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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. Qeneral Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. The Standard Oil company already has its plans outlined for reorgraniza- tion. Mrs. E. H. Harriman and son will spend a month hunting and fishing in Idaho. Striking Mexican miners at El Oro were fired upon by troops and nine of them killed and over 30 wounded. The Southern Pacific has authorized the immediate construction o f a rail road from Eugene to Coos Bay, Ore. Two boys, aged 11 and 7 years, have started to ride on horseback from New York to the Pacific Coast in 60 days riding. A village marshal o f Harlem, Mont., killed one robber and put two to flight when they attempted to rob the bank at that place. S ix ' German'fsoldiers were found on the French frontier, where they had cut the telegraph wires and broken down several poles. Abilene, Tex., was swept by a wind and hail Btorm, which killed two per sons and injured many, and damaged every building in the town. Cotton mills in South Carolina have closed down on account o f low water in the streams supplying power, and 70,000 operatives are out o f work. Fire in an asylum at Hamilton, On tario, destroyed a large part o f the institution, and only great bravery on the part o f the attendants prevented loss o f life. Plans are being made for the re organization of the American Tobac co Company. All passengers were removed by two Japanese cralsers. The ship may be saved. About 1,720 acres o f land near Roelyn, Wash., have been withdrawn from entry by the Secretary of the Interior. Drouth In Germany has caused a sharp advance in the sugar market. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of China struck a submerged rock while entering the port Yokohama. A swarm of yellow jackets took possession of a Chicago laundry and had to be destroyed by the fire de partment. A San Francisco woman was shot and robbed by a highwayman while kneeling at the grave of her son In the cemetery. Germany and Great Britain dis agree us to their respective rlghtB In Morocco, und war talk Is general. Chicago police raided a room used as headquarters by u Black Hand band, capturing four men and many Black Hand letters. A son of Senator Holtslaw, of Il linois, corroborates hie father's con fession to having received a bribe of $3500 to vote for Lorlmer. M EXICAN S TR IK E ANTI-FO REIG N Miners WIDOW AND DAUGHTER OF FINANCIER, WHO WILL SPEND AUGUST IN IDAHO. Plscsrd Town, Ordsring Amsricsns to Lsavo. El Oro, Mexico — The strike and lockout here, involving 7,600 work men, has been discovered to conceal an important movement to drive all for eigners, particularly Americans, from this section. The camp is quiet, after the conflict in which troops fired into a mob o f striking miners, killing nine and wounding 32 persons. Four hundred Federal soldiers have arrived here to reinforce the 200 troops from Toluca, and it is believed they will be able to preserve order and protect property. The striking miners are congregated about the streets in sullen groups, but apparently are awed by the presence o f the troops, and are contenting themselvea with harrangueing and jeering the soldiers. In all 7,600 men are idle. The discovery that bribes had been offered for the killing o f the mine su- perinetndent and his two assistants caused the management o f El Oro mine to declare a practical lockout and ask the Federal government to make a full investigation o f the mo tive o f the strikers. The demand o f the strikers for higher wages is incidental and that their real motive is antagonistic to foreigners, the movement being di rected in particular against Am eri cans. Posters distributed throughout the town order foreigners to leave the camp and declare that the Mexican miners propose to run the mine them selves. Several dynamite bombs have been found in the mines. The first group o f miners to declare a strike were at Las Esperanzas mine and they were quickly followed by El Oro and Des Estrellas workmen. The smelters are continuing operations, the surface men refusing to join in the strike. ENTOM BED MINER LIVES. Receives Food Through Drill Hole and le Not Worrying. Joplin, Mo.