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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 22, 1906)
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST SUCCESSFUL STAMP MILL. STRIKE A BICH VEIN. HUMAN BODY 13 A BATTERY. Five-IIorsopower Plant Opens New Era Large and Well-Defined Ledge Discov ln Mining Industry. ered at Cottage Grove. La Grando Assay returns have boon Cottage Drove A flattering find is roceivod by the Aurolia company from reported from the Bohomia mining dis- concontratog turnod out on the trial run trict. It was made recently in the of the mill rocontly installed by that claim known as the Big Maud, owned by company on its mining property up the Colonel W. II. Blair. The ore is said Grand Hondo Kivor. Those assays show to be high-grade and the lodge is large valuos ranging from $225 to $250 to the and well defined. The usual degree of ton, with a loss of about 15 por cent activity prevails throughout th camp, in the wasto. TJio recent run of the nnd goed results are in evidence. The mill shows that the ore will run $15 or Q Securities and Vesuvius are in more per ton, and when the machinery ull6 oporation employing Jarge forces is placed in first-class working condi-i,,, ' , ' .t tion from 90 to 1)5 por cent of the val- for thJ;ye j, uoarly compieted on the uos can be saved. ,,.'. . I largo number of claims held by private The mill installed is but small. Only p(lrtios five-horsopowor is required to run the,11 Aeti;ity in the iumboring business is crusher and other machinery, and but I con(,tantlv on the increase, notwith- needed to superintend the u the torg are 'unable to Mining mon are enthuBi- tiT:- mi,. ,wt0f, nstic over tho success of the mill, anil;. anrin.,a,v V-it v,v t.hn is mill in this believe this character of mi 1 has solved ,ooa,it ftne company alone has about the problem of how to handle the ore of 0) curloadg on the do(.k8 and ig gimply tho Grand Hondo district. A few y ;unable to Bocure cars. This is the case, ago it was the opinion of minors that jhowo with all tho miHgt The jum. the up-nvor country ores could not bo bormon 'aro a(ivocating the enactment worKeuwiu smaii capnai, u d i iu of a ,aw making it a penalty for a rail- t .t r. ;i . a a :..u roau company wuon iaiis 10 iuruisu one man is entire plant than $00,000 or $100,000 would be re quired to install a suitable plant for the treatment of the ores found there. Tho trial of tho Aurolia company has proved that the ore can be handled on a vory much smaller scale, with high percentage of profits, or even higher, to the ton than with heavy stamp machin ery. It is the intention of the Aurelia company to put in ariothcr mill next year. Other owners of mining property in tho samo district will follow their ex ample. SUGAR OUTPUT IS LARGE. La Grande Factory Will Turn Out Over 60,000 Sacks. La Grande The new track of the Central Kailway has reached the Hunt grade opposite Cone, and a spur for loading beets has been put in. This reduces tho hauling distance from the Cone beet fields materially, as the end of tho track is now about three miles and a half from the farms. Most of the Cone boots remain to be dolivored and the harvest in that locality has been postponed as long ' as possible, awaiting railroad facilities. Superin tendent Barnwell says that ten days or two weeks will be required to get all tho beets to the factory. The factory bag been running most satisfactorily, without a hitch or halt, from the time tho season opened. In addition to the fine output of beets, the en tiar perccnace is higher this year than ever before. It ia estimated that the sugar output this season will be between 50,000 and 60,000 sacks, or from 250 to 300 cars. The factory will probably run four weeks longer. HAY SHORTAGE ON COOS BAT. Tanners bo Not Produce Enough to Supply Local Market, North Bend Bringing hay from the Willamette Valley to North Bend and Marshfield is something like carrying coals - to Newcastle, yet nearly every boat that comes here from Portland lands a quantity of hay. Around Co--quillo some hay is grown for the mar ket, but it costs nearly as much to bring hay from that point to Marsh field, a distance of 15 miles, as it does to bring it from Portland. If the hay is consigned to North Bend it must be transferred from the cars to boats at Marshfield, and that costs $1 a ton ex tra. Valley grass hay can be pur chased in Portland for $9 a ton, and it costs $3 a ton for freight. This hay retails for $13 a ton. There is no clean timothy or clover hay to be had here at any price and Oregon grass is at a premium. On the bottom lands in Coos County four and five tons an acre of oat hay can be raised, and clover and timothy grow well on the rich bench lands. cars within a specified time after the order is placed. They contend that they are not dealt with fairly in the matter, as the railroad company im poses a demurrage of $1 a day when a car is not loadod within 48 hours after the time it is spotted. The railroad company, on the other hand, takes its own time and pleasure to furnish cars. With about $250,000 worth of lumber cut and ready to move, the lumbermen are hopeful that they will soon get re lief. They aro running full capacity and orders for more lumber are pouring in, and n cars are noi iurnisnea boou they will be compelled to close their plants. WORK OF HATCHERIES. Season's Work Has Been Satisfactory In All Coast Stations. . 