The Oregon mist., July 21, 1911, Image 6

CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEE
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Briet
General Return of Important Event
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
The senate has voted for campaign
publicity and a limit on election ex
ptoses.
A rival of Lumberman Hi net says
the latter boasted that he personally
elected Senator Lorimer.
Canada is threatened with a coal fam
ine. owinsr to the strike of miners at
the Crows Nest collieries.
Louisiana sugar planters declare the
free importation of sugar would mean
the death of that industry in the
South.
Every boy and girl in Portland un
der 10 years of age will be given a
free auto ride by the Portland auto
club on July 26.
It is asserted that the alleged Con
troller Bay coal land scandal in Alaska
is purely a conception of two or three
professional muckrakers.
Tacoma city officers have neglected
to collect about $35,000 in city liquor
licenses, besides f 3 each from the 82
drug stores who deal in ice cream, etc.
Portland citizens are prohibited
from using city water for irrigation
except for three hours each morn
ing, owing to a shortage in the sup
ply-
For the week beginning Aug. 15,
New York women will abstain from
ice cream, fancy cooling drinks, roof
garden parties, etc., and turn over all
the money saved to the suffragettes of
California.
It is said the Hamburg-American
Steamship company is negotiating for
the purchase of a large tract of land
at Portland, including 2,000 feet of
water frontage, for the purpose of es
tablishing a great trans-Pacific
steamer service. '
Wholesale lumber dealers are to be
investigated by the government.
Forest fires in Northern Ontario are
reported under control, with at least
400 dead.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices: Blues tern,
94 w 95c; club. Sic; Russian, 80c;
valley, 81c; 40-fold, 81c.
Millstuffs Bran, Z4.50ftZ5 per
ton; middlings, $31; shorts, $25.50
(5 26; rolled barley, $29:3 30.
Barley Choice feed, $25.50(326 per
ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $26(3 27 per ton.
Hay Timothy, new, $16(319; old,
$18(3 21; alfalfa, new, $12.50; clover,
new, $8.50(19; grain hay, new, $11.
Fresh fruits Cherries, 3JW9c per
pound; apricots, $1.25(31.50 per
crate; cantaloupes, $2.50 per crate;
peaches, 85c(3 $1.25 per crate; water
melons,. 2n2Jc per pound; plums,
$1.50 per crate; raspberries, $1(3 1.65
per crate; loganberries, $1(31.35 per
crate; blackcaps, $1.50(31.65; plums,
$1.50J(3 1.75 per box; prunes, $1.50
fa 1.75 per box; blackberries, $1,506;
1.65; currants, 10c per pound; goose
berries, 7c; new apples, $1.75(3 2 per
box.
Vegetables Asparagus, 75(3 85c
per dozen; beans, 5(3 10c per pound;
cabbage, $2(3,2.25 per hundred
weight; corn, 40(3 50c per dozen; cu
cumbers, $1(31.25 per box; eggplant,
15c per pound; garlic, 10(3 12c per
pound; lettuce, 3(X3 35c per dozen;
hothouse lettuce, $1.25(1.75 per box;
peas, 4(3. 5c per pound; peppers, 12 J
(a 15c per pound; radishes, 12 jc per
dozen; rhubarb, 23 3c per pound; to
matoes, $1.75(3 2 per box; new car
rots, $2 per sack; turnips, $2; beets,
$2.
Potatoes New Oregon, 2Jf3 2Jc per
pound; new California, 2(33c.
Onions Red, $1.75; white, $2 per
hundred.
Poultry Hens, 15(3 15c; springs,
18(3 20c; ducks, young, 144tl5c;
geese, 11c; turkeys, 20c; dressed,
choice, 25c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 24(?i
25c per dozen.
Butter City creamery extra, 1 and
2 pound prints, in boxes, 26c per
pound; less than box lots, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork Fancy 9(3 10c per pound.
