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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1911)
f CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK WIDOW AND DAUOHTER OF FINANCIER. WHO WILL SPEND AÜ0ÜST IN IDAHO PROGRESS OF OLR HOME STATE FIRE GINSENG RETURNS BIG. Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. Proceeds General Resume of Important Event! Presented in Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Drouth In Germany has caused Sharp advance lb the sugar market Plane are being mad«* for the re- organization of the American Tobac co Company. All pass«-ngera were removed two Japauese cruisers. The ship muy be saved. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of China struck a submerged rock while entering the |s.rt Yokohama G«-rmany and Groat Britain dis agree as to their respective rights in Morocco, and war talk I» general. About 1.720 acres of land near Roslyn, Wash , havy been withdrawn from entry by th« Secretary of tin- interior. A swarm of yrliowjackcts took pow - »alon of a Chicago laundry an<! had to be destroyed by the Dre dr partnienu A Ran Francisco woman was shot and robbr«l by a highwayman while kneeling at the grave of her ron In the c«-metery. Chicago jMillcr raided a room used a» headquarters by a Black Hand band, capturing four men and many Black Hand letters. A s >n of Renator Holtslaw, of II llnols. corrotMirates hit* father's con fi ssion to having received a bribe ot 53500 Io vote for Ixirlmer. A carload of '‘tailing*'’ from an abandoned mine near Oroville. Csl . netted 57.000 In gol«l when work«-d over by uptodate methods. ♦leverai prominent cititene of At lanta, Ga, have been I arrested for using the malls to operate a lottery •rheme, under the guise of money lending. The government I» taking step« to prosecute Immediately all c«irpor attoria which do not obey th«- Sher man unti trust I law as Interpreted In the Standard I Oil and Tobacco trust cases. A hurricane at Medford, Or, de strove«] fruit and did much damage to buildings. Mr, I II llarrlm»». at letti sari Ml • «rol llarrlmaa, IPt l*aa>ah(er, III«»«. AUX CAYES FALLS. Haytian Rebels Take President Simon's Home Town. of «22-000 an Realized. Acre Ar« Stats Medford That 53J.OOO an acre can > realized from ginseng in the Rogue Hlv«r Valley |s the statement of E F. Gr ipect, who has been « with the On a homestead plant for y< Graham be tan bls of 1« 0 acre» be now has on* sxperiments producing the va) eighth of an uable plant. Three y ear old glngseng roots have a market value of from »«1 If 3* a imund and roots from » to 12 year» old will ru t a» high as 520 a ¡lound After three years of work attending to one eight of an acre of the root. Mr. Graham has received I 3000 for The cost the product of his area of starting in the business la very groat and ft Is for this reason that n<> more land was set out. The ginseng root Is marketable only In China, where th«- light yel low roots are used by the Chines«- for every conceivable domestic pur l-oae H|M-cimens of peculiar shape d< mand. almost, their w«-ight In gold. b«-caur«* of their suppose occult pow ers. Bv replanting the roots freak» ar<- produced. Government Investigation of the plant discloses the fact that there is no S|»ec|e« of Insect nor any fungus growth that bothers the plant, but there Is a law to the - ffi-ct that the plant«« must lie Inst** t« <! each year by a Government Inspector. Profes »or P. J Ogara, ex-Government path ologlst and now employed by the Jackson County Fruit Association who has just returned from Inspect Ing Mr Gruliain's place la Inclln«-«! t. I.. ■ 11..«! 11.1 - 1.!: - ' > 1 -11- of the few plai t» in th«- world wbr- glngsetig may I m - succt-safuliy raised WARNINGS SENT OUT. Board Issuss 20.000 Circulars, Full of Information. Salem — The first bulletin to be Issued by th« State Board of For- estry has just come from the press Hl copies will be printed and for 1 distribution among those who apply for It to the State Boa rd of bulletin Forestry at Hah-m. The was prepared under the direction of G«-«-rge W. Peavy, director of forestry at Oregon Agricultural Col- leg«- and also a member ot the State Board of Forestry. Prefacing his statements rela tlve to Oregon and the new Oregon ton at fits laws with a comprehen sive view of forauitry conditions In this country, he comments on the situation In Oregon with reference to the n--w furuet fire laws to some length. Th«- bulletin also contains a table showing that the annual consump tion of wood Is 296.79l.9tid and that th«- «-stlmated c«ist Is 54.708.731. It 731. Is reported that the State of Oro- gon has approximately 400.o00.Q00,* '•»Il feet of tlmlH-r that Is merchant- able and that the sawmills of Ore gon manufacture aliout 2.000,000,- 000 f«-et annually, Of this about 60 l»-r cent tet shipped to points out- side of the state, Of the balance used In th*- state 500,000.000 feet. Is used In general building. w hlle the balance Is converted Into W<M><| pulp, boxes, doors and Ot Iler slttil- lar articles made In the woo<i- working ‘factories of Oregon. In his statement relative to Oregon Mr Peavy says: FOREST FIRE INCENDIARY. Stat« Forester Believes Outbreak Work of Criminal. DALLAS IS PRUNE CENTER. Halcm.