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VOL. XXVII NO. 185 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW
ROSEBURG, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 1 3, 1 926.
VOL. XVII NO. 97 OF THE EVENING NEWS
FOBESl
PJap Tells Of
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Prompt Action Localizes
Nearly All Blazes in
Umpqua Region.
OVER 40 REPORTED
Hazard Is Concurrent With
Continued Warm Wave,
But Fighters Are
Kept Ready.
A. string of more than 40 'forest
4 fires, extending in a belt about 12
miles In width from one end of Hie
I'mpqun National forest to the
other, is reported today by Forest
Supervisor Carl Neal. The fires
started late Sundaj night and were
Knotted yesterday, a few new ones
being located tills morning. , The
storm entered the forest over Ab
bott Butte, in the South Umpqua
District, and passed almost
directly north to Bohemia Moun
tain, leaving a long trail of fires
over a territory about 12 miles
wide.
With the exception of two of
these the fires are quite small and
are nearly all under control. One
fire, in the Horsehoaven territory,
on tile head of Steamboat creek, is
about ISO acres In size. Addition
al firefighters will be sent in to
night by way of Ttujada. Another
large fire, covering about 100
acres, is located at Cedar Camp on
the South Umpqua divide. All of
'the other fires are under 20 acres
in size.
Oeorgc Bonebrako, assistant su
pervisor, is leaving today for Bo-
'."'rniii to aid in the fight against
Hie big fire there.
Weather Is Handicao.
Climatic conditions could not be
worse. Supervisor Neal says, and
lie frankly admits that the present
ntuation lias the forest service
worried. In a telenhone conversa
tion with the district office he was
rdvised that, conditions have never
been as critical in the northwest
as at present, the district office
stating also that it is receiving
more emergency rails for equip
ment than ever before. Mr. Neal
is recruiting large forces of fire
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fipbtms and sending them out to! clause in the agreement itself, but
Mm logic points in order to have a j letters have been exchanged be
woll established reserve, while tween the two governments, mak
mimerous men are also being hold ing It clear that, in the event of a
In Roseburg for emergencies and
can bo sent out at any time they
nro . eeded.
The Douglas County fire patrol's
report is quite encouraging by
contrast.. The Stouts creek fire
made, a rapid sproaii last night and
covered over 50 acres before being
halted. It was thought to be un
der control this inorniug . The St.
Johns crook fires are still burning,
but it is believed that they will
noon be under control. Fires on
Fall creek and near Elkton have
boon subdued.
Only one new fire was reported,
that being located near the .S- P.
light of way at Doe creek in Cow
Crook canyon.
Trusty Escapes In Fire.
RALKM. Ore.. July 13. Thirty
acres of wheat and outs, most of it
the property of the state peniten
tiary, was destroyed ny lire on me
Turner road, inree nines souuiea.si
oi .saiem. yesterday anernoon. jr0Heo here today are searching
About SO farmers, firemen from j for the person who entered the J.
Salem and trusties from the state lH j,pare jewprv Btorfi lafit nisnt
prison rushed to the fields and :aiu, eflCa)e( wftll about $2 (n casb
fought the fire, which proved tonnd ftbout m wor,h of ro8ary
ho a difficult task because of j beads.
' (Continued "onpe fi ) The burglar entered the store
. - through a skylight, took the cash
DECISION IN AUTO
TRUCK CASE COSTS
OREGON BIG SUMinf,fl,,s antl olner Jewelry and made
this escape by breaking the window
f AwoHatel 1'rntf l-awd Wire.)
SALEM. Ore.. July 13 The
Vublic Service Commission
will lose revenues estimated
roughly at more than 510.000
a year through an opinion of
the supreme court today In
which If is held that automo-
tiv
carriers operating under
private contracts are not com-
mon carriers, and do not
come under the so-callod au
tomotive transportation act.
The opinion written bv Justice
Burnett, affirms Judge I H.
McMahan of the lower court "re-. - u ' "Morns
for Marion count v In the case - "nldsletn. Portland attorney
of the Purple Truck Garage 'o some time ago was disbarred
company and other against 'r conduct unbecoming an atlor
the service commission. 4!ney connection with the for-
It was said at the office of Ifeilnre of a bond In the district
the commission todav that court, was today reinstated as an
the commission has no'wav to attorney by the supreme court on
ntr haob the nrivnte carriers ! petition and recommendation of
who bve nni,l their fees and
that If they are to recover It
must be through action of the
legislature.
