CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Ooings of the World at Large
Told in Briet
General Return of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Residents of Oceanside, la'.. ar
planning ta have a municipal saloon,
aa the precinct has voted dry.
The stesmer Norma successfully
navigated the Columbia river from
point near Tenino to Portland.
. Japan objects to China putting
troops into Manchuria to retake To
nanfu from the Mongol rebels.
Twenty-two are dead and many
missing as the result of high winds
and cloudbursts in Western Pennsyl
vania. ' Great Britain announces that she
will formally demand arbitration of
the Panama canal tolls dispute at Th
Hague.
The Grand Army quartermaster
general, who resides in Loa Angeles.
will act as best man at the wedding of
bis nephew.
Emperor William reviewed a Ger
man army of 60,000 men, which was
led by eight army aeroplanes and two
dirigible balloons.
Four sisters near Ozark, Arkansas,
were married to young planters of the
neighborhood at the same time, and
the four couples will reside in newly
prepared homes in the immediate vi
cinity. Several days of terrific heat in Chi
cago were followed by a violent elec
tric storm and cloudburst, which did
damage estimated at $1,000,000 and
kept the entire fire force busy answer
ing alarms.
William Letib, Jr., and George B.
Cortelyou, both former private secre
taries to Colonel Roosevelt when he
was president; William Randolph
Hearst and John D. Aerchbold have
been aArd to appear before the sen
ate commitee investigating campaign
contributions.
George Gray, a Klamath Indian, has
voluntarily begun serving a 60-day
sentence for giving liquor to Indians,
after having been allowed to remain
at home and harvest his crops under
suspension of sentence.
Two were killed and 40 injured in a
head-on collision between passerger
trains in England.
Nicaraguan rebels fired on Ameri
can marines who were repairing a
railroad, but no one was hit.
TAT LEADS IN CALIFORNIA.
Easy Victory E upset td By Pro&rei
sites Doe N.t Materialize.
San Francisco Roosevelt Progress
ives suffered unexpected reverses i
many instances in the California pri
marie, and in some congressional dis
tricts where the Bull Moose forces
were absolute confident of victory
especially so through the redisricting
of the state, they have found them
selves defeated. In districts where
easy victory for the Roosevelt candi
dates had been predicted, notably in
the third, the Taft vote is running far
ahead of the Roosevelt Progressive
count.
The Roosevelt forces, however,
clsim that the election has given them
control of the state machinery, and if
this claim is borne out, as incomplete
returns Indicate, it assures the selec
li n tf Roosevelt-Johnson elect rs s
the state convention at Sacramento,
September 24. This result has been,
however, more or less counted upon by
the Tsft leaders on account of the
large personal popularity of Governor
Johnson, the vice presidential csndi
date -on the Roosevelt Progressive
ticket.
Secondary in interest only to the
sharply-drawn contest between the
Taft and Roosevelt faction of the Re
pubican party was the nomination of
11 representatives, the primary being
the first congressional contest since
the addition of three new congression
I districts by the reapportionment al
the last special session of the state
legislature, based upon the 1910 cen
sus.
Scant returns in several districts in
which the Progressives had predicted
easy victory for their candidates indi
cate unexpected reverses for the
Roosevelt men, notably in the third
which laft leaders declared wss
"carved out" by the legislature ex
pressly to insure the certainty of the
election of Frank R. Devlin, House
velt stalwart.
MILWUKIE FIRE $50,000.
American marines guard the rail
road from Corinto, the principal sea
port of Nicaragua, to the capital.
It is estimated that 120.000 persons
were in the funeral procession of Gen
eral Booth, the of Salvation Army.
The late General Booth of the Sal
vation Army, left a personal estate of
$2440, most of .which he left to the
Army.
Mexicin rebels announce that after
Sept. 15 r.o quarter will be shown
Americans so long as Madero remains
in office.
The Louisville & Nashville railroad
has increased its capital stock from
sixty to seventy-two millions.
A Federal grand jury in Texas has
indicted the representatives of the
Standard Oil company for violation of
anti-trust laws.
An Eng'.iah aviator, while flying
with his wife as a passenger, was
forced alight in the ocean, but a pars
ing yacht rescued them.
The government will refuse to ar
bitrate the alleged canal issue raised
by Great Britain's protests against
free tolls for American ships. 'm
Portland Fuburb Hard Hit Califor
nia Retort Also Burns
Portland Fire believed to have
started in the rear of the Milwaukie
Appeal print shop at 1 o'clock Wed
nesday morning swept ono entire
block on Main street between Wash
ington and Jefferson streets at Mil
waukie, Or., a suburb of Portland,
doing damage estimated at $50,000.
