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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, APRILr 2, 191G. "
HUM OF PROSPERITY
HEARD AT GARDINER
Addison Bennett Points Out
Advantages of Town on
Lower Umpqua River.
TIMBER IS ONE INDUSTRY
Btixinevb Is Found in Thriving Con
dition Bank Makes Gain of
$21,000 in Deposits
Since January i.
BY ADDISON BENNETT.
GARDINER, Or., March ... Gardi
ner is the largest town on the Lower
Umpqna River and the Umpqua, with
the exception of the Columbia, is the
largest river in Oregon. It rises on
the very summit of the Cascade Range
and flows in nearly a western direc
tion into the Pacific through "Winches
ter Bay, about five miles west of Gar
diner. The Umpqua and the Rogue,
aside from the Columbia, are the only
waterways in Oregon that flow
v. - , , . . u . i. cnat Ranirft. unless one
s-nfe-nta the. Illinois: 1 am not sure I
whether its confluence with the Rogue
at Agness is over the divide or not.
Gardiner is an old town. The first
settlement was made by a party of
New Englanders who came around the
Horn and entered the Umpqua October
1, 1850, but their vessel, the Boston,
was Wrecked upon the sands at the
river's mouth. The crew escaped and
went into camp with their salvaged
poods at about the site of Gardiner.
"Winchester. Payne & Co.. merchants
and shippers, of San Francisco, at
about the same time dispatched the
Samuel Roberts, a schooner belonging
to them, to explore the Umpqua, which
was done. The reports taken back by
the Roberts' crew were so flattering
that the firm fitted out the schooner
Kate Heath and sent her with a pas
senger list o nearly 100 people. There
were a good many members of this
party who later took important parts
in Oregon's affairs. One, of them, A. C.
Gibbs. served the state as Governor.
Oppowltlon Town Is Failure.
This party founded an' opposition
town down near the mouth, not far
from where the lifeaaving station is
now located. They called the new
town, for it wa3 10 days younger than
Gardiner, Umpqua City. That place was
not a success, however, and soon the
bulk of the business was transacted at
Gardiner on the lower river and
Scottsburg above, at the head of tide
water. Those were the days of the
gold excitement in Southern Oregon
and the most of the goods went in via
the Umpqua.
The first custom-house in Oregon
stood on Bono Island, just out a few
hundred yards from Gardiner. Both
Scottsburg and Gardiner became ' ri
vals of Portland for supremacy and
the chances are there was more trade
done in those two places along in the
late '50s than in any other places in
Oregon. '
"While it is a pleasant and illuminat
ing occupation to deal with the past
history of old settlements like Gardi
ner, it is in a way more profitable io
deal with the present. People reading
about a place they know but little or
nothing about would in most cases
rather know of its present than of its
past. I think on a, clear day, and
there are many such in even Winter
weather on the Lower Umpqua, the
first sight of Gardiner as one goes by
boat up the river, is one of the finest
combined river-rural-urban views in
Oregon.
River Nearly Mile "Wide.
The river there is perhaps well-nigh
a. mile wide, wider than that just below
the town and just above nearly two
miles where the Smith River flows in
about one and one-half miles to the
cast. The town at first glimpse seems
to be nestling in a grove on the hill
side, with a background of verdure
reaching up towards the heavens.
Every building in the town, or practi
cally every one. is painted white,
which, combined, with the green of the
trees, makes a pleasant contrast, at
once restful to the eye and pleasing to
the brain.
As you approach the town you first
notice a great sawmill with the smoko
pouring from its chimneys, with men
scurrying hither and thither on the
wharves and others loading a large
vessel tied up at the wharf. What
merry music the machinery in the
great mills sends forth. "What is pleas-
anter than the hum of machinery when
you Know the music means employ
EAT IT! ENJOY IT!
NO INDIGESTION
Never Any Sour, Gassy or Acid
Stomach, Heartburn or
Dyspepsia.
'Pape's Diapepsin" Makes Weak
Stomachs Strong and
Healthy at Once.
Tou ean eat anything your stomach
craves without fear of indigestion,
acidity or dyspepsia, or that your food
will ferment or sour on your stomach
if you will take a little Diapepsin oc
casionally.
Your meals will taste good, and any
thing you eat will be digested; nothing
can ferment or turn into acid or poi
son er stomach gas, wmch causes
belching, dizziness, a feeling of full
ness after eating, nausea, indigestion
(like a lump of lead in stomach), bil
iousness, heartburn, water brash, pain
in stomach and intestines or other
symptoms.
