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> ' APPROPRIATES $42,355,278. BUYS BIG SILETZ TRACT. WOOL GROWERS OBJECT. Nearly 2,000 Acres in Reservation Taken By Investment Co. Portland—Interest in the dairy coun- try south of Tillamook has been in creased by the announcement that near ly at* 2,000 acres of l l rolling land in n the IV v V V OUS vO V V llllig IBI1U a Vllv northern part of the Siletz reservation » has been gotten by a Portland company for subdivision into small tracts. The Oceanside Investment company has acquired this property, 25 miles south of Tillamook. The land was allotted to the Siletz Indians 20 years ago, which accounts for its lack of cultivation and improve ment. The time having expired, the Indians are at liberty to dispose of their holdings, a large part of which has been secured by the Oceanside In vestment company. It is said to be in excellent condition for dairying pur poses. Cranberries seem to be indigenous to that portion of the coast, owing to the accumulation for centuries of peat Ce tain requirements for the highest cultivation of cranberieB will have to be met and for this purpose, the Ocean- side Investment company intends to at tend to the preparation of the bogs un der expert advice. Other companies have suceeded in developing cranberry tracts possessing the conditions found in that section. For dairying, no location in the United States compares with the Ore gon coast, all the way from Astoria to Newport. The rolling character of the land north of the Siletz river, the enormous acreage available, the per petual growth of grass and the favor able climate unite in making the un dertaking of the new company seem ingly a commendable one. One of the features of the property is Oceanside lake, a body of fresh wa ter four miles in length and a mile wide, deep and supplied by several mountain streams. This lake has charms for the sportsman. Charges are Made Against K. H O'Brien of Wallowa Reserve. Baker City—Trouble between the sheepmen of this section and the fores try officials has reached an acute stage and there is . every probability that the . _ * _ _ ^ 8Tleyance of the Baker-Union Counties W nn rrm u ro ra a a a n n i o f in n tin o a n. Woolgrowers’ association wi'l I h be ap pealed to the officials at Washington. A meeting was held in this city between K. H. O’Brien, of the Wai- lowa reserve, and District Forester Chapman, and the woolgrowers of this section. The growers allege that last year the officials agreed to allow on the Wallowa reserve 125,000 sheep from Wallowa county and 150,000 from Baker and Union counties, but only 65,000 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 of sheep admitted. Serious charges are made against K. H. O’Brien, of 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 Bheep- men demanded of 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. Bill Reported to House by Commit- tee—West Fares Well. Washington, Feb. 14.—The rivers and harbors bill reported to the house carries $2,582,340 for the improve ment of Oregon rivers and harbors, this being the largest sum provided for any state excepting New York, and a larger sum for the improvement of the Columbia than for any other river in the country excepting the Mis sissippi. The bill carries appropria tions for Washington and Oregon as follows: Oregon—Columbia river and tribu- taries above Celilo Falls to the mouth of Snake river, $90,000; Columbia riv er between foot of The Dalles rapids and the head of Celilo Falls (Oregon and Washington) $600,000; Willam ette river above Portland and Yamhill river, $30,000; mouth of Columbia river, Oregon and Washington, $1,200,- 000; Coos bay and bar entrance, $400,- 000; Tillamook bay, $5,000; Coos river, $3,000; Snake river, $7,500; canal at Cascades, $5,000; Columbia and Willamette below Portland, $175,- 000; Coquille river, $27,640; Clats- kanie river, $500; dredging the Co lumbia, $1,000. Washington—Puget sound and tribu taries^ 100,000; Skagit river to Se- dro-Woolley, $100,000; ship canal, Pu get sound to Lakes Union and Wash ington, $150,000; Columbia river, Bridgeport to Kettle Falls, $50,000; for improvement of the Snake river from Riparia, Wash., to Pittsburg Landing, Or., $14,000; for improve ment of Neah bay, $200,000; for im provement of Puget sound, $135,000; Bellingham harbor, $15,000; Olympia harbor, $15,000; Hammersley