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OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST OFFICIAL BALLOT. Ticket To Be Voted On In June Made Up by Secretary of State. Salem Secretary of State Dunbar liaa issued his certificate of the Repub lican and Democratic primary nomina tions ttie nominations of the Socialists and Prohibitionists and the arrange ment of the names on the official ballot. The state senatorial and congression al ticket is as follows: Governor I. H. Amos, Multnomah county, Prohibition; 0. W. Barzee, Waeco, Socialist; George E. Chamber lain, Multnomah, Democratic; James Witbycombe, Benton, Republican. Secretary of State Frank W. Ben eon, Douglas, Republican; R. 0. Brown, Douglas, Socialist; T. 8. Mc Daniel, Multnomah, Prohibition; P. II. Sroat, Marion, Democratic. State Treasurer Leslie Butler, Was co, Prohibition; G. R. Cook, Multno mah, Socialist; J. D. Matlock, Lane, Democratic; George A. Steel, Clacka mas, Republican. Supreme Judge C. J. Bright, Sher man, Prohibition; Robert Eakin, Un ion, Republican; T. G. Hailey, Uma tilla, Democratic; Marcus W. Robbins, Josephine, Socialist. Attorney-General C. C. Brix, Crook, Socialist; A. M. Crawford, Douglas, Republican; Robert A. Miller, Multno mah, Democratic; F. B. Rutherford, Multnomah, Prohibition.' Superintendent of Public Instruction J. II. Ackerman, Multnomah, Re publican , J. . Hosmer, Multnomah, Socialist; Henry Sheak, Benton, Prohi bition. State Printer J. C. Cooper, Yam hill, Socialist; Willis S. Duniwav, Multnomah, Republican; Alvin S. Hawk, Multnomah, Prohibition; J. Scott Taylor, Klamath, Democratic. Commissioner of Labor Statistics and Inspector of Factories and Workshops 0. P. Hoff, Multnomah, Republican; W. S. Richards, Linn, Socialist. United States Senator (to fill vacan cy) Hiram Gould, Yamhill, Prohibi tion; Fred W. Mulkey, Multnomah, Republican; J. D. Stevens, Multno mah, Socialist. United States Senator term begin ning March 4, 1907) Jonathan Bourne Jr., Multnomah, Republican; John M. Oearin, Multnomah, Democratic; B. Lee Paget, Multnomah, Prohibition; A. G. Simola, Multnomah, Socialist. Congressman, First District Cbarlee V. Galloway, Yamhill, Democratic; Edward F. Green, Bencon, Prohibition; Willis C. Hawley, Marion, Republican; W. W. Myers, Clackamas, Socialist. Congressman, Second District W. R. Ellis, Umatilla, Republican; James Harvey Graham, Baker, Demorcati; A.M.Paul, Union, Socialist;, H. W. Stone, Multnomah, Prohibition. Spring Produces Clams. ' Albany Water from a spring flowing from a solid sandstone hill, three miles northeast of Lebanon, produces fresh water clams. Though there are no clams in the spring, and, so far as known, none that its water could come in contact with in any way, yet the water, when poured into a trough, pro duces clams, which grow to ordinary eize. Water flows from solid rock through an iron pipe, about 45 yards, into a watering trough. In this trough the clams develop. The trough has been frequently cleaned, but fresh wa ter clams always developed in it again. Indians Want to Work. Klamath Falls It is probable that a part of the labor in constructing the Klamath project of the United States reclamation service will be performed by the Indians of the Klamath reser vation, 'who are said to be faithful workmen. It is understood the ques tion has been taken up with the Indian bureau through the proper channels and that from 100 to 250 descendants ot the braves who fought on the battle fields of the lava beds in the famous Modoc war will work in digging the ditches. Flooded With Paper Money. Oregon City Oregon City is being flooded with paper currency in conse quence of a suspension of the mint at San Francisco by reason of the earth quake and subsequent conflagration. Local banks have received their gold and silver largely from the San Fran cisco mint, and have always been plen tifully supplied heretofore. Entire Sawmill Made in Albany. Albany The Albany Iron Works has just completed a complete sawmill outfit and shipped it to Medford, where it will be erected and placed in opera tion immediately. All the machinery from the largest to the smallest piece was made in the local foundry. Rich Strike In the Goldbug. Sumpter The Blue Mountain Amer ican eays: "Another wonderfully rich strike Jias been made , at the Goldbug mine, in the Red Boy district, on north drift, vein No. 5. The pay