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About Lexington wheatfield. (Lexington, Or.) 1905-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1907)
. THOUSANDS POURING IN. II nnrrniT otitic iTnin nr uiTrnroT UnLliUW ulAlt llOld Uf INiEKUl I! MAKES MACHINE TO 8AVE GOLD Baker City Man Perfects Scheme for Dry Diggings. Baker City J. G, Evans, of this city, has Invented and patented a gold saving machine for use In localities where lack of water or absence of grade has prevented the working of placer deposits. Mining men who have exam ined the machine are enthusiastic in Its praise. It consists principally In a table eight feet long and of width ranging to the amount of work to be done, which lays on a slant of 83 degrees, and is 'given a vertical and at the same time lateral or "pan" motion by a rachet arrangement. In, the table are cup shaped riffles, water tight, and placed at intervals of 16 inches. The dirt is thrown in at the upper end of the table, and if perfectly dry, no water is needed to work it down over the rifiles. As the dirt moves down the table, the rifiles catch all the gold or concen trates. If the gravel is not dry, enough water must be used to keep It moving. Mr. Evans states that the machine can be made large enough to handle 1 00 yards of d i rt per day . The mach ine is now on exhibition in this city. Cherry Men to Hold Exhibit. Salem Full of encouragement over the great success ol the effort of last year, the cherry producers of this sec tion of the Willimette valley have de cided to' hold another cherry exhibit this spring, June 10, 11 and 12, upon a larger scale. Preliminary arrange ments, such as the appointing of com mittees, have been mode. It is pro posed to engage the auditorium skating link with its immense floor area. In conjunction with the cherry fair the women of the city will hold the annual Tose carnival and, since the Nursery men's association of the Northwest will be in annual convention here at the ame time, the period promises to to ibe an auspicious one. Favors Manual Training. Salem The teaching of manual training in the public educational in stitutions, in the opinion of Dr. J. W. Kerr, of Logan, Utah, newly elected president of Oregon Agricultural col lege, is now recognized as one of the most important branches of the mod ern educational system. President elect Kerr arrived here a few days ago and met with Governor Chamberlain .and State Superintendent Ackerman as a special committee of the board of re gents of the college, to decide upon plans and equipment for the new ma chinery hall, for which the last legis lature set aside an appropriation of 440,000. Infected Trees Are Destroyed. Oregon City Twelve hundred fruit trees on the Ladd tract near Mount Pleasant are being destroyed, and a rstump puller is being used to take up the trees, which are diseased. The trees are on the property of Mrs. Lena Rigler, corner Ninth and Jack eon streets, are being cut down and burned toy order of the county authorities, who :are making a determined effort to stamp out orchards that are infested with ifult pest. Eugene After Timber Lands. Eugene The Lane County Home' iseekers' association, composed mainly of Eugene citizens and business men, lave sent their attorney, S. D. Allen, to San Francisco with about 100 appli cations for the purchase of the Southern Pacific- railroad lands which it is thought the company will be forced to (sell at $2.50 per acre. The applica tions cover some of the finest timber .land in the world. Push Good Roads Campaign. La Grande The county court Is pros ecuting its good reads campaign with , vigor. The county has now been divld ed into three general districts and each of the members of the court will super Anse the construction and repair of the ' Toads in his particular section. It is expected by'this move to get results much better than generally obtained ' -when road work is left entirely to dis trict supervisors. Parker Bros. Purchase Mill. Albany Parker Bros., who operated -a sawmill near Plainview for several Tears, have purchased the Hall sawmill on Thomas creek, and will enlarge the capacity of the plant. With the pur chase of the mill they secured control of about 20,000,000 feet of timber and will make the industry an important one in the Santiam country. The mill .a situated six miles east of Scio. College Year Nearing End. Albany Active preparations are in progress for the annual commencement 