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WIGS OF THE WEEK
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Current Events of Interest Gathered
From Die World at Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Arguments have been concluded in
the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy.
Trouble is brewing over German in
vasion of the financial field in Persia.
British politicians are much worked
up over proposed changes in the cor
onation oath.
The bond issue to build the Lake
Washington canal at Seattle has been
declared invalid.
A great grand-daughter of the great
Kentuckv hunter. Daniel Boone, died
at Tualatin, Oregon.
A jealous dog in San Francisco near-
lv killed his mistress when he saw her
petting a sick chicken.
A Newport, Ore., man committed
suicide by allowing the tide to carry
him out to sea on a small raft.
French Scientist Perfects Apparatus
to Take Photographs by Wire
Paris, May 30. Television, the
science of seeing hundreds of miles by
the means of a telegraph wire, is
step nearer realizaion.
Edouard Belin, a young French
scientist, has perfected and soon will
test publicly an apparatus which act
ually, it is said, will take a picture
telegraphically. Thus the image of
person or article before an objective
lens in New York would appear prac
tically instantaneously on a negative
in San Francisco at the other end of
the line.
About two years ago, it will be re
membered, a German professor named
Korn interested the scientific world by
exhibiting photographs telegraphically,
Pictures obtained ; were imperfect,
however, and showed practically no de-
tails.
M. Belin, following Professor Korn'i
lead, has perfected telephotographic
apparatus in which the senate commit
tee on posts and telegraphs is much in
terested.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE i
SUGAR WEIGHERS CONFESS.
1,002 FAMILIES EXILED.
Russain Hebrews Receive Notification
to Quit Kiev,
Kiev, May 30. One thousand and
two Jewish families have now received
notification that they must leave the
city in accordance with the determina
tion of the Russian government to
rhinPSA re nrntestine- against the drive bacic into the pale all Hebrews
acceptance of foreign railway .loans by who are unable to establish their legal
communications written in their own ngnt 10 remain
blood.
About 250 persons in Fort Collins,
Wyoming, were made sick by ptomaine
poisoniner from eating ice cream at a
banquet.
Business men in Georgia offer to pay
the president's traveling expenses on
his Southern trip, over which congress
is wrangling.
State Senator D. W. Holtslaw, of
Illinois, has confessed that Senator
Broderick paid him $2,500 to vote for
Lorimer for U. S. senator.
Two young women have gone into
camp near Middletown. Cal., and be
gun peeling tan bark. They do nearly
as much work as the men and say it is
better than idleness.
James A. Patton lost about $1,200,
000 in one day speculating in wheat.
Census figures show the average sal
ary of ministers to be about $663 per
year.
A Colorado cowboy carried his
outside its confines.
This number includes 60 families to
whom notices of expulsion were sent
today.
An additional 193 families living in
the suburbs outside the city proper are
subject to deportation before June 1
unless in the meantime they produce
proofs of their right of residence in
their present sites.
It is impossible to get statistics
showing the number of those already
expelled. Even the Jewish Relief
committee is unable to state the exact
figures, but the committee estimates
that between 200 and 300 Jewish fam
ilies have left the city.
WAR PLANS ARE HURRIED.
Conflct Appears Inevitable Between
Ecuador and Peru.
Washington, May 30. Official dis
patches received at the State depart-.
ment both from Lima, Peru, and
Quito, Ecuador, indicate that war-like
preparations between Peru and Ecua-
wounded partner 37 miles on horseback dor are being rapidly pushed forward,
to receive medical attention,
Thieves have stolen the Minnesota
coat of arms from the noted Hill stat
ute in the exposition grounds at Se
attle.
A French submarine was accidentally
sunk by colliding with a warship and
her entire crew of 27 men were
drowned.
Deposed Alaska officials claim their
removal was due to the Guggenheim
interests, because of activity in prose
cuting grafters.
and that a conflict seems inevitable,
In view of the fact that both Peru
and Ecuador had accepted without re
serve Secretary Knox's proposition for
the United States, Brazil and Argen
tina to mediate between these two
countries in the matter of their bound
ary dispute, the State department offi
cials are at a loss to understand their
present attitude.
It was the understanding of the offi
cials that in opening the mediation
proposition they had of necessity ac
cepted the conditions proposed by the
TIMBER OWNERS ORGANIZE.
ROADS MOVEMENT POPULAR.
Willamette Forest Fire Association
Plans to Fight Forest Fires.
