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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1910)
DOINGS OF THE WEEK Current Events oi interest Gathered From Die World at Large. General Resume of Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. J. J. Hill and a party of New York bankers are en route to set? uie North west, The proposed American South Polar expedition has been abandoned for this year. Coalition of British Liberals and Irish has blasted the hopes of the Tor ies in parliament. Edward Payson Weston passed through Syracuse, N. Y., on his walk across the continent. Three lives were lost and six per sons are missing as the result of a ho tel fire in Cincinnati. President Taft has ordered the re moval of the Alaskan district attorney and the United States marshal. It is believed that the Milwaukee road will tap Willapa Harbor, Wash., and then build direct to Portland. Charles J. Wezler, accused of mur dering his mother-in-law at Gig Har bor, Wash., has made a full confession of the crime. In an address before the highest in tellectual personages of France, Roose velt put human rights always above property rights. Mrs. Hetty Green, celebrated for years as the richest and shrewdest business woman in the world, will soon retire from active business life, it is understood, and will turn over the handling of her immense fortune, es timated at $50,000,000, to her daugh ter, Sylvia, now Mrs. Slyvia Astor Wilkes. As a sequel to the suspension of D. P. Crawford and Harry Horton from Stanford by the student affairs com mittee, E. M. Leaf, editor of the col lege magazine which published the charges which led to the dismissal of the two athletes, was seized by a crowd of students and thrown into Lake Laguintas. The government cotton inquiry will go deeper than originally expected. Two Eastern postoffice thieves got ten years and $6,000 fine for stealing stamps. It is claimed Australian beef can be sold in the United States cheaper than the home product. A Kansas woman lost her life trying to rescue the pictures of her parents from her burning home. A big freight steamer, loaded ready to sail for Boston, was destroyed by fire at her dock in Rotterdam. RESIST RICE EXPORTATION. Crop Failures in China May Cause Serious Outbreaks. Pekin, April 25. Attacks upon magistrates and several mission build ing at Changteh Fu and reports of dis turbances at other points in Hunan province have aroused diplomatic cir cles. Concern is felt lest the trouble started in Changsha may develop wide significance. The Chinese government, fearing revolutionaries may take advantage of the unrest growing out of the food sit uation, is taking stringent measures to suppress disorder. Fuller advices from Changsha emphasize that the rioting is not primarily due to anti foreign feeling, but was turned against foreigners only upon the ; discovery that the governor's efforts to prevent the exportation of rice were balked largely through foreign influence, Thousands are on the verge of tion, owing to the failure of the crops, Several weeks ago the governor, to prevent high prices, prohibited all ex portation of rice. British and Japan ese merchants and shippers engaged in the rice trade protested to their re spective legations at Pekin in an effort to induce the diplomatic corps as a body to protest. This was frustrated by the refusal of the American and German legations to join. The British and J apanese then pro tested to the Wai Wu Pu, which, in view of the treaties now in force, was reluctantly compelled to instruct the governor that he must postpone his in hibition of exports. A jump in the price of the people s food quickly fol lowed the suspension of the inhibition, and drove the poor in desperation to wreck the government buildings, and afterwards consulates, missions and other foreign buildings. Three men implicated in the recent bomb plot against the regent, arrested at Pekin, confessed their guilt. Two INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE IMPROVE ROADS IN COOS. for County Court Plans Campaign Permanent Highways this Year Coquille Coos county roads are be improved. The work is to be done thoroughly and as quickly as possible, To aid him in arriving at a more satis factory conclusion on the subject, Judge Hall sent a circular letter each of the county judges of the state asking for views on the matter of ap pointing a master road builder, the method now in vogue in the various counties, and the general success which crowns their efforts towards securing good wagon roads. Inh'many counties in the state the starva- plan has already been tried. In some it was successful while in others it was a failure, the failure being princi pally due to the fact that the right man was not secured. Among those who