I REPORT ON STANDARD OIL CO OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FIRE BENEFITS CITY. Eugene to Have Better Buildings and Cement Walks,, Eugene Aside from the Iobs of Btock and furniture suffered in the fire of Au gust 6, the general result has been and will be very beneficial to the property holders along Willamette street, and to the ci'y. The council has definitely decided to extend the fire limits and it is likely that all future buildings put up on North Willamette street will be of brick or stone. James Banford, who lost about half the buildings destroyed by the recent fire, will eiecta modern brick on his property, the work to commence this fall. A briek building will be put up on the Betman property and the bat ance of the block is too valuable to be allowed to He idle. Cement sidewalks are being put in along Willamette street, with one or two exceptions, as far as the depot, and every foot of sidewalk in the front of the fire line has been taken up to give place to cement walks. The council -will likely order all the board walks supplanted by cement. Hop Outlook Good. Woodburn There will be a larger hop yield in this section this season . than In any previous year and the quality will be mostly choice. The lice have practically' disappeared and all but a few old yards that have Commission on Corporations bays It Uses Worst of Methods. Washington. Aug. 5. Significant revelations are made public in a re port submitted to President Roose velt by Herbert Knox Smith, Com missioner ot corporations, concern ing the operations of the Standard Oil Company. In a previous report the ways ana methods of the Standard were ex plained. The present report sets forth the results of these methods and the effect they have had on the NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL CAPITAL Estimate 140,000 Bales. Salem Estimates from the most conservative dealers of this district, who have made a tour ot the hop- growing territory and observed yard conditions closely, place the state crop for 1907 at not to exceed 140,- 000 bales, as compared to approxl- consumption of oil and on the profits mately 150,000 for the season of of the Standard Oil Company, com iflftfl. And thin oHtlmntfl miiv h re- miSBloner BHlltn say. duced fully one-third more by rea son of failure to secure picking money. The crop seems to be coming on The Standard Oil Company Is re sponsible for the course of prices of petroleum and Its products during the last 25 years. The Standard has consistently used Its power to raise very unevenly, and all yards, gen- the price of oil during the last ten erally speaking, are more or less Years, not onlv absolutely but also spotted, while the number of missing relatively to the cost of crude oil." nius in most yaras is remarKaoie. Tne standard has claimed that it Many fields are well advanced and as reduced the price of oil; that it the burrs are fully developed. These haa hotm a hnnefit to the consumer: give promise of'an abundant yield, and that only a great combination witn corresponaing nign quauiy, nlke the Standard could have lur whlle on the other hand, in the ma- nlHhP,i nn at the Drlces that have Jorlty of yards, the vines are still in nrevalled. blossom, with a very small percent- "Each one of these" claims," says age of burrs well set. Commissioner Smith, "is disproved by this report 20 Per Cent Decrease. The Increase In annual profits ot miiahnm Tha hnf. Kmn nf Wash- the Standard Oil Company from ington county this season bids fairto " '27'000'e0 be 20 per cent less than last years .The total dividends received by product. This shortage Is due to lack of cultivation owing to bad weather at a time when yards should have had care; to lice and lack of spraying; to the low prices prevail ing, and to the fact that there is some blight in many yards that last season were free from fault. Last year's Washington county nrndiict went about 8.000 bales, and t It la oaHTYiatn1 that ihia eaaann thA the Standard from 1882 to 1906 were $551,822,124, thus averaging 24.15 per cent a year. The dividends however, were much less than the SAILORS WAN f NEW UNIFORM. MUST RENDER ACCOUNT! Naval Committee Considering Entire Change of Costume. New York, Aug. 9. The jack tars of the United States navy have made such a mighty protest against the time-honored headgear and blouse they wear ashore and on dress occa sions aboard ship that