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HAWLEY FINISHE8 ARGUMENT. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST BETTER TRAIN SERVICE. Southern Pacific Anticipates Move of Railroad Commission. Salem As a result of the hearing be fore the railroad commission of the complaint made upon the commission's own motion, against the alleged inade quate passenger train service of the Southern Pacific through the Willam ette valloy from the south, In all prob ability an order will be made requiring the company to run a stub passenger trail from Koseburg to Portland on No. 12'b time when that train Is reported an hour late at that station. This order will be made to satisfy the demands of the traveling public for a more satisfactory service through the valley, especially by northbound over land No. 12, which, up to two weeks ago, was from one to six and eight hours lute. Doubtless in anticipation of the filing of this complaint, which has been held in abeyance by the com minsion for several weeks, the South ern Pacific company put on an extra train which runs as far Bouth as Albany and then doubles back as the first sec tion of No. 12. Strangely enough this change was made upon the Bame day the complaint was filed, without notice to the com mission and without the latter's know ledge. Ever since this extra was put into service, picking up the heavy local express and baggage shipments, No. 12 has been on time and complaint has ceased upon this Bcore. The railroad commission, however, believes this stub service should be extended as far south as IloEeburg and an order to this effect will probably be made. It is expected that the Southern Pacific will endeavor to show that such an order is unnecessary, but, since no assurance is given that the new train service will be made permanent, the order of the commission will be a standing one and will make it bo. GRAIN WHERE SAGEBRUSH WAS. Splendid Crops In Harney Women Work In Hayfields. Burns Haying is now in full force throuffbout llarnev county, and the meadows are yielding heavy crops. With few exceptions the alfalfa fields made an exceptional growth this year, while the native grasses are unusually $ood. Men are in strong demand for this work at good wages, and even -women -are making big money driving mowers, rakes and stackers. The grain crops are also showing up -well. There was a favorable rainfall during June and during the critical period there was no damaging frost, so the entire season has been encouraging for the farmer. The fall grain is well Along toward ripening and the spring crain wheat, barley, rye, etc. has a strong growth, with a heavy head. It is really a pleasing sight to see .fields wherein the sagebrush stood at " the opening of last spring that are now undulating waves of bending grain romlBins a rich harvest. The fruit has all done well this year and here will be more berries, apples, pears and apricots than ever before in the valley 1 CHEMAWA IN FIRST RANK. Improvements Will Make It Leading Indian School In Country. Chemawa The Chemawa Indian chool is building a new brick hospital .at a cost of $19,978, the contractor be- ins Fred A. Erixon. of Salem. W. H. Dalrymple, also of Salem, has the con -tract for the school's new brick bakery nt a cost of $4,000. The work on both these buildings is rapidly progressing and it is hoped to have them ready for occuDancv for the opening of the fall term of the school. The hospital will be supplied with the most modem and sanitary equip ment and the school's open-air sani tarium will be extended. The bakery -will be suDDlied with the latest im- ii proved oven and appliances. The steam and electrical engineering department of the school will also be improved by additions to meet the growing needs of the institution. With these improvement Chemawa will maintain her rank as the best equipped Indian manual training school not only .on the Pacific coast, but of the whole ""United States Indian service. New Armament for O. A. C. Corvall is Oregon Agricultural col lege cadets will hereafter be armed with Krae rifles of the lsas pattern, iney -will also have for drill purposes two 3.2-inch' breech loading steel 'field pieces, which will supplant two old fashioned muzzle loading cannon that have hitherto been In use. The arms vare supplied by the War department. Two Acres Yield Him $1,260. Eugene Mahlon Harlow is doing fairly well with his small cherry orch urd, in spite of the prophecy of some -who maintained that the crop of Eoyal Anns would be very light this year. Mr. Harlow, who has a scant two acres in cherries, raised 12 tons from his -little orchard. KEEP DEPOTS WARM. Commlssien Prepares Regulations for Roads Within State. Salem As a result of the hearing conducted during the forenoon of Tues day, July 16, upon the subject of depot and station accommodations and facil ities, the railroad commission has an nounced the adoption of a full set of rules and regulations governing the sanitation, heating, lighting, etc., of curs and depots and prescribing the facilities to be supplied in the trans portation of passengeas within the state. The order is sweeping in effect, cov ering all of the railroads operating lines in the state. The regulations, viola. tlons of which are subject to a forfeit ure of from $100 to $1 000, follow: All paesonger waiting rooms and pas senger cars used in this state snail De clean and supplied with pure drinking water and so lighted, heated, ventilated