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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, .PORTLAND, DECEMBER 20. 1914. 19 FARMING COUNTRY IS LAND OF PLENTY Jour Over O.-W. R. & N. Leads Throuah Districts Where w . i ; All Are Prosperous. GROUND IN FINE SHAPE Addison Bennett Interviews Many Persons on 1700-Mjilo Trip and Finds Optimism iieneral and Good Cause for It. BY ADDISON BENNETT. Having recently returned from a trip of about 1700 miles over the O.-W. R. & N. system of railroads which embraced a ride from Portland to Walla Walla, via Pendleton, it is only Justice to EXHIBIT TYPICAL OF ?. Atse. f V slyoSe: CooAs $r say that the country traversed never looked so prosperous at this season of the year as it does today. The first leg of the trip, to Pendleton, was made in the night, but that portion of the country seen from the car win dow up along the Columbia to Uma tilla, and then up the Umatilla River to Pendleton, is not much of a farm ing country. That is, as seen from the car windows, remember; back from the railroad, particularity- along the Umatilla, and especially about Hermis ton, Starfield and Echo, there is con siderable agricultural land in view and well worth seeing at this season. But this was passed in the night or early in the morning before I was wide enough awake to take more than a passing glimpse of it, as we neared Pendleton. Banner Wheat Country Seen. The morning train leaves Pendleton for Spokane, via Walla Walla and Colfax, at 7:10 A. M. and takes one through some of the finest wheat land in Umatilla County, the banner wheat cquinty of Oregon. As we reached the wheat up towards Adams, is soon be came apparent that for Fall plowing the season was very auspicious. There had been trood rains since the harvest and the stubble and Summer fallow turned over almost as black as a silk hat and the plowmen drove whistling 1 and singing on their way while the horses seemed to enjoy their work as though on a holiday. Often and often have I gone through this same section to see the plowing done under fsr different conditions. Sometimes when it was so dry that the plowman and his team were enveloped in a. .cloud of dust so dense that the cloud was about all that was visible; you only knew by circumstancial evi dence that plowing or seeding was go ing on. After seeding, when the soil was dry, the seed must remain in the ground at . the mercy of the birds, squirrels and wind until "there . is. moisture enough to sprout it. Sometimes this time does not come until Winter or early Spring. This year throughout Eastern Washing ton the seeding is done and the ground where it was sown is a mass of ver dure, much of which is being pastured. Rveryone la Optimistic. As we stopped at the various stations I usually got oft and saw some of the bystanders, often met one who was boarding the train and talked to him later as we journeyed along together. Taking this trip through I suppose I interviewed 100 persons in this way, all farmers or business men in the small towns. Their stories were all of the same optimistic nature, the out look for the next season's crop is the best ever known in the sections through which we traveled. That is good enough so far as it goes. But let it be known that the wheat yield is an unknown factor until it is thrashed and in the sacks: lhat the value of it is likewise an un know asset until it is sold and the money in the hands of the grower. But as far as the outlook ror the wheat farmers of Washington and Ore gon is concerned, it was never better, perhaps never so good, as right now. As to the crop of this last season, that has been harvested, sold and the farmers have received the money for it. That they received, owing to the European wars, about 50 per cent more than usual, and that much more than , they anticipated up to the middle of September. Is will known. Yes. the wheat growers are practically "rolling in money. "Time Good," Say Farmers. "Times are good with us." was al most the universal remark of the farmers and their friends, the coun try merchants. The latter said collec tions were never better than this Fall. One or them at the little town of Athena remarked: "We hear a good deal about hard times in the cities, and it seems the larger the city the deader the business. But so far as we in this section are concerned, I , must say that the hard times have not struck us yet. We did have slack business for a time last year, and the early part of 1914; but now we are all optimists up in this location and ex pecting anyhow dollar-fifty wheat next year." Those general observations will serve as examples of what I learned all , through' the wheat sections of the eijht or nine counties visited so far as the business conditions go as related ' " -nw-n, -, immimnii i , ininmiii linn Jj "t to the wheat business. But there is an other and a brighter side to the outlook, one that made me feel that the labors of the O.