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THE . MORNING- OREGONIAN, MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1900.
TROOPS LANDED
01 CUBAN SOIL
Movement Is Executed With
Great Promptness and Men
Are Quickly Encamped.
OUTLOOK VERY PROMISING
Disarming of-the Insurgents Is Go
ing on With Very Little Fric-
tlon and Taft and Bacon.
May Soon Come Home.
HAVANA, Oct. 7. The first landing
of American soldiers in the . present
occupation of Cuba was accomplished
today with marvelous promptness, and
tonight 500 men of the Fifth United
Btates Infantry and 350 men from the
Second Battalion of Artillery are set
tled under canvas in Camp Columbia.
The cruiser Brooklyn arrived here this
afternoon with 400 men on board. They
will be sent out to the camp early to
morrow. Toduy General Frederick Funston
established his headquarters at Mari
ano, convenient to his command. Colo
nel L W. T. Waller, commanding the
marines, has been ordered to report to
General Funston and the entire force
of the regulars and marines will be
under Funston's command until the
arrival here next Tuesday of General
Franklin Bull, who will direct the dis
tribution of the forces throughout the
Island.
Within an hour from the time that
the transport Sumner came alongside
,the railroad wharf the disembarking
bad been completed" and the 850 men
!had been transported on street cars di
rect to the camp. Their equipage
'and supplies were taken on freight
xars by another route.
Movement Quickly Executed.
The movement was so successfully
handled that the men prepared their
midday meal from their own rations.
The men are in good condition and
are pleased with their camp and Its
pleasant surroundings.
The disarming of former Insurgents
.went on much better today. Reports
Xrom members of the disarmament
commission in various provinces indi
cate that the trouble which was threat
ened yesterday may be avoided, al
though ex-rebels and volunteers In a
few towns in Santa Clara province
are still disinclined to be the first to
disarm and it is feared that the Amer
ican soldiers will have to be sent to
back up the demands of the disarma
ment commission. Havana, Santiago,
Pinar del Hlo. Matanzas and Puerto
Principe provinces are practically olear
of rebels, and show no signs of trou
ble. Situation Is Very Gratifying.
Governor Taft, Assistant Secretary
of State Bacon, and General Funston
are gratified at the situation, and be
lieve that the difficulties In Santa
Clara province will be overcome in a
few days. So oonlldent are they that
Governor Taft and Mr. Bacon say they
believe they wfll be able to start for
home next Saturday.
Governor Taft will spend, the time
after Tuesday in familiarizing his suc
cessor, Charles E. Magoon, with the
situation, Mr. Magoon is expected here
on that day. It is believed that after
the arrival in Havana of the wives
of Governor Taft and Mr. Bacon the
Provisional Governor will give a pub
lic reception at the palace to introduce
Mr. Magoon to the people.
The Moderates and cx-rebels in Pinar
del Rio are preparing a love feast. Senor
Gaines, a wealthy independent, is to give
a dinner to the leaders of the two forces
recently at war. General Pino Guerra,
who arrived In Santa Clara City last night
to disperse his men, was met by Governor
Bobrado, a Moderate, and together the
two men drove through the city. They
are working In harmony, inducing the ex
Insurgents to return to their homes. The
rebels on the north coast, however, are
reported still to be rather active.
Havana Province at Peace.
. Havana is fully pacified, with the excep
tion of two commands of about 100 men
each, under two brothers of General Del
Castillo, who are encamped near Gulria.
These men, however, will be disarmed to
morrow. The Matanzas insurgents, who
had been operating in Eastern Havana,
and who wero disbanded yesterday, are
today reported to have all reached their
homes.
Commander Culver, of the cruiser Des
Moines, which Is stationed lit Santiago,
reported today that both the volunteers
and ex-rebels at Banes and Manzanlllo
had been disbanded and that as far as
he knew the entire province was quiet.
Governor Taft, however, learned of slight
trouble at Guantanamo, occasioned by the
demands of Liberals that the Mayor of
that plaee be removed. This Governor
Taft declined emphatically, declaring that
he would not set a precedent which might
compel him to consider similar demands
from all parts of the Island. General
ttecio, or the disarmament board, tele
graphed today from Camaguey that he
believed all the rebels there would be dis
armed by this evening.