and equipped as to render the occu' pants of the same reasonably comfort able. Suitable toilet - rooms or buildings shall be provided and kept clean at each regular station where an agent is maintained, a separate toilet room or building shall be kept for the use of women, which shall be marked as such, and which shall be unlocked at all times when, by these rules, the waiting room is required to be open. Toilet rooms on all cars carrying passengers shall be kept clean and supplied ' with toilet paper. Waiting rooms and ticket olhces haV' ing an agent shall be open for the ac commodation of the traveling publio at least 30 minutes before the schedule time of the arrival of all passenger trains scheduled o stop at such station, and shall be kept cpen after .the arrival of such passenger train lor such length of time as will afford passengers a rea sonable opportunity to transact their business and leave the station. In the case of delayed trains, such waiting rocms shall be kept open until the aa tual arrival of such delayed trains. Waiting rooms at junctions shall be kept open when necessary for the aa commodation of passengers waiting to transfer from one line to the other. Platforms shall be kept lighted night when the waiting room is these rules required to be open. No Clerk Seen Yet at Burns. Burns The land department at Washington notified the land office here the latter part of June that a clerk and stenographer had been assigned to the office to relieve the congestion of bus! ness and that he would report for duty July 1, but he has not Bhown up yet, nor has the olhce heard anything more from him, and in the meantime a large amount of land business is hanging in the air, with settlers very anxious to make final proofs, settle contests and otherwise complete their entries. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 83c j bluesttem, 85c valley, 80c; red, 80e. Oats No. 1 white, $2627; gray, nominal. Barley Feed, $21.5022 per ton brewing, nominal; rolled, $2S.50 24.50. Corn Whole, $28; cracked, $29 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $17 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy $2123; clover, $9; cheat, $910 grain hay, $910; alfalfa, $1314. . Butter Fancy creamery, 2730c per pound. Poultry Average old hens, 1234 13c per pound; mixed chickens, 12o spring chickens, 15016c; old roosters 89c: dressed chickens, 1617c; tur keys, live, 1215c; turkeys, dressed choice, nominal; geese, live, 8llc ducks, 814c. Eggs French ranch, candled, 22 23c per dozen. Fruits Cherries, 812o a pound apples, $1.502.25 per box; Spitzen. bergs, $3.50 per box; cantaloupes $2.503.50 per crate; peaches, 60c $1.25 per crate; raspberries, $1.25 1.50 per crate; blackberries, 812 per pound; loganberries, $1 per crate apricots, $1.50(aj2 per crate. Vegetables Turnips, $1.75 per sack carrots, $2 per sack; beets, $2 per sack; aspaiagus, 10c per pound; beans 35o per pound; cabbage, 2c per pound; celery, $1.25 per dozen; corn 2535c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c$l per bx; lettuce, head, 25o per dozen onions, 1520o per dozen; peas, 45c per pound; radishes, zuo per dozen tomatoes, $11 .25 per crate Potatoes New, l2c per pound, Veal Dressed, 5J834c per pound Beef Dressed bulls, 3$4o per pound; cows, 66c; country steers 6$7c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89o per pound; ordinary, 67c; spring lambs 99c per pound. Pork Dressed, 68c per pound. Hops 67o per pound, according to quality. Wool Eastern Oregon, average best, 1622o per pound, according to shrink' age; valley. 2022c, according to fine ness; mohair choice, 2930c a pound, Is Sure Haywood Had Hand In 8teu- nenberg Murder. Boise. July 22. James II. Ilawlev. leading counsel for the state of Idaho, presenting the first of the arguments to the jury in the case against William D. Haywood, spoke lor nearly eight hours, istributed over three sessions of court. Even when the forenoon session Satur day had extended far beyond the cus tomary time limit, every seat in the courtroom was occupied and remained so until the last word was spoken. None listened more attentively to the argument than Haywood, the defend ant, and none Bbowed less emotion. From time to time he took copious notes in a small book and frequently made suggestions to one or other of his counsel, seven of whom were in court today. Throughout the day Mr. Hawley used an almost conversational tone. The analysis of testimony in contradiction of Orchard's story concluded frequently with the denunciation of witness after witness as a wilful perjurer or guilty of unintentional falsehood. When he had spoken five and a half hours, Mr. Hawley reached taidwen, where at the close of the year 1935 the preparations for the murder of Steunenberg were afoot. His voice now found a sympa thetic note and, as he told of the last moments of the ex-governor the court room was hushed and the jury leaned forward to catch the speaker's every word. Mr. Hawley's peroration was impres si ve. mere was no aiiempi at any flight of oratory, but only a strong note .of deep sincerity and great ear nestness when he pleaded for an honest udgment from honest men of Idaho. Mr. Hawley said he did not charge that a majority or even that many of the Western Federation of Miners were criminals, but that the evil deeds of the officers and of the scum of the or eanization had brought discredit on the rank and file. The time had in deed come, he Bald, when right think' ing