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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1911)
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE ROUTES PUSHED WESTWARD Oregon Electric Right of Way Reach es Santiam. SCHOOL LAND LEFT. Total Acreage '540.886, Halt Harney and Malheur. I« In Salem—Right of way for the ex Salem George Brown, clerk of the tension of the Oregon Electric railway stat«* land board, has completed a re com (»any south from Salem to Albany vised list of the state school lami» vet ami Eugene has been procured as far unsold. The total remaining acre as the S in11urn river, a punt r. rr I ia 540.1 5. It ia shown that in 10 than half way between Salem and Al counties thero are no more state lami» bany, except for three or four sec j to be ha>!: Clackamas, Clat >p, Co« tions. to obtain which condemnation lumbia, Lak«-, Linn, Ma-mn, Multo-*- prove -dings will I m * brought in the mall, Polk, Wu. h ngton an I Yamhill. Circuit court for Marion county at In a«!dition th* re are about 50,000 once unless («ending settlements are j acres of state sch«M>l lamia include«! in reached. | national forest reserves, which are The Oregon Electric’s right of way ; ma«le base for lieu selections, trover- between Albany and Salem will be ner W est ha» rocommendtd that th«-»«- two and eight-tenths miles shorter lamia be »«-l«-ct<vl by the state in one than the Southern Pacific right of way («lace and that th«* »late make the 50,- and the Southern Pacific right of way I OOO acros a state forest roaerve, prob is 28 miles long. The rails to l>e use«!, ably in the UaM-ade range, adjoining between Salem and Eugene are 90- : a government re«M*rve. pound rails. The electric railway ex- j The list of counties and acreage of |>ects to make the run between Eugene , school lands remaining to be jld in ami Portland with its through trains ' each are a« follow« Baker, 19,340; in 2J hours, and with regular trains Benton, 200; Coos, 120,; Curry. 940; three hours. Trains are to operate I Crook, 40,200; Douglas, 905; Gilliam, between Portland and Eugene in 1915 3,520;; Grant, 21,840; Harney, 145,- unless there is difficulty in getting 280; Jackson, 400; Jo»«-phine, 260 ; bridge material for the structures Klamath, 92.220; Lake. 94.240; Lin- across the Santiam and Willamette coin, 360; Malheur, 175 ’>20; Morrow, rivers. The Willamette will be 1.960; Umatilla, 4.360; Union, 5,10; 3,320; crossed near Harrisburg, near where ' Wallowa, W asco, 3,560 ; the Southern Pacific now croases that j Wh«*eler, 3,160. stream und the Santiam between Sa- ! This lam! is now sold by the state at lern and Albany. a minimum of 77.50 per acre, some As soon as the right of way mutter» of it selling under bid ax high as 315 can be settled, several crew» will he (M-r acre. Th«* receipts g*> to th«* irre gin construction at different points ducible school furxi. which ia loan«»! along the right of way between Salem out to citizen» of the state on go«x! and Eugene. It also comes from a real estate first mortgage security at source here that preparations are un 6 per cent interest. The irr«*dueible der way to double track the Oregon school fund now et|uais nearly 36.000,- ami 900, th«* interest from which yearly Electric between Wilsonville Portland this summer. i produces mor«* than 3300,000, which • pi»>r11 n* I in >ng th« counties n>- cording to the number of children In NEHALEM ROADS IMPROVE. : the «bounties between th«- ages of 6 and 21 years, as shown by the annual eon- S3I.OOO Appropriated in Single Dis sus taken by the county school au|>er- trict; Cheese Output Larger. intemients. Wheeler The Till.ru.■. k ■ unty ROOM FOR HOMI STEADERS. court is now advertising for bids for the construction of the first mile of the Wheeler road, to be built from the Acreage Open Totali 2 500,00 of bridge across the south fork of the Which Fifth is Tillable. Nehalem river to the townsite of I l.-'A Th, .- .- nr.- M Wheeler. There w ill he a call for bills acres of government land open to en for the remaining mile as soon ns the try and settlement in Lake county, ac plats and profiles an* made. This is cording to Arthur W. Orton, register but one of the many road propositional . .. ,, ...... , , ... ... the United States land offlo ......