OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
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MEASURE IS DEFECTIVE.
' Anti-Pass Law Does Not Contain an
Enacting Clause.
Salem What disposition to make of
the anti-pans law is a problem that is
, troubling the state officials. It is not
because they do not favor the enact
ment of such a law. They are not call
ed upon to pass upon that phase of the
question.
It was discovered before the law waB
submitted to the people that it was fa
tally defective, in that it did not con
tain an enacting clause. The law
- books were scanned for some authority
to correct the defect, but it was discov
ered that it could not be corrected or
amended. The law on that point was
explicit.
The constitution says all laws must
have an enacting clause, and ' the Su
preme court has decidea that a law
without an enacting clause is void.
The secretary of state must submit
all measures to a vote of the people
that are filed in his office with the
proper number of names signed to the
petition. He has no authority to pass
upon the constitutionality of the pro
posed law, or question its expediency.
ALL POLICIES ARE CANCELED.
Attorney General Advises Traders' In
surance Policyholders.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
advises all persons having insurance in
the Traders' Insurance company, which
recently became insolvent, to reinsure
if they wish insurance, and to file
claims with the receiver for the un
earned portions of their premiums.
Suit for the appointment of a receiver
was brought a few days ago, and the
secretary of state and state treasurer
were made parties, because the state
has 50,000 bonds to secure policies in
this state.
When Attorney General Crawford re
turned from Eastern Oregon the papers
in the case were turned over to him.
lie says that in his opinion all policies
were cancelled when the company went
into bankruptcy and policy holders can
have no claim except for unearned
premiums.
Vinegar Factory is Assured.
La Grande That La Grande will
have a vinegar factory, which will be
in operation in time to handle the crop
of fall apples, is now an assured fact.
Nearly all the stock has been subscrib
ed. Cash stock subscriptions, amount
ing to nearly $30,000 have been made.
The building will be 45x150 with ce
ment cellars, and the factory will have
a capacityy for handling 100,000 bush
els during the year, with an output of
approximately 300,000 gallons of vine
gar, apple wine and cider.
Colony of Poles for Lane.
Eugene John J. von Gortomrki, of
Toledo, O., and W. Szcloszhicurez, of
Portland, representing a colonizing
company, which intends to locate a col
ony of Poles in Lane county, are in
Eugene making final arrangements to
bring the colonists. An agreement has
been made with the Booth-Kelley Lum
ber company whereby a large number
of the colonists are to be employed in
the company's sawmills and logging
camps. Others will purchase small
tracts of land and engage in farming.
Grand Ronde Farmers Jubilant.
La Grande Wheat growers in the
Grand Ronde valley are jubliant over
the outlook for their crops this season.
Fall wheats are giving every indication
of being equally as good as last year
and the spring wheat, it is closely esti
mated, will yield nearly two bushels
to one of last year. Judging from the
little difficulty the farmers are having
in securing employes there will be no
trouble in getting sufficient help to
harvest the crops. Unless there is an
exodus to other sections there should
be no shortage of help.
Hay Harvest Begins in Marion.
Salem Farmers are rejoicing over
the cessation of rain, and many have
commenced having, though cutting will
not be in full Bwing until next week.
With favorable weather, an immense
crop of hay will be saved. Grain is
reported in excellent condition. Many
hopgrowers are behind with training
vines, owing to bad weather, but the
growth has been good. Gardens have
been benefitted by the late rains.
Good Meeting Assured.
Ashland The annual assembly of
the Southern Oregon Chautauqua asso
ciation opens at Ashland Wednesday,
July 11, and continues for 10 days.
The program is particularly strong and
the indications are for a bigger and
better assembly than ever before.
Short on Fruit.
. Milton Business at the fruit pack
ing houses here is practically at a
standstill, and there will be scarcely
anything doing until the prune crop
matures.
BEET CROP GOOD.
Yield in Grand Ronde Valley Reaches
40,000 Tons.
