VOL.
IL
FOUR BLOCKS SWEPT
LESSEN MINE DEATHS
. Portland Fire Causes Loss Estimated
at $225.000.
European Experts to Visit America
and Conduct Experiments.
Portland, July 29.—Fire blotted out
practically one full block off the map
of the North Portland business district,
burned most of the property off three
other blocks, and threatened the entire
district, late yesterday afternoon.
Property worth approximately $225,-
000 was destroyed, property represent
ing nearly $1,000,000 was actually
scorched, and property worth well into
the millions was within the danger
zone.
The fact that a line of brick build
ings blocked the course of the flames
until the fire department had an oppor
tunity to concentrate its forces at the
weak points, accounts for the limiting
of the flames to five blocks.
Cause of the fire is not yet clear.
There are several theories—incendiar
ism, spontaneous combustion in a loft
of new hay, dropping of a match or
cigarette, flying sparks from a chim
ney. The origin was traced to the
middle section of the Orégon Transfer
company’s place at Fifth and Glisan
streets.
The fire popped up with the sudden
ness that attends the lighting of a gas
jet.
Some smoke was seen on the
roof of the Oregon Transfer company’s
place about 4:45 o’clock.
Fifteen
minutes later the roof had given place
to a great column of flames.
Fanned by a strong wind from the
northwest, the column of flames passed
quickly from building to building.
Gaining impetus from the big frame
building and tons of hay and other
combustible matter, the fire quickly
leaped across the street to the North
ern Pacific Wagon works, where there
was another great array of fuel, and
sweeping this, passed on through the
block from Fifth to the blind west wall
of the Union Meat company’s place.
Checked here, it concentrated its
fury, as if with an intelligence of its
own, and leaped into the block north of
Glisan street, and then jumped Fifth
and worked both east and west.
When, at 6:30 o’clock it had run its
course and given way before a small
river that had been poured on from a
score of nozzles, a sad picture of disas
ter lay all about. The whole block
bounded by Fifth, Sixth, Glisan and
Hoyt streets, with the exception of
the southern corner, was a heap of
smoking debris. Nearly all the west
half of the block bounded by Fourth,
Fifth, Glisan and Hoyt streets was
gone; all frame buildings were in
ruins between Fourth, Fifth, Glisan
and Flanders. The block between Fifth
and Sixth and Glisan and Flanders was
all but gone, the big brick Barr hotel
being represented by tottering black
ened walls, which fell in later, fortu
nately without hurting anyone.
Washington, July 28. In response
to an invitation extended by the Unit
ed States government in behalf of tie
geological survey, Great Britain, Ger-
many and Belgium will send to this
country next month their leading ex
perts in the prevention of mine disas
ters, to aid in the inauguration of the
work here.
The negotiations were
conducted through the State depart
ment.
The three experts are Captain Des-
borough, inspector of explosives under
the Home office, Great Britain ; Herr
Meisher, head of the German mine ser
vice, and Victor Watteyne, engineer
in-chief of the administration of mines,
Belgium. It is expected that the ex
perts will reach New York about the
end of August, and proceed to Pitts
burg, where the United States Geo
logical survey is engaged in erecting a
plant for the purpose of conducting in
vestigations into the cause of mine
explosions.
In company with the expert in
charge of the technologic branch of the
survey, they will visit the fields of
Pennsylvania, the coal fields of Illinois,
Wyoming, Colorado, Alabama. West
Virginia and Ohio, in order that they
may learn the conditions under which
coal is mined in this country.
Experiment stations for the preven
tion of disasters have been in opera
tion for a number of years in each
country represented by the experts,
and there the death rate in the mines
has been reduced to a minimum.
With the knowledge that mine acci
dents have been increasing and the
death rate constantly becoming larger
the Unied States government authori- J
ties are hastening to begin the investi
gations which it is believed will great-
ly reduce the loss of life. It is ex
pected that the advice of the foreign
experts will be invaluable.
