Malheur enterprise., August 13, 1910, Image 7

if AT.tnnm UNtjcIiPHIKE.
Eccentric
Mr. Sangster
By GERALD PRIME
Rudolf Bangater u eccentrlo. to
the verge of something far more serious
than mere uncomplicated queerness.
Fortunately for him, he had been ec
centric bo long that It had come to be
understood among men that he was to
be left unmolested. Absolutely nor
mal In matters of business and the or
dinary affairs of life, he was kncwn to
be subject to the most extraordinary
and even extravagant variations from
the natural and expected. He was a
man with a positive genius for per
verseness. Among all his eccentricities there
was nothing so Indicative cf his per
version as his uncompromising refusal
to permit his daughter, motherless and
an only child, to marry John Wllllston.
Both young persons seemed fash
ioned for such a unkn. John Wlllls
ton was the worthy repository of sev
eral generations of transmitted wealth
and the woman he had loved from
early girlhood was the heiress of a
man whose touch had been that of
Midas freed from the sordid lust tor
gold.
This was maddening. John Willis
ton was a marvel of patient tact, but
this Illogical beating about the bush
was almost more than he could en
dure. "About the only thing left for me to
believe Is that you don't " consider
your daughter good enough for me,"
he said, bitterly.
At this unfamiliar outburst Sangster
smiled rather sardonically. 'There
It Was the Vision Who Spoke First.
may be something In that," be admit
ted, as If he half believed It
Then the baffled lover rushed away,
bearing the burden of a stifled longing
that was well nigh crushing.
Tears passed. Sangster showed no
sign of yielding. Although he was a
veritable weathercock on most ques
tions he never swerved a hair's
breadth on the subject of the mar
riage. The day came, however, when
Wllllston made up his mind to bring
the matter to a crisis. Putting all bis
wit and energy Into the business, be
evolved a scheme which seemed to be
so promising that be went to Miss
Sangster Immediately. To his infinite
delight she not only listened appreci
atively, but agreed to co-operate.
A few hours later Wllllston dined
with the Sangsters and when he and
bis host were alone in the smoking
room the crafty lover steered the con
versation toward occultism, a subject
In which Sangster professed to be
greatly absorbed.
"I've always set you down for a
skeptic," said Sangster.
T used to be," the other admitted.
"Has anything brought about a
change of heart T" Sangster asked,
with a sharp glance from beneath a
pair of unusually bristling eyebrows.
"Well, not precisely that," John con
si certain person and one or two
fessed, rather diffidently. "Just lately
things have seemed rather mysteri
ous hard to accept, you know."
Sangster lighted a fresh cigar and
assumed an expectant attitude. "Fire
way," he said. "I'm listening."
"Oh. there really Isn't much to be
aid. What it all amounts to Is that
certain person of my acquaintance
baa developed suddenly the faculty of
doing things that have seemed to be
Impossible."
"Is he an adept or only a fakir?"
"That la still to be demonstrated."
"Let me help you unmask blm."
"That's precisely what I want yon
to do."
"There's nothing on the planet that
Interests me more deeply. I must con
fess, though, that I have run up
against nothing but impostors."
ALM08T BLEW HIM UP.
Everything vaa quiet in the little
cigar store when the old farmer
rushed In and brought bis umbrella
down on the showcase with a whack
that almost broke the glass.
Tou weasel-eyed shrimp 1" he shout
ed. "What do yon mean by selling me
a loaded cigar T I lit it and blamed If
a puff of flame didn't leap out and aet
my hair afire."
The clerk arose and rubbed his
yes.
"A loaded cigar r he echoed In as
tonishment. "Why, my dear sir, we
don't sell loaded cigars."
"Well, you sold me this one, be
came her are the pieces."
And then the clerk bad to laugh.
Tot! 'insisted upon paying 60 bents
(or a good cigar, didn't you 7"
"I did, young man."
"Well, the 60-cent cigars always
eome In an air-proof celluloid tube
and you must have lit the cigar with
out removing the tub. Here's an
other bee without the tub. Smok U
oa oi, sir.
