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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 7. 1009. ALL 10 F OF AM IDEA 10 BEAUTIFY Mayor Simon and Members of . Tark! Board Explain ; Plainly Their Attitude ' Towards Proposition lib cently, Suggested. mudford editor wins pjhze for pest hook catch '.Of eoursa I wouldn't want to squander any of the city's fundi, but I can certainly ay that ths park board will lend Its moat entbualastlo aid to any schania for the - beautlf Icatlon of .the city Tfgardless of who may be at the head of the movement," declared Mayor Simon yesterday," and it la per- ' . (.wetal Mapatrft to n Joernil.) Medford, or., Nov, t, tJomce 'Putnam, editor of, the Mudford Mail-Tribune, has won the angling championship of south ern Oregon for this season and baa won an ISO fishing, outfit offered by a local sporting goods house for hooking and landing the largest steelhrad taken this season In the vatera of the Rogue on a hook and line. Put ' nam's , eaten weighed 101-1 pounds. lila nearest competitor, W. K. Isaacs, caught' one that weighed a little over ' eight pounds. ' . : i Putnam la an Indefatigable angler. He Is at It early and. late when he can tear himself away from the editorial sanctum. Auout two-thirds of hla time in the sanctum Is spent In extolling the merits of the Bogue as a fishing stream.' 1 The championship of southern Oregon Is no light honor. l..ts season men came from all quar ters of the United States to fish In . the Rogue, and all entered for championship honors. The ' stream Is fast becoming well known for the excellence of the' sport It affords followers of Isaac Walton. ., . ' '.' . O HILL DESIRES unnn oinfi? ('- ii ii i " IIUUU III U Lll PAH6E North Bank Railroad 3Ioyes to Establish Station , on Washington ' Side of Co Iumhia Hirer, Opposite i the Apple City. (Sperial IHspatch to Tne Joorsal.) Hood Hirer, Or., Nov. . It la avl dent that the Hill Interests plan to get a' share of the freight shipments from Hood River valley. Within a few years the' shipment -will amount annually 'to several thousand oars of fruit Hill aiikad I agents are nea-otlatlna- for a station alte feotly silly for anyone to think that 1 1 m it i was ready to suggest that the on the Washington side of the qolum or the board' would be so small as to Dark b ard uke UD the matter. . , t' river, opposite Hood River. . It is ' Thourht Action Premature. -. : "' ." ' "'- ,iL i . ii-rr ftnte!-"0 tatlon at that point but 'does 'As we have not formed any deflnte t tn talrm ,h. ,,,i.n plans or een tentative ones, and will I ii-.. . ... ..i-i T i. "I know very little about the work "f v?tl.t th .i!"!"" . I'IhI ld.that there are ready to bo built as """"" ., - - Moon as the station Is built, two flouring board to take action. If it had. the I mm cltliens who hava been working on the erml lher enterprllle,. . new scheme might have taken umbrage Th. tr.H. h.w..n ,. wm. t.im.. at the interference of the board at this L, ud Ho0(J Rlvef tenB,v, and tlme.1 told the other members that I n increased heavily during the past T . " v . . ulm: 1 1 . V .1 ""yer, owing to the fact that several that It Would,e better to defer further nundred settlers have moved Into the notice or it inert was nwmuuon. territory north of White .Salmon. Hood . 'The park- board is already working Riv.. mrw nut th rtlmitftul n1a.n. ' and I ...a, mi . Ai n w,n.ro. -ItK .nv nrnnluHm. that 1 . . " . 7 Z ' L m """"n vropun.vion bmi v im liiuun.li " " C,.VA many P"K lracls naY'' purcnawa that a united effort will be made by the ,tUPI?l.DlS? be used. as connecting links in the merchants to secure the staOon. stand In the way of clvlo progress just ' because Senator Bourne Is one "of the men who are agitating the 'city beauti- jot taea.' of - the organisation which has been urging business men of Portland to subscribe money to a fund to beautify, apd I am sure the remark made about J 6 oath an Bourne yesterday at the. park board seasioa was Intended to be taken as a joke. ..