D I S OF THE WEEK
Current Events of Interest gathered
From the World al Large.
General Resume of Important Eventa
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Premier Asquith says woman suf­
frage is a big political mistake.
The French objection to the Moroc­
can pact was beaten in the chamber
of deputies.
The senate inclines to expedite in
every way the abrogation of the treaty
with Russia.
King George, now emperor of India,
reviewed 50,000 British and native
troops at Delhi.
A Portland boy of six years held a
lantern while his father captured a
burglar in the house.
The United States attorney general
advises supervision of mergers by the
bureau of corporations.
The practice of giving complimen­
tary railroad passes is to cease entire­
ly at the close of the year.
Portland Elks will offer $10,000 in
prizes at their national convention and
celebration in Portland in 1912.
The president of the National Wool-
growers’ association denounces Bryan
as a foe of the livestock men.
A St. Louis jury is “ on strike”
against the instructions of the judge
and refuses to return a verdict.
Ex-governor Gooding attacked the
Pinchot policies in a speech before the
National Woolgrowers’ convention.
Archduke Henry Ferdinand, of
Austria, would abandon his titles and
heirship to the throne in order to
marry the girl of his choice.
Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, a prom­
inent Portland minister, who accepted
a call to a Los Angeles church gets
increase of $1,000 per year in salary.
The government fish hatcheries on
the Columbia and tributary streams
are about ready to begin the planting
of 21,000,000 salmon in Pacific Coast
CANTEEN IS ASKED.
General Wood Says Army Demands
Restoration o f Resorto.
Washington, D. C.—Major General
Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the
army, favors the restoration of the
canteen to army posts. He declares
in his annual report that the concen­
sus of opinion in the army is that the
canteen should be re-established.
General Wood also makes some rec­
ommendations for the garrisoning of
Panama canal forts. He says it is
necessary to provide garrisons to pro­
tect the canal and to insure its neu­
trality, and for that he recommends
12 companies of coast artillery, four
regiments of infantry at full strength,
one battallion of field artillery, one
squadron of cavalry and some auxil­
iary troops.
In recommending short-term enlist­
ments, the chief of staff says that the
argument that men would not return
to the colors in time of war is “ an
unwarrantable reflection on the patri­
otism of men who have served the
colors and returned to private life.”
General Wood opposed the bill pend­
ing in congress which would consoli­
date the adjutant’s and inspector gen­
eral’s departments with the general
staff corps.
EPIGRAMS WIN REWARD.
Girl
S tenographer
Unconsciously
“ Muses” Way to Promotion.
Chicago — “ Musings” of a sten­
ographer employed by the Illinois
Central railroad, jotted down in her
notebook, came to the attention of
the officers of the system, and a neat
card bearing the epigrams bo discov­
ered has been sent to each stenograph­
er in the service. The girl is Miss
Helen Lee Brooks, who since the dis­
covery has found herself the secretary
of the division superintendent at Mat-
toon, 111.
Here are some of the epigrams on
her notebook cover, which have been
sent out:
“ The girl who prides herself on be­
ing a ‘good fellow’ ought not to com­
plain when men in the office take her
at her word. ”
" I t ’s just as easy to boost as to
knock, and it goes further.”
“ It is the ambition of some sten­
ographers to go on the stage; of oth­
ers to be married; none wants to
keep on just being a stenographer.”
“ As employers, some men are diffi­
cult; all men are impossible.” '
ELKS MAKE GREAT PLANS.
streams,
Taft approved the commission’s re­
port opposing Federal regulation of
railway securities.
British railroad directors have
granted full recognition of the Rail­
road Workmen’s union.
Fire destroyed a portion of the
buildings of Luna Park, at Coney Is­
land, New York, causing a loss of
$150,000.
Work will begin immediately on a
$3,000,000 irrigation project for the
Silver Lake country, Oregon, to water
100,000 acres
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Expect 0 0 OOO Visitors and Delegates
to Grand Lodge in 1912.
