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PARCEL POST RATE REDUCED * Weight Limit Increased From 11 to 20 Pounds. Change Will Benefit One-Third of Patrons Further Iteduetion Thought Likely. Washington, I). C. Plana for the extension, improvement and reduction in rates of the parcel post are an nounced by Postmaster General Burle son. The changes, which are to become effective August 16, include an in crease from il |»>unda to 20 pounds In the maximum weight of parcels; a partial reduction In the |x>stage rates in the first and second cones and the abandonment of the parcel |>oat map as a means of computing rates and the substitution for it of a rate chart in dividualised to every poatotfiee in the United Slates. The plans contemplate the purchase of a yirge number of automobiles to be used exclusively for the delivery of parcel post matter. While for the present the maximum weight limit of 20 |M>unds and the re duction in rat<s will apply only to the Arts and second zones, from any given poHlofflce a distance of about 160 miles the changes di rec ted constitute the first long step town rd a universal extension of the system and a general reduction in the rates of [Mintage on parcel matter. "It is my expectation and belief,” said Postmaster General Burleson, “that eventually and it may be 15 or 20 years the |s>stal service will handle practically nil of the small package trat a|x>rtatlon business in the United States. The maximum weight limit, extended now from 11 to 20 pounds, 1 expect to see increased to 100 |x>unds, and experience may dem onstrate the practicability of handling the pnreel business at even lower rates than we now propose. I appreciate fully the sentiment for an increase in the weight limit and a reduction in rates to all zones, but it is necessary for us in a sense to feel our way. For that reason we have made the changes proposed apply only to the flrst and second zones.” Mr. Burleson announced the changes as follows: “The flrst zone shall include the ter ritory within the local delivery of any office and the flrst zone rate of postage will apply to all parcel post mail de posited at any office for local delivery or for delivery by city carrier or on rural routes, emanating from that postoffice. "The second zone shall include the rumumder of what is now the first zone together with the present second zone, and shall include all the units of area located in whole or in part within a radius of approximately 150 miles from any given postoffice. "The rate of postage on parcels weighing in excess of four ounces in the proposed flrst zone will bo reduced from 6 cents for the flrst pound and 1 cent for each additional pound or frac tion thereof, to 5 cents for the first pound and 1 cent for each additional two pounds or fraction thereof; and the rate for the second zone will be reduced from 5 cents for the flrst pound and 3 cents for each addi tional pound, to 5 cents for the flrst pound and 1 cent for each addi tional pound or fraction thereof. "The maximum weight of parcel post packages will l»e increased from 11 pounds to 20 pounds, the increase of weight to apply only to the first and second zones. No change has been made in the size or form of package.” APPLE G HOW ERM ORGANIZE Will Establish Agencies In All Large Business Centers. Npokane, Wash. Out of a confer- unco of apple growers in .Spokane last November has been evolved a coopera tive marketing organization which will be launched immediately on a continent-wide basis, having exclusive agencies in 160 leading centers of North America, extending from Mon treal to Texas, and from Florida to Eastern Montana. Through these agencies most of the great apple crop of the states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Mon tana will be marketed cooperatively under one central selling agency. The organization of Pacific North west fruit growers Is considered by bankers and business men to be the moat important economic development of the present decade, and they are freely asserting that thia cooperative movement will mean the salvation of the apple industry of these states, which last year produced 16,000 car loads. Carload shipments will commence next week under direction of General Manager J. II. Robbins at the Npokane headquarters of the distributors. While apples perhaps will constitute the bulk of the cor|x>ration’a shipments, all de ciduous fruits of the four states will be distributed. In addition to 160 exclusive agents, the North Pacific Fruit Distributors will have representatives covering the Middle Western gateways at Omaha and Minnea|«>lis, as well as at Chicago and New York headquarters, two in the territory of Montana and the Da kotas and three in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. H. F. Davidson, a large grower of Hood River, Or., president of the dis tributors, will go to New York August 1, and H. E. Smith, sales manager from Southern Idaho, to Chicago, to