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CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
WIDOW AND DAUOHTER OF FINANCIER. WHO WILL SPEND AÜ0ÜST
IN IDAHO
PROGRESS OF OLR HOME STATE
FIRE
GINSENG RETURNS BIG.
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
Proceeds
General Resume of Important Event!
Presented in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Drouth In Germany has caused
Sharp advance lb the sugar market
Plane are being mad«* for the re-
organization of the American Tobac
co Company.
All pass«-ngera were removed
two Japauese cruisers.
The ship
muy be saved.
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress
of China struck a submerged rock
while entering the |s.rt Yokohama
G«-rmany and Groat Britain dis
agree as to their respective rights
in Morocco, and war talk I» general.
About 1.720 acres of land near
Roslyn, Wash , havy been withdrawn
from entry by th« Secretary of tin-
interior.
A swarm of yrliowjackcts took
pow - »alon of a Chicago laundry an<!
had to be destroyed by the Dre dr
partnienu
A Ran Francisco woman was shot
and robbr«l by a highwayman while
kneeling at the grave of her ron In
the c«-metery.
Chicago jMillcr raided a room used
a» headquarters by a Black Hand
band, capturing four men and many
Black Hand letters.
A s >n of Renator Holtslaw, of II
llnols. corrotMirates hit* father's con
fi ssion to having received a bribe ot
53500 Io vote for Ixirlmer.
A carload of '‘tailing*'’ from an
abandoned mine near Oroville. Csl .
netted 57.000 In gol«l when work«-d
over by uptodate methods.
♦leverai prominent cititene of At
lanta, Ga, have been
I
arrested for
using the malls to operate a lottery
•rheme, under the guise of money
lending.
The government I» taking step«
to prosecute Immediately all c«irpor
attoria which do not obey th«- Sher
man unti trust I law as Interpreted
In the Standard I Oil and Tobacco
trust cases.
A hurricane at Medford, Or, de
strove«] fruit and did much damage
to buildings.
Mr, I
II llarrlm»». at letti sari Ml
• «rol llarrlmaa, IPt l*aa>ah(er,
III«»«.
AUX CAYES FALLS.
Haytian
Rebels
Take
President
Simon's Home Town.
of
«22-000 an
Realized.
Acre
Ar« Stats
Medford That 53J.OOO an acre can
> realized from ginseng in the
Rogue Hlv«r Valley |s the statement
of E F. Gr
ipect, who
has been «
with the
On a homestead
plant for y<
Graham be tan bls
of 1« 0 acre»
be now has on*
sxperiments
producing the va)
eighth of an
uable plant.
Three y ear old glngseng roots have
a market value of from »«1 If 3* a
imund and roots from » to 12 year»
old will ru t a» high as 520 a ¡lound
After three years of work attending
to one eight of an acre of the root.
Mr. Graham has received I 3000 for
The cost
the product of his area
of starting in the business la very
groat and ft Is for this reason that
n<> more land was set out.
The ginseng root Is marketable
only In China, where th«- light yel
low roots are used by the Chines«-
for every conceivable domestic pur
l-oae
H|M-cimens of peculiar shape
d< mand. almost, their w«-ight In gold.
b«-caur«* of their suppose occult pow
ers. Bv replanting the roots freak»
ar<- produced.
Government Investigation of the
plant discloses the fact that there is
no S|»ec|e« of Insect nor any fungus
growth that bothers the plant, but
there Is a law to the - ffi-ct that the
plant«« must lie Inst** t« <! each year
by a Government Inspector.
Profes
»or P. J Ogara, ex-Government path
ologlst and now employed by the
Jackson County Fruit Association
who has just returned from Inspect
Ing Mr Gruliain's place la Inclln«-«!
t.
I.. ■
11..«! 11.1 - 1.!: - ' > 1 -11-
of the few plai t» in th«- world wbr-
glngsetig may I m - succt-safuliy raised
WARNINGS
SENT
OUT.
Board Issuss 20.000 Circulars,
Full of Information.