'exercises at Albany college. Wednes day, June 19, will be commencement day and the week preceding will be filled with various exercises, commem .orations and festivities. Sundav. June 16, will be baccalaureate Sunday and 'the junior oratorical contest will be .held Monday evening, June 17. POISONS AT DRUGSTORES. Grocers and Seedsmen Cannot Dis pense Them After Mey 25. Salem When the new law regulat ing the sale and dispensing of poison ous drugs, goods and solutions or ail kinds goes into effect, May 25 all gro cers, seedsmen, etc., who nave oeen dispensing arsenic, strychnine, etc., and other poisonous compounds to the trade as rat, squirrel and bug exter minators, will have to go out of the business entirely and leave this field of profit open exclusively to registered pharmacists. This,' in effect, is the conclusion which Attorney General Crawford ar rived at In an opinion tendered in response to a letter of inquiry for an interpretation of the new law from District Attorney John II. McNary, of the Third judicial district. . Under present conditions it is possible to ob tain poisons of nearly any description in the form of compounds and solu tions, especially prepared for the ex termination of rats and other vermin, at Beed and many grocery stores, where no record is required to be kept, and it Is impossible under these conditions to trace the source of a poisonous drug or compoupd which may have been se cured with murderous or suicidal in tent. Busy Time In Coos County. Marshfleld One who made the trip down the Coqullle to Bandon last Aug ust has just gone over the same ground and expresses his surprise at the gener al development going on there. Many new enterpises have been started in that time. Three large sawmills are going up and one new one Is in opera tion. A ship yard is busy, where two large schooners are being built and the keel is being laid for the third. New logging camps are being opened, new lands being put in cultivation and coal mines long neglected are being put in .1! ! ' ruauiaess lur wording again. Installing Fruit Cannery. Albany Work is progressing rapidly on the fruit canning plant at Browns ville, which will be the first industry of the kind is Linn county. , The can nery is being installed in the old tan nery building near the Southern Pacific depot. The plant will be ready for operation this summer. Beans and to matoes will be canned this season and other vegetables will be added to the output later. Some marketable fruits will also be put up. Fairbanks to Come in July. Astoria Manager Whyte, of the chamber f coommerce, bas received letter from Vice President Fairbanks In which the latter says he will arrive at Astoria on either July 13, 14 or 15-to attend a banquet to be given in his honor by the citizens of Astoria. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 8182c; bluestem, 84 85c; valley, 8081c; red, 7980c. Oats No 1 white, $29; gray, $28 29 Eye $1.451.50 per cwt. Barley Feed, $22 per ton: brewing $23; rolled, $23.5024.50. Corn Whole, $26; cracked, $27 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $1718 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $21 23; clover, 19; cheat, $910; grain hay, $910. i Fruits Strawberries, Oregon, 15 20c per pound; apples, $12.50 per box ; gooseberries,. 10c per pound. vegecaoies xnrnips, sii.zs per sack; carrots, tl(au.zo per sack; beets $1.251.50 per sack; cauliflower, $1 1.25 per dozen; lettuce, head, 3545c per dozen; onions, lul2)o per doz en; radishes, 20c per dozen; asparagus (ajoc per pouno. ; inuDarp, 40 per pound. ' Onions Oregon, $23 per hundred, rotatoes uregon, zz per sack; new potatoes, 56o per pound; sweet po tatoes, do per pound. Butter Fancy creamery, 2022o per pound. Butter Fat First grade cream, 21c per pound; second grade cream, 2c lees per pound. v rouitry Average oia nens, 140 per pound; mixed chickens. 13c; spring fryers and broilers, 22J25c; old roosters, 910c; dressed chickens, 16 17c; turkeys, live, 1315cj turkevs, dressed, choice, 1820c, geese, live. 8c; young ducks, nominal; old ducks 1618c. Eggs 18c per dozen. Veal Dressed, 58c per pound ceei uressea duus, 4(d4$o per pouna; cows, o7c; country steers 78c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 1010J per pound; ordinary, o(a9c; spring lamps, witn peus, vriuc. Pork Dressed, 69o per pound. Hops 68)o per pound, according to quality. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1519o per pound, according to shrink age; valley, 2021c, according to fine 1 ! 