Portland, Or. — The Elks’ Grand
Lodge commission in charge of ar­
rangements for the next annual re­
union to be held here in July, 1912, is
preparing to entertain 60,000 Elks
and visitors during the convention
week, July 8 to 13.
A canvass has
been made of the preliminary reports
received from the 1,300 lodges in the
order and that vast multitude is re­
garded as conservative.
Grand Ex­
alted Ruler John P. Sullivan, who was
here last week arranging for head­
quarters, etc., says Portland will have
the greatest attendance ever gathered
at one of these sessions.
Indications now are tirat more than
100 special trains will bring the visit­
ing Elks here, and the railroads and
terminal company have been asked to
provide parking space for fully 1,000
Pullman sleepers for that week.
Wheat—Track prices:
Bluestem,
82c, club, 79c; red Russian, 78c; val­
ley, 80c; forty-fold, 80c.
Corn—Whole, $37; cracked, $38
ton.
Millstuffs—Bran, $23 per ton; mid­
LANDIS S C O R E S USURERS,
dlings, $30; shorts, $24; rolled bar­
ley, $37©38.
Bank Clerk* Who Stole to Meet De
Oata— No. 1 white, $31 per ton.
mands Escape Lightly.
Hay—No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim­
othy, $18(rtl8.50; No. 1 valley, $16(<i'
Chicago—Loan brokers were excori
16; alfalfa. $18(q)14; clover, $ll('ri;12; ated by Judge Landis when he gave
grain hay, 12(«i!l3.
light sentences to two young bank
Barley— Feed, 860.87 ton.
clerks who had falsified bank records
Fresh Fruits— Pears, 60c((i)$1.50 per to cover up a shortage of $500, taken
box; grapes, $1.25(0)1.60 per box; to satisfy a debt to a “ loan agent.”
cranberries, $11.50(0)12 per barrel;
A youth who earned $110 a month
casabas, $1.60 per crate.
was sent to the house of correction
Apples—Jonathans, $1.500^2.26 per for 60 days, and the other, a $60 a-
box; Spitzenbergs, $l.(o2.60; Bald­ month clerk, was fined 1 cent, which
win, 76c(<i)$1.60; Red Cheek Pippin, his counsel promptly paid.
$1.260tl.76; Northern Spy, $1.25«$
The money lender, Carl Carroll,
1.75; Winter Banana, $2(o3; Bell­ who is also a lawyer, has been cited
flower, $1. 10 ( 0 ) 1 . 60 ,
to appear before Judge Landis and
Potatoes—Buying price: Burbanks, show cause why he should not be
90c<u $1.20 per hundred.
barred from practice in the United
Onions -Jobbing price: $1.50 sack. States District court.
V egetables— Artichokes, 90c per
dozen; cabbage, l(<$l$c per pound;
Holly Forests Looted.
celery, 75c<o$l per dozen; cucumbers,
Los Angeles—Armed with axes,
$1.25(0)1.75; garlic, 8(jf$10c per pound;
lettuce, $2.50 per crate; peppers, 8 ( 0 ) hatchets and butcher-knives, thous­
10c per pound; pumpkins, ](o lie ; ands of holiday parties from all over
squash, 1 i«(;lftc carrots, $1 per sack ; Southern Califroina invaded the hills
about I.O* Angeles in search of holly
beets, $1; turnips, $1; parsnips, $1.
Hops — 1911 crop, 43«t46c; olds, to use for Christmas decorations. In­
stead of cutting off tops of the bushes,
nominal.
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 9(<i 16c per however, most of them cut close to
pound; valley,
16«$17c;
mohair, the ground, with the result that thou­
sands of acres of holly-bearing terri­
choice, 85(q.37c.
Butter — Oregon creamery, solid tory were literally stripped and will
pack, 86c; prints, extra; butter fat, never grow the desirable Yuletide de­
corations again. The matter will be
lc leas than solid pack.
Poultry—Hens, 14ul 4Jc; springs, brought to the Forestry department.