— Entombed 78 feet be low the surface o f the earth, facing posible death from the rapidly rising water in the mine drift, Joseph Clary, the young miner caught by a cave-in at the W hite Oak mine here was feasted on fried chicken and joked with friends who are waiting at the surface for his rescue. The fourth drill hole put down in an attempt to reach his prison penetrated the roof o f limestone late Tuesday a f ternoon. “ H ello ," Maurice Grafton called down the hole when the drill bits had been removed. “ H ello; I ’m hungry,” came the clear but faint reply. Then Thomas Clary, father o f the entombed miner, hurried to his home, where the young man’s mother was prostrated from grief, and told her that the young man was still alive. The news, the doctors say, saved her life. From his home the father, one of the oldest prospectors in the district, hurried back to the mine, carrying milk and stimulants, which were low ered by a piece o f rope. A fte r drinking these young Clary seemed much stronger and remained near the drill hole talking with those at the top. BABY FAMINE LOOM ING. Pasadana, Home o f Rich People, Is A carload of ‘‘tailings'* from an Below Quota. abandoned mine near Oroville, Cal., Pasadena, Cal.— This city o f mil netted $7.000 In gold when worked over by up-to-date methods. lionaires and multi-millionaires is fac* ing a famine in babies. With a pop ulation o f 40,000, only 48 births are PORTLAND MARKETS. the record for July. According to a Wheat— New crop: Bluestem, 78o; leading fphysician, the average o f a club, 764)76c; old crop, bluestem, city o f this ¡Hize should be not less 90c; club, 80c. than 300 babies, and 600 would be Mlllstuffs— Bran, $24.50©25 |>er about [the right figures. Physicians ton; middlings, $112: sliorte, $25.60*11 have been studying the situation, and 26; rolled barley, $28©29. have gathered data which shows that Corn— Whole, $33; cracked, $34 the birth rate is lower here by far per ton. than in any city o f similar size in Hurley— Choice feed, $25.50©26 America, though the proportion of per ton. marriages is fully up to normal. Oats— No. 1 white, $27 per ton. One hundred and fifty births in a Hay— Timothy, valley, $164917; al falfa, $11; clover, $8.50©9; grain month, last December, are the largest bay, $10. number ever known here. Children Poultry— Hens. 154(>15Hc; Springs. are most numerous on the outskirts, 19c; ducks, young, 14c; geese, nom where the middle classes live. inal; turkeys 20c; dressed, choice, 25c. Cuban Rabais Ara Lott. Eggs- Fresh Oregon ranch, can Havana- No trace has been found died, 264927c per dozen. Butter—City creamery extra, 1 and o f General Guillermo Acevado and the 2 pound prints. In boxes. 28o per members o f an armed party that took pound; less than box lots, cartons the field at Kegla after having issued ami delivery extra. a manifesto denouncing the adminis Pork— Fancy, lu»* 1044c per pound. Veal— Fancy. 12*ij>12V4c per pound. tration o f President Gomez as corrupt, Fresh Fru it» Cherries. 34915a per and calling upon the executive to re- pound; apricots, $1.2 5 491.50 per sign. crate; cantaloupes, $3 254*13 60 per The government ia taking extraor crate; peaches, 75c49$1.50 per crate; dinary measures to capture the fugi watermelons, 1 4 ) ’ 2c per pound; tives. There are no evidences o f dis plume, $1.75 per crate; prunes, $1.75 turbances in any part o f the island. per box; new apples, $1.7 5 49 2 per Acevado is a man o f little prominence box; raspberries, $1.7549$: loganber ries, $1.50491.75; blackcaps, $2492.25; and small influence. blackberries, $249 2.25. Vegetables— Beans, 5© 10c; cab Panama Chief Threatens. bages, $i.50© 2 per hundredweight; Fanama — The political situation corn, 30ti 40c per doten; cucumbers. here grows more complicate«!. The $169t.25 per box; eggplant. 15o per pound; garlic, 104j 12c per pound: friends o f President Arost*mna's ad lettuce, $1 254*1.75 per box; pea**, 4 ministration openly assert that all ©6c per pound; peppers, 8© 10c per government employes who do not fav pound: radishes, 1244c per doseu; or his re-election will be replac«‘«l by rhubarb. 244©3c per pound; toma those who do. This unprerexlenUni toes, $10 1.75 per box. campaign on behalf o f the national Sack Vegetable»—New carrots, executive was begun with the is $1.75 per sack; turnips, $1.76; beets, suance o f a decree replacing Ramon F. $1 76. Potatoes— New Oregon, 144492c per Acevado, secretary o f government ami chief o f the cabinet, with Feliod«>ro pound. Onion»—Red. $1.75; white, $2 per Patinio, who has been the secretary o f public instruction. hundred. Cattle— Choice steers, $5 75415.90; good to choice eteers, $5.35415.50; Railroad Bart Women. medium steers. $ 50415; common San Francisco The Southern Pacific steers, $449 4 2 5; choice cows. $4.75 © 5 ; good to choice cows, $4 50495; Railroad company has made effective good, average 1050 lbs, $4 254)4 50; in ita office here orders that hereafter common cows, $2.754)3; choice heif no women are to be employed as ers. $4.754)5; good to choice heifers. clerks or stenographers in the passen $4.50©4.75; choice bulls. $3 25493.50; ger department. Otficiala o f the com good to choice bulls, $.3493.25; com pany assign as the reason for this mon bulls, $2©2 26; choice calve*. action the tendency o f the girls to 200 lbs. and under. $7 ©7.25; good marry juat about the time when they to choice calves, $5.604)6; common calves, $4)! 