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"OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FIJI DAY, APRIL 28, 1911. Oregon City Enterprise Publlthtd Every Friday E. E. BRODIE, Editor and Publisher. RnUred at Oregon City, OrH Post ofil c as second-clam matter. Subscription Rates: lout' principle of honor and patriotism can It be Justified! None whatever It Is all wrong. Tbe next step will be to give' bogs free passes to go and come anywhere and everywhere, whllo books and newspapers will not bo al lowed to travel at all. This Is class legislation, pure and simple, and there fore Inlmlcable to tbo Declaration of Mix Months "I frlul Subscription, Two Months .25 Oiie Year .$1-80 1 independence, and antagonistic to tho Constitution of the United States. certainly Is. Seriously, gentlemen, let It not be said of us that we enter the 20th cen tury as a people who show favors to swine, whatever the breed, hut that we love Literature better than Hops. Subscribers will Bod the date of ex piration stamped on their papers fol lowing tholr name. If laxt payment Is not credited, kindly notify us, and the matter will receive our attention. Advertising Rates on application. FOUR RAILROADS INDICTED FOR REBATING AND CONSPIRACY TEN INDICTMENTS. ! What might have proved a terrible IT'8 ONLY FIRST BLOOD. j catastrophe, and spoiled the whole The news that the government has I peaure 0f the riooster nay season. was turned Into a minor accident by won first blood In Its contention with the Southern Pacific railway In Its fight for the ownership of the many acres of lands that were given to the railway conditional, and the terms of which condition have been ignored and denied many times in the past by the company, will be good news to hundreds who have been waiting to get a piece in the game of homestead Ing If the government so puts It on the market or in the event It Is sold at the rate established of 12.23 the acre. Where the railway has been lame Is In Its effort to reap a larger sum than what Congress gave It. If the lands had been sold at the figure set it the nerve and skill of the aeronaut who came off so luckily when the gas bag to his balloon burst on Saturday. Hundreds were congratulating him on his escape, and hundreds more were congratulating themselves that they escaped being witnesses to the death of the man In the balloon. The next big day In Oregon City will be the Fourth of July and that will be celebrated at the Chautauqua grounds in Gladstone. There will be an enjoyable occasion on that day and you are extended an Invitation thus early that ?ou may plan accordingly. - '. T I REBATING CLAIflED UStt k. t 1 10 BY GRAND JURY Hi N 1 ri....i. It I t T? U II Spent . Ls the On Navy Y a' Farmer I 'win i am r. i J " , i J l I ' BROWN yj SKILL AND NERVE SAVE FROM DEATH (Continued from page 1.) would have made a large profit in the j well, friends and neighbors, did you deal. But at the figures which the t enjoy Booster Day! Glad of Jt; come company has been planning to get, ' again. " ' with the trades which they have been j ft Ma in tint nvpr nn Martnln nflMMnla ! who traded one class of land for anoth er, the company always getting the best of It, they stand to win many mil lions more than they deserve or than j came to the city to see the balloon the contract calla for. I ascension, which was a part of the Naturally the company Is deter- free exlblt nsel t0 draw a crowd. No , . ... ,...1 premonition was had of Impending mined not to yield unless absolutely JMger and yet the 8trong wlnd of forced to. And it is no wonder there j the morning made any attempted as- is a determination to fight to the bit- cent more or less dangerous. ter end rather than yield. And the ! Tne haPPy endlnK WM flatly pleas- . . , ., .... ,Ko, I ing to those having the Booster Day public expression of its belief that it program ,n charg6i M weI1 M to the will ultimately win Is simply the pav- thousands who had feared for the safe Ing of the way for winning by fair ty of the aeronaut once the accident means or fouL The spending of a few ! naa occurred, nut tne nappy enaing uoviniea Buy uinrnug ui me prugruui of the day, while the death of Wilson thousands to win will not be a drop in the bucket with such a stake in the balance. The lands In dispute are broad enough in acreage to make a kingdom in domain. The withholding of this acreage from the people who wish to settle it as homesteads in 160 acre tracts, for the saks of speculation, is a crime of no mean degree. For the government to permit this as long as it has is to confess stupidity if not a greater offenBe. To permit the com pany to further Juggle with the cards so that the company wins all the priz- c President of New York Central . Railroad. HE United Statos is building two or thrco grcnt battleships almost every year which cost, fully e)uipod, perhaps au average of nine million dollars each, and it COSTS CLOSE TO A MILLION' A YEAR TO MAN, SUITLY AND MAINTAIN EACH ONE. - WITH THE MONEY THAT ONE OF THESE FIGHTING. MACHINES COSTS WE COULD ESTABLISH AND FULLY EQUIP TWO SPLENDID EXPERIMENTAL FARMS OF SIX HUNDRED AND FORTY ACRES EACH IN EVERY STATE IN THE UNION, TO BE RUN BY THE GENERAL GOVERNMENT. The estalilishuient f smh farms by tho government would soon be follows! l.y ni hundred n ml sixty nere farms owned and run by the shite in every ennty in ur irrent agricultural states. Such farms mr e-tiiMNhed, would not only bo self sustaining, btlt.fn my ..iiii.m, WOULD SHOW A HANDSOME PROFIT. The eticel of such a system of practical education upon tho products and profiof the nation' farms' would be almost leyond comprehen sion. Every thriftless and uninformed farmer would note quickly tho difference between the result of his LOOSE METHODS and those of the experimental farm and benefit by tho comparison. Men who have no books on this important subject and who could find no time to study them if they had would learn by that most apt and thorough teacher, OBSERVATION, the value of improved methods and would adopt them. Let the government invest the PRICE OF ONE BATTLE SHIP in this important work, follow the investment up intelligently and perseverindy f'r ten yrars and. the value that will have been I HI ro v . oj would have cast a cloud over the en-j nJ,l,J to ..:,., venr's rmiw f the nation's fjinns will buv and pav for DAN R. HANNA FIGURES IN MATTER Largs Suits for Damages Threatened Law Provides for Recovery of Sum Three Times What Extorted. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 20. (Spe cial.) Tho grand Jury returned ten Indictments on 10? counts charging four railroads with rebating and claim ing that two of them are also guilty of conspiracy, today. The railroads are the Lako Shore, Pennsylvania, Nlcklo Plate and Bessemer & Ijike ErlB. Tho charge In conspiracy to violate tho ISlklns law. The penalty prescribed la a fine of not less than a $1000 nor more than J 110,000, with Imprisonment not to ex ceed two years. In addition any one offended against may bring suit for damages to three times tho money shown In rebate. It Is said that many civil suits will bo started to recover money rebated and that the total hi ill climbing and have gono over fl.CO damage that may be recovered will ! and 1.75. with somo fancy stooa Makes the moot nutrir tlOUG food and tho IIH3t dainty and delicious Absolutely Pura The only Baking Powder made from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar No fussing or fretting over the biscuit-making. Royal is the aid to many a cook's success. Royal Cool Book-800 Rtctipt$Frtt. W Namt and Aiinu. a oval BAKiNa fownra co., hiw vok. reach Into millions. Dan It. Hunua figures prominently lu the matter. Professor Kirk Is III. v SA1J3M. Or., April 25. Professor R. L. Kirk, of the Salem High school. Is seriously 111 at his home In this city with a complaint which he contrnctod while lu the Philippines during tho Spanlsh-Amerclan War, He was taken down last Friday, and his condition yesterday was not Improved. joyment of the occasion. Speaking of the accident Wilson said: "I started under unfavorable condi-1 tlnna- Vi win,! u.fta hlrturfna, an harA ' I could not manipulate the tnlloon properly. When I was about 301 feet in the air, and getting sett'ed, tre bag i ripped. I was too busy trying to get loose to realize my danger. The para chute was still attached to the balloon and the whole business was falling ; before I could cut myself loose. I i finally managed to cut loose from the bag and swung the parachute, with the purpose of steering toward the depot sheds, rather than fall on the rocks. I everv bull!il.f) ' v' l tunir i.f hr wtirhl Im1;IV. MORE SUITS FILED. try es, and the people draw all the blanks, I missed the sheds and the two high Is the sort of government that makes j Per electric wires each carrying ...... .. 