I OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST j
BALANCE FAVORS ISLANDS.
GOOD WAGES IN HAYFIELDS.
BEST IN UNION.
Klamath Basin Farmers Pay $2 Per
Day and Board.
Klamath FallB Laboring men can
do well in Klamath basin. Haying
haa brought on a tremendous demand
for men of brawn, and wages started at
$2 a day and board in the hayfields.
Mason, Davis & Co., contractors on the
canal, promptly met the wage with the
additional inducement of an eight-hour
day, and farmers generally realize that
an eight-hour day in caring for a crop
of alfalfa would hardly do. It is a
bumper crop of hay that is being cut in
this county, too, and many ranches re
port that tonnage of from four to five
tons is not unusual.
With all of this vaBt production, ap
pearances indicate that good prices will
be realized, as there are more animals
to be fed than ever before. Especially
will the demand for hay suitable for
horses be called for in large quantity
for the animals employed in construct
ing canals, laterals and other portions
of the government work and building
the railroads reaching this way for the
tonnage the valley is to produce. The
government has decided to build the
second unit of its canal without asking
for fiirther bids on the work and will
immediately proceed to equip the addi
tional camps necessary for that work.
The wages ot men at the government,
camps has been increased to correspond
with that offered by farmers and the
contractors.
Work on the canal system is now go
ing ahead rapidly. D. 0. Henny, su
pervising engineer, who succeeded J. B.
Lippincott on thiB project, is acquaint
ing himself thoroughly with the work
that has been done and that is outlined
for immediate construction. He has
spent most of the time on the work
since his arrival from Portland.
Barley Stands Heat Best.
The Dalles Headers are running all
over the county in the farming sec
tions, and the grain is being stacked
madv for threshing. As yet no thresh
ing machines have started, but several
-will begin this week. As harvest ad
vances, it is Bhown that the whoat crop
is better than was thought a week ago
The quality of spring grain is inferior
None of the spring grain is No. 1
The fall wheat is of good quality, bnt
most farmers estimate that their fall
wheat will not yield over 15 bnshels to
the acre about half a crop. Barley is
the best crop this season, having stood
the hot weather better than wheat or
oats. t
Have 72 Per Cent of Offices.
Salem Out of 342 county offices in
the state the Republicans bold 249 and
thA Tlemncrats hold 88. while only two
filled bv Independents, one by
Prohibitionist and one by a woman who
nnnnlitical party designation. One
office is vacant. The Republicans hold
7? K nnr nent of the county offices and
the Democrats 25.7 per cent. The In
dependents elected secured the office of
mirvevor in two counties and the Pro-
hihiUnniatg elected a coroner. The
woman elected is Miss Emma Warren
who was elected school superintendent
of Clatsop county. No one was elected
coroner of Wheeler county.
For New Woman's Building.
AlVmnv After holding a meeting of
the board of regents of the Oregon Agri
iiUnral college at Corvallis, the mem
v,ora nf th hnard came to Albany last
week and at an adjourned session in
this city awarded the contract for the
mam nrnmATI 'a building, to be erected
on the campus, to H. Snook. The con
tract price is $69,000, that being the
lowest bid by $2,000. The building
will be constructed of the granite lrom
the ouarries at Detroit, the eastern
nf the Corvallis & Eastern
railroad, and the building stone at Ya
quina bay.
Iowa Expert Says Dairying Conditions
Excel His State.
Salem That Oregon can produce
butter cheaper than any other state in
the Union and that Oregon creamery
men are nevertheless flgnring on im
porting cream from Minnesota, were
startling assertions made at a dairy
men's meeting here last week.
Professor McKay, of the dairy de
partment of the Iowa State Agricultural
college, was the principal speaker. He
said that although his state produces
mnre butter than any other state, be
freely acknowledged that thiB is a more
advantageous region for dairying, for
the reason that the climate is less sub'
ject to such extreme conditions. He
said Oregon should not import a pound
of butter, but should bo an exporter
when that product can be shipped to
New York for 2 cents a pound and to
Liverpool for 2 cents. He urged the
extension of dairying as a means of
taining farm fertility.
