OREOONSTATENEWS
ANTI-JAPANESE BILLS. '
Measures Before California Legisla
ture Attract Attention.
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Sacramento, Gal., Jan. 1 6 .— The
Lo*i>ng camps are resuming in var- three anti-Japanese bills introduced in
ious parts o f the ztato.
the assembly by Grove L .' Johnson, o f
Sacramento,
and the one by A. M
There were 198 marriage licensee is
Drew, o f Fresno, prohibiting aliens
sued in Union county during 1908.
from holding land in the state, have
The Pacific Express company has attracted such wide interest that the
filed «its report for 1908 witn the secre 1,000 copies o f each ordered prints*
tary o f state.
are already exhausted and there is
Four thousand acres o f timber land demand for more.
The Johnson bills are designed to
in the Siletz river country has just
prevent Japanese being members of1 National Association Has Many Vital
been Bold for $250,000.
corporations; to segregate all Japan
Wisconsin lumbermen have purchas pse by defining the limits within which
Subjects to Consider at Its
ed a heavily timbered tract in Tilla- they must livA. The two first named
Pocatello Meeting.
-mook county.
The consideration is were introduced last session by Mr,
said to have been almost $1,000,000. Johnson, and action upon them was
The transfer Involves 14,000 acres.
suspended at the telegraphic request of'
Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 14.— Questions
Timbermen are o f the opinion (hat President Roosevelt during the diplo
o
f
great concern to the sheepraisers o f
Oregon timber will change hands with matic negotiations between the Unite*
more activity the coming summer than States and Japan over the action ol the United States and especially o f the
ever before, and at steadily advancing the San Francisco school board in ex Western range states will arise at the
prices.
cluding Japanese youths from public three days’ convention o f the National
schools and assigning them to the in
The Tillamook county tax levy has
Woolgrowera’ convention, which will
stitutions set aside for “ Mongolians,
been fixed at 16 mills.
The Japanese claimed they were not begin here today.
The Josephine county court has fixed Mongolians, and Assemblyman John
The storage warehouse plan, which
the tax levy at 2a mills.
son introduced an amendment specify is, in brief, to place the bulk o f the
Irrigation ditches around Milton and ing “ Japanes-*“ in the law. It was wool crop in the hands o f a co-opera
this measure to whose enactment the
Freewater are badly choked with ice.
president objected, and it was killed. tive selling agency, to hold for what
Athena farmers are agreed that the
The bill relating to directors o f cor is considered a fair price, meanwhile
deep snow assures a good wheat crop porations prohibits aliens from being borrowing money on the stored pro
next year.
members o f such boards, and its pur duct, will be the principal subject at
pose
is to prevent competition o f pow
The Gerking wheat ranch we®t o f
issue. A committee has been busy for
Athena has been sold for $24,000, or erful Japanese concerns with Ameri
several months securing pledges o f
cans.
$100 an acre.
The third Johnson bill is new. It wool and arrangements have been
An old water% suit, which has been gives municiapalities power to pre made to lease a warehouse in Qbicago
pending in Baker county courts for two scribe the limits within which “ unde
or some other center as soon as the re
years, has been settled.
sirable, improper and unhealthy per
quired 25,000,000 pounds o f wool is
sons,
or
persons
whose
practices
are
Flour is 25 cents per barrel higher
dangerous to the public morals and guaranteed.
in Portland.
health o f a community,“ shall live
It is not thought that much opposi
Chinese at Astoria are shipping salt
tion
will develop, but the details o f
ed shad to China.
ONE JUROR PASSED.
the plan may be criticised and its feas
The Coos county tax levy has been
ibility que tioned.
fixed at 15 mills:
Difficulty o f Securing Talesmen to Try
Government regulations in relation
Weston plans to lay crushed rock on
United Railroads Official
to
grazing on forest reserves will un
the principal streets.
San Francisco, Jan. 15.— Patrick
doubtedly be attacked.
It was the
A man has been shot near Cottage Calhoun, traction magnate on trial for
known
attitude
o
f
the
association
on
alleged giving o f a bribe, adopted his
Grove who was.mistaken for a deer.
expected defense today, when Attorney this point that prompted the chief for
The Roeeburg Commercial club has
Stanley Moore, by his questioning of ester, Gifford PinchOt, to decline an in
moved into new and more commodious
August Hansen, attempted to show vitation to the meeting in a sharp note
quarters.
that the indictment was the result of
which further strained the relation^
Eugene objects to the formation o f a plot hatched by Rudolph Spreckels to between the Forestry department and
new.county with the seat o f govern make out a case against the head o f the wool men.
the United Railroads.