—Stat«- F' i h enter 1’ A ■ El Port Au Prince. Hayti - The report Hott is ccnvlnc.-d that th-- t.; <•«! capture of th«- horn«« town of Pr-w Francisco Company Likely to fires raging mar Mill City are t due ld«-nt Hlmon, Aux Caves, Is a sever«- Packing Plant Thero. Build to the work of an Incendiary, Ef- blow to the government, as It Indi Dallas — The Armsby Packing Com forts are being made to run i the cat«-« that the spirit of discontent Is pany, of Han Francisco, has been criminal down. The fires were prac- life In the south as well as in the ticaliy under control Sunday 1 when Inspecting ■ north. There Is trouble among the revo ley cities with a view to locating a new one broke out In the timber lutlonary leadetw, however, and It l> a branch packing plant In one of In the direction from which th«» Imi-ossible to say now which part) The tV«- light them, where It can get primea in win«! was blowing. will be In control If the capital falla Hcott Hartland. <-rs saw a man skulking behind 11 large quantities. General f.e Conte, who is in control tree wall hlng them. When they representing the company, said that of Ci-pe Haytlen. a>«d Is reported t- started after him he escaped In th«- the company favored Dallas, and have sent a force against Gonalves wood!. that a plant would without doubt b< to occupy that town for him. »<-em» Five years ago the same territory located here. The late M illlam to lie th«« »trufig-v-t rebel chl«-f outside wan burned over and Forester El- Brown, a pioneer of thia county and this district. Hott declarea there was no doubt PORTLAND MARKETS. Advices from Port de Paix, on the I "By. and probably the Wealth!--»’ • hen but that someone was guilty . iti.au In tl.r-i i n ii.: v, h'.s d--at! Wheat-—New crop: Blueatem, 7Rc; northern coast, indicate uneasiness at of setting out th«- tin At one 11 me .h. .¡.‘| u ti.o • of lan-l n till-.' t club, 75075c; old crop, blucstcm. that point, and the American cruiser suspicions - were almost strong 1 the first i>acklng and canning plant - bough Chester has gone there from Cape 9oc; club. 80c. _ ' __ ___ ___ ______ _ against one man __ to cause Hay tlvnt. | built her.- The Armsby Company his arr< *t. Millstuff»-Bran, The revolutionist« encompass th«- I is favorably Impressed with thlr ton, middlings. I Tly- present fire has burned over capital General M-Cont«» Is at the tract The Dallas Commercial Club 12 sect Iona and la M roiled bar ley. 52* <1 2'1 still beyond head of th«- Invading fore«-». He oc- has offered to tap the land with a control, according to messages re- Corn —Whole. 5-13. ct ipi-'.l <!■"..ih«-s .M nday an.I hu . 4 Sewer at Its own rxpt-pse. and plac- c«‘lv«-<| by the state forester per ton. Men FRANCE PREPARES DEFENSES It In readiness for the building ot are coming lu from Tillamook, Ma 3:5 500 26 van«-«-«! guard reached Archachle y«» Barley—Choice feed, terday, and tx’forc sunset had come th«- plant. per ton rlon and Polk counties. wlthlti three miles of the city Dallas Is the prune center of Ore Le ■ Determined to Be Ready if Involved Date—No. 1 white. 527 per | ton. gon. chipping more prunes than any Hay Timothy, valley, I »16.117; al Conte's candidacy for th» Presidency With Germany and England, ARID LANDS WILL BE TOPIC. other city In the state, unless It b« MU», gram progroised with his march on the falfa, 511; clover, Pai Is.— Fiance. though outwardly I Bortland capital, and there waa a cons'-qtient Not only does Dallas *hl| hay. 510. placid, is omitting no precautions. I many carloads of prunes each year, Reclama’ Poultry Hens. 151| IS’^c; Spring* loss of groun<f by General Firmin. Projects to Be Up at 19c. ducks, young, 14c; ge«-»«-. num The army ie being reorganized and but apples, j-eaches. pears, grapes Stat« Irrigation Meeting. V Inal; turkeys, dr-•••»<•«!, choice, WIRE MAKER FINED «1000. I 'Stem bled, while statesmen profess I cherries. strawberries and all other Ontario. Or, July 22 Further kinds of fruits raised In the valley I e Egg« Fresh Oregon rancl It, can More Sentences Imposed on Charges 1 themselve« as sanguine of a |«eacvful I are raised hrre in abundance. Thou reclamation of the arid lands of | volution. War preparation» today In ¡sands of aerr a have been set out In Eastern Or«' -gon will be the chief d-ed, 26(127c 1-er dozen. of Restraining Trade. Butter—City creamery extra, . 