l i m DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
ous W A T E R W AR E N D S .
F R E N C H M E N DIE B RAVE LY.
Men on
B EE MEN W A N T IN S P E C T IO N .
'Creek Now to Make Fertile
Warm Discussion o f Governor’s Veto
'40,000 Acres o f Land.
at Annual Meeting at Salem
uer Lake— W ithin two weeks A.
Salem—
The annual meeting o f the
Kushem, county' engineer, and a
0f assistants, w ill finish building State Beekeepers’ association on the
t dams, to divide the w ater fa ir grounds here was marked by
Creek, spreading the stream
lively discussion o f the governor’s
the broad S ilver Lake valley
lit will irrigate approximately veto o f the proposed bill for bee in
spection. A ll former officers were re
acres o f land.
ends one of the oldest and most elected, but the secretary treasurer
legal battles over w ater rights having resigned, H. F. Wilson,
history o f the United States; a
charge o f the apiary at the Oregon
that was carried through all the
courts and into the highest tri- Agricultural college, was elected to
Plans were dis­
of the nation, which body made fill the vacancy.
I- division o f the water and di- cussed for securing space and pre­
Judge H. L. Benson, o f the miums fo r a bee exhibit at the next
States Circuit court, to appoint
ers and see that the stream was state fair.
ioned according to the orders o f
|eourt.
x
a a first result o f this decision o f
I Supreme court, which was re-
I in 1909 in the case o f Hough
’orter, the production o f hay in
Lake valley this season in-
more than 600 tons over the
I previous record.
This increase
^due to the temporary division o f
1 water, and when the permanent
s are completed and the water ap­
roned as it should be, it is esti-
i that the hay and grain yield
Halmost double.
(WORK ON F R O S T FIG H TIN G
irt on'Campaign o f Oregon A g ­
ricultural College.
Agricultural College, Cor-
«—“ Preliminary Frost Fighting
lies in the Rogue R iver V alley”
tie title o f a valuable bulletin o f
Ipages just issued from the press o f
Oregon Agricultural College, giv-
the results o f the work o f Prof. C.
F. R. Brown and their
itants in the Bear Creek orchard,
lord, the
Eisman orchard at
its Pass, and the G. E. Marshall
as well as o f other frost
I done by orchardists o f the
ss the Houston brothers on the
¡eye orchard tract, and the Gore,
an, Phipps, Palmen, Merritt,
Fiero, and foothills orchards,
I results obtained lead the col-
authorities to advise oils with
in base to those with an as-
base, since the latter leaves a
which w ill not burn and de-
the burning tim e o f the heater,
I least one thermometer to the acre
be used, they say, the average
per acre fo r a four-hour period is
t for oil and $5.40 fo r wood, for
■eh more labor is required. Oil is,
believe, the best fuel, being
ir to handle and maintaining a
even temperature.
‘ ‘ The association members feel that
they are as much a part o f the agri
cultural industry o f Oregon as are a
number o f other branches, and de­
serve protection,” said Mr. Wilson,
referring to the discussion o f the in­
spection measure.
‘ ‘ A new bill w ill
be prepared and presented to the next
session o f the legislature, and it is
hoped that all the beekeepers o f the
state w ill work for its passage.
“ Many people throughout the U nit­
ed States make beekeeping their sole
business. Thousands o f hives are also
distribtuted among orchardists and
farmers.
Oregon produces but a
small part o f what can be secured
from the right • kind o f beekeeping,
and is one o f the few states o f the
Union which has no inspection law.
Under existing conditions it is almost
impossible to keep out diseases and
other destructive pests.
“ Mr. L. C. Fones, o f Portland, suc­
ceeded in securing 249 pounds o f sec­
tion honey from a single colony o f
bees during the past season.
Thou­
sands o f colonies producing half that
much contribute m aterially to the
wealth o f the state. To one suited
for the work there is no more enjoy­
able occupation.”
GERM ANY AFTER APPLE S.
Hamburg Firm Sends Buyer Here to
Get Oregon Fruit.
Portland— Oregon apples are in such
demand in Germany that W. Knudel,
representing a firm o f exporters o f
Hamburg, has arrived in Portland for
the purpose o f purchasing select stock
from Hood R iver and other districts.
