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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-02
LADIES' SUITS,
MISSES SUITS.

All carefully selected and comprising the latest styles in the
Elton and Blouse effects No alike f do ask
you to buy We carry suit at $780, but always advise
friends buy something BETTER and have them SOOO $780,
$780, $780, $2O0O and up to $4,000
Having expert dreamake department who hrOughy
understands the business take special and have hea
fancy in guaranteeing perfect ft'
It is pleasure to show our Suits.
Visit this up-tO-date Department.
New Walking Skirts and Suits,
New Lawn and Cotton Waists,
New AIbatross Waists,
New Silk Waists,
New Underskrts,
New Jackets,
New Capes,
New Easter Hats.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-02
Cake

During the evening fortune tree will
be an attractive feature.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
BIG PACKING TRUST
lF THE GOVERNMENT WIN ITS
CASE IN COURT.
Packers viii Be Compelled to Organize an
Association Along the Lines Of the United
States Steel Cooperation Will
Amount to Billion Doiiars-Many A.
tempts Made to Effect Such Combine.

Chicago, May IA $1,000, 900, 900
packing trust is among the possibilities
if the United States government should
succeed in maintaining its eontem-
plated injunction proceedings, says the
Tribune. The prediction is made in
La Sale street financial circles that
large packers who may be made defend
ants in the Federal court will be forced
formally to combine if the prosecution
against them under the Sherman anti
trust law is successful. The combina-
tion would be along the lines followed
by the United States Steel Corporation,
and would be made to comprise prsc-
ticaHy all the beef packing companies
in the county.
In the formation of such combina-
tion all the powers now denied the
packers, with one exception, could be
legally consolidated. The single ex-
ception, in the opinion of corporation
lawyers, would be the adoption of an
arbitrary and unreasonable schedule of
prices Many attempts have been
made to form such corporation, but
all have been unsuccessful. During
the life of P. D. Armour the question of
the promotion of a huge packing COM
pany, to include all the Chicago firms,
was discussed, but Mr.. Armour stood
firm against all such proposals. 1t is
estimated that at one time the project
went so far as to be considered by the
heads of all the large Chicago firms,
but the question of the allotment of
capital stock is understood to have been
the rock on which the plan went to
pieces.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
Protest Against Discrimination.

Chicago, May 1.-Merchants and
manufacturers of Chicago have united
in a strong protest to the interstate
commerce commission against alleged
discrimination in the transcontinental
rates. 1t is charged that by the rates
made Chicago manufacturers are placed
in competition with New York for Pa
citic coast trade, and for trade west of
the Rockies. Attention is called to the
fact that equal rates from New York
and Chicago to Pacific Coast points
practically eliminate the advantage
which should be Chicago's owing to her
situation territorially. To this charge
the answer of the railroad manage
ments has always been that water COM
petition by the way of the Gulf made it
imperative that the same rates be made
from New York to the Pacific as from
Chicago, st. Louis and other Missis-
sippi River valley points.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
OREGON BUILDINGS.
More Money win Be Asked for Public I'm.
provemsntss

Washington, May lit is expected
that the omnibus public bui ding bill,
which passed the house today, will be
quite generally amended in the senate,
as many bills for buildings have passed
the senate which were not incorporated
in the house bill. At the same time.
the unanimity with which the house
bill was passed will encourage that
body to stand firmly for its bill in con-
ference. 1t is understood. however,
that the committee expects to yield to
the senate. in some increases which
will be made.
Senator Mitchell announces his in
tention of fighting for an increased ap-
preparation for enlarging the Portland
postof6ce. He says the bill heretofore
passed by the senate committee appro-
pirates $3.50, 900 for this purpose, while
the omnibus bill carries 500, 900 less.
He maintains that such an extension
as is needed cannot be built fof the
amount provided in the general bill.
1t is probable Senator Simon, men,
ber of the committee, will also attempt
to have his bills appropriating 800, 900
each for buildings at Oregon City and
Albany incorporated in the general bill.
Senator Foster Eintends to offer an
amendment increasing the appropria-
tion for purchasing "a site at Tacoma
from $50, 900 to 500, 900, as he says a
suitable site, consisting of an entire
block, cannot be had in desirable To-
eality in Tacoma for the amount now
provided. It is hardly possible that
the appropriations for Seattle and Spo-
kane can he increased.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
PORTLAND MARKETS.

