OREGON 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.