Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Week
HEPPNER OREGON
LESSEN MINE DEATHS.
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in a Manner to
Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
and Commercial Importance.
The Ancient Order of Hibernians
will meet in Portland in 1910.
Ruef accuses Burns of tampering
with jurors and has started contempt
proceedings.
Great Britain is already beginning
to be sorry she entered into an alliance
with Japan.
Roosevelt is planning a hunt in the
mountains of Southern Oregoon before
he goes to South Africa.
The Italian cruiser Puglia is visiting
California ports and will also call at
Portland, Seattle and Vancouver, B. C.
J. C. Stubbs, traffic manager for the
Harriman lines, says shippers are un
fair in their opposition to rate in
crease. A Los Angeles ragbuyer got $1,500
in jewelry and diamonds in an old over
coat, where they had been placed for
safekeeping.
The preposition to submit a consti
tutional amendment for state prohibi
tion in Texas will probabply carry at
the primaries.
Adlai E. Stevenson, ex-vice presi
dent of the United States, is a candi
date for the Democratic nomination for
governor of Illinois.
W. F. Walker, who looted the New
Britain, Conn., bank of more than
$500,000, was sentenced to not less
than one year nor more than five years
in the penitentiary on the fi :rst count,
and five years each on three other
counts.
run again for governor
European Experts to Visit America
and Conduct Experiments.
Washington, July 2S. In response
to an invitation extended by the Unit
ed States government in behalf of the
geological survey, Great Britain, Ger
many and Belgium will send to this
country next month their lead.ig ex
perts in the prevention of mine disas
ters, to aid in the inauguration of the
work here. The negotiations were
conducted through the State depart
ment.
The three experts are Captain Des
borough, inspector of explosives under
the Home office, Great Britain : Herr
Meisher, head of the German mine ser
vice, and Victor Watteyne, engineer-
ln-chief of the administration of mines,
Belgium, it is expected that the ex
perts will reach New York about the
end of August, and proceed to Pitts
burg, where the United States Geo
logical survey is engaged in erecting a
plant for the purpose of conducting in
vestigations into the cause of mine
explosions.
In company with the expert in
charge of the technologic branch of the
survey, they will visit the fields of
Pennsylvania, the coal fields of Illinois,
Wyoming, Colorado, Alabama, West
Virginia and Ohio, in order that they
may learn the conditions under which
coal is mined in this country.
Experiment stations for the preven
tion of disasters have been in opera
tion for a number of years in each
country represented by the experts,
and there the death rate in the mines
has been reduced to a minimum.
With the knowledge that mine acci
dents have been increasing and the
death rate constantly becoming larger
the Unied States government authori
ties are hastening to begin the investi
gations which it is believed will great
ly reduce the loss of life. It is ex
pected that the advice- of the foreign
experts will be invaluable.
LEVEE GIVES WAY.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON
USE OWN MONEY.
Coast Ports Are Anxious for Deepe
Channels to the Sea.
rortiana. JJepending upon watt-
Hughes will
of New York.
Furious anti-European riots are oc
curring at Bombay.
Sweden and Denmark are said to
have formed a military alliance.
Cincinnati shippers have appealed
direct to the president against rate increase.
is preparing to press the
her citizens against Vene-
England
claims of
zuela.
In a battle between Mexican troops
and Indians 19 of the latter were killed
and two soldiers slain.
A passenger steamer was sunk near
Christiana, Norway, and more than a
score of people drowned.
All European Turkey is in revolt and
has extorted a constitution from the
sultan as terms of peace.
tugene w. Lhahn, Frohobition can
didate for president, says if elected he
would use the army to enforce prohi
bition.
Heney is being called on for an ex
planation of $30,000 paid him by the
Contra Costa Vv atre company for legal
services m 1905
Judge Grosscup says the decision of
the Appeal court in the Standard case
is practically final. The United States
Supreme court is the only recourse.
