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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1913)
ALASKA KOAD IS BEGINNING Secretary Lane Would Have Thor ough System in North. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST a General Newa of the Industrial and Educational Development and Progress of Rural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc. PACIFIC 18 LET INTO CANAL — Last Barrier Removed By Gigantic Blast of Dynamite. MEXICO WAKES TO SITUATION Panama—The last remaining bar rier at the Pacific end of the Panama canal waa blown up by dynamite Sun day morning. At 9:30 o’clock an FINO FINE OREGON FARMS FAIR ENTRIES COMING FAST electric switch waa turned on and hun Secretary of State Says "Deeert" Many Improvement« Added and dreds of tons of mud and stones were Country Produces Well. thrown high In the air as the thunder Premium List Best Ever. Salem.—That the arid lands of East ous roar of the explosion re-echoed in Money Offered By Planter« Bank Washington officiala wait for Mex Salem—Each mall brings applica ico to make the next move. ern and Southern Oregon are being Clerk« and Bualneaa Men the near-by hills. tions for entries In some department reclaimed through the application of About 80 long tons, equivalent to Join Militia. In the Labor Day automobile races at the Oregon State Fair to be held correct principles of dry farming aud at Nashville, Tenn., four racers were September 29 to October 4, inclusive. 44,800 pounds of 46 per cent dyna killed and three injured. irrigation was an announcement made mite, constituted the blast, which waa by Secretary ot State Olcott and Requests for copies of the premium Mexico City.—A wave of patriot All three of the American yachts in one of the largeet ever aet off in the Treasurer Kay upon their return from lists exceed those of former years, and the recent races at Sender, Germany, ism is eaid to lie sweeping over Mex canal. The charge, which waa a tour of the territory. They are en the entire state appears to be awake ico, and from many states and from defeated the German boats. to the importance of the 52d annual planted in 641 holea at an average all classes, it Is announced, assurances thusiastic over the improvement that Only 6000 were in line in the Labor meeting. The transportation compan depth of 30 feet, tore a big gap in the of allegiance and offers of aervlce are has been made in the past two years. ies are advertising throughout Oregon, Day parade in New York City, there barrier, but not to a sufficient depth being received daily by President Hu *’l went all through the same terri Washington and Idaho. being no labor disputes on in that Daily there erta and his minister of war. city. tory two years ago.” said Treasurer are visitors to the grounds, and al) ex to permit water to flow through, aa Plana are being made for aa large a Kay. "and was astouished at the vast press wonder at the improvements | the tide was low. Mrs. George Beck, aged 60 yean, J display as possible of military improvements made since then. There made in every line. Strangers are Equally intereating aa the explosion strength on September 16, Indepen won the 100-yard foot race from a la more acreage, the crops are better amazed when told that all space in the waa the actual breaking of the bar dence Day, when it is proposed to hold field of 11 women at the Labor Day and the farms are In far better con immense stock barns will be taken and rier, the tide creeping ateadily up un a big parade in which 20,000 are ox- celebration in Tacoma. dition. What especially impressed me were the improved conditions in dry that the board is preparing room for til at 1:35 o'clock it waa level with ! peeled to march. A French aviator performed a com farming. Dry farming is a great suc an overflow. the top of the gap. The war department haa been called plete “loop-the-loop" in an aeroplane, That Oregon will show to the world cess in Eastern Oregon. A workman seized a shovel and on to furnish military instructors to a to prove the success of a new principle "We found fine crops on desert land she is a dairy state is proved by the made a small trench through which a dozen eitiea, where the fear of being in stabilising air craft. which never had been watered except entries made in that dipartment. rill of water trickled. Gradually It ' impressed for service against the rev by rains. A crop or two is turned in The State board waa highly com widened until an hour later a raging olutionists has given away before a A Connecticut detective went sud to give the land the necessary humus plimented last year for the free at torrent, with a 36-foot fall, poured later patriotic ardor. denly insane and held up five railroad Thousands of and after that the land produces abuu tractions given the public, but those men