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THE MORXTXG- OREROXIAN. MONDAY, 31AY 4, 1914. PROSPERITY SUES ON OREGON FARMS GRAY'S Fourth at Morrison GRAY'S Fourth at Morrison Reports From All Parts of State Indicate Record Yield of Grains. To IMeet Coimpetltioo SEASON UNUSUALLY EARLY egios Today . sit Gray's In Some Sections Late Frosts Have Done Serious Damage to Fruit, but With Larger Acreage Net Result Expected to Be Gain. We are not overstocked, consequently no old stock to unload. Our stock is all new, of the very latest style and finest grades. We regret the circumstances which compel us to sacrifice our profits at the verv befrinnincr of A FOIRCED) S ALJE Reports from various sections of the state indicate that the grain crdp of 1914 will be the largest in the his tory of the state. Nut only is there a largely increased area in agriculture but, because of unusually favorable conditions, a larger than normal yield to the acre is looked for in most dis tricts. In some places Spring-sown grains 'Will be late in maturing because seed ing was delayed by rain, but the bene fit of the moisture is expected to more than offset this drawback. Milton re ports say that farmers expect the best yield in 35 years and like reports come from elsewhere. In the vicinity of The Dalles farmers are jubilant and declare that the only possible deterrent to a bumper crop is hot winds, and as the crops are so far advanced this sea son they expect that the grain will be matured so. early that there will be no loss from this source. Estimates made from various sources, including agricultural agents of the several railroads operating in the state, are unanimous in predict ing a most prosperous year for farmers. Fruit reports from some sections are less encouraging, though the ag gregate damage done is not expected to be appreciable in the final account ing of the state as a whole. The greatest loss reported Is from the Grande Ronde Valley, where it is estimated that from 75 to 95 per cent of the apple crop will be a loss be cause of Spring frosts, and that white peaches suffered to the same extent. Cherries, too, are said to have been depleted from 65 to SO per cent In this district, but as blossoms were un usually numerous, the crop may not show such a loss as compared with previous years. In Hood River cool weather recently has delayed the ripening of strawber ries, so that shipments are not ex pected until May 20, but it is said their excellence or productivity of the plants will not be affected. The apple crop is Bald to be far in excess of any for mer year. Many orchards are coming into bear ing this year for the first time, and with a large area of land, irrigated and non-irrigated, under cultivation. . traffic officials of all railroads, who have had agents in the field, look for the busiest year of their history. IRRIGATED AREA IS LARGER Early Indications of Big Crops at Klamath Are Dissipated. KLAMATH FALM, Or.. May 3. (Special.) More than the usual amount of precipitation during the "Winter gave promise of extra crop yields on dry lands, but dry weather in March and much of April have offset this so that only average yields are probable on dry lands. Irrigation began May 1 and pros pects are bright for irrigated farms. About 5000 acres of new land was broken this Spring and water is avail able for 6000 acres more than last year. There is an increased area in wheat, barley, potatoes and alfalfa. It is probable that the average yield will be less on dry land and more on irri gated land as compared with last year. I.IXX CROPS ARE DELAYED Spring Seeding Hold I'p by Contin ued AVet Weather. ALBANY, Or., May 3. (Special.) Prospects are splendid for a good yield of both Fall and Spring grain through out Linn County. All Fall grains and grasses are looking splendid. Spring seeding has been delayed by late rains but is well under way now. This will make Spring grain late, but it will benefit the crop as the ground will hold moisture during warm growing weather. Fruit indications are not so good. Prospects are for a lie-ht prune crop. Early cherries have suffered from cold rains and pears are only fair. The reach crop will be good. It is too early yet to tell the condition of apples. ocaauu, '-cimiui an luiy uy emu see our neignoors