LOW RAT KM ORIIKIiKlt.
luteal railroad passenger traffic of
ficials have been notified by wire
Irum Chicago that all the transcon
tinental lluea have decided to grant
the uiual low colonist rate from I he
Kant during the aeaaon. September 1
o October SI. The Hill Northern
oads and other competing lines, ex
ept the Santa Fe and the I'nlon Pa
ine, were inclined to adhere to the
isual one-way rate west when tin
i'ranscontinental Passenger associu
lion met to fix the rate for the fa'
colonist season. The meeting was n
aatiafactory to anybody conceme
but, aa was the case last winter, the
two systems mentioned decided to
grant the low rates Independently,
and tariffs are being prepared to thai
effect now. With the announcement
today that all lines had met the rate.
It will mean that the muvement of
bomeseekers to the northwest will be
as active as ever, and probably more
so, as the result of the enormous vol
ume of exploitation literature which
all sections of the northwest are and
have been dispatching to the eaul and
middle west points.
One Interesting feature In connec
tion with the granting of the low rate
by all lines, and particularly by the
Hill northern lines, is the fact that
the new North Dank road will play
a prominent part In turning a strong
er tide of bomeseekers toword Port
land than the Rose City has ever ex
perienced before. This will be the
Drat season in which the new Hill
-e has participated In tue colonist
movement and that is one reason wby
the company is hastening the comple
tion of the line into Portland. It
desires to be In a position to handle
Ita share of this westbound business
For the present season, the North
Bank road will be able to move this
class of business only from Pasco to
Portland, for the line from Spokane
through to this city will not be fin
ished before the first of the year.
The North Bank, however, will un
questionably uandle a good share of
colonist business routed out over the
Great Nortnern or Northern Pacific
as far aa Pponane. thence over tbe
Northern Pacific to the North Bant
connection at Pasco.
The colonist rate which will be
pat Into effect September 1 will be,
$38 from Chicago, $35.50 from St.
Louis, and 30 from Missouri river
points. Proportionate reductions
will apply from points east of Chi
eago. -
Under ordinary circumstances the
colonist movement Is heavier In the
fall than In the aprlng, for the rea
son that homeseekers desire to avail
themselves of tbe milder climate of
winter out here, and the harvest time
la over, and the average farmer has
more money In hta pocket than In
the spring.
Nearly 28,000 people took advan
tage of the low rate during the two
seasons of ju! and came to Port
land and Oregon points, but owing
to the financial stringency In the fall
and the closing of tbe Portlund gate
way In the spring, the movement for
the aprlng season this year was about
30 per cent below normal. It Is
doubtful, therefore, It the 1908 fig
ures will reach the high-water mark
of the preceding year, but It la be
lieved that It will not fall far short
of It.
PIIOPOtiKIt Nh'W API'LK LAW.
BALLOON KAIL.
ST. PAUL, Minn., July IT - -Up to
11 o'clock tonight three of the five
balloon started In the race late today
had been heard from. The first to
land was the King Edward, at Hamp
ton, Minn., 30 miles south of bore.
The American balloon came to earth
five miles southeast of Owatonna,
Minn., and the United States balloon
landed at West Concord, Minn. No
word of the Pommeranlan or Chicago
has been received.
PAYS PENALTY".
MOUNDSVILLE, W. Va., July 17.
Confessing to a chaplain Just prior
to his execution that he was guilty
of five murders In bis lifetime, Frank
Johnson, a negro, was hanged In the
penitentiary here for the murder of
Mrs. Beulah Martin at Gypsy, on
March 3. Johnson gave the details
of some of the murders, but as to
the others he refused to give particulars.
MOVER FOR PRESIDENT.
DENVER, Col., July 20. The
Western Federation of Miners' con
vention spent the entire day discuss
ing Industrial unionism and ad
journed without taking action.
There was no opposition to Presi
dent Moyer, and he doubtless will be
re-elected president by acclamation.
This will be his seventh term.
It Is an Advertisement.
