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CJlLNTY l . " '" Mi er had iu j,.nvi I Wbe . Live Was uug i.iui life rtATUKUAV.. r, WHS OCT H COS I OK UKOWiia W HEAT. At ile iiikUuce uf the American Aerlou Uteri t, uniform cost records for lt471 acres, in 17 chief wheat grviug states, wnt kept by reli ve r . r u-r - and turned in to ,1,,' journal wien complete. Of ,j,e ac res represented, 783 were in furi"K wheat, nd 689 in winter irtit dt, and the crop treated of was lint ol 1898. These reportB show thai the actual cost (labor and maintenance of men .nd teams; cost of seed, fertilizer and threshing, taxes and all supplies directly used in prod ad D( the crop) on the area indicated, was about 23c per bushel; or taking into account the dete rioration of horses and machines, 26c per bushel; or. including inter est on capital inverted In machinery, hoftM aiil land, 36.5o per bushel. The average yield per sere of the 1,472 acres vhb 19 2 bushels, w hile the average of the whoM country ba( year was 15.4 bushi If. On the bas s of ihe smaller ielil(ji eluding interest and dttleriui I'.ionj, the dual cost would l.ave been .(2.9o per bushel. It is not claimed that the bo! of tho average bushel of wheat n.ised in this country corresponds to the foregoing estimate for the 1 472 acres in question; but it is claimed that the true cost for that particu lar acreage is shown. The value of the figures, then, lies iu the fact that they afTord an accurate stand ard and, it is asserted, the i nly accurate standard ot comparison for v. heat-growers generally, and rIbo show how cheaply whe it ran be raised where intelligence aod business methods prevail. THAT BSAK i . WOMAN AND APPLE "Where," asked the female suf frage orator, "would man be today it it were not for woman?" She paused a moment and look ed around the hall. "I repeat," Lt said, "where would man be to day were it not for woman 1" "He'd be in the garden of Eden catinc strawberries." answered a voice from the gallery. HW et; I Woi 'hlpprd in esdi w-u nig hour. ThtgUwOlOg of tier llflj fret, "That dainty sllppsf BOW how sad! D ep aw.. lusplrtM, for, lacks i'.y, Wb.-n bi-r small u i- nut- mi. I bnd Slit- smile hi in in the gissl old U ." We fmi to see the ernor II orevelt of rig it of Opt N i Y rk t.) take nthr men t . ta-k for "their greed 'or office their thirst for power." He has been on the public pay roll almost ever since he was old enough to vote, mid he baa given DO intimation of any ir.tention to retire. On the contrary he is playing his cards for a still higher bom? a place on the presidential ticket. Wood burn Indept ndent: "The Salem Sentinel is ma king a roar be cause U.ivernor Gter borrowed 1000 from a Polk county man be fore election and paid the man uuij a ner election, it iieer is not excited 4bout the incident why should the Sentinel editor bet" The great sugar pine tree found growing on the HOUIOOd river, in California, from which the great plank, twelve feet wide, thirty feet long and three feet thick, is ti be cut for the forestry exhibit at Paris has been felled and will be hauled to the mill to lie sawed. Deyona Burklin is the new queen ot the gypsies. She wb crowned at Lancaster, Pa. The queen was born in Egypt and her father, who is 92 years of age, boasts thit none of their familv for seven genera tions has ever slept in a house. (titling, the man who invented the gun of that name, has passed his 81st birthday. The people who were at the other end of the invention are dead long ago, re marks an observing newspaper man. Portland electric light aod power -ompanies have been attaching wires to fire escapes. The chief en gineer of the fire department very properly gives notice that the wins must be removed. COMPMMKNTS OF THE DAY The following telegrams have recently passed between Great Britain and the United States: "To John Bull: "How would you like to trade Oom Panl Kruger for Aguinaldo? "Uncle Sam." "To Uncle Sana: "We would not trade without Borne boot. Couldn't you throw in the Sultan and his harem besides? Answer Quick. "John Bull." The officer of the cable steamer Minia, which is now endeavoring in mid-ocean to locate and repair a broken cable 1500 feet below the Rurlace of the water, state that their instruments show the bottom of the ocean to have a temperature below the freezing point and that there is a total absence of light. The officers say that a great many of the deep sea fish are so peculiarly constructed that they often lose their lives by chasing the instru ments toward the surface. They