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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (July 27, 1906)
IS Successive Light Shocks Shake Down Earthen Walls, PEOPLE ARE FLEEING IN PANIC TO KILL LIBERTY. Extinct Volcano Near the Town Suspected of Reviving and Causing Shocks. Is El Paso, Tex., July 19. Earthquake shocks numbering between GO and 60 have practically made a ruin of the town o! Bocorro, 100 miles north oi this place. The courthouse is a mass ot ruins, and practically all tho houses in town are damaged. According to re ports received, there is no loss oi life. The damage has been wrought by a continuation oi slight quakes, which have caused tho walls of structures al ready cracked to tumble to the earth. The first shocks were fait on Sunday, bnt the real damage has been confined to the last two days. . M. Fink, a cattle buyer who came from Bocorro today, declares he was sitting at dinner at the Wlnckler hotel on Monday, when the entire aide wall of the dining room fell in, and the guests and all the waiters scattered in every direction. The people are in a panic and all who can do so.are leaving town. There is a crater of what is thought to be an extinct volcano not more than eight miles from Socorro, and the in habitants think that perhaps the vol cano has something to do with the re markable series of shocks. The tern perature ot the water in Hot 8prings at Bocorro has increased over ten degrees and it la thought that this furnishes new evidence of internal upheaval of a local nature, and that the earth is dis turbed at great depths intheimiredlite vicinity of the town. The National rail read is sending box cars into the town to take tho people away so great is their desire to leave the town. Huge boulders have been tarred down on the track from the mountain sides, and trains have been delayed thereby. The bridge abutments have been affect ed to snch an extent that orders have been issued to Santa Fe trainmen to proceed with great caution over bridges within a radius of 30 "uilea ot Socorro. Crar Will Use Army to Enforce His Will In Russia. St. Petersburg, July 18. II reports in circulation in ofllclal circles this morning aro grounded on fact, tho su premo crisis in tho affairs of tho Rus sian nation is impending, and within a fortnight at most events must transpire that will result elthor in tho porpetu atton ot absolutism in Russia or tho map of Europe will bo changed. According to reports, tho cmr, after weeks of swinging from ono extreme to the other, decides that he cannot grant the reforms demanded by the people, and has decided that the arbitrament of physical force shall bo appealed to. Ho has, through Gonerala Trepoff, Kaulbara and othor leaders of tho ofll clal military class, canvassed the o di cers of the army, and has decided that they can bo depended on, it it should come to a clash with tho people, and so ho has decided that from now on the wishes of the cxar and his wishes alone shall be considered. This means, should the rumors bo truo, that the douma will soon be dis solved and that tho new cabinet will represent more than ever tho wishes of the governing classes and disregard tho demands ot the people already made through the douma. None of the members of the cabinet who could be reached last night would discuss the matter. However, tho de lay in announcing that the various de mands ot the douma are even being considered, the concentration of tried troops at all centers where advocates of a constitutional form of government are strongest, and the generally defiant at titude ot the bureaucracy, all tend to lend credence to the report. Disturbances in all interior Russia continue, and riot, murder and rapine are the rule. In many camps pitched battles between soldiers and malcon tents are reported, but all details are completely censored and are not per mitted to become public. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST GROW RUBBER IN UMATILLA. and CLIMAX OF ADMINISTRATION. UTAH COAL LANDS STOLEN. Federal Agents Procuring Evidence for Prospective Suits. Salt Lake City, July 19. Rumors to the effect that agents of the Federal governmet are busy In Utah preparing to institute suits of a sensational na ture for the recovery ot vast areas of public domain, current here for several months, were revived today, with an additional statement that within ten days suits would be broogbt in the Fed eral court here to recover to the g v ernment more than 30,000 acres of coal lands, alleged to have been acquired by coal companies throush fraudulent means, part as agricultural or grazing lands through selection by the Utah state land board, being later transferred to the coal companies. Other coal laud are said to have been filed on ae such by dummies who later transferred them to the corpora tions. More than 100 entries of this character are said to have been run down. Wbilo these reports cannot be abso lutely verified, a Federal official in this city today admitted that suits are in preparation, making the additional statement that the FeoVal officials in trusted with the matter had received positive instructions from Washington not to talk, but to prepare for action. It is stated also that a Federal grand jury may be called to sift the evidence that has been gathered in preparation lor the prosecution of the civil cases. Roosevelt Will Invoke Conspiracy Law and Dissolve Standard Oil. Washington, July 18. Dissolution ot the great Standard Ull trust may bo the result of the prosecutions soon to be begun against that corporation by the government. Assistant Attorney General Purdy, who has direct charge ot the preparation of the prospective cases, returned to Washington today from St. Paul, where for two weeks he has been In consultation with Special Counsel Kellogg, of the latter city, and District Attorney Morrison, of Chicago, and, while he refuses to disenss details as to the plans underway, there is good authority for the statement that the administration M aiming at a more vital object than fines or even impris onment for the trust offenders. The cases against Standard Oil will be made under the conspiracy act. It is ot recent memory that conspiracy in restraint of trade in violation of the provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law resulted in the dissolution ot the Northern Securities company More recently the government won another sweeping victory in the courts and dis solved the Western paper trust. The same sort of success met the movement against the elevator trust in California. The breaking np of the monster Standard Oil combination may come as the culminating grand climax of the Roosevelt administration, and in the light of today's developments persons in Washington have recalled to them with striking force these words spoken by President Roosevelt shortly before the adjournment of congress: "The prosecution of the Standard Oil company Is tho most Important thing in this administration." Cotorado Man Says the Climate Soil Are Good. Pendloton -There is a propoct that Umatilla county may Iieconui tho rub ber growing center of tno Tactile North west In tho near future. G.T, Doug las, it Durango, Col., representing the rubber trust of tho United Slates, it hero for tho purpose of looking over tho country and making an cxamlna tion ot tho soil. Ho Is now looking over tho country in the vicinity ol Echo, whero tho soil and cliinulo It similar to that of New Moxico, Arisona southern Utah and southern Colorado, whore tho plant is grown very success fully. Tho plant la said to flourish in dry sandy soil, and in semi-arid dls tricts. Mr. Douglas believes this sec tion to bo adapted to the successful growing of the plant which ho says re quires about two years to como to ma turity. It can be put In at from $8 to $10 per aero and will yield from $100 to $200 por acre. Mr. Douglas will make a report of his Investigations to his company in a tow days. Sodavllle as Seat of Learning. Albany Articles ot incorporation have been filed in the county dork's office for the Mineral Springs college, at Sodavllle. The college will be open ed next fall In the building at Boda vllle formerly occur lol by the old Min eral Springs oemlnary, which cloied its doors several years ago from lack o! financial assistance. It la now planned to establish a school tho equal of any institution in Oregon, except those sup ported by the state. Classical, icten tific, literary, normal, business and musical courses will be taught, and the institution plans to give degrees as high as master of arts, Demand for Labor In Linn County. Albany There Is no excuse (or a la boring man to complain for lack oi work in Oregon this year. In Linn county there is a demand for laborers of every sort, and especially those wno will do farm work during the harvest ing season, and who are wilting to wotk around a sawmill, or in