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Newport daily independent., 1913-08-01
The Oiling of Streets.

Cities of our class as well as
the larger ones Of the country
have found from experience that
oil sprinkling serves all the pur-
poses of water sprinkling and
more at a very much less cost to
the property owners or resi-
dents.
For twenty-five foot fronts in
our business section the rate is
so cents per week or $500 per
month and in the residence sec
ton the same rate applies for
the fifty foot lots. In a six
months season of sprinkling, the
cost runs $12 per lot.
In the oil sprinkled cities of
Missouri for comparison, the
cost of two applications, which
is amply sufficient forthe season,
is $3.50 to So for the fifty foot
lot. The oil costs 3 cents a gal
lon and to reimburse the city for
the cost of oil and putting it on,
the residents along any oiled
street are required to pay $3.50
to SO for the seasons service.
Two applications are necessa-
ry for both the macadam and
the dirt streets, and the results
are much more satisfactory
than from water sprinkling and
at a cost Of only one-fourth.
Oil prevents the whirl of the
automobile from carrying the
fine dust off of a macadam
street and thus adds to it's life
1t keeps the dirt street from
taking up so much of the rain
fall and thus keeps it in better
condition. You don't have the
mud part of the day and perhaps
the dust the other. You don't
have your streets cut up as they
are when the water sprinkling is
too heavy. You rid a street of
the binding glare the sun will
give dirt or rock road and
about the only drawback you
have through the oiling is the
fact that long skirts will catch a
portion of it and the shoes will
carry it into your homes unless
care is exercised.
But upon the whole, the oil
sprinkling has so many advan-
tages and it's cheapness provides
for a more general use than the
rates upon water sprinkling al
low. Perhaps it is too late this
season to consider the plan, but
we suggest it now that the coun-
Gil and residents may give it
consideration before another
season brings again the dust
problem.
Newport daily independent., 1913-08-01
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

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woek 10 cents; Per month, 20 cents;
Dse year, $3.50 in advance, By carrier
d ,eity, by mail In country.
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Newport daily independent., 1913-08-01
Malaria or ChiIIS 6 F9vor

Prescription No. 666 is prepared especially
for MALARIA or CHillS & FEVER.
Five or six doses will break any case, and
if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not
return. II acts on the liver better than
Calomel and does not grippe or sicken. 2Sc
Newport daily independent., 1913-08-01
Future Gambling.

Those who have grown rich
and who are making money by
gambling in cotton futures have
all of a sudden become solicitous
of the welfare of the poor far
mer, and especially the members
of those gambling institutions
called cotton exchanges, and
they are flooding the country
with literature to the effect that
if cotton buyers are not permit
ed to 'hedge" the farmers will
be ruined.
But there is no hedging in
other commercial pursuits,
which seem to succeed on the
whole rather we'll. The mer-
chant who lays in a large sup
ply of goods and arranges to
stock up his store six months in
advance has no way to hedge
against either a change in fash
ion or commercial depression.
He has to take his chances. 1t
is the same in every other bust
ness. Those who have cotton to
sell for future delivery can do
so under the proposed law just
as they do now, providing they
actually make the delivery, and
making the delivery is not so
difficult.
Irish potatoes, for instance,
are a necessity of life. They
are traded in on exchanges, but
entail actual delivery. NThey va
ry in price from 40 cents to
$3.50 bushel, according to the
inevitable laws of supply and
demand. For want Of a future
board the consumption of pota-
toes is not lessened, and thus
the same conditions would be
true of cotton without a future
board.
Cotton mills cannot spin fu-
lures. They must have the ac-
tual cotton. In New York, for
instance, they have several
thousand bales of dogtailed cot
ton that has been tumbled about
from one to another for many
years, and this is offered to any
purchaser of futures who de-
mands actual delivery,
The grade of cotton dealt in
is never delivered, and is never
obtainable, and the gamblers do
not make it necessary to have it
done. New York alone trades
in about 100000 bales annu-
ally, and delivers to consumers,
approximately, one-quarter of
a million bales each year. A
person may buy strict middling
or good middling on the New
YorkCotton exchange, but when
it comes to actual delivery he is
rendered dummy or dope cotton
that is kept on hand to evade the
law.
In spite of all that may be
said against it the pending
measure in congress would be a
great saving to the country.
Thousands of people who make
a living by sending out daily tel
egrams and letters intended to
influence the market in what
ever way will serve their inter-
ests would probably be driven
into some other kind of bust
ness. But the trading in the ac-
tual commodity would not be in
terfered with, because people
would continue to raise cotton,
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12
JOKER CAUSED SCARE.
Someone Reported Chief Oien Badly
Injured Thursday.