5. choice stags. $4.50© begin to become o f groat service, and 4.76; good to choice stags, $4 25© the phyaical incapacity which unfits them for advancement. 4.50. Hogs— Extra choice light hogs. $7.26© 7.50; heavy hogs. $6.50© <; Ferry Capaizaa, Seven Drown. heavy rough hogs.$5.50© 6. Maasena — Seven passengers were Sheep—Chrgre yearling wettieTS. drowned in the St. I^iwrence river coarse wool, $3 25® 3 50; choice year ling wethers, east of mountains, $2 25 when the ferry steamer Syrua struck 49350; choice twos and threes, $3 t t a shoal eight miles below this city, 125; choice Rprtng lambs. $5 25© capaiting ami hurling ita 76 passen Four bodies 6 50. good, choice Spring lambs. $5 gers into the water. ©6.25; choice killing ewes, $2.760$. have been recovered. Jk ASSAY OFFICES DOOMED. Government Say* Operation Considerable Lott, It By Washington, D. C. — More land marks o f the Old West will begin to disappear January 1, unless congress should pass legislation to maintain the Western assay offices on their present basis. The government has decided to double the charge for assaying at Dead wood, Carton, Salt Lake, Helena, Boise, and Seattle. Members o f con gress from those places protest that increased charges will close the offices because the mining companies will prefer to send their gold to the mints, where the assaying charge will not be increased. Treasury cfficials say the offices have been a dead loss for years. Se attle, they say, does quite a business in assaying gold that comes from Alaska, but at all others the govern ment loses money. The government established most o f these offices in the stirring days when a messenger setting out with a fortune in hia saddle bag often failed to return, and the professional “ as- sayer” was classed with the card sharper and the “ gun man.” No miner was assured o f an honest assay of his treasure. But with the advent o f mining ma chinery the offices became less useful because many o f the big companies sent their gold direct to the mints. MORGAN W ILL BE CALLED. Financier o f Steel Trust to on Defensive. Haytian Rebels Take President Simon’s Home Town. Port Au Prince, Haytl.— The report ed capture of the home town of Pres ident Simon, Aux Cayes, is a severe blow to the government, as it indi cates that the spirit of dlscoutent is life in the south as well as in the north. There Is trouble among the revo lutlonary leader«, however, and it is Impossible to say now which party will be in control if the capital falls. General Le Conte, who Is in control of Cape Haytien, and is reported to have sent a force against Gonalves to occupy that town for him, seems to be the strongest rebel chief outside this district. Advices from Port de Paix, on the northern coast, indicate uneasiness at that point, and the American cruiser Chester has gone there from Cape Haytient. The revolutionists encompass the capital. General LeConte is at the head of the Invading forces. He oc cupied OonaivoB Monday and his ad vanced guard reached Archachie yes FRANCE PREPARES DEFENSES. terday, and before sunset had come within three miles of the city. Le- Determined to Be Ready if Involved Conte’s candidacy for the Presidency With Germany and England. progressed with his march on the capital and there was a consequent Paris.— France, though outwardly loss of ground by General Firmin. placid, is omitting no precautions. The army Is being reorganized and WIRE MAKER FINED $1000. assembled, while statesmen profess More Sentences Imposed on Charges themselves as sanguine of a peaceful solution. War preparations today in of Restraining Trade. eluded orders to the cavalry to be New York.— Henry A. Hammond, a ' ready for the field at the first signal, director as well as sales agent f o r ! the heavy provisioning of the forts the Wire & Telephone Company of on the eastern frontier by special America, pleaded nolo contendere to supply trains run out of Paris at the Indictment charging him, like night, and the mustering of all regi other wire manufacturers, with unlaw ments to their full quota. The Cabinet met at Ramboulllet ful restraint of trade. He paid a today and at the conclusion of its fine of $1000. Judge Arelibold nlso accepted nolo meeting announced the decision to contendere pleas and Imposed lines reorganize the army, accompanying of $1000 each in the following cases: the announcement with the careful Henry G. Stoddard, president and j explanation that this action was oc treasurer of the Trenton Iron Com casioned by the resignation of Gen pany: J. I). Keith, vice-president of eral V. Michel as Commander-In-Chief the Phoenix Horseshoe Company of because of differences with his col Illinois, and Samuel H. Roberts, see- leagues over the programme o f Na retary, and Thomas H. Taylor, assist tional defenses. The Superior Coun ant sales agent, of the American cil of War, composed of generals of Steel & W ire Company of New Jer the army, continues, but the Vice- Presidency. which was held by sey. Judge Arehbald refuned a plea o f ! Michel, will be abolished. A chief- nolo contendere under a power of ship of the general staff, carrying attorney offered for John W. Kiser, practically the supreme commnnd in president of the Phoenix Horseshoe time of war, is created instead, and Company of Illinois, whose attorney General J. J. C. JofTre will be ap said he was on the ocean and n o t, pointed to the latter post. able to appear. Osteopath’s Court TesL Chicago.