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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, MAY 4, 1913.
CANADIANS
F,
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OREGON
PRODUCTS
British Columbia Market Gar
deners Complain of Compe
tition From States.
GOVERNMENT HELP SOUGHT
With Prices of liand and Wages
High, Farmers Suggest Trial of
Indentured Labor and label
ing of Foreign Supplies.
VICTORIA, B. C May 3. (Special.)
Ftandlns; out In the mass of evidence
submitted to the Royal Agricultural
Commission, now making Investigations
on Vancouver Island, is the startling:
testimony that Oregon and Washington
era-s. fruit and vegetables and driving
the market farmers of British oClum
bla. out of their own markets in Vic
toria. Vancouver and New Westminster.
Councillor Henry Fentlman. of
Steveston. told the commissioners that
after following market gardening with
prodt in Ontario for over 20 years he
emigrated to British Columbia four
years ago to continue that occupation
In the West. He says conditions are
absolutely prohibitive. He was not
able to sell hts produce at all. though
the quantity of it was small.
The councillor rapped the American
Importers aa those upon whom the re
sponsibility should fall for the Ills of
the British Columbia market gardening
Industry. They sent in such a large
amount of produce and at such prices
that the local growers whose Invest
ment and outlay In land and labor must
necessarily be considerably higher, had
to light a losing battle. The result was
tons and tons of fruit and vegetables
going to waste in the fields of the
province.
TMaertmlnatlom Is Charged.
Competition from the American side
In eggs was alluded to by W. T. Walk
er, who alleged that 65 cents a dozen
was as much as the local producer could
get for strictly fresh eggs, even when
the retail price 'soared to 75 and 80
cents. The wholesalers of Vancouver
at such times secured large quantities
of Washington and Oregon eggs, which
were laid down in Vancouver lor w
40 cents a dozen, and sold them for 75
and to cents, discriminating against the
local henneries, said to yield a really
first-class product.
Mr. Walker suggested that this could
be remedied if the provincial govern
ment would require all Imported eggs
to be stamped with the date on which
they were laid. The place of origin, as
"Washington" would be even better
than the date stamp thought several of
the commissioners, who observed that
If "Washington" was placed on eggs a
natural prejudice against buying them
would be created in the purchaser,
whereas the mere date of laying would
only tend to hurt the local producers,
for there was no way of making the im
porters date their eggs correctly and
the Washington people might postdate
their product.
Conditions Declared Prohibitive.
The cost of land and the wages of
labor were declared to be so high that
the local producers can't compete with
the American product. It was shown
that dairymen bad to pay their help ISO
a month and board and hay and grain
growers testified that they paid 25 cents
an hour, frequently employing Hindu
and Chinese labor. Two hundred dol
lars an acre for hay land and 1500 an
acre for dairy land were the top notch
prices which a man cpuld pay on Lulu
Island and make a profit. R. L. Chaldt
cott. a hay and grain grower testified.
At present, however, the real estate
price was around 11000 an acre. At a
forced sale, a man owning acreage In
the vicinity of the carllne could realize
S00 an acre, he thought.
E. W. Neel. from the Cowlchan
Cr-samery Association, said he bad given
u dairying because It did not pay.
chiefly on account of high labor and he
suggested Indentured labor as the best
remedy and falling that assisted pas
sages to agricultural laborers. He
thought the duty on eggs not high
enough and that on machinery too
high. In South Africa, he said, home
grown produce Is carried at half rates
by the state railways. Mr. Neel thought
That land could be cleared b,- large
plants of government-owned machinery.
Iadeatsred Labor Favored.
Of the JS speakers who appeared be
fore the commission at Its meeting In
rnmcan, IS were In favor of Indentured
labor.
Eeymour Green's solution of the la
bor problem was a co-operation between
the provincial government and the Im
perial authorities to arrange for the
training of boys under the poor laws
of England In agriculture and shipping
them out to the colonies under govern
ment supervision and with further
training In the colonies, he said, they
would make first-class laborers and
settlers.
COQUILLE POET COMMISSION ADVOCATES AND DRAWING ILLUSTRATING IMPROVEMENT EFFECTS
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QU1NABY BOOSTERS ACTIVE
Improvement Club Takes TTp Social
Development of District.
