COLUMBIA REGISTER
HOULTON- OREGON
NEVS OF THE IEK
b a tczizxzi Fcro to to
A Rum ef the Last Important but
Nt Ls Interesting Evnt
of tho Past Week-
Many striken are being kilted In Fo
und by troop.
A. Santa Clara, California, aeroplane
' haa made a very successful flight.
Ihe treasurer of Athens county,
Ohio, ia $71,000 short in hia accounts.
The president has had a slight attack
of malaria and rested in camp for a
day.
Paderewski is suffering from nervous
prostration and has cancelled hia Bos
ton dates.
Government rate regulation ia de
clared by railroad men to be injurious
to the West.
The Interstate Commerce commission
has sued 13 railroads for discrimina
tion in beef rates.
The epidemic of cerebrospinal men
ingitis in New York has abated with
the coming of warm weather.
Twelve leaders of the Chicago strike
have been arrested. Riots and other
disturbances continue. One death has
been reported.
Minister Bo wen, of Panama, who has
been called home in regard to the
charges against Loomis, will be given
the choice of proving his assertions and
receiving promotion or failing and be
ing discharged from government service.
Great Britain will build the world's
greatest battleship.
Linievitch condemns Karopatkin'a
retreat from Mukden.
The Russian fleet is seeking to elude
Togo and reach Vladivostok.
Russia is now planning a canal to
connect the Baltic and Black seas.
Minister Bowen has been ordered
home to explain the Loomis charges.
The New York police have forbidden
slumming parties to visit Chinatown in
automobiles.
The Russian government has lost
control of the Caucasus and lawlessness
ia supreme.
Fire is still raging in the Picton mine
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company
and it will have to be flooded.
Poland peasants have served notice
on the authorities that they intend to
seize the land and divide it among
themselves.
The state portage railway commission
says the portage road between The
Dalles and CelUo will be ready for
business May 15.
Fitzhugh Lee, veteran of the Confed
erate army, and of the Spanish war, is
dead. The end came very suddenly,
he being stricken by apoplexy.
Japan awaits a naval battle in confi
dence. Carnegie has given . $10,000,000 to
pension retired profeesors. -
A witness has testified in the Nan
Patterson trial that Young shot him
self. John Barrett is to be minister to Co
lombia when his Panama office is abol
ished. Russia will let contracs to all ship
building yards in America for the con
struction of warships.
All Russia is in a panic as a result of
threats of dynamiters to begin opera
tions at Easier.
Frank Bigelow, the defaulting presi
dent of the Milwaukee bank, is behind
in his accounts $3,277,000.
The teamsters' strike in Chicago is
spreading and may tie up every branch
of business in the city employing
union men. Riots are of frequent oc
currence in many parts of the city, and
Federal troops may have to be called
on before the trouble is settled. The
teamsters decided to give up their
fight, but when they applied for work
were told no men who had struck would
be taken back. The latest strike is the
result.
Rojestvensky will be joined by Ne
txjgatoff May 5. The Russian fleet is
using Hainan island as a base while
waiting.
Russia does not expect a naval bat
tle for some time.
Russia now places her loss of men at
the battle of Mukden at 88,000.
The revenue cutter McCulioch has
been ordered to Portland for the fair.
The rioutous striking teamsters of
Chicago have been refused employment.
Russia has arranged for a loan of
$50,000,000 with German bankers.
The United States attorney general
says rebate on irrigation material is
legal.
The beef trust charges secret serivce
men with stealing documents for evi
dence. The New York coroner's physician
says he has changed his mind and be
lieves that Nan Patterson did not kill
Young, but that it was a case of suicide.
The reported seizure of Hainan is
land by the Russian fleet is causing ac
tivity among Chinese officials.
TWELVE MINERS BURIED.
Big Explosion Wrecks Shaft of an
Oklahoma Coal Company.
Wilburton, Okla., May J. Thirteen
miners were entombed and probably
killed by an explosion early today in
the Missouri, Kansas A Texaa Coal
company's mine No. 19 four miles west
ot here. There is little prospect of
their bodies being recovervd for several
days.
The men went into the shaft at mid
night. Foreman William Ray, of the
shift that left the mine at that hour,
states that the mine was in good condi
tion and a gaa explosion waa hardly
probable. Hia shift left a shot hang
ing which the new shift may have fired.