15,000 volts, and landed on a passenger 1UI uiaaaiiDiatuuu auiuug cue uicwocq and a determination to change the gov ernment at every turn of the wheel. But the people are very simple if they think for a moment that the bat tle Is won. The company has only be gun to fight It Is an old trick of the courts to hand down a sound decision at the first, and secure the plaudits of the people, simply to'make it bearable when the decision that the company is waiting for is rendered later. If the people are to win in this fight there must be: vigilance to the very end of the fight. - LITERATURE AND HOGS. The rate of hauling hogs and sample hogs, from Chicago to Philadelphia is J5.60 per ton in large or small quan tities, one hog deep, and the hogs have to be fed and watered on the way, the sick ones doctored and the dead ones thrown out. The hogs are weighed in bulk. The distance is a little over 800 miles. The rate publishers pay for second class matter sample copies of news papers and serial books Is $20 per ton (average postal haul being a little over 800 miles), and the mail bags do not have to be fed or watered, none get sick or die on the way, and may be piled two or three deep. It is proopsed by the Loud Bill to in crease the rate of the latter class to $80 per ton, over fourteen times as much "as hogs, and sample hogs, pay, each individual piece and fraction of a piece to be stamped, and nothing at all is said in the bill about increasing the rate on hogs, or sample hogs, nor of requiring each hog, or fraction of a hog or sample hog, to be stamped, and there is no difference in the rate be tween hogs and sample hogs. Why this partiality for hogs? Why this discrimination against Literature? Is it fair, is it right? Upon what glor- carat the station. The parachute was caught in the wires and was burned. Luckily I escaped without any bruises. I knew before I started that I was going from one danger Into another, for the wind was blowing strong before the Falls. I had no bruises. "Last summer at Vancouver I had a slight fall and another last summer at Wilhelmina. I have been with the Miller Carnival Co. about a year." Within an hour after his narrow es cape from death Wilson made a slide for-life from the Suspension bridge. While Wilson escaped without seri ous injury not so the power station of the P. R. L. & P. Co., into whose wires he fell. In some manner there was a short circuit established and the whole system given a shock and much dam age done in the station here and at Cazadero. The plants in this city, Caazdero and Portland are all con nected as one unit, and danger and de struction to one is felt by the others. Several machines were burned out in this city, considerable damage done in the Cazadero plant and considerable disturbance felt in Portland. - The es timated damage to this and the Caza dero plant Is placed at $6000 by a local representative of the company. JUDGE GORDEN HELD POSITION 23 YEARS. Judge Gorden years attorney United States Government Will j For Lands In Other States. WASHINGTON. April 26. Encour aged by the recent derision of Judge I Wnlvartim In Pnrtliinil Or u hnmhv j the United States government recov- ! ered from the Southern Pacific more E. HAYES HAS : than 2.400,000 acres of lands because j the road had fulled to sell actual set ' tiers, the department cf the Interior I will soon start similar suits to recover I lands worth $100,000,000 In Washing- i ton, Nevada and Wyoming from the E. Hayes, .for 23 Union , Pacific of the State Land ! 11 18 enurKeu uiui iw umuu ruuwiu. LATEST MARKETS Oregon City Markets. There Is an uncertainty In the mar kets todny. Those who object to the changing of the tariff by the Demo crats blame the uncertainty on the brltiRlDK $2.25. Extra fancy will bring alniost anything um can ask lu small lots. One dealer aays ho will pay $2 for a whole car loud, and If the car Is secured he'll not be too. particular if a few not cboloe creep In. Funny situation lu potatoes doulora iniiHt huvo them for retail trade and when they pay the outsldo price tlioy have hard work to sell again and come out whole. Dest potatoes In the West have been consumed. VEUETAULK8 Little ehawte since last report; onions are a little sllffet a In price hut other vegetables remain about the same, onions 2c, turnips and carrots 75c to $1 sack, punmlps $1 to $1.25 sack, cabling 3c pound. New vegetables are coming In. California Is sending many things, at a high price. UK-al lettuce sells Re liunrn, radlHhcs Gc, onions 5c; California let-1 tnco 10c head, asparagus 10c to 12 Vie. Mexican tomatoes 10a pound. j FLOUR AND FHRO Little change ! FOR Board in Clackamas county, has te- aitmail nnrl CtntA Canntnr Wnltor A Dimlck was today appointed his sue- sel1 ? Mtual settlers at $2.50 per like tho Southern pacific, violated the terms of the federal grant by refusing NO1 IS THE Yi HIV DCU I I fc ot th jaar to htr your teeth oat and plat and brlrigework done and bare la tb plaea to g et tba beat painlesa work poaaiUa. Compart cur lJriu. We finUb plate au.. - . A rainleM aztracti' a cessor. Judge Hayes is too ousy wun his legal practice to handle the af fairs of the State Land Board, and concluded to sever his relations. His letter of resignation follows: To the Honorable State Laud Board. Salem, Oregon. Gentlemen: For more than twenty years I have been attorney for the State Land Board of Clackamas county. My business has grown to acre. The Northern Pacltlc also win be sued on the same grounds to re cover thousands of acres In Washing ton State. 