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OKEGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST CROOK LAND SOLD. Harrlman Interests Secure Control of Big Irrigation Project. Salem The transfer of the Columbia Southern Irrigation company's interests in the Bend country to a newly formed corporation organized by men connected with the Harriman system is a sign pointing toward the construction of a railroad from some point on Harriman lines to the irrigation district in Crook county. The Columbia Southern Irrigation company was largely backed by the same interests that built the Columbia Southern railway. The sale of the road to Harriman people has now been fol lowed by the transfer of the irrigation company's interests in the 27,000 acres of land being reclaimed just west of the Deschutes river and nortn ot tne luma In. In Crook county. This land is northwest of Bend and practically ad joining that being reclaimed by the DeschuteB Irrigation & rower company The new company, known as the Co lumbia Southern Irrigating company has filed articles in the State depart ment with James E. Wilson, H. F, Connor and W. R. Litzenberg as incor noratois. The capital stock is $300,' O00. It iB stated in the articles that the company proposes to take over the property and affairs of the Columbia Southern Irrigation company. SHEEP SENT EAST. Tfade From Southeastern Oregon Brings in $2,000,000. Baker City The active state of the sheep market this fall has been a mat ter of congratulation to that portion of Southeastern Oregon interested in this branch of the stock raising industry although the estimates' sometimes made, of $3,000,000 having been brought into this country this season, are too much by half, according to the 'sheep kings '.of Eastern Oregon. Miles Lee, recognized as Baker coun ty's leading sheepman, and W. G Ayre. another sheep king, from Durkee, Baker county, both state that about 12.000,000 worth of sheep have been shipped from Eastern Oregon this year Prices have ruled from $1.75as high as 3.50 in extreme cases. Considerable shipping has been done this year from Huntington and Ontario, these points being most convenient to Malheur and Harney counties. Freight rates to the Eastern markets are the same from these points as from those farther north along the O. B. N. Millions In Stumps. Baker City Two Russians named Solomon are here from the East inves tigating yellow pine stumps, from which they claim to have a process for manufacturing . turpentine and tar. They say there is millions in it, and are now in the hills surveying stump age. They must have decayed stumps, the theory being that old yellow pine stumps absorb chemicals from the ground. Four and one-half cords of stumps make $150 worth of turpentine and tar, and the process can be re peated 16 times a month. It is be lieved local capital will interest itself in the enterprise. Looking for Seining Grounds. Astoria A representative of Puget sound parties has been here during the past few days conferring with the own ers of some of the principal independ ent seining grounds in the Columbia river, in an effort to secure options and property. As near as can be learned, a company is being organized on Puget sound to erect a salmon cannery on the Columbia, but before any definite steps are taken the company desires to ob tain possession of a number of Beining grounds as the principal source from which to secure its fish. Wide Ledge Near Railroad. Eugene More excitement has been caused in the Mohawk valley by the discovery of another gold bearing quartz Jedge near Marcola, on the Wendling "branch of the Southern Pacific railroad. The Hyland Bros., who operate a saw mill near Marcola, found a ledge 32 feet wide. Samples of the ore assayed went from $1.50 up to $7.50 per ton. It is probable this ledge will be de veloped. ' ' Hop Sales at Silverton. Silverton Lachmund & Co., of Salem, bought 107 bales of hope of N. A. Snell at 8 centB, and Wolf Sr Son, of this place, bought 51 bales of Pter Ol son al 934 cents and 54 bales of 8. C. Rue at the same price. They . bought 49 bales of J. Ambeer at 9 cents. Buy ers are reticent about reporting sales. Only prime hops are being sold. Start Timber Tests Soon. University of Oregon, Eugene Ex pert Knapp, representative of the gov ernment in charge of the timber testing btation, has arrived in Eugene and will commence experiments as soon as the big testing machine is installed in the new building. Carpenters expect to have the structure ready fo" he ma chine in a few days. KLAMATH LAND IS SELLING. Denver Capitalist Gets Fine Tract of 1,800 Acres. Klamath Falls Land in the Klamath basin 1b now being sought after bv big speculators as well as the man who is looking for an ideal place to build a home and rear a family, Tho order from Washington, D. C, calling for the placing of bids for the work on the main canal of the Klamath irrigation project, is bringing in investors by the score, and local land agents are having their hands full to handle the would-be purchasers. The latest deal of moment in realty was closed this week, when C. E. Wantland, of Denver, Colo., land agent for the Union Pacific railroad, closed a deal whereby he and others became owners of the Mitchell tract of 1,800 acres, lying two miles below Klamath Falls. The price paid for this tract was $40,000. Charles W. Eberline, of New York, land agent for the Southern Pacific, who is now stationed at San Francisco, was also here this week looking over the country and inquiring about land values. What his mission was