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THE MORNING OREGOTiTATT, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1914. 8 MILL IS MAINSTAY OF CRESCENT CITY Metropolis of Mining Days Now Town of 11 00 Dependent (; on Corporation. FARMING METHODS ARE OLD Kail road Projected From Grants Pass Appears Too Big a Propo- fcition to People and They Have No Plan to Get Funds. BY ADDISON BENNETT. CRESCENT CITY. Cal.. June 7. CSpecial.) No doubt this place was named from the shape of the shore line of the Pacific, which has an In dentation here like a half moon. From the north to the south points of this crescent it is perhaps four miles; were a line to be drawn straight from the center of such a line to shore it would lte in the neighborhood of one mile. ' Somewhat north of the center of the crescent, on land but a few feet above high tide, is located the town, the rest, ilence district running back to higher ground, . The original main business street was on the water front, but now the better section is back and many of the old buildings are unoccupied. In deed all over town one finds untenant ed structures, so the city was at one time more populous than now. One oid resident told me that at the time of the gold excitement in the Siski j oiis, to the east, and over in Josephine and Jackson counties, when there was not a wagon road leading from the town, when every bit of freight and all 3assenger traffic was by pack horses over the trails, when San. Francisco newspapers two weSks old sold readily for a dollar each. Crescent City was a sure-enough metropolis. The city now has a population of about 1100: Del Norte County has something like 3500. This is the county seat. The county area is 1646 square miles, so it is very sparsely populated. , 500O Cows In County. There are perhaps 20,000 acres of fine farming land here in Smith River Valley, in which the town may be said to be situated, although the river is several miles to the north. This area Is divided into about 150 farms, several of them being of 1000 acres or more. On these there are about 5000 dairy cows, 1500 calves and on farms and ranges there are 600 beef cattle, 3000 hogs and 4000 goats and sheep. There are six creameries, the butter output amounting to about 1,000,000 pounds annually. It all goes by boat to San Francisco. There are along the coast five canneries, putting up an annual pack of about 2,500,000 pounds of sal mon. This is rriostly light colored fish, not equal to that from the next river down the coast, the Klamath, or the next one above it, the Rogue. That Is the next of great importance. Tlie mainstay of the town is approx imately $15,000 a month distributed for labor by the firm of Hobbs, "Wall & Co. This firm has a mill here that cuts from -25,000,000 to 30,000,000 feet of lumber a year, mostly redwood. It also makes from 30,000,000 to 60,000, 000 redwood shingles. The milling busi ness will probably increase rapidly. The superintendent of Hobbs, Wall Ac Co. is George M. Keller. The mem tiers of the firm all live away from liere, and Mr. Keller is the whole thins:. The store here is doing a business of aoout S-'2o,000 a year, the mill cuts 80 000 to 100,000 feet of lumber a day, to eay notning or the shingles; the com pany operates 15 miles of railway, has four vessels that handle Its output and the general passenger and freight business down the coast; it has logging crews in the woods, a five sevenths Interest in the city wharves. and Mr. Keller never has anything to wo dul jook arter the details. There are several hotels here, among them the Del Norte, the Bay and the European, Oregon Line 18 Miles Away. It is about 18 miles, as the crow flies, to the Oregon state line. The road up the coast takes one through the Smith Klver Valley proper. G. A. Webb, the City Attorney, took me in his new automobile yesterday all through the valley. it Is cows, cows, and more cows. No grain whatever is raised except oats, and not many acres of it. Not, a Bilo, it is said, is there In the valley. A little corn is raised, which, 1 was told, was fed while green. Many of the buildings are old and dilapidated. But there are quite a number of fine lwellings, with nice lawns and a few big barns and several fine oow stables. What the Del Norte County farmers need is a man like C. M. Leonard to buy up one of the farms and turn a man like Clyde E. Nlles loose on it. Crescent City hag two newspapers, the