TREASURY TO REDUCE BANKS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Reduction in Number of Depositories
P ls n —To Save Interest.
RAILROAD Bill 10
U. S. {700,000.000
STATE N E W S :
IN BRIEF.
Dromedaries Succeed W here O ther
Transports Fail in M anchurian Desert
W ashington, D. C.—D rastic reduc
• Bend.—E nrollm ent in the Bend
tion in the num ber of national banks
schools on the second day of th e spring
designated as governm ent depositories
term reached a total of 1219. T here
Brief Resume Most Important is being made by the treasury depart Government Control Shows were 1042 recorded for the opening day
of the fall term.
m ent with the resu lt th a t less than
Constant Deficit.
Daily News Items.
400 of 1341 such Institutions holding
Salem.—R epresentatives of the Teel
federal funds on June 30, 1919, are
Irrigation d istric t in U m atilla county
expected to escape th e pruning knife.
appeared before the sta te irrigation
Changes in the governm ent’s finan
securities com mission here la st week,
cial situation, brought about by w ar’s
and made application for paym ent of
fiscal operations, it was said officially
in terest by the sta te on bonds issued
here, have m ade It neçessary to abol
by the project in the sum of $930,000.
Eventa o f N oted People, Govern m enta ish hundreds of the depositories and Decrease in Deficit W ould Have Re The d istrict com prises 16,000 acres.
revise the plan for distribution of gov
and Pacific Northweat, and O ther
su lted if R ate Increase Had
Eugene.—A sale of 68,000,000 feet of
ernm ent monies among banks employ
Things W orth Knowing.!
tim ber in th e Santiam national forest
Come E arlier, la View.
ed since prior to 1912.
east of A lbany has been made during
W hile the treasury is cu ttin g off
the la st few days by th e forest service
the Inactive accounts, it also is re
Legality of the action of the Color ducing the balances carried by many
W ashington, D. C.—O peration of the to th e M errill L um ber and Shingle
ado legislature In ratifying the pro other banks—in all, in fact, where railroads, Pullm an lines, express com company, according to an announce
hibition am endm ent to the federal con governm ent transactions do not re panies and w aterw ays, unified under m ent by F. E. Ames, assista n t d istrict
forester, in charge of all tim ber sales
stitution w ithout subm itting th e ques quire the use of large sums.
federal control, has cost the nation ap
"Scientific apportionm ents,” it is proxim ately $700,000,000, according to in this d is tric t
tion to a referendum vote w as upheld
said, "will be the basis in the future official calculation, since they were
by the sta te suprem e court Monday.
Eugene.—A ctive construction work
for disposition of surplus funds." Of taken over two years ago.
on the Booth-Kelly L um ber com pany's
.L ieutenants UBher and Wolf, avia ficials explained the new policy as to
F igures made public by the railroad system of logging railw ays above
tors, flying from El Paso to Nogales, depositories would operate so th at
adm
inistration S atu rd ay n ig h t reveal W endling is under way. T he line is
Photograph shows supplies being carried across the Manchurian deaert
Ariz., made a forced landing Monday each bank would be able to realize
near Nacozari, Sonora, 79 m iles south equal retu rn s on the basis of business ed a n et loss of $594.200,000 from rail being extended across the sum m it of by means of dromedaries. These “ships of the desert” succeeded where mo
road operation alone In th e two years the ridge to the McKenzie side of the to r and other vehicles failed.
of Douglas. T hey are reported to be done for the government.
S tatistics, gath ered from
official m ountains, tapping a tra c t of tim ber
held by the municipal authorities of
Included in the list of national banks sources a s to operating costs of the th a t has never been touched and said
Nacozari.
About 4 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 Tons of
already struck off a re 566 banks which Pullm an lines and w aterw ays and ex to be some of th e fin est in the county.
