Heppner gazette., August 13, 1908, Image 6

Heppner Gazette
Issued Thursday of Each Wck
HEPPNER OREGON
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, Historica'
and Commercial Importance.
The Wright airship has made a suc
cessful flight in France.
English churches are starting an agi
tation for church union.
The Baldwin airship has been ac
cepted by the government.
Japanese are declining to go to work
for the Canadian Pacific as strike
breakers.
The battleship fleet has arrived at
Auckland, and a warm reception was
tendered it.
The Crystal Palace, one of London's
famous institutions, will be closed on
account of financial troubles.
A hurricane destroyed a factory in
Hungary, burying 100 persons. A
number were killed or injured.
A Pittsburg doctor has just effected
a cure of lockjaw and claims to have
discovered the secret of the malady.
In an address at Warsaw, Ind., a
preacher advocated tatooing all married
women on the chin as a remedy for the
divorce evil.
The business world of France is de
manding a revision of their tariff laws.
They say the loopholes in the present
law are too wide.
The first act of violence in the Cana
dian Pacific strike has been recorded.
A policeman on duty was brutally as
saulted, but it is not known if strikers
did it.
More Turkish ministers have been
dismissed and arrested.
A heavy rainstorm at Boston flooded
the streets, doing much damage.
A Philadelphia woman provided in
her will for the care of her cats and
parrots.
Much timber is being destroyed and
mining camps threatened by forest fires
in Montana.
New Zealand
preparations for
is making extensive
the reception of the
battleship fleet.
Roosevelt has assumed all responsi
bility for the discharge of the negro
troops at Brownsville.
London is cleaning house and has
just succeeded in convicting 10 munic
ipal officers of grafting.
A San Francisco man lived 48 hours
after breaking his neck and was con
scious a part of the time.
Thaw has filed a bankruptcy petition,
claiming the doctors' fees and cost of
his trials have left him without any
thing. A man at Victoria, B. C, who had
spent six days of a ten-days sentence
in jail because he did not have the
money to pay the fine is heir to $100,
000. Pope Pius has just celebrated his
fifth anniversary as pope.
A woman balloonist in Wisconsin
fell 900 feet and will live.
A strike of electricians in Paris has
placed the city in darkness.
The New York betting law does not
forbid bets between individuals.
Honduras refuses to restore exe
quaturs of American and other con
suls. The Canadian Pacific railway is im
porting strikebreakers from the United
States.
A whole detachment of Japanse
troops has been massacred by Corean
insurgents.
A Japanese sealing schooner has
been captured in Bering sea by a Rus
sian cruiser.
Germans are raising a great fund to
build a new Zepptlin airship to replace
the one destroyed.
A viaduct at Cincinnati was dyna
mited and 15 persons hurt. The dam
age is placed at $10,000.
A whist game has just been played
in Los Angeles lor a $lo,00u fruit
crop which was in dispute.
Ericksen, the Danish explorer, and
two companions, have perished in the
ice off the Greenland coast.
Harriman hsa started for the Pacific
coast, still talking of higher freight
rates.
One hundred sheep were killed by a
Bingle bolt of lightning near Bridge
port, Cal.
Railroad presidents will confer with '
shippers on rates. The meeting will i
be held aat Chicago.
Castro accuses Holland of barbarism
and savagery.
Eronson Howard, the great play
wright, is dead.
A number of earthquake shocks have
occurred in Algeria, doing much dam
age to property and causing some loss
of life.
A Connecticut man murdered his
wife and grandchild, but was killed by
his son before going further with bis
butchery.
OPEN NEW LANDS.
Vast Area Available in Western Can
ada in September.
Ottawa, Canada, Aug. 11. Next
month will see radical changes in the
land policy of the Canadian govern
ment. The Oliver land act, which goes
into effect September 1, will throw
open to the public 28,000,000 acres of
rich, arable land, in the odd numbered
sections of Western Canada that are
liberally intersected by a network of
railroads, are adjacent to commtrial
markets and swarming with live, hust
ling townships, with well established
police protection, municipal govern
ment, schools, churches and institutions
essential for agrciultural prosperity.
While the "renter" and the man
with limited loose cash is being given
the opportunity of owning his own
farm, unlike the procedure heretofore
followed in granting free homesteads,
he is not asked to forego the advant
ages in settled districts and to go into
the wilderness to fight the hard fights
of the pioneer. Instead of this, the
new instrument of the Canadian legis
lature gives the enterprising man free
land situated near flourishing towns,
offering all the advantages and conve
niences of modern life.