That Tidings subscribers received
their paper late Thursday afternoon
is due to practical joker who tried
to put one over on City Recorder Gil
lette and Mayor Johnson and inci-
dentally have some fun with Chief
of Police Oien. Chief Oien was out
with his motorcycle and someone
called up the recorders office and
very hurriedly told that officer that
Chief Oien had been thrown from his
motorcycle and badly hurt and to
send an auto after him. The street
given was spoken so indistinctly that
Mr.. Gillette was in doubt as to the
location, and in company with Mayor
Johnson hurried to make a tour
around several streets and without
success in finding either the chief or
his corpse.
In the meantime someone had
heard the report, and by the time il
had passed through a couple of tell.
ings the chief was instantly killed
A gentleman brought the news to the
Tidings just after the presses were
started, and they were at once
stopped while the reporter hustled
out to view the remains and get the
particulars. Meanwhile Recorder
Gillette had returned to his office
and when asked about the rumol
that Oien was killed, again instituted
an inquiry. The police signal lights
had been turned on, and about thi
time the chief answered the call anC
stated that the report was much ex
aggerated, as Mark Twain would say
There had been no accident whatever
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12
MUST STAND EXAMINATION.
Many Fourth Glass POstmasters AZ
fected.

Washington, May 10.-President
Wilson this afternoon overturned
former President Taft's order plac-
ing all fourth class postmasters in
the classified civil service list. This
was accomplished in an executive or
der, requiring that henceforth all
fourth class postmasters must pass
competitive examinations.
The order specifies that all fourth
class postmasters receiving more
than $3.50 a year hereafter must pass
a civil service examination. This
means that republican fourth class
postmasters must pass a higher ex-
animation than other applicants to
hold their jobs. The new regulations
provide that all applicants must meet
qualifications for fitness provided by
postal inspectors who will visit towns
whenever vacancy occurs.
Announcement to this effect was
made here this afternoon by Post
master General Burleson following a
conference with President Wilson.
The new measure, Burleson said,
complies in both letter and spirit
with the civil service requirements.
Burleson holds that President
Taft's order placing postmasters who
have not passed examination in the
classified service violates the spirit
of the civil service law.
President Wilson this afternoon
went to the capitol to confer with
number Of senators in the presi-
dents room. He expects to discuss
appointments with them and will
send batch of nominations to the
senate tomorrow.
Senator Lewis of Illinois conferred
with the president earlier in the day.
He declared the president was now
ready to take up the distribution of
patronage, asserting that the weed
ing out of candidates was practically
finished.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12
ALL BUTTER BRANDED ANOTHER POWER PLANT
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
Orders All Butter Must Bear
Makers Name.

The statutes regulating the manu-
facture and sale of butter provide for
the branding of creamery butter. but
not for the branding of dairy butter
except that each roll or square mus:
be plainly marked 16 ounces full
weight or 32 ounces full weight. We
find some dairy butter that is not so
marked and we also find some that
is short weight.
We would be glad to hold the
manufacturer responsible for the
misbranding and also for the short
weight, but in the absence of any
name and address on the butter so as
to positively identify the manufac-
turer we cannot do so. The follow
ing ruling is therefore made:
"All dairy butter offered or ex-
posed for sale will be considered mis-
branded If it does not have plainly
marked on each roll or square the
words Dairy Butter '16 ounces full
weight or '32 ounces full weight,
and the name and address of the
manufacturer. Any person offering
or exposing for sale dairy butter not
branded in compliance with this rul-
ing will be prosecuted under the stat
utes provided for the branding of
food products.
]. D. MICKLE,
na:
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12
Rogue River Public, Service Company
a New Factor in the Rogue
River Valley.

