Great Interest Shown
Laws in All
NEWS NOTES OF New Wage
In Follow-Up Campaign REBELS REFUSE
States Are Predicted State R. R. Commission
DEMANDS OF U. S.
CURRENT WEEK
Issues Annual Report
Resume of World’s Important
Events Told in Brief.
Oriental flour market« «re reported
to be heavily «locked and buying ia
■low.
Preaident Wil«on positively refuses
to be stampeded into Mexican inter
vention.
Three houses were destroyed and
fiV persona injured by an avalanche
in Utah.
Food and fuel famines and danger
from Area follow in the wake of East
ern blixiards.
The British government is willing to
enter into an agreement limiting the
sise of warahi pe.
The constitutionality of the Kansas
“blue sky’’ law has been upheld by
the Disritct Court.
Managers of the Calumet and Heeia
mines declare copper is becoming more
expensive to mine every year.
Senator Thornton.
Democrat, of
Louisiana, has been converted to Wil
son's views on the canal tolls question.
“Group insurance” is advocated in
Colorado as a means of bringing about
more harmonious relations between
capita] and labor.
The wife of Sheriff Eggers, of San
Francisco county. Cal., has not only
begun divorce proceedings, but signed
a petition for the sheriff’s recall.
The house passed a bill appropriat
ing $25,000 for a memorial to Andrew
Jackson to commemorate his victory
over the Creek Indians in Alabama in
1814.
Dealers attending
Shippers convention
and European hens
forever on the high
this country.
the Missouri Egg
declare Oriental
have put a stop
price of eggs in
The congressional committee inves
tigating the recent strike in the Colo
rado coal mines were shown through
the mine and saw the actual working
conditions there.
An Indiana man bitoff the marshal's
thumb while resisting arrest, and
after being lassoed and dragged to jail
tore the bars off a cell and wrecked
the inside of the jail.
A Boston woman declares corsets
cause fifty per cent of the divorces in
this country, by causing indigestion,
headaches, backsets, etc., resulting
in soured dispositions and domestic
trouble.
Governor West, of Oregon, has pro
claimed March 13 “Salmon Day.”
An Antarctic explorer recently re
turned reports the regions he visited
rich in minerals.
A committee of the Massachusetts
legislature reported favorably a wom
an suffrage bill.
Wool contracting in Eastern Oregon
is at a standstill owing to the uncer
tainty of prices.
Portland -That every «Ute in the
Union will pass a minimum wage law
within the next two year« and that the
large department «toree the country
Regulation of public utilitl««, together I been secured In light and puwvr rat©«,
over before the end of the next decade
without necessity for forma) proceedings,
will establish profit-sharing systems with steady growth ut railroad buslusso, In Pallas,
Monmouth,
IndepsAaance,
luiM Increased the work of the Railroad Junction City, Corvallis and other town*
affecting all of their employes, or face CotnmlsMion of Oreicvn Just 174 |»er vent «if the Wllluitivtlv Valley.
the abuse and waste of strikes, were In out year» measured by the volume of
Concerning the business handled by thv
formal complaint«! handled
Thia I m oil«
during thv year, the report
the predictions brought to Portland by of the feature* disclosed by the annual (Commission
aa>a:
F. Colburn Pinkham, of New York, report of the Commission fur the year
“Lint I ng of thv complaint« filed shows
Itevambar IB. 1911, which has Juel • 353 infol noil railroad vutnplulnta, compar-
manager and treasurer of the National ending
been made public.
| * <l with 301 filet! In l‘J12. The number of
Chairman Frank J. Miller and hla col- formal railroad matter* filed was 59. com
Retail Dry Goods association.
The
Thomae K Campbell and Clyde pared with 47 thv previous year. In the
organiaation. of which he is the di lea*uoM,
H mi . hlrnm, tn t« illth«> Stol \ « i
utilities branch, 1*3 Informal complaint«
rector, embraces 30 per cent of all yeai'a work, have naturally covered a ami 70 formal niatteia were docketed.
