OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY SEPT. 22, 1911,
Oregon City Courier
First Independent Paper in Oregon.
W. A. SHEWMAN, PuhUsher.
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M. J. BROWN, - Editor.
WHAT WE'LL DO SOME DAY.
The price of beef Is up to stay up.
so the newspapers and market reports
tell us. The range doesn't supply the
cattle. We eat more than we raise,
so there is nothing more to It than
high prices.
This is the excuse the meat pack
ers, the cold storage outfits and the
beef trust are giving out daily.
But I saw another reason In the
press dispatches the other day, a rea
son that cropped out at a meeting of
producers and consumers at Port
Worth, Tex., a meeting of labor
unions, farmers' organizations, boards
of trade and the Cattleraisers Asso
elation of Texas.
And the president of this associa
tion showed figures to prove that the
cost of raising cattle this year has
been the same as last year, while the
packing houses took the cattle off the
market this year at from $1.50 to
$2.00 a hundred less than last year.
And beef goes up. There Is a short
age and It costs the packers more
so they give it out to we saplieads.
Beef goes up, pork goes up, mutton
goes up, because the packers who
have the supply cornered make them
go up, because they have the cold
storage morgues to lay it away until
the people get hungry enough to pay
the price.
Some day we will buck these trusts
with their own methods some day
when we got sense enough to act
when we protest.
Some day the cattle raisers and
meat eaters will form a trust to break
a trust; they will have their own
selling agencies and their own
slaughter houses and their own pack
ing plants.
A RIGHT TO KILL.
If you were ut death's door, wait
ing and counting the hours of agony
until merciful death stopped your
clock waiting until consumption,
Brlght's disease or cancer slowly ate
out your vitals and a friend handed
you an ounce of laudanum, and you
rushed the finish with it, would you
have that friend made an assistant at
a suicide, made a criminal before the
law?
The papers have been having much
to say about the Shakers at KlHsImme,
Fla., arraigned on a charge of mur
der, because they administered chlo
roform to a woman who was in the
last hours ' of consumption, because
they relieved her of the horror of
choking to death, and let her pass
away in painless sleep.
When the good book laid down that
command, "Thou Shalt not WU" I
don't believe there was a great white
plague, nor di I believe it was sup
posed to cover such cases as at Kls
slmmee, Fla.
I had a friend die In New York
state, die after weeks and months of
awful ngony, die after a cancer had
at Inst eaten through and found his
vitals.
There "was no help on earth for this
man. The great tumor spread, are
away the covering of his stomach
and exposed his vltnls. Day after day
it consumed him until finally death
gave relief.
This man begged and Implored the
family and nurses to end his ngony
to give him some means to end life.
It would have been more than hu
manity to have grunted his requost
It would have been mercy.
This may seem a harsh means to
we who have never observed Incur
able disease, but there should bo a
national law that would permit a phy
sician to Bhorten the agony and has
ten the death of a patient, when there
Is no earthly help.
. What do you think?
President Taft used his head right.
In the Dr. Wiley matter when he
gave it out that tho doctor should
stay on the Job. And the president
could do another popular Blunt If he
would now apply to Attorney General
Wlckershnm the suggestion he ap
plied to Wiley that ho be pormltted
to resign.
George H. PrlmroHe, the famous
minstrel man of Primrose & West,
who commenced divorce proceedings
against his wife In this city some
weeks ago, has had another think,
So has Mrs. Primrose. They have
kissed, made up, forgotten the past,
and announce they will hereafter live
In Oregon. And this announcement
will forgive them both.
Confidence
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s-tt whffm he can turn when he has little.
v. (Jjiavin confidence in this bank begets its confi
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on the road to success without giving and receiv
. ing confidence.
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through thirty years of square dealing and help
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The Bank of Oregon City
The Oldest Bank in the Country
THE GREAT UNKNOWN FIVE.
Here are the names of five men,
and I wish I knew how few of you
could tell who they are, and what
they are, without going down this ar
ticle any farther:
Henry C. Crosby, Thomas W. Page
James B. Reynolds, William M. How
ard, Alvin H. Saunders.
Here's another bunch of names, and
I'll bet a year's subscription against
a pound of beef that every male read
er above ten years can tell you who
they are and what Job they're, on-
Ty Cobb, Hans Wagner, Nap Lajole,
Chris Matthewson, and others.
