Crook County journal., April 01, 1920, Page 3A, Image 18

CROOK COl'JSTY JOCH5AL
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CFiECSU i;ews notes
OF GENEBAUIITEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Skflchcd for Infor
mation of Our Readers.
A farmers' week for Multnomah coun
ty will be hi'ltl hi Ui.'nliuui, iH'KlnnliiK
February 9.
Tim Willamette University (ibe club
ling left on a (our of Kuali-ru Oregon
lid Washington,
Itabhs, stamped out after a severe
outbreak llinm yw uko, l at.uln ap
pearing among coyotes lu Klitmalli
county.
North Fiend linn r' Jecli-d lh pruponnl
of tint Lumbermen Trunt company of
I'urtliiiiil to luixliut) !lO,ou of city
bond at pur.
Captain AIpi Hcott of Handon and
two associates have put a line aboard
the wn-rki'd Chanslor and ar holding
It for salvage.
Dnmugo to roads resulting from the
ralni In Hood Itlver county will con
sum a large part of the road fund
appropriate for 1 920.
A mnvemeut la bring launrhi-if at
Oregon City to erect a memorial for
400 young tnn of Clackamne county
who served In tlm wnr.
Arrangement are l'lnK made by tliu
Klauiath rounty farm burt-uu to Import
carload of Shorthorn cut Lie to b
old at public auction.
This city council of Marshfteld has
ordered all boxes In restaurants re
movrd, declaring there ahall be no
more partition! In rating houms.
Tlie Clackamas County Farmers'
union haa derided to organize a ware
house association at Heaver Creek.
Stork will be aold at $!S0 per ahare.
Efforta are being made by the arhool
board of Eugene to compel parenta to
observe the rules of the atate board of
beultb and vaccinate their, children.
Permission to graze 17,720 head of
lock In l lie Cascade national forest
this year will be given, according to
N. F. Mnrduff, aiipervlaor of the forest.
A b'idget of 1126,250 adopted by the
Pendleton arhool board for 192021
bowa an Increase of 25 per cent over
last year. Tula la due to Increased
salaries of teachers.
A. II. Olson haa been appointed by
the clt Irene of Hums chairman of
committee to arranen for the holding
of the Cattle and llorao Raisers' an
nual convention next May.
Speaker Olllett hna signed the bill
which permits tho construction of a
bridge across the Columbia river b'
tween Washington and Oregon, two
tulles weal of CuHcadu Locks.
Otto lliirtwlg, president of the S'lite
Federation of Ijilmr, was appointed by
Governor O rott to succeed K. .1. Stark
as a tiieinlier uf the bourd of vocational
education. Mr. Stuck recently resigned.
Arrangements arc being made by the
llveatnrk ('(iiiniiltlee of the Kluiiiuth
county furm bureau for Importation of
a carload of registered Shorthorn rat
tle for sulo at public auction about
March 1.
Cottage Orove mlllmen report that
prosperla for continued activity at
profitable prices remain bright. The
nly cloud on .he horizon la the con
tinued car shortage, which hampers
the delivery of orders.
F. W. Kehrll, bull association special
ist of the United Slates department of
f agriculture, arrived In Toledo to
take up with the Lincoln county agent
the plan tor organizing a Jersey bull
association In the county.
H. P. Hares, professor of botany mid
plant pathology at Oregon Agricultural
college, haa been reappointed comnils
ilonet on the advisory board of the
American plant pathologists of the
American riiytopathologlcal society.
What la believed to be a case of
leeplng sickness Is attracting the at
tention of physicians at Harrtsburg In
the case of Caroline VVIIllaniB, a stu
dent of the agricultural college, who
was taken to the hospital a few days
go.
' Within a short time after he had
Informed his wife that she would out
live him Andrew Jackson Marvin, aged
T years and well known In Jackson
ounty, shot ami killed himself on hie
homestead 13 mile s southwest of Jack
sonville R. K. Clunton, master flish warden
of Oregon, has announced that work
on tho new stnto hatchery on the upper
WiiJamott,e river a mile nhove Oak
Rlriite will b awarded nt once. The
1919 legislature appropriated S0O0 for
this plant.
Seventy thousand one hundred and
evenly-slx egps were IHd by a flock
of 425 "Oregons" at the Multnomah
county farm the lust, year, according to
James Dryden, professor of poultry
husbandry at the college and originator
of thu "Oregona."
