FIGHT OVER
SILETZ LANDS
Original Homesteaders Declare That
"Squatters" Must Go.
Contestants Say They Will Await Fi
nal Decision From Land Office
Original Settlers Say if Ejectment
Proceedings Fail Other Means
Will Be Taken.
Newport, Or., Aug. 13. Proceed
ings to eject the alleged squatters on
the Siletz reservation claims of sever
al Lincoln county residents are to be
taken at once. If these are unsuccess
ful, the original settlers declare other
means to dispossess the contestants
will be taken. Serious trouble is
feared.
iwootthe claims in dispute were
originally taken by L. W. Williams
and Frank Priest, of this city. W. S
opeiano ana v. Jincott are now on
these claims. They have been ordered
by the original claimants to move and
have refused. They declare that they
will stay until the cases are finally
settled by the land office
This, it is declared, is the attitude
of all the contestants. The original
settlers declare they will not permit
the contestants to carry out this plan.
Homesteaders whose claims are thus
threatened do not know what to make
of this bold move by the "squatters."
They are certain that a hundred or
more of the best claims are now liable
to seizure any day. They are informed
by the m ;n now squatting on their
places that legal advice has been ob
tained and that the squatters paid
large sums for the location and for
protection, but the homesteaders are
in a fighting temper, because they
cannot see by what possible legal twist
they can be deprived of their claims
without a trial.
FIRES SPREAD TO BANFF.
Forests in Canada's Great National
Park Burning.
Winnipeg, Aug. 13. The forest
fires which raged around Fernie have
spread to Canada's national park dis
trict near Banff, in Pray valley. The
fire burned fiercely on the heights of
Ooat mountain this week.
The government gang of men has the
fire in the valley under control, but
last night at several points on the
mountain eight miles away fire wt.s
visible near the top.
A fire started at Castle mountain, 18
miles west of Banff last night under a
strong west wind in a half hour had
run over eight miles. Boats and sup
plies were forwarded from Banff. The
wind shifted to the northeast, and
with this in their favor the fire-fight-rs
should be able to secure control.
No anxiety is felt at Banff about
this last fire, as it would be compar
atively easy to protect the town, even
if the fire came down the valley, owing
to the large area of open hay meadows
to the west, on which the grass is
yet green and on which water is yet
standing.
RAIN FLOODS CHICAGO.
Cloudburst and Heavy Electric Dis
charge Sweeps City.
Chicago, Aug. I.'!. No boats have
been abb' to enter or leave the Chi
cago river this morning on account of
the crippling of the electric power that
operates the bridges, by a terrific elec
tric storm that swept this city and vi
cinity last night. The entire lighting
and power plant operated by the drain
age canal trustees was so badly crip
pled that it cannot be repaired until
tonight.
The storm flooded the entire city,
filling cellars, destroying electrical
feed cables and shutting off light and
power. Lightning struck in several
places. Down town the cellars were
flooded with several inches of water,
the sewers being inadequate to carry
off the water. A city drainage pipe
gave way near the Auditorium annex.
Strikers Paid and Discharged.
Winnipeg, Aug. 13. The employes
of the Canadian Pacific railway were
paid in full today, and all striking me
chanics were notified that they had
been discharged. The officials of the
company took this means of announc
ing that the railroad will fight the de
mands of the union to a finish. Vice
President Whyto, of the railroad, ar
rived here today from the Pacific coast.
He declined to discuss the strike or
sdato what is being done to fill the
places of the strikers. Strikebreakers
are being imported.
Nevada to Have New Banking Law.
Reno, Nevada. Aug. 13. Governor
Dickerson is today preparing a now
banking law which he will ask the
next legislature to pass to protect de
positors in every bank in the state.
Following the recent failure of the
bank of Austin, the attorney general
of the state rendered an opinion that
the state could not intervene in the
management of private banks. Even
the state bank examiner cannot exam
ine the the books of private banks.
To Modernize Land System.
San Francisco, Aug. 13. J. W.
Pratt, commissioner of public lands in
the Hawaiian Islands, is in this city
today en route to Washington, where
he intends to visit the United States
land office with the purpose of improv
ing the system of caring for the public
lands of the islands.
ORIENTALS AGAIN QUARREL.
Killing of Japanese Traitor Caught in
Pekin the Cause.
Pekin, Aug. 14. The killing in this
city early this month of a Japanese
army oflicer, supposed to be a spy
and traitor, by Japanese soldiers at
tached to the Pekin legation, will re
sult in the presentation by China of a
formal protest against the doing of
police duty by legation guards outside
of the legation precincts.