Manhandling i
: , By Toledo Mob
V (.Awoctated prMj Leated Wire.)
PORTLAND, Ore., July 13.
Incidents of -the deportation of
Japanese men and women from
Toledo, Oregon, a yeur ago, by a
mob were deHcrlbed today in Fed
eral Judge Wolverton's court,
whore five Japnnase are suing
for tut aggregate of $130,000
damages, claimed because they
were evicted from tlieir homes.
There are six defendants, resi
dents of Toledo. The case against
three of the original nine defend
ants was dismissed by the court
yesterday,
T. Ogiirn, one of the Japanese,
told II. A. Green, defense attor
ney, that he had seen a "police
man" with the crowd when it
swurined into the Japanese camp
at the Pacific Spruce Corporation
mills on Sunday, July 1L 1925.
"Did you speak to that police
man about these people who you
say kicked you?" Insisted Green.
"Yes."
"Did you ask him to -arrest
them?" .
"No he said: 'You better get
out of this town or they're going
to kill you.' "
Ogura In direct testimony told
of a crowd that he thought con
sisted of about 200 people who
swarmed into the camp on the
Sunday mentioned and terrified
the Japanese with threats of in
stant death, finally packing them
into truck or muchines and send
ing them to Corvalils.
FRANCE SETTLES
DUE II BRITISH
(saoHated Prets Loaned Wire)
LONDON, July 13. The settle
ment signed. In London yesterday
by Finance Minister Callluux cov
ers not only the French war debt
but virtually all the outstanding
accounts between Great Britain
and France. Announcement J.0
this effect was made in the House
of Commons today by Chancellor
of the Exchequer Winston Church
ill. The French payments, he said,
would be 4,000.000. 6,000.000
and 10,000,000, rising to 12,
000,000 annually, the last named
figure being reached in 1930.
From 1930 to 1950, the payment
would be 12.500,000 annually, ris
ing to 14,000.000 for the final 31
years. There Is no safeguarding
complete or very serious failure in
Germany's reparation payments,
France will be entitled to ask for
reconsideration of the arrange
ment. Mr. Churchill said that this pro
vision In no way invalidated the
responsibility of France. It only
gave her the right in certain1 cir
cumstances to ask for. a review.
The British right to reopen the
case remained.
A transfer clause providing for
a delay within certnln limits in
making payments, on account of
exchange difficulties,
bad been
'agreed upon, he said.
BURGLAR IN HASTE
GETS LITTLE LOOT
IN JEWELRY SHOP
. (Amoctatwl Preu leased wire.)
GRANDE, Ore., July 13.-
j from the register grabbed the
I beads from a counter overlooking
several hundred dollars worth of
In the back door. Blood stains
throughout the store indicate that
he cut himself In effecting an en
trance. The proprietors believe he
was halted In his pilfering by a
policeman trying the front door,
causing him to leave hurriedly
with his Job unfinished. Finger-
Prints were obtained from panes
" '
AGAIN PRACTICE LAW
(AMncUtrd Pmt Lnwd Wrr 1
ithe grievance committee of the
Multnomah liar association, the
recommenuauon was presemea ine
court after Goldstein had with-
drawn a motion for rehearing of
his case by the supreme court.
IS
350 Families Homeless as
Result of Destruction
of Naval Arsenal.
DEATH TOTAL NOW 19
False Reports of Further
Explosions Alarm Host
of Refugees Scene
of Desolation.
(Associated Prest Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, July 13. Revised;
list of the victims of'the explosion
of the Lake Denmark. N .J., naval
arsenal this afternoon showed 15
identified and four unidentified
dead taken from the devastated
area.
DOVER. N. J., July 13. Cessa
tion of bombardment by shells
warranted uninterrupted recovery'
of the dead and help to the living
of New Jersey's peace-time battle
field. 1 Several hundred soldiers and
marine's were 'on duty about the
Lake Denmark naval depot in
search for additional victims of ex
ploding ammunition, which, after a
flash of lightning Saturday after
noon, reduced the depot and miles
of surrounding country to ruin.