A meeting of fruit growers was held
t Milton at which Fred Benlon of
Pendleton, agricultural agent at Uma
tilla county, and Professor II. Weath
rspoon, state fruit Inspector of El
gin, organized the East End Umatilla
county farm bureau, which will em
brace the fruit, atock, hay and grain
sections adjacent to Milton" and Free-water.
me purine service conini union win
dent lu Oregon during the wick rndl.ig be. petitioned by citizens of Halem to
March II, according to a report by the' Install warning signals at three rail
Industrial accident commission. Thai way rrorsliirs In the rlly.
vleilin was James Hollhronls, railroad! jloles bond by crawfish In the earth
employe of 1'rTrtland. A loiatof 410, rn win dum diverting the waters of
accidents were reported. I the Deschutes rv(r tiireutdi the pla&l
Lee Tabor, resident of Island City, of the llend Water, Light A Power Co.
la dead as the result of a hold- f are considered responsible for a wash
up lu his home. Two masked men en-, out which will cost the company sev
lered the room, where Tabor was play-' eral thousand dollars.
InX solitaire, and ordered him to throw The Oregon league of Women Vol
up his hands. As ho made a motion tr, with headquarters In Portland, filed
lo reach for -his gun be was shot by artlcb a of incorporation at Hulcin. The
the rohb' rs. j officers and Incorpora'ors are MrU
Wage Increases aggregating 1228.000 Hidden. Portland, president; Josephine
annually and affecting approximately Othus. Portland, recording secretary,
20U0 men, were announced by the two and Thcllg Scruggs, Portland, trta
puper mills of Oregon City. The firms surer.
are the Crown Willamette Paper coin-j Hullot titles for practically all nvas
pnny and the llawley Pulp A Paper ures and amendments approved at the
company. The average Increase Is 31 recent special season of the legislature
cents dally. for submission to the voters at the
The state highway commission haa special election to be h"ld May 21, are
received nollie tint Oregon will get i being prepared by Attorney-General
GO more trucks from the federal gov-jurown, and will bo completed early
ert nt. These trucks will be dls- next week. j
trlbuted among the various counties Federal Inspection of the various
and will be used In road const ruction 1 Oregon national guard companies In '
work, The state has received 170 of Oregon will start about February 13, ;
these truc ks up to the present time, j according to announcement made by
All records with relation to the nurn-, Conrad Stafrln, adjutant-general. The
her of patients receiving treatment at Inspections will be under charge of
the stste hospital for the Insane at Colonel Koester, commander of Van-
Salem were shattered lust week when
the population of the Institution totaled
couver barracks.
J. Skewls and S. 8. Bullls have pur
1796. Including the attendants, physl-, chased the old Applegate Lumber com
ciuns and other employes, more than ! pBny on the Portland A Eugene road
20UO pursons are housed at the hospt-
tal.
If an application made by the Hood
near Medford and will start opera
tions at once under the name of the
: Southern Oregon Lumber company.
Itlvcr (lame Protective association Is The company plans to saw 20,000,000
acted on favorably by the state flBh : fc.et of lumber a yar.
and gsnie commission, Hood Itlver
county may soon have a 'hatchery for
the propagation of trout fry. It Is pro
posed to locate the new hatchery Just
south of Hood River along the stream
of that name.
Some 20 Gram Valley farmers have
formed a club, with L. A. Olds as
president, for the purpose of keeping
comprehensive farm records from
which they will be able to get at the
cost of producing wheat In their sec-
A recent .ruling of the atate land ' tion. as well aa make more careful
board requiring persona removing sand
nd gravel from navigable streams In
Oregon to pay a minimum of 10 cents
a cubic yard confronts the state high
way commission with situation which
will add approximately 10 per cent
to the cost of these materials pur
chased fur road construction.
N. F. Macduff, supervisor of the
study of other farm operations.
J. C. Iteed, nut specialist of the de
partment of agriculture, Is coming
from the national capital to cooperate
with Dr. Fisher, government plant
pathologist, In an examination of nut
and fruit orchards around Medford,
McMlnnvllle, Salem and Eugene, which
suffered from the December freeze.
