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BRIEF REPORT OF THE DAILY
WORK OF NATION S LAWMAKERS
Washington, May 12
Represent.*
Washington, May !o. Two resolu
live Stanton Warburton, of Washing tions tor important
investigations
ton. would put sugar on the free list, were agre«l to by the house of repro-
at the risk of utterly d«*stroying th«- •entatlvi-a today.
A investlgati’in of the I’oatoftlce
bect-augar imlustry of the United
FIERCE BATTLE IS FOUGHT.
Hsbsls Control Mott O’ Juarez.
Federal« Do Not Give Up.
But
El Paso, Tex., May 10. What was
;x-rhaps the fiercest battle of th«- Mex
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR ROME STATE
PROTECTING OUR FORESTS.
ican revolution was fought at Juarez,
Oregon's Four Hundred Billion Fest
across the Rio Grande,
of Timber Worth Saving.
The rebels claim the town tonight,
«•*«»€ uf F«»r*Mitry, O, A C
ami actually control the more terri- H f G. Vk
BERRY SI ASON AT HANO.
Hood River Crop Estimated at
OOO Crates.
76,-
H imm ! River The world's atrntion to
By the passage of a carefully P tr the liocal River valley was first cull«!
State*.
In fact Warburton would department, propoaed by Saunders, of tory, but the |*>«ltion of the F«*leral
pares! forestry law. back«! by an aile. by the excellent strawberries It was
welcome the destruction of this iralua- Virginia, to determine whether politi forces is extremely well fortified.
quale appropriation, the last legisla shipping. That was nearly 20 years
try if its maintenance ia to cost the
Tonight both F«ierals and insurg
cal influences were operating in the
ture of Oregon took the first effec ago. Shipments have gone as far a*
|M*«ipl«* of this country from 35O.OO0.-
ents arv renting on their arms ready to tive step for th«« preservation of on«- China and Englund. and have reach«!
department,
whether
th«*
cm
ploy
in
are
000 to |»«0.000.000 in tariff duties
of the state's largest natural
re those places in good condition. The
each year. All this h«* said in a speech discharged tor political reason» an«! resume at daybreak.
first shipment consist.-d of but a few
sourc«**.
According
to
the
old
saw,
which h«* deliver«! in th«* h<>u««* of rovering other fcatur«*» of ;*>«tal o;x*r-
At least five persons have lieen
“it is the wi -i man who ).«.-k* the ^.tn crates, and was sent by the Davidson
representatives Frhlay.
killed
on
the
American
Sid-
}
f
th«-
line
ation* was auth«>riz«*! by the adoption
hie before the horses are stolen.”
It Fruit company, of this city, now ship
“Sugar in this country cosLs at least
since the skirmishing began yester is quite evident from the great I osjm «* pers in carload lots.
of one reeolution.
<1 .90 a hundr«! poun«!», the pres, nt
For several years past shipments of
The other, that of Hardwick, of day, and about 15 wounded, while the ; of the past few years that Oregon
tariff, more than it would cost if we
txiught our sugar in the markets of G««rgia. provides for a *w«-epmg in lots on the battlefield is variously 1 cannot claim credit for having act«l strawberries from this city have to-
the <q»*n world.” declared Warburton. vestigation of the American Sugar estimated at from 30 to 50 dead on to the fullest degree the part of the tal«l from 75.000 to 100,000 crat.-a
wise man in the matter o f guani i ng each year, and a» high as seven and
H«* point«! out that under th«* Mc
Refining company to determine what both sides and almut 75 to | im > wound- I her timber, yet there ill »till Mime eight cars have twi-n shipiH-d in a
Kinley law th«* governmnt |«aid out
bountie« of approximately f’j.Ood.ooO influence it has had or is having on el, Fifteen of the insurrecto wound«i stock in the stable which is well worth single day. Shipments l from the val-
Icy thia season, it is expected.
expected, will
a y«*ar to the producers of be«*! sugar the price* of sugar or th«* control of ' already have been brought to th«- I protecting.
crates
A conservative estimate place* the amount to at least 75,000
The Wilson law r«-|»-al«l th«* bounty competition.
