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TRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
NEED OF
T R A N S - S T A T E L IN E
W A IT S O N
P U M P IN G
PLANT.
H ill E x a m in e s T im b e r in C e n tr a l O r e ­ Tests o f Oil Wells In Vale District
g o n a n d is M u c h P le a se d .
Will Be Made at an Early Date
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Crescent— Louis W. Hill, president
o f the Great Northern Railway com­
pany, spent one night and a portion of
one day at Crescent, looking over the
town and the surrounding country. Mr.
H ill’s visit was unheralded and unex­
pected, but the citizens gave him a
cordial welcome and he declared that
he had enjoyed his visit immensely.
The party passed through the Klamath
Indian reservation, where engineers,
it was announced, will shortly be sur­
veying the Oregon Trunk line from
its present terminus at the reservation,
through to Klamath Falls.
He care­
fully went over the line from this point
to the reservation, stopping at the
camp o f Engineer Kyle, five milei
above this point. He spent some time
examining the big timber tracts, and
was pleased over the prospects o f ton­
nage. He also spoke approvingly of
Crescent, which will be a freight and
passenger division point.
“ The Oregon Trunk line is expected
to reach Madras by January 1,” said
Mr. Hill.
“ Work in the canyon is
progressing satisfactorily and I anti­
cipate we will have no difficulty in
making Madras on the date set. It
will likely be a year before the road
reaches Crescent, but early next sum­
mer I believe I may safely say that
trains will be running through here. I
am not in a position to say when the
line will be completed to Klamath
Falls.”
Mr. Hill was not prepared, he said,
to say where the eaHt and west road
will intersect the main line o f the Ore­
gon Trunk through the Deschutes val­
ley. He said that his visit to Burns
and the eastern part o f the state had
caused him to reach a determination to
have an east and west line.
Several
lines, he added, will be surveyed and
the one best adapted for the needs of
the company will be adopted.
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Drillers in the Eastern Oregon well
in the Vale oil fields have ceased oper­
ations, as they are convinced that they
have a flow o f oil in commercial quan­
tities. One great difficulty in this, as
in all other wells in the Vale district,
is to control the flow o f water. The
well has been cased, and as soon as the
requisite pumping outfit can be in­
stalled, it is to be emptied o f water,
that the drillers may be able to deter­
mine the flow o f oil.
T. W. Davidson, of Vale, one o f the
heaviest owners in the Eastern Oregon
company, has purchased a pumping
plant which will be used in drawing
off the water from the well.
"O n account o f the fine flow o f oil in
the Eastern Oregon, we have decied to
go no deeper for the present,” said
Mr. Davidson, “ but will install a
pumping plant anud draw off the wa­
ter. Then we can measure the exact
flow o f oil in the well. That we have
oil in a number o f the Vale wells there
is no doubt, and every indication points
to a commercial flow in several o f the
deeper wells in that district.”
W o o d b u r n - S p r ln g f ie ld L in e S o o n .
Albany— The Woodburn-gpringfield
branch o f the Southern Pacific railway
will be completed and in operation by
June 1. About tour years ago the
Santiam river changed its course at
Crabtree and washed out the railroad
bridge and put the line out o f commis­
sion. The interstate commerce com­
mission ordered the company to put
the line in shape and run a schedule of
trains, so a new line was started from
Crabtree to Lebanon to supply the mis­
sing link, which will be completed
within two weeks.
D o u b le S e r v ic e o f M o t o r C a r .
Ashland— The gasolene motor in op­
eration on the Southern Pacific lines
between Ashland and Grants Pass has
proved very popular with the traveling
public, and it has been decided to in­
G R A N G E T O F IG H T A S S E M B L Y .
crease the service. Commencing Sun­
day, May 22, the motor will make two
R in g in g R e s o lu t io n s P a s s e d in C l o s ­ round trips daily.
in g H o u r s o f M e e tin g .
Oregon City — The Oregon State
Grange went on record as opposed to
the assembly. A ringing resolution
was adoped practically unanimously,
condemning the effort to remove polit­
ical power from the people, and sup­
porting the idea o f government by the
people directly.
Without discussion
the resolution was passed, it having
been considered by the committee and
reported for adoption.
Two problems o f overwhelming im­
portance were before the grange— good
roads and the advancement o f govern­
ment by the people.
