8IM ON T A K E S O A TH .
P R O T E S T A G A IN ST R A T E S .
Assures* Office o f President of the
Martian Republic.
Californians Will Rafusa to Pay Rail-
”Voads Mora.
P o rt Au Prince, Dec. 22.—General
Antoine Simon, the newly elected
president of Hayti, took the oath of
office at 10 o ’clock this m orning at
the palace in the presence of foreign
diplomats, the officers of the A m eri
can and Italian warships and the
H aytian officials of state. S enator
Paulin, who precided at the session of
congress w hich' elected G eneral Si
mon, p resid en t/ officiated and de
manded that the president respect the
constitution and other laws of the re
public.
General Hippolite, m inister of. the
interior, who responded in behalf of
General Simon, prom ised th at every
effort should be made to forward the
agricultural and com m ercial interests
of the country and to take m easures
to insure economy in carrying on the
governm ent
Later, at the reception which was
held, M. C arteron, the French minis
ter, addressed the president on behalf
of the displomatic corps and officially
presented the respects of the foreign
m inisters. M. Claud, m inister of fo r
eign affairs, gave assurances of the
governm ent’s intention to m aintain
m ost cordial relations with all gov
ernm ents.
President Simon then attended a
session at the cathedral, where the
Te Deum ” was sung, afterw ard pro
ceeding on horseback, followed by a
brilliant escort, through the principal
streets of the city, where he was ac
claimed by all.
San Francisco, Dec. 81.—Shippers
and im porters of California are a r
ranging to unite in a state-w ide p ro
test agaihst* the increase in tran sco n
tinental tariffs announced by the
Southern Pacific aud Santa Fe rail
roads as effective on Jan aary 1. O p
position wjll take tlye form of a score
of m ass m eetings, held in the leading
cities on D ecem ber 30, when repre
sentatives of leading jnduxtries will
set forth the grievances of the jbusi
ness men against the carriers. An
executive com m ittee appointed some
weeks ago to deal with the question
yesterday an p o unted this m ethod of
procedure as m ore desirable than an
appeal to the courts, which was re
garded as productive of delay, or to
the in terstate com m erce commission,
which is pow erless to take action until
such rate changes have taken effect
T he attitu d e of the p ro testan ts was
set forth yesterday in a statem ent by
C. H. Bentley, president of the San
Francisco cham ber of com m erce ani
a m em ber of the executive committee,
who said:
“ We deem it unjust th at the traffic
m anagers should have arranged these
rates, w ithout consulting the ship
pers, and at a period m ost inoppor
tune. W e have canvassed the rail
road situation thoroughly, and from
the cost of fuel to the statem ent of
earnings th ere is apparent no valid
reason for such an increase of rates
at this tim e.”
NEWBERG GRAPHIC
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■ TŒWBERG.
EVENTS OFTHE DAY
N e n y Items Gathered from All
Parts ot the World.
L u i Important but Not L u t Inter*
Happening* from Points
Outsida the State.
B ryan is lecturing in Pennsylvania.
A red-hot senatorial fight is ex
pected in Indiana.
T he house com m ittee is alm ost
unanim ous for free lumber.
The new Dem ocratic governor of
N ebraska opposes radical measures.
The president has vetoed the m eas
ure changing the Colorado boundary.
Hill has secured an outlet to the
gulf by the purchase of the Colorado
& Southern.
T aft denies th at any cabinet ap
pointm ent beside th at of K nox has
been decided.
T he gunboat H ist, which grounded
in the Delaware river, has been float
ed undamaged.
T he Standard Oil com pany denies
the governm ent’s right of appeal in
NAME D E C E IV E S M O T H E R S .
the big fine case.
Robbers raided the State Bank of Straus Declares Commercial Pasteur
Ceres, IS miles from Lincoln, Neb.,
ized Milk is Big Fraud.
and secured $3,000.
New
York,
Dec. 22.—N athan Straus,
All im m igrants to the U nited States
from Japan a re to be inspected jointly the New York philanthropist, best
by officials of the tw o countries.
known, perhaps, for his free milk
T he B ritish house of lords has booths and Pasteurization crusade, is
passed a m easure reducing the work urging the passage by the next legis
day from 10 hours to nine hours for lature of m ore stringent legislation in
miners. The time is counted from the
time they leave the surface till they this state prohibiting the im portation
return, which makes practically an of cattle affected with tuberculosis.
