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4 THE MORXIXG OHEGOMAX, MONDAY, MARCH 8. 19O0. DEPARTMENT MAY SHIFT TO SEATTLE Army Headquarters, It Is Ex pected, Will Be Transferred From Fort Vancouver. OFFICERS FAVOR CHANGE Staff at Washington Known to Hare Matter Under Consideration, but Congressman Ellis Hopes to Stave Off Move. OREOOXIAN XEWS BUREAU, Wash ington. March 7. Representative Ellis has learned that the general staff of the Army is at last seriously consider ing removal of the headquarters of the Department of the Columbia from Van couver to Seattle. General Bell, chief of staff, with whom he has talked, says that, In view of the growing importance of Army posts in Alaska and the large ship ments of supplies to those posts, the headquarters should be more centrally located than at present, and personally he believes they should go to Seattle. Ellis also finds that officers of the Department of the Columbia are strongly in favor of removal to Seattle and have so recommended. Indeed. It .seems that a 'movement to bring about' removal was started by them. Ellis is planning further conferences with General Bell and the Secretary of War in the hope of preventing re moval, Hut said today the outlook was very discouraging. It seems to he pretty well determined that the head quarters shall go to Seattle, though no order to that effect has yet heen issued. SCHISM STARTS TO SPREAD Filipino Methodists Withdraw From TJegular Body. MANILA, March S. Nicholas Zamora, the Filipino preacher who has caused a split In the Methodist Episcopal t'hurch in Manila and has planned the organiza tion of the Evangelical Methodist Church of the Philippines, surrendered his creden tials today to the regular church and began the formation of an organized body. He is followed by at least 1000 members of his former congregation. The extent of the schism in the established Methodist Church is as yet undetermined but it is evident that the majority of the Filipino members will remain loyal to the regular church. The Presbyterian organization in the Islands is not affected by the new move ment, although it is reported that the dis senting Methodists are trying to create a division in that church also. FALLING OFF IN TRADE Both Imports and Kxports Show Decrease for January. WASHINGTON, March 7. In January there was a falling off of about KO.OuO.'iOO in the total value in the country's ex ports as compared with those of Jan uary. 1!)8. while for the seven months ending with January the total exports amounted to $1,031,719,933. against $1, 189,090,551 in the corresponding seven months of the previous fiscal year, a falling off of $157,000,000. One cause of the falling off is found in our export trade in raw cotton. The average value of cotton exports In Jan uary. 1908, was 11.7 cents per pound and in January. 1909. 9.4 cents per pound. Another cause of the decline is the falling off in the quantity of corn, wheat and flour exported. SILVER NOTES PROPOSED British Newspaper Suggests Plan for Raising Needed Cash. ALLAHBAD, British India, March 7. The Allahbad Pioneer makes the curious Btatement that a project is under con sideration to meet the British budget re quirements for old age pensions by re vising the scheme of the late Viscount Goshen. Chancellor of the Exchequer, for the issuance of 10-shilling notes se cured on a silver basis. The Pioneer adds that the United States is considering a similar project and comments on the appreciation of the price of silver which would result from this, and the consequent restoration of the value of the rupee. TARIFF ISSUE STIRS PARIS Debate in French Senate Promises to Be Heated. PARIS. March 7. The debate on the proposed revision of the tariff of lS9i, which has aroused a storm of opposition at home and abroad, will be op?ned In the Senate this week and promises to be hot and protracted. The situation Is analagous to that in Germany, following the impetus given agriculture by the adoption of a protective system. ROOSEVELE LIVES QUIETLY (Continued BTbm First Page.) in vogue, for with the new Administra tion come the terms, "The President's auto car" and "The President's chauf feur." Automobiles will be almost the exclusive method of locomotion of President Taft and his family. The White House automobiles will have the right of way throughout the District of, Columbia and will know no speed limit. Two splendid new machines already have been purchased with the-$12,000 appropriated by Congress and Mr. Taft has given them a thorough trial. One Is a big touring car with detachable top and painted in. dark green. This will be most used by the President. The other is a limousine body painted black and was purchased for the use of Mrs. Taft. "Both bear the official coat-of-arms of the United States. FAIRBANKS