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Newspaper Page Textii, i; If il V'.'.V '.Ml Ii'. - TtJAIiS-STATE LI.1E Examines Timber Tracts in Central-Oregon and Is Much Pleased With Tonnage Pros pects. FIC.!iTlu3 JAClC " FH03T FOH CIG STAKES carcn 10 BE KM. Oi!E (Special Olapatcb to Tb Journal. t ' . Crescent, Or., May 21. Louis W, Hill, president of the Great Northern Rail way company spent one night and a portion of the Say at Crescent, looking over the town and the surrounding country... Mr. Hill's visit was unher alded and unexpected,' but the citizens gave him a cordial -welcome and he de- clared that he had enjoyed his visit Immensely. ' Accompanying Mr. . H144. were E. ' C. Leedy, .general Immigration agent Messrs. Seton, Atwood and Morrison of ' the publicity -department of the Great Northern and William Haniey, million aire stockman of Harney county. They passed through the Klamath Indian res ervaUon where engineers, It was an nounced, 'Will shortly be surveying the , Oregon Trunk line from Jts present i , terminus at the -reservation, through to Klamath Falls. He carefully went bver the line from , this point to the reservation, , stopping at the camp Df Knglneer Kyle, five -miles above this 1 point He spent some time examining the big timber tracts and-was pleased over the prospect of tonnage. He also spoke approvingly of Crescent which will be a freight and passenger ' dl- . vision poin$. Xaaoh Madras January 1. ' 'The Oregon Trunk line Is expected to reach Madras, by January ," said Mr. Hill. "Work in the canyon Is progressing satisfactorily and I an ticipate we will have no difficulty in , making Madras on the date set It will likely be a year before the road reaches Crescent, but early next sum- ; mer I believe- I may safely say that trains will be running through here. I am not in a position tojaay when the ' line will be completed to Klamath lalls," f'.-V v ;r:-. v':"' Mr. , Hill was not prepared he said, to say where the east and west road will Intersect the main line of the Ore gon Trunk through the Deschutes val ley. He said that his visit a Bums ; and the' eastern part of the state had caused him to r reach a. determination to have an east and west line. Several " lines, he added, will be surveyed and the one best adapted for. the needs of . - the company... wllJa. adopted. , Build Towards Vale. ' Chief Engineer" Budd of the Oregon Trunk went over the line between here and the reservation and arranged for the establishment of a survey camp , at Corral Springs, 1,8 miles above, from which point it is expected a line will be run'4o the east beyond Vale, J. Jt Cryderman, assistant to Chief . Engineer Kyle, Is in charge of the line from Madras to the Klamath Indian reservation, 125 mlleav -and is now en .camped near here. He announced that the construction crews 'Will b thrown Into this country about July 1, . the contractors, Henry- ft MaPhee, desiring, on account of the scarcity of feed, to wait for the new hay crop. B, P. Wants Teed. - That the . Southern Pacific Railroad eompany will be' a bidder fon the"grain and hay of the Walker basin and the reservation, is Indicated by the arrival . here of Assistant Chief Engineer Hoy of that company, who la arranging- for ., -survey camps. . Hoy brought with him ""two assistants and a party of men who are - making- -an -automobile -road -from Crescent to lakes Crescent and. Odell, IS miles west - The fishing season is about to open at these resorts. Asked whether the construction crews of the Southern Pacific would be on this side of the mountains within the next (0 days, Hoy said that It depended , upon the progress of the contractors wno are pushing the line in this dl ' rectlon from Klamath Falls. The Nat , ton-Vale Una. has a camp within SO miles of . Crescent and Is engaged In tunneling. , - - - V - aYgp.M,ui.uiwMM.fT 2 No Firecrackers, No Admission Charges, No Exorbitant Ho tel Rates Is Motto. El'paking and probably a parade. Over $600 has already bean' sub scribed and with the proceeds of the sale of concessions this will probably reach about $700. A committee has been appointed to make all arrangements and to advertise the event throughout the surrounding country. Owing to great danger of fire and runaways, the coun cil will be requested to prohibit fire works of any kind. Hotel men and restaurant keepers are also to be asked not to raise prices dur ing the celebration. Every effort will be tent to make this a notable event in the history of this section of east ern Oregon. r ut'fti t I i, I r .LL . . (S?iiaUTi.;iat''li in 'I'm J..i:"l Falls City. Or., May 1. N. -i Myrtle Creek Is - pre;ann j; t vi 't store building: 50xSU f.