In order to encourage railroad build
ing in the Dominion, the government
has given to the railroad companies
32,000,000 acres of land during the
last few years, and as a further induce
ment they have been left absolutely
unfettered in the choice of locality and
the time of selection, but recently were
made to select their lands. . The com
panies have taken full advantage of
this generous provision and made a
constant practice of leaving their
grants in abeyance unless, after close
ly watching the trend of immigration
and settlement, they could make up
their minds as to what tracts of land
would best serve their interests.
TRIBESMEN HOLD UP SHAH.
Persian Ruler Held Prisoner in His
Own Palace.
St. Petersburg, Aug. 11. Special
dispatches received here from Teheran
give a trag;c-comic description of the
position of the shah of Persia, who is
virtually a prisoner in the hands of wild
tribesmen summoned to Teheran to
protect the throne against the revolu
tionists, but have become a greater
menace to the monarch than his other
foes.
The tribesmen are extravagent in
their demands for money, which the
shah is unable to grant, and they
threaten to destroy the palace and pill
age Teheran. The $250,000 secured
from the Russiaon bank recently as a
loan on the crown jewels of Persia al
ready is exhausted. General Liakhoff 's
Cossacks are unable to make any head
way against the tribesmen, who have
refused to permit the shah to leave the
camp at Bade Shakh for Saltana Bad,
where the harem is now staying.
Famine is reported to be imminent
in Southern Persia, and this promises
to bring about a crisis in political
affairs in the autumn.
DISCORD IN TURKS' PALACE.
Former Ministers Blame Each Other
for III Luck.
Constantinople, Aug. 11. Discord
reigns among the former ministers and
palace officials detained at the minis
try of war. Men Dough Pasha, ex
minister of the interior, is at logger
heads with Lahsin Pasha, the sultan's
former secretary, who reproached him
with not having adpoted his advice
three months ago to si licit the sultan
to grant amnesty to political prisoners.
The secretary, who is suffering from
acute melancholia, replied that it was
better to have died than to witness the
present state of affairs.
Zeekhi Pasha, who was recently dis
missed as instector of military schools,
is also reported to be a prisoner at the
ministry of war, half demented and
constantly requesting a revolver with
which to end his life.
To this request the response was
made that he must live and render to
the nation an account of his doings.
lie has contributed it-a,OW) toward a
fund to purchase two cruisers to be
named after the heroes of the revolu
tion. Full Force Restored.
San Francisco, Aug. 11. When the
employes in the Southern Pacific shops
at West Oakland went to work yester
day they found that they were expect
ed to work nine hours instead of eight
per day. Their pay, however, will be
on the nine-hour basis. During the
last 60 days the railroad company has
increased its working force in the Oak
land shops until now it is a3 great as it
was before the slump of several months
ago. The increase of working hours is
necessitated by the large amount of
work on hand.
Danish Printers Strike.
Copenhagen, Aug. 11. Owing to the
typographers and other employes in
the pr:r.tTng offices here, except a few
employes on socialistic papers, having
started a strike, the err.plovres have
decided to d.-clare a general lockout in
all dey.artn, nts of labor tomorrow.
If a reconciliation is not reached be
tween the fprr.loytrs and the men, it
is exp"cte.l that the newspapers here
will suspend publication for at least a
fortnight.
Meet Dstth in Flanv s.
New York, Aug. 11. Six persons
were burred to death in a tenement
house at .'52 East One Hundred and
Twelfth street, four children between
the ages of 8 and 12, an infant of 2
months and an aged man. Other oc
cupants of the tenement were injured
by jumping from windows.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON
MAY LOSE WATER.
North Powder Company Has Prior
Right Over Farmers.
uaKer iity mat tne ranchers in
some portions of the North Powder
country are to suffer the loss of water
at this important time of the year is
evident if the order goes into effect
that was made by the North Powder
M. & M. company, which owns and
operates the flouring mill at that sta
tion.
The company has prior water rights,
but in the past has had a surplus of
water. It was decided to divide the
water with ranchers who would put
land in cultivation, the division to
continue until any time it was found
necessary to have the whole supply for
milling purposes. Crops have been
planted and the desert soil responded
admirably to the tiller s efforts.
