NEW S ITEMS
Of (Jcncral Interest
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORTS;
GENERAL CROP CONDITIONS
About Oregon
Wheat Kluealem, $1.04 per bushel;
forty fold, 94c; club, 93c; red Fife,
93c; rod Russian, 93c.
Oats No. 1 white feed, $36.50 ton.
Oregon and California Land
Barley -N o. 1 feed, $37.60 per ton.
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $34
Grant Title Is Not Clear
5/24.60 per ton; valley timothy, $3154
Washintgon, D. C. A » tho Oregon 33; alfalfa, old crop, $185/19.
A California land grant bill stands on
Milfleed Spot prices: Bran, $35.60
tho houao calendar, it will not enable 5/26 |»er ton; shorts, $28.(05429; roll
tho government o f tho United States ed barley, $31.505432.50. x
to pass a clear title to any aottler or
Com - Wlade, $36 per ton; cracked,
purchaser, in tho opinion o f Repre $37.
sentative Hawley, and ho has tho sup-
Vegetables Artichokes, $1 per doz
|M>rting opinion o f acveral o f the good en; tomatoes, $4.35 per crate; cab
iawyera o f the public landa committee bage, $3.60(0,3 per hundred; garlic,
in thia opinion.,
10c per pound; peppers, 1715420c;
“ Tho b ill,"
aaid Mr. Hawley, eggplant, 300135; horseradish, 8Jc;
“ makea provision for the payment o f cauliflower, 75c5/;$1.10; lettuce, $1.85
back tuxes that ia, for taxes that 543.36 crate; cucumbers, $1541.36 per
have accrued for the paat three yearn, box; spinach, 4546c |*;r (mural; aspar
but I believe it does not provide for agus, $1441.35 dozen; rhubarb, l j c
the payment o f taxea which are now per |mund; peas, 7Jc; beans, 85/12ic;
becoming collectable.
Moreover, the celery, $3.60 (ter crate.
bill fails
j make provision for the
Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Oregon,
payment o f interest on back taxes and $1.50 per sack; California, 3§544c per
fails also to provide for the payment pound.
o f |ienalties on those accrued taxes.
Onions — Oregon, $1.35 64 1.60 per
These omissions, in my opinion, render sack; Texas Bermudas, $1.2541.1.75.
Green Fruit Strawlierries, Oregon,
it impossible for the United Slates to
give an absolutely clear title and 1 will $2,604/3 |ier crate; Cailfornia, $1.50
call attention to this shortcoming when 54 2.10; apples, $1 54 1.75 |>er box;
goose lie Tries, 24/5c per pound; cher
the bill is before the house.
“ The prime reason for providing in ries, $1.26441.60 per box.
E g g s- Jobbing prices: Oregon ranch
the bill for the payment o f back taxes
was to enable the government to give candled, 234/24c (ter dozen; uncandled,
a clear title.
Unless that section is 2 1 44/22c (>er dozen.
Poultry — Hens, 17c; stags, 13c;
enlarged and made complete it will
fail o f its purfiosc and those who ac broilers, 284/30c; turkeys, live, 1854
quire these lands from the government 20c; dressed, choice, 234425c; ducks,
w ill I h ) liable for interest and for the 165/18c; geese, 10c.
Butter — Extras, prints, 276/29c;
unpaid (tensities and for the taxes that
are not paid by the government under firsts, 26c; cubes, 244/,25c; butterfat,
No. 1, 27c delivered Portland; No. 2,
the Ferris b ill.“
25c; store butter, 185420c.
Veal— Fancy, 10c (ter pound.
Smudging Need Shown in
Pork— Fancy, 11541 l i e par pound.
Hope— 1915 crop, 105411c; contracts,
Southern Oregon Fruit District
! 114412c.
