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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING,, NOVEMBER lr NORTHWEST CURRENT '"EVENTS DEVELOPMENT AND. GENERAL PROGRESS ROUNDUP OF THE WEEK IX STATES OP PACIFIC SLOPE ELECTRIC LI TO Far From the Madding Crowds and Jgnoble Strife" tn the Broad Open of Sunny Oregon TAP ILLINOIS . VALLEY ; THREE YE ' GONE BY . i a j .ii i ii i i .. . at',.-'--. Few Changes in Indian Vil lage Discovered by Lewis ' and Clarke. Fiftv-Year Franchise Given Bdgue River Company Other Roads, JOURNAB'S ml 'A J (bpeclai' Dispatch, to It JooraaL) Grants Fui, Or, Oct 81. Th Jo- ; jihln county court ha granted a, 60 year francbi. to. the Rogue River & Southern Oregon -Railway company which corporation propose to build, and - operate jut electrlo Una from Grants Peas.to Illinois valley, a dlsufoo of 60 miles. According to the contract, actual construction must '-begin -" within 12 months, and within 18 month at least -io mue or vraca nun do iaia, omer-r wis the franchl will be null and void. : Tha electric Una will derive power for . lta cara from tha Rogue and Applegate : rivers, The rout will follow tha wagon road tha greater part or tne way. xna franchise .gives tha company tha right i to use It feet of the county road for Its ! track, telephone? telegraph and power poiea, Tne- oriago across nogue . river at Grants Pass, which is to be con structed. bT the county this winter, will also be tieea ay tne rauroaa ior a period -'.of three years. -V Not only passengers and express and but ore -and matte from the gold ana 'copper mines . will be hauled, also .tho lumber from the sawmills of wtern t and sou tuera Josephine, g ; j, " . ActiTUy on , Northwestern.. (Special Dispatch to Tit Jjomil. Huntington, Or., Oct II. Great ao ' tlvity i noted . all along; the Northwest ern Railroad from Huntington to the Ox Bow. Over 600 men ar employed i in the different campa ' Over 100 men : are at the Ox Bow; the largest camp. A -arloafl of eutinlles Is Used datlv. and ' work is being pushed. The supplies are ail handled through -the Utah tonstruo. tion company' camp at Nagel, being . unloaded at this camp and checked out and reshlpped ' to the different camps v along She line." Tha Utah 'Construction . company hs an electric lighting plant at the Ox Bow, where It la working on one of the largest tunnels on tha Una, .- over one half mils In length. The Carver Railroad. r (Special DtoMtrt to Tn Joaraat. - v Monroe. Or, Oct. 1- The Carver rall- v road la now about ready for ties and rails. , A soon as the bridge gangs have placed a few small bridges where ; they are- required th track crew will go to work. The branch line for tho -west has been connected with the main -Una so as to form- "y" switch, tin this manner . the log trains may be run north or south on the main track with out extra switching. BETTER T Many' New Highways Are k " Jteing Planned in South- - .-. em Washington. (pedal Dispatch to The Jew-sat) 4 ' . 'Husujn, wash., -Oct 81,Th county " road Tin western Klickitat county are rtmdergojng Important changes for the ' better, and it Is only a question of a - shorf time -when travel will be made more easy for ranchers living along the .. main thoroughfares, W, F. Brers, dep- uty county surveyor, has Just completed .' a. survey of the new rrade leading west W-nd northwest of White Salmon. -: X "When completed; th new road will ave considerable distance in going from tha HUsum .country to White' Salmon, and the heavy grade at tha Orange grove . Will be done away with. A hew survey Baa also been made of -. the road runnin,,eaet of Husum to the I top of the mountain, and- a . lino baa . . been run for a road in the Jack Perry s country, leading sontn and connecting v with tha Lyle and White Salmon coun- l try'' f" : ' - ' ' OREGON APPLES A1& i". . " SUPERIOR TO ALL Forest Grove, Or., Oct II. W. R. Harris, county fruit Inspeotor. in a let ter from Mackinaw, III,. - Where be is ROADS KLICKITA GOUilTY Ins; II per bushel for cider -apples, and - I that even that quality is scarce. He ex f amlnW a carload of apples from Penn- sylvanls that growers in Oregon would hardly aUow to go to the cider mill. He , , says thevapple crop in Nebraska. Iowa - and Fllinoia Is a-failure. He suggests - that some of Oregon's fruit men ship a . few carloads to Peoria, to demonstrate 4 what real apple look like. ' Take your wife and sweetheart to tha Perkins Orlll for Sunday Pinner. . ." . 