"The most extraordinary claim made
by this person is the power to ex
change personalities to appear, for
instance, under two or more distant
forms within a very brief period pos
sibly in less than an hour," he said
"Rot deadly rot!" declared Sang
ster, contemptuously. "Mere buffoon
ery, The petty device of the trick
ster." "Possibly," the other admitted, with
the air of a man unconvinced. I've
not yet seen this exchange of person
alities effected. I have been promised
an opportunity to witness it on Satur
day evening."
"Where Is this precious piece of Jug
glery to be worked T"
"No particular place has been desig
natedyet" "Then why can't It be pulled off
hereT"
' "I know of nothing to conflict un
less it should be the odor of tobacco.
I have heard the alleged miracle
worker express a decided distaste for
that."
"Then let It be done In one of the
parlors or in the library."
"No," Wllllston said, decidedly.
"After all It would be better to l ave
It here. It's quieter and more re
mote." "As you prefer. The hangings and
furnishings can be removed if neces
sary. Any apparatus required ?"
"None whatever."
"Want the lights turned low? I can
flood the place with electricity at the
first symptom of treachery."
"In this manifestation there should
be as much illumination as possible.
It's entirely visual, you know."
"Good! Saturday evening at what
hour?" -.
"About eight"
"Isn't that rather early for the su
pernatural to show itself V
-Thin mnnlffiatfttlon does not de
mand the hour of midnight as one of
its conditions."
"What are Its conditions?"
"As I understand the matter there is
only one that we are to seat our
selves comfortably in a well-lighted
room and see what we shall see."
"Yes we'll see what we see,"
echoed Sangster.
At eight o'clock on the following
evening the two men were again In
the smoking room. . Enveloped In a
constantly deepening cloud of his own
creation, John Wllllston emitted
smoke in puffs that suggested a mini
ature volcano. He had not spoken a
word for ten minutes
"If your fakir doesn't like tobacco,"
he observed finally, "he won't be at
his best In this atmosphere. Don't you
think we'd do well to move into the
library?'
"Oh, no; let us stick to the original
arrangement," John said, hastily, rous
ing himself and consulting his watch,
"Eight o'clock," be added, as if he
had been asked the hour.
"Tour fakir may be all that a fakir
should, but he isn't Johnny on the
spot," grumbled Sangster.
"Somebody's coming," Wllllston
whispered.
The door was opened softly and
there floated into the mist a figure
so good to look upon that both men
abandoned themselves straightway to
the luxury of looking.
It was the vision wno spoke first
"What .a perfectly dreadful atmos
phere!" it exclaimed, with a little
choke which was not at all unbecoming.
"John is the Vesuvius who is re
sponsible for it" said the vision's fa
ther. I haven't been smoking. Where
fore all this magnificence? Are you
going out?1
"Oh, no. My new gown came home
and I just got Into It and came up
here to exhibit myself.
"In Its present setting It certainly
Is," the old man agreed gallantly,
"Well," she hesitated and began to
move slowly toward the door, "I want
you to see me in if
She stepped forward quickly, threw
her arms about her - father's neck.
kUsed him on the forehead over and
over again, sobbed audibly half a doz
en times and fled precipitately from
the room.
"What the" began Sangster,
"Tobacco. What a brute I was not
to have opened the window!" John
broke In, rather excitedly. "I'll see if
I can do anything for her."
When he Had gone tne old man
lighted his cigar and fixed himself
comfortably in bis armchair. "Now
for tbe next chapter in the exchange,
he chuckled, grimly.
H6 had not long to wait Before be
bad come to the end of his cigar the
door was opened again and Molly, still
wearing the wonderful gown, its fleecy
whiteness made still more ethereal by
a veil of filmy lace and a crown of or
ange blossoms, entered the room.
"Same girl, same gown, same every
thing except the headgear. No trans
formation, no exchange of personal
ity Just the original Molly Songster,"
the old man maintained stoutly.
"Not so," denied John Wllllston,
showing himself In the doorway.
"Tbe dean is still In the house."
"Then I'll ask you to excuse me
while I go down and thank him for the
great service he has rendered me!"
said Sangster, making off with un
wonted alacrity.