It is suggested, from the forse ot the
explosion, which could be heard for
miles around, and which tore heavy
timbers aside and piled tons ot dirt
into the shaft, that a bad shot had set
off some dynamite which had been
stored conveniently for use in pushing
the work. The shaft is 360 feet deep,
and it was 300 feet to the place where
the men were working.
The men were supplied with air from
the shaft, and by means of compressed
air tubes. It is the general opinion
that the air pipe was burst by the e.
plosion, but air has been steadily
pumped in all day, with the remote
hope that some of the entombed men
may have eecaped the force of the ex
plosion and the after-damp.
MEETING AT VENICE.
Italian and Auatro-Hungarian Minis
ter Agree on Attitude.
Rome, May 2. While it is officially
stated that the purpose of Count Golu
choweki in going to Venice was mainly
to return the visit which Foreign Min
ister Tittoni made at Abbazia in 1904,
there is high authority for the state
ment that the two foreign ministers
were moved by the desire to strengthen
the triple alliance by cementing the
friendship of Austria-Hungaria and
Italy and that they agreed on a com
mon attitude for safeguarding the re
ciprocal interests of the two countries
in the Adriatic, Mediterranean and
Balkan states.
The Cretan question was discsnsed
and it was agreed that it is necessary
lor tne present to moderate the impa
tience of the Cretans, who are desire ns
of union with Greece. The ministers
reached an accord on Macedonia, de
ciding to acquit the proposal of Great
Britain for European control of Mace
donian finances, while application ot
reforms will remain entrusted to Aus
tria and Russia, supported by an inter
nal gendarmerie under command of an
Italian general.
The control of Macedonian finances
will be exercised by a body composed of
the present Austcrian and Russian civil
agents in Macedonia, with the addition
of special delegates from other powers.
Both Austria and Italy will endeavor
to avoid complications inj Morocco,
both being allied with Germany and
friendly to France and Great Britain.
FETES FOR RUSSIAN ARMY.
Easter is Celebrated With Religious
Services on the Field.
Gunshu Pass, May 2. The Russian
army here celebrated its second Easter
in the field with the traditional re
ligious services and observances. Spe
cial Easter fetes were prepared for the
soldiers, giving them a respite from
their usual duties wherever possible.
Information obtained from prisoners
and captured mails shows that the dis
position of the Jpanese army is as fol
lows: General Nodzu, the region be
tween Tie Pass and Kaiyuan ; General
Oku, from Tie Pass westward of the
railway; General Kuroki, from Tie
Pass eastward of the railway: General
Nogi, from Fakoman to Changtufu;
General Kawamura, northwest of 5Iuk
den. The weakest forces of the Japanese
are in the region about Mukden, while
the principal concentration is in the
region of Tie Pass. The flanks are
guarded by mixed bands of Japanese
and Chinese bandits.
Japanese Come from Hawaii.
Seattle. May 2. The steamshin
Olympia is anchored in the stream here
tonight with C10 Japanese laborers
award, who are to be landed tomorrow
morning and distributed aloni? the
sections of the Great Northern railroad.
The Orientals were brought from plant
ationb in the Hawaiian islands by the
Oriental Trading company, of this city.
ine estern Centrial Labor union be
lieves that the importation of the Jap
anese is in violation of the alien con
tract labor law, and an attempt is be
ing made to prevent their being landed.
Take Water from Canada.
Ottawa, May 2. If the rumor is true
that the United States government has
authorized the construction of certain
works on Milk river, which runs from
Montana into the Northwest and then
back into United States territory, the
effect of which construction will be to
divert the water from Canadian terri
tory, a strong protest will be made by
the Dominion, which favored sending
this matter to the International Water
way commission.
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Rio Grande Breaks Out.
El Paso, Tex., May 2. The Rio
Grande river broke over its banks to
day, 30 miles above El Paso, and over
flowed 2,000 acres of alfalfa and other
rich lands, ruining crops and carrying
away many small houses. The town of
Bcrino is entirely abandoned.
WEE
Mil
ill
Violence Kampaat I'pca Streets
cl Chicago,
TRACTION LINES MAY SUSPEND
Coal Taamttera Join Strike, Causing
Fuel Famine, and Food Supply
May B Cut Off.
Chicago, April 29. Violence ia ram
pant upon the streets of Chicago.
surging tnrougn the streets and alleys.
springing from unsuspected ' places.
armed with stones, clubs and revolvers
and the deadly blackjack, are hordes ot
pickets and "sympathisers." cursing.
jeering, hailing every opportunity to
uu upon a nonun on man and grind
him to the pavement. The hvait of the
business district witnessed terrible
struggles all ot the day. Guests at the
Pal met house were regaled with a fierce
riot at their door, and at all points the
angry conflicts went forward the first
skirmishes of the teamsters' strike.
which is destined to be the worst labor
struggle in Chicago's history. There
are now 3,256 teams idle through the
striae.
