Aurora Bor
VOL. I.
AUKOUA, OREGON, THUltSPAY, AUGUST 13, 190S.
NO. 10.
The
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RESUME OF THE
WEEK'S DOINGS
Newsy Items Gathered From AH Parti
of the Worli
General Review of Important Hap
pening Presented In a Brief and
Comprehensive) Manner for Busy
Reader National, Political, His
torical end Commercial,
The Wright airship has made a suc
cessful flight in France.
English churches are starting an agi
tation for church union.
The Baldwin airship has been ac
cepted by the government.
Japanese are declining to go to work
for the Canadian Pacific as strike
breakers.
The battleship fleet has arrived at
Auckland, and a warm reception was
tendered it.
The Crystal Palace, one of London's
famous institutions, will be closed on
account of financial troubles.
A hurricane destroyed a factory in
Hungary, burying 100 persons. A
number were killed or injured.
A Pittsburg doctor has just effected
a cure of lockjaw and claims to have
discovered the secret of the malady.
In an address at Warsaw, Ind., a
preacher advocated tatooing all married
women on the chin as a remedy for the
divorce evil.
The business world of France is de
manding a revision of their tariff laws.
They Bay the loopholes in the present
law are too wide.
The first act of violence in the Cana
dian Pacific strike has been recorded.
A policeman on duty was brutally as
saulted, but it is not known if strikers
did it.
More Turkish ministers have Leen
dismissed and arrested.
A heavy rainstorm at Boston flooded
the streets, doing much damage.
A Philadelphia woman provided in
her will for the care of her cats and
parrots.
Much timber is being destroyed and
mining camps threatened by forest fires
in Montana.
New Zealand is making extensive
preparations for the reception of the
battleship fleet.
Roosevelt has assumed all responsi
bility for the discharge of the negro
troops at Brownsville.
London is cleaning house and has
just succeeded in convicting 10 munic
ipal officers of grafting.
A San Francisco man lived 48 hours
after breaking his neck and was con
scious a part of the time.
Thaw has filed a bankruptcy petition,
claiming the doctors' fees and cost of
his trials have left him without any
thing. A man at Victoria, B. C, who had
spent six days of a ten-days sentence
in jail because he did not have the
money to pay the fine is heir to $100,
000. Pope Pius has just celebrated his
fifth anniversary as pope.
A woman balloonist in Wisconsin
fell 900 feet and will live.
A strike of electricians in Paris has
placed the city in darkness.
The New York betting law does not
forbid bets between individuals.
Honduras refuses to restore exe
quaturs of American and other con
auls.
The Canadian Pacific railway is im
porting strikebreakers from the United
States.
A whole detachment of Japanse
troops has been massacred by Corean
insurgents.
A Japanese sealing schooner has
been captured in Bering sea by a Rus
sian cruiser.
Germans are raising a great fund to
build a new Zeppelin airship to replace
the one destroyed.
A viaduct at Cincinnati was dyna
mi ted and 15 persons lv:rt. The dam
age is placed at $10,000.
A whist game has just been played
in Los Angeles for a $15,000 fruit
crop which was in dispute.
Ericksen, the Danish explorer, and
two companions, have perished in the
ice pff the Greenland coast.
Harriman hsa started for the Pacif
coast, still talking of higher freight
rates.
One hundred sheep were killed by a
ingle bolt
of lightning near Bridge-
port, Cal.
Railroad presidents will confer with The price paid is 18 cents or better, Supreme court 16 years and had issued
shipper on rates. The meeting will the highest average of any market in more reporta than all his eight prede
be held ftat Chicago. t Montana. I cessora combined.
RECEIVER FOR BIG MILL.
Pillsbury-Washburne Company Needs
to be Reorganized.
Minneapolis, Aug. 10. Incident to
a reorganization certain of the stock
holders of the Pillsbury-Washburn
Flour Milling company Saturday peti
tioned the Federal District court for
the appointment of receivers.
Whatever action is taken by the
court, the business will be continued.
