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REWBERC GRAPHIC S E S S IO N W IL L B E B U 8 Y . C o n g r e s s M a y M a k e , C h a n g e s in S e v eral Im p o rtan t L a w s. NEWS OF THE WEEK I i a Condensed Fono lor Oar B u y Readen. R s s u m * o f th t L a s s Im p o rtan t but N o t L a s s In te re stin g E ve n ts o f the P a s t W e e k. A large section of the crater of Vesu vius has caved in. Fiance has ordered a squadron of warships to Tan( ier, Morocco. Justice Gaynor, of New York, ad vocates imprisonment for rebating. Russia and Japan have disagreed over their fisheries and talk of war. A plot has been unearthed in Servia which was intended to unseat King Peter. Spain denies that a secret treaty has been entered into with France regard ing Morocco. The recent session of the Trans-Mis- siadppi congress at Kansas City was the best yet held. Washington, Nov. 27.— The indica tions are that the short sees ion of con gress tliat opens December 3 and em pires by limitation March 4 next, w ill not go down in history because of any particular achievement. I t w ill be a busy session; all short sessions are, for three months is none too much time in which to perfect and pass the regular appropriation bills. Aside from this legisltaion, little o^national importance is likely to result. Following out recommendations made by the president in his annual ineesage, the house may frame, and possibly pass, some sort erf b ill lim iting inherit ances ; some bill proposing changes in the rate law, the pure food law and the anti-trust law may be proposed and dit-- cus.-ed, but nothing of this character is likely to get through the senate. Nor is there the slightest possibility of the passage or even report of a tariff b ill. These problems are of too great im portance to be disposed of in a short session, but a limited discussion may serve to bring the various ¡topics fairly before the country, and may result in legislation at the long session of the next congress. This was theQcourse fol lowed in the case of the railroad rate bill, and it pioved to be a wise move on the part of the house leaders. G O L D IN T H E W R E C K . A street car strike at Hamilton, E a ste rn M a n S e c u re C o n c e s s io n fro m M e x ic o fo r R ecovery. Ont., caused serious riots and troops had to be called out to restore order. Mexico City, Nov. 27.— A special to A discharged Cuban chief of police th Herald from Guadalajara says: B. F. Richardson, a capitalist of has taken to the field with a band of Pennsylvania, and C. W . Johnston, a followers. Rural guards are pursuing. Delaware man, have secured from the I t is said that- Sir Hendy Campbell- Mexican government a con «cession for Bannerman w ill resign as premier of the recovery o f the gold that ¡s t ill re the British cabinet and take a place in mains in the hull of the Golden Gate, the house of lords. the American ship that was beached on Hungary has decided to close all the the coast of Colima, a short distance Cunard steamship agencies in that from Manzanillo, in the winter of 1861- country, as they encourage emigration, 62. Mr. Richardson is now in this city. Mr. Johnston recently left San which is not wanted. Francisco for the scene of ffie wreck, China threatens a boycott ou Japan. accompanied by divers and other assist Harriman is reaching after all pub ants. The Golden Gate was on the way lic utilities in Chicago. from San Francisco to New York, and Peary has arrived at Sydney, N. 8., carried nearly $1,500,000 in gold coin, on the steamer Roosevelt. destined for New York banks. W h ile San Francisco is going ahead with heading north toward Manzanillo fire broke out aboard the vessel, and in an plans for a world’ s fair in 1913. attempt to save the passengers the ship President Smith, of the Mormon was run ashore. However, nearly 200 Church, has been fined for polygatmy. persons were either burned to death or tjV . ' I t is said Platt and Depew w ill re drowned. Of the amount aboard the turn to the senate, defying public opin ship, between $800,000 and $900,000 ion. was recovered some time later. I t is The king of Greece while in Rome believed that there still remains in the was slighted by the other Balkan hulk of the vessel at least $500.000 in gold. __________________ states. Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco, de clares the indictment against him is the result of politics. A prairie fire in Western Texas has caused the loss o f several lives and great damage to farm property. Policy holders in German insurance companies who lost in the earthquake w ill pool their claims in an attempt to oollecct. The town of Carlsbad, N . M., is snowed in and is without fuel. Bacon is being burned by many to keep from freezing. The price of lumber has again been raised $2 per thousand feet at San Francisco. Shingles have also gone up 25 cents per thousand. The president has started home from Porto Rico. W OULD BUY CABLE. T a le g r s p h C o m p a n y R e e k s to A cq u ire G o ve rn m e n t W ire in A la s k a . Portland, Nov. 27.— I f congress w ill authorize the sale of the government cable which reaches from Seattle to Seward, with branches to Juneau and Skagway, the North American Tele graph & Cable company w ill lay a n other wire from Seward to Vladivostok. The company stands ready to purchase the government cable, together with 1,400 miles of land lines, for $2,180,- 500, which represents the actual cost. To extend the cable to Vladivostok w ill cost approximately $1,500,000. J. T. Flynn, secretary of the North American Telegraph & Cable company, is in Portland en route from Seattle to Washington, where he w ill represent hie company at the coming session of congress, when a bill w ill be intro duced to authorize the sale of the cable. Mr. Flynn was in the real estate busi ness in Portland about 16 years ago. H e is a guest at the Oregon hotel, where he is meeting many of his for mer acquantances^ “ Probably the most perfect wireless telegraphy stations in the world are in Alaska, and are managed by the gov ernment,*’ said Mr. Flynn. “ The sta tions in mind are on Norton sound, and one is at St. Michaels and the other at Safety harbor. They are separated by a distance of about 38 miles. They are operated by soldiers, and the last sea son they transmitted 1,260,000 words without a single error.” r. SE E K S GUARANTEE. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST N o rw a y F e a r* R u ssia M a y Attem pt to Seize O n e o f H e r P o r ts St. Petersburg, Nov. 28.— An inter national compact guaranteeing the in violability of Norway against territorial C O A L M IN E O P E N E D . M O N E Y IN P O T A T O E 8 . aggression by any power wliatever, and giving the new kingdom a status some G ra n d R o n d s F a rm e r s M a r k e t B ig C o m p a n y F in d s E lg h t s s n -F o o t Vein what similar to that of Switzerland and Belgium, w ill soon be inscribed on the C r o p s at G o o d P ric e s. N e a r A sh lan d . records of diplomacy'?’ On account of I a Grande’— Farmers who planted Ashland— There is no little interest its extended position, the possession of potatoes last spring are reaping a boun and enthusiasm in this section of the valuable deep water liar hors on the A t tiful harvest in the Grand Ronde val state over the opening up of what ap lantic and the agreement with Sweden ley, The gross income from this year's against fortification in the neighborhood S ix ty T h o u sa n d M e n — A ffected a n d crop Is placed at $50,000 on the output pears to be permanent coal deposits of the frontier, Norway is in a peculiar of potatoes from this valley. I t is es Coal croppings have been discovered for W ill A d d M H IIone to Annual ly exposed position and the first efforts timated that 100 cars w ill be necessary 30 or 40 miles along the Cascades from Pay ro ll o f C o m p a n ie s. of the Norse diplomacy have been di to ship this season’s crop. These fig the state line northward, but no depos rected toward eliminating the danger ures are computed on the basis of 1,000 of being attacked and securing facilities acres with an average yield of 00 sacks its of sufficient extent to justify devel for the peaceful development of the Chicago, Nov. 24.