FLIES WITH OWN WINGS.
STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
INVESTIGATE EXPRESS RATES.
State Railroad Commission Has Fancy
Figures to Start With.
Salem, Or., May 26.—An investigation
ha* been started by the railroad com
mission regarding express rates en-
forced by the Wells, Fargo and the
Pacific express companies in Oregon.
Some startling revelations have been
brought to light that will likdl* de
mand the attention of the commisaioi
in the neaf future.
Comparisons have been made show
ing the relative charges on lines in Or*
w o n and the charges in other states for
similar distances and for the same class
o f goods. From Portland to Siskiyou,
a distance o f 389 miles, the Wells-
Fargo express company charges a mer
chandise rate of $2.75 for 100 pounds,
while for the same distance is Missouri
a rate has been established by the Mis
souri railroad commission, which is
now in force, o f $2 for 100 pounds. The
merchandise^ rate'in Texas for a sim
ilar distance is $2.05. *
The rates charged by the Pacific ex
press company are even more exorbi
tant according to the figures given out
by the railroad commission. The Pa
cific express company operates out of
Portland east over the O. R. & N. For
440 miles over the O. R. & N., from
Portland to Huntington, the general
merchandise rate for 100 pounds is $4.
For 358 miles, or the same distance for
which the Wells-Fargo charges $2.75
in Western Oregon, the Pacific express
company in Eastern Oregon charges
$3.75.
Compared with similar distances in
Missouri and Texas, the cates o f the
Pacific express gpmpany are extreme.
For 440 miles in Missouri the general
merchandise express rate is $2.10 and
in Texas it is $2.30. In both these
states the rates have been fixed by
railroad commissions and have been ac
cepted by the express companies and
are now in force. The rates given are
for the same classes p i goods in every
instance.
ANNUAL INSURANCE REPORT
Secretary of State 8hows Growth and
Present Statue of Business.
Salem.—Frank Benson, secretary of
state, as ex officio insurance commis
sioner, has completed
his annual re-
compic
being printed
and will
t. It is now being
pm
available within a few weeks. The
report includes a statement of the to
tal risks written by all insurance com
panies doing business within the state
o f Oregon, the gross premiums received,
premiums returned, losses paid and the
net premiums for taxation of all au
thorized companies and associations for
the year ending December SI, 1907.
Besides much other valuable infor
mation the report shows the aggregate
business transacted within the state
since 1895; the amount o f licenses and
taxes paid into the state treasury since
1687, and gives a list of all the insur
ance companies authorized to transact
business in Oregon on May 8, 1908. A
statement o f the business o f the
era! Oregon mutual fire relief associa
tions for the year ending December 3L
1907, is also included.
r
Complete Elgin-Joseph Lina.
In the Portland mail from the East
to General Manager J. P. O ’Brien, o f
the O. R. fk N„ company, he has received
the long-expected instructions from
New York to proceed with construction
o f the Elgin-Joseph branch. About
$500,000, the amount necessary to com
plete the line, has been provided. From
noo to 400 men will be put on at once.
For the last two months the authoriza
tion from Mr. Harriman for this work
O' has been expected daily. As soon as
the effects o f last year’s money strin
gent^ began to wane Mr. O’Brien made
annlication for the necessary funds to
complete the road to Joseph.
Double tbp-Enrollment.
University o f Oregon. Eugene.—
'Judging from the applications that are
pouring into the Registrar’s office, the
freshman class of next September will
be the largest in the history of the uni
versity. More than 200 applications
have already been reoeived from grad
uates o f the different high schools and
academies throughout the state, and it
is safe to predict that there will be at'
least 100 more, as many freshmen do
not apply for standing until college
opens in the fall.
Nevada’s Governor ah Oragonian.
Ontario.— Den S. Dickerson, .who is
, now Governor o f Nevada, vice John
Sparks, deceased, is s Malheur Coun
ty boy. aged 34 years. His parents
reside on a farm five miles west of
Vale. He left this section seven years
ago for Nevada and joined the Miners
Union in White Pine County, and
•when the union asked recognition on
the state ticket he was named as lieu
tenant-governor. He served in the
Philippine war, enlisting in Portland.
Frenchman Beats All Records With
Aeroplane in Italy.
