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Newspaper Page TextCURRENT EVENTS 0FTHEW1 Doings of the World at Large Told in BneL General Return of Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Turkey "and Italy are reported to have signed preliminary articles of ptsce. The steamer Senator arrived at Se attle from Nome with f 1,200.000 in gold dust and a large cargo of furs. A noted Chicago artist has been ar rested charged with circulating num erous band-painted counterfeit 110 bills. Jules Vedrine. a French aviator, won the world's speed championship at Chicago by a flight averaging 10.). 5 miles per hour. Blistering heat continues from the Rockv Mountains to the Atlantic. Cows refuse to eat and the milk sup ply is almost cut off. A Norwegian explorer declares he has found the descendants of the Norsemen who were lost in the Arctic regions 500 years ago. Masked and armed robbers held up the stage between Fort Bidwell and New Pine Creek. Or., relieving the passengers of about $150. Secretary Knox and suite arrived in Japan sj special envoys to the funeral of the late emperor Mutauhito. and re ceived a cordial welcome. James J. Hill has organised a trust company with a capital of $2,000,000 and it is believed be intends to em bark in the steel business. New born monkeys at Baltimore are to be raised as nearly like human ba bies as possible, in an effort to learn to what extent the Darwinian theory will bold. Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, former ly Miss Jennie Crocker, of San Fran cisco, arrived in New York with her husband and $60,000 worth of pet dogs. The city museum of Portland, Or., has been presented with a copy of the Boston Gazette of March 12, 1770, in which is an editorial urging colonists to refuse to buy tea from England. Indications are that the apple crop will not be up to expectations, and prices are advancing. Mexican rebels are reported to have sacked and burned the town of Ahuah uetilan, cremating one merchant in his store. Hundreds of horses hare died in Kansas from an epidemic of spinal meningitis. A sack of gold containing $10,000 is mysteriously missing from the office of the treasurer of Mercer county, California. w The German army is to have a new dirigible balloon capable of sustain ed flight of 60 hours and speed of 50 miles an hour. Oppressive beat brings misery to Chicago and the Middle West. Two persons died of sunstroke and 26 were bitten by rabid dogs. Arizona cowboys have organized a military company and declare they will invade Mexico and rescue im perilled Americans in Senora. Engineer Modjeski reports that the proposed wagon bridge across the Co lumbia at Vancouver will cost $1,987, 200, with $500,000 additional for rights of wsy for approaches. The State department is making every effort to get arms and ammuni tion to Americans in Cananea, Mex ico, that tbey may protect themrelves against the rebels wbo infest thst dis trict PORTLAND MARKETS Wheat Track prices: Club, 80c; bluestem, 82fti83c; forty-fold, 81c; valley, 81c. Barley Feed, $25.50526.50 ton; brewing, $28.50,29 per ton; Mill- stuffs Bran, $23.60 ton; shorts, $26; middlings, $32; rolled barley, $28. Corn Whole, $38.50; cracked, $39.50 ton. Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15; valley timothy, $1213; clover, $10; oats and vetch, $106311; grain hay, $1011. Oats Spot, $29f430 ton. Fresh Fruits Apples, 50c(X$1.60 per box; peaches, 35Ti65c box; plums, 16 lc pound; pears, 2c; grapes, $11.60 box; blackberries, b0ci $1.35 crate. Onions Walla Walla, 75ft.85c sack. Potatoes Jobbing prices: Bur banks, 60ri 65c hundred. Vegetables Artichokes, 65(475c dozen; cabbage, lftdjc pound ; cauli flower, $1&1.25 dozen; celery, 50 75c; corn, 15ri25c; cucumbers, 60c box; head lettuce, 20 a, 25c dozen; peppers, &a6c pound; tomatoes, hOoi 60c box; garlic, 8rttl0c pound; carrots, $1.50 sack; turnips, $1.25; beets, $1.50. Eggs Case count, 22tfi23c; can dled, 25(ft26c; extras, 28r(29c. Butter Oregon creamery, cubes, S3c pound; prints, 34f34lc Pork Fancy, HK'il2e pound. Veal Fancy, 14 a 15c pound. Poultry Hens, ' 13Je; broilers, 14i'il5c; ducks, young, 10c; geese, 8frrl2e; turkeys, live, 22c; dressed, 25e. Cattle Choice steers, $717.25; good, $6.25rfj6.75; medium, $616.25; choice cows, $6-0,6.25; good, $5.50fr 6.76; medium, $5m,5.25; choice cal ves, $78.60; good heavy calves, $6.257; bulls, $34.50; stags, $5 (15. 