is not yet given out. Land values in the basin have re mained practically the same lor several months, the prospect of irrigation not having affected them so far to a great extent. Will Have Mutual Phones. Oregon City Stock is being sub scribed liberally by Oregon City busi ness men towards a corporation for in stalling a mutual telephone exchange in this city a? the connecting link to the successful operation of the rural telephone system in Clackamas county. It is proposed to form a company with a capital stock of $7,500 and install an exchange having 150 phones. This ex change has been petitioned for by sub scribers to the various rural telephone companies throughout the county. . At the rate stock in the proposed company is selling, the company will be organiz ed in a few days. Work Progresses at Waldo Lake. Eugene Engineer Simon Klovdahl, in charge of the preliminary work of constructing a large reservoir at Waldo lake, on the summit of the Cascade mountains, for an irrigating system to be installed by A. R. Black and his associates in the Upper Willamette val ley, is now in Eugene and reports two feet of snow have fallen at the summit in the last two weeks. His crew has completed a good trail from the road to the lake; has built a house for the winter; has commenced work on a big canal to tap and dram the lake. Eastern Money for Railroads. Baker City ArticleB of incorpora tion of the Ontario & Idaho railroad have been filed in Boise by N. C. Richards, an attorney of Sumpter; Wheeler & Co., of New York, capital ists, who are interested in Sumpter mines, are said to be behind the pro ject, which is to build a railroad from Ontario to Emmett, Idaho. It is re ported the Vale railroad, recently in corporated to build to a connection with the Oregon Short Line, is backed1 by Banker Savage, of Chinook, Mont. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 73c per bushel; bluestem, 75c; valley, 74 75c; red, 6970c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $26; gray, $25 per ton. Barley Feed, $21.5022; brewing, $2222.50; rolled, $22.5023. Rye $1.501. 60 per cental. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 16 per ton; valley timothy, $1112; clover, $a89; grain hay, $89. Fruits Apples, $11 50 per box; huckleberries, 7c per pound; pears, $ 1. 25 1.50 per box; grapes, $11.75 per box; Concord, 15c per basket; quinces, $1 per box. Vegetables Beans, wax, 1012c per pound, cabbage, lljc pound; cauli flower, $1.251.50 dozen; celery, 75c per dozen; corn, 50c per sack; cucum bers, 5060c per dozen; pumpkins, X lc: tomatoes, $1 per crate; squash, lc per pound; turnips, 90c $1 per sack;- carrots, 65 75c per sack; beets, 85c$l per sack. Onions Oregon yellow Danvera, $1.25 per sack. .. Potatoes Fancy, 75c per sack; or dinary, 55 60c; Merced sweets, sacks, $1.90, crates, $2.15. Butter Fancy creamery, 25 30c. Eggs Oregon ranch, 3232c. Poultry Average old hens, 10llc; young roosters, 910c; springs, 11c; dressed chickens, 1214c; turkeys, live, 1718c; geese, live, 8 9c; dueks, 1415c. Hops Oregon 1905, choice, 8llc; olds, nominal, 710c. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1921c; lower grades down to 15c, ac cording to shrinkage; valley, 2527c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 1 2c per pound ; cows, 34c; country steers, 44c. Veal Dressed, fancy, 6)7c, per pound ; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 77c. Pork Dressed, 67c per pound. OPPOSES RIVER WORK. Secretary of War Will Not Make Ex- . ception in Favor of Columbia. Washington, Nov. 7. In his an nual report made public today, General MacKenzie, chief of engineers, asks that the following appropriations be made in the next sundry civil hill: Mouth of Columbia river, $300,000; Celilo canal, $250,000; Willamette and Columbia below Portland, $125,000; Columbia between Vancouver and the mouth of the Willamette, $30,000; Ta coma harbor, $200,000. Each and all of these appropriations were authorized in the river and harbor bill passed at the last session ; these respective sums have been expended or are covered by contracts now in force, so that not one dollar asked for by General MacKenzie will go to pay for new work. In other words, General MacKenzie is asking only for enough money to pay for work now under way or already completed. He asks for no new appropriations for he has been instructed by the secretary of war to cut down his estimates and confine himself solely to work hereto fore authorized. Personally, General MacKenzie be lieves congress should make large ap propriations for the mouth of the Co lumbia river, and he thinks it wrong to allow work on that project to stop at its present incompleted stage, and yet under instructions from his superior he cannot officially recommend such ap propriation. MILLIONS FOR DEFENSE. Chief of Engineers Makes Estimates in His Report. Washington, Nov. 7. Sixteen mil lion dollars will be necessary to com plete the engineering works of the fort ifications of the sea coast of the United States under the present plans of the Endicott board, according to the report of Brigadier General MacKenzie, chief of engineers. There already has been appropriated for this purpose $328, 963,434. Permanent projects at 31 different points have been adopted and most of them are well under way. Among these points are San Diego, Cal., San Francisco, Columbia river and Puget sound. The defense of the Great lakes and the St. Lawrence River is under con sideration. The estimate for the com pletion of t the fortifications do not con template anything more than the