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Newspaper
Madras Pioneer
Location
Madras, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1907
Page
2
Four Chinese, three in disguise with Japanese passports and two shotguns, were captured near Custer after crossing the boundary into the United States. They were taken to Seattle for detention as investigators plan cross questions to uncover a planned plot.
Howard Elliott president of the Northern Pacific Railway testified at a Pacific Northwest Lumber companies hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission. He supported higher lumber rates as necessary to compensate railroads for rising costs and traffic growth, noting weather and wage increases have slowed handling, while asserting current tariffs are fair for shippers.
Colonel J W Danran chief of staff has been gathering maps of California regions suitable for winter maneuvers next year. American Lake Washington is ruled out as only the Department of the Columbia troops may use it. Heney Ranch At Cascade and Baron von Schroder properties Santa Marguerita are listed as available for a southern rendezvous if selected.
Omaha December report says H Harriman plans to spend over 1 million dollars to outfit Union Pacific with 1000 new lumber cars built by Pittsburg Pressed Steel Car Company at 1000 dollars each. The cars will carry 50 000 feet of lumber, more than double current capacity, to lower lumber rates and compel J J Hill to upgrade as well.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner Franklin K. Lane in San Francisco has dispatched a special examiner to St. Paul to hear testimony in complaints against the Pullman Car Company. The probes challenge charges service and discrimination and mark the first regulatory move by the commission against Pullman.
The San Francisco Clearing House association adopted a resolution sent to Governor Gillett stating that holidays have served their purpose and are no longer needed by the financial situation, with a copy to be telegraphed to the governor.
Attorney General Young urged federal law changes to strip inferior federal courts of power to enjoin state officials enforcing state laws. He proposed confining jurisdiction to the United States Supreme Court.
Justice Gould ordered Treasury Secretary Cortelyou to show cause January 3 why he should not be enjoined from delivering the Panama canal bonds. The action springs from George W. Austin of New York claiming he offered to purchase bonds, alleges the allotment favored banks over individual bidders, and seeks to halt further distribution of the remaining 24 million dollars in bonds.
Manila report says the assembly supports a resolution asking Congress to grant the insular government power to sign commercial treaties if tariff reform fails. Filipino politicians and press now favor ending the Dingley rates, with all factions uniting for free trade or at least a commercial treaty as a fallback.
Reported from Nogales Arizona on December 20 details a massacre by a band of about 100 Yaqui Indians that killed 12 men near Magdalena in the state of Sonora Mexico. FP J McIntyre and local mining men traveled to the scene to view the victims among them Jose Hernandez son of Cuecarpe town president and mescal plantation owner.
A Vladivostok dispatch says Jews must leave within four days while property owners have eight days to liquidate. No other details are confirmed beyond martial law powers of the Vladivostok commandant and skepticism about the report.
San Francisco December 20 ex supervisor James L Gallagher returns from the East to be principal witness for the prosecution in the Patrick Calhoun bribery trial.
The University of Oregon plans a loan fund of at least 5000 to aid high school graduates lacking funds for college. Prominent state figures back guarantees up to 500 each, aiming to raise about 6000 this year. The fund offers low interest loans repayable after graduation, with small life insurance costs, while ten guarantors back the pool. Oregon Agricultural College also announces winter short courses in general agriculture dairying horticulture mechanic arts and household science beginning January 7 1908 to expand practical knowledge for farmers and homemakers.
Oregon Woolgrowers' association meets and calls for a federal act to require branding of manufactured wool goods to curb shoddy and cotton counterfeits. A parallel resolution urges keeping the import duty on wool and woolen fabrics to sustain the wool and livestock industry.
Government under local forestry supervision extends a Rogue River road into Curry County opening vast pine country and mineral potential. Ten percent of proceeds will fund school lands to bolster permanent school funding. About 5000 dollars allocated to highway development with another 5000 dollars expected from Congress for the project.
E A Johnson, newly joining with P B Marshall, plan a 60 barrel daily flourmill near Albany. They have acquired the Albany Farmers' company three warehouses at Albany Tallman and Tangent and will run a warehouse business alongside operating a flour mill in a former company building.
Pendleton Supervising Engineer Pringle of the Indian department will recommend a one story brick structure 40 by 70 feet at the Umatilla agency to house a complete electric lighting and heating plant. The building is to be ready for the opening of school next year.