Also he hopes to prevent the use of
eight-hour day.
T aft says he will visit the Panama the word “ P asteurization’’ unless it
speaks for the scientific and not com
eanal annually.
mercial method.
A death resulted in Philadelphia
“ Commercial Pasteurization.” says
from a prizefight.
Mr. Straus, “is a humbug and fraud.
• Holland is angry with Germany for The germ s are not killed, but the-m ilk
has been treated by a process which
th e welcome accorded Castro.
merely preserves it, and prevents it
The American eonsul stopped a mu from souring. It actually does m ore
tiny a t Puerto Cortez, Honduras.
harm than good, for it enables dishont
A slight earthquake shock was felt est dealers to keep milk and m arket
in France, but not much damage was it when it is old and stale. It de
ceives m others, who know th at P as
done.
teurized milk is good for their babies,
British papers eensure Roosevelt's and do nctf understand that com m er
outburst of vituperation and alienists cially Pasteurized milk is only p re
say he is mad.
served milk.
“ U nfortunately, m ost of the so-
Attorney-General Bonaparte thinks
th e government should have the right called Pasteurized milk sold in the
citv has been only com m ercially tre a t
to appeal in anti tru st eases.
ed. and the use of the term ‘P asteu r
A M ontana man has been found ization’ in connection w ith it should
guilty of blnekmailing. The evidenee
was oeeured through his bad spelling. be forbidden by law.”
The Canadian government seized a
fishing vessel from Tacoma for violat
ing the laws. A fine of $1,000 was im
posed.
A sehoolhouse at Altoona, Pa.,
burned, causing a damage of $100,000.
A t the time there were 600 children ia
the building, but all escaped.
Count B oni’s fam ily in reduced to
poverty.
Castro refuses to believe th at his peo
ple have rebelled.
Officers of the battleship fleet were
banqueted by the governor of Ceylon.
Los Angeles business men have or
ganized to eradicate racetrack gambling
in California.
Turkey has passed into the family of
free nations, the sultan opening parlia
ment amid popular enthusiasm.
* Blizzards are raging along the Atlan
tie eoast. Heavy snowfalls are reported
and the tem perature has dropped.
The principal of a Washington g irls’
aeminary accuse« Roosevelt of being
ungnllant, but the president denies the
charge.
Representatives of Beading copper in
terests of this country and Europe will
meet in New York to organize a world
eopper trust.
A North Carolina negro abont to be
hanged refused the attention of a min
ister, saying he wanted to go to hell
for a special purpose.
In the Pullman investigation a t Chi
cago a number of women testified to the
inconvenience of upper berths and ina
bility to receive attention from the
porter unless he was tippfed.
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T O Y E D W ITH A F O R T U N E .
Laborer’s Child Amuses Herself With
£ 4 0 ,0 0 0 Diamond.
Om aha, Neb., Dec. 21.—W illiam
Ahearn, a laborer, walked into the
jew elry store of Louis A. Borscheim
having in his hand a rough diamond,
half as large as a hen’s egg, which
he had picked up in a gravel pit near
Denver.
F o r three m onths A hearn carried
the diam ond around in his pocket
w ithout suspecting the true nature of
the stone. Borscheim says the dia
m ond is worth at least $40.000, and
probably more.
Ahearn worked in a gravel pit. ajid
one day saw a stone so different from
the others that he picked it up and
carried it around as a pocket piece.
L ater he gave the stone to his little
daughter to play with, and the child,
in an effort to make it round so it
would roll, struck it with a ham m er
and broke off a splinter. Ahearn, not
ing the clearness of the crystal, took
the pieces to the jew eler, w here the
stone was pronounced a real diam ond
Orders Whiskey Destroyed.
B altim ore,,M d., Dec. 22.—T he first
case of seizure of whisky under the
pure food act which was put on trial
here last fall, was today finally dis
posed of in the U nited S tates district
court, when it was decreed that the
whisky seized, 50 barrels, be destroyed
and that the m akers, the Louisiana
D istillery Company, of New O rleans,
be required to give bond that they
will not continue the sale of the liquor
under "bourbon” whisky brands. D ur
the test the governm ent declared
Holland has Mixed another Vene ing
that
the whisky was the product of
zuelan vessel.
molasses, and not bourbon whisky.