Veal Fancy, 113 12c per pound,
Cattle Prime hay-fed steers, $6(3
6.25; choice, $5.75(36; fair to good,
$5.25(35.50; common, $5(3 5.25;
prime cows, $5.25(3 6.60; good to
choice, $4.75(35; fair, $4.50(3 4.76;
choice heifers, $5(3,5.50; choice bulls,
$1.25(34.75; choice light claves, $7(3'
7.60; good, $6.75(37; choice heavy
calves $5(3 5.50; choice stags, $5ra
6.50; good, $4.75(35..
Hogs Choice, $7(37.25; good,
$6.70(3 7; choice to heavy, $6.35(3 6.50;
common, $5(3 6; stock hogs, $6.75(3
7.50.
Sheep Choice spring lambs, $5(3 6;
choice yearlings, $3.75(3 4; good,
$3.7513.75: fair. $3(3 3.50; choice
ewes, $2.75(3 3; good, $2.50(3 2.75;
fair, $2.25(3 2.50; good to choice
heavy wethers, $3.60(3 3.75; old heavy
wethers, $3(3 3.50; mixed lots, 14(3 5.
Hops 1911 contracts, 25c pound;
1910 crop, 25c; 1909 crop, 15(3 19c;
olds, 8(3 10c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 9(3 16c per
pound, according to shrinkage; valley,
15(3 17c per pound; mohair, choice,
S6'37c per pound.
FRANCE CEMENTS TIES.
Compliment Exchanged at Fetes
of St. Die.
St. Die. France. July 18. The
Franco-American fetes in honor of
the naming of America continued to
day. The United States Ambassador,
Robert Bacon, and M. LeBrun, the
French minister of colonies, after an
automobile trip through the pictur
esque outskirts of the town, proceeded
to the city hall, where the municpality
gave a banquet in honor of the dis
tinguished guests.
Mr. LeBrun proposed the health of
the American ambassador. He spoke
in English, saying the French govern
ment was glad to take part in the
fetes because it afforded France an op-
pounity of responding to the expres
sions of sympathy lor trance in
America, which were especially nu
merous this year, and of deducting
from this sentiment a certain guaran
tee that no material difficulty could
affect the bonds of confidence and
friendship which united the two coun
tries.
Ambassador Bacon said in reply
that his presence at the fetes as a rep
resentative of his government proved
that the United States had forgotten
neither her baptism nor the sword
which France threw into the scale for
her independence. The celebration
closed.with an aviation exhibition at
the aerodrome. Twenty thousand per
sons saw brilliant flights by Fommer
and Nieuport.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
HUNT LOST BONANZA.
8,600 Acre Will Be Searched JCare
fully With Pick and Shovel
Reno, Nev. With the filing, Satur
day, of papers granting a 10-year lease
from the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lum
ber company to Colonel W. S. Proskey
and associates, covering 8,500 acres.
partly in Washoe county, is promised
the second chapter in the famous tra
dition of the hidden bonanza that for
years has been the vain hope of count
less prospectors. With the prosecu
tion of a thorough search over the
entire estate during the next ten years
is linked the extreme probability that
a mine will be found again that has in
the past promised wonderful native
copper and gold free gold in ore
worth $100,000 to the ton.
The mine to be sought is the old
Barclay mine that for fifty years has
been talk of miners in the West. The
estate is a part of the Hobart estate
and the lease is the final triumph of
men who were successful with the Ho
bart estate managers. Mining mag
nates, senators and financiers, after
years of effort, gave up before the
blunt refusal of the land owners.
Sufficient financial backing is
FARMERS GO IN AUTOS.
Annual Convention of Union County
1 Held in Elgin.
Elgin The annual convention of
the Farmers' Union of Union county,
was held here Saturday. Many of
them coming in autos, the farmers be
gan to assemble as early as 8 o'clock,
and by 11 the streets were tilled with
cars driven in by members ' of other
local unions at Summerville, La
Grande, Cove and Union.