Thaw has been deprived of the priv
ileges of the jail in which he is confined.
Lieutenant R. J. Hazzard, who help
ed to capture Aguinaldo, is to retire
from the army.
Judge Grosscup, who is on the Fed
eral bench at Chicago, i3 anxious to
retire and practice law.
In the New York to Paris automo
bile race the German car is ahead,
with the American second. They are
in Germany.
The Appeal court is said to have
blundered in two instances in quoting
proceedings before Judge Landis in the
Standard case.
The Turkish sultan has instructed
his commanders to use money and soft
words at Monastir in an effort to sup
press the uprising.
Isaac Eppinger, one of the firm of
Jaob Eppinger & Co., of San Fran
cisco, accused of raising money on
false warehouse receipts, has been
committed to an insane asylum.
Lincoln Beachey, who won fame at
the Lewis and Clark fair, is making
daily flights in his airship at Balti
more. He makes 14 miles in 33 min
utes, and in one instance beat an automobile.
Causes Heavy Damage to Farm Land
on San Joaquin.
Antioch, Cal., July 28. Last night
at 2 o'clock about 200 feet of the San
Joaquin river levee gave way on the
fertile Jersey island tract located east
of here, flooding the entire isand, com
prising nearly 4,000 acres. The loss
will be about $50,000, and fall princi
pally upon the Jersey Island company,
although there are many small farmers
whe hold leases who will lose every
thing, as their crops were all practi
cally ready to harvest.
The Jersey Island company had 100
acres of the finest celery in the river
section, estimated at 8,000 carloads,
that would have been ready to harvest
in about two months. There was also
500 acres of potatoes, besides other
vegetables. Nothing will be saved.
Besides this direct loss, all the
ditches used for draining the land will
be ruined. Also thousands of young
celery plants that were ready for plant
ing are under water. It was intended
to make this one of the largest celery
fields in the state.
transportation to get their products to
market, the people of Siuslaw and Co
quille are preparing to expend something
in the neighborhood of $250,000 of thei
own in order to get the federal govern
ment interested in the work of improv
ing the channels leading from the ocean
into the respective bays. They hav
come to the conclusion that deep wale
must be had, no matter what might b
the cost.
J. B. Cushman, a prominent sawmill
man ot siuslaw, is tn Portland to con
or with the government engineers rela
tive to the project proposed at Siuslaw
and he has received considerable en
couragement from Major James Mcln
doe, successor to Colonel S. W. Roes
er, United States engineers corps, hav
ing charge ot the work in this district
ine Day inside the Dar has hne deep
water, both to Acme and Florence. Mr
Cushman says, and no work will be
necessary there.
At Coqtulle a committee of three
eading business men has been placed
in charge ot the work and $100,000 has
aleady been subscribed for the purpose
ot placing a jetty at the mouth of tin
bay and bulkheading the same. The Co
quille country is in much the same pre
dicament as that on Siuslaw.
Mr. Cushman asked Major Mclndoe
for the services of an engineer to take
charge of the work at Siuslaw bar, and
he was practically given assurance that
he request would be granted, although
the matter will have to be submitted be
fore the chief of the department first
as do also the proposed plans of the
property owners there.
i o empiov a areaee would be of no
avail, says Mr. Cushman. because the
sand shifts continually, and the only
method of keeping it out of the channel
by forcing it out with the current of
the river, as is done at the mouth of the
Columbia.
ENJOINS ADVANCE IN RATE.
Georgia Judge Grants an Injunction
Against Southern Roads.
Mount Airy, Ga., July 28. On ap
plication of the Macon Grocery com
pany, and other merchants and mer
cantile corporations of the state, Judge
Sp?er, of the United States court yes
terday granted a preliminary injunc
tion restraining the Atlantic Coast
Railroad company, the Louisville &
Nashville and the Nashville, Chatta
nooga & St. Louis, the Cincinnati,
New Orleans & Texas Pacific and the
Southern Railway companies from put
ting into effect the increased rates on
shipments of staple products from
Western to Southern points, which the
railroads have given notice to the In
terstate Commerce commission will
take effect on August 1.
