The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913, December 09, 1910, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text'HI T1T71 TPh Tl f TT "R Ai V ST For the News of the Whole County Read The MUt. $1 year Patronize Home Mer chants. It helps the Town Along Always VOL .XXX ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1010. NO 3 CONGRESS OPENS SHORT SESSION Indications Are Little General Legislation Will Be Attempted. Washington The lxtyflrst con gress assembled Mondsy (or U final irsiloii. Almost Immediately after convening both house followed th custom of adjourning for ono day out ul respect to tlio memory of those diviiiIk'ii who have died during th summer recess. Five senators and thrcs represeutaUve have died since tli beginning of summer. Upon re assembling Tuosday tuo two housos listened to tbit reading of the presi dent's aunual message. Tbs luesauge was 'unusually Ion, running from 80,000 to 40,obo words In a general way the presldunt urged upon congress the necessity for i-um t Inn legislation to build up the Auierl can merchant ninrlua, to conserve the natural resources of tho country, in prMlJo new' form of government for Alaska, to "supplement nd strengthen" tho Sherman antitrust law, to enlarge tbs scope of the civil ssrvlc law, to create a national bu reau of health, to provide a legislative bails for worklngmen's compensation, fur Die limitation of Injunctions Is sued by federal courta, and to pro idtv cloitr coinaiarctnl relation with Canada. Tbo president also gave Ma views la regard to the further '"gu Utlon and control of corporation engaged. In Intnrstnte buslnos and Uie regulation of tho Issue of alocka and bonda of Interstate railway Get Down to Business. Aftor the reading of president Taft'a annuul mofsngn tho lawmak ers were able) to got down to business aJniuat lruuiadlatcly, a tho dotill of organisation and committee Langs required little tlnm. Tan Mg thing staring the leg h!a tor In the face le donning up the ap propriation bill, of whleli there nre II President Taft ha been ciilllng on the department head for economy o4 be 1 expected to continue the proceea with tho legl Intor. Until these bill are cleaned up It I pretty certain that notiilug in tne way oi general legislation will be ntleinpleil MARY BAKER EDDY DEAD Announcement la Mad In Mothsr Church 8"n. Mrs. Hury Bak-r (Hover Eddy, discoverer ami founder of f'brU tlnn Science, I dead, after an II Iii'-hh of nine days Announcement of tho passing of the venerable loader, which occurred lute Saturday night at hor home at Chestnut Hill, was TRAINMEN DEMAND INCREASE mployea of Wdtern Road Asking for Million. Chicago. Representatives of p kroxliitalnly 6M" conductor and trainmen, employed on the slsty rail road wet of Chicago, who have, do niandod an Increase In wage aver aging about IS per cent, are holdlnrc dully conference here with the gen wal manager In presenting their ar giiuicnt for the advance In pay and Improvement In working condition. It I estimated that the new scales asked by the inrn will exceed In tmoiirrt tboo asked by Iho engineer recently, which aggregated nearly 15.000,000. " Convoy Atked for Chart. New York. If the United State will send a convoy of battleship to escort tho chart from Oermany to thl country, the flrt map on which the pM Amr(.-" amienr limy bu brought across the Atlantic. Tho of f.r n n.. ni.it ilia document to be brought here lias been made to Presi dent Taft by representative of the owner of the hlatorlc document, which re la In Caitle Wolfeg, Kingdom of Wurtemburg, Germany. i ' ; - -.' .-Wry I V.i 0 : .' . '. .. 'J.' . ; '-.: - a M ' v, ' NEWS PARAGRAPHS FROM OTHER CITIEB IN OREGON The old butUt'Hlilp Oregon, aftor five yeiim of alienee, durlug which time lui bit reitti.-d at naclior out of com DilMHlon at the llremorton navy yard, I again ready for active service. Governor elect Oswald West an nounce that Ralph Watson, a re porter on tho Portland Journal, ha received and accepted 'The appoint ment of private secretary to the gov ernor. The iecretary of the Interior has re jected nil bid which were received at the office of the reclamation service ITEMS OF INTEREST THROUGHOUT OREGON Chronicle of Important Events of Interest to Our Readers. Report of State Land Board. Salem. The biennial report of the Btate Land Board, Issued by Clerk Drown, 1 In readiness for the next i..Rijtatiua o.aomtiiv in the reDOrt mi. uic ininc ui me f vijiuiumiuii .tri th-b i.