Volunteers Fire on Rebel's Camp. "
Dispatches received by the Associated
Press from Sanetl Bpirltus. where the
Santa Clara commission Is working, Indi
cate that the ex-rebels in that province
are not yet entirely reconciled to dis
armament and General JIachado has re
ported that volunteers fired on a rebel
camp, causing the serious drawback to
the operators.
The disarming at Sancti Spirltus ispro-
ceoumg, dui tne usual uirnculty is en
countered Jn that the ex-rebels seek to
evade surrendering their guns while the
volunteers stm carry theirs.
The situation there Is especially irritat
ing, as groups or volunteers with Buns
march up and down the streets and dis
perse and disarm the rebels. In a fight
today an cx-rebel killed a comrade and
fled to the mountains. The people of
Bancti Spirltus are greatly dissatisfied
lth the Mayor and police and have pe-
iiuoiiea ror tneir immediate removal.
Governor Nunez and American Consul
Oeneral Stelnhart were sent by Governor
Taft to Alquisar, Havana Province, today
to settle a difficulty arising from two
men claiming the post of Mavor of that
town, eenor Molneda. a Liberal, was
elected to the office, but he took to the
woods at the beginning of the revolution
and Governor Nunez appointed a man
named Eaxan to be military Mayor.
Molneda returned today and claimed the
office.
Governor Taft and Governor Nunez held
a conference and decided to recognize
Molneda's claim. Bazan will be removed.
The battleship Indiana and Kentucky
will leave here tomorrow for New Eng
land. LOVE FEAST HELD AT ALQUIZAR
Rebels and Volunteers Disarm Sim
ultaneously and Then Fraternize..
HAVANA, Oct. 7. The last organized
body of rebels in Havana province was
disbanded this evening at Alquizar,
when 350 members of the force under
General del Castillo turned over 180
guns to Major Ladd, of the disarma
ment commission.
Major Ladd was at San Antonio de
Las Banos this afternoon when he
learned that his force at Alquizar was
threatening trouble over the question
whether they or the volunteers garri
soning Alquizar should be the first to
surrender their arms. Major Ladd
hastened to the town, where he met
Governor Nunez and American Consul
General Steinhart, who had come down
from Havana.
It was arranged to disarm the ex
rebels and the volunteers simultane
ously. This was done without a hitch
and then both sides and the townspeo
ple joined In a feast of merrymaking
over the wind-up of the revolution.
The police at Gulria were disbanded
today, preparatory to disarming the
two detachments of ex-rebels under
the Del Castillo brothers tomorrow.
These two small forces are reported to
be stealing cattle ' and horses. The
Mayor of Gulria has requested the
presence of 20 American soldiers, who
will be sent there.
MAGOON PARTY IX FLORIDA
MesdamesTaft and Bacon Accom
pany the Provisional Governor.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Oct. 7. Provis
ional Governor Charles E. Magoon and
Brigadier-General J. Franklin Bell. Chief
of Staff of the Army, passed through
Jacksonville today on their way to
Tampa, to take the steamer tonight for
Havana, where they will arrive Tuesday
morning. Accompanying them were Col
onel Valery Harvard, Assistant Surgeon
General, who Is to become chief surgeon
in Cuba; Colonel Blair D. Taylor, Sur
geon; Major Downey, Chief Paymaster;
Major D. D. Galllard, Corps of Engineers;
Major Foltz, of the Fifteenth Cavalry;
Captain Geddls, of the MedtcaIN Corps;
Captain Spinks, of the Pay Department;
Captain William Wright, aide to General
Bell; several noncommissioned officers,
and a party of civilian employes.
Mrs. Taft, wife of the Secretary or W ar.
and Mrs. Bacon, wife of the Assistant
Secretary of State, were In the party. The
train was two hours late in arriving here.
Governor Magoon declined to say any
thing regarding his policy, saydng that he
desired to confer with Secretaries Taft
and Bacon before making any statement
regarding Cuba. Mrs. Taft and Mrs.
Bacon said that they had no fear what
ever of Interference in Havana, as they
had been advised thatthey would run no
risks In visiting the Cuban capital. They
said they expected to be there only a very
short time. At 5 o'clock the party left on
the Atlantic Coast train for Tampa.
