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The Aurora Boreal! VOL. I. AUKOKA, OREGON, TIIUKSDAY, SEPTKMUEU 10, 1008. NO, 20. BRIEF NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK Condensed Dispatches from All Pans of the Two Hemispheres. - Interesting Event from Outride the State Presented In a Manner to Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader Matters of National, Historical and Commercial Importance. A strike threatens loss of a large part of the California hop crop. Two light earthquake shocks were felt at Bakcrsricld, Cal., but no dam age was done. Frank P. Sargent, United States commissioner of immigration and labor, is dead. An Aberdeen, Wash., man died from having a tooth pulled. Blood poisoning was the cause. Governor Hanley, of Indiana, has called an extra session of the legisla ture and wants a local option law passed. Electric railway employes of New England have voted for a general strike. Nearly 32,000 men will be affected. Returns from the Michigan Repub lican primaries would seem to indi cate the nomination of Governor Warner for another term.' The American collier Ajax, accom panying the battleship fleet, was badly injured by collision with another ves sel while leaving the harbor at Mel bourne. . A Pittsburg man died from overex ertion due to dancing. Castro has evidence that the French supported the Matos rebellion in 1003. Lord Sackville West, British min ister, whom Cleveland dismissed, is dead. The third squadron of the United States Pacific fleet is now in Chinese waters. Mrs. Marshall Field, Jr., has mar ried Maldwin Drummond, an Eng lishman. It will take the official count to decide the Michigan and Nebraska primary results. . Colonel Henry M. Nevins, of Red Bank. N. J., has been elected commander-in-chief of the G. A. R, William B. Leeds, the New York railroad magnate, left an estate of $30,000,000, the bulk of which goes to his widow. Unemployed of Glasgow, Scotland, attempted to break down the doors ot the council chambers in order to de - mand bread of the members. Thos. Hisgen, Independence league candidate for president, ts an tnde pendent oil operator, who has sue ccssfully fought the Standard for years. Fire at Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed $100,000 worth of lumber. Governor Cummins' election as sen ator from Iowa is assured. " Trouble over wages has caused a strike in some of the coal mines of Tennessee. The La Follette faction has defeated John J. Jenkins, present incumbent, for congress. An aeronaut fell 500 feet and was killed at Waterville, Me. The gas bag caught fire. Hill is to build a railroad across Montana, connecting the Burlington and Great Northern. A Japanese steamer sank off the coast of Chiba prefecture and twenty eight men were drowned. Two Cornell students, one of them from Oregon, have perfected an aero plane that has made some remarkable flights. The Nevada State Democratic con vention has endorsed Francis G. New- lands for senator and George A. But Ictt for congressman. Alarming conditions are said to ex ist throughout the Honduran republic and Mexico has dispatched a gunboat The director general of the Japanese fair has resigned. The government has been asked to create a leper reservation. Senator Heybnrn was renominated by the Idaho State Republican con vention. A severe gale on the English chan nel wrecked a number of small boat and cost a score of lives. Only because he was a good runner a Chicago negro escaped lynching for assaulting a young white girl. Rear Admiral Henry Glass, retired, is dead. He was commander of the Pacific squadron for some time. At the Wisconsin primaries the Re rublicans cast the popular vote for saac Stephenson to succeed himself in the United States senate. Unknown persons piled ties on the tracks of the New York Central near Poughkeepsie. but they were discov ered in time to prevent a wreck. RAWHIDE IS BURNED. Nevada Mining Town Almost Wiped Out by Conflagration. Rawhide. Nev.. Sept. 7. A fire that started Friday in Dr. Garner's office, a veritable firetrap, spread with lightning-like rapidity and, despite the vig orous efforts of the fire department and 500 - miner- volunteers, eight blocks, comprising all the business section of the town, were a mass of flames. The fire-fighters soon discov ered their efforts were of no avail gainst the fire, so they began dyna miting adjacent buildings. Over a ton and a half of dynamite was used. At 11 o'clock the