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the- sibnyixcr oregoxian. Friday, Aram 7, vioii. r tlimnnrn hphiiii ip !li . . il SHERMAN COUNTY EIGHT HIGH SCHOOL LASSIES, WHO HAVE ' WON LAURELS ON EASTERN OREGON FIELDS. E COLLECTOR Store Opens at 9 o'Clock With Piles Out of Way, Taft Hopes Senate Will Now Confirm Him. Careful Attention Given to Fields Is Bound to Re sult in Success.. Fifth Day of the TOM PAGE MAY BE RIVAL MOISTURE IS PRECIOUS T afaaan aSaST alH aSK I -a B ! MAD FARMERS PROSPER I f : v TTo PTace TVond for Hit-and-Mis Jlrthod Wiko Is Thriving Llttlo Town ia Center of Great Wheat Held. BT APPtSOJC BENNETT. WASCO. Or.. April . (Special.) I left Tha Dalles yesterday mornlnc and drove to thla place, the distance being about tl miles. This brlna; the first drive with the new outfit. I felt somewhat rejoiced to get here In as good shape as I did. for I have mapped out a route of man hundreds of miles through the interior, and I was mighty glad to find the team. Jim and Kitty, were reliable and trust worthy, and the entire outfit comfort able and commn4fous. The Journey from The PsIIes to Wasco W a trip of wrest scenic beauty. Leaving the former place by what I may term the brewery road at which I failed to halt the route lay to the eastward pest feufert's and thence, around the point of the bluffs to the Denchutrs River. One of the finest views on the road Is from a point directly south and practical ly over, the sice of the new 11111 bridge at Celilo. The wagon road U perhaps a thousand fret above the bridge piers above the river and one can thus get a gonj Idea of the entire country around, both la Oregon and Washington. Sherman County Reached Winding" around the hilltops the road finally Irada down to the Deschutes, where we crossed the toll bridge near the mouth of that stream. Just above the 0.-W. R. Jk X. bridge, and were In Sher man County, which county embraces the territory between the. John Day and Deschutes livers from the Columbia back to the first standard parallel south, a distance of from 2 to 444 miles. At Its widest point, east and west, the county t h. C . 1 1 . I -J 4 hKaI. . . being 73 in Ilea. There are only sis smaller counties lit Oregon Columbia. Multnomah. "ulk. Washington and Tam il UL Once across the Deschutes th". road leads for a short distance up the Colum bia, and then winds up a canyon to the southeast. But before we had ascended many mites we approached and passed cultivated fields, and as we seared the plateau we came to more and more of them. And soon we were In what might be called an Immense wheat field, for every foot of the surrounding lands was either In Fall wheat or Bummer fallow, or ready for aeedlng perhaps being seeded, for I think we saw at least Zi seeders In operation. I have been through many wheat belts, many districts where the chief industry waa this great cereal, but I must say I sever saw at country where the grow ers seemed to have their places In bet ter condition than In the portion of therman we passed from the Deschutes to Wssco. And we also passed some of the finest farmhouses and barns, showing that tha owners are Intelligent and pros perous. Systematic Work Kvcrjthlnic. j (Ulpahod. hit-and-miss farmers have no place In Sherman County. The rainfall Is light here. There Is no denying that.' They sometimes have short crops here. There is no denying that. And the only way the land owner can hope to suc ceed, aa a great many of them have suc ceeded and are succeeding, la to take ad vantage of every moist breuth that comes acroaa the country and hold fast to it store It In the soli by cultivation. I wish I could taSe the reader with me and show htm some -f the places we drove through. 