perfect organizations at these head quarters. $5,000,000 .Melon Is Divided. FARM tsi ORCHARD Notti and Instructions from Agricultural Collrgrt and Exptrtmmt Station» of Ort gon and Washington, Sptciallg Suilablt to Pacific Coast Conditions --------------- Protection of Sheep From Poison ous Plants. The only known way to prevent sheep poisoning by poisonous plants Is to keep them away from Infested pastures and rangea when they are very hungry for green feed, is the conclusion reached by Mr. G. H. Sam [»son, instructor in snimal husbandry at the Oregon Agri cultural college, after exhaustive re search. Inquiries have come to the college for methods of prevention and cure, and in reply Mr. Sampson says: “Several plants poisonous to sheep are normally found In many localities. Sheep frequently come in contact with them without serious injury. When pastures become poor, due to drought or overstocking, or when sheep are flrst put on summer range, deaths sometimes occur and serious iossea may follow. "Treatment of poisoned sheep is very difficult, as the animal frequently shows little sign of sickness until a few minutes before death. Regurgita tion or vomiting after food has reach ed the digested stage is nearly impos sible for the sheep, so that emetics are of little avail, and physic works too slowly to get the poison out quick enough. These treatments which may relieve poisoned people, are less effi cient for sheep, because of the more complicated stomach of the latter. For the same reason, antidotes are difficult to get into action unless ad ministered hypodermically, and unfor tunately the commoner plant poisons in sheep do not yield readily to known treatments. “It is therefore evident that sheep should either lie kept away from pas tures infested with poisonous weeds, or only allowed on such pastures when there is an abundant growth of whole some plants and after the sheep have been allowed to eat their fill on unin fested pastures. "Larkspur, loco weed, wild parsnip, poison oak, sage brush and laurel, are all more or less injurious to sheep and will cause death if the sheep eat much of them or if ^they are compelled to suosist to too great an extent on these plants. The fact that sheep normally run on pastures containing one or more of these plants and yet suffer no ill effects, simply indicates that these plants are not relished by sheep so much as are normal forage plants, and will be left very largely alone unless pasture becomes poor.” New York -The directors of the American Express company have de cided to distribute among the stock holders of the company 45,000 shares of stock of Wells-Fargo & Co., with a market value of nearly $6,000,000, ; which has been held by the company for several years. As there are 180,- 000 shares of American Express stock, one share of Wells-Fargo will be al loted for each four shares of the American company’s stock. The American Express company ob tained the stock several years ago when it was bought as a result of an agreement whereby it contracted with the Union Pacific railroad for exten sion of its service over that line. The purchase was made, the directors said, Big Return From Garden. with the intention ultimately of dis It is astonishing the amount of gar tributing the Wells-Fargo stock thus den produce one may raise on a small obtained. patch of ground. Last year from a plot 75x132 feet a family of four were Will Allow Mail Deposits. supplied with fresh vegetables all Washington, D. C. — Banking by summer. Besides using all the early mail is the latest innovation entered potatoes needed, 39 bushels were put into by the government in connection into the cellar together with enough with the postal savings system. Here onions, carrots, parsnips, salsify and after de|x>sits may lie made by mail cabbage to supply the family for the and withdrawals likewise effected winter, writes an authority in Farm through the same agency. and Home. When the postal savings system was Six 60-foot rows of popcorn pro first put into operation, postmasters duced 2| bushels. One 50-foot row of were forbidden to permit deposits by string beans by carefully picking, that such persons ns were not patrons of none got too old, provided the family the postoffice in which they sought to with these, besides enough to pickle bank. Thia was found to work a real and can 28 quarts. Not a pod was hardship on a certain class of would- wasted. One 50-foot row of beets be depositors, and Postmaster General sufficed for summer pickles, canning Burleson accordingly abrogated the 25 quarts, and as much more to give rule. • away. Thirty tomato plants furnish ed enough for use fresh and the win Roumanians Are Near Sofia. Ixindon — Roumanian troops are at ter’s supply of canned tomatoes, be sides selling two bushels. Plevna and Mesedra, the latter town From 30 currant bushes, 10 goose within 30 miles of Sofia, and King berry bushes, and three 50-foot rows Ferdinand