total area was a mass of ashes and smoldering embers. Among the first buildings to go was Collins' hardware store, which con- ained two tons of dynamite, which exploded with terrific force, hurling burning planks and boards a great distance and setting fire to numerous buildings simultaneously. This ca tastrophe led the firemen to fight the ames with dynamite, which prompt ction saved the outlying portions of the town. A strong wind was blow ing, which swept the rlames south ward across Rawhide avenue and east across Nevada street. The buildings destroyed will alone result in a financial loss of $750 000, with no insurance. The contents of the buildings are a complete loss and will swell the total to considerable more. Many people were slightly in jured by flying debris, but none are reported seriously hurt. Many acts of heroism were enacted nd were it not for the cool-headed ones among the fire-fighters several fatalities would have resulted. Fren zied men, whose fortunes were going up in flame, rushed madly forward in their attempts to save their belong ings, and would have perished had not restraining hands detained them. LAND GRANT SUIT BEGUN. Government Seeks Return of Tracts Given to Railroad. Portland. Sept. 7 Suit By the United States to cancel the Oregon & California land grants has been filed the United States court for the district of Oregon. The government sks for the forfeiture of all lands in- luded in the two grants to the de fendant railroad company, valued at $40,000,000. If this relief is denied, plaintiff requests the appointment of a receiver to take charge of all unsold ands, included in the grants, and the disposition of the same under the re ceivership in tracts not exceeding 180 acres to each purchaser and for a consideration not exceeding $2.50 an acre. If this petition is rejected, the plaintiff asks for a mandatory injunc- ion requiring the defendant corpora tion to sell all of the unsold lands re maining in the grants in quantities o' not more than 160 acres each and at a price not exceeding $2.50 an acre. It is also asked by the government that the defendant company.be re strained from asserting any further claim to the land, making any further sales of the property or trespassing thereon. An accounting also is asked from the railroad company to the government for all money realized by he defendant company from its sales of the lands. FIGHT WITH JAPANESE. Men From British Cruiser Stand Off Brown Men. Shanghai. Sent. 7. Outnumbered ten to one, hliiejackets from a British cruiser in this port put up a desperate battle with Japanese non-commis sioned men and a motley Japanese mob, until the police broke up the fight by the tree use of revolvers, nr ing repeatedly into the mob. Many Japanese civilians were wounded, but were carried away by their com nanions. The fieht started over the arrest oi a Japanese officer for a particularly atrocious assault upon a low-class European woman, which was resented bv the Enizlish lackies. A well-organ ized riot came simultaneously with the publication of letter from the laoanese consul-general to the mu nicipal council, which was of a highly recriminatory and incendiary charac ter, and defended the ruMianism oi his own people and the failure of his court to assist in maintaining order. The feeling between the British and the Japanese is intense, and further outbreaks are feared. Gives Better Service, Honolulu. Sept. 7. A new wireless telegraph plant has been installed at the Kahuku station and it is an nonnced by Superintendent A. A. Is bell that there will be no excuse henceforth for ships sailing between the port and the mainland complain ini that they cannot get their mes saires received and transmitted bv the wireless service here. Complaints of this nature have been made in the past and the wireless company for that reason has augmented its taeiii tics so that perfect communication with the Pacific Coast can be had Japanese Town Burnt. Tokio. Sept. 7. Fifteen thousand people are homeless as the result of a fire which almost entirely destroye the city of Niigata, 1 miles north west of here. It is estimated tha 5.000 buildings were destroyed. Th town has a population of 40,000. Th irovernment has been asked for .ai 'and tents are being supplied. Food ! depots will be opened at once. So fa 'as is known no lives were lost NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS COUGARS ARE DESTRUCTIVE Estimated That 600 Will Kill 