Heppner gazette., June 03, 1909, Image 2

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Issued Thursday of Each Week
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.
Troops are said to be plotting a new
outbreak at Adana, Turkey.
A Chicago society girl who married
Filipino is said to be hypnotized.
Attempts to resume service on the
Georgia railroad have resulted in riots,
Philadelphia streetcar men have
gone on strike for more pay and regu
lar hours.
During a fight with Moro bandits
two soldiers were killed and a third
fatally hurt.
Girls at the House of Good Shepherd,
Los Angeles, started a disturbance and
were taken to jail.
Four armed men entered a Seattle
aveneue. New York, restaurant and
held up 20 customers and made their
escape.
The men arrested at Omaha have
been positively identified as the Union
Pacific train robbers and may also be
the bpokane tram robbers.
The Northern Pacific and Harriman
lines are both rushing preliminary
work on lines from Missoula through
Lolo pass into the Clearwater, Idaho,
country.
The Presbyterian General assembly
has rejected the pension scheme for
aged ministers and says they should
receive sufficient salary that pensions
would not be needed.
So far Roosevelt has secured 86 ani
mals of 22 different varieties.
The Illinois house has voted to do
away with capital punishment.
The National Negro American league
denounces Taft's Southern policy.
An assassin attempted to kill the
Chinese grand counsellor at Pekm.
People of the Eastern states can see
the new comet with the naked eye.
A Walla Walla Chinaman tried to
propose to a Spokane Japanese girl by
phone.
The strike on the Georgia railroad
has been broken and trains are again
running.
The Isthmian canal commission has
just called for bids on 10,000,000
pounds of dynamite.
The Presbyterian general assembly
has approved a ruling that members
abstain from the use of tobacco.
Pasadena, Cal., has won its suit
against the Sunset Telephone company
and every cable into the city has been
cut.
The North German Lloyd passenger
steamer Princess Alicia grounded while
enterine New York harbor. It will be
necessary to move the cargo.
A Norwegian has invented a process
of writing by wireless.
An Indianapolis man shot and killed
his wife, mistaking her for a burglar
British Premier Asquith refuses to
tell whether American naval building
influences the British policy.
Military authorities are considering
the removal of Abdul Hamid to one of
the slands in the Mediterranean.
Records of Los Angeles county, Cal.,
show that for every four marriages
since January 1 a divorce has been
granted.
A storm off the coast of Bilboa,
Spain, sank over 60 fishing vessels and
it is estimated that no less than 100
fishermen were lost.
James A. Moffat, a director of the
Standard Oil company, will assume the
vice presidency made vacant by the
death of H. H. Rogers.
While the outlook is discouraging in
some sections, the general conditions
indicate the best wheat crop .for the
Norrthwest in ten yxears.
Chicago will not have President Taft
lay the cornerstone of the new city
hall. It will cost $5,000 and the coun
cil feels it cannot afford the expense.
C. S. Cameron, convicted of offering
a bribe to a Pittsburg councilman, has
been sent to prison for two years.
A Georgia negro has been lynched
for wounding a white man.
France is alarmed lest American
competition kill the lace industry.
Two Americans confined in a Mexi
can prison for murder have been liber
ated. Tennessee lynchers are to be pun
ished for contempt of the Federal Su
preme court.
Heney has called on United Railway
employes to testify against Calhoun.
Numerous earthquake shocks have
been felt near Oaxaca, Mexico. A
serious shock is feared.
Astronomers in the East have dis
covered a huge comet, which is visible
in the early morning hours.
Wheat, corn and oats have taken an
other advance at Chicago, causing great
excitement. AH made new high records.
TORNADO KILLS 32.
Town of Zephyr, Texas, Demolished
and Ruins Burned.
Brownwood, Tex., June 1. A tor
nado of great fury struck the little
village of Zephyr, in the eastern por
tion of Brown county, at 1 o'clock this
morning and left a path of death and
destruction seldom paralleled. The
death list has reached a total of 82,
and the number of seriously or fatally
injured will reach 50.
The storm formed a half-mile west
of Zephyr and swept down upon the vil
lage, cutting a wide swath directly
through the residence and business dis
tricts, Nearly 50 houses were demol
ished. Lightning started a fire which
destroyed one entire business block.
No effort was made to fight the fire,
as the care of the dead and injured de
manded the attention of everyone.
A section employe rode a handcar to
Brownwood and spread the alarm. In
two hours the Santa Fe railroad was
speeding a special train to the scene of
the storm with nine surgeons and a
score of Brownwood citizens.