in a shanty in the Hartford through an opening 400 feet wide into all ages are asking to be drilled in the dantly.” offered this year are far ahead. yards, wounding two of them. that part of the canal between Gam- use of arms. Messrs. Olcott and Kay went to Red The grounds present the appearance lx>a dike and the Miraflores locks, mond with Secretary of the Interior Nor is the aid offered the govern I. W. Ws. met a trainload of hop- Laue, and after the meeting there they of a massive flower bed, and when the which previously had been excavated ment confined to offers to serve in the pickero at North Yakima, Wash., and drove In an automobile 100 miles fair is opened there will be 1,000,000 | by steam shovels. ranks. A delegation of planters from tried to keep them from going to the through Central Oregon. They found or more additional flowers to bid them This cut, which is 6000 feet long, the state of Morelos waited on the hop fields, but the police and fire de conditions much better than they were welcome. 500 feet wide and 41 feet deep below president and tendered a subscription partments soon dispersed them. two years ago. Entries, especially of livestock, are mean aea level, was entirely filled by of 3,000,000 pesos. They found six camps established Cordwood falling from a passing far ahead of those of any former fair, ! 3 o’clock, when the waters of the Pa In addition to the students of the at the Tumalo, formerly the Columbia and have been exceeded only in this freight train at Goodin, near Oswego, Southern project, where it is proposed | state by the Lewis and Clark fair of cific laved for the first time the solid preparatory schools, where military Or., killed one woman and injured sev masonry of the Miraflores dam. instruction haa been enforced for some to irrigate about 30,000 acres. The eral others, who were waiting on the The last vestiges of the barrier weeks, the manual of arms ia being state has appropriated $450,000 for this 1905. Canada and the United States platform for a passenger train. in general, are represented in the will be removed soon, establishing a taught workers who are attending work. practically completed channel at the night achoola and the employee of the Messrs. Kay and Olcott found much entries. Chinese government forces have A temporary building has been erect Pacific end. dry farming was being done near Fre The dredge began on tax department. gained possession of the city of Nank The employea of moot and Fort Rocks. They were ed for the Eugenics department and September 2 to remove the last bar several banks are also said to have or ing. Several foreign warships in the amazed at the excellence of the crops also a large tent capable of seating rier of the Atlantic channel. When harbor were struck during the fight and the Improvement ot the farms 3500 people, which will be used in thia work is accomplished ships may ganized a company and proffered their ing, and one American sailor was services. They inspected the work of the North esse of rain. navigate to the locks from both ends. wounded. The newspapers continue to devote west Townsite Company at Paisley. Harness races, a shooting tourna themselves editorially to the late dip Although work has been suspended ment, band contests, fireworks and The convention of the American Bar WOMAN. BORN SLAVE, VOTER lomatic exchanges, dwelling on the al temporarily during the harvest season, association in Montreal is attended by the place has a prosperous appearance novelty races on the half-mile track, leged sympathy and encouragement Lord High Chancellor Haldane, of a new feature this year, are among and its future seems assured. Mexico ia receiving from the press of Once Given As Wedding Present, England, Chief Justice White, of the the free attractions offered. A half day was passed at the plant France, Germany and Great Britain. United States Supreme court, and ex Registers As Republican. ot the Summer Lake Company, which Followers of General Felix Diaz ex President Taft. is obtaining salt and alkali through PEAR CROP BRINGS IN 120,000 Albany, Or.—Born a slave, Mrs. pect him to return to Mexico City not the evaporation of water from the Danger and safety signs using col Amanda Johnson, of this city, not later than October 4 to puah his cam lake. The company haa spent about ors only have been adopted in many $50,000 and is working on one of the From 14 Acres, 7500 Boxes Will Be only has enjoyed freedom for 60 years, paign for the presidency. Minnesota and Wisconsin mines, as but Saturday, on her 80th birthday, The excitement among American biggest projects in the state. It is de Shipped to Europe. there are so many nationalities work became a duly qualified voter with all residents over President Wilson's clared by the promoter that the busi ing there that words in