Other frag
ment at Cottage Grove.
In his letter Mr. Pincbot advised the
mentary evidence o f Calhoun’s scheme secretary o f the association that he did
Lincoln county is anxious to have an
ocean line established between the Ya- o f defense has been brought out in the not care to attend the convention until
examination o f prospective jurors, it should show by its action that it was
quina bay and San Francisco.
touching on the late car strike, the prepared to view the grazing question
An automobile line is to be put on granting o f immunity, and the juror’s
in a more liberal spirit.
between Vale and Burns, taking the general sentiment in the matter o f
While all the delegates will be in
place o f stages. The trip will be made unionism.
favor o f a tariff on wool, there may be
in six hours.
The third day o f Calhoun’s trial saw
debate as to whether the present
T. M. Dimick, o f Marshfield, has the first juror in the case temporarily duty is sufficiaenL Utah woolgrowers,
been appointed treasurer o f Coos coun passed. He is Joseph Dixbn, a sales and perhaps others, have adopted reso
ty to fill the vacancy caused by the man for Marcus Hart, a haberdasher. lutions asking that the present duty be
He sits subject to peremptory chal increased. In other quarters the pre
death o f John B. Dully.
lenge. Dixon was passed by the de vailing tariff is regarded as ample for
Reports from the Umatilla Indian fense last night, and after a brief ex
reservation say there is great suffering amination tnis morning was accepteud the needs of the industry.
among cattle and horses because the by the prosecution. During the exam
Indians failed to provide sufficient food ination the clerk said he could try the
SAIL WITH FLEET.
for the winter.
case thoroughly and squarely.
The broom handle factory at Bandon
The juror said he knew Abe Ruef, Son o f Turkish Ruler Will Probably
is doing a rushing business.
but did not care to comment on his
Return With Battleships.
Milton fruit growers will use a bet conviction, that he favored Calhoun’s
Constantinople,
Turkey, Jan. 14.—
ter system in packing fruit and thus stand in the last car strike, and that
ie
was
at
one
time
a
union
man,
but
Great
excitement
prevails
among Turke
realize more money for their crops.
withdrew because o f the hours he had on account o f the visit o f the American
Thirty more births were recorded in to work.
Four battle
Tillamook county during 1908 than the
Before the prosecution finished the fleet to Turkish waters.
previous year.
ships
are
now
at
Smyrna,
and four
examination o f Dixon the juror made
complaint
to
Judge
Lawlor
that
an
more
are
coming
to
remain
until
Janu
A new law is proposed that will pro
agent
had
approacted
his
wife,
yester
ary 24. Admiral Schroeder, second in
tect China pheasants better than the
day afternoon and'questioned her in i
one nbw in force.
command, ia coming to Constantinople
gard to her husband’s feeling in the
One of
The new glass doors to the senate graft cases. Mrs. Dixon said the man n the battleship Louisiana.
the sultan’a sons probably will go with
and house chambers are proving a great claimed to be a real estate agent.
convenience to all.
the squadron to America, and it ia re
FLAY FORESTRY POLICY.
garded as certain that 80 Turkish offi
PORTLAND MARKETS.
cers will go.
Work Is Total Failure, Qooding Tells
The grand vizier, naval minister and
Barley—Feed, $273227.60 per ton;
naval circles generally are intensely
Sheepmen's Convention.
. brewing, $28.
Pocatello, Idaho, Jan. 15.- One thou interested in the visit o f the fleet, as
Wheat— Blues tern, $1.05; club, 92c;
sand
sheepmen attended the opening this will be the first occasion since the
fife, 92c; red Russian, 90c; 40-fold,
session o f the National Woolgrowers’ revolution when warships o f a great
96c; valley, 95c.
convention in this city yesterday and power have entered the Ottoman ports.
Oats— No. 1 white, $38 per ton.
Authorities are anxious to impress the
Hay—Timothy, Willamette valley, listened to a bitter arraignment o f the visitors with the fact that th ey are
Federal
forestry
bureau
by
President
$14 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $173218;
thoroughly civilized now, and that
clevre, $12; alfalfa, $12*3)13; grain F. W. Gooding, o f Shoshone. Declar Turkey is on the road to become one o f
ing
that
the
government
in
its
admin
hay, $123i 13.
the great naval powers o f the world.
Fruits— Apples, 75c32$3 per box; istration o f the national forests and
The American vessels will carry the
the
reclamation
service
has
failed
woe
pears, $1321.76 per box; quinces, $132
Turkish
officers as guests, two officers
1.25 per box; cranberries, $14.603215 fully, President Gooding urged that going on each battleship.
congress
be
asked
to
name
a
commit
per barrel; persimmons, $1321-25.