die by what experts call "falling upward." As soon as they get out of their accustomed level the de creased pressure expands the air within them and the fish shoot to the surface, but are dead before "they reach that point. Oom Paul in a recent speech Baid: "Everything points to war, because the spirit of falsehood has overtaken other countries and because the people of the Transvaal wish to govern themselves. Although thou sands may come to attack ns, we have nothing to lear, for the Lord is the final arbiter and He will de cide. Ballets came by thousands at the time of the Jameson nid, but the burghers were untouched. Over a hundred were killed on the other side, showing that the Lord directed our bullets. The Lord rules the world." Une of the latest is the Tampa, Florida, oigar trust, capitalized at $25,000,000. They may succeed in taxing smoke, and cornering it with a trust, but sunlight is still tree. The South refers with pride to the state ot Georgia aB having fur nished more volunteers for the war with Spain, in proportion to popu lation, than any other state. The editor of the Tillamook Her ald thinks he sees Bigns of an early and cold winter in the fact that the clerk of that county issued six mar riage licenses within a week. JUNCTION CITY NEWS. Clipped From the Times of Octo ber 7. W H Spaugh has moved back to the coast. John Handsaker will preach at tne Harmony sohoolhouse at 11am aud 3 pm, Sunday, October 15. Dr Oglesby has received returns from one of his group of mines in Bohemia which assays 1129.08 to the ton. Mrs F W Folsom and daughter, Mis Nellie, attended the Jolinson-Norrls wedding In-Kugene Wednesday. Miss Pearl Darellus, formerly a teacher In th public schools' of this olty, commenced a term of schoel a Irving last Monday. The first quarterly conference for Junction City circuit will be held at Franklin the fourth Saturday aud Sunday in Oetober. Rev J D HI BERT The Farlej-Cteek threshing crew made a run of 23 days this season, anil threshed 44,515 bushels, an average dally run of 1051 bnshel. This Is a n markahly good run for this season. g .NEWEST S ALASKAN GOLD & CAMP. tome. Where I .-.. . - .'.a. Froaprt-I of Srrloma Trouble. BY JOHN F. WILLOUQHBY. One of tho must Interesting and Ini portout of the new Alaska mining rampa is Anvil City, lu the Capo Nome region. It Is on the coast about 100 miles above St. Michael's and of course In American territory. The Cape Nome district Is Interesting just now. not only on account of the gold discoveries there, but from the foot that it threatens to be the scene of one of tho most serious disturbances which any of Alaska's boom towns have witnessed. Gold seekers In the frozen' north seem to hove a hard time of t all around. In Canadian territory -the mining laws discriminate against them. In American territory there appears to be much official corruption and a lax enforcement of mining regulations. This Is what has caused the trouble ot Anvil City, where a detachment of our meager military force In Alaska has been ordered. When the first reports of gold dis coveries at Cope Nome lost fall reach ed St. Michael's and lower Yukon river Iolnt8, there was a rush for locations until, before the spring, 1.000 claims hod boon staked, completely covering tho creeks of a district BO miles long and extending from salt water to tho mountain tops, some miles away. No work was done during the win ter, owing to tho absence of wood for burning purposes, so tho reports which traveled up the Yukon and finally reached the states were based entirely upon rumored discoveries which there was no way to substantiate. This pro mlscuous locating of snow and Ice fields seems to have been n thriving Industry at St. Michael's, ami It Is said to bo difficult to discover a clerk or other employee of any of the business concerns there who does uot hold from one to a dozen claims. Every one seems to hove been more or less affect ed by the fever, aud the moneyed men A HGHTING HAYES. Su af ih.- I I'rrel.l.