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About Heppner gazette. (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1909)
Heppner Gazette Med 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. King Manuel, of Portugal, is to vis it King Edward, in England. A streetcar turned turtle at Denver, Briously injuring seven persons. It is said no operation is intended on Harriman until after a re9t cure. A huge sawmill burned near Clair ville, Cal. The loss is placed at $100, 000. Prince Menlik, of Abyssinia, has asked that his country be saved from England. Great Britain will turn over the Es quimalt naval station to the Canadian government. The international cup for aviation has "been awarded to Glenn H. Curtiss, an American. Count Boni de Castellane is circulat ing a rumor that be will marry Mar jorie Gould, niece of his former wife. A scandal has just been uncovered at Montreal, Can., whereby the city has been losing $500,000 a year to grafters on public works. Two persons are dead and a score in jured as the result of a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight trainon the Wabash road near Glen wood, Mo. Cholera has been taken to Holland from Eussian ports. Daniel T. Ames, the greatest hand writing expert, is dead. The American Bar association has de clared for reform in state courts. Harriman is resting at his home at Arden, N. J., but chafes under restraint of inaction. Graft is charged in connection with the cement and paint supplies for the Panama canal. Latham has beaten Paulham's record for time, speed and distance in the air ship trials at Eheims. It is rumored that David E. Thomp son, American ambassador to Mexico, has bought the Panama railroad. Thomas F. Walsh, millionaire mine owner of Colorado, has given $5000 to encourage the search for radium ore in that state. The French bark Gael, bound for Portland, was wrecked off the Austra lian coast, and only one boatload of her crew has been heard from. Moorish deserters declare that Span ish prisoners are horribly tortured and mutilated and then beheaded and their bodies flung into a hole on Mount Gu ruga. Binger Hermann may not be prose cuted, as Heney is too busy. St. Petersburg reports 39 new cases and 12 deaths from cholera in 24 hours. A negro ran amuck at Monroe, La., and wounded 39 persons, three fatally. He was finally shot. Five deaths have occurred in Ala bama from eating stale green corn. The disease is known as peliagra. Harriman has reached home, still sick and in need of further treatment, but with a mind as active as ever. Federal Judge Bean has decided that the Oregon Trunk has prior rights in Deshutes canyon, based on original sur vey maps. Woman suffrage was discussed at a meeting at O. H. P. Belmont's summer home at Newport, E. I., known as "marble house." With a delegation of 5,000 men and women the Supreme Lodge of Negro Knights of Pythias opened a four day's session in Kansas City. A steamer collision at Montevideo cost over 150 lives. Spaniards are preparing for a deci sive battle with the moors at Melilla. A steamer arrived at Antwerp from Eiga, Eussia, with five dead of cholera on board. Governor Johnson, of Minnesota, will undergo a fourth operation in Septem ber for appendicitis. The body of Lieutenant Sutton will be exhumed for examination and then buried in consecreted ground. A Federal court has overruled the Missouri Eailroad commissions rate or der and greatly curtailed its power. Daylight robbers got about $2000 worth of jewelry from a Portland resi dence which had been left alone less than an hour. The Pastors' Alliance of Atlantic City, N. J., will seek to compel the po lice judge to receive complaints of vio lations of Sunday law. Mark Koeppel, superintendent of schools of Los Angeles, says, Mrs. Long worth 's propensity for cigarette smok ing is a bad example for boys and girls and also has a demoralizing effect upon the women of this country. Boosevelt has killed a big elephant and Kermit a hippo. A company has been organized in Ban Diego, Cal., to build aeroplanes for sale. An Arizona man has built an airship in which he flew eight miles and landed aafely. A famouf inting by Mnrillo has been found in San Francisco, after be ing "lost" for 50 years. Taft confers with cabinet on inter state commerce and anti-trust laws. DEATH LIST GROWS. Tweive