Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19??, April 12, 1906, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextOREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICIAL CANDIDATE LIST. Names as They Will Appear on Prl mary Ballots at Election. Rale.n-The follwlng is a list of the cl,uuiii;ftn anu Democratic candidates ior nomination for senators and repre nemauves in congress and state oflicers as uiey will appear on the official pri uiniv MHIIOIS: Republicans: Senator Short term, Fred W. Mulkey, Multnomah county; BuwjrB, long term, Jonathan Bourne, Jr., Multnomah county; II. M. Cake, luuiinomati county; Stephen A. Low en, Umatilla county; E. L. Smith, vy;o county; js. . Watson, Multno u nu couniy. Representative, First district Willis C. Hawley, Marion; Samuel B. Hous ton, Washington; Walter L. Tooze, Marion. Second district. W. T? Hiii. Umatilla: William .1. I.ahnar Raker. John L. Rand, Baker; George S. Shep- neru, muitnomah. Governor Harvey K. Brown, Baker; T. T. Geer Marion; C. A. Johns, Bak er; Charles J. Sehlbrede,. Coos; James wunycomue, Benton. Secretary of state Frank W. Benson, uougias; uiaudUatch, Salem; Lot L. Pearce, Marion; Frank T. Wrightman, iunrion. Treasurer John H. Aitkin. Baker E. V. Carter. Jackson : Ralnh W. Itovt Multnomah; Augustus C. Jennings, i.ane; inomas V. Kyan, Clackamas George A. Steel, ClackamaB. Supreme judge Robert Eakin, union. Superintendent public instruction al. Jet, Ackerman, Multnomah. State printer William J. Clarke- Marion; Willis S. Duniway, Multno mah J. R. Whitney, Linn. Attorney general M. A. Crawford Douglas; George H. Durham, Joseph ine. Commissioner of labor 0. P. Hoff, Multnomah. Demccrats: Senator long term, John m. uearin, Multnomah. Representative, First district P. A Cochrane, Marion ; Charles V. Gallo way, Yamhill. Second district, James Harvey Graham, Baker. Governor George E. Chamberlain Multnomah. Secretary of state P. II. Broat, Ma Tion. Treasurer J. D. Matlock. Lana 8upreme judge T. G.. Hailey, Uma- Tuia. State printer J. Scott Taylor, Kla math. Attorney general Robert A. Milier Multnomah. Each one of the above filed the re quired petition with the secretary of state. The names of Oglesby Young and H. B. Nicholas, Democratic candidates for Circuit judges in departments 3 and 4, of Multnomah county, will not appear on the official ballots. Secretary Dun bar was obliged to reject their petitions ior the reason that they were verified by J. T. Milner, who had not himself -signed the petitions. Insure Water for Land. Salem The State Land board is pre paring to enforce a rule with regard to the sale of lands reclaimed under tha Carey act, which will insure the settler ampie supply oi water tor all land pur chased. Until recently contracts have tieen entered into lor the sale of land be fore the irrigation canals were complet ed or exact supply of water available known. In order that there mav hn nn question in future, the board will insist on Knowing now much water is availa ble for each segregation and the number of acres to be sold will in no instance be more than the visible supply of water will irrigate. SPEAKERS FOR CHAUTAUQUA. Willamette Valley Directors Making Up Program for Year. Oregon City The board of directors of the Willamette Valley Chautauqua association is preparing the program for the 1906 assembly to be held at Gladstone next July. Dr. Charles Ed ward Locke, who was in Portland 10 years ago, but is now pastor of one of tne largest Methodist churches in the united mates, at Brook vn. N. Y.. w be one of the speakers. Captain Jack Lrawioro, trie lamous poet-scout, has been engaged for the cominor nHflamhlv as rias also Kabbi Leon Harrison, of St Louis, who will be heard in two lec tures, on "Shvlock" and "Thn ttlnrv j . i . . anu o"ame oi America." Professor Mark B. Beal. of thn fWi dental college of oratory, of Los Ange- les, win De tne elocutionist this vear Dr. W. C. Sherman, of Sacramento. who last year had charge of the c1hh in Bible study, has been retained for another year. Other classes will be conducted as usual in music, domestic Science. United States histnro. alnnn tion, English-literature, physical cul ture, junior Bible studv and a W. C. T. U. institute. The Chautauqua management is in communication with a