1 . t ness; monair, cnoice, z3uc per pound. , No Check to Steady Stream of Immi gration to United States. New York, May 14. The flooding tide of immigration to American shores runs ceaselessly on, and new high water marks for the Influx of Europe's migra tory hordes are being recorded every month in the port of New York, Already Msy bids lair to outstrip the April record, when 133,452 immigrants poured through the gateway of New York into the country. Five trans-Atlantic liners brought in over 5,000 yes terday and officials at Ellis Island say that there are no signs of cessation of this European invasion. The well spring ol this human stream lies principally in Southern and Middle Europe, while another but lesser cur rent has its source in the Scandinavian and German states. Italy, Austria- Hungary and the Lower Russians now supply more than one half of all the immigrants seeking homes in this coun try. Every fourth alien examined a Ellis island is Italian, while every .fifth newcomer is from the Austrias. A score of years ago the headwaters of foreign immigration were in Ireland and Germany. But now the source has entirely changed. The industrial fields of the United States still absorb the greater part of the foreign outpour, and several states Massachusetts, Connec ticut, New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl vania, Illinois and Ohio And homes for 70 per cent of the total number. NINETY DIE IN MINE. Cigarette Smoker Starts Blaze in Va cani Mexican Shaft City of Mexico, May 14. Ninety men are supposed w nave iosi ineir lives in a fire which started in I the Tenares copper mine at Velerdena, in the state of Durango, last Friday night. The fire is stilr raging, and is said to be beyond control. Thirty-five bodies have been recov ereduptothis time. Seventeen min ers are known to have escaped. This information has been conveyed in a dispatch to the Associated Press offices in Mexico City. The burning mine be longs to the Guggenheims. The origin of the fire is supposed to have been due to the cariessness ol a miner, who was smoking a cigarette in an abandoned shaft. The fire hod gained great headway before it was discovered by the men in the near vi cinity. They found that all avenues of escape to the surface had been cut off. Seventeen, however, were in a good po sition, and made a dash and reached the outer air. Rescuing parties have been working heroically, but only charred and un recognizable remains have thus far rewarded their efforte. EXPLODE SUNKEN MINE. Japanese Steamer Brings News of Bad Disaster, Victoria, B. C, May 14. Advices were received by the steamer Riojun Maru from Yokohama that as a result of the recent increases in duty on mat ting entering the United States, the guild which controlled the bulk of ex ports of Japanese matting has been broken up. News of the destruction of a Japan ese boat with the loss of 13 lives as a result of the explosion of a derelect mine off Toyama was brought by the Riojun Maru. The fishermen mistook the mine for an oil drum, and were try' mg to pick n up wnen it expioaea The Riojun Maru reports that tea shipments to the United States to com mence on the next inward steamer will be larger this year than during any previous Bbason. Big Legal Fight Is On. , Denver, Colo., May 14. Last week the attorneys for the defendants in the case of officers of the Lost Bullion Span isb Mine company, charged by the Postoffice department with - using the mails to defraud, entered a demurrer to the indictment before United States District Judge R. E. Lewis. Areu ments were made by the attorneys of both sides and Judge Lewis is expected to give his decision early this week on the demurrer. This is the first gun in what promises to be a hard fought legal battle to show whether or not the defendants told the truth in the glow ing prospectus which they sent broad- oast through the mails. Selfish Policy in Korea. . Victoria, B. C, May 14. The steam' et Yangtse, which arrived from Yoko hama, brings news that Marquis Ito, resident general in Korea, in a recent speech at Seoul, rebuked the selfish policy of Japan in the Hermit kingdom. He said no policy that was entirely selfish was never successful, and urged Japan to farther the interests of other countries in Korea as well as her own. News was also received that China is about to send a number of military ca dets from North China to the