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TTTT! MORNTXG OREGOXIAN. 3IOTAY, AUGUST 2, 1909. ! CLAIMS F TO BE PRESENTED Reclamation Engineers Will Confer With Ballinger in Portland Today. REPRESENT ENTIRE FIELD Xeeds of Each District Will Be Stud ied Carefully to Obtain Best Re ' salts From Seven. Mil lions Available. R. A. Ballinger. Secretary of the In terior, today will hold a conference in thla city with the officers of the reclama tion service when the apportionment of a fund of t7.OCO.000 for the further develop ment of this work during 1910 will be determined. Today's conference Is of large importance to the Western and Pa cific Coast states and will be attended by the six supervising- engineers repre senting: the entire reclamation field which includes 16 states and territories. F. H. Newell, director; A. P. Davis, chief en gineer, and D. C. Henny, consulting en gineer, all of the reclamation service, will also attend the meeting. Secretary Ballinger will arrive from Seattle this morning and will divide his time between the representatives of the reclamation service in the Beck building and at the Portland where be has made reservations and will" receive visitors having business which relates to the In terior Department. Mr. Ballinger expects to remain In Portland the greater part of the week. The Secretary and the con ferees will be entertained at luncheon at noon today at the Portland Commercial Club. Invitations for such a luncheon were Issued through a misunderstanding of Mr. Balllngei-s Itinerary for las Mon day but the affair was postponed for a week. Engineers Who Are Here. The. six supervising engineers, all of . whom are in the city, together with the divisions th--y represent, who will confer with Mr. Ballinger are: B. G. Hopson, of the Pacific division, embracing North ern California. Oregon, and Nevada; C. H. Swigart. "Washington division, con sisting of the State of, Washington; F. E. Weymouth. Idaho division, consisting of tiie State of Idaho; H. N. Snvage. North ern division, consisting of Montana, North Dakota and Northern Wyoming; L. C. Hill. Southern division, consisting of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas. Utah and Southern California, and I. W. Mc Connell, Central division, consisting of Colorado and Nebraska and a portion of Wyoming. Mr. Ballinger Is confronted with a dim cult problem In making the apportion ment of the X7.000.000 fund. There are Included in the reclamation field 24 pro fit hirh hAve hp?n started by the Governm-nt. Each of the six supervising engineer", representing s iiia-ny uniaiuua Into which the reclamation field has been divided, is supplied jvlth considerable data on which to basa his application for innuail allnwnnro that oesired ex tensions In the service may be made in his district. The aggregate of these requisitions ex ceeds the amount of money available so that it remains for Mr. Ballinger to. de termine the most pressing needs of the service, and distribute the fund accord ingly. The engineers have prepared statistics showing the Importance of the various projects In their districts and will rely on their representations to secure increased appropriations with which to prosecute their work during the ensuing year. Projects Have Been Inspected. Both Mr. Ballinger and Mr. Newell during the last four months have visited practically all of the 24 projects and have made a careful Investigation of each, in cluding an inquiry Into the demands for extensions and improvements necessary for the reclamation of additional and ad joinng tracts. Becausf of the magnitude of the demands made on the reclamation fund. It is not likely that Mr. Ballinger at thin time will be able to recommend the Installation of additional projects. It will be his purpose to distribute the fund where it will do the greatest possible good. At the same time, he has taken particular pains to ascertain the actual condition of the settler and assures the homeseekers that in his administration of this Important department they may be assured of a minimum of the abuses from which, in some sections, they have been suffering. Principal among the complaints of the settlers In some localities, is the Inade quacy of the service for the proper irri gating of their lands. Others have com plained that the charge for water to them has been advanced after they set tled on a homestead, adding to the orig ' Inal cost of acquiring a home. Where such conditions exist, Mr. Ballinger has given his promise that he will direct his earnest efforts to eee that they are abated. CORNET PLAYER SOUGHT Mme. NorelH is said worthily to up hold all the traditions of the bel canto style of singing as contrasted with the modern dramatic method adopted by Wagner, Mascagni. Puccini and Leon cavallo. In addition to the gererous praise accorded her singing of such difficult roles as "Lucia," "Rigoletto," 'Travlata." "Barber of Seville." Don Pasquale." and "Don Glovavnnl," critics and operagoers have been charmed by Mme. Norelll's histrionic powers. Her gracious manner, too. Instantly won for her the regard of all San Fran cisco operagoers. After