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Show PfeCjtion Cutworms Arc Like-eS Like-eS wise Playing Havoc in -3 I Many Districts. t J crop in many 11 '1 I STATES IS IN DANGER K pw in Congressional Ranks H yer Bad Outlook in Po-K Po-K jitical World. Y RALPH M. WHITESIDE, ascd Wlro to The Tribune. SHINGTON, June -l.Jt will bo Eddlo of July before congress will Ie to finish up its work and go according to tho best opinion tho statesmen, and there is sor-n sor-n tho rnnks becauso thcraof. in the memory of man have so I congressmen and senators had and hard fights, 0n tlieir hands 5 year, and tho fences of somo of who nre anxious to come back r disgrace an abandoned New Eng-urm. Eng-urm. Not only arc their fences but opposition cut worms, to say e of political San Joso scale, lo, chinch bug, army worm and eevil, are playing hob with their rops. All o'i which makes the vapg on at "Washington a source of ieony, but the necessary business I' to drag in spite of everything or a congressman to leave Ins post gpould not only destroy his pnvi-' pnvi-' "pointing with pride" to his 'll but would l:iy him open to at-: at-: Veriiv Scylla and Cliarybcis pre-gl pre-gl no such terrors to the old time Sjer as the present situation does to --aSlcsnan who is compelled to light Sep in. If it were possible to 9HUn effective law making It a fel-jjio fel-jjio go gunning for a scat, in con-SB; con-SB; while the incumbent was stuck Sashingtou it would be giadly wcl-Wfm, wcl-Wfm, but alas and alackaday, such a Hg impossible. So there Is nothing EKbut stay on and pray that things BJnot bo quite so bad as thoy look E9 Stretched Himself an Inch. J5en the president sent lo the sen-Ppfcc sen-Ppfcc nomination of Second Lieutcn-juthcr Lieutcn-juthcr R. James lo bo first liou- Iin. the Sixteenth infantry, a nany people immediately .-jumped conclusion that the officer in n was the former cadet by the mme who, by somo means or stretched himself a full inch in o pass the physical examination ,ry to ontrnneo at West Point. Jt ; haimon to bo tho same Lnthcr, ir. Just the sumo, tho nomina-salled nomina-salled the story of tho youth who pointed to tho military academj-, 10 fell just one inch snort of the requirement when tne prelimi-camination prelimi-camination was made. This Lu-, Lu-, Jamcs, who wns, by tho way, a j Sw of the famous Jesso and Irank r erf? 'sso,ir' sfit about Increasing jjoight, and within two mouths he TTflBtretchcd himself just Tar enough -JJgjCasure tho requisite number of E?5M)Want Panama Exposition. Orleans is in earnest about gct- JmP Panama exposition in 1915 and infffras practically the entire south ".:gjbf her. Hardly a day passes that ijjgjinfluontial delegation of Louisian- arc not in Washington telling ,ust fiflftthey should have the exposition. Crescent City has enlisted the gov- .jy of other southern states, tho fg0f& of cities, commercial bodies and rjjje. In fact, the solid south is back jMT claim for the big show. In the "3ftimo San Francisco is not permit-ijbiny permit-ijbiny grass to grow under nor feet, MSjlias Tot it bo known she simply X?h:ive the exposition. It's a very fW fight as it stands, and congress jffftfbe compelled to decide it a draw fl'iJwuthorizo two expositions, one in VlKfifOrloans and the other in San W,ieisco. As tho show is intended to JSWarato the cutting assunoor of the nonts, it is suggested that a doublc-3 doublc-3 SOTlcd exposition, one at each end of thjftt ditch, would be peculiarly np- leffl-Jy Established His Honor. 5jUliier a fight for thirt- vcars before A. css to establish his" honor and a',fliamc, Joseph Dobson, a Kenyan Ken-yan chargod with desertion from tho hns won. Seldom in t!ic annals of . igislation has so persistent an el'-abeen el'-abeen made to correct a man 's mili-jKjecoril. mili-jKjecoril. Hundreds of applications paic, grunted or turned down in a .a-Iq session, and forgottou. Dobson, yer, kept up his fight for half a SZfFlme in the face of over recurrin" Tit. Representative Thomas of yicky became interested in the sin- jj Jica.sr examined the record himself yj decided that an in.iustico had boon .iH's, ellow citizen. Ho at once ")Fd ,nto tho fil't himself and in Tppcal on the floor of uie house, ho -jTJ'aded the body into agrcoiii" t0 a m4rc completely vindicating Dobson wA$ 'd charge. 