Medford, May 10-With the sign
ing of the contract yesterday be-
tween the Portland Beaver Cement
Company, the recently organized
100000 corporation, and the Rogue
River Public Service corporation, sue
cessors to the Rogue River Canal
Company, for the latter company to
supply 1000 h. p. electric power per
month during the next three years
for the operation of the cement plant,
the fact became public that a con-
solidation of power sites between
Grants Pass and Rogue River is near
ing completion which will involve.
values exceeding $5,OOO.0OO.
George Sanders has the work of
consolidation in charge. Irrigation
rights for $4,000 acres near Grants
Pass have been secured from the.
state, bitches are now being con-
structed, and if present plans mater
ialize one of the largest irrigation
and electrical power corporations in
the state will be the result.
1t is now planned to construct
power dams at Gold Ray, Ravage
Rapids and possibly Rock Point, take
over the Ament and Golden Drift
dams, as well as the Rogue River
Chicago Irrigation Company and put
them under one operating head In
! diana capitalists are behind the deal,
headed by F. M. Fauvre and w. H.
English, indianapolis millionaires.
The contract for the construction
of the $5OO,OOO cement plant has
been let to the Leigh Hunt Engineer
ing Company of Kansas City with an
initial capacity of 1000 barrels. ].
c. Burch, the president, is now in
Portland perfecting arrangements re-
garding details of shipping, labor
supply, freight rates, etc.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

uncongenial. / used to come home
from my work in the grocery store
tired out, feeling blue and wondering
if life was really worth while after
all, but on my little farm there is
such an infinite variety of things to
do that it keeps me interested all the
time. ! put out a large number of
young trees, pears, cherries, apples
and peaches, as well as small fruits.
This is wonderful berry country.
My currants, gooseberries, Loganber.
ries and Mammoth blackberries
proved wonderfully productive. l
am such a thorough believer in
spraying that 1 even spray my ben.
ries, and to that and to my care (
attribute the fact that l have never
had failure of my fruit crop or
berries in the nine years l have been
here. | soon made the four acres
pay for itself and some years ago 1
sold it for $500.
81 purchased this eight-acre tract
tract and also a ten-acre tract for
which | have recently refused S2O,-
600. Personally / believe that any
one who is willing to work and has
a fair amount of intelligence can
make good here. While my fruit
crop has been my mainstay, yet there
are good many other things that
have supplemented it. l keep 80
stands of Italian bees. The honey is
side issue, though a very accept
able one, since the principal reason
keep the bees is for their work in
pollenizing the fruit blooms of my
orchard. Between the rows of
peaches and young trees plant ber-
ries. For example, one season l
picked 1900 crates of berries be-
tween the rows of fruit trees on four
acres, also $50 crates of currants
for which received $1.25 a crate. |
kept count of the yield of eight of
my mature pear trees that same sea-
son and they netted me $160. The
largest amount ever received from
any one tree was $40 for one crop of
apples from one of my mature Spitz-
enberg trees. With our fruit and
berries, our vegetables, our bees and
chickens, our roses and our old
fashioned flower garden, we keep
happy and busy. My wife and / will
celebrate our golden wedding this
coming Christmas day. When l
think back to nine years ago, to the
time when we were sick and discour-
aged and apparently there was no
future or no outlook and when we
had only 81, 400, and then think of
the past nine years in which l have
been happier than in any other
period of my life, l certainly am glad
that l heard the call of the west"
and came to Oregon.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12
Oregon Dairy and Food Com'r.
Pinchot Blamed for Alaska Tie-Up

Pinchot Blamed for Alaska Tie-Up.
Washington, May 10.-Testifying
before the senate territories hearing
on the Alaskan railroad bill today
James Galbraith, secretary of the
American Mining Congress. declared
that the order issued by former Pres
ident Roosevelt Withdrawing Alas
kan coal lands from private entry
was Sufficient to have caused a rev.
olution." He blamer present condi-
tlons in Alaska to former Chief Fo.'-
ester Clifford Pinchot's policy.
Galbraith said he favored govern
ment-owned railroads in Alaska but
did not think the government should
attempt to control coal lands, regu-
late prices and arbitrate labor dis
putes. MTW
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12
Stock Received at Portland Last
Week