0 Salem The report of Master Fish Warden H. G. Van Dusen for the month of October shows that the season's work has been satisfactory in all Coast stream hatcheries, but not so good in the hatcheries on tributaries of the Co lumbia. Eegarding hatchery opera- tions the report says: With the exception or a lew more salmon to spawn at Ontario, we are through with the work of collecting chinook salmon spawn at our different hatcheries tributary to the UolumDia River, and from reports received the following collections nave been maue: No. eggs taken Salmon River hatchery 875,000 MnKflnzia River hatchery sta tion 5,97U,UUU Wallowa River hatchery 596,000 Ontario salmon hatchery 2,130,000 Telephone It Operated by Current Given Out By the 8tomach. . San Francisco, Nov. 13. Before a number of medical men and scientists today, Mrs. Albert J. Atkins and B. J. Lewis succeeded in charging an elec trical circut with human electricity to such a degree that external sound waves were transmitted and heard through an ordinary telephone re ceiver. The experiment conslnted of the application of, two platinum elec trodes to the walls of the living stom ach. By means of copper wires the electrodes were connected with tele phone and microphone, a sensitive Instrument, which greatly intensifies sound. There was absolutely- no mechanical or chemical battery fn the circuit, ye"t the moment the electrodes were swal lowed sufficiently to touch the walls of the stomach, ' human electricity flowed over the wires, rendering sounds audible. , The electric charge measured from seven to eight milli volts on a Weston galvanometer. Colonel E. P. Rochardson, the sub ject of the experiment, swallowed the electrodes and succeeded in retaining them for a considerable time. After a brief rest, he was given a drink of whisky and on again connecting the electrodes with the interior lining of his stomach the galvanometer regis tered ISf milli-volts. Drs. Atkins and Lewis claim that by thlj experiment they have demon strated the law of action of the human senses. They reason that, if sound is transmitted over a copper wire when it Is charged with human electricity, it Is reasonable to consider the prin ciple the same when the auditory nerve is charged with the same force. In other words, we hear when the auditory nerve is made sensitive with human electricity on the same prin ciple which we receive a telephone message. Furthermore, these scientists claim that by a series of experiments they have proven that digestion is an eiec-tro-chemlc process: that all life ac tion in the body is dependent upon the activity of the electrical forces within the organism, that variations or sense manifestation, as sight, neanng, etc., are caused by the different rates of vi bration set up by the human electrical currents acting on the special sense nerves. TWO TRAINS COLLIDE Immigrant Train in Disastrous Indiana Wreck. FORTY-SEVEN PASSENGERS DEAD Were Nearly All Fugitives From Rus sia Survivors Lose Baggage and Other Possessions. Total 9,571,000 PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Export basis: Club, 6364c; bluestem, 6667c; Valley, 66c; red, 60061c. Oats No. 1 white, $24.50(5)25.50; erav. $23.50(5)24, Barley Feed, $21.50 per ton; brew wg, $22; rolled, Rye $1.35(5)1.40 per cwt. Corn Whole, $25.50; cracked, $26.50 per ton Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $1112 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $14 16; clover, $7(g)8; cheat, ipy.ou(a)s.ou grain hay, $7.508.50; alfalfa, $11.50 vetch hay, $7(a)7.5U, Fruits Apples, common to choice, 25 (a)75c per box; choice to fancy, 75c $1.50; grapes, $i.40(a)i.bo crate; pears, 75c$1.25; cranberries, $1010.50 per barrel; quinces, $11.25 per box; per simmons, $1.50 per box. Vegetables Cabbage, ljljc pound; cauliflower, $1.25 per dozen; celery, 75 85c per dozen; egg plant, $1.50 per crate; lettuce, head, 20c per dozen; onions, 1012Jc per dozen; bell pep- Organize a Water Company. ach 4(H)5 er )ound; tomatoes. 