— The American Osteopa thic Association now in session here, has issued a challenge to Its three chief opponents in the medical world. The associations challenged are the American Medical Association, the American Institute of Homeopathy and the American Association of Eclectic Medicine. Bellevue Hospital. New York, or the Cook County Hos pital Is suggested ns the scene of the contest. The plan is to appor tion 800 patients equally among four schools-patients suffering from ty phold or pneumonia preferred. T ot Dead, Carmen Mobbed. New York— Three-year-old Morris Goldberg, weakened by a seven days’ fast, was run over by a trolley car in front o f his home. Two thousand persons thereupon stormed the car, captured the motorman and conductor, laid them on the tracks and were about to run the car over them when a lone policeman seized the ringleader at the controller. Reserves then dis persed the mob. It was ascertained later that the entire Goldberg family o f nine were starving amid the direst poverty. Walsh's Freedom Nearer. Washington, D. 0.—The only obsta cles that would prevent John Hi Walsh, the ex Chicago banker, from being released on parole from l<eav- enworth penitentiary In September were removed when word came from Chicago that the remaining Indict ments against him had been quashed some time ago at the request of United States Attorney Sims Waleh's application o f release, If he makes one, win he taken up by the board when It meets at L«>avenworth Sep tember 12. Yankee Tars Tire o f Job. Port Au Prince— The Haytian gun boat Seventeenth o f December re turned here from Aux Cayes. where government troops under command o f General Simon, son o f Prosident Si mon, recently put down an uprising. The gunboat brought 76 soldiers under a Haytian general. The American crew o f the vessel is dissatisfied and anxious to leave the ship. The gun boat made stops at several points, with the evident intention o f forcing the in habitants to remain loyal, but the rev olutionists were in control. Solons Work 207 Days. Boston.—-The 132d session of the Massachusetts Legislature was pro rogued after all records for legisla tive activity in this state had been broken. The session continued 207 consecutive days, or one more than the seihdon of 1883. Labor waa »'spe cially favored this year with a dupli cation of the workingmen's compen sation art and the passage o f a 54- hour bill for women and minors; ala»» an eight-hour bill tor public employ«* 106 Days’ Sleep Broken. Vandalia, 111.— A fte r si«»eping al most continuously for 105 days. Miss Haxel Schmidt, the 18-year-old girl whose strange case has puzxeld phy sicians for weeks, was awake five hours and ate three meals Sunday. She said she felt no ill effects from her slumber. Attending physicians say the g ir l’s trance is broken and that she sren will be herself again and will probably be normal hereafter. Maderot Selling Cattla. San Antonio.— Regard»»«! as slgnlfl cant 1« the activity of the Madero family In moving their cattle out of Mexlre. Thirty cars were moved Sat urday. The railroads report that other large rattle<iw ners of Mexlre are ala« sending their cattle to the Unlt»M States. Their desire aeem* to be to sell out before the election In October. Hail Ravages Fruit Belt. Toronto, OnL— Ninety per cent o f the crop in one o f the richest sections o f the Niagsra peninsula fruit belt waa destroyed by a terrific hail storm. Between SL Catherines and Winona small fruit trees were stripped o f their branches and many farmers face financial ruin. Hundreds o f chickens were kille«l by the bail* Be Put New York— The congressional com mittee o f inquiry into the United States Corporation is now desirous of hearing personally from J. Pierpont Morgan with regard to the absorption o f the Tennessee Coal & Iron company by the Steel corporation in 1097. This was made known here at the commit tee headquarters That a subpoena w ill be issued within a few days for Charles M. Schwab, ex-president o f the corpora tion, also was revealed. “ The best man to defend J. P. Mor gan for his part in the Tennessee Coal & Iron transactions,” said Chairman Staley, “ is Mr. Morgan himself. . I sincerely hope that Mr. Morgan’s en gagements in Europe w ill not deter him from appearing. Mr. Morgan’s own story o f that transaction and the momentous events at the time o f that financial panic, and the effect o f the steel stock transfer in the midst o f it are certain to be o f great value.” That the New York financier w ill be subpenaed to appear before the com mittee when he does return now seems certain. JAILS PLACES O F EASE. Federal Judge Seeks Real Punish ment for Guilty Forgers. SL Louis, Mo.