FARMS YIELD
RECORD CROPS
HOSTILITIES BEGIN.
Montenegrin Forces Attack
After Declaring War.
REDMEN TO CONVENE.
Turks All North American Tribes to Organ
ize for Mutual Help.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
Constantinople—Montenegrin forces
Spokane—Representatives of every
early Wednesday morning attacked Indian tribe in North America will be
WEST WOULD CUT COST.
HOOD RIVER HAS REPUTATION
Berana, which at noon was surround invited to participate in a big con
Preliminary Estimates Show ed. Skirmishes also are reported on gress to be held in Spokane next au Change to Be U rged in Transporta- Apples Bring Together People From
the Servian frontier and with Greek tumn, having for its purpose the ad
tion of Convicts.
Many Lands.
Biggest Yield Ever.
bands in the neighborhood of Diskata. vancement of the Indian's interests by
Salem—The system of transporta-
Hood River—Seven men sat in the
An exchange of shots occurred near thorough co-operation.
tion of convicts from the place of con reading room of the Commercial club
Djumabala, on the Bulgarian frontier.
Spring Wheat Far Ahead of Best
Each tribe will be asked to send five viction to the state penitentiary will the other evening. One laid down his
An official dispatch from the Mon
be materially changed at what prom paper, then another, until the seven
Previous Year, Winter Wheat
tenegrin frontier says Montenegrins I accredited representatives, who, with ises to be a great saving, according to were engaged in conversation. Nat
Is Somewhat Behind.
on Monday attacked the block house at I the large attendance of Pacific North plans which Governor West is making urally the talk turned to apples, and
Kalva, but were repulsed with heavy west tribes assured are expected to for a recommendation, to be incorpor then to orchards.
Four of the men
loss. Fifteen Turks were wounded.
make a total assemblage of at least ated in his message to the next legis were unacquainted with any of the
Washington, D. C.—Never before The same day a large detachment of 5000 Indians.
lature, and founded on the results others. Names followed, then ad
have the great cereal crops of the the Montenegrin army crossed the
which have been secured in the
Robert H. Cosgrove, manager of the change made in transportation of pa dresses. The four men were strang
United States been so bountiful as frontier and attacked Brana. It also
ers and hailed from Groton, Mass.;
those of this year. Records of pro is reported that the Turks surrounded Spokane Interstate fair, and Lew S. tients to the state insane asylum.
St. Catherine, Ontario; Mexico City,
duction for almost every cereal have and annihilated a body cf Montenegrin Hurtig are making plans for the con
Under the old law patients were and Minneapolis, Minn. This caused
been surpassed, in some instances by soldiers.
gress, which will be the first of its transported to the asylum under the comment that in a little town in Ore
millions of bushels.
Patris— A general conflict in the kind ever held in America. Noted care of a sheriff or his deputy. Now gon all these men should meet with
The October crop report of the de Balkans is expected by officials here.
an attendant is sent from the asylum one common reason—Hood River ap
Indians who have gained reputations to bring in the patient.
partment of agriculture shows that
ples and how they do it.
Montenegro has declared war, and
spring wheat, oats, barley, rye and this is regarded merely as the begin- in various fields of endeavor will be
Under the old law covering trans
The succeeding conversation brought
hay all have exceeded the best record ning. It is believed that the other. asked to take the lead in the work of portation for asylum patients to that up the question: “From how many
productions, while the crops of corn units in the Balkan coalition will fol- the congress, particularly in outlining institution from the place of commit different localities will the visitors of
and potatoes from present indications low suit as soon as the mobilization of a program for the advancement of the ment, the records show that for the a month come?” Reference was had
also will be the greatest ever when armies is complete. There is only a race *n agriculture, education and 22 months between January, 1903, and to the visitors’ register, and the result
harvested.
October, 1904, the average cost for showed visitors registered at the club
faint hope that the representations of °H’er ways.
Speaking of this great showing the powers will avert general hostili- I “We will ask every tribe in Amer- transportation of the insane under the from 46 different towns in 17 states,
made by the country’s farmers, James ties.
and two from outside the country dur
ica to send five delegates at our ex old law was $64.51 per patient.
