Enterprise news-record., January 28, 1911, SATURDAY EDITION, Image 4

PACIFIC COAST IS
VULNERABLE POINT
THUS CONSIDERED BY
BRIGADIER-GENERAL MAUS
Declares Navy on Pacific Coast More
Important Today Than an Army
Protection is Needed.'
That the Pacific coast la the most
vulnerable point in the entire country
and the most inviting place for the
attack of a foreign enemy is the state
ment of Brigadier-General Marlon P,
Maus, commanding the department of
the Columbia. He urges adequate
protection for this seaboard, not so
much in additional land forces but In
augmented naval power.
"You are far. from the Bast," said
General Maus in discussing this sub
ject "You have lines of transporta
tion that can be blocked and you can
be shut off. I therefore warn you to
look out for that. Don't forget it
Protection is a good thing for us.
"This -country has great natural
wealth and we want to keep it You
don't want to allow the cupidity of a
foreign nation to get the better of
you. To keep your wealth, you should
take these precautions that are sen'
slble.
"We should encourage that protec
tlon that every nation should give-to
Its subjects, and that is a competent
force; and in this respect I speak
more of the navy than of the army. A
navy today is more Important on the
Pacific coast than an army. Every
sensible man knows that if you com
mand the sea, you prevent an invas
Ion; of you don't command the sea,
you invite it
"You should help everything that
tends to the protection of your coast
In after years, when the Pacific Coast
Is densely populated, this question
will disappear. Then you will have the
sinews, you will have the people who
can protect your home and firesides
The means being taken to attract set
tiers to this coast is the very step
which helps the commonwealth of
our country. I like to see it"
General Maus said that the Paclfio
ooast, if occupied by an enemy of
energy and Intelligence, would make
a great base for military operations
directed against the rest of the coun
try.
GREAT BALL PLAYER
BUYS OREGON FARM
Joe Tinker, the Chicago Cub short
stop, has bought an Oregon farm and
expects to beoome a fruit grower
when he quits the diamond. He has
just completed a short visit to Port
land and before leaving he bought an
18 -acre tract of fine farming land
near Newberg. He expects to Install
the Tinker family on the farm next
fall at the close of the baseball sea
son.
Two acres in an East Side suburb
were also bought by the Tinkers and
an option taken on two adjoining
acres. " This tract Is held chiefly as
an Investment, It being the expecta
tion of the star national league In
fielder to live on his farm rather than
In the outskirts of Portland. The
ranch has all the trimmings in the
way of farm buildings and it Is with
In a short distance of the ranch now
owned by Billy Sullivan of the Chicago
White Sox, and of the land upon which
Clark Griffith of the Cincinnati Na
tlonala holds an option. Fielder
Jones, now a resident of Portland, Is
looking after Tinkers interests in the
property for the time being.
SEVERAL SHEEPMEN
MAY RETURN TO LIVE
So pleased were a number of the
wealthy sheep and wool men with
Portlands climate and progressive
spirit when here last week attending
the annual convention of the National
Wool Growers association, that they
said they would bring their families
to Portland to live so soon as they
could settle their affairs at home, says
me journal. i
George W. Walker, who for five
years had been secretary of the aa
sociation, but who retired at the close
of this meeting, told friends that he
planned making Portland his perma
rent home, and retlrin President
Fred W. .Gooding, too, Is said to have
told friends that he would In all orob
ability make this his permanent home
before long. Mr. Goodlns Is one of
the wealthiest men In the state of
Idaho. Frank . J. Hagenbarth. an
other prominent Idaho wool man, Is
said to have fallen in love with Port
land and Its climate. Three Arlsona
men, U. Campbell, T. E. Pollock and
Mr. Goasney, of Gossney & Perkins,
re said to have remarked that Port
land would be the place for them
when they turned over their Interests
to others in Arlsona.
Platinum Coeta More Than Gold.
During the experimental days
of
the Incandescent lamp platinum was
iriea out as a filament for the new
lamps. The metal made a fairly good
filament but aa platinum la worth tar
more than gold Its hlah cost nra-
blblted Its use In common lamps. But
platinum has the rare quality of be
ing uiue arrected by sudden and ex
eessive variations of temperature;
therefore it la still being used to eon
duct the electrlo current through the
glass stem of the lamp Into the vacu
um globe where the filament Is fast
ened to the two platinum terminals.