On the good
roads proposition the grange took an
advanced position, recommending that
the legislature abolish all restrictions
against indebtedness as to such im­
provements, leaving the people as the
sole judges o f the work to be done and
the manner o f payment for it.
The grange was opposed to the re­
turn of the assembly, and 'a t no time
was there in evidence any indication of
defeat o f the resolution condemning it.
The work of the grange occupied a
great deal of time and the important
resolutions were left until the last day.
A fter making every effort to clear the
secretary’s desk o f accumulated busi­
ness and laboring until after the time
set for adjournment, a nuihber o f im­
portant resolutions were still on the
table. A resolution was passed laying
on the table for lack o f time the pro­
posed tax amendment, with others,
leaving the matters to the action o f
the people at the polls.
N e w E u g e n e H o te l O p e n .
Eugene— The new Osbum hotel, re­
cently completed at a cost o f $110,000,
has been opened to the public, the first
meal being a luncheon to 200 business
men given by the board o f directors of
the hotel association.
The hotel is
modem in every detail, is five stories
high, and contains 125 rooms. W. F.
Osbum and wife are the managers and
lessees.
R iv e r H ig h at T h s D a lle s.
Hie Dalles— The river at this point
fisters 32.7 feet, which is the high-
. ever known at this date except in
)4. Many people are predicting a
letition o f the high water o f that
it , saying conditionc are similar
th those o f 1894, when high water
rurred in Snake and Columbia riven
the Biunc time.
Bridge Row River.
Eugene— The county court has made
contract for a steel bridge over the
w river east o f Cottage Grove, with
• Penn Bridge company, for $8,600.
e company will commence the work
once.
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Stamp M ü ls to Start.
Gold Hill— A new 10-stamp mill at
s Grey Eagle mine on Sardine creek
now in operation, and the stamp mill
the Kubli mine will be started Mon-
B u r n B r i c k at R e d m o n d .
Redmond— Within four months there
will be 400,000 brick burned within
three and one-half miles o f Redmond
and placed on the market here, accord­
ing to the statement o f C. J. Bean, of
the Advance Construction company, of
Portland. Mr. Bean states that ma­
chinery will be shipped at once.
L o b s t e r s f o r Y a q u in a .
Washington — A carload o f lobsters
for planting in Yaquina bay will arrive
there May 23.
PO RTLAND
M ARKETS,
Wheat— Track prices: Bluestem, 88
@ 90c; club, 84@86c; red Russian, 82c;
valley, 87c.
Barley— Feed and brewing, $22@23
per ton.
Com— Whole, $33; cracked, $34 ton.
Hay—Track prices: Timothy, W il­
lamette valley, $20@21; Eastern Ore­
gon, $22@25; alfalfa, $16.50@17.50;
grain hay, $17@18.
Oats— No. 1 white, $26@27 ton.
Fresh Fruits— Strawberries, Oregon,
$1.75@2.25 per crate; apples, $1.50(0,3
per box; gooseberries, 6@ 7c per pound.
Potatoes— Carload buying
prices:
Oregon, 40(350c per hundred; sweet
potatoes, 4c per pound.
Vegetables— Artichokes, 60(370c per
dozen; asparagus, $1(31.25 per box;
cabbage, 3 ^ c per pound; celery, $3.50
(a 4 per crate; hothouse lettuce, 50c<3
$1 per box; green onions, 15c per doz­
en; radishes,
15(®20c; rhubarb, 2
@ 23 ^c per pound; spinach, 8@10c;
rutabagas, $1.26(3)1.50 per sack; car­
rots, 85c(3$l; beets, $1.50; parsnips,
75c(3$l.
Onions— Oregon, $2 per hundred;
red, $1.75 per sack.
Butter—City creamery, extras, 28c
per pound; fancy outside creamery, 26
@ 27c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices
average 1
per pound under regular
butter prices.
Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 23(g24c
per dozen.
Pork— Fancy, 12(ffil3c per pound.
Veal— Fancy, 9,H<3;10c per pound.
Lambs— Fancy, 10<ST2c per pound.
Poultry— Hens, 18(3 20c; broilers, 27
(330c; ducks, 18(323c; geese, 1 2 * e ;
turkeys, live, 20(322c; dressed. 25c;
squabs, $3 per dozen.