monopolize tne clothing business through special sale offerings. Hence our necessity is the golden opportunity of Portland's smart dressers--both ladies and gentle men. So today all of our famous Chesterfield Suits and Overcoats, Straw and Felt Hats (except Stetsons) Shirts (except Manhattans), Ladies' Fine Suits, including the famous Max M. Schwarcz productions, Silk and Wool Dresses-the handsomest line ever brought to Portland. The following price reductions will prevail: Chesterfield Suits and Overcoats $20 Vals. $15.00 $30 Vals. $23.50 $25 Vals. $19.00 $35 Vals. $26.50 $40 Vals. $29.50 Fine Felt Hats $3.00 Hats at $2.50 $5.00 Hats at $3.75 Ladies' Suits and Dresses $25 Vals. $19.50 $35 Vals. $2S.OO $30 Vals, $23.50 $40 Vals. $31.50 $50 Vals. $39.50 s Fine Straw Hats $2.50 Hats at ; $1.90 $4.00 Hats at ..: .. s5 $3.00 Hats at .$2.35 $5.00 Hats at ! ". 3.75 Special prices on Shirts, Night Robes and Pajamas, including Silks. Come today while stock is full and complete R. M. GRAY 273-275 Morrison Street large. There is an exceptionally large amount of snow in the mountains, and it is apparently In such shape that it will go off slowly and provide plenty of water for irrigation this Summer. Low prices of potatoes have caused many potato fields to be used for other crops. MILTON PROSPECT FAVORABLE Frosts Will Save Trouble or Thin ning Pears and Peaches. MILTON. Or., May 3. (Special.) Outlook is for one of the best crops In all, lines in many years. Rhubarb, asparagus, spinach and garden truck has been shipped for several weeks. Green peas will be ready for the mar ket soon. Prunes, strawberries and beans' are slightly injured by recent frost. Pears, peaches and apples are in the finest condition. Recent frosts will save the work of thinning. Wheat will yield one of the largest crops in 35 years. GRAXDE ROX'DE HIT BY FKOST Grain Reported in Good Condition, but Fruit Badly Damaged. LA GRANDE, Or., May 3. (Special.) Fruit crops in the entire Grande Ronde Valley have been damaged badly by frost. Frultdale, just outside of La Grande, reports 75 to 95 per cent loss in apples, and white peaches, 80 per cent loss in Royal Anne and 65 per cent loss in black cherries. Apples containing much acid Buffered less than early and sweet varieties. Summerville, Imbler, Cove, Union and Elgin report like damage. Blossoms are unusually numerous. The fruit crop will be light. Wheat and alfalfa are In perfect condition. FAELTLESS SPRING FOLLOWS FAV ORABLE WINTER SAYS REPORT. RAI" CROPS ARE PROMISING Cherries, Peaches and Pears Suffer in Ashland District. ASHLAND, Or.. May 3. (Special.) Crop conditions in general throughout thlx section are favorable. Hay and grain are fine. The first cutting of olfalfa probably will occur within two weeks. Most of the corn is planted and oome of it is up. There has been little damage from frost. There will be an increased acreage of both corn and potatoes this year. Apples and the small varieties of fruit promise a normal yield, but the tvupply of cherries, peaches and pears will be from 50 to 75 per cent short. YAMHILL GRAIN- CROP IS GOOD Clover Yield Mill Be Heavy and Hops Promise Well. MM1NNVILLE, Or., May 3. (Spe cial. All Kail-sown grains are in ex cellent condition in Yamhill County Spring seeding is nearly completed, and the earlier-sown Spring grain is com ing up in excellent condition. Indica tions are for an excellent crop of grain and fruit, except the prune crop, which will be about a one-half yield, but of a better grade than when a larger cron is secured. The clover rields promise big yields As to hops, it is rather early to make nny statement, the vines being only far enough advanced for second train ing. There are few missing hills. BAKER CONDITIONS ARE GOOD Eagle Valley Cherry Crop Will Be Large Much Snow in Mountains. BAKER. Or.. May 3. (Special.) ii,uiuuii m oaKer Jounty are excellent at this season of the year Mucli more grain than usual has been Planted and a large amount of alfalfa and sweet clover and some federita has been set out Late frosts hurt the cherries, except "B' vaucy, wnero the crop will be STRAWBERRY CROP DELAYED Hood River Estimates Apple Yield at 1,250,000 Boxes. HOOD RIVER, Or.. May 3. (Special.) Despite frosts of the past two weeks crop conditions were never better in the Hood River Valley. While the damage to early strawberry blooms will retard slightly the marketing per iod, the volume of the crop will not be affected. Strawberry shipments will begin about May 20, and is estimated at 100,000 crates. A conservative estimate of the apple crop for the year is 1,250,000 boxes. Orchard and ranch conditions are good. Much clover is being seeded and in all parts of the Valley is noted the trend toward diversified farming. GRAZING GOOD AT REDMOND Late Rains Insure Plentiful Yield of Grains. REDMOND, Or.. May 3. (Special.) Recent rains have proved beneficial and the crop outlook is unusually promising.