Portland The Willamette Valley
Forest Fire association has been organ
ized by a number of large timber own
ers of Multnomah, Clackamas, Linn
and Marion counties. The timber own
ers of Linn and Lincoln counties are
getting together for protection against
forest fires during the coming summer.
Many
Meet-
Three Checkers Enter Pleas of Guilty
; Leaders Still Fight.
New York, May 28. The long series
of surprises in the sugarunder weighing
conspiracy trial culminated today in
the sudden closing of the prosecu
tion's case and the entering of pleas of
guilty by three of the men on trial.
These three were fellow employes of
the four checkers convicted last winter
Cooperate After Public
in in The Dalles.
The Dalles Maurice W. Eldridge,
good roads expert, sent out by the gov
ernment, and Judge Lionel R. Web- of complicity in the frauds on the Wil
ster, of the State Good Roads associa- liamsburg docks of the'American Sugar
tion, addressed a large audience here Refining company. All of them work-
on me gooa roads movement or Ore- ed under Oliver Spitzer, the dock su
gon. Mr. Eldridge's talk was illus- perintendent, also convicted and sen
trnted by stereopticon views of roads tenced to two years in the Atlanta pris-
The district organizations now being past and present, in this and foreign
formed will be subsidiary to .the Ore
gon Forest Fire association, organized
in this city some time ago along plans
similar to those adopted by the state
associations in Washington, Idaho and
Montana.
The Willamette association adopted
articles of organization and then proA highways.
countries, and of highways taken be
fore and after being properly built.
Judge Webster explained the good
roads movement organized in Portland,
and also his plan, by which counties
by a legislative act may bond thenv
selves for the building of permanent
ceeded to elect five directors as fol
lows: F. C. Knapp, E. S. Collins, C,
G. Briggs, R. S. Shaw and C. A. Mann.
The board of directors then elected
C. G. Briggs, of Holland, Briggs &
Avery, president: R. S. Shaw, of the
Curtis Lumber company, vice presi
dent, and Waldo Avery, Jr., of Hoi
land, Briggs & Avery, secretary.
The association will at once begin
enrolling membership of all timber
owners in the state and in the near fu
ture plans for patrolling and guarding
the timber will be carried 'into effect.
C. G. Briggs, as 'president of the
subsidiary organization, will have a
seat at the meetings of the state asso
ciation.
This will be the first time in the
history of the state that the timber
owners have gotten together in a sys
tematic way for the purpose
offer, the nrinciDal one beiner the im
Roosevelt says he would like to see mediate withdrawal of their armies
from the common frontier.
football rules chanee so as to ehmi
nate some of the dangers, but does not
favor abandoning the game.
Miss Mathilde Townsend, considered
the most beautiful heiress in Washing
ton, turned down several foreign counts
and married a plain American.
The "jet" of light on Halley's
comet, discovered by Harvard observ
ers, has entirely disappeared. The
comet will be visible in the West until
about June 10.
Governor Hughes of New York,'
signed the bills to enable the state to
accept the gifts of land and money
offered by Mrs. E. H. Harriman, and
others, for a park embracing the Hud
son River Palisades, and providing for
$1,500,000 bond issue by the state for
improving the land.
A strike of all union ' teamsters in
Portland seems certain on June 1.
Glenn H. Curtiss will try to fly from
Albany to New York with but one stop.
A collision between a bark and a
large steamer in the English channel
cost 22 lives.
Trouble with the wild tribes of Li
beria is at an end, the leading chiefs
having sworn allegiance to that gov
ernment. One hundred and twenty-five cases of
champagne which were a part of the
estate of Harry K. Thaw are missing
and cannot be located.
A delegation of ministers failed to
persuade the San Francisco authorities
to refuse a permit for the Jeffries
Johnson fight on July 4.
A Chicago scientist has succeeded in
isolating and studying an original ion
of electricity, and supports the "ionic
hypothesis" advanced by Faraday in
1830.
An explosion of some mysterious gas
during a chemical experiment in New
York suffocated the experimenting
chemist and seriously affected two
others who witnessed it.
Fred Kohler. "reform" police chief
of Cleveland, Ohio, appointed by May
or Tom Johnson and hailed by Roose
velt as "the country's best police
chief," has been charged with habitual
drunkenness, gross immorality, incom
petency, etc., and will likely be ousted
from office. ,
Railroads are boosting freight rates
on sugar and coffee.
Eighteen persons were hurt in a
wreck on the Southern railway in Virginia.
