Sherman County observer., May 23, 1913, Image 1

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B rie f News Of the W eek
C J.B u o h t , W .C.B mtant , M .G.B l l u .
Bright, Bryant & Ellis,
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
A t t o r n e y r - r V-I jiw *
o ffic e s a t
Week.
Th< D a lle * and M o ro , O re.
nott has pored over the statistics or
the wool industry and has analyzed
the ta riff testimony on the same sub­
ject until he has become pretty well
R. R. Butler
A tto r n e y -a t-la w
M a s o n ic
Three El
•a t fam ily of lumbermen, deciarqu
the removal of ta riff on lumber would
h .v . little or no effect on the Industry
Referí
-Act Becomes
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August 10.
Op
in the United States.
"1 can aee no reason why the lu m ­
bermen of the United States cannot
easily adjust themselves to the remov­
al of ta riff without any apparent ef­
fort.** stated Mr. Weyerhaeuser. “The
tariff, as It stands. Is so low that the
removal w ill not /erlously affect the
toangiry* W e aso not worrying.* M
which he believes Io being done to-
the wool growers. On May 6 he In
troduoed an amendment to the bill
putting woolen manufactures on the
free list, and In support of It he spoke
HÂîlding
Likely to Invoke
Stanford University President Resigns
Palo Alto, CaL— Dr. David S tarr Jor­
dan, president of Stanford University,
resigned hla position to accept the
nfflr« of chancellor which w ill be cre-
In part as follows:
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“Mr. Chairman, this hill alms to put
the Iniquities of schedule K almost
wholly upon the wool raiser. Gentle­
men said, the other day, that there was
Invested In woolen manufactures $415,-
MORO.
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OREGON 000,000. In sheep raising of thia na­
tion the census shows an Investment
of $51$,000,000. One la as much de­
1st to 15th of each month.
serving as the othef. lnqnto£„J|BA£a.
— Office opposite Dr». Goffin
the coat of sheep raising In Oregon,
based on 229,000 sheep, and with wool
WASCO.
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OREGON selling at 14 cents a pound, shows the
profit on those sheep would be about
$50,000. If the price drops 4 cents a
16th to 30th of each month.
Office opp. McCoy. Atwood Co i pound, the loss on those sheep w ill be
, $16,000. But there are 2,000,000 sheep
la my district alone.”
J. R. Morgan ,
□ D e n t is t
The bill Incorporating the Rocke­
feller Foundation to promote the well­
being of mankind throughout the
world has been signed at Albany, N, Y, I
by Governor Sulzer.
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A fierce tornado swept through a
district one block wide and 16 blocks
long in Seward, Neb., Stilling 10 per­
sons and Injuring 40 more.
„ Harper's Weekly has been sold at I
New York to "Norman Hapgood and
associates,’* according to a statement
given out by Colonel George Harvey, I
Democrats Grant Concessions
Regarding Publicity of
T a riff Hearings.
î)T o p in
canned
c^oods
Its editor.
Tbe first meeting of the executive
oommlttee of the Republican national 1
committee since the November elec­
tion will be held in Washington Sat
urday.
W ltbia California the act has en­
oown b red tip is hostility which may
F airbanks, Alaska, Is on an enforced
vegetable diet, Its en tire supply of
delay Its actuality until November, m eat having been exhausted. No m eat
1>13. In the flrwt place, the demo­ will be available until th e arriv al of
crats opposed state legislation kt this 1 a ca ttle ship m en t-Ju n e 10.
time, as a matter of party regularity.
T he Canadian governm ent dem ands
The Asiatic Exclusion League, an about $500,000 from the U nited S tates
organization of which the president for lum ber used In 1900 to construct
la Olaf Tveltmoo, recently convicted th e m ilitary b arrack s a t Eagle City,
of complicity In the national dynamite Kan. Canada claim s th at th e United
plot originating 1© Indianapolis, an­ S tates bought this lum ber from a man
Australian Beef CuU L iv in g uosx.
nounced that It would Invoke the ref­ named Howard Page, who cut It from
San Francisco.— A nation-wide fight
erendum purely because It opposes the h er dom ains w ithout a perm it.
on the beef trust through tbe Impor
In what Is said to* be the first decis­
tatlon of Australian beef, which has bill as faint-hearted.