Knew How to Advertise,
"How did you happen to get four
times as many letters as I did?" said
one washerwoman who bad advertised
for work by the day to another who
had advertised for the same thing.
, "Wound up my advertisement by
saying I was on a diet" said tbe lucky
one. "That 'on a diet' notice goes
right to the heart of stingy souls who
are trying to cut down expenses. They
hate to figure on a washerwoman's
meals and Jump at the chanc of get
ting on who doesnt at"
-" ECTENCB VOTES.
i -, i i
Fifty-seven unmarried persons com
mit suicide to forty-three married.
; Switzerland produces 13,000,000
worth ot manufactured chocolate annu
ally.
Bathing the bead behind the ears
with hot water often will cur an ob
stinate headache. .
Peat will be the only fuel used In
great German electric power generat
ing station. -
A healthy horse eats nine times Its
weight in food in a year, a healthy
sheep aiz times.
During 1909 Chile produced 18,179,
tons of copper, as against 19,463 tona
the year before.
At the last semi-annual official esti
mate there were 299,293 Indians in
the United States.
More than fifty bacteria to the cu
bic inch were found in a recent test ot
rain water In Paris.
At an elevation of ten feet the hori
zon apparently is sngnuy more man
ten miles distant.
The rudder of the tranatlantlo liner
Olympia weighs 100 tons, being the
heaviest ever built
A web filament two and one-quarter
miles long has been taken from the
body of a single spider.
China will hold its first great expo
sition, national In character, at Nan
king from May to October.
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS '
NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST
FASHION HINTS
Passing It Along.
Tv lost all confidence In Blinkers
sine be worked that old horse off on
me," said Maxklelgh. I'll never trual
blm again."
What are you going to do with the
animal V asked hi wlf a. .
"Why er I expect a friend of mine
over this, afternoon to look at blm,
replied Markelgh.
For s young girl this ii a natty, itmi
tailory style, suited to any wash material.
It may be made as simply as you please,
or a more dressy touch introduced by
having the collar and cuffs and bands of
embroidery.
OUR COAL SUPPLY.
Simplifying the Labor of Proenrtag
It Increased the Output.
It was feared at one time that the
rate of coal consumption would soon
outgrow the rate of production and
there was talk of curtailing the use of
coal in many industries, says a writer
In LIoDlncott's. But the inventor pro
ceeded to make coal mining machinery
which lessened the labor of extracting
the raw product from the earth and
increased the output tenfold. England
to-day bases her hope of extending the
period of her profitable coal mining
upon the Invention of machinery that
will compensate for the added cost of
deeper mining. In America coal mln
Ing machinery has doubled and tripled
the output A coal digger cuts and
extracts the coal from Its bed as fast
as three or four skilled miners could
formerly do; It falls automatically up
on cars, which swing upward like ele
vators to the light of day, and deposit
their contents into chutes.
Down the sooty mass tumbles to the
breakers, where it Is pounded and
broken Into sizes suitable for com
merce. Thence It slides on to . the
wasbery, and comes out at the other
end to be dumped on cars. The cars
quickly cross the country to some river
or bay, where canal boats are waiting
The transference from the cars to the
boats, and from the boats to tbe whole
sale and retail dealers' coal yards Is
performed automatically. Even when
the coal comes into our homes it is
shot down chutes into the cellar, and
not carried there In buckets and bas
kets aa of old.
And yet, for all this simplifying ot
labor, this invention of machines to
reduce the dust and ashes, nobody
likes coal, and we all pray tor the time
to come when Its use may be abolish'
ed. It Is not a popular article ot com
merce; it is a cliwnsy and dirty fuel,
and in this age of Invention and dis
covery It seems woefully out ot date.
It is not new machinery to Increase
the output that we are longing for, but
the discovery of some new method of
obtaining heat and power.
. Fleeting Charms.
AH er dallfht to feaal upon
A maid who's "cut la beauty's mold,"
But If shrew when heeutr's Von,
The ma wh wt4 Ur isuraure "4elr
EetablUhlair a Itepatatloa,
"Father." said little Rollo, "was
Solomon really the wisest man?"