A Pendleton paper makes this
tatement:
It la worth $33,400, the amount
which Pendleton saloons would have
contributed to the city during the
next year In licenses, to know that
for six days there has not been a
drunken man on the streets of the
city and not a solitary drunken In.
mate In the city jail. This Is an ad'
rerttsement that should attract I
lot of those people who have said
they were looking for a dry town In
which to bur a home and educate
their children.
TBE MAIL FOR NEWS
One of the most Interesting mat
ters' which will come up for attention
at the meeting of tbe International
Apple Shippers' association at Ni
agara Falls will be the bill intro
duced at the spring session of con-
gross bv Representative Porter of
New York. The association has al
ready succeeded In securing the en
actment of a state law which will do
away with the short apple barrel evil,
lut this has nothing to do with the
railing of the fruit and applies only
o New York state. The measure,
vhlrh Representative Porter has In
rodured provides for standard grad
ing as well as standard packages, and
it will apply over the entire United
Stated. ThW is a measure of far
ifi".aater tirportanre than anything
which has ever been undertaken in
the wny of legislation affecting apple
packing, and thus fur there seems to
lie little objection to It on the part
of growers or shippers, while all
operators are naturally In favor of It.
It will come belore ttie fail session of
congress, and while It can hardly be
come operative during the coming ap
ple season, there is every pros! ect l
its puHsaice. if strongly supported by
those Interested, and it would be in
off oct next year.
The b'll reads as follows:
"II. R. BILL NO. 21.400.
"A Bill Concerning Standard Pack
ages, Grades and Marketing of
Apples.
"Be It enacted by the senate and
house of representatives of the
I'nlted States of America, In con
gress assembled.
Section 1 That the provisions of
this act shall apply to closed pack
ages of appies ...at are, or may be.
transported from one state or terri
tory of the United States, or ti e Dil
rlct of Columbia, to another state or
territory of the I'nlted States, or the
District of Columbia, or from one
place In a territory to another place
in the same territory, or from any
place In the tinlted States to an ad
jacent foreign country, or from any
place In the United States through a
foreign country to any other place in
the United States.
Sec. 2 That In this act, unless the
context otherwise requites, the ex
pression 'closed package' means
barrel, box or basket, of which the
contents cannot readily be seep or In-sptctc-d
when such package Is pre
pared for market.
"Apples packed In closed crates
barrels or boxes, covered with slat
covers, burlnp or tarlatan, shall come
within the meaning of the expression
'closed packages.'
"8ec. 3 That In this act the fol
low classifications or closed pack
ages of apples shall be adopted a
standard packages:
Part I The standard measure
of capacity for all apples packed in
boxes shall be the heaped bushel
containing ns nearly as may be 2.564
cubic inches, and or no less capacity
than would be contained In a box of
the following dimensions: 18 H by
12 by 11 Inches, Inside measure
ment. Boxes of the above described.
capacity or dimensions shall be
marked 'standard box.'
Any box of less dimensions or
capacity shall be marked in a plain
and Indelible manner, both on side
and top. In letters not less than one
Inch long, 'short box' or with the
fractional part of a bnsuet It may
contain.
Pat 2 The standard measure of
capacity for all apples packed In bas
kets shall be the heaped bushel, con
talnlng 2,564 cubic Inches.
"Baskets of the above described
capacity shall be marked 'standard
basket.' Any basket of less capacity
shall be marked In a plain and indeli
ble manner on both side and top. In
letters not less than one Inch long
short bushel' or with the fractional
part of a bushel It may contain.
'Part 3 The standard measure of
capacity for all apples packed In bar
rels shall be as nearly as may be,
three bushels, the barrel to be of no
less dimensions than 17 inches head
less dimensions than 17H Inch head,
length of stave 28 H Inches, with
bulge circumference not less than 64
Inches outside measurement.
Barrels of the above described
capacity and dimensions shall be
marked 'standard barrel.' Any
barrel of less dimensions and capacity
shall be marked In a plain and In
dellble manner, both on side and top,
In letters not less than one In ch long.
short barrel' or with the capacity In
bushels or fraction thereof, or If one-
half the capacity or dimensions of a
standard barret, it shall be plainly
marked "one-half barrel."
