MALIEETm NTEItrniSE.
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief:
LABOR WAR IS ENDED.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
A negro has been appointed collector
of customs at Washington, D. C.
Stock is reported to be dying on
Montana ranges on account of drouth.
Fire destroyed a North Yakima,
Wash,, clothing store, causing $18,500
damage.
The Forty-seventh annual convention
of the Ancient Order of Hibernians is
in session in Portland.
President Taft visited Eastport,
Maine, in the extreme northeast cor
ner of the United States.
The First National convention of the
Ancient Order of Hibernians, Board
of Erin, is in session in New York
City.
There is much trouble in Bogota,
Colombia, caused by feeling against
the American streetcar company oper
ating there.
Agents of the Russian government
allege that the charges of ill-treatment
of Russian peasants in the Hawaiian
islands are groundless.
A motor fishing boat on the fishing
grounds at the mouth of the Columbia
was seen to capsize and sink with two
men. No help could reach them in
time and both were lost.
It is reported that President French,
of the North Bank road, has resigned,
but he says he knowns nothing of it.
Forest fires have destroyed the log
King camp of the Slade Lumber com
pany, near Elma, Wash.
A Roseburg, Or., man aged 75 years,
shot a panther, and thinking the an I
mal dead, leaned over to examine it,
when it roused up and attacked him
and nearly killed ' him before it was
despatched by his companion.
Six persons have lost their lives in
forest fires about Spokane.
Continued " reports of crop failure
keep the price of wheat going up.
A long drouth in Nevada was broken
by a cloudburst, in which one person
was drowned.
The Washington Coast artillery re
serves made perfect scores at practice
with 10 and 12 inch guns.
All conductors and trainmen on the
Grand Trunk railroad of Canada, have
gone on a strike for advanced wages.
Two men arrested as horsethieves in
Sacramento, Cal., have been identified
as men who held up a Southern Pacific
train last April.
In a speech at Emporia, Kansas,
"Uncle Joe" Cannon says the muck
rakers can't make him withdraw from
the race for speaker.
Employers of labor in Stockton, Cal.,
have declared war to the finish upon
the closed shop principle. All build
ing is at a standstill.
A broken trolley wire fell upon a "bi
cycle rider on Morrison street bridge,
in Portland, but his rubber tires saved
him from electrocution.
The Wright Brothers have been sued
for $40,000 damages for breach of con
tract in connection with the aviation
meet at Toronto, just closed.
A Chinaman arrested in Seattle for
having opium in his possession was
found to have $150,000 in gold, bills
and certificates of deposit stowed in
two heavy wooden chests in his room.
A general strike has been ordered
by the National Railroaders' union of
France.
Great secrecy over a conference in
the house of lords has alarmed British
Liberals.
President Taft has emphatically do
clared that he will take no part in
tate politics.
Sixty carloads of heavy steel rails
passed through Portland for the Pacific
& Eastern road at Medford, Ore.
Taft has started a movement to re
store the Colorado river to its original
bed in the Imperial valley of California.
Speaker Cannon, of the house of rep
resentatives, wss overcome by heat
while speaking before the Chautauqua
assembly at W Infield, Kansas.
Despite the wrecking of the first
regular train on the new monorail sys
tem in New York, the damage will be
repaired and the service resumed.
Flames starting from a surveyors'
camp have ruined thousands of acres
of timber and many settlers' homes on
Kellogg Peak near Wallace, Idubo.
Three of England's most prominent
"suffragettes" will visit America in
the Interest of woman suffrage, and
will probably come to the Pacific coast.
Catiada and United States will con
fer on the establishment of through
freight rates.
Many banks are making application
to be appolnUnl depositories for the
postal savings banks.
Secretary Ballingur will tour Rai
nier national park to see what im
provements can be made.
The section of Nicaragua controlled
by Madris is violently hostile to all
foreigners, especially Americans.
Long Fight Against Buck Stove Com
pany Declared Off.
Cincinnati A peace agreement of
great importance to organized labor
was made here between officers of the
American Federation of Labor and
members of the Stove Founders' Na
tional Defense association.
The effect of the agreement is to
end the bitter warfare between the
federation of labor and the Buck Stove
& Range company of St. Louis. The
association and the stove company,
through its representatives here, an
nounced their withdrawal from the
prosecutions against President Gom
pers, Vice President Mitchell and Sec
retary Morrison, of the federation of
labor, in the contempt case now pend
ing against them.
