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.THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN. PORTLAND. MARCH 15,
GROWERS
FRIENDLY
TO SELLING AGENCY
Association Meeting at Hood
.River Is Attended by 250
Fruit Raisers.
METHODS OF 1913 TOLD
Committee .Appointed to Prepare
Plans for More Solid Organiza
tion and Disciplining PJslojal
Members Suggested.
HOOD RIVER. Or.. March 14. (Spe
cial.) Despite rumors that dissensions
prevailed among the ranks of the
growers shippings through the Apple
growers' Association, tne local af
filiation of the North Pacific Fruit
Distributers, action wag taken at a
meeting' here today, which was
attended by more than 250 growers,
that presages the continuing predom
inancy of the two central selling agen-
cies in the local field.
As was expressed by a number of the
speakers of the day, the association
wag formed laet Spring on a temporary
basis, an amalgamation of the four
shipping agencies then operating in
the vally-the Davidson Fruit Com
pany, the National Apple Company, the
Hood River Warehouse & Storage Com
pany and the Hood, River Applegrowers"
Union.
A committee, with A. W. Stone as
chairman, was appointed today by P. S.
Davidson, president pf the association,
to prepare plans for a more solid or
ganization of the association. This
action was taken at the suggestion of
Mr, Stone, who is a member pf the
board of directors of the association
and who devoted the Winter to making
investigations ef co-operative selling
agencies.
Members May Be m.rlpliaed.
Mr. Stone recommends a non-profit
concern, tha members to have both a
tonnage and personal representation In
the management. Provision will be
made for rewards for loyal members,
while disloyal growers will be dis
ciplined, according to the' proposed
plans. Even the radical provision of
expulsion of a disloyal member was
suggested.
H. F. Davidson, of this city, presi
dent; J. H. Robbins, of Spokane, gen
eral manager; H. C. Sampson, of Spo
kane, secretary, and Willmer Sieg, of
this city, saleamanager of the Hood
River sub-itentral, made addresses.
Mr. Davidson told his experiences of
the past Winter in handling the East
ern and export trade of the distributers.
One ef tha features of the past year's
marketing under the distributers, he
explained, was the opening of the mar
ket at moderate prices and continual
advance. This condition, he declared,
increased the consumption of apples,
causing the retailers to reduce their
prices over former years. "I find," said
Mr- Pavideon, "that formerly we have
rested under tha erroneous impression
that apples should not be shipped East
during tha Winter, and as a result the
stocks have rolled back in the early
season. However, from what I have
learned this Winter, our local storage
plants have increased in value in my
eyes materially. We should store as
much of the fruit at home as possible,
and it ean, by proper handling, as we
demonstrated this Winter, be trans?
ported in the Winter months."
Financial; la Pexcrlbr-d.
Mr. Davidson declared that Stein
hardt & Kelly were the best friends
of the box apple district in New York,
and especially favorable to Hood
River. They handle box apples ex
clusively, he said, and are continually
boosting the Northwestern districts.
Secretary Sampson declared that hex
fore 191? the box apple sold itself as
a novelty. "Now," he Eaid, "t is a com
modity and must be sold on a scion?
tlfie basis." Mr. Sampson declared that
the distributers had, during, the past
year, borrowed approximately $455,000
f re 171 the Spokane banks, all ef which
but $1000 had been repaid. This fU
nancing the movement of the crop, he
deelared, could not be carried pn by
private individuals or small assocla,
tions.
Salesmanager Sieg, in his report,
gave the following net price averages
of the association up to the present
time: Spltenbergs, all sizes, extra
fancy. $1,58; fancy, $1.89; special, $1.44;
C grade, $1.13, Newtowns, all sizes,
extra fancy, $l.fi!l; fancy, $.49; special,
$1.44 and C grade, $1,30,
Newtowns constitute 40 per cent of
the local crop, while Spitzepbergs form
34 per cent. The other 26 per cent is
made up pf about 60 different varie
ties. HAY APPOINTEE IN DANGER
J. H. Wallace May Be Ketired From
Insurance Commission.