These platinum leads have been short
, ened as much as possible but so tre-
menduous la the annual consumption
of Incandescent lamps that the coat
of the platinum used for this purpose
Is estimated at half a million dollar.
Efforts to replao the platinum wire
with other metals and alloys hay
not ret proven successful.
WASHINGTON LEGISLATOR
HAS NEW LAW DRAWN
Spokane, Wash. Declaring strikes
and lockouts to be Illegal and prorid
ing compulsory arbitration for all dis
putes are the means act forth to solve
the labor question in a bill prepared
by State Senator George W. Bhaefer
of Spokane, for introduction at the
coming session of the legislature. The
penalty for Inciting a strike or a
lockout is fixed at $1000.
The bill provides that any employe
may be fined $50 for every day he is
on strike, while any employer caus
ing a lockout becomes liable to a fine
of $10 a day for each employe thus
deprived of work, this in no instance
to be less than $100 a day In the ag
gregate. The arbitration board is to
be composed of five members, two
each to be selected by employer and
employed, the four chosen to appoint
the fifth. Any member accepting a
gratuity from either side is liable to
a fine of $1000.
Seven classes of industrial disputes
are named as coming within the jur
isdiction of the arbitration board, as
follows: Wages, hours- and terms of
employment, employment of children,
favoritism, faulty material or dam
aged work, established customs and
uses of various trades and interpreta
tion of agreements.
Differences arising out of any of
the foregoing causes Is ground for
applying to the commissioner of labor
to appoint a board of arbitration, fol
lowing which neither employer nor
employed is permitted to make any
change in the terms or conditions of
employment until a final decision has
been given by the board. In the
event no decision is reached a new
board may be summoned at once.
While the board is empowered to
summons witnesses and take' test!
mony, attorneys at law are barred
from appearing except by agreement
of both parties and all members of
the arbitration body.
CIVIL SERVICE WANTS
COMPETENT FOREST CLERK
The United States servlco commis-
mlsslon announces an examination on
March 1 and 2, 1911, for the position
of forest clerk (male), for filling va-
.-unrles In that position In lfr forest
rv:ca at salaries ranging from $lllit)
to $100 per annum. A re.jtnt exm1
nation fa'led to secure sutfliiw. !lg'
ib4 to medt lire needi ( the ser
vice and all persons interested are
urged to make application for . and
take this examination. A knowledge
of bookkeeping, stenography and
typewriting Is required. For applica
tion blank and full Information in re
gard to this examination address the
secretary of the Eleventh Civil service
District, Federal Building, Seattle,
Washington, or the commission's local
representative at the post office in
this city.
PRIZE FOR DISCOVER
ING COCO AN LT DISEASE
President Gomes approved a bill on
December 13 offering a prize of $30,
000 to the individual, native or for
eign, who discovers the origin of the
disease which attacks and kills the
cocoanut trees in the Island of .Cuba,
and the means necessary for its cure
and prevention. The prize Is to be
paid when It Is shown to the satisfac
tlon of the government that the dis
covery has actually been made and
the cure is efficacious. The disease
in question Is a kind of "bud rot,'
which Is said to have made Its appear
ance In Cuba prior to 1871, and al
though repeated efforts have been
made to put an end to its ravages,
no effective means has as yet been
found except the destruction of the
plant affected.
ROSETTE CHANGES COLOR.
French Trick Decorations Show Red
or Violet.
Paris. State officials whose duty It
Is to detect any unlawful display of
decorations in buttonholes have been
the victims of a trick whloh has pro
vlded amusement in many quarters of
Paris.
Recently several cases of the un
lawful display of the red rosette of the
Legion of Honor have been brought to
notice, but in each case when called
to book the following day the defend
ants, with much show of sincerity,
produced a rosette which was not red
but violet. After some investigation
the origin of the fraud was discover
ed.
A clever shopkeeper has found
process by means of which he can
make the same rosette serve aa violet.
tne sign of the Palmes Academlque.
In the daytime and as the rosette of
the Legion of Honor at night
SENATOR WARS ON. DOGS.
Bender of Kansas Would Tax Canines
to Protect Shoes.