Hundred at Least Crowned in Mexican Flood. Monterey, Mex., Aug. 31. Twelve hundred and perhaps more people per ished Friday night and Saturday in the flood which swept a large portion of this city. Conservative estimates place the property loss at $20,000,000. Fifteen thousand people are homeless. More than 500 bodies have been recov ered. The river has fallen considerably, and while still high, the danger is over. Seventeen and a half inches of rain fell during Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The greatest loss of life occurred Saturday morning between "9 and 11 o'clock, when the large buildings on the south side of the river commenced to crumble. Many of the houses had from 100 to 200 persons on their roofs and all disappeared in the flood. In one school building 90 women and children were drowned. They had hurried to the school for safety, but the water drove them from room to room until they were all clustered in one room. wnue two priests were performing some religious rites, the walls fell and all were swallowed up in the seething waters. Thousands of persons were standing on the north bank of the river, unable to render aid to the unfortunates on the buildings on the south side, for nothing could have lived in the current of the Santa Catalina, which was half a mile wide and flowing swiftly. ATTACK POSTAL MONOPOLY French Strikers Combine to Compete With Government. Paris, Aug. 31. In a few days the French postoffice is to have an active competitor in the shape of a new co operative postal association, formed by some 150 dismissed postal servants. These, under the direction of MM. Barbut and Simonnet, the postal offi cials who took a prominent part in the recent strike, are organizing a service in all those branches of the postal bus iness not claimed as a monopoly by the postoffice. This includes the distribu tion of newspapers, circulars, samples, catalogues, etc., also the collection of accounts and debt collecting. The new association, which will start operations on Monday, is known as the "Laborieuse." It is understood already to have been promised the cus tom of some 90,000 firrris, tradesmen and private individuals, who at the present utilize the French postoffice for distribution of their trade circu lars, samples, account collecting, etc. Each of the 150 members of the "La borieuse" has subscribed a $20 share. Besides this, the association has at its disposal a working capital of $4,000. Members of the co-operation will be employed in turn in different depart ments. INVESTIGATION IS ASKED. Cunningham Denies Fraud in Alaska Coal Land Grants. Seattle, Aug. 31. C. C. Cunning ham, who represented the 33 claimants in the so-called Cunningham coal land claims in Alaska, which are being in vestigated by the government, and who was aboard the steamer Ohio when it was wrecked, returned to Seattle to day with the other survivors and de clared that the charges the claims have been illegally filed upon, and that Sec retary of the Interior Ballinger had at tempted to compel Special Agent Glives of the land office, who filed a complaint with President Taft recently to permit the issuance of patent on the claims, is absurd. "Enemies of Secretary Ballinger are in grave error in charging that he is involved in any scheme to turn over the coal lands to parties represented by me," said Mr. Cunningham. "We court the fullest investigation. I feel certain it will be found the lands have been legally filed upon. Should it be found there has been any irregu larities in filing, it will be found the entries have been made in good faith, and the errors are due to technicalities in the present law." Mr. Cunningham denied the Guggen heim and Morgan interests are backing him in his claims. Greece Grants Reforms. Athens, Aug. 31. The crisis in po litical affairs, which reached its height in the mutiny of the local garrison and the formation of a new cabinet, has subsided. A decree was published to day granting amnesty to the troops concerned in the mutiny. Among the reforms demanded by the troops were that command of the army should be entrusted to three officers of the rank of general, acting under the supreme authority of a royal prince, the other members of the royal family in the army to be treated as ordinary officers. He Seeks Jail on Wager. London, Aug. 