! much broader Held than usual. and th.' The Increase In tidal number of formal
the large department stores in the report Is especially Intereatln* hi Ita ex*
complaint«, which In moat cases have
United States, representing 38 states ¡1.»nation of the progress made in the net vaaitutv<l hearlnga, from 47 In 1913 to
new duties assigned by the public utlll- 139 In 1913. or 374 per cent. Indicate« In
and an aggregate annual business of • tie*
act.
a decree the expansion of the Cuinnils-
from $400,000,000 to $500,000,000.
The net operating revenue of all of the «lon's work “
iwllruads
of
the
alate
for
the
year
ending
1 deposition made of the mv complaint«
Among other things Mr. Pinkham June 1V, 1911, was >5 633,743 52. the report
la I«
drl.ill, and th. dHtlm tiun
advocates vocational training in the shows. a train <4 >4* b ,156 25 over the fig between fortnul and informal procedure
ures f<»r the previous year. Total op«*i
explained, the former being mutter« In
public schools that will train young uting
revenue of all roads on state bual* which heailnga uro required to threah out
people for expert salesmanship and neas wax >14,865.556.53. of which 55.160- «lueatlona of rate« or eervlce, the infor
*46.75
came from freight. >8.777.93*5* mal being taken up for udjuetment on a
alleviate largely the waste and confus from passangrra,
>3Kv.*36 4> from other
ata lenient of the grievance Of the
ion that have handicapped department I passenger train revenue. >335,439.75 from mere
iot>u mul niaitri M, |u out of 3*0 of thoae
transportation services, and >111.** relating to railroad« were autlafactorily
store management in the past. He I other
43* from spurces other than transporta aetiled. 37 are pending. 2'3 were dropped
says that it costs about 8 cents to de tion.
iM'cauaa of lack of jurlmllctlun.
Of thv
Oregon's proportion of Interstate rail utility matter* handled In like manner,
liver a spool of thread, the same as it road
revenue In almost equal to the state tki out of 153 are re port ml sett 1ml, It)
does a tailored suit, thus illustrating revenue, living >14.597.166.56, making the tnuiiierred. & »ending, and 36 dropped
revenue >39,463.042.U9. The op bm'uu»« plaintiff« did Ind wl«h to go
that customers cost themselves thous total
erating expense assigned
to
Oregon
ands of dollars annually by not carry amounts to >19,361.509.90, leaving a net further.
IHscuaaing the elimination of perlloua
ing home those packages that would operating revenue for the railroad ba font*© ruHroiui and highway croaai ng a, the re
shrvta of >10,301,532 19
As the taxes to port aara;
not inconvenience them materially.
talled >1.568.788.37, the clear net return
“While not given jurisdiction over ex-
stands at >8,633.743.51.
Utlng highway croaainga. thv Commlaaion
The total railroad mileage operated In : during the la at year haa given particular
the state Is given im 3.175, of which 4S6 attention to dangerous grade cruaalnga,
is electric road mileage.
Increase In I und In an Informal way haa solicited the
mileage in the state in the line owned Is ! co-operation of vnrioua county court« und
*4 niilea. and 47 additional miles are I railroad «’ompuniea, looking to the ell in-
to have been placed in operation. j I nation of grade croaalng danger« wher
San Francisco- Years ago Robert ! shown
The electric roads show well In revenues ever they may be avoided without ex-
Louis Stevenson went to Monterey and in proportion to their mileage, the 4M ' evasive luirtlablp or coM.
miles c»f electric line having yielded II,-
“Recognising that every grade crossing
while there had hie dilapidated shoes 643.680.33
In net operating return, after constitutes a danger, and believing that
mended by George Berthold, a village j deducting over half a million dollars In thia haaard to life vtn t»e reduced by In
or about twice the return per mile, telligent co-operation, attentlou has been
cobbler, and during the conversation taxes,
taken collectively, made by the steam , directed to the subject avnernlly, an<1 to
that ensued a strong friendship sprang lines.
specific instances as well. Th« response
Reviewing the great amount of work ; has generally been prompt, und some
up between the obscure author and the required
to properly classify the utilities headway has t«een made In removing un-
shoemaker that endured for a life of the state, 1913 being the first year
rtlg to travel
that electric, gas. water, telephone and
“In the elimination of needle«« «lungers
time. The result is that a Stevenson street
railway companies have been un th«* t'ommlMMion feeUl that Its effort 1«
memorial, costing $5000, is to be der regulation by the state, the report well Mpent.
