Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937, December 18, 1916, Page 3, Image 3

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    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.
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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.
IERCE BATTLE FORECAST
(Continued From First Page.)
pose of impressing upon the American
business mind that:
This war cannot go on forever.
Grave Problems Must Be Met.
Sooner or later grave problems must
be solved affecting our relations with
the now belligerent nations of Europe.
Competition is certain to be keen.
EMBARGO NOT IRONCLAD
NORTHERN PACIFIC WILL ACCEPT
NEEDED SHIPMENTS.
President Hannaford Explains That
Assurance Must Be Given Freight
Will Be Unloaded Promptly.
ST. PAUL. Dec. 17. Although declar
ing that shipments of grain and lumber
from Far Western points are now un
der restriction by the Northern Pacific
Railroad. President Hannaford tonight
denied that an ironclad embargo had
been placed on such shipments.
"The Northern Pacific is ready to
receive shipments from any point on its
line so long as it has assurance that
there is an actual demand for the
freight, and that it will be unloaded
promptly on reaching- its destination."
he said.
Mr. Hannaford said that owinr to
the congestion of cars in Lhs East.
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shipments from the Far West to points
beyond the Twin Cities cannot be ac
cepted indiscriminately. He said the
Northern Pacific must see that the
rolling stock remains on its own lines.
TW0 M. P.'S MADE PEERS
Two Seats In House Vacated for
Members of New Cabinet.
LONDON. Dec. 17. Th King has
conferred a peerage on Sir 'William
Maxwell Altken arid the Rt. Hon.
Charles B. Stuart-Wortley, members of
Parliament, respectively, for Asaton-
under-Lyne and the Hallam division of
Sheffield. Thus two Unionist Beats in
the House are vacated for members of
the new Cabinet. V
Sir William Altken was formerly of
ficial eyewitness with the Canadian
troops. He was born In Canada and
was knighted in 1911.
Sault to Captain Wasliougal.
WASHOUGAL. Wash.. Dec 17. (Spe
cial.) The undefeated football team of
Washougal High School was banqueted
last night by Coach Ferrln and Super
intendent W. E. Thomas. Thirteen of
ficial " W'8" were awarded to members
of tfc squad. 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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