THE MOENIXG OREGONIAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 73 1903. 11 TO TRY INITIATIVE Federated Trades Will Bring Up Defeated Bills. HAY TRY TO DEFEAT SOME LAWS Labor Leader Will Submit Plans to Union Men for Placing on tae Statute Books Advocated Legislation. The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has 145,000 members through out the United States. May Form "Union. That the corters and packers of the city may form a union a meeting will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 P. M. In the office of the State Federation of Labor, 2324 Washington street G. Harry, the president of the State Federation, -win conduct the meeting and assist In the formation of the union, Mr. Harry says that the large number of men in the class which" he -wishes to reach have long been unorganized, and that their condition would be greatly improved should the meeting result in the formation of a union. JUST ACROSS THE LINE TO LAY DOUBLE TRACK. The members , of the Federated Trades Council may take eome action whicn win brine the Initiative and referendum act tt nuv Tx-ith recard to a number pre sented before the Legislature, but which failed to pass both houses. At the meeting of the council last even ing the legislative committee brought in the proper forms for submitting bills tn tha neonla. The bills which the labor men brought before the last session of the Legislature Include the eight-hour and a number of r.riirrtiv affectinc the labor or ganization. The council has not declared what measures it wishes to initiate, or what bills which passed It does not wish tn. Ho nnfnrred. The auestlon will be put to the labor men of the city and either vntm win he taken in the different unions or -a mass meeting called to learn the nninlnn of the union men hare. As the matter stands at present the council has merely opened the way by which those affiliated with It may make known their sentiments. ' To bring a new bill to a referendum vote through the initiative nroeess 5 ner cent of the voters of the state must declare that they w!eh the matter brought up. That a measure which haa already passed the Legislature may be brought before tho referendum, a vote of 8 per cent Is required. The council recommended that the American Federation of Labor appoint two additional organizers to work in Port land. As a result of an election Harry Rogers, of tho Typographical Union, and E. A. Austin, of the Painters Union,, were recommended to the position. Though there aro 67 unions in this city now, and several in the process of formation, It is thought opportunity exists for more or ganizers to work in the city exclusively. The members of the council are much Interested In the success of the Flour and Cereal Mill Employes' Union, which has recently been organized with a member chip of 30 per cent of the employes of that class. The new union will hold an open meeting in Caledonian Hall Sunday at 2 P. M.. with the purpose of Inducing more of the millmen to Join the organization. XIVE-KOTJH. BAY OH STRIKE. LeathcrTVorlters Union Also Wants More Pay. Unless the employers unexpectedly ac cede to the demands of the Leatherwork ers' Union, a strike affecting 150 men will begin Tuesday. A committee from the union called upon the four shops involved yesterday morning and made the state ment which the employers have been pre pared to hear for some time. A strike per mit has been received by the union, and the members say they will stand by their demands until the higher Tiay and shorter hours "asked for are granted. Several of the employers declare that they are Individually ready to grant the scale if it was a part of a general demand made to all factories In tho country, but that under present conditions the3' would suffer by competition should they allow the new scale desired by the union. The strike will affect all classes of workers upon horse goods and fully 150 men will go out of work on Tuesday morning un less the employers change their position In a hurry- Piecework Is the rule among the leather workers, but a minimum wage has been set by the scale for different classes of the business, and every man's pay for one day's work must amount to that sum. The harnessmakers- have been receiving 52.50 and now wish 53, while the saddle- makers want a raise of 25 cents, advanc ing their wages to 53.25 a day. The point to which the employers object most stren uously Is the nine-hour day wanted by their men. In one shop, that of George Lawrence Company, nine hours haa been the extent of a day's work since February 1. This company believes that it has granted all that is reasonable, and that the wage scale cannot be allowed without damage to Its business. In the other shops ten hours va day has been the rule. The union men say that they will stand 'Irmly upon this point until the shorter hours are granted. Tho four shops affected by the possible strike are; The Breyman Leather Com pany, the George Lawrence Company, P. J. Cronln Company, and the John Clark Saddlery Company. All tho employers aro very reticent In regard to the