26,000 Deer Every Year. Lebanon. That there will soon be bo eer to speak of in the Oregon moun tains is the belief of Dan Simons, a prominent Linn county pioneer and one f the oldest hunters in the state. Mr. Simons lays the rapid passing of the game animal to the depredations of the cougar and will be one of the fore most in favor of enacting a bounty law jn cougar scalps. mere is no one in the state better qualified than Mr. Simons to apeak on ame conditions. Mr, Simons, who is 3 years of age, eame to Oregon in 1851 ind on October 8 of the same year en- amped on toe spot which is now his jome. lie is one or the heaviest tax payers in Linn county and is willing to be assessed to provide a bounty fund. tie thinks there should be a one-mill isscssment to cover the bounty. He estimates that there are over 500 ougars in the state. A half thousand f these predatory eats get away with more deer than all the hunters in the state, he says. . From his experience Ait h them he estimates that the eougars will average one deer a week for feed! figuring further he shows that in a year the olio eougars will kill at lean 0,000 deer in a twelvemonth. The mount seems unusually large, but thcr pioneer hunters back Mr. Simons p in bis assertions. WATER IS IMPURE. Eugene's Proposed Supply'Unfit for Domestic Use. Eugene. A bombshell was thrown nto the camp of the adherents of the plan of securing a water supply for the city from Ritchey creek, 25 mile east of Eugene, when a report from he state board of health on samples of water from the creek was received here. The board . declared that the water was unfit for drinking or do mestic purposes. Mayor Matlock, who has been at the head of the movement secure the water supply from Ritchey creek, secured the samples returned and shipped them to the state health board about 10 days ago. He was greatly surprised when the report came that the water was im pure, and gives it as his opinion that was contaminated in some manner liizr having left his hands. It has been the general opinion that the .vatcr in Ritchey creek, a mountain tream, was absolutely pure. Old residents of that section have used it for domestic purposes for years, and no cases of illness have ever beea known. Packing Plant for Albany. Albany. The largest independent meat packing plant on the Pacific coast, to cost a quarter of a million dollars, will be built in Albany, and work will commence within the next 90 days. O'Shea Bros., formerly owners of the Union Meat company n Portland, are behind the under taking. In conversation with one of Albany s business men Mr. O Shea said: "We will build a large independ ent meat packing plant in Albany, and t will cost at least $2.10,000. 1 have ooked over the situation here thor oughly, and am convinced that this city is the idtal point for establishing jur plant. Develop Applegate Mine. Grants Pass. John Longwell and son, southern Oregon prospectors, after pa tient and persitent work in the Apple gate district near 1'rovolt, twelve miles south of Grants Pass, have uncovered a five-foot ledge that carries values of from $50 to $200 a ton. Some of tho re is thickly shot with gold and runs up into the thousands. It is one or the richest strikes made in southern Oregon this season. The ledge has been trsred for a long distance on the sur fae, end though opened by shi"Aw thafts and ruts only, the general char scter of the quarts and the contact nrove it to be a permanent proposition Several claims have been located, and the property will be deeply developed Writes History of Columbia. Pendleton. Professor W. D. Ly man, who is writing a complete his tory of the Columbia river and Co lumbia river navigation, has secured i dozen photographs from Major I.ee Moorhouse, the photographer of this city, to use as illustrations. The work being prepared by Professor Lyman will be complete in every de tail, giving the exact history of the development of navigation on the Co lumbia from the earliest times to the -resent. It will be published in New York within the next few months. Boost for Cooe Bay Line. Portland. Cangh'ren. Winters, 8mith I O. of Spokane will he recommended is the Iowet bidder for the eonstrue tion of 14.000 feet of the Celilo eanal on which bids were opened a few dsys sgo by Captain James MeTndoe, United States engineer corps. Following were the Md: Canehren, Winters, Smith fo.. $'30,603; Twohr Prothers, $43,33 Robert Wakefield k Co.. $r,92J70; Pn pet fUnnd Pridge