LOCBYIST GIVES TESTIMONY NEWS NOTES OF Sugar Men Say — $100,000 Has Been OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST Spent in Fight. CURRENT WEEK General Newa of the Industrial and Educational Development EXAMINE ITALIAN FARMERS American Commissioners I .earn of Conditions Governing Them. Washington, D. C.—For six hours Florence, Italy Close study of the and Progresa of Rural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc. practical workings of the rural credits , Wednesday ex-Governor Carter, and system in Euro|ie is being carried out Sidney Ballou, two of the men who with great energy by the American have conducted the fight of Hawaiian MANY NEW LAWS IN FORCE FARMING COURSE FOR NOVICE commiaaion now traveling through the producers in Washington to retain a I various countries. duty on sugar, outlined to the senate More Power Given Governor aa Re­ O. A. C. Summer School to Teach At Florence they heard addressee on the old "Metayer" system, atill in use lobby investigating committee their sult of New Measures. Rudiments to Beginners. in Tuscany, by which a farmer holds A cold wave has spread all over the activities here and elsewhere. Salem — All the laws passed at the A course in basic agronomy to be land on condition that he gives half Michigan Senator Says Preaident’a East and is doing immense damage to Governor Carter testified that noth- ’ recent session of the legislature, ex­ given by Dr. M. M. McCool at the the product to the landlord and lives Arraignment of Lobbyists Has fruit. ing was paid by him and he received cept those having emergency clauses Oregon Agricultural college summer on the other half. The landlord pro­ Changed Many Votes. The government has brought suit to only his expenses. Mr. Ballou said or those to be referred to the people, session is planned to introduce the vides the tenant with land probably novice to farm science through an in- about 35 to 50 acre» and with what { compel the dissolution of the Eastman he was the regular agent of the sugar became operative June 3. __________ _ the __ ____ kodak trust. ■ he considers sufficient feed, stock and Chief among new _____________ measures are timate first knowledge of the fields, Washington, I). C.~ An unexpected producers in Washington, with a sal­ China is the fourteenth nation to ac­ ary of $12,000 a year and $3000 a year those relating to highways, irrigation, i *he crops, and the mechanics of the fertiliser. In case the tenant meets turn was given to the ’’lobby” inves­ farm. A part of the instruction, also, with misfortune the landlord advances wages of women and children, pensions cept. in principle, Bryan’s plan for tigation when Senator Townsend, of for expenses. Both agreed that about for mothers, fixing number of hours will give an introduction to agricul­ the money without interest. universal world peace. A farmer wax selected at hazard and Michigan, Republican, declared on the $100,000 had been spent by the sugar of workmen in factories, mills, etc., ture ax a science through a wide range Both sides refusing to make further giving the governor more power to en­ of scientific study and investigation in his farm inspected and his circum­ stand that the influence wielded by concessions, war between the Balkan people in their campaign against free force laws locally, revising fish and fields still unexplored, or to interest stances learned. He bud about 37 sugar, but denied that there had been states is expected at any time. the beginner in the business profits acres of land, growing vines, wheat, j President Wilson and the Democratic game laws, appropriation for Pacific any tangible communication between Colonel Goethals says that “any­ the United States cane and beet and Panama exposition, regulation of bro­ and practice and the professional op­ potatoes and a certain amount of truck secret caucus on the making of the of various kinds, lie had one pig, an tariff bill constituted the “nearest ap­ thing that floats” may go through the Hawaiian cane producers with a com­ kers, regulation of pawnbrokers, uni­ portunities of farming. The work includes instruction in the ex and cart and about 12 children. He Panama canal by January 1, 1915. mon fund directed to influencing legis­ form system of accounting in state origin and formation of xoils; soil was making a gross revenue of al>out proach to undue influence on mcmltera and counties, teachers of Portland on of congrexa” that the investigating It is claimed the loss of revenue by lation. civil service basis, (tensions for Port­ moisture, heat and air; common soil $1000, of which half went to the land- j Governor Carter said that three the Underwood tariff bill will be more processes; plant foods and soil fertil­ lord. He and his family could live on committee would be able to find. land police, abolishing district fairs than offset by the income tax amend­ senators, Swanson, Lewis and Wil­ and creating county fairs. ity; tillage, crop rotation and manur­ $400 and so put by $100 a year. He Senator Townsend criticized the liams, had told him or Hawaiian ment. Summaries of the most important ing; soil bacteria; drainage and irri­ said that he was quite contented. Ilia committee for not having asked mem­ friends that they were not in sym­ gation benefits; and the use sivi care farming, however, wax not of a kind A cloudburst covered the tracks of pathy with free sugar, but that since measures are as follows : bers of the xenute whether the Presi­ A brief to cause enthusiasm. Highway commission bill—Creates of common farm machines, the Clearwater short line in Idaho for it was advocated by the Democratic dent had sought to influence them and At another farm, where the farmer declared that, even though the Presi­ highway commissioner and provides survey of the agriculture of the state a distance 500 feet with earth and party they must vote for it. will close the course. was his own proprietor, the difference for a highway engineer at a salary of timber. dent hail not intended it, his recent He declared he had got no satisfac­ Another important agronomy course was amazing. This man had about $3000 a year. Under the measure The department of agrieulutre in its tion when he spoke of hearings to about $360,000 will be provided for for the summer is that in crop produc­ 125 acres, almost entirely devoted to denunciation of “lobbies” working in June report predicts a bumper wheat members of the cabinet, representa­ road work annually. In it truck gardening. The whole farm was supixirt of changes in the tariff would The work will tion by Prof. George Hyalop. force certain senators to vote aguinat crop, sufficient to make 160,500,000 tives and senators. be done by the counties, and the engi­ the chief field crop seeds of Oregon cultivated by hand and irrigated con­ amendments they knew to be just. barrels of flour. will be studied, such as wheat, barley, tinually with the aid of an electric neer will give all assistance possible “Who are those senators?” demand­ oats, corn, vetch, clover, ulfalfa and motor. The owner and his 16 children A United States Supreme court de­ PORTLAND HAS LIVELY FIRE to the county courts. ed Senator Reed. County bonding act—Gives counties grasses, ax to their vitality, germina­ were fine specimens of humanity anil cision in the Minnesota railroad rate ”1 don't care to name anyone,” re­ case gives states the right to fix rates Rose Festival Crowds See Big Fur­ the right to issue bonds to build roads. tion, preservation, growth and repro­ apparently excellently fix! and highly turn ini Townsend. This and the highway commission bill duction. Some work in seed judging intelligent. for interstate traffic. The two Democratic members of the niture Store Burn. are important, for they constitute vir­ will be done, and seed beds and seed­ A San Francisco woman alone and Portland — Roaring tongues of fire tually the first practical highway leg­ ing will be studied. The relation of EXPECT (JREAT WHEAT CROP committee present. Senators Reed and Walsh, indignantly resented any inti­ unaided, raided and partially wrecked climate and soil to crops, culture and islation enacted in the state. mation that President Wilson had a gambling house where her husband leaping from the top stories of J. G. rotation, the prevention and eradica ­ Columbia Southern bill — Appropri ­ Mack & Co. 's furniture store. Fifth Record llarveat of Winter Grain Is used patronage or threats to force had lost $1300 in three days. ates $450,000 for irrigation of 23,000 tion of weeds, and the harvesting, anyone to support free sugar or free and Stark streets, Tuesday night Predicted by Government. Chinese women of modern education acres of land in Eastern Oregon, work marketing and profits of crops will be wool or to support tobacco ax a whole. while the Rose Festival electrical pa ­ have been arrested for conspiring to be started at once. The United given some consideration. Two other Washington, D. C. — A bumper Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts, against the government, and it is rade passed immediately beneath sup­ States department of interior has subjects of immediate importance will wheat crop, sufficient to mill more also a Republican, following Senator be discussed : The distribution and claimed many have been executed. than 160,600,000 barrels of flour anil Townsend on the stand, expressed the plied additional festival thrills for the offered to give a similar sum for the