Anthracite Coal Are Mined
Form ation of a tribunal by th e soviet had accounts of only $1000 and which press com panies w hile operated by
Medford.—S. J. Skewis and S. S.
of Irkutsk to try Admiral Kolchak, were designated as governm ent deposi the governm ent show th e addition of
Every Year by Wet Process
Bullis
have
purchased
the
old
Apple-
ex head of th e all-Russian governm ent tories during the adm inistration of $100,000,000 to th e tran sp o rtatio n cost, gate Lum ber com pany on the P ortland
The rivers of Pennsylvania yield
In Siberia, was reported in a dispatch F ranklin McVeagh as secretary of the
H eavy losses of N ovem ber and De & Eugene road n ear Medford and will
about 250,000 tons of coal every year.
to th e London Dally Mail from the treasu ry under P resident Taft.
cem ber a re charged to the coal strik e s ta rt operations a t once under the
About 40,000,000 tons of anthracite
Practically half of the banks to be in a statem en t by the railroad adm inis
town of M anchuria, n ear the border
coal are mined every year by the “wet
Fire Feet, Seven Inches,
deprived of governm ent balances al tration. A deficit of $111,500,000 was name of the Southern Oregon Lum ber
between S iberia and northern China.
process” In Lackawanna, Luzerne, Car
ready have been elim inated from the shown for those two m onths a fte r the company. T he com pany plans to saw
Average Height
D ispatches to Buenos A ires from the
bon, Schuylkill and Northum berland
rolls and outstanding balances thus two m onths' proportion of th e annual 20,000,000 feet of lum ber a year, ac
sta te of Minas Geraes, Brazil, report
counties. The process requires the use
have been reduced from $52,000,000 ren tal was paid. Decem ber revenues cording to statem en ts of the pro
of vast quantities of Water, which
th a t an earthquake Sunday shook down
prietors.
Are you a m urderer?
to $27,000,000. Officials were reticent w ere said to be about $12,700,000 above
when It Is discharged carries In sus
a number of houses In the country
If
you
are
about
5
feet,
7
inches
in
as to the geographical location of the actual operating expenses, w hile the
Salem.—P lans have been m ade by
pension millions of tons of culm o r
districts, creating great panic among
depositories canceled.
F. A. E lliott, sta te forester, to send stature, a little over thirty-five years coal dust fine enough to pass through
revenues
for
November,
according
to
th e inhabitants. The dispatches say
of age and have a subnormal tempera-
in te rstate com m erce com m ission fig either O. C. Scott, assista n t sta te ture, science may brand you a m ur the sm allest screen in a dry process
th a t in Intensity the earth shock is
ures, exceeded actu al o perating ex forester, or H. J. Eberly, also employed derer. At least, such are the ideal breaker. Much of the culm finds Its
w ithout precedent in th a t region.
way Into the rivers of the an th racite
penses by approxim ately $19,000,000, in the sta te fo re ste r’s office, to the specifications for u m urderer, based on district, the Lackawanna, the Susque
Barbers in Modesto, Cal., increased
The m onthly sh are of the annual ren forest patrol school which opens at m easurem ents of more than 1,500 con hanna, the Schuylkill and the Lehigh.
the price of haircuts to 65 cen ts and
tal has been com puted generally at March field. R iverside, Cal., on Feb victed slayers a t the W aupun (Wls.)
They carry culm w aste for many
shaves to 35 cents. One reason given
ruary 20. T raining m en for patrol sta te prison.
$75,000,000.
miles downstream, to drop It at last
O ther Interesting d ata of the genus
I b th a t prohibition has se n t th e price
In shallows and eddies behind dams
Much of the loss during 1919 should work in accom panying airplane pilots
New York.—The possibility of ca r
are th a t frequent headaches. Insom and on valley bottoms. Much of th e
of hair tonics so high th a t custom ers
is
the
purpose
of
th
e
course
of
in
stru
c
rying on w ireless telephone conversa be charged to th e first six m onths of
nia
and
periods
of
intense
depression
prefer to grow bald ra th e r th an pay
coal thus scattered Is recovered by
tions a t any distance is believed to the year, according to the official ex tion to be offered.
a re common. Teeth thut have grown dredging with suction dredges or with
for treatm ents, and the rises on hair
planatlon.
have been brought w ithin reach by ex
Marshfield.—The collegiate board of bad through neglect are evident In the more fam iliar bucket type o f
cuts and shaves are expected to take
The statem en t shows th a t of a loss education aw arded co n tracts for the h alf of the cases.
perim ents conducted by R obert F.
dredge. The machinery, which Is usu
care of the loss.