1 a 1 ' 1 vw, 111 . 1 ' '" HUNTING PARTY IN THE BEAR VALLEY COUNTRY BRINGS BACK TEN BRUINS .AND A BATCH OF THRILLING TALES (eertl Dlapateh to The Journal) Husum, .ITaaW Oct tl. We had the . - time ef our Uvea,1' declared D. E. Mll- 'Htor'n veteran bear hunter, of Trout Lak who, with' a party of Portlanders. ,hM iut " returned . from a . bear hunt '. ; Inst week ia the Jungtea and -wilds Of i tsear vauey, on ine vvnue Baimon .river, - mikes from the town of White Sal- , toon. In Klickitat county. Washington. "Yes, sir, there -was somethtdg doln' ." . overy iinutf while were were, gone 'thou five daya In all-my hunting ex- ferleee I have never seen the woods o full ef bear a they are right .now. - ! They're everywhere, a leUer can't mlaa v 'cm. ' . . artier wer 1 1 , stood "shot' hunters lit th party, nv from Portland and cn from Trout Lake and Tielmtv '-T he v camped St logging plant 'ou the --Wfcfte Salmon rtvfr -and-7 right on the -edge of the. bunting ground. We had ' r.lffttv of ammunition. II good kuna and IS husky bear houada, that have had all sorts of .experience ' in th rhase with rMordeeaf.JoB, thtrfamous . ; ntmrod pf Huter' vlilll, ,ear where I we .were , hunting. - V-.V? t .Why; do yyou itnow, sirr queried ' 'Will'er, as ha sat on a-nrf good bog hi . the little torlat Husum,1 wber , to- jsarrated tht tale, W killed nln hr Mack bear- d .one .cinnamon on t!a trio and -didn't half, try, and they . rr ail big fellows,--too. .'; '' .. .-..'. . -It was while s watching three dee and t'r iran ini w pan -the gfeat . cut tvn." M' the . bear hunter. "We' sen )fng upvon the high bill trti-t r-ie Hal : l..rk of Rear valley where! ha , f'Miorr: hlmeellf -iear th right; trH x plrk off acy bear that might ( a:, f. 119 , air' , was cold aad' I Sift. ! - '". v": tlG V IT , OKI HARKEY- ir.lPATIEflF FOR LAUD 0PEII6 Litigation Ties UpLiIhous " "ands of Acres in the (Soedal DlaiMtteh t Tti Journal) Burns, Or.. Oct $1- Pendlig tha de- eislon of ths seoietary of tha interior, large number of settlers have been tak ing- homestead on -tha land bold by the Harney Valley .Improvement company, under th Carey aot Tha company re ceived a contract from the state to Ir rigate 60,000 acres of land In Harney valley. Ditches wer surveyed but when work was commenced the Pacifia Live stock' comoanv secured an Injunction. ?'hla "action killed the project and the mprovetnent company made no further ef forta to reclaim the land. The con tract - was- fcanceled byLth atat two year ago.- - - "vt-". Th Pacific. Livestock company with tha helD of aettler commenced a eon- teat in the local land office - to have the land opened Tor settlement. This action stirred the Improvement eoprpany io acnon ana i goi a new coniraoi irom the atate. The case has now been In litigation for two yeara It is before th secretary of th interior for final decision Harnev county has suffered by the delay, for It ha been the mean or Keeping out nunareaa pi setuer ana tnouaana or aonara. I, i 1 1 Deer Island Cow's Appetite for Salt Causes Her DeatL. (Rpeetal IMapateh to The Journal.) Rainier, Or.. Oct 81. A Deer Island cow lost her life In an unusual manner ' near, her - this week. The keeper -of th game preserve left a tin can futt-of salt' outaide of bla little house. The cow came along, spied the salt , and stuck her nose In the can. The contents tasted good. Bhe -raised her head to elevate the-cen, The salt trickled down her throat and trte can settled more tightly around- her mouth. -Her appetite satisfied, she en deavored to shake off thw can. It would not shake. Then she tried to paw It off. It would not "paw.". When help arrived she was dead suffocated. The ani mal belonged to Jack Appleton. Perkins Hotel Orlll is th only one 'es eastern beef In Portland that receives direct Finest teaks and roast in America. iletiger fit your eyes for $1. irony put we could near ine flog barking about a mile away and the sounda gradually cm nearer - and nearer.' ;"" .