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K5Z85tiJSfr 4T' PAGB FOUR DAHjT OAPITAIj iOtrnWAfi. .t,VM oniwnv FIUOAY. MAttCir 18. 1010. Railroad Center of Lane County jjlj jjj ijjj S jBB dlBlffidi (ijHHBS a i THE FR UIT BELT OF TH UPP (Written by Capt. C. J. Dodd, for tho Sprlngneld Capltnl Journal.) Twenty-one years ago I came to Oregon, bought a ranch of 112 acres of land one mile northwest of Springfield, In Lane county, aftor spending, one month looking over tho entire country. What at that tlmo attracted my particular attention was about fifty bushels of those grand big Red Baldwins and Spltz enberg apples that had been stored away the autumn before. Having lived in Illinois and Iowa all my life and had already grown two orch ards, one In each state, always tin red horticulturists of the highest note. i There was about seven acres of mixed fruit planted in about 1853 by John Day on hla first donation claim. Had eaten Bartlott pears in Iowa brought direct from this orch ard to JnBper county, Iowa. Tho orchard consisted of about thirty va rieties of apples and four varieties of pears. There wore only about five or qlx dead or missing treos in tho whole orchard. All kinds of prunes, plums and cherries, strong and healthy. The irult posts that os caped 'from tho Garden of Eden blight, codlln moth and. tho Sun-Jose scnlo from CalifoYnia had not made tholr nppearauco. It lookod as if Adam vs to return to his own trees, that hnd fruited and grown for 30-odd years, must of necessity grow in nn ideal soil for fruit. I tested it as (o depth and drain age and found tho entiro tract nu ideal one, but as I bad so many va rieties and a limited markot, I con cluded to again undertake tho plant ing and care of anothor orchard, whore tho wintors did not kill and' wnere the Illinois and Iowa wind could not blow down all my troos and cyclones, did not ship my entire crop to Grlnholl, Iowa, boforo thoy wore fully ripe. After planting n lew acros of new treos of California stock that wore Infested with scale and also the cod lln moth, Missouri sent a few con signments of nursery stock with an thrncnose, the fruit men of Oregon wore cnlloif to arras and war was declared against each and evory foe of the horticulturist. Our agricul tural college, in conjunction with tho government, furnished tho brains and contluctoil tho experiment I undertook to exterminate in my Chicago, March 1? Is a city franchise necessary for wlroloss tel ephone? That Itfitho now legal prob lem for the municipal and corpora tion lawyers which will come up In 'Chicago as tho' result of tho suddon recognition that the wlroloss tele phone Invented by n Chicago uni versity alumnus. A. Frederick CoN "Wan, Is now .commercially practica ble. TThe corporation counsel's of tflce is puztled. Is a franchise neces sary, place there In neither a central power station, tho stringing of wire, nor the use of the streets or any public property Id required for Us operation? Corporation Counsel Drundage a( first took It as a joke, but now is giving sorious nttontlon to tho question. The point la that although 'the city cau proscribe how the struotn and other public proper ty sbal) be used. It has no jurisdic tion over the use of prlvato proper ty unless suoh use interferes with public welfare. Tho forco of this ar gument is apparent from the fact 4ht only private property is used ,1n tho Collins wireless telephone, wnlws therbtbor can be called pub Vt property undor tho jurisdiction of the city council. This qiiMtl n was developed by ihe pnrrvas jf tho .public rtenioiiBtrut'oiiB of tho C illlns jnvoU'on whluli Have boon glvr i by Uiwa civil engine,!, to ' which Sntfor Bum and otlutr city -oUIuJhUi ware Invited. Whtl the jitiwilfc wr mlt4 In theatre Un letting to the vo'oe of mun in i an other building coma 10 them over th Ur whvw through th wtni Is recelvar, one of th aldm-men Mtqlil ta . J. Mullaney. wmrftUry to the Ww: "Thor'v got u btten oh tk frtuwkfH quwiUun with thin juMJ." The ubjet wh unotfl dajiy rerwrod to th city's u thorlUw (or an mrly solution before wlrwlww 'jibontt ooutd haiw time CHICAGO LETTER THAT i 4 IS GOSSIPPY BUT 600D R WILLAMATTE VALL Edition of the Dally old orchard, and In one year I de stroyed every known pest and havo never been troubled with them since (in my old orchard.) Here Is my formula: Took four pounds of Dlston saw, 150 pounds of avoirdupois, sinow and muscle, nfid cut every treeflovol with the ground and made fire .wood )t the entire seven acres, and this nfter I had top-grafted about a third of them. i My young orchard Is now begin ning to bear and this last year I sold In the