-W. R. & N. Company in "planting" corn, hogs and cows in the i sections through which its roads run was bearing abundant fruit. Cowa aad Haga Are Seen. In a general way it can be said that in three stubble flields out of every four we passed we saw either hogs or cows grazing or feeding. Sometimes there would be a bunch of cattle of 40 or 50 head; in several fields I counted that many hogs, usually those little brown cusses, the Duroc Jerseys. R. B. Miller was my companion on the entire trip. He was a guest of mine. Anyhow, I noticed he traveled on a bit of pasteboard while I paid cash for my rides, more than $50 for the trip. That is on the side, going to show that the newspaper man is not a superior being so far as dead-heading is concerned. He has to "cough up" his 3 cents a mile or hoof it. I brought in Mr. Miller's name because as traffic manager of the O.-W. 11. & N. system he was the one who ran the first hog train, the first dairy cow train and the first corn .demonstration trains ever run in the Northwest. It was Mr. Miller who went to the Yakima country with his special, which covered all Eastern Washington and portions of Eastern Oregon, and had specialists talk dairy ing, corn and hog raising. The special had. on board the great $50,000 Holstein cow of the Monroes. Spokane, and a lot of fine hogs of various breeds. People Are Apathetic. In the Yakima section the speakers were treated with scant courtesy. Well, I hardly mean that as the general ONE BRANCH OF RAILROAD'S INDUSTRY PROMOTION. JJoolijG- J5ooA-V?es sl7-scmrs sfyOyc reader would interpret it. for surely no person is of the type that wouldd Insult or be rude to a speaker, liut they were apathetic and generally thought that Mr. Miller and his special could have done better missionary work in the general farming and the wheat sections than in a fruit section, really the apple section of the universe. What about the conditions there now? Really the hog and the cow are taking the land and the corn fields are multi plied by hundreds. At one station where we stopped I asked the station agent if there was any shipping of hogs or milk from, that station. He informed me that never was a hog shipped from there until this year. This Fall' 15 car loads were to be sent out. As to milk and cream, he said that business start ed less than three months ago, but was bringing in already about $750 a month. I might go on and tell about how the people about the Yakima Valley look upon Mr. Miller now. But I think it unnecessary to go further. Anyhow, on my own hook, let me say he has done more for that country than any other one man. Route la Outlined. Our trip took us from Walla Walla to Colfax; to Tekoa; to Spokane; to Wallace, Idaho; to Lewiston, Idaho; to Walla Walla again; to Attalia; to Sunnyside; to North Yakima; to Wal lula and back to Portland; and gener ally the conditions were as outlined. At Walla Walla we took in the great O.-W. R. & N. corn show. It was as far ahead of the shows of last year and the year before (the 1912 show was the first ever held in the Northwest) as the apple crop of 1914 beat the apple crop of 1905. At Colfax and at' North Yakima we came in contact with the Apple Cook ery Demonstration car of the O.-W. R. & N. Company, which has been running through Eastern Washington and Eas tern Oregon for some two months, and is routed for some time ahead. This car is equipped to seat about 80 per sons, but far more than 100 often jam into it. In one end, on a raised plat form, is a model kitchen, having an electric stove and a fine kitchen cabi net with every modern convenience. Auxiliary Outfit Carried. There is also, accompanying the car, an auxiliary outfit which in large places is removed to a hall in the busi ness center. At North Yakima, where I attended two lectures, one in the afternoon and another that evening, they occupied a large hall in the Ma sonic Temple, provided by the Commer cial Club of that place. Mrs. Ellinor Meacham Reddingtoniv the "chief cook" and lecturer. She has an assistant. Miss Myrtle Wyatt, of Portland. In charge of the party, as a sort of general manager and advance agent, is W. R. Skey. There is also an expert electrician along for the pur pose of making the electric connections wherever lectures are given. 1 have in my time attended, a good many lectures, have seen a good many cooking demonstrations and listened to a multitude of lectures, but Mrs. Red dlngton has the double art of being able to blend her lecture with her work and make both equally interesting. It is close to the truth to say that sh so charms her audience that no one ever leaveB until the last word has been said and every sample of cookery devoured. She builds a pie or dumpl ing or some other artticle of which the chief constituent is the apple, and dur ing the operation she not only tells how she does it but gives the "why- lores " in detail. -fii. me same lime sne IS elvinsr a run ning sermon on the home and home life ana on the value of the apple as tnree-tlmes-a-day food. Indeed, her discourses and her art of cooking are as charming as the products she turns out. jviucn praise can also be elvn to Miss Wyatt for her charming per sonality ana able assistance to her cnier. as to Mr. Skey, he is the very nun iu nanaie sucn a job and alto gether it is a very happy family. wnerever tins car goes and these lectures ana demonstrations are given the sale of apples increases larrrlv In North Yakima the merchants report tnai tne sales nave more than doubled inaeea. tne nome market Is the best marKet tne apple growers have this year. And this increase in the use of apples is the sole reason for the O.