NEWS OF THE WEEKI
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The steel trust reports an improving
business.
The typhoon at Hongkong is known
to have cost over 300 lives.
The Turkish people will call for a
clean sweep of corrupt officials.
The work on the new Franco-Ameri
can tariff treaty is proceeding rapidly.
Gould admits he would welcome Har
riman’s help in running his railroads.
A young negro has been burned at
the stake in Texas for an assault on a
white girl.
Messages from the battleship fleet
indicate that it is having an easy trip
and is over 1,200 miles from Honolulu.
The railroads have been given more
time to reduce lumber rates on condi
tion they do not enjoin the Interstate
Commerce commission.
Taft has been formally notified
his nomination.
In his speech of
ceptance he said, that, if elected,
would take Roosevelt’s policies as
guide.
of
ac
he
his
Four nuggets weighing about half a
pound each and worth $500, were
found in a fashionable residence dis
trict of Los Angeles while workmen
were excavating.
Nan Patterson has been expelled
from Pittsbrug.
The czar is entertaining President
Fallieres, of France.
Harriman is endeavoring to secure
control of the Gould roads.
Governor Norris has cleared the
Montana land board of fraud charges.
Hearst opened the Independence con
vention by denouncing the old parties.
Taft is reported to have become
wedged in a telephone booth at Hot
Springs, Va., and a carpenter was
called to saw him out.
An important conference is being
held by officials of the Justice depart
ment regarding action to be taken in
the Standard Oil case.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians
will meet in Portland in 1910.
Ruef accuses Burns of tampering
with jurors and has started contempt
proceedings.
Great Britain is already beginning
to be sorry she entered into an alliance
with Japan.
Roosevelt is planning a hunt in the
mountains of Southern Oregoon before
he goes to South Africa.
The Italian cruiser Puglia is visiting
California ports and will also call at
Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B. C.
J. C. Stubbs, traffic manager for the
Harriman lines, says shippers are un
fair in their opposition to rate in
crease.
A Los Angeles ragbuyer got $1,500
in jewelry and diamonds in an old over
coat, where they had been placed for
safekeeping.
The preposition to'submit a consti
tutional amendment for state prohibi
tion in Texas will probabply carry at
the primaries.
Adlai E. Stevenson, ex-vice presi
dent of the United States, is a candi
date for the Democratic nomination for
governor of Illinois.
W. F. Walker, who looted the New
Britain, Conn., bank iof more than
$509,000, was sentenced to not less
than one year nor more than five years
in the penitentiary on the fi :rst count,
and five years each on three other
counts.
Hughes will run again for governor
of New York.
Furious anti-European riots are oc
curring at Bombay.
Sweden and Denmark are said
have formed a military alliance.
13.
NO.
to
Cincinnati shippers have appealed
direct to the president against rate in
crease.
England is preparing to press the
claims of her citizens against Vene
zuela.
In a battle between Mexican troops
and Indians 19 of the latter were killed
and two soldiers slain.
A passenger steamer was sunk near
Christiana. Norway, and more than a
score of people drowned.
Eugene W. Chafin, Prohobition can
didate for president, says if elected he
would use the army to enforce prohi
bition.
REGENTS GET BUSY.
LOSE BY EARLY WOOL SALE.
New Buildings, New Books and New
Teachers Ground Out.
Uinatilla Growers Feel They Are Out
University of Oregon, Eugene—At
the last meeting of the board of re-
gents a frame building to contain six
or eight rooms, at a cost of $5,000, was
authorized to be built on nine lots just
purchased in Fairmount,
It will be
used after this year for a shop.
President Campbell was ordered to
go East immediately to select a pro
fessor in geology, assistant in econom
ics, assistant in civil engineering, as
sistant in psychology and a librarian.
