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EWE NEEDS III FOREIGN PURCHASES HAVE DOUBLES) IN M YEARS Annual Requirement of Wheat la Europe U 475,000,000 Bushel--United State and Canada, Faxnlsb ed 1M,M0,00 Bnshela ot This Amount All Prior Hare Ad vanced. According to peclal reports to the bareau of statistics ot the department ot agriculture, Europe has increased Ita average purchaaea of foreign wheat during the last 10 year more than 100,000,004 bushels, or about It per cent and has doubled lta annual Durchaaes ot corn. The annual requirement ot wheat from foreign sourcea are now 180,' 000,400 buahela a rear more than they were 10 yeare ago, thla mostly In northwestern Europe. For the year ending July II. 1907. all Europe purchased 471,000,000 bushels of for eign wheat and flour (reduced to wheat) of wblch the United State and Canada furnished 1(1,14,000 bushels. To meet foreign buyers on a parity with other producing nations, the grain producers, dealers and export' era of the United States, hare now the aame'futures' system as other eon tlnenta. The practical workings of this sys tem was explained to a prominent member of congress from Illinois thus: A Glasgow miller buys 109,- 000 bushels of wheat In San Fran' Cisco, say at $1 per bushel. To- pro tect, or In popular phrase, t hedge his San Francisco .purchase during the time the wheat la in transit to the port of Glasgow, he sella the same quantity of wheat in the Chicago or . other leading market at relatively the same price which he paid for the 100,000 bushels of wheat in San Francisco. If the market, during his ."In tran sit" period advances 10 cents per bushel, the. San, Francisco purchase price is all the while maintained as a basis upon, which ha can make his sale of flour in Glasgow therefore, I think the statement is absolutely true "that he can sell the flour on the ba sis of the. price at which he bought it 1st San Francisco. The fall In prices of articles Im ported and the advance In prices of articles exported, which form a marked characteristic of the January price statement of the bureau of sta tistics of the department of com' merce and labor, Is equally apparent in the February figures of that bu reau, which have just made their ap pearance. In nearly all of the Important ar ticles Imported tor use in manufac turing prices show a marked decline In February, 1908, when compared with the corresponding month of the preceding year. MACHINERY FOR BIO PLANT. Ores- $50,000 Worth of Electrtctl Ap paratus for American Falls. Orders for additional machinery for the big electric power plant of the Idaho Consolidated Power com pany of this city at American Falls were placed yesterday wlth the Gen eral Electric company ot New Tork fox early delivery and Installation, . says the Pocatello. Tribune. The con tract was closed by President James H. Brady and Superintendent Stan ford with a representative of the General Electric company, who with representatives of the Allls-Cham-hers company, the Fairbanks-Morse company and the Westlnghouse elec tric manufacturing company, were in the city. The total weight of the machinery will be 10,000 pounds and It will be installed In the Island power house of the Idaho Consolidated company at the falls. The present capacity of the plant is 2000 horse power and the additional Installation will bring the total to 3000. There axe 40,000 horse ower available at the falls, awaiting only the need of larger installations Plans for the complete develop ment of the falls contemplates the building of a dam Just above them, which will raise the water eight feet and create a large lake, extending up the river for several miles, and the construction of a third power house on the south bank of the river Th excavation for this station ju. been completed for some time, , about $60,000 has been expen'" the station, so that it can ;f pleted In about a year wh' ' ' casion requires. the oc- The ' phenomenal gr' . . business of the Ainr ;2h pany has made i- xlca" Fa"8 co,m - , ; operative the in- 'Jw. t al units ?s2" r on- mate aevel toward ulti- reUcal or Dment of the 70-000 tne Itono t 58,000 actual horse power available at the falls. MOVEMENT TO CANADA. Ottawa Report Says Thousands) nre Going North. The movement into the Canadian northwest from the border states will be somewhat larger this year than last, says an Ottawa report It is