Del Norte Triplicate and the Cres cent City Courier. Both are weekly papers and both seem to be flourishing. There are two banks here, the Bank of Crescent City and the Del Norte County Bank. The deposits of the two aggregate about $350,000. There are 14 saloons here. Wealth of Timber Standing. Del Norte County has a wealth of timber standing. The redwood is esti mated at 15,000,000 feet and the other, pine, spruce , and fir, at 7,000,000 feet. Mr. Keller told me of one redwood tree from which they sawed 90,000 feet of lumber. I asked him how old the mature redwoods are. He said the old ones were upwards of 6000 years old. Apparently this wood never rots. The assessed valuation of the county Is $4,000,000. The state and county tax averages $1.90, then there is the road tax in the country and the city tax in Crescent City. The latter last year was $1.80. What a great many people in Oregon want to know is about the harbor here. I read the engineer's reports, and such reports, and tha surveys they were based upon, is the sumtotal of all the Government has ever done for the harbor here; Nature did the rest. The latest reports outlined a plan very simple and apparently entirely feasible, whereby at a cost of $1,850,000 a depth of water could be had of from 25 to 35 feet, and the harbor would then of fer safe anchorage from any storm, and would be large enough for a city-of 600,000. Thcr Is No Harbor Proper. Now there Is no harbor proper. That Is, it is simply an exposed open front. The boats come into a point about 1760 feet from shore. To this point a pier has been built and this has a wing at the end 500 feet long. Along this wing Jiier the vessels anchor, the depth of water being from 13 to 20 feet. I supposed I would hear lots of talk about the railroad projected from Grants Pass to this place. Well, I have, but it seems to me that the people are rather lukewarm over it. They Beem to think the project too big. They Bay there is no way they can get state or county aid, as they did in Grants Pass, and so far no system of getting TTunda has crystallzed. SCENES IN CRESCENT CITY. - - " 'i -' - - 76 WILL GRADUATE L SCHOOL AT 1 Class at Monmouth Largest in 31 Years of Insti tution's Existence. MANY ARE OFFERED POSTS ' w, w -s ' si L TOP, ONE OK THE BIG SAWMILLS MIDDLE, VIEW OF LIGHTHOUSE. BOTTOM, COURTHOUSE. BILL IS DENOUNCED State Engineer Says George Measure's Aim Personal. 'SAVING' DECLARED FICTION Governor Charged Witn Trying to Replace $30 00 Official 'With One at $4200 Tnder Guise of Reducing Expenses. SALEM. Or.. June 7. (Special.) De claring that the bill to be initiated by W. P. George, providing for the aboli tion of the State Desert Land Board and the office of State Engineer, which has the indorsement of Governor West, was a continuation of the personal warfare the executive had made on him. State Engineer Lewis. Republican nominee for re-election to that office, announced today that he was prepared to fight DacK. - lie denied that the plan advo cated by the Governor would save the state money, and intimated that the placing of the engineering department under the supervision of the State Land Board, as provided In the measure, would enlarge the scope of the Gover nor s power. Mr. Lewis said the Governor was mis taken when he said, at the time he gave copies of the bill to the press, that the engineer of the Tumaio irrigation proj ect, who would serve under the act as State Engineer until 1916, receives $3000 a year as does the State Engi neer. He said the salary was $4200. The bill provides that he, as acting State Engineer, would receive the same salary he now receives. Salary Declared Raised. The minutes of the State Desert Land Board show that Project Engineer iaurgaara receives ?350 a month," con tinued Mr. Lewis. "He formerly re ceived $300 a month, but upon the Gov ernor's own ' motion, which was sec onded by Secretary of State Olcott, the salary was Increased to $350 a month, which is $4200 a year. "The bill purports to abolish tha office of State Engineer, but in effect legislates the man elected by the Deo pie out of office and replaces him with a man at a higher salary to be ap pointed Dy me state Land Board, com posed of the Governor, Secretary of State and State Treasurer. The bill provides for the engineer appointed Dy tne board a salary until 1916 of $4200 a year, whereas the present State Engineer receives only $3000. I cannot see any saving there. The