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OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
GROW RUBBER IN UMATILLA.
Colorado Man Says the Climate and
Soil Are Good.
Pendleton- -There is a prospect that
Umatilla county may become the rub
ber growing center of tne Pacific North
west in the near future. G. T. Doug
las, of Durango, Col., representing the
rubber trust of the United Status, is
here for the purpose of looking over
the country and making an examina
tion of the soil. He 1b now looking
over the country in the vicinity of
Echo, where the soil and climate is
similar to that of New Mexico, Arizona
southern Utah and southern Colorado,
where the plant is grown very success
fully. The plant is said to flourish in
dry sandy soil, and in semi-arid dis
tricts. Mr. Douglas believes this sec
tion to be adapted to the, successful
growing of the plant which he says re
quires about two years to come to ma
turity. It can be put in at from $8 to
$10 per acre and will yield from $100
to $200 per acre. Mr. Douglas will
make a report of his investigations to
his company in a few days.
Sodaville as Seat of Learning,
Albany Articles of incorporation
have been filed in the county clerk's
oflice for the Mineral Springs college,
at Sodaville. The college will be open
ed next fall in the building at Soda
ville formerly occupied by the old Min
eial 8pringB seminary, which closed its
doors several years ago from lack of
financial assistance. It is now planned
to establish a school the equal of any
institution in Oregon, except those sup
ported by the state. Classical, scien
tific, literary, normal, business and
musical courseB will be taught, and the
institution plans to give degrees as
high as master of arts.
Demand for Labor in Linn County.
Albany There is no excuse for a la
boring man to complain for lack of
work in Oregon this year. In Linn
county there is a demand for laborers
of every sort, and especially those who
will do farm work during the harvest
ing season, and who are willing to work
around a sawmill, or in the woods.
Farmers in Linn county are looking in
vain for needed assistance to garner
their ciop and the lumbering mills
along the rivers of Linn, Marion and
Lane counties are advertising for help
all the time. Many college students
are spending their vacation weeks at
the sawmills.
Labor Famine in Valley.
Salem As an illustration of how
great is the demand for manual and
team labor in the Willamette va'ley,
the Willamette Valley Traction com
pany, in commencing work upon the
Portland Salem electric line, was un
able to secure men and teams, and
employed a steam traction engine to do
the ground breaking. It is quite prob
able that help will have to be imported
from other states in older that the com
pany may be able to fulfill its contracts
with the city council of Salem to have
the line completed between this city
and Chemawa and ready for operation
on or before September 10.
Wasco Farmers Begin Harvest.
The Dalles Haying is well advanced
throughout Wasco county, the bulk of
the grain bay now being in the stack
and the second cutting of alfalfa has
begun. More hay has been cut in the
county this year than for many years
previous. This was owing to so much
of the grain having been injured by
heat, making it unfit to thresh. Next
week cutting of grain will begin in sec
tions where fall grain is raised, and in
most sections barley will be ready to
cut by the last of the week. Farmers
estimate that about half a crop will be
harvested. The fall wheat will be No.
1, but nnst of the spring wheat will be
inferior.
Hot Weather Hurries Harvest.
Eugene The condition of the crops
in the Upper Willamette valley, espec
ially around Eugene, during the past
week have been excellent, and all the
farmers are happy. The haying season
is about half over and the crop to be
harvested will be one of the largest for
years. The warm wave which has ex
tended over the valley has been some
what detrimental to the wheat crop,
which, according to the farmers, has
advanced too far. Harvest hands are
reported scarce, even with the good
wages offered.
Exhibits for Jamestown Fair.
Salem Jefferson Myers, president of
the Lewis and Clark fair commission,
and one of the commissioners to the
Jamestown exposition, was in Salem
recently closing up the affairs of his
commission and alao consulting with
officers of the state fair board relative
to the collection of exhibits for the Or
egon exhibit at Jamestown. Colonel
Myers says that all exhibitors at the
state fair wiU be asked to preserve as
much of their products as possible and
the commission will purchase such as
is meritorious for exhibit at James-
t0WD
FOOD LAW QUESTIONED.
Legal Interpretation of Two Words
Means Much to its Friends.