giving a season In Los Angeles and Oakland, the company will come north on its way to New York. Whether or not it will appear In Portland has not yet been determined. NEW SOLOIST IS ENGAGED Miss Mitylene Fraker, of Minneapo lis, to Sing at Cnitarian Church. Miss Mitylene Fraker, of Minneapolis, Is engaged as soloist for August In the First Cnitarian Church. Miss Fraker for the past three years has been a pupil of WUlard Patten, of Minneapolis, who la Young Man Left Home in Iowa and Deserted Mother Is Dying. The police have been requested through the local branch of the Mu sicians' Union to aslst It In locating Elson Olson, who is said to be a eornet Ist and who is thought to be in Port land. Advices state that Olson left his home In Iowa several years ago and that his mother Is now dying there. He is said to hare located In Portland but owing to the laxity of his correspond ence all trace of him was lost two years ago. A letter to the Musicians' Union hers written by a brother of the delinquent Olson from his former home In Iowa, is couched In pathetic language and pleads for assistance in locating the wayward young man that he might re turn home before his mother's death. Olson Is described as being 6 feet 6 Inches In height with. light hair, blue eyes and weighing 160 pounds. Urged by the appeal of the brother, the police are exerting every effort to locate the missing musician. NORELLI WINS BAY CITY Portland Singer Creates Sensation la Grand Opera Roles. Friends and admirers of Mme. Jennie Norelli. Portland's gifted opera singer, will be gratified to bear that her sing ing was one of the sensations of the International Grand Opera Company's season Just closed in San Francisco. Critics there are unanimous In declar ing that the soprano roles in the older Italian operas have been rendered in nothing like so finished a manner since the visit of the Metropolitan Opera Cnuvuj at the time of the axthquaJc. r v ? ,f Mlaa Mitylene Fraker, of Minne apolis, KaaaKCd aa Soloist at First Unitarian Church During aocait considered one of the best vocal instruc tors in the country, and Is in the front rank as a composer. He has written many songs which have met with high favor among musicians. His oratorio, "Isaiah." Is one of the best of its kind. Mis Fraker was contralto soloist for two and a half years in Wesley Methodist Church, Minneapolis, which is the largest Methodist Church west of Chicago. She has also done concert work and has ap peared in oratorio with the best soloists In the Middle West. BROTHERS' RETREAT BEGUN Religions Exercises in Seclusion Will Continue Throughout Week. The annual seven days' retreat for the Christian Brothers of Oregon and Wash ington was opened yesterday afternoon In the Christian Brothers' Business College building on Grand avenue and Clackamas street. Assistant Superior-General Brother Clementian. of Paris, Is In charge of the retreat, but will remain only until Wednesday, when he will leave for the East. Brother Theodorus, provincial of the order on the Pacific Coast, is also here assisting, and will probably remain until the close of the retreat. All the brothers In charge of the Insti tutions and of schools In Oregon and Washington are following the retreat, together with several members of the order from California. Rev. Father Snaw, O. P., of the Dominican Monastery, on Union avenue, will deliver the lectures and sermons, of which there will be three daily. At the conclusion of the retreat assignments of the brothers to different colleges will be made. The brothers fol lowing the retreat will remain In seclu sion until Its close. BRACKETT "FINE AS SILK" Victim of Mysterious Shooting Im proving Steadily at Hospital. "I am feeling as fine as silk." Such was the reply yesterday of Rae F. Brackett, the electrical engineer, who was mysteriously shot by two unknown men the night of July 14, when asked at the Good Samaritan Hospital as to his con dition. iBrackett has improved steadily since the shooting. He still professes to know naught of his assailants or why he was shot. PERS0NAUVIENT10N. R. c. ("Dick") Putnam, of the United Cigar Company, left for the Mohawk River yesterday to spend his vacation. Mrs. John H Keller from Indianapolis, Ind., with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Smock, are visiting her brother, C V. Smock, at 107 East Thirty seventh street. Mr. and Mrs. George Reld. formerly of Salem and this city, after a residence of over three years In Spokane, have returned to Portland to remain perma nently. Professor Jeanne Elizabeth WIer, of the chair of history in the University of Nevada, at Reno, and secretary of the Nevada Historical Society, spent four hours In the rooms of the Oregon His torical Society yesterday. She left for Seattle yesterday afternoon. Rev. Frank Sewall. of Washington, D. C. pastor of the 8w-edenborgian Church of that city, of which he has been a resident since 1SSS, la now visiting Port land for the first time. He arrived at Seattle on July 21. and delivered a num ber of lectures In connection with his church work there, and came to this city yesterday. He Is a