-ni hi. nutlpplaee. As a rule, the mus of our president bars cut but little tigurs la the affair of the nation. The question of what should be done with our presidents' sons has net come up. Perhaps this Is iltie partly to the fact that few of the later presidents have been blessed with eons. Lieutenant Webb C. llayn Is a good example of what a president' son ought to bo. While be DM not been , conspicuous as a states man ha has be , come prominent as a soldier and In time may come to take a hand In law making as well. Just DOW he Is lieu tenant Colonel of the Thirty llrst Ftilt el Slates volunteers. Ills regiment has been mobilising at Ten Thotnai l and is under orders to p to Manila ! so that among the men we will soor aamttttrnttiaM IIP Ham in'. School. B B Davis, who, was so successful In conducting a. dancing school during last wluter, will j conduct a similar school this season. Enough persons have already madeap plications for lessons to lnnire a pless- ant and successful year. The first lef een will be given next Haturday evening, October 14, at Armory Hall. As before, the public or friends of pu pils will be Invited to attend, watch their progress and engage In the dance. MAIN 8TIIEKT OF ANVIL CITT, ALASKA. of tho place did n largo business In sending others to the new diggings to locate claims by power of attorney. Thus the United States commission er, the commander of tho military forces aud such officials are credited with holding scores of claims without having even seen Cape Nome. These hundreds of cases of locating claims by power of attorney are now causing trouble, aud If the real prospectors have their way not one of such loca tions will be allowed to hold. The llrst definite Information about tho uew camp was recently brought down by tho steamer Ilcrtha, tho first boat lu reach Sun 1'rauclsco from that point. Previously, however, had come wild rumors of a fabulously rich strike. Gold was first found lu June, 1808, by six miners who left (Jolovlu bay In a small boat to prospect on Slnrock riv er. They discovered coarse gold ou Anvil creek, but did not tarry to work tho diggings. Later Dr. Klttleson, G. W. I'rleo uhd J. 8. Fornleiisls, with others, returned and got out In a week 11,712. old obliged them to desist. but lu the course of weeks many more came In aud endured much suf fering from weather and hunger. Ear ly In May of this year Price shipped $10,000 to SL Michael's. Of course when these facts became knowu there was a stumpedo for Capo Nome from Dawson and other mints. Many of the stampeders left in disgust after looking over the situation, but others remained, and they built thu canvas city en Anvil crevk which is now tl i mctroplls of tho district. Anvil City Is what may be termed n "hot town" these days. Tents and skeleton frame buTldmga are the only kind so far erected Libbbsf costs $150 per 1.000 feet, and the working season Is short. DSUOOS halls, saloons and gambling dens aro running full blast day and night Just how c.Uciislve the gold produc ing gravel Is will not be known for soiuo time. This season work Is being done on several claims on Anvil creek and Snow gulch. . These properties' ore producing from $20 to $300 a day per man. These figures are fp.rn the own ers of the properties, how ever, ' and many old miners are Inclined to be skeptical. Tlie country Is a slate fornmttou, cnrrylng large quantities of jjuartz. The hillsides are rugged and rocky, and tho creeks are narrow. Ground up quart Is plentiful In the streams, and some search for gold bearing ledges Is going on. Men are also work ing claims on the beach, where they pan out good wages. LIECTKNAN T OoLoNKL WKIUl C. HATES. send to give the Plllpluos their long delayed thrashing will be the son of our lata presldi at Although yet a young man, Colonel Hayes has quite a brilliant military record, lie was for years a member of tho famous Cleveland Troop A. When the war broke out. he was In strumental lu organizing the I'irst Ohio cavalry, which went to ChlckO muugn, aud was assigucd to Major General Young's cavalry brigade, lie was appointed major ami succeeded It) being ordered to Shoflcr's expedition as an officer on General Young's MalT. He served In the Cuban campaign. At the close of the wor he was brevet ted lieutenant colonel of volunteers fot gallantry at the battle of Santiago. At the battle of San .limn Hill be wai wounded and his horse shot from un der him. He also served lu the Porto Itlcan campaign. out T1 ll'i .III' lXTii VOLCANO. i Milium Lou. Wbat It llaa Dime lu hr !( and What M Xow U Hiuertrd. 0Y C. J. BOWDEN. tat I-. H"i",".".W"ri"l.''!".''