;
BOLSHEVIKI LOSE
of com WEEK
CAPITAL
Fall o f Petrograd Officially Announced
Kronstadt Also Given Up.
GOVERNMENT MAY
SEIZECOAL MINES
STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF.
FARMERS’ WEEK AT COLLEGE
Staff Will Try New Plan to Concentrate
Efforts on Practical Work.
INCREASED PRICE IN
SDCtm TO PPED
(Prepared by Oregon Agricultural College)
Pendleton.—Miss Florence Smiley is
Based on the needs of the average
Umatilla county’s new health nurse.
Oregon farmer the Farmers’ Week
Miss Smiley will take the place of Miss
Gladys Flanagan, who Is called to Seat program at the agricultural college Price Limit Placed at 10 Cents
Brief Resume Most Important
Effort to Avert General Walkout tle by the serious illness of her mother. this year will be prepared and carried
Wholesale
Proves Fruitless.
Daily News Items.
Salem.—Bids for the Improvement of out by the members of the regular
approximately 75 miles of roads in college staff. This Is a radical depar
Klamath and Deschutes counties will ture from former practices when the
be received by the state highway com work was outlined by specialized
mission at its Portland office Novem groups of operators and conducted by
a combination of college men, farm
ber 4.
owners and out-of-state Specialists.
Albany. — Apples are plied ceiling
The aim of the new plan is to con The Board Notifies- Refineries Who
Little more Than Month’ s Needs Now high in the Albany cannery store room,
Events of Noted People, Governments
centrate effort on the farming prac
Have Been Withholding Supplies
and Manager W. K. Scott expects to tlces most important to farmers and
on Hand; Shutdown Would
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
have
apples
enough
to
run
the
cannery
to
teach
principles
fundamental
under
Until Market Is Steady.
Cause Great Distress.
Things .Worth Knowing.
at capacity speed until the first of the Oregon conditions. Through its coun
year.
ty agent and farm bureau system and
Albany.—The Linn county farm bu its branch station superintendents the
Washington. D. C —Steps to prevent
The New Zealand house of repre
Washington, D. C.—Failure of oper
reau
has arranged for 12 meetings In college is in a better position than an abnormal increase in the price of
sentatives has passed the bill whereby
ators and miners to settle their differ
any other agency to learn just what
ence after a four-hour conference Tues this county at which Sam Hampton, a
New Zealand accepts the mandate for
the needs and conditions are. It is sugar because of the existing shortage
Montana
farmer
well
known
over
the
day with Secretary of Labor Wilson
Samoa.
likewise in a much better position to were taken Monday by the department
may force the government to 'step in Pacific northwest for his talks in be
Every New York police station is to
bring these needs and how to meet of justice.
half
of
organized
farm
work,
will
and prevent the strike of 500,000 bitu
be a grocery store. Commissioner
them to the attention of the farmer.
Attorney-General Palmer notified
minous coal miners called for Novem speak.
Enright Saturday arranged to have
Here is a partial list of things that the
ber
1.
beet
sugar refiners who have been
Salem.—The
Oregon
Federation
of
foodstuffs sold at cost to members of
course will help farmers to do better
Although efforts will be made to Women’s clubs has _ filed articles of than before:
withholding their products from the
the force.
bring peace to the industry the strike Incorporation. The organization has
Feed and breed livestock and poul market until the price situation be
An unusual rush of emigrants to
looms big and close at hand and lead property valued at $10,000 and the of try.
came stabilized, that the United States
ward America Is In progress from Na
ers of the two sides said there was ficers are Mrs. Charles H. Castner,
Improve the dairy herd and man
ples. Two thousand Italians applied
sugar equalization board had deter
little hope.
president; Mattie F. Beatty, vice-presi age the dairy.
for passports to the United States the
While the full scale committees rep dent, and Mrs. F. H. Buchanan, secre
mined
that 10 cents was a fair price
Use lime, legumes and livestock to
first fortnight of October.
resenting miners and operators were tary-treasurer.
to be charged the wholesalers and that
improve soils.
fighting their battles behind a closed
Belgium treasury receipts for the
Lay out the farm and manage the any charge In excess of that amount
Hood River.—Lack of cars to clear
door, a strike storm raged in the sen
first seven months of 1919 exceeded
would be regarded as violation of the
packed apples from storage plants and farmstead.
ate, and federal agencies looked up
government estimates by more than Food Prices to Drop 2
Economize the farm power—horse food control act.
receiving stations daily is growing
the law, firmly convinced that it would
10,000,000 francs, the total receipts be
Refiners were asked to telegraph
Per Cent in Month have to be invoked to save the country more serious in Hood River. With all truck and tractor.
ing 421,000,000 francs. Further Bteps
Produce the most profitable field their concurrence in this price, which
space full, it was necessary for the
Washington,
D.
