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Sheridan has, to date, sent 62 young
men to the army and navy.
According to statements that devel
oped at a meeting of the State board
of control recently the penitentiary
brick plant may be closed down after
the governor takes charge of the pris
on this month.
Several of the large logging camps
and mills in the Clatskanie vicinity are
in receipt of the "red hand” postcards
which have been sent broadcast
throughout the lumber industry of the
Northwest since Saturday.
The Baker Red Cross organized last
Wednesday already has 77 members.
A campaign for 1000 members by June
1 is being launched and those at the
head of the movement expect to have
one of the strongest chapters in’the
state.
Coquille is not a town of office-seek
ers, and when it appeared the city
caucus might pass by without any can
didates offering themselves for coun
cilmen. a committee was appointed by
the Commercial club to solicit sub
stantial men to run for the offices.
Following advices by Governor
Withy combe Wednesday from Curry
county officials that they would refuse
to call a special election for June 4,
Attorney General Brown said he would
institute
mandamus
proceedings
against them in the Supreme court.
Samples of rock from a nitrate field
said to cover 3800 acres, in Lake and
Harney counties, have been taken to
Bend by residents of Bums, who have
located claims on the tract. They
state their intention of organizing a
company for the exploitation of the
deposit.
Setveny-two quarts of whisky, evi
dently for Portland trade, were seized
at Woodbum by Deputy Sheriffs of
Multnomah county Wednesday. Men
giving the names of Ed Herth, Lester
Maple, L. R. Maple and Roy Maple
were arrested and taken to the county
jail at Salem.
The Sunset Woolen Mill at Bandon,
a newly-incorporated local stock com
pany composed of 60 business men,
has completed arrangements for the
opening of the old Bandon Woolen
Mills plant, and operations will com
mence in about three weeks.
It will
employ between 40 and 60 persons.
Officers of four California cement
companies that had been included in a
Federal indictment against members
of the so-called “cement trust,” charg
ing illegal combination to apportion
territory and control prcies, in behalf
of the companies enter pleas of guil
ty before Federal Judge Wolverton in
Portland.
After waiting a number of months
to ascertain what the Eugene Chamber
of Commerce would do as to the pur
chase of flaxseed from the state, and
after rejecting a number of offers
from outside people, the State board
of conrtol has found that Eugene does
not want the seed and that the offers
made from other sources are now
closed.
Governor Withycombe, while visit
ing in Ontario, reviewed the Ontario
High School Cadets, the first military
company organized by a high school in
the state.
The Clatsop County court has ap
proved plans for two steel bridges
across the Nehalem river btween Jewel
and Vesper. Each bridge will consist
of a single truss, one 110 feet long and
the other 125.
Asphaltic concrete on a concrete
base is the character of pavement
adopted by the Astoria city council,
when it awarded contracts for improv
ing portions of six streets, the total
contracts amounting to approximately
$35,000.
If bids for the next issue of $500,-
000 of rural credits bonds of the state
of Oregon are not for par or better,
they will not be accepted, and it will
be the policy of the present land board
at no time to discount the credit of the
state by selling such bonds under par.
No formal statement has been issued
by the members of the land board to
this effect, but it is known from the
attitude of the individual members
that if no bids for par or better are
received the state will continue to use
state money to take over the bonds,
and if the state money becomes ex
hausted no further loans will be made
until such time as the bonds do sell at
par or better.
Secretary Olcott has certified out to
all of the county clerks of the state
the ballot for the special election
which is to be held June 4.
Peter Tonoli, while working in the
woods near Divide, was knocked down
by a deer in flight from a passing
train, according to word received in
Eugene. The deer was a large buck
and disappeared over a hill and was
lost before Tonoli, who was operating
a wood saw, realized what had hap
pened.
After having been married for 19
years and then separated for 16, G. Z.
Emerson, 61, of Nemah, Wash., and
Mrs. Dora Huntsucker, 59, of Toledo,
Or., were remarried in Albany Satur
day.
