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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1911)
OVER 300 FRENCH OREGON NEWS NOTES SZAMEN ARc KILLED OF GENERAL INTEREST Fire in Warship's Hold Causes Events Occurring Throughout Explosions Which Destroy the State During ihe Past Vessel. Week. Toulon, »»nee.—More thsn 300 of fleers »nd men of the French battle ship I.ibeite lost their Ilves when the •hip was torn apart and totally de stroyed »n the harbor here by an ex plosion of her magasines The battleship République was bad ly damaged and the battleships Dem ocratic and Vente suffered heavily front the masses of twisted iron and •rmorplate hurled upon their decks. This is the greatest disaster that has ever befallen the French navy, • nd in magnitude is almost without precedent in the annals of the world's lighting ships. The explosion which wiped out one •f France's most powerful battle • hips was the result of an outbreak of Are The flames spread rapidly in spite of all efforts to extinguish them, and reached the magazines before there was time to flood them The magazines exploded with tre •tendons violence, »owing death and destruction in every direction The • aial authorities now estimate the killed at between 350 and 400 It will be necessary to g > through the -hip's muster rolls before a full list of the victims can be prepared Woman Known as Man 49 Years. Albany. Ore—Alter masquerading as a man 49 years and for 22 years of that time living at Lebanon, this» county. Ray l^on.ird, 62 years old was discovered to be a woman when taken to the state insane asylum OREGON SYSTEM IN COURT Company Denies Laws Constitutionality. Wasuington —The constitutionality of the initiative and referendum, the famous “Oregon sys'em" of popular government, will be the subject of a decision by the Suptenie Court of the United States in the approaching term The question of the constitutional ity of these expedients of government forms the basis of a suita between the State of Oregon and the Pacific States Teh graph i Telephone Com pany The case originated in the company's challenge of a law enacted by the Oregon legislature under the initiative plan, by which a tax of 2 per cent was placed on the gross earnings of telegraph and telephone companies Telephone To Tesch Farmers to Firm by Mall. Corvallis— Three correspondence courses for farmers are now offered by the college school of commerce. Dean J A Bexell, In a recent publi cation outline« ’he work In farm ac counting. rural law and rural econotu lea which is designed to meet the practical needs of the farmer Aside from a nominal entrance fee It Is ab solutely free to all who wish this aid. and the large correspondence already rece ved indicates a heavy enrollment this Winter. Three Hundred Apple Men Meet H 'od River.—About 300 valley or- chardists wer« present at a meeting of the Apple Growers' Fellowship in the assembly hall of the Commercial Club, to hear addresses by Professor W. H. I.awn nee. the expert who di rects the work of the fellowship as sociaticn, and C. E Whisler, of Med ford, one of the foremost pear experts of the country. RECRUITING PLAN OUTLINED Government Proposes Scheme for Adoption in Oregon Guard. Salem—Governor West has received a communication from the acting Sec retary of the United State« War De partment submitting to him a war re cruiting system and asking that it be adopted by the state with modification to meet conditions According to the system an ollicer of each company)' will be named as recruiting officer for war and will at all times keep h mself posted as to the requirements of war. It is fur ther provided that whi n a local or ganization is called into the service its recruiting officer will at once be gin to recruit it up to war strength and that when the state goes to th« mobilization camp the recruiting off! cer will remain behind with suitable detail of enlisted mon and continue recruiting Each regiment and sepa rate baftali'-n will also, before it leaves the state, establish a recruiting party to recruit for Its organization during the continuance of war. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON Albany eolleg* begins its loity Hull year oi work this week. The date tor Redin, lid's »■ lebiatu n of "R ti'.roid Day” has bc< n set tor Saturday. September .0. The record yield for Hood River Peach orchards !