Salem — The first bulletin to be
Issued by th« State Board of For-
estry has just come from the press
Hl copies will be printed
and
for 1 distribution among those who
apply for It to the State Boa rd of
bulletin
Forestry
at Hah-m. The
was prepared under the direction
of G«-«-rge W. Peavy, director of
forestry at Oregon Agricultural Col-
leg«- and also a member ot the
State Board of Forestry.
Prefacing
his
statements
rela
tlve to Oregon and the new Oregon
ton at fits laws with a comprehen
sive view of forauitry conditions In
this country, he comments on the
situation In Oregon with reference
to the n--w furuet fire laws to some
length.
Th«- bulletin also contains a table
showing that the annual consump
tion of wood Is 296.79l.9tid and that
th«- «-stlmated c«ist Is 54.708.731.
It
731.
Is reported that the State of Oro-
gon has approximately 400.o00.Q00,*
'•»Il feet of tlmlH-r that Is merchant-
able and that the sawmills of Ore
gon
manufacture aliout
2.000,000,-
000 f«-et annually, Of this about 60
l»-r cent tet shipped to points out-
side of the state,
Of the balance
used In th*- state 500,000.000 feet.
Is used In general building. w hlle
the balance Is converted Into W<M><|
pulp, boxes, doors and Ot Iler slttil-
lar articles made In the
woo<i-
working ‘factories of Oregon.
In
his statement relative to Oregon
Mr Peavy says:
FOREST FIRE INCENDIARY.
Stat«
Forester Believes Outbreak
Work of Criminal.
DALLAS IS PRUNE CENTER.
Halcm.—Stat«- F' i h enter 1’ A ■ El
Port Au Prince. Hayti - The report
Hott is ccnvlnc.-d that th-- t.;
<•«! capture of th«- horn«« town of Pr-w
Francisco Company Likely to fires raging mar Mill City are t due
ld«-nt Hlmon, Aux Caves, Is a sever«-
Packing Plant Thero.
Build
to the work of an Incendiary,
Ef-
blow to the government, as It Indi
Dallas — The Armsby Packing Com forts are being made to run i the
cat«-« that the spirit of discontent Is
pany, of Han Francisco, has been criminal down. The fires were prac-
life In the south as well as in the
ticaliy under control Sunday 1 when
Inspecting
■
north.
There Is trouble among the revo
ley cities with a view to locating a new one broke out In the timber
lutlonary leadetw, however, and It l>
a branch packing plant In one of In the direction from which th«»
Imi-ossible to say now which part)
The tV«- light
them, where It can get primea in win«! was blowing.
will be In control If the capital falla
Hcott
Hartland. <-rs saw a man skulking behind 11
large quantities.
General f.e Conte, who is in control
tree wall hlng them.
When they
representing the company, said that
of Ci-pe Haytlen. a>«d Is reported t-
started after him he escaped In th«-
the
company
favored
Dallas,
and
have sent a force against Gonalves
wood!.
that a plant would without doubt b<
to occupy that town for him. »<-em»
Five years ago the same territory
located
here.
The
late
M
illlam
to lie th«« »trufig-v-t rebel chl«-f outside
wan burned over and Forester El-
Brown,
a
pioneer
of
thia
county
and
this district.
Hott declarea there was no doubt
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Advices from Port de Paix, on the
I "By. and probably
the Wealth!--»’ • hen but
that someone was guilty
. iti.au In tl.r-i i n ii.: v,
h'.s d--at!
Wheat-—New crop: Blueatem, 7Rc; northern coast, indicate uneasiness at
of setting out th«- tin
At one 11 me
.h. .¡.‘| u ti.o • of lan-l n till-.' t
club, 75075c; old crop, blucstcm. that point, and the American cruiser
suspicions - were
almost
strong
1 the first i>acklng and canning plant - bough
Chester has gone there from Cape
9oc; club. 80c.
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against one man __ to
cause
Hay tlvnt.
| built her.-
The Armsby Company his arr< *t.
