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-r-vrNTtt OlSEGOmAN WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1900. SEW, WILL Similar to- Instrument Pre viously Probated. VALUE OF ESTATE REDUCED NOW C M. Idleman, Whom Court Haff Re- moved Front Executorship, XSets Back Into the Position. OREGON CITY, Or., July ZL Today C. M. Idleman, of Portland, filed his oath as executor of the last will of Matilda D. Holt, deceased, who died In Oregon City, December 2S, 1E92, the document bearing the date of November X, 1S92. This viil was admitted to probate on July 15, 1SOT. and the estimated value of the property In Clackamas County is $5000. The probate records show that a will containing nearly the same provisions, and naming' the same beneficiaries, Charles D- Hawkins being the chief, was admitted to probate on February , 1&3, the will bearing date of November 22, 3BS2, and The property being then valued t J60W. Both wills on record ostensibly have the signatures of Matilda D. Holt, and the witnesses are the same. L. R. Janney and John WeismandeL However, when the will recently admitted to pro bate was proved, an afddavit was pre sented that L. R Janney, one of the wit neses, could not be,, found in the State of Oregon. In both wills C iL Idleman. Is named as the executor, and was duly ap pointed by the court. There was considerable litigation over the estate, and the matter was carried to the Supreme Court on legal technical ities. About three years ago Mr. Idltf man was removed as executor of the will, and K. D. "Wilson was appointed adminis trator of the estate. The probating cf- another will throws Mr. "Wilson out, and reinstates Mr- Idlenian. It was shown to the Probate Court that there was some 'irregularity n tho execu tion of the :wlll w-hich was first ad mitted to wrdbate. L. R. Janney was" a jireacher and real estate agent, and Mr. Welsmandel remembers that a few days after he had signed tho will ns a wit ness, Janney came to him with a docu ment alleged to be the will, and informed him that he had neglected to sign the will In another place as required by law. Mr. Welsmandel again affixed his signa ture, as requested, but did not closely examine the paper. Operations of Catrrorru. J. Spangler, a farmer of Carus. was cere today, and expressed the opinion that within another week the worm pest would be a thing of the past He former ly lived In Ohio, and is familiar with tho occasional visitation of worms in that state. Mr. Spangler says that the pest now infesting Clackamas County is a species of the cutworm and materially differs from the army worm in habits. The army worms all travel together while each Individual cutworm works to "suit his own convenience. The cutworm alsb buries himself in the ground at times, while the army worm does not Mr. Spangle says the cutworms are short-lived; soon they begin to swell, then burst. In fact, he has recently no ticed a lot of them that have already reached tho bursting stage. The cutworms have already done considerable damage in restricted localities, destroying the second growth of cloven potato fields and gardens, and have 'worked on fruit trees and hop vines to a- limited extent WAST THEIR WHEAT BACK. Suit Over Grain In the Black: Ware houses. In X,irm County ALB ANT. Or., July 5L The Circuit Court for Linn County convened this af ternoon in an adjourned term for the spe cial purpose of trying the case of E a Davis, Ida M. Tobln, Mary Black, W. H. Gulliford, B F Allen. J. A. Smith, John Davis, J, M. Porter, Alexander, Power and Robert Andrews vs. the Portland Flour ing Mills Company, BaWour, Guthrie & Co. and James Black, administrator iof the estate of T. JBlack. At the time of his death T. J. Black was running threo warehouses, two being located at Halsey and one at Deny. Eighty-eight thousand bushels of wheat had been in storage in the warehouses, the title of which, it Is claimed, remained, in the plaintiffs, and nearly 200 others, whom they represent. Of this, amount, considerable had been shipped to the other defendants, at the beginning of the suit there heing in stor age with them 15,721 bushels. A. "Wheeler was appointed receiver of this wheat. pending tho suit, which is brought to re cover possession of it. The trial will prob ably last two days. The destructive power of the cutworm is shown in the gardens of J. R. Douglas, the most extensive in the county, where 3000 heads of cabbages, his cauliflowers and some other vegetables, including part nf his potatoes are ruined. A few things like onions are not, touched. Mr. Douglas Y.z.s been the biggest exhibitor at the state fair from this county, and it is now doubtful if he has anything with which to make an exhibit tills year. At a meeting of the Board of Directors of this school district last evening Miss Map Jones, of Marlon. County, and Miss Anna Yantls, of this cpunty, were elected t positions in the public schools to fill vacancies caused by recent resignations Reports oome from the -country "of the hilling of Chinese pheasants nearly two mouths before tho hpfcn season. WA'TS CHARTER AMENDED. Baker City Wants Sen-era Paid for by the Property Benefited. BAKBR CITT. July SL At the special meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last evening a committee was appointed to revise tho t:lty charter and net in con nection with a similar committee whlen. wa& appointed by the City Council at its last meeting. The committee consists of Directors Paxton, Imhaus and Carter, of tho chamber. The Council committee Is Councilman Miller, Epplnger and Crablll. The object for Which it is found neces sary to change the charter is to construct a modern sewage system through the principal streets, namely. Front Resort ar. J First Jd charge the "benefited property-holders with the cost of the im provement As the charter now stands, T'ie cost ef the improvement would fall en all the property-holders in the city aLke. After the committees shall have r-greod upon the amendments, the bill w.J be laid before the Legislature. 