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MOSTLY SPRlNQ GRAIN.
Dry Fa In Wasco Prevents! Seeding
of Usual Acreage.
The Dalles Farmers from the inter
ior of Wiihco county say it is Htill too
early to predict with any degree of otr
talnty, what will be the prospect for
this year's crops. The season is about '
three weeks lato, and the rain, which
has fallon to the depth of 1.5 inchos
since April 1, has greatly interfered
with plowing and seeding. From farm
era In different parts of the county, it
is learned that there is more moisture
in the ground now than for a number
of years past. On account of the luck
of moisture last year, a small propor
tion of the acreage was sown to fall
grain, probably not more than 25 per
cent. The grain that was sown, how
ever, came through the winter in
splendid shape, the heavy snowfall
making a good protection. As socn as
the ground settles enough to begin,
work will bo pushed furward with great
rapidity In order to make up for the
lateness of the season.
SALEM TO HAVE HORSE FAIR
Growing Demand Creates New Inter
est Among Stockmen.
Salem The horse shows held at
Staytoii and Woodburn recently were so
successful and so great has the interest
in hoises become throughout this coun
ty that Secretary Frank Welch, of the
state board of agriculture, has called a
meeting of horsemen to be held here to
prepare plans for an exhibition horse
iair to be held in this city soon.
On account of the market advance in
prices and the demand for fine horses,
which are very scarce on account . of
Eastern buyers having scoured the
oounty and taken out so many, apremi
um fund will be inaugurated and every
horseman and those interested in horses
will bo asked to contribute something
to the fund. In this way prizes can be
offered.
At the meeting a soliciting commit
tee will be named to undertake the
work, j
Rains Delay Seeding.
Pendleton As a result of the rainy
-weather that has prevailed all over this
section during the greater part of the
unrinif it has been difficult for farmers
to get spring work done as early as us
ual. Under ordinary conditions prac
tically all of the spring seeding is done
"by the middle1 of April, but much land
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Hieani lor spring gram una year its yvi
unsown. To make the situation worse,
there is more than the usual amount of
epring grain to be sown this year, be
cause of the dry weather during the
early fall, and some of those who seed'
ed in the late fall met disaster because
cold weather kept the wheat from germ
inating. Consequently the latter have
to reseed now. However, the only re
seeding of consequence is in the north'
western part of the county, where more
late sowing was done than on tue reBer
-vation.
Fruit Commissioners Named.
Salem At the meeting of the state
horticultural board the following ap
pointments were announced for the next
term of four years: Judd Geer, of
Cove, to succeed himself from the Fifth
district; C. A. Parks, of Salem, ap
pointed to succeed himself from the Sec
ond district. There are yet two candi
dates for the third appointment, which
has not been decided upon, lhey are
A. II. Sechler and R. H. Webber, of
The Dalles. It is thought possible
"Webber will be reappointed.
Newport Hotels Filling Up.
Newport Newport has begun to en
tertain her usual summer visitors.
, Her hotels, boarding houses and cot
tairfis are well filled with visitors. The
open air band concerts twice a week,
masquerades, dancing parties, bowling
contests, roller skating, lawn tennis
and whist parties furnish ample oppor
tunity for amusement. The fishing and
hunting are good and the. beach is liter
allv niled hieh with beautiful and
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precious stones.
Work Must Be Done Over.
Albany Members of the State
Grange who have been circulating peti
tions asking for . a referendum vote on
the University of Oregon appropriation
hill have worked in vain. It has been
discovered that an error was made in
preparing the form for the petitions and
which renders them wortniess. iseve
ral hundred names have been signed
to these petitions and the work of seve
ral days has ccme to naught.
Cove Fruit Outlook.
Cove The prospects for a heavy
cron of fruit from this section of the
Grand Ronde were never brighter at
this time of vear. and the outlook for
easy and rapid shipment was never be'
fore so good, even in the minds of the
doubters, as the Central Railway com'
pany assures shippers it will be ready
to lift the strawDerry crop in June.
, ; BUY BACKS DIRECT.
