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(¡OLD HILL, JACKSON COUNTY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1911
Jim Hill P o n i Go Up Hill to Get Down Hill; He’s Coming to Gold Hill
NEWS FROM THE
’ BRIEF
NATIONAL CAPITAL
NEWS OF THE WEEK
~
NEWS OF NOTED PERSONS
From an authority It la learned
that a powerful group of French
bauks la negotiating to supply the
Southern Paclflc with ,50.000.000.
Washington.--Within leas than ten
The National Highways Protective
n o n th i after the Initiation by Presl- soclsty has completed a Hat showing
dent Taft of negotiation* with the the number of registered automo­
Canadian Govern men t, ihera was laid biles In the United ‘States up to No­
simultaneously bt'fure tha American vember 1. This Is estimated at
tluiKreas and the Canadian Parlia­ 500.000 cars for the entire country.
ment a reciprocity arrangement,
Hinoke costs the citizen« of Chi­
which, If approved, will do much, In cago (21,(30,000 a year, or about (10
the opinion of the negotiators, to per capita, according to statistic«
enlarge trade between the two coun given out yesterday by City Smoko
tries.
Inspector Bird.
Among the Important provlolons of
All |<ast records for the Adams
the agreement are:
county, Ohio, election inquiry were
Reciprocity on lending lood prod smashed when the grand Jury report-
ucts, such us wheat and other grain«; ed 328 new Indict;,., nts. The last
dairy products, fresh fruits and veg­ batch brought the total for five
etables: flsli of all kinds; eggs and weeks' Investigation up to 214», or
poultry; cattle, sheep and other live one-third of the entire electorate. Be
animals.
tween 1800 uud 1900 have been dis
Printing paper Is to become free franchised
on the removal of all restrictions on
For the (list time In the hlstor)
the exportation of pulp wood.
of svlatlon, un ueroplnne rose from
Both countries put lumber on the the surface of the water, Bulled about
free list.
and, returning to the starting point
Mutually reduced rates on a list landed on th» water as easily as a
of manufactured commodities, which gull. This teal was achieved by
U»'lud«s motor vehicles, cutlery. j Glena H. Curtiss In hla ■!■< < ‘ illy
clinks and watdKW. sanitary fixtures . «quipped aero plane on Hun Diego
satchels amt similar leather goods , bay.
plate glass, brass hand Instruments
The bill creates a permanent tariff
printing Ink and miscellaneous aril
Cles. Agricultural Implements, such | board in lieu of the present board,
as plows, harvesters, threshing ma whleh la a creature of a provision oi
chines and drills are reduced by | the sundry c'vll appropriation hill
and which will expire by Its own
Canada to the United Hlalea rules
limitations on June 30.
Reciprocity Agreement May Fall.
The board Is to consist of five mem
The reciprocity agres-ment with ; 6«-rs, not more than three of whom
Canada, according to the opinions of . shall be of the same political party,
moot members of Congress, will be i The board Is to have Its principal of-
burled by Congress. The two places flee In Washington and Is empowered
of Interment. It 1« freely said, will to sit In nny other p'ace In the Unit­
be found to be the senate finance ed Htates and In foreign oountrlee.
committee and the houee committee
8talnar Defends Himself
on ways and meals, to which the
proposed treaty has been referred.
Salem, Ore.—Superintendent Stein­
er. of the Oregon Insane Asylum,
Ballinger Report Loti.
JUDSON HARMON, PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECT
1
osme
to the hat for his Innings In
An Investigation to determine whit
the
asylum
controversy
when
he
ap­
happened to the Ballinger Plnchnt
V IRG INIA used to be the mother of presidents, but that title has de
immlttee's report, which Represen- peared before the ways and means
acended to Ohio Governor Judson Harmon would like to give the
committee.
tlve Hltchcoock, of Nebraska, de­
new presidential mother another offspring of the name of Judeon Har­
clared had been unaccountably lost Superintendent 8telner entered Into
mon 11« thinks the next president rhould be from Ohio and from Cin­
cinnati. as the present president Is. hut thst the next president should
In Its transmission from the houee a general refutation of the charges
be a Democrat. A great many friends of Governor Harmon through
to the committee on agriculture, was tnsde against him on the Senate floor
out the country are of atinllur shades of oplulou Harmon, they say.