Without keeping you guessing any
longer, the five men above that you
never heard of are the men who hold
the nation's trusts in the hollows of
their hands they are the men on
whose say-so the president of our
country laid aside deliberations and
findings of a nation s congress, men
whose findings will be greater than
that of congress and senate the tar
iff board.
Didn't even know their names, did
you? Didn t have anytning to ao wun
giving them -these jobs or making
them censors of a nation's tariff laws?
You don't even know what states
ihey are from, what their politics is,
or anything about them.
But they're some people, this big
five. On their say congress Is sup
posed to make laws according to or
der, to tax Or untax, make or unmak
trusts and to determine whether oi
no the wool schedule is indefensible,
and if so how much.
But will congress take orders from
this Big Five?
We'll see next winter.
THE ELEPHANT AND THE FLY.
I note that the moral element of
New York state has put on its fight
ing togs and is raising an awful howl
because a bill has slipped through the
legislature permitting glove contests
in limited rounds before clubs.
And while this moral element was
digging up statistics to show that a
half dozen men had been killed in
the past ten years In boxing contests,
nine men were killed outright and
fourteen others badly injured in an
automobile racing contest at the state
fair at Syracuse in two minutes
If the moral people of New York
would go after these death-dealing
auto races, Instead of glove contests
and horse races, they would get bet
ter action on their endeavors.
There should be a national law
making voting compulsory, with a
penalty of disfranchisement. A man
who can vote and won t vote, should
never open his face about conditions
or how this country should be run.
If every man who was able to vote
was compelled to vote, it would do
much to stop the looting of both par
ties.
You argue that It's a man's own
business whether he votes or not, and
that no one has a right to dictate?
How about the compulsory education
law? You may as well argue that
It's a father's own business whether
his child goes to school or not, but a
wise law says the child shall, Just
the same.
When you ask your grocer for a
dollar's worth of sugar you pay 25
cents as a tax to help out the sugar
trust and receive 75 cents' worth of
sugar. Colly! How you would howl
If you had to pay that tax In a stamp
bought o fthe government and pasted
on your sugar! The party that framed
that sort of a stamp tax would not
last long enough to put another stamp
tux on necessities; but there are a
thousand such stamps on necessities,
only we don't Bee them. Portland
Uibor Press.
THE HALTER METHODS.
They fire put after Secretary of
Stale Olcott now, and the Republicans
want to hang his skin on the fence
because he does not assay high
enough in Republicanism, because,
posing as a Republican he worked
hard to bring about dovernor West's
election.
Rathor slim grounds to ask a man's
defeat on, after thousands of Repub
lican voters of the state did the very
same.
And haven't we a United States
senator who hasn't always been lu
clone communion with the Republican
party, in fact bo far away from it at
times that his party identity Is really
In doubt.
And what of It, anyway? It's the
man people want these days. It does
n't make any difference what his
spots are so long as he knows how to
run the office of secretary of state.
The "organization" will have to go
a llltlo deeper than party regularity
to Incite voters against Mr. Olcott.
Lust year we Americans paid one
hundred and thirty-nine millions of
dollars tax on sugar a tax against
ourselves on a necessity we can't get
along without,
And sugar goes up, up, up.
They say tho object Is to protect
the few beet sugar growers, but of
course It is to protect the sugar trust.
But we are used to it and seem to
llko it.
ONE POINT OF VIEW.
What the Courier editor doesn'i
know about single tax would make a
volume. But six months in the state
and but a few months a student of
the subject, he isn't trying to put over
any Solomon stunts on you.
But like the Irishman at the Donny-
brook fair scrap, he has just simply
got to get In and mix It, and if he
can't scrap much he can make a world
of noie.
.This article isn't going to take you
down moral roads, into technicalities
or statistics. We already have too
much of these mixed up with the is
sue now too mucb ior aoout nail oi
us to get an understanding of.
I am going to present the strictly
selfish side, the viewpoint from the
fireside. And when you get right down
to brass tacks, our politics, morals
and religion are pretty strongly based
on this fireside regardless of how
much we four-flush and play hypo
crite.
So let us look at the claims of sin
gle tax entirely from the viewpoint of
the hog the hog who is willing his
neighbor should have what he himself
can't eat, and the rest of the hogs
what the neighbor leaves.