1 would like to demon strate by an actual view the labor be stowed upon many of the fields. Often 1 In the wheat country you will find a small patch of thin, drifting soil, even In the best fields. On the farms men tioned such places are covered with a mulch perhaps only straw, but prefer ably stable manure. Such fields remind one of a weU-patched quilt or bedspread whirh shows the careful attention of the painstaking housewife. And as such a quilt would, of course, be scrupulously clean, so these fields are clean of weeds and stones and clods. Every fence cor ner Is as free from trash as ts the mid dle of the road. The fields being seeded showed the care'ul attention of the hua bandman. Tbey showed that last season they had received not only- the early plowing, but many times had they been harrowed or packed. Tea. I want to take off my hat to the Sherman County farmers of ffils section, and say to them that they anyhow de aerve to succeed, ss they almost assur edly will If Uiey persevere in the wsy they are "how doing their work, x Orchards Few. as Yet. v. Wasco waa founded about WTO; perhaps a year or so Ister or earlier. It has a delightful location, the ground being un dulating, affording splendid drainage. It ta about eight miles from the Columbia, and about 12 feet above it. or rather the altitude Is something like that with in a foot or two. And. practically speaking, the town is in the midst" of a great wheat field. I wish I could say thai there are Inter spersed' many orchards, .but I am forced to admit that there are far too few of these, although the doten or so we e passed yesterday seemed to be In a flourishing condition. But there are many shade trees here In town and upon the whole It la a nice little place, the population being around tM. One of the first calls I msde upon oOr srtival was at the newspaper office, the ffio News-Knterprlse. There I found V. E. Pierre, of whom I had often heard but sever before met. lie has a mighty nice little plant and ia doing well. Ha gets out a good local paper. He gave me a lot of Information about the place and surrounding country. In both of which ' he haa unbounded confidence as to tba future. The town Is now out of debt, so far'ss current accounts go. though there Is e slight bonded indebtedness Incurred sev eral years ago tor a splendid water works system, but that la prartk-ally a debt which the water rates will wipe out at maturity. Man Satee Made Recently. Mr. Pierce told me of several land sales recently completed. One tract of fcH acres changed hands at U an acre. Another large farm brought tso.ocu, the price being close to J an acre. Other cfeals are pow pending, meet of the sales being to recent arrivals. And at the price 1 do not think the sellers have anrVf the best of it- Suppose there should be a partial failure oore In a series of year, as there waa In one big crop wtll wipe out the deficit. Put I am almost safe In saying that with the sort of farming now being car ried oa lisre will be so failure to ' rEIUDLKTON GIRLS BASKETBALL TIC AM. Frances Baling is at the top of the picture. Those In the first row (reading: down) are Ella Lazinka. Muriel Sallng. Ha Pturdlvant, Zell Thompson. In the second row are Edna. Coutts, Blanche Badley. Grace Klnnell and Juaolta Ftersol. bring the crop down to the cost of the product or anything like It.' There were shipped from here last year about 4TJ cars of wheat. Th.e price was around To cents a bushel. And much of the crop was ground here, for the Portland Flouring Mills Company has a mill here. As this product came from a rather small territory, sa'y SO square ml lee. It will be seen that a good deal of money came to a few people. Wasco haa good stores, two strong banks, three churches, a fine public school, with high school department, two good hotels, two flouring mills, and the ususl allotment of other business places and two licensed saloons. We shall roll the wheels out OfTiere as soon as dinner Is over, and the next stop will be at Moro. the county seat. From there we are "billed" to take the following route: Antelope. Ash wood. Mitchell. DsyvtUe. Richmond. Spray. Monument. Hamilton. I-ong Creek. Fox. Mount Vernon. John Day. Prairie City. Canyon City and thence over the hills to Burns and the great "lnterWr. I am giving our route thus minutely for the reason that we want a dog! ,Ve advertised for one at The Dalles.' the 1-Cbronlcle giving a fine free local asking dog owners to cotue to tne rescue 01 "colporteurs of 1 ne Oregonlen by do nstlng a canine: but there, must be a shortage of dogs-to-glve-eway In that burg. And here we cannot find one even for sale. So through the columns of The Oregonlan the news will be spread ahead of ua that we need a dog any old dog will do. for society and we, may thus have our longings appeased and satis fied. , REFERENDUM NOT WISE tiOVFKNOn THINKS CHOOI. APPROPRIATIONS RIGHT. Executive Says State Should Not Be Niggardly la Support or Slate Institutions. SALEM. Or. April . (Special.) am not In favor