threatened strike, and It Is possible that they will change their minds before Tuesday ar rives and their employee walk out. The union struck lapt year and after a five weeks strike gained their demands, The new scale has been in preparation for several weeks and a strike permit has been granted to the Portland union by the international association. The em ployers were at first Inclined to 'regard this as a bluff on the part of the men. but the stand now taken by the union haa convinced them that the men aro sincere in their demands. The Federated Trades Council can take no action In the matter until the Leather workers Union admits that it can do nothing further toward gaining the ends desired. Then the grievance committee of the Council may take up tho scale with the employers. The officers of the federation believe that no strike will occur. "There will be no strike of the lcatherworkers." said G. Y. Harry, the state organizer of the federation last evening. "The strike of last year showed the employers that the men could stay out for a long time if they thought it necessary, and I do not think that last year's occurrence will be repeated. LIVELY TOWNS EC NOK.TKER.X CALIFORNIA. Horabroolc, Henley- and- KlamathoH Have Many Thriving: 1h-'tlHstries. Southern Paclflc Company Widens Embankments. The Southern Pacific Company is rapidly widening the embankment on East First street for Its proposed sec ond track, which will be built to East Clay street. With the sidetracks to the warehouses and the main lines. It will be necessary to fill up the street for nearly Its entire width. The work that Is being done will greatly facilitate the handling of trains, and will be of great advantage to the warehouses, which will be provided with sidetracks on solid ground. It Is said the company will lay double tracks to the carshops, and finally to Oregon City. An effort is being made to secure a -50-foot strip alongside the present 20 foot right of way to Powell street, so that a second track can be laid. The 30 foot strip Is not wide enough for two tracks. From Powell street the company owns a strip 60 feet wide. The company is hampered In the handling of trains, and there Is much delay. Long lumber trains have to be made up almost every day from Inman, Poulsen & Co.'s sawmill. From the carshops the company Is wldr ening its roadbed eight feet, which Is wide enough to put down a second track, if desired. There is a report to the effect that the company will double Its track to Oregon City and put on extra trains to that place, but this is not confirmed. Dirt trains arrive dally from Canby and deposit their loads along East First street. It is considered probable that th com pany will fill up Its terminal grounds be fore very long. W. E. Spicer. who operates the large feed mill on East First, between East Stark and East Washington, said yester day that the fill the company is making is a big thing for that whole district. He had been Informed that the company would build a double track through to the carshops. "This is a -move In the right direction," he -said, "and X am look ing for all the streets to be finally filled. We are going to have East Washington street relmproved. East Oak street also Is to be Improved. Wo should have East Stark and East Water street redecked. which would put -us In good shape. I think these improvements will likely be the last made before the streets are filled up. The business of the district will de mand the filling of the streets and low lands before many years." Plans are being prepared for the hew sawmill and factory for the Standard Box Factory Company at tho foot of East An keny and East Oak streets, where the Council vacated several streets. It will be one of the largest plants on the Coast. At the foot of East Pine street the East Side Lumber Company, now completing a sawmill at Sellwood, will erect a large lumber dock. Nottingham .& Co. recently purchased a half block on East Second between East Stark and East Washing ton streets, and will probably build a two-story warehouse 100x100 on the cor ner of East Second and East Stark streets this year. The Oregon Water Power & Railway Company will fill up East Water street for Its track to East Oak street a3 soon as its track is laid Into the terminal grounds from Sellwbod. Doubtless" the whole of East Water street will be filled up at that time. It is Is announced that the Oregon Water Power & Hallway Company will hring In dirt so cheaply that it will pay to fill up all the low ground between Union venue and the Willam ette River. The reason given for the re cent Increase of Insurance rates in the warehouse district is to compel the filling of streets with solid earth. With Its track on East Water street the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company can Uapldly fill up the whole district from flat cars. WOODWORKERS NO MORE. . rinnlnur Mill Men's Union No. 1450 Is Organised. The local branch of the Amahramated Woodworkers, the organization which I caused the strike of last year among the building trades unions. Is no more. It i