Judge Speer will hear arguments on
July 29 at Mount Airy. The increase,
if carried into effect, the petition al
leges, will cost the shippers and pur
chasers in Georgia from $500,000 to
$1,000,000 annually.
Speeches Strike High Note.
London, July 28. Earl Grey, gov
ernor general of Canada, in an official
report to the earl of Crewe, secretary
of state for the colonies, on the cele
bration of the tercentennial of the
founding of Quebec, says the speeches
of Vice President Fairbanks, of the
United States, and the representative
of France, touched a high note of
friendship and good will to Canada and
the crown. Earl Grey also mentions
the great satisfaction felt at the pres
ence of the detachments of Ameircan
marines in the review.
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
company, the Rio Grande Western
Railroad company, and all subsidiary
railroad companies in Colorado and
Utah, except the Rio Grande Southern,
have been merged into one company.
Fierce fighting is reported from
Tabriz, Persia, 200 being killed or
wounded.
Mrs. John B. Stetson, widow of the
millionaire hat maker, is to marry a
Portuguese count.
The
for a
Treadwell mines
miners' federation has asked
government inquiry into the
Honduras has no money with which
to continue the fight against revolu
tionists and has told its railroad to
Americans.
Assassin on Trial.
San Francisco, July 28. A trial of
international interest was called in the
Superior court in this city yesterday
morn'n?, before Judge Carroll Cook,
when In Whan Chang, the Corean, who
on March 23 shot and fatally wounded
Durham W bite Stevens, diplomatic
advisor to the Corean emperor at
Seoul, will be tried for murder. Mr.
Stevens was shot as he was about to
board a ferry boat in this city en route
to Washington. He died on March 26.
Coiners in Coal Mine.
Yusovo, July 28. While clearing
away the ruins of the explosion in the
Ripovsky mine, which occurred early
in this month and resulted in the death
of nearly 200 mer, the officers today
found a set of counterfeiting tools and
a quantity of spurious money. It is
surmised that the counterfeiters may
have teen responsible for the disaster.
Demand for Linn Farms.
Albany. rami lands in Linn coun
ty are being eagerly sought and val
lies have increased wonderfully within
the last year. W. M. Lloyd, of lan
gent, recently sold his farm consisting
of 3G3 acres of pasture land for $11,
non. About live years ago this same
farm changed hands and brought $6.
00f. Two years ago W. M. Lloyd
paid $8,000 for it. A half dozen of the
finest farms in Linn county have
changed hands within the oast week
There seems to be a steadily increas
ing demand for this class of realty.
Every day prospective homeseekers
are seen touring the country with the
view of purchasing and establishing a
home.
Cement Blocks for Depot.
Albany. Three thousand cement
blocks have arrived in' the city from
Eugene, and are to be used in the
building of the new depot at this city.
The work on the grounds has pro
gressed so rapidly as to call for the
laying of the blocks immediately. T.
H. Ellis, of Eugene, is the contractor,
and has had the suoervision of the
making of the blocks for the local
structure. A large force of men is
now at this city busily engaged in the
work of constructing the new depot.
Fire Destroys Timber.
St. Helens Fire which broke out in
the logging woods near the camp of
the Peninsula Lumber ' company, five
miles west of Columbia City, from
some unknown cause, got beyond con
trol and the company's entire force
was called out to protect the roadbed
and equipment. In trying to pave the
donkey engines the men did heroic
work. All the engines were saved,
also the equipment. About 200 acres
of timber were burned.
Cherry Grower Puts in Drier.
Salem. S. P. Kimball, one of the
largest growers of cherries near Sa
lem, hs just completed a drier with
a capacity of 300 bushels of cherries
tiny. The poor market for cherries
r'ecidcd Mr. Kimball to install the
drier All cherries for the drier are
carefully pitted bv machinery. He be
lieves that dried Royal Annes will net
him a bigger profit than fresh Royal
Annes at 3 cents a pound, the best
price -offered by the canneries.