local market from ?1.2o 10 ji.du por dox, or-noout one nun dred dollars per acre clear profit, 1 Thoro is a large area of land ad jqlnlng my place just as good and some olghty to one hundred acres adjoining either of my original places or others now In. fine bear Inc. This holds trood as to cherries. pears, "peaches, prunes, English wal nuts and all kinds of small fruits, j which can- bo grown In between the (rows of fruit trees In common and will more than pay for the cultiva tion. To the north of the town of Sprlngfiojd (a town of three or four thousand, which will bo tho first dl vision of tho Portland and San Frnn Cisco via Klamath Falls) is the Mc Ke"nzlo river, the most beautiful stream that mortal man ever gazed upon. I havo been from its sourco to its Junction with tho Willamette, and all along Its fertllo valloy Its soil Is Ideal for fruit growing. Nothing except homo orchards. with one or two oxceptlQns, has fol neon attempted. ot a young man with a littlo money, lots of muscle and grit, In a few years can bo on oasy street by .raising fruit or veg etables, and n market Is already awaiting him In mills, mines and camps, to say nothing of tho close proximity to the city of Eugone, sny in 1920, with a population of thirty thousand, and will bo known as West Springfield, and Springfield's ton thousand of the present town. In fact, in 1920 thoro will be but ono town It matters not by what nnmo and with tho largo area of orchard land nil planted to fruit, and all the tlri-cnn states (or non- producing) to supply, there is no dnngor of nn over-production. to get too strongly entrenched in case a franchise should be found necessary. Mr. Lee and his wireless apparatus are lu great demand, iu vitntlons having buon sont him by several universities and technical schools to demonstrate that the. Col lins. Invention Is a practical success. "When packers pay J7 or, $8 or 10 pur hundred weight for beef cattlo you may bo sure (hoy do not so act from choice," sold Charles W. Baker, of tho Chicago Live Stock exchange, in n statement in which he declared that tho unprecedented high prices of 1910 to date for cat tie and hogs on llvo stock markets of tho United States have developed a serious problem to producers, packers and consumers. For slaugh tering oaus.es a shrinkage which adds approximately 42 per coivt to the live weight prices paid. "Tho advantages which the large packing concerns havo ovor smallor con corns, as brought In Washington last week. Is In the quantity of busi ness thoy do and tholr ability to make more from the by-products, such as tallow, oleomargarine, hides, horns, hoofs, hair, etc." he said. The farmer and the country live stouk merchants mo wiser than they UBed to bo. Thoy do not rush their stock to ono market s formerly, .without knowing the conditions there. Thoy keen In touch with markets all ovw the country. It I frequently happens that sioek grow I era In Nebraska will h'p thtr cat tle to Buffalo Instead of Omaha be ohum they have discovered that nrlctM are higher In Buffalo. There is oajy one reiudy for prewnt high prlMM for live steak. That is. to in crease the supply or decrease the Uu mand. or balk. Of course, the live stock growers are primarily reepon atble for the present high prices, al- though, they are only one of spveral claseoe who havo brought about tho conditions. Tho government figures show that therp has boon a decrease a largo decrease in tno numuer oi beef cattlo and hogs on farms In the United States. From porsonal con tact with hundreds of live stock buy ers and sOllers. I know there has boon such a decrease. On the other hand there has been n steady in crease in demand. Our people have come to be more and more eaters of meat. The answer is obvious. The stock raiser isn't tho .only one to ! blame, however, nor the consumer . who liflK let his nnnetlte for the choicer bits of meat get the better of I his good judgment. Corn is a big factor. Several years ago there were only three or four commercial uses to which corn could be put. Now there are dozens of such use?. The result has been an Increase In the value of corn from 4C cents to GO cents." A gigantic specimen of wood bison, the largest game animal ever killed In either North or South America, and the only one ever kill ed by a white man, has been secured by a New York naturalist, Harry V. Radford, and is sought by the Field museum of Chicago. Radford's ex ploit also settled the long disputed question as to whether- the wood bls0n"l8 a distinct species from' the better known plains bison. It Is. Mr. Radford, a member of tho Arctic club, for years has longed for a