the woods Farmers in Linn county are looking In vain for needed assistance to garner their crop, and tho lumbering mills along the rivors ot Linn, Marion and Lane counties are advertising for help all the time. Many college students are spending their vacation weeks at tho sawmills. Labor Famine In Valley. Salem As an illustration of how great is the demand for manual and team labor in the Willamette vaMey, the Willamette Valloy Traction com pany, in commencing work upon the Poitland-Salem electric line, was un able to secure men and teams, and employed a steam traction englno to do the ground breaking. It is quite prob able that help will have to Imi imported from other states in older that the com pany may bo able to fulfill its contractu with the city roancllof Salem to have the line completed between this city and Chemawa and ready for operation on or before September 10. FOOD LAW QUESTIONED. Legal Interpretation of Two Words Moans Much to Its Friends. Salom Upon the legal Interprets lion of tlin words "adulterants" and "adulturatlou" hangs tho fato ot Ore gon's pine food law when it comes up for deslslon before Judge George H. Hurnett, ot the Clicult court, for tills county In the ciee of tho statu vs. George Fendorlck, who Is chnrgd with lolling tho state lard that tins been adulterated with tallow. Fondorlck, who Is a meat dealer in this city, Is under em tract to furnish tho state Insanu asylum with a quantity of lard, and It Is charged by tho stato dairy and food commissioner that tho lard furnished contains a certain per centage ot tallow. Tiio point at Issue Is whether an adulterant In foods means the substitu tion of a substance which is injurious to the human system for a pure article, and If tho court holds that tallow is not an adulterant It will throw the whole art open to technical violation In ull lines ot trade in foodstuffs. RED TAPE TATTERED. Arkansas After Trust. Little Rock, Ark., July 19. Suit was entered today against the five cot tonseed oil mills of this city by Attor ney General Rogers and Prosecuting Attorney Rhoton, charging them wltn being members of a combine In viola tion of the anti-trust law, and alleging restriction of trade. The suits ask jndgment in the sum ot $5,000 per day, aggregating $130,000 against each com pany, and ask also the revocation of their charters In this state. It is un understood suits will be entered against the remaining 34 mills. StromboII'Opens New Crater. Rome, July 19. -An alarming erup tion la reported at Stromboli, the vol canic isle in the Llpari islands off the north coast of Belly. A new crater has opened, which Is belching out huge quantities of fiery matter, and all vege tation in the vicinity is being destroyed. Bartlett Was Short $33,000. Washington, July 18. It was stated at the Treasury department today that an investigation recently concluded of the affairs of the late Major Geortre A. Bartlett, disbursing offlcerof the Treas ury department, shows a shortage ap proximating $33,000. About $14,000 of this amount, however, Is'enld to have ueen innocently paid out on fraudulent vouchers presented hy James Boyd, a clerk in tho Marine Hospital service. who in September last was arrested and is now In jail pending his trial for mis appropriating government funds. Colombia Wants Commercial Treaty, New York, July 18. The following came uispatch was received In this city yesterday from Bogota, Colombia: "Colombian National Commercial con gress, assembled in Bogota, represent ing all parts of the republic, has unan imously adopted resolutions endorsing favorably the negotiations beaun bv President Reyes and Minister Barrett tor new treaties with the United States and Panama. This action is most im portant, assuring the support of the business Interests." Armistice Stops Fighting. Ban Salvador, July 18. The bellig erents today agreed upon an armistice. It is claimed that the Guatemalans during the recent fighting used explos ive bullets, notwithstanding the fact that Guatemala signed the Geneva convention. Wasco Farmers Begin Harvest. The Dalles Haying is well advanced throughout Wasco county, tho bulk of the grain hay now being in the stack and the second cnttlng of alfalfa has begun. More hay has been cut in the county this year than for many years previous. This was owing to so much of the grain having been injured by heat, making it unfit to thresh. Next week cutting of grain will begin In sec tions where