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,1 ' '. ,- t : i 1 1 PablUbol ovary Tnvadajr'k i It tfroted to tb bat InUrwU of BPHAT and WHEELEK COUNTY. Tlx lltwral patron ... KUB8ELL a man..,, 1 ,r t Subaeriptloa Rata . , . , trr .....iloo 8I Month...,,,.,,,,,,, .to Xhrw Months. .. ......... J Mr oi th dtlMna of thU Man U rwpwtfull olklud. .VOL. XIII. A n i SPItA IT, WTTEB LEIt , COVUVTt PEEPON THURSDAY tfEHItUARY 3, 1910. NO. 61. " aCv PifffJ : " ' UJJIf: J M r H " Il l Vl II " I II I II v IU7 f II I II I MA II III III III a, III " ' ' " ' ' ' if V 'J , f r-.'v I ! ? l t. :' ASKS QUICK ACTION ON DEfENSE-PLANS Daily Record of Congress SECRETARY Of WAR GARRISON'S V ; PIC HA If DIIDCTC CONTINENTAL PUN FACES flCHT r 1 V vm VV", HiTY LOSE LIVES President Wilson Urges People jjsS f.i" Changed conditions are menacing Saturday, )an. 20. ((...: fl4'J ' BenaU Senator Sherman, Republl- introduced a reaolutlon of protest reportea renewed demanda by on ibina. Senator Tillman praised Secretary Daniels In a speech on the navy and attacked former Secretary ; Meyer. Military committee continued work on the army bill. .House Military and naval commit tees continued hearings. , Social workers - and labor leaders Thirty-foot Water Wall Carries Destruction Near Saa Diego. . Cleveland Speech Unusually Grave k1 r region of the workmen' and Warning of Nation's lm- pending' Danger is Given. ' . 4 Cleveland, 0. New circumatancea have arisen, President Wilson declared Saturday, which make It absolutely necessary that this country should pre pare for adequate national defense -"We are in the midst of world that we did not make and cannot al ter," the President said. ; "Jte whole atmospheric and ' pbyalcal conditions are the conditions of our own life, al so; and therefore as your reeponsblle servant I must tell you that the dan gers are Infinite and constant. v ."I should feel that I were guilty of an unpardonable omission . If , 1 did not go out and tell my fellow countrymen that new , circumstance ' hare arisen which ' make it absolutely necessary that this country prepa.ro herself for war, not for, anything that lemacka In the leaat of aggression but for ade quate national defense." ; " "Whenever .the ordinaryfrales of commerce at sea and of International relationship are apt to be throat aalde or Ignored," be continued,', "there is danger of .the more critical kind of controversy.. ..-.- "America la not afraid of anybody. I know 1 reflect your feeling when I aay that the only thing I am afraid of la not being ready to perform my duty.' I am afraid of the danger of bame. 1 am afraid of the danger of Inadequacy; I am afraid of the danger of not being able to express the cor rect character of this country with tremendous might and effectiveness whenever we are called upon to act in the field of the world's affairs. He was applauded frequently and when he spoke of defending the na tion's honor the cheering waa tremen dous. "I do not wish to leave you with the Impression that I am thinking of some particlar danger. I merely wiah to tell you that we are dally treading amidst Intricate dangers. The dan gers mat we are treading amoung are not of our own making and not under our control. I think no man in the United States knows what a alngle week, a single day,- a alngle hour may bring forth" ' " v , ;; The President spoke of the navy and the coast defenses, savincr: ? i i 'Take for example compensation law. Friday, Jan. 28. j ' Senate Petitiona bearing a million namea protesting against war muni tions shipment presented, resulting in vigorous debate. ; : Debate on Philippine Independence bill resumed. ' -, - f . . . , Military committee continued bear ing pn army bllfa. v. ' " ' ' : House - Admiral Griffin, .chief of navy engineering bureau, testified be fore naval committee. 1 Gen. Wood told military committee army should be ; recruited to 'full strength before a reserve Is " enrolled. Postal committee favorably reported postofUce appropriation bill providing that railroads be paid for mall trans portation by space.' ' v i ; . Thursday, Jan. 27. Senate Public lands "committee re ported water' power bill recognizing Jurisdiction of both state and federal governments over water power sites. Poetofllce committee recommended deposits of postal savings funds in federal reserve banks. Military and naval committees con tinued bearings. , , House Military and naval commit tees continued hearings. v ' - Rivers and harbors committee heard Repreeentalve Sumnera on Trinity Kiver project. vv. j Republican Leader Mann made speech advocating prepared noes. Representative Bennett, of New xork defended German-Americans ' in a speech. Paaaed the Shackleford $26,000,000 good roads bill. Wednesday,. Jan. 20. Senate Foreign relatione committee discussed Colombian, Nlcaraguan and Haitian treaties. ...., Senator Hitchcock proposed amend ment to Philippine bill granting inde pendence in from two to four years. Debated child labor bill without final action. Military committee" continued