- There is a large area in cultivation and the yield per acre is expected to be better than in former seasons. There has been plenty of moisture and all grasses have a luxuriant growth, providing the best of grazing. UMATILLA BARLEY HEADING Season Declared Month Aliead of Normal With Slight Damage. PENDLETON, Or, May 3. (Special.) Grain, especially barley, is a month ahead of previous seasons in maturity, in Umatilla County. Barley Is heading. The acreage is well up to the average and prospects for a yield above nor mal, although June is the month which decides that. The season has been favorable, ex cept for frost damage in some sections. Wheat Yield Estimate 53,000,000 and All Other Grains and Pratt Rich In Promise. SEATTLE, Wash.. May, 3. Weather conditions In Washington during the past month have been perfect for growing crops. While banks, railroads and wheat-handling tlrms have not yet Begun to receive weekly reports from the wheat counties, they have advices from their correspondents and from travelers, and a wheat croD of 53.000,000 bushels or more is expected. xne palouse. Walla Walla and Big Bend wheat regions tell the same story of a faultless Spring following a fav orable Winter. These conditions have also made a large crop of hay and oats practically assured. rne danger of frost In the treat apple-growing valleys of Yakima and v enatchee and the other fruit-growing regions of Eastern Washington is past, and growers and railroad men are preparing to handle an un precedented crop of apples and peaches. In Western Washington, which is becoming a small-fruit, dairv and war den area, much land has been brought unoer cultivation during the past year, and the crops will be proportionately increased. The rainfall since January 1 has been practically normal. Many new canneries will preserve fruits which In former years were al lowed to waste. PRUNES AND CHERRIES SUFFER Heavy Crop of Small Fruits Expect ed Around Corvallis. CORVALLIS. Or., May 3. (Special.) Italian prunes and cherries will be short this season. These fruits have been damaged by the cold rains of April. Indications point to a heavy crop of apples, peaches, pears and small fruits. The hay crop is bound to be heavy. Spring grains will be a little late, ow ing to the fact that seeding could not be done at the usual time on accout of rains. JUNCTION CITY HIGH SCHOOL 8TIDEXT HONORK.H WITH PRESIDENCY. BUMPER YIELD IS PREDICTED Conditions at The Dalles Said to Be Best on Record. THE DALLES. Or.. May 3. (Special.) This district will yield unprecedented crops of all kinds of grain and fruit this year, due to increased acreage and unusually favorable conditions through out the season. Grain is from three weeks to a month earlier than usual and will be matured July 1, so it will not be endagered by the hot -'- winds which sometimes cause damage. Farmers and ranchers say they have never known conditions to be so favor able in this section for all kinds of vegetation. CAMPUS TO BE BEAUTIFIED Whitman President to Use Hoe and Help Students Clean Up Grounds. WHITMAN COLLEGE. Walla Walla, Wash., May 3 (Special.) Prepara tions are now complete for the second annual Campus day to be observed Tuesday. The work of cleaning up the campus has been divided among groups of students and faculty members in such a. way that everyone connected with the college in any way has been assigned a task for that day. Presi dent Penrose will be out in working clothes and will handle a hoe and a spade with students who are assigned to the work of cleaning up the park ing. The women of the institution will prepare an elaborate luncheon for the workers. Work will start at S o'clock