Wallowa chieftain. [volume] (Joseph, Union County, Or.) 1884-1909, 1902-03-06
THE HEW0RLD'SNEWS
FROM FAR s NEAR.
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Hops are being contracted for in
ne Willamette valley at "A cents per
oound.
An excelsior factory is to be started
It Harrisburg, Linn county, on a
,onus of $4O0.
The House committee in Congress
mas unanimously voted to report bills
tor the admission OF Arizona, New
Iexico and Oklahoma to statehood.
The royal yacht is now afoat;
1t dances in tie bay,
Where all the world this sign may
note:
'Made in the [. S. Ak.
Botn branches OF the New York leg
islature have passed the anti pigeon
shooting bill by large majorities.
Trap shooters will have to be content
with clay targets hereafter in that
state.
TeXls will produce the Alamo as it
existed in 1886 for her state building
at the st. Louis Exposition. The
story OF that magnificent last stand
will ever be on the front page of Amer
lean history.
The army headquarters OF the De
partment of the Columbia will stay at
Vancouver. Authentic information
to this effect was read at meeting of
the trustees of the chamber of COM
merce in Portland Tuesday.
Very little is known in this country
OF Canada, our big noighbor on the
north. Canada is so big that there
are yet eighteen unexplored areas in
it each ranging from the size of Ire
land to ope-half the size of all Europe.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone says the bri-
gands swore both herself and Madam
isilka to absolute secrecy regarding
any information calculated to estab-
lish the IDENTITY Of the brigands, the
location OF the places where they were
concealed, or other facts likely to com
promise their captors.
The room in which Prince Henry
If Prussia slept at the Auditorium
Hotel, in Chicago, was entirely re.
furnished for the occasion, from car
pet to curtains The wall paper was
even new and made for the purpose,
containing design of the German
eagle, likewise the table linen.
A very interesting report has just
been issued from the Census Bureau
at Washington, which shows that
the value Of the live stock in the
United States, June /, 1900, exceeded
$1,000, 100000 being an Increase of
nearly 1000 million dollars in the
value of such stock during the past
ten years.
The Cole excise tax bill passed tie
lower house of the Ohio legislature
and favorable action is expected in
5he senate. The bill provides for the
levying OF tax of per cent upon the
gross annual receipts OF electric light,
gas, natural gas, pipe line, water works,
street railway, messenger, signal, tele-
graph, telephone, express or union de-
pot companies doing business in Ohio.
A merchant who had store in
zach of two small neighboring towns
recently tried an experiment.. He
put bargain counter in sach store,
containing the same prices. In the
newspaper OF one village he advertised
his special counter, In the paper of
the other he did not advertise, and
sold goods amounting to 1884. In
The store the same month where be
dill advertise, he sold goods amount
ing TO Si,723. In commenting on
the result Of his experiment that mer-
chant says THE people who got the
advertisement pass by one OF my
stores and drive miles to the other for
what they could have gotten at the
same price 81 my store at their door