-, , ' Willing" to Cooperate. "I want the publio to feel that my administration is willing and anxious gresslve municipality. Tet at the same time such bodies should work la har proposed boulevard system. The plans Hood River la the tradtn noint for of , the -city beautiful assoclaUon will a large territory east and west on the many with the off lcial boards of the w na wajr ,nterfer with the Olmstead Washington side of the Columbia river, f. . .1' -! .k- recommendations. On the contrary Und the apple city would profit materi- U FOOT COAL VEIN ON PALOUSE FARM moe' ma vibii -oi "tne president, snu i lh. oia not kdow mt yeaieraay inai no was Bcheme. upposea to be one pt tna active woraers The 'city beauttful movement Is la the city beautiful movement If lstarted at this time with' a view to the is. it is all the better. The. more sup- convenience of the publio when the city VWtwiB vv ilea v v V41V vcmdici , i TV a a w I haa aiArii a si nnnu al nn tT 1 finn onn to carry out our municipal projects' w- want to wlden the .treets. 'pro'vido Bimon mar tiiotiuauj I laa-nniil vtiua ant nthenrln nla.n aispei an impression given out oy. a fop ,h, tlma when the Dresenf conditions morning paper , that the park board is ' not well disposed toward the "city beau tlful' association of business raea- of Portland. , , . Sr. Clark Tavors It. "Of course I'm in favor of any move' ment to make the city more beautiful," was the statement , or , Dr. H. T. Clark or the Park board, "and -as to the plana of the association that has been formed for that purpose, I have not been enlightened, but if they do' not 'Interfere with the Olmstead scheme adopted by the park board, I am heartily in favor of them." . Mr. Lang's Views. 'will not prevail. Already the narrow ness of some of the business streets is a source of great annoyance, and in (Special Dlipatcb to Tbe.Joqrnal) Spokane, Wash., Nov. 6. A vein . of ooal 14 feet In depth was tapped on the farm of Elsworth Bishop, near Gar field, Wash., this week by well diggers who were sinking a well on the farm. time, unless this condition Is mitigated, Hti t. .i CITIZENS FIGHT TO and pronounce It of grood quality. Far mers in the vicinity of the Bishop ranch as well as Bishop himself have signed s.An ,.tM With a . Uuff a Ha.1 SAVE GRAVEYARD Pany and the entire district, compria. mg about loua acres will oe driuea tor n n.i,kt.Tii,liMMi i liuei purposea, Snokane.- Wash.. Nov. 6. Mourners of B? tne merits or we contracts, tne the dead burled in the little cemetery at farmers are to receive 25 cents per ,,, , v . . I ton for all coal taken from their farms GibbonsvlUV temnl county, Idaho, are and wl, be pa,d f0f any ga8 or oll fighting to sate the resting olaces of nd will be Daid for anv araa or oll that Isidore .Lang, another member of the I the beloved departed from being, torn their respective daces. Work will be park board, was the one who casually to nieces hv. the hvdraullo slants of the begun on the Bishop farm and within mentioned yesterday before the board 1jlcm mlnra The eemeterv Is In the 9 days. The district is one of the that Senator Bourne waa the head of L.. . v,. k richest sectlona of the Palouse farming a plan or municipal beautlficatlon. He' '"r " " v , - . GIbbonsvllle Is an unincorporated vil- WAS PIONEER OF J'-uTSl THE NORTHWEST statute, only incorporated towns Tiave the riant to purchase government Bd-U1 niioateb tn Tbe Jonrnal.l ground - for cemetery purposes. Resi- I Kalama. Wash., Nov. 6. The funeral dents of tbe village have appealed to I services of Mrs.' Mary Eleanor Scythe the national forest board at Washing- were held today at the Congregational ton. with the result that a decision was church in Kalama. She was one of the given that the forestry bureau had no I pioneers of the Pacific northwest, hav- authority to act : I ing crossed the plains with an ox team The tract of ground should have been in the early '60s with her family to entered at the time the cemetery was Oregon. Thirty years ago she was established, but as this was not done married to Minard Schythe, the two set there is declared to be no means of pre- tllng In Kalama, Wash., where they Venting It from being located as a placer have since resided. About two weeks minlncr Claim. ' The only remedy that flro. in eomnanv with her hnsbandi aha now seems to remain Is for the Inter- 1 8taxted' for Chicago to visit relatives ested parties ito purchase the ground ftnd friends of former veara.' She aiid- from, the mining claimant . denly took sick and had to leave the " ' ' I train mt Tunnrntl. te thA Iinfin4tn1 on1 LA TOILETTE'S TALK hZ" TT.lta?Z h- AUUiounji sa. a a a. a t, v t uui uc a. declared himself emphatically in favor or tne new movement. "l don t care who originated the lovement, whether it was Senator iourne or somebody else-," said Mr Lang, "so long as it is not a political piay i am for it I do