The officer in question was Captain
Kyhwata. He was in the artillery
branch of the Hiroshima division and
he was formerly an instructor in the
Chinese military college at Pao Ting
Fu. He was charged with selling Jap
anese military secrets to a foreign
pov, er and disappeared from Japan in
June.
On August 1 he was discovered dis
guised as a Chinaman, hiding near the
war office in Pekin. This knowledge
was communicated to the legation
guards and a detachment was sent to
capture him. He resisted arrest,
whereupon the guard shot and wounded
the spy and he died two days later in
the hospital of the legation guard.
M. Abe, the Japanese charge d'af
faires, has urged lack of time and the
importance of the prisoner in extenua
tion of the action of the guard in not
notifying the Chinese authorities be
fore arresting the captain. He ex
plaiis iurther that the resistance nf
the prisoner was unforeseen and that
hi i consique.it shooting could not be
avoidi d.
Tl e Chinese government is not sat
isfied with this explanation, and thinks
its authority has been ignored. The
incident has created a good deal of
feeling on both sides.
A NEW DOCTRINE.
Harriman Railroad Attorney Claims
Roads Can Give Rebates.
San Francisco, Aug. 14. Peter F
Dunne, attorney for the Southern Pa
cific railroad in its defense against the
charge of illegal rebating before the
Railroad commissioners, today insisted
strongly that a common carrier could
not be guilty of unjust discrimination
unless me rate complained ot was
made with "an evil intent." He held
further that the railroad was entirely
justified, the attorney general to the
contrary notwithstanding, in making
better terms to large shippers than to
their small-fry rivals.
Mr. Dunne also touched upon the
matter of competition and held, in op
position to the arguments of Messrs
Benjamin and Cushing made the day
before, that it was J a.rt of a company's
inherent right of contract to take com
petition into consideration in making
freight schedules.
He also argued that the railroad had
a right to consider whether it had a
chance to carry the same material
again in the form of a more finished
product and, when there was such a
chance, to make a lower rate on the
raw material. If any or all of the cir
cumstances considered made it good
policy to carry freight for nothing, he
could see no provision in the law to
forbid it.
WANT 6,000 STEEL CARS.
Harriman Lines Will Spend $6,000,
000 for Rolling Stock.
New York, Aug. .14. - The Harriman
roads are in the market for 0,000 steel
trs. No orders have been placed,
but the car equipment companies have
been notified that this amount repre
sents the total of an early purchase bv
the Harriman lines, and for more
than half the cars there have been
d specifications on which the equip
ment companies may base their bids.
Competition between the companies is
said to be keen, for the orders, if
tilled, will be altogether the largest
since the panic.
The estimated cost of the 0,000 steel
cars ranges all the wav from $6,000,
000 to $7,000,000. It is expected that
the lower figure will prove nearer cor
rect, for the reason that the competi
tion between the car equipment com
panies may result in a cut price.
Seize Another Steamer.
London, Aug. 14. Another cloud
has arisen between Japan and China,
according to a special dispatch re
ceived here from Hongkong, owing to
the seizure at Chin Chou by the Chin
ese authorities of a steamer having on
board 10,000 rifles and 2,000,000 cart
ridges. Japanese merchants have
protested, saying that this cargo be
longs to them, and they threaten to
make another international question
out of it. This seizure is similar to
that, of the Japanese steamer Tatsu
Maru in February of this year.
Receivers for Big Elevators.
Minneapolis. Aug. 14.- On applica
tion of receivers for the Pillsbury
Washhurn Flour Mills company, lim
ited. Judge Purdy, in the United
States Circuit court, yesterday ap
pointed Charles Amsden and Henry F.
Douglas receivers for the Minneapolis
iv Northern Elevator company, a sub
sidiary corporation. The Minneapolis
& Northern Elevator company operates
the 100 elevators in Minnesota and
North Dakota.
Whites to Control Pacific.
Melbourne, Aug. 14 Both houses of
the Victorian parliament today voted
unanimously resolutions cordially wel
coming the American battleship fleet
to Australian waters. The various
speakers dwelt upon the close friend
ship which unites Great Britain and
the United States, and one of the mem
bers remarked that the visit of the
American battleships assured the con
trol of the Pacific for all time for the
white race.
NEWS NOTES FROM THE
NATIONAL CAPITAL CITY
SAYS PEACE IS RESTORED.