1 One serious obstacle In the govern ment's success as against the Union Pacific is that after receiving the grant that company chanKed Its cop porate title from the Union Pacific Railroad company to the Union Paci fic "Railway" company. This difference in a word, it is said, may bar the gov' BIG MEET PROMISED. such an extent that my entire time ernmenr8 effort t0 reCover the Union must be given to the practice of my ! pacfjc lands, profession and I can no longer af- i ' ford to represent the Board and I herewith tender my resignation as its attorney. 1 Our relations have been exceedingly pleasant during my services ae- your legal representative. Thanking you tor retaining me in your employ for so many years, and the confidence you have reposed in me, I remain, most sincerely yours, GORDON E. HAYES. nrosnects of a chanee and sar that ! in flour- Rollins: down to 15 with best i tho changes In prices are along thejhrlnglng about $5.50: somo as low a j tine of things that are likely to be j $4.50. in feed the tendency is up-j changed In the schedule. In these ward. p,ran coiiiiniiuds $23 to , cusps a falling off is In prospect. $24, shorts $24 to $25, rolled barley Where there are nearly exhausted stocks the tendency Is upwards. Where the new products of the sea son are soon to show up the price Is $30, process bailey $31, wholo corn $2!, cracked corn $30. I WHEAT Tho' local market for wheat Is a trltle bettor and tho price i downward again. There Is no genera) : advancing a lirtlo from last report, proposition that Is Influencing mar-j In fact prices are on the climb but kets unless one counts the tariff tlnk-1 with little outward manifestations ering as In that class. j those who have It are holding so no APPLES Local stock Is command-1 new prices are made It's In strong Ing from $1 to $U bushel, with very j hands who won let go. Blue stem few In the country of any kind and ; 92c, club St!o to 88c, fewer yet that will get-the higher! HAY There Is a better movement price. Hood River stock. Is bringing ! In hny and prices are a little better. $2.50 for good and a little moro for plenty of hay except alfalfa, which Is fancy. i getting scarcer and higher. Timothy POTATOES Prices for tubers are !$ig to $18, clover $10 to $11, oat hay $12, mixed $12 to $14. alfalfa lutllnjc $18. OAT8 Dealers buying for ehlpmnt to meet the demand In the elites, pay. lug-gray $25, white $25.60 to $20. At that the market Is weak and unsatU' factory. , BUTTER Prices very weak with 10c and 15c fair for ordinary country, fancy dairy will bring 18c and 3w, creatimry commands 25c and 30c. There Is plenty In the country now and the demand la well supplied. EGGS The prlco has slid down another peg with 17c tho host that Is being paid unless one hna a place to put the product. Hhlpplng not very brink but no trouble to supply local de mand. POULTRY Not an strong a a few weeks ago; little slock offered and that of not the best hena command K.r and Ific, old roosters 10c. broilers 2c to 24e. ducks 17 to 18o. No of ferlnga f larger fowls. HIDES Green 6c pound, snltere fie, dry Mill's 12c to 14c, sheep p"lts 25c lo 75c each. WOOL Away down now, 12c to 14c; somo say In sympathy with fear that emigre will tamper with the tariff on It; little demand on market as no one seems to want a stock on hand: Eastern and Central West sale reported at 8c to 11c. MOHAIR Trade brisk in this com modity with consequent advances In the prices offered. Quotations of 30c to 32c, and prices going up all the time. DRIED FRUITS These are up au.l hi 111 going, no one (lures to buy to hold, now quotod at 12c for apples a.U 9c to 11c for prunes and few willing to sell at that. SALT Selling 00c to 75o for fine. EO lb. sack, half ground 40c 75c for 100 lb. sacks. To Oregon City High School Has Accept-1 ed Among Other Schools, ! CORVALLIS, Or., April 20. The In-1 vltatlon of the Oregon Agricultural College- to the high schools of tl.e i State to send their athlotes to the in- j terscholastlc track meen May 19 and 20 has received hearty response, ac- ceptance of twenty having been ri fxperiment STATION ceived already, Including those at EXPERIMENT STATION f at West Stayton ' "H1U ,tt it"J'u, oii, ruum- Ulll, J1.UKCUC, .11 Icljil 1B7, 1VUUUUI41.I, Union, Albany, Corvallls, and the Port land Washington, Jefferson, Columbia, Hill Military, and Allen's preparatory schools. d one a H Painii 'flfrM when plat or 4 nnoge won u oraer- "jl0rowi 55.00 - A f 3 22a Bridge Taath 4. 