The Columbia register., March 16, 1906, Image 2

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COLUMBIA REGISTER
HOULTON OREGON
NEWS OFTHE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Oar
Easy Readers,
A Resume of the Lets Important but
Not Less Interesting E.ents
of the Past Week.
The president of the Argentine re
public is dead.
Indian outlaws have killed three dep
uties in Indian Territory.
Hearst has forbidden the mention of
Bryan's name in his newspapers.
General Overseer Voliva says Dowie
is dying and that he will govern Zion.
The deadlock has been renewed at
Algeciras, but an agreement is assured.
The United States Supreme court has
decided that paper and tobacco trust
officers must give evidence.
George V. L. Meyer, now United
States ambassador to Russia, may suc
ceed Taft aa secretary of war.
Seventeen men have lost their lives
attempting to recover bodies from the
Courrieres, France, coal mine.
The city of Chicago has won a great
victory over the traction lines by the
Supreme court annulling their fran
chises. Southern California and Arizona have
bad a downpour of lain which almost
reached the proportions of a Hood.
Three inches of water fell in 36 hours.
Hoggatt will be named governor of
Alaska.
Zionists have stopped Dowie's sup
ply of money.
Both China and Japan deny there is
any disturbance in China.
Anthracite operators are believed to
have agreed to reject the miners pro
posals A bill has been introduced in the
Iowa legislature legalizing the killing
of incurables.
Details of the fight between Moros
and American troops show that the
battle lasted four days and 900 of the
rebels were killed or wounded.
Millions are starving in Northern
Japan and now winter weather has
added to the misery. Straw and acorns
are the principal foods. An almost
total failure of the rice crop is the
cause of the famine.
The Harriman lines will put on a
new through train from Chicago to
Portland. No stops will be made and
no passengers or express will be car
ried, nothing but mail. This change
will make a saving of an entire day.
In Wyoming Western Nebraska and
Northern Colorado there is 12 inches oi
snow and stockmen fear heavy losses,
as the weather is extremely cold.
Kansas and Montana have snow and
heary winds and street car and railroad
traffic is badly demoralized.
The Iowa senate has passed an anti
rail roau pass bill.
American troops killed A00 native
outLws in a battle in the Philippines.
Fire at San FranciBco in a five-story
building caused a loss of over $750,000.
An agreement on Morocco is abo-it to
be reached at Algeciras, the kaiser
backing down.
The Chinese government reassures
the nations that there will be no upris
ing against foreigners.
The Hariman lines will be equipped
with the block signal system from
Omaha to Los Angeles.
The house commttee on naval affairs
favors the appointment of not more
than 30 dental surgeons in the navy.
P-esident Kooeevelt has been aBked
to step in and attempt to settle the dif
feiences between the coal operators and
miners.
The house committee on elections
has favorably reported a bill prov ding
for the election of senators by direct
vote of the people.
The Port of Portland commission has
voted the Hill company right to bridge
the Willamette below Portland accord
ing to the plans submitted by the rail
road company.
Miss Susan B. Anthony is still very
weak.
The Algeciras conference is talking
of compromise.
The, government has evidence of re
bates given the sugar trust.
No successor to Premier Rouvier has
yet been named in France.
Frantic efforts are being made to
save Zion City from bankrupty.
Frequent robberies have caused the
closing of money order offices in Poland.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY DEAD.
Great Champion of Female Suffrage
Passes Away.
Rochester, N. Y., March 13. The
long and eventful life of Susan P.
Anthony closed at 12:40 o'clock this
morning. The end came peacefully.
Miss Anthony had been ut conscious
practically for 24 hours, and her death
had been momentarily expected since
Sunday night. Ouly her wonderful
constitution kept her alive.
Dr. M. S Ricker, her attending phy
sician, said Miss Anthony died of heart
failure, induced by double pneumonia.
She had had serious valvular trouble
for the last six or seven y ars. Her
luiiis were practically closed, and the
pneumonia had yielded to treatment,
but the weakness of her heart prevented
her recovery.
Last night in a delirium, Miss An
thony spoke of the woik in Oregon,
where the battle for woman suffrage is
now being waged. Shortly atfer she
sank into a stupor.