Stopping of Columbia river boats by tens of thousands of sightseers who work, but it has not been accepted by value to the state of various crops, which may 'reach the proportions of opinion that "executives had more in­ the desert land board. Another bill and the methods of improving them. the record wheat harvest of 1901, if fluence on bills than all the persona high water has prevented many berry filled the streets. provides for an appropriation of $50,- conditions from now on are exception­ who have come to Washington put to- pickers from reaching the fields, and Under powerful pressure, a hose 000 to investigate feasible irrigation RAISING OF FLAX IS URGED ally favorable, was forecast by the it is believed many berries will go to g.-ther. " split in midair, sending drenching projects, the Federal government to department of agriculture in its June “The statement that the President waste. orop report. torrents to the crowds below, and co-operate by giving a similar amount. put out in regard to an insiduous lobby The latest Japanese reply in the when the sparks ignited the decora­ Still another measure appropriates Speaker Tells Threshermen of Prof­ Government expert» estimated thia influenced the public mind,” said Sen­ itable Industry. $15,000 for the investigation of a pro­ year’s harvest would be 744,000,000 ator Weeks, "and that has its effect California land controversy opens the way for unlimited "friendly negotia­ tions on the Perkins hotel building, posed power plant on the Columbia at Portland—Thousands of dollars may bushels, of which 492,000,000 bushels upon the senators. The public be­ on the opposite side of the street, the The Dalles. It is declared that the be added to the annual earnings of the will be winter wheat—a record for tions. ’ ’ streams from the several hose lines project contemplates the creation of threshermen of Oregon by the develop­ this crop-and 252,000,000 bushels lieves the lobbyist is a bad man and no senator likes to oppose a measure Governor West, of Oregon, says the were veered with so little warning one of the greatest water power sys­ ment of the flax industry in the state, will be springjwheat. The third larg­ if the President says the lobbyists are Interior department has too much that several of the floats were directly tems in the United States. according to H. A. Brewer, manager est acreage ever planted and favorable seeking to change it.” Senator Shive­ “dead timber.” in the path. Girls, thinly clad in their Minimum wage bill — Creates com­ of the Portland Linseed Oil company, growing conditions account for the ly, a Democratic member of the It is proposed to amend the military pageant robes, were drenched, but the mission to be named by the governor who was one of the speakers at the prospect for an abundant yield. finance committee, said he knew of no An increase of more than 1 per cent lobbying influences at work on the tar­ laws to provide for the use of the mil­ parade proceeded practically uninter­ to investigate wages of women and banquet of the State Threshermen's rupted. children and the conditions under over last year's acreage was planted itia in foreign service. Policemen, including the police which they work. It gives the com­ association at the Commercial club re­ to oats this year, but the condition of iff bill. A Missouri official says women band, were hurriedly broken from the mission power to enforce decrees, fix cently. “The linseed factories of the state this crop on June 1 was below the 10- •CURE* DECLARED VALUELESS workers are as firmly in bondage as line of march and hastened to the wages and regulate sanitary condi­ are prepared to handle the product of year average, and officials estimate colored slaves ever were. scene, where they cleared the streets tions. 25,000jacres of flax in this state, if the production will ba 1,104,000,000 A special house committee favors and made way for the apparatus, Mothers’ pension bill—Provides for the people will only plant it,” he said. bushels, or more than 300,000,018) Clinical Analysis of Serum Paticnta limiting appropriations to a fixed sum, which was held up at almost every assistance of mothers whose husbands “Taking the prices paid for threshing bushels below last year's harvest. Issued by Health Board. to be apportioned as congress sees fit. turn by the dense throng. are dead, in state institutions or phys­ in other states, the threshermen New York The first clinical an­ The fire broke out about 10 o’clock. ically or mentally unable to work. The should be able to get from 20 to 25 ANOTHER BALKAN WAR NEAR alysis of the conditions of any of the A cloudburst in the Blue mountains The damage is estimated at $95,000 counties are to provide the pensions. cents a bushel for the threshing of it, Friedmann paticnta treated in this washed away the O.