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S T U D Y FORESTRY.
FARMERS
Students at O regon Agricultural Col-
la g « Gathering T re e Seeds,
READ THE.
By X. A. Laks, Orvffun Agricultural Collage.
Baturday, D«cam ber 91
Washington, Dee. 91— The senate
today paaaed a bill suspending during
the J « i 1907 the requirement' that
m iner« «hall do at least 9100 worth of
work annually during the period in
wrhloh their claim« are being perfected.
Oullom introduced a joint resolution
proposing an amendment to the consti­
tution lim iting the terms of the pteai-
dent and vioe president to six years and
prohibiting re-eletion for a second
term .
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▲ number of other bills and resolu­
tions « « r e introduced. After being in
•melon 46 minutes, the senate today
adjourned until January 6.
A b ill providing security to depeait-
ors of banks and far the prevention of
hoarding of currency, was introduced
today by Senator Owen, o f Oklahoma.
I t Axes a tax upon all deposits and
from the fond thus created provides for
the payment in fa ll of nil depositors
when n bank is declared insolvent. The
eecretary of the treasury is directed to
maintain a land of 9100,000,000 in
’ notes, which may be loaned on
to 90 per sank of their value.
T h e b ill provide* that advances from
it shall bv charged for at the rat* of 6
per sent for the first four months and
theiaafter at tba rate of 8 per cent.
Senator Burkett reintroduoed bis
gracing bill of last smeion. I t provides
for the leasing of the public domain to
cattle owners for the maintenance of
th eir stock, giving, however, settlers
the tight to rater and to locate upon
land st any time.
Washington, Dss. 91.— After being
in session about 90 minutes, the boos«
o f representatives today adjourned until
January fi.xJThe proceedings w en en­
livened by a brief bat fierce speech h r
Gaines of Tennessee, who critioieed the'
house for its inaction and for taking
each n long recess at a time 11 when we
shoo id have gone to W all street and
throttled the thieves and to n e d back
to the honest people their hard earn­
ings.”
Gaiaea was preceded by Hepburn of
Iowa, who protested against what ha
oald was the indiscriminate way in
which oommitteea were given authority
to nit during the sseeion of the bones,
thereby causing members to be im­
mune from » m e t in ease It became
necessary to secure a quorum.
Beth W illiam s and Da A m e n d were
upon tba floor, but took no aotieo of
«neb other.
RiXKY TELLS ALL ABOUT IT.
Washington, Dae. 97.— That a eeri-
one breach exists between the bureau
o f navigation and the bureau of medi­
cine of the navy, involving the ques­
tion of the responsibility o f the latter
bureau, was made apparent in a state­
ment issued by Burgeon General Pres­
ley M . Bixey, of the navy, in which he
touches upon the cirdtfmstanoee lead­
ing np to the probable selection by the
president of a medical officer to com­
mand the hospital ship B elief over the
protest of Rear Adm iral Brownaon,
ch ief of the bureau of navigation, who
baa aant his resignation to the presi­
dent. W hile disclaiming enact know­
ledge aa to the oauoe of Admiral Brown-
son’s resignation, the surgeon general’s
statement leaves little room for doubt
that the controversy he reviews wee a
potent factor.
Oregon Men
Washingtoh, Deo. 97.— The president
eent the senate the following Oregon
nominations just before the holiday ie-
Land office receivers— Albert A.
Roberts, La Grande; Fred P . Crone-
m i I Ur, Lakevlew; Prank Davey, Burnt.
Land offioe register«— Prank C. Bram-
w ell, La Grande; John N. Watson,
Lakevlew. Consuls— Maxwell Blake,
o f Missouri, at Dunferliue, Scotland;
Georgs B. K ill master, of MUhigaa, at
Nawoastla, New 8ou4h Wales; John H .
MCunn. of WUceonaia, a t Glasgow,
Bootland; Maxwell K. Moorhead, of
Penney Iran it, at Acapulco, Max too.