3IALL FARMS ARE WAXTEU. Recent Deal In Grand Ronde Valley Expected to Lend to Others. XA GRANDE. July SI. The hope is be ing generally expressed here that the Vonlev land sale may have a good effect and that other large tracts may be placed on the market at prices within tho reach of the small farmer. The large tracts have lg stood in the way of the development f the resources of the Val- The eoll and climate are capable of j 'educing more wealth per acre than can he secured from 40-cent wheat; but sir all cr crops Involve more careful farm ing and this demands farming on a. smaller scale. The results of the Conley sale are -vart-cusiy estimated. That the land will be setLed at nee there seems to he little dctbt, for the agent who negotiated the aeaa Between sir. comey and the Oregon Land Company has been given charge of the pln of eeloaiz&tien, and is already at work. Wttfc the .same seal that was I ehown is winding up the big deal, the 1 agent will nave te settlement complete j to a very short time. Agents will ha sent into the Mormon settlements of Idaho and Utah, andjthe. land, will be offered for sale or rent under certain conditions. The Oregon Land Company will not require that even a very large part of the lafid be devoted to beets, though It" will farm on its own account 1000 acres if the set tlement is not complete next year. Man ager Stoddard states that the company will be content If 20 per cent of the land is devoted to beet growing. The partition and -settlement of so large a tract will, of course, add very materially to the wealth of the county, but as to which town will be most directly bene fited there will be room for dispute. The village of Cove lies nearest, and will ex pect some benefit. Since a. large part of the product of the farms will be sent to- l the La Grande sugar factory, and since a railroad for conveying it thither will be built. La Grande naturally looks for all the trade of the colony. But Union, lying nearer, counts upon a larger share. It Is safe to'predlct that the big Bale will, one way or another, affect the old county-seat quarrel in Union County. MBJT WEJfT WITH BEER. Left Salmon Seined "Without Crew to Operate Them. ASTORJA, Or., July SL A strike oc curred at Anderson's seinlng-grounds, near Wallace Island, last Sunday, that stopped all operations until another crew could be- obtained. The day was very warm, and the men purchased a keg of ber for their own use between drifts. The foremen ordered the men to take the keg away from the grounds, which they did, leaving with it. The De Force Oil Works, that had a boiler explosion "the afternoon of July 10, in which three men were killed will be ready to start Up again within a few days. The run" of fish still continues excellent, and If It continues as at present' Until the end of the season, the pack will compare very favorably with that of- last year. Work on the extensidh of the jetty at the mouth of the Columbia Is much re tarded on account of lack of men. One hundred additional men are needed. A good start has been made at repairing the old trestle, and preparations are well under way for the main work, which may be delayed when preliminary arrange ments Are completed, unless enough men can be secured to do the work. Good wages are paid, and board and lodging accommodations are excellent. Paul Ahao, a 6-year-old boy, was play ing on the net racks of the Fishermen's Co-operative Cannery this afternoon, when he fell In the river and was drowned. HOP CONTRACTS AT O CENTS. 30,000 Pounds Bargained In Polk GonntyCrop Notes. INDEPENDENCE, Or., July SL Two hop contracts have been recorded in tho office of tho County Clerk J. W. Brown and Norton Bros. to T. A. Ltvesley, the former 4000 pounds and the latter 6000 pounds at 9 cents. Spraying of hops Is about ended, though there are a few small yards riot yet sprayed. H W Murphy is loading 15 cars with choice timothy hay for the Portland mar kot Mr. Murphy also has a lot of clover hay which was cut before the army worms came. He says that he had a flno stool of second-crop clover which the worms ate up clean. The railroad yards here are busy now. Fifteen cars are being loaded with hay and lumber for Portland, and several flats are being used for hauling earth from Parker's for filling around the de pot grounds. Lumbermen are piling their lumber along the track waiting for cars. A very large blaze and bright light over In the western part of the county the other evening made the people of this city think that some farmer was losing all his property, but Conductor