75. Hogs Light, $8.76r9.25; heavy, $8'i8.60. Sheep Yearlings, $3.6014.65; wethers, $4ft4.0; ewes, $2.863.75; lambs, $6Cft5.60. APATHY IN WASHINGTON. Governor Hay Renominated Without Opposition Vote Light. Seattle The statewide primaries were marked by apathy. The Seattle newspapers mad elaborate arrange ments to display election returns, but only a handful of people gathered. Governor Marion E. Hay, Republican was nominated without any real op position. In the First, or Seattle congress dis trict, Representative Will E. Humph rey was similarly renominated. For congressman-at-large Frank Hammond and J. E. Frost are leading in Seattle, bat it is asserted that Hammond will run behind Henry B. Dewey else where. For state insurance commissioner, John H. Schively, against whom bitter personal fight was made, ran far behind State Senator H. O. Fish back in King county and throughout the state. On the Democratic side no illumin ative figures on the governorship are obtainable, except that King county scattering returns show that Elmer C, Million, Democrat, la not running so well as was expected. Charles G. Heifner, Democrat, seems to have won the congress nomination in the First district over Thomas R. Horner. Supreme Justices Ralph O. Dunbar, Overton G. Ellis and Wallace Mount were renominated unopposed. For attorney-general, W. V. Tan ner, Kepublican, is renominated al most unanimously. In the first, or Seattle, district. 20 King county precincts give Heifner, Democrat, for congress, 204; Horner, 96. Heifner's nomination is conceded. Eighteen precincts in King county for congressman-at-large give Frost 211, Hammond 161. Returns from various parts of the state indicate the nomination of Frost for one of the two seats. There was only one Socialist can didate for each office. The Socialist ticket, headed by Miss Anna Maley, for governor, was nom inated by a mail referendum two months ago, but under the state law the candidates were obliged to go on the primary ballot. REBELS WELL FED. Salszar's Men Live OflF Ranchers As They Travel. Douglas, Ariz. With his 400 fol lowers living on the .fat of the land, Inez 'Salazar, the rebel general, is moving slowly to the west along the international boundary. He is closely watched by United States cavalrymen, who are following the rebel move ments from the American side of the ine. Salazar and bis men remain at a ranch until all the choicest cattle and provisions are consumed and then move a few miles west. I hey are slowly nearing Augua Prieta,' the Mexican town just opposite Douglas. At last reports to United States army officers here, Salazar's command camped on the Mescal ranch, 25 miles east of Augua Prieta, where the fed eral garrison was strengthened by the arrival of 100 soldiers from the South. This makes the gsrrison number 300 men, but Salazar's force may be strengthened at any time by the many groups of from 200 to 400 rebels operating in the viciqity. RELICS ARE SAVED. General Sickles Not Forced to Part With Wsr Trophies. New York General Daniel E. Sick les will not be obliged to part with his relics of the Civil war, which were to have been sold at auction to satisfy a judgment of $200 held by the Lincoln Trust company. Daniel P. Hayes, the general s lawyer, announced that money to satisfy the judgment had been raised and that the case would be settled. The relics included commissions of the general, many of them signed by Abraham Lincoln, medals won by the general in the war and at Gettysburg, where be lost bis leg, letters from men prominent in the affairs of the Union and swords used in famous bat tles. Valley Crcps One-Half In. Salem, Or. The continued bad weather has damaged grain in the shock about 10 per cent. Hops have molded considerable, and possibly there will be loss of 15 per cent The prunes 'are undamaged, with only a fair crop on the trees, as the frost caught some of them early in the spring. The foregoing refers only to the unharvested portion of the crops. At least one-half of hops are harvest ed, and grain one-half in the bin, and we think more. Barley is off color, and will not be used for brewing. Loss to Farmers 8 Per Cent. Corvallis, Or. Hops not damaged; mills report about 60 per cent of grain damaged for milling purposes, but good for seed, etc. Loss for farmers not over 8 per cent; others sgree dam age to grain about 25 per cent. Entire Crop May Be Saved. La Grande, Or. Wheat crop dam. aged not to exceed 15 per cent so far, Should weather continue favorable for three weeks the entire crop will be taken care of. Fifty per cent of the crop is already