18ot:14c; ducks,
young,
160il7c;
Lloyd-Gaorga is Injured.
geese, 13«fl4e; turkeys, live, 20c;
dressed, choice, 23c.
London—David Lloyd-George, chan­
E ggs—Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, cellor of the exchequer, was seriously
42c.
injured when leaving a women’s liber­
Pork—Fancy, 8(<i 9c per pound.
al meeting, at which he had juat made
Veal—Fancy, lSqj18Jc per pound.
a speech.
Cattle—Choice steers, $5.40«$5.75;
A male suffragist hurled a brass-
good. $6.26«$6.40; choice cows, $4.60 bound box at the chancellor, which
«$4.75; good,
$4.25( m )4.60; choice struck him full in the face, cutting
spayed heifers, $4.76(it5; good to hia lip and badly injuring his eyes.
choice heifers, $4.50«f.4.60; choice A doctor who was in attendance on
bulls, $4.26(«$4.60; good, $4(<$4.25; the chancellor said he had a narrow
choice calves, $7(0)7.50; good, $6«$ escape from losing the eye.
6.60
Armed Arabs Menacing.
Hogs—Choice light hogs, $6.80«$
7.10; good to choice hogs, 6.60«t6.70'
Paris — The Temps' correspondent
fair, $6 r$6.26; smooth heavy hogs, with the Turks telegraphed from
$6.25«t6.60.
Asisia under date of December 16 that
Sheep — Choice yearling wethers, thousands of well-armed Arab* have
94«it.26; choice twos and threes, been concentrating there in the past
$3.85«i4; choice killing ewes, $3.26«$ two days.
A body of noted Arab
3.M ; choice lambs, $4 2.V«f4 60 ;
fighters arrived at Asisia on that
lo choice, $4f$4.26; culls. $3«$3.75.
date, after a 48 days' march.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUTE
EXPERIMENT FARM BUSY,
INDIAN LAND OPEN.
Klamath
Reservation O fftrs
Opportunity.
Rich Three Buildings Put Up and 2 00
Acres Cleared of Sagebrush.
Klamath Falls—Agitation to have
the Klamath Indian reservation form-
ally opened has led Superintendent
Watson to say that the reservation is
virtually open now and that no form­
at action needs to be taken. The con­
ditions are somewhat different from
those on other reservations which
have been opened in that nearly all
agricultural lands have been allotted
to the Indians, and the only acreage
remaining unallotted is in timber.
This does not mean that there is no
opportunity for white men to acquire
homes and property on the reserva­
tion, says Watson, who asserts that it
offers the greatest
opportunities
to the homeseeker of any reservation
ever opened in the United States.
There is no such thing as free land
now, he says, and for that matter
never was, a3 in land openings only
about 20 per cent of the applicants
ever received anything and it usually
cost them as much as it was worth
before their settlement was completed.
According to an estimate made last
year, there were 5,600,000,000 feet of
standing timber on the reservation
and fully one-half of this is subject to
application for purchase. Naturally
most of this will be bought by lum­
bering concerns and manufactured.
It is asserted that this development
will mean a big thing for the reserva­
tion and the northern part of Klamath
county.
At this time there are thousands of
acres of the best agricultural lands on
the reservation for sale, says Watson.
The best lands can be bought at very
low figures. He says that a third of
the farm lands around Modoc Point,
and from a third to one-half of the
sagebrush and meadow lands along
Sprague River, belong to the estates
of dead Indians. These lands were
among the first to be selected and al­
lotted and naturally were the choice
pieces. Application can be made at
any time for their sale, and after ap­
praisal bids are advertised for, and
the lands usually sold to the highest
bidder.
SLEEK GOATS TO PRANCE.
Northwest Angora Association to
Hold Show at Dallas.
Dallas—The Northwest Angora Goat
association, in conjunction with the
Polk County Poultry association, will
hold their annual shows here from Jan­
uary 3 to 5, inclusive.
Cash prizes and premiums have been
offered by the promoters of the goat
show, and many exhibitors have en­
tered or have signified their intention
of displaying their choice animals.