The fire razed the entire block, in
cluding the postoffice. Only the Sell-
wood fire appartatus from Portland
was able to reach the scene. Water
was pumped from the river to quench
the flames.
Wires from all parts of the town
except a tavern and the O. W. P. re
pair shops were down, and aid was
summoned with difficulty.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Los Angeles Fire originating from
a defective Sue at the Casino Cafe on
the pleasure pier at Ocean Park
cause! a loss of at least one life and a
property damage estimated at $2,250,
000. For a time it threatened to dev
astate the twin beach resorts of Ocean
Park and Venice, 18 miles from Los
Angeles.
A high wind caused the names to
spread so rapidly that seven men were
caught at the end of the Frazer pier.
on which the Casino was located, and
were forced to jump into the breakers.
Six of them were rescued by life
guards, who put out in boats. They
were pot in time, however, to save
the life of E. W. Leach, chef of the
Casino cafe.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
OHIO REFUSES SUFFRAGE.
FARMERS IN NEED OF AID.
President of Agricultural College
Makes Tour of Stats.
Corvailis That Oregon is ready for
tho Installation of statewide system
of agricultural education and rural
inspiration is the belief of President
W. J. Kerr, who has just returned
from an extended inspection trip in
Eastern Oregon. The people every
where seem - to be convinced that the
rich agricultural heritage of Oregon
cannot be realised until intelligent
and scientific methods are applied in
all phases of the agricultural indus
tries, according to Dr. Kerr. But,
more than this, they seem to be con
vinced that this can be brought about
only by organised effort which should
reach into every community in the
state.
He reports that as a result of his
investigation of the work which has
been done during the past year at the
branch experiment stations and the
demonstration farms, and in co-opera
tion with these by the farmera of
Central and Eastern Oregon, he is
convinced more than ever that this
great work of organization and ex
tension of agricultural education will
be done in large measure through the
use or demonstration larms, urancn
experiment stations and the general
extension agencies of the college
working in co-operation with the
farmera in the various localities or
the state.
The- two things most needed for
successfully carrying forward the ag
ricultural extension work", said Dr.
Kerr, "are demonstration farms and
traveling agricultural advisors."
In support of his theory. President
Kerr cited tho success of the work
now being done at the demonstration
farms at Metolius and Redmond, and.
particularly, in connection with the
branch experiment station and demon
stration farm in Harney county, and
the work undertaken in connection
with the county high school at Klam
ath Falls. He feels tht t the value of
this line of work has already been
demonstrated in these sections.
CANBY BRIDGE LOCATED.
Rebel Looters Are Activi.
Washington, D. C. Confirmation of
press reports of the great activity of
rebel looting parties in Northern Mex
ico continues ti reach the State de
partment. Naturally these raiders.
constantly kept on the jump by the
pursuing government columns, are
looking for horses and ranches are
suffering loss of their livestock where
ever they appear. At or.e point the
rebels captured 5000 rounds of ammu
nition destine! for government forces.
At the Wrde ranch, 15 miles south of
Naco, they took 70 horses.
Wheat Track prices, new; Club,
79-iSOc; b!uestem, 82(j3c; forty
f'jtd, 81c; valley, 80c.
Barley Brewing, $28; feed, $25.
Corn Whole, $33.50; cracked,
$39.50 ton.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15;
valley timothy, 12"i 13; alfalfa, $11
r12; clover, $10; oats and vetch,
flO'dll; grain hay, $10'ill.
Oats Spot, 29vr30 ton.
Freh fruits Apples, 75cftr$L75 pr
box; peaches, 25i;65c; pljrns, 2c
pound; pear., $1 box; grapes, BOC'i
$1.25; blackberries, 50cri$l.25 crate.
Melons Cantaloupes, 50c Oi, $1.50
per crate; watermelons, $1 1.25 per
hundred; casabas. $1. 25ft 1.50 dozen.
Onions Walla Walla, 75c sack.
Potatoes Jobbing 'prices : Bur-
banks, 60 75c hundred.
-Vegetables Artichokes, 65ft75c
dozen; brans, 2c pound; cabbage, 11;.
lie; cauliflower, $1 .1.25 dozen; cel
ery, 60fa75e; porn, 15'; 25c; cucum
bers, 50c box; eggplant, 5ft 6c pound;
head lettuce, 20ft 25c dozen ; peas, ?M
9 pound; peppers, 5ft 6c.