men should rise and make war upon the evil influences that were the curse of all labor organizations. On the adjournment of court until Monday morning, Mr. riawley ,was showered with congratulations. THIRTY-ONE DEAD. Michigan Excursion Train Hits Freight at High Speed. Salem, Mich., July 22. Thirty-one people are dead and more than 70 in lured, many of them seriously, as the result of a head-on collison Saturday be tween this village and Plymouth, when a Pere Marquette excursion train bound from Ionia to Detroit crashed into a westbound freight train in a cut located at a sharp curve of the Pere Marquette railroad about a mile east of Salem. The passenger train of eleven cars earning the Pere Marquette shop em ployes of Ionia and their families to the Michigan metropolis for their an nual excursion, was running at high speed, probably 50 miles an hour, down a steep grade. It struck the lighter locomotive of the freight train with such terrible force as to turn the freight engine completely around. Only a few of the freight train's cars were smashed, and it took only a few hours' work to remove all traces of them from the scene. But behind the two wrecked locomotives six cars of the passenger train lay piled in a hopeless wreck. Four of the passenger coaches re- mained on the track but slightly dam aged, and were used to convey the dead and injured to Ionia; one coach was entirely ttndamaged, with only its for ward trucks off the rails. The two coaches next ahead of this were tele' scoped. The next car forward stood al most on end after the wreck. Kesponsibinty is put square upon the crew of the freight train by officials of the road. Those who arrived at the scene of the wreck soon after the acci dent secured from the crew of the freight the orders under which it was running, and which clearly showed the position of the passenger tram, and that the freight had encroached upon the other train's running time. The collision occurred at 9:13 o'clock, and the freight train should have reached Salem at 9:10 to be within their orders Rioting In Seoul. Tokio, July 22. Late advices from Seoul say that the rioting is growing in magnitude. Attempts to burn the railway station and police building were frustrated by prompt action The powder magazine of the Corean government is strongly guarded by Jap- anese troops at the request of the mm ister of war, Kioters are shooting wildly out of windows and two Japan ese are reported to have been killed Murderous assaults are frequent and the city Is verging almost on a reign of terror. Russia BesJns New Railroad. Nertchinsk, Asiatic Russia, July 22 Work was formally begun today on Hi a nnnntruction of the first section of the Amuria railroad, which is destined to elve Russia a line to Vladivostok: en tirely throush Russian territory. The purpose of this line at present is purely trnfaoriftal. It is admitted that it can be profitable commercially only after many years. NEWS FROM THE GOOD REPORT FROM CANAL Excavation Proceeding Well and Death Rate Lowered. Washington, July 27. The detailed report of the operations of the Isthmian Canal commission on the isthmus for June last has been received. Excava tion in the Culebra division was 624,- 586 cubic yards, against 669,365 cubic yards during May, and is more than three times the amount taken out in June, 1906. The report says that with 119,000 yards per shovel as the maxi mum output during the dry season 16,- 000 yards per shovel cannot be consid ered a serious falling off when the ex cessive rainfall (13.34 inches) for June is taken into account. The excavation Gatun amounted to 75,013 cubic yards and in the canal prism 81,352 cubic yards was dredged. The report of the department of Labor headquarter? shows the total working force on June 29 as 23,327 This is exclusive of the force employed by the Panama railroad. The chief sanitary officer reports that out of 4, 300 white American employes there were only four deaths during the month and that out- of about 65,000 whites other than Americans there were but 15 deaths. Out of about 29,000 color ed employes there were 772 deaths, making a total of 91 deaths 1 in June gainst 96 in May. Taking all deaths of employes together, only 12 deaths in June were due to what are consider ed climatic diseases malaria and dys entery and none of these occurred among the American white employes. Enlarge, Not Abandon It. Washington, July 27. The annual rumor that Vancouver barracks pre to. be removed to Seattle has just been re- vived. When the attention of Senator Bourne was called to it, he tock it up with the war department and finds that there is no thought of abandoning Van couver barracks or of reducing its garri son. On the contrary, the adjutant general advises the senator that; it has been decided to increase the garrison by add'ng one battery of field artillery with a corresponding increase in the accom modations cf the post. Thus is the rumor buried for another 12 months. Navy Ceaplain Under Fire. Washington, July 26. Chaplain H. W. Jones of the battleship Minne sota, Is to be tried by court martial on charges of scandalous conduct to the destruction of good morals, and falsehood, preferred by the Acting Secretary of the Navy. Under the charge of scandalous conduct there are 17 specifications, consisting mainly of allegations of the utter ance of worthless checks. Under the falsehood charge it is alleged that Jones misrepresented the facts re garding a note which had