Wilson, secretary of agriculture, said:
Under the new law the average cost ing the month of August. September
Montenegro’s move is considered in Penie’" said Mr. Hurtig, “and I con-
“The crops this year are the heav Paris to be part of a prearranged plan. I 8ervatively estimate an attendance is shown to be $36.17, or almost half showed 57 towns in 19 states and four
iest on record. The season has been It is asserted that Greece was first I
These are only
a^ toast 5000 at the congress. This the cost that was charged under the foreign countries.
favorable, but some credit is due to elected by the Balkan Federation to |w'^
but the beginning of what we old law. With the transportation of those that registered at the club.
the wide efforts made in late years by force the issue and inaugurate the hope to make a forward movement several hundred patients annually it
the Federal government and the states war. This easily could have been for the Indian to give him his proper amounts into a handsome saving.
FINE CORN GROWN HERE.
to help farmers throughout the coun done by Greece’s seating in the Greek place in business, science and states
During 1911 it cost the state a total
try to get better returns from the parliament the deputies from Crete, manship.
From this first step we of $10,844 to transport patients from Columbia Slough Farmer Has Giant
average acre.”
which was certain to prove a casus hope to see started a real march of the place of conviction to the prison.
Stalk on Exhibit.
The world has been seaiched for belli to Turkey.
Greece, however, progress for North American Indians. Of this amount $672 was for expenses
better plants by the department of ag declined to accept responsibility for
Portland
—
John Zoller, retired, who
“The congress will not be without incidental to transportation of pa-
riculture and its scientists have been starting the flame.
its amusement features, as we intend tients and officers. The per diem of owns a farm on the Columbia Slough
creating plants by hybridization.
Montenegro then was picked. She to have the Indians participate in the sheriffs and guards amounted to ap road a few miles east of this city,
More than 3,000,000,000, bushels of had a long-standing quarrel with Tur dances for which they are famous, as proximately $2200.
On the ratio of brought into town a stalk of corn 14
corn, almost 1,500,000,000 bushels of key over the boundary question, and well as give other features that would the saving on transportation of insane, feet long, which he declared was
oats and 330,000,000 bushels of spring Turkey’s refusal to grant satisfaction make the event pleasant for them and a saving of practically 50 per cent, or grown by John Aeby, tenant on Mr.
Planting took place
wheat have been grown. The states in was seized upon as justification for entertaining for visitors.
about $5000 annually, would be made Zoller’s ranch.
July 15, after the harvesting of a
the Northwest are harvesting the Montenegro’s resort to arms.
“There is no doubt but that we will in transporting prisoners.
fodder crop of wheat and vetch from
greatest crops ever grown there.
It is not doubted that though cool- have the co-operation of Pacific Coast
the same land. Mr. Zoller also had a
“It looks as if we won’t have to im- , er heads in Bulgaria have been tribes in this undertaking. For a
STRAWBERRY CROP GOOD.
port any potatoes this year,” said against
.
ripe ear of corn as refutation • of the
the war from the start, pop- number of years we have had several
oft-repeated assertion that corn will
Secretary Wilson, in commenting on । ular excitement is at such a high hundred Indians encamped in Spokane
the record potato crop.
pitch that that country will be driven during the fair, and they have come to Tollman Farmer Produces Second not ripen in this section of Oregon be
cause of damp weather.
The department’s official estimates j to war to satisfy public opinion.
Growth of Fine Fruit.
a thorough appreciation of how they
of production of the country’s princi
“This stalk I picked out of a field
can help themseves by being thor
Albany—A unique plan to produce
of
more than 10 acres,” said Mr.
pal corps are given with figures show
oughly
organized.
”
two crops of strawberries on his vines
PUNISHMENT TO FIT CRIME.
ing the previous record crops and the
each year has been developed by M. P. Zoller. "The height throughout is
Last week I saw
year produced. The following esti
WHALE ATTACKS VESSEL.
Briggs, a farmer residing near Tall from 11 to 14 feet.