BECOMES LAWYER Vice-President Private Citizen Atter Twelve Years in Public Life. INDIANAPOLIS, March 7. After 12 years of public life, ex-Vice-President Fair- banks returned to his home here today irom wasmngton. Mr. and Mrs. Fair banks received many friends at their home. Concerning the new Administra tion, Mr. Fairbanks said: "The new Administration starts with every assurance of success. The Presi dent was wise in calling Congress in extra session at the earliest practicable date, so that tariff revision might ba effected speedily." Mr. Fairbanks, after he has taken a few months' vacation will resume the practice of law in Indianapolis. ROOT FOR NEW YORK LEADER Piatt Says Roosevelt Will Retire From Political Field. NEW YORK, March 8. Elihu Root will be the Republican leader of New Tork, according to a published interview credited to ex-9jnator T. C. Piatt, who has iast returned from Washington. 'Elihu Root will head the Republican organization because of donning the Sen atorial toga," Mr. Piatt is quoted as having said. "His powers are only less than those of the President, and he and President Taft are on close terms." When Mr. Piatt was asked whether Mr. Ijoeb's appointment did not Indicate that Theodore Roosevelt planned to con trol Republican politics in this state on his return from the African hunting trip, he said: "Any man who goes to Africa for a year cannot expect to keep his hold in a political way. I believe Mr. Roosevelt purposes to retire permanently from the field of political endeavor. Mr. Roosevelt will not be heard from politically here after." R OOSEVELT HELPED GERMAN'S Xewspaper Says He Has Bone Much to Cement Friendship. BERLIN". March 7. The North German Gazette, in its weekly political review, after paying ex-President Roofwvelt a glowing tribute as one of the greatest statfsmon the United States ever has pro duced, says: "From the German standpoint, the de velopment which German-American rela tions made under President Roosevelt will ever be remembered with satisfaction. The tradition of friendship, which has ever marked the relations of the two countries, acquired new security during the past seven years." ROOSEVELT STEWARD IS OFT Destinies of Kitchen AVill Be Guided by Woman Housekeeper. WASHINGTON, March 7. Mrs. W. H. Taft has abolished the position of White House steward and will conduct her do mestic arrangements through a. woman housekeeper. While the season of prescribed official dinners is over the new tenant of the White House will give a series of in formal soiiial functions during the special session of Congress which will bring re newed animation and social life to the sr-date and somber structure during the Taft regime. LOEB STAYED TO PACK UP AVill Take Charge of Xew York Cus- tom-House on Tuesday. 'WASHINGTON. March 7. William Loeb. Jr., who was named by President Taft as collector of the Port of New York, will leave Washington tomorrow and take charge of the Customs-House Tuesday. Mr. Loeb has been detained here superintending the removal of some of Mr. Roosevelt's personal ef fects and their shipment to Oyster Bay. ffflfllilf STAKE IDENTIFIED BY VICTIM, TEXAS MOB APPLIES TORCH. Brute Is Forcibly Taken From Jail and Hurried to the Public Square for Torture. ROCKWALL, Texas. March 7. After having been identified by Mrs. Arthur Mc Kinnoy as the negro who attacked her Friday morning, Anderson Ellis was taken from Rockwall County Jail here tonight, tied to an iron stake driven Into the earth and burned to death in the presence of about 1000 persons. Earlier in the evening Will Clark, a negro, was shot and killed when his father, Andrew Clark, refused to allow a posse to search his premises on the as sumption that Ellis was concealed there. The burning occurred in the public square. Mrs. McKinney went into her back yard early Friday morning and was seized by Ellis. She fought desperately and the negro, running away, called that he would murder her should she tell of the attack. The alarm spread quickly and scores of men joined the authorities in the chase. Ellis finally was surrounded at a farmhouse. He made a desperate resistance, emptying his weapon at the posse without effect and being wounded twice. When it bcame known that Ellis was held In the' County Jail a crowd of men overpowered the jailor, took his keys, brought out the negro and tied him to an Iron stake. Cordwood saturated with kerosene was piled about him and upon his refusal to make a statement, beyond admitting his guilt in the presence of Mrs. McKinney. who fully Identified him as her assailant, the torch was applied. MUCH-WANTED MAN FOUND Will Jordan, Long Sought by Au thorities, Caught at San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCoTMareh 7. Will Jor dan, who is said to be wanted in New York on