LOSE BY EARLY WOOL SALE.
Umatilla Growers Feel They Are Out
$40,000 as Result. 1
Pendleton Umatilla county sheep
men are very much dissatisfied for hav
ing been induced to sell their wool
early in the season. They have never
been satisfied with the prices received,
and reports from recent sales in Mon
tana have convinced them that they
are really beaten out of between $30,
000 and $40,000.
The reports from Montana show that
wool there brought an average of five
cents more a pound than the Eastern
Oregon wools, and this difference can
not be accounted for by the difference
in freight rates and shrinkage. An
advantage of one cent is accounted for
the Montana wool because of the
freight rate, and last year the shrink
age of the Montana wcol was seven
per cent less than that grown in East-
ern uiegon. computing prices on a
basis of approximately the same ratio
of shrinkage for this year, the Mon
tana growers were readily entitled to
2, cents more a pound than the Ore
gon flock owners. The Oregon grow
ers, therefore, naturally feel that their
wool was worth as much as the Mon
tana wool less this 2 cents, and not
less the 5 cents, the actual difference
paid.
Had the growers of this county
alone have received prices correspond
ing to the prices paid in Montana, they
would have received in the neighbor
hood of $4,000 more for their clip than
they did receive, and taking Eastern
Oregon as a whole, the difference
would have mounted into the hundreds
of thousands.
GOVERNOR WANTS DELEGATES
Can't Fink Sportsmen Willing to At
tend National Meeting.
Salem. The National League of
American Sportsmen, which meets at
.awton, Oklahoma, October 12 and
13. has requested Governor Chambcr-
ain to appoint from one to five dele
gates Irom this state. 1 he governor
las requested a number dt sportsmen
n Portland to suggest names of per
sons who would be willing to repre
sent Oregon at the Oklahoma meet
ing, but has been unable to secure
any suggestions, ihe governor thinks
the organizations of sportsmen in
Portland should suggest names if they
desire representation at the national
convention. He has no other method
of determining those who arc inter
ested or those who would go.
HARRIMAN WILL FIGHT.
Starts Suit to Prevent Lumbermen
Getting Reduced Rate.
roruana,. July zi. While the re
duced tranmscontinental rates on lum
ber shipments from Oregon to the Mid
die West will go into effect on all lines
on August 15, the Willamette valley
lumber mill men have not won their
final round, since the Southern Pacific
company has opened fire from a new
quarter and sued in the Federal court
for an injunction against the Inter
state Commerce commission's order
cutting down the $5 rate to San Fran
cisco and bay points. The new attack
by the Southern Pacific company will
again check the lumber industry in the
valley, as it clouds the future with un
Temporary injunctions are regarded
as very dangerous to business pros
pects, and especially so in this case.
Although the railroads propose to give
a bond to indemnify lumber manufac
turers in event of losing the railroads'
case in court, the alleged bond does not
prove to be any protection to the lum
ber industry. No new lumber mill is
going to start up and no old mill is go
ing to resume business on the promise
of a railroad company to reimburse the
mill should a lower rate ultimately be
made. 1
It is believed by well-informed law
yers that there does not exist more
than one chance in' 100 for the South
ern Pacific company to win any import
ant ground in the fight against railroad
regulation as a result of its newest at
tack upon the validity of the Hepburn
law. Should the company win this
suit it would destroy the Interstate
Commerce commission as at present
created and organized.
DOUBT SULTAN'S GOOD FAITH.
His
Flour Mill for Baker.
