CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
San Francisco has a rapidly grow
ins 'pugilistic colony."
A Nehraskan, who never had over
$.'..00 at one time, falls heir to
IKKVOOO.
Fifteen thousand
in parade in San
carrying a Bible.
men will march
Francisco, each
S. Benson dispose of nil his tint
tier holdings to Henson Timber com
pany for $2. IOO.iioO.
The largest hank in the Vnited
States was organized In Chicago
with a rapital of JJii.Vonn.iiini.
The Vnited States Senate passes
resolution which permits direct elec
tion of Inited States senators.
Jack Johnson, the prizefighter,
with twenty new suits of clothes. Is
in attendance at the coronation.
It is proposed that the Portland
Rose Festival, just ended, receive a
special tax to insure its annual oc
currence. The house committee proposes to
investigate the $lMi.noO fee received
by John V. Foster, ex-diplomat, for
pressing a Chinese claim.
The Influx of Americans to Lon
don during coronation week is sai
1
to be far beyond execiation,
practically lOO.oOO persons.
There was a mass meeting of
or
in-
surrectos to protest to the employ
ment of federals in the postoffice.
customs-house and other positions.
A visitor to the Oaks. Portland.
Ore., lost a silver dollar by flasn
ing it before an ostrich, which
plucked the coin and swallowed it.
An Oxheart cherry tree, planted
in Caldwell. X. J., in 1776. by Jo
siah Rartlett. one of the signers of
the Declaration of Indeendence. was
Mown down recently during a severe
wind storm.
Mariorie Mahr. of Portland. Ore..
the actress who suffered the loss of
loth legs by being run over by a
S. P. train last summer, is the re
cipient of a ranch in Mexico, the
gift of 'General Hlanco."
China will demand indemnity from
Mexico for the slaughter of Chinese
residents of Torreon.
Roseburg's fire department took
offense at remarks made by a council
man and resigned in a body.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
95c; club, 85t86c; Russian, 84c; val
ley, 86c; 40-fold, 65oi86c.
Barley Choice feed, $28?j 28.50.
Millstuffs Bran, J24.500i2o per
ton; middlings, $31; shorts. $25.50;
26; rolled barley, $29.50fj 30.50.
Corn Whole, $29; cracked, $30 ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $28.5029.50.
Hay Timothy, Eastern Oregon, No.
1, $2Uu22; light mixed, $19'f20;
heavy mixed, $17.5Ofil8.50; alfalfa,
$13vt 13.50; clover, $12.50' 13; grain
hay, $13.50f,i 14.50.
Fresh Fruits Strawberries, Ore
gon, $2"3. 75 per crate; California,
$1.50(7 1.75 per crate, gooseberries,
bot 6c per pound; apples, $lc3 per
box; cherries, $1.50 per box.
Vegetables Asparagus, 60 (i 75c
per dozen; garlic, 10M 12c per pound;
lettuce, 30" 35c per dozen ; hothouse
lettuce, $1.251.75 per box; peas,
6jc per pound; radishes, 12Jc per
dozen; rhubarb, IK" 2c per pound;
new carrots, $2 per sack; turnips, $2;
beets, $2.
Potatoes Oregon and Eastern, $2.25
per hundred, new California, 7c per
pound.
Onions Crystal wax, $2.50; yel
low, $2.25; red, $3 per hundred. J
Poultry Hens, 16iV17c; broilers,
22Jr"2oc; ducks, young. 25c; geese,
nominal; turkeys, 20c; dressed,
choice, 25c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 21c
per dozen; case count, 20c per dozen.
Butter City creamery, extra, 1 and
2-pound prints, in boxes, 24c per
pound; less than box lots, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork Fancy, V)(n 11c per pound.
Veal Fancy, lOivillc per pound.
Hams 10 to 20 pounds, 10" 17c.
Hops 1911 contracts, 25c per
pound; 1910 crop, 22c; 1909 crop, 15
( 15Jc; olds, 8' 10c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, f,'iiic
per pound; valley, 14'15c; mohair,
choice, 36" 37Jc.
Cattle Prime grain-fed steers, $6
(n 6.35; prime hay-fed steers, $6"
6.25; choice steers, $5.75" 6; fair,
$5.60"5.75; common, $5.25 " 5.50;
prime cows, $5.75" 6.25; good, $5".
