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Ifetsoa E S 11 Fsbi'l ONE THIRDt NATIONS POTENTIAL HYDROELECTRIC POWER IN COLUMBIA RIVER ANU .TRIRl TARLES riujwLs ior canalization oi me uoramma are Deing pressea betore congress ana among civic and omcial bodies of Oregon, Washington and Idaho for the purpose of us "1B wests great river ior power, irrigation ana navigation, ah streams oi umtea states togetner nave some bO,OUU,UUO potential hydro-electric horse po bia river system alone represents more than 20,000,000 p otential horse power hydro-electric energy. Umatilla p roject alone would generate from 250,000 to 5 power, enough to make electricity cheaper in Portland t han any other form of light, fuel for heating or energy for manufacturing plants. Power dam w oi nver to moutn oi snaKe ana divert water tor irrigation oi more than ZW,VW acres. Uregon Journal. power. Loljm- 00,000 horse ould canalize THE VOLUME 2 BOARDMAN, OREGON, FRIDAY, JAN. 5, 1923 NUMBER 48 JUDGE BUTLER POWER DEVELOP MENT FOR BOARD MAX DISTRICT Pierce Butler, of St. Paul, Minn., recently appointed an associate jus tice of the United States supreme court. RULING SOUGHT TELEPHONE COMPANY Portland, Or. By pamphlets mailed to public service commissions of all the states of the Union, the Oregon public service commission took the initiative iu seeking to have the Uni ted States department of justice ob tain an interpretation by the United States supreme court of the Clayton anti-trust act as it relates to tele phone and telegraph companies. It is contended by the Oregon com mission that the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company, a subsidiary of the American Telephone & Telegraph company, is a common carrier and subject to section 10 of the Clayton act, and that application of this sec tion of the act would solve the com mission's difficulty in reducing rate base costs. The telephone company holds it is not a common carrier. BRIEF GENERAL NEWS The Idaho state grange will hold its 15th annual convention January 15 to 18 at Gooding. Three hundred and twenty-one per sons were killed in traffic accidents in Los Angeles during the year 1:122. Pierce Butler, of St. Paul, Minn., newly confirmed justice of the su preme court, took the oath of office Tuesday. Senator Bursum of New Mexico in troduced a resolution for a loan of $1,000,000,000 to Germany, to be used in purchasing farm products and farm implements in this country. The loan will be secured by German industrial securities. About $250,000,000 of the victory notes called for redemption December 15 remain outstanding, the treasury department has announced in a state ment urging all holders of this issue to present for immediate payment all notes bearing the letters A, B, U, D, E and F, prefixed to their serial num bers. Congressman Sinnott of Oregon has asked the customs division of the treasury department to revise its re cent ruling that all jute grain hags must be individually marked with the country of origin instead of having the bales marked as in the past and Indications are that the ruling may be revised. Paris Refuses German Offer. Washington, D. C. The state de partment announced that the German proposal for an agreement under which France, Great Britain, Italy and Germany should "solemnly agree among themselves and promise the government of the United States'' not to resort to war for'th period of one generation without the authority of a plebiscite had not been transmitted to the French government formally by Secretary Hughes, as an informal in quiry brought out the fact that it was not acceptable to France. Dublin. Secret peace negotiations are reported to have been opened be tween Free Staters and Irish K-pub- Mr. Safford, manager for the Pa cific Power & Light Co. at Xenne wick, wa3 a caller Tuesday. He was here to ascertain the possibilities for the sale of power by his company for this district. The main sale would be for the pumping of water for irrigation purposes. His company is now pumping on 27,000 acres scattered thru eastern Washington. A power line will be bttilt this winter. from Kennewick to to Pendleton via Umatilla. A stub Hne will be built into this district if enough business ca'n be drummed up to justify the construction. Mr. Safford said he would recommend this construction. It is now up to headquarters. The line will be built west from Uma.tilla covering the large flat north of the highway between Coyote and Trrigon. It will run on west of Boardman to the scab rock district ast of Castle Rock. Then it will "ross the Columbia at Board man to Blalock island, irrigating that large acreage, thence to the Washington ,ide, taking in the scope of country from Carleys to Plymouth, which is icross the river from Umatlla. No greater development will take place In the Northwest than this Co lumbia section. It is the cream of the Burrounding milk. Erosion as sisted by gravity brings the fertil ity of the high places. It means that many city comforts will be brought to the rural home. Instead of fusing a gas lamp or trimming one of John D.'s oil burners, you will turn a switch and receive a known quantity. Instead of mother trying to rub a corrugated wash board smooth, a Thor washing ma