INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
th«
Hood Rivet With the Commercial
Club, Automobile Club and business
organisations of the city exerting ev
ery effort to make the occasion the
biggest of its kind that the Hood Riv
er Valley has ever witnessed, the lit
tle apple city ia planning to entertain
hundreds of guests which are cxprct«-d
here during the first week of May,
when the orchard« are in full bloa»>m.
From jiresent indications the blossoms
will be in full bloom by the first week
of May and there will be more of them
than ever before.
The board of director« of the Com
mercial (Tub have aettl«»d on definite
plans. Letters have been written to
the O.-W R. A N . North Bank, and
river boat line official«, asking their
co-operation. It is planned to have
special trains run from
Portland.
Members of the Automobile (Tub will
meet the visitors at the station ■nd
give them excursions through the
orchards.
BEE EXHIBITS FOR FAIR.
Cash Prizes Will tie Given
State Fr,/ Exhibit».
Hold Up Train In Mississippi
Blow Express Safa.
• nd
Corinth. Miss. Mobil« A Ohio !>•>-
•enger train No. 4, northbound, was
held up and the express safe blown
Move On Foot To Reviva Indù»!«-» In open and robbed seven miles south of
Marion County.
Corinth by four men heavily armed
Salem 1‘ueslbility of the develop I •nd masked.
ment of 2.000 acres of Willamette
Rkradbounds have been telegraphed
Valley land and the inauguration of I for and a posse has been organised to
the first gigantic step toward placing take up the punmiL
It ia reported th« safe contained
the flax industry on a flrm basis in |
this «ection of the valley Is pre«ag«*l 960.<XM in currency.
Where th« robbers board«*! the train
by the visit here of Western Manager
ia not known. Engineer Wilden and
Smith, of the American l.inseed Oil Fireman Kaufman first learned of
company, and H. A. Brewer.
their jirerence when two of the turn
With Secretary Olcott and State crawled over the tender with revolvers
Treasurer Kay tn- vi -. i '..A were takrn drawn and command«*! that the train
to the homo of Eugene Bosse, the be brought to a halt at a point de»ig
pioneer flax grower of the Pacific nated. The command was obeyed.
In th« meantime other member« of
Coast. Smith made s proposition to
Bosse to make arrangements for the the band had gained entrance to the
di-velopment of 2,000 acre« of land, to expreaa ear and after subduing Ex-
t>e sown to flax and to do it immedi prese Meaaenger Snoddy, set th« ex-
ploaive, which was touche«! off when
ately.
The American Linseed Oil company the train came to a stop.
After taking the contents of the
has established a branch industry In '
is now nrcc««ary
nec«--«ary to send «•fe. the four took to the Wtxxfl with
Port 1 ami. It ia
a large quantity of the flax from out attempting to rifle the mall dr mo
Michigan, but the
repreat nt alive« lest the passenger«
No attempts will be made to pene
here declared that the Oregon flax
■urpaaaea the world in quality and trate the densely wooded river bot
that great quantities of it can be uacd tom where the men are believed to be
in hiding, until the arrival of a detail
by the company.
of railroad officers and bloodhounds
from Jackson. Tenn., who are coming
FERTILIZING YAMHILL PRUNES
-.. i aboard a special.
OREGON MAY GROW FLAX.
APPLE DAY PLANS MADE.
Hood River Entertains Lavishly
First Weak of May.
ROBBERS GET »00 000 LOOT
Best
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-
vallis—In a letter from Secretary
Frank Meredith, of th«- State Board of
Agriculture, in charge of the state
fair exhibits, to Prof. >1. F. Wilson,
of th« entomology department at U m
Oregon Agricultural college, a list of
twenty-three cash prize» «mounting to
about 9110.00, to be offered at the
coming State Fair for exhibits in api
culture. It is through the efforts of
the State Beek«>ej>ers' association that
space for the exhibits and the fund«
for the prizes haver been secured.
The entries will elose September 1,
and the entry fees have been fixed at
ten per cent of the first premium.
The exhibits must be in place by ti a.
m. September 2, and it has bren de
creed that all exhibits must have been
produced in the apiary of the exhibit
or during the year 1912.
Premiums will be restricted to ex
hibits from within the state of Ore
gon.