Millstuff»-Bran,
The revolutionist« encompass th«-
I is favorably Impressed
with thlr
ton, middlings. I
Tly- present fire has burned over
capital
General M-Cont«» Is at the
tract
The Dallas Commercial Club 12 sect Iona and la
M roiled bar ley. 52* <1 2'1
still beyond
head of th«- Invading fore«-». He oc-
has offered to tap the land with a control, according to messages re-
Corn —Whole. 5-13.
ct
ipi-'.l <!■"..ih«-s .M nday an.I hu . 4
Sewer at Its own rxpt-pse. and plac- c«‘lv«-<| by the state forester
per ton.
Men
FRANCE PREPARES DEFENSES
It In readiness for the building ot are coming lu from Tillamook, Ma
3:5 500 26 van«-«-«! guard reached Archachle y«»
Barley—Choice
feed,
terday, and tx’forc sunset had come
th«- plant.
per ton
rlon and Polk counties.
wlthlti three miles of the city
Dallas Is the prune center of Ore
Le ■ Determined to Be Ready if Involved
Date—No. 1 white. 527 per
|
ton.
gon.
chipping
more
prunes
than
any
Hay Timothy, valley, I »16.117; al Conte's candidacy for th» Presidency
With Germany and England,
ARID LANDS WILL BE TOPIC.
other city In the state, unless It b«
MU», gram progroised with his march on the
falfa, 511; clover,
Pai
Is.— Fiance. though outwardly I Bortland
capital,
and
there
waa
a
cons'-qtient
Not only does Dallas *hl|
hay. 510.
placid, is omitting no precautions.
I many carloads of prunes each year, Reclama’
Poultry Hens. 151| IS’^c; Spring* loss of groun<f by General Firmin.
Projects to Be Up at
19c. ducks, young, 14c; ge«-»«-. num
The army ie being reorganized and but apples, j-eaches. pears, grapes
Stat« Irrigation Meeting.
V
Inal; turkeys,
dr-•••»<•«!, choice,
WIRE MAKER FINED «1000.
I 'Stem bled, while statesmen profess I cherries. strawberries and all other
Ontario.
Or,
July
22
Further
kinds of fruits raised In the valley
I e
Egg« Fresh Oregon rancl It, can More Sentences Imposed on Charges 1 themselve« as sanguine of a |«eacvful I are raised hrre in abundance. Thou reclamation of the arid lands of
|
volution.
War
preparation»
today
In
¡sands of aerr a have been set out In Eastern Or«' -gon will be the chief
d-ed, 26(127c 1-er dozen.
of Restraining Trade.
Butter—City creamery extra, . 1 and
I clud«-d orders to the cavalry to be apples, and thess orchards will be subject of diecussion at the biennial
New
York
—
Henry
A
Hammond,
a
2-pound print«. In boxes, 2 »C per
beating In a year or so.
, ready for the field at the fltv-t signal,
meeting of the State Irrigation As
pound; lees than box lots, cartons director ns well as sal«v< agent for
the
heavy
provisioning
of
the
forts
and delivery extra.
HOOD RIVER LAND LEASED.
sociation. which win meet in ()n-
the Wire & Telephono Company of
«m the eastern frontier by special
Pork Fancy, lu», lOtjc per pound
tarki on September 28 and 29. dur
America,
pleaded
nolo
contendere
to
supply trains run out ot Paris at
Veal Fancy, l.’oU'Sc per pound
C. L. Rogers G«t« 350 Acree Adapted ing the week of the Malheur County
Fresh Fruits—Cherries. 34t 15c i-er the Indictment charging him. like night. and the mustering ot all regt
Fair.
for Fru>t Growing.
pound.
apricots,
51 25-1 1 50
per other wire manufacturers, with unlaw metits to their full quota.
Judge Stephen R. Lowell, of Pen
The Cabinet met at Rambouillet
crate; cantaloupes. 51 25© 3 50 |>er ful restraint of trade.
He paid a
Hood River.—D C Eccles, of Og
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aasoclatiin.
today and at the conclusion of Its den I'tah, manager of the Oregon dleton, f>re»ident of tite
crate; p- achea. 75c >1 51 50 per crate; fine of 51000.
has appointed !<son J. Chapman, sec
watermelons.