The following new members of the
faculty were elected :
L. R. Aiderman, professor of educa
tion, salary, $1,800; Dr. Hugo Koeh
ler, German, salary $1,000; Mrs. Ella
Pennel, assistant in English and assist
ant dean of women ; Dr. R. C. Clark,
assistant in history ; Haines Curry, in
structor in chemistry; Mozelle Hair,
asssitant instructor in English litera
ture; Mabel Cooper and Miriam Van
Waters, assistants in the correspond
ence school.
The board ordered $10,000 worth of
books for the library ; the Mary Spiller
home for girls to be finished and furn
ished and the library building furnish
ed. The matter of authorizing an as
sistant in public speaking was deferred
to some future time.
$40,000 as Result.
Pendleton—Umatilla county sheep
men are very much dissatisfied for hav
ing been induced to sell their wool
early in the season. They have never
been satisfied with the prices received,
and reports from recent sales in Mon
tana have convinced them that they
are really beaten out of between $30,-
000 and $40,000.
The reports from Montana show that
wool there brought an average of five
cents more a pound than the Eastern
Oregon wools, and this difference can
not be accounted for by the difference
in freight rates and shrinkage. An
advantage of one cent is accounted for
the Montana wool because of the
freight rate, and last year the shrink
age of the Montana wool was seven
per cent less than that grown in East
ern Oregon. Computing prices on a
basis of approximately the same ratio
of shrinkage for this year, the Mon
tana growers were readily entitled to
2‘4 cents more a pound than the Ore
gon flock owners.
The Oregon grow
ers, therefore, naturally feel that their
wool was worth as much as the Mon
tana wool less this 2't cents, and not
less the 5 cents, the actual difference
paid.
Had the growers of this county
alone have received prices correspond
ing to the prices paid in Montana, they
CAN’T SELL WORMY APPLES.
would have received in the neighbor
Fruit Inspector Will See That Laws hood of $4,000 more for their clip than
they did receive, and taking Eastern
Are Strictly Enforced.
Oregon as a whole, the difference
Salem—County Fruit Inspector Arm would have mounted into the hundreds
strong states that the state law pro of thousands.
hibiting the marketing of wormy and
scaly apples, pears and other fruits,
Inventory Norrfial Property.
which was not enforced last year on
Salem—At a meeting of the execu
account of the light yield of fruit in
some sections, will be rigidly enforced tive committee of the normal school
board of regents, Secretary C. L. Starr
this year.
The yield is abundant and there is was authorized to go to Drain and take
no reason, declares the inspector, for an inventory of the property there be
any grower to bring bad fruit to mar longing to the state. This step was
ket. Mr. Armstrong states that the taken in order that the board of re
movement will be state-wide, under gents and legislature may know what
the direction of the state horticultur is there belonging to the state and the
President A. L.
ist, W. K. Newell, of Portland, and exact situation.
Briggs has also given notice of his
the district commissioners.
resignation.
It is not known where
Professor Briggs will go from the
Open Bids at Klamath.
Drain school.
Klamath Falls Bids were opened
recently for extension of the South
May Rebuilt Woolen Mill.
Branch canal of the Klamath project.
Albany Jacobs Bros., owners of
This work comprises seven miles of
main canal, which will connect the the Oregon City woolen mills, are con
present canal with the Adams ditch in sidering a plan of rebuilding the old
They
the vicinity of Merrill. Two bids were woolen mill plant in Albany.
received for the entire contract, and were here recently inspecting the site
SULTAN STARTLES TURKEY.
other bids were received on schedule of the old mill, which was destroyed
by fire in 1904, and announced that
Will Throw Off Conventionalities and covering portions of the work. The they would rebuild the plant and estab
board of engineers will decide upon
be One of the People.
awarding the contract in a few days. lish a big mill here if local capital
Constantinople, July 29.—As a cli- All of the bidders are prepared to rush would take an interest in the enter
max of the most remarkable series of work as soon as the contract is let, and prise.
kaleidoescopic revolutionary changes in all probability water for the Adams
in the history of Turkey that have suc system will be carried through the
PORTLAND MARKETS.