Inland' Association Cuts Out Middle
men's Profit on Big Order.
rondleton C. A. Barrett, president
of the Inland Whotttgrowers' associa
tion, announced a few dayB ago that he
had just purclmsed for the association
250,000 acks from Koshland Bros., of
Kan Francisco, and 75,000 from a Port
land firm. The exact price paid was
not given out, but under the contract
which the association has with the
farmers, the sacks are not to cost more
than V cents delivered in carload
lota to the different stations in this and
Morrow county.
lhe present quotations from the lo
cal grainbnyers who have heretofore
supplied the local market is 10
cents. About two and a half million
sacks are used In this county annually,
more than one million of which have
now boen purchased by the association
for this year, and applications for more
are coining in daily.
Ihis is the first attempt the gram
growers have made to cut out the
profits of the middlemen, and so far it
seems to have been successful.
Governor Names E. L. Smith.
Salem Governor Chamberlain has
appointed E. L. Smith, of Hood River,
to act as Oregon's official representative
n opening the Jamestown exposition
Upon his shoulders will devolve the
mportant duty of being present at the
inaugural ceremonies of the fair, and
he will present on behalf of the state
the governor's formal announcement of
the state's representation, if he does
not attend himself, and Mr. Smith
will also be the state's official guide
through the departments of exhibits
and will take care of the correspond
ence from Oregon people and see that
they are properly treated while there.
Incorporate Fruit Farm.
Eugene A stock company capltaliz'
ed at $20,000 has been formed in Eu
gene for the purpose of growing fruits,
owning lands, buildings and operating
canneries. The members of the com'
pany are W. G. Allen of the Allen
Canning & Packing company, P. E
Snodgrass, cashier of the Eugene First
National bank, and F. L. Chambers of
the Chambers-Bristow Banking com
pany. '
Beautifying Fair Grounds.
Salem Secretary Welch, of the State
Agricultural board, has announced his
intention to beautify the fair grounds
this year with flowers in a manner that
has never been equaled in the 47 years
that state fairs have been held here
He has conferred with the other mem
Ders oi tne noara ana they have prac
tically given him carte blanche in the
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PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club 7374c; bluestem,
7577c; valley, 7071c; red, 7172c.
Oats No. 1 white, $29.50: gray,
$2829.
Rye $1.451.50. ,
Barley Feed, $22.50 per ton; brew
ing, $23; rolled, $23.5024.50.
Corn Whole, $25; cracked, $26 per
ton.
Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $15
16 per ton; F'astern Oregon timothy,
$1718; clover, $9; cheat, $9; grain
hay, $910.
Apples Common, 75c$1.25 per
box; choice, $1.502.
Vegetables Turnips, $11.25 per
sack; carrots, .25 per sack; beets,
$1.251.50 per sack; horseradish, 7
8c per pound; cauliflower, $1 per
dozen; celery, $4 per crate; lettuce,
head, 3545c per dozen; sprouts, Oq;
radishes, 25c per dozen; asparagus, 13
15c per pound; rhubarb, 6c per
pound.
Onions Oregon, $3.
J Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, fancy,
$1.401.65; extra fancy, $1.75; No. 1
choice, $1.51.40.
Butter Fancy creamery, S2c
per pound.
Butter Fat First grade cream, 33Vc
per pound ; second grade cream, 2c less
per pound.
Poultry Average old hens, 1516c
per pound; mixed chickens, 1415cj
spring fryers and broilers, 2022c;
old roosters, 1012c; dressed chickens,
1617c; turkeys, live, 1315c; tur
keys, dressed, choice, 1820c; geese,
live, 8c; ducks," 1618c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 1920o per
dozen.
Veal Dressed, 58c per pound.
Beef Dressed bulls, 33c per
pound; cows, 56c; country steers, 6
7c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, .1010c
per pound; ordinary, 89c; spring
lambs, with pelt, 1213c.
Pork Dressed, 69c per pound.
Heps 8llc per pound, according
to quality.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
13 18c per pound, according to shrink'
age ; valley, 2022, according to fine
ness; mohair, choice, Z8Z9e per
pound.