-;er. to tu.ui high. Mr. Seigel will occupy t. t :. room with a general stock. Tin Hn will take the place of that owned h:' Walter L. Tooze, and recently destroy 1 by fire. (Special blapatcb to T)i Journal. Condon. May 21. Condon, us well as I the other cities of Oregon,: is planning j'for a "safe and sane" Fourth of July, j yet the - celebration here will be " the greatest yet- undertaken. ' Instead of I the usual method of raising funds by j charging admission to the different events, everything will, be absolutely .free. The ! celebration will last three I days beginning Saturday and the pro- j gram Includes three baseball games, i dances, moving picture shows, reports l by rounds of the Jeffries-Johnson fight i athletic 'contests, band concerts, public lefts might do ticket. run on an assembly Orchard of T. D, Bradford, near Proaser, Wish. j showing emiidge pots In action. Fifteen hundred of the pots raised the temperature from 22 degrees to 35 degrees for three Bircceselve nights, during the cold wave Cf April. Mr. Bradford, expects to harvest 20,000 boxes of Spltzenbergs and Yellow Newtowns. ' lill UHE . BUHL TO HYSSA Route Definitely Located for 150 Miles Through South j - ern Idaho. , seek pass over smooth we Gilmore & Pittsburg Surveyors .. Busy Along the Payette River. V Hood River Plays Lincoln High. (Special Dlapatcn to The Journal.) . Hood River, Or., May 21. The Hood River High school and the Lincoln High school of Portland baseball teams will play a. game In this city today. Hood River league team and the White Sal mon team will play on the Hood River grounds Sunday. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Boise. Jdaho, May 21. The Harrlman system made the most Important move lii southern- Idaho executeC In some years when it filed plats of definite lo cation In the United ' States land of fice for the Minidoka & Southwestern road, a subsidiary of the Oregon' Short Line, from a point east of Bruneau to Nyssa, Or., a distance ' of 122 miles. Simultaneously plats of definite loca tion for the same road were filed In the Halley land office for a distance of 25 of SO miles, making a total distance, for the extension out of, Buhl to Nyssa, of between ISO and 160 miles. - he route of, the Buhl extension is northwesterly, hugging the Snake river most of the distance after It passes east and west through the great Bru-neau-Twln Falls tract aoon'f to be placed under lrrlgalionr . It passes through the, OTvns , ofi Bruneau v and Grandview and ; then Jcontinues west along the south bank of the Snake river to Nyssa.' ,' , ' Waldffort Club to Advertise. iSoeclal nipatH to Th Jnnnuil.k , Waldport,' Or., May 81. -The annual meeting of the Waldport Commercial club was held last Wednesday evening and Officers for the ensuing year were elected. - William F. Keady. recently ap pointed postmaster, : was elected to the office of president, a position he has oc cupied for the last three years. Leslie H. Evens, the leading grocer1 of, the town,-was choserras "Vice president, and W.; H. Daugherty, , who occupies a re sponsible position with the Waldport Lumber cempany, was elected as secre tary treasurer. The.club is' preparing to launch an active advertising cam paign. , . Chapel Car at Forest Grove. ' (Special Dispatch to Tie Journal. ' ' Forest Grove, Or., May 21. St. Anthony's chapel car, which la travel ing over the state in the Interests of the Catholic denomination, will reach this city May 29, and -will remain here one week, going thence to Cornelius for a week'a stay. While the car is In this city the clergy having' It in charge will giva lectures, daily. It Is an nounced that the lecture will seek more to set those right who are in error as to the teachings and work of the Catho lic church, than to gain new converts to that religion. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Boise, Idaho. May 21. A large party of Gilmore and Pittsburg surveyors is located on the headwaters of Moore's creek north pf. this, city, having sur veyed up bothaides of that stream to a point near Pioneervllle, In the vi cinity of which the surveyors are jnow running lines. Another crew Is'reported to be on the eact bank of the Payette river, where work is belns- rushed ta lay-out 4 right-of-way along that stream to the hogback of , u Sawtooth range. The crew is working in opposition to tan Oregon - Short line party on the west side or the river. . Headed for Stanley Basin. Reports received from Challls are to' the effect that a third, crew has sur veyed from the line of the Gilmore ft Pittsburg between Armstead and Sal mon City ) to Challis and has worked past there toward the Stanlev basin country This crew is said to be headed for the Smokey Creek and headwaters of ' the South Boise river seeking an easy graae into tne canyon and this city. Another crew la worklna- west out of Uhe Stanley basin country to a point on the Sawtooth range Just opposite the headwaters of the Payette river. By surveying the right-of-way along the sides of the steep mountains the road can gradually be brought down to Grimes' pass, where It is a comparative ly easy matter to strike the headwaters of Moore's creek and gain a one per cent grade into the Boise canyon and on to this city. i Looks ..Ilka. Business. ; . '" That