0 0 H Gold rillinp 1.00 in r i rim 1 OO biwnii ruling! i.uv Silver Fillinr .50 Good Rubber ... - -4 Pl.t.. 5. on 1 Bill fl.H Rubber ttl.i. Wilt, rwewnanMiaieu Ptinleu EitrMlea .SU ' u tuu aiuma remiM HIT METHOD! All work fullr guaranteed for fifteen jeara. Wise Dental Co.,mc Painless Dentists Filling Bulldlnt, Third ind WMhkirtori PORTLAND. ORB Oftlce Houa: 1111.1.11.11. laaoajs, te 1 Be Established by O. A. C. This Summer. WEST STAYTON, Or., April 21. (Special.) Arrangements have Just been completed between the Oregon I Agricultural College and the Willam- ettealley Irrigated Land company for an 0 A. C. experiment station right across from the Southern Pacific depot at West Stayton. The experi ment station will adjoin the company's demonstration farm. Irrigation will be available this summer, and all kinds of crop will be grown to demon strate what water during. the growing season will do for the farmer. Pay Your Bills by Ckeck J With a checking account at this bank you won't be obliged to carry sums of money on your person. Lose a roll of bills and it is gone forever; lose a check book and it can easily be replaced. A CHECKING ACCOUNT AT THIS BANK Puts system into your affairs; gives you a record of your receipts and disbursements; leaves no' chance for disputes. Gives you an acquaintance here that will be of value to you when you need to borrow. Improves your business standing and credit. q Don't wait until you can deposit a large sum. Begin in as small way as need be and your account will grow Q We offer our patrons every accommodation and convenience to be had at a modern bank. Call and see us. ZAe Bank of Ore don City Spring Floods In Russia. ALEXANDROVSK, Government of Archangel, Russia, April " 22. (De layed in transmission.) Reports from Western Russia and Siberia tell of the sudden arrival of Spring. - The ice has broken up in the rivers and, with the melting snows, has caused abnor mal high waters, which are doing great damage. DON'T WANT TO PAY. WASHINGTON, April 24 Informa tion has reached Washington through ! diplomatic channels that Mexico is un 1 willing to assume responsibility for I the losses incurred by American and other foreign interests in Mexico dur-. : ing the Insurrection except where it i can be shown that federal troops were to blame. The lnsurrecto chiefs have 1 advised the state department that they will make good all losses if suc ! cessful. i It is estimated that the damages so far exceed $15,000,000. Other foreign : interests bring the total to $40,000,000. I Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTOR1 A PRUNE CROP SAFE. NEGRO TROOPS PLENTY. ATLANTA, Ga., April 25. There are more negro troops available here than there are places for them in the Unit ed States Army. Recently the local recruiting station received orders from the War Department to obtain negro recruits for the Twenty-fourth Infantry, which was under orders to sail for the Philippines.' The response was instantaneous and In a short time more men had applied than could be taken. COMPUL80RY TRAINING. SALEM, Or., April 21. According to advices received by W. C. Tillson last evening from fruitgrowers in ev erv section of the State, the recent cold spell has not affected the prune crop at all. Mr. Tillson says that the Willamette Valley will produce a full crop and he estimates the output at 30,000,000 pounds. - WASHINGTON, April 20. Compul sory military training was advocated by General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the United States Army, In a speech last night at a banquet of the Sons of the Revolution. General Wood considered the Ameri can Army, in some respects, ineffi cient. He proposed that the public school teach military science. Another sug gestion for Improvement was the shortening of the terms of enlistment In the Army and militia, thus permit-' ting the training of a larger propor tion of men. , , LAUNCH HARMON BOOM. WASHINGTON, April 21. Rein forced by Lieutenant-Governor Nich ols, of Ohio, the Democratic Congrea sional delegation of that State today met in Senator Pomerene's office for mally to launch a boom for Governor .ludson Harmon for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1912. INVESTIGATE The Elect ic It on The Electric Chafing Dish The Electric Coffee Per ct lato The Electric Steel Range The Electric Toaster The Electric Hair Dryer The Electric Fan And hundreds of other modern elec trie appliances on display at The Electric Stove Daily Demonstrations POPE CAUT.OretS. ROME, April 20. Pope Plus X is somewhat indisposed . and haa been cautioned by his private physician. Dr. Guiseppe Petacci, to avoid over exertion. His holiness, hiwever, has refiiKAd In rhanrp from hU' dally rou tine and celebrated Mass today and gave a few private audiences. PORTLAND. RAILWAY, LIGHT & POWER CO. SEVENTH AND ALDER STREETS