In smoother terms, the man first,
his neighbor next, and then the state.
Now the single tax proposition will
tax only land values the unproduc
tive value of acres. It will abolish
taxes on notes, mortgages, mills, fac
tories and personal property of all
kinds.
Now let us start with the farmer
and then take us all down the line,
Oregon Is a whale of a state In size
but a minnow in population and de
velopment. There's a big area of land
in- sight, but only a little of it to
hitch taxes onto. There's a streak
down the west coast that has rich
and valuable Improved land, so in or
der to keep the rest or the state irom
taking the bankruptcy act, everything
that Is movable or immovable is taxed,
and the result is that the average
farmer thinks about the best show he
has for his alley Is get along with
the least stuff the assessors are look
ing for to cut out improvements and
do away with visible personal proper
ty. Now single tax tells this farmer ev
ery dollar of tax on improvements, on
cattle, hogs, houses, barns, orchards,
etc., will be abolished, and that his
taxes will not be a cent more on nis
farm than on the non-producing,
logged-off farm of his neighbor across
the road.
Now It would seem from a purely
selfish point of view that the farmer
ought to fall for this bait and swal
lo wit, hook, sinkers and line.
But heres some more:
If taxation in Oregon is put on its
broad acres with justice if the man
who has copped out a big tract and is
waiting for his neighbors' Industry to
make it valuable to him some sweet
day if this man has to pay taxes on
what his dead land Is really worth,
why he's got to make It produce or he
can't afford to pay those taxes.
And the result? There can t.be but
one. This land has simply GOT to
bring in an income. So the specu
lator must sell it not at what he asks
for It but at what he can get for it,
nd the great private and corporation
holdings in Oregon will be broken up,
bought up, settled up. N
And what follows this? Villages,
allroads, good roads, schools, church
es, and a settled community, good to
live in.
And then again all the while keep
ing In view the selfish motive:
Supposing Oregon should vote for
single tax, and Washington and Cali
fornia kept on with their present sys
tem of hold up.
What would be the result?
Do you recall when Oklahoma
passed the bank guarantee of depos
its law? Do you recall how Kansas
and Texas had to get into the same
bandwagon to keep its money from
going over the lines to Oklahoma
banks?
The result would be the same here.
Thousands and thousands of home-
Beekers are flocking out to this coast,
but how many of them does Oregon
catch?
There are thousands and thousands
of acres of land in this state, utterly
worthless so far ns production goes,
yet you enn't rent it or buy It. It is
held by rich men and big companies
to make a clean up on some day in
the future.
If this land was, for sale at reason
able prices, and Oregon could tell
land-seekers that this state would not
tax them a cent on any improvements
they would make, do you think set
tlers would go to Washington and
California?
I don't either.
Now I know just what you are go
ing to argue, and I am going to beat
ou to it.
You will say this single tax is the
rich man's law, and that it will ex
empt from taxation the notes and ac
counts of the rich, men. And I will
ask you to turn back to last week's
Courier, to 0. D. Robblns' statement,
that the tax levied on this line or per
sonal property in Clackamas County
last year was on a valuation of $104,-
000, while ONE of our banks had over
$500,000 on deposit.
And now about the mills and In
dustries that would be let off with
only a tax on ihelr power, franchise
or ground values.
When we go Industry-hunting what
Inducements de we hand out?
First, we exempt from taxation the
plant, for so many years that our
grandchildren will do the, collecting;
then we add to It usually free water,
lights, a donated site and often a cash
subscription.
We do this ns an investment, we
are glad to, because it Is a good trade
and we get labor, prosperity, develop
ment, and business in exchange.
Now, supposing we could advertise
to the United States that Oregon
would not tax any Industry a dollar if
It would, locate here.
Do you Imagine the eastern actories
that are hunting coast locations would
pass up Oregon and go to Washing
ton and California, ns they are now
doing?
And once more a tight and selfish
one:
If Multnomah County should vote
for single tax (and it will as surely
as the voters are given the chance)
and Clackamas County should not,
don't you know that county would Btop
every factory and farm hunter, and
that we would be weary waiters for
settlers and factories? Cnn't get
away from this any more than Texas
could from Oklahoma's bank deposit
guarantee.