ceeded each other in rapid succession main canal next year.
during the past two weeks, Sultan Ab
Wheat Club, 86c; red Russian, 84c;
dul Hamid II issued an ipmerial irade
Shipping Wool.
bluestem, 88c; valley, 86c.
today that changes the entire social
Elgin Now that the wool sales are
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; roll
existence of the imperial family in over the wool stored in the warehouse
ed, $260/27;, brewing, $26.
conformity with the reforms recently
of the Elgin Forwarding company, is
Oats No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton ;
granted to his subjects.
being shipped as rapidly as cars can be
Henceforth Abdul Hamid, no longer obtained. From here the wool goes to gray, $26.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
despotic ruler of an absolute despotism
Pendleton, where it is baled and then
but constitutional monarch by his own loaded aboard the cars for Boston. The $140/15 per ton; Willamette valley,
ordinary, $12; Eastern Oregon, $17.50;
declaration, will live the life of a
warehouse of the Elgin Forwarding mixed, $15; alfalfa, $12; alfalfa,
democratic monarch who depends on
rompany is an exceptionally busy meal, $20.
the good will of the people for his
place, and a large force of men is re-
Fruits Cherries, 20/10c per lb.;
power.
quired to handle the work.
apricots, $1 per crate; Oregon Alex
The irade issued today declares offi
ander peaches, 500/ 75c per box ; prunes,
cially that Abdul, who has been a self
Bandon Booklets Out Soon.
$10/1.25 per crate; Bartlett pears,
imposed prisoner in the imperial pal
Bandon The booklets and other lit $1.7 5 per box; plums, 90c per box.
ace for the past 21 years, will hence
erature ordered by the Bandon Com
Berries
Raspberries,
$1.10 per
forth appear on the streets like any
mercial club will be ready for delivery crate; Loganberries, 85c0/$l per crate;
other “citizen” of Turkey.
about August 20.
C. H. Warren, black caps, $2.25.
No less sweeping in its revolution
manager of the Warren Publicity com
Melons Cantaloupes, $2.506/3 per
ary aspect is the second decree of the
pany, of Portland, was asked to help crate;
watermelons, 1 J 2 (a 1 c per
irade, which announces that henceforth
raise the necessary funds.
Mr. War pound.
princesses of the imperial family must
ren and the committee succeeded in
Potatoes New Oregon, $1.250/1.50
observe monogamy. They will not be
raising more than was needed and the per 100 pounds; old Oregon, 50c per
compelled or allowed to be simply the
Commercial club has decided to double hundred pounds.
chief of a harem, but must be queen in
the order to 10,000 booklets.
Vegetables
Turnips, $1.50 per
their household.
sack; carrots, $1.75 per sack; pars
The sultan has long been known to
Rich Mineral in Curry.
nips, $1.75 per sack; beets, $1.50 per
fret under the bondage imposed on him
Bandon A mining expert, B. C. sack ; beans, 7c per [siund ; cabbage,
by the customs of his country and is
Merrill, who has been prospecting in 2c per pound; corn, 30c per dozen;
said today to be the happiest man in
Curry county, has gone to San Fran cucumbers, $1,00 per box; lettuce,
all Turkey.
cisco, but will return about August 1 head, 15c per dozen; parsley, 15c per
with a force of men to work on two dozen; peas, 4c per pound; peppers,
Hisgen for President.
veins of mineral, one of which he dis 10c per pound; radishes. 12’.c per
Chicago, July 29. President Thos. covered himself. He says the mineral dozen; rhubarb, 10/2c per pound; spin
Vico prospects of Curry county are extreme ach, 2c per pound ; tomatoes, Oregon,
L. Hisgen, of Massachusetts.
president John Temple Graves, of ly promising and he expects it to de $10/1.10 per crate; celery, $1.25 per
Georgia. The above ticket was last velop into a great mining country.
dozen; artichokes, 75c per dozen.
night nominated by the Independence
Butter Extra, 25c per pound; fan
party at its first National convention.
