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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1910)
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE ORCHARD BRINGS *300.000. M chigan Capitalist* Buy Lowntdale Property. NEW LAWS SOUGHT. Great Farmer*' Union Would Regulate Warehouse Shipment*. JAIL PALACE FOR FOUR Convicted Cattle King* to Chef in Prison. Hi»* Jap Omaha W. G. Comstock, Bartley R. Charles Richards, Charles Jamison and Aquila Triplet, lata! baron* and millionaire cat tie kings of Nebraska, were convicted In the Federal court of fencing government land and sen tenced to one year in the county jail. After »¡tending a month visiting the various county jails In the state they There they departed for Hastings, will become inmates of the Adams county jail. The four men are not to t>e treated like ordinary prisoners, With them they took a Japanese chef, who will do their cooking, They have ordered expensive furniture and carpets sent to the Hssting* jail as furnishings for their rooms. In addition they pur chased an<i sent out a large and well selected library. They have subscrib ed for a number of daily papers and many of the leading magazines. The windows of their moms have been hung with expensive lace curtains. The floors are carpeted and in a gene ral way, it is Mid. the cells have the appearance of well apfiointed club rooms. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST WILL RESEED 0.000 ACRES. ESTIMATES ARE MADE. Forest Service Expert* to Finish Work Columbia River Allowed *1,725.000; Before Snow Sets In. Others Fare Well. Nine thousand acres of l>urn»-d over Washington Estimates of the cost Lafayette Millard O. Lownsdale, The Dall«-» Resolutions recommend timber lands in Oregon ei»i Washing of river and harbor improvements pioneer orchardist of Oregon, and ing the enactment of a law by the ton are to be seeded with Norway throughout the United States for the founder of the great apple growing in : state legislature requiring warehouses Spruce and Scotch pine, according to an year to end July 1, 1912, contained in dustry in the Northwest, ha* retired , to ship grain in the order that orders announcement male by J. F. Kimmel, the annual re|M>rt of General Bixby, from active life. Hr has »old his 300- for shipping are given them, aa a fair of the national forest service. The chief of army engineers, shows a total acre orchard near Layfayette to a com ' ileal to all growers, was adopted by ths ■««ling i* under way now and will lie of $22.227,361. pany of Michigan capitalists. Al State Farmer*’ Educational and Co completed before the snow» set in. In hi* report General Bixby selects though Mr. Lownedale 1» silent as to ' operative Union, in session bere. Most of this work is being .'•■nr in 211 projects aa worthy of congressional the financial consideration which the Upon the recommendation of the appropriations. Among these recom- the Siuslaw forests near Mount Hebo, deal involves, it ia understood that the legislative committee, the union also moixlxtions are: decided to send committee* to scasiun* in Oregon, and in the Olympic forests purchase price ia close to 8300,000. Ohio river, $3.550,000. of the state legislature whenever mat in Washington. The Hebo district in Mr. Ixiwnsdalc was virtually th»’ Miss.»*l|>pi rvier, $3,400,0*8). ters of importance to agriculturists Columbia river above Celllo fall* to clude« the areas of whiten«! timber pioneer of all latter-day apple growers were under considi-ration. which stand on the hills outside of Til Snake river. $25,000. in the Willnmctte valley. When he The enactment of a gram inspection Columbia river, Celllo falls to Dalles lamook and along the road between plant«! his orchard 21 years ago apple law was urged and thia will be one of rapids, $*>00,000. Tillamook and Portland. This section growing was almost a lost art. The th*- important matters in which the Columbia river below Portland, is to lw reseed«! and in 15 years much possibility of growing apples often had legislative committee« will interest of this timber will be hidden under a $150,188). I themselves, in general, the reaolu- been denied, even the pioneers of the Columbia river mounth, $950,000. new am! fast growing growth of com valley having cunclud«! that it wsa not i lions adopted by the