I OREGON STATE. ITEMS OF INTEREST I
TURNS DOWN WOOL GROWERS.
Pinchot Says They Must Pay for All
Range In Reserves.
Washington Gifford Pinchot, chief
ot the Forestry service, has overruled
the protest of the Umatilla County
Woolgrowers' association in the matter
of charging a grazing fee for the Blue
mountain forest reserve range this sea
son. The woolgrowera also protested
that they were not assigned individual
ranges. The department explained
that it was not custemary to assign
particular tracts to individual stockmen
when reserves were first created, and it
is not yet determined what plan will be
followed in the Blue mountains.'
The association also called attention
to recent decisions by the California
and Washington courts to the effect
that the secretary of agriculture is
without authority to Impose a tax for
the use of forest reserve range, and
without authority arbitrarily to regu
late its use. The forest officials inter
pret these decisions to hold that the
secretary of agriculture bad not been
empowered to enforce any penal code,
but did have the right to keep the re
serves clear of stock or lease them on
such reasonable conditions aB he should
prescribe. No appeal has been prose
cuted to a final hearing in either case.
but the officials believe their right in
the sphere indicated is beyond all pos
eible question, and say that court deci
sions will have no influence upon the
rules adopted for control of reserves.
Bands want 10 uo 10 oaiem.
Salem Almost every organized band
in the state has applied to the Salem
Fourth of July committee lor an en
gagement. When the committee began
making arrangements to celebrate the
Fourth it was announced that a large
number of bands, probably 20, would
be employed if possible for the occa
sion. The responses came thick and
fast. Several days ago the committee
had engaged all the bands that could
be paid from the fund available. If
there were a few thousand more dollars
in the treasury the committee would be
willing to work overtime engaging
bands. As it is the committee is satis
fled ..hat there will be more brass band
music in Salem on the Fourth of July
than was ever heard at one place in
Oregon before.
State Fair To Be the Greatest.
Salem Now that the election is over
President Downing of the state fair
hoard, who ia also chairman of the
Democratic county committee, expects
to devote bis entire time and attention
to perfecting arrangements for the state
fair, which opens in September. Mr
Downing says that the fair this year
will be the greatest ever held on the
state fair grounds. The attractions will
be better and more numerous and the
exhibits in every department will ex
eel all other showings. He says the
people in every county are taking an
interest this year, which is due, he
thinks, to the interest awakened by
the Lewis and Clark fair.
Fleeces in Prime Condition.
Baker City Shearing of sheep in
Baker county has begun by electric
machinery at the plant of Lee Bros.,
near here, who will first shear their
own sheep and then those of Ayre and
other large ownAilUn the county.
Shearing was delayed by the long con
tinued wet weather but it is said that
on account of the mojature the quality
of the Baker wool', f will this year far
exceed that of previous years, as it is
clean from dust and of fine texture.
It is expected the tonnage will be large
and that most of it will go into storage.
Many Seeking Timber Land.
Baker City Many people are com
ing into the Eastern Oregon timber belt
in search of timber. Locators from
Chicago, Milwaukee, Western Wash
ington and Idaho were included in two
parties which have passed through Ba
ker City on their way into the John
Day country. One of these parties,
with H. J. Bundy, started for the Su
nanville district; the other party, 15
people in all, 14 women and one boy,
which was under the direction of G.
W. Shaw, started for Burns.
Fruit Injured In Valley.
Salem The continued damp weath
er which has prevailed for the past
three weeks in the Willamette valley
has been very Injurious to the fruit
crop. Strawberries in some localities
have been almost ruined. Cherries,
too, have been injured for want of dry
weather and sunshine. Growing grain
has bad all the rain necessary for this
saason.
La Grande Offers Free Site.
La Grande The La Grande Com
mercial club is attempting to raise $8,
O00 for the purchase of a site to be
offered to the Palmea Lumber company
as an inducement for the location of its
new mill here. About (6,000 has been
subscribed. A site of 73 acres on the
river northwest of town has been secured
by option.
SAYS CONTRACTORS WILL LOSE
Did Not Know Nature of Rock Along
Route of Celilo Canal.