*e here. . . be undertaken i.i «... . . . of to by .u the county court Of this area atxiut 500,000 acres is in this section. In this road district suitable for general agriculture and there has been appropriated 331,000 will produce the ordinary products of for road wurk. the temperate zone. There are also The new cheese factory being erect alstut 90,000 acres of lamia own.nl by ivi Ry R. Zweifel, about one mile the state of Oregon in the county, above Wheeler, is progressing rapidly, which are for sale at low prices am! and the factory will be able to com on reasonable terms. mence manufacture of cheese alsiut This area is one that would seem at April 1. The other factories in the first glance to roquire mime time to Nehalem valley, three in numhi r, will settle were it not that last year in the also start about April I. Indications • , . government lami office here there were are for a considerably larger oi * i 1,341 1 'tJl application» ¡mill im t inns for fur a ti total fitful of riVitr over from this valley this season than last. 350,000 acres of diversified lands. Work on the railroad has been going Three-tenths of the area of the coun ahead rapidly during the past month ty is timbered, three tenths agricul of good weather. Track is now laid tural, three tenths grazing land and for about six miles above Wheeler, the other one-tenth mountainous or and is going down at about half a rough country that cannot be included mile per day. under the other classifications. As the county has never had any advertis Governor Weil Plant Parole. ing and la so far away from th«ri* pres- Salem Governor West has devised i ent railroad lines, it is remarkable another way to prevent building cells [ that so much lam! should have been on the roof of the penitentiary for the ' taken last year, ami there is every keeping of the prisoners. Dr. Calvin j evidence that thi» year will see ail the S. White, state health officer, announ- I available valley lands fil«»l upon by ces that the governor intends to parole ■ settlers. The present homeaeekers some of the higher class prisoner« and J are coming here with sufficient mean» semi them out to work on farm i | to till the ______ lands r-~, properly, and show j, the ...... ________ ____ ,< ami conn<*ct«-«i with the state tuberculosis j evidence that they are the real devel The stockmen prisoners opers of the country. sanatorium. They will l>e I who have nearly finish«-«! their terms are welcoming the newcomers, us they and who have not twsen confined for feel that the growing of grains ami the more serious offenses. They will grasses to feed the many thousands of take the place of the salarie.! attaches 1 head of stock that use the open range of the aanatorium, of whom there is ' country during the winter season, will at present such a number that by the allow them to avail themselves of the time their salaries are paid there ia markets in the early spring. not a great deal more than ia neces sary left for the feeding and care of led»p»r*d»nce Gets Nawcomers. the patients. Independenc«* Many newcomer« are Dr. White aaya that the newly ap reaching Independence, and farm and pointed superintendent. Dr. Fitxger- city property is rapidly changing ald, intemis to increase the num tier of hands. One of the largest real estate cows on the place, so that no milk will deals that has taken place lately was have to be bought. They will get the sale of Spurling- Brothers’ 202 chickens ami pigs, and with the crop acres joining Imlependence. W. W. ping capacity of the farm be able to Wilson was the purchaser for a consid make the institution nearly if not eration of 115.000. Mr. Wilson will quite self-sustaining. Thia cut the place into small tracts. is one of the finest farms in Polk county. Elgin Acres Win Record Price. FEDERALS TRAP REBELS. Scout Discovers Too Lata Thai Ap proaching Forces is Enemy. NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Agua Prteta, M«-x., March 29. M.-sssg«*» from Governor Torres, luto I RELIEF STEAMER AT SHANGHAI AFTER BIGGEST COMBINE. meaeag«*» to the rebel junta here, •bow that the rel*cla suffered a de ‘citive de- ; Buford Carries Food to Chin ese He Government Will Proceed Asainst AI- feat near Urea yesterday, Thrir h mui i ducedto Eating Leaves. leged Cosí T rüst. is place«! at 75 dead and many woumi- The United States Washington rd. Th e messages to th«* rrtwl junta Washington, March 29. As the r«*- place the number of Federal dead at transport Buford, bearing the relief sult of long Investigation Into what 30. supplies to the starving ptxiple in agents of th«* dupartment of juatice It ia believed the rebel force which