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DIET CURES C O N S U M PTIO N . P AR LIA M E N T ASSEM BLES. Get Fat. Build Up. and the Dreaded Disease will Disappear. People Cheer Loudly When Liberal Leaders Arrive at Westminster. No leaa a medical authority than Dr Osier says: "T h e cure o f tuberculosis is a qusetion of nutrition; make a pa DRAIN 6,000 ACRES. tient grow fat and the local disease may be left to take care o f its e lf." Coquille Land Owners Cooperate to Reclaim Marshes. Many others who have occupied the Coquille— Five thousand acres of highest position in the medical profes sion have said the same; but none have rich Coquille valley land is being re claimed by drainage systems through pointed out a successful way o f ac the co-operative efforts o f farmers owning the land. This work has now L a «« Important but Not La** In tar» complishing it. The most certain method ever adopt been under way for over 12 months, «»tin g Happenings from Point« ed for the cure o f the "G reat White though the actual work has been going Outsida tha State. Plague" ir through the diet used as per on for a far less period o f time. A t the present four reclamation projects directions given below which can be are under way. The second car strike of the year is taken at home and comes within reach The first and oldest is the Beaver on in Philadelphia. Slough drainage project. The first o f the poor as well as the rich. Roosevelt'« visit« in European cities The modus operand) is to force the move in this plan for the reclamation w ill be very brief, owing to lack of body to take on fat, a desideratum long o f the bottom land of the Cjquille val time. felt by the medical profession but nev ley was begun, by petition, over five years ago. However, the first petition Mayor McCarthy, o f San Francisco, er before attained to. was killed by the opposition of cold summarily discharged 18 employes o f u During the last fifteen years I have prescribed this diet in hundreds of in footed property owners in the proposed the Health department. stances and where directions have been d istrict A fter a district was formed I t is said the rush of homeseekers to followed strictly it has raised the which cut off the greater portion of the West will be greater the coming weight and increased the strength and these dissenters and the petition car season than ever before. vitality of the patient rapidly up to a ried and the project was launched. The Beaver Slough drainage district A rat afflicted with bubonic plague normal condition, thus enabling nature includes 1740 acres o f bottom land, has been killed in Seattle, and a gen to assert her sovereign right to be the dominating force in the body and the which will be draiend, and the cost of eral clean-up is now in order. germs causing consumption have been the complete project w ill be about Negro deputies in Cairo, III., fired overcome and the cure accomplished. $17,000. The complete project will in into a mob who were trying to lynch a Some have gained a pound a day and clude over eight miles of drainage negro prisoner, and feeling is at white would gradually take on less until they* canals, the main canal being 50 feet heat wide and the lateral canals over 26 feet would not increase in weight more. The all important thing is to drink in width. In connection with the main The discovery of a new plot against the government in the interest of Cas large quantities o f milk strippings (the canals lateral ditches will be dug tro has caused a sensation in Ven very last o f the milking, which.is all through the land, and these will be cream when a proper cow is selected.) extended through their private holdings ezuela. This seems so simple and easy that by the individuals so far as they see James Gibbons, said to be tb« man many have refused to follow direc f i t who sighted the first gun fired by the A t the point where the main canals tions and demand medicinesl to cure Union forces at Fort Sumpter in 1861, them, but there has not yet been dis flow into the river tide gates will be is dead. covered any medicine that is a specific installed which will allow the water to drain from the land freely, but will pre The San Francisco Labor council has for consumption. adopted a resolution forbidding any To get best results a healthy cow vent the tides from overflowing over union member working in a place should be selected, one that does not the lowlands, as has formerly been the where Asiatics are employed. cough and one that gives very rich case. These lateral canals are about 30 feet in width and extend from the It has developed that the coal claims milk. A Jersey cow is preferable. main canal to the foothills east. The milk should always be tested, to in Alaska for which the Morgan-Gug- The second of the projects