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BUSINESS NEWS!
I P^f ««W AND IMPKOVLMKNT
Astoria has spent $1,000,000 on
improvements during the past yeaV
. Over $160,000 has been investel'
'"."•■* buildings in cottage Grov,
1 ms summer.
''' H. Hamilton reports bavin- i
WTown 700 bushels of potatoes on
i fourths acre near .anipa,
Extern capitalists are negotlatln
for the establish,,,^, of a large con
•i<;»-d milk factory at Bellingham.
A hospital will be erected at Wal
°wa, Oregon, and a stock company
» being organized. The hospital
will cost 15,000.
At a meeting of the Klamath Wat
erusers' Association this week, the
capital stock of the association was
increased from 12,000, to $6
-000,000.
The trustees of the state normal
school at Lewiston. Idaho, have de
tided to call for bids for the con
struction of the new $26,000 domes
.tic science and normal training build
ing.
The new woolen mill at Pendle
ton, Oregon, will have its formal
opening as soon as the preparations
are complete. When the plant gets
into full operation employment will
be furnished for 60 to 70 people.
The centennary of the first Ameri
can settlement on the Pacific Coast
will be held at Astoria, in 1911, an i
plans are being discussed. The des
cendants of John Jacob Astor will
be asked to participate
The Toppenish, Wash., city coun
cil has sold $24,500 worth of bonds
to the state at 5 per cent. The pro
ceeds will be used to install a water
system, the contract for which lias
been let to the Northwest Bridge &
Power Company.
The Puyallup and Sumner Fruit
Growers' Union has undertake a
new departure at its cannery at Puy
allup, and is putting up a quantity
of Bauer kraut, with weineryursts,
as a starter for engaging more exten
sively in the canning of vegetables.
Bellingham tideland owners are
considering a proposition for the or
ganization of an incorporation, to
which one-third of their holdings
will be turned over, to be used as an
Inducement for the location of man
ufacturing industries upon the prop
erties.
The Linhave Orchard Company, of
Albany, Oregon, which plans to set
out a 3,000-acre orchard in the nor
thern part of Linn county, will es
tablish a new townsite. It will prob
ably be called Linhaven and be locat
ed in the center of the colossal or
chard.
'iue Bonneville fish hatchery, the
largest salmon hatchery in the world,
will be dedicated by Governor Ben
son Monday, November 1.",, State
Fish Warden McAllister and other
leading men of Oregon and Wash
ington will . take part in the cere
monies incident to the opening.
Douglas county, Oregon, has pur
chased a new rock crusher and a
carload of corrugated iron culvert
pipe. This county is spending thou
sands of dollars this year in road im
provements, the most notable of
which is the Myrtle Point stage road.
Autos now make the trip from Rose
burg to Myrtle Point in eight hours,
where formerly it took from 12 to
15.
Tracklaying in the North Coast
yards at Attalia, Wash., has com
menced, this being the selected sup
ply station for construction work east
and west. Nine cars of rails, several
cars of lumber and other material
with an Atlantic steam shovel of
two and one-half yards per minute
capacity are already on the ground.
Additional material is expected daily.
At a public auction of school lands
held in Vancouver, Wash., recently,
$33,000 worth of lands and improve
ments were sold. The improvements
were paid for in cash, but the lands
were sold for 10 per cent down, the
remainder to be paid in nine equal
payments at intervals of one year.
One tract of land appraised at $50
per acre before the electric line was
built to Orchards sold for more than
$1.10. per acre. Another tract ap
praised at $1600 sold for $2750.
* The Mason County Fruitgrowers'
Association has put up a pack valued
at about $4000 at its cannery at Shel
ton. Wash., doubling the output of a
year ago. The pack of the present
season is distributed as follows:
Prunes, 700 cases; plums. 200; string
beans. 250; pears, 225; apples, 200;
and still canning; tomatoes 50 cases,
and various amounts of blackberries,
raspberries, rhubard and other vege
tables. According to a late compila
tion the 1909 salmon pack is the
second largest on record, totaling 4,
--805,000 cases, which is within -50.
--000 cases of the record pack of 1901,
which amounted to 5.040.961 case.
The 1909 Alaska pack approximates
2,400,000 cases, while the sockeyo
salmon pack on Pugel Sound with
the Pack of all kinds on the Colum
bia river and later fish in other dis
tricts is estimated at 800,000 cases.