favor the plan the greater num ber do not favor the appointment of civil engineer to the position for the reason that the salary he would demand would m most cases be too large. We have not arrived at a definite decision regarding the subject," said Judge Hall, "but will take the mat ter under further advisement at our meeting next week and determine upon some definite plan for the work of the year. Whatever the decision, the roads are to receive a great deal of at tention and work during the present year, and we hope to have the majority of the highways of the county in fairly good shape before the beginning of the rainy season next fall." Oregon Hen Breaks Record tsena with the price of eggs soar- inc and thp nrnhlpm rf thp inprpnsnncr 1 i i a.j t : . L icauers, euucawu .11 uapau, proposing cost of jiving staring every one in the to belong to the Sun Yat Sun party in fane mnrft than Wtn San Francisco, say bomb methods are dodge the census man, a hen in a neigh discountenanced, and hence tthe three boring town, Tumulo. took it into her men acted upon their own responsibil lty. STORM LOSS $30,000,000. Rages While playing in a farmer's yard near Colfax, Wash., a 5-year-old child was run over by a hog and its leg bro ken. President Fallieres, of ranee, ex- changed calls with Roosevelt and the audience in a French theater rose to greet him. Attonreys, principals and clerks en gaged in a general fight in a Sacra mento court room. Deputy sheriffs separated them. Four cases of appendicitis in five years, and three of them within the last six months, is the record of a Col fax, Wash., family. A daring thief has looted the cathe dral of Moscow, Russia, of precious stones from the pictures of the saints and the image of the virgin, to the value of $500,000. An expedition will leave Copenhagen this summer to retrace Cook s route through the Arctic and recover instru ments and supplies which Cook claims to have left at certain points. Six convicts in the Leavenworth, Kan., pen escaped by overpowering the crew of a switch engine and forc ing them to run the engine through the gates and out into the country. A Chicago doctor has been awarded $100,000, payment in full of a contract to furnish all medical treatment for a woman during her life. She lived about five years after the contract was made, during which time the physician faithfully lived up to his agreement. W. J. Bryancalled on President Taft. Wet snow is crushing trees and tele phone and telegraph wires in Ohio. The newly elected Socialist adminis tration has taken office in Milwaukee. The Colorado Conservation commis sion has turned down the Pinchot poli cies and declared for state control of water. The present condition and future prospects of the Harriman lines were never better, according to the traffic manager. At a gambling house raid in Seattle over 100 men were arrested, $300 con fiscated and a carload of furniture and gambling devices captured. Circuit court in Portland adjourned Tuesday "because of recent deaths in families of litigants," but everybody went to the opening ball game. Over 12,000 enthusiasts saw the opening game of baseball at Portland between the home team and Oakland, the latter being shut out 2 to 0. Worst Blizzard in Many Years Through Middle West. Chicago, April 25. Western and other fruit-pruducing states will be called upon this year to supply all of the Middle Western states, in addition to their regular business, for no fruit, with the possible exception of straw berries and a few late grapes, will be grown in six or eight states. Of these Michigan and Missouri have heretofore been counted upon for very large supplies, but they will be forced to buy everything this season. Thirty million dollars is a rough es timate made tonight of the loss in this year's fruit crop by the cold tempera- tures and blizzardous condition which obtained through the Upper Missis sippi valley last night and today and extended as far East as Ohio, Fears are expressed by conservative observers in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Wisconsin, Indiana and Missouri that small- 'fruits, with the exception of late strawberries, will be a total loss. Unofficial reports tonight are that Kansas has suffered a loss of $8,000,- 000; Iowa, $8,000,000; Michigan, $5, 000,000;Wisconsin, $1000,000; Illinois, $4,000,000, and Indiana $2,000,000, Lake Michigan, lashed into fury by a fierce northwest gale, tossed about like corks all boats then on its head to break all records for big eggs, Her production in this line had the as tounding dimensions of 81 inches and 6 J inches around, in long and short routes. It is reported that the propri etor of the prize fowl has been offered enough money for her to buy a lot in Bend, but prefers to keep the famous egg-maker, believing that she will make a rich man of him. "Buy a hen and become independent," is said to be the motto adopted by the central Ore gon hen owner. 