DEOIDKS A G A IN S T O RK Q O N .
Commission Finds Denatured Alcohol
Rates N ot T o o High.
Washington, Dec. 94.— In an opinion
rendered by Comm las loner Clark for
the Interstate Commerce eommission
in the ones of the Railroad com nlesion
of Oregon against the O. R . A N. and
other railroads, important action was
taken respecting shipments of denatur­
ed alcohol. T b * complaint asks fog a
reduction in the rates on denatured a l­
cohol to Oregot\ points.
The record
•hows that denatured alcohol is manu­
factured i i California and tgpold in the
North Pacific cities at a pries which
could be asst by tb* Eastern product
only by (educing the -transportation
obargee to nothing.
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Aa effort to plaee denatured alcohol
on a parity with spirits "would lend
either to a Urge Incises« in the charges
on the proof spirits or a practical wip­
ing out of tbs charges on eh* denatured
artlcU. Huch Increase iq tb^ charges
on the proof spirits, in the opinion of
the commission, probably wouldvender
In ti)« ail effort to oompete with the
California product.
Th e mtea oom-
plained of were not shown to be unrea­
sonable. nnduly discriminatory or un­
justly ps«judicial. The commission,
therefore-dismissed the petition.
General to Retire.
Washington,
Deo. i 27.— Brigadier
General Charles 8. Bmfib, on special
duty at the proving grounds at Sandy
Hook, N . J .t la s been placed on the re­
tired list of the arm y By operation of
the law on neeoont of age.
General
Smith is the junior brigadier, having
only been appained to that grade In Oor
tober last. He is a native of Vermont,
bat wee appointed to the m ilitary acad­
emy in July, 1889, from Illinois.
At
the time of hie promotion to the grade
of b rip d ie r 'general he was in command
of the Sandy Hook proving grounds,
with which station ho had been identi­
fied for many yean.
Bond Sympathy to Taft.
Washington, Dae. 98.— One of the
first dispatches laid before Secretary
Taft on his return to the W ar depart­
ment was from Manilla, P . I., tolling
of the organise! ion under a new charter
of the Baneo Eepanol FUiplne end the
election of directors.
The dispatch
added: “ Deem it first duty to express
our deep sympathy w ith you in your
bereavement and aeear* you of our
gratitude for your earn ret and success­
ful support. W e shall use our beat
efforts toward realisation o f your policy
lor advancement of our soon try.”
Fight
Dec.
i fight of
the Salt Lake valley fa
«gainst
the alleged anieanoe * f the smelting
elting of
ore by big furnaces controlled by the
Utah Consolidated company in the
Bingham oanyon reached the U nited
States Supreme oourt today. Senator
Sutherland asked the high tribunal to
review the judgment of the lower court
granting an injunction against the
operation of the smelters. The farmers
declare that the fumes from the smelt­
ers render agricultural land valoaless.
Greene and Gaynor Lose.
Washington, Dee. 96.— The Supreme
court of the United States has deqied
the petition for writs of certiorari
bringing to that oourt the oaaaa of Ben­
jamin D. Greene and John F. ftmynor,
who «re under aentenoe to pay a fine of
$676,749 and to undergo terms of im­
_
prisonment
o f four jeers each w
on the
¿haryee of cm bees lenient and coopiracy
w<th Captain
Captain Oberlin M.
Carter’s scheme to defraud the United
States in connection with harbor im ­
provements a i Savannah, Ga.
Trainmen A re N ot Guilty, ,
Washington, Dec. 96.— A verdict of
not guilty was returned by the jury in
the case of Engineer Hildebrand, Con­
ductor Hoffmeyer, Fireman McClellan
and Brakeman Rodder, the trainmen
who were indicted for mans laughter in
connection with the wreck at Terra
Oottfl, D. O., on the Baltimore A Ohio
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Open Land o f Spokane*.
railroad on December 80, 1908, when
Washington, Dee. 98.— To facilitate 43 person were killed and upwards o f
the opening of the unallotted portion throe score injured. The trial had
o f the Spokane Indian reservation, been in progr ess for three weeks.
