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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1914)
Moi-o, S h e r m a n C o u n tv , UNITED. STATES GENERAL PANCHO W À •tg t Remove» Uaot OboftrueUoft to Flow of Water. The Dalle». O r^-A bout M par cant of the work on The Dallea-Celilo canal waa completed whan 10, BOO pound» oi powdar were exploded by the pressing Senators Desiring to Speak on of an electric button. The t o t ob Woman Suffrage Question structton to water flowing from and to and waa blown o u t : Witt Delay Voting. The completion of thia important Improvement w ill give a large portion w .ahingtnn — W ith their minds pre of the Inland Empire the benefit ot aooupled with Immigration problems, water transportation. I t w ill open tc trust legislation, treaty obligations and ■team boat navigation the Columbia President Wilson's determination for river from Priest Rapids to the aea. a reversal of policy on the Panama tolls distance of about 400 miles, and dap, question, administration leaders In lag the greater portion ot the year the congres» had almost forgotten thkl Snake river from Lewiston to the sen they w w n to * « • wlth U e equAi a distance of about 466 miles. < Cievdiand, Ohio—County Attorney provide tor a eonatitutional ameud- Locher received instructions from A t torney General Hogan to see John D Rockefeller for hl» personal taxes The Cuyahoga county authorities hoc estimated approximately >12,000,<MX was doe them. ment extending anffrag« to won»»« wo» first <m the calendar of buelnee» In the senate. Senator Ashurst, who Is guiding the destinies of the resolu turn, doe» not expect It to come to a vote because several Senator» served him with nolle» that when the subject did come up they would like to din Hiey T h in k Abroad W o Are Forming a New Language Here. • i* ” i frith Peat Than of W Ü Tennyson has by his fellow w killed three b id he apol e of T en Jingling medley o severely handled ' Bulwer-Lytton h a stone when led contatta, and out-gltttor- Out-bsbylag Woe * ins Keats- - George Meredi G rail” that “the the figures Sev stuff is not the i man has got boh line and bang» “Idyll» of the Ki drapery for the But, then, T Meredith that- wading tbroughi Fifty or More Passengers and Crew Believed to Have Perished in Tunnel. nald of the "Iloly Cumbre, Mexico.— Nothing but char red bone» and buttons were found by the rescuing party which, by the aid of oxygen helmets and pulmoters, suc ceeded In penetrating the Cumbre tun uel from the south portal as far aa the Kb* of ladles.” locomotive and first two car» of the n o n once 80 of passenger train. They were probably B ig btm was like killed when the engine of the paaeen- K And If Meredith «¡«re sutin lengths, Why, this ■Mt's tnuaery. The !The muse’s clothe»- rlth Jewelry.*** The Sire "yards of llneu I ' ’ ( | cues it. i Action on the repeal of the section of the Panama Canal act exempting V illa, leader of the rebel army In SAWDUST HAS MANY USES. American coastwise ships from toll* ......... . Northern Mexico. 1» expected in the course of the week, Washington.— Notable lmprovemenl the president’! purpose in the subject 1 Brief Hew» of the Week In the relations between the United now being thoroughly understood by The Canadian hones of common» administration leaders. voted down a bill to abolish titles. | States and Japan la believed to hev< Money Order Servloe Is Enlarged. For the first time since the civil resulted from the events In the houst By President Wilson'« signature, the of representatives Inst week connect war the enlistment complement of the ed with the passage of the Burnett im bill to regulate the payment of postal United State» navy la fulL migration* bill. Reports from T okk money orders became a law of the The Jim Crow law of Oklahoma was are to the effect that a profound im land. The new statute will not be topheld by the United States dletrlct pression was caused In the Jopanead i come effective, however, until rules court of appeals, at S t Louis. capital, not only by the refusal of tht and regulations for Its operation are Warnings against operations o f , house to Include in the bill the pro promulgated by the postmaster gener •windier» by promotion of worthless posed prohibition against th e entry oi al. The bill provides for the issuance good okl days and that was im unim portant product, which anyb- dy could stocks In socalled radffem Aines In Japanese Into the United Stites, but e( postal money orders payable at any hove for the asking. Now the saw Colorado, ore sent out by United even more by the non-partisan appeal money order office even though