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Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
HOT CONTEST ASSURED.
Senate and House Will Each Hold
Out for Lumber Rate.

Out for Lumber Rate.
Washington, July 16.-The makeup
of the committee on conference that is
now handling the tariff bill, endeavor-
ing to compromise the differences be-
tween the house and senate bills, is not
such as to inspire confidence in the
hearts of those senators and represent
atiyes who favor the senate duty on
rough lumber, Sl.50 per l, 600 feet. 1t
NAV be that that rate will be re-
tanned, but there is only one Republi-
can on the conference committee who
is directly interested in the lumber
schedule, and that man is handicapped
because he is big lumberman.
Of the senate conferees, not one has
any direct interest in the tariff on lum-
ber. Aldrich, Rhode Island; Burrows,
Michigan; Penrose, Pennsylvania; ;
Hale, Maine, and Cullom, Illinois, rep
resent states that care far more about
cheap lumber than they do about high
protection for the American lumber
man. A few years ago burrows mlgnt
have been somewhat concerned, but
now his interest is secondary. On the
house side, Payne, New York; Dalzell,
Pennsylvania; Mccall, Massachusetts; !;
Boutell, Illinois; Calderhead, Kansas,
and Fordney, Michigan, are the confer
ees, and Fordney is the only enthusias-
tic advocate of high tariff on lumber,
for he owns fabulous quantities of
timber land and operates numb II of
lumber mills.
1t will be the contention of the
house members that the duty on rough
lumber must be reduced ST.. the rate
fixed by the house in the Payne bill.
They will insist that the house will not
stand for $1,50, and will point to the
fact that it was only by narrow mar
gin that the house rejected free lum-
ber amendment.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Radium $4,000 an Ounce.

London, July 19.-An ascertained
commercial value of 500 per milli-
gramme equivalent to $57O, 900 an
ounce has been placed upon radium by
a contract just entered into between the
British Metalliferous mines and Wis
count Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel for
the supply of seven and half grammes
OF pure radium bromide. This is the
largest order ever given for radium,
and it will come from the Cornish pitch
blende mine.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
RICH WOMAN SMUGGLED.
Carried $50, 900 Worth of Goods Vi
der False Bottom of Trunk.

New York, July 17.-An indictment
for smuggling was handed down today
by the Federal grand jury against Mrs.
Fremont Chesbro, owner Of the Ches'
bro Coastwise line of steamers running
out of Boston.
The case was placed in the hands Of
the United States district attorney foi
the district of New Jersey after the
discovery of double bottom in one Of
the trunks which Mrs. Chesbro brought
to this country with her on the Kaiser
Wilhelm II last May.
Wearing apparel appraised at SOW
600 was found in this hidden compat-
ment, together with bills and invoices
indicating the purchase abroad OF
pearl necklace valued at 5000. Ih
necklace was not found among Mrs
Chesbro's effects, but was yesterdsY
turned over to the customs officials y!
Mrs. Chesbro's attorney.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Big Muddy Rises Again.

st. Louis, July 1.-THE Missour
river last night rose so that the gauge
today registers 1873 feet. Manuiae
turing concerns across the river in llIf
nois are moving their stocks to hlgna
ground, fearing a storm will wash in s
waves over the levees which the cl'f
zens are counting on to protect tnel
Citizens of Cahokia, H., worked lss
night strengthening the levees, wniea I,i
will stand but slight rise. n"
thousand acres of farm land were ilo0o'
ed early today by the Missouri, haf
sas & Texas embankment breaking.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Island pefanses Tested.

Honolulu, July l7.-Under the dlies,
tion of Captain Platt, of the ordnan.,, !,
department, the eight great mortais " ',
the Fort Ruger defenses, on Dlamon
Head point, were fired for the nv u,
time today. The guns command w u
only approach to Honolulu harpor '1. '.
are the first of the coast defenses !"
be installed. The test was thorougn!,
satisfactory. Captain Platt arrl's, !,
yesterday on the transport Thomss 7"
supervise the placing of other guns
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Narsen Ready for Arctic.