6.25; fair, $4.75" 5; poor, $4.50"
4.75; choice heifers, $5.50 " 5.75;
choice bulls, $4.75" 5.25; good. $4.25
(U4.75; choice light calves, $7"7.25;
good, $6 757; choice heavy calves,
$5" 5.50; choice stags, $5.75" 6.25;
good, $5.25" 5.75.
Hogs Choice, $R.50"6.85; good,
$6.25" 6.50; choice heavy, $6" 6. SO;
common, $5" 6; stork, $6.75" 7.50.
Sheep Choice spring lambs, $6.25
fr6.50; g'Kd, $6" 6.25; choice year
lings, $4.80" 5; good, $4.50' 1.75;
fair, $4" 4.25; choice ewes, $l"4.25;
good, $3.75" 4; fair, $3.50" 3.75;
good to choice heavy wethers, $4"
4.60; old heavy wethers, $3"4; mixed
lots, $4"i 6.
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ROYAL PALACE OF
QUAKE KILLS 63
IN MEXICO CITY.
Most Disastrous That Has Oc
curred in Past 20 Years.
Many Soldiers and Women Perish in
Falling Barracks No Ameri- "
cans Injured.
Mexico City, June 8. Mexico's cap
ital today is a city of sorrow. Build
ings and streets gaily garbed in pre
parations for great rejoicing at the
advent of Liberator Madero, the city's
people are mourning those who died
in the chaos wrought by the most dis
astrous earthquake that has been ex
perienced in Mexico in 20 years.
So far the death toll has been estab
lished as 63 souls, but it is believed
that a more complete search of the
ruins wilt increase this number con
siderably. Seventy-five are known to
be injured and this also probably will
be increased when the full details are
known.
The loss to property is estimated at
$50,000 gold. No property of Ameri
cans was damaged.
Of the dead only one person, a Chin
ese, is a 'oreigner. More than half
of the dead are soldiers, the worst
effects of the shock being felt in that
section of the city near the Mexican
Central station where also stand the
artillery barracks.
Another place where the earthquake
took its toll of death in considerable
numbers was at the power plant of
the street railway company. Here
six were killed and six wounded. Two
others were found in debris, consist
ing partly of steel rails, which had
been stored in the iron and wood de
partments, and which collapsed. The
victims are inhabitants of little 9hacks
built beside the structure.
With these two exceptions, the
death list was made up of single
cases, and in some instances of two or
three, caught beneath falling walls in
the poorer buildings of the district
most seriously affected.
It was 4 :46 o'clock when the first
shock was felt. According to the
meteorological observatory, the great
est intensity was reached at the end of
the first minute, but the instruments
continued to record the shocks for
four minutes more.
FILM MAKERS ENERGETIC
Coronation Events to Be Reproduced
Same Night in Paris.
London. Fuller and better cinema
tographic records will be made of the
forthcoming coronation events than
was ever before attempted In Oreat
Ii.-ili.in tirf.,iv- btftrnrirlinui-v on.
ergy will be exerted to dispatch the
records to the principal cities of the
world.
Ttm cm-ififict Qti.atnnrQ unit rnil-nv
trains will be employed In sending
pictures to .New jorK ami i nicago.
It Is expected that. Impressions of the
early scenes tin Coronation (lay will
lie given to half a dozen operators
Gait House is Auctioned'
Iuisville After serving as a hos
telry for over three-quarters of a cen
tury the old Oalt house, famous in the
history of the South, went under the
auctioneer's hammer, bringing only
$81,000. The original cost o'f the
building and its contents is said to
have been more than $1,000,000. It
was sold by order of a referee in bank
ruptcy. The purchaser was the Mu
tual Benefit Life Insurance Co. The
old Gait house first opened to the pub
lic in 1843 and was the scene of many
social events in ante bellum days.
Fireman Dead From Wind.
Pittsburg - Patrick Whalen, tiller
man of a hook and ladder truck, died
Tuesday night of injuries received in
the storm last Wednesday. Whalen
was out with the apparatus while the
horses were being exercised, and a
64-mile wind, preceding an electric
storm, picked him out of his seat
among the ladder and dropped him to
the pavement, fracturing a leg and
causing internal injuries that resulted
in his death.
