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Heppner Gazette iMacd TbMTMiay of Each Wck HEPPNER OREGON RESUME OF THE WEEK'S DOINGS General Review of Important Hap penings Presented in a Brief and Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers National, Political, His torical and Commercial. The Indiana legislature had passed a local option law. A strainer lias arrived at San Fran cisco with a ease of cholera. Turkey is arranging for its first clec tion when a parliament will be selected The American battleships Maine and Atlanta have left Naples on their way home. English authorities declare the sav ings banks in schools of .London nav proven a failure. The Canadian Pacific is said to have bought the White Pass railroad, which runs from Skagway to uitenorse. Some of the railroads arc almost short ou rolling stock after months when there were idle cars on every sidetrack The coroner's jury hold the freight crew to blame for the wreck on the Northern Pacific at Youngs Point, Mon tana. The first word from Peary has been received bv the Perv Arctic club. He left North Greenland for the north Au gust 1". Miss Katherine Elkins, of West Vir crinin. will marrv an Italian duke. On their way home the couple will be es corted by several Italian warsnips. Leslie Carter, one-time capitalist and promoter of Chicago, is dead. Cholera in Manila will prevent the reception to the fleet as planned. Fire at Oakland, Cal., destroyed al most an entire block, entailing a loss of $100,000. Tli wind has died down and dan ger from the Eureka, Cal., forest fires has greatly abated. J. E. W. Clark, an Alaskan, is on a visit to Pacific coast cities and has just seen his first trolley car. The epidemic of cholera at Manila seems to be under control, ine uuny average of new cases has tallen De low 30. Roosevelt has refused to grant a petition to stop Sunday baseball in the army, declaring that the game is fine exercise for the men. A combination has been formed by Pacific and Atlantic steamship com rmVe to secure European trade in competition with the transcontinental railroads. Representatives from the principal cities of the Pacific coast have started on a trip to Japan to cultivate the frinrllv relations of the brown dus iness men and offset anti-Japanese sentiment. Thaw has been summoned to Pitts burg for contempt in connection with his bankruptcy proceedings. This is said to be a part of the scheme to liberate him. Charges of bribery are being made in Indiana's local option fight. Rockefeller had a narrow escape from injury in an automobile acci dent. Eastern Oregon has had' its first snow. Only a flurry lasting a few minutes fell. Portland is to close up its red light district, and extra police have been provided for the purpose. A fire believed to be of incendiary ripctmvpH $100,000 worth of property at Redding, Cal. Wu Ting Fang. Chinese minister to the United States, is to be replaced in November. Chung Men Yew is to be his successor. The French bark Vendee, from Portland for the United Kingdom, has gone ashore off the California coast, and may be a total loss. She carried wheat. General Bell, while in the Yellow stone park, rode 300 miles on horse back, averaging 100 miles a day, thus proving his fitness, according to the Roosevelt test. As special officers were about to raid a counterfeiter's den near Seattle, the building took fire and burned. One man was caught with bar metal on his person. Bv the explosion of a gun at Tou lon 13 French sailors were killed and a cruiser badly damaged. Hearst may run for governor of! New York on the Independent ticket. Authorities believe that the vigor mis methods employed have checked the spread of cholera in the Philip pines. Fire destroyed the plant of the Portland Mill "& Fixture company at Portland, entailing a loss of $35,000. The legislative halls of Indiana was the scene of a small riot until police interferred. Local option was the trouble. A thousand small fires surround Lakes Superior and Huron and the northern part ot Lake .Micniga!. Many settlements are cut off from communication and their fate is in doubt. Charles Oliver, special detective, has been sent to jail for two days for approaching a juror in one of the Ruef cases. Germany objects to France receiv ing preference over any other power in Moroccan affairs. IGNORANCE OF SANITATION. Lower Classes in Russia Refuse to Be Vaccinated. St. Petersburg, Sept. 29 Sinoo the beginning of the epidemic thero have been 15,(iS3 cases of Asiatic cholera re ported in Russia and ,-7102 deaths. In St. Petersburg nlone, since the presence of the diseaso was officially admitted September 8, there have been 4,031 cases uiul 1,871 deaths reported. The figures with reference to the in vasion of this city by the diseaso can not be relied upon ns on a number of occasions