The Oregon mist., August 11, 1911, Image 6

CURRENT EVENTS
OF TIIE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief!
General Return of Important Event
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Hops are selling in Portland mar
kets at 35 cents.
A strike of shopmen is threatened
on all Western railroads.
Democrats beat Republicans 12 to 9
in a baseball game played by members
of the national house of represents
tives.
Balfour attempted to get a vote of
censure for Asquith in the British
commons, but was overwhelmingly de
feated.
The woman mayor of Hunniwell,
Kansas, is ready to quit, but is de
termined to oust several dehant coun-
cilmen first.
President Taft traveled 400 miles by
special train to speak before a Chau
tauqua assembly and urge approval of
reciprocity.
Two men were rescued, starving
and ragged, from a barren rock on the
Alaska coast, where they were cast
two months before by a storm.
Football will be made a regular
course at Stanford University, and
credits given the same as in any other
study, which will count in final gradu
ation honors.
"If we do not receive $5,000 by the
night, we will kill your boy," was the
word received by Antony Marino, of
Chicago, whose 6-year-old son was
kidnaped Saturday.
Fire insurance on standing grain
has been reduced from 3 per cent to
1 per cent in Eastern Oregon and
Washington, owing to the large
mount of summer fallowing done
there.
The United States is preparing for
intervention in Hayti.
The senate has passed the reappor
tionment bill, insuring another repre
sentative for Oregon.
Wool merchants of San Francisco
are up in arms against the new wool
tariff, saying Japan will profit by it.
An angry ball-player at Seattle
hurled the ball at the umpire's head
and then knocked him senseless with
blow from his fist.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat New crop, Bluestem, 80(i
81c; club, 75'n76c; red Russian, 74c;
valley, 75'n 76c.
Millstuffs Bran, $24.50ri25; mid
dlings, $32; shorts, $25.50(i26; rolled
barley, $28', 29.
Corn Whole, $33; cracked, $34 ton.
Barley New Feed, $24.50 per ton;
brewing, $28 per ton.
Oats Old white, $25 ton; new, $24.
Hay Timothy, valley, $15f'il6; al
falfa. $11; clover, $$.50'n9; grain
hay. $10.
Fresh Fruits Cherries, Lamberts,
$2.50'' 3 per box; apricots, $Uul.25
per crate; cantaloupes, $1.50'' 2.25
per crate; peaches, 75c'i$1.50 per
box; watermelons, lc per pound;
plums, $1.75 per crate; prunes, $1.75
per box; new apples, $1.75'' 2.50 per
box; raspberries, $1.75'' 1.85; logan
berries, $1.25f 1.75; blackberries,
1.75'- 1.90; pears, $2.50 per box.
Vegetables Beans, fiAilOc; cab
bage, $1.50(V; 2 per hundred ; corn, 30
Oi 40c per dozen ; cucumbers, $1'1.25
per box; eggplant, 15c per pound;
garlic, 10' 12c per pound ; lettuce, 30
Oi 35c per dozen; hot house lettuce,
$1.25'' 1.75 per box; peas, 4'' 5c per
pound; peppers, 9'' 10c; radishes,
12Jc per dozen ; rhubarb, 2ii3c per
pound; tomatoes, 90c'' $1.25 per box;
new carrots, $1.75 per sack; turnips,
$1.75; beets, $1.75.
Potatoes New Oregon, 1 J'' lc per
pound.
Onions Walla Walla, $1.75 per
hundred.
Poultry Hens, 15$''il)c; springs,
18c; ducks, young, 15c; geese, nomi
nal; turkeys, nominal.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, can
dled, 27c per dozen.
Butter City creamery, extra, 1 and
2-pound prints, in boxes, 2Hc per
pound; less than box lots, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork Fancy, 10''10Jc per pound.
Veal Fancy, 12" 13c per pound.
Hops 1911 contracts, 30c per
pound; 1910 crop, 26'27c; 1909
crop, 19'' 20c; olds, 10'15. J
Wool Eastern Oregon, 9'' 16c per
pound, according to shrinkage ;val
ley, 15' 17c; mohair, choice, '36'',
37Jc per pound.