MEXICO, BADLY DAMAGED
on the afternoon boat and train for
Paris, that films will be developed
on the train and that the pictures will
be exhibited In a Paris theater by
a o'clock the same night.
Within less than three days the pic
tures will be shown in a majority of
the centers of Kuropean life, while'
London theatergoer;) on the evening
of Coronation day will see films cov-
ering the coronation itself and all re'
lated events.
LIFE IS LOST FOR MINE.
Prospector Seeking Mica Ledge Dies
of Thirst in Desert.
El Centro, Cal. Search for the
body of William Burger, a veteran
prospector, who had been lost on the
desert for two weeks, was successful
Thursday. Burger was found dead
less than six miles from his camp.
The body was conveyed to Imperial.
For more than 35 years Burger had
searched near Carriso Creek for a
ledge of mica which he had once dis
covered when a member of a survey
ing crew, but had been unable to re
locate later. He left his partner,
Thomas Stratton, in camp two weeks
ago . and started to cross a distant
ridge.
Portland Has Big Fire,
Portland, June 7. Nearly 50 fami
lies were rendered homeless last night
by a fire which started in the fashion
able Hanover apartments. 165 King
street, and. spreading to other houses
nearby, caused a total loss of about
$100,000.
Most of the tenants were down town
viewing the electrical parade when the
I flames were discovered by J. L. Mon
tague. He remembered that Mrs. J.
I Blyke, aged 86, was on the fourth
floor of the Hanover and rescued her
I at the risk of his own life, half-carry
ing her down the blazing stairways.
Nome Famine Is Relieved.
Nome. The steamship f'orwln,
which sailed frou. Seattle May 10,
and which after a long battle with
the drift Ice landed her passengers
on the shore Ice, unloaded her freight,
mostly provisions, and relieved the
famine.
The steamship Vmatilla. from San
Francisco with passengers and freight,
is tlue here Monday.
A rich gold stride on the benches
of Kleary creek In the Skerrel Klver
country is reported.
Sad Life Story Is Told..
London. At the festival of the
f'laremont Central mission, Mr. Par
sons, a workliigiiiHn, described some
sad scenes witnessed by the Clare
rnont "Crusaders'' during their mid
night work among the Ktnliatikment
outcasts during the last five years.
"We see men walking along asleep,"
said Mr. Parsons. "I have seen them
run Into the trees. We have seen
them asleep on the seats, covered
with snow."
Strikers Declare Truce.
Cleveland. Following the killing
of a spectator by a union picket ami
the riots recently, the lenders of the
',000 striking garment workeis agreed
to a truce and peaceable Sunday.
The scheduled .Sunday gatherings
of the strikers have been cancelled
and the strikers ordered to keep
j away from the factory dlstiicts and
advised to spend the day with their
families In the parks.
! Oklahoma is Sweltering.
; Oklahoma City, June 7. --With the
thermometer at the weather station
here registering 102 from 3 o'clock
until 5 this afternoon, the hcBt record
for 20 years was broken. At 6 o'clock
j 100 degrees was registered. No heat
; prostrations were reported.
Deck of Maine is Shown,
Havana The work of pumping the
water out of the cofferdam, which was
built around the wreck of the battle
ship Maine is steadily progressing.
The greater part of thn after-deck is
now clearly visible, showing the con
fused masses of wreckage covered
with marine growths.
Idaho Bank Closes Doors.
Washington. The First National
Bank of Salmon, Idaho, has been
closed by its directors. The Institu
tion has a capital of $.Vj,000 and a
surplus of $15,000.
BY EARTHQUAKE.
CHINA PREPARES
TO RESIST RUSSIA
n n i i i L V
IZar lOIltinUCS tO llUSll 1 TOOpS
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t0 frOntlCr.
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Ex Member of Duma Warns That
Celestial Kingdom Will Be
come Powerful Factor.