Wheat - WaIla Walla, 65@65Hc;
bluestem, 66@664c; valley, Csc.
Barley - Feed, s20@21; brewing,
s21@21.50 per ton.
Oats - No. 1 white, sl.2O; gray,
$1.10@1.15.
Flour-Best grades, $2.s5@3.40 per
barrel; graham, $2.50@2.sO.
middlings, $19; shorts, $17.50@1s.50;
chop, $16.
Hay - Timothy, $12@15; clover,
$7.50@1O; Oregon wild hay, s5@6 per
ton.
Potatoes-Best Burbanks, 1.25@1.60
per Genital; ordinary, s1.20@1.25 per
GENITAL; Early Rose,, $1.50@2.O0 per
Genital; growers prices; sweets. $2.25@
$50 per GENITAL.
Butter-Creamery, 17R@20c; dairy,
15@16c; store, 13@ 15c.
Eggs-15@16c for Oregon.
Cheese - Full cream, twins, 13@
13Rc; Young America, 14@15c; fac
tory prices, ,1@ 11so less.
Poultry-Chickens, mixed, $4.50@
$50; hens, $5.00@6.0O per dozen,
11@11kc per pond; springs, 11@
111ac per pound, $4.o0@5.50 per doz-
en-; ducks, $1,000. 90 per dozen; tur-
keys, live, 12@13c, dressed, 14@16c per
pound; geese, $6.50@7.0 per dozen.
Mutton-Gross, 41sc per pound /;
dressed, TIC per pound.
Hogs-Gross, 614c; dressed, 7H@se
per pound.
Veal-6@71ac for small; 6k@7c for
large.
Beef-Gross, COWS, 4@41ac; steers.
SC; dressed, s@s4c per pound.
Hops-12&@14 cents per pound.
Wool-Valley, 1904; Eastern Ore
gon, 9@11c; mohair, 2S1sc per pound.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
TO THE PRESIDENT
CHINESE EXCLUSION BILL HAS
PASSED BOTH HOUSES.
Il Is the Geary Law Re-enacted with Slight
Modifications-The Operation Of the Law
In the Philippines. including Registration
Of Chinese Now There, Is Placed in the
Hands OF The Philippine Commission.

Washington, April 30.-The con-
ferees on the Chinese exclusion bill
have reached complete agreement on
the bill. Their report was submitted
to the senate and house in the after
noon, and in each instance adopted
without debate. The bill now goes to
the president for his approval, which
is assured by the firm stand he has
taken for the measure.
The bill strikes out that portion of
the senate bill limiting the extension
of all existing laws to the life of the
present treaty, and re-enacts them SO far
as is not inconsistent with the treaty
obligations until otherwise provided by
law, and extends the laws to our island
territory so far as applicable. 1t al
lows Chinese to enter for exposition
purposes and retains the provision re-
garding certifcation in the Philippines.
Senator Platt, of Connecticut, a
member of the conference committee,
by way of explanation in the senate
stated that no definite limitation should
be placed upon the operation of the
Geary law, as re-enacted. but that it
should remain in force until otherwise
provided by law. He explained that
the operation of the law in the Philip
pines, including registration of the
Chinese in the islands, had been placed
in the hands of the Philippine commits
sion, but the commission would: have
no authority to admit Chinese. to the
islands. -. .:'fs'
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
Spotted Fever Kills Eight.

Missoula, Mont, April 29.-The
spotted fever scourge in the Bitter Root
valley has broken out with greater vio-
lence than at any time known within
the history of the peculiar disease.
Eight persons have already died of the
strange malady within a week, and the
deaths of several more are expected.
Today number of cases were reported
to the authorities. The disease is un-
known elsewhere, and thus far has
baffled the physicians. Nearly every
victim that contracts the fever dies.
The disease commences with a fever
like typhoid, and spots begin to show
all over the body. The spots increase
in size and at death the victim is
spotted like rattlesnake.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
TRADE REvlEw.
American Goods in Crest Demand In Seuth
American Countries.