'Sec. 4 That In this act the fol
lowing classifications of grades for
closed packages of apples shall be
adopted as standard grades: 'No. 1'
and 'No. 2," but such msrk may be
accompanied by any other designs
tlon of grade or brand, provided that
such designation of grade or brand Is
not Inconsistent with or marked more
conspicuously than the one of the
said two marks designating grade
which Is used on the package.
Part 1. 'No. 1' grade and quality
shall consist of healthy, welt grown
applet of one variety, sound, of not
less than 3 Inches in diameter, and
of good color for tbe variety, of nor
mal shape and not less than $0 per
cent free from scab, worm holes
bruises and other defects,- and prop
erly packed.
Fart 1 'No. 2' grade and quality
shall consist of apples of not less than
nearly medium alie tor the variety,
healthy, and not less than 85 per cent
free from scab, worm holes, bruises
and such other detects as cause ma
terial waste, and properly packed.
' cc. 5 That the enforcement of
this act shall be under the direction
of the department of agriculture of
the I'nlted States and the secretary
of agriculture shall appoint a green
fruit commissioner twith a sufficient
appropriation to carry into effect tbe
provisions of this act), and to em
ploy such ftsslstants as may be necessary.
"Bee. $ Tnat it shall be the duty
of the said green fruit commissioner.
upon the reasonable request of any
person, corporation or firm, having In
their possession, and Intended for in
terstate commerce, apples In closed
packages, as heretofore described, to
make Inspection and to Issue to such
person, corporation or firm making
said request, a certificate which shall
set forth the grade or standard of ap
ples and package as established by
.4 act, aud It Bald Inspector shall
find the apples properly packed, ac
cording to the standard set forth In
this v-t. he mav certifv to the samt.
or if he finds them packed or graded
Inferior, or not true to marks. It shall
be his duty to mark them in a
plain and indelible manner 'falselv
marked.'
'For the services outlined in till?
section a reasonable charge may be
established; said charge not to ex
ceed five 5c cents per barrel, and
two and one-half (2lc) cents per
box or basket : provided that the
minimum total charge for such serv
ices shall be two dollars and fifty
cents ($2,501.
"Sec. 7 Tlfat every person who
not being an authorized governmer,'
inspector, wilfully niters, effaces or
obliterates wholly or partially ony of
the marks prescribed In this act foi
'closed packages' of apples, or causes
the same to be done, shall be liable to
a fine of not less than twenty-five
(25c! cents, and not more than five
($5) dollars for each package upon
which the marks have been so altered.
effaced or obliterated; and furthe
"That every person, corporation o
firm, who shall he found guilty of
having, either personally or through
the agency of others, wilfully mis
marked closed packages of apples as
to capacity o. package, as described
and provided for In this act, shall,
upon conviction, be aubjected to a
tine of not less than twenty-five
(25c) cents, and not more than five
($5) dollars for each package so
mismarked.
"The person on whose behalf any
apples are packed, sold or offered for
sale, shall be prima facie liable for
the violation of thla act.
"Sec. 8 That any of the Circuit
courts of the United States within
whose Jurisdiction a complaint as to
the violation of this act may be estab
lished, shall have power to enforce
this act."
NEW LIFE FOR MOUNT H(K)I).
Springfield I Mass.) Republican: It
has been asked more than once of
late whether Mount Hood is really
extinct. In the Nationa, ideographi
cal Magazine for July, A. II. Sylves
ter, United States geological
survey, goes further and raises the
question, "Is our noblest volcano
awakening to new life?"
tor the night and report In court
this morning. But under the order;
of the court they were not allowed
to separate and were given over to i
tbe custody of Bailiffs Kelly and
Hamilton.
FORESTRY'S) RESULTS.
Many people lu this country think
that forestry had never been tried un
it means much to Portland, which til the government began to practice
it upon the national forests, let for-
81 X KILLED.
WARSAW, Iud., July 18. Six er-
sons were Instantly killed this after
noon, west of Columbia City, lu an
automobile which was struck by a
Pennsylvania train. Tbe victims are:
Charles F. King, agent of the Pruden
tial Life Insuring company, formerly
a member of the legislature; his two
young daughters. Miss Fae Bradshaw
neighbor of the King family, whose
guest she was to be at King cottage.