(,idibti " d ' - --- - - at Klamath Kails for the furnishing of the clerk himself It Is shown that of a ulciii ,ir,i .r ,ir..iiir,ir enniilu a total of 1099.958.75 has been re- IOWA'S NEW SENATOR. Lafayette Young, Nwpapr Editor, Take Dolliver' Place. SECRETARY BALLINGER MAY BE IMPEACHED on the Klamath Irrigation orolect. To reclnlm l,r,000 acres of land In the Wood Illver valley, Klamath county, a levee 24 miles In length Is being built by Senator Abner Weed of Hluklyou, C'al, The work Is about half finished. Frank J. Miller, of Salem, hits been appointed state railroad commissioner to succeed Governor-elect West. Mr. Miller will immediately take up bis new duties. This appointment extends to tho flrBt of the year when he will continue In office, having been elected to that position. As a token of the esteem In which their fellow oo-laborer has been held by them during the past four years, j Oswald West, who retired from the ; railroad commission, was presented . with a benutlfu! silver cup by Com ( nilssloners Altcheson and Campbell ; snd by Commissioner-elect Frank J. ! Miller. Tho cup la a large affair. Is ' gold lined and 1 engraved with these I words: ''Oswald West, iroin the mcm- bers of the railroad commission of Oregon, Thomas K. Campbell, Clydo II. Altcheson, Frank J. Millor, Decern , bor 2, laiO." I The second semiannual state i threshers' convention will be held at Washington. A resolution for the La Grando ! itier 9 and 10. This MRS. MARY BAKER CLOVER EDDY mudo at the morning service of Die mother church In this city Sunday. Mrs. Kddy was boru In Dow, N. H., July I, 1X21, and was therefore In bor Suth year. Tho nuuibeT of I'lirUtian Sclenco adherent In 1010 Is estimated at 1,- 000.000. eelred and nald over to the state treasurer. Interest bearing funds In the de- pnrtment are regregated as follows: j School fund principal due on certlfl- j cat, of sale, 679,0.r.9.26; college fund principal due on certificates of sale, $3,078.95; university fund principal duo on certificate of sale, $2,720; swamp land fund, due on certrflcates of sale, $4,904, or a total of $689, 762.21. The amount due on Interest account from the above funds for ex cess received on farm lands Is shown to be $7,559. Money from lands sold Is segregat ed In the clerk's report as follows: School lands, $74,772.3; Agricultural College lands, $:120.19; swamp lands, $480; tide lands, $:154.77, or a total of $75,927 69. The total applications for farm loans Is shown to have been' $2,532, 048.07. The loans rejected amounted to $2,435,528 07. The school district ' bonds purchased an ounted to $95,980. tr. . - t -7 ,--.- lm'peachmont of Secretary Malllnger baa been proiKisod and may be Introduced In th house at any time Its Introduction Is timely. If the min ority report, censuring llalllnger, la adopted by the house. Hie Impeach ment resolution will follow almost Imiuedlatoly, perhaps at the same time tho minority report Is adopted. The probability that the houso will follow that course by a combination between Insurgents and Democrats I lng engineers, etc convention will be the most import ant ovt ' in tho history of the asso ciation, as at this meeting the dele gates will outline new laws to govern the threshing Industry for " ' tlon at the coming session of the leg islature, and It Is expected that every thresherman In Tie stnte will make a special el fort to bu present. Among the laws to bo s r.sested arc bridge DlnnkinK. Insnectli i of boilers, llccns- Home-Made Still Seized. Eugoae. Deputy Internal Revenue Collector Scbulberg, of Salem, and his assistant, A. F. Tomlinson, made raid on a moonshiner's still In the mountains near Lcrano. The still consisted of a big copper kettle holding abcut two barrels, the necessary "worm" and other appara tus V-cvn to the moonshlper. The was brought to this city and shipped to the collector of internal 1 revenue at Portland. The name of the owner of tho still has not been learned. KAY ADD TWO JUDGES worries the administration very much If the house should Impeach, the sen ate must, under the constitution, sit aa Judge on the houso charges. Only a change in the present sltua- ihm can prvvem tho house from adopting the reKt censuring Hiillln gr, and It la argu.