Medford — In the opinion o f local
Wool — Eastern Oregon, 20 54 30c;
fruit meu the year 1916 will mark the valley, 335436c; mohair, new clip, 40
final demonstration o f the necessity o f j 5450c.
crude oil smudging in the growing of
Cascara bark— Old and new, 4c per
fine fruit and appies in Southern Ore* ) pound.
|M
Cattle — SteerB, choice grain and
A t the beginning o f the season there pulp, $8,904/9.15; choice hay, $8, 504;
was a distinct movement against 8.85; choice grass, $84/8.60; good,
smudging, chiefly because o f the an $8.15548.50; medium, $7,605/8; cows,
noyance involved and damage to trees choice, $7.50 54 7.80; good, $6.7654
from overflowing pots. In fact an in ! 7.25; medium, $6.25 54 7.25; heifers,
junction against smudging was ob $5,505/8; bulls, $34/6; stags, $4.50447.
tained by one group o f orchards shortly
Hogs— Prime light, $9449.15; good
before the May freeze.
i to prime, $8,604/8.85; rough heavy, $8
A ll this anti-smudge agitation is 4/8.50; pigs and skips, $7.60548.
ended now in the opinion o f local grow
Sheep Yearlings, $8,255/9; w ith
ers, for from May 8 to May 14 smudg ers, $84/9.05; ewes, $7448.25; lambs,
ing in Hogue R iver valley orchards j $95/10.
was worth at least $500,000.
Those orchardista who smudged, and
fortunately a large pro|mrtion o f them
More Apples Are in Storage.
did, lost practically nothing from the
The United States department of
low tem|>ernture, while except on the Agriculture, through its Office o f Mar
high hillsides those who did not kets and Rural Organization, has is
smudge were wiped out»
While the sued a detailed report o f cold storage
Ions has been serious, it is certain ac apple holdings on May 1, 1916, as fo l
cording to exfierts who examined the lows: The information received indi
orchards that the first reports were cates that there were 92 per cent more
greatly exaggerated.
apples in cold storage on May 1 this
100,000 Acres in Willamette
Valley Can Be Watered
| year than were held on May 1, 1915.
The barreled apple holdings show an
i excess o f 127.7 per cent and the boxed
, holdings an excess o f 31.1 per cent
over those o f a year ago. During
April 16.7 per cent o f the December 1
holdings moved from storage, as com-
| pared with 20 per cent during March.
Salem— Approximately 100,000 acres
o f land can lie feasibly irriagted in the
W ilalm ette vlaley at the present time,
results o f an investigation just com
pleted by the United States Reclama
tion Service in co-operation with the
Strawberry Prices Jump.
state engineer's office show. A joint
Tacoma
Strawberry prices jumped
report o f the inquiry into irrigation
I
to
high
(mints
this week on account o f
and |x)wer deveoplment [sissibilities o f
the W illam ette valley was issued this the scarcity o f the fruit and the high-
priced Kennewick berries were snap-
week.
Tho survey extended from Canby at j |>ed up by dealers who had placed oniy
orders.
California
berries
the mouth o f the Molalla river to the j iight
head o f the W illam ette river above I jumped from $1.75 a crate to $2.16
Cottage Grove and included the area in and $2.25. This is due to the fact that
the California berries are nearly all
the immediate vicinity o f Portland.
It is (minted out that the water sup gone, say dealers. The Caifornia ship-
ply for the proposed irrigation o f the (•ers are turning down orders because
valley lands in many cases may be ob the demand is greater than the supply.
Clark seedling strawberries from
tained from wells by pumping.
The
rejiort declares that the average econ Kennewick were snapped up at $3.75 a
omic duty o f water which seems to be crate, and the jobbers and their buyers
indicated for the valley as a whole is are asking for more.
eight inches delivered to the land,
Gold Imports From Canada.
varying with local conditions o f soil
New York — Additional imports of
and crops.
Those employed in the survey inves gold from Canada were received by J.
tigated the water power development P. Morgan & Co. Saturday, making a
possibilities on the north fork o f the total thus far this week o f more than
Santiam river with storage at Marion $3,000,000. The gold, which is more
lake; the upper reaches o f the Mc- or less equally divided into sovereigns
Kinzie river and the middle fork o f and bars, came from Ottawa in con
nection, it is believed, with recent
the W illam ette river.