While the prosecutions hanging over
Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Mor
rison, of the federation of labor, have
passed out of the hands of the stove
company which instituted them, and
arc now pending in the United States
Supreme court at Washington, repre
sentatives of the stove company and
of the National Defense association, by
the articles signed, agree to with
draw their attorneys from the case.
Whether the appeal of the three men
from jail sentences imposed upon them
for alleged violation of an injunction
shall be fought to a finish in the Su
preme court is said to I rest now with
Attorney General Wickersham.
The five articles of the agreement
are as follows :
First A conference to be held by
officers of the labor organizations in
volved and Mr. Van Cleave, of the
stove company, at St. Louis.
Second The agreement in regard to
the wages, hours and conditions or em
ployment shall take effect within 90
days, based on wages and conditions
existinglin shops of competitors in the
city of St. Louis, operating union
shops.
Third The labor unions will make
known that the differences between the
two organizations have been satisfac
torily adjusted.
Fourth The Buck Stove & Range
company will withdraw 'all suits now
pending against the labor organiza
tions.
Fifth A cony of this agreement
will be published in the journalsof the
labor organizations and displayed in
the labor departments of the stove
company.
STILL PERSECUTE JEWS.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
STATE'S PROGRESS GREAT.
Kiev,
Russians Expel Them From
But Many Return.
Kiev. Russia The expulsion of
Jews from Kiev continues at the rate
of 45 a day. From July 4 to July 15,
497 were expelled by what is known as
the second method that is, they were
forced to actually leave town. During
the same period 1,121 were expelled by
the first method, which, in effect, is a
warning for their departure, but per
mits them time for a settlement of pri
vate affairs.
In the majority of cases the latter
method proved ineffective, as the Jews
in that category are prone to return to
Kiev after temporary absence.
Since May 24, when the imperial
edict ordering that all Jews who could
not establish a legal right of residence
elsewhere should be returned within
the pale of the restricted district of the
Polish provinces and the Ukraine, be
came effective, there have been ex
pelled from this city, Solemnka and
Dmieffka suburbs, 8,011 persons by
the second method and 3,641 by the
first method.
NEW ENGLAND IS AFFECTED.
Idle
Five Republican, one Democrat, one
Prohibitionist and one Socialist are en
gaged in lively race for the nomina
tion for governor of California under
the new primary law of that state.
Forest fires in Idaho are again be
yond control. Millions of dollars
worth of timber is being destroyed by
fires in Washington, Idaho, and Mon
tana. A company of Spokane men have ar
ranged to sMid $2,000,000 on an ir
rigation project In Rogue river vnlly,
Oregon.
700 Miles of Railroad Are Made
by Grand Trunk Strike.
Boston Some 700 miles of railroad
n the New England states were made
practically idle by the strike of con
ductors and trainmen declared through
out the entire Grand Trunk railroad
system. About 450 trainmen in New
England aro involved in the strike.
The strike in New England affects
166 miles of the main line of the
Grand Trunk road.
The railroad Bhops at St. Albans,
Vermont, where 850 men are employ
ed, have been closed. The shop em
ployes adopted resolutions condemning
the strike of the trainmen. Freight
traffic is tied up.
Santa Hurries to Arctic.
Seattle Santa Claus is reported to
make his home in the Arctic Circle,
but the pupils and teachers of the gov
ernment schools of Northern Alaska
would have fared ill next Christmas if
presents, food, clothing and fuel had
not been shipped on the steamer St,
Helens, which sailed for Nome and
other Arctic ports as fur north as Point
IIoe. Congress wss so late this year
that it was iniHssible to send the
school supplies on a sailing vessel and
thero was danger that some remote
schools might get no supplies at all.
Work on Railroad Begins.
Redding, Cal. A large corps of sur
veyors under J. T. Lentell has taken
the field to make permanent surveys
for the Humboldt & EiiBtern railroad.
which will connect Eureka with Red
Bluff or Redding. This work was or
dered immediately after the receipt of
news from Washington that the secre
tary of agriculture had consented to
sell 1,000,000,000 feet of timber in the
Trinity National forest at $1.50 a
thousand. The new railroad will cut
across Trinity county, which now has
not a single mile of railway.
Japan Buys Four Airships.
