose a triple of the W « t .
the residents of that section with a
in
adjoining
h
o
u
s«
were
thrown
to
the
over
150,000
tress
this
spring.
alliance of Japan, United States and they have undergone a transformation etables products, Lands in Western
free ferry to this point. A t the last
that is nothing l « s than marvelous. Oregon, condensed information about floor.
Britain.
meeting
of the Independence Im prove­
Szabalovicz
is
hated
by
the
Socialists
T o Open Oregon Belie.
The progress in agriculture is reflected towns and cities along the O. R. & N
The Salvation Arm y has established
ment league it was reported the owners
He is charged with killing a Socialist
in the splendid growth of the'towns ad­ and the Southern Pacific lines.
Ashland—
Ashland
mining
men
say
a fresh air home for Chicago waifs on
during the disturbanc« here in Decem­ that soon the Oregon Belle mine w ill be of the present ferry were w illing to dis­
jacent, and the whole basin presents an
Every gitizen of the states ex
a farm of f>0 acres.
pree of the present one, and it is the
alluring picture to the visitor, and fur­ ploited in the book w ill find it valu­ ber last.
added to the list of Southern Oregon
intention to buy it, providing a -price
Japan w ill insist on an indemnity nishes an excellent sample of the result able to rend to relatives and friends in
producers.
Development work
has can be agreed on.
large enough to pay the cost of the of irrigation. I t requires no particular other states who may ‘ be induced to
been done for some time past, bill a
Bidders fo r Refinery Bonds.
war and cession o f territory.
acumen to see that these valleys have come and live in the Pacific North­
Topeka, Kan., A pril 3.— The Kansas m ill w ill soon be erected and complete
Will Take the Oregon Census.
oil refinery bonds w ill not be pur­ working done. Mr. Gunnell, one of
Baron Science hall, with a number entered upon an era of substantial de­ west.
Pendleton—
The blanks for the regu­
Four cents in stamps rent to A. L. chased by the state school commission­ the owners, has just returned from the lar state census have been received by
of valuable instruments at Denison un­ velopment which is destined to unite
them
in
one
of
the
r
ic
h
«t
E)ast,
where
he
succeeded
in
making
Bids have
gncultural Craig, General Passenger Agent of the ers, as has been reported.
iversity, Granville,
Ohio, burned.
Assessor C. P. Strain, and the work of
com m u n iti« on this continent.
Oregon Railroad A Navigation company, been received from Boston, New York, arrangements to finance the property, taking it with the regular county as-
Loss, $100,000.
and
complete
development
w
ill
lie
Portland, Oregon, with the address of Chicago, Philadelphia and a number of
sresment w ill begin on A pril 1.
The
A homeseekers’ train on the Cana­
Decides to Indict Packers.
an eastern friend, w ill insure its being Western cities, but they were all re rushed. A 10-stamp m ill, with all last census taken of Um atilla county,
dian Pacific, carrying 600 passengers,
necessary
machinery,
w
ill
be
placed
on
Chicago, A pril 4. — Well-authenti rent.
jected because of the statement that
five years ago, showed 13,000 popula­
was wrecked near Dryden.
Several cated reports that the Federal grand
the bids were conditional upon the the property at once.
tion,
and Assresor Strain believes that
passengers were slightly injured.
jpry which is invretigating the businres
Japanese Rule Manchuria.
bonds standing the test case to lie
this year w ill show at least 22,000.
Indians are Dying Out.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says both methods of the meat packers w ill re­
The
Gunshu Pass, Manchuria, April 1.— brought in the Supreme court.
In taking this census Mr. Strain asks
nations have chosen Roosevelt to act turn indictments when it reconvenre Chinese merchants arriving here after case in court w ill be decided as soon as
Chemawa— From reports received the co operation of the people of the
as mediator, but peace negotiations are next Wednesday were prevalent today. a circuitous flight from Mukden relate possible, and another chance w ill then from the Grand Ronde reservation it
county to assist the census takers.
at a standstill, owing to the action of The report was that the adjournment that tne Japanese have taken over the be given bidders.
appears that the Indians of the North-
the war party.
w « t are either rapidly passing away or
taken yreterday was really decided administration of Manchuria,
th ey
Oregon Stock in Good Health.
else being absorbed by the body politic.
O regon Used Up the Funds.
The president of the National Packing upon in order to allow Assistant Attor have installed Japanree officials m
Salem— W ith the exception of mango
Washington, A pril 3. — Seventeen In the official report for 1878 it was in one band of horses in Eastern Ore­
company has been indicted for tamper­ ney General Pagin time to draw up the place of the Chinese, have taken pos­
ing with w itn ess« before the Federal bills at his leisure and give due con­ session of the Russian administrative special agents of the land office in var­ stated that there were 807 Indians on gon, in which case two head havo been
grand jury sitting in Chicago, and sideration to the mass of testimony buildings, and have established a Jap­ ious W «t e r n s t a t « were furloughed the Grand Ronde reeervf: in 1886 610 killed and the rest are being dipped,
taken s i n « the jqry first went into anese police force at Mukden. The today on account of shortage in funds. were reported;, in 1897; 399; while at the general health of stock in this
others are threatened.
ion.
work of converting the railroad from A large part of the appropriation for the present time there are living there state is good. This is according to the
RuMians have kidnaped the C h in e «
Port Dalny to Mukden into a narrow special agents has been consumed in 353, of whom 56 are old and decrepit,be­ verbal report made by State Veterina­
governor of Manchuria.