“ W e never have been able to get
enough Hood R iver apples,” said Mr.
Knudel. “ By coming right on to the
field I hope to obtain at least all that
the market here w ill offer. However,
the demand for Hood R iver Spitzen-
ITREES N E C E S S I T Y . H E S A Y S .
bergs and Wenatchee Winesaps is so
erman Wants Governor to Order great that I don’t expect to get all I
Forestry W ork on Highways.
could dispose of.
“ In Germany we consider the Ore­
|Salem— Maintaining that trees are
sary as breakers for the wind gon apples the finest that can be
; o f summer and the conserva- grown. They are served in the lead­
of the climate o f the country in ing hotels and in the best cafes and
era], Henry Clay, wholesale lum- are in constant demand in fashionable
1 o f Pontiac, Mich., has written homes. The people are w illing to
West relative to launching a pay a higher price for apples grown
(•planting campaign
along
the in this state than for those o f any
other part o f the world. There will
fiways o f the state,
a his communication he cites that always be a market for Oregon stock
forests are rapidly passing away in Germany and little danger o f an
I that it is necessary fo r them to be excessive supply.”
The firm represented by Mr. Knu­
placed with other trees.
He sug-
that they be replaced by plant- del imports fruits from various coun­
ees along all public highways tries for sale to high-class hotels, res­
I recommends for this state red and taurants, cafes and dealers who cater
bw fir. He also suggests the pass- to the aristocracy. This is the first
a law requiring all owners o f time that they have entered the local
1 to plant trees along their land market on such an extensive scale.
n default that the state plant
Shipping Days Named.
and charge the cost up to the
toperty owners.
Salem— Saturday has been designa­
ted by the Railroad commission as the
EXPERIMENT FARM BUILDS.
day upon which stock in less than 10
carload lots can be transported on the
hter Found at Harney County Sta- lines o f the O.-W. R. & N.
The law
t * * 100 Feet Down.
in relation-to the subject was passed
[Burn*— W ork at the Harney County by the last legislature and provides
(¡cultural Experiment Station, un- that railroad companies may transport
r the: direction o f Professor Breit- stock in excess o f 10 carload lots any
spt, of'dhegon Agricultural college, day in the week. It further provides
f progressing. The contract has been that during but two days o f the week
1 for the buildings, two o f which can stock be transported in less than
be furnished this fall and the 10 carload lots and gives the railroad
company the right to have one o f the
ers by July 1, 1912.
I There has been success in finding days and the commission the other.
t adequate supply o f excellent water The company has named Tuesday as
the
The drillers have just the other day.
N*pleted ja 6-inch well, > in which, at
P ro 'esso r Goes to British Columbia
M«pth off 100 feet, was found a flow
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
;oold, soft water that comes within
bt feet o f the surface and cannot vallis—-Prof. C. I. Lew is o f the horti­
lowered with an ordinary tank culture department o f the Oregon A g ­
BP- It is the third flow below the ricultural College leaves soon for two
face fcd the well is cased below weeks’ trip through British Colum-
I second» flow, so the purity o f the bia fru it districts, including Nelson.
New Westminister, and the Okanogan
dy is Asured.
and Grand Forks districts, covering
Stkmp Mill Installed.
|some 1,800 miles.
Gold m i — The “ Last Chance” mine
■ . .
„
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Dallas Gets Goat Show.
I G a l i r reek,
^ five
-
' from
miles
here, 1
„
.
•tipped with a new’two-stamp|
S a le m - A t a meeting o f the North-
■Bow
:h willjbegin pounding quartz west Angora Goat
. Much good ore is on the here it was decided to hold the annual
the owner expects to save show at Dallas, probably some time in
No other business was
, ' l« g e pef%euytge o f the values with December.
_ _ _ Is th a 1 1
„ the election o f officers and
IP* ">ill, • P s tB is o f _ which
h * e y p ile rou” “ u m p ! in v it e d by'business in connection with the pool
P *®tal mining man.
1 going over until 0,6 “ ° w ’
f
a
in
.
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.