Now, however, the water supply is
short, and the milling company was
forced to order all water belonging to
their water right to be turned into the
canal that feeds the mill supply.
The hardship that will be worked on
those who have spent their time and
work in cultivating lands that were
watered by the mill's surplus will
probably be hard. According to the
opinion of many, however, there was
nothing else for the mill to do in order
to protect its business.
GOOD ROADS MEET.
Every County in State Will be Repre
sented This Year.
1'ortland JN early every county in
Oregon will be represented at the good
roads conference to be held in Port
land, August 11. Among the most
distant will be Lake county, which
will send delegates to counsel with the
men from Eastern and Western Oregon
on the best remedies for existing road
conditions.
County Judge B. Daly, of Lakeview,
has written to the Portland Commer
cial club, assuring the management
that his county will be represented
He said:
"We have not been saying much, but
we have been up and doing until we
now have 300 miles of as good roads in
Lake county as can be found in any
county in Oregon. Lake county, with
its 5,000 acres of land to every voter,
has already a per capita income of over
$250 per man from the livestock in
dustry alone. When we get railroad
facilities to ship to the markets the
splendid products of our orchards,
farms, mines and forests, then watch
Lake county grow."
big Hay Crop in Tillamook.
Tillamook The hay harvest will be
completed this week, with the excep
tion of oat hay. The weather has
been fine the past two weeks for hay
making, but previous to that the heavy
fogs at night made curing somewhat
slow. Another bumper hay crop is in
the barns, and the large dairy herds in
Tillamook county are well provided for
for the next winter, and as the mead
ows are green and will remain so all
summer with abundnace of green pas
ture, the cheese factories are receiving
a much larger amount of milk than in
previous years.
Smut Eats Up Machines.
Fendleton Smut has caused the de
struction of two threshing machines in
Umatilla county during the past week,
and another was burned, but the origin
of the fire in the third instance is un
certain. Those who lost machines are :
Isaac Christopher, Frank Brotherton
and J. Hudeman. The Christopher and
Hudeman machines were blown up by
the explosion of smut dust, r. fire fol
lowing in each instance. The other
machine burned while being moved
from one field to another.
Hop Crop Worth Picking.
Salem Salem hopmen do not agree
with Joseph Harris that the hop crop
will be larger than the demand and
that the crop will not all be picked.
Dealers interviewed estimate the crop
at from 90,000 to 120,000 bales, and
indicate their belief that there will be
few, if any, growers who will not pick
their hops. The dealers agree that the
crop will be good if the weather contin
ues favorable. No one will venture an
estimate as to price.
Eugene Company to Irrigate.
Eugene The Bingham Land com
pany of this city intends to irrigate
300 acres of farming land which it
owns in the McKenzie valley about 20
miles east of Eugene. The company
has filed notice of appropriation with
the county clerk of 200 miners' inches
of the waters of Forest creek for irri
gation and power purposes. The ditch
to convey the water to the land will be
four feet wide at the bottom and three
feet deep.
Gobbling Up New Wheat.
Pendleton Wheat has advanced an
other two cents in the Pendleton mark
et, with the result that probably 200,
000 bushels have changed hands within
the past two days. The purchases are
being made on a basis of 75 cents, and
it is not recalled when the prices were
so good and so much wheat changing
hands so early in the season.
Reporter of Supreme Court.
Salem Frank A. Turner, a Salem
attorney, has been appointed Supreme
court reporter to succeed Judge R. G.
Morrow, who resigned. Judge Mor
row had been reporter for the Oregon
Supreme court 16 years and had issued
more reports than all his eight prede
cessors combined.
BIG APPLE CROP.
Over 1,000 Cars of Shipping Stock
Will be Produced This Year.
Portland Oregon will have over
1,000 cars of fine apples to ship this
year, as compared with about 600 cars
last year. Crop prospects on the whole
are favorable, though some sections of
the state are doing better than others.
Hood River will have its banner crop,
though it was feared earlier in the
season that some damage had been
done. The shipments from Hood River
valley will be between 400 and 500
cars, against 200 cars in 1907. The
Grand Ronde valley is preparing to
send out 300 cars, double the number
shipped last year, while Medford grow
ers expect to dispatch about 200 cars,
as they did last season. In the other
apple sections of the state the condi
tions are reported as good or a little
better than they were last season,
though it is known that some varie
ties, Baldwins especially, will run
lighter than last year in the Willam
ette valley, and it is also said the val
ley Newtowns and Spitzenbergs will
not produce the " crop they did a year
ago. Prices that will be realized on
shipping stock will be governed by
conditions in the Eastern states, where
the yields are reported to be compara
tively light.
