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1 iiDcrnu oriTr 'rrriic nr iiiTrnVoT 1 ENGLISH CROP SMALL. British Grower Tall Method ef Hop : !, ' Cultivation. ' Salsm Davis Jones, owner of a hop yard of several hundred aero to Wor--castersbire, England, and on of the tergest glowers in that country, to tn the city, too guest of Jack Cannichsal, prominent Oregon bopmen. Mr. Jonas inade the interesting state nwt that English and continental hope -will not b aa hoary a crop as lest .year, and that from prssint hid Mo tion English bops will eommand at least 80 oenU In the market. Last .year thore wore 88,000 acres of hops in England, and this year only 81,000. Thirty cents io not considered a partie nlarly high price in England, for U ooata ' from 18 to 20 cents per pound to pro- due the crop. I eMcl The method of culture to radically " difforBt than from that in us In this W JF country, and while it is expensive, it is -very thorough and effective. The trellis system is need, with wire one foot from the ground and another near -the top of the poles. To each of these wires hooks are attached and the wires are never taken down, the bops being 4 -cut off nd picked. This metbos of oBrss prevents eross cultivation and necessitates plowing in only one diree ti n. The space under the wires to worked by band with hoes or forks. Fertilisers are used extensively, the casual quantity being about 20 tone to the sere. During the cultivating i won the ground is gone over about 20 rtimes. The apraying system Med in England to unique, consisting -of main pine four inches in diameter. iron which laterals as small aa an inch in diameter radiate in every direction -through the fields. On each acre there ore two tana for the attachment of boee. The spraying material to foread through the pines by steam power, Hops are washed Ave or six times with about the same solution as that used in -this country. ; STUDENT LOAN FUND GROWS. University Now Has S6.OQ0 Drawing , Interest tor Needy Students. Univeersity of Oregon, Eugene The ipast year has shown a remarkable gain in the amount of the Student Loan iund at the University of Oregon. From a total of approximately 1800 at -the bee-inning of the year It now amounts in round numbers to 16,000, and the indications an that this amount will aleo be largely increased during the nomine rear. Nearly 16 aifta to the fund have been) made, ranging In Amount from 826 to 81.000. One of the largest of these was made by the D. P. Thompson estate, of Port land, and was for 81.000. Another arift of approximately the same amount was received, but its donor nave re boosted their names withheld. Senator B. A. Booth, of ugene, gavo 8600, nd several others added amounts vary ing in sis from 8160 to 826a Loans from these funds are mad to deserving students at a tow rate of in terest, and the plan to to have ton men guarantee (fee fond against lose. Since the beginning of the University Loan xuad some six years ago only on toss baa been sustained. fL Creamery Reopen to Ostorwbte creamery JM tot The creamery belonging to -m neoeiem Valley Cream association, f this place, will open for business August 4, with Prod Mann, formerly of a Portland creamery, and E. F. afeeiing, of this. city, a managers. The creamery ha been Idle since No- whon-Sw former manager ab- weonded with arversJ hundred dollar. leaving the associstion kt bad financially. The creamery will almost the whole Nehaleei valley with , milk route. Th Nehaiem valley as well aa most of Columbia county to last bscdeaing a dairying section, ' Stress Charges to Be Probed. Satoes A. K. Crosby, of The Dalles, . has filed complaint with the state rail road eommkmtoa, alleging that the Fe ci Ac. Express company's rate from The Dalles to Arlington, diatone ef 4ewa if" esaboat 60 miles, to 40 seats for ft six hie m nranortioa. Tha me iter investigated by th veamtoa ' Forty Suehel Whoa. Oregew. Athene The new wheat Brought to Athene beyere tost No. 1. The aver age tost to shorn M panada, the reoutr ad tost for Ho. 1 wheat being 68 pooode to the bueheL If any eotabinea as at work, bat harvest wffl net be hi fall blast for several day ye. Boanlto hv eHesto the yield far thto vicinity will 40 Alheay Th Sret IPOS brought to Albany was received at the Red Crown mill from the farm of enrgc Persons, tws mile east af Al bawy. The whaat PeraW farm