SIUSLAW
S E M I- W E E K L Y
XO L. II.
FLORENCE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1915
HERETO
SIUSLAW AP
GET WHALE
PROPRIATION
INSENATE
SKELETON
Thursday the Commerce Com
mittee of the Senate began work
upon the Rivers and Harbors bill
preparing it to come before th at
body.
L B. Cushman, president o f
commissioners received
Wednesday morning
saying^the appropriaflbn fo r $5,-
maintenance and $112,500
ttutinuing improvemenua of the
Suslaw harbor had passed the
house late Tuesday evening.
A special to the Morning Reg
ister. dated at Washington, Jan
uary 19, says: The detailed ap
propriation is as follows; $8.000
foe Coos Bay, $76,000 fo r Co
quille. $116,175 for Nehalem, $3,-
000 for Coos River, $117,500 for
the Siuslaw ,$3,000 for Yaquina,
• > $42,500 for the W illamette river
<* abwe Portland, $602,000 for the
ir W illam ette and Columbia
$1,250 for Columbia bay
$1,000 for Clatskanie,
jeys are provided for Ump-
iquille, Rogue and O ats-
iie rivers and for Coos Bay
id Yaquina rivers.
Railroad economies
compell
cutting out all advertising folders
fo r western states.
Eugene cannery took 2,000,000
lbs. fru it from growers.
Ontario—D. M. Taggart has
invented a single-tree of ten
times ordinary strength and will
manufacture same here.
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James Fullerton arrived from
Eugene Thursday and will go up
the north beach to secure the
the skeleton of a whale which
washed ashore about a year ago
near Sutton creek.
A repre
sentative o f the Pilot interview
M r. Fullerton in regard to the
matter, as follow#:
- “ M r . FuTierion I understand you
are going to remove "a whale
skeleton from the beach to the
campus of the University at Eu
gene what is the object?”
" In the first place the University
is spending thousands of dollars
in advertising and it occurred to
me th at a whale skeleton would
produce more advertising than
$20,000 spent on newspapers and
magazines for this reason, every
camera that can get near it will
photograph it, every one that
comes to town and hasn’t seen a
whale will go up to the University
and look at it, and see our fine
buildings and the intelligent
student body and realize that
p reg ó n is the home of culture.
F urther all the Post Card people
will feature it and they w ill be
sent all over the earth Bhowing
our University as the only one in
the world with a whale on its
campus.”
‘ ‘Is it true th at you are giving
your time for this work?” “ I t is.
I offered to dissect the skeleton
and articutate it on the campus if
enough public spirited people
could be found to pay expenses.
The students and faculty showed
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Press,
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FLORENCE, OREGON.
their interest by subscribing and
many o f the people o f the city
also donated and undoubtedly
many more would have done so
if they had been seen.”
Do yon intend to get any thing
else?” “ Yes I hope to get a sea
lion and a seal for the Museum
and also to interest the people of
the entire state so that they w ill
never lose an opportunity to help
our state museum by collecting
specimens and sending them to
Eugene and do it without always
asking ‘ ‘W hat is there in it?”
‘ ‘I t shows such a contemptibly
small nature not to be able to do
anything for the public welfare
without looking for personal
gain.”
TIMBER BIDS
ARE ASKED
The United States Department
of Agriculture has just advertis
ed for bids on 382,000,000 fçet of
Oregon timber, in the, C rater
Lake and Paulina National forests
on Four-Mile and Bear .Creeks.
Four-Mile Creek unit embraces
7120 acres containing 85,000,000
feet, nearly all yellow pine.
Bear Creek unit contains 17,560
acres having 297,050,000 feet, of
which 290,000,000 feet is yellow
pine. The cost of logging the
Four-Mile forest is estimated at
$5.50 a thousand, and BearCreek
forest at $3.50.
The Bear Creek property woüld
cost about $340,000 to develop,
and the Four-Mile considerably
less, according to a pamphlet
issued by the Forestry Depart
ment yesterday. The pamphlet
describes every detail of the
time, with copies on the contracts
* A contract w ith the fcorvallis
Lumber CornjAny has just been
executed by the Portland office
of the Forest Service, selling 8,-
608,000 feet of timber as follows:
7,746,000 feet Douglas fir s t $1.35
a thousand feet; 460,000 hemlock
at 50 cents a. thousand; 389,000
red cedar at $2.10 a thousand,
and 13,000 white pine at $1.35 a
thousand. The tim ber is in the
Santiam National forest.
The Portland office also has
advertised
1,075,107
feet of
yellow pine situated on the
Okanogan National Reserve on
Thompson Creek. The price is
$1.26 fo r yellow pine and $1.00
for fir.— Oregonian.
And yet the present forest
service officials would have us
believe that the whole scheme is
for the benefit o f the settler, or
small operator.
NUMBER 83
BATTLEFIELD
LIVESTOCK
HOUSE PASSES
STREWN WITH
INDUSTRY IS
BOUNTY BILL
THE SLAIN
DEVELOPING
UPON SEALS
Before Soissons, Jan. 18. by
Courier to Berlin Jan. 20. via
London, Jan. 21.—A t the head
quarters of a certain German
army last night General von
Kluck and his staff celebrated
the battle 'and their success at
Soissons
in typical German
military fashion, with a simple
soldiers meal, a bowl of punch
brewed by the expert hands of
Von Rluck himself, a graceful
little speech by the General and
a silent toast to the dead—both
French and German.
The earth was still dropping on
the graves of the fallen.