is the Fat genheim syndicate expects to pay be sure that there is a large percent Elk drainage district, which is located age of cream in it. $500,000, are worth $25,000,000. The last quart should be milked into on the south side of the river and War against the packing companies a separate dish which rests in a larger which extends two or three miles above is becoming nation-wide. New Jersey vessel containing warm water just the city. I t will entail the dredging has dug up an old law against storing sufficient to prevent the strippings for about miles o f canals and several The miles o f lateral ditches. This project food to influence prices. Missouri from cooling below blood heat. cow should be thoroughly cleaned to embraces 2,273 acres o f bottom land courts issued indictments. and will make of the section o f the The new American play Elektra had prevent any dirt getting into the milk, river directly across from this city a so the patient can blow back the froth its first production in London before veritable paradise in the way o f dairy an audience which included the king and drink at once without straining, as land. A tout four miles of canals are this cools it too much. and queen and Prince Henry, of Prus Begin by drinking nearly a pint in complete and it is thought that without sia. I t was a great success. the morning and the same at night, further delay the work w ill not occupy Fire in the basement of a moving and increase the quantity gradually so more than two months longer. The picture show in Johnstown, Pa., weak that in 10 or 16 days a full quart will main canal follows the channel of what ened the floor supports, so that when be taken twice a day. I t should be is supposed to have been the old river the audience discovered the fire and taken immediately after milking, be and will be fitted with the usual tide Including the last assessment, made a rush for the doors, the floor fore it has bad time to cool any. A ll gates. gave way, precipitating 600 people in should be taken that can be without this project has cost $28,423, and the to the burning basement. One was too much discomfort, and then rest 2 end is not yet. The third, the Harlocker project, is trampled to death and scores badly or 3 minutes and drink more and rest wounded and burned. again, and so on until a full quart has practically a private plan o f increasing the value and productiveness of a pro Senator Tillman is reported to be been taken as soon as it can be con gressive farmer’ s land. It was started veniently. In about fifteen minutes dying. the patient should eat at the table such by L. Harlocker, o f this city, for the The city o f Cleveland now has 3 articles of food as are known to agree purpose of draining his farm about cent car fare, as the result of a 15- with the stomach. A t noon eat as five miles below town. He was joined year struggle. by several neighbors, who have agreed usual. When the strippings are not allowed to Btand a portion of the expense. A Paris parmacist, jealous o f his This project embraces 651 acres of w ife, kept her chained to the wall in to cool below heat and taken immedi ately after it is milked a full quart land and has cost $2,000. The coat of their home for two years. ill be transfused into the circulation digging lateral ditches from the main Francis J. Heney declares he will in a remarkably short time. canal through the land will perhaps ag not be a candidate for governor o f Cal I never have seen a case but could gregate $1,000 more, the entire system ifornia, but will again prosecute Her take the strippings without any dis coat about $3,000. There will be about mann. comfort worth mentioning when above one mile o f lateral ditches when the I t is estimated that the city of Khar directions were followed strictly, al project is complete. toum w ill contain the greatest crowds though some have declared they could Big Baldwin Ranch Sold. in its history when Roosevelt arrives not before trying i t ; but when they de Portland— One o f the largest trans layed taking for half an hour and the there. milk had cooled ten degrees I hsve actions on record in eastern Oregon The Roosevelt hunting trip is over seen half a pint make them very sick. ranch lands was consummated last and the party is now en route to Khar The great secret of success with It is week when the immense Crook county toum, Egypt, which place they will in taking it immediately after milking holdings of the Baldwin Sheep and reach about March 6. and not allowing it to cool below blood Land company was sold to a syndicate Hundreds of letters begging finan heat, taking a full quart morning and o f Portlland capitalists for a figure said to be in the neighborhood of cial aid are pouring into Pasadena, evening, that is very rich. $450,000. Cal., for Mrs. Russel Sage, who ar The Baldwin company’s holdings rived there a few days ago for a Street Car Men Strike Again. comprise 26,600 acres located on Hay “ rest." Philadelphia, Feb.21.