Egps Case count, 22ft 23c; can
dled, 2"ft26c; extras, 27ft 27Je.
. Butter Oregon creamery butter,
cubes, 32c pound; prints, box lots.
33c.
Pork Fancy, lljftl2c pound.
Veal Fancy, 14Jftil5c pound.
" Poultry Hens, 12ftl3c pound;
broilers, 14ft HJe; ducks, young, 10;
geese, &?12: turkeys, live, 18ft20;
dressed, 24ft25.
Hops 1912 fuggles, 17J pound;
clusters, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 14ft 18c
pound; valley,. 21ft 22e; mohair,
choice, 32c.
Cattle Choice steers, $8.75V7;
good, $6ft6.65; medium, $5.7.Vi6;
choice cows, I5.75ft6.25; good, $5.50
ii5.75j medium, $5ft5.50; choice
calves, $7ft8.50; good heavy, $pft
6.60; bulls. $3.50ft5; stags. $4.75ft6.
Higs Light, $8.75ft9.25: heavy,
$7.50. 8.50.
Sheep Yearlings, $3.50ft4.60;
wethers, $44.50; ewes, $2.85'43.75;
lambs, $4ft5.85.
Spokane Rat?s In Effect.
Spokane Spokane 'shippers receiv
ed advices from representatives of
Western railroads in St. Paul that
lower freight rate on the commodities
which were held up when the com
promise tra'ff of June 15 was agreed
upon wouH be placed in effect at once.
There are about a dozen commodities
affected and it is estimated the reduc
tion in the rates will be 3 or 4 per cent.
The new rates will remain in effect
until December 31, when they will be
subject to a hearing before the Inter
state commerce commission.
Mount McKinley is Goal.
Seattle An expedition to climb
Mount McKinley next spring has been
organized by C. E. Rusk, editor of the
Prosser, Wash., Independent, reputed
to be the most skillful mountain
climber in the Pacific Northwest, and
Merl Lavoy, who wa3 a member of
the unsuccessful Herschel Parker ex
peditions of 1310 and 1912. Rusk,
who is a member of the Portland Ma
zamas, made an unsuccessful expedi
tion to the mountain in 1910.
Electric Railway Viaduct to Be 000
Feet Long,
Canby Engineer R. H. Hollenbeck
has definitely located the bridge by
which the electric lines of the i'ort-
and, Eugene & Eastern railway will
cross the Willamette at Rocky Reef,
point about two miles northwest of
Canby. The bridge is to be construct
d of steel and will be 75 feet above
low water mark as required by the
government regulations concerning
river traffic, where draws are not
maintained. This height will allow
any boat operating on the upper river
to pass under the bridge at any water
stage.
The steel portion of the new electric
railway bridge will be about 900 feet
in length, the approaches on either
side of the river being of wood and
each being approximately 1200 feet
in length.
LINN FAiR IS SUCCESSFUL.
"Spend Money on Shows, Not Re
form Schools," Says Ben i.ellirg
Seio The sixth annual Linn County
fair came to a successful end this
week, even though the rain prevented
some of the races and was also the
cause of many people staying away.
Both the Linn county school child
ren's industrial exhibit and the Linn
county general exhibit were good.
This was the first school children's
fair, and its results were gratifying
both in extent and quality. Many
children only 9 years old exhibited
first-class poultry, vegetables, sewing,
cooking, drawing and mechanical articles.
Among the noteworthy visitors at
the fair was Ben Selling. Mr. Selling
says that money had better be spent
on the school children's fairs than on
reform schools.
HOP PICKING STAR1ED.
Full Crew of Workers Open Sssson
St McMinnville.
McMinnville The hop picking sea.
son commenced here Tuesday, when
full crew of pickers started to work
in the John Hackett yard west of this
city. Mr. Hackett's hops were barely
ripe, but owing to the fact that a
large portion were on the ground, due
to heavy crop and the late rains,
picking was started little early.
Within week'picking will be general
throughout the county. Two other
growers will start picking their hops
immediately.
The hops are in fine condition and
the yield will be better than last year.
If weather conditions remain favor
able the next week will witness seve
ral thousand pound of hops dried and
baled. Many growers bale their hops
as soon as possible after they are prop
erly dried and are fit to go into the
bale. The hop picking season for
this county will cover two weeks.
Pickers are plentiful, being recruited
from local residents.
