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About The Maupin times. (Maupin, Or.) 1914-1930 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1916)
NEWS ITEMS Of General Interest About Oregon Government August Crop Report for Oregon A summary of the August crop re port for the state of Oregon, as com piled by the bureau of crop estimates, U. S. department of Agriculture, is as follows: Winter wheat Preliminary esti mate, 12,500,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 16,200,000 bushels. Spring wheat August 1 forecast, 4,460,000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 3,825,000 bushels. Oats August 1 forecast, 14,400,000 bushels; production last year, final es timate, 16,060,000 bushels. Barley August 1 forecast, 4,600, 000 bushels; production last year, final estimate, 4,680,000 bushels. Potatoes August 1 forecast, 6,790, 000 bushels; production laBt year, final estimate, 5,620,000 bushels. Hay AugUBt 1 forecast, 1,820,000 tons; production last year, final esti mate, 1,870,000 tons. Pasture August 1 condition 99, compared with the ten-year average of 92. Apples August 1 forecast, 1,210, 000 barrels; production laBt year, final estimate, 1,043,000 barrels. Prices The first price given below is the average on August 1 this year, and the second, the average on August 1 last year: Wheat, 90 and 87 cents per bushel. Corn, 80 and 85. Oats, 42 and 42. Potatoes, 80 and 68. . Hay, $10.20 and 8.70 per ton. Eggs, 24 and 23 cents per dozen. Nearif One-Fourth of County's Students Attend High School "If Benton county had had eight more students in the high school last year, one-fourth of all the school chil dren in that county would have been attending high school. That is to say, practically one pupil in every four who attended school in Benton county last year, was a high school student," said Superintendent of Public Instruction, J. A. Churchill, recently. This in formation is contained in the annual report of County Superintendent Roy E. Cannon, which was recently filed with the state department of educa tion. The fact that any county in Oregon has one-fourth of ite pupils enrolled in the high schools is considered a re markable showing, in view of the fact that the United States as a whole, less than 7 per cent of the children get into the high school, according to the last report of the United States commis sioner of education. The attend' ance reports from many other counties are almost equally encouraging. Mr. Churchill believes that the increased attendance in the high schools is due to a considerable extent to their stand ardization, and to the new high school tuition fund law which provides free tuition to high school students. Settlers to Get $92,648.13 for Forfeited Land Grant Lands Moro The bill recently introduced by Representative Sinnott, and passed by the house and senate, which now awaits the President's signature, ap propriates a total of $92,648.13 to re imburse settlers who entered upon the land of The Dalles Military Road com pany in 1867, and subsequently lost the land and improvements. The grant was declared forfeited by the government, and the courts subse quently vested the title in the Eastern Oregon Land company, successors to the road company. The bill contains a proviso that not more than 5 per cent of the amounts recovered shall be paid as attorney's fees. The total number of claims allowed is 67 and the amounts range from $300 to $2000 each. Thirteen of the claim ants are dead and 27 have removed to parts unknown. Forest "Test" Fire Set. Baker Setting fires in the Minam National forest to keep his lookout men in training is the unique method inaugurated by Forest Supervisor Eph raim Barnes. A brush fire was set near Sanger, at a point visible to look outs but to none of the other fighting force. Precautions were taken to keep rangers and lookout men ignorant of the real cause of the fire, and when the smoke was first sighted word was flashed by the nearest lookout to the fire-chaser at Eagle Forks, bringing a man to the scene within two hours. Widows to Get $13,511. Salem Nineteen widows of Marion conty will be paid $13,611 due them under the Widows' Pension act of 1913, as a result of a recent decision of the Oregon Supreme court sustain ing the Circuit court's ruling that the 19 applicants were entitled to relief. The County court ordered the pensions paid after withholding payment for three years. Mrs. Eva Maude Wolfe, one of the applicants, will receive a total of $1715 in back pension. Car Shortage it Serious. Salem Convinced that business in terests in Oregon tributary to the