chance to secure such a specimen. The great bull weighed more than a ton and stood five feet ten inches high. It was killed by Mr; Radford about fifty miles southwest of Smith Landlrfg on tho Slave river in the Canadian northwest. This is a wild country, but is only a short distance from the' Peace river country, which is rapidly filling up with settlers and which will be reached by rail this spring, when tho Canadian Northern extends Its branch from the Stur geon river toward Fort Asslnlbolne, Mr. Radford tramped more than 1,- 200 miles on his trip, carrying a special permit from the Canadian government to kill one wood-blsoa If he could find one. He saw eighteen which he thought wero wood-bison, but not until December 1 did he encounter tho mammoth bull. He was accompanied by an Indian and In spite of the cold, 42 degrees below zoro, they Were able to save the complete skin and Skele ton in perfect condition. In the dls cussion among naturalists, Dr. Wil liam T. Hornaday doubted whether thoro was a species of bison that lived In tho forests dist'net from tho plains species. He killed In Mon tana in 18G0 a great plains bison, which, until Mr. Radford's kill, was tho largest game animal ever se cured In tho Now World. Mr. Rad ford roports that his trophy not only establishes tho fact that there arc two spee'es of bison in America, but It also Is larger than, the Hornaday specimen, now In the National mii- soum at Washington, being 302 pounds heavier, two Inches taller and one foot live inches larger in girth. The measurements Mr. Rau- ford gives are: Weight, 2,402 pounds; girth behind forelegs, 9 feet 9 Inches. From $2.50 to $195,000 was tho increase in vnluo of one piece of Chicago real estate In seventy-eight years. The fact was brought to light by the purchaso by the Common-wealth-Edison Co. of 109 acros along tho n6rth branch of the Ch'cago river as tho site for a new $20,000, 000 plant it soon will blilld. Tho land was purchased for $351,000. In tho duys of Presldont Andrew Jackson lt could have been had for $10. Nearly 'sixty acres wore pur chased from tho heirs of Joseph Blckerdlke, an Englishman from Yorkshire, who bought It, after it had passed back and forth between trap pors and hunters for yonrs. The original squatter's claim was for 240 nores. It was sold by Joseph Curtis May 1, 1832, to Henry Walton and' George McConnell for $10- Tho following May Walton sold the squnter's rights to tho property to Blckerdlko for $10 cash and a now for $10, due In one year. The new Chicago plant of the electric com pany will bo located on tho north sldo, between Addison and Uoacoe streets. It will havo two generating stations with six turbine engines In etch, each engine to have a capacity of 30,000 horse powor. Tho total power available will be 360,000. Two turbines nro o'xpeoted to be in full operation within two yonrs, and the others will bo added as the need arises. Tho company now has ono of tho largest electrical power plants In the world on the. South Side. Tho total horse power available, at these two stations Is nbout 300,000. When the North Sldo plant is completed the Commonwenlth-Ed(son wll. be: able to generate electrical energy to light and run Chicago to the ex tent of $650,000 horso powor. Law enforcement lu Canada and the slow reform of court procedure In the United Stntes, according to Chicago lawyers. Is proving a forco In the migration to tho provinces of western Canada opened up by the Canadian Northern and .tho Grand Trunk Pacific railways. A letter written by a settler, thoy say, may give new Impulse to tho lugging ef forts of the American bnr. this letter having boon used effectively to point the contrast. A Mlnnosotan' who had bought a farm In V that part of Saskutchownn known as tho Last Mountain district, controlled by W'lllam Poarson of Winnipeg, watt author or the letter. Aftor tolling of tho crops, the seven railways, tho elevators and the Influx of settlers, he concluded; "I'll tell you what It bolls dowjj to. Ever sktae the settle ment of this country began It has been understood and recognised that the man who breaks tho law la golna tu be jailed. It don't matter It he U as spry as a gopher nor a husky as a buffalo. It don't make any odds If he can crawl Into a prairie dog's hole, ir he breaks the law he's go ing to be jailed, good and sure! He can have fifty guns and fifty thous and dollars, he can have any sort of blame pull you like- bit he Is just going to be jailed. It may take p. day. a week' or a year, but he'll be jailed, sure. Maybe he'll kill a Northwest policeman maybe he will. Well, then he'll hang, for i-. dead sure