Victoria Russia continues her ro
erclve policy toward China, but the
latter emplie Is making a show of
resistance, according to newspaH-rs
brought by the Kmpress of Japan
It Is understood Russia will soon oc
cupy Klldja. The Toklo Vomlurl says
that although China has conceded to
Russia the demands regarding 111.
promises made In the treaty have
been unfulfilled, and Russia has de
termined to send an armed force to
111 and Instead of undertaking fu
ther negotiations, dispatched a note
to Pekln giving the reason for oc
cupying the territory.
The Japanese paper says this step
was decided upon by Russian War
Minister Siikhomllkoff after Inter
views with officials In Russian Asia
"From the fact that the Russian
authorities continue to dispatch troops
to the It usso China frontiers. It Is
tti be feared that the situation may
assume a serious asect at any time,''
says the Yamlutl.
An order for compulsory training
by Russian residents of the maritime
provinces has been Issued by the
military governor, all residents who
have not served with the colors be
ing ordered to train. Mr. Cochkoff,
ex-president of the Russian Duma,
who has completed n tour in North
China, telegraphed a warning to Vla
divostok that China Is strongly pr
paring to re.slst. (in his ai rival at
Vladivostok Mr. Cuclikorf Joined with
the governor-general and other offl
dais In a confeience with the war
minister to discuss the situation.
Mr. Cuchkoff savs that China is
making rapid progress anil In ten
years will become the most powerful
country In the Far Kasl. ami a con
flict with Russia Is Inevitable sooner
or later.
That China's attitude toward for
eign Intervention Is becoming boldT
Is evident from Tientsin dispatches,
which say that Chao Khr llsun. the
new viceroy of Manchuria, has de.
termined to station six army divisions
in .Manchuria and to begin construc
tion of the Klnchou Algun railroad,
to which Japan ami Russia objected
strongly some time ago.
A portion of the new loan will be
devoted to thlit work and to making
a free port at Llenshan, on the (lulf
of Pechill.
Oil Lassoed From Fire.
Pendleton, Or. To save the lives of
members of the Pendleton fire depart
ment who were playing streams on the
burning gasoline house of the Pendle
ton Cleaning company, R. Arbuckle,
an ex-cowpuncher, lassoed a sealed 51
gallon tank of gasoline and pulled it
back out of the building. Kxplosion
of gasoline tired the building, a frame
structure, early Wednesday evening.
While the firemen trained streams of
water on Arbuckle, the ex-cowlioy
went into the gas-filled building and
with his first toss roped the tank.
Full Speed Ahead, Cry.
Boston "Full speed ahead" along
the lines for social betterment was
the slogan sounded by President. Hom
er Folks, of New York, in formally
opening the eighth annual national
conference of charities and correc
tions. Folks said that while many
might be concerned, "lest by excess
of taxation for social purposes and of
regulation of industry for social ends,
we may defeat our own purposes," he
was in favor of "full speed ahead."
Balloonists Are Rescued,
Bemerhaven, June 7. Three . bal
loonists who left Berlin yesterday in a
competitive flight, were rescued at
daybreak in the estuary of the Weser
river, into which they hail been com
pelled to drop fo avoid being carried
' out over the North Sea. The men
had been in the water three hours
when discovered. Nine balloons have
landed on the coast.
INDUSTRIAL DEVKIjOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
UMATILLA CROPS ROSEA 1 E.
Farmers Btdirv. 6.00O.0OO-Bush.l
Record Wdl Be Surpassed.
Pendleton With the wl't '
thousands .if fields just beginning to
head and with the promise of addition
al showers. Lmatillii county farmers
are freely predicting the greatest har
vest the county ever had. r'rom "
sections of the county and regarding
all kinds of grain the same re.rU are
being received. All say they never
saw the prospects brighter.
It is said that the normal crop of 5.
MUO.OIIO bushels of wheat will he har
vested even though there should be
no more rain between now and har
vest, bile many say that l:'"7's rec
ord yield of ti.ooo.mio biishcU will
easily be surpassed if the normal
umoiinl of rainfall comes during June
Premier stands of fall wheal were
never seen than arc now to he found
in any direction from Pendleton, while
the May rains have brought the spring
grain out until a good clop is assured.
A peculiar feature of this year's fall
sown grain is that It is heading out us
early as the barley, which usually pre
cedes it I'V a week or two. The har
vesting of the two crops will there
fore probably start simultaneously.
