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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1914)
Hopgrowers of Oregon , Meet for Organization NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT ' Salem Having as ita purpose the I safeguarding of the interests of ita members, tho Oregon Hopgrower»' association was organized here one day this week at a meeting of about 126 growers. Ills planned for dele- gatea from thia and similar associa tions organized in Washington and Every county in the state of Oregon California to meet here the latter part liss voto<i|"dry." of November and organize the Pacific Woman suffrage ia believed to have Coast association, with which the state ' associations will become affiliated won in Montana and Nevada. ' members. There Is a technical point raised According to a resolution which was | against prohibition in Arizona. Resume of World’s Imjxirtant Events Told in Brief. Emperor* Nicholas has arrived army headquarters at the front. at London is again promised a raid by German Zeppelins some time this month. adopter), the association contemplates making an arrangement which will put an end to the contracting of hops and give to the grower the treat prices. It will arrange to advance sufficient money to growers who have not the necessary capital for cultivating and harvesting of crops. Another resolu tion which was adopted urges all grow ers to hold their hops of the present year until the xrrganiztlon of tho Coast association is completed. It Is be- lleved that by doing so better prices than now prevail will Ire received. Penitentiary Chaplain Aids Convicts’ Folks Admiral Cradock's ship la believed Salem- In his biennial report to B. sunk In tho engagement with the Ger K. Lawson, su;>erintondent, W. G. Mac- mane off the coast of Chile. Laron, chaplain of the state peniten- The Russian army marches 80 hours liary, says his greatest work is attend in deep snow in mountains, and It ia ing to the want* of relatives of con vict» and not to the spiritual welfare claimed its front is 100 miles long. of tbe priwiers. A Marroni wireless dispatch from He says his first meeting with a Berlin says that in Egypt the English prisoner ia the moat important one. have abandoned the Arabian frontier He then obtains a statement from the and withdrawn across the Sues canal. convict concerning those de;>endent on A dispatch to the Amsterdam Tele- him, and when help is needed does ' graaf says Prince Joachim Albrecht, what he can to give it. "Preaching to the prisoner is not to of Prussia, son of tho late regent of been wounded in be compared to attending to the wants ' Brunswick, has of those sinned against," says the re- France. port. "1 encourage the prisoner to According to the Lindon Dally commence at once to prepare himself Mail's Rotterdam correa|>ondent the to face the battle of life, stronger and inhabitants of Ostend have been or better able, morally and spiritually. 1 dered to take to their cellars with five da)a* provisions. Halt Million Dollar than before they came behind the pris on walls. 1 am pleased to be able to report that man) are making good. “1 am convinced that in some cases men are sent to the prison who are not guilty of the charge of which they are convicted, and sometimes pleas of guilt are obtained from them which they do not understand. Promisee are made by officials which are not kept, and in some cases the man who ia most guilty ia allowed to escape, while lhe leas guilty is sent to prison. In moot instances men are willing to admit the justice of their sentence and are eager to make good. Some desire no friend ship with the chaplain, but nearly all welcome a friendly visit and are anx ious to get the secret of how to live a better life.” Railroads Enter Proteat Fog was responsible for the loss of Against Valuation of Line» limber Deal Is Made the German cruiser Yorck, which struck a mine in Jade bay, an inlet of S'iiem Opposing the tentative val Portland — Timber sale records for til.- North s.-a, November 4. Thia several months past were broken when uations of the railroads for taxable statement is made by Berlin papers. J. O. Elrod, a Portland capitalist, an purposes made by the commission and Lieutenant Murray lost his life in an nounced that he had paid A. H. Hink urging that the valuations be-lower aeroplane accident at the English avi ation school at Avon. It is believed he son, of Eugene, between $400,000 and than last year because of a general miscalculated tho distance while land $500,000 for nearly 8000 acres of yel falling off in business, representatives ing, after making a flight over Rushall low and red fir timber in the Smith of the O.