Chicago now faces a new per 11 that
ot having to walk. Owing to the strike
of all coal teamsters, the traction com
paniea are unable to secure coal to
operate power plants. At the utmost,
there ia but three days' supply of coal.
and then the cara must stop. In addi
tion, the strike leaders are bending
every effort to spread the strike to all
the smaller concerns. This, if sum's
ful, will shut off the food supplies of
the residents.
Early today the Federal government
stepped into the strike and issued in'
junctions against the strikers interfer
ing with trailic. At about the same
time many soldiers began to appear on
the streets without arms. Orders have
been issued by commanders of regi
menta of state troops to their men to
hold themselves ready for immediate
call.
The great aim of the strike leaders
now ia to embroil the railroad unions.
in which event other cities will begin
to fee) the strike. "Wait until next
Tuesday," is the ominous warning of
the labor leaders. "So far there haa
been child's play. Next Tuesday there
will be business." No one appears to
know what this means, although there
is fear that some tremendous seuBation
will be sprung.
ONLY ASK EQUAL RATES.
Townsend Replies to Spencer Rela
tive to Railroad Rebates.
Detroit, Mich., April 20. Congress
man Charles h. Townsend, of Jackson,
Mich., author of the Townaend-Ksch
niirti i i . . .
rauroau uiu, spoae lasi nigni Mure a
meeting of the Michigan Manufactur
ers' association. Mr. Townsend took
up the speech delivered by President
Spencer, of the Southern railroad, at
Pittsburg April 7.
"We do not ask wholesale reduction
of rates," said Mr. Townsend. "We
want the commission to have power to
decide what is a just rate when the
rates have been challenged. Secret re
bates mean the loss of millions by the
railroads, but the railroads are most
arrant cowards. Traffic men do not
know the cost of the transportation of
a given article a given distance, and
admit they cannot find out. How,
then, do they fix the rates by putting
on all tne traffic will stand.
"We are asking nothing more than,
as President Roosevelt expensed it in
his message, to 'Keep the highways
open to all on equal terms.'
"President Spener says he agrees
with the president's sentiment, and
yet he attacks the bill which seeks to
bring this about. The same arguments
are now used against the original in
terstate commerce bill, and yet Mr.
Spencer says the original law is a good
one and adequate to deal with all
abuses which may arise."
Good Weather for Fighting.
London, April 29. The news of the
resumption of fighting in Manchuria
is supposed here to show that the Jap
anese have decided not to await the
issue of the impendnig naval contest,
but to utilize the few weeks interven
ing between the drying up of the
thawed-out roads and the arrival of the
summer rains in June for the resump
tion of the land campaign. The com
pletion of the railway to Mukden will
greatly simplify Marshal Oyama's task
of provisioning his army, and will thus
facilitate the renewal of hostilities.
Fire Devouring Coal Mine.
Trinidad Colo.. April 20. Fir
v r - - "
the origin of which is unknown, broke
out in the Colorado Fuel and Iron com
pany's mine at Picton shortly before
noon todav. A number of miner nar.
rowly escaped death, several being
overcome by smoke. The fire is still
burning fiercely. General Superin
tendent T. Kebler left Trinidad this
afternoon for Picton. The mine em
ploys 250 men and the output of coal ia
800 tons daily.
Canal Laborers Strike.
Panama. April 29. All the contract
Jamaicans working at the aqueduct
struca today, alleging insufficient fowl
as the cause. Six policemen who were
summoned by Engineer Barritt to mm.
pel the men to work were badly beaten
and Barritt was stoned. Armed police
men restored order and prevented a
riot.
MUM
RUINEO BY TORNADO.
Atmott Every Building In Laredo,
Tas, Is Gone.
Laredo, Tex., May 1. At least 21
persons were killed and a score Injured
In Laredo and New I a redo by tornado
that tore through the city late last
night. Sixteen were killed here. Ru
mors ot many others killed In place
outside of Laredo are heard, but aa yvt
they lack confirmation. Pioerty
damage is large. Four ot the dead
were members ot one family and were
working on the ranch of George Womb
man. They were all crushed to death
by the falling in ot the heavy walla of
the adobe house they occupied. The
others met their fate in a like manner.
