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\ NEWBERG GRAPHIC T O O B O O N FO R FAIR. PLU N D E R E D B Y H ILL-M O R Q A N Attorney General Aakad to Northern Pacific Scandal. t . h. WOODWARD, 1 Xi Air OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST California Governor Will Not 8lgn Bill fo r Appropriation. FLOOD IS RECEDING Sacramento, Chi., March 18.— G ov Philadelphia, Pa., March 19.— Re NEWBERG. ernor Q illett w ill not sign the Pacific duced to the form of affidavits and of documents, the authenticity of which Coast Exposition bill under any circum PR IZ E S FO R E 8 S A Y S . C AN N O T C O LLEC T PO LLTAX. have been proved in legal proceedings, stances. No amount of influence w ill • " W - to revelations concerning the wholesale plundering of the rights of stockholders Attorney General Passes on Validity 8ons o f American Revolution Want Es' lend to change his resolution in this respect, which, he says, is unalterable, says From Pupils o f Oregon. in the Northern Pacific railroad are o f Procedure. about to be presented before Attorney of It is not because the governor Is oppos Too Oregon society of the Sons Salem— Attorney General Crawford General Bonaparte. A t the time of the American Revolution offers prises to ed to the exposition itself, but because has filed his opinion in the validity of Hill-Morgan reorganisation of the the polltax collection with District tho pupils of the public schools of the he is fully convinced in h,ia own mind Northern Pacific railroad, Brayton Ives, Attorney John H. McNary, upon a re state of Oregon, for essays on subjects that the project has been sprung too then a prominent New York banker, Whole Buslnasa Cantai' o f tho 8m oky Return« o f th « L t d Important but was the president o f the old company quest from the latter. House bill 326, connected with our war for independ early and at a time when the jaipayers ence. Prizes o f $3Q and $20 w ill be which passed the last legislature, i City It Submerged Whon Ice N ot Loss Intarosting Events In February of 1896 Mr. Ivea, as of the state w ill 1« burdened enough to pealed sections 3041 and 3142 of Bellin given for the first and second best < o f the Past Week. G orges Go Out.. president of the Nothein Pacific, ap ger A Co’.ton’ code, which abolishes the respectively, written on any of the fol repair the damages inflicted on the pointed from his board of directors a “ Joseph Brant and $1 polltax law of 1864 and amended lowing subjects: state institutions and op California so-called “ protective committee,” in 1870 to exempt firemen from the the Indiana of the Revolution,” “ Pub Thaw is almost certain to go to the claiming authority to proceed with the polltax roll. The act of 1886 and sub lic Schoole as a Means of Americanising cities by the disaster of last A pril. In Pittsburg, Pa., March 16..—W ith the asylum whether acquitted or convicted work of reorganisation. Morgan A Co. sequent amendatory acts providing for the Children of Aliens,” “ Separation expressing his views the governor said: rapid receding of the waters in the Mo- were not only reorganisation managers, ' I told these people from the first An Illinois woman w ill organise an contracting with themselves as syndi the state revenuee cover the entire of Church and State in America.” that I would not sign this bill, that I nongahela, Alleghany and Obio rivers, The essays are limited to three thous ground of the section enacted in 1864, army of drunkards’ wives to carry local cate managers, but they were also syn would not burden the taxpayers of the conditions are resuming normal pro providing that itate revenues ehsll be 6 and words each, must be written in the option. dicate subscribers, and thus appeared state with a tax tc raise $1,000,000 at portions. The approaches tc the m ills on the dollar of all taxable prop student’s own handwriting on one side President Roosevelt is said to be back in a three-fold capacity, being joined erty and in addition to the $1 polltax. only of the paper, and accompanied by this time. In the first place, this pro bridges are now clear of water and. o f a move to start a boom for Taft for as syndicate subscribers with Mr. Ives The attorney general holds that after a certificate of the writer’s teacher, posed fair is six years in the future, and street car service in the flooded district and other directors of the old Northern it w ill be plenty of time at the next president. the repealing act goes into effect on stating that the writer is a pupil in rj • Pacific company. Millions of dollars sion of the legislature for the state has been resumed. May 26 the polltax cannot be legally designated class, and that the teacher President Roosevelt has appointed a were collected in assessments levied do her share. Another thing, it is A t 9 o’clock last night the \river had collected; that the assessment would believee the essay to be the pupil’s own commission on the improvement of upon the stockholders of the old North The essay must be absolutely foolish to begin operations fallen almost eight feet.' A t that hour not have the validity of a judgment un unaided work. waterways.