great many otner lecturers and entertainers with whom contracts will be entered into if possible. Another meeting of the board of directors will be called soon, when the program will be completed. New Rail Lines for Lane. Eugene Portland. New York and Eu- gene capitalists who recently applied to tne city council for franchise to con struct a system of Btreet railwavn hare announce that thev intend to hnild on electric line between Eugene and Springfield and a steam railway from there up McKenzie river to the Rlna river mining district. Length of the electric line will be four miles. That of the steam road about 45 miles. The Willamette river will be bridged at Eugene, and the line will reach Spring field up the eastern banks of the river. Plan to Supply Court Reports. Albany The Countv court will nrnh. ably order the Supreme conrt rannrtn 44 volumes for use df the court and county officials and the Circuit court. An effort may be made at the next ses sion of the legislature to secure a meas ure providing that the state shall furn ish the Countv courts of each rnnnfv with the Oregon reports as statutes and sessions laws are suDDlied to nnnntr j . .... ' oiuciaia ana justices oi tne peace. New Mill at Scappoose. " Bcappoose The Brace J.nmhar nnm pany is building a sawmill nn a front bought of Kev. Mr. Brown. The mill will cut 30,000 feet a day. This makes five mills within a radius of maht. miloo oi Bcappoose. The new mill will be in operation in about three weeks. PORTLAND MARKETS. DRIVE OUT CASTRO. Venezuela Is To Be Opened to Amer ican Capital and Enterprise. New York, April 3. The World to day says: One of the largest merchants in New York said last night that ar rangements are being perfected here and in Paris for an invasion of Vene zuela, which will annihilate Castro and open up the country to American capital and enterprise. A number of rich New York mar. chants are said to be interested in the movement, which, the promote do. c'are, will involve the employment of 15,000 soldiers and the expenditure of $5,000,000 in the campaign under which President, Castro is to ha alt hat. expelled or destroyed and a native Ven ezuelan statesman is to be installed as his successor. In this connection it is said that Castro, anticipating a successful revo lution against him sooner or later, has converted some of his alleged $4,000, 000 into cash and has sent it to Amer ica and France. Carlos B. Fuegerdo, Venezuelan con sul in New York, said last night at his home that he had heard such an expe dition was being organized or being promoted, but had been unahle to learn anything definite about it. He said he had understood shares in the scheme were being sold. "I would like to gtt hold of those shares." he said. I will hiiv all that are offered." The consul inauired eagerlv an tn tha point the expedition was to sail from. the expedition is to set out soon from Europe in three large steamHhins which are already under contract. They aYe to carry about 5,000 volun teers, with the following ailnnt.it.iea nf arms and ammunition: Eight thousand Mauser rifles of the latest pattern. 24 . 000 rounds of cartridges. 500 shells. rapid fire guns, 8,000 army belts, 1,000 officers' swords, 5,000 officers' revolv ers, 3,000 machetes and swords, to. gether with other supplies. THRILLING RESCUESlHOLDII HER GRIP Fire Cuts OH Escape In Portland Chamber of Commerce. ONE MAN FALLS TO HIS DEATH Tongues of Flame Leap From Eighth Floor and Make Rescue Almost Marvelous. GREAT TRADE WITH MEXICO. Furnish Ditch is Completed. Pendlefon W. J. Furnish announces thatthe Furnsih ditch, which is to re claim 20,000 acres of land in the west rn end of this county, is finished. Of this amount of land, 10,000 acres are now ready for water, and there are at least 10,000 more which can be brought under the ditch. This land is adjoin ing the big Umatilla reclamation pro ject which the government now has in hand. The Furnish ditch is 30 miles in length, while the government canal will be 22 miles long and will also sup ply water for 20,000 acres. Storing Wool in Heppner Warehouses Heppner Wool is beginning to ar rive at the warehouses here, where it will be Btored until the sales davs in the latter part of May and the first of June. A large crop will be produced in this