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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 26, 1905)
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST ' REAMES SIGNS UP. Irrigation In Klamath County It Now Doubly Assured. Klamath Falls Evan R. Reames has signed the trust deed for hie surplus land under the lower project, consist ing of 2,500 acres. This makes the assurance of this project being completed by the govern ment doubly sure, as about 93 per cent -ot the surplus holdings embraced in the lower project has now been signed up with the Klamath Waterusers' associa tion. The government only asked for 75 per cent of the total and 73 per cent was signed up before Mr. Reames came into the association. Though this was not quite the amount asked, all prepar ations had been made to go on with the work without him, and the people were assured that the government would not turn itdown, regardless of whether he signed or not. Mr. Reames' tract was the largest in dividual holding in the project not signed, and the land belonging to the G. W. Smith estate, consisting of 1,200 acres, is practically all that is left Jout at present. This will cost the estate 50 cents penalty per acre if the owners wish to sign up for irrigation. Other wise it will be left dry, so far as Uncle Sam is concerned. There are a few other tracts not yet signed up, but they are all small. JURY VENIRE IS DISMISSED. State Land Fraud Cases Will Go Over Until January. ' Salem The demurrers to the infor mations against A. T. Kelliher and H. H. Turner, charging forgery of an as signment of a certificate of sale and also of an application to purchase state school lands, were argued by counsel for the state and defendants respect ively and taken under advisement by Judge Burnett. Defendants also filed a plea in abatment on the ground that II. H. Turner was a witness before the grand jury and his name was not men tioned in the information. Judge Burnett has dismissed the jury venire for the term, which will have the effect of postponing the trial of the case to the January term of court, against the wishes of District Attorney McNary, who desired to bring it to issue and trial during the present term Hop Crop Excellent. Independence Hopplcking is now thing of the past here, and the crop for 1905 has surpassed even the most Ban guine expectations. The quality of the hop is full equal to last year's unexcel led standard, and an increased acreage -will cause the total yield to go beyond that of 1904. There is a disposition among the local growers to be inde pendent with the buyers. Such a large profit has been derived from hop cul ture in the last few years that moBt growers are in a position to hold their rop for advances which they think' are sure to come. Few Sales in Hops. Salem The hop market the -week has been very quiet.- A few for tunate growers who contracted their season's crop some months ago at 10 and 18 cents have been making deliver ies. The ruling market price during the week has been 11 to 12 cents Quite a number of bales have been dis posed of at this price, although there has been no general movement among the growers to accept the prevailing quotations. The best informed growers and buyers say there will be no grow rB' pool organized this year. Has Monstrous Name. Albany "Anarrichtys Oceolate" is the scientific name of the strange sea monster captured at Yaquina bay by Robert Loeth last summer. J. Q Crawford, photographer and scientist sent pictures of the uncanny animal to the Smithsonian Institution, and also to the University of Oregon. Word has been received from both these au thorities that the above unpronounce able words constitute the scientific name of the monster, and that the pop' ilar name is wolf eel. Ten-btamp Mill on Gold Bug. Sumpter The long Gold Bug cross ut tunnel seems destined to cut an In numerable number of blind and parallel ledees. Since the report made two weeks ago another ledge has been cut assavinir $440 to the ton. ine ore tody is seven feet wide, with the rich streak taking up ten inches in the cen ter. . It is said the ore body will aver , age clear across about $65 to the ton. Erection of the reduction plant will commence in a few days. The plant will consist of ten stamps. ' Big Money for Six Acres, Silverton A. Qlvin, of this place, has just sold his crop of Italian prunes to a Salem firm for $666. From six acres of orchard he got 13,661 pounds of choice prunes. The price was 4 centi per pound. TO BUILD SMELTER. Portland and Grants Pass Capital Has Placed the Order. Grants Pass A custom smelter, the first in Southern Oregon, for handling gold and copper ore, is soon to be added to the industries of Grants Pass. The Rogue River Mining, Smelting & Pow er company, made up oi urants rasa and Portland men, have secured back ing from some of the leading capitalists of Boston, who have placed to the credit of the smelter company all the funds that will be required for the con struction of the smelter and for putting it in operation. The order was placed a month ago with a Spokane foundry tor the manu facture of the furnaces and the machin ery, and word has been received that the first of next month the first ship ments will be made. The smelter will be located at the Savage rapids, on Rogue river, five miles east of Grants is, and on the Southern Pacific rail road, where the smelter company has a large tract of land on Doth sides of the river. The smelter for the present will be of 100 tons capacity