- i - W looked tip to the clearing where Toung was stationed lust as a big heavy bear came down the trail ' near him. The bear stopped, looked at Toung, and Toung stood and gased at -bruin for fully jfjve mtnutea We wondered what foung meant o do. He seemed par- aiysea ror a- moment and then flrod. The .bear came lumbering dowtr the mountain trad, heading straight for us. Toung never touched him, but 10 shots rang out below the place we were. ana tne near was aeao. He waa, a dibck retiow, weighing; naif a ton when d reused. , . , i "The dog kept barking, so w knew mere were more Dear, vve were talk ing aooui wnat a line pear tne cinna mon was when Bums cam - tearing through the thicket his hat gone and his hair JatandJng straight .up from hi head. His face was white as death and he was trembling violently. t ". Ther u . w back there that weight a thousand pounds,' he said, 'I never saw such a beast I waa slttfw on a leg when it oam an' sat beside roe. I never could kill It alona "All hand went bark and there was a oub of a bear sitting up on Its haundhes booking at vJ. One of th tan. shot, and kllliul'lf a,kii. KWney. Bhlverea and trembled. When weHjgot back to the starting point a blu thev us, tt uca, .oeer ome swimming hcrosa Yhite- Salmon and after nuaina- topped and shook itself. It i a maffnmeefn immu out wa let It go as-jt. wa .unlawful tjf itlil deer while hunting with dnga 'e kept on hunt 4mr until . Sunday evening, when w killed th tenth bear." ' i hoc OAKLAVD.08,E ..U. Ve 0 4 I' SBBMBJMHSBT OBKMfVN CCftCH !fTALLTON,'OAKL?vNP. ORB , OREGON'S Down Malheur Way Stock men and Farmers Are Smiling Broadly. . j : . . (Special Dlapateh -to Th osraal.) Vatai OrHOct II. At th-clo of a prosperous year for farmers, sheepmen and cattlemen in southeastern Oregon, the little, town tit Vale shows sign of rapid' growth. At the terminus of the Malheur railroad, connecting with the Oregon Short Line at Ontaria. vaie l tne gateway ior practically ne entire trade of the bla counties of Malheur arid Harney, and citisens are satisfied that Vale will became one of the most prosperous towns or the interior, tteat estate la advanclna- in value and new people are arriving dally to look into th ocal situation with a view to locating. A new real estate office will shortly oe opened ty wasnmgton men, ana sev eral other people who are familiar with irrigation business are planning to en ter this field and be in readiness for the ODeninr next serine of the Willow Creek Irrigation company' project Thl tnaertaklng will auppiy.ampie water ror nrtnino- and orchard tmrnoaes In the Willow Creek valley, whieh adjdlns Vale to tne north, and mciuaes over luo.uvv quality of soil. Tb company will open offloes in Vale in the course of a few daya, and will commence an aotlve cam paign for settlers. : - . Tha irrigation Pro J so. Eneourarlnr new re carding th gov ernment irrigation project haa lately been received from official of th re clamation ervlcv The only obstaole in the way of the undertaking now l tne obstinacy of a few rancher regarding right of wav for th ditch. Thl diffi culty will easily be overcome, however. ana this project, wmcn was me xirsi considered by th government depart ment In the northwest will not be much longer delayed. The project Involve the watering fit a large "tract" of terri tory south Of Vala, including a splendid stretch of bench land which for orch ard purposes cannot he surpaased. t mere are no new oeveiopments re garding the various oil prospecting out fits at work near this point One com pany recently ran into quite a supply of gas, and indications for oil are first class. Officials of the companies Oper ating ara not talking much, but they are s-olna ahead with the drills and are oulte confident' of ultimate success. Several large areas or lands in the oil belt have changed hands during the 'last few daya FIRST STEP III BIG II . . (Special Dispatch te The JoerB! -Vnle, Or., Oct 1. -Th first big lant) deal following the commencement of th Willow Creek Irrigation project haa Just tJeea. consummated by. J. W. Richard and other capitalists interested in the undertaking, 114 acres : of land which will be under th ditch vbeing sold "by them to a rancher of Denver. Colo, Ior 132,000. the highest prlc ever paid for land in the Wlllow.reek valley. - The promoters who .made the purchase anent but on day in the city. They say that water will be -turned on by the commencement of., the next Irrigation season. - The project win irrigate 100. 