China, which were collected in this declaro i» the biggeat trust in the engagid in the fighting at La Colorado I a few days ag*>, had divided, on«* inac country under the auspices of the Am world, announcement was maile here tion going around to th«* west of Her- ; erican National Red Cross and the Se tmiay that criminal pi >s«*cution» of mosillo from the south, under com-1 attle Commercial club, has arrive.! in half a dozen of the most (siwerful mam! of Jesus Rivera. The other ' Shanghai, according to a cablegram financiers in the United States are to half, under <x>mman«iof a lender nani«*«l; ls>yzien, march«-«! to the ea.»t ami | received by the officials of the Ameri bo begun by the federal government. Agents of the department have re north, joining Juan Cabral and 220 can Re<! Cross. mount«-«! rvl*ris who had gon«* south The vessel will proceed immediately ported their find of evidence showing from Carbo. to Nanking and Chinklang to unload that a billion dollar combine exists, The relx-ls a few days ago era*rd her cargo. fathered by the Pennsylvania railroad cutting the telegrafJi wires, and in- Mail advices to the State depart and which was organize«! to control atead tappe«! the wiros am! caught the government messages. The govern ment from Shanghai and Nanking re the output of anthracite coal through ment sent de«n»y me»»ag«*s which tail pitiful tales of the indescribat le out the whole of the United States. threw the inaurrecto» off in their cal-1 The government, it is alleged, will suffering of the starving millions. citations. Rebels at San Rafael, near try to show that this gigantic cum Mr. Ito-dick. a missionary, writing U res, Were joined by Giron and a force from Sahuaripa ami the com- from Pochow, aaya the suffering poor lunation has for in any years secretly bined force under command of Loynen have reach.-I the extreme» of Jmi». ry used its power to extort enormous t.-.-k up quarters in the old Federal A few months ago they were living on profits from the coal trade, throttling barracks. With thia exhausted, all competition by withholding cars Only two mails lead into San Ra wheat bran. fael, ami l»>y en piar«»! two scouts U* ' they have resorted to cmiking leav.w from concerns not in the trust, Dum- guard these, One of these scouts is '< of trees and even dry wheat chaff. my directors and secret alliances be- said to have taken along a bottle of ? Barefooted children, all but naked tween the railroads ami the mining mescal, and when he saw the Federal ■ days, pitifully companies are reported as the basis of army he thought the troops were ! i on freexing cold the combine. The subsidizing of small I screaming "I’m hungry. I’m hun- rit bell railroads and the buying up of enor Colonel <)je«la. who had collected ' gry,” present a «xirnmon street scene, mous coal holdings are said to have forces from Hermosillo, had obtained Mothers, no longer able to provld, been the steps by which the trust information that the rebels were at San ' f«aal for their offspring, throw them gained control of the coal situation. Rafael, ami before approaching the I Officials of the department of jus town, divide«! his force» into two | away, probably in the frantic hope tice assert that the Pennsylvania, the wings, which neared the camp in th«* that compassion will force some one Baltimore 4 Ohio, and the Norfolk 4 form of a great pair of shears. The to roscue them. Men, a few months Western railroads are the most promi rvlxl »«•out realiz«*«! his mistake too > ago able-lnMli«si farmers, have been nent in the trust. It is also asserted * lh.it the Penn-.yh.ini.«, through .-nor a short time ahead of the Federal i rmiuced to rags, shivering with cold mous holdings listed under dummy who closed in on the old barracks and facing starvation. names, controls other roads. The Bal- from !x>th aides. jtimore 4 Ohio am! the Norfolk 4 FIRE DESTROYS CAPITOL OF NEW YORK STATE • BUCKET SHOPS" UPHELD. Western are reported to have used the I same device to conceal their proper- Columbia Justice Derides Law Un- ties ami affiliations constitutional. KNOX DRAFTS NEW TREATY. Washington An attempt by con Albany, N. Y., March 29. Th«- | gress to define an closely the offense of state cipitol, ervete«! at a cost of 325.