- ern Pacific company, which it was til it is entered on the roll. As the signed by the Writer, giving also his or now, when labor is scarce and materi the stage was 29 feet and dropping six. Attorney General Thompson, of Ne thaught by the public were to be used * roll would not be mode up before the her postoffice address. They should be als high. braska, says the new 2-cent passenger to rehabilitate the company. “ I t is foolish for a man to have a inches an hour. set takes effect, the assessor would have forwarded to Mr. A . M. Smith, Fenton Instead of being so appropriated they rate law is constitutional. Ten square miles were inundated.. no further authority to collect the tax building, Portland, Oregon, and should housewarming before he builds his were gathered in and divided among Germany and Austria have combined or make up the roll, and^that there is reach their destination not later than house, and for the next two years, to The loss Is summarized su> follows: say tire least, the streets of Ssn Fran to oppose consideration of disarmament the syndicate as commissions sr.d pro no authority in future for sheriffs to the 26th of May, 1907. in output of steel mills, $3,- fits. This is one the of featuree of the at The Hague peace conference. collect the tax. , In awarding these prizes the commit cisco w ill be filled with bricks and de 000 , 000 . “ sell-out” of tjre old Northern Pacific tee w ill be governed by considerations bris. The bill provides that the people Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, company and is one of the many amaz in output, o f other industries». of: Originality, accuracy of statement, of San Francisco must n in e some $3,- proposes a conference of gevernment ing things connected with this remark Plan to Finance Normal. 000,000 as well as the state. Let them $ 2 , 000 , 000 . and state officials on railroad laws. able reorganization for which a com Salem— The maintenance of the Mon manner of treatment, orthography, syn do this an9 then the state can acl. tax and punctuation. These prizes are Loeses in wages of employes, $1,837,- The reclamation service has sus plete investigation is being demanded mouth State Normal school has revert offered to encourage love of our country 777. ed to the shoulders of the board of re tained Engineer Rose, of Idaho, saying of the authorities at Washington. and the study of its history. OVER A HUNDRED DEAD. gents. Under the provision made by Damage to industrial plants, $2,- the chargee are the result of work by Additional information may be ob them at a meeting here, a regular state 600,000. disgruntled contractor«. R O C K E F E LLE R M A K E S W IL L . ment of the contingent expenses, as tained by w riting to General Thomas Catastrophe in Forbach, Germany, Total, $9,337,000. The flood loss at Pittsburg is expected well as the payrolls, will be filed with M. Anderson, care of The Bnckngham, Mina from Firedamp. to reach at least $10,000,000, and many Plans to Give An Immense Fortune to the secretary of state, as heretofore, and Portland, Oregon. Various other estimates ae being Forback, Germany, March 18.— An made, ranging from $10,000 000 to- other towns in the path of the high — Use o f the Public.------ — severat banks have agreed to advatRee explosion of fire damp in the coal mine $20,000,000. water ate reporting losses proportion Crop Outldbk Good New Y o rk , March 19.— The Herald the money on them, requiring an M- ately as high. A t Wheeling, W . Ya., Reports from numerous Western at Kleinrossein, near here, last night, w ill tomorrow say that aceosding to a signment of the payrolls over to them. M ilton— Farmers in this section of 18 people have lost their lives. Pennsylvania towns are to the effect resulted in the death of over 100miners The members of the board w ill individ member of John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s Umatilla county are very optimsitic that the flood is subsiding. Tillman^Bays third term will be the bible class, and who is also a personal ually stand responsible for the payment over the prospect of a bumper wheat and the injury of 12 others. The dis The water in this city reached 37 aster occurred between 10 and 11 o’clock of the hypothecated securities. This iasue in 1908. friend of John D. Rockefeller and in a and barley crop this coming season feet at 6 a. m. yesterday, the highest in a small gallery in which 80 miners was practically the only coarse ’. they T 5 i The fall was an ideal one In regard to An Anstlran officer predicts an Amer- position to know of his affairs, the lat stage ever recorded. More than 100,- funds - - - - were at work. coaid follow, as there are no rainfall, there being plenty of moist ican.