-W. R. & N. track, total. The blaze was under control Ten-hour law — Provides that 10 and they would be able to handle the Bulgaria’s Answer Likely to Rouse country have been published in the but operated the block signal at the in one hour. hours a day or 60 hours a week con­ flax crops without in the least being Medical Reconi. The results show same time and this saved a passenger Servia'and Greece. stitute the working schedules in fac­ that some are worse and that the dis­ train from plunging into the Grand RIVER BEGINNING TO RECEDE tories, mills, etc., but that employes interfered with in their work on the Ixtndon — Both sides refusing to regular grain crops.” ease wax not checked in a single case. Ronde river. make the slightest concession, war be­ may work 13 hours a day, but no long­ Twelve of the cases were pulmonary The senate lobby investigating com­ Part of Montgomery Dock No. 1 er. They are to receive time and one- tween the Balkan states is hourly Forestry Builds Station. growing more imminent. If Bulgaria and the rest surgical. Dr. Mannheim- mittee will inquire into everything half pay for all time more than 10 Damaged and Wheat Is Lost. Prairie City — The forestry service sends a negative reply to the Servian er summarizes the entire 18 cases as that resembles an effort to influence hours a day. follows: has ordered a telephone line to be in ­ Portland—There was a slight decline note—and nothing indicates that she Bill increasing power of governor— tariff votes. "In not a single one of these cases stalled 'connecting Prairie City with will answer otherwise, Servia and Gives governor p9wer to appoint spe ­ in the stage of the Willamette here A Japanese colony of about 1500 the summit of Strawberry Peak, 12 Greece will proclaim the annexation was there definite improvement to date cial district attorneys, sheriffs, con ­ persons has been established in Bra­ Tuesday and rivermen are inclined to attributable to the vaccine. In some miles distant from this place. A sta­ zil, under an agreement which sets the belief that the freshet is soon to stables, when regularly elected offi­ tion will be erected on the extreme of the occupied Macedonian territor­ the disease progressed unchecked. In aside 150,000 acres of land for their be , a thing of the past. The only dam cials do not attend to duties. Another summit of the peak at a height of ies, thereby establishing a definite no instance did the temperature return casus belli. measure, urged by the governor, use. The only hopeful feature of the sit­ to normal. Five of the 18 developed age reported in the harbor from the classes immoral resorts as nuisances over 10,000 feet, which overlooks the entire forestry district of Eastern .............. i - - MIR uation consists in the belief that Bul­ abscesses, four of them small and one overflow was to Montgomery dock No. so they may be closed more easily 1 cannot determine Oregon. garia is lacking the sinews of war. of them large. 1, where a part of the deck fell into than at present. PORTLAND MARKETS The purpose of the government in Servia and Greece are not only better whether the vaccine hastened the the river, causing a loss of about 200 Shipping of liquor act—Provides progress of the disease where it oc­ that intoxicating liquor shipped from establishing this station is to enable a situated in this respect, but also oe- curred.” Wheat—Track prices: Club, 94c; tons of wheat. lookout stationed there to notify all rU py agperior strategical positions, The accident does not interfere with "wet” to “dry” territory must be la­ bluestem, 99c; forty-fold, 94(8 95c; - - These facts probably account for the the loading of vessels and wheat is beled and bear the names of the con­ points of the reserve in the event of' — red Russian, 92c; valley, 94c. Wireless Strike at End. calmness with which Servia appar­ The package fires. Oats — No. 1 white, $32 per ton; being handled as before. The dock is signee and consignor. Work on the telephone line and sta ­ Seattle, Wnxh. The strike of wire­ ently regards the pros|>ecta of war. located at the foot of Randolph street. must describe the liquor it contains. stained and off grade, less. tion has been commenced. From less telegraph o>>eratoni on the Pacific Millstuff8—Bran, $24.50/825 pr ton; While a few roadways leading to docks Another measure provides that saloon Prairie City there is telephone connec­ Coast, which was called more than a Would Bribe Rebels. shorts, $26.50(827; middlings, |32. have been damaged by the freshet, keepers who sell liquor to intoxicated tion with all points in this reserve. Barley—Feed, $26.50(827 per ton; the