No premiums will be paid unless
there is competition, and none will be
awarded where the exhibits are not
individually worthy. The judge will
in no case give first prise to a second
grade product, even though there art-
only two exhibits.
The honey must
be pure nectar, sugar or syrup honey
being barred, and the judges will ojien
the packages to satisfy themselves on
this point. Sections less than three-
fourths full will also be barred.
EUGENE-COOS LINE RUSHED.
Grade Work Westward Will Be Com
menced Thia Week.
Eugene Upon the arrival of four
carloads of mule«, Fuller A Company,
sub-contractors on Jthe Southern Pa
cific line to Coos Bay, began grading
operations westward from Eugene.
Thia company has ha<1 perhaps 200
men scattered along 13 miles of right
of way all winter, clearing the land
ready for the grading work with the
settling of weather this spring. Pow
er graders will be put to work aa soon
as possible.
Twohy Bros., contractors, have
made a good start on the 2300-foot
tunnel at Noli Pass, and this week
complet«*! the transportation of ten
wagon load» of compressor machinery,
so that the tunnel men may use air
drills.
I>ecd« for M-ctions 'of right of way
west of Noti Pass are being filed eV-
cry few days.
Bu Idirg for Raising Buga.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor-
valli» An insectary haa just been
built in the college orchard at O. A.
C-, for the purpose of studying the
life history of a large number of in
sect pests infesting the orchard«,
truck gardens, and flower beds of Ore
gon, with a view to finding the most
effective methods of combating them
A long list of experiments have been
planned by the entomology depart
ment fur the coming season.
Work on Big Dam Started.
A a tori a The Bidwell-Hayden com
pany. to whom wax given the contract
fur building the big -jam for the 100,-
OOO.iMMi gallon reservoir at the head
work« of Aatoria'a water ayatem. have
taken out a donkey engine and two
large boiler« to he uaed in connection
with their operation«. The flrm will
operate a rock cru«her.
The actual
construction work will be commenced
as *<K>n a« the cam,* is completed.
Bridge Over lhe Grand Ronda.
La Grande — Steel for the new
bridge «panning the Grand Ronde riv
er at Riveraide park la expected any
day. The bridge will be 15 feet in
length and will have a walk on either
aide ait feet wile.
College
E xperlmenting in Improvirg
Quality and Production.
BRIBERY PROBE STARTS.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor- Four M.«ico Representative« Form-
vallia Fertility experiments in the
Arraigned
prune orchards of Yamhill county are I
Santa Fe. N. M
With the formal
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being run by the
division ___
of ________
borticul-
tore of the Oregon Agricultural col arraignment of Representative Manuel
lege, covering b<’th the bottom land Cordova, Julian Trujillo, Ixiuis R.
orchards and hill orchards.
The ex- Montoya and J. II Lucero, arrested
jierimenta ir.flj ide not only the use of 1 ,,n • charge of soliciting a bribe of
fertilisers, but also various methods 95,1X10 for their collective votes for
of tillage, the thinning of the fruit. United State« senator, the Inveatiga-
pruning and like matters, to see if tion by the lower house into the al
the general outlook and quality of the
c.>rruptk»n was begun
The accuacd legislators, who are to
prune can be improve«!.
An elaborate set of experiments is be tried flrat by a committee of 16 ap
also being conduct«! in this connec pointed by the »peaker, have employed
tion aa to prune evaporation. In the counsel to defend them againat the
fertilizing work, for example, it is charge, which they now deny. Their
detired to ascertain not only if the defenae will be that they were led into
size of the fruit can be increased by the trap aa a result of a political con
this means and the quality improv«*!, spiracy. b.-lieving they were going to
but what relation fertilisation will attend a caucus at the time they visit-
bear to the evaporation of the fruit. ed a room in the hotel, where it 1» al
The relation of various cultural and leged they received 1500 each on their
orchard management methods have to promise to vote for a certain candi
th«> evaporation of the prune will be ; date for «cnator.
The investigation of the alleged
closely studied.
bribery of the four member« will be
pushed vigorously by the committee
Apple Growers Get Busy.
Albany Forty members of the Al- and all the «eiaion« will be public.