The indebtedness of the defunct
company is set at more than $5,000,
000, without security. The book value
of the company's property exceeds
$15,000,000. The total secured in
debtedness covered by debenture bonds,
is $4,000,000, or a total indebtedness
of $9,000,000. Liquid assets are esti
maetd at 35,500,000, to pay $5,000,000
unsecured debts.
The company has $800,000 of its
products stored in 25 states outside of
Minnesota.
The application for receiver has cre
ated surprise, but it is not expected
to cause any flurry in milling or finan
cial'circles. The milling interests in
Minneapolis have enjoyed an exception
ally good year and the conditions that
affected the Pillsbury-Washburn com
pany have been peculiacr to that organ
ization. The receivers have been appointed
with full power to operate the com
pany's manufacturing plants and with
confident expectation that this expedi
ent will be found only temporary and
that ample property, over and above
all debts, will be ultimately left for the
holders of shares. It is proposed to
operate the mills under receivers and
in charge of the receivers, so that labor
interests will not be seriously affected
at this time, and this is regarded as
promising good results, in view of the
very satisfactory condition everywhere
of the milling and grain business, no
other company engaged in similar lines
here being in any way involved.
BUILD $20,000,000 DEPOT.
Northwestern Plans Costly Structure
for Chicago.
Chicago, Aug. 10. The Chicago &
Northwestern railway announced yes
terday that its engineers and architects
have completed the plans for its new
Madison street passenger terminal,
which will cost when completed in the
neighborhood of $20,000,000, and
which will include facilities for hand
ling over a quarter of a million pas
sengers every 24 hours. This station
will surpass in point of ground covered
and length of trackage every railway
terminal in the United States, it is
said, except the South Station, in Bcs
ton.
The now terminal will occupy prac
tically four entire city blocks, bounded
by Madison street on the south, Kiruie
street on the north, Clinton street on
the west and Canal street on the east,
passing under Washington and Ran
dolph streets by means of brilliantly
lighted subways.
The structure will be of gray granite
of classic design, the essential features
of which is the great colonnaded en
trance or portico, of lofty proportions
that will tower to a height of 120 feet
above Madison street.
Before this imposing front will be
broad pavement or esplanade, from
which will rise the granite columns
that guard the inner vestibule.
ARRESTS ARE MYSTERIOUS.
Immigration Authorities Busy in De
troit After Long Chase.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 10. Great Bec-
recy is being maintained regarding five
arrests made here today by the local
police and the local immigration au
thorities on a telegraphic request re
ceived from Helena, Mont. The pris
oners are three men and two women of
striking appearance, and a small boy
and two dogs form a conspicuous feat
ure of the party.
The arrests are said to have followed
a search by United States officials
which began in San Francisco in 1905
and has been carried since to Boston,
Pittsburg, Omaha, Helena, Chicago
and several other points. Both the
city police and the local immigration
inspectors say they do not know why
the arrests were ordered. The pris
oners deny that they are identified
with any persons wanted by the Unit
ed StaUs.
After Wells-Fargo.
Los Angeles, Aug. 10. An import
ant complaint against the Wells-Fargo
Express company wm filed today with
the Interstate Commerce commission
by tne California Traffic association
and several commission men. The
complaint says the express company
charges excessive and ur.reasonable
rates on shipments, and for icing
fruits and vegetables. It is abo as
serted that the company furnishes
faulty and inadequate equipment. This
is said to be the first action of its kind
ever beun against the company.
New Wool Market Sets Record.
Butte, Mont, Aug. 10. Wool ship-
; rr.ents at Baker, a new station on the
I St. Paul in Eastern Montana, for th's
I season, amount to 1.000.000 pounds,
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS
MAY LOSE WATER.
North Powder Company Has Prior
Right Over Farmers.
Baker City That the ranchers in
some portions of the North Powder
country are to suffer the loss of water
at this important time of the year is
evident if the order goes into effect
that was made by the North Powder
M. & M. company, which owns and
operates the flouring mill at that sta
tion.
