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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 17, 1924)
The SlanfieldSlandard MARK A. CIJiVELAND, Iubisher PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY STANFIELD, OREGON 12.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered as second-class matter Oct 1, 1909, at the postofflce at Stan field, Ore., under act of Mar.3, 1879 WORLD HAPPENINGS OF CURRENT WEEK Brief Resume Most Important Daily News Items. COMPILED FOR YOU Create of Noted People, Government!) and Pacific Northwest, and Other Things Worth Knowing. The supreme court reconvened Mon day for its winter term, hut handed down no decision. The. first are ex peeled Monday. Armed outlaw la a scries of ooM ups ill Detroit Tuesday obtained three payroll satchels containing approxi mately 120,000. KinhtliiK between the Sao Paulo rebels and Iliazllian federal forces is OODtiDUlac, according to official ad vices forwarded from Hio Janeiro. Evaluation of two Spanish positions in Morocco, Adru, in tho Huliana sec tor, and Simria, in tho Zoo El Jemis region, is announced in an official statement. Up to September 30, 1924, total of fl 2,479,541.01 has been paid by the tats of Washington in veterans' com pensation claims, numbering 57.42G, according to report of tho veterans' compensation department to Statu Auditor Clausen. Considerable Interest has been aroused In Stockholm by the large orders for war material placed by several foreign government! with the Hot'ors cuiiipuny, Scandinavia's biggest manufacturer of guns, ammunition and military supplies. Ten lives are reported to have been lost at Dominica, Leeward Island, West Indies, Sunday, when torrential rains caused tho Roseau river to over flow. The town was flooded with four feet of water. Estates In the lloseuu valley suffered heavily. The official Gnzetto publishes the result of tho last census of Italy, whereby it appears that, calculating tho Increase which has taken place since the census of December, 1921, the population of tho kingdom now amounts to 39,900,00 actual residents Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, a Hup llst preacher In a Presbyterian church in New York, whoso pulpit for two years lias beeu tho center of an inter national controversy between funda ttSBtstiStl and modernists, Monday handed his resignation to tho New York presbytery. Proposed, increases In rates on lum ber from Pacific, coast points to Arkan sas. Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, New York. Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Cenusyl vai:ia, West Virginia aud Wisconsin were suspended Monday by the inter state coietnorcu commission from October 7 to i'ebruary 4. Squatter's rigMs were upheld against the Dominion of Canada and i lie city of Vancouver in a decision the court of appeals Announced Tues day. Claims of Alfred Gonzales and Miss Agnes Cummtnga to sites In Stanley park, Vancouver's largest re creation grounds, were confirmed. Announcement that applications for adjusted compensation hnvt been re ceived thus far from 1.30HOOO war veterans was made Tuesday by Major Cem ral Itobert C. Davis, I he adju Hint general of tho navy. Veterans entitled to compensation total 4.500, nm). General Davis urges tint the up plications of tho others be filed promptly. Tuesday's session of the world peace congress being held in llerlln was thrilled by the presence on the speak ers' platform of two generals who op posed each other at the front in the World war but who row entertain the same ideas regarding peace, lloth gen t rals told the congress that their per sons! experiences of war horrors had made them pacifists. Tho "two peace fill warriors'' were General Ycrraux ol France, commander of the sixth army division during the hostilities nnd now prfessor In a French military academy and General von Schoenalch of Ger many, who was active on the Ruman ian front during the war and who is .now head of the republican guards. SHANGHAI CITY SURRENDES Final Stand at Hwangtu Finally Crum ples Armistice Effective. Shanghai. After a final stand at Hwangtu, 15 miles west of Shanghai, the Chekiang troops defending the city against onslaughts of armies back ed by