Susan Rrownell Anthony, reformer,
was born at South Adams, Mass., Feb
ruary 15. 1820, the daughter of Daniel
and Lucy ( Keed) Anthony. Her fath
er was a cotton manufacturer, and g.ive
his chil iren a liberal education.
For more than 40 years she has been
before the country at a prominent ad
vocate of reform. Through her influ
ence wider fields of employment have
been opened to women. Up to the
time of her death she never relaxed her
efforts. She has published, in con
junction with EIizalth Cady Stanton
and Matilda Joelyn Gage, "The 1 1 "sto
ry of Woman Suffrage.'" She has also
contributed to leading magazines and
lecturtd in England.
SCREWS ON IN KANSAS.
Interstate Commission Turns Light on
Standard Oil.
Kansas City, March 1.1. Acting up
on resolutions passed by both houses of
congress, three members of the Inter
state Commerce commiesion today be
gan an investigatoin of the charges
made by independent oil producers of
Kansas that the railroads of Kansas dis
criminate in favor of the Standard Oil
company in the matter tf rates outside
(hat state.
The members of the Interstate Com
merce commission who will make the
investigation are: Francis M. Cock
rell, Judson C. Clements and Charles
A. Pronty.
John T. March, who has been in the
Southwest for the pats two weehs mak
ing a preliminary investigation of the
producers' charges, was present today
as the attorney for the commission
Frank S. Monnett, ex attorney general
of Okio, and Clifford Thorn, of Wash
itigton, la , were present as attorneys
for the independent producers. The
railways also had attorneys at the in
vestigation. The agitation for the investigation
begun todav was started some time ago
when Clifford Thorn, acting on behalf
of the Kansas Oil Producers' associa
tion, filed with James B. Garfield, com
missioner of corporations at Washing
ton, a statement in which instances of
alleged discrimination against the inde
pendents in the matter of rates war
made.
WOMEN AS SHIELDS.
Cause of Slaughter of Whole Moro
Families by Troops,
Manila, March 13. Major Genera
Wood, who has arrived here, has an
nounced tLat he assamei full responsi
bility for the fight against the Moros at
Dajo hill, near Jolo. He said that
there was no wanton destruction of wo
men and children in the fight, though
many of them were killed by force of
necessity, because the MoroH used them
aa shields, in the hand to-hand fighting.
Major General Wood declared that
many of the women wore male attire
and their sex could not be distinguish
ed. Another confuting cause was the
desperation with which the women
fought, the priests having worked all of
the Moroa to a religious frenry. Many
of the Moros feigned death and butch
ered the American hospital men who
were relieving the wounded.
Many Soldiers Deserted in Battle.
St. Petersburg, March 13. The In
valid, organ of the military, is still
printing daily lists of the losses sus
tained during the war, which, without
including Port Arthur, now total 151,
000 killed, wounded and disappeared.
The lists covering the fighting at Muk
den are just beginning to appear. A
remarkaMe feature is the percentage of
men whose fate is unknown, having
been abandoned on the field of batt'e
The Btaff is receiv'rg thousands of in
quiries from relatives regarding the fate
' soldiers, which it is unable to answer.
Preparing for Big Potlatch.
Vancouver, 15. C, March 13. Right
hundred Indians from various points
along the northern coast between Fort
Rupert and Kingcome inlet, are at
Alert bay, holding the greatest potlatch
known on this coast for a number of
years. The Indians propose to con
tinue the potlatch until Jane.
, OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST I
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VOTERS CANNOT CHaNGE.
Attorney General Sayt Original Regis
tration Mutt Stand.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
is of the opinion that there it noauthr
rity for the changing of a votei't regis
tration after it has once Ix-en made.
He hat tut rendered a written opinion
upon the tutjet, but after hearing the
report that changes have !vn permit
ted in Linn county, he examined tho
statutes governing registration and aid
that the only change provided for by
law is tha' which becomes necessary
when a voter charges his residence
from one precinct to another.
Mr. Crawford laid that if a voter
registers as a Socialist and then change
his registration so that it shows him to
be a Democrat, this would be in flnt
a ttc Hid registration, and niro than
one' registration it expressly forbidden
If the clerk should make a mistake and
write the word "S nialiit" after a
mau'a name, when the voter had an
nounced hitnelf as a Democa'e, Mr.