— Federal Judge Dyer is looking for a Missouri jail where Federal prisoners are kept in confine ment, and not allowed to go fishing. The judge made his wishes known in passing sentence on a forger o f money orders. He fixed the punishment at six months in jail. “ But,” said Judge Dyer, “ I want a few days to determine what jail I will send the prisoner to. Recently I heard that government prisoners are allowed absolute freedom in the rural jails. “ I have been told that prisoners sent to Montgomery City were permit ted to go out and fish all day and re turn to jail at nighL I also heard of one person who went to see a prisoner and was surprised when the prisoner met him at the railroad station.” Old Glory Shelters Babe. Seattle, Wash.— Mrs. George Snow den, a niece o f Presdent Taft, who has been making her home temporarily in Vancouver, B. C., hastened to Seattle some days ago to give birth to a grand nephew to the president, which was born a few days ago at the Minor Hospital. Mrs. Snowden says she could not bear the idea o f being the mother o f a child that was not born under the flag o f the country in which her uncle is president, so she came to Seattle that the babe might be a na tive-born American. Big Cities Get Pottel Banke. Washington, D. C.— Encouraged by the success o f the postal savings sys tem in the hundreds o f cities where it is already in operation. Postmaster General Hitchcock signed an order ex tending the system to 10 large cities o f the first class. Philadelphia, Brook lyn, Cleveland, Minneapolis, M il waukee, SL Paul, Louisville, Jersey City, Wilmington, and Long Island City will have postal savings banks in operation on September I. The sys tem now numbers among its patrons natives o f every European country. Airman Divas 600 Feet, Salinas, Cal. — W ith his propeller and his control cables broken Fred J. Wiseman, an aviator, made a sensa- tonal dive o f 600 feet at a local race course park and landed safely. The accident has necessitated postpone ment o f exhibitions that were to have been given here in the course o f the week to celebrate a fiesta in connec tion with the twenty-third annual meeting o f the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders association. Bore for Buried Miner. Joplin, Mo.— More than 100 men and boys are working desperately in an effort to sink a shaft to the d rift o f a mine east o f here in which Joseph Clary, 21 years old, is held a prisoner under 70 feet o f earth and rock. A t it w ill be days before Clary can be reached they are boring a six-inch hole through which Clary can be fur nished with air, food and water i f he is still alive. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE BERRY MEN ARE H A PPY. FIRE W ARNINGS SENT OUT. Evaporation and Special Canning State Board Issues 20,000 Circulars, Full of Information. Helps Loganberry Growers. Salem.—The flnst bulletin to be Saleib—That the loganberry market is better than ever and that the de Issued by the State Board of For mand is increasing instead o f decreas estry hag Just come from the press ing are statements o f Britt Aspinwall, and 200,000 copies will be printed o f Brooks. He and his brother J. P. for distribution among those who Aspinwall have 6 acres o f these ber apply for It to the State Board of ries and will plant 15 or 20 acres next Forestry at Salem. The bulletin spring. Fear o f loganberry overproduction was prepared under the direction is now a thing o f the past, with the of George W. Peavy, director of driers and evaporators, and it is be- forestry at Oregon Agricultural Col lieved that more and more o f these lege and also a member of the State Board of Forestry. berries w ill be raised annually. Loganberries produce from four to Prefacing his statements rela six tons an acre, and command a hand tive to Oregon and the new Oregon some price. Up to last year Portland forest fire laws with a comprehen and Seattle were the principaf mar sive view of forestry conditions In kets from this point, and owing to the this country, he comments on the situation In Oregon with reference heavy offerings there was a slump in to the new forest fire laws to some the price. Experimentation with the length. evaporator