Portland The government canal at
Celilo will cost $10,000,000, instead of
$4,000,000, according to I. H. Taffe,
who has been operating fish wheels
near there for 20 years.
"The contractors, Smith & Jones,
who are digging the first half mile at
the Celilo end, will lose $100,000 on
the Job," he said. "They took it at
too low a figure, evidently not knowing
the nature of the rock they have to
blast out. Their bid was I $294,000.
They have about 100 men at work pre
paring a foundation for ttie rock work
on the upper end of the canal."
Mr. Taffe says there is nothing in tne
fishwheel business this season because
"those fellows on the lower river won't
let a single salmon get past them." He
gets a good price, 7 cents a pound, for
all he traps, his market being in the
Eaat. His cold storage works are,
however, devoid of salmon this season,
and he does not anticipate any great
improvement in the run.
Calapooia Company Is Sued.
Albany Claiming the Calapooia
Lumber company, of Crawfordsville,
has cut and logged more than 750,000
feet of timber off land belonging to
him, Abner C. Withee has filed suit
for $4,500 damages in the State Circuit
court for Linn county, through At tor
ney W. Lair Thompson. The timber
alleged to have been cut by the defend
ant company is valued at $1,500, and
the Oregon statutes provide that where
timber is cut . unlawfully the owner
may recover three times its value
Withee is an Eastern capitalist who has
large timber holdings in Linn county,
and is represented in the West by
Thompson & Hardy, of Eugene.
Water Soon to Flow.
Baker City Water will flow through
the 12-mile ditch of the Baker Irnga
tion company within the next few days
This statement was made by J. A
Smith, head of the company. The
water will be Bent down in a small vol
ume, at first being used for sluicing in
the banks of the big reservoir which is
to'be built this summer. '.The reservoir
is to cover 240 acres and have a capa
city of 6,000-acre feet. The ditch will
be used tor carrying water for storage
in the reservoir for the first time next
spring.
Road Machinery Arrives.
Salem Two carloads of machinery
for the government experimental road
construction have arrived in this city
There is one more car' on the road
When it arrives the work will be start
ed in earnest. The engineer in charge
of the work, Mr. Loder, expects to be
employed in the construction of this
sample road at least two months.
. Successor to Dr. Lane.
Salem Governor Chamberlain ap
pointed Dr. W B. Morse, of Salem, a
member of the state board of health, in
place of Dr. Harry Lane, resigned, and
H. G. Myer, of Salem, a member of the
barber commission.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 7278c; bluestem
7475c; red, 7071c; valley, 72c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $31.50
gray, $31.50 per ton.
Barley Feed, $24.50 per ton; brew
ing, nominal; rolled, $2526
Hay Valley timothv, No. 1. $12
13 per ton; clover, $7.50(3)8 ; cheat
$67; grain hay, $70)8; alfalfa, $13
Fruits Apples. $2.508.50 per box
apricots, $1.752.00 crate; cherries
76cil per box; strawberries,
8c per pound; gooseberries, 56o per
pound.
Vegetables Beans, 35c; cabbage,
$11.25 per 100: green corn, 47
aoz.; onions, oauuc per aozen; peas
5c; radishes, 10c per dozen; rhubarb
3c per pound ; spinach, 90o per box
parsley, 25c; squash, $1 per crate
turnips, $1(31.25 per sack; carrots, 65
75c per sack; beeta, 85c $1 per sack
Onions New, 1 H2c per pound
Potatoes Fancy graded Burbanks
50 60c per hundred; ordinary, nomi
nal; new California, 2c per pound
Butter Fancy creamery, 1720c
per pound.
jiggs uregon rancn, zugzio per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 12013c
per pound; mixed chickens,1212c;
broilers. 1516c; roosters, 10c; dress
ed chickens, 13014c; turkeys, live,
1618c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 20
22c; geese, live, 910c; geese, dressed,
old, 10c; young, 12c; ducks, old, 11
12c; young, 1218c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, 1012c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1823c; valley, coarse, 22ffl23c;
fine, 2425c; mohair, choice, 2830c
per pound.