harvested. Rain Increases Potato Crop. Cornelius, Or. The following fig ures are as near as it is possible to judge at present: Potatoes, bumper crop, increased by rain probably 10 percent; wheat, average crop, dam aged by rain probably 10 per cent: oata, average crop, onethalf damaged by rain, one-half not damaged; hay, average crop, damage for entire sea son, 35 per cent; hops, heavy crop, damaged at present 10 per cent The potato crop is the largest known. Famine Threatened In Siam. . Eugene, Or. A letter from C. A. Steele, newspaperman at Bangkok, Siam, says that there is grave dannr of famine in that country. There has been little rain fall for two years, and the exportation of rice has prac tically ceased. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE BIGGER PAIR URGED. J. H. Booth Proposes State Show to Cost SI.OOO.OOO. Salem A $1,000,000 state fair the plan that J. H. Booth, of Kose burg, president of the Oregon Stat Board of Agriculture, hopes to see worked out. He believes that at least $1,000,000 should be appropriated by the legislature, not all at once, bow ever, and that some definite plan be adopted for the permanent upbuilding of the fair. "The university and agricultural college and other state institutions are given appropriations almost without stint," said Mr. Booth. "While prob ably tbey need the money and deserve it, I believe that there is no greater educational factor in the state than the state fair. This is essentially an agricultural state. Any move which tends toward developing the state's agricultural interests to the highest point of efficiency is, financially and in every other way. an upbuilding factor in the state s progress. By setting out definite plan for the state fair grounds and obtaining stated amounts biennially to be used toward working out that plan, the state fair could be developed into one of the most magnificent features of the state, that would repay the money expended in many ways. Upon the nucleus which we have we could build up tc the final attain ment of the scheme for a great fair, Every improvement which is put in the grounds should be a permanent one. There should be good walks, good buildings, a cattle judging arena elec trically lighted, so that judging could be done at night. The difficulties that we have encountered this year with the rains should be obviated by all permanent covered buildings. W hop to have a permanent pavilion constructed with the $50,000 which the last legislature appropriated, and which, we trust, will be given us by the next legislature overriding the governor's veto. The fair should be placed in a po sition where it will be able to handle the crowds whether the weather is wet or dry, a place provided where agricultural lectures can be given daily for the farmers, and the entire show given over to the agricultural nterests. The agricultural and stock displays at the fair I place first, and the amusements last. The fair is for educational purposes, and it is toward that end we are constantly striving COVE CHERRIES STILL RI?E. . M. Stsckland Thinks Oregon Is Ideally Located. Portland Although the bulk of the cherry crop in Cove district has long since been gathered, ana marketed, cherries are still ripe in that section. C. M. Stackland, of Cove, was in Port land, Saturday, and brought to the Commercial club samples of Bing and Royal Anne cherries he had picked from his own orchard, which are in perfect condition.' Mr. Stackland is a member of the firm of Stackland Bros., one of the largest fruitgrowing concerns of the Cove district. Mr. Stackland had some interesting figures to offer concerning this year's cherry crop. From 227 trees, growing on two acres, he sold 13 tons of Royal Anne cherries to a cannery for $1000. "That the community may well en courage the fruitgrower," says Mr. Stackland, "is indicated in the wages paid to workers in the Cove cherry or chards. My brother and I picked 16, 000 gallons of cherries from eight acres, and the picking and packing cost $997.03. This means that $125 an acre was paid for labor in harvest ing the crop, which shows that the re turns from the cherry crop are widely distributed throuhout the country. "Although Cove is one of the best known cherry districts in the state, I believe that there are great areas in Oregon, now lying idle, that could be cultivated and made to produce fruit just as good." Steel Bridges in Umatilla. Pendleton Umatilla county has more steel bridges than any other county