— Coming when creek and Trout creek, and occupying Agnes Elkins, a niece g f Senator least expected, a strike was declared the best lands in the district south of Elkins, who attemped suicide because against the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Shaniko and east o f Madras. The pur her uncle positively forbade her be company by the Amalgamated Associa chase includes the improvements on the coming an actress, is admitted to be tion of Street and Electric Railway place, including a large general store dying, by her physicians. employes this afternoon, and tonight and bank, the value o f which is con One man was frozen to death near the police and firemen were busy hand servatively estimated at $100,000. A large portion o f the Baldwin ranch Cincinnati, Ohio, a train wrecked and ling turbuent crowds. Two cars were three train men fatally injured, and burned, a score o f cars were attacked, comprises some o f the finest alfalfa forcing their crews to abandon them railroads, telegraph and telephone lines land in Eastern Oregon to the extent made. o f several thousand acres. It is the completely demoralised in the recent and numerous arrests were Except in the central part o f the city, blizzard. intention o f the new owners o f the streetcar service was almost at a property to develop all o f the alfalfa Sheriff’s deputies at Carlo, III., fired standstill. lands by conserving the waters in Hay upon a mob which had attacked the jail creek and Trout creek for irrigation with the intention of lynching a negro. Floor in Picture 8how Collapses. purposes. Practically all o f the wa One man is dead, another dying, and Johnstown, Pa.,— F ive hundred per ter in both thoee streams for their nine more badly wounded. Warrants sons attending a theater at Patton, entire length is controlled by the Bald are out for the leaders of the mob. near Johnstown, tonight, were prepcip- win ranch. The Deschutes line of Fierce blizzards sweep the West, itated into the basement o f the build the Harriman system will run through Northwest and Southwest ing when the floor collapsed. One-man the Baldwin property and arrange An orchard of 606 acres in Rogue was killed and many women and chil ments have already been made for es river valley, Oregon, has.been’ sold for dren tangled in the debris were in tablishing one or more shipping points jured. To add to the panic, firemen on the company’s land. $500,000. were forced to turn streams o f water T aft calls on senate to hasten action into the basement, where the crowd Nyssa Land is Sold. on bills to redeem party pledges and wss struggling to escape the flames. La Grande Purchases involving an leaders get busy.” | The fire started in the basement when expenditure o f $75,000 were consum Traffic Director Stubbs testified that the theater was filled with people mated at Nyssa. Or., when Ray W. no compe< itlon exists between the Un watching a moving picture show. Logan, secretary, and Howard Davis, ion Pacific and Southern Pacific. president o f the Malheur Red Apple Castro Heads New Plot. company, closed a deal taking over 360 T aft says be is glad of criticisms of Caracas, Venezuela, Feb. 21.— The his first year’ s work, believing the discovery of a ‘ new plot against the acres o f irrigated and highly improved next three years will be more pleasant government and in the interest o f ex- orchard and alfalfa land 2H miles from Nyssa. One hundred and twenty acres as a result President Castro has caused a sensa of this tract is in 8-year old apple Wills Involving many millions have tion. Many arrests o f prominent per trees and the balance is in alfalfa. The Disquieting company was attracted to the Nyssa been broken in the Snell and Warner sons hsve been made. rumors regarding the political inten section by the assurance of the success eases in the Illinois Supreme court tions of General Joee Hernandez, lead o f the Boise-Owyhee Ditch company. The sudden return of Francis J. er o f the Nationalist party, and for Heney to San Francisco after the Her merly minister at Washington, who is Accommodations for Passengers. mann trial is taken to mean that he now in Paris, have alarmed his parti Salem— The railroad commission has sans here. w ill enter politics in California. taken up the matter o f providing facil The Navy department has abandon M ore Bodies Recovered from Mine. ities and conveniences at the point near Derry where the West Side divis ed the search for the missing naval Cherry, 111., Feb. 21.