Victoria, B. C News was brought
by the steamship Suverle, which has
just arrived from the Orient, that the
Japanese government has ordered four
military airships in r ranee. They
are to be built in accordance with
French design, with certain alterations
suggested by the Japanese airship in
vestigation committee. They are ex
pected to be delivered in Japan late in
August. Negotiations are under way
for mure air craft.
Louisville & Nsthville Gives More
Louisville, Ky. Four thousand
IxHiisvilte shop employes of the Louis
ville & Nashville railroad were given a
surprise when they owned their pay
envelops and found therein an unsolic
ited Increase of 6 per cent.
State Engineer Lewis Says Irrigation
Work Is Revelation.
Salem After traveling 1,000 miles
through Central and Souhern Oregon,
half of the distance by automobile and
stage, State Engineer John H. Lewis
is back at the state captiol and reports
that development work and advance
ment of Carey act projects are a revel
ation to him.
"During the past few years the de
velopment work has been remarkable,'
he asserts. "At Prinevule they are
expecting a big rush of settlers be
cause of the recent opening of the road
land grants and prospects are bright
for a branch of the Oregon Trunk up
Crooked river.
"At Laidlaw the indications piont to
a reorganization of the Columbia
Southern project and it is probable
construction work will be resumed for
the purpose of reclamation of 30,000
acres of valuable land.
"Irrigation development is causing
signal activity at Bend. In addition
to this factor, timber, railroad con
struction and waterpower development
are all opening a great era for that
already prosperous community. Lots
that sold for next to nothing on the
main street of the town ten years ago
are now going at $4,000. Many new
houses are being erected and a great
rush of settlers is expected.
"Forty miles south of Bend heavy
machinery is being assembled and con'
struction work is beginning on an irri
gation project to water 30,000 acres.
Development work here is in charge of
the Deschutes Land company. The
main line of the Oregon Trunk will go
directlv through this project and the
Natron-Klamath line 1b to pass within
a few hundred feet of the dam site in
Crescent Lake, which supplies water
for the project. La Pine is the town
site for this development work and
there is now talk of moving Rossland,
the old town, to La Pine so that it will
be on the railroad. From La Pine ai
re ay can be heard the sound of blast
ing on the Natron-Klamath line, where
work is being carried on over the
mountain. Every blast is cheerful
news to the people of the Deschutes,
"At Paisley the 12,000-acre Carey
act project is being delayed because of
conflict in water rights.
"At Lakeview the dam and main
canal of a 60,000-acre private project
are nearly complete and the land under
the canal sold.
"Perhaps of all prospective projects
In Southern Oregon the one in Warner
Lake valley I found had the more nu
merous interesting features. This is
40 miles east of Lakeview and $30,000
has already been expended in surveys
looking to the development of 100,000
acres of land. This valley is 80 miles
long and runs from five to 15 miles in
width, between rock bluffs 3,000 feet
high. The land here will be developed
by the state under the Carey act. The
company doing the work is under $7,
000 bonds to make a complete inves
tigation and is apparently going ahead
In good faith, notwithstanding there
are immense obstacles DiocKing we
path.
"A canal or 1,000 second-foot capac
ity will have to be constructed for 15
miles si ng an almost vertical rock
cliff and three miles of dikes, 40 to 50
feet in height, must be constructed
across a peat bog, in addition to sever
al storage sites, long flumes and in
verted siphons.
"The tract, however, is very desir
able, and lies well for irrigation, hav-
ng an excellent climate, and with
railroad facilities, which have been
definitely promised, may prove very
feasible to Irrigate.
Through Line to Crater Lake.
Klamath Falls L. W. Clapp, stage
line operator, has established an auto
mobile service between Klamath Falls
and Crater Lake. Mr. Clapp has the
contract with the Southern Pacific to
handle the through passenger service
from San Francisco to Crater Lake.
Tickets can be purchased either at San
Francisco or Portland and way points
for the trip directly througth by way
of this great natural wonder. From
San Francisco a ticket through will
mean that after the arrival here pas
sengers can remain over night and the
following morning leave in an auto for
the rim of Crater Lake where they
will connect with another line from the
other side.
BIG WATER PROJECT ON.
Land
65,000 Acres of Rogue River
to Be Irrigated.
Medford Fifty-five thousand acres
of the Rogue river valley will be irri
gated, at an expenditure of at least
$2,000,000, within the next few years
as the result of the closing of a deal
whereby the Rogue River Valley Canal
company, composed of a party of Spo
kane capitalists, headed by P. Welch,
acquires ownership of the property of
the Fish Lake Water company.