— Sixty thousand to the acre. This has been the yield opment have been found in the pros country without the crushing burden of on unirrigated lands on the “ Sand- pecting heretofore. Some lime ago the employes of the great industrial and a large army. ridge” section, and the estimate Is con company that is opening the Blue Lead W ith regard to the action of Norway railroad corporations were today grant servative. More than half of the entire copper mines In this section, after in approaching the powers for the pur-, ed increases in wages that w ill add m il potatoe acreage of the valley is In the curing leases on a considerable area of {lose of securing these concsesions, it lions to the annual payrolls. One o f vicinity of Imblen and A licel. land, began prospecting on the Furrey can l e stated that Russia, the power the notable increases was that announ Fields that have produced 60 sacks to place on the east side of Bear creek, mof t directly concerned and from which the acre— and very many tracts have ced by the United States Steel corpora about seven miles from Ashland. Norway apparently had most to fear, done better than that— give a net re They began by running two tunnels in spite of the denial by the Russian tion, by which its 20,000 unskilled turn of $27.60 per acre. The gross re- into the mountain. One of these Is foreign office that Russia was endeavor workers w ill receive an addition of 10 ceipts from an acre at the present price now 2?0 and the other M 0 teel lnto the ing to secure a Norwegian port, or in cents per day to their wages after Jar - of «5 cents per sack amounts to $39. • nlountai and ^ 18_.{oot vein of coa, any way contemplated infringing on One of the prominent growers figures . , ’ npd un The has uary 1. This w ilf add about $600,000 Norwegian territory, had ro objection the cost of production per acre at L . . ,p , p‘ . . , , to the payroll. a ,. - A • i| .. Ao been tested and appears to be of excel- to the conclusion of a convention. Ger $11.50, as follows: Cultivating, $.1; | ^ quaUty. T he^unnels are seven many already had'signified her approv The New York Central firemen were iS T ; r 1 ’ 13 ; 1 feet square and run parallel 70 feet al of the movement of.which Great today granted an advance averaging be seed $1; hauling, $1.60 aparL Th are ^ tlmberad and Britain is the sponsor, and ^France w ill tween 6 and 7 per cent as a result o f The heaviest yield so far reported is a£ W i cofinected by cro88 cut8 every follow suit. completion of the wage cconference a t Russia admittedly contemplated se New York. The advance applies to a ll ¿ V ' x* ce“ 8 1 ? » feet, for ventilation and to extract secured 300 sacks from an acre. A t the the coal rrK„ „ 4V.________ They extend into the moun curing a deep water harbor, one easily the lines of the company except the present market price, Mr. 8urby’s In- * tain from the west to the east on a 7 defensible, on the fiord southward of Boston A Albany and affects about come for an acre is $195, of which j r cent incline. North Cape, but ia now w illing to dis 6,$00 n e i . By an adjustment of th e about $183.50 is net. A six-acre field,/ , , i About 25 men' are "being employed claim these pretension and make the working hours firemen on switch en on the , Oregon Red i r ^ comps y a and the work is being pushed night and be t use of the present available port of gines w ill hereafter have to work only ground, north of La Grande, gives a Aav nth«., ,n day. Other crews are employed in Yokatemina, on the Murmanian coast. 10 hours a day instead of 12. yield of 200 sacks per acre. These po building coal bins, scales, grizzlies and The Calumet A Hecla Mining com tatoes are grown entirely without lrri screens for sorting the coal. pany announced at Calumet, Mich., to ,tion, and on account of their superior C O M P A N Y P A Y S T H E F IN E 8 . day, that, beginning January 1, th e uality are rated 10 cents higher than wages of all its employes at the mines, the open market. T o Im p ro v e Federal P roperty. L a w F a ils to P un ish R ailro ad O fficials and stamp m ills would be advanced 16 The returns from the six acres w ill Salem— Francis W . Grant, superin fo r Reba.ing. 1 per cent. ' The action, which affect» be $900. The patch was planted as a tendent of construction of public build Chicago, Nov. 26.