From a "no man's land" due to
an act of nature there, had beeu
brought in today parts of 17
bodies, ten of which were Identi
fied through records sent from
Washington by airplane. Shifting
winds which toolf expiring .flames
toward unexploded magazines
caused stoppage of explorations
yesterday afternoon by order of
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur,
who visited the devastated area.
Brigadier General Hugh A.
Drum, in charge of patrols and
rescue work, was of the opinion
today, however, that danger from
further explosions was past.
350 Families 'Homeless.
Bodies were taken to the naval
hospital in Brooklyn and put be
side those of olhe men of the
navy who perished on duty In
peace time the victims of the
submarine S-51. With few excep
tions, finger prints and other min
ute records were necessary in the
.work of identification.
Two boards will be named by
Secretary Wilbur to investigate
the explosion which, aside from
the loss of life, destroyed fifty
buildings and seriously damaged
four hundred others, and made 350
families homeless.
Residents of the sector within a
radius of ten miles have not yet
outlived the reign of terror. The
evacuated territory was closed to
the refugees and all night Dover
police wero kept busy denying
rumors that a big blast was mo
mentarily expected.
At Netcong and Port Morris
there was special apprehension
and in the former town a number
of citizens were urged to "flee for
their lives" by an unidentified man
reported to have spread the alnrm
as he drove out of town,
t Want Arsenal Removed:
BALTIMORE, Md., July 13.
Baltimore business men today ad
dressed a letter to President Cool
Idge at White Pine camp in the
Adlrondacks requesting the remov
al from Curtis Bay of a govern
ment ordnance depot containing
15.000,000 pounds of smokeless
powder and upwards of lii.OOO.OOO
pounds of TNT and nitroglycer
ine, Curtis Bay is within h! miles
of the Baltimore business district.
WASHINGTON. July 13. The
bodieB of four of those who lost
their lives on the submarine S-51
were brought here today for burial
at Arlington.
CANADIAN FORECAST IS
LESS WHEAT THIS YEAR
(AMftrLtciJ Pre, taawtl Wirt1.)
CHICAGO, July 13. According
to the Canadian government re
port, the probable wheat yield In
Canada will be about 349.000.000
bushels as against 411.000.000 har
vested last year. In addition to
this report, traders were alarmed
by heavy rains Interfering with
the harvest of the United States
winter wheat In the northwest.
NURMI SETS NEW MARK.
fAaaoclatm Prna Leated Wire.)
STOCKHOLM, July 13. Paavo
Nunnl, famous Finibh runner, es
tablished what was claimed, as a
new world record this evening
when be covered" three thousand
meters In 8 minutes 20 4 10 sec
onds. The old record was 8 min
utes 25 4-10 seconds.
RELIEF WORK
C01IEICEQ. .
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SIGNATURE OF--
COOLEDGE IS
TAX Ml
Action Crowns With Success Legislative Procedure
That Pays to Oregon Counties Nearly Five
Million Dollars, Over One-Third of
Which Will Come to Douglas.
(Associated 'Press
WASHINGTON, July 13. President Coolidge has signed
the bill to reimburse eighteen Oregon and Washington counties
for taxes lost through railroad land grants.
The White House was advised today from Paul Smith's,
N. Y., that the president had
passed in the closing hours of
It would authorize the government to pay to Oregon coun
ties and one in Washington taxes
to collect since 1916 on land
the Southern Pacific and which
grant. .
. The bill would reimburse the government for taxes ad
vanced to the counties out of money derived from the sale of
land.
MEDFORD, Ore., July 13. A telegram to the Mail Tri
bune from W. H. Gore, of this city, Jackson county representa
tive in the Oregon-California tax bill at Washington, D. C,
reads: "The president has signed the bill.'" .
The Roseburg News-Review, this afternoon received the
following wire direct from Senator Robert N. Stanfield at Wash
ington, D. C:
"President Coolidge has signed the O. and C. tax relief
bill and it is now a law.
(Signed) "ROBERT N. STANFIELD."
U. S. Senator.
Approval by tbo president oti
the lax refund bill authorizes pay
ment to IS Oregon counties of ap
proximately five million dollars.
The counties which will benefit
In this distribution are as follows:
Benton .. .
Clackamas
Columbia
Coos
Curry
Douglas ..
Jackson ..
