Heppner gazette., July 07, 1910, Image 2

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DO N6S OF THE WEEK
RAILROADS MUST PAY TAXES
Current Events of Interest Gathered
From the World at Large.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Bryan says he doesn't know whether
he will ever again run for the presi
dency or not.
Harvard university beat Yale in the
great annual boat race, before an aud
ience of 20,000.
Roosevelt says the story that he
wants Hughes to run again for gover
nor of New York is a huge fake.
Roosevelt called on Taft at Beverly
and a long visit followed, in which the
greatest cordiality was shown between
the two.
J acob Schiff, the New York banker,
with a party of friends, sailed from
Seattle for Alaska on a five week's
trip.
The Socialist governmnet of Mil
waukee, Wis., has denied licenses to
104 saloons that had not been conduct
ed properly.
The Cobb direct nomination bill was
beaten in the New York assembly.
lhis was the bill that was supported
by Koosevelt.
A man m Boulder, Colo., target
snooting with a 22-caliber revolver,
nred at the side of a warehouse con-
taming dynamite. A terrific explosion
followed, in which four persons were
killed and several injured.
With her entire family of 21 full-
blooded Cherokee Indian children, Mrs.
HjT T 1 l . .
juary ljenan, wno says ner home is
everywhere, has arrived in North Yak
ima and presented at police headquar
ters credentials from state and city au
thorities from every section of the
Union. Mrs. Lehan goes about the
country selling charms and telling
fortunes for the support of her Roose
veltian family.
John W. Daniel, senior senator from
Virginia, is dead.
Roosevelt gives his word in favor of
a direct primary law.
Seven were drowned and many are
missing as the result of a cloudburst
in Kentucky.
Archibishop Ireland justifies the ac
tion of the Vatican in the Roosevelt in
cident at Rome.
Millions of Acres Granted to Roads
to Be Surveyed.
Washington More than 12,000,000
acres of land, the unsurveyed and un
patented residue of enormous grants
made in times past to various rail
road companies, will be surveyed un
aer me provisions or a law enacted in
the closing days of the late session of
congress, and as soon as surveyed will
become subject to taxation.
Just how soon these surveys can be
made is problematical, but within a
year or 18 months, this great acreage,
scattered through ten states and terri
tories, may begin paying taxes.
The bill was recommended by Secre
tary Ballinger in his report last fall.
It provides that any railroad corpora
tion required by law to pay the costs of
surveying, selecting or conveying any
lands granted by congress, shall, with
in 90 days from demand of the secre
tary of the interior, deposit in a Unit
ed States depository to the credit of
the United States a sum sufficient to
pay the cost of surveying and convey
ing any part of the unsurveyed lands of
its grant.
Any railroad company which fails to
come forward with the money called
for by the secretary of "the interior
within the time specified shall forfeit
to the United States its unsurveved
and unpatented land, the forfeiture to
be brought about through legal pro
ceedings instituted by the attorney
general. All granted lands surveyed
under this new law are declared by
congress to become subject to taxation
by the states and municipal authorities
upon the completion of survey.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
BUILD SPUR INTO TIMBER BELT
85 Mile Contract Let on Natron-Vale
Branch Line.
Crescent Railroad activity, which
was temporarily suspended recently by
reason ol the order holding up con
struction on the south 70 miles of the
Oregon Trunk line, gives promise of
renewal in the awarding of 85 miles of
construction work by the Southern Pa
cific to Erickson & Peterson, contract
ors, it is understood the work is to be
done on the Natron-Vale branch of the
new road now building toward Cres
cent from Eugene. A camp at Hazel
Dell just across the range has been
connected with the Hoev ranch. 12
USE FOR BURNT TREES.
Railroad to Give Burnt Cedar of Coos
County Trial as Piling.
Marshfield A. F. Estabrook & Co,
of ban rancisco, which firm operates
at Bandon, in Coos county, has under
taken an experiment which, if success
ful, may prove a big thing in the way
of a lumber industry. The company
has an order from the Santa Fe rail
road for 1,200 cedar piling as a trial
order. These piling are to be made
from the burnt cedar which is on the
ground in cut-over districts throughout
the timber where there have been fires.
It is now presumably useless and a
waste, but if the piling suits the pur
poses of the railroad thev will be or-
miles west, where a force of Southern dered on a large scale and the industry
Pacific men is employed building a
wagon road so that freight and sup
plies may be taken to the camps. Al
though no official announcement has
been made, it is asserted on good au
thority that a construction camp will
ot working the cedar Iocs nn th
ground in this way will add greatly to
me fciumDer industry of, the Coquille
valley. The piling will all be shipped
out of Bandon. The Estabrook com-
panyhas also taken the contract for
REAL REFORM FOR CONGO.
INDIANS GO ON WAR PATH.