!"h'i"!H"H,,rTi'r Again I'ncle Ram has on hand o co lonial disturbance. This time It Is In Hawaii. It has the merit of furnish ing variety. Iustead of a political dis turbance such as Is under way In the Philippines or threatened In Cuba the Hawaiian diversion Is caused by the forces of nature over which the cabi net at Washington has no control. Ma una Lou, tho only working vol cano under the Btars ami stripes. If wo except Mount Hauler, whoso character has not yet boon fully determined, has developed signs of aggressiveness. At last accounts a life slxed eruption was under way. oud the alarmists wore predicting that when we next heard from Honolulu thero might Imj news to the effect that the Island of Hawaii had either been blown out of existence 0t Irretrievably split Into a number of small Islands. These disturbing predictions or based on the theory that the present eruption has been caused by the crack ing of tho base of tho mountain In such a way as to allow tho sea to leak through Into the laa reservoir. Tho accompanying Illustration shows how It Is supposed this might happen. Of course such an accident would re sult in an explosion of tho first class, with results disturbing if not nctuolly disastrous to contiguous territory. Every good American hopes that nothing of tho sort hns happened to this recently acquired Island territory of ours. We havo troublo enough In dealing with thoso Islands which re main physically Intact. Colonies which show a dlsHsltlon to commit geograph- MfctAi TATTEHdD A "r Hrturnlnn ultinfr IT U in Worn, fthnt 111 BATTLEFLAGS. era Hrlav lla.ik Iddled I ...lit. Mi ni the many relics which the return- ng volunteers bring back from the Philippines they prize BOM more high i 1 1 ia ii the lattered. shot riddled, war worn Imttletlags which aro proudly .arrlisl lu every parade. These same battletlags tell the tale .if hard campaigning more eloquently than the Ihiys can do It themselves and Setter than the readiest of war eorro puudcuts. The people who ore now iheerlng the faded, rnggod emblems law these tings when they were bright mid new. The contrast Is a sharp one. Liery volunteer regiment that went t ut carried with It at least one stand if colors presented by tho people of STOPPED THE FAST MAIL. Mrs. Allen llld It to Get to Hrr Slok Ilabj. O Hero is s picture of Mrs Ellen Jebb Al len, who flag ged tho fast mail against ull orders that s h o might reach her baby lioy,. who was thought to be dying. Mrs. Allen Is the wife of a millionaire tanner of Kehoshn, Ills. With her husband she was watching a golf contest near Kvanston when she received a message that her little boy was daugerously 111. Mr. and Mrs. Allen hurried to the station lu Kvanston only to find that 1 mm MHS. KI.LKN JUIU ALLSS. they could not catch a train for foul hours. "But there's a train coming now," said Mrs. Allen. "Yes, but It's the fast mall from Chicago-limited, you know never stops," said the station agent "Hut couldn't we stop it Just this once?" The station agent was obdurate. Ho was aghast at the Idea of stopping the limited, even to take a mother to her dying child. Just as tho train roDod up the grade at the rote of tin miles on hour Mrs. Allen, white faced, but de termined, Stepped out on the tracks and waved her i"l golf capo. Tho en gineer of the fast mall Stopped his train almost at Mrs. Allen's feet and cllmled down from his cab Just In time to catch her as she fainted. When the engineer and COndUCtOl heard the story of tho sick cMId, Mr. and Mrs. Allen were taken sb aid, and tho limited pulled out for Kenosha ot record breaking Sjsajl. The five minutes' delay was made up beors Kenosha wss reached, but the rules and regulations had been smashed into little bits. Hy the time Mrs. Allen reached home she found that the baby was out of danger. Mrs. Allen possesses Indomitable splr it. During tho Spanish war she was particularly Interested In the condition of the army in Cuba. Kho was one of the first American women to visit San tiago after tLo Americas flag was rais ed by Oensral Shaftor. ll MAIiNA MIA IS I NE AST. The (Migrant Ih Ii not Intended an arm rate pluturo dt the volcano, but ia drawn In thla tluuj (o llliutrale Ilia theory that Ihe eruption la teueed liy tha aea breaking Into 111 baae ot the mountain. 1 leal haro klrl would certainly bo on undeserved burden. Mr. McKlnley has still cue comfort left-It will be hard for his political opponents to show that Mauua Don's eruption Is duo to his administration. Mauua I .on has two craters, In which activity Is manifested moro or less continuously. Ou tho lower slope Is Klluuco at an elevatlou of 11,071 foot This crater Is as well knowu as It Is possible to muko a scculc attraction which may Imj reach Sd by stage or oven by wheel. It has Its years of In activity, WaMB there is llttlo to bo seeu but a hot and yawning pit, but lu geu erul Kllauea keeps a warm corner of Its lava lake open for Inspection. This crater has ouly recently reuow ed its activity after savjral years of