has been practically out of existence for' some time, and the reconstruction was completed last evening, when C Bomber ger. the general organlzor of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, organised Planing Mill Men's Union No. 1450 of the brotherhood. At the time of the strike the union of tho woodworkers numbered SO persons, but after tho strike was settled nearly 150 more became members. The new union was organized with 63 charter members, and elected the following officers: Presi dent. J. P. Monner; vice-president. Robert Maralns; recording secretary. H. B. Staf ford; financial secretary, J. T. Garnett; treasurer, E. J. Harlan. Meetings will be held every Friday evening in the Cale donian Hall, Second and Yamhill streets. The change was made by the woodwork ers withdrawing their charter from the international association and taking out a new charter from the United Brother hood of Carpenters and Joiners. By this move they belong to Carpenters Union No. to. the strongest and one of the most In fluential unions in the cits. All the wood mechanics arc therefore under one general association, and are thoroughly affiliated. Onr Cliaunccy. MYRTLE POINT, Or., March 3. (To the Editor.) That Mr. Depew. of New York, has limitations as to his make-up, all readily admit. As an orator he is unlike Danfel Webster, but he -Illustrates a type of American civilization in that he is the evolved product, as a speechmiker, of our industrial life. Our estimate of this spcechmaker depends upon thcpolnt of view. He has imagination, but imagina tion can interpret him. He is not always sober, although strictly temperate as to orinks. A mm was asked why his dog was so grave, and he replied, "Oh, sir! Life Is full of salrlousness to him; ho can just never get enough o fechtln." A per son may be serious without quarreling, but our Chauncey is not always serious. Love of wit can appreciate wit. When a widow lady kissed Mr. Depew upon leav ing his office, because of his apt replies to her inquiries, the quiet remark that the railroad president made, "These things are the perquisites of our office," pleases tho lover of a bright reply. He who Is ac customed to irony will not mako the. ob servation an old woman once made, "I Searly love to read Mr." TJIbbdn because of his' pious reflections." That .Mr.1 De pew tells an old story now and then' Is owing to the fact that all parts of the country are not Isolated like -the County of Coos, the world will discover some day. But stale, bread Is more welcome, if good, than new bread not made byyour mother. If we must have. something morp heavy than Depew presents, there aro the ponderous truisms of Mr. Cleveland, with out money and without price. As a Chris tian statesman our Chauncey, in spite of his playfulness. Is the equal of the other Senator from New York, notwithstanding his face, at least In his picture, is a plea for canonization as a boss saint after his career is run. That Mr. Depew can toss aside his Jokes and stories and rise to Impassioned and sustained utterance is manifest from tho recent plea he made In the Senate in. behalf of the purity of American homes. Mr. Depew may not be accurate in his story of the last speech made by Mr. Greeley, and the alleged conversation, but the world knows that Nast's cartoons came with great distress to Mr. Greeley, and alio, tho -decision the people reached, that the United States not being a great newspaper, Mr. Greeley need not leave the New York Tribune for tho White House, was more distressing to the aspirant for the Presidency. Mr. Reld may speak about these matters through subjective bias, because of his relations with tho Tribune. That Mr. Depew has been pulled together by an accident on the railroad of memory Is evident, but that no conversation something like ho says he had with Mr. Greeley took place is not so evident to the writer. Even when a person is not always telling us the truth we do not -call him a liar, for wo allow for the heat-of his Imagination. We call John . Falstaff an old . liar, be cause he had an imagination, and when he tells us of his courage, though-never having seen a battlefield, and when he exclaims. "'Would to God my name was not so terrible to the enemy as It Is!" we cry out, "Thou art a liar." Of course. Dr. Depew will never equal Bishop Stubba in painstaking accuracy., but he who reads Stubbs develops only patience, but De pew charms many. Though we some times tire of Chauncey. we are not very much afflicted that the dullness of the Senate can it lcajst listen to a voice easily ranking with that of Cicero In perfect absence from harshness and metallic quality. If our hero is not a lamp to our feet, he Is at least a pleasure to" our hearts. B, J. HOAX) LEY. Ta Cere a Cold la One Day Take Laxative Brorso-Qulnln&Tab'Kta. AH drug- rtta -jrRf f Vi mnnra If It falls tn ohtw E. W. Grove's signature U w.