of Bulgaria is suppliant to King Charles, of Roumania, for terms of red raspberries, many quarts of 75 quarts of peace. It is understood that the fruit were used fresh, powers are striving to induce Rou canned and enough sold to buy the re mania not to occupy Sofia and are urg maining fruit needed for the rest of the canning. A lied of asparagus and ing Bulgaria to appoint a delegate to of pieplant is found at the end of the confer with the Servian and Greek pre Friedmann Patient I)iea. garden. miers. The facta of the situation are Topsfield, Mass. — Alford Warriner How was it done? The ground is Cooley, ex-United States assistant at just becoming known in Sofia and are kept well fertilized, well worked, and causing dismay among the people. M. 1 torney general ami an ex-judge of the a complete rotation of crops is prac New Mexico Supreme court, the most Malinoff’s efforts to form a cabinet ticed. Every foot of ground is used. appear to have failed. prominent patient to receive Dr. Small vegetables like radishes, let Friedmann’s "cure” for tuberculosis, tuce, onions, etc., are planted 14 inch Chinese Rebels Defeated. succumbed to the disease here. es apart. The first little rows of rad His dramatic 3000-mile dash across Kiu Kiang, China — The northern ishes are planted between the currant the continent from Silver City, N. M., troops have taken possession of Kiu bushes, as the early cultivation helps to Providence, R. I., where I)r. Fried Kiang and the forts. The southern them. The two succeeding crops of mann was then holding his only New rebellious forces have been defeated radishes were put in wherever any England clinic, was sensational. and are fleeing to Lu Ling, about 15 seeds failed to grow, so we do not lose Widespread belief that Dr. Fried miles to the south. Heavy fighting the use of any ground. Plant squash mann had discovered a cure for con has been in progress for several days es in with the corn, leaving four hills sumption renewed Judge Cooley's hope all around Kiu Kiang as the result of square between the squash hills. and it was through the offices of Colo the dispatch of northern troops to Plant no more of anything than you nel Roosevelt, it is said, that an ap drive out the Kiang troops, numbering will use, and can what cannot be used pointment was made ¡with Dr. Fried 9000. Reinforcementa now are on the fresh, letting nothing go to waste. way to aid in putting down the revolt, mann. which has spread all along the Yang Use for Mouldy Berries. tze Kiang. Bombs Thrown in Lisbon. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis—"Just look here,” exclaims Lislxin — An organized attempt at Stefanason Loads Boats. many a disappointed housekeeper bomb-throwing in various parts of the damp summer mornings. Nome, Alaska — The gasoline boat these city early Sunday was frustrated by "These loganberries are all mouldy. the police, who were warned and were Alaska, bought by Vilhjalmar Stefans They are such lovely berries that I do on the lookout. They captured sever eon to carry Dr. R. M. Anderson and I hate to throw them away.” Well, al automobiles in which they found party of the Canadian polar explora don't do it, then. Just turn them in baskets of bombs, and arrested many tion expedition to Victoria, arrived to a delicious drink or sparkling jell, persons who had gathered in the here Saturday and was taken over by for which purposes they are excellent. streets. While the police were en the explorer. The work of loading Of course, most people have not gaged in these operations, shots were stores and equipment was begun at known this, and as a result haye de-! fired, and several persons were wound once. Captain Robert Bartlett, mas ed. One bomb, thrown from an au ter of the Karluk, which is at Port Regretted Losing Good Thing. tomobile, killed a policeman and in Clarence, near Bering Strait, notified Ella—"Mrs. Gayboy looks very sad Stefanason that the Karluk was ready jured others. to sail. Stefanason is negotiating for since she divorced her husband.” Bel Dyke to Be Blown October 10. another power boat to carry supplies. la—"Yes, she didn’t know what a good husband she had until she saw Panama-Colonel G. W. Goethals, how generously he behaved about the Wreck of Dirigible Is Fatal. chief engineer of the Panama canal, Schneidemuehl, Germany —The mili alimony.”—Club-Fellow.T? announces that steamshovel work in the Culebra cut section hereafter will tary dirigible balloon Sehuette-Lanz For the Old Man to Decide. be conducted on the assumption that was tom from her moorings in a wind Gamboa dyke will be (dynamited Oc squall and wrecked. She carried up Old Gotrox (savagely)—"So you tober 10. The Gatun lake will flood in her cordage two sentries, one of want to marry ’my daughter, do you? the cut, thereby connecting the Atlan whom was killed by falling 600 feet Do you think two can live as cheaply tic and Pacific, although navigation of and the other seriously injured by a as one?” Young Softly (slightly em the canal probably will not be at i jump of 30 feet. The dirigible landed barrassed)—"I—I hardly think you | an hour later near the village of Erpcl. will notice snv difference, sir.”