chine will smooth the wrinkles from her forehead. A sad iron will elec trically cheer the bosom of your shirt. The "peak load" of the use of elec tricity conies to all companies at some one hour of the day. In the cities it is whin the bee hives dis gorge their swarms of humanity at evening time. Then the car trans portation is taxed to its limit. Mr. Safford spoke of his 'peak load." It comes Tuesday forenoons. Every housewife is leading her electric iron over the clean Monday wash. It lakes an electric horse power to "steam" up an iron. Every home, no matter how humble, has its iron Fifty thousand irons are at work smooth ing out your coming Sunday ap pearance. The electric range will permit a July evenness in the cook's dispo sition. The chicken fancier will have a button at the head of his bed Which he will turn at 6 a. m caus ins the flock to hit a springtime flow of eggs. The book of instuctions states that it is not wise to pull this stunt on a band of guinea hens. Mr. Safford states fiat in his district he has 112 customers who have their hens sitting up nights. To the forcing of the early root crop, the electric atom is being used to tickle the roots into more speed. What a boon this will be to the an gle worm industry. It means a larger and more intellectual worm. No fish can escape a worm charged with electricity. To the grunting "bach," who jjrovels at the throne of the doe God, life is at last com ing to you. You mush thru the grease cracklings of your bespat tered floor in the shank of the even ing with your boiler of mush and batter of mumixs to the electric range. You set the alarm clock at the hour you would turn on the elec tricity. When the lark awakens you at the break of day your morn ing repast awaits- you. The official cat dishwasher is superseded by the electrical. While the farmer has been nega tive thru no fault of his, he is com ing Into a positive age when he will have time at least to set the prices on his products, instead of per cent age shavers of the Market streets of the land. A galley slave, whether of land or water, has no time to think for himself. The rural life is being drawn to The cities by the white lights from a positive and neg ative action. The rural light has been of a negative darkness. It must be illumined by a positive ac tion or else the white lights of the cities will ultimately become nega tive. Elect rich y will raise the stan dard of living and decrease the cost Mr. Safford stale-, that if con-, struct ion is authorised power wit' be available this fall. SURPLUS ARMY SUPPLIES AID STATES IN ROAD BUILDING Approximately $190,000,000 worth of road-building machinery, and other supplies from the surplus war material of the Army, including 30,000 motor vehicles, have been al loted by the Bureau of Public Roads, United States Department of Agri ture. This material, of which, ap proximately $150,000,000 worth has been delivered says the bureau in its annual report, has enabled many of the Stales to organize; and equitf maintenance divisions to patrol the entire State road system. The largest item of materials de livered consisted of shop machinery and shop tools and equipment. This enabled the Slate highway depart ments -to equip shops for recondi tioning and repairing motor vehi cles and other motor driven ma chinery received from the Govern ment. The shop machinery consisted mainly of lathes, tool grinders, mill ing machines, cutting machines, planers, drill presses, and electric motors. Approximately 8,000,000 pounds of picric acid have been distributed for road-building and land-clearing purposes. In addition to the material distributed from the excess stores at camps and grsenals in the rniltirl States, there are now being returned from Germany and France 150 mo tor trucks, 2:; Cadillac automobiles, and 3,000,000 pounds of spare motor-vehicle parts, shop machinery, and machine tools. Representative Sinnott was assured by the customs division of ihc treas ury that a way was being sought to modify a recent treasury ruling com pelling forigci'ie manufacturers ol jute bags to slam;: IN ir namr3 on each individual bar? ins. red of merely hi beling each bale ol sacks, as has here tofore been dune. Individual stumping, it is found, increases the cost of bag: about one-quarter of a c, nt each. The state of Oregon will save in pes: age not less than $10,000 biennially in case a bill Introduced in congress by Senator David , Walsh ol Massachu setts becomes' a law. This was a: nounced by Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state. The proposed law provides that official bulletins of Information to voters issued under the laws of tin state and affording opposing caudi dates and the advocatei and opponents of measures referred to the voters equal opportunities for the present:; tion of thoir claims and argumcnis shall b?. transmitted within the limb . of the issuing state in the United States mails life of postage. BORAH WITHDRAWS CONFERENCE PLAN Idaho Senator Informed That Harding Is Working Along the Same Lines. Washington, o. C, The fight over the proposal ot Senator Borah that President Harding call an economic conference came to a substantial climax in the senate when the Idaho senator announced