The damage wrought at the Laredo
seminary ia severe. Not one of the
group of buildings that go to make up
the institution escaped damage. The
escape from death ot the teachers .at
present quartered in the institution is
considered miracu'ous, as the walla of
some of the buildings that they occu
pied were demolished. Mrs. F.arty,
one of the teachers, w aa heroically res
cued by several young cadets, students
ot the institution, they lowering her by
a rope from a second atory window.
She waa badly bruised.
The Mexican National hospital build
ing root was lifted, and it will require
much time to repair the building.
A trip through the town fails to
show a locality that haa not suffered
from the storm. Telegraph and tele
phone poles, corrugated roofs, chlm
neya and walls; in fact, debris of all
imaginable kinds strew the streets
The city authorities are at work clear
Ing away the wreckage of the storm and
tonight the city legan to assume it
customary tranquil appearance. Line
men are at work endeavoring to
straighten out the tangled wires, and It
is believed that within two days the
electric light service can be resumed
It ia hoped to re-establish telegraphic
communication at least partially with
in two days.
NEW SYSTEM OF BIDDING.
Army Quartermaster Makes Welcome
Change for Forage Dsalara.
. Washington, May 1. It will he a el
come news to Pacific coast dealers to
know that the quartermaster general of
the army has decided to obtain bids for
forage for army purpose under a new
system, which shall permit competition
on a three-months aa an annual basts
It is believed that more satisfuHory
bidding will be obtained, if it is possi
ble to secure proposals for furnishing
forage for a period of three months
This will enable closer competition,
hence it will afford bidders an opportu
nity to estimate more closely aa to
market conditions.
In presenting bids for the annual
supply of forage at all the military
pokts, it is found that bidders are re
quired to specify largely as to tho prob
able condition ot crops, and this, tf
course, must have its effect uintn prices
named for a yearly supply of army
forage. Bidding will, therefore, be
permitted for a quarterly as well aa for
an annual supply.
COLTON IN FULL CHARGE.
Names Assistants in Collection of Do
minican Customs.
Washington, May 1. Colonel George
R. Colton, the American official who
went to Santo IVimingo to assume
charge of the collection of customs rev
enue of that republic, has reported to
Secretary Taft that a plan of organiza
tion for the customs service had U-en
agreed upon by the IVnninican govern
ment. Colonel Colton has been made
principal collector and general receiver;
J. II. Edwards, Jr., deputy collector,
traveling inspector and auditor; II.
W. Smith, cashier, auditor and dis
bursing officer; H. F. Worley, addi
tional deputy collector in charge of the
Haytien frontier; M. D. Carroll, chief
statistician, and Joseph Schwartz, spec
ial agent.
All of the Dominican officials now in
the service have been continued by
Colonel Colton, Who has definitely as
sumed charge of the custom house. He
has posted notices to this effect for the
information of foreigners and others.
Ice Moving in the North.
Seattle, May 1. A special to the
Post-Intelligencer from Fairbanks,
Alaska, states that advices received
there from St. Michael are to the effect
that the ice is broken at a point near
Egg island, and has moved out fully
half a mile. The wind is off-shore and
the chances are that the ice has gone
for the summer. There is a little water
running at Fort Gibbons, although the
ice has not yet started. The Tanana
river is open in many places. The ice
will go out in this stream ten days
earlier than last season.
No Mire Delays for Connors.
Chicago, May 1. The case of Super
intendent Thomas J, Connors, of the
Armour company, indicted on the
charge of attempting to intimidate a
witness, came up again today in the
United States District court. Counsel
for the Armour company asked for an
other continuance After some argu
ment, Judge Landis granted it, setting
the date for hearing next Thursday.
The judge also said forcibly that he
would not grant another continuance.
Cloudbursts Unroof Buidings.
Indianapolis, Ind., May 1. Reports
from that state show that Indiana has
been storm swept in the past 24 hours.
Cloudbursts are reported at many
places.' At Bicknellsville' buildings
were unroofed, and near Peru the Indi
anapolis Northern interurban track was
washed away. Hail fell in several
counties, damaging crops.
j OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST j
KLAMATH IS TO BE IRRIGATED.
Government Will Not Rpat Good
Offer to Canal Company.
Washington Sooner or later the Kla
math Canal company, operating near
Klamath Falls, must step aside and
make way tor a big government irriga
tion project. It ia for this private en
terprise to say whether it will go vol
untarily or whether it will le forced
out. The fact remains that the gov
ernment la going to alworb private Irri
gation worrka In Klamath haaln, and ia
going ahead with the construction ot
its own project on a grand scale.