C.—Food
prices
are
from untold distress and suffering,
to free trade have been taken.
crops.
would mean that they would put their
on the decline, the department of la with mines shut down and less than a Apple Growers’ association, to discon
Improve orchard practices.
supply on the market immediately.
tinue receiving fruit at Its Odell ware
Resolutions protesting return to the bor’s bureau of labor statistics an
month’s stock on hand to keep fires
Pack and market the fruit crop.
The price to the wholesaler hereto
house Saturday.
Philippine islands of enemy aliens, nounced Sunday night in a statement
burning.
Grow home fruits and vegetables.
fore has been 9 cents. Retailers have
who were deported during the prog asserting that the retail price of 22
Filing out of the meeting place, the
Eugene.—Carl Madson, a farmer liv
Keep soil in good tilth for seed bed been allowed to charge 11 cents a
ress of the war, have been adopted at staple foodstuffs showed a decline of
miners and operators, nearly 100 of ing west of Eugene, sustained a broken and moisture reservoir.
pound for controlled sugar under the
Manila by members of the American 2 per cent at the end of September,
them, went their1 separate ways to dis leg and otber injuries when an ensilage
Maintain while utilizing to full ad old prices. It is assumed that the new
Legion and Spanish war veterans.
as compared with the last of August.
cuss the crisis, the former led by John cutter on the farm of Elmer Jensen, a vantage the soli fertility elements.
retail increase would be not greater
The decrease, based on statistics L. Lewis, president of the United Mine neighbor, flew to pieces Friday. A big
The distinguished service medal for
Pick out the best layers In the poul than the wholesale advance.
exceptionally meritorious and distin from all parts of the country, is the Workers of America, and the latter by casting, struck him on the right leg, try flock.
Attorney-General Palmer made pub
guished service was conferred on Com first to be recorded since the world Thomas T. Brewster, head of the Coal shattering the bone above the knee and
Keep farm and household records, lic the following telegram sent to beet
mander Evangeline Booth of the Salva war began, with the exception of a Operators’ association.
inflicting cuts and bruises.
Plan the farm home, and construct sugar refiners:
tion Army at the meeting of the east decline in June, when the food was
Informed of the attack on the un
,
Marshfield.—The large mill of C. A. other farm buildings.
“ After thorough investigation by the
ern congress of that organization Sun five-tenths of 1 per cent cheaper than ions in the senate by Senator Freling-
Operate, care for and repair farm duly recognized authorities on sugar,
Smith, Idle for over nine months, re
in May. The price of the 22 staple huysen of New Jersey, and reports
day.
sumed cutting lumber Thursday morn machinery, Including tractors.
the United States Sugar Equalization
Four whaling vessels, the Kodiak, foodstuffs, however, is still 88 per cent from many quarters that the govern ing with a small force of 200 men.
Lay out and construct irrigation and board has notified the department of
Unimak, Patterson and Tanglnak, re above the average price for the same ment might intervene, strike leaders More men applied for work than could drainage systems.
justice of the following facts:
said there was a bare chance of some be used, but when the repairs and new
turning to Seattle Saturday from the food in 19f3.
Economize without skimping in use
“ ‘As a considerable part of the
Five cities of the country failed to encouraging development soon, but
season's work In Alaska waters, re
arrangements are tried out, there will of household food and clothing sup country generally supplied at this time
enjoy
the
slight
decline,
while
in
that the strike order would stand.
ported a total catch of 412 whales, an
be room for probably 100 other labor plies.
of the year with beet sugar may be
Secretary Wilson left the meeting ers.
unusual season. The fleet made head Detroit prices were lowered 5 per
Read the best periodicals and books embarrassed because of the beet sug
without giving the least Intimation as
quarters at Akutan In the Aleutian cent
for knowledge and pleasure.
ar factories’ failure to sell beet sugar
Onions and potatoes showed the to what was in his mind as to hope
Bend.—Twelve quarts of sparkling
Utilize the country and farm press as produced and this condition in turn
group.
greatest price decline, of 17 and 14 of settlement.
burgundy, purchased in California, for advertising.
is due to the uncertainty regarding
Eight million American women, aid per cent, respectively. Cabbage, meat,
were financially disastrous to W. H.