native of Bath, Me., and belongs to the notable Sewall ship building family, being a brother of Hon. Arthur Sewall. Democratic candidate for Vice-President in 1S9&. CHICAGO. Aug. 1. (Special.) Port land people at hotels: F. B. McCord, at the Congress: Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Owen and daughter, at the Auditorium; F. Murray, wife and sister, at the Strat ford. CHICAGO, Aug. L (Special.) Mr. and Mrs. A. C Edmund, of Portland, are at the Great Northern, as is also Dick Springer. Information Bureau. In olden days a lot of ideas congre gated together and delivered to you at your door each morning would not only have seemed Impossible, but would have been. Today, with its modern newspaper. It's an easy matter to place a volume of Ideas at your door each morning be fore breakfast. The Oregonian "want" pages are nothing more nor less than the heading of this article Implies. Read thorn over every day you'll ss 1L HDYT URGES ALL 10 HELP PORTOLA President of Rose Festival Tells of Great Show in San Francisco. RETURNS FROM LONG TRIP Many Cities Throughout the Coun try Are Asking for Information About Big Celebration Held Here This Summer. Ralph W. Hoyt, president of the Port land Rose Festival and cashier of the Merchants National Bank, returned Sat urday from a three weeks' trip to Cal ifornia. He hopes that Portland will come enthusiastically to the front and boost for the big Portola Carnival in October, down in San Francisco, for the reason that the Bay City contributed such a large representative attendance at the Rose Festival here in June. Mr. Hoyt and his party, consisting of Walter M. Cook, of Ladd & Tilton's Bank; Walter B. Moore and Robert H. Moore, sons of ex-Governor Moore, of Walla Walla, and A. H. Campbell, son of Ben Campbell, the former general manager of the O. R. & N., toured ny motor car from Portland, Beginning; July 12, to Grants Pass and thence to Crescent City by the Coast route and later to Eureka, from which point they Journeyed by automobile and rail to the Bay City. They established camps at several places, hunting and fishing as a means of supplying their com missary. Will Be Big Show. "San Francisco Is going to have the greatest celebration that has ever been undertaken in the West, said Mr. Hoyt last night. "The Portola com mittee at first thought of raising only $50,000, but when it was seen that the demonstration was to reach far great er proportions than had been dreamed of, the enterprising San Franciscans de cided to build on a much more compre hensive scale. They will send out something like 35,000 letters to citizens of San Francisco and through Cali fornia, asking personal contributions to the fund, wliich has now been set at the $200,000 mark, and before I left the pledges were coming in at a rate that would make any city in America envious, . , "They wanted to know all about what we did on behalf of the Rose Festival here, but the celebrations of the two cities being so widely at variance as to character, I could give them no idea of value save that Portland people stood by us to a man. The Portola Festival is to be probably the most stupendous enterprise ever held on the Western fringe of this continent. I could not begm to tell of all the fea tures that are to be held during the week of October 19-23, but the com mittee expects to have assembled In the San Francisco harbor the greatest naval pageant that has ever been gath ered In the world s history. Portland Should Help. "Leaving their plans aside, I think Portland, through the local commercial organizations and other sources, should plan to Invade the Bay City on a larg er plan than has been done at any time In the past, said Mr. Hoyt. "Portland sent the greatest crowd of visitors to Seattle that any city has sent there and I believe Portland will do the same for the Portola Carnival. The Bay City sent thousands here for the Rose Festival and I think we should show our appreciation by go lng- there en masse." FIVE DELEGATES NAMED They Will Represent National Audu bon Society at Spokane. Horatio H. Parker, W. S. Chapman, Herman T. Bohlman, A. King Wilson and W. L. Finley will represent the Na tional Association of Audubon Societies at the National Irrigation Congress which will meet in Spokane August J-14. Ihe meeting is called to discuss the question o forest preservation and the reclama tion of arid lands. Mr. Finley will give a talk on fhe economic value of wild birds in forest areas. At the conclusion of the Spokane meet ing Mr. Finley will go to Seattle, where he will deliver two lectures at the meet ing of the First National. Conservation Congress, which will meet August 26-28. These lectures will deal with the preser vation of wild birds and animals. HIGHWAYMEN WILL APPEAR Morck and Mitchell to Be Arraigned on Robbery Charge Today. Andrew F. Morck and Harry Mitchell, the highwaymen arrested in Tacoma last week and brought here by .City Detec tives Snow and Day, will be arraigned before Judge Bennett In the Municipal Court this morning on a charge of high way robbery. It Is expected they will waive examina tion. In view of their confessions