Cattle Choice steers $5.50'6;
good, $5.25'' 5.50; medium, $4.50"; 5; I
common, $3. 756; 4; choice cows, $4.50
(n 4.75; good, 4..')''4.50; good, aver
age" 1050 pounds, $4' 4.25; common,
$2.75'' 3; choice heifers, $4.75'' 5;
choice bulls, $3.50'' 3.75; choice
calves, 200 pounds and under, $7''
7.25; good to choice, $5.600 6; com
mon, $4'5; choice stags, $4.G0',
4.75; good, $4.25', 4.50.
Hogs Extra choice light hogs,
$7.35" 8; heavy, $6.65" 6.90 ; heavy
rough, $5.75" 6.25.
Sheep Choice yearling wethers,
coarse wool, $3.25" 3. 60; choice
yearling wethers, east of mountains,
$3.25" 3.50, choice two and threes,
$3', 3.25; choice spring lambs, $5.25
(,5.60; good, choice spring lambs, $5
44,6.26; choice killing ewes, $2.7Sfo,3.
INVITES JAPAN TO JOIN.
Taft Tell Togo of Hopes for Uni
versal Peace.
Washington President Taft ex
tended to Japan, through the nation's
guest. Admiral Togo, at a dinner in
the White House in honor of the Jap
anese naval hero, an invitation to join
the United States, Great Britain and
France in the great world movement
for international peace.
Rising from his chair between Ad
miral Togo and Speaker Clark, the
president offered a toast to the em
peror of Japan. Then turning to
Count Togo, he said:
"I would indeed fail in my duty
and be untrue to my own deep convic
tions did I not take this occasion of
the first public welcome to you as our
national guest to express my own ap
preciation and that of the American
people of the broad and humanitarian
view taken by His Majesty, the em
peror of Japan, and the. imperial Jap
anese government in so readily and
generously affirming, in the most pos
itive and solemn manner, that no con
sideration of selfish interest should be
permitted to obstruct ,the progress of
the great world movement for inter
national peace as "exemplified in the
general treaties of arbitration, be
tween the United States, Great Bri
tain and France, signed on the day of
your arrival in this country.
I gladly acknowledge this impor
tant part which Japan has played in
facilitating this notable achievement
by its prompt and unreserved recogni
tion, in the recent Anglo-Japanese
agreement, of the great moral prin
ciple of arbitration, and I entertain
the hope with confidence that the time
may not be far distant when Japan
will see fit to join in the movement
now so auspiciously inaugurated."
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
BERRY MEN ARE HAPPY.
COURT ENDS STRIKE.
Des
Em
Moines Car Company and
ployet Ordered to Resume.
Des Moines, la. Judge Lawrence
Degraff issued a mandatory writ of in
junction in the District court ordering
the city railway and its employes to
resume car service within a reason
able time.
International Organizer Fay, of the
Carmen's union, announced that the
strike of the Des Moines City Railway
employes was ended, so far as the un
ion was concerned.
He said the union would obey the
mandate issued by Judge Degraff and
the men wolud be ordered to return to
work.
It is also ordered by the writ that
Conductor Hiatt shall be temporarily
reinstated pending arbitration. Pa
pers to carry out the provisions of the
writ were issued for service upon
President Leonard, of the Streetcar
Men's union, and General Manager
Harrigan, of the city railway.
Striking streetcar employes of the
Des Moines City railway required just
one day in which to rid the city of
their ancient enemies, the strike
breakers. It was announced that every
strikebreaker brought to this city
from Chicago or Omaha either had
given up his job and gome home, or
was in jail to protect himself from
violence and would depart hence by
the first train.
CARS ARE STONED.
Woman's Skull Fractured in Coney
Island Strike.
New York The Coney Island &
Brooklyn Railroad company ran half-
empty cars nine hours Sunday be
tween 20-mile lines of 1,200 police
ment. As a result of the attendant
riots, four persons are in the hospital,
one of them probably mortally hurt;
perhaps 40 are suffering from effects
of stones and brickbats and 25 strik
ers and their sympathizers are under
lock and key.
