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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1920 r liEYELDW' OF LOVERS OF BIRDS Land Proposed for Refuge Found to Be Valuable. EXCELLENT CROPS RAISED Addison ISciiiictt llnds Oats as High as a Man's Head and Yield ing 125 Bushels an Acre. BIT ADDISON' BENNETT. BLT.X;?, Or.. Oct. 13. (Special.) I nave jufit returned from a trip around Malheur lake and all of the lands in the withdrawal as made by President Roosevelt In 1908, when the fcird refuge was established. . All of the 70 sections In the original mean der lines of the lake belonged then, and still belong, to the state of Ore ton. Voters should remember this, and also that If the bill proposed by the Roosevelt Bird Refuge association passes the people of the state of Ore gon will maJce to the federal govern ment a present of all of this land, which really belongs to the state for the benefit of the public school fund. Let the voters keep this in mind, and also let them keep in mind the fur ther fact that a good deal of this land Is as fine agricultural land as there Is In this or any other sectior In the union. The trip I have Just returned from embraced a drive of something like ISO miles. We got an early start from Burns and went via Wright's point and Sunset valley to the Narrows, so-called because that is the pas sage by a short bridge over the water way leading from Malheur lake west toward Mud lake and Harney lake. From the Narrows, where there Is a store or two, a postoffice, hotel and a few other buildings, we passed eastward along the south side of the lake, across Blitzen river, past Sod House spring and thence around the east end of the reserve, stopping at lb location of the original sod house and climbing the bluffs to the south to try and get a picture of Malheur lake, but only a glimpse of the water could be seen. fro ATkall Is Found. We wove our way as best we could through the eastern edge of the re serve, and finally passed up to Crane, the end of the railroad, where we had. a good chicken dinner. Imme diately thereafter we passed along to the west and explored many, many miles of the land3 in the reserve, which many proponents of the bill allege is a bed of alkali and Is there fore unfit for agricultural pursuits. We passed through gate after gate and farm after farm, for much of this land Is held and farmed by squatters. We failed to find any alkali. On the contrary, these lands that in years agone overflowed dur ing the high water periods were literally covered with mussel and other shells, showing that there is and probably never was any appre ciable traces of alkali in any of the w-nters of or flowing into Malheur lake. But we did find many stacks of hay. We eaw oat fields where oats were as high as a man's head and judged to run 125 bushels to the acre, and barley fields where the barley was estimated at 60 bushels to the acre. And on these lands the crop was put In after the ground had been merely scratched with a spring-tooth harrow; In no case had the land been plowed. So if any of the bird enthusiasts state that these lands are valueless just set the statement down as being made by people who had not made even a cursory investigation. Land Worth f 100 an Acre. We passed through miles and miles of land that will eventually, when Placed upon the market and provided with water, be cheap at $100 an acre. We passed, in a round-about way, on westward to the little town of Lawen, 22 miles southeast of Burns. Now, if you will take a map of Harney county you will say that we must have crossed Silvies river, the prin cipal feeder of Malheur lake; we did cross the low places where once the Silvies river, the principal fedeer of Malheur lake, flowed, but these low places were dry. In fact, the set tlers we interviewed told us that no surface water from the Silvies had reached the lake since 1916. That is why the water in the lake is grad ually receding. From Lawen we came, most of the way over a splendid road, to Burns. So I want you to know that I am pretty well posted as to the present conditions of Malheur lake and the adjacent overflow lands. If you have the right sort of a map of Harney county you will see set down thereon the meander lines of Malheur lake. These lines were set down by the surveyors when the original survey of these lands was made, and no doubt all of such lands were covered with water at