Burning Battleship
Fire to the Last,
Fought
GENERAL NEWS OF NATIONAL HAPPENINGS
Toulon, France— More than 300 offi­
A LA S K A C O A L T I E D UP.
cers and men o f the French battleship
Liberte lost their lives when the ship
Little Chance o f Cheaper Fuel for
was torn apart and totally destroyed
Pacific Coast Cities.
in the harbor here by an explosion of
Washington,
D. C.— There is little
her magazines.
prospect that the Alaska coal fields
Thè battleship Repubiique was bad­ w ill be opened to early development.
ly damaged and the battleships Demo­ On the contrary, all indications point
cratic and Verte suffered heavily from to a continuation o f the period of
the masses o f twisted iron and armor- stagnation, which means that the
plate hurled upon their decks
people o f Alaska will continue to pay
This is the greatest disaster that a high price for fuel and that cheaper
has ever befallen the French navy, fuel w ill be denied for a longer period
and in magnitude is almost without to the people o f the Pacific Coast,
precedent in the annals of the world’s when they could obtain it from Alaska
fighting ships.
with prompt and proper development.
The explosion which wiped out one
I t is apparent that the United
o f France’s most powerful battleships States government has no intention of
occurred at 5:30 o ’clock in the morn­ perm itting acquisition by private in­
ing. It was the result o f an outbreak dividuals o f absolute title to the coal
o f fire. The flames spread rapidly in lands o f Alaska. The existing coal
spite o f all efforts to extinguish them, land laws applicable to Alaska are not
and reached the magazines before to be enforced.
Rather the blanket
there Was time to flood them. The withdrawals made by President Taft
magazines exploded with tremendous are to be continued in force until
violence, sowing death and destruction congress enacts some new law provid­
in every direction. The naval author­ ing another means o f development.
ities now estimate the killed at be­
But before congress passes any such
tween 350 and 400. It will be neces­ law there w ill be a bitter fight in the
sary to go through the ship’s muster senate and house o f representatives
rolls before a full list o f the victims and it is likely to be several years be­
can be prepared.
fore any sort o f bill is sent to the
Several men were taken alive from president fo r approval, especially any
the torn and twisted mass o f wreck practical bill.
This assertion is
age, and hope was strong that others based on the fact that Secetary Fisher,
might be reached.
after a survey o f the coal fields o f
The work o f rescue began quickly. Alaska, returned to the United States
An ambulance station was installed in inclining in favor o f a leasing bill,
the arsenal and Admiral Marin-Darbel, while his form er friend, Gifford Pin-
Maritime Prefect, superintended the chot, has gone to Alaska to strength­
work o f extricating those imprisoned en his latest view that the coal lands
under the shattered steel.
o f Alaska should be owned and devel­
The first body recovered was that o f oped by the government, and the coal
an officer, which was hauled from un­ shipped to tidewater on government-
der an awning with a boathook. owned and operated railroads.
Forty bodies have been taken out and
94 injured transferred to the hospital.
W RECK OF MAINE BRACED.
Electric shears to cut through the
plates and powerful floating cranes to
lift the masses o f steel were used.
Divers are at work exploring the in­
terior o f the hull. The Liberte now
looks as if the bows had doubled over
onto the stern. Men could be heard
groaning and screaming for help,
which often the rescuers were unable
to give.
The lower deck was a heartrending
sight. One man’s foot was held under
a mass o f steel weighing tons. A fter
three hours’ vain effort to lift the
mass a surgeon amputated the foot.
Through a hole in the armor portions
o f bodies, contorted and piled to­
gether, could be perceived, all o f them
charred by the flames.
One o f the survivors, a warrant
officer who came out o f the explosion
with only a slight cut on the forehead,
said :
The fire broke out in the general
store, among cans o f oil, turpentine,
paint and other inflammables.
In
spite o f every effort flames spread
to the coal bunkers, and after that it
was difficult to prevent them from
gaining the powder magazine. It was
about 5:30 o ’clock and dawn was
breaking, before the danger seemed to
be realized. Assistance was then be­
ing sent us from the port and three
other warships lying in the harbor.
Disaster Regarded as Evil Omen,
Paris— The minister o f marine is
preparing to* render aid to the famiiles
o f the victim s o f the Liberte explosion.
Everywhere the explosion is regarded
as an evil omen, coming on the heels
o f the peaceful settlement o f the Mo­
roccan difficutlies with Germany.
