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4K-«**, w ■ ■ -7-18:4, » NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Western Men Make Big Prediction* for Northwest Country, Chicago---" While applee are not yet HALTED the principal products of Washington, sriDERH DAMAGE HOPS OREGON HAS OPPORTUNITY. Oregon, Idaho and Montana, thorn- who Property Must Be Protected, Declares Govsrnmstit Announces Policy of Rs arv familiar with the unrivaled cli Long Continued Drouth Helps Cut Down Consul Miller Recommend* Pear* Be United States, »tnctlon Want Exclusion Law. Crop Estimate. Placed on Par With Apple*. matic and noil and other condition« Washington Invasion of American Washington. — Asistant Secretary j tx lieve the time la near when the Malein Standing lietwrea two evil*, Portland "Europe is clamoring for property in Nicaragua by soldiers of ' Beajaiaia S. Cable, speaking for Ike i a record breaking Drouth in the Wil apple yields of the four state« will be lamettv Valley and an unprceenented Oregon pears," writes H. B. Miller, Madrig has called forth a formal pro Department uf Cummeree and Labor, I American consul at Belfaat. Ireland, test from the United State*. The i announced a policy uf increased re ’ worth 8100,000,000 a year and the cul scourge of the red spider, the hop crop in a recent letter to C. C. Chapman, 1 strict io ns as regards the immigration i of the ."Mate of Oregon has suffered State department has repeated its ulti lure of the king of fruit will be the immensely the past week or ten days, manager of the promotion bureau of matum to both factions in Nicaragua uf Hindu*, and so emphatic waa hi* at chief industry.“ I tiled* that he seemed to regret that and the yield, conservatively estimated the commercial club, and he follows that American property must be pro H. L. Moody, a member of the cham from the standpoint of both the "bull* this with the advic* that pears as well ho had not the power to eunet an abso tected. lute •-«elusion law forthwith. and bear*," will fall approximately ns apples t>e exhibited at the forth Extended reports to the State depart I The report from Calcutta of an ia i ber of commerce and other organlta- 5000 bale* below that of last year The coming Portland Apple show. ment would seem to Indicate that the dux to the 1‘aeifie Coast, occasioned by ’ tiona in Spokane, Wash., said thia in - yield of last year w»» it *|, imhi Mr. Miller presents such sound argu situation of the Madris government I* ’ widespread reports that America wa» I an address on "Apple Culture and Irri bales, and the latest estimate for this ments for this action and point* out so precarious. Monetary exchange haa ths "good laud’' and that there every gation in the Northwest," at the first season ranges between »8,oral and loo, plainly the benefits that are likely to risen to 1.520 per cenL OOO bales. husky hand had a chance to get on the result from It that the commercial club meeting of the Chicago Irrigation The Madrix soldiers have again been police force, prompted the Ai* stant The market has taken on a consider will earnesly consider the pnqiosition aMociation at the I.a Salle hotel in able stimulus as a result of the effects with the view of having both fruit* ex invading the property of Americana, Becrrtary to declare that it wa* alioul impressing laborers and appropriating time the country awakened to the nu ‘ Chicago the evening of July 28. Judge of th* weather and increased ravages hibited. provisions sccording to the 'State de port of such a threatened invasion. Charlee F. Fishback waa toastmaster. of the vermin within the past week, In "1 waa formerly a fruitgrower in consequence of which the growers begun Cable feel* himself on safe ground So partment advices from consular agent Mr Mraxly added, among other things: to assume a decidedly optimistic atti the Rogue River valley," writes Mr. far as international relation* are con W. H. de Savigny, at Matagalpa. On tude, and little trading in future* is Miller, "and am now planting quite a July 27 they invaded the home of Al eerned, for he need« but pout to the | "Federal and state engineers say in attitude uf the Canadian government ! reports U> their respective <iepartmcnta the result Thus far there ha* been no large orchard near Sheridan, Or., and fred Scott, impressed his laborers as toward tho fe <>w subject* of the Brit remedy presented to combat success am therefore Immensely interested soldiers and carried off supplies. The ish Empire. He expreases concern I there are approximately