the Chinese central government at last have admitted their defeat. Foreign observers in the Sungkiaug sector reported Tuesday morning that an armistice was arranged at 5 P. M. Monday, after which both sides ceas ed firing. Advance guards of the re treating Chekiang troops arriving from the Hwangtu, Kitting and Liuho sec tors declared similar arrangements had been perfected there. Apparently Chang Tse-Ping, G0-year-(dd battler who refused to accept the decision of other Chekiang chiefs to surrender, was forced to give in after his final brilliant attack, in which his 4000 troops forced some of the hottest fighting of the entire war. About 1000 Chekiang soldiers from the battle fronts directly west of the city had arrived at Shanghai Tuesday morning, at the north railway station. Forty-three carloads more were report ed held at Chenju, five miles west of the city, while 10,000 were said to be awaiting transportation at Hansiagn, 12 miles west, and at Hwangtu. All of the Chekiang soldiers station ed at Liuho, 30 miles to the northwest on the Yangtze coast, were reported wil hdrawu. The discipline of the defeated troops was generally good, it was reported, despite their complete ignorance of where they were going or what they were supposed to do. Heavy naval, police and volunteer guards patrolled the borders of the foreign settlements throughout the eight, and no one was permitted to enter or leave them. Persistent report! were circulated that Lu Yuang-Hsiang, commander-in- chief of th(! defeated Chekiang armies, and Ho Feng Ling, military commis sioner of Shanghai, and General Lu's aide, had fled to Japan, but verifica tion of the reports was not obtainable. OREGON PROJECTS FIND U. S. FAVOR Timber Funds Allotted. Washington, D. C Under the law which gives to states 25 per cent of the receipt! of sales of timber of na tional forest reserves Oregon Is to receive the sum of $17(1,913 for tho last fiscal year. National forests in the state contributed the following amounts: Cascade, $13,301; Crater, $49,863; Deschutes, $12,X33; Fremont, J40K1; Klamath. $2220; Malheur. $6757; Mount Hood. $6315; Ochoco, $4952; Santiain, $10,375; Siskiyou, $423; Sia slaw, $7056; Umatilla, $5533; Wal lowa, $12,307; Whitman, $39,3.N0. Washington national forest netted the state for the year $89,043. Indian Crypts Planned. Ashland, Or. U. D. Mason has an nounced that a contract has been re ceived by him for construction of a mausoleum at ' li ilocj uiti. which will provide a crypt for each of the 1009 Indians on the Kliimath reservation. The Inter Council of the Klamath Indians will uttend tho dedication of tho mausoleum here in about six weeks and decide then whether they desire the Egyptian architecture, Wbtcl is being used lu the local mau soleum, or the Grecian. Old Eden Idea Ditched. Cambridge, Mass. - - Tho modem youth, in this "the happiest age the world has ever known," does not be lieve in the creation ill the Garden of Eden, according to Charles W. Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard unlver sy. At a lecture on religious concepts Sunday. Dr. Eliot suld: "I believe that the modern youth reject) most of the tenets, dogmas and beliefs uf the post. He does not believe lu the creution in the Garden of Kden. nor does he believe In the least in tho total depravity of man kind as given in the ordinary evangeli cal creeds and dogmas. He lias re jected those things. Ills mind is free from them." Infected Cattle Killed. Houston, Texas. - - Au outbreak of (he toot and mouth disease In n herd of 17 cattle under observation by fed eral Inspectors, wus reported Sunday by Dr. Marion lines, government In spector in charge. The animals were immediately killed and burled. Dr. lines said. The herd was the last of the cattle in the original infected area placed under quarantine, Dr. hues said. Naval Estimate Is Cut. Washington. 1). C. A proposal that the budget bureau and tho navy de partment compromise upon $330,000, 000 .i- apropriation for the nu during the next fiscal year was pre seated Monday to Director Lord by Secretary Wilbur. The original estt mate for the department totaled $350. 