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
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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
...... **•
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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.
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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
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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*.
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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
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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
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Thomas Cowie as , paymaster
general
and chief of the bureau of supplies and
accounts of th* navy.
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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«.