CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK NEW TRANSCONTINENTAL LINE RAIN AND HAIL CREATE HAVOC REBELS WRECK RAILROAD TRAIN Crops Destroyed and Fruit In­ jured In Eastern Oregon. Mine Track and Nearly Exterm­ inate Federal Troops. Umatilla county late Saturday did I more damage than ever before known, rich harvest fields being rendered total I losses, with barns, haystacks and live- Edmonton, Alt«.—Forty engineer­ i stock entirley destroyed. Damage to property generally is estimated to be ing crews, consisting of 800 men with hundreds of thousands of dollars. teams and pack horses, will be sent Only through prompt action of into the field at once to make prelim­ neighbors spreading the alarm were inary surveys for the Northern Terri­ many lives saved in the wall of water torial Railway company’s line from five feet high and varying from 300 to 500 feet in width, which swept Batter Edmonton to tide water at Fort Creek valley, carrying before it farm­ General Resume of Important Eventa Churchill on Hudson’s bay. This is to houses, livestock, wagons, haystacks, Presented In Condensed Form be part of a system of 1,450 miles, Cloudburst Sweeps All Before It in fences barns and other buildings. The Many Passengers Also Slain—Wound­ Butter Creek Valley — Idaho for Our Busy Readers. from the Hudson’s bay country to Port settlers were advised in time to take ed Are Murdered—Dead Are Wheat Belt Hard Hit. to the hills and turn their cattle loose Essington on the Pacific Coast, con­ Burned In Wreckage. to seek shelter in elevated country. necting Edmonton with Lac La Biche, The Alaska-Yukon exposition has Fort McMurray and Lake Athabasca. Pilot Rock sustained a heavy alfala Baker, Or.—Thousands of dollars crop loss, the same being beaten into paid a final dividend of 4 per cent. Mexico City—More than 60 persons H. G. H. Neville, C. E., chief en­ damage was done by the largest and Governor Deneen, of Illinois, re­ gineer or the company, which is most peculiar hail storm in this part the ground by the heavy fall of rain. were killed and many were wounded The fall of hail was so heavy near that fuses to desert Taft for the new third | financed by ji British syndicate and of the coutrny in years. Some of the city that the foothills were white as , in an attack by Zapatistas on a pas­ party. stines were seven-eighths of an inch snow. A cloudburst above the town । senger train between this city and capitalzed at $40,000,000, has covered in diameter. Cuernavaca, Morelos, Sunday. Another New York society girl has caused Birch Cieek to rise rapidly, The Zapatistas, said to have num­ With hardly any warning the hail and all bridges across the same were disappeared mysteriously and not the every portion of the proposed route bered 500, placed a mine under the and is fully satisfied upon the engi ­ beat down with such fury for seven slightest trace of her can be found. washed out. railroad track, which exploded as the minutes that pedestrians could not neering problems presented in the con ­ i he heaviest crop loss, however, oc­ locomotive passed over it. The over­ Great Britain plans extenive addi­ venture on the street, horses whipped curred in the southwestern portion of turned engine hardly had settled when tions to her navy, in order to wrest struction of the system. by stones ran away, and one ice wag­ supremacy of the seas from Germany. Plans are under way to begin grad­ on team tore down Second street the reservation in the heart of the the Zapatistas sprang up from ali magnificent wheat belt, three of Uma­ sides and poured a murderous fire into U. S. District Judge Hanford, of ing work early next season, when the scattering ice for blocks. The greatest damage was done in tilla county’s prominent wheat kings the train. Washington, has resigned, and all laying of rails will also be carried on, — John Crow, George Perringer and The first object of their attack was charges against him for misconduct in and in two years, according to present the country, the storm going north­ Tom Thompson—being among the big calculations, the Jine is to be in opera ­ office have been dropped. east, although gardens and orchards in losers. Crow figures that he and his a secund-class coach in which were tion from Edmonton to the shore of the city were badly cut. In .Missouri riding a federal military escort, with son lost half of their reservation crop, a captain and two lieutenants. Lightning striking the fire alarm Lake Athabasca, opening to commer­ The system at Vancouver, Wash., sent in a cial development the vast mineral and _ federáis got out of the car as quickly general alarm and the firemen all timber wealth of Alberta’s farthest JAPANESE RULER WHO LIES GRAVELY ILL, AND MEM- as possible to answer the fire of the turned out in the rain and darkness to I north. The company will then pro- assailants, but their efforts were fu­ answer it. I ceed with the construction of the line tile. The command, with the excep­ tion of five wounded and two who es­ A few swift kicks by a government in the province of Saskatchewan. caped, were killed. mule put an automobile out of com­ The Edmonton cut-off will be built mission near Chehalis, Washington, later. The line from Lake Athabasca Thirty passengers in the second- The machine had to be towed back to westerly will tap the rich agricultural class coaches were killed and many resources of the newest north, contin­ the shop for repairs. were wounded. In the first-class uing thence to the Pacific Coast. coach no one was killed, but one was A convict at Folsom penitentiary, The Northern Territorial Railway dangerously wounded and may die. California, has refused to speak for company will operate a line of steam­ The conductor, an American named two years, and will be examined as to ships from its Hudson’s bay terminal Aller, is not expected to live. After his sanity. He is under sentence of I to some British port. Engineers in the train had been swept by fire, the death for an attempted jail