1 and I clud«-d orders to the cavalry to be apples, and thess orchards will be subject of diecussion at the biennial New York — Henry A Hammond, a 2-pound print«. In boxes, 2 »C per beating In a year or so. , ready for the field at the fltv-t signal, meeting of the State Irrigation As pound; lees than box lots, cartons director ns well as sal«v< agent for the heavy provisioning of the forts and delivery extra. HOOD RIVER LAND LEASED. sociation. which win meet in ()n- the Wire & Telephono Company of «m the eastern frontier by special Pork Fancy, lu», lOtjc per pound tarki on September 28 and 29. dur America, pleaded nolo contendere to supply trains run out ot Paris at Veal Fancy, l.’oU'Sc per pound C. L. Rogers G«t« 350 Acree Adapted ing the week of the Malheur County Fresh Fruits—Cherries. 34t 15c i-er the Indictment charging him. like night. and the mustering ot all regt Fair. for Fru>t Growing. pound. apricots, 51 25-1 1 50 per other wire manufacturers, with unlaw metits to their full quota. Judge Stephen R. Lowell, of Pen The Cabinet met at Rambouillet crate; cantaloupes. 51 25© 3 50 |>er ful restraint of trade. He paid a Hood River.—D C Eccles, of Og __ _____ aasoclatiin. today and at the conclusion of Its den I'tah, manager of the Oregon dleton, f>re»ident of tite crate; p- achea. 75c >1 51 50 per crate; fine of 51000. has appointed !<son J. Chapman, sec watermelons. I\ti2c per pound; Judge Archbold also accepted nolo meeting announced the decision to Lumber Company, which operates a retary of th«- Ontario Commercial plume. 51 75 1 • r crate; prune» 51 75 contendere pleas and Imposed , _ Z__ fines reorganise the army, accompanying large mill at lire, has just leased Club, secretary of the asstM-iation. per box; new apples. 51.75© 3 per of 31000 each In the following cases the announcement ______ with ___ ____ the ________ careful to C I- Rogers, of this county for box; raspberries 51 75(f 2; loganber Henry G Htoddard, president and explanation that this action was oc a numtier of years, 350 acres of and work will commence at once rles 515 o «(|75; blackcaps. 52©2 35. treasurer of the Trenton Iron Com- casioned by the resignation of Gen- logged off lantl under the ditch of on securing prominent sp«“akers and pany; J. D. Keith, vicepn-sldent of eral V Michel ap Commander in Chief th«- Dee irrigation * Power Com arranging a program. The Portland blackberries. 53© 3.35 Commercial Club will „. tie asked to Vegetables ¡leans. 5(1 10c; cab the Phoenix Honirehoe Company of hecaus«« of differences with his col panv. This tract la the last of the aid In making th«- meetlns - ---is a sue- hages. 5. 5<’412 per hundredweight, Illinois, and Ramile) II _______ , Roberta, sec leagues over th«- pr«>gramme of Na lands of the lumber company. res» and a representative of the cs-rn. JOyi 40c per doarn; cucumbers rotary, and Thomas H. Taylor, assist tional defenses. The Suy-erlor Coun All of the tract, which 1» located fa-part ment will be 3H1I25 i-er box; eggplant, 15c per ant eales agent, of the American ell of War, composed of generate« of between the Fuuit and West FA-rks of R« m - la mat Ion pound; garlic, IO(| 12c |-er pound, Rtee| & Wire Company of New Jer- the army, continues, but the Vice the Flood river at an elevation of asked to make an address f»r Jam-« Wlthycombe, of Cor C~, iettuce, 51 35tr 1.75 per box; peae, 4 aey. Pr«-sidency, which was held bv 1200 feet and alxuit two miles above vallls. • memlier of the executive (15c per pound; peppers, 8© 10c per Judge Archbald jpfused a plea of Michel, will be abolish«»«! _ A ______ chief Dee. Is particularly adapted to ap committe«. will aaslat In making up pound: radishes. 12*ic per dosen; nolo contendere under a power of ship of the general staff, carrying plea, pears, and strawberries. the program. rhubarb. 2H©3c per pound; toma attorney offered for John W. Kiser. practically the supreme command In toes 51© 1 75 per box. president of the Phoenix Horseshoe time of war. Is create«! Instead. and Japanese Trie« Silk Culture. B.g Profits From Farm. Sack Vegetables New carrots. Company of Illinois, who««- attorney General J. J. C. Joffre will be •P Portland.—That silk worm culture 51.75 per sack, turnips, 31 75y 1» <-ts, »aid he was on the ocean and not pointed to the latter poet. Sublimity—F. A. Bell, for 24 may prove a success ixH-nis assured able to appear. 