Lake Wawasee, over Sunday; Mrs.
King and the chauffeur, Carl Tlm-
mlns.
The automobile was stopped at the
crossing by a freight and drove on
the tracks behind the caboose, the
driver falling to see the eastbound
Manhattan Limited pasao ger train,
which was running at a high rate of
speed. The machine was destroyed
aud the bodies were scattered along
the tracks for hundreds of feet. The
terribly mangled. The locomotive of
the passenger train was derailed.
PROSPERITY IX THE WEST.
NE WYORK, July 17. Theodore
N. Vail, president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company,
who has just returned from a tr'p
to the west, his journey extending
from the Misslssipl to the coast and
from Texas to the extreme north
west, said yesterday that basic condi
tions throughout that section were
sound and promising. He added
"I have been taking a broad vie
of the west for 30 years, and never in
that time has the outlook been bet
ter than it Is now. Crops an prom
ising, indeed; in fact, the original
producers are in better shape than
I have ever known them. Those peo
ple are all busy; they look rich and
they act rich. Developments in every
phase during the last five to eight
years are beyoud comprehension and
belief. Cities as widely apart geo
graphically as Dallas, Texas, and
Spokane, Wash., have expanded In
every direction."
In regard to the business outloc-k
Mr. Vail said:
"When the tide will turn I cannot
say, but when It does start It will
come so strong that many of us will
be unprepared. The railroads in
particular, I fear, will not be ready
for the turn. What has been the
central factor In the business situa
tion? The public utility and the
public service corporations. And
they continue to remain the dom
inant element, and many of their
problems have not yet been solved
This Is the disquieting feature. VI' at
brought this about and how it was
brought about every ono know."
Speaking of the companies whose
interests he serves, Mr. Vail mild that
their business showed jiracUcnlly no
falling off and that thu business of
the associated Bell companies was
bettor this year than last.
lies but 50 miles to the west, and
would find things, In the event of an
jruptlon. mighty interesting, even it
:he cuy Itself was not actually en
dangered. Tbe author had long been
Interested in this mountain, and took
much pleasure In his assignment, ir.
tbe spring of 1907 to the work of
mapping the Mount Hood special
quadrangle. This mountain, to sum
marize the latest rssults of the sur
vey, lies In north latitude 45:22:
36:74, and west longitude 121:41:
42:81. It is on the coast of toe Cas
cade range and about 20 miles south
of the Columbia river. Mr. Sylves
ter verified tbe height as 1 1.225 feet.
Timber grows to an altitude of 6.500
feet. In shape the mountain Is an al
most perfect volcanic coue, rising
about 7,0. . ,eet above the surround
ing country, aud visible far out at
sea. Us symmetry and Isolation.
therefore, give it beauty such as
few mountains in this o rany oiher
country can boast.
From Its form and structure It
seems to -ave been built up entirely
of lava ejectea irom a single entral
crater, and there Is no evidence that
It was ever much higher than It Is
now. Geologists believe that It be-
ame extinct before reaching the stage
of ejectment of tbe more basic basalts
which Shasta and Adams poured out
in more recent times, but Mr. Syl
vester calls attention to a large lava
flow about 10 miles to the northeast
of the crater, which seems to be more
recent. Except for this and a fissure
flow which dams Bull Run lake, the
mountain has clearly not been In
eruption for untold centuries.
But now for tbe suspicious facts,
In 188!, Professor Russell, in a book
on American volcanoes, gave a pic
ture of a fumarole on the south slope,
and apparently just east of Crater
rock. Apparently since then It has
disappeared; later visitors do not
mention it. Ever since ti e mountain
was known steam has been escaping
from certain places, but chiefly from
rater roc, together w... gas, gen
erally hydrogen sulphide. But In the
last three years things have been
"warning up," says the author; the
fumarole mentioned bv Professor
Russe'l has so developed that It has
cut tbe White river glacier In two,
exposing Its bed for 150 feet. On
Crater rock Mr. Sylvester found
steam escaping from numerous fis
sures, and in many places the rocV
Is too hot to touch with the hand On
August 28, 1907, numerous witnesses
saw "a cloud of smoke, probably
dense steam, rising from Crater rock,
high above the skyline of the sum
mit of the mountain." This persisted
throughout the day, and at night
there was a glow "like a chimney
burning out." Sudden floods the
next day were Inexplicable except on
the theory that the glacier had melt
ed rapidly from volcanic heat.