present conven- I ami Angeles harbor, $270,000. mercial trees. possible to produce the wonderful re : tion arc those adopted by the North Ocean front, near San Lais Obispo, The forest service is In thia way Carolina Farmers' Union, at ita sea- sult* that had given the va'ley a reclaiming many thousands of acre* in Cal., $110,000. great reputation before the fruit ¡»eats •ion in Septcml'er. San Francisco harbor, $.'10,000. the Northwest each year. Norway The state board of the union has de appeared. Oakland harbor. $150,000. spruce and Scotch pino were used cided to hold ita next meeting at Pen- : The work of Mr. Lownsdale has re Eureka, Cal., harbor, $185,000. largely, aa this timber ia one of the dleton the second Friday in January, establish«! the apple growing industry Grays Harbor (Wash.), $300,000. l>eel for marketing pur¡io*ca and more in the great valley reaching from Port st which time a campaign to increase Snohomish river, $75.000. nearly adapted to Oregon climatic con land to Eugene. His orchard has been the membership of the union and to I San Joaquin river, $25,000. dition* than any other timber. promote its interest* will be started in 1 a material demonstration of his ideas, HONDUHAIN PORTS TAKEN. Coos Bay harbor $40,000. A million and a half of year old thia year crowning his success with a the jurisdiction, which includes Oregon Appropriations for the Sacramento trees are now in the nurseries in the ■nd ail of the state of Idaho south of record production of 75,000 boxes. W.n Columbia forests ready for transplant river were not recommended, as the Revolutionist* Under Bonilla Idaho county. Mr. Lownsdale has in mind the es Important Point*. ing to spots where rsuecdlng is imprac report of engineers had not yet been tabliahment of a market for handling completed. ticable. Mine Bring* *750,000. San Juan Itel Sur, Nicaragua Ad the fruit of this Jregion, and hopes to The lakes to the gulf waterway pro Baker City The Gold Coin mine, ’ vice* received from Tegucigalpa state perfect the organization of a Willam ject is not mentioned in the report. THREATEN HARD TIMES. ette Valley’Fruit Growers’ association, one of the richest placer properties that the Atlantic porta of Honduras That the river» and harbors recom the object being to provide a common in Eastern Oregon, located about 20 and the department of Comayagua. mendations may precipitate a fight Railroads Will Fight Reduction In miles south of Baker City, has been channel for the output. against President Taft’s plan to elim sold to a syndicate of Eastern capital have been captured by revolutionists Freight Rets*. inate the "pork barrel" was intimated ists organized by Thomas Nevins & ■ the leader»h>| ' fanMf Washington That the railroads by the politic ana. It Is predieted that RECLAIM 15.000 ACRES. Sons, 37 Wall Street, New York, for dent Manuel Bonilla. which.'hav»' demand«! freight Increases soon after congress convenes certain 1750,000. This property adjoins Mor Government forces sent to retake that will am ont to $7.'>,0<M),000 an- congressmen will frame a rivers and in Build Big Levee Weed Intervale mon Basin on the north, where are the terrrilory joined the enemy. harbors bill carrying about $30,000,• located a number of rich quartz mince. Wood River Valley. General Bonilla brought about an nuaily are In league with "big buei- (88) in appropriations. With the usual unsuccessful revolt against the govern necs" to enforce the rates through is additions to early estimate«, it i* Klamath Falls -To reclaim 15.000 Teach Advance Geography. ment of President Davila last summer. a story in circulation hi re. likely that such a bill would carry be acres of land in the Wood River valley, University of Oregon, Eugene The Later he sought refuge in Guatemala, a levee 24 miles in length is being The business intercala are op|x>*ed tween $ 10.000.000 and $50,000,000 in university has added a new department from which country he was deport«). the aggn-gate. built by Senator Abner Weed, of Sis to its curriculum, that of Geography. Recently he was reported to be in New to regulation such aa ia promised by The politician« base their prediction kiyou, Cal. The work is about half Courses are given in Economic Geog Orleans organizing an expedition which Preskient Taft, and it is said that on the