The NEWBERG GRAPHIC
Rome, June 1.— Leo de la Grange,
the French aeroplanist, made a new
experiment with * bis aeroplane here
OHEAP FUEL IN SIGHT.
I this morning, which was ao successful
that it filled the spectators with ad
If Choppara Can’t Sell to Trust Thay
miration. He surpassed his own rec
Will to Consumers..
ord by flying for 18 minutes and 30
Pendleton.—After futile efforts to seconds, only then coming down be
sell their wood to Pendleton and cause he received a signal to do so,
Walla Walla woodyards, ten wood- and alto because the motor of his ma-
choppers o ' Kamels have pooled their cb in eca n n ot hold sufficTent'gasoline
output and have placed an agent •• to operate it much longer than that.
th,s
and w‘ n KH
to th e| During that spW o f time M. de la {
consumer. They havb 5,000 cords in|Grange made nl^ aPd three-fourths
with Pd^eap "w ood .th ey
woodyards have large supplies , on
hand, owing to the fact that the mild
weather o f the past winter restricted
the sale, and have refused to buy the
Csmela pool, which is now being mar
keted here.
Already several cars
have been ordered from the pool and
it promises to demoralize the wood
market in the inland empire.
A paper thpt will prove Interesting to every
member of every family In this county
YOUR NAME ON OUR BOOKS
° [ “ e*tabIj,b ;d
in the
m,1,tarlr field, namely fax kilometers, a
little over nine and iiine-tentha o f a
1 mile, at a velocity o f 60 kilometers, or
, 7 2 milef an hour
•
~
The aeroplane was first pushed for-
ward by M. de la Grange's associates,
and’ as soon as the motor was put into
action the machine rose without dif
ficulty, keeping from seven to ten.feet
above the ground. It moved smooth
ly and turned easily, the rounds of
the course following each other with
out interruption, and not once did th<
aeroplane touch the ground. It was a
marvelops exhibition, which would
have won De La Arange a prize of
$5000 had it occurred in France. It at
least confirms his possession o f the
Archdeacon cup. ,
Keep Salmon Out of Alfblfa.
Pendleton.—Thousands of salmon
fry from six to eight inches in length
are now running out into the canal
of tbe Irrigon irrigation project and
many o f them are being atranded on
the bars, where they are perishing.
Deputy Game and Fish Warden O. F
Turner will take immediate steps to
have proper fish screens placed at the
dam to prevent this destruction of
the young fish. The dam of the Irri
gon project is in the Umatilla River
ROBBEftS GET CASH.
two miles east o f the town o f Uma
tilla. Thousands o f fine salmon fry
are now to be found in the river and Great Northern Peeeenger Train Held
every effort will be made to prevent
Up at Great Falla.
them from running into the irrigation
Butte,
Mont.,
June 1.— A Miner spe
canals. Other canals on the river are
properly protected with screens and cial from Great Falls, Mont., says:
ladders.
’•»
, ’
The north bound Great Northern
passenger
train was held up this even
W e lls -F a r g o t o B u ild .
Fugene.-r-The W ells-Fargo Express ing about one mile and a half from
Company has begun the erection o f a this city by seven masked men at 12:30
fine brick building on the Southern o ’clock, the train being run onto a sid
Pacific depot grounds in which to ing by the robbery, who fired a fusil
handle its business in this city. The
architecture o f the neto building will lade of shopts up and down the train.
be in keeping with that of the new W m Dempsey, aa Augusta rancher,
passenger depot, now in course of was shot through the leg in attempt
construction and to be completed be ing to escape from the train after it
fore July 1. The W ells-Fargo build
ing
* will be of brick and stone an«*. had stopped, and Conductor Hayes
will cost $4,000 to $5,000. It is prob was compelled by the robbers to pre
able the downtown office of the com cede them in passing through the cars,
pany will be done away with when l .
. i,,.
the new building is finished as the \ he carry,n* a hat ,n wluch the paaaea
location is convenient to the business
invited to dump what cash
section o f the city.
they had abont them. Most o f them
deposited from $1 to $10, and tbe
Rare Species of Duck.
booty o f the desperadoes is not be
Klamath Falls.— Hunters on the lieved to be greater than several hun
Klamath river near Teters landing
report the finding o f a pair o f red« dred dollars.
ducks nesting among the tnles. The | While the passengers were being
birds are small and supposed to be robbed, several o f the highwaymen
cinnamon teal, a species ofd u ck rarely, atood
d at the door, o f the car>
seen in this section. The pelicans „
" . . .