inlet, $9,000; Willapa harbor and river, $300,000. The entire appropriation for Washington is $564,500. St. Michaels, Alaska, receives an al lowance of $100,000 for harbor im provements, and the Hawaiian islands a total of $500,000, divided as follows: Honolulu, $150,000; Hilo, $200,000; Kahuliu, $150,000. Waterway projects throughout the country at a cost of $$42,355,276, of which $7,206,430 is for continuing contracts, are provided for in the bill as a whole. The bill will be called up in the house today, in an effort to press the measure to passage as expe ditiously as possible. The $7,000,000 outside the cash appropriation is for expenditures that may hereafter be made, under the continuing contract system. The bill is theoretically an annual budget, although no regular rivers and harbors bill has been report ed since that approved March 2, 1997. In the great haBte with which the bill was prepared total? in the report of the committee discloses several minor discrepancies, which it was im possible to correct tonight. The fig ures as given are those furnished by the committee. PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS IN BRIEF Washington, Feb. 14.—A bill look ing to the further nationalizing of the California Big Tree forests was favor ably reported by the house commmit- tee on public lands today, when it re commended the Smith bill providing for the exchange of 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 of such lands are auth- orized to exchange them for lands of equal value or acreage with the con sent of the secretaries of 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 upjn various features of the measure by Clark, of 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 of 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 of 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. made to displace him after Mitchell’s retirement from the senate. Washington, Feb. 10.—Whether a court at law has power to summon be fore it a committee of congress was the chief subject of discussion before the senate and house today. The senate gave positive instruc tions to Senators Reed Smoot, Jona than Bourne and Duncan Fletcher not to respond tomorrow to the order is- 9ued by Justice Wright of the supreme court of the Disrtict of Columbia, di recting them to appear before him. The house took the oppoiste action. The house military committee today reported the military academy bill, which carries an appropriation of $1,- 876,332. About $25,000 was cut from the estimate, the principal item reject ed by the committee being one of $10,- 000 for a new chapel organ. Defending the cotton exchanges as gatherers of true information that is disseminated by thousands of brokers to everyone interested, Solomon Napol eon Cone, of Greensboro, N. C.,attack ed proposed anti-option bill in the hear ing before the house committee on ag riculture tday. Mr. Cone described himself as a spot cotton dealer, a stockholder in various mills, a member "of all the cotton ex changes of the world,” and the handler of more than $4,000.000 worth of spot cotton annually. Washington, Feb. 9 —Because Sena tor Bailey is not ready to make the speech in opposition to the postal sav ings bill, of which he has given notice, measure probably will go over un Washington, Feb. 12.—An unfavor the next week. All amendments ac able report has been forwarded to con til gress by the commissioners of the Dis ceptable to the committee have been Big Profit on Farm. trict of'Columbia on the bill recently adopted. It is thought the bill will ^ introduced by Representative Guernsey pass the senate next week. Tillamook — The 158 acre farm American participation in the inter of Maine, providing that public cere national known as the old Mills place on the expositions at Rome and Turin monies in connection with the inaugur Wilson river was Bold last week by ation of the president and vice presi _ I in 1911,which will be held in commem Joseph Durrer to Ben Jacobs for $22,- of the 50th anniversary of the dent be held on the last Thursday oration 000. Mr. Durrer bought this ranch kingdom of Italy, was assured today of March of each inaugural year. three years ago for $8,000. Mr. Senator Culiom reported a bill The measure was presented with the i when Jacobs has been a renter of the ranch for that purpose from the committee idea of avoiding a constitutional on