— Railroad officials between 5,000 and 6,0000 men, was matter of getting the ground in suitable ings of the United States Treasury de condition for cultivation. partment, has been in the city to in fined by the government for rebating taken voluntarily, the first intimation The being given the employes when the no- spect the plans, look over the grounds do not pay the fines themselves. Such a t . tices were posted. and draft prospective plans, specifica stockholders pay the bills. C o l. H o f s r T e lls H is H o p e s. tions and make estimates upon the least is the case of the Chicago, Burl-1 Beginning next Monday, 30,000 cot University of Oregon, Eugene— Col \ proposed improvement of the grounds ington & uincy, according to evidence' ton m ill operatives at Fall £ iv err onel Hofer, of Salem, addressed the as surrounding the Federal building in submitted today to F. K . Lane, of the Mass., w ill work under a new scale, sembly at the university. H e w as full this cit which have remained in an Interstate Commerce commission. The adding 10 per cent to their wages. T h » of enthusiasm over the development of • unfini8hed condition ever since the evidence was taken in connection with agreement in this case was forced on the state of Oregon, and predicted th at! erecti0n of the building, three years the punishment of the railroad recently the managers, by the operatives, who- the growth would be marvelous i f there ago, ago> ana and ior for which im p le m e n t con- by a $40,000 fine and of First Vice had voted to strike unless the new seal» which improvement were two competing railroads in th e 1 : grass has appropriated - - a fund - of $10,- President Darina M iller and Traffic was adopted, and also by the fact that state. He was of the opinion if these 000 Agent C. C. Burnham by fines of $10,- M. C. D. Borden, an important manu two railroads enter the state, that Coos facturer employing 6,000 hands, and 000 each on charges of rebating. bay would see the terminus on one and Today’s hearing came on a charge the Fall River Iron works mills had al Pin Faith to. C h e rrie s. that country would shortly develop a La Grande— Cherries, of the ship that $20,000 of the road’s funds had ready met the demands of the m ill city of 150,000, and Portland would be ping varieties, have proven one of the been used to pay ' M iller’s and Burn hands, and his action forced the other the other center for the end of the rail most profitable products of the Grand ham’s fines. “ Solicitor Dawes, o f the m ill managers to yield. road system.' Two such thriving cities Ronde valley, and for that reason there road, paid the fines to Clerk MacMillan would be of great benefit to the state. M e a n s A d v an ce fo r 100,000. w ill be many new cherry orchards put of the United States court,” testified out in the spring. George Thomas., of General Auditor Sturgis. “ He tendered Boston, Nov. 24. — According to ad Cove, w ilt plant 1,000 trees. Mr. a $60,000 check signed by Cashier W . vices received from cotton m ill centers B e n so n A n n o u n c e s C h a n g e s. Salem— In addition ¡to the appoint Thomas is one of the most extensive F. Fabian. It was accepted in pay in Southern New England, an advanc» ment of W alter Drennan, to succeed F . cherry growers in the valley, and now ment of all three fines. The amount of 10 per cent in wages granted by ’ t h » T . Wrightman as head of the corpora has about 20 acres of cherry orchard ih of the check was not entered as a single Fall River manufacturers today t o tion department, Secretary of State- full bearing. During the past season amount on the books. It was placed their 30,00 employes w ill affect nearly Southeastern elect F. W . Benson has announced that these trees yielded at the rate of $325 in the ‘correction of freight earnings’ 100,000 operatives in account and spread over two months, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Eastern S. A . Kozer w ill be promoted to chief per acre. April and May. The account contained Connecticut and several towns in other clerk to succeed F. K . Lovell, and that C r a w fo r d fo r Ju d ge . entries necessary in errors in accounts sections. It is understood, however, Kozer w ill be succeeded by H . H . Cor Salem— Governor Chamberlain has of freight earnings — claims arising the advance w ill not amount to 10 per ey, of Baker City. Kozer is now audit ing clerk. The remainder of the office announced that he w