Cressy, of the motor line, says that the fire was the -result of a huge slashing that was being burned over between Dallas and Falls City. Thus another piece of fertile soil" will soon be added to the Improved acreage of Polk Count. Hot Weather at The Dalles. THE DALLES, Or., July 3L For the last four days The Dalles has been swel tering, the thermometer registering any where between 95 and 102 degrees dally. Yesterday In very cool places, the mer cury stood at 96 degrees, while In tho streets in shady places it was an even 100 degrees. Today was equally hot with a slight east wind blowing. Serious Injury to Wheelvroman. DALLAS, Or., July 31. Miss Ethel Cra ven, daughter of W. R. Craven, of Dal las, was Seriously injured yesterday while riding a bicycle. In turning a street cor ner she came In contact with the binding pole of a lumber wagon. She was un conscious fot several hours but today shows signs of possible recovery. Oregon Notes. Mrs. Mary Butler, a native of England, died at Marshfield July 21, at the age ot t At Llbby, In Coos County, ."lively box ing bouts" are a common Sunday amuse ment The Roseburg Plaindealer has a new building, which furnishes it commodious rooms. Wool has riBcn 1 cent a pound in the Roseburg market, and is now quoted at 16 cents. The new fish hatchery on the North Umpqua nt Tipton's is now well along toward completion. Professor J. H. Cochran, of Oakland, suffered the fracture of a leg. at Glen dale a few days ago. From a letter written by William Kii dio, of- Long Creek, to George Consor. of Heppner, it Is learned that he arrived in Dawson July L -and had no trouble in dis posing of his hogs at 75 cents per pound. An 16-months-old child of Mr. arid Mrs. Gustaff son, at La Grande, drank carbolic add. The mother'adminlstered lard and sweet milk till a doctor arrived with a stomach pump. The child Is now expect ed to Tecover. At Pendleton, George Mack Is suing Joe Dupuis for $250, as damages for assault May 2t. Dupuis struck Mack with a board, causing a fracture of tho right, arm and laying him up for five weeks. Mack wants pay for loss of time, sur geon's charges and costs -of suit A big buck and a doe with a young fawn are frequently seen almost within the limits of the town, says the Lawtnn Standard. Thus far nobody has attempted to molest them in any manner, although J it Is now open season for deer, and they may be taken for food, but not to mar ket It is estimated that there will, be be tween SOO and 400 tons of prunes gath ered from the orchards in the vicinity of The Dalles this season. The orchards are heavier loaded this year- than ever before, and the quality of the fruit s excellent It will be ready to pick In a couple of weeks. Sentiment at Adams and Athena has changed In regard to the manner of the death of A. E. Goasland, the harvest hand who was found dead in Wild Horse Creek ust back of Krebs saloon at Adams July 22, Some persons now think he was foully dealt with, and an inves tigation is In progress. R. C Judson, industrial agent of the O. R. & N. Co.. arrived In La Grande Sunday evening, en route to Telocaset, whero he goes to Inspect the company's experimental grass farm In that locality, says the Chronicle. Mr. Judson declares that the Grand Ronde Valley has the greatest natural facilities for dairying of any locality on the Pacific Goast The fertility of the soil In the production ot forage, adaptability of the climate and the facilities for market are among the essential things which" are St hand for success in dairying. GOOD PRICE FOR PRUNES EXPECTED BX" OREGOS GROWERS THE tJOJIUJG ITAIiIi. Callfornlans Cannot Supply Orders srod Will Have to Bay- in Oreftoa A Fruitgrower's YIevrs.' SALEM, July SLJ. R.- Shepard, th well-known. Polk County prunegrower, says that he is satisfied -that- good prices await the Oregon prune crop, and that he Is confirmed in this opinion by the methods of a California buyer, who re cently visfted this section. The buyer" In question went around quietly to the" vari ous growers and told them that he need ed a few carloads of prunes to fill an order and that In order to get the fruit he would pay an advance of "4 cent per pound oh the market He made -the "pro vision, however, that all who wanted to get this advanced price must make con tracts within a limited time, when he will stop 'buying. Mr. Shepard says he "has watched the movements of buyers for years, and can see in this a confession that the dealers expeet a raise 'in prices.- He says the buyer's proposition Involves a. very.plain inconsistency, for. while the buyer savs he needs only a few prunes, he sets a I PROFESSOR RECOMMENDED FOR POSTMASTER AT FOREST GROVE. , FOREST GROVE, Or., July 3L Professor Homer C. Atwell, of Pacific Univer sity, who -has been agreed upon for Postmaster for this place, is a native of Ver mont,' aged 38 years, a lawyer by profession. Before coming to the Coast, he practiced law In Omaha. He has been a resident of Forest Grove for seven years, teaching languages in Pacific University and managing his prune orchard, situated west of here two miles. His wife is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. V. B. Russell, of Fortat -Grove. date when Ills offer will close. Mr. Shep ard's experience Is that w)ien buyers need prunes to fill an