—Puck. tempted for some time thereafter. stroyed hundreds of dollars’ worth of otherwise gixxl berries. But Pro fessor C. I. Lewis, head of the Horti cultural department, has been conduct ing scientific experiments to determine the fllnex» of loganberries which have grown a mould but are otherwise sound, for domestic use. The above surprising conclusions are the result of this investigation. Although of great economic value, the results are easily accounted for. Professor Lew is says that mould is a vegetative pro cess as truly as the growth of lettuce, and the high temperature merely kills it. Directions for the use of the mouldy loganberries are easily followed. The mould is washed from the fruit and it is put into a saucepan with just enough water to keep it from stick ing. With a quick fire it is brought to the boiling point without continu ing to boil. It is then removed from the fire and the juice strained out. The juice is then mixed with one-third its measurement of sugar, put back on the stove, and again heated as before. It may be mixed with an equal quan tity of apple juice and the mixture made into a jell with the right amount of sugar. Or it may be set aside to cool, mixed with four times its meas urement of water, and used as a wholesome and delightful beverage. Big Value of Farm Manure. Manures benefit the soil by adding chemical elements and supplying it with organic matter. The organic matter by decomposition forms humus. A soil deficient in humus has lost its power to retain water for the growing crop, according to a Farm and Home contri butor. Organic matter can be added to the soil by growing and plowing under green crops, but this method adds but little new chemical material. On the other hand, when farmers attempt to keep up fertility by applying commer cial fertilizers alone the soil will eventually become depleted of humus. This makes necessary the keeping of stock and saving and properly apply ing the manure. The value of farm manures depends chiefly upon the kind and quality of the feeds used and the class of stock kept. The first is by far the most important. On an average three- fourths of the manurial value of the feed is voided by the animals in the manure, and in case of certain chem ical elements with some stock nearly all of it is voided. There are several good ways of sav ing and applying manure. We as farmers have to consider how we can save all of the chemical elements and at the same time handle it and get it to the fields with the least labor. In the first place the stable floors should be tight so that the liquid portion of the manure containing the nitrogen cannot get away. Even in cases where a large amount of bedding is used, if the floor is poor some of the liquid portion will leach away. Redding should be used, even though the floors are tight, as it adds greatly to the comfort of the animals, and when it is of the right sort, it adds to the quality of the manure. A con siderable portion of the organic mat ter of manure is in the bedding. A shed with a tight cement floor and a good roof, in which manure is kept wet down to prevent fermentation, makes good manure, but is often ob jectionable because of extra expense. —Farm and Home. Garden and Orchard. Evergreens make "all the differ ence” in the winter garden. They brighten and enliven gardens other wise winterkilled, bleak and bare. The importance of the gooseberry in England is shown by the fact that in the county of Kent there are 6000 acres devoted to this fruit. Ameri cans do not half appreciate it, says C. Wall in Farm and Home. Give Golden Ball lettuce a trial. It is round and compact, as the name im plies, and must be sown thinly, as it has a tendency to rot if closely set. In color it inclines to yellow, is of good flavor and nice to garnish or for salad. Boston curled is also a very desirable kind, being tender and fine flavored, and is not inclined to sect! early, a fault of many kinds. Last spring I planted a piece of gravelly loam to sunflowers. They grew very rank, some having heads measuring from 9 to 12 inches across. When harvested the sunflower seed was fed to a sow that had farrowed 10 pigs in June. No feed that I have ever used gave faster gain with this sow and pigs. Scientific Point Cleared Up. A German astronomer has published a series of tables which seem to show a connection between the appearance of sun spots and the wabbling motion of the earth on its axis, due, perhaps, to a variation in the sun’s magnetism. What He Wanted. SAILORS WRECK I. W. W. HALL Civilians and Naval Reserve Aid- Police Don’t See. Seattle, Wash. — Crowds of sailors from the Pacific Reserve fleet, at anchor in the bay, aided by hundreds of men and boys who