TO 1GE 11 OH
THE HOUSE
FLY
KXTtOtMlNAHOH CAMPAIGN
4 WAGED IN MOIlTlIWESrr
ftsatU IloalU. 0km Take Lead
Walt Wall Will Follow Holt and
Oil OUm la MarttmeM An
Urged to fU tn Un WW tkmroj
BiwMUnf Ground.
A campaign of extermination
agalnat the common house fly la be-
ln throughout th north wet
Ud much sentiment U heard to th
GOOD ftPPLE LAHD
.The Roosevelt dam will eollpue In
magnitude of cublo content nil of the
dnma at prcMnt under construction
by th reclamation service. It will
curtain tlO.000 cublo yard of maaon-
rv. or over alx tlma mora than tha
Pathfinder, and nearly flvo time aa heattmc i-ai-hii lifli un
much aa tha Hhohone dam. Ita
hi (lit will ba 110 foal from founda
tion, length oh top IJO feat (or, In-
eluding plllway brldgaa, 1010 faat),
and Ita thlckn at tha baa 111 faat
In plan, although built In tha form of
an arch, thla etructure differ from
tha Shoehone and Pathfinder da ma
In being of the gravity type, wherein
maa alone la euffklent to eeoure eta
bllity.
The reaulllng reservoir' will be the
largeat artlflcally formed lake In the
world, a body of water tl mllea long.
Hon during the extremely dry eeaeon
will be pumped from the Columbia
by the big gasoline engine.
The power plant on the Two Rivera
project haa been forced to a cloee
down owing to a break In one of the
main lateral. The break la being re-
TIIK INUAJiO EMPIRE I paired and the pumping plant will
proueuijr, oe eimriBu up
mmm
RUSHES TO GDSST i
WaJtaburg Oroliard Now Worth 40,-!
MO la died A Example One
Waste Land U Wow Prodoctlv Be
yond All Um preama of th Owner
Many Vi. of Umatilla ,Buorp-
tibia to Ham DevHupment.
c. m. ST. PAtx Bcmanro
IJfO BAPIDtT WESTWARD I U(e n a vedc.h.pl dlatrlct ex
Jaguro-ebleo, and tha Negro was
found to be capable of producing
rather fair grain.
In the course of the work experi
ment were conducted a far norta
Cru Alta and ae far wrath aa Jag
uarao and to tile wet aa far aa Uru
guayans. The terrtiory wnicn uie in
vent! tor .found most eultable to wheat
growing waa that of Uruguayana and
Quarahy, a comparatively ama.ll area '
In the extreme weeteni portion of the
The' Seattle Poet-Intelllgenoer paye
a deserved tribute to the Waltaburg
eotion which la now one of the lead-
in plaoea over two mllea wide, with a Ing apple aeotlona of tha northweet.
etorage capacity of 1,100,000 aore-feet The eame tribute may be truthfully
and a maximum depth of over II applied to Umatilla county which un-
feet der proper cultivation and method
The dam and reeervolr are the may aleo be rated among the ttmoui
Barnea to Plead Inemnlty.
Insanity will be the plea of "Bud"
Barnea, eaye the Walla Walla Bulle
tin. The man who la waiting trial for
the brutal killing of Mr. Anna Ald
rlch will endeavor to eacape tha gal
low by claiming mental rreponl
billty. At flret It waa thought that thl
man would tlmply try to brasen It out
w a ti.l.V In Wat Hal
mat n- nao -ra . .u..i... ... .... , n thM,--- ---- - - :
Walla at leaat three dae after 1 I """ ' toeing nanaicappea aj vam ran-mmj
waa killed and that he waa not with rapid eoncluaion of the Chicago. 1CU- J high price placed upon the land by
Seen of Activity tn the Dakota, Moo
tana and WaeJungton Review of
Oie Mne From Chicago to PariJfk
Coast Term inn at Tecom To be!
Finished In Spring of 10OS.
tending between Paraguay and Uru
guay. Similar land eultable for- the
grain waa also found extending along
the southern border of the atata (rem
Uruguarana to D. Pedrlto, but tha en
tire area waa limited.