of invoking the refer- nrlum ob the BDurODrtatlons for educa tional or other state Institutions," said Oovarnor West today, "ana I oeneve tha neontewof Oreifon should give the Institutions the benefit of the dpubt In this matter. If thers is any reasonable room for doubt. "I believe It is better to rive the in stitutions a little too much, if any thing, than to give them too little. I believe It would be a mistake to invoke the referendum against any of the in stitutions." Governor West referred today to criticism that has been attempted against the state penitentiary In con nection with food given to the prison ers, this criticism being offered In the trial of (he O Kourke case. He said the Legislature had arbitrarily reduced the maintenance appropriation for the in stitution and now criticism was being offered because there was not suffi cient good food. "I am not saying-there Is not suffi cient good food, nor that the food fur nished the -prisoners is in Itself not good. But I fall to see the Justice of a criticism which forces the Legislature to reduce the appropriation until there Is not enough money to live upon and then condemn because the proper food may not be forthcoming, although .at the same time I am satisfied that the food at the Institution Is good." Hla attitude toward the educational Institutions Is much the same. He be lieves that they should be well pro vided for fnd believes that an Injustice would result should the appropriations be held up for two years by the use of the referendum.' Sprajlng Tests to Begin. OREGON AGRICTLTrRAL .COL LEGE. Corvallls. April l (Special.) Extensive experiments in orchard-spraying, under -the auspices of the college, will be commenced at Hood River this week. The work, -which wIL) cover a long period, will be under the general supervision of V. I. Fafro. Mr. Safro left here tonight for Hood River. He will experiment -on three or four of the beet orchards in that section of the state. v. Lea ho Appointed Axaln. . 8ALEM. Or- April C (Special.) T. M. Lea bo, of Portland, was yesterday reap pointed by Governor We; as a member of the Blsta Board of Barber Etxamlnera. His term win extend four years ending March i tl&. . v falls City Postal Receipts Gain. FALLS CITT. Or. April (.-(special.) The postal receipts of the Falls City postofflce for the year ending March Z. 111. show a gain of 1I4 per cent over last re-. J. C Iey la postmane. mMm TIES GULL MINISTER Rev. A. J. Ware, 19 Years Married, Sues for Divorce. WIFE'S JEALOUSY IS TOLD Oregon City. Clergyman Says Spouse Accused .Him of Being Too Friendly With Women Mem bers of His Parlbh. x OREGON CITT. April . (Special.) Rev. A. 1. Ware, one of the best-known United. Brethren Church clergymen In the slate, today died a suit for divorce against Mrs. Belle Ware, whom he mar ried at Oregon City July 2S, 1S93. They have three children, Gertrude. Raymond and Joseph Franklin Ware. In 1901 Mr. Ware was ordained a min ister of the United Brethren Church, but was in touch with church work prior to that time. He says hla wife became dtsss-rWIed with his life wprk. that she discouraged him and Interfered with btm. Mr. Ware says his spouse charged him with being too friendly with female members) of ,hls congregation, attning up trouble snd destroying his useful ness as a minister of the' gospel. In September. 1900, while they were living at Bherldan. she Is sold to have charged him with maintaining Improper relations with women In the church. The affair waa Investigated by the bishop and Mrs. Ware Is said to have ad mitted her charges were untrue and that they were "made up of whole cloth." In June. 1!6. they moved to Philomath, and In 9'ptember of the same year the blshon. Who wss 111 in California, asked Mr. Ware to go to that state and assist in the work of the churclt. but Mm. Ware abused her husband for daring to think of such a thing and threatened to leave' him. 4 He says his wife has written letters to members of his church, accusing him of using church funds in an Improper way, all of which, he eayev destroys his peace of mind snd he is unsble to live longer with "hie wife. - Mr. Ware la represented by Attorney George C BrownelL COMMISSION GOVERNMENT UNDER CONSIDERATION. IS 31 ay or Mourant, Who Is to Resign, Urges City to Discard Old lule. Commercial Club to Plan: HOQUIAM. Wash.. April t. (Special.) The