the different The warning subsided to a large degree Medford — One of the best fruit of the rights of citizenship. ness will yield hundreds ot thousands languages were impracticable. of dollars tn profit to the stockholders. deals in the Rogue River valley for adoption of women’s suffrage in Ore over Sunday. A limited number of "We probably saw the finest crops thia year was made by Fred Hopkins, gon last fall paved the way for this persona left on trains to Vera Cruz. Party leaders agree on higher in and prettiest country ot our entire trip BUILD SCENIC ROAD TO SEA at Lakeview," continued the State j of the Snowy Butte orchard, when result and she registered as a Repub The opinion is growing that the warn come tax. through the Producers' Fruit company, lican voter. ing, so far aa regards the large cen Treasurer. "There has been only a he sold his entire crop of Winter An Oregon pioneer ot 1853, Mrs. ters, will not be generally obeyed. Great peace palace is dedicated at little irrigation, but one of the biggest Colombia Highway Association Af The Hague. private projects in the state is under Nellis pears, 7500 boxes, from 14 Johnson has lived in and near Albany ter New Route. way and soon thousands of acres will acres, to London and Glasgow fruit continuously for 60 years. Her friends BIG OIL FIRE RAGES FIERCELY British press doubts success of Wil are many. She was lx>rn in Liberty Gearhart, Or.—"Five hours from be watered. It is a great country,’’ dealers for approximately $20,000, son’s Mexican policy. For the past eight years the aver Clay county, Mo., August 30, 1833. Boiling Water in Tank Throw« ' Portland to the sea, September 8, Her life has been eventful. The ROOT BORERS ARE NOW BUV- age return from these 14 acres has Blaze Hundred« of Feet. 1914." Five persons meet death as building been from $15,000 to $20,000, and the old Southern custom of a family giv This was the slogan adopted at the collapses in Peterboro, Ontario. Los A..jeles—The Associated Oil ing to a daughter upon her marriage close of the two days’ “Highway-to- Growers of Cane Fruita Should Be fruit has nearly always found markets Companies’ 66,000-barrel tank, fired a little colored girl as a personal at in foreign countries. The trees are More than 60 persons were killed by the-sea" good roads meeting held here On Lookout. 23 years old and are bearing more tendant, and the feeling in the South by lightning at Coalinga, waa burned a typhoon which swept Japan recently. under the auspices of the Columbia Oregon Agricultural College, Corval heavily now than ever before in their against liberated negroes before the Sunday. The water in the bottom of Highway association. lis.—Growers of loganberries, black history. war, were the potent factors in Mrs. the tank boiled, throwing the blazing The government will sell 100,000,- A resolution was unanimously Half of the 000 feet of timber on Olympic penin adopted asking the county courts of berries and raspberries should make a Although the Bartlett pear prices Johnson’s long trip across the plains oil hundreds of feet. careful examination of the canes for width of the tank collapsed, and oil sula. to Oregon in pioneer days. are falling in the East, nearly 200 the several counties through which the signs of root borers at this season, A daughter of the family on whose thrown against the derricks of two ad cars have been shipped from this val-: A terrier at Salem, Or., adopted highway will pass to provide the funds says Professor A. L. Lovett, assistant place she was born, was married when jpining wells burned them to the ley at a price that will average close entomologist of the Oregon Agricul two orphaned kittens, after having necessary for the survey of a road 24 Mrs. Johnson was seven years old, and ground. The blazing oil surrounded feet wide and to authorize this survey, tural College Experiment Station. The to $2 a box f. o. b. Medford. lost her puppies. she was given to this /laughter as a another 55,000-barrel tank, but steam root and crown borer (Bembecia Mar- to be made by the state highway en turned into the top of the tank saved ginata), is a very serious root pest, The currency bill ¡«'delayed in con wedding present. Rain Kills Red Spiders. gineer. It was the sense of the meet but a little careful work now will do it from destruction. Fire among the gress by the slow progress made on Salem — Hopgrowers announce that ing that the first step to be taken to much to lessen future trouble. surrounding tanka waa put out with LAND IS OPEN FOR LOTTERY the tariff measure. ward the highway was to secure the Evidences of the borer’s presence at the rain of last week killed the little hand extinguishers and earth. The Imperator, the largest vessel in survey and the estimates of cost by this time are readily observed. Go red spiders