of guilt mads to the detectives while en routs here. BEER SALE PRIES LID Saloonman Is Arrested When Patrol man Buys Three Bottles. F. A. Monte, a saloonman at Second and Salmon streets, was arrested yester day morning by Patrolman Adams who accuses him of passing out beer In bot tles to thirsty citizens. The patrolman says he purchased three bottles from Monte. For the last three Sundays Patrolman Adams has been detailed by Chief Cox to keep the lid down and his efforts have not been without results. Yesterday's arrest was trie fifth In three weeks. Enormous decrease in apple production, isn't it? In spite of the fact that population is increasing: daily! In spite of an increasing demand for apples I Read the figures published in the Department of Ag- IT-CXllturG! Apple crop in 1896, 69,070,000 barrels Apple crop in 1899, 37,560,000 barrels Apple crop in 1907, 29,000,000 barrels Apple crop in 1908, 23,000,000 barrels Showing a decrease, in thirteen years, of 46,070,000 barrels! And, remember this, During the thirteen years, the population of the na tion has increased in excess of 12,000,000, And, during this time, education and science has stimulated a tremendous demand for fruit, and especially apples, as a food product. And, during the same time, prosperity has increased the individual capacity to purchase. What's the explanation? Simple. For every tree planted in Oregon and Washington, 10 are abandoned, uprooted or played out in the East. . And why? - Simply because the apples of the East have been raised by farmers as a side issue. Apples of the Northwest are raised by specialists who give their whole time to horticulture. They are in the business for the profit it begets. This, then accounts for the fact that in the East, the pests have conquered the orchard, while in the Northwest, the orchardist has conquered the pest. Now, during the interim, with the slump in the East and the growing crops in the Northwest, the mar ket is inadequately supplied, although apple growers are straining every nerve to make the supply meet the demand. Moral : Now, if ever, is the best time to reap profits from apple growing. Not longer than three years ago, a prominent Hood River banker made a tour of the apple states and markets of the East. The sentiment, everywhere he visited, was, "The in dustry is going to pieces." The president of the Oregon State Board of Horticul ture, just returned from a similar tour, brings - the same message. These thoughts are of tremendous significance to the SCIENTIFIC ORCHARDIST. M. O. Lownsdale, for 18 years, has been developing the finest orchard in the Northwest. The profits from this orchard have been as much as $600 per acre. Mr. Lownsdale wishes to retire. In fact, has done so. The magnificent orchard of 300 acres and 349 acres of available land, he has decided to keep intact. His plan is simple. Rather than subdivide into smaller orchards, he re mains president of the LOWNSDALE ORCH ARD COMPANY, dividing the ownership of the . famous ranch into a certain number of individual ownerships. These individual ownerships, each as definite as though the owner possessed a half, a third or the whole tract, are for sale at $100 and in multiples of $100 each. During the ensuing five years, the orchard will be maintained under the supervision of the man who brought it to its present profitable stage. At the same time, the 349 acres not yet planted to fruit, will be set out, adding to the value of the investment made now. All of the equipment of the celebrated Lownsdale Orchard will be at the disposal of the company. The new company will be authorized to use the Lownsdale labels, packages and will ship to the same inexhaustible market that Lownsdale 's ap ples have developed. Last year, alone, these orchards might have shipped 400 cars more of apples than they did, were the apples to be had. That indicates the demand for these famous apples. It is readily apparent, therefore, to the average man who longs for an investment in a first-class fruit tract, that $5000, or $3000, or even $1000 is far safer in an 18-year-old orchard with a splendid reputation than it would be invested in raw land with all the hazard that its development involves. The profits from the Lownsdale Orchards are enor mous. They are surprising. The opportunity is asked to allow us to send you a set of literature, showing what this orchard has done, what it is doing, how much money it has been making, year by year, and what the pros pects are for the cautious investor. With a constantly increasing demand for apples; With the Eastern supply rapidly becoming demoral ized; With prices going up and Oregon apples assuming the Jead over the world; Can a sane man consistently deny the profit-making investment .this opportunity offers? Certainly not. - Request us to send the literature to you this very day. , Right now! WILL YOU KINDLY CLIP AND MAIL THIS COUPON TO US TODAY? COUPON The Jacobs-Stine Co., 146 Fifth St., Portland: Please send me your two booklets, THE LAST WORD ON APPLE GROWING, describing the Lownsdale Orchard, and BOND OFFERING, explaining in detail the bond