Southern Pacific company face disas ter and ultimate bankruptcy unless im mediate measures to relieve the grow ing freight car shortage are adopted, the Oregon Public Service commission has demanded that the company fur nish needed facilities to Oregon pro ducers and shippers. I. S. LUMBERMEN PLAN EXPANSION Of MARKETS IN DEVASTATED EUROPE Chicago The government will co operate with the lumber manufacturers of the United Sties in sending abroad a corps of experts to study the condi tion of European lumber markets with a view to a great expansion of the field of the American producer. This was decided Tuesday at one of the most important conferences ever held in American business history, for the conference marked the opening of steps for co-operation between the na tion's business men and the govern ment itself for the extension of Amer ican trade abroad. Part of the result of the conference will be the urging of the immediate passage of the Webb bill, now pending in congress, to remove any question of the legality ef the organization by lumber manufacturers and other groups of business men of foreign sales agencies to secure and distribute orders for American goods to be sent to foreign countries. ' General's Daughter Gives Blood for Babies WS5.H0U5TOR;$COTr Miss Houston Scott, fourteen-year- old daughter of General Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the United States army, has given five ounces of her blood for serum to prevent infantile paralysis in other children. She had the disease several years ago. The operation was performed Saturday, August 12, in Washington, and was kept secret till public health officials there asked that it be made public in order to encourage others to give their blood. Before taking up the question of how to organize the American lumber industry to secure the great volume of foreign lumber business that must come to the United States, even before the European war ends, detailed re Dorts were given of the conditions abroad by the various interested or ganizations, as well as from govern mental agencies. Two Idaho Lads Admit Murder of Nevada Professo Twin Falls, Ida. Harold and Lynn Lovelace, brothers, ages 12 and 11, re spectively, are in custody here, charged by their own confession with the murder of Professor F. Thomas Hamill, a teacher from Carson, Nev. at his homestead 45 miles south of Twin Falls, Tuesday afternoon of last week. The story of the shooting and the flight of the boys is almost un believeable. They had traveled about 120 miles with Hamill's horse and light wagon, sleeping in the sage brush, without bedding and thinly clad. They had with them supplies which they had taken from Hamill's house, also eight guns and revolvers of various kinds, Thev had also stolen guns and other things from ranchers along the way, At the inquest Tuesday the verdict was that Hamill met his death from bullet from a rifle in the hands of Lynn Lovelace. , His elder brother Harold is held as instigator and acces sory. Neither the mother nor their stepfather, a man named Pennywell, can be located. Spain Increases Army. Madrid An increase in the Spanish army to 180,000 men on peace footing is provided for in a military reorgan ization bill which soon will be present ed to parliament by the minister of war. General De Luque. This calls for an increase over the present force of 40,000 men. Under the new plan 68, 000 men will be garrisoned in Morocco, The reserves of the active army will permit rapid mobilization of 400,000 men. The project provides for officers sufficient for a reserve army of 600, .000. Villa May Be Dead Again. El Paso A new report of the death of Villa was received here Tuesday by Andreas Garcia, Mexican consul. The report, emanating from San Geronimo, in Chihuahua, said that the bandit- chieftain died of blood poisoning re sulting from his wounds at Talisman tes, near ParraL on July 9, and was buried near there. While the report was transmitted for what it was worth to Mexico City, it received little cre dence at the local consulate. NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS; GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS Portland Wheat Bluestem, $1.17 per bushel; fortytold, $1.15; ciud, $1.13; red fife, $1.15; red Russian, $1.12. Millfeed Spot prices: Bran, $26 26.50 per ton; shorts, $2929.50; rol led barley, $31. 6032. 50. Corn Whole, $38 per ton; cracked, $39. Hay Producers prices: Timothy, Eastern Oregon, $18.6020 per ton; alfalfa, $13.50 14.60; wheat hay, $13.50 14.50; oat and vetch, $12 12.50; cheat, $11; clover, $10. Butter Exchange prices: Cubes, extras, no bid; prime firsts, 26c per pound; Jobbing prices: Prime extras, 27130c; butterfat, No. 1, 27c; No. 2, 25c, Portland. Eggs Oregon ranch, , exchange price, current receipts. 