Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-10-09
WORLDS MEMS.
FROM FAR AND NEAR,
Clipped and Copied From
Our Exchanges.

Labor bodies o. Montana will ad-
dress mammoth petition to Presi-
dent Roosevelt asking him to inter
ceIe in the great industrial struggle
between the Pennsylvania magnates
and their employees.
a Lew smelter company has just
been organized in Denver with cap
ital stock OF S2O,0O0,O0O.
English authorities in London took
General Corbin and John w. Gates
to tasl; Yesterday for running an auto
mobile tester than the speed required
by law.
E. F. Clark, the Port Gamble man
who lost Ga twenty-dollar gold pieces
on ranch near Machias lrst week,
thinks that his trick dog. which was
with him at the time the money dis
appeared, carried away and buried the
suck OF gold pieces, which weighed
four pounds.
The annual migration Of Chinese
to their native tand has begun. The
Empress OF India, which sailed from
Vancouver Monday, carried $50
Chinese and refused the applications
of 15O Others who desired to 60.
Word has reached Vancouver that
the cable steamship Colonia buoyed
the Pacific cable one mile of Tanning
Island Monday morning, having laid
3445 nautical miles between Van
couver and that point since Septem-
Der Is.
W. R. Hearstf in accepting the
Democratic no,nination for Congress
. from the 1lth district, yesterday, said
that he was in favor OF Government
ownership of certain things, such aa
railroads and telegraph.
In a speech from balcony of his
hotel, at Brussels, yesterday, General
Dewe, reiterated that they had not
come to Europe to seek vain succol
to regain their independence, but to
obtain help in repairing the ravages
OF the war.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, yesterday
four OF the most prominent official.
and citizens OF Lake County and d
H. Miller, Of Chicago, were arraigneJ
on charge Of running lottery anC
promoting it through the fraudulent
use Of the mails.
A dispatch from Manila yesterda!
states that GeperaI Summer'in com
n,and OF the American forces on Min
danao Island, has sent an ultimatun
to the Sultan Of Bacolod, promising
him the same treatment received b,
the Moros il he did not give in al
once.
A decision reddered by Judge Tule
Yesterday in Chicago, in suit insti
tuted bY the Illinois Manufacturer,
Association, may, it is estimated, cos
the Chicago Telephone Compan
more than II 100000, unless the Su
preme Court reyerses the judgment {
Judge Tulty.
The demand for eggs is so great i
Baker City that several carloads {
Eastern eggs have TO be shipped int
that city every year.
The apple crop Of Oregon last SCI
son was $4,000 boxes of fresh an
10000 pounds OF dried iruit. TIN
crop this year viii be considerabl
larger, though the price realized wi
be less.
Collections of the 1871 tax Of Clack
amus County were completed Monda!
and the books closed AS required u
law. Out OF total tax OF $l69, 1892
there has been bollected Sl62,00'
leaving abcnt 5000 delinquent.
Gideon Steiner, well-known fl
. dealer OF Salem, wants the next Legi
lature to repeal the law, which Great
a close season for catching black ba'
He says the fish are plentiful enoul
now. so that they will not be cxJC
minated even ii the people are pc
mitted to take th3:n at al seasons
=. the year.