Director James Withycombe, of the
Oregon experiment station, said that
the dairv products in this state, this
year will have a value of $8,000,000
and in a few years dairying will sur
pass lumbering, which is now our
greatest wealth producing industry
le said that one creamery operator
figuring on importing cream from Min
nesota, and deplored such a condition,
when the Willamette valley will pro
duce 10 to 15 tons of green corn feed or
30 tons of green alfalfa per acre.
Dairy Commissioner J. W. isailey
spoke in a similar strain, saying that
he has seen hay offered for sale this
year at $2.50 a ton in the field and yet
the farmer had no stock to sell.
Philippine Exports Exceed imports
First Time Since Annexation.
Washington, July 24. The two most
noteworthy features ol tne commercial
returns of the Philippine lsianuB ior
1905 are a balance in favor of the is-
lands for the first calendar year period
n the history of the American occupa-
tion, and the advance ol American
goods to the first rank in tno import
trade. The favorable trade balance is
due to increased export values, which
aggregated $33,454,744, or more than
$4,000,000 in excess ol tne exports ior
1904, An increase of $500,000 in
American trade in 1900 witn tne is
lands, combined with a decline In rice
imports, givea to the United States the
lead, and in view or. me anucipaieu
farther decline in the demand for for
eign rice in the islands, tne united
States is expected to continue to in-
crease its lead.
The increase of $2,000,000 in the
imnorts from the United States in the
last five years is largely made up of
Imnnrta nf iron and steel and their
manufactures: cotton, raw and manu
fnnt.nrAd. and illuminating oil. ine
iron and steel trade approximated $3,
000,000 in value. Great Britain gained
moat in the iron and steei iraue wun
the islands, but the United States takea
the lead, whereas Great Britain was
fnrmnrlv in the lead. There is still
great room for improvement in the ex
ports from the United states to ine is
lands.
APPEAL TO PEOPLE
Russian Parliament Tells Them
Not to Pay Taxes.
CZAR MAY IMPRISON LEADERS
Guards Prevent Newspapers From
Publishing Revolutionary Man
ifesto Much Disorder.
the people
. Petersburg
scarcely be
DOUMA DISSOLVED.
CANNED MEAT EXPORTS.
Higher Price for Hops.
Salem On news that the English
and German crops have been seriously
niured transactions in futures have
been reported at 12 cents. It is esti
mated that about one-half of the Ore
gon crop for 1906 has been Bold, and
George L. Rose predicts that the mar
ket will open at not less than 15 cents
Crop estimates vary from 95,000 to
125.000 bales for Oregon this year
Latest local advices from England
place the probable English yield at
from 200.000 to 300,000 cwt., as
against 700,000 cwt. last year.
is
Japan
of the
Oregon
Convicts Make Escape
Salem A loss of 10 per cent
prisoners is the record of the
penitentiary thus far this season in
working convicts on the public nign
ways. About 60 men are kept at work
. . . 1 II - I . f '
on tne roaos ana ai ine state iair
grounds. Six have escaped and are
still at large.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Used Large Quantities During
War With Russia.
Washington. July 24. Complete fig
ures of the exports of American canned
meats for the past fiscal year are snown
today in a statement issued by tne de
partment of Commerce and Labor, ine
value of canned meats exported from
the United States in June, 1906, was
$461,100. against $797,127 in June,
1905, and in the fiscal year lyuo. iy,
233,410, against $9,977,045 in 1905.
The figures for the Basel year iue
included: Canned beef, $6,430,446;
canned pork, $1,215,85,7; and other
canned meats, $1,587,107. The quan
tity of canned beef exported in the fis
cal year was 64,523,850 pounds, as
against 66,688,568 pounds in 1905.
The reduction in exports occurred al
most exclusively in tne snipments to
Japan, which country took large
amounts of American beet during tne
wai . but greatly decreased her imports
on the diabandment of the army. The
exporta to Japan during the fiscal year
1906 were 2,306,583 pounds, against
14,687,165 pounds in 1905, and in the
month of June, 1906, were 34,412
pounds, against 3,612,188 pounds in
June, 1905.
The United Kingdom was the great
est buyer of canned beef, exports to
that country increasing 4,758,815
pounds for the fiscal year, but decreaa
ing for the month of June, 1906.