in Oregon, according to C. H. Martin, the civil engineer employed by the county recently to construct permanent highways and bridges throughout the county. Every bridge built in the county during the last six years has been of steel and at the present time 12 of these structures are in course of construction. Two of the new bridges are to replace wooden ones carried out by the Butter creek cloudburst. Hops at Eugene Are Prime. Eugene Hoppicking began in a number of yards near Eugene and Springfield, the growers taking ad vantage of the slack of rain to get in as much work as possible while the clusters are in prime condition, fear ing more rain. Yards about Irving began picking also. As yet the rains have not done much damage to the hops in Lane county, and the quality, according to J. W. Seavey, is prime. No lice have appeared and growers have sprayed their hops, so that there is little chance of mold. Rain Savss Loss From Fire, Medford Favorable climatic con ditions and efficient fir protection have saved Jackson county more than I a million dollars this season. Accord- j ng to M. L. trlckeon, supervisor of, the Forest service, there will be no more forest fires in 1912, the recent 1 rains having eliminated the possibil ity, the season of 1912 will establish record in the history of forest fires in Southern Oregon. Trout Stream Fished Out. Dufur A petition requesting that Fifteen-Mile creek bn stocked with trout has recently been filed with the state fish and game commission. At one time fifteen-Mile creek teemed ith trout, but at the present time this creek is practically fished out, and unless it be stocked at an early date it 111 be next to impossible to locat a fish in this creek. ROAD HEARS END, Gradinar la Finished and Rails Lai Most of Way to Friend. Dufur . The work of extending the Great Southern railroad from this city to Friend, about ten miles distant, i nearing completion, and it is expected that regular trains will be in opera tion to Friend within a month. Rails are being laid on the last two miles of the work, the grading being all finished and the rails laid up to within about two miles of the pro posed terminus, and work trains are being operated over the new road for this distance. Sixty-pound rails are being used and the roadbed and bridge are being constructed in the best possible man ner so that the heaviest kind of traffic can be run over the road when com pleted. After the completion of this extea sion the line from here to The Dalles wilt be repaired, both roadbed and bridges, and put in first-class shape, The extension of the terminus wil probably necessitate the moving of the trainmen and their families to rriend, The officer of the Great Southern company are seriously considering the advisability of purchasing some sort of motor car to add to their passen ger service. It is yet undecided whether they will purchase a gasoline motor or a car propelled by an electric storage battery. However, as soon as the business warrants the addi tional service, it will be made as sug gested. The audition of a motor rar will cu the running time to The Dalles and return nearly half, and be of great convenience to the people along the line. The Great Southern expects a large freight business, both in grain and fruit, this fall, and is making prepar ations for handling this traffic. MEDFORD WILL BUILD ROAD. Citizen Determined to Have Rail Line to Ssaport. Medford Medford is to have a rail road to the coast. Tired of promises by railroad companies and outsiders prominent Medford business men have decided to do the job themselves. Papers were filed for the incorporation of the Medford & Crescent Lity Rail way company, and the preliminary capitalization has been placed at $50,- 000. That such road will be of incal culable benefit to Medford and the Rogue River valley cannot be gain said. It will open up a virgin miner! and timber region, will tap the fertile but undeveloped Applegate valley, and will bring a great reduction in freight rates. With the construction of the Panama canal, it will mean that fruit and produce can be shipped by water to Atlantic Coast ports, and incident ally a delightful summer resort will be within easy distance of this city OREGON NATIVES GO EAST. Albany Couple to Devote Nine Months to Extensive Tour. Albany Robert L. Burkhart, one of the best-known breeders of Jersey cattle on the Pacific Coast, has started on a trip East, during which he will inspect the leading Jersey herds of the