pro jects outlined by the Endicott board. Modern appliances and additional pro jects which may be adopted by the Taft board, appointed last summer, and the fortifications of the insular pos sessions may increase the estimate when additional work is approved by congress. It is estimated that $4,263,364 will be required to put into execution by the engineering department the schemes of the artillery and signal oorps for fire control of the seacoast de fenses. CONTEST ON SMOOT'S SEAT. Disposition Will Be Made Before the Term Ends. Washington, Nov. 7. Senator Bur rows, of Michigan, chairman of the committee on privileges and elections, who has arrived in Washington for the coming session of congress, said tonight that he expected to have the case of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, dis posed of before the term ends. Senator Smoot's seat is being contest ed on the ground that he is a member of the Mormon hierarchy. A great mass of testimony was taken at the last session of congress, and it waa gener ally understood that each side had completed ita case. Senator Burrows said that if it is de cided to present further testimony the committee ia willing to hear it. He stated that the committee will consider the case immediately after the reor ganization of the senate committees in cident to the meeting of a new con gress, and the filling of a vacancy caused by the retirement of Senator McComas, of Maryland. Bombs Thrown at Troops. Tiflis, Nov. 7. Demonstrations to day were participated in by 20,000 per sons.. While a procession waa passing along Golowinski Prospect, firing be gan. Bombs were thrown at the troops, who answered with rifle shots. The dead numbered ten and there were many wounded. In another place a crowd of school pupils with revolu tionary flags collided with a loyal dem onstration. The troops fired in the air with a view of dispersing the crowds and a general encounter ensued, in which four were killed and 17 wounded. , Off for the Philippines. Monterey, Cal., Nov. 7. The Fif teenth infantry and companies I and L of the Fourth cavalry left today for San Francisco, where they will embark to morrow on the transport Sherman for two years' service in the Philippines. LET CONGRESS ACT President Wants It to Investigate Insurance Matters. CONSULTS WITH MR. MORTON Will Propose a Federal Inquiry To Go Beyond the Work of the Leg islative Committee. New York, Nov. 7. That there will be a Federal investigation of life insur ance methods and that President Roose velt is taking an active interest in the matter and will, in all likelihood, at an early date ask tor the appointment of a congressional committee to take up the work, waa learned today from an authority the value of which can not be questioned. The inquiry will be conducted inde pendently of the states legislative com mittee, and in spite of any results which may follow the committee's re port. It is declared that the revela tions and tne many startling disclosures brought out by the state committee have been the incentive which haa led the president and his advisers to take up the question. The president during the last two or three weeks has frequently been in con ference with men prominent in the ins uranc world. It iB known that Paul Morton, head of the Equitable Life As surance society, was in Washington yesterday. It was whispered in Wall street today that Mr. Morton's visit to Washington was in the line of giving the president some inside information eoncerning the proposed investigation, and that he might even have been sum moned there. Mr. Morton would not say whether this was a fact, neither would he consent to be interviewed. " DREDGE COAST HARBORS. General MacKenzie Recommends the Building of a Boat. .Washington, Nov. 7. In his annual report General MacKenzie, chief of en gineers, made one exception to the rule prohibiting recommendations for new work. He recommended an appropria tion of $50,000 to build a dredge for use on the bars at the entrance to Tilla mook, Yaquina and Coos bays, and at the entrance to the Siuslaw and Co quille rivers. General MacKenzie had this to say about the dredge, for which the last congreas refused to make an appropriation : "Navigation in these harbors ia often greatly delayed by the forming of shoals, the material deposited in most instances being of such nature that it cannot be handled with a dipper dredge. It is estimated that a combination suc tion and dipper dredge could be ad vantageously used, and so constructed that it could be taken from harbor to harbor as necessities demand. "The cost of such a plant with two dump scows would be approximately $50,000, and it is thought that the necessity for ita use will fully justify the expenditure. RIOTS AT ODESSA. Czar's Ukase Made Excuse for Ex termination of Jews. Odessa, Nov. 7. The anti-Semitic riots are in full swing in this city and surrounding districts. The agitators of the movement have distribuetd a cir cular assuring the villagers that the authorities have received the czar's ukase and state that it commands the extermination of all Jews. As a result of this action, the wholesale pillage continues. The local authorities refuse to interfere, either standing idly by, refusing to check riots, or participating in the same. News continues to reach the city of terrible massacres, which have occurred at various pointa along the railway, es pecially here and at Kieff . The casual ties in those murderous disturbances are heavy. Confer on Packers' Case. Chicago. Nov. 7. Attorney General Moody has sent for United