A third of the m urderers never a t ally mounted on a stern-wheel, flat-
Gowen, engineer in charge of the De of $349,200,000 for th e 12 m onths construction of th e new high school
New low records for British, French F orest Radio com pany station on Over- $228,700,000 cam e during th e first six
tended school, while only 3 per cent bottom boat, dumps the coal Into scows
building separately, th e stru ctu re go
completed high school. More than
Belgian, Italian and Danish exchange ton road, Ossining, th e resu lts of which m onths w hen th ere was "a prolonged
ing to A. E. Sykes of Portland for $49,- half were a t work before they were th a t carry 12 to 14 tons. The recov
were established in the New York were made public Sunday. Employing slum p In freig h t business following
433, and the plum bing and h eating to twelve years old and 90 per cent be ered river coal brings from 70 to 90
m arket Monday on a resum ption of a small aerial, a wave length of only the signing of th e arm istice.” It adds
cents a t the wharf.
C. L. W illey & Son of Coqullle, for fore they were fifteen. Almost half of
recent pressure to sell. The pound 375 m eters and one-third kilow att of th a t “if the rate increase which w ent
$¿942. Both contracts a re contingent them were u n n b le'to retain the same
sterling a t $3.43% was 4% cents un power, Mr. Gowen has talked to Chi into effect in June, 1918, had become
upon the electors of the city voting job or position a full year. H alf of
der its previous minimum for a dis cago and other w estern cities in ordin effective the previous Jan u ary , the
FACTS AND FANCIES
an additional $11,000 bonds a t a special them, records show, murdered while
count of about 29 per cent from the ary tones and been heard w ithout dif loss for the two years would probably
under the influence of liquor.
election on F ebruary 14.
norm al of $4.86%.
It takes three men six months
not have exceeded $104,000,000.”
ficulty.
Albany.—The A lbany L um ber com
to mnke a cashmere shawl, which
P
relim
inary
rep
o
rts
upon
which
the
His
apparatus
is
a
developm
ent
of
The purchase of 17,000 caskets a t a
pany has sold its sawm ill here to J. “Hello” Purely American
requires ten goats’ fleeces.
cost of $1,104,508 to be used for the th a t used during the war, b u t his com pilation of revenue resu lts was P. Van Orsdel and associates, through
Expression, but Originated
The skin of an elephant, when
based,
indicates
”a
serious
dislocation
achievem
ent
goes
far
ahead
of
any
return of arm y dead from Europe has
tanned. Is very expensive, the
With
French
Wolf
Hunters
a
transaction
ju
st
com
pleted.
The
mill
been com pleted by the w ar dep art thing accom plished then. D uring the of freig h t traffic,” during N ovember will be enlarged and additional m a
tanning taking about s ir months.
ment, in accordance w ith its announc w ar conversations w ere engaged in and December. T his could not be esti chinery will be Installed. T he capa
Corsica produces the largest
You should try to learn the old wolf
quantity of wax in all the coun
ed policy to retu rn as soon as practic between airplanes and the ground or m ated closely, officials said. P assen city of the plant will be Increased hunter’s call, because you know the
tries in Europe, If not in the *
able the bodies of American soldiers by ships a few milos d istan t from one ger traffic for th e la st two m onths of m aterially. Mr. Van Orsdel has been wolf Is a scout, and th a t should be the
.
world.
the
year
showed
an
increase,
however.
another.
In
Mr.
