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The Aurora Borealis VOL. I. AUItOUA, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTKMHEit .1, 1908. NO. 19. BRIEF NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON Condensed Dispatches from All Pans of the Two Hemispheres. ROGUE RIVER MELONS. 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. There is a wave of cholera at Lodz, Russian Poland. Castro has left the capital for a month's vacation. Atlantic City, X. J., will keep all liquor shops closed on Sundays. The Chicago. Milwaukee & St. Faul is seeking an entrance into Winnipeg. Uusinesa conditions in the East in all lines indicate a return of prosper ity. Oklahoma banks are releasing their National charters in order to get state charters. The reception to the American fleet at Melbourne was fully as . great as that at Sydney. England will not aid, but would be pleased to see Holland give Castro a sound thrashing. J. C. Gleason, head counsel for Thaw during the trial, has sued for $J0,()00 balance of fees. The steamer Asia ha just arrived at San Francjsco with u cargo of raw silk, valued at $2,000,000. The Schmitz cases, in which he is charged with bribery by allowing prize nights, will be called soon. - Eugene Semple, once territorial governor of Washington, is dead. The Springfield grand jury has in dieted 78 so far for taking part in the race war. Three thousand "peple are home less at Fayetteville, N. C, as a result of the floods. T. P. Shonts says if the railroads are not left alone there will be fur ther depression. The British tramp steamer Duncan was sunk in Oriental waters by a ty phoon. Fifty-one of the crew were drowned. Movement of crops all over the country has greatly lessened the num ber of idle freight cars, and there may be a shortage. A fast passenger collided with work train near Hardin, Okla. Both engines were overturned. Two train men were killed. The interstate commerce commis sion has outlined a form of annual report to be made by railroads, and says the companies must tell the amount of business transacted. The Imperial Japanese bank, at San Francisco, has been closed by the bank commissioners. The officers made loans to themselves until only $4oo in cash and a number of notes were left. Ex-Senator William F. Vilas, of Wisconsin, is dead. Count Tolstoi's condition is such that recovery is not looked for. Two Chicago men have been arrested for forcing two a aiall boys to steal for them. Dr. Leroy S. Chadwick, husband of the notorious swindler, has filed a pe tition in bankruptcy. A San Franiacco man has been ar rested in Paris, charged with victim' lzing jewelers to the extent of $50,000 Japan is preparing for a grand re- ception to the American fleet. It is expected to reach Yokohama October 17. When the American battleship fleet left Sydney, 80 stragglers had failed to join their ships and will follow later. A Supreme court justice has severe ly reprimanded and discharged a grand jury because it would not indict saloon men for keeping open on Sunday at At lantic City, N. J. The Amateur Athletic union of the United States has severed relations with the British association because of the unsportsmanlike conduct 'of the Britons in the recent Olympic games. Ten million bushels of the new wheat crop of the Pacific Northwest have been sold. The French ambassador to Spain has been called home to discuss the Moroc can situation. The president will go to Jordanville, N. Y., to take part in the dedication of a public library. A. O. Brown & Co., a big brokerage firm of New York, has failed for more than a million dollars. Six Chinese have been caught at El Paso, Tex., who had been smuggled across the line from Mexico. The government has about fixed the responsibility for the big robbery of the subtreasurr at San Frncisco re cently. BARS NATIVE BOKN. San Francisco School Board Shuts Ooor on Chinese. San Francisco, Aug. 31. City At torney Long has furnished the board f education aoi opinion dealing with he question of the admissibility of native-bom Chinese children to pub- schools e-tner than schools estab-1 Annual Harvest On and Quality Up to ncd tor them, in brief, he bold I stanriirrf. tll-lt t Vi ml.'ctin rtf n itlvilti htm n l r.