QtTDTABT. Ot May I. (Special) -A
booster club bas been organized at
Qulnaby to be known as the Qulnaby
Improvement Club and bas for Its ob
ject the Improvement of the town and
territory adjacent, with special atten
tion to the improvement of roads, build
ings and social life.
Plans are considered for debates,
spelling matches and other forms of
amusement. The first work of the or
ganization will be to secure a new de
pot to replace the present shed used as
such by the Oregon Electric and which
baa long been Inadequate.
The officers elected are: E. S. Rog
ers! president: John Jonah org. vice,
president; O. M. Teager, secretary; Wil
liam Wease. treasurer; F. M. Lick. Alex
Harold and Brown Penny, standing
ways and means committee.
"FRAT" STUDENTS OUSTED
Seahlo School Board Takes Drastic
Action in 13 Cases.
SEATTLE, Wash, May 3. The
''School Board last night expelled 12
Broadway High School students, mem
bers of two forbidden Greek letter fra
ternities, for refusing to turn In the
charters of their organisations.
In one case the members refused to
disband, and In the other case they re
organised as a club. The stats law
forbids high school fraternities.
Lewis County Roads Attract.
CHEHALIS. Wash, May 2. County
Engineer C T Jordan and Commission
er Louis Larson, of Kittitas County, ac
companied by John Conboy. of Seattle,
visited Chehalls yesterday to Inspect
the city's concrete pavements and the
new concrete roads built by Lewis
County near this city. These road Im
provements are proving a great adver
tisement for this district, as hardly a
week goes by but that someone visits
here to Inspect the work.
'S ACT
MOVE INDICATES IXTEXT TO
ENTER ALBANIA.
State of Minor Siege Declared in
Bosnia and Herzegovina Whose
People Favor Montenegrins.
virwi Ar S While It is official-
it, j.ri,i that the international sit
uation practically Is without change,
alarm has been aroused by the procla
mation of a minor stats oi siege
Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is re
riaA mm mn indication that Austria
Is preparing for military operations to
restore order tnrougnoui aidbuis.
As the people of Bosnia and Herze
govina sympathize with the Montene
grins, it has been deemed advisable to
take precautionary measures to pre
vent Slav outbreaks.
It Is expected similar action will fol
low in TtnimatifL. Italv has agreed.
i-rnniinr to reoort to take military
action only so far as Is necessary to
force the evacuation of Scutari.
ITALY WANTS INTACT ALBANIA
Army Corps Stay Be Sent to Avlona
to Pnt Down Disorder.
ROME, May 3. No special agree
ments exist between Austria and Italy
regarding Albania. Both countries are
sincerely desirous that the union of the
powers be preserved In connection with
the Balkan trouble, and are aiming only
to Insure the autonomy ar.d liberty of
Albania. There have been reports that
Italy and Austria were seeking either
the partition of Albania or Its division
Into two zones under their respective;
Influence.
If the Montenegrins persist In refus
ing to evacuate Scutari, and the Am
bassadorial conference la unable to find
a collective means for coercing Monte
negro. Austria will undertake to drive
thm out. as Austria Is the power most
directly Interested.
Tt i.vM Poih. f.rtntlnila fn OCCUOV AV-
lona. where there has been much dls-
- r, A Kl nrA ah nrl TtftlV mAV be
obliged to take military measures to
re-establish order there, preparations
, Mimniitt. to dtBDatch a whole army
corps at a moment's notice to Avlona,
although It is Deuevea a smaller con
tingent will be sufficient to carry out
the plan.
Officials here entertain the hope that
military Intervention will not be neces
sary. TACOMA MEN ARE COMING
Architects From Sound City to Ex
hibit Here in June.
TACOMA, Wash.. May 3. (Special.)
..hiiarii nf Ttpnmn will be repre
sented at the third annual exhibition of
the Architectural League of the Pacific
Coast, which. will be held In Portland
June 3 to 21, Inclusive, under the aus
pices of the Portland Arcnueciurai
Club.