According to Captain Jaures’ re­
port, there were 32 officers on the
warship. One third o f the officers
and 72 men had been given shore leave
over Sunday and the remainder o f the
lost crew were seeping between decks.
The minister of marine thinks that
the fire started in the storeroom, ad­
jacent to the magazine, and short-
circuited the electric wiring, causing
the explosion.
As the sailors took
their posts for fire drill slight explos­
ions were felt, followed by flames
bursting out all over the after quar-
ter.
Explosions then followed at brief
intervals, the third shooting the fire
mast high. By this light the crew
was visible fighting the flames from
the magazine.
Nuptial Fee Spurious.
Chicago — A dozen preachers are
W
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the
condoling
with ___ another
“
* over
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loss o f good money o f which they were
defrauded by a counterfeiter and a
woman accomplice, who repeatedly
presented themselves for marriage
and also presented false $20 bills in
payment o f a $10 fee. The clergyman
who told o f the fraud refused the
names o f the preachers involved, as
secrecy had been agreed on in a de­
nominational meeting at which the
victims condoled with one another
over their losses.
Workmen Now Endeavor to
Bottom o f Warship.
CO N SU M ER P A Y S FINES.
I Brokers
Tell Why Sugar
Boosted By Trust.
Price Is
.N ew York— How the sugar trust
makes the consumer “ pay the freigh t”
for the fines leved upon it by the go v­
ernment when it was detected in cus­
toms steals was set forth here by su­
gar brokers.
They say the trust’s
profit for the coming year, follow ing
its arbitrary rise o f prices from $3.75
per 100 pounds in January to $7.25 at
present, w ill net the corporation just
$40,000.000.
Much o f this enormous profit, the
brokers say, w ill be used to wipe out
a deficit in the trust’s reserve which
resulted from the government’s prose­
cutions for undervaluation o f imports
and from litigations following the dis­
covery that the trust’s employes had
robbed the United States by manipu­
lating custom house scales at the
Brooklyn docks.
COLORED TEA UNDER BAN.
Customs Officers to Bar Leaves A r­
tificially Shaded.
Washington, D. C.— Secretary Mac-
Veagh has decided the Treasury de­
partment's controversy
with mer­
chants who claimed the right to im­
port artificially colored teas by issu­
ing an order to all customs collectors
flatly forbidding them to pass any tea
which shows traces o f artificial color­
ing.
On telegraphic orders sent to San
Francisco, 1,000,000 pounds o f black
tea held at that port for several weeks
because it contained artificial coloring
matter, was delivered to its con­
signees. A million pounds o f green
tea held on a similar charge was or­
dered kept for shipment outside this
country.
Each shipment is worth
Reach $250,000.
Washington, D. C.-—The army en­
gineer officers working on the wreck
o f the Maine in Havana harbor# have
abandoned the idea o f constructing a
small coffer dam within the large dam
that now surrounds the vessel for the
purpose o f inclosing the forward part
of the wreck and giving access to the
very bottom o f the structure. Instead
a system o f bracing is now being
placed that will so strengthen the
walls o f the existing dam as to make
it capable o f resisting the enormous
strain that w ill be imposed when the
workmen undertake to remove the
mud at tjie bottom to a depth sufficeint
to expose the keel plates.
As this work o f bracing goes on,
experts plying the queer little gas
torches are steadily cutting up the
great mass o f tangled steel beams and
plates with a rapidity far greater
than could be realized by the use of
the old-fashioned chisel and sledge
hammer, and it is expected that by
the time the mud-diggers have uncov­
ered the bottom plate o f the forward
hull, most o f the steel above w ill have
been cut away and removed.
C R O P OF CUCU M BERS PAYS.
Farmers on Montana Irrigation
ject Make $126 an Acre.
P ro ­
Washington, D. C.— The success
which farmers are achieving on the
Huntley irrigation project in Montana
was attested in a report recently re­
ceived by the United States Reclama­
tion service, which shows $125 an acre
had been realized from raising cucum­
bers.
One farm dr who turns what cucum­
bers he and some o f his neighbors
raise into pickles, has orders from
Montana towns for 31 carloads o f
these appetizers« The cucumber field,
besides being profitable in themselves,
afford work fo r sugar-beet laborers
when they are not employed in the
beet fields.