Gowen’s
experim
ents
sccut
call,
w
rites
Dan
Beard
in
Boy’s
burled in F rance to the next of kin
m anager of the p lan t of the Coast
When
th
e
average
man
ex
An
increase
also
w
as
shown
for
the
11
Life.
which have been carried on during
for interm ent in this country.
presses Ills gratitude it is m ere *•
This call was used In France first
m onths ended w ith November, as com Range L um ber com pany a t Mabel.
S ecretary Glass has asked congress the la st 30 days, he has talked over a
ly an offhand way he has of ask 4
pared w ith the corresponding period
distance of 90 miles.
4
Toledo.—F. W. K ehrli, bull associa and afterw nrds In England, but there
for two million dollars for use in stop
ing for more.
4
are
no
wolves
In
England
now»
and
the
'W e have reached th e com m ercial of 1918.
tion specialist of the U nited S tates bugin call has been forgotten in both
It Is tlie easiest thing In the 4 l
ping the smuggling of liquors into the
developm ent of the w ireless telephone
P lanet Signal Prize Up.
departm ent of agriculture, will arrive countries, therefore we “paint It green
world to stir up trouble. All 4
United States.
Mounted inspectors
P aris.—T he academ y of sciences ev in Toledo soon to take up w ith the and call It our own.” Even though
you have to do is to tell the truth 4 4
will be placed on duty along the Mexi I should say,” he stated , "for a dis
$
a t all times.
can and Canadian borders in sufficient tance of a t le ast 300 m iles—a service idently considers com m unication be county agent the plans for organizing William Tell and Robin Hood bugled
4
th a t is identical with the long-distance) tween the earth and the planets as a Jersey bull association in the coun the same calls before America was dis
num bers "to patrol hundreds of high
•fi
among the possibilities, for it has un ty. Considerable prelim inary work has covered, we can mnke It Amerlcnn the
ways, paths and stream s th a t afford telephone.”
An im portant phase of the w ork is d ertaken to a c t as judge for a prize already been done on the project under same as we have made the old French Vast Quantities of Coal
easy means of egress for sm ugglers.”
th a t it has progressed during g reat of 100,000 francs to be given for the the guidance of Claus Christiansen. wolf h unter’s cry American. French
Remain in the Mines in
T hree m onths' bickering and an al static and atm ospheric disturbance best m eans of m aking a sign to any T entative arrangem ents have already was spoken In English court circles, so
the
titled
wolf
hunters
used
the
French
m ost unbreakable deadlock on the oil and Interference from other stations. heavenly body and the receipt of a been m ade for the form ation of asso
an Unminable Condition
land leasing bill w ere ended late Mon "In spite of all th is,” said Mr. Gowen, reply. It has been th e custom of the ciation blocks a t Orton, Siletz, L ittle cry “hob le loup” or “a’ lou loup, loup,”
being pronounced loo, the cry being a
Mining Is still conducted with seri
day through agreem ent by houso and when I picked up the telephone tra n s academ y always to refuse to handle Beaver, Olalla and U pper Yaquina.
la loo; the English put on the H and ous loss of life and a waste of m aterial
senate conferees.
Senator Smoot, m itting ap p aratu s a t Ossining and prizes for any feat which it considers
made It halloo, and we made it hell-o,
K lam ath Falls.—Rabies, stam ped out which, is an American expression, as am ounting to $1,000,000 n day. A gov
U tah chairm an of the senate m anag spoke Into it, ju st as anyone m ight a m ere w aste of tim e. In presenting
ernm ent estim ate shows th a t of 0,000,-
ers, announced the conference report speak Into the ordinary telephone,
the prize for com petition the academy a fte r a severe outbreak three years all the telephone girls Know.
000,000 tons of coni mined in o:ie / e a r
would be subm itted to the house and discovered th at my voice was being makes the provision th a t "th e planet ago, is again appearing am ong coyotes
So the old wolf hunter’s bugle calls (1914-1915), 3.000,000 was left under
an effort m ade to obtain Immediate distinctly heard, first of all, in the Mars is included as being sufficiently in K lam ath county. A nalysis by the which came here with the Huguenots ground in unminable condition, says
sta te board of h ealth has shown the will also be American when blown Boys’ Life. It is believed that more
consideration.
little town of S t M ary's, O. The radio near."
rabies germ ex isten t in th e heads of through wooden flat-boatmen’s trum than one-half of this loss Is preventa
am
ateur
a
t
St.
