INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE ’ AND—= LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST VOL. 3. NO. 3. SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, MAY 14, 1914 $1.25 THE YEAR LANE IS CUTTING STATE ROAD AID IS ENVOYS OF HUERTA OUT RED TAPE DECIDED BY BOARD GLAD TO GET OUT $90,000,000 SUM * IN ONE INSPECTION The State Raiiroad Commission is Busy Captured French Shrapnel is Used With Take Baggage and Tell Friends They Are Methods of Handling Cases Revised and Only Counties Issuing Bonds is to Be Beneficiaries of the Fund Results Are Apparent in a Pleased-Think Dictator Can­ Deadly Effect-Gunners Sight by Investigating Rates of Three is Ruling Number of Cases not Last Long Light of Burning Tanks Power Companies Salem, Ores, May 11.—That only Washington, May 9. — Making Juarez, May 10.—The most des­ Vera Cruz, May 12.—Deeming Pending before the State Railroad counties which provide substantial good his promise to lend every the overthrow of Huerta a matter perately fought battle of the Mexi­ Commission at this time are 95 for­ mal complaints, of which 56 relate can revolution is being fought to­ of days, it leaked out today «that proper aid to the man who is en­ funds with which to build perma- to railroads and 39 to public utilities night at Tampico, according to the three envoys whom the dictator deavoring to acquire title to a home nent roads will be aided from the and 145 informal complaints, 82 of reports reaching rebel officers- here. bent to the peace conference at on the public domain, Secretary state highway fund was the decision which are in connection with rail­ It is reported some of the oil wells Niagara Falls are secretly delighted Lane, of the Interior Department, reached by the State Highway Com­ road questions and 63 in connection and tanks are burning and that a to get out of Mexico City safely. is cutting out red tape in his own mission today. In further outlining They told friends hère as much and office and in the general land office its policy the commission announced portion of the town is on fire. with public utilities. It is said all Americans have been intimated that they thought that and doing away with technical pro­ that only permanent thoroughfares 25 of the utility cases involve the physical valuation of plants, either taken aboard the United States war the capital would be anything but tests against the issuance of patents. would be built with the state high­ Early in his administration, Secre­ way fund. of electric light, power, water, tele­ ships, but other foreigners are scat- a safe place for either Mexicans or So far as thé $170,000 remaining phone or street railway systems. tered throughout the oil well dis­ foreigners when the climax came. tary Lane voiced his opposition to Some idea of the great importance trict. It was this section of the Instead of returning to Mexico City, red tape, and in making good his in the fund is concerned, the com­ of this phase of the commission’s battlefield that the United States the envoys stated that they would promise he has somewhat revised mission virtually has decided that it work may be gained from the fact government suggested should be go to Europe when the Work at the method of handling land cases, will be distributed* among those that these valuation questions^each made a neutral zone. The rebel Niagara Falls was corhpleted. When both in the land office and in the counties that have voted bonds and into 44 towns and cities of the state, generals refused to adopt this sug-1 they sailed from Vera Cruz, they interior department, when appeals those that vote them at the coming took their families and all their are taken. The secretary is getting election. This means that counties including all the principal munici­ gestion. palities except Pendleton, Astoria, By the light of the blazing oil portable belongings with them. In at the essential facts in each case, which are to be ajded in hard-sur­ tanks, fired by stray shots, the rebel the view of the envoys the end will is dealing with the entryman from face road building this year from Roseburg and Albany. Clatsop, Jack- More than that, a total of $90,- artillerymen hurled shot after shot come within 30 days, the dictator a practical rather than theoretical the state fund are: which . 