Senator Bender has opened war on
the dog population of Kansas in the
interest of the sheep raisers.
He has prepared a bill providing for
a state tax of from $1 to $1 annually
upon eaon dog, the money to go into
a fund to be used to reimburse the
farmers whose sheep are killed by
aogs.
He says there are nearly 100.000
dogs in Kansas and only 180.000 sheep
and he attributes the condition of the
sheep Industry to the great number
or dogs.
VANCOUVER OFFICERS
TO MAKE TEST RIDE
A test ride of 10 miles on horseback
ror rour major and a lieutenant col
onel has just been ordered by Gen
eral Marion P Maus, commander of
the department of the Columbia. The
ride will be held from Vancouver
Barracks to Sandy. Ore., and three
days. January 11, u and 14 are allow.
ea to complete the 10 miles.
Exploring Wild Redone of MUn
Three German scientists who have
been exploring the Moluoca Islands
have gone into the Batang mountain
In th northern part of the Maayan
peninsula. Consul-General DuBola
of Singapore, states that a complete
photographio outfit and a klnetograph
have been taken along and It la ex
pected that a On collection of plo
turea of that little known region. In
habited by wild tribes, will be secured
aa well as Interesting ornithological
IARH SYSTEM
BUYS MALHEUR ROUTE
OREGON EASTERN SECURES
HILL'S RIGHT OF WAY
Deeds Given by Boise A Western
Which Had Tied Up the ' Narrow
Fogg Near Vale.
By securing through purchase the
right of way of the Boise & Western
Railway company in the Malheur
canyon, the Oregon Eastern Railway
company, part of the Harriman system
In Oregon, obtains unobstructed right
of way and survey for Its proposed
line from Vale into the Harney valley,
says the Journal.
This line is regarded as an east and
west Harriman line through the state
and will connect with the main line
at Ontario by the line from Vale at
Ontario, which forms a part of the
recently merged O.-W. R. & N. com
pany. General Manager J. P. O'Brien said
this morning he was unable to say
when construction of the proposed line
would be commenced, but a beginning
is expected before long since the set
tlement of the 'contest over the right
of way between the hill and Harriman
Interests leaves the field open for
placing the securities.
President John F. Stevens of the
Hill Interests in Oregon, Is in Chicago,
where it is understood negotiations
were closed this week and it will not
be known until his return, whether
the transfer of the right of way of the
Boise & Western railway In the can
yon means the abandonment of a Hill
lino through the canyon. It Is con
sidered possible that some sort of an
agreement has been arrived at where
by the two systems may operate over
the one line.
W. W. Cotton, general counsel for
the Harriman lines in Oregon, gave
out the following statement this morn
ing, explaining the details of the
transaction consummated with the
filing of deeds at Vale:
"Prior to September, 1909, the Ore'
gon Eastern Railway company made
a survey through the Malheur canyon
from Vale to the Harney valley and
filed its maps in the United States
land office, and the same were duly
approved by the secretary of the in
terior, so that the Oregon Eastern ac
quired a right of way across the pub
lic lands.
"After this survey was made and
the right of way was acquired, the
Boise & Western Ralway company
was incorporated and prior ' to the
making of any survey by it the Boise
& Western took deeds across the land
of some private owners in the Malheur
canyon for a right of way described
with reference to the center line of
the Oregon Eastern; Afterwards, the
Boise & Western took new deeds from
the private owners, with whom they
previously had dealt in which the
last deeds of right of way were de
scribed with reference to the- center
line of the Boise & Western.
"In connection with such right of
way, the Boise & Western also ac
quired certain pieces of lurm land, out
of which such right of way was taken.
The deeds which are now made by the
Boise and Western to the Oregon East
ern are deeds of the right of way so
acquired from such farm lands."
TOO MANY GERMAN WOMEN.
This Fact Disquieting to the Kaiser
and Others.
. Berlin. According to official fig
ures of the census return taken on
December 1, the population of greater
Berlin now numbers 8,712,664 Inhab
itant. The predominating feature of the
results of the census is the revelation
of the growing preponderance of fe
males over males In Germany. The
complete results of the census have
not yet been ascertained, but so far
as the returns go they show an alarm
ing Increase of the disproportion be
tween males and females.