OLTMFIA, Wash., March 14.W(Spe,
cial.) As the result of friction existing
between J, H. Wallace, holdover Hay
appointee on the Industrial Insurance
Commission, and Governor Lister's ap
pointees, Lloyd L. Daggett and A. B,
Ernest, the Governor had all three
members make him written reports of
the eauses of difficulties. After having
had these reports some weeks to
peruse, Governor Lister, it is repprtedj
is looking for a successor to Wallace.
Ruperts have been current for some
time that Wallace would be retired
soon. He was appointed ta the eorri
mission as a representative of labor
and Labor Commissioner Olson has
been mentioned ua a possible sue?
cesser.
and picked out the location xt the
various buildings, work on which will
begin as soon as the ground is staked
out. Several of the buildings will bo
completed this Summer. A farm will
be operated in connection with the
school.
HENS STOLEN; WATCH LEFT
Missourian Finds Thief's Timepiece
on Chicken-House Floor.
WARRENSBURG, Mo., March
Charles F. Marshall, of Warrfensburg,
on entering his chicken-house the other
morning was surprised to find a gold
watch lying on the floor. Attached to
the watch was a .broken chain. The
discovery of the strange timepiece
caused him to suspect that a thief had
entered his premises during the night,
and he found on Invoicing his poultry
he was two dozen pullets short.
He has advertised for the owner of
the watch, but does not expect him to
qlaim his property,
CASTLE ROCK SCHOOL OPEN
Modern $18,000 Building Probably
'.Will Be Used as Social Center,
CASTLE ROCK, Wash., March 14.
(Special.) Dedication of Castle Rock's
new $18,000 public school building was
an event of the past week. The struc-
ROAD
WORK
PUSHED
Columbia County Hires Super
visor of Highways.
CREWS OF MEN EMPLOYED
Separate Projects From Columbia
Route Are TTndertakeii and Stone
Quarry and Crnsher Begin
Operating at St. Helens.
ST. HELENS, Or., March 14.- (Spe-
Cial.) Columbia County, Inspired by
the example of her voters recently .in
passing- the bond issue for the Colum
bia Highway, has begun a separate
work Jn building up the roads and has
employed a county supervisor of roads.
Leo G. Titus, formerly of the Washing
ton State Highway Department, is
highway engineer.
Mr. Titus reports that there are three
CHAMPIONSHIP DEBATING TEAM PROVES WINNER OP HONORS
BY 10 POINTS OUT OP. POSSIBLE 12
PASCO PUPILS TO SPELL
Trgcl Meet Also Arranged for Pres
ent Month.
PASCO. Wash., March 14. (Special.)
The Pasco- schools are preparing- for
a championship spelling match and an
InterrsehoQl athletic track meet to, be
held this month. Pupils of the city
have been divided into three divisions,
according to grades, at each school for
the spelling contest. The bast spellers
in each division will have a final meel
to deeida the championship.
The athletic fcontest will be the local
schqpls only. Several different events
are being planned and championship
medals will be awarded.
A new course of study for the city
schools has been prepared by Super
intendent Ricks and will be printed In
book form.
State School Work Ordered.
CENTRALIA, Wash., March 14. (Spe
cial. )-rYesterday the State Board ap
pointed to locate a site for the new
state training schools for girls, ac
companied by Theodore Hoss, of Cen
tralia, from whom the site at Grand
Mound was purchased, visited the site
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within sight of the auctioneer, Nlek
Jonnson.
Of the 44 cows sold, 13 were with
calves. Only one thoroughbred jer
sey bull went under the hammer.
The total realized for these animals
was 15256, or an average of lj.ij.75
This ia at least one-third higher per
head than any other bunch of dairy
cattle ever before bought in Coos Coun
ty. Dairymen have about 150,000 in
vested in herd and ranches here and
there are no dairy farms for sale in
tnia valley.
The recent report of the Coquille
Valley Creamery, one o( the 18 in the
county, showed I75.00Q was paid for
butter fat last year, at an average of
35 and 2-11 cents a pound. This was
la per cent higher than In 1912.
The entire valley Is green now, and
dairymen are looking forward tq an
other profitable season.