that time, as they sometimes have been since. But not of late years. The proponents of the bird refuge measure are, to a great extent, basing their demands on ancient history, on conditions that existed from 15 to BO years ago, and not upon the conditions of the pres ent day. Conditions Have Changed. Conditions have greatly changed here since I first visited the county, something like 15 years ago. Harney lake, for many years the finest look ing body of water in the county, has entirely disappeared, dried up. That lake differed from Malheur lake, as it was of an alkaline nature. There never were any fish or other forms of life in it, save millions of "wigleys," each about an eighth of or an inch long. In the meantime Christni lake has almost disap peared, and Summer lake Is drying up. I have also heard that Silver lake is falling rapidly, but I can speak of that lake only from hearsay, and I am dealing with actual fa'cts. It is quite true that all along from the eastern end of Malheur lake to the western end of the marshes of Silver creek, perhaps a dozen miles vst of Harney lake, say a distanr.e of 40 miles east and west, and from cuie to a dozen miles north and south mere are a vast number of wild fowl. game birds, scavenger birds and birds loved for their beauty. Many of these birds nest and hatch and rear their young in the territory I have mentioned. Many of them, like the ducks, geese and brant, are too well known to be discussed: others, like the pelican, the sea gull and cor" morant, are not so well known Xobody, not even the most enthu siastic member of the Roosevelt Bird Kefuge association, however, wishes to provide feed and breeding grounds for these. And yet the principal birds that nest and hatch in the Malheur reserve belong to these classes There are mudhens there by the mil lion. Are they worth protecting? The pelicans are of more millions. Does any sane person wish to aid and abet the breeding of them? It Is the sama I with the cormorants and sea gulls; they are a liability and not an asset. ' I do not suppose any county in the l west has been the "goat" in as many instances as has Harney county. I i think because it is about the smallest in population and the largest in area that" the people generally consider its few people have no rights to respect. r or muny. many years It was the most remote county in the country from railways, and now Its railway facilities are mighty limited. It costs around $30 to get from Burns to Port land by rail. The forest lands in the county, embracing pracUcally all of the merchantable timber, would bring in taxes of some J50.000 a year if the county could tax them. I he mail facilities in Harney have been butchered and cut and carved until the service is not as good as it was in the old stage coach days. The Sunday Oregonian, for instance. does not reach here until the follow ing Tuesday morning, and the Sat urday issue comes In at the same time. It takes more than three days, about S4 hours, for mall matter to reach Burns from Silvies postoffice, 40 miles from here. If the people here wanted help to finance a deal, the bankers, in effect, told them to do their own financing. Many, many times the leading citi zens of the county have endeavored to get water on the lands of Harney valley. the largest contiguous body of agricultural land In Oregon, but they could get no outside help. Always Harney county has been left out in the cold. ,lw Persons Know County. Not- one person in a score living west of the Cascades knows anything at all about the county. But in spite of all that Harney has grown In wealth, and finally, by uniting all of the interests here and by having large resources of their own, they found the day practically in sight when they could get water on a hun dred thousand acres "and more of this fine wheat land and make Harney the great granary of Oregon, as it should and will be. The irrigation district was formed with scarcely a dissenting vote. A good many thousand dollars of Har ney county money was expended in getting the surveys and other prelim inary work done toward getting the reservoirs and ditches started,- and the day seemed almost on the horizon when the irrigation bonds could be put on the market; now come the lovers of bird life in conflict with the lovers of child life, in contact with progress, in conflict with the school fund, in conflict with every material interest