The growing majority of females Is
exercising the minds, not only of the
government, but also of the politici
ans and social reformers, In a grow
ing degree. There Is a deep rooted
idea In Germany, which, aa la . wen
known, Is shared by the Kaiser and
the ruling element, that woman's
sphere Is the home, and that It Is the
destiny of the females to seek a mate
and find her happiness In the up
bringing of her children.
HOLD "RADIUM" WEDDING.
Couple's Ages Total 187 Years, Mark
Seventieth) Anniversary.
Paris. a "radium" wedding has
just been celebrated here, being the
seventieth anniversary of the marri
age of M. and Mme. Fernand Dugue,
whose ages total 187 years.
M. Dugue Is the oldest dramatic
author In the world. His age Is 96,
and his wife's 92, and they were mar
ried on November II, 1840.-
M. Dugue Is In excellent health and
spirits, but he Is not quite certain
whether he has written forty-two or
forty-three plays. . The best known of
them are -"The Pirates of the Savan
nah" and "Cartouche." "The Pirates"
has been played more than 10,000
times. His last play a drama at the
bottom of the sea was produced In
1877, and was revived with success In
Paris only a few weeks ago.
Mme Dugue has been confined to
her bed for the last two years owing
to a broken leg. "My bones are too
old to mend," she said to her guests,
"but that la all that la the matter with
me, and It was my own fault that I
broke my leg. I fell on the stairs of
the railway station when I was run
ning to catch a train."
DESPONDENT MAN
BLOWS OUT BRAINS
"It I fall In this attempt, for God's
sake give me chloroform and pnt me
out of my misery.
At 10 o'clock this morning, John
Chrlstenson, aged 51 years, who for
the past year has been employed aa a
janitor at th Auspland Drug com-
pany at 110 Worth Sixth street, blew
off the top of his head with a huge
revolver, says, the Journal. He com
mitted the deed in the basement of
the store and when clerks rushed In
to the basement they found the man
lying in a pool of blood on the floor
with a large bottld of chloroform at
his side, with the above note on a tag
tied to the neck of the bottle, In one
hand, and the smoking gun In the
other.
The man had been of a despondent
frame of mind for more than a year
and had asked time and again that
the clerks at the drug store where he
had been employed In the last year
give him poison. During the past
week he had been very depressed over
an Illness and today he purchased
the gun, with which he committed
suicide.
It Is believed that the man had
about $2100, and, in a will that was
found in his room at 890 Gllsan street
he left his money to be used by the
city to clean up the bawdy houses of
Portland.
The following Is the note: "I wish
to give $1000 to the party that within
one year from date can make the
city government of Portland compel
houses of ill repute now being run as
furnished rooms to have proper
signs verily they are hotbeds of dls
ease."
OLDEST APPLE TREE
ON COAST FOUND
A. A. Quarnberg, district fruit in
spector, discovered and identified the
oldest apple tree on the Pacific coast
recently and Colonel McGunnegle of
Vancouver Barracks, Wash., com
mander of the post, has ordered that
a fence be constructed around the
aged fruit bearer. In the near future
a tablet bearing its history wilt be
erected near the tree. The tree was
planted years ago by early officers of
the Hudson Bay company from seeds
carried in their pockets from Eng'
land. Mr. Quarnberg believes the tree
to be about 85 years old. - A passage
in a history of the early settlers has
the following to say concerning the
origin of the tree: "A a lunch party
in London about 1825, given in hon
or of some young gentlemen who were
about to embark for Fort Vancouver
in the employ of the Hudson Bay
company, seedB of the . fruit eaten
were slyly slipped by some -young la
dles Into the waistcoat pockets of the
young men, and upon their arrival at
their destination the young men, in
overhauling their wardrobes Uiscov
ered the seeds and gave them to
Bruce, the gardner at the fort"
EUROPE REPORTS
POOR CROP CONDITIONS
From all over Europe there came
reports of a possible poor harvest of
the next crops. England Is so water
logged that the farmers say it will
be impossible to make the soaked soil
yield an abundant harvest. France
Is suffering even more. The Seine,
Loire and Dordogne have been in
chronic state of flood for weeks; In
Spain, all the rivers from the Ebro In
the north to the Guadalquivir In the
south have overflowed their banks;
Italy is no better off, for landslides
and washouts have tied up several
railroads and the swollen Po has
threatened the exposition buildings at
Turin. In Switzerland the lakes and
rivers have swollen to unusual heights
damaging the quays and railroads; all
central Europe is suffering from ex
eessive moisture and even Russia has
sent in reports of damaging floods.