4 " Thirdly, the powerful Panama Pa­ ion o< Its ktnd, th e W isconsin Rail ­
lowered the price of meats here from
cific International Exposition com­ way commission ordered a physical
20 to 26 per cent, la believed a cer
pany, backed by many chambers of connection made betw een th e locnl
talnty. The first big shipment from
1 lines of the La Crosse Telephone com
tbe south sees, 200 tons, which arrived
‘ pany, an Independent concern, and the
here. Immediately found Its way Into
toll lines of the W isconsin Telephone
nearly 200 butchershope. The foreign
company, and the Am erican Telephone
beef has met tbe requirements of the
A Telegraph company.
United State inspection'laws and Is
It was developed at Chicago at the
in great demand b Z , ®an Francisco
-Rearing conducted by a legislative
housewives.
com m ittee to investigate charitable
'Wsrnghi K,
lenunciation of secret consideration of
h e bill.
Two Democrat». S en ato r. " . U d e l l
ind Thornton, of Louisiana, voted for
h e Republican am endm ent. S enator
Poindexter, of W ashington, Progres-
sive, voted with th e m ajority. Sena-
lor Jones, of W ashington, Republics»,
I
Thoy put 00 many things in
car.B now. I do not see how
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P u b llc A u c tio n e e r
passing measures that have been re­
jected by tbe people through the Ini­
and open dates address tbe
Sherman County Observer al
M O RO , OREGON-
U S YOUR1
ORDERS
FOR
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tiative or referendum.
The resolution recommending that
the state furnish uniforms fo r public
school children and that the school
districts furnish free lunches at noon
-was defeated.
The committee to
which it was referred recommended
that it do not pass and the committee
report was adopted without extended
1-discussion.
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That mortgagM on farm property be
| exempted from taxation provided the depend.
f rate of interest la 6 per cent or less
Wage Cut la Threatened.
was the gist of a resolution which
Chicago— A cut to -th e starvation
was adopted. If the terms of this
point In the wages of women workers
resolution are enacted Into law it will
In Illinois, provided an eight-hour law
have the effect of making 6 per cent
is passed, was threatened in open hear­
the maximum rate of interest In this
ing before tbe state senate subcom­
state on loans on farm mortgages.
mittee on labor.
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Cornering
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PRINTIN'
THE WORK »
THE BEST
THE PRICE IS,
1 RIGHT
May 28th
TO
Sept. 30th
YOU CAN GET
A
VOW
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PROM
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TO T H E
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Principal Cities In the East
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San Francisco.— Details have juai
been made public here of the plan of
the secretary of war to hold two ex
perimental m ilitary camps of Instruc­
tion for students of educational Instl
tutlons during the summer vacation
period, coupled with the announce­
ment that If they prove a success
they w ill be held annually, one In egg»
of tbe four sections of the country-
The announced object of the»«
camps la, prim arily, to Increase the
present Inadequate personnel of the
trained m ilitary reserve of the United
State» by a class of men from whom,
In time of national emergency, a lar^e
proportion of the commissioned offi­
cers w ill be drawn, and on whose m ili­
tary Judgment at such a time tbe lives
of many other men w ill in a measure
« h O B r.rlo u .ly had determined to vote |
.
Chicago . $ 72.50 Denver
55.00
New York 108.50 Omaha . . 60.00
Phtldslphia 108.50 Boston
110.00
St. Paul ?. 60.00 Mlnnesplw 60.00
return limit October 31»t.
C aually low Round T ris Feres to
ttrootisally a ll o th er points Boot.
W heat on Pacific co aet. i ; A rb itratio n
W ins C incinnati
S trik e .
Portland.— Not more than 600,000 j I Cincinnati. — Conference« between
bushels of wheat remain unsold In » ! representatives of the Cincinnati Trac-
farmers’ hands In territory tributary , | tlon company and leaders of the strik-
to Portland. Some dealers estim ate. J Ing street car men’s union ended In
from their warehouse figures, that the , an agreement by which tbe strike was
supply does not exceed 260,000 bush declared off.
els. This Is, for all practical purposes,
a clean-up of northwest stocks. Never
T H E MARKETS.
before In tbe history of the trade, has
the supply been reduced to such small
Portland.
proportions at this time of year.
Wheat—Club, 90c; bluestem,
This condition la the result of ex red Russian, 87c.
tensive but quiet buying that baB been
Hay—Timothy, $16; alfalfa,
going on In eastern Oregon and east M Butter— Creamery, 28c.
