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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.
Japan has adopted a vigorous policy
against Corean insurgents.
The death roll of the recent Gulf
storm has been increased to 41.
A train struck an automobile at Me
nominee, Mich., killing an entire fam
ily of three.
One man saved his life in the recent
Galveston storm by using his cork legs
to keep him afloat.
Spain is on the verge of a verolution
because of English and clerical influ
ence over the king.
A Seattle woman has secured a di
vorce because her husband has been
too tired to work for 12 years.
Lightning struck a residence at
American Forks, Utah, four times.
One woman was killed and four other
persons hurt.
During a balloon race at Newton,
111., two of the big gas bags collided
2,000 feet in the air. One man's leg
was badly crushed.
Raphael Manco, who served in the
Crimean war, later served with "Chi
nese" General Gordon and then saw
service in the Civil war, is dead. He
had lived at Los Angeles for the past
25 years.
Premier Briand has formed a new
French cabinet.
Roosevelt is being proposed for may
or of New York.
A big forest fire is raging in the
mountains near San Bernardino, Cal.
A cloudburst in Colorado killed two
persons and did much damage to prop
erty. Premier Asquith says Britain should
be warned against tariff by American
and German experiences.
In an automobile race at Grand
Rapids, Mich., 50 miles was made in
51 minutes and 22 seconds.
The serious condition of King Peter
of Servia is arousing anxiety. His
death would cause no surprise.
A Vancouver, B. C, police magis
trate fined himself $5 and costs for
exceeding the speed limit with his au
tomobile. A Los Angeles judge in denying a
divorce in which the plaintiffs' mother
was involved said no house was big
enough for a married couple and a
mother-in-law.
The final count of dead in the Texas
storm shows a loss of 25 lives. Com
munication has been established with
all points and the property damage
will be over $1,000,000.
A Utah man has just committed sui
cide at the age of 80.
Bolivia and Peru have agreed to ar
bitrate the boundary dispute instead of
fighting.
The Six Companies have forbid mak
ing San Francisco's Chinatown a show
place for tourists.
The Italian press is greatly excited
by reports that Italians in the South
ern states are practically slaves.
Spanish troops have protested
against going to Morocco. There have
also been several riots among the peo
ple. The Chicago health commission has
decided that pasteurization of milk is
ineffective and useless, if not danger
ous. A company is being organized to in
vest $10,000,000 in steel vessels to ply
on the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway, which
the promoters consider assured.
The Bteamer Verdi has Bailed from
New York for Buenos Ayrea with $8,
000,000 in gold, the heaviest single
shipment ever made to a South Ameri
can port.
Employes of the tanneries at Keno
sha, Wis., have gone on strike for
higher wages. Trouble is feared and
state troops have been called out.
Three men have been wounded.
The entire town of Browndel, Tex.,
has been destroyed by fire.
Colorado women will run a woman
for congress two years hence.
Argentina has dismissed the Bolivian
minister and Bolivia is preparing for
war.
The Union Pacific has sold Santa Fe
stock to avoid trouble with the govern
ment. A bronze bust of James J. Hill has
just been completed and will be sent to
the Seattle fair.
Roosevelt has given up bunting for a
few days in order to write a book.
The French cabinet has resigned
After a bitter altercation with Delcasse.
Sixteen miners were killed by the
explosion of fire damp in a Prussian
mine and many others were taken out
on conscious.
Sir Robert Hart has practically de
cided to reitre from the position of di
rector general of Chinese customs on
account of ill health.
ROADBED CRUMBLES.
Train Goes Into River and Six People
Killed and 38 Hurt.
Kansas Citv. July 27. Six lives
were lost and 86 Dersons were injured,
three perhaps fatally, in the wreck of
Wabash Dasseneer train No. 4, when
it nlunced into the Missouri river 30
miles east of here.
The train left Kansas City at 9
o'clock Saturday night, and was due in
St. Louis ten hours later. Of the eight
cars that made up the train, five and
the engine are now in the river with
the water covering all of them except
one end of the Des Moines sleeper.
A deadhead Pullman, a mallear, a
baggage car, a day coach and a sleeper
followed the engine into the stream
The chair car and two Pullmans re
mained on the track.
For days flooded waters have been
undermining the roadbed, which paral
lels the river. Three hours before
the wreck a freight train of 45 loaded
cars passed the point safely. Three
hours later No. 4 started across the
same bit of track and 50 feet of the
roadbed suddenly collapsed.