the navy de partment has appointed a committee to decide on changes in the uniform. Captain Hugo Osterhaus, commander of the battleship Connecticut, is chairman of this committee. Captain Osterhaus has sent out a statement to the captains of all warships in the North Atlantic squadron and to tne commander of every ship in the ser vice, asking for suggestions. The, enlisted men are desirous oi obtaining coats and visor caps. Many of them want the wide flaring trous ers changed -Into the ordinary pat tern. But the chief grievance relates to the blouses and the old-fashioned pancake caps. These caps are said bv all seamen to be absolutely useless on a windy day, as they cannot be kept on the head. They afford no shade to the eyes and seem to exist merely as a relic of the past, The protest over the blouse is con sidered well justified in the navy. In the first place the seamen object to the wide collar, which blows up around their ears on windy days, They want shorter neckerchiefs and New Suit by Receiver Earl Again 8ugar Trust. Trenton, N. J., Aug. 8. A bill in equity which calls upon the American Sugar Refining company to give an ac counting of its business for the past fcur years was filed before Chancellor Magee today on behalf of George H. Earl, Jr., receiver of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company, of Philadel phia. The suit, it is said, is the only one of the kind ever filed in this coun try, and the step taken by the Pennsyl vania company may be the means of opening an entire new field for investi gating trusts. The suit is separate from that for 130,000,000 damages which Mr. Earl instituted againet the American Sugar Refining company, of New York. Mr. Earl holds that in procuring the ontrolling interest in the Pennsylvania company in 1903, the company became trustee for the concern and is respon sible to it for an accounting, although the American company never operated the opposition company's plants. FIRST TESTIMONY. total earnings. It is substantially coata but nke those of marines. certain that the entire net earnings of the Standard from 1882 to 19 were at least $790,000,001 and pos sibly much more. "These enormous ' profits have been based on an investment worth at the time of Its original acquisition not more than $75,000,000." The report of Commissioner Smith shows that the Standard Oil Com pany is responsmie ior petroleum Should the sailors' demands be granted, It would be the first time In the history of the American navy that seamen have worn coats, l,nnn rrliron tn ottotlHnn OTA mflklnf? .f av,inT Hnm nf th old ' output will be slightly over 6,000 yards are looking better than fori bales. In many districts the lice the past five years. The new yards 'have been prolific and, as spraying hW L " Tl lX;!ivenyBany 0spylng, whate So price, for the past garter of a cen- has made the yards lty yesterday USUAL DEFICIT FOR JULY. But U. S. Revenue From All Sources Shows Large Increase. Washington. Aug. 7. The com- turv Decause mis company uas cou- inarotivn mnnthiv statement oi tne a thorough inspection of i-r u ue -" trolled the industry. The report lament", receipts and expendi of this vicinity was In the .J.J0,..,.!,,!; .: shows the Drlce history of oil pro-frtM awa that for the month of and reports the out- county-seuwuuy latum tu , , - nracticallv since ; th tntai rnint were thin Kawann - .-w- - i j u l t x v v look very bright, corroborating the opinion of others as to large yield and good quality. State Printer Is Busy. the beginning of the Industry. This so06. 465 and the disbursements gives an opportunity to compare tne $66,813,345, leaving a deficit for the Toa course of prices during the earlier m0nth of about $11,000,000. This Lane County Keeps Up. Eugene The hop yield In . , , . til I I wuiucuw . v I llKtl LV.i L 19 CAL'taiucu UJ fcJ county mis year win a-piny nf ... Murine the later monoDOlis- t , winni nf Pih fiscal vear 9 I la A 1 1 I . - av Wv,-au.Uj.m0 v 'hI iw Mo Period. It also shows that prices nearly all the approprla the crop ot last season, appropriations made Salem Secretary of State Benson ; harvested, ihe prospective low wou,d haye been lower durlng thls fey seaslon Qf congres8 be. has completed the indexes to the Pr ces for hops and Preseni mg a later perJod under normal competi- come available and large sums ar Rpnotfl innmnls of the prices for labor may Influence a lew tlve condltlons and In the absence of 1mmediatelv withdrawn from the " 7T-f ,r iefr,T r f PHHJir K".asoo srMs-'a-ssK handed them to the State Printer for . yards dug up this year, but the quan- These prlces.Bll0W dIrectly the ef- deflclt a year ago it was above printng. Printer Duniway says ne-- ft"i feet that the existence or tnis com- 163 ,500, 000. " ... . .. . changed. The long, dry, cool weather k,. Vo aA nnnamr '. Will hflVfl tile lOUrnEls urillLcU, , r . , , - . a I umauuu u.a,a unu. uh"" -" .