followed, as it was be The bulletin also contains a table lieved that the market could be ex showing that the annual consump tended. The best qualities o f the lo tion of wood Is 296,791,900 and that ganberries wt*re preserved and the the estimated cost is $4,708,731. It bulk o f the fruit was so reduced that is reported that the State of Ore it could be shipped conveniently and gon has approximately 400,000,000,- 090 feet of timber that Is merchant economically to ail parts o f the world. able and that the sawmills of Ore In addition to this the canneries gon manufacture about 2,000,000,- have discovered a means whereby this 000 feet annually. Of this about 60 class o f berry may be conveniently per cent is shipped to points out canned and safely preserved. The side of the state. Of the balance canneries in Portland and Salem are used in the state 600,000,000 feet handling a large quantity o f the fruit is used iu general building, while and are paying prices profitable to the the balance is converted into wood grower. Instead o f a glut on the pulp, boxes, doors and other simi Portland and Puget Soutid markets lar articles made In the woo»l- In there are now times when a scarcity working factories of Oregon. his statement relative to Oregon is fe lt owing to the distribution o f the Mr. Peavy says; fruit over large areas o f market cen ters. FORE8T FIRE INCENDIARY. Mr. Aspinwall’a evaporator has a capacity o f 1500 pounds o f dried ber State Forester Believes Outbreak ries daily. It is kept at a tempera Work of Criminal. ture o f 140 degrees for 24 hours to thoroughly dry the fruit, and a cord of Salem.— State Forester F. A. El wood will evaporate a ton o f logan liott is convinced that the timber berries. fires raging near Mill City are due to the work of an incendiary. Ef UNION HAS G REAT C RO P. forts are being made to run the criminal down. The fires were prac Wheat Yield ot County Will Go Over tically under control Sunday when Million Bushels. a new one broke out in the timber La Grande— Wheat harvest in Union in the direction from which the county is well under way, and what is wind was blowing. The fire fight generally admitted to be a crop from ers saw a man skulking behind a tree watching them. When they 25.0,000 to 500,000 bushels in excess o f the million bushel record created started after him he escaped lu the two years ago, w ill be harvested dur woods. Five years ago the same territory ing the next month. There is a uni was burned over aud Forester El form stand o f wheat all over the val liott declares there was no doubt ley and it is said by many that 1,- then but that someone was guilty 500,000 bushels is too conservative an of setting out the fire. At one time estimate. Excellent weather prevails suspicions » were almost strong here and it looks like the crop w ill be enough against one man to cause his arrest. harvested without the slightest mis The present fire has burned over hap in any way. I f it does, Grand Ronde farmers w ill glean much profit 12 sections and is still beyond control, according to messages re from this year’s crop. ceived by the state forester. Men Incidentally the apple and cherry are coming In from Tillamook, Ma crops are o f such proportions— the rion and Polk counties. latter already having been turned into cash as a rule, and indications favor ARID LANDS W IL L BE TOPIC. ing the former— will provide channels for many other tillers o f Grand Ronde valley soil to realize neat profits. Reclamation Projects to Be Up at State Irrigation Meeting. Sugar beets, which are grown in this and Wallowa valleys alone in the state Ontario, Or., July 22.— Further o f Oregon, indicate the bumper crop. reclamation of the arid lands of Eastern Oregon will he the chief subject of discussion at the biennial O A T S 80 BUSHELS T O ACRE. meeting of the State Irrigation As Without Irrigation, Yield Near On sociation, which will meet in On tario on September 28 and 29, dur tario Is Immense. ing the week of the Malheur Couuty Ontario — The first shipment o f crated apricots from the Snake R iver Fair. Judge Stephen R. Lowell, of Pen valley this season was made from the A. E. Woods orchard on the bench dleton, president of the association, northeast o f town, when 30 crates has appointed Leon J. Chapman, sec were shipped to Wyoming and Mon retary of the Ontario Commercial Club, secretary of the association, tana points at $1.50 a crate. and work will commence at once Mr. Woods so far as known, has the on securing prominent speakers and only apricot orchard in this part of arranging a program. The Portland the West, and he expects to ship 1,000 Commercial Club will be asked to crates o f them this season. One ship aid In making the meeting a suc ment o f a full carload will be matie cess and a representative o f the Department will be within a few days. This will probably Reclamation asked to make an address. be the first carload ever shipped out Dr. James Withycombe, of Cor from this valley. The apricots are vallis, a member of the executive exceptionally fine. committee, will assist In making up The first cufting o f oats near here the program. this season was made by V. Mercer on his ranch about a mile from Fruit- May Electrify - Road« land. The yield was about 80 bushels Monroe.