begun by the house committee on and In the report of the legislative
would harmonise the party A hnrmonlaed Democracy a la Harmon. It
rules. The committee summoned committee and left (1500 with the
would seem, should Insure some degree of harmony Mr. Harmon has
ways
and
means
committee
to
be
Asher Hinds, parliamentary clerk to
I mm - ii elected governor of Ohio twice hand running, with a bigger plu
the Speaker, and J. W. H. Realnger, gven to the Young Men's Christian
rsllty the saettnd time than the first He Is a man of wide experience
printing and document clerk, and re Association If a penny's waste In hla
In public office and In piscatorial pastimes. He Is not on record as
having tmd shout the big ffsh that got nway
quested an exact statement of the management of the asylum Is proved.
methods that had been followed In
Eruption Causes Many Deaths
referring the report to the commit­
Manila.—Many natives were drown- .
tee. The public printer will be sum
ed In the tidal wave that accompa- 1
m on ed before the committee.
tiled the volcanic outbreak of Mount
Bill to Sell Burnt Timber.
Taal, according to reporta received by ’
The senate passed a bill providing 'he local papers.
Salem, Ore.—A'though the legisla- ayitem on which a committee of law­
An American school teacher, who
hat burned timber on unreserwd
, ture has been In session three weeks yer» eras supposed to be laboring
»ubllc land that was damaged or haa traversed the west shore of Lake the import ant legislation has made
«Ince last November, has not been pre­
killed by the forest Arcs last sum­ :ial has telegraphed he e that five
i little progress.
Much time has been sented
mer shall be sold to the highest
nail villages have been destroyed by
, wasted, very little accomplished, and Much Jockeying In Asylum Scandal.
bidder. It Is provided that burned
t'dal wave, and that 300 persons
the big leg slation scarcely started.
The complications over the asylum
v e been killed
timber on land filed upon or entered
The session Is more than half over investigation promises to develop a
mity be «old In like manner and the
with both houses behind in their merry row.
Already there are sev­
proceeds paid to settlers upon per
Ccttage City Breaks in Two
work.
fecllon of title Where Rettlers fall
eral resolutions for an investigation.
Seattle, Wash.—After 21 years of
With the Senate staving off action The Senate has adopted the concur­
to pertect title, the money Is to go battle with waves and Ice the fa­
on Its own bills. It hns displayed even rent resolution of 8enator Locke, but
Into the reclamation fund.
mous wooden steamship Cottage City,
smaller concern for House bills wh'ch the House has not considered It. The
formerly a Fall River liner, ha« found
National Capital Brevities.
are in the'S n ite, and not one House House has several Investigation reso-
a grave on the reef off Cape Mudge,
,T _ ed'"iely
B. C. The passenger, and crew were bill has been placed on third rending, lotions of its own. The selection of
Congress adjourns. President Taft landed safely and taken to Seattle.
although several nave been on the an unbiased, open-minded committee
will make a short swing through the
desk for several days. It has reached should be a simple matter, and the
South, winding up at his home town
the point where the House suspects Investigation can be made with dis­
Cincinnati.
the Senate is holding up Its bills and patch, but there are Innumerable ob-
EVELYN ARTHUR SEE
Orders were sent out from the
House members have about decided artuctlonlsts and general Jockeyipg to
War Department detailing additional
to Ignore Senat bills jinttl the Senate stave off the probe.
troop« to patrol the Texas Mexican
Leader of Religious C u lt
Indicates some degree of Interest in
Only one s'de of the asylum situa­
'border during the revolutionary dis
U n d e r A rres t In Chieaqo
House leg'slatlon.
tion has been told thus far, but Stein­
turbance In Mexico.
Relatively Few Bills Passed.
er and his friends have been promis­
Senator Jonrw introduced n bill ex­
ing some disclosures which, they as­
The
Senate
has
passed
31
bills
out
tending the provisions of the eight-
of 191 introduced. It hag indefinitely sert, will comp'etely dispose of the
hour law to clerk« In first and second
postponed 16 others, and 3 have failed charges which have been levelled
class postoffices.
to pass when put to a vote.