Josephine .
Lincoln .. .
230,000
347,000
111,000
422,000
22.000
?17?r'ooo
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Lane !2G.0U0 ;
Linn 1211.000
Marion 10,000
Multnomah 38,000
Polk 165,001) ,
Tillamook 60,001) i
Washington GO.OOO i
Yamhill BO.OflOi
Klamath 125,000,
n. i i I am nnn !
Total 44,907,000,
These figures ara merely rail-j
mates of the amount due the varl-,
ous counties and the actual figures
will be somewhat in excess of the
amounts named, It is believed, as
E
(AtuocUtrd Presi I-ratetl Wire.)
PORTLAND, Ore., July 13 En
dorsing the candidates selected by
the Republican voters at the pri
mary and pledging support for
them at the November election,
the state Republican central com
mittee late yesterday adopted res
olutions and laid plans for the
eunipah;n. The administration of
President Coolidge was endorsed,
and he was praised for his work
In reducing expenditures. Th'
Oregon delegation fn congress mid
National Committeeman Ralph
Williams were commended.
Phil Metsrhan. Portland, was
elected chairman of the state cen
tral committee; Kloyd J. Cook of
Medford. secretary, and Nathan
Strauss. Portland, treasurer.
Chairman Metschan was author
ized to appoint an executive com
mittee of twenty, including l-n
members of the state central com
mlttee and ten women, to have sir
tfve charge of the campaign.
!. T-. Patterson, Republican nom
Inee for governor, addressed the
meeting, saving he would pine
himself in the hand!1 nf the- state
committee and would have no in
dlvldnnl manager In the enmnaien
M. K. Crumpacker, Republican
nominee for congress from thf
third distilct. abxo fipoke.
LINCOLN J. CARTER DEAD.
GOSHEN, Ind.. July in. Lincoln
J. Carter, whofc melodramas
brought thrills to theatergoers a
decade ago, died today at Ihe age
jof 61 years, of heart dlaeaw?.
PRESIDENT . -:-
AFFIXED TO
G MEASURE'COMES TO LIGHT
Leased Wire.)
approved the measure which was
the congressional session.
vhich they have been unable
which congress took away from
had been included in a land
l'el-'rps are jmsed on the taxes
paid in 191G while In nearly every
county taxes have increased con
siderably during the past 10
years. Assessors of each county
will be called upon lo extend the
tax, rolls against the O. & C. land
tor ; tho yours the lund has been
withdrawn, the same as if the
Innds had been in private owner
ship. ni. nrr....t r n.n l.Mt ...til l.n
i ,0 ,'c',1'ce tnx,'s ' raPh of ,no 18
counties from five to 25 per cent.
In fact, lu Douglas county, it Is es-
! Ilnifileil In Mie event the inonev Is
i used to pay off a portion of the
bonded Indebtedness, that taxes
will be. reduced approximately 27
per cent, Douglas county receiving
a larger amount than nny of the
others affected. The tax reduction
continues in the future aB the bill
provides that the government shall
I continue to ntivance inc tax from
'pn1' ' year.
N(,.g of (hp ltlKllinB ot le 0. &
p. tax ,in ,y President Coolidge
brought grcal elation to rtoseburg
today. The hill Ik one of the most
-
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SALEM. Ore., July 13. --If the
Public Service Com mission grants
ihe .Southern Pacific authority to
Hiibstllule bus service for Its in
tenirban car service between 'Eu
gene and Springfield, It should be
with nn uudci'Hlandlng on the part
of the railroad company (hat It
will be under obligation lo coop
erate with the state in the con
struction of a new brhlKe over the
Willamette river and 1 1n- eliniina
Hon of a grade crossing in Spring
field, declares an answer to the
railroad's application that was fll
"d with tin eommlsnion today by
i he stale highway commission.
The highway commission neither
favors nor opposes bus service, it
points out. however, that the pres
ent bridge over the Willamette is
already Inadequate, that red ec. king
has been con t em pin led for the
near future, and that the rednrklng
must be much earlier IT bus serv
ice is allowed.
