P rin c ip a l E v e n ts t f the W eak
b r ie fly Sketched fo r In fe r-
a a tfe a ef O a r R e a d e rs .
Aaalsa Lodge. L O. O. F„ of Riddle,
•Hi buy a $100 “ Liberty" bond.
Tha Oregon State Bankers* associa
tion convened at Marshfield last week.
Pendleton was the first city In the
stats that mat Its Liberty Bond quota.
“ Approximately 10,000 young men of
Multnomah county registered for war
The fourth older girla’ conference of
eastern Oregon convened in La Grande
Saturday.
Tha fund for the Woman’s memor
ial building at the University has
paw ed $15.00«.
The Dallas commercial club has de
cided to bold an old-fashioned cele-
Charles L McNary, appointed to
leeeed tbs lata Senator Lana, was
torn la last Friday.
J. Stulta, a carpenter of Corvallis,
enmitted suicide by shooting hlm-
Federal authorities are Investigat
ing reports that forged registration
cards for the selective draft are being
sold In Portland'to protect some who
failed to register.
A circular baa been issued and sent
to posts of the Department of Oregon.
O. A. R-, announcing the sodden death
8everal wage increases were granted
by the state board of control- to em-
pioyes at various state institutions at
the request of the superintendents of
such institutions
The H. S. GiJe Company, with head
quarters at Salem and with a branch
office at Roseburg, has leased a tract
of ground at Riddle and is preparing
While on guard duty at one of the
tunnels between Mosier and The
Dalles, Private M. N. Miller, of Com
pany K, was struck by a passing
freight train and severely Injural.
R. D. Hetxel. director of the exten
sion service at the Oregon agricultur
al college, has been offered the presi
dency of the New Hampshire agricul
tural college and has the offer under
F. T. Tooae, city superintendent of
schools of Oregon City, has rejected
flattering offers from Roseburg and
will remain in charge of local schools,
having recently been elected to serve
another term.
Oregon’s largest Liberty loan sub
scription to date was made Saturday
when Max H. Houser, grata exporter,
authorised the purchase, through
three Portland banks, of $250,000
worth of bonds.
Delegatee from California. Washing
ton and British Columbia ports as
sembled at Portland Monday for tbe
annual district meeting of the Coast
Maritime association, continued in ses
sion during the week.
Out o f the 104 students who graduat
ed from the Corvallis high school
only 70 were able to be present, the
rest having either enlisted In the army
sr navy or been released to boost along
IS# food preparedness campaign.
The bean crop o f Linn county in
1017 will be 1700 per cent greater than
that of 101$. The pork failed to keep
pace with the beans, however, for bogs
shows a 20 per cent decrease In num
ber from those in the county last year.
The salmon run In tbe Columbia
river continues extremely light and the
catch at present is small. Many o f
the gill nett era have placed their gear
on the racks and practlca’ l* all the
seining grounds have ceased opera
tions.
Governor Wlthycombe has named the
the county stock Inspectors for 30 of
the counties of Oregon on tke recom
mendation of tbe Cattle and Horse
Raisers' association of tbe state. No
recommendations were made for five
conn ties.
Frank H. Lathrop. of South Caro
lina. has bees appointed research am
sistant In entomology at tbe Oregon
Agricultural college experiment ato-
ttaa. Mr. Lathrop will work toward
a m an effective control of aphis In
OUR IMMIGRANTS.
A * • tat* convention of the Oregon
■trie Honor Guard wee held In Port
land on the second day of the Rose
Peetlval.
The debt whieh American labor
The treasury department has Issued
owes
to immigration is succinctly set
a federal charter to the Farmers and
Stockgrowers National Bank of Hspp- forth in a communication to the Na
tional Geographic society from W.
aer, capitalised at $50.000.
J.
Showalter, a part of which is is
BUa Flagg Young, known In educa
sued
by the society as the following
tional circles everywhere as an au
bulletin:
thority. will he the guest of honor at
“ Northwestern Europe has given
k banquet to be given by the Oregon
ns
17,000,000 immigrants, where
Civic League in Portland July 7. Miss
southern
and eastern Europe have
Young was formerly superintendent
sent
us
15,000,000.
ef schools at Chicago.
"T he labor supply which immi
Mayor Albee will leave to Mayor
elect Baker the Job of issuing procla grants have brougnt to the nation
mations announcing the vote on the constitutes an incalculable debt.
measures decided at the Portland city Seven out of every ten of those who
election. This means that the laws work in our iron and steel indus
as passed will not become effective tries are drawn from this class ; sev
en out of ten o f our bituminous
until some time after July L
Four fatal accidents were reported coal miners belong to it. Three out
to the state industrial accident com of four of those who work in pack
mission last week. The fatalities were ing towns were bora abroad, fouri
Peter Christ, Mill City, logging: Tony out o f five o f those who make our
Arnac. Kerry, logging; Benjamin Rock- silk goods, seven out of eight o f
well, Mill City, logging. A total of
nine out o f ten o f those who refine
$35 accidents w$re reported. J
our petroleum and nineteen out o f
It was announced at a meeting of
tbe state land board that $200,000 twenty o f those who manufacture
o u r . sugar are immigrants or chil
more rural credit bonds had been ta
dren
o f immigrants.
