INTERMOUNTAIN TRIBUNE
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LINN COUNTY AGRICULTURALIST
VOL. 3.
NO. 9.
SWEET HOME, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, JUNE 25, 1914
$1.25 THE YEAR
LINN COUNTY CROPS
LEAGUE TO RACK
FIGHT IS CONTINUED 25-YEAR FIGHT IS
MEDIATION GAINS
SPOKANE VICTORY OREGON INDUSTRIES s MOST PROMISING
NEW LEASE OF LIFE AGAINST DRY STATE
Dr. Naon Carries Spirit of Optimism industry Worth $26,000,000 Would be Intermountaijn Rate Decision Gives In­ Large Tract of Land Open to Settlers— Almost Every Field Promising a Yield
Above thr Average Crop of
Santa Clara First to Pass
land Empire 4 to 20 Per
Ruined, Say Hop Men at the
With Him on Return From
Late Years
Through Canal
Cent Reduction
Eugene Convention
the Capital
A tour through the Albany prairie
Portland, Ore., June 23.—A pew
Snokane, Wash., June 22.—The
Eugene, Ore., June 20.—Opposi­
tion to state-wide prohibition as de­ decision of the Supreme Court in organization, the Oregon Industry will convince one that Linn county,
structive to the $26,000,000 hop the inter-mountain rate case means League, has recently been formed barring accidents, will harvest a
industry in,Oregon, was expressed that new freight rates, running in Portland, the object of which is larger crop this year than for many
by 100 hop growers and dealers in approximately from four to 20 per to conduct an educational canipaign years past.
Fall wheat shows unusually large
session here today. The speakers cent'lower than the present rates to. for the extension of the use of Ore-
included Mrs. M. J. Tibletts, of Spokane from Eastern territory, gon-made goods of all. kinds, for heads, with a promise of being well
the encouragement of all lines of filled and, with an exceptionally
Eugene, who said she had reared will be put into effect.
The decision of the Interstate com­ industry in this state and for the good stand, is sure to give a good
two girls and four boy§, and that
none of them had been harmed by merce commission making blanket moral and financial backing of all yield.
the industry in which she has parti­ or zone rates is upheld and will re­ Oregon institutions. L. Samuel, for ' Spring oats look unusually thrifty,
cipated for a quarter of a century. sult in the following approximate many years prominent as a leader having a strong vigorous growth.
of the movement for the support of But little spring wheat is observ­
The hop men favored local and reductions in rates:
county option, but declared that
To Spokane from Missouri river Oregon industries, has been elected able, for farmers have almost quit
growing it.
president of the organization.
state-wide prohibition will destroy points, 4 per cent.
♦
Hay, clover, vetch and cheat
the industry, which utilizes 26,000
The
campaign
will
be
carried
on
To Spokane from Mississippi river
acres of land worth $300 an acre, points, 10 per cent.
through publications in the state, shows a vigorous growth and, as
the acreage is large, a most abund­
employing 50,000 people part of the
To Spokane from Chicago terri­ and the league may in time estab­ ant hay harvest is now on. The
year and brings $6,000,000 into the
lish
an
official
publication
of
its
tory, 14 per cent.
state annually.
own. Meetings of all kinds, where price, say buyers, will be unusually
To Spokane from Detroit terri­ the league can properly send its low.
■Eastern brewers, they say; have
Gardens, in every locality, look
stated that they will boycott «a tory, 15 per cent.
speakers will be covered and
state which has no exchange mar­ To Spokane from Pittsburg terri­ all large conventions in the state thrifty. There is nothing at the
tory, 20 per cent.
ket.
will be attended bv its delegates. oresent, time to discourage the
To Spokane from New York terri­ Twenty-one leading civic and com­ farmer.
Rev. Dunsmore, pastor of the
Crops in the Albany prairie áre
Presbyterian church at Independ­ tory, 10 per cent.
mercial organizations of the city
To Spokane from New Orleans and state sent delegates to assist in much further advanced than in the
ence, was quoted to say that after
25 yegtrs of active work for prohibi­ territory, 28 per cent.
(he establishment of the new league Sweet Home valley and vicinity,
The decision marks the end of a and it is to bring to its assistance and harvest will be well through
tion in Kansas, Iowa and Oregon,
he had reached a conclusion that 25-year fight. In 1889 a protest practically every organization of down there before we have fairly
commenced.
the results obtained are worse than i was first shaped against the railroad importance in the state.
Horses Stolen
policy that took a heavier tribute
the, original condition.
A prominent feature of the Pana­
Legal blanks for sale at the Tri­
James Clarke, of Springfield, was from freight bound to Spokane than ma-Pacific exposition will be an ex­
Monday night two horses, saddles,
bune office.
it
did
from
freight
carried
500
spurs and chaps were stolen at named ex-officio member of the miles further to the Pacific Coast.. tensive Oregon out-of-doors life
Notary Public
Halsey. The thieves passed through state board of the Hopgrowers and In 1892 the case was carried up display to cost approximately $10,- Martgage Loans Negotiated
%
000. An area 60x350 feet between
Brownsville, it is thought, at about Dealers Association of Oregon.
without result.