hear ings on army reorganization. House Military and naval commit teea heard witnesses on the state of national defense. T - . ' ' v Secretary Garrison urged the "h6use Interstate' commerce committee to re vise the general dam act in the , inter est of water power development.' " J Washington, D. C While; President Wilson la carrying to. the country his appeal for adequate national, defense, one of the vital elements of the pro gram he has recommended to congress the continental army faces serious opposition in both the senate and house military committees. Such an army, . described by Secre tary Garrison .as embodying the most attractive scheme that could be de vised to give a final teat of the prob lem of training an adequate number of VmA Asaei I wstltis-if avanwai In evAai frfmka1 would be expected to provide 400,000 Area Two Miles Wide Devastated men of the total . of approximately 1,000,000 which the entire plan la cal vs. culated to make available' ' Present indications are that the con tinental proposal in some form will be written Into the army increase bill be ing prepared by the senate military committee, although that measure will Bodies Washed to Sea -r- Many Marooned Without Food. Sir david beatty: ft' ' v1' ! j f.) V" liw.wv.,! jiart frj&i j4a IW-" an'-Jf iiatliliaiMiaaMal illlliiliiaHlii in .1 III .llqLUJC ' COW PER ACRE IN WILLAMETTE . ..,.. VALLEY? (AMumlnr that a cow will produce 300 pound oi rat pr year, what art M nqaind In mi ommunltv Wlllmtl uiknr to rrow bal. aixwl ration for br7 fapar by M. S. Shrodc. ba ron tat LHUrymon a AMoctatlon Conforma. January t, ivio.i Some yeara ago In the Willamette valley there waa a good deal of talk about a cow to the acre. Dairymen and farm papers conceded that the Willamette valley ought some day to support a cow per acre. I am not go ing to talk on the minimum acreage fliuirc rmuirrn ifri haa a a a I required, because I do not think that vAmAUL UimMW Al ll.VUOUU is the problem. I am going to talk arxiut me most economical and con venient acreage, because there is such a thing as extravagance' in over-inten sity. I believe it is policy for the av erage dairy man in the Willamette valley to buy aome of his concentrates. I doubt if it is the beat method to' at tempt to produce all of hie feed on this farm. This will be true ai long as the big farmers in stern Oregon are content t to continue robbing their farms of soil fertility and transferring that value to us. I believe it la policy on tee average i&rm to grow aome cash crops along with the dairy prod ucts. By investigation we find that the better herds in the Willamette valley we got records last year from six herds scattered around through four or five counties, comprising one hundred and thirty cows--the average feed was 4761 pounds of , hay, ..267 pounds of silage, 65S4 pounds ..pf green feed (or 9200 pounds of succulent feed), 1365 pounds of grain, and on the average they were pastured a .little lees than four months,. ,The average, price waa $3.60 per month. These cows pro duced the average 307 pounds of fat If they fed hay for eight months, it would amount to twenty pounds per day, and green feed for ten months would still amount to thirty pounds per day; grain feed, .five and two thirds pounds. , Granting that the average farm in the Willamette valley that haa been fairly well kept will yield two and one half tons to the acre, of green feed twelve tone per acre, and fifty bushels .of oata, or its equal in weight in any other grain, from those yields it requires nearly two acres, or 1.92 acres, to grow the feed per cow, provided .one-third of the concentrates are bought, aa I. believe on the aver age they , are.. , II all the grain is bought, it only requires 1.87 acres. My idea of the average dairy farm DEMANDS ON CHINA RENRVED BY JAPAN Aid in Resisting Enaoacnments ., off Nipponese Unlikely. : r AMERICA STANDS ALONE ON QUESTION were 8ir David Beatty has been promoted to be a vice-admiral 'Ifl the 'British navy. He la only' forty-five years old), the youngest, man ever to, reeph .that rank. Lady ,Batty. was , Ethel Field, daughter of the late Marshall Field of Chicago.- "v San Diego, Cal. At least 60 persons were believed to have been killed late Thursday when the lower dam M - the San Diego -water system in the Otay valley, aoutb of here, broke under the heavy pressure of the flood waters.' A wan or water -su reet nttrb waa re leased. ' ' 1 Sweeping down the valley the great flood of water carried people, live stock and valuable farm property to de struction, d cores or residents are missing. Houses on 25 ranches swept away. , :.:- . The first .news of the disaster reached here late Saturday. There had been no communication with the district since the disaster occurred. as wires were oown and roads were Impassable. At least zd Japanese men, women and children were reported to be among those lost ' An area 16 miles loner and two miles Wide; ia devastated. -,,. Rescuer were unable, to reach the scene of the disaster, aa ' all