-d that then the bous must ox to Impeachment or b Inconsistent. Jones Declines Taft's Offer. Washington. Senator Jo'ies, of Washington, will not den thu ermine. Shortly after his arrival In Washing ton the Senator, by appoinment, call ed upon president Toft, who tendered him tho rnlted States District Judg ship for Eastern Wushlng;oii, left va cant by the death of Judge Whltson. Senator Jones promptly declined the offer, saying ho preferred to remain In the Senate. Moreover, he Informed the President he did not cure to rec ommend anyone for this vacant Judge ship, but would gladly furnish, upon request, any Intormatlon ho might possess regarding various candidates. He said he preferred that the Presi dent should make his own selection. This will be done, but before any np poltit ment I lunde both Washington Seuutor will bo iwm.uinlted as to the qualifications of the man chosen by the President. The State Poai ! of Equalization met Mondny and wl'l continue In ses sion untl 'to revlow :ind equalization is ompleted. Tho 1. allows one month as maximum t'. '.zr the coin plotlon of this work. Following the equalization and revl. w, apportion ment of the state kaa will be made., Tho commissioners are not certain what extent of work there will be this year In connection with the equaliza tion. Meetings will be held In the ofllces of the tax commission, unless there Is a particularly heavy attend ance ind nt such times the board will adjourn to the stflte senate chambers. The convention of the Oregon-Idaho Young Men's Christian Associations at Eugene adopted by unanimous vote resolutions providing for the initiative and referendum In the affairs of the organization. Tho resolutions provide thai any 10 per cent of the associa tions In tho two states may file their roferendum petition any time within 0 day after the close of the session of the stato convention. Each asso ciation is entitled to two votes on ecU measure, ono additional vete for each 100 active members and one ad ditional vote for a majority fraction embers. A const It u Salem. That the addition, of two supremo Justices to the five now con nected with the court will be one ot the liveliest topics to be considered by the next legislature. Is the opinion of several of the members-elect of both the senate and the house. Un der the amendment to article VII, no re? frictions are placed on the number of Justices and the legislature Is given full sway to make as many additions as It pleases. That a move will be placed on foot to Increase the number from five to seven Is certain now, and It Is under stood plans are already under way for the framing of a measure to cover the Increase. Pnder the amendment voted upon favorably by the people, the supreme : court Is Instructed to go completely Into the record if necessary, and go beyond the exceptions wtoich counsel might make to the rulings of the cir cuit court. It Is stated by those who are favorable to Increasing the num ber of the supreme bench that this will practically necessitate the pro posed additions. It is understood that the bill for In crease of number of Justices will be one of the first to be lntrodaced at BRIEF NEWS OF THE WEEK New York is not to have a world's fair In 13:: r.;r at my other time perhaps. Tho committee appointed some time et-o by the mayor to con sider the schen a hns decided that the city does net Bord fair. Department heads of the Santa Fe Railroad Comrny have been notified that beginning December 1 smoking cigarettes by employes would be con sidered eufoc'ent c.use for dismissal. The uro cf rrrr'"n'"s by the war departmen Is :rc; . .n. rtded by the board of otdmnce .ind fortifications' in