26Jc per dozen. Jobbing prices: Oregon ranch, can dled, 27J30c; selects, 32c. Poultry Hens, 1415c per pound; broilers, 1617c; turkeys, live, 20 22c; ducks, 1014c; geese, 810c. Veal Fancy, 2c per pound. , Pork Fancy, 2c per pound. Vegetables Artichokes, 75c$l per dozen; tomatoes, 4075c per crate; cabbage, $1.75 per hundred; garlic, 10c per pound; peppers, 66e; egg plant, 78c; lettuce, 3035c per doz en; cucumbers, 4U(fflbUc per dox; peas, 45c per pound; beans, 47c; celery, 7585c per dozen; corn, 10 25c per dozen. Potatoes Walla Walla, $1.752 per sack. Green fruits Apples, new, $l.Z5 1.75 per box; cantaloupes, 60c$1.75 per crate; peaches, 3585c per box; watermelons, llllc per pound; $11.50 per box; plums 75c $1.35; pears, $12; apricots, $1 1.25; grapes, $1.501.75; blackber ries, $1.25; loganberries, $1.501.75; casabas, 2i2ic. Hops 1915 crop, 810c; 1916 con tracts, -nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon, fine, 23 26c; coarse, 3032c; valley, 35c, Cascara bark Old and new, 4Jc per pound. Cattle Steers, prime light, $6.75 6.90; prime heavy, $6.757.10; good, $5.756.25; choice, $5.255.50; me dium to good, $4.505; ordinary to fair, $44.60; heifers, $3.505.75; bulls, $3.507.50. Hogs Prime light, $9.709.75; prime strong weights, good to prime mixed, rough heavy packing, 8. $9.709.75; $9.609.65; 75; pigs and skips, 8.609.10. Sheep Spring lambs, $88.25; common, $5.506; choice yearlings, $66.25; good, $5.605.75; choice wethers, $66.25; choice ewes, $5 5.25; common ewes, $2.503. Show Waning of Summer Season. Spokane The passing of the cherry, apricot, blackcap and red raspberry shows that the summer season is wan ing. The novelties in the store are fresh figs at 30 cents a dozen, Malaga grapes at 30 cents a box, and dark grapes at 25 cents a box. Peaches both from California and Washington districts are plentiful and becoming more so. They retail at 20 cents a basket. Watermelons are only 2 cents a pound, while good sized cantaloupes can be obtained for a nickel, and some what larger ones at four for a quarter. Prime pears from the Wenatchee district, perfect in color and shape, are tempting at 30 cents a dozen. Spring chickens are plentiful and many people, especially if of southern extraction, think they are improved if accompanied with a dish of sweet po tatoes of which the first of the present season are now retailing at 10 cents a pound. Squash, green corn and artichokes, varied with green or wax beans, offer a pleasing variety and celery again aids in the making of a salad or adding to the variety of hor d'oeuvres, Sugar Drops Again; This Time 25c. Tacoma Sugar took a drop of 25 cents a hundred Tuesday, and granulat ed cane is now quoted at $7.85. The decline affects all grades. This is the third drop in sugar in the last two weeks. Dealers expect perhaps one or two more small declines as the new crop comes in, but say that a general shortage will result in high prices for sugar again this winter. Idaho huckleberries, the big blue mountain berries, are on the local mar ket They are in excellent condition and sell for 15 cents a pound. All kinds of grapes are now to be had. Plenty of plums and peaches are on the market The best of the peaches still come from California. For the first time in several weeks there is a plentiful supply of tomatoes on hand, but many of them are still a little green. The price is $1.25 a box and they are due for a drop. Sweet corn is still scarce. Cantaloupes were almost cleaned up because of the great demand. Standards are quoted at $1.50 and ponies at $1.40 a crate. Eggplant from Prosser is selling at 8c a pound. Prune Market Remains Dormant. RoBeburg, Or. That the prune mar ket is dormant at present, with no in dication of revival, was the statement made here by number of the leading buyers. "The prune growers of Doug las county and California have placed their crop on a 6-cent basis," said one buyer, "and the Eastern distributors have refused to pay that price." An other said several carloads had been purchased for 7 cents, but recent offers had not exceeded 6. Because of this, local dealers are making little effort to contract for the Douglas county crop. Standardizing the Street Suit A movement has recently been launched by women of affairs, whose opinions are worth while, to standard ize the street suit, For smart women, gifted with a correct sense of clothes, such a movement was not needed. They may be relied upon to be