Honduran Cabinet Minister Sends the
News to Washington.
Washington. Aucr. 15. The fact
that peace lias been fully restored in
Central America and an expression of
confidence expressed that it would be
maintained, is given in a cablegram
received here today by Dr. Ugarte
minister from Honduras, from the min
ister of foreign affairs of his country
Mr. Dodge, the American minister
to Salvador, will leave Salvador for
Tegucigalra on August 18 to take up
directly with the Honduran govern
ment the matter of the consul and
vice consul at Ceiba, whose exequaturs
were cancelled owing to their alleged
intervention in international affairs in
Honduras.
MAKE RATE DECISION SOON.
ImDortant Ruline to be Made bv In
terstate Commission.
Washington, Aug. 11. During the
next month or six weeks it is possible
that the Interstate Commerce commis
sion will decide upon the question of
the reasonableness of the proposed in
crease of railroad freight rates in Ala
bama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and
portions of South Carolina, in the
southern territory and Texas, in the
Southwestern territory.
The proposed increase in the several
Southern states embraces practically
extensive increases proposed through
out the country at this time. The de
cision will have an important bearing
on rates in general.
Good Job Awaits a Learned Chef.
Washington, Aug. 14. A chet is
needed at the government asylum for
the insane, and a civil service examin
ation was held today to fill the va
cancy. Notwithstanding the fact that
the position pays $1,200 a year there
was no over abundance of applicants
for the job. The reason perhaps lies
in the fact that the successful appli
cant must be possessed of a fund of
knowledge that would enable him to
hold down a chief clerkship in almost
any of the departments and render it
unnecessary for him to don a cook's
apron.
Mystery at Oyster Bay.
Oyster Bay, Aug. 14. The unusual
activity at the government executive
office here, which has been apparent
for almost a week, both day and night,
has become the subject of considerable
curiosity. Rudolph Forster, acting
secretary to the president, and the
force of clerks under him recently have
been the hardest worked men in the
village. Their duties begin early and
at times have continued far into the
night. The executive office staff has
been augmented by the arrival of two
clerks from the Washington executive
office.
Malone's Place Filled.
Washington, Aug. 12. Dr. G. C.
Bantz was today appointed assistant
treasurer of the United States, in
place of the late J. L. Malone. Mr.
Bantz has been an employe of the
Treasury department for 35 years and
recently has filled the position of dep
uty asistant treasurer. William H.
Gibson, assistant cashier of the cash
room, was promoted to be deputy
assistant treasurer in place of Dr.
Bantz. James A. Sample, now a divis
ion chief, was appointed to be deputy
assistant treasurer.
Ergineers Sent to Hawaii.
Washington, Aug. 14. The War de
partment has issued orders to Company
. First battalion of engineers, to
leave San Francisco for Honolulu,
sailing on November 15, 1008. The
First battalion of engineers is now on
dutv at Fort Mason, California. These
engineers are to make a survey prelim
inary for the fortifications in and
around Honolulu and at Pearl harbor,
where the government is to construct a
large naval station. After their work
at Hawaii, they will return to Van
couver barracks.
Confer About the Hazers.
Oyster Bay, Aug. 11. Secretary of
War Wright and Colonel Hugh L.
Scott, of the West Point nendemv. nr.
r veil here today to discuss the West
Point hazing cases with President
Roosevelt. Secretary Wright said:
I see a whole lot of tn uble h; S been
starred up over these cases since my
last visit here. I had no idea the m lt-
r was to be made of such national
importance. ( oionel Scott refused
to make any statement whatever re
garding the cas'S.
Pleads for American Fruit.
Washington, Aug. 13.-- Ambassa lor
White at Paris ha addrosso i the
French government with a view to the
suspension of the decree prohibiting the
mportation of sulphured fruit, with
particular reference to Cal i fern ia dried
fruits, pending the report of the Am -r-ican
board which is to investigate the
whole subject of the importation of
preserved fruit and other edibles. Oth
erwise, it the importations of French
fruits may be serioulsly affected. j
May Order Rectifier's Marks.
Washington. Aug. 13. The commis
sioner of internal revenue has informed
W. M. Hough, attorney of the Nation
al Wholesale Liquor Dealers' associa-
tion, that there is ample authority of
law for the government to prescribe
the marking of packages of spirits and
liquors in the hands of rectifiers as in
the case of marking the
distillers.
prodcuts of
MOLOKAI LOCAL STATION.
