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NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL ENTEREST EARTH TRULY OLD. Not Less Than 55.000.000 Is New Estimate. Ysars. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE Washington Old Mother Earth, like femininity (hn-ugh all time, but with FINE TIMBER BURNING. ENGINEERS START SURVEYS. far greater success than m«»t of her j ssx, I has defied man to leam her age. ■ _ All Reclamation Protects Are to Be Revenue Cutlers Not Allowed to Buy ...Il admit . their l ___ i , . I Forssts Ablate m Ysllow Pins Ssc- Astoria & Columbia River Railroad Scientists still defeat. Thoroughly Inspected. Good Coal al *5 a Ton. tion Near Medford. Will Construct Cut-Off. Their latest estimate credits her with | Washington The board of army en- Washington Pinchotism In Alaska "not above 70,(XX),000 years or below Medford A forest fire ia raging Astoria - A ____ ______________ force of Astoria A Co- gineer officers appointed to examine ia not only injuring the people of the 55,000,000 years." I about nine miles out of Butte Falla, lumbia River railroad engineers haa This estimate, to which official sane- ' all government reclamation projects Pacific Coast, who are deprived of a »ixl about three mile« square of yellow arrived from Portland and are making will leave Washington soon and travel superior coal at reason Me price, but ia tion is given through publication by ‘ pine timber ia said to be burned over. detailed surveys for the proposed cut , the Smithsonian Institution, is the re off at Tongue PoiunL westward to the slate of Washington, sctully «»ting the United States gov- sult of studies by Frank Wiggles worth The timber ia said to be valuable, av The cutoff is to start at the com inspecting projects en route. ernment money. This is illustrated by Clark and George F. Becker, of the eraging 4,000,000 feet to the quarter mencement of the big curve a short The board's itinerary ia not definitely the ease of W. G Whorf. who has long United States Geological Survey. distance west of the John Day river section. Professor Clark in a paper entitled fixed, as the members are not able to been struggling to secure title to 66 The fire originated In the embera of and run through the bluff several hun anticipate the amount of time required acres of reasonably good coal lands at "A Preliminary Study of Chemical De the email fire on Fourbit reek inside dred feet south of the present track. nudation," presents a review of avail- j A stiff brecce is It will then follow the short line back on various projects, but their first in Port Graham, in the Cook's Inlet re- able data from a chemical point of the national forest fanning the flames and driving the of the Hammond Lumber company's apection will be of the North Platte gion of Alaska, view. Mr. Becker discussed the quea mill and continuing along on solid flames westward. project, Nebraska. They then go to Some yeara ago Whorf went on this tion in a (»per on "The Age ef the ground to a point about 2<H) feet west A force of 25 men under __ the direc- ____ *^e Astoria Box company s plant, Goshen Hole. Wyo., which ia the pro land, discovered coal, ami sought to Earth" from a more philosophical point tio« of John Holst, ranger, is lighting of view. the flnmea and a call has been sent to *here it will connect with the existing posed extension of the North Platte make entry. The coal land laws were The age of the earth haa always been Mctlford for more men. The low» trestle. project; thence to Beliefourche, Hunt- not then applicable to Alaska, and he a subject for discussion among men of Lumber company, on whose land the ^**e f***!*) object in making the ley. Shcohono Dam. Wyoming; Lower WM »-»»p..rarily restrained. science ami largely without any definite •• to do away with the heavy ,? «ver, when congress extended the coal agreement among the representatives fire ia burning, organised » force of Yellowstone and Wtlliston. N. D.; land laws to the territory, ha made hia fire fighter» at Butte Falla and sent it Tongue Point, «a well as with of the different branches of studies on to help the government foreea. " stretch of trestle that ia ex- Milk river. Sun river and SL Mary’a, filing. established hts home upon the account of the different points of at Manager Hafer. •>( tb< lunib, r com ] repair. Montana; thence to the Yakima val- land, proceeded with his delevopment tack. A rut ia to l»e made through the bluff pany, says that the fire will do but ley. where all the subsidiary projects J'1 strict conformity Briefly, the more recent discussion little damage as long a* it ia in thv at the point and the earth secured with the law to obtain title. as to the earth's age haa placed time will be gone over. yellow pine, which is not brushy, but there will be utilixcd to fill in the He went onto this land alone. He The board then goes south to ex made an individual entry for his own as follows: fears are entertained that the fire will grounds at the depot. Lord Kelvin, in 1862, 20,000,000 to amine the Umatilla project and partic use and benefit, met all the require reach the Iktoglu* fir l»elt, a »hurt dir ularly the proposed West side exten ments of the law, but ia held up under 400,000,900 years, with a probable 98,- tance to the west, w»>ere the fire will . APPLE CROP TO BE SAVED. 000,000 years. sion be more disastrous, as that kind of the prevailing policy of sewing up Clarence King and Carl Barus, in Turning east, they will inspect the Alaska's resources so that no one can timber is very brushy. Court Appoints a Receiver to Cars 1893, 24.000,000 years. Boise-Payette and Minidoka projects, use them. There are no settlers in the burn«) i for Hood Rivsr Orchard. Lord Kelvin in 1*97 revised his fig in Idaho, and atop next at Strawberry In the course of his development ures to 20,000.000 U> 40.000,000 years. area. Hood River In order that a 815, (MM) Valley, Utah. Beyond that [mint their work, Whorf mined considerable coal, Da Lapparent, in 1890, 67,000,000 apple crop on a 30-acre Hood River or USE CURRENT MOTORS. route ha* not been mapped. and in years past haa been selling it to to 90,000,000 years. chard. the title to which ia in litiga They may turn back to California or ths revenue cutter service for 8’> a ton. Charles D. Walcott, secretary of the decide to go on to Colorado and then Notice has tieen served on him, how Malheur County Farmers Organus to tion, may not be wasted, C. H. Spruat Smithsonian Institution, in 1893, max has been appointed receiver on behalf south and west, but before returning ever, that he can no longer mine coal Irrigate 12.000 Acres. imum age 70,000,000 years. of the United States court. to Washington will visit all projects, for market, inasmuch as he has not J. J. Jolly, in 1899. age of the ocean Ontario The Snake River Irrigation The property was formerly owned by including the Klamath. It ia the pres I been granted a patent, ami the revenue 80,000,000 to 90,000,000 years. district, limit«!, is a new corporation Oscar Vanderbilt, who sold to Minetto ent intention of the board to make j cutter service haa been forced to buy W. J. Sollas, in 1909, age of the orgsnix.nl in Mulheur «Minty for the Thullcn, Bishop and Joseph Thullen, only one report, covering all the pn>- British Columbia coal, of no better ocean, 80.000,000 to 150,0(8).000 years. purpose of irrigating the lands com- Differences as to the payment of the jecta. The board will travel as a unit, grade, for which it pays 814 a ton, or prising 12.(«'O scree l<xat«i between purchase price caused the matter to tie and not divided into two parties, as at 89 more than Whorf was asking. Malheur Butte, two miles west of On brought to the attention of the courts. PEARY QUITS TALK. first promised. tario, and on the north side of the Mal Since the suit was started the apples heur river, and west of the Snake riv have begun to ripen and it was shown INTEREST RATE GROWING. I Lecture Plattorm Proves Other Then er, and extending to a point opposite CHINA IS AFRAID OF LOANS the court that the value of the pro Big Success. Weiser, including the famous Dead duct to be harvested is at least 8500 Census Report Shows Cities Are Pay Ox flat. per acre. The bond of the receiver People Fear Foreign Financiers May New York — Commander Robert E. ing More on Bonds. These lands arc to be irrigated by was fix<-d at 86,000. Get Control of Kingdom. Peary ia done with the lecture plat Washington Baaed upon ita Investi form, at least as far as America ia means of current wheels to tic installed Washington Some light on the na gations into the question of municipal concerned, ami he probably will never