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TTT VOL. I. AUltOHA, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST i!7, 100S NO. 18. The 10 mream BRIEF NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK Condensed Dispatches from All Parts of the Two Hemispheres. Interesting Events from Outside the State Presented in a Manner to Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader Matters of National, Historical end Commercial Importance. FEAR STRIKE RIOT. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON FIELD FOR SILK CULTURE. Bryan counts on carrying New York. The big theater hat has been abol ished in Paris play houses. The grand jury at Springfield, 111., has returned 20 more indictments. Taft says th, if elected, he will call a special session of congress to re vise the tariff. The sultan is recalling his ministers and ambassadors and replacing them with new men. Serious troulbe is feared in the Ala bama coal district where the white miners have ordered the blacks to leave. During a storm near Pottsville, Pa., lightning set off a charge of dynamite 1,300 feet under ground, killing two men. A Southern ItldiRna coal mine has been foreclosed by A Chicago bank which held paper to the amount of $3, 000,000. The trial of Theodore W. ITtlicy, the , San Francisco telephone magnate, has ' been postponed until September 26, on account of illness. Mayor Taylor, of San Francisco, has received notice that the government has made an additional appropriation of $3, CC0 a month with which to fight the plgaue. A non-union negro miner was shot from ambush near Birmingham, Ala. Six indictments have been returned at Springfield, Illinois, against rioters. Holland awaits the report of M. De Reus before deciding on final action against Castro. The National Editorial association h working for a new libel law, seeing defects in the present statutes. New York firms have secured con tracts amounting to $16,000,000 for paving and sewer work in Havana. The Congo Reform associaation has protested to Secretary Root against the annexation of Free State by Bel gium. A Connecticut farmer emulaatedl Darius Green by atttempting to fly with a pair of paper wings he had con structed. The repeal of t'.e Fourteen' h amend ment was predicted at the National association of attorney generals held in Denver. Harriman has promised to extend the Columbia Southern railway into Central Oregon and says work will be gin at once. A row is on in the British cabinet. This will end King Leopold's bloody reign in Africa. Turkish women are to be emanci pated under the new regime. The Belgian chamber of deputies has adopted the Congo annexation treaty. The pope, who has been suffering from a cold, has almost entirely re covered. The Pacific Telephone & Telegraph officials have issued a general order to hereafter accept no whiskey ads for directories. Springfield was inflamed by the ac cidental shooting of a grand jury wit ness and for a time it looked as if another riot would break out The Wells-Fargo Express company has lost all Rock Island business, amounting to $4,700,000 a year, be cause a $2,000,000 loan was refused. Attorney General Hadley,. of Mis souri, says there is something wrong with a judge who will render a decis ion like the Federal court gave in the Standard Oil appeal. A meteorograph is being set up on Mount Rose, Nevada. . This machine registers automatically for 40 days at a time, the temperature, atmospheric pressure, humidity and other data of importance in determining weather conditions. Castro continues to refuse Dutch vessels to call. The Young Turk party is perfecting a plan to depose the sultan. The Oregon Supreme court has just decided a case started 18 years ago. The Russian government continues to execute alleged revolutionists by the score. Conditions Growing Serious in Ala bama Coal District. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 24. The nerve'tension in the Alabama strike tone is exceedingly taut. The attempt at assassination of a nonunion miner at Pratt City last night is a theme of Oregon Climate Appeals to Caucasian general discussion. Deputies attempt-1 Expert. ed to make an arrest for trespass at Portland Datika Kaukasieli, of Ku mine No. 5 of the Tennessee company I ties, Caucasia, of the well known fam nonr Pratt Tittr KJ. n,i ct rcif. Uy of noblemen of Kaukasielis, is . ., -. hire in the interest of silk culture. ,c ,w. Mr Kaukasieli says this is a very fine women were arrested. climate for the production of silk, and A big barbecue was held at Fulton that the establishment of silk culture Springs several miles north of this means much for the Pac fic coast. He city today. Several thousand miners, says it would do more for this coast union men, were present, and W. R.I than any other industry, and would Fairley, Alabama member of the na-1 mean employment for thousands and tional board of mineworkers, was may result in the building of factories among the principal speakers. I when the culture is well established. A number of evictions from com-1 "Silk culture is one of the greatest pany houses has been accomplished at I productions commercially and has made the Sayre mines. Big bodies of men I nations and established commerce, and are meeting all trains along the north I is the means of great wealth, said he. end of the mineral railroad. I Mr. Kaukaseili has invented a device Reports come that threatening let-1 by which silk can be produced at prices ters are being dropped on the porches I which makes the industry profitable, of homes of men remaining at work, I even at the high price for labor in RIOTERS UNDER CONTROL. and as a result many men are leaving. AVERT CLASH ON BORDER. America. He is very enthusiastic re garding it, and says he will establisn the silk industry in the United States. Cool- French and German Officers headed in Emergency. Paris, Aug. 24. War between Gernv any and France was averted by the cool Turpentine From Stumps. La Grande That an excellent grade of commercial turpentine can be made from old pine stumps which literally cover the Blue mountains, is the re- hordedness of French and Geruman markable discovery of W. E. Powell, a army officers in a dramatic frontier I painter of this city, who is now per episode which is reported from Lunes- fecting a process of extracting the ...m fluid from the stumps. Mr. Powell villi'. i wu ucnimii nnu v 'i 119 are cu 1 i rr . - . . vi. j: ... I nas ueen ouereu lurire Duma lur inn uib' gaged m maneuvers near the border, COvery t but so far has declined to sell and yesterday morning a battalion of I and will develop the industry himself. French rifles, marching out from Ram- He declares that an ecxellent grade of bersvillers, approached within 50 yards turpentine can be secured from the pine of the frontier and suddenly found it- stumps or tne ioggea-011 lanas, mous FIX PICKING PRICE. Hop Growers at Salem Decide Upon Eighty Cents a Hundred. Salem About 40 hopgrowres of this vicinity met at the city hall and adopt ed a resolution fixing tSO cents a hun dred pounds as the price to be paid for hop picking this season. This is 20 cents a hundred less than last year. The opinion was unanimous that growers cannot pay over 80 cents a hundred and can scarcely afford to pay that much in view of the present price of hops. Eighty, cents a hundred is practically the same as 40 cents a box. Joseph Harris, agent for Benjamin Schwarz & Sons, has received word from London that the Kentish Obser ver in its last issue estimates the Eng lish hop crop for 1908 at 540,000 hun dred weight, against 275,000 hundred weight last year. Boost Good Roads. Corvallis The launching of a great campaign for legislation and state aid for public roads, the enactment of leg islation to obtain legal title and for the protection by the state of that title for users of water for irrigation-and power, the inauguration of a move ment for cutting up big tracts of land for division among small holders, and the furthern prosecution of the claims of the Willamette valley and Oregon for the government purchase and cor trol of the Willamette locks and the improvement of the Willamette river, were primal objectives of the meeting held here last week, at which an en thusiastic body of Corvallis business men was presennt. last night :. when Governor Deneen JJUg Q AVClJ Taking Of fCHSlVC Ifo lered the First and I ourth infantry less compelled to uo ao. self face to face with a German regi ment which was drawn up at an equal distance on the other side. The troops stood looking at each oth er for a moment without uttering a word or giving vent to an