As the day advanced the crowds be
came ugly, and double crews were
placed upon all cars on all three lines
affected by the strike. A policeman
stood behind the two motormen, and
plain-clothes men riding in throes and
fours over the system, stood ready to
repel any attacks upon crews and pas
sengers. Rebel Leader Threatens.
Guadalajara, Mexico Jose Marti
nez, a revolutionary leader of Znpot
lan, declares he will put 1,000 armed
men in the field in the state of Jalisco
unless assurances are given that the
plan of the revolutionists outlined at
San Luis Potosi last fall will be put
into effect. He is said to have re
cruited a large force in the moun
tains near Zapotlan. Five hundred
troops have been ordered to proceed
against them. A clash between
rebels and federals took place near Te-naumaxtlan.
Firmin Wants No Trouble.
Cape Haytien The French steamer
Caravelle is in port here with General
Antoine Firmin on board. General
Firmin said, in an interview, that he
hoped the presidential election in
Hayti could be carried out without
disturbances being raised by any of
the other candidates, because such
difficulties probably would result in
bloodshed. If the election went
against him. General Firmin added,
he would accept defeat gracefully.
Warship Crew Mutinous.
Madrid A section of the crew of
the Spanish battleship Numancia mu
tinied while the ship was lying in the
roadstead at Tangier. The mutineers
were overpowered and put in irons
while the battleship started at full
speed for Cadiz. The official explana
tion of the incident is that it was not
political in character, but a demon
stration against alleged hardships of
tht daily duties. I
Evaporation and Special Canning
Helps Loganberry Growers.
Salem That the loganberry market
is better than ever and that the de
mand is increasing instead Of decreas
ing are statements of Britt Aspinwall,
of Brooks. He and his brother J. P.
Aspinwall have 6 acres of these ber
ries and will plant 15 or 20 acres next
spring.
Fear of loganberry overproduction
is now a thing of the past, with the
driers and evaporators, and it is be
lieved that more and more of these
berries will be raised annually.
Loganberries produce from four to
six tons an acre, and command a hand
some price. Up to last year Portland
and Seattle were the principal mar
kets from this point, and owing to the
heavy offerings there was a slump in
the price. Experimentation with the
evaporator followed, as it was be
lieved that the market could be ex
tended. The best qualities of the lo
ganberries were preserved and the
bulk of the fruit was so reduced that
it could be shipped conveniently and
economically to all parts of the world
In addition to this the canneries
have discovered a means whereby this
class of berry may be conveniently
canned and safely preserved. The
canneries in t ortland and balem are
handling a large quantity of the fruit
and are paying prices profitable to the
grower. Instead of a glut on the
Portland and Puget Sound markets
there are now times when a scarcity
is felt owing to the distribution of the
froit over large areas of market cen
ters. Mr. Aspinwall's evaporator has i
capacity of 1500 pounds of dried ber
ries daily. It is kept at a tempera
ture of 140 degrees for 24 hours to
thoroughly dry the fruit, and a cord of
wood will evaporate a ton of logan
berries.
HOPS BRING 30 CENTS.
it
UNION HAS GREAT CROP.
Wheat Yield ot County Will Go Over
Million Bushels.
La Grande Wheat harvest in Union
county is well under way, and what is
generally admitted to be a crop from
250.000 to 500,000 bushels in excess
of the million bushel record created
two years ago, will be harvested dur
ing the next month. There is a uni
form stand of wheat all over the val
ley and it is said by many that 1,
500,000 bushels is too conservative an
estimate. Excellent weather prevails
here and it looks like the crop will be
harvested without the slightest mis
hap in any way. If it does. Grand
Ronde farmers will glean much prefit
from this year's crop.
Incidentally the apple and cherry
crops are of such proportions the
latter already having been turned into
cash as a rule, anil indications favor
ing the former will provide channels
for many other tillers of Grand Ronde
valley soil to realize neat profits.
Sugar beets, which are grown in this
and Wallowa valleys alone in the state
of Ort gon, indicate the bumper crop.