tan 26 bushels to the ear, todieattog a fair yield of flal to this part ef PREMIUM LIST OUT. Stat Spare Promisee Best Pair In " . Stats' History ' Salem Premium list and instruc tions to exhibitor just issued by the state board A agriculture having in charge the state fair promise for Ore goo this fell the beet and torgestatoto show in the history of the state. When the fair opens at Salem Sep tember It, to continue antil September 18, 816,000 is premiums for livestock. agricultural and manufactured products will be offered. Numerous additional classes have been added to the premium list thto year, mad possible by a re cent legislative appropriation of 86 000. Among the new classes will be tha educational department where students in th common schools may exhibit their work. Money prises will be offered. Looking toward th comfort of the visitors, larger and more commodious quarter have been built and other! changes made. Chief among the im provements will be tha in crises In res taurant facilities. . - i Printed announcement is mede la tha premium list and catalogue by M. O, Wisdom, vice president, and F. A. Wei b, secretary-of the fair associa tion, conoerning new feature of th fair. Every assurance to given the public that the forth-eighth annual show will be the largest and beat in the history of the state. Tha premiums this year ere divided up among a number of different depart ments. They are i Agricultural pro ducts, art, bee and honey, boys de partment, cattle, cereal foods, county exhibit, dairy division, educational, floral, goat, horses, horticulture, in dustrial, ladies' textile department, misses department, pigoana, poultry, Scotch colli, sheep, swine, vegetables and woolen goods. The speed program contains some good events. The prises range from 8600 to 86,000. Fin Oram Yield at Weston. Weston The Price brothers, James and Marvin, have finished thrashing 1,200 aacka of barley with their com bine on Dry creek. They have a good yield, averaging 66 bushels an acre. They are now in wheat, which Is run ning between 86 and 40 bushels an acre and is quite free from smut. A. J. Mclntyre bed 160 acres in wheat, north of town, which yielded 40 bush el an acre. . ' '' Brief Shortest Food. Salem L. H. MeMahan, attorney for J. K. Sears, plaintiff in the action to prevent the use of 810,000 state money In the Crater lake highway, has filed his .brief In the Supreme court. The brief to on ef the shortest over pi seed on record hi the Appellate court of Oregon. ,. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat New crop : Bluortero, $1.02; dob, 88c; Russian, 06a; valley, t7c; Turkey red, 81; 40-fold, 81. Hay Mew crop, Timothy, Willam ette valley, 812016 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $1718. mixed, 816 60 16.60; alfalfa, lit; ekwer, 81 1 12. Grain bags 6e each. Fruits Cherries, 6lle dot pound; near ass, 800081.10 per boa: apricots. 81.SWil.50; loganberries, 8101.60 per crate; raspberries, 81.60; black caps, $2.26; black berries $2; wild blaekberriee, 10c per pound. Potatoes New, $1.26 3 L 60 per bundled. ' Ves tables Beans, 6c perpoand; cabbage, lHlMe; celery, tOcftiftl per dosen;' cucumbers, 26ll60e; let teeo, bead, 263S6c; onions, 12Hyl6e; peas, 7608 pat pound: radishes, 16c per dosen. Butter City oris miry, extras, 80 H per pound; fancy outside creamery. 27440J8OK: atora, 20a. Batter fat pries average lc ps regular hotter prise. Eggs Oregoa raaoh, eaodled, 270 28e par dosen. Peoltoy Hens, lRc; Springs, 16f 16e; roosters, Pw)10t; ducks, young, 18014; geese, young, lie; turkey, 18c; SQwaba, $202.26 per dosen. Pork Fancy, 1101 par potent Teal Extras, W?10c par pound ; ordinary, 706c; heavy, 7c Hope-iooft- contracts, 18019; 1906 12l$c; 1907 crop, 60i 106 crop, so. Wool Eastern Oregon. 162S par and; vol fey, 2S4tfe; msbslr. choice, 24026a. . Cattle-Steer, top, 84.60: fair to good, $404.26; eommon, $1. 7634: cowa, top, 88. 