,
,
have returned in great numbers this to Prevent the passengera from lesr-
spring. The rapid growth of the city ing.
and the settlement of the hills be -1 The robbers finally jumped off the
*'Te' n
Ewa*"Va . and the UpPer coaches and disappeared in the dark-
Klamath lake seemed for several years
„ . . .
. . .
, ,
past to have driven the pelicans to ne”
Ra,n '* fa,hn* heavily, and the
other fields. However, they are here night is so dark that no trace o f the
in great numbers this year.
j robbers could be found, although
posses were in pursuit within 20 min
Drain Mora Klamath Land.
utes after the outlaws had left the
Klamath Falls. — Twelve hundred
acres o f swamp land north o f Klamath train.
Falls, near Naylor, will be reclaimed
bv the owners, Fred Melhase and John
GOVERNMENT MAY SUE.
Hagelstein. Land adjoining has raised
some o f the finest vegetables ever Groat Area in Montana Is Stripped
grown in Klamath county, and this
Bare o f Timber.
^
land when drained will be cut up into
small truck patches. The surveyed line
Butte. Mont., June 1.—A'federal sur
of the Oregon Eastern, running tioith vey corps is engaged in running sur-'
from Klamath Falls to Natron, will
cross this area o f swamp land and the vey lines in the mountains near Phil-
ipsburg, Mont., to determine the
dike will be used in draining A.
amount o f cordwood cut for the mines
Stocked With Fish.
of Granite county, and the Ideation of
Baker City.— Thomas H. Parker, of the ground from which the timber
the state fish commission, received at
North Powder the other day 31,000 was taken. This wood was . cut, it is
O r eg o n
S h o r t l in e
U n io n P a c if ic
Three Trains East Daily
Through Pullman standard and tourist
f-ffiu* c a n dally to Omaha. Chicago, Spo
uts; tourist sleeping cars dally to Kansas
City; throush Pullman tourist sleeping ears
(personally conducted) weekly to Chicago,
g au ss, City; reel lu tag shair-ears (seats iras)
the Kast dally.
Dmr
forti and
f-J O t. m.
Tint scHeDtH.es
Oil take. Den rev,
Ft. Worth,Omaha.
Kenan* City. St.
Louis, Chicago end
aastvs
6:00 p.m.
via
Huntington.
Atlantic
bm n
1:15 p. a .
vis
Bait Lake, Denver,
Ft. Worth. Omaha,
Kansas City, SC
Louis.« hlcogoaud
7:15 a.m.
Huntington.
Walla Walla, tawia-
FC Faul
Feat Mail
ton, 8pokane, Wal
lace. f u l l ma n,
Minneapolis, SC
Paul, Duluth, Mil
SS»a. aa.
an«! Last
For tailor
Marosi ticket agent, or
m i. llcICU R R AY,
It is Equally Valuable for Children
It Contains no Narcotic and is Safe and Sure
Ask your Druggist for iL
trout, which have been placed in the claimed, from land belonging to the
lakes at the hgpd of North Powder government, and it is Intimated that
river and in other streams near by.
suits may be begun to recover for
about 700,000 cprds of wood cut, ap
PORTLANO MARKETS.
proximating in value about $1,000,000.
The bulk of this wood was cat about
Wheat—Club, 89c per bushel; red
Russian, 87c; bluestem, 92c; Valley, 10 or 12 years ago, during the boom
days <of silver, and was used at the
89c.
Barley— Feed, $25.50 per ton; rolled, Bimetallic and Granite' Mountain
$27.50(3)28.50; brewing, $26.
Oata— No. 1 white, $27.50 per ton; mines, owned by Charles D. McClure
and his associates, of St. Louis, to-
gray. $27.
Hily—Timothy. Willamette V alley.! gether with a few Montanans The
$17 per ton; Willamette Valley, or-!area of timbej land stripped clean is
dinary, $15; Eastern Oregon. $18.50; 10 miles wide and 12 long.
mixed, 816; clover, $14; alfalfa, $12;
Still Vigorous at 128.
alfalfa meal. $20.