thing! Ho'll never buy a Northwest policeman, nor he'll never escape jail if ho breaks the law. All Canada knows It, and. wo Americans know It, and that's why this country is a good country to live in God's own country, as they say good enough for me, anyway." r ,, i SOUVKN'IIl HUNTERS SWIPED THE BIT OF IRISH SOU t united rnxss LSASEO WtKE.I Chicago, March 18. Aquiotinvcs- today to ascertain, If possible, what became of a small piece of Irish turf, imported for tho purpose .of .enabling President Taft to deliver his St. Pat rick's day speeches from Irish sod, Is being made today. The strip of Old Erin was brought to this country for the express pur pose of enabling the president to stand upon Irish ground at the St. Patrick's day banquet. The sod was carefully guarded aboard ship on the trip from Ireland, and during trans portation from Now lork here. It is helleved that souvenir hunt ers carried away the turf. o TO ESTABLISH BANKS IN SOUTH AMERICA united rnssa leased wins. New York, March 18. Oiilcers of the Standard Oil and the Morgan In terests today refused to affirm or deny the report that the two gigantic interests have combined to wrest the banking business of Central and South America from England and Germany, For some time it has been ru mored that such a step, was under consideration, and now It is common gossip that the American- interests purpose to establish a chain of banks In the southern republics. These, it is said, are to be operated in conjunc tton with those in the United States. Such a move would open up a tre mendous banking business. Moreover it would save the discount rate of $5,000,000 yearly which goes to England and Germany. o- MI'S. .71'LIA HERRICK VAX TINE MOODY AND MISS EFFIE STEW ART, "SASSIETY" FOLKS, HAVE A HAIR PULLING MATCH. f UNITED I'RESR LEAKED W1RE.1 Now York, March 18. It was learned today that Mrs. Julia Her- rick Van Tine Moody, a prominent club Woman and a candidate for the presidency of the National Socioty of Ohio Women and Miss Effle Stew art, a well known singer, fought sav agely in the corridor of the Waldorf- .JfStorla hotel, a couple of days ago. Hair was pulled and garments badly torn before the friends of the two could separate them. The light occurred shortly nfter tho conclusion of a harmony lun cheon given by the National Society of Ohio: Miss Stewart states today that Mrs. Moody had been a member of the organization for only a year, ''I just wanted to tell her whut I thought pf a woman who wanted to bo president so, quickly," she said. "Miss Stewart treated me outra geously," was all Mrs. Moody would suy regardlug the fight. (UNITED PBB83 LKARKD WWB.1 St, Johns, Kans.', March 18. Speeding across tho Kansas prairies inan autdmoblle at 20 miles an hour with a corpso at- the steering wheel, and saved from death or ser- 1ousJnjuy by a straight and smooth road, was the startling experience from which Mrs. O. B. Shepherd and three of- hor friends are recovering from, today. O. B. Shepherd ,was tho mayor of St, John. With his wife and a party of guests he started for an auto spin late yesterday. Noticing that tho car was moving perilously near the edge of tho county road, Mrs. Shep herd called to her husband who was at the wheel, "Look out, tho car, b getting off the road." There was no reply. Shepherd hung over tho steorlng wheel as thouiihh wore exumlnlne the front of tho much'ne. Then Mrs. Shep herd loaned from tho tonneau und looked more closely at hor husband. She fell bnok with u soroam, for his face was white and his oyea gferzed and his lifoloss hands clutched tho wheel. s - A. H. llornor, -ono of the party, stopped the car, and headed It post haste toward St. John. A phys'olan declared Shepherd hnd died of heart failure. His funeral will be held to- tnorrow. Tlu Jury Is Completed. Wataeke. 111.. March 18.-The jury to try Mrs. J. R. Sayler, her father, John Urunden, ud Dr. William . il- ittr. for the alleged murder of the woman uuetmnd, was completed to- j day. It U probable that the hearing' of evidence will begin early next I week. i FOilBHT AT HARMONY LUNCHEON DEAD MAN STEERED THE AUTO ALL KID IN EE PANTS ATS BANKS Oakland. Calif., March 18. Po lice and plnkertons are seeking a lad In knee breeches who is charged by local bankers with having .ob tained $500 from them under false pretenses. . The boy gave the name of Frank Thomas but the police believe that the youth wanted Is the "knee, breeches kid," a young Eastern crook who has operated successfully In many cities because of his appar ent youth and Innocence,. Tho lad here represented to bank ers that he owned an interest in all the newspaper routes of