160 Acres to Apples., Lakeview The Lakeview Orchard company has 1 60 acres of land broken and seeded to rye, preparatory to set ting out a large orchard this fall. The company has ordered 8,uuu trees tor early fall delivery. The fact that this is the first at tempt to set out an orchard on a com mercial scale is centering considerable interest on the proposition. But two varieties were selected, the famous Winter Banana and the splen did Newtown Pippin, 4,000 trees of each variety. There were planted last year 40 acres in Crooked creek valley by S. B. Turner and 60 acres by J. B. Hughes, both of Surprise valley, and 55 acres by Lauer Bros., near Alturas. face, and kept within harbors all other craft. The blizzard played a number of freak pranks in ! Chicago, in, one in stance lifting the roof from a barn and dropping it on a slowly-moving locomo tive on the tracks of the Chicago, Mil waukee & St. Paul railroad. There was a general impeding of steam railway, elevated and surface passenger traffic in this city and the Northwest. Several inches of snow fell in Mil waukee during the storm, and the bliz zard extended into Northern Michigan, where a fall of two feet was reported. A wind blowing 48 miles an hour ac companied the storm. Prune Crop Outlook Good. Oakland Several prominent prune growers of the Umpqua valley state that the prospects for a bumper prune crop were never brighter. The outlook is also fine for large crops of apples, bub- 'pears, peaches Arid cherfres. Several of the large orchards have been provid ed with smudge pots to be used in the event of a late frost, which is hardly probable this season as balmy spring weather is prevailing and the date for. a possible late frost is about past, BROGAN PROJECT READY. Twenty Thousand Acres in Malhuer Soon to Be Irrigated. Vale Six hundred head of horses and 800 men are at work on the canals oi me w mow ureeK irrigation com puny, whose project will water 20,000 acres of tine valley and bench land trib utary to Vale and the new town of Bro gan. Fourteen miles of ditch for the Ore gon Fruit Farms must be completed this week, and the contractors, Hales & Crane, who have recently completed the Wood river project in Idaho, are rushing all the men available into the territory. The whole contract, consisting of 45 miles of canals, must be completed bv June 1. Messrs. Brogan and O Don- nell, who are putting in ' the project, are constructing three reservoirs for the storage of water. They expect to be able to irrigate 2,000 acres of orch ards this summer. WOULD ABOLISH SLUMS. ROSEBURG LAND IS OPTIONED, Engineer Haines Lease Pays $23,000 on 12 Acres. for Roseburg Following the incorpora tion of the Coos Bay & Oregon Central railroad Al Creason, Roseburg's cap italist, announces that he has given an option on 12 acres of his land in North Roseburg to the Coos Bay, Oregon & Idaho railroad, whose interests have been taken over by the Oregon Central. The option was taken through Engi neer F, A. Haines, a little over three months ago, but no authentic an nouncement to this effect was made by Mr. Creason until now. The price involved is $23,000. The option will expire in about four months. Haines is reported to be working for Hill. The survey between Loos Bay and Roseburg, 90 miles, completed. New Bank at Salem June I. Salem The Salem Bank & Trust company will commence business June The bank has been incorporated for $50,000 with the following incor porators: W. G. East, J. L. Ahlers L. L. East, and prominent local busi ness men are interested. The officers will be elected in the near future. W East comes from the Kansas State bank association. He has been in the banking business for many years in Kansas. New Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee in for Clean-up." Milwaukee, Wis., April 23. This was a busy day for the Socialists, who nave just taken the reins of city gov ernment. Mayor Seidel came out strongly for abolition of the slums, and declared that he would support any movemet for carrying out of plans of the central council of philanthropists ior tne tearing down of tuberculosis in- .ni.J A. 4 1 lesieu tenements and nouses, and a general purification of the city, moral ly ana physically. Mayor Seidel declared that he would not issue permits for Saturday night dances in places in which dancehalls are connected with saloons, and that he would try to arrange for free Saturday FEAR IRE RIOTING Gravity of Chinese Situation Is Be coming Quits Apparent. In Event of Serious Trouble, May Have to Unite As In Boxer Revolution. Nations the Washington, April 26. There is con- cern at the State department over the j .