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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1910)
i. ,. .trm-i'Mfiiilrtitiyl' A4MktMKiiMiMM km I ORGANIZE AGAINST THE BEEF TRUST Boycott Against High Prices Spreads Over Entire Country. Thousands Sign Pledges to Abstain From Meat for 30 to 60 Days Churches, Labor Unions, Women's Clubs and Even City Councils Join to Reduce Cost of Living. tax, senators Walla Walla, Wash., Jan. 20. As sorting that under existing conditions revision of the tariff upwards neces sarily involves a revision of the stand ard of living downward, farmers of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, at tending the conference of the Farm ers' Educational and Co-operative union, which closed tonight after a three days' session, took action today demanding that tariff duties on the necessities of life be lowered. Delegates to the tri-state convention also went on record as favoring amend monts to the national constitution pro viding for a graduated income and election of United States by direct vote of the peoplo. Establishment of the parcels post systom, bekter roads and conservation -of natural resources are demanded. Ship subsidies are opposed. That the present local option liquor law in Washington bo amended, mak ing the county the unit, was made the subject of a resolution which passed unanimously, and it was further urged that tho question of statewide prohi bition be submitted to the people of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The meeting also went on record -emphatically against curtailment of the present rural free delivery service or tho increase of postage rates on magazines, protested against gambling iu futures on farm products, heartily indorsed the report of the country life commission, favored the appointment of a state commission and favored townsito organization where popula tion is sullicient, opposed building of trunk roads by the state with money raised by taxation, but favored build ing radiating roads from central points, favored direct legislation and the recall system, favored appointment of a standing educational commission lor tho purpose of unifying the edu cational system, protested against any action ot the navy department to pre vent vessels carrying coal tor tne use of the navy from taking cargoes of wheat or other grains on their return voyage, favored appointment of a committee to investigate the question of fraternal insurance because of high comparative rates maintained by the old line, fire and grain insurance com panies. MAKES ANOTHEB BECOBD. 19 bi ex FLIES OUT OVER OCEAN. Paulhan Makes World Eecord for Pas senger Carrying. Aviation Fhld, Los Angeles, Jan. 20. By carrying one passenger in his biplane on a 22-milo cross-country trip from the aviation field to a point half a mile out over the ocean, and by taking another passenger on a 12-milo flight over tho fields, and three other passengers, ono at a time on short flights, Louis Paulhan today estab lished a now world's record for heav-icr-than-nir machines. No other aviator has taken up so many passengers during one day and no other aviator has taken a woman for a high flight ovar fields and woods and villages and hungry surfs for more than 20 miles, Paulhan sailed at an altitude of from Cm to 1000 feet over Rcdondo I beach, Venice by-fhe-Soa and other re sorts toward Point Pirmin. There wore no life preservers tied to the machine to save thom from death in tho waves should they fall. He made tho trip and tho other perilous fliglits or the atternoon with the ease of Tun to your club in a taxicab. Tho passenger-carrying record Is lield by Orvillo Wright, who flew with Captain En'glehardt for one hour and 35 minutes at Berlin last fall, but Wright did not leave the course, where he could land at will. Paulhan was gone 33 minutes on this 22-mile trip. He had his , wife as a passenger. His 10-mile trip was made with Clifford IS. Harmon of New York. Mikado Greets Sebree. Tokio, Jan. 20. Rear-Admiral So- Vree, commander-in-chief of the Pa cific fleet; Rear-Admiral nubbard, commanding the Asiatic squadron, and the captains of the United States war ships here were received today bv the emperor. Following the audience, the Americans were entertained at dinner !v Vice-Admiral Saito, to whom Rear Admiral Hubbard presentod a loving cup, the gift of officers of the Ameri can fleet. Guests at this affair in eluded Admiral Togo and 16 other officers of the Japaneso navy. Twins Born on Ice Floe. O.