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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (July 15, 1910)
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE OREGON WILL GET SHARE. WILL NIAKE WHEAT RECORO. Waather Ideal for Wheat and a Boun tiful Crop Will Be Harvested. > Ballinger Decides Stale Entitled Irrigation Money. to FIGHT HEADS TO WEST. Great Congressional Campaign Soon to Be Waged. Washington In waging their war fare for the control of the next con gress, both the Republican and Demo cratic campaign committees will have headquarter* here and in the West, where the work of directing and send ing out literature and spellbinders will be done. The Democrats will be active in three places Washington, Chicago and SL I-ouia under the direction of Rep resentative Lloyd, of .Missouri, the chairman. The Far West and South west will be handled through the St. Louis office, while the Interests of the Middle Wvst and the Northwest will tw looked after from Chicago. Representative McKinley, of Illinois, the Republican chairman. ex|wct* to open headquarter* in Chicago and New York. The Republican commit tee will work with and through the l-eague of Republican eluh* orgamtni during the last campaign by John Haya Hammond. The Democrats will work from New York and from the l>emoeratic Federa tion, organised by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, with hca«iquartcr* in thia city. Neither party appears to have very much cash on hand, although appeals for money have been circulated. Waaro From Wasco to the Shaniko Washington — Secretary Ballinger hi Ila, a distance of 40 mile*; from thi* after giving careful consideration to place to the John Day. about 12 miles, and about an equal distance to the Des ap{wal* made to him by R<-pro«entM chutes river, wheat i* ripening very ti\.« Ellis ai«l Hawley before they fa*L i left for Oregon, ha* come to the ccn Sherman rounty intend* to make * elusion that Oregon i* entitle«! to share record for itself in wheat production thi* season and while it i* not likely in the distribution of the 320,UOO,OO<> that all previous record« will be bro- irrigation fumi made available by cun k>si. the showing of the grain fiel-la i* gross just before adjournment, ami tt l'Ws>ng to all concerned. now s«xem* quite likely that extension % Wbol weather at a time when the of the Umatilla project westward with moisture in th«- ground was not too plentiful, was the aaving grace this a view to irrigating 60,(881 acre* more, season. For *«-veral weeks weather will be authorize«!, and that part of conditions in Sherman county have this fund will be allotted to liegin con been close to the ideal, and the grain ; ■traction. Secretary Ballinger points out repeal has in ronSivjuence ripened very slow- i ly. but surely. During the critical of section nine of the reclamation act. period when the fall wheat waa jiut which was permitted without protest in the "dough," hot weather would from Senators Bourne and Chamber- have |>ulled down the prospects to an 1 lain, relieves both ths president ami himself of any obligation to apportion alarming degree. W hile it ia very true that the spring further fumi* to Oregon at this time, sown wheat ia not ail out of danger, but personally the secretary believe* with present weather condition* con Oregon should be shown conaideration, tinued for awhile longer, nothing ex particularly as it ia the second heaviest cept a atrike of harvesters rould possi j contributor to the reclamation fund, bly »top Sherman county from giving and has never been given a square CURTISS SAILS OVER SEA. an-unusually gixd account of a very deal by previous secretaries of the in- I gmid all around wheat producing sec i terior. There are but two project* in Ore Mishap on First Trial Nearly Dump* tion. Good farming ia one of the *cercts gon to which fumi* can bs allotted, ami Aviator in Ocean. ; it ia certain Klamath can receive noth- j of Sh«'rman's generally go«xi showing, Atlantic City, N. J. Glenn H. Cur I tog. and whenever nature h«dpa out a little, tiss made an eight-minute flight direct the outcome looks like magic. Sher TO HEAR COPENHAGEN MAN. ly over the ocean at 6:23 Tuesday man county wheat grower* know how --------- to farm ami they are practicing what evening. The trip included a flight Will Address Slate Dairy Association; they know. along the entire front of the city, Father of Industry. about a mile off shore, and 1,500 feet RACE COURSE TO BE CLEAR. Portland Dairymen of the Willam j above the ocean. ette valley wi>j lie given an opportun- The successful flight was the second Governmsnt to Patrol River During ity of hearing t»ne of the greatest ex Astoria Regatta. pert* in dairying in the world, lecture one attempted, the first resulting in a — .. _ . .. .. ¡when Professor Bernhar,! Boeggild, of mishap that nearly sent Curtiss into Axions lor the first time m ... • Agricultural .