its annual repert U the secretary of war. j President Tart has withdrawn ap- j proximately 6,670 acres of public land in Washington and Oregon for water- power sites. The lands sltivated In 1 Washington are along the Little Pend d"Orcille River, approximately 4,180 acres; along Jackman Creek, approxl-' mately 7S0 acres; along Lost Creek, ' approximately 120 acres. Oregon, along Rcgue River tributaries ap proximately 960 acre's. Foremost on the list of the con ventions of the week 1 the annual session of the National Rivers and Harbors congress, whie assembled In WsskUiftoa Wlly. Other conventions of more or fess tnten and Importance are the annual meet ing of the American Red Cross so ciety In Washington, the convention of the American Road Builders' aaso clatirn in Indianapolis, the meeting of the Southern 'Homeopathic Medical association in Jacksonville, and a meeting in St. Paul of the forestry officials of Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota to consider plans for tho prevention of forest fires. i sk'- - IHIHHHHHBbi' Be one of the WSS OWES who do their ChHsmas Shopping early. Ot 1UU euvw mi-Mil" ---- ..,,.. tlon was adopted providing for incor- the coming session. As the MttcrM HARRIMAN ROADS MERGED Portland, All doubt as to whether the recently organized Oregon Wash- hoton Railroad & Navigation torn .n t. to be an operating as well as a holding concern was dispelled fnllnwlna- a stockholder' meeting here, when It wa announced that aft or Baturdny, December 24, all buslnos will be done under the name of the new romunnr. On that date, tha U K. t N. Co., tho North Coast road and all associated ilnos will pns out of existence, and the new company, ; as an active factor In the raiirona world will officially come Into being. Attorney and officer of the company now are at work preparing the paper Decenary to the formal transfer. Deadly Explotlve Ud. Washington. A new high eiploslve for submarine mlnea hae beon adopfc d by the War Department and ! receiving the careful itudy ot officer, of the Coait Artillery corpe. It will not supplant all other forma of am munition for mine now in uae, but Uio Department will procure a up- i.u it. tttiriA offnctlvenesi bat been demonstrated to the satisfaction of experts. For natrlotla reason It U impo tlM for army official to dlTulf tha Progressive Legislation Endorsed. Was-hlngton. President (lompers, upon bis return from the American Federation meeting at St. Louis, re ported that the Federation Indorsed unanimously Oregon' progressive leg islation, Including statewide primaries, alrect nomination, th corrupt prac tice act and the Initiative and referendum. THE MARKETS. Portland. Wheat Track price: Club, 82o; bluestem, 83o; red Russian, 80c. Darley Feed, $21; brewing, ixd. OaU No. 1 White, $28 per ton. Hay Timothy, Willamette Valley, $20Q22 per ton; fc-astern uregon, $23(324; alfalfa, $15l. Dutler Creamery, aio; ritiicu, . Eggs Kanch, candled, 3e. Hod 1910 crop, llcfll3c; 1909, 8c; old, nominal. Wool Eurn Oregon liuo io., VeJloy. 17Clo lu' MotoaJr Choice, 3aaa 80c i Seattle. Wheat Dluesteuv, 82o; Club red RuMlan, 77o. Barley 121 P ton' r.: IDA tier tOU. Ilay-Tluwthy, 26 s ton; aUall. $1$ per ton. Butter Washington ormry, 880, rti.,r, under the laws of Oregoo which was not possible under the olJ constitution. The principal place oi ; business will be In Portland. ; Aerordlnn to the ofT.cial count oi the returns of the thirteenth census, ; tho population of tho state of Oregon , it 672.765. a compared with 413,536 i toon nnd S13.767 In 1890. The, In crease from 1900 to 1910, therefore, la 259,228, or 62.7 per cent, as com- j pared with an Increase for the preced ing decade of 99,769, or 31.8 per cent. Oregon Is entitled to an additional congressman. The population oi me counties In 1910 roiiow: irtfiflS: Clackamas, 29,931; Clatsop, 16,106; Columbia. 10,580; Coos. 19.959; Crook, 9.315; Curry. 2,044; Dougias, 19,674; Gilliam, 3,701; orant, o.ou.. Harney. 4.059; Hood River, 8,016; Jackson, 25,716; Josephine, 9,567; Klamath. 