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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (April 17, 1913)
CRAFT SEEN OFF COAST NEWS NOTES OF AIK Dirigible Takes Observa tions and Disappears South. CURRENT WEEK Balloon Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. A Democratic caucus refused to put cattle on the free list. Republicans are said to be planning to “get even” on Wilson’s appoint ments. Jose Fernandez, a prominent Liberal leader of Cuba, was assassinated in a Havana cafe. Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst is re ported to have had a relapse since her liberation from prison. Dr. Friedmann continues to treat tuberculosis sufferers, and only one of those treated so far has died. Mexican rebels are preparing to capture the only remaining govern ment stronghold in Sonora province. Republican leaders plan a meeting in Chicago soon to arrange for the re habilitation of the party throughout the country. Texas has sued the Standard Oil company for $100,000,000 as penalties for alleged violations of the anti-trust laws of that state. Three Minneapolis men, graduates of the University of Minnesota, are held prisoners of war by federal troops in Lower California. I<ondon police have started a thor ough search for a missing Tennessee man. whose hat and purse were found on the banks of the river Thames. President Wilson made an address of welcome to the Continental Con gress of Daugthers of the Revolution at its 23rd annual session in Washing ton. Two hundred thousand men in Bel gium joined the strike for manhood suffrage inaugurated by the Socialists. The government plans resistance to the utmost. A bomb made of a milk can filled with gunpowder, and operated by clockwork, was found in the Bank of England, in London, and it is believed to be the work of suffragettes. Seaside, Or, — A dirigible balloon moving rapidly was seen sailing over the ocean near here and south of the mouth of the Columbia river Wednes day morning al>out 5:30 o'clock. Several persons who had risen early to catch the train for Portland and persons at the Moore hotel watched the air craft until it disappeared from sight behind Tillamook Head. Charles A. Runo and wife, of Wor eester, saw the balloon from their windows, which overlooked the ocean. It came from the direction of Fort Stevens. When they first noticed the car it moved swiftly towards the Washington shore, where it seemed to stand poised for a couple of minutes, taking observations, then in a sweep ing circle it headed towards Tillamook Head and passed out of sight around the light house. This is not the first time the balloon has been sighted along the beach be tween here and Fort Stevens. About three months ago if was reported from Columbia Reach and at other points. An effort was made at that time to learn whether the officers at Fort Stevens were experimenting with a dirigible war balloon and taking ob servations. but nothing came of the inquiry. The balloon is believed to be a war dirigible by Captain John Anderson, whose sea experience has taught him the use of marine glasses, and who had the craft t-.ndef observation for ten minutes. He said he could make out three men aboard, and that one of the three was peering through a tele scope. One seemed to be taking notes, and the other was at the helm. TWO CITIES MAKE WOMEN PROMINENT AT POLLS WATER STOCKS (¿RAVEL PIT Election* Are largely Influenced Willamette Furnishes Railway Co. By New Suffrage Vote. With Bnllnat. Dallas The election here Monday resulted in a compléta rout of the ad ministration forces' by the so-called insurgents, when G. Van Orsdel, Dem ocrat, was elected mayor by a major ity of 25 votes over R. L. Chapman, Republican. The amendments to the city charter promised by the present city council were lost. It is said that the now administration is in favor of hard-surface pavement and other ini- lavtant civic improvamonta. The vote was the lurgest ever east in a Dallas election, a total of 789 ballots being turned in to the various booths, 292 of these being from the fair sex. Mrs. Fonso Manaton was the tirât woman to cast her vote. PROTEST Underwood Bill Arouses Citizens of Factory Centers. KING NICHOLAS Montent-grin Ruler Who Now Stands Alone in Bis Defiance of European Powers. St. Johns Active part taken by the women in the municipal election in St. Johns constituted a feature of unusual interest, and the newly-elect ed mayor, Charles Bregeson, declared that he owed his election to the women, since they held the balance of power. The total vote was 1087, of which approximately 377 voles were cast by women. It was a common sight while the ; m >II* were open to see women with their babies in their urms go to the polling places and cast their votes, or to see a grandmother and granddaugh ter enter the (Mills aide by side and se cure their ballots. The women ap peared to tie well informed and their work at the polls was exceedingly bus inesslike. Corvallis Contrary