La Grande Machinists are busy at
the sugar factory overhauling the ma
chinery and getting the plant in order
for the summer run for the working in
to brown sugar of the residue syrup of
last year. The mill expects to start on
this run early in July, and will con
tinue for six or eight weeks, which will
bring it almost up to the time when
the regular fall run will commence,
which to meet demands must begin not
later than the middle of September.
The pressing need for this unusually
early beginning is brought about by the
exceptional heavy crop of beets that is
expected to be harvested this year and
which must be disponed of before the
hard frosts come; therefore an early
start is necessary to get all the beets
through.
Manager Bramwell is enthusiastic on
the present prospects for a beet crop.
He says :
"We have 4,400 acres of beets this
year and at least 4,000 acres of this is
a perfect stand. The only difficulty
that confronts us is the scarcity of
help. We employ all the white help
we can and then fill out with the best
we can get. In addition to our home
supply of help we have about 200 Jap
anese." The yield of beets for this year is es
timated at between 35,000 and 40,000
tons, with a sugar output of not less
than 10,000,000 pounds.
high Wages Promised.
The Dalles The past few days of
warm weather have caused hay making
to be pushed with unusual vigor, and
farmhands find plenty of labor at f 2
per day. There appears to be plenty of
labor ti handle the hay crop, but farm
ers anticipate there will be a shortage
of laborers when wheat harvest begins,
which will be toward the latter part of
July, as harvest will be somewhat later
this season than of ordinary seasons.
It is likely header drivers will com
mand $3 a day, header wagon drivers,
$2 to 12.50, and separator tenders from
$3.50 to $4. Ordinary laborers, fork
tenders and stackers, will command $2
a day.
Big Crops in Harney.
Burns The late high water and
heavy rain storms in June will insures
large crop of wild hay. Most stockmen
are claiming that this season's hay crop
will be larger and better than for the
last five years. Last winter was a se
vere one on stock and there was but
little fodder left over. The stockmen
have moat every winter from three to
four months feeding, so it will take an
immense crop to last them through the
coming winter. Grain is looking well
and promises to be a heavy yield. The
acreage has been greatly increased.
Weston Wheat Flourishes.
Weston The wheat in this section is
making rapid growth since the recent
rains, and will make a good average
yield.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 7172c; bluestem,
74c; red, 6970c; valley, 7c2.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $31.5032;
gray, 131.50 per ton.
Barley Feed, $2424.50 per ton;
brewing, nominal; rolled, $2526.
Fruits Apples, $2.503 50 per box;
apricots, $1.752 per crate, cherries,
58o per pound; currants, 89c;
peaches, $1 1 .20 ; strawberries, 58c
per pound; gooseberries, 57c per
pound; Logan berries, $1.50 per crate;
raspberries, $1.501.75; blackberries,
10c.
Vegetables Beans, 57c per pound;
cabbage, lc per pound; cucumbers,
75c per dozen ; lettuce, head, 1025c;
onions, 8010c per dozen; peas, 45c;
radishes, 1020c per dozen; rhubarb,
3c per pound; spinach, 23c per
pound; parsley, 25c; turnips, $11,25
per sack; carrots, 6576c per sack;
beets, 85c$l per sack.
Onions New, l2o per pound.
Potatoes Fancy graded old Bur
banks, 4050c per hundred ; ordinary,
nominal; new Oregon, 76'0c.
Butter Fancy creamery, 1720c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 2122c per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 1313c
per pound; mixed chickens, 1212c;
broilers, 1516Jc; roosters, 9J6llcj
dressed chickens, 13 14c; turkeys,
live. 17 17c; turkeys, dressed,
choice, 2022c; geese, live, 89c;
ducks, old, 1 1 12c; young. 1213c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, lCllc; olds,
6c per pound. ,
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1823Hc; valley, coarse22 23Xc;
fine, 24c per pound; mohair, choice,
280130c,
Veal Dressed, 47c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound;
cows. 45c; country steers, 56e.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 78c; per
pound; ordinary, 56cj lambs, with
pelt on, 8c.