From an aeroplane. view of this sin
gle tax question it would seem that
It would benefit the farmers, the
country districts, the villages and the
industries, because of more develop
ment, more work, more demand, more
people, and that the only ones whose
corners the system would cut would
be the men and corporations who have
over half of Oregon tied up.
These men would have to unhitch'
and Oregon will never be much until
they do unhitch, single tax or not.
As stated, the writer doesn't know
all about the issue. This article per
haps Is a mild filirtatlon with a prom
Ising blonde. Perhaps you can show
that powder covers freckles and that
her hair Is dyed. If you can, the
writer Is ready for conversion. There's
an old saying that a smart man will
change his mind, and a fool won't.
The writer is a progressive, he be
lieves in new ideas, in new ways and
means. The West is progressive -and
its progression Is giving the East
nightmare.
And if you think the single tax idea
of progression Is going to put Oregon
on the blink, don't take anyone's word
for the contrary, but go up to Van
couver, B. C, or write up to Van
couver, B. C, and absolutely know
wiiat single tax has done and is doing
for that city and the surrounding
country.
You can't get away from this liv
ing, moving' demonstration. It's
there. See It or find out about It.
An eastern traveling man, a friend
or the editor, who has this summer
been in Vancouver, had this to say,
last week:
"I don't know whether It Is single
tax, double tax or no tax that is mak
ing Vancouver what It is, but any city
or any country had better find out
and use the same prescription. It's
the goods up there."
Better look it over, and think it
over before you thoroughly make up
your mind on the question of single
tax.
FOOD RIOTS NEXT.
Sugar has jumped four cents per
pound In as many weeks, and there is
no reason for it than that the Ar
buckles and the sugar refiners have
cornered sugar.
If the convicted sugar thieves had
been sent to prison two years ago,
we would not now be paying their
fines, nor would sugar be cornered.
And sugar Is but one of the many
necessities that is going up. And
they will continue to go up, so long
as a government holds open oppor
tunities to make millions on a "cor
ner," they will continue to go up un
til there will be food riots In this
country.
And when the people break loose
here there will be something doing.
They won't always stand for this
downright robbery by the truBts.
The New York World says Presi
dent aTft will be under suspicion un
til some of the trust magnates of this
country are imprisoned after convic
tion. USING A SUPREME "PULL."
Here follows a press dispatch that
I want the opposers of the recall of
judges to think over a few, and let
the significance sink In:
New York, Sept. 1C Railroads
here today are uniting to urge the
United States supreme court to
uphold the decision of Federal
Judge Sanborn nulllfing the Min
nesota Btate 2-cent fare law.
The above dispatch doesn't state
much until you get to thinking it over
and then it states a lot.
Railroads uniting to urge the Unit
ed States supreme court to decide
against Minnesota's state laws.
Railroads going after the greatest
court In our nation in the same way
a lot of ward heelers would go after
a mayor.
Railroads going after the founda
tions of our government In the same
way the patronage-hunters and favor
pleaders go after a congressman.
Urging our greatest court, by the
show of strength to stand by a lower
judge's decslon and upset a state's
legislative act,
And I tell you when a country's
railroads bunch up and tell a supreme
court what they want, the people of
a country want to bunch tin and have
a recall handy.
I am not criticising the supreme
court for this action of the railroads,
nor am I defending a two-cent rate
in Minnesota, On the other hand I
do not believe a two-cent fare, a com
pulsory rate that makes the little
cross roads compete with the trunk
line, is justice. But I am kicking on
a condition in this country that make8
the railroads see a chance to make a
demonstration influence on supreme
court decision.
If we had the recall of supreme
court Judges you wouldn't see such
press items as above.
WHO'LL CARRY OEECON?
Senator Chamberlain says Wilson
Is going to cop out the Democratic
nomination, and that he will have
three-fourths of the votes of Oregon
when election comes.
Senator Chamberlain is a Democrat
and of course we want to add a pinch
of salt to his prediction. Harmon
has yet 4,0 be figured on in the race,
and he is a man who is a hard fight
er. Then there comes the stand-pat
element in the party, the Democrats
who would much rather see Taft elect
ed than a progressive Democrat. Mr.