The consideration was not given out
by either party to the transaction.
Mr. Welch said that his company has
had the property under option nearly
a year and had spent nearly $150,000
in examining the property, making
surveys and in development work
The old company had about 60 miles
of canals and ditches. 9
Fred N. Cummings, manager of th
Rogue River Valley Canal company,
said that his company would proceed at
once to the construction of additional
canals and laterals until there, were
100 miles of canals and 400 miles
laterals. The company owns reservoir
rights in the Fish and Four Mile lakes,
with a storage capacity of 65,000 acre
leet or water, besides the running wa
ter in the north and south forks of Lit
tle Butte creek.
The company owns 7,000 acres
land in the valley in one body, on which
it will maintain an experimental farm
in charge of an expert. Though this
body of land the company has dug a ca
nal six feet wide at the bottom and
boulevard 60 feet wide parnlleling it.
GRAINMEN IN COMBINE.
WAR IS UNAVOIDABLE.
Will Settle in Coos.
Marshfield W. E. Catterlin, deputy
state food and dairy inspector for
Western Oregon, has moved to Coos
county and will make this part of the
state his home. He has taken a ten
year lease on the Star ranch in Curry
county, near Langlois, and will go in
to the dairy business. The ranch is
one of the finest dairy farms in this
part of the state and takes in a large
tract. Mr. Cattterlin has given out
that he will bring about 20 families
from Tillamook county, who are com
ing to locate in Coos and Curry counties.
Needs Cherry Pickers.
La Grande With the largest crop
of cherries in the history of Union
county "dead ripe, a cry has gone up
for pickers and packers. It is impos
sible to get help to harvest the bumper
crop. 1 lie crews now at worn are
larger than ever before employed, but
notwithstanding this the crop is so
large that the augmented help cannot
handle it fast enough. Unless help is
obtained at once the orchardists will
sustain heavy losses from lack of help.
Wood-Working Plant Established.
Redmond An Important industry
recently located at Redmond is the
wood working plant of L. L. Osborne.
As soon as the building is completed,
It is the int-.Mition to manufacture kit
chen cabinets, light furniture, screen
doors, sash and doors. This is the only
stablishment of the kind nearer than
I'rinevillo.
Wheat-Growers to Manufacture and
Ship Flour.
Portland As a test of their strength
in opposing interests which they con
sider inimical to the Farmers' Educa
tional and Co-operative union, wealthy
wheat growers of Umatilla county and
the Walla Walla country are going to
manufacture flour for export on an
extensive sctl i, according to announce'
ment made in Portland. While the
plans of organization are not as yet
complete, it is known that they include
the building of flouring mills, ware
houses, power plant, transmission lines
and about 40 miles of railroad.
There is abundance of capital to
finance the various enterprises in con
nection with the movement. $500,000
having been already subscribed, and
there is plenty of money, say the pro
moters, to insure the carrying out of
the enterprise.
Campers Trek To Crater Lake.
Medford With nearly 50 people en
camped at Crater Lake and at Arant
camp, the season may be said to have
fairly opened. A score of automobiles
have already been driven to Crater,
carrying tourists from all parts, of the
coast. The accommodations this year
are superior to those of any previous
season and during the summer work is
to be rushed on the construction of the
lodge, which is to stand on the rim of
the crater. An automobile stage line
has been instituted this year, and the
trip can now easily be made.
Will Have Cheese Factory.
Toledo Toledo 1b to have a cheese
factory. T. B. James began construc
tion this week on the building, which
is to house the plant, and expects to
be making cheese by August 15. He
will build the plant on the Wadsworth
place, and will build a wharf out to
deep water so the Wilhelmina can load
the products with convenience. The
capacity of the factory will be 500 gal
Ions of milk daily, but this can be in
creased to 1,000 gallons.
Stock Poisoning Charge.
Salem On a charge of poisoning
stock, Al Hornbuckle was arraigned
before Judge George H. Burnett in
circuit court. Hornbuckle is from
West Stayton and it is alleged he gave
poison to animals belonging to neigh
bors. He has pleaded not guilty and
will stand trial.
Weston Harvest Starts.