Lepers From Mainland May Not Be
Sent There.
Washington, Aug. 13. Though vir
tually a part of the United States, the
leper colony on isolated Molokai, can
not recruit its death-marked popula
tion from this country. It is this fact
that makes it impossible for govern
ment officials to comply with the re
quest of the territorial authorities of
Arizona for the speedy removal of aged
Mrs. General Warwell, whom the ter
rible disease has claimed for its vic
tim. According to Dr. II. G. Geddings,
assistant surgeon general of the public
health and marine hospital service, the
leper settlement at Molokai is strictly
a territorial enterprise. There exists
neither law nor precedent to warrant
the removal of a leper from a state or
territory, however, to the settlement,
and Dr. Geddings voices the opinion of
the bureau that the Hawaiian health
authorities would not approve such a
move.
Favors Policy of Peace.
Washington, Aug. 14. Naturally
the American government is interested
in knowing what the Dutch intend to
do in Venezuela, and it is not surpris
ing therefore that the Holland govern
ment is sounding American Minister
Beaupre at The Hague as to what the
United States might do in the varying
contingencies that are likely to arise.
While the United States under cer
tain conditions may be open to criti
cism regarding any prospective course
in Venezuela, it is not believed that
any co-operative punitive agreement
with any foreign power will be sought.
On the contrary an arrangement for a
peaceful settlement of differences
would be gladly welcomed.
Robbers Torture Women.
Washington, Aug. 13. Three mask
ed men entered the home of Miss Ma
ria de Garmo in a remote part of the
county yesterday morning and after
battering down the door, bound and
gagged Miss de Garmo and her niece,
Miss Lizzie Hartman, the only occu
pants of the house, and robbed them of
their jewelry and a small amount of
cash. Carpets were slashed, mattress
es ripped open and chests broken into.
When no large sum of money was
found, the women were tortured until
the elder one fainted and the men left.
Miss Hartman, bleeding and cut, at
last freed herself from the ropes and
released her aunt.
Hitchcock Off to Chicago.
Washington, Aug. 15. Chairman
Frank H. Hitchcock, of the Republican
National committer, accompanied bv
his secretary, James T. Williams, Jr.,
arrived in Washington this morning
from Hot Springs, Va., where he con
ferred with Mr. Taft yesterday. Mr.
Hitchcock started for Chicago this
afternoon to meet Eastern and West
ern otticials ot the national commit
tee, who are to meet there and open
the Western headquarters. Mr. Hitch
cock had nopoiltical engagements here,
but closed and surrendered the last of
the rooms used as Mr. Taft's precon-
ntion headquarters.
Alaska Wireless Station.
Washington, Aug. 12.-A wireless
tation in Prince William Sound.
Alaska, is to be erected by the Navy
department, the exact site to be se
lected shortly. This will be 500 miles
from the military wireless station be
ing installed at Fort Gibbon, and will
form a connecting line between that
station and the naval wireless station
at Northhead. Washington. The gov
ernment will be able to maintain wire
less communication up the Pacific
coast to the Alaska station.
Asks Bids on Coal for Fleet.
Washington, Aug. 12. It is expect
ed that proposals for transporting coal
to Magdalena bay, Mexico, will be re
ceived in the bureau of equipment un
til noon, August 17. The proposals are
to be for 15,000 tons of somi-butumin-ous
coal for the vessels of the Pacific
fleet. The bidders are required to state
whether the vessels bearing the coal
may be diverted from Magdalona bay
to Bremerton. Wash., if the cargoes
are required there.
Colonel Hoxie Retires.
W:
asmngton. Amr. 11. ( elonei hi
,icn-
nrl I.. Hoxie. one of the veH rati otli
eers of the corps of engineers and who
for some time prist has been in charge
of the fortification and river harbor
work in Baltimore and vicinity, was
placed on the retired list of the army
to lay on account of age. He is ue
ceeded at Baltimore bv Maor William
E. Craighill, who until recently was
stationed at Mobile.
Will Do Special Service.
Washington. Aug. 15. The gunboats
Albany and Yorktown today were de
tached from the Pacific fleet by the
Navy department for special service
on the Pacific coast. These vessels
were only nominally a part of the Pa
cific fleet, having been engaged in pro
tecting American interests in Central
America.
Bullets i.i Flag at Tabriz.
Washington, Aug. 12.- Dispatches
from Tabriz today state that Un
American flag over the United States
consulate was shot away yesterday.