31. A young London doctor who had just finished his'sutdies in medicine at Oxford made a wager to make a tour on foot through Switzer land and to have himself arrested in several towns for the purpose of study ing the Swiss prison condition. When he arrived in Geneva the young doctor engaged in a quarrel with a policeman. Thus he soon succeeded in having him self taken into custody. He was fined 5 francs and released. Submarine Makes Record. Provincetown, Mass., Aug. 31. A world's record for speed on the 'surface by submarines was made off here yes terday by the submarine Narwhal dur ing her contract trials. During 25 hours over an even 300 miles, the Nar whal averaged 12 knots an hour with out a stop. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE WON'T LET DREDGE GO. Coos Bay Citizens Put Up Cash and Want Work Finished. Marshfield. Coos Bay people are making a strong effort to retain the government dredge Oregon which has been at work on the harbor. Major Mc Indoe on stopping here, stated that tho dredge would be taken away before the rainy season started and this aroused the people to action and Congressman W. C. Hawley,who has been in this city, was appealed to for help. The pcoplo have subscribed $21,000 for running tho dredge and the port of Coos Bay has guaranteed $50,000 more for its main tenance. Congressman Hawley has wired to the war department, these facts, together with a protest against the removal of the dredge. It is held that tho dredge was built for use on the Oregon coast at the instigation of Coos Bay citizens and should remain here. The channel in tho upper bay has been dredged part way down, but all the shoals have not yet been re moved and if the dredge is taken away, the work started will be left in an in complete condition. The dredgings have been used to fill streets and low places in the city and without its further use portions of the city will be left un finished. It was the understanding of tho Coos Bay people that the dredge was to remain here as long as money for its maintenance was furnished. Not After Land Office. Klamath Falls. Word has been sent to the commercial organization at Lake view that the Klamath Chamber of Commerce is not indorsing the move ment to move tee iana omce to inis city. This action was taken by the lo pa organization at a meetine of the board of directors, in order to maintain the friendly trade relations existing between the two towns. Tho nhWt. in askincr for the removal of the land office from Lakeview was nnf tn hnild nn Klamath Falls and Klamath county at the expense of Lake- view, but to mane it more convenient for land owners under the Klamath re- oinmntinn nroipct to make payment or their water assessments. Under the pres ent, nnnrlirions the fees must be for warded to Lakeview, causing the water users unnecessary expense ana trouDie. Delegates to Good Roads Convention Salem. Delegates to the second an nual National Good Eoads convention, n ho fceia nt. Cleveland. Ohio. Septem ber 21 to 23, under the auspices of the American AutomoDiie Associanuu, iuc National Grange, the United States Of fice of Public Eoads and the American Eoadmakers' Association, have' been ap pointed by the governor as folows: A. J. Johnson, Corvalis; J. L. Car ter, Hood Eiver; J. H. Albert and John H. Scott, Salem; E. M. Dooley, Jr., Portland; W. G. Cole, Pendleton; II. P. Belknap, Prineville; A. T. Buxton, For est Grove; H. T. Botts, Tillamook; Morris Webber. Eoseburar. and John D. Olwel, Medford. New Railrord Along Coast. Salem. For the purpose of building a standard gauge railroad from New port through Cape Foulweather and the town of Otter Eock to a point on the Siletz river, the Newport, Otter Eock & Siletz Eailway Company has been in corporated. Articles of incorporation were filed in the office of the secretary of state this morning. The new road is capitalized for $100, 000. The incorporators are E. M. Brad ford, D. L. Kent and E. F. Baker. The corporation is endowed with power to acquire real estate and equipment and to do all things necesary to build the road from Newport to the Siletz river. Bridge Umatilla River. Pendleton. Bids for the erection of a steel bridge across the Umatilla river at Cayuse by the Federal government are now being asked for. Cayuse is a small station on the reservation about 