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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 7, 1905)
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST ..,,-, ..K r -r 1 1 1 AID FROM STATE. Is Necessary In Road Construction, Says Convention. Corvallis The voice of the Good Roads convention 1b unanimously for state aid in the construction of public roads. No resolution to this effect was adopted, but throughout the two days' session the idea came to the front at unexpected times and always with the apparent approval of the delegates. It was injected into the proceedings by an Alsea farmer, who declared that there ought to be state aid, so that Portland would have to help pay the price, because all that Portland is or all that she hopes to be has come or is to come from the products of the farms, mines and millB in the territory of which she is the commercial mistress. This brought Judge Webster into the open, and he declared his approval of the Bentiment expressed by the Alsean, and announced a belief that state aid should be vouchsafed in road construc tion, the state to pay about 50 cents every time a certain community strug gling with a road raised 50 cents. HAILEY ON SUPREME BENCH Governor Chamberlain Will Appoint Pendleton Man. Balem Governor Chamberlain has announced that he will appoint T. G. Hailey, of Pendleton, to succeed Jus tice Wolverton on the supreme bench. This appointment was expected, but came much sooner than anticipated, for there is really no vacancy as yet. Governor Chamberlain has been con sidering the matter of an appointment to the supreme bench ever Bince it be came probable that one of the superior judges would be appointed to the Fed eral bench. He had therefore weighed the qualifications of available men and was ready to make a selection. By announcing the appointment at once, -the governor has saved the trouble of receiving and considering the flood of recommendations and ap BlicationB that would Boon have been pouring in. Books for Christmas. People who buy books for children nsuallv take what they can get most easily, or what the clerk recommends Everyone likes to make a good invest ment, to get value received. The Ore gon Library commission makes this possible in so far as children's books are concerned, for it has publisehd for free distribution a list of something over a hundred titles ot children's "booka for Christmas gifts and for the iome library. There are notes on the Tiooks, and prices are given ranging irom 15 cents to $3. Any one may get this list by applying to the Becretary of the commission at balem. Big Ranch Sold. Pendleton One of the biggest ranch deals in the history of Eastern Oregon was lust consummated here, in which the ranches and sheep of Charlea Cun ningham, the Umatilla county sheep Jking, were sold to a company composed of J. N. Burgess, J. M. Keeny, K. A Kelsay and Dan J. Malarkey. The -price paid was in the neighborhood of $200,000. The deal has been pending since October, when an option was giv en the purchasers for 15,000. About 20,000 acres, 20,000 sheep and 1,000 tons of hay are included in the deal More Smallpox at Eugene. , Eugene Two more cases of small cox have been reported to the health authorities, and the houses of A. J Pickard and Warren Luckey are now in quarantine. Earl LUckey, son of War ren Luckey, was taken down and began to break out while in the school room, but it is not believed the other stu dents were endangered, because the dis ease had not reached the stage where it would become contagious. Strict meae tires are in force for stamping out the disease as quickly as possible. May Replace Woolen Mills. Albany A proposition which would allow Albany to regain Borne of the pay Toll she lost through the burning ot the Albany woolen mill last spring, has been received from an Eastern man who will remove a six Bet woolen mill -plant to Albany, if local capitalists will furnish the buildings. Besides having double the capacity of the old mill, the new concern proposes to operate in con uection with the woolen mill a knitting mill and a clothing manufactory. Use Wagons in Lieu of Cars. ' ' Athena On account of the scarcity of cars, the Preston-Parton Milling company is obliged to employ teams to haul wheat overland to keep their mills running. The conditions are growing worse daily at the mills, which are congested with the large amount of accumulated flour, there being several hundred thousand barrels on hand awaiting shipment. Just when this condition will be relieved is hard to state . ELABORATE PREPARATIONS. Seven States Will Be Represented at Fruitgrowers' Convention. La Grande Elaborate preparations are being made in this city for the en tertainment of the Fruitgrowersg' con vention here January 3 to 5. Secretary C. D. Huffman, of this place, has re ceived many communications from del- ,tes, and Oregon, Washington, Cali fornia, Idaho, Utah, Montana and Wyoming will be represented. The exereises will probably be held in the opera house, and the commercial club hall will be utilized for an exhi bition room. Hood River has signified its intention of having an exhib t here, and many other fruitgrowing communi ties are arousing interest. La Grande will be well represented. A large number of growers of this valley will save their best fruits for the occasion, and anyone alone is able to make a creditable showing. One flouring mill is considering erecting a huge pyramid of flour reaching to the ceiling to ad vertise the grains. A strenuous campaign will be started soon and delegates from all over the valley will be asked to prepare