As population Increases,
to discuss the principles applied i railroad mileage Is added and new high
erected in the historic city of Monte proceeds
to the making of rates, saying:
ways eMtabliahml, gradv creaming dangers
rey, where the early beginnings of
It was early apparent that consider* i ure multiidled, ««nd the UornmlMion fa
time would be required before rate vor* overhead or underground crossing«
California were planned, to the mem I able
making problems for the larger utilities wherever laMMrtble and convenient, with
ory of the writer.
| of the state could be properly* considered out. however, working a hardship on
While Stevenson went on his way to land aohrwd Rate making, ns required by either the public or the transportation
the law and by sound public policy. Is n<»t
fame Berthold became a prosperous a matter of guess work. To be upheld line».
“Ry successive steps the Commission
by
the courts, to ba permanent in results, i is seeking to discharge the obligation
shoe merchant Berthold realised last
to I h * just alike to the public and to th.' .»w.d by all g«o er turn ntal bodies toward
year that the beginning of the end corporations concerned. It must be found the protection of human life and limb,
was at hand, so he provided in his will ed upon exact information, and It must and to place Oregon In line with the
proceed upon a reasonable application of
slogan of 'Safety First'*’
that a sum should be laid aside for the the laws governing the complex relations . country-wide
The report describes the steps taken In
Stevenson memorial, which included a that have grown up around modern in thre<‘ genera) hearings that Involved ex
dustrial conditions. The bland fixing of tended investigation.
In one of these
park and a monument for hie early- rates, upon inadequate lnfotni.it
proceedings rules und regulations were
Information at all, as has been attempted prrscrllied for furnishing, loading and un
day friend.
in some Instances within the public rnem- loading cars, and for demurrage and re
Berthold died without heirs and be lory. cannot be defended either in law or ciprocal
demurrage.
In another rules
willed his estate to two clerks. Know in equity, and has nearly always resulted were Issued to govern overhead and uh-
I in confusion and disaster.
dergroun«! construction of all manner of
ing his love for the great author, they
“The Commission has therefore been electric wires, to provide safety for work
have turned over to Robert F. John constrained to proceed owiy owr gr«-unl men and the public In thv third, not yet
has been fully prospected and tried concluded, the Commission is working out
son, mayor of Monterey, the greater that
It is not bound by techno al rules, and It regulations of Stamfords
under
which
part of the stipulated sum, in spite of does not nee<l to adhere to outworn pre public utilities must measure pressure.
unfitted to the day. but It has <iuuilty, voltage und other conditions-In
the fact that the courts ruled out the cedents
refused to depart from the reliable rules supplying servi «’ to th«- pubin-
of progress, investigation, information, I That the Commission largely decreases
bequest on a technicality.
sanity, success.
the work of the courts by bundling mat-
“So if In some Instances the work has ters which otherwise would develop Info
seemed slow, it Is rirvertheless being ad- ’ lawsuits Is one of the points advanced
vanced as fast as facilities, funds and In the one branc h of track scale« inspec
; < ir< u ms lances will permit. Accuracy« not tion, the expense of which Is borne by
guesswork. Is required, and It is essen th* railroads. It is stated there has been
tial that the findings of the Commission,
decrease of 65 per cent in claims pre
Santa Barbara. Cal.—While "loop when mad«*, shall be demonstrably cor a
sented t«> the railroad« growing out of
ing the loop” here Sunday Lincoln rect—thut is, just so nearly correct as controversies over weights of shipments.
fallible human judgment will permit.”