that he would withbold his proposed amendment to the naval appropriation bill on admin istration assurances given by Senator Watson ot Indiana that the president already was sounding out the situation in a way that might lead to sums movement that would aid the adjust ment of conditions prevailing in Ku rope. After Senators Lodge and Watson, speaking for the administration, had assured Senator Borali that the gov eminent is now moving in the direc tion desired by him, Borah said lie had no desire to "retard progress" and he announced he would not push his amendment to a vote. At the White House It was said the president regarded Senator Borah's action as u "wise move." High of ficials also said that the president was not now contemplating the call ing of a general economic conference, but at present proposed American par ticipation in an economic conference on reparations. Adjustment of thla and of the allied debts question, the president was said to feel, ure neces sary before the administration can proceed with further steps in Europe's behalf. 7 ME INDICTED ON If mi rnmill uhil Washington, D. C. Benedict Crow ell, assistant secretary of war under the Wilson administration and six "dollar a year" men associated with the council of national defense, were indicted here by the special grand jury investigating war frauds on charges of conspiracy to defraud the government in construction of war time army camps and cantonment. The others Indicted are William A Starrett, Morton ('. Tut tie, Clemens W. Lundoff, Claire Fester, John H JlcGlbbons, James A. Mears. The indictments charge a conspir acy to tnaladmlnlster existing regnUc Hons, to control the giving of con tracts to friends, associates and i I cuts under the "cost plus" system, Which It is charged resulted in a loss to the government of millions of dol lars and reduced the moralo of labor. THE MARKETS Portland Wheat Bluestcm. $1.48; soft white, i $1.20; western white, $1.25; hard win-j ter, $1.19; western red, $1.17. Corn Whole, $42; cracked, $44. Hay Alfalfa, $21 per ton; valley1 timothy, $23; eastern Oregon timothy, $24. Butter Fat 50&53C. Eggs Ranch, 32fi38c. Cheese Tillamook triplets, 32 M:1. 33c; Young Americas, 3334c; block Swiss, 30?j32c; cream brick, 2830cJ Cattle Choice steers, ST'ri 7.50; medium to good, $G.25(-7. Sheep East of mountain lambs and choice valley lambs, $10.50fj 12.50. Hogs Prime light, $9.25 9.50 ; smooth heavy, $8 9. Seattle. Wheat Hard white, $1.30; soft whHe, $1.26; western while. $1.25;; hard red winter, soft red winter, northern spring and western red, $1.21. Hay Alfalfa, $24; timothy, $i8; straw, $15. Butter Fat 52i 54c. Eggs Ranch, 34?j'i5c. Cattle Prime steers, $9.757. 25; medium to choice, $6.507. Hogs Prime light. $930950; smooth heavy, s;.254j.2. CREEK ARMY IS ON MARCH War Is Considered Inevitable Between Creeks and Turks. London. -A dispatch from Athens says the entire Greek army is moving toward Thrace, war being considered inevitable. The dispatch adds that former Premier VenizelOS telegraphed the revolutionary government advising it to send reinforcements to the Th ra cial! front and asking to be Informed of the number oi troops there. A meeting of the cabinet followed and the army moved. The reservists of the 1920 and 1022 classes, the dispatch continued, have been called to the colors. War Min ister Pangalos has been appointed commander-in-chief in Thrace and has left with his secretary fur Salonika The average yield of potatoes per acre In the t'nitcd Stales varies from about 00 bushels in Texas to more than 200 bushels In Maine, according to reports of the I'nited States Depart men I of Agriculture. The average for the entire country for the past 10 years is 98 bushels per acre. FIRST OF SERIES OF MEETINGS FOR FATHERS WD MOTHERS ' A meeting for the benefit of all I mothers and fathers will be held on Januar 1". in charge of Miss Mar jorie M. Smith of O. A. C. She Is lu re in ih,:.' Uuorosl of nutrition in the home. Everybody Is urged to be present. And Ue&r as about going1 SENATOR RALSTON you will listen v i" ivcr the telephone you Willi as you did we are t h'e unl il series of ; In all, to of school. have this much about it a he bazaar, becam o talk about it meeting will be held. This is the firsl of a Meetings which will be si: e held 'before the rlo?e We are indeed lucky to '.leld in our town, us il will pot be ' Id anywhere else in Morrow county this year. The extension department if the O..V.C. is doing his for our benefit, and we desire the coopera tion of all parents, not only moth ers, bul fathers, and all of the bachelors on the project. Everybody ome Saturday, January i;i. al 2 -clock. NEW GRANGE OFFICERS) At the lasi regular meeting of Greenfield grange the following of ficers wire elected: Master, Charles Wlcklander; Overseer, John Ilrice; Lecturer, Charles Niger; Steward, Robert C. Mitchell; Assistant Stew ard, C. l. Albright; Chaplain. Llllle Xi:'er; Treasurer. Alice Albright ; Secretary. C. H. Dlllnbough; Gate keeper, Sa'i: T. Shell; Ceres, Lulu Wlcklander; Pomona, BUS Shell ; Flora, llreta Morgan; Lady Assist ant Steward, Emma Dillabough; As sistant Lecturer, Lulu Wlcklander. The above named officers Wilt be Installed Saturday evening, Jan. 