Christiana, Norway, July 19.-Dr.
Fridtjof Nansen is ready to start on a
new expedition into Arctic waters in
his private yacht Veslemoy, which has
been furnished with ice-sheathing and
otherwise specially equipped for the
voyage. He will continue his oceano-
graphic Investigations, paying special
attention to currents and the warmth
OF the water at the surface and at great
depth. These currents, it has been
proved, have decided effect on the
climate and fisheries of Norway. His
trip will be to Iceland and Greenland.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Form New Phone Company.

Ontario-At called meeting of On
tario citizens an independent Telephone
company was organized. 1t will be in
corporated for $4,000. The Bell COM
pany recently removed its toll station
from here to Payette, Idaho. and the
citizens, desiring better sevice, sub
scribed several thousand dollars for a
new company in which the membes of
the Boise Independent company will be
stockholders. Nearly every citizen of
Ontario is a stockholder in the new
company. Officers and directors were
elected, also committee on bylaws to
file incorporation papers.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Trolley Line for Rogue.

Jacksonville-The Jackson County
Light & Power company has been
granted a franchise over the roads of
Jackson county by the County court of
Jackson county. The company in its
petition asks for the right to erect
electric light poles along the highways
in certain townships for conducting
light, heat and motive power. 1t is
the intention of the company to begin
at once the construction of an electric
railway to traverse the Rogue river
valley.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
BLIGHT IN DOUGLAS.
Pear Orchards Are in Danger From
a New Pest.

a New rest.
Roseburg-A deadly blight on the
pear orchards of this county that will
REQUIRE for its eradication more atten-
tion than one man could possibly give.
has caused the county court, at the
suggestion of District Horticultural
Commissioner A. H. Carson, of Grants
Pass, to appoint two fruit inspectors
for Douglas county. The appointments
fall to F. A. McFall, of this city, and
E. F. Whitney, of Oakland, both OF
whom were recommended by Mr.. Car
son, who appeared before the court in
person.
This blight, species of fungus that
emits a gum like substance, has prac-
tically destroyed the greater part of the
fruitgrowing industry in the Eastern
and Middle Western states and has CIV
en- the Pacific coast orchardists a hard
battle. California pear growers tri-
umphed over it after having once given
up. Then the blight reached the fam
Gus Rogue river valley in Oregon. The
orchardists there promptly secured the
services of two government experts,
UGara and White, and these two men
are now in that valley aiding the fruit
growers to stamp out the pest.
Several months ago the blight began
to be noticeable in the Umpqua valley,
particularly around Roseburg and
Winston. Then orchards in other To-
calities became affected, until the pres
ent day sees the pear industry in this
county threatened with damage unless
the growers take action under proper
instruction at once. Mr.. Carson ex-
planned to the court that the blight can
neither be prevented nor killed by
spraying.
What causes it is not known. and
there is only one way to get rid of it,
and that is by burning the affected tree
or branch Immediately upon discovery
of the blight. This has already been
done in number of instances.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
pufur Farmers Organize.

The Dalles-Articles of incorporation
of the Farmers Union Warehouse COM
pany, of Dufur, have been filed with
the county clerk by Theodore Buskuhl
and Lester D. Kelly, of Kingsley, and
Alex Strachan, of Dufur. The capital
stock is $4,000, divided into 800 shares
of the par value of $5 each. The head
quarters of the company will be at
Dufur.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Cross Ties for Panama Road.

Portland-Oregon lumbermen have
the opportunity of aiding in the con-
struction of the Panama railroad. E.
c. Giltner, secretary of the chamber of
commerce, has received from the rail-
road commission requests for bids on
15O, 600 cross ties for delivery at Colin
or the Port of Ancon. Indicating that
construction work is to proceed rapidly,
it was urged that bids be submitted as
soon as possible.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
sumpter Extension Work Announced

Sumpter Extension Work Announced.
Salem-Official announcement has
been received by the railroad commits
sion that actual operations have start
ed toward construction of the extension
of the Sumpter Valley railroad from
Austin to Prairie City, and that the
work would be rushed. Following the
recommendation of the commission,
the Sumpter Valley has issued a new
tariff by which flour, salt and sugar
may be carried in mixed cars, with a
minimum weight of 80, 900 pounds.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Mil win Remove to KaIama.