Wilson isn't nominated yet, altho he
Is running in pole position,'
As to Mr, Chamberlain's statement
that Wilson would get three-fourths
of Oregon's vote, we might as well
look at conditions as they are In this
state and acknowledge he is some
guesser, There is no getting away
from the fact that President Taft has
made a bad hit in progressive Oregon
with his tariff acts and opposition to
the recall. He is In Bad out here
where the demand is for the free list
to go with reciprocity, for the recall
to go with the elected judges. His
position smells too much of trust plug
ging and campaign contributions to
make him a vote getter.
It Is a long time between now ana
election, time for changes in senti
ment, and time to make or break
presidential candidates. But If the
elections were this fall, it would take
more sand than Lloyd's to bet even
money on Taft
You may be jumping sideways to
keep out of sight of your grocer who
you owe $10 and can't pay, but you
are a w hole lot better off than Copper
King Costello, of Los Angeles, who
was buried Sunday. Costello had
$5,000,000, a .32 revolver and no
health. He would gladly have glyen
you four millions for your health, but
money can't buy that So he put the
gun to his head and left the fortune
for the children to spend, Do you fall
over the moral?
Wanted to rent, a farm of Mbout 40
acres'uear Oregon Oity. Ask at the
Conner offioe.
WILL BEAR WATCHING.
Whether or not the people of Ore
gon want a special session of the
legislature for good roads legislation
depends.
It is given out that the governor
will call an extra session , under cei
tain conditions, that not one of the
vetoed bills or former bills of the
legislature shall be resurrected at
considered, that every member of the
legislature shall pay his own expen
ses, and that the session shall not
cost the state one cent
Good for the governor. This Is the
kind of a program Clackamas County
property owners want, but
The expense of good roads legis
lation Isn't entirely In the railroad
fare and hotel bills of the legislators.
A special session may be pulled
off at Salem that will not cost a tax
payer of Oregon one copper penny,'
yet It may be the most expensive
legislation that was ever saddled on
to a state.
It Isn't the details the taxpayers
should keep their eyes on. It's the
main show they want to watcn.
While they are watching to see that
some senator or assemblyman does
not put a meal ticket over on them,
some of them may saddle (enough
expensive roadbullding, political fat
jobs on the state to more than offset
the cost of fitting out a war vessle
with grub for a year's cruise.
What the taxpayers of Oregon are
interested in is not so much whether
a senator gets his car fare paid to
Salem, but how much of a political
road machine is going to be organ
ized, and how much of the money is
going into good state roads and how
much into good state jobs.
The bills as framed up at Portland
last week start out with a $5000 sal
ary and an appropriation out of the
state treasury $50,000 to pay salaries.
this is a dead wrong way to make
Oregonians think special good roads
legislation is necessary. Under our
present laws this great sum would
not have to be paid out in yearly
salaries, and this sum put Into county
after county every year would do
SOME road building.
If legislators want to represent
their voters they want to go down
to Salem and keep their hand on the
lid, and not plug through any old
fixed-up bill, made In Portland last
week ,and ready to be passed off as
state deliberation.
The Woodburn Tribune has it fig
ured out that President Taft's train
will go through that place at five
o'clock in the morning of October 12,
and suggests that the commercial club
make arrangements for a reception
and an automobile trip. There is just
a sugestion of a doubt that the presi
dent s party might not fall for this
early morning doings and that the en
gineer might not hold the train for
them to look over the city. But
there's a heap of fun in anticipation.
The resignation' of Judge Peter S.
Grosscup, of Chicago, from the Unit
ed Slates supreme court, won't be a
matter for the people to go into
mourning over. This friend to the
corporations would long ago have
been pulled down if the people had
had the recall. This Is the man whq
set aside the Standard Oil fine of
$29,000,000 on the ground that the
Standard had been found more guilty
on trial than on indictment.
The recall will never make a man
honest, any more than the pen
itentiary prevents crime, or the
hangman's noose a murder. A
man must be honest and straight
forward by nature. You can't leg
islate honesty into his heart.
Dallas Observer.
But if by chance a rascal should
get into public office (such instances
have been known) would you let him
die on the job on the theory that the
recall couldn't change him? Or would
you recall him and try to get another
man, as you do in the Observer .or
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THEORY PRACTICE
"We can get along without com
petition; we can get along with
out monopoly, and the business
men of this country must square
themselves with that necessity.
