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Hr DAILY COURIER By mall or carrier, per year---- ,8.00 By mall or carrier, per month.. .50 ■Men's Belts up value . • to *1.50 .Mit- Ijtdlea Sults. value« to *50.00, now »io.no Blue Chambra Work Shirts 7th’ Wool dresses St Itel Overalls ............ • 10.50 .MalilHteo Dress Nhlrta »105 *3.00 Necktie« ............. MAC *3 50 Necktie« 37-lneh Outing The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or all otherwise credited tn this paper and also the local news pab- lished herein. All rights of republication of spe­ cial dispatches herein are also re­ served. WOULD FIND FAVOR 1th While They Last STYLES, HIZIX 1»K TO a FOR ONLY $2.98 FORMERLY SOLD FOR H..TO TO »5 Golden Rule «Store Washington, Jan. 13.—(A. P.)— General Tasker H. Bliss told the house naval committee that should tbe United States call a conference for a discussion of disarmament, a favorable response would be prompt. Secretary Daniels gave comparative figures of the naval power of the United States. Great Britain and Japan Some Sweater» »4.SA io *N.lM »I.4O *5.00 Wool Shirts •BOA Men's Corti uro ya . »4AO and »5 Wonderful bargain, Welti, a pair Goodyear B4.BH Boy's Flannel Shirts ...SI.75 leather Veata •7H5 Riding l’anta 1.ce SAMPLE STORE HIS RIDE FAMOUS Remarkable Feat of Freighter of aecution was in the hands of City At­ torney H. D. Norton. When the Jury the Early Days. , returne«! a verdict of guilty as charg­ ed, the police Judge assessed a fine Traversed tight Hundred Mlles. on of *125. The defendant was at first sent to the city jail, but was release»! Horseback. In Five Days and Thir­ later when the amount of the fine teen Hours, a Record Never was forthcoming. Since Equaled. j But the troubles assumed by Tran- Alexander Major«, a pioneer freight­ ' chell when he sold the bottle of stuff er. whose determined foresight estab­ lished Ksnsas City as the great ‘trad­ that bad the smell of good liquor ing poet of tbe Southwest, and to were not all put behind when he whose memory the erection of a monu­ walked out of the city hall after pay- ment was suggest,»1 at the time of his , ing bls fine. Today another war­ death. Jan. 14. 1900. gnve the follow­ rant awaits senice upon him. this ing description of F. X. Aubrey's fa­ time the state of Oregon, through mous ride: District Attorney .Miller, being the “One of the moot remarkable fests complainant, and Trenehell will ever accomplished was made by F. again have to face that marked *5 X. Aubrey, who traveled the distance bill and the bottle of liquid held as of 800 miles, between Santa Fe. N. M„ and Independence. Mo., in five evidence, but this time with the great days and thirteen hours. This ride, state the prosecutor. This latter case in my opinion, tn one respect was the was initiated in Justice Holman's | most remarkable one ever made by court, from which the warrant was any man. The entire distance was i issued ridden without stopping to rest, and having a change of horses only once In every one hundred or two hundred miles. He kept a led horse by his side moot of the time, so that when the one he was riding gave out entirely, he changed the saddle to the extra horse, left the horse he had been rid­ ing and went on sgnln at full speed. “At tbe time he made this ride; tn much of the territory he passed Washington. Jan. 12.—(A. P.l — through he was liable to meet hostile Reduction of American forces of oc­ Indians, so that his adventure was cupation in Germany from 15,000 to I daring In mote ways than one. In the first place, the man who attempted 8,000 has been ordered by the war to ride 800 miles In the time he did department. The reduction is already I took bls life in his hands. There Is under way. perhaps not one man In a million who could have lived to finish such a jour- ney. Ripening Fruit. “Aubrey was a Canadian Frencb- High temperatures »eem, very curi­ man. of low statnre. short limbs, built like a jackscrew, and waa In the very ously. to retard the ripening of pears, zenith of his manhood, full of pluck while hastening that of apple». In ex­ periments described by Overholser and daring. “It was said he made this ride upon snd Taylor In the Hotanlcal Gazette, a bet of *1.000 that he couM cover the ripening of green first-crop