LEAGUE FORMED AT HAVANA
Promoting of -Stable Government Is
Given as Object.
HAVANA, Oct. 7. The preliminaries of
an organization to be called the Good
Government League of Cuba were begun
this afternoon at a meeting of Americans,
Cubans and others, at which resolutions
were passed to the effect that the pur
pose of the association should be the
"promoting of all legitimate means, the
establishment and maintenance of a per
manent, stable, and lawful government,
competent to administer Justice, insure
democratic tranquilty. promote the gen
eral welfare and Insure the blessings of
liberty to all the Inhabitants of the
island."
It was declared that the league in
tended to adopt whatever means to this
end were deemed wisest by a majority of
the membership, which is Intended to be
representatives of all nationalities and sec
tions, and not to be committed to any
line of action until It is decided what is
moRt conducive to the objects named.
While there was no expression . to that
effect, the movement generally Is re
garded as pointing eventually toward
some more definite degree of American
control or oversight in Cuban affairs than
Is vouchsafed by the Piatt amendment.
SECRET SESSION BY LIBERALS
Mass Meeting Planned to Celebrate
Victory of Party Leaders.
HAVANA. Oct. 7. At a secret meeting
held here this evening the National Lib
erals discussed Informally the reorganiza
tion of their party. Almost all the late
conspirators who have been Imprisoned
were present. A general tone of satisfac
tion with the situation prevailed and
there was manifest a desire to co-operate
and cultivate the most friendly relations
with the provisional government.
The party has planned a mass meeting
to be held October 14 In honor of what
they consider the victory of the party
leaders and the revolutionary managers.
Messrs. Taft and Bacon have been In
vited to attend this meeting, but if the
commissioners leave here on Saturday
the Liberals say they will gladly hold
the demonstration before that day.
At a banquet which followed the meet
ing speeches were delivered In honor of
the so-called Liberal heroes, "who had
taken up arms In the cause of right and
Justice."
FIFTEENTH CAVALRY SAILS.
Two Squadrons With Headquarters
and Band Bound for Cuba.
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Oct. 7. With
two squadrons, headquarters and band
of the Fifteenth Cavalry aboard, the
army transport Panama sailed this morn
ing for Havana. Assistant- Paymaster
General Charles T. Whipple left on this
ship, taking with him :!7,000 to pay off
the soldiers now In Cuba.
The transports Monterey and Niagara
will get out of port tomorrow with two
battalions of the Seventeenth Infantry
and the first battalion of the Twenty
eighth Infantry.
Rebels Are Waving Machetes.
HAVANA, Oct. 7. Reports reoeived
here late tonight from Guines and Al
quizar declare that disbanded rebels
are riding about these towns and wav
ing their machetes In a threatening
manner. General Funston will go to
Guines tomorrow.
The membors of the disarming com
mission for Santa Clara, accompanied
by Jose Miguel Gomez, Garcia Canl
zares, ex-Spoaker of the House of Rep
resentatives, and others arrived at
Casilda, the port of entry to Trinidad,
this evening. They were met by 20J0
persons and several bands of music.
There are 1500 Insurgents camped out
side Trinidad, while in the town there
are 30 rural guardsmen and 175 vol
unteers still with their arms. In or
der to avoid a clash the revolutionists
are not entering the town. The dis
armament will take place tomorrow.
The members of the commission and
Jose Miguel Gomez were given a ban
quet at Trinidad tonight. The city of
Pinar del Rio reports absolute quiet.
Rebels Attack Guines Policemen.
HAVANA, Oct. 7. A delegation from
the town of Guines came into Havana to
night and reported to General Funston
that a party of Asbert's disbanded rebels
had entered Guines and attacked some
policemen who have been suspended
under pay since the arrival there of
American marines. Several policemen
were badly cut with machetes and the
rebels threatened to kill the entire force.
The people of Guines are In a state of
considerable alarm.
General Funston ordered Captain Phe
lan, of the marines, to co-operate with
Captain Gigueroa, of the rural guards,
and to exercise a special vigilance to
night in view of a negro ball, which is
being held tn Guines
CHEERS FOR STORK
Babe's Birth in Grading Camp
Recalls Bret Harte's Tale.