Threshing of grain and hulling of
clover is in full swing, every machine
in the county working full time
There is plenty of late spring grain
yet to be threshed, and an abumlunce
of cover in the fields has not yet been
touched.
POLK COUNTY SETS NEW MARK
Hop Crrp This Year Best In Both
Quality and Quantity.
Dallas Hop pit-king has opened in
this county in the yaiJ owned by C.
G. Coad and Charles Rilyeu, about a
mile to the west of this city, and be
fore the week is over, harvesting of
the hop crop will be in full swing all
over the county.
Never before have the hops of the
county shown so well as they do at the
present time. The quality is far
above the average, and the yield is al
so large, the damage caused by the
heavy rains of a week ago having
been nearly wholly repaire I. Barring
the possibility of steady rains for the
next two weeks, every indication
points to the best hop crop in the
history of the county. If it rains,
picking will be delayed in many of the
yards.
Much of the crop of the couny has
been contracted fur, nearly all of the
smaller yards having disposed of their
yield during the winter. The contract-
price averages 20 cents. An effort is
being made this year to hold the pick
ers down to picking fairly clean.
BIG WATER TIGHT GIVEN.
In listiv and Referendum and Liquor
Amsndtnents Are Carried.
Columbus, Ohio The women of
Ohio failed in their effort to gain the
ballot, according to early returns.
While the earliest figures on which
this result is based come almost from
Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, To
ledo and Dayton, It was in those
places where the suffragists waged
their most determined fights and poli
ticians said the result would notbe
changes) by the final returns.
The women, it is said, will not give
up their fight for the ballot, but plan
to use the initiative and referendum
to gain another vote.
The citiea of the state uniformly
voted in favor of all amendments but
suffrage. The farming communities
voted sgainst the amendments as a
whole, but there was little likelihood
that they could offset the big urban
majorities.
About half the state vote was casL
The initiative and referendum has
been adopted, according to the first
950 precincts out of 6197 in the state.
It received 6:t,0J3 vote for and 33.0S5
against Tho liquor license had car
ried by 55.341 to 20,942.
The suffrage vote from 950 pre
cincts showed Till, 063 for to 65,139
against. The country districts were
expected to change this result, however.
The liquor license proposal provide
that licenses to traffic in liq'ior shall
be granted, subject to law that may
be enacted by tho legislature. It doe
not affect the present liquor law.
ROOSEVtLT THIRD.
FARM m- ORCHAm
A'onM W Inttrmllunt from Agrkvlturul ColUam mm.1 s-T!
I of Ortpm ami Washing. Spiail Suitabk to VoV c T
Oats 65 Bushels Jto Acre.
Gold Hill Oats on the Pankry
ranch in Sams valley yielded 51 bush
els to three-quarters of an acre.
They were sown on March 29. On a
four-acre place in the name neighbor
hood, sown April 19, 220 buhstds were
threshed, or an average of 55 bushels
an acre. Owing to the decreased
grain acrenge resulting from the
planting of fruit trees two threshing
outfits now do all the threshing in
Rogue river valley. A few years ago
it took half a dozen. Several flouring
mills have shut down.
$2 5,000 Bords for Trainrobber.
TopeVa Wells Lounsberry, the rob-1
her who held up six mail clerks on a
t'nipn Pacific train between Kansas
City and Topeka the morning of Au
eust 22, is in jail here under $25,000
bonds, awaiting action by the federal
grand jury at Leavenworth October
14, and his wife and two children,
Philip and George, are on their way
back to Med ford, Or.
Japs Not to Hire Whites,
Los Angeles Chief of Police Se
bastian has issued an imperative or
der that proprietors of Chinese and
Japanese cafes and soda water stands
must discharge immediately the 50
white girls and women employed by
them as waitresses and cashiers.
White women and girls are out of
place in resorts conducted by Orien
tals, the chief said.
Federals to Ftrtify Juarez
Juarez, Mexico The federal gov
ernment, it is announced, will fortify
Jusret with extensive earthworks and
light and heavy artillery.
Dallas Damage Slight.
Dallas An investigation covering
practically all sections of the county
has shown that the damage done to
hops so far has not been as great as
was feared. The worst damage in
any part of the county seems to have
been in the Fall City district. It is
reported that in this section nearly all
the trellis hopyards are seriously dam
aged, the hops being down. The pole
yards have not Buffered as much. Tho
potatoes of this county are far above
the average this year. They arc
larger and better.
Graphite Vein Found.