-illipolis, Ohio, Jan. 20. While be ing buffeted about in an ice floe on fho Ohio river early today, Mrs. Wil liam Shields gave birth to twin girls. The familv lived on a houseboat moored at Millwood. W. Va. The boat was torn loose by the ice and when it landed today the mother was attended ly physicians. Tho girls were named "Ohio" and "Virginia" as a memory of the trying ordeal under which they were born. Paulhan Flies 23 Miles and Returns Safely to Starting Point. Aviation Field, Los Angeles, Jan, Louis Paulhan, in his Farman plane, made today what aviation pertSjhere consider the most remarka ble cross-country flight In iustory. On tho wings of a wind that the other aviators hesitated to face, tho littlo Frenchman rode from Aviation field to "Lucky" Baldwin's ranch, 23 miles away, circled the old Santa Anita racetrack and bucked Lis way back to his tent. In all he covered an estimated dis tance of 47 miles in one hour, 2 min utes, 42 2-5 seconds, lie went down with the wind in 30 minutes and came back against it in 33 minutes, leaving off the odd seconds. The country over which he traveled was the valley lands of the San Gabriel river and the plateau leading to the ocean, lie could nave laauea at almost any place, but he did not. When he climbed out of his car he said his motor was as cool as when he started and that he could do the trip over again at once. In sheer beauty and contempt of danger the flight rivals that seen on any of the aviation fields of the old world. The only test approaching it in this country was that made by Wil bur Wright last fall, flying with an army officer from Washington to Alex andria and return, a distance of ten miles. Bleriot, Latham, Farman and Cody have made flights nearly as long, per haps, but they have not come back. Cody flew 40 miles at Aldershot in 62 minute's last fall. Farman took a 20- mile run to spend a day shooting with a friend, but he landed at one end of his journey. Cortlandt F. Bishop, president of the Aero club of America, said tonight that he did not know of any flight equal to Paulhan 's. It is probable that the prize of $10,000 will go to the French man. There will be a good deal of official pondering and cabling, however, before a new world record is added to the glory that already belongs to France, Paulhan maintained an altitude of from 1000 to 2000 feet on his way over the valley. His highest point was 2130 feet, as indicated by the instrument in his car. Under him, speeding over th country roads, scattering chickens and domestic 'animals, were motors trying to keep in touch with him in case he should fall or have to descend. Mme. Paulhan followed in an automobile praying and crying. When Paulhan reached the grand stand, on his return, he was mobbed, The crowd broke through the barriers, The spoil under which they had sat for an' hour, straining to see the speck in the sky, broke in an ecstasy. The avi ator was lifted up and borne over the field as a football hero would be treated, after a championship game, His own countrymen kissed him and wept in joy. A BRIEF DAILY REPORT ON THE WORK OF CONGRESS Washington, Jan. 22. The senate irrigation committee today drafted a substitute for the B&rah-Ballinger bill authorizing the issuance of $30,000,000 worth of bonds to assist in the comple tion of government irrigation projects. Aside from changing the name of the securities from bonds to certifi cates, the committee made no material change in the Borah bill, except to provide that moneys shall be applied exclusively to the completion of exist ing projects or extensions thereof. No new projects can be built with this fund. After sitting almost continuously for the last three days, the senate com mittee on territories today perfected the Beveridge measure to create a leg islative council for Alaska. The proposed .council was increased by the sub-committee so that it will be composed of a governor, an attorney general, a commissioner of Interior mines and eight others, two from each of the four judicial divisions. All the members of the council are to be named by the president. The council is authorized to levy a special tax of not more than one per cent on the value of the gross output of the mines. This tax is to create a tuna to defray the expenses of the meeting of the council, and is in addition to direct appropriations to be made by congress, MINIMUM RATE ANNOUNCED. Lee's Memory Honored. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 20. Tho Newport News customs house was closed all day in observance of the anniversary of" Robert K. Lee's birthday. While the main dnors of the offices remained locked. Collector Stuart and several deputies remained on duty for some time in the forenoon to clear and en ter any vessels arriving and departing President Issues Tariff Proclamations to Six Nations. Washington, Jan. 19. The president issued today his proclamations in which it is declared that, under the new tariff law, Italy, Great Britain, Russia, Spain, Turkey and Switzerland :ire entitled to the minimum rate im posed by that act. The proclamations, which are ident cal, provide that Decause Italy and its colonics have not discriminated in tariff rates against the products of the United States and pay no export duty on products sent to the United States that discriminate, the president pro claims that on and after March 31, 1910, Italian products shall be admitted under the minimum tariff. Tho proclamation is signed by president and by Secretary Knox. tho Big Ice Gorge Gives Way. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 19. The great ice gorge that for the last two weeks has held solid in the Ohio river from Wolf creek almost to Louisville broke today and it is moving tonight with out doing any damage other than car rying away shanty boats and small cral't and causing a cave-in of banks. The flood is expected to reach Evans vino, Ind., tomorrow morning. There was a rise of over two feet in the Ohio at Cincinnati during the night, and it has been raining in Louisville for 12 hours. Medina Gets Tip, Flees. Managua, Jan. 19. The police broke into the house today where General Me dina was supposed to have barricaded himself, but found he had gone. Minister-General Banca has issued a gen eral order for his capture on sight. Medina was one of the men whose ar rest was ordered after President Mad rid had addressed a message to the su preme court demanding that action should be taken against those impli cated in the execution of 'the Amen cans Groce and Cannon. Washington, Jan. 21. Senator Car ter of Montana, has prepared and will introduce a bill carrying out the rec ommendation of the governors of the country at their recent meeting in Washington with reference to the c.s- Doeition of waterpower sites on the public domain. The bill provides that all public lands immediately radjoining streams and forming a part of power sites shall be ceded to the various states in which they are located ; the states to retain perpetual ownership of such lands, with authority to lease them for power development in such a way as to per vent monopoly. The house of representatives, af ter a long fight led by Representative Hawlev. as a member of the claims committee, today passed the bill direc- mg the secretary of the treasury to re fund to registers and ex-registers of the local land offices money earned by them in issuing notices of cancellation of entries subsequent to July 26, 1892, at the rate of $1 per cancellation. Testimony given today by Secretary Knox before the house committee on appropriations revealed the fact that that the United States is endeavoring to induce the Argentine Republic to have two Dreadnougths built in ship yards in this country. The visit of Mr. Knox to the capitol was for the purpose of explaining the estimates for his department for the next fiscal year, with special reference to the request for $100,000 for promot ing foreign trade relations. Washington, Jan. 20 Delegate Wickersham, of Alaska, at the hear ing before the senate territories com mittee today, objected to all the pro visions of the Beveridge Alaska bill, recently introduced, on the ground that it gave the peoole of Alaska no voice m tneir own government. Senator Beveridge had numerons clashes with Wickersham, and professed to know more about A'aska's needs than does its delegate. Representative Poindexter, of Wash ington was the only Republican mem ber of the house of representatives who today voted to place Representa tive Rainey, of Illionis, on the Bal- hnger-Pinchot investigation committee. The senate Indian committee today favorably reported Senator Jones' bill ! autnorizing anaiuonai allotments on the Yakima Indian reservation, and the setting apart of townsitcs thereon ; it also favorably reported his amend ments appropriating $250,000 for draining the lowlands on the Yakima reservation and appropriating $5,000 to complete the appraisal and classifi cation of lands to be obtained. Secretary Ballinger, in response to requests from Proper, Wash., has laid down certain conditions under which he will direct reclamation service to extend the Sunnyside canal, so as to irrigate about 2,200 acres in the vicin ity of Prosser by the beginning of the season of 1911. Owners of theBe lands 'must come in to Sunnyside Water Users' associa tion, sign up their lands and agree to pay $31 per acre for water if they are now receiving water from the Prosser Falls Land & Power Co., or $52 per acre if they have no water rights, ard Prosser Falls must agree to relinquish to the government 25 cubic feet of wa ter per second. Urgency Deficiency Bill Cut. The Hamilton bill which was passed Dy the house is declared to be objec tionable to the senate committee. representative tins today recom mended to Secretary Ballinger that the nine warm springs on the Warm Springs Indian reservation be set apart as a resort, so that a sanatorium may be erected for the benefit of those de siring to make use of the springs, These springs will be readily access ible as soon as the railroads are built along the Deschutes river. A general denial of the sweeping charges of reckless and improper ex penditures in the Interior department incited by Representative Hitchcock was made today by Fred Dennett, com missioner of the general land office, at the opening session of a hearing before the houes committee on expenditures in the Interior department. He ad mitted, however, that some of the minor specifications were true. Washington, Jan. 18. Without de bate and by a viva voce vote the house today adopted the conference report on the Ballinger-Pinchot inquiry resolu tion and then devoted almost five hours to further discussionof the urgency de ficiency appropriation bill. Consider ation of this bill was not concluded. After cleaning up the calendar by passing about 40 bills, a majority of private character, the senate today adopted a resolution requesting the secretary of the treasury to advise the senate if newspaper reports were true that, the customs house at New port News, Va., was to be closed to morrow in observance of the birthday of General Robert . Lee. Speaker Cannon today officially ruled that President Roosevelt had acted without authority in