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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (May 30, 1912)
NEWS FROM OUR NATIONAL CAPITAL Conference Committee Has Ro- ported Final Agreement on Borah Homestead Bill. Washliigtoii 'I II« I'oiifiTviuv coni- mlltco In i-barg« of th« Borah-Jonos thr»« year bnni«ataad bill, reported Wlint la doclurixl to be a fltial ugr«e- men I. Th« main f«atur«s ot' th« ori ginal hill ure retained. An the bill I m ugr««<l upon, the home- ■lend period I m reduced from five to three year« and entry man are per mitted lenv« of iilmerice of not to ex ceed flvn consecutive months each year, they being required to nollfy the local land office when they leave the land und of the dote of their re turn. A cultivation clause la Incorporated which require« the entryman to cut tlviite not I cmm than one sixteenth of the urea of his entry the second year ami one eighth tin- third yeur The bill will apply to ull entries, Including enlarged homestead entries und nil pending entries. Entrymen who have not yet receiv ed u patent will huve the privilege of completing their proof under the three y«ar bill or continuing under the old law as they muy prefer. Army Bill Aimed st General Wood The army appropriation bill was re ported back to the senate and house by th« conferee« with the anti admin istration amendments which would leg islat« Major-General Wood out of of- flee as chief of-staff. und would leuve th« locution of military poets to a cotn mission of retired nrmy officers and two members each ot th« senate and house committees on military uffnlrs. The umendinent which would re move General Wood also would pre vent either Brigadier Generals (’rosier or Funston from «ver attaining the of flee of chief of staff No officer wbo has not spent 10 years In the lino with troops before becomiug a brigadier would be eligible Hous« Reaffirms Canal Toll Bill. By a vote of 147 to 126. the bouse reaffirmed Its decision that no toll should be charged American vessels engaged In coastwise trade for pass age through th« I'unaina canal. The provision was bitterly fought and the result was received with cheers The canal government bill was passed, 266 to 61. The house membership was divided Into two groups, one holding that American owned stupa should huve free use of th« canal and tho other that all ships should pay equal toils Officers of Tltsnlc Censured. A sweeping arraignment of th« con- I duct of officers of th« Titanic, espe cially Ciipfaln Hrnltb. Is contained In | the report of the acmite commerce committee on the loan of the vens-I. { Th« officers lit«- held responsible for , the disaster because of failure to b< ■ d | th« wurtilnga of oilier vessels. J Bruce Inmiiy. who wus a puasenger, i Is also criticised. Ims Inspection Is i diurged to the British board of trade, {and the report culls attention to the luck of discipline Oil the vessel. Luxurlns Imported Enormous. Luxuries Imported Into I he United {Slates during the flscui yeur which {ends with next mouth, will exceed *200,000,000 In value Under the term { "luxuries" nre Included such articles j im diamonds, art works, laces mid em ! hrohh-rles, chumpngne and other wines, tobaccos and manufactures thereof, ostrich feathers, artificial I flowers, toys, perfumeries and cosmet- I les, jewelry manufactures of gold und silver, ami numerous others ot this general churactcr. National Capital Brevities. The house In holding to Its program for adjournment about June IS, ul {though no understanding has been reached with tho Semite loaders, wbo { uro not optimistic. A committee of the tioune has been appointed to consider the propriety of suggesting to President Taft that he offer his friendly aid us a mediator between Italy and Turkey. Applications for pensions under the new "dollar a day" pension law are being received at the pension office here nt about the rate of 26.000 a day. The total number received to date Is 12 1.234 There will evidently be no wool legislation at this session of congress The senate finance committee has re ported adversely the Underwood bill; It hus abandoned the plan to druft a substitute bill, and has refused to re port the Smoot substitute. Secretary Wilson of the department of ngrlculture hus ordered Doctors boollttle. Mitchell and Dunlap, of the pure food board, to conduct a test of th« breweries throughout the country to determine whether the Institutions «re complying with the pure food lawn. The house judiciary committee was occupied the past week with the hear ing of th« charges aguinst Judge Archbald of the commerce court. Evi dence was Introduced tending to show that Judge Archbald was a tool of the railroads und susceptible to bribery. ; lumber shipments are considerably In I Ing annually from the state *288.750, { excess of the cut, Indicating that the while the University of Oregon has a m.irket for the product Is better than ■ standing appropriation of *125,060. It was lot i .