Salem Upon the legal interpreta
tion of the words "adulterants" and
"adulteration" hangs the fate of Ore
gon's pure food law when it comes up
for denision before Judge George II.
Burnett, of the Circuit court, for this
county in the case of the state vs.
George Fendorick, who is charged with
Belling the state lard that haa been
adulterated with tallow.
Fondorick, who is a meat dealer in
thia city, ia under contract to furnish
the state insane asylum with a quantity
of lard, and it is charged by the state
dairy and food commissioner that the
lard furnished contains a certain per
centage of tallow.
The point at issue ia whether an
adulterant in foods means the substitu
tion of a substance which is injurious
to the human system for a pure article,
and if the court holds that tallow Is not
an adulterant it will throw the whole
act open to technical violation in all
lines of trade in foodstuffs.
Big Real Estate Dealjjjat Eugene.
Eugene One of the largest real es
tate deals ever made in Lane county
was consummated recently when Eli
Bangs, Eugene's pioneer liveryman,
Bold a quarter block of ground at the
corner of West Ninth and Olive streets
to G. M. Bonnett, a farmer of this city,
for $35,000. A two story brick build
ing and a large frame livery stable
building are on the ground, and they
are included in the sale. Mr. Bangs
secures in the deal a 060-acre stock
farm in Harney county, which his son,
Abraham, ot this city, will conduct.
Grocers Not To Buy Infected Fruit.
Salem County Fruit Inspector E. C.
Armstrong has called upon all retail
grocerymen and secured from them an
agreement not to buy from farmers any
fruit infected with San Jose scale. The
dealers were willing to make the agree
ment and will keep it in letter and
spirit. If the retail merchants prevent
the Bale of diseased fruit to them, the
inspector can give his entire time to
watching the famerB who peddle fruit
about town direct to the consumers.
Treasurer-Elect Files Bond.
Salem State Treasurer-elect George
A. Steel has filed his official bond in
the sum of $50,000, which was approv
ed by the governor. Later he will be
rqeuired to furnish an additional bond
in the sum of about $500,000, the
amount to be determined by the gov
ernor. PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 71c; bluestem, 73c;
red, 69c j valley, 71c.
Oata No. 1 white feed, $32; gray,
$31 per ton.
Barley Feed, $23.75 per ton; brew
ing, $24; rolled, $24.5025.50.
Eye $1.50 per cwt.
Hay Valley timothy No. 1, $11
12.50 per ton; clover, I8 509; cheat,
$6.507; grain bay, $78; alfalfa,
$11.
Fruita Apples, $1.601.75 per box;
apricots, $1.501.75 per crate; cher
ries, 48c per pound; currants, 910c
per pound; peaches, 75c$1.10 per
crate; pears, $1.502.25 per box;
plums, $11.25 per box; Logan her
ries, 1.851.40 per crate; raspberries,
$1.751.85 perorate; blackberries, 8c
per pound; gooseberries, 8c per pound.
Vegetables Beans, 5as7c per pound;
cabbage, lc per pound; corn, 25S5c
per dozen; cucumbers, 75c$l per box;
lettuce, head, 25o per dozen, onionB,
10ai2)c per dozen: peaa, 45c per
pound; radishes, 1015c per dozen;
rhubarb, 22c per pound; spinach,
23c per pound; tomatoes, $1.252.25
per box; parsley, 25c per box; squash,
$11.25 per crate; turnips, 90c$l
per sack; carrots, $11.25 per sack;
beeta, $1.25(31.50 per sack.
Onions New, red, lOlJc per
pound; new yellow, l2c per pound.
Potatoes Fancy graded old Bur
banks, 4050c per sack; ordinary,
nominal; new potatoes, 75c$1.50 per
hundred.
Butter Fancy creamery, 1720c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 21)22c per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hena, 2
13c per pound; mixed chickens, 11
12c; fryera, 1617c; broilera, 16
16c; roosters, 910c; dressed chick
ens, 1415c; turkevs, live, 1617c;
turkeya, dressed, choice, 1722c;
geese, live, 88c; ducks, 1213c.