Along the southern border of the .
tate In the . dltrkrt mentioned the
state pnrchaaed a number of site
The Chicago American print thai e)teM)v nprilllaltlk tb, work
affect that Walla Waila rtould Join ,,, tMtwM ot ,h mt m... pro appi. .ecflons.
tha crusade, aaya the Walla Walla
ft tat semen. Ho far tha city authori
al ea nave taken no action, but the
object may be brought up at a fa
Mr meeting of tha city council.
A campaign against bouse file la
ct for tha Irrigation of land in thai
Halt River valley, In the vlolnltyl
The Poet Intelligencer aaya: '
Waltaburg has had some favorable
Phoenix, Arisen. From "The publicity aa an apple growing dia-
Govern ment't rest Storage Dams." I
by Henri V. Lemenager, In
Dams." by Henri V, Lemenager, In
trtct. It was near that city that one
orchard of of 10 aorea gave the own
er an tnooma of 140.000 ever all ex
ohlefly the oeatructlon of their breed- (h Am,rCar, Review of Reviewa for penso. during the year of HOT. That
log places, ana mess are open mm-1 jurl(t
ur puee or any piece wner were w
Warmth enough to hatch tha egga.
Aa effective campaign has just
been begun under the direction of
Health Officer Crlohton, of. Seattle.
Although on a more elaborate scale
than Walla Walla could undertake.
Dr. Crtchton outline It tn the fol
lowing etateroenl
Tt properly wage this campaign,
w will need the cooperation of the
general public, and In particular the
house wtvea The danger from the
fly la In having the Insect enter the
home and get on the food. We will
be able to exterminate million of
file, but each housewife should make
palrteular effort to keep flies out
t her own home.
I think that we will first have to
wag a campaign of education. When
file are more plentiful we will con
duct experiment and ahow to the
general public how great la the dan
ger. Dr. William R. M. Kellogg, city
bacteriologist, will be aaked to make
sums testa, and we will have photo
graph taken. He will tax files, al
low them to light on execration from
a typhoid patient 'and then light on
meat or other eulture media. We will
have photograph taken through a
microscope, which will snow how eas
ily the germa and bacteria are car
ried, and how kulckly they multiply,
YAKIMA WtKIi PHICm
orchard la not for aale, because It Is
equal to a gold mine to the proprie
tor. ,
A few year ago the owner was
engaged aa a publla school teacher.
He secured a homestead and planted
a nortlon to fruit treee. The or-
(M-ogiM! ttakw til Price of the On
trul Watdilngton Clip.
Woi -jilt.- in Oreron thl wek at
.,.t nr tha Hn rhiina-ed hand I chard begun to return good profit
. i. ,,i. .,-n,rtin to H.I five year after planting, Last eea-
manley Coffin, go a long way toward son. the tenth from the date ot be-
establlahlng a price for the clip here, ginning. It made the big crop report
.. the T.klma Republic. Orchard planting offer an oppor-
Aa a g-m-ral thing the clip In thl. tunlty for every energetic man who
part of the country sell at about I will go upon he land
7,Lt. . un.i holaw that of the Urns- poeion. The tree grow while the
, owner sleep. In the Columbia conn-
Itut. may be expected for woo, held h" ""
in m m-f
her, when witnesses bave been found
who will swear that he waa aeon in
her company near the cn of the
murder.
Bamea' attorney, however, have
succeeded. It la claimed. In convincing
him that the only possible way In
which hie neck can be saved la , to
olead Insanity.
Barn will be defended by Attor
ney Oscar Cain, C. H. Hurspool and
F. A. Oarrecht, who were appointed
by the court They wfl make a stub-
horn fight for their client.
utto itupp
waukee and St. Paul railroad to the
Pacific coast and describe aa fol
low the country through which It
passes.
Bj reason of aa unusual apart In
work representatives of the Chicago
Milwaukee A St PtuI road say they
expect to have the great transconti
nental Un finished from Chicago to
Seattle and , Tacoma next spring.