«• iii. i four ii until» of last A company of coast artillery, O. year Log Rat* Case Important. G. will be mustered In ut Lord. James an-t Fr.uici» BcaJ, aged 15 Raker. Word was—re<«lvi<I here Muy 2». and 17, and Thomas Williams were the state railroad commissioner» Twenty-three students or Ibo Wil Events Occurring Throughout that d row tied it> tic Colombia river at Wy will r.-aume the hearing of the log lametta laiw School were awarded di eth and th- bodies swept away In the the State During the Past j rate case of the Sumpter Valley rail plotmia Friday. swift current, 'the boys had fulleti road on June 18. The case Is being The 20th annual reunion of th« Yam Week. from n raft and Williams woul to their pushed by the flak er Commercial club hill County l*iom«r Assotlallm will rescue. i on the belief that the rate charged for be held nt McMinnville June 6. Code Will be Amended. With Hie Clatsop beach or the Co . hauling logs is so high that It prohib The first actual construction work Ralern.—To make more effective the its the bringing ot material here for lumbia river as objective points, sur on the Bout hern Pacific line to t'oos veyors have been working for many jurisdiction of the corporation depart the Baker sawmills. Buy wus dom< Friday at North Bend. months near tjic headwaters of th« ment. which tinder the proposed new ItepreseBtatlve Hawley is asking u Nucanicum and Indications point to law to be Initiated will create a sep 110,000 emergency appropriation to ILLICIT STILL IS FOUND tho Harriman people as the Interests arate office of this branch of the state prevent u br«uk In the Willamette riv government, there is a plan on foot to behind th« project. Rcvenu* Officers Fall to Find Moon er near Independence. A movement is started for the recall amend section 2230 of Ixird's Oregon shiners When They Make Raid. The celebration of the completion of laws, which provides penalties for of County Judge A. E. Lake and Com Eugene.—United States internal rev the Oregon Electric to Albany July 4 false statements in advertising. mlssfoners C. H. Stoughton and enue officers and local deputy sheriffs promises to be the biggest celebration The talked of amendment will be H. C. Hooper by the taxpayers of Was found a moonshiners’ still near Lea- over held In the Willamette valley. mad« to Include real estate and other co county. The trouble arises over a burg, 30 miles east of Eugene, on the Kenator Chamberlain is attempting contract for a new courthouse at The businesses not now touched upon In McKenzie river, and confiscated the to sei-iiri 200 io res of land near Pen the statute as It now stands. Dalles to cost *150,000. outfit. For some time past liquor in dleton «» a r< - -rvolr site for flic city, Tauna Tolonen, the 6-year old son of Borax Deposits to be Well Developed. ! large quantities has been sold to the but the Indians are opposing the meas Mr. und Mrs. Matllla Tolonen, of I»akevlew. Imrge development work loggers and others at Leaburg. Sher ure. Smith's Point, near Astoria, was fatal Is to be done and considerable luichln- iff Brown has been working on the Dr J. II Robinett, third ur Istant ly burned while playing near the fam ery Is about to be Installed by the Ore case, and. becoming satisfied that the physician at the State Asylum tor tho ily home A brush fire had been start gon Borax company, which has hold whiskey was being made In that vicin Insane, will r< ilgn his position about ed a short distance from the residence ings of several thousand acres of rich ity, turned the matter over to the fed September I ami lake up private prac and the lad ran too close to the flames. deposits of soda at Alkali Lake, about eral officials. As a result, Deputy In tice. Senator Chamberlain has offered an 65 miles from here. The work will spector of Revenue Shellburg made a James II. Dlmlck, a prominent law amendment to the omnibus claims bill consist of building a large evaporating quiet trip to Leaburg and located the yer, politician ami farmer of Clack appropriating *193,563 to settle in full plant where the product can have the place in the hills. amas county, was burned to death In Oregon’s Civil war claim against the larger portion of the moisture remov Five revenue officers and two depu a fire which destroyed his home at government. An appropriation to pay ed, so that the finished product will be ty sheriffs raided the place, finding Aurora. the claim has twice passed the senate, more economically bandied in ship only an old man. some women and President Taft has reappointed John but was each time defeated In the children. The dismembered still was ping. McCourt as United States district at house found under a log, with sacks of corn torney for Oregon and Frank C. Bram William Judah Jlrn, Klamath Indian. meal and barley. well us registrar for the La Grande TAX LEVY FOR SCHOOLS ?onvlct«d ot murder in the second de land office Newberg Editor Sued for Libel. The extension division of the Ore gree for the killing of Quimby Checas- College Officials Want Assessment to McMinnville.