A long table of 63 plate was spread
in Eagle hall, covered with dainties
prepared by the farmers' wives. This
table was served four times before all
had eaten. At 2 o'clock the conven
tion programme began. '
Among the principal speakers were
John Couch, of Wallowa; Mr. Mc-
Millian, of Alicel, and Mr. Moore, of
North Powder. Following the ad
dresses there was discussion of mat
ters of general interest to the union,
the principal feature of which was the
adoption of a resolution to compel the
Home Independent Telephone company
to allow the farmers better rates.
The farmers propose to furnish their
own phone and pay the company $10 a
year for them, and demand 10 free
calls monthly through any two cen
trals within the boundaries of Union
county, with the privilege of more at
the usual rate, the company to keep
phone and line in ordea.
If the company does not accept
these terms, members of the union
throughout Union county will cut out
their phones on August 1, organize a
stock company and install a telephone
system of their own throughout the
Grand Ronde valley.
This was the largest convention of
the Farmers' Union ever held in this
part of the state.
OREGON CHERRIES IN LEAD.
San Francisco Firm Acquire Entire
Display at Salem Fair.
Salem That Oregon cherries for
fancy purposes are the finest in the
world is the declaration of Arthur C,
Rass. of E. G. Lyons & Rass, San
Francisco, the largest maraschino and
fruit syrup dealers on the Coast. Rass
is here for two weeks securing cher
ries for the maraschino trade. He
expects to take over 60 tons from Sa
lem this year and will take more cher
ries if he can secure them. Among
other acquisitions Rasa secured the
entire display of the Salem Cherry
Fair through the Salem Fruit Union,
"If the elements are favorable here,
Oregon cherries cannot be equalled in
the world, he said. " eastern
houses secure cherries from Italy at
rock bottom prices. There the cher
ries cost 1 cent or of a cent a pound.
We can buy those cherries in Italy,
ship them to Sun Francisco, and put
them up for 4 cents a pound. That
is what we pay originally for Oregon
cherries. Oreiron cherries in maras
chino go 60 to a bottle. The cherries
secured in the East go 175 to a bottle
in maraschino. That is some differ
ence in cherries. We can't equal
Oregon cherries in California. They
can't be grown there, nor anywhere
else, to touch the cherries of this
state. Given good weather conditions
and Oregon leads the world in cherries
as well as in many other fruits.
LANE PREPARES FOR FAIR.
NEW STRAWBERRY FIELD.
parent and already five experienced
prospectors are laying out the tract in
sections, each of which will be gone
over, literally with the point of a
pick, before the ten years of searching
are up, unless the discovery Is made
before then.
One man knows the location of the
mine and he won't tell. It is possible
that the same men who in the face of
Wsston Mountain, Umatilla County
Sends Fin Shipment.
Portland A crate of strawberries
from Umatilla county has teen re
ceived and placed on exhibition by the
Portland Commercial club. The ber
ries were sent by the Weston Com
mercial club and were grown in the
Weston mountain district just east of
Weston.
Uur country is destined to be one
ap- of the greatest strawberry sections in
the world," said ex-Senator P. W
Proebstel, a hardware and implement
dealer of Weston. "The raising of
fruit is a new industry but already
is making a wonderful showing. One
man sold over $400 worth of berries
from a half acre last year, besides
using all he wanted. The country is
also a fine apple district. Weston's
fruit commands high prices on account
history of defeat secured the first of its shipping qualities and excellent
ease from the Hobart estate, may be
ble to secure from him the map he
has jealously guarded for 40 years,
FRUIT SUPPLIES SHORT,
California Shipments Show Deficiency
of 1160 Cars,
Sacramento, Cal. Manager Mc-
Kevitt, of the California Fruit Dis
tributors, says that shipments of
fruit from this state so far this season
have been disappointingly small. On
uly 14, 1910, the total shipments
amounted to 2,460 cars. On the same
day this year the total had reached
only 1198J. Allowing lor loo more
cars owing to the increase of the min
imum weight per car from 24,000 to
26,000 pounds, would give a total of
,300 as compared with 2,460 last
year, or little more than half.
flavor. Land is held at $60 to $70
an acre at present, as the raising of
fruit is in its infancy and the people
do not realize its real value. The
people of that country are all prosper
ous.
engineers nave reponeo mat iiij-
000 acres of the land can be irrigated
at a cost of $65 an acre and plans are
being made for the conservation dam
on Pine creek to be 15" feet high.