T he W estern M aryland railroad is
to be reorganized.
Profit £ hiring Started
G overnm ent experts declare that
K ansas City, Mo.. Dec. 22.—On
paper can be made from cornstalks.
January 1, Edward M orris, president
of M orris & Co., packers, will give
Steel m agnates declare the cost of $25 000 as the first installm ent tow ard
th eir product has greatly increased.
a fund of $500,000 which will put into
Baron Rosen, Russian am bassador operation a plan of profitsharing and
to the U nited States, has started for old age pensions am ong 10.000 em
his post, after an absence of several ployes of the company. T he plan
worked out by Mr. M orris will call
m onths.
for an initial disbursem ent the first
A retired soldier at San Francisco year of not less than *100.000. it is
has saved $13.900 from his pay and ■expected, and this will be rapidly in
will hereafter draw $67.50 per month creased. ____________ __
fo r retired pay.
Transport Shortage a Danger.
Relations betw een Brazil and A r
W ashington, Dec. 1 A—Lack qf nec
gentine are strained. The trouble essary
vessels for the purpose of
started over the m erits of the respec transporting troops and supplies in
tive navies of the tw o countries.
case of war is one of the m ost serious
R eports show th a t the French n a nroblem s facing the country, accord
tion last year consum ed $100,000.000 ing to the report of General A y r
w orth of tobacco, upon which the gov shire. quarterm aster general of the
ernm ent made a profit of $75,000,003. army, made public today. T he report
proposes some form of subsidy to en
By the explosion of powder at N ew courage the building of ships, as a so
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bury, Pa., eight persons were injured, lution.
th ree houses burned and four others
Herrick for the Treasury,
dynam ited to prevent further spread
o f the flames.
A ugusts, Ga.. Dec. 2t.—T h at for
Japan is to stop all im m igration to m er G overnor Myron T . H errick, of
Ohio, is slated to become secretary
th e U nited States.
of the treasury in the new adm inistra
Seizure of Venezuelan ships by H ol tion is the latent report from the Taft
land has caused s riot s t Caracas.
, camp today.
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E X P E R IM E N T S T A T IO N S B E N E F IT
W O LF C R E E K P R O G R E S S .
,
By Thair Aid Farm ars Ara Able to Growth in All Directions at Oragon’a
Ideal Colony.
Follow Battar Methods.
WORKS ON CABINET
Taft Selects Senator Knox asIVeir
Secretary ot State.
W olf Creek. — T ree-planting has
Agricultural methods and practices
SENATOR HAS ACCEPTED P U C E
ara rapidly changing as a result of the begun in what is destiped to be one of
great' amount of hard, earnest work O reg o n ’s finest fruit sections. F or
that is being done at the »experiment num ber of years ranchers above this
Taft la Looking for Good War Sec-
stations of the country. A little dis property, which' com prises over 2,700
acres, the principal part of W olf and
retary— Straua and Wilson
covery ia sometimes worth milliona of Coyote valleys, have grow n fruit of
May Ba Hateinad.
dollars, and the prosperous farm er is fine quality, but few of the best com
the first to put in ptect^qe new and bet mercial varietjes have been planted.
ter methods.
W. G. Smith is now netting 40 acres
A lfalfa has added millions of dollar» to apples, principally Spitzenberg,
Augusta, Ga., Dae. 19__President
to the agricultural wealth of the eoun W inesap and New tow n and will olant
elect'
T aft tonight announced th e ap
try in the past few years, and this has 2,000 grapes, principally T okay; also
pointment of Senator Philander 0 .
been brought about largely by agrieul peaches, pears, cherries .and English
tural college men who investigated and walnuts. Several who have purchased
Knox as secretary of atate in his cab
proclaimed its possibilities.
tracts of him will do considerable
inet. The announcement followed th e
A discovery of an agricultural col planting. E nough will be set of each
receipt by Mr. T aft of a telegram con
lege man made it possible to discover kind to insure carload shipm ents when
veying the information from Mr. Kaox
the robber cow and to put dairying no the trees come to bearing.
^
th at he would accept the office. Mr.
profitable basis.
Several m iners are prospecting.
