OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
BUY FORESTRY BUILDING.
State Board of Agriculture Proposes
Moving It to Salem.
Saletn At the meeting of the state
board of agriculture laat week John H.
Albert, of the Lewis and Clark fair
commisaion, submitted a communi
cation auggeating that the board take
steps to secure the forestry building
erected at the Lewis and Clark fair
and move it to Salem.
Mr. A lbert said that neither the city
of Portland nor the Oregon Historical
society has taken action toward preserv
ing the building, and he thought it
would be a good plan to move the
structure to Salem and erect it in the
state fair grounds near the Southern
Fa iflo track, where all persons passing
on the trains could see it. Ife thought
the huge structure of logs would not
only be an attraction at the state fair,
but when so situated would be a per
petual advertisement for Oregon's tim
ber resources.
The Board of Agriculture appointed
a committee composed of W. II. Down
ing, J. D. Matlock aud Frank Lee to
ascertain the cost of transporting the
building to Salem, and also whether
the owner of the land upon which the
building now stands will permit it to
remain there until the leigslature meets
In 1907.
WOOLEN MILL FOR ALBANY.
Subsidy of $16,000 Will Insure Re
building on Larger Scale.
Albany The Commercial club ap
pointed a committee of leading business
men to secure (15,000 in subscrip
tions toward reorganizing the Ban
nock burn Manufacturing company, to
rebuild the woolen mill recently
burned, replacing it with a mill double
the capacity. The company is to have
1100,000 capital and a practical woolen
manufacturer - is to run the mill. The
new factory will give employment to
100 people.
The proposal is to bring machinery
for a six-set mill from Massachusetts,
the owner to take stock in the mill for
the machinery and run the plant. The
old building is to be rebuilt with money
subscribed for stock in Albany, the old
company to put in its propecrty at half
cost and raising $40,000 additional
stock. This will give the company a
complete plant with a working capital
of $40,000. Business men here are
taking hold with a will and the plans
promise success. Over $2,000 was
eubacibed by three men on the spot.-
The Commercial club re-elected the
entire board of directors! and officers,
President M. H. EVia and associates
holding another year. , ., .
Statistics of Feeble-Minded.
Salem An effort has been made by
the commission authoriud by the last
legislature to inquire into necessity or
the advisability of establishing a school
in this state for the feeble minded, to
find out how many unfortunites of this
character are to be found in the state.
A report received at the, office of the
secretary of the State Library commis- ,
aion, compiled from a 'Census taken in
several Eastern states shows the aver
age number of feeble minded persons is
2 to 1,000. On this basis there would
be about 1,000 feeble minded persons
in Oregon.
Candidates Must File. Notice. ,
Balem Secretary of State Dunbar
calls attention to the fact that it is ne
cessary for candidates for state or dis
trict offices to first file a notice of in
tention to become a candidate with the
secretary of state, before or at the time
of beginning the circulation of petitions
for the primary elections. A candidate
is permitted to write a platform, not
exceeding 100 words, to be filed with
this declaration, and to have printed
on the official ballot a condensed plat
form, not exceeding 12 words.
Census Returns Slow. '
Salem Only 17 of the 33 counties of
the state have filed their census returns
'with the secretary of state. Scarcely
any of the reports are complete. Du
plications have been discovered in sev
eral instances, while gluing inaccura
cies are alleged in others. Klamath
county only reports eight Indians,
whereas the great Klamath Indian res
ervation is in this county, and should
have been reported, according to state
officials. Names, residences and places
of birth are improperly recorded on
many returns. ... ,'
Lincoln County Shows Decrease.
Salem Lincoln county's assessment
summary for 1905 has been received at
the office of the secretary of state. It
shows a decrease of 10 per cent in the
valuation of taxable property, the total
ior 1904 being $1,039,592, as compared
with $939,454 in 1905.
Mill at Enterprise.
Enterprise Otto Brothers have in
stalled a chop mill near here, a large
race affording power. The flouring
mill in Enterprise is frequently com
polled to close down, but the chop mill
can be ran at any time.
MAKING READY IN KLAMATH.
Government Engineer Llppincott Now
On the Ground.
