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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1921)
TIIE MORXIXG OBEGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, SEPTE3IBEH 7, 1921 Oil If PBODUCTS OLD JK Cow Held Life-Saver in North western States. bushel at elevator: hlirh freight ratea af fect Montana and western North Dakota adversely. The livestock situation la seri ous, cattle selling at the lowest prices since lino. ot only this, but cramped credit conditions prevent farmers who ordinarily buy cattle and feed them for market from obtaining; livestock. Sheep are selling- at 11.25 a head. Price of most agricultural producta so low as to dlscouraire the agriculturist. If policy of not making loans of lest than iZOOO under the agriculturists' credit act Is carried out the legislation la going to do lesa good than it should. Dairy Prodncta Hold Up End. Next this expert touched a bright er side of agriculture. The dairy products was a great sustaining- in fluence and Minnesota and Wiscon sin had no end of first-class dairies in able hands. The farmer having MHMTA Mfl PRfYP HFflXlFR fairly good cream checks coming in i.i win nun vhwi iia.ntis.ii monthly ot only was able to buy Great Weakness of Farm Today Is DecIaDed to Be Low Prices on Cattle Market. Co. e; O BT RICHARD SPILLANB. (Copyright by The Public Ledger . Published by Arrangement. ; ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 6. (Spe- ' ciaL) The American Legion notified i' the association of commerce today .- that it was able to furnish a job for '- every ex-soldier out of work. This V was the first time in three months the legion was so well fixed and is ' indicative of the improvement as to r the unemployment. As a matter i fact Minnesota has not known the I strain of other states. It did not iiy so hieh in the war period and there i' after as mcst of them and did not I have so far to drop. i. St. Paul is In pretty fair shape. It, industrial establishment is con J siHorahlx but no greater than it? ncric-ultural interests. There are un I employed today about SOO;. The peak i was 11,000. 5 Construction has been good. Build a ing for the first eight months of this vear exceeds that for the same V month, last voir by S2.000.000. Most r of the building was of small homes and apartment houses. i Road ProBramme Under Way, " The state has a great road building programme, under way. Some parts of this work will continue through out the winter except !n extremely i severe weather. The whole enterprise .1. means an expenditure of J100.00U.O0O, of which J20.000.000 will be taken up . in this year's schedule. Of the industrial estalishments the nrincinal are the Crex Carpet; tiulter man Bros., manufacturers of cloth 4 ing; Swift- and Armour packing I nlants: Foot. Schulz & Co.. shoe man ufacturers; American Hoist & Derrick i company; West Publishing company; v Brown & Bigelow, advertising novei- ? ties; Waldorf paper products; North- X em Pacific rai:way, Great Northern i railway, etc. Of these the Great ? Northern, with its immense shops, "- probably bulks biggest. It takes one whole page In the telephone directory f to list all the departments, divisions and subdivisions of this company here. . Some concerns are over-crowded t with business. The Sanitary Food . company reports it Is working night and day. Latt spring it was doing little. There are rive or six shoe plants operating on 75 per cent of peak production. Armour and Swift had 3398 persons at work August 31. This is about 67 per cent of normal Weit & Co, largest pub lishers of law books in America, are on a 70 per cent basis. There is a considerable amount of commercial printing here, principally of railroad time tables ajid freight tariffs. This is two-thirds of normal. Swift and Armour report their business is show ing an upward tendency. Staple Huainena Fair. Merchants, both wholesale and re tail, report a fair volume of business in staple articles. The sustained buy- - tr.g power of the public they ascribe to the money sated in flush times. They admit they came close to the bottom of their shelves before they ' started to replenish their stocks. Wuite a volume of buying must go on, they assert, regardless of conditions, fcr no one in town, city or country is carrying much beyond immediate re quirements. They think hand-to-mouth buying will continue until there is positive evidence of an up- . turn in general business. The St. Paul-Minneapolis district serves the greatest agricultural belt made up of Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana. Statements vary somewhat as to conditions in thee farm districts. Representatives of the Equity Co- operative exchange, a farmers' or ganization with headquarters here, which, in conjunction with the Amer ican