drawn dust Wholesaler will tell you that saw States postal Inspectors. on a specified office and will, accord dust is a very valuable product and of Representative Mann. - Twelve hundred ebeep died instant the sawdust buelaesa is offering The Japaneee statesmen ere declay ing to the postmaster general, greatly ly on the trad from Rhyolite to Raw ed to have been much pleased, by th» increase the postal money order bus greater qpporti nltlea. | There are el» >ut sixty kinds of saw hide, Nevada, an result o^drlnklng cy house's reception of ¿he appeal for fait lness and be a great convenience tc dust on the m rket, so say» the saw anide solution from a millpond of s treatment Of allene and tor abstention business. * ’ dust expert, anti all of them have their mining company. ___ _ ' [ from legislative interference with th< Measure to Help Irrigation Section». stated nsee in t »e realm of trade. * Witnesses for defuins In the govesm^ eaecutlve department in Its efforts tc Representative Klnkald of Nebraska All the way from the preparation of want's .suit to dieoolve the United arrive at a settlement of the open I» has Introduced a bill which provide» food to the poll hing of precious metal States Steel corporation. In New York, | eee between the two countries. - for cooperation between the secretary ranges the nsefvlness of sawdust. The testified that there wee so price agree ' of the Interior and Irrigation districts hardwood dust* are used for polishing m e a t They said competition fixed ( organized under state law». This bill la eomo Jewelers' »hope and cheaper eawdusts are used for polishing less prices. authorises the secretary ot the Inter The sixth National Coro exposition J 1 for to make contracts with state irri- valuable metnl work. I d packing and w«a opened In Dallas. Texas» Twee ( 1 gatlon districts to conatruct reservoir» day. Nearly all the states of the union r and canals gnd IO operate them far ■ -le v e displays at the exposition. | the purpose of furnishing water to French people have subscribed <1. each districts with power to terminate Legend ef ■ u ek i jham Palaoe. 200,000 for use in supplying the 1 the operation of such reservoirs and If William IV. bad gained his way French army with 210 aeroplanes, de Buckingham palace would be serving fray expense of teaching 76 pilots how gallon dletricts on the payment to the es parliament house Two day» a fte r to operate them. government of the actual cost of con the old houses Of p a rlia m e n t were The British parliament assembled then struction and operation, by monies Imrned Lord Brough n. who first commtolener of works, records In (he first of the week for what prom raised by the Irrigation districts isee to be an unusually notable see through the levying of taxes on the hl» (Mary: "W ent to St James’ and saw »ion. The Irish home rule, the Welsh Y. M. C. A. Meeting May be Repeatod. lauds of the water user», payment t< hfa m ajesty, I can n o t say he was much affected by the calam ity, rather disestablishment bill and other great Vancouver, Wash.— The T ri State ba made ta installment». the reverse. H e geemed delighted nt controversial measures will come up convention of Young Men’» Christian Wlleen Wants Warship». j v of getting rid of for action. aeaociatlor.E of Washington. Idaho and said he m e a n t It Unqualified Indorsement from Previ | The house of delegates of Virginia Oregon, which met here, was so in t for p arliam en t dent Wilson 1» behind the tw o-battlr « passed the bill requiring the governoi structive. harmonious and enthuslas ship program proposed by Secretary i to make form al request of J. P. Mor tic that there 1» every possibility that Daniela for the coming naval appropri- 1 gen, of New York, to return to tto« a Trl-8tate convention w ill be held atlon b lit This- was made known at < record» of Fairfax county, the w ill ol again next year. the White House, when caller» a«ked 1 Mrs. Martha Washington, stolen from about Mr. Daniels* testimony recently Fairfax county court house during th». Trial Coat la >250,00G before the house naval affairs com- ‘ oivll war. The document now la al San FYanclsco.—The coat of the mittee. , the Morgan private museum. ' Western Fuel Company conspiracy The general board of the navy bead- . Thirty-one thousand farmers and trial In the United States District ed by Admiral Dewey, advocated a I peasants marched at Stockholm and Court here was estimated to have more elaborate construction program, I encamped near the palace. Ring Oua while the eppouents in congress of a I reached a total of >260,000. tave addressed the gathering when “big navy" are not inclined to approve ] they demanded a larger navy end Bridge Bill Is Signed. even recommendations of the secre pledged themselves to make the nec Washington.