-1 1 ixiH leuciyto iiuiu bound and ready for distribution f dftea f tK'taSSfcttJ " al8 T month am0nted to about the middle of this month. . ll,lty at 1 8 crued to the combination itself by which la nearly $2,700, The lournals for the session of 1905 were not ready for distribution until about the middle of January of the following year and the prepara tion of the indexes for the journals, In the office of Secretary of State this .year breaks the record. New Professor at Albany. Albany Rev. Frank R. Zugg, of Charleston, Ind., has been chosen for the chair of History, Sociology and Economics In Albany College. He -will soon arrive in this city to ar range for the coming scnooi year, Picking Begins September I. Aurora If the present good weather continues, the hop crop here will be fully as large as last year, and the quality equally as good. The hops are burring out fine, the hot weather having killed the lice. The crop will probably be five or ten days earlier than last year. Picking will begin generally September 1. from . 'Customs last $28,826,448 000 in excess way of profits. Just conclusion can 0f tuiv. 1906: Internal revenue $22 thus be drawn of the way the Stand- 840.304. increase $738,000. Mis ard Oil has used its great industrial cellaneous $4,229,712, increase $10 power. 000. The expenditures for July, 1907 aggregate almost exactly $1,000,000 more than for July, lSUb, tne re ductions being balanced by nearly S4. 000. 000 increase account con struction of Panama canal. SECOND HEARINQ BEGUN. PORTLAND MARKETS. Federal Courts Continue Inyettlgation of Standard. Chicago, Aug. 6. The prepara tlons for the secend federal Investi gations of the relations between the Standard Oil Company of Indiana Wheat Club, 80c ; bluestem, The new instructor is a graduate of valley, 80c; red, 78c. Park College, Mo., and also of the Oats No. 1 white, $25; Princeton Theological Seminary, nominal. Navy Department Learns Lesson Washington. Aug. 6. Acting Sec rotary nf the Naw Newberry has and the Chicago & Alton Railroad, acted upon the findings and recom 82c; ordered by Judge Landls of the motlntinna of thn board which, in united states district uourt on at- vestigated the accident on the bat- gray, urday, win begin tomorrow. Tne cau tleshlD Georgia on July 15 last, re- ior tne epeuiai grauu jury win ue snlHnfr in the death of ten omcers Hearing of Standard Oil Case Begins September 3. St. Louis, Aug. 10. The first testi mony in the government's suit to dis solve the Standard Oil company and kindred companies on the ground that they constitute a trust, will be taken in the postoffice building in New York on September 3. Ex-Judge Franklin Fer riss, of St. Louis, who was appointed special examiner to hear testimony, has issued an order for the first testimony as above and copies were mailed today to all the attorneys on both sides. Frank B. Kellogg, of St. Louis, and C. B. Morrieon, of Chicago, special counsel for the government, requested Judge Ptrriss to issue the order. Judge Ferriss has not been informed what witnesses will be called at the hearing. The taking of testimony will mark the actual beginning of the govern ment's fight to overthrow the Standard Oil company and the 70 or more sub sidiary corporations allied with it. The suit was filed in St. Louis early in the year, and all preliminary matters have been cleared away. GOVERNMENT WINS FIGHT. Whlla ot Pi.lnootnn Pmfpssnr Znee VA 191 KCYZiM nor tm!l"ueu aua uuueu oidieo uiauim ai- anj onllnra nnrt the inlurv OI a num- ?T UllO a.iwwwvu ' " J VJV.f .vvv-y . tJ I t . . ... ,, , . t I - did post-graduate work in Princeton breWing, nominal; rolled, $23.50 torney bims win go over an tne eyi- ber of other9. The report Includes . . . . , Ui C n'fei iJvyl A I ' w ilanna nraaanfad ot tha rflfflnt trial! ... . . ai 1. ii University. He has had several years' successful experience both In preaching and teaching. 