Further (I is pointed out that
when the Natron cut-off is com
pleted anil made th" main Ifno of
'he Southern Pacific between Port
land and ' California points, over
which It appears an average of 30
or 35 trains will run dully. It wilt
make hazardous the use of the
ft ate highway between Eugene
and Springfield been use tho rail
road infersectfl one or Him main
-t reels of HpringfieM which is
part of the Mate highway. For
this reason, It is asserted. th
railroad f hmdd h required to co
operate in the reconstruction of
th bridge ro the grade crossing
will be eliminated. There is fn
contemplation, says the answer,
jthe construction of a new bridge
i that would eliminate the grade
'hazard, which will be even more
(urgent If bua service is put on.
GRUESOME CASE
OFGERL MURDER
Body, of Victim, in Pieces,
Found in Boxes Near
Boston Cemetery.
POLICE ARE BAFFLED
Effort to Conceal Illegal
Operation Believed to
Have Been Motive .
for Killing.
(Attoctated Preu Leased Wire.)
BOSTON, Mass., July 13 The
noston pollco Loduy wero Cuced
with tho most Kruosonie and baff
ling murder mystery thev have en
j countered in recent years. '
The body of a girl, mutilated,
dismembered and unidentified, lay
in the city mortmiry after It, had
been discovered enrly today on a
lonely road that winds its way be
tween two cemeteries in the Mnt-
tapan district of the city. Police
believe the young woman, attrac
tive and apparently refined, had
been dead a week, and that her
body had been cut up and packed
Into the two boxes and burlap bag
in- which it wna found some time
last Sunday, This was Indicated
by a superficial .examination by
medical authorities.
The only clue loft for the police
to work on was the manner of ty
ing the knots In the heavy window
cord that bound the boxes. They
were tied, apparently, by a sea
man or some one familiar with
"marine knots; The boxes bore no
marks of any sort and there were
1.0 ''tracks' to allow hnw .they had
been transported to the" street be
tween the graveyards.
Laborer Finds Boxes.
Tho boxes were lying near a
wall that separates Calvary Ceme
lory from Walk Hill street. On the
other side of tho street Is Mount
Hope Cemetery. The body was
outside the wall. A laborer, Tor
rio Jenney, saw the boxes and
notified police. The spot between
the cemeteries Is off the beaten
path for traffic, hut still Is used
by many pedestrians and is only ii
short distance from two main ar
teries to tho c'lty from suburbs to
the south.
The only clothing found was a
pair of Nile green stockings and a
white cotton chemfse. The vital
organs had been removed from the
body and wriipped in the ehemiHP,
which was then placed under die
bead fn the larger box.
Medical Kxamlner O'Leary aftir
an examination of the body, which
he hoped to entirely reconstruct.
Bald that It appeared that the girl
had been the victim of an illegal
operation.
The girl probably was between
22 and 25 years old, and had dark
bobbed hair, the examination
showed.
OREGON ASKS THAT
BAN ON CHICKS BE
LIFTED IN NORTH
(Amvtolttti'd Pros I.cnwd Wire.)
SALEM, Ore., July 13, Offl
rlals of the state of Washington
will be asked to postpone for one
;yeur the effective dale of the
-state's embargo on Oregon chicks.
F'oullrymen here yesterday obtain
ed the support of the slate live-Ulni-k
sanitary board in mnklug
the request. The embargo Is to
apply to all chicks except those
certified to he free from white
diarrhoea. The Oregon poultry
i men think the embargo is unfair
i at this tlnte for the reason that
:a campaign has been starting for
j testing for the disease and It Is
,fnld fiO.000 hens will be tested
JthlK year. Several California
poultry men conferred wit h Ore
gon poultry nien in Portland yes
terday relative to certification.
The state livestock sanitary
board yesterday lifted the order
requiring the dipping of shenp
shipped from Ihe Portland Stock
Yards, a condition being that the
stock yards give the origin of all
sheep received and the destination
of those shipped.
State Veterinarian f. H. Lytic
was authorized to attend a na
tional meeting of state livestock
rlflcials at Lexington, Ky.
J.
A. Ii I It II V ITML AT tho extent of making a few ad
MYltTU; lEKJ.K TlU'llSDAV dresses late in the campaign. Iini
- been a quest Ion upon which no
The funeral services nf Hie late
J. Alva Klrby. who yi killed
.unilav evening In an accident
near Millard, will be held on
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock
nt the Christian Church In Myrtle
Creek. The pastor of the church
there wfll conduct the services.
