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NEWS OF THE WEEK LAND IN NEED OF LABORERS WILD RIDE ON RUNAWAY CAR OREGON STATE NEWS IN GENERAL M E M CASE Brazilian Minister Tells of Deals Brakeman Makes 65 Miles Per With Japanese Workers. Hour, But Sticks to Post. Washington, D. C.—A state dinner Medford, Or. — With his lantern Industrial and Educational Items o f Interest To Oregonians by Secretary Bryan to Dr. Lauro Mul swinging in a brave attempt to warn ler, Brazilian minister of foreign the people, J. A. Fowler, an Ashland affairs, here on a special mission, STONE MAY REPLACE WOOD FARMING COURSE FOR NOVICE yard man, came through Medford closed a busy day of entertainment Thursday night at 75 miles an hour on and sightseeing for the visitor. Discovery of (Quarries May Cause O. A. C. Summer School to Teach top of a runaway freight car. With Dr. Muller talked with some callers the wires busy clearing the right of Shanties to Dissapeor. Rudiments to Beginners. a switch engine in charge of Socialists Believed Responsible— Old-crop hops are advancing rapidly through his interpreter, about the im Silver Lake—Stone houses may re A course in basic agronomy to be way, Engineer Adams in wild pursuit and a in price. migration of Japanese to Brazil. place the regulation two-room shanties given by Dr. M. M. McCool at the doctor motoring Attacks Made on Others Cit to the scene of the Torrential rains are causing disas “ Some thousands of Japanese are which now form the abodes of home Oregon Agricultural college summer expected tragedy, the car by a miracle izens of Town Armed. trous floods along the Fraser river in coming into Sao Paulc, a state of Bra steaders on virtually every quarter session is planned to introduce the escaped collision with a freight train Manitoba. zil, for agricultural purposes, but it is section in Christmas Lake and Silver novice to farm science through an in at Central Point, as it hastened into a Union Pacific plans for unmerging not true that colonization agreements Lake valleys. This is made possible timate first knowledge of the fields, siding safely, and made the sharp Fort Stevens, Or.—Corporal Shade, by the discovery by F. R. Bass of a the crops, and the mechanics of the curves at Gold Ray and finally came to were taken under advisement by the have been entered into between Japan the last of the government’s principal half dozen stone quarries on the side farm. A part of the instruction, also, Federal court. a stop one mile this side of Gold Hill. witnesses in the case against Waldo H. and Brazil as governments,” he said. of Table Mountain. Table Mountain will give an introduction to agricul Some idea of the speed of the runa Two men were drowned while at “ In Brazil we are in the same posi and the Connolly hills divide the two ture as a science through a wide range way car may be had from the fact that Coffman, the Socialist who is charged tempting to cross the Salmon river, in tion as we were 50 years ago, the valleys and the quarries are easily ac of scientific study and investigation in the car slipped loose from the train with spreading treasonable propagan Idaho, on an improvised raft. same position that your state of Cali cessible from either side of the slope. fields still unexplored, or to interest at Ashland at 9 :50 and reached Med da among United States troops, has The substance uncovered by Mr. the beginner in the business profits ford, a distance of 12 miles, down Brazil is encouraging the settlement fornia was in at that time—we need of her lands by Japanese, as there are population. The lands in Sao Paulo Bass appears to oe stone in the mak and practice and the professional op grade, at 10:01, a run of 11 minutes, disappeared from the post here and not enough natives to develop them. state, into which the Japanese are ing. It is a mixture of clay and sand, portunities of farming. or an average of 65 miles an hour. the trial of Coffman has been halted, The work includes instruction in the The pursuing engine made the dis temporarily, at least. coming, are low lands, near the sea, which, although not moist, hardens Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and daugh like cement when exposed to the air. origin and formation of soils; soil This is the third witness for the Fed ters, and perhaps the President him good for the production of rice, but It is easily sawed or chiseled out in moisture, heat and air; common soil tance in 15 minutes, half of the sched eral authorities who has mysteriously the people of Brazil will not go into ule time, but lost sight of the runaway self, will visit the West within a few cubes of the proper size for building processes; plant foods and soil fertil at Talent. dropped from view in a week, either