industrial development
ROOSEVELT S P E A K S .
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
model
road
under
w ay
.
Crater Lake Highway to Be Wonder in
Its W ay.
Benjamin E. Heidel, connected with
the office o f the Public Roads of the
United States Department o f Agricul
ture, was in Portland recently to at
tend the Oregon Good Roads conven
tion. Mr. Heidel was sent to the Med
ford people by the government to take
charge of the work o f constructing
the road to Crater Lake, “ 45 miles of
macadamising through the greatest
scenic section in the w orld .”
After the supreme court held the
bonds issued fo r the Crater road were
illegal the city o f M edford proceeded
to obtain $30,000 by private subscrip
tion, $5000 o f this being raised in
Portland. The work o f constructing
this famous highway was started some
time ago and 30 men and 12 teams
arc now engaged in building the road
on Pumice Hill, where a 33 per cent
grade is being reduced to 4 per cent
“ The Crater Lake road, when fin
ished,” said Mr. Heidel, “ will exceed
in scenic beauty the Yosemite roadway
or any road that traverses the Alps in
Europe.
It w ill be a rock-surfaced
driveway 18 feet in width, while the
main road w ill have a width of 23
feet. At Pumice Hill, where we are
working, there are portions that will
cost $14,000 a mile, most o f it being
rock work. The contract, which was
let some time ago, is based upon the
unit system and can be continued with
the present contractor until it is fin
ished. ”
The work o t the M edford people
starts on the Rogue River and con
tinues 45 miles. A t the end of the
road the government is taking up the
work and building 17 miles through the
forest reserve. This takes the traveler
to the edge o f the park, where the gov
ernment is engaged in making surveys
for a 12-mile drive to the lake. Provi
sion is also being made for 60 to 80
miles o f roadway in the park proper.
Addresses Chamber o f Com m erce
on Radical Reforms.
New Haven, Conn.— In the first pub
lic address he has delivered since the
recent election, Colonel Roosevelt de
146.000. 0 0 0 Feet of Pine and Yel clared at the annual banquet o f the
chamebr of commerce here that he was
low Fir Transferred.
a radical who “ most earenstly desired
Medford — A tract of timber, over
to see a radical program carried out by
46.000.
000 feet in all, was sold by the
conservatives.”
United States government to the Peli
He wanted to see great reforms car
can Bay Lumber company of San Fran ried out not by the men who will profit
cisco for »365,340. This transfer is by them, but by the men who will lose
by them, he said. He wanted men to
the largest timber sale that has ever
have a fair start in the race, he de
been made by the government, with clared, another time; he did not want
the possible exception of one in West the alow man to win.
Colonel Roosevelt was greeted cor
ern Montana.
The timber stands in
dially by a gathering o f 600 represen
the Crater National forest, 60 miles
tatives of the business and commercial
from Medford, and consists principally interests and the professions o f the
state
of yellow pine and fir.
The banquet had more than ordinary
Jackson county’s share o f the 25 per
cent of sales in the Crater Lake forest significance through the presence o f
80 per cent of which lies in Jackson the guest, who recently was in contro
county, is over 173,000.
Klamath versy .with Judge Simeon E. Baldwin,
county received »18,250 as its share. governor-elect, who had been invited
Money obtained through sales of gov to attend. Judge Baldwin was not
ernment timber on this reserve go to present and the place assigned to him
the road and school fund of the county. at the guests’ table bore mute evi
The Pelican Bay Lumber company dence o f bis absence.
Colonel Roosevelt was escorted from
will begin cutting the timber imme
diately and will float it from Crater New York by a committee o f the
Lake to Klamath Falls, where it will chamber, and upon his arrival at the
station a large and enthusiastic crowd
erect a sawmill.
With a wave o f his
Forestry officials at Medford have was waiting.
hand the colonel acknowledged their
advertised for sale over 290,000,000
greeting, and with a hearty laugh and
feet of yellow pine and fir that was
happy remark to those who reached
burned over by the forest fires last
forth to shake his hand he edged his
summer. Of this 150,000,000 feet is
way through the crowd to an automo
dead timber standing on Elk Creek,
bile. Colonel Roosevelt was driven to
120.000. 000 on South fork of Rogue
the home o f Colonel I. M. Ullman,
river and 20,000,000 feet in the Clover
president o f the chamber o f commerce,
creek district. Yellow pine in these
where friends were waiting to greet
“ dead” tracts is valued at »2.75 a
him. From there, later, he went to
thousand, and fir at »2 a thousand. In
the banquet hall.
all of these tracts there is considerable
timber that is unscathed, especially in
8 4 SLAIN IN BATTLE.
the Rogue river district, where only
45 per cent of the timber offered is
Mexican Rebels Beaten With Loss of
dead.
huge
t im b e r sale
made .