ill appoint T. H. throughjjderaands on ovei ’.barges and cent except in Fall River and several force of Secretary of State Dunbar w ill Crawford, of La Grande, to succeed the like. The $60,000 was spread over small villages. be regained until after the session of the Robert Eakin as circuit judge in the two months that the monthly report of legislature. There''will be no change Tenth judicial district, when Judge Ea the road that carried the freight might Y E A R ’S I N C O M E O F R A I L R O A D 8 » in the force of janitors until after the kin goes to the Supreme bench in Jan not show too large a reduction for a uary. Other men who were in consid single month.” legislature. In c re a se o f N early 8 0 7 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 1» eration for the circuit judgeship were Turner Oliver and W . M. Riamsey, of N et E a rn in g s. E a g e r to r a N e w County. IS S U E S W O R T H L E S S P A P E R . Hood River— A t a big mass meeting La Grande, and D. W . Sheahan, of Washington, Nov. 24. — A prelim i held hgre for the purpose of ascertain Enterprise. Crawford w ill serve under nary report of the Interstate Commerce S te n slan d ’s C rim e B r in g s O n A n o th e r ing public feeling in regard to the this appointment until July, 1908. commission on the income account o f Several Large Industries Raise Pay et Employes. STEEL TRUST LEADS MOVEMENT . ______ C r a s h in C h ic a g o . movement to create a new county, to PORTLAND M ARKETS. Chicago, Nov. 26. — Chauncey L. be known as Cascade county, the senti Russian rebels have been denied an Graham, vice president of the Steel ment was unanimous and committees asylum in Finland. Wheat __________ ____ _____ petitions Club, 64c; bluestem, 67c; Ball company, was arrested last night w ill be appointed to circulate at his residence in Evanston by detec The New Y ork Central railroad has to be presented to the next legislature i val|ef ’ , with that object in view. A number o f! ®at* ^ $24.50@25.50; tives from the office of State’s Attorney again been fined for rebating. Healy on a bench warrant issued by prominent men here spoke on thq ques- : r 23-50<924. Three men are dead and others are Barley— Feed, $21.60 per ton ; brew Judge Kersten, the charge being utter tion, and statistics were presented missing as a result of the deep snow in ing fictitious pftper. The accusation which show that the new county can be ing, $22.50; rolled, $23. Texas. Rye— $1.40(31.46 per cwrt. grows out of the Milwaukee Avenue governed more economically than the Corn — W hole, $25.50; cracked, State Bank failure. The Steel Ball con “ Thirteen were killed by the collision same treritory is under present condi $26.50 per ton. cern owes the bank approximately tions. o f the trans-Atlantic liners in the Eng Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $11® $270,000, and most of the notes it gave lish channel. 12 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, are considered worthless. B ig O p tio n on T im b e r Lands. Mayor Schmitz, of 8an Francisco, is $14@16; clover, $7(98; cheat, $7.60® The receiver said he has been unable Atsoria— An option covering the sale 8.60; grain hay, $7.60®8.50; alfalfa, on his way home from Hamburg to face to find the makers, endorsers or guar of 9,040 acres of timber lands, 3,200 the charges against him. $11.60; vetch hay, $7®7.60. acres being located In the northern, Fruits— Apples, common to choice, antors of certain • notes, and that he Bryan and Shaw were the principal part of Tillamook county and 5,840 5 0 ® 75c per box; choice to fancy, $1® does not believe they can be located. speakers at the third day’s session of acres in the southern part of Clatsop 2.50; grapes, 60c®$1.25 per crate; He thinks they are all fictitious. , the Trans-Mississippi congress. county, at $26 per acre, has been filed pears, 75c®$1.25; Cranberries, $10® M e a n s 8 2 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 M o r e W a g e s. for record in the county clerk’ s office. 12.50 per barrel; quinces, $1®1.25 per M i n v vessels were wrecekd and 23 Kilted by the R urale s. The lands belong to A. W . Priest and box; persimmons, $1.50 per box. r Pittsburg, Nov. 26. — Two m illion liver are known to have been lost in a El Paso, Tex., Nov. 27.