Repeaentativ* Jones and Senator Piles
have asked the Indian otfioe to send an
P90mr r r S t l Q S n i l l l r O S l O l l i C A t *
inspector to Washington to conclude
Washington, Deo- 96.— Following are
negotiations with this Spokane Indiana amohg the poatoffioee which w ill be­
under which oongreas can authorise the come presidential January 1: Oregon—
disposition of e ll land remaining when Bandon, Clatakanle, Echo, Gresham,
allotments are completed. It U hoped 1,100 each; Lenta, 1,000'. Vale, 1,800.
that an agreement can be speedily Washington — Burlington,
Chelan,
reaohed so that legislation opening the Mabton, Rockford, 1,100 each; Ray­
reservation to entry can be passed thU mond, 1,400; Friday Harbor, 1,000.
Idaho— Malad City and Parma, 1,000
H ew to Make Travel Safe.
Washington, Dec. 26.— Every eitisen
o f the United States le more or less In­
terested in the question of safe opera­
tion of railway trains, and thfitthe ma­
jority o f people believe that the rail­
roads are not doing all they could do to
redoes the fearful toll of life which ths
operation of American railways exacts
annually la evident from the fact, that
there has been an insistent public de­
mand for the Interatate Commerce com­
mission to take up the question.
Medals fo r Panama S ervice,
Washington, Dee., .6 .— Medals of a
suitable character are to be given to all
oitiseca of the United States who have
served the government on the Isthmus
pf Panama for two years and who dar­
ing that period have rendered satislao-
tory service.
The students la forestry at the AgH
cultural college are making their first
collection of eeeda of n atlfe trees and
•hrube for use in the establishment of
a forest tree nursery and arboretum.
The purpose in view is not only Chat
the work shell be instructive to the
student <n the «tody of seeds and «sed­
ate, silviculture and dendrology, bat
that the plant «hall be a source of data
to the whole Hate upon the growth,
habit, resistance. and general character
of the tress and shrub« of Oregon, so
far as is possible to grow them upon
the same s itf and similar conditions.
Not only are local seeds being col­
lected bdt seeds from the home dis­
tricts era coming in from friends of
students and the institution.
This
kindness oo the part of thoost reaiding
in fo e more distant and moontaiaoaa
parts of th e state l i highly appreciated,
s a lt enables i the elate to obtain a much
iety than otherwise would
greater variety
be ptaeeibie With the tim e apd mean« « t
the command of either student« or in-
■an«,«! ■ ■■
•tltutlon.
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Owing to the foot that the ooorm hr
bat one year old, only the general and
imiaory phases of the subject have
rod by the students in the
work. The O. A . C. Forest clab, an
organisation o f thorn interested in the
forests of the state, is now discussing
forest fire lawe, their enforcement, effi­
ciency and improvement. Each stu­
dent is aeaivMd a phase o f the topic la
hand and in doe tim e reports hie find­
ings to the olub. Prominent timber,
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m ill and lumbermen upon Invitation
discuss various topics before the olnb,
aa transportation, timber preserva tion,
forest conservation, re-fore station, im­
proved methods of lumbering. U. S. »
forest servloe work-and similar topics.
Later the advanoed students w ill take
ap work looking to the solution of some
o f the very practical problems new be­
fore the wood Users o f the oooatry.
The g n a t problem of what to do
with the waste, including the standing
timber that ia injured by insect and
fungus foes, w ill be one of the first to
be ' investigated aa eoon aa the equip­
ment of the department w ill permit'.
The statement ie made upon good
authority that fifteen per oent of the
A) weekly to
ml t ears
mature timber on the western slope of
tia U r
the oentral region o f the Cascade is
wholly lost through fungous diseases,
ABB1VS
and that another fifteen per eent is
graded as cull.
