TIIE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN, 3IONDAT, DECEMBER 18. 1916. 'WOOLMEN. OPPOSE HIGH GRAZING FEE Oregon Association Is Willing to Submit to Increase of 50 Per Cent. CONTINUED BOUNTY'ASKED Special Appropriation Requested of Legislature to Prevent Spread of Kables Support of Port land Stock Show Urged HEPPNER, Or.. Dec. 17. Special) Strong opposition to the proposed 100 per cent Increase In the grazing fees on National forests was one of the principal actions of the Oregon -Wool Growers' Association, which lats last night closed Its 19th annual conven tion with a banquet at the Palace Hotel as guests of the Heppner Commercial Club, following sessions which opened Friday morning here. T. J. Mahoney was toastmaster. The opposition to the Increased fees was recorded in resolutions which also requested continuance, of the present bounty on' predatory ' animals, and a legislative appropriation of $30,000 to ho expended during the hext two years In a special effort to prevent the spread of rabies. Committees were appointed from among the range users to map out driveways to the National forests and the new 640-acre homestead law was also dlscuesed. - Increase Held Unreasonable. It was the unanimous opinion of th wool growers that under normal con ditions the proposed grazing fees would be unreasonable. They expressed will ingness to submit to an increase of 60 per cent, provided this increase be distributed equally over the next two years and that a large part of the funds be used In Improvement of the forests. It was brought out that the disease of rabies, which caused enormous losses of livestock, is prevalent throughout Eastern Oregon and Is as great a men ace as at any time in the past. The woolmen therefore asked the Legisla ture to leave the. present bounty law as it fs and to appropriate an addi tional sum of money to be expended by the Livestock Sanitary Board In co-operation with the United States Bureau of Biological Survey in an effort to pre vent the spread of the disease. Conference Is Proposed. The secretary of the State Board of ITealth and the secretary of the Live stock Sanitary" Board were also in structed to take steps for a conference of the states in which the disease ex ists at Salt Lake City, January 11, 12 and 13. The states affected are Wash ington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, California and Oregon. At this conference It Is proposed to provide for the adoption of a uniform method of combating the disease. The Surgeon-General of the United States Public Health Service will be re quested to call this conference and rep resentatives from all of the livestock associations, state boards of health, livestock sanitary boards, forest serv ice and Biological .Survey will attend. Five-Year Permits Wanted. The resolutions also urged issuance of five-year permits by the District Forester, to procure stability in the wool-growing business; an annual ram sale at Salt Lake: classing of wool . before placed in the original bag; In dorsed the appointment of a nonpar tisan tariff commission: asked the Department of the Interior to set aside Government tracts contiguous to ap proved routes of travel of stock so stock may have a chance to rest and feed en route; indorsed the Pacific International Livestock exposition held in Portland and recommended financial and moral support for a new building; . indorsed state educational institutions and urged rural districts to as high a standing as city schools, paying particular attention to agricul ture and livestock, and urged moral and financial support of National Wool Growers, the official organ of the Na tional association, published at Salt Lake City. By unanimous vote all officers were retained for another year. They are w. JbS. Barrett. Heppner. president: Ernest Johnson. Enterprise, vlce-presi- aent; J. J. Hager, Heppner, secretary treasurer. It has been decided to hold the next annual meeting In The Dalles. w - Germany has been manufacturing and storing many things that we need and will gladly buy. Germany will seek to sell liberally to us, as will England and France and the other countries, and buy as con servatively as possible, because they need gold. This country will have the' largest and practically the only free stock, of gold in the world. Europe has a vastly greater ocean carrying capacity than has the United States. We must face a different Europe, both from Industrial efficiency and keener trade tendencies than formerly. Extravagant Tendency Developed. ' We have developed a tendency toward extravagance in our phenom enal prosperity. Our wage scales are higher than those in Europe. Money necessarily will be cheaper here than in Europe. . Europe has the wide banking ex perience and the trained men and the organization to handle world's- credits, while we are still new at this line of business. These are factors that must be reck oned with in the af rer-the-war period. There are others as well, but these are some of the- more important. HENS HELP TO OREGON PLAXT AT STATE HOSPITAL SHOWS PROFIT OF S7O0O I.V B1E.VMUM. Danchter of Agricultural College Champion Lay 303 Eggi In Year. Other Average 221. SALEM. Or.. Dec 17. (Special.) Hens of "The Oregon" strain, developed at the Oregon Agricultural College and branded as "mongrel" by some poultry experts, have won the affections of everyone connected with the Oregon State Hospital and are working over time to beat the 6-per-cent limitation amendment at its own game. Through the noble effort of "the Oregons." the poultry plant at the hospital, comprl ing a flock of 400, Is preserving the state from entanglements in the