Cow-testing associations are being
formed by J. L. Smith, county agricul
turist, who came here last Fall from
the State Agricultural College at Cor
vallis; and it is proposed to eliminate
tne animals whose mi k is deficient m
butter fat. When that is done It is
expected to raise the annual product
of each cow to away above the )100
figure that has been so generally re
garded as the maximum.
-SurlysurimalO
IDAHO FLOOR IS TESTED
BEST METHOD OF SE IS TO BE
DETERMINED AT COLLEGE.
AEITA CLOSE, FLOYD HOCGATT, GLADYS 6KEEL8.
KALAMA, Wash., March 14. (Special.) The Kalama High School debat
ing team, winners of the debating championship in the southwest district
of Washington, won 10 points out o f a possible It. Chehalia was second,
with nine points. The members of the Kalama team are: Aneita Close,
Gladys Skeels an 4 Floyd Hoggatt.
ture is s model of Its kind, contains
13 school rooms, has a fine library
on the first and second floors and 18
rooms in the basement. These include
a fine gymnasium, girls' play room,
boiler room, lavatories, shower baths
for both boys and girls, and a large,
well-lighted domestio science room.
The use of this school as a social
center was advocated by speakers.
RUSH ON FOR CLERKSHIP
Four Republicans, and One Democrat
Seek Linn County Office.
ALBANY, Or., March 14. (Special.)
Nominating petitions were filed In
Linn Conuty today by Walter M, Eaton,
of Albany, -candidate for the Demo
cratic nomination for County Surveyor
and by C. B. Winn, of Albany, candi
date for the Republican nomination for
County Clerk,
The filing of Mr. Winn's petition
makes the Clerk's office the most
sought-after position in the county
this year. - Four candidates have, filed
already for the Republican nomination,
the others being R, M. Russell, pres
ent chief deputy in tha office! Ralph
Thorn, of Lebanon, and. W. W. Bailey,
of Brownsville. Frank C. Stellmaeher,
of Albany, has announced his candidacy
for the Democratic nomination.
Eaton is the second Democrat to file
formal notice of candidacy for a
county office, the other being W. J.
Moore, ef Brownsville, who is a caur
didate for Sheriff.
EDUCATIONAL RALLY HELD
College and School Workers Attend
Chehalis Meeting.
CHEHALIS, Wash., March 14.(Spe
elal.) A well-attended educational ral
ly was held here today.
The principal speakers were: Head of
the extension work ef the State Col
lege; Mrs. Josephine Preston, state su
perintendent of public instruction of
Olympia; L. L. Benbow, superintendent
of Pierce County; Professor Thompson,
of Morton ,and Professor Klemme, of
the State Normal at Ellepiburg, The
afternoon was given to a discussion pf
"Consolidation,"
Professor Klemme delivered a lec
ture on "The Unfinished House" ton
night.
DOUBLECREDIT.
$30 cash secures receipt for $100.
See Graves Music Co, adv., page 12,
section 3.--Adv.
Orenco Band Gives Concert.
ORENCO, Or., Mareh 14. (gpeglal.)
Orencu Military Band gave its first
concert Friday before a large audi
ence. The proceeds will be applied to
paying off balance due for Instruments,
separate crews at work. One In the
south end of the county is improving
the stretch of highway near Scappoose,
which so many autoists from Portland
formerly have criticised when coming
into the county. Another, crew is at
work in the vicinity of St. Helens and
a third near Rainier. Next week a crew
will be ent over Into Nehalem Valley.
Another addition to he road depart
ment Is the Installation this week: of a
motor truck for hauling rock. This
follows UP the crews and provides a
rapid way of getting a large quantity
of crushed rock to the various surveys.
Thfs truck is hauling rock onto the
Yankton road this week.
In St. Helens the county is operating
a Btone quarry and crusher and nany
men are at work here getting the rock
ready for the roads. A special feature
and one new In the crushing of rock
for roads, is the installation pf a jaw
erusher. This is used to reduce the
oversize from the giratory erusher.