bridgea were washed out and the swollen streams were eo treacherous 4hat it was impoesiDie to launch boats to 0 to tne rescue. Several bodies have been aeen float ing in the flood waters, -according to report received here. ...: , The coroner confirms etimateas that place the loss of life in the flood at 60, He said that many of the bodies had been washed out to aea. . The breaking of the dam released 11,000,000,000 gallons of water. , which rushed down through the thickly popu lated and narrow Otay valley. The property loss will amount to at least $1,000,000. Because of the fact that they were isolated by the break' i . . . . ... ing oi tne a am, wnicn anut oil any means or reaching other communities. hundreds of families in the vicinity are facing a food famine. Complete Control of China by Japan' Would Result Open Door to ' U. S. Would Be Closed. ' ' Washington, D. C Awaiting con firmation from official 'sources as' a necessary preliminary to any action by the United States, Stat department officials were interested Thursday in a report from London that the Japanese government baa revived all of the de mands on China included In the famous group five" of the list of ' proposals submitted to the Pekin .government more than a year ago for a permanent settlement of outstanding issues be tween Japan and China. 1 ' ; s There ia a conviction in official cir cles here that any action at this time likely to have results to warding off the new. Japanese demanda moat be taken by the United States practically alone.' With every evidence of sympathetic interest by the European entente alliea in the attitude of opposition which the United States took when the proposals in the "group five" originally were submitted, it is believed none of these powers will be inclined to take issue with Japan at a moment when they are leaning heavily on their Oriental ally, not only for munitions of war. but for military and naval "protection of their interests in the Orient. The close study that has been made fn "Wahf nirton - at" ttermnmratV oodied in "group five" be devoted ' mainly to a complete re organization of the regular army-on a basis of approximately; 235,000 , men with the colors increasing .Secretary Garrison's proposals in that, respect by nearly luu.uuu men. ,-.: .;,:. . t Senator Chamberlain, chairman of Louis D. Brandeis, Boston Lawyer. Named for Supreme Court Bench has onlv con firmed officials In their original belief that if accepted' in full by China, with-: in the Willamette valley would not. beLut 'Jert'rom otherv n?n. to try to keep as many cowa aa poasi- STLi TP v 7 i-T iT i tion of China by Japan. Japanese advisers for the Chinese government with resulting exclusion of all other foreign advisers from Pekin, itia felt,' would place China' completely under the political control of Japan. While not prepared to make an issue oh that point, however, the State de partment is convinced the other pro visions of "group five" finally would close to American commerce and en- LUSitania USe liraOted Dy DCTIIO the senate military, eommittee, said M the er am a aajv. uiebvv v i a a. a a our coast defenses. It Is obvious to lAmeflCan Vmim 00 derma II V Id . M- ,L., .1 ,L . A I wtvij uian hibi. vuoy mrw u amn vital Importance to the country. Such coast defenses aa we have are strong and admirable, but we have not got coast defenses In enough places. Their quality is admirable but their qunatity ia insufficient. "And the navy of the United States! You have been told that it is the sec ond in strength in the world. . I am sorry to say that experts do not agree witn those who tell you that Reck oning by ita actual strength I believe It to be one of the most efficient navies in the world; but its strenght ranka fourth, not second. You must reckon with the fact that It is necessary that that should be our first arm of defense. no yuu ougni to insist mat everything excellent authority that Germany final- "it nats., ,wjui the; pelts , went Mr. freight rates before the Interstate bllUlptt B .eaa measurement.' Ihe I commerce mmminainn. and rlnrino-the manufacturer has written Mr, . Sinnott J same period he waa at the forefront of acKnowieaging tne jura,., saying ney. those Who were demanding an investi will De thoroughly tested and promls-. gation of the : financial affairs of the mg mm toe nrst nat made irom -then. New Haven railroads. Washington, D. . C Germany haa submitted to the United States, through Ambassador Von Bernetorff, another written proposal designed to bring about a settlement of the " con troversy over the sinking of the steam ship Lusitanla, with a losa ' of than 100 American lives. more Washington, D. C President Wil son-Saturday sent to the senate the nomination of Louis D. Brandeia, law yer, or Boston, .to be associate justice nf t Vta Snnram. .wriv In .ii.M.nlnn ,a waa confident his committee -would" tK tu,: nn, de'f,y tion-was a complete surprise in official rounded bill prtvld nrf for, all . the ciTCle4,., Mr. Brandeia' name had not menu of a national imVWW , mentionod nublidv in connection or more men. .. v tJLhr:Mbtth th- -. : y -'f kULI !l X '1 M. Rranrlaia ti-a haan In fha nnKU Washington, D. C; Within' mortth eve for aome vnara an nrnlifli- BTritnr- Representatlve Sinnott, of .OWgori, iyt- on economic topics and for his connec pecta to be .weajring a: . fine Velt, tlon with labor and trust . legislation, made largely from the: fuxrortSron He attained some prominence six . i$t,.:3A vtut'un as attorney for the interests 2.