The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931, August 11, 1909, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTM r. fc?-! h 1 BUSINESS CRIPPLED Sweden in Throes b! a Gigantic Labor Straggle. PEOPLE ARE BUYING FIREARMS Though Workmen Organize Forco to Keep Order, Means of Protec tion Are Being Adopted. Stockholm, Aug. 6, With the street car Hnca tied up and all cabdrlYera re futing to work, tho labor difficulties here glvo promise of soon becoming acute Tho general atrlko called for today has not yet become thoroughly effective, though the ranks of the strikers havo been considerably aug mented. Many affiliated organizations, while sympathizing with tho strike movement, are t till withdrawing their ctire support, preferring to lot others take tho lead in tho present crisis. The Strlko is by no means general in the provincial towns and industrial centers of Sweden. In most places tho streetcars aro running and the city em ployes are at work as usual. No dis turbances havo been reported. The loading of ships at Gothenburg, where 10,000 men are on strlko, is being done by troops. Tho fact that troops are protecting the gas works and tho electric light plant has incensed the workmen, whoee leaders threaten to call out all the men unless the soldiers aro withdrawn. A corps of workmen, some thousand stroncr. aro belne organized with the object of maintaining order, and .. people generally, bankers, merchants, etc., are arming themselves for self protection. The gunshops of the city aro practi cally denuded of revolvers and Bmall arms. All tourists have left tho city and the number of visitors now in tho city Is smaller than at this season for many years. FORMOSA TO PRODUCE SUGAR Will Soon Lead World Japan's Plsn to Kill Head Hunters. Victoria, B. a, Aug. 6. Paul Bell, an engineer of the Honolulu Iron works, returned on the Tango Mara to day from Formosa, where he has been establishing sugar mills for the Japan ese Sugar company, and states that Formosa will, by next year, be the greatest sugar-producing country in I the world. Five new mills were erect-1 ed this year and five more are to be built next summer, all equipped with' the latest machinery. The output this year was 90,000 tons, all of which I went to Japan. The Japanese are adopting a cruel ' method of dealing with the rebels of , Formosa, bead hunters. They have strectched troehas of barbed wire across districts, heavily charged with elec tricity. BEE STINGS CURE. California Man Crippled With Rheu- matlim Now Wfcll. Redding, Cal., Aug. 5. Tortured by rheumatic pains, from which be has suffered for months, James R. Holt, head of a local contracting firm, sub mitted himself to the stings of 39 honey bees yesterday, and today walked to his office for the first time in many days, declaring that his joints were as limber as those of a boy. Mr. Holt has been so crippled with the disease that for months be was compelled to use a carriage to go from his home to'bis office, three blocks away. Ten or a dozen bees wore applied to each aching joint, while the patient writhed in agony. After It was over be became nauseated and a chill lasting two hours followed. He retired for the night and finally fell asleep. When he awoke this morning be was surpris ed to feel no ache in bis joints. Barcelona Is Quiet. Barcelona, Aug. 6. The situation in Barcelona today Is tranquil. The only evidences of the terrible nlghtmres through which the city passed last week are the ruins of the convents and churches, and the tcrn-up pavements, tho stones of which were usod for the erection of barricades. There Is, how ever, considerable apprehension for the future. Tho terrible repressive meas ures of the military authorities have left a deep undercurrent of resentment among the masses, and it is thought that he rebellion may flare up again. tr - - Turkey to Invade Crete. Cologne, .Aug. 6. The Cologne Ga zette's Salonica correspondent cables that the Turkish government has or dered out 40,000 redifs in tho territory of the Second army corps at Smyrna, and has contracted with three steam ship companies for the transportation of troops and munitions of war to Crete. He says great excitement pre vails everywhere. ALL RECORDS BROKEN. Registration for , Government Land Reaches 274,020, Spokane, Aug. C Breaking nil rec ords in tho history of tho United States for registration for government land