Crawford thinks it would be permisaa
ble for the clerk to correct the error,
but where the party affiliation lias (Hen
recorded as given by the voter, there is
no authority for a subsequent rhangn
It has been many times asserted that
in Marion county many Democrats are
registering as Republicans in irder to
take part in the contest for the Repub
lican primary nomination. Inspection
of the registration Isioks shows that
this is not true, and that if anv persons
are registering improperly the instances
are so few arid so unimportant a to es
cape notice. The dispoaition here is
for e: ch to register hi party allidations
honestly ami fairly, if given at all.
Farmers Tired of Waiting.
Ontario The farmers of Dead Ox
Flat, tired of waiting for water from
the various projects contemplated, have
taken steps to organize an irrigation
district under what it known as the
Wright law. A petition to the County
court will be considered at a special
session April Hi. The proposed district
includes about 10,001) arret of the best
land on Dead Ox Flat, in Malheur
conntv, just across the Snake river
from Weiser, Idaho. When this district
is organized and th means of watering
it have been installed, there will have
been added to Malheur county many
thousands i dollars of taxable proper
ty. The success of the enterprise
moans much for the county.
Wallowa Bridge by July I.
Wallowa When th (). R. A N. Co.
started to secure right f.f way in this
county for an extension of their line it
was not definitely known how soon the
road was to he in operation. In a re
cent conversation with a veutlernan
who is in a position to know the activ
ity of aD projected railroads, it was
learned that the extension to the (). R.
A N. was expected to reach the Wal
lowa bridge by July next. With rail
road accommodations so early, much of
the crop raised In Wallowa county, as
well as the surplns stock, will be
shipped from that pom'..
Change Wool Sale Dates.
Pendleton Owing to dissatisfaction
with the schedule of wool sale dates re
cently announced for Kastern Oregon,
the executive committee of the State
Woolgrowers' association has made out
a new one, as follows: Pendltton, May
22-23, May 2!) 30; Heppner, May 24
25, June 7-8, June 21-22; Condon,
May 31, June 1, Juno 27-28; Shaniko.
June 5-6, June 19 20 Jnly 10 11;
Raker City, Jnn 25-20. Julv 12 13;
Klgin, Jnly 13. The sale for the Wal
lowa countv wool has' been set for Klgin
instead of the town of Wallowa as pre
viously arranged.
Closed Season To Be Enforced.
Oregon City "A strictly closed sea
nn will be maintained on th Colum
bia river this year " says Deputy Fish
Warden II. A. Webter, who has gone
to the Lower Columbia. The closed
season began on the 15'h inst. and con
tinues for a month, and in order that
all illegal fishing may be prevented the
authorities of Oregon and Washington
will co-operate and maintain a thor
ough patrol of the river. Oregon this
year has two patrol boats and Wash
ington has one, and all three will do
service onthe Columbia.
Prospects Good in Sumpter.
Baker City Conservative mining
operators are of the opinion that dur
ing the coming summer greater results
will be obtained from the mines of the
Sumpter district than ever before. In
an interview on this qnestion I. R.
Bellman, a well known operator and
manager of the Crack Oregon, -jft
Bourne, stated that this is assured by
the fsct, that so mny properties have
been fully developed and are now on
tbe verge of being placed among the
regular producers.
FRUIT CANNERY FOR ALBANY.
Gardeners and Orcbardittt of Linn
County Take Stock.
Albany Active work looking to the
er.ction of cannery ard pa king plant
in APmuy hat begun by the gardener
and fruilmeu interested. The new
company will be known at the Fruit
groer' and (jardenen' Cooperative
association, and will te o tied by the
men who tell their prmltii'ta to the com
pany or by r it itens of Albany. Stoct
in tbe new company is tilling under a
restriction that no one man c mid se
cure more than 25 per cent of tbe
sto k
besides parking, preserving and can
ning fruit and vegetables, the new con
cern w II handle all kinds id produce,
acting as a kind of distributing point
where all produce for the local tradi
can l secured at a uniform price. In
Ihil way all stores will be able to keep
up with the market, and the farmers
will have no trouble in disposing of
their product.