think, however. that the men behind the organisation snouia cooperate with the park board. I don t know that there is any poll tics ?ixed up in the movement and never said that such was the case. Quote me as saying that I am heartly . In favor of the 'city beautiful' move ment." Sr. Wetharbee'a statement, "I want you not only to set at rest the idea that the park board is anti pathetic to the 'city beautiful' assocla tion, but'to state plainly so It can not be misunderstool Jhat we are extremely entnusiasuc towaras the movement, and "will help It tn every way possible," urged 5vX R. Wejthertee, of the park board. -" ""5 """'"' . - , Dr. Wetherbee Is president of the Commercial club as well as a park com missioner, and he is one of the active disseminators of the "city beautiful" Idea. He has called a meeting of he , cltlxens of the city for next Friday evening and will at that meeting out line' the plans of the association. "The newspaper story to the effect that I made a motion to postpone con sideration of the 'city beautiful' plan et the park board session yesterday is Incorrect The matter never came be-! fore the board officially. We happened 1 f .... PLEASES ASHLAND The tuneral was one of tb largest ever iiciu aa - vaa ivniii smiu uyt , idiucuiio tv o o fSoerlal Dispatch to The Journal.) taKen lo lne w- cemetery ror Ashland, Or., Nov. 6. An Immense interment sue was the mother of eight crowd listened attentively for three children, four "of whom preceded her. hours to Senator La Follette'a exposl- I Her husband survives her. tlon of national affairs, .His plea for return to representative government was the strongest ever delivered In Ash land. He laid bare conditions as they exist and let the plain facts sionstitute his, appeal. The Impression hmade on his audience augurs ill for Oregon's representatives who take orders from Cannon and Aldrich rather than from their constituents. mA MMM i W'll ,1 i HI: !2 Mil i f t; Hit i ij tt-i'.a t , ii i. mm IF YOU WANT TO "KNOW WHAT SMARTLY DRKSSED MEN. WILL WEAR THIS SEASON ASK BEN SELLING The BEN SELLING standard of quality And BEN SELLING GUARANTEE Goes with every garment I sell A GUARANTEE that has held good For more than 40 years, in Portland, And will continue to hold good, ' Assures my customers of the VERY BEST There is in clothes service. MODEST PRICES always here. MEN'S SUITS AND RAINCOATS $20 to $40 BOYS' SUITS AND RAINCOATS $5 to $20 MISSES - MIDDY , BLOUSES LADIES' AND MISSES' RAINCOATS Second Floor Take Elevator. BEN . . . A - '. SELLING LEADING CLOTHIER GUI II GROWS BOGIIf VALLEY Prospect Farmer Is Demoii strating With Valuable Plants Good Results. MACADAMIZE ROADS IN UNION COUNTY Breaking Away from a jiatit is sometimes difficult, even though the habit is known to be harmful. r The regular-use of coffee is, to most persons, a harmful habit because the drug, caffeine, in cof fee interferes with ' the ; healthy action of the. heart, nerves and stomach: ' " ' It's easy to break away from the coffee habit if well-made (thoroughly boiled) ip:sf mm . . . . -, (flpOTliil ptpatri to Th Tnernal.t La Grande, Or Nov. 6. Union county will macadamize two miles of the worst road in the county as an experiment. Booth lane is a road that must be used by every one who may have occasion to travel from the northern Dart of the county to Island City or La Gran'de. A great amount of money and labor has been expended on this niece of road ditches plowed, but it la all the same in China; where It often sells, at $30 a (Special Dispatch to Tile-Journal.) Medford. Or.. Nov. . Successful ex pertinents made by David Graham, of Prospect, have added another to the many resources' of Jackson county, In the shape of gihsehg. the valuable medicinal root, which Is so scarce that It brings big'' prices all' the time, and Instead of seeking market the market seeks the plant. Four years ago Mr. Graham planted an eighth of an acre of ginseng on his place near Prospect and thls year he harvested his first crop, - or rather par tial crop, as ginseng requires five years in A vr to mature, but the plants had , , A . . ... Decome bo crowaea mn irinspmniauon was necessary, and Mr. Graham figured that it would be more profitable to sell the; . roots, immature as they were, than to transplant .them. Sample were sent to dealers, and from those samples Mr. Graham has received offers of from $6.40 'aa a minimum, up to $7.50 per pound. He shipped to Chicago this week 45 