the city. He Tvent to Robert M. Fitzgerald, a director of theCentral Bank and ex plained that he needed $40 to se cure the delivery of a shipment of magazines from a local freight of fice. ' , After receiving the $40 "the lad casually remarked that lie had a second larger shipment, coming, but would not think of asking further assistance. Fitzgerald was led by kindly im pulse to question the boy and Anally loaned him- an additional $300, ac cepting, tho youth's note for that amount. The youngster then wnt to Charles T. Rudolph, vice president of the. Union Savings Bank and told the- same story. He passed over a note in exchange for $100. The lad returned to the Central Bank, interviewed John Carleton, an official and secured $50. Young "Thomas" tried his art on Cashier Burpee of the First National Bank, but remarked on his acquain tance with President Bowles of tho bank. Burpee called up Bowles on the telephone and Bowles denied the acquaintanceship. The lad's demand for a loan was refused. He de parted and has not been seen, since by any of the interested parties. The lad had promised to pay up the notes 'within two days. When he failed to' do so, the bankers noti fied the police. Cleveland, O., March IS'. While speeding toward New York today President Taft eagerly devoured the details of the antl-Cnnnon fight at Washington which raged since yes terday afternoon. The first Intimation of the trouble came last night while ho was soated at the St. Patrick's day banquet at Chicago. The president was given a long cipher telegram revealing to him alone theK exact status of 'the fight In the house to change the rules and overthrow the present speaker. Taft was programmed to deliver five speeches before he returns to Washington. It Is believed that he will lake occasion in some of them to reveal his position In the fight. Some politicians expect him to at Back the "Insurgents" and "read them out of the party." Others believe that his anxiety will cause him to take" a conciliatory course. The preslde'nt Is vitally Interested in the passage'of several "adminis tration measures." At the same time' he has staunchly supported the speaker and the regular Republicans in congress. Now- he- is called upon to face" the possibility of defeat for his pet meas ures, through dissension' in the ranks of his party. To pass the measures Taft needs a united Republiofin sup port In congress. Should ho drive the "Insurgents" to extremes it is probable that they would vote with the Democrats to defeat tho adminis tration's measures in retaliation. Seattle, Wash., March 18. There Is over $5,000 worth of opium, to bacco, silk and -contraband goods in. the United States customs ware house here today, all seized from he steamer Minnesota. Since the big liner dropped anchor In port March-7, 'rarely ;a day has passed without the seizure of contraband goods, hidden away on the ship. Tno latest hauls include 15 five- nel tins of opium cached deep in the .ual bunkers, and' 15,000' Manila cigars of the finest grade. This at mpt at smuggling was unnecessary is Manila tobacco now, when im urted In lots of 3,000 or more und properly marked, is not dutiable. The tobacco will be sold at nucteon. Boy Is Acquitted. Los Angeles. Onllt,. Msroh-IS. Seventeen-year-old Dean Blnghnru. who shot and killed S. . HlllotU bis stepfather, lu defense of hla mother and little sister. Hdtlh, is free to day. He was absolved from all blame by a coroner's jury fi$t the mother and sister testified that he was brandishing ay treat batcher knlfeJ wjiwiimiiw.mil urn saui iaai ended his Ht& BlmgHani'nfi a student at the poly- fenle high school. The shootWK occurred when lie MmerUratWi with mr king Mrs. Elliott lit the face with his fist. DOPE pringfield H. M. STEWART & CO. Groceries SPRINGFIELD, OREGON V' . I 7 albert walker I Springfield & SON v & Dental RealaEdtate Parlors Insurance BY Land. Bought and Sold Dr. N. II Stewart i i t All Roads Lead to Lots and Acreage J. NEWTON- in Springfield RHOADS , For Sale One tract of lofs sold In a block Sec Him For Real Estate lf aesired. 333 main street prank Whiteman, Prop. Residence and Acre Lots Browning S in Kepner's Addition to Springfield. This land McKinney is favorably located for M Estate Agency drainage, on proposed ' ; street car line. E. I KEPNER, Prop. Correspondence Solicited. ' i Alex. Gray The Best in N Livery C0NBTI0NERY' at the Cigars, Billards, WHITE ELEPHANT AndPool Room The Model The Owl Cigar Store Cigar Store c n . , T , Good Cigars, Soft Drinks Soft Drinks, Tobaccos ; and Tobaccos and Confectionary W, I. GLOLT ELJJR, Pjoprlolor. W. I . Bishop, Prop. Directory V