It Is known that three of the leaamg
local firms have filed entry slips. They
are Heata & Oove. Frederick Heath, of
this firm, being architect for the Ta
coma School Board; Dugan Lewis.
nf.uif. a rronatable. Other
architectural firms have been plan
ning to send exniDits ana me uai o
expects five others, besides the firms
win have disDlavs of clotures
and plans at the Portland show.
TEXAS GIRL MONEY MODEL
Mis James Picture to Be" In Center
of Group on Currency.
vptt vnpr Mav 3. Mies Evelina
James, of Sari Antonio. Tex., an art
. i ...ivliir the cons-ratu-
BlUUCUb " r
latlons of her friends, as she Is the
girl whose portrait is uaeiy o m-
nonniar than any other.
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It is safe to say her picture will be
In every American nomc. "
pear exclusively on Uncle Sam's paper
money. .
It was recently selected by a com
mittee of Congress as the central femi
nine figure of a decorative group on
the reverse side of the new currency.
WILLAPA RACE WARMING
O. W. R. X. Crews Arrive and Mll
waukee Move Predicted.
RAYMOND, Wash.. May 3. (Special.)
tv. . l-l i..t ntarht at Wlllapa Of
two crews of O.-W. R. A N. engineers
leads to the belief mat tne u.-v. -
N. and the Milwaukee will construct
separate lines to Wlllapa Harbor and
that a lively race Boon will be on be
tween these two rival roads for first
entrance Into Willapa Harbor and
whatever advantage this might give
the line to be operating first.
Inheritance Tax $15,383.
OLTMPIA, Wash-. May 3. (Special.)
The Washington State Tax Commis
sion collected $15,383 In Inheritance
taxes during the month of April. The
appraised value of the estates upon
which this amount was levied was
$1,(03.731. Thus approximately 1 per
cent of the appraised valuation Is col
lectible as Inheritance tax, though there
Is no fixed rate upon which taxes are
calculated, the heir and the nature of
the estate determining the rate of taxation.
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in if mi r 'A " -Tfti rn-n r ' "n - nr i J mmm- iriwrntu- nh-iit-ttT vwarfskkiftrii
nnvr nnT utrimer TO ENTER COQUILLE, COMPARED WITH
STEAMER WHOSE ENTRY IS MADE POSSTBLE BY IMPROVEMENT
WORK. BELOW E. E. JOHNSON AND G. T. THREADGOLD.
PORT BODY LIKELY
Petitions for Election at Ban
don Eagerly Signed.
SHIPPING SHOWS INCREASE
Commerce Club of Coqullle lUver
Town Seeks to Provide Tax to
Improve Channel and Ac
commodate Big: Ships.
BANDON, Or., March 3. (Special.)
Petitions calling for a special election
upon the question of the CoQullle River
Port Commission are eagerly being
signed. The Bandon Commercial Club,
led by by G. T. Threadgold, bas for the
past four months been agitating the
organization of this commission. Mr.
Threadgold directed the drawing ot a
map of the lower watershed of the Co
qullle River, extending from Coquille
City to the mouth of the hlver at Ban
don. which would be affected by the
Commission.
Promoters of the movement are ex
Dectant that a 10-mill tax may be voted
In this way sufficient funds would be
secured to finance many needed im
provements on the river and on the bar.
By deepening the channel at the bar
some two or three feet, vessels draw
ing 18 feet of water could enter with
safety.
E. E. Johnson, president of the Ran
dolph and Lyon-Johnson's lumber mills,
and the Seeley-Anderson Logging
Camps, says that the mills cannot ship
their product in as large quantities and
as often as the business demands. The
Grace Dollar, a 240-foot steel steamer,
and which is the largest boat that has
yet come across the Coquille River bar,
cannot carry out her full capacity by
600.000 feet. This boat is making
regular trips into Bandon harbor.
Bandon's shipping interests have In
creased two-fold during the last two
year. Last year 87.000,000 feet of
lumber was shipped, and this year this
amount likely will be doubled, since
there are more steamers on the run.
Within three days this week 1,275.000
feet went out.
Balky Bear Refuses to Be
Led by Captors.
Big Black Brsla Which Long Rav
aged La comb Country Lies Down
la Koad and Finally Has to Bo
Shot.
