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F A T A L F IR E O N S H IP . Long Island S te a m er Burns and Nine Lives are Lost. O b je c t o f C lu b T h a t H a t O rgan ized Recontly at Albany. Albuny.—Tom Hlchardaon, of the Portland Commercial Club, delivered an IntereMtliiK and lnatructlvo uddreaa before Albany'« buMlnoHa men In the Grand Opera house. Mr. Hlchardaon displayed a thorough knowledge of mothoda of municipal and «tnte (level opmeut, and gave u lucid explanation of (he eHMnntlula of success In a com mercial organization, and the address wua productive o f reaulta. At the cloae of bla talk Mr. Richard Mon took charge of the organization of a local commercial body for the devel opment of Albany and Linn county. A number o f peoplo pledged $5 per month for the aupport of a puah club, other« «m ailer «urn«, and a committee of bunlnew« men waa appointed by Mayor Davis to take charge of the or ganization work and «ecure a member ship «utttclently large to e«tfibll»b the club on u good financial ba«l«. It 1« the purpoao of the organization to advertl«e the county anil place men In the field to work for the develop ment of Linn county'« groat resource«. It was unanimously decided to join the Oregon Development League and co operate with that laxly In the develop ment o f Oregon. The organization committee w ai authorized to find a name for the club and nominate offl cers, the nomination« to be ratified at the next meeting, when organization will bo perfected. Mr. Itlchardson wa« given an In formal reception at the Alco Club at the adjournment o f the meeting. ) ) ) * • . j- P N ew Industry O pened in Pendleton by F o rm e r Eugene M an. Pendleton.— A. C. Ruby, formerly of Eugene, Ore., has purchased the Ore gon feed yard o f this city, and pro pose« to maintain u distributing depot for Imported h or«««. He has at his es tablishment 27 horses and six Jack asses. The horses are Pcrcherons, French draft, Belgian shire uud coach stallion«. Every hor«e was selected by him In Europe and shipped to this country from Germany and France. The animals are of the gentlest dispo sitions, Mr. Ruby not purchasing any that showed signs of ill temper. The unlmal« will be kept at Pendle ton, and, as the occasion requires, dis tributed over Oregon and Washington. The McLuughlln Bros., o f Cincinnati, proposed to establish a station here, but finally decided upon Ogden. Utah. Mr. Ruby will either purchase resi dence property or build and remove his family to this place, where he will have permanent headquarters. This station means much to eastern Oregon and Washington, not only for the convenience of It, but for the material Improvement that will be made In the horses. Until the last few years little attention to the breeds of horses was given. O f late years prices have Increased until It pays handsome ly to raise a grade of horses that com mand the highest prices in eastern markets. The day of the cuyuse Is past, and the furmers have learned how much more woik can be expected from a horse o f good size than from a small cayuse. Not only are the farmers demanding good horses, but are raising mules. O il S p o ilt W a te r Supply. The Jacks owned by Mr. Ruby are Halem.— Farmers from the Waldo from Missouri, and are much sought K ill« report oil discoveries In the v i after by breeders. cinity o f Pratum. where oil was discov ered by Klee Brother« last spring. T o B ore fo r A rtesian W a te r. Many w ell« have been abandoned be cause the water cannot be used. No Baker City.— Manager Vinson, of effort bus been made to «Ink a deep the Emma mine, six miles cast o f the well for the purpose o f determining city, has closed a contract with C. A. whether oil can be found In paying Fredericks, of Bpokane, to bore for quantities. I<oca| capitalist a arranged water on his property. Mr. Fredericks last fall to sink a well us deep as has the most extensive boring appa might be necessary, provided the farm ratus ever brought to Eastern Oregon, ers would bond their property, agree It having a capacity for bortng 5000 ing to sell their oil on a percentage feet. The contrnct with Mr. Vinson ba«ls. Many farm er« would not agree calls for 2000 feet or less, boring to to this, preferlng to profit by the re cease whenever a sufficient flow of sults o f experiments conducted by water Is encountered. He does not ex others, and as a consequence the well pect water under 500 feet. The work digging enterprise was abandoned. will be commenced at once. Mr. Fred ericks also has a contract to bore for W illam ette Fishway C om pleted . nrteslan hot water for the Hot Springs Ralem.— The new fishway over the Natatorlum Company of this city. The falls at Oregon City ha« been com hot springs of the company are within pleted at a cost o f $2973.50, and En the city limits. ________ gineer J. W. Moffett reported that fact to the Htate Fl*h Commission today. 'F e w e r C a ttle Fed T h a n Usual. T h e engineer expresses his confidence Echo.