So
many men perished during the
eight days of the b itter struggle
for the heights across the river
from Soissons that today, the
fourth after the close of the
battle, the plateau and gorges
are still strewn thickly with dead,
although 4000 members of the
landsturm have been engaged
without a pause in clearing up
the battlefield.
No newspaper description of
the battle has been w ritten from
the Gerinan side. The Associat
ed Press representative was the
first, add, up to the present, the
o n l/ news man to inspect the
battlefield and have opportunity
to supplement the official re
ports with details gathered on
spot.
The results of the German
success are regarded here as
highly im portant
The French
were expelled from the heights
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hoped to launch a successful at
tack along the big elbow in the
German line— and driven across
the river, which now runs brim
fu l and a t many places is over
flowing its banks- between the
two armies.
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Portland, Ore. Jan. 19, 1915—
That the livestock industry in
Oregon has been developed to a
point which makes the state in
dependent of outside sources is
indicated by the annual report of
the Portland Union Stockyards
for 1914. This report shows that
597,180 head of livestock of all
classes was received during the
past year, divided up as follows:
281,300 sheep; 237, 725 hogs; 74,-
360 cattle; 2.506 calves and 1,239
horses and mules. Oregons con
tribution to this impressive total
was 48,789 cattle; 2,149 calves;
144,901 hogs and 196,425 sheep,
leaving only an unimportant bal
ance to be7credited to surround
ing states.
One notable feature of this re
port is the remarkable falling off
in the number o f calves received,
only 2,506 having been received
in 1914 as compared with 4,666
in 1913; 2,798 in 1912; 6,818 in
1911 and 8,297 in 1910. This fall
ing off in the shipment o f calves
seems to indicate th at farmers
are generally recognizing the im
portance of retaining all young
meat animals either as future
breeders or to be shipped as adult
animals, a movement which can
only result in increased financial
returns to the farmers and a
more rapid increase in the meat
supply of the state.
State Capitol, Salem, O r.,
January 21.—The House thia
morning passed the bill introduc
ed by the Clktsop County dele
gation providing a bounty of $1
on seals and on seal cubs. Clat
sop Representatives
declared
that seals now destroy one-fourth
the salmon in the Columbia
River.
Representative Lewis opposed
the measure on the ground th at
it is paternalistic and urged th a t
the fishermen themselves should
provide the bounty. Upon roll-
call Lewis voted “ aye,” making
the vote unanimous. Under pro
visions of the bill the state is to
pay one-half the bounty and the
respective counties one-half, the
money coming Out o f the regular
bounty funds. The measure also
increases the bounty on coyotes.
FOUR HEIRS TO
SIMPSON ESTATE
Marshfield, Ore., Jan. 21.— A l
though the dispatches from San
Francisco state th at A . M. Simp
son’s property is divided equally
between four heirs, L. J., Edgar
M ., H . M. Simpson and Mrs.
Edith Pike, it is believed the
business here w ill be continued
without dissolution, under the
management of Edgar Simpson,
A fte r being closed down for fo r the present a t least '
The property has been listed
two months, the three shingle
and
offered to an English syndi-
mills operated by the L. B,
MftttftfoMrtvsk W i A l i e v - w n r a * # a »
it will not be cloned.
up January .18-
HEALTH PRECAUTIONS
WOKIHffiMEMBERING
Victor Talking
Machines
I t is coming time of the year
when we should prepare for our
health. As spring approaches
our grandmothers w ill be getting
out the sassafras bark, some one
thing and some another in order
to ward off some dreaded disease.
This treatm ent is good as fa r
it goes and no doubt prevents our
children from having many dis
eases they might have, had they
not taken the herb.
There is one thing th at we
should bear in mimd and ponder
it well, and that is our water
supply; look to it th at there is no
cess-pool near your well; no open
toilets or piles of reffuse that
will filter into the w e ll A ll open
toilets th at have bw n in use for
any length of tim e should be
closed a fte r placing therein
Out of a ju ry list of 300 names good supply of lye and a cover
selected as jurym en fo r Lane ing of soil.
By doing this the
county, the following residents danger from contaminating the
of the western part of the county flrinking w ater w ill be greatly
have been selected:
lessened.
In building
new
Blachley—Rosa Myers, M artin toilets, and in caring for the old
Johnson, C. C. Bowman, Elm er ones, extra care should be taken
to see th a t it Is impossible for
Lamb.
Deadwood—G. L. Prindle.
flies to get into them. Flies n
Mapleton—Thomas J. Neeley, impure w a te r are tw o o f the
principal elements that enter in
J. P. O zm ent
Minerva—Hans M. Petersen. to the spreading o f disease.
N oti—C. C. Fisk. D. C. Evans,
Jesse A. Fountain.
The opening week of the legis
Point Terrace—Rufus W. John
lature was spent talking economy
son.
at an expense of $3000 per day in
I Walton — B ert K irk , Charles
W. Lyons and A. M. Richardson. lieu of practicing any.
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t .1 Jacksonville—A placer mina a
Tillamook—$20,000 contract for quarter o f a mile east at a depth
1915 JURY
DST CONTAINS
300 NAMES
dyking let at mouth of Wilson of 43 feet is pan ing great quan-
river.
1 tities of gold.
and a fine selection of Records
Come in hear them ____ __ _
Toilet Soaps and Articles, Shaving Articles
Collar Bags, Fancy Stationery
Japanese Napkins, Tissue Paper, Tablets and
A COMPLETE LINE OF DRUGS
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Surface Drug Store
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Morris
Son
Joe. Morris Jr., Norman O. M orris.;
TH E LEADERS
Dry Goods
Dress and Work
Shoes “
Clothing
Groceries
CANDIES^KND NUTS
Flour and Feed,
Notions,