for the past three years, and knows foreign relations. It was passed. amendment by permitting the presid- what it will produce. This speaks Prof. Peavy Takes Position at O A. C. The providing for the establish dent and vice president to take the oath ment of bill well for Tillamook county real estate. the Glacier national park in Oregon Agricultural College, Corval of office in the house of representa Northern Montana was passed today lis—The Oregon Agricultural college Creamery Prepares for Big Business tives on March 4, and fixing the later by the senate. If created, the' ^*0*. has been remarkably fortunate in se date for public ceremonies. Bandon—The Bandon creamery iB will be just south of the line between curing an able successor to Professor Having completed the regulations the United States and Canada and will Lake, head of the school of forestry, preparing for the biggest output of for the labeling, marking and branding adjoin a similar reservation of the who has left Corvallis with the privi butter during the coming Besson that of whiskey in accordance with the Canadian has ever been manufactured in any government on the northern lege of a leave of absence for one year principle laid down by President Taft side of the boundary. and a half to take up special govern creamery in Southwest Oregon. James in his decision of “ what is whiskey,” A bill was introduced in the ' house ment forestry work at Washington, D. E. Murphy, representing the company, the committee which prepared the new today that of _ the C. His successor is Professor George is here from San Francisco to help rules will give an opportunity n e x t, . , providing ... . .. a replica - . W. Peavy, of San Francisco, who for a build up the business and will also look Wednesday to the interests affected to 8ta ue of ‘be evolutionary hero Gen after the interests of the creamery on number of years has been in the forest make suggestions for modification. eral von Steuben’ to be erected ,n Ten-mile lake. m . - committee ... is made , up of t o Secre- - Washington, be presented to ... the service in the Pacific Coast states. This K . . em- Professor Peavy’s government rank tary MacVeagh, Secretary Nagel and Peror of Germany. The gift is to be New Buildings at Eugene. return for the statue of Frederick is that of chief of planting in the Secretary Wilson, but the detail work in Eugene—The concrete blocks for the Great which the kaiser presented states of California and Nevada. He the new restaurant which T. H. Ellis was done by subordinates. The hear to the people of the United States. resigns this position and will immedi will build for the A. L. Smith company ing is to be given in response to a re The long drawn out dispute in the ately start work as head of the school near the depot have been delivered. quest from the whiskey interests. of forestry at O. A. C. Professor The foundation is already in. Representatives of the claims de house committee on naval affairs over Peavy has had an extended and distin PULLMAN DIVIDEND $40,000,000 partments of the big railroads were be the subject of indorsing the plan of Meyer for the reorganiza guished service in educational and Will Plow by Steam- fore the house committee on interstate Secretary tion of the navy is virtually settled, forestry affairs. He is a graduate of and foreign commerce today. One of In Form of New Stock Worth Paid Stanfield—M. A. Mills has ordered a it was stated today, and the commit the literary department of the Univer 70-horse power traction engine, which them testified that last year he Bettled tee Double Its Face. take action next week which sity of Michigan, and served six years he will use in farming his large rahch. claims amounting to more than a mil-1 ! will will be, in effect, tentative approvj^ as high school principal in Michigan Chicago, Feb. 14.—The directors of lion dollars against his road. | of the secretary’s idea. schools. Professor Peavy retired from the Pullman company decided at a spe PORTLAND MARKETS. Washington, Feb. 11.—Secretary of high Rchool work to study forestry as cial meeting today to give the stock Washington, Feb. 8.