-W. R. 4 N., the Southern Down. Pacific, the Northern Pacific, and other River district of Douglas county. The British mine sweeper Mary was A large part of the consideration railroads ap|>eared before the State sunk by a mine In the North sea. Six was cash, to be ys.id If. substantial in Tes commission Friday. of the crew of 14 were rescued. The A. C. Spencer, general counsel; J. survivors, who wore landed at Lowes stallments and securities. Mr. Hink toft, reported heavy gun firing off the son accepted income-bearing Portland W. Morrow, tax and right-of-way agent, and R. B. Hallock, assistant Yorkshire coast. property as part payment. Mr. Elrod tax and right-of-way agent, repre- also is heavily interested in timber in «„ted the "o.-W. R. & N.";’ WilTiam Two German officers and two men of the crew of the German cruiser Geier, Tillamook county. M. Colvig, tax and right-of-way agent, now at Honolulu, who have boon held “I shall develop the Douglas county and J. Lathrop, assistant tax and for some time al San Francisco, will timber probably next year,” said Mr. right-of-way agent, the Southern Pa be paroled, but must remain in the cific, and Charles A. Murray, tax and United States until the end of the Elrod. "Smith river ia a good logging right-of-way agent, the Northern Pa stream and in not far removed from cific. war. That country is destined The railway officials said they were Wireless dispatches from Berlin say Coo. bay. to be a lumber market in the near fu favorable to fair valuations, but did that Shanghai newspapers re;>ort the ture and it is therefore bound to be a not think they should be made as high German artillery fire Is systematically as l-ut year, because property in gen destroying the entrenched po.ltkr'S oc good log ma'ket. "My presoit plan is to log it down eral was not In as great demand. Be cupied by ths Japanese around Tslng Tau. Tho Japanese have poatpenud to tho mills on Winchester bay, where cause of the business depression, they the Porter Brothers are building a new said, the railroad returns had decreased indefinitely thsir attacks. The waters ________ ____________________________ which should be taken into around Tsing Tau are sown with mines. mill. The new railroad being built materially, from Eugene will pierce that section, consideration by the commission in A wireless dispatch from Berlin to M v judgme it Is that the lumber mar- ’ fixing valuations. Representatives of Vienna officially reports that in Rus ket is now at ita lowest ebb and that several other railroads will be heard at sian Poland tho Austrians captured it will improve steadily from this time B meeting early next week, over 2000 prisoners, including 20 offi forward." I -------------- cers. On the Galician front 500 Rus Premiums Brought by sians surrendered. During the opera Railroad Makes Report tions against Servia 77 officers and 650 Interstate Bridge Bonds On Income and Profit men were taken at Roumania, a. well Portland—Bids for interstate bridge as much war material. Salem—In a report to the State Rail-' bonds were so advantageous when Ixtndon — The Alexandria, Egypt, road commission, the Northern Pacific, opened by the bonding committee this correspondent of the Exchange Tele Terminal company, controlled by the;week lhat lhe membe" expressed sur- graph company sends the following ra o M ■ prise. Or 16 bids submitted, seven for tfce above dispatch: "A German officer named Oregon-Washington Ra.lroad 4 Navi- gallon company, the Southern Pacific p, r The firet block of Mora was arrested by the Egyptian po lice on hie return from Turkey with and the Northern Pacific Railway com- ing to $250,000, was awarded on a plans for dynamiting the Sues canal. pany. as stockholders, values ita capi-! joint bid of $253,375 by Morris Bros., He was sentenced by courtmartial to tai stock outstanding and pledged as l’f Portland, and the Harris Trust 4 imprisonment for life?' Savings Bank, of Chicago. This was collateral at $3.000,000. The com- the highe,t tendvr Tbe quoUtjon jt A Berlin report says British cruisers pany owns in Portland 22.27 miles of $101.35. sunk a Greek torpedo boat, mistaking line, operates under contract 3.02 j Much gratification was expressed by her for a Turkish vessel. miles and under trackage rights 1.3 ’’’embers of the committee because of Emperor Nicholas, has gone to the .. I the active bidding. Chairman Holman front again, accompanied by General ... _ , .. said the confidence