Orders were rnads during the year for
Beachy, the aviator, lost control of
It is stated that 236 utility companies refunding >4.423 to shippers because of
his biplane and fell 1600 feet, but have been listed under the jurisdiction overcharges or of special circumstances
: of the Commission and considerable prog appearing to justify reparation. Railroads
managed to right himself 400 feet ress made in the valuation of several of and
other carriers have file«) 550 passen
from the ground, and escaped with i the larger utilities, this living necessary ger and 475 freight schedules with the
before rates are fixed. The report brings Commission, and the utilities have added
slight injuries. His machine crashed the narrative of work performed down 469 rate schedules during the year.
into a tree and snapped its trunk, but to lumber 15, 1913, and valuation in
Othsr topics cover©«) by the report,
vestigations stale«! to be nearing com-
from the statistical portion, are
is expected to be in shape for flying pletion are those of the Portland Railway, aside
cases that have been appealed to the
again after a few comparatively minor Light Power Company, C«x»s Ifov Water courts, proceedings before th« Interstate
Company, St. Johns Water Works At Commerce Commission, manner of harxl-
repairs.
Lighting Company, Rogue River Water: IIng cornpfoints. railroad valuation. Im
The aviator was at a height of 2000 Company of <«rants Pass, Home Tele- ! provement of Corvallis A F'a«tern Ruil-
phon** A Telegraph Company of Southern ' r*»ad between Corvallis and Yaqulna, train
feet when be made a loop. His bi [Oregon, and the Salem W ater, Light A delay reports, Mtispenslon of railroad tar
plane then pointed its nose toward the I Power Company. Water plant valuation • iffs, accident iri instigations, scop« of
under way at Pallas also valuation of i work under the utilities art, methods of
earth and made a spiral dip. All the is
the Pacific* Telephone A Telegraph Com- ' utility valuation, telephone and water
spectators thought this was intended, pany's plant at Oregon City, and It is rate cases, accounting department work,
but it was not, for the machine al stated that substantial reductions have , and commission merchant's act.
Cobbler Pays Homage
to Memory of Poet
Beachey Has Close Call
In Loop-the-Loop Stunt
Governor Colquitt, of Texas, is ready was beyond Beachey's control.
ready and anxious to invade Mexico
For 100 feet more, the biplane felt
with his Texas Rangers.
sideways, completing a circle, then
floundered, dipped and came down at
an angle, with the engine working
Hood River—“We have received
PORTLAND MARKETS
information,” says Wilmer Sieg, ssles
perfectly.
manager of the North Pacific Fruit
Wheat — Track prices: Club, 90®
Distributors, who is in charge of the
Old
Church
Open
to
Idle.
91c per bushel; bluestim, 99c® $1;
New York — Historic
Plymouth Hood River sub central office of the
forty fold, 91® 92c; red Russian, 89@
selling agency, “that the Interstate
90c; valley, 91c.
Church, of Brooklyn, the edifice in Commerce commission will refuse to
Qats—No. 1 white, milling, $24.
which Henry Ward Beecher preached confirm the tariff of the express com
Corn—Whole, $33.50(5.34 per ton; and where a regiment of soldiers slept panies on carload shipments of fruit
cracked, $34 50(835.
and ate for a week in Civil War times, from the Northwestern districts.
Barley—Feed, $22 per ton; brew will give aid to the unemployed of
“The rate of the new tariff was
ing. $23; rolled, $25.
Brooklyn, it is announced by Dr. New from 121 to 25 per cent in excess of
Hay—No. 1 Eastern Oregon timo ell Dwight Hillis, pastor of the church. the old rate, and would have work»®
thy, $17; mixed timothy, $14; alfalfa, Aided by members of his congrega an almost irretrievable hardship on
$14; clover, $9® 10 valley, grain hay, tion, Dr. Hillis will give food to all the berry-produci ng sections of the
$12®13.50.
who apply at the Mayflower mission, states of Oregon and Washington.