egg boycott, keeping the other institutions In eggs and has made a net profit .for the hospital in the present biennium of $7016.99. and the fiscal year la not ended yet. - In November the poultry plant showed a net profit of $489.28, and In October of $25 8.05, after deducting de preciation' cost, 6 per cent Interest on Investment and incidentals, as well as general expenses. For nearly two years the state hospi tal has purchased no eggs, and for the past six months eggs have been sold to other institutions, this sale resulting in a handsome anet profit each month. The eggs are sold on a basis of the dally market quotations, less freight. A daughter of "303," famous Oregon Agricultural College . biddy, who for a time held the world's egg laying record by laying 303 eggs In a year. Is the pride of the hospital poultry yard and has exactly equaled her mother's rec ord. An average of 221.7 eggs has been shown by 173 trapnested hens breeding at the plant. SLAYER HAS NO REGRET LEWISTOX YOUTH WILL OBTAIN PRELIMINARY HEARING TODAY. DEFENSE PLAN ADVOCATED American Society Urges Equipment for 1,000,000 Men. NEW TORIC," Dec. 17. A platform of preparedness measures advocated by the American Defense Society was made public here tonight. It contains planks calling for: Universal military training accords Ing to the principles of the Moseley ana cnamoenain bills. immediate acquisition of a reserve empply of rifles, uniforms. machine guns, mobile artillery and ammunition sufficient to equip an army of at least one million men. Immediate establishment of a chain of fortified coaling stations in our five groups of island possessions stretch ing from the Pacific Coast to the Phil ippine Islands. Preservation of the naval petroleum reserves. TACOMA CARMEN GET RISE New AVage Scale for Christmas Gives Two-Cent Increase. TACOMA. Wash.. Dec. 17. (Snecial.l As a Christmas present to its men the Tacoma Railway & Power Com pany announced last night that it had increased the wages pf conductors and motormen 2 cents an hour, which will add approximately $60,000 to the con cern's annual payroll. The new scale of wages ranges from 23 cents an hour for the first six months up to 30 cents an hour for the maximum number of years, and there after 24 cents for the second six months: 25 cents for the second year; 26 cents for the third: 27 rents for the fourth: 28 cents for the fifth and sixth: 29 cents for the seventh, eighth and ninth, and 30 cents for the tenth year and thereafter. One of Three Shots Fired by Freng After Killing GIfford Cuts Coat Sleeve of Store Proprietor. LEWISTON. Idaho. Dec. 17. SDe- cial.) Jewell Freng, 17 years old, who shot and killed Lester Gilford last evening at the Idanha Pharmacy, where ho had driven him at the Doint of a- revolver, sits morosely in his cell seemingly unconscious of the enormity of his crime. Freng said tonight he had shot GIf ford because he would not pay him $130, and that he was glad he did it. Freng maintained that he had not been drinking, and that the act was pre meditated. He said he had talked the subject over with his father and told him that he was carrying a revolver and would "get Gifford if he wouldn't pay his hospital bill." and that his father had advised him not to do any thing. Freng met with an accident while employed on the Gifford ranch last Summer. When Patrolman Gasser grappled with Freng he had shot GifTord. T.hree more shots were fired, one of which passed through the left coat sleeve ol C r. Osmers. proprietor of the phar macy. It is the contention of Gasser that the shot was fired at Mr. Osmers. Freng's preliminary examination will be held tomorrow. . t t BEAT MARSHAL MOB RELEASES MEMBERS HELD IN LINDSAY, CAL JAIL. Party of 100 Board Train With An nonneed Intention of Going to Frenno Following Riot. LINDSAY. Cal.. Dec. 17. (Special.) More than 100 men. many of whom declared their membership in the I. W. W.. indulged in a near riot in Lindsay streets last night, the disturb ance reaching a culmination when members of the mob severely beat Marshal English and liberated from the city jail two of the gang who had been arrested for disorderly conduct. A special officer in the employ of the Santa Fe Railroad here was also roughly handled. Two hours later the men boarded a Southern Pacific train leaving here with the announced inten tion of proceeding to Fresno. At Visalia the men were lined up by Chief of Police Rowland, and three of them, who refused to give their names, were held' on suspicion of hav ing knowledge of the burglary of a residence in Exeter. 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Ernest Sault. a Junior and guard on this year's team, was elected captain for the 1917 season. MILITANTS JWANT PEACE Sylvia Pankhurst Mobbed and Taken to London Police Station. LONDON. Dec. 17. Sylvia Pank hurst. the suffragette, and several sym pathizers endeavored to hold a "dera onstration" at the East India dock gates today to demand peace. A big crowd assembled and mobbed the speaker. The police interfered and rushed Alias Pankhurst and her friends to the police station. The prisoners were held under bail for examination before a magistrate. WEALTHY COUPLE SLAIN Man, 8 5, and His Wife. 83, Mur dered, Probably by Robbers. .FEORIA, 1IL. Dec 17 The bodies of John P. Becker, aged 85. and his wife, aged 83. were found in their home near Mason City, early today, both having been shot to death. Robbery la believed to have been the motive for the killing. The dead man. a wealthy holder of hundreds of acres of farm land, was reputed to have kept large sums of money In his house. 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