BUYS GYPSUM LAND'
St. Louis Company Said to Contem
plate Plant in Eastern Baker.
Baker The Acuma Cement com
pany of St. Louis, Mo., has purchased
.1,(100 acres of gypsum deposit land
near Huntington and will erect a plant
of JoO ton daily capacity on the Bu
chanan spur of the Northwestern rail
mad. The plant will cost upwards
of $100,000 and w ill employ several
hundred men. The land was pur
chased from Major John H. Aitkin of
Portland, J. B. Hannon and II. C.
Northey of Huntington and John I..
Kami of this city. The St. Ixiuk peo
ple were intenwtisl in the proition
by Frank Nelson of Boise, Idaho, who
negotiated the sale of the pnqicrty
and brought alsiut the closing of the
deal.
The gypsum industry is fast becom
ing imairtant in Baker county, along
w ith others being developed. The big
lime and cement plant, on the main
line of the O.-W. It. & N. east of this
city, is being increasi-d in capacity
all the time. The gypsum deposit
seem practically inexhaustible and of
high quality.
UMATILLA ALFALFA SHORT.
Mowing to Begin This Week-Later
Crops to Bs Heavy.
I'endlcton Crowers of alfalfa in
Umatilla county are preparing to har
vest the first crop of the season. The
song of the mower will be heard in
several fields this week but it will lie
alsiut ten day yet In-fore the hurvest
is in Cull blast.
According to most of the growers in
the Vicinity of Pendleton, the first
cVop w ill be about per cent short
this year. This is due to the excep
tionally chilly spring which retarded
the growth in most sections. The
shortage will be more than made up
by the increased acreage and by the
second and third crops which promise
to go alsive norms!.
State School Receives Presents,
Salem From the result of efforts
made by Multmonah Camp, No. 7",
Woodmen of the World, and the Arti
sans of Polk county, a new piano and
moving picture machine will be in
stalled at the Oregon state training
srhisil. When (iovernor West was at
the Woodmen reunion in Portland and
at the Artisan picnic at Riekreall, he
called it to the attention of the
lodges. The Woodmen immediately
raised $50 toward a piano and prom
ised that the balance would be forth
coming. The governor received a
telegram from II. S. Hudson, of Port
land, supreme master of the Artisans
informing him that the picture ma
chine had been purchased and awaits
the order of the governor.
Farmers Want Own Projert.
Cranls Pass Ccorge K. Samlets,
agent for the Chicago Rogue River
Irrigation company, announcus that he
has arranged lo Ik ready to start two
of the large pumps, reeenty installed,
on two days' notice, when the farmers
and fruitgrowers need water. Farm
ers however, have filed ,.tition and
published a notice that the district
would establish an irrigation project
under the state law that permits bond
ing districts for such pursises.
S300.000 Issue is Legal.
Marshfield Judge John S. Coke has
given a decision in the Port commis
sion case which is of great irns,rtance
to (,oo Bay. The case was a friendly
suit started to test the validity f n
port bond issue of $.'!UO,0(io.
This case ha been rle..i,l,..l ;..
orthe lort commission, and means!
no... me proK.sed ,nd Issue is legal.
Hood River Strawberries Move.
Mood River The first carload' of
s rawberne 'f .
shipped ftom this city Jm. ,
ApplegrowetV H,,,,,,,. Th(.
were consigned t . S.1(.v ,.. '
v.rnpany, of Fargo. N. J).
ries are ripening fast now and here-
every,.?;."""' I"t Wi" ""''"
ft m . .
HAS GREAT PROSPECTS.
New Flouring Mill Spur to Produt.
lion of Cereal Crops.
Baker The crop outlook f..r V,,
county wa never better than H(
present time, in spite of the nWm
of the season in Kastern Oregon. Tfc,
steady ram of the last week hi,
done a world of good to all ch.p,
which are looking up tine.
wheat ha been sown than ever i,
fore in tin county. This is dii,. ar(t
y to the new (louring mill i nf
which in order to stimulate mu-reat ir
the industry, ha offered a iiumhvr c
prizes for the best crops, both in nu
ipiality ami variety. For nev
reasons the mill pis. pie have been ...
pciltuenting with which vm uli,., ,
best adapted to llie ilillelent lo.aljt,.