— President W’llson has tary. W ith the support of the admin i essary sacrifices to raise the money signed the bill authorising coastrue Istratien, howeVer, those favoring pro- 1 The farmers and peasants are exer tlon of the Portland-Vancouver hridgs vision for two dreadnoughts are satis deed over the possibility of a clash eeroes the Columbia river. _ fied that the necessary appropriation will go through both houses without difficulty. Power Plan la Offered. I p le n tifu l h e re — Lile iniurance premium« paid to other com- panie» are one of O regon s £reate«t drains. Twenty-five million dollar» of Oregon money ha» accumulated, is held in trust by outside life iniurance companies, and i« u«ed fof the bene fit of California, Wi«con»in. ‘New Y ork and other state«. , , The personal interest of men loyal to Oregon is to lend their influence that lifie iniurance be OrcsuttS purchased from and the money kept in Oregon for the development of Oregon , BEST FOR OREGONIANS Home Office - - Portland, Oregon W. H. Ragsdale Resident iAgent, Moro, Oregon DR. HOWARD A. KELLEY Uuless they are fairly conversant with current transatlantic Action, and, above all, with the newspapers of to- 3ay, Englishmen do not realize that a new language aeema In process o f for mation In the United States. A Dan ish savant, the professor of languages at the Copenhagen university, has pre dicted that In a few centuries “they will be speaking American over in England Instead of English.” He Is also of the opinion that “the so called alang of the present American tongue la far more poetical, picturesque and serviceable than the English of Shakes pee re*■ time.“ Making allowance for a curtain ex aggeration. thbuexpreealoa of opinion la notable as showing that an expert Into the tannel by Castillo*» bandit» several hour» before. It Is now believed that every one of the BO or more passengers and the crew aboard the train when It dashed Into the tunnel are dead. 1 A new portrait of General Pancho s h a re In th e g e n eral p ro s p e rity of O re- goto w hen O regon is p ro sp e ro u s. P ro s- p e r i t y can o n ly e x ist w hen m o n e y is ENGLISH. iRITICS. ANAL NEARS Railroad men ore furious at Castil lo’s act. Last week 21 of his men were captured and executed by the rebels and the next day, apparently In re venge, he captured the freight train, ran it Into the south end of the tunnel about 300 feet and there set fire to it. Castillo's failure to send back warn ing of his act is regarded as the most cruel and murderous act of his careei of outlawry and there is a disposition here to criticise General Francisco Villa for not having crushed him long to be in course of development. Ameri can slang la certainly more forceful and expressive than the argot of the British Isles, and, although much of It la quite unnecessary. It consists In large part o f 4he employment of very ap to date metaphor, rather than the use of "cant phrases." n t they were termed In the eighteenth century. In fact, the use of metaphor 1» so pronounced that an Englishman, oth Dr, Howard A. Kelley, the Baltimore erwise Ignorant of “good United States M phyeTcTSn who is an authority on the lingo” might understand much of It If radium treatment of cancer. he were conversant with the technical terms employed In engineering or rail CONFER way operations. It la creeping Into GOVERNORS WILL English rather rapidly, a fact heartily Secretary Lane Invitee Discussion of to tie deplored.—London Globa. , Reclamation W ork. SWEET POTATOES IN JAPAN People in the News Monday waa widely observed as tht centennial anniversary of the birth el Samuel J. Tilden, the eminent states man and democratic candidate foi president in 1876. Because the blank fuunisbed hci names “it" and ‘him.'' Dr. Anna How erd Shaw, president of the National Woman’« Suffrage association, refuses to place a valuation on her personal property. In an address before the Connecticut Bar association ex-l’resldent Taft de fended the judiciary, declaring that demagogues were responsible for the attacks on the present system. Mayor Rolph of San Francisco, and other city officials, publicly burned opium, morphine, and smokers’ lay outs, valued at more than |25,OOO. The goods bad been accumulating since ( c t g > I ' ’ « , Denver.