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NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL ENTEREST TWO MILLION HUNGRY. Manchurian* Suhml on Twigs and Bark. PINCHOT FIRST TARGET. Laaves. Ballinger Will Sue ea-Foreeter chot fo Libel. Pin Washington. March 1!. More gruc Washington, Marvh 9 Secretary aimr stories of the horror* of the Ballinger has not yet definitely deter mined upon his plans for instituting Chinese famine reach«! the State de libel suits against his detractor*, but partment today from the consul gen it la understood he will open proceed eral at Shanghai, who sums up «»mil ings with a suit agaist Gifford Pin- lion* at the beginning of February. chot, into which he will introduce One traveler reported passing 13 dead much evidence that has not yet come bodies in 13 miles of the mail. to the attention of the public. The missionaries tell of the natives He will also institute suit against eating cakes made of leaves and stems, Collier's Weekly, and possibly may mixed with millet chaff, which they extend his suits to others later on. buy with the allowance of the govern ment of three cents apiece. Trees He will first go to Seattle, however, am! probably will perfect his arrange had tx-en stripped of bark, which had ments there. He will leave W ashing been eaten. ton as aoon as hi» successor arrives Dr. Cochrane, an American Presby and takes his oath of office. terian, missionary, said that in the It is understood in Washington that whole afflicted region there were 2,- the selection of Mr Fisher for Secre 000,(MM) starving |>eo|>le. In one vil lage of llM) families, one-third were tary of the interior was brought about largely by Private Secretary Norton, dead of hunger and jiestilrnce. Snow who is to retire from the White House was fulling and many were without in a few years. Norton has been proper shelter or clothing. The miauionaries have attacked the quietly working for some time to work of relief with the greatest sys bring about the selection of a conserv tem and directness. The familes in ationist for secretary of the interior the provinces of Pucbow. for instance, and last summer at Beverly inspired were divided into four classes and the story that Ballinger was to retire on Septemlier 15. enumerated with this result: That story wax given the Associated “Those who had plenty numbered | 17.995; those who could exist till Press and other press associations on the assumption that Ballinger would harvest on what grain they had. 209.- 937; those who hail a little grain, but regard it ax a hint. but, when Ballin ger an»- President Taft he discover«! would be in need before the end of that Norton's advice wax purely gra February, 150,301, and those really destitute and in need of immediate tuitous and did not reflect the wishes of the president. relief, 197,681.” One thousand dollars raised by the j OH FOR NAVY FUEL. Chinese relief commission of the chamber of commerce of Cincinnati was cabled to Shanghai today by the Admiral Cons Says It Will Soon Dis place Coal Entirely. American Red Cross. The Cincinnati relief commission previously collected Los Angeles. March 9. Questions a large supply of provisions, now on of vital importance to the United the way to China on the army trans States navy and the country and par port Buford. ticularly to the Pacific Coast were discussed before the sixth annual con vention of the Navy league of the TO STOP FILIBUSTERING. United States, in session in this city President Gives This as Reason for today, by Rear Admiral Hutch I Cone, U. S. N., chief of the bureau of steam Military Movement. engineering Washington, March 11. That the The maintenance of a fleet on the administration has decided to dissem-1 Pacific Coast, and the all-im|x>rtant tile no longer its reasons for the sud question of fuel and of the use of den and unprecedented movement of crude oil for that pur|»»e were the tnsijH to the Mexican border is indi principal topics touch«l u|»>n by Ad cated by a dispatch, received tonight * miral Cone. In the latter connection from the staff correspondent of the he said: Associated Press, who is accompany "We are at present designing shi|>x ing President Taft on his journey to which will lie particularly effective in Atlanta. the Pacific because of our large supply The dispatch, dated at Charlottes of fuel oil or. the West coast. So far