streak is eight to ten inches thick. One assay fives f 300 to $1,900 a ton." INITIATIVE MEASURES. Questions on Which Oregon Voters Will Pass at June Election. Salem There are 11 measunes upon which the people will be called to vote in June, five of which are proposed amendments to the state constitution. The remaining six are legislative meas ures proposed by initiative. Their ti tle and order on the ballot, which are to be voted "yes" or "no," follow: Shall act appropriating money main taining insane asylum, penitentiary, deaf mute, blind school, university, agricultural college and normal schools be approved? For equal suffrage constitutional amendment. For amendment to the local option law giving anti-Porhibitionists equal privilege. For law to abolish tolls on the Mount Hood and Barlow road and providing for its ownership by the state. For constitutional amendment pro viding method of amending constitution and applying the referendum to all laws affecting constitutional conven tions and amendments. Fo constitutional amendment giving cities and towns exclusive power to en act and amend their charters. For constitutional amendment to al low the state printing, binding and printer's compensation to be regulated by law at any time. For constitutional amendment for the initiative and referendum on .local, special and municipal laws and parts of laws. , For bill for a law prohibiting free passes and discrimination by railroad companies and other public service cor porations. For an act requiring sleeping car companies, refrigerator car companies and oil companies to pay an annual li cense upon gross earnings. For an act requiring express com panies, telegraph companies and tele phone companies to pay an annual license upon gross earnings. Mammoth Canal at Klamath Falls. Bend Mason, Doris & Co. have the contract for construction of a big canal at Klamath Falls. The amount in volved is about $400,000, and some thing like 700,000 yards of dirt will be excavated. The contract includes much concrete work and a tunnel 3,800 feet long, which will pass under the town of Klamath Fulls. Seventy-five teams and about 300 men have been engaged. The contract calls for a trench niae mUes long, 44 feet wide on the bottom and 75 feet at the top and 13 feet deep. The in-take is at Upper Klamath lake. Hop Farm1 Is Incorporated. Salem The Molson Hop Farm com pany, of Rickreal, Or., is the title of a corporation whose articles have been filed in the secretary of state's office, with Albert J. Ray, Clifton N. Mc Arthur and Earl C. Bronaugh as incor porators. The principal office is in Portland and the capital stock ia $50, 000, in shares of $100 each. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 72c; bluestem, 73c; red. 70c; valley, 70c. Oats No. 1 white feed, $29; gray, $28.50 per ton. Barley Feed, $23.5024 per ton; brewing, $2424.50; rolled, $24.50 25.50. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $12 13 per ton; clover, $7.508; cheat, $67; grain hay, $78; alfalfa, $13. Butter Fancy creamery, 1720c. Eggs Oregon ranch, 19c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 1415c per pound; mixed chickens, 1314c; broilers, 2022c; young roosters, 1213c; old roosters, ll12c; dressed chickens, 1616c; turkeys, 'ive, 1518c; turkeys, drpsced, choice, 2023c; geese, live, 10llc; geese, dressed, old 10c, youngl2c; ducks, old 17c, young 20c. Hops Oregon, 1905, ll12c. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1621c; valley, coarse, 2223c; fine, 2425c per pound; mohair, choice, 28 80c. Fruits Apples, $2.503.50 per box; cherries, $1.251.50 per box; straw berries, California, $1.251.50; Ore gon, 10c 1 per pound; gooseber ries, 8c per pound. Vegetables Asparagus, 75c $ 1 .25 per box; beans, 10c; . cabbage. $1.752 per 100; cauliflower, $2.25 perorate; celery, $5 per crate; head lettuce, 25c per dozen; onions, 1015c per dozen; peas, 56c; radishes, 15c a dozen; rhubarb, 3c pound; spinach, 90c per box; parsley, 25c; tnrnipp, $1 1 25 per sack; carrots, 65 75c per sack; beets, 85c1$l per sack. . Onions 4c per pound. Potatoes Fancy graded Burbaiks, 6065c per hundred; ordinary, nomi nal; new California,' 2j2c per pound. Veal Dressed, 36Jc per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound; cows, 45c; country steers, 56c. Mutton DreBsed fancy, 78o per pound; ordinary, 56c; lambs, with pelt on, 8c. Pork Dressed, 79c per pound. CURE