County Judge McKnight per
formed the ceremony at the courthouse.
Whenever a lien of any kind exists
on land held in the state, no loans will
be made upon that land from the state
school fund or the rural credits fund.
This policy has been announced by the
State Land Board in compliance with
the provisions of the laws governing
both funds.
HERALD,
FOOD DRIVE IS BEGUN TO HURRY GARDENING
Director of Extension Service Seeking Proper Preparation of Soil Essential
Co-operation of Every Farmer
to Good Early Crops Owing to
to Increase All Products.
Lateness of Season.
Portland—Headquarters for the big
food drive to be made by all Oregon
producers have been established at 513
Oregon building, and Professor R. D.
Hetzel, director of the Oregon Agri
cultural College extension service, is
in charge of the campaign.
He said
the work was started officially Wed
nesday of visiting and organizing the
farmers throughout the state and
bringing their earnest efforts to bear
upon the threatened shortage of all
kinds of foodstuffs.
The workers who met in convention
here went into the country to take
charge of the work in the various
farming districts.
Ten organizers
were sent to the outside cities and
there are already 50 people in the field
getting the work under way. Mr.
Hetzel feels every phase of the state
work will be covered thoroughly in the
campaign now being started.
The men now in the field are direct
ed to determine first of all what the
farmers require in order to produce
the greatest possible acreage of all
sorts of foodstuffs, as well as the max
imum of animals and poultry. Then
will go forward the enlisting of labor,
of machinery and seeds to meet their
requirements.
FOOD EXPERT COMESTO U. S.
New Chairman of Food Board to Arrive
From England Soon.
New York—Herbert C. Hoover, re
cently chosen as chairman of the Amer
ican food board, is on his way from
England on an American ship and will
arrive here within a few days, it is
announced by the American commis
sion for relief in Belgium.
After
conferring with members of the com
mittee here, Mr. Hoover will be pre
pared to go to Washington to assume
his new position. So far as is known
by the men here who have been asso
ciated with him in the relief work
Mr. Hoover has no intention of aban
doning the chairmanship of the Belgian
commission, although it is expected
that the executive work will be carried
on by other members, including W. S.
Honnodl, relief director in America.
Water to Aid Gardeners.
North Yakima — To encourage the
production of crops within the city
limits and help out the back lot garden
movement, the Pacific Power & Light
company has announced a special rate
of 5 cents for each 1000 gallons of
water used for irrigation purposes in
place of the regular rate of 20 cents.
This is the company’s war time “bit”
Under the plan as worked out by Man
ager George C. Swayer reduced rates
will be given for all water in excess of
that used by the same consumer last
summer.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
Wheat—Bluestem...............................
Fortyfold........................................... 2.67
Club...................................................... 2.66
Red Russian..................................... 2.65
Oats—No. 1 white......................... $53.25
Barley—No. feed.......................... 58.00
Cattle—Steers, prime... $ 9.75011.25
Steers, good...................... 9.50@.. 9.75
Steers, medium............... 9.00@.. 9.50
Cows, choice...................... 8.50@.. 9.00
Cows, medium.................. 7.75@.. 8.25
Cows, fair..........................
7.000.. 7.50
Heifers ............................... 6.50@ 9.00
Bulls..................................... 5.50@ 8.00
Calves............................ :. 8.00@10.00
Hogs—Packing..................
Rough heavies.................. 14.50@15.00
Pigs and skips.........
14.00@14.50
Stock hogs.......................... 12.50@14.00
Sheep—Wethers............... I 9.75@12.00
Ewes................................... 9.00@11.00
Lambs................................. 10.25(13.50
Flour—Patents, $12.20.
Millfeed — Spot prices: Bran, $41
per ton; shorts, $44; rolled barley,
$59 ; rolled oats, $58.
Corn—White, $72 per ton; cracked,
$73.
Hay — Producers’ prices : Timothy,
Eastern Oregon, $26(30 per ton; val
ley timothy, $22 @ 24; alfalfa, $23;
valley grain hay, $18@19.