Congress will be petitioned to order
wireless telegraph installed on all
ocean-going vessels that carry passen-
Several towns in Ontario, Canada,
are menaced by forest fires, and men,
- women and children are fighting the
flames.
A San Francisco firm has secured the
job of repairing the government trans
port Thomas. The work will cost
about $500,000.
The Interstate Commercce commis
sion has ordered sweeping reductions
in both class and commodity rates on
the r acihc coast.
Theodore Roosevelt will be the guest
of the Milwaukee Press club, Septem
ber 7, the occasion being the celebra
tion of the club's silver jubilee.
wear cutis, wash., is an immense
Black Republican cherry tree, loaded
with fruit, which the Indians say has
borne fruit for about 100 years.
A dead wren was found by a Wood
burn, Oregon, man, on his farm, hav
ing around its leg a silver band on
which was engraved "The Auk, New
York, 3429."
The government has been asked to
intervene in the Nicaraguan revolution.
A fire destroyed the business section
of Paterson, N. J., ' causing a loss of
$500,000.
A Missouri court has fined a tele
phone company $175,000 for violation
of the anti-trust laws.
Preident Taft promises to do all in
his power to hasten the irrigation pro
jects authorized by congress.
Ten acres of tide lands at Tacoma,
occupied by sawmills, boat houses,
etc., were swept by fire; loss $85,000.
Parliament has altered the corona
tion oath of the king of England, so as
not to be offensive to the Catholic
church.
Visitors to German World Fair Hang
Fast to Dimes.
Brussels, Germany Half the Ameri
can attractions at the Brussels exposi
tion are not makiner exDenses. as the
Belgians, French and Germans do not
part easily with their dimes.
The "Wild West" show has been a
failure, and the English syndicate re
sponsible for it was unable to pay the
Indians, who then became greatly ex
cited. Frank C. Goings, who was in
charge of the Red men. annealed to
American Consul General Ethelbert
Watts, who by prompt and energetic
action restored the confidence of the
Indians.
Numerous conferences were held at
the American consulate bv Consul
Watts, Mr. Goings, Red Shirt, Chief
White Bear and M. De Laval, legal
adviser of the consulate. Mr. Watts
finally decided to cable Robert G. Val
entme, commissioner of Indian affairs
in Washington, to arrange transport
tion for the Indians back to their res-
ervation in America. As a result 37
Indians and eight children will be sent
home at the expense of the American
government.
be established this side of the summit, furnishing a large amount of telephone
within 30 miles of Crescent, within 30 and telegraph poles. The company
days. has bought the timber on 900 acres of
The preliminary survey of the Na- land belonging to the Doe estate and
tron-Vale line runs about a mile south located near Bandon and a force of
of Crescent, but negotiations are now men is at work turning out the
on foot for the purchase of the right of poles which are being shipped. There
way through the town and the railroad is also a large amount of matchwood
has secured from the Interior depart- now going out of Bandon,
ment permission to change its survey
through the forest reserve, with the
intention, it is stated, of bringing the
line into Crescent. A depot will likely
be put in here. General Manager
O'Brien of the O. R. & N. visited here
recently and made a tour of the valley
to the south of here, looking over the
work on the line from Klamath Falls,
building in the direction of Crescent.
The Oregon Trunk line has purchased
right of way for a spur to the Weyer-
CRATER LAKE FUND BEGUN.
to
Medford Men Start Movement
Make Park Accessible.
fortland J. M. Root, editor of the
Medford Tribune and president of the,
Crater Lake Highway association;
Judge William Colvig, president of the
Medford commercial club; W. T. Law
ton, of Medford, and others, are in the
hauser properties in the timber belt citytoPen headquarters for the move-
along the Deschutes river, which passes
through the townsite holdings. The
lumber company plans a large mill at
this point as soon as the railroad reach
es here.
DAIRY EXPERT COMING.
HANG HABITUAL CRIMINALS.
Milwaukee Judge Would Remove En
emies of Society.
Milwaukee, Wis. The capital pun
1 l m . . .
isnment oi naDituai criminals was
urged by United States Judge George
Holt in an address to the Wisconsin
Bar association. Judge Holt blamed
the leniency of the courts and the suc
cess of technical defenses for what he
termed the present wave of crime.
A convict, when he is discharged, is
ready for new crimes," said the judge,
A commission should try him on the
charge of being a habitual criminal
and an incorrigible enemy to society.
if it be proved that the man is degrad
ed into a beast and incapable of sub
stantial improvement and alteration,
it is my opinion that he should be put
to death."
Apache' Is Guillotined.
Paris Libaeof, the apache, who
killed a policeman several months ago,
was guillotined at daylight July 1. .The
Socialists had attempted to get a re
prieve for the assassin, but failed. A
violent manifestation by the revolu
tionary Socialists occurred at the
scene of the execution. At the mo
ment the blade fell, several of the
crowd fired revolvers. The police
charged with bayonets. A police cap
tain was shot in the throat and several
persons were badly injured. Great
crowds gathered in front of the prison.