president's action at the time finished. raphy, physiography, history of geog .wait the Atlantic 0M I t Wall street will join the railroads in ! he sign«! a measure carrying $50,000,. Senator Weed owns 16,000 acres of raphic influence«, physiography of the Honduras. Bonilla's cause was helped the fight for higher rates. IMM) for the same pur|x>s<<. At that • land in the valley between the mouth latex, and fu l l g-• ,;r4phy somewhat by the rebellion of General tunc he sent a message to congress of Woo»! river and the mouth of Seven- The club that is to be held over the : The work is under Professor F. G Joss Valladares, the governor of the which asid: mile creek, and thia levee along the interstate commerce commission and I Barker. wu i island of Amapala. The latter "I once reach«! a conclusion that it lake shore is to protect these large is "hard* wav my djty to interpose a veto In 1 recently deposed and came to thia the country in general holdings from the lake overflow in the PORTLAND MARKETS. country. times." Financial deprcaalon ami order, If ¡ossible. to secure a change wet seasons. This land of the sena- valley tor's is some of the ta-at in this panic, it is predicted, will b«> the out of method of framing these bill*. Sub Wheat Track prices: Bluestcm, 81 The for hay and grazing purposes, come if the rate increases ere not sequent consideration has altered my ELGIN BUTTER MEN AT WAR. levee will serve aa an embankment to 6182c; club, 80c; red Russian, granted ami the business interests let view of my duty." The president withheld hie veto ue- keep the water from overflowing the valley, 80c; forty-fold, 80c. alone. This ia said to have been in Barley Feed, $216) 21.50 per ton; | "Insurgent*'' Say Price» Have Been timated plainly enough to be a Wall i f,,r thrve “»ere hsd been land and the ditch will serve as a drain "Fiaed" for Year*. brewing, $23. street threat. Big business men ami I ,vo r,v*'rs ami harlair* appropriations for the wet land lying along iL Millstuffs Hran, 125 per ton; mid- ’ to •'«*> the measure, Chicago An "Insurgent" movement railroad officials who have been in : ",mI h"'1 h® d lings, 833; shorts, $27; rolled barley. ' on the part of Chicago member* of the Washington during the discussion of 8>‘V< rnmcnt engineers would have been OREGON COW BRINGS *700. $24oz 25. Elgin Butter board has brought into the rate question are said to have been •«ro’usly handicapped. Hay-Track prices: Timothy, Wil the limelight alleged manipulation of very pessimistic in tbeir views for th<- F,“° "bite House idea ia emlaxiied W. O. Minor Gets Top Price for lamette valley, $2<>oi22 per ton; East price* by that body, and aaaure* a bit- ; future ____ " financial ____ _______ prosperity!*" ,’*',”'r»1 Bixby’s recommendations, outlook, ern Oregon, $23/24; alfalfa. $14.5480 ter tight for control at the annual elec seems to have lust its charm, according *b"1 money should be Set aside for the Shorthorn at Chicago Show. 15.50; grain hay, $14.5*8/1 15.50; tion to be held Lh-cember 19. to the magnates, at>d the way In which ■ prompt completion of more important Chicago — "Bright Star." a Short clover, $15. For more than a quarter of a cen they have said it ha* been tantamount projects, and that scattering appropri- horn cow brought to the International Corn Whole. $30; cracked, $31 per tury thr quotations of the Elgin board to an expression of their intention to ationa for projects which have been Livestock exhibition by W. 0. Minor, ton. have serve»! aa a basis on which butter bring about a financial depression, offi dragging along for years should be of Heppner, Or., was sold for $700. Oats—White, $286)28.50 ton. withheld. was bought and sold In practically cials here say. The animal is 2 years old. Mr. Poultry -Hens, 146(144®; springs, every part of the United States. Senator Burton staunchly supports 16xtl7r; I M inor has secured top pries* for all the 13's6)14c; ducks, white, the president and is prepared to make It ia charged by the “insurgents" Small Farm* Increasing. breed animals he brought to the show, geese, 12c; turkeys, live. 16x/,17c; a strong tight againat piecemeal appro that the butter board is manipulated besides winning several prizes with dressed, 20c; squabs, $2 per dozen. Rapid *ctt)ement,of the country ad priations, such as legislators