Butter — Cubes, extras, 342c per
pound; prime firsts, 333c.
Jobbing
prices: Prints, extras, 362c; cartons,
1c extra; butterfat. No. 1, 37c; No.
2, 35c.
Eggs—Ranch, current receipts, 31}
@ 32c per dozen ; selects, 33c.
Poultry — Hens, 19020c per pound ;
broilers, 35@38c; turkeys, 22@23c;
ducks, 22@24e; geese, 13@16c.
Veal—Fancy, 14@143c per pound.
Pork—Fancy, 19c per pound.
Vegetables — Artichokes, 85c @ $1
per dozen; tomatoes, $2.75@3.25 per
crate; cabbage, 508c per pound; egg
plant, 25c; lettuce, $1.85@2.25; cu
cumbers, $1.25@1.75 per dozen; cel
ery, 75c@$1.25; cauliflower, $1.5001
1.75 per crate; peppers, 450 50c per
pound; rhubarb, 206c; peas, 50.6]e;
asparagus, 8@12]c; spinach, $1.25 per
box.
Potatoes—Buying prices, $3.75 per
hundred.
Green Fruit — Strawberries, $1.50
per crate; apples, 85c@ $2.50 per box.
Hops—1916 crop, 306c per pound ;
1917 contracts, nominal.
Wool—Eastern Oregon, fine, 35c per
pound; coarse, 40044c; valley, 40@
45c; mohair, 65c.
Cascara Bark — Old and new, 7@8
per pound.
In view of the extreme lateness of
the season everything should be done
by the gardener to get his early vege
tables growing as rapidly as possible.
It is very evident that the first thing
affecting this phase of the work is the
condition of the soil in which the seeds
are being dropped. All the time that
is spent properly in putting the land in
good tilth for the smaller seeds in par
ticular is time and money well spent.
A great deal of time and money also is
saved by working the soil in the first
place when it is in the right condition
to be worked. I see so many lots these
days that are turning up with a shiny
sole, with the ensuing result that it is
going to be difficult for that gardener
to get a seed-bed later on that will be
free from clods. Land will normally
break up if it is handled at the right
time. This will save a great deal of
time later with the disc, the harrow
and the rake.
It is necessary to give the smaller
vegetable seeds the best conditions
possible in which to germinate quickly
and take a quick hold of the soil The
rake is the final instrument to use in
smoothing and fining the seed-bed.
The use of radish seeds in the rows
of carrots, beets, lettuce, onions and
parsnips is to be encouraged. Not
many radish seeds should be used, but
enough so that the rows can be quickly
detected and the ground stirred be
tween the rows.
The radishes can
later be pulled out before interfering
with the other plants.
I have seen
the finest germination of some of the
smaller seeds effected this way when
otherwise they possibly might have
never come through the ground be
cause of the hard crust.
The larger vegetable seeds can be
soaked to advantage, for they will
germinate quickly and will be more
liable to give a better stand. Peas,
beans, cucumbers, melons, squash,
beets, pumpkins, are suitable to handle
in this way.
Acclimated strains of seed are valu
able assets for the garden.
Many folk think that the variety of
the vegetable is the most important
factor, but after all it is the strain of
the variety that cuts the figure in the
garden. A. and B. may plant the
same variety in their respective gar
dens, but obtain their seeds from dif
ferent sources.
One strain may be
wholly inferior to the other but the
variety is the same. This is the gen
eral law of animal and plant life.
Many people are this year planting
free seed given to them by the govern
ment.
If the results are good, well
and good. In some cases in previous
years government seed has given ir
regular and inferior results.
Perhaps the average gardener does
not think long enough that the seed
cost item in a small garden is a won
derfully cheap item compared to the
amount of the goods produced by that
package of seed if it is good. I prefer
to know my seedsman as a partner in
my garden and pay a reasonable price
for the best strains of seed.—A. G.