which do great damage to E. T. Morris, general manager of They say the rain was Registration for Fort Peck Indian the Pipe Line company, estimates the the world, suffered heavy damages by the state highway engineer. With over the field, making a careful ob the crops. worth thousands of dollars to them, fire in New York harbor. this as a basis, campaigns for bond is servation of the canes and crowns of Reserve Begins. damage aa follows: Oil, $25,000; sues sufficient to build the road will be the plants just at the surface. When and while it was a slight drawback so tank, $15,000; derricks, $7(8)0. Glasgow, Mont. — At a minute past canes are blighted, or when little far as plowing is concerned, this was begun. ________________ heaps of worm wood and grass are more than overcome by the destruc midnight Aug. 31, registration under PORTLAND MARKETS Big Fleet Concentrating. COTTON EXCHANGE HARD HIT found, the infested canes should be tion of the pests. The yards in this the direction of Judge J. W. Witten, Philadelphia — With the>rrival of removed. This will disclose the tun territory virtually are free of vermin, of the Interior department, began for Wheat—Track prices: Club, 78}@ 79c; bluestem, 85c; forty-fold, 80c; Tax on Trading Without Delivery nel of the borer, and by cutting away and there is no question as to the yield the drawing of lands in the Fort Peck three ships this week, there will be the wood and bark for a short distance Indian reservation in Northwestern concentrted at the Philadelphia navy red Russian, 78c; fife, 78c; valley, into the crown, the elongated, «white and quality setting a new record. of Goods Is Proposed. Montana, embracing 1,245,000 acres yard, one of the moat powerful fleeta 80c. Scores of pickers are now in the borer is revealed. If undisturbed the Washington, D. C.—Senator Clarke borer will tunnel further into the fields and it is estimated that by the of land. This will mark the last big that haa ever been assembled at an Oats—No. 1 white, $25(825.50 ton. American naval station. ’ Corn—Whole, $37; cracked, $38 ton. addressed the senate Tuesday on his crown, continuing the already serious end of the week half the crop will be land lottery in the United States. The Fort Peck reservation contains The vessels to arrive are the battle Barley—Feed, $24.50 per ton; brew amendment to impose a tax on trading injury. picked. more than 2,000,000 acres, of which ships Illinois and Alabama, and the in cotton where no actual delivery was ing, $25.50; rolled, $27(828. The borer passes two years in the Growers throughout the valley have root and crown. In July of the sec made a determined fight against in 723,095 have been allotted to the In armored cruiser Montana. The ships Hay—Fancy Idaho timothy, $17@ intended. now at the yard include the battle Senator Carke declared that the ond year it works its way up into the sects this year, with the result that dians. 18; fancy Eastern Oregon timothy, The drawing will be held at Glas ships Idaho, Connecticut, Ohio, Kear- $15@16; timothy and clover, $14@16; New York Cotton Exchange and “its stub of the past year’s cane, and soon the yards are cleaner and in better gow, beginning September 23. It is sarge, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Indiana, timothy and alfalfa, $13@14; alfalfa, parasite,” the New Orleans Exchange, after emerges as an adult moth. This condition than ever before. estimated that 80,000 land seekers Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts and Mis $13; clover, $8.50/510; oat and vetch, were no more than gambling institu moth is a clear winged insect (sesli- will file applications. souri; armored cruisers Washington $10/811; cheat, $16/811; valley grain tions. The New York exchange, he dae), not unlike a robust wasp In ap pearance. It has narrow, clear brown More Flax Growing Urged. and North Carolina, and cruisers Bir argued, controlled the price of cotton ish wings, a black and yellow head, hay, $10(811. Salem—At a special meeting of the Suffrage Is “Monster.” mingham, Cheater and Salem. Onions—Walla Walla, $1.50 sack. j for the whole world. and a robust abdomen with alternate Commercial club to encourage the flax One thousand marines, who are sta- Washington, D. C.