Spokane PWrr Regarded With;Amued.
Toleration by Conservatives.
Portland, April 9. Though7 the? re-'
cognize that there has lonat existed iiC
certain sections of the Inland Empite
llitent dissatisfaction 'with - existing
state boundariei, conservative citizens
of Oregon, Washington and Idaho are
inclined to regard with amused tolera
tion the . Spokane project to create a
new state through the secession of the
disgruntled communities from their
parent commonwea.th.
Even in Eastern Washington, where
most of the population of Spokane's
new state oi Lincoln would be centered,
the sentiment in favor of the creation
of a new commonwealth Is by no means
unanimous. Many conservative citi
zens are of the belief that the time is
not yet ripe for actual separation, and
even among those who indorse the Spo
kane scheme, it is recognized that there
would be serious problems to face were
the present states to say: "Bless you,
children, go in peace."
In large measure, the differences that
have brought about the desire for sep
aration are political, and it cannot be
overlooked that other political jealous
les would spring up to fill the new
state of Lincoln with discord and heart
burnings. Already two Inland Em
pi re cities, if not more are looking with
green eyes upon Spokane's assumption
that she Is to be the capital of the
new state. The politicians of the dis
satisfied communities who are now in
power can be depended upon to oppose
from the word go any move that would
impair their influence and drag them
away from the public crib where they
are now feeding.
GENERAL DARILLAS SLAIN.
Man Who Might Have Been President
Coldly Slain.
City of Mexico, April 9. Manuel
Barrillas, ex-President of Guatemala,
was assassinated here Saturday evening
as he sat in a streetcar. As the car
stopped a young man 17 years of age
climbed aboard and rushed up to the
general and stabbed him twice, the
first blow severing the jugular vein,
the second cutting his face. The gen
eral died instantly. The assassin was
captured. He gave his name, as Jose
Estrada, and his home as Ocos, Guate
mala. Ex-President Barrillas was generally
considered as Btrongly associated to the
present government of Guatemala. He
was 62 years of age and was a strong
possibility for the next presidency of
the country. Members of the Guate
mala colony here think Estrada was a
paid assassin. .
HOW TO CURB THE TRUSTS.
National Civic Federation Plans for
Convention in Chicago.
New York, April 9. The executive
council of the National Civic Federa
tion has decided . on Chicago as the
place and May 28, 29, 30 and 31 as the
dates for holding the naticnal confer
ence on combinations and trusts, which
recently was announced by that organ
ization. Representative men from the
various walks of life have signed the
invitations asking the appointment of
delegates by governors and presidents
of the important commercial, manu
facturing, agricultural, labor, economic
political and law associations. The
purpose of the conference is to consid
er the trust and combination problems
especially the question of what amend
raenls, if any, should be made to to the
Sherman anti-trust act.
ALASKANS WELL PLEASED.
Governor Hogatt is Not In Favor of
' Changing Government;
Seattle, Wash., April 9. W. B
Hogatt, governor of Alaska, reached
Seattle tonight from Washington.
1 "We got almost everything we asked
of the last session of congress," he
said. "The people of Alaska are well
satisfied with Uncle Sam's tieatment
of them. This cry for a territorial
form of government comes from polit
ical discontents. To have this change
in rule would mean an increase in tax
ation of 25 cents per capita for the
small population. Together with the
fact that the country is only partly de
veloped this burden is not yet warrant
ed. We can very well afford to go
along as we are despite the howl of pol
lticians."
Protection to Immigrants.
Rome April 9. Francesco P. Materi
member of the chamber of deputies
has made public a letter in which he
urges the government to extend its pro'
tection to Italian immigrants, not only
on board steamers crossing the ocean
but even after they have disembarked
in the United States. He expresses the
belief that emigrants to America are
exploited and used for work In unheal
thy sections of the country. The writer
points out that in 1906 800,000 Italians
emigrated, of whom 500,000 went to
the United States; ' ,
Mormons Aid the Chinese.