Cattle— Beef steers, hay fed, good to
choice, $6(36.25; fair to medium, $5(3
5.50; cows and heifers, good to choice,
$5(35.15; fair to medium, $4.25(34.75;
bulls, $3.50@4.25; stags, $4.60(36;
calves, light, $6(3)7; heavy, $4.50(3
5.50.
Hogs— Top, $10(310.56; fair to me­
dium, $9.25(39.55.
Sheep— Best wethers, $9.25(39.55;
fair to good, $4.75(3«: best ewes, $4.75
(35; lambs, choice, $7@8; fair, $6.50
@ 7.
Hops — 1909 crop, 12(315c; olds,
nominal; 1910 contracts, nominal.
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 14(317e per
pound; valley, 17@20e; mohair, choice
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PRO TECT W ORKM EN.
N a tio n a l M a n u f a c t u r e r s A s s o c ia t io n
C o n s id e r s S a f e t y A p p lia n c e s.
New York, May 18.— The beginning
o f a new era in the safeguarding o f the
country’s vast industrial army will be
witnessed at the 15th annual conven­
tion o f the National Association of
Manufacturers, now in session.
The absolutely vital necessity o f pre­
venting accidents in industrial estab­
lishments has forcibly been brought
home to the 3,000 manufacturers form­
ing the association by the fact that
500,000 persons suffer from accidents
each year in the United States. Two
hundred and fifty million dollars is the
estimated economic loss annually, in
this country, due to accidents. At
least half the accidents are considered
preventable.
A comprehensive report of a com­
mittee appointed some time ago by
John Kirby, Jr., president o f the na­
tional association, will be made, and
the convention will be addressed by
Professor Frederick Remser. Hutten,
of the American Museum of Safety;
Miles M. Dawson, who has studied ac­
cident prevention abroad for the Rus­
sell Sage Foundation, and by other
eminent speakers.
President Kirby said on the subject:
“ The question o f appliances for pre­
venting accidents to workmen, and acci­
dent indemnity, are at present receiv­
ing more attention than any other is­
sues which attract public interest in
the field of industry.
They are live
questions o f vital importance to mem­
bers from an economic as well as hu­
manitarian standpoint.
“ In preparing its report, the com­
mittee has communicated with 25,000
employers in all parts o f the United
States, as well as 250 national, state
and local organizations o f employers.
Every state legislator o f every state in
the Union was also written to.
Spe­
cial correspondence was carried on
with American and European experts.
“ A little more than 10,000 replies to
the various communications have been
received. There were only three pro­
testing, even in a mild manner,
against taking up the questions o f em­
ployers’ liability and workmen’s in­
demnity. It was disclosed that 99 per­
cent o f the membership o f the associa­
tion favors a constructive, progressive
policy o f dealing with this difficult
question.”
BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY
WORK OF NATION’S LAWMAKERS
Washington, May 23.—Voting down, 1 he would not attend the Republican
26 to 39, an amendment offered by caucus to be held next Wednesday to
Burton to authorize only one new bat­ reach an agreement upon the postal
tleship instead of two, the senate to­
day passed the naval appropriation savings bank bill.
His explanation is that leading Re­
bill. The bill carries an appropriation
o f almost $134,000,000. It was before publicans are opposed to this bill and
the senate two days, the debate being will influence the caucus to take some
confined almost exclusively to the bat­ action that will result in its defeat.
tleship question.
He says that he will not be bound by
Two important amendments were any caucus that is inimical to this
adopted today. One of them, offered measure.
by Johnston, appropriates $450,000 for
Because of strong opposition in the
the purchase o f torpedo boats, “ whose house, the senate today abandoned its
vitals are below the normal load line.” amendment to the agricultural appro­
The other, by Jones, eliminates rail­ priation bill, giving Western states 35
road, county and municipal bonds from per cent of the receipts from forest re­
securities that may be deposited by serve within their respective bound­
aries.
contractors.
The naval increase for the fiscal year
Under the present law. the states
ending June 30, 1911, provided by the get 25 per cent and this will continue.
The house maintained that states were
bill is as follow s:
Two first class battleships to cost not entitled to more than one-fourth o f
not exceeding $6,000,000 each, and these receipts.
when equipped with armor and arma­
Representative Hawley voted in the
ment, about $12,500,000 each.
house to concur in the senate amend­
Two fleet colliers to cost not exceed­ ment but was defeated.