act abolishes the State Desert Land Board and transfers its duties back again to tne state Jan-a Hoard, which originally had control of Carey act matters. The present difficulties are largely due to the failure of this board at tha outset to administer the act properly. As the technical and. legal members of the present Board, who will be eliminated, receive no compensation for their serv ices as members of this Board, it Is difficult to sea tho saving that will result. Peraonal Fight" Charged. "While the bill provides for the repeal of certain annual appropria tions, it also provides that the Legis lature may supply funds for this work by biennial appropriations. It is therefore impossible to determine whether any saving will result "Governor West's statement as to the saving wnicn will result from tho en actment of this bill is misleading, as $65,000 was appropriated, for special work and will in nowise be affected by the passage of this bill.- The in jecting of a personal fight into a bill of this nature appears to be an abuse of the initiative." Tho bill further provides for the abolition of the State Water Board, composed of the State Engineer and two Water Commissioners, the office of superintendent of water divisions, and transfers their duties to a state Water Commission to be appointed by the State Land Board and to receive a salary of $2400 a. year. It also provides that after 1916 tho State Engineer shall receive a. salary of $2400 a year. The Governor says the adoption of the measure would mean a cutting in half of tne expense or tne Departments to be consolidated. - DIVA TALKS OF VICTORY (Coptinned From Flrt Page.) for the new King of Bavaria, and I am especially invited to sins then. Surely surely the divorce can't drag along till then? What you think? Could it? "No, I think not, either. I wanted to sing at the Wagnerian festival, but I expected to sail June 1, and as I couldn't be there for rehearsals I think I can't sing. But my friends ah, my friends, they think I can and they want me. God bless them, and I go soon. They thought they had me when they when they what you call they did that Saturday, and they think, ahl now she cannot go. They wanted to hurt 'me. but they did not, you see. Surely I can get away by the time of the concert for the King. Children AVIU Be Protected. "I hope they don't say dreadful things about me, but more I hope that you, my friends, will not believe them; not believe anything they say. They can do what they want to me. I can stand it, but if they touch my chil dren" ' The voice raised and it grew sud denly hard and cold. "I wouldn't stand that. Something terrible I would do if they touch my children. Tho "papers, or anybody." The voice was sad when madame spoke of her husband and Mrs. Dean; it was sympathetic when sho talked of the Wagnerian festival; but when ehe spoke of the children and any connec tion with the scandal that tbey might be forced into, it was a voice of which to bo afraid. . Bayrentli Call Again Beard. "But I am so tired today. I rest all day. Tho trial is so hard on me. I wish it might have been avoided oh! how I wish it- But it cannot last for ever. Tomorrow is another day. I will be In court all day and then another I wish somebody could tell mo when it will be over. Oh! but my friends are so kind and they believe in me, and that cablegram was, & delight at such a time. They do want mo to sing and I am to be very, very welcome if I come into Bayreuth at the lastx minute. God bless such friends." Mme. Schumann Heink stayed at her home all day today and visitors were urged to excuse her. She was resting. she said, for the ordeal of going to court again on Monday and hearing more about her husband's devotion to Mrs. Katherine Dean, named by Mme. Schumann Heink in her divorce bill as co-respondent. QUEEN MUST BE PRETTY CHERRIA5S ACCEPT NO FRTJMFS AS THRONE ASPIRANTS. Seven Good-Looking; Tons Women With Strong Backing Entered In Big Contest at Salem, SALEM. Or., Juno 7. (Special.) The queen of the Salem Cherry Fair is certain to be a pretty girL according to the announcement of the executive committee of Tho Cherrians, which is in charge. Determined that her majesty should be an adornment to the throne, the committee has chosen only good-looking young women as candidates for the high honor. There are seven candi dates and each has a backing which is certain to make the contest the moat exciting ever