Regular trains are now operated oa
the new Pacific coast line as far a
Mobridge, Ummon, Hettinger, Bow
man and Marmarth, In the Dakota;
to Terry, Mile City, Musselshell and
Its proprietors as soon aa the possi
bility of wheat raising became known.
On the atata land aeven varletle
of wheat were tried, those common
to northern Europe, two varieties
common in Italy, a new variety of
Italian wheat and the variety of
wheat heretofore raised for varioua
purpose in the state. Aa a result of
the first year's work It was ahown
that the varieties of wheat common
to northern Europe were not suited
to growth in BraxlL The two Italian
varieties, Barletta and Itletl, both ac
climated to Argentine, gave fair re
sults. The native wheat also made
good returns and a new variety of
Italian wheat, the Pucenae, gave In-
This 1 a illaht Increase n the price He oai oi mo ia iw association this morning Mr. Stanford,
alrody paid thl. year. Mr. Coffin chard In on. at' present of the association, stated
okthat the clip of the aklm "'"'"V,,?" ,A ,MrT?t ?rhin that there will be a .pedal meeUn, of
Prosecuting Attorney
will be In charge of the case for the
tate. He will probably be assisted by I Uari0WtOn, in Montana
T. P. and O. C. aoe, ana uepuura. Not ln tn) history of railroads ha I dlcations that It would probably he
John H. aicuonaia ana a. line been comtructed witn ucn I wny aCcllmated.
The cane will be called in superior i iD-cd The route from Butt to 8e-l mirln the last season exverlmenta
court June I. and will attract a great kttle and Tacoma, with towns, dia-lwere continued with those varieties
deal of Interest. There are over 0 1 trlcU and engineering feats, waa glv-1 0t wheat which had given the better
en out recently. I result during the first season. The
Prom Butte to Garrison, II mllea I average reault was considered that
the Una goes through the Deer t-odge I ,hown by one lot of land where
valley. Then comes the valley of
Hellgat river, the timber district
West of fit. Marie the road runs
through the Coeur d'Alen Indian res
ervation. The well known Palous
witnesses for the prosecution.
Itlaho Wool Sale '
After a meeting of the executive
nmrrilftAA of the Id&hO WOOlCTOWer
He boast of the fact that the or- aMOC,atin this morning Mr. Stanford.
hectares of land, well aown and In
tensively cultivated, produced 4100
kilo of wheat) substantially 1Z
bushel to the acre), the common na
tive wheat being used. The season
and Klttlta valley will mak a total
of about 1.200,000 pound, or poi
bly omethlng more. While he I not
willing to make a forecast on the
condition he point out that the pres
ent price l the lowest In year and
that It 1 natural to expect a reaction
toward the normal.
-,n. nr tha nueatlon Involved I
make during the 10 year at teaching
school. He left the rank of the con
sumer and became a producer. HI
nroflta Increased with the develop-
ment of hla orchard and the demand
for the frulta that came from mature
tree. Therein lie the secret or uc
i ces for which many have ben search
ing In varlou parts of the world.
loca-
. m ... I . I OUHnCI IM HWUVV. ". w vmw a Wtt ealcuuvii.ii J w-w
ail memoers or ine """'' ""V..T I richest grain and fruit belta of the menters considered that thla indicated
OCiailon to oe nem m hr-l...,w onnntrv. At Takoa
..e ..L. I 4 Ku...n. laal
whether the saL mad. are .ufflcl.nt " "j; " u and nd he .trongly urged that ever,
, carry the mill along and give ,0 rcontron. perfect. There member of the aoc atlon who found
all the wool twy win neea. i. v"-lt hn abundance of plant food in the u poioio.
whiu not as hlsh a the grower I .... . . ,.,,. ,h, mountain Such member of
vnuid like to' see It I uch a can bel .
