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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1906)
REBELS ARE G AINING . OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST FARM ERS ARE IN D E PE N D E N T. PA Y OF TE AC H E RS. Receiving Highest Salaries Hialory o f Stato. Now In Can Hold Thsir Wheat Until the Pries 8uits Them. Halem — Halarlea ol public school teachor* in Oregon are now higher than ever helore I n the history of the atate. Thirty year* ago the average monthly •alariee were $45.08 for male« and i n M for female«. During the ’ 90s, when time« were good, aslariea in creased and thuea of male teachers reached the hlgheet point Just before the panic of 1893. The average salary paid to men in the public schools was then 1.11. The salaries of female teachers touched the highest point in 1891, when tiie reports showed an average of 42.43. The rom|>enaation of instrnc- tors in the public schools then started on a decline and so continued until 1897, when men were receiving an average of $41.76 and women 933 97. For the last nine years salaries have been steadily advancing and have now reached an average of $00.02 for men and $44.96 for women. Multnomah county pays the highest salaries, but of ttie outside counties l.ake pays the hlgheet to men and liar- uey the highest to women. OREGON RANGE FREE. Graring Tax Law is Declared T o Be Unconstitutional. Halem—That the farmers of the W il lamette valley are less under the con trol of warehousemen and millers than ever hefors Is asserted by W. A. Tay lor, a prominent Waldo H ills farmer, who has taken the lead in the task of breaking the hold of the buyers of wheat. “ Farmers are this year buying their sacks to a greater ektent than ever lie- fore,” he eays, “ and they are under no obligations to any buyer. They are entirely free to sell when they can get the highee* pries. Then many farmers are planning to store their grain on their farms until they get ready to eel!, instead of hauling to a warehouse im mediately. They w ill make a sale first and haul the grain afterwards, and get better terms. “ I have noticed," continued Mr. Taylor, “ that millers and warehouse men are pretty anxious to get posses sion of wheat and have been offering inducements to get farmers to store grain in their warehouses. Notwith standing the declaration that no more sacks would tie lent, sacks have .>een offered in the hope tiiat thereby the in tending buyer would secure an advant age. Not many of the farmers are tying themselves up, however.” Files on Big Power Site. Flugene— H. W. Curtis, of Han Fran cisco, said to represent the Pittsbnrg Reduction company, cf Niagara Falls, an aluminum manufacturing concern, has filed notices of location of a power site on Horse creek, a tributary of tiie McKenzie river, in the vicinity of Foley springs, AO miles east of Kugene. He files on 20,000 miners’ inches un der a six-inch pressure, and it is esti mated that 30,000 horse power can tie generated. Mr. .Curtis declines to make any statement regarding the in tentions of his employers, but it is presumed that they may, some time in the future, estalish a manufacturing plant in Flugene or vicinity. Halein — The Oregon Supreme court tias declared the grazing tax law of 1906 unconstitutional. The decision will have no very far reaching effect, for it has uot been generally enforced or ob served. A test case was brought up from Umatilla county, with the result that there is one more ray of light cast upon the problems of tax legislation in Oregon. The decision w ill likely tie of advantage in some respe.'ts to the legis lature of IMI7, which will give particu lar attention to the enactment of tax laws. Krietly stated, the 1906 statute wa§ declared void because it is a revenue tax law and not a license law. It |K>saeased the language and elements Lack o f Cars Closes Plant. of a tax law and not of a license law. Flugene — The Koyce A Peterson ex The act provided that a tax of 20 cents celsior plant has closed down here on a head shall be paid upon all sheep account of the failure of the Southern owned by non-residents aud brought Pacific to furnish cars. A ll warehouse into this state (or pasturage. space lias been exhausted, and there was no recourse but to stop manufac Schools Show Good Advance. turing. The company's plant at Junc Halem — Material advancement is tion City can run about two weeks lon shown in the conditions of the schools ger, and then it will have to shut down of the state by the figures contained in if cars are not available. the summary of Hu|>erintendent Acker man's annual report, which be has just PO RTLAND M ARKETS. given out for publication. By this statement it is shown that the school Wheat — Club, 67068c; bluestem, population has increased hy at least 70fi#71c; valley, 71c; red, 64 066c. 6,000 during the past year, and the Oats— No. 1 white, $22022.60; gray, total days’ attendance has been in $20(421. creased to at least a m illion. Not Barley— Feed, $20 per ton; brewing, withstanding