! American side, but more are believed
i timber resources of Oregon at 4<H» bil- which will I m * u little in «•*«■••*» of last
provision, and the duty ultimately
,
to
be
lying
far
within
the
town.
R«*pr«**u*ntativex of th«* farming in-
year's shipments.
was fix«*! by th«* Payne-Aldrich bill at
General Navarro at 7 o'clock agreed lion feet board measure of merchant»
t«*r<*Mts
of
the
country
ap;x*ar<*l
today
Straw Ix-rries rmiu-d in the Unit«**!
ble
timber.
At»>ut
one
thin!
of
this
I to atop the firing while the insurrecto
<1.90 per hundr«!. “Our sugar cost
us during th« four years th«* McKinley before the senate financ«* committor wound«l were being removed. The amount ia within the nations! forests. Stales that nino* into com|H*tition with
th«-««* shipments are grown in Mis
act was in force <35,000.000 more to opj*>*<* the Canadian reciprocity Fnlerais have adequate medic*) facil Ths- remaining two-thmls la in private
souri. Arkansas and ('«dorado.
Ber
holdings.
The
state
holds
practically
would
have
cost
had
we
pul-
than it
bill. !t wa* esmtrnd«*! that th«- agr«*-- ! ities and are caring for their wounded
no stumpage, having sold nearly all of ries grown elsewhere are either mur-
chased it in th«* open market. During ment, unacoimpam«*! by a free-list' within the town.
Figured on the biwis k«*t«*«i before the Ho«al River berriea
the thr«*<* y«*ars of the
ilaon law it measure, was a dir«*ct blow at th«* |
All day long the buttle rag«!, with its grant lands.
feet board ar«* ripe or after th«* Hood River ber
C“«t an extra <144.000,000 on account farmer an«! without benefit to the con the insurrecto* «warming through the of 11.50 per thousand
ries are off the market.
of th«* tariff, and under the Dingley sumer.
Representative l.a Follette streets of Juarez an«! m«-eting the measure the stumpage of the state
It is expected that shipments will
. f the I -
I al < ■* i ’ll ..-Mr, represents a property valu«l st <600,-
an«! Payne-Aldrich laws, up to June t«*!ay intn»iuc«*i bills appropriating
000,000,
Estimated on the basis of a go forwanl this year ns early as May
1. 1910. <1.444.718,5a3 mor«* than if <150.000 each for public buildings at vigorous volleys of musketry.
20, an«l in view of the fuct that the
bought in open market fr«*«* of duty.
Ell«*n»burg an«! Wenatchee, Wash., !
The rebels are scattered. In batt!«* manufactured v alue of $ 12 per thous-
’
•>'.■«. h«*»vv frosts in th«* Nllddl«* West have
“What have the people of this roun- when* th«« gnvemm««nt r--«w has sit« • formation th«*y probably coul<! storm
cut down the berry crop for this year,
try to slaiw for thi* enormous sum of . an«! the same sum for a building ami th«* Federal strongholds, as th«*y uppar value «pial to ft,son,mH*,uno.
it is ex|M*«*t<**l they will bring a very
When
It
is
understood
that
the
tim
money th«*y have exjM*nd«*d to promote site at Colfax.
ently consist of just six places the ’
h*gh price. The straw berry situation
the culture of beet sugar? In 1890
Nine hours of continuous jxninding barracks, the church, the theater, the I ber supply of other parts of the coun-
in th«* East |<oints to n heavy crop, but
w«* raised cane an«! sugar beet* aggre by the Republican minority of th«- i sch**olhou*<«*. u hotel and the custom : try is being rapidly exhaust«! and
this «kies not affect the berriea grown
gating 306,ooo.tMto pounds and con- hou*<* of reprvs.«ntatives
fail«*! to' house.