explanation, and then their respective commanders simultaneously orderered them to face about, and they were soon at a prudent distance from each other. A fine illustration of military discip line was given on both sides, as a cry might have been the signal for serious trouble. ands of acres of which lie accessible to the railroad in all parts of Eastern Oregon, tr.d he believes that he has a discovery which can be built into a handsome enterprise. BUILD MANY SHIPS. Japs Will Have Large Fleet of Auxil lary Cruisers. New York, Aug. 24. According to Kashiera Shiba, one of the managers of the Mitsuhishi dockyard at Naga saki, Japan, the Japanese government is making earnest efforts to increase its fleet of auxiliary cruisers. . Mr. Shiba, who arrived at the Hotel Astor tonight, declared that while the Japan ese navy is highly efficient, there is need of a fleet of steamships which could, in time of war, be converted in to cruisers. "Our dockyard,' said he, "is work ing at its fullest capacity. We are at present turnine out three 14,000 tur bine steamships, which will do 21 knots, and which will ply between San Francisco and Hongkong via Japan The boats will use oil for fuel. In ad dition to these boats, we are building four large steamships, which will run from Japan to England via the Suez canal. All these vessels will be at the service of Japan in case of war. Our dockyard, of course, is not the only one that is active in producing this big order for auxiliaries. The dockyards at Kobe and other places are all run ning at their full capacity." Seeking Route for Line. Eugene Reports from the country lying west of Eugene say that men rep resenting the Carver railroad are at work choosing a route for the road that will bring it to Eugene before going to the coast. It is known that Mr. Carver's first plan waa to build out in to the timber belts and thus work to ward the coast, but since the project was started the lumber business has fallen off so that it will be necessary for the road to depend on something else for its freight. Thus it is consid ered probable that the growing portion of Western Lane will be tapped and the road extended from Eugene through the Siuslaw country to the coast. Two Regiments of Soldiers at Spring field Ordered Home. Springfield, 111., Aug. 19. That the race war situation in this city is con sidered much less serious was evidenc ed ord regiments to take trains for their homes today. "I took this action after a confer ence with Sheriff Warner, Mayor Recce, Major General Young, Adjutant General Scott, General Foster ani Gen eral Wells," explained Governor De neen last niht. "Does that mean that you consider all danger of serious trouble past?" he was asked. "It means that we can properly guard the city with the troops which will re main. There will still be the Second and Seventh regiments under General Foster in the Western division, and the Third and Fifth under General Wells. The departure of the First and Fourth will lessen our forces by about 1,000 men, leaving a good 2,000 here." Major General Young said : "The mob element has had a lesson, and the way citizens with knowledge of riotous misdeeds are responding to the appeal for information on which to base indictments will furnish further instruction to the violently inclined. We are getting news on which we will be able to make many arrests of im portance, and these arrests will render the situation much easier to handle. With the ringleaders behind the bars, there will be little for the military to do, There were the usual baseless alarms I . ! ..V. . .... . I I., S.,W. nntklni. of a serious character had occurred. EVANS RFTIRES DUTCH WILL NOT , INSIST ON WAR Admiral Leaves the Service After 48 Years on Duty. Lake Mohonk, N. Y., Aug. 19. Far from grim warships and the sea where , he spent nearly half a century in the service of his country. Rear Admiral Vale Wants Irrigation. Vale A Commercial club meeting was held here last week and a commit tee was appointed to take up the mat ter of government irrigation in this Robley D. Evans, U. S. N., who is at county. It was the opinion of the club this quiet mountain hotel, yesterday that favorable consideration will be ' reached the aire limit of 62 . years and (riven the matter at this time. The ( passed from the tanks of