THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTXAXD, JULY 26, 190S. 10 TT-o F Pu I u TT TT .H1IP For a Home, Independence, Health, Congenial Work, and a Splendid Income for Life, That Will Come as Sure as the Summer Sun, and the Wealth From the Soil Which it Produces. All this within your reach if yoir own a Roseburg Home-Orchard tract. You can buy a ten-acre tract of tMs rich bottom land on the beautiful Umpqua river on the most liberal terms ever offered on high-class fruit tracts. No stumps, no brush, every acre cleared ready to plant to trees this Fall. No irrigation necessary for large fruit or small. The Umpqua Valley puts all fruit into market three weeks earlier than any other section of the state. This means that a crate of berries, peaches, in fact all fruits and vegetables, is worth five times' what it would be three weeks later, and conse quently a big profit for the growers. Gome in and let iis tell you of this land of sunshine and plenty with the most delightful climate in America, where orcHardists are making $5000 to $10,000 a year on soil iden tical to ours. Price $150 per acre. Terms $150 cash, balance $25 per month. Our development plan will take care of your pay ments after next Spring, and will pay for the entire tract in two years. . We have photos and plats, of the the tracts in our office and will be glad to have you call and inspect them, secure booklets of the resources of the country, and detailed in formation about our particular property. Honor in Our Own Country ROSEBURG COMMERCIAL CLUB J. D. Zl'RCHER, Manager. 'ROSEBl'RG. Oregon, June 13th. 1908. 5tssrs. Harding & Kngen . tie ntleiiicn: Referring to your letter of recent date rela tive to the Allev Fa ran. located near Roseburg. 1 beg to ad vis.' you that I have visited the place a number of times, and lso have consulted a number of people of tills city, and trom Jnv own observations al:d from what people tell me, I am a .'iiltle undecided to whether it holds first or second liiare in rank as to tweing the best farm in Ilouglas County. However tin-re Is about S(0 acres of river bottom land which can-wot be excelled. I cure ot where you go. Ivor j.'Bcf I came to thlo country I have wished that some one vfuld buy this place and put it on the market in if'nali trarts and 1 assure you that when you informed me that you had closed the deal for the place 1 was more than pleased want to refor any one to me regarding this tract of land vou ma or do so. and I assure you tliat anything I can do'iii the WW of telling them the truth about It I will gladlv do and it. will take no "boosting" either, as the place' will speak for Itself. When you plave. this land on the market I wish to pur clmse a ten-acre tTac. and If I can raise the money I want a twenty-acre tract . Vou may show rj't letter to any one you wish, as I wo.ild certainly li.X"- " sec 5.10 people lesiding on that farm Inside of six or eia'hft months, and tt will support them, too. With kindest pcrsumal regards I beg to remain. Very sincere iy. ' J. D. ZL'RCHER. Manager. Here Is the Winning Plan If you are not ready to live upon a tract of this land, we will raise strawberries, rasp berries, currants, cantaloupes, melons, pota toes, onions, asparagus, celery, etc., on your tract, put up the money for seed and labor, market 'the produce, and at the end of the season pay. you one-half of the net profits: If we didn't absolutely know that this prop osition would pay us we wouldn't put our money in it, and you are going to make a dollar even- time we do. We can put small fruits and vegetables on the market two weeks earlier than any other section in Ore gon, and we are going to do it next year. "We have an orchardist and farmer of. 20 years' experience who will superintend this work, and a member of this firm will give his personal attention to the property. The soil is of great depth, and development be tween the rows does not affect the pros perity of the trees. Experiment has shown this to be true. One-half the profits of this development plan will pay. for your tract in two years, set it to orchard and put money in the bank for you. You will then have an orchard tract worth, in the open market, twice the purchase price. We are not guess ing at what we can do here, but this plan is the result of careful stud3r extending over a period of many months. If you want to join this successful fruitgrowing plan, come in and talk it over with us before this tract is sold. Do it now! 204 Rothchild Building Fourth and Washington Fruit Land Specialists Emigeifii Phone Main S46S; Portland, Oregon Branch Office, Roseburg, Oregon FORMS NEW UNITS President Changes Boundaries of Washington Forests. FOLLOWS GENERAL PLAN Intention Is to Make subdivisions as Equal In Size as Possible and to Promote Efficient Administration. OREGOXIAX NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. July 25. A radical change is to be made in th administration of forest reserves, or National forests, during the coming Fall: not a rhangp of policy in any way, but a change in the manner of disposing of forestry business. The change Is primarily In the Interest of the people of the West, but incidentally it benefits the service. In that it will save considerable time, and