But the insurrecto» su«;ieet | that as a result there Will soon be
in this section.
i
vastly
greater
demands
made
upon
the
sum«*«! 3.192.000,000 pounda. In 1910 make a change in th«* first Demticratic i that a detachment of nearly 300 F«!r-
The strawberry field« in Hood River
w<* rais«i in this country 1,775.000,000 tariff bill that placing on th«* fr«*e, rals with a machine gun is conceal«.! , timber suppy of the Northwest it is
pinds and consumed
7.360,000.000 list agricultural implements, meat* > somewhere in town und they are hesi- ; very certain that the figures quota*! have never been in better condition
above do not fully represent the «•«•- than this year; vine« and plants ar«* in
pounda.
By taxing th«* consumer» of -in I tn-«1 .*« -•».*■■■- .,»• i ■■ <
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a very high state of vitality. Grow
I nomic im|s>rtance
this country <1,500,000,000 from 1890
Th«* bill pass«*! th«* house by a vote a r«*ur or tlank attack.
' the state.
er* are now busy cleuning their fields
to 1910 we have increase«) th«* produc of 236 to 109, th«* D«*m<H*rata voting;
The rebels forced the fighting Unlay
To anv one who bas seen a forest an*! getting rvHiiy for picking.
tion of sugar in this country 1,400,- solidly an«l mustoring 24 Republicans in the face of a deadly fire from F«l-
Then* is but one problem connect«!
!
fire
in action it is very clear that the
000,000 pounds; wt* have been able with them.
•*ral machine guns.
They dare«! not
' individual is powerless against it -with strawberry growing in Hood
to foster the beet sugar industry in
This came after the D«-mocrata ha«l |
River that sonu-tinies becomes serious
thia rountry to the extent of increas- ' vote«! «iown or rul«*d out of order more i th«* artill« rymen of General Navarro I Organized effort is necessary in order I ' from
a grower's standpoint, and that
I
to
«>mbat
it
successfully.
This
or-
ing our pnxluction one pound tor every than |(M> amendments and had «iemon- many times dem<instrate«i the accur-1
is
th«-
»«-uring of <*om|M*tcnt an«l suffi
shell«!
rfsbization
should
be
in
the
hands
of
four pounds of our increa.*«*! consump ■•trat«*! again that the Democratic acy of their range, while they
It is tnie that many or cient help to pick and pack th«* crop,
tion.
Wil) any on«* rontend that on majority was a «impact Jan«! sm«x>thly adobe houses tiehind which the insur-j the state.
in view of the fact that the berri«*»
----- ..J |<ir pr,.it.nting and fight
this *h«iwing, even if w«* maintain working machine for th«« eactment.of roctos had sought protection a half I Kamzations
are Very pcrishabl«* and must lie
ing
forest
fires
exist
among
the
roun-
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legislation. Mann, the minority 1« a.l mile from Juarez while skulking along
picked from th«* vin«-s, pack«*«! und
any hop«* or pr««i»*ct of sunplying our er, offered amendment after amen«!- the river front. 1 General Navarro also !ti*" ■n‘l the ‘•'»>l>er owners of the
bul Mt tho samo tin:« a central market«! each day.
present h«ime
market with home m«*nt, but those that were not rub*! is said to have mined most of th.*
It will r<*|-nr<- n lurg<* nuinb,-r of
grown sugar? On th«* contrary, does out of order were cheerfully voted house« in Juarvt, am! ’
Insurgents organization in nrct*fuiary to give a
That is people to harvest this year'« crop, und
it not show our utter failur«* to pro down by an almost aolid Democratic are naturally reluctant to occupy any I head to the whole nyalem.
jum I what the formtry law panMetl by unless regiments of pickers an«! pack
mote the sugar beet industry by this vot«*. An attempt by Mann to recom of them in force.
it binds to er* Come into the H< mm I River valley
frightful tariff?
While our enor mit th«« bill to the committee <>n ways
Many feats of bravery on th*- part the last legislature does.
gether
all
agencies
within
the state from outside sections, th** growers
mously heavy tariff ha* fail«*! wholly ! and means was table«l.
of the insurrecto« were plainly visible i
will be unabl«* to co | m * with the situs
in the prime object for which it wa*.
from the American side of the line for effectively preventing and fighting
tion. Th«- Indians from nearby reser
forest
fires.