the country' oroiect was known as the Malheur and i active sea fiehters. . His has been the 'Suffers Butter Famine. Tillamook Despite the fact that Tillamook is the main source of supply for dairy products for all parts of the Northwest, locally it is now suffering from an acute famine. For the past few weeks it has been impossible for the housewife to Eecure a roll of butter for culinarry purposes. This extraor dinary phenomenon is accounted for by the fact that Tillamook butter brings fancy prices outside, and the manufac turer either finds it more profitable to ship his goods, or else has his output contracted for in advance, and the home merchant must rely upon that of domestic manufacture for his supply. covered all the different streams in the longest service (but two years short o north half of this county. II. L.. Wal lace, who has returned from New York, stated that the Federation bonds will be signed within a week. He has contracts with an Eastern construction company. Yamhill Wheat of Fine Quality. McMinnville Wheat, once Yamhill's main crop, but now only a side issue with the farmers, is coming to tho warehouses quite lively this week. So far 27 bushels to the acre, machine measure, is about the best yield report ed, although the gram is generally very othcr8 broUKht jugt a BUf,picion of mois plump and heavy and overruns in ture to hi Tho telegram in par weight. One farmer s load of 2o sacks ticular which cau8eJ ..Fightinjf 1ob" gainedsix bushels when weighedat the me from an 0id friend f half a century) of any man who has reached the rank of rear admiral in the United States navy. All through the day the hotel was thronged with ad mirers of "Fighting Bob," anxious to congratulate him on his 62nd birthday and to wish him many more happy and useful years. Tilegrams by the score reached him from all parts of the coun try, all expressing felicitations and affection for the man who had done so much to build up tho American navy. Many of the messages brought delight ed smiles to the admiral's face, while Cabinet at The Hague Maps Out a General Plan of Procedure Againit Venezuela Hostile Preparations In Naual Dockyards Being Ruih d Night and Day. The Hague, Aug. 20. After a nine hours session, during which the dis pute between The Netherlands and Venezuela was canvassed exhaustively in all its phases, the cabinet dispersed shortly after midnight last night, and Minister ot Foreign Affairs Van Swin- deren proceeded to the royal chateau at Het Loo, to acquaint Queen Wilhel mina with the result of the council. The terms of The Netherlands an swer to the letter of President Castro, of Venezuela, were fully discussed, and it ! understood thatt he actual text a well as the broad lines of action, drawn up to meet any possible eventualities, were agreed upon. It is maintained that the present question is rather one of sovereignty and national honors, matters which are not so susceptible of solution by arbitration. The Netherlands government is In clined for the present to adopt a wait ing attitude, but it is ready to take energetic steps whenever the develop ments from the situation demand. It is agreed to push all necessary prepara tions in order to be ready to support an ultimatum, should it be decided to for ward one to President CaBtro. Work will be rushed night and day at the naval dockyards to complete the prepa rations needed by the warships, ao that they will be in readiness to reinforcce the vessels now in the Caribbean by the end of next month. In the meantime every effort will be made to find a pacific solution of the dispute, and especially in view of the fact that Queen WUhelmina is opposed to resorting to war until all other meth ods have been tried. warehouse. There are a number of crops not yet threshed where the esti mated yield has been placed much high er than the average. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 88c per bushel ; forty fold, 90c; Turkey red, 90c; fife, 88c; bluestem, 92c; valley, 88c. Barley Feed, $24.50 per ton; roll ed, $27(.28; brewing, $26. Oats No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton; i gray, W in Washington and said: "For some of us, skipper, your flag will always fly." EUREKA IS SHAKEN. Early Gold Near La Grande. La Grande The city of La Grand is considerably sitrred up over the ap pearance on the streets recently of a man carrying a sack of gold ore which Defeat for Abd El Aziz. he asserts he found on Mt. Emily, leFS Faris, Aug. 24. The government's than 10 miles from the city, a peak advices received tonight confirm the re-1 which overlooks the entire valley. The port from Tangiert hat the forces of ore exhibited gave every evidence or Abd El Aziz, the recognized sultan of being first class and of paying grade. Morocco, has been defeated by Mulai During the past 20 dajs he . has been Hafid, the usurping sultan. The ad- prospecting on the mountain, and hs vices state that Abd El Aziz, who is sack brought here is only a part of his Morning Trembler Likened to Big One of 1900. Eureka, Cal., Aug. 19. An earth quake shock ablmost as severe as the one of April 18, 1906, but not of so long duration, shook this city a 2:58 Hay-Timothy, Willamette Valley, 'c,ock yesterday monring. It seemed $Hper ton; Willamette valley or,i. , io come irom ine west, Bnu wu8 w.v nary, III; tastern uregon, flb.oo; mixed, $13; clover, $9; alfalfa, $11. Fruits Peaches, 40f85c er box; Bartlett pears, $150. per box; plums, 75c per box; grapes, 85ciVr$1.50 per crate; blackberries, $10 1.10 per crate. Potatoes $lftrl2.5 per hundred; sweet potatoes, 3(i4c per pound. injured, but considerable damage was done. A second and lighter shock was felt at 5:30 o'clock. Chimneys were thrown down and people rushed from their houses in I fright when the first quake shook the ' : . TV. .I.iir4liAiiai .ir A m flam. rvtt UNIFORM FISH LAWS. Anglo-American Commission at Work Under Recent Treaty. Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 20. The in ternational fisheries commission ap pointed to draw up a uniform code of laws for the fisheries lying between Canada and the United States is in the city. It is composed of Professor David Starr Jordan, president or Ice land Stanford university, and S. T. Bastedo, of Ottawa, who represents Great Britain. It is not the intention of the com mission to hold any puonc Bluings, but it will spend a week on the coast gathering information respecting fish eries in the Straits of San Juan de Fuca and tho Gulf of Georgia. Pro fessor Jordan stated that they were acting in accordance with a treaty be tween Great Britain and the United States, signed last April, when it was argeed to appoint a commission to draw up statutes. It will be their duty to gather all possible information and prepare a report by January 1. SEVENTY MINERS KILLED. now in full retreat in the direction of Tadla, with the remnant of his forces, is being hotly pressed by local tribes. Several caids were killed in the en gagement and others were captured. No further details have been received here. findings. Local men who own claims in the vicinity of the hill will take active steps to look into the rumor. Cloudbursts in Colorado. Tueblo, Colo., Aug. 24. Cloudbursts in the vicinity of Florence tonipht transformed Oak, Chandler and Sand creeks into raging torrents, which are sweeping through rlorence and vicini ty leaving ruin in their wake. The damage is expected to agrgegate $150, 000. The Florence Fuel company alone has been damaged to the extent of $2,000. Water covered the Santa Fe tracks to a depth of several feet. and the Rio Grande's are in danger. Buy Provisions at Portland. Portland Local merchants will not lose the trade of the commissary de partment of the Northern Pacific be cause of the transfer of this depart ment to the Spokane, Portland & Seat tle road. F. H. Fogarty, assistant general passenger agent of the North ern Pacific, has written M. Mossesohr, acting secretary of the chamber of commerce, that the new service will result in the dining cars of both roads securing all their produce in Portland, the statue of Minerva, carrying a spear, was twisted off the statue on the dome. roof of nter's Meteor, Falls in Kansas. Salina. Kan., Aug. 24. A large ' meteor fell three miles north of Ells worth last night, lighting up the coun try for miles around, and burning The Rock Island railroad is said to brightly 20 minutes after it struck the 1 al is behind both enterprises, and other be seeking control of the Moffat road ground. The meteor exploded when it j local men, whose names have not yet now building from Denver to Salt Lake struck th ground, and