Salt J-ake, April 9. Twenty tons of
flour were voted for the relief of the
Chinese famine sufferers at the 78th
Mormon conference today. The flour
will be taken from the tithing stores,
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JAPANESE WU3T STAY' OUT. I
First Cases Under New Agreement!
Upheld by Straus.
Washington, April 9. Secretary
Straus, of the department of Commerce
and Labor, today .denied admission to
this country to five Japanese immi
grants. These are the first Japanese
exclusion cases which have reached the
secretary since the promulgation of the
executive order carrying into effect the
new immigration law.
Secretary Straus' action was based
upon an appeal taken by the Japanese
from a decision of the inspector at El
Paso, Tex., denying them the right to
enter on passports from Mexico. The
appeals first reached Commissioner of
Immigration Sargent. They were re
ferred by him to the secretary, with the
recommendation that they be dismissed
on the ground that no othVr course was
permissible under the president's order
carrying into effect the agreement of
last winter relative to the exclusion of
Japanese laborers.
Land Officers Named.
Washington. April 12. On recom
mendation of Senator Bourne, concurred
in by Senator Fulton, the president to
day appointed Charles W. Moore, of
Grass Valley, as register of The Dalles
land office to succeed M. T. Nolan, re
moved, and named Louis H. Arneson,
of Hood River, as receiver of that office
to succeed Miss Anne M. Lang, whose
term expired March 3. Both senators
have given considerable time to the S6'
lection of new officers for The Dalles
land office, it being their desire not on
ly to obtain men thoroughly qualified,
but men againnt whom no charges can
properly be made. Many candidates
appeared in the field, some of them
strongly indorsed politically.
Gives Island to Republic,
Washington, April 10. That the
Isle of Pines is not American territory
was officially and judicially decided tO'
day by the Supreme court of the United
States. The decision was rendered in
the case of Edward J. Pearcy vs. Neva
da M. Stranahan, collector of the port
of New York, and the opinion of the
court was announced by Chief Justice
Fuller, who said that up to the Paris
treaty the Isle of Pines has been consid
ered as an integral part of Cuba, and
that it could not be held to be covered
by article II of that treaty, which in
eluded only islands in the vicinity of
Porto Rico.
Sober, Sane Proposals.
Washington. April 11. "I find the
president and I are absolutely in accord
as to the importance of confining the
efforts of the propaganda to sober, sane
and practical proposals which can be
carried out." These were the words
used by W. T. Stead, of London, who
has come to America to attend the peace
conference in New York, after an hour'
talk with the president at the White
House this afternoon, in which tb
coming peace conference at The Hague
was a prominent feature. Mr. btead
was accompanied by Dr. Albert Shaw.
Probe for Graft at Panama.
Washington, April 9. The president
has taken up the complaints affecitng
the commissary depart men ton the Mb
mus of Panama that have come to him
as the result of recent visits of mem
bers of congress to that place. He has
assured his callers that the allegations
affecting graft in that department and
other complaints shall be ' looked into
promptly.
Boundary Treaty is Made.
Washington, April 10. It was offi
cially admitted today that a treaty has
been drafted with Great Britain provid
ing for the appointment of a joint com
mission which will consider all ques
tions connected with the water bound
aries between Canada and the United
States, including the whole subject of
fisheries regulations for the great lakes
and the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards.
Postpones Hearing on New Kates
Salem In order to attend the Spo
kane case which is to come before the
Interstate Commerce commission, and
in order to give the O. R. & N. officials
an opportunity to be heard, the state
commission has postponed the hearing
of the complaint against the $5 rate on
rough lumber to San Francisco from
Tuesday, April 16, to Tuesday, April 23.
Gives Ohio Negro an Office.
Washington, April 12. The presi
dent appointed Ralph W. Tyler, a ne
gro, of Columbus, O., to be auditor of
the treasury of the Navy department.
Tyler is the man who it was announced
bad been considered by the president for
a Federal position in Ohio, particularly
that of surveyor of customs at Cincin
nati. President Refuses Interview. .