to tlie experi ence of flood districts of the cast, Cor vallis announces the recent high water stages of the Willamette river have been a blessing and a benefit to at least one industry. The raging Wil lamette re-stock<•<! the famous gravel pit. owned by the Portland, Eugene A- Eastern railway company. Instead of abandoning the ground ic* having been worked out, the engineers of the big interurban electric system now under construction in the Willam ette valley have found that new gravel has been washed down stream, filling the old excavation in the laittom of the river and making enough gravel available to complete the work of re ballasting the entire West Side system of the Southern Pacific company and making the tracks ready for fast-mov ing electric trains. The new electric company ia now sending 40 cars of gravel u day to the old steam lines on the West Side, and has completed ballasting of the lino from Corvallis to Monroe, which is pronounced by cx|>ert» to be the best piece of railroad track in the state. RECORD CROP IS PREDICTED Acreage Reduced in Sherman and Wasco, but Yield 1’romisiiig. The Dalles Although the crop of cereals in Wasco and Sherman coun ties thia year will not aurpuss the crop of 1912, owing to the fset that the acreage ia less because of summer fallowing, reporta received by the Business Men's association indicate a yield per acre that will break all rec ords for this section. E. H. French, president of the banking firm of French & Co., has returned from an automobile trip to the southern part of thia county. He predicts that should the favorable conditions con tinue all records will be broken. Farm ers who come to the city suppport the prediction. The fruitgrowers are also looking forward to a harvest of record-break ing crops of cherries, peaches, pears, apples, prunes, grapes and other fruits. Several hundreds of acres of cherriea will come into bearing thia yeur. Cornelius — With women canting half the vote in the recent election, CURRENCY REFORM OFFERED the anti-saloon forces triumphed with a majority of nine. This is the first time the town has Many Bills Before Congreaa lack gone into the dry column, though the ing Official Endorsement. margin has always been «mall. The Washington, D. C. — New currency total vote east was 267. reform bills were introduced in the Dufur—In the annua) election for house Friday by Representatives municipal officers the successful candi Prouty, of Iowa; Nelson, of Wiscon dates were: J. H. Fitzpatrick, may sin, and Palmer, of Pennsylvania. or; T. E. Griffith, recorder; W. M. Thirty-five states have ratified the Congress now has before it nearly a Pickering, and Owen Jones, council direct election amendment to the con dozen bills, covering all branches of men; P. W. Knowles, treasurer; T. stitution, but 13 of them have so far banking and currency reform, but W. Glavey and IL C. Dodds, water American Citizens Can ’ t Own I-and failed to give official notice to the gov commissioners. The votes was the ernment at Washington. none of these bear the indorsement of largest in the history of the city anti in Japan California Prom the official committees of the two nearly every woman who was eligible ises to Use Care. J. P. Morgan's funeral will be de exercised her right of suffrage. void of eulogy, as he requested. houses or of President Wilson. CHEESE factory working Representative Glass, who probably Mexican armies have been warned HOP STUDIES ARE PUBLISHED Washington, D. C.—President Wil will introduce the measure, about to stop shooting across the border. Flint Day’s Run nt Seaside Plant son expressed Saturday the hope that which money reform debate will cen An appeal will be made to President Taken 2000 Pounds of Milk. the pending legislation in California ter in the house, conferred with Secre Tartar and Pilkington of (). A. C. Wilson for a system of Federal loans tary McAdoo, of the Treasury depart Seaside The Clatsop County Co Issue Important Bulletin. by which aliens ineligible to American to farmers. operative Cheese company, which citizenship would be prohibited from ment, who has been gathering infor Oregon Agricultural College Re owning land would not prove objec mation from banks on certain phases sults of two years of experimental started work Monday, har>dl<*d 2000 Mohair and wool shearing begins of the financial situation. pournis of milk, from which eight tionable to Japan. He realizes that work with hops in the chemical labor pounds of Pasteurized cream throughout Oregon and Washington. Mr. Glass said at the end of the was Japan is inclined to view such legisla atories of the Oregon Agricultural Eastern Oregon has entered a strong tion as a contradiction of the spirit of conference that there would be no College experiment station are now saved for city distribution and from difference of opinion between himself which was made what is known as six protest in congress against free wool. her treaty with the United States. appearing