DOINGS OF THE 1 E K LAU NCH With W RECKED; 5 DROW N. Engine Disabled, Boat is Driven on C o o s Bay Bar. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE R IV E R B O A T B L O W S UP. Steamer Dixon’» Boiler Kills Three and W recks Vessel. DEFENDS T A M IL S . Kalama, Wash.—The boiler of the Marshfield, Or. — Five men were river steamer Sarah Dixon exploded P O U L T R Y P R O F I T S L A R G E . N E W C L O V E R P R O L IF IC . drowned just at dark Saturday even four miles above here at 11:15 Thurs Taft Says Many People Not Heady Current Events oF Interest Gathered ing when the little gasoline launch Farm ers of Tillamook County Make Stanfield M an M akes B ig Financial day night. The pilot house was ripped North Star No. 1, control of which for Self Government. Su cce ss at Business. Valuable Discovery. from the superstructure and the vessel From the World at Large. had, in some unknown manner, become soon sank. Three lives were lo Stanfield—F. M. Curtis, living five Tillamook—Considerable interest is lost, capsized on the Coos Bay bar. in a new plant, a native of Til miles west of Stanfield,, a prominent The dead are Captaip Fred R. Stin Those who perished were: Joe Yonk taken lamook county, which is called a per poultry breeder, is increasing his in son, First Mate Arthur Monical, and Believes Majority Needs C u r b in g - General Reeume o f Important Eventa ers, skipper; Frank Tanner, married; ennial clover, and it is asserted by cubator plant. He is preparing to in W ords “ Judicial Recall’’ Are Ira Albee; Con Ferri; William Brain- those who have experimented with it stall a mammoth plant of 6,000-egg Fireman Silas Knowles. Preaented In Condensed Form Inconsistent. Nine persons escaped from the sink Heat will be provided by erd, married and father of four chil that it will produce from 30 to 50 tons capacity. fo r O u r Busy Readers. means of a boiler and hot water. All of feed to the acre. It is a specie of ing steamer and in a boat under com dren. alsike, with alsike food values. the old oil-burner 400-egg machines mand of Pilot D. Conway were hurried Though it is impossible to learn the the New York—With a denunciation of It perpetuates itself from node buds which he now has will be discarded. down the river to this city. New York policemen are to have a cause of the disaster, it is believed by and bulbs, and has no bloom, flower, Not quite five years ago Mr. Curtis the principle of judicial recall, deliv thorough course in wrestling. members of the lifesaving crew that seed or sex. It grows in the winter settled on the land where he now C. G. Ousley, watchman of the ered to the Bar association of the well as in the summer, and frost lives, taking it as a homestead from steamer, said that the boat was op state of New York at its banquet Sat Pekin is in fear of wholesale mas the engine broke down and it was im as noes not interfere with or stop its the government. At that time he had posite Martin’s Island when the ex possible for Yonkers to manage his sacres when abdication of the throne growth. procure seed, the clover lots of faith and hope in the chicken plosion occurred. A number of the urday, President Taft concluded a becomes an actual fact. boat in the strong current and ebb is cut in To a feed chopper. It will business, but not many chickens and crew evening which he employed were in bed and left the vessel busy thrive on any land on which red clover very little cash. The first year he An Indianapolis grand jury has tide. chiefly in speechmaking at three dif will grow, and on land too wet and too erected his small home and outbuild in scanty night wear. taken up the pursuit of Schmidt and The four men who, with Yonkers, cold ferent functions. After a plea for ings, dug a well, cleared a portion of to grow red clover. One plant “ The Sarah Dixon left Portland in simplification of I^gal went down to a watery grave, were Caplan, alleged dynamiters. proceedure, his land of sagebrush and prepared it produces from 200 to several thousand last of a score of passengers who the afternoon for Beaver Slough and which he argued wîtfi much A Russian and a Hungarian arrested the plants. May planting will yield a crop for cultivation. earnest had taken passage from Marshfield for as spies in Germany, have been sen Empire. At the latter place late in in July. But his small flock of chickens were reached Martin’s island with no un ness before the company of lawyers, tenced to three years imprisonment. the afternoon all but the five men It is said by those who are growing good layers and eggs brought from 25 usual circumstances in the voyage, Mr. Taft waxed more incisive in com Watchman Ousley. “ The cap ing to the