the ex hibit. ' Fishing Law Is Defied. Tillamook Although the fishing season for Tillamook closed on the 20th, fishing is in full blast on Tilla mook bay, and Elmore's cannery is also running to its capacity and is receiving large quantity of fish, as there is a fine run of silversides, and the fisher men are doing well. The cannery has agreed to take all the fish, and as it has a 'ot of empty cans on hand that it wants to fill this season, no attention is being paid to the closed season by the cannery people. Only one or two fishermen have stopped fishing and complied with the law. . Much Work for Wolverton. Salem There are 34 cases to be de cided by the Supreme court, presuma bly before Judge Wolverton leaves the bench. These cases have all been argued before the court. Twenty-four of these cases were heard at the recent session of the court at Pendleton. Ten cases heard in this city have not been passed upon. Among the latter is the noted Marquam case, which the court has had under advisement for several months. If all these cases are decided before Judge Wolverton retires, it will require at least two weeks. New Road in Baker -County. Baker City Private advices received from engineers in the field state that surveys have been approved for build ing another railroad in Baker county connecting Union with the Cornucopia timber country, ihe ' promoters are after timber traffic and nothing else For obvious reasons the names of the promoters and financiers are kept quiet for the present. The money is giaran teed in New York. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 7172c per bushel bluestem, 7374c; valley, 7475c red, 6768c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $26.50; gray $26.50 per ton. Barley Feed, $22 per ton ; brewing $2222.50; rolled, $2323.50. Rye $1.60(81.60 per cental. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 16 per ton; valley timothy, $1112 clover, $89; grain hay, $89. Fruits Apples, $11.50 per box huckleberries, c per pound; pears s i.zoi.oo.per pox; quinces, fl per box. vegetables ueanB, wax, 12c per pound; cabbage, llc per pound cauliflower, $1.752.25 per crate; eel ery, 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 5060c per dozen; pumpkins, lc per pound; tomatoes, $1 per crate; sprouts. 7c per pound; squash, lc per pound; turnips, 90c$l per sack; car rots, 6575c per sack; beets, 85c$l per Back. Onions Oregon yellow Danvers $1.25 per sack. Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks 65 70c per sack; ordinary, 55 60c Merced sweets, sacks, $1.90; crates, $2.15. Butter Fancy creamery, 2527 per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 35c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 10c per pound; young roosters, 9c; springs, llMc;dressed chickens, 1214c; tur keys, live, 16c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 1820c; geese, live, 8)9c; ducka, 1415c. ' Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10 olds, 57c. Wool Eastern Oregon, average best, 1621c; valley, 2426c per pound; mohair, choice, 30c. Beef Dressed bulls, l2cper pound; cows, 84c; country steers, 44)c. Veal Dressed, Z7c per pound. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 77c per pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 1 8c. i - Pork Dressed, 67c per pound. GREATEST HARVEST IN HISTORY Present Year Was Record Breaker in ' United States. Washington, Nov .28 "Wealth pro duction on the farms of the United States in 1905 reached the highest amount ever attained in this or any other country $6,415,000,000." In the first annual report of his third term Secretary of Agriculture Wilson presents an array of figures and a state ment representing products and profits of the farmers of this country, which he admits "dreams of wealth produc tion could hardly equal." Four crops make new high records as to value corn, hay, wheat and rice although in amount of production the corn is the only one that exceeds pre vious yields. In every crop the gen eral level of production was high and that of prices still higher. Beside the enormous yield of wealth the secretary estimates that the farms of the country have increased in value during the past five years to a present aggregate of $6, 133,000,000. "Every sunset during the past five years," he says, nas registered an in crease of (3,400,000 in the value of the farms of this country." Analyzing the principal crops for the year, the secretary says that corn reached its highest production at 2, 708,000,000 buBhels, a gain of 42,000, 000 over the next highest year, 1899; hay is second in order of value, al though cotton held second place during the two preceding years. The hay crop this year is valued at $60,000,000. Cotton comes third, with a valuation of $575,000,000; wheat, $525,000,000; oats, $282,000,000; potatoes, $138, 000,000; barley, $58,000,000; tobacco, $12,000,000; sugar, cane and sugar beets, $50,000,000; rice, $13,000,- 000; dairy products, $50,000,000, an increase of $54,000,000, over last year. PLENTY OF MONEY. Secretary of Interior Has Not Been Furnished Proper Figures. Washington, Nov. 28. When the secretary of the Interior and the Recla mation service reach an understanding as to the extent and condition of the national reclamation fund, it is expect ed that a number of new irrigation pro jects, including projects in Eastern Oregon and Eastern Washington, will be approved and placed under contract. But until there is a complete under standing, the present chaotic condition must continue, and inactivity will be I the rule, save on projects that are act ually under contract. The great