I ern Washington In the last few days.
Eggs— Candled, 21c.
Estimates of tbe amount purchased
H ops—1912 crop, 14c.
In this period range from 750,000 »o
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 16c;
1,00*0.000 bushels. Almost all the buy­ lamette valley, 18c.
ing was done by Portland speculators.
found u
Bryan Replies to Ja p an ’s Protest.
S ecretary Bryan handed A m bassa­
dor Chlnda the reply «4 the U nited
S tates governm ent to the Japanese
p ro test against the California alien
land legislation. The am bassador Im­
m ediately cabled it to Toklo. No
Indication as to th e nature of the re-
“ A m urs!” tguanacoi whispered one,
as they crouched low 1» tbe boeL
“ Kill” and be pointed to tb e rifle be­
side ine In tbe stern sh e e ts Tbe gold­
en brown of the w hite breasted, deer-
llkJT^nlmal »total out, a little note of
color, com pldtnenting strongly against
the venlnnt green of tbe dark, wet for­
est side, but well out of range. 1 had
seen the Indian fcunnaco skin capas
,cloak»» sold by the fu r dealers of P un­
ta Arena», hut th is 'w a a my first
glimpse ot the animal Itself, m any
thousands pf which I saw later during
my ex (»editions through Plerra del Fue-
m nod Patagonia. "You are • quest
postrophlxed an Ar­
as he and Captain
viewed a solitary gun-
naco. “You have the neigh of a horse,
the wool of a sheep, the neck of a cam­
el, the. feet of a deer, and tbe swift­
ness of the devil.” Yet withal a grace­
ful animal nnd at a distance not unlike
red deer, though larger.-Outing.
In a chair suspended on poles. The
natives started out with great cheer,
but as the Journey progressed and the
sun beat down upon them they began
to chant a yrayer to Allah. It was
melodious, though a bit mournful. Its
coostaut re,»etitlon was soothing, and
the lady doted. On awakening, the
prayer, grown more mournful, almost
despairing, was still being Intoned.
Turning to her Interpreter ®b® "8ke<1
the meaning of the mysterious words.
The Interpreter pretended not to bear,
but being pressed for an answer final­
ly bowed low and said:
“ Madam. sinew you Insist, they pray
that the great Allah may make you
lox» f a t ” —Chicago Tribune.
Seattle.
from tbe HollandiAmerIcan Steamship
Wheat— Bluestem, 99c;
company $8169 for Ruch treatment, hut
King Pster to Abdloate.
red Russian. 880.
the court, In finding for the defend­
Geneva, Swltserland.— King Peter,
Eggs— 20c.
Senator Makes Impression on Secre­
ants, declared th it the Immigration of Servla, Intends to abdicate as soon
Butter— Creamery, 29c.
tary of Interior.
laws make no prdeglon for the steam­ as he possibly can after peacerin the
Hay—Timothy, $18 per ton; alfalfa,
Washington.— Senator Lane, of Ore­
ship company to pay for medical treat­ Balkan states and Turkey has been
gon, appeared before Secretary of the $12 per ton.
ment for ailing alMB. Unless over-
Interior Lane and put In a bid for the
Senator Chamberlain’s resolution
PRESENCE OF MIND.
allotment of money from the reclama­
inspired authors
proposing a woman suffrage amend­
tion fund sufficient for the construe
ment to the constitution has been fav­
tlon òf the We«t U m atilla and Dea- A W o m a n ’s Cool N e rv e In a M o m sn t of
D eadly P e ril.
orably reported by the senate commit­
chutei Irrigation* projects. H e not
An Englishman In traveling through
tee on woman suffrage. ,
only demonstrated the equity of Ore­
Ceylon was the guest of a dockyard
One thousand financial experts will
gon’s claim against the reclamation
be asked a series of questions prepar­
fund, but pointed out the feasibility official a t Trincomalee.
“Tbe dinner was excellent” he says, candidate for president of the uniteo
ed by Senators Owen of Oklahoma and
and desirability of both projects, and “bat when It was about half over 1 States will be W illiam B. Borah of
Hitchcock of Nebraska, hearing upon
then showed Secretary Lane where was startled by hearing the w ife of
Idaho.”
the proposed Democratic currency re­
funds could he found ample to build my host toll the native servant to
More than a year before Woodrow
form measure.