Hiahest Price Since 1904 Further
Rise Predicted.
Portland Thirty cents has been
paid in this city for new-crop Oregon
hops, the highest price that has been
current in this state since the latter
part of 1904. Within less than
week's time the market here has
jumped from 25 to 30 cents. That
will soon go to 40 cents is now con
ceded by nearly everyone in the trade
The 30-cent purchase was made by
McNeff Bros., hop dealers of this city
who obtained part of the crop of
Georire L. Rose, of Salem, on which
they paid a 10-cent case advance,
They also bought at the same price
100 bales from another Oregon grow
er and 20,000 pounds from a grower
in the Yakima valley.
Other dealers were
with 30-cent offers.
could be learned had
buy.
Hop merchants and growers were
satisfied that the market would have
to advance in view of the alarming
crop reports that came from Europe,
but the price struck the 30-cent level
somewhat sooner than expected.
in the market
but so far as
been unable to
HYLAND FRUITMEN MEET.
in
Yamhill Association to Convene
Sheridan August 19.
McMinnville The Hyland Fruit
growers' association, of Yamhill coun
ty, will meet at Sheridan on the after
noon of August 19. The general sub
ject to be discussed at this meeting
will be "The Handling and Cultivat
ing of Yamhill County Soils. With
Special Reference to Orchard Work.
W. K. Newell, president of the state
board of horticulture, has promised to
be present and will give an address.
Dr. James Wi thyronine, of the Oregon
Experimental station, will also be
present and will address the assembly.
The McMinnville Fruit association
will be in attendance and will provide
for a discussion on walnut culture.
The Dallas association will attend
and will furnish a talk on prune cul
ture. This meeting is looked forward
to with a great deal of interest and it
ought to call out all the ranchers and
fruitgrowers in the section. H. H
Miller, president of the Hyland Fruit
growers, will preside. All the hortl
cultral heads of the state will also be
present, while quite an attendance
from Portland IS expected.
RAIN AIDS FIRE FIGHTERS.
Is
OATS 80 BUSHELS TO ACRE.
Without Irrigation, Yield Near On
tario Is Immense.
Ontario The first shipment of
crated apricots from the Snake River
valley this season was made from the
A. E. Woods orchard on the bench
northeast of town, when 30 crates
were shipped to Wyoming and Mon
tana points at $1.50 a crate.
Mr. Woods so far as known, has the
only apricot orchard in this part of
the West, and he expects to ship 1,000
crates of them this season. One ship
ment of a full carload will be made
within a few days. This will probably
be the first carload ever shipped out
from this valley. The apricots are
exceptionally fine.
The first cufting of oats near here
this season was made by V. Mercer on
his ranch about a mile from Fruit-
land. The yield was about 80 bushels
to the acre. A bunch of oats from the
J. F. Doty island in Snake River, con
taining one stool of oats, brought to
town recently, had 32 stalks. They
were seven feet tall and heavily bur
dened with oats. This field had no ir
rigation, yet promises to yield 80
bushels to the acre at the least.
Linn County Forest Conflagration
Almost Under Control.
Albany A light rain In the moun
tains of Eastern Linn county has
helped the fire fighters who are jtrying
to stop a forest tire which is burning
on Squaw mountain near the head
waters ot ttlue river, Bbout .(0 miles
southeast of Cascailia. The fire had
been spreading rapidly until this rain
came. Since then the fire fighters
have succeeded in holding it almost in
check, though it is not yet under con
trol.
A report was received at the forest
service headquarters of the Santiam
district here from Forest Ranger
Knowles, who is in charge of the crew
fighting this fire, stating that at the
time the report was sent the fire had
covered about three squuare miles.
It is in an old burn, but as the old
trunks stand close together and there
are also many logs it is a very hot and
dajigerous fire. The report said that
barring a heavy wind it was believed
the fire could be kept from spreading
into the green timber
OLCOTT FOR PUBLICITY.
New Cannery to Start.