-ii , , mB.,umu:CB wiunnunicipauy.proviaea Chinese riots in Hunan province be m -rr :, . v , J cause of he Possibility that the trouble ,w. e wuuiu may apread rapidly at any moment. Por . v.w B,.u comer wun It is realized here that information in vr. B, neaiuj commissioner oi the Chinese provinces travels with 'v v u.e .auvice on me en- lightning-like rapidity from mouth to KKu,s ui a gooa man lor neaun com- mouth. So, with flaming anti-foreign rv.'-j , posters being posted in the streets of yww ui m.n piuKIm lur uio car- changsha, it ijiiig uuiui jnauonn pieuges, victor Berger announced that'the central com mittee was so progressing in ' its work of ; organizing the state that there would be 100,000 votes polled by that ticket this coming fall. understood the neigh- is readily what the effect may be on boring districts. If the riots spread it is believed that the foreign nations will stand together with the Chinese government to help bring about order and prevent blood Mayor Seidel said he would inspect a 8hed, as during the Boxer troubles. number of institutions, hospitals, places of charity and other buildings involved in the jurisdiction of the health com missioner, when in Chicago. He will also continue inquiring for a commis sioner of public works qualified to fill the new $6,000 position as chief of the board, when the one-man plan goes into effect. The mayor said he is looking around for other experts, Revenue Man In Trouble Honolulu, April 25. Alleging tech nical violations of law, special agent W. B. Thomas, of the internal revenue Furnish-Coe Dam $110,000. ; Pendleton With the letting of the contract for the completion of the Furnish-Coe dam in this county, one of the most important transactions that has ever been made in connection with the west end reclamation work was consummated. It means that the plans that have been under way for several months will be brought to a speedy completion and that the lands under the project will be supplied with water to irrigate them for 60 days. Big Log Drive Down Santiam. Lebanon W. H. Hobson, with crew of men, is making a big log drive down the Santiam river, to the new mill pond of the Lebanon Lumber com pany, at this city. Several million feet of logs are being cut and put into the river to be cut into lumber by the mill during the summer and following winter. The logs are run down the river during the small freshets in the late spring. Driving 3,000 Piles. Astoria Ferguson & Houston, con tractors, report that another three weeks will see the completion of their big contract with the Whilney Logging company on its new railway up Blind slough. When the work is finished, they will have driven something over 000 piles on this logging line. Milton-Pendleton Extension. 'Athena A survey is being made along the power line between Milton and Pendleton, the object of which, it is thought, is the extension of the ln- terurban line from Milton to Pendleton. a :" PORTLAND MARKETS. Effective naval vessels in the vicin ity appear, to be the United States cruiser Cleveland, the Japanese gun boat Uji, and the British river gun boat Snipe. The Cleveland, which has iust ar rived at Hankow is of 3,200 tons dis placement and carries ten 5-inch guns, eight 6 pounders, two 1-pounders. four Colt automatic and one 3-inch field gun. The Snipe is a British river gunboat, which has just been refloated after having run aground near Chanesha. ASTER KILLS 18 MEN. J3 68Jtons displacement, carries u-puuiiuero unu iour 40-incn Max ims. The Japanese gunboat is 620 tons displacement and carries four 12 pounders and three Maxims. OHIO COAL MINE DIS- Steubenville, O., April 23. The lives of 18 miners were snuffed out in a tremendous explosion in the Youg- hiogheny & Ohio Coal company's mine at Amsterdam last night. Seven men bruised and burned were rescued from the mine and their escape from death is regarded as miraculous. The interior of the mine was wreck ed and all ventilation shut off. The cause has not yet been determined. 30 STUDENTS ARE BURNED. MONEY IS TIED UP. Class Rates to Be Investigated. Salem The railroad commission is service, has made a report to Washing- in receipt of a copy of the resolutions adopted by the Open River and ton in which the removal from office of collector of internal revenue W. F. Drake, of Hawaii, is recommended. The report follows an investigation of the affairs of the collector's office by Thomas, which, it is stated, reveal ed technical irregularities. Thomas' report is said also to rec ommend the removal of Deputies Doyle and K. b. Johnstone. Steamer Crippled at Sea. Seattle, April 25. A wireless dis patch from the steamship Princess May states that the steamship Bertha, of the Alaska Coast company's fleet, was disabled in Knox bay, Johnson