Supervise the health and recreation price, our judgment is that no higher
ed by many girls and boys, produced cheese, flour and sugar also were low
Perkins of La Grande, for on top of of the children.
than 10 cents cash, less 2 per cent
in the 20 months ending last February er. Raisins went up 8 per cent dur
Budget Bureau Favored
tbe stiff price paid, It cost him $100
Cooperate with the county and home seaboard basis, is justified and we
28, more than 371,500,000 relief arti ing the month and were followed in a
Washington, D. C.—A bill creating more when Sheriff S. E. Roberts and
cles, valued at nearly $94,000,000, for climb of greater or less degree by rice, a budget bureau having jurisdiction Deputy L. A. W. Nixon captured him demonstration agents, and club work hope that you will decide at once to
leaders.
begin marketing your sugar on this
the benefit of American and allied sol eggs, salmon, butter, beans, canned over all department estimates, was on his trip through Bend from the
Know and control disease and in basis and relieve the very serious sit
diers and sailors and destitute civil vegetables, coffee and cornmeal.
passed Tuesday by the house and sent south.
sect pests of animals and plants, and uation.”
ians.
to the senate.
Salem.—Appropriation of water from weed and poison plants.
In the Paris chamber of deputies
The vote on the bill was 284 to two Sucker creek in Josephine county for
Profit by the service for better
Saturday M. Pathleve urged clemency Prehistoric Eskimos
Representative Moon, Tennessee, and mining purposes is asked in a request farming and better home life offered
for those who mutinied in the spring
Found in Arctic Ice Blackmon, Alabama, democrats, voting filed with State Engineer Percy A. by the U. S. Department of Agricul
of 1917 after the failure of the French
Seattle, Wash.—Discovery of pre in the negative.
Cupper by Porter J. Neff of Medford. ture and the Oregon Agricultural Col
offensive. It was brought out that 150 historic Eskimos, their dwellings and
The important changes in the pres The project includes the construction lege.
death sentences had been Imposed and implements, preserved under three ent method of estimating department of a canal three miles long with a ca
When farm work Is lightest and
Washington, D. C.—In his first pro
that 25 of the mutineers had been ex feet of ice and earth near Barrow, al appropriations as embodied in the
pacity of 50 second feet and to cost conditions of study best Farmers’
ecuted.
nouncement
before the national indus
farthest north point of civilization in bill are:
approximately $15,000.
Week will be held — December 29—
All departments must submit esti
Petro Pierre, a member of the I. W. Alaska, was announced Sunday night
January 3. Forward-looking farmers trial conference, Judge E. H. Gary,
Albany. — A carload of pure-bred
W„ was found guilty by a Jury in the by W. B. Van Valin, field expert of mates to the budget bureau for. ap
and housewives are especially provid chairman of the board of the United
federal court at Leavenworth, Kan., the University of Pennsylvania, on his proval before being sent to congress; Shorthorn cattle were shipped by four ed for in the program, and all citizens States Steel corporation, sitting as a
Saturday on a charge of threatening arrival in Seattle from Nome after an independent audit of all department Linn county cattlemen to Roseburg for of Oregon are welcome. Don’t you
representative of the public, Monday
accounts Is provided with a controller the big Douglas county Shorthorn sale. want to go?
the life of President Wilson. He was two years' exploration.
Twelve
registered
cows
and
two
bulls
and
assistant
controller
appointed
by
Mr. Van Valin brought with him
sentenced to serve 3V4 years In the
Social and cultural evening meetings reaffirmed his position that the steel
federal penitentiary, and upon his glv- bodies of Eskimos he found preserved the president to conduct the audit and were included in the shipment. Ed will be held, and every afternoon will strike "should not be arbitrated or
Holloway and Curtis Cole of Albany,
tng notice of appeal, bond was fixed from decay In the Ice, also hundreds abolishment of the present auditors
provide opportunities for state and dis compromised” and objected to action
O. K. Blatchford and Felzer Bros, of
and
consolidation
of
their
work
under
of
skulls
and
a
large
quantity
of
1m
trict organizations to meet and tran on that issue by the conference.
at $7000.