It
mak«-s
it
certain
that
cr«-at«*i, it has succe«*!«*! in building!
and
in
street
figting
they
more
than
Washing’“* .
, 'I
Farmers (non
th.* small timb«*r owner an«!
the vations constitute a large percentage
up on«* of the geatest and molt gr«*«*!y the Canadian border states, supported j held their own,
of th««,* who «*,inu« to H imm I River t«i
- ti.it tbn «•■.iiiitiv Las «-v«-r ' . t' - - - f > • • • t. ■ !.«!■•• !'«•:.•- r •. ■ -.. !.
The sun was hot an«! late in th«* day 1 rancher will each rvceiv«« the sanu*
pick lM*rriea, and are among the best
known. “A brief study <>( th«* «-- -t of made protest today to the senate fin ! » fire start«! by the insurrecto» filled considerntion from the state as «ioes
picker».
th«*
larger
timlier
h««ld«*r.
produetton <«f .sugar here an«l else ance committee against the Canadian' th«* striteta with clouds of suffocating
Heavy loss«** have b«««*n experienced
Urvler the provisions of lh<* forestry
where will show clearly that we can reciprocity bill. They were prec«!«! j smoke. Tonight flashes of light from .
From
raxional
forester is empowered to as a result of shortage of help.
ho|Mt. even under the enonnou* tariff by a delegation of manufacturers of the ruins gav«* th«* rebels an occ_„
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present indications there is a probabil
we ^ziow hav««, to produce but a small book paper, who likewise object«! to view of the church where the E’ederals | n"|ui_re timber owners bi burn slash
ity that h«-lp will be scarce this year,
fraction of th«« amount we consume. the bill.
are « mijmh I up, and th.« cracking of I nr debris whenever, in his judgment it
I is a menace to adjoining property. and growers are eager an«l anxious to
The American farmers receive <«r> jht ’
One witness today referred to the rifles foilow«*d each such glimpse.
Fire wardens will be appointe«i who corrvs|sind with parti«*» who ar«* will
ton for their sugar beets at the plant. ! potash lands in Idaho.
will
I m * |M*ace officers, with power to ing to take up th«* work thia «eaaon.
Later
Fire
threatens
to
wipe
out
Th«* owners of th«* factories say they .
“They have all been withdrawn
This year's crop shouhl net the grow
cannot affoni to pay more at the pre from entry,” said Heyburn, of that the city of Juarez, arid the rebels have arrest for any violation of th«- forest
ers approximately <150.000.
renew«l their attack upon the Feder laws.
vailing price of sugar. Sugar I m -« I s state.
All danger from frosts is now past
The perils! between June 1st and
al«,
who
are
still
barrica«!«*!
in
produced in this rountry
averag«*!
“If they had not been, the trusts
and
a large crop is a»sured.
Octolw-r
1st
is
declar«**!
to
be
a
closed
alxiut 250 pounds of sugar for each ton' would have them gobbled up long be churches, the custom bouse and other
season, during which it is unlawful to
of beets.
If a farmer received <5 per, fore this time," flashed Senator l.a buildings.
• CANADA NOT SO GOOD."
Th. Mexican Northwestern freight set out fire in any slashing, wo«Mland,
t««n tor his beets he received about Follette.
or
brush
land
without
written
permis
de|«»t,
the
Mexican
Central
passenger
<2.18 for ever !<Mi potential pounds of
Heyburn retort«! that the govern
sion from a fir,* wanlen. This provis Es Oregonian for Second Time Takes
sugar in th«* beets.
ment's course had the same effect as a de pit and the city market place are
Out Naturalization Papers.
"B«**-t sugar can be produced in trust, to which La Follette replied burning. The who!« town of Juarez ion of th«* law <i<ies not apply to hum-
Rend The much herald«! Canadian
| ing brush hca;«, log piles or stum;«
Austria Hungary for <1 85 [**r hundr«*! that the farmers did not object to that seems to be in llames.