the appearance of so many sur veying' crews identified with the Gil more & Pittsburg Indicates the back ers of this road mean business is now firmly believed by railroad men of this city who claim to be posted on the de velopment work as it is carried on. The surveys has been completed be tween Salmon City along the Salmon river to Lewiston, where, it is said, this line of the Gilmore & FKtsburg will con nect with the North Coast, the Stra lrorn road, which has a complete right-of-way across the state of Washington to Seattle. . . il?a Do you rtalixt Caldwell Orchardists Plant Big Areas in Irrigated , District. - THE APPROVAL : of the most ; . ; EMINENT PHYSICIANS .and its WORLDWIDE ACCEPMCE A bythe -WELL-INFORMED, BECAUSE ITS COMPONENT PARTS ARE KNOWN TO BE MOST WHOLESOME AND TRULY BENEFICIAL IN E FECT, HAVE GIVEN TO JBLJXIRorSEIUm THE FIRST FOSiTION AMONG FAMILY IAXATIVES AND HAVE LED TO ITS GENERAL USAGE WITH THE MOST UNIVERSAL SATISFACTION. ' TO GETtfTS BBNEFiCIAL EFFECTS, MWMSBVYTHEGEKUM FDR SALE BTALL tEADtlIG DRUGCISTS Oni smoNtv; Regular price 50 1 er ottu fc jimmmmmwmwmmwm i win saw Mia mw ni'i'ii " 1 Afii?)!1';!? O ' 1 J? ' (Mi .... . ... toyiumiVifBir-l ((jperlal Dlapatch to Tbe Jonrnai. . Caldwell, Idaho,' May 21.-Fully 1000 acres of land has been planted to or chards within 15 miles of i Caldwell this year. These figures will be shown by the report' of census enumerators, who are required to ascertain the acreage planted to the, various crops. Fruit growers living In the Caldwell fruit belt are congratulating themselves on Shaving displayed the confidence; Which they have In this section being .immune from killing frosts. ' While other rfectlona of the county procured smudge pots and fuel th-Caldwell fel lows are saved that expense. The re ports from the fruit growing localities Indicate there will be a. bumper crop. Within five or alx years Boise valley will be one vast orchard. The soil and climate is here and the residents now realize this fact and are planting more orchards than' ever before. ,r Now that water is practically - as sured for the north side of the Payette Boise project through the organisation of the Black Canyon Irrigation district, which will place 90,000 acres of fine land vnder cultivation, the future pros perity of Caldwell Is firmly established. .While it is true that it will'require two Or three years before the water will be accessible for this district, yet when this Is accomplished there wiil be no more valuable land In the state. The source of water supply is the Payette lakes and is Inexhaustible, thus assur ing" unfailing crops. . MATERIAL ARRIVES FOR : PAYETTE VALLEY ROAD -. (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) Payette, Idaho. May 21. The f rlst shipment of material for the Payette valley railroad extension from, New. Ply mouth -to Emmett arrived in Payette Thursday afternoon. It includes 1 1 cars of steel rails, one car of switches, 10 cars of ties , and one car of spikes. ST"i Ycurv"'r' iJS YTonief . 1:1 nouse work is tiresome and sooner or later your' wife's health will be ruined by the incessant toil which. is her. daily worK. You can help her more by getting her a dise of than by actually doing the work yourself. Pabst Extract, on account of its great strength-building and tonic properties, stimulates renewed vig or and gives her endur ance to attend to her many household cares. r at the same time re taining all the beauty V and superb woman- uuuuuauvi jrvubai BOISE HIGH WILL .'" GRADUATE BIG CLASS ' (8peelal Dlapatch to The Journal.) Boise, Idaho, May 21.-rThe Boise high school will graduate the largest class In the history of the school, June 16. Last year the class numbered 48 and held the record up to that time, but this year 71 will receive their sheep skins at the hands of the school board, 28 of the number being boys. Special interest will attach to the graduation of class 10, not only be cause it is the largest In the history of the school, but because, for the first time, the board has made suggestions in regard to: the graduation frocks of the girls, which are not to cost over $10 each. No restrictions .have been placed on the attira for .the boys. Masons to Build at Chehalis. (Special DliiMtrh to The Journal. Chehalis, Wash.. May 21.