-cd J. HORNBROOK. CaL, March a (Special.) Hornbrook Is a Southern Pacific rail road town and It is a lively one. Here Is where Ihe "helper" engines are Kept to assist in taking the long, heaVy trains of passenger and freight cars up the grades to the summit of the Siskiyou Mountains -through the long tunnel into Oregon. This is the most convenient place for assembl ing the powerful engines and the nec essary train men, and as a consequence a thriving town has sprung up of about 3W people, and this population will in crease with the growing traffic of the Southern Pacific. Hornbrook Is a new town and the color of the new lumber has not yet been changed by the elements. Building operations are now retarded through the destruction by Are of the large sawmills at Klamathon, two and a ' halt miles south of here, but It Is hoped the mills will be rebuilt and thus again afford an abundant and convenient supply of building material. Cottonwood Creek flows through the val ley and empties into the Klamath River. On the railroad side of Cottonwood Creek is the town o Hornbrook. and on the opposite side the town of Henley, known In the SO's as Cottonwood. That this is to be a permanent "helper" station of the railroad Is evidenced by the class of improvements being made. There has Just been completed a steel oil tank to. store futl for the oll-burnlng locomo tives, which hold 15,000 barrels, and there Is now In course of construction a turn table which will cost 540,000. and later two more stalls will be added to the round house, making five In all. Hornbrook does not depend entirely upon the railroad for Its existence. There is a stock-raising and mining country ad jacent. Cottonwood Creek seems to be. the dividing line between the gold belt and the pasture and timber lands. On the western side of this stream, within sight of town, millions of dollars have been taken out while on the eastern side no gold, to speak of, has ever been found. A Lackr Miner. A story Is 'told" of the early days Illus trating the caprice of Dame Fortune. Sam W, Clarey. who Jives here, had a placer pilne and watery ditch on the hill side-above Hunter, opposite -here, and was dolnir very well, but had never "struck It rich," as th'tr expression goes. One night a heavy rain storm sent. torrents of water down the mining" ditch, and it-broke over tne banks and rushed down the mountain side, and wh6n morning came and Mr. Clarey saw the amount of damage uone he was beside himself with rage, but he went to the "wash," and, to his surprise and delight, found the .water, had un covered one of the very richest deposits of gold, and he gathered from the ground a fortune and afterwards sold his claim. and has since lived on the fortune there found. It can be truthfully said that Hornbrook and Henley have enterprising citizens. Such men as H. Horn, J. L. Coyle, J. A. Stroback. T. Jones, W. H. Whvbark, E. J. Fowler, A. S. Cuthbert, W. S. Baer, w. G. Day. V. E. Warrens, of Hornbrook, and F. T. Fratenburg. A. Sutphen, H. Mat- tern. Dr. J. T. PUnnell and G. T. Sals- bury, of Henley, are an advantage to any town and community. It was through tho energy of citizens of these towns that a 5300O county bridge and GO miles of wagon road were built, all but a few miles, last year, a 53003 bonus being raised In these two towns for the road, to bring in tne trade of the lower Klamath River. Horn brook is not a town to stand still when It has the energetic backing of its citizens on one side and the Southern Pacific Railroad on the other. It has, all the crude appearance of a new town, but real estate values are firm, the hotels are crowded, and the men in business are do Ing a brisk trade, Henley and Hornbrook are virtually one town although cotton wood Creek and a half mile space of land intervene, and what Is very commendable it that the most friendly feeling exists be tween the two settlements. Henley Prospects. Just back of Henley are four working quartz mines and several prospect mines. Within a very few weeks about 20 stamps will be dropping and from 00 to SO men be again on the payroll, each earning from 52 to 53 a day. The Le Flesh mine, of three stamrjs. the H. Mattern mine of ten stamps and the Jllson mine of ten stamps are all in the same locality, and practically the same proposition. Just over the hill Is a prospect owned by Michigan capitalists, which has been so far developed that 20 stamps are to be in stalled there and work on the buildings to begin at once. It may thus be sure that the Immediate future of Henley is very bright as a payroll means plenty of money. The power for propelling the stamns in the mines is now steam, but H. Mattern. superintendent of the Watanna mine, has already closed a contract with the Siskiyou Electric Power Company at 250 a month for EO-horse-power from the electric power plant, 17 miles distant. It is probable Superintendent G. T. Sals bury, of the Jllson or Hazel mine will also secure electric power. The power from Fall Creek, aggregating 2500 horse power. Is to be distributed over wires some time in March. If a ten-stamD auartz mill requires SO horseoower. the cost for operating each stamp is 525 a month. Mr. Mattern in forms me the ore In his mine is easily crushed, and one stamp has a capacity of three tons a day. At that