JOO.OOO.OtX) fully the ravages of the red spider in thia movement. same depredations were also commit about the requirement* of migratory I scourge, which is gaming impetus with "Two values are to lie derived by ted on a large American estate on lalwr for the various harvests in the j each succeeding year, and unless there placing pears on a parity with apples Chon tales. is a visitation of a good drenching rain in your show one ia the Inspiration ' West, but the problem of the farmers Consular agent Olivares, at Mana- i and the railroad* a* well, he declare*, within the next few day* (the only for lhe growing of larger and better thing that will check the destructive fruit ami the other ia the advertising gun made formal protest to Madrix and must be *olv<- I bv other mean* than work of the spider), the loss to the repeated the ultimatum of this govern- » resort t > immigration of the very uu it will give the pear-growing industry. growers cannot be estimated merit that both factions In Nicaragua ie»irabl.> l >-t Indiana Much complaint wa* received from 1 am convinced that the Orrgon pear would be held strictly to account for Th** d.q.srtm.-nt ran but enforce lawn the brewer* on account of the laxity or has as great a future as the Oregon the protection of Americans ami prop- 1 ' *tat i’e .« and cannot stop apparent indifference on the part of the apple. It requires great attention to ■ It can, however, apply erty in the territory under their de -n. however It also * * I m s » m stii r Aw of r<Ht! net i.in with a ■ t»r. ia.I.t» : growers last season in respect to the eneviurage and cultivate it measures restriction broader facto control. harvesting of their crops, a* a result needs labor ami attention to encourge construction of th* law than generali) of which the Oregon crop, which ordl the production." obtain*, and if a Hindu flood come* RATES ARE SUSPENDED. narily bring* the top price In both the It will, in a large part, be halted. Eastern and the English market*, auf FIRST WHEAT SALE MADE. fered a severe slump in the quotation*, Commission Annuls for Time North- TWENTY MILLIONS FIRST YEAR and a serious setback in demand. The ern Pacific Act. early deliveries were such an inferior Average of Bl Cents Paid for 10.000 That'a Size of Exctnui of Receipt* Over Bushel* at Pendleton. Washington—What are known as grade in point of picking that brewers Expend.turea from New Tariff. refused to bid u|>on the offering*, and the back haul tariffs from Seattle and Pendleton Though grain growers in | paid the greater price for the I’alifornla thia vicintiy have been loth to aell Tacoma to points in the state of Wash- ____ ___ —A , . surplus ............... Waahiagton of 120,21 t.iX)“ and North Yakima crops. ington have been suspended by the In- m government r<- i-ipt« over expcndi their holding* at existing prices, one Oregon dealer* in geueral have re tcratate Commerce commission [tending tures is shown in official reports of the I reived warning* upon this score from im|»rtant deal waa made Saturday. first year’s operation of the Payne an inquiry into their reasonableness. > the Eastern factors, cautioning the E, W. McComas ia «aid to have secured j Aldrich tariff law, ending August 6. The tariffs were to have become i growers to be more cirrum*)*eet in the two or three small lota of 40-fold effective August 1, on the Northern I’ke surplus is nearly 41.I.1 »"<)."• s) m >re inatlcr of picking, else the Oregon hop. wheat, totaling about 10,000 bushel*. Pacific road, but action of the commis than that of 19u7, which was a record which ha* heretofore commanded the It ia understrad that the average price •year. The total receipts for the year acres of undeveloped arable lands in sion restrained the line from [Hitting highest price in the market, both <|o waa about 81 cent*. The regular quo ¡ending August 6 were ♦678,650,816. the United State* west of the 9*th mestie and foreign, «lauds in danger of tations for club and bluestem are 75 them into effect. Except for the year 19<>7, the surplus The proposed advances in the back I this year is greater by ♦75,uOO,i)Oo than meridian, ami men veraed in agricul losing its prestige and 85 cent*. haul rate« were made by the Northern ) that of nay other year in the history ture aaarrt that under proper cultiva Mr. McComas has been the local rep- RABIES INQUIRY BEGINS Pacific In the face of a decision of the I of the country. riaentati ve of the Northwestern Ware- tion thia area could be made to produce commission that the rates ought to be • orpo/ation tax receipt« amounted to between 4,000,000.000 and 4.500,000,- houae company for a number of years, reduced 20 per cent. In the hearing of ♦2<>7,0<)0 less than the amount assessed. 