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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1906)
REBELS SWARMING IN BRUSH. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST PAY OF TEACHERS. Receiving Highest Salaries Now In History of State. 8alem Salaries of public school teachers in Oregon are now higher than ever before in the history of the state. Thirty years ao the average monthly salaries were 45.68 for males and $33.64 fur females. Daring the '90s, when times were good, salaries in creased and those of- male teachers reached the highest point just before the panic of 1893. The average salary ' paid to men in the public schools was then $51.11. The salaries of female teachers touched the highest point in 1891, when the reports Bhowed an average of 42.43. The compensation of instruc tors in the public schools then started on a decline and so continued until 1897, 'when men were receiving an average of f41.75 and women $33.97. For the last nine years salaries have been steadily advancing and have now reached an average of $00.02 for men and $44.95 for women. Multnomah county pays the highest ealaries, but of the outside counties Lake pays the highest to men and Har ney the highest to women. OREGON RANGE FREE. Grazing Tax Law Is Declared To Be Unconstitutional. Salem The Oregon Supreme court has declared the grazing tax law of 1905 unconstitutional. The decision will have no very far reaching effect, for it has not been generally enforced or ob served. A test case was brought up from Umatilla county, with the result that there is one more ray of light cast upon the problems of tax legislation in Oregon. The decision will likely be of advantage in some respects to the legis lature of 1907, which will give particu lar attention to the enactment of tax laws. Briefly stated, the 1905 statute was declared void because it is a revenue tax law and not a license law. It possessed the language and elements of a tax law and not of a license law. The act provided that a tax of 20 cents a head shall be paid upon all sheep owned by non-residents and brought into this state for pasturage. Schools Show Good Advance. Salem - Material "" advancement is shown in the cenditions of the schools of the state by the figures contained in the summary of Superintendent Acker man's annual report, which he has just given out for publication. By this statement it is shown that the school population has increased by at least 5,000 during the past year, and the total days' attendance has been in creased to at least a million. Not withstanding this latter increase, how ever, the average daily attendance has fallen off by over 100 days, but the av erage months school taught during the year has advanced from 6.05 to 6.19. Will Add Two Grades. Lebanon At a recent meeting of the voters of the local school district it was decided to lease the Santiam Acad emy building and grounds and add the 11th and 12th grades to the'preaent high school course. The change will become effective October 1. The fol lowing corps of instructors has been elected for the ensuing year; Princi pal, E. K. Barnes; vice principal, Frank McDougal, of Dallas; assistants, Mrs. 0. F. Bigbee, Miss Harriet Alex ander, of Gresham; Miss Mary Mc Gormick, Miss Margaret Cotton, Miss Tressa Moffitt, of Salem. Pay Hop Pickers by Weight. Wooubum At a meeting in this city recently of the Willamette Hop growers' association, 85 hopmen were present. It was decided that all grow ers should endorse the system of pick ing by weight, but at the same time it was left to the discretion of growers whether to pick by weight or to use measuring baskets of nine bushels each. The general opinion was expressed that the price of picking should be 50 cents per box or $1 per 100 poundB. More Power is Needed. La Grande Owing to the increase in demand for electrio power, the elec tric company has been unable to get along with the energy developed at the Cone power house and it was found necessary this week to use'eome of the power from Morgan lake. In all the company is now using 700 horse power, and this amount will be gradually in creased. Postoffice for Myrick. Pendleton The postoffice at Myrick station has been re-established, after having been discontinued for several months. It is a fourth class office and the postmaster is William Love. My rick is a small station on the line of the W. & O. JR. R., 12 miles northeast of Pendleton. It is in the midst of the rich wheat growing section. FARMERS ARE INDEPENDENT. Can Hold Their Wheat Until the Price Suits Them. Salem That the farmers of the Wil lamette valley are less under the con trol of warehousemen and millers than ever before is asserted by W. A. Tay lor, a prominent Waldo Hills farmer, who has taken the lead in the task of breaking the hold of the buyers of wheat. .