Headaches from tne stomach are
absolutely unknown where this effec
tive remedy. is used. Diapepsin really
does all the worK or a healthy stom
ach. It digests your meals when your
stomach can't. A single dose will digest
all tho food you eat and leave nothing
to ferment or sour and upset the stom
ach.
Get a large 60-cent case of Pape's
Diapepsin from your druggist and
start taking now, and in a little while
you will actually brag about your
healthy, strong stomach, for you then
can eat anything and everything you
want without the slightest discomfort
or misery, and every particle of im
purity and gas that is in your stomach
and intestines is going to be carried
away without the use of laxatives or
any other assistance.
Should you at this moment be suf
fering from indigestion or any stomach
disorder, you can get relief wlthia five
minutes Adv.
OR BAD STOMACH
ment to many men and their families?
My last visit was during a terrible
storm and the air as we reached Gar
diner was filled with sleet and snow,
while the wind was blowing a gale and
the thermometer hovering around the
freezing point. I was chilled to the
bone when I reached the Hotel Gardi
ner and received a handclasp from
Ambrose La Rouche, the proprietor;
then. I turned to the most cheerful ho
tel fireside in Oregon. Is that saying
too much? Just ask any person who
has put up at the Gardiner since the
present hotel was built, about six years
ago, if the great fireplace with its
roaring fire is equaled in the lobby of
any other hotel in the Northwest if
they say me nay I will almost be
tempted to say they have never been
there, surely never did they arrive
there as I did, cold and hungry.
Merits of Hotel Lauded.
For the Gardiner is a good hotel in
every department its table, its rooms,
its furniture, even in its constant and
unlimited supply of hot water, which
is furnished by a great coil in the
back of the grate through which the
water passes. Not only does this coil
furnish- hot water for the rooms it
heats the entire house and supplies hot
water for the laundry.
Looking over the town, the first
thing that will attract your attention
will be the immense stocks of goods
carried by the leading general dealers
the Gardiner Mill Company and. Reed
Janelle Company. Each has a large
place of business and every available
inch of space seems to be filled with
goods. The other places of business
look just as prosperous.
Having mentioned the mill, let me
say that it was erected, or rather one
on the same site, along in the early
'70s. In 1884 Joseph Knowland and
"W. F. Jewett, of San Francisco, and J.
M. Griffith, of Los Angeles, formed a
corporation, calling it the Gardiner Mill
Company, selling a small amount of
stock to other California parties. The
mill at that time, 32 years ago, was
considered a rather large affair, as it
could cut 125,000 feet .in 10 hours. Now
it is not eonsidehed so large but it has
practically run steady for all of that
time, simply shutting down occa
sionally for repairs. Very few mills
have a record like that.
Timber Holdings Increased.
When the present owners purchased
the plant there belonged to them about
2000 acres of timber, they now own
about 35,000 acres, every log tributary
to the Umpqua. Mr. Jewett was for
many years the manager of the plant
but he died about two years ago and
since then Mr. Oscar B. Hinsdale has
been the manager. Mr. Hinsdale's
father was one of the old-time mer
chants of Scottsburg, whereOscar was
born. He is well versed in the history
of the Umpqua from an early date. He
told of a venture made here before the
present company bought.
A. M. Simpson O'Cappy Ricks") &
Brother shipped a redwood mill plant
from Eureka, California, in 1875. and
put it up near Gardiner. The Gardiner
Mill Company purchased that also.
In speaking of the Umpqua River it
must not be forgotten that it is sure
to be the outlet for an immense amount
of lumber. Logs can be driven in it
and its branches all the way from the
Cascade Mountains. Indeed, in early
days steamboats of light draft went up
me umpqua as far as Koseburg. Cap
tain Winchester, of the Kate Heath,
went far up the river and located the
town of Winchester. Winchester Bay,
at the mouth of the Umnaua. was aisn
named for him. Gardiner is in Douglas
County, Roseburg being the county
seat. It is said that there is now
standing in Douglas County 60.000,
000,000 feet of timber, that amount be
ing exceeded by only one county, in
Oregon, Lane, -which has 62,000.000,000.
I-'ittrurex Hard to (irasp.
