OREGON NEWS Of GENERAL INTEREST flORTHwisTlMA REVOLUTION IN REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL . Highway Paving Tangle Settled. Salem Informed that the Columbia County court and the Consolidated Con struction company has reached an agreement that the company be paid $65,000 for work on Columbia High way, the State Highway commission gave the county permission to reduce its appropriation for roads this year from $40,000 to $35,000. Henry L. Bowlby, when state high way engineer, estimated the amount due the company at $54,500, so various statements that the prospective settle ment would be a vindication of that official are proved to have been ground less by the county allowing the com pany $10,500 more than he recommend ed be paid. The commission's reason for permit ting the county to reduce its appropri ation $5000 was that it had reduced the state appropriation of $60,000 rec ommended by Major Bowlby to $50, 000, the county appropriation having been made on the belief that it would be allowed the amount recommended by the engineer from the state. While the commission at numerous hearings declared that it was not with in its jurisdiction to settle the differ ences between the county and the com pany, sufficient evidence was produced to show that the company probably was entitled to more money thn the engineer recommended be paid. The company, however, declined to state the amount it desired, contending that it was the duty of the highway depart ment to have the work rechecked and correct the figures. This the commis sion said it could not authorize, al though there was a partial recheckine by a private engineer, who reported i that the company was entitled to sev eral thousand more than Major Bowlby estimated. Commission Aides Named. Salem State Insurance Commis sioner Wells announces that James P. Moffett, of Portland, chairman of the committee on fire insurance on the Code commission appointed by Gover nor Withycombe, had named the fol lowing to act with him in preparing a fire insurance bill for submission to the next legislature. F. E. Beach, reprsenting the Ore gon domestic fire insurance companies; John H. Burgard, representing the general agencies in Oregon; Harvey O' Bryan, representing the Salem salesmen agencies; W. A. Williams, representing Eastern insurance com panies; Chester Deering, representing special agents, and J. C. Veazie, who will be the attorney for the commit tee. A meeting of the committee will be called in a few days to consider a standard policy form, rates and the suggestion for a state fire marshal. Boat to Coquille Planned. Marshfield John R. McGee, owner of the Riverton coal mine on the Co quille river, has asked merchants on the Coquille river to guarantee him freight shipments coming out of Port land and promises to charter a 300-ton vessel to ply between Portland and the Coquille river. Mr. McGee recent ly returned from Portland, where he se cured contracts with coal dealers to handle 200 tons of coal weekly and re ceived assurances from the Portland Chamber of Commerce of 200 tons of freight for each return trip, providing merchants on the Coquille favored the new service. It is Mr. McGill's intention to give weekly service between Riverton and Portland and if a market can be se cured for 300 tons of coal each week, the northbound trips would be capacity cargoes. Suit Aimed at Bond Sale. Roseburg A suit was filed in the Circuit court here to test the validity of the railroad bonding election held in Roseburg recently. The plaintiff is Harry Pearce, president of the Robb burg Commercial club, and the object stated is to restrain the mayor and re corder from issuing or selling the said bonds. The complaint is lengthy and covers in detail the legal procedure leading up to the bond election. Mr. Pearce is a booster for the railroad and the suit is a friendly one to determine the validity of the procedure. Two Counties to Build Road. Tillamook The County courts of Yamhill and Tillamook counties, at a session in this city, decided to form a joint road district to build the Sour Grass route, each county appropriating $10,000. It is the intention of the County courts to call for bids at once, and it is estimated that the road can be built and planked in 60 days for $20,000. Salmon Outlook Good. Astoria