Rare Fossils Sought for Museum
New York, May 30. Two expedi
tions from the American Museum of
Natural History will leave New York
next week for Montana and Wyoming,
in search of dinosaurs with three horns
on each nose, and horses with four toes
to the foot. The museum scientists
hope to find specimens of both varie
ties, the party which is to search for
fossils of the Cretaceous period going
to Montana. The expedition is in
charge of Professor Barnum Brown,
and he will have three or four help
ers. A similar expedition will go to
Wyoming for researches in the evolu
tion of the horse. Two or three fossil
specimens of the eocenic age are need
ed to complete the museum s chain
showing the development of the horse
from the creature no bigger than a dog
to the swift and graceful Sysonby,
whose skeleton is one of the treasures
of the institution.
ing against the fire danger. It is ex
pected that excellent results will be
obtained. In years past thousands of
dollars' worth of timber has been de
stroyed annually by flames that have
spread from camp fires or other causes,
but with well organized patrols cover
ing the various districts, it is believed
that ravages by fire can be reduced to
insignificance.
$1,600 Per Acre Apple Land,
Hood River Ten acres on the east
sicje near Van Horn station, known
as the Gleason place, one year ago
purchased by Dr. O. C. Snyder, of Chi
cago, have been sold to Mr. J. C. How
land, of Crown Point, Indiana. He
and his mother- and Miss Smith, who
ccompanied them, will take possession
immediately. This sold for $1,600
per acre. It is in full bearing, and
one of the desirable places in the Pine
Grove district. Mr. Howland will
build him a new residence this summer
to take the place of the present home,
and will also erect an apple house to
take care of the heavy crop.
F. J. Bauham, of London, England,
purchased the M. H. Maher 10-acre
ranch just west of the Valley Christian
church for $11,000. Mr. Bauham U:kes
possession at once and will harvest the
berry crop of six acres. Mr. Maher
will remain on the place until the
berry season is over. This is one of
the attractive places in this neighbor
hood and is nearly all in orchard, most
ly trees four years old.
After the meeting he invited those
present to sign an agreement associat
ing themselves as the Wasco County
branch of the State Good Roads
sociation. About 150 availed themsel
ves of the opportunity. The ladies of
the city were well represented at the"
meeting.
Census Makes Big Gains.
Portland The census enumeration
of the State of Oregon, so far as it can
be confirmed by officers of the census
bureau, will show a population o'f 675,-
829. The net gain to the state will be
762,343.
While official figures are not obtain
able, a comparison of the totals for
each county, as gathered during the
progress of the work, with the total
school population, the votes cast for
of guard- judges of the Supreme court since the
census oi iyuu, and the vote on con
gressmen, warrants the belief that the
figures are approximately correct.
An interesting feature of the result
pertains to the total number of con
gressmen which will be awarded to the
state, and the possibility that Mult
nomah county will be declared a sepa
rate congressional district.
on, whose confession and pardon and
appearance as a government witness
was the first big sensation of the pres
ent trial.
Counsel for the three men who de
cided to give up the fight Harry W,
Walker, assistant dock superintendent.
and Jean J Voelker and James Halli
gan, Jr., checkers today withdrew
their pleas of not guilty as soon fas the
government, after introducing some
new testimony, announced that it had
closed its case. Sentence will be
passed on them later.
Alter a conference of counsel, court
was adjourned until Tuesday next,
Judge Martin denying formal motions
for the dismissal of the indictment
against the remaining three defend
ants. .
With three minor defendants elimin
ated, there remain on trial the chief of
the group, Charles R. Heike. secretary
or the American sugar Refining com
pany, and his former subordinates,
Ernest W. Gerbracht, superintendent
of the Williamsburg refinery, and
James F. Bendrnagel. the refinery
cashier.
Today's evidence consisted, for the
most part, of letters written by Heike
LOfJG FLIGHT -MADE
Glenn H. Curtiss Flies 137 Miles,
Albany to New York.
Actual Time in Flight 2 Hours
Minutes Wins $10,000 Train
Could Not Keep Up.
32
$1,500,000 BLAZE
HITS MINNEAPOLIS
Oregon Electric to Coos Bay.
Eugene Hill is preparing to extend
the Oregon Electric railroad to the
Coast by way of Eugene, in the opinion
of E. C. Roberts, a prominent business
man from Coos Bay. "I was shown
maps and plans f r an extension from
Eugene to Florence and from Florence
to Coos Bay, by M. Svarvered, presi
dent of the kugene Electric railway."
said Mr. Roberts. "Svarvered told me
the line was to connect with the Ore
gon Electric when it reached Eugene.