The train was running 14 miles an
hour, and .the forward cars telescoped,
allowing the rear cars to stop so gradu
ally their occupants were hardly shaken
MARK TWAIN AS PILOT.
Former Steamboat Man Will Conver
President Down Mississippi.
St. Louis, Mo., July 27. When
President Taft takes his trip down the
Mississippi river from St. Louis to New
Orleans, Mark Twain, the humorist,
will act as pilot on the boat carrying
the country s chief executive.
The president's river itinerary has
been completed and includes stops at
Cape Girardeau, Caruthersville, in the
Missouri; Cairo, 111., Memphis, lenn.,
and Vicksburg, Miss.
When a president of the United
States takes a river trip, Mr. Clemens
always has been invited by the com
mittee in charge to pilot the boat. The
usual invitation was extended to Mr.
Clemens on this occasion, and his
friends, who say he has a high personal
regard for Mr. Taft, declare he will
agree to pilot Mr. Taft safely down
river.
Moors Gather in Force.
Madrid, July 27. Official dispatches
concerning the bombardment yesterday
around Melilla state that this measure
was taken to prevent the enemy from
massing. The gunboat Martin Alonzo
Pinzon assisted in the bombardment,
after which she chased, but did not
catch, two steamers suspected of carry-
ine contraband arms. The bombard
ment was resumed today. The Moors
are gathering in great force in the Riff
region. It is estimated that they now
number 20,000, and are preparing for a
concentrated attack.
. Trolley Wreck Is Fatal.
Los Angeles, July 27. One person
was killed and several were injured.
some of them seriously, tonight, when
a heavy trolley car on the Monrovia-
Los Angeles division of the raciftc
Electric line crashed into the rear end
of a car on the Pasadena Short Line, on
a curve near East Lake park. The
Short Line car was partially telescoped.
The two cars were running not more
than 300 yards apart, according to the
statements of passengers.
Bleriot Awakens English.
London, July 27. The London morn
ing newspapers publish editorials on
Bleriot's feat. A new point brought
out is its striking appeal to the imagi
nation of Englishmen that Great Brit
ain's insular strength is no longer un
challenged, that the aeroplane is not a
toy, but a possible instrument of war
fare which must be taken into account
by soldiers and statesmen and that it
was the one thing needed to wake up
the English people to the importance
of the science of aviation.
Big Four Crash Hurts 42.
Indianapolis, July 27. Forty-two
persons were injured today in the
wreck of a southbound Big Four pas
senger train at Zionsville, Ind., and all
but 76 passengers who were brought to
hospitals in this city were able to con
tinue to their destinations, ibe bag
gage car and the coaches behind it left
the track while the train was running
50 miles an hour.
Nebraska Pays Notes.
Omaha, Neb., July 27. It is evident
that the people of Nebraska did not
mind the recent panic, tor during the
year lyuo mere were n,mv iarm
mortgages paid off and cancelled, rep
resenting a value of $126,377,791, and
16,658 new farm mortgages were re
corded, representing a value of $36,
432,657, leaving a tidy balance of
about $90,000 to the credit of the
property.
Speed Test Sets Record,
Philadelphia, July 27. The battle
ship Michigan, which returned today
from ber trial trip, is reported to have
broken all speed records for a vessel of
the battleship type. The Michigan is
said to have made a fraction over 19
knots an hour. Her speed requirement
was 17 knot.
Three Lives Lost in Gulf.
Pensacola, Fla., July 27. With her
rigging damaged and her sails torn al
most to shreds, the fishing echorner
Minnie W. arrived today and reported
the loss of three of her crew in the
Gulf hurricane of last Wednesday, and
the narrow escape of two others.
Blucher's Orderly Dies.
Quincy, III., July 27. -John Leonard
Roeder, who died Saturday at the age
of 108 years, was buried today. Dur
ing the battle of Waterloo Roeder act
ed as orderly to General Blucber.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE
ELECTRIC LINE ASSURED.
Articles of Incorporation of Farmers'
Line Filed at Pendleton.