LIMBER AM) WOODWORKING
R. Reardsley will remove his saw
mill from Buckeye to Hillyard, Wash
Rockwell Bros, have succeeded
Rockwell & Dopp, shingle manufact
urers at Bandon, Wash.
The Rainier Lumber & Shingle
Company has incorporated at Seattle,
with $25, capital.
The Oregon & Washington Lumber
ing Association will convene at Col
tage Grove, Oregon, November 20.
Coe & Stevenson have commence
work upon the foundation for theii
new sawmill at Orting, Wash.
Ten nii.aaon feet of logs formed a
jam near the mouth of the Chehalh
River, which completely obstructed
navigation for a ..me last week.
i ..e ..amllton mill, complet
ed at Raymond nearly two years ago,
with a daily capacity of 0,000 feel
of lumber, started operations for the
first time last week.
Twenty prominent Portland lum
bermen and ten from Tacoma spent
Friday and Saturday on Grays liar
bor, the guests of the lumbermen of
Aberdeen, Hoquiam and Cosmopolis.
The Clatskanie Lumber Company's
mill recently purci.,;.se,. by Nordby
& y- son, of Portland, started up last
Frlady, after two years of idleness
Its daily capacity is 75,000 feet.
Six hundred cords of shingle holts
were swept away from the Northern
Pacific Mill Company's plant at Ash
ford last week, with little hope of
their recovery before reaching the
Sound.
D. XV. Piatt and .1. P. Cuerier, of
Centralia, have purchased the plant
of the Centralia Shingle Mills Com
pany, at Chehalis. and will remove it
to Frances, where they have recently
acquired valuable timber holdings.
Morris Bros., who are building a
Howe truss bridge across the Clack
amas River, below Escatada, have
run a spur from the main line of the
Portland Railway Light & Power
Company to their sawmill, known as
the —lver Mill company.
E. A. Dresser and J. D. Jacobs
have organized the Twin Cities Lum
ber Company, at Lewiston, are erect
ing large sheds and will do a re
tail lumber business in Lewiston
and Clarkston. - ..e new firm has
purchased the retail business of tb
Lewiston Lumber Company.
San Francisco capitalists have
close a deal for the purchase of the
mill property of the Hart-Wood Lum
ber impany, at Aberdeen, Wash.,
for $250,000. . j deal includes the
mill plant and CO acres of the water
front. The plant will be operated in
the future under the name of the
Federal .Mill Company.
Reforestation and protection of
the timber of the Northwest from
the ravages of forest fires were never
given so much attention as now. An
association has just been formed
known as the Pacific Northwest For
est Protection and Conservation As
sociation, whose object is to protect
the forests from waste and ta replant
the cut-over lands. E. T. Allen, dis
trict forester for Oregon, Washing
ton and Alaska, has been placed at
the head of the association. Mr. Al
len, who is a close friend of Gifford
Pinchot, has had 20 years' experi
ence in forestry, and is familiar with
conditions in the northwest. The
organization will work to prevent
the waste of timber in private hold
ings as well as to safeguard the na
tional forest to the fullest extent.
BANK NOTES
The Union State Bank, of Nez
Perce, Idaho, has incorporated, yith
$25,000 capital.
Charles R. Spencer, president of
the White Salmon Valley Bank, at
White- Salmon, Wash., has opened a
private bank at Glen wood, Wash.
The First National Bank of Zil
lah. Wash., has been authorized to
begin business, with $25,000 capital.
3. D. Connett, president; R. D. Her
on, vice president; J. 11. Bartley,
cashier.
Tno New United States National
Panic of Aberneen, Wash., was for
mally opened in the Masonic Temple
building, between 3,000 and 4,000
people being present at the reception
given in connection.
Mrs. 11. Zwang Barringer will be
cashier of the First State Bank of
Marcus, Wash., of which her hus
rand is president. The bank will
open r a few weeks. T. B. McKee
han is vice president, and Myron Wil
bur assistant cashier.
The charter of the First National
Back of Kellogg, Idaho, arrived last
week. The work of transferring the
bi.oiness of the Kellogg State Bank
has been completed. F. F. Johnson;
of the First National Bank of Wal
l cc, is president; J.. H. Weber and
Kweß Mcintosh vice presidents; P.
