OREGON NEWS OE GENERAI INEERESE Highway Paving Tangle Settled. Salem Informed that the Columbia County court and the Consolidated Con­ struction company has reached an agreement that the company be paid (65,000 for work on Columbia High­ way, the State Highway commission Have the county permiaaion to reduce Ita appropriation for roads this year from 140,000 to 135,000, Henry L. How I by, when state high­ way engineer, estimated the amount due tho Company at (54,500, so various statements that tho |>rue|MK!tive settle­ ment would I m ) a vindication of that official aro proved to have been ground­ less by the county allowing the com­ pany (10,500 more than he recommend­ ed be [mid. The commission’s reason for permit­ ting the county to reduce ita appropri­ ation (5000 was that it had reduced tho state appropriation of (00,000 rec­ ommended by Major Bowlby to (50,- 000, tho county appropriation having boon made on the belief that it would lie allowed the amount recommended by the engineer from the state. While the commission at numerous hearings declared that it was not with­ in Its jurisdiction to settle tho differ­ ences between tho county and the com- pany, sufficient evidence was produced to show that the company probably was entitled to more money than the engineer recommended bo paid. The company, however, declined to state tho amount it desired, contending that it was the duty of the highway depart­ ment to have the work rechecked and correct the figures. This tho commis­ sion said it could not authorize, al­ though there was a partial rechecking by a private ongineor, who re|>orted that the company was entitled to sev­ eral thousand more than Major Bowlby estimated. Commission Aides Named. Salem — State Insurance Commis­ sioner Wells announces that James I*. Moffett, of Portland, chairman of the committee on ffro insurance on the Code comrniaaion appointed by Gover­ nor Withycombe, had named tho fol­ lowing to act with him in preparing a fire insurance bill for submission to the next legislature. F. E. Beach, repraenting the Ore­ gon domestic fire insurance companies; John H. Burgard, representing the general agencies in Oregon; Harvey O’Bryan, representing the Salem salesmen agencies; W. A. Williams, representing Eastern insurance com­ panies; Cheater Dearing, representing sftecial agents, and J. C. Vcazie, who will be the attorney for the commit­ tee. A meeting of the committee will be called in a few days to consider a standard policy form, rates and the suggestion for a state Are marshal. Boat to Coquille Planned. Marshfield -John R. McGee, owner of the Riverton coal mine on the Co­ quille river, has asked merchants on the Cequille river to guarantee him freight shipments coming out of Port­ land and promises to charter a 300-ton vessel to ply between Portland and the Coquille river. Mr. Met lee recent­ ly returned from Portland, where he se­ cured contracts with coal dealers to hataile 200 tons of coal weekly and re­ ceived assurances from the Portland Chamber of Commerce of 200 tons of freight for each return trip, providing merchants on the Coquille favored the new service. It is Mr. Mi-Gill’s intention to give weekly service between Riverton and Portland and if a market can be se­ cured for 300 tons of coal each week, the northbound trips would be capacity cargoes. Suit Aimed at Bond Sale. Roseburg — A suit was filed in the Circuit court here to teat the validity of the railroad bonding election held in Roseburg recently. The plaintiff is Harry Pearce, president of the Rose­ burg Commercial club, and the object stated is to restrain the mayor and re­ corder from issuing or selling the said bonds. The complaint is lengthy and covers in detail the legal procedure leading up to the bond election. Mr. Pearce is a liooster for the railroad and the suit is a friendly one to determine the validity of the procedure. Two Counties to Build Road. Tillamook — Tho County courts of Yamhill ami Tillamook counties, ata session in this city, decided to form a joint road district to build the Sour Grass route, each county appropriating (10,000. It is the intention of the County courts to call for bids at once, and it is estimated that the road can be built and planked in 60 days for (20,000. ________ Salmon Outlook Good. Astoria — General Manager Barker, of the Columbia River Packers’ asso­ ciation, received a wireless message from Chignik Bay, Alaska, stating that everyone connected with the asso­ ciation’s cannery there is in the beat of health. The message also stated that preparations are being made to begin packing fish and the outlook for the season is good. Boston Gets Wool Clip. Echo — A large sale of wool was made here recently, 125,000 pounds of 1915 clip going at a private sale. The price was not made public. The wool was sold by Antone Vey ami Joseph Moneee, and was bought by Crimmins & Pierce, of Boston, Maas. It is now being baled for shipment. Growing Filberts in Oregon. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS REVOLUTION IN REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL Portland — Wheat: Bluestem, 95c; forty-fold, 94c; club, 96c; rod Fife, 90c; red Russian, 85c. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, (270/ 27.50 ton; shorts, (286/28.50; rolled barley, (25.506(26.50. Corn*- Whole, (36 ton; cracked, (37. Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, (15 6416; valley timothy, (12 64 12.50; grain hay, (106412; alfalfa, (12.500/, 13.50. Vegetables —Cucumbers, Oregon, 40 (rt;7bc dozen; artichokes, 75c; toma­ toes, (5 crate; cabbage, 1 J6/.2Jc pound; celery, (3.50 crate; head lettuce, (16/j 1.15; spinach, 5c pound; rhubarb, 164 2c; [teas, 4646c; beans, 5647c; cauli­ flower, (1.25 crate; carrots, (14(1.50 sack; beets, (1.50; turnips, (1.35. Eggs — Fresli Oregon ranch, case count, 1844181c dozen; candled, 2044 21c. Poultry — Hens, 12c; broilers, 1864 24c; turkeys, dressed, 226424c; live, 164418c; ducks, old, 96410c; geese, 8 4(9c. Butter — Creamery, prints, extras, 27|c pound; cubes, 21i6423eriment station farms at Corvallis is quite sat­ isfactory up to this time and promising for the future, although nothing defi­ nite regarding the success of the in­ dustry umier Oregon conditions can be published now. “For the past two years,” says Pro­ fessor Lewis, ’’three of the six-year- old trees on the station grounds have borne at the rate of 1,000 pounds of nuts | the varieties beingwHar celona, DuChilly ami d’Alger. Other varieties which are being tried out are Daviana, Kentihxm Cob, Cob Filbert, White Aveline, Red Aveline, Purple Aveline, Crosse Blanche, Montebello, Nottingham, and Hall das Geantes. Some of the varieties bore a few nuts the second season from planting, and all of them bore some the third season, although it was not until the fourth year that anything like a commercial crop was harvested from any of the varieties. “There are two possible drawbacks to filbert culture. One is the squirrels. If one is planting the nuts, he will have to watch the squirrels closely in the fall or it will not be necessary to hire help to harvest the crop. The second |>ossible drawback is the blight, a disease that was said to be serious in years [>ast. The plant pathologists at this station are working on this dis­ ease at the present time and seem to feel somewhat encouraged. The filbert is a nut which will sell readily and probably will be very profitable. One will simply have to run the chance of blight for the time being, and can probably guard against the squirrels by taking a few precautions. “The propagation of filberts by nuts is not recommended; the seedlings show too wide a rang of variation to Oregon Exhibit Wins First Prize. warrant thia practice. The beat plan San FranciBco — The Oregon horti­ is to obtain one-year old or two-year old trees from a nursery. Any one of cultural exhibit, C. N. Ravlin, of Hood the leading nursery firms of the North­ River, chief, has received the gold west can probably furnish all the com­ medal in close competition with Wash­ mon varieties of filberts. ington, Idaho and California and East­ “The filbert is usually propagated ern states and foreign nations. by means of hard wood cuttings. Cut­ The jury on awards was composed of tings from six to eight inches are made late in September or early in famous horticulturists from The Neth­ October, tied in bunches of twenty- erlands, Japan, California and the five to fifty, and packed in moist sand East. A tremendous triumph for the or sawdust, where they remain during the winter. By spring the lower ends state. Oregon spent on her exhibit will usually be calloused over, ami . (2500; Washington, (7500, and Cali­ when the grouml is still damp they are fornia a much larger sum. Success of lined out in the nursery row, and the 1 Oregon is due to her exhibit being top of the cutting coming at about the purely horticltural in character, every surface of the ground. “During the winter the cuttings item being practical for horticultural should not be in a placed where water purposes. collects or where it is too wet, but There is tremendous enthusiasm simply kept moist and cool. Of course, among Oregonians here over Oregon’s the cuttings are made of last season’s first big capture, horticulturally, from growth, just as the cuttings of grapes, California. _____ currants or gooseberries. In fact, both the method of making the cut­ Northwest Hops on Steamer Inkum. tings ami treatment which the filbert There were 4306 bales of Pacific should receive iB practically identical Coast hops on the British steamer In­ with that employed for these other kum, which was struck by a German fruits. “Filberts may be planted from ten submarine’s torpedo off the coast of to fifteen feet apart.” England Friday morning. Eight hun­ dred bales of the cargo consisted of Newberg Wins $50,000. Oregon hops, 1000 bales of Washing­ Newberg — The members of the ton hops, and there were 2300 bales Friends’ denomination here are occu­ pied this week with the yearly meet­ from California. The shippers of Ore­ ing of Friends, with a large atten­ gon hops were James Pincus, of Ta­ dance from Oregon, Idaho and Wash­ coma, who had 404 bales on board the ington. It was announced early in the ill-fated steamer; H. L. Hart, of Port­ session that the fund for Newberg Col­ lege, to which James J. Hill promised land, had 206 bales, and Louis Lach- (50,000, had reached the required mund, of Salem, 190 bales. amount to make Mr. Hill's gift a cer­ The loss of these hops has as yet had tainty. He promised the donation on no effect on the market at this end. condition that the remainder of a Cable offers have been made to Eng­ (100,000 endowment be raised. lish dealers to replace the quantities One of the prominent speakers at that went down, but the offers met the meeting of Friends is B. Willey with no response. The losses fall on Beede, of the Kennedy School of Mis­ the English importers. sions, of Hartford, Conn., Theological School, who has made daily addresses Sara Mill on Full Force. on the subject of missions maintained Ridgefield, Wash.