openings, registration for land on the three reservations, Flathead, in Montana. Spokane, in Washington, and Cocur d'Alene, In Idaho, closed at mid night last night with n grand total of 274,629 applications received at tho central ofllco of James W. Wlttcn, at Cocur d'Alene. Those in tho letters will bring tho total to 290,000, exceed ing tho famous Oklahoma reservation rush, tho greatest known. Until Monday tho forro in Judge Wltten'a office will be preparing to send out tho lucky notices to thoso drawing for lands. The high platform from which tho drawings will I made Is complete, and tho 60 steel cans which contain tho applications aro guarded by armed men until August 9, the opening day. During tho period of application, certificates of authority to ai minister tho oath have been withdrawn from live notaries in Spokane by Judge Wltten. The offenses consisted of altering the namo of tho agent in a soldier's power of attorney and in leaving signed and stamped application blanks with clerks to bo tilled out when tho authorized notary was absent. On Monday, August 9, Miss Helen Hamilton, tho pretty niece of Mayor Boyd Hamilton, of Cocur d'Alene, will pick the winning list of 1,600 numbers on tho Cocur d'Alene reservation. On Tuesday, August 10, tho littlo Miss wUl will continuo drawing a substitute list of numbers up to 3,000, this latter list to bo used in case thoso first drawn do not appear to file on the land. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, August 12. 13 and 14, Miss Elizabeth Don! in, daughter of E. K. Donlin, of I Missoula, will draw the winning num- pen on uio rmioeau reservauun up iu 6,000 and on Monday, August 16, Miss Harriot Tost, daughter of Frank T. Post, of Spokane, will select the lucky slips for the Spokane reservation. CONTEST SPOKANE DECISION. Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Will Lead In Fight. San Francisco, Aug. 6. After ten days of discussion the froight agents of the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe and other transcontinental railroads announced today that they had decided to fight the affirmation of the Spokane decision and its application toother intermediate points. George W. Luce, general freight agent of the Southern Pacific company, said that when the matter is taken up at Spokane next October his company and the Santa Fe will contest the atti tude of the Northern railroads, which favors the granting of terminal rates to intermediate point. A battle royal is expected at that meeting. Luce declared that bis company took the position that Intermediate points aro not entitled to terminal rates; that to grant them such rates would bo to open a vast field to the manufacturers of the Middle West heretofore reserved for Western enterprise. lie said that in view of the water competition on the Coast, tho present policy of forcing intermediate points to pay rates to the Coast plus the local freight back, was considered fair and reasonable by the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe, whereas the Northern roads favored a proposal to limit the distri buting area on the Coast to a narrow strip paralleling the shore line. CRETAN TROUBLE BREWING. Mussulmans In Macedonia Threaten Invasion of Greece. Constantinople, Aug. 6. Serious agitation has broken out in Albania against the attempt of Grceco to annex Crete. Forty thousand Albanians as sembled at Monastir today and sent Imperious messages to the government, threatening that unless effective meas ures were adopted tho entire Mussul man population of Macedonia would march against Greece. The. grand vizier, on receiving the message, hurriedly left the council of ministers, went personally to the tele graph office and replied that the gov ernment was taking active steps to prevent the annexation of Creto by Greece. Pirates Loot and Kill. Victoria, B. C, Aug. C Advices by the Tango Maru today note remarkable recrudescence of piracy in South China waters, tho most desperate band of out laws having headquarters apparently in tho vicinity of Macao, where the com munities are so terrorized ns to lend the piratcB active as well as pasiivo assistance, fearing summary vengeance otherwise. Near Sbantuk the water pirates, united with a local band of robbers, made a foray inland and took by storm the castle like home of a lo cal merchant and financier. Epidemic Killing Cattle. Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 6. Advices received here today at the headquar ters of the Texas Cattle Raisers' asso ciation, say that cattle are dying by the thousand around Midland as the result of an epidemic. f OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST SHEEP PROSPECTS GOOD. Prices Are High and Eastern Oregon Range Excellent Pendleton Tho rnnge In this section is of tho very best nnd sheep prospects scro never so bright. Sheep of all kinds aro commanding high prices and tho prosccts aro that wool will bo na high or higher next spring than It was last. These facts coupled with the ex cellent rango gives shecmen cause for much gratification. ' Tho reason for tho uood tango Is at tributed to tho peculiar weather condi tions which havo prevailed during tho spring nnd early summer months, aa well as during last winter. The heavy fall of snow which remained on the ground so long soaked to n groat depth. Then showers hnvo visited nearly every section of tho mountains at In tervals, to that tho grass is both tall and green and there is every Indication that it will remain so throughout the summer. For this reason tho sheep will como out of tho mountains this fall in tho best of condition, nnd will bo nble to como through tho winter In good shape, even though there should be no early fall rains to put tho winter range In shspe. The fine summer rango will make it possible to keep tho sheep in the mountains longer than usual. MANY MEN WANTED. Southern Pacific Will Ruth Work on Natron Cut-OfT. Eugene Good news la contained In the statement of A. O. Wattls, of the Utah Construction company, who, while In Eugene recently, stated thnt his company wouid want 2,000 men to go to work on the extension of the South ern Pacific's new railroad to be built from Natron to Klamath Falls. Mr. Watts said that a tralnload of construction material and supplies had been shipped here from Oroville and Reno, Nov., for tho railroad work, and they will arrive in a few days. "We expect to have a large forco of men at work beyond Natron In a very short time, and we will use 2,000 men If we can get them," said Mr. Wattls, who drove on to Natron. The party consisted of A. O. Wattls, his brother, L. R. Wattis, N. J. Swee ney, W. B. Hunt, W. II. Messinger, W. W. Hunt, G. W. Dye, John Gar- riion. Ralph Smart, W. A. Bechtell and G. S. Colley. Troutdale Shippers Complain. Salem The Troutdale Produce and Fruit Growers' association, through Its secretary, Miss M. Dewey, has bled a complaint with the railroad commis sion against the Pacific Express com pany in which it Is alleged higher rates are charged for shipping fruit East from Troutdale than from Port land. The Fruit Growers' association alleges it Is charged 40 cents a crato for shipping fruit to Wasco, while the Portland produce men are charged only 36 cents. A scale Is presented show ing numerous similar alleged discrim inations against Troutdale shippers practiced by the Pacific Express com pany, which operates on the Oregon Railroad & Navigation company line. New Dairy Bulletin. Prof. J. H. Frandson, of the dairy department of the University of Idaho, has In press Bulletin 07 on the subject of "Better Dairy Methods." This bul letin contains much that will be of in terest to all directly or indirectly In terested In dairying; much that should help to maku dairying more profitable and desirable as a business. This bul letin will be sent free to all requesting it. Address Department of Dairying, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. Tillamook Line Surveyed. Tillamook The surveying crew which has been working over the moun tains down the Wilson river has reach ed this city, thus completing the sur vey for the United Railways' line into Tillamook county. It Is supposed this Is tho road which wlllgive the county first railroad connections with Portland. Regatta Fund Is S8,000. Astoria Tho regatta committee an nounce that it has raised subscriptions amounting to f 8,000 for the coming re gatta and this amount was apportioned among the subcommittees having charge of the various features. Tho queen is to bo selected by popular vote and tho balloting has begun. First Wheat Reaches Albany. Albany The first 1909 wheat brought to A)bany was received at the Red Crown mill from the farm of George Parsons, five miles east of Al bany. Tho wheat on Parsons' farm ran 20 buthel to the aero, Indicating a fair yield of