— Four more tug Nina and her crew of 82 men, and bodies were taken out of the St. Paul ion o f the Southern Pacific crosses the practically given up hope for the coal mine today. This makes a total line o f the Salem. Falls City A West ern railroad. W aiting rooms w ill be vessel. of 126 bodies recovered since the dis built and the schedules arranged so aster of November 3. It is eatimated that connections both north and south Owing to trouble between the hoist- that 173 bodies are yet to be found. can be made by the passengers en ing engineers and Western Federation Charles L. Atherton, known as the route from Salem and Dallas to Cor o f Miners, nine thousand men are on "to p bose," who was shot while at vallis and Portland. strike in Butte, Montana. his poet o f duty by Metas Maditch yes terday, was reported today to be dying. Fruit Growers Will Build. F ire destroyed the government Eugene— The Eugene Fruitgrowers’ building o f the 1905 exposition at Port China Warned by Powers. association has taken an option on a land. It is believed to have been Set Pekin, Feb. 21.--Great Britain and lot belonging to B. F. Dorris and ad on fire by tramp«. The building cost France have made joint formal and joining the Southern Pacific yards in $235,482. There was no insurance. friendly recommendations to China Eugene. It is the plan to erect this that that government should not pro spring a large fruit parking house. Rooesvelt will spend three or' four ceed with the Chin Choo A Aigun rail The association now occupies a build days in Paris on his return trip, end way scheme without taking into con ing in the business district which will w ill be entertained by President Fal- sideration the wishes of Russia and be moved away soon to make room for Japan. ■ brick block. London, Feb. 15.— A fter the hardest fought election England has ever known, the third parliament o f King Edward’s reign assembled at West minster for the session’s business at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Business thus far has been purely formal and four days will be occupied in no more sen sational way than swearing in members and effecting the usual organization. Although the house did not convene until 2 o ’clock, the doors were opened bb usual at midnight and all through the early hours of the forenoon there was the customsry rush of the 670 members o f the commons for the best, or, in fact, for any at all, o f -the 500 seats in their chamber. This stampede over, the yeomen of the guard in their gorgeous scarlet and gold Elizabethan uinforms, went through their ven.rable farce o f search ing the parliament house vaults for explosives. The official police had, of course, previously conducted a real search. Even they found nothing— nor expected to. As 2 o’clock approached an enormous crowd began to gather in the streets of Westminster to watch the members’ arrival. Notable politicians were eagerly looked for. Cbancelor of the Exchequer Lloyd-George was so en thusiastically greeted that it took a strong squad of policemen to get him safely from his official residence at No. 11 Downing street, to the bouse. Prime Minister Asquith, more appre hensive concerning suffragettes, who were prominently in evidence in the throng, took no such risks as tbe chan cellor, but went across from his official residence by way o f the underground passage provided for such emergencies. Winston Churchill drove up in a cab with his w ife and was also warmly welcomed. Arthur J. Balfour, the conservative leader, got a decidedly chilly reception, either because his party was beaten at the polls or be cause the Libera's predominated in the crowd about the parliament house en trance. EVENTS OF THE DAY Newsy Items Gathered from All Parts ot the World. PREPARED FOR THE BUSY READER W O O L GROWERS O BJECT. Charges are Made Against K. H O'Brien o f Wallowa Heserve. Baker City— Trouble between the sheepmen o f this section and the fores try officials has reached an acute stage and there is every probability that tbe grievance o f the Baker-Union Counties Wool growers’ association w i’ l be ap pealed to the officials at Washingtonr A meeting was held in this citb' between K. H. O’ Brien, of tbe Wal lowa reserve, and District Forest«. Chapmen, and the woolgrowers of this section. The growers allege that lass year the officials agreed to allow on the Wallowa reserve 125,000 sheep from Wallowa county and 160,000 from Baker and Union counties, but only 66,000 sheep were admitted from Walla Walla and 69,000 from Baker and Union counties. The sheepmen now ask that the original limit be es tablished again and the larger number o f sheep admitted. Serious charges are made against K. H. Q’ Brien, o f the Wallowa reserve, the sheepmen believing and intimating that Mr. O’ Brien’ s business interests, his relationship commercially, socially and financially are of such a nature that he is unduly influenced in matters pertaining to the