• held by W II. Mar shall. From 100 trees Mr Marshall picked seven tons of Crawfords. A. W l<afferty. Representative to Congress from the Second On gon Dis trict has returned to Oregon, and will remain until time to return to Wash ington. D. C., for the regular session of Congress. "he Coos Bay Summer classes of the Biltmore School of Forestry, which have been In •• ssion at Marsh field have closed and Dr. C A Schenck the president of the college and his students have left for the Fist More than 75 per cent of the colo nists now coming to Oregon are se-k ing homes on farms, indicating that the efforts of the railroads and com mercial bodies to divert people from the cities have been effective. That there are 22.917,91'11 acres of tillable land in the State of Oregon has been estimated by Dr James Withycomb, director of experiment stat ons at the Oregon Agricultural college in some new statistics re cently compiled. The 66 000 volt power line of the Siskiyou Light X Power Companv has just been completed from the com panv’s new power plant at Prospect, on the upper Rogue, to the plant at Gild Ray. The line is 3S mile* long Thirty thousand horsepowi r will be developed at Prospect. lohn II Stev-ns, who has been with the Corvallis and Eastern Railroad Company for twenty years, as div Ion engineer and superintendent of bridges, has been appointed superin tendent of Corvallis and Eastern Rail road to fill the vacancy caused by th«w recent death of J. C. Waicti A petit on has been presented to the Washingion County court by th- citizens o Gaston, praying the court to make an ord r for an election to vote on incorporating the town of Gas ton The petition is numerously signed, and the residents are practi cally a unit for incorporation President Carl R Gray, o' the Ore gon Electric Railway Company, woo was ‘n Eugene to address the people attending 'he grange day < x>- ■ ises at the I-ane County Fair, announced that it was probable that the Oregon Electric w >u!d not extend its line as far as Eugen» this Fall beca'1-e of trouble over the right-of w .. Suits similar to the one Instituted in the United States Court a mon h ago by the O W. RAN Company against the Oregon Railroad Commis sion, Attorney General Crawford and various District Attorneys of the s'ate for th» purpose of enjoining the en torcement of the 14-hour law enacted by the last s»3S'on of the Oregon Leg islature, were filed in the Federal Cour: at Portland by the Coi .allis A Eastern Railroad Company and the South« rn Pacific Company Apples Go To Denmark. Medford—The Rogu- River Fruit and Produce Association, through the Northwest Fruit Exchange, sold to An derson A Albeck. fruit Importers of Copenhagen and caterers to the royal family, the first carload of Yellow Agreement to Building Station Void Newtown Pippins from the Rogue Salem. Ore.—Declaring that a pro River Valley ever consigned to Den vision in a right-of-way deed provid mark. ing that a railroad company shall maintain a station or a depot on the Hold Entire air in One Place. land of a landowner In return for a The Dal.es—For the first time in right of way gran'ed across his land the history of the Second Eastern Ore is void, because contrary to public gon Agricultural Society, all of the policy, the Supreme Court, in an opin annual fair will be held at the Driving ion written by Justice Bean today, re Park, at the west end of the city this State Capital Gleanings versed the Judgment of the cir«v. t year. The dates of the event are Oc Attorn« y General Crawford is in Al court of this county in the case of tober 3 to 6. bany to prosecute a mandamus pro Frank Ford agains' the Oregon Elec ceedings against the Corvallis A East tric Railroad Company VALLEY PREPARES EXHIBIT ern Ra lr< ad Company with relati« n to the construction of a depot a' Ly Willamette Products to Be Shown at ons. Omaha Lanp Show. Nine hundred and ten people at Albany.—Arrangements for a Will- aniette Valley exhibit at the Omaha tended the good-fellowship banqu«t g ven at the tabernacle on the Wflia- Land Show were completed at a meet incite University grounds by the Meth- ing held in this city attended by rep odist Episcopal Conference. The af Rome.