Los Angeles Auto Maniac Prohibited
an item in The Oregonian about corn
mates are made :
man.
Mr.
Briggs
has
a
quarter
of
a
From Using Car.
Record Crop,
Its Furious Rush Smashes Two Steel acre in strawberries, and picked an un 10 or 11 feet high in some portion of
1912, bu.
bushels
Year
Spring: wheat......... 330.391.0»»
272.667.000 1898
Los Angeles—Novel punishment, in
usually large crop last June. He then Western Washington, and I wanted to
Ribs of Ship.
Winter wheat......... 389.942.000
492,888,000 1906
show that it is possible to beat that in
All wheat................. 720.433,000
748,460,000 1901 addition to a fine of $100, was inflict
Seattle — How a gigantic wha'.e mowed down the vines, covered the Multnomah county. I shall take this
Oats ............................. 1,417,172,000 1.186.341,0»» X1910
patch
with
straw
and
set
it
on
fire.
Barley........................ 2Z4.619.000
178,916,000 1906 ed by Police Judge Frederickson, upon broke two steel ribs of the steam
stalk to the Chamber of Commerce
Rye..............................
35,422,000
34.879.000 1910 Benjamin
W. Kittredge, a young whaler Tyee, Jr., and disabled a dyna The vines were burned off so that the secretary and give it to him to place
Hay..............................
72,425,000
70,798,000 1908
field
was
entirely
bare.
The following estimates are based multi-millionaire, who wrecked his mo and one engine when harpooned off
New vines came up soon and rapidly on exhibition for the benefit of strang
upon condition:
own machine and collided with an- Sitka Bay, Alaska, August 1, was told blossomed out, and Mr. Briggs is now ers. ”
by the crew of the whaler, which ar
Record Crop,
picking his second crop, which is two-
He rived from Barnof island.
1912, bu.
bushels
Year other on a wild automobile ride,
BUYS DAIRY FARM.
Corn...............
3,016.000,000 2,927.416,000 1006
thirds as large as his big crop in June.
drove
80
miles
an
hour
in
the
city.
The
battle
with
the
whale
began
Buckwheat.
18.000,000
22,972,000 2866
In many strawberry gardens near
Potatoes
. 401,000,000
389,185,000 1909
For the next.six months Kittredge when Gunner Sigurd Blick, formerly a this city and in some of the big mar Rich Tillamook County Land Brings
Tobacco, lbs
. 874.000,000 1,055,765.000 1909
lieutenant
in
the
Norwegian
navy,
Flax..............
19.000,000
29,285,000 1902 may not drive an automobile or ride
Fancy Price.
ket gardens along the Santiam river
Rice.................
24.000,000
24,510,000 1810 in any machine where he has author and the champion whale gun marks
at
Lebanon
second
crops
of
strawber
Tillamook—The Elmore dairy ranch
ity of direction over the chauffeur, man of the Pacific, harpooned the big ries were picked this year. This con
of 193 acres, considered one of the
The whale dashed at the
RATE CUT IS RESISTED.
under penalty of 30 days’ imprison fellow.
vessel with terrific speed. There was dition was largely due to the unusual finest in Tillamook county, has been
ment.
rains in August and September, and
Kittredge has been arrested three a crash as he struck amidships on the many growers are planning to make purchased from J. H. Hathaway by B.
Express Companies Fear Net Loss
N. Sproat, of Washington county, the
port
Aide.
Dishes
in
the
galley
fell
to
times
for
wild
auto
escapades.
Once
of $33,000,000.
arrangements
to
irrigate
their
gardens
consideration
being $50,000.
The
he drove his machine to the middle of the floor with a clatter, and the vessel for a second crop next summer.
purchase also includes 60 head of
Washington, D. C.—A net loss of a railroad bridge and blocked traffic shivered from stem to stern.
high-grade Holstein and Jersey cows.
$33,000,000 a year in the revenues of half a night. He was celebrating the
The force of the collison increased
Mr. Hathaway took in exchange the
the express companies and the rail advent of a son in his home.