ALBANY. Or.. May 2. (Special.)
So thoroughly exhausted did a big
black bear become after fighting a
crowd of men and dogs for seven hours
In resisting their efforts to lead It by
ropes that It lay down in the road,
gave up the fight and refused to move
even when entirely deserted. An ef
fort to take It a distance of two miles
to Lacomb had to be abandoned and the
animal was shot.
It was the largest black bear ever
killed In the vicinity ot Lacomb. It
weighed 250 pounds but was very poor
and had it been in normal condition. It
Is believed it would have weighed 400
pounds.
For the last three years the bear had
Infested the country around Lacomb
at various times, and Is said to have
killed almost 200 sheer .' and goats in
that vicinity. It killed 38 goats be
longing to one man last year and even
broke Into a barn on the homestead
of F. J. Cunningham and carried off
a sheep. All these depredations are
charged to this one bear for the tracks,
always the same, led to the same part
of the mountains after each escapade.
These tracks showed the bear to be
a very large animal.
For the last two years the bear
cunningly eluded all hunting parties,
but met death soon after beginning
this year's depredations. Three sheep
disappeared last week from the farm
of W. I Burton, and Burton set a big
bear-trap In some timber on his place
about one and one-half miles south of
lacomb.
The second night after he set the
trap he caught the bear. The animal
dragged the trap, weighing 26 pounds,
and a log to which It was attached,
which, weighed almost 100 pounds,
distance of half a mile before Burton
found It. A crowd of 10 men, accom
panied by eight dogs, gathered at the
scene and two ropes were placed about
the bear's neck and one about a mna
leg, one of the animal's front legs
being broken by the trap.
The trap was then removed from the
bears leg and the party unuertooK to
take the animal to Lacomb. The story
of how their effort failed was told
today by John Marrs. of Lacomb, Chief
Fire Warden of the Linn County Fir
Patrol Association, who was in this
city today and who was present when
the effort to move the bear was made.
Despite its handicap of a broken leg
and three ropes about It, the big bear
put up a terrific fight and it required
seven hour's work to move It a mile.
It showed fight for hours, kicking and
slapping at any of the men and dogs
that came within reach. John Wirt
received a light scratch on the leg
and Henry C. Pyle, who tried to pusn
the animal along after it became some
what tired, narrowly escaped a vi
cious kick.
The bear kept up the fight until en
tirely exhausted and then gave It up
and lay down In the road. Once down
no efforts of the men, who then kept
the dogs off It, could Induce the ani
mal to rise. Finally the ropes were
dropped and the men, taking the dogs,
left the scene, but the bear, beyond
raising Its head once, made no effort
to get up and refused to rise when the
men tried to force it to get up later.
Burton then shot it. .-
CHILDREN'S FAIR PLANNED
Reservations Made at The Dalles
Point to Extensive Exhibits.
THE DALLES, Or., May 3. (Spe
cial.) Clyde T. Bonney. County Super
intendent of Schools; A. C. Strange. City
Superintendent, and Mrs. C. W. Shurte.
of Maupin, Supervisor of Rural Schools,
are the committee in charge of the
sixth annual Schoolchlldren's Industrial
Fair, which will be held In The Dalles
October 8 to 11.
Every pupil must do the work In
preparing his or her exhibit must
plant his own seed, cultivate his own
plants, harvest his own crops and make
with no other help than advice his or
her own mechanical art, needlework
and cooking exhibits.
It Is expected that the community
exhibits of fruits and other products
will crowd the new pavilion this year.
as several localities that have never
before made displays have notified the
committee that they want space re
served. The committee in charge of
the livestock and poultry exhibits re
port that the large buildings provided
for their departments will not be able
to accommodate more than what Is al
ready promised.
Arrangements have been made with
the extension department of the Ore
gon Agricultural College to send agri
cultural lecturers here during the fair.
Chehalls Has Cleaning Day.
CHEHALIS, Wash., May 3. (Special.)
Today was the annual cleanup day
The Best Dentistry
DR. W. A. WISE
In personal attendance. Ask to see
him, so that you may be sura you
are in the right place, as others -me
using our name to secure business.