of Harney county, and presto, the bond buyers see the conflicting interests, see the taint of adverse rights, and refuse to bid on the bonds. Just how this is I will make plain In another letter. But before closing I wish to say that soon after the reclamation law was passed surveyors from the reclamation service were thrown into Harney and found here two rro1ects the Silvies project ana the Silver creek project as outstand ing, worthy enterprises. iut, as usual. Harney was the "goat." and Umatilla and Klamath county got the oney for their systems. Harney got nothing. And the .Harney valley irrigation district was formed to water the Har ney valley lands in the same manner as recommended by the reclamation engineers 17 or more years ago. McADOO DEFENDS LEAGUE Document Is Declared One ol Greatest Ever Conceived. rovvKr.T,RVlLLE. Pa.. Oct. 13. W. G. McAdoo, campaigning for the demo cratic party, entered the cone counuj of western Pennsylvania today and made a. number of addresses in which he urged ratification of the league of nations covenant. Mr. McAdoo in his address here de scribed the document as "one of the o-i-entest ever conceived by human -minds" and declared that "if James M. Cox were against the league and Warren Ci. Harding were for it. 1 as a democrat would support Mr. Harding. because I know that the future rests more on a settlement of this basic question than any other. I would break every party tie on earth and stand for the principle of this league." DAIRYMAN'S HAND SAVED By Twisting Several Tendons Am putation Is Prevented. Although his right hand was almost completely severed by a fall on a broken milk bottle, Albert Sulver, a dairyman living 12 miles east of Port land on the Columbia river highway, is rapidly recovering and amputation of his hand, at first thought neces sary, has been avoided. Mr. Sulver is being treated by Dr. Adolph O. Schmitt, who. by twisting the tendons, which had been severed, averted the necessity of amputation. Mr. Sulver is at the Good Samaritan hospital. , The accident happened late last week when Mr. Sulver was delivering three bottles of milk to a customer and slipped on the wet pavement, fall ing on one of the broken bottles. Job Dissatisfies; $20,000 Asked. W. H. Goodenough brought suit yes terday in the circuit court against C. D. Bruun for J20.000 damages. Goodenough alleged that Bruun was instrumental in getting him to leave a position which was paying him $400 a month as superintendent of the Crown-Willamette' Paper company's mill to go into new work with the Astoria Pulp & Paper company's fac cory. He said that the agreement with Bruun was that he was to re ceive $300 a month and $10,000 worth of treasury stock in the Astoria com pany. He alleged that this was, a false representation and that he has suffered great loss by his change of position. Music in Japan is usually taught by women or blind men. Read the Oregonian classified ads. Doctor Tells How to Strengthen Eyesight By the simple use o Bon-Opto, says Dr. Lewis, .1 have seen eye sight 60 in a week's ydy-' 'is timein aafory: many instances, and truick relief brought to inflamed, aching, itching, burning, work-strained, watery eyes. Read the doctor's full statement soon to appear in this paper. Bon-Opto is Bold and recommended everywhere by Drutrists. . Skin Troubles ' Soothed 1 With Cuticura 3op. OTmvTt. Titrrtm. 2rV. en wbw. Surriti trm of Owweur lAororiM, lpi. X, ataldsa. Direct From the Manufacturers LOOK AT THE PRICES LEHIGH TIRES ALL FIRSTS Ur srulnr I,lt We Sell Yon We Sell You Selling; Price One for Two" For 30x3 Rib ...$19.25 $9.85 S18.00 30x3 y2 Rib. 22.65 12.30 24.00 30x3 Yz Ns... 23.50 13.75 26.50 31x4 Ns 32.80 19.70 38.00 32x4 Rib.... 35.15 20.80 40.00 32x4 Ns.... 37.40 22.30 43.50 33x4 Rib.... 36.85 21.30 42.00 33x4 Ns..... 39.25 22.80 44.00 34x4 Rib.... 37.60 21.75 42.50 34x4 Ns.... 40.10 23.30 45.50 NO War Tax Added, which makes these prices about one-half of the regular price. Out-of-Town Customers Mail Your Orders. If Not Satisfactory on Inspection. All Fresh First Oualitv Stock WE ARE SELLING THEM FOR CANTON CORDS 1LACKST0NE TIRES ALL FIRSTS . Ve Sell Von We Sell Vou One for Two Kor 30x3 Non-Skid $13.50 $25.70 30x3' Non-Skid 16.75 31.00 32x3 Yz Non-Skid 19.40 36.90 31x4 Non-Skid 23.50 , 44.70 32x4 Non-Skid 25.60 48.70 33x4 Non-Skid....... . 