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Boreal. VOL. I. AUHOUA, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1908. NO. 17. RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS Newsy Items Gathered From All Parts of the WorU. Genera! Review of Important Hap penlnga Presented In Brief end Comprehensive Manner for Busy Reader NaUonal, Politic!, HI torical ami Commercial. The War department will ask for a million dollars to build airships. A woman is said to have led some of t e rioters at Springfield, Illinois. A fire in the East Buffalo stockyards hurr.ed between 15,00 and 2,000 sheep and calves. Governor Deneen says the whole p wer of Illinois wili be exerted to protect the negroes. An Omaha judge denounced a woman for marrying an old man for his money and refused to give her a divorce. The Alaska Pacific Steamship com pany will establish daily papers on its two passenger steamers between San Francisco and Puget sound. Altogether there are 4,200 militia men on duty at Springfield, Illinois, as a result of the race riots. This is all f the state troops except the colored members. In the recent holdup of a Great Northern mail car near Spokane the clerks outwitted the robbers by dump in? the registered letters into new - Unveiling of a Roosevelt statue in a Texas town caused a riot, the people being divided in their views of the president. One person was fatally hurt and nine others injured. The battleship fleet has sailed from Auckland to Sydney. Japan is paying off her war debt in good sized installments. The Canadian government is to me diate in the railroad strike. Ira D. Sankey, the evangelist, is dead. He was 68 years old. Fire in the Buffalo, N. Y., stock yards, burned close to $ 1,000, 000 worth of property. Contractors driving the big St. Paul tunnel in Montana are breaking all records for speed. , Two people were killed and six in jured by the explosion of a balloon at London. A spectator attempted to light a cigar. The bones of 21 persons have been found on an island in Lake of the Woods. They are believed to be the remains of a party of explorers mas sacred by Indians in 1736. Rear Admiral Cogswell, retired, is dead. He wai an officer on the Oregon when that vessel made its famous voyage around the horn to engage the Spanish fleet. Train robbers held up a Northern Pacific train near Trust, nine miles west of Spokane. The mail car was uncoupled and run up the track. It is not known what the result of the haul was. , Turks and Arcmenians join in cele brating their liberty. Taft, a new town near Missoula, Mont., has been destroyed by fire. It is believed the effect of the Thaw bankruptcy proceedings will be liberty for Thaw. A veterinary surgeon has just died in New York as the result ouf a bite by a horse. A Los Angeles maniacc killed his son and daughter, attempted to kill his wife and himself. A wealthy Italian has been slain in New York. Nihilists are supposed to have done the work. The government has started a fight in San Francisco against the bringing of young girU to this country for im moral purposes. Some unknown person In San Fran cisco at intervals has been throwing ink on women's expensive wearing ap parel, thus ruining it. Japan is rejoicing oyer th new' trademark treaty with the United States, giving it as proof of friendship between the two countries. A modus vivendi has been arranged whereby the Newfoundland fiseries dis pute between Great Britain and the United States will be settled by The . Hague tribunal. Senator La Follette is going to start a newspaper. The Canadian Pacific is importing strikebreakers from Europe. King Teter, of Senria, is accused of conspiracy against Montenegro. Forest fin s have broken out again in Canada s.nd more towns are threatened with destruction. TROOPS SCATTER MOB. Police of Springfield Also Foil Attempt to Cut Wires. Springfield, 111., Aug. 17. Two deaths from injuries received in pre vious mob fights, the attempted cutting of the fire alarm wires, the exoneratiou of Private J. B. Klein, company A, First Illinois Infantry, by a court of inquiry for the killing of Earl Nelson at Kankakee Saturday, and the pursuit of a mob by guardsmen were the chief developments in the race war in Spring field yesterday. The attempt to cut the telephone and fire alarm wires leading to the city hall was not successful. A policeman saw three men on top of an outbuilding try ing to reach the lines overhead. He turned in an alarm to the headquarters of General Wells, commanding a pro visional brigade, and the latter dis patched a wagonload of soldiers to the scene. They arrived before the trio had done any damage. The would-be wirecutters fled, leaving their nippers behind. A genuine scare was caused at the headquarters in the arsenal last night after a squad had been sent to disperse a crowd at Allen and Spring streets. Five minutes later a report reached Lieutenant Colonel Eddy that shots ha j been fired in the threatened district. He immediately sent a full platoon to the plac to reinforce the squad. When the additional soldiers appeared the crowd broke and ran. The