-.4lege hmtory of the A.toria regatta the at C<Jnhai{,.n. arriv.-s hero July 18 ran. While hr was making an < ou™ on the river will thl. ys.r be Allh<. h 1>ort|an(1 „„ attempt to turn from the lieach to go officially taken notia* of by the Fede- eminent authorUy., UinrrBry. through to sea, an air eddy caught the plane r.l government Step, .ro now in |)f phiH H,t |Hjb|,.hrr and dropped it within ten feet of the progress to this end, and hat they will I f pad(|< N< hr'h„ be suceesafu) >* undoubted, a. proceed ln<1ui.. (1 t<1 h..ri, ,,m1 an<) water. Curtis* made a quick turn and drove hi* machine on the beach with ing. sro being taken through the prop- . viglt wit|) th<J k fof (hrv<_ ,, auch force that a wood itandard along er channel. A survey of the propmed Ju) ,, ,,0 course was made and submitted to C - f|.HJWr >r¥| hi, wlf(. wj|| rea(.h aide hi* acai waa anapped. The drop in the air and the jar as he U-.-ti.c M.-t.regor, who.pjro«.-.I of it, bul struck the beach unseated Curtías, and an, o’' o’ . ’ _ and thon then forwar. forwarded :t it to to theilenart the depart ately U|wn their arrival Mr. Kates will might have thrown him out but fur a ment of commerce and labor at Wash whisk them down the Willamette val new brace built across his shoulder* ington, which has authority over such ley in an auto, where they will visit ata! lashed to the machine. natters. the cities of Oregon City, Corvallis. The survey was returned without ap Albany, Salem, forest Grove and Mc FIGHT FILMS MENACED. proval and a suggestion was made as Minnville. They will be entertained to a change in the survey. This has by the commercial clulis of these cities been done, and the resurvcy re and will visit many dairies on the trip. Movement Start* in Boston to Put turned, and when it is approved the de Ban on Picture*. partment will promulgate a general or Water System Nears Completion. Boston — Ileclaring that Independ der directing that all vessels of every Newport Water will be running ence Day was dishonored by a brutal character and description shall keep than two week*. prizeght, that the moral sense of the off the course during the hours of the into Newport in races. The course will be patrolled by Engineer Lee, who ha* installed the nstion was outrage«!, but that thi* government launches, and the master ayatem, made the anmiuncemenL A harm ia nothing compared to that of any veasel violating the order will sewerage system will tie installed im mediately after the water la in use. which will be done by allowing chil be subjected to a fine of 1500. dren and women to view the reproduc PORTLAND MARKETS. Crabtree Branch Ready. tion of the Jcffriea-Johnaon fight by Ix-banon A work train and crew is Wheat Blucatem, 85c; club, 81c moving pictures, William S. Shaw, ballasting the road Just across the red Russian, 78c; valley 82c. general eecretary of the United Soci river on the Lebanon-Crabtree branch. Barley Feed and brewing. 3196/20 ety of Christian Endeavor, I i a formal It la said this train will continue the i per ton. statement, announced a campaign work daily until the entire road from Coni Whole. |32; cracked, 333 Um. against the exhibition of these pict here to Crabtree is ballasted and put Hay Track prices: Timothy, Wil ure*. in order for regular train service. lamette valley. 