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fc& TALK ABOUT TALKING. YOU CAN TALK TO TIIOU SANDS OP PEOPLE EVERY DAY RY PUTTING YOUR "WANT ADS" IN THE TIMES. KEEP UP TO DATE RY READING THE COOS RAY TIMES. THE DAY'S NEAVS TOLD ACCURATELY AND CONCISELY. MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS. Vol. HI. THE DAILY COOS BAY TIMES, MARSHFIELD, OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1908. No. 13S. Mmm AMERICA'S CROPS FOR 1908 WORTH HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS Farm Value of All Farm Crops This Year Is $7,778,000,000. GREATEST TOTAL IN NATION'S HISTORY Sec. Wilson of U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture, Makes Report. , WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 14. After twelve years of service as head of the Department, the Secretary of Agriculture In his Twelfth Annual Report to the President, Issued to day, renders a comprehensive ac count of his stewardship and pres ents a review of the progress of agri culture In the United States during this period. Concerning the farm production of 1908, he says that tho farmer has created wealth by the billions. Production has been above the average of recent years with few exceptions; and, while some prices have fallen, others have risen. The farm value of all farm prod ucts of 1908 reaches the most extra ordinary total In the Nation's his tory $7,778,000,000. This Is about four times the value of the products of the mine, Including mineral oils and precious metals. The farmer contributes 87 per cent of the raw materials used In those manufactur ing Industries which depend mostly or considerably upon agricultural materials, and these Industries use 42 per cent of all materials used In all industries. The gain in value of farm prod ucts In 1908 over 1907 is ?290,000, 000 and would have been much lar ger had not the prices of cotton and hay been low. The value of prod ucts In 1899, the census year, being taken at 100, the value for 1903 stands at 125; for 1904, at 131; for 1905, at 134; for 1906, at 143; for 1907, at 159; and for 190S at 1C5. During tho last ten years the wealth production on the farms of this coun try has exceeded the fabulous sum of $G0, 000, 000, 000. Corn. Greatest of all crops is In dian corn, whose production this year is 2,643,000,000 bushels. The val ue of this crop Is $1,615,000,000. This wealth, grown out of the soil in four months of rain, sunshine, and some drought, Is enough to cancel the interest-bearing debt of the Unit ed States and to pay for the Pana ma Canal and fifty battleships. This crop is worth this year nearly as much as the great crops of cotton, hay, and wheat combined. Compar ed with the averages of the preced ing five years the quantity is 2 per cent higher and the value 43 per cent higher. Cotton. It seems likely that tho cotton crop is one of the highest three ever produced, but with a val ue next to the highest or perhaps more, although the farm price of cotton this year Is below the price of last year by more than one cent. For the first' time in the history of this country's agriculture, the value of the cotton crop, including seed, has apparently oxceeded the value of the hay crop which has heretofore held second place. Hay. The greatest hay crop In history, has been gathered this year, 68,000,000 tons, or 12 per cent above the average of the preceding five years, Its price is $2 per ton less than It was a year ago, but still the farm value of the crop is $621, 000,000, ,or 6 per cent above tho five-year average. Wheat. Wheat Is 1 per cent above the flye-year average in-production and 23 per cent above in to tal valup. The 660,000,000 bushels of this crop are estimated to be worth $62Q,Q00,0jQO to the farmers, or 66,000,000 mora than the most valuable wheat crop heretofore pro duced. Oats and other cereals. Although tho oat crop suffered from drought the value Is $321,000,000 for 789, 000,000 bus,hpJs, or 10 per cent above the five-year average ylue (Continued on Page 4.) ROOSEVELT IS REM FOR If Squelches Foraker's Attempt to Stir Up Brownsville Affair By Special Message. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Senator Foraker today introduced an amend ment to the bill providing for the re-enlistment of the negro troops who were discharged without honor because of their alleged participation in the affray at Brownsville, and ad dressed to It to the senate commit tee concerning tho amendment. Ho proposes, In his measure, to estab lish a tribunal consisting of retired army officers before whom evidence may be submitted and the defend ants themselves may appear to an- swer the charges. The measure is so I drawn as to practically take It out of the hands of the nation's execu tive and give it to the tribunal with full authority to act. Senator Foraker said he had let ters from the discharged soldiers saying their movements are dogged by detectives, and Foraker stated while he approved their 'ferreting out, he declared there was a right way to do it. At the conclusion of Foraker's re marks, a special message from tho President on the subject was read. President Roosevelt enclosed a let ter from the Secretary of War trans mitting the report of the investiga tion made by Herbert J. Browne, employed by tho department In con junction with Captain W. G. Bald win. The investigation of what hap jpened at Brownsville, August 13, 1906, according to reports, estab lishes clearly that the colored sol diers did the shooting. President Roosevelt states that the Investiga tion has not gone far enough to de termine all the facts, but it appears that all members of the Company must have been actively concerned either to the extent of being parti cipants or encouraging the partici pants, and that the facts were con cealed because of the dire threats made by those who were actually en gaged in the shooting. President Roosevelt believes that some allow ance should be made for the miscon duct of those who were spectators who" may now come forward and truthfully tell what happened, and i ho recommends their re-instatement within one year. OREGON GETS $25,85 1.30. WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 14. The general land office has made pub lie its account with Oregon for the year ending June 30, 1908. Gross proceeds from the sale of public lands were $540,881.58, from which amount is deducted tho pro rata share of expenses chargeable to the state of $10,849.26, making the net proceeds $517,086.09 of which amount the state Is entitled to 5 per cent or $25,854.30. OPENS TODS' Author and Seafarer Charged With Being An Accomplice In Annis Murder. (By .Associated Pre-ss,) FLUSHING, L, I., Dec, 14. The trial of Thornton Jenkins Halns, au thor and seafarer, charged with be ing an accomplice in tho murder of William E, An,nls who was shot and killed at Bayslde Yacht Club last summer by Captain Peter C. Halns, commenced this afternoon before justice Crano in the Supreme Court. HIS' TRIAL I" 10 KEEP Mikado's Government Will Prohibit Immigration to America After a Certain Date, According to New Treaty. (By Associated Press.) CHICAGO, D. C, Dec. 14. A spe cial dispatch to the Record-Herald from Washington says all Japan emi gration to the United States will be stopped by the Japan government. Baron Kamura, minister of Foreign Affairs, will make an official an United' States Supreme Court Rules Against Interstate Commerce Commission's Plea In Stock Investigations. (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, Dec. 14. In an opinion by Justice Holmes, the Supreme Court of the United States today held that E, H. Harrlman and Otto Kahn, the New York banker. WOULD 6UIL0 ITS 01 DOCK Oregon Coal and Navigation Company Securing Figures On Cost. P. Hennessy, superintendent of the Llbby mine, and lqcal represen tative of the Oregon Coal and Navig ation Company, has been Instructed by that company to ascertain the expense of constructing a wharf and warehouse on the company's water front on North Front street. He is gathering data on it today. The reason for the company's acti vity is the fact that F. S. Dow's lease for the site of the warehouse now used by the M. F. Plant and Al liance expires May 1. In order to be ready to handle Its business after that date, the company .Is planning to provide a homo of Its own. It is barely possible that the Alli ance will enter Into an agreement with the Oregon Coal and Navigation Company to use Its new dock and warehouse. Prentiss Gray, one of the owners of the Alliance, who Is now here, is Investigating tlie mat ter. The