HI V 1 fc"V wiMK't I ' . . , I -.1111 3
Thl will show conclusively that the endured, eepecmiiy aner a numr 1 ,rrC,t0tl canals have been con-
fly I on of th greatest spreader of yenr of pretty gooa usu. Utructcd and the flood water impound
disease germa. The Oregon sales establish a price at e(, for UM aurng the fruiting aeason,
"If th housewife would one wak least il per cni lower man .,
There are no soaiea oia sie in im
part of the country and the yaxima
.... . .... ,,. . ,1.. 1 iiaM-Miswuri liVUUll-.
ana tne p.ace or """ " ' ;' lh, Oregon Short Line will be crose
clty hall at 10 a. m., ay the Boise .tructure 1000 feet long.
Prom Rosalia the Une continue
through thl fertile and well settled
country 10 mile to Palisade. There
It reaches the shore of Rock Lake.
The bank of tha lake are rocky and
precipitous excelling in beauty the
far-famed palisades of the Hudson.
Newa.
He wa not willing to a tate specific
ally the purpose of this meeting, fur
ther than to say It wa one of tne ut
most Importance to all woolgTOwera,
a pro Dame yieia 01 izvv. anus
hectare ln an ordinary year (about
1 bushel to the acre.
the executive j
committee aa were in xeaaion tnn
morning oonferred with a number of!
representative of wool houses, ln re
gard to the disposal of the clip, and
Pindel! Lose Last nope.
An opinion rendered by District
Judge Steele In Moscow yesterday de
stroys the last hope of Frank Ptadell,
convicted of cattle steal Ing and sen
tenced to serve three yeara In the
From Palisade the Une follow thai,.... -M.itentlarv at Boise, aaya the
banka of th lake five and one-half I t-wuiton Teller.
up to th danger. It would be a com
paratively almpl matter to prevent
anuch alckneaa. Th germa of many and Klttlta clip old will be aold dl-
dlaeases are carried by the fly and
mosquito, and if w can exterminate
rect to buyers. Mr. Cornn tninas,
however, taking the wool producing
th two, aa Prof. I O. Howard, th districts as a whole, that there win oe
government bacteriologist, aaya can be a large quantity of wool stored, aa a
don, thl will be a much healthier revival of condltlona will be antlcl-
elty. paled by a majority of those Interesl-
Th health department- work nee ed.
In removing th breeding placea for
Trannportatlon facllltlea are good, and
the market equal to any In the world.
There la much Idle land that can be
hHd at reasonable price and on fa
vorable term.
Here, then, la another of the many
opportunities open 'for the young men
of today. Now I the time to plant
th orchard and get the tree to
growing tor future profits.
mile to the new town ot Lavtsta, at
the foot ot the lake; thence 3T milee
through a country capable of produc
ing grain, but which has hitherto not
It wa decided to arrange for the first bem devei0ped for lack of railroad
facllltlea. Six mllea east of Rolston
the line passes over Cow creek on a
steel structure 1408 feet long. From
Lind to the Columbia river at Beyer-
is riee of sales days at the places and
datea mentioned herein:
Mountain Home J""
Vale, Oregon June
Payette June
Mldvale. Idaho June 8
Caldwell, Idaho ..June
Bolae. Idaho ...June 11
Shoshone. Idaho Jun 11
Tlkura. Idaho ..June IB
file and moequltoea. I hear dally of
doaena of place where the file and
moequltoea are breeding, and wa will,
oak th cltiaen to notify u ot breed
ing place they find ln .their neigh-
8hp Kheorlng Over.
The hearlng of th 40.000 heep
on the upper Snake river I now
practically completed, and within th
next 10 day the sheepmen will be-
-m.vtwn rt rnrawnre XAMTB I Hallev. Idaho June e
"" 1 . t
OF CUSTOMS DISTHJUri Pleabo . . -. ...... .
1. IBellevue. Idaho .......... .June
Ormgrwwman tail Ha little Hope Bliss, Idaho .............. .June 17
nnMiuid mil Ilccominc Law. : :
.Pindel was convicted at the last
term of the district court and a mo
tion for a new trial and a bill of
probable cause wa filed before the
adjournment of the term here. . Th
argument of the motion for a new
trial was made ln Moscow and the or
der of the court was received yeater-
ly, 7S mile, the line passea through notce received by Mr. Needham
tne new town 01 Boxooro, ute the motion tor the new trial la
and OtheUo. 1 ..,,. . nnw meda vanatlna-
une crossing 01 me wrnm row 1 ,m. r.-KIlKi.
