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Newspaper
The Echo Register
Location
Echo, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1909
Page
3
A severe late summer heat wave grips Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma with temperatures up to 110 degrees. Ten deaths reported and many prostrations as sweltering conditions disrupt travel commerce and daily life across the stricken districts.
In central Japan on Saturday a powerful quake caused many fatalities and extensive property damage. Reported dead reach 40 with 82 injured. 362 buildings including temples destroyed and over 1,000 damaged. Asaka in Gifu suffered. Ibuki mountain collapsed near Gifu. Nagoya seen slight damage. Villages evacuated as rivers surged and shocks continued overnight.
Winnipeg reports nationwide optimism on this year’s harvest with a heavy hay crop and general grain harvest late this month. Grand Trunk Pacific alignment to Edmon ton links wheat lands capable of feeding Britain and Ireland if needed. London outlines Red Cross expansion tied to territorial army planning with nurses and stretcher bearers to be trained nationwide. Yuma endures worst rain since 1901 flood with homes washed away and residents forced to evacuate as floodwaters rise.
A historic note records a sperm whale captured near Vancouver Island by the Kayoquot last week. The hunt yielded 62 barrels of oil from the whale and is described in the accompanying tally.
Orchardists face black spot canker as a leading fruit pest in the Northwest. Spores lodge on apples in fall and thrive in moist cellar conditions. effective control relies on November Bordeaux spraying before germination. Spring treatments are ineffective once infection has begun.
J. J. Walter of the Necarney City Hartlocarbon Oil Company declares that sand off the Nehalem River mouth contains oxo cerite, a hydrocarbon product misidentified for beeswax. Kit Carson, then an assayer, confirms the find and notes its rarity and origin in South America.
Secretary John T. Burne issues the official call for the fourth annual Dry Farming congress to be held in Billings Montana on October 26 27 and 28 1909. The call goes to the President foreign diplomats ministers of agriculture governors college presidents land boards engineers boards of agriculture and many agricultural groups including grange lodges and livestock and horticultural societies. It also targets commercial bodies and immigration interests and reaches about 30 000 individual farmers and Western agricultural stakeholders.
J M Spencer of Plains Montana announces a major irrigation project to cover 550 000 acres in Grant county with water from the Columbia River. The system will extend over 100 miles and cost about 5 million dollars, delivering gravity irrigation to Crab Creek valley and beyond.
The article notes in Harney county over 3,000,000 acres of government land remain open to entry for timber grazing mineral and agricultural use. It describes a shift from cattle and sheep grazing to increasing settler farming and agricultural success. Also included is a brief item from Newport Arkansas about a suit filed in Jackson Circuit Court against the American Book Company seeking fines totaling 2,000 dollars over a school book and map trust dispute.
Washington reports Wu Ting Fang the Chinese minister to the United States has been recalled for reassignment. Chang Yin Tang will succeed him, having prior diplomatic experience in India England Tibet and the United States. Wu famed for wit and ties to the Boxer era, aided Conger during the Pekin legation crisis.
Sunday services listed with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and preaching at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Includes notices about sending the Register to friends and an old newspapers sale at 26 cents per 100. Also advertises a two horse power gasoline engine for sale and printing services at the Register office.
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