In the Snake river, the wheels to be Fire Destroys Mill Flume. Thia ture uf the opposition in China to the run by the power of the water, indeptenesa made for the year 1908, deliver another address on a box-oAce- Eugene Fire haa broken out anew irriga is a new plan of |ximping for 840,000.000 foreign loan for the cons UM Census burvau has issued a state reeeipt basis in any country in the , tion purjxxies in On-gon and Idaho. on the logged off land of the Booth- truction of the Sxe Chuan ami Canton- world. ment showing a gradual increase in the This plan ha* Iwen tried out at Paaco Kelly Lumber company al».ve Wend His tour in the United States, fol ling ami has destroyed about 1,750 feet Hankow railways has reached the on the Columbia river, where water : interest rate paid by cities on their lowing his return from the North Pole, of log chute. All the eom|>any'a em State department through articles in for irrigation purposes ha* been suc funded indebtedness. According to proved disastrous loth financially and ployee. numbering 300 In that section, cessfully lifted 220 feet. the Chinese papers of the Hankow- »re again at work in an effort to keep this showing the average rate was 3.85 in amount of enthusiasm he awaken«! River Irriga- The plan uf the Snake Hupeh province. These articles were It cost the Civic Forum thousands of the firv out of the standing timber. per cent in 1906, 3.89 in 1907, and 3.92 tion district is to install two of three dollars, and the explorer didn't get printed, it is understood with official pumping wheel* in the Snake river, in 1908. anywhere near .the amount of money Mile of Cement Walk to Be Laid. consent. one of which will be at the mouth of These figures are on face values and he expected. Jacksonville More than a mile of Jaculocn's gulch, Ave miles north of "The merchants of Hupeh urge the admittedly do not represent the abso When he left for England a few new erment walk will lie laid in Jack people to take shares in the Sxe Chuan lute rate, as on the 8187,083,286 worth months ago he said he would never Ontario. One of these plant* will lift Surveys have the water 16 fret above the river. sonville thia summer. and the Canton-Hankow railways, We of bonds sold in 1906, an aggregate lecture here again, "Peary haa a "¡The other plant will lift the water 103 l>evn completed on Oregon, California premium of 83,325,651 and an aggre right to be sore at American people, and Fifth streets and work haa begun. (the people) are in a sad plight. feet alwe the river. "They paid their "You (China) are so poor that gate discount of 8484,456 was paid. hia friends say. Work on the first lift haa l>cen com The council will endeavor to rush th« everyone wishes to come to your aid. Only 11 cities are represented as hav money for a gold brick, but wouldn't menced and it is expected to have this work to completion thia summer. subscribe to the genuine article." You say you have plenty of money, ing made sales at a discounL finish«! within 90 days. Thirty men As indicated by the statement the Cook made a clean up, some say aa PORTLAND MARKETS. but you are unwilling to part with it. are at work. cities of more than 300,000 population much as 875,000, in his few lectures You also say you have money to loan, Wheat Rloeetcm, 94«, 95c; club. 86 here before hia story was attacked. then why don’t you use your own with the licet credit rating were: DRAW 200 FEET IN LENGTH. (<»87e; red Runaian, 85c; valley, 8661) Detroit, 3.37 per cent; Boston, 3.64 It was in the South where Peary re money to construct these lines. If 87e. you do not the foreigners will come per cent, and Philadelphia, 3.79 per ceived the worst frost. He was booked Barley Feed and brewing, 824 Inn. cent. The best cities of between 110,- Albany Has Longest Wooden Span In for six cities, but two of these were under false pretenses ami destroy your 000 ami 300.000 were: Hay Track prices: Timothy, Wil cancelled because of poor business, Whole World nationality, and cut off your supplies. lamette valley. 818«» 19 per ton; East Indianapolis, 8.49 per cent; Cam while the other engagements showed a England used this diabolical system AI turn y — Work has begn on the ern Oregon, 8?<Xu22; alfalfa, new, bridge, 3.56 per cent; Worcester, 3.69 deficit. to obliterate Egypt, otherwise how construction of a new draw span in the SIM8I4. snd Fall River. 