000 buahels of wheat yearly, or other IP-*»« Health Board Ruahea Phylalcan to ■ it it now Inlying inde|>endvntlv. the back haul case last autumn by the 1» Disbursement a for the Panama Cana! crop« in proportion. The settlement Muet of the wheat Ixxight by him ia to Wallowa County full commission, it was agreed by the dur.ng the year are given a« ♦33,18)0,1)00. of these land« would mean home« for Portland To make an investigation be ahipped to California for milling railroads that the reduction of 16 2-3 If the Treasury is lster reimbursed for not le»a than 2<), ihmi , ooo [mpulation and (>f the epidemic of ralnr» winch ha« pur¡s*ea. The rest will probably lie this item by the sale of bonds author p«r cent probably would be fair. In a source of added food supply, and, as «pri-iid . \er i [uirtimi uf Wall.-ws • nun turned over to the Byers Milling com spite of this statement, however, the ized by ('ongr*aa, the working balance a consequence, permanent prosperity, tv. Dr. W H Lytle, stat* veterinarian, pany, of this city. advance of 25 per cent waa made. It for the government will reach ♦150, "The four Northwestern state« cun-, l*H L r that seetioa a« th. reprewata waa the advance that the commission 600,000. 253.M94.760 acre«. acres. Lea* than «hr ”>'■ '••>»'•1 f he . th Code Two-Shirda Printed. tain 253,894,780 ------ ------ _ 5 • '" Dr. Lytle will procure the brain* and suspended. TARirr CHECK TO TRADE ¡•er cent of this land is occupied by Salem More than two-thirds of the The hearing will take place in Chi farms and the total population ia not spinai cord of the dog that is reported work on th«- new I^inl crate has ra-en to have the rabies, and will bring the cago August 29, by George N. Brown, more than 3,000,000, In an area of United States Seriously Concerned With completed by State Printer W. 8. Dun- qteeimen* here for examination. chief examiner for the commission. 397,700 square miles. More than 50,- New Japanese Laws. "! do not take much stock in the iway. Two thouaand pages have now 000,0th) acres of this land is adapted to rumor* that these animal* are afflicted been on the presa, and there arc 3,000 Washington- American trails with irrigation. NORMAL LIFE IMPOSSIBLE. Planted to apples and 8. White, pages in all, including the index. Japan may lie seriously affected, in part properly watered the minimum crop at with the rabies,” «aid Dr of the board. "Hydrophobia in any *t least, after July 17 next, when ths Committee Reports Deplorable Con duties in the new Japanese tariff law maturity would be a matter of 20,000,- form is scarcely known wm I of the PORTLAND MARKETS. Rocky Mountain* There hare l>««n re ditions in Coal Region*. will go into effect. This wa* the fear 000,000 bushels, or about 40 per cent |oirts of thia disease in the past, but of the total crop of the United States Wheat Blueatcm, 95/</9«c; club, 8« Washington After an investigation exp|e*«rd in a statement by the State in 1909, when Iraa than 23,000,000 bar upon investigation the rumor* have Department, ia of mor* than 50,000 individual caaea However, we in 6188c; r«i Ruaaian, 84«t85c; valley, liven found incorrect rels of apple« were harvested. most important 92c; 40-fold, 876188c; Turkey red, 90c. among the miners of the Western n>-w tariff law. "I mention these facta merely to tend to investigate the situation in Hay Track price«: Timothy, Wil Wallowa County and ascertain the facts Pennsylvania bituminous coal fields, Although the treaty between Japan show the imaaibilitiea of the country lamette valley, 8186/19 per ton; East the senate committee on immigration, and the United State* doe* not expire a* pruof that, a* gold waa the strung at once.” Coyote* afflicted with rabies in Wai ern Oregon, 8206/22; alfalfa, new, headed by Senator Dillingham, of Ver until July. 1912, it contain* no conven magnet which sent the first American mont. has reported that condition* pre tmnal tariff arrangement*, where*« those acroas the continent to the California Iowa County have created pandemonium 8136/15; grain hay, 815. Barley Whole,j823; cracked, vailing among the miners are not con between Japan and other countries do; e*aat in 1849, so today the apple is at in the nciglilnirhood of lily, on the state line, for some time, according to infur ton. and for thu reason the United State*, tracting thousands upon ducive to normal