this latter increase, how $22 60; rolled, $23024. ever, the average daily attendance has Rye— $1.30 per cwt. fallen off by over 100 days, but the av Corn— Whole, $28; cracked, $27 pgr erage months school taugtit during the ton. year has advanced from ti.06 to 6.19. Hay— Valley timothy, No I , $11(4 12.60 per ton; Flastern Oregon timothy, $18; clover, $7(87.60 cheat, $6.50; Will Add Tw o Grades. grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $10; vetch ^hay, I<ehanon— At a recent meeting of the voters of the local school district it $7(87.50. Fruits — Apples, common, 60(875c was decided to lease the Hantiam Acad emy building and grounds and add the per box; fancy, $1.26(82; apricots, 11th and 12th grades to the present $1.26(81 36; grapes, $1(81.75 per crate; high school course. The change will peaches, $1(81.10; pearB, $1.75, plume, become effective October 1. The fol fancy, 50075c per l»ox; common 60(8 lowing corps of instructors has been 76c; blackberries, 6<86c per pound; elected for the ensuing year: Princi crab apples, 75c per box. Melons— Cantaloupes, $1.75(82 per pal, K. K. Barnes; vice principal, Frank Mcl)< ugal, of Dallas; assistants, crate; watermelons, 1(81 He per pound. Mrs. C. F. Itighee, Miss Harriet Alex Vegetables— Beane, 6(87c; cab page, ander, of Gresham; Miss Mary Mc 1 * (82c per pound; celery. 85c(8$l per Cormick. Miss Margaret Cotton, Miss dozen; corn, 15020c per dozen; cu cumbers, 40 060c per box; egg plant, Tressa Moffitt, of Halem. 10c per pound; lettuce, head, 25c per dozen; onions, lO 0 1 2 * c per dozen; Pay Hop Pickers by Weight. Woodburn — At a meeting in this peas, 405c; bell peppers, 1 2 * 0 l5 c ; city recently of the Willamette Hop- radishes, 10015c; per dozen; rhubarb, growers’ association, 85 hopmen were 202 **c per pound; spinach, 203c per present. It was decided that all grow pound; tomatoes, 60 0 90c per box; ers should endorse the system of pick parsley, 25c; squash, $101.25 per ing by weight, but at the same time it crate; turnips, 9Oc0$l per sack; car was left to the discretion of growers rots, $101.25 persacx; beets, $1.250 whether to pick by weight or to use 1.50 per sark. Onions—New, 1 * 01 * c per ponnl. measuring baskets of nine bushels each. Potatoes— Oregon Burbanks, 700 76c; Th e general opinion was expressed that the price of picking should he 50 cents sweet potatoes, 404*%c per pound. Putter— Fancy creamery, 22** 025c per box or $1 per 100 pounds. per pound. F'ggs — Oregon ranch, 21 % 022c per More Pow er is Needed. dozen. I.a Grande— Owing to the increase in Poultry — Average old hens, 13c per demand for electric power, the elec pound; mixed chickens, 12 *4 0 1 3c; tric company has been unable to get springs, 13*4 0 1 4c, old roosters, » 0 along with the energy developed at the 10c; dressed chickens, 14015c; tur Cone power house and it was found keys, live, 16022c; turkeys, dressed, necessary this week to use some of the choice, 2 O 0 2 2 *c ; geese, live, 8010c: power from Morgan lake. In all the ducks, 11013c. company is now using 700 horse power, Hops — 1908 contracts, 18 0 20c; and this amount w ill be gradually in 1906, nominal; 1904, nominal. creased . Wool — Kastsrn Oregon average best, 16019c per pound, according to shrink Postoffice fo r Myrick. age; valley, 200 22c. according to fine Pendleton— The postoffice at Myrick ness; mohair, cLoice, 280 30c per station has been re-established, after pound. having been discontinued for several Veal— Dressed, 5 * 0 8 c per ponnd. months. It is a fourth class office and Beef — Dressed bulla, 3c per ponnd; the postmaster is William Love. My cows, 4 * 0 5 * c ; country steers, 506c. rick is a small station on the line of Mutton — Dressed, fancy, 708c per the W. A 0 . R. R., 12 miles northeast pound; ordinary, 60 6c; lambs, fancy, of Pendleton. It is in tbs midst of the 808*0. vich wheat growing section. Pork— Dressed, 708*c par pound. Cabanas Taken by Gusrrsra and Santa Clara is In Danger. Havana, Aug. 3 1 .— The surrender of some of the more vigorous insurgent leaders in the provinces of Matanzas and Hants Clara, and the coming in of a scattering few insurgents in response to the government’ s offer of amnesty, is vastly mors than offset by the in surgent sentiment looking stronger daily in the country districts of the provinces of Havana, Finer del Rio and Hants Clara, which is now report ed to lie gaining headway in Santiago, from which province, however, there are as yet no reports of organized bands. The testimony of persons arriving here from the country is unanimous to the effect that the people ars restless and tiecoming more and more excited. The talk of the towns is of those who have gone out to join the insurgents and the chances of winning against the government. There are grave doubts of the loyalty of the recraita, especially of negro recruits, who are suspected in many quarters of a willingness to join the other side, with which many of their people are ident'fird. The undeniable evidence of the growth of