topic on which he evidently ashore, and the craft continued it that it produces green feed summer cents to 60 cents a dozen at the stores, said Culiun veterans have agreed to sup went tain and mate were in the pilot house felt deeply. and so he made expenses from the and winter in enormous quantities. its journey toward South Slough, a port President Gomez in maintaining tributary of the bay. when the blast occurred and were in “ We do not believe that all people start and increased his stock. In the A sample of the clover was sent to the order and Cuba’s revolutionary crisis Suddenly the launch’s progres department of agriculture at Wash succeeding years he has entered the stantly killed. No one saw either of are fitted for popular government," seems passed. ington, D. C., and J. M. Westgate, business of raising the fanciest breed them or the fireman, who was in the he said. “ Some of us don’t dare say ceased and it started to drift., Final Woodrow Wilson, governor of New it was seen to strike the jetty, agronomist, writes that it is one of the ing stock and during the last two engine-room, after the explosion hap so, but I do, and the question whether Jersey, says many of our laws are ly where it turned over. The lookout on most interesting specimens that has years has rather made a specialty of pened. I a people is fitted for popular self-gov Archaic, and that politics fail to keep the bar immediately rushed word of come to the attention of the depart furnishing “ day-old chicks.” Last “ After the poeple on board saw that ernment upon the restraint deck was ripped open by the blast that the depends pace with industrial demands. the disaster to the lifesavers, but it ment, and a specialist will be sent to year he had orders for day-old chicks the minority place upon the and that the Dixon was in danger of majority to see that can justice too late to help the men in peril, Tillamook to investigate and report on or eggs for hatching from nearly sinking, is done. Being convinced that Banker Morse was there was a wild rush for “ We of the bar are called and the strong current carried the this new perennial clover discovered every state in the Union, from Alaska, upon to has but a short time to live, President North Canada and Mexico. Many orders the life-boats. in the southern part of the county. Star No. 1, still capsized, far decide whether we are going to pro Taft “ commuted his penltentairy out to sea. “ All of the nine persons got into were received in excess of the number tect the judiciary and continue it in sentence to expire immediately." the one boat from the after part of dependent of a majority during a time he could fill. B E E T T E S T S GOOD. In the attempt of the lifesaving This year he has booked orders for the steamer and rowed to Kalama. that it is deciding questions of law The United Mineworkers of Amer crew to get within rescue distance, 70,000 day-old chicks, which he None of us were well clothed and be ica have indorsed President John one of the members of the crew was Government Experiments In Klamath about justice. expects to be able to supply. These fore we got here we were all suffer and “ The County Encouraging. Mitchell and rejected a resolution washed overboard and with difficulty judicial recall—the words chicks sell for 124 cents each, ing from the cold.” committing the organization to Social was rescued. Klamath Falls—W. H. Heilman, of day-old themselves are so inconsistent that I The work of the lifesavers was, the Klamath project of the United and some of them for 15 cents. Mrs. ism. hate to utter them ! Are we going to T H IB E T D E E P IN B L O O D . therefore, distracted from the North States reclamation service, has achiev Curtis and he have been doing all the make our constitution a liquid thing Fifty thousand women members of Star work on the place, but this year he to the rescue of one of their own some fine results from his efforts will have one assistant to do the heavy so that a majority can flood the halls the Ulster Unionists’ association have number, after which it was found im ed World Will Be Shocked If Whole of justice, decide every action and to encourage the sugar-beet industry work, called upon their sisters in Great possible while Mrs. Curtis and he super reach the rapidly-disap in Klamath county, the samples of Truth Is Told. overide with popular passion and prej Britain to aid them in defeating the pearing to ill-fated boat, as she grew what Mr. Heilman induced the farm intend the plant. Next year they may TSan Francisco udice every principle of this govern home rule bill. — J. C. Ogden, a locate closer to the railway station; if dimmer in the oncoming darkness. ers