P. vVeber cashier; and W. A. Bartee,
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Full Text of the Law Governing Lo
cal Option on Which We Vote
November 30.
Section 11. Whoever shall, either
as principle, agent, clerk, or servant,
directly or indirectly, sell, barter, ex
change, give away or otherwise dis
pose of any intoxicating liquor what
ever, within the limits of a unit
Which has, by its vote, ' decided
against the licensing of the sale of
Intoxicating liquor, or who shall
keep or have in his possession any
intoxicating liquor with intent to
sell, give away or otherwise dispose
of such liquor in violation of the pro
visions hereof, shall, upon convic
tion thereof, be fined not less than
twenty dollars and not more than
two hundred dollars, or be imprison
ed in the county jail for not less than
ten days nor more than thirty days,
or be punished by both such fine
and imprisonment. Any person con
victed of the violation of any of the
provisions of this act who shall sub
sequently violate any provision here
of shall, upon conviction, be fined not
less than one hundred dollars and
not more than live hundred dollars,
and be imprisoned in the- county jail
lor not less than ten days nor more
than ninety days. If thereafter he
shall again violate any provision of
this act, for such third and each
subsequent violation he shall, upon
conviction thereof, be fined not less
than two hundred dollars nor more
than one thousand dollars, and v be
confined in the county jail for not
less than three months nor more than
one year. Prosecuting attorneys
and justices of the peace having
knowledge of any previous convic
tion of any person accused of violat
ing the provisions hereof shall, in
preparing warrants. informations or
indictments for such offense or of
fenses, a pledge such convictions
therein, and a certified transcript
from the docket of any justice of the
peace, or a certlsed copy of the re
cord under the seal of the clerk of
any court of record, shall be suffi
cient evidence of any previous con
viction or convictions of violations
of the provisions of this act.
Sec. 12. The giving away, deliver
ing or handling of any intoxicating
liquor by any storekeeper at any
place of business, or the taking or
soliciting of orders, or the making of
agreements for the sale- or delivery
of for the giving away, of any intox
icating liquor within the limits of a
unit which shall have voted against
the licensing of the sale of intoxi
cating liquor therein, or any other
device to evade the provisions here
of, shall be deemed the unlawful
sale of intoxicating liquor, and any
person guilty thereof shall be pun
ished as provided in the preceding
section.
Sec. 13. All places where intoxi
cating liquors are sold in violation
of the provisions of this act are pub
lic nuisances and may be abated as
such, and upon the conviction of the
keeper of any such place of the sale
of Intoxicating liquor on violation
of the provisions hereof, the court
shall order that such nuisance be
abated and that such place be clos
ed until the keeper, owner, lessee,
or other person occupying the same
shall give bond with sufficient sure
ty to be approved by the court mak
ing the order in the penal sum of
one thousr .id dollars, payable to the
state of Washington, conditioning
that intoxicating liquor will not
thereafter be sold therein contrary
to law, and will pay all fines, costs,
and damage assessed against him for
any violation thereof, and in case of
the violation of any condition of the {
bond the whole amount may be re
covered as a penalty for the use of!
the county, city or town wherein the
premises are situated.
Sec. 14. The county commissioners
of any county are hereby authorized
sons to secure evidence for the en
forcement of the same, and when
there are no funds available from
penalties collected for the viola
tion of this act, the county commis
sioners or city or town council may
appropriate a sum not exceeding two
hundred dollars annually from the
general fund of the county, city or
town, for the purpose of enforcing
its provisions.