Klamath Falls Supervising Engin
eer J, B. Llppincott, for the Reclama
tion service in California, and having
charge of the Klamath project, arrived
here Sunday. Mr. Lippincott came to
Klamath Falls to clear up all prelim
inaries and arrange for paying all obli
gations against the government in con
nection with the Klamath irrigation
project.
Several private companies were
bought out by the government officials,
or arrangements were completed for the
purchase of all conflicting irrigation
ditches put here previously by private
concerns, and though the payments had
been authorized by government, none
of these private companies received
their money. This had caused con
siderable speculation, and the coming
of Mr, Lippincott, with the aonounce
ment that bis mission here was to
clean up all these claims, so that the
contractors awarded the contracts for
work on the irrigation canals could
proceed at once after the bids were let,
places all who heretofore had wondered
if the government would proceed with
actual ditch work in much clearer po
sition regarding the future of the pro
ject. Mitchell Estate Small.
Portland David M. Dunne has been
appointed administrator of the estate
of Senator John H. Mitchell upon the
petition of John H. Mitchell, Jr., in
the County court. The petitioner stat
ed that the estate is valued at $2,000,
and the heirs are Mattie E. Mitchell,
wife of deceased, and Mattie E. de
Rochefoucauld, a daughter, residing in
Paris; John H. Mitchell, Jr., and Hi
ram E. Mitchell, sons, and Alice and
Mildred Chapman and Mitchell and
Robert Handy, grandchildren.
Want Trees Destroyed.
Oregon City Fruit Inspector James
H. Reid will appeal to the courts of
Clackamas county to compel E. J. Ril
ev, an attorney of Portland, to submit
to the destruction of his fruit trees.
Inspector Reid says Mr. Rileys' orch
ard, which is located in M in thorn ad
dition, near- Milwaukie, is infected
With the San Jose scale, and that the
only jray . in which j the pest can be
eradicated is to destroy the trees. 'Mr1.
Reid says he is determined to make a
test caa""' ' ;."!- r
", Say Agents are Frauds, .
Salem Agents are traveling over
this state soliciting orders for, books for
traveling libraries. In some instances
they represent themselves aa being au
thorised by the State Library commis
sion to solicit orders for books'. The
commission has no traveling book
agents, nor has it r authorized, any one
to solicit orders for traveling libraries,
or books to be included in traveling li
braries: Whenever such' cases have
been reported to tbe Library; commis
sion steps have been taken to advise
people not to patronize these agents.
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PORTLAND MARKETS. ;
'Wheat Club, 7071c; biuestem, 72
73c; red, 6768c; valley, 73e per
bushel. ; - .,
Oats No. 1 white feed, $27 ; gray,
$26.60 per ton. .;
' Barley Feed, $$2.5023 per toni"
brewing, $24; rolled, $24.
Rye $1.60 per cental. ' "
Hay " Eastern Oregon timothy,'
$14.5015.50 per ton; valley timothy,
$1112; clover, $89; cheat, $8.50
9.50; grain hay, $89.
Fruits Apples, $12.50 per box;
pears, $1.25 1.50 per box.
Vegetables Beans,wax,10(&12)cper
pound, cabbage, l2c per pound;
cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; celery,
$3.50 per crate; cucumbers, 5060c
per dozen; peppers, 6c per pound;
pumpkins, lc per pound; sprouts,
7c per pound; suash, leper pound;
turnips, 90c$l per sack', carrots, 65
75c per sack; beets, 85c$l per sack.
Onions Oregon, $11 .25 per sack.
Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks,
65 75c per sack; ordinary, 5060c per
sack; Merced sweets, sacks, $1:90;
crates, $2.15.
Butter Fancy creamery, 27 X 30c
per pound. ,
Eggs Oregon ranch, 30c per dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, ll12c
per pound ; young roosters, 10c; springs,
ll12c; broilers, 1213c; dressed
chickens, 1212c; turkeys, live, 17
18c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 21
23c; geese, live, 99c; ducks, 15c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 10
llc; prime, 89c; medium, 8c;
ckh, 57c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, average best,
1621c; valley, 2426c; mohair,
cLoice, 30c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, . l2c ' per
pound; cows, 34c; country steers,
44Kc.