-.r.nar on the raw tin I h nrta I vjrania I ass ne annual iiwf ui hihiren are Mongolians, irresocctive Rogue river watermelons has begun f b'rthplace, and that if special I to move. The first of them are of fin chouls of equal standing are not pro- I quality, and uniform aize. ided tor tlicm, they are entitled to I Shippers load the melons ip cars for ttend any school. The opinion is transDortation verv much like brewers iven in response IO a query irom me rin in narkimr a rr with h.r hottlea. ooara ot 'education with relerence tolTh. m,tnna f thi. v.nw - the request of the parents of three ad ted to Bhippjngf can be quick- wi hTi .rs :rCtes..ra,1en.whi ry piled into the cars, tier after tier, wiihed their daughters to attend ' .w . . school, other than the Oriental A few Vn th, method WM not ..hi I used, but the melons were prom iscu' The no'itical eode nrovi.lr-. tht ousiy piled, and the shipper very ire- evcry school shall be open for the Iquently found considerable loss from amission oi ail cniiaren oetween e niiiinK in iransponauun. inn jew nd 21 years of age, residing in thu I tight cars are being used, and the win district. 1 his section also authorizes Idows and cracks are nailed up. boards of education to establish sep-1 Experience has proven that many rate schools for Indian, Chinese or melons are often plugged and carved golian or Indian descent, and is not ' the car upon its entering the yards. to deny the latter any of the equal rights guaranteed by the constitution. All They Live for Is To Dress, Says Hetty Green. Bellows Falls, Vf., Aug. 31. "The FIGHT PRUNE COMBINE. Albany Plant Being Prepared for Big Season s Run. Albany The Northwest Fruit asso ciation, the new organization of fruit etoc'u of u Rnd Wate proiH.rty growers, wgn i ugm gair.3l ine d,8truction of the wagon and railroad Prunepackers association when the br,d acroM th Savannah rKt.r ar j won wu Begun ai me Dig pacing breaka in the canai Unks, There are plant in this city preparatory to opera- dependent on canal for tghx tion during the coming prune packing cotton mills. season. A force of men under Manager , Wbile -flood waa at its height S. A. Laselle is now putting the plant fiye firea broke ouL The McDaniei 7tL i c-a""-,u" .t -'builders' material establishment, - The Albany plant has a capacity of Nortn AufJU8ta burnei A Uttin ot about 175 car oads of dried prunes, 40 car8 beonging the Sou0M.rn raii. but will not handle nearly as many this burned in ,Iarnburg Nixon's fall. Owing to the fact that the mcnt and hardware house and prune crop is light this year, and that hu- ouantitv of lumber belomrin many growers are already under con-1 to the G- ia Vailway, at the Georgia tract to the packers association for , way yard we burned. Tne Au this seasons crop, the new association i u j, & Electric company Mongolian children, and provides that when such schools are established. uch children must not be admitted to any other school, The object of the law is clearly to segregate the white children of the public schools from those of Mon while en route by the use of a jack knife and long handled spoon, at every station where the car might stop, and during the season many melons have been spoiled in this way by boys who are lying in wait and note the arrival WOMEN TO BLAME. MUST DIP SHEEP. Secretary Smythe, of Oregon Com mission, Will Seize Offenders. Pendleton Despite their efforts to evade the Oregon quarantine lav Washington sheepmen who grazed women of America have helped to I wiwi jr- make hard times. All they live for, forced to dip before moving out of the all they care for. is clothes the latest reserves. Secretary Dan P. Smythe, shape in skirts'. And they are none I of the Oregon cheep commission, and too particular how they get what they I State Sheep Inspector W. II. Lytle are want, or who pays lor it. on the a ert for movements of Wash This is the declaration of Hetty incton shipn In thia state and are nre- GreTj' l!le ric.hcst. womn in t'w pared to seize any herd which may be wuiiu, u.i iuuajr uvK.ni ncr n.muai movinir throuch Orepon territory. vacation of a month. When dinner was announced on the train, she pro duced an apple and three crackers from her reticule and cheated the dining