Veal Dressed, 47n per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound ;
cows, 45c; country steers, 66c.
Mutton Dressed fancy, 7 8c pound;
ordinary, 56c; lambs, with pelt on,
8c.
Pork Dressed,
BLOW TO THE WEST.
Mining, Irrigation and Lumber Inter
ests Will Feel Effect of Economy.
Washington, June 12. House repre
sentatives struck a severe blow to the
entire West in cutting down the all-
important appropriation for the geo
logical survey carried by the sundry
eivil bill, and unless the senate in
creases these items, mining, irrigation
and lumber interests will leel the effect
of the house legislation. In all $346,
000 has been cut off the geological sur
vey appropriation.
The government was about to begin
the testing of mineral fuels of the
West, including the coals and lignites
of the Pacific coast. Little work of this
character can be done, for the appro
priation was only $100,000, when twice
that amount baa been annually appro
priated for similar work in the East.
Instead- of $100,000 to carfy on the
investigation of mineral resources, in
cluding black sand experiments at Port
land, the house grants but $50,000
This will shut off the black sand work
entirely, when the present special fund
is expended.
The appropriation lor lorest reserve
surveys iB cut from $130,000 to $100,
000 and a cut of $50,000 is made in
the appropriation for topographic sur
veys, which form the basis of all the
geological survey work. Congress has
been appropriating $zuu,uuu annually
to gauge streams preliminary to under
taking actual imitation worn. 1ms is
cut to $100,000 and means material in
terference with irrigation surveys in lo
calities where new projects are contem
plated.
Another cnt tbat win be felt is in
the appropriation for the annual report
on mineral resources oi me unuea
States. This will cut down the sub
ject matter of the valuable government
document and will restrict the issue to
the inconvenience of the mining inter
eats of the country.
PACKERS TO THEIR KNEES.
Secret Service Men Secure Startling
Testimony at Chicago.
Washington, June 12. Secret service
men are reported to be on their way
here with sensational information in
their possession as to use of preaerva
lives by the beef trust. They were
Bent to Chicago by order of the preei
dent as soon as he had been advised
verbally of the results of the investi
gation of Labor Commissioner Neill
and Jamet Reynolds. It is said that
they have concluded an exhaustive in
quiry which will not only hring the
packers to their knees but will remove
the powerful influences that are being
exerted against congress and tie great
cattle interests with a view of forcing
the president to capitulate.
This pressure has become gigantic
Every business, political and financial
ramification of the great trust is being
utilized directly and indirectly to have
a halt called on the government ex
posure, and, if possible, get an official
declaration that the portrayal of condi
tiona in the packing houses has been
exaggerated. Cattle interests of the
great West and Southwest, which for
yers have been clamoring in congress
and outside of it for protection against
the trust, have even been persuaded
tbat a continuation of government bos
tility will ruin them.
The cry of panic has fteen raised
Not only bankers handling trust funds
but their employes, friends and ac
quaintances in theb usineas, social and
political world, have been enlisted to
use their efforts in the gigantic struggl
tbat is now in progress, to stem the
tide against the packers.
Caught With the Bombs.
New York, June 12. An attempt
was made tonight to explode a bomb in
a manhole of the Interborough Bapid
Transit company in front ot the power
house, at East Seventy-fourth street
which furnishees current to the sub
way. One man, Joseph Bartky, 22
years old, was arrested, the police say
as he was about to light the fuse of
the bomb as it lay on the manhole
cover. Two companions who were with
him escaped. On Bartky was found
three other bombs, all being of uni
form size, the shape of a baseball, but
a little larger.
Reinke Given Five Years.
Milwaukee, Wis., June 12. Arthur
George Reinke, formerly receiving tel
ler of the Marshall & Haley bank, was
sentenced to five years in the state re
formatory at Green Bay on charges of
embezzlement of $14,000, by Judgi
Brazee this morning. He had entered
a plea of guilty to the complaint, which
charged him with having converted to
his own use $3,000 on May 22, 1905
and $11,000 on November 22, 1905
The charge was brought under the law
of 1903, relating to embezzlement by
bank officers and employes.