On the McKinzie river there are purchases o f supplies by the Dominion
two existing plants and at least two o f Canada.
new developments proposed, one at
Vida and the other between the outlet
Clarke County Prune Buyers Out.
o f Clear lake and the mouth o f Smith
Vancouver— Prune buyers are active
river, involving the use o f Clear lake in this county and it is reported that
for regulation o f flow.
as high as 6J cents a pound has been
offered for prunes o f this year’s. Some
Oregon Grange Elects.
buyers, however, it is known, are at
Grants Pass — Tho Oregon State tempting to close contracts fo r 5}
Grange elected officers at its annual cents fo r prunes that run 30-35 a
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convention in progress here, as fo l pound.
lows: Master, C. E. Spencer, Oregon
Big Sugar Crop in Porto Rico.
C ity ; overseer, C. D. Huffman, La
San Juan, Porto Rico— The revised
Grande; lecturer, Mrs. H. E. Bond,
Eugene; treasurer, H. H. Hirshberg, estimate o f the sugar production o f
Independence;
secretary,
Mary S. the island for the season now ending
Howard; legislative committee, M. M. shows that the production w ill exceed
Burtner, Jiufur; James Stewart, Fos all previous estimates and is expected
sil; executive committeeman, B. G. to be in excess o f 463,000 tons, as
compared with 345,000 tons last year.
Leedy, Corvallis.
WELL M Y NATION
HONOR THE LIVING
AND DEAD HEROES
OTIVKH of patriotism. Mo
tives of real Americanism.
Motives of divine Justice and
truth actuated the soldier
boys o f this great Civil war.
Greater motives for the conduct of
life no man hath ever known. Because
of these things It is well that we cele
brate Memorial day.
Well that we
strew flowers on graves of our heroic,
departed dead.
Weil that we cast
blossoms of springtime upon rive rs
wave and ocean's turbulent tide. Well
that while honoring the departed we
also cherish the living, letting them
know that we appreciate the work
they did and the united country they
iiave given us as our heritage.
Silently and slowly, slowly and si
lently, the years are passing. Soon
all of the "boys In blue" will be rest
ing on "Fam e's eternal camping
ground." Twenty years from now, so
rapidly are the old soldiers going, that
there will be only a few, a very few,
of them left. While they still linger
with us, let us not be ashamed to tell
them that we appreciate their devotion
to country and to its ideals. I-et us
counsel with them, knowing that from
them we may learn valuable lessons—
lessons that if learned will do us all
good and make us of worth to oncom
ing generations.
To us has the Eternal given a mar
velously fertile and wonderful coun
try. A country that can supply the
nations of the world with all manner
of products, a country that is wonder
ful In domain, progress and person
ality. It Is our country. Ours in which
to live. Ours to make clean and spot
less. Ours to die for If need be From
the fathers we received it. To our
children we shall give It As it came
to us from the fathers better because
of their heroisms, God grant lha* be
cause of our determination it sha'l be
oven better as we pass it on to our
children. It will be a better country
If, learning anew the meaning of the
flag and this Memorial day, we live
nobly and more truly each and every
day seeking to emulate the spirit of
those who gave of their all that there
might be a land of Freedom perpetual
and Liberty forevermore.
^
W e honor the men who made Me
morial day possible when we walk In
their footsteps and through a worthful
lift* evermore Join in telling the
Btory o f Old Glory.
DEATH BUT ADDS
A LUSTER TO A
M
Feared the Confederates.
One of the curious incidents of the
first day's battle at Gettysburg was
that neither of the commanding of
ficers desired to have the battle take
place at Gettysburg. General Meade
was anxious to fight at Pipe creek
and General I»ea desired to meet the
Union forces at Cashtown, but the bat
tle focused near Gettysburg. The col
ored population were In a state of
panic, for they had been taught to
believe that they would be totally an
nihilated when "the rebels” arrived,
and many of them managed to get
farther north, dragging all their
earthly belongings with them.
An old resident of the town tells
how he saw the negroes moving, and
how when the little children did not
walk rapidly enough their mothers
would say. "F o ‘ de Lord sake, you
chlllun come right 'long quick! If dem
rebs dun kotch you dey tear you all
u p!” The warning usually had the
desired effect with the thoroughly
frightened pickaninnies.