8, 1fl23. We trust that all inrmbers will be present to assist. Coffer end cake Will be served after the meeting. C. H. DILLABOUGH, Sec. Samuel (VI . Ralston, democrat, who was elected United States senator from Indiana in the Noveinber elections. LEGION HEATS HiOH SCHOOL On Thursday evening of last week the Legion and high school basket ball teams clashed on the Moor of Beck's building. The game was hard and fast from atari to finish, both teams determined to win The Legion boys had the best of the high school boys In weight and experienced play ers, but just the same the high school gave the Legion a run for its money. The game was clean and orderly, well worth the price of admission of 15c, and we hone to see some more games soon. The lineup was as follows: I -egion Walluis Lee, G. Lee, M . A. King, W. (). center forward forward guard Waggoner, Opli cuard nigh School Carpenter Messenger Olson Attcbi rry Kiit'. HEHMIHTON HERALD AO.UN CHANGES OWNERSHIP Eor the lit tb time in less than three years the HermUtOn Herald has again changed management. This time Raymond Crowder, of Wasco, becomes owner and editor. Mr. Crowder has had sev"en years expe rience in the printing busim-ss ami Is a very capable and live-wire news paper man, we are told. We wel come hlin to our neighborhood and bespeak for bin the usual easy sail ing on the country paper sen till hi reaches the port of opulent old age as all brothers and fellows have had who have gone before, Mr. Williams, who was In charge for the past few months, expects to go to the eastern coast and engage in real honest -to-goodness, astute journalism where the field is wide and the population thick. I Corn is produced in every State in the Union, production ranging from around 30,000 bushels a year in Nevada to over 4 50,000,000 bushels n Iowa, according to re porfn fyl the United States Depart ment of Agriculture NEW DOCTOR FOR I MA I ILL I'nialllla's first doctor In many years, Dr. flay W. Logan, is leav ing this week for Seaside, which he deems u much larger field, His prac tice will be taken over by D( Alex ander Raid, who has been al Stan field sine, last May. I)r Logan was railroad physician at Umatilla and was instrumental In getting a drug store established Dr lieid has practiced in lone. Stanfleld and was at Haines, Ore., before returning to Stanfleld this summer. He stands high in the pro f"cion and will be well liked in I'matiHa. He will handle the rail road business as did Dr. Logan. VANCOUVER LIQUOR EXPORTS M HEAVY Vancouver, B. C. The Consolidated Liquor exporters made public their re ceipts and disbursements, shewing that the 15 liquor export warehouses which amalgamated a few months ago are taking In from foreign sources 11,000,000 ii month. Of this amount the Canadian government gets 540, 000 for duty, the United Kingdom li quor plants get $400,000 Snd the re mainder, $200,000. is for profit and overhead! Government officials were not In clined to believe the reports of the liquor warehouse consolidation, saying that in their opinion the exports had In i n much heavier. There are four other liquor ware hoiises iu the it., acting independent ly of i lie consolidated, and in all it Is estimated that the port of Van e aver alone receives in gTOSS Income from liquor shipments approximately 11,760,000 a mouth. STATE WINS ESTATE SUIT Court Rules Washington Is Entitled to fiollect Big Sum. Olympia. Wash. Federal estate taxes paid on estates of persons who at the time of death were living in the stute of Washington are not deduc tible in computing inheritance tuxes due the state and personal properly of the deceased whether in the stute or outside is subject to the slate In heritance tax, the state supreme court rules. The decision was rendered in the estate of Josephine O. Sherwood, lormer Spokane woman, who was killed in California in HH9, and open ed the way lor collection by the statw of $i;t,R4:i.ii8 with liitrei-. In addition to the 27,IS3-61 alrimdj paid. According to G"oig.' (1. llannuii, assistant attorney general In charge of the Inheritance lax division, the decision clears the way for settlement of tuxes mi muii) estates which have been banging fire several years. Leinp, Well Known Eli ewer, Scicidee, s, Louis, Mo.' -William .1, Limp, 56 years old, president Of the Letup Brew ing company, committed suicide by firing a bullel Into his heart In hlh office here The millionaire brewery owner was the third member of the Immediate Lemp family to die by self destruction. The property of the Lemp Brewing company here, once valued at $7,000,000, recently wus sold at auction for 1688,000, Idaho Governor Takes Oath. Boise, Idaho. Idaho's new gover nor, Charles C. Moore, of St. Anthony and the elective officials or his ad ministration were Inducted Into office a few minutes after noon Monday In the chamber of the house of repre scntatlves. A large crowd witnessed and applauded the ceremony, which v Impsesslvs out agoeadlngl) brief and simple. . San Francisco, Cai. wine is being manufactured and consumed iu the United States under the guise of a home product, In fully as great quan tity as before prohibition became ef fective. It L. Nougaret, agriculturist of the statu department of agriculture, said.