pounds as a selling sample and Judges that he will , have 100 pounds of the finished product when he has completed thinning out his crop, The ginseng root is used extensively In the materia medlca, and especially In the bad seasons. A considerable portion of the ex- is used as the hot -morning cup. . " . , ' Postum is niade'of clean, hard" wheat, includ- ing the bran-coat, which contains the phosphate' of potash, grown in wheat, for rebuilding brain and nerve cclU. ' :, ' . If you want comfort and Postum ten days. - ' satisfaction try "There's a Reason" ... -r- . - rotum Cercil Co.; Ltl- Fattle Cff ek, Mich. Dense of this improvement is tn be rati. trlbuted by residents of the valley who have occasion to travel this lane. It be ing among the most' constantly used highway in - th-county. - One or two or tne sanonage resident will furnish teams for rock Hauling- for SO days. Others will make their donations in cash. Included In the latter class are many residents or la Grande, BAKER'S SCHOOLS WIN GOLD MEDALS (Special Dispatcb to' -The loereali Baker City, Or.. Nov. Two gold medals for Baker City schools are on tbe way from Seattle, according to ad- vice received by Superintendent Church ill from Professor Powers, head of the Salem schools. No official notification has been made by the committee ap pointed to examine all exhibits and award medals and prlies. but there Is no doubt that Baker's schools have been ! honored with the two medals on for ) high schooL, work and , the other, for elementary or grade wort - Only Baker City, Portland and Salem of the' Oregon cities, received awards at 'the exposition. . pound and more, and the places where it can be grown In perfection are so few that there is a constant demand for It . The fact that Mr.' Graham has been able to secure close to the top price for hla producV-Jacfclng' year of ma turity. Indicates that the upper Rogue CALLS HER imSBAND j CRUEL, AND DIES - frit Ptmb tH Wlw.f I Jteno, Nev, Nov. . With tlie blood eongealed about a bullet not in the temple, the body of Mr. Rosamond Uaitem, a alster of Mrs. Prank Sboup of Tacoma. Wash, was ' found satd upright In ehatr ln her home here to " day. A note found on the table read:" "Goodbye. I forgive you. I can't ' etand It any longer. Don't let my si. ' ter know.- - . ' j Mrs. Lannnra's hoafand Ut. emnlorrd at the state asylum for th tnsana kere as an attendant He was fnrmerlv em ployed in the arylura at Napa, Cal. It is allea-ed that be did not treat bts Wife with' kJndnrsa. ' Mra. luumn vu It years t-d, There's Comfort in the flavour of Post Toasties These crisp golden brown . corn "crinkles" with cream makes break fast: a pleasure. The Memory Lingers' At Grocers river section Is adapted to the grow ing of the plant It costs something, however, to start a glnBeng farm, as the ground must be especially prepared and shade pro vided for the growing plant.' Mr. Gra ham estimates that the cost 'of clear ing the plant thrives best, on leaf mold planting and taking care of an acre of glnBeng for five years, when it reaches maturity, at $3000, of this. amount $600 must be expended for seed, Rut fiA nlan flotii-AS that at nrtMnnrv prices the income from that acre wouM be $35,000 at the end of the term. It looks big, but the facts can be demon strated. Mr. Graham intends planting a quar ter of an acre each year now until he Has an acre and a quarter In ginseng, whlchwill give him a fifth of the land planted to harvest each year, and he thinks that he will be able to keep the wolf on the other side of the doorstep with this amount of land. ' WEISER WILL HATE CITY MAIL DELIVERY , , ' (Spectnl Plwateh to The Joarntl.) CWi&aetSt Idaho;: "tfoDC "J.maker ia"td have free city delivery of mail. The city council has ordered all houBes num bered preparatory to the establishment of delivery districts. Weiser has been entitled to free de livery for some time, but the matter has not been pushed. Postoffice receipts must be $10,000 per year to entitle a place to free delivery. The first quar ter of tha present year, the receipts were $400 more than the required amount Sep tember 30, there was an advance overt that, of June, and December 31 the amount will be still larger. . No post office in the state will be able to show the Increase In receipts that will be shown by the Weiser office at the end of the year. If, as Is said, the increase n population and business of a city can be gauged by Us postoffice receipts, Weiser is increasing by leaps and bounds. A conservative estimate of the increase In population of the city from January 1 of the present year Is placed at more than 700, and more buildings have been constructed than within the past five years. POLICE AND INDIANS FIGHT ON THE SKEENA . Hazelton, B. C, Nov. 6.