The company has prior water rights.
but in the past has had a surplus of
water. It was decided to divide the
water with ranchers who would put
land in cultivation, the division to
continue until any time it was found
necessary to have the whole supply for
muling purposes. Crops have been
planted and the desert soil responded
admirably to the tiller's efforts.
Now, however, the water supply is
short, and the milling company was
forced to order all water belonging to
their water right to be turned into the
canal that feeds the mill supply.
The hardship that will be worked on
those who have spent their time and
work in cultivating lands that were
watered by the mill's surplus will
probably be hard. According to the
opinion or many, however, there was
nothing else for the mill to do in order
to protect its business.
GOOD ROADS MEET.
Every County in State Will be Repre
sented This Year.
Portland Nearly every county in
Oregon will be represented at the good
roads conference to be held in Port
land, August 11. Among the most
distant will be Lake county, which
will send delegates to counsel with the
men from Eastern and Western Oregon
on the best remedies for existing road
conditions.
County Judge B. Daly, of Lakeview,
has written to the Portland Commer
cial club, assuring the management
that his county will be represented.
He said:
'We have not been saying much, but
we have been up and doing until we
now have 300 miles of as good roads in
Lake county as can be found in any
county in Oregon. Lake county, with
its 5,000 acres of land to every voter,
has already a per capita income of over
$250 per man from the livestock in
dustry alone. When we get railroad
facilities to ship to the markets the
splendid products of our orchards,
farms, mines and forests, then watch
Lake county grow."
Big Hay Crop in Tillamook.
Tillamook The hay harvest will be
completed this week, with the excep
tion of oat hay. The weather has
been fine the past two weeks for hay
making, but previous to that the heavy
fogs at night made curing somewhat
slow. Another bumper hay crop is in
the barns, and the large dairy herds in
Tillamook county are well provided for
for the next winter, and as the mead
ows are green and will remain so all
summer with abundnace of green pas
ture, the cheese factories are receiving
a much larger amount of milk than in
previous years.
Smut Eats Up Machines.
Pendleton Smut has caused the de
struction of two threshing machines in
Umatilla county during the past week,
and another was burned, but the origin
of the fire in the third instance ia un
certain. Those who lost machines are :
Isaac Christopher, Frank Brotherton
and J. Hudeman. The Christopher and
Hudeman machines were blown up by
the explosion of smut dust, a fire fol
lowing in each instance. The other
machine burned while being moved
from one field to another.
Hop Crop Worth Picking.
Salem Salem hopmen do not agree
with Joseph Harris that the hop crop
will be larger than the demand and
that the crop will not all be picked.
Dealers interviewed estimate the crop
at from 90,000 to 120,000 bales, and
indicate their belief that there will be
few, if any, growers who will not pick
their hops. The dealers agree that the
crop will be good if the weather contin
ues favorable. No one will venture an
estimate as to price.
Gobbling Up New Wheat.
Pendleton Wheat has advanced an
other two cents in the Pendleton mark
et, with the result that probably 200,
000 bushels have changed hands within
the past two days. The purchases are
being made on a basis of 75 cents, and
it is not recalled when the prices were
so good and so much wheat changing
hiJidm so early in the season.
Reporter of Supreme Court.
Salem Frank A. Turner, a Salem
attorney, has been appointed Supreme
court reporter to succeed Judge R. G
Morrow, who resigned. Judge Mor
row had been reporter for the Oregon
PARTS OF OREGON
BIG APPLE CROP.
Over 1,000 Cars of Shipping Stock
Will be Produced This Year.
Portland Oregon will have over
1,000 cars of fine apples to ship this
year, as compared with about 600 cars
last year. Crop prospects on the whole
are favorable, though some sections of
the state are doing better than others.
Hood River will have its banner crop,
though it was feared earlier in the
season that Borne damage had been
done. The shipments from Hood River
valley will be between 400 and 500
cars, against 200 cars in 1907. lhe
Grand Ronde valley is preparing to
send out 300 cars, double the number
shipped last year, while Medford grow
ers expect to dispatch about 200 cars,
as they did last season. In the other
apple sections of the state the condi
tions are reported as good or a little
better than they were last season.
though it is known that some varie
ties, Baldwins especially,, will run
lighter than last year in the Willam
ette valley, and it is also said the val
ley Newtowns and Spitzenbergs will
not produce the crop they did a year
ago. Prices that will be realized on
shipping stock will be governed by
conditions in the Eastern states, where
the yields are reported to be compara
tively light.