FOR LOOTING. Chief Dlnan Prescribes Hard Work and Plenty of It. San Francisco, May 14 A nove method of stamping out the evil of looting, which has been on the increase despite the stern measures taken by the civil and military authorities, has been inaugurated by Chief of Police Dinan. That official has issued an order that whenever a looter is caught he is to be put in a squad under the command of Detective Sergeant Charles F. Taylor. Members of the squad are compelled to labor at clearing away the debris. Al ready Sergeant Taylor has 75 men un der him, and the number is constantly growing. The taskmaster of this chain gang is given discretionary powerB as to the term eacb of the members shall serve. Already the streets about Portsmouth Square and the Hall of Justice are be ginning to assume their old-time ap pearance of cleanliness, the result of the work of the captured looters. Chief Dinan believes that, when the exist ence of Sergeant Taylorv's army be comes generally known, looting will greatly decrease. The liquor question was again dls cussedjtoday by the authorities, and it has been proposed that the charter of the city be amended so that the license, which has heretofore been $100, be raised to $500. Before the fire there we're 4,000 saloons in this city, and it is believed that the increased license will reduce this number to 1,000, with out in any way diminishing the reve nues of the city. A proclamation has been issued by Mayor Schraitz directing that all refug ees be concentrated in two great camps, one to be located in the Potrero, in the south bide of the city, and the other at Golden Gate Park. This action baa been made necessary for sanitary rea sons,, as military discipline must pre vail in these tented cities, if the health of the inmates is to be preserved. At present every square in the city and many vacant lots are covered with the tents of refugees. The military are now ordering these people to the cen tral camps. OIL TRUST AT BAY. Will Make Hard Fight Against Free Alcohol in Senate. Washington, May 14. Intense pres sure is being brought to bear on the senate to force through the bill recently passed by the house of representatives removing the internal revenue tax from "denatured alcohol." There is not the slightest doubt that a large ma jority of the senate favors the passage of Cbis bill and would be glad to have an opportunity to vote for it, but un fortunately it was refered to the com mittee on finance, of which Aldrich is chairman, and Aldrich is the one man in the senate who is determined to kill the bill if possible. Aldrich knows that this bill would work great injury to the Standard Oil company, in that it would put on the market a fuel cheaper and more desira ble in other ways than kerosene. Be ing the Standard Oil representative in congress, he is naturally anxious to shut off legislation that ia 'inimical tn the interests of his good friend, the oil trust. ' MAJORITY FAVORS SEA LEVEL. Carmack's Return Will Decide Ques- ' tion of Canal Type. Washington, May 14. The senate committee on inter-oceanic canals is in a deadlock on the question of the type of canal to b? recommended. The question was taken up today and the vote showed five for a sea level canal and five for the lock type, recommend ed by the minority of the board of con sulting engineers. There were two absentees, Senators Gorman and Carmack. The latter tel egraphed from Tennessee, instructing the chairman to count his vote for the sea level type, which wonld have made a majority against the lock canal de sired by the administration. After wrangling for an hour over the ques tion of accepting the vote of Senator Carmack, the committee adjourned un til Wednesday next. Eastern Men Ready to Invest. San Francisco, May 14. Within the past few days it is said new accounts have been opened at several of the com mercial banks of San Francisco by men from the East who have deposited sums ranging from $10,000 upward. Some of them are known by reputation to banking men to be possessed of large wealth. Others are supposed to repre sent wealthy clients in Eastern money centers. The evident purpose of these men, the bankers say, is to make in vestments of their funds in San Fran cisco. Elaborate Festivities Planned. Madrid, May 14. Spain is preparing for rejoicing on a magnificent scale on the occasion of the marriage of King Alfonso