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. ■' " — — 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 « * A Complete Line of Press, ggers sers X OES WOOLEN MILL STORE, ^z 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 2 9 Í& - .. A iw a — voltage 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.