26.95 51.20 34x4 Non-Skid 27.60 52.50 NO WAR TAX A Wonderful Wearing Tire ALL FIRSTS nrnular 1.1st W Sell Vou Sell Vou Selling lrlre One fnr Two For 32x3 $46.75 $31.65 $60.00 32x4 5S.30 40.75 77.50 33x4 60.10 41.00 77.90 34x4 62.20 42.00 80.00 33x4 Yz 67.55 45.00 85.50 34x4 Yz 70.40 47.40 90.00 35x4 z 71.40 48.50 92.00 36x412 . 73.50 50.00 95.00 35x5 87.40 5S.S0 105.00 No War Tax Added. Note the Big Saving. Guaranteed 8000 Miles SALE STARTS THURSDAY MORNING, OCT. 14 DON'T FAIL TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE PRICES THE FACTORIES' LOSS IS YOUR GAIN Phone Broadway 2275 Ml. k Sl CLa Corner Sixth and Burnside " - j ' " " PICKERS RACE WITH HMN APPLE CROP JS THIRD HAR VESTED DESPITE SHOWERS. Growers Continue to Ask for Help Although 100 Hands Arrive by Auto Over Highway. HOOD RIVER, Or., Oct. 13 (Spe cial.) In the face of unseasonable precipitation, making It necessary for crews of pickers to work between showers for the past two weeks, ap ple growers have made fair progress in harvesting their crop. A canvass of the valley shows that more than 33 1-3 per cent of the apples have been picked and are under cover. It estimated that more than 20 per cent of the crop has been packed al ready. The Apple Urowers associa tion has already received 100.000 boxes of packed apples, and approxi mately the same number has been re ceived here by other shipping con cerns. Approximately 175 carloads have already been shipped from here by all agencies. As harvest progresses, growers con tinue to place the total yield of the season at 1,200.000 boxes, 60 per cent of the 2.000,000 box crop of last sea son. The crop will be almost 60 per cent Newtowns. tirowers here continue to call for more help. As a result of publicity given through The Oregonian, more than 100 additional apple pickers ar rived here yesterday. Most of them came over the Columbia river high way by automobile. Many growers are picking their apples as fast as possible, stacking them away in orchard boxes1 in packing houses. The work of packing the fruit out will be continued later. Thi3" custom, it is said will enable' harvest hands that desire it to prolong a profitable sea son, working in packing houses as soon as the picking is over. Traffic Men to Meet. Problems arising through adminis tration of . consolidatedticket -offices will be considered at the meeting of the Pacific Northwest Passenger asso ciation in Spokane today. Portland's delegation of passenger traffic men to the meeting will be A. D. Carlton, William MeMurray, J. A, Ormandy and R. H. Crozier. All Stetson, Borsalino and Schobel hats off. C. C. Bradley Co.. 352 Washington, near Park sts., Morgan block. Adv. WOMEN BIT BILLIEERENT CLASH XARROYVLY AVERTED OUTSIDE COURTROOM. Mrs. R. A. Keller" and Mrs. Jeff Cabler Exchange Recrimina tions and Xearly Collide. Pronounced family differences de veloped yesterday afternoon in the hall outside of Judge Jones' court, following the suit of R. A. Keller against Jeff Cabler, a policeman, for a $4.75' telephone bill. Relationships not disclosed in the courtroom became evident in the hall, when the present Mrs. Keller called Cabler's mother-in-law "names." The mother-in-law replied by spit ting in Mrs. Keller's face, it is said, and then Mrs. Cabler,- formerly Mrs. Keller, declared she was ready to hit the present Mrs. Keller over the head with her umbrella. In the course of their dispute both women rushed into the courtroom and asked aid from Judge Jones, explain ing the indignities which they claimed had been heaped upon them. Keller asserted yesterday that Cabler owed him $4.75 for long-distance calls which Cabler had incurred at the time of the death of his former wife, when he had used his neighbor's telephone. At a settlement of bills made between Cabler's father-in-law and Keller the father-in-law declared this bill had been paid. "He not only did not pay this bill, but he stole my wife as well," Keller asserted, when it developed that Keller's former wife had deserted him for the policeman. In the course of the trial Keller said that a friend or his had heard the father-in-law say he could fix up his check stubs so that the $4.75 would appear there and that in this way "he could fool the judge." Judge Jones then asked that this witness be called into court and the case was continued to 2 o'clock this afternoon. INSKEEP SERIOUSLY ILL Police Captain Reported Suffering From Xervous Breakdown. Police Captain Inskeep. in charge of the first night relief, is seriously 111 at his home, suffering from a nerv ous breakdown, it was learned yester day. He had been suffering from iheumatism and other ailments for several weeks and had been unable to attend to his duties. Chief of Police Jenkins yesterday issued instructions to all police of ficers not to call Ci.ptain Inskeey a- his home by telephone, or to trouble him with police Dusiness in any way. The chief said it would be several weeks before Captain Inskeep would be able to resume his police duties. Sergeant Oelsner is temporarily com manding officer of the first night re lief during the absence of Captain Inrkeep. LogKer Instantly Killed. ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 13. (Special.) Harry Morgison. a logger employed at the Big Creek Logging company's camp near Knappa. was Instantly killed about 9:30 this morning, when a log, rolled over him. Morgison left a family residing at Seaside. i I n "Food - Drink Safe Milk For Infants & Invalids NO COOKINQ for All A cti.q Quick Lunch at Home. OflRr j Fountains. Ask for HOK&JCJCS. l-Avoid Imitations & Substitute MR r friendlij glass'.' . JIW BA, and satisfaction JW 'ISlifk ineveru bottle. MW fcjPtlp VW tvnown everywhere, buy it by the dozen M Anheuser-Busch Jmw ' fj Visitors cordsafy invited ' eclieuScM inspect our plant. j if , Blaumauer & Hoch Jj jjlj ilAfbl Distributors, Portland Rheumatism's Pains Will Soon Begin But You Can Do Much to Head Them Off. So many people dread to see the fading of summer, for to those af flicted with rheumatism it means that the comfort they have enjoyed during the warm season is soon to give way to the pains and pangs of this disease of torture. Warm weather arrmi to render 1hf Kfrmfl of rheumatiffm Inactive and harmless but Mono they will arouse and ttntn thrir furious at tacks with all of their old-time vigor. Are ou ijuiie sure ihat you have ever treated your rheumatism in an intelligent manner? Doubtless you have tried remedies by the score be cause the pains are always increasing in severity and are a source of con stant suffering. But just here is where you make your mistake, as others have done by the thousands. Just because your rheumatism causes eo much pain and discomfort you feel that the proper way to treat the disease is to endeavor to get rid of its pains. So you rush for the lini ment bottle and begin to rub and rub in a frantic effort to relieve your suf fering. And at times, possibly, you get some slight relief. But did you ever know of anyone ever ridding themselves of this pain ful disease by the use of liniments or other local treatment? A disease that can cause so much suffering is not confined to the sur face of the skin, and cannot be suc cessfully treated by local remedies. You have but to look around you at the numerous helpless victims of rheumatism to confirm this statement. Ask any of them and they will tell you that no matter how much lini ment they use. each season again finds them In the grip of the disease. Do you want to have the same ex perience? Or are you willing to take advantage of a treatment that has been successfully used by many vic tims? Many cases of rheumatism are duo to a tiny perm in the blood, which multiplies by the. million and carries its pains to different parts of the body. Such cases must be treated through the blood, and the disease germs eradicated before the disease can be conquered. This is why S. S. S. the fine old blood remedy has given such satisfac tory results in the treatment of rheu matism. It is such a thorough blood cleanser that it removes all foreign substance from the circulation thus clearing it of the germs that cause the disease. Vira must first remove from your blood the grrms that rnuar your rheumatism before you ran be free of Its pains. Begin taking S. S. S. today you can get it at any drug store. And if you wish any special instructions about your own case, our trained physician will take pleasure in giving you any desired information. Write fully to Chief Medical Adviser, 2S1 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Georgia. Adv. "They Work while you Sleep" Knock on wood! You're feeling fine, eh? That's great! Keep the entire family feeling that way always with occasional Cnscarets for the liver and bowels. Vuen bilious, constipated, headachy, un. strung or for a cold, upset stom ai:li. or bad breath, nothing actl .o nicely as cents. Aar. Cascarcis. iO.