Local capital will finance the project."
PEAK SENDS OUT SMOKE.
Mountain West of Bend I at It Again
After Long Inactivity.
Bend Coming on the heels of the
recent seismic disturbances in Cali
fornia, the discovery that smoke is
issuing from the old crater of Broken
Tod mountain, in the Cascade ranee.
Owing to this considerable shortage some 30 miles west of Bend, has cre-
there has not been enough fruit to go ated no little supposition regarding
around, practically every market re- the possible connection. Not for sev-
questing supplies which were impossi- leral years has Broken Top been seen
ble to furnish. After this week an to smoke. So active is it now. how-
ncrease in shipments should begin to ever, that pros Dec tors returning from
cut down this great difference.
Lorimer Legislator Diss,
St. Louis, Juy 18. Joseph Clark,
f Vandalia, 111., ex-representative in
the Illinois legislature from Fayette
county, died here today in the Re-
bekah hospital, following an operation
Friday for cancer. Mr. Clark was a
Democrat. As a member of the legis
lature he cast his vote for William
Lorimer for United States senator.
It was said that when he was removed
to the hospital he had been expect
ing a summons to testify before the
senate committee in Washington in
vestigating Lorirner's election.
Spendthrift Found Dead,
Redding, Cal. The body of Jack
Conant, a prospector, whose life trag
edy is known in nearly every mining
camp and town in the West, was
found on Salt creek, near Shasta.
Conant more than 20 years ago located
the Uncle Sam gold mine in Shasta
trips about its base report that a col
umn of steam rises often for many
hours at a time from its long-cold
crater. It is a well known geological
fact that this locality is reckoned the
scene of the most recent volcanic dis
turbances in the northwest.
Lumber Industry Brisk.
Marshfield The C. A. Smith Lum
ber & Manufacturing company is turn
ing out a large amount of lumber and
in one day shipped from Coos Bay a
total of 3,000,000, feet. This is the
most lumber that ever before left t lis
port in a single day. It was all bound
for California and was carried on the
Nann Smith, the San Pedro and the
Newberg. Some record shipments
have also been lately from Bandon, as
the mills are running full force now.
Postal Bank Average SIOO a Day.
Grants Pass The postal savings
bank at Grants Pass has averaged
$100 day sin deposits since it was
County Society Will Erect Booth and
Rant Stalls to Concessionaries.
Eugene Enlargement of the pavil
ion on the grounds of the Lane County
Agriclutural society for the better ac
commodation of the Lane County Fair
this fall was authorized at the meet
ing of the board of directors, and the
painting of all the buildings was also
directed. This year the board, in
stead of renting ground for conces
sions, will erect a number of uniform
booths on the grounds, and rent the
stalls to the concessionaires.
More attention will be given this
year than last to the stock exhibit,
and a committee has been appointed
for the purpose of interesting every
owner1 of registered stock in Lane
county to bring this stock to the coun
ty fair.
The different granges of the county
have taken the matter up and already
are preparing collective exhibits.
The county court has signified its in
tention of repeating its donation of
last year to the fair, the money to be
used exclusively in premiums.
Difficulty over the location of the
district fair for Lane, Douglas and
Coos counties arose several years ago.
and since then Lane county has been
holding a fair of its own, each year
somewhat better than the previous
one, until now good grounds and track
have been secured, and very credi
ble exhibits made. The fair this
year will be held September 20 to 24.
CHERRY YIELD IS HEAVY.
Ship.
county and sold it for $360,000. He opened. At first patron were slow
spent this amount at the rate of $120,
000 a year, and ever since had wand
ered about, poverty-stricken. Death
occurred at least three weeks ago.
3,600 Peso Avert Raid.