- Japanese war and American defeat. ter proposes to make a princely g ift to As the work of rescue progresses it is 000 persons were temporarily thrown New York City. I t w ill amount to at available by the state, and Governor ure in the ground before the setting in out o f employment; every transporta The Interstate Commerce commission least $60,000,000. I t w ill be partly Chamberlain could not take any atepe cf winter weather. The snowfall in seen the disaster was more serious than is after the coal roads of Illinois and charitable and partly educational. The towards securing assistance, even if be the mountain districts this year has the first reports indicated. Up to a tion company in tlie city was interrupt ed; skiffs carried hundreds of people to- Indiana. were so disposed. Herald w ill add: been unusually heavy, thus conserving late hoar 67 dead men liad been brought their places ot business, and the utilis to the surface, w hile 40 men were still “ This man said that when Mr. Rock the water supply for the mummer London woman suffragists declare ation of wagons and homes aa ccnvey- months. W ith the supply already pro missing. A ll the missing bavs been ancee, which did valuable service, was- N o Encampment This Y ea r. themselves ready to wear short hair to efeller was conferring with his son at given np as dead, as they undoubtedly Lakewood, N . J., a fortnight ago, the w in theireanse. Salem— Governor Chamberlain has duced by the thawing out on the low discontinued, owing to th « strenuous- meeting was not for the purpose of die- >een officially notified by the W ar de lands or light soil districts, it leaves were buried under tailing wreckage. protests by the Humane society. The G. A. R. national encampment cussing any immediate gift, bat was on Of the wounded two have died, and little qneetion as to the adequate sup Twenty fatalities have occurred in w ill be held at Saratoga, N. Y ., the the subject of Mr. Rockefeller’s w ill, partment of the abandonment of the the doctors think that only one of the ply of moisture. regular army annual encampments, on Allegheny county, directly due to high week of September 9. remaining 10 w ill recover. The De- which document the oil king was then account of so many of the men being in Wendels brothers, owners of the mine, water. In a clash between American troope completing with the aid of his son and Cuba, and tl\p large number that w ill In a fire that threatened the entire Crop Outlook in Harney. have given $26,000 to relieve the im and Cuban rural gnards at Satnta his lawyers. I t was said that this doc her required to go to the Jamestown Mount Washington section c f the city Burns— The winter in Harney county mediate necessities of the afflicted fam Clara, Cuba, live were seriously in ument w ill astonish the world when it exposition. The department, how 26 business structures and dw ellin g» is over and the snow in the valley has ilies. is made public. jured. 1— — , ever, calls attention to the fact that off with a warm rain. There is One hundred and seventeen others were destroyed oi damaged today, cans It w ill, it is declared, give no less during one week to ten days in July, gone Dtentv o{ 8now Oklahoma’s constitution his been in the mountains to escaped into adjoining galleriea. Two ing a lots estimated at $200,000. Many than $260.000,000, for charitable and camps of instruction for coast artillery P ep ythe completed. The initistive and referen high water over the swamp hundred and ten me% went into the 01 the dwellings were tenements or educational purposes, and it w ill be so w ill be held, and the members of the dum and direct primary laws of Oregon land and make good crops of hay. mine at 6 o ’clock last evening, and : »P»rtment hcosee, and there were many bestowed that the benefit therefrom Oregon National Guard are invited to have been copied. Stockmen have turned their herds out about midnight the news was spread f narTOW e8C*Pe>- w ill almost be perpetual. participate. Assistant Secretary of The structures were mostly of frame on the range, which is better than iias to the nearby village that a terrible Roosevelt has demanded Harriman’s W ar Oliver asks that preparations b e , construction and, because of a break in ever been known for tais time in tire disaster had occurred. deposition and his backers w ill take Rate W ar on the Atlantic. made, tegether with a list of men who the water main, the only available fire year. Farmers are preparing their Almost the whole population of the away control from him so he w ill loee London, March 19.