These figures are hard to grasp. I
tried to f igure up what ' 1,000,000,000
feet amounts to when talking with Mr.
Powers, of the Smith-Powers Logging
Company. Mr. Powers has had several
hunderd men at work in the woods ad
jacent to Coos Bay for six or seven
years. During that time he has cut
less than 5.000.000,000 feet, but will
reach that mark soon. That amount
cut into three-inch plunks 15 feet long
and into stringers 4x6 inches, would
build a plank road 15 feet wide, with
three sills or stringers under it, for a
distance of 25,000 miles. The same
amount if cut into suitable lumber
would erect 90 barns, 40x60 feet and
20 feet high, in each of the 2800 coun
ties of the United States!
All the lumber cut on the Umpqua
during -the last 60 years has been
shipped out by water, except' what
little was sold locally. There is usually
about 16 to 18 feet of water at mean
tide. The Government has never ex
pended a single cent, there, save for
the usual lights and markings and the
life-saving station and now and then
a survey.
Now there is a port formed with the
following commissioners: C. E. Bick
ers, of Smith River, chairman: J. T.
Christie, Gardiner, secretary; Warren
P. Reed, Gardiner; John Hedden,
Scottsburg, and Nels Tydell, Elkton.
The commissioners have arranged for
the sale of bonds to the amount of
$200,000 and will soon start work on
both a north and south Jetty. With the
expenditure of a like amount by the
Government, which it is .'safe to say
will be done, 2o feet of water can be
had at low tide - ;".
Jwn Not Incorporated.
What do you think of a " town of
some 600 or 700 people that has been
in existence for more than, half a cen
tury and yet 'has "never been incorpor
ated? That is the shape Gardiner is
in and proud of it as a home-loving.
peace-loving, prosperous community.
All street and other municipal im
provements are done by the people
going down into their pockets or by
the county. Recently the county and
the citizens got together and . erected
a fine public dock. The mill company.
of course, has fine docks also.
The city is well supplied by a grav
ity water system and has a good elec
tric light plant. There is a large and
successful salmon cannery, a prosper
ous tannery and a good newspaper.
This is called the Port of UmDO.ua
Courier, J. H. Austin being the owner
and editor.
There is no better way to show the
prosperity of a place than bv its bank
deposits. Gardiner never had a bank
until the First National was opened a
year ago the 2d of last January. It
has a capital of $25,000, surplus and
profits of $5071.98 and deposits of
$150,505.62. Is has made a gain in de
posits of about $24,000 since January 1.
Oscar B. Hinsdale is president; John
Hedden, vice-president; H. L. Ed
munds, cashier. .and the following ad
ditional directors; T. W. Angus, "j. A.
Janelle, W. H. Jewett and Fred Assen
heimer. These gentlemen have everv
reason to be proud of the success their
bank has made they will be prouder
still it tney looK over the list of bank
started about the same time with the
same capital, for I venture to say they
have beaten 95 per cent of them;
BusineMs Men Are Listed.
Here is a list of the business men of
the town: L. M. Perkins, postmaster;
ijarainer Hotel. Ambrose La Rouche,
proprietor: Gardiner Mill Co. store;
Gardiner Mill, Oscar B. Hinsdale, su
perintendent and manager; Reed-
Janeue Company, geenral store: Port
ot umpqua Courier, by J. H Austin
W. A. Burdick. drugs; Ernest Haskell.
jeweler; Oscar Anderson, barber; Fred
Assenheimer, confectioner, pool hall,
soft drinks, news and stationery, and
one or une sjregonian s agents; W. P.
Reed, butcher shop: Gardiner Tannery,
Carl Smith, and the other places spe
cifically mentioned. However. The
Umpqua Navigation Company must not
be overlooked, nor its president and
manager. Captain N. J. Cornwall. This
company has a finger in all sorts of
transportation lines along the beach
up to scottsburg, the stage line to
Dram and the Eva and other fine boat
on the Umpqua. H. B. Sag-herd Is the
commoaore i tne fleet.
RECEIVED
FROM SCHOOL LAUD
More Than $6,000,000 Real
ized From Sales Interest
Makes Total $13,141,166,
625,000 ACRES ARE UNSOLD
Charge of Dissipation of Domain
Are Declared Tlefufcecl by Fig
ures Compiled by Secretary
of State Land Board.
SUMMARIZED HISTORY OK
OREGON'S SCHOOL LANDS
FOR 4 YEARS.