Danish Authority to Spend Three
Days In Oregon.
Bernard Boeggild, of the Royal Dan- the United States,
ish Agricultural college of Copenhagen,
who has become known throughout the for the Crater' Lake
civilized world for his work in the de
velopment of the dairy industry, has
accepted an invitation to spend three
days in Portland and some of the large
towns of the Willamette valley. He
will be here July 18, 19 and 20, and
while here is expected to deliver onpr
more lectures.
Professor Boeggild is making a tour
of the United States, under the aus
pices oi me uamsn-Amencan association.
It has been arranged to take Profes
sor Boeggild for a two days' trip up
the Willamette valley, including visits
to Salem, Albany and Corvallis.
Professor Boeggild is credited with
causing the wonderful development in
the dairy industray in his country
within recent years, and for his ser
vices in this way he has been knighted
by the Danish government and has re
ceived several decorations from other
countries.
Canals Employ 300 Men.
Lakeview Three hundred men are
employed on the Oregon Land com
pany s irrigation canals in Drews
Creek canyon. In a short time a part
ot the crew will be transferred to the
south canal. That canal will be about
12 miles in length, and will have an
average width of 15 feet on the bot
tom. Superintendent Hansen is push
ing work, and as there were 42 miles
of main canal built last season he ex
pects to complete the work this year.
ment to make the National Pnrk ai-.
cessible.
"We expect to raise $25,000 in Port
land," said Mr. Root. "A subscrip
tion nsi win De started out among the
manuiacturers, jobbers and retai ers.
itt ..... . '
ana i believe that there will be no diffi
culty in raising that amount. Every
one recognizes the value of making
Crater Lake accessible, as it will bring
mousanas oi tourists from all parts of
and the world, to
Oregon. In the omnibus bill passed
Dy congress.$i5,000 was appropriated
road, provided
we raise $20,000.
000 all right"
We'll get the $20,
Red Snappers are Caught.
Astoria Sportsmen who were fish
ing for black bass in the Walluski
river this week report securing seve
ral fine specimens of red snapper,
similar to those caught in the John
Day river some weeks ago. It is sup
posed these fish are the descendants of
those transplanted in the Columbia
several years ago from the Gulf of
Mexico. The species is very game and
an excellent food hsh, if caught soon
after coming in from the sea.
Cannery for Wheeler.
Wheeler The Union Fishermen's
cannery of Astoria, Or., has been giv
en a site tor a cannery at this town.
and the company will start the erection
of the building so as to be ready for
the fall pack. When the shingle mill
is started here this town will lead all
other towns in the county as a mana
facturing town and will have the larg
est payroll.
PORTLAND MARKETS,
Plans of Many Organizations of World
Go Into Effect.
Brussels Congo reform, for which
the governments, churches, missionary
societies and other organizations
throughout the large part of the civil
ized world have been working for be-'
came an accomplised fact July 1, when
the plans formulated by the Belgian
ministry of the colonies and approved
by King Albert became effective.
Simultaneously a largo area of the
Congo region is opened to free commerce.
The reforms include the suppression
of polygamy, the substitution of na
tive for white officials, a reduction in
the taxes, which will be collected in
money, and not paid in labor, and the
restriction of obligatory labor on the
part of adults to the works dedicated
to the improvement of their own con
ditions.
The most vital feature of the reform
program is the provision for the sup
pression of forced labor, a situation
which has rendered possible the terri
ble conditions which in the
roused the horror of the
world.
Under the Leopold regime
lection of taxes through labor instead
of money, enabled that monarch to
work his immense rubber trade free of
expense. A quota of so much rubber,
in lieu of taxes, was demanded from
each village, an amount which would
require the labor of every adult in the
village virtually all of his or her time.
Failure to produce the allotted portion
at the required time was followed bv
immediate punishment at the hands of
the black soldiers of the Congo govern
ment, consisting too frequently of
tortures, mutilation or death.
HEAT KILLING MOT
! Lake Michigan Becomes Too Hot:
to Afford Relief.
Buildings Are Heated Through and!
Through Wheat Damaged 30
to 60 Per Cent,
past have
civilized
the col-
BEVERLY IS SUMMER CAPITAL
President Taft and Family Settled for
Hot Weather. .
Beverly, Mass. With the arrival of
President Taft this city became the
summer capital" of the United
States. The president plans to spend
most of the summer at the pretty
homestead where members of his fam
ily have been installed for some time
past.
Few persons were at the station
when the president's train pulled in,
and there was no demonstration. Af
ter he had greeted Mrs. Taft and other
members of his family, who were
there to meet him, the president drove
to the summer White House.