As an Interesting coincidence it Is
noted that at the same time there
were throes in the Bogaslof sronp of i
the Alaskan coast. No further signs
have been noted, apd It Is very possi
ble that these faint activities mean
merely a last flicker of life in an ex
piring Tolcano. It Is, at any rate.
abundantly Interesting that Mount
Hood, as Mr. Sylvester says, "must
be taken from tbe list of extinct vol
canoes and placed at least among the
doubtful." But Oregon will probably
not begin to worry till something
more decisive happens.
estry is practiced by every civilized
country in the world except China
and Turkey. It gets results which
can be got in no other way, aud which
are necessary to the general wel
fare.
Take the case of Germauy. Start
ing with forests which were in as
bad shape as many of our own which
have been recklessly cut over. It
raised tbe average yield of wood per
acre from 20 cubic feet in 1830 to
cubic feet in 1904. During the
same period of time It trebled the
proportion of saw timber got from
the average cut, which means, in oth
er words, that through the practice
of forestry the timber lands of Ger
many are of three times Detter qual
ity today than when no system was
used.
In France forestry has decreased
the danger from floods, which threat
en to destroy vast areas of fertile
farms, and in doing so has added
many millions of dollars to be na
tional wealth in new forests. It has
removed the danger from sand dunes,
and in their places created a prop
erty worth many millions of dollars
Applied to the state forests, whlc'i
are small in comparison with the na
tional forests of this country, ii
causes hem to yield each year a net
revenue of more han $4, 700,00'!,
though the sum sepnt on each acre
for managtment Is over 10 times
greater than that spent on the for
ests of the United States.
France and Germany together have
a population of 100,000,000, In round
numbers, against our probable 85,
000,000, and state forests of 14,500.
000 acres against our 160,000,000
acres of national forests; but France
and Germany spend on tbeir forests
$li,wvO,000 a year and get front
them in net returns $30,000,000 s
year, while the United States spent
in the national forests last year $1 -400,
UO0 and secured a net return of
less than $130,000.
In Switzerland, where every too;
of agricultural land Is of the greatest
value, forestry has made it possible
for the people to farm all land fit for
crops, and so has assisted the coun
try to support a larger population
and one that is more prosperous.
than would be the case If the valley
were subjected to destructive floods.
It Is In Switzerland, also, In the Sib!-
wald, that forestry demonstrates be-
yond contradiction how great a yield
in wood and money It may bring
about If applied consistently for
number of years.
Russia, Sweden, Austria-Hungary
and Canada are making good the
wood deficit of a large part of the
world. Sweden cuts much more wood
(106,000,000 cubic feet) than she
produces; Russia, In spite of her
enormous forest resources, has prob
ably entered the same road, and Eng
land, the leading Importer of wood.
must count more and more on Can
ada. But the United States consumes
every year from three to four times
the wood which Its forests produce,
and In due time will doubtless take
all the wood that Canada can apare.
Unless the countries of the western
hemisphere apply forestry promptly
and thoroughly, they will one day as
suredly be held responsible for a
world-wide timber famine. From an
article In American Industries.
THREE ACCEPTED.
PORTLAND, July 17. The trinl
of the Booth conspiracy case before
United States Judge Wolverto 1 was
begun yesterday afternoon after
James Henry Booth and Thomas E.
Singleton, two of the three defend
ants, had entered pleas of no: guilty.
The other defendant is Robert A.
Booth, ex-state senator and presl
dent of the Booth-Kelly Lumber
company of Eugene. He refused to
unite with his co-defendants in fill
ing a demurrer to tbe Indictment and
entered a plea of not guilty shortly
after the Indictment was reported
over three years ago.