strait, with her steering gear broken down. The Princess May asked the Bertha of she needed aid, but the captain of the Bertha declined assistance, saying that he would be able to proceed on his way after temporary repairs were made to his broken gear. Russia Gets Rockefeller Coin. New York, April 25. Russians here have received advices from St. Peters burg to the effect that John D. Rocke feller has given a large sum reported to be loOO.OOO to establish a sanitar ium for tuberculosis sufferers at Ab-bas-Tuman, watering place in Trans Caucasia. At the Rockefeller office at 26 Broadway no one could be found to say anything about the reported gift. Freights convention held at Albany, this week, to the effect that each com mercial club and board of trade in the Willamette valley shall have at least one representative present at the hear ing to be held Thursday, April 28, at balem, to investigate the class rates now in force by the Southren Pacific company. Pledged 25 Cars Green Prunes. Salem Practically 25 carloads of green prunes have been pledged to the Salem Fruit union for shipment. The packing house will be enlarged during he summer, and the facilities for hand ling the crops of Polk and Marion coun ties will be greatly increased. Veneer Plant Finished. Bandon The Perry veneer plant is nearing completion, and the machinery is nearly all installed. The plant is commodious and convenient. The main building is 39x80 feet, and togeth er with the annex has a floor space of 50x96 feet. St. Dennis Farm Brings $18,000. Athena The wheat farm of the late Desire St. Dennis on the Umatilla In dian reservation has just been sold at an administrator s sale and was bid in at $18,000. This farm is one of the best on the Umatilla reservation. Wheat- Track prices: Blue'stem, 90 (392c; club, 86(3,87c; red Russian, 85c; 'valley, 90c. Barley Feed and brewing, $23.50 g 24. 50 per ton. Corn Whole, $34; cracked, $35 ton. -Hay Track prices: Timothy, Wil lamette valley, $20(321 per ton: East ern Oregon, $23(324; alfalfa, $16.50 17.50; grain hay, $17018. Oats No. 1 white, $27(328.50 ton. Butter City creamery, extras, 33c; fancy outside creamery, 32(333c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices average ljc per pound under regular butter prices. Egg3 Fresh Oregon ranch, 24 j25c Pork Fancy, 13(3 13 jc per pound. Veal Fancy, 9i(3,10c per pound. Lambs Fancy, 12c per pound. Poultry Hens, 20c; broilers, 27(3! 28c; ducks, 22J(323c; geese, 121c; turkeys, live, 20(3,220; dressed, 25c; squabs, $3 per dozen. Apples $1(32.50 per box. Potatoes Carload buying prices Oregon, 40(350c per hundred; new California, 6c per pound; sweet pota toes, 31(3ic. Vegetables Asparagus, 33;5c; head lettuce, 60(3 75c per dozen; hothouse lettuce, 50c(3$l per box; green onions, 15c per dozen radishes, 30c; rhubarb, 3c per pound, spinach, $1 per box; sprouts, 9c per pound; turnips, $1 per sack; rutabagas, $1(31.25; carrots, 85c(3$l; beets, $1(31.25; parsnips, 50(375c. Cattle Best steers, $6.75(37: fair to good steers, $606.50; strictly good cows, $5.75(3 6; fair to good cows, $5 (3 5.50; light calves, $6(37; heavy cal ves, $4(3 5; bulls, $4(35.25; stags, $4.50(35.50. Hogs Top, $11.1011.25; fair to good, $10(311. Sheep Best wethers, $6(3 6.50; fair to good, $5.505.75; good lambs, $8(39. Onions Oregon, $1.75 per hundred. Hops 1909 crop, 17(3 19c per pound; olds, nominal; 1910 contracts, 15(3l9c Wool Eastern Oregon. 16(3,20cper pound; valley, 20(3;22c; mohair, I choice, 26 c. Mobs Set Fire to Technical School Gunboats are Refuge. Hankow, April 23. The situation in Hunan province is reported as critical, Women and children are fleeing for their lives from Changsha, the capital A number of villages near the city have been burned by native mobs, The country is placarded with threats to kill all foreigners. This news was brought by mission ary refugees, who arrived here today from Changsha and nearby stations. Many of them had traveled 30 miles on foot and reached the Yangtse Kiang river in rags. I heir houses had been burned and they lost all of their per sonal effects. The missionaries said that gunboats in the river have their 'guns trained upon Changsha and nearby points and have afforded a refuge for many of the foreigners. -, Three thousand Chinese imperial soldiers are occupying the strategic points of the capital, and de tachments are being hurried to the outlying districts, where .lioting is re ported. Many Chinese have been killed. In one instance a technical school was set on fire and 30 students were burned to death, their escape being prevented. When vessels approached Changsha to rescue the imperiled ones the Chinesee mob saturated junks with kerosene oil from looted stations of the Standard Oil company and, setting them afire, allowed them