ville, Va., through which place the aa can be seen at the present time, the President's train passed tonight at i 'nited St ate» nav y <-f the future Will 7:10 o'clock, is as follows: consume oil instead of coal. In fact "All doubt as to the purpose of the we have already in commission ten government in sending 20,000 tr»»q>.» drstroyerx which burn nothing but oil. to the Mexican border has at last Bat tieships being designed for the been swept away. The United States next year’s program are to I m » vessels has determined that the revolution that burn oil only.” in the republic must end. “The American troops have been TAKE UP ALASKA CASES. sent to form a solid wall along the Rio Grande to stop filibustering, and see New Secretary of Interior Will Inves that there is no further smuggling of tigate Coal Lande. arms and men across the international Washington. March 9 It wax re boundary. “It is believes! that, with this ported today that aoon after Waiter source of contrabrand supplies cut off, L. Fisher, the new secretary of the the insurrectionary movement which interior, takes office, the Alaska coal has ihsturbed conditions generally for land claims will be taken up for set nearly a year, without accomplishing tlement. After referring to Mr- Fisher's ser anything like the formation of a re- I sponsible indejM-ndent government, , vices in securing the settlement of the big traction fight in Chicago a state will speedily come to a close. ment given out at the White House go.-s on to say that Attorney General WHEAT ON FARMS SMALLER. Wickersham, who represented stock holders in the Chicago traction fight, Agricultural Department Shows Farm am! who visited Alaska last year at the request of President Taft, has now ers Have Reduced Stocks. suggest«! that the method of adjudi Washington, A statement issued cating the Chicago controversy might by the department of agriculture■ be aaloptwl ax an equitable basis for shows that on March 1 the quantity of the settlement of the Alaska coal land wheaton farms in Oregon was ap- claims. proxlmtaely 2.100,00 bushels, 13 peri In the statement, Mr Fisher is de- cent of the 1910 crop. Thia is 200,-1 clans! to be a man whose information 000 bushels less than on March I, | on such subjects as irrigation, reclam 1910. ation and water power sites is broad In Washington there was on ham! ami comprehensive. In politics, it is 3.800,000 bushels, or 15 per cent of, set out that hr is a Republican of last season's crop, and in Idaho 2,800,-| strong convictions but independent ac (MM) bushels, or 22 per cent of the i tion. • crop. On March 1, 1910, there was on Fleet Under New Admiral. hand in Washington 6,400,000 bush Seattle, Marvh 9. Rear Admiral els, and in Idaho 3,600,000 bushels. W. H. Southerland today took com Statistics show that on March 1, mand of the second division of the 1911. Oregon farmers hail on hand 3,- Pacific fleet. United States navy. 200.WM) bushels of oats; Washington. With no ceremony other than the 2,200,000 and Idaho 2,100,000. hoisting of his flag at the masthead of the cruiser West Virginia, Admiral Pisrca Will Follow Ballinger. Southerland installs I hie staff and fJWashington First Assistant Secre axxumeil acti« - command. The second tary of the Interior Frank Pierce an-: division consists of the cruisers Penn nounced that as a matter of courtesy i sylvania, Colorado and West Virginia to Waller L. Fisher, successor to Sec-1 and makes headquarters at the navy retary Ballinger, he would tender his I yard at Bremerton. resignation soon after the new ap-( pointer takes charge of the affairs of 1 Insanity Cass Called Farce. the Interior department. Washington. March 9. Ex-United States Senator Five today character Fisher Confaras With Taft. ised as a "farce” the proceeding* in Washington Walter L. Fisher, the Dublin, Ireland, by which the eon of newly-appointed secretary of the in Edward Corcoran. of that place is at terior. hail an extended conference tempting to prove that the latter, be with the President at the White House. cause of a weak mental condition, Secretary Ballinger, who will turn the signed away to American lawyers affairs of his office over to Mr. Fisher moat of the estate Inherited from a next Monday, was called into the con wealthy cousin, John Sullivan, of Se attle, Wash. ference. DIAZ IS REASSURED. : Taft Explains Ha Ha* Nothing Faar