Washington, April,. 11. The presi
dent has declined to giant an interview
witn Mrs. Ida von Claussen, who has
complained to the State department
that Charles H. Graves, United States
minister to Sweden, refused to present
her to King Oscar, when the king want
ed to meet her.
WENAHA FORESTS.
Division to be Made Between Cattle
and Sheep.
Washington, April 10. The recent
addition to the Wenaha national forests
in Oregon include some of the best ear
ly stock range in the state, and there is
considerable anxiety among stockmen
in regard to the range divisions which
will be made there. A meeting has
been called at Walla Walla for the
purpose of hearing the claims of those
who have had this range, and an effort
will be made to divide it fairly and in
a way which will best protect the in
terest of settlers and ranch owners liv-
ng in its vicinity.
It will be the policy in all such cases
to give the owners of cattle and sheep
respectively the use of that portion of
the range best adapted to their stock
and to which they appear best entitled
from prior use and the location of their
ranches. After the division has been
made, each will be protected in the use
of the allotted range.
OLD SOLDIERS NOT TOO OLD.
President Says They Must Not Ba
Dismissed From Servico.
Washington, April 13. R. B.
Brown, commander-in-chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Corporal
Tanner, past commander-in-chief, and
various officials of the local organiza
tion, called on the president today in
reference to the alleged dismissal from
the government departments of many
veterans of the Civil war, and of their
widows, for no other cause than old
age.
Some time ago the president took up
this question at a cabinet meeting,
and gave instructions that discrimina
tions against the veterans or their wid
ows should cease. During the call to
day of Commander Brown and his
friends, the president informed them
of the instructions he had given, and
assured them that the old soldiera
should be cared for.
Have Observed Rules of War.
Washington, April 11. Senor Echa
saretta, the Nicaraguan consui at New
Orleans, advises the Nicaraguan lega
tion in this city that, according to a
communication from General Juan Ef-
trada, the general commanding the Ni
caraguan expedition engaged in captur
ing Hondurian ports, explicit instruc
tions were given to the general to follow
strictly the rules and regulations in
accordance with international law when
nations are at war, guaranteeing life
and property of every neutral citizen at
the different places where his forces are
stationed. .
No Compromise Possible.
'Washington, April 11. -"The next
Republian National convention will
nominate Theodore Roosevelt or else a
reactionary," declares one of the most
adroit politicians known in the national
capital. "There will be no compro
mise candidate next year, no candidate
acceptable to Roosevelt and yet accepta
ble to the money power. Either the
people will rise in mass and force the
nomination on Roosevelt, thus over
whelmingly endorsing his course, or .
else they will meekly bow down and
wear the yoke of unscrupulous capital."
Georgia Rate Cases Set.
Washington, April 13. The Inter
state Commerce commission has set for
hearing in this city April 18 the case .
of the Enterprise Mining company
against the Georgia Railroad company
and others, alleging unreasonable and
discriminating rates on cotton from
various southern points via Paciflo
Coast terminals to Shanghai and other
ports in Japan and China, and also a
practically similar case against the
same railroad filed by the China and
Japan Trading company and others.
Fleet of 36 Warships.
Washington, April 13. Having com
pleted an elaborate program of exercise
and target practice, the battleship di
vision of the Atlantic fleet sailed from
the naval station at Guantanamo, Cuba,
yesterday for Hampton Roads to par
ticipate in the ceremonies incident to
the opening of the Jamestown exposi
tion. When assembled in Hampton
Roads there will be an aggregate of 36
warships of various types, constituting
the most powerful fleet ever assembled
in American waters.
Lost Barge Found.
Washington, April 12. The nine
men who were on coal barge No. 1,
which was lost in a storm off the Flor
ida coast, while being towed by the
navaljcollier Caesar, have been landed
at Galveston, 'Texas, by the German
steamer Professor Woermann.
. Catholics Discuss Affairs.
Washington, April, 11. The affairs
of the Catholic church in America and
the Catholic university in this city are
to be the subject of consideration by the
Catholic hierarchy, which is to hold
meetings here this week.
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