THE MORNING- QREGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1909 9 rait mi Alfalfa At Echo, Umatilla County, Oregon Irrigated F '.Lands & Mimliia twer Easm In this favored land of marvelous soil, rich in the con stituents necessary to produce plant life, with abundant sun shine, equable climate, long growing seasons, permits us to announce that the greatest region of the Inland Empire country now enjoys for the first time an abundance of water for irrigation purposes, supplied by the forty miles of canals of the Western Land & Irrigation Company, of Echo, Or., Umatilla County. A short distance above Echo this big company diverts the waters of Umatilla River, through its mammoth concrete headgates, which are built to stay built for all time to come; here it takes the water out of the river on its west bank, conveys it down and over the most fertile region of the Northwest namely, Butter Creek Valley and adjacent lands thereto. - ' This region today offers exceptional opportunities. These lands have been known for a long time to be a banner fruit and alfalfa country and all kinds of products incident to a temperate climate. It possesses features not to be found in our famous fruit regions longer growing season, deeper soil, more acreage and better shipping facilities, and other factors too numerous to mention. Without doubt some of the finest favored apples are raised under this project, and the reasons are very easily understood, by reason of its peculiar fertile, deep soil,' well drained, and plenty of sunshine a climate most beautiful; the apples grown here, as well as peaches, pears, grapes and the like, are the best that can be had. The first alfalfa grown in the West was grown on Butter Creek without irrigation over twenty-five years ago, also the first fruit raised in the .West was grown on Butter Creek. Today the oldest apple trees in Oregon are on Butter Creek. These trees today are all healthy and in a fine state of preservation, producing fine fruit, being nearly forty (40) years old showing and proving without doubt its inherent features to grow apples successfully and all other kinds of fruits, etc.. One thing has held it back all these years CAPITAL to instil an irrigation system big enough to supply water to its lands. Several attempts were made many years ago by local capital, but in each instance the attempt financially fell short. A couple of years ago Eastern capital took a hand in the bringing to the front the unfinished work of local "capital. Today this region has an abundance of water; settlement is moving in very rapidly; before the end of another year prices will be doubled and multiplied in many instances. 'Now is the time to buy land under this project, because there are some good bargains to be had. Offices are being opened up in the big Eastern cities where its high-priced land will be sold in small tracts. A short time from now land will multi ply in value at this project. Its reasons are apparent. The place to invest, and the time, is where the lands are the best, the irrigation systems are the highest type, where people are taking up homes, and capital coming in daily. That is the kind of a place to invest your money where growth is advancing by leaps, as is the case now in this favored laud. At present I have over three thousand (3000) acres to select from. 1 have in a few instances some snaps being some re linquishments, that can be had cheap for the value they possess. The soil and location on these are the best; they are matchless. I have one tract of patented land that can be had for $100 an acre, and a permanent water right goes with it. It is level, fenced, has a cabin and well on it, well drained, on the canals; it's a snap. Read the brief report on this project by Professor Lyman, of Whitman College: Walla Walla, Wash.,. 12-7, 1909. Having been for a number of years a resident of the Inland Empire and having become quite familiar with the resources at various points throughout' the region, I can say understand ing that the vast tract of land on the lower Umatilla River in Oregon is the coming country of the Columbia Basin. This country is in its infancy, but the developments thus far made demonstrate conclusively that its capacity is unsurpassed. Of all the different diversions of this general region, that of the Western Land & Irrigation Company is one of the most promising. I have never seen a better outlook for a region of fine homes, productive industries and enhancing prices. It is about as sure as anything in human affairs can be that any investment in this district will be very profitable. Soil is marvelous even for this country, climate is of the best for all kinds of fruit and alfalfa, and transportation facili ties by rail and steamboats are of the best'. 