Bart­ lett pears raised from TO degree« F. the distance In eight days. “One year prevlon« to this. In 1852. or room temperature, to 81} grees he made a bet he could do the same was not affected, but at 87.7 degrees distance In ten days. The result wan It was delayed live days, and at 94 de­ he traveled It In a little over eight grees and 1(M degrees tbe delay was days, hence hfs het he could make the 13 days. Secend-crop Bartlett pears. ride In 1858 In eight days, the result In a temperature of 101 degrem, and of that trip showing he consumed lit­ surrounded by a relative humidity of below 50 per cent, remained unripe tle more than half that time. “I was well acquainted and did con­ four weeks after similar pears at siderable business with Anbrey dur­ room temperature and humidity had ing hla years of freighting. I met him become fully ripened. The flavor of when he was making his famous ride pears kept above 85 degree» wai al­ at a point on the Santa Fe road called fected, sweetness and Julclnea» being Rabbit Ear. lie passed my train at a diminished. The ripening of Yellow full gallop without asking a single Newton apples on the other hand, waa question as to the danger of Indians hastened at every appreciable rise In temperature from 50 degrees up to ahead of him. "After his business between St. the point of destruction by burning. Txtuls and Renta Fe ceased, hla love It Is concluded that tbe picking of for adventure and his daring enter­ pears may be delayed In very hot prise prompted him to make a trip weather, bnt that tbe picking of ap­ from New Mexico to California with ples and storage In a cool place moit sheep, which he disposed of at good be hastened. prices, end returned to New Mexico. “Immediately upon hla return he Barnstable's Old Bell. met a friend, n Major Weightman of In the courthouse at Barnstable, the United States army, who was a great admirer of his pluck and daring Mans., Is an old bell, cracked ktid Weightman was nt that time editor silent, which may be, and probably Is, of a small paper called the Santa Fe the oldest hell in the United States. Herald. At their meeting, aa was the So thinks Mr. Alfred Crocker, clerk of custom of the time, they called for courts of Barnstable county. The date drinks. Their glasses were filled and 1675 Is still plainly visible In the pho­ they were ready to drink, when An- tograph recently printed In the Bos­ I brev ssk«d Welghtmnn why he had ton Evening Transcript. By this date, however, the old bell published a damned He about hla trip seen nearly a quarter of a cen­ I to California. Instead of taking hla had drink, WHghtman tossed the contents tury of life In England before It came of his glass in Aubrey’s face. Aubrey to America and began calling wor­ made a motion to draw his pistol and shipers together In the church st shoot, when Welghtmnn. knowing the Sandwich town. Gratitude bought the dnnger, drew hla knife and stabbed bell In England, for It came as a gift Aubrey through the heart, from which from Mrs. Peter Adolph, whose hus­ blow he dropped deed upon the floor. band. Captain Adolph, was lost In the “The whole affair was enacted In wreck of his vessel on the Massachu­ one or two seconds. From the time setts const In 1097 despite the efforts they started to take n friendly drink­ of the people of Sandwich. till Auhrey wns lying dead on the Hammermlll bond In six colors at floor less time elapsed than It takes Courier office. to tell the story." 1 Btlfsl Jumper« Bi. «a AA<< Funrv Aox Wool Box. XV |HÜr, »1I.NA dos. SHOES Kill LÄDIER El Paao. Tex , Jan. 11.—(A. P. 1 — El Paao Is filled with cattlemen here WEDNESDAY, JAM ARY 13. IMI- to discuss the Berious plight of their business at the 24th annual conven­ tion of the American National Live­ The convention * ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦*♦♦♦♦♦ stock Association ♦ opens today and continues three OREGON WEATHER ♦ ♦ days. ♦ The "wave of deflation," accord­ ♦ ing to leaders, has swept livestock Pad tic Coaat States; Unset- ♦ prices below the cost of pronuetton. ♦ ♦ tlsd and rains. N'ormai temper­ ♦ Stockmen cannot get loans to con­ ♦ tinue their business, they say. and ♦ ature. « this has caused liquidation of much ♦ Tonight and Thuredav rain in ♦ livestock that should have