Millfeed — Bran, $22.50 pef ton; , connected with the Plymouth church. White Salmon and Underwood joined
shortg, $24 50; middlings, $30(831.
The experiment was a result of the the local association in sending pro
Vegetables—Cauliflower, $2.50 per I storming of a church by unemployed.
tests to the Interstate Commerce com
crate; cucumbers,
$1.50(5,1.75 per
mission and to Oregon and Washing
dozen; eggplant, 10® 15c per pound;
ton representatives in congress.
Zamor to Be recognized.
peppers, 12ie; radishes, 35c per doz
“W. H. Paulhamus, too, has been
Washington, D. C. — Haiti’s new
en; bead lettuce, $2.25 per crate;
government, with
General Greste one of the most active of Northwest
garlic, 12|c per pound; sprouts, 11c;
Zamor, successful revolutionist,
as ern men to engage in tbe fight,” says
artichokes, $1.50 per dozen; squash,
president, will be recognized imme Mr. Sieg, ' ‘and consumers from North
lj®2ic per pound; celery, 54.50 per
diately by the United States.
This Dakota, where many of our berries
crate; cabbage, 2|c per pound.
was announced by Secretary Bryan, are u«ed, have helped us out. We,
Green Fruit—Appes—75c®$2.25 per
who has had the subject under consid baaed our fight on tbe fact that we are
box; cranberries, $12(8,12.50 per bar
eration since reports indicated that already paying as much m the berries I
rel; pears, $l®1.50 per box.
the new regime virtually was in com will bear; that tbe express companies
Onions—Old, $3.25(^8.50 per sack;
did notown the equipment used; that
plete control of the republic.
buying price, $3 per sack at shipping
they were at no expense in the trans
points.
portation, the consignor loading the
Militant
Chide«
Royalty.
Potatoes—Oregon 80® 90c per cwt;
fruit and the consignee unloading and
buying price, 50®75c
at shipping
London—At a charity concert in Al distributing it, and that the compan
points.
_
bert hall Monday, where the king and ies were merely put to the expense of
Eggs—Fresh Oregon ranch, 21c per queen were present, a suffragette collecting their charges.”
dozen.
seated opposite the royal box started
Poultry—Hens, 17i®18e per pound; haranguing King George, demanding
Hop« Held; Big Sum Lost.
springs,
17|e; broilers, 25c; tur why be did not make his ministers
Salem
—T. A. Livesley, a hop grow-
keys, live, 18®20c; dressed, choice, stop torturing women.
Attendants
25c; ducks, 13®17c; geese, ll®12c.
seized the woman and ejected her from er and buyer of this city, said that the
Butter—Creamery prints, extra, 29 the hall, the audience meanwhile hiss growers of Oregon had lost $388,000
®30c per pound; cubes, 26®,27c.
ing her vigorously.
as a result of holding their crops for
Pork—Fancy, lie per pound.
higher prices. He said that growers
Veal—Fancy, 14}®15c per pound.
who sold for 21 cents late last fall lost
Three Alpine Climbers Killed.
Hops—1913 crop, prime and choice,
Cbable, Switzerland—Three Swiss $80,000, because the price had previ
16®17|c; 1914 contracts, 15c.
He says there
Alpine climbers,
Richard Meylan, ously been 25 cents.
Wool — Valley, 16®17c; Eastern Henri Denand and Marmilled Drouget, was a loss of $84,000 a little later,
Oregon, 10® 15c; mohair, 1913 clip, were killed while ascending Rosa when 6000 bales were sold st 18 cents.
26® 27c pound.
There are remaining in the hands of
Blanche peak. The men, roped to
Cascara bark—Old and new, 5c.
gether, had attained a height of 5000 the growers, 14,000 bales and the
Grain Bags—In car lots, 8c.
feet, when an avalanche swept them price now being 17 cents Mr. Livesley
Cattle—Prime steers, $7.60®7.75;
figures the loss on these at $224,000.
over a precipice.
choice, $7.40®7.60;
medium, $7®
Many Bounties Claimed.