Oregon Coal and Navigation Company owns several hundred feet of water front near the Cold Stor age plant and probably plans to util ize it. Warrinrj Highbinders of 'Frisco Must Stop or Relatives In . ' China Will Suffer. (By Associated Press.') SAN FRANCISCO, Dec.' 14. The Chinese consul general here has no tified tho warring "Highbinders" of 'Frisco that another affray will cause him to send their names to the vice roy of Canton who will cause their relatives in China to be punished for their misdeeds in America. Careful estimates show that tho average business man walks a mlto in eighteen and one-half minutes, while tho ordinary loiterer, who ha no business on his mind, requires twonty-nlno minutes to walk it. Tho Ladles of Baptist church will have a Bale of Xmas goods In church Parlors, WEDNESDAY!' afternoon, December 10. HMUIM- WINS IN HIGH. COURT CHINESE MUST BE GOOD NOW SUBJECTS HOI nouncement to the Diet that the gov ernment has decided to prohibit all emigration to the United States after a given date. Thus will disappear the last remaining difference or pos sible cause of trouble between the United States and Japan. A dis patch says the Tokio government was brought to this decision after a long series of conferences between Sec retary Root and Baron Takahlra. Had the matter been left unsettled and although neither governments desired war, both, nevertheless, might have been forced into It had tho anti-Japanese riots occurred in San Francisco or elsewhere on the Pacific coast. I should not be required to answer the questions, concerning the dealings , in stock between the Union Pacific and the other roads to which they refused to make responses when subpoened at the investigation In New York. Construing the decision 'of the court In a dissenting 'opinion, Jus tice Day expressed the opinion that the construction given to the Inter state Commerce law takes from it all the power of Investigation. Precipitation On Coos Bay Not As Heavy As Usual During Past Month. The rainfall for the1 past two months on Coos Bay Is below the average, according to the summary of the weather for October and No vember which has just been issued by Mrs. E. Mingus, government weather observer here. Mrs. Mingus' report Is as follows: United States Department of Agri culture, weather bureau, station Marshfleld; county of Coos, state of Oregon. Summary meteorological report for the month of November 1908. Temperature. Mean maximum 60.3. Mean minimum 43.4. Mean 51.8. Maximum 72, date 3d. Minimum 29, date 27th. Greatsst dally range 30. Precipitation. Total 6.42 lnphes. Greatest In 24 hours 1.40 of an inch, date 23d. Total precipitation from September 1st, 1908 13.51 Inches. Normal precipitation from Septem ber 1st to N6vember 30th, for tho past six years 15.41 inches. Deficiency for 1908 1.90 of an Inch, Number of days with .01 Inch or more precipitation, 13; cloudy, 17; part cloudy, 1; clear, 12. Dates of t Lunar halo 8th, 12th and 14th. Thunder 22d and 23d. Hall 23d. Prevailing wind direction South west. ATES 10 Pat. Carroll and Eugene Lugen' Burned to .Death, Near Fresno. (By Associated Press. FRESNO, Cal., Dec. 14. Pat. Car roll and Eugene Lugen, timber cut ters, woro burned to death in their cabin in tho mountains, fifty miles from hero early this morning. They had a roaring flro In tho stove In tho cabin and burned whilo they were asleep. t i Choice oat hay at HAINES. RAIIALL IS B PEN DUTCH CR0I8ER D ALLIANCE III FROM PORTLAii Steamship Makes First Trip With Capt. Parsons In Command. The Alliance arrived In early this morning from Portland In command of Captain Parsons, he having taken charge of the vessel at Portland last Saturday. Captain Olson, the retir ing master, and Mrs. Olson came down on the Alliance. They will vis It here until the Nann Smith comes In when Captain Olson will assume charge of her. Mrs. Olson will prob ably make tho first trip with him on tho Nann Smith. The Alliance's incoming passenger list follows: Capt. B. W. Olson, Mrs. B. W. Ol son, A. B. Daly, G. Warner, L. A. Kleckner, H. A. Kleckner, G. GettJe ben, C. W. Smith, M. Linqulst, Ud. Anderson, Mrs. C. Canterbury, Miss Canterbury, Gladys Canterbury, J. D. Schmaker, J. L. Barnaman, L. A. Hemsath, Mrs. Jas. Brown, C. W. Vlers, Mrs. Viers, Joe. Ritter, F.W. Payne, Mildred