The committee supervising the goat
show is made up of O. S. Grant, A. L.
McDonald, H. L. Fenton, J. C. Guth­
rie, G. W. McBee and W. A. Ayres.
In a letter issued by the committee
exhibitors are asked to communicate
with W. A. Ayres, Dallas, Or. Spe­
cial prizes have been offered to com­
petitors owning bucks ranging in age
from 9 months up, and does with the
same age range.
Firms offering special prizes include
William Brown & Co., Salem; North­
west Angora Goat association; Amer­
ican Angora Goat Breeders’ associa
tion; Multnomah Mohair Mills, Port­
land; Angora Goat Breeders’ Journal,
Portand; William Riddle & Sons.
Monmouth; Angora Rug company,
Salem, and the Oregon Agricultural­
ist, Portland.
The Angora Goat Breeders’ Journal
also will give a year’s subscription of
the Journal to every exhibitor at the
show and to every purchaser of an An­
gora buck.
Space will be given at the show for
the exhibition of sheep.
Burns—The Harney County agricul­
tural experiment station, six miles
east of Burns, has been a busy place
since Superintendent Breithaupt took
charge of it late in the summer. The
entire 200 acres in the farm is now
cleared of sagebrush and 100 acres of
it has been plowed.
Three good buildings are also prac­
tically completed — a large barn, a
messhouse and a residence. The barn
is built in modern style, with hip
roof, giving a good deal of loft room
for hay; the messhouse is of good
size and plastered on the inside; the
residence is a large bungalow and is
to be plastered.
The water supply for the buildings
will be pumped by gasoline engine
from a splendid well which was drilled
a few months ago to a tank built in
the ground, and from this it will be
forced by pneumatic pressure to all
parts of the buildings. There will be
interior washrooms and lavatories,
which will be connected by tiling with
a septic tank constructed on scientific
principles.
The clearing of the
ground of sagebrugh was accomplished
with a piece of 12x12 timber 24 feet
long, shod its entire length with
steel bar, to which were hitched from
eight to 12 horses, according to the
size of the sage. The brush was
mowed down and pulled out in most
effective style.
The land plowed this fall will be
sown and planted to various crops and
another lot of plowing will be done
in the spring, to be sown and planted
with the same kind of crops, so as to
test the respective results.
STATE COMMISSION BUSY.
AGREES TO ABROGATION.
Senate
Rushes House Resolution
Against Russian Treaty.
Washington, D. C.—The abrogation
of the Russian treaty of 1832 because
of discriminations against American
Jews and others may become the law
of the land before the Christmas holi­
days.
The Sulzer resolution, already
adopted by the house, directiong the
termination of the treaty after a
year’s notice, was brought up in the
senate. The decision to refer it to
the committee on foreign relations
rather than act immediately was made
after an assurance from the commit­
tee that it would report at once. The
senate may either adopt the resolution
with a slight change or the Culberson
resolution virtually identical.
The debate in the senate included
some discssuion of the attitude of the
State department.
Senator Culber­
son wanted immediate action without
the reference to the committee. He
contended that notice of abroagtion
could not take effect until one year
“ after the first day of January follow­
ing the action of congress, ” and there­
fore, if the resoltuion should fail of
adoption before the holidays it could
not go into effect until 1914.
Senators Cullom and Lodge pleaded
for the reference to the committee,
which they said would report soon.
Senator Raynor was somewhat skep-
itcal as to the committee’s ability to
agree before the holidays.
“ I have no doubt that we can do
it,” Senator said Cullom said. Mr.
Lodge added his assurance to the same
effect.
Senaor Clark of Arkansas, contend­
ed that if the treaty were to be dis­
posed of promptly action should be
taken without reference to the com­
mittee. He said congress either
should act immediately upon the gen­
eral public demand or go into the
question thoroughtly.
HUMAN HAIR DUTY FREE.
Railroad Body Meets and Secures
t
Evidence at Union.