to float down stream in an attempt to 'destroy the on coming steamers. Six Chicagoans, three of them wo men, are believed to be imperiled, per haps slain in Hunan province. Every where there is carnage and the future holds out dark prospects. Mission aries fear that at any moment they will be slaughtered right and left. New York Bankers Try to Sell Stock Few Buyers. New York, April 26 The fianncial Review says the markets of last week registered a sharp revulsion of senti ment from the hopeful temper of the week before. It was the commonly accepted view of the close market ob servers that the advance has been or ganized by important capital and by banking interests to stimulate outside interest in the dealings and to pro claim a feeling of confidence at the financial center which might react on general business. The action of the market at the opening of last week was sufficient to. demonstrate the failure of the experi ment. Instead of buying orders, the country sent orders to sell stocks and took advantage of the higher prices established. The professions of contentment with the conditions of the steel trade which had come from official sources in con nection with the marking up of stocks and the predictions of an increase in the dividend rate on United States Steel and of a favorable quarterly statement of earnings, had to be con trasted-with the yielding price of pig iron, proposals for reducing output to avoid an unwieldly surplus accumula tion, and a falling off in new orders for different lines of finished products. GRAZING LANDS NOT INCLUDED Secretary Wilson to Take All Such From Reserves. Washington, April 26. Although Bodies Dug From Debris. Birmingham, Ala., April 23. Re covery of bodies from the mines at Mulga today was very slow. When 28 had been brought to the surface, the rescuers encountered a bad cave-in and it was found necessary to remove tons of earth and rock. Some of the rock had to be blasted away, ihe rescuers secured four bodies under the debris, but it took hours to extricate the mangled forms from the mass. Ex perts who have examined the mine are positive not one of the entombed men lives. Forty-two men were in the mine. University Has Scandal. Washington, April 23. As a result of sensational testimony before the house committee on the District of Columbia regarding the conduct of affairs of George Washington univer sity, of this city, there may be a con gressional investigation. Dr. (Phillips, former dean of the medical school of the university, today charged that the Corcoran endowment fund of $200,000, which was a sacred trust, had been flagrantly misused. Blizzard Hits Michigan. Calumet, Mich., April 23. A heavy stockmpn who hold permits to graze in foeest reserves are protesting against the elimination of non-timbered lands from forest reserves, Secretary Wilson announced today that the law does not contemplate the inclusion in the re serves of any but timbered lands and that whenever non-timbered lands are found within reserves they must be re stored to the public domain. In making the elimination he will use discretion to protect the water sup plies of cities and towns, but beyond that he will insist that all large areas of grazing lands, particularly around the outer boundaries, be taken out. He holds that grazing lands cannot be re served to prevent stream pollution. Phones for Dispatchers. St. Paul, Minn., April 26. The Great Northern railway has just order ed the telephone train dispatching ap paratus to be installed on six more di visions of its road. This road is al ready using telephones for this purpose on approximately 2,100 miles of line, and in every new extension which in cludes the Fergus Falls, Breckenridge, North Dakota, St. Cloud and Cascade divisions, reaches in the neighborhood of 1,900 miles. The telephone system of the Great Northern will extend over the entire main line. blizzard, with a 50-mile wind from the north, struck Keewena yesterday and reached its climax shortly before mid night. The storm swept from Duluth to the Soo. Three inches of show has fallen and the temperature is now about 20 degrees, a drop of 20 since j morning. Bridge Donor Is Found. Boston, April 26. The mystery sur rounding the identity of the Harvard alumnus who had offered $300,000 to- build a new bridge over the Charles river to the stadium from Cambridge, was cleared today when it was learned that Larz Anderson, class of '99, of Brookline, was the man. The proposed bridge would replace the present struc ture which has been found inadequate to accommodate the crowds that flock annually to the stadium for games. Tennessee Has Snowfall. Nashville, April 26. Flurries of snow were intermittent here all day. So far the damage in Tennsesee from the present cold snap has been slight.