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Newspaper
Newberg Graphic
Location
Newberg, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
6
A wide mix of global and national items is summarized with notes on boycotts, peace and war reports, political shifts, labor actions, scandals, notable deaths, trials, and economic concerns. Highlights include Dry Farming congress, a Chinese tong war in San Francisco, Rockefeller labor moves, senatorial deadlock, a Portland fire, and the Seattle exposition funding debate.
San Francisco plans three months of preparations to tidy streets before downtown work begins. James D. Phelan chairs the visitor entertainment committee which has outlined plans, including a $100000 fund gift from a local Chinese merchant. A floral parade by Native Sons and Native Daughters and a new sailors club and pavilion for bluejackets are to be built for enlistees entertainment.
Washington reports Land Commissioner Ballinger urges abolition of the contract land survey system. He recommends government employment of competent surveyors with sole duties to survey and resurvey lands. Representative Mitchell introduces a bill granting this authority with discretion to retain some contract work. The reform aims to cut time waste in surveys, replacing the old two to three year timelines.
Plague experts report the cicenge nearly eliminated in the city and no new cases for over two weeks. Health officials will boost manpower and broaden poison distribution as a precaution. Dr Rupert Blue says contagion from rats to humans occurs via fleas, which reappear in spring and summer. Rodent infection steady at one half of one percent.
Tangier reports Zenatia and Ouled Ali tribes attacked French troops on January 23. French littoral and medicine columns had just effected a sanction when tribesmen swept down in crescent formation. Spahis bore the brunt with several gallant charges but the assault was repulsed with heavy losses.
Lisbon reports ongoing nervousness in official circles after a planned monarchy overthrow and republic attempt. Premier Franco, advised by police, moves nightly to a new residence watched by cavalry. Police uncover caches of revolvers and bombs tied to the conspiracy.
California orange industry enters full season with high quality fruit. Exchanges project about 30,000 carloads totaling around 9 million boxes and 100 million oranges. Harvest expected to run through July Fourth.
Oregon officials say a state wide hop growers union will collect acreage data for every grower. Secretary Joseph Baumgartner will organize the census to determine total Oregon hop acreage and identify non members for union inclusion.
Rickreall farmer J. B. Stump has planted 175 acres near Monmouth with English walnuts arranged 60 feet by 40 feet. Between the walnut rows sit Royal Anne cherry trees to bear early. The venture is viewed as sound rather than experimental, with profits expected from the first crop.
Inspector H. Silverwood of the bureau of animal industry visits Benton station to oversee several bands of sheep reportedly infected. The federal government cooperates with state and county officials to enforce dipping laws and eradicate infection. Silverwood advises on dipping methods and livestock care, and suggests substantial dip supplies may arrive soon.
Albany Lees notes show unusually scant snow this winter with valleys and mid elevations snow free. upper valley reports of no snow on ridges while canyons retain seven to eight feet in January elsewhere.
An educational meeting for fruitgrowers will be held Tuesday January 28 in Albany under the Linon County Horticultural society. Speakers include M. Lownedale president of the Willamette Valley Applegrowers' association and L. T. Reynolds secretary of the game association. Lewnsedale will demo how to pack apples for market.
Joe Snyder a longtime threshing machine man of Pendleton retires after 38 years. He puts his large outfit of threshers and horses up for public auction and will move to a small farm on the Umatilla river near Pendleton.
Pendleton Oregon woolgrowers have purchased 50 000 shares in the salt plant owned by the eel. The move secures 500 tons of salt annually at production cost plus delivery to destination, saving about three dollars per ton with the Ogden plant as the site.
The Northern Pacific railroad sold 19,280 acres of timbered land in Clackamas County Oregon from the Clackamas River to the county’s southern boundary to the W. Land company. The tract runs along the west end of Clackamas County in Oregon City area.
The state board awarded the Jamber supply contract to Curtis Lamber Co for state institutions with a bid of 37 per yearload. Next bidder remains to be determined.
The article discusses a seedless pear found on the Oliver farm near the city, growing for about twenty years. It contrasts the fruit with Mason farm pears, noting larger size Flemish Beauty like form, coreless seedless flesh and October ripening, with unclear origin of the tree.