3.79. could she have got it?” big Corvallis A Eastern railroad bridge Cities of more thsn 300,000 with the Com Whole, 832: cracked. 833 ton. TRAINWRECK ATTEMPTED. Just about the time China wu to spanning the Willamette river at this Oats No. 1 white. 828«» 28.50 ton. highest net rate were San Francisco, with England, close the negotiations city. A draw 260 feet long will lie Butter City erramery. extras, 33c; France. Germany ami America for the 4.30 per cent, and New York, 4.19 per Grand Trunk Engineer is Warned tiuilt, replacing one of similar length fancy outside creamery, 3|6, 33c jier cent. Other cities of from 100,000 to loan of money to build the roads, pro and He Slows Down. and new pivot pier constructed beneath pound; store, 23c. butter fat, 33c. 300,000 with the highest net rate« tests from the provinces caused a delay it. This pier will be 22 f««t in diam Egg* Oregon candled, 26(»«t27c; were: Toronto, Ont. — An attempt was in the completion of the loan. Recent eter at the top and 34 feet in diameter Eastern, 24»,25^c jwr doxen. Ixis Angeles, 4.49 per cent; Mem- made to derail a Grand Trunk local ly the foreign governments joined in a at the bed of the river. Thia 260-foot Poultry Hcna, 176,18c; springs, 19 phis 4.34 per cent, ami Jersey City. passenger train near Brockville, but note asking for early action by China. draw is the longest wooden draw S|>an «»2Oc; ducks, 15c; geese, 10«, 11c; tur and Omaha. 4.27 per cent each. the engineer received warning and in the world. Ixwal railroad men say keys. live, 1M c 20 c ; dressed 22,-»«/25c; slowed down in time to pass safely Revenue Service Gets Wharf. there is no other draw in existence so squabs, 83 per down. , ,, Emergency Cars tor Mme Accidents over the spot where spikes bad been long as thia one which ia not construct Washington Captain of Engineers , " ’ Pork Fancy, 1213c per j>oum!. J H.Chalker. of the revenue cutter * “h!P«'on Tojie ready for .mme- |Hilled and rails loosened. Troops have ed of steel. For many years the local Veal Fancy, 12«, 12 '»r per |s>und. ^rv.ce, haa been detach«! from duty f«» f-r -»"<»«-n< e at min. dl.£ been sent to Brockville to replace the bridge has held thia record. The next Green Fruits Apples, new, 81.2568 •t Honolulu and ordered to Port Town <•«. two portable rescue station, fitted militia there. longest wooden draw span, which was 2 per bog; Lamliert cherries, 12«,. 15c Superintendent Brownlee said the 240 feet in length, was on a wagon «md. Waah., where he will take charge “P <’’> of rebuild.«« th........ naval wharf »nd ^-1. r.«I by the Federal company would be prepared to accept bridge in California, which haa recent tier pound; apricots, 50 eft 81.50 per bureau of mines for use in the West. any amount of freight in a day or two. ly Iwn replaced with steel, so now the box; plums, 50 cm .8L25; pears, 82.25; storehouse at Elixa island, which, un The first of the new cars to be built On all divisions there was a good local bridge haa by far the longest praehe«, 40e«, 81.25; loganberries, 81 der a recent act of congress, has been ft 1.25 par crate; blackberries, 81.4065 movement of freighL swinging wexxien span on earth. transferred to the revenue cutter ser will be assigned to Billings. Mont., as 1.50 per box; watermelons, 8l(<l.1.25 President Garretson, of the Order of ita general headquarters, and will an vice. The appropriation for this work per hundred; cantaloupes. 82.75ft3.5O swer emergency calle anywhere in Railway Conductors, arrived here from Corporations Pay Up. is now available, and it ia the Inten par crate. Montana and Northern Wyoming. The Cedar Rapids, la., and President l.ee. tion of the department that work shall Salem Oregon corporations are not Vegetables Artichokes, 60«, 75c second car has not yet been aaaigned. of the Trainmen, from Cleveland. Both begin at once. Ultimately thia wharf declared they are not here to draw up to be sued In the United States court per doxen; beans, 3«i 5e per |>ound; will be converted Into a joint coaling any new programme and that the fight for failure to pay the taxes provided cabbage, 2l,«,21ve; cauliflower, 81.50 station for both the revenue cutter ser New Orleans May Land Exposition. against the Grand Trunk was now on by the new revenue law. Only two par doxen; celery, 