several charges, including the murder of a policeman. Jailbreaking on Ellis Island, forgery and bringing young women from France In violation of the Immigration laws, was captured here last night by Secret Service officers and lo cal detectives. Jordan, whom the police declare to be a dangerous man, was arrested while sitting at a table In a small restaurant The Federal authorities have been search ing for him for six months. He will leave for New York Tuesday In custody of Secret Service men. OIL STRUCK IN' WYOMING Commercial Quantities at Fort Washakie, Xorth of Lander. CHEYENNE. Wyo, March 7 Re ports received from Fort Washakie, north of Lander, are to the effect that a producing well of black asphaltum oil was opened up last night on the Indian reservation by the Washakid Hydrocarbon Mining Company, oper ated by Russell Thorpe and Gould Dletz. of Omaha: E. J. Uhlein. of Chi cago, and J. K. Moore, of Wyoming. Although considerable prospecting has been done in this vicinity this is the first oil found In commercial quan tities. Great excitement prevails. Phases of Industrial Growth in the Pacific Northwest TROUBLE SETTLED, WORKTO CONTINUE Reclamation Service to Carry Out Klamath Project With All Speed. SETTLERS PLEDGE FAITH Assure Interior Department They Will Comply With Terms or Trust Deeds Now Misunderstanding Has Been Removed. KLAMATH FALLS. Or., March 7. (Special.) Owing to the recent action of the Board of Directors of the Klamath Water Users' Association In assuring the Secretary of the Interior that every ef fort would be exerted To bring about complete compliance on the part of the landowners with the terms of their trust deeds to the Government, it Is expected that the work planned for this year by the Reclamation Service will be carried forward as soon as weather conditions permit. History of negotiations between the as sociation and the Secretary of the Inter ior have just become public property. The order for discontinuance of work fol lowed receipt of a letter from the asso ciation addressed to the Secretary of the Interior, In which the board declared the price fixed for the water charge was not in accordance with the understanding of landowners at the time contracts were signed, and therefore the hoard did not believe collections could be enforced. This brought a response from the Sec retary asking whether the association meant to repudiate its contract, and the reply was delegated to Richard Klnres Smith, attorney for the association, who was sent to Washington to confer with the Secretary of the Interior. It was in the Interim between the letter from the Secretary and sending of the attorney to Washington, without any definite re sponse to the letter of the Secretary otherwise, that the discontinuance of work was ordered. Both Sided Got Together. Thereafter the directors advised with landowners, and in order to cor rect the impresion of intended repu diation, adopted a resolution giving assurance of making every proper ef fort to discharge the duties devolving upon the organization. The previous action was not based upon the assump tion that the landowners could not pay $30 per acre for water, but be cause the trust deeds and contracts were signed after having the posi tive statement from F. H. Newell, then Chief Engineer of the Reclama tion service, and other officers of that branch of the Government ser vice, that the cost "would not be less than $10 nor more than $20 per acre."' While these statements were made verbally at a mass meeting of Klamath County citizens, there was no record of such pledge in the Department of the Interior at Washington. When the fact became certain, as set forth in tho letter to the Secretary, that no official record confirmed the understanding of the landowners, it presented a new aspect to the directors and left no al ternative except to give the depart ment assurance of hearty co-operation In fulfilment of all requirements of the law. Acreage Less; Coat More. This controversy has to a great ex tent cleared the situation concerning the change in price and acreage and other facts bearing upon the subject. The first- estimate was for Irrigation of 235.000 acres, but as shown by the last annual report this has been re duced to 165.000 acres. This reduction was brought about by excluding the proposed high land canal, which would have covered 10.000 acres; the swamp land along the Klamath River, prob ably about 10,000 acres; the bed of Tule Lake and part of the Lower Kla math Lake, aggregating about 70,000' acres. The first estimate, based upon 235,000 acres at $18.60 an acre, was almost as great in total amount as the cost for irrigating 165.000 acres at $30 per acre. The cost of the headgatcs, main canals, reservoir sites and dams and main distributing system is al most as