insurrectionist sentiment is causing increasing doubt as to whether the government will, after all, be able to cope promptly and successfully with the movement, and there is much dis cussion of th i possibilities of a peaceful settlement. Interest centers in a pro jected meeting of Cuban veterans and other prominent men to consider the question of approaching Pino Guerrera and other insurgent lesders of the Lib eral party and members of the gov ernment, with a view to ascertaining whether the difficulty cannot be settled through some compromise. Meanwhile a rapid-fire artillery eorps is being organized under Amer ican officers, ammunition and guns are being unpacked and the historic Car- tillo de la Punta, fronting on the har bor entrance, is the scene of the great est activity. The insurrection in the province of Pinar del Rio has spread across the mountains to the north coast, and the town of Cabanas is now in the bands of the insurgents, who are re ported also to have gone in the direc tion of Batiia Honda. The insurgents took arms from a small detachment of rural guards, and captured 50 horses which the governor had requisitioned. The government telegraph lines are in terrupted. LO O K FOR LABEL ON M E AT. How Government Inspectors Will In dicate What is Good, Washington, Aug. 31.— Owing to the new meat inspection law, the number of inspectors’ labels used w ill be more than doubled. Already the Agricul tural department has contracted to supply 10,000 for the month of Sep tember, and after the law becomes effective this number w ill be increased to 15,000. The tag is about one and one quarter inches square. It is a thin sheet of gelatine, with a few threads running on it. There is printed in blue letter a legend like this: “ United States. In spected. Passed 207.” The number at the end is that of the abattoir in spector, who simply slaps the little tag on a piece of meat and the heat and moisture of the freshly-killed meat makes it stick. In a short time the gelatine dissolves, the linen threads rub off, and there is left nothing but the print of those blue letters in the meat. It cannot be removed, except by cutting. It is absolutely harmless. Planning Immense Dam. Denver, Aug. 31.— Papers have been filed with the state engineer of Colo rado which have for their purpose the redemption of nearly 1,000,000 acies of arid lands, the largest irrigation proposition that has ever been under taken hy private capital. Frank J. McCarthy, a civil engineer of Denver, is now drafting plans to build a reser voir that w ill cover 24 square miles, have an average depth of 35 feet, and use the entire surplus water of the Platte river. Heretofore, it has been estimated that 38,115,000,000 cubic feet of water.was wasted yearly in the Platte river, water which, if properly diverted and used on land adjoining, would irrigate 1,000,0)0, acres of land and would support 100,000 people. Police Raid Nest o f Rebels. Riga, Aug. 31— Police and troops to day surrounded a lodging house on Stolivia street, where bombs had been discovered. The revolutionists inside fired with rifles from the windows on the attacking party and also threw a bomb, whereupon the police riddled the house with bullets, killing or wounding all of the inmates. Two men and a woman were killed. At an other place in the suburbs a Lettish student was killed and several wounded while resisting arrest. Two police ser geants and a rural guard were shot. Wilson Inspects Stockyards. Chicago, Aug. 31— Secretary of Agri culture Wilson spent part of today at the stockyards, inspecting the packing plants, and expressed himself as great ly pleased with the excellent sanitary conditions he found. -0OO- The tourist generally spends a quiet (lay at Heidelberg, the famous "stu dent city,” with Its noted castle, an Ivied ruin which looks down on the gentle Neckar, upon vineyards, on the hill slopes and the aolld queer stone houses of the town Itself. All of Hei delberg has witchery about it, espe^ dally the steep and narrow llaupt- stranse, where every casement lias Its swinging bird cage and pots of flow- era gayly bloom. The Htueckgarten here waa Goethe's favorite nook at Heidelberg. Then there ia the great tun of Heidelberg, a monster wine cask capable of holding 40,000 gallons. Afternoons the students sit on the ter race of the Bchlo** Hotel and liaten to the hand. Each student society ap propriates a long table to Itself, and each one weara Its *|>*clal colored cap. Of blue, or gold, or red. or white. The young men In white <-a;>a are all of no ble birth. Many of them have strips o f white court plaster on their faces, a fact which causes tourist girls to become excited, for they know that these men have l>een fighting duels. All of the students hare frivolous little canes, and with each group of them Is an enormous dog, their mascot, which beiongH to their society collectively. The country between Heidelberg and Darmstadt Is more than merely pret ty. Almost all the towns on tbe route are wine towns, with extensive