— In a colli the option for 30 days was given to R . , severe storm on the Great lakes. ‘ Vegetables— Cabbage, l J i ® l ) { c per dollars additional each year w ill be sion here today between Mexicans and V . Jones and R. F. Fox, of Portland, ‘ pound; cauliflower, $1.25' per dozen; distributed through the Pitstburg steel Federal authorities at San Francisco a captain and two privates of the Mexi and sold by them to Godfrey von Platen. celery, 75®85c per dozen; " lettuce, district-by reason or the increase in are to investigate the alleged lumber can rurales, composing a part of the head, 20c per dozen; onions, 10®12)^c wages of the labor force of the United trust in Oregon and Washington. guard of the Mexican Central pay car, H a lse y R eal E s ta ts Hitcher. per dozen; pumpkins, lj^ c per pound; States Steel corporation, which goes The Monon railroad lias defied the Manuel Baretta, of this plaec, was stab The notice of Halsey— Halsey has slept long and spinach, 4®5c per pound; tomatoes, into effect January 1. Interstatte Commerce commission and bed and instantly killed with a bayonet well while the great, busy world about advance w ill be posted in the steel 30®50c per box; parsley, 10®16c; w ill issue passes in payment for adver by one o f the rurales. The rurales es it has been making rapid strides, leav squash, l ® l i £ c per pound; turnips, mills about December 1. A conserva caped into Mexico. The affair is be ing it far behind. tising. Nowhere in Linn 90c®$l per sack; carrots, 90c®$l per tive estimate of the total number of lieved to have been the outgrowth o f ( county has there been so little demand sack; teets, $1.25® 1.50 per sack; laborers employed by the subsidiary The mayors of several Kansas towns I fe®]in* • American-Mexicana j f„ r real estate as in and about Halsey, ’ ^ h d i 7 ^ » ® V « _ ) c „ " p ^ ' pound; SWOOt companies of the United States Steel w , f __ _ r a d _______ are being removed because of a deter- and officials of Mexico, caused by the but within the last six months things ! potatoes, 2® 2)^c per pound, corporation in wliat is known as the ¡nation on their part to license liquor recent arrest and effort to extradite a l have changed. Real estate is higher Pittsburg district, is 50,000. Onions — Oregon, 75c®$l per hun into. leged revolutionists. than ever before known in the history dred. W itta H o p a a to D om inate. Trains are snowbound in Kansas. of the town. The noise of the saw and Potatoes — Oregon Burbanks, fancy, A la rm e d by M a il R ob b e rie s. ( ’ Rome, Nov. 26.— Private reports dis hammer has Awakened the citizens from 70®85c; common, 60® 70c. E l Paso, Texas, is expreiencing the St. Petersburg, Nov. 27.— The min their peaceful slumbers. Butter— Fancy creamery, 2 5 ® 27 ){c credit tbe rumor tliat there is a possi coldest weather in 26 years. ister of the Interior issued orders that bility that Count W itte may become per pound. General Shatter left no w ill. His henceforth the postoffice shall only for The R a c e s fo r the L a r d Office. Eggs— Oregon ranch, 35®37>^c dos. the Russian minister of finance. property is valued at $15,000. ward money within the Russian empi e North Bend— The announcement by Poultry — Average old bens, 10®1 lc animosity against W itte is being in by means of money orders. The prac the land department that contest filings per pound; mixed chickens, 10® 11c; creased so greatly that it w ill not be A ll parties in Russia have joined in tice of sending currency in the regisler- would be received in a number of In spring, 1 0 ® llc ; old roosters, 9® 10c; surprising if an attempt were made to a campaign of abuse against W itte. ed mail w ill be abandoned because of dian allotment claims has caused many dressed chickens, 13 ® 14c; turkeys, assassinate him. This advice adds The crown prince of 8ervia is en the almost ilaily robbery o f mail trains, horse races from points in Curry county live, 17)tfc; turkeys, dressed, choice, that it seems to be W itte ’s intention to by bands of armed revolutionists, whore to the land office in Roeeburg. raged at the charges of insanity. It is 20®21c;' geese, live, 10c; ducks, be appointed president of the council of booty from this source vrf procedure lias alleged only such Indians and half- 14®16c. the empire, thinking that in that post The Interstate Commerce commis reached such proportions tliat the gov breeds as belong to tribes or live on Veal— Dressed, 5 ) l ® 8 ) { c per pound. he would nuain he able to dominate. sion is gathering evidence of rebates to ernment has to repay by installments. reservations are entitled to allotment Beef — Dressed bulls, l® 2 c per th e grain trust. Italy A d m its A m erican P o r k . claims. pound; cows, 4 ® 5c; country steers, H a rd « L o s t in Blizzard, Rome, Nov. 26.