Total acreage sold.. 2.947,684.22
Total amount real
ized from sales. ... $6,382,959.13
Total amount re
ceived in interest
from school fund
since 1879 6,758,207.65
Total acreage yet unsold 625,000
Average price an acre re
ceived ; . -. $2.16
SALEM, Or., April 1. (Special.)
From the sale of its school lands and
interest on the irreducible school fund
for the last 46 years the state of Ore
gon has harvested the vast sum of
$13,141,166.78. This sum. which has
innured to the . Denefit of Oregon's
school children, it is declared, refutes
the charge so often made that the
school lands of the state have been dis
sipated in the past.
Figures compiled by G. G. Brown,
secretary of the State Land Board,
dating from 1870, show that Oregon
has received a total of $6,382,959.13
from the sale of 2,947,684.22 acres of
school lands. From 1879 to 1915 rec
ords of the State Treasurer's office dis
close a total of $6,758,207.65 received
in interest from the loaning of state
school funds, and distributed among the
counties of the state in prpportion to
the school population.
92.16 Per Acre Is Price.
The average price received by the
state from the sale of its school lands
since 1870 is $2.16 an acre. This amount
would be more than doubled if the
money received from interest on the
school fund during the period were
considered.
Careful study of the financial record
of Oregon's school lands casts serious
doubt on the assertion that had the
state withheld its school lands from
sale, the selling price at the present
time would exceed the sum received
since 1870 from the sale of the lands
and interest ,on the irreducible fund.
On the contrary, it is contended that
by the disposal of its lands at the price
fixed by the Legislature from time to
time, the state has been the gainer.
Oregon's unsold acreage in school
lands now is approximately 625,000
acres. These lands are scattered
throughout 27 counties and for the most
part consist of arid and gracing lands.
Harney, Malheur and Lake counties
contain more than half of the unsold
acreage.
Washington to Reduce Price.
Judging from the situation in the
state of Washington, where the state
authorities are about to reduce the
price of the school lands which have
been held for $10 an acre, because of
no demand, Oregon's policy of selling.
i
ts lands for what were deemed rea
sonable prices at the time, is seen to
have been the more profitable. Had
Oregon held its school lands from sale,
it is argued that the average price
would be under $10 an acre, granting
that the land were in demand.
The more than $6,000,000 now draw
ing interest in the irreducible school
fund represents a total acreage dis
posed of amounting t5 2,947,684.22. Of
this acreage, 28,379.59 acres have certifi
cates yet outstanding. Records of the
Land Board showing the certificates
and cash deeds issued by years gives a
total acreage sold of 2,925,494.86 from
18i0 to 1915, inclusive. The apparent
discrepancy in the acreage totals is
caused, according to Secretary Brown,
because during the early years of the
school land administration cash sales
were made by county school superin
tendents and the money from the sales
was sent to the Land Board in bulk.
so that it is impossible to segregate
these sales from other deeds issued by
the state.
25,000 Deeds Issued.
In the time that school lands have
been sold in Oregon approximately 25
000 deeds have been issued by the State
Land Office.
The history of Oregon's school lands
dates from the Congressional act of
February 14, 1859, admitting the state
into the UViion. This act gave the state
sections 16 and 36 in each township
or wherever these numbered sections
had been disposed of prior to the grant
the state was accorded the right to
select other lands equivalent thereto.
The legislative statute of 1864 pro
vided for the sale of "state land" at
$1.25 an acre to "actual settlers" and
to other than actual settlers at $2 an
acre.
In 1887 the Legislature changed the
law. making it mandatory upon the
Land Board .to sell school lands for
$1.25 an acre, eliminating also the pro
vision that the buyer must be an
"actual settler."
Twelve years later, in 1899, the Legis
lature once more amended the law, per
mitting the Board to dispose of the
lands for "not less than $1.25 an acre."
With $1.25 as the minimum price for
which school land could be sold, the
Legislature left the maximum price at
the Board's discretion.
Speculation Dates From lOOO.
The year 1900 witnessed the begin
ning of speculative buying of school
lands. The price at this time was fixed
at a minimum of $1.25 an acre, though
a legislative enactment of the year be
fore gave the Land Board the privilege
to sell the lands for whatever amount
above $1.25 an acre it might consider
the acreage applied for to be worth.