Wood, Wm. Hahn, Chas. J. Gratton, W. F. Gordon, Jas.' J. Kleth, N. Nelson, Jlmmie Bowman, Mrs. Bowman, F. T. Sherwood, Al. Gill, R. Clark, S. Wasson and twelve steerage. M. P. Plant In. Tho M. F. Plant arrived this morn ing from San Francisco and will sail for that point tomorrow afternoon. While tho wind was favorable com ing up, the sea was quito choppy, Among her incoming passonv;3rs woro the following: A. C. Hall, Mrs. W. S. McFarlaud, Mrs. Kammerer, E. Duncan, A. Dun can, F. J. Haston, Mrs. Haston, Floyd Haston, Lu Haston, G. Falconer, Mrs. Falconer, Thos. Zeldon, LI Hung Chang, R. E. Thompson. Movement of Boats. Tho Eureka arrived In this fore noon from Eureka. Captain Noren reports that tho Eureka bar was very rough, a number of vessels be ing bar bound there. The Eureki Is especially adapted for bar work and can cross almost any bar at any time. The Breakwater was unable to get out Saturday night or Sunday owing to the southwpst gale and storm that prevailed. Captain Ma gonn expected to get out this aft ernoon. The Bandon has completed loading at the C. A. Smith mill and will sail soon. Commander of Atlantic Battle ship Fleet Makes Official Visit In Ceylon. (By Associated Press.) COLOMBO, Ceylon, December 14, Rear Admiral Sperry landed from tho battleship Connecticut this morn ing to pay his official visit to Sir Henry McCallum, governor of Coy- Ion. The admiral was given an en thusiastic recoptlon by tho natives and the Europeans, i AGENT RAKER QUITS. PORTLAND, Oro Deo. 11, Wil liam A, Baker has tendered his resignation ns ngout of tho Portland & Coos Bay Steamship Company, operating tho Breakwater, and also as general overseer of tho Oak-strqot dock, to take effect January 1. Mr. Bakor has a number of offers to tako a similar position with navigation lines operating out of Septtlo,, but, as yet ho Is undecided about leaving SPERRY PATS HIS RESPECTS SEIZES COAST OF VENEZU Action Likely to Bring Souffo American Trouble to A Focus. VESSEL WAS VERY POORLY EQUIPPED President Castro Is En Route to Berlin and Appears tn Be A Sick Man. VENEZUELAN PREPARES- FOR ITS REFENSK (By Associated Press.) CARACAS, Venezuela, Dec 14. The news of tho capture of tho Venezuelan coast guard ship Alexis by the Butch cruF- zer Gelderland, became- known in Caracas Sunday morning. A big crowd on the Plaza andf boulevnrds demonstrated fti support of the government. A decree Issued by Acting- Frcs- Ident Gomez, places tho repul- lie In a state of defense.. (By Associated Press.) WILLEMSTADT, Dec. 14. Tho seizure of the Venezuelan coasX guard ship Alexis by the Dutch crui ser Gelderland, revealed tho fact tfiaS: tho Alexis carried only six rlffes to poor condition and a small quantify of ammunition. Tho captain or UJus Alexis declared the Alexis was a mer chant steamer, but a passenger oat botird said she was a guard ami a. search of tho captain brought fortfcB her pennant. VENEZUELA IS ANGRY. Foreign Minister Says Holland WOO Ro Held Responsible. (By Associated Press. CARACAS, Venezuela, Dee. 14. - Foreign Minister Paul In a note-to as member of tho diplomatic corps,, pro testing against tho action or t&sr Dutch warships on tho Venezuelan! coast, says, "Venezuela protcsfas with energy against these- aicsrco- slons upon the territorial terms- off tho republic and she hold's- Holhind responsible for tho conuenjiBncea..' oastro sick again; President of Venezuela Is Eu Roafsw to Rejliu, (By Associated Press.) COLOGNE, Dec. 14. Fresfdxvl: Castro arrived hero last evening niw2 today proceeded to Berlin. He ar pears to bo a sick man. (By Associated Press.) BERLIN, Dec. 12. President Cas tro arrived tonight but It Is not Ikj llovcd In official circles that ho Js cpming to Germany on a poIItlcaS mission. Bill to Admit Arizona and New? Mexico Separately Introtfuo , , ecj In Congress , 'Bv ARKnciatPd PrewO WASHINGTON,. D. Q,t Dee; 14; Soparata statehood fon Arizona .m3 Now Mexico Is provided in tficr hilta which wore Introduced by- tftmotcnr Foraker today. This, fs In cowplt anoo with President Roosevelt's message urlug that the btatos Ik admitted to tho Uulqn. R Is ballovufil that the bill will pans thla htsssfcim Portland. For the past ton yonrs ties has been idantlflod with tlie leadiag companies of this city. PAVE W Ffflf IOHSTATES hi in M