Even against the institution If half of the
President Taft scored a victory
with
this
slim
record,
and
with
most rumors have foundation In fact, the
when the hoi'fle committee unanl
of the important measures unacted hottest stuff on the asylum situation
mously agreed upon a hill provldi’g
upon the Senate is much In advance and also on the selection of th«
for a permanent tariff board of live
of the House, for the number of bills branch asylum at Pendleton by Bow-
members to Investigate all questlonr
passed by the more numerous branch erman has not been uncovered.
for Congress.
Is eight less, and these are of less Many State Commissions Proposed.
At the request of the state depart
general Importance.
ment, the United States gunboat To
No less than thirteen new state
coma, which hns brvn watching the
The public service legislation, the
commissions and boards are proposed
Honduran revolutionary operations
compensation act, which was talked
In bills now pending before the legis­
on the Atlantic coast. Is on her way
and the reapportlonment—the most
lature. Several of these are to be
to Ountemnla. where nhe will Inves-
important legislation which the ses­ without salary, If established, and
tlgate the protestations of neutrality
sion Is expected to handle—have been
others consist of present state officers
made by the Guatemalan govern
sidetracked. Only the highway bills
Invested with new duties or extended
ment.
have been under di«etiia!on.
The authority.
The House of Representatives pnss
compensatoan act, which was talked
For Inatanoe, the nubile servloe
ed the tariff commission hill by «
of for month« did not appear until
vote of 186 to 93, a large number
C a i i l l n u t J on a i g h t h p a g i
Friday.
Th« bill for a new Judicial
of Democrats, Including Champ Clar„,
voting for It.
77be next issue o f The Newt will be a Socialistic number
S
W hat’s Been Doing at Salem
<
M’CURDY BREAKS THE
OYER-SEA RECORD
Charles D. Norton, "assistant pres­
ident,," whose official title Is seer»
tary to the president, admitted that
he will retire from that position about
March 4
Havana.—J. A. D. McCurdy, set *
Among those most prominently new record In over-tbe-water flights,
mentioned to succeed Paul Morton as covering nearly 100 miles from Key
president of the Equitable, are George West to within ten miles of Havana,
Perkins, formerly with the Morgan where he was compelled to drop Into
interests; Chas. D Norton, present the sea.
There he remained, his biplane
secretary to President Taft, and Wil­
liam Bay, vice-prseident of the Equit ! floated by pontoons, nntll the lifeboat
able.
from the torpedo destroyer Terry
Proceedings for absolute divorce picked him up. A break In a small
from her husband, Oscar Hammer part of the engine, a ruptured crank
stein, the operatic impresaario, were i case, stopping the escape of the lu­
begun by Mrs. Mavlna Hammersteln bricating oil, necessitated McCurdy's
In the supreme court at Nyack, N. Y { descent.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, au­ I McCurdy was exactly two hours in
thor and lecturer, died at her home the air, covering an estimated dist­
In Newton Center, at the age of 67 ance of 96 miles. Besides breaking
year«.
] the over-water record, this is the first
it Is reported that King George Instance of any aeroplane flight en­
of England will Institute criminal tirely out of sight of land.
libel proceedings with the object of
endiug once for all rumors freely
General Legislative News Notes
circulated for years that his majesty,
The
Nevada state senate passed a
when Prince of Wales, »as morgan-
atlcaily married to a daughter of an bill making it unlawful to sell or
give cigarettes or cigarette paper«
admiral at Malta.
Edward G»een. son of Hetty Green, to any man, woman or child.
The eounty local option law was
Is planning the organization of a
trust company to look after his moth­ superseded in Indiana by the Proctor-
Kennedy measure when Governor
er’s vast Interests.
Five wealthy Southern lumbermen Thomas R. Marshall affixed his sig­
at Atlanta will enter the Federal nature and made It a law. Under
prison ts Berve sentences for peon­ the measure elections will be held
age. They are W. 8. Harlan, Rob­ by cities and township« instead of
ert Gallaghere, Dr. W. E. Grace, C. by the county as a whole.