Pendleton Articles of incorporation
have been filed for the Farmers' Rail
way & Navigation company, which
proposes to build and operate an elect
trical railroad system in Umatilla
county. The first unit will be a road
between the towns of Umatilla, on the
Columbia, and Milton, in the heart of
the fruit and grain belt of the east end
of the county. The company behind
the scheme is incorporated for $250,
000, and it is announced that surveyors
are already in the field prepared to lo
cate the right of way. The county
court has also been asked for franchises
over certain roads of the county. This
organization is the result of electric
road construction by the Farmers' un
ions of the county. A. committee has
been investigating the matter for sever
al weeks. One of the men understood
to be behind the development scheme
is Dr. W. R. Campbell, one of the
prominent wheat growers of the coun
ty, and state organizer for the Farm
ers' union. The incorporators of the
scheme are: Charles A. Hill, R. O.
Earnluart, A. A. Cole. The capital
Btock of the Farmers' Railroad & Nav
igation company is divided into 2,500
shares of $100 each. In addition to
the main line of electric road from the
Columbia to the center of the wheat
belt, articles of incorporation also per
mit branch lines, the maintenance of
a fleet of steamers on the Columbia,
and construction of telegraph and tele
phone lines. This railroad project will
be in competition with one for which
articles of incoproration where filed a
week ago by Dr. C. J. Smith, A. R.
Turner and Douglas Belts, and which
proposes to construct a network of elec
tric roads throughout Umatilla county,
beginning at Pilot Rock and passing
through the new irrigation districts.'
Deschutes Land Ready to Open.
Salem After a session lasting the
greater part of two days, the desert
land board has granted the Deschutes
Irrigation & Power company authority
to open up for settlement about 2,500
acres of irrigated lands in Eastern Ore
gon. Roscoe Howard, of the Deschutes
corporation, talked to the board for two
days, and finally convinced them the
land was ready for the settler, though
the board had before decided to bold up
the tracts until a personal inspection
could be made by the members of the
desert land board in order to determine
if the land was properly irrigated un
der the terms of the agreement with
the irrigation company.
School Heads to Meet June 28.
Salem The annual convention of
county school superintendents has been
called by J. H. Ackerman, superin
tendent of public instruction, to meet
in his office Monday, June 28. Among
the topics to be considered are school
supervision, how it may be made more
effective ; school libraries, how to use
them; annual institutes, most import
ant subject to emphasize for all insti
tutes this year; school sanitation, what
has been done, what should be done ;
school board convention, value of, how
to conduct.
Honey Ready to Gather.
Ontario W. H. Pennington, the
honey grower of Ontario, has com
menced extracting this week the honey
stored in his 260 beehives. Mr. Pen
nington's honey is famed all over the
Northwest, as he ships extensively of
that commodity, and it is made of the
finest alfalfa syrup, gathered in the
immense fields surrounding Ontario
Last year Mr. Pennington shipped
more than three carloads from this
place.
Summer School Crowded.
University of Orecon. Eueene The
enrollment in the summer school of the
University of Oregon is more than
twice that of any previous year. The
registration includes teachers from all
over the state, as well as a number of
students who wish to lighten their
work for the coming year. A number
of special lectures have been engaged
from outside the state, Dr. Stuart, of
Leland Sand university, haviner charge
of the department of English literature.
Dufur Is To Advertise.
Dufur The officers of the Dufur
Valley Development league are begin
ning an advertising campaign for
homeseekers. A booklet, now in the
hands of the printer, will consist of
40 pages, and will b profusely illus
trated by photograph of the valley.
This is the first of a series of booklets.
There is as good strawberry and fruit
land here as anywhere in the state, it
is said, and this is to be advertised.
Clatskanie Sawmill Burns.
Clatskanie The Kratz & Anderson
shingle mill at Hazel Grove, one and a
half miles from here, was burned to
the ground while the manager and crew
were attending the Clatskanie celebra
tion. A spark from the sawdust pile,
which was supposed to be safely out, is
thought to have caused the damage.
The mill was constructed only last
winter and gave employment to a crew
of ten men.
Lumber Company Complains.
Salem The Bridal Veil Lumber com
pany baa complained to the state rail
road commission that the rates on lum
ber on the Mount Hood railroad are too
high. The Bridal Veil Lumber com
pany also claims that the Oregon Lum
ber company is owned by the railroad
and that this company gets much
lower rate than other shippers.
STATE OF OREGON
FINE WHEAT ON DRY LANDS.
Ontario Farmers Get Excellent Re
sults From Experiments.
Ontario Wheat on the dry farms
near Ontario is in excellent condition
this year and is expected to make a
record crop. While Malheur county
farmers do not give much attention to
wheatgrowing as a general crop, nearly
every farmer has a Bmall field, and the
past few years dry farming has come
more and more into favor on the
benches, where wheat is one of the
good crops.