'M Using Stored Energy. :MiPoraA(i is taking a leading part in y(CO ot power, as it has been go 'lMinicd," said Michael M. Cas- - I)onvcr' Colo., who was hero re-'"jfe re-'"jfe e "following tho first natural Mfl forces falling water and iiro- mo'jWF T''lIU ca,n? tho ;,t-'0 of steam, w gnitivoly modem, in which the ,tgt jation of the stored energy in fuel wns made practicable," continued Mr. Cassidy, who is interested in mining enterprises in Colorado. "Now comes electricity an agent, and not a natural source of power, to displace steam. Wator supplies tho primal force; electricity, elec-tricity, that mystifying, engine-driving fluid, is the result. Running to waste for centuries in the tortuous gorges of tho Rocky mountains there aro rushing, tumbling streams that are capable cap-able of supplying sufficient powor to run a large pari, of tho mills, the mines and the railroads of the nation when a safe method of continuous distribution is found. In the days of wind, water and steam each individual user had to make steam his own powor. Now, with electricity and the development of great transmission lines, tho str.o of tho power plant is no longer confined to the needs of tho individual consumer. Nor need the mines, or mill, or tramway, tram-way, or any other industrv be near the source of its power. Scicnco and engineering en-gineering ingenuity will add to the distance at which this potential power may Jjc used. The possibilities aro without limit, not oniv ,in Colorado, but in all parts of tho United States.' "California is facing the most promising prom-ising season of the last twenty-five years," said Mai. Charles P. Braslan of San Jose, Cal., an extensive seed grower in the state. "Conditions for big crops have nor been so favorable in a quarter of a century and the time has passed when the harvest can bo looked upon with nny uncertainty, for the crops arc sure to bo harvested. Much of tho wheat already has been cut, and in some cases large quantities of seed have been put in tne warehouses. ware-houses. The fruit yield this year will be the greatest in the history of the state, because wcathor conditions have been just right for growing. Tt is not alone in fruit and agriculture that California Cali-fornia will be nrosperous this year. Tho state will become the greatest oil-producing oil-producing state in the union. None of the big oil slates will surpass in yield of oil what will come Irom tho wells of California in a few years. The oil industry is only in its infancy, but enough wells aro in operation in the San Joaquin valley to warrant the prophecy that nothing like it has ever been known in the groat oil-producing states. There are gushers in California that arc yielding 25,000 to -10,000 barrels bar-rels of oil a day, and it is tho belief of experts who have gone through tho valley val-ley that larger wells will bo found. Every day or two new wells are discovered." dis-covered." Saya West Is for Taft. "So far as the people of Washington and persons on the Pacific coast arc concerned, con-cerned, President Taft will spend four years moro in tho whilo house after his present term expires," remarked Louis II. Burnett, a prominent merchant of Aberdeen, Wash. Mr. Burnett was the "Washington state representative to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition, and met the president on the occasion of his last visit to tho Pacific coast. "Mr. Taft is well liked in our country. coun-try. Ho is a man who does things, and without tho flourish of the so-called 'big stick.' The president, in the eyes of the people on tho coast, is an even-tempered even-tempered man, who does a lot of thinking think-ing before ho acts, Mr. Taft is to bo commended on the stand he has taken in tho Ballinger-Piuchot controversy. He appointed Mr. Ballingcr to Ins cabinet, and is standing by him. Can anything bettor show the disposition and sincerity of tho man? Mr. Taft docs things, but he does thorn in such a way as not to cause a whole lot of comment. Give President. Taft a chance, is the slogan being shouted on the coast, and he will mako good, Aberdeen, Aber-deen, tho town in which I live, is one of tho greatest, lumber shipping ports in the world. During tho past, year we shipped G4!),!)G-l,fllS feet of luuibor out of CJrays harbor. This is an enormous quantity, when the size of the citv and its facilities aro taken into consideration. considera-tion. There aro 20,000 people in the city, and the population lias increased 400 per cent siuco 1S00." |