Juarez., Mex. A raid on the cus
toms house by former insurrectos to
get money for the maintenance of the
military hospital was averted by the
receipt of 3,500 pesos telegraphed from
Mexico City. Judge Felipe Seijas,
of this city has announced his candi
dacy for governor of Chihuahua
against the present incumbent, Abra
ham Gonzales.
in coming in, but
coming in fast.
now deposits are
20 Acres Bought for Specialty.
Grants Pass E. J. and William
Winter of Walla Walla, have bought
20 acres of the Charles Ferdine ranch
near the city limits on the upper river
road. The purchasers will specialize
with grapes and berries on the tract.
Developing Dm Deposit.
Metolius The lime deposits east of
town is being developed by L. G. Sav
age. Fifteen men are employed in
the work.
Hood River Valley Crop Being
ped to All Parts Now.
Hood River Although the small
amount of cherries grown in the Hood
River valley was cut short severely in
great portion of the community, the
crop is yielding very heavily in some
districts, and the Apple Growers'
union has made a large number of
small shipments. A branch 16 inches
in length, cut from a tree in the Max
welton orchards on the West Side.
contained 103 large-sized cherries.
i ne Drancn, wnicn was taicen from a
Bing tree, weighed a little over two
pounds.
Although but few orchardists make
a specialty of growing small fruits.
sucn as sirawoerrtes, tnose who do so
have met with great success this year.
The local market is supplied and the
union finds a ready market for the
gratifying surplus.
O. A. C. Building to Be Ready.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis By the opening of the college
year, September 22, the new mechanic
arts building, which will contain the
foundry, plumbing and wood work in if
shops, will be completed tand the
equipment ready for use. These three
laboratories will virtually double the
capacity of the present shops, and will
make it possible for the college to
make for itself much of the furniture
and equipment necessary for the vari
ous buildings.
Eagle Point Patronize New Bank,
Eagle Point The First State bank
opened its doors in Eagle Point the
first of the week and at the close of
the first day $8,000 had been depos
ited. Eagle Point is a town of 400
people and the First State is the only
bank in it. A new two-story brick
building, costing $4,000, was con
structed for its occupation and the
example caused two similar buildings
to go up in a previously "brickless"
town.
FIRST QUERY: "WHO WINSr
Fan In Far Off PribylofT Island Get
Wirelst Luaury.
San Francisco. July 15.-Th Unl
..-I u mivwrnment employes on
the I'ribylolf Island are rejoicing to-
I FOREIGN TRADE
0,1 ITD IA! DlIiiJ
Ul 111 Diujy
day because they have been cmnected pjsca ywr J,,
with the outside world by means of vwui,
the wireless telegraph. And tne nrsi Mf aitS All KeCOWS.
And the first
news that they asked to be flashed
.ndhium was: licl us we
-t.mlinir ii f the clubs in the big lea
This report was quickly followed by
another one of the same Kind, as mey
had been without baseball gossip so
long they could not get enough of the
fodder on which so many thousands of
fans feast every day. Not until the
operator at Honolulu had exhausted
his supply of baseball knowledge did
the men on the island of St. Paul per
mit him to inform them of the import
ant hanoeninirs in the political and
commercial worlds.
Navv electricians and wireless ex
perts had been sent north by the gov
ernment on board the United States
shiD Butfalo to install a wireless sla
tion on the island of St. Paul. With
the aid of the wireless station the
fans on these lonely islands will now
be able to keep tab on their favorite
club in the race for the pennant.
Balance in raver or Horn wj
620.000.000 Half of i.Jj
r
cmar rrn ot Uuty,
EIGHTY-BUSHEL WHEAT FOUND
Government Completes Threshing
400 Varieties of Grain.
Chico, Cal. The threshing of 400
varieties of grain ha been completed
at the government's big plant intro
duction gardens at this place, says
Superintendent Beagle. Some va
rieties of wheat yielded at the rate of
80 bushels to the acre. This is about
twice the average yield of common
wheat throughout California's grain
growing districts. The varieties pro
ducing especially heavily are Krietes
and t'hul wheats. II. F. Itlnnchard is
the expert in charge of experiment
in this department.
The propagation and budding of de
ciduous fruits are now being followed.