whose solely in the interests of a clique that them. Eggs — Oregon ranch, candled. haa been in control of the official ma jacent to Bend, Prineville, Lakeview political lives de[«nd on the govern W. A. Forbes, of Sacramento, Cal., 42**c; Eastern, Aprils, 304)33®; East and Silver Lake, Oregon, haa caused ment appropriations would Introduce. chinery for year», and that prices are is attending the show, with the inten ern, fresh, 37 4®- the national forest service to mater- i The same legislators arc placed in the made by the quotation committee with tion of buying 300 dairy cattle to take Butter — Official quotation: City , a view to pleasing one butter company. I ially reduce-the number of cattle al predicament of organizing a fight to back to his California farm. He ia creamery, solid pack. 37c per pound; low«! to the big cattlemen on the , ”,Kirk barrel" bill over the veto the proprietor of one of the largest butter fat. 36»<) 37e; Eastern, 3161.34c. ranges of thr r re-mont national forest | of ¡he president Masked Man Rob Mins. Thr reductions were made by Thomas dairies on the Coast. Pork -Fancy, 104 61 lie per pound. Winnemucca, Nev.--Three masked P. McKenzie, of the department of i Veal—Fancy, 85 to 125 pounda, 12 4 YEAR IS BIG FOR LIQUOR. men who broke into the tunnel of a silviculture of the forest service. 6(13c per pound. Three Postoffice* for Crook. rich gold mine near here overlooked The forest service’s effect on the Apples King, 406)75® boz; Wolf Prineville Three postoffices were river, 75c61$l; Waxen. 85co)$l.25; $8,(MM) worth of high grade ore. The cattle business was shown better here Tobacco Also Furnish»* Record Gov established in Crook county Decern tier Where five years ernment Revenue. Baldwin, 75cX) $1.25; Northern Spy. robbers broke down four heavy doors than ever before. 1. Hat Rock is a new office, 11 miles 75c6i$1.25; Snow, $1.25xr$1.5O. Spitx at the entrance to the tunnel. Meet ago there would have probably been Washington The United States has from Prineville. It is located south enberga, $1 256)2; Winter Banana. ing six miners, they made them face bloodshed over the effort* of the small juat passed through a banner year for and cast of Powell Buttes, near the $1.75613.50. the wall. While one of the intruders rancher to put his flock* on the range, drinks, smokes and oleomargine. Here Prineville Bear ('reek Butte rond. Green Fruit*-Pears, $1,2561.2 per; stood guard, the other two searched for the forest service solves the delicate is the nation's record for the 12 months Mr*. Louise E. Becker is postmistress. treasure. In their haste they did not problem by reducing slightly the num ended on June 30, as it shows in the box; grape*. $1.35; cranberries, $*«) Rolyat is situated in Ireland valley, 9.50 per barrel; quinces, $1611.25 per notice the rich ore that had alreay Iwn-n ber of cattle the big company is al figures of the Internal revenue bu almost south of Prineville, about 50 packed in aaeka and was standing In lowed and allowing for the smaller reau : box; huckleberries, 6ot8c per |>ound. miles The postmaster is Mr. Schrad The big Vegetables Beans, lOotllc pound; the slops. The identity of the robbers herds of the small rancher. Of distilled spirits, 163,000,000 gal er. Hi* mail supply will come from ( cattlemen ■t uvtniu now ct-t- Miv isaoilliy Ol see mv the advisability of I lons, 80,000,000 gallons more than the cabbage. $1x11.25 per hundred; eel-I is said to be known. Prineville and will be delivered once a i submitting to government control of year before. ery, California, $3«) 3.26 per crate; j Polar Trip is Started. week by the Prineville Fife stage line. the ranges, anti all trouble has been pumpkins. 16(14® P®f pound; sprouts, Of fermented liquors. 59,485,111 La Pine is the postoffice for the new Christ Church, New Zealand Ths | avoided. Mr. McKenzie is a well in barn-la, an increase of 3,000.000. 76)8c: squash. 