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9C PAGE EIGHT MEDFOKD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDEORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, .TONE 25, 1911. m:'lit. ,,,.! lr BARRETT PEARS TO SCARCE Blloht Very Severe In California and Acreaie Smaller Canners Take All the Crop as High as $60 Other Fruit Plentiful. 8ACIIAMENT0, Juno 24. Bart lott pears nro going to bo aenrco ami very high. The blight was very se vcro and besides the acreage Is small or. Practically all the crop has been bought, the canners paying as high as $60. Agents of the California can neries will soon bo operating In Ore gon, particularly In tho southern part of tho state. California fruit prices generally will not bo high this year, nor will thuy bo cheap, except In the case of grapca, as ho canners nnd dried fruit men aro short. Grapegrowers cannot expect to get fancy prices with the big crop they will have. California has a normal crop of peaches this year and also of plums. Tho crop of apples will bo big, as Is also the case throughout the east. Tho California apricot crop Is not heavy and as the drlod fruit men are short and aro paying high prices, the market Is firm. Next week will see tho heaviest movement In apricots. There is a big crop of cantaloupes In tho Imperial valley and In central California. Accounts are easy enough to got this year, In fact, there arc mioro shippers than sellers. The same applies to watermelons. Tho canta loupo crop is a llttlo lato in Fresno1 and Tularo counties, but tbero will bo plenty of them when they como In. The vines are In fine shape. It will be two woeka before shipments begin from Tularo and Fresno. There will bo a big crop of grapes of all kinds. The output of Tokays will bo the largest the state has ever known. NATURE STUDY FOR SCHOLARS Public School Pupils Will Learn Something About the World They Live In Ignorance of Common Objects Causes Introduction Because of the ignorance of soIumI children regarding the common ob jects been in fields ami forests about Superintendent " Collins has caused tho introduction of nature s-tiulios t:i the public schools of Med ford, lie states in his annual report that it was discovered that in one of tho upper grades only four pupils could distinguish an oak tree from some other varieties in the same grove, and that only two could tell the Golden Hod by sight. "It is not intended to make hcieu tiests of our children but to have them become observers and lovers of nature, of their surroundings earth and sky, forest nnd field, flowers and plants nnd all animals life," states Professor Collins. ''The children as they pass through the grades are expected to learn to recognize the different trees and shrubs they daily see. The flowers at home and by the way-side, the birds that come nnd go, the animals wild and tame, the changes of the sun and moon, the wind and sky that make the weather of the day and the seasons of tho your." PERU RIVALS CONGO IN CRUELTY British Government Confirms Re ports of Atrocities and Asks Per uvlan Delegation to Apologize to Truth. QUARTER MILLION MORE FOR PEARL HARBOR DOCK Look for tho ad that describes the place you would like to own. Hasktns for Health. LONDON, Juno U4. Practically declaring true reports of horrible at rocities perpetrated In tho rubber country of Peru, Ecuador and Col ombia, tho HritUh government bus asked the Peruvian legation in Lon don to apologize to Truth, n weekly newspaper, and to V. K. llardenborg. an American railroad engineer, for having accused them of participation in a fehamo to blockmail tho Peru vian Amazon Company with bond- quarters in London. Truth had printed tatetueuts bv Hnrdenburg in which he described conditions existing in the companies territory as worse than those found in the Congo. The foreign office has told the Peruvian legation thnat un less it noes apologue relations ic tvvcen it and the liritish government will not bo friendly. The truth of llardcnbcrg's charge was proven by Consul General Max Casement, the British representative in Brazil, who penetrated into the country known to rubber collectors as "The tjevil's Paradise." Casement found that the rubber collectors had commiltced the most horrible crime.-. The attitude of tho foreign office here sugge-ts that it intends to keep the Peruvian government to its tusk. Hasktns for Health. WEST TO 6ET MEDAL FOR CATCHING CONVICT SAl.KM. Or., June 'J I. -As n re sult of his experience with Convict lesso Hall, whom ho enptmed nl'tor the man had ijUutixt thu sheriff's poHHe, Governor West bus doeltlml to offer a ttiwiml of $1200 dead and $.10 alivo for any convict whom ho IruKts outside tho ponlteuliivry wads and who violates thu coufidciico by attempting to esonpo. According to punitcutinry officials tho Sisuiil lowanl of $50 1 1 tit t will bo paid for thu capture of Hall will bo melted into a medal and presented to the governor as he single handed lauded the convict, Disappears Foul Play? OUKAN PAIUC, Cab, Juno 121. Mariou Newton, Kuglisb, has tils- appeared mid frlviidH feared ho Iiiih been killed. Ho bud flOO in gold when he left homo. Fire Ravages Ohio Town. BAHBKTKNT, Ohio,, Juno UJ. Woven building nro in i-iiIiih here to day, following u ftrn which entailed a Iohh of $100,000. rr; For the Fourth r A Bang-Up m WASHINGTON, D. C, Juno 24. -Congress today appropriated $2o0, 000 to cover the added cost of the drydock now being built nt Pearl Harbor. The coit was originally es timated nt $1,000,000. WARSHIPS NUMBER MANY (Continued from pa 1.) four to be this vcar and four to be in the neit three years. United States Four in commis sion, two to bo this year nnd two during the next three years. Japan Two in commission, two to be nest year, one the following year and three in 1014. France Six to bo commissioned this year, one in 1913 and 1914. Russia Four laid down in 1900. Austria Two to bo commissioned in 1913, one in 1914, probably oih in 1915. Itnly One to bo commissioned next year, two the following year, one in 1914. Brazil Two commissioned nud one to be next year. Spain One to be novt yenr, one in 1914, one 19l5. Hasklns for Health. Electric Light Frightens Thieves Electric Light frightens thieves. The bravest burglar will flee whcii you touch tho button and flood the house with Electric Light. Housebreakers are but cowards at the best, and a button that lights the Electric lamps located with in eas)' reach of your bed is better than a gatling gun. Then, electrically-lighted houses are much more likely to be equipped with modern burglar alarms. Houses so wired are practically traps for the bur glar. He may be working on the ground floor, for example, when some member of the 'household is in a chamber above and is aroused and fancies that he hears someone moving about below. At once the man of the house reaches for an electric switch and turns on the light for the lower floor, so the burglar finds himself in a blaze of light, while the man of the house, gun in hand, is screened by the darkness. This puts the householder in a position to shoot without being shot at. This protection is vours when you install electric light. Don't leave your family alone evenings without an Electric Porch Light. 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