held in this city. Miss Grace Lilly is the candidate of the Lodge of Elks, and tho antlers say she will be the winner. Certain of success also are tha supporters of Miss Nell Hargrove, who has the united aid of the workers of the Pacific Tel ephone & Telegraph Company. Miss Florence Houston ' is tho candidate of the Southern Pacific Company's em ployes. who declare she will be ai 80-mile-a-mlnute winner. The aspirant of the high school is Miss Mary Schutx, who is one of tho most popular of the younger set. The Western Union Telegraph Com pany's force is lined up solidly for Miss Verne DeWitt, and with other strong support which she has been promised she is apparently one of tho most for midable of the candidates. Miss Eunane Craig, employed in tho State House, has the support -of the state officials and employes, whilo Miss Priscilla Fleming Is the aspirant backed by the merchants of the city. Primary Held at Stevenson. STEVENSON. Wish.. June 7. f Spe cial.) An enthusiastic Republican pri mary was held at Stevenson, Wash., at 2 o'clock yesterday, at which time J. M. Stevenson, Dr. T. C. Avery, Jack Joyce, A. C. Sly, Jerry Wright and H. Swisher were elected delegates to the Repub lican county convention to be held at Stevenson June 13, at 1 o'clock, for tha purpose of electing delegates to the state convention. Commencement Address Will Be by Edgar B. riper and Large Pro portion of 1C00 Alumni Ex pected for Festivities. MONMOUTH. Or., June 7. (Special.) A celebration of the 31st anniversary of the institution, an honoring of the third year since its reinstatement in 1911, and the graduation of a class of 76, tho largest in its history, are the three events which will feature the four days' commencement programme at the Oregon Normal School. Members of the Alumni Association and visitors from many sections of the state are expected to be in attendance here. The festivities will commence Satur day morning, June 13. with the presi dent's breakfast to the senior class. Rev. E. C. Wlgmore, of the Eugene Bible University, will deliver the bac calaureate sermon at 10:30 Sunday morning. On Monday morning class day exercises and the last chapel will be held. In the evening will occur the Junior promenade which will in clude elaborate exhibitions. Tuesday afternoon President and Mrs. Acker man and the normal school faculty will give a reception to the seniors and alumni. The class play, "As You Like It," is staged for the evening, to be given in the grove on the campus. Edgar B. Piper Speaker. Wednesday is commencement da v. The programme and exercises will "be given at 10 A. M., when Edgar B. Piper, managing editor of The Orego nian, will deliver the address to the class. In the afternoon tho Oregon Normal School Board of Regents will be in annual session for the transaction of general school business. Several important matters are to come before the meeting. The alumni reunion and banauet In scheduled for 8 o'clock Wednesday eve ning. Each year many of the alumni, which now numbers about 1200, return for commencement at the normal. Reunions of some of the first classes are expected. In the graduating class nf 7k .in dents 25 Oregon counties are repre sented as follows: Multnomah, Polk, Marion, Linn, Lane, Columbia, Yamhill Union, Morrow, Coos, Wheeler, Tilla mook. Benton, Umatilla, Malheur, Wash. ingion, UlacKamas. Gilliam. Phrmn Lincoln, Jackson, Clatsop, Wallowa, Harney and Douglas. The class has members also from Montana. Idaho. Kansas and Washington. The greater number of the students already have obtained positions for next term, and at the close of the graduation exercises, nearly all are expected to have signed contracts. Th demand for teachers In tho state is shown to be strong, and Orecron Normal School this year is called on to satisfy me iieeas oi scnooi districts in nearly every county. Graduates' Namea Given. The graduates who will be granted diplomas on Wednesday, June 17, fol low: ' Gertrude Nelson, Portland; Iza Anne Constable. Salem; Minnie Wonder, Monmouth; Edna Cox, Albany; Jesse Wagner, Portland; Eleanor Richmond, Salem; Ina White, Brownsville; Flor ence Heffley, Monmouth; Blanche Booth, Eugene; Harry Lynch. Salem; Reetha Shaw, Livingston, Mont.: A. E. Pender, Brush Prairie, Wash.; Osie S'matterBill? There's a couble ovev t-. . i r - f in nprimnnt VMPAnrrn f)ui righV- They phoned "tbey couldtft see amjlbin ioEilersltresbto-vyife Ibose sixteen free dance records and eldbt others all Jor&Darcontb. 