Young Women Peel Bark.
Middletown, Cal., May 30. Gertie
Nevins and Crystal Parriot, robust
young women of Lake county, have
taken a contract to peel tanbark and
have pitched camp on the side of
Mount St. Helens, where they are hard
at work. The young women peel as
much bark in a day as a great many
men do. They wear men's clothing,
camp alone in the mountains, at least
two miles from any other habitation,
and are leading a "strenuous life,"
with a pace that would make Roosevelt
gash for breath.
Surgeons Sew Up Gash in Heart.
Portland, May 30. Holding a liv
ing, pulsating human heart in the palm
of his hand, a surgeon at St. Vincent's
hospital deftly stitched together the
walls of a gash in its tip, waiting
tensely for every remission of the or
gan's systole and diastole movements
to take each tiny step in the pro
cess. And the operator aid it as a mat
ter of course, a thing m the day s
work, interesting, of course, but hard
jy worthy of extraordinary comment.
Improve Methods at Cannery.
Astoria The Sanborn-Cutting Pact
ing company has installed a plant that
will revolutionize the packing of sal
mon on the Columbia river and will
eventually be adopted by all the can.
neries on the river, as well as on the
entire Pacific coast.
This cannery can pack 2,000 cases in
10 hours with less expense than it
could formerly pack 800 cases, with
out having a can touched by hand after
it is first filled, with salmon and in
spected. The primary factor is the
Johnson double seamer, which puts the
top on the can and by a series of run
ways the can passes through the test
ing tanks to the retorts by a gravity
system. But one cooking is required,
the venting o'the can being eliminated
altogether, and in this way much of
the former loss of the oil is saved and
the natural flavor of the fish preserved.
The use of tissue paper in packing
around the cans has been done away
with and there will simply be a band
or label around the sides, the tops and
bottoms being polished tin, allowing
the can to be opened in the usual way.
Wallowa Pork Goes to Seattle.
Enterprise Five carloads of hogs.
weighing 112,000 pounds, were shipped
from here to Seattle the other " day.
This was the largest single shipment
of the year. The hogs, 448 in number,
were bought of the following named
farmers : Cole Brothers, W. B. For-
dice, J. H. Fordice, E. B. Carter, G.
M. Cannon, Martin & Shurman, and
William Murrill.
Oakland Livestock Shipped.
Oakland Livestock shipments from
Oakland are well under way. Five
cars of lambs and wethers from here
and two cars from Wilbur have gone
Minneapolis, May 28. Six big build
ings in the factory district south of
South Minneapolis are on fire and the
flames are spreading. A general alarm
has been sounded and St. Paul has
been asked for help. At 2 :15 this
morning the loss was already $1,500,
000.
Practically every building in the
diock Dounded by Washington avenue
and Third street and Sixth and
Seventh avenues south is burning,
Among the buildings on fire are the
Sixth Avenue hotel, the oldest hostel
ry in the city; the J. I. Case Imple
ment company, the Waterbury Imple
ment company, two threshing machine
warehouses and the Pittsburg Plate
Glass company. One man was Berious
Iy burned and may die.
The fire started in the Sixth Avenue
hotel. The wind carried the flames to
the implement companies' buildings
and into the St. Paul railroad yards.
ESTRADA'S ARMY. IS ROUTED.
End of Revolution in Nicaragua Seen
in Easy Won' Battle,
Bluefields, Nicaragua, May 28. The
government forces under cover of the
fire of the gunboat San Jacinto, today
routed the insurgents and captured
Bluefields Bluff. This loss to . the Es-
forward to the Portland and Tacoma' trada forces probably ends the revolu-
markets. lotai shipments of wethers tion.
New York, May 31. Glenn H. Cur
tiss flew from Albany to New York
City in an aeroplane, Sunday, May
29, winning the $10,000 prize offered
by the New York World.
He covered the distance of 137 miles
in 2 hours and 32 minutes, and came to
earth as quietly and as lightly as a
pigeon. His average speed for the
distance 54.06 miles per hour sur
passes' any other record made by an
aeroplance in long-distance flight. In
its entirety, his flight perhaps eclipses
any flight man has made in heavier-than-air
machines.
The start was made from Albany at
7:03 o'clock under Weather conditions
as nearly perfect as the most fastid
ious aviator could demand. One hour
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GLENN H. CURTISS
and lambs for this season to date 8
cars. Cattle shipments will commence
in ten days.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Canada to Breed Pheasants.