3206121 per ton; East Telegrams calling attention to the Track laying has been completed, ern Oregon, 322 m 24; alfalfa, new, 313' race riots that have followed the fight thus closing the gap between Ix-banon »1 14. were dispatched to rhexiore Rooeeveit, and Crabtree, allowing work traina to Oate- No. 1 white, 522.5O«i326.5O Governor Hughe* and Mayor Gaynor, paaa over the road. As soon ns bal ton. of New York, asking their co-opera lasting is finished, a regular train ser Butter City creamery, extraa, 29c; tion in auppreaaing the picture*. vice will be inaugurated. fancy outside cresmery, 28M! 29c per Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boaton, will pound; store, 23c. Butter fat prices Surveyor* Finth Work. average 1 l*c jter pound under regular lie asked to prevent the exhibition in Boston. Newport Morris Wygant has fin : prices. Telegram* will be *ent to the gover ished a location railroad survey along Eggs Oregon candled, 27c per doz.; i nor* of all the states, making a similar the coast from Siletz bay to Yaquina I Eastern, 25c. request. bay. The preliminary survey was made Poultry-Hens, 17 <*c; springs, 206» two years ago. Wygant would make | 22 .14«; ducks, 156» 17c; geese, 10Mllc;i London "Play* Up” Fight. no statement, but from remarks drop- . turkeys, live, 1861.20c; dressed, London The Ix>n<lon newspafs-r* ped around camp it is believed the i 25c; squab«, 33 per dozen. Spalding Lumber company, of Falla Pork Fancy, 126112*,« per pound. gave more spare to the Reno prizefight than they gave to the biggest battle City, is behind the propriaed railroad. Veal Fancy, lOtu 11c per |K>und. of the Boer war. The rounds were de On th* other hand, the United Rail Lambs -Choice, ilofll'tc pound. ways company has let a 24-mile con Green Fruits Apples, Oregon New scribed in detail, and the scenes at the Opinions of tract for a line into Tillamook, which town, 32 per boz; new, 31.75<<t2.25; ringside fully pictured. is 25 miles above Siletz bay,. cherries, 56il2',c per pound; apricots, the affair were quote! from both Bri 31.256» 1.75 per box; plums, 31011.50 tons and Americana and nearly every Prize Offered for Apple*. per box: currants, 32.25or2.40; rasp pafier discussed the fight in long edi Corvallis—At a meeting of the eie- berries, 31-4Ooi 1.60 per crate; logan torials. The Sfiorting world is lees surprised fTcutive committee of the Commercial berries, 31»<»1.4O; blackcaps, 31.5O6i2; at the fact that the negro won than club a fund of 31.000 waa voted to be blackberries, 33. use«l in premiums for the best exhibits Vegetables Artichokes, 6Ooi 75c par that the whites at the ringside |>ermit- by Benton county apple grower* at the dosen; beans, lotSc per pound; cab ted him to win. Novemlier meeting of the State Horti bage, 2ta<t2He; cauliflower, 32 per More Ship* Are Built. cultural society in Portland. It i* ex dosen; cucumbers, 50e; head lettuce, Washington Shipbuilding in the pected that the premiums will interest 506160c; green onions, 15c; praa, 2c many local growers of good fruit snd per pound; rsdishe*, lBo» 20c per dozen; United States during the fiscal year that the showing at the meeting of the spinach, 86» 10c per pound; carrots, 85c just ended shows a marked increase horticulturists thi* year will be an ex-' ter31 per sack; beets, 31.50; parsnips, over that of the previous year. This year there were built, according to re eeptional one. 75cftt 31. Potatoes -Old Oregon, 6Oor75e per port* of the bureau of navigation, Woolsn Mill Busy. 1,502 merchant vessels of 347,025 hundred; new, 1 ‘»e per pound. Bandon Manager Bedillion of the Cattle Beef steers, good to choice, gross tons, a* compared with 1,862 Randon Woolen Mills has just closed 35.40<ir5.60; fair to medium, 34.256» vcssel* of 232,810 gross tons the year another big contract with the Detroit 4.75; cows and heifer*, good to choice, before. firm for which he has been manufac 34.50to4.75; fair to medium, 33.7561 "Whsat Advance* in New York. turing good* in the pasL The contract 4.25; bulls, 336(4; stags, 53.50'.» 4.50;; ia sufficiently large to keep the mill calves, light, 35.75t<tfl.76; heavy, 46t New York The local wheat pit was 5.50. much excited over the absence of rain i running at full blast for a year. Hog»—Top, 39.76tetl0.10; fair to in spring wheat states during the holi Build Telephone Line. medium, 38.5O m 9.5O. days, and price* advanced 3 *tc per P The Dalles—Thirteen tons of gal Sheep- Beat wether*, 34.25trt4.50; bushel. Septemlwr reached 11.07 *|, vanised telephone wire arrived here to fair to good, 83.5OM3.75; bast ewe*, December sold at ' Sl.<*8 ...... **• _■ Com was be used in constructing telephone lines 83.75M4. lamb«, choice, 36.6Otfe5.75; quiet and not much affected by the on the Warm Springs reservation. fair, 34. 