pressure of water loosening the persons, minors or blacklisted persons Eagle Pass Tex. — General Lucio month ago by the Commercial Tele­ brewing, nominal; rolled, $28.50(8 foundations, no other dock warehouses shall be liable for all damages that ac­ Blanco, who directed the successful graphers’ union of America, was set­ have buffered and with the river on crue. Tri-County Fair Dates Set. tled Saturday and the union operators 29.50. Game and fish laws—Completely re­ Local offi­ Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, the decline danger tis thought to be Condon—The Tri-County Fair will rebel attack on Matamoras last week, began to return to work. reported to Venuatiano Carranza, "con ­ vises game and fish laws of state. It be held in Condon this fall on October cers of the Marconi company said they choice, $18(819 per ton; alfalfa, $13 passed. is probably one of the most compre­ 1, 2 and 3, according to the decision stitutionalist” leader, that he had had no details of the settlement from @14. hensive measures ever passed by a leg­ of the executive committee in a spe­ been approached with an offer of 300,- San Francisco, but that better work­ Onions—New red, $1.25 per sack. Big Toll Paid to Rebels. Vegetables — Artichokes, 75c per cial meeting held Tuesday night. Tri- 000 pesos if he would betray Carranza ing conditions had been agreed to, al­ Saltillo, Mexico — More than 100 islature. Election revision measures—-Uncer­ County fair is to be a permanent year­ and join the forces of President Huer­ though complete recognition of the un­ dozen; asparagus, Oregon, 50c@$l; refugees, chiefly Americans and Brit­ Blanco reported that he had ion wax not granted. tainties existing in many laws cleared ly event in Condon henceforth, and ta. The wage in­ beans, 12jc pound; cabbage, 2Jc; cauliflower, $2 per crate; head let­ ish, arrived here on a special train and laws which proved unsatisfactory the directors have decided to purchase caused the arrest of the federal emis­ crease demanded was not granted. tuce, $2.50 per crate; peas, 7i(88c from Conception Del Oro in North­ repealed. the large grand stand, chicken coops, sary, Bruno Trevino, and that he had Bill creating board of control— etc., from the Mayville Fair associa­ been sentenced to death by a court Prince on American Soil. per pound; peppers, 30c; radishes, eastern Zacatecas, about 87 miles from 10<812c per dozen; rhubarb, 1(82c here. The party included Mr. Clap­ Board to have jurisdiction over all tion, which disbanded recently to join martial. The sentence was carried Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Prince Al­ per pound; spinach, 75c per box; gar­ ham, a mine manager who was seri­ state institutions excepting those for Condon in making the Tri-County fair out. bert Frederick George, second son of ously wounded in a recent brush with higher education. To be composed of a big success. lic, 7@8c per pound. King George, of England, wax on Dream I^ads to Death. Potatoes — Burbanks, 40@50c per the rebels. The refugees were comJ governor, secretary of state and state The local fair grounds, which were American soil Saturday. He and 60 pelled to pay the rebels $212,600 for treasurer. Ixm Angeles — Because she had fellow cadets of His Majesty’s ship hundred; new, 3c per pound. improved last year for the first Tri- the train and for permission to pass dreamed the night before that she Green fruit— Apples, new, $1.75 County fair, will be still better im­ Cumberland, now at Quebec, arrived would be killed in an automobile acci­ here from Toronto shortly after noon. per box; old, nominal; strawberries, out. They said that apparently no Prune Crop to Be Bumper. proved since the purchase. effort had been made to repair the dent, Kitty Howe, pretty young chorus The prince and his party traveled 75c(8$l-25 per crate; cherries, 8@12c Eugene — The Lane county prune girl, jumped from a speeding car when from I^wiston by trolley along the per pound; gooseberries, 2(84c; apri­ national railroad, to the north. Films to Show Interior. crop will be between 35 and 40 car­ it struck a rock and swerved to one cots, $1.25/81.75 box; watermelons, Central Oregon now is to be shown side. She landed in a pile of rocks, American aide of the gorge. The loads this year, according to J. O. Students to Military Camps. 