Washington, April 29.-American
coal finds steady and ever increasing
market In Brazil, but our export trade
to Brazil, it is said. will never reach
its proper development SO long as our
merchandise has to seek foreign bot
toms. It is pointed out that if q line
of modern steamers were operated be-
tween New York and Brazil, there
would be no lack of return freights in
coffee, rubber and like products.
American hardware, also, it is stated,
has earned reputation for quality and
finish which places it beyond competi-
tion.
1t is notable fact that many young
Brazilians are coming to this country to
complete their careers OF learning,
whereas, until recent years, the better
class from that country were sent to
Portugal, France or Germany to acquire
their literary, professional OF scientific
training. Now also English is being
taught in some of the higher schools of
Brazil.
In the Argentine Republic the Amer
lean goods making the greatest headway
are tools, implements, cotton goods,
shoes and specialties. A banker of Ro-
sario recently reported that for the half
year ended June 80, 1901, the increase
of transactions between his house and
the United States had been 131 per
cent, and he understood that other
banks had had similar experiences.
But whileswe are materially increasing
the aggregate of our trade with Argen-
tina, here, also, the absence of direct
steamship communication is handi-
cap.
In Chile, where numbering the
chief industry in its southern pro-
vinces, practically all of the wood is cut
by mills of American construction Ali
of the machinery used in the produc-
tion of flour also comes from the
United States.
On account of the political disturb
ances in Colombia, imports from the
United States have increased only
slightly. Tie imports from all other
have remained stationary.
United States trade with Ecuador
shows a gratifying increase, due to pur-
chases for the Guayaquil-Qui railroad,
better and quicker transportation, low
er freight rates and the coming of
American commercial travellers.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
Great interests at Stake.

Seattle, May 1.-The sale of the Eb-
ner Copper Mining properties at Ju-
neau and the building of the Valdes-
Eagle Railway will depend upon the
result of the investigations to be made
by H. H. Douglas, who has left for the
north. He represents the Land, Credit
& Mortgage Company, of London, in
which Frank NJ. Bradshaw, the Los
Angeles promoter, is interested. Cap
tain Healy also is connected with the
concern. The company is the one
which has announced its intention Of
building the Valdes-Eagle City Rail-
way, and of doing an immense amount
of development within the Copper
River and Tanana valleys. If Mr..
Douglas decides that the Elmer group
of mines is what it has been repre-
sented, or in any way comes up to the
expectations of the company which he
represents, the deal will be closed, and
the first payment of 100000 will be
made
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
SOUND AND ORIENT.
Will Be Connected Direct by Boston Com.
pany's Steamers.

Seattle, May IA special to the
Post-Intelligencer from Boston states
that Puget sound is to be connected
direct with the Philippine islands,
North China and Siberia by the steam
ers of the Boston Steamship Company.
Seattle is to be the American terminus
of the line. Five steamers will be
operated at first, three running to
Manila via Chinese and Japanese ports,
and the other two to North China and
Siberia. The line will engage ex-
clusively in freight carrying. Other
vessels will be added to the feet at the
end of the next year. The first vessel
to 60 on the route is the Shawmut,
launched in December at Sparrow
Point, Md. She had her trial trip last
week, and will leave Seattle and Ia
coma on the first voyage to the East in
July. Two of the steamers are to have
carrying capacity of 18,500 tons each.
The Boston Steamship Company is
composed of Boston capitalists prin-
cipally. The enterprise was financed
by Kidder, Peabody & Co., of Bosotn.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
NEWS OFTHES STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM ALI
PARTS OF OREGON.
Commercial and Financial Happenings Of i1a
portance-A Brief Review of the Growta
and improvements Of the Many industries
Throughout Our thriving Commonwealth
--latest Market Report.