Knights ot Grip Win.
Salem William McMurray, general
passenger agent of the Southern Pa
cific, has advised the committee of the
Travelers' Protective association, hav
ing the matter in hand, that if the
traveling men would withdraw their
complaint before the railroad commis
sion 2,000-mile books would be imme
diately issued, good on all the Harri
man lines in Oregon, Washington and
Idaho, for the flat rate of $50. This
is what the traveling men have been
fighting for for two years past, and
they are jubilant over the successful
outcome of the matter.
Dairying Exhibit to be Feature.
Portland An immense dairying ex
hibit will be the feature of the coming
Oregon state fair in September, if
plans of the Dairy association officers
are carried out. These plans now
promise to be more than fulfilled.
Mrs. S. A. Yoakum, vice president of
the association, who has been touring
the Willamette valley in the interest
of the exhibit, came to Portland from
Salem and departed for Tillamook
county. She is said to be doing much
good in arousing the enthusiasm of
dairy cow owners.
Display Douglas Fruits.
Roseburg The contract for the hor
ticultural exhibit building to be erect
ed on the depot grounds, was awarded
to Contractor F. F. Patterson. Con
struction work will begin in a few
days. The building is to be mainly of
plate glass, making an excellent dis
play pavilion. Booster Zurcher has
already started on a collecting tour
for native exhibits of fruita and vege
tables, so that the tourist may see
what is raised in Douglas county.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Club, 87c per bushel ; forty-
fold, 88c; red Russian, 85c; bluestem,
90c; valley, 87c.
Barley Teed, $23.50 per ton; roll
ed, $25026; brewing, $26.
Oats No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton;
gray, ytb.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14 per ton; Willamette valley, ordi
nary, $11; Eastern, Oregon, $16.50;
mixed, $13; alfalfa, $11; alfalfa meal,
$20.
Fruits Apples, new California,
$1,2501.75 per box; cherries, 30 10c
per pound; peaches, 40cO $1 per box ;
prunes, $1 per crate; Eartlett pears,
$1.75 per box; plums, 40050cper
box; grapes, $1,5001.75 per crate.
Berries Raspberries, $1 per crate;
loganberries, $1 per crate; black
berries, 60c0$l.
Potatoes New, $101.25 per hun
dred ; old, Oregon, 75c per hundred ;
sweet potatoes, Gc per pound.
Melons Cantaloupes, $202.75 per
crate; watermelons, 90c0 $1.25 per 100
loose; crated, jc per pound addition
al; casabas, $2,7503 per dozen.
" Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack ;
carrots, $1.75; beets, $1.50; beans, 7c
per pound; cabbage, 2c per pound;
corn, 250 30c per dozen; cucumbers,
$1 per box; eggplant, 10c per pound;
lettuce, head, 15c per dozen; parsley,
15c per dozen; peas, 4c per pound:
peppers, 80 10c per pound; radishes,
12jjC per dozen; spinach, 23c per
pound; tomatoes, 75c0$l per crate;
celery, $1.25 per dozen; artichokes,
75c per dozen.
Butter Extras, 27 .J.J c per pound;
fancy, 25c; choice, 20c; store, 18c.
Eggs Oregon extras, 25c per dozen ;
firsts, 23r21c; seconds, 220 22 ) 2c;
thirds, 150 20c; Eastern, 230 24c.
Poultry Mixed chickens, lie per
pound; fancy hens, 12c; roosters, 9c;
spring, 14c; clucks, old, 8c; spring, 12
(n 12 y..c; geese, old, 8c; goslings, 10
fa lie; turkeys, old, 180 19c; young,
200 24c.
Veal Extra, 80 8 He per pound; or
dinary, 707c; heavy, 5c.
Pork Fancy, 7c per pound; ordi
nary, 6c; large, 5c.
Mutton Fancy, 80 9c.
Hops 1907, prmie and choice, Ai
(ff 5c per pound; olds, 202sc; con
tracts, 90 10c.
Wool Eastern Oregon average best,
0(n&c per pound, according to
shrinkage; valley, 150jl5gc; mo-
hair, choice, 18(jf 18gC.
RECEIVER FOR BIG MILL.