30(o)50c La Grande Articles of incorporation per box; parsley, 1015c; squash, IJc wn-... fin.n4I m anori j.)UI JfUUUUy bill liljJB, &WUJpX JJCI Da& BOERS- ON A RAID. Lave been filed for the Mill Creek Wa ter Company, with a capital stock of $12,500. La Grande will be the prin cipal place of business. The incorpor ators are George Krieger, Ambrose Wright and August Bahrens. The ob ject is to appropriate 1000 inches of water from Mill Creek, above Summer ville, to be used for irrigation and other purposes. The incorporators have re cently become interested in large tracts of land and some extensive improve ments are to bo made. Bandon Enjoys Prosperity. Bandon Bandon is enjoying some thing of a real estate boom, and lots 22Jc; geese, live, 99Jc; ducks, 14 that mignt nave oeen purcnasea ior i im. carrots, 90c$l per sack; beets, $1.25 1.50 per sack; horseradish, 910e per pound; sweet potatoes, 22ie per pound. Onions Oregon, 75c$l per hundred. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, fancy, 8590c; common, 6075c. - Butter Fancy creamery, 2527Jc per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 3335c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 1213c per pound; mixed chickens, 1212Jc; Spring, 1213e; old roosters, 910c; dressed chickens, 1314c; turkeys, live, lB(gU74c; turKeys, dressed, choice, 21(a) Mounted Rifles Start in Pursuit and1 Rebels Prepare to Fight. Cape Town, South Africa, Nov. 12 The latest advices from the scene of the Boer outbreak in the North western part of Cape Colony agree that the situation is decidedly graver. Natives who have never been in sym pathy with the British plans of govern ment are flocking to the standard of the rebel chieftain, Ferriera. On Sun day he attacked a camp of loyals at Uppington and a fierce fight followed lasting hours, when the police, find ing themselves outnumbered, fled carrying their badly-wounded men. Ferreira, with his force augmented hourly, is now in camp on a farm near Uppington and it is reported that his command is bringing horses from the farms in the vicinity. It is believed that he plans a march toward Kuru- man, then, if able, to fight the troop sent against him and go on to Kim- berley. Three flying columns of Cape Col ony troopers and police, whose ranks numbered many veterans of the Boer army who have taken the oath of al leglance are now marching to engage the rebels. It Is conceded here that the loyal forces will have their work cut out in putting down the rebellion For many months the Boers have been dissatisfied with the attitude of the British colony toward them and many have declared their Intention of leav ing the British possessions and try ing their luck in other parts of Af rica. Should the present uprising gain a few initial successes, certainly the discontented from all over British South Africa will gather to aid Fer reira, and, if the latter can arm and equip all who come to nim, the gov ernment will sonn begin sending reg ular troops into the field to oppose him. $10 each last Spring are selling for $100 and finding a ready market at that price. Activity in manufactur ing accounts for the boom. The sal mon cannery, broom-handle factory, wood-pipe plant, brewery, match fac tory and foundry are running full time and the Bandon woolen mills are run ning day and night to keep up with or- Veal Dressed, 58fe per pound. Beef Dressed bulls. 2(3)2c fflTf I pound; cows, 45c; country steers, 5(a) i 5Jc. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89c per 'pound; ordinary, 6(5)7e. . Pork Dressed, 68c per pound. ' Hops lfl06; choice, 1516c; prime, 1314c: medium. 12(5)120 Der Bound: ' ders. The shingle mills are running to plds, nominal, their full capacity, and the Cody Lum-1 Wool Eastern Oregon average "best, ber Company -is building a mill that , 1318o per pound, according to shrink will have a capacity of 75,000 feet a age'; Valley, 2021e, according to fine day. I ness; Mohair, choice, 2628o. Quite Equal to Situation. London. Nov. 13. Sir Thomas Ful ler, agent general for Cape Colony in London, attaches- no importance to the Ferreira raid. He believes the object to be robbery and plunder and says the country where Ferreira and his men are operating is sparsely popu lated and the farmhouses widely sen arated. It is not impossible, however, that Ferreira may obtain some adher ents and do some mischief. The Cape Mounted Rifles, Sir Thomas declares, are accustomed to guerrilla warfare and will have no difficulty in dealing with the situation. Taking Away Liberty Again. Odessa, Nov. 13 All the electoral committees in this city and in the provinces have been suppressed and their functions have been transferred to the Town Council. The arrange ments made by these committees have bten