000,000, which was reduced about $.10. MMM by tho officials holding the federal purse-strings. Baker, Owyhee and Vale Dis tricts Approved. RECLAIM MANY ACRES All Declared Likely to Succeed Finan cially Will Provide For 300 New Families. Washington, D. C Three new irri gationgation projects for Oregon are approved by a commissiofl appointed under the terms of the report of the fact-finding commission. These pro jects are the Baker in Baker county and the Owyhee and the Vale In Mal heur counties, embracing morn than 170,000 acres of land. These projects had previously been recommended as feasible from the engineering standpoint, but doubt was left as to whether they would prove an economic, agricultural and finan cial success. Tho reports open the way for the secretary of the interior to recommend to congress the appro priation of money to start construc tion. Tho Vale project was investigated by i'rofessor W. L. Powers, soil tech nologist of the Oregon Agricultural college; W. S. McLuughliu, irrigation Investigator, and G. 11. Hogues of the United States bureau of reclamation. A local committee, consisting of Ralph Holte, I). Biggs and J. H. H. Dear- mond .all of Vale, assisted the committee. In recommending the Vale project the committee declared that the laud was mainly sage brush benches be tween JamleiOB and Malheur canyon and Harper bench, having an area of 28,350 acres with an estimated gross annual crop return, after irrigation, f about $35 a acre. Thirty-eight per cent of the land is held by two land companies, it is pointed out, with 15 per cent public land an dthe remaining land owned by individuals in tracts of 40 to 640 acres. Ninety per cent of the lands will require subdivision and settlement lad will provide farms for 250 or 300 families. The board recommends that (he land held in private ownership shall be upraised and selling prices fixed before development is started. In order to avoid inflation of prices the appraisal should bo made a pari of a contract between the land owners aud an irrigation district formed with a definite contract to control land prices. The committee reported settlement as the fundamental problem of the Va'o protect aud recommended long time credit to new settlers; the ap pointment of a competent agricultural 1st to bo employed to aid and assist settlers, the fixing of the price by the secretary of the interior at which excess holdings nre to be disposed of by settlers; clearing ami preparing a portion of each farm unit by the gov ernment prior to settlement ; selection of settlers according to experience, capital and other characteristics; formation ot one irrigation system to include all lands in the proposed project. Food Cost! Working Up. Washington, D. C. Increases in re tail food prices in the month ending September 15 ranging up to 3 per cent was shown In all but one of 21 cities for which figures were announced Sat urday by tho bureau of labor statis tics of the department of labor. Butte, Mont., with a decrease of 1 per ient was tho only exception to the general increase. Eighteen of the 21 cities showed decreases for the year ending Septem ber 15 ranging up to 5 per cent! Throuqh the Qlad Evjes of a U)onwn By Jane Do WHAT EVERY WOMAN LOVES SHE jpves to be told once in a while tiiat the older she gets the prettier she gets. She likes to realize that her effort! to make one dollar do the work of two are thoroughly appreciated. ... She adores being called "baby" or "lovey-dovey," even when she Is over fifty. ... She also adores being bossed occa sionally and ordered to do things which she simply loves doing. (For Instance, making her husband apple-dumplings or kissing him behind his left ear.) ... She loves to be told she Is getting shabby, nnd that her husband Is get ting fed up with the sight of her best hut and would like to see her In an other. . She likes to be told that none of her photos do her Justice. ... She adores bavins her husband re fer to "My Wife" every time he com mences a conversation. ... She loves to know he carries her miniature In his watch and has a lock of her hair hidden amongst his pri vate papers. ... She likes to have a letter from him every day when he has to be away from home. ... And she adores n good little cry now und again somewhere about the