POTATOES ARE FOOT LONG.
the whale’s fury, and after a hard
33-acre
Eldorado apple orchard of Mr.
roads would result from putting into
Kittredge told Judge Frederickson struggle it escaped.
effect the express rates proposed by that he was guilty, but somewhat un
As soon as the blow was struck Record Spuds for 'Size and Number Sproat at Aloha, Washington county,
valued at $20,000 paying the differ
the Interstate Commerce commission, der the influence of liquor.
He de Captain S. B. Shaw went below and
Found at Hood River.
ence of $30,000 cash for the Tillamook
according to figures submitted by the clared he had since signed the pledge. examined the hull,
He found that
Hood River—The record for potato county farm. The sale as negotiated
companies to the commission.
two steel ribs had been broken and
This loss, it was estimated, would
the machinery put out of commission production in Hood River valley is by Paul A. McPherson, of Portland.
Turkish Quarter Attacked.
just reporte»! by J. R. Steele.
Mr. McPherson also sold the Glenn
be divided between the express and
Vienna—A massacre of Turks has by the shock. Members of the crew
Last May he planted an acre that Johnson place of 160 acres, located
the railroad companies. It was as occurred at Turtukai, in Bulgaria, regretted the loss of the whale, which
serted by counsel for the express com near the Roumanian frontier, accord was nearly 90 feet long and worth had been in alfalfa for ten years to near Hebo, in Tillamook county. The
panies that the commission’s rates ing to a dispatch from Oltenitza, to 11200, more than the damage to tho Early Rose and Garfield varieties. farm was bought by Mrs. Marshal)
They were irrigated twice.
Last for $9500. About 50 acres are in cul
practically would put their clients out the Neus Weiner Tagelatt.
vessel.
week he started to dig them and found tivation, the remainder being pasture
of business.
During
the
six
months
’
cruise
of
the
It is alleged that armed Bulgarians
that the hills had run together so that land.
Walter D. Hines, representing the attacked the Turkish quarters of the Tyee, Jr., 61 whales were bagged.
each row was one continuous line of
Adams, American, Southern. United town at night, pillaged the houses and
solid spuds.
Rate Order Not Effective.
States and Wells-Fargo companies, massacred the inhabitants, not spar
Gould Dodges Duty.
Many of the plants had enough on
Salem
—A#temporary restraining or
said the proposed rates would cost the ing women and children.
New
York
—
Frank
J.
Gould
obtained
Only a few
them to fill a five-gallon oil can. der enjoining the State Railroad com
express companies 5.875 cents on ev Turks escaped across the Roumanian
release
of
all
of
the
1400,000
worth
of
Most of the spuds are a foot long and mission from enforcing orders in re
ery dollar received by them, “thus border.
baggage which the customs auihori- some weigh four pounds each.
gard to rates and shipments on the
destroying all profit and producing an
The sere yielded 700 sacks, or Sumpter Valley railroad was granted
ties
seized
when
he
and
enormous deficit.”
Mrs.
Gould
Grazing Land Is Offered
1400 bushels.
Mr.
Steele also by Judge Galloway in Circuit court
The deficit, he said, for the com
Provo,
Utah—The sale of 280,000 and her sister arrived from their raised a cabbage this summer weigh here. The commission demurred to
panies he represented would total $6,-
home
in
Paris.
Under
protest, Mr.
the application for an Injunction on
743,622 annually, measured by the acres of grazing land in the old Uin Gould paid $2844 on the dutiable ar- ing 28 pounds.
tah
Indian
reservation
was
opened
the ground that the order was already
present volume of business. Accord
tides,
but
the
greater
part
of
the
val
effective.
ing to Mr. Hines’ figures the “pro here Wednesday by J. W. Witton, of uable jewelry was shown to have been
Hood River Gets Fish.
posed ra^s mean a reduction of not the department of the interior, and of American purchase or to have been
Hood River—A great deal of activi
China Phaasants Released.
less that 11 cents in the total revenue Don B. Colton, of the United States assessed before by the customs au- ty in stocking the streams of Hood
land
office
at
Verna,
Utah.