Seventy Men.
Farm Value Jumps $40,000.
Laredo, Tex.— Seventy Mexican rev
olutionists were killed and a small
number wounded in battle with Feder
al troops in Cerro Prieto, state o f
Chihuahua, according to a telegram re
ceived here by Michael de I bold, M exi
can consul stationed at Nueva Laredo,
from Enrique Creel, Mexican minister
o f foreign affairs.
The Federal* are said to have lost
14 men. including two effleera.
For some time a small body o f al
leged revolutionists have been operat
ing in the Chihuahua district.
They
have caused the government no alarm,
however, and the present advices re
ceived from an official source in the
capital in all probability means the
government has suppressed the roving
bands that have been causing minor
disturbances.
Tillamook—The Elmore ranch, which
belonged to the late Samuel Elmore
for a number of years, was sold to
TRA D E M A RK L A W FAULTY.
Fred R. Beats, a real estate agent,
Legislature W ill Try to Correct Defect three years ago for $16,600, was sold
this week to John Hathaway for *56,-
in Statute o f 1862.
000. The farm contains 193 acres.
Salem.— Am ong recommendations to The dairy herd and farming equipment
come before the next session of the are included in the purchase.
legislature, will be one for amendment
of the trademark registration law. This
PORTLAND MARKETS.
law has been in force since 1862 with
out amendment, and the secretary of
Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem,
state’s force is o f the opinion that it 84c; club, 82c; red Russian, 80c; val
should be changed for the protection of ley, 82c; forty-fold, 83c.
those who have trademarks or trade-
Barley— Feed, »22 per ton; brewing,
names to register.
»23.
The present law allows conflicts with
Millstuffs— Bran, *24(825 per ton;
the corporation department, it is stat
middlings,
»29(831; shorts, »25.50(826;
ed. It is possible for one concern to
register a trademark bearing a certain rolled barley, »24.50@25.50.
Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il
firm name, and another concern may
PEARY D EPO SITS M EDALS.
incorporate under that same business lamette valley, »20@22 per ton; East
title. Several minor defects are said ern Oregon, »23(824; alfalfa, »14(815;
to exist in the present statutes cover grain hay, » 14.50@15.50; clover, *13@ Discoverer Puts Trophies In United
ing this branch o f the secretary’s de 14.
States Natural Museum.
partment which have caused conflicts
Corn— Whole, »29; cracked, $30 ton.
Washington
— Captain Robert E.
and trouble for some time, and the
Oats — No. 1 white, $27.50@28.50.
Peary,
discoverer
o f the North Pole,
legislature w ill be requested to inaug
Poultry— Hens, 15c pound; springs,
has turned over to the United States
urate an investigation o f conditions.
14J4c; ducks, white, 16@17c; geese,
Natural Museum 16 gold and two sil
12c; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 22(8
ver medals that have been awarded
23c;
squabs,
»2
per
doxen.
BIG DITCH TO OPEN SOON.
him. Among these are the gold med
Eggs—Oregon ranch, candled, 45c
al presented to him by the National
Baker County Prepares for Settlement per dozen; Eastern, Aprils, 32c; East
Geographical society o f Washington,
ern
fresh,
38c.
o f Vast Acreage.
for his discovery o f the North Pole,
Butter—City creamery, solid pack,
Baker.—One o f the biggest Carey act 37c per pound; butter fat, 35(837c; and the gold medal o f the Royal Geo
graphical society o f London, presented
irrigation projects under way in the
to him for “ Arctic explorations 1886-
Northwest w ili soon be thrown open for Eastern, 31(®34c.
Pork—Fancy, 10@ llc per pound.
1909.” This medal was designed by
xttlement. This big tract covers about
Veal—
Fancy,
85
to
126
pounds,
12%
73,00(1 acres, all o f which is in Baker
Mrs. Scott, w ife o f the leader o f the
county. Its 150 miles o f main canals @ 1 3 * c per pound.
British South Polar expeditions.
Apples— King, 40(075c per box;
will cover the entire tract, making it
Captain Peary also deposited in the
easily the largest project of its kind Wolf river, 75c<8»l; Waxen, 7 5 c@ * l; natural museum the flag o f bis college
vet undertaken in Oregon. It involves Baldwin, 75c@*1.25; Northern Spy, fraternity, presented to him by his
the immediate constrnction of two im 75e(d»1.25; Snow, $1.25<r/1.50; Spitz- brothers of the Delta Kappa Epsilon
mense storage reservoirs, with possibly enbergs, *1.25(82; Winter Banana,
and the peace flag given him by the
a third one later.