Bouquet, Head of Vegetable Gardening
at O. A. C.
Rotation of Early Garden
Seed Profitable Investment
It is very evident that for a gar
dener to get the greatest amount of
vegetable produce from the land he
must make his land work to the limit.
There must be no idle land during the
growing season.
It is a good business proposition to
plan the work and work the plan.
Then the planting does not go along
without some guide as to the place
and time of where to put this or that
vegetable. It is not difficult to figure
out which are the short season crops,
such as radish, lettuce, green onions,
early peas, spinach, early beets and
early carrots, and this figuring will
soon show that some provision must be
made for putting to use that land
which has first grown these early
crops.
Thus green onions, early beets, early
carrots and kohlrabi, for example,
which will have a tendency to be ready
for use at the same time, may be fol
lowed by the setting of plants of fall
cauliflower, or broccoli, or late cab
bage, or Scotch kale, the latter one of
the best winter greens anybody can
plant.
The land now occupied by the early
peas will be ready for another crop by
the latter part of June or the first of
July. A late sowing of string beans
for use in September will work nicely,
or the land can be given over to a late
sowing of beets or carrots which, with
water, will make good roots for fall.
I shall not elaborate on this subject
at this time, more than emphasizing
the value of the careful and thoughtful
distribution of the seeds of the various
vegetables in their respective places.
No one plan will suffice for all. Some
gardens are going to contain a great
number of different vegetables and
some will only have a specialized few.
Put Thousands in Wheat Land.
Walla Walla — Formal transfer of
the Fred Theil ranch to George Drum
heller brings Drumheller’s investment
in Walla Walla farm lands this year to
about $175,000. He paid for the Theil
ranch about $72,000 cash.
He also
recently bought William Jones’ farm,
located on Eureka Flat, paying well
over $100,000.
With the Theil place
he acquired 650 acres of fail wheat.
If he should get 30 bushels to the acre
and $2 a bushel, he would receive $39,-
000 more than half of the total pur-
chase price of the farm.
HERMISTON, OREGON.
BIG TASK TO GET
REGIMENT READY
“SETTING-UP EXERCISES” IN NAVY
Springing to Arms Is Not Done
as Quickly as Going
to a Fire.
MAKE-UP OF A REGIMENT
Under New Law It Consists of 2,015
Officers and Men—Takes Time to
Drill and Teach Men How to
Care for Themselves.
New York.—The recent mobilization
of National Guard regiments has
brought home to the public the fact
that even though troops are trained—
as these were by service on the Mexi
can border—a mobilization order is
far different from a fire alarm. With
the best of the regiments there was
no springing to arms overnight, the
men ready to march forward and meet
the enemy.
Few persons, noting that a certain
number of regiments had been ordered
out, really knew the number of men In
a regiment of infantry of the United
States army and National Guard. In
a general way. It was understood that
a regiment consists of about one thou
sand men, commanded by a colonel,
and that an infantry regiment is com
posed of foot soldiers, armed with
rifles.
All nations have their own rules as
to the number of men to be massed
as a regiment. In the United States
this has varied. Last summer a new
law went Into effect which resulted
In every regiment consisting of 51
commissioned officers and 1,964 en
listed men when at war strength.
That law, embodied In the National
Defense Act, Is of Interest, as show
ing that lining up groups of men and
giving rifles and ammunition to them
does not make an efficient regiment
of infantry.
What a Regiment Is.
That part of the law giving the
composition of infantry units Is Sec
tion Seventeen of the “Act for making
further and more effectual provision
for the national defense, and for other
purposes." It reads :
“Each regiment of infantry shall
consist of one colonel, one lieutenant-
colonel, three majors, 15 captains, 16
first lieutenants. 15 second lieutenants,
one headquarters company, one ma
chine gun company, one supply com
pany, and 12 Infantry companies or
ganized into three battalions of four
companies each.