range. The sheep men demanded o f Mr. Chapman that they have a hearing on these allega tions and that he give a decision. All complaints were reduced to writing and Mr. Chapman took the case under ad visement. It is generally believed that the meeting is merely the founda tion for an appeal by the sheepmen to Washington. Myrtle Point to Heve Water System Myrlte Point—City officials o f Myr tle Point have just received and are signing up the bonds and coupons for the $22,000 water works bond issue lately voted. When the money is re ceived, immediate work will begin on JAPAN BUSY IN P H ILIPPIN E S. rebuilding and improving the Myrtle Point water system. The present leaky wooden pipe system will be re Lands Thousands o f Rifles, Either placed with steel or iron piping, and for Soldiers or Natives. other improvements will be made. Manila, Feb. 16.— Great interest The city has a gravity water system drawing its supply from mountain was aroused in official circles today by springs which are believed to be ample the report that several thousand Jap anese rifles had been landed on the Tayabas coast I t is feared by some Strike Pure Water at Well. that Japan is planning to install an Vale— N ew bill & Coleman, who have armed force in the Philippines, such as been sinking a teat well one half mile southwest o f tbe town, struck an un it is believed to have now in Hawaii. The cruiser Chattanooga was dis limited flow o f pure water. A sample has been sent to Portland for analysis. patched to Lamon bay to search for the ship in which the rifles were The well was sunk on the Road com brought here. pany’s land, and the mayor has written I t is believed by many that the rifles to that company asking for a donation were deliberately brought by Japanese of the land where the well is situated, traders and turned over to the natives and for a plat o f land on the Vale hill in order to encourage them to rebel for a reservoir, and also for a park site against the Americans. to be donated to the city. The authorities have been having great trouble recently with the smug Change In Rail Route glers and the Japanese seagoing mar Portland — A copy o f a resolution auders have been among the most ser adopted by the board o f directors of ious offenders. the O. R & N. on January 13 declar That Japan has always had her ing the new line from a point west of eye on the Philippines everyone here Echo, Umatilla county, to the main knows. Tbe statement that the Jap line, near Coyote, a branch line e f the anese could take Manila in short order corporation, has been filed with the has been made repeatedly and only this county clerk. This is the straight cut winter has resulted in tbe government which officials o f the line have recently at Washington making provision for announced would be built. extensive coast forrtiflnations. Whether tbe landing o f the rifles Freewater on Railroad Map was Dart o f a general plot, or the work Freewater— A t last Freewater has a of daring smugglers who wish to dis recognized place on the map, the 0. R. A N. company having changed tbe organize the constabulary as much as poseible and keep them busy with in name o f the depot from Milton to Mil- ternal matters, tbe situation is almost torf-Freewater. New folders contain equally serious. I f they can keep the the new name. I t is a recognition of native tribes in revolt, they evidently the passenger and traffic business orig think their operations can be carried inating at this point. on successfully. Tayabas is tbe province which bord New Buildings at Eugene. ers on the east coast o f Luzon island. Eugene— The concrete blocks for the new restaurant which T. H. Ellis Americans Route Moros. will build for the A. L. Smith company near the depot have been delivered. Manila, Feb. 16.— News of a fight The foundation is already in. between an American scouting party and a band of Moros, in which two PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS. American soldiers were seriously wounded, reached here today from the Wheat— Track prices — Bluestem, province o f Lanao, on the island of $1.16; club, $1.07; red Russian, $1.04 Mindanao. The report stated that a @1.06; valley, $1.05; 40-fold., $1.10. party was dispatched into the montain Barley— Feed and brewing, $28@ country near Lake Lanao, where a 28.60 ton. band o f Moros were committing, depre Corn-— Whole, $35; cracked, $36 ton. dations. The natives fled farther into Oats— N o.l white, $31@31.50 ton. the mountains, where they were fol Hay— Track prices— Tim othy: W il lowed by the troops. The Moros lamette valley, $19@20 per ton; East made a night attack on the Americans. ern Oregon, $2U<i22; alfalfa, $17@18; California alfalfa, $16@17; clover, Smallpox on Board Cruiser. $16; grain hay, $17@18. Port Townsend, Wash., Feb. 16.