Weston Harvesting is starting in
here. A few outfits have already begun
work on the lighter lands. Crops
around the immediate vicinity of Wes
ton will be average, from all indica
tions, and of good quality; much bet
ter than last year.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Bluestem, 88(i90c; club,
83fii84c; red Russian, 81c; valley, 86c.
Barley Feed and brewing, $20(f 22
per ton.
Hay Track prices: Timothy, Wil
lamette valley, $18(7;19 per ton; East
ern Oregon, $20tff22; alfalfa, new, $13
Otl 4.
Corn Whole, $32; cracked, $33 per
ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $26((i 27.50 ton.
Butter City creamery, extras, 31c
per pound; fancy outside creamery, 30
(((31c; store. 23c; butter fat, 31c.
Eggs Oregon candled, 26((i.27c
per dozen; Eastern, 24((i 25'sc.
Poultry Hens, 18y.l9c; springs,
20c; ducks, 16c; geese, 10(iUlc; tur
keys, live, 18di20c; dressed, 22(i
25c; squabs, $3 per dozen.
Pork Fancy, 1236riSc per pound.
Veal Fancy, 12dfl2gC per pound.
Green Fruits Apples, new, $1.25(rf!
2.25 per box; Lambert cherries, 12c
per pound; apricots, 50c(u$l per box;
plums, 60c () $1.25; peaches, 60c 0i.
$1.25; Loganberries, $1(;1.50 per
crate; blackberries, $1.60(f2 per box;
watermelons, l.c per pound; canta
loupes, $3.50(ii4.25 per crate.
Vegetables Artichokes, 60(n 75c per
dozen; beans, 8i.5c per pound; cub
bage, 214(d21vC per pound; cauliflow
er, $1.60 per dozen; celery, 90c; cu
cumbers, 50c per box; egg plant, 12lc
ht pound; green onions, 15c per doz
en; peas, 5c per pound; M-ppers, 10of
12'vc; radishes, l,Vl20c per dozen;
carrots, Slot 1.25 per sack; beets,
$1.50; parsnips, Hoi 1.25; turnips, $1.
Potatoes Old Oregon, 75c0i$l per
hundred; new, l 4e per pound.
Onions Walla Walls, $2.60 per
sack; Hood River, $2.25.
Cattle Beef steers, good to choice,
$5.20(i5.60; fair to medium, $4.26oi
4.75; rows and heifers, good to choice,
94.2601 5. 10: fair to medium, $3.6(H(4;
bulls, $;.! 3.75; stags, $3.60(i 4.60;
calves, light, $5.75(6.76; heavy,
$3.R0(n 6.
Hogs Top, $10oi l0.25; fair to me
dium, $S. t'.0(n9.75.
Sheep Best wethers, $3.75i4: fair
to good, $3(3.60; best ewes, $3oi3.60;
lambs, choice, $5.60oi6; fair, $4.76oj
6.25.
Japanese Writer Says Day of Reck
oning Is Coming.
Victoria That war between Amer
ica and Japan cannot be avoided is the
theme of a special article in the Osaka
Mainichi received by the Empress of
China. The Japanese writer says :
"It is now being anticipated in di
plomatic circles in general that in
future, when the relations between
Japan and America become more
strained which will certainly result
from a continued collision of interest
the ministry will have to accomplish
the painful duty of informing the other
country's government that the result of
such a collision will be an cutbreak of
war.
"It will be pitiful indeed, if, even
on that occasion, Japan adheres to di
plomatic compliments and states that
no collision will take place. Why do
the Japanese not boldly and openly say
that there will be a collision. If they
think that the Americans will believe
the Japanese assertions that a collision
will never take place, they will only
deceive themselves certainly not the
Americans."
The writer contributes a very
lengthy article, in which he credits
American sympathy with Japan during
the war with Russia to a desire to cur
ry favor with the Jewish element of
America, and after detailing American
naval progress he urges rapid develop
ment of the Japanese navy.
SIX DEAD IN
FOREST FIRES
Stubborn Rancher Sarts Slash
ing in Spite of Warnings
Schoolteacher and Niece In Lonely
Homestead Cabin Fall Victims
All Efforts Fail to Save.
MONORAIL TRAIN WRECKED.
Fail
New Interurban Service Proves
ure on First Trip.
New York Twenty persons were in
jured, only one seriously, in the first
commercial trip of the new monorail
service between City Island and Bar
low,' in the suburbs of The Bronx.
Howard Tunis, the inventor, who
was motorman, broke a rib and one
passenger broke a leg. The latter was
the only one of the injured to go to a
hospital.