, , , - , . . . . . HI. ..1 .l.I.lv v& " " "
l hi&uv gu unufi- w 04.MJ.
teel trusses, supported by massive
Pindell wa a prominent stockman
and farmer of the Ilo section and was
concrete pier,, the chann. span being t wTnter on a charS
piac-a j U.B - -"- I of cattle stealing. He waa tried and
iweniy-Dve muea icavma 1 ,,.. , th- ,
Columbia river the Un enter the
well known Klttlta valley, which la
acquitted In the district court at that
time, but wa - again arrested ' this
borhooda. In thla way wa will b abl movmg their herd to th summer
to make a thorough campaign
ummer."
TUB BIGGEST IRRI
GATION RESERVOIRS
Of several great atorag dam a
present under construction by the
reclamation service perhapa th moat
trlklngry Interesting are tha three
high masonry dame knows as th
Shoshone, th Pathfinder, and th
Roosevelt Th highest of these, the
on in fact that will be distinguished
a th highut dam in th world, I
being built In th canyon of th Sho
ahons river tn northwestern Wyoming
alx mllea west of the town of Cody, ao
named after Col, W. F. Cody, better
known a "Buffalo Bill."
Th Shoshone, or the Stinking Wa
ter river, aa It waa originally named,
because of th occurrence along Ita
course of anrlnga giving Oft noxious
gaaea, rie In northwestern Wyoming I section
range on the high mountain ana
forest reserve, say the lwtton Tel
ler. Report from the hearlng corral
how the clip to be heavy thl aeason
..1 o.,.lllw of tha wool good.' The
uu
Rush of bualnesa at' the closing
hour of the session is likely to lnter-
MyMerkma Surveyor.
The Potlatch Star, published
at
irrigated b, water drawn, from the "Tt
river,
The Une passes through a timbered
secured at the last term
of the court . "
fere with the change of the name of I Cameron, In Its Issue of May . B&yt: I corfntry to Snoqualmle pass, through
the "Willamette" cuetom dUtrlct to . A party or .urveyor. are at wora
"Portland." according to Congress- surveying a rou iur
man Ellis, who writes to that .ffect the Clearwater river . to Pine creek
h. r-iimhr of Commerce and and thence out to the top of tne
Board of Trade, of thl city, aaya the prairie. Some time ago a similar sur-
prlce. however, I not satisfactory t0 1 Telegram. Tne bm passed the eenate vey waa made, but the course chosen
the Cascade mountains, at an eleva
tion ot 3010 feet. The Cedar river 1
then followed Into Seattle. The Un
to Tacoma parallels the interurban.
Grading the whole length of the
line is progressing rapidly with great-
Find Man tn Room.
To be awakened In the middle of
the night by a man who had in aom
manner unknown to them gained en
trance to their room at the Gerllnger
hotel last night was, according . to
all right, but ha ha little hope of it waa found to be too steep. 80 work I y ,ncrea8ea f0rces, excellent progress I their statement the harrowing ex-
becomtng a law at thl time. was auspenaea ana notmng m 1 1 being made upon the tunnels, and
The "Willamette' dltrlct has been I done toward nnaing a Deuer rouw 1 tna Columbia river bridge and all lea-
th vrnwer.
In some section woolmen have
i,..n inniinnd to dock heavily because
' - in , t, I 110 1 - - I mi vv.www. - -
h himm of and ana oin in u. 1 en th. nnwrntnt of ex- I until a short time SRO. It now ap- I n tha tm-mn p.haracter
fleecea this year, out n 1 porW and imports through thla city pear tnat tne present pians ot " 1 are in a state or advancement wmcn
cup win b 1 for a number of year,, although th company having the surveys made win 1 makeB certain that they will be ready
lleved the Snake river
rfrtd ln thl manner.
nha inanectlon of the sheep in
th. Quarantine ha
u..n rataait In tha lands of Dr. C.