— F ive hundred head o f rattle that the fishway will make It prac are being fed In the Immediate vicinity ticable for salmon and other flab to of Echo. This Is a small number com aaceiul the W illam ette river. In re pared with what are usually wintered porting the werk at the several fish at this place and Is occasioned by the hatcheries. Master Fish Warden H. O. extremely low prices paid for beef. Van Ihisen says that 6,650,000 Chinook As large herds are herded upon small and 3.646.000 sllverslde egga have been alfalfa fields, the pasturage afforded taken at the South Coos river hatch is enton close, and hay feeding begins ery. while 2,607.000 Chinook and 1,- about the 1st of November. Cattle 000,000 Sllverslde eggs have been raisers nre hoping for higher prices taken at Yaqulna. T h ee« results are the coming season, believing that the conslderod very satisfactory. visitors to the 1905 fair will consume a great amount and bring up prices. Several small shipments have been Im provem ents at H ood R iver. Hood Kiver.— It Is estimated that made already this fall, and the highest price received Is $3.25 per cwt., live the O. R. A N. Co. is expending 110.000 weight. _________ In improvements to the depot grounds Anxious fo r G ood Roads. and track yards at this point. The pas Grants Fas«.— The good roads move senger depot Is being remodeled and -enlarged, and a freight depot and ment has struck Josephine county with warehouse has been erected three greater force this season than ever be blocks west o f the present location. fore, and there Is a more general de Th e facilities for handling freight nt sire to better the highways of the this point have afforded very poor ac county than this section has ever be commodations for the last three years, fore known. Ihirlng the past two and the Improvements now being made months nearly $5000 has been paid out arc a source o f satisfaction to the ship by mining companies and Individual ping Interests. mining men for the Improvement of roads In Josephine county, and as a C laim dum pers Busy. result many of the Camps that were al Grantn P a ss— Claim Jumpers con most completely Isolated during the tinue to do their work In the Sucker winter will be readily reached by wag Creek district. A claim owned by on h e r e a f t e r .________ Sheriff 1-rfrwls, o f this city, has recently C O M IN G E V E N T S . been Jumped, and as the claim Is valued quite highly by the Sheriff-and In1nn,d En'plre Sunday School Insti has had two years' assessment work done upon It, Mr. Lewis Is anything tute, Pendleton, Ore., January 30. but pleased over the usurpation o f his Oregon State Dairymen’s Associa right and bas gone to discuss the mat tion, Portland, December 20-21. ter at close range with the Intruder. Oregon State Horticultural Society, Portland, January 10-11. Phone Line fo r F a rm e rs . National American Woman Suffrage Chemawn.— Chemnwa Is to be the Association. Portland, June 22-28. center o f a rural telephone line, to be Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposi established at once. Fifteen farmers In the vicinity o f Chemawa met last tion, Portland, June 1-Octobor 15. evening at the residence of Frank Sell Land N e a r H e lix . Beatty and formed an Independent Pendleton.— William Kupers and G. rural company. Material has been or dered for the line, and will be here In C. Shroeder, farmers residing near about three weeks. The central office Helix, have disposed o f three quarter sections of land to Joseph Selvers of ■will be established at Chemawa. that locality for $8000 a quarter. Mr. Selling S ug ar Plant S to ck. Kupers, who sold one o f the sections, Milton.— Robert E. Frazier o f this and Shroeder, who sold two, have pur place. Is In Portland selling stock of chased land nei;r Nex Perce, paying the Mexican National Sugar Refining $4500 and $5000 a section. Company, o f which he Is a member. Th e company will dispose of $250,000 Irrig a tio n W o rk . worth o f preferred stock In order to In Milton.— Workmen are building stall a sugar refining plant. The com flumes for the Finis Irrigation ditch, pany Is composed largely of Milton which will water a body o f land near and W alla W alla capitalists. the Hudson Bay section. Many other flumes are being built under the rail M o h a ir S h o w January 19-2 0 . road at different points, and an Im Dallas.— The committee of arrange mense territory hitherto bare will be ments for the Polk County Mohair As put under cultivation next season. sociation appointed to arrange for the fair, has named January 19 and 20 as N O R TH W EST W HEAT M ARKET. the time for holding the fair at Dallas. This Is primarily a goat fair, but poul Portland— Walla Walla, 83c; blue- try and sheep will also be an Interest ing feature o f the show. Entries are stem, 88c; valley, 8 7 ){c . Tacoma— Bluestem, 89c; dub, 86c. open to all Oregon. New York, Dec. 20.— By the burning of the Htarin line steamer, Glen Island, in Long Island sound today, nine lives were lost and property roughly esti mated at $250,000 was destroyed. That more lives were not sacrificed was undoubtedly due to the personal cour age of the off!ere* of the crew and the excellent discipline maintained when a horrible death for all seemed almost a certainty. When the steamer was abandoned she was flame-swept from stem to stern, and yet the only persons who lost their lives were those whose esea|>e had Ix-en entirely cut off by the fire before the alarm reached them. Of the 31 persons, including 10 pas sengers, who sailed away on the Glen Island last night, 22, including eight passengers, were brought back t<slay. The Glen Island left her dock here last night for New Haven. The trip down through the