came to join the Potlatch celebration, attacked the So cialist and Industrial Workers of the World headquarters Friday night, sacking the buildings and dumping the furniture into the streets. Two dis tinct parties made attacks. The first, in the northern part of the business district, wrecked the Socialist headquarters near Fifth avenue and Virginia street. They then nailed U. S. flags across the front of the build ing. The second, in the southern part of the down-town section, attacked the Industrial Workers of the World head quarters, dumping the furniture into the street and making a bonfire of it. The police offered not the slightest resistance to the sailors. Some of the officers said that all the force was busy handling the Potlatch crowds, and no reserves were available to cope with the rioters. The damage is estimated at $3000 or more. The police and the provost guard have taken hold of the situation and believe that no further damage will be done. The provost guard rounded up all the sailors ashore and sent them back to their ships. Most of the sailors in the first party wore the name-bands of the crusiers Colorado and California. About a dozen men, all youthful, were in the wrecking party at the start. They were aided by several members of the Washington naval militia and by hundreds of young civil ians, who made mo -t of the noise. FIRE WRECKS OREGON TOWN Business Section of Sheridan Gone, Also Many Dwellings. Sheridan, Or.—The business section of Sheridan has been wiped out, and several residences destroyed as a re sult of a fire which started Friday night at 5:03 o’clock and swept an area covering three blocks on the south side of the Yamhill river. The loss will reach between $350,000 and $400,000, with $100,000 insurance. The fire started from a gasoline stove explosion in a small restaurant. Of the entire business section there is one blacksmith shop and one garage standing. One bakery and one butch er stop remain to supply the town. About 30 buildings on the south side of the river were destroyed. The fire raged a little more than three hours. McMinnville, Carlton and Willamina, Or., sent fire hose and crews to fight the flames. McMinn ville is about 14 miles away and Carl ton about 22 miles. The crew and hose arrived at 7:03 o’clock, and the men swam the river with the hose to attach it to the hydrants there, so fierce was the heat on the south side of the river. Exploding cartridges, ammunition and dynamite in the various well- stocked hardware stores were a con stant menace to the firemen and resi dents of the city who joined in fight ing the flames. Six of the workers were prostrated by heat and smoke, and fell close in on the flames, but they were picked up and borne to safe ty before seriously injured. Long Airboat Trip Finished. SUMMON MEXICAN MINISTER HOME President to Confer in Person With Representative. Return of Ambassador Doubtful - Step Long Contemplated, Says Secretary Bryan. Washington, D. C.—The announce ment was made formally at the White House that Ambassador Wilson hud been aummoned from Mexico City for a conference with the President on the Mexican situation. Commenting on this, Secretary Bryan said that this step had been in contemplation for some time. He re fused to discuss a suggestion that this statement indicated the ambassador's recall and was not brought about by the action of the diplomatic body in Mexico City in formulating a joint complaint against the attitude of the United States toward the Huerta gov ernment. The secretary would not confirm or deny the report of the meeting of foreign representatives in Mexico. There is much speculation in official circles regarding Ambassador Wilson’s future, but it is believed generally that his return to the Mexican capital is by no means certain. President Wilson has received re cently reports from individual Ameri cans not connected with the State de partment on Mexican condition, so that he will be prepared to take up the dis cussion with the ambassador with con siderable personal knowledge on the subject. If the President should conclude that it is not necessary to return Mr. Wil son to Mexico, the embassy there would be left in charge of Secretary O’Shaughnessy. Thus its status would correspond to that of the Mexican em bassy in Washington, which is under the care of Secretary Algeria. Rec ognition of the Huerta regime would be involved in the dispatch to that country of a new ambassador. BRYAN REPLIES TO JAPAN Diplomatic Victory la Complete— Now Up to Courts. Washington, D. C.