I\ti2c
per
pound;
Judge Archbold also accepted nolo meeting announced the decision to Lumber Company, which operates a
retary
of
th«-
Ontario
Commercial
plume. 51 75 1 • r crate; prune» 51 75 contendere pleas and Imposed
,
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fines reorganise the army, accompanying large mill at lire, has just leased Club, secretary of the asstM-iation.
per box; new apples. 51.75© 3 per of 31000 each In the following cases
the announcement
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the ________
careful to C I- Rogers, of this county for
box; raspberries 51 75(f 2; loganber
Henry G Htoddard, president and explanation that this action was oc a numtier of years, 350 acres of and work will commence at once
rles 515 o «(|75; blackcaps. 52©2 35. treasurer of the Trenton Iron Com- casioned by the resignation of Gen- logged off lantl under the ditch of on securing prominent sp«“akers and
pany; J. D. Keith, vicepn-sldent of eral V Michel ap Commander in Chief th«- Dee irrigation * Power Com arranging a program. The Portland
blackberries. 53© 3.35
Commercial Club will „.
tie asked to
Vegetables ¡leans.
5(1 10c;
cab the Phoenix Honirehoe Company of hecaus«« of differences with his col
panv. This tract la the last of the aid In making th«- meetlns
- ---is a sue-
hages. 5. 5<’412 per hundredweight, Illinois, and Ramile) II _______
,
Roberta, sec leagues over th«- pr«>gramme of Na lands of the lumber company.
res» and a representative of the
cs-rn. JOyi 40c per doarn; cucumbers rotary, and Thomas H. Taylor, assist tional defenses. The Suy-erlor Coun
All of the tract, which 1» located
fa-part ment
will
be
3H1I25 i-er box; eggplant, 15c per ant eales agent, of the American ell of War, composed of generate« of between the Fuuit and West FA-rks of R« m - la mat Ion
pound; garlic, IO(| 12c |-er pound, Rtee| & Wire Company of New Jer- the army, continues, but the Vice the Flood river at an elevation of asked to make an address
f»r Jam-« Wlthycombe, of Cor
C~,
iettuce, 51 35tr 1.75 per box; peae, 4 aey.
Pr«-sidency,
which
was
held
bv 1200 feet and alxuit two miles above vallls. • memlier of the executive
(15c per pound; peppers, 8© 10c per
Judge Archbald jpfused a plea of Michel, will be abolish«»«!
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chief Dee. Is particularly adapted to ap committe«. will aaslat In making up
pound: radishes. 12*ic per dosen; nolo contendere under a power of ship of the general staff, carrying plea, pears, and strawberries.
the program.
rhubarb. 2H©3c per pound; toma attorney offered for John W. Kiser. practically the supreme command In
toes 51© 1 75 per box.
president of the Phoenix Horseshoe time of war. Is create«! Instead. and
Japanese Trie« Silk Culture.
B.g Profits From Farm.
Sack
Vegetables New
carrots. Company of Illinois, who««- attorney General J. J. C. Joffre will be •P
Portland.—That silk worm culture
51.75 per sack, turnips, 31 75y 1» <-ts, »aid he was on the ocean and not pointed to the latter poet.
Sublimity—F.
A.
Bell,
for 24
may prove a success ixH-nis assured
able to appear.
1
years a resident of this section has
through
the
demonstration
made
by
Potatoes New Oregon, l*^©2c per
gone to Germany to visit his father
Mrs. M Iwakoshl, a Japanese living aged 97 years.
pound.
Mr. Bell filed on a
Tot Dead, Carmen Mobbed.
at
Pleasant
Home,
on
the
Mount
Eight Killed In Wreck.
Onions-Red. 3175; white. 32 per
homestead near the present site of
New
York
—
Three-year-old
Morris
Hood
automobile
road,
who
Imported
hundred
Grindstone. Me
Flight were killed Goldberg, weakened by a seven days' silk worms last Spring from Japan Sublimity soon after he came to
Cattle—Choice »terra, »•-75«', 90:
and
four
Injure«!
when
an excursion fast, was run over by a trolley car in to ascertain If they could tie raised Oregon, and has lived on the land
go«*l to choice eterni. »5 35 b 5 50
ever since. He la said
Rhe has produced 350.000 from his labor to have made
Two thousand In thia country.
medium
st«»-«,
I
5;
common train and s regular passenger train front of his home.
on the home-
steers. 54 ©4 35: choice cows. 54 75 on the Bangor A- Arroostock road persons thereupon stormed the car. several hundreds of cocoons from stead.
