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.