great for the smaller as the larger project, which In a measure ac counts for the greater cost. In view of the great Increase In the cost of labor, brought about Just after beginning of . construction work on the Klamath project, by reason of the Sa- Francisco fire and resultant de mand for labor, the great rise In cost of material, forage, feed and every ar ticle that was required In the work, makes it apparent that the Increased cost is not out of proportion with other experiences during the same period. Klamath farmers realize that with the productive power of a wonder fully fertile soil and conditions of a splendid mountain climate, the In creased returns of the land with a suf ficient water supply will exceed the cost very much each year. Those land owners who are Just establishing them selves on the land, with sagebrush to clear, land to be broken, prepared and seeded for the first time, and with every character of improvements to be made at once, find themselvs some what burdened, but not more so than would be the case elsewhere In an Ir rigated district, with similar condi tions of home-making. The first understanding was that the payment on the water right must be made on or before May 1. 1909. When it became known that this was errone ous, and that the first payment was due on the date named but was not to be in default for one year, the pro vision was deemed ample by most land owners to enable them to accomplish its payment from the produce of the present year without having to sell It ahead of harvesting o,r pay' Interest on a loan covering its value. It Is generally regarded as fortu nate that the misunderstanding was not allowed to long continue. A bet ter feeling between the landowners and the Reclamation Service will probably be the outcome, as the cost of the water right has been a mooted question and the occasion for misrepresentation, as w-ell as misunderstanding. The fact that It Is one of the lowest-priced of Government Irrigation projects, with more water than can ever be required for Irrigation of the lands under the canal system, makes It a most attrac tive section for the homeseeker. TOWN PREPARES TO GROW Monmouth Forms Solid, Progressive Commercial Club. MONMOUTH. 'Or.. March 7. (Spe cial.) An organization, composed of NEJW DWELLINGS DENOTE ONTARIO'S GROWTH ' 3 turret ' ",f ' 1 ' : &i : J 'If'- II-- -- :i Ti""'f I ft- - - r- -" ' -..:-. -'J" .- - ... a J t HOME OP J. n. 11 LACK A BY, PRKS1DEM ONTARIO NATIONAL iBA K. . .. . " 'J' -I I t . A v- , ' n -b, l t HOME. CHARLES E. KE.VVOX, CASHIER FIRST NATIONAL B AN.i. J the conservative business men and influential citizens of Monmouth, has been formed to be known as the Mon mouth Commercial Club. It is thought the time has come when such a city as this can lie quiet no longer. No town in Oregon Is situated In a richer county than this nor surrounded by a better farming and fruit-raising coun try. By concerted action, conservative business methods, progreasiveness and push. It Is thought that Monmouth can be brought to the attention of the out side world. The' Monmouth Normal School has as its President. K. II. Ressler, a man wholly alive and at the same time so self-sacrificing that he has won the esteem and love of the vlyle com munity and deserves oil the credit that can be given him. Grove A. Feterson was elected President of the Monmouth Commercial Club. Mr. Peterson was born In Sierra County, Cal. ; afterward became a resident of Portland. and spent twenty years teaching In the public schools of Oregon. HELIX STARTS LIFE ANEW Cmatilla County Hamlet Prepares for Building Boom. PENDLETON, Or., March 7. (Spe cial.) Helix, the little town on the local branch of the Northern Paclflo and In the heart of the richest wheat section In the county, has taken on a new lease of life. Considered all but dead for a number of years, the com ing of Spring will usher in the biggest building boom the town has seen for a long period. Already plans have been perfected for the erection of a new hotel and several dwellings, while the First Na tional bank will soon announce plans for its new building. This will prob ably be by far the handsomest and most substantial structure yet erected In this city.. At a recent meeting of the bank directors, the capital stock of the Institution was increased from $25,000 to $50,000. LEWISTON PLANTING TREES OrchardiMs Will Set 100,000 Trees This Spring. LEWISTON THhn u.rnh i-i - , . . wi" umi ; One hundred thousand fruit trees will d set out tnis Spring in the new orchard district adjoining Lcwlston. Three gang plows are now at work preparing the ground and the tree planting will begin within a few days and continue into April. Last year 50.000 apple trees were set out in thi district, the varieties com prising Spitzenberg. Yellow