"I don t know, my son. You aee.
his political power was so great that
when he claimed to be the wisest man
nobody bad the nerve to contradict
blm," Washington Star.
lit oralas.
are the seats of
the scom-
What
tuir
"Didn't you ever have a friend pass
you perched up in a fine automobile?"
-LoaUrllle Courier-Journal,
its vnr veaier.
Indignant Customer I want to r
turn this Jewel box. It's not ivory, aa
reDresented.
Dealer (musingly) Now, I wonder
If it can 1 pouelble that -elephant tad
fal teeth Cleveland I-J","
The Klaa It Wis.
"Walter, this chuck sUak I ordered
Is like wood."
"Yes. sah. Dat am wood -chuck
steak." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
. COMMERCE INCREASES. j
American Trade With South America
of Great Importance.
Washington That the commerce of
the 20 Latin American republics lying
south of the United States is increas
ing with such strides that it is deserv
ing of particular attention is proved by
the special report of John Barrett,
director of the International bureau of
American republics, to the fourth Pan
American conference now in session at
Buenos Ayres. After pointing out
that the work and correspondence of
the bureau have increased 1,000 per
cent since the last conference in 1906;
that last year it was directly respon
sible for $52,000,000 of new trade ex
change in the Pan-American field;
that it distributes annually 450,000
pieces of printed matter descriptive of
Pan-American relat'ons, in contrast
to 50,000 four years ago, and that it
has been an active and useful factor
in numerous ways for the promotion of
Pan-American friendship, peace and
commerce, the director says :
"The statistics just compiled show
that in the year 1909 the 20 republics
south of the United States bought and
sold in trade with the rest of the
world products valued at the surprising
total of $2,127,301,000. Assuming
that there are 70,000,000 inhabitants
in Latin America, this- gives a per
capita trade of approximately $30.
The foreign commerce of China and
Japan, combined, with a conservative
estimate of their population at 350,
000,000, was approjymatley $1,000,
000,000, or only half that of Latin-
America, giving a per capita of less
than $3 a head, or only one-tenth that
of Latin America. This comparison is
not in any sense intended as a reflec
tion on Japan or China, but solely to
emphasize the remarkable importance
and progress or Latin America.
This grand total represents an al
most phenomenal increase in one de-
cede, as over the average foreign
trade for the years 1896-7-8, of $1,
203,616,000, or 128 per cent It must
convince the most hard-headed doubter
that the 20 nations which reach in un
broken array from Mexico and Cuba
south to Argentina and Chile
are worthy of the study of the
rest of the world and particularly of
the United States.
"The total of Latin American for
eign commerce for 1909, divided int
exports and imports, shows a notable
balance of trade . in favor ot Latin
America. The exports were valued st
$1,232,103,000; the imports at $895,-
198,000, or a favorable balance oi
$336,905,000. Exports, moreover,
show an imDressive increase in ten
vears of 143 uer cent and imports of
115 Der cent
The United States bought from and
sold to Latin America in 1909 pro
ducts valued at $589,302,000. Taking
this as high-water mark of the trade
Latin America and the United States
exchanged last year, what becomes of
the complaint of the uninformed man
that the United States is being out
stripped by Germany and France?
When the United States buys, as sne
does, one-fourth of all Latin America
sells to the world, and sells to it one-
fourth of all it buys, no one can logi
cully say that the United States and
Latin America are losing their com
merce with each other through the
competition of Europe."
Boat to Get New Guns.
Vallejo, Cal. The cruiser South
Dakota, which has just returned from
Monterey bay, will go to Mare Island
navy yard immediately for extensive
battery overhauling. All eight-inch
turrets will be remodeled, and heavier,
stronger truns with a hydraulic elevat
ing gear for the turrets will be In
stalled. Considerable routine work on
the South Dakota has also been auth
orized. The cruiser will bo in the navy yard
for several months, during which time
the cruisers West Virginia and Mary
land will be undergoing repair. Upon
the completion of the work in October,
the three ships will leave here for
anchorage in San Francisco bay, under
sailing orders.