Knights of Grip Win.
Salem William McMurray, general
passenger agent ol the bouthern 1 a-
cific, has advised the committee of the
Travelers' Protective association, hav
ing the matter in hand, that if the
traveling men would withdraw their
complaint before the railroad commis
sion 2,000-mile books would . be imme
diately issued, good on all the Harri
man lines in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, for the flat rate of $50. This
is what the traveling men have been
fighting for for two years past, and
they are jubilant over the successful
outcome of the matter.
Dairying Exhibit td be Feature.
Portland An immense dairying ex
hibit will be the feature of the coming
Oregon state fair in September, if
plans of the Dairy association officers
are carried out. These plans now
promise to be more than fulfilled.
Mrs. S. A. Yoakum, vice president of
the association, who has been touring
the Willamette valley in the interest
of the exhibit, came to Portland from
Salem and departed for Tillamook
county. She is said to be doing much
good in arousing the enthusiasm of
dairy cow owners.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 87c per bushel ; forty
fold, 88c; red Russian, 85c; bluestem,
90c; valley, 87c.
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; roll
ed, $25026; brewing, $26.
Oats No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton;
gray, $26.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14 per ton; Willamette valley, ordi
nary, $11; Eastern, Oregon, $16.50;
mixed, $13; alfalfa, $11; alfalfa meal,
$20.
Fruits Apples, new California,
$1.25(11,1.75 per box; cherries, 3010c
per pound; peaches, 40c0$l per box;
prunes, $1 per crate; Bartlett pears,
$1.75 per box; plums, 40050cper
box; grapes, $1,5001.75 per crate.
Berries Raspberries, $1 per crate;
loganberries, $1 per crate; black
berries, 60c0 $1.
Potatoes New, $1 fa 1.25 per hun
dred; old, Oregon, 75c per hundred;
sweet potatoes. 6!c per pound.
Melons Cantaloupes, $202.75 per
crate; watermelons, 90c0 $1.25 per 100
loose; crated, 4c per pound addition
al; casabas, $2,7503 per dozen.
Z Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack;
carrots. $1.75; beets, $1.50; beans, 7c
per pound; cabbage, 2c per pound;
corn, 25fti 30c per dozen; cucumbers,
$1 per box; egg plant, 10c per pound;
lettuce, head, 15c per dozen; parsley,
15c per dozen; peas, 4c per pound:
peppers, 80 10c per pound; radishes,
12c per dozen; spinach, 23c per
pound; tomatoes, 75cO$l per crate;
celery, $1.25 per dozen; artichokes,
75c per dozen.
Butter Extras, 27c per pound;
fancy, 25c; choice, 20c; store, 18c.
Fggs Oregon extras, 25c per dozen;
firsts, 230 24c; seconds, 22022Jc;
thirds, 150 20c; Eastern, 230 24c.
pitrvMil rhirtin Hp r-r
nound: fancv hens. 12c! roosters. 9c:
spring, 14c; ducks, old, 8c; spring, 12
012Sc; geese, old, 8c; goslings, 10
0 lie; turkeys, old, 180 19c; young,
200 24c.
Veal Extra, 80 8,' f'c per pound; or
dinary, 7o7Jtc; heavy, 5c.
Pork Fancy, 7c per pound; ordi
nary, 6c; large, 5c.
Mutton Fancy, 80 9c.
Hop 1907, prmie and choice, 44
i 5c per pound; olds, 202c; con
tracts, 9o 10c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
10016He per pound, according to and the others sre now on fire. Aeon
shrinkage: valley. 15o15Jic: n;o- flagration is threatened which will
I hair, choice, 18ojl8c,
RME HEARINGS SET.
Interstate Commerce Commission to
Meet in San Francisco.