Flood waters of »1.75(83.50.
Society of the Daughters o f the Am er
both Eagle and Powder rivers will be
Green Fruits— Pears, *1.25(8 2 per
held in quantities that will guarantee box; (trapes- *1(81-35; cranberries. ican Revolution. He carried both of
these with him to the North Pole.
an ample supply all the season.
$10.50(811 per bsrrel.
The Powder Valley Irrigation com
pany. which will furnish the water for
this big tract o f land, is the first com pound,
ox DP, crate- celerv.
Valdez, Alas**- The chance o f re-
pany in Oregon to construct its flumes
£ crate“ pump- covering the cargo o f the steamship
of concrete, and'm any miles o f its ca California, »3 ••
_____ ». ; Olympia, or saving the ship, is ex-
nals and lateral ditches will be con kins, l @ l X c per pound: sprouts,
eeedingly small, according to officers
structed o f the same material. The (88c squash, lfe lt fe : tomatoes, *L 2 ' of the steamship Dora, which visited
company expects to expend over #4,- pérbox! carrots. »101.26 per hundred;
the wreck and took off the perishable
600,000 f 0T construction
during the parsnips, Ufa 1.25; turnips. »1: beets.
part o f the cargo, including meats,
next two years. When this project is
The Dora subsequently called at Ells-
finally thrown open for settlement ^'potatoes—Oregon, *1.25 hundred.
and took on Doaru
board United
State*
. ...
* *1 in rnar Ann
uniwio o
u ic t
there will no doubt be a great rush
Onion»— Oregon, jobbing pr ,
s t r i c t J“ *1** Edward E. Cushman,
for the choice lands, some o f which is
@1.50 per hundred-
. Mrs. Cushman
located but a few miles from Baker.
Cattle—Prime steers, *¡>.75(8 6, go<w i •
w
, ho were passengers
.
.<■ «V85 75- fair to good, and children wl
^
2 5 ; ^
.
j - £ 0 . y - p . . . and brought them to
Annual Fair Is Wanted.
$4.75(8 5;
good
Rosohnrg.— Stockholders o f the Rose
75; fair
Italy Flo od s M enacing.
" nrg Park and Fair Association met
common
to
recently to e ffect an organization, and good. *3.75(o
*
3 4.25;
-
7
5
( fhir,
8 »2 «
Ro me - S o serious have the flood.
to consider holding a fair in Dmigla* (o3.50; good to
„mmor, become, particularly in the Northern
f , £ |y thr<Mgh the m c r e a ^
eonnty annuallv hereafter. According 5 ; fair to good, *4.50(o4 75 e^m on
to the stockholders o f the association, to fair. * 4(0 4.25.
4 rains, that the king hao eipressed a n
the citizens o f Douglas county demand boll», 14(8 4 . ^ f»>r to
L ¡ntention to vi»it the inundated dis
that all connections with the Sontb- common. « 2 . 508 / 3 “50. goodrbe «
tn , u and thereby give encouragement
rrn Oregon D istrict Fair Association calves *7(87.50; fair to good.
to the inhabitants.
Grave damage is
{ * severed, and that a local fsir be 7
to choice heavy ealv*. *5.2
hel’i annually instead o f every three i C t o g o o d * « . 7 f 5 . 2 ^ o o m m o r . reported from all quarters. Many vil
lages sre practically isolated and pro-
Nears as has been the custom. In hold-
visions are being carried to the people
a fair annually, it is argued that ,3.75(84.75; « o o d t o ehofce
’ "e farmers and "business men will t i 50<85; f* ir *°
. by boat*. Hundreds of soldiers and
H < * s -C h o ic e . »7 .7 5 * * ; F « * t o , private citiaens »re engaged in the
m*n*fest more interest
«ST» S? tlrtK
o*"**
°r ~ *.
work o f aiding sufferer»___
Hillman Prepares to Boost
d>Sbwp,
ï > ,rlin* " « « h e * r » | n4f^ ’
Hillman.— The town o f Tffillman. sit- ,4.75425;
Mted in the heart o f the Deschutes rsl choice ewe*, gr
Crook county, has organized *
eammerrin) f ]nb @ w t itig N. H. Elliot«-
President; W . R. Davidson, vice pr«"“,
E. A.
Finland,
aeeretarr and
!!* y r * r
An organization of this sort
*P*»ka well for a town just starting >»
‘ ~ w country.