soldiers pursued them for several blocks and the district, which is near the scene of Saturday night's lynching, was in an uproar for a few minutes. The arsenal was crowded last night with negro refugees from Springfield and surrounding towns. About 200 men, women and children sought shelt er in the building and slept on the floor or in chairs. Alarms were more numerous last evening than on former nights. In no single case, however, up to a late hour, was there any circumstance which com pelled the use of force. A fire early in the evening at East Mason and Fourth streets brought out the largest crowd, but it was composed mostly of curiosity seekers and was handled easily. Three barns were destroyed by the fire, which is supposed to have been started by mtschevious boys. Governor Deneen explained last night that the disposition of troops at the capitol was not because of any ap prehension of danger to that edifice, but because the grounds offered excel lent camping facilities and were a strategic point from which Colonel Sanborn could control the situation west of Seventh street. The state's attorney of Kankakee county called on the governor in the afternoon in an effort to have arrested the soldier who stabbed Earl Nelson with a bayonet in the First Regiment train at Kankakee last night. The governor referred him to the military authorities. HE CLAIMS VICTORY. Castro Crows Over Holland, Although No Blood Shed. Willemstad, Aug. 17. It seems that the authorities refused to permit the Dutch cruiser Gelderland to enter the port of La Guayra, and this act was re garded at the capital in the light of a defeat for The Netherlands men-of-war. It was celebrated with a recep tion by President Castro, at which there was mqsic and dancing, and. when the president made his way through the streets of the city, he was given an ovation. An official of the customs house at La Guayra. who had communication with the Gelderland has been dis missed. The Netherlands vessel went into La Guayra August 1 and, when she re turned here, her commander said that all communication with the port had been refused. The port authorities declined to accept an official communi cation to the German minister, who is in charge of the interests of the Neth erlands in Curacoa. The population of Curacoa has peti tioned the governor of the colony to declare free the importation and ex portation of arms and ammunition. Gold Amalgam Stolen. Reno, Nev., Aug. 17. A sack a-nalgam shipped by express to the Carson mint from Manhattan, a few days ago has disappeared. About week ago two sacks containing gel amalgam worth several thousand dol lars. were shipped from Msnhattan Only one arrived at the mint Where the other is is a mystery. Detectives ' have found that the shipment, instead I of going via Mound House, came to Reno an 1 was forwarded. They be . lieve one of the sacks was stolen whil they were being transferred in Reno. Bars Up Against Curacoa. Willemstad, Aug. 17. Letters from Venezuela say that all cargoes and pas sengers coming from Curacoa will be 1 refused at Venezuelan ports, but ves ' sels from the island will be admitted without consular despatch. NEWS NOTES GATHERED EROM VARIOUS PRUNE GROWERS SMILE. Douglas County Promised Immense Crop This Season. Roseburg Tillson & Co. have pur chased a fine equipment for their large prune packing plant in this city, and have begun work to enlarge and re model the plant to handle Douglas county's large prune crop this year. A new 30 horsepower boiler is now be ing placed for the steam plant, and several new pieces of machinery for grading and packing will be installed. Nearly 200 cars of evaporated prunes will be shipped out of the county from various points, a large portion of which will be handled by local firms. In addition to the new machinery the building will b enlarged to almost twice its present size. H. L. Giles & Co., of Salem, have purchased the Douglas County prune packing house of Receiver T. R. Sheri dan, and will thoroughly overhaul and make additions to the equipment. These two large packing houses are ept running for from three to four months every fall. Besides these two plants, there is another packing house at Myrtle Creek that handles from 20 to 50 carloads every season. There will also be about 30 carloads of ap ples shipped from Douglas county this year. I he Douglas County fruit growers' association will handle about half of this crop of apples. THE STATE FAIR. Thousands of Dollars Being Spent to Make It Success. Salem For the state fair in 1907 the Southern Pacific railroad handled 215 carloads of stock and exhibits. This year, while the fair is yet more than six weeks away, 219 cars have been ordered for hauling exhibits and tock. Many favorable conditions are working together harmoniously for i great fair at Salem next month. Several thousand dollars have been expended in enlarging the permanent exhibit building. The grand stand has been enlarged so that it will accommo date one-third more people. Men have been at work on the grounds for Borne weeks preparing them for the fair. The shrubbery and