General Manager Barker, of the Columbia River Packers' asso ciation, received a wireless message from Chignik Bay, Alaska, stating that everyone connected with the asso ciation's cannery there is in the best of health. The message also stated that preparations are being made to begin packing fish and the outlook for the season is good. Boston Gets Wool Clip. Echo A ' large sale of wool was made here recently, 125,000 pounds of 1915 clip going at a private sale. The price was not made public. The wool was sold by Antone Vey and Joseph Monese, and was bought by Crimmins & Pierce, of Boston, Mass. It is now being baled for shipment. Growing Filberts in Oregon.. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis Although filbert growing in Oregon is still in the experimental stage, there have been good results in seveial instances. This was to be ex pected, since wild hazelnuts grow in Western Oregon, and the same condi tions are required in the main for the production of the filbert. Professor C. I. Lewis calls attention to the fact that filbert-growing on the experiment station farms at Corvallis is quite sat isfactory up to this time and promising for the future, although nothing defi nite regarding the success of the in dustry under Oregon conditions can be published now. "For the past two years," says Pro fessor Lewis, "three of the six-year-old trees on the Btation grounds have borne at the rate of 1,000 pounds of nuts per acre, the varieties being Bar celona, DuChilly and d'Alger. Other varieties which are being tried out are Daviana, Kentihsm Cob, Cob Filbert, White Aveline, Red Aveline, Purple Aveline, Crosse Blanche, Montebello, Nottingham, and Hall das Geantes. Some of the varieties bore a few nuts the second season from planting, and all of them bore some the third season, although it was not until the fourth year that anything like a commercial crop was harvested from any of the varieties. "There are two possible drawbacks to filbert culture. One is the squirrels. If one is planting the nuts, he will have to watch the squirrels closely in the fall or it will not be necessary to hire help to harvest the crop. The second possible drawback is the blight, a disease that was said to be serious in years past. The plant pathologists at this station are working on this dis ease at the present time and seem to feel somewhat encouraged. The filbert is a nut which will sell readily and probably will be very profitable. One will simply have to run the chance of blight for the time being, and can probably guard against the squirrels by taking a few precautions. "The propagation of filberts by nuts is not recommended; the seedlings show too wide a range of variation to warrant this practice. The best plan is to obtain one-year old or two-year old trees from a nursery. Any one of the leading nursery firms of the North- west can probably furnish all the com mon varieties of filberts. "The filbert is usually propagated by means of hard wood cuttings. Cut tings from six to eight inches are made late in September or early in October, tied in bunches of twenty five to fifty, and packed in moist sand or sawdust, where they remain during the winter. By spring the lower ends will usually be calloused over, and when the ground is still damp they are lined out in the nursery row, and the top of the cutting coming at about the surface of the ground. "During the winter the cuttings should not be in a placed where water collects or where it is too wet, but simply kept moist and cool. Of course, the cuttings are made of last season's growth, just as the cuttings of grapes, currants or gooseberries. In fact, both the method of making the cut tings and treatment which the filbert should receive is practically identical with that employed for these other fruits. "Filberts may be planted from ten to fifteen feet apart. Newberg Wins $50,000. Newberg The members of the FriendB' denomination here are occu pied this week with the yearly meet ing of Friends, with a large atten dance from Oregon, Idaho and Wash ington. It was announced early in the session that the fund for Newberg Col lege, to which James J. Hill promised $50,000, had reached the required amount to make Mr. Hill's gift a cer tainty. He promised the donation on condition that the remainder of $100,000 