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ST. JOHNS REVIEW OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST TWO FREE COURSES. 1 "f S3 ' & hi on I ACME LUMBER Company St Johns and district are growing Why not grow up with it by building? Estimates on all building material cheer fully given 41 fJXWU.: 4. ACME LUMBER CO. Foot of Westanna St Phone East 1846 i -f.V, ' ' w nm ' I. 1" 0 QQQSK a S0BBB 19 Locturos on Agriculture and Dairying at Corvallls College. Corvallls Immediately fallowing tlio winter holidays the Oregon Agri cultural college will give tree of charge two popular short courses of instruc tionone in ngrlculture, thu other in dairying. Thcso courses conBist chief ly of lectures by specialists from the faculty and from abroad, combined with work in tho laboratories, where students have access to the apparatus of tho collcgo and experiment station. Tho lectures nro designed for busy men and women who desire to advanco with tills progressive ago hut cannot nvall themselves of tho full four years' course of instruction; hence the courses of lectures will come at the most con venient season of tho year for combin ing pleasure and recreation with pro lit able study. The instruction, which Is simple, is adapted to the literary attainments of all; hence no educational test is re quired for admission to either of the courses. The course in agriculture will begin January II and continue 10 days. Borne of tho subjects to bu dis cussed are: "llorlleultrui'," "IMant Urecdlng," "IkieterloU.gy," "Chemical F.lcments," "How Plants Work," "Untitling of riauts linnet! t'pon IMant Culture," "How to Conserve the Fer tility of the Soli," "Drainage," "foil Moisture," "Hose Cluturc," "Vcterln nry Surgery," "Notation of Crops," "Itoadmaking," "Fertilization and How to Make the Old Farm Pay." Tho course in dairying will com mence Januray 21, and contlnui) eight weeks, Students will meet for work six days of tho week. Thu mornings will bo devoted to practical work In dairy rooms; two days will bo devoted to butter making two days to cheese making, and two days will be" spent in the dairy lalsinitnrles. In the after noon of thu days, except those devoted to cheese making, lectures will occupy two or three hours. There will be no fees except the breakage deposit of (3. School for Dofoctlvo Youth. Pendleton State Senator C.J. Smith and two others of thu hold over legisla tive committee visited the Washington school for defective youth at Vancouver ami will recommend that one bo estab Hshed in this sitae. Other matters de elded u iMin by thu committee was that thu health lsiard suoulil have more nu thorlty than hitherto, so as to bo nblo to enforce regulations made, Instead of recommending that they Is.' carried out. Typhoid fever was made a ruaraiitinu d I scant) Instead of Wing retorted, ns hitherto. Corner on Wallowa Wool. Enterprise It. 0. Mays, who is buy ing wool in this county for tho H. Kosh laud company, has closed contracts for over n()0,000 ixiuiids more wool. This makes about three-fourths of the total wool clip of this county, including 1, 000,000 jKiundx which ho lias already purchased, Thu totul wool clip Is esti mated at 3,000,000 pound. With 10 cent wool and tho prospect of a substan tial rise in cattle, good times nro pro phesied for the people of tills county next year. To Collect Salmon Egg. Albany O. Walllrh, suiierlntcudent of tho Clackamas fish hatchery, tins gone to tho Ympilna coast In search of a suitable placu for u collection station for Dteelhead and sllversldu salmon eggs. Manager Kdwln Stone stated thut three are a number of pluces on the Yaquina river which an wilted to such purlieu, and It is llkcly a station will lu established there. Coming Event, Inland Umpire Sunday School Insti tute, Pendleton, Ore., January 30. Oregon Slate Horticultural society, Portland, January 10-11. Kutlonal American Woman Suffrage association, Portland, June 22-28. Lewis and Clark Centennial exposi tion, Portland, June 1 October 15. New Plant for Imperial. Rnmntf r .As soon as General Man- ager Sibley, of the Imperial group, re turns from the Kast, more extensive operations will bo carried on, The in itallatlon of a larger hoisting plant is one of tho first improvements to bu made. New