Wheeler and Lincoln counties have
paid their 1901 state taxes in full.
Mrs. Ann Bowen, pioneer of Ore
gon, died in Baker City, aged 73 years
Cummings & Cole have sold thei1
sawmiIl at Sandy to two men of Orient
The consideration was 81, ,524.S5.
Sixty children were vaccinated al
Oswego in one day. So far only one
case of smallpox has developed there.
The board of trustees of the state re-
form school at Salem has awarded con-
tracts tor supplying that institution
with 200 cords of fir wood.
Seven feet of snow is reported in
some places ON the mountains between
Dallas and the Siletz Basin. Hundreds
of timber claimants, however, are
making their semi-annual trip.
Both sides to the strike at the woolen
mills in Oregon City continue firm.
The employees will not return to work
under the present wage scale, and the
company still refuses to make any con-
cessions. ~
. Marion county hop contracts repre-
senting 10000 pounds of the 1902 crop
were recently filed at Salem. The con-
tracing firm was Lilienthaf Bros, of
New York; Myrtle B. Cole will deliver
10000 pounds at 124 cents, and Mrs.
M. E. Arms will receive 12% cents for
5000 pounds.
The No, tn Pole mine near Baker
City is now said to be the richest mine
in Oregon. A few months ago the Eng
lish syndicate owning the mine would
have sold it for $3.50 900, which would
have been equal to the sum expended
in buying the mine and improving it..
Today the mine could not be bought for
$40, 900, 900.
The superintendent of the Golconda
mine, in the Sumpter district, reports
the cutting of three feet of ore running
over $40 to the ton. Also that he has
the same rich shoots OF ore on the 800,
400 and 500-foot levels that made the
mine famous g.. few years sgo. The
working force hss been increased by an
addition of 25 miners.
John Burke of Whatcom is under ar
rest, charged with embezzling 81, 900.
The weavers of the Oregon City mills
are on strike for an increase in wages
City Attorney Chane of Sumpter re-
signed after being reinstated by Mayor
Robbins.
A rich discovery of a copper ledge on
Snake river, near the mouth of the
is reported.
The Buzzini placer mines on Beaver
creek are attracting considerable atten-
ton. A strata of very rich gravel has
been struck.
The state supreme court has decided
that when grain stored in warehouses
is sold without authority of depositors
they may recover from the purchasers.
Messenger H. Leighton Kelly, of the
Clackamas United States fish commits
sion station, is distributing As, 600
Eastern brook trout in the streams of
Eastern Oregon.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02

Chicago, April so.-senator Kearns,
of Utah. Perry S. Heath, also of Utah,
and &c: Kerens, Of St. Louis, spent
the day in Chicago, comforting regard
ing the affairs of the Los .Angeles-Salt
Lake railway. Mr.. Kerens, in an in
terview, confirmed the recent reports
that the Goulds have become interested
with Senator Clark in this enterprise,
and that the outcome of the alliance
would be new transcontinental line.
Connections have been secured out of
Cleveland to GAINESVILLE, O., and thence
to Bellinger, W. Va, from where a
connection will be made with Newport
News or Baltimore, either by purchase
of the Western Maryland, owned by the
city of Baltimore, or by the building Of
new road.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
NEEDS OF THE NAVY.
interesting Report Of the House Naval Com.
mittee on Marships.

Washington, May 1.-The naval pro-
gram for 1908, as presented in the
naval appropriation bill and the report
filed by Chairman Foss, of the house
naval committee, is of unusual interest.
The report does not take as optimistic a
view of our naval progress as is gener-
ally held, and Mr.. Foss points out that
comparatively fen of our ships have
any real fighting value. The report
says. in part:
"While we have built and are build
ing, all told, 13e ships, yet compare
lively few of them have any real fight
ing value. Our naval prowess lies
almost entirely in our Is battleships, 8
armored cruisers and 81 protected cruis-
ers. The rest of our ships would cut
but little figure in actual war. Ships
of the battle line practically alone con-
tain the naval strength of the nation.
"Of all the countries, Germany has
been building during the past few years
faster than any OF the others. Her
ship building program started in 1898
and will be completed in 1908, possibly
in 1907, instead of 1915 as frs
planned. This programme will give
her in all, 3S battleships, IA large
cruisers, 38 smaller cruisers and 96
torpedo boats. After the completion of
this program the plan contemplates
new constructions to replace ships
which, though still serviceable, may
have reached the prescribed age limit.
"In view of the fact that there is
some public sentiment favorable to
building ships in our government navy
yards, it has been deemed advisable by
the committee to insert provision in
the appropriation bill this year, leav-
ing it to the discretion of the secretary
of the navy to build any or all ships in
government yards, but making it man.
datory On him to construct at least one
battleship or one armored cruiser in
such navy yard as he may designate, as
an experiment, and it is further pro-
vided that he shall keep an accurate
account of all expenditures for labor
and material in the inspection and con-
struction of such ships and report to
congress at each session, and on the
completion of said ship he shall make
q detailed report showing the relative
cost of one built by the government and
one built by contract. 1t is believed
by your committee that nothing short
of an experiment of this kind will show
whether private contractors have been
reasonable in their bids, and serve for
the future guidance in the construction
of our navy. An appropriation of
$175, 900 is recommended for each yard
in which ship is built"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
THE STRIKE ENDS.
San Francisco Street Car Men Have Demand.
Granted