"Each battalion shall consist of one
major, one first lieutenant, mounted
(battalion adjutant), and four compa
nies. Each infantry company In bat
talion shall consist of one captain, one
first lieutenant, one second lieutenant,
one first sergeant, one mess sergeant,
one supply sergeant, six sergeants, 11
corporals, two cooks, two buglers, one
mechanic, 19 privates (first class), and
56 privates.
“Each Infantry headquarters com
pany shall consist of one captain
mounted (regimental adjutant) ; one
regimental sergeant major mounted;
three battalion sergeants major,
mounted; one first sergeant (drum
major) ; two color sergeants ; one
mess sergeant; one supply sergeant;
one stable sergeant ; one sergeant ;
two cooks; one horseshoer; one band
leader; one assistant band leader; one
sergeant bugler; two band sergeants;
four band corporals ; two musicians.
RAISING A NEW FLAG
©
It is a naval custom that an old flag
can never be lowered until the new one
la ron up. This photograph which bas
been released for publication by the
censor shows the raising of a new flag
and the lowering of the old flag at the
Charlestown (Mass.) navy yard.
Naval militia being trained on board a United States warship.
first class ; four musicians, second feed for horses and extra commissa
class ; 13 musicians, third class ; four ries and equipment.
privates, first class, mounted ; and 12
25,000 In a Division.
privates, mounted.
The adding together of 51 commis
sioned officers and 1,343 enlisted men
Machine Gun Company.
“Each infantry machine-gun com (peace strength) or a total of 2,015
pany shall consist of one captain, officers and men (war strength) Is a
mounted ; one first lieutenant, mount problem. Men cannot be drilled and
ed ; two second lieutenants, mounted ; taught the use of rifles, of keeping
one first sergeant, mounted ; one mess well and caring for their clothing, and
sergeant ; one supply sergeant, mount above all, of obeying orders and the
ed ; one stable sergeant, mounted ; one necessity therefor, without time. That
horseshoer, five sergeants, six corpo- is why all military men advocate uni
rnls, two cooks, two buglers, one me versal service and the adoption of a
chanic ; eight privates, first class, and plan whereby regiments can be mobi
lized quickly and supplied with equip-
24 privates.
“Each Infantry supply company ment and ordnance.
When ready for duty, a regiment
shall consist of one captain, mounted;
one second lieutenant, mounted ; three must be able to carry with It suffi
regimental supply sergeant's, mount cient tentage, clothing, food and muni-
ed ; one first sergeant, mounted ; one ti*ms to lust for a specified time. In
mess sergeant, one stable sergeant: the United States nrmy it Is the or
one corporal, mounted ; one cook, one ganization most generally kept intact.
saddler, one horseshoer. and one wag Only seldom are portions ordered long
oner for each authorized wugon of distances, the march order being for
the whole regiment to Join either some
the field and combat train ;
“Provided, That the president may brigade or division. It Is complete
ine lis discretion increase a company within itself, and any subdivision of
of Infantry by two sergeants, six cor an infantry regiment Is lacking in
porals, one cook, one mechanic, nine something, be It only the band that
privates, first class ; and 31 privates : cheers the soldier evenings. If detailed
an infantry machine-gun company by away from regimental headquarters.
In combat, the Infantry regiment
two sergeants, two corporals, one me
chanic, four privates, first class; and Is not effective unless supporting
troops co-operate. The division Is
12 privates."
This calls for men who are trained, considered the proper fighting force,
not only ns soldiers, (but In trades. if the enemy Is organized. It con
As a general rule, a wagon train con sists of nine Infantry regiments, two
sisting of 22 wagons Is required for regiments of light field artillery, one
an Infantry regiment. This gives one of heavy field artillery, one of cavalry,
for each company, one for the ma an engineer corps, signal corps, avia
chine-gun company, three for the com tion corps and a supply train, with
bat wagons (ammunition carriers), reserve ammunition und equipment.
two for the headquarters company At war strength n division here would
and four for the supply company, for consist of 25,000 officers and men,
tentnge for men composing It and for commanded by a major general.