90c; cueumliers, 50c Washington Rc(x>rta in Washington vice and the navy. For the time be companies are delinquent and lioth of per box; eggplant, 12'-»« par pound; to the finish. ing. however, it ia to be uaed exclus indicate that at least three Southern them have mwlc arrangements to pay green onions, 15c per doxen; peas, fir states outside of IxHiiaiana are prepar ively by the revenue cutters. their corporation tax before the end of per pound; peppers, 10«, 12‘ye; rad Prison Restores Reason. ing to awing the Panama-Pacific expo July. All the others have paid. ishes, 156,20c per doxen; carrots, 8165 Denver Imprisonment in a railroad sition in 19)2 for New Orleans. With Of the 7,000 Oregon corporations 1.25 per sack; beets, 81.50; parsnips, Rodgsrs to Hunt for Son. this end in view, it is said, Texas, culvert for a week without food or which were required to submit report, 816/1.25; turnips, 81. Washington Rear Admiral John A. Mississippi and Alabama may get leg water appears to have restored the of their business for the year 1909, | Potatoes New, 1 ’4r per pound. Rodgers, commandant of the Bremer islative appropriations which, will as reason of Mrs. Catherine Krouse, aged only between 900 and 1,000 were found Onions — Walla Walla, 82.6<> per ton navy yard at Puget S.«und, Wash sist New Orlrana in raising the 17,- fill years, of thia city, wtx wandered to have earned a net income of more sack; Hood River, 82.25 |>er sack. ington. haa retired at the statutory 500,000 necessary to locate the expo from the home of her daughter a week than 85,000. The taxes assessed Cattle- -Beef steers, gm«l to choice, age limit of «2 and will go to Alaska ago and was found by a train crew. sition. against the corporations which earned 85.25/«/6; fair to medium, 84.256/4.75; to take up the hunt for his son, who The woman was found tightly wedged more than the exempted amount of rows, and heifers, good to choice, was lost in the wilderness there a year between two planks In the culvert. Patents to Oregon Inventors. 85,000 net Income, range from sum of 84.256,4.50; fair to meadium, 83.5rw«e ago Captain Vincent L. Cottman, Her body was covered with bruises, Waahingnnt Patents have been 20 cents to 814.000. 4, bulla, 836,3.75; stags, 82.50,«, 4.50; who has been captain of the Bremerton but as she was carried Into the home granted Oregon inventors as follows: calves, light. 86.75«,6.75; heavy, yard, has been appointed comman James F. Chilcotr, Portland, lever me of her daughter she talked coherently New Town Springs Up. 83.500,5. dant. ________ for the first time in months, but could chanism; James N. Staney, Portland, Vale Brogan, the new town of the Hogs — Top, 810,410.25; fair to memorandum case and register; Frank not remember lesving her home. Anti-Weed Crusade Aided. Willow River irrigation project, now medium. 88.60,,, 8.75. It. Van Cleave. Echo, folding steplad haa train connections with Vale, the Sheep — Beet wethers, 84«, 4.25; Washington—Stimulating the gov Forbidden Drug is Found. der; Samuel C. Sherman, Portland, last rail in the Brogan yards having fair to good, 83«,3.5O; brat ewes, 83« q ernment’s country-wide anti-weed trade mark on remedy for inebriety. SL Louie - The third raid of Chinese been placed. Temporary service is 3.50; lambs, choice, 8.506,6; fair, crusade. Acting Secretary of the restaurants within three weess result being maintained by the construction 84.75615.25. Treasury Andrew has ordered all cus ed in the seixure of opium worth 818,- train. Ix*aa than a year ago the town Columbus. Ohio. 181.000. Hope 1909 crop. 106it3e; olds, toms officers to take two.once sam Washington The census liurrau haa 750 at retail by revenue officers, who site of Brogan was a wilderness of nominal; 1910 contracts, 18c. ples of all importations of grass, clo Wool Eastern Oregon. 13«il7e per ver and forage plants snd forward to announced that the new enumeration believe SL Ixxiis is the headquarters sagebrush land, but now it is a town of mohair, the seed laboratory of the department showed the population of Columlaia, for the Middle West for th« distribo- several hundred people and haa six pound; valley, ISSMlfic; (tion of the forbidden drug. I modern white preened brick buildings. choice. 32«l33e. Ohio, to bo 181,500. of agriculture here. ENGINEERS PLAN TRIP. PINCHOTISM IS COSTLY.