shown in the se- Oth.r feature.of the report follow: ^Hti« evidently indicate. that when Soukhomlinoff, minister of war. "Funded debt, total par value au-, j The president of France bestows the thorized, $5,000,000; outstanding, $3,- the next block of bonds is offered in .. about six months, there will be no cross of an officer of tho Legion of 161,000; interest rate, f - iind^nd naid ‘iifficulty in disposing of them at a Honor upon nineteen British officers. amount of interest accrued and paid good rate. The Rome correspondent of the Ex during the year, $191,010. Commissioner Lightner expressed "Cost of road and equipment, $4,- change Telegraph company says Servia the belief that the most important has severed diplomatic relations with 269,096.16; less reserve for accrued phase of the matter is that as the depreciation, $27,017.74; net total. Turkey. bonds are to be delivered within 20 $4,242,078.42. days, the bridge construction can be A Rome dispatch to the London Star ‘.'Income from lease of road, $80,000; states that a royal decree prohibits joint facility rent income, $226,850.52; commenced soon and the work prose cuted without any delay. the exportation of rice, rye and pota miscellaneous rent income, $3600; toes to Germany and Austria. taxes, $117,927.58; gross income, Warrenton lake» Havel. $192,522.99.” The London Star publishes a dis- Warrenton — At a special election patch from ita Petrograd correspond- held here the district adjoining War Jefferson County Forms. ent dated Nov. 3 in which he says that renton, which includes Flavel, voted the Russians are now securely estab Prineville — The Deschutes County 55 for and 24 against being annexed to lished inside the East Prussian fron measure lost by a narrow margin in the city of Warrenton, and the voters tier. both the old ami new counties and Jef of Warrenton cast 83 votes for and one The imperial government of Eng ferson county is created with a hun against annexing this territory. These To create Jefferson elections were the outcome of a move land has consented to assist Australia dred to spare. with a loan of £20.000,000 ($100,000,- county from old Crook county required ment started last year to muster suffi 000). Thia sum will be advanced in a 65 per cent vote in the proposed new cient assessed valuation to enable War two installments of £10,000,000 each, county and a 85 per cent vote in the renton to sell $150,000 water bonds for remaining part of the county. The a water system from the Lewis and repayable in five years. vote was 1040 for 820 against, which Clark river, a distance of 16 miles, to Norway has formally asked the exceeds the percentage required by the Hill terminals at Flavel through United States to take the Norwegian law. The vote in the remainder of the Hammond and to Fort Stevens, and for It is proposed consulate at Batoum, Rusi ia, on the county runs close to 48 per cent. The other improvements. Black sea. The Norwegian consul has new county takes its name, Jefferson, also to furnish water to Delania, Sun placed the archives in the hands of the from the mountain peak on the west set, Qel Rey, Gearhart, Seaside and ern boundary of the district. Clatsop. American consul and left. It is officially declared in Berlin that the stock of gold in the Imperial Bank continues . to grow. The last weekly report shows an increase of 30,000,0(81 marks ($7.500,000), and a total supply of 1,858,000,000 marks, ($464,500,000), A wireless from Berlin says a Dan ish physician named Thorson, after a visit to the German lines, praises the organization of the German ambulance corps. The Germans, ho declares, do not make any difference between their own wounded an<l the wounded of the enemy. Wheat Prices Soaring. Telephone» to Coat More. Portland—A bid of $1.12 for 100,000 bushels of club wheat was made at a noon session of the Merchants’ Ex change this week. Five thousand bushels of club sold at $1.14 and for December delivery there were offer ings at $1.14. The sale of 5000 bush els of December bluestem at $1.20 was another indication of the strength of the market. For May bluestem $1.25 was bid and $1.28 was asked. Five thousand bushels of December fife went at $1. There was not much buy ing under way in the country. Salem — Permission to increase its rates so its net revenues may be be tween 7 and 8 per cent was granted the Interurban Telephone company, of Silverton, by the State Railroad com mission. The commission found the actual value of the plant to be $17,702, and reproduction cost to be $25,231. Its operating expenses for 