Queue-Cutting
Union—The State Railroad commis­
sion has been in Union taking testi­
mony in the case of the Central Rail­
road of Oregon. Clyde B. Aitchison
and Frank Miller, of the commission;
W. C. Earle, civil engineer; James
W. Crawford, second assistant attor­
ney general and Abner Jones, steno­
grapher, made up the party.
The
Central Railroad of Oregon was repre­
sented by Attorney C. E. Cochran, of
La Grande; the Commercial club of
Union by B. F. Wilson, of Union.
Evidence was taken and it is un
derstood that the commission will de­
cide the points at issue at the next
regular meeting.
The repair and continued operation
of the road from Union to Union Junc­
tion is one of the principal points at
issue, the company having conceded
that it was their intention finally to
abandon that portion of this road and
make Hot Lake the connecting point
with the O.-W. R. & N. road. The
members of the Commission then pro­
ceeded to Baker to take testimony rel­
ative to the Sumpter Valley road.
NATRON EXTENSION PUSHED.
Work on Present Contract Hurried—
Depot at La Grande Half Done,
Eugene—That work on the present
contract of the Natron extension is
rapidly nearing completion is the
statement made by F. R. Hamblet,
general office manager at Natron,
Where three large labor camps have
been maintained all summer, Mr.
Hamblet says, there is now but one
ballasting camp with about 50 labor­
ers. One work train is employed in
clearing slides, which have been fre­
quent, and in maintaining the track.
The depot building at Lowell is about
half completed, and when it is com­
pleted the contractors will move on to
Jasper, and then to Oakridge.
Changes in the lines of the original
survey east of Oakridge, which is the
eastern terminus of the rontract just
being completed by the Utah Con­
struction company, are being rushed,
and further contracts will be 1st
within a short time. The next con­
tracts to be let probably will cover a
stretch about 12 miles in length, and
will be up the Salt Creek canyon.
Edict Fails to Flood
Commercial Market.
Washington, D. C.—The free entry
into this country of “ combings of hu­
man hair” in their crude condition
from China and other lands, for the
manufacture of wigs, puffs, “ rats,”
switches and other articles of personal
adornment will not be disturbed by
the Treasury depatment.
Investigation of the subject has de­
veloped that the imperial Chinese
edict ordering the clipping of the his­
toric queues of the subjects of the
Celestial empire has had no effect on
the available supply of human hair for
commercial purposes.
The market has not been swamped
with Chinese “ pigtails,” for the sons
of China are carefully encasing the
clipped queues in boxes of gold for
preservation as relics to posterity.
HOUSE HONORS VETERAN.
Man Who Helped Declare Civil War
Revisits Capital.
Washington, D. C.—Sydenham An­
cona, 87 years old, one of the few liv­
ing members of the special session of
congress of 1861, which met July 4 to
declare a state of war against the
Confederacy, was the recipient of an
unusual honor in the-house.
Amidst cheers from both sides, the
house took recess of ten minutes to
permit a public reception for Mr.
Ancona in front of the speaker’s desk.
Every representative in the house
filed past the white-haired veteran
and shook his hand. Mr. Ancona, who
was introduced to the house by Joseph
H. Rothermel, as the occupant of the
seat formerly held by Mr. Ancona as
representative of the 13th Pennsyl­
vania district.
PLOITERSATCOLONY
Schmidt. Caplan and McNamara
Visited “Freethinkers”
Attempted to Purchase .High Explo­
sives at Company S to re—Editor
of "Agitator” Knew Men.
Tacoma, Wash. — Disclosures made
public here have revealed the fact
that Home colony, a settlement of
“ free thinkers” on Joe’s bay, less
than 20 miles from Tacoma, Wash.,
was for several months prior to the
night the Los Angeles Times building
was dynamited, the dwelling place of
M. A. Schimdt and David Caplan,
that James B. McNamara visitcii
there, and that for nearly 12 months
Caplan and his friends were under the
eye of William J. Burns.