San Francisco, Aug. 7. It was an
nounced here today that the Interstate
Commerce commission will meet in San
Francisco August 18, to take up mat
ters relating to the freight rate contro
versy between the commission and the
railroads that have grown out of the
new freight tariff order by the com
mission on shipments of lumber from
points in the Willamette valley to San
i rancisco and Bay points.
It is hkely that the commission will
also hear complaints from the trans
continental railroads regarding the
new ruling on Oriental tariffs, at its
San Francisco meeting, which will be
one of the most important sessions of
the year.
The government officials here pro-
feBS to be ignorant of the commis
sion's program, but admit that the
lumber rate controversy is to be con
sidered. The commission has been subpoena
ed to answer in Federal Judge Mor
row's court to Bhow why an injunction
should not be issued restraining the
enforcement of the new lumber rates.
The officials of the Pacific Mail com
pany are preparing to submit their ob
jections to the late ruling of the com
mission regarding the publication of
overland tariffs on Oriental shipments.
The new rule requires the publication
of overland tariffs and the steamship
people say they would be forced to go
out of business because competition on
the Pacific ocean forces them to give
the Oriental shipper a lower rato than
they give the American shipper. A
strong protest is to be made.
FIGURES ON FIRE LOSSES.
Railroads and Coal and Lumber Com
panies Make Estimates.
Toronto, Ont., Aug. 7. J. L. Lind
say, president of the Crows Nest Coal
company, summarised the Northwest
em fire situation thus in a dispatch re
ceived here:
The fire area is about 30 miles long
and from two to ten miles wide, and
is still burning in many places at the
outskirts, but Michel is Bafe, except in
the case of high winds, and may be
even then. Hosmer is quite safe and
Coal Creek may be said to be almost
certainly safe.
The loss of the Crows Nest Tass
company, owning mines at Cal Creek
and Fernie and Michel, will be $200,
000, and the Canadian Pacific railway
will lose $200,000. The Great North
ern railway will lose about $250,000,
and the lumber company not less than
$1,000,000. The loss of timber to the
Crows Nest Pass Coal company will
not be less than $1,000,000. The loss
to the city of Fernie will be not less
than $2,000,000.-
STARTS GRAIN-RATE WAR.
Great Western Makes Slashing Re
duction From Western States.
Chicago, Aug. 7. Changes in grain
rates which may have a far-reaching
effect upon the'movement of the com
ing crops have been announced by the
Chicago & Great Western railroad.
That line has filed tariffs putting
equalized rates into effect between
Omaha and St. Paul on grain coming
from west of the Missouri river. The
new rates vary between 8 and 10 cents,
the former charges having been 11 and
12 cents.
The new rates apply to all territory
on the Missouri Pacific and Burlington
systems, where the through rates are
less than the sum of the local rates in
and out of Omaha. The Great West
ern says that in all such cases it will
take the haul East for what is left of
the rate.
Officials of other roads assert that a
general grain-rate war may result.
Bolster Up Hop Prices.
Sacramento, Cal., Aug. 7. There is
a rumor to the effect that the hop
growers and dealers in this and Yolo
counties will hold a meeting in this
city in a few days to take drastic ac
tion to steady the hop market, which
it is said is now suffering from over
production. The movement which is
said to be under way contemplates
brineing the growers and dealers of
the entire Pacific coast into line, with
a view to letting a portion of thi.i
year's crop, possibly 20 to 25 per cent,
go unpicked.
Fined Under Pass Law.
Helena, Mont., Aug. 7. Ojnvicted
on a charge of violating the anti-pass
law, S. C. Watts was fined $H00 and
liertle William siuu in me reierai
courrt today. Watts, who is a Great
Northern brakeman, secured a pass for
his wife and gave it to the Williams
woman. Both were indicated. This
was the first conviction of this kind
ever had in Montana.
Flames Lick Up Whiskey.
Midway. Kv.. Aur. 8. Six im -
mense bonded whisky warehouses of
Greenbaum Bros.' distillery at this
place are threatened with total de
struction by fire. Four of the ware-
houw buildings were reduced to ruins
wipe out the whole of the town.