proposition. Name Address. COMPLETE SET OF LITERATURE WILL BE SENT TO YOUR HOME OR OFFICE AT ONCE THE JACOBS-STINE COMPANY FISCAL AGENTS 146 FIFTH STREET - PORTLAND, OREGON HOTEUEN GIVE VIEWS SAY CITY HAS ALIi HOSTELRIES NEEDED NOW. P. X. Gray Visits Portland. Prentiss N. Gray, secretary of the Gray & Holt Steamship Company, of San Fran cisco, arrived In Portland yesterday from Seattle. Mr. Gray and party will leave for Coos Bay tonight and will spend sev eral days fishing on Ten-Mile Lake. Mr. Gray announces that his visit to Portland at this time Is one of pleasure only and that he -is not taking an active part In any business deals which may be con templated by the company. Says I to myself. Says I. The Rex Dental Co., Is the place to so. Says X. Ablngton Bldg, Reply to A. D. Charlton as to City s Ability to Take Care of Tour ist Traffic. Local hotelmen take issue with A. D. Charlton, assistant genera. paaseiiBci ,ni fnr the Northern Pacific, w.ho. In an interview Saturday asserted that the combined accommodations 01 me .rori land hotels were inadequate to handle the heavy tourist travel this Summer. They insist that the hotel accommodations in v,(o ritv have been more than doubled since the Lewis and Clark Exposition. It is further contended by the hotel men that while there are 2000 first-class rooms available. In the different hotels of the city, the average number of daily visit ors, computed from the registrations. Is about SCO. The statement that Portland does not have ample hotel accommodations is not true," said M. C. Dickinson, of the Ore gon,' last night, "and the circulation of such reports is damaging not only to our business but to Portland Itself as an attractive place for the tourist. It Is only natural that the traveler, upon read ing that he could not find accommoda tions In a first -class hotel at Portland, would not visit this city. "Now the facts are that In the last five years the number of first-class rooms in the hotels of Portland have been in creased from about 300 to over 2000. Even with the heavy tourist travel, which, is even greater than it was during the Lewis and Clark Fair, there Is scarcely any night that there are not vacant rooms in several of the leading hotels of the city. "Further hotel accommodations soon will be available. The annex to the Im perial, which will be opened In October, will have 168 rooms, the Perkins is plan ning an annex which will provide 90 more rooms while we are prepared to Increase the accommodations of the Oregon from 340 rooms, its present capacity, to 300 or 400 rooms whenever the increased busi ness justifies. Any charge that Port land Is not abundantly supplied with first-class hotel accommodations or that the tourists visiting this city are not being taken care of Is entirely un founded." "The statement that this city is with out finst-class hotel accommodations is wrong," said Warren Swetland, of the Perkins. "As a matter of fact, the de mand for first-class rooms la not heavy. With the exception of a few nights, there always are to be had plenty of the high est priced rooms at any of the first-class hotels in the city. Tourists this year very generally are taking the cheaper rooms and they are all being cared for too." ' SCHOOLS WILL BE TOPIC Grange to Outline Plans for Their Improvement. For the month of September, State Lec turer Johnson, of the Patrons of Hus bandry, has outlined an educational pro gramme for the betterment of the pub lic schools. It is called an educational campaign for every Grange In the state. It is proposed that each Grange In the state give one day In September to a study of the question, "How Can the Schools Be Improved?" Such subjects as "Good Air.'? "Pure Water," "Decent Outbuildings," and other similar questions will be considered at these meetings. In his address to the Granges State Lecturer Johnson says: "At the August meeting have one or more committees appointed to make per sonal Inspection of the various schools in your Jurisdiction and urge them to report conditions exactly as they find them. These reports should come In at the September meeting. The County School Superintendent, or some one for him, should lead with a vigorous talk upon the importance of all these con ditions. Then have the reports of the various committees and a general dis cussion from teachers and parents, thus bringing out every point involved." WORK ON LINE RESUMED Construction of Track to Swift Plant Will Be Rushed. A large force of men has been put to work on the extension of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company tracks on Albina avenue from North Albina to the Swift Packing plant on the Peninsula. .Work was suspended on this extension after a quarter of a mile of the grading had been done, when the extension was held up by the referendum. This is now out of the way and the work will go rapidly forward. Grading is in progress and during the coming week a larger force will be put to work. At Kenton the line will connect with the Kenton Traction Company's track, which is of similar grade and width. 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