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lICANS GIVE JONATHAN BOURNE ROYAL WELCOME
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PASSED BAD CUKUli
(teltrf Ir '-11'' Win-.
, PriiitW. Sept. 18, Chargdd
.WSeff a uctftldus check, C. 0.
Mit i wealth)' San Jpae club
fetfta tie shadow of the- law to
I, uNmIs the nilng of a com-
tMtlMt him' yesterday by CA;
Liell-ksown Sn Francisco at-
Aa attempt was mauo to
U S!nrlde yesterday, but lie
; i wife had returned to San
Jo'e. It U'oxpected that tho arrest
iwlll bo mado thorc.
Lee charges MacBtfde with having
Issued to him a check for $125 on
the Bank of San .toao. this check
Leo says, was returned ,wlth,.4.!o ac
count" stomped ' across the ' face.
Friends of tho clubman assort that
thoro h a mistake BPnicwhcro In tho
transaction, but.Lee declines to taka
this vlow of tho situation, and de
clares that ho will Investigate tho
matter,
iCfilCAGO
PEOPLES BARGAIN HOUSE
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FALL OPENING
l!HELTKST AND NEWEST MERC IIAXRISE. WOMEN'S, MISSES
ICHILDHEX'S COATS AND Sl'ITS, MILLINERY AND PANG?
, SILKS, DRESS GOODS, HOSIERY, UMBRELLAS, LEATHER
RKMKMIJKB WE ARE MAKERS J)F IOW PRICES. '
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WHY 10WNSDALT IS
APPLE KING QF OWN
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Spends a Thousand Dollars to Make Old Yf nhill Fa
inous-Then Makes Sacred Heart Academy a Present
of Them
SENATOR
M. O. Lownsdalo Is easily
.npplo kliiR of Oregon being
largest slnglo apple grower In tho
state. Ho was- born In Portland,
was raised In an orchard, and almost
literally grow up llko Evo undor an
npplo tree. For 20 years ho has lived
at Lafayette, Yamhill county, and
has dono.more to make, tho Wlllam
otto valloy famous for applos Cmn
all tho rest of tho fruit hoostors in
It. He has 330 acres of orchards,
from 12 to 20 years old, and In any
kind of a year" grows from no to 00
carlonds of apples, 12 to 1G hundred
boxes to tho enr and getB from I1.R0
lo $6.00 per box for them. On a
few days' notlco ho spent a thousand
.dollars getting up an exhibit for
J.ho Stato Fair, and, Jbcn madias.
presonror the wiioio lot to tho sis
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tors of Sacred Hoart Acadomy. Tho
fruit wont through a smash-up on
tho railroad, had to bo all repacked,-
tho I npplo that Hood Rlvqr growers talk
tho , about. Hjs says It Is a fn'ko. fnrrn
nn'd a fraud and tho Hood Rlvor
pooplo have found It out and'wdhilt
It. Mr. Lownsdalo In a boostqr for
milk condonslng plants. He Bays
with applo orchards they will make
all tho land In this valley worth
four times what It Is today. Lowns
dalo did not worry because- tho com
mltttoo on county oxhlblta did not
glvo first prize to Yamhill. His 120
bushel boxes of apples was the big
gest fruit display over lHshio tho
Stato Fair. They wore tho. greatest
Btroko of ontorprlso over shown at a
stato fair, and did mora to demon
strate tho Importance of the applo
crop for tho' valley th,n wan ovor
dona, bfflrjj, i raiijan. eye-oponer
iu nuy iniiuung porsons wno con la
sco beyond tho end of his noso and
roallzo what It will mean when thoro
will bo hundreds of thousands of
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IN TOWN
6IVEN A CORDIAL
WELC"ME
BEST STOCK
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and somo of It replaced, ljut Low'ns- acres of wich apples grown In tho
dale stops at nothing to malntnln olght counties of this valloy.
bis rocord and tITo roputatlon of Viinililll lftul Other Stuff.
Old Yamhill. Of courso, Yamhill had grains,
ApplPH by Maclilnery. , vogotablos, condensed milk, onlfins
Ho says overy aero of land In tho i that would mako an angel's oyco
IWIlamotto valloy will do Just .what j wntor, grapes, poachos, poars pump
Is being done In Yamhill county kins, olght kinds of walnuts, three
grow tho finest npplos Iu tho stato kinds of chosnuts, threo kinds of
and grow thorn cheaper and bottc fllborts, pecans, hickory nuts, butter-'
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than any other part of tho stato. Ho
says Hood Rlvor mny boat (its on
strawberries, Uoguo Rlvor mny beat
us on pears, but for apples wo havo
got tho candy country. Oo all over
tho world and you will not find an
npplo orchard llko his. Ho has just
put In a comploto canning plant, and
apple and Jolly factory, that will uti
lize all tho waato product. Tho ap
ples aro novor touched by hands
after they aro picked from tho treos.