—Demanding an the attraction of that profession ap W heat— Track prices — Bluestem, holders a stock dividend of 20 per cent State Knox was subjected to caustic investigation of the immigration com pealed to him very strongly. $1.15, nominal; club, $1.05; red Rus on the corporation’s $100,000,000 of criticism in the house today by Repre mission provided for in the resolution' sian, $1.04; valley, $1.05; 40-fold, capital. This will call for the issuance sentative Francis Burton Harrison, of he had introduced, Representative Commission Orders Rates Reduced $1 09. of $20,000,000 of new capital, worth New York, in consideration of the Macon of Arkansas, renewed his attack Salem—Having found that rates on Barley—Feed and brewing, $28 ton. nearly $40,000,000 in the open market, diplomatic and consular appropriation upon the commission in the house today. apples and green fruits in less than Corn—Whole, $35; cracked $36 ton. which will be given to the present bill. Republican leaders in conference to Many bold strokes in diplomacy, said day, perfected a resolution on the in shareholders without cost and will carload lots as charged jointly by the Oats—No. 1 white, $31 per ton. Harrison, were justified only by their Corvallis & Eastern railroad and South Hay—Track prices— Timothy: Wil swell the company’s total capital stock quiry into the cost of living which was success, as in the instance of Presi later presented to the senate by Mr. ern Pacific company between Gates and \ lamette valley $19@20 per ton; East to $120,000,000. Portland were unreasonable and un ern Oregon, $21r«22; alfalfa, $17@ Pullman stock pays $8 a Bhare divi dent Cleveland's Venezuelan message. McCumber, ol North Dakota. just, the railroad commisison made an 18; clever, $16; grain hay, $16(3)17. dend each year, and sells in the mar But that had not been the case with An hour after Mr. McCumber had order universally reducing the rates Fresh Fruits — Apples, $103 box; ket at $198 a share, or nearly twice some of the bold strokes of diplomacy presented the resolution from the fin made by Mr. Knox, he said. The 2 % cents on a 100 pounds. The rates | pears $1(3)1.50 per box; cranberries, par value. This stock dividend of 20 ance committee and it had been refer per cent is about the equivalent of 40 Nicaraguan imbroglio, the Manchurian red to the committee on contingent ex on the same commodities between j $8(39 per barrel. Gates and Salem were likewise order Potatoes—Carload buying prices: per cent, therefore, on the par value of railway matter, and the secretary's penses. Mr. Kean, chairman of the declaration that he would make it his latter committee, reported the measure ed reduced, the order to take effect Oregon, 70(3 80c per sack; sweet pota the stock. " In a statement made by directors an duty to see that democratic forms of back with a recommendation that it be within 20 days. The former rate be toes. 2)4<32J4 per pound. tween Portland and Gates on apples Vegetables — Artichokes, $101.25 nouncing the dividend, this afternoon, government were maintained in Cen adopted. was .37 cents a 100 pound* and has been per dozen; cabbage. $1.76(32 p r hun it was pointed out that "the considera tral America, were examples of fail In connection with a resolution offer reduced to 34 % cents. The rate on ap dred ; sprouts, 9c pound; squash, 2c; tions influencing this action were that ure in the diplomacy of Mr. Knox, he ed by Senator Dolliver providing for the increased investment in the manu said. ples between Gates and Salem was re tomatoes, $3.50 per crate. the printing of a detailed statement of “ This position is so untenable,” he 8xp«nditures of the Agricultural de facturing facilities of the company had duced from 35 cents to 3234 cents a Onions—Oregon, $1.50 per sack. 100 pounds. The rate on green fruits B u'ter—City creamery extras, 37@ been so material and considerable as added, referring to the maintenance of partment, there was an incidental in less than car load lots from Gates to 39c; fancy outside creamery, 35(3,37c to justify the directors in the belief democratic governments in Central cussion of the forestry bureau in the Portland was reduced from 43 to 40)4 pertound; stote, 20022 )4e. Butter that it should be represented in addi America, “ that some day we will be senate today. The resolution was cents a 100 pounds and between Gates fat pri es average 1 )4c per pound less tional capital stock of the company." obliged to retire from it with mortifi adopted. cation.” and Salem from 42 to 39)4 cents a 100 than regular butter prices. The reserve feature of the postal The senate today passed the Bennett savings bank bill received especial a t pounds. Eggs—Fresh Oregon extras. 