Western Ideas Wanted.
Washington China is looking for
Western ideas for her navy. In Sep
temeber his imperial highness, Prince
Tsai Haun, and Admiral Sah, the im
perial naval commissioners, will arrive
in the United States to study naval
affairs. Mr. Calhoun, minister to
China, advised the State department
that the royal party will sail on the
Steamer Manchuria, on August 2.
Details for his reception will be ar
ranged soon. A number of American
naval officers probably will meet the
prince when he lands and escort him to
the various naval establishments on
his way across the United States.
Railway Bureau to Open.
Washington A new phase of rail
road development will be marked by
the installation In this city , by the
railroads of the United States of a
bureau of railway economy, formal an
nouncement of which was made re
cently from Chicago. Logan G. Mc
pherson is dlrector-in-chlef. "The bu
reau," said Mr. Mcpherson, "proposes
to build a complete railroad library
and to become a repository and source
of Information for matters of railway
interest other than those of a tech
nical nature.
Retirement of Colonel Stevens
Washington After more than
thirty-six years of active service, Col.
Robert R. Stevens, assistant quarter
master general at San Antonio, Texas,
will be placed on the retired list of the
army on his own application. Colonel
Stevens is a native of Texas and was
graduated from the United States mili
tary academy in 1877. Recently he
was promoted to the grade of assistant
ouarterrnaiiter general with the rank
of colonel.
TROOPS TO SAVE TIMBER.
ALASKA 8TEAMER LOST.
Plan to Station Regulars In Forest
Reserves During Summer.
Spokane, Wash. President Taft, as
commander-in-chief of the army, and
Secretary of War Dickingon have been
requested by the Western Pin Manu
facturers' association, of which J. P.
McGoldrick of Spokane, is president,
acting in behalf of timber owners, lum
bermen and settlers in the Northwest
ern and Jf acinc states, to station gov
ernment troops in the national forest
reservations from May 1, to September
80, of each year, to the end that the
timber resources of the United States
may be saved from destruction.
"The fire losses in the forests in
the Western states during the last 60
days will amount to at least $150,000,
000." said George M. .Cornwall, of
Portland, Ore., who presented a resolu
tion embodying the foregoing at the
semi-annual meeting of the associa
tion, "and it is likely that in addition
millions of dollars' worth timber will
be destroyed during this and next
month unless heavy rains come before
the end of the dry season."
Statistics compiled by A. W. Coop
er, secretary of the Western Pine
Manufacturers' association, show that
fully 50 per cent of the standing tim
ber in the Untied States is located in
Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon
and California, where fire patrols are
maintained by lumbermen's associa
tions and the state departments.
These, however, are inadequate to
cope with the fire element.
"Theie exists a grave menace to
standing timber in the national forests
on account of fires," Mr. Cornwall said
in disscussing the use of troopo in
fighting and prevention, "and this car
ries with it heavy losses of life and
valuable property.
"There are stationed at various
posts in the United States thousands of
disciplined men, known as government
troops, who could be instructed in the
methods of fire fighting and patrol duty
in the various forests not alone in the
Northwestern and Pacific states but
throughout the country where forests
exist .
"The plan, if carried out, would be
to place the troops under the direction
of the department of the interior or
any other department of the govern
ment in the national forsets, where
they could be instructed in the methods
of fighting forest fires, which are us
ually started as the result of careless
ness on the part of hunters, campers,
land clearing, lumbermen and rail
roads. "These forests require an adequate
patrol, regularly established and main
tained during the so-called dry season,
from May to September. Forest fire
fighting is a science and should be
taught to the troops as part of the mi
litary tactics. Besides no better em
ployment could be found for the sol
diers than to utilize them as protectors
of life and property during part of the
year when men are most needed in tbe
forests of the country.
" We are hopeful that the president
of the United States and the secretary
of war will look upon our request as a
step in the direction of actual conser
vation of one of the country's chief re
sources; also that an order will be is
sued to send the nearest troops into the
national forests, which, in several of
the northwestern' states, are not unlike
furnaces at the present time."