There are several private enterprise
in Klamath basin, but all except the
Klamath canal company have made
terms with the government and are
ready and willing to vacate. This con
cern, owned by California interests, la
unwilling to move unlesa it can name
its own price, and sell out on its own
terms. The government doe not do
businesa that way. That is why the
Klamath Canal company w ill probably
b forced to vacate.
I jut December, when the government
first entered into negotiations with this
company, the officials of the reclama
tion service made a liberal offer. They
were willing to pay $250,000 for the
works and property of the company,
and to grant them navigation rights on
the government canals. But the com
pany held out for $500,000. Negotia
tions failed. The reclamation service
was satisfied that the Klamath -canal
proerty waa not worth $250,000;
rough estimate placed the actual value
at nearer $50,000; but Mug anxious
to build the larger project and recog.
nixing the equities of the cane, they
fixed what they termed a very liberal
offer. No such price w ill ever again
be offered. It is more than the facts
justify.
Log for Paper Mill.
Albany Seven thousand cords of
wood are being floated down the South
Santiam river for the Ihanon paper
mills. Most of the wood was put into
the river at the mouth of MclViwell
creek, and munt float 12 mile to just
above the Ielanoii dam, where a boom
catches it and turns it into the canal
to the paper mills. Part of the wood
is halm, for use in making white
paper, but most of It is red fir ,for use
as fuel. The Iehanon paper mills
consume 7,500 cord of ted and white
fir wood aa fuel every year.
Iron Works Incorporated.
Pendleton Article of incorora
tion will be filed thla week with the
county clerk iucororatlng the Pendle
ton Iron works, with Marion Jacks, C.
W. Zigler and Fremont Arnold as the
Incorporators, with a capitalization of
$20,000. Messrs Jacks and Arnold
opened a foundry at Athena, but later
purchased tho Mays interest of the firm
of Zigler A Mays and moved their en
tire plant to this place and consolidat
ed. The firm intends to do general
casting and repair work.
Water System for Echo.
r,cho The city council of Echo has
granted C. R. ftohinson a franchise to
build and operate a water works system
for 25 years. Mr. Robinson recently
established a similar system in lone,
Ore., and promises to have the water
turned on within 0 days. Mr. Robin
son has purchased the grounds and
well owned by the people w ho previ
ously planned to build a system, but
who failed in the time stated ami will
u'itize the scheme outlined by that
company.
Cottage Grove Wants Fame.
Cottage Grove The Commercial
club is discussing the best methods of
advertising the industries and re
sources of Cottage Grove and Bohemia
mining district, and surrounding terri
tory. It is probable that a large num
ber of pamphlets and circulars will be
printed for distribution at the Lewis
and Clark fair. A committee consist
ing of George B. Lloyd, C. J. Howard,
CWE. Jones, A. B. Wood, and William
B. Root waa appointed to prepare liter
ature. '
L'nk May Be Built.y
Eugene A crew of Southern Pacific
surveyors is at work in the Eugene
yards measuring the grounds and all
the buildings, prpearatory to rearrang
ing Hie building and sidetracks, which
hue been so long in contemplation by
the company. Surveyors have also
been surveying the grounds at Hender
son station, and it is believed that the
long-heralded and much-talkcd-of con
necting link between Henderson and
Springfield will be built this spring.
May Leave Eugene.
Union Messrs. Will Wright, of the
First National bank of Union, .and J.
P. Wilkin, superintendent of the
Union Woolen mills, owners of a wool
en mill plant at Eugene, Or., have been
in Hood River this week for the pur
pose of consulting with the business
men of that city relative to locating the
plant there. It is understood that if
satisfactory arrangements can be made
the Eugene plant will go to Hood
River.
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Snow Off Cascade Summit.
Albany The road from the valley to
the summit of the Cascade mountains,
via the Lebanon wagon road route, is
now open. 8. G. Dorris, proprietor of
the Fish lake summer resort near the
summit of the' mountains, states that
the snow is all out of the mountains
and the road cleared for traffic, some
thing almost unprecedented for this
time of the year, Usually this road is
not open until late in the spring.
ERA OF PURE FOOD BEGINS.
Nw Orsgon Pur Food Law Will Be
Strictly Enforced.