The men were formally »creed with
bany Apple Grower« association met
here in the Commercial club rooms to warrant« charging them with a felony
discu«« matters important tn the fruit They are in the cuatody of the sheriff
industry of Linn county.
The meet of Santa Fe county.
ing wa« presided over by H. Bryant,
SMUGGLES DIAMONDS IN HAT
president of the association, and talk«
of interest relative to the protection
of fruit trees from rodlin moth and San Francisco Woman Admits Her
Offense to Officers.
San Jose sca'e were made by various
member«.
New York Mrs. Banche Carson, a
The annual Albany Apple Fair, fashionably dress«*! widow of San
which will l>e held in November, was Francisco, had diamond earrings con-
discussed at length and efforts will be cral«-d in her hat when she passed cus
made to make this year's event the tom inspection un her arrival from In
biggest in the history of Linn county. dia. according to a report«*! admission
The president was authorised to ap mwle to authoriti«*«.
point a committee from the associa
Mrs. Carson declared only a package
tion to work in conjunction with a of unstrung jwarls, for which she paid
similar committer from the Commer duty on the valuation of |H50.
Cus
cial club toward making it a success.
tom officers brought the woman from
Ix>ganberriea, which arc fast be her hotel for further examination,
coming a profitable small fruit, was asserting that the pearls were Wurth
the subject of considerable discussion, 97.5'
and as a result, many acres will be
The woman broke down and ad
planted this year.
mitted. it was said, that she had hid
den two diamond earring« in her hat
Orchard Bulletin Almoat Gone.
ami had other jewelry which altogeth
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor er the authorities valued at 920,000.
vallis -The issue of Prof. C. I. Lewis'
Mr«. Carson was h.ld, charge«! with
bulletin No. Ilion orchard manage smuggling, in 93.000 bail.
ment. published in 20,000 copies, by
Mrs. Carson gave her address as 925
the Oregon Agricultural College Ex Gough street, San Francisco.
periment »tation. ia now rapidly living
Morgan May Buy Tsmpls.
exhausted, in epite of the fact that
the Oregonian published the matter
New York — Following J. P. M<«r-
entire, in an edition of 30,000 copies. gan's long aojourn in Egypt this win-
The pressure of preaent call* for the ter, reports have reached thia city to
bulletin will probably be relieved the effect that he is negotiating for
somewhat when the magaxine "Better the purchase and removal to America
Fruit" printa it alao in an edition of of the famous ruin« of the Temple of
15.000 copies.
Philae.
The temple is threatened
with destruction owing to the rise in
Pear Growing In America.
the level of the upper Nile as a result
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor of the enlargement of the Assouan
vallis - Prof. C. I. I^wia, chief of the dam. The cost of the work would be
diviaion of horticulture at the Oregon more than 14.000. (MX).
Agricultural college, is the author of
Great Earth Block to Ba Pumped
a 100-page brochure containing 60 fine
illustrations, many of them photo
San Franclaco—The exposition offi
graph« taken in Oregon, which ia to cial« have awarded the contract for
be iaeued shortly by the International the filling in of a submerged part of
Correepondenee schools aa a course on the world'« fair site. Work ia to be
"Pear Growing in America." Prof. begun at once.
One million cubic
Lewie haa «pent «evcral year« in ape- yard« of earth ia to be pumped from
cial atudy on thi« «object.
the bottom of the bay by auction
dredge«, the area to be Ailed covering
Graaham Fair Data« Fixed.
several blocks.
Gre«ham At a meeting of the board
300 Adrift on lea Floe».
of director« of the Multnomah County
Fair aseo-iation, the date« for the
St, Petersburg -Three ice-breaking
fair thia year were definitely fixed for steamers are en mute from the Neva
October 2-6.
So far aa known these in the direction of the ialand of Nar-
date« will not conflict with those of gen, to the northwest of Revel, in
any otver fair or featival to be held the Gulf of Finland, where SOO fl »her-
thia ye ir. and it ia balievad that the men are adrift on floating ice. They
agneu tural dieplaya will be at their are In imminent danger of loving their
beat a >out that time.
livaa.
HALTS MOB WITH GUN.