The era of speculation in school
lands, beginning in 1900, is shown by
the marked gain in the acreage dis
posed of during the following three
years, or until 1903, when the Legis
lature boosted the price to $2.50 an
acre. In 1900 the certificates and cash
deeds issued by the state for school
lands represented a total of 196,118.32
acres; in 1901 the total sales were 161,
114.85 acres; in 1902 the acreage sold
was 219.239.53. and in 1903 232,328.86
acres were sold.
The year 1903 was the record year
for the sale of school lands in Oregon.
Though it was in that year that the
acre price was increased to $2.50, the
records- pf the Land Office show that
most of the sales were made for $1.25
an acre. Neglect of the Legislature to
attach an emergency clause to the bill
changing the price, making the law
effective immediately on the Governor's
signing the bill, gave persons oppor
tunity to buy for the old price in the
BO-Uay interval elapsing before the law
went into effect.
State diaries Fraud.
Incidentally it should be mentioned
that the unwonted, increase in the sale
ILLIO S
of school lands in 1898. amounting to
129,933 acres, was due partially to the
fact that it was then that the Hyde
Benson sales were made. These sales
totaled approximately 40,000 acres in
the Cascade forest reserve. The state
is now attempting to recover title to
this acreage in the courts on the
ground that the lands were obtained
through fraud.
As indicative that the ultimate value
of the lands was not realized by the
general public and even by "those who
sought them for purposes of holding
for a possible future rise in price, was
the sudden slump in land sales after
the 1903 Legislature Taised the mini
mum price to $2.50 an acre. In 1904
sales totaled only 5948 acres. It is
pointed out that persons' buying these
lands as a speculative proposition -were
uriwilling to risk paying more than the
old price of $1.25 an acre. With the
increase in price the demand practi
cally ceased. From then until now the
school land sales have been merely
nominal, except in 1907, which was just
prior to the advance of $5 an acre de
clared by the Land Board.
In 1907 the sales totaled 169,278.23
acres. The increase in sales in that
year arose from the issuance of certifi
cates by the board upon forged appli
cations. Certificates thus isisued were
canceled and persons shown to be in
nocent purchasers were permitted to
repurchase the lands at $2.50 an acre.
The frauds were committed by A. T.
Kelliher. Two years after the rise in
price of the lands to $5 an acre in 1908,
the land board fixed $7.50 an acre as
the minimum price.
Land Auction Held.
It was in 1903 that the board first
advertised for sale to the highest bid
der newly surveyed school lands. The
Legislature of that year had allowed
this action. The highest price received
from the sale of advertised lands was
$14,27 an acre. But little land was sold
for this price.
At the present time, where the lands
are not deemed worth $7.60 an acre the
boa.rd "exercises its discretion and sells
them for less. The minimum, however,
is fixed at $2.50 an acre. Before the
sale price is determined now the Land
Board has the land to be sold appraised
by its attorney in the county where the
acreage is located. In 1911 the Legis
lature passed an act giving the Land
Board the right to fix and change the
price from time to time, with no mini
mum restrictive provision. The board
adheres to its own ruling, nevertheless,
of not disposing of any land for less
than $2.50 an acre.
When the 19p3, act was passed, the
price of indemnity lands was increased
to $5 an acre. In 1895 it had been in
creased from $1.25 minimum to $2.50 an
acre. Successively after 1903 the price
for indemnitv lands was advanced to
$6, $7.50, $8.75, $10, $13 and $15. The
last selections of indemnity lands were
made in 1909, when Mr. Benson was
Governor.
Bill Pending In Congress.
Of late years the state has made no
selections of indemnity lands because
of its inability to obtain tracts in
blocks rather than in scattered sec
tions. It has been the desire to induce
the Federal Land Department and Con
gress to consent to the state making
selections of consolidated acreages in
the forest reserves, either on a basis of
acre for acre, to which the state is en
titled, or according to value. A bill
providing for selections being made
upon a value basis is now pending in
Congress.
Up to August 17. 1899. the state
charged 8 per cent interest on moneys
loaned from the school fund. After this
date the interest was cut to 6 per cent
on all notes that had been reduced 25
per cent of the principal and all back
interest paid up.
Under the law the state can only lend
its school money on improved farming
land on a basis of one-third of the
actual value of the land, exclusive of
improvements.