them. months. ity; tillage, crop rotation and manur “ Individual owners in that state, purposes. was pretty well shaken up on the eve of or during the trial. Old-timers of the valley say there ing; soil bacteria; drainage and irri by Fowler The other missing witnesses are Pri Governor Hatfield, of West Vir through the state of Sao Paulo, made his experience, but said he was too ginia, refuses to give senate commit- an agreement with an immigration are similar quarries to the south and gation benefits; and the use and care busy swinging his lantern and keeping vate Crawford and Private Lowe, who tee records of trials of strikers by concern in Japan to bring us a few northwest of the town of Silver Lake. of common farm machines, A brief his balance to think much about his started from the Presidio at San Francisco to testify here, but who court martial. thousand laborers to grow rice there, No stone has been taken from these survey of the agriculture of the state danger. diggings for so many years that their will close the course. have not arrived. Gary says that under the old book laborers such as the United States has location was almost forgotten until Another important agronomy course Shortly before Corporal Shade dis keeping systems the profits of the engaged in the digging of the Panama Mr. Bass made the discovery on Table for the summer is that in crop produc JAPAN TO STAND ON TREATY appeared from here, the Federal au canal. Steel trust were not always what they The fireplace, chimneys tion by Prof. George Hyslop. In it thorities secured evidence indicating “ We have not encouraged the Jap Mountain. appeared to be. Fourteenth Amendment Omitted that he had been offered large sums of anese to emigrate to our country. For and foundation of the old house on the the chief field crop seeds of Oregon From Land Bill Protest. Andrew Drew, pupil of Orville years we have subsidized immigration, SO ranch, owned by “ Hi” Adams, of will be studied, such as wheat, barley, money to desert from the army before Wright, and expert aviator, fell 200 but never the immigration of Jap Portland, were built of stone taken oats, corn, vetch, clover, alfalfa and Tokio—It is learned that Japan has the next session of the Coffman trial, feet in burning biplane at Lima, Ohio, anese. We need labor and immigra from one of these workings; the same grasses, as to their vitality, germina decided to omit from the text of its which had been postponed to give the and was picked up dead. tion, however, and if the question of is true of the buildings on the UR tion, preservation, growth and repro rejoinder to the American govern prosecution an opportunity to locate ranch, owned by William H. Hayes, duction. Some work in seed judging ment’s reply to the protest against the Crawford and Lowe. An American yacht limped into a encroachment by Japanese should ever of California; also the Chrisrnan and will be done, and seed beds and seed California alien land law the conten Shade testified on the day the trial Japanese closed port and was imme come up in our country we would be Martin in the town of Silver ing will be studied. The relation of tion that it violates the 14th amend was continued and shortly before had diately seized by the authorities, in able to deal with it without the diffi Lake. homes But all of these buildings were climate and soil to crops, culture and ment, and leave this point for discus engaged in an encounter with a friend accordance with international regula culty experienced by the United States constructed a quarter of a century ago. rotation, the prevention and eradica sion between Viscount Chinda, the of Coffman who upbraided him for be and California, for in Brazil we have tions. New settlers have erected chinmneys tion of weeds, and the harvesting, Japanese ambassador at Washington, ing a witness for the government. unity of legislation. Owing to Oregon’s new law requir Officers in every city along the Pa “ The laws of the states are alike in of stovepipe, sheet iron or tile, im marketing and profits of crops will be and Secretary of State Bryan. ing physical examination before mar ported at considerable expense. given some consideration. Two other cific Coast have been requested to look Brazil and the central government The reason for this decision was the riage licenses can be issued, Vancou The quarries found by Mr. Bass are subjects of immediate importance will conviction that Japan’s case as a na for Corporal Shade and also the other ver, Wash., is doing a rushing business watches over questions like th at.” within the Fremont national forest re be discussed: The distribution and tion would be stronger if based on the missing soldiers. Private Crawford in that line. serve and already several homestead value to