county this year, and very little is being contracted, stockmen prefer ring to hold until the Bales days, when it will be sold to the highest bidder, i Cut Timber Illegally. Prineville -John Dee and A. R. Eastwood were arraigned before United States Commissioner M. R. BiggB last week on a charge of cutting timber on government land. They were held in the sum of $50 to appear before the United States grand jury, 1 Wheat Club. 66067c: hlnantam is-uoc, rea, o(gooc; valley, 68c. Oats No. 1 white feed. 427 Kn. - . ' .W , gray, z per ton. Barley Feed. $23.50024 urewuig, ftgzs.ouj rolled, $24.50 liny Eastern Oregon timothy, choice, $1718 per ton; common, $13 14; valley timothy, $8?; clover, $7.508; cheat, $67; grain hay, $7 vso; aiiana, fiz. Apples $22.75 per box. Vegetables Asparagus, 812cper puling caooage, zc per pound cauimower, 2.25 per crate; celery, 7590c per dozen: head lathi sk tn i ... uu per uozen ; onions, 40c per dozen : radisheB, 20c per dozen; rhubarb, $1 l.f) per. box; spinach, $1 per box: uaioicr, iuu lUrniDB. Slfflll n. bi;k, carrots, oo(guoc per sack; beets auvsfx jjcr DUCK. Onions No. 1. .70a90n No. 2. nominal. ' -r-, Potatoes Fancv gradfid Rniiw 5060c per hundred: ordinary wai, new uauiornia, offloc per pound BWeet potatoes. ZJi (BZC nr nnnnA Butter Fancv creamerv. 2nrt2K. JUUUUi fcggs Oregon ranch, 16c per dozen. Poultry Average old h Ann 1Qla 14c per pound; mixed chickens, 13 iov2k; orouers. ZDMWc: vonna mnal. ers, 1313c; old roosters, ll12c; dressed chickens, 1516c; turkeys, jive, 10 (oi 10 w, turkeys, dressed, choice, 1820c; geese, live, 8 8c; geese, dressed, 10llc; ducks, 17 19c. Hops Oregon, 1905, choice, 710c; olds, 57c. , Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1520c; valley, 24026c per pound; mohair, choice, 2529c. Veal Dressed, 3&3c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls. Sc nnr nnnnJ . cows, 45c; country steers, 454c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 99c per pound; ordinary. 4fflJ; lmV.a ,uv. pelt on, 10llc. Pork Dressed, 68)c per pound. Relations With Republic on the South Are Very Close. Washington. April 3. A bulletin is. sued by the department of Commerce and Labor shows that the trade of the United Stats with Mexico in the fiscal year 1905 aggregated in value J92.000.- 000, as compared with $31,000,000 in 1895, and $18,000,000 in 1885. Of Mexico s total imports of merchandise, 53 per cent is drawn from the United States, and of her total exnnrts 71 nor . x . - cent is sent to the United States. No other country exnnnt. Canada draws so large a percentage of its im ports from the United States as does Mexico, and no other finnntrv Arrant uoa senas so large a percentage of its exports to the United StateB as does Mexico. estimates made bv American onn suiar repsentatives and others and by persons in The United States familiar with the 8ubiect. the bulletin nnvs. in aicates that fully $1,000,000,000 nf capital from this country is now invest ea in Mexico, Canada and Cuba, of which about one-half is in Mexico. THREE TRAINS IN AWRECK. Passenger Train Comes Last on Top of High Embankment. Delta, O.. April 3. Piled in a wrenk on top ot an embankment 30 feet high iuu persons escaped from lnlnrv in miraculous manner in a collision on the Lake Shore railroad nen.1 tiara to night. Two freights, east bound, warn tied up in a rear end collision, with the ca boose of the train in front, whinh haA stopped to take water, thrown squarely acrofs the track of train No. 3, a west Douna passenger. The mix-nn hn tween the freights had scarcnlv rin in- red when the passenger bowled along Binning tne overturned caboose. The brakes were set. but. going at al most a mile a minute, the headwav wbb so great that, with a crash, the passenger locomotive iumnnd tha tronb- plunging along the ties, driving the ca boose ahead. Two Pullmans war A rala, scoped, but. after the train had Rtonnnrl the passengers dashed wildly out of the various coaches and slid 30 fant. in tv,Q bottom of the embankment to a place 01 saiety. The wreck took fira onrl caused a damage of $100,000. Coal for Missouri Institutions. Jefferson City, Mo., April 8. Gov ernor Folk, through Warden Mart nail, ot the state nemtentinrv baa leased a mine near Waverly, from wnicn coal will be mined during the