Red Cross physicians have return«! ; in small <|uantiti«*s anil under close homesteads have no attraction for W.
and in Germany for <2.
Two «lollars kind of a trust.
J. McGillvray, of Bend, who last week
p«*r hundr«! is what Englami pays for
Ex-Governor N. J. Bachelder, of from the insurrecto stronghold, having supervision. However, if fire should
her sugar and that is what we pay for New Hatn|M>hire, master of the Na been inform«! that the battle would get away when burning of this char at a session of the Circuit court held
Five physicians of this acter ia don«* without ja-rmisaion, and at Prineville, for the second lime in
the 4.000,000,000 pounds we import. tional Grange, denounced the bill as a la- renew«!.
Then we add to that the customs du violation of the pledge of the national city have telegraph«! President Taft i damage results, the one setting the his life secured naturalization paper».
The duplication of the ex;>erience of
ties, nn«l we hav«* 4 c«*nts, th«- pre ;>latform of 1908 to maintain protec asking for an appropriation to estab fire is r«-gard<*«i as guilty under this
vailing market price in New York. tion to the country's industries «;ual lish a R«1 Cross hospital for the insur act, an«! is subject to u fine of not becoming an upholder of Uncle Sam's
If we rcniove the duty, instead of to the difference in cost of production recto and Federal wound«! soldiers, mor«* than |5U0 or to imprisonment for constitution was necessary in Mr. Mc
Gill v ray'a <•»■■•* because a number of
also to take care of (M-ople who have a term not to exce«! three months.
sugar retailing on the Pacific Coast at home and abroad.
The same penalty applies to thos<- years ago he left the Unit«! States,
been
hurt
by
bullets
from
the
other
for at*>ut 10 pounds tor a dollar and
"Ar«- cattle, sheep and hogs, wheat,
whu build camp fires without clear going from South Dakota to Alberta,
retailing in New York for 15 to 20 oats, butter, eggs and potatoes con aide of the int«*rnnti«>nal border.
ing the groun«! properly or who leave when* he found it neccs-iary to swear
|*>unds for a dollar, sugar would retail trolled by trusts?” ask«I Bachelder
camp fires burning or unwatched an«! allegiance to the crown before he
Holy Land Th.tt* Denied.
in the Unit«*! Stat**» tor about 40 of the Democratic senators, as he re
could take up a homestead.
p«un«!s for the dollar.
In fact, w<* ferred to the Democratic platform.
Ixmdon In an interview here one who jiermit camp fires to spread,
“The States are good enough for
During th«* elos.s! season all engines
can buy our sugar am! do buy our
“If not, why put them on the free of the leaders of the British expedi-
home
are me," said the ex Cnnadian
sugar in th«* open markets of the list, instead of on a revenue basis, as tion which has t>een making excava of whatever character, which
steader,
after
he
had
been
naturahz«!
of
forests.
operat«!
in
the
vicinity
world tor a l«*«s amount of money than your platform demands?”
tions at Jerusalem, emphatically de
for the second time, “and Central Ore
the farmer» g«*t for th«* potontial sugar,
Bachelder presented tables to show ni«! charges of theft of ancient trees- > must be «juipp«! with effective spark
gon has just as good lands as any tn bo
in the beets. The manufacturer of the that articles u.s«l by the American urea. “All the relics we found,” he arresters.
You
Those are some of the general pro found in all Western Canada.
sugar beets insists that, if he pays farmer bore an average tariff tax of said, “have been left in the hands of
<5 per ton for beets, he cannot sell from 20 to 35 |x*r cent mor«- than that the Turkish government.” One result visions of the law. Th«- romplete act bet I wouldn't give my pafx-rs for all
the manufacture«! sugar for leva than paid by the Canadian farmer. He of the excavations, he said, wax the can tie hud by writing to the state the homesteads in the Dominion."
4 cents per pound.