Although described as a monorail,
the only car the company owns did not
depend for the stability on a gyroscope,
For support and traction it ran on a
single rail, but twin guide rails over
head hung between pillars and lateral
braces on either side of the right of
way held it in balance.
While the car was running 30 miles
an hour one of these guide rails worked
loose and the car tilted 40 degrees,
piling the frightened passengers in the
lower angle. The pillars at either side
of the car prevented it from toppling
entirely.
AMERICAN HELD PRISONER.
Physi'
Madriz Forces Compel Texas
clan to Treat Wounded.
Washington On the strength of
press reports the Mate department
telegraphed American Consul Moffatt
at Bluefields to ascertain whether Dr.
Lawrence Burgheim, of Houston,
Texas, is held a prisoner by the Madriz
forces. The report was that Dr.
Burgheim had been compelled to treat
the wounded at Bluefields Bluff.
Evidences of the condition of unrest
prevalent in Managua were received at
the State department through the
translation of public orders issued by
the military governor in the month of
June. One of these orders prohibited
individuals from leaving the city with
out written permits from the author
ities. Persons disobeying this order
were classed as revolutionists.
Another order prohibited gatherings
n private houses and in public estab
lishments after 9 o'clock in the even-
ng except by permission of the author-ties.
Negroes Visit Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay Four negroes visited
ex-President Roosevelt Saturday, July
16. They were Giles B. Jackson, of
Richmond, Va., John Dany, of Salis
bury, N. C, Dr. Wm, D. Crum, of
Charleston, S. C, and Harry S. Cum
mings, of Baltimore. The visitors re
quested Mr. Roosevelt to speak at the
negro state fair in Virginia in October
on his views of the conditions in Af
rica. After a half hour's talk with
Mr. Roosevelt the negroes returned to
New York. Each of them held a chip
as a souvenir.
Spokane, Wash. Six lives have
been lost in fires which are raging in
the district around Spokane. For hun
dreds of miles in every direction is a
caldron of flame, a seething furnace
which is taking its toll of life and
property. It the Coeur d'Alenes, all
over the Idaho Panhandle, in the Col
ville district, north around Nelson and
Kaslo, far westward, extending clear
to the coast, the fire fiend is king.
No real estimate can be placed upon
property loss from the fires. Great
tracts of timber have been burned. In
the Coeur d'Alenes some of the finest
standing timber of the entire district
has been wiped out. For miles in
every direction trie mountains appear
as huge bonfires. North, east, west
and south of this city the same condi
tion exists and every day the loss of
property is growing greater and the
death list is being added to.
A forest fire driven by a sweeping
gale through the dry pine forest on
Mill Creek, 18 miles northeast of Col-
ville, surrounded the homestead cabin
oi miss rear i are wen, aged ZZ, a
teacher in school district No. 156. Be
fore assistance could reach her she and
her little niece, 1 year old, daughter of
Hon. J. S. Wyman, of Plains, Mont,
were burned to death. Dozens of de
termined men vainly sought to reach
the cabin, but were driven back.
W. W. Ciark, residing on the south
fork of Mill Creek, arrived at Colville
and reported to Prosecuting Attorney
H. G. Kirkpatrick the harrowing de
tails of the schoolteacher's death. She
was in her lonely homestead cabin, her
niece spending the day with her. The
grewsome tragedy was the result of a
forest fire set by W. A. Trowbridge, a
near neighbor, clearing a slashing.
Trowbridge has been arrested, with
two other men, and he will be taken to
jail. The settlers are very angry, and
Sheriff Graham is prepared for emerg
encies. Millions of feet of timber have
been burned in the last few days.
Warden Hanson has arrived at Col
ville with Trowbridge in custody, and
Prosecuting Attorney Kirkpatrick, who
with Coroner A. B. Cook and Under
taker W. S. Prindle, was just leaving
the court house for the scene of the
death of Miss Brewen, ordered the
prisoner to the custody of Sheriff W.
H. Graham.
According to Mr. Clark, Trowbridge
had been warned personally not to set
fire, that it was contrary to law.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars'
worth of timber is being destroyed and
there is but little hope of checking the
flames until rain falls.
Strike Now Abandoned.
Seattle The Machinists' Union of
Everett, Wash., has voted to permit its
members in the Great Northern shops
there to accept the company's offer of
cents an hour and a nine-hour day.