1 fair to good, 880 8.26; to aaadhnxv 82-6O0 2.76; eahrea, top, $606.66'; heavy, $0$.6O; balto and stag, 82.760 $.26; ii ana is, $202.66. Hag Best, $8.760$.16 fair to good, 6ff.7606.26; ateekera, $407; China fats, 86.7607. Sheea Top wethers, $4; fan? to good, $6.6068.71; owaa, leas aa aB gredes; yaasihma best, $4; fair to geed. 88.e62.76; $6.26 1 SPANISH RE8CLS SHOT. Herded kite Square, and Then Artil lery I Turned Looee. Madrid, July 80, It was officially announced tonight that the cavalry at Barcelona succeeded today in drivine , into St. Martin's Square, the principal bends of revolutionists against whom Washington, Aug. 2. Tariff togia the artillery opened Are, causing great lation has been delayed again by the The survivor surrendered. The official statement iaruer says that it now remains only to overcome small stoops' of reTMUttoniabi in the villages near Barcelona. Premier Maura annooneed tonight this favor able report from Barcelona: "The arrival of rateforcements will enable us to quell the outbreaks. Thus, according to official advices, the insurrection ha been cheeked, but at a heavy loss of life. After fighting desperately and successfully for a long time behind barricades, the principal mobs were gradually driven to 8L Martin Square, where they found them selves entrapped. v Heavy detachments of artillery and cavalry came up and siirroundecl them. The artillery Immediately opened fire, mowing down the revolutionists. who sought to escape, but ware met at every point with shot and shell. Those of the insurgents who were not killed or seriously wounded threw down their arms and surrendered. The - insurrection continues In the neighboring villsges, whither the troops are proceeding. The command era of the soldiers are ander orders to spare none who attempt to resist. WOMEN BUY LAND. Chicago Seamstresses Going to Raise Fruit In Idaho. ' Chicago, July 80, A group of Chi cago seamstresses today deputised Hiss Glenna Lynch to Wendell, Idaho, Monday to perform the final formalities in the purchase of a 160-acre fruit farm which they have bought with their pooled earnings. If all goes well they propose to leave their work here and go out to Wendell, where they will form a little fruit raising colony. The young women call themselves "The Idaho Guild." They banded to gether a year ago with th agricultural project in view. They secured 160 acres of government irrigated land, have now made their last payment, and Mies Lynch will go through the final formalities necessary to acquire title to the land. Among th prospective fanners, in addition to Mies Lynch, are the Misses Adelaide Jackson, Marie Millar, Helen Miller, Laura Hunt and Maud Lynch. Most of them became enthusiastic over the idea of investing la irrigated land at meetings of the Dressmakers'. Art club. The Idaho Guild a launched with eight members, but a few others have sines become imbued with agricultural enthusiasm and bav contributed frost their earnings to the land fund. SPAIN SUFFERS GREAT LOSS Troop Are Driven Back With 8,000 Killed and Wounded. Madrid, July 80. Official dispatches received hero today admit that the battle between Moorish tribesmea and tha Spanish forees outside of Melilla July 27 was a disastrous defeat! The Moors cut off communication with tha Spanteh outpost, and the mala force of the Spaniards was driven back ander the walla of th city, bare fighting con tinued desperately in the cite. Hell ilia to full of wounded. Tb extent ef tha disaster is plainly apparent from General Marina' dis patches given out at the war office today. He says: "Oa July 27 tha- Moors eat the rail road, severing eomanmicatioa with our outpost. Oar butteries shelled the Moors, hat the advenes posts were en dangered and they bad tobeabendoned. The stoaatioa at Melilla to grave, de spite tha desperate bravery ef th troops, who are new fighting under the walls of th city. " "Oar loss in the engagement wans General Pinto, a colonel, two lieuten ant colon els, five captains and many ofiVers and subalterne and about 1,000 men. The wounded number at least 1,600, including many officers.. The hippodrome to full of wounded soldiers. Two general were mortally wooneed." Ftoa Dee Not See Food. " Berkeley, Cel., Jury 80. Following a ris of exhaustive experiments with th California flea, Professor C. W. Woodwsrtb, ef th Uaiversfty ef California, smounoed today that al though tha ineeet baa eyas. It dose not see. To he aaara exact, th professor stated that the flea dees not sss mete rial object. "There to no formation oa th tatin ef the eye of a aid Pi i if i sslb Wooaworth, "all tha insect ease when It ayw seines a solid object, to n varying intensity af light rsys.'1 Berlin, Jely 60. Tb German banb ers participating a the Chii eee rail way loon bav forwarded advises from Pekm that nsgntlsHsiis far ea Ameri- h the loaa r nearly PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS IN BRIEF Monday, August S. hide and leather question, and th con ferees were called together one more today. Western senators will compel further changes in th hides and leather schedule. These cone tor sea plain that the leather schedule a ar ranged by the eon fere as with the ap proval of tha president, to unfair to the states interested In protected hides. It was agreed that seme action most bo taken to conciliate them ii fb eonfareoc report to to ha adopted. 