It i it i have come in close touch with II
farmers.
( luts and alfafa give great prnrm..
of large yields anil the former cn
w ill be of high ipiality, pr.il.nUy
excess o f the high standaid of mi.
county oats, which have frequent
won pncs at agricultural simwi j
their tine iiality. The alf.ilfj frv.
on I owner river, lower aim Uij.
Hurtit river, in the r.agle, Pine
Baker valley, are lisiking tin,.,
Ixiuutiful harvest in this lapl -
source are confidently ex'i t.-d
In the Powder river valley t(y
w ill be no shortuge of wuter nuch
caused trouble lat year. The -in
the Blur mountain is mclt,iifc; 4ul
and the reservoir are sure tu cenu
a supply to last the entire u
l ast year the snow melted rapidly i
practically all the mountain ir
went off nuickly in the apring fr
et. causing a hortige nearly all .-
mcr. 1 he Baker Irrigation cornf
has increased the capacity of iti
ervoir, making it a total height of
feet, with a w idth of fiO feet at'
top and length from side to sude,
feet. At present there i enough
ter stored to cover 2,000 acrets!
in depth and from the way thr it
has been melting recently it will r
tain a titlicietit supply to prevent '
possibility of shortage.
PLANT SPRUCE AND LARCH
Largs-Burnad Over Arsa RsiikJ
By Forestry Department,
Baker R. M. Kvana, assiittant
ester of the Wallowa national 1vr-
with heailipiarter at Walloaa, '
htiishcd planting an area of l-ut.
acre near Medical Spring to NonJ
Spruce and r'uropean larch. Thu I
part of the area burned over in
forest tire of lust summer. M
F.van say the land km so complc J
burned over that nothing but strai("i
charred stick remain of what'l
once a heavy forest.
An interesting experiment waif
by Mr. Fvan to overcome the it A
datum of mpiirrela and rhipmu J
which have rendered many of
planted area of the forest useleu
eating the tree seeds before they
a chance to germinate and pr
upling. Poiorn-d grain w M
tend over the ground liberally.
The fon stry department is cor'
plating dividing the Wallowa re-l
as the district handled from tli
Walla. Wash., otlice i of too
extent to be projH'rly uttetniii
The heiidciinrters of the fui.t
for the new district as prop .rd
be this city.
The ranger and chief are li'l
all precautions to prevent form!'
this season, although the Wallet" I
serve did not suffer nearly as rrnic
some of the other districts in
state.
Henry Ireland, suiierinlendf
the Sumpter reserve, is also IM'I
preparation to prevent such low I
occurred from forest fire last !
although a was the cane with all
national forest of the eastern n
the state, there was not nearly
los sustained in the Southern Ji"
State Land Board to Trsl
Sulem - A n t.,n,l.u1 ,.nrnffV
and Southern Oregon is planned
desert land Isiard, and July h''
set ns the date for a start. The'''
will go vm Meilford and Crutef'
illtfl Sti.Mtlw.r,. ll.,... t,l 11
county and come back throul
central sirtion of the slate,
board consists of (Iovernor Wet,
retarv of State Olcott. Slate Trrj
er Kay and State Ktigmcir -I
Lewis.
Building Sawmills.
Meilford The Pelican Bay I-ur
company is erecting saw mills tf
the loo, lion, (loo fet of timber in
section. A canal three fourth!
mile long i being dug thniu
marsh to bring the timber to the
waters of the lake, and eiUipm'n'
tnachinerv aro being taken
grounds for the construction of
ging railway.
Interior Fruit Shipment!
The Dalle - Large shipmeff
1'iniea sirawiierries ami ,
hemg made daily to Central 'Jh
eillert Tl I ...itil Of 1
. ....... i mm r llllllilir-o i in"
ries were shipped in one day Is'.'
io Maura. Warm wcau-i
last week has ripened the chert)'
I . i . ii.ir 0'
"on pii'King na oeen g
several day.
Ordfd
Postal Savings Bank
Orants Pass - postmaster
lias r ived notice to open
Isistnl savings bank June 27. '
also instructed to go to A stun
a class is to be held June 1
struct postmasters in post1
bank work.