This will make the wagse 44 cents an
hour. The men had demanded an
eight-hour day. According to the
United Metal Trades association, this
action will result in abandonment of
the strike begun June 1 all over the
Northwest for the eight-hour day.
Wrecking Crew Held Up.'
Albany, N. Y. A wrecking train on
the Boston & Maine railroad, which
was sent out from Mechanicsville early
to clear up a freight wreck near Usher
was flagged by Italians before it
reached the wreckage. As the train
lowed down, two Italians pointed rifles
the engineer and fireman and re
fused to let the wreckers proceed. The
train carried about 40 Italian laborers,
who found themselves facing an armed
crowd. The train returned to Mechan
icsville.
Men Die as Heroes.
Nelson, 'B. C Leaving safety to
look after others, Foreman Charles
Norman, of the Lucky Jim mine at
Kaslo, lost his life in a bush fire
which, fanned by a high wind, swept
over tne mine, r our other men were
suffocated and about 30 escaped.
A pprty or prominent mining men.
including Finecane, Miller and Colonel
Davidson, from Spokane and Webster:
Loper and Proctor, of Nelson, on com
ing out of tunnel No. 6, noticed fire
rapidly approaching. They went to
Whitewater and assisted to get the
women and children away. Norman
went to the mine camp to warn the
men in the cabins. Otto Swanson led
the men to the back of tunnel No. 4.
Not being room there for all, several
went to another part of the tunnel.
where smoke was swept through the
ventilating chambers.Tsuffocating Col.
Peterson and W. A. Chesney. Dave
Peterson was found suffocated at an
other point. Meanwhile Norman went
to look for Ted Lucas, who is still mis
sing. He was cut off by the flames
and his body was found at the entrance
to the tunnel.
WISE BOY SUBLET CONTRACT
Benevolent Old Lady Lavishes Kind
nsss and Attention on Wrong
Lad Hired a Substitute.
A benevolent old lady happened one
day to be vlBltlng a school where a
young Incorrigible was undergoing,
punishment for a series of misde
meanors. The teacher cited him as "the
worst boy In the school one 1 can't
do anything with. I've tried every
thing In the way of punishment"
"Have you tried kindness?" was the
gentle Inquiry.
"I did at first, but I've got beyond
that now."
At the close of the visit the lady
asked the boy if he would call and
see her on the following Saturday. A.
boy arrived promptly at the hour ap
pointed. The old lady showed him
her best pictures, played her liveliest
music, and set before him a delicious
lunch on her daintiest china. Then she
thought it about time to begin her
Httlo sermon.
"My dear," she began, "were you
not very unhappy to have to stand in
the corner before all the class for
punishment?"
"Please, ma'am," broke in the boy,.
with his mouth full of cake, "that
wasn't me you saw. It was Pete. He
gave me ten cents to come here and
'ake your Jawing."
After Many Days.
The magnate looked up Impatiently
from hlB work.
"Well, my good man," he snapped at
the diffident and rural person who
stood twirling his rusty hat, "what
can I do for you V
"I guess ye don't remember me.
Hank,' faltered the caller. "But you
an' me useter go swimmln" together
In th' ol' town. Then you got a job
In th' bank, an' I got a Job in the
grocery store."
"This Is all very Interesting, and I
seem to remember your lace. But
come to the point my time Is valuable."
'Yes, Hank. You got a better offer
an' left the old village. l stayed
pluggfn' along in th' grocery store."
'Well well?"
'Well, Hank, when you left you
owed $78.62 on a grocery bill. Here s
where you pay up!" Cleveland
leader.
Some High Flyers.
The guide was showing the visitor
around Washington.
'This," he announced, pausing In a
wide corridor, "Is the wing of the-senate."
"Do tell!" ejaculated the man from
Kansas with the red handkerchief
around his neck. "I never knew the
senate had wings, but I've often
thought the senators might have 'em."
"And why the senators?"
"Because so many of them are al
ways up In the air, b'goshl"
Forests Blaze Near Hoquiam.
Hoquiam, Wash A force of 1,000
loggers is engaged in patrolling the
logging districts north of Hoquiam to
prevent forest fires from breaking out
anew. No damage has been done yet,
with the exception of $5,000 worth of
timber destroyed Saturday. Hot pre
vailing weather has a tendency to dry
out mosses and brush, making timber
easy prey to the flames. The territory
burned over is estimated at 4,000
acres. Forest fires are raging in Little
North river country, located 16 miles
southeast of here.