16)1 4®; tomatoes. $1.25 town, which takes the place of Ros- ship British 1----------- formed ------- man — as --<• regards Central — Ore- [er box; carrots, $16)1.25 per hun- A- • Terra Nova, bearing - the ---------- ------- -------------- - Of cigars, 7,000...... or ¡go,. land It is near the location of the <ired. parsnips, $16)1.25; turnitw, $1; I i*’uto ' expedition under the com- gon conditions, and was surpris«! at 000,000 more than 1909. former Roeland office, on the line of tM-cts $1 ‘¿'«ii I 5*) mand of Captain Robert F. Scott, h — ■*- - — has the number of • ‘ farmers > in -* that - country. Of cigarettes, 6,830,000,000, an In the Oregon Trunk railroad The mail Potatoes Oregon. $1.25 per hun- F’"rl Ch,'","r" f,,rAnt' "The newcomers are what are called crease of 1.006,000,000. supply will be daily over the Prine- arctic. Thv Terra Nova nailed from amall farmers in that country, for they Of plug, fine cut, rube cut, granu ville-Silvcr Lake line. Onions- Oregon, jobbing priee.81.40 Ix,n'‘o" ®" June 1 ,Mt t'"1 take up farms of from 100 to 320 acres lated or sliced smoking or chewing to worked her way south. Captain ‘ in size," ssid Mr. McKenzie "Many bacco or snuff, 402,(8)0,000 pounds, 61 1.50 per hundred. Cow* Pay Well. Hops — 1910 crop, 116(13®; 1909 Scott, who joined the vessel in New : of the former large owners of land are 4,(8)0,000 more than the year tiefors. Zealand, ho[*a to reach the South Pole either breaking their farms up into Monmouth Frank Ixxighary is tak crop, 761.8®. Of oleomargarine, 141,862,282 ing >100 a month from the product of small pieces and selling them or esil pounds, 50,000,000 pounds Increase. Wool Eastern Oregon, 13oi17c per in December of 1911. lfipows. Beeidea thia cash revenue, pound; valley, 17(W. 19c; mohair, choice, ing off moat of their land and iarmi ng Illicit distilling and manufacturing Nebraska Bourbons Win. he has lota of skim milk to feed to his 32ft(33e. on a smaller scale." of moonshine whisky ia on the In pigs, and he aims to turn them off at 8 Lincoln, Neb. The official vote of Cattle Beef steer», gtxxi to choice, crease "especially," the bureau says, months old, weighing 200 pounds each. $5.256/5 65; fair to medium. $4.5061 the November election In Nebraska 1 Oklahoma Ha* 1,657,166 People. "where there are state-wide ¡imbi With hogs selling at $9 a hundred in 5; choice spayed heifers, $4.75x15; show* that Aldrich, Republican, for' Washington— The population of the bition laws." the market one can readily see that g<xd to choice l>eef rows, |4.60tt6; governor, has a plurality of 15,530 The internal revenue receipts on all ■tate of Oklahoma I* 1,657.155, ac this ia a quick way of bringing in good medium to good beef cows, |3.50w4; over Dahlman, DemocraL Every state these things -and certain other things, cording tn stallatica of the 13th censúa money at practically no outlay. common beef cows, $2X13.60; bulls, $4 officer elected is Republican, but the made public by Director Durand. Thia such aa playing cards and mixed flour 6)4.25; stags, gr>od to choice, 846) 4.50; Democrats have a majority in both ia an increase of 242,978, or 17.2 per - amounted to more than 1289,000,000. Oldest Peach Tree Dies. calves, light, $76(7.50; heavy, $46( bouses of the legislature. cent over 1,414,177 in 1907, Jacksonville—On Thanksgiving day, 6.25. Lorimer Report Due 8oon. weighted down with two inches of Taxicab Strike Settled. Hoge Top, $8»/(8.25; fair to me Washington- -Senator llurmwi, of Illinois' Population 6,630,691. heavy enow, the first peach tree to be dium. $7.548.(7,75. New York—Following a conference Michigan, chairman of the senate com planted in Southern Oregon bowed its Sheep- B<wt valley wethers, 83.25 between Mayor Gaynor and William H. Washington- The population of the mittee on privileges and elections, said head and died. Peter Britt planted ■•13.50; fair to g«d wethers, $3<‘>3.25; Ashton, general organiser of the Inter state of Illinois is 6,638,591, accord that the sub-committee that investigat the tree in 1857 in hie yard in Jackson beet yearling wethers, $4.25x(4.5O; national Brotherhood of Teamsters, in ing to the census bureau. The increase ed in Chicago the chargee againat ville and It has borne fruit continuous beet vslley, ewes, $3.548/(4; lambs, the City hall, it was announced that is 817,041, or 18.9 per cent. At the Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, would ly since 1860. It was no doubt one of choice mountain, $5,754(6; choice val the taxicab strike had been practically present apportionment, Illinois would make a full report to the committee the oldest fruit trees in Oregon. ley. $4.754«. settled. gain four congressmen. immediately after New Year’s.