Jc Dredging company I716.34S; orth American Predgin corona v, $722,420; Johnston P. Porter 7r.fi.1on; Celilo Construction company, f802,330. PARTS OF OREGON HOPS LIGHT IN CLACKAMAS Crop Nat Expected to Average Over 600 Pounds to Acre. Oregon City. The rains of the last few days have geen generally bene ficial to the hops of this section, thobgh the crops is not so far along as it was last year at this time. A large amount of hop acreage has been plowed up. and in the yards that remain the cultivation has been no ticeably insufficient, and it is expect ed that the crop will be very short not averaging more than 500 pounds to the acre. In most of the yard picking will not commence until th early part of next week, and even later in some instances. The pickers will work on a strictly weight basis this season, and in most cases the growers will pay $1 a hun dred, but it is reported that some ol the growers in the Butteville district will pay only 70 cents a hundred. The low market price of bops ha discouraged hopmen, so that in many sections very little care has been given the yards. FRUIT PRICES WILL BE HIGH Growers Expect Quotations to Soon Advance in East. . Medford. Fruitgrowers have rea son o fee! hopcfnl as to prices to be realized for pears and apples this fall, according to L. I). Harris, ex-man ger of the C. If. Lewis orchard here 10 has just returned from a visit through the East, where he has been carefully studying Eastern market conditions. He says the hast and Middle West have not yet fully re covered from the effects of the flurry last November, and as a consequence there has not been the can for large shipments, as heretofore, liartlelt ni!iri li . tt!it,v will nt tti rtrfwu ers about $1 50 per box, and as local ars are about three weeks later than those grown in California thinks the growers here will realize better prices than California fruit men. Hopplckere' Wages Fixed. Eugene. The hopgrowers of Lane county met here last week to con sider the hop situation. It was de cided to pay only 75 cents a hundred for picking this year. Growers from all parts of the country were in at tendance, borne of the yards that have been cultivated may not be picked if the hop market does not look better when the crops are ready A number of growers have begun picking, but most of the, yards will not be ready until about September 1$. Preparing for Apple Fair Albany. tPresident E. V. Langdon of the Albany Commercial club, has appointed the following committee to work in conjunction with a com mittee named by the Linn County Horticultural society to manage the Albany apple fair this fall: Owen Ream, chairman; E. H. McCune, H Bryant and J. A. Howard. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheats Club, 88e per bushel; forty fold, POe; Turkey red, 90c: fire, 8Se bluestem. 92c; Valley. 88e. Parley Feed, $24.50 per ton: rolled $27fa'J8: tirewing. $20, OatsNo. 1 white, $2727.50 per ton; gray, $2C(a 20.80 Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley $14 per ton: Willamette Valley, or dinary, $11; Eastern Oregon, $16.50 mined. $13; clover, $; alfalfa, $u alfalfa meal, $20. Fruit Apples, new, 50c(i$1.7o per box; peaches, 50(?7 85fl per box; pears, 7oe(7i$l.oO per box; plums, 75e per box grapes. 8oc(d $i.n.' per erate, I'otatoes 9netfil per hundred sweet potatoes, 2V4(ft'2,e per pound Melons Cantaloupe. flOcfri $2.00 per erate: watprnulcns. $1(7X1.25 per 100 loose; crated, e per pound additional eassbas. $2.25 per dozen Vegetables Turnips, $I.r0 per sacfc carrots, $1.75; parsnips, $1.75; beets $1.50; artichokes, 5e per dozen; beans ne. per pound; cabbage. 2e per pound cauliflower, $2.50 per erate; jelerv, 75e (fl$l per dozen; corn, 23tfi30 per dozen cucumbers, 30r?f40! per box; egg plant $1.75 per erate: lettoee, head, 15e pe dozen; parsley, 15e per dozen; peas, 6 per pound; peppers, n(aWc per pounl radishes. lZV$e per dozen; spinach, per pound; sprouts, 10c per pouni squash, 40c per dozen; tomatoes, 35 50e Putter Extras, SlHe per pound fancy, 2.1W, choice, 20c; store, jhc. Eggs Oregon extrss. 21(7t27,c firsts. 24(TT-23e; seconds, 22(723c; thirds 15rtl20e; Eastern. 24fri25e per dozen. PoultrrMixcd chickens. MKtWA per poon !; fancy kens. 12(7il2e; roos ters. 10e; spring, 136714c; dock", old Z(aZit: spring, J4fi 15'Ae; geee old. 8c; young, 10c; turkeys, old, 17(77) le; young, 20e. veal Fifra, "filfe per pound; or dinsrv, "fii 7He; heavy, 5e. Pork Fancy, 8e per pound; ordinary cc: large, &. Mutton Fancy. 