Hundreds of persons directly in the
storm's pathway saved themselves by
taking refuge in storm cellars. More
than 12 bodies were terribly maimed.
County Clerk Thad Cabler and wife
and two children, who had gone to
Zephyr to spend the night, were killed.
The big stone school building and two
churches were demolished.
Brownwood hurried her second relief
train at 12 o'clock today, laden with
provisions, clothing and necessary ar
ticles and carrying 40 nurses. Three
persons are still unaccounted for to
night. .
Two children were found dead late
today two miles from town, having
been blown that distance. A special
train will leave Zephyr tonight for
Temple, carrying the more seriously
injured to a hospital. The storm
swept the earth for a distance of prob
ably less than a mile.
Surgeons from Brownwood found a
desert scene awaiting them. The hill
sides at Zephyr were covered with de
bris of all kinds, carcasses of animals
and human bodies. The ruins were
dimly lighted by the burning build
ings, and the cries of the injured rose
above the roar of the elements which
threatened a second storm.
A hog roaming through the streets
was killed while attempting to devour
the body of an infant. Bodies were
found twisted about trees and in every
conceivable attitude. Residents walked
the streets almost naked. Houses
which had escaped the storm were
turned into hospitals. One house col
lapsed on a family of nine without ser
ious injury to any of the occupants.
Brownwood, which organized the relief
work, has the situation well in hand.
AIRSHIP BREAKS ALL RECORDS.
Count Zeppelin Travels 456 Miles
Without a Stop.
Berlin, June 1. Count Zeppelin,
whose remarkable performance in his
first airship brought unbounded honor
to the inventor, accomplished today
the most striking feat in his career.
He guided his Zeppelin II from
Friedrichshafen to Bitterfeldt, a dis
tance of more than 456 miles without
landing. The journey lasted nearly 22
hours, and, so far as known tonight,
Count Zepelin is still in the air on his
return journey to Friedrichshafen.
He has already beaten all records for
dirigible baloons, with the opportunity
of greatly improving the performance.
It was announced that the count would
come to Berlin and land at the Tempel-
hof parade ground. Hundreds of thou
sands gathered there this afternon.
The emperor and empress, several of
the princes and the leading officials and
officers were present. Toward even
ing searchlights were set at work in
anticipation of the approach of the air
ship. Soldiers kept an enormous space
clear until half-past 10 at night, when
a dispatch from Bitterfeldt announced
that the airship was returning to the
starting place at Friedrichshafen,
which caused intense disappointment.
Thirty People Rescued.
Port Townsend, June 1. The large
launch Skidoo, with 30 people drift
ing helpless in the Pacific ocean be
cause of the breaking down of her en
gines, was rescued today by the life-
Baving power-boat Audacious, and
towed to Neah bay. The Skidoo is a
fish-buying boat owned in Anacortes,
which cruisps near the entrance of the
Straits of Fuca. Today she was out
with an excursoin party of Anarcortea
people, came disabled and would have
gone down with all on board but for the
Audacious.
Removal to be Opposed.
Indianapolis, June 1. Delavan
Smith and Charles R. Williams, own
ers of the Indianapolis News, charged
with criminal libel in having pub
lished articles alleged to have inti
mated corruption in the purchase of
the Panama canal zone by the United
States eovernment, will appear before
Judge Anderson in the United States
district court in this city next Tuesday
to oppose the removal for trial to the
District of Columbia.
Onions Prolong Life?
Bellefontaine. O.. June 1. Mrs. Re
becca Burns, who asserted that when
a child she saw George Washington,
die i here at the age of 111. She at
tributed her longevity to eating onions
twice each day.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
BENSON FILLS PLACES.
Governor Gives Out Appointive Jobs
Made by Last Legislature.
Salem Governor Benson has filled
by appointment the positions created
by the new laws which went into effect
May 22.
Judge Fifth judicial district -J. A.
Eakin, of Astoria.
Members of the tuberculosis commis
sionA. L. Mills, Multnomah county,
four years; R. A. Booth, Lane county,
four years ; George F. Rodgers, Marion
county, two years; Leslie Butler, Hood
River county, two years. The govern
or of the state and the president and
secretary of the state board of health
are ex-officio members of this commis
sion. Crater lake road commission H. D.
Norton, Grants Pass ; Dr. J. M. Keene,
J. E. Enyart, Medford; E. V. Carter,
Ashland; George T. Baldwin, L. F.