Pillsbury-Washburne Company Needs
to be Reorganized.
Minneapolis, Aug. 10. Incident to
a reorganization certain of the stock
holders of the Pillsbury-Washburn
Flour Milling company Saturday peti
tioned the Federal District court for
the appointment of receivers.
Whatever action is taken by the
court, the business will be continued.
The indebtedness of the defunct
company is set at more than $5,000,
000, without security. The book value
of the company's property exceeds
$15,000,000. The total secured in
debtedness covered by debenture bonds,
is $4,000,000, or a total indebtedness
of $9,000,000. Liquid assets are esti
maetd at 3$, 500, 000, to pay $5,000,000
unsecured debts.
The company has $800,000 of its
products stored in 25 states outside of
Minnesota.
The application for receiver has cre
ated surprise, but it is not expected
to cause any flurry in milling or finan
cial circles. The milling interests in
Minneapolis have enjoyed an exception
ally good year and the conditions that
affected the Pillsbury-Washburn com
pany have been peculiacrtothat organ
ization. The receivers have been appointed
with full power to operate the com
pany's manufacturing plants and with
confident expectation that this expedi
ent will be found only temporary and
that ample property, over and above
all debts, will be ultimately left for the
holders of shares. It is proposed to
operate the mills under receivers and
in charge of the receivers, so that labor
interests will not be seriously affected
at this time, and this is regarded as
promising good results, in view of the
very satisfactory condition everywhere
of the milling and grain business, no
other company engaged in similar lines
here being in any way involved.
BUILD $20,000,000 DEPOT.
Northwestern Plans Costly Structure
for Chicago.
Chicago, Aug. 10. The Chicago &
Northwestern railway announced yes
terday that its engineers and architects
have completed the plans for its new
Madison street passenger terminal,
which will cost when completed in the
neighborhood of $20,000,000, and
which will include facilities for hand
ling over a quarter of a million pas
sengers every 24 hours. This station
will surpass in point of ground covered
and length of trackage every railway
terminal in the United States, it is
said, except the South Station, in Bos
ton.
1 he now terminal will occupy prac
tically four entire city blocks, bounded
by Madison street on the south, Kinzie
street on the north, Clinton street on
the west and Canal street on the east,
passing under Washington and Ran
dolph streets by means of brilliantly
lighted subways.
The structure will be of gray granite
of classic design, the essential features
of which is the great colonnaded en
trance or portico, of lofty proportions
that will tower to a height of 120 feet
above Madison street.
Before this imposing front will be
broad pavement or esplanade, from
which will rise the granite columns
that guard the inner vestibule.
ARRESTS ARE MYSTERIOUS.
Immigration Authorities Busy in De
troit After Long Chase.
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 10. Great sec
recy is being maintained regarding five
arrests made here today by the local
police and the local immigration au
thorities on a telegraphic request re
ceived from Helena, Mont. The pris
oners are three men and two women of
striking appearance, and a small boy
and two dogs form a conspicuous feat
ure of the party.
The arrests are said to have followed
a search by United States officials
which began in San Francisco in 1905
and has been carried since to Boston
Pittsburg, Omaha, Helena, Chicago
and several other points. Both the
city police and the local immigration
inspectors say they do not know why
the arrests were ordered. The pris
oners deny that they are identified
with any persons wanted by the Unit
ed States.
Denied Citizen Rights.
Seattle, Aug. 10. After serving
three years in the United States army
in the Philippines and receiving an
honorable discharge, Buntaro Kamagai
applied for admission to citizenship
under the laws of the United States
and was refused his papers by Judge
C. H. Hanford, of the Federal court,
here today. The case is the first one
of the kind to come up before a Fed
eral or State court in this country.
Kamagai has a fine army record and
was regarded as a f most useful mar.
He speaks fine English.
Flee From Constantine.
Constantine, Algeria, Aug. 10.
The people are still in a state of terror
from the earthquake shocks of a few
days ago, fearing a repetition, and
there is in consequence a steady exodus
to the country. A nw shock was felt
last night and caused a renewal of the
panic. Several Luildings damaged by
the previous shocks were shaken down.
Thp falling cf a ceiling in the house of
o FtTOTH-an resident injured several
children.
New Wol Market Sets Record.
Butte, Mont., Aug. 10. Wool ship
ments at Baker, a new station on the
St. Paul in Eastern Montana, for this
season, amount to 1,000,000 pounds.