Sawmill at Lacornb. Lacornb The new sawmill at Lacornb Is almost completed. It will be one of the largest and best equipped in Linn county, with a capacity of 20,000 feet of lumber per day. DEEPEN THE WILLAMETTE. Commercial Club Wants More Open River During Entire Year. Albany Tho Albany Gommerclol club at a recent session dlesussed tho question of an ojen iver between Al bany and Portland tho year round, in stead of a few months each year, iih prevails nt present, and decided to me moralize congress for on open river. A committee was appointed to take charge of the work and impress niton tho Ore gon congressional delegation the neces sity of an open river. Captain A. It. Graham, of Portland, one of the managers of the Oregon City TransiMjrttttlon company, which opcr nles boats on tho Upper Willamette, addressed the meeting regarding thu improvements that are necessary to make thu Willamette navigable by good slicil Isiats all the year. He emphii sUed the necessity of dredging the up per river to remove some of the barn that are the greatest hindrance to navi gation, of building revetments opHstto Albany, Corvallls and Independence; to keep the river In Its channel mid deepen the same, and In general In dorsed the recommendations of Major Lnngfltt, who recently examined the river on behalf of the government and whoso recommendations are now cm (sidled In the river and harbor appro priation bill pending before congress. It was further lecoinmemled that thu War department be encouraged to pur chase the locks nt Oregon City, thus removing Hint obstruction to upper river trnlllc. These locks add fit) cents per ton to freight rates between nil lower and upper river points. Thu club appointed u committee con sisting of F. J. Miller, Dr. W. II. Davis and K. D. Cuslck to confer with like, committees from thu Commercial eltilw of Salem, Independeticu and Corvallls, and to draft resolutions favoring tho immcdlnto improvement ol the river, according to thu recommendations of Major fjiiiglltt, and to secure u visit to thu upper river from Senator J. II, Mitchell and Congressman lllnget Hot maun during their stay In Portland. Tin Pan Chanf-.ct Hnndi. Grants Pass An imiKirtaut mining sale has Just Iktii consummated hero in the exchange of thu Tin Pan mine, of Galls creek. It was suhl by Willi Kreinar and II. O. Itccd to A. A. Tail be.neck and associates, of Allegheny, Pa. The consideration Is) lO.OOOcash. The Tin Pan Is one of thu most promis ing of thu Galls creek district proxr ties, and Is well develojxil. The ore of thu Tin Pan Is remarkable by reason ,ol the large percentage of lead and silver carried, which with the gold brings the values up to 2fl anil (.'10 a ton. Ex-Sheriff to Poorhoute. Hlllsboro Kx-Sherlff W. D. Ilriul ford, who a week ago was stricken with paralysis, has loon removed to tho county poor farm, where he Is to bo cared for. He served as sheriff two terms ami was a jmpular. olllrial, but sickness in his family and thu death of his wife, a few years ago, have ruined him financially. Ills condition Is not improved, and fears are cutcrtulucd W his recovery, Two Cold Orlcka, Cottage Grove F.J. Hard icturmi) from Ikihvmla and brought with him two gold bricks, the result of thu re cent clean-up from the ten-stamp mill that Is In operation at tho Vesuvius mine. Mr. Hard says the plant Is work ing to thu company's satisfaction, and thu mill is kept running day and night. This Is thu second clean-up fiom that new plant since it started a short time Another Livestock Delegate, Kiileni Another delegate. In (lie person of O. (1. AndrweH, of Linn coun ty, uai mm npnuei y uovurnor Chamltcrlaln to attend tho convention of the National I.ivcsotck annotation, to be held at Denver, Colo,, Januury 10 to 13, 1005. Sinking Main Shaft. Humpter Columbia company Is now sinking thu main shaft, which is down 60 feet below the 700-foot level. Orb for thu mill Is being stoped from tho upper works, and enough is In sight to insure an indefinite run. THE MARKETS. Wheat Portland Walla Walla, 85c; bluwtem, 88S8Hc; valley, 87c. Tacoum lllucstem, 88c; club, 85c. Kggs Oregon ranch, 32c. Butter Fancy creamery, 2527Kc. IIojw Choice, 2l)30c; prime, 27 28c. Wool Valley, 1020c; Kantcrn Ore goo, 1017c; molialr, 2626c. I . 1! mi