Rainier-The big plant of the Will
lard Case Lumber company has closed.
and as soon as a small lot of planning is
finished, the task of moving the plant
to Kalama will begin. The company
had intended to finish cutting out their
timber at this place, but owing to some
legal tangle with local parties, have
concluded to raft their logs from here
to Kalama.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
New Shah Rules Persia.

Tehern. July 17.-Mohammed a.s a.,
shah of Persia, was dethroned ,asi i
and the crown prince, Sultan Anut .ss
Miraza, was proclaimed shah py \, .Ss ~
national assembly, composed o. ~ ~
chief Mujtehids and the leaders o. n 4
Nationalist forces, in the presence ~ a
an immense crowd.in Parliament squ1ls \! y,
Mohammed Ali has taken refuge u =. ~
Russian summer legation at zer1en'N
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
10000 Barrels of Oil Burn.

Bartlettvsille, Okla, July ia
serious oil fire ragged here today.
After two tanks each containing 55.-
600 barrels of crude oil belonging to
the Prairie Oil & Gas company, had
been destroyed, cannon was used all
day in an endeayor to check the flames.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
,kaiser Eauors Football.

Bealin, July 17.-The emperor pa n n
directed that football be lncluu.s ;ssir
the military exercises. His msyrYa s.'l !,
is reported as saying that foo.DIa T,r.
played in the United States anu ,I ~sl
land is fine training in temper, as w.
as for the body.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
Prefer American Labor

. butte, Mont, July 16.-E. P. Mat
snewson' superintendent of the Washoe
smeiter, has announced that the policv
VI tne company hereafter will be to
Employ ,ahy American labor before alien
,aoor. Mr.. Matthewson also stated
Sa tua. .ne company store system has
peen abandoned in Anaconda.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22

Wallowa-Ford c. Potter has been
appointed fruit inspector for this coun-
ty by the County court. Mr.. Potter
has had wide experience in fruit and
berry culture and is thoroughly convers-
ant with the various fruit pests. His
services will be of great value to the
fruit raisers of this valley.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22

Vale-C. o. Thomas, president Of
the Vale Commercial club, and j. P.
Dunniway, cashier of the First Ma
tional bank, of Vale, have been chosen
by Vale as delegates to the irrigation
congress at Spokane this month. They
will further the interests of the NAL
heur irrigation project. The project
has been before the people of Malheur
county pending Secretary of the Inter-
ior Ballinger's choice between the pri
vate companies and the government.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22

London, July 16.-A dispatch to a
London news bureau from Athens says
that violent earthquake has occurred
in Southern Greece, resulting in con-
siderable loss of life and damage to
property.
twenty person are reported dead and
100 injured at one village, and three
other villages suffered heavily. The
dispatch adds that, when the details
are learned. it is likely that the casual.
ties will be greatly increased.
Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-22
EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE.
Province of Ellis Suffers Loss of Score
of Lives and 100 Injured.

Athens, Greece, July 16.-An earth
quake has occurred in the provincre of
Ellis, the capital of which is Pyrgos.
Several villages were destroyed and
many people perished. The loss is
heavy.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
HOG RAISING IN THE SOUTH
Cut Out Cotton and Tobacco for a
Few Years and Turn to Swine
Is Advice Given.

We often wonder why the southern
folks depend on the west for their
bacon. They can raise hogs right at
home and come pretty near making
as good pork as the west. Corn and
cow peas will make a hog hump from
pig time to the pork barrel, and these
crops grow to perfection in the south.
We have seen the finest of COW peas
down therein fact the south is the
home of the COW pea-and they raise
so to 100 bushls of corn whenever
they get down to business. We have
befere us a letter from a Georgia farm
er who says he raised ITO bushels OF
corr per acre last year, and sends a
photograph of his corn field. II looks
like a Kansas corr field.
A good way to give the tobacco trust
a blow in the short ribs would be to
cut out tobacco for a few years and
go in for hogs. They talk about cot
ton as a money crop down south. OF
course it is, but it is nc better than
hogs; they are as good as ready
money and time. The southern farm
er is learning the agricultural
game very fast, but he is yet a bit
slow on the pork question. He will
wake up one of these days, and when
he begins to turn into pork his rape.
alfalfa, sofa beans, corn, peanuts,
vetch, cow peas and things of that
kind which grow abundantly in that
gracious climate he will keep millions
of money at home which is nov going
elsewhere to buy his bacon.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29