Corn breeding is also under way.
The distribution of plants is on. The
pistachio nut, which is largely used by
confectioners, is being shi plied to
Newman, Fresno and other plants.
GRAIN BAGS RUN SHORT.
and
Price of Few on Hand Soars,
Farmers Are Worried.
Walla Walla. Wash., July 15. With
grain bags at 8 cents and hard to get
at that price, farmers fear they will
have a shortage here this year that
may cause damage before it end.
There are few sacks now in the city
and the penitentiary output is con
tracted for a month in advance.
Local dealer yesterday shoved the
price to 8 cents and the state board of
control notified the penitentiary offi
cials soon afterwards that the price at
that place should be raised. This
makes the fourth raise in price this
year, and it is expected that other
will follow.
Washington. July 17.-AfJ
business records of the United iJ
were broken during the fitn)
ended June 30. Figures of tht htJ
. - . i l i ....1 S
Ul liaunivi i Miuny Mo
the volume or foreign btuJ
..I ... . i .
amounivu uj hid cnormuui an
more than i.l.Diiu.lKiu.ooo, whick
ceeded the record year of tn
more man .'tj,uii(i,uu).
The country a exports for tht
time cxeeded the $2.OOU,0O0,0wiaJ
while tne import were second :
lat year's. The year clutni r
balance of trade of more than LI
. . , -
uiMi.tiou in tavor or American buiJ
This is .i;i.',o(m,uou more thu
year balance, liut was exnwM
the record years or 11108 and Jsoi
l'.MIO and H'.ttf.
Fifty per rent of the imports eJ
ed the country free of duty, U
greater than at any time in tht
lory of the trade, except in lwi
94, when sugar was being IrctrJ
free under the AlcKlnley tariff
The total value of merchandise
tering free, however, was larger l
in any year heretofore.
NORTHWEST HAS HOTTEST
DAY IN PAST POW YL(
Portland. July 17. Portland wa
the hottest place in the Pacific OA
west yesterday, though for two ad
in the afternoon, while perfpt.4
folk stampeded for ansae and coolaJ
the thermometer stood at 97 drrt
and Brother Ileal, the genial mni
man, registered the hottest
tive 120 minute since 1907.
that 97 degrees was as the H
warmth or a day In spring, compi
to the heat in other towns in Orirt
aahington and Idaho.
In II cities that had been id
from last night, the thermuM
stood above IhO degree. EltophJ
little water tank station in Cd
u - l : . ..... it .. .J
niiiiiKuni, nrai I Mtv, waa ICTiH
the hottest place in the United SUM
the mercury climbing to 110 ivfi
hollowing were the maximuaM
perature Sunday in Pacific North!
citiea: Portland 97: Albany If
Salem 102; Koseburg 105; The Dti
101; Bend9H; Seattle 92; VatKH
99; Walla Walla 108; AihlandM
Baker 96; Boise 98; MarshrWl
North Yakima 10; Tacoma BH; (J
endale 106; Pullman 100; Lmm
106; F.ltopi 110; Spokane 99,
SHELL 4O0.OOO YEARS OLD
Carnegie Fund Finds Ule.
New York July 15. The custodian
of the $10,000,000 Carneirie Pear
foundation announced today a cam
paign of popular education to'establish
friendlier relations between the Uni
ted State and Japan. The division
of intercourse and education has ar
ranged an exchange "to give to each
people better knownlcdge of tho other
and to help build up a public opinion
n Dotn countries that will resist all
attempts to amuse antagonism
Under this plan. Dr. lnazo Nitobi.
president or the first hiizh colleire of
Tokio, and one of Japan's foremost
educators, will be brought here rarlv
n October to siiend about six week
each at I'rown University, Columbia,
J
Tortoise Fossil Preserves
Through Ags.
Ixis Angeles, Cal. Three thosai
feet above aea level on the dope
Mount Ilaldy, and 50 mile froavJ
coast in Orange county. Thorns H
Ion picked up the iK-rfect fossil
huge sea tortoise, which Hector A
hot, curator of the Southwest
eum, pronounces the most imports;
discovery of the kind ever mi
Southern California.