Plans practically are completed for
a new steel bridge across the Danger
Field preek near Handyman's station,
and; one also across Milton Creek at
West St. Helens. Bids soon will be
called for.
State Highway Engineer Bowlby and
Assistant Qrisweld were in the county
the last week and said that the survey
for the Columbia Highway is practic
ally completed from Westport, in the
extreme north end of the county, tq
St, Helens and that it soon wilt be fin
ished south to the Multnomah County
line.
Mr. Bowlby said that It Is hoped to
he able to call for bids for the grading
and construction of the entire Colum
bia Highway in Columbia County with
in tha next St) days.
INDUSTRY RANKS SECOND TO LUM
BER IN COOS COUNTY,
Ranchers Pay Fancy Prices for Caws at
Anetiom SaleOpe Animal Brings
More Than $300.
COQTHLLJB. Or., March 14.r (Special,)
"Dairying, iext tq the lumber business,
(s the great industry of Ceos County
and the way it is advancing is shown
by the result of the auction sale ef
dairy cows by George Belloni here re
cently n4 by the recent annual repcrt
ef (he Coquille Valley Creamery.
At the Bellpni sale at the Figg ranch,
three miles below Coquille, record
prices were paid for dairy cows, the
lowest bringing 82 and the highest
$305, the latter figure being paid for
a thoroughbred Jersey cow and calf, by
Fred Nosier.
J, W. Laird and Lex Cope each paid
J15H for cows. C. B. Young paid $149
for apother.
The bidding was spirited, and prices
were run up .before the animals were
PARMER REBUILDS CRAPT AND EQUIPS IT WITH A BARN
IN PLACE OF A CABIN
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FREAK SCHOONER NENAMOSHA.
NEWPORT, Or.. March 14. -(Speoial --When the stern wheel river
boat Uncle Sam. built on a farm near Harrisburg, Or., arrived in Port
land last Spring to be inspected for a license to run, it caused,
more comment than the advent, of any other new boat on account of
its Impossible construction. It was in reality laughed out of com
mission. The gasoline schooner Nenaroosha, which plies between Newport
and Silets Bay,' formerly commanded by "Wild Bill" Smith, an old
sailor, is a rival of the Uncle Sam in edd censtruction, since the
present commander, Everett Cook, an Elk City farmer, has rebuilt
the craft.
. The Nenampsha must cross rough eeean bars, cope with storms
when caught outside and be ready for any marine emergency. Cap
tain Cook was not satisfied with the capacity of his boat, so he
added, not 4 cabin but a real barn, with a hayloft instead of a deck.
Domestic Science Expert Experiment
ing With All Varieties ef Fi-od- '
act ef State.
MOSCOW, Idaho, March 14. (Spe
cial) One pf the most Interesting and
valuable experiments ever performed
at the university is that now being
ennduoted by Miss Nora Davis. In
structor in domstjo science, with re
gard to the various Idaho wheat flours
and the proper recipes to use in mak
ing good brea4 of the product The
experiments are most exhaustive and
will ppt be completed Hntil Summer.
it is the purpose of Miss Davis' work
to determine just how housewives
should make their brand In order to
insure perfect results with the dif
ferent brands of Idaho flours.
Iq order that no possibility of mis
take may enter into the. material
worked on, the wheat" berry is ground
in the college of agriculture, its com
position determined and the flour then
sent to the domestic science laborator
ies, At present 64 varieties of flour
are on hand, all of which were milled
last Spring. It is expected that this
season an additional hundred brands
Will be milled for future experiments
When- the work is completed a bul
letin will be published for distribution
and careful instruction will be given
in extension courses as well as in the
classrooms here as to the proper way
to make bread.
Those housewives who now meet
great difficulties In getting bread that
is not sour will await with interest
whatever Miss Davis has to tel) them.
$2300 TO GO FOR MS
FOREST SERVICE. TQ SPEND COIN
IN WHITMAN FOREST.
Plan Is to Open New and Shorter Roads
Across Mountains Between Samp
ler and John Day Valley.'
SUMPTER, Or., March 14. (Special.)