appointing repre sentatives to the third international corference on maritime war at Brus sels. He did this by sustaining a point of order made by Representative Har rison of New York against an appro priation for the continuance of the ser vice of these representatives. Accordingly, the paragraph asking such an appropriation was stricken out when consideration of the urgent de ficiency bill was resumed in the house Representative Hawley today intro duced a bill to pay the state of Oregon $712, the amount due the state on lands selected on desert land list No. 11. Washington, Jan. 17. For the third time the house of representatives passed a bill today giving separate statehood to the territories of New Mexico and Arizona. The vote was taken amid applause. The absence of opposition was the most striking fea ture of the debate. The house committee on claims today reported favorably a bill to reinstate William Boldenweck, assistant United States treasurer at Chicago, for the $ 73,000 stolen from the sub-treasury there in February, 907. Consideration of the urgent defi ciency appropriation bill, carrying more than $5,000,000, was begun by the house. The conference report on the Balling er-Pinchot inquiry resolution by the senate was a feature of today's ses sion in both houses. Eulogies on the late George L. Shoup, ex-Senator from Idaho, in con nection with the acceptance of his statute was the special order in the senate. Senator Chamberlain and Represent ative Hawley today introduced a bill, drawn by the Interior department, granting relief to bona fide settlers on tn snecz reservation. me Dill is even broader in its provisions than the Hawley bill previously introduced. Secretary .ballinger today recom mended the appropriation of $250,000 to irrigate and drain from 30,000 to 40,000 acres of low land on theYakima Indian reservation not included in the present irrigation project. Civil Pensions Considered. Washington, Jan. 18. The subject of relief for men and women who grow old in the government service was tak en up today at a joint session of the senate and house committees on civil service, at which President O'Donoghe and 15 members of the United States civil service retirement association had a hearing, AH the representatives of the association declared they could stand no reduction of salaries to furth er a plan for annuities. Eleven of the association's commit tee favored pensions, three favored an nuities through assessments on their salaries, providing their salaries were increased to meet the expense, and one had no preference. AVIATION MEET CLOSES. Curtlss Wins Speed Contest; Paulhan Height and Endurance, Aviation Fiold, Los Angeles, Jan. 21. As dusk gathered over the old Do minquoz ranch tonight four flying ma chines that had been circling in the air in rivalry of the meadowiarks that for so many centuries have held do minion there, settled softly to earth. Tho masters of the newest air craft walked to their tents, the great crowd filed down the roadway, and the first international aviation meet ever held in America was over. All was peaceful and but few Knew that one man had been near death in those last few minutes. Charles K. Hamilton was returning from a 15- milo flight toward the ocean, and while a mile from the aviation held the crank shaft of his machine snapped. Xo ship it would have meant a help less drift upon the sea. To the aero plane it means so little that no one in the crowd noticed anything wrong, Hamilton shut oil his engine and so leveled and swayed his planes that he was wafted gently down, touching with scarcely a thud. It was the best piece of emergency handling of a ma chine that has been seen at the meet, Curtiss and Paulhan the great riv- als of th6 meet. furnished the excite ment for the closing day. Paulhan went up at 3:25 o'clock for an endur ance night. After he had gone two or three laps of the course, Curtiss started on a ten-lap speed trial, half a lap, or more than three-fourths of a mile behind Paulhan. Instantly it was seen that a great race was on the first real race of the ten days. The two airships, full power on, came over the grandstand with the speed of express trains. Curtiss, it was plain, was gaining. He crept swiftly on Paulhan 's heels, and on the third lap after starting he reached Paulhan, flying above. The French man for a few seconds held his own, then Curtiss, in his American machine, forged ahead by a nose, a length, and finally by half a lap. It was no race after that. The American machine was demonstrated as the faster be yond question. As Lurtiss rushed over Paulhan he received the greatest applause that any of .his efforts have evoked. Paulhan went on until he had traveled 64.4 miles and had been in the air nearly an hour and a half. Curtiss came down after a 30-mile trip. This race gives the whole story of the meet. The Curtiss machines have won all the prizes for speed, quick starts, perfect landings, and those events where a light, swift machine showed best. Paulhan has won all the cross-coun try, passenger-carrying and endurance tests, having a heavier, slower machine and an engine which he trusts com pletely. Paulhan has taken more than $15,000 in prizes, and has broken the world's records for