country. On May 20, last, Mr. Burkhart sold the Jersey herd which he had been developing for several years for $17,000 st one of the largest public sales ever held in Oregon. Both Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart, who are native Oregonians, have never isited the Atlantic Coast and they will devote nine months to an exten- ive tour of the EasL Big Hop Ysrd is Down. Grant Pass Borne down with the great crop of hops, with the added weight of the rain on the dense foli age, the entire Flanagan-Cornell hop- yard of 100 acres lies flat on the rain- soaked ground, the supporting wires aving broken under the strain. Pick ing had been in progress in the yard for several days, but two weeks' work s yet to be done before the crop Is all in the bale. A force of men is busy raising the vines to supports, and if no further rain falls the quality of the hop will not be damaged. First Box From Eugene. Eugene The first freight sent out of Eugene over the new Oregon Elec tric railway was shipped to Junction City by the owners of a local grocery and meat market. They sent to one of their customers a consignment of meat and vegetables, the shipment going in a dox car drawn by the con struction engine. The track layers have reached the business section of the city, but the crossing has not been made at the intersection of West Fifth and Blair streets at the edge of the city, where the P. & E. lines run. Hops Burn, Loss S8000. Forest Grov The hophouse, In cluding 18,000 pounds of dried hops, belonging to Robert B. Porter, which Is located about three miles north west of this city, burned to the ground, entailing loss of about $8000. The cause of the fire is not known, but it is believed to have started from a defect in the heating ytem. Insurance amounted to $7000. About one-fourth of the hops hsd been picked, which amount was consumed. The remainder of the crop will be drind in neighboring hophouse. Dallas to Install Fountain. Dallas To accommodate the travel ing public, the visiting farmers and the local citizens, Dallas is to have four public drinking fountains in stalled on four of the principal corners of this city. There Is to be a large fountain for horses at the Main street intersection. An effort is to be made to get the drinking fountains in be fore the Harvest Festival and School children' Fair, October 8, 4 and 6. ' MAINE GOES REPUBLICAN. lj.i... i ..Ha far Governor By 4000 Local Issue Rule. Portland. Me. Main turned back ... th. K.nublican party in the state election, William T. Maine, of W .-..will. hlnir elected governor over ICIIMI! mr-m. m --(B) Governor Plaieted, hi Democratic op- nnnont. who ought a second term while the Republicsns regained one of the two congressional districts lost to the Democrats two year ago. Th new legislature Is expected to have a email Republican majority, al though returns befor midnight were ... ...ni-Unt to show whether Edwin r Ttnpluluh. cs-DreDresentative in Republican, or Senat r.ardner. Democrat, will be chosen to th. Unit.) States senate. H.inrna for governor from all but 37 small towns give: Haines, Repub liean. 69.615: Plaisted. Democrat, ,t 1.12 The missing towns In 1910 aJva: Republicans, 1157; Democrat, ouj llainee" plurality is eiMmated t asiO. Theae returns show a Republican aain of 9 ner rent and a Dtmocratic loss of 8 per rent. COLORADO VOTE LIGHT. Dsmocrsts Outnumber Republicans But None Show Interest. Denver. Colo. Return from Colo rado' first statewide primary at late hour were meager. The Demo cratie returns received outnumbered the Republican three to one. Rough estimates show only one-third of the registered vote in the stale was east- In Denver the percentage IS ea timated at only one-flfth. Results so far as known indicate that E. M. Amnion is leading for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination Clifford C. Park, regular Kepuuli ran. is leading Phillip B. Stewart, Roosevelt Progressive Republican, fo the head of the Republican ticket. Governor Shafroth Is lea-ling Alva Adums and T. J. O'Donnell for the Democratic long-term senatorial nnmi nation, while Merl l. mcent, Koose velt Progressive Republican, heads Clyde C. Dawson, regular Republican Charles S. Stone is unopposed for the Democratic nomination for the short term in the United States senste. James II. Brown is leading C. W Waterman for the Republican short term in the United States senate. The light vote in the rural districts was due to the fact that farmers took advantage of