—The sawmill be­ by the Friends in many parts of the longing to the Allen & Ryan Lumber country. At a special temperance meeting an address was made by Rev. company at Sara, about six miles Charles M. Lascault, of Haviland, southeast of Ridgefield, is running full Kan. force and has orders that will require The subjects calling for general dis­ until fall to fill. They may continue cussion thus far have been "Evange­ to operate during the winter. This listic and Church Extension Work,” Literature,” "Temperance,” "Edu­ mill, although not a large one, employs cation” and "Systematic Giving.” about 20 men and about 16 in the log­ The exercises have been interspersed ging camp near by. with vocal and instrumental music. The logging railroad, over which shipments are sent from the mill at Oregon Beats All at Fair. San Francisco — Oregon has set a Sara to Knapps Station on the main line of the Northern Pacific railroad record in the number of prizes and the for their destination, employs a num­ state and its individual exhibitors have ber of men. Enough timber is avail­ carried off at the Panama-Pacific Ex- able close by to keep them running for [•osition. Most of them have been in about two years. The capacity of this the departments of horitculture and mill is about 30,000 feet every 10 agriculture. hours. In both of these fields the state has won a grand prize. In addition to Boston Orders Loganberries. these, individual exhibitors have been Eugene — An order from Boston for awarded three medals of honor, 23 gold medals, 69 silver medals and 89 20,000 pounds of dried loganberries is bronze medals. Among the awards announced by J. O. Holt, of the Eu­ gene Fruit Growers’ association. The was the grand prize for forage. one order is nearly as large as the total Geology Professor to Begin Survey. loganberry output of the Eugene drier University of Oregon, Eugene—Gra­ last year. The price is favorable, ham J. Mitchell, assistant professor of though not made public. An increased geology at the university, has gone to demand is expected this year for the Curry county, where he will pass three loganberry juice, a beverage intro­ months surveying and mapping the duced by the Eugene association last mineral resources of a hitherto unsur­ year. The plans of the Commercial veyed tract in the southwest corner of club are to present the passing Shriner excursionists in July with samples. the state. CHINESE COMMERCIAL MEN IN AMERICA Eighteen leaders in commercial life in China are now touring the United States and are being entertained lavishly wherever they stop. The photograph shows CoTector of the Port Davis at San Francisco extending greet­ ings on behalf of President Wilson to Chang Chen Hsun. chairman of the party. ALFRED VANDERBILT’S SON ITALIAN GENERALS GETTING READY Generals dl Mayo and Peruchette of the Italian army inspecting an avia­ tion station on the Austrian frontier. Little Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, Jr., whose father was one of the vic­ tims of the Lusitania disaster, will share in the fortune of between (50,- 000.000 and (70,000,000 left by his par­ ent. The lad's mother was Miss Mar­ garet Emerson of Baltimore. He is not yet three years old. JAPAN AFTER GERMAN TOY TRADE Cottonseed Meal a Good Food. Cottonseed meal as a human food is being urged by Dr. G. 8. FTaps, state chemist and chemist to the experiment station at the agricultural and me­ chanical oollege. Cottonseed meal is urged as a substitute, not for flour, but for meat, providing the same elements necessary for the proper support and development of the human system as does meat. "Cottonseed meal flour Is now be­ ing used extensively in Texas, and in view of the high price of meat and the general financial condition of the people of the state, this flour should come into a much wider use.” says Doctor P'raps. "It Is palatable, and if eaten In the proper ration, makes an excellent substitute for meat.” From John Smith’s Diary. Noteing thatte eache sbyppe brot toe our shores nothunge butte menne. we resolved toe brynge over some suitable wyves from England, thatte ye new nation mlghte notte be a itagge nation. Ye expense for these wyves we decided to lette ye husband provyde accordinge to hys substance, Iherobye making Itte a doenation.— Judge. Japanese manufacturers are making a determined effort to obtain as much as possible of the trade formerly held by Germany. Some time ago the government made a display of German toys that sold well In America, and the Japanese have turned their attention to duplicating these articles. The picture shows a Tokyo toymaker manufacturing dolls for the American market