Coquille E. C. Barker, of Marah
field, has struck in 18 inch vein of
graphite on his ranch, six miles north
of Coquille, and Is sending a quantity
of the material to the Oregon Agri
cultural college to be tested. The
vein is only 16 feet from the surface
and where struck is near the hanks of
the north fork of the Coquille river,
where the power necessary for mining
operations is easily accessible.
Gilliam Crops Are Big.
Condon Harvest is nearly over in
Gilliam county, with a good average
yield all over. In some cases the crop
was enormous. James Coutuac, of
Ferry Canyon, has the banner crop.
He threshed 3480 sacks of 40 fold
wheat off 140 acres. The wheat is
worth at present prices, $5000, about
double the price Mr. Coutusa paid for
this land a few years ago.
State Englreer Approves Permit for
36,000 Acts.
Salem W. W. Cavinrss has secured
from the state engineer an approval of
a permit to irrigate 35,000 a:re of
land from the Cottonwood creek tribu
tary of the Malheur river. This i the
first unit of a considerably larger pro
ject, involving the coiiftniction of one
reservoir for the storage of 60,000
acre-feet of water and another for the
storage of 1200 acre-feet.
This is the third irrigation project
of considerable magnitude initiated in
the vicinity of Vale during the pres
ent year. The othe r projects are the
Malheur Water , Users association
project, which contemplate tho irri
gation of 32.000 arres of land north
west of Vale, with the waters of the
Malheur river stored in the Warm
Springs reservoir, and the Vale, Ore
gon, Irrigation rominny s project of
24,000 acre to be irrigated from th
waters of Bully rrte-k stored in the"
Lumber-ton re-rvoir.
The.-e activities are probably due to
the construction of the railroa I from
Vale up the Malheur canyon toward
Burns.
Benton County Has 20 Fairs.
Corvailis Thirty school districts
participated in the Benton County In
dustrial Fair here. The extent, var
iety an I excellence of the product
shown far t-xc'clel the expectation of
the fair manngers. The young exhib
itors were intensely interested, and
hf avy showers of rain failed to damp
en their enthusiasm. They carefully
compared the r rize-winntr.g exhibit
with others in the same class, getting
pointers for their endeavors of next
season. The great success of this fair
mukes it certain that the school expo
sition will be made an annual affair.
Regular Republicans Maintain Lead In
Vtrmont Election
M mfpelier. Vt. The Ronsevilt Pro
gressive ticket ran a poor third in the
state elections in Vermont, with the
Taft Republicans winning bv a vote of
almost double that of the Piogressive
candidate and tho Democrats far out
numbering the Bull Moose party'
vote. In fact the Roosevelt ticket
obtained less than one-quarter of the
total vote of the state, according to
almost complete returns.
The Republican plurality, while
large, will lack some votes of being s
majority, and as a result the election
for governor is certain to be thrown
in'o the legislature.
Returns for governor from
of 216 cities and towns gave:
er. Republican, 2S.602; Howe,
crat, 18,250; Metzger, Progressive,
14 220; Smith, Prohibition. 1426;
Suiter, Socialist, loort.
The same places in 1910 gave:
Men J. Republican. 81.816; Watson,
Democrat, 15,03; Towle, Prohibi
tionist, 1052; Ordway. SecUlit, K'0.
Indications from these figures at
midnight are roughly that the prevent
vote will total: Republicans, 26,236;
Democrats. 19. Kin; Roosevelt Pro
gressives, 16,429.
217 out
Fletch-
Demo-
EMPLOYES GET BONUSES.
Ke,Kll," of S70.0CO Distributed by
Carpet Mills Company.
Yonkers, N. Y. Bonuses aggrega
ting $70,000 were distributed to 3100
employes in the mills of the Alexan
der Smith & Sons Csrnet company
Wednesday. Men and women who
have been in the employ of the com
pany 10 years or more received checks
for amounts equal to 10 per cent of
their wages for the six month ending
June 30. Those of between five and
ten years' standing received 6 per
cent (tonuses.
This was the fourth time within a
few years that tho firm has thus re
membered its olJer employes. Last
March $ j5,OoQ was paid to 500 live
and ten year employes and in August,
191 1. $10,000 was distributed among
the 10-vear employes. A few years ago.
Mrs. F.va Smith Cochran, mother of
Alexander mith Cochran and Gilford
A. Cochran, the heaviest stockholder. I
uistritmt
CLOVER IN WESTERN OREGON
Agronomist Tells Hew Best Railed,
When Out and Hjw to Dry.