15 miles east of Pendleton. The bridge has been needed badly for some time by ranches. It is to cost $10,000, will be 200 feet long, wide enough to accommo date the widest combine and will have a carrying capacity of 20 tons to the square foot. Water Code is Printed. Salem. Copies of the irrigation or water code passed by the last legis lature may be secured, if any single .copies remain, of the secretary of state, the state printer or the state engineer at Salem. In case the issue of single copies has been exhausted, the only means of securing the law would be to secure a copy of the session laws of 1909. Such a copy could be secured of any attorney or might be purchased of the secretary of state. Harriman Not Coming. Klamath Falls. "No, sir; Mr. Har riman is not coming to Pelican Bay," said Colonel W. II. Holnbird upon his return from the east. lie denies that there is anything to the report that plans had been made for Mr. Harriman and President Taft to meet at the Ore gon home of the railroad king. He says that all rumors that Mr. Harriman is returning from Europe to come to Ore gon for his health are groundless. Indiana Mine Starts Up. Baker City. The Indiana mine, near Medical Springs, is to begin work August 20. Miners are being gathered and the company intends to continue work indefinitely. Offices are being es tablished in this city and one of the company's officers will be in charge' while Mr. Messner, who has been with the Indiana for some time, will have general management of the work. No Drainage for Parkersville. Salem. Circuit Judge Burnett has rendered a decision knocking out the Parkersville drainage district. A bitter fight of nearly 30 years' duration has centered about the efforts of certain residents of Parkersville and vicinity to organize a drainaee district, and to day's decision probably will put an end to the feud. Parkersville is near ba- lem. STATE OF OREGON BEGIN HOP PICKING SOON. Large Yield Predicted if Weather Re mains Favorable. Salem. Local hopmen state that in a few yards hop-picking will commence this week, in some August 20 and in others on Saturday, August' 28. In about half the yards of the state pick ing will not commence until September 1, ana in the other hair of the yards on September C. There may be a few yards in which operations will not commence until September 8. Discussing the sit uation, Louis Lachmunu said: "If we have three weeks of favor able weather, the Oregon crop will be 90,000 bales. If we have 48 hours of unfavorable weather, the crop will not bo 50,000 bales. Only about 20 per cent of the growers in this state have sprayed. The sprayed yards aro in good condition. Most of the other 80 per cent are not. This 80 per cent can not stand even one day's bad weather. The 10-cent hop contract has been tho disturbinc element this year. The man with the 10-cent contract has been in different and has not sprayed. 1 shall commence picking on the first of the month." Charles Livesley estimates the crop at not to exceed 80,000 bales and says the majority of the yards will not com nience picking until September. Railroad Bonds Sold Medford. Extension of tho Pacific & Eastern railroad to the timber belt, the present terminus of which is Eagle Point, was promised when John It Allen, of New York, who is sole owner of the road, paid $77,520 for $100,000 worth Crater Lake road bonds. Since commencement of the road four years ago, many adverse circumstances and legal entanglements have resulted which have been satisfactorily adjusted, and Mr. Allen will soon be in a position to extend the road District Aid Issue Up. Marshfield. A joint meeting of the Marshfield Chamber of Commerce and Young Men's Commercial club was held to discuss the matter of the Loos isay Central Oregon & Boise railroad. A company of local people has started sur vev from here to Eoseburg. F. A Ilains, the chief engineer, reported that about $6000 had been spent, and that a good grade had been found as far as the survey has been carried. Port of Tillamook Wins. Tillamook. The election for a port of Tillamook resulted in 248 votes in favor of a port of 173 against. The two town precincts Hoquarton and Til lamook, gave a vote of 231 for and 30 aeainst. while the two country pre cincts, Fairview and South Prairie, gave 17 votes for and 143 against, which gave a majority of io votes in the four precincts. Canning Oregon Tomatoes. Eugene. The Allen cannerv will can all the tomatoes they are able to get this fall, and there are plenty of them planted. The local stock is about ex hausted, the Allen cannery not having a case in their house. The local brand is of extra fine quality and is always in demand. Tree Bears for 50 Years. Cottage Grove. Edgar King, resid ing one mile from Cottage Grove, pre sented some fine apples of the Newtown Pippin variety, grown on a tree planted 50 years ago, and not cultivated for 35 years, to Manager Uoniey, or tne com mercial club. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Track prices: New crop, blue atom 94e.: club. 88c: red Eussian. 86c: Vallev. 90c: Turkev red, 88c; 40-fold aBrley Feed, $25.5026; brewing, $26.50(a27 per ton. Oats September, $27.5028.50 per C0rn Whole, $35; cracked, $36 per ton. jray New crop; Timothy, Willamette Vallev,- $12(S)16 per ton; Eastern Ore gon, $1718- mixed, $15.50(16.50; al falfa, $13.50; clover, $1113; cheat, $1314.50. Grain Bags 6Jc each. Butter City creamery, extras, 33c; fancy outside creamery, 29(a33c per pound; store, 2122c. (Butter fat prices average lie per pound under reg ular butter prices.) Eggs Oregon rancn, canaiea, zotty 30c per dozen. Poultry Hens, 16(a16c; Springs, 16 (a)16ic; roosters, 910c; ducks, young, 14c; geesee. young, 10c; turkeys, 20c; squabs, $1.75)2 per dozen. Pork Fancy, U(a)Uic per pound. Veal Extra, 9$10c per pound. EVnafc "Fruits Annies, new. $l(o)2 per A1.7!5rffi2 per box: peaches. 50e(??$1.10 per crate; cantaloupes, $1.50 . . r s - f n - (5)2.50 per crate; piums, dasuc jer box; watermelons, l(a)lc per pound; grapes, 60c$2; casabas, $1.50 per dozen. Potatoes Oreeon, $1 per sacK; sweet potatoes, 3c per pound. olr Vegetables Turnips. 75c(7f$l per sack; carrots, $1; beets, $1.25. Unions view, i.:j it mw, v,1as TCeans. 4(3)5c: cabbaee. 1 (o!lc per pound; cauliflower, 40c(a$l per dozen; celery, 50c$l per dozen; corn, 15(n)20c per dozen; cucumbers, 10 9 nor dozen, effffnlant. 8(3)10c per faUV - I -r--i, ' - pound; lettuce, hothouse, $1 per box; onions, izh'viok i-i uui-u, j-o.o.-j, per dozen; peas, 7c per pound; peppers, Kirit nor nnund: radishes. 15c per dozen; spinacn, oc per pouuu, mjuasu, 5e; tomatoes, 85c$l. Cattle Steers, top, $4.504.60; fair to good, $4(fr$4.25; common, $3.75(5)4; cows, top, $3.40(ffi$3.65; fair to good, $3(5$3.25; common to medium, $2.50(5) $2.75; calves, top, $5(5;$5.50; heavy, $3.50$4; bulls and stags, $2.75$3.25; common, $2(5)2.50. Sheep Top wethers, $4; fair to good, $3.50(5)3.75; ewes, c less on all grades; yearlings, best, $4; fair to good, $3.50 3.75; spring lambs, $5.25(55.60. Hogs Best, $8.75; fair to good, $8(5) 8.50; stockers, $67; China fats, $7.50 8. FLOODS IN MEXICO. Raging Watert Claim a Toll of 800 Lives 15,000 Homeless. Monterey, Mex., Aug. 30. Eight hundred pereona drowned, 15,000 home less and property damage to the extent of $12,000,000 is the result of a flooi that struck the city between 11 and 12 o'clock Saturday morning. Floods have turned the small and peaceful Santa Catalina river into a dozen Niagaras. Hundreds of persons were swept away in houses in the midst of the cur rent which caught them in the night. There is one chance in a thousand that they escaped. One by one these hous es, built of adobe and stone, are col lapsing and carrying tenants to death. No train has come into Monterey for 24 hours. Railway andielegraph lines are down and many miles of track are washed away. The fate of trains and passengers is not known, but it is fear ed many persons are drowned. It is estimated that 20 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. The water works and electric light plants are out of commis sion and the streetcar wires have fallen into the streets. The Bmelters and steel plants are damaged. It is feared a pestilence will follow the flood. The poorer classes are hud dled by the thousands in the churches, hospitals, public places and city build ings, waiting for the rain to stop. PINCHOT PLAN WINS Stirring Scenes Mark Close of Con servation Congress. Seattle, Aug. 30. The first national conservation congress closed here Sat urday afternoon with a complete vic tory for GifFord Pinchot and his follow ers in the support of the Roosevelt pol icies of the