Reports from various parts of Idaho;
Washington and Montana received in
Spokane show that fires have broken
out anew in the various reserves,
where in addition to more than 2,000
men now at work with dynamite, axes
and mattocks, there is an urgent de
mand for more than double that num
ber to cope with the flames.
In the Lolo national forest in West
ern Montana and Eastern Idaho, more
than 600,000,000 feet of white of white
and yellow pine timber in the path of
fires and other districts in various
parts of the Northwest are threatened.
Representatives of timber companies
returning to Spokane from Montana
and Idaho say that the fire lines are
from eight to 10 miles in extent in
numerous places.
Princess May Total Wreck on Reef
: All Hands Safe. .
Juneau, Alaska The Canadian Pa
cific steamship Prlcess May, which left
Skagway, southbound, for Vancouver,
B. C., at 9 o'clock Friday night, with
80 passengers and a crew of 68, struck
the North Reef of Sentinel island at 2
o'clock Saturday morning in dark and
hazy, but not foggy, weather, and in a
smooth sea sank two hours later.
All the passengers and their bag
gage were taken to the lighthouse on
Sentinel island, whence they will be
brought to Juneau by steamers which
have gone to their relief. The light-
keeper did everything in his power to
make the castaways as comfortable as
possible. None of the prssengers or
crew was injured.
There was no panic when the Prin
cess May struck the reef, but the wo
men and children suffered much from
cold in the small boats, the majority
having left the sinking ship scantily
clad.
Captain McLeod and his. officers took
the'situation coolly and managed to
get all the passengers and crew away
from the sinking steamer before she
foundered. The boats hugged the
shore until daylight, when landings
were made.
In the meantime steamers were sent
from Juneau, where the distress sig
nals were received from several sour
ces. The steamship Victoria picked
up the call at sea, and it was also
heard by the United States naval sta
tion at Cordova. Canadian postoffice
officials believe that a shipment of gold
from Dawson for Seattle went down
with the vessel.
IDAHO FORESTS BURN.J
CLERK DISCLOSES '
CHINESE PLOT
Wholesale Entries Made by Sub
stituting Photographs
Officers of Unit id States District
Clerk in Northern California '.
Involved in Crookedness..
Discrimination Is Charged.
Washington The interstate com
merce commission received complaint
from the Medford traffic bureau against
the Southern Pacific company alleging
discrimination against Medford in class
freight rates from Medford to Call for
nia points, 60 to 75 per cent higher
than from Sacramento to Portland. In
stead of combination rates from Med
ford to and beyond the California-Ore
gon state line the complaint says rates
should be according to a graduated
through mileage scale and suggests a
reduction of from 6 to 25 cents per 100
Army Policy Is Decided.
Washington Major General Leonard
Wood, chief of staff of the army, came
back from Beverly with President
Taft's army policy in his portfolio.
President Taft and General Wood went
over all the War department estimates
for the coming year and decided on
general expenditures for the mainte
nance of the army. The president and
General Wood, it is understood, are in
accord to bring u.e National guard in
to closer relation with the regulars.
Who Will Work on Main.
Washington Three persons have
been named by Acting Secretrsy of
War Oliver as a board to have charge
of the raising of the battleship Maine
The board consists' of Colonel Black,
Lieutenant Colonel Patrick and Cap
tain Ferguson. They will have charge
of the engineering problems encounter
ed when It Is finally decided to remove
the sunken warship from Havana har
bor.
Lemon Rat Reduction Postponed.
Washington The Interstate com
merce commission ordered a postpone
ment from September 1 to November 1
ot the date on which reduced freight
rates on California lemon shipments
shall become effective. A cut in th
rates from $1.16 to $1 per 100 pounds
applies to shipments to all eastern
points. Tbe order seems to make cer
tain that no further postponement will
be possible.
2.000 Men Working to Save Timber
Many Buildings Burn.
Spokane, Wash. Fanned by stiff
mountain breezes, forest fires in the
Coeur d'Alenes. the Panhandle of Ida
ho, Bitter Root mountains, Stevens
county, St Joe country and the Clear
water valley have broken out afresh
and rangers have again sounded a call
for every available man in the country
Two hundred men were asked for at
Wallace. 60 at Stites, in the Clearwa
ter country, and 300 employes of the
Flewelling Lumber company quit work
at the mill at St Joe and went to fight
the flames.