They aro washod, sized and gradod
as to quality and variety, put onto
trays and takon Into warehouses by
machinery. Thoro 'thoy aro kept In
cool storage not cold storage
vontllatlon controlled by drafts for
which tho cool nights of Oregon are
romarkably woll adapted and -when
packed they are picked up and pa
pered and put into boxes for ship
ment, to tho four quarters of the
world.
Putting Upa Fancy Crop.
He says It takes the highest kind
of skilled labor and somo brains to
put up a flrt-class apple crop. Laud
worth $40 an acre can be mado
worth $200 an acre in eight years
by applying the recelpo. It cost ton
dollars an acre to plant tho tree?
and cultivate the flrst year. You
will get the first merchantable crop
in about seven years more. To grow
it tequlres cultivation, spraying,
thinning of tho fruit, picking, clean
ing, and packing. A high-grade
product ' means a years' program,
and not time to go to sleep or take
trips to Europe. During the busiest
reason Lownsdale lives in the or
chard, eats his meals out of bfs
hand under the tres and sleeps un
der the trees,
kinds at the
nuts, porslmmons, figs, .and.pIcnn-(
nlnnloB growing on swoot '.poto,t')
vinos underground. But those thlnijn
did not count. It waa apples that
Yamhill came, to tho fair with.
Thoro wore 20 boxos of Black Re
publican nnd Lnmbort chorrlcs, held
In cold storngo for tho fair, Just as
flno as tho dny they wore picked,
Man Who Makes Fairs,
Jacob Calvin Copper, or 'Cal"
Cooper as ho la bettor known, ono
of tho seven Cooper brothers, Indian
writer nnd fighter, holped put wp tho
Yamhill exhibit, and comes In for n
big allco of credit and wo aro ready
to spread' butter and Jam on (t an
Inch thick. - Ho burst the shell of
Old Ynmhill's glory In 1893, whori
he brought tho first exhibit to the
Stato Fair. The state then offorod
the magnlflcont prhe of $20, and as
only two counties exhibited tho hon
ors were divided between Yamhill
and Jackson. Cooper showed up at
tno 1.6 w u and uiark fair with a
Yamhill oxhlblt, and has ahowcM
several times slncd then. Ho has
managed soven county fairs an-
come out ahead on all of them finan
cially, although never charging a
cent of admission fees. The Yamhill
county fair this year will be a hum-,
mer and not a cent will bo taken In
at the gates. He ran the Tillamook
county fair and cleared them $400
and yet everything was free as the
good old-fashioned Methodist sal
vation where even the preacher got
nothing for marrying peoplo. Cal
Cooper Is one of the biggest hearted
men allvet and one of the most pub-llc-splrlted
He Is too big a man to be
Hpn,. Jonathan Bourne, Jr United
States senator,, by the direct voto pf
the people of Oregon, aid. 'fchamplon,
of StateinSnt No, 1 and tho dlreot pri
mary low, arrived at 11 0'cjbck and
was given a aordal wejeomo by a
delegation, of prominent Ropublcan
wo.rkot-3. Ho waa oscortod about thj
city in an auto and takon to tho utate
nouso, whore ho called on the state
officials,
'A lunch wns served to him at Ho
tel Wlllamotto, at which Charles L.
McNnry, prosldont of tiid Taft-Sher-innn
club, Hnl D. Patton, L. C. String
or, prosldont of tho Young Men's Re
publican club, nnd othor prornlnont
Republicans . ware prosontv Alter
grootlng hundredB of pooplo nt tho
hotel, Sonntor Bourne wns takon to
tho stnto's Interests during tho (Into
Governor Chnmborlnln, occupied n
box In tho grnnd statul, which hno
boon set npnrt for tho governor nnd
his gUOHtS.
Iloiii-no Feeling Fine,
Sonntor Bourne hns not boon in
Oregon for two yours. Ho was not
In Salem when ho waa cloctcd, but
had such coiiddonco In tho nioniborrt
f Hio legislature oxocutlng tholr
plcdgos to tho pooplo that ho re
mained In Washington, working for
tho Btnot'H intorosts during tho tlmo
of tho gonornl assombly mooting. Ho
hns still confldenco In tho peoplo be
ing nblo to voto intelligently for
United States sonator, and porfoct
ronfltlonce that tho legislature will
oxenuto their will aa expressed In
June. Sonntor Bourne goes back this
.ftcrnoon, nnd this Is tho first tlmo
ho has ovor gone out of his office to,
moat tho pooplo of tho stnto, and
thousnnds enjoyed seolng tho man
who has the nerve to stnnd by hW
convictions of what Is right, whether
It helps or hurts, tho political ma
chine of bis own party.
THfCOAST
ESTIMATE20.00OAT
THE GROUNDS
titled to wear tho crown of fruit
queon of Old Yamhill as she has
done a great deal to give that rounty
the envious roputntton It now en
Joys of being the applo and walnut
center of Oregon. She wears a
crown of flaxon hair which Is Very
becomingly tinged with gray, but
fonly adds to her handsomo appoar.
anco.