Fork Dressed, 78c per'pound.'
TRADE OF UNITED STATES.
Foreign Commerce is Greatest With
European Countries.
Washington, June 26. An analysis
of the foreign commerce of th United
States, contained in a bulletin issued
by the department of Commerce and
Labor, says that in the fiscal year
1905, 48 per cent of the imports into
the United States was drawn from Eu
rope, 20 per cent from North America,
13 per cent from South America, 14 per
cent from Asia. Of the exports from
the United States in the same year, 67
per cent went to Europe, 17 per cent
to North America, 4 per cent to South
America, 8 per cent to Asia, 2 per cent
to Oceanica and 1 per cent to Africa.
A comparison with the figures for
earlier years shows a gradual decline
in the share of our imports supplied by
Europe and in the share Europe takes
of our expots. This is due largely to
the enlargement of our .trade with the
Orient.
Imports from Europe have grown
from $384,000,000 in 1895 to $541,
000,000 in 1905; from North Amer
ica, $134,000,000 in 1895 to $227,000,
000 in 1905 ; from South America, from
$112,000,000 to $151,000,000, but the
bulletin adds that in 1906 they will fall
about $14,000,000 below those of 1905,
chiefly on account of a reduction of the
quantity of coffee and India rubber im
ported. From Asia the imports have
grown from $78,000,000 to $163,000,
000 in 1905.
Exports to Europe have grown from
$628,000,000 in 1895 to $1,021,000,000
in 1905; to North Amercia, from $108,
500,000 to $260,500,000; to South
America, from $33,000,000 to $50,000,
000. and to Asia from $17,330,000 to
$128,500,000.
MARINES ARE READY.
May Be Called Upon to Quell Incip
ient Revolution at Panama.
Panama, June 26. The administra
tion of President Amador has been per
petuated as the r result of the elections
here today, but the conditions are now
such on the isthmus that were it not
for the preeence here of a large body of
American marines, well armed and
equipped, and several gatling guns
mounted along the canal strip, a revo
lution would already be in progress. As
matters stand there is a feeling of sul
len discontent among the more progres
sive of the inhabitants of the Panama
republic, which may yet break out in
open revolution.
Threats of assassination are freely
made and it is openly asserted by the
Liberals that Dr. Amador will hardly
live much longer.
Today's election, while only for
members of the Municipal council, was
admitted to be a test, and upon its out
come depended the result of the gene
ral elections to be held later.
It is rumored that a large number
of Guatemalans are on the way here for
the purpose of aiding in an attempt to
overthrow the Amador administration.
Color is lent to this report by the pres
ence on the outskirts of the city of a
detachment of 300 American marines
with gatling guns. They were sent by
Governor Magoon, who has so far de
clined to explain their preeence.
IMPORTED YELLOW FEVER.
Single Case is Reported at Missis
sippi Quarantine.
New Orleans, June 26. One case of
yellow fever was reported today at the
Mississippi river quarantine station, 95
miles below New Orleans. This is the
first case of yellow fever reported in
Louisiana this year by the state board
of health. The patient is a Cuban
sailor who arrived at quarantine June
18 on the steamer Hoistein from Ha
vana. The Hulstein is still detained at
quarantine, having been disinfected.
No other cases of elevated temperature
have yet appeared on the Hols'.ein.
Dr. C. H. Iron, president of the state
board of health, said to the inspecting
party that he does not believe yellow
fever is epidemic in New Orleans or in
Louisiana. The existence of yellow
fever at Bio Janeiro and also of two
cases of bubonic plague at that port
were reported to the state board by offi
cers of the steamer Sallust, arriving
nere today. The Sallsust was disin
fected at quarantine.
Rebels Gaining Ground.
Mexico City, June 26. Several trav
elers from Salvador arrived here . to
night. They report that the Guate
malan ports of Chammperico and San
Jose are well fortified and provided
with the best artillery. They state
that the revolution has by no means
ended, and that the revolutionary lead
ers are popular in Guatemala. The de
feat suffered at Manguay by the revolu
tionists has not discouraged them. It
has brought about reorganization of
their forces and they have received ad
ditional artillery.