order, -they keep buying until they get their order filled, and. put the limit on the amount rather than on the time. The pretense of limit ing the time Was simply, to scare the growers into contracting their crop early by making them believe they will get an advanced price. Another Inconsistency Mr. Shepard notes is thatwhila the-buyer said he needed only a few carloads, still he says he will take all that are offered up to a certain date. This is taken as another evidence that the buyer is specu lating and not filling an order. Mr. Shepard ig of the opinion that Ore gon growers should not contract their 1S00 crop, especially their Fellenbergs. Ke believes the Oregon growers have the best of the American crop, and that they should get prices accordingly. Owing to the drought which has prevailed for sev eral years in California, the prunes of that state run to small sizes, and the Caiifornijr growers cannot get prunes there to fill their orders. The Oregon crop, on the contrary, will run to largo sizes, especially in the Fellenbergs. These prunes ire Mattering and consequently large Willie the Petite prunes trees hang full of fruit, "the sizes are dbove tho average, and much larger than thos.e grown this year in California. These con ditions give the Oregon grower an ad vantage which he should appreciate, says Mr. Shepard, and great care should be taken to avoid the stampede which the buyers create year after year at the ex pense of the producers. Manager Wlnstartlcy, of the Oregon Hopgrowers' Association, reports that he Is continually receiving orders from grow ers for supplies with which to care for the 1900 crop. The association buys baling cloth, sulphur, etc, in quantities, thus Securing reduced prices to the growers. Sheriff Durbin, of Marlon County, has collected about ?9G0 on account of the 1900 bicycle tax, but under instructions from the County Court he has ceased collecting the tax. All of the receipts from this tax last year were turned into the county treasury, but MK Durbin isays he will retain this year's tax in his possession unless ordered by the court to pay it into the treasury. He said, in. answer to a question, that he would refuse to repay the taxes paid this year, if demanded by the persons paying the money. Since' the law has been declared unconstitu tional he proposes to stop all operations under the law and hold the funds subject to the order of the County Court. Superintendent J. D. Lee, of the Ore gon Penitentiary, reports that the brick making plant at that Institution is now fousy making brick for the new wing of tho Penitentiary. It will require 200,000 bricks and the manufacture of this quan tity will take about 30 days. Thirty con victs and four horses are engaged in the brick-yard. By making the brick In stead of buying hem, the stdfe saves about CO per cent on the cost Oovernor Geer today honored a requisi tion from the Governor of Virginia for the rendition of Joseph Evans, alias Joseph Rapley, who is now In the Mult nomah County JaiL and wanted to an swer to the charge of robbing a bank in Williamsburg. Ta. Charles W. St Claire will receive the prisoner from the Mult nomah officials. Subscriptions to the amount of $37,000 have been received for the $30,000 popu lar 4-per cent loan to be made by the Salem School District In awarding leans the board will favor small capitalists. Governor and Mrs. Geer left today for Portland, where they will join a party for a trip t6 the summit of Mount Hood. -Frank L. Wallace, age 19, was received at the Asylum today from Lebanon, Linn County. Weather Official Baels' forecast of to day's weather proved correct, so far as this vicinity Is concerned. The warm weather which has prevailed for two weeks past has broken, and this afternoon and evening -have been quite cooL PIPES IS ADVANCED. His Proficiency In Census Office Pontmasters Appointed. WASHINGTON, July 31. John M. Pipes, of Portland, appointed to the Census Of- flce'br Representative Moody, has been promoted to a salary of $1000 on account of his proficiency. This is the first pro-J modton given an Oregon; appointee In the census, Postmasters appointed are the follow ing: Oregon Edward D. Howe. Belknap Springs", vice C. M. Hill, removed.- Washington G? T. Larrabeei Lara. "THE TWO PEH3HT STSTEMS." Plain Words About -the Issue That'Ia Paramount in Idaho. Lewiston Txfbutier Ind. Dem. It now appears that overalls and per mits will be leading issues in the Idaho campaign, but as: the overalls are merely associated with the personal characteris tics of a- Gubernatorial candidate, thai eolsoda mav be relesrated to the organs andv stumpers for discussion. The, per mit question enters into the very hie oi state policy, and not being very clearly understood in most quarters, seems well worth considering The Coeur d'Alene. mining district of Idaho has experienced two widely differ ent systems of permit, the first having been effective from the time mining be came productive- unUl May 8, 1S99. at which time a new system was Introduced, that has ever since been operative. Un der the former- system. In order to .ob tain employment in the Coeur d'Alene mines. It was- necessary to secure a per mit from a local branch organization, in volving the payment of dues, the observ ance df a secret ritual, the