permit of prompt action. In brief, the large clerical force of the forest service, now maintained in Wash ington, is to be dividedi in halves; jone half will remain here; the other half will be scattered over the West, wherever the service maintains division headquarters. About 250 clerks and stenographers will be sent out from Washington to Portland. San Francisco. Salt 1-ake, Penver. Mis soula and Albuquerque, from 40 to 50 frying to each place. These resiective offices will placed In charge of administra tive officers, yet to selected and once organized, will handle and dnspose of practically all administrative questions that arise in the respective districts. The Portland office, for Instance, will handle all questions arising In the Na tional forest of Oregon and Washington; Salt Iake City will handle rases from Idaho. Utah and Nevada; Missoula will handle Montana and Minnesota matters, and Denver will lake care of questions arising in iVlorado and Wyoming. No New Appointments. i This change in administration will not j entail any new appointments whatsoever. I AM the clerks will be transferred from ; Washington, and the administrative offi cers will be chosen from among the present officials of the service. As vacan cies occur, however, or as the service grows, new appointments will have to be maiV, and all such sppointments will be made by the Civil Service t'ommlFsion. Western people will tf eligible to these appointments, just as they are at present, but none will be appotnted untjl they have passed the civil service examination. In selecting clerks and stenographers for ;ttern duty, the forest service is largely ' guided by the wishes of the employes, but there will be no difficulty in finding 2."0 who will be willing to move from Wash ington to some one of the six cities desig nated. In fact there is a greater demand than can be accommodated, and in very Instance the service will select the most competent employes for Western duty, because individual responsibility will be greater there than it has been here. By distributing the clerical force over the West, the forest service will be able to give more prompt attention to the many questions than is possible where papers have to be referred to "Washington for action and then returned. The grant ing of all kinds of permits: the regula tion of gracing; sale of timber, and the supervision of forest guards and rangers will all be done at the division head quarters in the West, .instead of waiting for authoritv from WasVtngt.n By thus expediting business, the forest service will overcome one of line few fair criticisms that have been m?de in Con gress in late years. The proposed chang Ps will be made during the Fall, beginning aJ-xnat October 1. It ia contemplated .'.hat the removal will be complete by Dectnber ;31. In the meantime arrangements .ire to be made for office accommodations in ea ch of the division hearquarters. and In must, if not all instances, the forestry clerk s will be obliged to occupy rentedt qua-Ttera, because the respective Federal buildings mre al ready filled. The service occupies rented quarters In Washington, and th- money saved when ZoO clerks depart wilL provide ample accommodations In tht various Western cities. Headquarters of the forest seivl?e will still be maintained -in the National capi tal, and all the various divisions will re main as at present organized, with thir same heads, but the clerical force will be reduced, and much of the work now dove here will hereafter be done in the WesV The change in administration In nc way alters the forestry policy of the Gov ernment. The same policies that hare been in vogue lately will continue, and the same men wH! have charge. The only advantage gained by the change is expedi tion in administration. BABY AND BOTTLER PLAT CHILD TAPS' SXAKE OX HkAO WITH, FAX. Pioneer Steamboat Man 'Dies. SAX FRANCISCO, July 25. Captain Richard Barron, one of the oldest marin ers on the Pacific Coast, Is dead at St. Joseph's Hospital, in this city., He was one of the pioneer navigators of the Sac ramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and built several steamers for those streams. Mother Faints st Sight and Men Rush in and Dispatch Reptile Barely In Time. pORT JEJRVISi July 25. (Special.) Playing peek-a-boo with a snake, ' little Flon ie Sherman was rescued in time to escape the fangs of a rattler yest.-rday. The child with its mother has been stop ping at a farmhouse near Cochecton, Sul livan County. The mother placed the child in the shade of a tree while she went to the house for a magazine. The baby is 214 years of age. Mrs. Shermen left her fan with the baby and this probably saved Its life. When the mother returned she was horrified to see a rattlesnake near her baby. The child was tapping it on Its head with the fan, a palm leaf, and crying peek-a-boo. It was laughing gleefully at the antics of the snake, which would strike at the fan every time the little girl struck it. Mrs. Sherman fainted. Two men ran to her assistance, and while one grabbed the youngster the other despatched the reptile with a croquet mallet. An examination of the snake showed that it was sloughing its skin and was partly bind. This and the fan unquestionably saved