Potatoes— $1.50(3'1.65 per hundred; tee o f Western men to intesvtigate and
New Shocks Cause Panic.
report any needed changes in the rules
sweet potatoes, 2>{C per pound.
Rome, Jan. 14.— A slight earthquake
Onions—Oregon, $1.60 per hundred. and regulations governing these two
Bhock was exper enced at an early hour
Vegetables— Turnips, $.15032 1.76 bureaus.
From nearly every Western state this morning throughout Lombardy,
per sack; carrots, $1.25(^1.60; par
The biggest Venetia and Tuscany. No damage was
snips, $1.50321.76; beets, $1.60(3)1.75; delegates are presenL
horseradish, 8(3) 10c per pound; arti single delegation arrived from Boise, done, and no one was injured, but ow
chokes, $1.40 per dosen; beans, 2 2){e Idaho. It included Governor Brady ing to the general uneasiness resulting
per pound'; cabbage, 2% c per pound; and a number o f state officials, also from the recent visitations in Calabns
cauliflower, $1.60 per dozen; celery, about half the members o f both houses and Sicily, the people for a moment
were thrown into a condition bordering
$4.50(3)6 per crate; cucumbers, $1.75 o f the state legislature.
The
forenoon
session
o
f
the
conven
on
a panic. According to the records
(¡$2.25 per box; eggplant, 11c per
pnind; lettuce, $1@1.25 per box; par tion was devoted entirely to the mid o f the observatories, and especially the
More than 600 establishment maintained at Florence
sley, 30c per dozen; peas, 20c per winter sheep show.
by the Jesuit Fathers, the center o f
pound; peppers, 163320c per pound; sheep are entered.
the disturbance was near Lembach.
pumpkins, 1321
per pound; radishes,
Predicts Tree Famine.
80c per dozen; spinach, 2c per pound;
Take Evidence in East.
Washington, Jan. 15.— “ The time is
sprouts, 10c per pound; squash, 1 @ 1 } { c
coming in this country when trees will
Pittsburg, Jan. 13.—Testimony to be
epr pound; tomatoes. $1.75(32.
Butter—City creamery, extras, 86(3) be as scarce as diamond-«, unless im used in five United States land cases
87c; fancy outside creamery, 82X @ 36e mediate steps are taken to preserve our now pending in Oregon will be taken
forests.” This was the dark picture here tomorrow before United States
, per pound; store, 183220c.
Eggs — Oregon ranch, 47 >43250c: painted in an address by Secretary of Commissioner William T. Lindsey.
Agriculture Wilson at the 29th annual Considerable secrecy is maintained re
Eastern, 371i<3}40c per dozen.
Poultry — Hens, 16c per pound; meeting o f the American Forestry as garding the cases, but it is known that
spring, large, 143216c; small, 163217c; sociation. The secretary declared our five expert chemists, members o f the
mixe<l 14321433c; ducks, 1932 20c; forestry growth is getting scarcer and Carnegie Technical school, have been
scarcer and we are using three times summoned as witnesses and it ia said a
geese, 1032113; turkeys, 183220c.
number o f prominent Pittsburgers will
Veal—Extra, 10®10jfic per pound; as much wood as we are growing.
also be called.
ordinary, 7328c; heavy, 6c.
Japan Takes Slight Notice.
Pork— Fancy, 8 ^ c per pound; large,
Russia to Borrow Again.
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Tokio, Jan. 15.—Though certain of
’ 7327 X c.
Mutton— 6328c per pound; lambs, 8 the Japanese newspapers are Seriously
S t Petersburg, Jan. 14.— The Rus
exercised over the anti-Japapese hills sian finance ministry haa closed an ar
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legislature, rangement with a syndicate, including
Hops— 1908, choice, 7)4c per pound: before the California
good prime, 6)4327c; fair prime, 6@ others style the matter as a tempest the principal banking houses o f Paris,
fi^ c ; medium, 6 X @ (te; 1907, 2 @ 2 X c ; in a teapot. There is no tendency to f o r a loan o f 1,200,000,000 francs
find sinister design in the increase in i $240,000,000) at 4)4 per cen t
1906, 1321 * c .
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Wool — Eastern Oregon, average the American navy, newspapers gene >art o f the loan will probably go to
best, 10<$14c per pound, according to rally expressing the opinion that other continental countries, but it does
ahrinkage; valley, 163216)4c; mohair, America’s growing interests in the Pa not appear that the United States sub
cific demand a stronger navy.
scribed for any part o f i t
choice, 184219c.
Question of Amount Nay Canse
Some Sharp Debates.
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