fall grain is raised, and in most sections barley will be ready to cut by the last of the week. Farmers estimate that about half a crop will he harvested. The fall wheat will be No. 1, but most of the spring wheat will be inferior. Hot Weather Hurries Harvest. Eugene The condition of the crops in the Upper Willamette valley, espec ially around Eugene, during the fast week have been excellent, and nil the farmers are happy. The haying season is about half over and tho crop to he harvestrd will be one of the largest for years. The warm wave which has ex tended over the valley has been some what detrimental to the wheat crop, which, according to the farmers, has advanced too far. Harvest hands are reported ecarce, even with tho good wages offered. Exhibits for Jamestown Fair. Baiem Jefferson Myers, president of the Lewis and Clark fair commission. and one of the commissioners to the Jamestown exposition, was in Salem recently closing up the affairs of his commission and alio consulting with officers of tho state fair board relative to tho collrction of exhibits for the Or egon exhibit at Jamestown, Colonel Myers says that all exhibitors at the state fair will be asked to preserve as much of their products as possible and the commission will purchase such as is meritorious for exhibit at James-town, Big Real Estate Deaat Eugene. Eugene One of the largest real es tate deula ever mndo In Lano county was consummated recently when Eli Bangs, Eugene's pioneer liveryman, sold a quartar block of ground at the corner nf West Ninth and Olive streets to G. M. Bonnett, a farmer of this city, for $35,000. A two story brick build ing and a large frame livery stable building are on tho ground, and they aro Included in the sale. Mr. Bangs secures In the deal a 000 acre stock farm In Harney county, which his son, Abraham, ot this city, will conduct. Grocers Not To Buy Infected Fruit, Balem County Fruit Inspector E. C. Armstrong has called upon all retail grocerymen and secured from them an agreement not to buy from farmers any (rait Infected with Btn Jose scale, Tiie dcalora were willing to make tiie agree ment and will keep It In letter and spirit. If tho retail merchants prevent the sale of diseased trnlt to them, tiie inspector can give his entire time to watching the farmers who peddle fruit about town direct to the consumers. Treasurer-Elect Fifes Bond. Balem State Treasurer-elect George A. Steel has filed his official bond In the sura of $60,000, which was approv ed by the governor. Later he will be rqeuired to furnish an additional bond in the sum of about $500,000, the amount to be determined by the governor. Assistant Secretary Ryan Taken Initi ative and Buys Sunnyslde Canal, Washington, July 20. Acting Secre tary of the Interior Ryan today ap proved tho purchase ot the Hunnysido Irrigation canal In Ksitern Washing ton, and authorlrod the pa) merit ot $260,000 for the. same to the Washing ton Irrigation company, Tho approval of this purchase removes tiie Inst ob stacle In tho way of the construction hy tho government of the Teton and Hun nyslde Irrigation projects. Had this sale not been coucldiivd to day, tho Washington Irrigation com pany would have withdrawn It offer and tho government Mould have been obliged to abandon both Its projects, or else enter upon prolonged lltlpttlou. Notwithstanding the fad that Secretary Hitchcock apprnvrd tho Tluton arid Sunnystdo projects more than six mouths ago and authorised the pur chase ot tho Huuuyslde canal at the abovo price, tho owners ot tho canal have been unable to collect one cent from the government, became the sec retary of the Interior has not approved t'.ie formal purchase, some of the gov ernment lawyers having found trivial ohjtctlons which they believed should Imi corrected before the government paid for the canal. Mr. Hitchcock, on his counselors' advice, refined to pay over the money. BIGQEST OF ALL DRYDOCKS, BONDS SELL WELL $30,000,000 tor Panama Canal More Than Subscribed. ALL UIDS ARE AT GOOD PREMIUM Average Premium of Nearly 4 Cent Is Offered Interest at 2 Per Cent. Per PORTLAND MARKET8. hluestem, $33; 73c Wheat Clnb, 71c; red, 09c; valley, 71c. Uats :o. I white feed, $33; gray, $31 per ton. Barley Feed, $23.76 per ton; brew ing. $14; rolled, $24.50825.60. Rye $1. CO per cwt. Hay Valley timothy No. 1, $110 12.60 per ton; clover, 18 6000; cheat, $0.5007; grain hay, $708; alfalfa, $11. Fruits Apples, $1.60(741.75 per box; apricots, $1 