O0NS ~ -
Maize will not grow in all climates,
however. 1t requires long summers with piehIs
of sunlight, hot days and nights, with sum,
cient but not too much rain. The range pes.
suited for the crop is from As to IS degrees r.
of mean temperature, but it will produce mos.
abundantly with a maximum temperature OF
about so degrees F. and a rainfall of from ~
to so inches. Frost kills the plant in all ITS
stages and it cannot flourish where the nights
are cold, no matter how favorable the other
conditions. In the United States AN elevation
of over 1000 feet seems too high for the COM
mercial growth of Indian corn, but of course
the farther south it is traced the higher Is the
elevation at which luxuriant crops are the
rule. In Mexico vast maize fields are found
at a height of over $500 feet and in Peru 1t
grows at an altitude of 10000 feet.
Indian corn was found over most of the
United States east of the Mississippi by the
earliest explorers and settlers. 1t was the
crop to which the Indians gave most attention
and the great staple that turned them from
the nomadic life of the chase into the home
building people such as agriculturists must
be. The primitive method of preparing the
ground was by tilling with hoes made of clam
shells, but the English taught more improved
methods, although the latter learned the adj
vantage of fertilizing with behring's, which the
Indians applied abundantly to the surrounding
soil. Their hills were five feet apart-a prac-
teal distance that can be decreased only when
the soil is rich and the climate very favorable.
As the explorers travelled southwark they
found different varieties and different methods
Of preparing it for food. 1t was made into
meal; it was boiled or parched or roasted.
Often it was prepared into a flour and served
as provision for a journey. The many forms
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Eggs Must Be in Shell.


According to a decision handed
down by the pure food experts of the
department of agriculture eggs must
be used in their original form and
any effort to adulterate them or offer
them for sale in any other shape than
as furnished by the hen, will meet
with opposition. Recently in Illinois
the government seized a consignment
of liquid eggs, and the United States
attorney has laid a libel on desiccted
or evaporated eggs found in a bakery
in Washington. According to the Pc
tition of the attorney an analysis of
the dried" eggs disclosed that they
were in a Filthy, decomposed and pu-
trid condition, and unfit for human
consumption"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Poultry Notes.

Guineas make excellent broilers and
bring very high prices.
No reason to keep an improbable
hen any more than there is to keep an
improbable cow.
When you receive fancy eggs from
a distant dealer let them stand "a
hours before setting.
AS a rule pure bred hens will pro-
duce the best profit.
A poorly ventilated hen house will
lessen the egg supply.
Kerosene is the best friend the hen
has, provided it is used literally on
every inside part of the hen house.
Impaction and enlargement of the
fowls crop will soon result in starva-
tion.
Yellowish pimples on the head and
wattles are evidently a cas- of chick
en- pox.
Corn feeding will produce atrophy
of the liver, which will eventually re-
suit in death.
Diarrhea with a yellow discharge,
rough plumage, dropping wings, great
thirst, pale comb and face, is cholera.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29