—Governor Ammons has re ceived a communication from Frank lin K. I^ine, secretary of the Interior, suggesting that a meeting of gove» nor« of western »tateB and Individuals Interested in reclamation projects be held soon to discuss in detail the ques tion« of irrigation and reclamation of arid lauds of the west. Secretary laine suggested that the meeting be held simultaneously with the Western Governor»' Conference, which 1» to convene In Denver, probably In April. In accordance with the secretary's communication, Governor Ammons sent a statement to western governors setting forth his idoa of ‘.he conference and suggesting the second week In April as a suitable date, _ • Fall K ills Arm y Flyar. San Diego. Cal.—Lieutenant Henry B. Post, of the First Aero Corps, con sidered one of the most skillful United States army aviators, plunged to his death in Ban Diego bay when the right roast potatoes annually totals more wing of his hydroaeroplane crumpled. than 1,000.000 yen. In no country In He was descending, after establishing May, 1W £ W. R. Scott, general manager of the the world can the px»r people get pure, an American altitude record of 12,120 Southern Pacific road, has been named wholesome food more conveniently and feet. Post fell 600 feet Into shallow -------- ~ as successor of E. E. Colvin, vice pres economically than in Japan. Whether water. Ident, in charge of maintenance, opera one gets a box of rice will* pickles and dry fish In a station or n pot of tea for Wages Higher on Canal. tlon and construction. cents on the train. It Is always Panama.—Colonel Goethals, on re Superintendent Reed of the St. dean and attractively served — Detroit ceipt of notification that President Cloud, Minn., reformatory. Is said to News Tribune. Wilson had signed an executive order have been selected as successor to fixing the conantons of employment Warden Wolfer of the Minnesota state Real Founders of Russian Muslo. penitentiary. Reed was formerly head Tho old saying that a man must de in the permanent canal organisation, of the Washington state penitentiary vote his whole life to one thing to lie- began arranging the wage scale, which come really great finds a curious ex will be 25 per cent higher than to the at Walla Walla. Frank P. Glass of Alabama lost his ception Iti the founders of the new Rus- United States for similar work. fight for a seat In the United States | slnn music. The most brilliant men In senate by one vote. Glass was not this work all originally followed other lines. Tscbnlkowsky was a lawyer; entitled to be seated because his ap Caesar Cut was professor of fortifica pointment by Governor O’Neal came tlons In the Military Academy of St. after the direct legislation law went Petersburg and Is today lieutenant gen Into effect. eral of Russian engineers; Borodina was a physician; Rluisky-Korsakov was on olheer in the Russian navy; THE TRUTH. Balnleff wna a timber merchant; Mous- sorgsky wna a soldier,' being an of Fear is not in the habit of speak- ficer In one of the most famous regi ing truth. W h e n perfect sincerity ments, and Sokalsky was in the diplo is expected, perfect wisdom must be matic service, being stationed for sev »'lowed. N o r hat *ny one who is eral years in New York and afterward apt to be angry when he heart the becoming editor of the principal news truth any cause to wonder that he paper of O dessa.-Ladies’ Home Jour does not hear it.— Tacitus. nal. Governor West Is made a* joint do fendant with the two officer» In the Ths 8k«ptioism of Posterity. There Is one very large, very snd action and, if judgment 1» obtained, and very certain truth al»out all the re each, all or any one of the defendants lations of past and future. That truth will be liable to the amount of the In this—the future will not believe us. judgment. ▲ comprehensive plan for the d e -1 It will not believe our most Bolemn and The complaints set forth that the velopment of water power on public profouud assertions. It will rationalize plaintiffs were engaged In the saloon land, under government regulation, memlters of the family. Edith, the them or ridicule them. Iu one way or business at Copperfield under licenses waa embodied in a bill introduced by four-year-old daughter, recently took auother It will explain them away, for duly Issued .by the town of Copper tea with a member of the congrega Senator Jone», of Washington. It weald provide that permits for oecu-1 tion. After the silent grace the little that is the most certuln tblng about the field and by the United a totes sad attitude of men toward their remote that they were In lawful possession of -, one, looking at her unmarried hostess, pylng power sites, should be issued | ancestors. They will believe the testi the business and the property at the only to states, municipalities and