24.50. dence presented at the recent trial .i nt th testimony taken by the n toi,a1. too. rBnhoA 9o nor Ul "10 0,-a"uaivl "V """f "v. board. oiu -ii, , t resulted in conviction and a line or AinW fln nf tbe findings and rec ton, $29,240,000. and will select the wlt-LnQtir.na mnot f which hove 1 1 r-f TT.ll . Li i.1 . tl7Al' . . . I " " . ' , j o 1 nay vauey timoiuy, 1. x, nessea to be suopoenaea. u ae- heretofore been published, were ap- Hops Bring Good Price 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, yeloped that the reason for haste Jn pr0ved by Mr. Newbrry, who has or- Oregon City Fifteen cents is the $2123j clover, $9; cheat, $910; this Investigation Is that the statute dered them put Into effect. The Navy ruling contract price for hops and gram naVi $910; alfalfa, $1314. of limitations Is running against the Department is now convinced that three contracts have been filed in tttfor Funov m-flamei-v. 27030o government, and because of it the tho raaa nf the accident was beyond per pound. Chicago & Alton will escape re-in- auestlon a "flareback," which it re- Pnnltrv Avaraee old hens. 12 aicimem on oeiweeu oy auu xy Kard8 a8 a welcome conclusion, the office of County Recorder C E. Ramsby. The contractor is Ed. C. Herron ahd he Eets from Hi A. and Samuel W. Wolfer, of "bales from a 10-acre tract; B. Merz, of Macksburg, 5,000 pounds from a seven-acre tract. . Oregon City Has Snakes. S Nil T1 J.J.1 LattA appeared in this city. City Engineer " W. A. White killed a small one on "Madison street at the foot of Falls "View. The snake was-a young one, about two feet in length, and had two rattles. A large snake was seen this week on the-rocks on Jefferson be- uu '-a. iou. couuis 01 vu3 i,u uu wuiuu io fl11qo it ii believed that sucn nare- Needy, 40 V T'. t It' Standard Oil Company was con- S "n"ba dea,t with safely by ad- soring chickens, 1516o; old roosters, L,toH 8a9c: dressed chickens, 1617c; tur- This otntiita nf limitatinna hnrH kevs. live, 1215c; turkeys, dressed, Urosecutlon on offenses committed choice, nominal; geese, live, 8llc; m0re than three years before indlct ducks, 814c. ment. Many of the shipments on Eggs French ranch, candled, 22(a) which the standard un company was convicted 01 uuueyuug reuoxea dltlonal precautions. Middles on Torpedo Boats. Washington, Aug. 7. Orders issu ing from the Navy Department show thot a niimhor nf mldshinmen have v,;frTunina. Rfflil 5in p. Tv.nnd occurred between September, 1903, tnrnftdo-hnat dutv. oples, $1.502.25 per box; Spitzen- and August, 1904. When the grand Thls mark8 a new pollcy ln the Navy, ,eres. $3.50 per box; cantaloupes, iury C0.n,venelA"!"!LJ4;. t7 showing that the Navy is deficient as 9 fifwa! 50 ner crate: neaches. 60c3 "tt8 Wl" . fl compared witn toreign navies m tor- $.5Ud.ou per crate, peahen, oum d agalnst the Alton. nedo-boat work. There are 60 tor- $1.25 per crate; raspberries, $1.25 The jury conslder lnfractlonB P" wnfr K rlftn. t.vnea in our 1.50 per crate; blackberries, &c ftf tha Elkins Law occurring from Kt ic nt ti,0m m nr. street rftar the, residence of Ernest nerDound; locanberries, $1 per crarte; Aueust. 1904. until March. 1905. L. Lit Thia haa hoon oanHed P. Rands. Br.riote. 1.50(3,2 rer crate. - v, f - , , . I I II V LUC DUVl V 1 - Vegetables Turnips, $1.75 per sack; Fish Traps Removed. carrots, $2 per sack; beets, $2 per ABtoria The fish traps at Point El- sack; aspaiagus, 10c per pound; beans, lice, which were condemned recently 35o per pound; cabbage, 2)c per Right to Water Under Indian Treaty Is Upheld. Helena, Mont., Aug. 8. Federal- Judge C. E. Wolverton, of Oregon, who has had under consideration for some months the case of the govern ment against the Conrad Investment Company, involving the right to the use of the waters of Birch Creek, the middle of which marks the southern boundary of the Blackfoot Reserva tion, in his opinion which was re ceived today, decided for the com plainant. The government asserted the right to the use of the waters among other things under a treaty with the Indians, while the chief con tention of the defendant was that, he having compiled with the act of con gress of 1891 relating to right ot way over public land for irrigation ditches and canals, the government could not go back of that. W. O. Conrad, of Helena, is the owner of the company, which has ex pended large sums in reclaiming thousands of acres of land Just south of