New Lumber Yards at Vale.
cy, 24c; choice, 20c; store, 16c.
The nomination of Mr. Hisgen was
Vale The Vale Lumber company
Eggs Oregon, candled, 240/24'..c.
made on the third ballot, his chief has finished putting in lumber yards at
Poultry Mixed chickens, 12'.¿c per
competitors being Milford W. Howard, this place. The company is composed pound; fancy hens, 130/13'...c; roost
of Alabama; John Temple Graves, of of parties from Union, who have mi
ers, 90/10c; springs, 190/20c; ducks,
Georgia, and Reuben Lyon, of New and enough timber to last them
old, 12c; spring. 14c; geese, old, 8c;
York.
William R. Hearst had 49 years, at the present rate of cutting goslings, 100/11c; turkeys, old, 180/
friends who voted for him on the first It is a strong company and will be a 19c; young, 200/24c.
two ballots.
valuable addition to Vale’s business
Veal Extra, 80/8'.>c per pound; or
enterprises.
dinary, 7O/7'.2 c ; heavy, 5c.
Good Stroke of Business.
Pork Fancy, 70/ 7 '.¿c per pound; or
Albany and Linn Apple Fair.
London, July 29. It is estimated
dinary, 6c; large, 5c.
that over 3,000 men were given em
Albany—Albany and Lane county
Mutton Fancy, 7'._,o/9c.
ployment today when a large number are preparing for the annual apple fair
Hops 1907, prime and choice, 4'.,
of factories were opened in conformity to be held some time late in the sea 0/5c; olds, 2o/2!.jc; contracts 90/10c.
with the new British patent law. which son. The first of these fairs was held
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
is effective today. The total output of last year. The success was so marked 10o/16c, according to shrinkage; val
cipital is variously estimated at from that it was decided to again make a ley, 150/15 '.¿c; mohair, choice, 180/
1125,000,000 to $300,000,000.
showing of the county’s resources.
lSj^C per pound.
LEVEE GIVES WAY.
WANT RE-ARGUMENT
Government Will Try to Again
Open Standard Case.
WILL LET NO REBATERS ESCAPE
Conference
of Leading Government
Attorneys With Bonaparte Results
in Unanimous Decision.
tain civil suits, it was announced by
Attorney-General Bonaparte that an
effort would be made to secure a re
vision of the recent decision and opinion
of the 1’nited States circuit court of
appeals in the case of the Standard Oil
company of Indiana and that an appli
cation for a reargument of the ease and
a motion for a modification of the opin
ion would lie submitted to that court.
Although no time is fixed, this action
will be taken at the earliest possible
moment, and th«» pending prosecution
against the Standard Oil company and
all other prosecution in which the giv
ing or receiving of rebates is charged
will be pressed to trial.
The decision to take this action was
unanimous on the part of five men
whom tho attorney general called to
the conference, namely, Solicitor-Gen
eral II. M. Hoyt, of Washington: Ed
win M. Sims, of Chicago; United States
, district attorney for the northern dis
trict of Illinois; James Wilkerson, of
i Chicago, Mr. Sims’ assistant, and Frank
B. Kellogg, of Minnesota.
DEATH LIST ENORMOUS.
Hongkong Typhoon Victims
to Number 13,000.
Known
Causes Heavy Damage to Farm Land
Hongkong,
July
30.—The
whole
on San Joaquin.
southern const of China is suffering
Antioch, Cal., July 28.— Last night
at 2 o’clock about 200 feet of the San
Joaquin river levee gave way on the
fertile Jersey island tract located east
of here, flooding the entire isand, com
prising nearly 4,000 acres. The loss
will be about $50,000, and fall princi
pally upon the Jersey Island company,
although there are many small farmers
who hold leases who will lose every
thing, as their crops were all practi
cally ready to harvest.