000 acre of land directly tributary to thU ity. - w ERR GAT 0 SCHEME it'- y f1 J U't a PROSPERITY Riches of Grand Ronde Are Being Developed hy the Thrifty Mormons. (gpeelal Dlapateb tp. Tie Josraat.) Cove, Or., Oct. 28. -rahd Ronde val ley, which la located fBY Union county. atern Oregon, I rapldlyV becoming thickly settled with people of the Mor mon faith. There are now" nearly 8)00 Mormonf in Union county out of th en tire population of 0,0 00,. and rnoat of these peopl have com, in within th post two or thre ear. "They hav al ready purchased a great part of the beat farming land In thU section, which is rapidly being out up into flv and ten acr tranta v .La Grande, which ii th oounty seat of Union county and th most Important city in the valley, has been madeTiead quarters for th members of ihe Mor mon church in eastern Oregon and west ern' Idaho. A handsome 130,000 taber- "as aireany oeen erected there, and An elaborht, pipe organ Installed In the building. A temhte. rnnH in sie only to the famous Salt l.nk. i1".1?1 if Anow b,lB Pond at a cost . Churche'hav been established In all the amaller plaees In the valley, bishop and elder hav been appointed in the different ward, as 1 the eustom in Utah, and worship, ia carried on here a in uone oy tne Mormons in that state. Ten per cent of the Income of member I elven to tha rhumh - each Ia Qrande ban th only best sugar actory In th state of. Oregon. It vu sstabUshed some 1 year ago by omt $ lh wf Jth. fi8jt L"ko Mormons, 3avid JCccles, th capIUllst who now es o tvja jLccies, tne canuaiist, who now haa large Interests in Oregon, belna among thorn. Thl building waa erected at a oost of 1600,000. There are 1,000 acres of land devoted to the culture "of ugar oeet; in ractory pay out an average of $100,000 per yexr In wagea, and- auppll an average of (.000,000 pounds, or 100 carloads ef granulated sugar each, season. Manv of tha Mor. mon setUers rals sugar beet on their lan da .-- . sTatoral Crardsn Kpot. , . Fruit Is on of th main products of thl section, and It is raised In abund- anc. Grain ia- alee- raised in larg qunUUe, and stock raising and-dairying occupy no Uttls attention. The mvrnvni nave-cnoaen ,uil valley In wVfLtahiu -Plff .V1 ?r i foultfy than any other nle.t0I?"AhTO ljfilr -in' thseifira northwest. yt. last nacia larae rarma ara bam mit nn and made to support three and four families where oe lived la the past - It Is a great apple and cherry country, and fruit of th temperat son flourish. The Mormon aettler as a whole are proving a thrifty class, and have done much to bring about th cutting up of larg tract m this part of Oregon. Thar eem tb make a Yaw r r,. . them handsomely. They are honest in tneir dealings, and thua, far-no protest has been made to theli settling here. J1?.0? v" tr- wltly and hav beautiful home, . . - So far." however, therr tv nAt able to mak much headway in getting oounty office and th like, though sev eral of th Influential Mormon hare aspired to hold office. They were of good material and .would probably have won had it not been for Ah faet that some of the Gentile voters nr.f.r Gentiles run the affair of the county as Jon as poeslbla ank Bramweljf. eon of F. 8. Bramwell, one of the lead ers of the church in this Utrtet n.i on of the" wealthy men of the county,. w Twraur ippoinifu receiver or the United State land offlca at la flrnri. howvb . ... X i y - v - - '.'