The plan is to start with a cannery,
prune packery and cider and vinegar
works. Alt of these indus'ries have
been needed very much in Linn county,
Itecansei of the immense amount of
mall fnuts and garden product grown
here, and Iwcuute the county had no
such enterprise the development of
the fruit and gardening Industry hat
been much retarded.
Wool Sales at Condon.
Condon An ffort it being made bv
the Condon Commercial club to eitab-
1:1. .it. i i t Mil
nan i ins pice wool sales nays 1 he
secretary of the Hub is in coin i ti u i i a
tion wi h the S'ate and National Wool
gMwera' associations, and with the aid
id the local w 'olgrowers' association,
whicti it iaexpictod will be organized
it i thought dales may be secured.
Fndeavor are also being made to te
cure a reduction in freight rates on
wool from Condon to Boston, and
also on local shipments of augar, salt
etc.
Beet Acreage Largely Increased.
La Orande Manager F. S. Brain
well, of the sugar f ictory, has been in
Cove, making contracts for tho growing
of sugar hes-d for this sea-on'i run. ami
reports having contracted for at out I ,
000 acres ol Iveeti In that h-cality. The
sugar company expects to have a larger
acreage this year than ever before
Heretofore the factory has never hail
more than 2,800, aires but this season
is counting upon at least 4,000 acres.
Big Yield in Gilliam.
Condon Cr p prospect for a large
yield are said to be better than ever lie-
lore in lulliatii county. lhcrela
greater acreiige of wheat than ever
seeded in this cot nty before and con
ditiona ae uiiiihually favorah'e at lb s
time Th i ground is wt t to a depth
of more than two feet. Range is wn
proving rapidiy, owing to the spier did
growing weather of the past two weeks.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 17c ; bluestem, 07jJ
8c; red, f(5c; valley, 70c
Oats No 1 white fee I, $27 50; gray,
$27 per ton.
Barley Feed, $23(324 per ton;
brewing, $24 924 50; rolled, $24.50(8
25.50.
Buckwheat $2.25 per cental.
Hay Kasteru Oregon timothy. $13
14 per ton; valley timothy $809 clo
ver. $7.50(48; cheat, $o(37; grain hay,
$7t8.
Fruits Apples. $1(52.50 per t-x;
cranberries, $12 50(7 14 50 per barrel.
Vegetable" .Asparagus, lOfiJIIc por
pound; beans. 2c: cabbage, 1 c per
pound; cauliflower, $2(32 25 per crate:
celery, $4 50ftf5; sprouts, (rf7c per
pound rbuharh, $2 25 per box; par
sley 25c; turnips, 10 (d per ea. k
carrots, fi')f'i7r)c per sink; beets, 85o
$1 per sack
Onions No. 1, 70(?80 per sack;
No. 2, nominal
Potatoes Fancy graded BurbunWa,
55r$ti()c per hundred ; ordinary, nom
inal; sweet potatoes, 2fc(2R per
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 2$fa30c
per pound.
Fggs Oregon ranch, 1 5 JJ for) 1 (c per
dozen.
Poultry Average old hens 13f'$14c
per pound; mixed chickens, 12Vl.3c;
broilers, 2022i:; yonng roosters, 12i
2c, old roosters, l(K10c; At Hed
chickens. 14f15o; turkeys, live, Hi
17c; turkeys, dressed, 18(3 20c; geese,
live, 8(at)o: geeBe, dressed, 10(al2c;
ducks, loa)18(i.
Veal Dressed, 3J(g7Jc per pound.
Reef Dressed bulls. 2J493 P"
pound; cows, 2 4c; country
steers, 45c.
Mutton Dressed, fancy, 89(i per
pound, ordinary, 4 5c; lambs, 8a
9c.
Pork Dressed, 68c per pound.
Hops Oregon, 1005, choice, 10(3
10c; prime, 89n; medium, 78t!!
olds, 5(37c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average bet,
lfi21c per pound; valley, 2420c;
mohair, choice, 2530c.
LEASING GRAZING LAND.
Rundcr's Hat Bill to Carry Out Land.
Commission's Policy.