renouncement of service In the National Guard, the par ticipation in conspiracy and crime, and murderous hostility toward all who did H. C ATWELL not choose to become fellows in the order. Under this permit system obedience was first required to the mandates of a secret organization, which usually implied dis loyalty to tho laws, courts and institu tions of the country of their abode, Un- I der this system the organization issuing cue permits engugeu uirougn us memDers in repeated acts of arson, riot boycott coercion, theft and murder,-" extending from.IS92 until April 29, 1SS3. On the hun ter date, the permit organization,-, with a force of 'nearly 1000 of its membership, armed and masked, perpetrated its crown ing act of brutality and revplution, shock, ing the conscience of the state to its deep est recesses and arousing the people to a sense of the growth, power and despera tion which the cohorts of organized se dition had insidiously attained. By the aid of Federal troops, the immediate Strength of the organization was broken and cprbed, and May 8, 1699, the old per iriit system was superseded by the new. The new system not only abolished the right of the old to issue working permits, but required applicants to renounce alle giance to the organization engaged in vio lating and defying the law and exacting a pledge to'Sthereafter look only to the law, and obey its prbvisions, as the requi site for securing the benefits made pos sible pnly through the maintenance of law. The essential difference between the two systems was that the one incited its members to acts of destruction, violence and murder, while the other requires its members to repudiate acts of destruc tion, violence and murder. The one led 'its members into ruffianism pnd crime, the other ieaas tnem into peacerumess and safety. The one required obedience to the rules and edicts of a secret and murderdUs cabal as the price of a per mit,, the other requires obedience to the ways of peace and law as the price of Its permit As long as it is a question which of the two systems Is to prevail, as long as these -legal outcasts can make their votes a political object in the state and auc tion thsir support off to one or another bevy of desperate place-hunters, as long as. there remain politicians who will .stoop to traffic on their ignorance and credulity by offering them hopes of ever again re gaining their villainous and fatal force in any of the functions of the country, the permit system will continue a ruling consideration in public affairs, and it will be right and wise to know which' of the two systems to choose and to support FROM WASHINGTON'S CAPITAL. New Normal School Trustee State Timber Land Wanted. OLYMPIA, Wash., July SI. Governor Rogers .has appointed N. W. Durham.of Spokane, trustee of the Cheney Normal School, vice E. E. Dempsie, resigned. State Auditor Cheetham has sent blanks for abstracts for real and per sonal assessment rolls to the County Auditors. The action of the State Board of Equalization, which will meet the first Tuesday In September, will be based upon these abstracts. Application for one of the largest tracts of timber owned by the state has been made to the Board of State Land Com missioners. It includes timber of 2000 acres of land in sections 16, 2S, S2, town ship 10 north, range 9 west, and section 86, township 11, Pacific County. This land has not yet been appraised by the state, but the value of the timber will approxi mate J30.CI0O. NORTHWEST DEAD. C. S. Carrothers, of Clatsop Flninn. ' ASTORIA, Or., July 31. C. S. Carroth ers, a rancher on Clatsop Plains for the past 25 years, died at the hospital last night from cancer of the stomach. LnmbcCamps Resume. SEATTLE Wash., July 3L By order of the Puget Sound Tlmbermen's Asso ciation, the various camps in this asso ciation, after haying been shut down since June 30, reopened for business today. The cause of the mills shutting down was that the supply of logs at the various camps was much greater thl3 year than in any season since 1S92, there being over 113.000,000 feet to work up into lumber and shingles. It was decided not totart any of the mills until 40,000,000 feet ot the logs could be sold, and, this having been done, the order was given for the same to start -this morning, and the camps arev all In operation with a full complement of men. LIGHTNING KILLED TWO HORSES AND A COW r 'SES& CESTRAMA. x A. Great Tree Rives Anna der, and a Section Hand's Hatband Barned 0t Telephone? Service InJnreL CHNTRATiIA, Wash., July 3L Centralia and'vicinlty was visited at about1 7:20 this morning by perhaps the severest thundef slqrm ever experienced fh thi locality. Two horses' belonging to Charles Moore and . Frank Stevenson were instantly killed by lightning, oa the Moore place south of 'this city. A cow was also killed near towiu A large-fiV tree" on the plank road east of here was struck by lightning, and a splinter nearly two feet wide and 00 or 70 feet idnir was toni from the body of the tree. The'band on a section hand's hat waS burned'off. The telephone serv ice wa3 more or less Injured. ' HELD BY THE INDL4NS. Tale of aBoy Reacned Front a Ifortlx Coast Island. VANCOUVER, B. C., July SJL-A strange tald of kidnapping and detention by .Indians was Drought down from the northern coast