States Dis trict Attorney C. B. Morrison and Assistant Attorney General Oliver E. Pagin to go to Washington in regard to the beef trust prosecution. The plea of tne packers declaring that Commis sioner Garfield, of the bureau of Cor porations, had promised the packers immunity from prosecution has taken such an aspect that the attorney gene ral is said to wish a joint interview with the commissioner and Messrs. Morrison and Pagin. ' Poles Also Want Autonomy. St. Petersburg, Nov. 7. On the heels of the announcement of the suc cessful Finnish national movement comes news of a strong revival of the struggle for autonomy in Poland. Dis patches from Kalisch, in Poland, and Thorn, in Wrst Prussia, say that flags with the Polish coat of arms have been hoisted in several churches and city buildings. THEIR USEFULNESS GONE. Administration Would Like to See Or egon's Congressmen Resign. Washington. Nov. 6. It nan ho tt. ed on reliable authority that the Roose velt aaministration is in sympathy with the movement now on foot in Ore gon to induce Senator Mitchell and Representatives Hermann and William. son to resign their seats in congress. umciais oi tne administration share the belief universally held in Wash ington that Oregon should not be de nied representation in congress ; it is acknowledged that Mitchell, Hermann and Williamson will never again be able to render their state effective ser vices; they certainly cannot do so un der prevailing conditions. It being apparent that not one of these men could possibly be in position to perform active duty as a member of the Fifty ninth congress, the administration thinks it is incumbent upon them all to resign. For obvious reasons, no member of the coadministrition can be quoted on this matter, but, if the president's views and those of his various cabinet officers could be printed, the people of Oregon would have no doubt as to the position of the administration. So far the administration has done nothing to force Mitchell, Hermann or William son out of congress, though some offi cials of the department of Justice have been urging the attorney general to ask for an advancement of the Mitchell case on the docket of the United States Supreme court. If this is done, and the Supreme court sustains the findings of the lower court, Mitchell will be deprived of his seat some time this winter and Governor Chamberlain will have an opportunity to appoint his suc cessor to serve until March 4, 1907. WORK PLEASES TAFT. Secretary Sees Great Improvement at Panama. Panama, Nov. 6. Secretary of War Taft held a long conference this morn ing with Chief Engineer Stevens. To day Secretary Taft and Mr. Stevena will go over the worka at Empire City and Culebra cut and afterwards will go by boat from Mindi to Colon, examining at the same time the harbor improve- ments at Cristobal. Secretary Taft informs the Associa'ed Press that he waa very much pleased with the situation here, which he says has greatly changed for the better since his laBt trip. He thought from what he had already seen that the work on the canal was progressing satisfactorily and was now efficiently organized. He said he waa happy to notice that the spirit of the men on the canal had im proved, and that the condition of five or six months ago did not exist. The secretarv said the sanitarv cnn. ditions are excellent and believed that by continuing the present methods yel low fever could be controlled. H thought the efficiency of the laborers was not as high as it should be, but he said that he con tern Dlated making no - change until the men had been given a fair trial. The department of Commis saries, where the men could get proper iooa, ne added, would raise their effi ciency. EFFECT IN FATHERLAND. People In Berlin Fear Russian Revo- lution Will Touch Germany. Beilin. Nov. 6. Manv neonle in Berlin are saying that Russia's success ful revolution mav have far reafthincr results for the fatherland. Germany, tney say, win be completely isolated among nations when the Russian dem. ocracy comes off victorious, if the kai ser resists ine craving lor greater po litical liberty. The situation is deemed all the more serious hentnise nan. Slavist ideas leading to war over thn Austrian and Balkan questions may get the upper hand in Russia, when the democracy has complete power. The czar s government Has hitherto been able to keep them down. German Socialists cherish no illusion to the effecct that the rulers of Ger many will change their methodn nn a. result of the events in Russia. Herr Bebel ia preparing for a hard flo-ht with a view to defending the fatherland's main democratic institutions, the gen eral franchise for the reichstag. Reds May Proclaim Republic. St. Petersburg. Nov. 6. Rnmnm ATA current throughout the city that the revolutionists have decided to oro- claim a federated republic. One of the principal forces with which thn government haa to deal just at present is the "black gangs" organized by the police to oppose the Intellectuals. They are especially strong in Moscow, where! the Metropolitan Vladimir is one of their leading supporters. These organ-, izationa have established mock courts" Of Justice, which have nnnrinmnnrl thn principal revolutionaries. ' s Prairie Fire Burns Stock. Bonesteel. S. D.. Nov. 6. ReDnrta have reached this place from Gregory that a prairie fire, driven bv a terrific wind from the northwest, has been rag ing all day in Tripp county, west of this place. An area of over 50 miles has been burned, and a great deal ot nay and stock has been destroyed. i C ' a '0 r