rate It would cost 2 Scents a ton for crushing under the stamps. When the ore Is harder and only two tons per day can bo crushed, the cost would be about 40 cents a ton. That Is where the great advan tage Is going to come in using electric power In the mines that the cost per ton can be figured accurately. The mines In the district adjacent to Henley were op erated for several years, but the develop msnt did not keep pace with the stamps. and so only about ten men have been employed in each mine during the past two years, but a large force will be put to work at once. In the early days the present town of Henley was called Cottonwood, but the name was too long for convenience of the Postal Department,' and was changed to the present one. The popu lation is only about 200, but there are four business houses and several families living there ' permanently, and with the opening of the mines the population will double. Henley has an enterprise which Is a benefit to the whole community, and It Is an establishment "for curing rheuma tism, which Is very common In the mines. Hot air is used, and the results are very successful. Henley, as well as Horn brook. Is soon to be lighted by electricity on the circuit from the power, stal Ion on Fall Creek, a tributary of Klamath River. This power Is obtained from a 700-fopt fall, and will aggregate 2500 horse power, 5230.003 being the estimate of ex penditure. Yreka- capital is in the enter prise. Should more power be needed, a dam will be placed In. Klamath River and 2500 additional horsepower secured. There is very little timber immediately around Hornbrook or Henley, but about five miles back are Immense forests of sugar pine and Oregon white pine. There are still open for location tracts of land which will cruise from 3,000,O to 5.000.00C feet, but the heavier timber is all taken. This belt is one of the most extensive In this part of the country. It can bo easily reached from Hornbrook. Klamataan. On the 12th day of October last x very disastrous fire destroyed all the business I part of the town and the manufacturing plants. There was a sawmill oi w,wj i feet capacity a day, a box factory, sash and door factory, a planing mill and a drykiln. This mlU was. built In 1SSS by James Steel and M. B. Rankin, of Port land, and J. E. McLaughlin, of Michigan. The California and Oregon Legislatures granted them an exclusive privilege of floating logs down the luamatn Kiver, and several thousand dollars were ex pended in clearing rocks out of the river and building dams and log booms, but the hard times of 1392 compelled Messrs. Steel. Rankin and McLaughlin to sell the nrooerty. and It was purchased by John R. Cook & Co., of Chicago. The price of lumber was then very low, and they did not make it a paying Investment, and in April, 1S37, they leased the property to Mason, Llndley & Coffin. It was not more than a year after these gentlemen obtained possession of the mill that the demand lor lumber and the increased price made the business profitable, and during the past four years this mill has made a mint of money lor -tne lessees. cutting- about 15,000.000 feet annually. The lease is not out until April l, law. en tangling lawsuits over the rent have Dlaced matters so that, unless a compro mise is secured. It will be a year from now before a new mill can be built. 1 am not prepared to express an opinion on the merits of either side or the case. The people of Klamathon are very anx ious to Bee the mill rebuilt, as there were 200 men employed in the mills, and they were thrown out of work. This are in October burned out the mills and also the merchandise stores of Mason. Llndley & Coffin and Walden Bros. & Parshall, also Dickinson's Jewelry store, Mrs. Davis' millinery store, six saloons. Fowler's barber shop, Welllns bakery. Nichols and Gelsbrecbts- boarding- houses, Dollarhlde's hotel. Murphy's lodging-house, drug store, postomce ana .000.000 feet of lumber. The two systems of water works were left without cus tomers. There now remain in the town about 80 families and a hotel, two livery stables, schoolhouse. church.- saloon, two merchandise stores. undertaker and blacksmith. Charles Cole and W. B. Twombley in tend putting up at once a small sawmill for supplying locaL demands. The matter of Dossesslon of the site nere is in tne courts, and Just as soon as decided It Is very probable a large new sawmill will be built, as the location is a very valu able one, now being impeded in Winter by snow and being an excellent placo for open-air dorylng In summer, and tne iocs can be floated very cheaply. This comoanv owns nine miles of logging rail road and a chute for putting logs in tne river 20 miles up Klamath River, and also several thousand acres of timber lands. Mason. Llndley & Cofiln are building a- railroad up Klamath River Into Ore gon, at Klamath Falls, and have about half the road completed, and will begin shipping over it this Summer. The road Joins the Southern Pacific at Lairds, two miles south of Klamathon. The electric power plant is. 13 miles from Klamathon, and power for. factories