Jay Fox, editor of the “ Agitator,”
an anarchistic periodical, is known to
have been a close friend of Caplan,
and J. M. Tillman, a Burns detective
who formerly was a deputy sheriff
with supervision over the Home col­
ony, and Oscar Engvall, formerly
manager of the co-operative store at
Home, declare that Caplan and Fox
attempted to buy high power dyna­
mite in the fall of 1910. Engvall said
that he was dismissed from the colony
because he refused to pravide the ex­
plosive.
CAR RUNS AWAY.
In Mad
Race Conductor’s
Proves Him Hero.
Nerve
Vancouver, B. C.—An interurban
trolley-ear, bound from Vancouver to
New Westminster, ran away for four
miles down a steep grade but the con­
ductor locked the 20 passengers in and
the car stuck to the track, so that all
survived the terrible ride.
Motorman Hayes sought to apply
the brakes and discovered that the
bolt had dropped out of the brake
beam and that he had no control what­
ever over the car. Conductor Batten
immediately locked the doors and in­
formed the passengers that the car
was out of control, but would come to
a stop across the bridge on Lulu
island.
Several of the frightened passen­
gers tried to break through the win­
dows, and one man attacked the con­
ductor. He was subdued, however,
and Batten kept the passengers under
control.
A perilous curve beyond Eburne was
passed safely, and after a mile and a
half along the level grade of Lulu
island the car stopped an«l the passen­
gers disembarked.
In a similar runaway two years ago
18 persons were killed.
GREAT ACREAGE RESTORED.
Oregon Regains for Public Entry
Tracts Previously Withdrawn.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary Fish­
er, in a report sent to congress, shows
that in the last 12 months 15,974
acres of public land in Oregon were
withdrawn to protect power sites, and
18,970 acres previously withdrawn for
this purpose were restored to entry.
Also, 104,123 acres, withdrawn to de­
termine their coal content, have been
restored to entry, it having been
found that they contained no commer­
cial coal.
In Washington 37,276 acres were
withdrawn to protect power sites,
while 1,457 acres of power-site with­
drawals were restored to entry, in ad­
dition to 2,897 acres withdrawn for
coal.
In the Snake river valley, Idaho,
5,179,165 acres of land, withdrawn on
the presumption that it contained coal,
has been restored to entry, no coal
having been found.
Fly and Hookworm Are Kin.
Washington, D. C.—A live partner­
ship exists between the larvae of the
Hillsboro Man Raises Peanuts
housefly and the eggs of the hook­
worm, according to Dr. Woods Hutch­
Hillsboro—F. A. Haines, of Hills­
inson, of New York, who addressed
boro, has demonstrate! that peanuts
the American Civic association con-,
may be grown for commercial pur­
Salmon Pack Record New
vention here on the progress of the
poses in the Willamette valley in the
Seattle—The Puget Sound salmon
“ swat the fly” campaign. He enum­
rich loam soil of the bottom lands.
erated a long list of diseases, includ­ pack for 1911 established a new record,
Mr. Haines, out of curiosity, planted
ing typhoid fever, which are spread by a total of 1,625,000 cases having been
some peanuts a year ago. The other
the fly. The housefly, he said, could packed according to figures ermpiled
day while digging in the garden he
not exist away from human habitation by Secretary Crawford of the Puget
Oregon City Grows Fast.
found the peanuts in the ground, fully
matured and of good quality.
The
Oregon City—That Oregon City had and if deprived of breeding places Sound Canners’ association.