Pueblo Indians on the Rio Grande, and from
them eastward to the Mississippi. Carried
northward by the ~Iroquois and Algonquins, it
was stopped only by climatic severity at the
latitude of the Great Lakes and the lower
area of the state of Maine. It's culture ex
tended south through Guatemala and other
portions of Central America and even across
the Isthmus of Panama; thence it was carried
into the Andean regions and extended finally
as far south in Chile as the climate permitted
or as the Indian population desired. East OF
the Andes the spread of maize by nature was
restricted by the dense forests of the Amazon
slope and by the lower altitude of that great
drainage basin, because Indian corn requires
for it's growth definite climatic conditions
which this portion of South America does not
offer. There is no exact evidence that the
region of the River Platte, now so wonderfully
productive of maize, was utilized by the ma
tive Indian tribes resident there prior to the
coming of the Spaniards.
From America maize was first introduced
into Spain. Thence it spread throughout Eu-
rope and into Asia and Africa. In eastern Eu-
rope it unfortunately received the name OF
Turkish wheat because of the erroneous no
ton prevailing that the (present) West Indies
being India everything introduced from there
must necessarily come through Turkey. Other
confusing names imply some indefinite origin
OF this KIND, out, the geographic pTeHA TeleTS
simply to the commercial, not to the agricul-
tural source of the grain. The Portuguese
carried maize into Africa in the sixteenth CEN
fury and by them it gradually spread over
much of the continent. In this connection 1t
is interesting to note that the staple foods of
the wild Inhabitants of the dark continent
maize, manioc or cassava and pineapple-have
all been introduced through some such routes
of trade and commerce.
Maize early reached India and Burmah. 1t
grows there now everywhere among the hills
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29

in which maize is eaten to-day in America are
all inherited directly from the aboriginal
planters and housewives from Cape Cod to
Chile.
The corn of the present commercial mar
ket, however, is a more highly developed
grain than that which the Europeans found
when they first landed. Science has improved
the species in this as in other products OF the
fields. The appropriate conditions OF soil and
climate have been studied, with resulting in
creased knowledge on the subject. Corn de-
mands rich land. Clay must be avoided;
swampy, undrained areas are unsuitable, while
too much shade, as is often caused by close
proximity to timber, is sure to be harmful.
Land can be drained. however, timber can be
cut, or the shady places can be utilized for
other purposes. Soil can be improved by fer
tilizers, or in many cases fertilization may be
accomplished, while at the same time secon-
dairy crops may be raised by wide planting Of
corn and interplanting between the rows.
Thus cotton can be grown along with corn
when the climate is favorable and good re-
suits are often attained by growing peanuts as
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
CUTWORMS in CORN
Pest Is Better Known in Cotton
Fields as Boil Worm.
Feeds Readily on Tomato and Attacks
Other Plants, Such as Tobacco,
Lucern, Peas, Beans, Pump
kins, Hemp, Etc.

The large greenish, variably striped
:utworm-like c%aterpillars, an inch and
a half long, accompanying the above
communication, are variously known
as ''ear worms 'tassel worms and
terminal bud worms" the choice OF
the cognomen being determined by the
part of the plant affected. This pest
is much better known as the destruc-
tive boil worm, Heliothis armiger
Hubn., of the southern cotton fields.
This by no means comprises the menu
of this voracious caterpillar, since
it feeds readily upon tomato, fire.
quently eating a hole in the ripening
fruit, and has been recorded as at
lacking a number Of other plants,
such as peas, beans, pumpkins,
squashes, peppers, hemp, tobacco and
lucern.
Studies of this prolific and destruc-
tive form in the south show that it
may produce five generations a season
in that latitude, separated by inter
walls Of only five or six weeks. The
later broods cause the principal dam
age. The operations of this species
in corn are usually noticed the latter
part of the summer in the north, and
may be continued by the later broods
during October and November. The
young caterpillars enter at the tip of
the ears, soon reach the juicy kernels,
and in cases where the field is badly
infested, most of the ears may be so
eaten or defiled as to be practically
worthless.
A sparse infestation, if the field is
not too extensive, car be controlled
by hand picking, especially If begun
early. The danger of injury can be
materially lessened by r%efraining
from partially opening ears prior to
picking, so far as possible. Badly
infested corn might we'll be picked at
once and fed to hogs, thus saving
some of the crop and ensuring the de-
The Tupelo journal., 1909-10-29
Best B%Iackberries.

There is comparatively little differ
ence in the amount of juice the diff
ferent kinds of blackberries yield. The
one which yields the heaviest crop in
your location is the kind to plant. 1t
would be we'll to ask of the nearest
fruit men what variety they find to do
the best.
The Wilson, if you care to give win
ter protection ought to please you.
But, if you prefer a sort that is
hardy, and likely to fruit with little
care the Snyder fills the bill.