— Herr Ballin, d i intend to attend, and forwarded to the ground for spring crops and everything countryside gathered at the mouth of quenching materials were chemicals a ll his railroads. rector general of the Hamburg-Ameri- department. points to a successful year to the farm the shall, among them the fainalies of iroin extinguishers and buckets. Two attempts were made to stop the The railroad presidents have con can Steamship line, who is here attend ers of Harney county. the men below. Rain began to fall cluded the} have no mandate to present ing the shipping conference, today said Board o f Sheep Inspectors. heavily, and distreising scenes of grief flames by dynamiting buildings on to the president and have decided they there was every likelihood of a renewal Salem— Governor Chamberlain has were witnessed as the bodies were either side, but each time the wreck Empire Mill May Reopen. of the rate war for the North Atlantic age caught fire. I t finally burned itself' want to obey the law. named the new stAte beard of sheep Marshfield— What is taken as a sore brought to the surface and laid out un- out. trade w ith the Cnnard line. W ithin a commissioners. The new officials are: dor a blaze of electric lights. So great has been the Japanese im fortnight he expects to see a decision indication that Elijah Smith intends to First district— W illiam H . Steusloff, again operate his large lumber m ill in Many of the bodies were so disfigured migration through El Paso, Tex., that one way or the other. Farther Herr C O L L U S IO N , S A Y S GREENE, Mexicans have been displaced by the Ballin declared the German lines had Salem, term of two years; district em Empire is the fact that he has had the that they were scarcely recognizable. . brown men after assisting them to en a working agreement with the W h ite braces Clataop, Columbia, Tillamook,' Arago hotel reopened. This hotel has The work of bringing out the injured Washington, Multnomah, Clackamas, been idle since the closing down of the men and the bodies of the dead was Substance o f Idaho Irrigation Franò te this country. 8tar line, and that all possibility of Yam hill, Polk, Marion, Linn, Benton, I t is the very slow, the galleries being choked Charges by Inspector. Dowie’ s funeral sermon, written by friction, owing to the removal of that Lincoln, Lane, Coos, Douglas, Curry, lumber mill some yean ago. only hostelry in Elijah Smith’ s little with wreckage. line to Southampton, had now been ob himself, cursed bis enemies. Washington, March 16.— Secretary Josephine and Jackson counties. The DeWendels are one of the richest city and is owned by the Southern Ore viated. Garfield is working on s report tent to- Second district— Thomas Boylan, An- gon Land company. Hanim an wants railroads excepted Workmen have mining families of Alsace-Lorraine. his predecessor by Special Agent A . R . from Sherman anti-trust law. telope, term one year; district compris-. been, busy for several days repairing the Reports Massacre o f Jews. es Wasco, Crook, Lake and Klamath machinery in the m il). Greene, detailing alleged frauds which Children’ s Suicide Pact. Finland has just held its first elec New York, March 19.— A Jewish counties. St. Louis, March 18.— I t was devel he believee he has uncovered in connec morning paper tonight received the fol tion under on i versai suffrage. Third district— Dan P. Smythe, Pen oped today through testimony at the tion with the construction of the Boise- PO RTLAN D M ARKET8. lowing cablegram from Podihilo, near dleton, term three years; district com The Japanese agreement has bear coroner’ s inquest into the suicide last Payette irrigation project in Idaho. Jasesck, Roumanla: “ Terrible ma prises Morrow, Umatilla, Union, Grant, carried out in San Francisco and Wash Wheat— Club, 71®72c; blueetem, 73 nighLof L idd in g Slocum, aged 10, that ere since last Thursday. Town totally Wallowa, Baker, Harney and Malheur Mr. Greene, so it is reported, allege» ington. 0 7 4 c; valley, 70c; red, 69070c. she had entered into a suicide pact with there has been collusion between con destroyed. A ll the Jewish population counties. Oats— No. 1 white, $29; gray, $28.60. Gertrude Harper, also 10 years old. tractors on the Deer Flat reservoir dam Schmitz and Rnef, the San Francisco are ruined and houses pillaged. W e Barley— Feed, $22022.60 per ton; Gertrude testified that she had told her and Reclamation Engineer *D. W. Ross, grafters, have lost every point so far in ask help— Marcos Getzel, Elias Solo Grain Bags at Nine Cents. brewing, $23; rolled, $23.60®24.60. mother that she was going to take her it being rumored that Mr. Green» the eoorts. mon, Shjen Sterberg.” The names Pendleton— An order for the purchase Rye— $1.46@1.60 per cwt. life, and was prevented J. P. Slinger. charges that the contractors, in return signed to the cablegram are said to be The total deaths dne to the disaster of 600,000 sacks was made by the exec Corn — W hole, $24.60; cracked, the drug clerk who sold the carbolic for favors shown by Mr. Ross, made thoee of leading merchants of Podihilo. on the French warship Jena has now utive committee of the Graingrowere’ acid to the Slocum girl, was airested him s present of 12,000 acres of land. It is a place of abont 6,000 inhabitants, association in thia city. The name of $22.60 per ton. reached 103. Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1. $ H @ today. He asserts she bore a note pur Officiala of the reclamation' service ab 4,000 of whom are Jews. I t is only the firm of importers or manufacturers 16 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, porting to be from her mother asking solutely discredit the report, and ha\e Speaker Cannon and other members 30 miles from Kishineff. and the price paid has not been given $17018; clover, $9; chest, $9; grain for 6 cents worth of carbolic acid. o f the congieesional party at Panama the utmost confidence in Mr. Roes. I t out, but it ia thought that the sacks hay, $9010; alfalfa, $14. express surprise at the amount of work is their belief that investigation w ill Discuss Trust Problem. are made in Portland and they will Butter— Fancy creamery, 3 2 ){0 3 6 c that has been done on the canal. show Mr. Greene to be in error. New York, March 19.— The National not be more than 9 cents apiece deliv Finds 2,600 Paopla Destitute. per pound. Columbus, O., March 18.— Adjutant Ex-Senator Barton, of Kansas, w ill Civic Federation which called the trust ered in thia city. The contracts for Butter Fat— First grade cream, 33)<c conference of 1899 in Chicago, has de probably stay in jail an extra month General Critchfield returned tonight Three Drown In Ohio Town • 120,000 of these sacks have been signed per pound; second grade cream, 2c 1< from Glocester, O., where he went at because of his inability to pay his fine cided, it was announced today, to ar by Morrow county growers, who asked Zanesville, Ohio, March 16.— Three per pound. range for another conference of the for and were given permission to come the request of Governor Harris to inves- Hungarians were drowned here as the of $2,600. Poultry — Average old hens, 16c same nature to consider that probern in in with the Um atilla county farmers. igato the flood situation. The adju result of the flood this morning. A Homer Davenport w ill send one of per pound; mixed chickens, 14c; its latest aspects, especially the ques tant general reported that he found scote of foreigners were living in a his Arabian horses across the continent spring, fryers and broilers, 2O 022){c; tion o f Federal and state regulation of about 2,600 flood sufferers in Glocester house that was snrroanded by the Mus H ow e Succeeds Williams. to prove the strong endnring powers of old roosters. 10012c; dressed chickens, the corporations and the question of and other mining towns in the vicinity kingum river, which overflowed daring Salem— Governor Chamberlain has 16®17c; turkeys, live, 13016c; tur that breed. A cousin of the cartoonist operation of the Sherman anti-trust in argent need of relief. He purchased the night. When they started to wado appointed ex-State Senator W . A. keys, dressed, choice, 1 8 ^ ® 20c; w ill ride the animal. law. It is proposed to hold this con- supplies to the amount of $1,000 at to land three were canghf in thecorrenb Howe, of Carlton, a member of the live, 8c; ducks, 16018c. Paper manufacturers throughout the feience in May. Glocester and turned them over to the and swept out into the river. Flood state board of agriculture to succeed j Eggs— Oregon ranch, 1 7 ){0 1 8 c per country w ill advance the price of their local relief committee for distribution. conditions through Muskingum county Jasper W illiam s, o f Albany, deoeaaed, dozen. product! soon. Many of the miners lost everything, the ■re unprecedented and growing worse Fl >rce Gala Sweeps Bay. and President W . H . Downing, of I Apples — Common, 75c0$1.25 per flood coming upon them so quickly. hourly. The Muskingum and Ltcking San Francisco, March 19.— A fierce Shaw, to succeed himself. Roosevelt has told Governor G illette He also re box; choice, $1.6002.60. riv e n are out of bounds in this city and that legislation by California w ill pre south and southeast gale swept the appointed Dra. A . C. Smith, of Port | Vegetables— Turnips, $101.26 per Burton Will Tell Secrets. doing much damage. • hay today, which drove small craft to land, Alfred C. Kinney, of Astoria, and sack; carrots, $101.26 per sack; beets, vent Japaaesa exclusion. shelter, caused vessels in the stream to C. J. Smith, of Pendleton, on the $1.2501.60 per sack; horseradish, 7 0 Abilene. Kan., March 18.