T
aft without delay announced th at th e
Improvement in seeds by selection or Q uartz ledges are known to exist and
m atter was settled. He aaid the offer
breeding has added immensely to the their value will now be determ ined,
'waa made to Mr. Knox last Sunday in
value of the field crops of the United as well as the extent and richness oi;
New York and th at sinco the offer he
States. A day at the w inter course placer deposits, and only such parts
had
not beard from Mr. Knox until to
will show how it is done.
wiil be mined as prom ise vastly
d a y ’a telegram.
Today we would he without fru it in g reater retu rn s than the sam e land
“ I feel th at I am to be congratulated
this country but for the discoveries would yield in fruit culture. P u r
on securing the services of Senator
that have been made as a result of long chasers of tracts on W olf and Coyote
Knox in my cabinet,” eaid Mr. T aft.
and expensive work at the agricultural creeks will be able to secure consid
‘‘ In selecting a secretary of state I
colleges and experiment stations. I n erable gold w ithout injury to fruit
wanted, first, a great lawyer, and, sec
stead of being helpless against the and agriculture, as only the present
ond,
a man wbo would fill the public
ravages of insect pests, the farm er is and old creek channels will be washed,
eye,
not
only here, but abroad, as a men
master of the situation, and we oon and this can be done with “self shoot
who stands out pre-eminently as a g reat
tinue to eat fruit.
ers” during low w ater, at small ex
American. ’ ’
But for our better knowledge of an pense.
I t was stated a t the capitol th a t Mr.
imal diseases and their prevention we
T
aft
ia looking for a man to take the
would be unable to produce animal pro
Field Too Largo.
S E E K IN G WAR IN S T R U C T O R S .
war portfolio who baa had sufficient
ducts at a profit.
Prineville.— Because of the wide
experience to work out the reorganiza
The improvements th at have been area he m ust cover in Crook county,
tion
scheme put into foree by Mr. Boot
Berlin
Paper
Says
Castro
Will
Add
made in methods of soil treatm ent and and also because he has no clerical
while
he was a t the head of th a t de
Army
and
Navy.
animal breeding and feeding with a assistance to aid him in the p erform
partm ent.
view to increased crop and animal pro ance of his duties at the county seat.
Berlin, Dec. 21.—T he Berlin N euste
The position of secretary of com
duction, have been revolutionary.
R. A. Ford, ebunty superintendent of N achrichten yesterday printed- an a r merce and labor has been mentioned to
About a hundred million dollars has schools, has announced th at hence ticle "from a well-inform ed source'
very alight extent, and in some quar
been added to the wealth of tue nation fo rth he will publish his appointm ents w arning the Germ an press against a ters
it is thought possible th at Secre
annually through work at the experi in advance, the same as d o the E pisco adopting an unfriendly attitu d e tow ard tary Straus, who also is from New
rnent stations in developing the sugar- pal bishops in church m atters. Mr. P resident C astro, of Venezuela. T he York, will be continued in th at poet,
beet industry.
Ford is now com piling his first of five w riter says th at G erm any’s business
a time at least.
And all this is just a beginning. The articles along thi line, setting forth in terests should cause the new spapers for For
secretary of agriculture it ia
work of improvement must go on, for
list of some tw enty schools to be to refrain from offensive allusions, practically conceded th at Jam es Wil
the perpetuity of the nation depend» visited during January.
such as “ex-cowboy” and "president son, of Iowa, will be continued for a
largely upon the ability of our farmers
of
a robber state.”
ear or more. The appointment o f
to increase the productiveness of the
Scouring Mill fo r Echo.
C astro, the article continues, is con f i rank H. Hitchcock to be postmaster-
farms.
P endleton.—U m atilla county wool sidering a large addition to the equip general already has been announced au
men expect to build and equip a $30,- m ent of both arm y and navy, and is thoritatively.
E C H O T O B E W O O L P O IN T .
Reports th at Secretary Root would
000 w ool-scouring mill at Echo and thinking of placing the orders in Ger
have it in operation during the season many. T he Venezuelan president is soon resign from the cabinet on a<-
T . Hoskins Estimates Annual Ship of 1909. Plans for the organization also seeking in stru cto rs for his mili count of his* injured kneo are author!
of a com pany to control the plant tary academy, recently established in tatively denied.
ment of 6 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 Pounds.