—“Women who Vegetables—Beans, 3@4c pound; Senator Clarke declared that gamb rings of yellow and black. The moths cabbage, 2@2}c; cauiflower, $2 crate; ling in agricultural products had been ' are present in the fields now, flying industry in thia section, a committee have obtained the franchise are mod tioned at the yard, are being conatant- corn, 10@15c dozen; cucumbers, 20(8 condemned by the platform adopted at sluggishly about In the sun, deposit composed of business and professional em Frankensteins, creators of a polit i ly drilled in "advanced baae" work, 40c box; eggplant, 5@7c pound; head the Baltimore convention, and that the ing eggs on the under-surface margin men was named to investigate the ical monster that haa turned on the and about 4000 aailora are here alao. lettuce, 35/840c dozen. Democratic party in congress must of the leaf. The eggs are brown, ap feasibility of organizing a stock com-1 sex with appalling results." Thus the National Association Op Troops Sent to Border. Green Fruit—Apples, $1(8.2.25 box; take Bteps in conformity with that proximately one-sixteenth of an Inch pany. Eugene Boose announced at cantaloupes, $1(82 crate; peaches, 46 declaration of principle. He said the in length, and somewhat resemble a the meeting that $150,000 would be posed to Woman Suffrage prefaces a Chattanooga, Tenn. — The Eleventh large radish seed. required to start the business. He statement containing a denunciation (8.75c box; watermelons, $1.25/8,1.50 actual deliveries of cotton on the New Capture all adult moths observed. said that about 1500 acres should be United States cavalry, at preaent en ! of woman suffrage by Mias Annie cwt.; plums, 75c@$l box; pears, $1 York Cotton Exchange were only one-1 They are very sluggish, in the early planted in flax at the beginning, and Bock, a California woman, who usee gaged in maneuvers at Wincheater, @1.50; grapes, 55c/8$1.25 crate; cas- half of 1 per cent of the sales. morning and easily caught Destroy from this, he estimated, a dividend of her own state as an illustration in Va., haa been ordered to proceed to abas, $1.75 dozen; nectarines, 75c@ the eggs where found, and cut out all $1 box. borers where their presence is noted. at least 10 per cent would be derived. support of her assertions. Mias Bock the Mexican border, according to au Shriners Use Canal Lock. It ia aaid or was one of California's most active thentic reports here. Poultry—Hens, 15}(816c; springs, Panama — An initiation ceremony Citizens to Build Road. suffragists for more than a year, but ders also were received directing that 18c; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 8ALE RIGHTS ARE DENIED all priaoners be released from the Eugene—Finding that county funds now is working against it. choice, 25c; ducks, 10@15c; geese, was conducted on the upper lock of the Salem.—Corporation Commissioner guardhouae at Fort Oglethorpe, and canal at Miraflores Monday morning Watson has declined to issue a permit for the district were practically ex young, 12}c. directing that they proceed at once to Eggs—Oregon ranch, case count, 25 under the auspices of the visiting to the Sectional Threshing Cylinder hausted, and also that the county rock Horaelesa City in View. Winchester and join their commands. (826c dozen; fresh ranch, candled, 28 Shriners of Osman Temple, St. Paul. Company, of Spokane, to do business crusher had been promised to another Chicago—There will be no horses in The War department revoked an order A complete temple setting was ar In this state, declaring if Its reports @30c. district, two dozen people of Walter- Chicago 50 years from now if the an for one squadron of the Eleventh cav Butter — Oregon creamery butter ranged in the lock chamber and 170 as to Its earnings are true it shot-’ ’ ville turned from the county court nual decrease of 2 per cent in the use alry to attend a G. A. R. encampment. made to retire all unsold stock and not try to cubes, 32c pound; butter fat, deliv Panama candidates were room to the office of Supervisor Seitz, of animals in the city continues. The “cross the burning sands." Follow sell more. ered, 32c. Mill Fire Coet« $25,000. The company has been operating a of the Cascade national forest, and decrease has been computed for the ing the ceremony a bronze tablet in Pork—Fancy, 12}c pound. plant and has manufactured 30 cylin here determined to raise by private years between 1907 and 1918, which Spokane, Wash.—Fire of an un commemoration of the event was Veal—Fancy, 15}c@16c pound. ders, 16 of which have not been sold, subscription the $2250 needed to put show a total falling off in horse-drawn known origin burned the planing mill Cattle — Prime steers, $8/88.35; placed in the wall. Shriners to the since June, 1912. The company In the McKenzie Valley highway between vehicles of 12 per cent for that period, and dry kiln of the Dean Lumber A choice, $7.50@7.75; medium, $7.25@ number of 190 were entertained at a sists that It can make from 10 to 12 Walterville and I^aburg in good while the use of automobiles has In Fuel company, causing a loss of $25,- 7.50; prime cows, $6.75@7; choice, banquet at Colon. cylinders a day, at a profit of $12 each, shape. Eugene road enthusiasts will creased 570 per cent. Figures gath 000. The two-story planing mill, con $6.50@6.75; medium, $6.25@6.50; yet wishes to sell more stock to build go to Walterville to inspect quarries. ered by the Citizens’ street cleaning taining several thousand feet of lum* Copper Mine Clash Fatal. heifers, $6.25@7.75; light calves, $8 a *larger plant. bureau show that 1769 fewer horses ber and a dozen pieces of machinery, Calumet, Mich.