misunderstanding that now prevails is as to the amount of money available for use, and the restrictions under which that money may be ex pended. The Reclamation service has ita own set of figures, but those figurea do not coincide with the figurea which have been furnished Secretary Hitch cock by the men in his own department upon whom he relieB. The secretary, confronted with very different financial statements, from sources which ought to agree, has concluded that neither is right, yet he is unable to figure out for himself just how much money he has to spend, and how much he has spent in the sj4 yeara the reclamation law haa been in force. WRECK TAKES FIRE. Fourteen Persons Lose Lives in Mas sachusetts Disaster. Lincoln, Mass., Nov. 28. Fourteen persons were killed, 25 were- seriously injured, and probably a score of othera cut and bruised in the moat disastrous railroad wreck recorded in this state for many yeara. The wreck occurred at 8:15 o'clock, at Baker'a Bridge sta tion, a mile and a half west of Lincoln, on the main line of the Fitchburg di vision of the Boston & Maine railroad. The regular express, which left Boston at 7:45 o'clock for Montreal, by way of the Rutland system, crashed into the rear end of an accommodation train bound for points on the Marlborough branch, and which started from Boston at 7:15. Of the dead, a dozen were passengers in the two rear cars of the Marlborough train. The other two were Engineer Barnard, of the Montreal express, and hia fireman. No passengers on the express train were injured. Of those who lost their lives, a number were ap parently instantly killed in the collis ion, while othera were either burned to death or died from suffocation. Oppose Rate Legislation. Chicago, Nov. 28. An organized movement on the part of railroad em ployes in every branch of the service has been put on foot to secure con certed action against the Roosevelt idea of rate legislation. Preliminary steps have already been taken by a commit tee of the brotherhoods of railroad men for a general mass meeting. Rate reg ulation, in the opinion of the em ployes, means a subsequent reduction in wages for them, and they propbse a strong organization to oppose traffic rates. Famine In Part of Japan. Victoria, B. C, Nov. 28. Famine prevails because of the failure of the rice crop in Northeast Japan. Thegov eminent haa begun relief measures. SIDETRACK TARIFF Rate Regulation the Only Prob lem Before Coining Session. CONCENTRATION OF ATTENTION President Will Not Give Senate Any Excuse to Avoid Action by De bating In the Air. Washington, Nov. 28. For various reasons President Roosevelt will not urge congress at the approaching ses sion to take up the question of tariff revision. He believes the railroad rate question is the most vital issue which confronts the people of the United States today, and he is therefore un willipg to bring to the front any other problem whose discussion would tend to postpone, if not defeat, legislation on that subject. He proceeds on the theory that the worst evil should be first cured. Alter four years' experi ence in the white house, and with a comprehensive knowledge of the meth ods resorted to by congress to defeat legislation which ia distasteful, the president 1b fully aware that he would materially decrease the chances of get ting rate legislation if he should make tariff revision an issue of equal import ance with the regulation of freight rates. He is aware that the senate would quickly seize upon this opportu mty and concentrate ita attention on a tariff bill, not so much with any idea of modifying the Dingley tariff aa to distract attention and sidetrack the rate bill before it reached a critical stage. There ia other legislation which the president hopes to have passed besides the railroad rate bill, but he is more anxious about that measure than any other, and he will concentrate his efforts to secure such a law as will, in hia judgment, effectively check discriin inations of all sorts. He wanta a law which will apply the "square deal" rule to railroad business, and if his in fluence, backed by public opinion, can bring it about, auch a law will be writ ten on the statute books before the first session of the a nty-mntn congress aa journs. CANAL ENGINEERS DEPART. , Ridicule Reports They Have Changed Decision on Sea Level. Washington, Nov. 28. The five for eign delegates to the board of consult ing engineers of the Isthmain Canal commission left for New York today and will Bail for their homes. They will meet again in Brussels during the first days of January. General DaviB will go to that city aa representative of the American members of the board and will take with him the documents. which are not yet drawn up, and which then will have to be signed by the for eign delegates. Sneaking of published stones that they had reconsidered their first vote one of the delegates made the following statement: "Whatever we have had to 6ay will be found in the report which will shortly be in the hands of President Roosevelt. That we should change our vote on a subject to which for three montha we had given the closest atten tion, and should change it merely be cause aome parties are not contented with it, is a great abaurdity." Leave Isle of Pines to Cuba. Washington, Nov. 28. The Cuban government will be permitted to settle to its own satisfaction the existing trouble on the Isle of Pines. The State department haa so announced. Of course, if American citizens were to be unduly persecuted or maltreated be cause of any exercise by them of their right of freedom of speech or assembly this