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CHILE WAS AIMING HIGH. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST REORGANIZE HOSPITAL CORPS INVOKES REFERENDUM. Linn County Grangers Hold Up Uni versity Appropriation. Albany The University of Oregon appropriation bill is to be referred to the people. Efforts of Linn county Grangers to hold up the university bill culmin ited in a meeting of representa tives of all grange organizations of Linn county in Albany. Besides the Grangers there were in attendance PrcKidont P. L. Campbell, of the university, and Senator M. A. Miller, member of the board of re gents of the school. These men pre Bented ery strongly the university's side of the case Hhowing the need of more money than was appropriated. The $125,000 carried in the bill was segregated by President Campbell, who explainod the use to be made of every dollar. Cut the Grangers were obdu rate and at the close of the conference decided to use the referendum to hold the appiopriation up until the next genoral election, when the people will determine the fate of the school. But little argument was used in sup port of the position of the Grange, oth er than "retrenchment." It was also decided to have reproduced an editorial printed in the Oregonian of Saturday, February 11, 1905, entitled "Machine Made Citizens," and scatter thousands of copies over the state. Country Sheep Inspectors. Pendleton State Sheep Inspector Lytlo has announced the appointment of eight county sheep inspectors for Kastern Oregon. Appointments have not yet been made for Wheeler, Har ney. Lake. Klamath or Gilliam conn- ties. Those named are: Umatilla county, John Bryant, Pendleton, pres. ent incumbent; Wasco, P. J. Walsh, Antelope; Crook, J. A. McCoy, Hay reek: Malheur, II. L. Anderson, Skull Springs; Grant, George Irwin, Monument, present incumbent; Mor row, Andrew Cook, Heppner, present day'8 actual work together with expense incumbent; Wallowa, J. w. uuie, allowance of about $4 per day. Wallowa City, present lncumoeni; Baker, A. N. Ingle, Richland, prestnt incumbent. Military Board Holds Session New Company at Oregon City. Salem The state military board, at its last meeting, effected a reorganiza- tion of the hospital corps of the Oregon National Guard into what will be known in the future as the ambulance company, consisting of 43 non-conimis- sioned officers and men. A new com pany will be formed at Oregon City to take the place of the one disbanded. The Dalles, Oregon City, Ashland, Roseburg, Albany and Woodburn have offered land for armory sites provided for by the appropriation of $100,000 in house bill 118. No action was taken, the matter being left to the towns. The various companies of the state are pay ing an average of $300, per year for the use of buildings as armories, and Gen eral Finzer figures that in 20 years the state will be repaid the $ 100,000 appro priation. Very little action was taken on ac count of the anticipated action of the Grange in asking that the appropria tion be submitted to the referendum at the Juno election. May Be Held to Three Inspectors Salem State Labor Commissioner Hoff is in a quandry over adjusting things to fit the new law, authorizing him to appoint special deputy inspect ors of mills, factories and workshops He has divided the state into four in spvction districts, but now is afraid the revenues from the act, which levies an annual inspection iee of $10 upon each factory, mill and workshop in the state where machinery is used, will not sup port four inspectors, and he has about come to the conclusion that he will have to divide the state into three dis tricts in order to make both ends meet. He cannot figure that the act will pro duce much more than $10 000 per year revenue from this tax, and the inspect ors are entitled to $4 per day for each South American Republic Wanted Am bassador at Washington. Washington, April 2. Chile's fail- ure to send a minister to wasmngton to replace Mr. Walker Martinez, who did not return here after the Pan- American conference at Ric Jano'-o last summer, has caused much com ment. The neglect of the Chilean con gress to appropriate sufficient money to maintain the legation has been given as a reason for leaving the American mis sion in charge of Alberto Yoacham, sec retary of the legation. But it has just become known that the real cause was hidden deep in Latin-American politics. Chile decid ed it would be a good idea to have an ambassador in Washington, and steps were taken to discover what the Unit ed States thought of the proposed ele vation of the Chilean representative to Washington. The suggestion that the Chilean en voy might be raised to the ambassa dorial rank set all' Latin America on edge and a general movement was in stituted by the Southern republics to head off such a movement. Argentina being unfriendly to Chile was especial ly opposed to the plan, as Brazil and Chile are always rated as allies and Argentina did not want her two strong est rivals to outstrip her in American representation. It has not been the policy of the State department to send ambassadors to any country which can not be ranked as a world power, and when the hostil ity of the rest of South America to such a change became known the United States decided that the question had i better not be agitated further at this urure rnnu tuc iiiTiniiii rmrni ulho rnuiu inc miiuml imriitL BROWN STOPS HOSTILITIES. PLAN TO EXACT TRIBUTE. American Dlplomant Prevents