671e Hops 1007. prime and choice, fie per pound; oldr, lUaC; eonlrsets ln sc. Wool Eastern Oregon average bet lOtf?. lOVJe. f.-r pound, according shrlnksge; Valley, 15al5'4e; mohsir, choice, RVit. ' NEW WAR CLOUD. German Move to Recognise Mulal Hafid Angers France. Paris, Sept. 4. Morocco has again auscd France to become enraged gainst Germany. The latter power has provoked another acute crisis by notifying the powers signatory oT the Algeciras convention that she consid red the actual situation demanded he immediate recognition of Mulai Hafid, the usurping sultan of Morocco. Germany has also dispatched Dr. Vas. sel, her consul at Tangier, to Vei, the apital, which is now in the hands of lulai Hafid. A feeling approaching consternation manifested in official circles. The lotification, which was made verbaljy, not accompanied by any explana- ion of Germany's "brutal change of ront," as it is termed here. France can see in Germany's action Mily her intention to disregard the Mgeciras act and seek a special posi- ion in Morocco for herself. The con sequences both from an international nd French standpoint are expected to St deplorable. In answer to Germany's call for recognition of Mulai Hafid before he us entered into engagements with urone. fanatical Arabs who had been fathering on the Algerian frontier ittacked the French post at Donedib. ASSIST POOR TO INSURE. Sage Millions Will Back Scheme of Philanthropists. New York, Sept. 4. Racked by the nillions of the Sage Foundation, to .vliich Mrs. Russell Sage has already urncd over $10,000,000 for elevating he economic condition of the poor, trustees of the fund are engaged in investigations which may result in ar. extensive plan which will provide life nsurance below cost to those who recognize the beneht ot such insur ance, but who may not be able to ifford the luxury of life insurance at he rates charged by the big com panies. Since the middle of last June, Dr Leo Franklin, who Is well known in haritable organization work, has been in Europe as the .vent 'of the Sage Foundation, studying the practica operation of governmental life insur ince as practiced by the German and other governments. Dr. Franklin's issociate in this work is Miles M. Dawson, actuarial expert of the Arm strong committee, which with Gov- rnor Hughes, assistant organizer. brought out the extraordinary investi gations in 1905 and laid out the foun dations which have since revolution ized the business of life insurance in this state. DISCOVERS NEW COMET. Professor D. W. Morehouse Makes Find by Camera's Aid. Lake Geneva, Wis., Sept. 4. Direc tor Edwin It. Frost, of Yerkes ob servatory, Wednesday night an- lounced the discovery of a new comet through photograpliic observations made by Professor D. W. Morehouse, of Drake university, of Des Moines. The presence of the comet was re vealed upon, development of photo graphic plates exposed in three cameras Tuesday night. It is clearly defined and has a tail several degrees long and was found in the constella tion Camelopardalis, remaining above the horizon throughout . the night. Its position was 3 hours, 20 minutes of right ascension and 60 degrees north declination. Its visual brightness, Trofessor Morehouse said, could not be stated until after further observations had been made, but it probably will be via ble through an opera glass. The new comet, he said, had no connection with 1 1 alley s comet. Professor Morehouse has been en gaged during the summer in graduate work at Yerkes observatory in astron omy, under rroiessor uarnard. Blow Up Canal. Joliet, 111., Sept. 4. Several hundred acres of land are under water and property valued at thousands of dol lars has been destroyed, due to a dy namite explosion at the Jackson street dam on the Illinois river-Lake Michi gan canal. The explosion wrecked the dam and tore away a hundred feet of the canal bank, letting the water out upon rich farming lands. It Is believed that farmers, who were an gered at the refusal of the canal offi cials to make repairs that have been demanded for months, are responsible for the explosion. Wrangle in Ruef Case. San Francisco. Sept. 4. A third jurnr passed, subject to peremptory challenge, has been accepted in the trial of Abraham Ruef on a charge of bribery. The greater part of the day was aevotea io investigation oi sue gations that efforts had been made by one side or the other to interview ' prospective jurors prior to their