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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
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vO V
V llllig
IBI1U
a
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northern part of the Siletz reservation
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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
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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
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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.