- . , "Farmers are this year buying their sacks to a greater extent than ever be fore," he says, "and they are under no obligations to any buyer. They are1 entirely free to sell when they can get the highest price. Then many farmers are planning to store their grain on their farms until tbey get ready to sell, instead of hauling to a warehouse im mediately. They will make a sale first and haul the grain afterwards, and get better terms. "I have noticed,", continued Mr. Taylor, "that millers and warehouse men are pretty anxious to get posses sion of wheat and have been offering inducements to get farmers to store grain in their warehouses. Notwith standing the declaration that no more sacks would be lent, sacks have been offered in the hope that thereby the in tending buyer would secure an advant age. Not many of the farmers are tying themselves up, however." Files on Big Power Site. Eugene 8. W. Curtis, of San Fran cisco, said to represent the Pittsburg Reduction company, cf Niagara Falls, an aluminum manufacturing concern, has filed notices of location of a power site on Horse creek, a tributary of the McKenzie river, in the vicinity of Foley springs, 60 miles east of Eugene. He files on 20,000 miners' inches un der a six-inch pressure, and it is esti mated that 30,000 horse power can be generated. Mr. Curtis declines to make any statement regarding the in tentions of his employers, but it is presumed that they may, some time in the future, estalish a manufacturing plant in Eugene or vicinity. Lack of Cars Closes Plant.' Eugene The Royce & Peterson ex celsior plant has closed down here on ai-count of the failure of the Southern Pacific to furnish cars. All warehouse space has been exhausted, and there was no recourse but to stop manufac turing. The company's plant at Junc tion City can run about two weeks lon ger, and then it will have to shut down if cars are not available. PORTLAND MARKETS. ' Wheat Club. 6768c; bluestem, 70Oi71c ; valley, 71c; red, 6466c. Oats No. 1 white, $2222.50; gray, $20021. Barley Feed, $20 per ton; brewing, $22.50; rolled, $2d24. Rye $1.30 per cwt. Corn Whole, $26; cracked, $27 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No 1, $11 12.50 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $16; clover, $77.60 cheat, $6.60; grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $10; vetch 'hay, $77.5o. " ''v'" : ' ; Fruits Apples, common, 5075c per box; fancy, $1.262; apricots, $1,2501 .35 ; grapes, $1 1 .75 per crate ; peaches, $11.10; pears, $1.75, plums, fancy, 5075c per box; common 50 75c; blackberries, 5 6c per pound; crab apples, 75c per box. Melons Cantaloupes, $1.752 per crate; watermelons, llc per pound. Vegetables Beans, 57c; cabbage, l2c per pound; celery. 85c$l per dozen; corn, 1520c per dozen; cu cumbers, 4060c per box; egg plant, 10c per pound ; lettuce; head, 25c per dozen; onions, 1012c per dozen; peas, 4Q5c; bell peppers, 1215c; radishes, 1015c; per dozen; rhubarb, 22jjC per pound; spinach, 23c per pound; tomatoes, 60 90c per box; parsley, 25c; squash, $11.25 per crate; turnips, 90c$l per sack; 'car rots, $11.25 per sack; beets, $1.25 1.50 per sack. Onions New, ljl)c per pound. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 7075c; sweet potatoes, 4io per pound. Putter Fancy creamery, 22)25c per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 2122c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 13c per pound; mixed chickens, 12)13c; springs, 13 14c, old roosters, 9 10c; dressed chickens, 1415c; tur keys, live, 16 22c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 2022)c; geese, live, 810c; ducks, ll13c. Hops 1906 contracts, 18 20c; 1905, nominal; 1904, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1519c per pound, according to shrink age; valley, 2022c, according to fine ness; mohair, choice, 28 30o per pound. - Veal Dressed, 58c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, Sc per pound ; cows, 45c; country steers, 56o Mutton Dressed, fancy, 78c pet pound; ordinary, 56c; Iambs, fancy. 88)c. Pork Dressed, 78$c per pound. Anxiety of Government Grows With Increase of Insurrection. Havana, Aug. 28. The anxiety of President Palma to extend every possi be epportunity for peace without bloodshed, and his desire to permit those who Joined the insurrection un der misguidnncn to repent and return to their homes unmolested, combined with the general wish to end the situa tion fraught with so much loss and suffering, has led to consideration by the president and his cabinet of a pro ject decreeing a 30-day amnesty period, during which the , insurrectionists are invited to lay down their arms and re turn to their peaceful pursuits. It was proposed to issue the decree tomorrow, but persons close to the president strongly opposed the meas ure and the matter was referred and may be relinquished. So far as actual conflict went, Hun day proved to be a day of inactivity, but preparations proceeded without abatement. A fund of $2,000,000 has been set aside by the treasury for de fense, and drafts on it are heavy. The situation is so increasingly seri ous that it is tacitly admitted in all government circles that the enlarge