grain growers, will handle 30, Oov.OOU bushels of grain for the agri culturists this year, speak gloomily. There are more than 21.000 farmers in the Equity. It once was associat ed somewhat with the non-partisan Uague. but not now. Its officers say the league is withering. The Equity controls o2 grain eleva tors, about B0 of which are in North Dakota, in addition to financing some others. It lias paid dividends but not . for the last two years. The organi zation was created because of abuses said to prevail under the old system of weighing and grading by the ele vator combine. The Equity people say the great advantages they have brought about are to a degree la fac tors somewhat intangible. In many instances, they say, they clean the grain and thereby improve the grade. What that amounts to is not easy to compute. Before their advent there wasn't a track scale. Now the grain is weighed. They broke the back of the elevator combine and revolution ized grain handling. That, tod, is hard to figure in dollars and cents. Kquily Becomes Factor. One thing certain Is that the Equity has become a. potent factor in the grain trade. The St. Paul people speak of it with respect. Its officers have well-defined ideas for broaden ing its activities and spreading co operation throughout the farm dis tricts, but they say that agricultu rists are so hard pressed for ready money now that they cannot pool their grain and command higher prices, but are compelled to sacrifice much of it. Except in one strip In North Da kota, the Equity people declare, crops are poor in the territory they serve. They say the winter wheat states have done better and conditions are good in Kansas and Nebraska. On the othtr hand, an unusually well-informed man of dispassionate Judgment makes the situation appear somewhat better. Here Is his sum mary; Wheat Good in quality In Minnesota and eastern half of Xorth Dakota. Country elevator price $1 a bushel. Yield Is below normal and there is little profit to the farmer. Corn Biggest in history of this section of Minnesota and in the Dakotas. Flaxseed Kair crop on small acreage. Country elevaiora, 11.70. This compares with $3 during war. (Jala Very poor yield and light in qual ity. Barley Tleld small but better than 'oata. South Dakota Small grain conditions no better than Minnesota. Western .orth Dakota More grain than ' any year in the last five. Bigger yield than in eastern North Dakota. This will permit some substantial liquidation of tanners' debts. Montana Crop Better, ''ntana Conditions much the same as - t-stern North Dakota. Better crop than in i. tent years. Previous five yeara were mostly failures: Montana report applies to dry arming. Irrigated crops are good, aa usual. all his necessities, but some luxuries. These farmers were building up a co-operative organization that prom ised much good. In fact the growth of the co-operative movement was manifested throughout every branch of agriculture. This gentleman esti mated that farmers' elevators had added 3 cents a bushel to the re turn the grower got from his grain.. In connection with foregoing news here is the opinion of a farmers' banker who has just returned from a tour of the grain belt of the Dakotas and Montana: "Conditions are mixed. Crops are good in some districts and poor In others. Some farmers are riding easy GARDNER HLIFJ I, IS BELIEF OF 1 Guards Are Within Earshot and Sight of Each Other. POSSIBLE CLEW IS FOUND Prison 'Library Card Picked Tp at Infrequented Place Launch ' . Patrols Are Doubled. (Continued From First Page.) erate to approach by boat and carry the fugitive away. Other guards believe that concealel In some heavy growth of underbrush. Gardner's body is lying, the victim cf This route offers a resting place in Mosquito Island, a little ' more than half way acsoss the passage. To the north, two miles-to -Fox Island, from Gertrude, and to the coast, three miles from Bee to Steilacoom. The prison authorities have taken Into consideration Gardner's re sourcefulness, his cunning, keen wittedness and ability to bring to his advantage every trifling opportunity, also they are making allowances for his luck, which, with other attributes, has gotten him out of trouble and out of the hands of the law repeatedly in the past. Thomas Maloney. long an officer of the law, and one time chief-of-pollce of Tacoma. does not question that Gardner plotted the en tire details of the- escape, using- the rather simple-minded Impyn.and Bo gart as "goats" to divert fire from himself and otherwise to Involve his escape to make it easier. All three were confined in cell No. 2 of the main penitentiary building.. Gard ner had been confined there since June 17; while Impyn and Bogart had been prisoners only since juiy io. How Gardner came to have the pliers-with, which to cut the wire is a mystery yet unsoivea. m any ";, 1: was the plan that the three should sit together at the ball game within the barbed wire enclosure, and with their backs to the wire. Gardner with ail the innocent appearance of the other Dectators of the holiday game' between convict teams, quietly CAN GARDNER GET OUT OF THIS PLACE? MAP SHOWING McNEIL'S ISLAND IN ITS RELATION TO SHORE POINTS NEAR BY. CHANNEL BETWEEN - . . . . -o . i I'm .i Mat v M-ms.. island ad maialau at .tiuiuiaT mux. as j"uhi iw . and some need help. They need and deserve it more than the man in Rus- L. 