Hoquia-n Millman Kseps Out Disturb
ers Plant Running,
Hoquiam. Wash. When a deloga
tion of I. W W. labor agitators ar
rived at the Coates shingle mill to in
duce a strike they were met by J. A.
Law!«, manager of the mill, who
waited until the leader was within five
’ feet of him. and then drew a revolver
and stood off the whole gang.
The Coates mill is still running, al
Prize Yearling Steer From University
though short handed.
As a result of a free for-all fight be
0* Idaho Bringt »I 20 Pound
tween Greek strikers and American
Oregon Man Boye,
non-strikers at
the
Northwestern
plant, charges have ' been preferred
■gainst (Tty Attorney Callahan by
Portland Development of the live
the Hoquiam Trude« Council.
stock industry of the Northwest and
tn the fight a Greek wax about to
hit a »jw cial police officer on the head of Portland as the distributing center
for all the beef, jxirk and mutton prod
with a hammer when txzn Miller, an
old time citizen, threw a brick which ucts of Oregon Washington and Idaho
put th« Greek out of commission. was given further imjwtus by the
magnificent exposition at the stock
Miller asy« that he tried to do the
yards which was attend«*! by every
Greek a favor by preventing him from
one of the 23* guests from the Inland
committing murder.
City Attorney
Empire who arrived in the city on a
Callahan iaaued a warrant for the ar
rest of the Greek, but refu««*d to Issue •peclal train, as well as by more than
»000 residents of the city.
< ne for Miller.
The conspicuous ribbon badges of
This Is the basis of the charge
againat
Callahan,
which will ba the Inland Empire delegation were
everywhere in evidence
The Central
threshed out by the city commission
Idaho and Eastern Washington visi
er«.
tors were an imjiortant factor in the
Th«« making of the charge« mark«
days’ program, and their stock exhib
the introduction of the Trade« Council
its proved important features of the
Into the 1. W. W. fight again«t the
day's prise distributions ami sale«.
mills. Heretofore th« Federation of i
It wa« a University of Llaho entry
Labor ha« not ha>l a hand in the affair J
a yearling Hereford that brought
For three days Police Judge ('oghlan I
the record price for a steer on foot
has been trying Greeks on misde
I ever paid w««t of Chicago.
When
meanor charges. He has been refusing
' George Warren, of Warrenton, Ur.,
them trial by jury and fining thrm 95
paid 9L2<> a pound for the big prise
and 910. Judge ('oghlan'« refusal has
' winner of the show he jxid more than
brought up the question of th« consti
«ver ha« I' «11 paid ‘ In th« history of
tutional right of trial by jury, and
the world, with the single exception
has resulted in a declaration that
of the steer
"Advance."
which
Coghlan'« husine«« will be boycotted,
brought 91.50 a pound at Chicago 12
end the commissioners who placed him
year« ago.
there recalled.
The animal weigh«*) 1,0H0 pounds,
The recall of the commissioners la
■nd Mr. Warren wrote hia check for
al«> threatened if City Attorney ('alia
91.2M.
Then he got busy figuring
han is nut dismissed.
what the price of |«irtcrhuu«c steak«
would be if sold at the u«ual propor
CITIZENSHIP IS NEEDED.
tionate advance over the price at
which he bought. He exj>ecl« to I m >
Porto Ricans Want Naturalization Pa- amply repaid for hi« investment by
exhibiting his purchase at future fairs
per». Declare« Brown.
and livestock shows.
New York Attorney General Fos
As this sale n>bbe<! the University
ter V. Brown, of Porto Rico, wa« in
of Idaho of its prixe offering, official«
New York en route to Washington,
of the college laiught from Benson
where he will hand his resignation to
Bros., of Union, Or., a yearlng White
President Taft. He will then return
Shorthorn at 17 cents a pound. W. L.
to his home in Chattanooga, Tenn., to
Carlyle, dean of the Agricultural col
resume his law practice.
lege, declares that he will develop this
Brown spoke enthusiastically of the
ste.-r Into a prize-winner for next
progress and prosjienty of Porto Rico,
year's show.
where he ha« been stationed two
All the Lake and Eastern Oregon
years.
jxMiple were rlatrd over the showing
"I don't think there is a single
mate by their stock.