However,
when the Confederates came it was
found that they wanted food, money
and horses and that little attention
was paid to the colored people who re
mained In the town.
A COMING DEFENDER
HE
d r u m s s t ill th u n d e r a n d th e
flfa s so u n d c le a r ;
T h e ta tt e r e d fla g s w a v e sp le n d id ly
on h ig h .
Y o u s a y : " T h e r a n k s g r o w th in n e r
y e a r b y y e a r .”
A n d m is s a g r e y b e a r d w ith a g le a m in g
eye.
Y o u w a tc h th e m m a rc h , a n d b le s s e a c h
h a llo w e d h e a d .
A n d w is h th a t on e w e r e th e r e w h o m y o u
m ig h t n a m e ;
j W h y . co m ra d e , d o n 't g iv e w a y . T h o u g h
h e be d e a d —
D e a th a d d s a lu s te r to a b r a v e m a n 's
fa m e .
£ ARE coming, Father
Abraham "
Yes they
are coming, the veter
ans of the Union army,
responding to the call from the Great
Beyond; coming faster now than ever
before.
When Memorial day was new in the
United States there were dozens and
scores, yes, even hundreds o f the vet
erans for each soldier grave to be d eo
r/rated. Today, half a century after A tim e th e r e w a s w h e n y o u a n d h e w e re
young;
the peace, the graves are legion, and
'T
w
a s lo n g a g o , m y frie n d , w e m u st a l
those who would decorate them but a
low .
handful.
1 Y o u th in k o f h a n d - c la s p s , o f th e s o n g s h e
How fast the "boys in blue” are pass
su n g ,
ing! In this year 1916 they are going
A n d so y o u m is s th e v o ic e a ll- s ile n t
n ow .
at a rate never before reached since
the war closed. The death roll of | P e r h a p s y o u b o th w e r e s u ito r s f o r a
hand
February averaged 116 a day; 115 a
' O f o n e w h o lo v e d , a n d v a n is h e d lik e a
day was the average for March, and In
fla m e
April It grew to 118.
1 T h e r e , c o m r a d e , d o n ’ t g iv e w a y .
Ju st
Official records Bbow that 2,272,408
u n d e r s ta n d —
D e a th a d d s a lu s te r to a b r a v e m a n ’s
men fought under the Stars and
fa m e .
Stripes In the Civil war, and that 349,-
944 lost their lives before Lee surren
Y o u m is s th e m a n w h o p ro v e d s o tr u e
dered. How many of these remain
and brave.
alive today?
W h ile fig h t in g t h a t a n a tio n m ig h t be
fr e e ;
The records of the census office,
while perhaps not absolutely accurate, ' B u t th in k o f th is : T h e r e n e v e r w a s a
grave
may be taken as approximately au
C o u ld h old th e sp irit. In G o d ’» fre ed o m ,
thentic. It is believed that since the
he.
act of May 11, 1912, granting a service T h ia fr ie n d o f y o u rs , a w a it s y o u a s o f
yore.
pension to every man who served at
A f a r fro m e a r t h ly c a r e , b e y o n d a ll
least 90 days In the armed forces of
b la m e .
the United States during the Civil war,
no old soldier remains off the pension C o m ra d e , y o u r fr ie n d s h a ll lo v e y o u a ll
th e m ore—
roll.
D e a th a d d s a lu s te r to a b r a v e m a n ’s
If, however, there are any not pen
fa m e .
sioned. they certainly are few in num
ber. The pension office rolls show 1 (n y e a r s to c o m e . In s t o r y a n d In so n g .
E y e s s h a ll g r o w m o ist a b o v e o u r s o l
d ie r s ’ d e e d s ;
Gh, n o b le h e to w h o m
h is c o u n t r y ’ s
w ron g
B e c o m e s h is o w n , a lth o u g h b is o w n
h e a r t b le e d s !
O h , n o b le he w h o In th o s e d a r k e r d a y s
C o n c e iv e d
but
c o w a r d ic e
th e
o n ly
th a m e ;
W h o f e a r le s s , tr o d th e f a t e f u l, b lo o d y
w ays—
D e a th a d d s a lu s t e r to a b r a v e m a n 's
fa m e .
j
that May 1, 1915, there were 401,796
veterans of the Civil war pensioned. It
is safe to say that no more than this
number are now alive.