can be secured from there, as the line passes through opposite the manufactur ing sites. Below Klamathon about four miles is ten-stamp quartz- -mill on. the Tyre Mining Company's property, which Is owned by Mr. Goodell. or Portland; Air. Kelly, of Chicago, and'C W. Tyre, of Colorado. E. c. P. NEW NATIONAL GUARD. Dlclc' Bill Makes Reorganization Necessary. Members of the Oregon National Guard will be Interested In an article below from the Army and Navy Journal of February 14. The article bears on tne propesea reofganlation of the Oregon National Guard. The reorganization is made neces sary by the Dick bill, recently enacted by Congress. The ruling of the War Department con tained in the article would Indicate that one full regiment and one separate bat talion of four companies could be main tained In Oregon under the Dick law. The nresent appropriation is sufficient to main tain an organization of this strengtn. as the number of men In a company will probably be increased from 60 to 65, the present strength In tho regular Army, tne total number In one full regiment and one nnr9h battalion would be about the same as now in the Infantry forces of the National Guard of the state, comprised of thA Third Regiment consisting or seven companies, the Fourth Regiment consist- ward CBmformlns the organization of the intr or eignt companies. nu uie .cuou ocir- arate battalion, consisting of three com nnniPB. Under the Dick law one or more regiments are to comprise 12 full com- nnntPB pach. The article Deiore men tioned Is as follows: Women may write about tbeir ills to Mrs. Pinkham, and avoid the questioning of a male physician. They can tell their story without reservation to her; she never breaks a confidence,, and her advice is the best in the world. . The questions asked of a woman by a male physician are embarrassing, and often revolting to a sensitive nature. In consequence the whole truth is not told ; this makes it difficult for female troubles to be successfully treated even by the best physicians, and is the reason so many women grow worse rather than better. A woman understands a woman better than a man, there are symptoms which sick women have that a man cannot understand, simply because he is a man, but the whole truth may be told to Mrs. Pinkham, and her vast experience enables her to give advice which leads to a cure. All women who suffer should secure Mrs. Pinkham's advice ; it costs nothing but a letter addressed to her at Lynn, Mass. Female troubles are real troubles, and must be treated, understandingly. For a quarter of a century Mrs. Pinkham's advice and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound have been helping women to get strong and well, and her great file of letters prove that more than a million women have been restored to health and strength by her advice and her medicine when all other means have failed. When-you go to a druggist for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, do not let him persuade you to try something which he says is just as good ; there is nothing just as good, because Mrs. Pinkham's medicine holds the record for the largest number of cures of any female medicine in the world. j National Guard to that of the regular Army. "Now watck me get more." Oliver. Visitors at Permanent Exhibit Visitors registered at the Permanent j The new division of mllltla of the Adjutant- , 4 Ida wh oHft variety of people visUlng the city Is busily engaged in answering questions pro- at present, may be derived from the tact pounded by the National Guard of the several that of these nine visitors one was from statee relative to the construction given the va- South Dakota, two from Illinois, one from rlous sections of the mllltla act recently passed Canada, one from North Dakota, three by Congress. It Is the Intention of the War De- tzom i0wa and one from Brooklyn, N. Y. partroent as soon as possioie w scna me aoju- i jong. the visitors yesterday was a man tanis-uenerai oi me , f Michigan. He said he nad a lot Instruction as to the manner la which the pro visions of the new law are to be carried out: but as It will be Impossible for tnls letter to go out for some time wo will endeavor to clear up what appear to De a rew or me uncertain of nieces and nephews in Oregon, children of a brother who moved here many years ago. They had become married and scat tered about and had railed to Keep up a nninic Tn th. firt niaee it is omciauy ncia i corresnonaence wim nim, au uc iuuuBui by the War Department that there is nothing In I he would come over here and look them the law which will prevent any state rrom Up. He found eome in bnerman uounty having In Its mllltla a company ot Infantry or and SOme In Salem. These had told him a battery or a company of artillery or troops of 0 the Logan berry and he had called at cavairy. in oioer o, n '. '-. , Permanent Exhibit to Inquire about it and to see If it could be grown In Mlchl gan. Secretary Lamberson told him that If blackberrleo and raspberries could be grown in Michigan the Logan berry could, as it was a cross between the two