-W R. & N. Company expending several thousand dollars on this cookery school. PORTLAND SHIVERS WITH MERCURY 23 Continuation of Cold Snap With Storm Off Coast of Washington Prediction. SNOWCLAD AREA IS SMALL Walla Walla Has Minimum of 16 'Degrees and Low Temperature Prevails All Along Columbia, Resulting in Icy Wind. The lowest temperature of the year was recorded early yesterday morning', when the thermometer on the Customs- house dropped to 23 degrees and stayed there until the sun came up. The max imum was 30 degrees, and the forecast for today says that Portland may ex pect weather with just a little more sting in it. for the wind has gone around to the northeast and will blow from the cold interior for another day at least. The snow flurry which visited Port land yesterday was a makeshift, and according to Theodore F. Drake, acting forecaster, the way It broke up and the present conditions indicate several more days of cold. : Western Oregon was the only part of the Northwest which was visited by snow yesterday and at Eugene as much as two inches was experienced. The coldest section is still along th Upper Columbia and the Inland Empire. Boise shivered all yesterday the thermometer never rising above 22 degrees. The maximum at Walla Walla was 16 degrees. Other points throughout that section were proportionately cold and that, in a measure, accounts for the cold wind which swept down the Columbia Gorge at a velocity of six miles an hour. The river is becoming clogged with cake ice and in many places is frozen over. A storm Is expected off the eoaat of Washington and Forecaster Drake last night ordered the display of storm sig nals at the mouth of the Columbia and all points along the Washington shore. Skating is still at its best and every lake is covered with men, women and youngsters. BIG SXOW STORM E.VPKCTKD Portland's Street Cleaning and Park Bureaus Prepare Xor Worst. Portland's park and street cleaning bureaus are expecting a big snow storm. The unusually cold weather and the little flurry of snow yesterday caused orders to be sent out to the men' in charge of the parks to get out the snow shovels and to take steps to protect the park property. At' the same time orders went out to the street cleaning bureau to be ready to assemble all available men and teams in the business district in case of heavy snow. Because of the scarceness of snow in Portland the street cleaning bureau has but little snow-moving apparatus. What little there is has been brought out ana nxea up ready Tor service. i . SALEM COtrD AT 23 ABOVE Light Snowfall Makes Streets Dan gerous to Traffic. - SALEM, Or., Dec. 19. (Special.) Thi was Salem's coldest day this Winter, the mercury rerrtstering 23 degrees above zero at 7 o'clock this morning. vine highest point reached during th day was about 38 degrees and. at o clock tonight, the temperature had dropped to 28. A light snowfall last night made the streets slippery and dangerous to traffic. Walla Walla Farmers Worried. WALLA WALLA Wash., Dec 19.- (Special.) Cold weather, with littl snow, is worrying tne larmers some what, but slight damage to wheat has been reported. There has been little wind, preventing much damage, the farmers declare. SEAL SALES ABOUT $2750 Clubwomen Anxious to Begin Using Funds for Relief Work. With the earnings totaling approxi mately $2750 and with several of th grade schools yet to be heard from, the campaign for the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals closed today. Today was another big day and a nttin finale to the entire campaign. The Brooklyn Mothers' and Teachers' Clu were able to realize about $175. The women stationed in the Postoffice yes terday. Misses Bessie Foster, Elle Nelson, Hattie Agilbee and Jess! Weatherby. made the record sale of the day, netting $28.39. This year the Oregon Federation of women s Clubs handled the aale an hoped to raise about $1500. but as th approximate total shows were able to make it . and in. addition. The Canni or More Sensible Than a Piano or Flayer-Piano for Christmas to Come? The Great Manufacturers" Emergency and Surplus Sale is . ncaring the end If you expect to purchase a piano or player piano in the next ten years, you owe an investigation to yourself nosw. Through the. columns of this paper we have told the reasons for this great sale several times, so suffice it to say that never again will such low prices be made as are now marked on thor oughly reliable pianos, for the same causes can never again exist. New pianos ran aon be had for less thai at dealer have before sold same Krade used lnatromentau $300, $250 and $300 new pianos can now rbe secured for $98, and the more elaborate styles for $145. We still