ment of the army will not stop at any given number. While the number of men at present leaving their regular occupations to en list is small, employers are beginning to find that they soon will be confront ed with a considerable scarcity of labor. Many laborers are gathered in front of the bulletin boardB on which is dis played the call for volunteers issued by the president Saturday night. They discuss the attractiveness of a soldiers' life at such unusual pay, and may en list. It was said today that several new insurgent bands had taken to tne brush. The growth u( the insurrection certainly seems to keep pace with the preparationa for suffocating it. RUSSIAN GENERAL KILLED. Young Girl Fires Five Bullets From Automatic Revolver. St. Peteisburg, Aug. 28. Saturday's unsuccessful attempt on the life of Pre mier Stolypin, with its sickening, use less slaughter of 32 persons, was fol lowed today by another revolutionary outrage, in which General Min, com mander of the Seminovsky Guard regi ment) and who since his promotion to be a general bas been attached as a personal adjutant to the suite of the emperor, was killed on the station platform at Peterhof by a young wo man, who fired five shots into his body from . an - automatic revolver and then without resistance submitted to arrest. The capture of the girl was effected by General Min's wife, who held her until the.arrival of an officer. This was the third successive at tempt on the life of General Min, who was condemned to death by the terror ists immediately after the Moscow re volt last December, on account of stern repression practiced by a battalion un der his command, and especially for the wholesale execution of persons con demned by drumhead courtmartial for being caught with arms in their hands. General Min was returning from his summer residence at Peterhof and had just greeted his wife and daughter on the platform when a young woman almost a girl approached from behind and -fired two shots into his back and then three . more into hie body as it sank to the ground. Further shots were prevented by Mme. Min, who threw herself upon the murderess and seized the hand which held the pistol. The woman did not attempt to escape, but she cautioned Mme. Min not to touch a hand bag which she had placed on the platform before shooting the general, adding that it contained a bomb. To the police the girl acknow ledged that she had done the deed, say ing that she had executed the sentence of the fighting organization of the So cial Revolutionists. Cuban Outposts Are Nervous. San Juan de Martinez, Aug. 28 ine past 24 hours have been quiet except for shooting Inst night at imaginary objects by men on outposts. As a re sult, two brothers asleep in a farm house were shot. One of them died and the other is unconscious. The in surgent forces under Pino Guerrera spent last night and today at Galafre, near here. No movement has yet been made by either side to attack. Ex governor Perez, a Liberal, visited Guei reia today and found him to be well in formed aa to what was going on. Ready for Trial Trip. London, Aug. 28. The Daily Mail'B Christiana correspondent Bays that a steamer from Spitzbergen brings a re port that the Wellman Chicago Record Herald North Pole expedition's shed and balloon were finished last week, and that Mr. Wellman intends shortly to make a trial trip. Yacht Galilee Damaged. Yokohama, Aug. 23. The magnetic wrvey yacht Galilee, which sailed from San Francisco about a year ago in the interests of the Carnegie Institute, was Iriven on the breakwater here daring a typhoon August 24. She was consid erably damaged, but has been floated wd docked for repairs. . The tourist generally spends a quiet day at Heidelberg, the famous "stu dent city," with Its 'noted castle, An Ivied ruin which looks down oh the gentle Neckar, upon vineyards, on the bill slopes and the solid queer stone houses of the town itself. ' All of Hei delberg has witchery about it, espe cially the steep and narrow Haupt strasse, where every casement has Its swinging bird cage and pots of flow ers gayly bloom. The atueckgarten here was Goethe's favorite nook at Heidelberg. Then there Is the great tun of Heidelberg, a monster wine cask capable of holding 49,000 gallons. Afternoons the students sit on the ter race of the Schloss Hotel and listen to the band. Each student society ap propriates a 'long table to Itself, and each one wears Its special colored cap, of blue, or gold, or red, or white. The young men In white caps are all of no ble birth. Many of them have strips of white court plaster on their faces, a fact which causes tourist girls to become excited, for they know that these men have been fighting duels. All of the students have frivolous little canes, and with each group of them is an enormous dog, their mascot, which belongs to their society collectively. The country between Heidelberg and Darmstadt Is more than merely pret ty. Almost all the towns on the route are wine towns, with extensive