From Maneuver*. to Mexico City, March 9. Setting at real all rumors that the Unite»! State* i* preparing for intervention in MeX ico, President Taft today sent to Pres ident Dim a t. legrun in which he •ay* v e nilitary maneuver* being con ducted along (he frontier in Texas have no significance which should caus»i concern to Mexico. The message was transmitted to the department of foreign relations by Fred M Deering, chaig« d'affaires of the American embassy. Following is the tc x t; "I have the honor to advise your ex cellency that I am in receipt of in structions from my government direct ing me to inform hi* excellency. Pres ident Dias, through th« medium of your excellency, that the president of the United States wishes to express th« hope that no misapprehensions will result from unfounded and sensational newspaper conjectures as to the mili tary maneuvers al*»ut to take place in Texas and elsewhere, and to give President Diaa assurance that the maneuver* have no significance that should cause concern to the friendly neighbors of the United States to Die South.” A calm and dispassionate view of i the mobilitation apiwara to have been taken here by th«- Mexican* No ex citement follow«! the appearance of the news. Dailies in Spanish as well ax the American morning n«-w»j>apcrs give much space to the detail* of the movetnenL In some quarter*, nevertheless, the explanation given out at the White House ax to the significance of Presi dent Taft's order wax view«! with skepticism. This was particularly true ax relating to American residents in the city, many of whom profess to see in it the first hrst step in a move to- ward intervention. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE SETTLING NEW COUNTRY. Loon Lake District Offer* Fine portumtict to Dairyman. CLOSED SEASON NOT MADE. Op- Marshfield Loon Lake, a district just over the line of too# county and in Douglas county, and located be- tween Coo* Ray and Drain, is to have a sawmill in addition to other im provements which are being made. The district was for years isolated, without any outlet but a trail. Re cently a wagon road wax built from lxa»n Lak e to Alleghany, and the re suit is that a number of farmers are going there to settle. J. McDonald, a member of the logging firm of Mct*»n- aid A Vaughan, will build this spring a mill at Lwn Lake. It will cut als»ut 12,000 feet a day. and will supply the ranchers and settlers with lumber for building. The only struc tures in the district now are built of shakes. There is about 4,000 acres of fine bottom land, which is attracting the attention of the dairymen, now that the district has an outlet. Be sides, an auto line is to lie run from Drain to Coo* Bay. through the Loon Lake country, this summer, and then» is to l>e some road building which will require lumber. In the locality there is some 50,000,- 000 feet of myrtle, maple and other hard woods, and this will be handled b> Mr. McDonald in hi» mill if he can find a market for that class of lumber sufficient to pay him to haul it out. ENQINE TO CLEAR LAND. Rich Coquille River Bottom Used for Dairying. to Ba Coquille S. H McAdams is con- structing a machine which will be used in the clearing of the bottom Internal Distention Breaks Up So- land on the Coqnille river, It can CialiSt Colony hardly b* call«! a stump puller, al Mexicali, March 9. Without the though it has many pointe of a ma flring of a hostile gun, the army of chine of that natur«». It consists of a liberation, which wa.-. to have estab lished a socialistic republic in lx>wer boiler and engine mount«! on skids, < '.». if.-1 - 1 W .III this lltth- I. let ,,f the engine being i-.piip(-»-l with a • P . ’ , -. < • . (hr- a; ■ . , h.« I . .■■ drum and cable similar to logging en bertt.