Tangent were the consignors.
plements and clothing gathered at Bar- the controller.
sact business. Living conditions on
The French government announces
He also restated without modifica
row. He expressed the belief that the
North Bend.—At a meeting of the the campus will be pleasant and ex
that sales of the stocks bought from
11-Cent Lim it on Sugar.
village had been hidden thousands of
city council held here recently a reso penses as light as the times warrant. tion his belief in the open shop and
the American expeditionary forces will
San Francisco.—Retail ‘ grocers of lution was adopted ordering a special
years. No legend of modern Eskimos
If you have a county agent or farm the right to determine terms of em
begin at once. They will be disposed
shed light on the antiquity of the central and northern California, Ne election to be called early In December bureau take the matter up with them ployment "between employe and em
of to co-operative societies, agricul
village. he says. The fact that he vada, Washington and Oregon will not tc submit to the voters of the city the and iuaVe arrangements tor attendance ployers."
tural syndicates, chambers of com
This statement brought forth from
foun# a glacier under the village leads be allowed to increase the retail price question of increasing the special tax and for getting the most profit and
merce,
provisioning
organizations,
Mr. Van Valin to believe the people of sugar beyond 11 cents per pound limitation from 10 to 15 mills, to se pleasure from this annual pilgrimage Samuel Gompers, president of the
communities and departments and pub
under penalty of investigation and cure revenue to meet the financial re to the state college.
American Federation of Labor, the
lived after the glacial period.
lic institutions.
charge that Judge Gary was taking the
The bodies were in good condition prosecution by the department of jus quirements of the city for the year
The Austrian national assembly has and most of them had dark hair, dis tice, Ralph P. Merritt, representative 1920.
Oregon farmers attending fanners’ attitude that "there is no other opin
ratified the peace treaty of St. Ger proving the claim that the aborigines of the sugar equalization board In Cali
week
at the college this year will have ion in the matter.”
Enterprise. — Timbers for the new
main. The ratification was voted with of the north were blonde people. The fornia, announced Tuesday.
Referring to the corporation chair
the
opportunity
to enjoy hearing some
sawmill of the East Oregon Lumber
out debate. The German party alone clothing worn was chiefly bearskins
Pacific coast retailers are receiving
man’s request that the conference take
of
the
nation's
best
agricultural
and
company are on the ground and con
opposed favorable action.
and not like that worn by the Eskimos cane sugar sold by the refiners and struction will be rushed. The work is home-life specialists, say the general no action in the strike, the labor lead
A suggestion that Great Britain ot today.
beet sugar sold by the equalization
er declared that If the real industrial
going on slowly now owing to shortage committee on arrangements. Dr. Hen
share the control of Gibraltar with the
board at the old price of 9 cents to
Issues were to be brushed aside there
of help. Officials hope to have the mill ry E. Jackson of Washington, D. C.,
United States was made by Henry
jobbers, according to Merritt, and as
was no purpose In continuing the con
Morsanet Is Annexed.
and
Dr.
Henry
Jackson
Waters,
editor
up and operating again before the mid
Morgenthau on his return from a seven
London.—Belgium has annexed the long as this supply lasted no increases dle of winter. They have been assured of the Kansas City Weekly Star, are ference.
months' trip abroad, primarily as Moresnet district to the province of would be permitted.
While the clash of the two leaders
the machinery will be here by the time among the possibilities. Mr. Waters
chairman of a committee appointed by Liege, according to an announcement
was for many years president of the removed the hope of an agreement on
the structure is ready to receive It
President Wilson to investigate po received in a wireless message from
W ar Courts Championed.
Kansas Agricultural College and is the dominant issue of collective bar
Eugene.—Plans of citizens of the Mc equally noted as an authority on cat gaining, prospects of conciliation were
groms in Poland.
New York.—No American soldier
Berlin. The inhabitants of Moresnet,
Stuart B. Edmondson of Chicago with the exception of those of Ger was ever executed "for purely military Kenzie bridge, Blue river and Nimrod tle feeding and as author, journalist considered still more remote when It
will leave his $10,000 a year position man origin, became Belgians, the an reasons.” during the war with Ger school districts on the upper McKenzie and lecturer. Dr. Jackson specializes was permitted to become known that
as district manager tor an Insurance nouncement says, while citixens of many, Major S. W. Brewster of the river to go before the voters of the In organizing rural community better the representatives of capital after an
company to accept the pastorate of Germany are given two years to de United States marine corps, retired, district propose a union high school ment societies. The chairman of the all day session were steadfast In their
the Lake Forest Methodist Episcopal clare for Belgium or Germany. If and former judge advocate of the third to be established at Blue river next farmers' week committee. Prof. P. M. refusal to accept the Russell-Endlcott
church at $2500 a year, he announced they decide for Germany they must naval district, declared in an address year, and the students from the Nim Brandt, is now in the east and will resolution for recognition of collective
rod and McKenzie bridge districts and soon make final announcement as to bargaining, approved by the public and
recently, because, he says, "there are leave the district.