r n.nnn nf ClarkStOTt. and all
u, .. ...... w. - -
prove feasible and that the road will I wnen the arradlng Is completed. Track-
actually be built that the Potlatch I laying on the coast will begin at Se-
pralrle will eoon be connected witn attle and progress a rapidly a the
the outside world by a railroad. I heavy work ln the Cascade mountain
"Capitalists have at last Degun 10 1 ts completed
realise that we have one of tne nnest
value ot Us exports has really placed
the city third In the list ot exporting
porta of the union. The documents
issued tn this connection periodically
hv fha vovnrnment mention "WUlam-
nf auch sheen that will be taken out .. .. n portnand should be given
of the state or Into the forest re-1 tne croalt) nd a these documents sections of country that the sun ever J wtjeat haisING EM THE
serve will be Inspected oeiore I clrculute largely In foreign countries, I ,hown upon that ln natural re-I UPANDS OF BRAZIL
drive from the winter quarters oegm 1 tne clty 0( portiand. Ore., is com- source, tn climate, and, In fact every-
Report from the saimon m. paratlvely little known, wniie tne 10- thing that goes to make up tne nome consul General George B. Anderson
... tinn atata that shearing Is well I c.ion Q ''Willamette" la only vague- n wn.ith. nleasure and haDbiness. the I . pi- hn.im .tot, that in view
raj-ft. naes in iitirin wunini 11 ... . . 1 . - .. . . . 1 . 1 v v
7 ,h. ., of th eastern alone of advanced there and tne numuor v. ly understood. Tna attempt to nave potlatch prairie la unsurpassed, mey of tne one time gat trade In Amert.
th. oreat Continental Divide, known sheep In that section will o mater- tha matter righted haa been maa know that a railroad through auch 1 L, flour In BraxU, and aa bearing
mtiv inaTHHU uumh. - bsyciw in.it;". ww i 'till ill rv cl. liiib in "nr ill iii'i. umj -.uu - i nnnn inn fiirin niiniiiiii oi uuh aua
year, I there waa Uttla or no opposition great aoal to tne vaju9 0f all property 1 Ior which' many American exporters
I manifested toward It This time th n tne COUntry, but that It will pay now working, in connection with
Grand Rondo Mine xieuis 1 Portland woara 01 iTaae, wrvusu 1 large aivldenda to the stockholders in
perience ot Miss Minnie Jarrett and
Miss Gladys Pierce, two young women
employed In the city, says The Dalles
Chronicle. Today officer ar search
ing for R. Craft the man tor whom
an information waaoflled by District
Attorney Menefee, charged with as
sault with criminal Intent Craft it l
alleged, waa identified by a collar
which he had left when he fled ln
haste last night after being appre
hended. ' Miss Jarrett is 18 year old
and Mlsa Pierce about 1(.
aa th Abaorka 'and Shoshone range.
Th drainage basin of th river
above the Bhoahone dam la about
1100 aquar mllea In extent vartea tn
altitude from 6000 to 11,000 feet, In
clude many high peaks within the
Tallowaton National park, and I re
markable for Ita wild ana rugged
acenery. Th region 1 one 01 neavy
Rnnorta from the up-river country Secretary Muller, called th attention 1 the roaa
. . .i. .. mill re. I of tha Oreson delegation to th mat- I
Uan.lv . tarted on what i locally ter, and although congressmen and
cently started on ww I .,,.. , WOPk an behalf of
"0 th. u.ual re-
nrniiii ......'7- --M ,v. ,it .aam. Imminent
nowfall, I wen umoerea anu. put-1 aDOut 10 tons of ore per uay, 1 . --- -
auant to th wis nauonai policy 011- aranae star.
