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.
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_
All Reclamation Protects Are to Be Revenue Cutlers Not Allowed to Buy
...Il admit . their
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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 ____
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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-
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*^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.