— Fresh Fruits— Apples, $1.26@3 box; The cruiser Washington will reach Di pears, $1.60@1.76; cranberries, $8@9 amond Point quarantine station today per barrel. with five cases of smallpox among the Potatoes — Carload buying prices: crew. Assistant Surgeon Carter, in Oregon, 70@80c per sack ; sweet pota charge o f this quarantine district, re toes, 2%(<i2!4c per pound. ceived a wireless message from the Vegetables— Artichokes, $1.25 per Washington last night saying she was dozen ; cabbage, $2 per hundred; cauli steaming full speed ahead. Dr. Carter flower, $1.75 per dozen; celery, $4 per went to the quarantine station this crate; sprouts, 9c per 'pound; squash, morning to arrange for the landing'and 2c; tomatoes., $3.25@8.60 per crate; isolation o f the men. The Washing turnips, $1.25 per sack; rutabagas, ton is on her way from Honolulu to the $1@1.25; carrots, $1; beets, $1.26; Bremerton drydocks. parsnips, $1. Onions— Oregon, $1.60 per sack. General Wood In Critical Condition Butter— City craemery extras, 37@ Baltimore, Feb. 16.— It was report 39c; fancy outside creamery, 36fti37c per pound; store, 20@22)4c. Butter ed this afternoon that Major General fat prices average 1 per pound, un Leonard Wood, who was operated on last week at the Johns Hopkins hos der regular butter prices. Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 28{<i29c pital, wss in a serious condition. Fol lowing the operation General Wood per dozen. rallied, and tbe surgeons anticipated Pork— Fancy, U@ 12c per pound. The report today Poultry— Hens, 17S@ 18c; springs. his early recovery. 17)t@ 18e: ducks, 20@23c; geese, 13 is to the effect that the operation was @14c; turkeys, live, 2S@24e; dressed, not so successful as was at first sup posed, and that his condition is causing 27@30e; squabs, $3 per dozen. Cattle— Best steers, $6.50; fair to the physicians much apprehension. good steers, $4.59rn5; strictly good Steamship Lines Grafting? costs , $4.50; fa ir to good cows, $3.75 @ 4; light calves, $5@6.50; heavy Washington, Feb. 16.— I t developed calves, $4@S; bulls, $3.60fd3.76; today that the immigration service has stags, $3Ai 4. been reporting from 130,000 to 400,000 Hogs— Top, $9»i.9.26; fair to good more immigrants a year than it re hogs, $8.50oi8.75. ports in the collection o f the head tax Sheep—Best wethers, $5.60; fair to on immigrants. The steamship com good wethers, $4.60015; good ewes, panies usually pay the head tax. There $4.75015; lambs. $6@6.60. is a suspicion that the companies hsve Hope, 1909 crop, prime and choice, been engaged in big frauds. The im 200121 H e ; 19 u 8 s , 1 7 * e ; 1907s, ll> * e migration service refuses to explain. per pound. Wool— Eastern Oregon. 160123c per "Rem em ber the Maine.” pound; mohair, choice, 25c;. Havana. Feb. 16.— In observance of Cascara bark— 4 He pound. H id e s — Dry hides, 18(818)4e per the twelfth anniversary o f the destruc pound; dry kip, 18<318)te; dry calf tion o f tbe Maine, the American colony skin, 19@21c; salted bides, lOOt yesterday placed flags and wrraths on 10J*e; salted calfskin, 16e pound; the masts of the submerged battleship in Havana harbor. le ' Washington, Feb. 18. — The post- office appropriation bill, reported to the house late yesterday, makes no change in second class postage rates and contains no ship subsidy provision. The bill carries nearly $230,000,000, which is an increase over last year's o f $6,000,000. Four administration measures are sure of passage at this session of con gress. A fte r conferences with sen ators and representatives, Piesident T aft told callers today that he fe lt cer tain tha amendments to the interstate commerce law, the postal savings bank bill, tbe anti-injunction proposal and the statehood bill would go through. The situation now seems to portend that the Alaska legislative council bill, the Federal incorporation bill and sev eral other measures desired by tbe president will either fall by the way side or be laid upon the shelf for an other session. With a view to preventing specula tion in Carey act lands. Representa tive Mundell today introduced a bill authorizing the secretary of the inter ior, on application by any state or ter ritory, to withdraw temporarily from entry lands which sre desired for re clamation under that law. It is provided that formal applica tion for segregation, ac-ompanied by maps o f the proposed irrigation pro ject, must be submitted within one year from date of withdrawal or else the withdrawal will be revoked. Washington, Feb. 16. — Reports made by ¡corporations under the law imposing a tax of 1 per cent on their net incomes are not to be open to pub lic inspection unless congress makes an appropriation specifically providing for accommodations and clerical help. Somebody has discovered that an act passed in 1882'expressly prohibits