No
bid
of
Pendleton
—Six dozen pairs of China
per package on the express business
River valley with game fish has been pheasants, six pairs of silver and six
less than 50 cents an acre will be ac thorities.
in the United States.”
noted this summer, and further work pairs of golden pheasants have been
Several representatives of shippers cepted, and not more than 640 acres
Great Revolt Averted.
is to be done. So far about 250,000 released in a reserve for game con
will
be
sold
to
any
one
purchaser.
were heard.
New Orleans—Lee Christmas, com- trout have been planted in the various sisting of several thousand acres east
There were only a few prospective
mandant of Puerto Cortez, Hondruas, streams, and another carload was dis of this city, and it is the intention of
buyers on hand at the opening sale.
Courier to Make Peace.
said that the intervention of the Unit tributed last week. Everybody helps the state game commission to liberate
Constantinople—The Turkish gov
Greeks Await War Call
ed States in the Nicaraguan revolution in the work. Ranchers have left their many other varieties.
Farmers in
ernment has dispatched a courier to
Butte, Mont. — Theodore Stakios, had averted what otherwise might work to haul cans of fish ten miles thio section have signed up to keep all
Ouchy, Switzerland, who bears final Greek# consul for Montana, Idaho, have proved the bloodiest general re back to the headwaters, and two wag-
trespassers off the tract.
instructions With reference to the Utah and Wyoming, announced that volt in the history of Central America. ons made the trip to Lost lake,
The
peace negotiations between Turkey 7000 Greeks from those states were “If the rebels had won in Nicaragua, state game and fish commission has
Panama Resident Makes Inquiry.
and Italy.
It is understood that on prepared to answer the call to arms the revolution would have spread to appropriated $500 to place a fish lad-
Albany
—Declaring he wants "to
his arrival the negotiations will be from their native country and that a Honduras. Guatemala and possibly der at the Devil’s Punch Bowl, and
get
back
to
God’s country where the
brought to a successful close.
It is special train carrying the first detach Salvador,” said Christmas.
the work will be done this fall.
thermometer is not always 90 or
officially announced that the prelimin ment would start from here within a
above in the shade,” O. C. Pickel, a
aries in the peace settlement between few hours after the call is received
Cabin Holds Body Long Dead.
Mt Angsl Gets Crusher.
civil and sanitary engineer in the Pan
Haly .nd Turkey will be signed Sun- . from the Greek legation in Wohing.
Dawson, Y. T.—Reports were re
Mount Angel—At a cost of almost ama Canal zone, has written the Al
ceived here that the body of E. E. $2000 the Marion county court has in- bany commercial club for information
Collins, a trappier from Stratton, Col., 1 stalled a new rock-crushing plant at regarding this section of the state.
43 Killed In Explosion.
has been found in a cabin near Me- . Mount Angel. This plant, which is
Williamstown, Mass. — Williams
Tampico, Mex.—Forty-three bodies । Millan «•»««.
river. nppnrruu/
Apparently ne
be meu
died last | operates
operated oy
by a aynamo,
dynamo, ine
the power be-
ne-
112-Pound Squash on Display.
L. * 1 ing
_________
, _ Silverton,
c.
.
. .
College professors will hereafter get of the victims of the powder explosion February, after - a - lonely 111_____
illness, __
prob-
secured I from
takes
the
Albany
—A squash weighing 112
a year's vacation in every seven of Tuesday night have been recovered ably appendicitis. Th« body was left place of the .steam crusher.
At the pounds Is on display in the office of
years, with full pay. Funds for car and buried. Estimates now place the in the cabin pending a police invest!-J nominal expense of about $1.50 daily
rying out this arrangement are pro dead at 100, while the injured will gation, which may not take place un-1 its crushing capacity is about 150 the Linn & Benton Real Estate com
pany in thio city.
It was raised by
vided from the income of a gift by total another 100.
Most of those»til spring owing to the lateness of the yards a day, almost double the amount Fred Arnold, a farmer, residing south
Francis Lynde Stetson, of New York killed were laborers.
season.
1 turned out by the steam plant.
west of thio city.
—J