New Bridge The farmers and fruit
growers of this valley are delighted
with the announcement made by Man
ager P. J. Ijveland that the cannery
at this place, the first of its kind ever
established in Eagle Valley, will start
operation August 10. A large sup
ply of cans and boxes is on hand, and
there willl be nothing to prevent a run
to full capacity during the entire sea
son. Mr. Iovelanq states that he will
employ about 50 people.
Marion Stream Gets 24,000 Trout.
Salem Shipment of 21,000 young
Eastern brook trout has been received
in this city by Houser Bros, through
the efforts of Representative Hawley.
The trout will be consigned to Battle
Creek. The fry were in excellent
condition when received and there is
every reason to believe that they will
Burvive and propagate freely.
State Land Board Meetings Should
Be Open, He Says,
Salem Further in suport of his
contention that meetings of the state
land hoard should be open to the pub
lic, hecretary Olcott has issued a for
mal statement concerning the Work of
companies on irrigation projects.
In this statement he declares that
not a single contract now in force
with companies reclaiming arid lamls
is satisfactory to Jhe ' state. Secre
tary Olcott believes that the meetings
of the desert land loard in particular
should be thrown open to the public,
so that the settlers on such lands may
have opportunity to become familiar
with all the transactions of the board
in connection with these lands.
ft . lr
i reasurcr rvay said mat he is in
favor of allowing press representa
tives to attend the board meetings,
GERMANS ATTACK EMPEROR
Moroccan Question Settlement Cause
of Trouble.
Berlin The prospect of a speedy
settlement of the Moroccan question
between Germany and France is wel
...l n nvxrv hand, but the terms
of the agreement when they become
known, probably will cause considera
ble dissatisfaction.
Details still remain to be arranged.
Both Germany and France have been
compelled to concede weighty points
because neither was prepared to press
matters too far.
The first indications of Indignation
have appeared in the Pan-German
Post and Zukunft, the organ of Maxi
miiien Harden. The . leading article
of the Pan-German Post not only at
tacks foreign minister Von Kiderlin
Waechter and Imperial Chancellor
Von Uethmann-Hollweg. and demands
their retirement from office, but
makes a terrific onslaught Uon Em
peror William, asking:
" What has happened to the Hohcn
xollerns?" It also calls the emperor the strong
est supporter of the Anglo-French
policy.
I The Pan-German Post concludes by
calling the emeror "William the
Timid," and "The Valorous Poltroon.
Ilerr Arden in the .ukuntt also at
tacks His Majesty severely, naming
him "William the Peaceful."
MEAT INQUIRY ORDERED.
Freight Rates to Be Special Subject
f Commission's Quest.
Washington, D. C A sweeping in
quiry, numbering 162 railroads in the
West. South and Southwest, as re
spondents, was ordered by the inter
state commerce commission into the
freight rates charged on livestock,
fresh meats and packing house prod
ucts. It is indicated by the commis
sion that the purpose of the inquiry is
not only to secure a parity of rates,
but to establish by definite order,
rates which the commission shall re
gard as reasonable and not unjustly
discriminatory.
Incidentally, commercial rivalry
between two sets of meat puckers in
Chicago enters into the rase.
In view of the great importance of
the several proceedings heretofore in
stituted, it was decided by the com
mission to consolidate them into one
case. It was regarded as next to im
possible so to adjust the rates as to
insure parity of charges throughout
the territory by the consideration and
disposition of individual cases.
TOGO RIDES WITH ENGINEER
Noted Japanese Admires America's
Electrical Eminence,
New York Admiral Togo left New
York Friday night for Washington.
His departure hud a feature quite as
unusual us his midnight arrival and
welcome in New York bny the night
before, for he left the city in the cab
of a big electric engine, drawing a
heavy Pennsylvania train for the capital.
Although the private car Olivette,
which the government has provided
for him, was attached to the train, the
naval hero elected to sit hy tin- en
gineer's side and watch him operate
the 4,000-horscpower motor.
1 1 am intensely interested in your
world pre eminence in electrical en
gineering and railroading, " the little
admiral said through his interpreter,
"and I wish to avail myself of this op
portunity to observe, so I will ride
with the engineer."