The running expenses of the State
Land Board and office until two years
ago were paid from the interest earn
ings of the school fund, but in 1913 the
Legislature began making a direct ap
propriation for carrying on the busi
ness of the land department. The ex
censes are about $9000 annually. By
appropriating money .for the Land
Board's expenses the necessity of tak
ing money from the irreducible school
fund is avoided.
93GO.06G Interest Divided.
Growth of the amounts received an
nually from interest on school money
loans is demonstrated by comparing the
sum received and distributed in 187?
with that of 1915. In 1879 there were
56.458 persons of school age in Oregon,
and the amount accruing in interest
which was disbursed according to
school population was $36,137.12. Last
year, with 205,752 persons of school
age, interest money aggregating $360,
066 was distributed by the State Treas
urer. The approximate acreage of school
lands yet unsold in the respective
counties is as follows: Baker, 18,480;
Benton520; Clackamas, 40; Coos, 360;
Curry, 940; Crook, 35,120; Douglas,
2260; Gilliam, 3720; Grant, 15,280; Har
ney, 209.080; Jackson, 1160; Jefferson,
2000; Josephine, 1590; Klamath, 9140;
Lake, 100,920; Lincoln, 360; Malheur,
199,680; Morrow, 11,440; Tillamook, 160;
Umatilla, 3400: Union, 3080; Wallowa,
3840; Wasco, 3080; Wheeler, 6960, and
Yamhill, 80.
Counties having no unsold school
lands are Clatsop, Columbia, Hood
River, Linn, Marion, Multnomah, Polk
and Washington.
The following table will show acre
age sold by years from 1870 to 1915,
inclusive:
Total
acreage
per year.
1,920.69
134.571.4"
5S.S91.39
32.904.01
19.S04.72
Certificates,
acreage.
Deeds.
acreaKe.
1,929.69
134.571.4.-.
58.891. 39
32.904.01
19.804.72
2O.S70.4O
12.138.52
3 6.832.03
::7,9ij.4fi
24.0.03.79
2.833.69
4.019.12
s- 12,370.73
23.340.41
10. 115.7S
5.453.RC,
14,973.84
75.2S4.6i',
50.748.79
65.112.35
37.S34.14
4S.399.34
22 739.10
16.842.14
4.512 25
8..843.2S
40fi.59
7.747.81
13.712.05
6.161.19
8.30B.73
B.H75.30
12.447.16
5.985.35
S42.49
840.00
1.592.59
31. OKI. 01
834.99
634.03
320.93
1.844.53
654.68
688.31
928. (ifi
372.54
Yar.
1S7W. . . .
1871
1872
1S73
1874
1S7.. . . .
20,870.40
12.13S.52
1C. K32.03
,",7. Wirt. 46
42,302.95
21,670.08
IS . . . .
1S77
1S7S
1S79
17. (ISO. It!
IR.smaw
17. 3150. r.2
34.404.7!)
45.008 73
30.5CO.2l
23.1R9.nS
18,0i.l..-l
81.575..'J
73.2SS.32
91.9S5.10
CO.115.81
43.713.8S
30.737.78
.-.H.240.31
13,7.89.41
35."n(i.30
116.22l.3T
73.799.59
3 87.751. 59
152.439.55
20i. 792.37
226.343.51
5.106.27
22.S43.88
27.09S.23
13S.2fiS.22
33.757.95
39.liSl.8S
27.002.53
5.784.01
5.879.34
13.919.79
4.K5S.24
4.27S.21
2.057.435.58
1SSO
1881. . . .
1882
"1 379.64
46.775.52
1883
18S4
1885
1SS
1887. ..
68.349.14
40,675.99
2S.623.64
33.063.33
156.860.05
188S
124.037.11
157.097.45
1S8!. . .
1S1K)
18111 . . .
1 S2 . . .
1 S!i:i . . .
1804. . .
180.-,. . .
92.113.22
53.476.SS
73.091.43
1S.301.66
B4. 349.58
6. TOS.85
54.621.41
329.033.42
79.9iiO.7S
190.118.32
1.11,114.85
219.239.53
232.328.80
5.94S.76
23.683. 88
29.2!K.82
169.27S.23
34.592.94
40.316.51
27,329.46
7. C.29.14
6.534.02
14.ti0S.1O
5.56.90
4.650.75
1SI16. . .
1 s:i7 . . .
1 80S. . .
lSf9. . .
1SIO0. . .
1901. . .
1H02. . .
IVttCI. . .
mot. . .
io.-. . .