— Margaret Faze- @9; heavy, $6.75@7.75; bulls, $4/8 Yamhill Hops Promising. N0RTHWE8T FRUIT GOOD moved through downtown streets was burned, as well aa the dry kiln, kas, 15 years old, was shot during a 5.50; stags, $5.75@6.25. McMinnville—The gathering of the daily in 1913 than in 1907. more than 100 feet long, and packed Hood River.—“The Northwestern or Hogs — Light, $9@9.65; heavy, battle between copper mine strikers full of lumber. and deputies at the North Kearsarge chards are the only ones with loaded large crop of-ihis year’s hops has com $7.50(88.60. France Beset By Storm. Sheep — Wethers, $3.30@4.26; mine, and is not expected to live. None trees that I have seen this year,” menced in Yamhill county. From all . Lindsay Speak« for Suffrage. Paris — A long spell of dry, hot of the 18 deputies who participated in declares B. H. Blossom, owner of a parts of the county reports are current ewes, $3.50@4; lambs, $4.25@5. 200-acre orchard near the city of The Cleveland, O., who has been visiting that the yield of hops for this year is weather has abruptly terminated in a Washington, D. C.—Judge Ben B. Hops — 1913 contracts, 18@19c; the trouble have been arrested. 1913 fuggles, 22(822}c; 1912 crop, 16} shooting was denounced as murder at A. W. Peters on the East 8ide. ”1 better than the average, both in qual series of cyclonic rain storms through Lindsay, of Denever, was the pincipal The storms were espe speaker at a mass meeting of suffrag a Labor Day mass meeting at Han have been In orchards In New York, ity and quantity, and barring much out France. @18c. Wool—Eastern Oregon, U@16c; cock, which was addressed by Presi Maryland and Virginia, and none of damp weather the income from that cially violent in the southwest and ists here under the auspices of the valley, 18@19c; mohair, 1913 clip, dent Moyer and other officials of the them can compare with the irult you source will be large for the hopgro%- jjgpter, the grape vines and tobacco National Woman Suffrage assocation. ers of this county. have here.” crops being destroyed in msny places. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw. Western Federation of Miners. 26@27}c pound. Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. San Francisco—Secretary of the In terior Lane arrived Wednesday from the North an<P was met by Mayor Rolph and a representative committee. After a reception in the nave of the Ferry building Mr. Lane went to Berkeley to pass the rest of the day at his brother's home, where Mrs. Lane had been waiting for him. National railroads for Alaska, to be urged on congress next year by the department of the interior, a policy of protection for the consumer and re straint on speculation in the granting of power permits on the national streams, the prospects for Jthe Hetch- Hetchy water supply for San Francis co, the needs of the reclamation serv ice for 170,000,000 to add to the $80,- 000,000 now being spent in the arid lands of the West, a plan to elimin ate the "blanket Indian" by making the aborigine a self-supporting citi- xen; these are some of the things Sec retary Lane talked of as he crossed the bay. “Alaska ought to be opened up,” declared the secretary. "A national railroad ought to be built as a begin ning on a general system of national .ailroads in the territory. Next fear I am going to urge on congess that it make such a beginning. “We have demonstrated pretty thoroughly now that the government is capable of undertaking such proj ects. While it is unlikely that muah of the equipment on the canal could be used in such work, as it has been planted by the engineers to last only to the completion of the waterway, at the same time the engineers on that work have developed in it a vast ca pacity, which the government can use. “Uncle Sam has become a pretty expert workman. The other day I rode on a national railroad 18 miles long, and with four steel bridges, a full-sized, broad-gauge road, built by the Boise reclamation project, in Ida ho. “It will cost the government more to build those railroads tnan they could be constructed for by private concerns, but we can stand this. “The interest of the consumer is to be the controlling factor in the future granting of permits for hydro-electric plants on national streams. Permits to power companies to develop electri city for commercial purposes on streams in forest reserves are going to be granted by the department of the interior on a scale of rules which will secure the lowest prices to the con sumer. ” ________________ Thousands of All Ages Ask for Military Instruction.