—The American reply to the last two Japanese notes on the California anti-alien land law has been delivered by Secretary Bryan to Ambassador Chinda, who at once cabled it to Tokio. As in the case of the preceding notes, the contents of the latest one were withheld from publication. There is some expectation in official circles that the delivery of this last note will conclude the negotiations on this subject between the two countries for the present at least, if not alto gether. It is declared that the American re ply to the various points of objection to the California legislation has been made so complete as to remove most of them from the field' of discussion. Even in cases where the Japanese con tentions have not been manifestly completely negative, the expert diplo matists are said so to have framed their responses as to reduce the points to clear issues, which probably can be adjusted only on the basis of judicial decisions. Unless the Japanese foreign office concludes that there is something in the American note delivered last re quiring immediate attention and reply probably there will be no further dip lomatic exchange for at least another month. At the expiration of that time the Webb alien land-owning act will become effective and the way will be opened for a judicial test of its constitutionality. Detroit, Mich. — Beckwith Havens completed a flying boat trip from Chicago to Detroit shortly before 4 o’clock Saturady afternoon. He fol lowed the route planned for the Chi cago-Detroit aviation cruise and cov ered 900 miles. It is said to have been the most remarkable trip ever undertaken by flying boats. Although it was announced a few days ago that the cruise, which started from Chicago July 8, had been called off because of the private committee which raised the bonus money was re ported to have withdrawn the prizes, E. P. Noel, steward of the Aero Club Mrs. Smith’s Body Found. of America, said here that the cruise Woodland, Wash.—Word was re itself would stand and that Havens ceived here that the body of Mrs. would be the winner of it. Clinton Smith, of Portland, who, with her husband, was lost on Mount St. Civil Service 1« Applied. Helens, has been found. It was about Washington, D. C.—A large num 1000 feet from the place that Mr. ber of nominations for consular offices Smith's body was discovered. It is supposed that Mrs. Smith met will be sent to the senate in a few her death in much the same way as days. The list will include many of did her husband, whose body was the names contained on the slate found at the bottom of a 300-foot which failed confirmation at the close precipice of ice and lava above Toutle of the Taft administration. canyon, on the southwest slope of It is said this will be the first dem Mount St. Helens. It is apparent onstration of the purpose of President that Mr. and Mrs. Smith became sep Wilson to continue the application of arated while trying to make their way civil service principles in the consular down the mountain in ¡the blizzard of service, as many of the officers named Sunday, July 6. for promotion are neither Republicans or of known political affiliations. California Potato Hit. Old Oregon Will Be First San Diego, Cal.—It is the purpose of the Navy department to send the entire battleship fleet through the Panama canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific as soon as Colonel Goethals notifies the government that warships may pass through the waterway. Sec retary Daniels made this unequivocal statement in an interview here. He added that it was intended that the Oregon should lead the naval proces sion. Four-year-old Myron was served with some waffles one morning for the first time in his memory, and upon Poisoned Mash Effective. finishing them with a relish he called: Dodge City, Kan. — More than half “Mamma, please bring me some more of the grasshoppers in this country of those pancakes with windows in.” were killed by the poisoned mash the farmers recently scattered over their Then Few Men nave It. fields, according to a report by P. A. “Pop, what’s poise?” “Poise, my Classen, state entomologist. Mr. Clas eon, is when a man can pick up a pret sen, after a 40-miles drive through the ty woman's handkerchief in a street country, said from 50 to 60 per cent of car and then look at the other passen these pests have been killed and that gers without feeling and acting like a another spreading of the poisoned i mash would exterminate them. fool."—Judge. Olympia, Wash. — Declaration of quarantine against all California- grown potatoes is threatened by the new department of agriculture, on ac count of the prevalence of tuber moth, a new and dangerous pest, on potato shipments from the South. T. O. Morrison, deputy commissioner of ag riculture, has asked the attorney gen eral for a formal ruling as to his pow ers in the matter. The tuber moth ia a new pest, which lays its eggs in the eyes of the potato. The worms burrow ' in the root and destroy its food value. $625,000 Pearls Stolen. London—The theft of a'pearl neck lace valued at $625,000 was reported I to the Scotland Yard authorities Fri- j day. The pearls are alleged to have been stolen during transit by post from Paris to a dealer in London. The I robbery was discovered in London when the registered packet was I opened. The case 4 contained only | pieces of sugar.