1!WG. . .
1 !Pf7 . . .
1!(I8. . .
1!XI. . .
11110. . .
H1 1 . . .
1012. . .
1913. . .
1!14. . .
1015. . .
Ctfs. . .
Deds. .
S6S.059.2R
o 1915. In-
Grand total (1S70
elusive), acrea. . . .
2,025.494.S6
This total does not Include approximately
20.000 acrea which could not be segregated
because of Incomplete records being kept
during first yenrs lands were sold.
SCHOOL TEACHERS ABOUND
Applications Pqiir Into Couiity Su
perintendent at Wenateliee.
WENATCHEE. Wash.. April 1. (Spe
cial.) There will not be a dearth of
school teachers the coming year, judg
ing from the number of applications
that are pouring into County huperin
tendent Bowersox.
Since shortly after the first of the
year applications at the rate of three
or four a day have been received. Tho
would-be teachers bail from all parts
of the country.
$320 Will Buy a Splendid Player Piano
Our windows this week show some of the best buys in player pianos that
Portland has ever seen. They are modern 88-note instruments of latest
designs and are first class in every particular. Not one of them but sells
regularly at from $100 to $200 more when new. These have been slightly
used, but could pass as new without question. Terms may be had that will
please and the prices will delight you. See them.
Among them are':
Milton, Mahogany. . . . $320
Euphona, Stickler, Oak $350
Milton, Mahogany $375
Kingsbury Inner Player, Wal. $425
Playotone, Mahogany $350
No better values, no
See these players and
Your Money
SUPERIOR VICTROLA AND RECORD SERVICE -
Morrison Street at Broadway
Other Stores: San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, San Jose, Los Angeles,
San Diego and Other Coast Cities
E FIND SEED CACHE
CLOVER STOLES IV HEM'OX
LOCATED FINALLY.
IS
Dlacoivry. Follona Dismissal of t hirnf
Asalnat Corvallis Man After
Two Trlnls.
ALBANY, Or., April 1. (Special.) A
mouse yesterday unearthed a cache of
11 sacks of stolen clover seed which
had been missing for more than seVen
months.
An indictment charging Arthur Mur
phy, of Corvallis, wfth tho theft of this
particular seed, was dismissed In the
Circuit Court of Benton County on
Thursday, just the day before the hid
den property -was accidentally found.
Murphy had been tried twice for the
crime and on each occasion the jury
disagreed.
Last August 11 sacks of clover seed
were stolen from the barn of Karstens
Bros., in Benton County, about seven
miles northwest of this city. The
morning following the robbery, offi
cers traced the tracks of a wagon from
the scene of the theft to this city, and
it was ascertained that this wagon had
gone to a barn located on Eighth
street, between Lyon and Baker streets.
which barn Murphy is said to have
rented a few days previously. In ex
amining this barn the officers found
where exactly 11 sacks of clover sexed
had been placed in the corner of the
barn. Each sack had been place
against the wall separately and the
prints showed plainly in the dust on
the floor, but at the time the barn was
searched the sacks had been removed
from that corner and could not be
found.
The place in which the sacks were
found had been walled up and in front
of the wall had been stacked a num
ber of articles of household furniture,
which were stored in the barn, so that
the place was completely concealed. As
most of the barn is not used, this seed
might have lain there for many more
months, but mice gnawed at the sacks
and as a result the sacks gave way and
the seed trickled down through the
cracks in the floor under the barn.
TWO CONVENTIONS TO MEET
Wenatchee Will Have Gatherings of
Democrats April 18.
WENATCHEE. Wash., April 1. (Spe
cial.) Two Democratic county conven
tions will be held in Wenatchee on April
18 at the Commercial Club. This was
decided at a meeting of the Democratic
county committee this week.
Following the county convention on
April 18, the county committee will
meet. In the evening a banquet will be
held. The committee on banquet ar
rangements consists of: Lem Ward. W.
J. Mallow, S. G. Hanan, Mrs. Frank
Reeves and Mrs. Homer Grant. The
allotment of delegates to the precincts
will be made soon by the county com
mittee. 0. A. C. WORKERS BUSY
Frequent Calls Keep Extension Bu
reau Specialists Occupied.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE,
Corvallis, April 1. (Special.) Contin
ued activity in the field is necessary
for a large number of Oregon Agricul
tural College extension and experiment
station specialists because of the fre
quent calls from the rural districts for
men to deliver addresses and conduct
demonstrations on various phases of
agricultural work.