fall wheat in this part of the state. Moves To 8alom. Salem Master Fish Warden II. E. McAllister is making preparations to move to Salem, Hereafter ho will maintain his office at the state cspltol with tho other state officers. PREMIUM LIST OU l Stale Board Promises Best Fair In Slate's History. Salem Premium lists ami Instruc tions to exhibitor just issued by the state board of agriculture having in charge tho state fair promise for Ore gon this fall thu best and Inrcest state show In tho history of the state, When the fair otienn nt Salem Sep tember 13, to continue until Septombcr 18, $ 16,000 in premiums for livestock, agricultural and manufactured product will bo offered. i Numerous additional classes have been added to tho premium list this year, mnda possible by n re cent legislative appropriation of $6, 000. Among thu now classes will bu tho educational department where students in tho common schools tuny exhibit thoir work. Money prizes will be offered. Looking toward the comfort of the visitors, laruer and mom commodious quarters have beon built and other changes made. Chief among tho Im provements will bu thu Increase in res taurant fncllitlns. Printed announcement is made In the premium list and catalogue by M. 1). Wisdom, vice president, and F. A. WcK'lt, secretary of the fair associa tion, concerning new features of the fair. Every assurance la given the public that the forth eighth annual show will be thu largest and best In the history of the state. Tho premiums this year are divided up among a number of different depart ments. 1 hoy aro: Agricultural pro ducts, iirt, bees and honey, boys' de partment, cattle, cereal foot), county exhibits, dairy division, educational, floral, goats, horses, horticulture, In dustrial, ladles' textile department, mlsaen department, plgoens, poultry, Scotch collies, sheep, swine, vegetables and woolen goods. The speed program contains some good events. The prizes range from 1600 to 16,000. Power Plant for Deschutes. Prlnevlllo Tho Crook County Light & Power company, with headquarters at Redmond, has begun the erection of a 26 foot dam on Its project about one mile above Cllne falls on the Deschutes, whoro It is proposed to raise the waters of the entire stresm 20 fecL Water will bo diverted Into a flume six feet In depth, 20 feet wide on the bottom nnd one mllo long. The power plant will bo situated just opposite Cllno falls on tho plateau. The company expects to generate' 16,000 horsepower, nnd will usu tho electricity for lighting several of tho towns In the Deschutes valley and later may provide power for trolley lines. PORTLAND MARKETS. Fruitfl Apples, new, $10(2.26 per box; cherries, 7 (t 12c per pound; peaches, 76c0(ll per box; cantaloupe. $22.60pr crate; plums, 7EcU($1.26 per box; raspberries, xi.DQ(l,40 per crate; watermelons, IrMkepcrttound; blackberries, $1.40 per crato; wild blackberries, 9Jl0c per pound. Potatoes New, Kftl'-jc or pound. Vegetables Beans, 6c per pound; cabbage, IKffSOlHc; celery, 00c(tf$l perozen; cucumbers, 16(j26c; onions, 12Hf((lCc; peas, 7ft8c per pound; rad ishes, 16c por dozen; tomatces, 4Oc0 1.26 per box. Wheat Blucstcm, $1; club. 96c; red Russian, 03c; vnllry, 9Ce; Turkey red, 96c; 40-fold, 00 Jc Barley New, $20.60Si27 por ton. Hay New crop Timothy, Willam ette valley, i26f,6 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $17018; mixed, $16.60(10 10.60; alfalfa, $13.60; clover, $11(3) 13; cheat, $I3 14.60. Grain bags 6jc each. Butter City creamery, extras, 30)c por pound; fancy outside creamery, MKGWOHc; store, 20c. Butter fat prices avurago 1 Me per pound under regular butter prices. Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 270 Re per dozon. Poultry Hens, 1i)W)lGc per pound; springs, 14X6tl6c; roosters, 90lOc; ducks, young, 12)013c; geese, young, 9010c; turkeys, 20c; squabs, $1,76(3 2 per dozon. Pork Fancy, 110HXc per pound; Veal Extras, UJ01Oc por pound; ordinary, 708c; heavy, 7c. Hops 1009 contracts, 21022c por pound; 1908 crop, 16c; 1907 crop, 12c; 1006 crop, 8c. Wool hastem Oregon, 16023c por pound; valley, choice, 24(72 26c. Cuttlo Stcors, 2325c; mohnlr, top, $4,60: fair to good, $104.25; common, $.1.7504; cows, top, $3,60; fair to good, $364 3.26; common to medium, $2.5002.76; calves, top, $506.50; heavy, $3,60 4; bulls and stags, $2.7603.76. Sheep Top wethers, $4,26; fair to good, $3.6003.76; owes, 'c less on all grados; yearlings, best, $4: fair to good, $3,60(g3.76; spring lambs, $6.26 (05.60. Hogs Best, $9(39,25 ; fair to good, $8(18.60; stockers, $607; China fats. $0.7607. SWEDEN FEARS REVOLT. General Strike Gives Excuse for Re volution by Socialists, Stockholm, Aug. 4, Not only has tho strike of 100,000 workmen largely paralyzed Industry nnd traffic, hut It threatens to develop into n revolution ary movement under the leadership of tho Young Socialist party nnd to In volve every Industry, thus making the pnralvsla complete. The king litis sum- moneil a stieclul session of parliament and tho entire army is kept re inly for immediate action. Forewarned of the purioso of tho Young Socialists to givo the strike a revolutionary turn, the government has decided nt the first sign of Insurrection to declare Stockholm in n state of siege nnd has quartered soldiers In various sections of the city nnd suburbs. A civil corps guard is being organis ed for the protection of property nnd the banks nre closed nnd guarded. All tho ferries ruunnlng out of Stock holm have censed operation nnd the largest steamers engaged In carry big visitors nnd residents to the seaside re sorts In the nrchlpclngo havo suddenly stopped running, discharged their crews and laid up for the winter. The sum mer traffic Is usually continued until October, It Is expected.thnt the present total nf nbout 100,000 Idle workmen will be largely Increased by tomorrow. It Is anticipated also that the streetcar ser vice In Stockholm will stop, nnd ar rangements are being made to run the waterworks and the electrlo light plants by utldler. WAR MENACES CHICAQO. Traction Companies Make Carbarns Camps lor Strikebreakers. Chicago, Aug. 4. Active prepara tions to meet a strike nre being made by officials of the streot railway lines of this city. Old power houses are being fitted up ns nloeptng quarter for strikebreakers. E. L. Reed, who organized the Em ployers' Teaming company, which broke thu teamsters' strike In 1906 has charue of the hiring of nonunion men. He stated that he had on call 6,000 men competent to handle street car and that 160 men Here available In Boston and 100 In Kansas City. Ar rangements have been madowllhea tcrers to feed the nonunion men In tho barna and power houses. Tho companies aim to prevent a complete tie up on any of their lines nnd It Is said csrs will be kept run ning, no matter what the present em ployes determine to do. Special notice were sent out by tho secretaries of the two principal unions to the various barns with Instruction that tho men be urged to cast their veto on thu strike referendum Thurs day. Member of tho Illinois stntn board of arbitration have started for Chicago to sea If they can avert the trouble, Ily reason of the qussl-partnershlp of this city In the surface traction lines, Mayor Buase, Acting Chief of Police 3chuettler and M. II. Merely. tho municipal traction expert, held a conference today on the aubject of the threatened strlko. POLIOE GUARD DOUBLED. New Outbreak of 8trlklng Japs In Hawaii Is Feared Honolulu, Aug. 4. A a result of a story published In a local paper that T. Mori, who today attempted to kilt 8. Sheba, editor of thu Japanese conserv ative paper Shlppo, had been chosen by lot to assassinate Sheba because of his opposition to tho strike of the planta tion laborers, the police are working on tho theiry that the deed was planned at n meeting of strikers held here yes terday. No evidence, however, has been found by the authorities to Indi cate that there is any truth In the story. Mori freoly admit that It was bis Intention to kill Sheba, declaring that tho Japunese editor Is an etneny to his race nnd that ho Intended to punish him for his opposition to thu strlko for higher wages, Invontlgatlon by the police developed thnt Mori bought tho knife and had It sharpened preparatory to his annex. Soldiers Not Mob Then. Son Francisco, Aug. 4. In sustain ing a domurrer to a damage In the Superior court today, Su(Kirkr Judge I-rank G. Mornsky hold that thu sol dlcrs who destroyed stores of liquor wbllo Han I-ranclsco wan burning, in April, 1906, wore not a mob in tho legal sonso of tho word, and that tho city was, thoreforo, not liable to n claim for $1,074. Suit for that sum was brought by Conrad Huber, a sa loonkeeper, who charged that his sup ply of liquor was confiscated. Another action was decided in tho same way. Liabilities of Over 80,000,000. Now