government will take steps to se cure for them justice. But if those Americans on the islands place them selves outside the pale of the law by refusing to recognize the authority of the Cuban government, they will have to take the consequences. Pesthouse Was Burglarized. Butte, Mont., Nov. 28. A Great Falls dispatch to the Miner states that the people of Teton county are in a fu rore over what ia believed to be threatened epidemic of smallpox as the result of burglarizing of the pesthouse Several smallpox patients were confined in the detention house and the piace has never been fumigated to the extent that it is believed that all danger of contagion ia past. The people have been publicly warned by the health officials to be on the alert for any ap pearance of the disease. Governor of Moscow Dismissed. London, Nov. 28. The correspond ent of the Standard at Moscow says that General Drunovo, governor of Moscow, has been dismissed in disgrace owing to the revolutionary proceedings of the congress of peasants. MAY LOSE POSITION. Mitchell Likely To Be Displaced on Senate Canal Committee. Washington, Nov. 27. Apparently Senator Mitchell ia to be deprived of the chairmanship of the committee on interoceanic canals when the senate re organizes next month. This has not been definitely decided, but it ia the concenaus of opinion of arriving sena- tora that Mitchell will have to relin quish his chairmanship in order that some active member of the canal com mittee can preside at its meetings this winter. Congress must appropriate money ea.ly in the coming session for contin uing work on the Panama canal, and must decide whether the canal shall be built with locks or at the sea level. This legislation, together with all other legislation pertaining to the canal and the canal zone, must be considered by the canal committee, and will be one of the most important topics to be con sidered. Because of ita importance, senators believe the canal committee should have an active chairman, who can not only preaide at committee meetings, but who can vote both in committee and in the senate, and who can furthermore take charge of canal legislation after it haa been reported to the senate. AMEND IMMIGRATION LAWS. Sargent's Plan for Keeping Out All Undesirables; Washington, Nov. 27. Radical changes in the immigration laws will be made next year, if the suggestions of Commissioner General Sargent are put into effect. Mr. Sargent ia anxioua to - have limita placed on the number of immigrants, and that persons who are either too young or too old to sup port themselves should not be per mitted to disembark. This would not,, however, apply to those who can furn ish guarantees that they are on then way to relatives. Mr. Sargent believes that by an ar rangement with foreign governments the useless traffic of deportation of im migrants unfit to land here could be stopped. Before an immigrant is per mitted to take passage for America, he should undergo an examination at the point of embarkation. HITCHCOCK TO RESIGN. Rumor That Western Congressmen Have Got His Scalp. Washington, Nov. 27. The fact leaked out tonight from a responsible source that at a recent cabinet meeting Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Becretary of the Interior, expressed a desire to ten der his resignation July 1 next. The same authority announces that Vespa sian Warner, of Illinois, now commis sioner of peniionB, is to succeed him. It is said the proposed change in the cabinet haa been brought about by membera of congress from western Btatea, who charge that Mr. Hitchcock, in operations against land grabbers, has permitted hia peraonal , feelinga to enter into the prosecutions. Whle this charge had been often repeated, it ia said that the retirement of Mr. Hitchcock will be wholly due to the desire of the president to surround himself with younger men. MILLION WOMEN FIGHT SvlOOT. Characterize Him as a Man Sanction- , ing Practice of Polygamy. Philadelphia, Nov. 27. A meeting of the executive committee of the Na tional League of Women's organiza tions, formed two years ago to oppose the continuance in the United States senate of Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah, was held here today. Women from all sections of the country were present. It was announced that a petition would be presented to the senate asking for the exclusion of Mr. Smoot on the ground that "he is a member of a heirarchy whose president and a major ity of the membera pratctice and teach polygamy." The memorial will state that "Mr. Smoot has never raised hia voice against these doctrines, and the Mormon hierarchy has broken its cov enants which it gave to the United States when statehood waa granted." Summoned by Judge Hunt. Helena, Nov. 27. United States Judge Hunt today ordered Frederick A. Hyde, John A. Benaon and other Cali fornians to appear and answer on Feb ruary 5 the complaint charging them with having fraudulently obtained a forest reserve scrip, under which 4,000 acres of Montana land was secured from the government. The government seeks to have the land retored to it. There are a number of Montana corporations and individuals who are also named aa defendants in the bill of complaint filed. Will Cut Forests and Crops, Iibvu, Nov. 27. Agrarian disorders have broken out in the Baltic province. A peasant meeting adopted resolutions to cut forest on private land and to ap propriate crops. The governor general has issued a proclamation to the troops to fire on such offenders, and Baying that the participants at such meetings will be court martialed and sent to dis tant provinces.