The conference committee in charge
ing $1,000,000 each.
Five submarine torpedo boats not of the river and harbor bill will meet
again Monday, at which time an effort
exceeding a total of $2,500,000.
Six torpedo boat destroyers to cost will be made to reach a final agreement
not exceeding $750,000.
The house upon the bill.
bill provided only four submarines and
Unless there is a change of purpose,
no torpedo boat destroyers.
the Bourne amendment closing the
The senate also adopted the resolu­ draws o f Portland bridges will on that
tion that not more than one of the bat­ day be formally eliminated from the
tleships should be built by the same bill.
company.
No action was taken today.
The provision inserted in the , house
Senator Borah today introduced a
bill requiring that the battleships and resolution calling on the secretary o f
fleet colliers should be built under the the department o f commerce and labor
eigh-thour law was retained by the sen­ for a report on the iron and steel in­
ate.
dustry, regarding hours and wages o f
labor.
Washington, May 21. — Continuing
Washington, May 18.— Abandoning
the debate upon the traiff, with the
sundry civil bill nominally the subject all hope o f reaching any common un­
under consideration, Champ Clark, mi­ derstanding on the railroad bill with
nority leader, and Eugene N. Foss, the insurgents, the regular Republican
newly elected Democratic representa­ senators moved an early adjournment o f
tive from Massachusetts, made radical the senate today to permit the Demo­
crats to get together to consider prop­
attackes upon the present tariff.
Clark said in conclusion that he had ositions looking to the completion o f
a proposal to make to the Republicans. the bill.
It was that if a bill proposing sub­
Before adjournment Aldrich made an
stantial reductions in the woolen goods effort to obtain an agreement to take
schedule were offered, he would give the final vote next Wednesday, but
bond that every Democrat would vote there were several objections and the
for it without offering an amendment request was not pressed.
S E V E N B O IL E R S B L O W UP.
o f any sort.
It is the general understanding about
Arraignment of the administration’s the senate chamber that the Democrats
In sta n t D e a th to 13 M e n a n d ^ In ju rie s
sale
of
the
Philippine
friar
lands
and
will be asked to assist in expediting
to T h ir t y More.
o f the activities o f the so-called “ su­ the bill by permitting amendments to
Canton, Ohio, May 18.— Quick death gar trust” in that archipelago, was
be laid on the table, by refraining from
to 13 men, serious injury to 30 other made in the house today by Covington
speechmaking, and by other means,
employes o f the plant, and damage to o f Maryland.
with the understanding that in return
the buildings amounting to many thou­
He said everybody knew that the the last three sections o f the bill, re­
sands of dollars— these are the results Rockefellers controlled the Standard
lating to capitalization, would be with­
o f the explosion o f a battery o f seven Oil company and the oil fields and that drawn.
boilers this afternoon at the American the Havemeyers controlled the Ameri­
President Taft today authorized sev­
Sheet & Tin Plate company.
Among can Sugar Refining company, which he
eral o f the administration senators to
the injured are half a dozen who prob­ denounced as “ crooked” with a "cu n ­ deny absolutely the stories in circula­
ably will die before morning.
ning criminality unequalled in the tion during the last few days, that the
The force of the explosion was ter­ country.”
president recently had denounced insur­
rific. The big plant is practically a
He charged that the government sold gents in unmistakable terms and had
total loss. A mere shell o f the build­ the “ magnificent estate of 55,000 acres used language to which these states­
ing is left.
o f the San Jose estate on the dubious men took offense. Reports reached the
Identification o f the men was diffi­ opinion o f an attorney general at one- White House that some o f the insurg­
cult. Arms were blown from bodies, third the price the government paid at ents, smarting under what they had
and fragments o f the bodies were the time the lands were taken over heard had been said o f them, were de­
blown blocks away.
Bits o f human from the friars.”
termined to defeat the railroad bill and
flesh have been picked up on porches
others of the president’s measures, re­
and roofs o f houses and in trees.
Washington, May 20.— That the gardless o f what might happen to them,
One hundred men were at work in
United
States has gone wild in the or the party,.
the plant at the time of the accident
Only a dozen or so escaped some in­ matter o f armament and especially in
Washington, May 17.— A fter giving
jury, and these worked heroically to the construction of battleships, was
the
greater part o f the day to the ques­
rescue their fellow workmen from the asserted by Hale, Clay and Gallinger
tion whether the government or the in­
burning ruins.
in the senate today.