car. "I do not say the American women Washington sheepmen recently se cured an injunction from County Judge I Gill Hand, of Umatilla county, restrain ing Oregon officials from enforcing the dipping law, but this injunction does are immoral, she continued, "but prevent, tniuii jjrur.u.iii they do not care what fearful prices Washington sheepmen violating th their husbands, fathers and brothers Oregon law, and there promises to be may be compelled to pay tor their I something doing tn ine way oi sneep finery. Times are bad m Mew York. and New York deserves hard times. All are spendthrifts and money-wast ers down there. "This will be a hard winter, and we will not see good times before spring The election will not help. The panic must run its course. Money men arc doing nothing to stop it. Standard Oil could stop the hard times with dipping when the Washington herds are started out of the Blue mountain reserves across Oregon territory, May Build Albany Plant. Albany A report, said to be well founded, is current here that O'Shea Bros., of Portland, are planning to erect a $20,000 packing plant in Al- nnr stroke of thr nrn hut PnrWfr or bany. Barred from the Portland field will not do it. It will cost the gov- I Y e wrms oi me saie oi uie union ernment $28,000 ooo to collect that $29,000,000 from him." ARMY OF GUARDS NEEDED. Yellowstone Park Tourists at Merc of Robbers. St. Taul, Aug. 31. "The entire United States army will be needed to insure travelers in the Yellowstone Park against holdups. A thousand men would be required. Ihc main road alone is 120 miles long, and it takes stage coaches four days to make the rounds." Mrigadier General Winfield S. Ed- gerly, commanding the department of Dakota, so expressed himself today He was in the park last Monday when I finds, with the exception of a few un Meat company's plant, they have se lected Albany as a desirable site be cause of its railroad facilities. Accord ing to reported plans, they have a site of 25 acres in view and will soon con mence work on the plant The founda tion for this rumor lies in the fact that John O'Shea spent several days in this city last week. But real estate men with whom he consulted, assert that he was merely looking for a residence. Union's Books O. K. La Grande J. II. Mimnaugh, an ex oert accountant, formerly connected with the Grand Ronde Lumber com pany, has just completed experting the books of the officials of this county and WATERS RECEDING. Augusta Damage May Approximate Million Dollars. Augusta, Ga., Aug. 28. Flood wa ters at Augusta began receding this afternoon. They reached the height of 40 feet, probably as high as the flood of 188. Kaln has ceased in the upper valley and there is no danger of further loss. The loss approximates $750,000 to $1,- 000,000 and consists of damage to AUGUSTA IS UNDER WATER does not expect to pack more than 60 car loads. Enough growers are in the organization now to assure aboui 40 car loads. Protest Dipping of Ponies. Pendleton Chief No Shirt and a few of his conservative followers among the Umatilla Indians, are vigorously protesting to the Indian commissioner against the dipping of their putuc lot the jutnge by the Federal authorities through the bureau of animal indus try, in charge of Dr. S. W. McClure, of this city. The ponies are badly affected with the disease and orders have been sent out to dip all of them near the old agency three miles east of this city. However, No Shirt, Uma pne, Amos Pond, Poker Jim and a few others are making a vigorous protest and have employed Bert Huffman, ed itor of the East Oregoman, of this city, to take the matter up with the Indian commissioner to have the order modified. Disastrous (Ires Follow In Wake of Southern floods. cannot run their cars for tbree days. No power plants are in operation ; the telephone lines are not doing busi ness; the railroads are accepting no passengers. The water service ia crippled, but intact The gas company service is impaired, but not shut down. There have been 10 to 15 drownings, mostly negro laborers. , From the northwestern section of tne city the waters will not recede for hUPnnl, School Session Near End. Monmouth The special summer ses sion of the Oregon State normal school for superintendents, principals and high school teachers is now half com pleted. The attendance is much below the expectation of the management. The state superintendent expresses die appointment that the young men and women in the teaching profession have failed to avail themselves of this course. Next year an enort win be made to choose a more convenient date for the session. - Loss Will Reach Over Half Million Union Depot Under Ten Feet of Water One Lame Telerapt Wire Brings Out Report of Disaster Loss of Life Expected. Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 27. A long dis tance telephone message from the As sociated Press correspondent from Augusta says that the city is complete ly under water. In the down town portion bunirosa houses, telegraph offices and r !W.paper offices are com pletely den'M ' hed. There weie three deaths in Augusta yesterday, two white people and one negro. The damage, it is estimated, will reach half a million dollars. At 8 :30 last night it waa learned through the single wire of the Georgia Railroad company, working partly into Augusta, that the large cotton ware house and the wholesale grocery ware- nouses ox the Nixon company were two or three days. Tonight is a night of tension. MiBsing men and familiea are being reported. The Augusta Chronicle got out its Thursday edition in abbreviated form at 9 p. m. The Augusta Herald, an afternoon paper, could not publish Wednesday or Thursday. TRIES GAME ON ROOSEVELT. French Soldier Punished for Attempt at Blackmail. Bordeaux, Aug. 28. An extraordi nary story was told at the court mar tial today ,'of a'member of the military ambulance corps, Camilla Marquet, who was charged with attempting to blackmail President Roosevelt. Ac cording to the evidence before the court, Marquet wrote to the president on January 9, demanding on behalf of "my society, '' without other specifica tion, "$2,000 on account of services rendered during the presidential elec tion," and promising further "im mense help." Receiving no reply to this demand, Marquet wrote again on March 9, threatening a scandal "which will cast dishonor upon the whole family unless the money is forthcoming at a fixed date." In conclusion the writer said: The union depot is under ten feet of water, and in the best residence dis trict the water stands six feet deep and is slowly rising. The report of the fires in the Nixon warehouses cannot be confirmed. A telegraph operator said he could not get near enough on account of the water, but that the fires were burning in the vicinity of the big warehouses. The floods in the Carolines and Geor gia culminated in the breaking of the big dam six miles from Augusta, which diverta the water' from the Savannah river into the canal at that point. The great flood of water let loose soon found its way into the city, and last night, from Fifteenth street to the Eastern boundary, Augusta was under from six to 12 feet of water, which ia gradually rising. FIGHT TO REGAIN TRADE. Or- San Francisco Merchants Will ganlze Traffic Bureau. San Francisco, Aug. 27. An aggres sive commercial campaign to recover trade lost to the merchants of San Francisco through the alleged indiffer ence, neglect and lack of concerted action, waa decided upon today at a ; meeting' of the trade end commerce tne Merchants- ex Harney County Fair. Burns The Harney County Fair as sociation has decided to give away $3,200 in premiums and purses for horse racing and a series of baseball games. There will be about $1,500 given away for the best agricultural exhibits. . There is good prospects of the fair being a grand success as the development of the county than in Marquet was brought up for court for the mercantile bodies of this city, fnrmvr I niartial, but the court, in consideration whose object will be to see that mer- "The highest heads are no longer , committee of safe on their shoulders; look at Portu- change. gal." Steps were taken immediately to The president handed the letters to organize a traffic bureau, with an ex the French consul general, who com- nerienced traffic manager in charge. municated with the French police, which will be a central organization the latest "lone robber" relieved the purses of 120 tourists. The general