with state to decide whether lta units shall tie less than a full regiment of cavalry or Infantry or a corps of artillery or a battalion of engi neers, etc The law does provide, however and -it is very clear on this point that If a fntA nrrftnlzes a reelment or & corns of artil lery or a battalion of engineers they must con- I some of the best qualities ot both. form In their organization to teat or tne united States Army. In time of peace, however, the President may fix the minimum number of en listed men In each company, battery, signal corps, engineer corps, and hospital corps for the mllltla below the minimum prescribed by J-law for the regular Army. It Is understood that the President will fix this minimum at about 50 men. There Is nothing In the mllltla act which prohibits the state organizations Thnrman-Strcct Improvements. Thurman street from the rive rto Will amette Heights Is a" busy place these days, and by the time the Railway Company, the cement sidewalk layers and tho street contractors finish the work laid out be fore them, that thoroughfare will bo In Vi Vioct rnnrUHnn Th ImnrnvAment will from having. In Ume of peace, or when they t t o laylng mla for the Portland are not actually under the authority of the I A -l, x-i, j specters of rifle practice, etc.. a they see fit, i"3")-'""u aiic, J"1"" but when the mllltla come under the Federal" track already laid on the remaining parts Government and receive par from the United I of the street at tne proper grade. A a is States, such ofllcers will not be considered a I tance of 2S blocks ending at the Thirty- part or the state organization In regard to pay, first-street bridge will be macadamized, etc. as only such officers as are provided for I and all the- old wooden walks wll be re- the regular Army by law can be recognized by moved, giving place to over 7030 feet of new cement -walks and euro, borne or tne the Federal Government In matters of pay. The process of reorganization in ac cordance with the provisions of the Dick law Is In progress throughout the United States. The State of "Washington now maintains one full regiment of 12 compan ies, one troop of cavalry and one battery of artillery. The State of California ha heretofore maintained one division, com posed of three brigades, which are being consolidated into one brigade of three regiments of 12 companies each. Adjutant-General Gar.tenbeln In his bl ennlal report, based upon the announce ment that the Dick bill would require full regiments of 12 companies each, recom mended consolidation of the ISompanles of the Oregon National Guard Into a full regiment of 12 companies of Infantry, one troop of cavalry and one light battery. As a result of the recent ruling of the War Department he thinks the companies of Infantry should be consolidated into one regiment of 12 companies and one sep arate battalion of four companies, thus necessitating the disbandment of only two companies of infantry. A special monthly meeting of the Mili tary Board was held in Portland Monday. It was decided not to take up the matter of reorganization until the circular let ter of Instructions to Adjutant-Generals from tho "War Department as to how the new law is to be carried out has been re celved. The next quarterly meeting of the Military Board will be held In Salem the first Monday In ApriL The board will then probably take action with jl view to- macadam and a few of the walks already In place are In good condition, and these will be allowed to remain, but by far the larger part will have to come out and give place to better material. This street has been in very bad condition for years, and residents of that part of the city are wel coming the Improvement. Many Miles of evr Sidewalks. Owing t6 the rather inclement weather of late, the cement sidewalk business has been quiet, but now that Spring has sprung. It will recuperate and be as active as it was during the last bummer, in the year 1901 the City Engineer estimates that no less than 100.000 feet, or about 2C miles of walks of artificial stone were laid within the city limits by permit only, and probably several miles more in the general street Improvements. During January. 19C3, but 97CO feet were laid by permit, owing to the fact that the weather was trifle cold. February went better with 12.453. and March promises to have record larger yet. as already over 30QO feet have been laid, or 1005 feet a day. If the work keeps up at the present rate, over 20.000 will have been laid during the month. To this must be added the walks Lhat are laid by ordinance, which will be about 25,000 feet since January L Avoid harsh Tjurgatlve Dills. Ther make you. sick and then leave you constipated. Carters iittie liver trius reguiaie uvs , towels &nd cure you. -O makes a man ready for any sort of a day. How. often do you feel dull and sluggish in tho morning for a few hours after breakfast ? Do yoa ever lay it to what you eat for breakfast I Did you ever try Jti-U and notice how differently you felt after wards ? If not, do so. 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