Cascade national forest, saye that bo-1 jn a letter addressed to Walker D.
cause of the exceedingly dry weather i nines, director of the United States
the past wlntsr and because of the railroad administration with head
almost utter absence of snow, there Is j quarters at Washington, C. U. Gram,
grave danger of fires In the mountains state labor commissioner, protests
this summer. Uuless the summer Is ' against the employment of Chinese
rainy, he says, the timber will be easily : cooks In railroad construction camps
Inflammable and careless campers will 1 to the exclusion of American citlzena.
be a deadly menace. j A sale of 68,000.000 feel of timber In
The badly decomposed body of Joh the Santlam national forest east of
Bookman was discovered In his cabin Alhnnv has been mnde during the last '
at a lonely spot a few miles from few days by the forest service to the
Reslon, near the main Coos Hay high- j ,. rrill Lumber and Shingle company,
way. Bookman, who was aged about according to an announcement by F.
70, had lived alone for some lime in R. Amea, assistant district forester,
a rough cabin without floor and liltls in charge of all timber sales In this
light.- It Is believed that he died from ' district
exposure and had been dead for prob
ably five or six weeks.
In pitched battle lasting for 10
minutes lu The Dalles city Jail, Frank
Hotter, police chlof, was knocked un-
Actlve construction work on the
Booth-Kelly Lumber company's sys
tem of logging railways above Wend
ltng la under way. The line Is being
extended across the summit of the
conscious and was locked .In the cell ridge to the McKenzle side of the
corridor with James McClaskey, patrol-1 mountains, tapping a tract of timber
man, by two recalcitrant youths whose that has never been touched and said
escape from the city bast lie wne fru
strated by the timely arrival of Sheriff
Henderson of Klickitat county and
John Crawford of Grand Dalles.
The most extensive realty deal put
through In recent years was the pur
chaae at Bandon by a company com
posed of officials of the Neatlc's Food
company, of the A. H. Thrift estate
dairy ranch at Langlols. The purchas
ers are B. O. McCoy of Portland, H. J.
Conlln, D. D. Warner and George P.
Laird of Handon. The ranch consists
of 840 acres lying along the coast. The
ale price was (72.000, which Included
100 dairy cowi.
Lands In the Klamath Indian reser
vation will not be opened for settle
ment until the timber thereon la re
moved and aold for the benefit of
the tribe, according to a letter received
from the department of the Interior
following receipt In Washington of
Joint memorial adopted at the recent
ipeclal session of the Oregon legisla
ture asking congress to take action
ta the end of populating these lands
with white sottlnrs.
George Johnson, known as "Shorty,"
a bachelor about 40 living at Port Or
ford, has been taken to the Btnte asy
lum at Salem, a raving maniac. John
ion, apparently normal, was strolling
along the beach nt Port Orford when
he discovered a beautiful agate. The
stone contained nlmost a perfect fig
ure of a monument with a cross on top.
He declared It was a sign of the sec
ond coming of Christ nnd from that
moment on his mind became unbal
anced. At the close of business In the stats
department on March 8 there wera
268.SK4 persons registered for the pri
mary eloction May 21, according to
report prepared by Sam A. Kozer, as
sistant secretary of state and In chargs
of the rculntratton work. April 20 will
be the last day to register for the
primary election and unless there Is a
ipurt between now and that time fewer
iiamns will be on the poll books than
tor several years. At the time the
rcRlstratlon books closed prior to the
primary election In the year 1918, 801
5'J7 persons bad gratified.
to be some of the finest In the county.
Bills passed by both branches of the
legislature and not having the emer
gency clause attached will become ef
fective aa laws at midnight April 18,
according to Sam A. Kozer, assistant
secretary of state. That time will
mark the end of the 90-day period
following the end of the Besslon, when
the new laws are made effective by
statute.
There were five fatalities due to acci
dents during the week ending Janu
ary 29, according to a report prepared
by the state Industrial accident com
mission. The victims were: Robert
Reane, laborer, Portlund; Alex E. John
son, carpenter, Portland; Roy G.
Chrtstlnnson, miner, HomPBtead; John
Martinson, luhorer, Eaulalre, Wis.;
Raymond Ward, laborer, Hlllsboro.
The Enterprise Irrigation district j
has filed application with Percy Cup- j
per, state engineer, for certification of
bonds In the sum of $40,000, wjth ,
which to Install a pumping system '
necessary to obtain water for tho
lands Included In the project. The
district Is In Klnmnth county and It
1b proposed to obtain the water from
the United States reclamation canal.