-n’ 11 ft . | a»-i-<l It» •■» 'I de gines. Th«» engine is a double cylin feat. When the Federal» come, in all der of great power, and the sl««l or probability, they will find nobody to skids are of massive construction. fight Dissension, rampant for more Mr McAdams says the machine is an than a week, reached the crisis today, experiment, but that he has made u In the face <>f the enemy, which is ex- close study of th».» matter of clearing pected to strike a blow any hour, a the bottom land of th«» Coquille val handful of insurrectos manning the rifle I ley. and believe* he has the proper pits again voted a lack of confidence kind of a machine for th«» work. m the leaden, Lejnm rad Barthold. Aa yat ha ba John K. Turner, the writer, said to be ing, but when the plan is tri«l out if close to the revolutionary junta in 1 a » s it proves successful he will have but Angeles, Jeclari-d them both outlaws little trouble in securing plenty of and asserted the junta would with work. The machine will be ready for draw all supjairt if they did not obey <q>«ration early this month, (onsider- the mandate of the men and step able interest is being shown in the down. In spite of this, Leyva and plan by th«»ae wh<> have willow bottom Berthold remain defiant, standing pat land in this neighlsirhood. on the coup they worked three days ago when they regained |x>wer from Captain Stanley. UMATILLA TO BE OPENED. ARMY DEFEATS ITSELF. REBELS AIMED AT IS BELIEF. Insurracto Junta Hold* Dial and "In- t*r**t*“ A»k»d for T roops. Secretary of Interior WilffPlaca Tract* tor Homs*ts*d Entry. Washington The secretary of the interior has issu«i notice to the effect that lands in the fourth unit of the Umatilla irrigation project in Oregon, will l>e open to homest«a«i entry on and after March 22, 1911, and that water will be furnish«! to these land* during the coming season. Water right application* may al«» la» made for lands within this unit heretofore enter«! and for lan«is in private own- endup. The fourth unit contains 6.053 acres of irrigable land, of which 2,763 acre* are public. Building charge of *6<) per acre is payabl«» in rs»t more than ten annual installments, each payment not less than *6 |x»r acre ex cept in ease of lands hereafter enter«! when first installment shall be *12 per acre and subsequent installments *6 per acre. Ix»ns Agrles, March 9 That the massing of Unit«! States trisipa along the Mexican border is a spectacular attempt at intimidating the revolu tionists, i* the belief of the officials of the revolutionary junta here. Presi dent Ricardo Magon, of the junta, tnaiie the following statement today : "The very fact that no complaint has come from Diax or his cabinet concerning a movement that could easily be construed as a hostile action is evidence to us that the United States and Diax are in accord and that the rushing of American troops to the bonier follows an appeal to this gov ernment by Diax and the moneyed in terests of Mexico to lend them a.» > much material support as possible. "We do not believ* the United! States will make the mistake of act ually .«ending troop* across the Isinier, but will attempt by this show of force New Telephone Line. to frighten the revolutionists into abandoning active operations, which Vale Through the granting of a they never will do. ” franchise by the city council last even ing Vale is to have a second telephone Intarvantion is Predicted. system within 60 days. The franchise Mexico City, March 9. The an- was grantd to H. S. Jackson, a new nouncement that American troops arrival in the city, whose petition was would be concentrated on the Mexican signwi by 118 of the buxine»» men and fnffltier created no noticeable excite residents of the city. The new com ment among Mexicans today. The pany is to be incorporated within the newspajiers printed the news fully, next few days and Mr. Johnson states but without extended editorial com that work will begin at once in this ment. The official explanation at city. The object of the new system is Washington that only ordinary maneu to bring all of the independent line* vers are contemplated is accepted by within the county into the county seat, prominent Mexicans as sufficient, but while at prsaent Ontario is the main the public is skeptical and the move central telephone station. The Malheur Home Telephone com is regarded by some as the first move pany. which has been operating lines of American intervention. in Vale and vicinity for the past sev German* Have Not Appealed. eral years, is connected with the Bell Berlin, March 9. No request» for long distance telejihonr lines, but does the protection of German interests not connect with the independent lines have been received from the legation of the county, and it is generally be or consulates in Mexico, In an au- lieved that independent telephone con thoritative quarter the opinion was nections with every part of the county expressed today that it was natural will benefit Vale to a