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"f xU?iHrtio ro 5 oonli ' r"iiiY"irliihUiiwiulely
no rvtnoiim lor aitv roasim hatwH'Vor.
Kal.otnli)y ttiJveriUlng nmt known on ll'U-ration.
CuttU'iiu'it
Tlio report of the state treasurer gives
the total number of school children for
Polk county nt 3,472 and the amount of
state money we receive at $4,233.8-1.
"Corn King" Phillips has apparently
followed "Wheat Kino;" Loiter, for he has
temporarily suspended business. Its a
hard thing to corner a product when it is
impossible to control the supply.
The report of the secretary of state
shows that the amount paid out as scalp
bounty during the past six months
amounted to only $0 and the total during
the time the law has been in effect only
amounts to $14, which places us at the
very bottom of the Ldder, which is no
bad advertisement for old Folk.
Godkin, the great New York journalist,
and Dana greatest journalistic enemy, is
Bearing death's door at an English health
resort, so the dispatches say. He is a
member the last great member of the
old school of journalism, and his accom
plished writings and the force he exerted
in combating that which he deemed
wrong sheds a luster on American jour
nalism which time will only make the
more brilliant
This is the time of year when forest
fires rage and wheat fields are burned,
how, nobody knows. Careless campers
are more or less to blame, no doubt. Too
much precaution cannot be exerted. The
millions of feet of fine timber destroyed
in this manner every year will be needed
some day, and many a poor timberman's
stock of this world's goods has been swept
away through the thoughtlessness of
these careless people.
Though not one word has been spoken,
enough has been done to show that A. P.
Gorman, the shrewdest politician in the
democratic party, will be a member of
the next congress. Gorman is so. smooth
he can tread on eggs without breaking
them. Before he went from the senate
four years ago he had been identified
with that body his entire life. He was a
page when Daniel Webster thrilled the
senate with his lofty eloquence. He is
recognized as the quietest, most success
ful organizer in the senate, and he can
not help but be a tower of strength to his
party there.
This warm weather is the best thing
for the hon cron possible. It is better
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for killing hop lice than the most diligent
spraying, so hop men say. Prospects for
a big crop of finest quality were never
-better and hop experts place the price at
a money-making figure. Let the wheat
crop be saved and a good price realized
from it and the Willamette valley will
have been started on the up-grade in
earnest. Other cereals are high, fruit is
a fair price, stock "out of sight" it is so
high. Dairying is paying well, and with
the tide of immigration turned this way
nothing then can keep the valley from
being the ideal place. The valley has
waited long enough; let us hepe the turn
has at last come.
IXIOI'UIIT IN MISSOl'KI
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The following is copied from the Pari
Mercury, or Paris, Missouri, under date of
July 20, through the kindness of J. WW
Kirkland: !
The cattlemen of Missouri yesterday i
abandoned all hopes of ruin soon enough j
.i ... ... it,., Iiitum-id loss tlltlt i
to save inein iiimi i t
would attend sending their cattle to mar
ket in mid-summer. Thoroughly alarmed ,
over the persistency of the drought
the unprecedented reighn of the fierce heat, , S'J
thev are driving their stock for the kill-j Q
ing beds and Northwest pastures as rapid-1 JJ
ly as they can. esteniay ,-i "'
of cattle entered the union stock varus ai
Kansas City, breaking all records. East Qfy
vear.on the same day the receipts were ;
8,200. Under the heavy receipts or the
d'av the market fell oil' 40 cents per hun
dred. The outlook for the cattle raiser is
as gloomy as it is for the farmer whose j
hope was in his corn crop. With hogi
raisers a similar condition of affairs pre-j
vails. Receipts at the Kansas City stock
yards yesterday were 2S per cent greater
than on the samo day last year; but while
many would like to get their hogs to mar-1
ket they are afraid to risk shipping them
during the intensely hot weather. Sheep
men report herds to be standing up under
the weather conditions better than was
expected.
Washington, July 23. The department
of agriculture gives the general crop con
ditions for the past week as follows:
Intense heat has prevailed another
week throughout the states of the central
valleys and Middle Rocky Mountain re
gion, with only local showers over lim
ited, scattered areas. Maximum temper
atures of 100 or above were of daily oc
currence over more or less ot the territory
named. Under these conditions the
drought has been greatly intensified and
its Area largely increased. .Missouri, ivuh
sas, Oklahoma and portions of Nebraska
have suffered most, but the conditions are
now critical from the lake region, central
Ohio vallev and Tennessee westward to
the Middle Rocky Mountain region, in
cluding the greater part oi 1 exits.
Portions of the .uiuuie ana oouu. .n-
lantic states continue to sulk-r irom ex
cessive moisture, but very favorable tem
peratures have been experienced in these
districts and also on the Pacific coast,
where the week was cooler than usual.
The outlook for corn is less tavorai.ie
than at the close of the previous week.
Tn Wbriiska. Kansas, Oklahoma and
Missouri early corn is practically ruined.
With Pnrlv and abundant rains in these
states late corn would probably make half
a crop or less. The condition ot the crop!
in Iowa is more favorable than in the before-mentioned
states and copious rains
with moderate temperature within a week
would greatly improve prospects for a
large part of the crop.
In 'Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee, more particularly the
western portion of the two last-named
states, corn is now seriously in need of
rain. In Illinois the crop has not yet
sustained great damage, but will be ma
terially reduced unless the drought is re
lieved within a week.
In the Middle Atlantic states the con
ditions have been highly favorable lor
corn, and its condition is further im
proved. Moisture has caused consider
able injury to winter wheat in shock in
the Middle Atlantic states. Harvesting
continues where unfinished, in the more
northerly sections east of the Rocky
Mountains, and is in general progress on
the North Pacific coast.
.Snrinr wheat harvest has begun over
the southern portion of the spring wheat j
region, where, as a result of premature!
ripening, the yield and quality is mucn
impaired. Over the nonnern poruuu
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TOTAL VALUE OFP1UJ5HS 81
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