'The increase In freight rates to gether with decreased .value of his crops, has to a degree operated as if to take his market away from the farmer. But, as 1 say, conditions are mixed. I have been a farmer all my life, together with being a financier part of my life and while all of my sympathies are with the farmer, I want to tell you that if you go to one cf the community picnics you're like ly to find that somehow in good years ai.d poor, he Is well dressed and has money to spend. Good farmers succeed and poor ones do not. I, as a banker, examine the farmers' teeth and backbone when ho wants a loan. If he grits his teeth and his backbone is stiff, all right. He must have good teeth and a good backbone to stick to the farm and make a success of it that is possible this countrv of Minnesota, the Da kotas and Montana. He must have the courage to prepare his land faithfully and well after crop failure and fertil ize It properly. He must rotate crops 1 deSDite his disposition to tane a towerman's bullet. That the fleeing convict was hit at least once Is con sidered certain by some of the guarda. He was seen to fall to the ground shortly after the other two fleeing trisoners were brought down. Two women from neighboring ranches de clare he fell again just as he cleared the last of the third fences which Im peded his flight and just before he disappeared in a heavy growth of un derbrush. Those who are doubtful aa to his having been wounded point out that a man fleeing across a rough field covered with slippery, dry grass could easily take a tumble. Leaping from the top of a fence into the brush could easily account for the other fall, they assert, declaring that the fugi tive's speed was not lessened by the falls and that he showed no signs of limping. The tumbles could also have been made purposely to mislead the pur suers, it was pointed out. Gardner's flight was perfectly staged. It lacked none of the settings and thrills that have marked his numerous escapes, chance otherwise. He must play the ' and resulted in the placing of the game faithfully and courageously. He must know the chance lor ana against him. He will know failure. But when he knows success is sure to come to, him, he gets a reward in io or some times 38 or 40 busneis to ine acre, a reward that compensates him for the periods of disappointment. "It's a man's game a strong man's game. It's part of the game our father r.d our father's father played in con tiering the west. There will be par- al liquidation of the farmers- aetii this vear and next year. As I say. conditions are mixed. Crops are good in some sections and not in others. Cattle Price Great Wtskatw. "The great and the fundamental weakness of the farm today is in the price of cattle, and there is where North Dakota and Montana have suf fered most. '- "At the same time there is oppor tunity today in high-grade cattle such as comes only once in a lifetime. There has been liquidation in high grade bulls and registered cattle such as we never had before. - You can get thoroughbred stock now at prices which a year or two hence will be deemed scandalously low. -There are compensations in everything. I wish you would encourage the purchasing, wherever possible, of high-grade stock." This banker was asked as to sav ings bank deposits in St. Paul. "They re high, he repnea. iney re high in savings banks, but are de creasing in commercial banks. How do I explain the high totals? Simple as anything in the world. -The young people who made large earnings saved comparatively little in the pe riod of inflation. They were carried away by the spending spirit. But the bulk of the staid people, the plain common-sense people, and there are lots of them in this country of ours, saved their money and they didn't increase their expenditures unneces sarily and they added to their sav ings, and those savings are a great safeguard for them today and a great sustaining force in the period; of strain through which we have been passing." MOTOR CONCERN INVOLVED Federaf Receivers amed for Xew Jersey Corporation. NEWARK, N. J., Sept 6. Federal receivers in equity were named for the American Motors corporation of Plainfieid on petition of attorneys claiming to represent 80 per cent of the creditors. Assets were listed at $5,500,000 and at $600,000. The corporation assented to the receivership. Judge Indorsed for Supreme Bench WALLA WALLA,. Wash., Sept. 6.. (Special.) Members of the Bar as sociation have indorsed E. C. MiHs, judge of the superior court, for ap pointment to the state supreme bench to succeed Wallace Mount, who died Sunday. Letters and telegrams were sent forward today indorsing Mills. Mills-has been a member of the bar for 17 years and has been .on the county bench since 1912. . 