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.