the clear weather to bar vest their heavy crops. rew women voted, some explaining the fact that the ballot seemed so complicated they were afraid of losing their vote ant so, paradoxically, tney stayed away from the polls. VOTE LIGHT IN ARIZONA. Hardly 10 Per Cent of Recittnred Voter at Phoenix Go to Pol:. Pboenix, Ariz. Early returns in dicate that the vote cast at the Ari zona state primaries was exceedingly light. Hardly 10 per cent of the reg istered vote in Maricopa county, in which Phoenix is situated, was cast Returns from Douglas showed that only 30 per cent of the registered vot era had cast their ballots there. The figures so far reported from that city gave: Democrats, 142; Roosevelt Progressives, 139; Republicans, 21, and Socialists, 11. The total vote for the Progressives reported from fresco tt was 67. In the same section W. E. Jones, K. A. Torres and George Babbitt, electoral candidates, were leading the Demo cratic vote there by a strong majority. Yuma, Ariz. The vote here at the primaries was light. In Yuma and two outside precincts, the Democratic ticket received nine votes; the Rnose velt Progressive, 7!: the Socialist, 20 and the Republican 12. Ureal Highway Proposed. Indianapolis, Ind. A macadam roadway to extend from New York to San Francisco, a distance of 3340 miles, and to cost $25,000,000, was proposed here at a banquet of 800 In diana automobile manufacturer and dealers, who subscribed $300,000 to start the campaign in this state. The plan la to furnish material, at a cost of about $12,000,000, free to the counties through which the road will pass, the counties to psy only the cost of construction, which is to be under government supervision. Italians Resent Being Given Away. Chiasso, Switzerland Feeling is running high in Italy regarding the ultimate disposition of the Aegean Isl ands, which have been occupied by Italian troops in the war with Turkey. The agitation was Initiated by dele gates from the islands and by Greek emissaries and is receiving the sup port of the Socialists and other ex tremists. The agitators maintain that it would be dishonorable In Italy to conclude peace by giving up the Aegean islands on grounds that Italy wants the I.ahya region of Africa. Idaho Women Plan Bolt. Boise, Idaho A Republican ticket mane up entirely or women candi dates, will tie placed in the field in Idaho this fall sgainst the regular Kepuoilcan and Progressive tickets. 1 he women members of the Republi can party in Idaho announced that they hsd become disgusted with the wrangling in the party and decided to place a ticket of their own before the people. The women will hold their convention hnre this week. Subwsy Plans Complete. Chicago Plans for Chicago's pro- posed euhway system were completed and presented by a sub-committee to the city council committee on sub ways. The plans provide for four main lines traversing the city. The estimate for construction Is $!ifl,2'i7. 000, and for equipment $3l,RH4,Ood. The system would have capacity of 187,000 psssengers an hour. Ismay Ratigne, New York J. Bruco Ismay, who figured in the news a few months ago by being among the Titanic survivors, is to resign as president of the Int.-! national Mercantile Ft -in company. TIME LIMIT IS GIVEN MADERO Must Protect Americans and Property or Resign. Failure to Meet Ultimatum or United 8tate Will Be Followed By Immediate Intervention. Washington. D. C President Taft has given President Madero 30 day in which to protect American property ami live in Mexico. If Madero fail to do this the United States will re nuire that he resign Immediately. I Madero should refuse to resign inter vention will follow speedily. This statement was mad her Thursday by a high official of th De partment of State to Juan I'edro ll dann. representative of th Mexican revolution in Washington. Th nam of the otllcial is withheld but full credence is given the state ment here, in view of recent events in the Mexican situation. IHin Manuel Calero. Mexican am bassador here, hurriedly left Washing ton last week for Mexico City, bear ing a personal message from President Taft to President Madero. It Is be lieved tint messsge he took from the administration to Madero was of the tenor described. Diplomats say that Calero would not have made a person al trip from Washington all the way to Mexico City unless the Issue was extraordinarily urgent. Developments this week showing the strong exertions of the Madero administration to get troops to North ern Mexico