A11 told, perhaps 2,000 men are
fighting fires within a radius of 100
miles of Spokane.
Rangers Pring and f inish struggled
through 10 miles of flames to Stites to
summon help. By crawling in the bed
of a small stream where the water was
scalding hot the two guards saved
their lives and. famished for food and
drink, stumbled to help at Stites.
A special from Wallace says forest
fires in the vicinity of Murray have
swept all the timber from an area four
miles in width and 10 miles in length,
together with buildings, flumes and ap
pliances belonging to mining com
panies.
San Francisco By the arrest of Jew
Loy Sing, a wealthy merchant Immi
gration Inspector Richard Taylor 'as
serts that he has disclosed a method
whereby hundreds of Chinese have ob-N
tained fraudulent entry to this coun
try. " ;
According to Taylor, the clerks
office in the United States district
court for the northern district of Cali
fornia is badly involved by the disclos
ures. He said that the arrest of Jew
was brought about by a confession of a
youthful deputy in the clerk's office.
Jew Loy Sing Is specially accused of
altering and changing a public docu
ment by substituting the photograph of
an unknown Chinese for that of Gee
Jung Kee in the court record of a
habeas corpus proceeding which had
resulted in the admission of Kee to
this country. Taylor declares that
substitution has been practiced upon
no less than 300 habeas corpus court
records in the district clerk's office
here. In some cases more than one
substitution was made in the same
record until it has become practically
impossible to trace the original.
The Chinese who posed as Gee Jung
Kee with the latter' habeas corpus
papers succeeded in securing the entry
of ' three Chinese as his sons and was
preparing to have three more pauedo
sons and one daughter permitted to
land when the plot was uncovered. He
then disappeared, but Jew, who is said
to have employed him, was caught
Inspector Taylor estimated that the
two Chinese expected to make $10,000
from the use of the substituted papers,
as the pretended Gee's adopted family
would have paid that sum to land here,
and more were planning to come when
admission was denied to the three sons
and one daughter.
A minimum rate form en for the use
of papers was $500 each and that for
women, who could not be sold. $3,500.
FARMERS MAKE FORTUNES.
WAR CLOUD PASSES.
Pro
Catholic Authorities Abandon
posed Demonstration.
Madrid Like oil on troubled waters
came an official announcement that the
manifestation scheduled to be held at
San Sebastian had been abandoned.
With the Catholics Insisting upon hold
ing it and the government forbidding
it and rushing troops to the scene to
see that the order was obeyed, Spain
was prepared for a great insurrection,
which now seems forestalled by the de
cision to forego the manifestation
The Catholic newspapers will publish
manifestoes explaining the decision.
Spain was at a high point rof tension
at the time the decision was made,
That the Catholics would go ahead and
prepare to hold the manifestations at
San Sebastian,' thereby precipitating
an uprising, seemed assured. Troops
were being rushed to San Sebastian
from this city, including two regiments
of hussars, a regiment of cavalry and
two battalions of chasseurs, while
regiment of infantry was ordered from
Vittoria.
One Rich Man In Workhouse.
Chicago W. Wayne Belvln, former
millionaire of the New York stock ex
change, member of a distinguished
Virginia family, president of the Port
Angeles & Eastern railroad, president
of the British-American Finance com
pany, and vice president of the Wayne
Construction company, was sent to the
workhouse because he could not pay
$10 fine for drunkenness. Belvln was
formerly connected the the Nerthern
Pacific. His wife obtained a divorce
from him. Belvln is a descendant of
General "Mad Anthony" Wayne.
Japs Will Study Flying.
Berlin The Japanese military com
mission, which for several months has
een studying military conditions in
Europe, has arranged with the com
pany controlling the Wright aeroplane
patents in Germany to buy a number
of Wright machines. The Japanese
government will send to Germany four
captains and 21 lieutenants of the
army, and these, by agreement with
the German government will receive
instructions in aerons'itics, Seven of
the officers have already arrived here
and begun to take lessons.