Work Makes Earth Paradise.
New York -Thomas A. Edison has
started for a European trip for the
first time in 22 years. With him on
the Mauretania Were his son. Charles.
and in Iunlon Mrs. Edison and their
laughter Madeline will soon ioin
them. The family will make an auto
mobile tour of the Continent. Edison
was asked if he hail anything new up
his sleeve. He replied: "No. I have
just finished something new. My talk
ing pictures are complete. Two hun-
lied sets of them have been made and
they are wonderful. You ought to see
them and hear them."
RICH MAN COINS
BOGUS MONEY
Wealthy San Franciscan Is Aa
Expert Counterfeiter.
Formerly Accomplished Metal Work,
er, Claims He First Made Bad
Coins As Pastime.
San Francisco George Wilms., th,
most skillful counterfeiter of u
coins ever captured in San Franciim
was arrested by secret service optn.
tives and has made a complete w.
fession. At his home, a $IO,Oiio
house in a fashionable street of th
lOcnmontl uisinci, me secret tenia
men round a complete outnt lur rnik.
ing counterfeit $5 coins. When Wil.
son was searched 16 coins of hit ow1
make were in his possession. Ht
reputed to be moderately wealthy.
The perfection of the molds and tht
startlingly tine workmanship of tht
counterfeits drew from the off.cm
the statement that the coins are tht
most nearly perfect ever seen.
son formerly was an expert mm
worker.
r or some time me secret Hnn
men worked quietly in iracin ti
authorship of the almost perfect
counterfeit coins, rr nen arremen
son at once confessed and led Id,
secret service men ui wie nuiing pim
of his molds and counterfeiting took
These were kept ini desk drawr
thri livinir riMtfn of the Wilson hum
Mrs. ilson. a nervous woman. i
. . . 3 ... I. I . .
nas lived lor weess in terror oi lur
such a termination of her hushend
work, collapsed when the uffiw
crossed her threshold, n ilson u.
not been content with the plaster
.1 it.... . . . i . i ,
nans moms useu uv me unssnien con
terleiler, Pin constructed nia oi at
ier, cast with wonderful skill, and
both the old ami new (leaning of u
five-dollar coins.
In his confession VS ilson implicit
his wile, but said mat she aid ft
nass anv of the illegal coins and hi
no nart in inrir Production, :ne tu
not arrested.
Wilson bore a good reputation.
. . it t . i. li: -i . J i
tricl. where he had lived lor Mr
niiinufii uv rrnnii'Mi.t-n ui iiibiiv ui a
r rand sco a tiest-known business Six
many of whom were his friends. W
on (Mid that he beiran makinf lt
rmna v iM.rimemall v inn inrT louir
so good Ui him that he could not mi
the temptation to make more of ttxc
WRECK GIVES UP BONES,
Apple Crop's Return Big.
Hood River The Applegrowers'
union has made its first shipment of
this year's apple crop. The consign
ment was composed of Red Astrachans.
The fruit was well shaped, smooth
skinned and without blemishes. Man
ager Sproat says the lot of apples will
bring good returns. All of last sea
son's apples were sold by July I, and
the past year's business is now cleaned
up. The business last year amounted
to a little more than $000,000.
Shops Run on Full Time.
La Grande After months of cur
tailed hours, the machine and round
house crews in this city have been re
turned to regular hours again. The
machine shop and round house crews
re working 64 hours week instead
of 42 during the dull season.
Surveyors Nearing Florence.
Florence Surveyors for the Wil
lamette & Pacific railroad, recently
incorporated by G. K. Wendling and
others, are now working along the
north side of the ftiuslaw river, and
have reached a point about 12 miles
above Florence. Another party is
working on the west slope of the
Coast range, having crossed over by
j the Notl pass, and is coming in this
I direction.
Woman Steam Tug Pilot,
Tacorna The little steam till? Fawn
of Tacorna, comes now to the front
with a distinction Hll her own SUn.
111 it ii i n
Mrs. T. J. Walthey. Mrs. Wnlih..v
has a pilot license for viw..U ,.f in,.
ons plying between Cane KliiM,.
and Puget Sound point ('...(,....