? i -. -- ' ' H. s - S -i J j . ' I. ' T -t I . V . ( TBBYAPH0L3TRIN ei " " WAVE AT FLOOD TOE Livestock Industry Is; At taining Huge Proportions in Douglas County. (Special Dispatch to Th Journal.). Oakland, Or., Oct 14. The growing of all kind of livestock in thl section la developing Into an enormous indus try. . There I no gainsaying the'faot that cllm; lc condition In this locality cannot be sxcelled when applied td th 'production of high grade cattle.: sheep, nogs and the feathered tribes. The fact that more cattle, hog and turkey are annually shipped from Oakland than rrom any otner station on tne noutnem Paelflc -line In Oregon I mpl evi dence that unuaual conditions- exist tn thj repct . i On account of th peculiar geograph ical settings, the section enjoys a very equable climate thlyear round and it 1 ia not aubjeot to sudden "extreme of temperature, either In summer or win ter, x Livestock stay on th green pasture all . the winter and . I . In good shipping condition aeveral weeks earlier than stock raised in other sec tions of the sporthwest ' consequently, the atockman of thl "locality ha a field all to himself In placing his prod- . Situated en th main Un ' of th Southern Pacific . railroad, ISO mile south of Portland, there I 'no part of th United Etate- which presents a more Inviting field tf the stockgrower than can be found in the territory adja cent to Oakland. Sixteen hour from th best -.market, with transportation cost- averaging but ISO per. car for cat tle and sheep, are features of much im port in setting a balant on th right id Of .th ledger. . , . v- "Binj.. Also .ThriV. . - Beside - cattle, - sheep and 'hogs, a branch of the livestock business which Is now. compelling the attention of farmers here 1 the Angora goat Indus try. -"BUly' thrive In th section to a wonderful-degree. He. ha proven to be one of the most profitable of all farm enlmala. He turns brush land Into good pasture and fertilises It He will clip from four to five pounds of mohair annually, which -brings from 16 to 10 cents per pound. When young hi car cass mak fin mutton and his hid will make a valuable rug. Poultry"- raising, - especially turkeys, I another profitable proposition in the locality.- . Portland paya higher price year over- 10,000,000 egg - and large quantities of poultry wer shipped into vregon. Being a natural grain growing coun try, feed can be produced abundantly and cfieaply, and with Prevailing high r.rlce for th product tfcer I, nothing o deter any on from raking up this branch of stockratsing During th fail of 190T over' 160,000 pounds of dressed turkey were "shipped - from - Oakland, more than from any other town in the northwest - - - - Another important feature of th In dustry in this section 1 th breeding and distribution pf thoroughbred Stock. On local" firm has at present over 400 head of th finest Lincoln and Oxford Down sheep and th flock; I headed by omt recent Importation which cap tured all, th' blue ribbon and cham pionship at tn recent xoront- Royal Stock- show and the Paetflo National show at Portland. -Another firm-makea a business of importing , and breeding Angora goata; ' Oakland is also tn nom or thre of the best -stallions on-the eoaat, .one of which took th blue ribbon' at tha ltOI Oregon stat fair. ., " iiii-vv.?:'v FOR HIPJ1ENT. C?teljKND.-6X. &WS. OrSKLANP. ORB. - y County Assessor's Figures Tell Story of Wasco's Growth. ; (Special Dispatch to Th Journal.) . Th DafteaSOr.. Oct 11. That Waaco ha nJoydlroperity In the last few yea,rs and is becoming mor prosperous I demonstrated by figures compiled by County ' Assessor . Asa Stogsdlll in th tax rolj for- 1908 Tor Wasco county. Th assessed valuation of ail taxable property for the" 'fiscal -year 1(07 was 18,120,070, and, notwithstanding the fact that Hood River county was cut 'from' Wasco sine that time when about 11,600,000 war taken from th total amount of tsaessable property In Wasco tb total amount or asnessaoie prop erty, as found by Assessor Stogsdlll for MOt, is $6.tMff. -- . i. j - . Th difference between the amount of the total assessable property in Wasco county In 107 and .1908 Is 12,191,186. Dedueting thl amount from 18,500,000, the amount, of assessable Property cut off when Hood River coun y was created. It will be seen that th property In what H now Wasco county alone haa increased in valu sine -1997 to th. amount of $1,208,816. Th followlng 1 the amount of as sessable property In Wasco county for the last six year: 1908. 