Governor Harris III.
Chicago, June 26. A special to the
Record-Herald from Cleveland siys:
Governor Andrew L. Harris, of Ohio,
is ill at his home in Eaton, Preble
county. He is suffering from exhaus
tion and acute indigestion and it is
doubtful if he will be able to return to
Columbus to take up his duties.
FORM NEW MINISTRY
Spread o! Revolt Among Troops
Alarms Czar and Court.
GOVERNMENT FEAR OF ARMY
News From Provinces Shows Gene
ral Anarchy To Be Growing
Procurator Gives In.
St. Petersburg, June 30. The cam
paign which the opposition elements
in parliaments are waging to compel
Emperor Nicholas to dismiss the Go
remykin ministry and accept the prin
ciple of a responsible ministry prom
ises to be successful soon. Both the
emperor and the court are frightened
into surrender by the alarming spread
of revolutionary ideas among the
troops.
When the Preobrajensky regiment,
'His Majesty's Own," pronounced its
solidarisy with parliament at Krasno
Selo, less than a dozen miles from the
Peterhof palace, the emperor's eyes
opened and the court began to realize
that there was only a step from that to
declaring allegiance to parliament as
azainst the government.
Even the procurator general of the
holy synod, M. Pobedonostseff, who to
day celebrated his sixtieth jubilee of
his entrance into the service of the
state, and who has been much at Peter
hof recently, 1b said to have reversed
the position of a life time and to have
advised the emperor to yield to the de
mand for a responsible ministry as the
only means of preserving the throne.
The government's sudden fear of
affronting public opinion, after finding
the army affected with the revolution
ary propaganda, is shown in the hur
ried grant of a new trial to seven men
condemned to death at Riga, the ac
quittal of six others and the commuta
tion of death sentences imposed on the
three murders of the foreman of the
Putiloff Iron works.
The news from the provinces showB
that general anarchy is growing. In
Altara and Tauride provinces the peas
ants are abandoning the fields, and in
Tula province roving bands are march
ing through the country, dragging in
their wake not only the workers from
the fields, but the domestic servants of
the gentry.
RED CROSS THIEF.
Superintendent of Relief Station Steals
Blankets and is Caught.
San Francisco, June 30. Accused of
selling large quantities of blankets and
appropriating the money, John Clark,
superintendent of the Red Cross relief
station No. 1, at Golden Gate park,
and George Bryant, engineer at the
children's playground in the park, who,
it is alleged, aided and abetted Clark,
were arrested by detectives today.
The police state that they were made
aware of the alleged peculations
through A. Suggerman, a junk dealer.
While a refugee in the park, Sugger
man made the acquaintance of Bryant,
and after Suggerman had resumed bus
iness, it is alleged, Bryant called upon
him and said he could sell him a quan
tity of new government blankets. Bry
ant said he could deliver him 400 pairs,
and if the price was satisfactory it
would lead to a delivery of 800 pairs
per week.
Suggerman notified the police, who
set a trap for the man. After some
haggling, a price of $1.25 a pair was
agreed upon, and, according to Detec
tive Ryan, Bryant handed Suggerman
an envelope with Clark's name on it,
which the teamster was to hand to
Clark, so that Clark would know the
right man.
A wagon followed by the detectives
was sent for the blankets today and se
cured 400, which are being held as evi
dence. Clark was arrested at the relief
station, and Bryant at Suggerman's
store, where he waa waiting to receive
the money.
Marine Corps Want Wynne to Stay.
New York, June 30. Captain Rob
ert F. Wynne, of the United States
Marine corps, sent his formal resigna
tion from the service to Brigadier Gen
eral George F. Elliott, commandant of
the Marine corps, yesterday, to be for
warded to the president. A delegation
of marines in the navy yard and on
board the ships there waited on Cap
tain Wynne yesterday with a "round
robin," which was to be signed by
every marine in the North Atlantic fleet
that could be reached, begging the pres
ident not to acept his resignation.