7.25; choice cows, $6.25®7; medium,
Ashland — Up to February 15 the
$6®6.25; heifers, $6®7.25; light cal Snakebite Savant Killed by Snake.
ves, $8®9; light, heavy, $6® 7.50;
Calcutta — Dr. Frederick Fox, an pelts of more than 200 predatory ani
bulls, $4®5.60; stags, $6®7.
Australian scientist who devoted his mals were presented to eounty officials
Among tbe
Hogs—Light, $8®8.65; heavy, $7® life to the treatment of snake bites, by bounty claimants.
died Sunday as the result of a bite number were 15 cougars, 95 coyotes
7.65.
Sheep — Wethers, $5®6.10; ewee, from a snake which he was using for and 110 bobcats. These do not repre
sent all tbe animals killed.
$3.50®5; lambs, $5®6.85.
experimental purposes.
Commission Has* Refused
Furnish Farm Hands;
Increase in Fruit ¡Rate
Also Farms to Rent
Spokane—Interest displayed in the
Holden follow-up campaign throughout
the 1’acitic Northweat has cause«! the
Holden Improvement
committee to
make arrangements on a comprehen
sive scale for the work during the
coming year.
Three thousand seta of charts of 15
pages each, eight feet sejuare, have
been orderod for distribution by coun
ty school superintendents of Washing
ton, Oregon anti Idaho. Five thousand
stereopticon slides ami 3000 photo
graphs also have been ordered, and
will be ready for distribution either al
the close of the spring term of school
or early next September.
An edition of 50.000 booklets deal
ing with corn raising in the Pacific
Northwest, ami like
quantities of
booklets on poultry and dairying also
are being prepared under tbe direction
of Charles W. Farr, secretary of the
Holden Improvement committee.
All
these booklets, says Mr. Farr, deal ac
curately with local conditions in the
Pacific Northwest.
“We find remarkable interest in the
follow-up week to be held in the
schools of tbe three states,' states Mr.
Farr. ‘“Twenty-five county superin
tendents sent in hurry-up requisitions
for additional supplies of the rag «loll
seed corn testers, although an edition
of 6,000 was «iistributed only four
weeks ago.
“The school superintendents are co
operating to make the campaign a suc
cess, and they are very much interest
ed in this move to secure a closer co
operation between the school and the
home.
“In the collection of seed corn re
ceived at the Spokane chamber of com
merce ia some from Oroville, Wash.,
which has been placed beside some of
Illinois* best product and examined by
experts. They deciare it ia almost
impossible to distinguish any differ
ence between the two.
This shows
conclusively that the Pacifia North
west has possibilities as a corn sec
tion.”
Parcel Post Ruling
Helps Country Editors
Washington, D. C. — Postmaster
General Burleson haa decided to admit
ready-prlnta, generally called “patent
insides,“ to the privileges of the par
cel poet and at the same postage rate
which controls in that branch of the
service. This will be a great relief to
the publishers of smsil country pa
pers, as “patent insides" have not en
joyed mail privileges and great diffi
culty often has been experienced in
securing delivery.
Credit for securing this concession j
for country publishers Is
due to
Charles C. Hart, of Spokane, Wash.,
secretary to Representative
Fol
Mr. Hart
lette, of the same state,
formerly was a country publisher in
Indiana and is familiar with all the .
hardships of the man who prints s pa-
per in the rural districts,
Mr. Hart
had the co-operetion of Senator Jones,
also of Washington.
Oregon Apple Box Bill
Introduced In Senate
Commission to Probe Death of
Benton Stopped.
I'aaaports Denied by Rebel Author*
Itos Recognition of Huerta by
England Complicates Issue.
Juarez, Mexleo -The Kenton invest
igating committee was prevonte«i from
proceeding to Chihuahua to examine
the slain Briton's body by rebel orders.