conservation of natural re sources. It was a harmonious meeting until Saturday, when United States District Judge Hanford, of Seattle, brought in a minority report in which he opposed the contention of the Pinch ot men "That the water rights of the country belong to all the people and should not be granted in perpetuity to any individual or corporation." Hanford contended that "private en terprise" had been the greatest power in this country for the development of resources and pointed out that through private enterprises the resources of the East had been put into practical use, resulting in the general prosperity of the country. He argued against any change in the present policy of the government, asserting that the West ern states had entered the union under a compact that they should have the same rights as the Eastern states. Former Governor Pardee replied to Hanford in a spirited address in which he said that "private greed" instead of "private enterprise" was gobbling up the public domain. When the vote was taken it was shown that the Han ford resolution had been lost and the Pinchot resolution was adopted. GREAT WEST SHOW. Reclamation Work to Be Exhibited on Circus Lines. Chicago, Aug. 30. Amazing, thrill ing, stupendous ! Uncle Sam's $50,- 000 production, the greatest Far West show in the world, is coming. You can't afford to miss it. Heralded by some such modest an nouncement at a dozen state and coun ty fairs, and equipped with a black tent, glittering posters, fluttering ban ners, a corps of "barkers," a tent dis play of American agricultural great ness in unclaimed lands will tour the country. The tent is black so the stereopticon views may be given. Moving pictures of animal and range life on the former arid- plains will be offered hourly for the education of intending West bound emigrants. Specimens of fruit, cereals and other products that show the mar vels of irrigation are to form a feature of the exhibition. The '"show" emanates from th Chi cago reclamation office. Its purpose is to direct attention to the richness of the reclaimed regions. A railroad coach will transport the show. It will exhibit at the following places: Iowa state fair, Des Moines, Septem ber 3; Hamline, Minn., September 6 toll; Wisconsin state fair, Milwau kee, September 13 to 17; Illinois state fair, Springfield, October 1 to 9. Japan to Take Part. Tokio, Aug. 30. It has been official ly announced that the armored cruiser Idzuma will sail September 15 for San Francisco to take part in. the naval pageant during the celebration of Por- tola s discovery of the dolden Gate, which will be held October 19 to 23 The vessel is under command of Cap tain Takesyma, and has on board as one of its minor officers Prince Shimad zu. The date ef arrival at San Fran cisco is set for October 14. After the celebration the cruiser will visit Pacific coast ports. Close Texas Saloons, Galveston, Tex., Aug. 30. Acting upon instructions from Governor Camp bell, evidence against 3,000 saloon keepers has been filed with the state comptroller, which will prevent them from securing renewal of their licenses. The new law makes this provisions. The rangers or state police got the evi dence without the knowledge of the municipal police. Governor Campbell is not a prohibitionists, but he says the saloon men must toe the mark. Louisiana Town Destroyed. New Orleans, Aug. 30. The town of New Iberia, La., with 7,000 inhabi tants, is reported as being destroyed by Are today. No communication with the town is possible and details are meager. It is reported that no fatali ties have occurred. SURGEON'S KNIFE K)R HARRIMAN Though Family Guards Secret Well Signs Are Unmistakable. Oxygen Tanks, Cot and Great Spe cialist Arrive at Arden Family la Optimistic and Superintendent of EttatJ Says Wizard is Brighter and Stronger. Arden, N. Y., Aug. 28. Whatever bo F. II. Harriman 's ailment, whatever his true condition, tho public is not to know until ho anl his family de-iiJo that such cu announcement is opportune. All avenues of information were carefully guarded today, but juniors were spread broadcast that Mr. Harriman was about to bo operated upon. This supposition was strengthened by the arrival hero of two oxygen tank and a collapsibio cot such as is used in hospitals. Coincident with the arrival of these requisites to