- , Anglo-Am»ric»n Alhanc» Ready for ” bucket shopping” at to make it ■ - ■ ■ ,i .: • ' ■. .! • •. . Spacial Session. of Col- o'clock this moring and is threaten«-«! impracticable in the District W ashington, D. C. Th«* drafting of with complete destruction. umbia has resulted in the com píete The fire is fanned by a »tiff breeze. a new arbitral! >n treaty between the failure of legislation on the ground of It originated in the west end of the Unite«! States und Great Britain to in- great structure on th«* thin! tl<x»r and unconstitutionality. I clued all disputes I m - tween the two Justice Wright, in the District Su the whole side of the building is wrap|H*d in flames with which the preme court, has decided that the act | countries has be«<n begun by Secretary i of State Km>x. Negotiation of the firemen seem powerless to cope. referred to constituted an unwarrant The capitol ia one of the flneat ' convention will be ex|>edit«*<l as much butl'litig» ..f it» km I in th.- country, i ed interference with the right of the | . as {■«saible. with a view to submit Th«- bull.bng ia of driiie.i granite, fottr] citizen to enter into contract relations ting it to th«* senate for . ratification stories high, and houses the assembly, | and therefore was unconstitutional. at th«- special session to begin April 4. th«* senate, the court of ap|H*ala, th«- The statute is of local application state library arid the offices of many Th«* trvaty will be the first of its only and does not necessarily affect ‘ state officials. kiml ever negotiate«! and will provide At 4 05 o'clock the flames ha<! swept the actions which the department of , for arbitration on all disputes In-tween across the entire west section of the justice has begun at many other points th«* Unite«! States and Great Britain. building ami were bursting into the against alleged bucket shop o|x-rators. - The work of drawing up the new con- senate finance committee ro«>m and the for the prosecution in those cases adjoining office» of the temporary . • vention will I m * difficult, because the president of the senate. At that hour been under the postal laws on .document will be the first of its kind. the fire threatened to reach the sen plain ground of fraud. , It will be used as a model for similar ate chamber. This decision was rendered in th«* ; conventions with other rountries. At 5 o’clock the fire was not under case of Edward Altamus 4 Co. control. It was advancing across the Negotaition of a general arbitration The movements of the government front of the building and thr«*atene«l leading up to the indictments Were treaty with Great Britain is the direct to destroy the entire structure. shroued in the greatest secrecy. On result of the speech of Sir FMward April 2. 1910, however, when indict TOWN DEFIES INSURRECTOS. ments were obtained, raids on Grey, minister of Foreign affairs of “shops” in seven cities Were made Great Britain, in the house of com 200 Rebels Fad to Capture Vdlage simultanrsiusly. wires were cut ami mons several weeks ago, in which he customers were thr*>wn into panic. (aj(j that a proposal for negotiation of After Five Hours of Firing. Since then, according to Attorney Parral. Mex. Demands of 200 or General Wickrrsham, “bucket-shop such a convention would be welcomed more inaurrecto» for the surrender of ping” has become a thing of the pull by the British government. White President Tuft ami Mr. Knox the town of Indc. situated »ev era I r»»t of Denver. have been in favor of such a treaty hours’ ride from the national railroad, The government announced its in for some months, they were not in- were refused by the jefe politico and tention to appeal from Justice clincd to make definite pro|»>sal of the as a result a fire lasting five hours was Wright's decision. subject to Great Britain until official directed on the town, The insurrectos information hail first been obtained as lost eight men. WOOL RATES ARE ^ASSAILED. to th«* probable attitud«* of that coun A boy was sent by the insurrectos try toward the proposal. The sp«*ech with a message to the authorities aak- ing for surrender, promising no pillag Grower! Petit-on for Reduction In of Sir Edward Grey dear«*<| up thia phase of the situation am! pav«*d the Tariff From Northwest. ing was to be done. The boy was de way for actual negotiations. tained and a short time afterwards a Washington Inequalities in the The attitud«* of the senate will de few shots drop|s-d into the plaza. freight charges on raw wool from th«* Just then the tri-colorof the republic Western ami Northwestern wool states termine whether or m>t other ronven- was run up the pole by order of the to Eastern