- Special prov incial police and Klsplos Indians fought a battle on the Skeena river early to day, and the Indians were routed from their village. Many shots were fired but it is not known whether any In dians were killed or wounded. It is reported that none of the attacking party or constables waa killed. Tho scene of the fight It .remote from any means- of communication, and detaJlB are lacamg. ;-- -'.'-! I The police sought the capture of Gun- a-xvoot, tne Indian murderer, who has Deen aerying arrest for two- years. Plan Strawberry Farm. (Special Dispatch to The J on mill.) Twin Falls. Idaho. Nov. s ,wht HI. said will be. the largest strawberry farm in tne world win be set next year at this place. Frank Beatty of Three Rfv- ere,, Mien., . nas purchased $85,000 w,orth of land for this purpose. Shelburn Couple Wed. .Special Dinpatch to The JoornaU eheHwrrosKhv Nov. a.-EfVinvT. On tna andi Miss Birdie D Vaney. two popular young peopio or tnw community, were united in marriage at the Linn countv courthouse last Wednesday afternoon bv County Judge Duncan. BAKER COUNTY, WILL ! r RAISE MORE SHEEP (Sper'tl Dispatch to Tba Jonrnsl.l' Baker City, Or., Nov. 8. Baker county sheepmen are pleased with the settle ment of the range question with the officials of the reserve, who were here for the meeting of the sheepmen on November 2. A cut "of 8000 head .had " been ordered In. districts No. 1 and L'. ! which include Baker bounty, but at the last meeting the , cut was reduced to 1700 and the growers may ba allowed their usual number. With thia change j It is probable that a larger number of sheep , will be raised In Baker county ' this year. , v:;.. - MOUNT HOOD LINE EXTENDED SIX MILES Hood River, Or.. Nov. .--The track of the Mount Hood railway extension from Dee to Parkdale, six miles,' is laid, and surfacing gangs are at work. A new town.1 which has been named Parkdale. is being laid out at th en,i of tk road. Plans have been made for store bulldinga, a notei and application : nas oeen maae tor a postoince. Hundreds or acres or fruit land have been bourht In the Vicinity of the new railroad terminus by well to do.eas'-. ern people, much of . which has cleared ana set to trees. been FARMERS WILL BUILD - TELEPHONE LINES fgDMial DliDstch to Ths Joarnsl.t 'Clatskanle. Or., Nov. . A meeting will be held at Natal early this month for the purpose of discussing the build ing of a farmers' telephone line from that point to Mist to connect with the Nehalem Valley Mutual line, which has nearly SO families throughout the low er end of the valley on its list with free use of the Clatskanle local system and connection with long distance lines anywhere. . Some of the outside tim ber owners have signified their will Ingnesa to -contribute liberally to the fund and with the farmers furnishing their own poles and doing tha labor. It Is thought possible to construct the Una and buy the Instruments with a rash outlay of about $20 apiece. Tbe line runs up the fiver seven or eight miles and some of the moat prosperous farmers tn tha Kehalem vallev trs lo cated up that direction, and tbeir com munication by telephone with the out aide will prove a great convenience te them. It Is understood that residents of Vernon la and Plttsborg are contemptat-: tag the extension of their line down , to NataL The Un is already there mile this side of Veraonia. A meeting has been held by residents of tha Barn to take steps toward ex tend tna" tha MatuaJ Use le that nlh borhood. a distance of five mliea. whfe-h will take In seven 'families, and It was derided to comaienrw work sooaj eu tba Una. - - EMMS IN MACK Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Do Not Realize It Until It Has Developed Into BladderTrouble, Rheumatism, Diabetes or Bright's Disease, Which Will Prove Fatal If Not Checked at Once. WARNER'S SAFE CURE Will Cure Kidney Trouble of Any Kind as Well as Rheumatism. vMr, W. B. Rowell of Florence, S. G, who was almost crazy with pain from Kidney Disease, takes Warner's Safe Cure after the Doctors failed to help him, and is immediately relieved. 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