Display Burbank’ s Wonders.
gauge road has been completed, giving the employment o f special officer! en­ ing supported by the government.
rian M c L «n to the Domretic Animal
Secretary Morton and a congressional
San Francisco, April 4.— The women three rkilroad lines of supply.
gaged in running down frauds in Ore­
commission.
Fleeces Average 12 Pounds.
of Santa Rosa and Sonoma county w ill
party are visiting in Havana.
gon. Secretary Hitchcock deemed it
Pendleton— C h a r i« Cunningham has
PO R TLAN D M ARKETS.
make a floral exhibit at the Portland
Blockade Runner Taken.
more important to get at the bottom of
Mrs. Maybrick says failure to receive
exposition with the other products from
Tokio, A pril 1.— The steamer Indus­ facts in Oregon than to conduct exten­ 35 men shearing sheep on his ranch
money due her caused her conviction.
Wheat— Walla Walla, 86@87r; blue-
fouth of here, near P ilot Rock.
Thus
Sonoma county, and it w ill bfe made up try, whose nationality has not been sive formal elim inations elsewhere.
stem,
93@94c; valley, 87c.
far
they
have
shrered
10,000
and
have
for
the
most
part
of
Luther
Burbank’s
Prw ident Roosevelt has accepted a
ascertained, was seized by the Japanree
Oat*— No. 1 white, $28@29; gray,
11,000 to shear. His sheep are pure
She was prrembably
plan for receivers of Dominican reve- floral creations. If enough can be se­ on March 28.
Coal Minerà’ Scale Renewed.
7
bred Merino and are yielding, on an $27(828,per ton.
cured that w ill stand shipment to Port­ bound for Vladivostok.
The British
n n «.
Philadelphia, A pril 3.— The soft coal
lia
y
—
Timothy,
$14@1B,
clover,
$11
average,
fleeces
weighing
12
pounds
land, the display w ill be entirely of his steamer Mare, which was stranded off operators late this afternoon state«} that
The United States w ill help Presi­ flowers, as the women of the city and Rural promontory on March 17, while
«ach. Mr. Cunningham contracted all @12; grain, $11@12; cheat, $11@12
they had. practically agreed to renew
dent M o r a l«, of Santo Domingo, main­ oounty are anxious to show M r. Bur­ attempting the passage of Soya strait,
of his clip to the Union woolen mills per ton. ; ___
the wage scale. This w ill prevent the
tain the p r e «n t government.
E « P — Oregon ranch,
per
bank hoi£_they appreciate his work. -— ha* broken in two under her e n g in «. threatened strike of 50,000 miners in for 17 cents a pound early in the
dozen.
^
season.
Her
bow
and
stern
are
both
submerged.
the bituminous district. A joint con­
Adm iral Evan* has taken command
Batter— Fancy creamery, 27>{@30c.
Chile and Peru Have a Tiff.
Her captain and nine of the crew have ference of the operators and miners w ill
Will Run s Long Tunnel.
of the North Atlantic fleet, succeeding
P ita tore— Oregon fancy, 90c@ $l;
been
rescued.
,
-
Lim
a,
Peru,
April
4.—
The
papers
to­
be held in Altoona tomorrow to com­
Adm iral Barker, who retiree from
Silverton— The Lewiaxfc Clark Min­ common, 65(380c.
-
day print Chile’ s reply to the Peruvian
plete the arrangement.
active service.
ing A M illing company has let a con­
Apples— Fancy, $1.75(32.50 per box;
protest regarding Tscna and Arica.
Irrigation o f Umatilla Land.
tract for their 300-foot tunnel, to be choice, $1($1.25.
* —.... -*
An entire absence of news from its The repfy'delcara that Chilee is resolv­
Rushing Supplies to the Front..
Washington, April 1 .— The secretary
increased to 500 fret, and the work w ill
Hops— C h o i« 1904, 23>4(324c per
army ruases Russian officials at St. ed, without wounding the susceptibili­ of the interior today ordered the with­
St. Petersburg, A pril 3.— More than begin at once. la s t year this company pound.
Petersburg to fear communications have ties of Peru, to acquire definitely do­ drawal from entry of 690,000 acres of ten trains, stocked with provisions and equipped the mine with modern ma­
Wool— Valley, 19(320c per pound ;
been cut and p o «ib ly the army itself minion and sovereignty over Tarna and land in Oregon and 90,000 in Washing­ war material, are leaving St. Peters­ chinery and now this new contract w ill
Eastern
Oregon, 12@17c per pound ;
Aries.
ctft off.
ton on account of the Umatilla project. burg daily for Vladivostok.
thoroughly develop the ledge.
mohair, choice, 28@30c oer pound
ORBGO N
NEWS OF THE WEEK
k i Condensed Form for O
B u y leaders.
John Day Hirer Hay Irrigali
250,000 Acres.
LARGE TRACTS ARE WITHDRAWN
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