Interment will be held In the L I
O. O. K. cemetery at Myrtle Creek,
C.H. Grakelow
Grand Exaitecl
Ruler Of Elks
(Aunrlated I'ren Lcued Wire.)
CHICAGO, July 13. Charles H.
Crnkelow of Philadelphia was
unanimously elected grand exalted
ruler of the llenevolent and Pro
tective Order of K-ka by the grand
lodge today. He succeeds Judge
William Hawley Atwell of Dallas,
Texas.
. Crakelow, director of public wel
fare in lils city, was nominated by
W. Freeland Kendriek, mayor of
Philadelphia, and was elected with
out opposition. He has bcu a mem
ber of the Philadelphia lodge since
11)07, has served as exalted ruler
nix terms and has been president
of the Pennsylvania elections as
sociation. He was grand esquire of
the order for three years' and has
been a member of the grand lodge
committee on in embers hi p.
Asknowledglng his elevation, Mr.
Crakelow urgod that "every Elks
lodge be directly known aa tho
civic center of its community, the
one great meeting place where all
patriotic and charitable activities
converge, and' where the unfor
tunate comes for succor." ,
The 1927 grand lodge convention
was awarded to Cincinnati, Ohio,
by a vote of nearly 2 to J.
o
GET REAL TALE OF
, (Aiunalutod Preu hcaud Wire.) '
I.OS ANGELES. July 13. If
the grand jury of Los Angeles
county takes its orders from Su
perior Judge Arthur Keetch. the
jurist to whom It must report, the
public will be kept forever in the
dark as to its conclusions in the
AlmeeSemple McPherson. mystery,
unless somobpdy la indicted for
the alleged kidnaping of. tho
evangelist of Angelas Temple. .
When tho grand Jury decided
to go Into the matter Its foreman,
William A. Carter, announced that
in the interests of the public, Mrs.
McPherson and everybody con
cerned, a (borough Investigation
would be conducted and the re
sult made known.
Inst night, Judge Keotch de
clared that the grand jury must
keep its conclusions lo itself un
less nn indictment is -returned.
To Indict, court attaches point out,
there must ho corroborative evi
dence or kidnaping" and tho only
testimony nlong tbnt line said to
bo available so far Is tho word of
tho evangelist, herself.
No trace has been found of
"Steve," ."Rose", or the second
man .Mrs. McPherson charged
with spiriting her away .'rom the
beach near here, May IS.yTho
automobile in which she says she
was drugged and abducted Is still
unfoiind. Tho two shacks, sup
posedly across the Mexican bor
der, lu which she declared sue
was hold, have never been located
despite diligent seach by a num
ber of posses.
Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, mother
of the Angelus Temple evangelist,
was the first witness called. Mrs.
Kennedy was expected to be ques
tioned concerning the various
threatening letters purported to
have been sent to her by , her
''laughter's abductors. Mrs. Ken-
ilt-tiy n lent iintJiiv mhb huiii i
center on the purported ransom
letter signed "The Avengers" and
demanding $500,000 ransom for the
return of the woman pastor.
COOLIDGE NOT TO
MEDDLE IN STRIFE
INSIDE OWN PARTY
( Awmrlnlrd Prong T.cnwd WIrr.)
PAtMi SMITHS. N. Y.t July 13.
President Coolidge bus no plan
at present for participation In the
congresslcnnl campaign this fall
nnd In the nbsence of any an
nouncement by him any references
to the sublect that may appear in
print should be regarded us mere
supposjt Ioiih.
The position of the President,
fn the face of various published
reports as to IiIh polillral plans
since he came to the Adlrondacks,
was made clear at the executive
nlficert tndify. Mr. Coolidge came
lo the offices from White Pine
Camp to attend to n number of
government matters nnd to receive
the newspaper correspondents for
the second time since his arrival
in the mountains.
Whether he wfl enter the rnm
nalirn nctlvelv or nerbi'ns eniv to
light has been thrown definitely
either here or In Washington.
For the present Mr. .Coolidge
has contented himself with n poli
cy of hamlfl-off. inasmuch as the
primary contests are yet to be
disposed of, and his apparent view
that the executive should not
Inject himself Into purely party
fights.
ARE ACTIVE !N
ENTIRE COUNTY!