authoritative sources showed the number of cases anddeaths in a single day to be far in excess of that announced by the authorities. There is an appreciable betterment of the sani tary conditions and consequent decrease in the disease ns shown by the figures given out Sunday. For the 24 hours ending at noon the number of new cases in the city was 208 and the number of deaths 143, as compared with 312 new cases and 133 deaths for the previous 24 hours. Difficulty has been experienced in dealing with the workmen of St. Toters burg, who with their families comprise three-fifths of the population for they were unable and unwilling to comply with the sanitary precautions. The ignorance of the lower classes and their superstition greatly increase the diffi culties of the situation. During the earlier stages of the epidemic few could be prevailed upon to undergo preventive inoculation, which is provided free of charge, but latterly the authorities have made inoculation compulsory in some quarters of the city. SITUATION MOST SERIOUS. Unbroken Drouth in East Is Raising Havoc With Industries. Pittsburg, Sept. 29 With losses ag gregating several million dollars from forest fires, and heavy damage to crops and livestock, and the reported loss of a number of lives due to fighting tim ber fires; the enforced idleness of thou sands of workmen owing to suspensions because of lack of water; the authori ties anticipating serious epidemics of contagious diseases, and many small streams dried up and practically oblit erated, the drouth of .1908, which has held western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and West Virginia for two months, remains unbroken. While in the Titts burg district the water supply is suffi cient to carry on all business, the low stage of the rivers has caused a con gestion of much coal in this vicinity, Every available barge and float has been loaded with coal, and at present there are almost 20,000,000 bushels in the Pittsburg harbor. About 15,000 miners employed in the river mines along the Monongahela val ley are out of work. In all sections of the dry zone pray ers are offered up daily and these pray ers will continue until they are an swered with rain. STUDENTS FIGHT DISEASE. Drafted in Manila to Battle With Epi demic of Cholera. Manila, Sept. 29. There were 14 new cases of cholera and three deaths re ported for the 24 hours ending at 8 o'clock yesterday morning. Practically the entire staffs of the bureau of sci ences and the local medical schools have been drafted into the service to fight the disease. The two senior classes of the medical schools are acting as nurses. A serious situation is caused by the supply of disinfectants running very low. The bureau of sciences is experi menting with electricity and sea water to produce chlorine for use until the new supplies of disinfectants arrive. Enormous quantities of disinfectants have been used in vigorous efforts to cleanse the entire citv. New Party in Cuba. Havana, Cuba, Sept. 29. That the Liberal party will lose the entire negro vote in the coming election seems as sured, as the result of an attack made on a mass meeting of negroes by a mob of Liberals. The fact that the negro element proposed to form a national partv angered the Liberals, as they saw that such a party would draw more from their ranks than from the Conserva tives. General Estcnoz, leader of the cgrocs. has announced that his party is a certaintv, as his followers cannot hore to secure their rights without a party of their own. New Road to Peace River. Vancouver. H. ('., Sept. 29. A special dispatch from Winnipeg says: The Ca nadian Pacific is rushing its sur vev through from a point near Atha basca leading to Grand Prairie, north of Edmonton. Alberta. From thorp the main line is bpnig extemled to I'jne Pass. The company is concent rating its efforts on a survey through Pine Pass ami from that point tre line will be ex tended through British Columbia to a point north of Prince Rupert. New Coal Field Found. Victoria, B. C.. Sept. 29.A rich find of good coal with a seam eight feet in width has been located as a result of the boring at Peep Hay. Vancouver Is land, about three miles south of Union Bay, by the Wellington Colliery com pany of R. Dunsmuir's Sons. The seam will be worked as soon as arrangements an be made to sink on it. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON SURVEYORS ARE BUSY. Alturas-Midland Line Now Behoved to Be Assured. Klamath Falls. Engineer B. F. Knowlton, of the Southern Pacific company, is establishing a large sur vey camp near Merrill, and is buying horses and supplies on an extensive scale. The survey is supposed to be a line from Alturas to connect with the California Northeastern railway at Midland, eight miles below Klam ath Falls. Incorporation papers were filed some weeks ago for the Modoc Northern railway, and Engineer Knowlton's surveying party is be lieved to be here for the purpose of determining the location of this road from northern California into south ern Oregon. A railroad construction camp has also been established two and a half miles south of this city, where a sub contractor of Ericson and Peterson lias a contract for a mile and a half of grade, to connect with the grade already completed through the marsh. WALNUTS IN HIGH FAVOR. Hundreds of Acres to Be Planted in Yamhill County. McMinnville. The planting of Eng lish walnuts in this county will be done on a grand scale during the coming season. This year over 1000 acres were planted. A tract of 1000 acres has been platted near Amity and sold to be planted to walnuts. The Oak Hill farm, near North Yamhill, recently sold, has 40 or 50 acres in trees, a good portion of them bearing, and the remainder of the 1016 acres will be planted to trees. The Jacobs- Stine company, of Portland, has late ly acquired title to the Riverside or chards tract lying east of this city, ind comprising 500 -acres, which is platted to sell to walnut planters. business and professional men and the neighboring farmers have set apart at least 1000 acres for immediate walnut planting in the vicinity of McMinnville, whose name, the "Wal nut City,'' is no empty one, since it will soon have 1500 acres of walnuts in its vicinity. Democrats File Nominations. Salem. The Democratic party filed its nominations for presidential elect ors with the secretary of state Sep tember 18. It was the last dav for filing. The names of electors are as follows: E. S. J. McAllister. Port land; Samuel White, Baker City; Au gust Huckenstein. Salem, and O. D Coshovv, Roseburg. The Democrats were last to file their nominations The Socialists filed their nomination first on July 29, the Republicans and Prohibitionists together on Septem ber 10.. and the Independents followed on September 16. Hay Is Very High. Klamath Falls. Growers of alfalfa hay in Klamath county are holding up the price, and as a result cattlemen say they cannot afford to buv. I lav is scarce this year, and cattle owners are having difficulty in securing hay at prices to enable them to sell at profit. H. V. Mitchell has just pur chased 1200 tons of Shasta valley at $7 per ton, and will feed there, as Klamath enmity ranchers ask $s and $S.50 per ton. Spring Wheat Goes 40 Bushels. Hillsboro. E. W. Dant. who threshed out of Reedville for 29 sea sons, states that he recently turned out 3000 bushels of wheat raised on the Hare ranch, a mile south of Hills boro, that produced -10 bushels to the acre. I his has not been uncommon in this county this season for winter wheat, but this grain was sown this spring, spring oats, however, are re ported as light all over the county. Wallowa to Have Courthouse. Enterprise The countv court has accepted plans for a courthouse, to cost 30,000. Bids for foundation and base nient will be advertised for immediate ly in order that the foundation at least may lie put in this fall. Wallowa pnwn- ty has been set apart from Union coun ty 20 years, and this will be the first ourthouso erected in the countv. Multnomah's Good Showiug. Portland. That only 1 per cent of the taxes imposed in Multnomah countv will be delinquent on the first Monday in October is the showing ex pected from figures now available in the tax collection department of the sheriff's office. The estimated 1e linquencv is $.12.200 12. on a tax roll that totals $3,226,564.25. La Grande Faces Coal Famine. La Grande. Unless the coal slrikp in Montana comes to an abrupt end I. a Grande will experience a coal famine. In fact there is only suf ficient coal on hand with the local dealers to fill passenger orders, and no more can be had. The coal situa tion is grave. Athena Wheat Nearly Sold. Athena. Nearly all of the wheat in this section has not only been sold, but has been delivered and shipped. This is contrary to the usual order of things, inasmuch as th shipping season heretofore has lasted for sev eral months. HORSES FOR HAWAII. Island Planter Has Buyer in Klama.h Falls Country. Klamath Falls. John T. Raker, a large land owner and influential man of affairs of the Hawaiian islands, has been hunting in Klamath county the past two weeks, and has just ordered a carload of Klamath county horses shipped to his ranch in the islands. .Mr. Baker came to the United States with Prince David and a party, ex pecting to hunt in the wilds of Ore gon, Washington and Alaska. On ac count of the death of Prince David in San Francisco all plans were changed, and Mr. Baker went back to Honolulu with the body. On his return to San Francisco the Klamath country was recommended to him as excellent hunting grounds near jat hand. He was delighted with