today by the sloop Roma, Which also carried the victim of this en forced residence. James Norman Eijin wood, who says he formerly lived in San Francisco, is the name of the siwaahes' prisoner. The captain of the Roma found the lad among the Indians on New Prin cess Royal Island and rescued Mm "Souhg Elllnwood, was In rags, but the Indians wanted to keep him, and threateried'-fb shoot his? resctiers. Elllnwood's story is. that he w6nt to Hartley Bay as clerk, in a general store kept by a half-breed named Robertson. While at Hartley Bay he was kidnapped atid taken to New Princess Royal Island, where he says he was carefully watched, bht w'as otherwise treated as well as any young Indian In the village. The sl washes desired Elllnwood to become one, of themselves, quartered him in the rartcheTlo and picked out a young squaw as his future wife. The appearance of the Roma offered him the first oppor tunity to escape, which he eagerly em braced. 'assaulted ax Japanese. White Fisherman Badly- Used Out erotvth of Recent Strike'. VANCOUVER, B. C.t July &. A row occurred among the fishermen In the Gulf of Gedrgia last night, said to hav.e been engendered by the late strife be tween' the Japanese and the, whlte3 in, tho fishermen's strike. Four Japanese In a boat attacked and badly used up a white .man named John, Curtis. Curtis is a union fisherman, and during the strike declared ho -would throw Into the gult any Japanese who went fishing In defi ance of the union. The Japanese have been. plotting vengeance for this threat Curtis was picked up by a tug today com pletely exhausted. He said he was met by the Japanese, who jumped into his boat and pulled in his net. He said that they then took possession of his boat. He tried to fight with them, but they pulled knives and one made a lunge at him. He would have received the' point of the knife in tho heart, he said, had it not been for its striking his watch and glancing off. He was, too, badly beaten, and when -half dead was thrown Into the water. He swam ashore and later was picked up by the tug. REVIEWING THE GEM M1NJ. Rich, Ore Shown, and Extensive Op j. erationu Are in Progress. BAKER CITT. July 31. The Gem mine. near Sparta, now owned by Portland capitalists who purchased the ptapercy several, months agp, has shown, exceed ingly rich ore,, according to- Manager N. J. Jenkins, who was -in the city today, A depth of 4(X5 feet has been attained, and levels are being run 450, 350 and 300 feet in depth. An uprise, from the 460 to the 5v0-foot level is being driven for air. A contract has been let to sink a prospect shaft 00 feot south pf all previous word ings. As work progresses, larger ore bodies are being exposed, and there i ore enough in sight "for a 10-stamp mill" for years td come. Tho old Gem was worked 30 years ago by Captain Alns worth and Captain E. M. White, but was abandoned by" them. The- wealth of the mine waS little known, aS recent develop ments Show. The property now bids fair to be a great producer. SPOKANE, July 31. Thd closing bids for mining stocks today wero: Blacktall ( $0 HHi Mount Lion ...j$0 60 Butte &. Boston. lilMorn. Glory 3 Dedr Trail Con. Evening Star .. Gold Icdze iJPrlnoess Maud.. 7 1 Palmer Mt. TUn. l Rambler Cariboo 2"4 16 21 23 12 19 I Golden Harvest. iRossland Giant.. I. X. L iOWSulllvan Insurgent Vi Tom r6m Thumb Lone Pino &urp. Si , SAN FRANCISCO, July 31. The official clos ing quotations for mining stocks today were: Alta '. 50 Ou'Justice ,....$0 OS Alpha Con 5SIexlcan 15 Andes OJOccldental Con ... 0 Eelcher 18Ophlr ...I... CO Best & Belcher... 2Q Overman ..2 11 Bullion SjPotoai 13 Calfcdonla SliSavage 12 ChaHonge Con T.. ID p eg. Belcher 3 Chollar ... 15( Sierra Nevada ... 24 Confidence ...... SO Silver Hill CO Con. Cat &Va... 1 50 Standard 4 20 Crown Point 16UuIon Con ;.. 18 Sould &. Curry... 21jutah Con 8 Sale & Norcross.. 241Yel!ow Jacket .... 81 NEAT YORK. July 31. Mining stocks today closed as follows: Chollar $0 12Ontarlo .55 CO Crown Point 10 Con. Cal. Si Va...-1 33 Deadtfood ...... 40 rini.1.. i Plymouth 10 Quicksilver ....... 1 CO do pref .....,.. 8 CO Sierra Nevada .... 22 Standard 4 10 Union Con ." 15 Yellow Jacket .... 20 Gould & Curry... 17 Hale & Norcross,, 10 Homestake 50 00 Iron Silver 50 Mexican 12 BOSTON. July 31. Closing quotations: Adventure ?0 02 Osceola .........SO 65 Parrott 4( Allouez BI. Co.. Amal. Copper .. Boston Sz .Mont. Butte &. Boston. Cal. & Hecla.... Centennial ..... Franklin Humboldt SG-ajQuincy 1 32 2 07 Santa Fe Copper 44 Tamarack 1 9C Utah Mining .. 27 Winona 2i5 Wolverines SO C2 7 40 16 13 I Worms Talee the Vegetables. VANCOUVER, "Wash., July 3L Grocers 1 complain of an unusual scarcity of vpg- etables fqj this season of the year. The scarcity is attributed to the ravages of the army worm or cutworms. Druggists here also say that since the worms made their appearance It Is almost Impossible to supply the demand for Paris green. A favorite reniedy against the worm post employed by a number of frultraen is to wrap cotton batting around the trunks of the fruit trees. This is claimed to be quite effectual in preventing the worms from climbing. Wrishlnston Notes. A broom factory is being built at North Yakima. J. W- Noyer died at Pomeroy, July 34, at the age of 64, from cancer. Twenty-five thousand pounds of butter is shipped every month from Spokane. Shipments' of fruit and vegetables out of Walla Walla last week were 3S cars. Charles Packard, of Eureka Hat, who lost C5 acres of wheat by fire, hod it in sured at $10 50 'per acre. ' Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hickman, ot Col fax, have been arrested for neglecting their crippled chiid, aged 3 years. A flouring mill is to bo built on tner Touchet River, at Riverside, near Walla. Walla, with a capacity of 75 barrels a day. Stonecutters are in demand at Tacoma, and the work of finishing the foundation for the 2,000,000-gallon. pump at Station B is delayed. Army worms visited. Western Wash ington in lS5i and 1S75. in the latter year FREAKS j8l- HHEUSER-BUSCj. 