I these two project«.
place a bowl of milk on a deer skin Wilson’s nomination H arper’s made a
On (he night of March 4 there were
As Senator Lane concluded hla state near her chair.
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sim ilar prediction, which fact Is re­
stolen from the navy department the
“Although she spoke as calmly as if
ment he was congratulated by Secre­
Fimilly
I
coins
to
know
them
very
ferred to editorially ?hy the New York
well and dl»«*over what it 1» they are plans showing the general arrange­
tary Lane, who told him hla was the giving i n ordinary order, I knew at
'Sun.
driving nt and why It la they have ment of the decks and hatches and
*mo«t encouraging talk" he had heard once there was a snake somewhere In
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In the course of the hearings covering the room, for they prefer milk to any Cuban Makes Flight Across Strait. Mid and dune tbe things I have been oom plats method ot electric wiring
thing else. As > hasty mosement
moved to set down."
and control of firing guns of the new
the past two weeks.
Havana.— Doming«» Roalllo, tha Cu­
Other writers and painters, too. hax
might have meant certain death, ws
battleship Pennsylvania. A few days
all sat like statues; b u t for all that, ban aviator, made the first flight ever d w .rtl»e<l lb » "
later, what are described as “duplicate
Land to Be Resovsrsd by Btats.
my «yes were Inspecting every nook accomplished by k Cuban eirjnan wav William Blake was positive ano 1
Salem.— Suit to recover about 80,000 and corner, with a peep under tbe ta­ across the Florida- Straits from shore emphatic In describing himself a« « plans” were missed from the navy de­
acres of lieu land, alleged to have been ble. However, It was not until tbe to shore. He started from Key Wsst, mere amanuensis, writing down the partm ent Neither theft was made
fraudulently selected during the no­ milk was placed on tbe deer skin that making the passage to Havana of 90 word, that were audibly spoken to 1 public until recently.
Secretary Redfield’s broad intima­
him. and he painted In the same way
torious Hyds and Benson operations the snake appeared. And then, to onr miles In 2 hours and 85 minutes.
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from . model set befors hto eyes and tion to business that the federal gov­
In this state, w ill he started Just as amazement, a large cobra uncoiled
Rodlo. th
ernment would Investigate cuts in
soon as Attorney General Crawford Itself from my hostess' ankle and Dynamite Cruiser ; Root by Torpedo. visible to him alone.
French sculptor, gave fils asseutloths wages that looked like reprisals for
rocelvea from Washington, D. CM the glided toward the howl, when, of
Newport, R. I.^ T h o torpedo boat M me Ides of models visible to tbe eye
the passage of the ta riff bill brogght,
checked-over list ho left at the general coarse. It was Immediately killed.
“ But Just fancy the nerve of the Vesuvius was struck by one of Its of the artist. Dickens said that ffi» out a sharp crossfire of speech In the
land office upon hla recent Malt to
woman, though she fainted when-the own'torpedoes and was beached on characters were actually visible and house between Chairman Underwood,
the capital. The attorney general ex- thing lay dead on tbe floor. How Hope Island, Nafragansett Bay, when audible to him. and It will be
' of the ways and means committee, and
many could have remained motionless the Uvea of those on board seemed Im­ bared that .“ Ruble Khan" was 01« t«t
I Representative MoodaU. Bspuhhcaa.
la such circumstances 7” —London Tit- periled by the wstdfg which rushed to «d to Coleridge wMIo hs slept- Lon
LANE PLEADS FOR 0RE60N
,
mta.
through a two-tooh hole Mtorw.
And
M ELO Y’S
em peror, and Prince E rn st Aflgust,
son of the Duke of Cum berland.
H. E. Magill, recently appointed city
ow nership bill to r more drastic than clerk of Oakland, Cal., com m itted sui­
th e bill recently passed by the Califor­ cide by Jumping from the fourteenth
nia leg islatu re has been signed by Gov­ story of the new city hall.
ernor Hunt, follow >g Its passage by
Ex-President T aft has delivered an­
.both bouses of the state legislature.
oth er political lecture a t Yale. He
The new law makes It Impossible said that state wide prim aries are “ex­
for aliens of any color to hold land trem e m easures of political reform ,
unless th ey have declared their in ten ­ and th a t a national prim ary for the
tion of becoming citizens. Non-citizens election of a president and o th er na
now holding land w »11 be compelled to tlonal officers is “alm ost beyond
dispose of I t within five years. Min­ thought.