. , t
ken. This brings the total up to $450,-
‘'From
whatever
country
the im
000. It was decided to limit to each
migrant
comes,
he
is,
as
a rule,
county the sum of $<000 in bonds and
above
the
average
of
the
working
to each person tbe maximum of $2000.
classes in his community, for money
If the state land board will grant
is scarce in southern or eastern Eu
a lease of tbe kelp beds off the month
rope, and the peasant who can ac
of the Yaqutna river to B. M. aad E.
cumulate
enough to bring him to
V. Sherlock of Portland, a survey of
the
United
States must have aome
the beds will be made at once to de
purpose
in
life,
a fair share o f am-
termine wether ’or not there Is kelp
bition
and
no
little
ability to prac
In snfflclent quantity to establish a
tice
self
denial.
The
great majority
redaction plant
have come from the small villages in
Two laws of tbe last legislature re
the rural districts.
lated to bounties on seals. One pro
“ That the alien’ a children are leas
vides that only tbe acalp and the
illiterate than he ia; that they com
other the whole hide must be present-
mit leas crime than he does and
ed to secure the bounty money: At
have leas tendency to insanity than
torney-General Brown holds that tha
he ia shown by the statistica gather-
whole bide must be brought in, as
ed by tha United States bureau o f
tbe laat act passed la controlling.
thè cenaus and by thè immigration
One o f the biggest and oldest ranch conunisaion o f 1911. Furthermore,
es in central Oregon, belonging to theae statistica prove that his grand-
George MUllcan, was sold to James
children are about aa free from fl-
Sloan, a wealthy stockman of Uma
iteracy aa the American child o f
tilla. It la understood that tbe deal native lineage and even leas dispos
Involves approximately $50,000 and ed to insanity than the child whose
concerns about 300 acres of tillable ancestry may be traced to colonial
land, about 1700 acres of range land times. In everything that goes to
and 700 bead of cattle and horses.
Timber Mills, perfected in Portland,
provides ter the establishment at
Portland of an exclusive sawmill for
turning out long lengths end dimen
sion material for. wooden ship con-
struction. and in that respect it. will
be equipped to cut the longest tinon
bers o f any mill on the Pacific Coast.
W. J. Conrad and A. E. Adeslperger,
timber dealers of Marshfield, an
nounce that they have closed the deeds
for the sale of timber in Coos county
aggregating 500,000,000 feet. Most of
the purchasers were eastern capitalists
and In some caaes the purchase of
timber will ultimately be followed by
lumbering operations on the part of
the purchasers.
The car shortage, whldlf for many
months has wrought industrial havoc
in many parts of the northwest Is
over. Reports issued by the public
service commission show that the Ore
gon-Washington Railroad I Naviga
tion Company has a surplus of 743
cars and the Oregon Trunk a surplus
s f 114. The Southern Pacific now has
a shortage of only 30 cars. The Spok
ane, Portland A Seattle was short 120
can . The Oregon Electric had 24 un
filled car orders and the United Rail
ways aeven.
A call has been issued by the Oregon
public service commission for a meet
ing to be held la Portland for the pur
pose of arranging standards of grain,
hay and other agricultural products.
The meeting will be held on June It.
Invitations have been issued to lead-
lag grain growers, grain dealers aad
others interested In the matter. The
purpose is not only to describe aad
fix standards, but to formulate rules
for weighting and handling the com
modities specified In the grain Inspec
tion law passed by the last leglsla-
At a Joint nession of the state board
of control and tbe state highway com
mission at Salem, It was virtually de
cided to carry to the supreme court.
In a friendly salt, the question of
whether tbe state can Issue the entire
$1,100,000 worth of bonds to meet the
Shackleford federal road money as
provided for in the Bean-Barrett bond
ing bill of the last legislators, or
whether the state can Issue only a suf
ficient amount of such bonds to covsr
any deficiency that might exist, after
the highway mlllags tax has been ap
plied to meet the federal road fund.
Oregon has registered s total of <2,-
$40 under the war census. With this
figure, although under the war de
partment estimate, the state baa giv
en Its quota based on the computation
of 10 per cent of the ltlO censes. Tbe
census estimate would have provided
<1,42$. but attention Is called by the
adjutant general’s office to the fact
that mors than 5000 men have answer
ed the call to the national guard and
tha regular army and navy services,
aad that these men under such serv
ice did not register. On this showing
tbe state has come up to the require
ments of the census registration.
show good eitiaenahip the
child o f the immigrant stands tht
statistical teat aa .well as the child
o f native parentage.