Veal Dressed, .88c per pound.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 66cper
pound; ordinary, 45c; lambs, 7
Pork Dressed, 67e per pound
BATTLE IN MO8C0W.
Rebels Receive Reinforcements From
Neighboring Cities.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 27 The battle
in Moscow is still raging, the victory
being undecided. Considerable rein
forcements for the revolutionists have
arrived from the neighboring districts
of Yaroslav, Vladimir and Tambov.
The loyal troops of the government now
in Moscow number 8,000 cavalry and
Cossacks, while the infantry regiments
there incline toward the revolutionists.
The number of killed and wounded
in the fighting thus far exceeds 10,000.
The artillery and fires lighted by the
revolutionists have destroyed many
blocks of houses, and it is feared that
Moscow will be involved in a conflagra
tion before the present struggle is over.
Members of the government are re
ported to believe, from information
which has reached them, that the Mos
cow affair is only a demonstration, and
that the decisive battle with the revolu
tionists is to be fought in St. Peters
burg before many days. In this city
and its suburbs and on the frontier of
Finland are concealed large quantities
of revolutionarv arms and ammunition.
Eighty thousand laborers are expected
to march on the capital from Narva
and Reval at the appointed time. At
present, howeverr, the city is compara
tively quiet.
Encounters with strikers in the sub
urbs have lately caused the death or
injury of several hundred victims. The
chief city Burgeon, M. Rosen, says he
examined the wounded and killed and
found among them 'many schoolboys
and young girls. This fact further
affords proof of the cruelty of the Cos
sacks NO INTERVENTION.
Civil-War in Santo Domingo No Affair
of United States.
Washington, Dec. 27. For the pres
ent there will not be any interference
by the United States in the difficulty
which has arisen in Santo Domingo.
The trouble is regarded by the State de
partment officials as entirely an inter
nal one, and so long as outside interests
are not menaced this attitude of nonin
tervention will be maintained.
If, however, conditions should change
materially and lawless acts should be
committed against Americans and
American interests, involving the col
lection of the Dominican customs by
this government, or other violence
should occur which, in the opinion of
the officials here would make it proper
for this government to interfere, this
step.-will, be taken, and measures adopt
ed to quell the trouble.
This decision wad reached by State
department officials during thejdayjand
Was confirmed ata, conference at the
white house late -this afternoon, in
which tbe president and Secretaries
Taft, Root and Bonaparte participated,
The cabinet officers remained in the
white house until' nearly 6 o'clock.
The gathering, however, was hot called
specifically for the purpose of discuss
ing matters bearing . on the develop
ments in Santo 1 Domingo, but to talk
over a number pfquestions which the
president was anxious .to dispose of
preliminary to bis departure I for ' an
outing of several days in Virginia. ;,
.SMITH TO BE GOVERNOR.
Will Soon Succeed Wright In Philip-
pine Possessions. ' , '
Washington, Dec. 27. Despite de
nials and assurances recently credited
to Governor General luke E. Wright,
there is no longer 'serious doubt of the
administration's ' purpose' to make a
change in the head of the Philippine
government. James F. Smith, formerly
of Sah Francisco," now a member of the
Philippine commission, lis the man
picked for the success' on as governor
general. His installation in the post
is likely to be'accomplished in the not
distant future.
There is high authority for the state
ment that American prestige in the
islands has waned seriously in the last
year. The fact ib hardly disputed by
those familiar' with conditions there.
It was recognized by members of the
Taft party, some of whom havej ex
pressed grave concern about it.
Abolish Hanging in Jersey.
New York, Dec. 27.. Assemblyman
Berg, of New Jersey, has drafted a bill
to abolish capital, punishment in that
state, and will go to Trenton tomorrow
to ask Governor Stokes to grant re
prieves to all condemned murderers un
til tbe legislature shall have acted on
the question. If Governor Stokes ac
cedes to the Assemblyman's request,
two women, Mrs. Valentine and Mrs.
Lotta, and a man awaiting death in the
Hackensack jail, and three men under
sentences in other county jails, will be
given reprieves until well into spring
China Makes Demands.