The body o f one man was blown
terstate commerce commission shall:
These statements were made during
through a house 700 feet from the
appear as defendant in cases growing
plant.
The body entered the house consideration of the naval appropria­
out of orders of the commission under
from the east side and continued in a tion bill. The bill carried $138,000,-
straight line through a bedroom and 000 and Hale predicted that within five the terms o f the railroad bill, the sen­
out the west side.
years the annual naval appropriation ate today postponed action on the sub­
The torso of another man was found would be not less than $175,000,000. ject until tomorrow.
in a garden 500 feet away. One in­
The postponement was made upon an
Consideration o f the bill waa not
jured man begged to be killed. He concluded.
objection made by Senator Cummins to
had an arm tom off and a great hole
The opinion was expressed that the the presentation of the subject in a.
gaped in his side.
promised reduction of expenditures new form on the eve of voting.
The plant had five mills. All the would not take place in the present
The discussion had been upon an
employes working at mills 1, 2, 3 and session o f congress, and Hale and Gall­ amendment offered by Cummins. A s
4 were either killed or injured, while inger, both members of the committee the bill was reported, the United
the men in mill No. 5, farthest from on appropriations, agreed that the ex­ States waa made defendant in all cases,
the boilers, escaped serious injury.
penditures would exceed the revenues growing out of the proceedings before
the commission.
Cummins’ amend­
the next fiscal year.
N a v y N e x t to Brita in ’s.
Contending that the United States ment proposed to substitute the com­
Washington, May 18.—The United had reached a billion-dollar scale of mission itself as defendant.
“ All machines look alike to m «,”
States leads the world in the total dis­ governmental expenditures, Mr. Mc-
placement o f completed warships, with Kinlay, o f California, today in the declared Barnhart, o f Indiana, in pre­
the single exception o f Great Britain, house defended the appropriations of facing a criticism o f the organization
but is behind five other countries in the present congress and warned Amer­ o f the house and Republican party in
Cannon-
the number of such vessels.
Reckon­ ica against Asiatic industrial invasion. a speech in the house today.
“ How about Senator Aldrich's dec­ ism, he said, was odious because it
ing the war vessels built and building,
America and Germany are running on laration that the government could represented a system, and not because
equal terms, but the former is leading save $300,000,000 annually under econ­ o f the personality of the man.
“ If Mr. Taft and Mr. Roosevelt are
in displacement when the shipa provid­ omical methods o f administrative ex­
ed for in the pending naval appropria­ penditure?” asked Mr. Slayden, o f not with him ,” he said, “ they are long
on silence and short on show.”
tion bills are added to the calculation. Texas.
The cabinet influence, he said, waa
" I f any man can suggest,” replied
Great Britain, the United States and
Mr. McKinley, " a substantial ?lan o f representative of trusts.
Germany remain the leading powers.
“ Wickersham, Dickinson, Nagei and
saving in the appropriations he is an
Political Riot is Fatal.
American patriot and should be made a Ballinger,1” be declared, “ are corpora­
tion attorneys and promoters. Hitch­
Madrid. May 18.— A collision be­ cabinet officer.”
A note o f alarm waa sounded by Mr. cock, Meyer and Knox are professional
tween Republicans and gendarmes is
reported from Valencia, in connection McKinlay over Japanese invasion of politicians and MacVeagh and Dickin­
Japan, he said, son are self-professed Democrats who
with a manifestation in honor o f the American intereeta.
arrival there o f the Republican deputy, waa sending cotton to the Pacific coast have never voted their party ticket
Senor Seriano. The gendarmes charged and American manufacturer* were al­ since it declared against criminal com­
and the Republicans used knives and ready beginning to lose their markets. binations o f capital and opposed a sys­
tem o f government which fosters mil­
stones. An officer was stabbed and
killed and many persons were wound­
Washington, May 19.— Representa­ lionaire-making at the unholy expens«
ed. Fifty arrests were made and or­ tive Poindexter ia continuing hia “ sup­ o f the toiling millions,.”
The only way to get rid o f this sys­
der was finally restored after the man-
ifestanU had sought refuge at the Re­ port” o f the administration legislative tem, he said, was to vote the Republi­
programme. He announced today that can party out o f power.
publican club.