have also a good selection, in plain cases, for $118. A great many used pianola pianos, which cannot be told from new, at prices ranging from $285 for the $500 grades, to $488 for the $900 and $1000 grades. The Chiekering, America's oldest and best; the beautiful Kjmballs, and the genuine Autopiano Player Piano also included in this, great sale. Player pianos on terms as low as $12 per month, some for $10 per month. and some for only $2 per week. Pianos $1 per week. co-operation of Portland business firms. of the society women and the aid of the Orpheum, Pantages, the Empress and the Baker theaters has made the big success- possible. The club women are anxious to begin using the funds for releif work in tubercular cases and hope to be able to do more than ever along that line next year. THEATER PRACTICE BARRED Gift of Tickets WitU Chance to Win Snpplies Declared Lottery. To give food and provisions as premiums to lucky persons on admit tance cards to theaters has been de clared a lottery by Municipal Judge Stevenson and local amusement houses have been warned to discontinue the practice. B. F. Monroe, proprietor of the Princess theater . at Kern Park, was haled before the court yesterday morning on a lottery charge and dis missed with a warning. "Several downtown theaters and nu merous suburban moving-picture houses have offered inducements to patrons in the shape of flour, candy, cake, etc., to holders of winning tickets. JACK JOYCE TWICE JAILED Roundup Performer on Trial for Giving Whisky to Indian. Jack Joyce, Round-up performer. gave some whisky to Wak-Wak. a Uma tilla Indian, at Pendleton last Fall dur ing the classic event that has made that town famous. He was arrested under a city ordi nance and served 21 days in jail, be sides paying a $100 fine. Then he was indicted by the United States grand Jury at Portland for giv ing liquor to a Government ward. He was arrested at Walla Walla and was brought to Portland yesterday by United States Marshal McGovern, of Spokane. FOREIGNERS BUY STOCKS Pennsylvania Share-Holders Abroad Increase, in Spite of War. PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 19. Accord ing to a statement issued today by the Pennsylvania. Railroad Company, de spite the European war the number of foreign holders of its securities showed an increase of 38b December 1. com pared with the number of foreign shareholders December 1, 1913. The number of foreign holders is 11.882. The total number of Pennsylvania Railroad shareholders is 91,159, accord ing to the statement, and 48 per cent ara women. PEACE FORCES WILL MEET 'Consistent Jieutrality" to Be Topic at Library This Afternoon. The allied local hold their regular peace forces will weekly propaganda START USINO TODAY BALDPATE (Res. United States and Canada) HAIR TONIC Beneficial to the scalp. Stops the hair from falling out PROMOTES THE GROWTH OF HAIR Remove, dandruff. Rives a rich closs; highly perfumed, and free from oil. An excellent tenic for ladles and rntl men's hair. A trial will convince you. PRICK, $1.00 BALPPATK CO.. NKW YORK. . Mold by all dnnrg-is. , That Every oys tor All lime START YOUR PAYMENTS AFTER ' CHRISTMAS. The important thing is to select your piano now. Start making your pay ments in January or February, 1915, if you like, but you certainly should se lect your piano while these low prices hold good, and before the roanufac t u r e r s' representatives Ellsworth, Barnes and Davey leave Portland. If you have a used piano, organ or phono graph and records which you would like to exchange, we will be very glad to allow you a fair valuation for it. Remember, we deliver any time Christmas day If yon would like tar have your piano for a surprlxc. Many new player pianos still left. The entire stock can be seen tomorrow morning. Remember, all of these new instruments are marked at prices even less than same quality uprights with out the . player mechanism inside are usually sold for. $500, $550 and $600 new player pianos are now marked $283 and $337; some of the smaller sizes, perfectly plain cases, $245. The $750. $800. and $850 values are now $377, $437 and $488. The $1000 and $1250 player pianos at $588, $664, and the largest sizes $776. All with free music rolls and our free exchange proposition. 475 !V -w Player Piano. .MumIc Rolls Free. meeting this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in room A. Central Library.