'mSwdm It ptit$ color in the cheeks, sparkle in, the eyes, braces mildly. Assimilable .by the weakest - stomach, invigorating, re freshing. A boon to nursing mothers.- Prepared by euser: ous St; Louis, they cleaned out nearly everything in the Puyallup Valley. The Lynch shingle mill, near Port An geles, was burned last Thursday. It was Insured for JCOOO. About SO men are thrown out of work. Out ot 1075 horses examined by the cav alry board at Fort Walla. Walla in the last month only 525, or not quite 60 per cent, have been accepted. The -Walla. Walla "Union Insists that tho employes of the Penitentiary have found it expedient to contribute to Gov ernor Rogers' campaign fund. Mrs. Mary Young died very suddenly at the-home of her sister, Miss Jane Cole, in Sumner Saturday morning of neuralgia of the heart. This is the fourth death in the family in a little over a, year. William Lamble's 200 acres of blus stem, over In the Mayvlew country, aver aged 50 bushels per acre. Mr. Lamble has a field of Salt Lake club, unthreshed, which his1 neighbors say will go 55 to EQ bushels to the acre. Spokane's 1300 exposition will be held In ati itnmense tent this year, at the lo cation adjoining the Auditorium, where .previous fruit fairs have been held. Tha exposition will open October 3 and close the evening of October 1C At Oolfax, Joshua Welch, aged 74, is suing his young wife, Emma, for dl-. vorce, oh the ground that she married him to defraud him of his worldly good3. They were married in September, lzi'J. The wife is now in Iowa, having "de serted her husband's bed and board" one month after marriage. The Bryan ratification meeting at North Yakima last" Saturday Is called a "frost" by the Republicans. A feature was the part the-G. A. R. played. The commit tee In charge advertised that the eignt boxes of the theater would be reserved for the old soldiers. During the meet ing one lone veteran took, a reserved seat. j The cutworm, or army worm, i3 said to be very destructive in some or the Sound counties. A Tacoma paper reports that "Charles H. Ross has samples ot turnips from his fields which are abso lutely alL eaten up except the skin, the worms eating holes through the skin and then eating the entire inside out.. leaving Just the shelL They have done the same thing with a field of beets and a field "ot rutabagas. Another field of turnips ad joining has not been touched." IJE.W TWO PER CENT BONDS Will Be Distributed to the Public This Week. WASHINGTON, July. .-(Special to the New York Journal of Commerce.) An object-lesson in the new gold stand ard law.l3 afforded by the 2 per cent bonds issued under the law, which will bo distributed to the public this week. The bonds of the denominations, of "jiOOO, $10,000 and $50,000 have already been re ceived at the Treasury from the .Bureau of Engraving and Printing,, and the other denominations are expected within the next few days. Mr. J. W. Lyons, the Register of the Treasury, has been sign ing bond3 for the last few days at the rate of "MO.OOO.OOO per day. The new bonds are of peculiarly artistic designs arid are decorated with the vignettes of prominent Americans. The three classes received have the vignettes of Thomas H. Ben ton, the great Gold Democrat, on the de nominations for 51000; Commodore Baln brldge on those for $10,000 and Benjamin Franklin on those for ?50,000. The words 'Two per cent consols of 1930" run in large lettera across "tho top of the bonds. Then appears the emphatic language re. dulred by the new law: "This bond is issued in accordance with tho provisions of an act of Congress, en titled 'An act to define and fix the' stand ard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by tho United States, to, refund the public debt, and for other purposes, as approved March 14, 1900, and is redeemable at the pleasure of the "United States after the 1st' day of April, 1920, in gold coin of tho standard value of the United States on said March 14-, 1S0O, with interest in such coin fiom the day of the data hereof, at the rate of 2 per centum per annum.' The very title and body of the gold standard law Is thus set forth upon the face of the bond, so that he who runs may read, and no further question can arise under any administration whether the bond is payable in paper, silver or gold. On each side of this simple word ing are graceful symbollo figures, al most completely draped. The one on the left represents Law, and holds aloft a. tablet on which the word "Lex"- is plain ly 'inscribed. The figure on the- right holds a torch to illumine