MOTHER IS A MERE GIRL
With Her Grandfather She Was
Traveling Overland From Ore
gon to Ohio When 'Her
Time Came.
DENVER, Colo., Oct. 7. (Special.)
There can be no gainsaying the state
ment that truth is stranger than fic
tion, yet the fact remains that fiction
frequently comes first. So it was with
that tender creation of Bret Harte's
called "The Luck of Roaring Camp."
Few persons who know the West, and
have read the great stories of its de
velopment but are familiar with the
Bret Harte tale, and those who had a
sympathetio reeling for the babe that
came so strangely Into the wild min
ing camp will equally appreciate the
facts that are about to be related.
Last Sunday afternoon an overland
outfit came slowly into view of the
grading camp at Agate, Colo., where a
gang of laborers were working on the
Kansas Pacific Railroad. Attached to
the covered wagon, which was an old
fashioned prairie schooner, were a
pony and an old mule. The driver was
a blacksmith, Amzl Walter, and beside
him was a girl of 14 years, his daugh
ter Mamie.
These two came up out of the hori
zon like a wraith of former days, the
general aspect of the outfit recalling
early life on the plains. They had
journeyed from the State of Oregon,
over the old Oregon trail, having been
68 days en route. It was the intention
of Walter and his daughter to pro
coed to Cambridge, O.. where friends
and relatives are awaiting them.
At Agate a double calamity befell
the weary travelers. First, the old
mule, poor, tottering beast, got Its
front feet in a mudhole. It had a
habit of doing this, and all Amzl Wal
ter could do in this emergency was to
whip it a little, swear at it a great
deal, and finally unhitch the pony and
pull the mule out by main force. This
he succeeded In doing, as he had done
before, performing the feat In .full
view of the laborers at Agate.
The second calamity was one that
Amzl Walter could not handle, and nei
ther, for that matter. coAild any of the
laborers. The girl's condition was
something their rough hands and
warm hearts had never before had to
cope with. There was no doctor with
in 20 miles, and the time was short.
There was a woman, they thanked God
for that; and tenderly they bore the
girl to the crude bedroom of the cook,
Mrs. Sweet. Then they gathered out
side the camp headquarters and await
ed developments.
The men threw up their work tem
porarily, and stood about In groups
discussing the young girl's predica
ment. How would It end? It was a
case where men could do nothing but
wait, while inside the woman was
working and praying in the face of a
great, heartrending duty..
The tension was finally relieved, and
there was -a. shout of Joy from the
graders when word was' received that
the ordeal had passed. The child was
a girl and the mother was doing well.
The grading camp turned itself out to
be of service them. The men Jumped
and howled with Joy and shook Amzl
Walter, the grandfather, by the hand.
They insisted upon his remaining with
them till the girl was able to travel
or help came from Denver. This the
blacksmith did, and over at the grad
ing camp'near Agate the baby and its
mother are still prospering under the
kind treatment of the graders and Mrs.
Sweet.
A report of the case was turned in
to the Humane Society In Denver, and
Agent Tuft made a full investigation
of the case. It appears that the girl
was married last year to a man named
James. The husband was drowned in
the Snake River with four other men,
and the girl and her father started
alone upon the hazardous overland trip
to Ohio.
It is one of a- very few Instances
where a child was born without the
presence of a physician, without ap
parent injury to either Itself or the
mother. They will be brought to Den
ver some time soon and looked after
by the Humane Society.
EDITOR IS BADLY BEATEN
Erling Bjornson Resents Attack on
His Private Character.
CHICAGO, Oct. 7. (Special.) "This Is
one of the best Jobs I ever did in my
life," said Erling Bjornson, son of Nor
way's "grand old man," as he left the
West Chicago-avenue police station after
his release on bail under charge of as
saulting Anton B. Lange, a Norwegian
editor here.
Gustav E. Reimers, son of a Justice
of the Norwegian Supreme Court and
BJornson's manager on a lecturing tour,
heartily corroborated the declaration.