ing claims or Property necessary to
Bishop W illiam Cressw ell Doane, ox i
the working of dglncs alone Is exempt- the Albany diocese of the P ro te sta n t I
Episcopal church, is dead a t th e Hotel I
M anhattan in New York, x
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Countess L adlslaus Szechenyl, for­
m erly Gladys V anderbilt, is expected
to retu rn to A m erica w ith h er hus­
band, who, according to advices re |
celved from Budapest, leaves th a t city
because he has lost more than $4,000.
district court w ill cost the United 000 of the V anderbilt fortune In disas­
State« government about $1,000,000 a
trous speculations.
year from now ©n it hold« that the “ Charles P. Neill has accepted a sal
government must pay for medical aid ary of $20,000 per year to supervise
to aliens brought to this country and labor conditions for th e American
found after th e ir arrival at Bilia Ialand Sm elting & Refining com pany—the
to be suffering from some temporary sm elter tru st. He has tendered his
contagious disease
resignation a t W aehington as V nlted
Ths government sought to collect S tate s com m issioner of labor.
Bill More Drastic Than v a iu o r n ia •.
Phoenix, Arts.— An anti alien land
a<(
against public hearings, announced
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Just before the rollcall th a t he had Diamond W car.B.
chalfged his mlml because the finance
Your frie n d
subcom m ittees w ere giving p rivate
JACOB,
hearings to some Interests which he
thought should be public.
P. S. You go « h e r. you c .
P resid en t W ilson came out strongly i g8t Diamond W things in cans,
as th e cham pion of free wool and free
sugar-ln-three-years, as
‘ W hile dem ocratic
senators
are
w restling with home m anufactures,
protesting against num erous rate s In
the Underwbod hill, they are confront­
ed also by p ro tests from foreign coun­
tries against adm inistrative features
of th e bill and the provisions th a t
would g ran t a 6 per cent reduction of
the duty on Imports In /Vmerlcan bot­
toms.
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P ro te sts from England. Germany,
France, Italy. A ustralia and other
countries have been lodged w ith the
sta te departm ent and com m unicated to
the finance com mittee.
From many countries have come
p ro tests against th a t new provision
in th e bill which would give the sec­
reta ry of the treasu ry the authority
to exclude from entry goods of m er­
ch an ts or m anufacturers who refuse
to subm it for Inspection by U nited
S tates agents th eir accounts p ertain ­
ing to valuations or classification of
I m erchandise w henever disputes arise.
spond to the Japanese appeal for a dis
continuance of ihs alleged discrimin­
ation would be likely to lead to some
estrangement of the peoples. The Jap­
anese public gdu rally Is convinced
that the land bill is a racial and not
an economic met^ure and hence a
blow to national pr>de, and the people
feel that the world muBt be taught
the necessity of equal treatment for
the whites and non whites.
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things th a t come in canfl are
always fresh because the cans
k e 0 p the a ir out. The grocer
ffian
ffi3 th a t the very b est
Successor to I)r. Ó. J» Goffin
M o r o , O re g o n .
by O atca ult A d .e ru a 'a g C o ., C k<
Tlicre whs ouly one piece of pudding
for dinner, and Mrs. Jones divided It
between her children, Ned aud Grace.
Ned looked first ut his piece and then
at hlx mother’s empty plate. “Mother,
he xnid. “ I don’t think I can eat my
pudding while you hnvent any." "W hy,
Ned." »aid the mother, much pleased,
“how unselfish you are. dear! Rut, you
see. my boy. there la no more pud­
ding.” ” 1 know that, mother. You
take Grace's!” —Ixmdon Mall.
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On# Exception.
“ Where there’s a
ways h loser."
••Not always.”
"Well, nume an li
trary.”
“ When yon’re pi
your trlrl for klssee.
Unfeeling.
Benham- I ’m afraid the doctor’s
to* high Benham—Bnt he sav-
life. Mrs. B'ubain—That’s what
pounds. But even the leaamg
of Hongkong usually obtain It in cut
form '
Wsmsife Way»
“What's the latest among tbs suf.
fra gists T”
,
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“ Mrs. Wallaby called Mrat Wombat
a deliberate and unqualified gbber."
“to'ar me! Have women coma to
that? W hat happened n o x tr
“Then they both cried, kissed and
made up, and wo an went to a bargata