MAKING SPECIAL
CORONATION CARPETS
Within a few days the looms of a
great carpet factory at Glasgow will
be started to work on the carpets
be used at the coronation of King
George, next June, and which will
add another item to Scotland's. hlS'
tory. The floor-covering has, from
earllea times, been a specified feature
in the preparations for the stately
ceremony. The new carpet will fol
low closely upon the lines of that or
dered for King Edward's crowning,
being of a rich and beautiful charac
ter, with as lustrous a surface as pos
sible. The color will be a singularly
soft ' rich blue, with symbolical de
sign and border. It is not known
yet how much carpeting will be re
quired, as this will depend upon the
seating arrangements, which have not
been finished. For tne last corona
tion, 726 square yards were made.
POLICE OPPOSED BY
GUNS AND DYNAMITE
Twice within the past ten years in
Paris, once through the defense of a
house by men engaged in urging the
Imperialist view, and once by social'
Ists, houses have been defended with
firearms and dynamite In the same
way against the police. The recent
French railroad strike showed a aim
liar readiness to meet the. police force
by the free use of deadly weapons, by
men organised along military line
Germany, Russia and Sweden . have
had similar experiences and . within
the past few years, also. The new agl
tator, socialist, anarchist or other,
looks on his resistance to law as "rev
olution" and uses all the weapons of
insurrection.
CONSUMPTION OF BEER
DECREASING IN GERMANY
' According to statistics Just publish'
ed, the consumption of beer In Ger
many la rapidly decreasing. During
1909 the consumption diminished by
65,000,000 gallons, or one gallon
head of the population. During th
preceding year there had been a dl
minutlon ot nearly 7.000,000 gallons.
while during the last decade there has
been a decrease a tare gallons
head of the population per annum.
The decline In th brewing trad Is
also revealed by th . diminishing
number ot breweries In Germany.
Wife Darling, I want a new
gown.
Husband But you had a new on
only a short time ago.
Wife Yea, my friend Ellen la to
b married, and I can't wear the same
dres .aa I wore at her hut wedding.
Fliegend Elaetter.
EX-WEATHER f,1AII
AFTER CHIEF'S SCALP
JAMES BERRY ALLEGES
NEGLECT OF HIS DUTY
Waste of Fonda and Improper Em
ployment of Forces and Funds Also
Among Allegations Made.
(By John E. Lathrop.)
Washington, Jan. 14. James Berry,
whose resignation as chief of division,
weather bureau, was accepted Sep
tember 9, 1910, by Secretary Wilson,
makes formal charges against Willis
L. Moore, chief of the weather bu
reau, alleging mismanagement the
waste of $100,000 a year, and lrregu
larltles in the conduct of the affairs
of the bureau. Berry has served ill
years continuously.
Berry has laid before President
Taft these specific charges: - That Mr.
Moore is the author of a book, "De
scrlptive. Meteorology," for which the
data were compiled and manuscript
prepared by himself and other bu
reau employes In government - time;
that the addresses of 86 cooperative
weather observers, whose names ap
pear in the mailing lists of the bureau
were furnished at Moore's direction,
by bureau employes to the publishers
for use in disseminating notices to
promote the sale of the book to
Moore's personal advantage; that the
book was supplied to weather bureau
stations throughout the country and
that Moore issued orders, making it
the official text book of the bureau
to his own personal financial profit.
Six Months on the Farm, -Berry
also charges - that Moore
spends about six months of the year
on his farm near Rockvllle, Maryland,
requiring several clerks of high
grade, messengers ana others, to trav
el back and forth between the weath
er bureau and the farm in the tran
saction of public business, to the de
lay and detriment of the latter. Berry
also makes other charges. He asserts
that Secretary Wilson has paid no
heed to his charges and Mr. Moore,
in an interview, stated:
No one familiar with this affair
will take the charges seriously. There
is no shadow of truth in them. " For
good and sufficient reasons I re'ieved
James Berry from charge of an im
portant division. Never by letter or
word of mouth, to my knowledge, did
he ever discover anything wrong with
my administration of the weather bu
reau until I displaced him." -
This, Mr. Berry answers by show
ing that his letter of resignation,
which pending for 30 days, contained
serious reflections on Mr. Moore.