1
good
£ 25*3.7»; feed-
SÆ; ««od to ***£** **
*5.75««: P«»
H*y fed -------- “ d »— 1
I gr»»> fad
lower
Fire Engines Go 3 0 Miles.
Louisville. Ky. — Eire which started
in the Radcliffe-Overstreet general
store, at La Grange, Ky., M
from here, threaten» to destroy anero
tire block, fir e
to La
»P i* « « *
«*
»>•<»€
Louisville.
BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY
WORK OF NATION’S LAWMAKERS
Monday, December 19.
Washington, Dec. 19.— The • Indian
appropriation bill, carrying items ag
gregating $9.21o,43u. was reported to
the senate today. *TUe total represents
a net increase of $987.995 over the
amount o f the bill as it was passed
by the house. Of this increase $600,000
is to carry out the awards to the loyal
Lost Creeks, in accordance with an
agreement made with that tribe ia
1901.
A bill to promote commerce between
the United States and foreign coun
tries in wood pulp and the printing
paper industry was introduced today
by Representative Ferris, o f Oklahoma.
It provides that wood pulp aud print
ing paper shall be admitted to the
United States free o f duty, on con
dition that the government where it
is produced and from which it is im
ported restricts the exportation or im
poses an export charge.
Washington, Dec. 19.— The majority
and minority reports o f the special
Ballinger Pinchot investigating com
inittee will be reported out o f the
house committee on agriculture with
out comment.
The reports were re
ferret! to that committee and members
o f the committee have been loath to
take the question, figuring that the
reports having come from a committee
should have been left on the speaker’s
table instead o f going to another com
nuttee. The committee on agriculture
considered the matter briefly, and the
plan is to send the reports back to the
house.
This will put the matter before the
house in the shape that the minority
members wish and the motion to adopt
the majority report will be followed
by a minority proposition to substitute
the minority
report.
Considerable
speechmaking on the whole issue is
probable befqre the controversy is out
o f the way. The question will not
come up until after the holiday recess.
The government could have saved
$1,500,000 if it could have the battle
ship New York built in a private yard
instead o f at the New York navy yard,
according to the testimony o f Chief
Constructor Watt, o f the navy, before
the house committee on naval affairs
today.
He said there would be material sav
ing to the government if it could
build all the vessels by contract.
Saturday, Dec. 17.
Washington, Dec. 17.— Action on the
case o f William Lorimer, whose election
to the United States senate from Illi
nois it was charged was accomplished
through bribery, was deferred today by
the senate committee od privileges and
elections until next Tuesday.
Senator Bourne’s resolution validat
ing the local expenditures on the Sins
law improvement project, was adopted
by the senate today.
Senator Chamberlain today procured
a favorable report from the committee
on the $15,000 appropriation for tne
Chemawa Indian school, for building
and improvements.
The senate this afternoon passed the
urgent deficiency hill, which was
passed by the house this morning.
President Taft today ordered a modi
fication of the .walking test required of
naval officers. The officers are re'-
quired to walk 25 miles in two days.
No officer must exert himself in order
to finish under eight hours o f actual
walking. The Roosevelt requiremeat
was a 50 mile teat in three day*.
Senator Lodge today attacked the
Cummin* resolution to provide for tar
iff revision schedule by schedule, de
claring he favored the purpose o f the
Cummins measure, but differed with
the Iowa senator as to the method of
execution. Lodge added that he thought
a senate resolution would be sufficient
and that it was- unnecessary to bind
both houses to a certain mode o f pro
cedure.
Friday, December IS.
Washington, Dec. 16.— Representa
tive Champ Clark issued a statement
tonight fully outlining hia platform a»
prospective speaker o f the Democratic
house o f representatives in the next
congress.
He proclaims himaelf in favor of the
appointment of house committees by a
committee, rather than by the speaker,
and the atatea his belief that the tariff
should be revised schedule by sched
j ule, rather than in one «ingle hill.
Those two subjects, says Mr. Clark,
j are the ones upon which he has been
, continually importuned to make some
statement.
If this country ia unprepared for
war, as officials of the military arm of
the government declare it to he. there
was evidence at the eapltol today that
the same condition doea not extend to
those members o f congress who hsve
become involved in s discussion o f ths
subject.
Criticism and invective were the
missiles fired in broadsides from the
opposing factions, the exchangsa tak
ing the form o f typewritten state-1
menta in which each side assailed ths
motives of the other.