8. it green stamps for cash. Holman Fuel Co, coal and .wood. Main 853: 560-21. Adv. Hill Military Academy. Portland, Oregon, is recognized by the partment Opens September keenest sleuths of the country on his trail, including the department of jus tice men, railroad arid private detec tives. Search yesterday continued until nightfall, and was resumed again at daybreak today, armed guards beat ing the brush in the hope of finding the bandit if he had been wounded. No trace of any kind could be found Should Gardner make his way to the interior of the island it would be pos sible, for him to hide for days In the heavy brush, it Is said. While the search for the man who was brought to the penitentiary heavily chained ten weeks ago, after he had made, a sensational escape near Castle Rock, continues; Impyns body lies in a little shack near the beach. Bogart Is in the prison hospital seriously injured, shot through the left side. That Gardner made use of these two prisoners to further his own chances of escape is the general belief at the prison. Andy Roddell, dean of the guards, is particularly vindictive toward Gardner for the escape. - It was Roddell who saw the prisoner wave to the launch just be fore making his dash for freedom. "I had been watching Gardner closely, for he is a bad actor," said Roddell today. "I saw him wave at a passing launch about ten minutes before he made his dash. I thought little about it at the time, for pris oners are all the time waving at passing launches. I ' do not think now that had anything to do with his escape." McNeil Island is surrounded by swift currents of salt water so cold that it is declared Impossible for a man to swim to mainland or to any other Island in the vicinity. Help from the outside is believed Gard ner's only chance of getting away from, the island. Telephone call sent over McNeil island today brought the unanimous answer that ' Gardner simply had not been seen. The island Is four- miles long by three miles wide. It has an irregular shore line, and the penitentiary and the. village of Bee are close to a long,, narrow Inlet that pierces the island. Gard ner's avenues of escape from the. Is land are chiefly the following:. To the south, a trifle over, one half mile across Balch passage to Anderson Island. To the west, the shortest route, less than half a mile from a point on the island north of Meridian to the mainland north of Long Branch, crossing Pitt passage reached behind him and snipped the two. lower strands of the fence. GAUDXEK EXPERT SWIMMER Wife Says Bandit Able to Stay in ; Water- Long Time. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 6. Roy Gardner, escaped prisoner from Mc Neil's island, is an expert swimmer and able to stay in water for an hour or more, said Mrs. uoiiy uaraner, ms wife, in an interview given on the telephone from a ranch in Napa county. She said she believed her husband swam to the mainland. ' "He is a dare-devil swimmer," said Mrs. Gardner. "I have seen him swim far out into the sea at the beaches and return in three-quarters of an hour not a bit tired and full of pep. "I believe he escaped this time just to show the officers he could do it. You never can tell what Roy is go ing to do next. He may even wait a while and return to the prison and say. Here I am, warden.' But if he gets out of the country, i n certainly be willing to Join him. I believe he'll be captured, however, for the reason that he'll have to show up somewhere to eat." VETERANS TO ASSEMBLE Disarmament and Bonus Questions to Come Before Convention. MINNEAPOLIS. Minn., Sept.' 6. More than 6000 delegates from every state in the union will attend the annual national convention of the United Spanish War Veterans here, September 12 to 15, it is announced by those in charge of the arrange ments for the .meeting. Resolutions on the disarmament and bonus ques tions, will coma before the conven tion. National officers will arrive Sep tember 10 and establish national headquarters. J. K. Witherspoon of Seattle, Wash., is commander-in-chief of the veterans' organization. Alleged Liquor Ship Condemned. ,MOBILE, Ala., Sept. 6. 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