Berry Busy With Congress.
Berry has taken up the matter with
congress and laid on the aesK of every
senator and representative copies of
hla formal charges, with a request
that they be investigated. He claims
that during four months which have
elapsed since his resignation was ac
cepted, he has been unable to induce
the president to look into the matter,
and that when he Inquired of the
president's secretary, Mr. Norton,
what was the status of the case, he
was Informed that the president had
referred It to Secretary Wilson. .'-
There is some interest in the case
because Mr. Moore, as chief of the
weather service, last year published a
treatise attacking conservation offi
cials ' for claiming that forests have
an influence on stream flood.
FIFTEEN WOMEN LAWYERS
AT BAR IN PARIS
The recent celebration In Paris of
the centenary of the decree ot 1810
by which Napoleon reestablished the
Order of Advocates, after his sup
pression at the beginning of : the
revolution, has disclosed the fact that
there are fifteen qualified women law.
yers at the Paris bar. . The dean,
Mile. Jeanne Chauvin, Is now a doc
tor in law, having been Inscribed for
ten years. She does not plead -cases,
but teaches law. She is the author
of a treatise on the law concerning
children, which is a text book on the
subject She lectures on -law at five
girls' schools In Paris. ' '
Mile. Marguerite MiUe is the real
dean ot the women who plead cases.
She is skilful In her profession and
her charming appearance Is no detri
ment to her pleading. Mile. Helen
Maropolaky, who has cases - In the
correctional and civil courts In ad
dition to her practice in Assise Court
comes ot a learned family. Her
father and mother are both doctors
in Paris, and her sister Is becoming
noted as a chemist Her, beauty and
her love of perfume may be guessed
from the names by which she Is
known among her colleagues, "La
Belle Helene," "The Gaselle of the
Law Courts," "La Jolle Parfumeuse."
FORTUNE NEAR CAVALEERI.
"Rob" Chanter's Divorced Wife With
draws $30,000 Annuity Injunction.
Julia C. Chanler, divorced wife of
Robert W. Chanler, haa withdrawn
her Injunction restraining the trustees
of the Chanler estate from paying 14
na Cavallerl Chanler, the singer, who
Is now Robert W. Chanler' wife, th
$10,000 a year annuity that he guar
anteed her In the pre-nuptial agree
ment. '
Mrs. Chanter's attorney said today:
. "We decided that it would be best
not to try to make th Injunction per
manent The trustee may now do as
they see fit regarding the payment of
th annuity to LIna Cavallerl Chan
ter." RUBBERLESS AUTOMOBILE
TIRES ARB INVENTED
Washington. Tidings from England
herald the Invention of aa automobile
tire with all the good qualities ef a
pneumatio tire but containing ,o rub
ber. ' This remarkable step In th pro
gress of auto Improvements la con
cisely described by Consul General
John L. Griff. the In a report from
London, as follow:
"Th springs are mad ot slightly
tapered strips of special steeL colled
spirally In such a way that the great- 1
er part of each turn Is within the pre
ceding one, and that under sufficient
compression the whole of the Inner
colls can be forced within the outer
most one. To the surfaces of the
links which roll on the ground are
cemented blocks of a hard composi
tion of fiber and gutta-percha com
pacted under pressure, and these It is
stated, can be renewed when worn
away at a cost of 97 cents to $1.11
for each wheel. - -
"The aim of the invention has been
to imitate the action of the pneumat
ic tire. An obstacle such as a stone
does not cause the whole wheel to -rise,
as in the case with an ordinary
iron-tired wheel, but is, as it were,
swallowed up, the link or links Imme
diately effected yielding by virtue of
the hinges and bringing Into play th
resiliency not merely of one or two
of the springs, but of the whole ot
them round the entire circumference.
. "The wheel la Intended for use on
heavy commercial vehicles and motor
omnibuss, to give them the benefit
of the pneumatio tire with the ' em
ployment of no particle of rubber.
Another advantage claimed is immu
nity from side slip , while dust 1
sucked up to a much smaller extent
than with pneumatio tires.