the secretary o f the treasury from using any part of tbe appropriation of $100,- 000 made by congress " f o r the expen ses of collecting the Federal incorpora tion ta x " in the employment o f per sons within tbe District o f Columbia. President T a ft thinks that congress intended that the returne, original and corrected, should be open to inspection, and in a letter to the secretary of the treasui y he has suggested that, if the construction which seems to him to be the right one is to be carried into exe- cut on, there must be an appropriation of $50,000 for the specific purpose. Following the president’ s sugges tion, Charles D. Norton, acting secre tary of the treasury, has submitted to the speaker o f the bouse an estimate for an appropriation o f the amount stated. Strong opposition has developed to the publicity feature of the corpora tion tax. The issue now is squarely before'eongress and much interest is manifested whether that body will re enact the existing publicity provision by granting the appropriation recom mended. Washington, Feb. 18.— Employment for tbe unemployed is the subject o f a bill that has been introduced by Repre sentative Garner, Republica, of Penn- syl\»nia, who proposed, through the medium o f the Poetoffice department, to bring the emDloyer in touch so that tbe labor market may be normal at all times. He proposes to authorize the post master general to establish in the de partment and in every postoffice in the United States “ an information la bor officer," whose duty it Bhall be to supply daily to employers lists of persons wanting work and to the latter lists of employers want laborers. Each county seat is to be a distribut ing center for the county in which it is located, applications for labor and laborers being sent to all points in the county. The senate today passed the follow ing bills introduced by Senator P ile s : Appropriating $30,000 for the estab lishment of a lighthouse on K ellet’s Bluff; a $60,000 lighthouse at Part ridge Point; $41,600 for small aids to navigation on Puget Sound; $225,000 for a lighthouse tender for Alaska and $70,000 to construct two revenue cut ter launches for Puget Sound. Senator Jones and Representative McCredie today introduced a bill ap propriating $400,000 for the purchase o f a site and the erection of an immi gration station at Tacoma. Senator Chamberlain today intro duced bills formerly offered by Senator Fulton, as follow s: For final settle ment with the Clatsop tribe o f Indians, appropriating $15,000 to pay for lands taken; $10,500 for the Tillamook tribe, $7,000 for the Kathlamet band o f the Chinook tribe. $5,000 for the Wheelappa tribe, $20,000 for the lower band of the Chinook tribe, $7,000 for the Waukinum band o f the Chinook tribe, and $1,500 for the Nuc-Quee- Cha-Wi-Muck tribe. Washington, Feb. 15.— Tbe rivers and harbors bill, carrying appropria tions o f $40,000,000, passed the house today without any substantial amend ments by - the representatives. Tbe bill wss completed by the house com mittee last week and was reported fav orably soon afterward. The government projects on the Mis sissippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers get the largest slices of the appropriation. The harbors o f the nation share about equally in distribution, accord ing to size and commercial value, while even a few o f the inland posses sions are not overlooked in the general division of $40,000,000. In addition to appropraitions for act ual river and harbor work, allotments of funds are made to provide salaries for army engineers who are acting as commissioners to cooperate with rivers and harbors boards o f various states where government and state work is being conducted jointly. The Oregon items in tbe rivers and harbors bill were not questioned, and went through unchanged. Senator Bourne today offered an amendment to the rivers and harbors bill, appropriating $426,000 for im provement o f the Siuslaw river’s mouth, local people to supply half that amount, which is according to the re commendation o f the board o f engi neers. Washington, Feb. 14.