1913 were $4,938.78 and net revenue $2,561.63. New rates authorized by the commis sion are as follows: Business tele phones, one party, monthly, $2.25; two-party, $2; four-party, $1.75. INTO RAiiLER’S EYES Plain, Tailored Utility Coats LOOKED WHILE CLINGING TO LADDER IN MINE. Why Reptile Refrained From Strik- Ing Is Something of a Mystery, Though Its Precarious Posi tion May Explain IL There la a saying down on the broad Mojave desert, where the burning sands copceal many dangers, that no true son of the greasewood wastes will pass up a rattler Htrong as is the lure of gold which so irresistibly holds the prospector on his search, them la none who will not stop an hour or half a day to kill the deadly foe of the gold hunter. Them is a story which will bear telling and it Is comparatively new It happened In San Bernardiuv coun ty. The man to whom the experience camo Is noted the desert over for his truthfulness. He has been bitten twice. His name is George Branch. Quiet, unassuming, with a laugh at what he termed a Joke on the snake, he told the story on a recent trip to San Fran cisco: "I was hiking along with Jack and Jennie and Joe, my three burros, when I ran across an outcropping that looked good and In a country 1 knew was among the best there la on the desert. So we four struck camp right there and I began sinking a shaft to get a look at the Inside. "I had little timber, but managed to get enough over to the workings to put down a good ladder and keep the shaft open . The grub ran short and 1 had to hit the trail back for more It took about a week When 1 returned I started down In the mine to do a half day shift, hitting into camp a little before noon, 1 wasn't paying much attention to anything except get ting down the ladder My candle shed a pretty small light for all the dark ness at the bottom of the hole. "I was passing the last set of tim bers and when they were opposite my shoulder 1 flashed my candle to the left to see if there was any sign of settling Just as 1 was turning around u> raps on tne other side 1 beard about three Inches from my ear. ths buzz of a rattler. "It sounded more like a bell rattle than I ever heard them before. It was so close It almost scared me Into los ing my grip on the ladder. In the half second I stayed there I saw ev ery scale on the snake and his wicked little eyes and his fangs and darting tongue Maybe it was the light of the candle that confronted him and may be it was something else that kept him from striking. But all that lad would have had to do was to reach out a couple of inches co get me on tbe cheek and I would have had no chance to stop tbe poison from doing ita work. “I asked a college professor after ward Just how he thought I did It. I don't remember But In about two skips of a flea I was out on the sur face and listening to the rattler buzz away down In the shaft. Tbe pro fessor said there was something that always made a man In an emergency do Just the right thing. "I got a stick and poked him off the timber and killed him by dropping rocks Into the shaft. He was four feet long and had sixteen rattles. He had slid down the Incline of the shaft and rolled on a four-inch beam. I think he was afraid of falling or be would have struck." HE long, protecting "rain or shine” coats are cut with a flaring skirt set coat, made to meet the exlgenciee onto a shorter bodice In the style of of travel or life in the out-of-doors, is the Russian coat. Others, of heavier cut on simple lines. fabrics, are cut double-breasted, in One of the most practical of these long walsted designs having an invert coats is pictured here It hangs ed plait at each side to gtve a slight straight on the figure The needed flare to the skirt part. In these th. fullness at the bust line is provided sleeve, are large and straight with tor by two small plaits on each shoul- j turnback cuff.. Turnover collars that der This is taken up from the swell ' may be brought up snugly and tight of the bust <fiwn in a stitched in plait ly about tbe neck make thia a warmer at each side of the front, the plaits garment than openthroated modela. extending below the normal waist This is best for the automobile. line for at least six Inches. One of tbe most modish of coats The coat is open at the throat, but ' belongs in tbe redlngote class. It is without revers The neck Is finished constructed with an easy-fitting long- with a small sailor coll. - and the sleeved jacket to which a plaited sleeves with turnback cuf.s. Bone skirt is set on. This terminate, at buttons are used for fastening and