Protest
against
the
reported
C. Hilton and E. S. Huggins, all of
change In the United States treaty
Lockhart. Ala
with Japan, whereby the coolie clause
Taft's Picture Ordered Removed
will be eliminated, was made in a
Boise, Ida.—A sensation was creat­ resolution presented in the Califor­
ed In political circles here when It nia assembly. The language of the
became known that Governor James resolution was so strong that Speaker
H. Hawley had ordered the custodian I Hewitt declined to submit It to the
of the state house to remove Presi­ house as a committee of the whole,
dent Taft's picture from the execu and telegraphed It at once to Presi­
tlve office.
dent Taft and members of congress.
A resolution favxiring San Fran­
The governor later explained that
the picture was not removed because cisco for the site Yrf i m Panama
of any personal feeling aga nst the exposition was passed in the lower
President and that no disrespect was branch of the Massachusetts legtela-
Intended, but that he desired another ture by a vote of 60 to 32.
San Francisco Is indorsed as the
picture in the place
place In which to hold the Panama
15 Cow* Yield »1012.50
exposition In 1915, in a resolution
Eugene.—During 1910, W. R. Jeph- which passed (n the lower branch of
cott, who lives on the North Fork the Rhode Island legislature.
of the Siuslaw River, sold at the
Lone Bandit Terra izes Town
creamery at Acme 91,500 pounds of
milk—an average of 6100 pound« from
Hamburg, Miss.—Following a pistol
each of 15 cows. The average test dued <n the chair car of a Yazoo &
of the milk was 3.7 per cent, making Mississippi Valley train In which A.
225 pounds of butter fat to the cow Heron killed Charles Stewart, the
and 3375 pounds for the herd, ^fhe slayer terrorized the passengers until
average price received fer the year the train reached Hamburg, where he
was 30c a pound, making a total in­ alighted, captured the town and held
come from the herd of (1012.50.
the Inhabitants prisoners in their
homes for 24 hours.
Dr. Burke Found Guilty
Heron Is the proprietor of a local
Santa Rosa, Cal—Dr. William P hotel. He and Stewart, who was a
Burke, the aged proprietor of the flagman on the Yazoo road, had
Burke Sanitarium, was found guilty threatened each others' lives. Heron
of having dynamited a tent-house in went to McNair and waited until the
which a former employe, Lu Etta northbound train on which Stewart
Smith, and her Infant child lay sleep­ was running, pulled in. He boarded
ing on the night of February 5 last. the train on the front end and walked
Victoria, B. C.—Premier Richard through the coaches, hunting for the
McBride, of British Columbia, be­ flagman.
They met In the chair-car. In which
lieves the proposed reciprocity agree­
ment between the United States and there were many women and children.
Canada will Inflict serious Injury to Both drew their weapons and fired.
British Columbia Interests.
At the first shot Stewart wounded
Heron slightly. Heron's third shot
took effect In Stewart's breast and
he fell in the aisle, mortally wound­
JUDGE A. Z. BLAIR
ed. The hotel man kept firing his
revolver until It was empty.
O k ie J u ris t W h o Is Sentencing
V oters W h o H a v a Been B ribed
Portland
Wheat—Track prices: Club, ,1c;
bluestem, 84c; red Russian, 78c.
Barley—Feed.
»23.60;
brewing,
»27.60 .
Oats—No. 1 White, »28 per ton.
Hay—Timothy, Willamette Valley,
,19 @20 per ton; Eastern Oregon,
(21@22; alfalfa. ,13.50.
Butter—Creamery, 33c; ranch, 24c.
Eggs—Ranch, candled, 28@>30c.
Hops—1910 crop, 19c; 1909, 14c.
TAool—Eastern Oregon, 12©18c lb.;
Valley, 17 © 19c lb.
Mohair—Choice, 30©31c.
Seattle
Wheat—Bluestem, 84c; Club, 32c;
red Russian, 80c.
Barley—»27 per ton.
Oats—,31 per ton.
Hay—Timothy, ,24 per ton; alfalfa,
»17 per ton.
Butter—Washington creamery, ,8c;
ranch, 27c.
Eggs—Selected, local, 32c.
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