Ifcinlon haa a bee ranch and
seeking a rock to hold down the W
hive when he saw the shell protnf
mg from the ground. The m
weighs 100 pounds and shows th A
act markings and some of the oririsj
Coo to Have Fair Exhibit.
Marshfield Coos county is to be
represented with a fine exhibit at the
State Fair at Salem this year. Here
tofore Coo has only been represented
by individual entries in the dairy pro
ducts. The chamber of commerce will
pay the expenses of a representative
from this city to look after the exhibit
and will start at once gathering pro
ducts of all kinds.
ohns Hopkins and the Universities of ?!l"r on the bk nJ yllow botl1
Vlririnia- II innia and i. "e specimen is nearly 3U incn
turing on Japanese history and' cur
rent problems.
The following year "a distinguished
American" will be sent to Japan on a
similar errand.
Airship Visit White Hhous.
Washington, July 15. President
Taft received his first aerial visitor
shortly before 3 o'clock today. The
president mUnnI on the rear portico of
tne White Mouse as Aviator Harry N.
Aiwooa, or lioston, after circling the
wasnington monument, flew directly
into the White House ground and
lanuea on the grassy lawn, a short
nistance rrom the portico. Alighting
from the machine, At wood walked to
wnere me president stood and was
pesenied by him with a gold medal
irom me Aero Club or Washington,
Twain Estate 471,136.
. T . ...
new lorK Mark Twain (Samuel
Clemens) left actual property worth
$471,136. An appraisal of his estate
piaces inis value on securities an.l ui
email! oequeamed to his only surviv-
Ing child, Mrs. Gabrilowitch ak. i..
died, on April 21. 19io. nm.
left no real estate in New VnrW ri..
I,.'ie-0Ahi8ermnal tt here was
doM not 'nclude a
"""""'"I manuscripts, the value of
which la noi specified in the appraisal.
. Luzon Swept By Typhoon.
manun, JUIV IS. NnrtK. t
has been swept by a typhoon. All the
,. "r" "V u"wn na tne observers be
lieve it IS tha wr. , . .
... ni rxiH-rienpMi in
j.n. ueiau, because of the lack
. MM.nunicaiion, nave not been
ceived.
The specimen is nearly 30
diameter.
Alliot estimates that it is 400,(4
years old, the most ancient speciM
ever picked up on the Western bw
phere. The tortoise awam in tM
ea, he says, when California snd A
the territory this side of the W
mountains was still a mile or two 4
der water,
Franc I in Treaty Mood.
Washington, D. C Fr.n.- u i.
announced, Is virtually ready 'to sign
a general arbUration treaty with the
Madero to Disband Army
Puebla, Mex. Professing lurprl
at the many Maderistaa he find .'1
bearing arms, and realizing the H
gerof maintaining an undiscipM
army in time of peace. Francnw
Mailero ha lb-tl.f-min.wl nnnn a DulT
of immediate disarmament. He
the work of mustering out revolutwi
ary forces would be started st H
and would be prosecuted vigrou
until Mexico has but one armv. I 1
believed that the battle In PwblH
started by young men of the town
ing on the barracks of both rmie.
Wealth Due to Wife.
Cleveland, O. John I). RockefeM
says that it was woman, and tK
woman his wife, who made him
richest man In the world. To her H
sistance in hi financial venture "
her good advice at crucial periol
admit he owes hi fortune. rroni
ly days, when the business hsd iU
Rinning. she has known the detail
every transaction nf the trust,
Rockefeller stated in an Intervis
the subject.
Monitor 8urvivor Dies,
Rawtell. Cal. Michael Moo"?
said to he one of the three urviw"
of the crew which maaned the "'.
tor." when Ir ..l vanflllll'1'"
the Pimr.ul.,..i. M.if-rifflSC-
lied Satunlav nlht red 74. '
National Soldiers Home. On
nniversary of the battle, Moonr
a letter recalling the events of the
to another survivor, who lives i "1
dclphia.