Th<> Jersey Island company had 100
acres of the finest celery in the river
section, estimated at 8,000 carloads,
that would have been ready to harvest
in about two months. There was also
500 acres of potatoes, besides other
vegetables. Nothing will be saved.
Besides this direct loss, all the
ditches used fordraining the land will
be ruined. Also thousands of young
celery plants that were ready for plant
ing are under water. It was intended
to make this one of the largest celery
fields in the state.
from the effects of the terrible typhoon
that swept over the China sea Monday
night.
Reports from Canton say that
over 12,000 were drowned, instead of
3,000, as was at first reported, and that
thousands of people of the coolie class
are homeless.
In Hongkong conditions are nlmost
as bad.
The immense public gardens
are a total wreck ami houses hnv«« col
lapsed all over the city. Over 100 Chi
nese vessels were sunk in the harbor.
The British river gunboats Whiting
and Robin were damaged seriously and
the French gunboats Argus and Vigi
lante were battered in the storm. The
Whiting is ashore ami will probably bo
a total wreck.
The Pacific Mail company’s fine new
grairite building, just completed nt a
cost of $500,000, was destroyed.
The Pacific Mail steamer Persia was
blown ashore at Kowloon on the main-
laml near Hongkong, and the Mongolia,
which had arrived in port but two hours
before the storm broke, was in collision
with the Portland A Asiatic Steamship
company’s steamer Xumantia. Neither
vessel, however, sustained serious dam
age.
ENJOINS ADVANCE IN RATE.
JAPANESE HAVE ARSENALS.
Georgia Judge Grants an Injunction
Against Southern Roads.
is Supplied
Mount Airy, Ga., July 28. On ap
plication of the Macon Grocery com
pany, and other merchants and mer
cantile corporations of the state, Judge
Speer, of the United States court yes
terday granted a preliminary injunc
tion restraining the Atlantic Coast
Railroad company, th«; Louisville &
Nashville and the Nashville, Chatta
nooga & St. Louis, the Cincinnati,
New Orleans & Texas Pacific and the
Southern Railway companies from put
ting into effect the increased rates on
shipments of staple products from
Western to Southern points, which fin-
railroads have given notice to the In
terstate Commerce commission will
take effect on August 1.
Judge Speer will hear arguments on
July 29 at Mount Airy. The increase,
if carried into effect, the petition al
leges, will cost the shippers and pur
chasers in Georgia from $500,000 to
$1,000,000 annually.
It is known
firearms aro
d in many
Speeches Strike High Note.
London, .J^ly 28. Earl Grey, gov
ernor general of Canada, in an official
report to the earl of Crewe, secretary
of state for the colonies, on the cele
bration of the tercentennial of the
founding of Quebec, says th«* speeches
of Vice J’resident Fairbanks, of th«-
United States, and the representative
of France, touched a high note of
friendship and good will to Canada and
the crown. Earl Grey also mentions
the great satisfaction f«-lt at th«- pres
ence of the detachments of Ameircan
marines in th«; review.
Coiners in Coal Mine.
Yusovo, July 28. While clearing
away the ruins of the explosion in the
Ripovsky mine, w'hich occurred early
in this month and resulted in the death
of nearly 290 men, the officers today
found a set of counterfeiting tools and
a quantity of spurious money. It is
surmised that the counterfeiters may
have been responsible for the disaster.
fl <•
of
Ex-Governor Rudd V**rv Low.
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The conili
,,f ex n .v rnor J-niw« II. IlnM re.
is ir-i.t imllv the ««me. nlth<n>"h.
•hi»<. lie is «lightly improved,
M ■ i ..ro of the f-imilv remo'n nt the
I....1 !.. n'moxt cnnstantlv nn-1 bi« phv«i-
vi“:'« him four timi'« il'vlv. Tho
• «no- i« conscious nn<1 able tn rec-
o*.bi« relatives, though too weak
to speak.