hi hunt, and expects to come back next year with a party ot friends. Henry Straw, a local liprse dealer. has charge of the buying of a carload of horses for Mr. Baker, and is to de liver them at the ranch in Hawaii. Send Eugeue Apples East. Eugene. The Lane County Fruit and Vegetable Growers' association will ship from 20 to 30 carloads of ap pies to Eastern and Southern States this fall, with the purpose of estab lishing the reputation of this section of the Willamette Valley as an apple country. All apples that are shipped will be of good quality and well packed. Some fine apples are grown about Engene, and the country has suttered a good deal by the careless orcharist, who did not care what went out of the country. But this year the association is in control, and nothing but the best apples will go to make Lane county s reputation. Rare Ones on Beach Waldport. George W. Blodgett, a lapidist of Portland, is camped with a party of Portland people on the beach south of Waldport. Mr. Blocl gett has found some very beautiful and valuable, stones while here, one in particular being a large, clear agate containing pyrites of iron on fernlike forms. The stone is large enough to be cut into seven smaller stones about an inch long. Just such a stone is not described in geology. Mr. Thomas the veteran lapidist at Newport, says the small pieces are worth $100 each. G thering Coos Bay Data. Marshfield. Colonel W. II. Hola bird, of San Francisco, is in Coos Bay as Mr. Harriman's representative to report on business conditions relative to the building of the Coos Bay-Drain railroad. 1 lie committee recently ap pointed to confer with Mr. Harriman at Roseburg will assist Mr. Holabircl in gathering necessary data as to the freight business in prospect for the new road. Mr. Holabird is the guest ot Oeneral Manager C. J. Millis, o the Southern Pacific railroad. Will Rebuild Sawmill. JTillamook. Several Tillamook cit izens have made arrangements to re build the sawmill of the Tillamook Lumbering company, which was burned down last October, and have incorporated the Tillamook Lumber Manufacturing company for that .pur pose, with a capital stock placed at $10,000. PORTLAND MARKETS, Barley Feed, $26 per ton; rolled. Z7.o0frt.28.50; brewing, $20 50. Oats io. 1 -white, $30 per ton; gray, $29. Vheat Club. 8!)c per bushel: fortv- loiu. 02c; turkey red, 92c: fife. 80c: bluestem. 03c; valley, 91c. Hay limothy, Willamette Valley. $14 per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi nary, $11; Eastern Oregon, $16.50: mixed, $13; clover. $9; alfalfa. $11: alfalfa meal, $20. Fruit Apples, new, 50c(fr$1.25 per box; peaches, 40(fr75c per box; pears. .:cfr$l per box; plums. 50cw$l per box; grapes, 40c(a$1.25 per crate; Wordens.' 2025c per basket; huckle berries, SrJilOc per pound; quinces. $1 25tfi '.1.50 per box; ground cherries, oc per box. Potatoes S.'.faOOc per hundred; sweet potatoes, 2c per pound. -Melons Cantaloupes. 50fo 75c per crate; watermelons. JffTlc per pound; casabas, $1.75 per dozen. Vegetables Iurnips. $1.50 per sack; carrots, $1.75; parsnips, $1.75; beets, $1.50; artichokes, 65c per doz.; beans, 3tf; 4c per pound; cabbage, 2c per lb.: cauliflower, $1.25 dozen; celery, 75crtT $1 per dozen; corn, 75ctf;$l per sack; cucumbers. 30fa40c per box; egg plant. 50cf$1.25 per crate; lettuce, head, 15c per dozen; parsley, 15c per lozen; peas, 6c per pound; peppers. HffilOc per pound; pumpkins, Krl'.c per pound; radishes, 12c per dozen; pinach, 2c per pound; sprouts, 0c 'er pound; son-';h. He per pound: tomatoes. 17 ''ft 25c. Butter Extras, 3(c per pound: fancy. 3:'c; choice, 30c: store. ISr. Eggs Oregon extras, 29'ft30c: firsts. 27ft2Sc; seconds, 23 26c: Lnstcrn. 26$727c per dozen. Poultry I',incy hens. 13ic: spring. 14jc; ducks, old. 12(ol2jc; spring, 14 'rl5c; geese, old, 9c; young. lOfallc; turkeys, old lTtfilfic; young, 20c. Veal Extra, H(nc per pound; or dinary, 7'ftTJc; heavy, 5c. Pork Fancy, 85c per pound; ordi nary, 6c; large, 5c. Hops Oregon, 19n, 7(8c per lb.; 1907. 2jTi 4c; 1906, .lifff lie' " Wool F.astern Oregon, average best. lOtfrlfiJc per pound, according 'o shrinkage: valley, 1515jc. Mo hair, choice, 18(al8jc per pound. RUSSIA BEGRUDGES MONEY. Bureaucracy Weighs Dollars Heavier Than Human Life. St. Petersburg, Sept. 28 Tho bu reaucraey of St. Petersburg is weighing dollars against human life, and as a ro suit Russia is today thrcutenod with one of tho gravest cholera Bcourgcs in tho history of tho empire. Premier Stolypin, into whoso hands the work of enforcing imperative sani tary reforms was recently placed, is meeting; with discouragement from those in authority on every hand. They are protesting vigorously against tho enor inous expense involved in cleaning up tho city, and as a result of their oppo sition the work will probably be, only nair