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Roelyn, Wash., have been withdrawn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.