50 m 5. wheat advance. j I COMBINE AGAINST U. S. Ls tin-American Nation* Ratent Knox Supervision of Affair*. LAND RESTORED TO ENTRY. Areas Taken Out of Irrigated and National Forest*. Tract* Washington That at least thrv* and Washington The secretary of the |ierha|«t mure of the Central ami South interior has restored to the public do- American republics will make a con- main aeveral tracts of land that had certed protest of some kind at the com been withdrawn in connection with the ing international conference of Amer- irrigation projects but that are not lean states at Buenos Ayres against needed now by the reclamation service, the Central American policy of the The restorations of the week include: United Stale* is a (loaaibility being Boise land district, Idaho, 43,980 discussed in diplomatic circles here. Rumor* to this effect have been per acres, aubj«»ct to settlement September sistent and some respoi-ciblc Latin-I 17 and to entry October 17. Phoenix land district, Arizona, 3,200 American representative* admitted their approximate truth, though none acr> a, subject to settlement September 19 ami Li entry October 19. would permit himself to l>e quoted. The unappropriated public lamia in The rumors have led to lively ex . change ................... ........... ........... of information among the Cen- lhe area eliminated from the Coeur tral “and' si^ih 'Amer'ica’n"diplomata '»’Aleñe «ml Pend d'Oreille national here. Official* of the State depart- forc«t* Idaho by presidential procla- ment are watching the situation mation will bccome subject to settle- mcnt under thè ho meste ad laws un Au- closely. 22 •'*» to entry September 21. Some of the more radicai of thè Spanish Americana are sani to favor a Aliout 8,200 aerea were eliminateti, on»Y *huut 1,000 aerea were unap- Latin-American alliance against thè ..... pfopriat«*!. The landa are locateti in United States. It ia generally con thal' formai"é/tionof .. ........ 1 “h- *,mI K.s.tenai «MtatigB, ceded. however, L__ _____ ______ __ An area eliminating from thè Pero* thia nature is unlikely. . and The nuiet that can be regarded as "•‘•««•J forest, New Mexico, probable ia that the republics Interest- •"»•»unt«»« to 31,560 m-re«. can tie set ci will give the Unite! States to un- August 15 ami entere,! Septem- derstand diplomatically that the prin ”'r., ‘ he lamia arc located in San- eiples represented in the attitude oí I-e and Rio Arroba acountir*. thia government on the cast roast of PINCHOTISM IS MENACE. Nicsrgua will not lie accepted willingly a* a part of the International law of the Americas, It is hardly likely that Taft Will Begin Campaign of Edu- thi* protest, if made, will become a cation in Conservation. |>art of the official pro«-cedings of the ; Washington Alarmed at the ser conference. iousness with which Pinchotism la re- | g an I cd in aomc parte of the country ARMOR PLATE DEFECTIVE ami by certain classes uf propie, I’ro«- D.acovsry on Battleship* North Da- ¡dent Taft I* ronaidering the adviaabil- kota and Utah Causs* Worry. |,y of , c.mt>aign uf educa- Washington Dcfe. te dis. overed in armurplate in the battlMhip. North Dakota and Utah, two of the moot powerful craft in th«' navy, led to pro- i tracted conferences at the Navy de- i partment over the legal ph as«-* in- volved. ; Ther«- were present representative« of the New York Shipbuilding com- i pany, the Midvale Steel company and government expertaf Spall*, a flaking condition that im paired the armament's rrsiatance cm- eiency, was found on the plate and new plates were substituted. It was said that possibly the anneal ing work in affixing the plate* may : have caused some of the defect*. j Committee to Go West. ti„n in the hope of diverting the public m|nd frum th<, B„url b ( ct|cal r theories of the late forester and build- up in its stead a healthy sentiment *n favor of conservation that mean* proper use and development of natur- *1 resource«. During the closing days of congress president discusMii this subject with acvelal senators, and to them he voiced the opinion that something must be done to check the present trend to wards Scialism, for Pinchotism ia re garded as Socialism in one of its mi st dangerous forma. While he had not then formulated any definite plana, oe showed that he i* thoroughly awake to the Mutation and realize* that hi* administration will find itself very much embarrass«-«! before its close, un less drastic steps arc taken to counter act the work of men like Piunchot and ' / ’ ; Washington The western sub-com mittee of the judiciary committee, con sisting of Senator* Borah, Brown and Stone, will go west in July to invest!