4 Homeseekers can hardly make a mistake in locating in this favored land. . w! D. LYMAN, Professor of History in Whitman College and Author of "History and Description of the Columbia River." J I am prepared to show you all I have herein stated. Ar range, to make a trip over this project with me. Ask for a book descriptive of these lands. You will find me courteous and willing to furnish you all the facts of this region. Don't allow this to pass until you have given it a thorough investi gation. That is what we want you to do to investigate, and to investigate at once. For All Particulars Address W. Stapislhi 51 6 E. Main St., Walla Walla, Wash. MM warned WIFE OF DIVORCE 'Sunday Night Party" Caused . First Threat of Separation. iWOMAN NERVOUS ON STAND ' Wttnees Pays Mrs. Frank Gould and Two Men Stayed Oyer T"1ght. Dante Thnr 'Another Mao." Tells of Tvove Mesjagcs. M-K1W TOJUC, Dec 14. It developed to day In the trial of the divorce suit of Mrs. "W. Oould Brokaw that It was her huaband "who first threatened to sue. A telegram from hJm to Mrs. Blair, his mother-in-law, -was the medium of this Information and It also contained- his version of the Incident that assumed the greater Importance in today's session of the trial. The telegram follows: "I have closed my house and am sorry to say I must sue Afary for a separa tion. Her act, culminating; in a house party last Sunday night forces me to this step. She entertained three ladies and three men that day. Two of the ladles I do not approve of and the third I do not know at all. I do not know the men. She allowed one man to occupy my bedroom over night after putting my nurse and one lady In bachelors' quar ters. She refused to give me the names of the men In spite of my request." Mrs. Brokaw Stands Ground. John F. Mclntyre, Mr. Brokaw"s law yer, began drilling Into all the attendant circumstances of this "culminating house party." with great circumstanti ality. Mrs. Brokaw parried his questions as skilfully as ever but showed some agi tation over the insistence laid on the personality of "Bunnle" Wells, one of the guests. Mrs. Brokaw testified that she had first met Mr. Wells in Baltimore five years before, his visit to. her husband's home in company with Miss Nan Denni son. of Syracuse. N. Y., Mrs. Frank Gould, and another -man whom Mrs. Brokaw only remembered as "a Mr. Thompson." Mr. Mclntyre was desirous to know how( the upstairs rooms of the house were arranged and what rooms she oc cupied on the night of the party. Rooms Xot Connected. "Wasn't Mr. Brokaw's room conne'eted with your's?" he asked. "No, the door from Mr. ' Brokaw's room opens on the hall." "And did it not open so near the door of your room that from your door you could j have shaken hands with a person standing In the other?" "I never tried, Mr. Mclntyre." "Well, now, where did you assign Mi3 Dennison to sleep?" ."Tn Mr. Brokaw's room.' "Wasn't there some change? Wasn't Mr. Wells finally given that room?" Tea." Wells Prepared to Stay All Xight. "Did Mr. Wells come prepared to stay all night?" . "I think he did." i Mrs. Brokaw's eyes were as bright and twinkling as ever when she en tered the courtroom and consulted for a moment with her lawyer. She testi fied that on two occasions she had cabled from Paris for money with which to pay her traveling expenses. "It Is, not true that I ever said I wanted to get a divorce from my hus band so that I could marry another man," replied Mrs. Brokaw, sharply, to one of Mclntyre s interrogations. Coun sel asked Mrs. Brokaw if her husband had not, on one occasion, walked Into her room and, laying flowers down on her bed, remarked that he would rath er be putting flowers on her coffin. The witness had no recollection of such an incident. Love messages by telegraph Instead of telephone came prominent into play when Mrs. Brokaw was at. Great Neck and her husband was in the South. In these messages, Mrs. Brokaw said she was "keeping her promises," and was "very good," and not infrequently the telegrams concluded with "love" or "much love." " Mrs. Brokaw was excused from the stand after Ave days of testimony. Her counsel intimated that he would soon produce nurses, maids and other wit nesses to icorroborate Mrs. Brokaw's stories of broken doors and uproarious nights. 