Beetle«, borers and
iw ap -m
minor foes do considerable f o r t h «
tea m s a m , to
damage, and it ia safe to any that the
sum total of these loeees moat amount
jfc
to millions of dollars. I t ia reasonable « " t o w
to rappoae, la the f m of reoent results
7:1* a. ae
K U S & .S 2 K
in agrieuKurai -practices In oor own
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oountry, to m y nothing of the modern
forestry practices of Burepe, that the 4 ^ m * * T *
major part o f this io n could be turned
w a n rw H B rG w C :
to gain through tba intelligent invent!-
too, SpotsM.Wal- ansa. t o ..
gation of the trouble* and the applica­
MIDMfipOill, 81.
tion o f modern measures for oombattiag
reaLUgOBtA MU-
these fora of the forest.
Other great problems are those relat­
ing to taxation, re-foreststion, utilis­
IsUto b
ing m il) waste, improved methods of
harvesting the crops, disposing of the
debris and weed trees, timber technol­
ogy and the preservation of lumber.
Thee* problems together with many
more It ia th e purpose of the oollege to
help solve through the department of
forestry, as well as train men to take
bold of the praotioal work and prob­
lems of our forests sad thus insure the
beat possible use of the tree crop.
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Farmers’ Bulletin No. 116.— Irriga­
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9 y E. J.
W ick sen, M . A ., profeasor of agricul­
tural praotioe, University of California,
and horticulturist of the California ex­
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Pp. 48, figs. 8.
Statement of the relatione of irrigation
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Fanners Bulletin No. 188.— Irriga­
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etandpoiat of the individual farmer,
and eon tains Instructions on the deter­
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ment of email streams, sources of water
supply and their use, the distribution
of lrrip tio n watefi, methods of apply­
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method, and the time fbr the applica­
tion of water.
Bulletin No. 147.— Report on Drain­
age Investigations In 1V08. By C. G.
Elliott, drainage expert, irrigation in­
vestigations, office of experiment sta­
tions. Pp. 82, pis. 6, figs. 19. Price
40 cents. Thia is a report o f the work
done by M r. E lliott during the year
1908. I t lnelndee discussions of plans
for drainage near Fresno, Gal., in the
Yakima and Ahtanom valleys, Wash­
ington, in the Grey Bull valley, W y ­
oming, in the Missouri valley and in
Hancock countsy, Iowa, and of drainage
aa a preventive o f . hillside erosion In
Georgia.
1 New Monoy O rder Offices.
Washington, Deo. 26.— On January 1
the following poetofficee w ill brooms
A «w i* a a « « « .
domestic money order offices: Oregon—
* Close Alaskan River Fishing.
Braver, De Maas Springs, Eddyvilie, ' Wash and wipe firm tart applsa and
Washington, Dee. 94. — President Marphy, Norway. Wren. Washington rot, without peeling, lato pieces. Put
over the fire with ae little water aa
Roosevelt indicated that he would eat — Stratford. Idaho— Cherry Cheek.
possible to prevent their scorching. and
«■ id * Wood river, in Alaska, for sal*
simmer gently uutU reduced to a soft
Hawaiian Officials Confirmed.
mon propagation. The order w ill pro­
Rub through a colander, re­
hibit salmon fishing in this river, th is
Wahlngton, Dae. 94.— The senate mass.
arrangem wt was taken on recommend­ has confirmed the nomination of W e l­ turn to the fire, add a lump of bqtter,
ation to the president by a delegation ter F. Freer to be governor of Hawaii augar to taste and a dash o f cinnamon.
o f fishermen prases ted by Senator Ful­ end c f Fred 8. Hartwell abd S. M .lA a eoon ae the sugar la dissolved s ti(
ton, o f Oregon, and Delegate Q a R of Ballou to be oh let Just tee sad associate i fin the Juice e f a lemon and tab* from
Justice respectively of that territory.
Che fire.
Aleak*.
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