-1 V. i : . IMI'HrNIIIII I M - . . . ' i nrougn , representative . amonas .which aought the removal from office There were indications here that tne document might bring a aatlsfae- tne consignment oi urgon,.j&ckrabDjt l0f Secretary Ballinger in the noted Pinchot Ballinger controversy. He tory termination of negotiations. Although the greatest secrecy but- pelts received by" been ' turned over Mr. Sinnott have to . Philadelphia waa conusel later on for- the shippers KffifeWa 7Vth -ble to increase your yields a the ble per acre, but to get a fairly -good- sized herd and grow aome cash crops. Take an eighty-bere farm and divide it into four divisions. .i One will grow the hay for twenty cows, end probably a- bull -and a few head of calves or heifers one division of twenty acres. Another twenty-acre division in .. m second crop of clover will furnish pas ture for most of the summer; Another twenty acres will grow the green, feed, and silage, and vegetables for the f am- fin A ft si aiv . i n Aaa 4 nAtafAAa jl eaiju dia va. ciKut tvwiva vi uvwaves , . , for market if the dairy farm is eo jM4VBnm w opgn QOOr ln nina- uated that' he can. market potatoes successfully.- If you are too far from the market to ship potatoes, that -ad ditional acreage can be put to corn. It is well to put it to aome. cultivated crop for the sake of the. . rotation. Grow corft end feed it to the hogs, which go well with cowa. Another division can be put to grain, and will supply grain to the 'herd and for the horses on the farm and six or eight acres for market. v starting witn one cow for every four acres, in the course of four or five years there will be no trouble at all m increasing the yield to twice these' amounts keeping a cow for every two acres, and still produce a cash crop besides. ' We have asked the dairy men this question : In your timatioft, ho w-much have you .been General Disapproves Government ' -! ' Manufacture of War Munitions ahould be done that it Is possible for us to do to bring the navy up to an adequate standard of strength and effi ciency. it f ff'Wbere,, we are. lacking more per haps is on land and In the number of men who are ready to fight. The characteristic desire of America ia not that she should have a great body of men whose chief buoiness ia to fight, but a great body of men who know how to fight and are ready to fight when anything that la dear to the na tion is threatened. You might' have what we have, millions of men who have- never handled 'arms of war, who are mere material for shot and powder if you put them in th field, and Amer ica would fie aahemed of the ineffi ciency of calling s'Bch men to defend the Nation."' . , . ly had argeed , to eliminate from the text of the agreement. any mention of the warning. Issued by the German embassy the day the Lusitanla sailed on her last trip from New York. Mention of this warning is understod to have been contained in the last pro posal, which waa rejected after Pres ident Wilson had considered it - - - It Is understood also that Germany had left out of her proposal general reservation of admission of wrong doing on the part of the submarine commander, to which United States objected. Mention of the warning ia believed to have been moat objectionable to the administration. In effect, it waa re garded as conveynlg the idea that Drunkard List Stirs' City. ' ' Gateway, Or. Consternation ' has been caused among several citizens of this place by the appearance of their names on "Habitual Drunkard" lists that have been given the - railway agents In Jefferson county by the prosecuting attorney. . Great dissatisfaction, too,' has been expressed by many of the persons af fected, who contend that it ia a ques tion as to what coniititutea an habtuial drunkard. American lives would have been lost had the warning been heeded. . ' i i - . ' . i Officials Like Torpedo.. Washington", D. C. Adoption of the aerial-controlled torpedo' invented by John Hays Hammond, Jr., waa urged Wednesday by Secretary Garrison, Ma jor General Scott and Brigadier Gen eral Weaver at an executive session of the house fortifications sub-committee. Mr. Hammond also waa present and explained the workings of the torpedo. The War department estimates contain a proposed appropriation of $945,000 for putting the torpedo into use. Washington, D. C Representative McCracken, of Idaho, has introducted a bill providing for the appointment of a board of engineers, three from the army, one from the Reclamation serv ice and one from civil life, to make a survey