pointed out that the move Canada wards Is principally from Utah, the Dakota, Minnesota and other west' era states, the people disposing ot their lands there at upward of ISO per acre to take up land in Canada at 110 per acre or less. If there has been an increase of ar rivals from the United ' States, the same can not be said of those from Britain. This is due -to the stricter regulations which have been adopt ed by Canada in connection with set tlers from the British isles. A feature of the present movement from the United States to Canada Is i! the repatriation ot French Canadians Thousands of these people are this year abandoning the manufacturing centers of New England and the mid dle states, and are either returning to Quebee or are swelling the tide of newcomers to the provinces of Alber ta and Saskatchewan. So far Rhode Island and New Hampshire have fur nished the largest contingent ot those returning north. MAY TAKE AWAY PASSES. Interstate) Comnieroa Ooniml Ion Questions Free Passe ot Railroad Attorneys. If the railroad commission of Ore gon follows the ruling of the Inter state commerce commission, many lo cal attorneys for railroads hence forth must go without annual passes, says a Washington dispatch. It has been the practice of roads to select an efficient and Influential attorney In each county along their lines who could be relied upon to attend to the company's interests,, and while not placing these attorneys on salary to give annual passes, aa though they were employed by the road. Often unless called on to serve la a particular suit, no money has passed from the company to the attorney, yet they are carried on . the tree transportation list of the road, and the annual pass Is practically all the compensation received, it being re garded as sufficient. The federal commission has looked Into this sit uation with some care and has ruled that local attorneys ot railroads can not, under the existing law, use pass es on Interstate Journeys. It also rules that all attorneys who receive passes, must be In the employ of the company aa their chief occu nation, not aa a mere side Issue m their law practice . The federal commission realises that thla ruling will cut oft many so- called rsllroad attorneys who now travel on free transportation, some belonging to the legislature, othen going going to the state capitals to lobby, and still others coming to Washington for the same purpose, and as alleged regular attorneys ot road having received transportation over connecting lines of their com' panics. If the Oregon commission, as In the past, adopts the policy ot following when possible the federal commis sion's rulings, and applies It la this in stance many Oregon attorneys will be deprived of their- perquisites and must go without their annual passes, being entitled to trip passes when ac tually on legal business for thet cor poration. RAILROAD WONT OBEY. O. R. Jfe X. Does Not Comply With Rate Order of the Oommlsatoa. The state railroad commission has not yet fixed the date when the new distributive rates on the O. R. it N. from Portland to points east of The Dalles are to be put Into effect And those most vitally1 concerned, name ly, the O. R. ft N. and the shippers. do not appear to know when the or der will become operative, says a Portland paper. Up to the present time, though the decision was handed down a couple of weeks ago, the railroad company has had no intimation as to when the order will be signed, sealed and de livered. Judge Cotton, general coun sel for the railroad corporation, ad mitted this morning that he had re ceived a copy of the commission's de cision Identical with the copy pub- nsnea some time sgo in the local press, but that places no obligation upon the O. R. ft N. " " como in me rorm or a mandate directing company to re It did not come in the form of a vise and re-issue tariff schedules conform to the ruling, it being slm j, to uwvaw .11 a lautuftu euro -I- sion had announced Its findingr """" (Hni., ,V V. !