Both young men were freed on bonds
signed by C. E. Faye. Lange, they added,
was not guilty of only one attack on
them, but a series. When he announced
editorially that Bjornson was good for
nothing and Reimers "no better," they
said they did not care. A later article
saying that they had attempted to attack
a chambermaid in a Belgrade, Minn.,
hotel was too much, however, and they
resolved to punish the author. Both
Bjornson and Reimers say the story was
absolutely false.
Lange, who was beaten with a heavy
cane in BJornson's hands and pounded by
Reimers' fists, is still In a West Side
Hospital, though not dangerously hurt.
He will be able to appear against his
assailants In police court tomorrow.
PRIZE STOCK IN SHOW
Most Notable Exhibition Ever Made
In This Conntry.
KANSAS' CITY, Oct. 7. The eighth an
nual American Royal Livestock Show will
open here tomorrow with more entries In
every department than ever before in Its
history. The show will last all week.
There are entries of upwards of 700 breed
ing cattle, 100 fat steers. 60 carloads of
fat and feeding cattle, 250 draft, coach
and hackney horses, Including a string
of eight horses from the stables of King
Edward and Lord Rothschild of England,
and 700 hogs, sheep and goats. Exhibitors
are here from 16 different etates, from
Massachusetts to New Mexico.
All of the prominent show herds of the
country are here, Including the prize-winners
of a dozen state fairs. It will be the
largest gathering of prize cattle from
the four beef breeds ever held In this
country, not excepting the St.. Louis
World's Fair.
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at
Drastic
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Take Elevator to Third Floor.
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T
E
Betrothal of Princess Patricia
and Czar's Brother Denied.
STATEMENT IS EMPHATIC
Discussion of the Alliance, It Is An
nounced in Russia, Has Not
Reached the Criti
cal Stage.
LONDON, Oct. 7. An emphatic official
denial of the reported betrothal of Grand
Duke Michael, brother of the Emperor
of Russia, and Princess Patricia of Con-naug-ht,
niece of King Edward, was Is
sued here today.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 7. A formal
denial has been issued here of the re
ported betrothal of Grand Duke Michael,
brother of the Emperor of Russia, and
Princess Patricia of Connaught, niece of
King Edward. An unwitting error was
committed by announcing through semi
official news agencies In Europe of what
was accepted yesterday as a. faot In court
and diplomatic circles here.
It now appears that the dlsousslon of
this alliance, which was bound up with
far-reaching political consequenoes, has
not reached the stage of an actual be
trothal. . The Intimation that such a mar
riage was contemplated erroneously de
veloped In court circles in a premature
announcement of the betrothal as an ac
complished fact. -
GERMANIZING OF POtiAND.
Patriots Oppose Every Effort Made
by Government.
BERLIN. Oct. 8. (Special.) The
German government still continues to
do all in its power to Germanize that
part of Poland which came under
Prussia's sway at the partition of Po
land. Scarcely a day passes without
the government taking some action
against the Polish patriots. Now it
Is the suppression of a oongress of
Polish writers and the next day it
is the school question whloh accentu
ates the movement.
The Polish children in Eastern Prus
sia refuse to learn the German cate
ohlsm and especially to reolte their
prayers In German. But the Prussian
government has forbidden formally
the use of the Polish language In these
schools. Scholars defied the decree and
absented themselves from the schools.
The -parents of the children have
held meetings at Peplln Exin and Kos
ten and have protested against the
Qermanizlna; of religious teaching. J
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The police dispersed most of the meet
ings. BAKERS DID NOT GO ON STRIKE
Thousands of Police and Guards Pa
trol Streets of Paris.
PARIS. Oct. 7. The threatened strike
today of the bakers of Paris in conse
quence of the enforcement of the weekly
rest day regulation, did not occur and
the day passed without incident. Be
cause of the presence throughout the day
of 4000 special police and 800 of the Re
publican Guards patrolling before the
bakeries, as well as detachments of
armed Infantry posted at the various
police stations, the city had more or less
the appearance of being uncter military
law.
The working bakers decided almost
unanimously not to strike and conse
quently nearly all the 2000 bakeries. In
Paris have baked a double quantity of
bread and this evening the stores are
busy supplying customers with an extra
quantity In vletor of the closing of the
bake shops tomorrow. A few of the work
ing bakers received instant dismissal for
refusing to do the extra work made nec
essary by this double production, and
tonight these men threaten reprisals. The
authorities, however, have no anxiety on
that score.