4 - - : Saturday, July SI Washington, July 81. The heaae to night adopted the conferanoa report on th tariff bill, 186 to 188. Twenty Republicans voted against .the report and taw Democrats for it. Ssyne appealed- to htt RopuMieaa i agues to stand by th bill, saying that if they wanted to drive their party into chaos they would vote against it. But ha laid It would be a delusion to vote against the bill upon the idea that th Dinaiey rates would be continued. "We have revised the tariff and have taken off onnoossaary do tie," said Payne. "Not all along the Hoe generally, bat in our revision -of the tariff be have revised the tariff down ward and yet we have held the scales so evenly that we have done no Injury to any person or any Industry in the United States, "These rata increase the revenue from customs lees than $4,000,000. Tha corporation tax to estimated to produce $26,000,000 and tobacco $,- 888,888. "TbeDlngley law, during all its period of existence has provided ample revenue, and there to no doubt this law will do the same for another 12 yean," Washington, July 81. After three boors' discussion the senate passsd the urgent deficiency appropriation bill, Including 626,000 for tha president's traveling expenses, appropriations for executing the tariff bill s provisions, reducing the salaries of five judges of the new Customs court from $10,000 to $7,600 per annum, and reducing the salaries of other Customs court offi ciate. There wss a large attendance when tha bill was taken up. v Friday, duly SO. Washington July 80. Entering upon the last stages of Its considera tion by eoagress, the tariff will as re ported by the conferees wss submitted today to the house by Chairmen Payne and ordered printed in the Congres sional Record. Discussion of the con ference report will begin at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, the Indications be ing that a day will safflos for Its adop tion. . . Thursday. ! 20. Washingon, July 29. Bowing to President Taft's altimatum as to glove and lumber, the Republican tariff conferees brought their work to a conclusion this afternoon, signed the report and tomorrow will submit it to the house. Two tentative agreements one reached yesterday and tha other the day before were repudiated by the president The bill as It now stands will have tha president's hearty ap proval. President Taft get the two things upon which be insisted in addition to free hides and radical redactions in the duties on manufactured leather the existing rates on glove and lum ber at $1.26 a thousand. Wednesday, July 99, I Washington, Jul M. ones committee finished its work to day, but Taft to displeaaed and may not stand for th agree saentga, which are: Lumber, rough, $1.40 thousand feet. The boose rate was $1 sod the senate rate $1.60. Tha senate differ entials were adopted, making lumber planed on one side dutiable at $1.90; two aides, $2.16; three sides, $2.62 H. sad four sides. $2.90. The rates on lath and shingles, which higher than th hose rates, alec adopted. Votes war taken aw tough lombcr t $1.26 and at $1.60, but no agree ment eoold be reached except at the $1.40 rate for rough, with the senate differentials en finished lumber. Glove ware made dutiable at rates Miderably to advene of the duties fixed by the senate bill, which far the nMet part ware the same as She Ding ley rates. The print paper rats was fixed at 88.76 a ton. Tb to nly 26 cental toss than tha senate rate and $1.76 more then the bones rate. It to expected that thto rate wiU arose tha to af the senuaittee whtsb arrest igated the wood snip and Baser joostkm. Hmos were left on the free I let, eoa- ttogent span th adoption of the bouse rale authorising tha conferee to go below the boewe rates to fixing the rates ea leather and leather product. If th