w.x>l markets, mqiecialiy tiona, similar to that negotiat«*«! with jefe as a defiance tn the Invaders, and Chicago, St. lx>uis and Boston, arc the Great Britain, will I m * drawn up and then the firing commenced with vigor. subjects of a complaint made to the aubmitte«i for ratification. It is utxIrratiMxi that preliminary Interstate Commerce commission by exchange» have b«*«-n made through Head of Duma Quits, the National Woolgrower»' association the State department to ascertain *the St. Petersburg A. J. GuchfTok. against the Oregon Short Line railroad leader of the Octoberist party, has re and many other Western am! North attitude of the French government to- war«! a general arbitration treaty cov signed as president of the Ilouma. A western railays. ering all future disputes. These con few days ago he announced at a meet It is averred that wool rates are ing of the Octoberist group that he in unreasonable ami discriminatory, am! ventions. if ratified and put into oper ation, will be a long »tep towards in- tended to take this action. On that the particular preference is given by ternationl peace. occasion the Octoberist deputies inti the roads to Pacific coast terminals. Elgin The reconi price for raw Newbsrg to Get Library. mated that they would resign their The rates arc asserted to tie from 7 J land was made Tuesday when Newton Negro Official Sworn In. Newberg Won! was receive«! here seats in the Douma. but on advice of cents to 10 cents too high, in com par ! Roberta bought of Henry Hug a five- Washington — William H. Ix*wis, acre tract at 1150 an acre. This land last evening from Andrew t'amegie their central committee at Moacow'they ison with rates from other wool terri could have been bought last year at by the I allies having charge of the will retain their seats for the present. tory. It is declartxj that the defend the Boston negro, recently named by 360 an acre, and the whole 90 acres public library that he would give 110,- The bourse was very weak, owing to ant railways are also violating the President Taft for the position of as could have been obtained thia year for 000 towards the erection of a public the critical political situation, and a long and short haul provision of the sistant attorney-general of the United States was formerly sworn into office. 1100 an acre. The tract, in recent library at this place. Already a fine panic develope.! in the Moscow bourse. law. Mr. I-ewis’ nomination failed of con years, produced 60 bushels of wheat lot has been given, and it will be nec Drill Ship! in Drydock. Two Americans Killed. firmation by the senate, an<l Mr. Taft essary for the city to give a bonus of an acre. The Seattle The cruiser Boaton and the gave him a rec«-ss appointemnt. (1,000, which has lw*en agreed to. El Paso, Tex. - James T. Harper, of gunboat Concord were placed in dry- new official of the department of jus- Shipment Cost Alleged Great. El Paso, a captain in the inaurrecto _ Proposed Road Oppoted. army. arriv«*d here from the interior deck at the Bremerton navy yard to be. ties called at the White house to Salem-Complaining that it costs of Mexico. He said Robert E I^e, scrape»! ami painted preparatory to be- thank the president. Salem To declare invalid an order 330 to ship a earload of freight from of Kansas City, Mo., and Martin ing turned over to the naval militias i of the Marion County court in 1907, Medford bi Eagle Point, a distance of of Oregon and Washington to be used Postal Banks Extended, only 11 miles, when it costs but 3120 to construct the Silverton and Mar- Ryan, whose residence he did not as armories and drill ships. The Bos- Washington In • he'll st of 45 addi- know, had been kill«*d in the battle at quam road under the Tuttle act, Joseph to ship the same car from Portland to Harper ton will proceed to Portland under her tional postal aavinga depoai tori tea Medford, a distance of 329 miles. Von I Stupfel, in an action brought against Casas Gramiea on March 6. The announced by Postmaster-General der Hellen Brothers, of Eagle Point, j Marion county, asks that the court be said about 26 Americana had been own steam on or about May 15. The official report Concord will be stationed in Seattle Hitchcock are Astoria, Or., Hoquiam, filed a complaint with^the „state frail- ' restrained from letting a c« ntracj for taken prisoner». Wash., and Kaliapell, Kalispell, Mont. harbor. iWaah., ¡said 17 foreigners were taken. road commission. | ths road.