St. Petersburg, July 24. The great
news of today is the adoption of an ad
dress to the people by the deputies to
parliament, who assembled at Viborg,
the language of which, with its revola
tionary demands that the people cease
to furnish money and troops to the gov
ernment and repudiate further loans,
affords pretext enough for the govern
ment to lodge its authors in the fortress
if it feels strong enough. A rumor was
spread tonight that thiB course bad
been decided upon.
Copiea of the appeal to
are in the hands of all St
newapapera, but it will
printed tomorrow, for the reason that a
detachment of police ia posted at the
door of every newspaper printing office
in the city, with ordera not to permit
any papers to leave the building until
authorized by the censor. The author
ities hope by equally vigorous measures
to prevent the publication of the appeal
in other cities, and in the meantime to
nullify the fears of the people as to the
possible effect of the appeal.
Meanwhile the masses of the Kussian
people, slow of thought and action,
hae not yet roused themselves to the
gigantic upheaval which is sure to fol-
ow the dissolution of their parliament
Minor disorders are reported from ba
dozen cities. An incipient anti-Je
ish outbreak at Odessa has been check
ed by the police. A sympathetic strike
has been begun at the Khaikov rail
road shops, which may inaugurate a
general tieup of communication, but
St. Petersburg, Moscow and moat of
the other great centers are still calm.
YEARN FOR OLD HOME.
Harvesting Begins in Linn.
Aihotitr Harvesting haB begun in
t inn nmmtv. While some damage to
snring grain baa been reported, aa a re
suit of unuaually warm weather laating
for several dayB, these reports are the
flxcention rather than the rule. Fall
eown grain was damaged but little, and
on excellent crop will be garnered.
Late sown spring grain will improve
considerably yet under the influence of
the cool weather now prevailing. Hay
ing is practically over, and the baler
will add the finishing touches before
the fall rains set in.
New Combine Attracts Attention.
Athena A combine harvester has
been purchased by John Walter which
will be the firat of its kind to be uaed
in this section. The machine is pro
pelled by a 20-horse power engine,
which runs all of the machinery, tail
ing, only a sufficient number of horses
to draw the machine. The separator
and cutting machinery ia operated en
tirely independent of the draft. The
feature that most interests farmers is
that of doing away with many horses
required by other combines.
Wheat Club, 70c; blueatem, 72c;
red, 68c; valley, 71c; new club, 68c;
new blueatem, 70c.
Oata No. 1 white feed, $32; gray,
$31 psr ton.
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; brew
ing, f23.ou per ton; ronea, z4(gz.ou.
Rye $1 50 per cwt.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $11
12.50 per ton; clover, $8.509; cheat,
$6.507; grain hay, $78; alfalfa,
$11."
Fruita Applea, $1.502.25 per box;
apricots, 41. 251. 35; cherries, 610c
per pound; currants, 910c; peach
es, 75c$1.10 per box; plums, $1.25;
Logan berries, $1.35(311.40 per crate;
raspberries, $L401.50; blackberries,
8c per pound ; gooseberries, 8c.
Vegetables Beans, 57c per pound;
cabbage, l2c; corn, 2535c per
dozen; cucumbers, 75c$l per box;
egg plant, 3040c per pound; lettuce,
bead, 25c per dozen; onions, 10
12c; peas, 45c per pound; radish
es, 1015c per dozen; rhubarb, 2
2c per pound; spinach, 23c; toma
toes, $1.253 per box; parsley, 25c;
sqnaah, $11.25 per crate; turnips,
90c$l per suck; carrots, $11.25 per
sack; beets, S1.251.50 per sack.
. Onions New, red. l4gi$c per
ponnd; new yellow, l?42c per pound
Potatoes Old Eurbanks, nominal ;
new potatoes, 75c$1.50.
Butter Fancy creamery, 17 20c
per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 2121c pel
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens, 1314c
per pound; mixed chickens, 13(13c;
springs, 16 0) 17; roosters, 9 10c;
dressed chickens, 1415c; turkeyB,
live, 1517c; turkeyB, dressed, choice,
17ffli22c; geese, live, 89c; ducks,
110)130.
Hops Oregon, 1905, ll12c; olds,
8c; 1906 contracts, 12jlSc per pound.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
1720c per pound, according to shrink
age; valley, 2022, according to fine
ness; mohair, choice, 2830c per
pound.