320 Ouster Order Limited. The investigation was made on com 32Kc per doz.; Eastern, 17)4022c. Topeka, Feb. 14.—The Supreme “ white slave bill,” which had pre tention when that measure was taken plaint of A. H. Hudson of Gates. Pork—Fancy, 11c pound. Deprecating court today made a limited ouster or viously passed the house. The measure up in the senate today. Poultry—Hens, 17<3)18c; springs, 17 der against the International Harves was so amended as to eliminate the in any tendency toward a reserve fund, Concrete Blocks at Albany. (3)18c; ducks, 2O022)4c; geese, 13(3) ter company, prohibiting it from mak terstate regulations originally con Mr. Bristow said that the amendment Albany—Messrs. Frost and McGlash- 14c; turkeys, live, 20(3 25c; dressed, 27 ing exclusive contracts with agents in tained in the bill, the object of the sen suggested by Senator Page providing to divorce the immigration for such a fund would result in the on, manufacturers of concrete pro @30c; squabs, $3 per dozen. Kansas. The court also prohibits the ate being of the question from all others. accumulation of from $40,000,000 to Veal—Extras, 12013c per pound. ducts, have moved their business from company from limiting territory or do feature Slow handling of livestock by the $70,000,000. This he did not consider Hops—1909 crop, prime and choice, ing other things which the attorney Medford to Albany. Their new factory 1908s, 17)*e; 1907», general held were violations of the railroad causes the loss of 100,000 bead wholesome. which is located immediately adjoin 20(5 21 * c ; ing the O. R. & N. dock and the S. P. ll)4 c per pound. anti-trust law. The court specifical annually, according to witnesses be Wants Proof Against Railroads. Wool — Eastern Oregon, 16(3 23c ly says that it reserves the right to fore the bouse committee on interstate siding along the Willamette river, is commerce today. A bill is before the Washington, Feb. 16.—The house now completed, and foundation blocks pound; mohair, choice 25c. take up complaints in the future and committee fixing a minimum rate of 16 committee on postoffice and poetroada Hides—Dry hides, 18018)4c pound; settle them as it desires, retaining con for new dwellings are being made to dry kip, 18018)4e; dry calfsin, 19(3 trol of the business of the corporation. miles an hour at which railroads may is pleading that some one will come supply the local demand. transport livestock shipments. forward and submit proofs that the 21c; salted hides, 10(5)10)4«; salted William B. Turner, of Oregon, print railroads are being greatly overpaid Franchise to Lakeview Company. calfkin, 15c pound; green, 1 c less. Hogs Advance to «U.IO. ing clerk of the senate, was summarily for hauling the mails. It thought It Cattle—Best steers, $5; fair to good Lakeview — The Lakeview & Pine Cleveland, Feb. 14.—The livestock Creek Electric company has been $4.50(3)4.75; strictly good, $3.7504; quotations on all grades of bogs ad discharged today for alleged co-opera did well when it cut down the remuner It haa granted a franchise by the common fair to good cows, $ 8 ( 33 . 60 ; light vanced today to $9.10 a hundred tion with E. G. Rappcne and others in ation by $8,000,000 in 1907. council here, to run for 33 years. This calves, $5(36.60; heavy calves, $4(0/6 ; pounds, the highest price here since terested in the prosecution of the so- since then been entertaining unani called Spaulding claims to reimburse mous opinions that the'railroads ware is the second company that has been bulls, $3.50(53.75; stags, $304. postmasters for amounts claimed due not paid too mueb.' Even Representa Hogs—Top, $9; fair to good, bogs, the Civil war. granted a franchise by the council since them from the government. Turner tive Victor Murdock, Hotspur of the November 1. The former company $8. 60(5,8. 76. More than 20,000 20 candle power was a protege of the late Senator reformers, declares the government ia Sheep—Best wethers, $5.50; fair to built many miles of line and set a con sidrrabie number of poles for further good, $5(3,6.50; good ewes, $4.6006; ineandeecent lamp filament« can be Mitchell, aad held his position in the not being robbed and regards the mai made from a single pound of tantalum. senate clerical force despite the efforts contracts as fair. lambs, $606.60. extensions.