M
ary's,
it
seems,
was
Elim ination of useless employes in
P rincesses Find Sledding Hard.
ble; $50,000,000 worth of petroleum Is
two anim als killed w ithin the la st two pets.
non-productive business, the speeding at th a t tim e picking up the local dots
Geneva.—Several H ungarian prin
wasted annually and $75,000.000 In cok
m onths and J. F ran k Adams, a prom in
and
dashes,
and
when
he
heard
this
up of all lines of Industry com m ensur
cesses, refugees in Switzerland, find
ing coal. In 1914, 2,454 persons w ere
Cooksu,
Korean
Delicacy
en
t
sto
ck
raiser
of
th
e
M
errill
district,
ate w ith the p resent activity of the voice from out of the air. the sending Ing them selves poor through the low
killed In coal mines.
reports the death of four head of cattle
and Great National Dish
To study and remedy such conditions
farm ers and determ ination of retailers locator of which was reported to be exchange rate, a re seeking positions
since November, all show ing distinct
the government established in 1910 a
and Jobbers to exact only a reasonable Ossining, N. Y„ he was, to say the as governesses and companions. But
The
great
national
dish
of
Korea
Is
sym ptom s of the disease.
bureau of mines with headquarters a t
the people generally hesitate to em
profit were recommended as a solu least, som ew hat startled.
cooksn, Sum ner R. Vinton w rites In
“He Im m ediately answ ered by send ploy them , fearing they will instill
Moro.—Some 20 G rass Valley farm Travel. To m ake It, you plunge a large Washington, an experiment station a t
tion for the high cost of living prob
Pittsburgh, and an office for the study
lem by Edwin T. Meredith on taking ing me a telegraph Inquiry which I extravagant ideas in the children. A ers have formed a club, w ith L. A. lump of Ice Into a bowl partly filled with
of sm elter problems a t San Francisco.
th e oath of office as secretary of ag ri distinctly heard in my own receiving num ber of princely and aristocratic Olds as president, for the purpose of steam ing vermicelli of the endless va This bureau Investigates mine explo
apparatus. 1 th en repeated my con H ungarian fam ilies here are aw aiting keeping com prehensive farm records riety. Over this you pour a portion of
culture.
sions and safety conditions, studies
versation to him and asked him to funds to em igrate to America, w here from which they will be able to get hot beef stew. The ice congeals the mining methods with a view to pre
More than $4,000,000 worth of furs confirm the conversation Im m ediately
beef
fat
into
little
islands
of
grease,
they hope to find w ealth and happi a t th e cost of producing w h eat in th eir
venting w aste and inefficiency, and In
w ere sold Monday in St. Louis a t the by letter. T his h e did.
ness.
section, as well as m ake a more care and yon never knew w hether th e por stru cts minerà In first-aid and rescue
opening of th e w inter auction of the
tion dangling from tbe end of your work.
ful study of o th er farm operations. As
chopsticks will be icy cold or burning
International fur exchange. P rice ad
W at Cargo to Ba Seized.
a group each gets th e benefit of the h o t The vermicelli, which Is very
Medal Policies Asked.