sound was without incident. About midnight, when three miles west of Greenw ich, Conn., there came a rush of stifling smoke from the hold ami every electric light on hoard the craft went out. Captain McAllister sent in the alurm for fire d rill, and the men came tumb ling out of their hunks. In the mean time the steering gear bad been blocked,.and the pilots, finding them selves unable to direct the course of the steamer, hurried to the assistance of the other members of the crew in sav ing lives. How and where-the fire originated is n mystery, hut it is believed to have started in a dynamo located l>elow and near the center of the vessel. Nearly all the passengers were in their l>erths when the vessel suddenly became filled with stifling smoke andj the lights went out. GREAT W EAKNESS M am m oth B ro n ze T u rk e y s . The accompanying picture shows a perfect type o f the male and female bronze turkeys, the largest and perhaps the most generally bred o f all the thor oughbred turkeys. The male« often uttaln a weight o f forty-five or more pound«, and the females thirty-eight. They are the result o f a cross o f the wild turkey, though they have become thoroughly domesticated. It Is sometime« «aid that they grow too large, and are not desirable for market, but while this would doubt- ie«« be true o f old fowls, it Is not the case with young ones. April and May hatched bronze turkeys will be Just the right size to bring the best prices at Christmas, and it is doubtful If any F eed M ill on th e F a rm . O F C H IN A D iplom at Show s It Is H e r Lack o f An Effective A rm y and Navy. Philadelphia, Dec. 20. — Sir Chen Tung Liang Cheng, the Chinese min ister to the United Ktates, tonight ad dressed the American Academy of po litical and social science on the subject, “ China's Traditional Policy.” Among other things he said:, “ For two thousand years China has not swerved an iota from steadily pur suing a consistent policy of peace. This may l>e put down to the fact that all the men who have played a promin ent part in Chinese affairs have invari ably lieen true followers of Confucis. “ It may be urged that the Chinese people have brought much unnecessary suffering upon themselves by their firm adherence to the principles of peace. It is true that they have left their country practically exposed to foreign invasions. They maintain no effective army; they have no battleships. These weaknesses are (latent to all, but Chi na’ s strength dews not lie so near the surface. "T h e y may lie wanting in those showy qualities of mind and tmdy which the people of the West admire and cultivate, hut they are endowed to an eminent degree with those hardy virtues which tell most in the struggle for existence, namely, patience, indus try and th rift.” BHOVZE TU BK K VS. other breed can ever supplant them with those who raise turkeys for profit. R o o t C rop * f o i I ’ lir». It has been demonstrated that seven or eight pounds o f mangels have as great feeding value as one pound o f grain, when given to pigs or hogs, and that sugar beets have even a greater value, so It Is hard to understand why pig raisers are so careless about grow ing root crops for luelr animals. Not only have the root crops a high feed ing value, but they do more for the good health o f the hogs than one can estimate. In regard to their feeding value It has been demonstrated time and again that when mangel or sugar beets, or ^oth, are fed In connection with light rations o f grains, using mid dlings Instead o f bran, pork o f high quality can be produced cheaper than in any other way. with the possible ex ception o f the substitution o f ensilage for the root crops. I f root crops can lie bought nt reasonable prices, better have some for feeding this fall and winter, and next season grow your own supply. th e r C hange in Postoffice. Philippine T a riff-C o n s id e re d . Washington, Dec. 20.— Secretary Taft today had a long talk at the W ar de partment with t'hairman Payne, of the house committee on ways and means, and Representative Palzell, the next ranking member of that committee, relative to tariff legislation for the Philippines, upon which subject the secetary of war made recommendations to congress in his annual report to the president. Colonel Edwards, chief of the Bureau of insular affairs, also was present and took an active part in the discussion. Russia Places Big Hay O rd e r. San Francisco, Dec. 20.— A secret order for several thousands tons of hay for export shipment has lieen placed with one of the* leading firms of the city during the past few days, and cir cumstances point to the Russian gov ernment as the purchaser. On any farm where there la stock to feed, whether cows, sheep, hogs ot poultry, the feed mill or grinder Is one o f the best economizers o f food one can bave. These mills are made in various sizes and suited to the large or the small farm. With such a mill one la In a position to give variety In form ol feeding that la Impossible unless ona Is prepared to buy various kinds ol ground food. Where com constitutes the main food aa la tbe case on most farms it lz plain to see that It Is not advisable tc feed It in the same form all tbe tlm * With the feed grinder It Is possible to mix the several ground grains In small quantities which one would hardly buy Where poultry keeping Is a part