the Blackfoot reservation. The main canal is over 90 miles long and there are many more miles of later als. It Is not known whether the case will be appealed or not. Protect O. R. & N. Roadway. Washington, Aug. 8, Authority has been granted to the engineer in charge of the Umatilla irrigation project in Oregon to construct a wasteway on the storage feed on the canal about three-fourths of a mile below the town of Echo. The point at which this structure will be built controls the operation of the canal throughout a section about four miles long where the canal very closely parallels the O. R. & N. rail road. This section has been con sidered as threatening the safety of the railroad. . Transport Breaks Down. " suiting from the heavy demands for San Francisco, Aug. 6 The trans- teuch officers for the new battiesnips I lrA nnrnmlaolnn port Warren, which left Saturday e1ub tuw -"" n.ltfc o ln.iira tnntlnp-Ant nf trnnnfl arA 1 by the War department as being a pound; celery, $1.25 per dozen; corn, was compelled by a Cultivate Land In Forest Reserve menace to navigation, have been re- 25a35c per dozen; cucumbers, 50c$l hreakdnwn of machinery to nut back Washington. Auk. 6. J. O. Han moved by the owners in accordance . per box; lettuce, head, 25c per dozen; gh.e had hardly got outside the bay num, of Portland, Or., has been - with 'tha nr-Aara nt tha TTnitad Rtfl ten ninna i firta20n ner dozen : Deae. 4(S5c whpn thfi officers in the enelne-room exanted a nermlt-to cultivate 180 Trying to Settle Str'ke. Washington," Aug. 9. Charles P. Nelll, commissioner or labor, Is in telegraphic communication with P. H. Morrissey, grand master, - and other officers of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, ln an endeavor engineers. ner nound: radishes, 20o per dozen; noticed that her machinery was not acres in the Cascade National forest to bring about a peaceful settlement r ' . L ji t, riv.in-cinninnn. I , r.nniia.1 tr. ti him liTiHAr nf tha ntrlkn nf Hwitp.hmen emnloved WOrKlUg US II UUBUi. Vinci uujiucu ihuilu;, ----- -- ... See Their First Autos. McKenzie Bridge This place had l'f -first experience with automobiles thf other night when- two motor cars ar rived on their way to Belknap Springs The trip was made from Eugene in lesn than eight hours with no accidents. McArthur Is Reappointed. Olympia Announcement is mad1 , at the executive office of the reap pointment of J. W. McArthur, o- Spokane, as a member of the Statr Board of Pharmacy, November 1. tomatoes. $11.25 per crate Potatoes New, l2c per pound. Veal DreBsed, 68c per pound. Beef Dressed bulls, 34o per oound; cows, 66c; country steers, 17c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89c per pound; ordinary, 57c; sprins lambs, 99c per pound. Pork Dressed, wtsft P pounn Donnelly, of the Army Transport De- the act of June 11, 1906, and to nnrtment. made an exhaustive ex- erect a House and otner Duiiaings, u amlnation of . the Warren s machln- he so desires, for the purpose or oe ery and is in hopes that new con- ginning his improvements before the denser tubes can De installed Dy land is formally iisiea ior minis ai Tuesday. , the United "States Land umce, No Protest Fr-m Japan. D. Washington, Aug. 7. No protest in has been received from the Japanese John D. Is Not Worried. Cleveland, O., Aug. 6. -John Dnibnfnilsr s-lvaa no lndio.ntinn , , . i xbuvnciviivi a ' ' ...... wv Hops 67e per pound, awarding ... t least that the decision of government against the plan to send to quality. Judge Landls, fining the Standard the Atlantic battleship fleet to the wvil Eastern Oreeon. average best, mi finmnarur the limit, affected him Pacific and none is expected. It Is nnnordinir to shrink- in tha lithtest. As far as appear- nointed out there that no basis exists Mt.L Iffpc- re Taleyr2022c, according to fine-lances go, the magnate has not given for protest or eomplaint, aa the fleet , to take effec . ol 2930c a pound. I the matter a thought. 1 is to remain in American waters. by the Colorado & Southern Railway Company, and to prevent, if possible, the enforcement of a general strike order calling out all the trainmen employed by the road. New Northwest Postmasters. Washington, Aug. 9. Postmasters appointed: Oregon Pokegama, George W. Mclntyre, vice G. B. Walters, re signed. Washington Hall, William A. Geerr vice O. B. Aagard, resigned; Bingen, Melvin Wetherell, vice 8. G. Hadley, resigned. V