Japanese to Control Railroad.
LONDON, Oct. 8. Dispatches from To
kio declare that the bonds of the South
Manchurlan Railroad have been oversub
scribed many times, but that there was
no Chinese applications. Explaining this
fact, the Pekin correspondent of the
Times says that, although China was in
vited to participate, she did not do so be
cause there were no funds available for
the Investment, and none could be had
without recourse to a foreign loan, which
policy and the fear of foreign complica
tions forbade.
The railroad, therefore, the correspond
ent says, although nominally Chino-Japr
anese, will be exclusively Japanese, and
give Japan effective control of Southern
Manchuria. .
Japanese Agent in London.
LONDON, Oct. 7. Koreklyo Tamma
hashl, special financial agent of the Jap
anese government, vice-president of the
Bank of Japan, and president of the
Yokohama Specie Bank, has arrived here.
In an Interview he said he would remain
In London until the 6 per cent Japanese
external loans were converted. The pres
ent moment seemed unfavorable for this
operation, therefore it was Impossible to
say when the Intended issue of a loan of
(125,000,000 for this purpose would be made.
Ministry to Resign In Protest.
ST. JOHNS. X. F., Oct. 7. It was re
ported today that the Ministry, following
the recent example of the National Cab
inet, intended to resign as a protest
against the temporary arrangement of
Great Britain and the United States, by
the provision of which American herring
fishermen secure privileges contrary to
the laws of New Foundland.
Ate Toadstools for Mushrooms.
ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 7. While the
funeral servioes over the body of
Myrtle Earl, 7 years old, who.dled from
the effects of eating toadstools for
mushrooms, were being held this after
noon her brother Gordon, aged 11, died.
The mother la not expected to survive.
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rge size white wool blankets, with pink or blue borders, very light
rm. Our $5.25 value. Special Sale price, the pair, $4.45.
and warm.
Infants' Sacques Underpriced
-... 1 Mothers who
plan not what
mane, raci is,
baby needfuls
Ji i mere s a special
' C I 1- 11.'
1 1 1 Hiupie mis week
I rV nne all-wool hand
assortment in
v-i
iraVtfSiT "Jiu uiue in jnuit
lancy stitcnings.
40c Sacques, special at
75c Sacques, special at
$1.00 Sacques, special at
Best
Best
Best
For Embroidery Workers
A SPECIAL SALE OF INTEREST.
Annex, Second Floor.
As a special attraction for this week
for frequenters of the Needlecraft
Shops in the Annex Salons we shall
offer choice of women's or children's
coat collars and cuffs, pin-cushion cov
ers, glove and 'kerchief cases, and
pretty belts of fine white linen
stamped in the popular English eyelet
and "shadow" embroideries. Pieces
we usually sell at 35c and 50c each,
special for this sale at 23.
LIES WITH FARMERS
Wheat Prices Will Rise If Mar
ket Is Not Glutted.
FOREIGN DEMAND IS SLOW
All the American Surplus Will Be
Needed Abroad, and the Canadian
Northwest Can Furnish No
More Than Last Year.
CHICAGO, Oct. 7. (Special.) It is
now up to the American farmer to say
whether he will force his wheat upon
the foreign buyer at low prices, or
whether he will permit the buyer to
make the bids. The situation Is criti
cal for the buyer, and It would seem
folly, in the present condition of pros
perity in this country, to force wheat
upon him at prices lower than India
or other cheap producers will sell for,
particularly when wheat is lower rel
atively than any other food staple in
sight.
Unless there is a great gain in the
volume of business that the railroads
are handling, the coming Winter may
see something phenomenal In the way
of light supplies of wheat at American
ports. There Is less than 60 days of
lake navigation with Its cheap freights
remaining this season. It is up to the
foreigner to begin supplying his needs
on even a larger scale than he has re
cently been operating.
The American seller knows the
transportation situation In this coun
try too well to stand In the gap for
the foreigner's benefit, and will make
no rash contracts on Winter . delivery.