present strike in sufficient ouant.itiaa tn supply the 15 state institutions with fuel. The miners at Waverly are paid 10 per cent more than the regular sr-ala and do net want to strike. Tf tho should be forced to go out Wurrlan Hall said there would be no difficulty in operating tha mine if tha stuto i forced to resort to that extremety. Elect Viquez President. San Jose. Costa Bica. Aoril 3 T.in neaiado Cleto Gonzales Viquez, ex minister of finance. WAS todnv nlaptarl president of the republic of Costa Rica. Portland, April 7. sprang up as from swept th. upper part of the Chamber of commerce Diock at 2:30 o'clock yester day afternoon, wrecking the Commer cial club and imperiling scores of lives. With the swirling, fearful speed of a whirlwind, great red sheets of fire and dense volumes of smoke passed from room to room as if in a fiendish hunt for human life. Dozens of people, caught unawares, scurried before the deadly blast with death at their heels. The one to forfeit his Ufa II. Hallock, an employe of the Willam ette Valley Traction company. With smoke and flame close behind him, Mr. Hallock attempted to climb from a Commercial cluh .v c mo 00- cape leading down the interior court of tne minding. The fire escape was six feet away. It was a daanarata taking, and the unfortunate man failed. His body plunged down seven stories to a bky light on the sacnnH flnnr tt killed instantly. lhe fire department was quickly on the scene, nearly every piece of fire ap paratus in Tortland being brought into service. The firemen nerfnrma pnn v ageoua and effective service. Whila part of the force buskd itself hose and directing streams of water, others were at the equally dangerous task of rescuing those whnua retro had been cut off in the upper stories. The extension Wider fn qo ....... . 1 . tj j lout short of the imprisoned men, and scal ing ladders were used to reach the six men imprisoned on the eighth floor. Tom Richardson, manager of the Com mercial club, was among this nnmhar and when the firemen reached him it luoKBu as tnougn neither would get down alive. Some 50 persons who were in the upper stories reached safety by the fire escapes. The damage to the Chamber of Com merce building will; reach $100,000 fully insured, and the Commercial club HU.uuu, with $20,000 insurance. The personal losses to occupants of the building, such as lawyers and physici ans, is not known, but it is estimated they will reach several thousahd dol lars. INSURANCE REFORM BILLS. Russia Refuses to Give Up Man ciiurian Claims. CHINA CONSIDERS THEM INVALID Rapid Progress in Driving Them Through Legislature, Albany, N. Y, April 7. The bills proposed by the special investicntina committee passed another stage of their progress today toward the statute books in the senate committee of the whole. Of the bills introduced hv tha mittee orieinallv ten.'hnfe in f'a onn. solidated into seven four have passad the assembly, and are at the stage of third reading or final uassaoa in tha senate on the way to the governor. These are the bil Is designated : First, to restrict lobbying hv rami 1 r. ing registry of "legislative agents"; second, relative to the acquisition of real p operty by life insurance compan ies; tniro, malting contradictory state ments under oath nresumntiva evi. dence of perjury, and fourth, forbid ding rebates. A fifth, the bill further nann.lizinr falsification or omission of material matters in the booki and records nf corporations, has passed the assembly, dui was amended in the senate, and the bill must return to the assembly for concurrence. The SO called "big bill" generally amending the insurance laws and em bodying most of the radical reforms in insurance methods, was advanced to the third reading in the senate today. JLhe seventh bill, that forbidding campaign contributions by corpora tions, was temporarily laid on the table today with the consent of its friends. Increase in Foreign Commerce. Washington, April 7. According to a bulletin issued by the department of Commerce and Labor, the exports from the United States for the first eight months of the fiscal year 1906 were 190,000,000 in value in excess of those of the corresponding months of 1905. The imports for the eight months of 1906 are $71,000,000 greater than for the