altitude and for cross-country flights, alone and with a passenger. A medal presentation took place after this, then Paulhan went upon his endurance flight. The French machine never seemed to run so smoothly. M. Cleary, Paulhan 's distinctly Eng ish manager, was filled with emotion. He broke out as follows: "Look at herl There she goes! Watch the turn ' when the sun glints the white planes! Isn't it mystical something above, men! By George ke a magnificent albatross after a thunderstorm. Now it's lost on the turn! It's great! " TAFT WILL FIGHT MERGER. Grandfather of 118 Dies. Madison, 111., Jan. 19. William 17. Mcllvoy, 74 years old, died today, leav ing 26 children and 113 grandchildren He wa a Civil War veteran and boasted he never wore a white shirt or collar, never nsed an umbrella and never had a picture taken. He was married three times. Strife May Be Adjusted. Washington, Jan. 19. A conclusion of the mediation proceedings twtweea wertern railway officials and their switchmen is likely to be retched with in the next 24 hours. What that eon elusion way be ij yet problematical. "Resign? No!" Hot Reply. Washington, Jan. 20. Secretary Ballinger made it plain tonight that he does not intend to resign under fire. Washington, Jan. 19. Cutting the When told of a report that he was to pstimates nearly $1,000,000, the com- be succeeded by a man from Oklaho- mittee on appropriations today re-; ma, the Secretary showed some heat, ported to the house the urgent defi- ; "I don't intend to resign while there is eiency appropriation Dill for the cur- anything to fight," he said. "That rent fiscal year, carrying altogether cannot be made too plain. It will he $5,006,816. The largest items are time enough to mention this resigna $1,568,490 for the military establish- I tion rumor when it comes up in the ment, and $1,023,569 for the treasury. ' future." The court of customs' appeals, net yet organized, is allowed $70,420, and the' Pan-American Conference, naval establishment $383,136. j Washington, Jan. 18. Delegates I will soon be appointed to represent the Washington, Jan. 19. No new stars United States at the fourth Pan-Amer-will be added to the American flag be- J ican congress to be held at Bunos Ay fore the summer of 1911, according to res next July. At that time all South the plan under consideration in the sen- America will be celebrating the cen ate committee on territories. j tennial of its independence from Span- The programme is said to have the , ish domination. On the grounds of endorsement of President Taft. It 1 rational courtesy it is considered nec provides for the reporting of an entire- ' essary that the United States be repre ly new bill for the admission of New sented by persona of the highest na Mexico and Arizona as states. I tional and international importance. Lovett Expresses Confidence Railroads Will Win. Washington, Jan. 21. It was stated authoritatively today that the govern ment suit for the dissolution of the merger of the Union Pacific and South ern Pacific railways would not be ropped. Attorney-General Wickersham as found nothing so far in his inves- igatiou to warrant such action. A conference was held today be tween the attorney-general and Frank B. Kellogg on the oue side, and Judge Lovett, president of the Union Pacific, and counsel representing the allied Harriman lines on the other, for the formal presentation of reasons why the suit to dissolve the merger of the railroads should not be pressed. The railroad interests have made it clear that they feel confident the suit cannot be pushed to a successful con clusion, and are willing that it should be compromised. Just before leaving for New York tonight Judge Lovett, when asked if he would have further conferences with the attorney-general on the sub ject, said that would depend upon many circumstances that he could not discuss. LAFEAN BILL IS BURIED FOR GOOD Proposed Change In Size of Apple Boxes Has Small Chance. Hawley Keeps Watch and Should it Appear Before Congress Again It Will Be Riddled With Adverse Facts Measure Was a Blow at Western Fruit Growers. Washington, Jan. 18. The Lafean apple-packing bill, intended to drive Oregon and other western apples out of eastern markets, lies dormant in the house committee on agriculture, md thus far there has been no indication that it is to be pressed for considera tion. The bill is not a new one. In one form or another it has been intro duced in several successive congresses, but never yet has it received consid eration at the hands of any committee to which it has been referred. If Mr. Lafean has any intention of urging its consideration this session, he has given no intimation of his purpose to the chairman of the committee on ag riculture, and without request from him the committee will take no notice of his bill. The Lafean bill in its present shape seemingly stands no chance of passage. The radical and revolutionary charac ter of its requirements and the mani fest object sought to be attained are sufficient to guarantee a fight against it in committee, and it is doubtful if the bill could be reported to the house, but, should a report be made, it would only be after the bill had been mate rially amended, so as to remove the more objectionable