family life. thousands mation that reached the office of Dr Oat« No. 1 white, 83*61.33 ton. Seventy-five per cent of the mine on July 17, 1911, when the treaties other more people from Eastern, Middle White Coyote* have bitten domeatir Green Fruita — Apple«, new, f.Oc/.i, workers are foreigners who are unable than it* own expire, must pay the du Western and Southern states to the animal», and a dog on one farm in Wai to read the English language and many tics insofar a* they are enforce! upon great orchard belts of the Northwest. Iowa County with the result that the 81.50 per bos; apricot*. Slot 1.26; plums, 75c6i$l; peart, SI. 26641.75; of them are unable to speak English im[>ort* into Japan and other countries "The apple is king throughout the animal* have developed marked symp peaches, 40o/76c; grapes, 75c6/8l.75; intelligently. Criticism ia made of the toms uf hydrophobia. A row that was vast Northwestern domain, and it ia SHIP’S TRIAL TEST BEST blackberries 11.75 per crate; loganber- custom of the companies in virtually conceded by pomological expert* that reported to have lieen bitten performed rice, 11.50; watermelon«, 90c/<i |1.25 compelling these foreigners to trade at no district in America stands higher in sundry antic* about the place and ended ‘t* gyrations by trying to butt down a per hundred; cantaloupe«, fl. 506/3 New Battleship Delaware Makes Orsat fruit production. the store owned by the corporations. With increased Itree. crate. Showing on Trip. transportation facilities and the steady Vegetable« — Beam, 36/5c pound; Oregon Crop* Are Good FALLING OFF RUN influx of settlers, the early attempts in SALMON Newport, R I-—The new battleship I cabbage, 2'«u/2c H ; cauliflower, 11.50 Washington Crop growth through 1 Delaware returned from her trial trip I the valleys and uplands have become out the United Stales was unfavorable along the coast to the Bradford Coal ■ more pretentious and systematic. Irri Packers Paar They Will Ixise Money on per dozen; celery, 90e; com, 25c; cu- eumbera, 6Oc per box; egg plant. 86« during July, according to the state i ing Station wi/h one of the happiest I gation plants have been established by Chinese Contracts. 10c per [mund, green onions, !5c per ment of the bureau of statistics issued ‘ crews in the service over the showing private individuals and corporations, Astoria-—-While the catch of «almon dozen; peppers. 50c per box; radishes, i made by the big fighter. In addition W<dr>esday. Conditions aversge low and the United States government 1* was slightly better following the 24 15/</ 20c j>er dozen; tomatoes, 406/60c est in North Dakota. By states, the to the records reported from Washing expanding enormous sums in reclaim- hour closed «eason, it wa* far from be per box; carrot*. Slot 12.5 per sack; •Kgrvgste of crop conditions on Aug- ton it was learned the “Dreadnought" ing the volcanic waste« which are ao ing satisfactory. The salmon caught ¡•eels, SI.50; parsnip«. Sin/1.25; sust 1, (100 representing the average I held one satisfactory test of steaming womierfully rich and fertile and so pe average very small, while at thia season nips, SI. on August 1 of the last 10 years) fol 20 knots an hour for 24 hours. culiarly adapted to raising unblem of the year large fish should be coming Captain Charles A Gove expressed | Potatoes— New, 81.15621.25 in. The pack of le.th pickled and lows: Montana. M3; V Wyoming. 74; ished fruits. his keen pleasure, not only over the ; hundred. canned salmon is rapidly dropping lie Arizona. 100; Utah, 94; ; Nevada, 102; eruising ability of h a «hip, but over her . Apples grown in Washington, Ore Onion* -Walia Walla, 12.50 hind, and the question of Alling their Idaho, 91; Washington, , 88; Oregon, j fighting qualities. All her ferret gun* gon, Idaho and Montana are in demand Chine*« contracts ia beginning to bother ■ack; Oregon, 826/2.25. 106; California, 111. in the Eastern and M drlle Western I were discharged simultaneously an.! Butler —City creamery, «did park, some of the ranners. Last season one phen the who'e battery of 10 and 12 stale* and in Europe and Australia, and of the local canning companies had a< 34c per pound; tnittcr fat, 34c; cuun- Roosevelt to Visit China. the markets are being extended year I Chinese contract for putting up 40,000 I inch guns waa flrrd at oace. try store butter, 24e. Peking — According to Prince Tsai by year. Experts in the East who I rases, but it parked only 32,000 rases, Eggs Oregon candled, 286129c per Battleship to Make Cruise. Tao, who met Colonel Roosevelt while have studied conditions in the North and was thus rompelled to pay out a dozen. In txindon, the rolonel haa promised Washington.