This year the wheat is full, healthy
and clean. Most of it will average, it
is estimated, from 35 to 40 bushels to
the acre, and the grain stands four to
five feet high. On fields which have
been cultivated for the first time this
year it is not quite bo thick as on older
fields, but the entire average is good
There will be more wheat harvested
near Ontario this year than ever be
fore.
Dufur Harvest Begins.
Dufur. Harvest 13 now in full blast
here and the yield both in quality and
quantity is much better than was ex
pected. Until a week or bo ago thei e
had been no rain here since the middle
of February. The yield of both wheat
and barley will be better than an aver
age crop. The good yield is attributed
to the fact that there have been no hot
winds to dry the erdund and the
weather has been remarkably cool and
pleasant all spring and summer.
Cherries for Chicago Market.
Union The first large consignment
of cherries will go forward from Cove
this week when the Cove Mercantile
company will ship a straight car of
Bings to the Chicago market. The
entire car will consist of fancy packed
10- pound boxes, and it is figured the
cherries will bring $1.50 per box at
auction in Chicago, at which price the
shippers will realize $1 per box
Salary Increase in Union.
Salem Average salary paid male
teachers in Union county the past year
was $72 against $70 the year before,
according to th annual report of Su
perintendent E. E. Bragg filed in the
office of the superintendent of public
instruction. The salary of female
teachers has increased during the same
time from $30 to $53.75.
Editor Gets No-Work Job.
Salem Colonel E. Hofer will hold
his job as a member of the board of
regents of normal schools for six years
more, notwithstanding the fact tht
the board's active labors are at an end,
Governor Benson having reappointed
the Salem newspaper man to the posi
tion he has held for several years past.
Pupils Decrease in Wheeler.
Sslem According to the report of
County School Superintendent H. J.
Simmons, both the attendance and
school population of Wheeler county
are on the decrease. The attendance
last year in Wheeler county was 651,
this year it was 626. The population
a year ago was 888, this year 875.
PORTLAND MARKLTS.
Wheat Bluestem, nominal ; club,
$1.15; valley, $1:15. New crop blue
stem, $1.05; club, $1; Russian, 98c;
valley, 97c.
Corn Whole, $35 per ton ; cracked,
$36.
Oats No. 1 white, $42 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,"
$20(i22 per ton ; Eastern Oregon, $21
23; mixed, $16(??20; alfalfa, $14.
Grain baes 5c each.
Fruits Cherries, 5llc per pound;
gooseberries, 6c; peaches, 75c$1.25
per box; apricots, $l.251.50; cur
rants. 8c per pound; loganberries,
$1 251.50 crate; raspberries, $1
1.15: black caps, $1.50; watermelons,
8 0c$l hundred; blackberries, 9(310c
per pound. .
Potatos $11.75 per hundred;
new, 22Kcper pound.
Vegetables Beans, 6c; cabbage,
l(f?lcper pound; cauliflower, $1
per dozen; lettuce, head, 25c; onions,
12J6315c; peas, 57c per pound; rad
ishes, 15c per dozen.
Butter City creamery, extras, 29c ;
fancy outside creamery, 2728c; Btore,
20c. Butter fat prices average 1 c
per pound uner regular butter prices.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 27
28c per dozen.
Poultry Hens, 1414c; springs,
18319c: roosters, 9(3;l0c; ducks,
voung, ll12c; geese, young. 9)10c;
turkeys, 18c; squabs, $22.25 per
dozen.
Pork Fancy, 10llc per pound.
Veal Extras, 9c per pound; ordin
ary, 78c; heavy, 7c.
Hops 1909 contracts, 15(316c per
pound: 1908 crop, ll12c; 1907 crop,
7c: 1906 crop, 4c.
Wool Eastern Oregon. 1623c per
pound; valley, 2325c; mohair,
choice. 24(S25c
Cattle Steers, top, $4.50; fair to
good, 4(4.25; common, $3.75(?r4:
cows, top, $3.60; fair to pood, $3rf?
3.25; common to medium, $2.5(W2.7R;
calves, top, $55.50; heavy, $3.504;
bulls and stags, $2.753.25; common,
$202.50.
Hogs Best, $8.25(518.50 fair
good, $7.75(38; stockers; $6g6.50;
China fats. $6.75(37.