262 MEN PERISH IN MINE Japanese . Steamer Brings News of Colliery Disaster. VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 14. Details were brought by the steamer Monteagle. which arrived today from Japan, of the colliery tragedy at Onoura, Fukuoka Prefecture, November 24. Involving loss of 262 lives, but 43 of the miners escap ing after an explosion. The mine is one of the largest In Southern Japan, employing 4755 miners, whose output Is 44,000 tons monthly. A survivor's story Is as follows: "I was working 1820 feet from the shaft when the explosion occurred, be ing 'followed by dense black smoke. The electric lights were extinguished and I bumped into miners rushing for safety, eventually being knocked un conscious by a fall. I was rescued by one of the miners and carried to" the shaft." The escaped miners all told of tum bling over dead bodies. The mine man agement gave $100 to the family of each victim and is providing for the bereaved. V0TAW IS NAMED AGAIN Tacoma Postmaster In Line With Policy of President Taft. , ORHGONIAN NEWS BUREAU, Wash ington, Dec. 14. Henry U Votaw, post master at Tacoma, Wash., has been reap pointed for another four years, because his record Is satisfactory to the Postof- fice Department and apparently accepta ble to the people of .Tacoma. His term expired last Sunday. Representative McCredie. of the district In which Tacoma lies, was informed of this fact and asked if he cared to be heard. At a conference with the Postmaster-General, he learned that it is President Taft's policy to continue in of fice all postmasters who render good service and maintain their official and personal standing. Ex-Postmaster John B. Cromwell. P. R. Keith. A. B. Taylor and C. 13. Clancey all were candidates for Votaw's . place. FIGHT UPSETS LAMP, 7 DIE Cincinnati Tenement Burns, Seven Hurt, 50 Barely Escape. CIXCTNNATI, Dec. 14. Seven persons lost their lives, seven were injured, two probably fatally and about 50 others had narrow escapes from death in a fire which destroyed a four-story tenement and lodging-house here early today. The fire started from the upsetting of a kero sene lamp during a quarrel between ten ants. The building was an old wooden affair ani the flames spread rapidly to . the stairways and. halls, cutting off the es cape of many. Some rushed to the win dows and others to the roof. The fire men and policemen rescued many of them, but others were too terrified to heed the cries of the rescuers, and threw themselves-from the windows. Some of these were caught In blankets below, but others fell to the sidewalk. RAGE DOWN COAST S WN IM DINNER Loss of Large Part of Cargo Gives No Worry When Prize Is Turkey. ARMY DESERTER CAUGHT Negro, Who Tired of Soldier's Life, Candidate for Alcatraz. Patrolman Small "spotted" George Harris, a deserter from the United States Army, at Fourth and Washington streets last night. He was taken to police headquarters and detained on .a minor charge. The Federal authorities will be notified today of the capture. At police headquarters Harris, who is colored, admitted his identity and stated that he deserted nine days ago from his company at Fort George Wright, Spo kane, Wash. "I sho got tired ob ahmry life been In the service mos' six yeahs. Ah got a medal for expert rifleman, too." He displayed the necessary credentials. WORD GIVES NEW TRIAL Member of St. Louis Council Again Up for Bribery. ST. LOUIS, Dec. 14. Ferd Warner, ex member of the House of Delegates, went to trial today for the second! time' on a charge of accepting a bribe. At a previous . trial he was convicted and his punishment was fixed at two years' imprisonment, but the verdict was set aside by the Supreme Court because the word "the" was left out of that pro tion of the ndlctment which said that his, action was against the peace and dignity of ."the" state. GALES DELAY RIVAL BOATS Captain Burnmcister, of Schooner Balboa, Is First to Beach San Pedro In Start Made by Three Schooners From Tacoma. SAN PEDRO, Cal., Dec. 14. (Spe cial.) Captain Burmeister berthed his Echooner Balboa triumphantly last night at San Bedro, and today appealed to the wireless for tidings of the two masters Nokomis and the Lottie Ben nett. , i He had left them away in the ruck in a race for Christmas dinner from Ta coma to the harbor of Los Angeles. The matter of having scattered 20.000 feet of lumber from his deckload, and pieces of upper equipment worth more than 11000 for his Christmas feast did not lessen the ardor of his. joy. Other Vessels Unheard From. What has happened to the other ves sels In this maritime Marathon for cranberries and turkey is yet to be learned. The three ships loaded at Tacoma. where the three skippers agreed that the last one to arrive at San Pedro should settle the Yuletlde bill for the other two. At the Straits" of San Juan de Fuca the sea outside was too rough for such small craft. Ten days they laid at anchor in Clallam Bay. They nosed outside the headlands on November 27 in a fierce gale. The Nokomis and Lot tie Bennett put about for safety, but the Balboa, failing to make headway back to the harbor, had to run for it in the open sea. Lumber Cargo Scatters. The wind, which had a slant shore wards, increased to 70 miles an hour. Stripped to stay sails, Captain Bur meister ran before the wind with the helm hard down, the rail buried and starboard scuppers awash. His only hope was In keeping off the rocks. Waves stripped the fastenings of the lumber on deck and scattered it iar ana wiae. i:argo booms, gangway ladders and everything else movable disappeared in the spindrift. YAMHILL MILLION RICHER Assessment Rolls of Ten Towns Show Big Increase. M-MINNVILLE. Or.. Dec. 14. (Spec ial.) The ten incorporated cities and towns of Yamhill County are nearly $1,000,000 richer than they were a year ago, according to the assessment rolls. Assessed valuation of property in the several municipalities for 1903 is: McMlnnvllle, $1,664,333; Newberg, $i03. 