Vancouver, B. C, May 30. This
summer 1,000 pheasants will be bred by
the provincial government in the Coast
district for distribution here. Hereto
fore the breeding haa been done only
by local enterprise, but now the gov
ernment has established breeding head
quarters at Chilliwack. The birds to
be raised this year are all Mongolian
pbeaaanti of the best breed.
Brick Plant Makes Good Product
Bend The first lot of brick made at
the local factory has just been taken
from the kiln, lhe clay, which is in
exhaustible in quantity, is of high
quality and makes an excellent pro
duct. The backers of the new enter
prise declare that the further down
they go the better becomes the caly,
and that their machine made brick will
be the equal of those anywhere obtain
able, and that a good permanent busi
ness will be built up here.
Federal Delay Irksome.
Klamath Falls A movement is on
foot among the large tulle land owners
on the Lower Klamath and Ewauna
lakes and along the Klamath river,
looking toward the early draining of
much of their lands. These lands
have been tied up with the govern
ment, the under the reclamation ser
vice for the past five years. The
plan of the reclamation service was to
blast out the ledge of rock at Keno,
where the rapids of the Klamath be
gins, and in this way lower the river,
draining thousands of acres.
Department Store at Fall City.
Falls City N. Siegel, of Myrtle
Creek, is preparing to erect a store
building 50x80 feet, two stories high.
Mr. Siegel will occupy the store room
with a general stock. The store will
take the place of the one recently de
stroyed by fire. .
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem, 86
087c; club, 82083c: red Russian, 80
(71,81c; valley,' 85c.
Barley Feed and brewing, $21.50
22.50 ton.
Corn Whole, $33; cracked, $34 ton.
Hay Track prices: Timothy, Wil
lamette valley, $20(5 21 per ton; East
ern Oregon, $22025; alfalfa, $16.50
17.50; grain hay, $170:18.
Oats No. 1 white, $26,500.27 ton.
Fresh Fruits Strawberries, $1,500)
2.25 per crate; apples, $1.5003 per
box; cherries, $101.50; gooseberries,
6 7c per pound.
Potatoes Carload buying prices:
Oregon, 40c per hundred; sweet pota
toes, 4c per pound.
Vegetables Artichokes, 600,75c per
dozen; asparagus, $1.250 2 per box;
head lettuce, 500 60c per dozen; hot
house lettuce, 5Oc0$l per box; green
onions, 15c per dozen; radishes, 15
20c; rhubarb, 2M03!c per pound;
spinach, 8010c; rutabagas, $1,250
1.50 per sack; carrots, 85c(3$l; beets,
$1.50; parsnips, 75cw$l.
Onions Oregon, $2 per hundred;
red, $1.75 per sack.
Butter City creamery, extras, 29c
per pound; fancy outside creamery, 28
0,29c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices
average ljc per pound under regular
butter prices.
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, 230,24c
per dozen.
Pork Fancy, 12012c per pund.
Veal Fancy, lO's'ffillc per pound.
Lambs Fancy, 9012c per pound.
Poutry Hens, 18019c; broilers, 27
0 30c; ducks, 180 25c; geese, 12!2'c;
turkeys, live, 20022c; dressed, 25c;
squabs, $3 per dozen.
Cattle Heel steers, nay led, good to
choice, $5.750 6; fair to medium, $50
5.50; cows and heifers, good to choice,
$505.50? fair to medium, $4.250 4.75;
bulls, $3.5004.25; stags, $4.5005;
calves, light, $60,7; heavy, $4,500
5.50.
Hogs Top, $10.23010.50; fair to
medium, $9.2509.55.
Sheep Best wethers, $40 4.25; fair
to good, $3.500 4; best ewes, $3,250
3.50; lambs, choice, $607; fair, $30 6.
Hope 1909 crop, 12015c per pound;
olds, nominal; 1910 contractu, nominal.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 14017c per
pound; valley, 16(g 18c; mohair, choice,
32033c
This morning at 3 o'clock the Ma-
driz gunboat San Jacinto began bom
barding the bluff, the troops landing
under cover of her guns. There was
only slight fighting, however, until 6
o'clock, when the Madriz forces sua
ceeded in taking the position of the
enemy and the bluff.
i he tstrada troops were under com
mand of General Zeledon. The force
of Madriz in the engagement is esti
mated at 500, and that of Estrada at
200.