The examination of jurors began
at 2 p. m., and during the afternoon
only three of the pecessary 12 were
accepted. They were: C. C. Hoopes
of Yquina Bay, Lincoln county;
George Ball, of Ballston, Polk coun
ty, and Samuel Obye of North Yam
hill, Yamhill county. The examina
tion of F. J. Pettlt of Monmouth,
Polk county, tbe fourth man called
to the jury box. was not completed at
3 p. m., when court declared an ad
journment until 10 o'clock this
morning.
Before adjourning court. Judge
Wolverton announced that at the re
quest of the government the original
12 men that had been called to the
Jury oox would be kept together un
til it could be determined In their
examination by respective counsel
whether or not they should qualify
aa jurors In tbe case. This announce
ment came somewhat as a surprise,
particularly to the nine veniremen
who, not having been reached In tbe
examination as to their qualifications
as jurors in the case, expected to be
permitted to return to their home.
MINK WORKERS' CARDS.
HBW&R, Col., July 17. Presi
dent Moyer of the Western Federa
tion of Miners, and President I-ewls
of the i.'nlted Mine Workers, together
with members of the executl boards
of the two organizations, in confet
ence this afternoon reached the un
derstanding regarding uniform ex
change of working cards, and out
lined plans for the affiliation of the
two bodies. The question of support
to each other during strikes will be
settled at a future meeting of the
two boards. The Federation con
vention this afternoon defeated a
proposition to elect officers by the
referendum. Instead of by the con
vention, as is now In vogue.
KaiHING FOR CL..B.
NEW YORK, July 13. The police
today began searching for a clue of
the mystery of the double tragedy of
Wast One Hundred and Seventy
Elguth street, early today, whereby
Ernest Block, 23 years old, was
found dead with a bullet In hie heart,
and his wife, 27 years old, dead by
poison. The police believe the wife
shot her husband and then ended her
own life.
NOT OFFICIALLY INFORMED.
WASHINGTON, July 18. Judge
Martin A. Knapp, chairman of the In
terstate commerce commission, today
stated that he had not been officially
Informed that the transcontlnenr.il
railroads would contest tbe commis
sion's decision In the lumber rate
cases, but he had heard In an Indirect
way that they are considering such a
course.
THEMAuTfOR NEWS
In a few days
our new market will be fitted
and our
Meat and Grocery
Department
will be under one roof, but in the
meantime 'we will continue to
supply our customers with the
very best Fresh and Smoked
Meats and the purest of Lard
at the old stand of Wortman &
Gore, C street.
t But if you want Groceries, don't
forget the double front.
Warner, Wortman
Gore
D. T. Lawton
General dealer in vehicles,
harness, implements and
machines.
In addition to our general
line we are agents for the
Mitchell and Tourist auto
mobiles. As good as any
manufactured.
The celebrated White
Sewing Machine of which
wehava alarge supply on
hand.
Call and See Us
D. T. LAWTON
Medford, Oregon
Ashland Commercial College
Ahland, Oreqon
Business and Short hand training thoaough and prac
tical. months scholarship, $45. 9 moths scholarship, $60.
Something Special
All stucdents who secure a nine months scholarship and enter
September ", will b. entitled to combined course to July 1. 1SW3. Ioolud
books and stationery, 18.1.50. InrestiSate and corns. Address
P. Ritner, President.
WOOD
Between 5,000 land 6,000
Cords Dry Red Fir for
Sale at
$5.00 PER CORD
at any depot between Grants Pass and
Medford. Send In your orders now
and don't wait until you must pay $8
per cord. . .
G. B. FOSSHEI,
WOLF CREEK
Ws are deslen in
Farms and Land
If you want to sell jour Isrm, send
as full description, terms, etc., and sr.
ess do it.
T. B. ACKERS (ft CO.
2T0i Washington St., Portland Ore.
DESIGNER AM) BUILDER.
Modern .Bungalows a Specialty.
L. J. Ql'IGLEY, P. O. Box 61,
Medford, Or.
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