rest During that paftuQ tho crater was by no means cold and silent A few mouths ago the pit tilled once more with lava, and the lakes and mountains of Uro havo shown fresh ac tivity. Tho summit crater of Mauua Loa has a different habit. It Is only at raro Intervals that tho llres aro mani fest aud then ouly for brief and uucer tulu duration. It Is a hard climb to tho craters. Thero aro difficulties In tho way to overcome which restrain many who would like to scale the height There Is mountain sickness, thoro Is tho necessity to curry ull pro visions for tho Journey nud to sus tain tho shock of pusslug from tropical heat to glacial cold. All these diffi culties have combined to make tho summit crater of Mauna Loa a spot rarely visited by men. Tho crater Is a holo In tho ground nearly ten miles around, not quite two miles in breadth and a llttlu less than four miles In length. When tho cruter Is active, tho crust of tho lova floor melts Irregularly, and hikes of tire ap pear, from which cracks radluto lu every direction. In tho Uro lukes fire fouutalus aro Intermittently ot play. Bomo have been mensured by tho offi cers of tho Hawaiian survey and havo been found to spout '00 feet Into tho air. The great Mauna Loa flows aro easi ly to bo traced along tho bare moun tain sldo from any place which will afford mi extcuded view. Tho flow of 1800 Is one of tho very few which have been emitted from tho western sldo of the mountain. It Is about UO miles long and took eight days to reach the sea. It flowed for seven months. Tho two SoVI of 1808 and 1887 are dose together ut tho southern point of tho Istonfl one coming from a vent ten miles Inland, tho other from one 10 miles Inland. The former had the speed of ten miles In two hours, which seems to be the record. The largest and most menacing flows have broken out very close together and have f ol lowsd almost the same course. WAII WOHN llATTLKrLAOS. the state from which It came. Fine silken colors they were, with lotB of gold cord and fringe. The soldiers have brought back lu some coses mere ly the remnants of these lings. Filipino bullets have bitten the silken folds OS they waved over the firing lino on logons of hotly contested battlefields. The Nebraska i.duntoors uro partic ularly proud of their buttlellug. Thero Is Uttia left of It StOepI the field and the staff. This Is not to be wondered at when you remember that It has been through lights such us the ono at Quln gua. where Colouel StolHcnhurg nod 3d out of 100 men fell In traversing a dis tance of less than Ho yards. It was as Hue a flag as money could buy," said Congressman Stork of Ne braska as the Hag wos dipped In the review ut San Francisco the other day. itut no amount of money could buy It now. We are going to tone it nncx to Lincoln and put It lu a glass case where every one con see It I expect some of these boys will toko their chil dren there some day, and then they will be able to point out tho old battle Hag under which they fought on the Othet side of the world." Tho guidons ot tho Utah battery have hardly enough red and gold loft to distinguish them as artillery em blems. Tho Fennsylvanla troops and all tho others that havo returned have brought bock the inmo tattered flags. PRESIDENT'S NEW HOR8E8. lie OeU riuely Malelieil I'alr I rum U I., mi -I ii. Like roost good Ameri cans, Presi dent MoKln Iny Is fond ot g(H)d horses. Ho Is a akUl fnl horseman himself, having learned the art on the battlefields of the civil wor. Hut It has been years since he was In tho sad- He, ami his weignt mm increasing years make It doubtful If he will ever enjoy the pleasures of a sharp gallop again. ( if late years ho has become espedal- ond of traveling along behind a pair. When In Washington al- SHH 1-IIKSIHKST M'glSLSV'S SKW HOB most his only outings aro the carrlAgo drives which he takes regularly over tho smooth boulevards of the national capital In the While House stables there are several good horses. To these has re-i-eutly been added a finely matched pair of carriage horses. They ore western bred, having been sold to the president by s Wisconsin breeder. They are handsome, clean limbed oiilmuhi who look ns If they could do a mle In double harness under 2 10, This tall, aft. r the president returns from his outing ou the shores of Laid- Chntn puin, the new pair will hove a cBShce to show what they nre made of on some of tho suburban roads In tho vl 1 tnlty of Washington. During 1808 the number of persons who made Alpine tours necessitating! guides la the Tyrol was 18,000. o o