the state of various crops, contention that the land bill violates was a trusted soldier and it is not Great disappointment is expressed COLLEGE HEN MAKES REOORD ers at the foot of Table Mountain are and the methods of improving them. the treaty. The idea here is that the thought by some that he deserted. His preparing to build stone houses. by shippers of frozen meats and but 14th amendment, as well as the con testimony was expected to be more ter at the suspension of negotiations Oregon Biddy Lays Ninety-Nine RAISING OF FLAX IS URGED stitutional prohibition against states damaging than the others. It is reported here that the extreme for a reciprocal treaty between Can RABBITS DESTROYING CROPS Eggs in 100 Days. passing laws impairing obligation con activity of the Socialists here and the ada and Australia. tracts, might eventually be the bas:s Oregon Agricultural College, Cor Speaker Tells Threshermen of Prof of suits brought by Japanese as indi methods employed to outwit the pros A runaway horse and his rider fell vallis, Or.—A college hen, which laid Christmas Lake Outlook is Fine itable Insustry. ecution by causing witnesses to disap But for Work of Rodents. viduals. over an 800-foot precipice in Arizona, 99 eggs in 100 days and observed Com pear, has attracted the attention of Portland—Thousands of dollars may Ficksburg — The fine outlook in the man catching on a crag and escap mencement day by taking a single the United States government Secret HOME RULE BILL IS PASSED be added to the annual earnings of the Christmas Lake valley for crops this ing with slight injury, while the horse day’s vacation, is a new claimant for Service department, which has started threshermen of Oregon by the develop fell to the bottom of the oanyon end prominence in the chicken world. The year, will depend upon the state gov Rabbits have ment of the flax industry in the state, English Commons Scene of Fiery an investigation. was killed. newly heralded layer is three-quarters ernment of Oregon. This news is welcome here and at Denunciation. and one-quarter done much damage, and at the rate of according to H. A. Brewer, manager Both sides refusing to make further White Leghorn Hammond, as it is declared the citi of the Portland Linseed Oil company, increase noticeable, before harvest concessions, war between the Balkan Barred Plymouth Rock, descending time comes there will be little to gar who was one of the speakers at the London — The house of commons zens at the latter place are in a state from several generations of heavy lay states is expected at any time. passed the second reading of the home bordering on terror and many resi ers bred at the Oregon Agricultural ner unless strenuous methods are banquet of the State Threshermen’s rule for Ireland bill without division, dents of the town and soldiers of Fort adopted to inoculate the rodents. The association at the Commercial club re Colonel Goethais says that “ any College experiment station. an amendment by Mr. Balfour for the Stevens are reported to have armed thing that floats” may go through the Not only is this the best record ever Ficksburg Development club hopes to cently. rejection of the measure having been themselves for protection, following “ The linseed factories of the state be able to secure the assistance of the Panama canal by January 1, 1915. secured at the Agricultural college for defeated previously by a vote of 368 attacks on several persons who are are prepared to handle the product of It is claimed the loss of revenue by the same length of time but a careful state veterinarian or some competent 25,000 to 270. The announcement of the fig known to look with disfavor on the acres of flax in this state, if official from the State Agricultural perusal of authentic records from the Underwood tariff bill will be more the people will only plant it,” he said. ures was received with cheering by tactics of the radical faction of the than offset by the income tax amend other stations on file fails to reveal an college to start the good work. Socialists. “ Taking the prices paid for threshing Liberals and Nationalists. The area sown to grain and other equal performance. ment. The debate was marked by fiery Corporal Martin, interested in the in other states, the threshermen products shows a considerable increase declarations by the opposition speakers search being made for Corporal Shade, should be able to get from 20 to 25 over any season in the history of this Government discovers that the Good Roads Meeting Ends. new country, but the rabbit plague cents a bushel for the threshing of it, who predicted home rule would result was attacked and an attempt made to franking privilege was big help to Boise, Idaho — The Intermountain seems to keep abreast