Newtown Pippin, Rome Beauty, Winesap and Jonathan, and this year's planting will comprise the same varieties together with oO.Oijo peach trees and a smaller quantity of Bartlctt pears. The varieties of peach trees planted will be mostly Elbertaa and Early and Late Crawfords. The planting of these trees will In crease the orchard area of this district to over 2000 acres. ONTARIO 25 YEARS OLD Many Changes In Style of Architec ture Are Noticed. ONTARIO. Or., March 7. (Special.) Ontario Is a quarter of a century old this year. Construction of the Oregon Short Line reached this point late In 1SS3. but it was well after the new year before the station was built and cpened for busi ness. Early-day architecture was of the straight-up-and-down order of plain boards, with battens over the cracks, clinched with rails that had been heated to draw the temper and make them malle able. Sometimes a 'swell" building was erected with rustic weatherboard over the plain boards. Stores had the customary battlement of the frontier town. Today aM that Is changing. Brick business houses are going up and the residences are of a class that would do credit to a city of many times Ontario's age. LABORERS FILL ABERDEEN Construction of Grays Harbor Road Attracts Many Workmen. ABERDEEN. Wash.. March 7. (Spe cial.) The starting of work on the Grays Harbor branch of the Union Pacific has brought to Grays Harbor many men anxious for work and the prospects now are that there will be more laborers in the field than can be talten cars of. 1 . ' n v t i 5 C - ...'.TfvWW1. Work on several business blocks has been started. The Finch Investment Company building will have a frontage of -75 feet on Heron street and 130 on O street. It will be composed of reinforced concrete, with exterior facing of steel and cast-Iron for the first floor and brick with terra cotta trimmings for the re maining four of the live stories. A water-proof basement large enough to provide for a boiler and machinery for lighting ind heating will be a iart of the Improvement. More than 4"0 piles were originally driven for the foundation and this number is now being increased. The building will cost $100,000 and the contract for its construction has been awarded the Ferro Construction Com pany, of Seattle. A. Warren Gould, of Seattle. Is the architect, and. will super Intend the construction. Adjoining the Finch building the Patterson-Mapes-Dud-ley three-story, building, to cost $30,000. will be built in connection. The Vulcan Iron Works Company, of Seattle, which has maintained an ex tensive branch plant In Aberdeen for five years and has secured valuable water front property, announces its Intention to build a number of warehouses, which will cost from $!00,0u0 to $125.00. The site of these propeFed buildings has- been a bone of contention with the 1'nion Pa cific ofttclals, who want a portion of the land for right-of-way privileges. The Union Pacific Company, falling to make terms, has apparently determined to come in over another route, for the railway company has so far made no effort to change the decision of the Vulcan Com pany to go on with Its enterprise. L. H. Griffith, of a Seattle syndicate, who recently purchased 500 acres of land north of the city, has eight or ten en gineers surveying and getting ready for the platting of this great tract, which is to be finished in all respects as are newly platted additions of the larger cities. Tho novelty of having sewers, streets and all other Improvements com pleted before lots are sold Is apparently going to take well here. There is a greater demand for acreage property In Chehalis County than at any time In Its history. POWER FROM KLICKITAT Water Rights riled and Develop ment Kx peeled Soon. LYLE. Wash.. Mirch 7. (Special.) Fifteen miles up the big Klickitat River from Lyle. at a point one mile above Wrights, near the railroad bridge, ap pears posted In a conspicuous place a -notice of water rights," dated February 20. 1S-I9. signed by George S. Canfkld and attested by F. C. Kelsey and Thomas Lantry. Engineer Hugh L. Ftaxier and a survey crew are now busily engaged running a survey from a point near the posted notice, following the south side of the river to Lyle. The notice among other things ap propriates) 3000 cubic feet of water per second of time. The early construction of an irrigation project and an electric power plant Is expected near Lyle. where there is available a water fall of over 400 feet. Echo Takes on Xew Life. ECHO, Or., March 7.