the darkness' of the path along which- the country -oc ----"-- MommM'tM1n While you sleep by the Dr. Sanden Electric Belt. Tills Is an electric belt which pours a gentle, glowing stream of life into the kidneys and vital or gans. After one night's use a feeling of new manhood takes possession of the body, and In a few weeks perfect health and strength are renewed. The Dr. Sanden Electric Belt Co. Which has been -well and favorably Tcnown on the Pacific Coast for many years, will give to any person $1,000 that will prove that any testimonial print ed by us la not genuine. The weak and the weary who are In need, of Nature's grand restorative -will -wisely write to Dr. Sanden. tor his free book, "THREE CLASSES OF MEN," for full particulars about his wonderful electric appli ances, and not forget that there Is but ONE GENUINE XR. SANDEN ELEC TRIC BELT la the market, and which can only be had' by applying direct to any one of his many offices throughout this country, all of which aro run solely under his name and not that of some other person'3. CALL OR ADDRESS DR. A. T. SANDEN, Cor. Fourlh and Morris H t H M H t I H t M H H H Physicians die world over prescribe for pa tients who lack appe tite or vigor or when convalescing froma serious illness, thet, tonic TRASS MARK; U. S. A. stumbled while it was groping vainly for the' firm foundation of the gold stand ard. On' the back of the bond is a frame made up of the coats of arms of the 45 states; The coats of arms were care fully copied, -and the entire work pre sehts an. Instructive epitome of state history. The prevailing colors on tha fronts and backs of tho bonds differ with the denominations, those for "CUW having red backs, those for $10,000 brawn and those for $50,000 blue. The remaining denomination will contain the vignettes of other eminent Americans, including President John Adamsv General John A. Dlx, Secretary William H. Seward, Gen eral Philip H. Sheridan and Secretary Edwin M. Stanton. The coupon bonds aro not yet ready, but will soon be pre pared. They will depart from the old system" of large, unmanageable sheets for the coupons by being made up of lit tle books, from which the coupons can easily be detached when they are due. The success of the refunding law in operation has been such that heavy calls will bo made for the new bonds before the distribution is completed. The old bonds already presented for exchange into the new 2 per cents have amounted to $319,400,150, and Treasurer Roberts be lieves that a total of $100,000,000 will be reached within the present year. The National banks' have-placed in the Treas ury $243,519,250 in the new 2 per cents a3 the basis of circulation and $44,567,700 as security for public deposits. This total of about ja94.000.000 leaves only about $25,000,000 of tha new bonds in private hands or in process of transfer. It is the belief of Treasurer Roberts, however, that tho presentation of private bonds will be more rapid after the new bondy are actually issued. The process. thu3 far has been to deposit dummy bonds, printed from ordinary type. In a vault in tha Treasury and Issue to the owner only a receipt for the bonds surrendered. This has hampered transfers of ownership, which will become easier with the actual Issue of the new bonds. Pineapples Polaon "FInBer Nails. New York. Times The Juice of the green and growing pineapple "a accredited in Java, the Phil ippines and thrqughout the Far East gen erally with being a blood poison of a most deadly nature. It is said to be tha substance with which the Malays poison their kreeses and daggers, and also the '"fingernail" poison formerly in use among aborigine Javanese women almost universally. These women cultivated a nail on each hand to a long, sharp point, and the least scratch from one of these was certala death. ' a ' ' Introduced by Spanish Invaders. Washington Star. Besides the fine cultivated orange trees of Florida, which have been Improved from the native stock, there are yet thick ets of thorny wild orange trees in the southern lake region of the state. The fruit of these Is coarse and sour and of no value The origin of them dates from three centuries ago, before some Spanish Invader In Ponce de Leon's f orco careless ly dropped the seeds of one of the last oranges the company had brought on the long voyage to guard against scurvy tha tree was unknown in America. PAUL CROMWELL The Colored Specialist Has opened up hi3 office at 225 Hail street, corner Second, and will sell his medicine as usual. Medicines for all kinds of chronic diseases. THE GOLD HIIX & BOHEMIA. MINING CO. owns four Hrat-class quartz mining' proper ties; three- of them, embracing nice claims, being- In the Gold Hill mining district. Jack eon County. Oregon; and one of them, em bracing seven claims, belnjr- in the very heart of the Bohemia Bitnlne camp. Capital stock. $100,000.00; 40 per cent ot stock In treasury; all promoters' stock pooled. Listed with -the Oregon Mining Stocic Exchange. In vestigate. Davidson. Ward & Co. (members of the Oregon MJnlng Stock Exchange). 403 Chamber of Commerce. Phone CUvr SXL Weak Kfdneys, Lumbago, Rheumatism, Sciatica, Locomotor Ataxia, Pains in the Hips, Shoul ders and Chest, And all weaknesses h PORTLAND, OREGON J QUICKLY CURED M t H H t 8 H H ) M t H M f V.