Pendleton The pur food (aw rn
acted at the last eioQ ot th tegisla
ture (a In effect and from now on It
shall t a misdemeanor to sell, offer to
sell or to I In poMewdon ot any article
ot food or drink that shall contain any
adulteration unlra there I plainly
marked on th label It Ingredient
and the quantities thereof.
The law especially cover th sal
and manufacture ot butter and the sal
of milk. It specific that butter must
contain at least 8H per cent ot butter
(at, no more thau 10 per cent ot water.
Milk must contain 3.2 er cent butter
fat, 0 per cent solid and have wclfle
gravity ot at least l.O.tS per rent.
. The law details th manufacture
and sate of spice and condiment,
cider, vinegar, preserved and Jrlllcd
fruit and a host of article of food ami
drink. For the violation of this law
there la a fine of not 1-m than $25 or
more than $100, with imprisonment
of not lea than SO day nor more than
aix montha attached. The grocer and
provision dealer of the city are not In
the least alarmed, and niany were not
aware of the existence ot th law. The
commlaaiouer or hia deputy la expected
to vialt the city in the near future ami
enforce the law to the letter.
Removal Is Vry Probabl.
Oregon City Judging from a letter
that haa Iwen received by the officers ot
the Oregon City land office, from Secre
tary of the Interior Hitchcock, it i
evident that intervention on the part
of President Itovrll a Ion will pre
vent the removal ot the Oregon City
land office to Portland a ordered. lit
hi letter Secretary Hitchcock state
that a time, July I, next, ha been et,
a place named lor the removal of tho
office, and that in ordering the projxxt
ed change the authorities at Welling
ton considered every question and ob
jection that haa ben raised in Ihe pro
testa that have (wen forwarded by the
people of this city.
For Big Bt Ranch.
Union The sale of Hall Bros.' ranch
of vt!0 acres, about four mile north
west of Union, to the Amalgamated
Sugar com ny, for $50,000, ia lcn
announced. This ia the aeco'ul largo
tract In the same section bought by
this company within a year, and com
plete a body of over 2,000 acre now
held by Ihe Amalgamated company In
this p.irt of the valley. It ia expected
that eventually the bulk ot this laud
will lo put into sugar beet. Tho
Amalgamated company Inst fall bought
the Nichols A Weaver tract of 1.100
acre for $54,000, so that their holding
uow Ktand them about $104,000 for the
2,000 acres.
Convicts on the Roads.
Salem In order to make a further
test of the problem of using convict
lalwr on the public highways, Govern
or Chamberlain has arranged to work
40 convicts in three separate gangs on
the Marion county roads for a few
weeks. Marion county will hear the
expense of employing six guard to take
charge of the men while at work. Tho
county w ill also pay tho cost of trans
ortiiig the prisoners to their work and
will pay the state five cents a day for
each man to pay the increased cost of
food fop the men on account of their
doing heavier work. The convict
will he worked within four miles ot
the prison.
Churns 1,500 Pound of Butter.
Pendleton The Blue Mountain
creamery, recently completed In this
city, I churning, on an average of
three churnings a week of 600 pound
of butter each. The entire amount of
cream used In the churnings is brought
over from La Grande and Elgin, as the
farmers of the vicinity of Pendleton
have not yet been able to supply a par
ticle of cream. Many are preparing to
fit np complete dairy farms on a largo
scale, but as it takes considerable timo
for this, tho creamery will depend upon
the supply from over the mountains.
Sawmill for Albany.
Albany A largo sawmill will prob
ably be constructed In Albany the com-
ing summer. The mill will be estab
lished by outside capital und tho prep
arations for securing ground for tho lo
cation and establishing the plant ar
being carried on through the officers of
the Albany Commercial club, who are
not yet ready to give out a statement
about the matter, but who say con
struction of the mill in this city ia
practically assured.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 848flc per bushel;
bluestern, 81)Ulc 'valley, 8c.
Oats No. 1 white, $28 per ton ;
gry, f27. $
Hay Timothy, $14016 per ton;
clover, $1112; cheat, $1112; grain,
$11(312.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 1717c"per
dozen. j "
Butter Fancy creamery, 1 7 1 Op
per pound.
Potatoos Oregon fancy, $ 1 1 .60 ;.
common, 8085.
Apples Fancy, $1.762.50 per box;
choice, $1 1.25.
Hops Choice, 1904, 23K25c per
pound.
Wool Valley, 2024c, according to
fineness; Eastern Oregon, best, 1
18c; mohair, choice, 31 32c.