(.. m . IMUU1UB uui.II th ruling, there have been a nu Jv.. , preliminary matter to att ,d t which, it Is understood, mu Sh posed of before the issua- - V, ,Cl formal order. One of tb T ..l!! is the complaint of the ft commercial organisation . an equalising rate out. ot n.wJl J Test of Pore The whole num , tered in Union rtfu llZ .TysiSn? There are " " CI " "JiiuououH ana one coZtv - nomination for . , . uuu is wunam Anderson of La Grande, who has J jt rlORCil what 1. . uv vateexn a xeoi cwjomacy ior pure politics. His le gitimate expenses Hp to this morning ao not exceea His announce ment in the local pa pers, hire of hall and band, hotel bill's and carfare atone are so reckoned He has spoken to goodly numbers rii over the county in iavor or purity i official Ufa and for local option, w ith the open declara tion that he has been able to make a pleasant canvass for votes and has not found it nece gsary to treat a voter nor accept treat s of liquors or cigars. Waacin County Registration. Not & populist In Wasco county! That Is the record as shown by the abstract of registration of electors sworn to. by County Clerk Bolton, says The Dalles Chronicle. In all the 28 precincts of old Wasco there Is none who will subscribe- as a mlddle-of-the roadev. OC the total number that registered lor the primaries, 462 democrats, g prohibitionists, 74 so cialists, s independents) and 33 who refused to state their politics. These lnde-pendentn and those who refused to, state Oietr politics will not be per rhitted to- naat o haiint.tMiMM. (,1K Primaries 'are only' for the con venience-of the parties in nominating their candidates. There are- 324 nanus on the registration books for the-primaries. "Well, Pat, after a year at the au tomobile school, I suppose you un derstand' everything"?" "All but one thing, fr." "What's that?" "What the devil makes: th thing go i wltViout horses.' WORK OH THE JETTY RENEWED ACTIVITY AT THK COLUMBIA BAR. Columbia Contracting Company Em ploys too Meat In Ilock Quart Ira Work on the Jrxttre Will B on tinned. Vigorously From Now on. Two hundred men have been put to work within the past week by the Co lumbia Contracting company ot this city, getting out rack at Fisher's ovar- ry for the extension of th Jetties at Columbia bar, says a Portland paper Nine barges are used in transporting the rock from the quarries to the land' Ing at Fort Steven, where the force engaged on the Jetty load It on oar and run It out over th railroad track to the 'beginning of th new two-mil extension. The work of extending the jetty will lake about two years, as a result of the recent appropriation of 13.100,000 by congre. Th. south Jetty will then hav extended to a total distance of seven miles from the main land. No work has yet been done on the pro posed Jetty on the north sin of the mouth of the Columbia, but the pro ject of this second Jetty Is looked up on with favor by the government en gineers, who have made th necessary surveys. Dan Kern, manaarer ot the delivery of the rock, expecAs to put on about 100 more laborers -within the next CO days, aa soon as more facilities for liandling the rock "have been establish d at Fort Stevens. At present, the delivery ot rock amounts to about 1004 tons a day. This rock Is mostly of Inrgf size, rangiq g from a weight ot IS tons to 60 pounds. It is a hard basalt that will resist the wear ana erosion ot the sa water, and by Its weight will keep in the position In which It Is place) d. "We pay onr men from II to '14 a day of 14 hours," Mr. Kern says, "and we are getting aj'l the men we want at present In fa ct, more are apply Ing for work thai i w can accommo date, and the men . as a rule, are wit linn to do more w ork than they were last year, and do not quit suddenly and without prove cation, a they used to when work was? plentiful and high' priced." The Fisher's Lbs ndlng quarries are situated on the not th side of the Co lumbia river, some nine miles above Vancouver. The er uallty of the rock produced is said tt 1 the government engineers to be net it than that found anywhere else nleo g the lower" Co lumbia. . LOANS. HELP1 STUDENTS. V. of (X Finds That t the New Plan. Wesks Sew Msfully. In th March Nna iber of th Unl- verslty ot Oregon Bt Uletin, a copy of which has Just "been received. Presi dent CampbeU disc isse "Student Loan Funds." He sa.y that the ex perience of th past tetr years with the present university fund Indicates very clearly that a much larger sum could be.uawd to advantage. He cites many instance where is small loan has enabled a student to complete his couxse. and says it' would be a great t Jilng if the university were able to say to any deserving young man or w oaan that a loan of 1100 a year cou'ja be depended on for each ot the fo or years spent in