The dispatches are brief, but the ati-
j thorities say they believe the shooting
jof the flag was accidental.
FIRES IN IDAHO.
Kootenai Falls Prey to Flames and
Sand Point is Threatened.
Spokane, Aug. 12. A Sand Point,
Idaho, special to the Spokesman Re
view says :
With the wind blowing a gale and
the adjacent town of Kootenai wiped
out, it seems that no power can save
Sand Point. At 6 o'clock last evening
a small forest fire north of Kootenai
was blown into the town and the town
of 300 inhabitants was burned to the
ground.
The Humbird Lumber company has a
$200,000 mill at Kootenai, which burn
ed to the ground, and which was only
partly insured. At present the fire is
within 2,000 feet of the Panhandle
smelter, which seems doomed.
The homeless people of the little
hamlet of Kootenai have been brought
here, and are being cared for by citi
zens. All of them lost their belong
ings. Over 500 volunteers are fighting the
approach of the flames. Sand Point
has a population of about 10,000. An
appeal has just been sent to the Spo
kane fire department for aid.
It was impossible at midnight to
learn the extent of the damage by fire
at Sand Point. The telegraph wires
are down and connection is lost with
the regular telephone line, but the
operator of the Independent Telehpone
office at Sand Point, states that Sand
Point is in no immeditae danger. The
town of Kootenai was burned, but the
big mill of the Humbird company was
saved.
Reports are conflicting regarding the
smelter at Ponderay, near Sand Point,
one report declaring that it was burned
while the other states that the forest
fire was near but the smelter was still
safe.
THOUSANDS PERISH.
South China Scene of Desolation Fol
lowing Typhoon.
Hongkong, Aug. 12. In a report is
sued today from the headquarters of
the government relief station it is
stated that advices from Southern
China give details of appalling condi
tions among the victims of the recent
typhoon, which laid waste an immense
territory along the coast and killed
thousands of natives.
The report says that more than 1,-
500,000 refugees are at the point of
death from exposure and starvation.
and that many thousands have sue
cumbed since the disaster.
The tales of hardship and destitution
are pitiful in the extreme. Scores of
refugees in all quarters are without
shelter of any kind, forced to spend
days and nights huddled together like
stormbound sheep. In some districts
there is only sufficient food to supply
one meal a day. More terrible are the
conditions in other localities, where
there is absolutely no food, and the
people are dying by the hundreds,
dead are piled in heaps, no burial
ing possible.
The
be-
MEXICANS USE TORTURE.
Tear Out Americans' Nai's to Secure
Names of Confederates.
Pittsburg, Aug. 12. Police officials
here have received news of the tortur
ing of William Moffatt and Edward
Maloney, who were arrested recently
in Mexico City on a charge of robbing
a bank messenger. Moffatt and Ma
loney, the police here say, were well
known to them before leaving for
Mexico.
Two companions escaped the officers
I when the 1 lttsburgers were arrested
land the Mexican police demanded their
names. Refusing to betray their com
i panior.s. the men allege that they wert
strapped by the wrists to the Pars ot
their cells, while the officials with for
ceps tore the nails from their hands.
Unable to bear the agony, the men
gave the names of their companions.
"I suppose," said Captain of Detec
tives Edwin T. McGough today, "if it
were not for the record of the men,
their torture would mean international
complications."
Allege Yankee Roads Allied.
Winnipeg, Man., Aug. 12. Reports
received here today that railroad lines
in the United States, particularly the
New York Central line, are furnishing
strikebreakers to the Canadian Pacific
and supplying equipment which the
Canadian road is unable to repair in its
crippled machine shops, have greatly
agitated ti-.t
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Th.
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Up Goes Price of Apples.
Louis. Aug. 12.- The fifth an
c nvontion of the American Ap
ui
ple, Towers association opened here
tdoay with more than. 100 apple gr w
t is from Central and Western states
attending. Of imeprtan.ee to the puh-
is the prediction of et
ers and
cerates to tlit
convention that applt
this year wi'd s dl from .S2.50 to a
barrel on the trees and that before the
season ends they will be selling at ST
with $10 a barrel for choice ones.
Tornado in North Dakota.
Mandan. N. P.. Aug. 12. A torna
do struck Mandan last evening and
can - d darrnge to the extent of S50.
000. Otic boy was pi.-k d up by ti e
wind and carried three blocks. The
roof of the 1' ter-Oeoa-i hotel was
loosened an crashed mto the dining-
roi m. The Dollar hotel v a i;tiroft
i.