That the English people do not fear j
prohibition will strike their little Is- j
land and stop the manufacture of beer
for a few years ot least Is evidenced j
by the filing at Eugene of hop con
tracts wherein a big English firm
agrees to buy the crop of three Lane
county growers for four consecutive
years, beginning this year. The con
tracts call for the payment of a tbtal
of $2no.ooo.
Organization of a new political party
to be known aa the land and labor
league of Oregon, elimination of those
features of the tentative platform de
clared objectionable to the grange, and
the adoption of resolutions design- j
cd to cover operations of the body ;
In a future effort to gain governmental j
supremacy, marked the closing session j
of the-' convention at Salem, made up
of delegates from the various labor
unlonB of the Btate, farmers' organiza
tions and Individuals In sympathy with
the proposed movement.
Is it Possible to Breed Up Stock ? Is it
Possible to Breed Up Plants ? Is it
Possible to Improve Trees
by Breeding? If
so,
Why Cannot Bacteria
BE IMPROVED
Why this
If, as some say, all Bacteria are equal
Burns, Oregon.
Plants inoculated with culture obtained at the Oregon Agricultural Col
lege showed no results whatsoever. No nodules found on the roots and
on increase of yield was obtained.
Plats Inoculated with the United 8tates Department of Agriculture
culture showed a very good result. Many nodules of the bacteria was ob
tained and a narked increase of the yield.
This shows the difference ot the two cultures used.
What we need in this country is a culture that can be absolutely relied
upon to give the results In yield and soil fertility thru the work done by
these Nitrogen fixing bacteria, a culture which we can obtain In quantity
as the U. S. Culture can only be oftained in very email lots.
Inoculation that can be depended ou is an absolute benefit to the soil
and to the yield.
OBIL SHATTUCK.
Supt. Harney Branch Exp. Station.
Or this
County Farm, Imperial Co., California
El Centro, Califoraia,
February 19th., 1920s
Agricultural Department,
Western Soil Bacteria Company,
Lob Angeles, California.
Gentlemen:
In reply to your request for a report on the alfalfa planted this year on
the County Farm:
We planted 30 acres on November 10th, 1919, twenty of which were In
oculated with Westrobac.
The Alfalfa which was inoculated has made double the growth and Is
showing a much darker green color. Not only that but we have at least
double the stand. This is in spite of the fact that the alfalfa planted
without the Westrobac is showing an excellent growth of nodules. ' All
conditions were equal except the use of the Westrobac.
Yours truly,
Y. N. ADAMS, Sup't.
This planting was on an Alfalfa field Just plowed up.
Or Explain this
San Francisco, Calif.
REDLANDS NATIONAL BANK,
Redlands, California,
Gentlement.
Your telegram of the 21st. received. My reply thereto:
I wish to state that some three years ago I began using an Eastern cul
ture, getting good results in a number of cases, and apparently none In
others. I came to the conclusion that it was on account of the culture be
ing to old. Two years ago I began using Westrobac, principally in vetches
and clovers for the winter cover crop, and on all varieties of beans during
the summer months. Last winter I had in some two hundred acres of
vetch and clover. The clover in some cases was six feet high, with a cor
responding growth in the root system.
I am farming some five hundred acres of beans this year, and have pat
ches ot inoculated and uninoculated side by side. I am sure that anyone
can see the difference in the growth and crop. As for as I am concerned, it
is past the experimental stage. I would not consider farming without it.
I feel that for every dollar expendedfor Westrobac, It 'will pay one back
ten times over.
Yours very truly,
T. J. WALKER.
if ONCE INOCULATED, ALWAYS INOCULATED
Why this
Holtville, Calif., December 12, 1919.
Western Soil Bacteria Co.,
San Francisco, California.
Gentlemen:
In January of this year I planted 10 acres of Hairy Peruvian Alfalfa in
oculated with your WESTROBAC and 40 acres without bacteria aa a test. .
This field had been in alfalfa until the fall of 1918 and was then plow
ed and immediately re-seeded to alfalfa with a nurse crop of wheat.
I fully believe that the alfalfa uponwhich I used WrESTROBAC is mak
ing almost double tho growth of the uninoculated.
Youra very truly,
L. F. SHAW.
Office of the Agricultural Department
WESTERN SOIL BACTERIA CO.
LOS ANGELES,
PHOENIX, ARIZ.
W. Shing
SAN FRANCISCO
DENVER. COLQ.
District
j Rep.
REDMOND, OREGON