break. the employ of the corporation have Zapatistas rushed on their stricken victims and began killing the wound­ Senator Fall, of New Mexico, de­ made a study of the construction of ed. A priest, unhurt, pleaded with clares the United States will not re­ ice-breakers in the Baltic and are now DeLoa, the rebel leader, to stop the gain in 50 years the prestige it has working on designs of vessels capable slaughter and it ceased. lost in Mexico by failure to protect of meeting the abnormal conditions After sacking the express and bag­ the rights of its citizens in that coun­ which prevail on the bay. They will also superintend the building of the try. gage cars the rebels poured oil on the I fleet. cars and, putting the bodies of the The completion of the railroad A highwayman near Aberdeen, dead into them, set fire to the train. Wash., robbed the occupants of an means the opening of a vast empire, When the relief train arrived there automobile and then forced the driver which only a few years ago was re­ was nothing but debris and a few per­ to take him, with the other passen­ garded as a barren waste and useful sons, most of whom were hurt, to tell gers, on a “pleasure trip’’ about the only as a hunting ground for the fur­ the tale. trader and the sportsman. city. The train between Matamoras and Publa, in the state of Puebla, was The emperor of Japan improves BOLT HITS OBSERVATORY. fired upon and windows in the car was slowly, but is not yet out of danger. were shattered, but so far as known no one was hurt. The famous old apple tree near Ap- lightning Plays Havoc Early Sunday pomattox court house, Va., under I on Council Crest, which Lee surrendered to Grant—long CLOUDBURST HITS GRAIN BELT I ortland—A bolt of lightning crash­ since carried away piece by piece by ed through the lookout platform of souvenir hunters—is to be replaced by the observatory on Council Crest dur­ Walla Walla Region Suffers Damaging a tree planted by Governor Woodrow ing the electric storm at 2 a. m. Sun­ Rain Storm. Wilson. day, set fire to the structure and , a^a Walla, Wash.—From out of General Pedro Ivonet, the last of played havoc with the electric system the Blue mountains a storm traveling the Cuban insurgent leaders, has been that had been installed on the Crest. approximately 55 miles per hour broke The bolt struck about three feet killed. over Walla Walla, valley Saturday from the station of the searchlight. I night about 6:45 and paralyzed all It drilled a hole in a two-by-four tim­ PORTLAND MARKETS. traffic in the city, uprooted trees, ber. splintered the plank beneath and damaged wheat and fruit crops and Wheat—Track prices, new: Club, after setting fire to the observatory blew over buildings, among others 780:79c; bluestem, 820183c. three warehouses. u ,------ Old: leaped several hundred feet to the Club, 840 85c; red Russian, 84085c- house of Arthur Duchamp, proprietor I ” — CROWN RELOW, *PRINCE KMPKE hs HORrxn ”” The storm was the most severe known IKIT, • ADE—RIGHT, ^YOSHUHIT^. bluestem, 880.89c. of the Crest, melting the electric here n recent years, and though no Hay —Timothy, $ 140', 15; alfalfa, switch above his bed and giving him a one will hazard a guess as to the • 110)12; clover, $10; oats and vetch, fright as it ran about the metal of the Flat much grain was hewn to the I and amount of damage done, it will one 130-acre tract of land will not • 12; grain hay, $9. ground. The hail remained on the bed in which he was lying. amount up into the four figures, it is t’.8obad,y 18 it; demolished. Millstuffs — Bran, $25.50 ton­ Die flames started in the observa­ ground there, and it ia feared’’frozeI Cr»« reared. Reports from the storm-swept the K arde 7. All buds were crop insurance! CanCeHed balf of h ia shorts, $28.50; middlings, $32. tory were quenched almost immediate­ zone are very meager as yet, tele­ D Corn—Whole, $39; cracked, $40 ton. ly by a heavy downpour of rain. Aside | cut off so that future berries and phone lines being down in a great Perringer says his loss will be. at a many instances. Fresh Fruita — Cherries, 80 10c- from melting the electric switch in fruits were damaged in that way. A path was cut for several miles <^nJservative estimate, $9000. County apples, old, $1.5003 per box; new, Mr. Duchamp’s house, the lightning 1 he only hopeful news was that the 75c0$1.5O box; peaches, 6O0^85c box • burned out fuses and fixtures at sev­ between North Pine and Homestead as ,dge J' W’ Mal°ney, a reservation vast wheat region known as the Eu­ farmer, places his loss at $3000; also reka Flat escaped. currants. $1.500 1.75 box; plums, 75^ eral places and linemen passed a large if an army had tramped through it. Four fine horses of W. Mitchel) near Sam R‘ Thornpson, a big rancher in 0$1.25 box; pears, $1.7502 box­ part of the day repairing the damage. \ereJ8 in ful1 8win« and a apricots, $10)1.25 box. Homestead were killed by lightning the 9ame vicinity, estimates the Joss fn! u wheat is threshed PREACHER WANTS ATHEIST. I . - ---------- t0 h,a crop will be ten bushels to the and stacked m th the Berries— Raspberries, $1.75011.85 field. All wheat I.ewiston, Idaho—A grain crop acre- crate; loganberries. $1.7501.90 crate- wet will not pass a No. 1 inspectiom which was destined to be the heaviest Roads blackcaps, $20 2.25; blackberries’ Methodist Pastor Says People Need he I uget Sound warehouse at Sud- ever produced in this section of the rendered imnas^hl re8e7.at,on were berfy «nd one at Thiel, on the North- $1.50(c doze«; bricks at us. as they did at Wesley, it is believed that between 5000 and ground but the h 2 y be“ten to the Credit for the three-year period 7500 acres in the vicinity of Grange- Most of thJh* he^S off- spinach, 40 5c pound; tomatoes. $10 but they don’t even talk back. This , ville. Idaho, will suffer a loss slightly loss f h lnsured grain is a total must begin from actual residence is an age of doubt. We ministers 1.25 box; garlic, 8(0 10c pound; car- ve™s TulH be..8Ubmitted withi” «ve nee