been "kept west. rain or snow east portion ♦ for further finishing or breeding." Ike Pryor of San Antonio. Is ex­ ♦ Warmer tonight east portion. ♦ pected to deal rigorously with ad­ verse conditions in the Industry when he speaks during the convention on JOSEPHINE'S STRENGTH “The Tariff as it .Affects the Farm “There is no county in the state and Ranch.” of Oregon where business and fin-! Other speakers include W. 3. Cul­ bertson. member of the United ance are on a more stable and solid States tariff commission; Senator J. basts than in Josephine.” is the wv' B. Kendrick, of Wyoming, president • Grants Pass banker sized up the of the association: S. F. Tolmie. min­ Mtuation in discuestng the little flur­ ister of agriculture. Dominion of ries that always aocompany a return Canada; W. W. Turney, president of the Texas CatUe Raisers Association to normal conditions after a period and J. Z. Miller, governor of the of inflation. The readjustment Kansas City Federal Reserve bank. period that follows the unnatural business conditions of the war Is na-I turally somewhat disturbing, but in a district where the resources are so varied as they are here, the disturb­ ance will be scarcely felt. Where it is making its influence most felt Is in I those districts that depend more I Olympia. Wash . Jan. 12.— (A. P.) largely upon a single crop or product —Governor Louis F. Hart, in his bi­ aa the main support Thus where ennial message read before the the financial institutions and bus­ Washington .egialature here today iness houses rely particularly upon recommended that the present state; cattle or sheep as the basis of cred­ direct primary law be changed so as to provide for a state-wide primary, it, the slump in the price of cattle "conducted for the sole purpose of and sheep had its most noticeable electing delegatee to the county and effect Likewise the reduction in state conventions of the several po­ price and market for wheat affected litical parties." "Time and experience have demon­ business where wheat was the staple. strated, ” said Governor Hart, “that But tbe wealth of Josephine is from the direct primary Is not the rose- a variety of resources, no one of strewn pathway that leads to politi­ which predominates to the point cal utopia, dreamed by its sponsors. where it can shake business or in­ Even those most responsible for its dustry if temporarily it is on the operation are not quite willing and down grade. Thia in the reason why ready for a change. "The demoralization of responsi­ the Grants Paas banks occupy their ble party organization, the unfair ad­ strong position in the financial world vantage given to minority parties and and why there is Httle variation from groups, the easy temptation to undue day to day or from month to month personal abuse by unscrupulous per­ I fn the business which they transact. sons, all require a modification of our method of nominating candidates Josephine's harvest la a continuous for public office.” one. We have no period of fat fol­ The governor urged the enactment lowed by longer periods of lean. But of a law to prevent the violation or fruit and grain and stock and lumber evasion “by any subterfuge.” of the prohibition against and mine each adds its part to that constitutional ownership of lands by aliens; passage constant stream of wealth that of more stringent divorce laws; adop­ keeps our financial and industrial tion of an administrative code pro­ «hip on an even keel. Diversity of viding for the reorganization of the industry means to a community Just state government to "make it more what diversity of production means responsible, effective and economi­ cal" and the imposition of a tax on Ao the individual farmer gasoline, distillate and kerosene to create a fund for the construction Better be getting the brush off and surfacing of the state highways. that land. The water will be there in the spring, and it will help in pay­ Thought and Art ing the tax to be growing something “Poetry," says Matthew Arnold, “it to pay it with. •bought and un <•••»• I « »1.41* MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS 175 PAIRS OF YOUTH’S SHOES AU, — OF FARM IS THE NEED El Paao Texas . Jan. IS.— (A P.) —A tariff on farm products at the earliest possible date. increaae