—Following the course | west frequently refer to these states i net loss of over «4000, This year it« Poultry — Hem, 18c per pound; tn visit the Chinese empire next year. taken by the battleship Oregon on her as ‘the world*« fruit basket,* adding jl hinese contrart >s for 32.000 rases, and The prince, who haa just returned famous cruise around the Horn at the ■ there has been established in a com- i up to a few days ago it had parked spring», 18e; ducks, I5c4317e; turkey*, live, 20c; dressed, 226/ 25c; aqua ba, from an American and European trip, time of the Spanish American war, the j [mratively short time a domain where | onlv about 20,000 rase*. Next year prartlcally all the Colum S3 per dozen. waa much impressed by the cordiality cruiser Washington will leave San the first foot of soil, properly cultivat Pork—Fancy, 13c per pound. with which he was greeted in the Uni Francisco this week for New York. A« ed and irrigated, ia worth more than bin River plant* will )>* using the now far as Valparaiso the cruiser wdl be Veal Fancy, 126/13c per pound. . seam less, or what are termed «anitarv, ted States. all the mines from Alaska to Mexico accompanied bv the Colorado, the Cali i Csite Beef stccra. grad to choice, | ran*. This will result ia eliminating and all the forests from the United fornia and the Pennsylvania ’ The war the Chinese contrart* tn a groat extent, 85.5O/./5.75 fair to medium, 84.506/65; Cruisers Off for South America. ship* will participate in the Chilean States boundary to the Arctic sea." and more white labor will be employed cow«, and heifera, good to choice, Seattle- The cruisers Pennsylvania centennial celebration. On the Atlantic in the plant*. 84.406/4.75; fair to medium, 13.6 06/ and Colorado, which have been under Coast the Washington will join the fifth Italy it After Charlton. 4.15; bulla. 83/./3.75; stags, 82.5Orrf¡ going repairs at the Puget Sound navy division of the Atlantic fleet. New York Porter Charlton will not Cnttera Patrol Rare Courne. 4.50; calves, light, 85.756/5.75; var^Kiilvd Wednesday for Valparaiso. escape returning to Italy to answer for Aatoria—W. F. MrGregor, eolleetor of h*avy, 83.506/5. Joint Tribunal Urged. They will stop at San Francisco to pick the confessed murder of his wife, eustnms, wa< notified by the department Hog» Top, 8106/10 25; fair to me- up the cruisers Washington and Cali New York.—The suggestion of a new Mary Scott Castle Charlton, at Lake of commerce and la)>or thaï the départ d urn, 88.«06/ 9.75. fornia. treaty between the t'nited State* and Como, without a legal batt)«, Thia ment had taken official knowledge of Sheep Best Mt. Adams wether«, Canada and the establishment of a joint waa made plain by Gustav Dirraia, the the course laid out for the apeed rare* tribunal in the nat.ire of an interna Italian vice conaul, who told f’roaecutor te b* he|d duririg the regatta on August 8 I 25/./4.36; beat valley wether«, 83.75 Montana Express Hates Cut. requested the 6/4; fair to good ewe«, 83.506/3.75; Helena, Mont.— The State Railroad tional traffic commission a* the mean* Garvin in Jersey City, where Chari* 29, 30 and 31, and had reqi la mt*, choice Mt. Adam«, 85.906/5; mmmiaaion issued Jan order which In of effective control of through railroad ton ia In priaon, that hia government treasure department to detail cutter» to traffic between the two countries, wa* choice valley, 85.5OM5.76. ■ patrol the course. effect reduces express rates in Montana “He adopted at a sonferenes between M wa« "going to get Charlton." Hope 1909 crop, Mm 12c; olda, nom Five of the fastest motor craft on the about 25 per cent The action waa Knapp, ehairman of tho Interstate shall not e*ca[>e trial in Italy if we can roast have alreadv entered for the races inal: 1910 contract*, 13c. taken after a hearing and rehearing on Commerce < ommiaaion. and J. P. Ma help it” The vic* consul inquired They are: Heattl. Spirit. Pacer No. 2. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 136117c per ths subject, the latter having been bee, chief of ths Railway Comml*sion of whether the pruseeutor intended to Wolff No. 2, Fighting Bob No. 2. and pound; valley, 86112c; mohair, choice, nought by the carriers. "ana 4*. ....................... - — - have alieniate «lamina Charlton. I Bonderworth, tho latter being a steamer. 326283c. MADRIZ IS WARNED. a APPLES *100.000.000 A YEAH HINDU INFLUX TO BE ’ A iw- * to.