TROOP MOVEMENTS PROBLEM SOLVED
Washington.—Fairfax Harrison, gen
eral chairman of the special committee
on national defense of the American
Railway association, announced that a
complete plan of co-operation during
the wur between the railroads and the
government had been determined upon.
His statement follows:
“The preparations for war as mude
by the government nnd the railroads
have been worked out along the lines
largely developed by Lieut. Col. Chaun
cey B. Bilker of the Quartermaster
corps, who for a number of years has
made an exhaustive study of military
transportation. He has been In charge
of transportation for the quartermas
ter general from 1902 until 1906 and
from 1912 to the present time.
“As agreed upon by the railroads
and the military authorities, represent
atives of the American Railway asso
ciation, from the operating, motive
power, traffic and accounting depart
ments of ronds designated by the spe
cial committee on national defense of
the American Railway association will
be located In the office of the quarter
master general, at each department
headquarters, at each mobilization,
point, at each concentration point and
nt each strategic point at which troops
ore to be assembled. Other Inspectors
or representatives will be designated
as may be required to facilitate the
co-operation between the transporta
tion and the military service and as
the needs of the service may indicate.
commanding officer, presenting their
credentials. The commanding officer
should then assign them to duty with
the camp quartermaster, to whom they
act as an assistant, and through whom
all Instructions must be received.
Assignments to Be Permanent
“The assignment of the American
Railway association representatives to
stations at the various points nnd posts
designated should be of a permanent
character, so that the proper officer of
the Quartermaster corps or of state
authorities will be able to communi
cate with such representatives and ar
range In advance all especial details
of mobilization nnd of movements to
concentrution and strategic points.
“Should It be Impracticable for any
reason for any representatives so cho-
sen to continue In that capacity, their
pinces should be filled by other appoint-
ments nnd the quartermaster's office
affected, ns well as the office of the
quartermaster general, should be no-
tilled.
1
"It is important that the American
Railway association representative In
ench Instance be advised of any change
in the office of the department quar
termuster at mobilization or concentra
tion point In order that such represen
tative ahull have the advantage of per
sonal contact with the new officer
whenever a change Is made. Quarter
masters concerned should communicate
In writing with the American Railway
association representative. Indicating
nny special duties In addition to those
Must Be Broad-Minded.
herein laid down that It would be de
“The railroads’ special committee on sirable for the American Railway as
national defense has advised the car sociation representative to perform."
riers that officers for the above service
‘should be chosen from a class of men
who will be broad-minded and tempera "444994494444
mentally men of such character as
NEW ENGLAND RAISES
would take a broad view of transporta
ITS BIGGEST FLAG :
tion In movements of troops and sup
plies. They should wholly divest them
Boston.—At the moment the S
selves of any disposition to work for or
wires flashed the word that con- ?
In favor of nny particular transporta
gress had assembled in moment- <|
tion Une, but should apply themselves
ous session, the biggest “Old : '
solely to the solution of the transpor
Glory" to which New England- • i
tation problem In the manner most sat
ers ever raised their hats, was ; |
isfactory to the government, und in
such fashion as can be most effectively
flown to the breeze above Boston -1
common. A woman’s voice be- 1 |
executed by the railways. They are
assigned to this duty as transporta
gan “The Star-Spangled Ban- -1
ner," a half-dozen bands struck : |
tion experts nnd will assist the quar
termaster with whom they are serving
up the national anthem and a ■1
chorus from 100,000 or more ‘
not only in the transportation of troops
but In any other matter pertaining to
men. women nnd children rolled '
transportation In which their assist
across the old training ground .
out Into the public garden and '
ance may be requested.
was echoed from crowds that . i
“The American Railway association
surged In the streets tn front : |
representatives — Instructions to the
of the statehouse, down Tremont -
carriers provide — Immediately upon
and Boylston streets snd way : |
their arrival at the mobilization, con
around Into the Back Bay.
centration or other point to which as-
signed, must report in person to the
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