Salem reports a plan by the state prison superintendent the Oregon governor Chaplain St Pierre and Portland prison reformers to add an 800 capacity assembly hall and night school to the penitentiary. The brick structure built by convicts will include a chapel recreation room and recitation spaces reducing state costs. The project has the endorsement of the Prisoners Aid Society of Oregon.
A group of four Wisconsin men have departed with local guides and timber cruisers for logging near Bly. They arrive well equipped for a winter camp with snow shoes. Local claim owners anticipate selling claims as interest grows.
The Harney County National Bank moved into a new stone building in Burns on Sunday and is finishing interior work. The former bank room will house N. Brown & Sons mercantile.
Market notes list prices for wheat Bluestem and valley at 85 to 87 cents, oats No 1 white at 27.50 28, barley at 27.50 per ton, hay including Timothy No 1 at 18 per ton and alfalfa 15, fruits with apples 142.50 per box and pears 1.26 to 1.75 per box, vegetables and root crops with turnips 75 cents per sack, onions 15 20 cents per dozen, cabbage and tomatoes per bar, and various dairy and poultry items with creamery butter 80 to 85 cents, chickens 12 13 cents, live turkeys 14 to 16.50, and pork and beef prices per pound noted for different weights.
Attorney General Bonaparte moves to file a bill in equity to set aside Union Pacific and its subsidiaries control of Southern Pacific and San Pedro Los Angeles and Salt Lake, challenge Union Pacific stock holdings in Santa Fe Great Northern Northern Pacific, and seek to break a continental transport monopoly. The suit names Farmers Loan and Trust and notable figures including Hariman Schiff Kahn Stillman Frick Rogers Clark as defendants in a broad anti monopoly action.
Franklin Pierce Mays ex state senator testified in federal court as the government’s principal witness in the Hall Mays conspiracy case. Judge Hunt permitted dismissal of Mays indictment amid questions about sufficiency of evidence and Mays health. Moores ex register of the Oregon City land office is expected to testify before the prosecution concludes.
Rio Janeiro police have rounded up six sailors from the American battleships who deserted or failed to return before ships sailed last week. They will be sent after the fleet on a collier. A Valparaiso dispatch notes the Chilean squadron awaiting the Americans at Chilean waters. The British cruiser Sapho, after patrolling the west coast, heads to Punta Arenas.
In London on January 27, inquiries in Spanish consular and commercial circles show broad support for the Spanish minister of commerce plan to stage a 1908 exposition of Spanish art and industry. The move by King Alfonso is seen as deepening the ties between Spain and Britain.
A mining engineer returning to Stockholm reports Russian soldiers occupying log barracks in Northern Norway near Lyngenfjord. He says they are constructing a railway deep in wilderness far from main highways, with frontier proximity about 15 miles to the north.
Portland January 23 sensational trial updates reveal Hendricks testifying about Hall and Mays and a plea of guilty from Clarence B. Zachary, foreman of the Butte Creek company. Government expects to finish its case soon with Heney planning further testimony and possible witness W W Steiner.
Carson Nev January 23 The committee drafting a bill to regulate conditions in Nevada has created a proposed state police force. It would include a superintendent a governor appointed inspector four sergeants 25 officers and 260 reserves with the governor approving all appointments. The force would enforce peace duties but not serve civil processes and could be placed under martial law during riots with full power to restore order. The superintendent could organize up to 250 reserves and the force would largely mirror United States Army rules and discipline.
Pekin reports new opposition from the Chinese government as Japan signals permission to extend the Hsin Min Tun railroad with Japanese capital. Heu Shih Chang, viceroy of Manchuria, urges the throne to approve a 10,000,000 tael loan to bolster the Manchurian administration.
In Rio de Janeiro on January 28 the American warships, cheered by thousands, began a 14,000 mile cruise to San Francisco. The fleet heads toward Punta Arenas in the Magellan Strait, with Godspeed and Brazilian good wishes.
Lansing January 23 report says the constitutional convention committee on slander referred a proposal granting woman suffrage with a recommendation that it be passed.
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