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.