shook the town . been made public, are associated in City. ' of Ellsworth. the proj-ct with Rhodes. New Road Projected. Albany An electric line from Albany to Brownsville, a distance of 22 miles, is being projected by E. H. Rhodes, a local capitalist. He also plans to build a street railway system in this city, and if franchises are secured he will begin work immediately. Local capit- . i -!. .,,..., ei oca.' i tk ciiy. ine cuurmounH was uumnifru B,.t,tr,,ir,n ii r.n i no ' most by the shak e. The right arm of lK)se; crated, 4c additional; casabas, 91 r fir van V ge'ables-Turnips, $1.50 per sack ; i The V?" ""l throuh, thelrr" carrots, $1.75 per sack; parsnips, $1.75 tl'e o Judge Hu per rack; beets $1.50persack; beans, . C0" "I.T. 4h. f 5c per pound; cabbage, l?;c per pound; ' . "r " " " " " . .. . corS,25fti30c per dozen; cucumbers, (building were phaken off and brick and 3040cperbox; eggplant, $1.75 pr plat erf loosened and fell to the crate; lettuce, head, 15c per dozen ; Krou"J-. I'late glass windows in sev- . ' t r , ' . . ' e . ' ' eral business houses were cracked. pound; peppers, gf10c per pound; radishes, 12 'c ter dozen ; spinach, 2c per pound; tomatoes, 75c'f$1.25 per crate; celery, 90cfr$l per dozen; arti chokes, 75f per dozen. Butter Extras, 30c per pound; fan cy, 27Jsc; choice, 2"c; store, 18c. Eggs Oregon extras, 260 27c per dozen; firsts, 24f 25c; seconds, 22(i 23c; thirds, 1520c; Eastern, 24r2.rc. Poultry Mixed chickens, 13rn 13 ve per pound ; fancy hens, 1 4c ; roosters, 10c; spring, lCc; ducks, old, 12c; spring, it'll ibc; geese, old, 8c; young. 10c; turkeys, old, 170 18c; young, 20c. Veal Exfrw, 8c per pound; ordinary, 77,'Jc; heavy, 5c. Pork Fancy, 7c per pound; ordi nary, 6c; large, ?. Mutton Fancy, POiOc per pound. Conference on Strike. Winnipeg, Aug. 19. The departure . WM for the East of the heads of the engin- I eers' and trainmen's branches of or ' ganized railway laborers is current talk I amone the strikers tonicht. J. H. Mc- Explosion Wrecks Maypole Mine in England. Wigan, Aug. 20. The worst fears have been realized about the explosion which occurred in the Maypole mine yesterday. The entombed miners num bered about 70 and it is impossible that any of them can have survived. Efforts at rescue, however, continuo unceasingly. Thirty bodies were dis covered today in the workings, but the fumes from the burning coal prevented the resouers from reaching the others who probably are lying down in the mines. A few bodies were brought to the surface today, but all were so blacken ed and mutilated that Identification impossible. At midnight an enormous crowd was sun Keeping a sorrowful vigil at the pit mouth. Vey is also absent, presumably at Ot tawa, where a conference or the war rinir factions in the Canadian Pacific Machine to Pick Up Walnuts. FuUerton, Cal., Aug. 20. L. L.Sid wcll, a Rivera walnut grower, is per fecting a machine to pick up walnuts strike Is to take place as a result of by suction. The machine Is operated the alleged government intervention. I by a gasoline engine, a four-inch hose Prominent officials of the Canadian being held just above the ground under Pacific railway have also disappeared . the walnut tree. The suction draws nrt it lit anaumed that thev too will the walnuU through the hoB Into a loin the conference. Itank installed on the wagon. There is an exnausi near me wy wmcu mvymi rates the nuts from the hulls. Kaiser Completes Fund. Beriln, Aug. 20. The emperor has Holland Has Free Hand. TUHague, Aug. 19. With the sin gle proviso that no military occupation I nt f.rritrv mint occur, the government ! Hops 1907, pilme and choice, 4 at Washington is understood to have given $24,000 to the Koch fund for the G5e per pound; elds, Ul4c; con- given the cabinet of The Netherlands resisting or the spread or tuberculosis, tracts, nominal. a free hand to deal as It sees fit with This donation completes the $100,000 Wool Eastern Oregon, average President Castro, of Venezuela. The that Andrew Carnegie stipulated best, 1 Or.; 16 ", c per pound, according Netherlands' cruiser Friesland will not should be subscribed before his gift of to shrinkage; vslley, 15'f 15 ','c; mo- sail for the Caribbean before the end a like amount, made last winter, should hair, choice, ll(j,lStc. of next month. become vailable.