the child. The snake was three feet two inches long. JAPANESE SEALERS BUSY Five Schooners Reported Dangerous ly Xear Government Preserves. WASHINGTON, July 25. A dispatch received by the Navy Department today from the gunboat Torktown, on seal ing patrol duty about the Pribyloff Islands, Alaska, indicates that while the situation in sealing waters at pres ent is quiet, .five Japanese schooners are sealing- near the island of St. Paul. If the sealing vessels should encroach upon the seal preserves a serious clash is probable. SHERMAN A CIPHER CHURCH OF BRETHREN CLOSES ANNUAL CONFERENCE IN PORTLAND v mh Mum ixu - . , I ' -m i - 1 TT' T II HI II III SI ll liawft lulu in illllli IJUI II Ml , ,,W ) --J- b,vjrt urn . ."i -.. ..... . . , iiliTHHl'Tflf III! IHilMf r MEMBERS OF The conference of the Church worth avenue, and closed last We a uniformity of dress, the men w On the night the conference cl munion and feet-washing ceremon The officers of the convention Carl, pastor of the First Church, s This school will probably he open been Invited to meet in Portland 1 DEXOMIJCATIOJir IN OREGON, WASHINGTON AND IDAHO ASSEMBLED IN FROST OP CHIRCH ON KILLING SW ORTH AVENUE. ot the Brethren, formerly known as the "Dunkards." for. the district of Oregon. Washington and Idaho, was held In the First Church on Killinga dnesday. The members of this sect are conspicuous for the plalnn ess of attire and for the headdress of the women. As a denomination they adhere -to earing generally the same cut of coat, and the women wearing a oovenng tor the head In conformity to their Interpretation of the scriptures. osicd there was celebration of the Lord s supper, in which the ent ire membership took part, under the leadership of Elder E. B. Eby. It was a com- which is held in high regard by the Church of the Brethren TYiey regard feet-washing as symbolic, weire: Moderator. L. E. Keltner; secretary. J. V. G. Stiverson. The chief business was the provision for a Bible school In Portland. Elder George C. aid last night that a Bible school will be started in the church on Killingsworth avenue at first, but later a building will be erected for the purpose. ed next Fall. The conference embraces 1300 members and 28 churchfts. The next meeting will be held in Tekoa, Wash. The' general assembly has 3911. This gathering is usually attended by between 7000 and lt'.ODO people. Taft's Running Mate Will Not Figure in Campaign. MAY NOT SPEAK AT ALL If He Docs Take Stump Xcw Yorker Will Probably Not- Go Out side of His Own Slate on Tour. OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. July 25. Republican campaign managers do not expect to receive much assistance in the campaign this Fall from James S. Sherman, nomlnes for Vice-President. Sherman's health though it may improve, will hardly permit him to make a strenuous cam paign, and It Is more than likely that the Utlca man will not be heard out side of his own state, if at all. The fact Is that Republican leaders are awakening, to the fact that the selec tion of Sherman was not a particularly bright piece of work on the part of the Republican National convention, even from the viewpoint of the anti-Roosevelt crowd, who manipulated the selec tion of a runnlng-'mate for Taft. Sher man, In, his present physical condition, can nj)t even represent his wing of the party in a way to attract particular notice. - If the Republican ticket is elected, and Sherman regains his health, he will not, as has been predicted in some quarters, become an obstructionist in the path of the administration; he will not be In a position where he can inter fere. Sherman can do no more to an noy Taft than Fairbanks has been able to obstruct the policies of Roosevelt, and throughout the present administra tion Fairbanks has left not the faint est impress upon legislation, or on the other achievements of Mr. Roosevelt and his party. Fairbanks, like other Vice-Presidents, has presided over the Senate, but has had no voice In shap ing or carrying out policies, and a care ful review of past events will fall to show that Fairbanks either antagon ized or aided the President. So it will be with Sherman. As Vice-President. Mr. Sherman will be presiding officer of the Senate, but he will have no vote, except In case of a tie, an.l such occasions are very rare. Neither will he have any say In the organisation of the Senate; the naming of committees or the selection of chairman. He will not be a member of the steering committee which maps out the work of the Senate, nor will he be admitted to the "Inner circle." which has long been a. powerful though not recognized body of the Senate. He will be an outsider from first to last, and he will always be treated as an outsider. When policies of administration are be ing formed. Sherman will not be one of the men to assist the President unless, in advance, 1 he utterly and absolutely re nounces his old alliances and pledges his unqualified support to Taft and the recog nized powers of the administration. But in all this. Mr. Sherman will be merely following precedent: tramping along in the footsteps of his elongated predecessor. He knew this when he first announced himself as a candidate for the Vice-Presidential nomination, and he will not be disappointed