endowment be raised. One of the prominent speakers at the meeting of Friends is B. Willey Beede. of the Kennedy School of Mis sions, of Hartford, Conn., Theological School, who has made daily addresses on the subject of missions maintained by the Friends in many parts of the country. At a special temperance meeting an address was made by Rev, Charles M. Lascault, of Haviland, Kan. The subjects calling for general dis cussion thus far have been "Evange listic and Uhurch Extension work, "Literature," "Temperance," "Edu cation" and "Systematic Giving.' The exercises have been interspersed with vocal and instrumental music. Portland Wheat : Bluestem, 95c; forty-fold, 94c; club, 96c; red Fife, 90c; red Russian, 85c. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $27tfi! 27.50 ton; shorts, $2828.50; rolled barley, $25.5026.50. Corn Whole, $36 ton; cracked, $37. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15 16; valley timothy, $12 () 12.50; grain hay, $1012; alfalfa, $12.50 13.50. Vegetables Cucumbers, Oregon, 40 75c dozen; artichokes, 75c; toma toes, $5 crate; cabbage, l2e pound; celery, $3.50 crate; head lettuce, $1 15; spinach, 5c pound; rhubarb, 1 2c; peas, 46c; beans, 67c; cauli flower, $1.25 crTate; carrots, $11.50 sack; beets, $1.50; turnips, $1.35. Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, case count, 1818Jc dozen; candled, 20 21c. Poultry Hens, 12c; broilers, 18 24c; turkeys, dressed, 2224c; live, 1618c; ducks, old, 910c; geese, 8 9c. Butter Creamery, prints, extras, 271c pound; cubes, 21i23c. Green Fruits Strawberries, Oregon, $1.101.25 crate; apples, $1.502.50 box; cranberries, $1112 barrel; cher ries, 410c pound; gooseberries, 2 4c'; cantaloupes, $2.754.25 crate. Potatoes Old, $1.852 sack; new, 2J3c pound. Onions Yellow, $1 1.50 sack; white, $1.75; red, $1.75. Veal Fancy, 9J10c pound. Pork Block, 1010Jc pound. Hops 1914 crop, 10llc; contracts, 10llc pound. Wool Eastern Oregon, medium, 25c; Eastern Oregon fine, 1820c; valley, 2528c; mohair, new clip, 30 31c. Cascara bark Old and new, 44Jc pound. Gram bags Nominal, 7i71c Cattle Best Bteers, $7.307.65; good, $7 7.25; medium, $6.75 7; choice cows, $6.S56.60; good, $1 6.35; heifers, $57; bulls, $3.505; stags, $56.50. Hogs Light, $7.508.10; heavy, $6.757.05. Sheep Sheared wethers, $66.75; shearedjewes, $45.25; sheared lambs, Full wools, $1 higher. Oregon Beats All at Fair. San Francisco Oregon has set record in the number of prizes and the state and its individual exhibitors have carried off at the Panama-Pacific Ex position. Most, of them have been in the departments of horitculture and agriculture. In both of these fields the state has won a grand prize. In addition to these, individual exhibitors have been awarded three medals of honor, 23 gold medals, 69 Bilver medals and 89 bronze medals. Among the awards was the grand prize for forage. Geology Professor to Begin Survey, University of Oregon, Eugene Gra ham J. Mitchell, assistant professor of geology at the university, has gone to Curry county, where he will pass three months surveying and mapping the mineral resources of a hitherto unsur veyed tract in the southwest corner of the state. Below, a view of the city of Lisbon which was bombarded by the revolutionists from a warship In the Tagns, whence this picture was taken. Above, a regiment of Portuguese Infantry marching through the streets ot the lapital. Oregon Exhibit Wins First Prize. San Francisco The Oregon horti cultural exhibit, C. N. Ravlin, of Hood River, chief, has received the gold medal in close competition with Wash ington, Idaho and California and East ern states and foreign nations. The jury on awards was composed of famous horticulturists from The Neth erlands, Japan, California and the East. A tremendous triumph for the state. Oregon spent on her exhibit $2500; Washington, $7500, and Cali fornia a much larger sum. Success of Oregon is due to her exhibit being purely horticltural in character, every item being practical for horticultural purposes. There is tremendous enthusiasm among Oregonians here over Oregon's first big capture, horticulturally, from California. Northwest Hops on Steamer Inkum There were 4306 bales of Pacific Coast hops on the British steamer In kum, which was struck by a German submarine's torpedo off the coast of England Friday