Quotations, However, Not;
Satisfactory to AH
of Growers. . ''
SMALL AMOUNT SOLD
Less Than Twenty Per Cent
of Estimated Crop Under
Contract According,
. . i . . :. to Reports. , .'.','... '.
,1
Considerable nctlvlty ia tho
prune murket has been in evlilenee
over the week end and it Is esti
mated (lint about 20 per ceut uf tlm
Douglas county crop has beon con
tracted. Buyers aro very busy ut
the present tlnio, the first activity
of any consequence no far thin
Vnnp PfnttfMillir lt 'nf Ihn n...,uU
the Coles Valley Bection lutvo
Deeu purchased, It Is stated, while
the output of a few orchards In tho
southern part of the county him
been sold, lu tho Myrtle Creek sec
tion there have been several salea
of Petltes, but very few Italians
have been purchased as yet.
Rosenborg Brothers have been
very active in buying, having six:
agents lu the field. They recently
made arrangements , with the Nor
ton plant ut SuUiorlln ' to .handle
the fruit tor them and they uro en
tering tho local field In a very ener
getic, way. ..
Other concerns have been buvlut;
enough to protect themselves in
orders, but have not made ua
strong a campaign as lias been
conducted by the California . con
cern. . '
The price has strengthened some..,
what 'over the opc!ilng'rquotutio!tB.'
Buying has beeu done on two
scales, which lu the long run nro
about tho same. One i scale .-is an
follows: 30-3Bs 8c, 35-4US 7c, 4M!iH
6c. 46 50s 4 3-4c, 50-55s 4Jc, 6rC0i
3ia ,
Another scale gives a slightly
different prlco on the medium sl7.e:i
but in the whole works out, It in
claimed, nt about the same rale.
This scale is given as follows: 30v
35s Sc, 35-IOs 7c, 40-458 6c, 45-BOs
Gc, 50-558 4c, 55-60S 3Jc. '
Quotations on petite prunes
have been slightly higher than on
Italians, the buyers finding the ,
French prune to be in greater de
mand nnd consequently stronger
on the market.. Tho prices quoted
on the Krench 'variety are: .30-35s
!lc, 35-40s 8c, 40-158 7c, 45-50s f
50-558 5Jc, 55-OOs 6c. . ...
Prune Indications, it Is said, point,
to tho greatest crop ever known'
In the history of the northwest,
it is evident thnt the fruit will run
to small sizes, but the volume will
be greater than ever before. Cali
fornia llkewlso has a large crop,
so that there will be a great
amount of prunes placed upon the
market. ,
Despite the claims of buyers that
prices will not advance' beyond the
present quotations, many growers
are holding out and refusing lo,
sell nt the scalo offered. In fact,
one district is said lo be organized
so that none of tho growers will
sell until n price satisfactory to all
Id offered.
Although tiie greater part of tho
county has been canvassed by buy
ers, It Is stated that less than 21)
per cent of the prune crop has been
contracted at present. .
itiri
I'l vi. vn iioi,is
i.'i'i:iti;si'ixo shoot
A very Interesting rifle, shoot
wns held Sunday ut the range in
North Itnseliurg by tho local rifle
club. Eighteen members wore
out and 0 qualified as experts, .4
as sharpshooters olid 5 as marks
men. The club now bus :tll mem
bers enrolled ami regular prai'
liies are being lieid. All clubs ot
the stale are being invited to
pnrtlripato in a field day to bo
held on .lulv n.
TODAY'S BASEBALL
Aiiieiiciiii JriMRiie:
H. II. r:.
Cleveland 13 1
lioston . 1 4 3,
Batteries: Karr nnd L. Sewell;,
Wiltse and Oaston. ,
n, II. K.
St. T.ouls 2 I
Philadelphia 3 Ii 1
Batteries: Vangllder and liar-
grave; W'alhcrg and Cochrane,
Perkins.
n. it. k.'
Detroit 5 10 0
New York . . . 4 8 2
Batteries: Wells and Mnnlnn;
l'ennock nnd BengmiKh.
N'ntlonnl I,rngiip:
H. IT. E.
Boston , .... 1 7 3
Chicago 2 I
liattrlo: flem'wleh nnd Taylor: 1
Osborn and Uonzales,
RUN
BUYERS