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.