The price paid is 18 cents or bettpr,
the highest average of any market in
Montana.
SETTLING DOWN
FOR LONG SIEGE
No Sign of End in Canadian Pacific
Railway Strike.
Japanese Trained on Pacific Coast
to Fill Places of Strikers Fire
men are Promoted Officials are
Confident of No Trouble in Hand
ling Wheat Crop.
Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 8. A quiet
preparation for a long siege by the
men and continued reticence regarding
their intentions locally are the feat
ures of the Canadian Pacific strike this
evening. No men in large numbers
have come into the city from either
Eastern or Western points, although
rumors are rife that a large contingent
is clue here tonight. Pickets are
guarding the entrances to shops and
all railroad terminals. A number of
women have been placed at work
cleaning cars. Testing of cars is go
ing on as usual, the work being done
by foremen.
Mass meetings were held tonight
and addresses given in their native
tongue to Hungarians, Germans and
Russians. J. H. McVey was asked
this afternoon if the other organiza
tions connected with railroad work
were likely to , go out soon. Here
plied :
"If they are going out soon I don't
know of it. If they went out without
notice they would be breaking their
ironclad agreements."
The Canadian Pacific Railway com
pany yesterday promoted all firemen
who had been serving!) in the local
roundhouse to be wipers. When crops
begin to move there will be larger de
mand for engineers and firemen than
at present.
The company's locomotives and roll
ing stock are at present in excellent
condition, the dry summer having
caused little wear. Besides 300 Jap
anese mechanics trained in the rail
road shops of the Pacific Coast states
and in technical schools are arriving
and are being distributed where neces
sary. Sleeping and dining cars have
been drawn up close to the shops to
provide accommodations for the non
union workmen, guarded by special
constables.
SANTA FE FINED $7,000.
Found Guilty of Giving Big Rebates,
Masked as Bonus.
Chicago, Aug. 8. The Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad, by its
counsel, pleaded guilty to rebating to
day and was assessed a fine of $7,000
by Judge Bethea in the United States
District court. The government, rep
resented by District Attorney Edwin
W. Sims, proved that a bonus paid by
the railroad to the Garden City Sugar
& Land company, of Garden City,
Kan., was in effect a rebate. The
railroad company, through its indus
trial department, offered the Garden
City concern a bonus of $50,000 for
locating on its lines. The bonus was
paid as freight was shipped, and a
year ago the land company had paid
$22,000 in freight charges and had re
ceived $11,000 of it back in bonus.
HENEY ON THE RACK.
Questioned About $30,000 Fee From
Water Company.
San Francisco, Aug. 8. Assistant
District Attorney Francis J. Honey
was today placed on the witness stand
in the preliminary examination of Ab
raham Ruef in the police court as an
expert on attorneys' fees and interro
gated by Ruef's counsel regarding the
alleged receipt by Ileney of a fee of
$30,000 from the Contra Costa Water
company. This was done ostensibly to
offset the theory advanced by the pros
ecution that the receipt of $30,000 by
Ruef from G. H. Umbsen in the Park-
side trolley franchise matter was too
large a fee for legal services.
Founder of Alaska Commercial.
San Francisco, Aug. 8.--Captain
Gustav Niebaum, who died at his
home in this city yesterday, was the
last of the 14 founders of the Alaska
Commercial company, which acquired
the Russian-American company's in
terests at the time Russia ceded Alas
ka to the United States, and was pres
ident of the Alaska Commercial com
pany at the time ot his death. He
was a native of Finland, and became
citizen of the United States when
Alaska became American territory.
He came to San Francisco in 1884.
New Turkish Cabinet Named.
Constantinople, Aug. 8. The new
Turkish cabinet was named today bv
the sultan, acting under the direction
of Kiamil Pasha. There is not a single
reactionary in the new cabinet, wh'ch
is composed of men wholly out of sym
pathy with the old regime. This is
considered as a guarantee that the
new constitution will be observed to
the letter, and there is great rejoicing
among the members of the Young Tur
key party.
Death Roll in Tabriz 800.
Tabriz, Aug. 8. There has now been
35 days fighting in the streets of Ta
briz, and the casualties, due chiefly to
bombs thrown from mortars and shrap
nel, are estimated at 800. Many of
the finer residences of the city and
hundreds of shops in the basements
have been looted. The loss in this di
rection is placed at more than $1,000,-000.