Baker City. A committee of busi
ness men. composed of N. C. Haskell,
V. J. Patterson and Sam Baer, has
finished the work of soliciting a fun
wiin wnicn to purchase a site tor tne
new 200-barrel flouring mill that is to
be built by G. B. Stout, of Paoli, Ind
Mr. Stout asked that the city donate
a millsite, and stated that he would
erect a modern flour mill. Over $1010
was raised by the committee in a few
hours to pay for the land.
Track Laying Is Resumed.
Klamath Falls. Track -laying has
been resumed on the California North
etstern railway, and steel has been
laid over the hill this side of Harris,
the present terminus. Wordcn, the
station nearest the swamp, will prob
"bly be the next terminus of the road
This will aid greatly in shortening the
freight and stage road into the city.
Albany and Linn Apple Fair.
Albany Albany and Lane county
are preparing for the annual apple fair
to be held some time late in the sea
son. The first of these fairs was held
last year. The success was so marked
that it was decided to again make a
showing of the county's resources.
Monroe Cannery Idle.
Monroe. Monroe has one of the larg
est and best equipped canneries in the
state, but from latest reports it seems
that the outfit is to lay idle this season.
No contracts for fruit or vegetables
have been made with growers, and the
chances are that the owners have a
white elephant on their hands. i
Clubhouse for College Girls.
University of Oregon, Eugene. Girls
at the University of Oregon will he well
housed next year. At least three new
houses, accommodating between GO and
0 girls, will be ready for occupancy
n September. The Mary Spiller I louse.
named t:r the hrst woman connected
with the university, will have rooms for
0 to 30 girls. The kloshe Tillacum
Club will have a handsome new home
y the opening of the university. The
Zeta Iota Phi Sorority is building a new
house, which will have room enough for
0 girls.
New Fresh Fruit Tariff,
Salem Wednesday, July 22, the
Southern Pacific will put in force a
new tariff providing for the reduc
tion of the minimum weight to 20,010
pounds for cherries, plums, prunes,
pears and other fresh fruits, in plf ce
of 24,000 pounds. The same tariff has
been in force on the O. R. & N. The
new arrangement was made by spec al
permission of the railroad commission
and will remain in force until Decem
ber 31, 1908.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
People of Constantinople Accept
trade With Stolidity.
Constantinople, July 27. The mo
mentous act of the sultan of Turkey in
proclaiming yersteday the restoration
of the constitution of 1876 has left
the population of Constantinople un
moved. The aspect of the city is to
lay perfectly normal and there have
been no manifestations of satisfaction
of any kind. The stolid fatalism
the Moslems, who for centuries past
have been accustomed to a regime
personal rule and who are not used
political freedom, i3 thought partly
explain tne apathy everywhere appar
ent.
Added to this is skepticism regard
ing the durability of the new era prom
isea. furthermore, past experience
and the fact that the sultan conceded
a re-establishment of the constitution
under extreme pressure inclines the
Turks to the belief that the concession
is intended merely to surmount the
present troubles and avert the threat
ened disruption of the empire, and that
the earliest opportunity will be taken
again to suspend the charter of liberty
TOOLE UNDER CHARGES.
ROADS ACCEPT
RATE DECISION
Restore Old Tariff for Northwest
Lumber Trade.
Northern Pacific Leads by Announc
ing Restoration of Former Freight
Schedule Will Bring Suit Later
Securities Put Up by Mill Men
Are Now Released.
Butter Extras, 25c per pound;
fancy, 24c; choice, 20c; store, 10c.
Eggs Oregon, candled. 24(??25c
rouirry .iixeci chickens, wise per
pound; fancy hens Y.Vii.VMc; roosters.
!)10c; springs, 10f20c; ducks, old
12c; spring, He; geese, old. Sc; young,
ll(?i;i2ic; turkeys, oid 1819c; young
20tf24c.
Veal Extra, SfS'c per pound; or
dinary, 7ra.7sc; heavy, 5c.
Pork Fancy, Ci!lc per pound; or
dinary. 6c; large, 5c.
Mutton Fancy, 7 J (5 Ac.