London, Dec. 27. The correspondent
of the Morning PoBt at Shanghai says
that tbe Chinese foreign office has in.
structed the Chinese minister at Lon
don to negotiate with the British gov
ernment regarding the mixed court dis
pute, to demand the dismissal of the
British ambassador, and to insist on
the punishment of the police concerned
in tbe recent outbreak. .
TOO LOW
Poor Service Rendered by Cheap
Clerks in Postoffices.
MONEY ORDERS SHOW INCREASE
Large Amount of Money Received In
Dead Letters Mailed to Fraud
ulent Concerns.
Washington, Dec. 28. In his an
nual report made today First Assistant
Pobtmaster General Hitchcock says
that the low salaries paid clerks in
first and second class postoffices are de
creasing the standard of efficiency. It
is impossible, he says, to induce effi
cient men to enter his branch of the
service, when the salary to begin with
is but $600 a year, with no certainty
of promotion for perhaps several years.
Mr. Hitchcock strongly recommends
a discontinuance of the practice of in
stalling postoffices in public buildings
devoted in part to other branches of
the government service. The best type
of quarters f r postoffice purposes, he
Bays, is a single large room in a one
story building.
Much embarrasament has been oc
casioned the postal authorities to pro
vide emergency mail facilities in min
ing towns, and Mr. Hitchcock recom
mends an emergency appropriation of
$75,000 to meet such requirements.
There has been an increase of more
than $18,000,000 in the amount of do
mestic and of more than $5,000,000 in
the amount of foreign money orders
issued during the year over the year
preceding.
While the number of undelivered!
letters which are on their way to the
dead letter office during the year was
smaller than during the previous year,
the number of undelivered letters with
valuable enclosures greatly increased.
General prosperity of the country is
given as one reason; another is the
suppression by the department of con
cerns using the mails for fraudulent
purposes. Mail for such concerns con
taining money, money orders and com
mercial paper was received at the dead
letter office in unusual quantities.
Nearly 11,000,000 i pieces of mail were
received at the dead letter office during
the year, including 1,668 that failed of
delivery in the-Panama canal zone.
Over 1,500,000 cases of alleged in
decent and scurrilous matter : received
attention, In the summer the influx
of. offensive pictorial post cards became
so great as to call for a special order
by the department looking to the abate
ment of the nuisance. As a reault of
this order, many thousands of objec
tionable cards . have been'' withdrawn
from the mails by postmasters and for
warded to, the department for destruc
tion. ',-,
FLOUR TRADE MENACED.
Puget Sound Mill's Oriental Business
Falls 30 Per Cent.' '
, Tacoma," Wash., Dec' 28. - Accord
ing, to Superintendent Armstrong, "of
the Tacoma Warehouse & Sperry Mills
company, the boycott in .China is prov
ing a serious menace to the milling
interests of Tacoma. Where years ago
full cargoes of flour were being shipped
to China and mills were running over
time to fill orders, shipments to the
Orient have fallen off over 80, per cent
and mills are running only part of the
time.
"The boycott in China has knocked
the bottom out of the flour business,
as far as exports are concerned," said
Superintendent Armstrong. "Local
freight keeps up well but we need for
eign shipments. It would be good
business policy to get that boycott out
of the way as soon as possible." "
Ralph Smith agent of the Puget
Sound Flouring Mills company, says: .
"We are shipping less flour than
usual to China, and the boycott is re
sponsible for it. I don't know what
else could be the trouble. Home trade
keeps up about as usual." -
Volcano Smothers Savaii.
San Franciaco, Dec. 28. According
to the passengers xho arrived yester
day on the liner Ventura, the volcano
on the Island of 8avaii, in the Samoan
group, is still in vigorous activity.
The blaze from the crater at night, it
is said, is visible at sea many miles
away. The lava has covered an area
of 30 square miles. This molton flow
has filled 11 miles of a . deep .valley
and is heading for the seashore. Na
tives whose homes are near the beach
are preparing to abandon their houses
and cocoanut groves on short notice.
Will Adopt Extreme Measures.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 28. After an
exciting meeting of the workmen's del
egates to tbe Union of Unions, it was
decided to continue the strike and adopt
tne most desperate measures.
SALARIES
'MACKENZIE PROMISESlAlD, ,
Recommends Total Appropriation f
' $1,400,000 for Jetty.