—Edith Patterson has Maintain Institutions. gon Agricultural college has been giv kane, of the same tribe, on November Portland.—At a conference between filed suit tor *10.00« damages against ing a series of institutes at Buxton on 22, on the reservation, was given a the subjects of dairying und civic im sentence of 20 years’ imprisonment at special sub-committees, consisting of E. H. Woodward, editor and publisher McNeil's Island by United States Dis the presidents and members of the . of the Newberg Graphic, at Newberg, provement. i Boards of Regents of the University this county, becaues of statements in At laikevlcw, Frank E. Rickey of trict Judge Bean. Following out a plan to do away of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural an article in that paper on or about Reno, purchased more than 1,000.000 pounds of this season's wool crop, with a separate report of each Insur College, resolutions were adopted re August 3, 1911. paying an average of 14^ cents a vnee company doing business In the questing the commission appointed by »fate, and make instead a tabulated Governor West to initiate a measure Corvallis Gets Threshermen Meeting. pound for the lot. Condon.—The threshermen ended II. Hlrschberg, of Indepeudence, has report. Printing Expert Harris, acting before the people providing for a fixed filed with State Engineer 1^-wis appll >n the suggestion of Insurance Com annual tax levy of 7-10 of a mill on the fheir labors here and elected officers cation to divert water of the Little missioner Ferguson, who originated assessable value of the property of the as follows: John Minnick, of Union, Luckiatnute river to be used for power the scheme, is sending letters to 35 state for the maintenance of both president; D. Caufman, of Hubbard, Mate officers and boards recommend schools. vice-president; Philip S. Bates, of for municipal purposes. ing that the reports this year be made Portland, secretary. Corvallis was At a recent conference between the Tlie state board of fish and game members of the two boards of regents chosen as the place of the next con commissioners gives out the state Ui tabular form The Oregon statistical bureau, under at Salem the matter of providing vention. ment that the salmon Industry of the Columbia river last year yielded to the direction of J. A. Bexell. de jin of finances for the maintenance of the Fruit Inspector Starts Fight. the school of commerce at the Oregon two institutions was discussed, with this district about 16,000,000. Salem.—County Fruit Inspector Nearly every city of importance In Agricultural college, will carry out an the result that the regents agreed that I industrial survey during the summer Jones has commenced a vigorous cam it would be better for both schools if Oregon has representatives In Port land In the delegations to the fifth an- tor the purpose of collecting accurate funds for their maintenance should be paign in an endeavor to exterminate the San Jose scale in orchards. He nuul convention of the Oregon Retail statistical data which will show the raised by direct tax on a millage basis degree to which the possibilities of rather than for each to depend on se has issued orders that this pest be at- Jeweler's Association, held Tuesday the counties of the state are develop curing appropriations through the leg tended to at once or else the orchard and Wednesday, May 28-29 will have to be cut down. An encouraging feature of the lum ed. An appropriation for this work islature. ber situation in Oregon Is that the | was provided by the last legislature. 1 The Corvallis school is now receiv- OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST ^BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON i { i ' { V ^•ia's Saturday, June 1st Yes, we are advertising again in the Beaver State Herald. This time we are to have our ad all alone and we are going to give you even better bargains than we offered last week. Pleasing our customers, both in courtesy and prices has helped us to grow from the little pioneer shop that we once were to what we are now, . . The Largest General Market East of Grand Avenue Pork Beef Beef Boil Beef Stew .... 10c Pound Short Ribs Beef Roast Hamburg Steak Shoulder Steak Round Steak 8c Pound 8c Pound . . 11 l-2c Pound 11c Pound 12 l-2c Pound Pork Roast • Pork Sausage Pork Chops Pigs’ Feet Salt Pork • • • • • 13 l-2c Pound • • • • • • 1 Veal 11c Pound Veal Breast • 15c Pound Veal Roast • 7c Pound Veal Cutlets 13c Pound 6c Pound 11 l-2c Pound Mutton Roast 13 l-2c Pound Mutton Chops .... . 15c Pound 15c Pound {. Veal Loaf 1 loc ruunu Dukes Special Butter 60c square. 5 lb Can Lard 65c. Mutton Stew 11 l-2c Pound Veal Stew .... • • Mutton Riillz DU1K T luUrQ 1 L4C Picnic Hams 12 l-2c Pound Compound 11 l-2c Pound Halibut 7 l-2c Pound 12c Pound . . 12 l-2c Pound Mutton Legs 15c Pound Mutton Rib Chops . Mutton Loin Chops 15c Pound . Bacon 15c Pound 15c Pound