uone. One of Premier Stolypin 's proposals is a complete new system of sewerage, the estimated cost of which is $40,000, 000. It is being pleaded that the advent of cold weather will put an end to tho cholera spread, whereas tho history of, all cholera plagues has been that cold weather is but a temporary check, being toliowed in the ensuing spring by a re currence or the scourge. Bad as conditions are in St. Teters burg, they are hardly to be compared with the menacing aspect of the dis ease in other parts of tho empire. In scores of towns tho wretched poverty of the people, covered with the ignorance and superstition against remedial meas ures, makes the work of guarding against tho fearful outbreak in the spring an utter impossibility. Doctors are appallod at the prospect and say that whatever tho outcome in St. Petersburg, thero is no hope of im provement elsewhere. It is estimated that throughout Rus sia thero have already been 18,000 deaths from cholera. In many towns 5 per cent of the cases have terminated fatally. ABOLISH COLONIST RATES. Plan Almost Unanimously Approved by Western Railroads. Chicago, Sept. 28. The colonization of the western country is going to be materially retarded if railroads be tween Chicago and tho Pacific Coast carry out a plan which has been ad vanced bv. executive officials. A prop osition has received the approval of nearly every railroad in the Western Passenger association to abolish all low or reduced rates after January 1, 1909. This determination has been reached because of the alarm felt over the re duction in net passenger revenues of western roads. This reduction is laid at tho door of reduced rates, and genuine alarm is felt for the future. Railroad officials declare that with tho 2-cent rate generally there can be no reduced rate without passing the margin of profit. It is estimated that western roads have lost this season several millions of dollars in passenger reveuues, com pared with what hey would have en joyed had they maintained a minimum 2-cent rate west of Chicago. This con clusion is based upon careful statistics prepared by the Alton andother rail roads, which show that railroads have carried more passengers than ever, but at a less net revenue than accrued from a smaller movement. This can mean only one thing, it is said, and that is the return of a minimum 2-cent rate everywhere. It is not expected that this change can bo brought about until the first of the year, but it now seems certain that, if the public desires reduced rates, they can be had only by a return to the 3-cent basis. CHINESE AVOID HEAD TAX. Hundreds Admitted Into Canada on False Statement. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 28 A scheme has just been laid bare by the controller of Chinese immigration at Ottawa, which is believed to be the most elaboratelv conceived fraudulent device for eject ing the Chinese "invasion" of Canada ever perpetrated. Bv means of this device hundreds of young Celestials have been flocking in at the eastern ports of the Dominion ami escaping the $500 head tax by passing themselves off as merchants or other privileged classes. Canada has thus been victimized through honoring certificates of the charge d'affaires ad interim and consul general at the im perial Chinese legation in Mexico. Statistics in the trade and commerce department here show that 280 Chinese immigrants were admitted into Canada recently at the ports of Montreal and Halifax alone, without paying the head tax and that not more than 15 Chinese should have been so favorod. Land Grab Thwarted. San Francisco, Sept. 28 State Min eralogist Anbury after a long fight has compelled II. II. Yard & Co., speculators associated with the Western Pacific, to release their hold on 13,000 acres of rich mineral land in Plumas and Butte coun ties. This land was located bv Yard and his associates some years ago. Later Anbury filed an action in the land of fice on the ground that while it had been taken as mineral land and wa known to contain minerals, the land was desired for railroad purposes. The land office has now cancelled the filing. Russia Seizes Yankee Gold Nome, Alaska, Sept. 25. Apparent ly without warrant and with no ex ilanation given, the gunbo-tt Chilka be'ong'ng to the Russian government with the Russian governor aboard' seized $10. onn from American miner who had been working in Anadir. Si beria.. on September 15. The miners vvcre working under an agreement made bv John Roscne, of the North east Siberia company, with Czar. Nicholas II. Work for Young Teddy. Hartford. Conn., Sept. 28 Theodore Tfooseve't. Jr.. is to begin service with 'he Uartford Carnet Works at Thomn sonville today. It is thought he will enter the operating department. TWENTY KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK Passenger and