Rapidly, too. Is the veteran of the
Union army passing out o f public life.
In 1914 three veterans o f the blue
were sole representatives of the Union
army In the house— Sherwood of Ohio,
Kirkpatrick o f Iowa and Goulden of
New York. The last named died May 3,
1915, and Kirkpatrick has retired, leav
ing General Sherwood, so far as
known, the sole Union veteran in con
gress.
On September 27 those survivors of
the Union army who were physically
able to be present marched in grand
review on Pennsylvania avenue. In
Washington, reproducing the grand
parade o f half a century agone. It
showed the thinning ranks, as did the
grand encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, then In progress In
the capital city. This was the last
large encampment the order will hold.
Truly. “ W o are coming. Father
Abraham.”
With the Naval Vetarans.
Nowhere in the entire country 1/
Memorial day solemnized with greater
profundity o f feeling than at the
United States Naval home at Phila
delphia where the gray-halred vet
erans of Uncle Sam's sea fighters,
many of whom have seen service In
the seven seas, are passing their de-
I din ing years in well-earned comfort.
Their Memorial day memories are Far-
ragut and Porter. Foote and Winslow,
Cushing and Truxton, Dewey and
Schley, of the battles o f the Missis
sippi river, the historic running o f the
batteries in Mobile bay, the epoch-
marking fight of the Kcarsage and Ala
bama. and In more recent days, o f the
famous battle of Manila bay that made
us an Asiatic power, and the battle
o f Santiago which ended Spanish rule
In the western hemisphere. For tho
naval home^Tiouses veterans o f all
these battles so decisive In the shap
ing of
American
destiny— battles
which make glorious chapters In the
history o f the United States nary.
And tho home has likewise sh elter«!
naval veteran/ of the war o f 1111.
Y o u r fr ie n d w a s b r a v e , w a s n o b le; e 'e n
a s th e s e
W h o e e s h u ff lin g lim b s o n c e le a p e d to
d a n g e r ’ s th ro n e :
1 W h o la u g h e d a t h e llis h w a r ’ s d is c o r
d a n c e s.
A n d f o u g h t to h o n o r 's c r e d it a n d t h e ir
ow n.
| C o m e , c o m r a d e , c h e e r th e m ! C h e e r th e m
m an and m an;
W e e p If y o u w ill, w e h o n o r y o u th e
sam e
I B u t th in k n ot h e Is lost, y o u r Veteran-
D e a th a d d s a lu s te r to a b r a v e m a n 's
fa m e !
— H o w a r d V . S u th e rla n d .
Literally ‘‘ Boys in Blue.”
Literally and truly the "boys In
blue” were boys.
Here are the official figures. They
cannot be known too w ell or repeated
1 too frequently:
| 47,000 were forty-four years of age
and under.
100.000 were twenty-two years o f
age and under.
2,257,726 were twenty-one years of
age and under.
1,151,438 were eighteen years of
age and under.
844,991 were seventeen years of age
and under.
231,051 were sixteen years of age
and under.
300 were twelve years o f age and
under.
225 were ten years of age and under.
All Are Heroes.
"H eroes are they who respond to
the nation's need.”
Our nation has never asked for men
in vain. With Spartan bravery moth
ers give their sons, wives their hus
bands and maidens their sweethearts
when the country calls. Many of them
w ill never return. Others w ill come
back to lay their diseased and broken
frames beside the hearths o f their
youth. Some as by divine protection
seem to have enchanted lives and re
turn as strong as when they left. They
all are heroes if they have felt the
thrill of sacrifice and never hesitated
in the face of duty.
Inspired Immortal Poem.
It was at Columbus, Miss., In 1867
that a party of Southern women visit
ed a cemetery to leave flowers on thé
graves of their soldier friends. While
there they noticed the mounds above
the Union men bare, and with one
thought they united In strewing blos
soms above those who had been In life
the men In blue. Francis Miles Finch
heard of this Incident and penned his
immortal poem “ The Blue and the
Gray."