per day, and will be of the latest pattern in every respect. The smelter will be so arranged that it can be enlarged at any time. The last of this month a large force of men will be put at work putting in the siding at the smelter site, and in construction work on the smelter, ore bins and the necessary buildings. The orebins will be completed first and be ready to receive ore by the middle of November. It is expected to have the furnace ready to blow in by New Years, and the inauguration of an industry made that will be far reaching in its effects in developing the great mineral wealth of Southern Oregon. Cone May Build at Dallas. Dallas George Cone, whoie sawmill at St. Johns, Ore., was recently de stroyed by fire, has made a proposal to build and operate a mill of 50,000 feet daily capacity at this place, provided the people will extend aid to the amount of $2,000. Businessmen generally seem to favor the plan and the offer , will probably be accepted. M. M. Ellis, president of the local board of trade, has been authorized to name a solicit ing committee. If the amount is secu red work on the buildings will com mence at once. Small Gain in Umatilla. Pendleton According to the recent state census taken in this county, and which has just been completely totaled, the population of Umatilla county is 18,083. This is a gain of only 34 over the Federa' census of 19C0. The prin cipal reason for the small gain is doubtless the exodus to sections where land is cheaper. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 73c per bushel; blue' stem, 76c; valley, 7172c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $2424.50; gray, $2424 60 per ton. Barley Feed, $20.5021 per ton; brewing, $21.5022; rolled, $21.50 22. Rye $1.401.45 per cental. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $14 15 per ton; valley timo'hy, $1112; clover, $89; cheat, $7.509; grain hay, $89. Fruits Apples, $11.75 per box; peaches, 6075e per crate; canta loupes, 75c$1.25 per crate; pears, $1.251.50 per box; crabapples, $1 per box: grapes, muscat, 7590c box; Tokay, 75$1.30c; black, 5075; Con cord, 15c; quinces, $1 per box.! Vegetables Beans, l4c pet pound; cibbage, llc; cauliflower, 75c per dozen ; celery, 75c per dozen ; corn, 65c per sack; cucumbers, 1015c per doz en; pumpkins, lc; tomatoes, 30 40c per crate; squash, lc per pound; turnips, 90c$l per sack; car rots, 65 ( 75c per Back; beets, 8fic$l per sack. Onions Oregon yellow Danvers, $1 1.25 per sack. Potatoes Oregon fancy, 6585c per sack; common, nominal; Merced sweets, 22c per pound. Butter Fancy creamery, 2530c per pound. fcggs -yregon ranch, 283Uc per dozen. 'j;. Poultry Average old hens, 11 12c; mixed chickens, 11c; old roosters, 89c; young roosters, 10 !s springs, HUllWc; dressed chickens, 1212c; turkeys, live, 17l7c; geese, live, per pound, 89c; ducks, 1414c. 1 Hops Oregon, 1903, choice, 11 13c; olds, 1012c. '. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 19(321c; lower grades down to 15c, ac cording to shrinkage; valley,; 2527c per pound; mohair, choice, 30c. iieet Dressed buns ltgsic per pound; cows, 34c; country steers, 44c. , Veal Dressed, 37c per pound. Mutton-Dressed, fancy, 6)7oper pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 7 Pork Dressed, 67c per pound TARIFF NOT TO BE TOUCHED. Senator Aldrich It Alto Opposed to Railroad Rate Legislation. Washington, Oct. 17. Senator Aid rich, of Rhode Island, the general man ager of the United States senate, is not telling what the program is to be for the coming session, but he has allowed an intimation to leak out that there will be no tariff legislation, and no revenue legislation beyond some pro vision for Panama canal bonds. What Mr. Aldrioh may say and think is not necessarily the plan to be fol lowed, but it is pretty apt to be, and when the Rhode Island senator, who is chairman of the finance committee, says there is to be no tariff legislation, the probabilities are strongly in favor of such legislation being pigeonholed if it ever comes from the house. But Senator Aldrich is believed to be equally s interested in suppressing railroad rate legislation which would be offensive to his good friends, the railroads, and there again he is going to have something to Bay later, though he will not talk at the present time. Senator Aldrich is a member of the committee on interstate commerce, but he did not attend the hearings given by that committee last spring, after congress had adjourned. His mind is made up on that question. He knows how he will vote; he knows the kind of bill he favors; he understands what his friends want, and when the time comes for action, though he will say little, he will get in a powerful lot of effective work. There is no discounting Senator Al drich's ability; he is one of the might iest factors in congress, and it so hap pens that he is chairman of the com mittee which handles tariff legislation and a member of the committee that must pass upon the railroad rate bill after it passes the house. That is an other reason why Aldrich is in a po sition to speak with authority as to legislative prospects at the coming ses sion. ' MAKE TIMBER DURABLE. Forest Service Studies Methods, Also Its Structural Strength. Washington, Oct. 17. William L. Hall, assistant forester in charge of the office of forest products in the forest service, has returned to Washington after an extended trip in the West. The study of the methods of seasoning and treating Western timbers to derive their greatest Service when put