to PrinceBS Ena of Battenberg. Premier Moret announced today that some of the features of the early pro gram have been changed, but the essen tial features remain. The marriage will take place May 31 in the church of San Geronimo. PROVISIONS OF BILL Power of Interstate Commission Over Railroads Enlarged. PENALTIES MADE MOST SEVERE New Rate Bill as Passed by Senate Allows Interstate Board to Fix Rates. WashingtonMay 19. The principal purpose of the railroad rate bill passed yesterday is to permit the Interstate Commerce commission to fix rates. The provision conferring this authority is found in the fourth section, which amends section 15 of the interstate commerce law so as to accomplish this result. This section directs the com mission to investigate complaints of unjust and unreasonable charges on the part of common carriers in the trans portation of persona or property, or of regulations or practices affecting such charges. It also authorizes an inquiry as to whether the rates or practices are "unjustly discriminatory or unduly preferential or prejudicial, or otherwise in violation of the act," and, in case any of these conditions are found to exist, the commission is empowered to determine and prescribe what will be the just and reasonable maximum rate, and what regulation or practice is just, reasonable and fair. Further, authority is given the com mission to enforce its orders, and they are to go into effect within 30 days and continue in force for two years unless suspended, modified or set aside by the commission or by a court of competent jurisdiction. A penalty of $5,000 for each offense in disobedience of the order is imposed, and the penalty is to accumulate at the rate of $5,000 a day in case of continu ous violation. Orders other than those for money payments are to be enforced by the federal courts through writs of mandamus or injunction, and, in case of appeal to the supreme court, these cases are to be given preference over all others exceptthose of a criminal character. The bill was amended by the senate so as to give the United States circuit courts jurisdiction to entertain suits brought to annul or change the orders of the commission and to provide against the granting of interlocutory decrees without hearing and making appeals from such orders direct to the supreme court. There are no changes in the law rel ative to the reports to be required of common carriers, and a penalty of $100 a day is imposed for failure to comply with the report requirement. The commission is given access to the accounts of the companies affected by the act, but examiners are forbidden, under penalty of heavy fine and long imprisonment, to divulge the facts ascertained. A fine of $500 for each failure to keep proper accounts is pro vided. TRANSIT TUBES FLATTENED. Sand and Water of East River Make Costly Work Valueless. New York, May 19. Mayor McClel land announced today at a meeting of the Rapid Transit commission that, crushed by the weight of sand and water, the roofs of the Rapid Transit tubes under the East river, connecting the Bubway system in Manhattan with Brooklyn, have been flattened so seri ously at various points that they must be rebuilt bo that trains can pass through them. C. M. Jacobs, chief engineer in charge of the Pennsylvania tunnels under the East and North rivers; Gus tav Lindenthal and C. S. Smith, called in as experts, declare that the present conditions in the East river are suffi cient to cause a delay ,'of from 2 to hree years in the work. Reconstruc tion is expected to be absolutely neces sary for more than 1200 feet of the sec tion from Joralemon and Hicks streets out under the Brooklyn waterfront. World's International Commerce. Washington, May 19. The world's international commerce .will aggrearate fully $25,000,000,000 in the year 1906, says a bulletin issued by the depart ment of Commerce and Labor. By the term "world's international com merce," explains the bulletin, is meant the imports plus the exports of all countries of the world from which sta tistical trade reports are available. The. figures given indicate that the trade between nations in 1906 will be six times as much as in 1850, and twice as much as in 1870. New Delegate to Rio Conference. Washington, May 19. Paul Samuel Reinsch, of Madison, Wis., has been appointed one of the American dele gates at the Pan-American Conference