to protect American In tercst. which quickly followed Cal rfo'a arrival in Mexico City, also lend weittht to the reixirted threat of the United States. Officials at the State department were reticent when questioned con ceming this development in the Mx ican situation. It was intimated that the administration intends to force Msdrro to protect foreign interests in the republic, but none would discuss the report that this government plans to compel the Mexican president to re sign if he fails to get a better grasp on affairs along the Rio (.ramie. EMERGENCY VESSEL READY, Three Troopships at Fort Msson Have Steamed Up Tor Ruth Trip San Francisco For the past few days there hss been unusual activity on Uiard the army transports Crook nd lluford, which, with the troopahip Sheridan, are tied up at the transport docks at Fort Mason. There is steam up in all three ships snd they would be ready for sea in an hour, should the Mexican situation requite the sending of troops South. n hile the authorities in charge of the transxrt deny any authorisation to arrange for movements of troops toward the Mexican border, th fart remains that the transport are ready for any emergency. - Su'phur Cargo on Fire. San Francises Fire which broke out sudlcnly in the hold of the Brit ish steamer Fiticlarrnce at the Green street wharf, thrratens to destroy 1000 tons of Japanese sulphur in her cargo. Ihe r itzclarvnee. Captain J. it. wair. arrives wun coal tor this port and sulphur fur Portland, Or., from Muroran, Japan. If the sulphur is destroy ril the loss will be between $40,000 and $30,000. Water from five tugs and several fire engines was turned into the hold without appreci able effect. Aviator Meets Death Chicago Aviator Paul Perk, of Washington, D. C , holder of the American duration flight record, was killed in a fall with his biplane Thurs day afternoon, when flying in a gusty ind. lie attempted toa steep a spiral and when he struck the ground the heavy engine came through the wreck age, striking him In the neck. Physi cians said his skull was fractured and he was injured internally. Death oc curred several hours after the fall, the aviator never regaining con sciousness. ! Turks Csptur Airship. Tripoli The Turks, who on several occasions have tried vainly to smuggle nto iripoll an arenplane for scouting purposes, are at last in possession of machine through a mishau of Cm lain iwoizo, of the Italian army. Cap tain moizo was making a night from iouara to Tripoli when the motor of his machine stopped and he was ottliged to descend in hostile eoun iry. ne wss promptly csptured and we aeroplane appropriated. Auto Freight Protested. Washington. D. C. The in iunt rate or 1 a hundred pounds on auiomomies, in less than carloads, from New York and other Eastern points to Pacific Coast terminals was ttacked before the Interstate Com merce commission. The chare fp oiner self-propelling vehicles, less man carloads, Is $1.50 a hundrn.l Demand is male that the roads reduce me rate on automobiles to $4.50. Butter", Fsrm Psys. Truckee, Cal. Miss Ximena Me i.iasnan, or Truckee, Is a butterfly farmer and is msking monev at It l the past six weeks aha has propagated and sold B200 mounted butterflies, for wmcn she received $310, or 5 cents apiece, which amount to more th I'i0 a week. Great French Army Out. Paris The most Imnnainir mA ... tenslv French army maneuvers in years opened in .Touraine and PoUu wnen IZO.OOO soldier and CO aero planes and two dirigible balloons took the field for a week of mimic warfare. Horse Plsgu Spreading. Council Bluffs The t.n. ..i...... has crossed the Missouri river and several animals have died near Shan andoah, Clarlnda and Pacific Junction, in Pag and Mill, counties, Iowa. FIQURINQ ON CANAL Special Agent Is tudln bm. A.pct or w.l.'rw-t.;H,"i Washington. D. C.-The I... Sir Ewd.rd Grey, th. HrHUhTL eert.ry. to th G.t..h..j of commerce regarding th, T9 tHud. toward, th P.!;: J'1' I regarded her. a. ,0 Indl' th negotiation. betwZ Z countrle. are to have , fin.nc, th foreign secretary' argum... v1 Ing that British shipping llW dened with . undue propo'rfc charge, for th maintenane, 0f canal through complete aw - Am""" In view of this, Importance .ttvh to an Inquiry now being eondueUH th. l.thmu. by rrofJLr Johnson, special commissioner oa P. ama traffic and tolls. Prof.aao.Vr son already ha compiled sUUstjIi bearing upon character and probsbU amount of traffic that will mrougn me rename canal. II, : 1. 