o f th« farm industry there w ill be found abundant use for the feed grinder and it w ill pay a good profit on the invest- menL P la n fo r C o u n try C otta ge. A very modest, neat and attractiv« plan for a quite small fam ily or foi your farmer’s cottage la herewith pre sented. I t constats o f three rooms with pantry and hall, the kitchen the light- D evice to Cut S o rgh u m . The accompanying sketch shows a leviee for use on a mower to prevent torghum and other rank growths from C A N N O T A D D W IN G . becoming tangled when cu t In cut ting drilled sorghum It will leave the C ongress W ill H ave to A uthorize F u r cut row leaning against the next stand Washington, Dec. 20. — Senator Mitchell today telegraphed Theodore B. W ilcox, chairman of the executive committee of the Portland Commercial club, explaining that it w ill lie impos sible for the supervising architect to add another wing to the Portland post- otlice without the authority of congress. The appropriation made two years ago authorized the wing now under con struction, and provided only enough money to complete it. I f it can lie shown that the new wing w ill n<H. provide all the room necessary, congress w ill have to make another ap propriation before a second wing can be built. Senator Mitchell has asked for some showing upon which he can request congress to pass a bill making another appropriation for further addi tions to the postoffice building. When this is recieved he w ill join with the delegation in an effort to have provision made in the omnibus hill. Fowls must have a variety of food to do well. So one grain will long be relished by the fowla I f made an ex clusive diet. In breeding hlgh-cla*« fowla it la quality, not quantity, that counts. A combination of both la desirable, but not always obtainable. The early-laying pullet should ba marked and kept for the breeding pen next season, provided sue Is otherwise a good bird. In nearly all caaea tbe pullet that begins to lay early In Ufa la the one that will lay the largest number of eggs In a year. Every poultryman should own a good bone cutter. It will pay for Itself in a abort time In Increased egg production and growth and general health o f tba flock. Freah ground bone should be fed twice a week at least, about ad ounce to a fowl at each feed. Any man or woman o f ordinary In telligence, with the proper application of Industry and perseverance, can make a success o f the poultry business. The man who says “ can’t” simply ad mits that be is lacking in tbe qualifi cations that are essential to success. GBO CTXD P L A V OF COTTAGE. eat and cheeriest room In the house, ai Is quite right when the best o f Its oo cupanta spends much o f her time them and three good bedrooms above. Thl» cottage ahould be built In good atyl« for $1.200. The wans may be elthei shingled or plastered. H e a d -W o rk oa th e F a rm . One o f the best farmers keeps a slate hanging up In the barn, and or this slate makes entries something Ilk« this: Weak place In west field fence; Jo« repair It at once. Tnke cultivator shovel to shop nexl time buggy goes. Repair Jack's harness and Bob’i bridle first we» day. Red cow will probably be In heal May 15; watch her closely. Frank, see Smith, and tell him t« bring log chain home. Tw o sows due to farrow May 16 keep sharp lookout Bunch o f red sorrel In south field ing one In excellent shape to pick up near shade; for self. and shock. This la a great Improve Woodpile must be watched; haul ment over letting It fall at random. A some first chance. la the tongue o f the mower, C, D and K e e p in g B a tte r . K are pieces o f 1x3 wood, the circle F A New York dairyman writes thai Is made from old buggy tire, and the brnce G, o f Vk-lnch iron; H la the cutter he has kept butter successfully both lr summer and winter by simply filling It bar o f the machine. luto Jars, covering the top neatly wltt P o u lt r y P ic k in g s . cloth, putting on salt and presslnj Tbe mongrel la a thing o f the past in down hard with tbe hand so that n< profitable poultry culture. air can get In. Often a paper Is pui An overfed ben Is stupid, lazy and over the top. During warm weather li unprofitable. The eager, active, hun may be necessary to add more sail gry hen Is the profit maker. once In four or five weeks. Every poultryman should be a stu F r u it P r e s e r v e d in P e a t. dent He ahould by careful study and Sucessful experiments have beer close observation equip himself to mas ter the emergencies that are certain to made by a Trench company in shipplni tropical fruit to France protected aim arise sooner or later. ply by a covering o f pent Ripe fruli I f living on a farm, don’t fall to lay of perishable kinds after several weeki nalde a few bundles o f unthreshed of transportation is claimed to hav« grain. The hens will enjoy tearing it arrived In a safe and sound condition to pieces next winter and the Increased The effect Is ascribed to the presence ol eg* yield w ill pay you for the trouble. gallic acid and tannin. A hundred lice In a poultry house will A little linseed meal In the maal multiply to a thousand In a abort time, and to a million within a month, unless occasionally will tend to add luster t* checked. I fa much easier to kill the the plumage and promote digestion but It must be fed sparingly. hundred than the million.