The Estrada gunboats Blanca and
Ometepe escaped up the.Escondido riV'
er,
The government generals, Lara and
Chavarria, have not yet attacked
Rama, which is in the hands of the
revolutionists.
General Estrada takes his defeat at
Bluefields calmly. He says he intends
to make further resistance. No dam
age has yet been done to American
property here,
Two Killed on Way to Fight.
Salida, Kan., May 28. A desire to
see the Jeffries-Johnson prizefight cost
the lives of John Banks and Clarence
Bloominger, each 17 years old, and
caused Clarence Dishman and Alva
Netherton, each 18 years old, to sus
tain serious injuries here tonight.
While beating their way toward San
Francisco on a Missouri Pacific
freight train, the boys were caught in
a wreck. "We are going to beat our
way to the Coast and see the big fight
on July 4," was the message the boys
left for their parents when they left.
Conscription for English Army.
London, May 28. Intense resent
ment has been caused in Liberal circles
by the revelation that a movement is
on foot to exploit a mood of the nation,
resulting from the death of King Ed
ward, in the interests of conscription.
The proposal is that the national me'
morial to Edward VII shall take the
form of a voluntary demand by the peo
ple for universal military service. It
is argued by promoters that universal
military service is not conscription.
Japs' Friends Boycotted.
San Bernardino, Cal., May 28. A
Sovcott was declared today by the San
Bernardino county building trades
council on all merchants and business
men of this city, Redlands and River
side, who employ Japanese or other
Asiatic labor. The council represents
several hundred workmen.
and 23 minutes later Curtiss made hia
first stop near Poughkeepsie, where
there was an. hour's intermission. Re
suming hia flight at 9 :26, he sped
southward, and landed within th
boundary of Manhattan Island at 10:35.
Paulhan's flight from London to
Manchester, 86 miles, exceeded the
Curtiss feat for distance, but not in
speed or in danger. The Frenchman's
average was 44.3 miles an hour and
below him lay English meadow land.
Curtiss followed the winding course of
the historic Hudson, with jutting head
lands, wooded slopes and treacheroua
palisades. He swung high over the
great bridge at Poughkeepsie, dipped
at times within 50 feet of the river's
broad surface, and jockeyed like a fal
con at the turns.
Only once did his craft show sicrns
of rebell ion. This was off Storm Kinor.
near West Point, when, at a height of
nearly 1,000 feet a treacherous gust
struck his planes. The machine drop
ped 40 feet and tilted perilously, but
Curtiss kept his head and by adriot
manipulation restored the equilibrium
of the machine.
With his eyes and brain cleared of
the cobwebs of sleep, he went with his
mechanician and a handful of specta
tors to Van Rennselaer Island, in the
Hudson, three miles soutn of Albany,
where he was to start. Waiting at the
river brink was a special train charter
ed by the New York Times for Mrs.
Curtiss and her party. From the train
they could not see the actual start, but
those on the island witnessed a re
markable scene.
With the signal that Curtiss was off.
the special train of five cars and a lo
comotive gathered impetus and sought
to follow. But so quickly had he flown
that for 21 miles the locomotive, run
ning nearly a mile a minute, was un
able to catch up.
Grain Fields Fire Swept.
Chico,- Cal., May 31. News haa
been received here of the first serious
grain fire of the season, in Butte coun- ,
ty. It occurred 10 miles south of
Chico, on the farm of E. Davis and ad
joining plaees, and burned over 800
acres of ripe grain, worth about $40.-
000. Some of the grain was insured.
Scores of farmers fought the flames
for six hours before its progress waa
stopped. Many men were overcome
by the intense heat and smoke and had
to be carried from the fire, which trav
eled almost as fast as a man could run.
Rice is Higher in China.
Amoy, China, May 31. The price
of rice haa risen 50 per cent and the
poor are unable to buy food. As a
consequence of this a demonstration
took place at Changrhow.
Owing to the practical failure of the
rice crop in certain of the interior
provinces this year, an almost prohibi
tive price already prevails for the cer
eal. A further advance means famine
conditions among the teeming coolies,
whose principal article of food is rice.
Bear Lassoed From Auto.
Cody, Wyo., Ma 31. When a big
brown bear paused to look at an auto
mobile near the ranch of G. C. Rude
son at the foot of the Big Horn moun
tains today, Rudolph Rovingo, the cow
boy chauffeur, holding the steering
wheel with one hand, , lassoed bruin as
the car swept past him. The captive
was dragged to the Rudeson ranch and
on exhibition there, with several
bare spots on his coat.