sp- jpearance in the court room. FIRE ATTACKS FAMOUS TREES Change of UlnJ Only Can Save BI4 Trees of California. Fire Fighters Powerless to Stop Wall of Fierce Flame, Which Threatens Mother of Forest Many Trees Are Named After Noted Men of History." Stockton, Cal., Sept. 3 News comes by special to the Independent from Murphys, which is connected by wire with the Calaveras Pig Tree Hotel, that a forest fire has got into the grove of mammoth trees at the upper end of the grove, near where, the mother of the forest stands, a monster sequoia 327 feet high and 78 feet in circumference. Ihe fsmous trees named after noted men of history are below the point of attack, and the only hone for the mag nificent monsters of the forest is change in the wind, as the fire-fighters are powerless to stop the flames. To get into the grove of big trees the fire had to cross the road leading to Gard ners, which it did Tuesday night. There is little undergrowth in the grove, and that may be the means of checking the . fire, but its sweep through the grove is grestly feared. I tie valley in which the grove Is situ- stcd contains of the sequoiu 03 mon ster trees. Ten of the trees are each 30 Jpet in diameter. Many are more than 300 feet high. The fire has attacked some of the mammoth trees. The grove is owned by Mr. Whitesides, a Michigan millionaire lumbermnn . FINDS SUNKEN WARSHIPS. Japanese Salvage Vessel May Recover Three Lost in War. Victoria, It. C, Sept. 1 Advices from Janan state that the sunken bat tleship Yashima has been located by the steamer Saruhashi Maru, a salvage vessel sent by the naval department to search for Japanese warships lost dur ing the war with Russia and investi gations are being carried out to ascer tain if the battleship can be raised. The Saruhashi Maru has .also located the Russian warship Sobastopol and the approximate place where the cruiser Takasago sunk has been located. rhe is now searching for the battle ship Hatsusn. The sinking of the Ya shima and Hstsuse was due to the plac ing of mechanical mines by Kear-Ad-miral Wiren on May 1, 1904. The Rus sian officers observed that the Jap anese warships, while engaged in gang ing at Port Arthur, ert.isml continually over the same ground, nnd a mine. field was laid into which the vessels attained, and the Yasliaml, Hatsuse snd cruiser Yoshino went down the same morning, all with heavy loss. News of the sinking of the Yashima was suppressed for six months by the Japanese tovernment, and reports of her loss were always officially contra dicted with the result that not until news of her destruction was published in the official reports at the end of the war was it generally known that she had been sunk when the Hartsuse and Yoshino went down. NEW POSTAL SCANDAL. Shortage of 9400,000 Reported From Havana Office. Havana, Sept. 3. The whole provin cial government is in an uproar as the result of the discovery of the theft of over $400,000 in the local postoffice. The discovery was made when an in ventory of the stamps, envelopes and other material was taken. The de tectives are searching for Rlcardo Dod riquez, chief of the supply bureau, who disappeared when the theft became known. Colonel Charles Hernandez Is post master general and ha said that every effort would bo made to discover the thief. (Jrowlng out of the postoffice scandal Manuel Flies, editor of El Vigilante of Manzniilllo, was shot dead Sunday af ternoon by Manuel Estrada, editor of El Reporter, of the same city. Estrada, who is an independent, considered he had been insulted in a political edi torial written by Elies, who is a con servative. The coroner's jury held Estrada to amswer on a charge of murder. Reprieve for Japanese. Victoria, I. C, Sept. $ Adviees from Vladivostok state that the six Jspanese of the erew of the seized seal ing schooner Nle Mary, sentenced to be shot, have been reprieved. Russian of ficials state that the schooner was cap tured while in the act of raiding the Copper Islands, and that the erew were also guiltv of landing at Kurinka v Il ls ge on Medni Island, and Pillaging the villagers' souse, mocks or grata were carried awsv from barns, snd the ware house of the Kamehstka Commercial j company wa looted. Potato Bugs Stop Cars. Prlitol, Conn., Sept. 3. Potato burs on the rails at Lazy Lane stslled eight trolley ears Of excursionists bound te . Lake Compouace. la spite of the ter- rifie slaughter, the bugs held possession until the carmen could sand the track.