Benson To Be Senator.
Ottawa, Kan., June 12. Judge Al
fred Watson Benson, of this city, who
yesterday was offered the appointment
of United States senator to succeed
Joseph R. Burton, stated today that he
would accept the position . , He will
officially notifiy Governor Hoch tomor
row of his acceptance Judge Benson
expects to start for Washington tomor
row. . .
DRAWN BY PACKERS
New Meat Inspection Bill Was
Their Suggestion.
REPRESENTATIVE WAS IN CHICAGO
Member of Committee Submitted Sub
stitute to Packers Changes Ac
cepted in Full.
Washington, June 16. President
Roosevelt has yet to play his trump
card against the men in congress who
are endeavoring to render ineffective
the Beveridge meat inspection amend'
ment to the agricultural bill. It be
came known today that the house com
m it tee substitute for the Beveridge
amendment was actually drawn by the
Chicago packers and was reported by
the committee exactly as requested by
the men whom the president proposes
to place under government inspection
The house committee last Saturday
morning reached an agreement to re'
port its substitute and immediatly Rep
reseotative Lorimer left for Chicago
with a copy of the committee bill. He
spent half a day Sunday in conference
with the leading packers of his home
city, submitting to them the substi
tute drawn by himself and Chairman
Wadsworth and accepted by the major
ity of the house committee. The pack
ers went over this proposed legislation
very carefully, wrote in many changes
which they desired, and asked Mr. Lor
imer to do his best to have their ideas
carried out.
Mr. Lorimer hastened back to Wash
ington, submitted the packers' ideas to
the committee, and the majority of the
committee actually adopted every sug
gestion that was made to Mr. Lorimer,
reporting a substitute for the Beveridge
amendment identical with that which
was endorsed by representatives of the
packers in Chicago on Sunday. These
facts are vouched for by two members
of the house committee, and they have
reported them to the president.
Such evidence as this is the strongest
kind of a club for the president, and
will do more than anything else to de
feat the committee proposition and
force the house to accept Bometning
very similar to the original Beveridgi
amendment; to do otherwise, the house
would have to acknowledge that it was
legislating at the direction of the beef
trust and few congressmen care to go
into the campaign this fall with any
such record to their credit.
WANT APPEAL TO COURTS.
Victims of Postal Fraud Orders Want
Cortelyou Curbed.
Washington, June 16. Effort is be
ing made to curb the power exercised
by the Poatoffice department in issuing
fraud orders against mail. The house
committee on judiciary has reported
favorably a measure granting appeal
from department fraud orders to the
courts, wiere the petitioner shall be
insured the right to a full judicial
hearing on the facts and judicial judg
ment as to whether the postal laws and
regulations are being violated.
Department rulings on use of the
mails, especially on the point whether
fraud is being committed, have been
the subject of many sharp controversies.
The plenary powers of the executive
officials have been as frequently es
tablished. Accumulated disappoint
ment of those denied access to the
mails is offered in explanation of the
present movement. Since the removal
of Tyner, there have been no charges of
wilful abuse of the powers of the de
partment, but the purity of purpose
conceded to officials haa not removed
the sting entirely for those who have
suffered.
There is little prospect that the
mesaure will be passed by the house
this session, but assurance is had that
a serious effort will be made to put it
on the statute books before the close of
the Fifty-ninth congress.
Ready to Reduce Navy.
Rome, June 16. In the chamber of
deputies today, Signor Brunialti inter
rogated the government relative to the
proposal of the British government at
The Hague conference for reduction of
armament. Foreign Minister Tittoni
replied that he was glad of the oppor
tunity to publicly express Italy's ad
hesion to the humanitarian proposal of
Great Britain, adding that Italy always
was ready to co-operate sincerely with
initiatives aiming at the simultaneous
reduction of armament to avert the
dangers and disasters of war.
Denied to the Women.