G. V. Skeleton, head of the department
of highway engineering, will , lecture
next Saturday at Monmouth: Professor
A. L. Peck Friday at Salem, A. B.
Cordley at Lebanon on April 7.
Woodland School Board Elects.
WOODLAND. Wash., April 1. (Spe
cial.) The new Board of School Direc
tors, consisting of E. W. Robinson and
E. E. Davis, old members, and T. Scott,
newly elected, met for the first time
PORTLAND ASTONISHED
BY SIMPLE MIXTURE
Portland people are astonished at the
INSTANT action of simple buckthorn
bark, glycerine, etc.. as mixed in Adler-i-ka.
ONE SPOONFUL removes such
surprising foul matter it re'Jeves al
most ANY CASE constipation, sour
stomach or gas. Because Adler-i-ka
acts on BOTH lower and upper bowel,
a few doses often relieve or prevent ap
pendicitis. A short ".rpatment helps
chronic stomach trouble. The Skldmore
Drug Company, 270 Alder, between
j.i.ird and Fourth. ..
Milton, Fumed Oak $415
Carola Inner Player, Walnut. .$500
Angelus Piano, Mahogany $575
Kingsbury Inner Player $390
Ludwig Angelus $625
lower prices, no more moderate terms can be found.
a lot of good used uprights you will be glad.
Greatly Reduced Prices on S8-Note Player
9 s Worth or Your
this week and elected Mr. Robinson
president and Mr. Davis clerk. The
Board has secured the services of Prin
cipal Frederick Stuckert for another
year, making the fourth year for him in
the school. Other teachers and assist
ants will be decided on later.
HIDES SHIPPED BY MAIL
Parcel Post Kate $1.08 Against Cost
of $ t ly Express.
CANYON CITY, Or.. April 1. (Spe
cial.) A hide buyer of Baker recently
purchased several thousand pounds of
sheep pelts in the northern part of the
county. This week he has been ship
ping them by parcel post to Baker.
Sending them by mall is a quicker and
cheaper method, but is not an easy task
for the mail contractor, under present
road conditions.
The rate by parcel post is $1.08 a
hundred pounds and by freight at least
4 cents a pound.
Cent ralia to Lay Cement Walks.
CENTRA LI A. Wash., April 1. (Spe
cial.) The work of laying: cement side
J HE public preference
America, as shown by
our recent tire census in 71 centers.
The grand average of Goodyears was
21 per cent and this with close to
200 brands of tires on the market.
This Goodyear preference is built
upon the bed-rock of public satisfac
tion the individual experience of
the average man, who has found that
GoodyearTires go farther, last longer,
and so cost him less in the end.
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TIRES
Easy to get from Goodyear Service Station Dealers Everywhere
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walks in the entire northwest part oC
the city and on South Tower avennr.
Jackson, Madison and Suniina streets,
will begin about May 1, tho city com
mission at a recess session yoslerdav
having passed first reading of ordi
nances covering bnh improvements.
Final passage will be made Tuesdav.
The work will be done by day labor anil
not by contract. Centralia men being
employed throughout. The improvement
will be the largest ever made hero.
Centrulia Vouth in Villa t'lmse.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. April 1. (Spe
cial.) The. interest of Toledo pcnplo
in the chase of Villa is intensified bv
the fact that Clarence Hughes, sou of
Rev. K. L. Hughes, is a member ut
Troop F. Twelfth United .States Cavalry.
No word has been received by Ih. I
soldier's family, however, sim c he was
ordered to the border.
Centralia lioy to Join Navy.
CENTRALIA. Wash.. April 1. (Spe
cial.) Unlet Honeywell, a L'entiali.L
boy, left for Bremerton this morning
to enlist in the United State Navy as
a wireless operator. Young Honeywell
is the son of the late O. S. Honeywell. :i
prominent realty dealer who died about
a TH1' m go.
for Goodyear Tires
affects alike all parts of
Goodyear No-Hook Tires
are fortified against :
Rim-cutting By our No-Rim-Cut
feature.
Blow-oats By our On
Air Cure.
Loose Treads By our
Rubber Rivets.
Insecurity By our Multi
ple Braided Piano Wire
Base.
Punctures and Skidding
By our Double-Thick
All-Weather Tread.