Hops 1007, prime and choice, !(tt
6c per pound; olds, 22jc per pound;
contracts, 'Mn 10c.
Wool r.astern Oregon, average
best, 10( 161c per pound, according to
shrinkage; valley, 1515$c. ,
Mohair Choice. lSiJ lSJc per lb.
Wheat Club, 86c per bushel; red
Russian, 84c; bluestcm, 88c; Valley,
86c.
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; rolled.
$27.50Ji28.50; brewing, $26.
Oats No. 1 white, $26 50 per ton;
gray. x.
Hay limothy, Willamette Valley.
$15 per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi
nary, $12; Eastern Oregon. '$17.50;
mixed, $15; alfalfa,, $12; alfalfa meal,
$20.
l-ruits Cherries, 2wl0c per pound;
apricots, $1 per crate; peaches, 507
S5c per box: orunes, $lfrr.i.5a per crate
Berries Raspberries, !)0c per crate;
loganberries, 75ft00c per crate; black
caps. $1.25.
Melons Cantaloupes, $2. 2572. 50
per crate; watermelons, lj(uc per
pound.
Potatoes New Oregon, ltfiljc per
pound; old Oregon, 50c per 101 lbs.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack;
carrots, $1.75; parsnips, $1.75; beets,
$1 50; beans, 6c per pound; cabbage.
IfalUc per pound; corn, 30(ni0c per
dozen; cucumbers, $125 per box; let
tuce, head, 15c per dozen; parsley, 15c
per-dozen; peas, 2j3c per pound;
peppers, 67c per pound; radishes.
12ic per dozen; rhubarb, lfff2c per
pound; spinach, 2c per pound; toma ,
toes, Oregon, $11.50 per crate. I
Waives Immunity and Denies Compli
city in Land Frauds.
Great Falls, Mont., July 27. On ac
count of charges made in connection
with state timber land in the Flathead
valley district, ' an investigation has
been in progress at Kalispell before
Governor Norris, and land board and
ex-Governor Toole, who was a member
of the board when the sales under in
vestigation were made. The charges
are to the effect that the commission
favored the big land companies by sell
ing to them through dummies valuable
timber land for less than it was worth.
Several Witnesses today testified that
dummy names were used.
When Mr. Toole wished to take the
stand attorneys for the complainants
objected on the ground that to permit
such testimony would grant immunity
to any person so testifying. On be
half of the governor himself and the
other members of the board, the at
torney general waived such immunity
ar m 1 i n i i .
ivir. iooie empnaticauy denied tne
charges made by Prodger, as did Mr.
Galen, Secretary of State Yoder and
Superintendent Harmon. Mr. McCrea
also denied having made any such re
mark to Prodger. The investigation
will be continued and Governor Norris
insists he will go to the bottom of
things.
Girls Sold as Slaves
Corunna, Spain, July 27. Dozens of
young girls believed to have been des
tined for the white slave trade which
is said to be flourishing in Cuba, were
taken from the steamer Isla de Panay
here today, prior to her sailing, osten
sibly for Teneriffe. Embarkation of
many young women on the vessel
aroused the suspicions of the authori
ties and a raid disclosed the presence
of many girls stowed away like slaves
once were in the African trade. Many
of them had been bought from their
parents. .
Tacoma, July 25. It is officially an
nounced by the Northern Pacific Rail
way company today that consideration
given by the transportation lines to
the recent decision of the Interstate
Commerce commission on the question
of rates on forest products has termi
nated in an announcement by railway
lines that rates recently fixed by the
commission will, as soon as possible,
be put into effect by the railways
not that they think the rates are just,
but they submit for the time being to
the Interstate Commerce commission's
order.
No application for temporary injunc
tion against the order will be made.
nevertheless the railways expect to
bring suit urging that the rates are
unreasonable and asking a determina
tion in the courts to that effect.