foreat preservation, 1a inciuoea i- 1 phree six-horse team are at wk
moat entirely within the great Tel-1 httulinB. the mill concentrate from
the mine to North Powder for rail
ahlpment to the smelter. It Is aUo
aid that there are now 160 men at
j- .am Jila-fn4
work in tne uamp w Unndition. Th. trananort which la to
. 1 innaAHinia t nni 1
It aeem. ."." tak the regiment from San Franola
there is o, mucu - -
lowaton. national forest,
Jut below where th two main
fork of th river Join In a narrow
and deep canyon, the almost perpen
dicular granite walls ot which rise to
a height ot several hundred feet '
Through thla gigantic crack tn th
olid rock th melting snow of the
In regard to the transportation of
I the steamer being built for Alaska
waters by the government tn thla city
the Chamber ot Commerce haa been
informed that a commercial vessel
would probably call tor it and carry
it to Alaska in th "knooked down
co to Alaska will not call at Portland
BOlia roca me meiuug -1 nrftnii
entire waterhod Just doaorlbed And "J.anae,.
their only exit carrying 10
during th annual flood season of a
(aw weeka aufflclent water to re
claim many thousand ot aorea of the
way just over the nuia rrora, on her owing to lack ot time.
Grande and In fact "right under la I
WELL IRRIGATE BT PUMP,
Big Reclamation Scheme Near Wal-
lula.
nmnria'a noie.1
Of course all that hauling wouia
come' this way If there had been pro
vided a passable wagon road a few
claim many mousanaa or acre. u. ' i .. .nw tha .,.. thle way. The
a 1 .llltiiSA AJtir n I Ivn w " ... I ..... . . . a
aeeri rnnus i lowor - . . company last year constructea To augment It raoinuea ror rur-
In thla canyon, at a point of almoat Jd of their own out from nUhlng water to a large body of arid
Ideal natural advantage, la being - Qmni Ronde ,n North ,and ln th9 -WBiiuia, autrlot. tha Co
molded th solid wedge of conoret ' . rea.on that ao lumbla Canal company haa placed or-
little la known ln this section about dera ror a Dig iuo-norsepower
what I going on ln the Camp Carson line engine which will be instaUed a
which ia to ha known aa th Shoshone
dam.
Th height of thl towering struc
ture when completed will be 31BH
feet from lowest foundation to creit,
Ita length tut th top from wall to
wall ot th canyon being about 100
common, aaya
not. Smith, a prominent aheep Statesman.
.... wu.,Mktl Wh. Kin,
man or jonn nay, rtuo.j
the Walla ; Walla
Tha big engine will lift water from
100 man ot .-".;-".-.--, .,,. hi tn . hirht of about 10
feet and Ife thlckne-at th bM. mm tht J,,. . . - - -" f;eT;h It wil, be conveyed to
UJT3LFmm in the locaTwoo! warehouse, pay. the th. .adjacent . land.
cured by' mean, of th. form a. w.U Baker City Herald
tnis amuuiit www, -
the preferential tariff reduction Br'
ill offers on American flour, the re
ported result ot recent Official and
private experiments ln wneat grow
ing ln the state of Rio Grande do
Sul are of unusual Interest He re-
A Valuable Dog..
Mention has been made before in
Miumna of the' dot: "Buster"
,.,. h v. Mtv an tha storv was views the outlook aa follows:
told about the services he rendered 'ine state 01 mo unuun -"'
.,in knhn. mhsn thpv Bttnmnt-1 southernmost state ot the Braxillan
1.. in......o .. - r 1 . . .w. . i.h
ed to get away, says The Dalles repuoiic ana uw raw uw-
r.h,ii Tha ntha dav Buster was the coldest climate, has long
' . I i -n Km D.n.lKon atataannan S
left in the park to watch some Indian iwmwv. v ---
prisoners at work there, while Jailer a possible granary' for Braxll. It has
Beatty went on an errand to the peat
house. The Indians were mowing the
lawn; one of them grew thirsty and
started to the fountain to get a drink,
but Buster mistrusting that he want
ed to get away, Jurped on him and
would not let him move from hi
work. When Beatty returned the In
dian told him about the dog"a actions.
To look at the dog one would not con
sider he had much sense, but he has
proven many times his value , to the
city in herding prisoners.
of th. aron being turned piac. the quantity that will be brought
-up .tream to relt the preasur. of th. to - una city ana otner -"
Impounded wat.ra. and tha founda- promises to be almost dnllmlted.