Oreiron Agricultural College, Cor
vailis The counties p Western Ore
gon which are producing the bulk of
the clover seed crop, according to Ag
ronomist George R. Hyslop, of the
Oregon Agricultural college, are
Washington, Yamhill, Marion. Polk,
Linn, Clackamaa'and Benton. Coun
ties having the best drained soils art
preferable for railing clover seed, he
ays.
"The clover Is usually seeded In
fall sown grain early In the spring,
preferably in February or In the first
wsek of March," Prof. Hyslop says.
"About 11 to 16 pounds of the seed
sre used to the acre. The year fol
lowing therrup Is ready for the seed
production, and generally the first
growth of this second season Is Hipped
between the middle and last of May.
The clippings are allowed to fall on
the ir nm ml. or. in some rases, utilised
for green fodder. Sometimes th
clover fields ars pastured with he
or other livestock up to about the first
of May. but in this rase rare must be
taken to avoid puddling the soil by
planting.
"The object In dipping or pastur
ing is two-fold: First, that the second
crop make a more uniform growth
ami produce more hlossoma at a time
when better fertilization of the flo
era is secured, pro luring a larger re
turn; second, that the clipping le
sen insect injury to the ed and im
proves the quality of the product.
"Clover seed should be rut when the
heads have turned brown, by the use
of a mowing machine with a bunching
attachment or a self rake reajwr
The bunches of clover seed should dry
in the field and be threshed promptly
after drying to avoid lens loss and se
cure the bert quality of the seed."
nice, Chsutauoua. .l... .
conventlona, mmtiZ S
.a I urirts.
During the y..r lh,rf
lecturers from th. -..nw,,,
some institute
era, and from
wsre sent to each
ork
SERVICE TO THE PEOPLE.
Taa
Supported Cullsge Shauld Tail
People Ve here Money I.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-
vulli Since the Oregon Agricultural
college i a state institution, support
rd by public tax, the manner in which
the funds appropriated are spent,
what I offered in return to tho young
men and women of the state in the
way of educational advantages and
practical training, ami whnt the insti
tutlon ran do fur those unnble to come
to the college. ll i ronti lerrd a
part of the pnqter work of lao institu
tion to reKirt through the public pre
the result of scientific investigation
in such unteehniral form that they
may be of Interest and asaiatance to
the general reader,
For this reason a press bulletin de
partment was established recently.
and through it the daily and weekly
newspaper of the itat are kept con
stantly advicd of new course offered,
new expert added to the cor of In
structors and investigators, discover
ies male which will aid the farmer.
gardener, irmtman, and slock raiser,
and new publication which may be
had for the arking.
Besides the new t..ri to the
daily and weekly pres of the slate,
there are prepared at freq'lent Liter
val.i articles for the agriniliural and
other technical publications having
any considerable circulation in the
state. Altogether there have been
sent out since September 1, 1911.
I. 237 article which have Included
I I, OH tyiwwritten sheets and 40,135
in mimeograph form. Many of these
hsvo been illustrate-! by photograph
of the c !!-. campus, equipment, lab
oratories, and demonstrations to show
Salmon Catch Nets S2I70.
Astoria The fishermen who huve
been 'trolling for salmon outsido the
mouth of the river are meeting with
good success, some getting as high as
f)0 fish a day. Some day, however,
the catches are light, owing to a heavy
swell. A near as can be learned the
high boat among the gillnetters dur
ing me pasi psning season was Nels
Ericson, who fishes for the Sanborn
Cutting Packing company. His catch
is said to have been 31,000 pounds, or
lft tons, which at $140 a ton makes a
total of $2170 for the summer's work
Pick Huckleberries Near Figin.
Elgin Many residents of Elgin sre
spending their vacations in the moun
tains picking huckleberries. The
yield this year i claimed to he the
heaviest in many years and berries
are selling in Elgin for 60 cents a gal
lon. Elgin Farmers Market Grain.
Elgin Much grain is being hauled
into Elgin by the farmer, but few
have contracted to sell at the present
price of 63 cents. The grain Is yield
ing about 35 to 60 bushels to the acre.
Cattle Brlns; Fancy Price.
Champocg Thorns Carsten, presi
dent of the Carsten Packing company,
of Seattle, has juat shipped 120 head
of fine beef cattle from Iiron lacres to
their establishment. The cattle were
purchased from the Smith Brothers,
of this place, for $12,000. These are
said to ho the finest lot of cattle ever
shipped out of Oregon. They were all
three-year-olds, and averaged $100
per head.
i $100,000 to the 20 year il ..I .. . . ,. .
men nn I women. The Smith plant ia !(,f the text.
me largest carpel manufactory in the
world.