region of his shirt-front, and having hlra wipe away the crocodile tears with a tobacco-smelly hanky. ... She likes to hear him say some times, "Oh, let's ent downtown," and she loves to powder her nose and dress up to go with him. ... And above all, she adores to realize that If her husband had the chance to be someone else he would always choose to be her second husband. ( by McClur. Newnp.p.r Syndicate.) Reflections oj a Bachelor Qirl By HELEN ROWLAND I WHHM IMMM White Doe at Nedonna. Nedouna ,Or. A snow-white doe visited Nedonna early Saturday. In stead of the usual brown, the uniimil was white with a large black spot en the shoulder and head and black ears. The doe, almost exhausted, trotted glmoal the full length of Main street, passed at a filling station an instant as It studied u group of excited resi dent!, then wheeled, crossed the camp ground and disappeared into the Umber. '" THE average love affair begins with a kiss of experiment, and ends with a sigh of relief. The attitude of a man toward a girl has changed from a ilea to a dare from "Let me kiss you!" to "Make me kiss you If you can '." Men, according to the modern girl's philosophy, are merely a side-line. Still, they are the only thing there is to flirt with, dance with, fall In love with or marry; and that'! all they have to be, after all. It Is alway! blossom time In the heart of a woman who Is loved and alwpys May time in the heart of a man who Is In love. Men have n funny code, all their own. A cowpuncher is ashamed to be seen In an evening cout ; an ex-bartender blushes to be caught serving soda water ; and a married man hates to be caught buying flowers for his own wife. Yet, all of these things are perfectly respectable. Every man want! a woman to ap peal to his higher nature and his finer Initincts and another woman to help him forget them. When a man waits until five years after marriage to discover that his wife's cooking disagrees with him, or to pick flaws In her housekeeping, It Is u !lgn thnt she should get some pretty new clothes, a new hulrdresser, und a new beauty cream. by Hrln Kowl.nd o - 1 MEN YOU MAY MARRY IRRIGATED FARM LAND Finest volcanic ash soil. Ideal climate. On main line O.-W. R. & N. Close to markets. Elevation 591. 5000 acres under cultiva tion. Three crops alfalfa. Early and late fruit Large and small tracts. Easy terms. Inland Irrigation Co. E. S. Severance, Manager STANFIELD ... - OREGON jmomCIHRaBaBBiBBS BBsHE2WflBOsSfiBBE8aaSBMnBH3 The Demand I for houses is greater I than the supply. Own I your own home and OWIl have kind ol a i Your Huse You Want Own u 0iiy Realty nome $tanfie!df Ore I dflHBBHHHBHMHiiHHbJflHHHHHHMKflGE&3BDEKHHQK53E9ISOflBBXS3Kj liinysmniiimuiuimtiiiimiamdiuuz S:a:..;. - w ...tSi HflU MM I Columbia Land Co. H. W. COE, President We have withdrawn our lands from gale and are now in tlie market for a few bargains in Improved Lands, buying to operate and hold Money to loan for building purposes By E. R. PEYSER Queen Louise Stricken. Copenhagen. Oowager Queen Louise, who Saturday was stricken with a severe attack ot bronchitl!, is declared to be suffering from pneu monia.. Her temperature Is high, and the bulletins regarding her condition are vague. She is 7:1 years old. Ha! a man like this proposed to you? Symptom!: Looks studious, has a food clerkship and Is study ing law at night, lie is as per sistent as a ticket seller, and Bets little time for fussing. Not t much on clothe! but always look! BlSSanflblS, He's awfully j tired of u hull bedroom and think! you tend he can have a little flat If you keep on with your Job for a few years. He li methodical and painstaking. IN FACT He li a human schedule. Prescription for the bride: Have a. correct clock. Re member the daylight saving and atandard tune changes things a bit. Alwrb Thli: BEING. ON TIME IS NO LIGHT SAVING. iC by UA'lun N"wi.ijtr SradlcBt I j 4. J Columbia Land Co. Stanfield, Oregon Portland, Oregon - m mmmmmmmmmrm I .11. ., wilt K. V St an lie Id. President Frank Sloan, Ylce-Pres. Halph A. Holte, YlccPres. . A. WoUan, Cashier Julia Hagginann, Ass't Caslder Bank of Stanfield Capital Stock and Surplus $37,500.00 Four Per Cent Interest Paid on Time Certificates of Deposit