Sheep Top wethers. $4; fair to
good, $3.603.75; ewes, fc less on
all grades; yearlings, best, $4; fair to
good. $3.603.75; spring Iambs, $5.25
(5.35.
NORTHWEST APPLES BEST.
Bring Higher Price Than Those From
"Any Other State.
Consul General Robert P. Skinner,
writing from Hamburg, Germany, de
tails facts relating to the apple indus
try of this country as reflected in the
prices received there, and shows that
Oregon and Washington apples bring
more than those from any other states,
the scale being in comparison with the
California product as follows:
State Per 1-bushel case
Oregon, Washington .... $2.613.57
California 1.602.61
As to the possibilities of the exten
sion of the apple trade with Germany,
the report shows that in 1908 Germany
imported 164,421 tons of apples, of
which the United States supplied only
10,502 tons; in 1907 Germany import
ed 181,457 tons, the United States
sending 9,229 tons.
Germany enforces rigidly inspection
for the San Jose scale, and this pest
has been found on a number of ship
ments from the Pacific coast. Mr.
Skinner says, however, that as a rule
American apples reach Germany in
good condition. He urges that care be
exercised by all apple shippers to free
their orchards from scale and all other
pests, and then exercise constant super
vision of their employes to insure that
the fruit shall be packed so as to make
it pleasing to the eye as well as protect
it against bruising while being trans
ported. Hamburg is the great apple receiv
ing port. There, writes the consul,
honest and impartial rules of sale are
observed and the seller always receives
what is his due, the market regulations
and government inspection having been
developed in a manner to make it cer
tain that always there shall be no
crooked work or unjust rejection of
shipments.
German fruit buyers have for years
been sending their representatives to
America to look over orchards and
packing houses, and keep informed on
the conditions of the industry in all
important localities where considerable
quantities of fruit are produced. These
agents often go without making known
their identity, and thus obtain infor
mation which might otherwise be
harder to secure.
The report ofConsul General Skinner
agrees with previous reports which
have been sent to the government from
abroad that Pacific coast apples now
lead this country in all European
marts. It likewise emphasizes the
necessity of maintaining the present
high standard, in order that the high
prices now obtained may be main
tained and the apple industry reap the
large profit which has been made in
the past years.
CROP A RECORD BREAKER.
Prospects in Pacific Northwest Never
Better Than Now.
According to information received
during the past week the Pacific
Northwest will produce almost four
times as many cars of potatoes as a
year ago.
This increase is startling, even
though the comparison with the pro
duction of a year ago is not exactly a
correct showing, for the 1908 crop was
just about half of what was produced
the previous season.
During the present season the acre
age of potatoes in the Pacific North
west, but more especially in Oregon,
shows the greatest increase for one
year ever noted here. While a large
per cent of this increase was in the
Willamette valley, most of the addi
tional acreage was planted in Eastern
Oregon.
Eastern Washington and Idaho like
wise have a very heavy potato acreage
increase and the production there will
be much greater than during any pre
vious year. Western Washington had
a greater acreage of potatoes than a
year ago, but the difference in favor of
this season is not great so far as the
additional planting is concerned.
Potato crop prospects could scarcely
be improved over what they are in
Oregon, Washington and Idaho this
season, and the same is stated to be
the case in California. In Eastern
Oregon, where some of the poorest
showings were made in grain produc
tion this season, the crop of potatoes
never looked better,
In the Willamette valley, potatoes
will show better quality this year than
ever before and the sizes will be just
that which gained for this section the
reputation of growing the very best
potatoes in the entire United States.
In seasons previous to the present
one, the potato acreage and production
of Eastern Oregon, Washington and
Idaho had little, if anything, to do
with prices at Portland or San Fran
cisco, but this season each of these
sections will be a strong factor in the
market and unless all signs fail prices
will reach a lower figure than for some
seasons.
Potato prices have been so high
along the Pacific coast in recent years
that the trade can scarcely come to
think that lower prices will again be
in effect. With such a heavy increase
in acreage and a production so much
greater per acre than normal, the sup
plies will be fully as great as any de
mand would justify, and that being
the case, present out of line values will
go out of effect
Train Falls Into River.
Kansas City, Mo., July 26. At least
two persons are known to be dead, one
trainman is missing and between 25
and 30 are injured as a result of a
wreck of Wabash passenger train No.