Lots of Practise.
Have you had any practise? In
quired the manager of the great com
bination circus and menagerie, who
had advertised for a man who could
chin himself twenty times with one
hand.' "
I've had too much practise," wear
ily sighed the applicant, whose right
shoulder was three Inches higher than
his left "For seven years I've been
practising two hours dally; I'm a.
straphanger, sir."
The Burning Question.
Venus was rising from the sea.
"Great Jupiter!" cried the men, as
they crowded the beach. "How did you
lose your arms?"
But the women never noticed the
arms.
"In the name of all that Is wonder
ful," they chimed, "how do you keep
your hair In curl in salt water?"
'udge.
Attractive Letters.
Rodrick Yes, he came over here to
(earn our language and started on the
alphabet Began picking up letters,
you know.
Van Albert And what progress has
be made?
Rodrick Oh, he soon found that
the only letters he had time to pick
up were the X's and Vs.
at
Yellow Fever Feared.
Bluefields American Consul Thos.
P. Moffatt has issued instructions to
the American naval oommanders here
to observe the strictest precautions
(hat no personal communication be held
with Bluefields Bluff, on account of
fears that yellow fver is prevalent
there. It Is reported that yellow fever
has reached the camps of the Madris
army.
Auto Supersedes Piano.
New York Another count has been
added to the indictment against the
automobile. Benjamin Lesser, attor
ney for severs! creditors who have filed
s petition in bankruptcy against a local
corporation which manufactures pianos,
says in explanation of the case : "The
Mroration could not realise on its
stock of pianos on hand. People are
not buying pianos any more: they are
buying automobiles." .
Shasta Route Blocked.
Redding Fred W. Andree, conduc
tor, was killed, Charles J. Foley,
brakeman, was bruised, and an engine
and 12 freight cars were derailed in a
wreck on the Southern Pacific railroad
a mile south of Gibson. A broken
flange on ono of two cars which were
being pushed ahead of the locomotive
caused a derailment of the first car and
the engine and 11 remaining cars rap
idly left the rails. The wreck occurred
in a deep cut, and when the engine and
cars piled upon one another traffic from
both sides was blocked.
His Question-Answer.
"Are marriages made in heaven?"
The lecturer paused, as If for an an
swer to his interrogation; whereupon,
a man with a hunted look glanced fur
tively over his shoulder, swallowed
bard, moistened his Hps and said.
huskily:
"Do strawberries grow at the north
oole?"
Methods of Calculation.
"Scientists are not usually success
ful business men."
"No. They think they are doing
very well if they eome within a few
hundred thousand miles of the exact
measurement You can't figure on dol
lars that way if you are doing busi
ness with a bank."
Hint at the Reason.
patient la much better today.
"The
nurse.
"Yes, doctor. You remember
ildn't cad yesterday."
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Bad Storm Sweeps Nevada.
Reno, Nev. The worst storm Ne
vada has experienced in years at this
time of the year started late Tuesday
afternoon breaking the longest dry per
iod the state has ever known. jThe pre
cipitation has been i, early two inches,
which exceeds the total for the five
preceding months combined. Streetcar
traffic was demoralized by a flash of
lightning which burned out the trans
formers. The cars were out of com
mission all night.
Big Mill Threatened by Fires.
Tacoma, W ash. Forest fires on the
McKenna branch of the Tacoma East
ern railroad threaten the Bryan saw
mill, according to reports received
here. A lively fire is raging and it is
feared the force of men fighting the
flames is inadequate to save the mill.
going
for my
Caution.
"Why do you insist on my
with you when you ask father
band again?" asked Ethellnda.
"Because," answered Claude, "I
don't want to give him any more op
portunities to presume because there
sre no ladles present"
The Great Problem.
"Please advise me."
"Welir
"Shall I marry a girl who Is m,
temperamental opposite and quarrel
with her the rest of my life, or shall
I marry a congenial sou) and get tired
of her?"
Still Cheaper.
"Isn't It cheaper to move than to
pay rent?" I Inquired of the young
married man.
"I suppose it Is," be replied with a
settled air, "but my plan Is cheaper
than either; I live with my father-ln-
w."
Christianity.
Christianity Is Intensely practical.
and has no trait more striking
Dommon stajg. fiuxtof