V4rcouvr Has Ton War,
Vancouver, B. C. Following re
port of a battle in China, representa
tives of the two factions in Van-on ver
begun a riot in Market Liine. All day
the Orientals hovered about the bulle
tin board', growing more excited to
ward evening and finally so mo 300
Chinamen mingled in battle, using
clubs and stone with disastr-w effect.
Heads were broken right and left
I .L 1 m . .. .
nrei eno winuows or irunaiown were
smashed indiscriminately. Although
many were struck uncnnsciou-i, thry
were spirueu away ly friend.
Stlmson Reach Coast.
San Francisco Secretary of War
niimson is in hnn rranciaco on a tour
of the Western military post. He
U . . . . . t r r. , .
. i" "-" ! urn 1 unama-racmc Inter-
nauonsi exposition company and of
United Mates army officers. He was
met by Troop A, of the Presidio, at
upland, which was lined uD at tho
railway station at military atter.li.,n
The secretary of war refused to dis
cuss his plans in detail, but ..
tensive improvements were contem
plated in Western posts. He will
formally inspect the Presidio.
Battle Won by Chin...
enicago "Governor t'lmo FK
lisun, or Manchuria, has teleirranhnH
to the government," says a dispatch
from Pekin, China, to the f.'hirairn
Daily News, "that General f'h.-
("ho Lin attacked a la
Mongolians near Tonanfu. .Ief.i;
U . . . M .
'"" iier a 1 - Dour
The Mongolian lost
700 taken
and
engagement.
1000 killed and
prisoners. The Chin....
captured five gun and much ammuni
lion.
8torm Dead Number 40.
Pittsburg The task of r!.r!-
awsy wreckage caused bv thn .form
Hundny night and Mond
gresses well at hundred of points
throughout Western and Northern
fcnn.ylvarun, West Virginia and a
portion of Ohio. Tho list of f.italities
now reaches 40. The loss la placed at
$2,000,000. The principal sufferer
in ,"rmcn' an" 'silroads. Salin
vine, ., was almost wiped out
the flood.
ne-
by
COLLEGE Hf ACHtS MNY.
Government Report of Icitllutrt
Demonstrations.
Oregi.n Aricultiir;il College, Cor
vailis In the; annual report of farm
er institute sent by the director of
extension at thn Orefon Agricultural
collegn to the U. S. Department of
Agrteuuure at Washington, it is
shown that, up to July 1 0f this year,
there were held Inrtiluti ln every
county but one, inrluling CS one day
institute.. 3 lasting two day, and 1
lasting .till longer, a total of 72 in
stitutes holding 1 !5 lenii.ns attended
by 10,633 people.
An institute train giving lntnic
tion in general farming and consisting
of four cars made a run of 9.12 mile,
stopping at 12 stations at which the
attendance at lecture given by 9 ex
pert wa 4,325, A "round-up" In
stitute held at the Moro branch exper
iment station was attended by 2'0
farmers, and 33 other special institu
te ha! an attenlnnce of 13,150.
These included special lectures at pic-
6 stauT
wersj sent to each Ih.tlp.u
ao compensation f... "a
Theydsvoted altogetC
these lectures at the Uaek! N
tea. to which IS d.y, S,
lecturers spoke to V'".)
high schools, h,r.Viik
was done by ten
therwVe reached 2 8io' J?
grammar school. h" '
visited on 259 dav. it .!
drewed. '
Four of the en.,i. I
men have conducted fuu ... .
operations, at which tkl ...'
', M-tofth.
geJ at the rro..i
iiation or Individual, who
the topic on which li. -'i0
eollege expert to l..ct,-
Inefficient 'un,l hiv, a!.- u . )
possible to rKnd to all
!k waT t, A "7 fc2E I lv
work was the p,,uitry d
ear operated over the South,,, 52?
line, in the W,l.,n,u, X'f..,
April to May 4. making SO Zl
reaching 21,:i2 pcopl,. TkYV
w . ... BtairSB ...-
was SIS
arran
active interest of
and tlrU
Boms
tid ,d
..0i kJ
KILLINQ GOPHERS AND
MOlt,
Ur profitable
Householder-! give you my word,
three seventy-five Is all have in the
house. fturglar-Well, soy! When
ye figure me time on' me i.u.l.
d'ye expect me to make any profit at
that ratoT- Life,
The Only'Ona.