000,000 is involved in the investiga­ from 20 heavy field ' guns into the intends to fall, Samson-like, carry­ standpoint, and is brushing aside son and * Columbia counties, • tion which the commission is cbn- strongly entrenched position held by ing the government down with him. the technical protests that resulted have voted bonds, and Clackamàs, so often in the past in indefinite Marion and Coos, if proposed bond ducting into the light, power and General Zaragozt, the federal com­ issues are approved Friday. The delay in issuing patents. heating rates of the Portland Rail­ mander, .in the Center of town, Democrats Ask Voters to As a result of this reform, the proposed issue in Clackamas is way, Light & Power Co., the East­ sweeping the breastworks with a Write in Certain Names secretary, between July 1, 1913 and $600,000; in Marion $850,000 and ern Oregon Light & Power Co. and hail of shrapnel in an effort to open, April 25, 1914, approved 40,125 in Coos $450,000. t the California-Oregon Power Co. the way for a dash by General Gon­ Portland. May 9.—^Because of entries for patent, being an increase The board also decided that it That is the figure given by the zales infantry. companies in their own property For the first time in the fighting several vacancies on the democratic of 4370 over the number of entries would do road demonstration work appraisals as presented to the com­ between the men of Huerta and state ticket, the democratic state approved in the corresponding, in the counties that improve on a mission before it began its investi­ Carranza the constitutionalists were central committee today issued a period of the previous year. This large scale their own thorough­ gation. on equal terms with the federala in statement recommending voters of increase is shown1 in face of the fact fares. Of the $238.000, the appropria- In this work the commission does the matter of artillery. The 20 the party to write in the following that the number of filings made is tion this year for the state highway gradually diminishing. not accept the figures given by the French field guns captured by Gen­ names on the ballot: For congress, second district. funds, $30,000 was spent on the companies interested, but uses them eral Gonzales at Monterey and plac­ road betweén Wasco and Biggs late merely as inventories of the proper­ ed in position before Tampico have James Harvey Graham, of Baker; last winter to give work to the un­ ties involved. For some time ex­ done tremendous ' execution, the for labor commissioner, George employed. The engineering expense perts in the employ of the commis- French shrapnel bursting with the Harry, of Portland; for justice- of in Clatsop and Jackson counties, mission have been conducting an utmost precision in sharp contrast the supreme court, Judge T. H. where the road work virtually is in independent appraisal of the proper­ to the home-made shells Used by Crawford, of La Grande and Judge W. T. Slater, of Salem. ties to ascertain their unit value. Villa in his battles about Torreon. Columns for the Oregon Building Are charge of State Highway Engineer Bowlbv, will be about $50,000, leav­ The commission is proceeding to Being Forwarded—Span of For the Legislature ing about $170,000 for buying ma­ ascertain the exact physical valua- Each Five Feet chinery and distribution among the tibns in these cases so that when the It is recommended that the names counties that issue bonds and in rates are taken up it will have an Shipment of the 48 logs to be used other ways provide large sums for of W. W. Poling of Brownsville and exact and scientific basis from which Ben T, Sudtell, of Albany, be writ­ as columns for the Oregon building improving their thoroughfares. to work. ten in for two of the places on the at the Panama-Pacific Exposition Announcement was made by the The commission also has before it 13 railroad valuation matters, in­ Large Field Force Now Being Chosen democratic ticket and a Mr. Nor­ Will be’.completed within the next commission today that through the From Among Several Thous­ wood of Harrisburg has been men­ two or three < days. The Oregon efforts of the department, Clatsop volving appraisals of physical pro­ commission sent out seven cars county, which has a $400,000 bond tioned for the third place. perties of that number of (lines. and Applicants We have heard no one mentioned yesterday, containing 21 logs. Three issue for road work, has been saved Tractically every railroad in the cars of logs will be sent from $75,000. At the suggestion of the state is included in this appraise­ Washington, May 12.—Surveys to for the one place lacking on the re­ Central Oregon and one from South­ State Highway engineer, Bowlby, ment, the purpose of which is to be made this summer by the newly- publican legislative ticket. ern Oregon, and 12 logs will be sent the first bids for the bonds were re find a basis for fixing rates. created Alaska Railway Commission by steamer from Coos Bay. The Another very important, but little will determine the location of the For Sale or Trade (Continued on page 3) l.ogs are assembles from different known phase of the commission’s first trunk line to be built under the points on the Columbia and Willa ­ work, has been that of requiring $35,