Either that or we must proceed
to state socialism and invest the
government with power to run
every business." President Taft,
at Detroit Monday. "
Yes, we CAN get along without
competition, and we are, so far as
big business is concerned. And we
CAN get along without monopoly, but
how? -
Telling business men that they
must realize conditions or that So
cialism and government ownership
will follow, won't turn the trick.
You can't scare the trusts into hon
esty. Fining the sugar trusts thous
ands of dollars and letting them take
it back , through public assessments,
won't prevent their cornering the
market.
There are two ways to stop the
trust plundering. Put the big thieves
in jail for combining in restraint of
trade. That will do It fast enough.
Or hand over the necessities to the
government to control.
Either remedy will do It and one
of them will certainly be applied be
fore long.
THE 68 CENT LEAK.
Mrs. George T. Carley, writing from
Oregon City to the Portland Journal
about unprofitable farming in Clack
amas county, makes the statement
that from G2 to 68 cents out of ev
ery dollar paid by the consumer of
food stuffs in cities goes to the mid
dle man and transportation.
What do you farmers think of the
rake-off?
The Courier has had something to
say along this line before, and we
expect to stay with it until we can
get the farmers of this country to
come out of it, and take action to
change places with the middleman
and get at least 02 cents of their
dollar's worth.
There's an awful difference be
tween farm prices and Portland re
tall prices. Fruits often rot under
the farmers' trees while the retail
price Is soaring in the cities.
With the commission men out of
the deal, and the farmers selling di
rect to Portland, consumers would
get stuff cheaper and farmers would
get higher prices a combination that
would make a few produce dealers
sorry and a lot of farmers and con
sumers happy.
The Portland News Tuesday said
that last week five tons of string
beans, several tons of melons and
two tons of fish were burned by deal-
ers to keep the 'price up to eaters in
Portland, and get the big rake-off.
It's" the same methods as the sug
ar trust employ only that the trust
hides out Instead of destroying.
If -farmers Yf Clackamas county
would organize, cut out the middle
man, and sell direct, they would bene
fit themselves and the eaters. And
If Portland would open its city to the
farmers for an open free market the
News could not publish such Items
as above.
Itching, bleeding, protruding or
blind piles yield to Doan'a Ointment.
Chronio cases soon relieved, finally
oared. Drageists all Bell it.
Fall
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powder
You fellows who have It figured out
that the only way to beat the high
prices is to die and quit the game,
will have to figure again. News dis
patches from the Monument Dealers'
Association in Cincinnati tell us that
prices on tombstones will advance.
Senator LaFollette wants the gov
ernment to control Alaska, to own
and operate Its railroads, and he says
he will work hard to bring out such
a law next winter. But there are big
ger men who don't want this. Yet
Follette will have to fight all the big
Interests and the Oregonlan before
the government will mine much of
Alaska's coal.
NEWS OF OREGON.
Little Items that Tell the News
of a Big State.
Work on the construction of the
Dullas armory, for Company H.
Fourth infantry, O. N. O., has been
commenced.
Spraying for fruit pests will be
done In Lake county the coming year
for the first time. Some of the trees
that were brought in from the ou'.sida
nurseries are the reason.
When the clouds clear away It will
be found that damage to prunes and
hops In Marlon County has been In
significant, according to the leading
growers of these two staple Marlon
County products.
Charles O'Malley, superintendent oi
government fish hatcheries, Is In
Klamath Falls to look over the sta
tion there with a view to recommend-
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eminent hatchery.
The record peaches for the Hood
River Valley were raised by B. E.
Heifer, whose ranch Is on the west
Bide of the Belmont district. Four of
the peaches, Elbertas, weighed each
more than a pound.
With the completion of the Central
Oregon railroads In sight and the ap
proach of the fall colonist rates on
the transcontinental lines, develop
ment again seems to be In the air In
the Interior portion of the state.
Railroad chiefs and development
experts who will congregate next
month at Burns, Harney county, say
that the convention of the Oregon De
velopment League, to be held there
October 2-3, Is to be the most Import
ant development congress held In Ore
gon history.
The Oregon Agricultural College is
to be represented on the committee
on awards for the big international
barley and hop exhibits at Chicago.
October 12 to 22, connected with the
American Exposition -of brewing ma
chinery, materials and products, by
Professor H. V. Tartar, of the chem
istry department.
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may find there for ne jttt what yo
are looking-for.
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