Bom bardment of Amapala. Washington, April 5. Mr. Corea, the Nicaraguan minister, called at the State department today and inquired what authority Phillip Brown, secre tary of the American legation to Guate mala and Honduras, had for his inter ference with the bombardment of Ama pala, Honduras, by the Nicaraguan forces. Mr. Corea's advices from his home government show that Mr. Brown went to Amapala, persuaded the Nicaiauans to cease firing foi 24 hours and then went to La Union, Salvador, whence he issued a protest, saying that Salvador would regard rei e al of the bombard ment as a declaration of war against Salvador. State department officials refuse to disclose what Mr. Brown's in structions have been. President Boniila is still surrounded at Amapala, so far as the State depart ment knows, but the bombardment of the town by Nicaraguan gunboats has ceased. ADVICE ON RAILROAD LAWS. Students to Fight Sheep Disease, Corvallis Four Oregon Agricultural college students are leaving college to take positions on the government staff for eradicating sheep diseases in Ore con. ThevareG.A. Dodson, Walter Foster, Edgar W. Donnelly and Henry Rooper. They receive good salaries and have their expenses paid. Jhe worn will extend from now to the end of the summer. Their appointments are re ceived from the bureau of animal in dustry at Washington. Dodson, Don nelly and Foster are to operate in East ern Oregon and Hooper m tne wniam- ette valley. Commission to Hear Protests. Salem At a meeting of the stale Tailroad commission a conference for April 16 was sot, to hear the com plaints filed by the lumbermen along the line of the Southern Pacific railroad in this state, in regard to the raising of rates on rough lumber from $3.10 per thousand feet to $5, which rale is to go into effect April 18. Among the con cerns that have filed complaints are the Western Oregon Lumber Manufacturers' association, of Cottage Grove, the Ore con & Washington Lumber Manufac turers' association, with offices in Port land, and the B' oth-Kelly company, of hay, $9 10 Offlcal Notice of Forest Reserve, Salem Governor Chamberlain has received the three proclamations of the president, dated March 2, 190 , creat ing the Tillamook, Umpqua and Co- qui lie forest reserves. These reserves all border on the Pacific ocean, com mencing at Tillaomok county and run ning south as far as Curry county. The aggregate amount of the three reserves is about 4,000,000. Hundred Divorce Cases on Docket. Oregon City The April term of the Circuit court will be convened in this city Monday, April 15. The number of divorce suits on the docket will ex ceed those of any former term, there being nearly 100 such cases pending, PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 7374c; bluestem, 7577c; valley, 7071c; red, 7172c Oats No. 1 white, $29.50; gray. $28 29. Barley Feed, $22.50 per ton; brew ing, 'id; roiled, ?3.0U(a)Z4.OO. Rye $1.451.50 percwt. Corn Whole, $25; cracked, $26 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $15 16 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy $1718; clover,' $9; cheat, $9; grain President of Western Union Explains Recent Advance in Toil. New York, April 2. Concerning the recently announced advance in tne rates charged by the company, Colonel C. Clowry, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, tonight said: There has been no large increase in rates by the telegraph companies. A number of special and unprofitable rates have been increased to the stand ard of schedule rates.. These special rates were discriminative against t large number of places and were orig inally established by competing com panies, which by reason thereof went into bankruptcy. "Most of the rates increased were 25 cents for 10 words rates. It costs at least 30 cents each to handle such mes sages for short distances at the present time. The increases in the cost of tele graph material have been from 25 to 100 per cent within the last few years "In addition to the recent increases of 10 per cent in the salaries of all managers and operators, there has been for years past a large and steady in crease in wages or an classes oi inai vidual employes from month to month "There is no increase in the extra word i ate, consequently the newspa pers' rates remain the same. Eugene. New Insurance Company. ' Salem The first domestic corpora tion ever organized in this state for the Tiumose of doing a surety and accident business insurance has been authorized dozen; celery; $4 by the secretary of state to incorporate head, 3545c per dozen ; onions, Apples Common, 751.25 per box choice, $1.502. vegetables lurnips, fi($i.zo per sack; carrots, $11.25 per sack; beets $1.251.50 per sack; horseradish, 7 8c per pound; caluiflower, $2.50 per per crate; lettuce 10 under the laws of the state, proving 12 Uc; per dozen; sprouts, 9c; radish that they had avauame capital w uie es, 3uc per dozen; asparagus, per .amount of $100,000. The Union Guar -antee association is the name of the new firm which will have offices in Portland. William Glafke in presi -dent and II. D. Wagnon secretary. Prizes for Cover Design. Poitland At a reccent session of the "board of trustees of the Chamber ol Commerce, the matter of issuing a new advertising booklet, to be entitled "Oregon," came up, and it was decided to offer cash prizes of $10, $15 and $25 for the best cover design. The pre miums will be advertised when the competition is opened. pound; rhubarb, $1.501.75 per box Unions uregon, Jfi.zuwi.ou per hundred. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, fancy $1.401.65; extra fancy, $1.75; No. 1 choice, $1.251.40. Butter Fancy creamery, 32W35i pound. Butter Fat first grade cream, 36c per pound; second grade cream, 2c less per pound. n 1 1 k til - rouitry Average 01a nens, 10c per pound; mixed chickens, 14c; spring fryers and broilers, 2022c; old roosters, 1012c; dressed chickens, 16 17c; turkeys, live, 1315c; turkeys dressed, choice, 18)20c; geese, live 8c; ducks, 16 18c. Jiggs Oregon ranch, 18c per Farmers Loyal to Varsity La Grande The Blue Mountain Grange at its last meeting resented the dozen action of the Albany grange in holding Veal Dressed, 58Uc per pound, up the appropriation lor tne state uni- ueer uressea duus, 33c per yersity. rne iarmers 01 mis poruiuu ui pouna; cows, otijoc; country steers, 0 Eastern Oregon are neartuy in ravor 01 wo helping in every possible way the state Mutton Dressed, fancy, 1010 institutions 01 learning ana especially per pounci, orainary, bwc; spring the state university.. lambs, J213c Pork Dressed, 69c per pound Hops 8Uc per pound, according to quality Wool Eastern Oregon average best 1318c per pound, according to shrink fine Asylum Board Buys Land. Salem The state asylum board has paid over $10,000 to Charles Riley and his wife and the deed is recorded cover- ing 23 acres and a fraction adjoining 1 age; valley, 2023c, according to -the asylum grounds, whicn was pur- ness; -chased by the board recently. ; pound. mohair, choice, 2829c per me. ONLY SPECIAL RATES GO UP. Stickney, Speyer and Whitrldge, Of fer President Suggestions. Washington, April 5. The president has received communications from A. Stickney, of the Chicago Great West em; James fepeyer, 01 tne panicing rm of Speyer & Co., of ew York, and Frederick Whitridge, a New York law yer, all of them bearing on the railioad situation. Mr. Stickney made a num ber of suggestions which he thought might be oi value to the president in any legislation he might desire to rec ommend to congress. The president today replied to Mr, Stickney's letter and requested that he elaborate to some extent the points he had already brought out. Mr. Whit ridge has been invited to come here to confer with the president and is expect ed here within the next few days. ALMOST GOT PRESIDENCY. Grow, Former Pennsylvania Con gressmar Dies of Old Age. Binghamton, N. Y., April 2. Ex. Congressman Galusha A. Grow died at his home in Glenwood, Pa., Saturday as a result of a general breakdown, at tributed to old age. Mr. Grow was elected to . congress from the Wilmot district of Pennsylvania as the young est member of that body in 1851, and after retirement from public life for nearly '40 years he re-entered the house of representatives as congressman at large from Pennsylvania. When he retired four years ago his public service in the house extended over the longest period, aitnougn not continuous service, of any man who ever sat in that body. During the ante-bellum days he was one of the best known men in the United States and in 1864 he came wit-hin one vote of being nominated foi vice president in place of Andrew Johnson. Disorders Have Ceased. Bucharest, April 2. It is semi-offl cially stated that in many districts the peasants are repairing the damage done to property and restoring stolen goods to their owners. Disturbances are ported from Putna in Moldavia, and many cases of plunder, incendiarism and armed conflict in Walachia. number of peasants have been killed or Wounded by troops at Langa and Patulele. At Galicea, in the center of the disturbed area, all the ringleaders have been captured. The communes of Huerezani and Pengeni are in revolt Supp"es News In Russia. St. Petersburg, April 2. Premier Stolypin has sent a circular to the gov ernors of provinces ordering them prohibit the printing of news of the agrarian disorders in Roumania. in the fear that thev might spread to Russia Forestry Service Would Tax Pipe lines of Right of Way. Washington, April 2. The Forestry service has submitted to the attorney general the question of the legality of the practice of so charging commercial companies for the right of conducting water through the reserves for the de velopment of power and other purposes as to cause them to contribute to the expense of maintaining the reserves. The service has heretofore exacted pay- . ment for pipelines taking water from the streams in the reserves,' but the' right to do so has been questioned, and it is now the purpose to secure the at torney general's view of the point. The Forestry administration takes the posi tion that the companies should pay s imething for the service they receive through the conservation of the waters of the streams on which they rely, and they find tbeir only opportunity in the charge of the right of way. Practically all the water used by them is conveyed through pipelines for the production of electricity and the de mand is constantly increasing. Express Company as Merchants. Washington, April 3. At the recent session of congress the senate adopted a resolution directing the Interstate Com merce commission to inquire into state ments that the American, Adams, United States, Pacific and Wells Fargo Express companies, or either of them, are engaged through any agents in the business of buying, .iselliug or handling on consignment fruits, vegetables ar,d oysters entering' into interstate com merce and to report the results -of its: investigation to the senate. Today the commission issued an order requiring the express companies named to file with the commission statements show ing in detail to what extent, if any, they ate engaged in the business indicated. Stop Hitchcock Methods. Washington, April 2. Secretary Garfield is slowly but systematically eliminating Hitchcock method from the administration of the Interior depart ment, The most important reform now n contemplation is the elimination of the practice of besmirching the charact ers of honest men. Hereafter inspect ing officials will be held strictly ac countable for their reports and when ever they attack the character or record of any man, they must make good or get out of the service There has been altogether too much recklessness in late years, and it has got to stop. Gar field is as anxious as Hitchcock to pun ish grafters and land thieves but he will not tolerate recklessness. Postal Agreement With Canada Washington, April 3. At a confer ence between Postmaster General Le mieux, of Canada, and Postmaster Gen eral Meyer, of the United btates, in this city today, an agreement was reach ed to amend the postal convention ex isting between the two countries insofar as it affects the transmission of news papers and' periodicals known as second class matter between the two countries. Canada accepts the tentative proposal of this country that second class matter mailed in one country and addressed to the other might be subject to a rate of 1 cent for seach four ounces or fraction thereof on each bulk package, prepaid by stamps affixed. Prosecute Poison Seilers Washington, April 4. The depart ment of Agriculture is making prepara tions to begin prosecutions under the pure food law and Dr. Wiley has given instructions to his inspectors to secure as soon as possible the samples on which the accusations will be based. The offending establishments have generally been located, and nothing remains ex cept to obtain specimens cf the articles. When these are procured charges win be formulated and supplied to the Unit ed States district attorneys in whose districts the offenders may reside. Believes Negroes Gu Itless. Washington, April 4. Captain P. Lyon, of Company D, Twenty-fifth in fantry, was the only witness examined today in the Brownsville investigation before the senate committee. His per sonal view that liegro soldiers did not do the shooting attracted much atten tion. as he said at first he was con vinced of their guilt, but his opinon was changed by the report of experts who examined the shells picked up in the streets 'of Brownsville. General Humphrey Reappointed Washington, April 4. The president has reappointed Brigadier General Charles F. Humphrey as quartermaster general to succeed himself on the ex piration of his present term. New Llghthoun Eneher, Washington, April 6. M. J. Burke, of Oregon, was today appointed assist ant engineer in the U. S. lighthouse service. Accepts a New Post. Washington, April 4. Gecrge F. Pollock, the ex-assistant commissioner? of the general land office, has accepted a position in the forest service. It is no secret among the members 01 the iorest service that Mr. Pinchot has wished for some time to secure for his own bureau the advantage of Mr. Pollock's intimate familiarity with public land questions. A new position has now been created which will put him in charge or all matters relating to public lands in for est reserves, claims, privileges, elimi nations, etc. Land Restored to Entry. Washington, April 6. Forester Pin chot today recommended the restoration to entry of 359,000 acres of land that has been temporarily withdrawn adja cent to the Cascade forest reserve, but which was not added to that reserve 1 prior to March 4 last. The land be comes subject to settlement immediate ly and becomes subject to entry after 90 days. Under the act of last session this land could not be permanently re served except by act of congress. Invitation Reaches Rosen. Washington, April 5. Baron Rosen, the Russian ambassador, called upon : Secretary Root at the State department today and informed him he had receiv ed from St. Petersburg the invitation to the United States, to attend the sec ond Hague conference. The invitation was in French and it was necessary to make a translation before it could be handed to Mr. Root officially. Consulship Given Manning. Washington, April 6. Isaac A. Man ning, of Portland, was today appointed consul to Cartagena.' Colombia. Mr. Manning recently took the consular ex amination for which he was designated by the president at the request of Sen ator Fulton in John Barrett. Since his examination he has been strongly in dorsed by Senator Bourne for early ap pointment. Dayton Commanes Asiatic Fleet. Washington, April 3. Rear Admiiat James A. Dayton, heretofore in com mand of the Philippine squadron, today assumed command of the, Asiatic fleet as the relief of Rear Admiral Brown son, who has been ordered to this city to relieve Rear Admiral Converse, re tired, as chief of the bureau of navigation. Contract for Life-Saving Tug. , Washington, April 6. The contract for constructing Neah Bay (Washing ton) lifesaving tug will be awarded to Pusey & Jones, of Wilmington, Del., their bid being $189,057. No Pacific coast firms submitted bids. New Washington Postmasters. " Washintgon, April 6. Washington postmasters appointed: Waterloo, Wal ter A. Park, vice H. Thew, resigned; Gibson, Thomas Willis, vice Guy War ing, resigned.