Hops Oregon, 1905, 11c; cHb, 8c
per pound.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1823c; valley, coarse, 22023)0;
fine, 24c; mohair, choice, 2830c per
pound.
Veal Dressed, 57c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 8c per pound ;
cowa, Mfc; country steers, 66c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 78c per
pound; ordinary, 6 Q 6c; lambs, fancy,
88c.
, Pork DreaBed, 78Jc per pound.
CLEARING AWAY DEBRIS.
Hundreds of Carloads Dumped Daily
From San Francisco.
San Franciaco, July 17. Certain via
itors to San Franciaco have given loud
voice to their disappointment at seeing
the city debria strewn three months
after the disaster. "It ia an impossi
ble task that San Francisco has under
taken," they write home, and their la
mentations come back by wire to this
city.
It ia true that almost three months
have elapsed, and it ia alao true that
acrea and acres of debria lie in the
heart of the city. Moreover, it is high
ly possible that much of the debris
will remain for several months.
7hat these visitors have neglected to
observe is that the debris is being cart
ed away at the rate of 240 carloads a
day. The dirt ia carried in wagona to
the bunkers on First street, and from
there trains convey it to the Protero
swamps, where it ia doing reclamation
work.
Throughout the old business section
of the city dangerous walls still stand,
but the board of works haa taken steps
to have them torn down. This board
has also called upon property owners to
clear away the sidewalks on which
their buildings front. When this is
done many of the streets still blocked
will be opened. Such important streets
as Stockton and Pine are not passable
their entire length. The city is not
waiting idly for the disappearance of
the debris, but reconstruction and
cleaning are going on simultaneously.
MINING FRAUDS IN BRAZIL.
Country is Full of Schemes to Obtain
Money of Gullible.
Waahington, July 17. Consul Gen
eral George E. Anderson, in a report to
the bureau of manufacturers from Rio
Janeiro, charges that while some bona
fide Brazilian diamond mines may re
sult profitably, that country is full of
schemes which are either out-and-out
frauds or are based on claims and facts
so Blight as to make them little less
than frauds.
The report says the United States
and Great Britain, especially New
York, Chicago and London, are the
chief financial base of operations for a
number of promoters, who have never
done any mining, and that there are a
number of so-called mining companies
now soliciting stock subscriptions in
the United StateB whose officers are not
even certain where the land they claim
as property lies. .
The report statea-that experienced
men in Brazilian mining fields eay that
not a single mining company operating
in the gold and diamond fields of Brazil
haa paid a dividend. The consul gen
eral adds that it is a lamentable fact
that a large proportion of the Brazilian
mining enterprises are frauds and that
there are now men of the United States
with enterprises which represent noth
ing more than the money they can get
from the American public.
TEST OF CANNED MEATS.
Congress Will Know What is the Ef
fect of Age.
Washington, July 17. The bureau
of chemistry, Agricultural department,
ia to carry on a series of testB this Bum
mer to ascertain definitely whether
canned meats deteriorate. One of the
bitter contentions over the meat in
spection amendment to the agricultural
appropriation bill hinged on the senate
requirement that packers should place
the date of manufacture on each can of
meat.
The packers, however, insisted that
this was unwarranted, because they
claimed that meat, once put up in air
tight cans, would last forever. They
declared that canned meat was as good
in ten years aa it waa in ten days, and
they brought to bear testimony of an
official of the department to corroborate
their statements. Some members of
congress had their doubts about this,
however, so it haa been decided to make
a thorough investigation and find out
whether the packers were correct or
not.
Officers Preach Revolution.
St. Petersburg, July 17. At a meet
ing held today at Gatchiaa, 80 miles
from St. Petersburg, attended by three
of the Guard regiments, an efficer ad
dressed the men on the subject of the
soldiers' union, which is being organiz
ed. He pointed out that the league
waa democratic and was being organiz
ed for the purpose of guarding the con
stitution and establishing constitution
al institutions and to prepare the army
to come over to the people when they
were ready and armed for resistance.
The speech was received with applause.
Thousands Without Homes. .
Nizhni, Novgorod, July 17. A fire
which broke out here today raged for
six hours before it was checked. When
it waa finally extinguished 275 houses
had been destroyed and more than 3,000
families had been rendered homeless.