LESS BEER BEING DRUNK,
Decrease of Three Gallons a Head in
Last Decade.
The consumption ot beer In Ger
many, according to oflclal statistic
published, is rapidly decreasing. Dur
ing 1909 the consumption diminished
approximately by 65,000,000. gallons
or one gallon per head of the popu
lation. During the preceding year
there had been a diminution of nearly
70,000,000 gallons, while during the
last decade there has been a decrease
of three gallons per head of the pop
ulation per annum. The "decline In
the brewing trade is also revealed by
the diminishing number of breweries
in Germany, in 1906 there were 6,-
035; in 1907, 6,792; in 1908, 6.690. and
last year, 4,768. During 1909 alone
there was thus a decrease of 822 brew
eries. : -; .-- -
STOCK OF DIAMONDS
IN LONDON EXHAUSTED
- London jewelers say that the ac
cumulated stocks of diamonds hay
been exhausted, and the market must
now be supplied with current produc
tion. The output of diamonds haa
been far In excess of the sales for th
past year or two, owing to the fact
that those sales represented stock
which had been accumulated pre
viously. It seems, therefore, as if dia
monds, like meats and other necessar
ies of life, will cost more this year.
The preparations for the coronation
have already caused a boost In price.
There Is already a demand for pearls
and ermine which hardly can be sup
plied, especially as the ermine season
is proving unsuccessful.
- BARS MONK AND NUN GARB.
Portuguese Decree Expels Jesuits for '
, Twenty Years.
Lisbon. A government decree is
sued on the subject of the " property
rights of religious orders contain a
clause forbidding monks and nuns to
wear a distinctive dress and prohibits
the return to the country of expelled
Jesuits until twenty years have elapsed
following their expulsion. '
. - Lewlston Normal Leading.
It la a fact not generally known
that the Lewlston state normal haa
for its student body a greater average
mileage than any other normal school
in the west today. Last year the average-
mileage for the student body
at Lewlston was 119.5. " This wear it
is 138.4 miles, that Is, the average dis
tance traveled ' by each student at
tending the Lewlston normal la 1S8.4
miles. There are now at the Lewis- '
ton normal over two hundred eighty
students enrolled and It is estimated
that the total enrollment for the year
1910-11 will be three hundred fifty,
an Increase of seventy-five over he
previous year, 1909-1910. Students
have enrolled from every section of
Idaho and from the states of Wash
ington, Oregon, North and South Da
kota, Missouri, Michigan, Iowa and
Main.
Our Savings Banks.
Reports concerning savings ' banks
issued by the Comptroller of the Qur- .
rency carry some of the largest fig
ures In the government records, -
The last report shows that there
were 9,142,908 depositors and the
number of savings banks waa 1,769.
The total amount of the deposits was
$4,070,386,246, an average of $446.10
to each depositor. The states In
which the saving ; deposits aggregate
more than $10,000,000 are In round
numbers, New York, $1,500,000,000;
California. $334,000,000; Massachus
etts, $761,000,000; Connecticut $174,
000.000; Iowa, $168,000,000; Ohio,
$126,000,000; Pennsylvania, $176,
000,000 and New Jersey. $106,000,
0. - . "-''. .
Occupations of Canadian ftWHWn,
Consul Alfred J. Fleming of Yar
mouth, Nova Scotia, reports that on
March 11, 1910, the Canadian Indians
numbered 110,597, an increase of 464
over the preceding year, the birth
and deaths being 1,491 and 1,101. re
spectively, in 1910. They cultivated
64.866 acres of land, against 61,111
acres in 1909, on which they realised
$1,374,816, a small decrease from th
yield of 1909. The value of their other
callings In 1910 was aa follows: Fish
ing. $601,860; hunting and trapping;
$828,221, a considerable increase la
both callings a compared with 1901.
Railway Extension la Uruguay.
Vice Consul P. Landbn Godlng at -Montevideo,
reports th opening of th
first section, between th Uruguay
towns of Jos Battle y Ordoni and
Trelnta y Tree, of th branch railway
line Which will eventually run from
Nlco Peres to Trelnta y Tree,
He had had much expert eac t
physicians and said. "The onhr way
to keep yoar health Is to eat what
you don't want, drink what yoa dosrt
uae ana do what you'd arutfcer not."