as each side three Inches, or a little a decorative feature on the cuffs more, from the front of the Jack.L to Coats of this kind are made with which It la attached under a belt of skirts to match. The latter, severely folded satin. There I. a rolling collar plain and straight, are worn with of velvet and narrow cuff, of it, both blouses of thin wash silk, pongee or finished with a silk braid. The Jacket sheer wash fabrics. These coats and Is fastened with large barrelehaped skirts require firmly woven rainproof buttons at Ue front. When a skirt goods In quiet staple colors. Either I to match any of the«o vliity coats ia can be worn without the other, and '■ needed It 1. cut in th. straight-line the coat is designed to do duty wher style and the requisite fullness given ever a separate coat is needed. with inverted plaits. In some of the new models these JULIA BOTTOMLEY. T Small Girl’s Outfit for Cold Weather Slip of the Key. When Frank Mandel first submit ted the manuscript of his play. "The High Cost of Loving." to A. H. Woods. It was entitled “The High Cost of Living." It did not take the theatri cal manager long to discover that "The High Cost of Living" was well worth the price, He saw I.ew Ficli-J in the star role, and as the plot un- folded he saw greater possibilities and within a few minutes after he had read the last page be was dfetat- Ing a letter of acceptance. Perhaps Mr Woods was still laughing over the hinny situations when he was dictat ing that letter. It may have beep that the letter "o” is next to “1” on the typewriter keyboard, but be that as it may. when the manager came to sign the epistle his quick gaze detect ed the fact that the title of the play "High Cost of Living" was changed to "High Cost of Loving." It seemed like an inspiration, for no title could have been more appropriate, and tlen and there the new play was christened "Tho High Cost of Loving." The Electric Era. This Is the electric era. Back In the centuries that are past we had the stone age, the Ice age, etc., but the electrical age Is purely the utilization of natural forces by the genius of man In the 25 years last past probably greater progress has been made In electrical power development than in any other sphere of human activity. This has been done by scientific con version of power represented in the flow of water to an invisible current to almost everything that required power, light or heat. Twenty-five years ago there were no trolley cars, no street cars propelled by electricity. This silent but potent force was known, but little used. In a quarter of a century It has come Into general nee. Naturally, the first development of electric power was at the source of tho greatest quantity of power any where to be found on earth, the Falls of Niagara.—"Harnessing Niagara and Tunneling Catgkllls," by Edward T. Williams, in National Magazine, HOPPING for the requirements of the little girl develops the knowl edge that she may be provided with almost as many dress accessories as are designed for her mother. In anticipation of wintry weather the little meld in the picture is about to be outfitted with warm clothing In which she may defy the cold for one thing and look pretty and well cared tor, for another. In outside garments she is first sup plied with a heavy, close-knitted sweatercoat. It is finished with turn back collar and cufts and a knitted belt and Is almost as warm as fur. The color Is a rich red, about the best choice and the most pleasing to the lit tle wearer. The collar may be rolled ap about the neck and the cuffs brought well down over the hands to protect the wrists. For daily wear this Is the Ideal garment. The little Scotch cap to be worn S with this or any other coat is of black and red velvet bound and trimmed with black silk braid. The crown la a long puff of black velvet, and the bands about it at each side are of red lined with black and finished with a binding of black silk braid. These bands are extended at the back, where they are cut into two tabs which are turned down and fall over the hair. At the front the bands are also turned back and the points tacked down. Small bows of the black silk braid used In the binding are placed at the middle of the front and back. Knitted caps or hoods for school and for outdoor play and mittens to take the place of the mutt, are to be provided Freedom to play keeps an active child warm in ordinary cold weather without the fur sets which are not expected to stand a great deal of hard service. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. ,