READ OUR PRICES!
Good Rubber Plates, each S5.00
The Beat Red Rubber Plates,
each S7JW
22 - karat Gold or Poreelala
Crown S3.0O
22-karat Bridge Teeth, u a r-
teed, each 93.50
Gold or Enamel Fillings, each..S1.0O
Silver Fillings, each five
Wise Dental Co.
Phonesi Maim 2020, A 2029.
FAILING BT7ILDING, THIRD AND
WASHINGTON, Sontheaat Corner.
Entrance on Third Street.
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Fifth
andStark J. G. MACK & CO. Fifth and Stark
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Good Taste Is Expressed
where the Consol Table and Mirror
with perhaps a Hall Chair or some other Adaptable Piece
or Pieces, are properly placed in the entrance room of the home
With such pieces, and the right decorative setting, one could not -wish for a more pleasing
ensemble. You'll find in our display Consol Tables and Mirrors and the various other pieces adapted
for entrance furnishing. Here are a few suggestions :
Consol Table and Mirror, in Cathedral Oak,
Jacobean Period design, for $57.50
Solid Mahogany Consol Table and Mirror,
Colonial, for $80.00
Antique Mahogany, cane-paneled Consol Ta
ble and Mirror, in the Adam Period design,
for.... $SO
Other Consol Tables and Mirrors, solid mahog
any, in the massive Colonial scroll design,
np to $200
A beautiful Consol Table and Mirror, in design
of the Italian Renaissance Period, solid ma
hogany, for $330
An Arm Chair of the Windsor pattern, in
cathedral oak, for $7.75
A Caned Chair, solid mahogany frame, with
high back, for $17
A Caned Chair in Cathedral oak, Jacobean
Period design, for $20. Also one at $25
New Arrivals From the Shops of Berkey & Gay
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An Important Sale This Week of
Imported Cretonnes and Chintzes
1 5-yard to 30-yard lengths to be disposed of at much lower than usual prices. An oppor
tunity for renewing, at a saving worth while, the hangings and other fabric decorations
of the home. Note the reductions:
50c Materials, yard at 25c 65c Materials, yard at 30c
75c Materials, yard at 35c 90c Materials, yard at -45c
$1.00 Materials, yard at '..50c
$1.25 Materials, yard at. 60c $1.75 Materials, yard at. 75c
150 Importers' and Manufacturers' Samples
Ranging in length from 1 to iy2 yards Armures, Brocades, Tapestries, Damasksetc.,
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Thirty Patterns of New Imported Cretonnes, Yard at 35c
J. G. MACK & CO.
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and all Chehalls, including; the school
children, were out in force and gave
the town a thorougn cleaning-
Sentences Passed at Chehalls.
CHEHALIS, Wash., May 3. (Special.)
John Carter, who was arrested at
Toledo for burglarizing the store of
the late Mrs. Snyder, yesterday pleaded
guilty to burglary and was sentenced
to Monroe for from one to ten years.
Frank Voltas, who fired two shots at
"Banjo Bill." a colored man. In a local
saloon a week ago. pleaded guilty and
was sent to the Walla Walla Peni
tentiary for from ono to ten years.
Attilio Desideri pleaded guilty to as
sault and got a sentence of not less
than three years, nor more than ten
In the State fennennary.
"The Electric Company
Small Electric Motors a
ousehold Convenience
Housekeeping is made easy by electricity. An appliance
that is giving a lot of satisfaction in homes is the Electric
Utility Motor, that may be set up in the basement. It will
turn an ice cream freezer; work your washing machine; turn
your wringer; polish your silver and kitchen ware, and all at
a big saving of time and energy.
The first cost of a motor is nominal. The cost to operate
low. It is not a complicated piece of machinery, but a simple
appliance that provides power to do your work.
There are a dozen ways to employ a small motor m a
household. It will do the work and nof talk back. There will
be no argument about its days or nights "out" or entertain
ing company. It goes far toward the solution of the domestic
servant problem. Just put it to work and when the work is
done turn off the current and expense of operation which
is small ends at once. -
Electric Store 7th and Alder
Portland Railway, Light & Power Company
Phones: Marshall SlOO, A 6131
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