Helena, Mont., June 16. Holding
that upon constitutional grounds wo
men cannot hold notarial commissions
in this state, Governor Toole today re
voked all outstanding commissions held
hv women, seven in all, and denied as
many applications. ,
TROOPS JOIN MOBS
zar Can No Longer Trust Sold
iers to Resist Revolution.
STRIKE THREATENED AT MOSCOW
Governor of Poltava Clamors for
Fresh Troops Since Mutiny
Court Party Exposed.
St. Petersburg, June 14. Ominous
of' the government's ability to cope
with prospective agrarian disorders is
the news from Poltava, one of the rich
est and most populous farming pro
vinces of Russia, tbat the governor iB
in daily receipt of requests for troops
for the protection of estates from the
peasants, who have not the slightest
fear of the rural guards.
The governor is unable to comply
with these requests, because the local
troops, one regiment of which muti
nied Sunday, are so infected by the re
volutionary propaganda that detach
ments Bent to the villages immediately
fraternize with the peasants. The gov
ernor therefore begs the St. Petersburg
authorities to send him fresh troops.
Two daily newspaper organs of the
Revolutionary Socialists, the Narodny
Vestnik (People's Messenger) and the
Isvestia (Peasant News) were suppress
ed today. The final number of the
Narodny Vestnik gives statiatica of
General Trepoff 's reactionary party in
the council of the empire, which it
says is composed of three princes, four
counts, three barons, 24 ex-governors
general, governors and other high offi
cials, and one metropolitan, who, to
gether draw from the government over
$500,000 in ealarieB. Besides this, all
these reactionaries own immense es
tates, that of M. Polotseff being 1,500,
000 acres.
An industrial tempest seems to be on
ihi point of breaking at Moscow.
whence it may again spread over the
empire. A final conference between
the employers and printers, whose
strike produced the general strike of
last October, is being held tonight. If
it should be fruitless, the result will be
a lockout of the printers and probably
a sympathetic factory Btrike.
INDEPENDENTS ASK FAIR PLAY.
Independents in Ohio Ask for Special
Legislative Session.
Cleveland, June 14. The Leader to
day says :
An extra session of the Ohio legisla
ture is asked by the independent oil
men of the state. A formal request for
the issuance of a special call is being
prepared for Governor Pattison, while
letters bearing upon this subject are to
be sent from Cleveland to every mem
ber of the legislature.
Should the special session be called.
the independent oil men will urge the
amendment of tvo laws which they
deem necessary to insure them fair play
as against the Standard Oil company.
The first is the anti-discrimnation law
now in operation in Kansas and Iowa.
The second is the maximum . freight
law, which has enabled the independ
ent operators in Kansas to obtain equal
rights from the railroads, thus placing
them on the same competitive basis as
the vast combine.
FORCE ISSUE ON CANAL TYPE.
Amendment to Sundry Civil Bill May
Come In House.
WashingtonJune 14. An unexpect
ed snag waa struck today in the move
ment for an early adjournment, and it
is possible that the type of the Panama
canal must be settled before congress
closes its seaaiona. Secretary Taft was
in conference wit'j Speaker Cannon and
Chairman Hepburn, of the committee
on interstate and foreign commerce.
which handles the canal legislation,
and there is a disposition to settle the
type of canal before the adjournment
of congress.
Steamer Empire Is Sold.
City of Mexico,' June 14. The steam
er Empire, now at Corinto, Nicaragua,
and said to be assisting the Guatemalan
rebels, has been sold to the Nicaraguan
government, according to a dispatch re
ceived here from Salvador, and cannot
now be seized. Tapachula advices
report that Ayutla, Guatemala, has not
been retaken by Guatemala regulars.
Ocos is said to be still in the possession
of the revolutionists. The leaders of
the Guatemalan revolution scout the
adverse reports sent out from Guatemala
City.
Goose Lake Land Withdrawn.
Washington, June 14. The secre
tary of the interior today withdrew
from disposition under the public land
laws a strip of land .extending around
Goose lake, in Northern California, and
Southwestern Oregon, for use in con
nection with the Pitt river irrigation
project. The areacovers approximate
ly 40,000 acres. "