— Ex-Sen The strike of Portland millmen may seek positions of safety and made the Edwards to Bs Deposed. Their 8o per pound; eanliflower, $2,50 per ator Joseph R. Barton, who is sxpected close down some business houses |that ferry steamers roll unpleasantly. Out board of medical examiners. to return to his home here this week Pendleton, Or., March 16.— That dozen; celery, $3.25® 3.50 per crate; terms had expired. have need for many boxes. side the heads the gale raged with a ¿proofs, 9c; radishes, 80c per dozen; from Ironton, Mo., has engaged the Major 0 . C. Edwards, agent of the H orse Fair at W ood bum. fftnyveatant Fish, who was thrown velocity of 60 milea an honr, and the asparagus, 10012)*c per pound; rhu local theater for March 23, where he Umatilla Indian reserraton, w ill lose w ill deliver s public address. Senator his official head as a result of the in oat of the Illinois Central presidency teas ran high. 8e\eral vessels were Wood bum— A livestock fair w ill be barb, $2.2602.50 per box. compelled to pat back, owing to the held at Woodbnrn on March 23. by Harriman, has gone to Gonld. Six Onions— Oregon, 76090c per hun Burton has for some time threatened to vestigation conducted by Inspector condition o f the weather. expose those whom he charged with Charles L. Davis, is believed in Pen classes of stallions w ill he on exhibition dred. Fifteen passengers on a Los Angelea — Percheron, Shire, Belgian, Clyde, | Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks, fancy, Ireing responsible for his conviction, dleton by everyone at all fam iliar with trolley car were badly injured by a To rp ed o Boat Is Rammed. Standatrd and Gooch. There w ill also $1.36; No. 1 choice, $101.26; com and it is said that his remarks on next the course affairs have taken. Before Southern Pacific engine striking the Haturday w ill prove sensational in the leaving for Yakima today, Inspector Ajacico, France, March 19.— Daring be teams, roadsters, brood mirea and mon, 76c®$l. car. extreme. Davis annonneed that an order abolish the maneuvers lsst night without lights colts. Many blooded hones w ill be in Veal— Dressed, 51*090 per ponnd. A Chicago grand jury is after the so- the torpedo boat destroyer Epee ram the parade at 2 p. m. The prizes w ill ing the office of guardian for all Indian Beef — Dressed bolls, 3 0 8 % per called church and school fnrnitnrs Six Die in Virginia Mines. med torpedo boat No. 263. A steam- be awarded at 10 at. m. heirs had been loaned. Among the pound; cows, 6 S 8c; country trust. Tbs indictments charge the pipe on the last named vessel burst, prizes is a $26 silver enp, donated by steers, 607e. Norton, Va., Mairh 18.— An explo trust w ith controlling 80 per cent of killing two men and mortally injuring the Bank of Woodbnrn for the best Mutton— Dressed, fancy, 10©10)*c; sion occurred In the mines at Green- Another Naval Disaster. Abe business of the country. another. The Epee towed the torpedo horse of a ll. ongh this morning after several miners ordinary, 809c per pound. Brest, March 16.— There was another had entered. The mine ia seven miles accident to a French warship off thia Pork— Dressed, 609c per pound. One of the Japanese warships coming boat ashore, where she was beached. As far as can be port today. Hops— 9012c per pound, according east of Ncrton. Commission Approves Rato. to Jamestown w ill have great attractions During torpedo practice learned, ten miners have escaped the coast defense ship Fulminant waa Japan Adds 24 Regiments. for naval msti. -. I t has a speed better Salem— The Oregon Railroad com to quality. ” W ool— Eastern Oregon aven ge best, ■lightly injured, two dead have been struck and seriously damaged on the Tokic, March 19.— In pursuance of mission has given its approval to the than any of ours add was finished in lees than two years after th e keel was the program to increase armatmenta, 24 existing rate of $1.26 per thousand on 18018c per pound, according to shrink taken from the mines and four are water line by a torpedo. Collision mats laid, which is better tim e than is made infantry regiments have been organ lumber in carload lota from Astoria to age; valley, 20023c. according to fine known to be in the mines and are sup were at once applied to the vessel’s ized, mainly concentrated in Northern Seaside on the Astoria A Columbia ness; mohair, choice, 27030c per posed to be dead. The cause of the ex side and she was towed Into port in a In American yards. The vessel plosion is unknown. ■inking condition. Isles. The main base w ill be Kurume. I River railroad. Damage at Piltslmrg Estimated: .OREGON ■ NEWS OF THE WEEK AT LEAST TWENTY LIVES LOST Il I P MM hr Ten to Twenty Millions.