before the American Prison associa
remote parts of the Blue river district farmers’ week speakers.
labor groups.
some things better than gold.”
tion Tuesday. He said those executed
will be transported to and from school
had
been
found
guilty
of
offenses
rec
Seattle.—An
Increase
of
more
than
A nation wide women’s campaign to
in motor trucks.
Britain Walts on U. S.
Berry growers who wish to increase
20,000 people is shown by Seatle's 1919 ognised as capital crimes in civil
urge the United States senate to Im
Portsmouth, England.—The person
directory, now completely compiled courts.
Salem.—Sealed bids for $1,000.000 In their plantings next fall may find it
mediately conclude peace by ratifica
and to be distributed after the trouble
4% per cent Oregon state highway difficult to get stocks for loganberry nel of the British navy will be reduced
tion of the peace treaty was inaugur
with the prtnters and the printers'
Gasoline Price to Drop.
bonds, will be received by the hlchwav plantings unless they make provision to 50.000 men when the United States
ated in New York Tuesday.
union has been adjusted. The total
Chicago.—Gasuline will be lower commission at room 520, Multnomah this fall. Nursery stocks are reported ratifies the peace treaty, it is said by
British merchant vessels lost through number of names and addresses in rather than higher priced. C. I. Sween county courthouse, November 4. The as unusually low. By cleaning out the the News, on what It declares to be
enemy action during the war totaled the new directory will exceed 185,000. ey of Peoria, 111., president of the In bonds are In $1000 denominations. If old canes, laying the' new ones along authoritative Information. The num
7,759,090 gross tons. It Is officially an To arrive at an approximate popula dependent Oil Men's association, pre bids are submitted by mall they should the ground and covering them with a ber of marines, it declares, will be cut
nounced. Submarine action was re tion the Polk Directory company mul dicted Tuesday at the opening session be sent to the highway commission at few shovels of earth, it may still be to 10.000. The pre-war strength of the
sponsible for the Joss of 6.635,059 tons tiplies the number of names in its of the Uth annual meeting. Export Salem. The bonds are to mature serial possible to get young plants. For best British naval personnel, shown by fig
of this total. The loss of 14.267 lives directories by two and one fourth. of oil has declined since the end of ly, $25.000 on April 1. 1925, and the results this work should have been ures of 1914, was 114,236 officers and
was Involved In these sinkings, the This would give Seattle's population the war, he said, thus leaving large same amount on October 1 and April 1 done In September, says W. 8. Brown, men. The number of marines in the
report adds.
as approximately 420,000.
acting chief of horticulture.
after that date.
i
same year was 18,042.
supplies In the United States.
COMPILED
FOR
YOU
Washington, D. C.—The fall of Petro-
grad and the occupancy of both that
city and the fortress of Kronstadt by
the Russlon anti-bolshevik forces has
been reported officially by the gen
eral staff of the Finnish army to the
Vlborg representative of the northwest
government of Russia. This informa
tion reached the state department Sun
day night.
In making public the department’s
advices, Acting Secretary Phillips said
that a direct dispatch, dated Sunday
and received here from the depart
ment's representative nearest the old
Russian capital, reported that the
Finnish official announcement had not
been corroborated from other sources.
The announcement crediting the
Finnish general staff as authority was
dated Saturday. It came from Viborg
and quoted unconfirmed reports to the
department through Swedish and Rus
sian sources that Petrograd and Kron
stadt had been wrested from the bol
shevik! by the beleaguering forces of
General Yudenitch, that with the fall
of Gatchina fortress, 35 miles out from
Petrograd on the way to Berlin, the
collapse of the old capital was Inevit
able and that the bolshevlkl were con
centrating all their troops for a de
cisive struggle with General Denikine’s
forces in the south.
FEDERAL ACTION SEEN
BY EQUALIZATION ACT
GARY IS FIRM IN
OPEN SHOP DEMAND