returned to St. Paul yesterday. The present arrangements for pro tecting the park and its "visitors," General Edgerly continued, "would appear to be as effective as any that ran be made with the small garrison. Fort Yellowstone has only four troops, about 400 men of the Eighth cavalry, under Major Henry T. Allen. The horsemen of this single squadron manage at that to traverse the entire length of the main road, the road usually followed by the coaches, at leat once a day. Then there are de- important errors and minor discrep ancies, everything in shipshape. The warrant indebtedness of Union county six years ago was almost four times what it is now. On July 1, 1902, war rants were out to the amount of $269,- 622.38, while July 1, this year, there was but $68,061.53. Within two years the debt has been decreased nearly 50 per cent. Harvest is About Over. Pendleton Harvest is now over and several hundred idle men throng the streets of Umatilla county towns. tached parties or single men going lMpn Ar th.u will m m r.nnd RnnH back and forth on special errands, so to work ln the beet fied.f many to the saw mills of the coast and others to the that the coach road is guarded far more closely than are any of our rail road lines "The only respect wherein the gov ernment vr.!r! srrm to have incurred any responsibility for the holdup is as civilians have assured me. that it prohibits park visitors from carrying to the county this sesaon. firearms with them unless the large cities to spend the winter. Lo cal merchants report a much heavier cash trade this fall than ever before during the prevalence of the saloon. A different class of harvest hands came former years. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 88c bushel; forty-fold, 90c; Turkey red, 90c; fife, 88c; blue stem, 92c; valley, 88c. Barley Feed, $24.50 ton; rolled, $27d 28 ; brewing, $26. Oats No. 1 white, $ 27m 27.50 ton; gray, $266(26.60. Hay Timothy, Willamette valley, $14 ton; Willamette valley, ordinary, of the good character of the youth, chants, manufacturers, wholesalers and A .wl 1.1 .A at. An ;ml Imnvlann. f LI M o .- 1 I 1 1 sentenced him to six days' imprison ment, giving him the benefit of the first offender's law. CARPET WORTH THOUSANDS Floor Covering of U. S. Mint Filled With Gold Dust. San Francisco, Aug. 28. The car net. (ivt tt ihm Hliiatlnir fnnm mt lh !"S Eastern Oregon $16.60; mixed, San FrancUco mnt s about worn out 913; ciover, a; auaua, u; auaua meal, $20. Fruits Peaches, 60ft90c per box; jobbers of San Francisco receive rail road and water rates that will enable them to regain the territory taken away by other cities, particularly Los Angeles, POSTPONE EXPOSITION. any arms are sealed so they cannot be used. 'I understand that although the robber is said to be in the Jackson Hole country, where he is safe for a Mme. the nitory 01 such events ha proved that he will be caught. Big Fruit Shipments Freewater The Freewater-Milton fruit district will ship out 600 car loads of fruit this season, including berries and fruits of all kinds. This ill be 100 more cars than last year. At present the plum, summer apple I . 1. mm A . Pugli. Le.vs. Seattle. ""IT" ' .1 . LZ raided her anchor aturaay mormr.K AIfafa Hay Brings SO 60 a Ton ami MWCii i.ui Jl me uaj aiiu . ' I p,--!11- 1T .-ll!r,. In rr.lt .h. ;ii m,;n .1,,-- county at $6.60 a ton for fresh alfalfa. weeks, while her boilers are cleaned ions at mis price oemg aisposea 01 Japanese Public Clamoring Against Vast Expense. Toklo, Aug. 27. The unpopularity and after the old covering has been of President Kaneko, of the Toklo tx Uken up it will be handled with far position, has caused difficulties which mnr. tKan iUhmax. Tt will may result In the postponement of the pears, 75c0i $1.60 per box; plums, 75c ba manv times more valuable, because great exposition, which is now set for per box; grapes 80cfa$1.25 per crate. ! ,t lg iiterai,y Uned with gold. The,-9'?. Potatoes llfttl.10 per hundred ; old carpet wiU be burncd and from the J The people are clamoring against the sweet potatoes, 3?,?i4c per pound. I MheI Treaaury department officials methods of Kaneko in spending great Melons Cantaloupes, $1.502 per gxpt to realize about $5 000 umi " government money and