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.