Washington, March 13. The time
it not yet ripe for the passage of a bill
authorizing the letting of vacant pub
lie grazing lauds, nut sentiment in
favor of Federal control and regulation
of the public range It growing steadily,
and eventually such ft tyitrm will be
inaugurated. Representative Reeder,
of Kansas, hat advanced Ideas on (hit
subject, ami believs that the best way
lovzpand sentiment In favor of the
leasing tystem It to keep the topic he
lore the public. With that end in view
be has drawn and Introduced a general
lessing bill which reads as follows:
"That the president It hereby au
thorized to set aside by proclamation
such portions i f tbe public lands at in
hit opinion thoiild be created Into graz
ing districts. The control and custoty
of the lanilt thus w ilhdrawn shall be
pl.ueil 'i the bands of the secretary of
Agriculture, w ho is hereby authorized
to clnt-ify and appraise the glazing
value of such lauds ami to appoint su h
ollirers as the care of each grazing dis
trict may require.
"The secretary of Agriculture it ft'to
aiMlmrizeil to charge and collet I a rea
sonable fee for grazing criuiit and to
make and enforce tuch regulations at
may be appropriate to the comlitiont of
e h ganrzing district These regula
tion! shall be flamed and applied with
special reference to bringing about the
largest permanent occupation id the
country by actual tettlert and home
makers.
"Ml public lanilt thus withdrawn
and controlled shall at all timet bo
continue to subject to entry and let (le
nient under suitable r. gulatioiis."
STIR UP RADICALS.
Russian Reactionaries art Inciting to
Open Outbreak.
St. Petersburg, Manh 13. Home of
the reactionary orgauiz itions are push
ing the agitation aguinit the radical
elements to a dangerous point. Today
a "league of the Russian l'eopl" held
a service In the Alexanderevsky mon
astery, to celebrate the manifesto on
March H at a victory fortheold regime,
l ater, at the llor ittianl menage, the
fighting society of tbe same organiza
tion held a public meeting and listennl
'o Inflammatory spcechr-i by Dr. Iou
brovin and Prof.-ssor Nikoliky, two ex
tremist leaders, at which the orators
openly summoned their followers, Urn
Black Hundred, to kill the Jewt and
hang Count Witte.
Prince Mestchersky, editor of the
(irxziianiu. who snpHrted the Witte
ccti.ni, charges the bureaucracy with
having sympathy with the court cliiie,
loch is opposing the hands of the
cabinet, and with inciting class hatred
and strikes, with the purpose of mak
ing the national a-s uildv a fa'lure.
ilenuotes Professor Nicolsky as de
claring that friends of the autocracy
should see that a number of revolu
tionaries are elei ted, in order to fur
nish an excuse for dispersing the na
tional assembly with bayonets.
CHANGES IN CABINET.
Bonaparte May Succeed Moody aa
Attorney General.
Washington. March 13 It is under
stood there are many cabinet changes
in contemplation. Attorney (ieneral
MomIv mar retire earlv In the summer.
Secretary Bonaparte, of the Navy de
partment, may have the place if ho
w ithes It. In that event (i. L. von
Meyer, now ambassador to Russia, will
likely take tbe Navy portfolio.
Postmaster (ieneral Cortelvou will
succeed the secretary of tho Treasury
when that official retires in the fall,
nnless present plans change.
One great problem in tendering the
Supreme court vacancy to Secretary of
War Taft is who to gel w ho can taka
the great problem of the 1 Isthmian
canal and the Philippines? While
Secretary Taft, although desiring ulti
mately to have a position on the Su
preme court bench, does not feel like
leaving the cabinet at this time. Wash-
irigtori believes he will be the successor
of Justice Brown.
Women Give Their Jowels.
Budapest. March 13 Tim Oonntesn
Desessy and other titled women have)
started a movement to raise a luud for
the benefit of officials w ho resigned or
were dismissed as a result of the politi
cal crisis in Hungary. They have held
meetings at which they have denuded
themselves of valuable jewelry, which
will be sold for the benefit of tho offi-
cers who were left in the lurch through
Hie nonpayment of large sums prorr.ised
them by rich magnates as Indemnity
for the Iohb of their salaries and of no-
siMons.
Famine Imperils In Morocco.
London, March J 3. The Daily
Mail's correspond nt at Tangier says
that the faiio'e of the wheat and rw
lev harvest is threatened throughout
Morocco. With no reserve from last
year, he adds, a terrible famine seems
to be impending.
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