Other than to announce th at Knox
i
have been perfected in this city. T he C aracas, and is likely to give p refer
Echo.—T hose who claim to know m anagem ent will rest in the hands of ence ’to officers from the Germ any had been selected as secretary of state,
say that, w hereas som ething like 1,- a directorate of sheepmen. T he tow n army. All this leads the Neuste Mr. T aft declined to speak of cabinet
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000,000 pounds of wool have in the of Echo has donated - a /s ite for the Nachrichten w riter to hope th at G er rumors.
Regarding the report th at George W.
many
will
strive
to
obtain
a
perm
a
plant.
T
hat
location
was
chosen
b
e
past been shipped from Echo, the cause of being the center of the d is nent influence politically and econom Wickorsham, of New York, would bo
scouring mill, which is now thought trict in which the wool to be scoured ically in Venezuela.
attorney-general, Mr. T aft aai.l he had
to be assured, will be the m eans of is grown.
Many of the newspapers in th eir aot yet determined on anyone definitely
weekly political reviews deal with for this plaee. 'I t is his desire to fill
attractin g fully 5,000,000 pounds of
Scnor C astro’s visit in connection with this place with an adm inistrative
Library la Assured.
wool to this place for shipm ent. J
genius who will reorganize the depart
Pendleton.—Not to stop until they the Venezuelan situation. T he T age- ment ae well aa the legal phases of th e
T. Hoskins, one of the largest wool-
blatt
says:
grow ers, is confident th at is a con have raised at least $2,000 for the li
“T he Germ an governm ent cannot departm ent of eommeree and labor and
servative estim ate, and says further brary is the determ ination of the
tho interstate commerce commission.
that the establishing of a wool women of the city and at this time much longer show favor tow ard the
president
unless
he
gives
assurances
scouring mill at E cho will call for they are already close to the coveted
m any o ther im provem ents, among goal. From subscriptions from mem that Venezuela will fulfill the obliga C A S T R O S E E K S R E C O N C IL IA T IO o N
which will be a shearing plant and bership fees and from the sale of tags tions.’’
A notable fact is ‘hat the sem i-of Willing to Arbitrate With Franca- -Re-
feeding, yards.
com bined, about $1,800 has been
Business of all kinds in Echo is on raised for the library fund. It is es ficial Nord Deutche AUegemeitie
turn to Venezuela Unlikely.
the upward trend. T he new council tim ated by M rs. S. A. Lowell th at the Zeitnng utterly ignores the presence
Berlin.
Dec. 19.—There ia an ovident
proposes many public im provem ents. receipts from tag sales will reach of Senor C astro. Such a course has
$200. From m em bership fees the sum never before been adopted when the desire on the part of President Caatro
chief of a forign state was visiting to effect an arrangement o f the out
of $300 will b - ,-*-’,:«ed.
Ruling Set Aside.
Germany, although in a priva.e ca standing difficulties between Venezuela
Eugene.—The old ruling of the de
and France. He authorized a-diplomat
pacity.
Turns Over Land Money.
today to make the following statem ent:
partm ent of the interior, that a per
Salem.—T he governor’s office has
“ I believe it would be very easy to
son who has filed upon a piece of land
S U LT A N L IK E CR IM IN A L.
received a w arrant from the United
bring about a renewal of relations be
under the timber and stone act must S tates land departm ent for $66,870.
tween Venezuela and France by sub
see the land before he can prove un on which covers the sales of public lands Reaemblea S tage Shylock in Shabby m itting the question to arb itratio n .”
it, has been set aside by a decision in O regon for the Ifscai year ending
Souor Castro had a lengthy confer
Overcoat at Mosque.
in the case of Mrs. Mary S. Ness, June 30, 1908. T his am ount will b.:
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with a prominent representative
Constantinople, Turkey, Dee. 19__ ence
wife of S. P. Ness, of this city Mrs. divided in proportion to the acreage
of the German foreign office. The sub
TTie scene before the mosque of St ject-m atter of tho interview is not
Ness brought suit to secure a writ or in those counties.
Sofia at the opening of the Turkish
mandamus in the court of District of
parliament as the sultan reached tho known.