60(31.76 per crate j cher ries, 408c per pound; currants, 1)0 10c per pound; peaches, 76c0$I.lO per crate; pears, $1 50(32 26 por box; plums, $1(31.25 per box; Loganber ries, sl.35Ql.40 per crate; raspberries, $1 7601.86 per crate; blackberries, 8c per pound; gooseberries, 8c par pound. Vegetables Beans, 607c per pound; cabbage, l?ic per pound; corn, 25036c per doxen; cucumbers, 75c0f 1 por box; lettuce, head, 25c per dozen, onions, 10rai2c per doxen: peas, 406c per pound; radishes, 10016c per doxen; rhubarb, 202c per pound; spinach, 20,1c per pound; tomatoes, $1.2502.26 per box; parsley, 25c per box; squash, $101.25 per crate; turnips, 9Oc0$l per ssrk; carrots $10125 per sack; beets, $1 2601 CO per sack. Onions New, rod, IJiQlkJo per non rid, new yellow, l2c per pound, Potatoes fancy graded old Bur banks, 40060c per sark; ordinary, nominal; new potatoes, 75cQ$l 60 per hundred. Butter - Fancy creamery, 17J602OO per pound, Eggs Oregon ranch, 2lJtf22o por doxen. Poultry Average old hens, I'iH 13o per pound; mixed chickens, 11 012c; fryers, 10017c; broilers, 160 lfic; roosters, 0010c; dressed chick. ens, 14016c; turkeys, live, 10017c; turkeys, dressed, cholco, 1722o; geese, live, 808c; ducks, 120l3o, Hops Oregon, 1005, lie; olds, 8c per pound. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 180230; valley, roarso, 22023c; fine, 24c; mohair, choice, 28030a per pound. Veal Dressed, 6tf 7o per pound. Beef Dressed hulls, 3o per pound; cows, 4)(35oi country steers, 600c, Mutton Dressed, fancy, 708o per pound; ordinary, 600c; Iambs,, fancy, 808Kc Fork Dressed, 708)0 per pound. Will Be Built of Concrete at Bremer ton Navy Yard. Washington, July 20. Plans lor the largest and best dry dock in the world are being prepared in the bureau of Yards and Docks at the Navy depart ment, to cost $1,250,000 and to be con structed at the Bremerton navy yard, Puget sound, Washington. This amount is the largest over appropriated tor a dock, nnd the now dock will Imi able to take In the largest battleship, either In conrso of construction or In contem plation. The location has already been selected, and borings are being made to learn tho depth of foundation. It Is to be a concrete dock of the largest pat tern and materials will be purchased on the Pacific const If practicable. The dock Is to bo so constructed that it can be lengthened If vessels ot great er length should Ira built In tin future, (t will be 37 ieet In depth over sill, which will provide lor the docking ol any vessol that can 1 built, unless some now unknown system of building Is dovelopod. The greater depth of tho new dock is also designed to meat cases where a vessel hss been injured and draws much more than the ordinary depth on account of the Injury. Washington, July 21 II d wrte opened at the Tieasii'y deiaitrnriit late yesterday for the $:iO,O0(),OO0 10. Si) Panama Canal bonds, hearing 2 per cent Interest, under Secretary Shaw's circular ol July 2 an I, although no awards will he made until today or later, It Is evident that the entire lime lias hern siilwrlibed (or at an avrag of fruru 103 94 to 103.90. Mr. Hliaw and other ulllclals ot the Treasury d. nartment expressed theruselvea as high, iy plfased and entirely satisfied with the figures obtained. The total number and amounts of bids in ado will not be ascertained until today, but it Is apparent that the whole Issue has been subscribed for savcial time over. The larsest and beat sin gle otter was that of Fltk A it thluton, ot New York, who made six bids of $5,000,000, each at an average of 103.86. Smaller hi Is at higher prices, however, will probably rnluce the amount which will, likely bo awarded to .hem to about $16,000,000. One bid of 100 for the whole Issue came from a man named Lindsay at New Orleans, hut on account ol conditio! s named and for other lesions the bid was not considered. Kiveral telegraph ic bids were received too late to lx con sidered, hut the prices named were too small to lie surrrstful, The sretetary having slated that the bonds would be ruimlxuo! serially be ginning with the highest hid, one oflvr was made at 126 tor $1 000, thus scur Ing to tiie bidder bond No 1. An ex amination ot the best bids shows that offers of 104 M0 and up aggregated $(6,304,8(10. lOt to 101 Mil aggregat ed $1,100.8X0; 103.76 to 101 aggregat ed $14,177,000. LOSS LOOMING BIQ. San NATION ENTERS BUSINESS. Japan Makes Groat Stride Forward on Road to Socialism. Washington, July 