14,640,800; 1904, 14,787,230; 1905, I,01.945: 1906, 16.702,906; 1907, 18.220,070; 1908. 16.928, 886. (Without slice .taken off in create tng Hood River county, valued In HOT at $3,600,000.) - -- A comparison of ths number of acre of assessable land for 1904 and 1908 I as follows: 1904 Tillable, I16.$04: non-tillable, IIIAT.. ...c. I j Ott 1 Onfi Tllt.hl. 1486,183; non-tillable, 4M.148; total. 666,. - ISastsraer Xlook to waooo. , It. will b seen that thr pre 88,819 more acre of aaaeasab.' land In this county in 1908 than there -were In 1904. Thl county la to enjoy greater prosper ity In th near future than evef before. Eastern people ar buying land for an investment One man from Colorado bought--609 acres last week. -. He la on of many. Hi purchase was. eppi land In the put oh Flat district near The Dalles . - . '- ' Th Dalle a a city I g-rbwing rap idly. No boom ha Teen Inaugurated h-r in. eet of real estate men. The fact and figures are given by the Busl-1 nes uin r association, xae iruii can. Series and packing plants have been oay all ummr. The season I about over for. .both, but the apple peeking still goeson. Th fruit ia becoming more, plentiful each year. - Tht dairy Industry 1 alo coming to th front Many farmer ar turning their attention to dairying. D. J. Cooper has on, hi 1,000-acre ranch near Th Dalles a hard of nearly 00 cow a . Bert Bagley ha a larg number of Jerseya J. T. Rorlck has 82 cOws at Brook Farm. Robert Gllmore is milking a large num ber of oowa, about 60 in all, -There are many other In th dairy business here. TiiM. hm not been a eroo failure- In Wasco county In year, and th farming community i prosperous. , T - illrward for Alleged tadnaper. itUaited Press Leased Wire.) . - Rellinaham. . Wash.. Oct - 11. Ad ditional interest is given' th chase of the kidhaDer of Ed English ln,8kaalt county by th announcement by Sheriff Harmon mat ne win give aj-ewaro or $160- for .' th capture of Ieo Besmer, the shlnale weaver who Is altered to have committed th deed. The poss Is till arcAlng for Besmer. . - . . " - (Special Journal, Correspondence. ) ' - Wish-ram, Wash.. Oct 1 One hun dred and thre year ago , last Sunday, Captelbs Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke, with a force of explorers who were sent b,y - President Jefferson on an exploring expeo.tion to the country west of the. Rocky mountains, .arrived on thl spot ta!x miles east of Tho Dalle. On th - Washington side of ths Columbia river. Could Lewi and Clark see the Indian village of Wlnh-ram a it 1 today they ..- would not pote many change In th old place visited by them a little mor than a cantury ago. At th tlm th xplorer were here they saw, according to their very accu rate Journal kept all tha time thy were on- ths. trip, ;"a mound 10 feet higher than the common level, pn which were remnant of several houses, ana .-, th njound ha every appearance of b--" Ing artiflctat" The North Bank rail way rth only modern improvement ' tn the village waa cut through th mound) on the north, side, disclosing th fact thatlt I artificial, .for It is mad, of hand, ashes charcoal bona of fish and . animals, bit of flint and arrowheads. Why It waa mad, or when, th Indian) of Wish-ram do not know. Omd X&dlaa AroUtMioM. ;- -. Th house herej' continues the Jour nal, "are th first wooden .buildings wa have een lne leaving - th Illinois country- and are 11 In number," Th " house wer mad, of split cedar boards gotten - from' cedar log, by mean of -urnlng sff the outside and splitting;1 th board from the log with stone ax.f Th houses wer mad with gable ends and built with th lower part In tha) J round, to a depth of II feet To thl ay .depressions on the mound denote) wher th' house stood. -.' Th Indians her today will proudly how visitor a burning, or un, glasa that they prise very highly and which, they say waa