to grow being pronounced by Mr. not, they intend to use an automobile Christian church missionary, of Los ment, the greatest God ever made? Orton, sugar-beet expert of the de to facilitate the handling of orders. Without warning and without any “ You must bear in mind that this T. R. IS N O T C A N D ID A T E . partment of Agriculture at Washing Mr. Curtis says that there is lots of Angeles, has arrived in San Francisco matter of judicial recall is being agi known cause, the boiler of the river ton, as “ almost phenomenal." Mr. room in the poultry business in Ore with his wife and^child, after a des tated the country over, that the men steamer Sarah Dixon, blew up near Martin’s point, in the Columbia river, Sa y s He Would Not Accept Nom ina Heilman is in Washington now to do gon, for it are many. What I is favorable for perate 1,000-mile journey through the speaking work for the reclamation service anyone and to opportunity killing her captain, first mate and fire tion If Offered. call your attention to is that it is nec wilds of China and Thibet, in which succeed. incidentally work for co-opera Last year 3,000,000 baby chicks man. essary that good like you Washington, D. C. — President and tion of government officials in having were shipped into California, Idaho, all three narrowly escaped with their should speak the truth people that is in you According to a ruling by City At Taft’s serenity in the face of a wide the sugar-beet industry in Klamath Washington and Oregon. Of this lives. in favor of courts and their indepen torney Long, of San Fancisco, civil spread propaganda for the nomination county given as much impetus as pos and the restraint of the consti service in San Francisco county ap of Theodore Roosevelt for the presi sible. number only about 50,000, or one-six The missionary and his wife were dence that were imposed by the plies to every county official and em dency is now explained by the state Last spring he was able to begin tieth, compelled literally to wa-’e through tution were hatched on the Coast, the ploye except city attorney, district at ment that Colonel Roosevelt recently definite work with sugar beet experi remainder coming from east of the blood in the journey from Batang, wisest ancestors any people ever had.” In reference to the simplification of torney and public administrator. Rocky mountains. With the mild, dry Thibet, to the French province of legal told a member of the Taft cabinet ments among the farmers in Klamath climate procedure the president said he of Umatilla county, which county, and distributed 200 pounds of that he would not accept, if nomi Investigation of Bell Telephone Tong King, China. They arrived here had had feeling that the bar and the permits poultry to exercise out of beet seed, which he had obtained from doors every month in the year, with on the Japanese liner Nippon Maru. bench “ a owed affairB seems likely to disclose a big nated. to the people greater Careful observers have noted that the department of agriculture. Cap alfalfa easily available to furnish “ The story of the isolated provinces effort toward making monopoly. administra just before Christmas, Henry L. tain O. C. Applegate, a pioneer Klam green feed the year around, with in Northern China is one that will tion of law effective and the just by ex An official will be sent to investi since ath county developer, also supple wheat and other grains available at Stimson, secretary of war, has paid at justice.” gate charges against Governor Frear, least three visits to Oyster Bay. Mr. mented the distribution work. From shock the world, when it is told,” said pediting “ I am glad to know,” he said, primary cost from the adjacent large Ogden. “ I was sent te Thibet six that of Honolulu. Stimson was Mr. Roosevelt’s unsuc tests made of the beets grown by the dry-land is now a profound effort wheat ranches, and the cost years ago as a missionary. The war candidate for governor of New farmers Mr. Heilman says, in a Tetter, of housing and shelter at the mini like Thibetans have taken up arms to study there The late Chief Justice Harlan left cessful where it is that we can short that the Klamath district “ has demon mum, all natural conditions have been an estate of $13,000, of which $7,200 York last year. Secretary Meyer, strated en litigation so that delay won’t make and are using the revolution in China very clearly that it is in the who was the only Roosevelt cabinet was life insurance. judgment unjust.” propitious for the success of this Stan as an excuse for plundering and pil just Referring officer retained in the Taft cabinet, sugar-beet belt of the country.” French code, the field poultryman. laging. There