Granted.
San Francisco, April 29.-The etrike
on the street railway system of the
United Railroads, which went into
effect week ago, il. officially declared
off. Victory rests with the employees,
who are conceded all their principal
demands. The United Railroads have
granted an advance in wages, 10 hour
day and in measure recognized the
carmen's union.
On the question of unionism the
agreement provides that the company
will maintain such regulations as will
enable full attention to all complaints
made directly by its employees; will
cause prompt investigation to be made
OF such complaints, and when it discov-
els the same to be we'll founded will
rectify any wrongs found to exist. It
will not, however, deal in matters in
volvlng the management of its own
affairs with other than its own en-
ployes or committees thereof. The
company recognizes the right of every
person to belong or to refuse to belong
to labor union, and it will discharge
no empioye because of his connection
with such a union.
The company agrees to pay fiat rate
of 25 cents an hour, or 231s cents an
hour, together with a bonus for long
service as the employe may elect. A
rate of 80 cents per hour will be paid
for overtime. All runs are to be fin
ished within IA hours from the time of
The employees are to
be allowed full liberty when off duty.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
JAILED IN ITALY.
Men from United States Cruiser Chicago Get
Heavy Sentences

Men from United States Cruiser Chicago Get
Heavy Sentences
Venice, Italy, April 30.-Ali the
members of the crew of the United
States cruiser Chicago, arrested for dis
orderly conduct here yesterday, have
been sentenced to terms of imprison-
ment, ranging from three to four
months each. Captain Robert P.
Wynne, commanding the marine guard
of the Chicago; Robert E. Ledbetter.
assistant surgeon of the Chicago; Lieu
tenant John s. Doddridge, of the Chi
cago, and a marine named Wilfred
Langley are the men sentenced.
Attheir trial in the San Marco po-
lice court, the prisoners admitted that
they were intoxicated when the disor-
ders occurred, and pleaded that they
acted in self defense when mobbed by
the crowd. The public prosecutor de-
manded sentence of seven months i'm
prisonment for Assistant Surgeon Led
better, and sentences of six months
Imprisonment for the others.
1t is understood that the prisoners
will pay the costs of the trial and COM
pensate the persons who sustained in
juries as a result of their disorderly
conduct. Two of the injured persons
claim 160 pounds each.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
Peace Prospects Improving.

London, April 29.-Cabling from Jo-
hannesburg, the correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says that General De-
larey, with his staff, arrived at Klerks-
dorp, Transvaal, yesterday. Special
dispatches received here from Pretoria
show that General Delarey had been in
consultation with his commando two
days previously, and that the other
Boer leaders are still conferring with
the burghers. From this it is inferred
that the prospects for peace are improv-
ing.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
Surrenders in Neqros,

Captain Kennon, of the Sixth in
fantry, reports from the .island of Ne
gros the surrender of the ladrone leader,
Rufo, with 15S officers and men of his
command, together with IL guns, lao
bolos, seven spears and few revoIvers
and daggers. Captain Kennon says
this surrender means the opening up of
the whole of the southern coast of the
Island of Negros. =
The cholera situation in the islands
does not show any improvement. Chol-
era cases are reported among the Amer
lean soldiers in Caraines provinces of
South Luzon and elsewhere, but so lar
few Americans-have been attacked and
the disease is confined to natives and
Cinnamon. In Manila there have been
$50 cases and AS deaths from the chol-
era, while the provinces report 1859
cases and, 1859 deaths.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-02
Large Railroad Deal.

St. Louis, April 29.-The Post Dis
patch says: 1t was stated on good au-
thority in financial circles today that
the Mercantile Trust Company has
finally closed deal by the terms OF
which it pledges itself to finance the
Tennessee Central Railroad to the
amount of $15. 100000 This is the
largest transaction of its kind that has
been made by St. Louis financial in.
stitutien.