in place of James S. Harlan, who has been obliged to decline the place owing to an accident to his 'knee. Paul Reinsch is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin. CUTS OFF SALARIES Congress May Legislate Land Re ceivers Out ot Office. WOULD MAKE NO APPROPRIATION House Committee on Appropriations Cuts Out Amount for Officials Whose Terms Expire Soon. Washington, May 17. The house committee on appropriations will not make provision in the sundry civil bill for the salaries of land office receivers whose terms expire during the present year. - The public lands committee has refused t0 report a bill abolishing the office of land receiver, notwithstanding the recommendations of the president and general land office, but the appro priations committee believes this re form is justified and much to be de sired. However, the appropriation commit tee has not jurisdiction over this gen eral subject, and can only.'act as out lined, to cut off the salaries of those re ceivers whose terms are about to expire. Under this change, Miss Anna M. Lang, receiver at The Dalles, the only woman land officer in the West, will be legislated out o office unless tbe senate should restore this appropriation, but no other Oreogn official would be affect ed this year. In Washington, Receivers L. B. An drews at Seattle and A. J. Cook at Vancouver would lose their office after July 1, along with Edward E. Garrett at Boise, Charles G. Garby, Lewiston; William A. Hodgman. Hailey; Charles G. Warner, Coeur d'Alene and George A. Robethan, Blackfoot, Idaho, and P. M. Mullen, Juneau, Alaska. It is expected that the senate will restore this appropriation to the sun dry civil bill, but, if it should not, the officers named, with many others, will be dropped on June 30 next. CAPITAL TO REBUILD CITY. Company to Loan $100,000,000 To Be Organized This Week, New York, May 17. The Herald to day says: One hundred million dol lars is to be the capitalization of the new mortgage loan corporation which is to bs organized here to advance mon ey for the rebuilding of San Francisco. The promoters of the enterprise at first argued that $10,000,000 capitalization would provide an ample vehicle for handling hundreds of millions of in vestments, but it was found that San Francisco favors a much larger capital ization, giving opportunity for invest ment by the Pacific Coast. Hence it is now considered best to capitalize . for $100,000,000, with paid in subscrip tions reaching $10,000,000 cash. E. II. Harriman, president of the Southern Pacific; Frank-A. Vanderlip, vice president of the National City Bank; Senator Newlands of Nevada and II. S. Black, president of the Unit ed States Realty and Improvement Company, today conferred with Frank lin K.Lane and Thomas Magee,both of San Francisco, and members of the relief committee, upon means to be employed to remove from the minds of investors in the East the fear that the complicated mortgage lawB of Califor nia will inflict double taxation upon owners of mortgages in San Francisco. FAVORS SEA LEVEL CANAL. Senate Committee Votes, Carmach Having Broken Deadlock. Washington, May 17. The senate committee on interoceanic canals voted today in favor of constructing a sea level canal. Senator Carmack's return from Tennessee broke the deadlock which occurred at a former meeting. The vote today was had on a resolu tion presented by Senator Kittredge, declaring it to be the sense of the com mittee that the construction of a sea level canal be recommended. On mo tion the affirmative votes were: Messrs. Piatt, Kittredge, Ankeny, Morgan, Car mack and Taliaferro. Chairman Mil lard voted in the negative. Pay What They Legally Owe. San Francisco, May 17. The insur ance companies will settle their losses in their own way, each company, acting for itself, according to the contracts embodied in its policies, and the Fire Underwriters' Adjusting Bureau will make no attempt to dictate a general policy or lay down uniform rules for the companies to observe in the settle ment of claims. The adjustment bu reau is merely to act as a board of ap praisers in dealing with claims and only report on losses sustained, leaving settlement to the respective companies. Relief Fund Feeds 164,000. Washington, May 17. Dr. Edward T. Devine, Red Cross representative in San Francisco, reports that requisitions for supplies have been reduced to 164, 000 a day.