grass is being cared for and skeletons for decoration pur poses are being erected. All prepara tions are starting early. A feature that will greatly assist to make the state fair this year of more worth and value will be the co-opera tion of the Portland Country club. which is offering attractive purses for the livestock exhibitions and races. Summer Normal Draws Teachers Brownsville Many teachers, lectur ers and ministers from this section are taking advantage of the summer nor mal school conducted by the Albany college. The attendance is very large. Hereafter this will probably be one of the drawing cards for Albany college. Teachers are in attendance from Mar ion, Lane, Benton, Lincoln, Linn and other nearby counties. Lane county especially is proving its loyalty toward the church college by a good attend ance. For the summer school the col lege has secured the services of some of the best educators in the United States. Blow Out Beecher Rock. Eugene In the improvements which the County court has authorized for the Eugene-Mapleton wagon croad, the most noteworthy is the order to blow out Beecher rock, and Commissioner Price will soon take up this big task Beecher rock, which overhangs the Siulslaw road, will be remembered by every one who has made the trip to Mapleton as the most dangerous point on the trip, ihe rocK, which is a mammoth one weighing thousands of tons, will be blown to pieces and a better and safer road cut out in the side of the mountain. Enlarge College Campus. Salem State Superintendent Acker man his returned from Co rv all is, and states that options have been secured on land in the vicinity of the Agricul tural college that will add about 15 acres to the campus of the Oregon Ag ricultural college. It is expected that at the meeting of the board of regents at Portland on August 13 orders will be given to buy the land on which op tions have been secured. Names Waterways Men. Salem J. N. Teal and Peter Loggie of Marshfield, have been appointed by the governor to represent Oregon at the Lakes-to-the-Gulf waterway con vention at Chicago October 7. Rebuild Albany Iron Works. Albany The Albany Iron work, re cently destroyed at a toes of about $25,000. with insurance of $9,500, will be immediately rebuilt. PARTS OF OREGON BUILD BIG SMELTER. Eastern Capitalists Will Do This if County Builds Bridges. Salem The County Commissioners' court at their last meeting heard the petition of Mining Engineer Gadsden, representing Eastern capitalists, for the appropriation of $2,000 for the building of five bridges across the San tiam river, to make the Gold Creek copper mines accessible. In return for this investment, Mr. Gadsden guaran tees the erection of a smelter with a capacity of 100 tons per day. It is expected that the opening up of these mines and the building of the smelter will result in the location of a refinery in this city. The Gold Creek mines are located on the head waters of the Santiam in the extreme Eastern part of Marion county. A number of leading citizens appear ed before the court and argued in favor of the $2,000 appropriation. Enlarge Salem Hatchery. University of Oregon, Eugene Ac cording to reports received here, the state salmon hatchery up the McKen- zie river will not be abandoned, but extended, and arrangements will be made this fall so that trout as well as salmon can be hatched. The citizens of Eugene will provide the money for the importation of trout eggs from the East. It was rumored some time ago that the hatchery would be abandoned, but it is evident from a letter of the state fish commissioner that great im provements will be' made in the estab lishment. Realizes Good Prices on Horses. Drewsey I. M. Davis, one of the rincipal business men of this place, I home after an absence of several weeks in Pendleton and other railroad points. Mr. Davis took a number of horses over the mountains. He says they stood the trip remarkably well. He realized from $100 to $150 for sin gle drivers. Bible University Begins Next Month University of Oregon, Eugene The Eugene Bible university, the leading ministerial school of the Christian church west of the Rocky mountains, will open September 22. About 100 students are expected to enroll. The faculty consists of seven instructors, headed by President E. C. Sanderson. Record by Land Board. Salem Loans amounting to $40,500 were made by the land board at its monthly meeting held last week. This s the largest sum that has been loaned out by the land board in a great many years. The loans were uniform at 6 per cent. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 89c per bushel ; forty- fold, 93c; red Russian, 87c; bluestem, 93c; valley, 89c. Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; roll ed, $25oi 26; brewing, $26. Oats No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton; gray, $Z6. Hay Timothy, Willamette valley, $14 per ton; Willamette valley, ordi nary, $11; Eastern Oregon, $16.50; mixed, $13; clover, $9; alfalfa, $11; alfalfa meal, $20. Fruits Cherries, 3010cper pound; peaches, 65c0$l per box; prunes, $1.25 per crate; Bartlett pears, $1.50 to 1.75. per box; plums, 400 50c per box; grapes, $1,2501.50 per crate; apricots, $1; blackberries, $1,1001.15. Potatoes 90c 0) $1 per hundred; sweet potatoes, 5c per pound. Melons Cantaloupes, $2,5003 per crate; watermelons, $1.50 per 100 loose; crated, ic per pound addition al; casabas, $2.50 per dozen. Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack; carrots, $1.75; beets, $1.50; beans, 5c per pound; cabbage", 2(t2c per pound; corn, 250 30c per dozen; cu cumbers, $1 per box; eggplant, 10c per pound; lettuce, head, 15c per dozen ; parsley, 1 5c per dozen ; peas. 6c per pound; peppers, 80 10c per. pound; radishes, 12 '-e per dozen; spinach, 2c per pound; tomatoes, 60c 0$l per crate; celery, 90c0$l per dozen ; artichokes, 75c per dozen. Butter Extras, 27'c per pound; fancy, 25c; choice, 20c; store, 18c. Eggs Oregon extras, 25c per doz en; nrsw, zJtanc: seconds, zKazzct thirds, 150 20c; Eastern, 230 24c Poultry Mixed chickens, llOll'c per pound; fancy hens, 120izc; roosters, 80 9c; spring, 14c; ducks, old, 80 9c; spring, 100, lie; geese, old, 8c; goslings, lOo llc; turkeys, old, 18 01 9c; young, 20c. .Veal Extra, 808'c; per toind; ordinary, 70.7c; heavy, 5c. Fork Fancy, 7c per pound; ordi nary, 6c; large, 6c. Mutton Fancy, 80 9c per przr.d, Hope 1207, prime and choice, 4 Ott 5c per pound; olds, 20 2,','c; contracts, 9o10c. v Wool Eastern Orgon, average beet, 10016c' per pound, according to shrinkage; valley, 15015c; mohair, choice, lg0jr.i8,'gC. ORIENTALS AGAIN QUARREL. Killing of Japanese Traitor Caught in Pekin the Cause. Pekin, Aug. 14. The killing in this city early this month of a Japanese army otticer, supposed to be a spy and traitor, by Japanese soldiers at tached to the Pekin legation, will re sult in the presentation by China of a for nal j rjtest against tne doing of police duty by legation guards outside of the legation precincts. The otticer in question was Captain Kyhxtata. He was in the artillery branch of the Hiroshima division and he was formerly an instructor in the Chinese military college at Pao Ting til. He was charged with selling Jap anese military secrets to a foreign power and disappeared from Japan in June. O.i August 1 he was discovered dis guised as a Chinaman, hiding near the war office in Pekin. This knowledge was communicated to the legation guards and a detachment was sent to capture him. He resisted arrest, whereupon the guard shot and wounded the spy and he died two days later in the hospital of the legation guard. M. Abe, the Japanese charge d af faires, has urged lack of time and the importance of the prisoner in extenua tion of the act oi of the guard in not notifying the Chinese authorities be ft re arresting the captain. He ex plains further that the resistance f the prisoner was unforeseen and that his consequent shooting cculd not be avoided. The Chinese government is not sat isfied with this explanation, and thinks its authority has been ignored. The incident has created a good deal of feeling on both sideB. A NEW DOCTRINE. Harriman Railroad Attorney Claims P?d: Car. Civ Rebates. San Francisco, Aug. 14. Peter F. Dunne, attorney for the Southern Pa cific railroad in its defense against the charge of illegal rebating before the Railroad commissioners, today insisted strongly that a common carrier could not be guilty of unjust discrimination unless the rate complained of was made with "an evil intent." He held further that the railroad was entirely justified, the attorney general to the contrary notwithstanding, in making better terms to large shippers than to their small-fry rivals. Mr. Dunne also touched upon the matter of competition and held, in op position to the arguments of Messrs. Benjamin and Cushing made the day before, that it was art of a company's inherent right of contract to take com petition into consideration in making freight schedules. He also argued that the railroad had a right to consider whether it had a chance to carry the same material again in the form of a more finished product and, when there was such a chance, to make a lower rate on the raw n-at. 'rial. If any or all of the cir cumslaices considered made it good policy to carry freight for nothing, he could see no provision in the law to forbid it. WANT 6.000 STEEL CARS. Harriman Lines Will Spend $6,000, OOO for Rolling Stock. New York, Aug. 14. The Harriman roads are in the market for 6,000 steel cars. No orders have been placed, but the car equipment companies have been notified thaf this amount repre sents the total of an early purchase by the Harriman lines, and for more than half the cars there have been filed specifications on which the equip ment companies may base their bids. Competition between the companies is said to be keen, for the orders, if filled, will be altogether the largest since the panic. The estimated cost of the 6,000 steel cars ranges all the way from $6,000, 000 to $7,000,000. It is expected that the lower figure will prove nearer cor rect, for the reason that the competi tion between the car equipment com panies may result in a cut price. Stize Another Steamer. London, Aug. 