8,554; Lake, 4,658; Lane, S3 783; Lincoln, 5,587; Linn, u,m. lir..,,,r s fiOl: Marlon, 39,780; Mor row 4 357; Multnomah, 226,261; Polk, 13,469; Sherman, 4.242; Tillamook, 6,266; Umatilla, 20,309; union. imi. Wallowa, 8.864; Wasoo, " lngton, 21,522; Wheeler. 2.484; "Urn- hlU, 18,285. tnstlces would come under the ap pointing power of the governor, and as the legislature will be thoroughly Republican, a warm tilt Is looked for ward to. NEW LAWS MADE EFFECTIVE Acts and Amendment a Adopted by j People Now on Statutes. Salem. The Initiative and referen dum acts and amendments which were passed at the last general elec tion are now written into the statute book as a portion of the law of Ore gon, Governor Frank W. Benson hav ing Issued pnclamatlons which made these law and amendment effective. Canvassing of the official vote ha wn eomuleted. and Immediately fol lowing the completion of thl canvas the governor issued hi proclamation. The laws Include the establishment of an Eastern Oregon brancn insane asylum, reinstatement of the Mon- mouth State Normal School, an ! amendment providing for regulation ! of taxation by counties, the home rule amendment, employers' liability ' Mil lioene River fishing bill, good roads amendment, presidential pri mary bill and the three-fourth Jury amendment. NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS Ceneral Merritt, who was the mili tary commander in charge of the first detachments of United State troop landed on the Philippine Islands, Is dead. Oscar Hamraerstein, the opera im- pressar'o, Is going to quit this coun try for good and will leave In Janu ary for England, where he expeets to open his opera house next season. Carter H. Harrison, former mayor of Chlcaco. will be a candidate for that office at the primaries to be held there February 28. Harrison ha served four terms In this office. Fred W. Lehmann, of St. Louis, wa amiointed by President Taft to be so licitor-general to eucceed the late I.lovd Bowers. Senator Elihu Root, of New York, has been appointed permanent arbi trator representing America at The Hague tribunal, succeeding the late Chief Justice Fuller. Buyers from this section have always been iudined to ro to Portland when the Holidays came around, for the reason that up to the past year or two they could not get mu.h of a variety of goods from the local stores, but that clay is past. No matter what you want we hare it. Before goiwg elsewkere at least look over the fine assortment of Christmas Goods which we have now on hand a line of seasonable merchandise such as was never before placed on dis play in a Columbia County store From the Toys, etc., for the little ones to appropriate articles for gifts to the older folks not an item has been left out. Don't fail to drop in and see what we have. Groceries, Furniture, Shoes, Dry Goods, Stoves and Ranges Indian Children H.v. New School. Klamath Fail.Throe new day ..mim ne tho use of the Indian hoy and girt Wr Open 4 on tho reserva- ttotl tJOCOtnber I. two are v aft thfccttu aWOb-nequln Bridge narfdat- tan tw.wwmoy . lh6 COUDle. Mr Roebura Man Father of 22. Hoseburg.-The birth of a daughter to the wife of Levi White, In thl city, makes Mr. White a father for the time. This 1 the FOREIGN NEWS BITS Europe first skyscraper after the American model is to be erected In Milan. Italv. The official announcement of the award of the Nobel prize for 1910 will be made Saturday at a meeting of the Swedish parliament In Stock holm. The Brailllan government will end a rotton Bueciallst to the United States to study cotton growing and to take back with him American expert to further the Interest ot the Indus try In Braill. Owing to a noticeable lncreaso In the conumptlon of wheat among the Chinese more and more land In Manchuria I now. being used to keep up the supply. A a result of the extraordinary agitation in recent month by Chi nese antioplum ocletlc, the impe rial enat almost unanimously passed a resolution looking to th extermination of th drug. -FOR- Men Women and Children An up-to-date and serviceable line of Gents' Furnishings V VV -YVT 11 m J. tl. Wellington j St. Helens, uregon "imposition of th ijlolv of it ranch, 25o. E((ltl !, Ho. ilxastrou effeoU.