Willits, Klamath Falls; C. S. Jack
son, Portland.
Board of commissioners First Central
Oregon Agricultural society (two-year
terms) J. H. Gray and T. H. Lafol
lette, Crook county.
Directors Yamhill County Fair asso
ciation (two-year terms) Mrs. Ir.ez
Butt, H. F. Wilson and Milton Potter,
Yamhill county.
Directors Linn County Fair associa
tion (two years) D. H. Bodine, G. G.
Belts, I. A. Munkers, Linn county.
National Irrigation Committee Hearing
Klamath Falls Landowners under
the Klamath project will be given a
hearing when the irrigation committee
comes here on its tour of inspection.
Word has been received from Senator
Carter, chairman, that the committee
will arrive in Klamath Falls October
12. Senator Carter states that it is
desired that the Water Users' associa
tion hold a series of meetings for the
purpose of determining the questions
to be taken up with the ccommittee.
The subjects are to be presented in
writing. It is likely that this matter
will be taken up by the association at
their annual meeting which occurs
early in June.
Umatilla Not Discouraging.
Pendleton Weather conditions con
tinue discouraging to Umatilla wheat
growers. With no rain for several
days, and continuance of cold weather,
crops are not progressing as fast as
they should. They are still in at least
an average condition, largely due to the
fact that they were pushed forward by
a favorable winter followed by an early
spring. Grain on lighter lands is in
need of rain while crops on heavier
wheat lands could easily stand the
drouth for a longer period. Warm rain
followed by real spring weather is the
thing that Umatilla wheat growers
most want to see at this time.
Fruit Prospects Good.
Eugene There has been no rainfall
in this vicinity for over a week and
crops are badly in need of moisture, al
though rains of two weeks ago were
very beneficial and saved the spring
grain from bad failure. Fall sown
grain is in fair shape, but a good rain
would help it materially. Indications
point to not more than three fourths
of a crop. Fruit men say the outlook
for all varieties of fruit is good despite
heavy late frosts. " Prunes which were
badly damaged seem to be much better
than reported.
Sheep Season Ending.
Heppner The sheep and wool traffic
in this section of the state is fast draw
ing to a close. This spring has been a
prosperous season for the sheepmen,
and if there is plenty of late rain to
produce summer range the year will go
down as a record breaker. Nearly all
of the growers have sold their wool and
delivered their spring turn-off of sheep.
They have had an ideal spring for rais
ing lambs and their loss from shearing
has been slight.
No Road to Coos Bay Soon.
Marshfield Warren P. Reed, of
Gardiner, who had charge of the mate
rial the Southern Pacific had stored
along the Umpqua river for railroad
construction, has been awarded the con
tract for moving about 2,000 tons of
cement to Portland and San Francisco.
The cement was stored along the Ump
qua river nearly three years ago, when
the Southern Pacific was actively work
ing on the Drain-Coos bay branch.
Oakland Ships Sheep.
Oakland Five carloads of sheep and
lambs have left out from Oakland for
the Portland market and the first car
load of cattle shipped from this point
for the season will go to Portland.
During the past week seven carloads
of wool, aggregating 120,000 pounds,
have been shipped from Oakland, net
ting the growers an average of 24c per
pound.
Sunshine Badly Needed.
Union No rain has fallen in the
Grand Ronde valley during the past
week. Crop conditions are good but
two weeks of warm sunshine would
benefit greatly. Crops are backward
on account of cool, cloudy weather dur
ing the past two weeks. Farmers are
anxious for rain as the ground is get
ting dry.
Fifteen Thousand for Depot.
Klamath Falls The directors of the
Klamath chamber of commerce have
been advised by the chief engineer of
the Southern Pacific that not less than
$15,000 will be expended in the erec
tion of a depot in this city.
BOARD OF REGENTS MEET.
Arrange for Expenditure of Agricul
tural College Appropriation.
Corvallis The board of regents of
the Oregon Agricultural college held a
two days' session last week. The
meeting was a special one, called to
arrange for the expenditure of the ap
propriation made at the last session of
the legislature and to pass upon other
matters of administration.
The college budget, providing for
several additional instructors and for
new equipment, was passed upon, and
the committees on building were in
structed to take steps looking to the
construction of the new buildings pro
vided for by the state appropriation.
The question of the location of the
new experiment station for dry farm
ing came up for consideration, but final
action in the matter was postponed un
til the July meeting in order that the
board might make further investiga
tions. Frank Davy and Judge Miller,
of Burns, appeared before the board
and urged that the station be located
in Harney county.