pub I remarked with pity; Wfiy De They Do mony of material things or of their own "You don’t have any one to pray for Miss Prim (who^gAfort lie service corporation which are sub conjectures, but never the sworn word time It was forcibly token from them, you, do youf* • . by force of arm» and sent all out of ject to regulation and control by such J w as thirty only lafft we« Said one of the ladles present, smil of their fathers. Were It not so there the town of Copperfield. would be no room for historical crlti governmental agencie» as public serv it! The caller (agiffith lri ing: i ice commissions. W here the develop a charming lnsIncfBty)- "I suppose your papa prays for you cistn or perhaps Cor history as a sci ence at all.-U llla lre Belloc In Tall Admiration of Bryan By Wilson. ment is Interstate the hill would pro couldn’t have three times a day.** than four years injf oeni Baltimore.— In a letter to W illiam "Oh, no, he doesn't," was the in vide that the federal government shall twenty-five next month. L. Marbury, published in a Baltimore nocent and earnest answer. “He fries have supervision as to rates. Plain Dealer. 8»n»»le»» Question. paper. President Witoon condemns in the morning and prays In the after National Capital Brevities. Briggs had hired « horse to take a free tolls through the Panam* canal noon ¡"-Philadelphia Ledger. The »enate passed the agricultural Life’s Fitful Fever. little exercise. He got more exercise as clear violation of the Hay-Pannow “Terrible times these. The books than he wanted, and ns he limped to fote treaty and lncidontolly token oc extension Mil. I t provide» for govern Common Wosknoss. An interoetlng light Is thrown on the the side of the road to rest himself a casion to pay a tribute to Secretory of ment aid to »Ute college experiment aren’t fit to read, and the plays aren t fit to sec"’ purely human side of the late Edward kind friend asked him: stations. "Tough, eh?” J *" “Whnt did you come down so quick State W illiam Jennings Bryan that VII. of England by a story told of h s A threatened toes of |206.000,000 in shows the terms of Intimate friendli "res. and, as isunl# my wife hasn’t Inability to resist the temptation to f o r t ’ hogs during the present year from hog a thing fit U wear,**—Louisville Cou appropriate a particularly good anec “What did I come down so qulex ness and co-operation existing between cholera led the senate to agree unan tor? Do you see anything up In the sir them. rier-Journal. imously to a toll appropriating 1600,- Some one told a delightful story to for me to hold on toY’ be asked grim ly. 000 for the department of agriculture T H E M A RK ET«. Appropriate. one of his majesty’s young nieemu -Chicago News. é to fight the dleea»». , F a ir Worvhlpvr—W hat la that sad, "That Is capital,’’ she said. "1 must Portland. That secretory of State Bryan !• 1 sad air you’re playing, professor? The Embarrassing. • tell It to the king. Wheat— Club, 87e i blnentaa, 1 seeking the Tokio government’s OOn- Professor—Dat lss Beethoven’s “ Fare "No," sho instantly added, "1 won t, ’ "Do you ever see the president T” ask sent to » Japaneee exclusion act sim i well to the l ’lnno.” I see dose install for if you tell uncle a good story he ed W illie of his uncle, who lived In red Russian, 86c. Hay—Timothy. >17; alfalfa, >14. lar to th» Chine»» exclusion law was ment people coming mit der van.—I’uck. forgets in a duy or two that It was Washington. Butter—Creamery, 86c. told to bln, and goes about repeating "Yen: 'nearly every day.” wa» the stated on high authority. Egg*—Candled, 31c. Fr»q ly the Way. It to every one ns his own ” Hearings on the M cKellar cold stor- iwply. " It seems to me that he made a very “ And doe» be ever eee you?” queried ' age bill have been Indefinitely post J poned. Strong objections were made ’I to it by fru it men and salmon packers. More than a hundred member» of th» house are listed t for speeches on the 8hackelford good roads hill. The bill proposes a maximum of >25,000.- 000 in appropriations, allotment» to soond argument ” t "Ye», oud did yon notice he made very Uttle noise about ltY ’—Chicago RecoTd-llerald If yon would lea| ey go and try to I that goes a-borroi Ing.—B auj*o‘hi Th» Law’s Delay. Betty—That case hasn’t come on Isn’t the law’s delay Maddening? sle (abeentmlndedly)—Perfectly fr tbe value of mon- fol' I ’ve been six months getting rrow aome, for b» young barrittor to propo»o._lx» ag goon a-eoirow- O ptato- th» little fellow.—Chicago New». .■ Seattle. >¿<4 Wheat— Blueetem. >8c; elnb, I red Russian, 86c. 3 much * Hay—Timothy, >lT'P«r ton; alfi »r the >14 per ton. ■;