Horses were tapped over
window shattered, but no
occurred.
and many-fatalities
SAYS RAILROADS
HAVE CONSPIRED
Texas Commission Starts Suit Against
Host of Companies.
State Commission Appeals to Inter
state Board, Basing Complaint on
Valuation of Lines and Increased
Cost to Consumers Has Gone
Into Details.
Washington, Aug. 11. The railroad
commission of Texas today filed a for
mal complaint with the Interstate
Commerce commission against 67 rail
roads and other common carriers, al
leging a conspiracy oh the part of the
defendants through the Southwestern
irarnc association tor the suppression
of competition and restraint of trade
in the recent action increasing freight
rates to common points in Texas. The
commission will forward notice of this
complaint to all the carriers involved
and will give them 15 days to reply,
the usual period allowed for answering
a complaint being 20 days. The com
mission will expedite this case t as
much as possible on account of its
widespread importance.
The complaint undertakes to com
pare the alleged cost of maintenance
and operation of the railroads with the
actual cost, and the claimed debt which
is supposed to justify the increase,
with the actual debt. The railroad
commission of Texas, it. appears, has
appraised the cost of construction and
operation of the roads as well as the
actual debt upon which the rates may
be fairly based.
Eight freight schedules, which have
recently been filed with the commis
sion, are made the basis of the com
plaint and all are alleged to have been
brought about by an unlawful agree
ment between the defendant carriers
and the Southwestern Traffic associa
tion, of which they are members or
whose members represent, through
power of attorney, those who are not.
It declares that the increased rates
will fall primarily upon the commod
ities of daily necessity; that they will
seriously disturb trade relations, caus
ing loss to shippers and the consuming
public, and that the increased tax, so
far as Texas alone is concerned, will
amount to $2,653,000.
SHIP CHINESE HOME.
Large Party Smuggled Over Mexican
Border Sent to China.
San Francisco, Aug. 11. Eighty
five Chinese for deportation arrived
here today and were put aboard the Si
beria, which sails tomorrow for the
Orient. They were brought here from
the Southeast border in a special train
by United States Marshals Daniels, of
Tuscon; Smith, of Albuquerque, and
Warden, of the Northern district of
Texas.
Nine Chinese from Texas were
among the 18 recently discovered in a
sealed boxcar. The immigration agent
at El Paso became suspicious of the
car and, upon having it opened, found
the 18 Chinese. They had provided
themselves with a cask of water and
food sufficient to last for a week or
two. The Chinese arriving today en
tered Mexico through the port of Sa
lina Cruz, direct from the Orient.
SECOND CLOUDBURST.
Bisbee, Ariz., Again Swept by Down
pour of Water.
Fisbee. Ariz., Aug. 11. For the
second time within a week the Bisbee
postoflice was put out of commission
todav by a cloudburst. At about the
ame hour in the day as before a heavy
rain came up and, when a cloud burst
over Mule mountain, tons of rock and
dirt slid into the postoffice, piling
nearly ten feet high. The office was
also flooded with mud and s;lt.
The general delivery section was
destroyed. The stamps and money
were saved, being carried to a place of
safety as soon as the flood grew threat
ening. A large iorce ot men with a
steam shovel is at work on the debris
tonight.
Raise Insurance Rates.
Wirnipeg. Man.. Aug. 11. Word
was receive'! here this afternoon that
the Ca
ian Fire
Underwriters' asso-
eta? ion tod:
iv
n Toronto considered
it nation arising out of
isses sustained at the
scr'ovsly the
; he oi io i h mi
mi'
nd increased rates were
Partly for this reason
a'iso the association re
rtg rates on grain in ele
Western provinces too
decided to increase the
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per cent on that class of in-
Main Grovp of Bie; Trpps Safe.
Stockton. Cal., Aug. 11. The big
; forest fire which has been raging along
the south fork of the Stanislaus river
for over a week is reported today to
have reached the south grove of the
. famous Calaveras big trees. Reports
; from the scene of the conflagration are
! me:igre, as telephone lines are out of
order. A brief message sa:d todpy:
"The fire is still burning and reached
the south grove yesterday afternoon.
The main grove is safe."
Chicago Gains 20,700.
Chicago. Aug. 11. -An increase of
'20.700 s:nce last year fives 2, 425.OO0
as the population of Chicago, estimat
ed bv the Ch'cago Directory company,
whos- lios issue is now ready for dis
i tribut'on.