and a committee of husky students will see that no one "knocks off work before noon and after lunch until 6 P. M. MAN MURDERS WOMAN ABERDEEN IS SCENES OF SUNDAY MORNING KILLING. CENTRAL1A GUARDS DRILL Modern Warfare Maneuvers Enter tain Large Sunday Crowd. CENTRALIA. Wash.. May 3. (Spe clal.) Company M, Second Regiment, N. G. W., this afternoon marched to Waunch's Prairie, north of Centralia, where it went through all of the maneuvers of modern warfare. Follow ing the drill military field tactics were indulged in for the entertainment of the large crowd tnat assembled to watch -the soldiers work. The annual Federal inspection of the company will be made tomorrow night by Captain Colburn, U. S. A. The company is not recruited to its full membership, but Captain Livingstone is confident it will make an excellent showing. Vivian Leroy, a Divorced Woman, Be lieved to Have Been Victim of B. J. Moore, of Portland. ABERDEEN. Wash.. May 3 (Spe cial.) Mrs. Vivian Lacrosse, aged 25, known as Vivian Leroy, was killed by a razor said to have been In the hands of B. J. Moore, of Portland, early l"" morning in a cottage In the saloon district. Mrs. Lacrosse is tald to have lived in Everett and to have been separate from her husband by Moore. The wo man came hprn arr. V. f i . it Is said, and refused to have anything further to do with him. Moore is then said to have gone away, returning last night. After being repulsed In a final effort to re-establish himself in the numans connaence, he is said to have drawn a razor and cut her throat, the gash extending to the vertebra. After running a short distance the woman expired. Moore then is said to have attempted to kill the woman with whom the Leroy woman stopped, but she grabbed a. revolver and drove him off. Moore escaped and is thought to have killed himself. He cannot be found. He Is said to be a member of the Cooks and Waiters' Union of Portland. Not long ago Moore was arrested on a vagrancy charge and sent out of the city. During his absence he received the letter from the woman which cast him off, and this is believed to have brought him back to commit his rash act today. The woman is said to have relatives In Centralia. FREAK SHIPMENT MADE Rye Is Hauled 2000 Miles to Make Distance of ISO Miles. CANYON CITY. Or.. May 3. (Spe cial.) Newspapers, magazines and various publications have been full of freak shipments made by parcel post, but L. Woldenberg, of this place and manager of a new star-route stage line, has one that tops all shipments ever made by parcel post. On April 5, at Burns, he was given 1200 pounds of seed rye to be shipped by parcel post to Fort Rock, in Lake County, in this state, a distance of 120 miles. Instead of going direct to Fort ftoca Dy pack norse or conveyance, it. of course, had to follow the usual mail route, and Mr. Woldenberg hauled it 86 miles to Prairie City. It then was shipped over the Sumpter Valley Railway to Baker, a distance of 86 miles. It was then taken to Port. land, 350 miles, and then to Sacramento, about 900 miles. From Sacramento It was shipped to Reno Nev 250 miles and then to Lakeview, 175 miles. From there it was loaded on a star-route stage and hauled to Fort Rock. 130 miles. This rye was hauled about 2000 miles to be delivered 120 miles distant. Flume Built to Aid Road Work. WHITE SALMON. May 3. (Special.) In order to facilitate work on the road to the new cannery at the foot f 5' nlU on Tuesday. "Good Roads Day," a Crew of men has constructed a huge flume for crushed rock from the top of the bluff to a point half way down the hill. The top of the flume was put on by the employes of the local banks during their Saturday half holiday as their share of the work. Who put the man in romance? WOMEN SHOULD TAKE WARNING If the statement made at a New Tork Assembly of women, that healthy American women are so rare that they are almost extinct, is true, it is time for the women of America to take warning and look to their health. It may be headaches, backaches, dragging down pains, nervousness, mental de pression, that are tell-tale symptoms of some organic derangement for which Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound a simple remedy made from roots and herbs Is a specific and may be relied upon to restore women to a healthy