of the settlers. and they would be able to handle the in civil war in Ireland. Sir Edwards sandbag him by a friend of Shade sugar interests and tons of anti-free Good Roads association closed its an Carson, the Irish Unionist leader, whom Martin had questioned regard sugar literature were sent through the nual convention here after a three-day Drives were held in various sections flax crops without in the least being said: ing the whereabouts of Shade. Other during the past winter, but owing to interfered with in their work on the mails at government expense. session, following a rpirited conflict the large area necessary to be covered, regular grain crops.” “ For my part, I will continue to soldiers went to Martin’s assistance support the Ulster men and will take and he escaped serious injury. A cold wave has spread all over the over the place of the next meeting and they proved failures from an extermi full responsibility for their resistance. the election of president and secre nation standpoint, as the animals East and is doing immense damage to Forestry Builds Station. You may seize their homes, or send tary. Butte, Mont., won out against would escape in such numbers that it Lobbying May Be Stopped. fruit. Prairie City—The forestry service troops, but you will not settle the Provo, Utah, for the 1914 meeting. seems hopeless to finish them in this Washington, D. C.—Lobbying as a The government has brought suit to Dr. L. P. McCalla, chairman of the manner. It is rumored that unless has ordered a telephone line to be in Irish question.” fine art, how it is done, and who is compel the dissolution of the Eastman executive committee in charge of the something is done, various settlers stalled connecting Prairie City with Lord Charles Beresford declared: responsible, what ends are sought and the summit of Strawberry Peak. 12 kodak trust. present convention, was elected presi may take the matter into their own “ If the government sends troops to what results accomplished probably miles distant from this place. A sta dent. He is a prominent physician of Ireland, I shall offer my services, China is the fourteenth nation to ac Boise. T. H. Burton, of Nephi, Utah, hands and inoculate the rodents with tion will be erected on the extreme poor as they may be, and help my fel will be investigated by the special senate lobby committee before it con some disease that may be dangerous cept, in principle, Bryan’s plan for was elected secretary. summit of the peak at a height of cludes its work and submits a report to man and beast if it gets abroad. over 10,000 feet, which overlooks the low countrymen.” universal world peace. Resolutions adopted declared for an The need being great and from people to the senate. For nearly two weeks open auto route through the Yellow that will suffer greatly if their crops entire forestry district of Eastern Jones Blocks Senate. the five senators on the committee stone National Park in promotion of are destroyed, it is believed the state Oregon. have listened to testimony that has Washington, D. C.—Senator Jones, PORTLAND MARKETS The purpose of the government in the nation-wide movement to “ see will co-operate and the inoculation pro dealt almost exclusively with the in of Washington, who has failed thus establishing this station is to enable a Wheat—Track prices: Club, 94c; America first.” Convict labor on good cess be carried on in a manner that lookout stationed there to notify all far to secure from the senate the extra fluence exerted on the tariff bill, but bluestem, 99c; forty-fold, 94(«95c; roads was highly indorsed, together will insure the destruction of the ani points of the reserve in the event of clerk he declares necessary, got on the it uncovered enough trails to lead with the Good Roads department of mals doing the damage, and at the members to believe that campaigns of red Russian, 92c; valley, 94c. fires. nerves of his Democratic colleagues every sort—political, industrial and Oats — No. 1 white, $32 per ton; the Federal government conducted in same time safeguard the settlers and when he engineered his single-handed Work on the telephone line and sta connection with the department of Ag their livestock. economic—have been conducted much stained and off grade, less. tion has been commenced. From filibuster through another session. along the same lines, through paid Millstuffs—Bran, $24.606(25 pr ton; riculture. Prairie City there is telephone connec “ Here we sit, the sworn representa agents, in efforts to create public sen Three Camps to Employ 125. shorts, $26.606(27; middlings, $32. tion with all points in this reserve. tives of 90,000,000 people,” said Sen timent favorable to causes con Suffrage Lessens Crime. Coquille — The Smith-Powers Log Barley—Feed, $26.506(27 per ton; ator Williams, “ trying to transact the cerned. brewing, nominal; roller!, $28.60(u Washington, D. C.