Dewey Leaves Singapore.
Washington, June 30. According to
a table message received at the Navy
department today from Commander
Hosley, commanding the dry dock Dew
ey expedition, bis squad -ou left Singa
pore today, bound for the naval station
of Olongapo, in Subig bay, about 40
miles north of Manila, which is to be
the permanent location of the big dock.
WAYS OF OLD WORLD
America Will Not Lose Anything
by Comparison.
HONESTY IS NOT COMMON THERE
Everything Must Be Put Down in
Black and White in European
Commercial Life.'
Chicago, June 28. The Berlin cor
respondent of the Chicago Daily News
cables the following interview with
Adolph Kahn, a prominent American
business man, on his observance of
business methods abroad:
"European mud-slinging at Ameri
can commercial morals, which is now
so popular, is hypocrisy of the rankest
kind," said Mr. Kahn. "Wide know
ledge of European methods assures me
that a comparison of ethics would de
cidedly favor the business men and
business practices of the United States.
Representatives of our leading indus
trial organizations declare that their
daily experiences reveal little of the
boasted moral superiority of the Old
World.
"One of them makes the sweeping
assertion that, barring perhaps English
men, he would not trust any European
merchant, manufacturer or tradesman,
unless the transactions were tied up in
formal documents producible in court.
"Such things as a 'gentleman's
agreement,' which is an everyday feat
ure of American business, is unknown
here. The doctrine of common honesty
and mutual trust appears to play no
part in European commercial life.
Everything must be put down in black
and white, and even then there is a
tendency to quibble and crawl. Broad
guage, generous methods and princi
ples, characteristic of the best class of
American concerns, are utterly foreign
to the European business code."
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PASSES ARE TO BE LIMITED.
Rate BilConference WilAlso'.Report
Pipe Line Amendment.
Washington, June 27. The confer
ence on the railroad rate bill tonight
resulted in no agreement on that meas
ure. The discussion made it clear that
the pass provision, which is to be per
fected for the action of the committee
tomorrow morning, will follow closely
the lines of the original senate amend
ment on that subject. It will name
certain classes of persons who may re
ceive passes and exclude all others.
There is also ground for the predic
tion that the pipe line amendment will
be reported exactly as it was in the last
conference report that is, the phrase
"common carriers" will give place to
the word "railroads." The effect of
this will be to permit pipe lines to
transport the product owned "by the
ownerB of the pipe line.
Before discussing the two disputed
amendments it was decided that the
former agreement as to all other points
in dispute should stand. This was the
first meeting since the rejection of the
conference report by the senate on ac
count of the pass amendment and the
provision relating to pipe lines.
Sulphites Used in Sausages.
Kansas City, June 28. A chemical
analysis of hamburger steaks, bologna
sausage, loose sausage, Polish sausage,
frankfurters and weinerwursts, bought
in the open market from the three lead
ing packing companies, has convinced
Dr, B. W. Lindberg, president of chem
istry and toxicology in the Kansas City
Habnan Mann Medical college, that
these products of the packing compan
ies contain sulphites. In every sample
of the product of two and in two out of
five of the other samples sulphites were
found.
Spread of Mutiny,
St. Petersburg, June 28. The com
mander of the ultra-royal Prebrajansky
regiment, to which belong the men
who recently held a meeting in the
guard camp at Krasnoic-Selo and drew
up resolutions addressed to their com
mander, upholding all of the actions of
parliament and declaring that they
want no more police duty entailing the
slaying of brothers or fathers, bas been
seerely reprimanded by the emperor.
Give'UpJTheir Arms.
Manila The'Pulajane leaders, Qui
nentin and Adva, have surrendered to
Governor Osmena, and the constabula
ry. These were the last of the men ar
rayed against the Americana on the is
land of Cube. The rifles and ammuni
tion of the members of their band were
also surrendered. 1