Colonel Fidel Avila, military com-
mander here, declined to permit them
to board the regular passenger train
which was walling. An authoritative
admission to this effect dispelled pre
vious reports that the »»mmiasion was
halted <>n order» from Washington.
Whether the Incident means delay
or the permanent prohibition of the
mission could not be l«>arn«id
The
mystery thrown around the occurenco
led many rumors of an apparently ex
aggerated nature.
The mmt persistent Inquiry here
and in El Paso failed to establish any
thing but the fact that paaaporta were
refused to the commissioners on thin
side and they returned to El Paso.
No official In Juarez has authority
to take such action as was taken in
this case. Only two persona In North
ern Mexico have the power—Vcnus-
tiano Carranza and General Villa.
The order came as ■ surprise to the
commissioners. Villa, at Chihuahua,
han repeatedly exprean««! hia desire to
haaten tbe inquiry, and hie offer of a
special train to take the mission from
this city to Chihuahua, where Hentun’s
laxly Is said to be buried, wan formal
ly accepted by Marion I-etchcr, Amer
lean consul there.
George C. Carothers, agent of the
State department in many of its deal
ings with Vills, also delayed hia de
parture for Chihuahua.
Greeks Begin War
On Albanian Cities
Vienna As predicted here all along,
hostilities have begun In thoae por
tions of the Epirus awarded by the In
ternational delimitation commission
to New Albania.
Those districts,
mainly with Koritza and Argynocaatro
for centers, are mountainous and in
some snow ia still lying, but as the
season advances it is, to judge from
the present, likely that the disturb
ance will become general.
So far fighting takes place every
day between the newly-organiz«sd Al*
banian officers of the regulsr army of
Holland and efficient men, though
numbering all told so far but about
3500, and Greek regular troops, sup
ported by the oft-mentioned "sscred
battalions” and loose guerilla bands.
The Albanians are also putting reg
ulars into the field.
The latter outnumber the Albanians
—wherever the two aides have met—
five to one.
Several towns and vil
lages held by the Albanians and recog
nized by the Greeks as Albanian cen
ters have been shelled and subsequent
ly stormed by the Greek regulars, with
considerable loan of life on both sides.
Washington, .D. C.—Senator Jones
of Washington, has introduced a bill
providing for the adoption of what is
known as the Oregon apple box as the
standard box to be used by apple ship
pers throughout the United States. |
Mars Canals Change Hue.
This box haa been found by experience
to be ideally adapted to the ahipment
Boston — The so-called canals on
of apples, ami in order that the public Mars are now exhibiting striking sea
may not be discriminated against, the
senator believes that the apple box, sonal developments, according to Dr.
Percival Lowell, of the Flagstaff,
like the barrel, should be standardiztrd. I
“This bill has the approval of the j Ariz., observatory. In a dispatch re
"The North
apple people of the Northwest, and ia ceived here he says:
Polar cap of the planet ia melting and
a measure of great importance to
them,” he aaid. “If passed, it will the canals are strongest and darkest
This is
insure to the purchasers that they are near the edge of the cap.”
said to be in aceord with Dr. I-oWi-ll's
receiving what they are paying for.
The bill does not prohibit any one theory, that the melting of snow at
from using other boxes or from mak the Martian pole produces floods that,
ing imperfect packs, but In such cases sweeping south, are responsible for
they cannot label them as ’standard.' ” color changes in the “canals.”
Portland—Who want« farm hands?
Who has farms to rent?
Thomas Withy combe, a brother of
Dr. James Witbyccmbe, late head of
the bureau of animal husbandry at tbe
Oregon Agricultural college, and Mrs.
A. W. Nicholson, who have interested
themselves in bringing jobless men
and menless jobs together, want to
know.
Mr. Withy com be and Mrs. Nicholson
report that they have plenty of men
for farm work, and plenty of farms
that may be rented on reasonable
terms.
They have succeeded in plac
ing many men in positions, not only
as farm laborers, but as mechanics,
salesmen and In other lines of work.