Week.
Portland, May 9.-Receipts for the
week have been: Cattle 1889,
calves 90, hogs 2,432, sheep 4,5S3,
horses 2.
A higher steer market has marked
the weeks business in the cattle di-
vision. Monday showed a big run
and bidding was keen, and Idaho
and Montana stuff brought $S.40 to
$S.75 off the cars. The cattle supply
throughout the country is limited
and a steady market is looked for.
There was a fine butcher trade, but
demand exceeded the supply of heif-
ers, bulls and calves, so cows sold
up to $40 and heifers SITS, and
bulls Sc adm $6.25, showing the
strength of the market.
Hogs continue strong, while east
ern markets are lower. Demand is
so keen that buyers continue to pay
$9.05 for best light hogs. This firm
ness may not last long, but exists for
the weeks close.
A better sheep house prevailed
Plenty of mutton and lambs to sup.
ply the trade with strictly prime WOO
wethers bringing $3.50 to $7.75
ewes at $3.50 to $675 and spring
lambs $S.75, the early part of the
week, but quoted lower toward the
close of the weeks business.
The following sales are REPRESENT
ative: 176 steers off car 992, $S.75;
35 steers, L ,06O, $3.50; 46 steers
1924, $S.4O; 29S steers, 1,343
$S.25; 16 calves, 200, SO; 1 stag
1,01O, $3.50; 1 bull, 1,410, $3.50;
1S bulls, 1887, Sc; ~ heifers, 957
$7.75; cows, 1870, $7.75; 3S
cows, $50, $7.25; cows, $40, 81;
756 hogs, 1876, s9.O5; 666 hogs, 1S9
50; 100 hogs, 10, $S.95; A hogs
336, So; 164 S. lambs, 54, SO; 49,
s. Lambs, 81, So; 277 wethers, SO
$6.25; SOC ewes, 81, $3.50.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12
IMMIGRATION WORK.
State Commission to Afford Hearing
With Various Nationalities.

The Oregon State immigration
Commission will accord hearings
with representatives of various ma
tionalities, embracing social, relig-
ious and other organizations, as per
the following schedule: Germans,
May Is; Swedes, May 81; Norwe-
gians and Danish, May 80; Finnish,
May 81; Dutch, June 6. Those who
are interested in the work of bring
ing desirable agricultural settlers to
the state are invited to attend these
meetings, which will be held in the
office of the commission, Commercial
Cub building, Portland. Invitations
are especially extended.
The order of predominance, as to
numbers, of thesseveral nationalities
in Oregon, is in line with the sched-
uie as above set forth. No plan for
foreign immigration work will be
finally adopted as applied to any ma
tionality before a conference with
leading representatives of such ma
tionality, and to this end invitations
have been extended to the president
and one delegate from each religious
and social organization, clergyman
and lay delegate from each church
and parish, an editor, representa-
tive from each agricultural colony
and in a general way federal and
state immigration officials, also of.
ficers of development leagues and
commercial clubs.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

The banking power of the United
States has more than doubled in the
last IL years-the increase since
1900 has been Ill per cent. In that
time the number, of banks increased
1O7 per cent; their total business
1877 per cent. The capital of 1S Of
the national banks is 1912 per cent
OF the total.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

There were approximately 10 bill
lion acres of land under cultivation
in the prairie provinces of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta in 1912.
From this area it is estimated that
$2OO.OO,OOO will be realized by the
farmers for their crops. &
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12
WORK AT CRATER LAKE
Work on Park Will Commence i'm
Near Future, is Report of
Army Officer in Charge.