MACHINISTS ON
CANADIAN OUT
Tie-Up of Railroad from Ocean to
Ocean Is Their Aim.
Arbitration Award la the Cause Men
Refuse to Abide by Board's De
cision Twelve Thousand Men
Obey Order of Unin and Walk
Out When Called.
Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 6. Trades
unionism in Canada has given its defy
to the Canadian Pacific railway. With
out any untoward incident or ostenta
tious Bhow, the mechanics and kindred
workmen yesterday quit work and all
shops, big and little, on this great sys
tem are idle.
It is estimated that 12,000 men went
out, the largest number being 2,200
in Montreal and 1,500 here. Two
thousand men left work between Fort
William and Vancouver, all at the dic
tates of the executive board. Even
old workmen in line for pensions went
home, and it seems to be the most
complete tie-up in the history of rail
way shops in Canada. All the work
men employed around the trainsheds at
the depots went out and conductors
and engineers caused some delay in
the service by insisting on trains be
ing proierly made up before they
would take trains out. Every wheel
in the shops stopped and every Are
died out when the whistle blew several
short blasts, caretakers and shop fore
men alone being left to put the places
in shape for the period of idleness
bound to follow.
The Canadian Pacific railway's view
is that the finding of the board ap
pointed at the request of the men
should, in the company's opinion, be
binding on the men. The Csnadian
Pacific railway not only did not seek
arbitration, but, believing the board
to be hostile to its interests, withdrew
its representatives and the government
appointed another arbitrator to repre
sent the company, who therefor was
not accepted by the company. Despite
these facta the board so constituted
gave a finding which was accepted by
the Canadian Pacific under protest.
REFORMS BY SULTAN.
New Cabinet AskeJ for and Several
Grafters Arrested.
Constantinople, Aug. 6. Said
Pasha, the grand vizier, and the newly
formed ministry have resigned. The
sultan has accepted the resignations,
and tonight invited Lemallediu Ef
fendi, the Sheik ul Islam and Kiamil
Pasha to form a new cabinet.
The notorious Fehmi Pasha, ex-pres
ident of tho council of state, 1 has been
lynched at Yenishair, in the vilayet of
lirusa, Asia Minor.
Mendud Pasha, San Rami Pasha and
Recid Pasha, respectively ex-ministers
of the interior and marine and ex-prefect
of Constantinople, were arrested
today and conducted to the ministry of
police amid hisses of the populace.
The arrests have been ordereud of
prominent officials of the old regime,
and Teh in Pasha, ex-first secretary to
Abdul Hamid, and Abdual Huda, court
astrologer, have been taken into cus
tody. REPORTS EXAGGERATED.
Loss of Life at Fernie Not So Great
as First Believed.
Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 6. Pros
pects in the region of Fernie are
brighter today, and everyone is taking
new heart.
The coroner said today that the
deaths in Fernie City will not exceed
20. Cf the C2 persons said to have
been burned in the Elk River Lumber
company's logging camp, all but two
are now accounted for. The relief or
ganizations are doing systematic work.
Patrols of special constables are In
charge of the camps, and sanitary
rules are strictly enforced. During the
past two days there have been 18
bk ths and hundreds of young children
are being brought bark to the camp by
their mothers from temporary places
of refuge. The sale of liquor has been
prohibited and Fernie is more orderly
than ever before.
Funeral Service for Allison.
Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. 6. The fune
ral service for Senator William Boyd
Allison will be held at 4 o'clock Satur
day afternoon at the family home on
Locust street. A brief eulogy will be
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prunuuiu wi. r iniie tayri Krrics
win te saui. i nere win ie no nowers.
The burial will be private. It is pre
sumed that Rev. Bergen, pastor of the
Westminster Presbyterian church, will
I officiate. There will be no honorary
' pallbearers. Interment will be in Lin-
( wood cemetery here. A committee of
senators will attend.
Algeria is Shaken Again.
Constantine, Algeria, Aug. 6. Re
newed shocks of earthquake were felt
here this afternoon and tonight. No
casualties were reported.