Hon anu ""' - k th. nffor
ed Into tn aoiid granite, m cum- - - rr.vr. tn . .
,..-. . ui form a conoret. of Carnegie to give 110,000 for a H-
monollth of imposing porportlon aa brary in that city Money to purchase
I subscribed.
The power plant will take th plaoe
of a big reservoir which tn. com
pany contemplated constructing at th.
intake ot ita gravity canal at Nin.
Mile bridge on the Walla Walla river.
The Idea of building a reservoir at
that point to Impound flood water,
haa been abandoned owing to the dif
ficulty that would be encountered In
obtaining tha necessary land and tha
necessary water needed for Irrlga-
. Range Grass Plenty.
Joe Prout, one of the forest ranger
patrollng a portion of the north Cas
cade reserve. Is ln the -city today and
tells of bountiful range in the moun
tains this year, says The Dalles
Chronicle. "I think the range Is bet
ter than I ever saw It before," said
Mr. Prout "Even this early ln the
more favored spots the grass la fine
and rank. The mild winter has been
exceptionally kind to mountain Vege
tation arid I predict a fine summer
range for the stock which Is annually
taken onto the Cascade reserve."
Mr. Prout Is ln the city to oonfer
with a party concerning securing the
right to take out poles from the re
serve. ,
been thought that modern and scien
tific culture ot wheat in th state
would do much toward ' removing
Braxll from its presnt necessity of lnv
porting all Its bread stuffs, and there
has been a strong movement xrom
time -to time' toward fixing a higher
duty upon foreign wheat for the pro
tection of the Brazilian product
In line with these ideas and in re
sponse to the demand of capital for
actual practical Information aa to the
poslbilltiea ot wheat growing in Bra
xll, an . organisation waa tormea m
Rio Grande do Sul and a wheat-grow.
Ing expert from ' Germany brought
over to conduct the experiments
This expert has been at work for
the past two seasons, and ln th course
of his work has gone over the pos
sible wheat-bearing area of the state
quit, thoroughly. At first h. exam
ined the country along the railway
from the city ot Rio Grande do Sul
to Base, a distance of about t - 150
miles. '. w
The country in the vicinity of Porto
Novo and Pelotas, citlee ot consider
able impotranee, and a district of
which much was expected, was found
to be entirely unsulted to wheat grow
ing. Further In the interior better
results were had, and the country
about th. river Candiota, Jaguarao,
Fine Sheep Ranch.
W. P. " Carter of Caldwell, haa a
contract for building the laterals that
will carry water over that portion ot
the old Marsh ft Ireton farms, recent
ly purchased by Mr. Moore, which has
heretofore been unwatered. ' There
are 80 teams working on the ditch
and 15 men on leveling the remaining
portion of the farm. The whole tract
will be stocked with thorobred sheep
where great numbers of these animals
will be raised for sale. There will bo
no animals on the farm except regis
tered jatock and as It contains about
825 acres this will be one of the finest
sheep ranches ln the northwest Mr.
Moore, owner of the farm. Is now at
tha nlaa vlattlnar. where Mrs. Moore
is taking treatment under nr. ripi ,M
who has an interest tn the place.-
Emmett Index. . . . . , x
Celebrated Elopement '
Fifty years ago Mr. and Mrs. John
W. Frits and Mr. and Mr. William J.
Abbott ,of Urbana, Ohio, eloped to
Westfleld and were married. They
escaped from their parents on horse
back over roads impassable to car
riages. This week, on the 60th anni
versary of the event they went over
the same route and were married over
again at Westfleld. but thla time they
were whirled along ln automobiles at
the rate of SO miles an hour.
Warning to Mothers. .
A writer in the National Dally
says: I give you. a valuable article
ln which one mother warns other not
to cover electric Ught bulb with
colored stockings or anything else, but
to make a shield for one side of th
light with . asbestos or something
which cannot catch fire. She makes
mention of the fact her baby wa
blinded for life by a bursting eleotria
light bulb, so kindly send out warn
ing which should be appreciated.
A Sign of the
Wanted."
Times;
"Situation
mty.