5c per pound; peaches, $1.50 per box. prince, who is 17 years old, traveled Washington, D. C. — About 20 Holt, secretary of the Eugene Fruit to the world in motion pictures. Its fracturing her skull at the base of the “incognito.” Poultry—Hens, 15/815}c;|broilers, 25c; turkeys, live, 19(820c; dressed, schools and universities already have Growers’ association. Last year rains peculiar industries and its varied ac­ brain, and died at the Ramona hospital choice, 25c; ducks, old, 16i@18c; signified their intention of sending at the pollenization season cut the out­ tivities have been made the subjects at San Bernardino. Miss Howe had Fruit Traffic Plana Laid. young, 24@25c; geese, young, 14@ students to attend the military in-' put greatly, but this year there is of a series of films that will be dis­ told of the dream just prior to the ae- Portland George R. Merritt, of St. every indication of a record crop. struction camp to be held under the played wherever motion-picture the­ cident. 16c. Paul, general agent for the refrigera­ Eggs—Oregon ranch, case count, auspices of the War department at The green fruit is well formed and the aters are operated and patronized. tor service of the Northern Pacific, in trees are loaded. Cherries will be at Mitchell Loses in Appeal. Lloyd W. McDowell, publicity agent Gettysburg national park, Pennsyl ­ 19c per dozen; candled, 20c. in Portland to prepare for handling least an average crop. Orchards to for the Great Northern railway, has Albany, N. Y.—The decision of the the fruit crop of the Northwest this Butter—City creamery, cubes, 28c vania, from July 7 to August 15 next, . the northeast of the city are unusually just returned from a trip through the Supreme court declaring illegal Gover­ and at the Presidio, Monterey, Cal., I pound; prints, 29/829Jc. - - - , A ' heavy, while those to the northwest interior with about 3000 feet of high- nor Sulzer’s appointment of John year. He states that the road will from July 1 to August - 8 - inclusive, Pork—Fancy, ll@U|c per pound. place 1100 new refrigerator cars in hundred colleges were invited to par- are not showing up so well. class films. The pictures were made Mitchell, former president of the commission this year. Veal—Fancy, 13jc per pound. These, with by a representative of the Pathe United Mineworkers, as state labor the 2600 new cars built last Hops—1912 crop, 9@14c per pound; ticipate. year, will 1913 contracts, 13@13}c. commissioner, was affirmed by the give this line nearly 7000 refrigerator I Investigate Handling of Prunes. Weekly service. Chinese Women Conspire. Wool—Eastern Oregon, 10@16c per appellate division “as a matter of law cars. As a result of a recent conference at First Pension Is Granted. pound; valley, 14@16c; mohair, and not as a matter of discretion.” Pekin—Some women of modern ed- the Portland Commerical club between choice, 1913 clip, 30(832c. Hood River—The County court has The case will be tak'en to the Court of ucation were among the alleged anti­ prune growers of the state and Profs. "Buffet” Service Passes. Cattle—Choice steers, $7.75(88; government conspirators who were C. I. Lewis, H. S. Jackson and Her­ just granted the first pension under appeals. Spokane, Wash. — All transconti­ good, $7.25(87.50; medium, $7(87.25; placed under arrest at Tien Tsin and man Tartar of the Oregon Agricul­ the widows’ pension bill enacted at nental railroad lines operating in this Fares Not Up to Commiaaion. choice cows, $6.50/8,7; good, $6.25/8. Pekin in the past few weeks. It is tural college, this fall probably will the last session of the legislature. state have discontinued the sale of in­ 6.50; medium, $6@6.26; choice cal­ reported that 200 conspirators already see the beginning of an important ser­ The recipient, however, is not a wid­ Washington, D. C.—Streetcar lines toxicating liquor on their trains. This ves, $8(89; good heavy calves, $6.50 have been executed after summary ex­ ies of investigations on the handling ow, but her husband is a permanent are not subject to regulation of the will end the "bofTet service” on the <87.50; bulls, $4(8;6. amination. It is difficult to determine of the Italian prune. These will invalid, being afflicted with paralysis. Interstate Commerce commission. The Oriental limited, M the Great North­ Hogs — Light, $8(88.30; heavy, whether President Yuan Shi Kai is cover all phases of the subject, from The woman and her three children will Supreme court so decided in annulling ern; the Columbian-and Olympian, of winning or losing in the political cam­ the time the prune leaves the tree receive 117.60 a month. The court the commission’s order for a 5-cent re­ the Chicago, Milwaukee A St. Paul, $7@7.60. Sheep—Wethers, $5/86; ewes, $4(8, paign no»" being waged for the presi­ until it is put into the box ready to has received applications for relief duction of the fare from Omaha, Neb., and the North Coast limited, of the 5; lambs, $5.55/86.75. dency. sell. from more than a dozen widows. to Council Bluffs, Iowa. Northern Pacific. Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. New Reform Measure to Result From Investigation..