4 l ...... . .' I i th Panama canal. II. gT. ged In study of the ..! iwm in a siuuy or the I t th result, so that i aspect of th result, so that th. CZ djuated to the need TiZ j , .... w , ncaua of . . -.. .viniiiinc DMIS. rJk . -. .. in nasnngtuai 'no. wun wua information. GREAT ORGAN STIRS VETS, ursns strmy tioin (Jhoma I. f-t . . I.N Lak Tabernacle, Salt Lak A spontaneous tad touching tribute to the rx.w.r nf , great tabernacle organ and the ome let, Professor J. J. Meridian M paid by Commander H. M. Trimble .f th Grnd Army of the Knmulii. .i hi party. A guests at a ani.i organ recital In their honor, the coat. mander and personal staff sat in th body of the tabernacle her. Hij hundred other veterans, with tk.i. families, who were trsvrlins- with, htm, occupied th encircling gallery One of the selections was: "M.r.-k. ing Through Georgia." Ath,.,n- strains rolled through th building Commander Trimble bt came restless, and when th vo humana stun, amk its haunting suggestion of the well known words, was added to th chorus, he sprang to hi feet and without. stretched arm beat time to the mniic and began to sing. The hundred I. the gallery took up the refrain. "While we were marching thronsk Georgia," throbbed against th dose of the vast building and a thoussM eyes were wet aa th strain died away. After a brief stop In Salt Lake the special Grand Army train took up Its ourney to Is Angeles fur th Na tional encampment. ALASKA RATES CUT AGAIN Shipping Interest. In Fight for Bull- ness Tariff Lowest Yet. Seattle, Wash. Official of th Alaska Steamship company announce the second reduction in ten day in freight rate from Seattle to South eastern Alaska ports, prtcipiutin rat war which is expected to be th most spirited In the history of Fsciflc Coast shipping. Ratea on general merchandise front iattle to Krlrhlkan, Junesu, 8kf sy and all other ports of rail I. Southeastern Ataaka have been rut to $2 a ton, the lowest tariffs ever plsrtd n effect by a steamship lin oprrstinc to the nrth. Southbound rate are unchanged, as r rate to Seward, Cordova. Valdei and other ports of rail in Southwestern Alaska. Th first reduction, announced ten day agt, ranged from $1 to 13 l ton. Border Patrol Inereated. Washington, I). C The appearance of large number of Mexican rebels at Ojinaga has made It neressary to ncrease the American patrol force in Ihe Big Bend section, snd troop are being sent from Fort Clark. Sev. hundred federal, are encamped ten mile below Quitman and the rebel general, Salazar, with 1000 men, is In the Caputinan mountains west of Sa- binal Station on the Mexican North western railway. Neither side Is moving to attack. Militia Hurry to Mines. Charleston, W. Va. F.very com pany of th West Virginia state mill- la has been ordered back to the Ksns- wha coal field, where Governor Glass- cock recenly declared martial law. Conditions throughout the strike sons re said to be rritirc!. T. c cr.t.-i.I ack of the mllitl.-c'.-M r: .psi .k bring th number of state soldiers strike dutv ud to 1200. When IB ddi tional troop reach the trouble dis trict, it Is said, th martial boundary now covering about 20 miles, will be greatly extended. Berlin Boom Collapsss Berlin On of th largest realty building concern, here, with liabili ties of more than 60,000,000 msrks, or $12,GO0.0OO, Is reported to be In difficulties owing to over-speculstion on the growth of Berlin. I.srge link ing concerns backing the enterprise have withdrawn their support. Th Tageblatt says that th appointment of receiver ha been applied for, but confirmation ha been hitherto unob tainable. Should the report prov true, this would b the most extcntlv collapse In long series. Mothsrs to Go to School. Kansas City Th high cost of li Ing is In the greatest problem todsv, and its solution lies with the wivr and mothers of the nation, in the opinion of the board of education or Kansas City, Kan., which offers spe cial inducement to mothers to attend the night school. These include nursery and kindergarten for the chil dren of students and special courses In cooking and "how to mak $20 h for $2." Thre hundred hav enrolled. Mrstlss' 8eret Found. Washlnton. D. C Dr. John F. Anderson and Dr. Joseph Goldberg, or the public health service, have sur- ceeled in Inoculating monkeys wun measles, something said to be hitherto unknown, and In course of their re search hav mado discoveries which promise to mak the malady loss dan gerous. Th germ wa found to be o minut that It passed through me pore, of porcelain filUr.