14. Another cloud has arisen between Japan and China, according to a special dispatch re ceived here from Hongkong, owing to the seizure at Chin Chou by the Chin ese authorities of a steamer having on board 10,000 rifles and 2,000,000 cart ridges. Jspanese merchants have protested, saying that this cargo be longs to them, and they threaten to make another international question out of it. Thia seizure is similar to that of the Japanese steamer Maru in February of this year. TfcUu Whites to Control Pacific. Melbourne. Aur. 14 -Both houses of ( the Victorian pi rliament today voted unanimously resolutions cordially wel - I corning the American battleship fleet 'to Australian waters. The various speakers dwelt upon the close friend- ship which units Great Britain and the United States, and one of the mem- hers remarked that the visit of the American battleship assured the con- trol of the Pacific for all time for the white race. EIGHT OVER SILETZ LANDS Original Homesteaders Declare That "Squatters" Must Co. Contestants Say They Will Await Fi nal Decision From Land Office Original Settlers Say if Ejectment Proceedings Fail Other Meara Will Be Taken. Newport, Or.. Auc. IS. Proo. ings to eject the alletred souattera n the SileU reservation claims at aovr. al Lincoln county resident are to be lanen at once. If these are unsuccess ful, the original settlers declare other means to dispossess the contestants will be taken. Serious trouble. is feared. Two of the claims in disnute wer originally taken by L. W. Williams. . and r rank Priest, of this city. W. S. Copland and V. Jiffcott are now on theBe claims. They have been ordered by the original claimants to move and have refused. They declare that they will stay until the cases are finally settled by the land office. This, it is declared, is tha attitude of all the contestants. The original settlers declare they will not permit me contestant to carry out this plan. Homesteaders whose claims are thus threatened do not know what to make of this bold move by the 'squatters." They are certain that a hundred or more of the best claims are now liable to seizure any day. They are informed by the men now squatting on their ' places that legal advice has been ob tained and that the squatters paid large sums for the location and for protection, but the homesteaders are in a fighting temer, because they cannot see by what possible legal twist they can be deprived of their claims without a trial. FIRES SPREAD TO BANFF. Forests In Canada' Great National Park Burning. Winnipeg, Aug. 13. The forest fires which raged around Fernie have spread to Canada's national park dis trict near Banff, in Pray valley. The fire burnini fiercely on the heights of Goat mountain this week. The government gang of men has the fire in the valley under control, but last night at several points on the mountain eight miles away fire was visible near the top. A fire started at Castle mountain, 18 miles west of Banff last night under a strong west wind in a half hourhad run over eight miles. Boats and sup plies were forwarded from Banff. The wind shifted to the northeast, and with this in their favor the fire-fighters should be able to secure control. No anxiety is felt at Banff about this last fire, as it would be compar atively easy to protect the town, even if the fire came down the valley, owing to the large area of oen hay meadows to the west, on which the grass is yet green and on which water is yet standing. RAIN FLOODS CHICAGO. Cloudburst and Heavy Electric Dis charge Sweeps City. Chicsgo, Aug. 13. No boats have been able to enter or leave the Chi cago river this morning on account of the crippling or the electric power that operates the bridges, by a terrific elec tric storm that swept this citv and vi cinity last night. The entire liirhtin and power plant operated by the drain age canal trustees was so badly crip pled that it cannot be repaired until tonight. The storm flooded the entire city, filling cellars, destroying electrical feed cables and shutting off light and power. Lightning struck in several places. Down town the cellars were flooded with several inches of water, the sewers being inadequate to carry off the water. A city drainage pipe gave way near th Auditorium annex. Strikers Paid and Discharged.' Winnipeg, Aug. 13. The employee of the Canadian Pacific railway were paid In full today, and all striking me chanics were notified that they had been discharged. The officials of the company took this means of announc ing that the railroad will fight the de mands of the union to a finish. Vi , President Whyte. of the railroad, ar. rived here today from the Pacific coast. He declined to discuss the strike or state what is being don to fill the places of the strikers. Strikebreakers re being imported, j To Modernize Land SrtU.it. San Francisco. Aur. 1.1. J W Pratt, commissioner of public lands in the Hawaiian Islands, is in this city today en rout to Washington, where he intends to visit the United State land office with the purpose of improv- ing the system of caring for the Dublia land of the inlands.