to use, to which Mr. Hall has given special at tention on this trip, forms an import ant part of the work of this office. And the subject is considered of such vital consequence by steam and electric rail ways and telephone and telegraph com' panies in the West that a number of these companies are co-operating with the forest service in its consideration Their interest centers chiefly in timbers for tie and pole purposes. Tests are now under way for tamarack, hemlock and cedar timber in Michigan and Wis consin, and for red fir, western hemlock and western tamarack in Idaho and Washington. Another important line of work in the omce of forest products is a series of tests of strength of structural tim bers. YAQUIS FIRE FROM AMBUSH. Two Companies of Mexican Troops Lose Heavily. Hermosillo, Mex.,i Oct. 17. A com pany of the fifth regiment, Mexican army, sent out a few days ago to tup press the rebellious Yaquis in the neighborhood of Ortiz, was almost wiped out Friday from ambush. Lieu tenant Ayalo, who commanded, and five of his men were instantly killed Four others were fatally wounded, and died soon after, while a dozen escaped with serious wounds. A company reconnoitering near Are nas was also ambushed by the savages and their leader shot down almost DC' fore they were aware of the presence of the Indians. The survivors, after the first onslaught, drove back the savages with much slaughter. The Indians however, outnumbered them, and the whole party would have been massa cred had not a company frornanother regiment, stationed at Arenascome to the rescue. . .' - Diaz to Give Audience. Mexico City, Oct. 17. The commit' tee having in charge.the entertainment of the General Passenger Agents of America has completed elaborate ar rangements for the care of the party from the time of their arrival at the border until they reach this city, where they will hold their convention. The customs inspection of the baggage at the border will be made as lenient as possible. The Mexican government will participate in the entertainment of the visitors. They will be granted an audience by President Diaz. Explosions Injure Firemen. fTChicago, Oct. 17. Five firemen were slightly injured and property valued at $180,000 was destroyed today by a fire that demolished the five-story brick building at 75 and 77 cupied by Podrasink, Co1, wholseale dealers wa 1 paper. Lake street, oc Klappenrich In paintt and TO RECOVER LAND Government Begins Six Salts in Court at Tacoma. TITLE WAS OBTAINED BY FRAUD Bribery, Perjury, Subornation of Per jury, Forgery, Fraudulent Affi davits, Etc., Charged. Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 17. In the Federal court today six cases were filed by Attorney General Moody on behalf of the United States to recover to the government the title to lands of the public domain in Washington, Oregon and California, out of which the Unit ed States has been defrauded. The complaint charges that Freder ick A. Hyde, John A. Benson, C. W. Clarke; the Willamette Pulp & Paper company, a corporation existing under the laws of the state of Maine; Wil liam G. Gosslin, Alfred Truxbury, W. Sawyer and others, by fraudulent schemes and practices, involving brib ery, perjury, subornation of perjury, forgery, fraudulent affidavits of persons not desiring or intending to purchase lands, and affidavits of fictitious per sons, have, while pretending to comply with the laws of the United States re garding the disposition of the public lands and the granting of lieu lands, divested the government of large tracts in the Vancouver land district in this state, and in California and Oregon. It is further charged that the defend ants employed one Henry P. Dimond, lawyer of San Francisco, to assist them in their fraudulent procuring of public lands by representing them be fore the department at Washington, D. C. It is also alleged that the defendants employed Woodford D. Harlan and William E. Valk, employes of the In terior department, whose duties are to investigate and report on cases of the fraudulent entry and acquisition of lands, to give them information con cerning departmental affairs connected with the public lands and otherwise misuse their trust to aid the defendants in defrauding the government. DYED BUTTER FOR NAVY. Coal Tar Was Used by Contractors at League Island. Washington, Oct. 17. That samples of butter submitted as a portion of a large quantity supplied to the League Island navy yard at Philadelphia prove to be colored with coal tar dye is the substance of a report which Chief Chemist Wiley, 'of the department of Agriculture, will submit tomorrow to Secretary Wilson. Specimens were re cently taken for analysis from the League Island yards hospital kitchen and barracks, from the United States receiving ship Lancaster and other na val craft by representatives of the Pennsylvania dairy and food commis sioners, who are said to have obtained similar samples from the men who sold the produce. Mr. Wilson will refer the report to President Roosevelt, who will, in all probability, call the attention of the department of Justice to the matter. KOMURA REACHES TOKIO. Received Warmly by Mikado, Coldly by His People. Tokio, Oct. 17. Baron Komura, the Foreign minister, who acted as chief plenipotentiary for Japan, arrived here today from Vancouver, B. C. His re ception at the railway station was not enthusiastic, those present being prin cipally government dignitaries. The streets were strongly guarded by the troops, police and gendarmes. The baron drove to the palace in an impe rial carriage. The emperor showed exceptional honor to Baron Komura by dispatching to Yokohoma, where he landed from the Empress of India, Colonel Inouye his majesty's aid-de-camp, who went alongside the steamer in a dispatch boat and brought Komura ashore Sweden Dissolves Union. Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. 17. The union between Norway and Sweden ex ieting sinca 1814 has been dissolved both houses of the riksdag having pass ed the government bill repealing the act of union and recognizing Norway "as a state separate E from the union with Sweden." The lower house adopt ed tne bin without debate, but two or three members of the senate expressed the opinion that the dissolution was irreparable minsfortune and would be regretted, both houses subsequently passed the new nag law. Naturalization Frauds React. Washington, Oct. 17. The license of ten mates, pilots, masterB and engin eers at San Francisco were revoked to day by United States steamboat in ipectors. ine action in eacn case was for the reason that their naturalization ; papers were obtained by fraud. FAIR AT AN END, Great Lewis and Clark Exposition Passes Into History. Portland, Oct. 16. The Lewis and Clark Centennial exposition is ended. Its imposing palaces and buildings will come down ; its well groomed terraces and lawns will quickly fade to har monize once more with the rugged landscape. But its influences for the betterment of a new country will live on forever. It ran its course on a chalk mark of success and ended in a burst of glory. From a financial standpoint it was a Buccess ; from a commercial standpoint it was a success; from an artistic stand point it was a success. Look at the' Portland exposition from any stand point you will, and all you see is suc cess. The end came at midnight, October 14, with a scene that words can but poorly describe. Although a heavy rain was falling, thousands stood the wetting and waited for the vital hour. At ten minutes of the hour President H. W. Goode, Governor Chamberlain, Mayor Lane and a large party of prom inent citizens and exposition officials entered the bandutand on Gray's boule vard. The band played a medley of patriotic American airs, which brought forth prolonged volleys of cheering. Then Governor Chamberlain was intro duced. In a few well directed words he congratulated the people of Pcrtland and of the Coast for the great success they had achieved, and in passing, eu logized President Goode and those who had been actively interested in shaping the destinies of the exposition. Mayor Lane spoke in a similar vein, and ex pressed particular delight in the fact that the fair should end in the midst of a good old Oregon rainstorm. Then there came a pause, a breath less pause, during which there was a nervous consulting ot watches, ine minute hands pointed to four minutes of midnight: then to three, then to one. The life of the great exposition was swiftly ebbing away. It was but now a matter of seconds. The hush was that of a death chamber. President Goode arose slowly to pro claim the end. It was ten seconds away. "The greatest honor that has ever come into my life or that ever will was that of declaring this exposition open," he said; "I now officially de clare the Lewis and Clark Centennial exposition at an end." TWO ARE GUILTY. Jury Returns Verdict in Oregon Land Fraud Case. Portland, Oct. 16. "The United States of America vs. Willard N. Jones, Thaddeus S. Po ter and Ira Wade: We, the jury, in the above entitled case find the defendants, Willard N. Jones and Thaddeus S. Potter, guilty as charged in the indictment. C. P. Bishop, fore man." "In the Circuit court of the United States for the district of Oregon. Unit ed States of America, plaintiff, vs. Wil loH V. .Tnnp. Thddn fl. Potter. Ira undue, iiuuu Due ana iueuarU Roe, de fendants : We, the jury in the above entitled case, duly impaneled to try the above entitled criminal action, find the defendant, Ira Wade, not guilty. C. P. Bishop, foreman." It took the jury just 30 minutes Sat urday night to bring in the above ver dicts. Only three ballots were taken, and they were on the guilt or innocence of Ira Wade, county clerk of Lincoln county. It took only a brief discus sion before the verdict was reached in regard to Willard N. Jones and Thad dues Potter. In fact, so unanimous were the 12 men of the guilt of Jones and Potter that it was hardly necessary to take a ballot. On the first ballot upon Wade the vote stood seven for ac quittal, five for conviction. The second ballot resulted in nine for acquittal and three for conviction, and on the third ballot the entire 12 "men voted for his acquittal. Caught Wife With Trap. Buffalo, Oct. 16. A husband has a right to keep a rat trap in his trousers pocket, according to a ruling made here hv Police Justice Rochford. The man who did this was Joseph Schultz. He was arrested on his wife's complaint that her hand had been injured by the trap wen she went to take-money from Shultz' pocket while he was asleep. Justice Rochford ruled that Shultz could keep a rat trap in every one of his pockets to protect hto money if he wished to do so. He discharged the prisoner. Rebel Ammunition Captured. Lomza, Russian Poland, Oct. 18. Several wagon loads of rifle ammuni tion in charge of Jewish teamsters were captured here yesterday. They were on their way to Warsaw, and the am munition is thought to be a portion of a supply imported by a band for use in ' an uprising.