French military school at St. Cyf for training. Five Killed by Blast. Ruston, La., May 14. Some unnown persons set off a charge cf some high explosive here under the house of Samuel Cook, a negro, early today, blowing the house to pieces and killing Cook and four other negroes sleeping in a front room. NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY GETS MONEY. Supreme Court Settles the Wyoming Wrangle Over Funds. Washington, May 15. The Supreme court of the United States today decid ed the controversy between the Wyom ing Agricultural college and the Uni versity of Wyoming as to which of the institutions is entitled to the national government funds contributed to the state for the support of an agricultural college, in favor of the univeristy, affirming the verdict of the Wyoming Bupreme court. The case was instituted by the Aari- cultural college, located at Lander. which set up a claim for $25,000 paid by the national government for the year 1HUD. ine state Bupreme court decided in favor of the university, which is lo cated at Laramie, and which maintains an agricultural department under state sanction, holding that the funds should continue to go to that institution until further legislation on the subject. The opinion was by Justice Moody, who held that the government grants are to the state and not to any particular in stitution. , Malcontents Gain Points. Washington, May 16. Governor Franz, of Oklahoma, and the deleea tion from that state, who are in Wash lngton to confer with Chairman Sher man and members of the Republican congressional committee regarding the consume! on aaoptea ioi the state ol Oklahoma, have received a telegram announcing an appeal from the perma nent injunction granted byzJudge Pen' coast at Alva, Okla. in the Woods county case, restraining the county offi cers from calling an election prior to .November, 1908. Timber in Public Domain. Washington, May 16. Lands here' tcfore withdrawn from entry by order of the president for forest reservation purposes have been restored to the pub lic domain as follows: 998,560 acres In the Rainier and 256,000 acres in the Washington forest, Washington; 355, 840 acres in the Cascade forest and 132,000 in the Heppner forest, Oregon 244,980 acres in the Medicine Bow for est, Wyoming. Warships Stay in Position, I Washington, May 17. That the American warships now in Central American waters will be retained there for some time was indicated at the State department today. The Marietta is at Puerto Cortez, the Paducah at Point Barrios and the Yorktown is tat ing Minister Merry from Costa Rica to Acajutla. Again Probing Brownsville Affray, Washington, May 16. The investi gation by the senate committee on mil itary affairs of the Brownsville shoot ing affray, was resumed tcday. It is expected that testimony will be offered against the negro discharged soldiers. Heretofore the testimony has been mostly in favor of the negroes. Northwest Postal Affairs, Washington, May 14. Claude E. Hathaway has been appointed regular, Clarence Hathaway substitute, rural carrier, route 4, at Cheney, Wash. Oregon postmasters appointed: Bly, Ada Erb, vice W. F. Reed, resigned; Celilo, Ulric C. Dodge, vice I.H.Taf fer, resigned. Successor to A. C. Edwards. Washington, May 15. Arthur E. McFatridge, superintendent of the Winnebago Indian school, has been appointed agent at Umatilla, Or., to succeed Major O. C. Edwards, whose resignation has been accepted. He is expected to take charge at once. Northwest Postal Affairs. Washington, May 16. Clarence E. Gay. has been appointed regular, Liz zie Gay, substitute, rural free delivery carrier, route 8, at Spokane, Wash Herman J. Grand has been appointed postmaster at Johnson, Wash., vice L. S. Greer, resigned. Special Delivery Stamp Not Needed. Washington, May 16. No special delivery postage stamps will be needed after July 1 to insure the immediate delivery of a letter. The affixing of 10 cents extra postage and marking the covering "Special Delivery" will suf fice." Consul Manning Prepares to Sail. Washington, May 14. I. N. Man ning, of Portland, recently appointed consul to Cartagena, is here receiving instructions from the State department prior to his departure for his post. His wife and daughter accompany him. Cannot Enforce Higher Rates. Washington, May 16. The Inter state Commerce commission today de cided that where two rates between the same points are in force, the shipper must be given the