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.
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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
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Grand Duke Has Phlebitis.
BERLIN. June 7. Anxiety Is felt
over the condition of the Grand Duke
of Mecklenberg-Strelltz, who is suffer
ing from phlebitis or inflammation of
tho inner membranes of the veins.
The grand duke Is 66 years old.
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