Dressed Meats— Hogs, fancy. 8c per
S t Petersburg, June 1.—A veteran
pound; ordinary, 7c; large, 8c; veal, soldier, with the record of 80 years’
extra, 7c; ordinary, 6c; heavy, 5c; mut military service, and whose age is de
ton. fancy, 8(3}9c.
clared to be 128, has beeit visiting St.
Butter— Extras. 25c per pound;
from the Tver
fan/v
on... atn*V
’ | Petersburg trom
iv er district.
f* jr ji,* 4 ¿ .C t ! hu A’
This wonderful old man. Michael Bud-
P" do*en>. nikov, traveled to the capital to draw
uncandled, 18$c per dozen.
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Fruit Crop Will bs Heavy. •
• Baker City. — Unless exceptionally
mid weal her should overtake this part
o f the country there will be a large
fruit crop, according to men who are
heavily interested in fruit lands and or
chards. In the Immediate vicinity of
Baker City fruit ia necessarily 'slower
on account of the altitude, but over
id Pine and Eagle valleys it la far
advanced. Recent cold spells have not
damaged the crop materially.
BMP».
J ° i ^ 7 Mif . l v CWh i . T ' l 2 £ K ? czar h .df hfm il. Ctarikoe Se‘ o a! a
roosters, 8 ^ fryers 22» ® 2 5c; brStefa! * f.ea! ure of the festivities for the Swe-
20^22ic; ducks, old. 10(3)l7c; spring.. d,*b
¡K3CLWei whose
f c f '' v
........... is adorned
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Budnikov,
breast
22ftf$25c; geese, 8@ 9c; turkeys, alive,
with
many
medals
for
bravery
and dis
16(3)18c for hens, 14(3)lflc for gobblers;
tinguished .service, joined the Russian
dressed, 17®18c.
Apnles— Select. *2 so ner hox: fancy. army in 1797.
$2; c h o ic e s t .50; ordinary, $1.25.
Kill Women and Children.
Potatoes—Old Oregons, choice. 70
i®80c per hundred; sweet. 5fc peri Athens, June 1.— A body of panic-
pound.
stricken refugees from Samos, who
Strawberries— Oregon, 10@17fc per
pound.
1 | have arrived here, report that eighty
Scouring Mills to Rsopsn.
Vegetables—Turnips, $1.50 per sack; women and children were slain by
'
Pendleton.— It was announced a few carrots, $1.50(3)1 7ft; b e e tl
$1.85; Turkish troops during the first day’s
days ago that the wheels of the Pen parsnips. $1.25; cabbage, $1.75(3)3 per fighting at Vathy, capital of the island,
dleton scouring mills would be started cwt.: beans, wax. 7($8c per pound; ¡They declare also that the troops fired
turning about Tune 1. The uncertain head lettuce, 12li3)l5c per dozen; cel-1 persistently on the foreign consulates.
condition of the wool market ia re- enr, R5c per dozen; asparagus, $1.50 The refugees are all Greeks, and, as
snon-ible for the late start, but it per box; egg plant, 20c per pound; they have inborn hatred of the Turk,
will not shorten the season’« run. Sev parsley, 25c per dozen; peas, 5®6$e their statements are accepted here
eral thousand pound* of. wool are per pound; peppers, 20c per pound; with considerable reserve.
now on hand and more is arriving radishes. 15c per dozen; rhubarb. 8c
per pound; spinach, 8c per pound;
daily!
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Cholera ta Spreading.
cauliflower. $2.50 per crate.
Teachers Turn Homostsadsrs.
Manila, June 1.— The cholera At
Hops— 1907. prime and choice, B(8)
Ontario.—About 90 teachers o f the 6lc ner pound; olds. 2(3)8c,per pound. Dagupan. 120 miles from Manila, is
W ool— Eastern Oregon,' average worse. Twenty-nine deaths are today
pnbllc schools o f Malheur county have
filed on homesteads under irrigation best. ll® 1 5 c per pound, according tb reported, due to eating infected foods,
iT he people are loath to clean up their
’'projects near V ile and will engage ln\ shrinkage; Valley, 10(3)l2fc.
Mohair— Choice. lft<8)lS|c pier pound 4 surroundings, despite strenuous efforts
fanning. A number o f unmarried wo
Cascara Bark—3 i@ 4 c per pound.
'o n the par* of the bureau of health.
men teacher* are in the number