Sec. 18. It shall be unlawful for
any person, or public or private car
rier, to accept or receive for ship
ment, transportation or delivery to
any person or place within any unit,
in which the sale of Intoxicating li
quors is forbidden under die provi
sions of this act, or to carry, bring
into or transfer to any other person,
carrier or agent, or handle, deliver
or distribute in any such unit any
intoxicating liquor of any sort what
soever; and whoever shall, either as
'principal, agent or servant, knowing
ly violate any of the provisions of
this section shall, upon conviction
tnereof, be fined not less than fifty
dollars nor more than five hundred
dollars, and upon a subsequent vio
lation of this section in addition to
the fine hereinbefore described, he
shall, if a natural person, be impris
oned in the county jail for not less
than thirty days nor more than six
months; Provided, however, That
nothing therein shall lie construed
to apply to any individual who may
bring into such unit upon his person
or as his personal baggage and for
his private use intoxicating liquor in
quantity not to exceed one gallon of
any spiritous liquor or one case of
malt liquor, nor to any physician or
druggists to whom public carrier may
deliver such goods in unbroken pack
ages, nor to be delivered to churches
of the proper officers thereof of wine
in unbroken packages for sacramen
tal purposes, nor to the shipments
or deliveries at residences which are
not places of business or of public
resort, by manufacturers or whole
salers in their own conveyances, or
by any common carrier or otherwise,
any unbroken packages of liquor, nor
to shipments of liquor in continuous
transit to a point outside of such
i nit, nor to shipments of commer
cially pure alcohol for mechanical or
chemical purposes. This section
shall apply to all packages of liquor,
whther broken or unbroken, and the
carrying into or delivery of each such
package of intoxicating liquor, re
gardless of the name by which it may
be called, accepted, received, carried,
transferred, handled, delivered or
distributed in violation of the provi
sions of this section, shall constitute
a separate offense, and any liquor so
carried or delivered shall be for
feited and shall be destroyed by the
officer seizing the same; Provided,
That nothing in this act shall be con
strued to prohibit the manufacture
of Intoxicating liquor from the raw
material In a no-license unit, nor the
c ellvery of the same.
It is further expressly provided
that no provision of this section is
intended or shall be construed to vio
late or be In conflict with any provi
sion of the constitution and laws of
the United States respecting Inter
state commerce and all parts of the
at.me are Intended to prohibit the ac
ceptance, receiving, carrying, trans
ferring, handling, delivery or distri
bution, as herein provided, of Intoxl
cat'ng liquor to such an extent only
as the same is not expressly permit
ted under the constitution and laws
|of the United States.
If any provision of this section
|shall be held to be void or unconsti
tutional, It is hereby provided that
all other portions of the same- which
are not expressly held to be void or
.unconstitutional shall continue in
full force and effect.
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One of the newest Inventions for
warfare is the French "Cyclanche,"
a bicycle with steel shields to protect
the rider and the tires.
WOMAN WATCHES LYNN
When Mr. and Mrs. Perry Waldrip
were returning to their home near
Marengo, a little village on the Tu
canon, from a visit to Pomeroy, a
large, lynx trotted across the road
ahead of the team and climbed a
telephone pole. Mr. Waldrip had
no rifle.' He' wanted to kill the lynx
and he knew by the time he drove
live miles home and back the animal
would be gone. lie left Mrs. Wald
rip on guard with the buggy whip
while he went after his gun. Re
turning he found the lynx still there
and killed it with the first shot.
TRANSPORTATION NOTES
Business men of Eugene have se
cured experts to look over the pro
posed route for the Eugene-Coos Bay
road.
Purchases by the Oregon Trunk in
Central Oregon indicate that it. will
touch Bend, and probably Raymond,
Announcement, is made by the offl
cials of the Pacific Railway & .Navi
gation Company that the road to Til
lamook will be completed in May.
A .sort li,. in Pacific surveying
party lias reached Stitea, Idaho, and
is looking for an easy pass over the
Bitter Hoot. Range from .. Mont
ana side.
'I he Harrim'an system has won its
contention in the general land office
for its right of way on the west bank
of the Deschutes. A pari of the
route conflicts with the rout of the
Oregon Trunk.
The Chicago, Milwaukee .. Puget
Sound will make no through rate on
oriental business after November 24.
It will follow the policy of the Great
- ■■''•n and the northern Pacific
in making a rate to its coast termi
nal points.
The Portland, Eugene & Eastern
Company have a crew of men at. work
n Salem building the first two miles
Of a city system, and also the first
of an extensive Interurban system
■. ii is planned to Include Salem,
Albany, Stayton and Eugene.
The establishment of solid vesti
buled trains, observation cars and
he innovation Of free lunches there-
Il have been authorized by the Ore
gon Electric Railway Company on
the run from Portland to Salem. The
urn appropriated for these and other
improvements amounts to $150,000.
I The Oregon Electric has Hied sup
plementary articles increasing the
capital stock to $10,000,000 with the
Intention of building one line from
Forest Grove to Tillamook, one
through Dallas to Corvallis and Eu
gene, and the main line through Al
bany to Roseburg, one from Dallas
to Salem, from Salem to Mill City.