Notwithntanding tho enbndons
crowds Of yesterday asd'the day be
fore it is estimated that at leant 20,
000 peoplo will pass ' through the
gates boforo tho close this evening.
The cars havo boon packed since 7'
o'clock this mornlnK, and several
conductors stated that, up to 12
o'clock,: al least two-thirdii as many
people had b,een carried to the
grounds as wore carried yesterday
morning. ,
Again the spacious granddad is
packed to its utmost capacity, the
gates having boeit ctosed at the con
clusion of tho first race. The cans
of tho big attendance at the track
thts'aftenidoh'ls'the great" 2:0S pace
for the Rapid Trnnslt purse of $1,000
Ah each of tho threo. participants Jn
thlfl class, which will bo concluded
late In the afternoon, has a mark of
3:06, or thoroubputs, It Is oxpoctod
thnt tho famous rocord of Sliorlock
Holmes, which lirw been tho track
record for the past yon.r, will be
Htnauhnd to fragment's. Shorlock's
record Is 2:00 ty, , .
Tho feature of tho morning pro
gram wns the stock parado. Tho
hundreds of homos and cattle which
formed tho lino of march wore tha
ndmlratlon nnd wondor of tho thom
saitds'pf spectators. No Htich aggre
gation of stock was ovor brought to
gother In ono plnco, boforo In tho en
tiro West, nnd It wns stated by soy
oral well-known brcodors that thli
morning's stock show was tho groat
est thing of Its kind ovor hold at any
state fair In tho Un?on.
(Additional 'fair -iiqwg on pages
two and sovon.)
an editor or a preacher and ought to
He showed nine I bo running a three-ring circus, with
fair Gravensteln, a state fair thrown in. He would
Meadow Lady, Maiden's Blush. Yel- not know what to do with the monev
Iw ' Traasparent, Baldwin, Kins- he'd make.
Rome Beauty. Spy, Ben Davl. and Fnt Queea &t YiuhMU.
Mrs. A. M. DftBlela was tke genius
who st tfc MmlaHtUHC tswefces to
the Ywhlll exhlfctt. Mm was also
one of tk Jn4f s of aa4lwofk. Mo ( mIous by tk sM af ilni lwir.
Is a great worker hi 11 Mick exkibM
tloai and has kifd put usi nearly f John Redmo4 says Ireland
BRAVE FIREMAN"
SAVES COMRADES' LIVES
Berkeley, Cal., Sept. 18. Ai the
resrilt of his efforts to avort a bollor
explosion, which threatened the lives
of employes of the Paralflna Paint
Company, W. T. Lewis Is suffering
from a brokon leg today. After
breaking his leg Lewie crawled to
tho boiler, opened the exhaust valve,
and banked thojlres.
The injector which feeds water In
to tho boiler failed to work properly
ye'terday afternoon, and when Lewlf
discovered the fact that the water
was very low in the boiler, In bis
haste to bank the Arcs, ho stumbled
ovor a pile of bricks and his right
leg snapped. Unmindful of tho pain
he was suffering, Lewis extinguished
tho fires and opened the exkausi
valvp, averting the threaUsed Bifloj
won. tie. wm jier rsuM uacoa-
LSijJtzenWfrg. The last aamed bring
the fancy prices four to Jive dollars
a box, but the ifcsa Davis wake htm
the Biot Bsoaey at a iQlUT and a
Ifcalf to two and a quarter a bex.
Tt Hmmw am tWie.
if you wast to hear Lowasdale , all the exhfbks tW bays 444 lo MM h frs; that th world Is con
roar art Hot what about the Bsaaas tke glory of Yassklli. 9k is ta-' vertf JtogiaM,
will
FURTHERING OF
WORLD PEACE
(United I'r'ca I.taird Wire.)
Borlln. Sept. 18. A resolution pro
vldlng for tho arbitration of all In
tornatlonul disputes, whether or not
they aro now Included In tho articles
ndoptod nt Tho Hague conference,
was tho subject of an all-day dobato
at today's sosilon of tho Inter-Par-llamontary
Union for tho prptnotljtu
of arbitration.4
Tho resolution oxpressos the do
slro, of all tho nations represented in
tho union to adopt a clauso to (be
existing arbitration treaties between
the various nations, providing that
In case of a dispute arising between
two nations, the nature of which Is
not Included in tho present treaties
providing arbitration, neither dis
putant shall begin war before re
questing tno mediation or ono or
tnoro disinterested nations, to avoid
war.
The greater portion or the whole
day's session was taken up with th
discussion of the resolution.
At tho opening of today's session
Emperor .William sent the following;
measago to the Unien:
"I bono tho conference comprising
co many distinguished representa
tives of tho great powers will fel
comfortable and at home In uiy cap
ital I trust that they w) do that
which will contribute to the mainte
nance of tho b)triUms of universal
peaco, TShlcb Is dear to wy heart."
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