report to told before tha heaaa ea Friday, aeeerding to prasint pre- . - Tueedar. due BT. . Washington, July 87. "Lumber duty of $1 a 1.000 or defeat for the tariff conference report by the house." This In effect was the ultimatum given President Taft tonirbt bv Chairman Payne, of the ways and means commit-. ose, ana namner or outer osngress man. Tha conference at tha White Hoaas lasted sartU lata. Mr. Payne remained with tha president after the others bad gone. Soma af those present stated posi tively that the senate must aeoede to tha rate of $1 a 1,000 on lumbar, a agreed upon by tha boose, or the con ference report -would be defeated. They told the president they war de termined to fight for th tower rate and it was said that the boos would have the presioont'B support en thto It appears that tha bouse has wan It battle for free hides and f ras oil and for increased rate on gloves and hosiery In return for a surrender to the senate on eoai. Iron or and print pa-' per. The rate oa the schedules, as ten tatively arranged pending the accept ance by both bouse of the program for a reductio in th duties on leather manufactures below the rate fixed by the boose, follow: V Oil, free. Bides, fro. .' Coal, 46 cent a ton. Print paper, $8.60 a ton. Iron ore, 16 oents a ton. k. . . Accepts Hayes Resignation. i Washington, July $1. Th resigna tion of President Reyee, of Colombia, was formally accepted today, according to a dispatch received here. - Reyes wired his resignation to th president of the senate from Hamburg. Ha will remain abroad indefinitely. Hi mes sage to the Colombian senate reads) "I irrevocably resign all future claim to the pidncy.'r Bay' tons bad four years yet to run. Sine br be been at tha bead of the government there have been two attempts to as sassinate him. His health has broken and with the people hawing a disposi tion to support him no longer Reyea decided to resign. Tw Man Marked. Washington, July 80. Gifford Plnch ot, chief of the Forestry service, and P. H. Newell, director of Ue Reclama tion service, are equally aware that Secretary Bellinger to anxious to force them out of tb Federal eervioe, or at least reduce them from their present positions of power to places less im portant and less influential. But they are assuming different attitudes toward the secretary of the interior. Mr. Pine hot has donned his warpaint and feathers and intends to flghtf Newell has assumed a passive attitude and will await a decision by the president, who to the final arbiter. . , M LoflfwatOFth WowNI Fly Waahingtan. Jdry 81. Mm. Nlener- ss Lot.gworth, daughter af ax-PreeW dent Roosevelt, bas beoosne an enthusi astic spent aoronautios. Her attend ance upon tb trial of the Wright eereplane to almost constant, and now, it is sold, she is determined to auke a flight herself, not to the aeroplane, though It to aid she even expressed her willlnsness to do that, but io a bal loon. A. Holland Forbes, ef New York, acting president of the Aero club of America, who to now In tb city, ha promised to take Mrs, Longworth up. - Controls take Tahoe. ' sklngtoa, July 21. After nag tlations which have eoatinued ansa caaafully for several year between tb government end th Truck ee Electric company for the aa of tha storage water to Lak Tabs for irrigating the Truckee-Carson irrigation project in Nevada, It is believed aa amicable eettlemeot shortly will bo reached. A contract f or th ass of th waters be been drawn up, and asqulros only the removal of certain technicalities before being signed by th sssrstary f lb Interior. . Utah 0mpfry La Land f WMhlngton. July 80. Attorney General Wickirahani aaasBaaii vector- - day that th Utah Pawl company, a subsidiary corporation of the Denver 4 ir to Ursnde railway, and settled penn ing goveraaaeat salts Bar recovery f i I level I v emubeal ktnde he newnwiTA. 000 cash an reeonveying to tha gov ernment 800 acres ef coal lands, ap- praised at $40,000. The attorney gen eral stated that a rigid investigation erehio f ether tends. Shoup Statue at Oapitei.' ' Weahirjgtea, July $6.-A atorbla tabs ef the late 6 eater Snoop, ef Idaho, is soob to be erected to Stetsary hall la the eapltoi bo tiding. The state to the gift of the state W Idaho, and was delivered at tb eacHtel building bat will not b unveiled aatit next wiater. Tha sari men lee will i, M will be tekaa ap Islmtfaj.