BITS OF SCIENCE
Various methods of applying pre
servatives to railroad ties and tele
graph poles have been in practical
use iii Europe for more than thirty
years.
Every Japanese war vessel, from
attle ships to torpedo boats, has been
equipped with a system of wireless
telegraphy invented in that country.
The French government is about
to spend 1200,000 In the establish
ment of a national weaving and em
broidery school in the Interest of the
silk industry.
A cutter which will divide- a
pound of butter in 24 pieces of equal
size at a single operation is a new
invention to lighten the labor of the
housewife.
Te cauntry':; slate production last
year amounted In value to $6,316,
--817, an increase over the previous
year of $297,597 despite- the busi
ness depression.
The Brazilllon ministry of public
works has decided that its new dry
dock, which will be big enough to ac
commodate the largest vessels afloat,
shall be of the floating type instead
of the fixed.
INTEREST IN AGRICULTURE
Washington Stato College is be
no: flooded with applications for
teachers of agriculture. This week
an application for a "full professor
of agriculture" was received from
New Zealand, with an offer of $2,000
per year. The offer was not filled
for the reason tiaat the supply of
teachers lacks a great deal of being
equal to the demand. Another ap
plication was received from a small
town in western Washington where
a man is wanted to take charge of
a To ,1, re tract and teach Intensified
farming. Scarcely a week passes
without application for agricultural
Instructors and so much Interest Is
being awakened In this line of work
that the class In agriculture at the
college this year breaks all previous
records In point of enrollment and
Interest.
HAD HEAVY GRAIN RECEIPTS
Some idea or the enormous amount
of main produced in this section can
be gained by comparison of the crop
of 1909 with previous crops. A
Striking Idea of this is shown at the
tramway warehouses near Wawawai.
where the total receipts for this sea
whlcb more than 69.000 sacks are
wheat; 2000 sacks are barley; and
the remainder, or about 14,000 sacks
are oats. The total receipts at the
ram way warehouses this season were
more than 190,000 buhsele. Tho high
est previous receipts at the ware
house were six years ago, when the
total was 52,000 Backs. The tram
way warehouse Is owned by the In
erlor warehouse company. This
company received 27,000 sacks of
wheat at Pullman as compared with
20,000 Backs last year; 2700 sacks
two years ago; and 800 sacks three
years ago. U. v. ...awler, manager
f the company's business here and
at Wawawai, came here from Al
bion two years ago last summer.
A PALOUSE FARM AT A BARGAIN
One of the best improved farms In
the Palouso country consisting of
400 acres for sale. Large two-story
house with spring water piped to it,
two barns, machine shod and all
necessary out buildings.
Good orchard and small fruits,
nost of place fenced hog-tight, run
ning water on each 80 acres, 140
acres in fall grain and 110 acres that
can be put in in tho spring. Two
and one-half miles to warehouse.
Every foot of land in cultivation. At
$71.50 per acre.
ALBION STATE BANK.
Real Estate Department.
Arctic Experts
Smith said that Cook was surely first
To stand upon tho pole.
And Brown said Peary was the man
Who won the icy goal.
Brown added then a few remarks
On Smith's veracity,
And Smith responded with a punch
On Brown's anatomy.
low where had Brown gained Arctic
lore
To give his views such weight?
[c once within a skating-rink
Had cut the figure 8.
And where had Smith acquired his
fund
Of information rare?
Rome years ago In Central Park
He saw a polar hear.
— New York Sun.
Cut FLOWERS
CAN NOW BH HAD AT
College View Greenhouses
PULLMAN, WASH.
Roses per dozen, - • $1 60 to $8.00
Chrysanthemums, - - 1.60 to 8.60
Carnation!, - - - 1.00 to 1.60
Floral design!, * - - 8.00 and up
Sprengeri ami Plumoaui, & to lOcti per spray
Price! subject to change during Thanks
giving, Christmas, and Master season.
VISITORS WKI.COMK
THOS. NEILL, Proprietor
Phone, Farmers 296
m=m
ACRES
Choice Whitman
County Wheat
Land
ALL IN CULTIVATION
$35«°0 ACRE
This property con
tains no buildings,
but is one of the
best buys of
the year
Write
MANRING REAL ESTATE
COMPANY ga^ ce hld