cancelled. . EXPECT ROOSEVELT'8 AID. Chicago, Nov. 13- More than half the passengers on an immigrant train on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad were killed or injured in a collision today between the passenger train and a freight near Woodvllje, Ind. One hun dred and sixty-five passengers were on the train, and of these 47 were either killed outright or were burned to death in the fire which broke out in the wreckage immediately after the collision. The names of all the dead will probably never be known, as 45 of the bodies were consumed in the flames,' or were so badly burned that identification is impossible. Thirty eight people were injured, and several of these will die. Eighty others es caped unhurt, but lost nearly all their baggage and clothing. The disaster was caused by a blun der of some employe of the railroad company, but just where the blame lies has not been determined. The passenger train, which was loaded with Russian Jews, Servians and Poles, all of them recent arrivals in this country and bound for Chicago or places in the Northwest, was the second section of a through train from Baltimore. .The engineer of freight train No. 96, on Instructions received at McCool, Ind., waited at a siding at Babcock, Ind., to allow the immigrant train to pass. As soon as the first section or tne immigrant train had passed the switch at Babcock, the freight train, in charge of Engineer Burke and Conductor Moste. started eastward. A light snow was falling, which increased the dark. ness of the early .morning, ana, as tne freight was rounding a sharp curve lust west of Woodville, the second sec tion of the immigrant tram came, in sight a short distance away, tearing toward Chicago at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The two trains came to gether with unslackened speed, and in the crash six passenger coaches and several freight cars were knocked into kindling wood, and, together with tne locomotives, went rolling down the embankment. Leaders Confident That President's Coming Message to Congress Will Contain Redlcal Demands for Labor. Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 12. That the convention of the American Fed eration of Labor, which opens In this city this morning, will go on record in favor of an aggressive political pol icy seems assured. From all parts of the country delegates are bringing in reports of success at the polls at the recent election. So far these reports show that at least five trade unionists will sit in - the next Congress, while a great num ber have been elected to the different state Legislatures. Most pronounced have been the sue- . cess of the United Mine Workers and the Commercial Telegraphers' Union. The miners in the anthracite ditrlct of Pennsylvania have elected W. B. ... Wilson and T. D. Nichols to Congress and 10 of their members to the state Legislature. r. The telegraphers elected three of .'1" their niembers to Congress in different parts of the country, Including the' Fourth District of Illinois. In Henne pin county, in this state, 31 out of 39 men indorsed by labor for the state Legislature and county officers have been elected. These successes have whetted the appetites of the labor men and it is the general opinion of the delegates who have arrived here that the convention will devote at least two days to discussing a political program. President Gompers feels greatly en couraged over the situation. He saya he has received scores of letters from men outside of the labor movement in which they declare that they never before fully understood what the trade unionists of the country stood for in a political way, and expressing sym pathy with their aims and objects. "It has been the greatest education-' al campaign that organized labor has ever conducted, he said tonight." "The subject is fully covered in the -report which I will submit to the convention tomorrow, but I have no , hesitation in saying that the political program of the Executive Council will be indorsed by the convention. It is but the beginning of organized labor's efforts in the political arena." One of the effects of the labor politi cal program will be seen in the com ing .message of President Roosevelt to Congress. According to same labor officials who have recently talked with the President on the subject, the com ing message will contain some of the most radical demands for laDor tnai have ever been made by a President of the United States. GENERAL SHAFTEP. tAD. NEGRO TROOPS SHED TEARS. Pneumonia Proves Fatal to' Leader in Cuban Campaign. Bakersfleld. Cal.. Nov. 13. Major- General William Rufus Shatter, United States Armv. retired, died at 12:42 p. m. vesterdav at the ranch of Captain w H Mc.Kittrick. his