Columbia to compel Secretary Car
Both the -German foreign office aud
Schools Show Increase.
parliament house nfter his four-mile
field, of the department of the interior,
Eugene.—T he incomplete school journey by land, exceeded anything Renor Castro discredit tho Teport t i nt
to allow her to prove up on her tim
Venezuela has declared war against th e
ber claim in Lane county, without per census of Eugene shows that there are that had been imagined beforehand. Netherlands. The foreign office takes
over
2.300
children
of
school
age
in
Thousands of persons wero clustered on the ground that, even if hostilities have
sonally visiting the land. The court
-granted the mandamus, overthrowing the city, an increase of over 125 over the roofs, pillars and buttresses of the been declared, the declaration cannot
the enumeration of last year, when nncient church, two mullahs even
past precedent.
the count showed 2.175 children. standing on the summit of the done. become effective because Venezuela is
There
are several families yet to en u Trees, windows and the flat yoofs of in no position to carry a campaign be
Water Users Protest.
its own borders and Holland will
merate.
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houses were crowded with spectators. yond
exceed the limits of its retaliatory
Klamath Falls.—The Klamath W a
No other such multitude has gathered not
ter Users’ association will endeavor to
P O R TLA N D M A R K E T S .
In Constantinople in 500 years, yet course, as already fixed and known to
hold the reclamation service to its
throughout the entire day no disorder the United States.
original estimate of the cost pf ws»e-
W h eat—Bluestem , 96(S)97c; club, whatever was observed.
under the Klamath project, which 90(q91c; fife, 90@91c; red Russian,
Drink Acid and Die
There was a deadly hush when the
was $18.60 per acre. T he cost of $30 88c; 40-fold. 91c; valley. 91c.,
Manila, Dec. 19.—Eleven deaths have
sultan entered his box and everybody
per acre is regarded as too high, es
Barley—Feed, $27 per to n ; brewing, stood up. Bent and clad in n shabby occurred and 13 men are seriously ¡11 at
pecially by the large landholder« who
overcoat, without a single decoration, Keithley camp, Mindanao island, as a
$28.
have cultivated but a small portion of
the sultan bore a remarkable resem result of the men of the eighteenth in
O a ts—No. 1 white. $31.50 per ton.
their holdings heretofore. This cost
H a y —Timothy, W illamette valley, blance te a stage Shylock, and looked fantry drinking ealumbie acid, a veg
will cause large tracts of land to he $14 per ton; eastern Oregon timothy, rather like a criminal in the dock than etable compound extract from the ea-
broken up, and farmers will hold only $16.50@17; clover, $12; alfalfa, $12; a ruler blessing his people.
lumba root. An official investigation ia
as many acres as they can afford to grain hay, $12(a'13.
now being made by the m ilitary author
irrigate. This is what the reclama
ities, but no details have been givon
F ru its—Apples. 60c@$2.50 per box;
Robbers’
Rendezvous
Found.
tion service contemplates in its plans pears, $1@1.25 per box; grapes. 75c(S.
out and lh a names of the dead and se
Riverside,
Cal.,
Dec.
21.—
Evidence
for the settling of the Klamath basin. $1.50 per crate; quinces, $ 1@1.25 per
riously ill will be withheld until an of
box; cranberries, $14@14.50 per b ar in the hands of governm ent secret ficial report has been cabled to Wash
Poultry Raiser Sella Property.
rel: huckleberries, 10@15c per lb.; service agents leads to the belief th at ngton. The beverage, it is learned,
an organized ganp of postoffice ro b was served as “ vino,” a native drink,
Milton.—J. L. Vinson, the well- persim m ons, $1@1.25.
known poultrym an for many years a
P o tatoes — 80@90c per hundred; bers is m aking its headquarters at at a retort near the camp on December
either San B ernardino or Colton. O f 15.
resident of this city, has sold his city sweet potatoes. 2® 2lc per lb.
ficers are running down clews and
O nions—$l(ff l 25 per 100 lbs.
property to Mr. Richards of Mon
V egetables—T urnips, $1@1.25 per believe they will soon apprehend the
tana. Mr. Vinson is president of the
Steal Trust's Margin
W alla W alla Valley P oultry associa sack; carrots, $1; parsnips, $1.25; crim inals. Scores of small postoffi
Washington, Dec. 19— Elbert H.