the university. Faic) a loan coulft be made safe . , .. , th. miarantv of ."J" for a money for a large fund will hiave to be secured through gifts front individuals inter ested In helping deserving students thrmnrlr the university. These gins will probably rangn in amount from 325 to 1100, and b. fund of 10,000 ought to be reached In a very few years. President varopDeu Deueves that loans are better than gifts for tu'K rensons. the first, that the self- reliance and self-respect of the stu dent. Is preserved by the. obligation to reDnv the loan, and the second, that the loan repaid goes to help an other student through the college. REDUv'2E COAL RATES, v ' intra tarn Commerce Commission i Lowers) JRte on TJ. P. The Interstate Commerce commis sion vesterdav made n ruling reduc ing the freight .rate on coal from Hanna. and Rock tlprtngs to Nebraska points on dollar ton, nays th Chevenne Tribune. The average re duction is from 4S0 to 11-60, Cheyenne dealers- say that the re duction Is not likely to nave any ei- feet on the price of tfoal In Cheyenne. They say that the xate from Hanna is 11.60 oer ton anVO irom noes Springs 12.30. This late is a reduc tion of about 70 cents per ton from thn rata in effect a ;year ago, and thev believe that the Interstate dol lar rate is merely n. reduction In pro portion to the rate in Wyoming, Since the rate went d-wn, the price nf coal at the mine ha gone up so thai the consumer in this city Is pay. inir about the safhe price as hereto fore. Tha various coal dealers met today an after a conference of some lengtn decided that hereafter coal must D nld for wheri delivered. The ar rangement was agreed to on" account of (the small margin on some graces of eoal. which is wiped out by a few "bitd debts," -and the nature of the protduct makes It impossible to recov er any of the goods sold. i PRAIRIE FIRES RAGE. Wy pmlng Ranges Are Swept Over by , names. WQth the continuation of dry wea ther come reports of prairie fires almOst dally, and the later report In dicate greater damage than any of those previous, says tne vneyenne Tribi tne. A renort seached the city last event tag that the ranch of I. N. Bard on Blear creek, was threatened by prair le fir and Mr. Batrd, who was In th city, left immediately ror in ranch. Th Bard ranch wan badly damaged by fire a few year ago. Ilenorta from along th C. n. in the vicinity ot Iron mountain ar to th effect that th light of a pralrl fir was seen during th greater part of Monday night and It la reported that th fir burned oft a great deal ot the pastures ot "Bob" Allen, whose ranch Is some mile east of in rail road. u. H. Hartrung say that th norm pasture ot th Cam pa tool ranch have been badly burned over, but that thus far th southern pasture ar un hjtrmed. Th greater number of th nre ar caused by engine s parka ana when they occur generally man so much headway, and get so far mm th railroad that section men make nn effort to extinguish them. Train' msn are Instructed to report th burning ot fence or telegraph pole along th Union Pacific. The report ot th burning ot a v-w orado ranoh' buildings and all ap uri in another column and I th i tjaaa thus far reported a th Muit of a nralrl fir. Th wind at Cheyenne changed tnis nuiminf to th outh and a thin has of smoke indicative ot forest or prair ies far to th goutnw. CATS PROTECT TOE MAIL. Portland Postorfkw b Sorely Infested With Rata and Mica. r rt.itv at tha Portland postofflc night and day ar several cats. And they ar not peta nor are tney their for their beauty or to be admir ed by the clerks, says a Portland pa. iAr. The rats ar aept ai me poet ries to protect th malls from rata and mice and they cost tne govern' ment 114 a year. Portland Is One of th tw post offices In th country for which the postofflc department makes an. an nual appropriation tor th sol sup port of cats which ar always up- posed to be on duty, me money used to buy food for the cats, though this seems somewhat of a reflection upon their ability to catch the pesky little rodents. At times much trouble was former ly experienced by tn postal cieras there because ot th fact that rat and mice were atways gnawing th mall pouches and opening letters ad dressed to Individuals, regardless of the penitentiary penalty Imposed upon individual for uoh an act. it has been found that cats cannot live on rat dainties or choice bits of mice, and milk