T w o Battleships Asked.
Washington, D. C.— Estimates for
the maintenance o f the navy for the
next fiscal year have been completed
with one important exception, the
provision for the construction o f new
ships.
It is pretty well understood that the
NAVY T A K E S BACK ORDER.
secretary will adhere to the program
o f the last few years and suggests to
Pacific Fleet Will Be Held in San
congress the addition o f two first-class
Francisco fo r Taft Visit.
battleships and a corresponding num­
Washington, D. C.— A fte r having ber o f submarines, torpedo-boat de­
declined to postpone the cruise o f the stroyers, colliers and auxiliaries.
Pacific fleet to the Hawaiian islands
on the ground that it would interfere
Lincoln Memorial Committee.
with the efficiency o f the navy, the
Washington, D. C.— Owing to the
N avy department has reversed itself
absence o f President T a ft on his west­
and ordered the vessels detained until
ern trip, the meeting o f the Lincoln
a fter President T a ft’s visit to San
memorial commission which was to
Francisco, October 14, to attend the
have been held at the W hite House
the
ground-breaking ceremonies at |
next Monday probably w ill be deferred
Panama-Pacific exposition.
This action, it is understood, was until the return o f the president to
Washington the first o f
October.
taken on instructions from the presi­
President T a ft is a member o f the
dent. The fleet was scheduled to sail
commission, which has been author­
for Honolulu October 1.
ized by congress to expend $2,000,000
on the erection o f a monument in this
War Secretary to Tour.
city to commemorate the life and pub­
Washington, D. C.— To become thor­ lic services o f President Lincoln.
oughly fam iliar with m ilitary condi­
tions, Secretary o f War Stimson con­
Army Increase Wanted.
templates visiting practically every
Washington, D. C.— The United
army post in the country.
He and States army in the next fiscal year
General Wood, chief o f staff, and Cap­ will number approximately 89,000 offi­
tain Frank B. McCoy, o f the general cers and enlisted men. The estimates
staff, w ill meet in Pittsburg, for their o f Secretary o f War Stimson and Ma­
tour, which will inculde Fort Apache, jo r General Leonard Wood, chief o f
Whipple Barracks, and Fort Hua- staff o f the army, make provision fpr
I chuca, Ariz. and San Antonio, Tex., an increase o f 4,000 men. A t present
j and probably Forts Riley and Lea ven -, the army numbers 76.954 enlisted
| worth. Kan. General Wood and Sec- men, 5,712 Philippine scouts and 6,003
retary Stimson probably will tour the 1 commissioned officers.
Middle West, Northwest and Pacific
Coast before next summer.
Banker Walsh Will Be Paroled.
\
Washington, D. C .—The statement
26.680 Acres Withdrawn.
that John R. Walsh, the Chicago bank-
Washington, D. C. — The secretary
j ,.r> will be paroled at Fort Leaven-
o f the Interior has withdrawn from
| worth this week was made here by an
entry 26,680 acres o f land in the
official o f the department o f justice.
Blackfoot Indian reservation in North­
Walsh, whose prison record has been
western Montana.
He has also rati­
excellent, became eligible for parole
fied all withdrawals and registrations
j this month.
He will return to his
heretofore made for irrigation pur­
Stolyptn’ s Slayer Hanged.
family.
Kiev, Rossia— Dmitry Bogroff, the poses in the reservation.
assassin o f Premier Stnlypin, who was
Postal Banks Ordersd.
Army Post Has New Chief.
condemned to death by court-martial,
Washington. Ó. C.— Postal Saving* ! Washington, D. C.— LieuL Colonel
has been hanged. Before his execu­
tion the young man asked that he banks will be opened October 24 at ; Gustave W. Stevens is relieved from
and order-
might see a rabbi, but refused this the following Oregon poetoffices: S t duty at Fort Casey. Wash., to
assume
consolation when informed that the Helens. Tillamook, Springfield. Falls ed to Fort Stevens, Or.,
command
o
f
that
post
and
o
f
the ar­
Silverton,
interview must be in the presence o f City, Drain, S t Johns,
tillery district o f the Columbia.
North Bend and Madras.
officials.
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