I'm all probability work on the
Crater Lake roads will reach such
stage that employment will be Of
fered to quite number of men and
teams by the middle of this month, 4"
said G. Goodwin, United States as
sistant engineer, who came in from
Portland last night to take charge of
the work of constructing highways
throughout the national park.
c. S. Chaplin accompanied Goodwin
and will have charge of the office
work. Other members of both the
engineering and clerical staff will
follow in few days, and the work
will be well under way in a short
time.
"A small force of men employed
have completed a warehouse for the
government at Kirk" said Goodwin
Thursday, "and they have swamped
out 10 miles of road toward Sand
creek. There is at present foot or
more or snow at the park line, and
as fast as the snow melts the work
will be carried forward to enable us
to get an entrance into the park as
soon as possible, so the work can be
started there,
I'VE have already shipped consid
cradle construction supplies and
equipment to Kirk and others will
be arriving in a few days. Orders
have just been made for gradine
equipment, sprinkler tanks, ETC., and
also for road roller, rock crushel
and grader. These will be at Kirl
in short time"
"The work that has been done ou
of Kirk so far is of temporary or
der" continued Goodwin, Sin so fa
as it is to connect Kirk with the Sane
creek entrance to the park, at whicl
point the Pinnacles road will com
mence and run to a point a mil
south of Anderson Springs. From
that point the route joins the regu
lar road.
Our purpose is to use the SAT
600 now available, to grade the roa
between the Sand creek entrance an
the rim this year. This is in orde
to get to work on the rim road a
soon as possible, and to get the per
manent camps located for all subse
quent work"
incidentally, the work outlined 70
this year includes the improvement
OF the last mile or two of the pres
ent rim terminus of the Fort Klan
ath road by grading. This will re
duce the present steep grade betwee
Camp Arant and the rim.
Another matter in connection wit
this years work will be the construc
tion of several experimental section
of road. The effect of climatic an
traffic conditions on the differeu
methods of road construction will dc
termine the kind to be used in a
permanent work in the park.
We are starting in at present wit
small office and engineering force,
said Goodwin, "but as fast as tn
snow melts the force will be II
creased. The work is all under tn
direction of Major ]. P. Morrow, er
gineer corps, United States arm,
stationed at Portland. l will max
my headquarters at Chiloquin, an
any inquiries as to work, ETC., shoul
be addressed to me there"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

The new money washing machine
has been installed in the Philadel-
phia mint by Burgess Smith, the in
ventor. 1t weighs $500 pounds, has
capacity of 5000 notes an hour,
and has two parts-one scrubs the
note; the second gives it cold
water bath.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

Germany's commercial activity is
increasing in Western Canada. Re-
sponsible agents are carefully exam
ming this field for German goods.
and one sees in the shops of Winni-
peg and the principal cities of west
ern Canada large assortment of
German-made goods.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

There arc about 40 species OF
grapes in the world, more than half
OF which are found in North Amer
lea. Few other plants on this conti-
nent grow wild under such varied
conditions and over such extended
areas.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

A glass bottle blowing machinesin-
vented in Germany has a speed. of
2,0OO bottles an hour, equal to the
work of $50 expert glass blowers
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

Phone No. SO wnen In need of job
printing. Work and prices are right.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

Texas in 1912 produced crops val
ued at $407,16O,0 900.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-05-12

An exhibition Of "sweated indus
tries" is to be held in Glasgow, Scot
land. I
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-09-12
$f00 Reward, 500

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cures in all its stages, and
that is cataarh. Halls Cataarh cure is
the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Cataarh being
a constitutional disease, requiresa con-
stitutional treatment. Halls Cataarh
cure is taken internally, acting direct
ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease. and giving
the patient strength by building up the
donstitution and assisting nature in do,
ing lit work. The proprietors have SC
much faith in its curative power that
thy offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure.
Send for testimonials, free.
Address FL. CHENEY & co, Toledo o.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1913-09-12
Root crops For Dairy Cow.

No matter what some people tell
you. turnips and other roots make fine
milk producing feed. Turnips will not
affect the flavor of milk II fed at the
right time. If turnips are fed In large
quantities, and two or three hours
before milking. they are likely to give
the milk an unpleasant taste, but II
fed directly after milking no favor
whatever Will be noticed. Farm Prog.
reSS