and meat must be supplied at Interval Consequently approbation ot 114 for catfood was recently mad by Potmastr Minio IOWA WAMEN SCORE. Mis Grace Ballantyne, th young attorney who appeared for "Mary J Coftgahall and others" In their suit against th city of De Moines, is re ceiving congratulations from many quarters because of the favorable de cision of the supreme court. Th wo men questioned the validity of n pe dal election on a bond Issue for city hall because the votes of taxpay Ing women were refused and tne su preme court has Issued a restraining order stopping all work on the new city building pending the final de cision in the women s case. Rev. Anna H. Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suf frage association, says: "This fight of the Iowa women has put more heart Into me than anything wnicn has come my way for a long time, hope they will succeed.' DON'T ECONOMIZE.. B omitting your luncheon, for the body needs nourishment, and without It the health may be permanently in Jured. Bv refuslns to take a cab wnen caught In a shower. The price of cab is much less than that of a new hat and gown. By attempting to overwork yourself. No one can do more work under these circumstances, and the result Is often an attac kot typhoid fever. By walking home after a busy day on your feet. Rather walk to the shop or place of business when fresh and untlred and ride home at night when fatigued. By riding in a car to a distant mor- ket In order to save five cents on out ter and eggs. By purchasing an article you don't want simply because it happens to be cheap. Washington Times, FIRST CHINESE PRIEST. Rev. Peter Chang, said to be the first Chinese Catholic priest to visit this country, arrived in New York on the steamship Ryndam. He was ac companied by Bishop August Hennln ghus of the diocese of South Shan tung, China. The bishop went to China as a missionary 21 year ago. In a short time he had a congrega tion of 125 converts, but he says that there are now more than 80,000 con verts In his diocese. Father Chang Is 27 years old. He wear his hair in a long queue down his back. He speaks German fluently, but does not know a word of English. Wage in Samoa. A memorandum drawn up by the German colonial office, and attached to the estimate for the Information of the member of the Reichstag, con tains a statement of the present condl tion of the labor question In Samoa, In which It Is stated that th white population wa formerly entirely de pendent upon Samoan workmen, while now the major part of the work at most of the plantation 1 done by Chines Imported for thl labor. Each Chinese laborer receive In wage 12.86 a month. The total cost of each to th employer, the report states. Including wages, maintenance passage money, and medical treat ment Is calculated at from 14.91 to 111.40 per month. A woman trying to conceal her age say the Cynical Bachelor, always re minds me of an ostrich hiding hit .head in th sand. EOVERNMEHT'S FIRST PROJECT SALT IUVEH IRRIGATION DAM LARGEST IN WORLD-1 Are ot Reservoir ursw vwnpw - - Will lie 1M00 and Will Water I40,. 000 Acres ot Arid LsikI V alloy Is u ny w i tremd, lUeH-lToJoo Will Co- 8,000,000 When Complete. . ,n i.. nIl.hnalva r- I AUV ivuuwnn .""-.' . . a. i. n.r sovernment lr- "' . , . rlgatlon project, th first and largest ar tha sovernment chmea, la from government report and give Many In-1 tereetlng detail; riMt amon tha many irrigation schtmea planned by the government reclamation service Is tn sail river project at Roosevelt, Arts., wher th largest reservoir In the world la being rini.harf. uva the report. This stor- al dam Is 174 toet high and wUi Im- pound 1,114,000 sore-feet ot war, creating a reservoir having an area of li ioo acres or 15.6 suuar mile. This structure will b computed m 1104 and wtl regulate th supply of ...i.. in th. Bait river. Forty mile th. th. water la to be de-1 n.r..i k. kimu af a low dam Into th mains of a ystom ot canals, on on each side of the river, and water- Ing about 160.000 acres of land in th vicinity of Phoenix and Mesa. wk.m th. Rnjiuv, ! ii n m is oom pleted several thousand electric horse- power will be developed ana uiuwoisn tmnwti ln.nnmn additional water from under- ' around sourcea A power canal 11.6 miles long, having a capacity of 110 eutalo feet a second. hs already beenl.. constructed and Is now being used to develoo 4400 electrical horse-power i which Is utlllxed In the work of con-1 structlon. Th lands under this project situ-1 ated In the Halt river valley, surround I Phoenlv tha canltal of the territory. 