Although the
state In the Union today where the
judges did not use the ribbon system
jxxqile are so happy aa the Porto Ri
in awarding prizes, announcement of
cans are with the government they
the results Main were mad«« known.
have," he said. "There is only one
With th«< beat portion of the prises
complaint they make against the Uni di»tribut«-d among the Inland Empire
ted States K'tnfernment. and that, I stockmen, and the record sale of the
think, is a just one.
They feel they
whole western hslf of the Unit«*!
have a right to American citisenahlp. States going to one of their schools,
That feeling was expressed and fa the |-co ji Ie of that district had reason
vored In the platforms of both parties to be rial«*!. They lost no opportun
in this country, and both President ity in voicing their delight to every
Roosevelt and President Taft urged one on the ground«.
the conferring of such
citizensip
It was a busy day for the inland
There is no reason, especially in view Empire party. (Juite a few of them
of the«« long standing promisee, why
had liecn detained at the banquet the
Porto Rican« should not be made citi night tw-fore until after midnight, and
zens.
Without It, they frcl today some of the«« were a little tardy in
that a Porto Rican ia a man without a
reaching the special cars provide«! for
country."
transjxirting them
to
the show
grounds. Some miss«*) the ears and
CENTRAL STATES SHIVER.
came trailing to the show later in the
morning.
Blinding Storm of Snow and Sl««t
Upon arrival at the exposition the
f weeps Across Continent.
visitors were given an informal re
Chicago A blinding storm of «now ception by members of the Livestock
and sleet swept aero»» the North Cen- Exchange and the Pacific Northwest
tral states Thursday, heaping disaster Livestock association, under whose
the
show
was
given.
upon transportation and communica auspices
Sjirechca were dispens«*! with, as
tion facilities.
Half a hundred cities were »hut off everyone was too eager to get a look
from communication with the rest of at the fine sheep, cattle and swine.
The visitors just had time to chase
the world. Miles of trlegraph and
through
the stock |>«-n« and lna|M*-t the
telephone poles were blown down or
wire« covered with ice until they prize-winners casually before the auc
broke. The snow changed In many tion sale started. Throughout the re
places to sleet, which was blown like mainder of the morning interest cen-
shot before a gale that increased to ter«*! in the sale« ring.
Lunch was served on the grounds
nearly 50 miles an hour.
Zero wea
■nd again opjxirtutiity was given for
ther was reached in several places.
viewing the exhibits liefurc the after-
noon ««I«« open«*!.
The early after-
Two Killed In Strikers' Riot.
fKM>n brought a constant stream of vis
Berlin
The termination of the itors from Portland and other nearby
strike in the Westphalian c>al fields, towns. !n view of the small attend
where nearly 200,000 miners laid down ance last year, officials of the associa
their Viol« on March II, was marked tion feel jubilant over the presence of
by two fatalities in attacks by strik so many Portland ptxiple, neary half
ers on non-strikers working in the pita of whom were women.
at Hagen. A third man wa« wound«d,
probably fatally. In the Samar dis
Knox la Well Satisfied.
trict the strikers have also abandon«*!
On Board the Unit«*! States Cruiser
the movement and gone back to work, Washington, at sea — Secretary of
but the miner« in Upper Silesia are State Knox, who. with his party,
leaving the pita in increased numbers came on board at Puerto Barrios.
Inland Empire Visitors Take
Show By Storm.
Fortifications Cut Down.
Washington, I). C. —A bill msklng
appropriation for fortifications was
passed by the senate. It carries 94,-
lHfl.235, about a million and a quarter
lees than the appropriation of last
year.
Guatemala. lx>und direct for I .a Gua-
ira, Venezuela, ia well satisfied with
the results of his visits to Central
American capitals. The secretary of
state expects to arrive at La Guaira
within two days, and In all probabili
ty. will reach Norfolk, Va.. April 17
on his return journey.
China Gets Anaton« Flour.
• 5.000 ia Sent to China.
Anatone. Wash - The Anatony mill
la preparing a special flour for Orien
tal trade, to be shipped direct to
China.
The sacks bear a special
trademark of Chinese characters.
Washington. D. C.- The American
Red Croa» society «ent 95,000 to China
for the relief of the famine sufferers
in the new republic.
Thia make« a
total of 155,000 sent alnce January 1.