from th«1 colleg«1 press in triplets and two Young America and the secretary of the treasury over While officially unable to interfere in the bill that he would finally introduce bulletin No. 114. H. V. Tartar, as cheeses. An American naval expert declares the situation, he expressed confidence in the house. sisted by It. Pilkington, has carried In addition to making the cheese this country is wholly unprepared for that the California legislature, cogniz on the work along special lines which and bottling the cream, the first day’s An effort will be made in the sennte a war at sea. ant of possible international difficul to secure further hearings, particularly thorough study of local conditions an«l output of this new concern was 200 A snowfall of five to 15 inches is TAX ON ESTATE IS $3,000,000 ties, would enact a law that would on the subject of the money stringency of literature on th«1 subject have shown quarts ami 100 pinta of Pasteurized prove acceptable to Japan. to be of most immediate use. reported from Western Iowa, Kansas milk. The President talked informally at crop moving times and the "sec The six special points on which and Nebraska. tional demands ” for money. Senator By heating the fluid to a certain New York State to Receive Great about the question in his semi-weekly Hitchcock, a member of the banking their investigations bear are th«1 fer temperature and keeping it at that Sum Under Inheritance Law. One of Dr. Friedmann’s tuberculosis conference with the newspa|>er men, and currency rommittee of the senate, tilizer requirements of the hop plant, point for 30 minutes, any tulierculoua patients has died, despite the use of Albany, N. Y.—New York state indicating the delicate points involved. said he would ask for hearings at methods for the chemical analysis of matter in the milk is killed and none his new serum. will receive between $3,000,000 and While the present treaty with Japan which more detaile«l facts could be se- the hop, the changes in com[M>sition of of the nourishment destroyed. 1 $4,000,000 inheritance tax from the stipulates that citizens of each coun cured as to local demands for money the hop during the ripening period, One of the trucks operated by the estate of the late J. P. Morgan, ac try, while traveling in the other, shall and local problems that should be con the effect of kiln drying at 145 de- cheese factory goes up the Necnnicum PORTLAND MARKETS cording to preliminary estimates made have a right to own houses and fac sidered while congress finally takes up gr«-«-s on the composition of the hop, valley for nine miles, while the other tories and shops, and to lease land, it a comparative study of the composi- Wheat—Track prices: Club, 866/ by attaches of the state controller’s says nothing about the right to own the work of reforming currency meth tion of Oregon hops ami those of wagon goes north several miles beyond office. , ods. Gearhart. 87c; bluestem, 98c; red Russian, 85c; other localities, and a comparison of The estimate is based on a report land. Three generdl bills are now before valley, 87c. On the other hand, though the old commercial an«i scientific methods of Mt. Hood is (¿lacier Laden. Oats—No. 1 white, $276j28 per ton; that the total estate will be about laws of Japan against foreign owner- the senate. The Weeks bill embraces hop valuation. $100,000,000. The tax is expected to the plan of the monetary commission valley, stained, $246/26. Oregon City —- There has been so ship of land have been abrogated, the for a national reserve association or Corn—Whole, $27; cracked, $28 ton be one of the largest ever paid. much snow in the Cascades and along A reduction of 5 per cent is allowed imperial edict necessary to put in central bank, through which all banks BIG MILL SITE IS PURCHASED the slopes of Mount Hood during the Millstuffs—Bran, $2167 22 per ton; force newly enacetd laws has not been if the tax is paid within six months would secure their note currency. The shorts, $2367 24; middlings, $30. issued, so that American citizens can Hitchcock bill proposes 20 distinct re North Star Lumber Co. to Have past winter that it has become packed Barley—Feed, $23@23.50 per ton; after the estate is appraied. into a glacial mass, is the report of not own land in Japan. Because of the various enterprises serve associations, each with the (low Oregon Plant Ready Soon. brewing, nominal; rolled, $25.506/ Fred Lund, a prospector and trapper. While the administration does not er to issue notes to its members and to in which Mr. Morgan was interested, 26.50. Mr. Lund came down to order some construe the treaty as giving Japanese Minneapolis, Minn. — Th« 1 North it wil be necessary to employ a num Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, specifically the right to own land, it buy and sell commercial paper. The Star Lumber company, of Minneapolis, supplies for his camp on th«1 south choice, $156117; mixed, $106/ 13.50; ber of experts to appraise the