1 This valley has a length east and west I of about 40 miles nd a width varying! from 16 to 30 mllea, The soil I an I alluvial deposit of great fertility and I adapted to the cultivation of a wiaiHUnut a quarter of a million dollar variety of crops, including those ori,,.r week. the temperate nd subtroplcnl sones. I when the fruit and berry season I A tunnel about 600 fet long naiat hand the clearings of North Takl- been driven through the side wRlls of I the csnyon at the dam. In this tun-1 probability, amount to nearly 1100. nel will be olnred six gate to be used I 000 per day. Thl ranks North tak- for sluicing purposes and for regu- l latlng th flow of water In the canals I In Salt river valley, nbout 60 miles below. i I These gate, with thel roperatlng I mechanism, will weigh nearly 600,000 pounds and will be the largest ever constructed to operate under the great I pressure of 100 pounds per square I Inch. The pressure on each gst I I about 800.000 pounds. With tha ervolr fuH the sates -are capable of discharging 10.000 cublo feet per sec-lot ond. To carry the water from the power! rsnnl to the electrical power house an Incline penstock runnel 610 feet long has been driven. The available head of 220 feet, when discharged through turbine water wheel direct connected to electric ecnerator. will give sever- at thousand electrical horse-power which will be transmitted 10 miles away to drive the centrifugal pumps. It I estimated thnt each horse power so developed will pump wntnr enough to Irrigate 10 acre ot land The entire electrical apparatus for this work wns furnished by the Oon eral Electric company. . For those who cannot vlstt the scenes of operation1 It Is difficult, In- deed, to grasp the magnitude of this undertaking being cnTrled on by the government for the benefit of the peo- plo. There will be more than 694 miles of mnln cnnnls for distributing the water and ot thn lowest waterfall on record the flood contained In the! reservoir wll Ibe sufficient to water the crops over nn area of 312 square miles for two and one-half years. The work was started three years ago and will cost about 18.000,000, all of which is advanced by the gov ernment without Interest. Thl amount wll be eventually repaid by the farmers whose lands are bene- filed. Th Income which will accrue from the sale of electric power will also he annlled to the cost and when the outlay has been repaid to the gov ernment the farmer wll own the plant and share the expenses pro rata. This storage water will make the des ert, formerly supporting only cnctl and other hardy plants, blossom a the rose. CLEARING HOUSE AT YAKIMA. First Day's Clearing $35,000. Amounted to The North Yakima clearing house opened Monday at 11:80, say the Yakima Republic. At that time the clearings of the associated banks of 136.17.88. Tuesday Is generally considered among the bankers to b the lightest day of the week, and the clearings of today are not up to what they will be a a rule. The banker and all Interested are sreatlv pleased with the work acoom- pllslied thus far. At a meeting held recently H. C. Lucas of the Yakima Trust company was elected manager, George Donald of the Yakima Na tional bank Is president W. L. Stelnwlg of the First National bank Is vice-president and C. R. Heath of the Valley bank 1 secretary and treasurer. The association I com posed of the four bank above men tioned. . Clearings Made Daily! Clearings will be made each day at 11:30. Merchants and all business men unite In declaring th clearing house system the best barometer of prosperity. The fact that a clearing house is established here and In oper ation will cause North Yakima to be olassed with such cltie as Spokane, Svatl. Taeom and olhr mony ter. Wherever ther I a money center ot any Importance lhr I al so a clearing house because the work Is fncllltaled grentiy. Farm I Worth II&0.0OO. n, or the t ageai lanu uhii tw consummated In this tal. and In volving th transrrne oi iwwwi 1100 tn 1100 acre OI in nest ara n Columbia county, wnion m(,sn the best land In th state, or in th United States, as rar as was . . . i. a I. nl, u a tha an courlar-Pr. Evryon la u ll acquainted wllh the ,, itichardson ranch, about I wo the Touchet