the re- crate; watermelons, $1.50 per 100 in the sxi just ing room files 'are used ports of the postponement have been loose; crated, e per pound addition- to trim Burpiu- K0ld from the coins ao frequent that today the minister of alj casabas, $2.252.50 per dozen. fter being stamped. It frequently agriculture and commerce found it ne- Vegetables-Turnips,$ 1.50 per sack; happens that the overweight filings cecsary to issue a formal denial. He carrots, 1.75; parsnips, $1.75; beets, thui uken oft faIj to the floof and be. said the exposition would be held at $1.50; beans, 6c per pound ; cabbage, 1 come jmtjetl in the carpet The the tlme set, but even this assurance lc per pound? corn, 2Srf30c per very carpeta are purchased for ,"? eufneient to qu let the reports, dozen; cucumbers, 300i40c rbox; lhu room, so that the closely-woven' 1 ne "irainea inausiriai ana nnanciai eggplant, $1.75 per crate; lettuce, matrui will hold securely the scat- aituation in Japan is the matter upper head, 15c per dozen; parsley, 15c Pr , tered particles of gold most in the minds of most of the peo- dozen; peas, 6c per pound; peppers, jt t- nothing unusual for the govern- P,e nd thre u widespread feeling miOe per pound; radishes, 12e per rnent to get $5,000 worth of gold dust that the government chose a poor time dozen; spinach, 2c per pound; squash, out o the Mhes resulting from the to go to the enormous expense of hold 40c ler dozen; tomatoes, 60r 90c per humlnir f of th ernu. , Ing the first great world's fair in the . - . 1 rft. nn. j . . i : - 1 . crave, ceiery, uuwww utr uuicn; ru- i i isricnw choke, 75c per dozen. Butter Extras, 31 He per pound; fancy, 27'c; choice, 25c; store, 18c. Eggs Oregon extras, 2wi27c ; firsts. 2 25c; seconds, 22(r.23c: thirds, and her rjachinery overhauled. First Snow in Montane. Butte, Mont., Aug. St. A dispatch from Anaconda. Mont, says that the 'trst snow of the season fell Saturday. by Thomas Starp, of Crooked river, to the Baldwin Sheep and Land company, of Hay creek. With hay about gath ered except for the second crop, most farmers have commenced threshing there their wheat, rye and other grain, all of j which are aa average yield. America Kindest to Imbeciles. London, Aug: 27. That America far surpasses England in the care of her idiotic insane is the report published today by the royal commission appolnt- Wou'd Curb Middlemen. Salt Lake, Aug. 28. Resolutions approving the plan for national stor age of the Western wool crop were 16ri20et Eastern. 24 fr25e ner dozen, adopted unanimously today by the ex- Poultry Mixed chickens, 13130 cuve commuvee 01 i.n naiionai to investigate American methods, per pound; fancy hens, I4rrl4c; Woolgrowers' association. The presl- fhe commission recently returned from roosters, 10c; spring, 16c; ducks, old, dent of the association was authorized the United States. Nearly every state 12c; spring, 13tfil6c; geese, old, 8c ; to name a committee to select a city was visited, and the report says that young, 10c; turkeys, old, 1701 8c ; wh" central storage market will with few exceptions the American sys young, 20c. be established and to form a corpora- tern was found superior to the British. Veal Extra, 8c per pound; ordi- tion to carry out the elimination The report recommends that the Brit nary, 77 He; heavy, 6c. or curbing of the middlemen and giv- Uh government adopt a system thst Pork Faney, 7c per pound; ordi- ing the Western woolgrowers control mbodie the best features of the meth nary, 6c; large, 6c. .0' th sale of their product. da in vogue in several states. Mutton Fancy, 8i9c I I Hope 1907, prime and choice, i Settle Canadian Strike. No Clue to Raiders. ?l5c per pound; olds, 1-1 S'e; con- Winnipeg, Aug. 28. A rumor com-' Aberdeen, S. D., Aug. 27. The au tracts, tQi 8c ing from an authoritative source says thorities here are investigating the Wool Eastern Oregon average best, the Canadian Pacific railway officials raids on Lowry and Alaska Sunday KkitliHe per pound, aecording to are getting tired of the strike and ne- night by a company of armed and shrinkage; valley, lKdlie', mohair, got iat ions will be begun tomorrow mounted men. Absolutely no clue to choice, 1818c with a view to ending it. the raiders has been found.