normal condition. Adv. Woodmen Select Pendleton. PENDLETON, Or.. May 3. (Special.) Pendleton has been selected as the place for the next Eastern Oregon dis trict convention of the Woodmen of the World, which will be held May 22. I. I. Boak. head consul of the order, is to come from Denver to attend the sessions. Russia has 13 factories tor making non phosphorus1 '.nali-hea. William Harper. JUNCTION CITY, Or, May 3. (Special.) William "Harper, of Riverview. Or., waa elected presi dent of the Junction City High School student body. He has played an active part in all of the high school enterprises and is influential along literary lines. Margaret Bailey was elected vice president. Francis Pitney, treas urer: Jewel " Hays, secretary; Helen Love, editor; Otto Hoppea, sergeant-at-arms. , INSURANCE MAN IS HELD W. A. Mattliews Must Stand Trial for Fraud In Idaho. BOISE, Idaho. May 3 (Special.) W. A. Matthews, organizer of the Over land Insurance Company, ariested in Chicago on the charge of embezzling $7900 from subscribers, is held under $5000 cash bond for trial. Matthews' counsel moved to dismiss the case on the grounds that the Over land Insurance Company had never been organized legally under the laws of this state. It was admitted that Matthews had sold $15,000 worth of stock, and that he had spent $13,000 to meet the expenses of organization. SLAIN AMERICAN EXHUMED Mystery of Texan Arrested by Mexi can Federals Explained at Last. LAREDO. Tex.. May 3. The body of Porfirio Laurel, an American, who dis appeared in November, was recovered today from a grave near Nauvo Laredo. Laurel had been arrested by Mexican federals, who persistently denied re ports of his execution and until the bodv was exhumed today the mystery of the Texans's absence was unexplained. Read This! It Is True! JOURNAL. PORTLAND. MONDAY EVENING. APRIL 27. jjne (ease V" to , hat orlc . he he h icn the rife hen ,ot era Vvote WHAT WERE YOU EARNING IN 1894? By John "37 Oeklnson, 1.4 per cent. A friend of puna -said to ma the rthat?." What do you think of other day: I "I .wish -I replied, "someone had A' Do you know what Income you -1 I made that perfectly clear to m in have If 1n 184 you'd begun to save I 1899 when I first began to earn'mohey. i lam . fioouia nave estaoushed . a saving system for' myself and stuck to it. "Perhaps." said my. friend:' but. h doubted it. I don't blame him for being skeptical: we who - live in the cities develop so . many needs and desires that It is only the exceptional among us who, can save money regu larly and persistently, year after year, until our savings begin to count ae augmentera of our Incomes. It is the slow start which discour ages us. When we figure) on a period as long as twenty years, we can see the miracles which steady saving accomplishes, but In five years the result Is not' impressive. Yet In our working life we find that twenty years goes Quicker than we had thought- possible. Most of us you who read this .and -1 who write It have more than twenty years of work ahead of us. JVets resolve to work out a system oft regular savins iw mat penua, mutx IllCK to It. .1 $5 a week. puC that amount regularly in a savings bank which pays 4 per cent and compounds the Interest twice a year?" "No." I said, "do youT 'Yea, 1 do." replied my friend. "You'd have' a steady Income from your -savings of $4 a week, and you'd have a capital of $7,800." "Well." I argued. "I couldn't hav$ begun to save ti a week In 1S94 I was still In school and not earning anything." "When could you have begun to save that much?" he persisted. "Oh, about five years later than 1894." I said. "Well, you're far from being a graybeard; and yet if you'd begun to save, $5 a week as soon as you were able, by tht. year 1919. while you are still young a. d vigorous, your sav lngs would be handing over to you the sum of $6 a- veek as long aS( you lived, -even if you remained content to keep them In the'brnk which pays perata and eventually a revolutionary J numbers pj ortlonate t other local- and the 1 thef wast his keti a baJ Jes Ka id coi fell Commence to save. You can obtain this result if you wish. We pay A compound interest; one dollar will start an account. We invite your checking account also Fifth and Stark Sts. LUMBERMENS NATIONAL BANK Capital $1, 000,000