The resignation of Miss Grace Gatch,
daughter of ex-President Gatch, was
accepted. C. C. Vincent was granted
a leave of absence for a year, in order
to permit him to pursue post graduate
work at Cornell university. Bert Pilk
ington, of Portland, a graduate of the
college, was employed as assistant sta
tion chemist.
Fire Protection Assured.
Salem At a special meeting of the
board of trustees of the asylum held
last week at the office of the governor,
the Pacific Fire Extinguisher company
was awarded the contract for installing
an automatic sprinkling system in the
asylum for $9,962.75. A. G. Long &
Co., of Portland, were given an order
for 12 patrol extinguishers at $13
each, and the Graham Rubber com
pany 42 sentry extinguishers at $7.95
each.
Alfalfa Harvest On.
Grants Pass Weather remains dry
in Josephine county, with north winds
unusually cold for this season. Ther
mometer drops below 35 every night.
Garden plants, berries and all fruits
are making slow growth. The first
crop of alfalfa is now ready to cut, but
on account of dry weather is not heavy
and except where irrigated, no second
crop will be produced. Rain and
warmer weather were never more bad
ly needed in this section.
Grain Coming on Well.
Albany Crop conditions in Linn
county are very much improved owing
to cool, cloudy weather, although no
rain has fallen in the past few days.
Fall grain looks well, spring grain is
improving and will come out in good
shape if rain falls in the next week.
Early strawberries were injured by
frosts. , Other fruits will have average
crop except prunes and pears.
Cloudy Weather Helps.
Salem Farmers in Polk and Marion
counties are still in dire need of rain.
The weather has been cold and for the
most part cloudy but the grain and
fruit need more moisture. Danger of
frost is entirely past. The prune crop
will be heavy. Lack of warm sunshine
holds strawberries back.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.30
1.35; club, $1.20(31.22; valley, $1.17.
Corn Whole, $35 per ton ; cracked,
$36.
Barley Feed, $35 per ton.
Oats No.- 1 white, $40.5041 ptr
ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14(318 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $18
(320; clover, $11(312; alfalfa, $13(77
14; grain hay, $13(314; cheat, $14(3
14.50; vetch, $14(314.50.
Fruits Apples, $1(32.50 per box;
strawberries, Oregon, $2.25(34.20 per
crate.
Potatoes $1.75(32 per hundred.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.25 per sack;
carrots, $1.25; parsnips, $1.50; beets,
$1.75; horseradish, 10c per pound; as
paragus, 712c per pound; lettuce,
head, 25tf75c per dozen; onions, 12(3
15c per dozen; radishes, 15c per dozen;
rhubarb, 2f(33c per pound.
Butter City creamery, extras, 28c;
fancy outside .creamery, 26J(328c;
store, 18c. Butter fat prices average
1 Js cent per pound under regular but
ter prices.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 23324c.
Poultry Hens, 15fr'16c; broilers,
28(330c; fryers, 220 25c; roosters,
10c; ducks, 14(3,15c; geese, 10(311c;
turkeys, 20c; squabs, $2.50(T3 per
dozen.
Pork Fancy, 10c per pound.
Veal Extras, 8c per pound; ordi
nary, 7c; heavy, 6c.
Hops 1909 contracts, 10c; 1908
crop, 8(38 14c; 19UY crop, 4c; iUb
crop, l4c
Wool Eastern Oregon, 17(322c;
valley, fine, 25c; medium, 23c; coarse,
21c; mohair, choice, 24(325c.
Cattle Steers, top, $5.25(35.50;
fair to good, $4.755; common to
good, $4(34.50; cows, top, $4.25(3
4.50; fair to good, $3.75(34.25; com
mon to medium, $2.50(33.50; calves,
top, $5(35.50: heavy, $3.50(34; bull?
and stags, $3(33.50; common, $2(S
2.75.
Hogs Best, $7.50(37.75; fair to
good, $7.25(37.50; stockers, $6(36.60;
China fats. $6.75(37
Sheep Top wethers, $4(34.50; fair
to good, $3.50(34; ewes, c less on
all grades; yearlings, best, $4.50; fair
to good, $4(3,4.25; spring lambs, $53
5.50.
GREAT FAIR IS READY.
President Taft Will Press Solid Gold
Key at Noon June I.