benefit ox the lower. NATIONAL CAPITAL ROOSE VELT MUSTD I C LE Interstate Commission Disagrees In Harriman Case. Washington, May 18. The question of bringing criminal prosecution against E. H. Harriman and suits to dissolve the railroad combinations he has effect ed must be decided by President Roose velt. This is a matter in which no subordinate will meddle. The president must figure out his own deductions and assume full responsibility for the con sequences, i The Interstate Commerce commission is divided into factions. One believes that succeessful suits can be maintain ed to break the Harriman combinations under the Sherman anti-trust act, which might permit subsequent crim inal prosecution of Harriman. The other is convinced that legal proceed ings for the dissolution of the combina tions would prove an ignoble failure. Commissioner Coming West. Washington, May 15. It is learned that Indian Commissioner Francis E. Leupp, who is soon to make a trip to the Northwest, will visit Pendleton and the Umatilla reservation and will make an investigation of conditions at the headquarters of he agency and look into the charges that have been made' against Superintendent O. C. Edwards, which were made several months ago. This is taken to mean that the Indian department is not entirely satisfied with the investigation made some time since by Inspector Davis, who was sent there foi that purpose. Immigration Commission to Sail. Washington, May 17. When the steamer Canopic sails from Boston on Satudray next for Naples, it will have on board' members of the Immigration commission authorized at the last ses sion of congress to make an extensive study of every phase of the immigra tion question in this country and abroad and to report its. findings to congress. While a part of the commission will go abroad, some of the members will re main in this country to study the ques tion. The commission will return by way of Liverpool upon the steamer Ce- dric August 29. fortiana Needs it uaaiy. Washington, May 14. In response to an inquiry from Senator Bourne, District Attorney Bristol states that there is great need for the establish ment of a naturalization bureau at Portland, if the department is to adopt the policy outlined a few days ago look ing to the elimination of naturalization and election frauds. Mr. Bourne will put the matter to the attorney general and strongly urge the establishment, of such a bureau at Portland, of the de partment decides to carry out the plan now in hand.' v Taft's Brother Visits President. Washington, May 14. Henry W. Taft, of New York, a brother of the secretary of war, talked with the presi dent today about the prospective va cancy on the bench oi the United States Circuit court for the Second district to be caused by the retirement of Judge Wallace, Mr. Taft went also to the War department to see his brother and later returned to the White House with the secretary, remaining there for some time discussing political matters. Mr. Taft declined to say anything for publication. Great Area Open To Entry. Washington, May 16. On July 27 there will become subject to settlement, but not to entry filing or selection until August 26, about 355,840 acres within Portland, Lakeview, The Dalles and Roseburg land districts, Oregon, and surrounding the Cascade national for est reserve temporarily withdrawn as a proposed addition to that forest reserve about 132,920 acres withdrawn for pro posed addtiion to the Heppner forest national within the La Grande and The Dalles land districts will become subject to settlement, entry filing or selections. Grant Veterans Hold Reunion. Washington, May 17. An interest ing feature of the next Republican Na tional convention will be a reunion of the delegates to the national conven tion in Chicago in 1880 who for 36 bal lots supported General U. S. Grant iur uuu pieBiueuur mr n mini term. The call for the reunion has been is sued by Colonel A. M. Hughes, of Co lumbia, Tenn., the only surviving member of the Tennessee delegation to that convention. Barrett to Break Ground. ' Washington, May 16. The president today requested John Barrett to act as his representative at the ceremony at tending the breaking of ground at Se attle on June 1. Mr. Barrett has the matter under advisement. Northwest Postal Affairs. Washington, May 17. William H. Thomas has been appointed regular, Eliza M. Thomas substitute, rural ffte delivery carrier, route 2, at Bow, Wash.