This determination cannot, of course.
be had until final hearing and decision
in court; in the meantime it is under
stood the only legal rate will be that
fixed by the commission, and even
should the suit be determined in favor
of the railways in the end, that deter
mination cannot be retroactive, and
will operate only from that time on.
It is also announced that the railway
lines will settle for past business on
the basis of the commission's rate,
and upon such settlements being made,
the security up in protection of the suit
before Judge Hanford will be released.
SHIPPERS DEMAND PARLEY.
Ask Presidents of Eastern Roads to
Conference on Rates.
Chicago,cJuly 25. Shipping inter
ests of the entire country, represented
by a committee especially appointed at
a general conference of the shippers
held recently in Chicago, decided at a
meeting here today to ask presidents
of Eastern railroads to meet them to
discuss the proposed increase in
freight rates. It was the unanimous
opinion of the committeemen that be
fore beginning a fight it would be wise
to bring about such a meeting with
the railroad officials, at the same time
asking them to put no advance into
effect until after the conference had
been held.
While action on the rate situation
was in progress, a long protest and
appeal to the Interstate Commerce
commission was being formulated bv
the National Industrial Traffic league.
composed of scores of influential man
ufacturing and shipping organizations.
at Manitou Springs, Colo.
NEW WIRELESS RECORD.
Point Loma Station Talks With Fleef
2,900 Miles Away.
San Diego, Cal., July 25. A. R.
Rice, chief operator and his assistants,
H. V. Reefer and C. H. Randall, at
the Point Loma government wireless
telegraph station, hold the record for
long distance work today, having talk
ed with Admiral Sperry's battleship
the Connecticut last night or rather
this morning at a little past midniirht.
The Connecticut answered the first call
of the station, and after identifying
each other the battleship stated that
he was then in longitude 165 west and
between 9 and 10 north latitude on
her way to Auckland, N. Z.. from Hon
olulu. A little figurine' shows fhnt
the point is close to 2,900 miles from
San Diego, the previous record for long
distance work being 2,600 miles.
Chinese Steamer Line.
San Francisco, July 27. At the Chi
nese consulate here today it was admit
ted that active steps are being taken
for the formation of a fleet of vessels
to ply between San Francisco and Chi
nese ports in opposition to the Japan
ese steamship lines. The action is
saia to ue tne outgrowtn oi tne com
merciai wariare now oemg carried on
by Chinese merchants against Japanese,
The opposition will be against both the
Japanese and the American lines.
Steel Trust Prospers.
New York, July 25. That there is
gradual, steady increase in progress
n all lines of business was the opinion
expressed by the presidents of the var
ious subsidiary companies of the Unit
ed States Steel corporation at a meet
ing here today. Mr. Corev said tho
reports of the steel men present were
uniformly favorable. He said that
about 56 per cent, of the finishine- ca
pacity of the various plants controlled
by the United States Steel corpora
tion were now in operation and that
additional capacity would be put in.
Wool Market Pcporfpd Active.
Dillon, Mont., July 27. The past
week has been very active in the wool
markets. Sales amounted to 250,000
pounds at prices ranging from 14 to
17L.2 cents. At Lewiston the buyers
and growers have deadlocked over
prices, and the greater part of the
three million pounds will be consigned.
Millions for Bay City.
San Francisco, July 25. Plans that
contemplate the expenditure of over
$10,000,000 in San Francisco harbor
by the extension of the sea wall and
the building of new docks will be pre
sented to the governor, the mayor and
the board of harbor commissioners
soon. The plans have been drawn by
engineers of the Federated Harbor
Improvement assocition and rrovdp fnr
the handling of over 300,000,000 tons
of freight annually from this port.
Headache Powder Fatal.
Monrovia, Cal., July 25. Henry
Canoll, 63 years of age, a merchant of
this city, died suddenly at his home
today. It is believed that a "harmless
headache powder" hastened his end.
He had suffered with heart trouble for
some time and was a frequent user of
powders which contained acetanilid
strong depressant, in dangerous quantities.