—Woman suffrage ging company, one of the largest con important business of the country, and Tri-County Fair Dates Set. is believed that the time limit of 29.50. as a means of lessening crime was ad cerns of its kind on the Coast, is mak all we hear is the hoarse voice of the 25 It days imposed on the committee will Hay — Eastern Oregon timothy, vocated here by C. E. Sebastian, chief ing preparations to open two camps Condon—The Tri-County Fair will senator from Washington crying ‘Jones choice, $18(ii)19 per ton; alfalfa, $13 of police of Los Angeles, in an address three miles above this city, where it be held in Condon this fall on October wants clerks; Jones wants clerks.’ ” be extended and the investigation will go into every possible phase of what has about 50,000,000 feet of timber. 1, 2 and 3, according to the decision @14. before the closing session of the an The the committee suspects is lobbying. right of way for a logging rail of the executive committee in a spe Onions—New red, $1.25 per sack. nual convention of the International Maryland Sails North. Vegetables — Artichokes, 75c per association of Police Chiefs. Chief road to extend two miles into the tim cial meeting held Tuesday night. Tri- Seattle—The armored cruiser Mary dozen; asparagus, Oregon, 50c(i£$l; Sebastian declared that through suf- { ber from the main line is now being County fair is to be a permanent year Rain Assures Big Crops. beans, 12 Jc pound; cabbage, 2Jc; frage recognition of police women in cleared and the road will be construct ly event in Condon henceforth, and land sailed for Alaska to complete the Pendleton, Or.—A long steady rain, cauliflower, $2 per crate; head let Los Angeles had been obtained and ed forthwith. The logs will go to the the directors have decided to purchase tests of Alaska coal begun last year, officially reported as .77 of an inch, all and interrupted when the vessel was the large grand stand, chicken coops, tuce, $2.50 per crate; peas, 7i6(8c crime hsd been reduced. Suffrage, he C. A. Smith sawmill at Marshfield. Aason Bros, have entered into a etc., from the Mayville Fair associa hurried south under rush orders to over Umatilla county brought up the per pound; peppers, 30c; radishes, added, had helped to break down the 10@12c per dozen; rhubarb, 1(< i 2c false modesty which had prevented; contract to log 18,000,000 feet of tim tion, which disbanded recently to join take Secretary of State Knox to Japan total rainfall for the second week of per pound; spinach, 75c per box; gar public discussion of sex problems. ber immediately adjoining Coquille on Condon in making the Tri-County fair to attend the emperor’s funeral. Eight June to l .i inches, unprecedented for hundred tons of Bering river coal have this season of the year, and making the east for the Coquille Mill & Mer a big success. lic, 7(<(8c per pound. cantile company, of this city, and they Potatoes — Burbanks, 406i 50c per The local fair grounds, which were been mined and transported to Control practically certain a material increase Oil Scandal Is Brewing. are now extending their logging road improved last year for the first Tri- ler bay for use in the tests by the Mary in the number of bushels per acre on hundred; new, 3c per pound. London—Scandals connecting mem ; to the timber. The three camps will County fair, will be still better im land. The cruiser is expected to re wheat and barley. Rain is reported Green fru it— Apples, new, $1.75 turn from the North early in August. as far north as Waitsburg and Pasco. proved since the purchase. per box; old, nominal; strawberries, bers of the British government with give employment to about 125 men. The farmers in the Pilot Rock district 75c6i’$1.25 per crate; cherries, 8(1(120 speculations in oil somewhat resem Ferry Sinks; Fifty Drown. and on the light land sections in the per pound; gooseberries, 2(<i'4c; apri bling those disclosed in Marconi Referendum Bill Unconstitutional. Films to Show Interior. St. Petersburg—Fifty persons were northeastern part of this county were cots, $1.25(u)1.75 box; watermelons, shares, it is reported, may bring about Central Oregon now is to be shown drowned by the sinking of a dilapidat especially benefitted. Salem—Circuit Judge Galloway has 5c per pound; peaches. $1.50 per box. a fresh parliamentary sensation in decided that the Day bill, providing to the world in motion pictures. Its ed ferryboat while crossing the River England. Poultry—Hens, 156(15Ic; broilers, The Times recently warned the gov for a special election for referendum peculiar industries and its varied ac- Tcheptca on the Russian Ascension Hill Lines Stop Work. 