and plan with regard to cost of canalizing the Columbia river above Celilo to the mouth, of the Snake river, of Snake liver irom' its mouth to Pittsburg landing, and of the Clear water river from ita mouth to Orofino, no The bill appropriate! $50,000 to: meet expenses and fixes the salaries -of members of the board at $6000 a year, British Steamer Foundera at Sea. - ' 'New Totk X The? British' steamer Chase Hill, which sailed from New York for Havre on January 14, foun dered at tea, according to officers of the steamer Indralema, which arrived here Friday. The captain of the . In dralema said that on January 22 he sighted the. Spanish steamer Mary Adriatico, .which signalled that she had on board the shipwrecked crew of the Chase Hill. No details were given concerning the losa of the vessel. ' Mr. Brandeis represented the Ore gon. Industrial Welfare " Commission last year In the' case of O'Bara vs. Stettler, in the United States Supreme court, giving the . oral argument and preparing one of the briefs. . The case ia still pending in the court, Several yeara ago Judge Brandeia appeared be fore the Supreme court in - the same capacity in the interest of the Oregon 10-hour law. In this case he appeared aa counsel for Illinois and Ohio as well. He was, in 1910, chairman of the board of arbitration which settled the : New York garment workers' atrike. , . . '.. Jitanlc Claims 'Settled. ') New York Attorneys for the White Star line announced Saturday - that agreementa had been reached with more than 200 claimants whereby about $600,000 will be paid . ln claims arising out Of the Titanic disaster.' The largest amount to be paid as -a death claim will be $50,000, which probably will be received by Mrs. Irene W. Harris, widow of Henry B. Harris, the theatrical producer. Mrs. Harris' claim waa originally for $1,000,000. suit of the - growing of leguminous crops and the application of - manure? Out of the six who were asked this question, two said they had increased their yields fifty per cent, two said they had increased their yields of hay and grain fifty per cent, -and increased their yield of green feed one hundred per cent, and - one - had increased his yields two hundred per. cent, and an other four hundred per cent. - It . is a fact there is no . place where the soil, responds to the use of manure aa it does in the Willamette valley, no place where so much depends on the man. Averaging up increases, these six .rec ords would be an increase of one hun dred and forty per cent, so I feel the dairy men in the Willamette valley are able to do what these six have done. That fully agrees with my other state ment that the yield can - be doubled. I believe it is policy to try to runs dairy to a little more full capacity than we have been doing in the . past. A great many men in the Willamette valley are keeping six or seven cows When they ought to keep twenty. It takes almost as much time and equip ment for six or seven as it does for twenty. You have to have the equip ment, do so much looking after the cows, haul the cream to market. But I also believe there is extravagance in over-intensity, as when a man tries to keep a cow per acre. j . i Washington, D. C. Estimates were given the senate military committee Thursday by Brigadier General ' Cros ier, chief of ordnance, showing that a plant costing $400,000,000, operated by a force of 750,000 workmen, would be required to manufacture ammuni tion and t war materials necessary to keep an army of a million men in the field and equip an additional million , recruits. General Crozier strongly " diBap- ' proved any proposal for government . monopoly of war supplies, insisting that best results could be accomplished by relying on private establishments to' supplement the output of govern ment plants in time, of war. , . The committee received from Secre-' tary Garrison a draft of ; a tentative -' measure suggested by Senator Cham- t berlain, chairman of the committee," ' which would provide for the authorise- . tion for the proposed continental army in general terms only, leaving the de tails of .the proposed system to be . worked out by War department regu lations. The original draft of a bill submitted by the War department con tained an outline of the entire system. Mr. Garrison pointed out to .the con gressional committee, when he appear ed before it, however, that aa the plan largely was an experimental one, it would be wise to give the President wide discretionary powers to meet problems which could be solved in the light of experience yet to be gained. Peace Is .Offeree! Serbia. London Germany ia continuing, her efforts to conclude a separate peace with Serbia, according to the Ahtens correspondent of the Daily Mail. , The correspondent says that Ger many has offered to extend the Serbian : boundaries in the direction of Bosnia and Herzegotina, and re-establish the kingdom under Austro-German suzer sinty, with Prince Eitel Freidrich, Emperor William's seeepd son, on the throne. I f f i i I. i i s 9 t. .