commission form of government Is now proposed for Hoqulam and was dis cussed at some length at the weekly luncheon of the Commercial Club today. The chief-feature was the reading of a letter from' Mayor Mournt, who was un able to be present. In which he urged that the city should have the simpler form of government. In his letter. Mayor Mourant. who has announced that he will resign about May li, declares the city's business could be conducted at less expense than it is at present and that then there would be someone "on the Job" all the time In place of a number of men who put in only a little time every week. The Mayor, urged that the offices of Chief of Police. Fire Chief. City Treasur er and possibly several others be done away with and the commissioners take their duties. As a result of the letter from Mayor Mourant. It was decided to appoint a committee and the commission govern ment plan will be discussed In detail at the luncheon to be held in two weeks. By a law psssed at the recent session of the Legislature and carrying an emergency clause making it effective at once, a city of the also of Hoqulam can change Its form of government from the t!H stvla ttt councllmsntc rule to the com mission form with a Mayor and two com- ( mlasloners to be the governing body. Our countrv slab and block wood, drv. LdJalsoa iuol Co. you should try. H0QU1AM MAY CHANGE Toindextcr Said to Have Picked for His Brothcr-in-Law Plum Which Matt Piles Missed, but Ha May Take Todd's Job. OREGONIAX - NEWS BL'REAU. Washington. April 6. Frederick W. ' Harper, Collector of Customs for Puget Sound, whose renomination was rejected at the last session of Con gress on demand of Senator Piles, was today again nominated by President Taft and will be confirmed unless Sen ator Poindexter represents that Har- j per'a appointment is "personally ob noxious" to him. Harper has served ' four years, and made a record 'that is highly commended by the Treasury De- j partment and it is solely on account of , this record that he was renominated I last' session. He had no congressional endorsement- Piles, however, was anx ious to have his brother Matt appointed collector and it was with this result in view that he pronounced Harper per sonally obnoxious, add had his renomi nation rejected. After Piles had done this, however, the President, having learned his motive, refused to appoint Matt Plies, and Harper continued to serve, as Malcolm is now serving at Portland, under his original comuils-. sion, and Is in office today. Page Is Poindextcr's Man. Senator Jones said he wouIL-orge Harper's confirmation, but nothing can be done until the committees are or ganised. Before that time. Poindexter will be in Washington. It is not known that h,e will object to Harpers confir mation, but he is known to have favored . the appointment of his brother-in-law. Tom Page, of Seattle, as Collector o Customs, and if he Is Insistent upon having Page appointed to this position., he probably will fol low the plan adopted by Plies, Should Poindexter make this move. It is expected that tho President will do with Harper as he is doing with Malcolm, allow blin to continue - in office under his original commission and ignore tho action of the Senate. , Page May Take Todd's Job. There Is a possibility, however, that Poindexter will consent to Harper's confirmation and urge his brother for United States ' Attorney tor Western Washington. In place of Elmer E. Todd, whose .term is about to expire. Pago some time ago solicited Repre sentative Humphrey's Indorsement for Todd's place and subsequent to that time became candidate for collector. It Is not known what attitude Jones will assume If Harper Is confirmed and Page Is recommended by Poindexter for District Attorney. Other nominations sent by the Presi dent to the Senate were: W. L. Day as United States District Judge at Cleveland. XJ- ' U. G. Denman. of Toledo, as United Ststes District Attorney at Cleveland.