tion and has taken great interest in beets, $1.25; horseradish. 8<Sjl0c per ces in southern California have been Gary, chairman of tb«f board of direc
the raising of poultry standards. H e 1b.; artichokes, 90c(®$l per doz.; beans. robbed recently, and in alm ost every tors and chairman of the finance com
is one of the leaders of the prohibition 10tf?14c per lb.; cabbage, l i e per lb.; case the ro b b ers’ trails have let m ittee of the United Rtates Rteol eor
oarty in Umatilla county. Mr. Vin cauliflower. 75c<Zf$l per doz.; celery. tow ard San B ernardino or Colton p o ratio i, appeared before thè house
son intends buying a wheat ranch in $4.50 per crate; cucum bers. %2(n)2.f>0 Suspicious characters are being kept ways and means committee in the tariff
Franklin or Adams county.
per box; eggplant, H e per lb.; lettuce under surveillance.
hearing today. Gary stated that the
75ctf»'$l ner box; parsley. 30c per doz ;
steel tnnrt had the advantage over its
peas, 12}c per lb.; peepers. 15fff>20c
Cosgrove Makes 8tridea.
400 Bird* at Show.
competitors of $2 a ton in the produc
per lb.; pum pkins, l@ l!c per lb ; rad
Paso Robles H ot Springs, Cal. tion of pig iron. Tho meaning of this
D a llas—The second annual show of ishes, 30c per doz.; spinach, 2c per
the Polk C ounty P o u ltryraisers’ as lb ; sprouts, 0l@10c per lb.; squasfi. Dec. 21 .—G overnor-elect Cosgrove, of is th at the profits of the trust are $22,-
sociation was held here last week. I t a l i c per lb.; tom atoes. 50cf3!$l.75. W ashington, is m aking wonderful 000,000 over the profits of tho ordinary
strides tow ard recovery. Y esterday m anufacturer of a like output.
The attendance was rath er light, ow
B utter—City cream ery, extras 36'S'
ing to bad weather, but otherw ise the 37c; fancy outside cream ery, 32i@35c m orning he was well enough to be
dressed, and chatted pleasantly with
San Francisco Honors Blggy.
opening day was successful. Nearly per lb.; store. 18@20c.
the physician. The governor, is now
400 birds were entered by fanciers,
Ban Francisco, Dee. 18— The remain«
E g g s — O regon ranch, 40t®42Ic; so much advanced that his son, H ow
not only from Polk county, but from eastern. 30^36c per doz.
of former Chief of Police William J.
ard Cosgrove, returned yesterday
many of the neighboring counties.
P o u ltry —H ens. 12j(»13r per l b : m orning to Pomeroy, W ash., feeling Piggy were buried today in n o ly
The judging showed m any valuable spring, large, 12i?5)13c, small. 13f®14c;
Crose cemetery. The service« were
birds. Elm er Dixon, of O regon City, m ixid. 12rf?12ic; ducks. 14^1Sc< eecse confident th at his father would be held from Knights of Columbns ball,
acted as judge. Valuable prizes, do OrtflOc: turkeys, 17|(g)18c; dressed tu r well enough to leave for Olympia be where the body lay in «tate yosterday.
fore many weeks.
nated by business men, were given.
The cortege moved to 8t. M ary ’s cathe
key*. 20fn22lC.
dral, where a solemn requiem high nmas
Veal—Extra. 9<S)10c per lb.; ordi
Wright Breaks Record.
Buying Polk Fruit Land«.
was said. Every policeman who was
nary. 7diflc; heavy. 5c.
Lemans. France, Dec. 19.—Wilbur not actually on duty at his post waa
P o rk —Fancy, 7ic p er lb.; large. 6}
Independence.—E. V. C arter, an
W right, the American aviator, today present at the funeral, there being a
Ashland banker, and William Addi
H ops—1908. 5@ «lc; 1907, 2(^)4Jc; broke previous distance and duration battalion of seven companies in the
son, also of Ashland, have purchased
record« for aeroplane flight, going 91% procession. The city 's depsrtm ents
for John Roads and P eter Rural two 1906. I ta lic .
W ool — E astern O regon, average miles in one hour. 58 minutes, 69 see were all cloned during the funeral cere
tracts of fruit land, or a total of 657
acres. This land will he subdivided best. 10tff!14e per lb., according to onds. W rig h t’» feat was perfermed monies and representatives from all the
during a trial competition for the Mlch- offices were in the procession te the
and again placed on the market in •h rinkage; valley, l.V??16c.
elin prize.
eemetery.
small tracts.
*t J t ,
M ohair—Choice, 18c per lb.