The Forest Service is spending $2300
for roads during the coming Summer In
Baker an4 Grant counties, within the
Whitman National forest. v
The service plans to open a new and
shorter road across the mountains be
tween Sumpter and lower John Day
Valleys, a distance of approximately 60
miles! The new route is by way of
the town of Granite and the Red .Boy
mine to Olive Lake, then around Deso
lation Butte to Dale, on the north fork
of the John Day River, where it con
nects with, the county road to Ukiah,
Pilot BocH and Pendleton, as well as
the road to Ritter and all the lower
John Day Valley. It is planned to
cqnstruct the road on a grade not to
exceed 13 per cent, which will mean
many changes In the old road, where
grades as high as 38 per cent are now
found.
Existing roads are to be used where
possible, but it is necessary to build IS
miles of entirely new road, from Plive
Lake to the old Battle Creek road on
Desolation Creek. The Forest Service
constructed eight miles of this road
last Fall at a cost of $2600, It is
planned to finish it as soon as the
weather permits in the Spring. For a
couple of miles or more the road winds
around the side of Desolation Butte, at
an elevation of 5600 feet, from which
almost the entire Blue Mountain range
ntoy be seen. Even Mount Hood is
visible on a clear day. Scenjcally it js
thought that this part of the route will
compare favorably with any other in
Eastern Oregon.
The elder portions of the road are to
be repaired and the grade lowered as
fast as mpney becomes available. The
old stage road between Sumpter and
Granite will be the first section ta re
ceive attention. Last Fall the citizens
of Sumpter pledged $1500 toward re
pairing and relocating this road on, a
grade not to exceed 16 per cent, and
the Baker County Court placed its
stamp of approval on th? project by
pledging $1500 more. This road is
chiefly In the Whitman National forest,
and through the efforts of the super
visor of the Forest Service has added
$500 to the $3000 already available. The
new right-of-way has already been sur
veyed and partially cleared. The work
will be taken up again in the Spring
as soon as weather permits.
A few years agq Congress passed a
law providing that 10 per cent of the
total receipts from National forests
should ba available for the building pf
roads and trails within the states with
in which the forests are located. This
law already has enabled the building
of many miles of new road and it is
from ths fund that the money to be
spept on the Whitman forest this year
comes.
DYNAMITE PLOT FAILS
EFFORT TO BLOW UP ROSLYN COAL
MACHINES INEFFECTIVE.
Apparently Some One With Imaginary
Grievance Asralnst Labor-Saving
Device Uses Old Explosives,
ROSLYN, Wash., March 14. (Spe
cial.) --it was learned today that
efforts made Friday by unknown per
sons to dynamite the coal cutting ma
chine recently installed by the Roslyn
Cascade Coal Company at Its mines at
Ronald, a camp further up in the
mountains, were fci.led by the &9 of
the explosives used. Two attempts
were made to destroy the machine, the
first being evidently made with dyna
mite, the second with giant powder.
When Robert Duncan, the operator
of the machine, went to start it on
Monday the electric current set (Ire
ta the powder, but he and his as
sistants escaped injury. The machine
For Tomorrow Morning
Monday
We Take Pleasure in Announc
ing a Sale of
Women's Silk
Dresses
Show Room Models
of a New York Dressmaker
Designed in Chiffon Taffeta,
Crepe de Chine and Charmeuse.
At regular, these costumes
would sell very readily from
$27.50 to $45.00
Of the fifty gowns that go on
salethereare but two duplicates.
Your choice
$19.50
None on Approval No Phone
Orders and Positively
None Reserved
Thir4 Floor
April Pictorial
Review
Now on Sale ere
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man wattic sad
Merchandise of c7 Merit Onl
French
Lecture
Tuesday 1 1 to 12
was partially wrecked but net beyond
repair.
After the fire an examination dis
closed that ten strioks of dynamite
had been used in the first attempt,
but that none had fully exploded.
Officers of the company said today
thsy had no direct clew, although sev
eral men were known to have made
threats following the introduction of
the machine, which does the work of
several men.