York, Aug. 4, Liabilities of $0,668,348 nnd assets of $8,396,028 aro shown In tho schedules of Shopard & Co., tho bond brokerage houso which failed April last, filed today. All but a few thousand dollar of the claims aro unsneurod. The firm was heavily Interested In railroad project and In dustrial enterprises In Now Moxlco, MANY ARE TOO LATE Scores Arrive at Snokano Alter Registration Is Closed. REGISTRATION IS NOW 285,023 Hfty-Threo Steel Boxes Hold the Ap plications, Which Weigh 3,000 Pounds-Clerks Busy, 8M)knn, Wash., Aug. 7. Total np pllcatlons for Indian reservation land received nt Judge James M. Widen' olllce at Coeur d'Alene yesterdny were reported ulllclnlly Inst night ns follows: Coeur d'Alene 1,120, total for wlioln registration period, 105,6:1(1; Spokena 2.707, total U9,tl2H; Mlssouln 6,6:11, Kalispell 73.1, total for Flnthcnd lands, 80,669. Grnnd total thus far received for nil Innd 286,623. Judgo Wltten'a force ha been busy turning uway score of belated nppl. cant fur Indian Innd, the tnldnlglit hour Thursday night having closed tho olllclnl registration. Applications am still in the malls nnd will be rceived for severnl day. Coeur d'Alene booths, stands and platforms used by notaries nnd lunch vender nre being torn down nnd the whole city present n remodeling specL At the land olllce 00 clerks hnvo been placed for the drawings, nnd tables and platforms arranged. There are now 63 steel cans In. the ofilce con taining the applications, divided as follows; Spoksne, 19; Coeur d'Alene. 20; Flsthead 13. The application weigh 2,060 pound without the can. CARLI8TS TO HELP. Don Jaime Will Offer Spain 100,000 Men and His Ssrvlcea. Cerbere. France. Aug. 7. The Car- list leader will hold n meeting shortly nt n French frontier town to decide upon their nttltude In view of recent event, It waa!d today. Afterward. It Is understood, Don Jaime, the Span Ish pretender, will Issue a manifesto declaring that he has no Intention to profit by the misfortunes of his coun try, but that. If the present govern ment la powerless to save the honor of the nation he will acL The Carllst ssy that they are In a position to arm and place In 'the field quickly 100,000 supporter, burning with zeal. Coupled with this announcement comes the news thnt affair at Rarro lona are far from satisfactory. While qulot reigns In the city nt present, a far ns actual revolt goes, the jtollce are still busy arresting people whom they nllrge were Implicated In the recent outbreak, and public feeling Is grow ing resentful of their activity. It is nlso reported Hint prisoners held In the Mont Julsh fortress havo bem executed, nnd prominent revolutionist made tho threat yesterday that If such action were taken another outbreak would follow. STRIKE MAY 8DON DIE OUT. Dliienslrn Breaks Out Among the Workmen at Stockholm, Stockholm, Aug. 7. Tho tense situ ation arising from the general strlko proclaimed a few days ago seemed to be relaxing tonlghL The grave dinger returned to work today nnd dissension Is apparent In tho ranks of the other strikers. Tho owner of some of tho larcst plant In Stockholm announce that their men will return to work Monday. M. von Sldow. president of the Em- ployer' Federation, declared tonight thnt Intervention by the government would be without result, ns thu differ ence wero too great to be settled In such a manner. Tho National Lnbor union published a stntoment disapprov ing tho strlko of thu electric light nnd gns workers, which bctran last nlcht. Tho electric plant was kept In altera tion by olllclals of the lighting depart ment. Ah the strikers havo been prevent ing farmer from bringing provision into the city, troops have been detailed to pttrol tho country road. China Replies to Russia, Pekln, Aug. 7. China today sent In hur mply to tho Russian noto of July 2, regurdlng the opening of tho Sun gnrl nnd other rivers to International trade. Sho montlon. tho Algun trenty and the Russian treaties concerned, and refers to Russia's right to tnko part In framing tlio rulos to govern tho navigation of these streams. Shu doe not deny thnt tho treaties In quostlon hnvo n certain validity, but avoid specifying tho extent to which she con sldor they hnvo boon modified by tho Ruaso-Jnpuneso poaco treaty, Mobs Cheer Prohibition, Montgomery, Aug. 7,Amld street scenes of wild enthusiasm, tho bill making prohibition constitutional passed the houso today.