Eugene hosts the Lane County Horticultural Society meeting with State Horticultural officers and state board members in attendance. President W. K. Newel and Secretary H. M. Williamson will address the gathering in the first week of January, with Agricultural College faculty members attending.
Pendleton residents await the Grand district land fraud trials with about 200 entrymen named as involved participants. Great uneasiness surrounds the anticipated proceedings and possible outcomes.
Governor Chamberlain designates notaries public including Thomas Coates of Tillamook J J Campbell of Glendale Virgil H Massey of Salem and R F D No 8 Salem.
John Day C J Bingham named acting forest supervisor with HQ in John Day. Boundaries run along the John Day river north, east withdrawal, south lines, and irregular western reaches near township centers. Heppner forest extends to the river with HQ moved to Monument. western division renamed Deachutes with HQ at Prineville, stockmen celebrate the change.
Over the last two weeks heavy rains have saturated the region improving field conditions. Farmers report good ground, extensive winter grain work, and many hopgrowers seeding large acreages of small grain as a hedge against hops earnings.
The Astoria Oleon Mahoney Lumber Company of San Francisco has a contract for six million feet of lumber with the Isthmian Canal Commission. It is closely linked with the Clateop Mil Company and the Astoria Box Company, both of Astoria, and much of the order is expected to be milled locally.
The Alumni Association presented the University of Oregon with a painting of President Johnson, the first university president. Created in Eugene by K Learre Goodwin of New York, the work cost $500.
The Portland market listing shows prices for wheat, barley, corn, hay, butter, veal, pork, poultry, eggs, fruit, vegetables, and hops. Entries include specific grades and ranges such as Wheat bluestem and Osten-No. 1 white, Barley feed at 27.60, corn whole at 22, hay varieties from 15 to 20, Butter fancy creamery at 35 to 37 cents, Poultry averages, Eggs fresh ranch at 36 to 74 cents, Apples peaches pears cranberries and vegetables with multiple per unit figures, Hops 1907 at 5 to 7 cents per pound, and eastern Oregon averages noted.
Francis J. Heney plans to prosecute John H. Mall and Hinger Hermann in Portland starting January 18 with a broader Oregon case to follow. He will move back to San Francisco in February to resume Calhoun’s trial and then head to Washington and Tucson for other civil and graft prosecutions. The Washington Hermann case previously acquitted is tied to the same Blue Mountain evidence, and Heney argues Portland will mirror that outcome not occur.
Alte Ruef appeared before Judge Dunne and entered a not guilty plea to a conspiracy indictment with Jerry Dinan ex police chief. Dinan also pleaded not guilty to perjury. Both cases were postponed to next Monday for trial readiness.
St Paul Minn Dec 18 260 commercial clubs industrial bureaus merchants leagues and boards of trade of Minnesota plan a January 16 convention in St Paul to discuss a united campaign for Northwestern interests and river improvement. Delegates will coordinate action to deepen the Upper Mississippi River from St Paul to St Louis.
The National Cooperative congress, formed about a year ago at Topeka, continues today in Des Moines. It comprises farmers organizations and other cooperatives. Reports show the cooperative movement making great headway, especially in southern states.
The first consignment of 40 strikebreakers arrived in Goldfield on December 18 and were sent to various mines without demonstrations. Fifty more strikebreakers are expected tomorrow to take positions.
A massive blast at the Darr mine near the Youghiogheny river in Westmoreland County Pennsylvania entombed hundreds of miners. Reports say 13 bodies have been recovered with others severely mutilated amid ongoing rescue efforts.
Immense Business New York reports the Tolaccoo firm affiliates with the Metropolitan Tobacco Company claim they handle about 13 million dollars in annual business in New York and Yonkers. Commissioner Fieldd B Bendheim president emphasizes the company’s influence in the city’s jobbing market.
San Francisco December 21 grand jury met to examine witnesses on the minting charge and the California Late Popont 4 company link to a disappearance. The session, focused on organization and testimony, adjourned after brief proceedings with several witnesses questioned.
San Francisco expects a new floating drydock within months to handle vessels at the port possibly including Pacific Mail liners Manchuria. The plan aims to expand docking capacity for cargo and passenger ships.
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