is far more to be president said to that the there, President Taft is not averse to has conferred with Mr. Roosevelt as with us, F A R M T H R IF T IS A IM . feared, as far as the missionaries are Hitchcock’s proposal of government within the past two weeks. was a “ tendency to assume that S T A T E S C H O O L T H R IV E S . concerned, from the Thibetans than there It has been a matter of quiet com Corvallis Club to Em phasize Inten ownership of telegraph lines. were made for the courts and there is from_ the Manchus and litigants in Washington that if relations the exercise of the refinements of rea Chico, Cal., felt a slight earth ment Chinese. sive Land Methods. Training Institution Head M ak between Oyster Bay and the White rather than vice versa. quake, which is believed to have been House were severely strained, it Corvallis — Promotion of intensive “ The border between China and son “ There Annual Report, more severe in the mountains. is much the same tendency Thibet is overrun with wild and law there would be difficult for any cabinet offi farming in Benton county will absorb as with us,” he continued, “ to Representative Borland, of Mis cer to be visiting Mr. Roosevelt fre much of the activities of the Corvallis Salem — Superintendent Looney, of less bands.” keep the antagonists pawing in the souri, would build a national road, 60 quently, and nearly impossible for commercial club in the current year, the state training school, has prepared feet wide, from New York to San Secretary Meyer or Secretary Stimson Special attention will be given to the his annual report and submitted it to J A P P O A C H IN G M U S T H A LT . vestibule of justice." Francisco and Olympia. the governor. He announces that to do it, thev having been so close to development of the small fruit indus many of the boys who left the school United States Revenue Cutter Puts A V IA T O R S T H R IL L C R O W D . A bomb was thrown at Premier him formerly. try. At the first meeting of the new are doing and are self-supporting, Yuan Shi Kai, of China, killing two on Warpaint for Honolulu, board of officers it was determined to and that well Badly Beaten By M otor the school is accomplishing Seattle—With soldiers and the horses attached to the C U B A N P O L IC Y A P P R O V E D . press this campaign, which was out much for the augmented batteries Aeroplane welfare of its inmates. cycle In 100-Yard Dash. carrige, but not injuring the pre lined at the annual business meeting In his report he transforming her into a minature bat Los Angeles—Before a crowd of says: mier. ' T a fl'z Action Thought Right C ourse of the club members. “ There were 92 boys in our care at tleship, the United States revenue 10,000 The Commercial club, which has a by European Leaders. the third international the beginning of 1911; released dur cutter Thetis came over from Brem aviation persons, PO RTLAN D M ARKETS. of nearly 300, is in excel ing meet opened here Saturday. London—President Taft’s course in membership the year, 65; away on leave of erton to take on stores and prepare for Forty-nine aviators were lent condition financially, and is de absence, entered in Wheat— Track prices: Bluestem, the matter of the Cuban note is com clared 7; admitted, 68; escaped, departure to her home station at Hon an efficient force in the up the 16 events scheduled for the day, 86c; club, 81c; red Russian, 80c; mended throughout Europe, save in a building of the community. not returned, 4; returned on account olulu. most of them appeared in the air. valley, 82c; forty-fold, 82c. quarters. The sole criticism is There is a strong and increasing of poor home condition and also for At the navy-yard at Bremerton her and No records were broken and no acci MillstufTs — Bran, $23 per ton; few that “ a wise step has been taken be breaking parole, 20. Four of these among the members that youths came back of their own accord, battery of two one-pounders was al dents occurred. shorts, $25; middlings, $30; rolled latedly.” In Fleet street circles it is sentiment the advertising of this country's re as they had no work and no suitable tered to four three-pound machine The first event, that of a fast flight barley, $37(r£38. alleged that the British foreign office, sources in the East should be carried place to stay for the winter. Two guns. These, it is thought, will around the field, was participated in Oats—No. 1 white, $30.50 ton. two months ago, was informed that by co-operative work of the various were placed with farmers, who kept render the Thetis a formidable vessel by a dozen or more flyers. Hay—No. 1 Kastem Oregon tim the political activity of certain Cuban on her class and will command the