quite uniformly garbed In rather plain, beau tifully shaped and faultlessly made tailored suits when their affairs make It necessary for them to walk In the streets. For them the street suit has been standardized for years. It Is In conspicuous as to color and conserva tive as to style, made to get about in when conducting the ordinary every day business of life. But In order that our streets may make a better showing of tastefully dressed women it will be necessary to establish a standard for the woman who may be In doubt as to what she should wear, and to call her attention to it. The first consideration Is that wom en are getting together more than ever before in clubs and other organizations, in the interest of progress. If they establish the custom of wearing the tailored suit for almost any occasion no woman will stay at home because she lacks the proper dress. Such an obstacle will cease to exist. A second consideration, of great Importance, lies In the fact that the street Is not the In the Gay Career of Ribbon 'f II ''WlH life! The most enticing fancies of fash Ion are surely to be found In the pret ty things made of ribbon that spring up like perennial flowers at the ribbon counter. This particular locality Is like a flower garden In the depart ment store, and gay and lovely rib bons lure women as the honeysuckle lures the bee. Ribbons are the loveli est product of the looms, and perhaps they Inspire the designers to make for them a career of endless little gayetles In apparel. Anyway, there Is an end less procession of them to help add charm to everyday life. . They make the most appreciated gifts that cost less than anything else of equal beauty. ; Two breakfast caps and a negligee calculated to gladden the hearts of everyone at the morning meal are shown In the picture. They are all of pink satin ribbon, which takes dainty lace as a companion la each of the caps. At the left a cap of plain satin ribbon has a narrow frill of point d'esprlt about the face and a skeleton cop crocheted pink silk floss over It. The two are tucked together. A rosette of six loops and an cud finishes It at the frout. place for conspicuous clothes. An ugly inference Is certain to be drawn when any woman dresses so as to at tract everyone's attention on the street. She Is believed to be either coarse or a fool. Standardizing the street suit will not reduce us to a tiresome monotony in suits, because there Is endless room for variety In making. The smart suit shown In the picture is an illustration, It is a smooth-faced cloth in a dark mixture, with brown predominating. When the plain and beautifully tai lored coat is off, one discovers a trim skirt with an entirely new manage ment of the belt and actual pockets, patterned after the saddlebag pockets which have been one of the pretty fancies of fashion. But these are stitched flat to the skirt instead of hanging free. The handsome costume blouse is of brown chiffon over lace with a vest of delicate brocade. For another occasion a plain tailored blouse might be worn. This Is the sort of suit that it is proper to wear for church and for the street, the two places In which one woman should never seem to try to outshine any other. The little breakfast Jacket Is made of wide pink sutln ribbon with the edges overcast together with pink silk floss. A seam extends along the shoulders and down the top of the sleeves. A ruche made of narrow satin ribbon laid In smull box plaits finishes all the edges, and a frill of wider ribbon stunds up about the neck. Wreaths made of tiny blossoms In pale pink, yellow, and green are fash ioned of flowers made of baby rib bon. They are placed at each side of the front end on the sleeves. The Jacket fastens with long ties of nar row satin ribbon. In the cap at the right strips of rib bon are joined In shirred seams to make a circlet for the crown. This circlet Is gathered along one edge, forming the center of the crown. A frill of lace Is pulled to the other edge. Loops and ends of baby ribbon are set over the lace at the end of each shirred seam, and a rosette with muny falling loops made of It Is set at the center of the crown. None of these Is difficult to make. VISITSSAEREDSPOT DAUGHTER OF LIVINGSTONE SEES PLACE WHERE HE DIED. Brick Memorial Has Been Erected lit Mcloture Where the Heart of the Great Explorer and Mission ary Was Buried. Mrs. Livingstone Wilson, only survlv Ing child of Dr. David Livingstone, the explorer, recently made a journey to Old Chitambo, where her father's heart was burled. Old Chitambo Is north--east of Rhodesia, a cleared space in the heart of the