freight Trains Crash. Together In Montana. Not One in Smoking Car Escaped Death or Injury Blinding Snow Storm Prevented Engineer Seeing Danger Ahead Freight Should Have Been on Siding. Butte, Mont.. Sept. 26. In the worst wreck in the history of the Northern Pacific Railroad, 20 persons, were killed, 10 seriously injured, sev eral fatally and about 30 more or less injured in a collision between passen ger train No. 16, known as the east bound Burlington flyer, and a west bound freight train, at 8:10 o'clock yesterday morning, at a siding known as Youngs Point, about thirty miles west of Billings. The fast traveling passenger train crashed into the freight just entering on the siding dur ing a blinding snow storm, the en gineer of the passenger failing to see the signal Hag of the brakeman of the freight train in time to avert the crash. A heavy, wet snow which was fall ing at the time prevented the wreck from catching tire, and undoubtedly held the death list down to the figures given, livery effort is being made by the division forces, aided by volun teers from Livingston and Billings, to clear the wreck, and so far they are able to prevent further loss of life. .None of .the passengers from the sleeping cars was injured. The train was made up of an engine, baggage car, smoker, a day coach and two. Pullman sleepers. 1 he efforts to prevent fire were suc cessful and that horror was saved the wrecked passengers. On the arrival of the relief train the injured were transferred around the wreck and taken to Billings. Ihe express car was raised over the platform of the smoker, and swept superstructure, seats and passengers off. Not a passenger in this car es caped death or injury. The other pas sengers escaped with cuts and bruises. I he scenes around the smoker were- beyond description, heads, bodies, leg and arms being interwoven with broken seats and equipment. In one place live bodies were packed on ton. of each other. In another seven had to be pulled apart. It was almost im possible to succor the injured without trampling on the dead. Railroad men, while refusing to be quoted officially or allowing their names to be used because of the reg ulations of the road in connection with publicity as to wrecks, intimate that the freight train was stealing; time, that it had no orders to proceed to Youngs Point and should have waited at Park City, about six miles from the scene of the wreck, for the passenger train. This is supposed to explain wny t tie Murlington train was traveling about 50 miles an hour past the siding. WOULD KILL ROOSEVELT. Several Plats Uncovered in Different Parts of Europe. Bayonne, France. Sent. 26 Evi- dence of an anarchistic plot against President Rooseve't of the United States was yesterday made public by the secret police of several European countries. Spanish secret service agents dis overed traces of the plot while exam ining Can.atrava, the famous Spanish anarchist, in an effort to connect him with the suspected plot against the life of the king of Spain. I apers were also found on two Ital ian anarchists arrested at Sessrt. Swit zerland, Wednesday, containing the most definite information possible re- Tarding Roosevelt's African trip. They are now being held at Geneva iii in effort to obtain further informa tion against them. There has been much activity noted among the anarchists of Europe dur ing the nnst few weeks, but this is the first definite information that has been secured ns to the nature of their plans. Hope to Save Stranded Cruiser Newport. R. T Sept. 20 The work of extricating the United States cruiser Yankee from her position on Spindle Rock, where she struck dttr ;ng a fog on Wednesday, was cen tered yesterday in the construction nf a wooden coffer-dam about the ves sel. ' It is believed it. will take almost i week to erect the same, and it may he a week or more before the vessel 's finally freed. Should the seas con tinue smooth during that time it is an ticipated that the work will progress without serious danger to the cruiser. Pauper's Grave for a Gould. Los Angeles. Sept. 26. Officials of 'he county hnsrtital are awaiting the 'ecisjnn of George. Howard and Melon Gould and the Princes De Sri gen as to whether their cousin, Mel vin A. Gould, shall be buried in the notters' field. Gould died Thursday night at the age of 71. lie had been in invalid seven years and had a hard 'ight to supnort himself. lie appealed fo his relatives, but they refused he!r. Two weeks ago he was compcljcd to enter the county hospital. Ruef Jury Half Completed. San Francisco, Sent. 20. After a month snent in examining taicsmen, half of the jury necessary to trv Abra ham Ruef, on the charge of bribery, has been secured. After three neremn- tory challenges had been used on each side yesterday six 'jurors were ac- eptea and sworn.