vances were recorded in virtually
New York.—The $4,800,000 cargo of
W ashington. D. C.—By direction of experience of all th e others, besides tough, is to be lifted to the mouth with England Eats Larger Part
every lot sold. Nine thousand govern
whisky aboard the Black S tar lin er S ecretary Daniels. Roar • Admiral the help of th e county ag e n t can be the chopsticks. Keeping a firm hold on
of Europe’s Cheese Output
m ent sealskins brought $1,282,000 and
Yarmouth, now in New York harbor, Knapp, com m anding naval forces in secured any tim e they m e e t T he ac It w ith lips and teeth, you slip the
4000 for the Canadian governm ent net
euppoaedly undergoing repairs, will be European w aters, Is seeking inform a count books a re fam ish ed by the Clti- chopsticks down to Uft again and take
Statisticians have figured out th a t
ted $572,000. T he top price on aeal
England eata th a larger p art of E u
seized, according to Jam es Shevlin, tion as to th e policy of European gov sens' bank. Moro farm ers are plan op the slack by racking.
w as $177 a p e lt a 55 per cent increase
rope's ontpnt of cheese. Europe's out
prohibition enforcem ent officer for ernm ents In th e m a tte r of decorations ing to form a sim ilar club next week.
over last September.
put am ounts to 340 , 000.000 kilograms.
Kilt,
Highlander’s
Garb,
New York. T he vessel, owned and for naval officers whose ships were
K lam ath Falls.—A rrangem ents are
England aiona consumes 180,000,000
R ural mall ca rriers are now resign operated excluaively by negroes, put destroyed by enem y subm arines. In
of
Scandinavian
Origin
being m ade by th e livestock com m ittee
kilograms of this amount.
N ext
ing a t th a rata of 50 a day, W. D. out from New York for H avana the quiry by A dm iral K napp already has
of th e K lam ath county farm bureau
cornea
Holland,
which
takes
56
. 000 .-
Brown, representing the N ational R ur day before the prohibition am endm ent developed in the case of G reat Britain
The kilt is p a rt of the characteristic
for im portation of a carload of regis
000 ; Switxeriand takes 43,000.000;
al Mall C arriers’ association, told the becam e effective, but turned back for th at no set principle was adhered to,
and ancient <L*m of the natives of France, 81000 , 000 , and Germany 20 .-
tered S h orthorn c a ttle fo r sale a t
the H ighlands o f Scotland. The word
sonatc postal com m ittee, adding that "rep airs.”
but each case judged on Its m erits.
public auction about M arch 1.
This weans “th a t which Is girded or tacked 000,000 kilograms. The only people
th e service faced serious difficulties
is th e first step th th e farm bureau's ap.” It is of Scandinavian origin. The on earth who ea t no cheese are th e
unless financial relief was accorded
H onorary certificates will be pre
Kalamazoo. Mich.—Mrs. Sarah Ta plan to establish an annual pure bred Danish word ktlte. In use today, means Chinese.
th e em ployes soon. He asked a per sented to th e next of kin of the A m er bor w as bound over to circuit court
breed ers' sale. W hile pure bred breed •te Mid up." Tlie kilt of the Highland
m anent increase of approxim ately 60 lean soldiers, sailors and m arines who S aturday on th e charge of m urdering
Chile’s Claim to Distinction.
ing la still In Its infancy in th is county, er 1« «hurt but has a very full skirt.
p e r cent over th e p resent base pay of died In the war, by the F rench gov ber daughter, Maud, and of burying
th ere is some stock on hand, and the *-Ued tn at the waist, and reaching
$1200 per annum , with a minimum ernm ent, through the posts of the b ar body In th e ce lla r of th e T abor
Chile claims th a t the Island of Chllo.
distribution of a carload of registered t<> atxmt tbe knees. Tbe early kilt
base of $1120. T he increased annual American Legion on W ashington's home a t Lawton. N o bail w as fixed
off
Its w est c o a st is the original home
,va*
not
a
sep
arate
garment,
bnt
mere-
anim als will give the industry a big
expense would be about $58.000.000, birthday. It was announced a t legion for the prisoner, who is $0 years of
y the lower p a rt of the plaid tn which of the potato and th a t It has been cul
Impetus, in th e opinion of L. A. W est,
. :hv Highlander wrapped himself, hang- tivated th ere since early In th a fif
h e said.
headquarters in Indianapolis
age.
com m ittee chairm an.
teenth century.
I mg down tn folds below the b e lt
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