1 4t W-A Bill Spivens is certainly busy these days maMug other folks happy. Bill is strong for that "music in the home" stuff. Cornellson, Portland; Zoe Bragg, La Grande: R. I. Bixby. Freewater; Flor ence Mafflt, Vale: Amy Pechin, Forest Grove; Bertha Dunlap, Eugene; Elda Pearl McDanlel. Portland; Ida Ehran raich, Portland; Lapensa Amrine, Ore gon City; Almeda Smith, Portland: Laurel Innman, Walterville; Amanda Smidt, Hubbard; J. Nelle Peppers, Mon mouth; Elsie Yoder, Hubbard; Evelyn Segal, Portland: Minnetta EmmeL Mil waukle; Elinor Crouter, Union; Bess Dodson, Clem; Lorrle V. Connor, John Day; Lyda V. Bell, Monmouth; Esther Bentley, Newport: Nelly Darr, Adams; C. E. Cady, Philomath; Elva Boone, Monmouth: C. E. English, Ashland; Fannie Anderson, Astoria; Joe C. BelL Monmouth; Agnes Harris, Oregon City; Ruth Duncan, Scappoose; Mario Mit chell, Wallowa: Beatrice Hotchklss, Burns'; Jessie Bowland, Oregon City: Will H. Burton, Newport: Georeia Kessl, Monmouth; Janet M. Grant, Fair- view; juajjorie Hanson, corvallis; Edna Phillips, Heppner: A. B. Richardson. Monmouth; Martha Gerklng, Holdman; Guy E. Richards. Eugene; Neta May Miller, Moscow, Idaho; Grace Williams, North Bend; Emily Do 'Vore, Med ford; Gladys Luthy, Salem; James P. Ciay baugh. Philomath. kalfle-; MyrUo S Neberg'; 2 M I MILITANTS INVADE CHURCH (Continued From F1rt P (T. Mabrey, Eugene; Nelle C. Crout, Port land; W. L. Dunton, Monmouth; Lillian Page, Elgin; Caroline Luther, Albany; Winifred Smith, Lexington; Joseph Bo. gynska, Monmouth; Rose Lillle, Arago; Alfa Rosenquest, Salem; Mildred Trin dle, Salem; Mable . Goyne, Tillamook; Theresa Kurtenbach, Herington, Kan.; Mrs. Curtis, Fossil; Carol Hogue, Port land; Tressa Hawley. Boise, Idaho.; Kate Henderson. Lebanon: Edith L. tant sister in the face, which bled pro fusely. The crowd cheered the woman who struck the blow. Only two of the wom en who caused the disorder were ar rested. The growing hostility on the part of the public was shown by assaults to day on several open-air meetings. Speakers were mobbed, stands were torn down and two men were saved by the police from duckings or beatings. A crowd at Hampstead Heath knocked over the platform from which a party of militants were to speak and scat tered the suffragettes in all directions. They tried to drag two of tho women to a pond for a ducking but police rescued the women. A similar scene occurred in Clapham Common. When a militant advocated the use of bombs the speaker and those on the stand with her were pelted with mud. The police helped the women to escape on a motor 'bus. A meeting in Hyde Park ended in the same manner. Sylvia Pankhurst In a speech de livered at a? meeting in the East End of London today declared that when she went to see Premier Asquith next Wednesday she would ask for a depu tation to accompany her, not only to plead with the Premier, but to threaten him. People Trample Prostrate Woman. Wild Bcenes followed the ejectment of the suffragettes from the Church of the Oratory. One of the women lay on the steps of the church and refused to move. Her mouth had been injured from a blow. People trampled past and across her prostrate form. Her hat was torn off and her dress disordered and muddied. Finally the police arrested her with several others of the disturbers. All of them later were discharged except two, Christine Andrews and an Ameri can, Mrs. Mary Fuasten. whose husband bailed her out. because of an unpaid bill, Jesse Joplln last night shot Dr. Winton Dunn, ex Mayor of Duquoln, six times. The doctor "died today. Alfonso Has His Xose Examined. SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain. Juno 7. King Alfonso returned today by motor from Biarritz, where ho went for his periodical examination by the specialist who operated on his nose a few years ago. His majesty will go to Madrid tonight on the express train on which Colonel Roosevelt Is a passenger. Man Kills Doctor He Would Xot Pay. DUQUOIX, 111., June 7. When medi cal attention for his child was refused P- -, . UMJI .,U . . . . I -- t in ii Til i" Ever Realize That the greatest joy of living depends on freedom from aches and pains and worries? Also, that perfect health depends largely on the proper selection of good, nourishing food. . The ordinary diet is often heavy and indigestible, or lacks certain essential ele ments. 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