N. M. NEWPORT
the Oregon building and the bay
10 p. m. and started for Crawfords­ John Edmunson, of*Eugene, was
In February, 1902, the Interstate
Attorney at^Law
ville with the probable intent of named chairman of the Lane coùnty Commerce Commission gave a rul­ shore has been secured by the Ore­
reaching the C. M. & W. V. wagon division, organized today. The orga­ ing affording partial relief, but later gon commission and contracts have
(CITY ATTORNEY)
road. If they passed through Sweet nization will be an active factor Spokane filed a new complaint and been let for the initial work. This
OREGON
Home, it would be shortly after against the state-wide prohibition put into issue all the rates on freight feature will be unique at the exposi­ LEBANON
tion, nothing of the sort being at­ Mortgage Loans Negotiated
midnight, Tuesday morning. Sever­ movement. „
Notary Public
to Spokane, the commission’s first
al parties were in Sweet Home
“The climate and soil of Western order having affected only specific tempted by any other* state. One
Tuesday afternoon on their suppos­ Oregon make hopgrowing a natural commodities. The same month con­ of the most interesting features will
ed trail, but they had no definite industry,” said Còl. E. Hofer, of gress passed the “long and short be a miniature reproduction of 200
information, if so they did not dis­ Salem. “The whole world is de­ haul” amendments to the Interstate miles of the Columbia river, show­
ing fisheries, night signals, rapids
close it.
manding our products. The hop in­ Commerce act..
ATTORNEY AT LAW
and waterflails. This realistic bit
A later report stated that one of dustry is declining elsewhere in the
Under that law the roads were
the horses was found in one of the United States. Within ten years forbidden to charge more for short of scenery will extend approximate­
Lebanon livery stables.
this industry wilt be located in the hauls than they faid for longer hauls ly 60 feet. In addition, it is an­ Office an Sherman St.
Lebanon, Ore.
Willamette valley and will make it without the consent of the Com­ nounced that a reservation of 7,000
Quite,a bit of travel across the the most prosperous region in all merce Commission, and were given square feet has been, made for Ore­
gon in the palaces of horticulture,
mountains both ways, is noticable the world.
six months to adjust conditions
agriculture and food products.
now-a-days.
“We are putting this industry up where that state of affairs existed.
The Secretary of the Interior has
to a popular vote under the name In 1911 the railroads, acting under
Subscribe for the Intermountain of prohibition. An industry worth the law, came before the Commission designated a tract of 284,000 acres
^Tribune, $1.25 the year.
$26,000,000 will, in the opinion of with their request for the right’ to of land in Oregon for entry under
experts, be destroyed without com­ charge lower rates to the coast than the enlarged homestead law. Most
pensation if Oregon joins the ranks they did to the inter-mountain of these lands lie in the Deschutes
We Pay Cash For of prohibition states.* If these peo­ cities. This was the final hearing, and John Day river basins.
One of the prominent features of
ple had to pay the hopgrowers of and the Commission reported in
Oregon for the destruction of this June, 1911» their final decision of the Salem cherry fair, will be an
EGGS
electrical parade the last night of
property, the enthusiasm of the dry the inter-mountain rate case.
Another interesting
campaign would expire prema­ Setting out the system of zone, the show.
HOGS
feature
will
be
a street dance led
turely,
”
the
Commission
ordered
the
roads
VEAL
by King Bing and Queen Ann and
to
reduce
rates
to
Spokane
from
HIDES
The Seth Thomas Centenial 7 points west of Grand Portage, Minn, which will be participated in by the
CHICKENS
jeweled watch, either the ladies or and Missouri valley points 7 per cent. Cherrians and the Royal Rosarians
From zone two, territory approxi­ of Portland.
gentlemens size at $4, will fast
Come and in See Us
mating the distance of Chicago, they
longer than a dozen dollar or two
ordered rates reduced 15 per cent, application for a restraining order
dollar watches and will keep the and from zone three, best described preventing the new rates from going
W. D. BROWN
time.
as Buffalo-Pittsburg locality, they into effect and got it easily. The
Grant St., Weil of Main
Sigurd Landstrom
ordered a reduction of 25 per cent. Commission, backed by Spokane
Lebanon
::
Oregon
Before the Commerce Court, now and inter-mountain cities, appealed
The Leading Jeweler
Hotel Bldg.
Lebanon, Ore. | out of existance, the railroads made to the Supreme Court.
Niagara Falls, Ont., June 21.—
Instead of adjurning abruptly, as
had been expected, the mediaiton
proceedings’^vill be prolonged for
perhaps another week.
The change was brought about as
a result of the visit of Minister
Noan, of Argentina, toWashington,
where he conferred with President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan. Dr.
Naon brought back a spirit of opti­
mism and some new ideas which he
imparted to Ambassador Da' Gama,
of Brazil and Minister Suarez, of
Chile.
It was announced after their talk
that there would Le no conferences
until Monday. The Argentine en­
voy reiterated the hopefulness he
had expressed earlier in the day.
The determination which seems
to have been reached is to keep the
mediation board from formal ad­
journment, though there may be a
recess in another week or so while
the search is continued for presons
eligible for provisional president,
according to the ideas set forth in
the conference.
H. B. CHESS