Then, on what concluded from this that th«- American discovery of absolute proof that the forester at Salem. The whole Intent
Fourth for Plaaaurs Only.
th««ry do we ex;«ect successfully and farmer could not compete with the ancient City of havid was not on of the law is to protect a reaource
Pendleton This place will have a
which
is
of
immense
value
to
all
th«*
eronomically to produce sugar in this Canadian on an «pial basis. Roltert Mount Sinai but on Mount Orphel. He
Fourth of July celebration and most of
ptsiple of the state.
rountry from sugar li*-«*t*?''
Eaton, master of the Illinois State said the Work had been carried on
the program will lie given at Round
Warburton »an! the farmer would Grange, and W. N. Giles, secretary with the consent of the government.
Albany Egg Biggest Yet.
up Park. It will not tie a mercenary
not raise beets an«! sell them at less for the New York State Grange, both
Albany An Albany h«*n has broken afTair, but will be intern!«*! for com
Colonel Higginson Dies.
than <5 per ton; land will not depre warned «ingress not to discriminate
all the roronlx for Ing eggs boast«! of fort and the entertainment of ;w*>ple,
ciate in value; labor will not be against the farmers.
Cambridge, Mass., May 10. Col in various
parts of Oregon and ■ specially of those who come to the
cheaper, and we can never hope to!
"You’ll hear from us farmer« if you onel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Washington in th«* last two weeks. A city from over the county.
Thia was
raise ix-ets as cheaply as they can tie do." said Mr. Eaton.
historian and author, minister and sol hen belonging to A. S. Hart, of this the unanimous decision at a meeting
grown abroad. "We cannot «*«>nom
“I»wer the tariff equally, if too dier, and one of the last of the famous city, has laid an egg which measures of the Commercial club recently. The
icallyj mak«* our own b«*.«t »ugar when high." said Mr. Giles, “but do not scholars and abolitionists of a half
10 inches around one way and is eight committee that canvass«! the senti
we can buy sugar abroa«! tor th«* same discriminate against the farmer, We century ago, did here tonight aged 87
inches in circumference,
It weigh* ment of the buxine«« men was head«*!
price that th«* American farmer gets are going to hold somebody responsible years. Colonel Higginson had been
seven ounces.
The egg has a aoft by Mayor E. J. Murphy, and it was
tor his b«*ets delivered at the sugar if this bill passes."
ill 10 days. A general breakdown due shell with an unusually large hard- favorable to a celebration elsewhere
factory. ”
“That will be the president, for he to old age was apparent, but he was shell«! egg inside of it.
than on the streets.
negotiat«! the treaty,” suggest«! not consider«! seriously ill until belay.
Dam Sites Are Inspected.
Halibut Caught at Astoria.
Cove Orchard Landa Sell.
Senator Bailey.
Rain Extinguishes Fira«,
Washington, D. C.- Engineer» in
Astoria A peculiar feature of thia
t.a Grande Unusual development of
Widows' Pension Asked.
St. Paul. May 10.
Reports from season's fishing wax that a 50-pound orchard lands about Cove, just across
charge of the Umatilla irrigation pro
ject report that all field work in con
Washington. May 11.- Pensions of those sections of the Northwest where halibut was caught in a gill-net that the Grand
Konde valley from l.a
nection with Die propose«! West ex <5,000 a year each for Francis eleva forest fires have been burning for sev wax drifting in the main channel op Gran<le, marks the to-ginning of the
tension will be completed by the end land, widow of President Cleveland, eral days and threatening towns and posite the city front. These fish sel active preparations for the 1911 fruit
of May.
Investigationa at various •nd Mary Ixird Harrision, widow of much valuable property, say the dan dom enter the Columbia river, but as season.
Many deals are being mad«
Heavy rains the tide« are high ami there is no weekly; new men are coming in to
dam sites indicate that with reason President Harrision, ar. provided in ger is mostly over.
able economy the structures can be a bill introduced in the senate today throughout the Canadian Northwest freshet,the water in the bay ia brackish buy fruit land, and fruit tree« of all
built providing rights of way rae not by Senator Hoot. The bill was re and Northern Minnesota have put the an.l this attracts the deep-sea fish in descriptions are being planted with
ferred to the committee on penisons.
Area out.
exhorbitanL
aid«.
much hast«.
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