morning. Eight hun dred bales of the cargo consisted of Oregon hops, 1000 pales of Washing ton hops, and there were 2300 bales from California. The shippers of Ore gon hops were James Pincus, of Ta coma, who had 404 bales on board the ill-fated steamer; H. L. Hart, of Port land, had 206 bales, and Louis Lach- mund, of Salem, 190 bales. The loss of these hops has as yet had no effect on the market at this end, Cable offers have been made to Eng lish dealers to replace the quantities that went down, but the offers met with no response. The losses fall on the English importers. Sara Mill on Full Force. Ridgefield, Wash. The sawmill be longing to the Allen & Ryan Lumber company at Sara, about six miles southeast of Ridgefield, is running full force and has orders that will require until fall to fill. They may continue to operate during the winter. This mill, although not a large one, employs about 20 men and about 16 in the log ging camp near by. The logging railroad, over which shipments are Bent from the mill at Sara to Knapps Station on the main line of the Northern Pacific railroad for their destination, employs a num ber of men. Enough timber is avail able close by to keep them running for about two years. The capacity of this mill is about 30,000 feet every 10 hours. Boston Orders Loganberries. Eugene An order from Boston for 20,000 pounds of dried loganberries is announced by J. O. Holt, of the Eu gene Fruit Growers' association. The one order is nearly as large as the total loganberry output of the Eugene drier last year. The price is favorable. though not made public. An increased demand is expected this year for the loganberry juice, a beverage intro duced by the Eugene association last year. The plans of the Commercial club are to present the passing Shriner excursionists in July with samples. H tirl in s UsJL 7 t I Uini' b rr ST Is. m 1 1 iii .I1 11 CHINESE COMMERCIAL MEN IN AMERICA fl f Pi 0 P. Liglueeii leaders In commercial Ute in China are now touring the United States and are being entertained lavishly wherever they stop. The photograph shows Col'ector of the Port Davis at San Francisco extending greet ings on behalf of President Wilson to Chang Chen Haun, chairman of the party. ALFRED VANDERBILT'S SON fjf' fH ft ' llliiBliBli Little Alfred Gwynne Vanderbllt, Jr., whose father was one of the vic tims of the Lusitanla disaster, will share In the fortune of between $50, 000,000 and $70,000,000 left .by his par ent. The lad's mother was MIbs Mar garet Emerson of Baltimore. He Is not yet three years old. Cottonseed Meal a Good Food. Cottonseed meal as a human food Is being urged by Dr. O. S. Fraps, state chemist and chemist to the experiment station at the agricultural and me chanical college. Cottonseed meal is urged as a substitute, not for flour, but for meat, providing the same elements necessary for the proper support and development of the human system as does meat. "Cottonseed meal flour is now be ing used extensively in Texas, and In view of the high price of meat and the general financial condition of the people of the' state, this flour should come into a much wider use, says Doctor Fraps. "It Is palatable, and If eaten In the proper ration, makes an excellent substitute for meat." From John Smith's Diary. Noteing thatte eache Bhyppe brot toe our shores nothunge butte menne. we resolved toe brynge over some suitable wyves from England, thatte ye new nation mlghte notte be itagge nation. Ye expense for these iryves we decided to lette ye husband provyde accordtnge to hys substance, therebye making ltte a doenatlon. fudge. ITALIAN GENERALS GETTING READY .Si - -PS hi f r ft H if, (: l '-fl hi '--4 rtVffTt&NA.TIONW- fefS sj ""'trtrii ; wr"-'-rf rwy; t "w.wmfr ; ,,.-.:-Ulil.?y.yv...-.y..7.-,.-,.,.,.,f.,.. .JJ,JJJJ........... '.Or Generals dl Mnvo and Peruchntte of the Italian army inspecting an avia tion station on the Austrian frontier. JAPAN AFTER GERMAN TOY TRADE Japanese manufacturers are making a determined effort to obtain as. much as possible of the trade formerly held by Germany. Some time ago the government made a display of German toys that sold well In America, and the Japanese have turned their attention to duplicating these articles. Tbm picture shows a Tokyo toymaker manufacturing dolls for the American market ' i I