-1 the Chehalis Masonio lodge's committee can sell $20,000 worth of 6 per cent bonds Interest payable semi-annually, It-will mean that the city ; will have a beau tiful five story brick block on -yie cor ner, of Market ' and Boistfort streets where ; the -. Commercial block - now stands. The project will stand about $60,000 in all and the arrangement for financing it have all been completed with the exception noted. It is be lieved that the $20,000 will be sub scribed 'promptly. Tha ptans call for a thorough remodeling of the present two story structure. The first floor will be made into beautiful modern store rooms. Tha second, third and fourth floors will be for office purposes. The fifth floor Will be the home of the. va rious Masonic orders of Chehalis, of wnicn tnerts are now three. Forest Grove Teachers ChoseA. (Special Plapatrh to Tle Journal.) Fores Grove, Or., May 21. The school-board of this city has elected the teaching staff for the school year of -1910-11, Nearly all of those who ore now teaching win remain, and several additional teachers have been engaged to meet, the demands occasioned by the increase ,in .the, enrollment. Following are tnose engaged by the board: Supor ihtendent of schools, Professor O.M. Gardner; principal of Central high school, Professor Leonard Hlebel : as sistant teacners. Misses Bella Chalmers, Gillian Morton, Gladys VTodd. Ada Van Varst. Ethel JOT. Edith Ktanlev; -Ktarinni- Masters. Elsie LathrotT.; TVnri -rto Wis JoHsle Greer, 'Bertha Clement and a i . . .. 1 1 . f , Tba United State ..CeverniawBt apaetti- cau ciaaaiiiasrabtt Extract as art icle of medicine otaaJc bolic bev- mi m STEXT' Oritr a iattn lattki from yaw eaJ druggitt, .Intut vfion ft : Umf Paltt, mummy This is the accepted slogan for Oregon, and, according to records bf sales of farm Unds "made in the last few years, investors and homeseekers ; show their faith in. the prediction. ' ' I ' " A tract of 2000 acres located most favorably in the line of rapid development in the Willam ette Valley, 30 miles east of Portland, 15 miles from Gresham, is offered for sail by thz Portland Railway, Light & Power Company; at a low price per acre, on favorable terms. 1 A projected railroad line is to pass through' : or near this tract, a county road already funis h ing means of entry and exit for vehicles, includ . ing automobiles. f r . In the wooded portion, 22,000,000 feet of. good saw timber stand, ready for the woodman's ax, and the timber at present prices would go far -; toward paying for theentire tract. There is a lumber mill within three miles in operation. ' ' '-'"if '" v ' ' 1 ' : There are .fully, 900 acres of level or gently sloping farming land, available when cleared, and : from 700 to 800 acres of fine grazing land no w - awaiting the farmer or dairyman. . , ' Twdood sized creeks with numerous tribu-; taries furnish an abundance of water: The tract will be disposed of ' as " a ' wh")lc, though a new owner could subdivide to .great advantage. , 1 ' " For terms and full particulars, call oh or ad dress Land Department, Room 623, Electric . Building, Portland. Portland Railway, JLIflht Ik Power Company INDEPENDENCE PAPER TO HAVE NEW HOME (sperlal Dlspaitr to The Journol.) Independence, Or, May 21. Tho In dependence Enterprise Is to build a mod ern printing office this summer. The Enterprise building will be one of the best business blocks In Independence. It will be modern and up-to-datewith basement and modern front, lit will be onwstory and will occupy 80x78 feet. Jtr: i 1 1 - i . ' -Light Fruit " on Lewis River. "'''" (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) .Woodland, Wash.t May 21.-The apple jcrop in the Lewis river vauey will not be a full one this year nor will the cherry crop be as full as usual, late frosts having injured them, but both will be of better Quality than usual as the state . horticultural Inspector has compelled orchardists to - spray . and prune their trees. Strawberries ' and other berries will be a full crop, and strawberry picking , will be on In the valley In about ten days. VUd black berries will be one of the ireat crops r ever, known in this country 'unless an unusually late frost should occur, Moncjr in Rhubarb. (SrwUl Dlapatnn to The Jonroal.) Woodland, Waah., May 21. Over 800 cases of rhubarb and over $250 net up to the present date this season, Is the record that Ed P. Goerlg has made on One and one half acres of Chat plant and some of the plants, about three quarters of an acre, were not put out until last year. He will have a large quantity -to ship to the canneries later when other stuff 'comes into market to supplant this delicious product. Odd Fellows to Build. - ' (Spwlal Dlapatch to Tho Journal.) V Klamath Falls, Or., May 21. Work "on the Odd Fellows' temple will be begun in a very short time. Plans are.. urac- tically complete." . The structure Is to be of brick, three stories high and mod ern In every particular. The first floor wlll'be planned for stora -rooms, while the second floor will be fitted up as offlcesand the third floor-will contain lodge rooms. . ' Berries Ripening .Fast. : (Spfrlal Dlapatch to The Journal.) .' 1 Hood River, Or., May 21 The warm weather; of the past few days has rip ened the berries at. a Very rapid rate. Pickers are coming, into the vallev in school. Miss Anna Taylor; awlatantt ,ape mim,pr"- DUl ""'fy gnotisttiwre -t Mmrtrvrrynusroi Lihcoiiin mvc(TBs-7cr to care xor tue, vvop. The urn i'uiiu mi uin. cftminij uuica to Butte, Montana. ' ... - ; v J."A. liwhanan of Roseburjr has In ossesion an pia yeuow pflper. the Bertha Clement -'and V"""U ,"r,r.?!a i f If r .. . - XYY, ,.VA. w