©5: goo«') to choice cows, »1 50«, 5, collided at this station shortly after captured the motorman and conductor, which the butterflies are emerging
reeled several
good, average 1050 lbs., 11 25« 4.50; 9 o'clock Friday night. Five paesen laid them on the tracks and were Mrs. twskoahl has
Condensed Milk Combin«,
hundred yards of pure white silk
common cows,
cows. 52
32 75113.
75©3, choice belf- gers of the excursion train were
about to run the car over them when a thread, which she proposes to show
Salem —The largest corporation to
crs. St 7 uS. good to ch«>ice heifers. killed
The engln«-er of the excursion
file aitlcl«m thia week la the Pacific
54 f-04i 4 75; cholre bulls.
25(| 3.50; train and two firemen were among lone policeman sei red the ringleader nt the Gresham Fair this Fall, as an
Reserves then dis- Illustration of what may be done In C«»ast Condensed Milk company with
good to choice bulls. 314(125; com the kill«-«!. What caused the accident at the controller.
a capital stock of |f>.000.iwio.
ft ts
m«»n bulla,
25;
calvoe. Is not known
«V» 534i2
* a«
’t 1 choice
' IRIVWt,
A heavy storm pre- • penwxi the mob. It was ascertained silk production In Oregon. The silk understood this company has taken
300 lbs 1.....
and under, 37377 35; good val!e«l throughout Maine and It la later that the entire Goldberg family thread she pro.! i<•« ,| from the silk
to choice calves, 5'- 50© 6; common believed weather conditions had much of nine were starving amid the direst worms Is pure white, and those who over the plant at Forest Grove. It
have seen It say it as fine In texture, la a Maine corporation, and the fee»
calves. 34©5; choice stags. »4 :.ott to do with the disaster.
poverty.
and ««Am« equal to that produced In for filing the articles with the secre
4 75; g«w>d to choice slags, |4 25(f
tary of state here were 3235.75,
silk countries
4 50.
Hail Ravages Fruit Belt.
Maderos Selling Cattle.
choice
Hogs- Extra
ho«».
llght
Ran Antonio.— Regarded as Signlfl
Toronto, Ont. —Ninety per cent of Two Sc Or« Acres of Wheat Destroyed
Apples to Be Canned.
37.35« 7 50;
heavy hogs. »6 50(4«. cant le the activity of the Madero
t e co p in one of the richest sections
Pendleton —Fire, starting from a
heavy rouch hogs.fS 50© «.
Medford —Thousands of dollars In
family In moving their cattle out of f the Niagara peninsula fruit belt spark from a locomotive,
caused the cull apples will be saved when the
Hheep- (Th.gce yewrllng
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wet©
era. Mexico. Thirty cars were moved Rat
season's most disastrous grain fire big California canning company, which
coarwe wool, » ’ 25© 3 50. cholee year- nrday.
eras
destroyed
by
a
terrific
hail
storm.
The railroads report that
llng wether». eaat of »«-úntalas. »1 23 other large cattle-owners of Mexico Between St. Catherines and Winona when 40 acres of wheat ninnine 45 Is planning an apple butter and can
til 50; cholee twos and threes 5t© are also sending their cattle to the small fruit trees were stripped of bushels to the acre was burned on ning factory in Medford, completes
the ranch of O. D Isamlnger. near Its plant.
1.25; cholee Rpring lamba. »5 25« t I sited States.
The Commercial Club Is
Their desire seems their branches and many farmers face
Myrlck
The wheat waa Insured to assisting them In getting a site and
5 50; good chotee Rpring lamba. 55 to be to aell
out
before
the
election
inancial
ruin.
Hundreds
of
chickens
the extent ot 30 bushels to the they will build a plant that will em
©5 25. cholee kllllng enes, 32.75© 3 I In October.
were ki'led by the bail.
acre.
ploy 40 or 50 men.
s