Veal Dressed, 58c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per ponnd ;
cows, 4J5c; country Bteers, 66c
Mutton DreBsed fancy, 78c per
pound; ordinary, 56c; lambs, fancy,
88c.
Pork Dressed, 78c per ponnd.
No
Houses for Hundreds Who Would
Return to San Francisco.
San Francisco, July 24. San Fran
Cisco's greatest need is homes. The
people who were driven from the city
at the time of the disaster are eager to
return, several thousand laborers are
imperatively needed to aid in the work
of rebuilding, but there are no houses
for them The rehabilitation commit
tee has set to work to furnish relief
but the resources at its command will
admit of only slight assistance. This
committee will build some 3,000 homes
for workmen, but this will not even
serve to house the thousands still liv
ing in tents.
It is to individual initiative that the
city must look. Evidences that thi
will be forthcoming are beginning
appear.
In the Richmond district, tne sec
tion located between Golden Gate park
and the neck of the bay, several homes
are being erected and have been rented
in advance.
Still it is to the stretch of land south
of Market street that the people must
look for the rebuilding of homes in suf
flcieat quantity to solve the problem
Here dwelt the thousands of the city'
poorest and U is to this section that
they wish to return.
Czar Places Russia Back Under His
Own Despotic Rule.
St. Petersburg, July 23. Russia's
first experiment in parliamentary gov
ernment came to an ignominious end
Saturday night with the promulgation
of two imperial ukases, the first dis
solving the present parliament and pro
viding for the convocation of its suc
cessor on Marcn o, 19U7, more tnan
six months hence, and the second pro
claiming the capital of Russia and the
surrounding province to be in a state of
extraordinary security, which is only
infiniteaaimally different from full mar
tial law. This measure of safety is to
provide for the outburst which un
doubtedly will be provoked by this
daring measure. It is now but a step
to dictatorship.
There is little doubt that the order
for the convocation of the new assem
bly will still further postpone the time,
unless the new parliament promises to
be more amenable than the present.
The delay in fixing the time for the
new elections seems to indicate a de
cision to change tne present basis of
suffrage to perhaps a basis of universal
suffrage with which the advisers of the
emperor hope to swamp the educated
liberals, the Socialists and the work
men with the vast mass of peasantry.
The only uncertainty is tne coming
storm when and where it will break.
The advocates of the "mailed fist" be-
eve that, by dissolving parliament
and provoking a collision now, they
will find the revolutionary leaders not
prepared for an uprising at Moscow,
whereas further delay would nearly
give the revolutionists the time needed
to organize and to continue the corrup
tion oi the army.
There are no precedents in Russian
history for the execution of an order of
prorogation, but today probably will
find the palace in possession of the mi
litia and the surrounding BtreetB deliv
ered to the emperor'B guards.
SECRETS OF DREADNAUGHT.
Her
British Admiralty Makes Public
Plan of Armament.
London, July 24. The first official
announcement regarding the battleship
Dreadnaught is contained in a white
book on naval construction the past
year, which was isaued tonight. Be
sides ten 12-inch guns announced, the
Dreadnaught will have 27 12-pound
quick firing anti-torpedo boat guns and
five aubmerged torpedo tubes, in ine
arrangement of the armament six of
the his guns are mounted in pairs on
the center line of the ship, and the re
mftininc four are mounted in pairs as
broadsides.
In view ot the modern potentialities
of torpedo boats, and considering es
pecially the chances of a torpedo attack
toward the end of the battle, tne ami
torpedo boat suns are widely separated
so that the whole of them cannot be
disabled by one shell.
The speed ia designed to be 'it Knots
The bunker capacity is 2,700 tons
with which the Dreadnaught can steam
5,800 sea miles at economical speed
and 3.500 miles at 18i knots
The estimated coat of the Dread'
naught, including guns, is $8,987,485
MANY BURIED ALIVE.
to
Unbreakable Passenger Car.
Washington, July 24. A steel pas
senger car has recently been completed
in Pittsburg for the Southern railway
which is regarded as the beginning of
the general uee of steel instead of wood
for all kinds of railway cars. The car
is 74 feet 46 inchns long over all and
weighs 110,000 pounds. There was no
wood used in its construction except for
the interior decorations, and that wood
was made fireproof. It is aaid that the
car could not be telescoped in a collis
ion, neither could the ends be smashed
in, and it is non combustible.