A motorcycle, a man, a horse, an bodies of the Willamette them othy, $17(u)18; No. 1 valley. $16( i <:16; military men was likely, if unchecked, commercial during the summer and as soon for respect Japanese poachers who, automobile and an aeroplane contested and of the state, and that the as the fall alfalfa, $13®14; clover, $12; grain to precipitate “one of those demoral valley was finished returned for years, of have guilty of poach in a handicap dash of 100 yards. The individual activities of the club should them to the work hay, $14. ized situations." school, showing that they ing and ruthlessly been destroying plumage motorcycle won easily, the man sec be coonfined to local public improve Barley—Feed, $36«i:87 ton. By a bitter Berlin censor of the ments and the developing of local in took them to get all the work out of birds on the islands in the Hawaiian Corn—New, whole, $33 per ton; American horse third, automobile fourth in foreign affairs, a dustries. them they could and then were through group, where the Thetis will operate ond, cracked, $34; old, whole, $36; cracked, journal that policy and the aeroplane a bad fifth. The does not conceal its hopes with them. The highest number in during the winter. $37. program included shooting at pigeons, a breakdown in the Knox-Grey school at any time during the year Fruit Trade Great. Cranberries, $10«i$ll.60 per barrel. of fancy dipping and diving and races. arbitration proposals, charges the was 106. Banker Morse is Pardoned. Potatoes — Buying prices: Bur United States with “ playing a slow Eugene—Business handled amount In January we had one case of banks, 90«<i$1.16 per hundred; sweet but sure game for the absorption of ing to nearly $250,000 and the sum of diphtheria, but since then have had Washington, D. C.—President Taft Fare to Northwest, $ 2 5 . potatoes, $3 per crate. $51,996.41 paid growers were the no serious contagious illness of any commuted to expire immediately, the Omaha—The Union Pacific railroad Cuba." Vegetables - Artichokes, $1.25 per principal items of the report of Mana Four boys werf operated on for 16-year sentence for violating the Na officials in this city have announced a dozen; cabbage, 14(«l}c per pound; ger J. O. Holt to the stockholders of sort. Gom pers Issues Challenge during the past year and tional banking laws under which resumption of its low colonist rates to cauliflower, $1.90(<i2 per crate; cel Washington, D. C.—Senator Hey- the Eugene Fruitgrowers' association adenoids health greatly benefitted as a Charles W. Morse, the New York the Northwest, effective for six weeks ery, $5.25 per crate; garlic, 8(<i 10c burn, of Idaho, is challenged by Sam at its annual meeting here. This was their result. banker and ice king,” has served of March and April next, during per pound; lettuce, $2.50(<i«!2.75 per an increase of over $6,000 in the two years in the Federal prison at Work on the trades building was which time the fare from the Missorui crate; peppers, 8«i>10c per pound; uel Gompers, president of the Ameri amount paid the growers over the fig finished in October. We have installed Atlanta, Ga. river to all Oregon and Washington pumpkins, lor 14c per pound; squash, can Federation of Labor, in the Amer ures of last year. The manager also machinery and are ready for work. The commutation of sentence, which points will be $25. 1 l«l 14c; sprouts, 7«!8c; turnips. ican Federationiat, to produce in court reported a gain of 28 in membership gives Morse immediate freedom but $1.25 per sack; rutabagas, $1.25; car of law any evidence which he may of the association the past year, and Each of the colonist rates a does not restore his civil rights, was through day Help Fruit Grow ers. rots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.25; beets, have of any illegal acts performed by substantial improvements made to the train tourist sleeping upon recommendation of At- cars, with special of dining Corvallis — Requests are coming granted $1.60. Gompers. The editorial is based packing plant. car service torney-General Wickersham and Sur- and greatly reduced dining car Onions — Association price, $1.75 upon the occurence in the senate when from fruitgrowers’ associations and geon-General Torney, U. S. A. per sack. Heyburn declared that "no communi prices, will be run through from O regon Apples to Germany. from individual fruitmen to the Ore Omaha to Portland. Butter — Oregon creamery butter, cation should be received from Mr. Grande—Apple shipments from gon Agricultural college asking in Boy K icks Up Gold Nugget. solid pack, 3Hc; prints, extra; butter Gompers, because of the facts dis the La Grande formation as to the manufacture of Ronde valley have heen Medford. Or. — While stumbling Royal Visitors to Avoid Capital. closed in the McNamara trial and made to Germany, fat, lc less than solid pack prices. which country their own lime-sulphur solution. All along Foots Creek one afternoon re London—The Poultry—Hens, 124c; springs, 124c; subsequent thereto." fact that the Duke promises tc become a large market for who wish information on this subject cently, Ed. Koster, a boy 14 years old, and Duchess of Connaught, ducks, young, 18c; geese. 