The offioials of the company declare
the use of the machine was not sought
to reduce the number of men employed,
but to increase the amount of lump
coal produced, and further that unless
the company uses the machine already
injured or others, it will , have to cut
down the operation of one mine at
least. Prominent miners deplore the
action as that Of some ignorant indivi
dual who is bearing an imaginary
grievance against the company.
PAPER PRINTED BY PUPILS
School Bulletin Turned. Ont After
Two Weoks Instruction.
First copies of the School Bulletin,
which were printed on the school press
at Jefferson High School, type being
sst by the pupils in tne class in print
ing, were mailed to teachers of the dis
trict yesterday. The Bulletin has been
issued by mimepgraph heretpfpre.
The Bulletin, In its new fprm, con
tains four printed, pages, filled with
current news of the schools and an
nouncements pf school meetings and
other affairs.
The printing class has been organiieq
a little more than two weeks and Is
under the direction of A- W. Lawrence.
It is aimed to prrnt all future copies
of the Bulletin on the Jefferson High
School press and later tg have much
of the printing of the district done in
its own job office.
Among those who were present Fri
day, when the Bulletin was printed,
was Mrs. Bertha T. Voorhorst, who took
the first popy fts 8- souvenir. Mrs. Voor
horst was one of the first persons in
Portland to advocate the establishment
of a printing cpurse in the High Sehpol.
She is working new to Interest the
district in printing bulletins designed
to interest and assist the school chil
dren in a study of the Bennett plans
for a Greater Portland.
DEPOSITORS TO GET MONEY
Will Wright an4 . J. Cannon to
Take Over Xorth Powder Bank-
NORTH POWDER, Or., March 14.
(Special.) At the meeting of the stcek
holders of the Powder Valley State
Bany yesterday the proposition sub
mitted by Will Wright apd C. J. Can
non to take ever the assets and pay
off all deposits and ether liabilities of
the bank was accepted.
The understanding is that they will
obtain a charter for tha new bank im
mediately and that they will open tor
business within a few days.
ED RAND ENTERS RAGE
BAKER COUNTY SHERIFF CANDI
DATE FOR RE-ELECTION.
Governor Wtit'i Reputed Assertion f
Peace Officer's Fear to Run
Brings Out Announcement.
BAKER, Or.. March 14. (Special.)
Ed Rand, Sheriff of Baker County, to
night announced himself finally as a
candidate for re-election on the Demo
cratic ticket, Mr. Rand did not make
up his mind until his last trip to Port
land. Ha returned from there last
piglit.
"t learned at Portland,'' said Mr. Rand
today, "that Governor West said I did
not dare run for Sheriff. He, or rather
his agents, have been saying that 'Os
wald West has Sheriff Rand over a
barrel and he daren't run.' Now, I had
not intended running for re-election
until I beard this. He has forced me
to it. I can now go before the voters
of Baker County on my own record, of
which I am not ashamed. I believe T
will have the support of the law-abiding
citizens of Baker County.
Up here we rej-iize just what the
entire Copperfield episode meant ttli'l
means. If Goverji'. r West wants to
make a campaign siJgan of Copperfield.
he shouldn't have done it In Baker
County."
Mr. Rand is the seventh candidate to
announce himself for the primaries for
the office of Sheriff. There are now
five Democrats in the race and two Re
publicans. Ma.ny of the candidates en
tered the) race thinking that the in
cumbent would not enter.
VATICAN SOUNDS ALARM
Italy Government Marriage Law De
clared Persecution.
ROME, March 13. (Special.) The
Vatican has sounded the alarm in con
sequence of the government measure
making U obligatory to have a civil
marriage before the religious ceremony
under penalties of from J29 to J200 for
both priest and parties.
T.h Vatican nrsrau describes this as
persecution, while the anti-Clerical
'Messaggero" considers that te meas.
ure does not go far enough
Draperies
OUR showing of new
Prapery Materials em
braces a eplendi4 .line of
delicately shaded patterns for
the boudojr or sun room.
Other fabrics, for
the living-room, din
ingrrporq and library
are now ready in the
new tones, at excep
tionally small prices-
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the value of this Studebaker
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automobiles which are offered at a
frici several hundred dollars higher.
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