4, 30 miles east of here tonight. The
train fell into the Missouri river, where
the track had been weakened by a land
slide. The engine, baggage car, mail
car,smoker and a dead-head sleeper,
plunged nito the water and were com
pletely submerged.
WAR OF RAILWAYS
ON IN DESCHUTES
Construction Work Begins on Rival
to Harriman Road.
Grading Equipment Rushed to The
Dalles by Porter Brothers, Build
ers of North Bank Road Hill May
Be Behind Central Oregon Line
Surely Is Not Harriman.
The Dalles, Or., July 24. Railroad
grading equipmentconsigned to Porter
Bros., contractors, was unloaded here
today, and preparations have been made
to begin in the morning transferring
the material to Sherar's bridge, on the
Deschutes river.
Work on a railroad through the Des
chutes canyon into Central Oregon will
begin immediately, and this road will
not be Harriman's, according to the
contractors.
This is regarded here as the first
move in a Titanic struggle, between
Harriman and Hill for control of the
Deschutes grade into Interior Oregon.
Johnson Porter, member of the firm
of Porter Bros., contractors, is in the
city and superintended the unloading;
of the grading equipment. Mr. Porter
will not admit that his company is
working for Mr. Hill, but insist he
is not in the employ of Mr. Harriman.
Mr. Porter is the contractor militant
who built the North Bank for Mr. Hill
in the face of Hariman's active and
sometimes forcible opposition.
In this city the supposition is that
Porter Bros, are the construction
agents of Mr. Hill.
CHICAGO GRAFT EXPOSED.
Indicted Detective Collected $9,000
a Month for Protection.
Chicago, July 24. Stories of graft,
astounding in extent and detail and
revealing conditions beyond belief,
were told to the grand jury today and
were followed by the immediate indict
ment of Detective Sergeant Jeremiah.
Griffin, of the Desplaines street police
station, known as Inspector Edward
McCann's "man Friday."
He is charged with demanding and.
accepting bribes from dive keepers,
gamblers, cocaine sellers and disrep
utable women of the West Side levee.
There are 25 counts in the true bill
voted against the sergeant, each set
ting forth a separate offense. Upward
of $9,000 a month was collected by
him from dwellers of the under world,
according to the indictment, and more
than $150,000 in all is said to have
been delivered to the Desplaines street
police excutives.
The more startling phase of the in
vestigation lies in the fact that the
trail has been rapidly followed to the
city hall, and it is now said that Mayor
Busse's confidence in some of his most,
trusted advisers has been sadly be
trayed. Similar conditions are said to exist,
in half a dozen other police precincts.
JAPAN GROWS RESTIVE.
Wants Equal Tariff Rates With Other
Nations. Washington, July 24. Japan un
doubteldy is becoming restive under
trade conditions imposed in her treaty
with the United States. This recently
was made evident when she propoEed
to this government that negotiations,
for a new treaty be begun at once, not
withstanding the fact that the present
treaty does not expire for two years.
Our trade interests in Japan, however,
are not suffering and for this and other
reasons this government did not see its
way clear to discuss the questions in
volved before the expiration of our
treaty in 1911.
Under the most favored nation clause
of the treaty, Japan extends to the
United States all the conventional
rates which it has granted to Great
Britain, Germany and France. On the
other hand, none of the reduced rates
authorized in section 3 of the Dingley
act, which were granted by the United
States Lo certain foreign countries, are
extended to Japan.
Uniform Law Proposed.
Bellingham, July 24. A special from
New Westminster says: Professor
David Starr Jordan and Professor Ed
ward E. Prince, respectively American
and Canadian members of the joint
fisheries commission, are now engaged
in examining Fraser fisheries. Profes
sor Jordan said in an interview that
when the regulations of the commis
sion are submitted they will provide
for a uniform closed season in Canada
and the United States waters. The
extent of the closed season he would
not state.
Briand Is French Premier.
Paris, July 24. M. Aristide Briand,
a Socialist deputy, minister of justice
and worship, was appointed premier
today. M. Briand announced that he
would make few, if any, changes in
the cabinet as organized by Premier
Clemenceau who resigned two days
ago, after being defeated in a heated
argument with M. Delcasse in the
chamber of deputies. Former Premier
Clemenceau announced today that he
would start next Saturday for Austria.
Big Body of Radium Found.
Lisbon, July 24. An extensive vein
of radium has been discovered in
Guards, which contains 800 pounds of
radium to every ton of ore. The mine
has been acquired by an English syndi
cate.