bush, and It took over a month to reach It from Capetown. At New Chitambo, which Is 55 miles farther on, Mrs. Wilson was going to stay with her son, who is a medical missionary, and her daughter, who Is a nurse. At the Victoria falls, discovered by her father, she secured a photograph showing the point from which he caught the first glimpse of this great rush of water. At Broken Hill she was met by her daughter and later by her son, and they trekked to Chitambo with 60 carriers, a native teacher act ing as Interpreter. In the native villages as they passed through they excited much interest, says the London Times. In one their hair aroused the curiosity of the na tive women, and when they let It down to show them the women ran shrieking away, fearing It was snakes growing on their heads. At another native vil lage the chief brought all the sick na tives that Doctor Wilson might pre scribe for them, but he made some dif ficulties by Insisting on taking a dose of every medicine which was ordered for his people. The narrow canoes, the unsafe native bridges of stocks, the thwarts of which had been eaten by white ants, and the fear of nmdholes and crocodiles when the travelers were carried in hammocks across the riv ers made the Journey adventurous. At Old Chitambo an old chief culled Chltend, from another village, claimed that it was in his mother's hut that Doctor Livingstone died, and four other old men, who refused to believe that Mrs. Wilson was Doctor Living stone's daughter "He had no child with him ; he always came alone," they said remembered hlra and told of him through the Interpreter. The discrep ancies between their version and that of the biographers were, Mrs. Wilson said, of great Interest. The old chief's claim that Doctor Livingstone died la his mother's hut arose from the fact that, while his followers had gone ahead to build him a grass hut, he be came so 111 that he had to rest under the eaves of a native hut, dying after ward In the grass one that had been built for hlra. The old men declared that they re membered his followers building a Btockade around the hut while they embalmed the body In salt and brandy, burying the heart under a great tree, at the other side of which old Chitam bo, the chief of the village, who had had a great respect for the explorer, was afterward buried. The explorer's, body, as Is well known, was borne a thousand miles through the forest to be sent to England by his faithful na tive followers, Jacob Walnwrlght, the best-known of these, had asked the old chief to keep the grass always burned close around the tree at Chitambo, so that It might escape the dangers of for est fires. Afterward the tree was struck by lightning, and the present memorial,. In sloping brick, with a cross at the summit the slope being made to pre vent elephants brushing their trunks against It wus erected In the bush with an avenue cleared In front of It Here wus placed a book on which big gutne hunters and explorers who pene trated thus far might note their names. World's Greatest Banana Zone. Costa Rleu, the greatest banana country of the western hemisphere, produces more bunches of the fruit of the Musu Sapleutlum thun any other single country on the American continent. It exports from 10,000,000 to 12,000,000 bunches. Neurly 390 squure miles of lund are Included lu the banuna zone, though not all this tract Is under cultivation. During tho past few years there seems to be a falling off In the yield of the bananu, due partly to a disease whose origin and elimination are yet unsolved problems, although the subject of much scientific Btudy and Investiga tion. Nevertheless new plantations are being made at various points In the fruit districts, while much of the abandoned lanils are being planted lu cacao. This lutter product is thriving splendidly. Last Word In Thrift The proverbial thrift of wealthy New Yorkers hus been thwarted by the courts. Two men who were execu tors of a will, covering a large estate, were under that will trustees of about $400,000. When they turned In their account they churged the regular com mission for the difficult and costly labor of handing over to themselves the sum they were to take care of. Cer tain heirs, equally thrifty, entered protest and the courts have ruled that a man Isn't entitled to pay for handing himself what be already has. Prophets and Submarines. "The U-boats of unbelief," says Rev. John Fox of the New York presby tery, "have fired another torpedo at the Bible." Be that as It may, Jo nah's whale was the first to operate under the water and derive a prophet therefrom. Judge,