— The board of health 5 ® 6 *c. Spain w ill join with Britain and M u c h W h e at at W eston. El Paso, Tex., Nov. 27.— A special Mutton — Dressed, fsncy,-8®9c per hat ut< ided fo admit American pork France in a naval demonstration to the Times from Almagordo, N. M., ! ■’to I t >Iv without other requirement Weston— It is estimated that about a pound; ordinary, 6®7c. against Morocco. says tliat the goat and sheep raisers of quarter of a million bushels of wheat t an t he regular certificate of (he Amer Pork— Dressed, 6 ® 8 ){c per pound. The recent floods have caused a loss t ie Sacramento mountains in New are stored in the warehouses in this v i A Hops— 1906, choice, 14(«15c; prime, ican dc)jar1mcn4 of Agriculture. o f nearly a m illion dollars in the vicin Mexico lost from 60 to 80 per cent of cinity. The local market has been 12013c; medium, 10012c per pound. microscopic inspection w illj not be ity of Castle Rock. their herds during the recent blizzard, dull, awaiting a solution of the car sit W ool— Eastern Oregon average beet, made, it being considered that the hy- France has barred American pork. which, it is said, is the heaviest loss uation. It is thought that nearly fiv e -' 13016c per r pound, according to shrink gien’c measures taken in the United ever experienced by the industry in the sixths of the crop ia still in the hands age; "re sufficient to warrant the pur The new meat inspection rule« violate ago; valley, 20021c, according to fine- th e o ld agreement. I West. ity of the meat. of the growers. , ness; mohair, choice, 26028c. R BIG WAGE ADVANCE tbe railways of the United States for the year ended June 30 last contains returns from companies operating 220,- 026 miles of lines, or about 99 per cenb of the mileage that w ill be covered in the final report. The total gross earnings of the roads were $2,319,760,030, being equivalent to $10,643 per mile. Passenger earn ings were $618,565,934, or $2,811 per mile, and freight earnings $1,640,942,- 862, or $7,458 per mile. Operating ex penses were $1,512,163,163, or $6,96.3 per mile. The net earnings were $787,697,877, being $3,580 per m il» and nearly $97,000,000 more than t h » corresponding amount of the previous year. Incomes from other sources than those of operation aggregated $132,624,- 9782. The dividends paid amounted to $229,406,598, and taxes $38,903,288. N e w R u le s f o r R a ilro a d s. Chicago, Nov. 24.— In its last circu lar Issued yesterday the Interstate Commerce commission has given th » railroads an important Hint on through rates. The circular modifies to an ex? tent one issued October 12, in which permission was given the railroads to reduce on a single day’s notice th » through rates where they are greater than the sums of the local rates. Ship pers snid it did not afford them any relief, adding that the commission should declare the styns of the locals to be the through rates in such cases. D e n ie s T h e m Im m unity Bath . Minneapolis, Nov. 24.— Grain firms and railrord men who were recently in dicted by the special grand jury in Minneapol s at the instance of the de partment of Justice w ill get no " im munity bath” from the Interstate Commerce commission, which cloned its session today, as none of the wit nesses before the last jury were called by the commission in the investigation of the relations between the grain trade and the railroads. _________ — — s G o vern m en t T o M a k e T o rp e d o e s. Newport, R. I., Nov. 24.— Arrange ments are report»! for the establish ment in this city of a government tor pedo factory where all of this class o f explosives n s»l in the United States navy w ill be manufactured independent of private concerns. O