—The Italian government is resentatives of four of the leading largaat of the kind «< r moving rapidly and with determina counties of the valley. The four nil was t tlon to establish an Italian protecto counties which have finally decided to held in this city. Upon report of the special commit- rate over Tripoli. Its plans, no longer join in th«- enterprise ar<- Marion, tee to Investigate sensational charg«-s are concealed and its attitude is fa Linn, Benton and Lane. vored by all classes except the ad According to arrangements each of misconduct on the [«art of Rev John vanced Socialists, who threaten to county will contribute an equal Parsons of Fairbanks. Alaska, the Or call a general strike in the eient of amount to the enterprise and each egon conference voted unanimously hosttlit ies will collect the best exhibit possible to vindicate Rev Mr. Parsons of all It is said the government hopes to within its boundaries. Then all of the charges of Immorality. State Superintendent of Public in arrange an amicable settlemen' with the county exhibits will be merged in Turkey whereby Italy will secure a to one big Willamette Valley exhibit structfon Alderman has completed th» lease of Tripoli under the rovereignty and their county identity will disap i list o books lor th«r teachers reading of Turkey, paying therefor an annual pear It 1« probable that this join’ circle as required by a law passed by According to rental. If Turkey definitely refuses exhibit will be assembled at Salem, the last kgfalature to meet this propo-a'., Italy will pro as the county exhibits of Benton and ’he law. teachers must read at least med w ith military measures Marion counties at the State Fair, on» of these b«oks during the year, The Tut kish forces in Tripoli are from which a part of the big exhibit and failing to do so will not be enti estimated at a minimum of 30.000 will be formed, are now at the capital tled to have their certificate regis tered. men To cope with these, Italy will city. Admitting that in the month of •end her whole fleet and an expedi March and April of thia year a con tionary force of 60,000 men Woman Asks >20.125 Damages between Eugene—Mrs Sarah S Marquiss spiracy was entered ln’n Washington Tax Levy Cut. has b< gun a suit against the Port Geo ge ifidgins, alias George Harris, Olympia. Wn.—The State Board of land, Eugene & Eastern Railway for Si Sandrosky, alias Sam Cohn, Elmer Equalixatlon ha« announ« ed that the *20,125 damages as the result of an Brown and others to defraud the vot tax levy for 1911, f ir state purposes, injury which she sustained by being ers of th« State, and Harry J. I’ark- fnson, who led the refer« ndum move will be 5 30 mills In 1911 the total ■truck by a car in November, 1910 ment against the University of Ore amount to bs raised by taxation I- gon appropriations, by forging names *5,062,1(7, which la *141,000 more Delias to Have Tag Day. Dallas—Saturday, Sept. 30, was to the petitions, but asserting that than was raised in 1910, the rate be tng lower, but the total assessed value named as the date for the annual tag the fraud was discovered by Parkin this year Is *9.55,125.934, as against lay for the benefit of the Irallas pub- son and the petitions never filed, Sec *906,247,944 a year ago. 'ic library. Dallas ha- one of the retary of State Olcott has filed with tf-st equipped publ’c libraries In the the Clerk of the Circuit Court hero his answer to the complaint filed by State. McCarthy Overthrown in Frsco. B. S Friendly asking that the S«-ere San Frai.isco.—James Rolph Jr. tary of State be enjoined from plat Project’s Prizes Many. Was elected Mayor of San F ancisco Stanfield.—Settler« on the Furnish ing the title of the two appropriation it the first direct primary election to determine the personnel of municipal Irrigation Proj« • t carried off 36 first bill-, on the ballot on the grout)«! that officer^ of the city and oouuty of San uid <■ -«nd pt i< a ot the dj¿tOct fair they are illegal because of fraud li the petitions. just closed at Pendleton Francisco LAMBERTS S P E C I A L Extra Fino, Pure. Home made Peanut Brittle at 15c per lb. All our delicious home-made < atidi«« Ml at 24) cents per lb TRY THEM. 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It saves money lor you Iroiu the time it is put on your house.” First Avenue and Foster Rond Alcazar Theatre Using only the best licensed motion pic tures. 3,000 feet of film and song at every show. Open every evening at 7:30 and matinee Sunday at 3 p. m. Admission 5c and 10c You Have But to Name Any standard toilet aid or accessory and you can get it at this drug store. Get just what you ask for. We do not practice the just as good habit. Same way with our drugs and prescriptions. We permit no substitution or excuse any carelessness. Doctors will tell you this is a safe place at which to procure your medicines. MT. SCOTT DRUG CO. Main St., Lents A. GEISLER LENTS. ORE. MAIN ST. Lents Shoe Store FOR QUALITY. FIT AND STYLE OUR SHOES ARE UNSURPASSED ITALY AND TURKEY ON VERGE OF WAR j FREE TO SMOKERS A BEAUTIFUL CALABASH PIPE With every 10-cent purchase of cigars or tobacco we will give one chance on a beautiful Calabash Pipe, regularly sold for $3.50. 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