— A bill look ing to the further nationalising o f the California Big Tree forests wss favor ably reported by the house commmit- tee on public lands today, when it re commended the Smith bill providing for the exchange o f privately-owned lands in the Sequoia and General Grant Parks for other public lands in Cali fornia. There are now about 3,000 acres of this land within the two national parks. Owners o f such lands are auth orized to exchange them for lands of equal value or acreage with the con sent of the secretaries o f agriculture and the interior. Strenuous opposition from unexpect ed quarters was the reception met by the Alaskan legislative council bill up on brief consideration in the senate to day. Assaults up n various features of the measure by Clark, o f Wyoming, Crawford, Borah, Heyburn, Fraser and Clay were arrested by Beveridge, who has the bill in charge, until his voice gave way under a severe cold. Consid eration o f the bill was then postponed. Clark took exception to the power given to the proposed council to repeal laws enacted by congress; Clay to the control of public lands vested in the council, and Heyburn to the appoint ment of an army office as a member o f the council. Replying. Beveridge said that local legislators would understand conditions in the territory better than congress possibly could and the president had reached the same conclusion. Washington, Feb. 17.— Sentiment in the senate, as 'developed today, in generally favearable to the bill author izing the issuance o f $30,000,000 of reclamation certificates. Senator Flint, Kean and Burton being the only ones to voice opposition. Friends o f the measure are confident that there will be a vote at an early day, and that they will have a safe majority to pass the bill. The arguments advanced by Senators Jones, Carter and Borah appealed strongly to the disinterested senators, several of whom privately experssed their belief that the bill should pass. This result is expected, unless Flint and Kean have pledges enough to defeat the measure, which is doubtful. The measure was championed by several senators, especially by Sena tors Carter and Smith. Mr. Carter said that in severa cases reservoirs had been completed, although the ditches had not been constructed. The effect was to hold with the wa'er from set tlers. It was stated that the money would be all repaid by settlers. Army Aeroplanes Urged. Making an appeal for general re- I strictions in the immigration laws and Washington, Feb. 16. — Cortland denouncing “ Connonism,” Representa Field Bishop, president o f the Aero tive Dies, o f Texas delivered a stiring club o f America, accompanied by a speech in tbe house today. committe representing the Washington “ Speaker Cannon,” he said, "lik e a & Baltimore aeronautic societies, called Colossus, sits astride tbe house o f rep on the president today to urge him to resentatives. Has the time come recommend to congress appropriations when only Cannon Republicans can for the equipment o f the army with The president regretted form the majority o f committees and aeroplanes. only Cannon Democrats be placed upon that because of the necessity o f strict economy, it would not be possible for the minorities o f these committees?" The diplomatic and consular bill, him to urge this project upon congress carrying $41,19,481, which passed the during tbe present session, but said he house last week, was passed by the might do so at the next. senate today. Expert to Explore Oregon for Oil. T o Enforce Restriction. Washington, Feb. 16.— Partial ar Washigton, Feb. 17.— N ot further rangements were made today by Sena restriction, but merely to make possi tor Bourne to have a geologist from ble such restriction as the existing law the geological survey examine the intends, but has not accomplished, is oil deposits o f Oregon next year. The the object o f a proposed new immigra Astoria chamber o f commerce petition tion law recommended by Daniel J. ed that the matter be taken ud . J. S. Keefe, the commissioner general of Diller, o f the geological survey, who immigration, in his annual report for has done considerable work ir Oregon, the fiscal year 1909. It is proposed informs Bourne that his explorations to accomplish this by codifying, ar have convinced him that all along tbe ranging in logical sequences and coast there are promising oil deposits. strengthening in all their weak points Wants P ro o f Against Railroads. all existing laws on the general subject o f immigration and Chinese exclusion. Washington. Feb. 15.— Tbe house committee on poetoffice and postroad- Bill to Stop Hazing. is oleading that some one will cone Washington, Feb. 17. — Without a forward and submit proofs that the word spoken in opposition, the senate railroads are being greatly overpaid I t thought it today passed a bill designed to deal for hauling the mails. with the vexed question o f hazing at did well when it cut down the remuner It has West Point. The author o f tbe meas ation by $8,000,000 in 1907. ure is Senator Dupont, o f Delaware. since then been entertaining unani It provides that the superintendent of mous opinions that the'railroads were the academy shall make appropriate not paid too much. Even Representa regulations for putting a stop to haz tive Victor Murdock, Hotspur o f the ing. A cadet charged with offences reformers, declares the government is that would involve bis dismissal is to not being robbed and regards the mail contracts as fair. hart a general court martial.