Mr. Withycombe and Mrs. Nichol
New York—P. A. B. Widener, of
son may be found at Oregon Civic
League offices, 309 Journal building, Philadelphia, it is announced, has ac
or may be communicated with by call quired the famous Morosini helmet,
said to be the flneat specimen of its
ing Main 2869 or East 6262.
kind, for $80,000.
This piece of armor was the star
’ Much Cordwood Cut.
piece of the Sigismond Bardack collec
Airlie — The wood famine which tion, of Paris. It is a product of a
seemed apparent in Polk county last time when the making of armor was
year, will not approach this year, say considered an art of equal importance
It be
the owners of land in wooded districts with painting and sculpture.
in this county. The outlook for good longed to Vlncenoz Morosini, one of
prices has caused hundreds of cords of the most celebrated Venetian patri
oak wood to be cut in the hills around cians of the sixteenth century.
Ancient Relic of War
Is Bought for $80,000
this place.
The price paid for cut
Auto Tax Helps Roads.
ting was $1.25 and all who were wil
Sacramento — Five-sixths of the
ling found employment in this work.
It is expected that there will again be money retained by the state from col
a demand for fir wood, and especially
lections under the new motor vehicle
for ash, which ia valued at about
law will go to the state highway com
$5.50 a cord.
mission for the maintenance of roads
built under the $18,000,000 bond Issue,
Carloads of Poles Received.
and the remaining one-sixth will be
Eugene — Seven carloads of cedar spent for the upkeep of the old state
poles for the Western Union telegraph highways. Under the law, which, it
line along the Willamette-Paciflc rail ia estimated, will produce an annual
road from Eugene to Coos Bay have revenue of $1,250,000, 50 per cent ia
arrived in Eugene and are being un retained by the atate and -the remain
loaded and sorted.
General Foreman der is paid into county road funds from
Mendenhall, of Seattle, is directing which the collections are made.
the work, and expects to have crews
busy soon preparing to set the poles.
New Coast Guard Wins.
Washington, D. C.—Favorable re
Federal Building Authorized.
port on Senator Townsend’s bill to
The Dalles—That construction work combine the lifesaving service and the
on the Federal building for The Dalles revenue cutter service into a Coast
will be commenced this summer, has guard service was agreed on by the
been definitely announced by Repre senate commerce
committee.
The
sentative Sinnott in a communication new guard would constitute a part of
to Postmaster Williams. The Renais the military forces of the country,
sance style of architecture has been operating under the Treasury depart
adopted. The building will front on ment in peace and as part of the navy
Second street.
in war.
French Coal Strike Ends.
Paris—At a meeting of the National
Council of Miners’ Unions it was de
cided to call off the strike of coal min
ers begun in the southern coal fields
February 24.
The National Council
requested the orgsnizations to have
their men resume work.
The strike
was called as a protest agsinst the
elimination by tbe senate of certain
clauses of the underground workers'
pension will.
Forty thousand men
struck.
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Stanford Salariea Go Up.
Stanford University, Cal.— Salary
increases amounting to $62,000 an
nually, It is announced, are to be dis
tributed among 225 members of tbe
teaching force of Stanford University,
and most of it will go to the men upon
whom falls the drudgery and burden
of collegiate work.
This advance ie
made, Preaident John Casper Branner
said, in order that these men and their
wives may maintain at least a suitable
standard of living.
Wireless Explodea Mine.
Madrid—Iglcslan Blanco, an engi
neer, made a successful experiment
with an ultra violet ray apparatus,
similar to that used by Guillo Ulive,
exploding a case of dynamite burled
in the ground, at a distance of .half a
mile. Blanco says he can explode the
magazines of warships or the gasoline
tanks of aeroplanes and dirigible bal
loons.
Bomb Explodea In Church.
Ixtndon—A bomb was exploded Sun
day night In St. Johns church, West
minster, half an hour after the service
had ended and tbe congregation de
parted. The explosion, which is at
tributed to suffragettes, caused con
siderable damage.