son-in-law, 20 miips south of this city, after an in ness of seven days, despite the best medical attention in California. While returning from the polls last Tuesday, he contracted a severe chill which augmented a siignt indisposition and necessitated confinement to his bed. Wednesday and Thursday no im provement was noticed and Friday aft ernoon Dr. M. ti. Herzstein, oi &an Francisco, was communicate 1 with, but as he was unable to depart at once, Dr. I. W. Thorne was despatched in Dr. Herzstein's place. Dr. Thorne arrived early Saturday morning and, together with the local physicians, diligently watched the natient all thct day. In the afternoon a slight rally was de tected and relatives and physicians were extremely hopeful, but the change was short-lived. At 10 o'clock a sink ing spell, seized the veteran. Dr. Herzstein arrived shortly after midnight Saturday night and a consul tation was held with the other physi cians in attendance. It is stated that Dr. Herzstein deemed an operation the only means of relief from the Intesti nal obstruction, but the condition of the patient would forecast nothing but fatal results in such an attempt. Dr. Herzstein, accompanied by Dr. Thorne, returned to San Francisco, all hope of saving the gallant war hero having been abandoned. Veterans of Twenty-Fifth Deeply Af fected by Disgrace. El Reno ,Okla., Nov. 12. The mem bers of Companies B, C and D, of the Twenty-fifth Infantry (colored), re cently ordered dismissed by President Roosevelt as a result of the riotous . disturbances at Brownsville, Texas, on August 13, were formally discharged today. Many of the men, some of whom have been in the service more than 20 years, Bhed tears when they gave up their guns. Tomorrow the disarmed troops will have battalion drill without arms, and they will be discharged im mediately upon receipt of official or ders from Washington. The second battalion of the Twenty- sixth Infantry, under command of Major Charles J. T. Clarke, which ar rived last night from San Antonio, has gone into camp just outside the gar rison limits of Fort Reno. The negro troops have shown no disposition to be ugly. Dissolve the Trust. Washington, Nov. 13. While no au thoritative statement could be obtain ed in regard to the matter, there is good reason to believe that the Gov ernment has decided to institute pro ceedings against the Standard Oil Company under the Sherman anti trust act with a view of obtaining an order of the court dissolving the com pany as it now exists and restoring to each of the 75 or 80 constituent com panies its proportionate share of the stock and also compelling tne ooser vance of the law inhibiting them from entering into any contract, agreement or understanding with each other. Discharged From Bankruptcy. Trenton, N. J., Nov. 13. The Iro- quols Theater Company, of Chicaro, Race Suicide Increasing. Paris. Nov. 12. Public attention has again been drawn to the National peril Involved in the constantly-diminishing birthrate by the publication of t' vital statistics for 1905. The births In . France for this year numbered 807,292, showing a decrease or iu,93Y rrom tne total of 1904. The Teason for this de crease is not to be found In a reduc tion of the number of marriages, in which the statistics show a slight in crease over 1904, but it apparently arises from the aversion of the French people to raising large families. The National association which is studying this matter has reached the conclusion that it Is necessary to in culcate the idea that any couple that raises more than three children merits and is entitled to public gratitude and protection. Rogers to "Bust Trusts." Fairhaven, Mass., Nov. 12. Henry H. Rogers, of the Standard Oil Co., is about to start out as a "trust bust er." The company to which he will first turn his attention is one of the strongest combinations in the United States, the United Shoe Machinery Company. For five years past the Shoe Machinery Company has been at liti gation with the Atlas Tack Company, claiming infringements of patent. Rog ers is interested In the tack company and it is said that this is what decided him to attack the big companies. Soldiers Must Keep Out of Politics. St. Petersburg. Nov. 12. An imper- whose theater was destroyed by fire lal order has been issued forbidding three years ago, attended by git loss of life, was discharged from har ruptcy today by Judge Lanningln In the United States court here. The company has liabilities of $2,000,000 and no assets. soldiers of all ranks to become mem bers of political associations of any party whatsoever, attend political meetings or take part In agitation against the government. Violations of the order will be severely punished.