Mr. Tawney, chairman o f ths com
mittee on appropriations, was the tar
get o f those who have sought to have
made public a special report sent to
congress dealing with the state o f the
national defenses and refused by ths
house because o f its confidential Da
tura.
That war scarss are largely inspired
by "arm am en t contractors, who ulti
mately would drag various countries
into the bankruptcy
courts,”
was
charged by Frmneie W . Hirst, editor
wt ths Landes Eastern let, ia a s address
before the International conference o f
the American Society for the Judicial
Settlement of International Disputes
tonight.
Thursday, Dac. 16.
Washington, Dec. 16— The appoint
ments of Judge Van de Van ter and
Judge Lamar as associate justices o f
the supreme court of the United States
were confirmed this afternoon by the
senate.
The nominations were ap
proved by the committee on judiciary,
reported to the senate in executive
session this afternoon and confirmed
under suspension of the rules.
The appiontment* sent to the senate
Monday by President Taft had been
taken up at a special meeting o f the
judiciary committee early today.
The
committee approved both nominations
and urged their immediate confirma
tion.
It has not yet been announced when
the two new justices will take the oath
of office. Chief Justice White, whose
appointment was confirmed Monday,
will be sworn in as Chief Justice
Monday, December 19.
Senator Jones introduced a bill auth
orizing the sale o f the old Fort Spo
kane military reservation, near Spo
kane, the funds to be derived from the
sale to be applied to the establishment
o f schools for the education of Colville
and Spokane Indian children.
A favorable report was made today
on Senator Borah'a bill amending sec
tion 6 o f the *20,000,000 irrigation
law by permitting re-entry o f lands on
existing government irrigation projects
that may be relinquished in whole or
in part. As the law ia now construct
ed, such lands cannot be re-entered un
less a farm unit haa been established,
the water charge fixed, and the water
is ready for distribution.
Wednesday, December 14.
Washington, Dec. 14.— Representa
tive Humphrey today introduced a bill
authorising the United States govern
ment to accept the cession by the state
of Washington o f exclusive jurisdic
tion over lands in Mount Rainier na
tional park. The bill reservea to the
state the right to serve civil or crim
inal process within the park and to
prosecute for offenses committed in
the park, if they are not punishable
by Federal statute.
Senator Jones introduced a bill per
mitting mining and prospecting on
timber lands of the Spokane Indian
reservation. This timber land is re
served for Indiana and under the de
partment regulations prospecting and
opmer is not permitted.
mineral development
th
Secretary o f the
treasury recom-
mends the appropriation o f *7,000 for
the purchase o f a public building site,
recently selected at Ellensburg, Waah.
He alio recommends an appropriation
o f *8,884 for the purchase o f private
land and improvements located within
the limits of Fort William H. Seward,
Alaska.
Illustrating his talk by demonatra-
tiona with opium layouts, morphine,
cocaine and other devices, Dr, Christo
pher Koch, of Philadelphia, vice presi
dent of the Pennsylvania board o f
pharmacy, today argued before the
house ways and means committee for
legislation to restrict the traffic In
habit-forming drags.
He said that 10 per cent o f the re
tail druggiata of the United States
were engaged in the illicit business,
that nearly 50 per cent o f the crimin
als are “ dope fiends,” and that the
habit was extending to the professions
— lawyers, physicians
and
trained
Tuesday, December 13.
Washington, Dee. 18. — The senate
today listened to the first tariff debate
of the session and while the discussion
was largely academic, it served to de
velop the important fact that Senators
Lodge and Aldrich are willing to join
in the piecemeal revision o f the tariff.
The subject came up on a motion to
refer to the committee on rules the
Cummins joint resolution providing for
the limitation o f the power to amend
bills looking to the modification o f
paragraphs and schedules of the Payne-
Aldrich bill.
Cummins occupied the floor in sup
port o f the provision, but be was In
terrupted so frequently that the dis
cussion partook largely o f the nature
of a running debate.
It was in this
discussion that Lodge and
Aldrich
found occasion to announce their posi
tions.
The Iowa senator disavowed any In
tention o f opening up a general tariff
discussion. Still he found it difficult
to avoid a general expression on tariff
questions.
“ It is well known,” he aald, "t h a t I
consider excessive end
inexcusable
many of the duties levied by the law o f
1909. I know also that many people
believe the law should be amended.
During the recent political struggle I
did not hear a single utterance by a
Republican that did not admit that the
law contains duties that ought to be
changed and that it la the duty o f con
gress to act speedily.
" T h e reel is s u e ." ha aald,
"I s
whether we shell so amend our rales
as to^perm it^U w ^sm en dm en t o f the