- David Buchanan and others will speak on "Consistent Neutrality." Isaac Swett, W. II. Stone, Rev. John Riley, Rev. T. J. Coburn. Klisha A Baker. Rev. W. L. Cox, Dr. Frank Love land, Mrs. Millie Trumbull and others are listed for future addresses. Mrs V. B. DeLory will lead the congregational singing. G. Evert Baker, state president of the Oree-on Christian Endeavor Association, will speak on December 27 for world peace. WIRING MAY BE PROHIBITED Electric Work Must Be Supervised if Law Passes. Property owners will be prohibited from doing electrical work on their premises unless the work is supervised by a reliable electrician, if recommend ations of City Electrical Inspector Dunlap as made yesterday to City Com missioner Dieck are adopted. Inspector Dunlap says it is impossible to prevent a property owner from doing work on his own premises as the laws stand now, and, in consequence, much trou ble is experienced by the electrical in spection service. While it is said it would not be pos sible to prevent a property owner from doing his own electrical work, it is believed it would be possible to pre vent him from doine the work unless Dr. N. J. Fulton has removed to Wheeldon Annex, cor ner Tenth and Salmon streets. Dr. Fulton will now devote her entire time to her practice. The many mar velous cures made by Dr. Fulton should be sufficient indorsement as to her ability as a Naturopath Physiciara. In addition hundreds of testimonials are available. After manv years of careful atudv Dr. Fulton has perfected a scientific method or care ror patients In their own homes who are unable to come to her office. Dr. Fulton is specializing in stomach and kidney trouble, rheumatism and paralysis. For further particulars call or write. Phone Main 1941, A 6641. Adv. HOMEOPATHIC PRESCRIPTIONS. SPECIFICS, TRITURATES, PELLETS. A HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACY IN CHARGE OF A TRAU'GD UOMEO PHARMACIST. SEND FOR. CATALOGUE. WOODARD, CLARKE & CO. Wood-Lark BIdK Alder Street at West Park. Portland. Or. 'tf j i''ianiiij.iyiiivijjSW,n1j aaaasasa.il Til I IISI, .H"St-:r" 7 I $245 r :'H I Be Member of See the many $450 beauties like this, the price in this sale is only $216 a month). Any article purchased of Eilers Music House is sold on a definite money-back guarantee. It must be found as repre sented in every way or money is cheer fully refunded. Any instrument pur chased in this great sale may he ex changed at any time within one year from date of purchase, we allowing all a competent electrician is engaged to supervise the work. In other words. Mr. Dunlap would prevent property owners from being anything but help ers in doing electrical work. It is probable that this proposition will come up with others which have oeen raised in connection with a pro oosed new electrical code whh-h is to Truth D enta! Ethics Reports are being circulated by the Dental Trust that I have been, forced to close my dental office in Portland because the Dentistry Bill failed of passage at the late election. Evidently truth is not one of the ethics ;;;.of the Dental Trust. Will a dentist, who i'.'ialsifies about another man's dentistry, tell the truth about his own dentistry? My office in the Merchants Trust Build ing, southwest corner of Sixth and "Wash ington streets, is open every week day from N?V r--r ' 8:30 in the morning till 6 o'clock in the evening, just as it has been since April 26, when it was first opened. What is more, it will remain open, despite anything the Dental Trust may do or say. If you call Monday morning, and are first patient, your chart will be No. 4778. This fhows that nearly five thousand patients have been treated in my Portland office in less than eight months This proves that merit always wins over prejudice; that any man who conducts his business without secrets in the broad daylight of publicity will have the respect and con fidence of the public, and that thousands of people in Oregon needed dentistrj-, but through ignorance of their mouths, high cost of Trust dentistry and fear of pain as inflicted by old-school dentists had deprived them of the needed services of the dentist. Being unable to secure enough room for my constantly growing business on the second floor of the building' at Sixth and Washington streets, I have arranged for additional room on the third floor. The work of remodeling is now in progress, and when completed, as it will be in a few days, we will have 18 operating rooms and all adequate facilities for my patients. Please remember that it is unnecessary to make ap-point-ments to have your teeth examined at my office. You may call at any time between 8:30 in the morning and 6 o'clock in the evening. No charge is made for consultation ami examination All kinds of dentistry is done without pain, and all our work is guaranteed. Every one of my associates is a graduate dentist of experience, and licensed to practice under the Oregon laws. No students are permitted to do work in my office. My guaranty is made good in any Pain less Parker office, no matter where the work was done. PAINLESS DENTIST Sixth and Washington Sts., Portland Other Offices in San Francisco Brooklyn, N. Y. Oakland Saa Die IMiiceF the Family and ($6 that has been paid toward payment of one of our thirty different high-grade makes. This exchange agreement may even be extended for an additional year. You cannot make a mistake in buying a musical instrument at Eilers Music House. A child may purchase as safely as can the shrewdest shopper. Entire Building Broadway at Alder Open Evenings Until 10 o'clock be presented to the City Council this week by City Commissioner Dieck. $193.50CASH Buys $325 new 1915 model upright piano at Graves Music Co., 151 Fourth street. Adv. and ARKER 1 isttJisir Los Angeles Bakersficld j