Cigarmakers May Establish Stores.
Chicago, July 24. The Cigarmakers'
union, it is understood, has taken up
seriously a proposal to establish fac
tories for the making of cigars in all
the large cities in the United States,
and also of stores under the control of
the union, through which to get the
manufactured goods to the conanmerB.
Buildine in Massachusetts Town Col
lapses on Workmen.
South Framingham, Mass., July 24
At least eight and perhaps twice that
number of masons, plumbers and ital
ian laborers wore crushed to death to
dav in the sudden collapse of a build
ing in process of erection on Concord
street, while ten others were dragged
or dug out of the wreck, some seriously
injured. At a late hour tonight ten
men were missing and a large force of
lahorers was at work on the ruins
searching for the dead. ,
Firemen and members of the Ninth
regiment of infantry of the state inili
tia. in camp here, succeeded in digging
nut half a dozen injured, and later
found others.
Panic Among Odessa dews.
Odessa, July 24. The Jews here are
in a state of panic, fearing an ant
Jewish outbreak as the result of the
killing of a diunken Cossack who re
centlv wandered through the Jewish
nnarter brandishing his saber an
shouting: "Death to the Jews." Gov
ernor General Kaulbara, addressing a
delegation of JewB today, said: "I
vouch for my soldiers, but I am unable
to say what the Cossacks or Christian
civilians might do." The slightest
incident might start trouble. Cossacks
this morning looted throe Jewish Bhops.
British Express Sympathy.
London, July 24. A British address
of sympathy with the Russian people
and parliament is being circulated.
Already the signatures oi many persons
have been obtained.
WILL USE BOMB.
Terrorists Mark Victims for Death
Trepoff is Warned.
St. Petersburg, Juy 23. Although
the victory of the reactionists seems at
present to be complete, neither the So
cialists nor the Terrorists have accepted
the situation, and, while the people are
apparently completely overawed by the
display of force on the part of the au
thorities, it will be necessary to con
tinue the use of the bayonet for some
time. General Trepoff himBelf is au
thority for the statement that he has
again been warned that he is marxea
for assassination. Despite this lact, ne
continuee actively at work, aitnougn
at all times surrounded by . a heavy
guard.
The Socialist members ol toe douma
have held a number of secret meetings,
but so far they have refrained from
carrying our tneir avowed determina
tion of issuing a proclamation attacking
the czar, the reactionary element and
more especially their former allies, the
Constitutional Democrats. If they do
trouble must come.
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ENTER LAND AT SHOSHONE.
Boomers' Scene of Operations Trans
ferred From Lander.
Washington, July 23. In acordance
with a Bupplemental proclamation is
sued by the president, tne register and
receiver of the land office for Lander,
Wyo., district, shall receive entries for
lands in the ceded portion of the Sho
shone reservation at Shoshone, Wyo.,
from August 15 to October 3, 1906, ip
stead of at Lander, as provided in the
proclamation of June 2. Thia action
waa based on the fact that the railroad
now building into the reservation will
not be constructed from Shoshone to
Lander until after August 15, and the
change is made to accommodate pros
pective entrymen.
All persona who draw numbera at the
drawing, which begina at Lander,
Wyo., on August 4, 1906, which num
bers entitle them to make entry be
tween the dates of Auguta 15 and Oc
tober 3, incluaive, must proceed to Sho
ahone, Wyo., and make their entriea
inatead of going to Lander, as provided
in the first proclamation. After Octo
ber 3 entries will be made at Lander.
Camps Will Soon Be Abolished.
San Francisco, July 23. Rudolph
Spreckles and Allan Pollok, of the fi
nance committee, investigated five of
the refugee camps yesterday. They
went to the speedway camp, to the
Harbor View camp, to two in the Po
trero and one south of Market street,
inspecting the tents, shacks and soup
kitchens. As a result of the tour Mr.
Pollok states that the camps muat le
abolished as soon as possible and the
refugees housed in permanent dwell
ings. He added that most of the soup
kitchens will be discontinued August 1.
Threaten Revolt of Fleet.
Sebastopol, July 23. A meeting of
2,300 Bailors from the rarships here
today drew up economic demands for
presentation to Admiral Skrydloff. Un
less these demands are fulfilled the
men say the whole of the Black sea
fleet will revolt.