773: Sheridan, $370,414: Carlton. $219. 140; North Yamhill. $152,685; Davton, $150,970; Lafayette, $120,040; Amity, $132,723; Dundee. $74,130: Willamlna. $71,375. Their total valuation is $S, 859.983. The increase Is marked in all of the cities and towns With the exceDtion of Carlton, which shows a decrease of $6,16 from last year's valuations. cial.) Farmers in this section are plowing this week preparatory to get ting their grain crops sown. Owing to the adverse weather conditions only Faculty W ill Supervise. OREGON CITY, Or., Deo. 14. (Special.) The School Board has ruled that all plays or entertainments given by the pub lic schools shall be with the consent and approval of the faculty. This step is to place control of students' amusements in the hands of the faculty. Another High School teacher is found necessary. Farmers Prepare to Sow. M'MINNVTLLE. Or., Dec. 14. (Spe- Women Would Be Eagles. ABERDEEN. Wash., Dec. 14. Special.) This city will have the first woman's auxiliary of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, if the effort now under way is successful. Application for a uermit for the establishment of Aerie No..l will be made early next week. If sanction is secured, a ritual will be adopted at once. A fine dianlav of ladle' bags at Harris Trunk Co. illigator ENDS INDIGESTION, HEARTBURN, GAS AND HEADACHE FROM BAD STOMACH Your Out-of-Order Stomach Feels . Fine Five Minutes After Tak ing a Little Diapepsin. There would not be a case of Indi gestion here if readers who are subject to Stomach trouble knew the tremen dous anti-ferment and digestive virtue contained in Diapepsin. This harmless preparation will digest a heavy meal without the slightest fuss or discom fort, and ' relieve the sourest, acid stomach in five minutes, besides over coming all foul. Nauseous odors from the breath. Ask your pharmacist to show you the formula plainly printed on each 60 cent case of Fape's Diapepsin, then you will readily understand why this promptly cures Indigestion and removes such symptoms as Heartburn, a feel ing like a lump of lead In the stomach. Belching of Gas and Eructations of un digested food, -water brash. Nausea, Headache, Biliousness and many other bad symptoms; and, besides, you will not need laxatives bo keep your stom ach, liver and Intestines clean and fresh. If your Stomach is sour and full of gas or your food doesn't cjtgest and your meals don't seem to fit, why not get a 50-cent .case from your druggist and make life worth living? Absolute relief from Stomach misery and per fect digestion of anything you eat is sure to follow five minutes after, and, besides, one case is sufficient to cure a whole family of such trouble. Surely, a harmless, inexpensive prep aration like Diapepsin, which will al ways, either at daytime or during night, relieve your stomach misery and digest your nysals, is about as handy and valuable a thing a you could have in the house. a small per cent of the usual acreage of Fall grain was sown, and the bright weather of the last few days has given an Impetus to farming operation!?. gLL &i -Life d JmmH Future Metropolis of Central Oregon CITY LOTS NOW FOR SALE 50x100 STREETS EIGHTY FEET WIDE FIFTEEN-FOOT ALLEYS $100 10 PER CENT CASH $5.00 PER MONTH TCTV is the time to bu-y' bcfore tne railroads are TT built through Opal City. Both the Hill and Harriman railroads are rushing- the construction up the Deschutes canyon. Thousands of men are working- night and day to complete the railroads that will bring to the markets the vast resources of Central Oregon. OPAL CITY is located on that spot where both the railroads first come together on the same grade alter leaving the Deschutes canyon and where the braneh railroad from Frineville will connect with the main lines. N FREE MAP OF OREGON Showing routes and development of railroads in the Deschutes Valley, and literature describing Opal City. WRITE OR CAL I. ON EXHIBITION in our offices, a large birdseye picture (4 feet by 12 feet) of the Deschutes Valley, showing the loca tion of Opal City, the railroad routes, farm and irrigated lands, etc. We Would Be Pleased to Have You Call American Trust Company 200 Chamber of Commerce.