114«il2c; with their and explicit directions for the erection the product. Mr. Imbler having kicked up a bright piece of metal and, daughter, the Princess Patricia, Balloonists in Dire Peril. turkeys, live, 174c; dressed, choice, are of a manufacturing plant or the con shipped several cars early in the sea taking it home, discovered that it as 20«i 224c. Los Angeles—Two amateur balloon son. Last week two cars of Rome struction of a small home plant, may a gold nugget valued at $30.18. The not to visit Washington while they Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, ists who attempted to make a moon Beauties and other varieties were secure it by addressing the college, find has caused considerable excite are in the United States is causing 86c per dozen. light flight had a thrilling experience shipped from Elgin by Sherman Chap hich will send an expert when pos ment. and since that time the boy and some comment here, although it is be Pork—Fancy, 84 <i.9c per pound. for a few hours while their craft was Both orders were secured through sible to confer with the association or about the entire population of the lieved there must be some good ex Veal—Fancy. 134 w 14c per pound. being blown far out to sea. After pie. planation for their decision. It is the Northwestern Fruit Grower»' ex individual and advise them. Foots Creek mining district have been usual Choice steers, $6«i6.25; good, $6.75 reaching a height of 10,000 feet, the change. when royal personages visit a tramping over that vicinity in search (<!6; choice cows, $5«! 6.35; good, balloon started out to sea and traveled Nearly 0.000 Acres of Timber Sold foreign country, even if semi-official » of further treasure. $4.40fn4.60; choice spayed heifers, many miles before a change in the Newport May Hav» Shipyard. ly, to pay their respecta to the head of Astoria. — A deed was filed for re $5.364(5.50; good to choice heifers, wind brought it back to land. As soon Newport—George Walker of To cord here whereby the Whitney com the nation. Army Wants (Civilians. $6(<i6.26; choice bulls, $4 25«!4.60; as they saw the earth the gas bag was ledo, builder of the Newport. Truant pany, limited, sells to the Columbia Washington. D. C. — For the first good. $4.<5«i5; choice calves, $7.6(K<t cut and a landing made in the Venice and various Butter Prize o f Thieve». dredges and small boats, River company 8,948 acres of timber time in the history of the army en 8; good. $6.75617. hills. is looking for a suitable location for a New ^ ork—The high price to which lands in the Blind Slough district as gineer corps, an effort is being made Hogs—Choice light hogs, $6.8(Y<i:7; shipyard in Newport Mr. Walker well as its logging railroad, machin to fill vacancies by the appointment utter has soared has made it the Citrus Fruit Yiald Heavy. good to choice hogs, $6.40<<46.60; has watched the steady growth of ery and other equipment the consid of civilians. Other branches of the prize loot of city thieves. It has de smooth heavy hogs. $5 75«! 6. San Bernardino. Cal. — The citrus shipping in Yaquina Bay and is con eration named being nominal. The military service insisted that the en veloped that gangs of clever opera Sheep — Choice yearling wethers, fruit crop of Southern California this vinced that the demand for new ships latter corporation is a subsidiary of gineers were drawing too large a pro tives have stolen thousands of dollars’ $4.50«i4.86; choice killing ewea, season will he approximately 36,600 and repairs in Newport will justify the first and was organized for the portion of the best men in the acad worth of the commodity in the last $3.85014.25; choice lamb* $5.50«! cars, according to the statement of J. establishing a yard here. He has re purpose of handling ail the Whitney emy. few weeks, a load valued at $1,000 and congress direeteo the ap having 6.76; good to choice4 $4.50(0:5; culls, S. Leeds, of Chicago, head of the ceived a number of offers of water company's timber interest in Clatsop been taken in one instance in pointment of civilians to a certain ex- $3.75644. Santa Fe Refrigerator dispatch. front property. , county. daylight I tenL district. from a truck in the w wholesale