vine yards. The traveler passes "BIngen on the Rhine," and looks for the old "Mouse Tower," where the wicked bishop of Hatto perished miserably after assembling the poor In his barns and burning them up. It stands In a quartz rock In the middle of a water way. A trip down the river takes the steamer past Lorch, where the sweet bells ring on Sabbath from St. Mar tin's gothlc tower, by the "Devil's Ladder," that steep cliff which once a lover, helped by the mountain sprites, scaled successfully on horseback and won the lady of his love. Then come the rocks of "The Seven Virgins," and then the home of the Lorelei, about which so many stories are told by po ets and peasants along the princely Rhine. At Ehrenbreltsteln Is the noble rock and mighty, fortress that guard the western gateway of the German Inde pendence, commanding both the Rhine and the Moselle. Then comes Cologne, "the holy city." Its pride Is pre-eminently in Its churches. The transcend- THE "OLD SWIMMING HOLE." It seems easier to remember the fun of running off Sunday afternoons nd paddling around In It than to recollect . .... . . . , I n The paddling that came after. How He Remembered It. When they met on Chestnut street after some months In which they hadn't seen each other the one chap told the other he had taken a little house in Germantown and was there with his lares, penates and coal bill. "Come up and see me some evening any even ing. We're rarely out, you know, and, then, we have a telephone, so you can let us know when you're coming." "I suppose your name is In the tele phone directory?" queried the other. "Well, no, not yet, as we've Just got the telephone, but our number Is Is really it's funny, but Just this minute I can't it's something like Ding It all. It's strange I forget that num ber, for Just on purpose I multiplied It by two and divided the result by four, so as to enable me to remember it, and I can't recall the first thing about It -OOO : ' ent charm of its grand old cathedral Is its magnificent harmony. Its Interior reminds of a virgin forest, whose trees rise to a height sublime, powerful, ma jestic in their outlines, yet so delicate In detail that their foliage loses Itself In a maze of lines and shadows. Tombs of saints and Images of an gels, the golden coffin of the Magi, guarded ' by close Iron gates, altars gleaming brightly as a good man's dream of heaven, beauty that floods mortal sense with rapture, reverence that leads thoughts to God; this is what fortunate pilgrims find In the great cathedral of Cologne. 4 Berilu Is a city of long,' straight lines, i Its houses inarch down the street like endless files of soldiers,' es pecially on the famous Unter den Lin den, f Its great park of B30 acres and Zoological gardens are very beautiful. Everywhere Is music of the best. Ev erywhere is the Influence of the emper or. The traveler Is subtly reminded of the German art exhibit at the St. Louis exposition, where every second pic ture was of his imperial majesty. Ber lin's Impressive monuments,, her many palaces, shining arcades, fine public buildings, , her museum, her statues and her park,' her soldiers and her peo ple are all subservient to this central figure of the emperor. Splendid as she really Is, he Is more splendid who rules her with an Iron hand and a majestic presence. As for public monuments, there Is no capital In the world which has honor ed Its distinguished men as Berlin has. Notable among the royal figures Is the masterly statue of Frederick the Great. On the elaborate pedestal the great king Is majestic indeed ; he is on horse back, with his ermine mantle on his shoulder and his crutch handled stick In his hand. The national monument of Emperor William I. was unveiled In 1897, on the hundredth anniversary of the Emperor's birthday. This also Is an Immense equestrian figure, In bronze. The horse be rides Is his fa vorite war charger, Hippocrates, whicrx Is led along by a graceful figure of Peace. Then there Is the marble figure of Queen Louise, which, the work of Enckle, was erected in the park at the north of the Thlergarten Btrasse In 1880, and which has upon Its pedestal reliefs which represent different pha ses of woman's work in war. This rec ognition or woman's sen-ices to tna state is a final evidence of the new Her. I Iln in the new Germany. ' ri Chicago Hecord-IIerald. ' Ever know the like? I'll write you the number." Philadelphia Record. Palnlean Chiropody. An author, paying his first visit to a married acquaintance, asked the name of a sprightly little girl whose winning ways had attracted his attention. "We call her Ella," said the child's mother. "That is a good name," remarked the author. "It has been made classic by Charles Lamb." "Well, to tell the truth," explained the lady, "her name Is Cornelia, but It's easier to call her Ella." "I see," the caller rejoined. "It la the painless extraction of a cornl'V London Tlt-Blts. A citizen Isn't necessarily worthless Just because his wife Is worth more than he U.