1 years a resident of this section has through the demonstration made by Potatoes New Oregon, l*^©2c per gone to Germany to visit his father Mrs. M Iwakoshl, a Japanese living aged 97 years. pound. Mr. Bell filed on a Tot Dead, Carmen Mobbed. at Pleasant Home, on the Mount Eight Killed In Wreck. Onions-Red. 3175; white. 32 per homestead near the present site of New York — Three-year-old Morris Hood automobile road, who Imported hundred Grindstone. Me Flight were killed Goldberg, weakened by a seven days' silk worms last Spring from Japan Sublimity soon after he came to Cattle—Choice »terra, »•-75«', 90: and four Injure«! when an excursion fast, was run over by a trolley car in to ascertain If they could tie raised Oregon, and has lived on the land go«*l to choice eterni. »5 35 b 5 50 ever since. He la said Rhe has produced 350.000 from his labor to have made Two thousand In thia country. medium st«»-«, I 5; common train and s regular passenger train front of his home. on the home- steers. 54 ©4 35: choice cows. 54 75 on the Bangor A- Arroostock road persons thereupon stormed the car. several hundreds of cocoons from stead. ©5: goo«') to choice cows, »1 50«, 5, collided at this station shortly after captured the motorman and conductor, which the butterflies are emerging reeled several good, average 1050 lbs., 11 25« 4.50; 9 o'clock Friday night. Five paesen laid them on the tracks and were Mrs. twskoahl has Condensed Milk Combin«, hundred yards of pure white silk common cows, cows. 52 32 75113. 75©3, choice belf- gers of the excursion train were about to run the car over them when a thread, which she proposes to show Salem —The largest corporation to crs. St 7 uS. good to ch«>ice heifers. killed The engln«-er of the excursion file aitlcl«m thia week la the Pacific 54 f-04i 4 75; cholre bulls. 25(| 3.50; train and two firemen were among lone policeman sei red the ringleader nt the Gresham Fair this Fall, as an Reserves then dis- Illustration of what may be done In C«»ast Condensed Milk company with good to choice bulls. 314(125; com the kill«-«!. What caused the accident at the controller. a capital stock of |f>.000.iwio. ft ts m«»n bulla, 25; calvoe. Is not known «V» 534i2 * a« ’t 1 choice ' IRIVWt, A heavy storm pre- • penwxi the mob. It was ascertained silk production In Oregon. The silk understood this company has taken 300 lbs 1..... and under, 37377 35; good val!e«l throughout Maine and It la later that the entire Goldberg family thread she pro.! i<•« ,| from the silk to choice calves, 5'- 50© 6; common believed weather conditions had much of nine were starving amid the direst worms Is pure white, and those who over the plant at Forest Grove. It have seen It say it as fine In texture, la a Maine corporation, and the fee» calves. 34©5; choice stags. »4 :.ott to do with the disaster. poverty. and ««Am« equal to that produced In for filing the articles with the secre 4 75; g«w>d to choice slags, |4 25(f tary of state here were 3235.75, silk countries 4 50. Hail Ravages Fruit Belt. Maderos Selling Cattle. choice Hogs- Extra ho«». llght Ran Antonio.— Regarded as Signlfl Toronto, Ont. —Ninety per cent of Two Sc Or« Acres of Wheat Destroyed Apples to Be Canned. 37.35« 7 50; heavy hogs. »6 50(4«. cant le the activity of the Madero t e co p in one of the richest sections Pendleton —Fire, starting from a heavy rouch hogs.fS 50© «. Medford —Thousands of dollars In family In moving their cattle out of f the Niagara peninsula fruit belt spark from a locomotive, caused the cull apples will be saved when the Hheep- (Th.gce yewrllng .____ wet© era. Mexico. Thirty cars were moved Rat season's most disastrous grain fire big California canning company, which coarwe wool, » ’ 25© 3 50. cholee year- nrday. eras destroyed by a terrific hail storm. The railroads report that llng wether». eaat of »«-úntalas. »1 23 other large cattle-owners of Mexico Between St. Catherines and Winona when 40 acres of wheat ninnine 45 Is planning an apple butter and can til 50; cholee twos and threes 5t© are also sending their cattle to the small fruit trees were stripped of bushels to the acre was burned on ning factory in Medford, completes the ranch of O. D Isamlnger. near Its plant. 1.25; cholee Rpring lamba. »5 25« t I sited States. The Commercial Club Is Their desire seems their branches and many farmers face Myrlck The wheat waa Insured to assisting them In getting a site and 5 50; good chotee Rpring lamba. 55 to be to aell out before the election inancial ruin. Hundreds of chickens the extent ot 30 bushels to the they will build a plant that will em ©5 25. cholee kllllng enes, 32.75© 3 I In October. were ki'led by the bail. acre. ploy 40 or 50 men. s