The loss ia placed at $400,900.
CONVICT STANDARD
Government Will Prove Guilt o!
Heads ol Monopoly.
RAILROAD MEN AS WITNESSES
Testimony To Be Used for Indict
ment of Standard Oil Officers
Who Extort Rebates.
Cleveland, July 17. The Plain-Dealer
thia morning says:
Basing his opinion upon the testi
mony already submitted to the Federal
grand jury in this district, Attorney
General Moody believes that the gov
ernment haa at last secured the evi
dence which will bring the Standard
Oil company to its knees. The return
of District Attorney Sullivan this morn
ing from an all day conference with the
attorney general at New York yesterday
will make a complete change of the
government's policy in connection with
the fight to stamp out trade discrimin
ations in favor of giant corporations.
The change of plana includes a com
plete reversal regarding C. J. Grammar,
vice president of the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern railway. Gram
mar will not be indicted in this or any
other Federal district. Instead, he
will be asked to assist the government
in forging a chain of evidence about
the necks of some of the biggest Stand
ard Oil officials in the country.
It is known that the government offi
cials are eager to obtain one more link
in the evidence already secured against
the Standard Oil company. A most
determined effort will be made to com
plete the chain through Grammar and
Clark. What the government officials
particularly want is the names of the
Standard Oil officials through whom, it
is alleged, rebating arrangements were
mcHe with the Lake Shore and other
ra 1 oads. With these names in their
possession the government attorneys
will be ready to strike.
MANY MEN OF MANY MINDS.
Railroad Men Cannot Agree As To
Meaning of Rate'Law.
Chicago, July 17. Executive officials
and general counsel of every railroad
west of Chicago had a conference today
with a view to determining the mean
ing of all of the provisions of the new
rate law. J. C. Stubbs, traffic director
of the Harriman lines, presided and
outlined the purposes of the gathering.
It developed, however, that there
were almost aa many viewa regarding
the interpretation of the statute as
there were lawyers and traffic men
present. It waa decided, therefore, to
appoint two committees, one of traffic
men and one of legal men. The traffic
men are to meet and arrange their
plana for carrying the law into effect,
and whenever they encounter a provis
ion that they are unable to solve they
are to call on the legal committee for
opinions. In the meantime (the com
mittee of lawyers ia to hold meetings
and determine what it considers the
statute requires.
GRAIN BAGS RISING.
Shortage is Accentuated by Recent
Fire in San Francisco.
San Francisco, July 17. It ia esti
mated that 6,000,000 grain bags were
destroyed by the recent fire and in con
sequence the market is paralyzed. New
orders cannot be filled and brokera on
'Change are in a quandary as to the
future. The price for bags haa jumped
nearly 60 per cent, and at that the com
modity ia not to be had. Formerly
sacks sold for 6 to cents and to
day the price of 10J cents prevails.
The prospective supply reaches in
round figures to 40,750,000 sacks, and
against this must be chalked the needs
of California, computed at 23,500,000
eacks, and for the north 27,000,000
sacks, leaving a deficit dI 9,750,000,
with no possible output to cover the
shortage.
Czar May Keep Goremykin.
St. Petersburg, July 17. There are
no developments in the cabinet situa
tion. The murder of General Koslov
ia reported to have made an exceeding
ly bad impression on the emperor and
the Novoe Vremya denies that the cab
inet has resigned. The hesitation at
Feterhof has raised hopes in the minds
of some of Premier Goremykin'a col
leagues that he .can hold on, even in
the face of the adverse vote in the up
per house of parliament on Saturday.
Russia will be represented at the Inter
parliamentary union in London.
Put Rojestvensky to Work.
St. Petersburg, July 17. It is under
stood that Admiral Rojestvensky, who
was acquitted by court martial of the
charge of cowardice in surrendering to
the enemy after the battle of the sea of
Japan, will be restored to the active
list of the navy and assigned to a prom
inent position on the technical commit
tee of the navy.
MONEY FOR KLAMATH.
Hitchcock Adds $1,000,000 to Fund
for Reclamation.