greater extent for the United States, as a neighbor- on account of the help in securing ing state, to take precautionary meas much of the trade that is now going to Ontario. ure* on the Mexican frontier. I I Master Fish Warden Report* Colum bia Tributaries Overlooked. Sali-nt Master Fish Warden Clan ton has submitt«-«! hi* monthly report, »bowing receipts of *112.50 and dis bursements. or accounts presented for payment, amounting to *1.353.52. He calls attention to the fact that the legislature fail«! to enact a dos«! season for Columbia river tributaries, and that the close»! season on th«» Co lumbia river extend* from March 1, noon, to May I. noon, while on the Willamette river and its tributaries, north of the falls at Oregon City, the season »io«»s not dose until noon March 15 and open* again at noon April 15. No closed seaxiin. whatever, he says, exists on the other tributaries of the Columbia river in thia state, west of its confluence with the Deschutes river. He mentions the fact that the launch Astoria, which wax damage«! by fire, has been placid in first c I bm con dition for the closed season on the Columbia, J. D. Mitchell, of Port land, will act as ergiru»er on th«» launch and will I»« und«-r th«» super vision of Defaity Warden Rathbun. The launch Oregon Patrol, it is report ed, has also been overhauled and place«! in working order for the dos«! season. This will la» manned by Water Bailiff (¡or and Engineer F. N. Sweet, both of Astoria. FORESTRY BOARD FORMING. Governor West Ask* Five Bodies to Sslsc! Member*. Salem Governor West has written to the Oregon State Grange, Oregon I -. Fire asaoeiation, Oregon Wool grower*’ association. Oregon A Wash ington Lumliermen's association and th«» United States Forest service, call ing attention to the law pass«! at the last legislature providing for th« ap pointment of a state board of forestry, which will have charge of th,» expend iture and of an apjiropriation of *60,- 000 to be us»d in fighting fire*. "You will note that the law pro vides that th« governor shall ap|s>int as a member of the l»>ar»l someone recommended by you,” he says. "In order that the Uiard may la» chosen mi! organization perfected at an early ■late I would ask that you kindly take the steps necessary to obtain from your b»xly a full and free expression as to its choice." GRANTS PASS CROP GREAT. Fruit Inspector Say* Yield Big Thi* Year. Will Be Grants Pass The fruit crop of thi* section of Rogue River valley will be nmong the big yields, according to J. F. Burke, county fruit inspector who has finish«! inspecting the valley. Last season he examined !5<),(MM) fruit trees in this county. These fig ures do not cover the entire field, and a conservative estimate places the numlwr of acres at 3,(MX). Commercial [»ears took the lead in th»» variety of fruit set out in 1910. Mr Burk»» says the greatest danger to commercial orchards is found in th«» backyard fruit trees in towns. They ar»» hard to spray, owing to the nooks and corner* of the premises, and are often neglected for that reason. The present stage of all the orchards i* somewhat backward, owing to the cool weather. *104.000 Tassa for Malheur, Vale Th* assessment roll of Mai- heur county was turned over to Sheriff Kerfoot the first of the month ami shows that *194.(MM) is to be collected in taxes in this county this year. Of that amount *35,000 is for the road fund. *92.210 for the state, county am! school tax. and *28,200 for *|>ecial city taxes. Of the special city taxes, the city of Vale with its levy of 20 mills, will secure *9,200; Ontario with its tax levy of 12 mills will *e- cure *9,120; and Nyssa, with a levy of 14 mills. *4,800. Engineer Moves to Asylum Site. Pendleton Captain Charles A. Mur phy, engim-vr for the branch asylum, has mo veil into a residence on the branch asylum site. With his home on the grounds Captain Murphy will supervise work on the lands jmrehaaed by the state and perform other duties under the instructions of the state hoard. He will have charge of the work of laying the water main from the city limits to the branch asylum ground*. Contract Let for Ashland School. Ashland The Aahland school board awarded the contract for the building of a new high school to Snook A Tra ver, of Salem. Or., that flrm being the lowest of six bidder*. The bids on the general contract work ran from *63,000 to *75,000.
