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.