-J gate several Frdcral matter* and it ia Navy Paymaster Retire*. possible they will take up the allega Washington — Paymaster General tion of Dr. E. B. Perrin that In- was Eustace B. Roger*, chief of the naval unjustly indicted and accorded improp ^7rZ7of mm » a^into? ... ____ , will b* |ier treatment by United States Dis- . placed on the retired list, on hia own trict Attorney Devlin and Special application, under the 30 year service Agent Burns at San Francisco. clause of the retirement law. He was The committee will also investigate recently relieved from control of the the charges of Governor Haskell, of naval supply bureau, although left Oklahoma, that "third degree" meth nominally in charge by Secretary Mey od* were used against him and his wit- er, with whom he differed on matter* ensse* during the administration of of administration. Hia aueresaor will President Roosevelt. be Pay Director Thomas J. Cowie, who fur the last few week* has been in Custom* Receipt* Bulge. charge uf the affair* of the paymaster Washington A statement prepared general** office. at the Treasury department by direc tion of Acting Secretary Hills show* Won Praise From Roosevelt. that the customs receipts for the fiscal Oyster Bay A rep >rter who called year 1910 amounted to 3333,913,800. For the greater part of the year, the on Roosevelt at Sagamore Hill appear Payne-Aldrich tariff law was in force ed before the colonel with one of his Roosevelt asked and Mr. Hills said tne receipts wero hands bandaged. The reporter the largest of any year in the history what was the matter. of the government. The receipts tor replied that he had sprained his hand while whipping a foreigner who was 19«9 were >300,000,000. twating his wife. "Fine, just fine" exclaimed the Government Will Kill Seal*. former president with enthusiasm. Washington The Unibd State* gov ! "That's an honorable wound, I am ernment is preparing to kill 8,000 male proud of you men who will not permit seals on the I'ribiiof islands. Commis wife twating." sioner of Fisheries George M. Bower* will direct the work and the furs will Beverly Meeting Place. be sold by the department of commerce Washington Such meetings of the and labor. Only 1,000 bull seals will board of trusteea of the postal savings be left In the herds. By an act of con bank as are held during the summer gress last April the slaying of the will take place at Beverly. Thl* ha* aeala by private contract was stopped. Iwen agreed upon by the three mem ber*. Postmaster General Hitchcock, Big Irrigation Project. Secretary of the Treaaury MacVcagh Honolulu The Hamakua ditch, the •nd Attorney General Wickersham. great irrigation project of the Hawaii It la not believed the first of the postal an Irrigation company at Hamkua, has bank* will be opened thi* year. been formally opened. The system has a capacity of 100,000,000 gal Iona a China Urged to Ratify Loan, day and is the rrwait elaborate of its Washington — The ratification by kind on the islands. China of the 330,000,000 llankow rail road loan ia sought by the State de- 30.000 Acre* to Be Reclaimed. partmenL Instructions were sent to Washington The Iwreau of Indian American Minister Calhoun at Pekin affair* has completed plana for re- ■ to join with representatives of the oth claiming about 30,000 acres of swamp er three governments in urging China land* in the Yakima reservation in to bring the mstter to a speedy con Washington All plans have been clusion. made and active work probably will begin next week. IBR.OO6.6SR Coin* Mads. Cowie I* Paymaster-General. Washington— Announcement ia marls "f the appointment of Pay Director w_____________ Thomas Cowie as , paymaster general and chief of the bureau of supplies and accounts of th* navy. / Washington At the mints during the fiscal year closed Jone 30, the gov ernment made 188 006,668 coina, val- ued at 354,215,419. There were aleo 7,754,458 pieces of Philippine coin issued, including 5,726,559 peana and 1,500,000 on* centavo«.