19. According to advices received by the bureau of man ufactures, the Japanese government has undertaken one of tho greatest experi ments In the world's history, which In dicates a clear purpose to protect, su pervise, develop and nationalise all Japanese Industries. It Is stated that tho provision for the nationalisation ol railways was hut a single step In the great plan of Industrial riaturallxntlun toward which the country Is fait ap proaching. Tho movement for Manchurlan na tlonallxatlon has received careful atten tion, and It is now proposed that a company shall be formed by the gov ernment and private capitalists Jointly for the purpose of operating the rail roads, forests and mines In Manchuria, It successful along the lines Japan is now working, it Is said that the Indi viduals and corporations ol America that are striving for the trade of the Orient will dliovor that they are not competing lor this trade against trull vlduals and corporations of Japan, hut that they are In commercial conflict with tho Japanesu nation Itself, Embezzles Igorroies' Cash. Washington, July 20. The War do partmont was advised today of tlin ar rest In Chicago of Truman K. Hunt, who brought to this country a baud ol 60 odd Igorrotes from tho Philippines. Acting under instructions from the War department, Hunt has been formally charged with holding from the dog eat ers for 16 months salaries which he agreed to pay, and also with embexxllng $1,000, money thoy had made hv i,li. ing souvenirs from their far-away home, Hunt was at ono time uovernor "of tlm Igorrote district. Francisco Insurance May Reach Total of S30O.000.0OO. Kan Francisco, Cat,, July 21, It now looks as it the iniurancn risks In tils' burned district of Ssn Francisco will foot up considerably more than $260,000,000, and the total may go up to nearly $300,000,000. The rati- mates ol insurance managers have been orawllnr upward all the time, and the figures given in reports filed hy the companies with the New York Insur ance department indlrate that even the blithest estimate which thoy have made Is too low. heveral weeks after tho conltagrallon a dntailod etlmate of the amount of each company's risks fixed the total Insurance in the burned district at 1262,303,000. Thlrty-three companies which have made sworn returns t.) the New York Iniuranrn department, ad mit a liability ol $102,409,000. The estimate of their liahlllly was $90,003,. 000. Takhig the same Dairniiiiiifl o( differences (or all the 108 conmsnle which were Included In the list, the total of their llabllltUs would he placed at $209,271 000. An addition must lie made for Lloyds, (or tho "undeg-round" con cerns, and lor the cominn'es which had some risks hern hut were not named with the 108. This addition may be estimated at whleh brines the total $280,000 000. From this calculation th nrnin. ol Freoort, and tho German National are omitted, as their returns to the New rork insurance denarlinnnt hvo un- cullar look. On the basis ol the ro turns ol tho thlrty-three companies above reforred to, tlte German, ol Free port, and the German National, would ho Involved to the extent ol $0,213,000 In tlm disaster, hut they admit n loss ot only $2,817,000. $10,000 000, up to about Rofugess Are Returning, Ban Francisco, July 20 It was es timated that within three weeks ol the flro on April 18, fully 335 000 people lelt Han Francisco. According to com putatlons made today, Just three months after the lire, there aru now In San Francisco 300,000 people, with 60,. 000 moro waiting In nearby cities for opportunity to return as soon a .ii. able accomodations can1 be had, Reciprocity Treaty With 8patn. Madrid, July 21. American Minis ter Jnlor has left Madrid Inr Han 8 baatlan, where today he will sign with foreign Minister Gullon the now com morclal treaty between tho United States and Spain. Tho dnrumnnt I. nmi.1,1. ered most advantageous to l.nth .1,1m. OVercomlnu a nnmliar r !.......... I., tho Spanish tariff, which became oper ative July l, nii KV,K 8p KCp. rocal advantages. Tho press welcomes tho agreement as entirely satisfactory nnd as evldenro of the friendly inter course between tho two governments. Great Demand for Troops. Odessa, July 21.-General Kaulbara lias boon overwhelmed rorontly "with appeals for military assistance Iron, landowners n the districts of Kherson, leKalerlnoalav ami pii.... i...t lio poasantry, who are organised anil led by levolutlonUU.