corresponding period of 1905. The growth in exDorts of mnnn. facturas has been $45,000,000. and in agricultural products. flM3.00fl.nno over the same period last year. Deadlock is Reached in Negotiations, But Russia is in Possession Both Work Secretly. , Pekin, April 5. The Russo-Chinese negotiations appear to have reachad a deadlock. At any rate, they are drag ging along slowly. M. Pokotiloff. the Russian minister to China, and Tong, uinese commissioner appointed to negotiate an agreement with T? noma va. garding Northern Manchuria, have con ferred only two or three times during the past month. Russia has the nnnar hand V, -rr" v ftuiouoo she holds nearly all the privileges she uuuienus ior, while demanding that China officially grant them. The Chi nese, on the contrary, it is said, are also determined to withstand all for eign encroachments. Both parties are trying to keep the detai Is as secret as was the case with the Chinese-Japanese treaty. One contention is believed to be about the mining and other concessions which the Tartar generals i n Man. churia gave to Russian and which Russia wants the Chinese government to ratify. The Chinese. however, insist that their never sanctioned these concessions, and iuai tnereiore they are invalid. IRRIGATED LAND TOWNSITES. House "Passes Bill Allowinc Sale nf Lots for ReclamationFund. Washington. Aoril B R tive French todav called ur and through the house Senator Heyburn's general townsite bill, authorizing tha Reclamation service to set aside town. sites on government irrigation tracts and 8811 lots at Public anntinn. the money going into the reclamation fund instead of into the treasury, as it would unuer tne general townsite law. The bin also provides that towns on recla mation tracts and other towna nun re. ceive a municipal water supply from government canals, and where there is surplus power developed under any project, it may be leased for ten-year periods, the money to go into the re clamation fund. The Reclamation service rnnnifara this bill highly important, believing it will ultimately vield from in onn nnn to $15,000,000. The bill passed today ia not. tha Ha. burn townsite bill recant.lv rennrtaH. This bill probably will not be passed. oecause general opposition developed in the house. DECLINES TO INTERFERE. President Refuses to Appoint Com mission on Strike. , Washington. April 5. It is'titnta'd t. the White house that the president has maae a reply to the telegram received from the coal operators and that while the text will not be made ia authority for the statement that the president has decided not to interfere as long aa conditions remain as they now are. Columbus. O.. Anril 5. .Tnhn H Winder, president of the Ohio Operat ors association, today gave out part of a letter he has received from President Roosevelt, in which the nresidanr. answers the request that a commission oe appointed by him to settle the min ers' strike. The president said : "To appoint a committee to meet with the miners and operators, as you request, would necessitate action on the part of congress. As yet, I am not prepared to say what action I personal ly will or can take in the matter." Thieves Loot Monastery. Rostoff. province of Yaroslav. Russia. April 7. Thieves looted the Troitze Warnitzkl monastery on the night ot Aoril 3 and got away with 123 000 and a quantity of valuable articles. Changes In Coeur d'Alene Bill. Washington, April 5. By unani mous consent of the Idaho delegation, the Idaho delegation, the senate amendment to tha rnnM tion bill authorizing the opening of the joeur a Aiene Indian reservation to settlement was altered to mat a all aa IT A i .uhh w Ull DM f 0 mineral land subiect to hnmeBtaad n. try, but no commutation is allowed on timber land. This was done at the in stance of Dubois to prevent large tim ber corporations from gobbling up all the bast timber. Change wasmade to open the reservation by act of congress. Prepares to Fight America. Moscow, April 5. General yon Mack, the Russian representative of the Red Cross, has Just returned here from Japan. He declaren that tha .Tun. anese are actively engaged in war nran. arations and he adds that it is evident that the enemy in view is America, and that operations are beinir nlnnnari against the Philippine islands.