To every 'man the most ,.,. ;r,.i
woman in the world is ih.t
most sadly misses when she I gone
snd most gladly welcome when she
return. Galveston New.
Dlssslngs of Good Temper.
No trait of character I r.
unble than the possession of a good
temper. Home can never be mado
happy without It. It I. 1,1- n....
"pringlng up in our pathway, reviving
and cheering us.
Problem ot Eradirslinj Bodsst, ,
Simple Say P,M flpw
Oregon Agricultural Collep fjs,
valli-"The problem of ,riL
gopher, moles and similar lod,,
not a simple one." ny a. L
. eiperi ac We Oregon Anita!'
al college. "From our upim
believe it i nvceuary to arsctie
combination of treatment, rttbtrtfcv
ny single one.
"In most case one will
good success during the early put;
me ngm sun l he p,,imn
Fumigates! with carbon bi.ulM, r,,
very good uccr in newly
burrow of the pocket g tilsw. Tb
method is Us-d extensively utatft
the Middle Wctt on s rumir-wr
scale and over large fleldi. ftw.
the application fail it I usuall;
to the very extended underground bu
rn w which occur in field lose refai
ed. The carbon blu!ftii I 0x4
the rate of three to ix ounce Uni
pocket Saturating dry hurt sum
and working thi d-iwn into tlx to
ri, w is a very rod method of tppn
tion. The material may be bdvJ
slowly into the hole direct. A!le
treating the hole, cover it tborwrtit
to hold in the fume. Alwijri bssis
mind that carbon bisulfide li m
ftamable a gasol ine. I)o not open it
near a hot stove, nor imok tit
making the application.
"When the number of pr.-u n
cnmldorably lessened thry strata br
come wary of such method, sixitbi
possibly the trap will be iboot tit
only way that you can ratrh Un.
After tho trap erase to be rfrttifll
mall boy with a rift will n.1j
keep them down pretty well. t
pest usually appear ! yiKltidS
certain hours of the dsy snd (ilk)
hot very readily.
There are two mrth'!of tm-p"-
Ing the poisoned bait ne crni'litis
simply using piece of ermt or pjtis
or even rsisin. Make n incite
each piece and slip in a crystal d
strychnia sulphate. The tones
hould not be left uncovered i II
case 01 the pocket gopnrr; simpo;
scrspo away the surface mil to tip
the tunnel; the bait may ties
droiued into the hole nd toil n
placed. "Incase of mules, ku
polnltd stick may bo pushed rownsv
to tho uplifted earth amund th !um
and the bait dropped in. Then simply
Htamn on the burrow to cut out U
light from below.
"The other n.ethod tr prrpswt
lh tiait with nniaon is a follows:
Dissolve an nunc o f strvchnii
phate In a pint of boiling wtr; H
a ulnt of thle-k vrun an ! atir tho
otfhlv. Scent this with a few drrt
of oil of anise. This mixture ii
dent to poison a half bushel of wkt
or corn. Simply siur it over
trrain anil stir vfirnrouslv Thi P'
of course, should not be arattrred
exposed places where birds snd f
try would get It
"In the cae of traps. I do not
that anv particular make i to bs
ommendiMi. All or mem nv
thinir which make them. In tMJ
of their manufacturers, a Ii ttiea lupcc
ior to other types."
Ona Thlrg Certain.
Mr. Ncedmore "If you refu"
my life will be filled 'with bitterne
and gall." The Widow f1"111""""
don't know about the bitternf"". '
you're there with the gall, all
McNally Monarch.
In Boyhood Dy
Thera are no rhrrrie now "
that compare in flavor with th""
used to pick and est whils
Junes wss at the other ndot
farm. HarrUhurg Telegraph.
tend,-,, of achw.1. i Industr
lion culminating m ubiblu il
f rs all over the ,t.U
For Today.
Those who li v nn ii,. , ...
. .... iiiiiuiivHins
have 11 longer day than those who live
In the valleys. Homlm-. .11
mm? V1,'r'Khlan our d ! to rise a
little higher.
Wsll Ot ths Pe.timill.
"Yes, I consider my lif It. .
"O. Henry, how sad! Why jhouldg
say that7" "I PI al1 J.rf
making money enough to huy '
clothes, and tho food dlsagree-i w
mc, and my clothes don't fit.
N What He rVsnt.
. ..I..
nomin""" -
Suitor "I hope my
rf
the curator.hip 0 the museum
tifpiitles will Induce you to ,n"J Vw
-1CS"-
daughter to my car.
Blaetter.