vine yards. Tbe traveler paaaes "Bingen on the Rhine," aud looks for the old “ Mouse Tower,” where the wicked bishop of 11 h tto perished miserably after assembling tbe ;sx>r In his barus and* burning them up. It stands in a quartz rock In tbe middle of a water way. A trip down the river takes tbe steamer past Lorch, where the sweet bells ring on Habhatb from 8t. Mar tin's gothic tower, by the "D evil’s ladder," that steep cliff which once a lover, helped by tbe mountain sprites, scaled successfully on horseback and won the lady of his lore. Then come the rocks of “ The Seven Virgins,” and then the home of tbe Lorelei, about which so many stories are told by po ets aud ¡teasants along the princely Rhine. At Ehrenbreltsteln Is the noble rock and mighty fortress that guard the western gateway of the German Inde pendence. commanding lioih the Rhine and the Moselle. Then comes Cologne, "the holy city.” Its pride is pre-emi nently In Its churches. The transcend ent charm of Ita grand old cathedral la Its magnificent harmony. Ita Interior reminds o f a virgin forest, whose tree« rise to a height sublime, powerful, ma jestic In their outlines, yet eo delicate li. detail that their foliage loeee Itself In a maze of llnee aud shadows. Tombs of saints and Images of an gels, tbe golden coffin of tbe Magi, guarded by close Iron gates, altars gleaming brightly as a good man’s dream o f heaven, beauty that Hoods mortal sense with rapture, reverence that leads thoughts to God; this Is what fortunate pilgrims find In tbe great cathedral of Cologne. Berlin Is a city of long, straight lines. Its bouses march down the street like endless files of soldiers, ee- perlally on tbe famous Unter den Lin den. Its great park of 630 scree and Zoological gardens are very beautiful. Everywhere Is music— of the best. Ev erywhere Is the Influence of the emper or. The traveler is subtly reminded o f the German art exhibit at tbe Bt. Louis exposition, «'here every second pic ture was of his imperial majesty. Ber lin's impressive monuments, her many palaces, shining arcades, fine public buildings, her museum, her statue* and her park, her soldiers and her peo ple are all subservient to this central figure o f the emperor. Splendid as sh* really Is, he Is more splendid who rule* her with an Iron hand and a majestic presence. As for public monuments, there Is no capital In the world which has honor ed Its distinguished men as Berlin has. Notable among tbe royal figures Is th* m asterly statue of Frederick the Great- On the elaborate pedestal the great king Is majestic Indeed ; be Is on horse back. with his ermine mantle on his »boulder and his crutch bandied stick In his hand. The national monument of Emperor William I. was unveiled In 1897, on the hundredth anniversary of the Emperor’s birthday. This also Is an Immense equestrian figure, la bronze. Tbe horse be rides Is his fa vorite war charger. Hippocrates, whlca is led along by a graceful figure o f I’eace. Then there Is the marble figure of Queen Louise, which, the work o f Enckle, was erected In the park at the north of the Thlergarten strasse ia I 8H0. and which has upon Its pedestal reliefs which represent different pha ses of woman’s work In war. This rec ognition of woman's services to the state Is a final evidence of the new Ber lin In the new Germany. THE “ OLD SW IM M ING HOLE.’’ It seems easier to remember the fun of running off Suuday afternoons and paddling around In It than to recollect The paddling that came after.— Chicago Record-Herald. Movr H e H em em bered It. When they met on Chestnut street after some months In which they hadn’t seen each other the one chap told the other he had taken a little house In Germantown and was there with his lares, peOates and coal bill. “Come up and see me some evening—any even ing. We're rarely out. you know, aud, then, we have a telephone, so you can let us know when you’re coming.” “ I suppose your name Is In the tele phone directory ?” queried the other. "Well. no. not yet, as we've Just got the telephone, hut our number la— Is— really It’s fuuny. hut Just this minute I can't— It’s something like----- Ding it nil. It’s strange I forget that num ber. for Just on purpose I multiplied It by two and divided the result by four, so as to enable me to remember It, and I can’t recall the first thing about i t Ever know the like? I'll write you th* number.” — Philadelphia Record. V * n i n le M rh lro p o d j. An author, paying his first visit to a married acquaintance, asked the name o f a sprightly little girl whose winning ways had attracted his attention. “ We call her Ella,” said the child's mother. “ That Is a good name," remarked the author. “ It has been made clnselc by Charles Lamb.” “ Well, to tell the truth,” explained the lady, "her name Is Cornelia, but It's easier to call her Fllia.” “ I see.” the caller rejoined. " I t la the painless extraction of a corn!” — London Tlt-BIts. A citizen Isn't necessarily worthless just because his wife ia worth tuors than he la.