an operation came two men from New York, one of them car rying what appeared to be a black bag. of a surgeon. One of the men, It was said, was Dr. George W. Crille, of Cleve land, an eminent specialist in abdominal surgery. According to report, ho was summoned to assist Dr. W. G. Lylo of New York, who has been Mr. Harri man 's physiciau throughout his illness.. Mr. Uerry denied the operation re port and said Dr. Lylo was tho only physician in attendance. A. C. For, superintendent of llio es tate, confirmed Mr. Gerry's statements "The stories that Mr. Harriman is iu a critical condition are not founded on fact," said Mr. Ford. "Ho has a firm grip when he shakes hands and he appears brighter." The impression grows that an opera tion of somo character is to be per formed on Mr.. Harriman, but details are well-nigh impossible to obtain. FARMAN BEATS THEM ALL. Unpretentious Englishman Wins Aero plane Grand Prize. Bethany Aviation Field, Eheims, Aug 28. Henry Farman, the English avi ator, a hitherto unknown quantity in: the aviation contest, in a biplane of his. own design, broke the world's records for duration of flight and distance in a heavier-than-air machine today and won the grand prix de la Champagne the endurance test by a remarkable flight officially recorded as 180 kilometers (111.78 miles) in 3 hours 4 minutes 56 2-5 seconds. He actually covered an extra ten kilometers and remained in the air 10 minutes after 7:30 this even ing, the hour that the timekeepers, under the rules, ceased to keep a rec ord of the flight. Farman 's victory was a complete sur prise. IIo had been preparing his ma chine secretly and had not appeared' upon the field until today, except for a few practice flights, and had been al most forgotten. Indeed, after ho start ed, keeping close to the ground. while Latham and the others were soaring high in the air, Farman attracted no at tention until ho had flown 80 kilo meters. Then, suddenly, the watchers woke up only to discover that he had gone out carrying petrol enough for five hours' flight and equipped with a cool ing revolving motor. BIG TREES IN DANGER. Forest Fire in Yosemite Rapidly Ap proaching Merced Grove. Yosemite, Cal., Aug. 28. Tho for est fire which started yesterday in tho Yosemite National park is completely beyond control tonight and is sweep ing up the canyon toward the famous Merced grove of big trees. Tho flames aro within two or three miles of the grove and are being carried in that di rection. The hotel at El Torta, which was threatened during tho day, is out of danger. The fire has taken a direction at northerly right angles to tho Yosemito valley, toward tho Merced and Tu olumne big trees and the Letch Hctchy valley, whenco San Francisco's new water supply is to come. The firo start ed a few feet from El Portal station within a stone's throw of the hotel. The long grass was ignited from sparks from a locomotive fire-box and had gained uncontrollable headway before the danger was realized. Lash for Young Thug. Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 28. For beat ing a stranger into insensibility, then robbing him and leaving him without aid, Clay Beers, 21 years old, was today sentenced by Judge Mclnnes to seven years penal servitude and 10 lashes within the first 21 days ot his confine ment. The crime was committed re cently in Stanley Park and the sentence is tho first of its kind imposed in this city for robbery with violence. This is Beers' first offense, but the judge stated that such a crime had not a single re deeming feature. Almost Swims Channel. Dover, Aug. 28. Edward Hcaton, of Liverpool, came within a mile and a half of swimming the English channel today. He gave up tho attempt when within that distance of the French coast this evening. He was favored with ideal conditions. Jabez Wolffe, who started from Dov er at 4 P. M. yesterday to swim the channel to France, was compelled to give up after having covered 13 miles in eight hours. Bumper Crop in Canada. Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 28. Sydney Fisher, dominion minister of agricul ture, estimates Canada's yield of wheat for this year conservatively at 120, 000,000 bushels, and stated today upon his arrival hero that he believes there is every indication for a highly success ful season for farmers throughout tne west.