Washington, Dec. 26. Senators Ful
ton and Gearin today called on General
MacKenzie, chief of engineers, in re
gard to the needs of the Columbia river
jetty. General MacKenzie gave them
renewed assurance of his friendliness
and said he was doing everything in his
power to secure money to keep work in
progress.
He has recommended not only an
appropriation of $400,000 in cash, but
nas urged to at authority be granted for
the expenditure of an additional II.-
000,000. He explains that $400,000
is required lor "rocking" the jetty as
far out as the end of the present tram
way, but will not be ample for anv ex
tension. If authority can be secured
for the expenditure of $1,000,000 addi
tional, it will be possible next season
to push the jetty much farther sea
ward, and in fact approach the point
where it is expected to end.
Maior Koeasler. in his rebort. re
commended an appropriation of $1,
900,000 to complete the iettv. This ia
a higher figure than the previous esti
mate, out nis estimate is reduced ma
terially by the War department.
The Oregon senators will exert their
belt efforts to secure tbe appropriation
recommended by General MacKenzie,
and will furthermore inaiat upon the
authorization of additional work to
the extent of $1,000,000. The other
Northwestern senators and representa
tives will work in accord with them.
INVESTIGATES INSECT PESTS.
Government Solves Problems of Cot
ton and Wheatgrowers.
Washington, Dec. 26. According to
the annual report of L. C. Howard,
in charge of the Bureau of Entomology
of the Department of Agriculture, the
main work of the bureau for the past
fiscal year, ended June 30, 1905, was
in connection with the cotton boll wee
vil, the cottion boll worm, importation
of beneficial insects from abroad, in
vestigations of insects damaging forests
and deciduous fruit trees, work on in
sects injurious to vegetable crops and
effecting the great staple field crops,
and work in silk and bee culture.
The investigations into the cotton
boll worm were such that cotton plant
ers will, it is stated, be enabled to con
trol that injurious pest.,, ;.
Experiments on a large scale, extend
ing over practically the whole of the,
wheat gtow'ng area, have been looking
toward the elucidation of certain as yet
unsolved problems in the propagation ,
of the Hessian fly and of the joint
worms of wheat, and also to determine
the best time to sow wheat in the ' au
tumn in order to ward off the autumn .
attack of the fly. '.Investigations of the '
same insect in the spring wheat re
gions have been begun, since only re-
cently "has .the Hessian fly spread into.
this neW country.
.IRRIGATE YAKIMA RESERVE.
Jones' Plan to Secure Water and Ad
mit White Settlers.
Washington, Dec. 26. As the first
step in the direction of ad justing con
nicting water rights on the Yakima In
dian reservation, Representative Jones ,
will introduce a bill, when jorigre reP - '
convenes, authorizing the Yakima In
dians to sell 60 acres of their respective
allotments, and directing the secretary
of the interior to apply a portion of the
proceeds to the purchase of water rights
for the remaining 20 acres of each al
lotment.. . ; , i " ' '
The passage of this bill will perma
nently provide for the irrigation of In-.
dian lands and at the same time open -the
way for the settlement of a large
portion of the Yakima reservation.
This Indian land has been selling for '
from $40 to $50 per acre, and a large
surplus will be realized for the benefit
of the Indians.
Indian Commissioner Leupp is in
favor of this plan and will lend his
assistance to secure its favorable con
sideration by congress. !
New York Traction Mer.
New York. Dec. 26 A
tion of the subway, elevated and sur
face traction lines of Manhattan island
is believed to be nrobahla. an k manU.
of the Bale of the interests of Thomas
F. Ryan in the Metropolitan Street
Railwav svstem to Ammst Tfolmnnt.
The Metropolitan- system includes
practically all of the surface roadB on
the island, and Mr. Belmont is presi
dent of the Interborough Rapid Transit
oompany, which operates the elevated
roads and subway. The price paid
was not maae public.
Alfonso Betrothed at Last.
Paris, Dec. 26. The Figaro this
morning declares that a definite agree
ment has been reached between the
British and Spanish governments re
garding the betrothal of , King , AlfonBo .
and Princess Ena of Battenberg, but
that the official announcement will not
be made for several weeks.