estate, feels that the agreement does guaran -Jones bill proposes 16 sub-treasury which owns extensive timber lands on fork of the Upper Clackamas, and de oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa, $126/13; which consists mainly of stocks, bonds tee that Japan shall be treated on the districts, each sub-treasurer being em the watershed of the Umpqua river, in clares that never before has he seen and works of art. clover, $9; straw, $76/8. basis of most favored nation citizens powered to issue currency to banks on Oregon, has purchased a mill site an«i such conditions. approved bonds. Vegetables — Artichokes, 90c6/$l “The snow on the mountain is under the same clause as is contained booming grounds at Reedsport, at th«1 “Soldiers’ Roll” in Peril. per dozen; asparagus, 6c pound; cab in many American treaties with other mouth of the Umpqua river, where a pack«.1«! into a solid sheet of snow-ice Fight Made on Tammany. Washington, D. C. — Thirty-three governments. bage, ljc; celery, $2.50 per crate; sawmill an«l lumber manufacturing that least four feet thick. The surface head lettuce, $2.50 crate; hothouse veterans of the Union army in the Washington, D. C.—President Wil plant of 125,000 feet, ten-hour capa meltings have congealed and form«1«! The President said that while these lettuce, 75c<&$l per box; onions, Civil war, who composed the “Old sol points had been discussed, the diffi son was formally requested by anti city, will be established. an almost unbreakabl«* emst on top of green, 206125c per dozen; rhubarb, 5c diers’ roll” of the senate, are in danger culties really proceeded from the do the drifts, and from my camp 1 trav The company expects to have th« 1 per pound; spinach, 75c per box; of demotion and reduction of salary, mestic constitutional arrangements in Tammany leaders of the New York plant in operatin by the time th«1 Wil eled entirely above the trails, being State Democracy not to recognize sprouts, 10c; garlic, 567 6c per pound; and Republican senators are up in the United States. He declared that lamette Pacific railroad is completed unnbl«i to break through the drifts.” turnips, 90c6i$l per sack; parsnips, arms. Under resolution of the senate while nobody for a moment, could Tammany in Federal appointments. between Eugene and Reedsport. The Mr. Lun«l bad intend«1«! to freight in They explained that their organization 90c6/$I; carrots, 90q6/$l. these old soldiers are “to continue in challenge the constitutional right of needed the moral support of the ad company owns a string of between 70 a large amount of material early this Onions—Oregon, 856/ 90c per sack; their positions until cause for their re California to pass such land laws as ministration in its fight for progies- an«l 80 retail yards in North an«l South spring but owing to conditions in the Spanish, $2.50 per crate. moval shall have been reported and she pleased, insofar as the Federal sive principles. They went away with Dakota, Iowa an«) Minnesota. The mountains has abandoned all such Potatoes — Burbanks, 456150c per approved by the senate and their re government had gone beyond its pow product from the Reedsport plant will plans until summer. hundred, new, 8}6/10c per pound; moval directed,” and Republicans as ers or domestic authority in making a the impression that the President supply these various yards. would go slow in the matter of mak sweet potatoes, 4c pound. Big Filing System Needed. sert that changes made in the roll treaty, just so far was it liable to ing out his appiontment list, and that Green Fruit—Apples, 30c6/$1.50 per violate this resolution. damages, but it really was helpless in it would be some time before his atti - Salem—What will probably be the Entire Family Lost in Flood. box; according to quality; strawber the situation. tude would be known. Howl River—Mrs. H. L. Dean, wife moat elaborate filing system in the ries, Florin, $361,3.60 per crate; Lou Tennessee Ratifies Direct Election. Reassuring word that the California of a young horticultural expert who state is being arranged by 8. A. Koz- isiana. $3.50 per crate legislature would so frame its laws as Washington, D. C.—Forma] notice Bryan Spurs Governors. Poultry—Hens, 16c; broilers, 306/ arrive«! here last week to take charge er, assistant secretary of state, to be to save the Federal government from Washington, D. C. Secretary Dry- of the clearing o(MTations of the Green used in connection with rogistration 35c; turkeys, live, 20c; dresed choice, of the ratification by the Tennessee any diplomatic embarrassments has 25; ducks, 186/20c; geese, 126/12}c legislature of the Constitutional come indirectly to the national capital an dispatched identical letters Satur Point Orchard company, was prostrat under the Gill law. Under that law, Eggs—Fresh Oregon ranch, 19J6/20 amendment providing for the direct and the administration does not be day to the governors of states which ed on receiving news from Coumbus, which goes Into «‘fleet June 3, the sec election of United States senators was per dozen. lieve it is likely to be confronted with have acted favorably on the constitu O., that her entire family had per retary of state must keep an accurate Butter — Oregon creamery butter received at the State department re any serious situation. tional amendment providing for the ished in the flood that swept through : list of all the registrations in the cently. Thirty-six states, the number cubes, 33c per pound; prints, 8416/35c. direct election of senators and have that city recently. Mr. Dean had state. Mr. Kozer says that for the necesasry to make the amendment ef not yet reported the fact to the State Pork—Fancy, 126/ 12Jc per pound. made vain attempts to get in commu rogistration filing system alone much Blow to Christianity Seen. fective, have acted favorably, but 13 Veal—-Fancy, 13}6jl4c per pound. department. The secretary suggested nication with relatives and has been larger apace will be required than the Tokio — Baron Saburo Shimada and prompt notification in order that he Hops — 1912 crop, 106/.16JC per of them have not complied with Secre anxiously awaiting news, which, how «•ntire filing space now given to the pound; 1913 contracts, 14c per pound. tary Bryan’s request for immediate other prominent Japanese Christians may issue the usual formal notice of ever, did not come until the water had secretary of Btate's office. Wool — Eastern Oregon, nominal; official notice. say they are convinced that the (>as- the adoption of the 17th amendment. receded an«) the bodies were found. Anvil is High on Bench. valley, 166/20c per pound. sage of the land bill by the California Titanic Horror Year Ago. Taft to Give Nine lectures. Good Farm Brings $23,000. Cattle—Choice steers, $86/8.15; me legislature wil) prove almost a death " Forence—Two-thirds of the cargo of dium, $7.506/7.75; choice cows, $6.75 New York, April 15.—The first an blow to the Christian propaganda in New Haven, Con. Announcement 'Troutdale — William Hursaell has the stranded schooner Anvil was re 6/7.15; good, $6.506/6.75; medium, niversary of the sinking of the steam , Japan. Count Okuma, former foreign _ was made recently that Professor Wil sold his farm of 15 acres, located south moved when the tide Monday moved $66/6.50; choice calves, $86/9; good er Titanic, was the last day on which minister and now president of Wase«ia liam H. Taft will deliver a course of of thia place, to Ralph Ackley. The the craft high and dry on the beach. heavy calves, $6.506/7.50; bulls, $5.50 claims against the White Star Steam University, urges the missionaries to nine lectures at Yale University this price was $23,000. Th«1 tract is a Lines are being run and efforts made 6/6.25. ship company, owners of the ill-fated voice a strong protest Hgainst the bill. spring on the general subject “Ques well-improved farm, one of the best in to got the boat back into deep water. Hogs— Light, $96X9.35; heavy, $8 ship can be filed in the United States Several newspapers here sarcastically tions of Modem Government.” The the neighborhood. Several sales have The schooner now lies about 400 yards @8.75. district court for loss of life or proper declare the bill, which they say will lectures will be given Monday and Fri been made in Troutdale recently and from the end of the north jetty, close Sheep — Yearling wethers, $6.256/ ty. Damages in excess of $12,000,- discriminate against and ruin Japan, day afternoons in May, beginning May I realty conditions are improving right to the sea wall. The crew walked to 7.25; ewes, $4.756X6.25; lambs, $76/8. , 000 have been demanded. | was "framed by Christians.” shore dry shod. I along. 2. Gloversville, N. Y.—Business was suspended in Gloversville and Johns town— the center of American fine glove manufacturing—for six hours Thursday, while the populace of the two cities united in a demonstration of protest against the Underwood tar iff bill, as it affects the glove and glove leather industries. The demon stration was planned by Gloversville merchants. Gloversville was the scene of the demonstration, special cars and trains bringing to this city one of the largest crowds that ever gathered. Five thousand glove workers, women as well as men; merchants, professional men, saleswomen and clerks, trades people—people of all kinds, partici pated in the parade. Four mass meet ings were held, protesting resolutions adopted, and petitions, addressed to President Wilson, circulated. Glove factories and leather mills ceased working, every place of busi ness in the two cities, including all lines of trade, was closed and practi cally the entire population of the two cities joined in the demonstration. A committee of representative citi zens will go to Washington and it is possible a delegation of glove workers also will be sent to the National capi tal to appear before congress or the President. JAPANESE ISSUE FOUND DELICATE Federal Government Can’t Stop State Legislation.