Seattle, Wash., May 31. When
President W. H. Taft presses the gol
den key in the White House at noon,
Pacific Coast time, June 1, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition will be
opened, complete in every detail.
Officers of the fair have made good
their promise of preparedness on open
ing day and during the last week there
has been a rush night and day to have
the exhibits in order. The finishing
touches were put on the grounds early
this week.
President Taft will use a telegraph
er's key, made from the first gold
taken from the Klondike, and set with
the identical nuggets taken out by the
discoverer of the Northern Eldorado,
August k16, 1896. The key has been
mounted on a slab of Alaska marble,
and was presented to the President of
the United States by George W. Car
mack, discoverer of the Klondike gold
fields.
' The opening program at the exposi
tion grounds will begin at 9 :30 o'clock
with a parade of United States army
troops, mariners and sailors from the
Pacific cruiser fleet and from the Jap
anese warships under Vice-Admiral
Ijichi. Col. T. C. Woodbury, U. S.
A., acting commander of the Depart
ment of the Columbia, will be grand
marshal. His chief aide will be Cap
tain A. M. Weatherill, U. S. A., who
has been assigned to the exposition by
the war department. The marching
soldiers and sailors will be reviewed
by the American and Japanese ad
mirals and the visiting governors at
the head of the court of honor.
The exercises at the natural amphi
theater will begin at 10:45 o'clock,
with an overture by Innes' band. The
invocation will be offered by Bishop
Edward O'Dea, of Seattle. A short
address will be given by Director-General
I. A. Nadeau, and the band will
play "Gloria Washington," the official
march of the exposition. James J.
Hill will deliver the opening address.
He will be followed by J. E. Chilberg,
president of the Exposition. Bishop
E. W. Keator, of Olympia, will pro
nounce the benediction.
The program at the amphitheater
will be timed to close at noon, at
which hour President Chilberg will
signal the president of the United
States that the fair is ready. There
will be an exchange of messages, after
which the signal will be given from
the White House which will start
whistles blowing in all parts of the
city.
Flags "will be run up on all of the
buildings and the artillery companies
will fire a national salute.
WHEAT PANIC CLOSED.
Patten F(xes Price at SI. 34 and Re
fuses to Send it Higher,
Chicago, May 31. May wheat
walked out of the pit of the Chicago
Board of Trade today with head up,
firm step and not a sign of wavering
anywhere the second time in the
history of the board when Ja wheat
corner was carried through successfully
to the final day of the option. The
only other successful deal was that in
September wheat conducted by B. P.
Hutchinson, more than 20 years ago,
when the price touched $2.
Opening at $1.34, which was a cent
higher than the close of yesterday, the
market remained steady during the
trading hours, finally closing at the
opening price. Mr. Patten's brokers
stood ready all morning to sell to any
one who wanted to buy at the quoted
price, and they also stood ready to buy
from any who wanted to sell at that
price. It is estimated that the trading
in the option amounted to about 150,
000 bushels. .
It is believed that Mr. Patten has
about 6,000,000 bushels of cash wheat
on hand to dispose of. Experts say
that, owing to the recognized scarcity
of milling wheat, he will be able to
sell his possessions at prices ranging
from $1.25 to today's closing quota
tions. It is said that within the last
few days local millers have paid from
1 to 2 cents above the May price to get
milling wheat.
Draw French Capital.
Paris. Mav 31. Morcan. Haries &
Co. have formed a syndicate for intro
ducing the common shares of the
United States Steel corporation on the
Paris Bourse. The news has not yet
been made public here, but it is ex
pected that it will create a sensation.
In financial circles the matter ia re
garded as of far-reaching influence.
Vnr vpnrn American hankera have been
- - j
knockintr at the door of the Paria ex
change in order to draw on the enor
mous surplus represented by the sav
ings of the French investors.
Barred by Garlic on Breath.
' Chicago, May 31. A man has no
right to go to a theater if his breath
reeks with the odor of garlic and the
management has a right to exclude
him. This was the decision of Muni
cipal Judge Heap today in the case of
James La Mantia against Susanna
Lange, proprietor of a nickel theater.
La Mantia asked $700 damages. Tes
timony showed that two other Italians
visited the theater a few nights before
and were ordered out.
Strikers Steal Dynamite.
New Orleans, May 31. A dispatch
from Managua, Nicaragua, says the
strike over fruit shipments has grown
intense. Several cases of dynamite
were taken from the Lopez Mining
Company by the strikers. Many men
have been poisoned. The steamers are
all tied up to the docks and are without
crews.
