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.
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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.
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