Walthey, her husband, who is at pres
ent taking orders from Mrs. Walthey
as engineer, says the license would
quality his wife to act as matf
ot the tug steamers that
port from all over the word.
1 on one
come into
Fight Bitter in Canada.
Winnipeg The r.qiort that the lo
rninion government will insist on
handling the registration of voters
lists in Manitoba for the approaching
election created a sensation hero and
" "Km is on over reci
rironilu Tl... I.. - .1 ..
... .... ...j. ,,.r.M,, lm. I,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
oas inn right to prepare lists in the
province where they have not been
prepared for a year. The provincial
government, continues, however, to
make its preparations to register.'
Storm Hits Southwest.
Kansas City-Rains which have f.
len in Southwest Missouri, ..South.-ast-
ITr? wT" i""'' Nort'",r (,kl''h"h,a
since Wednesday morning have done
damage estimated at more than $1 .
000 lino a. i. i.
........... '.oweii, near dale
eieciric company dynamited
iooi power dam, which
$500,000, in order to save
machinery of its plant.
na, an
its .'to-
cost nearly
the costly
Engineers Find Relics of Maine
time on Every Hand,
Havana - V ith the gas-tilait fjp
atus installed by the engim-cra.
tangled barnacled mass that wa or
the Cniteil States battleship Main
being dislodged from the muck of t'
harlsir. where it was sunk by a tr.)
terioiis explosion in lN'.is.
vtuhin me past week aimoai f"
lioi tuk.-n tiv I Iia miirini.ir. in tht ('
piorauon oi wie wreca n ri-"
the Imhii'S of ill fated men-o'-wanr
who went down with her.
Of the remains found this w
only one set of Ismes has been iilr
tied, an l in this instance it is pu"1
that the engineers are mistaken. T'
identification was that of the b"'
of Assistant Engineer Merritt, f
sitile from the fact that the un
law contains two gold teeth, ami ir
a peculiar mark on the skull.
The Istnes supsised to 'be thm
VI....... .1 I .
.it-ii nk weir ijiHi-overeu m n n- e
snh where Midshipman iwiyu
that he and Merritt had been s
ated by the inrush of water t
struggling to make their way ir
the junior ollicers' wardpsim to t:
main deck.
Iloni-s uf In-.. .lh..r m.-n were
near the warrant ollicers' oiinrtcrt
the irt side of the berth deck,'
identification is impossible. The tr'"
number of Imdies recovered is 21.
Aviator Dives Into Sea.
Imir Reach. Cal.- After tliriNiM
great thronir of Sunday visitnrs to !
bench here with a spiral dip c'1'"
the wave tons Avinl.ir Frank l,r
pion startled the s tiiiorswn--
tinexpected plunge into the tirf h
dred feet from shore, liatht-rt i'
life guards swam to his assisttw'
unlastened the straps which w"
him to his seat and brought him ''
ashore. He had been blinded,
said, by oil Hying from the enfin
his monoplane, and steered down
ing to land on the beach.
Jail Feeds Fire FiRhterl.
San Rernardino. Cal. The fir "r-
alion continues to improve an" "
H hours it in l,..li..ve.l every vf'-'
of Humes on the mountains north
this city will bo extinguish''"
arrangements have been made Tf
cntlv to oav oir h strandiil fir W
ers, many of whom were sent h'
this city from the front severs
ago. Those of the rxhaii-'tw "
...u . . i ;!.. f
ii- were aosouiuiciy peni'"-
Ted and lodged at the city jail-
TBritish Warship Ashors.
Halifax, N. S. A wireless Ji'
received here savs the Uritish 1
Com Will I itf ia Mt.an.Lwl nil the le9
f'.... - . : I m ImS
.iT .inoii-, w milt-" ..
the Canadian flagship Niohe
t ho ...L,. I.. I.. .... Tk. mMat?"
ln n nuiy Alio " jjj
that the Cornwsllis was
I . a iha Mil '
"in water and apparenuj
tained no serious damages.