BRITAIN SEEKS
NAVAL ALLIANCE
Wants United States to Guard Pacific
and She the Atlantic. ,
In Order to Maintain the Two-Power
Standard, Great Britain Proposes
That Each Nation Concentn t
FleetLeave Out Japan Austra
lia Favors Plan.
London, May 29. Overtures looking
to a naval understanding between
Great Britain and the United States
have been made by the British govern
ment through Ambassador Bryce, in
Washington. Premier Asquith had
this fact in mind when speaking re
cently in what was regarded as a cryp
tic manner of a "two-power" standard
for the British navy. The premier
hopes that such an understanding may
be reached with the American govern
ment as shall enable Great Britain al
most to denude the Pacific of British
warships of a formidable class in re
turn for giving America certain assur
ances respecting the naval situation in
the Atlantic.
The suggestions made by Mr. As
quith through Ambassador Bryce fol
low the lines lately laid down in an ar
ticle by Captain Mahan on the naval,
position which has attracted wide at
tention in authoritative circles in Eng
land. The British cabinet feels that
only an understanding with America
can enable Great Britain to maintain a
two-power standard in Europe.
"If the Americans will look after our
interests in the Pacific," said a respon
sible naval authority this afternoon
"we will take care of all American in
terests in the Atlantic and Mediterra
nean. We recognize the difficulty or
inducing America to break with the
tradition of not entering into entangl
ing alliances, but we are not without a.
hope that the situation in the Pacific
may lead the authorities in Washington
to think favorably of a proposal which
would admit of their concentrating the
American naval strength in that ocean"
The British government is inclined
to seek a naval understanding with the
United States on account of the possi
bility of Japan's declining to renew
the Anglo-Japanese alliance when it
expires. Australians never cease to
urge the mother land to separate its
policy from that of Japan in the Paci
fic, and try to unite the strength of the
English-speaking race in that part of
the world.
SMUGGLING PLOT UNEARTHED.
Federal Officers at Chicago Arrest
Leaders of Scheme.
Chicago, May 29. Government pros
ecution of eight alleged leaders of a
gigantic Chicago smuggling syndicate,
and the proposed arrest and indictment
of others was outlined today by United
States District Attorney Syms. Seven
hundred Chinamen are alleged to have
smuggled into the United States over
the Mexican border by the syndicate
during the past 12 months, being se
creted in dining cars by cooks and port
ers on through trains.
Immigration authorities caused in
dictments to be voted by the grand jury
for the Chicago district for the follow
ing: Bob Lung, El Paso, Texas, a rich
Chinaman, restaurant owner and finan
cier, in whose kitchen plans for carry
ing on the smuggling scheme were
formulated, now locked up in the Cook
county jail pending trial; Robert W.
Stephenson, a former railroad brake
man, El Paso, Texas, now in jail here
in default of $5,000 bail; Carlos Save
dra, a Mexican, alleged to be the chief
smuggler; Jose Parra, Mexican; Sam
Wah, alleged agent for the Chicago
office of the syndicate; W. H. Clark,
Lincoln, Neb., under arrest at El Paso,
and Chin Yin Qual, an alleged agent of
the syndicate.
Forest Fires in Michigan.
Negaunee, Mich., May 29. Forest
fires are raging in this section of the
upper peninsula and reports from Dal
ton say the town has been destroyed.
When the fire threatened Dalton last
night a special train was ordered and
the inhabitants, with as much of their
possessions as they could carry away,
"vere taken to a place of safety. Many
iishing and camping parties in the
woods are in great danger, and their
fate will probably be unknown for sev
eral days. No rain has fallen in this
district for several weeks.
May Take Taft to Alaska.
Puget Sound Navy Yard, Wash.,
May 29. It is rumored here that the
cruiser St. Louis, which is making
ready to go to sea early next month,
will take President Taft and his party
to Alaska this summer. The destina
tion of the St. Louis is not officially
known. A draft of 70 men was rej
ceived yesterday from the cruiser Mil
waukee. A like number of men were
transferred from the cruiser Maryland,
which came from San Francisco.
Floods Mississippi.
Jackson, Miss., May 29. The town
of Quitman is submerged as the result
of a flood. All business is suspended
and the residents have been forced into
the upper parts of their houses. Some
have had to move out entirely. The
loss from high water is heavy through
out the state. Miles of railroad tracks
have been destroyed and the loss to the
railroads is estimated at $1,000,000.