been given by him. Appointments From Washington. Washington, July 25. Major Harry L. Hawthorne, Coast Artillery corps, is relieved from duty at the Army War college in this city and will proceed to Vancouver barracks for duty. Captain James W. McAndrew, Third Infantry, is relieved from duty as quartermaster at Seattle. James T. Taggart has been appointed postmaster at Yaya, Wash ington. The comptroller of the cur rency today approved the application to organize the United States National bank, of Seattle, with a capital of $500,000. Creates Forest Reserve In Alaska. Washington, July 25. The president today signed a proclamation creating the Chugatch forest reserve in Alaska, embracing 858,000 acres of forest land south of the main divide of the Chu gatch mountains and between Copper river and the west coast of Prince Wil liam sound. Copper Output of Northwest. Washington, July 20. The geolog ical survey estimate of copper produc tion for 1906, which is Bubject to re vision, shows Oregon, 545,859 pounds; Washington, 290,823 pound; Idaho, 8,578,046 pounds; Alaska, 8,685,646 pounds. Land Office Appointments. Washington, July 25. Thomas F. Hallewine, of Seattle, has been ap pointed stenographer in the land office at Roseburg, and W. M. Walker, of Wisconsin, as clerk in the land office at Burns, Oregon. , Rural Carriers at Kerby. Washington, July 26. Charles G. Howard has been appointed regular, James E. Howard substitute, rural carrier, route 1 at Kelly, Ore. NATIONAL CAPITAL VIOLATORS TO BE PUNISHED Land Department Will Not Overlook Any Illegal Fencing. Washington, July 23. In a state ment issued today, Acting Secretary of the Interior Woodruff says prompt ac tion will be taken wherever cases of llegai fencing of public lands are dis covered but that inspectors and special land agents are especially occupied this summer with preventing fraudulent ac quirement of public land. The state ment follows: 'My attention has been called to articles in several Western papers to the effect that the department of the Interior will not prosecute any illegal fencing this year. It would be unfort unate that such an idea should get abroad, but it is not true, and if any depended upon it, theyjmight get into serious trouble. I might explain that the special agent of the general land office and the special inspectors of the Interior department will be especially occupied during the summer with the more paramount and immediate duty of protecting the public land being ac quired contrary to the law. For that reason few of them can be detailed to search specially for illegal fencing." BARS UP AGAINST WOMEN. Male Secretaries Only for Male Bu reau Chiefs. Washington, July 25. The women clerks ol the Agricultural department can not hereafter act as private secre taries for the male chiefs of divisions or bureaus. This dictum, harsh as it may seem, stands as the law in that department. Secretary Wilson has is sued it and he says he means business. By the terms of his order, no woman clerk under him shall in future act as private secretary or confidential clerk to a male chief of division or bureau in the department. The order is the di rect result of the Holmes cotton scand al case, in which Mrs. Bertha Burch figured so prominently, testifying in this city two weeks ago in the trial of Holmes. On account jot her position in the office of the chief statistician of the department she became an expert in crop figures and now she is conducting a statistical bureau of her own in New York oity. Work on International Line. Laurier, Wash., July 23. The mon uments between the United States and British Columbia are being numbered. The camps from British Columbia and the United States having united are at present stopping in Laurier, having pitched their tents at this place for a few days, prior to starting over the eastern line. C. H. Sinclair repre sents the United States side and Mr. Oglevie the British Columbia side, both men having been sent by the govern ments of their respective countries. Change Motive Power? Washington, July 25. The Forest service today issued a permit to allow the Northern railroad to erect two dams and two power plants in the Yakima division of the Washington forest re serve for the purpose of generating elec tricity by utilizing the water power on which it had filed. This is taken to mean that the Great Northern is pre paring to substitute electricity for team on part of its road, this change having been hinted at by representa tives of the Great Northern before the Interstate Commerce commiesion. Sells Relic of Wooden Navy. Washington, July 26. Acting Secretary Newberry accepted the bid of C. E. Boudrow, of San Francisco, who offered $9,200 for the old wood en sloop of war Marion, now lying at the navy yard, Marie Island, re cently stricken from the naval reg ister as unfit for naval purposes. The Marion was built by the gov ernment in 1871-1875 at Kittery, Me., and has rendered creditable ser vice in all parts of the world. Litesavlng Station Contract Let. Washington, July 25. The contract was today awarded to Mclnnes & Har rington, of Seattle for the erection of a lifesaving station in Waddah island at the entrance to the Straits of Fuca. The contract price is $12,200. School Land District Approved. Washington, July 26. List No. 20, of indemnity school land selec tions, state of Washington, in the North Yakima land district for 21, 906 acres was approved by the Sec retary of the Interior today.