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.
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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„ „
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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
.
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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
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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, $1.25® 1.50 per sack; laborers employed by the subsidiary
The mayors of several Kansas towns
I
fe®]in*
•
American-Mexicana
j
f„
r
real
estate
as
in
and
about
Halsey,
’
^
h d i 7 ^ » ® V « _ ) c „ " p ^ ' pound; SWOOt companies of the United States Steel
w
,
f
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are being removed because of a deter-
and officials of Mexico, caused by the but within the last six months things ! potatoes, 2® 2)^c per pound,
corporation in wliat is known as the
¡nation on their part to license liquor
recent arrest and effort to extradite a l have changed. Real estate is higher
Pittsburg district, is 50,000.
Onions
—
Oregon,
75c®$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.
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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.
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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.
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