from Dayton n- nf the fan an - -- 'f prop.rty ot that BlM , tna county, and It has proven to b so by th wsnltn it naa hrnnht IO II owner, rt. . - - son, In Pi " r "- intelligent method or farming in wltn th, tW fertility .k ind. Mr Richardson ha mad a big success of hi farming operations, ano no disarrangement Mil tin body of Und ,nt Mr. Richardson wishes , dl,po of It. H wisne merely w tr,ngfer his nrgle to othr fields, n(1 whl, he doe not quit wish tor lh.r worlds to conquer, h ha) de Llded to make Portland th scan ot inla energies in ruiur. I To handle a deal ot thin sts per- Iharia no one oiner man man ssr. ir0ugHton In tm county naa ne w(.aith neoeasary to do no. and whll tha orlce asked by Mr. Richardson, iiso.ooo. seems a big sum. In five Lrars this property could nt b bouKht for doubl th price, whloh n a uitie over 144 an nor with n pr foot ulpment of horses, machinery, residence, elevator and grain storage iinu ana ihujit wmw -""'. -- ceaary for the proper conduct of such Clearing House Plan Is Good. iumk clearings made this morning ji-jo ,,ow a gain ot 114.141.44 over the showing of yesterday, in frlt ,)ay the house wa In operation 1 North Ysklma, say th Yaklmn Iltepubllc. When lh clearings wre ascertained yesterday tht-y t'Uaiea tSfi.SIT.Bg. Today the clrarlngs ar 161. 971. 63. And this Is hrtween nay tme nna harvest, th dullrst tlm of me year. If these figure can bo taken as a criterion J.orth lamma tanks are now doing, a business of nia's associated bank will. In all mn Ith som of the largest Cltie or the state. To Make Denatured AtaohoL a model station for th manufacture- of denatured alcohol I to be tab-- hed In on of th buildings of thn United State department of agrlcuN lure. Practical demonstration will be given for the benefit of farmer res-land others Interested In how to mak I alcohol out of varlou wast product the farm, such a decaped fruit. I corn, potatoes, and th Ilk, which could not be used for any other pur- I pose. Farmer- have been slow to take up th manufacture of denatur- I ed alcohol or rather alcohol for d naturlng purpose, and th secretary lot that department want to Instruot and encourage them. In Franc th manufacture of denatured alsohol from waste products ha become an I Industry of Important proportion. 1 lawyers Agree on Prlora. Tha bur association tonight adopted a uniform schedule or price to pa chatged In the Justice court In the district court and for appealed rases. I says a Coeur d' Alone Item. Attorneys seen after the meeting refused to give out the figures decided upon, but It I understood that the least charge ot any caso will do 13. Heretofore in charge for n consultation alone ha cen from 60 cent to 16. All the at- torneys are In the association.. The lawyers also took up the matter of having fewer precincts, all agreeing I that there are now too many. Th I date ot th banquet to county attor-. neys, the district Judge and visitor wa set for April 16. Itncers Leave Raker for Calgary. What l known here as th Owl racing stables of running horse. owned ny f. b. Fierce, were shipped yesterday to Calgary. Canada, say tne Bauer City Democrat. Th ta- blea consist of the following horses: Peter J., Fondo, Iateranta and Tom Thumb. The season opens at Pres sor, Wash., May 7, t snd 4; at Cam- brook, Canada, May 14, 15 and 16:. at Calgary. May 27, 19, 21 and 80.. From that tlm tha season extend for five months. The (table will re turn to Baker City In time for the fall meeting hero. Good Coal In Sight In Idaho. Word received from Hiram Henr? from his Horsnshn TtAnA mil t - that he ha Just opened a now . ledge which I tha argt In the state of Idaho, say ve' m' Thev war . jng across it when th I ! in and had gono h.wor , wa end In sight, Tlr wlUl nn posurea of goo' ay nOW ve 19 " erty and a 1 ooa' .n helr ProP- tons nee """"I lo lurn out 50 coal. mercnaniaoi coal, !? Ruth ln Ul Umatilla. trl Umatl,lft "ver, from which' Ply. will have at least an. average. ea.on . flow for th. M.w. wh7c tZV, about ,norm1- Bo while, the 1 n ? fF8Ii "nortW o water fir th ooll from the natural rainfall dis tricts, w can go ahead with confi dence and complacency with out Irri gating, furnishing th crop her, about, with all th, moisture needed. Irrlgon Irrigator. Work has commenced on a new pressed brick high chool building for North Yakima. Th contractor hop to have it completed In Urn for next term's work.