— It is said to be the in to the acre. A bunch o f oats from the tention of the Welch interests to J. F. Doty island in Snake River, con electrify the Carver road, from Cor taining one stool o f oats, brought to vallis to Monroe, at once, and to town recently, had 32 stalks. They push the completion of the line Twenty were seven feet tall and heavily bur from Monroe to Eugene. dened with oats. This field ha<I no ir railroad men are at work in the vicinity of Monroe making the final rigation, yet promises to yield 80 survey. A number of big farms bushels to the acre at the least. have changed hands, capitalists from distant points being the buy ers. An Aberdeen company ha« Eugene Plans Apple Fair. Eugene— Plans are being formed for bought a tract of ground west and north of the Oaco orchards and a a second annual apple show under the big sale just south of the big auspices o f the Eugene Commercial orchards has been made. club. The success o f last year’s fair, though made on a small scale, encour Money Raised to Dredge Coquille. Coquille.— 'The Coquille Commer ages the growers to try again, and they are ready to co-operate with the cial Club at a special meeting Sat club. Awakening o f growers to the urday night appointed a committee to raise $1000 or more, which importance o f learning the commercial amount Is needed to have the dredge packing o f apples was brought out by Oregon continue work on the Coquille the show last year, and one o f the ren river and remove the four short ditions this year will be that the fruit shoals between this place and Ban- shall be packed as for sale as well as don, when the work will be com pleted and a good deep channel for for display. ocean going vessels will be had from the mouth of the river to this place. New Cannery to Start. Most of the money has been sub New Bridge— The farmers and fruit scribed. growers o f this valley are delighted Big Profits From Farm. with the announcement made by Man ager P. J. Loveland that the cannery Sublimity.— F. A. Bell, for 24 at this place, the first o f its kind ever years a resident of this keetlon, has established in Eagle Valley, will start gone to Germany to visit his father, operation August 10. A large sup aged 97 years. Mr. Bell filed on a ply o f cans and boxes is on hand, and homestead near the present site of Sublimity soon after he came to there willl be nothing to prevent a run Oregon, anj} has lived on the land to full capacity during the entire sea ever since. He Is said to have made son. Mr. Ic e la n d states that he will $50.000 from his labor on the home employ about 50 people. stead. Marion Stream Gets 24,000 Trout. Salem— Shipment o f 24,000 young Eastern brook trout has been received! in this city by Houser Bros, through the efforts o f Representative Hawley. The trout w ill be consigned to Battle Creek. The fry were in excellent Stone to Mark Site o f Debate. rendition when received and there is Bloomington, 111. — A rod granite every reason to believe that they will boulder weighing six tone, discovered survive and propagate freely. by the Woodford County Historical so Shops Run on Full Time. ciety on the farm o f Thomas Bratt, La Grande— A fte r months o f cur near I-ow point, will be used to mark the spot where Lincoln and Douglas tailed hours, the machine and round met in their famous debate at Mata- house crews in this city have been re- The mora in 1868. The stone will be dedi turne»i to regular hours again. cated at the annual meeting o f the machine shop and round house crews Old Settlers o f Woodford county next are working 64 hours a week instead month. o f 42 during the dull season. Condensed Milk Combine. Salem.—The largest corporation to file articles thte week Is the Pacific Coast Condensed Milk company with a capital stock o f $5.000.000. It is understood this company has taken over the plan< at Forest Grove. It is a Maine corporation, and the fees for filing the articles with the secre tary of state here were $235.75. Apples to Be Canned. Medford.— Thousands of dollars In cull apples will be saved when the big California canning company, which ia planning an apple butter and can ning factory in Medford, completes Its plant. The Commercial Club is assisting them In getting a site and they will build a plant that will em ploy 40 or 50 men.