features. But more than this, it is seriously questioned whether congress will feel disposed to enter upon the regulation of the size and contents of packages in which foodstuffs are shipped in interstate commerce. Such legislation was not attempted under the pure food law and.it is not believed to be the pur pose of congress at this late . day to set a precedent such as would be es tablished by the passage of the Lafean bill. Eepresentative Lafean introduced hi3 bill in the last congress, it was re ferred to the committee on interstate and foreign commerce and there died without ever being considered. In the special session last spring he reintro duced it, and again on January 5 in troduced it with some changes. The latest bill, so far as the western apple country is concerned, is quite as ob noxious as any of its predecessors, for it provides that boxes in which apples are packed for shipment out of the state in which they are grown must have a capacity of not less than 2342 cubic inches, the figures named in pre vious bills. But in addition to defin ing the capacity of apples boxes, the new bill fixes the standard capacity of apple baskets and barrels, the former to be of the same capacity as boxes. 2342 inches, and the barrels to be of the following dimensions: "Length of stave, 28i inches; diameter of head, 1 inches: distance between heads. 26 inches; circumference of bulge, 64 inches." The obnoxious featurn nf th ,- far as the western apple growers 'are concerned, is that fixing tho standard for boxes. Mr. Lafean, for some rea ouu, iiua aruuraruy cnosen a box con taining 2342 cubic inches; the Winches ter bushel, the recognized standard in the United States, contains 2150.4 cubic inches. Therefore the Lat'ean box calls for 192 cubic inches in ex cess of a bushel. Why such a figure should have been adopted is a mystery to the members of the committee. Mr. Lafean has never offered any explana tion, yet he apparently is the only man in congress interested in this hill Chairman Scott of the committee has assured Mr. Hawley he will do noth ing with the bill unless urged to do so by its author, and, if request is pre ferred, Mr. Hawley will be notified in time to enable representatives of the western apple growers to come to Washington and present their protests to the committee. But until Mr. La fean demands such action, it seems un necessary for such representatives to make the trip to Washington or to de mand hearing. SHASTA TIMBEB IS SOLD. Pinchot's Acta Illegal. Washington, Jan. 21. Controller of the Treasury Tracewell declared today that there was nothing in the law or appropriation for the forest service giving the secretary of agriculture power to send forest rangers to col lege at government expense and to pay their traveling expenses. When So licitor McCabe of the department of igriculturo took charge of the forest bureau after the dismissal of Giffor.l Pinchot, he found that about 200 of these forest rangers were attending uni versities and colleges in the west for short courses in forestrv. ' Wealthy Japanese Held. Tac-oma, Jan. 21. United States ( ourt Commissioner Bridges todav bound Z. Akawa. charged with smug gling, over to the federal court, con tinuing the $30d0 bond given by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Steamship com pany promptly on his arrest. Akawa is rated very wealthy, and is a part ner in the large importing houso of the Morimura company with houses in New York, Kobe and Niwasa, Japan. The value of the goods was $750. Monoplane Strikes Wires. Oran, Aleeria. Jan. 21. A mono plane collided with the telegraph wires Forest Service Bureau Approve Sale of 14,000,000 Feet. Dunsmuir, Cal., Jan. IS. The bureau of forest service of the department of agriculture has approved the sale of 14,000,000 feet of standing timber in the Shasta national forest reserve. The sale was made for $31,000 to the Castle Lake Lumber company of Castella, '.nd consists of a quantity' of yellow pine at $3 per thousand 'feet, sugar pine at $4 per thousand feet, and Douglas fir at $1.."0 per thousand feet. The object of the sale is to removo the dead, dying and matured timber iu the reserve, leaving sullicient stand ing timber to reproduce a supply of the particular kind most desired. OHIO FLOOD THREATENED. Louisville. Ky., Jan. IS. Fln.irinc property valued at nearly $2.0)10.000 is in jeopardy. People in the low-lvini? suburb of Shipping Port are tcsnuing to abandon their homes, and damage t' business houses adjacent to Louisville's wharf territory is threatened by the swelling waters of the Ohio tonight, liivermen say that the ice gorge has held on until t he ice is grown roiten all the way through, and that there is great danger that it will go cut with a rush. More Tins of Opium Found. San Francisco, Jan. IS. Further search of the steamship Siberia by the customs officials today revealed 70 ad ditional t.ns of opium secreted in here today. The gasoline supply-tube j various was cut. In a moment tho machine today's was enveloped in flames and crashed to the ground. The aviator escaped with a few burns. "i1 parts of the vessel, find, nearrv $$000 Including worth of opium has been found on the Siberia since she came into this port several days ago.