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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1906)
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST PRICE WILL NOT ADVANCE Oregon Millmen Not Worrying Over Price of Logs on 8ound. Portland Dnsplte the shortage In the log supply for the Columbia river mills and the exhaustion of the sur plus that Is stored each summer for the winter's Tun, Portland millmen are not apprehensive of a raise In the price of logs. The schedule has soared to such heights already, they say, that there Is no likelihood of a further ad vance for weeks to come anyway. That the mills have already cut the usual surplus Is admitted, but It Is saldthat nowadays the camps along the river are equipped to put logs Into the water at any season, and the lack of rafts on hand for future use does not trouble the mill-owners. The announcement that logs will be higher on the Smnd after the first of the month docs not concern local saw mill men. They say that prices are al ready higher on the Columbia river than on the Sound. After the new price scale goes Into effect, the Co lumbia river logger will still be get ting more for his product than the log ger who operates on the Sound. The price of logs on the Columbia river has advanced remarkably during the season. In the spring logs of the best clasg could be had for $7 and $8. Now these same logs cost $11 and $12 per 1,000. The remarkable demand for lumber Is responsible for the Increase, together with the somewhat restricted supply. With every mill cutting to Its fullest capacity, logs are bound to ad vance. Some say the situation Is such that Ipggers could get what they might choose to ask for their product, on account of the small amount of saw mill timber available, but It Is given out by millmen that if the prices are raised any more the mills will close down, as prices are already up to the limit. That the price of lumber could he advanced again Is scouted. It Is argued that if a boost were given the price on Oregon flr, It could not com pete with Southern pine In the East ern markets. This Is the fact that keeps the price of the Oregon product where it is. RAILROAD FOR TILLAMOOK. Citizens Guarantee Right of Way and Work Will Start Soon. Tillamook At a meeting of the bus iness men it was decided to guarantee a free right-of-way to E. E. Lytle, of the Pacific Railway & Navigation Company, with terminal grounds, from Tillamook City to the Nehalem river, and from the Nehalem to the county line In Washington county. It is not to cost the citizens of this county more than $10,000, and In consideration of this Mr. Lytle has agreed to commence work next year in Tillamook City and grade and build 15 miles of road, going north from this city, and have the en tire line between Tillamook City and Hillsboro completed by December 31, 1908. It Is expected that the free right-of-way will cost the citizens between $20,000 and $30,000, and the business men and farmers have thus far liber ally subscribed towards It, although It Is somewhat of a large amount of money for so small a community to raise. Some little disappointment was felt here'that the effort fell through In get ting some financial help from the Portland business men, as the building of Mr. Lytle's road will be of great benefit to Portland commercially. . Oregon's Mill Statistics. Salem There are 379 mills' In the State of Oregon, according to statisti cal data collated by Labor Commis sioner Hoff, to be embodied In his forthcoming report, Including saw mills, combined saw and planing mills, combined saw and shingle mills, 7 shingle mills and 37 planing mills, which cover 90 per cent of the indus tries of the state. The total annual output of these mills, as reported, embraces 1,097,460,- 300 feet of lumber and 37,030,000 shingles. The reported value of the planing mills aggregates $369,500; and that of the 300 mills remaining $6,364,200. The total number of men employed by 313 mills reporting is 11,790, and women, 311. The total amount of wages paid for labor in 313 of these mills in 1905 was $6,648,- 093.90, and 96 mills report an increase of 12 per cent in wages over 1904; none reports a decrease. Rainfall at Astoria. Astoria The rainfall at Astoria in September was the heaviest during any corresponding month since the records have been kept here. The pre cipitation was 8.66 inches. The near est approach to this was during Sep tember, 1905, when 7.38 Inches of rain fell. IHELP8 FOR DEBATING 80CIETIE8. What the State Library, Commission Is Doing for Oregon Towns, Salem Frequent requests for ma terial on subjects to be debated In the schools of Oregon convinced the com mission of the desirability of supply ing some "debate libraries." , Each library contains a few of the best books and pamphlets on the sub ject, and usually the brief from "Briefs for debate" or "Briefs on public ques tion." Periodical articles, to supple ment the library, may be rented from the II. W. Wilson Co. of Minneapolis for a few cents. A list of desirable articles Is enclosed with each library. The library will be sent without charge except for transportation to any de bating society in Oregon upon applica tion from the officers of the society and the principal of the school. The books may be kept for one month, Each package Is small and the express will vary from fifty cents to one dol lar, Icbs than the cost of a single book. It will now be more possible to have live debating societies and to do thor ough work. Application should be made soon as there Is but one library on each sub ject, and loans will be made In order of applications. Societies planning for several de- bates should file request at one time for all libraries wanted during the year, stating date of debate on each topic. Libraries on the following subjects are now ready and more will be sup plied soon: Industrial arbitration, Chi nese exclusion, Immigration, tariff, trusts, eight-hour day, child labor, cap ital punishment, open shop, spelling re form, trades unions, popular election of United States senators, nominating systems, proportional representation, railroads, roads, taxation, Insurance, forestry, irrigation and prisons. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 6566c; blustem, 68 G9c; Valley, 6768c; red, 6263c, Oats No. 1, white, $23.5024; gray, $2222.50 per ton. Barley Feed, $20.50 per ton; brew ing, $21.50; rolled, $23. Rye $1.35 per cwt. Corn Whole, $2627; cracked, $28 per ton. Mlllstuffs Bran, city, $14.50; coun try, $15.50 per ton; middlings, $24; shorts, city, $16; country, $17 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $10 11 per ton; Eabtein Oregon timothy, $12 14; clover, $6.507; cheat, $7 7.50; grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $10; vetch hay, $77.50. Fruits Apples, common to choice, 2575c per box; choice to fancy, 75c 1.25; grapes, Oregon, 5075c per crate; California, Black Prince, $1.15 1.25; muscat, $1.25; Tokay, $1.25 1.50; Concords, 27c per basket; peaches, 90c$1.10; pears, 75c1.25; crabapples, $11.25 per box; prunes, 2550c box; huckleberries, 810c per pound; cranberries, $9 per barrel; quinces, $11.25 per bor. Vegetables Beans, 57c; cab bage, l2c per pound; cauliflower, $11.25 per dozen; celery, 5090c per dozen; corn, 12c per dozen, cucum bers, 15c per dozen; egg plant, 10c per pound; lettuce, head, 20c per dozen; onions, 1012c per dozen; peas, 4 5c; bell peppers, 5c; pumpkins, VAc per pound; spinach, 45c per pound; tomatoes, 4050c per box; parsley, 10 15c; - sprouts, 7c per pound; squash, lc per pound; hothouse let tuce, $11.25; turnips, 90c$l per sack; carrots, $11.25 per sack; beets, $1.251.50 per sack; garlic, 7100 per pound; horseradish, 10c per pound. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, deliv ered, 8085c; in carlots f. o. b. coun try, 7580c; sweet potatoes, 221ic per pound. Butter City creameries; Extra creamery, 30c per pound. State cream eries: Fancy creamery, 2530c; store butter, 15 17c. Eggs Oregon ranch, 30c per dozen ; best Eastern, 2627c; ordinary East ern, 24 25c. Poultry Average old hens, 13 14c; mixed chickens, 1314c; spring, 1314c; old roosters, 9 10c; dressed chickens, 1415c; tur keys, live, 1621c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 2122c; geese, live, per pound, 910c; ducks, 1415c; pig eons, $11.50; squabs, $23. Veal Dressed, 6 Ms 8c. Beef Dressed bulls, 3c per pound; cows, i5ysc; country steers, 56c. Mutton Dressed fancy, 78c per pound; ordinary, 5 6c; lambs, fancy 88c. ' Pork Dressed, 6 8c. Hops 1906, 1517c per pound; 1905, nominal; 1904, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1519c per pound, according to shrink age; Valley, 2022c, according to fine ness. Mohair Choice, 2830c per pound DROWNED AT HI8 P08T. Keeper cf Lighthouse on Gulf Declines to Take Refuge on Tug. Mobile, Ala., Oct. 2. The number of casualties in. the great storm of last Wednesday' is slowly increasing, as messages arrive from places which have heretofore been inaccessible. The total last night of the known dead was 75. This number vfas brought up to a certainty of 79, and a possibility of 102, by the reports which reached Mo bile during the night and early today. Four bodies not before counted have been found at Coden, and It Is esti mated that 23 lives have been lost from the oyster fleet around Cedar Point. This last estimate is not known to be accurate, and is probably some what exaggerated, for the reason that it includes among the dead every man aboard a fishing boat who has not been heard of since the storm. It is known that some of the boats on which these men were have been driven ashore, and it is entirely pos sible that some of the crews managed to reach the shore. It does not seem likely at present that the death roll will amount in this vicinity to more than 125. Mobile itself Is rapidly emerging from the confusion caused by the storm. Large gangs were kept work ing all of Sunday In clearing the streets of debris, three of the street car lines have commenced to run, for the first time since Wednesday, the confusion at the docks is rapidly be ing repaired and business will be at normal action as soon as the railroads are able to run trains. The keeper of the Horn Island light house, just outside of Scranton, lost his life. The captain of a tug which came near the house at the commence ment of the storm urged him to leave, but he refused to abandon his post, and in short time was drowned. The entire end of the island on which the lighthouse was situated is said to have been carried away by the waves. Five out of eight vessels at Ship Island at the time of the storm were beached and two will be total wrecks. Several vessels, the names of which are unknown, are ashore off Horn Is land and the small islands marking the passage between Dauphin Island and the mainland have been destroyed. The beacon lights on this part of the coast are not greatly damaged. The schooner Alice Graham, of Mo bile, is known to have been lost, with her crew of six men. This boat has been pursued by an evil fate, and, be sides having various mishaps from time to time, was wrecked in the great storm of 1893, when several people were lost from her. Four bodies have been picked up in the water near Dauphin Island and nave Deen- Duned tnere. Two were evidently sailors and two were boys. The people on Dauphin Island suffered great hardships during the storm, and for 24 hours were In great danger. The soldiers of Fort Gaines made a dan gerous trip of two miles to the resi dences on the island, offering to give everybody shelter within the fort, but the offer was In all cases refused, the people preferring to remain in their own houses. Vancouver Troops for Cuba. Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Oct. 1 To assist in protecting life and prop erty and in preserving peace in Cuba the "Pearl of the Antilles" is the peaceful, rather than war like, mis sion which will start the Seventeenth ana Eighteenth mountain batteries now stationed here across the conti nent to Newport News at an early hour today and which later will lead them to the scene of the present West Indian imbroglio. It will be the first time that these troops, equipped bet ter than the foot or mounted soldiery of any other post In America to wage warfare among the mountain passes and inaccessible highlands of Cuba have been, away from the Columbia River garrison since their return from the Philippines nearly two years ago, save for their short trip to San Fran cisco to do patrol duty following the earthquake. Great Trad Was Flooded. New Orleans, Oct. 2. Reports that probably a dozen lives were lost and that hundreds of square miles of land were under 18 inches to four feet of water during the hurricane on the Mississippi river delta were brought here today. The inundated tract is mostly inhabited by fishermen and oys termen. Messages which left these villages last night said that up to that time several persons were still miss ing. The loss to the United States Marine Hospital quarantine station on Ship Island is about $60,000. Another Storm Is Coming. Washington, Oct. 2. The Weather Bureau toni-sht announced that an other "tropical disturbance" Is report ed as approaching the Yucatan Chan nel from the east, but that there was no information available as to the in tensity of the storm. TAFT WINS CUBANS Believe He has Come to Uplift Fallen Republic, SPEAKS AT HAVANA UNIVERSITY Refuses to Evict Poor From Barracks to Make Room for Soldiers Amnesty for Prisoners. Havana, Oct. 2. Governor Taffs acts today have gone far to win him a warm place In the hearts of the people whose destinies have been placed in his hands. Presiding this morning at the opening exercises of the University of Havana, he declared his mission here was solely for the purpose of uplifting the fallen Republic and restoring it to the path of prosperity, an announce ment which was received with demon strations of delight by an audience rep resentative of the highest society In Havana. Following this it became known that Mr. Taft and Assistant Secretary of State Bacon had cabled for their wives to join them here, a step which can not but be most agreeable to the Cuban people and which will strongly cement the bonds of affection between them and the American provisional adminis tration. Still another act . of Mr. Taft is warmly commended as illustrative of his thoughtful consideration of the humbler classes. Learning that many poor families occupying the tempor arily disused barracks at Camp Co lumbia were about to be summarily evicted by order of the Cuban author ities in preparation for the occupation of the quarters by the brigade of marines, Mr. Taft went to Camp Co lumbia in an automobile, explained that he had not been aware of the con ditions and recinded the order. He left the camp amid cheers and warm expressions of gratitude from the peo ple. The news of this act of humanity spread rapidly and received the high est praise. Much of the Governor's time today was occupied in receiving officials of the various departments and judges of the courts. With the members of the Supreme Court he held a long confer ence concerning the drafting of proclamation of general amnesty. This decree Is of the most importance, in view of the fact that at many points on the island, notably Clenfuegos, many persons are in jail awaiting the disposition of political charges. Bible Not the Word of God. Detroit, Oct. 2. Bishop Charles D. Williams, of the Episcopal diocese of Michigan, in an address to Y. M. C. A. members here on "The Bible and the Word of God," declared that the Bible was not the word of God and that the teachings to the contrary are the most prolific sources of unbelief the church has to contend with. The Bishop said! "Nowhere does the Bible declare itself the word of God. Yet we are told we must take it in its entirety. It is a venerable book and visitors are requested not to touch it, as it is the direct word of God, there is no other. "Take the young man just out of college. He reads Genesis and finds impossible geology, astronomy and ethnology. His teacher, when ques tioned says: 'Manipulate It until it fits your sciences.' If too honest to handle the word of God craftily, the young man gives up the Bible. He refuses to stultify his reason. . "The Bible needs no defense; all II needs is a square deal. There are those who read it devoutly and dili gently, but I never say the Bible Is the word of God. I say the Bible and the word of God. To those who accept the entire book as the. literal word of God I point out that It is nowhere so stated. Christ tore asunder the OTd Testament precepts, the law of Moses, and furnished new ones. Where the Old Testament directed men to hate their enemies the teachings of Christ were to love your enemies. Taft's Advice to Cubans. Havana, Oct. 2. The flower of Ha vana society was present at the open- in? of Havana University. After the annual address Governor Taft present ed the diplomas to the successful stu dents and then made a notable ad dress, the spirit of which' was that the intervention of the United States was undertaken solely to assist Cuba and Cubans and that her future was de pendent upon her young men. Mr Taft spoke in English, pausing at every sentence for its interpretation. Kansas to Oust Standard. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 2. Suits were in stituted In the Supreme Court today by Attorney-General Coleman under the state anti-trust act to oust the Standard Oil Company and the Inter national Harvester Company TROOPS OFF FOR CUBA. Mobilization of Forces at Newnort News Where Transports Are Ready. Washington, Oct. 1. American troops are now moving toward Cuba Mobilization of the forces will be at Newport News, Va., for the most part, although a part of the expeditionary force to Cuba will be sent from New" York and Tampa,, Fla. Advices re ceived at the departments of the mili tary today indicate that all is quiet in Cuba and that the insurgents intend to lay down their arms. The probability is the United States forces in the island will be landed only as a precautionary measure. So far as officials are advised no trouble of a serious kind is anticipated, but in ac cordance with instructions from Pres ident Roosevelt hurried preparations are being made for the sending of an expeditionary force, of the army to Cuba. The first American troops will be landed at Havana next Saturday. Meantime the marines and bluejackets from the American fleet in Cuban waters will protect American Interests and support Secretary Taft, the Pro visional Governor of Cuba, in the preservation of order and the protec tion of life and property. In official circles here American In tervention was regarded as inevitable. How long it may continue it is im possible to foretell. The nature of the intervention and the preparations for it indicate a supervision of Cuban af fairs on the part of the American gov ernment for an indefinite period. Ar rangements have been concluded not only for the expeditionary force to Cuba of about 5,600 men, but for a second force of equal numbers. No orders for the mobilization of the second force, of course, have been is sued, but if the men are needed all arrangements have been completed for hurying them to Cuba at the earliest possible moment. Whether more troops than are included in the first expedi tion will be sent to Cuba will depend upon the developments in the Island during the next ten days. It is certain, however, that a suffi cient force of American troops will be maintained in Cuba to support the provisional government and to Insure security to life and property pending the establishment of a stable govern ment by the Cubans. WIRELESS CONVENTION. Delegates From Thirty-one Countries Meet at Berlin. Berlin, Oct. 1. Delegates represent ing 31 governments will assemble here October 3, by Invitation of the German government, with the object of Teach ing a common agreement for the ex change of messages by the use of var ious wireless telegraph systems, and to define the basis on which private wire less telegraph companies may operate with the consent of the governments. The conference is a result of the Marconi Company having refused to allow its stations to do business with persons using other than Marconi ap paratus. This controversy began soon after the Marconi Company, In 1901, set up stations for public telegraph purposes. The refusal of these sta tions to take messages sent in by the Slaby-Arco (German) apparatus brought about the international wire ess telegraph conference, also by the invitation of Germany, in 1903. Eight governments took part, as follows: The United States, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Russia and Austro-Hungary. The delegates of six governments agreed in the final protocol to a series of recommendations looking toward the co-operation of all users of wire less. The delegates of Great Britain and Italy, because their governments had contracts with the Marconi, did not sign the recommendations. Little has come of these recommendations. The Marconi Company has continued to set up stations and to refuse the messages of rival systems. The most important act in the con troversy in the conference was that of the United States in 1904 directing the Marconi Company to remove its apparatus from the lightship Nan tucket. Germany will propose to the confer ence that an international bureau shall be established for the control of wire less telegraphing; that each wireless Btation must be connected with tho ordinary telegraphs by special lines; Troops From Fort Sheridan. Chicago, Oct. 1. Brigadier-General W. H. Cater, commander of the Depart ment of the Lakes, received orders from Washington today, directing two battalions of the Twenty-seventh In fantry and the Fourteenth United States Field Battery, at Fort Sheridan, to proceed immediately to Newport News, where they will embark for Cuba. Colonel W. L. Pitcher, in com mand of Fort Sheridan, ordered two special trains of 12 cars each for Tuesday morning, and it Is expected the troops will leave for Newport News