It is generally believed that a sandy the most remarkable growth the past would soon be driven out of existence. pack was twice as large as the most
optimistic packers expected and ex­
soil is required to raise peanuts, but it
Foreign Mail Enormous.
ceeded the record of 1909 by almost
has been prove«! by several experi­ year in its history in shown by a re­
New York— The biggest foreign 50,000 cases. The value of the output
ments conducted by horticultural ex­ port made by Miss Anita McCarver,
who
has
completed
taking
the
city
mail that ever came in to this port on is placed at $8,125,000.
perts that the black loam soil of the
The record
Willamette valley river and bottom school census. Miss McCarver reports one steamship arrived Saturday on the breaking production is attributed to
land will grow the peanut with sur­ that 57 residences have been erected Oceanic. She brought 5,850 sacks the heavy run of pink salmon, 1,052,-
in the city since the census was taken containing 1,500,000 letters and other
prising success.
one year ago, and 100 homes have been pieces of mail. The next highest rec­ 261 cases of which were packed.
remodeled since then. Not more than ord is held by the steamship St. Louis,
Nehalem H arbor Improved.
$ 6 0 0 ,0 0 0 In Gold Coming.
25 homes have heretofore been the which brought to New York. Decem­
Nehalem—With less than $50,000 average. The increase in the attend­
Seattle—The steamship Northwest­
spent on the improvement of the Ne­ ance at the Oregon City high school ber 23, 1910, 5,500 sacks. In the ern has arrived from Seward with
past two weeks 329.184 money orders, $600,000 of Iditarod gold in care of
halem river bar, positive results have this season was 100 per cent.
calling for $5,164.723, have been dis­ an express company. The gold came
already been obtained, with the full
patched to 19 foreign countries from out by dog team from Iditarod to Sew­
Oregon “ U” Grads Teach.
assurance that a continuance of the
the New York postoffice.
ard. Among the passengers of the
work will accomplish what was de­
University of Oregon, Eugene—Ac­
Northwestern were a dozen of the
sire«!. Those commercially interested cording to the high school files of the
Niagara is Running Dry.
leading Iditarod operators and much of
in the vicinity of Nehalem subscribed state, over 100 graduates of the Uni­
Washington. D. C.—Niagara Falls the gold belonged to them. More
the $50,000 to have the tortuous and versity of Oregon are now teachers in “ dry
as a bone,” was the picture held miners are on the way out to pass the
uncertain channel straightened and Oregon high schools. They are repre­
deepened by the building of a jetty. sented in 46 separate high schools and up to the American Civic association winter “ in the states,” and more gold
This undertaking was not looked upon in 22 counties. Eugene high school by its president, J. Horace McFarland. is also on the way.
favorably by shipping men, who con­ leading with 11 and the Portland Without supplemental legislation to
the work of the Burton
Big Supply House Plan.
sidered it a waste of money.
schools next wth nine. The class of perpetuate
bill,
McFarland
declared,
Niagara
San
Francisco — Ground will be
1911, the last to leave the University,
For Better Rural Schools.
has the largest number teaching, 32 Falls will be an ugly mass of rocks broken shortly in this city for a mil­
within a generation.
The diversion lion-dollar marine supply department
Corvallis—The State Bankers’ as­ in all.
of water for power purposes on the The site has been selected and work
sociation has named a committee of
Canadian side, he said, would treble is to be begun immediately. The
Pacific Aftsr 6100.000.
six men who will have charge of the
within a decade.
butitling proper will coat $200,000
movement for improving rural condi­
Newberg Pacific College is launch­
and it will bouse stores valued at
tions, especially in the matter of e«hi- ing • campaign for an addition of
Primary Bill is Advanced.
more than $1,000,000.
The early
vational facilities, ao as to stem the $100,000 to the en«k>wment Presi­
Sacramento—-The
Young
Presiden­
tide of country boys an! girl* going dent Pennington is to withdraw from tial primary bill, providing for the completion of the Panama canal and
the resultant increase of war vessels
into the cities, and keep them on toe all classroom work to Uke the lead in
home farm, for their own future1 this campaign, but will not retire election of 26 presidential electors at in Pacific waters have made the estab­
—--------- 1 •■Hi* by state-wide vote, passed the lishment of a greater distributing cen­
profit as well as for the best Interests -__ . .
[hT.«££>r
*
“
o f . lower house of the state legislature by ter for the marine corps necessary on
of the state and nation.
the school.
j a vote of 73 to 0.
this coast