given their "father's fath er's father" a long time ago by a great white man. with many other white men. . the first they ever saw, and Who visited, them." The younger. Indians say It was given by Captain Lewis. ' Martin 8p-dls 1 chief of th Wish ram -their scribs and .leaderswho is) highly respected by his people. He Is also their priest, and conduct th cere monies In the .long, low-meeting bousa very Sunday, -when the song in mono tone of th Indian ar heard to tha accompaniment of the beating of torn- toma All ceremonies of the Indiana are weird and unusual. The silencs of thl villago 1 refresh ing.' "No sound ls-Aeard hr except the .roar of th "Qreat Fall" at Celllo the aong of the wild, shy bird In tha cliffs;, the shriek of a locomotive, miles way,- or th low, weird-songs of tha redskins in their worshipand, one each day, th passenger train of the P.. 8. &. 8. railway glide wlftly by. . mailroad Oompalled to Tara. When the new railway eurveyor wera running a line along th right-of-way, -th line ran through th center of th meeting houae of the Indians. Thl house is, to them, a sacred place..-- Tha railroad official told th Indiana: "Tou y will-have to move your house, or wa will move It for,ou.M The Indian wr thoroughly roused over "what, they considered was.a aacrllege. A let ter of protect wa sent th officials of Indian affair at Washington, ssying: "Thla has always been the fishing? f round of the Wish-ram. It Is our ome. Our meeting house ha, always been In thl spot The white man nas com and taken our lands, our hunting; S round. Thl l au we nave leu. vys o not want to live on reservations Wa want to stay In th land our xatners save us Will . you allow th whltav" man to move our meeting house tot run N J his train througn ltrr , Th meeting house wss not moved. Th. railroad, makes a turn, going around It and the redskins are happy. The cliff around Wlshram ar cov ered with Dictograph Ths deslgna ara OI repines, iisu, auii, iwn n as well as grotesque taess. Who painted th cllrfs, tn oiaest-inaians ao po know. It may hav been the Attees or some people that were her befor . th" advent of the Indian. This Is b- Ueved by ethnologists. Whoever it was, the paints used hav withstood tha ravaerea'of sand and winds and storms of tlm and ar fairly clear today. Th wish-rams are rapiaiy going to th "happy hunting ground to Join th host of Indian who hav gone be fore. Tuberculosis has claimed many and it will not be long until the beat-Ins- of the tom-tom will never be heard any. more in tb' land. Jackraltits Are ; ' Ruining Crops in , Lane and Benton - -- (Speelal Dispatt to Th iottraaLV -Monroe, Or, Oct II. In a re- cent dispatch from Salem, men . tion 1 mad' of th faot that th black-UUed jack rabbit haa Just mad its initial appearance in th Willametta valley. Benton and Lan counties ar overrun 'with 'the peats, and hav ben for t four or fly yars. In many in-' Stance outside 4Aden ar prao- tically destroyed by them, and on ' t t account of ths lay of ths land, tt . is going to b a difficult task to " get rid of them. . ' It Is ohly a matter o'f tlm un- til com action will hav to b 'taken by th valley farmer to , xtermlnt .thek animals, or -" turn their rsnchea over to th , 'rabbit.1. ' Dogs . cha them - through th grain, and dtroy ' great quantlUea, '; whil- th "f o- i dent themselves cut down large w areas of gTowlng wheat and oat ' . and max a runways through what , i left, so that at harvest llttl L 1 left to the maa who tries, to "earn hi bread by tha sweat of - hi xrow." Thousands of black- tailed Jack rabbit 'infest th . ; field of Benton and Lan eoun- -- ties. .. . . ;: ? ; WORK TO START OX7 ; , ' TIIE DALLES H0TEJS, (Snerfal Dispatch fe" Te Xesarsal.tf Th Dalle. o-U 81. Th plans foftfid new Hotel to be punt by The Dalle! Hotel company have been- aocepted a drawn up by a, local architect Th-" building will be SO feet de-p by 190" feet wM, having . a 40-foot Wnfrrta''. the center' of the front. - The- hotel will be much like the Portlahd hotel i architecture. It will be built of brick with a concret foundation and wlU be modern in vry particular.