“ How many immigrants we shell
receive in the future no one can
say, but agricultural students have
declared that the soil o f the
its tea has a sustaining
Hteeing In the Theater.
Formerly there v u no hiaaing in
the theater. The benevolent audi-
enee wua content to yawn and fall
asleep. The invention o f hissing
is no older than 1680 and took
place at the first representation of
“ Aspar,” a tragedy o f Fontenelle,
"o we are told t>y the poet Rol in
his “ Brevet de la Calotte.” A farce
was produced in Bannister’s time
under the title o f "F ire and Water.”
" I predict its fate,” said Bannister.
“ What fate?” whispered the anxious
author at his side. “ What fate?”
said Bannister. "W hy, what can fire
and water produce but a hiss ?”
^
Gretna Green, Scotland, became
famous for its celebration o f irregu
lar marriages. For many years tbe
average number was 500. The cere
mony consisted only o f an admis
sion, before witness, by the couple
that they were husband and wife,
this being sufficient to constitute •
valid marriage. A fter this tbe offi
ciating functionary (for many years
a blacksmith), together with two
witnesses, signed the marriage cer
tificate.
*
When Cats Wars >earns»
In a curious collection o f ancient
Welsh laws, dated 943 A .. D., ap
pears the following sentence, from
which it would appear that cats
were rather scarce at that time:
"T h e worth o f a kitten until it shall
open its eyes ia one legal penny;
two legal pennies; after it shall kill
mice, four legal pence, and so it
shall alwavs remain.”
Whan you buy sugar yen pay lasa par pound whan you buy
it by tha dollar's worth. You pay still Mas par pound when you
buy it by tha hundrad-pound sack or by the banal.
Tha same is trua of the manufacturer and the merchant.
The larger quantities o f anything that ho can boy the Mas ha
has to pay for it. It coots him iasa to handle it in largo quan
tities than in small lots. It coats lass par pound to ship a solid
carload than it does to ship a carload in separate shipments of
100 pounea each. Just as H costs you leas to buy a hundred
pounds o f sugar at ons time than it would to buy a hundred
pounds n quarter’s worth at a time. Lose in money. Loos in
time. Loos waste lass in ovary way.
Tha manufacturer and merchant who advertise are enabled
to buy and to soil in larger quantities. By doing n "quantity”
business they cut expenses and save waste on overy hand. They
can sell better quality—pay the small advertising coat — and
S E L L T O R L E S S than if they wars doing business in
In the interest of economy buy
¿idvertised merchandise from mer
chants who advertise.
AdnrtiM yo or Wants in M m Graphic and Gal Rasato
icnvenw n t
hat one-thi: o f the country ia oc
cupied by waste land, we have room
on this basis fo r 900,000,000 peo
ple.”
One good way to clean completely
with sheep is to fence a small por
ion o f it temporarilv, using the por-
NOW IS THE TIME
fists sad Kpps.
N o single point better illustrate«
the sagacity o f the rat than the way
in which it hats an egg. It bites
through the «hell and chip« off small
fragments as neatly aa a squirrel
opens a not, consumes the entire
content* without spilling a drop and
then sits up and licks itaelf clean
like a c a t Kata will steal the eggs
from under a sitting hen. In one
case they carried off seventy-five
dozen eggg which a commission mer
chant had incautiously stored in a
wooden tnh.
Among the extraordinary esses of
longevity on record and well at
tested ia that o f the E n g lishman
Thomas Parr, who lived happily in
Shropshire to the age o f 15*. The
celebrated Harvey, who dissected
him after death, found hit body in
excellent condition and stated that
had it not been for hie intemper
ance he might have lived much
longer.
Doing H ot Part.
“ Wife, will you thread a needle
for me? I want to sew on a few
buttons.”
“ Why, certainly. There yon are.
Now you can sew on your buttons
while I go to the bridge club. Some
times I wonder how you managed
before you were married.” — Ex
change.
Intorostsd.
Boawell, when hia famous life of
Johnson first appeared, met Lord
Thurlow hurrying through Parlia
ment street to the house o f lords
and aaid, “ Have you read my hook?”
“ Yea, confound you,” growled
Lord Thurlow, “ every word o f It. I
Couldn’ t help myself.”
N ow Is the time to consider kitchen-
comfort this summer—now is the time
to buy an oil cook-stove.
Look for the specially-decorated win
dows o f the merchants listed at the left
The orange discs proclaim a message
welcome to every housewife. They tell
how the N ew Perfection drives out the
drudgery and discomfort o f summer
cooking,and at the same time givesbetter
results than your regular kitchen range
for aH-the-year-’round cooking. This is
N ew Perfection Oil Cook Stove W eek.
A sk these dealers to explain how the
long blue chimneys o f the N ew Perfec
tion Oil Cook-Stove prevent all smoke
and smell. Learn the comfort and econ
om y o f cooking with Pearl Oil. -