-(Speelal. Echo has taken a new lease on life. Exten sive street improvement work is now In progress and a building boom Is on. Two large concrete store buildings are In course of construction, one for Hugh D. Smith and one for Dorn & Dorn. The Esteb store building, recently badly damaged by fire, has been repaired, and the Immense buildings for the Wool Scouring Company are Hearing com plet Ion. To Feel Good All the Time eat Pure Food Grape-Nuts . FOOD builds Brain. Body, and Nerves "There's a Reason" PL X : - - " -- -i. - 1 : a BUILD MANY BRICKS Ashland Business Men Make Costly Improvements. NEW LIGHT SYSTEM SOON City Will Convey Power Krom Ash land Creek Activity In Heal Estate Continue Many East ern People Ituy Emit Lands. ASHLAND. Or.. March T.( Special.) Real estate movements and building improvements In Ashland during 1909 are going to be more active than for several, years past. Judging bv the record of the first two months of the new year, which have been prolific with plans for new building., both In the way of business blocks and resi dences. Several new hI.-k blocks on East Main street began In the early Winter and held up by the unfavorable weath er conditions are being rushed for ward now to completion. One of these the Swedrnberg blo. k. a most credit able structure, will soon le rca.1v for occupancy. Work is proceeding upon the new temple of Ashland Iodge R p O. K. which it is said Is to he the finest block In Southern Or. gn. It la . 111.cn siory and basement building concrete wall, to the second floor and thence brick. The dimensions are 100 reet square, approximate!-. The tiarrrnva i , . . . . - - - 11 " n 1 noout ready for the excavation work for a na iase:iient brick. 66x100. which they will build this season on a Main-street corner opposite the ,peCaoH"" hlock. Louis Werth and II. I.. Stock are combining in the hutld inir of a. nnni-r.f. y. -( i . - Vi, ineir lots on Alain street nnnn.i .Q , . Granite, for which the excavation W already partially completed. The local post of the Grand Army of the Itepub lic has purchased a lot and is making preparations for the immediate con struction of a two-story concrete building for general lodge purposes for their own and other secret so cieties. It will abut on the slghtly Chautauo.ua grounds and Is close to tho business center of the city. A score or more new buildings are In course of construction despite the continued unfavorable weather, and lumber dealers report that there are enough inquiries for supplies of lumber and building materials to Insure an ac tive building season during the year. A committee of the city council of Ashland is on a tour of the different cities of Oregon where hard-surface pavements are In use. to make closer investigation of the deslrabilltv and cost of the various kinds of pavement. Ashland planned for a big section of hard-surface pavement on her principle business streets Inst year, but com plications arose which made It neces sary to defer tho work which It is now hoped to get tinder way In earnest early In the present season. The city government Is also In the midst of the construction of a munici pal electric light and power plant. Re cently the company now having a monopoly of this service here, sought to enjoin the construction of the plant by the city, hut the court last week dissolved the Injunction and the city Is now In position to go ahead with the project for which the machinery has been all contracted for. The estimated cost of this plant Is $SO.OO0 and the power Is to be obtained from Ashland Creek, which has a tremendous fall In the canyon a few miles above the city. Engineers estimate the creek will fur nish ample power to generate suffi cient electric energy to supply Ashland for some time. Orchard deals are active and sales are being recorded dally to people who are coming to this section from the -- h!p.t in 11 11 1 1 culture unuer ... I . I 11.1 liiLiiuiisiiiK i-onuiuuiis mat prev il here. More orchard acreage Is being put out in this Immediate vicinity In apples, pears and cherries, not to speak of small fruits, that for years before. Eallng-Hoiise Tor Clirfs. CLIFFS, Wash.. March 7. (Special. D. Boylngton, of Spokane, contractor for the care of hotels and railroad lunch counters and owner of a number of eating-houses on the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific systems, came to Cliffs and purchased the large restaurant near the railroad track of Charles L. Gunn. paying $3000 cash. Mr. Boylngton will at once arrange to add another STRONG CONSERVATIVF Minima W. M. LADD, President S. P. LOCKWOOD, Vice-Pres. and Gen. Mgr. Home Office Lumber Exchange Building PORTLAND, OREGON The POTTER Santa Has It. Own Bra ntlrul n.trr Finn Consist!.; of ITS Big, Kind. Rd Cows, which supply the Potter exclusively with ail milk, crea.ru, butter and chese. The Potter, hav ing: lta own ranches, give, the guest much more than any other hotel on the Pacific Coast oould give for the same money. Write for Booklet MILO M. POTTER Our Winter Kates. 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