25c; turkeys, live, 19(<i'20c; dressed, choice, 25c; ducks, old, 1616018c; ernment that rumors were rife as to measures next November, is unconsti tivities have been made the subjects day, June 5, according to delayed dis- St. Paul—Orders have been issued young, 246(25c; geese, young, 146t cabinet ministers speculating in the tutional. The decision is far from of a series of films that will be dis patches from Vyatka. A riot ensued by James J. Hill stopping all work on shares of oil companies which contract clearing the situation. The decision played wherever motion-picture the in the populace of the district, owing the Great Northern railroad lines that 16c. was in connection with one declining aters are operated and patronized. to their indignation at the laxity of | is not absolutely necessary, according Eggs—Oregon ranch, case count. ed for the British navy. to compel the secretary of state to file Lloyd W. McDowell, publicity agent the police supervision of the ferry, 19c per dozen; candled, 20c. to an announcement made at the gen petitions for reference of the bill reg for the Great Northern railway, has Butter—City creamery, cubes, 28c , Heat Ruining Canadian Wheat. eral offices of the road. It was said Throwing of Bomb Fatal. Winnipeg, Man.—Manitoba and Sas ulating the practice of dentistry. just returned from a trip through the pound; prints, 296129|c. the action was taken as a result of the katchewan are drying up under the in Judge Galloway held that the petitions interior with about 3000 feet of high- Lisbon, Portugal—One person was recent Supreme court decision in the Pork—Fancy, Urn l l |c per pound. tense heat that has prevailed in the were irregular in that they did not class films. The pictures were made killed and several others wounded by a Minnesota rate cases. Veal—Fancy, 13|c per pound. Work on sev Hopa—1912 crop, 9fu)14c per pound; ; last few days. Unofficial reports from contain a copy of the bill, but only the by a representative of the Pathe bomb thrown at a procession in honor eral pieces of construction in Montana Weekly service. the southern parts of these two pro caption. of Portugal’s great epic and lyric was discontinued, while a report says 1913 contracts, 13(riil3ic. poet, Luis de Camoons. The bomb- 600 men were laid off in Wis-onsin. Wool—Eastern Oregon, 10(<il6c per vinces say that the wheat crop may be First Pension Is Granted. Washington Crops Promising. thrower was wounded by a splinter pound; valley, 14(<(16c; mohair, I injured unless rain comes soon. The thermometer registered 102 and 103 Hood River—The County court has from his own missile. When taken to Hillsboro — Never in the history of choice, 1913 clip. 30f.i32c. Ocean Trust Disclosed. Washington county have grain and just granted the first pension under the hospital he declared that he wished Cattle—Choice steers, $7.76608; i at many points. Washington, D. C.— Chairman Alex grass crops been so promising at this the widows’ pension bill enacted at to commit suicide. good, $7 .250(7.60; medium, $7of7.25; ander, of the house ship trust investi Quaker Oats Stock Declines. season of the year. Fanners are now the last session of the legislature. choice cows, $6.606(7: good, $6.26(ri gating committee, making public the Atwood Flies Over Lake Erie. Chicago — The filing of a govern preparing for clover harvest three The recipient, however, is not a wid 6.50; medium, $66(6.25; choice cal first three volumes of the committee’s Sandusky, O.—Aviator Harry N. proceedings declared they contained ves, $86(9; good heavy calves. $6.60 ment anti-trust suit against the Quak weeks in advance of former years. In ow, but her husband is a permanent invalid, being afflicted with paralysis. er Oats company here was reflected in doing this they hope to evade the late Atwood, who left Ecorse, Mich.. Wed evidence that competition between @7.50; bulls, $46(6. Hogs — Light, $80(8.30; heavy, a sharp flurry in the stocks of that June rains, and get a good harvest, The woman and her three children will nesday afternoon for a flight across coastwise lines had practically been company, on the Central Stock Ex and then cut a second crop for the seed receive $17.50 a month. The court Lake Erie to this city in a hydro-aero-! eliminated and that all established $7@7.50 lin from American ports were in Sheep—Wethers, $5 < a 6; ewes, $4(tf I change, an extreme decline of 30 in August. Last year many farmers has received applications for relief plane, arrived here at 12:30 o’clock | lines from more than a dozen widows. I netted $35 per acre for clover seed. Thursday morning. points being registered. 6; lamb«, $5.66@6.76. agreements. General Resume of Important Events T l m g M the World. Three Witnesses for II. S. Disap pear Fron Fort Stevens.