It Is as certain as anything In life
can be that all of the American surplus
above a reasonable reserve and the
usual food and seed requirements will
be needed by the Importing countries
in the present crop year. The larger
the proportion of the reserves from the
present large crop carried on the farm,
the better it will be for wheat prices.
Once out of the farmer's hands,
wheat is an immediate weight upon
the market, and the oost of carrying it
Is at once Increased. Already the sup
plies at market centers are ample and
additions will make them burdensome.
It is up to the farmer to use his pros
perity wisely If it Is to continue In
so far as the wheat price Is concerned.
Land-boomers' claims of a tremen
dous crop in the Canadian Xorthwest
have been effectually punctured. The
movement and the price show that
Canada will not be able to export any
more than last year, when the total
was but 46,000.000 bushels.
Cape May Cottages Burned.
CAPE MAY. POINT. X. J., Oct. 7.
Fire whloh originated tonight in Uxa
raw
the pair ; 3,
the pair 3,
the pair , g4,
the pair $5,
the pair $3,
the pair $5,
the pair g?5.
the pair ' $(5'
the pair
the pair 7,
the pair $g,
65
93
85
15
35
G5
95
55
85
50
35
WORTH $5.25, FOR $4.45.
Second Floor.
lean 011 this Iniaiits' Hear Store can
to make, but what they NEEDN'T
auouc everj-tinng 111 pretty aim useful
can be had here, and oftentimes
sale or extraordinary, interest. Ex-
I TIT. tV 1 , . .
: e oner today a enoice lot ot
- knit Sacques for infants. A great
uie (mousing, piain wiiue or wnite
u 3 -11 i 1 . . 1
uuiucik, mi uenuuiuiiy umsaen in
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Packham cottage destroyed $f;o,.l!iO
worth of property. The flames .spread
quickly from the Packham cottage to
the Cape Houss and thence to a num
ber of cottages and thence to the pub
lic school building, which, however,
was only slightly damaged.
GERMANY REACHING OUT
Establishment of Bank Part of Game
to Secure Control of Persia.
BERLIN, Oct. S. (Special.) The efforts
of Germany to establish a bank In Persia
are only a part of a very deep game
being played now for the ultimate con
trol of Persian Gulf by the German
government. The statement that thl
bank will be purely commercial is ono
that causes amusement In diplomatic cir
cles in Europe, where it is felt that thn
Foreign Ofiice will have to take enersfitij
steps to prevent the bank bolng estab
lished. German Influence In Toberan Is very
strong, and cautiously but surely Ger
many la pushing its policy forward. First
came the building of the German railroad
to the shores of the pulf, and the Intrigue
that has since been taking place to secure
the Shah's permission to make Kowelt
the terminus. Then only a month or two
ago came the establishment of a German
line of steamships to trade alon the gulf,
a line heavily subsidized by the German
government.
Now comes a proposal for the estab
lishment of the bank. There Is good au
thority for stating that the Indian gov
ernment is watching every move very
carefully, but the English Foreign Office
so far has remained supine.
HUDSON BAY NAVIGATION
Western Canadian Boards of Trade
Urge Project on Government.
WINNIPEG. Man.. Oct. 7. (Special.)
Combined movement of the Western
Canadian Board of Trade has inaugu
rated a campaign to urge on the pro
vincial and dominion governments the
necessity of preparing the Hudson Bay
route to England for navigation. Co
operation of veteran Hudson Bay navi
gators, who are connected with the Hud
son Bay Company, has been secured.
These old Arctic sailors afhrm that the
bay is navigable from midsummer until
December and sometimes until the end
of January. The dangerous month Is
July, when floating Ice comes swirling
through the straits, but after this has
disappeared there Is nothing to prevent
the steamers running from Fort Church
ill to Liverpool up to Christmas.
The feeling Is that the eastern members
of Parliament will not be willing to con
sent to opening up the route and there
fore a vigorous campalffn is necessary.
The Canadian Northern Railroad has al
ready graded its line 90 miles north of
Prince Albert In the direction of Hudson
Bay and next year will complete 200
miles more.
Sash Plant Is Destroyed.
CHICAGO, Oct. 7. The plant of the
Morgan Blind & Sash Company here was
destroyed by, fire tonight. Loss $200,000,