Washington, July 18, The acting
secretary of the Interior has transferred
another $1,000,000 of the reclamation
fund (or the Klamath irrigation pro
ject, making $2,000,000 now immedi
ately available for construction. The
greater part of this will be spent in
Oregon, a small portion of the irrigated
land being in California. Work ia be
ing energetically pushed on the con
struction of the outlet tunnel from Kla
math lake.
The secretary also pledges $2,400,-
000 to complete the project. Thia ad
ditional money ia to be available as
soon as needed. Thia increase ia the
result of Senator Fulton's work during
last session.
This increased allotment is possible
because the public land receipts for the
past year greatly exceeded the depart
ment's estimatea. While the returns
are not complete, it ia found that the
receipta will exceed the estimatea by
more than $2,000,000, and thia increase
has been divided among four states,
Oregon and California on the Klamath
project; Washington, whose increases
have been heretofore announced, and
Idaho, which gets additional money for
its two projects now building.
Doubling the cash allowance for the
Klamath project opens the way for the
letting of new contracts to reclaim land
not included in the first unit, now un
der construction. Just what work will
be taken up next has not been fully de
termined. Much will depend on the
recommendations of Engineer Henry,
who now has full charge of thisjroject.
The Klamath project can be built as
a wbole or in sections. It waa origin
ally intended to build it by unita, com
pleting one unit before taking up the
next. It haa been found, however, that
there will be no trouble in getting set
tlers upon these lands aa fast as water
ia ready and for this reason it waa de
termined to push work hereafter.
While only $2,000,000 ia actually
availble for immediate use, another
$2,4' 0,000 will be forthcoming by the
time i he engineers are able to use it.
Considerable land to be reclaimed is
now iike bed or swamp. Until the
water has been drained off and these
lake beds dried, it will be impossible
to complete the project. This draining
and drying proc as will require several
years; but in the meantime all land
now arid which is intended to be re
claimed will be brought under ditches.
Under the allotment just made it is be
lieved that work on the Klamath pro
ject can proceed without interruption
until the last ditch is dug and water
1 turned on every available acre.
' The allotment for the Boise-Payette
project is increased to $1,490,000, and
for the Minidoka to $1,555,000. The
previous allotment for each waB $1,
300,000. The Boise-Payette project
will cost more than the original allot
ment. WILL BUILD GREAT CANAL.
J.J. Hill Says He Will Connect Hud
son Bay and Great Lakes.
Chicago, July 16. Not satisfied with
his gigantic railroad undertakings,
which after 30 years appear to be only
a little more than half completed,
Jamea J. Hill ia now turning his atten
tion to canal building and has given his
word to his friends that boats will be
running from the Great lakes to Hud
son bay before the first vessel passes
through the Panama canal. Aa the
proposed water route is through the
Winnipeg river and Lake Winnipeg,
hia purpose in making the Manitoba
capital the eastern terminal of hia new
Canadian transcontinental line instead
of some point on Lake Superior is ex
plained. The building of the canal
will make him practically master of the
transportation business of the North
west and will protect him against the
incursions that have been made into
his territory by other railroad inter
ests within the past few yeara.
It is proposed to have the canal start
from some place on Lake Superior,
traverse the district northwest through
the Rainy river and the Lake of the
Wooda to the Winnipeg river and past
the city of Winnipeg to Lake Winni
peg. From there it would be necessary
only to dredge out the canal channel
into Hudson bay, thua connecting the
Great lakea with the bay and Atlantio
ocean.
Slain by Workmen.
New York, July 16. Fifty men, la
borers at the King plaster worka at
New Brighton, Staten island, were ar
retted this afternoon, charged with the
murder of a fellow workman, Frank
Getzner, a Russian. Getzner was the
victim of one of the foulest Crimea per
petrated in the annala of crime in
Greater New York. Deairing to be re
venged on Getzner, the men tied him
to a flywheel in the factory and
the machinery hurled his body through
the air in great revolutiona and beat
the lite out of Jt.
Government Loss by Disaster.
Washington, July 16. Quartermast
er General Humphrey of the army has
compiled a statement showing that the
amount necessary to be epxended aa a
result of the fire in San Francisco under
the various titles of appropriations fcr
his department aggregates $2,268,478.