- Coloncl Erasmus M. Weaver, of the Coast Artillery Corps, as chief of coast artillery, with rank of Brigadier General. Democrat k? Rules Voted For. OREGON1AN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington, April 6. Representatives Laf ferty. La Follette, Warburton and French. Insurgents, today voted for the Iemocratlc House rules. They would have preferred some changes, but were not given opportunity to offer amend- ; ments and were forced to choose be- j tween the Deqiocratic rules and the - rules of the last House, which were of fered by Mann as a substitute. SPOKANE MAY WIN AGAIN Attorney Before Commission Pre dicts Rate Victor jr. SPOKANE. Wash.. April 6. (Special.) A second victory for Spokann In the railroad rate battle is declared to be practically certain by Attorney H. M Stephens who represented Spokane shippers before the Interstate Com merce Commission. In a telegram to A. W. Doland. of the Spokane Merchants' Association. Mr. Stephens declares that the commission seems certain to uphold Its decision of last July ordering sweeping reductions In Spokane's freight rates from Eastern and Middle Western points. The commission s o.uer of that date established a schedule of tentative rates subject to later order by the Commis sion upon a showing by the railroads and the communities affected. The rates estabiisnea amounted in yome cases iu practically the same as "terminal rates." or the rates to more' distant Cdast points, for which Spokane had long contsnded. In other cases the rates set were slightly In excess of the Coast rates. The telegram from Mr. Stephens, reads: ''Showing of losses by carriers Is less than expected. I think we will have no difficulty In securing tentative rates as suggested In the opinion of the Spokane case. If the commission holds the fourth section valitVJ think we will se cure better than tentative rates. I hope 'commission will find a way to sustain tbofourth section as amended. Old Hoqulam Council Loses. HOQUIAM. Wash.. April S. (Special.) Don't Persecute your Bowels TW embnsaf Small PilL Small Dose, Small Pric f Genuine bq- Signature Cat set csaWtis sad mas. hinli armor. It aw CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS jS V . PsrJ, .mils. Aa "T -btis Carters wdAca-y J rjiTTLc cT- PILLS, u foaArW tad Utoislasa, as ssJScss know. $5OO,O'0O Stock Tol Every article sacrificed Must be disposed of by July 1st, at which time this store will discontinue business in Portland ; The most remarkable bargains ever of fered in Portland and vicinity, if not in the entire west ' In Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Draperies, ' Bedding, Stoves, Ranges, Crockery, Gran iteware, Etc. In Women's, Misses' and Children's Smart Spring Apparel -r Tailored Suits, Dresses, Coats, Waists, Corsets, Muslin Underwear, Gloves, Neck wear, Belts, Veilings, Etc. Tull In the city election five of the six Councllmen who tried for re-election were defeated. They were Ney, Thur ber. Phillips. Koch and Kress. They r. hAnrati hv Falrbalrn. McTaggart. Iwrence. Hoover and Bridges. In the Second Ward Oberg was re-elected. 15,000,000 Feet of Timber Sold. LA GRANDE. Or.. April 6. (Special.) S. P. Himes and. C. E. Cumimngs, of Pittsburg, have closed a deal for the purchase of 16.000.000 feet of timber In Wallowa County. The sale was made TV C Rirsehoux. a local To you a small rent? I'Oir will nearest-ln MEAD & MURPHY $22 Corbett Bnlldlng. Laurelhurst Sales' Agents, and they will show yom how to UOrilce Ftous-ain !. u L. U- ALLEX, Agent at Tract. Phone East 980. Office Floats Main low, j& aoi.. L. V- ALLE, Agent at Tract. Phone East 980. Sale of the of the & Gibbs9 toirex & Gibbs, Morrison at Seventh cruiser. The purchase price was on a base of 75 cents a thousand. s Power Sites Are Sought. jrUSUM. Wash.. April 6. (Special.) Albert S. Hawl. a representative of the Pacific Power & Light Company, was up the White Salmon River Saturday on a tour of Investigation, looking up addi tional power, sites for development. The falls near the, Campfleld ranch, three miles up the river from 'here, is a valu able power site that eventually It Is as serted will be owned and developed by the company. Beautiful Homesites in On Easy Terms realize that you can buy a lot In t IRELHIKST and have a nouse ouiu on n sum In cash, and pay the rest ' then own a home In Portland's and most exclusive residence sec tion. Lot prices $900 and up 10 per cent casti. 2 per cent a month, 15 per cent discount to builders. Go out to Laurelhurst and see the type of handsome houses built and under construc tion in the park, and you will want to live there. Take Rose City Park, East Glisan or Hontavilia cars. Then come in and see get a cheap home on easy terms. Inc. 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