Apple Crop Is Abundant.
Niagara Falls C. V. Rothwell, of
Marthsburg, W..Va., secretary of the
International Apple Shippers' associa
tion, submitted his annual report on
the condition of the apple crop on Aug
ust 1, compared with the same data a
year ago. "If present prospects are
maintained," he said, "the country
will have plenty of apples of better
than average quality, Th Pacific
states will produce one of the heaviest
crops ever harvested."
Thief Robs Fainting Woman.
New York With $24,000 worth of
diamonds in her handbag, Miss Tlnnl
Boner, a saleswoman for a jewelry
firm, fainted on th street While a
policeman was assisting her to her
feet, somebody In the surrounding
crowd plucked him by the arm and
said: "Here's the sick lady's hand
bag." It was empty when she opened
It
San Joaquin County, California. Crop
Paying Big Profits.
Stockton, Cal. This season many
fortunes will be made by the farmers
in San Joaquin county and especially
those who put in grain on the rich in
land, district west of Stockton. The
barley is running from 30 to 35 sacka
to the acre on thousands of acres,
which means large profits to the growers.
Charles Moreing and Llovd Woods-
of Stockton, have commenced harvest
ing 13,000 acres of barley on the
islands, and they will secure 865,000
Backs, which at the present market
price will bring them about $400,000.
They are operating five traction en
gines, drawing immense harvesters
that thresh thousands of sacks daily.
yet it will take quite a time to get all
of the grain ready for the warehouses.
Reports received from many sections
of the county indicate an unusually
large crop of wheat and barley, and
the indications are that the warehouse
space will be taxed to cover all of the
grain.
ROCKS ROLLED ON JAPS.
Formosans Take Heavy Toll , From
Brown Invaders.
Victoria, B. C. Severe fighting,
with heavy Japanese losses, is contin
uing in Formosa, according to advices
received by the Sazo Maru.
The Japanese are now engaged in
capturing Shinarek Mountain, propos
ing to mount artillery there to domi
nate the native strongholds, and have
lost many men by the tactics of the
head hunters in rolling heavy rocks
over cliffs on advancing parties. Rocks
weighing tons were arranged with
props to be pulled away by natives
well hidden. Sniping and ambuscades
by small parties have coat many lives.
. Wilder Confesses Guilt.
New York Erwln J. Wider, the
young cashier of the Russo-Chinese
bank, in this city, whose stealings
from the bank's security box resulted
in a loss of more than $500,000 to the
institution, pleaded guilty to a charge
of embezzlement Wider was remand
ed for sentence on August 10. The in
dictment specifically charged Wider
with stealing stock valued at $11,000.
On this indictment he can be given an
indeterminate sentence of from five to
ten years. Wider may, however, be
indicted on other charges.
Storm Sweeps Oklahoma.
Oklahoma City A rain storm, ac
companied by a strong wind,' swept
over Central Oklahoma on Wednesday
evening, Aug. 3. Tihe greatest dam
age reported from the wind was in
Shawnee, where several frame dwel
lings were blown down. The temper
ature here dropped from 110 to 72 in
two hours. Thursday marked the hot
test day in Muskogee this season, the
thermometer reaching 106. All heat
records were broken at Lawton, where
the mercury reached 112 in th shad.
A sand and dust storm Is now rsging.
Grain Pool Uuder Probe.
Chicago Federal grand jury in
vestigations Into the recent comer in
July wheat will be started within a
few days in an effort to determine
whether the alleged manipulators of
th deal violated the Sherman anti
trust law. W. 8. Kenyon, assistant to
Attorney General Wlckersham, plans
to summon sufficient witnesses before
the present body to learn whether there
are grounds for a complete Inquiry
by a succeeding grand jury.
Big War Baljoon Works.
Berlin Th dirigible balloon Gross
III, which left Gotha at 9 o'clock Moo
day night with a military crew aboard
mad a saf landing at Tegel, at 0
o'clock next morning. Th balloon
traveled between 170 and -00' mile.