In observance of Beverly's honor as
the "summer capital" of the nation.
American flags fluttered from all the
public buildings in the city, and from
many business blocks and private resi
dences. This was the extent of the
observance, however, as it was at the
specific request of the president that
citizens made no plans for a formal
welcome.
Chicago With the mercury up to 9ft'
and no air stirring, Chicago became a
great bakeoven. Five persons were
killed by the heat Saturday and a score
prostrated. Dogs were driven mad in
the streets and bit a number of persons.
There is no prospect for cooler
weather for two days. Fire escapes
and roofs are crowded with sufferers
seeking a breath of air. The parks,
bathing beaches and every open spot,
contain sweltering humanity. Resi
dences have now become so thoroughly
heated through by the long siege that
no relief is to be obtained inside the
houses.
A woman, while being taken to a
hospital suffering from Bunstroke died
in an Illinois trainshed while awaiting
a train. Her body was taken to the
undertaker's instead of the hospital.
A man was stricken by the sun
while working on a roof. He fell to
the ground and died shortly after
reaching a hospital.
Another man was stricken by the
heat and fell down an elevator shaft
three stories.
Of the many prostrated fully one
half will die after illness of more or
less lingering degree.
For the first time the water in the
lake was too warm for comfort to bath
ers. This is the surf water, extend
ing about 600 feet out. This strip -of
hot water nullifies the faint breezes .
off the lake.
The continued hot weather is parch
ing the grain crops of the Middle West
and the most conservative experts in
the fields admit that all grain is dam
aged between 30 and 50 per cent
Every day without rain will increase
this ratio at a much faster rate.
Wheat is being forced to ripen on
stalks no more than a foot high and
the grain is badly shriveled at that
SOUTHERN PACIFIC FINED.
-Track prices: Bluestem,
8081c; red Russian, 78c;
Seven men supposed to have been
lost in a gale on Cook's Inlet Alaska,
have been found talive, though suffer
ing greatly.
Railroads of the United States are
to adopt a uniform code of signals, so
that employes of different roads can
work together.
To offset bad crop prospects, farmers
from the Northern wheat states are
buying heavily in the Minneapolis
wheat markets and the price is stead
ily rising.
The suit of Rudolph Francke against
Commander Peary for extorting $10,
000 worth of valuble furs from Dr.
Cook for bringing him back to civiliza
tion has been begun in a German court
Many congressional inquiries will
be made during the summer.
Crops in the dry farming sections
of Montana are unusually good.
Robbers held up an O. R. & N. train
just leaving Ogden. Utah, but got lit-1
tie.
Mrs. Vanderbilt Goes Flying.
New York Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt
went up with Clifford B. Harmon in
his aeroplane at Mineola. The flight
was cut short because the spectators
got in the way. Both the aviator and
Mrs. Vanderbilt were jarred somewhat
n alighting, but otherwise uninjured.
The shock loosened several bolts in the
machine and slightly damaged the rud
der. Mrs. Vanderbilt thrilled by the
experience, walked smilingly back
across the field.
Giant Warship Launched.
Danzig, Prussia The Oldenburg, the
great battleship which is to be added
to the German navy, was launched
here. The Oldenburg is a sister ship
of the Ostfriesland, and has a displace
ment of 20,000 tons. Her length is
490 feet and her beam 90 feet Her
armament consists of 12 12-inch guns,
14 5.9-inch guns and 20 4.1-inch guns.
The battleship will have a complement
of 950 men and is designed to show a
speed of 19.5 knots an hour.
Plunger Patton Retires.
Chicago, James A. Patten, "king
of the wheat pit," has retired from
the stock market A firm of operators
that will include H. J. Patten, young
est brother of the famous manipulaor,
will succeed James A. Patten. It is
said by old members ol the board of
trade that Patten feels that he has
been misjudged arid misinterpreted. j
Normal School Petition Grows.
Ashland Signatures to the initia
tive petitions for maintenance for the
Southern Oregon State Normal school,
to be submitted at the November elec
tion, are rolling in from all sections of
the state.
It looks as though the petition will
be a most formidable one when it is
presented to the secretary of state for
filing, with thousands of names to
spare to insure its place upon the bal
lot
Wheat -84c;
club,
valley, 82,
Barley Feed and brewing, $19(3)20.
Corn Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton.
Hay Track prices : Timothy, Wil
lamette valley, $20(Sj21 per ton; East
ern Oregon, $22(3,24; alfalfa, $15(3J16;
grain hay, $1718.
Oats--No. 1 white, $2526 ton.
Butter City creamery, extras, 29c;
fancy outside creamery, 2829c per
pound; store, 23c. Butter fat prices
average lc per pound under regular
butter prices.
Eggs Oregon candled, 26(3;27c.
Poultry Hens, 16c; broilers, 20
22c; ducks, 12K(S)20c; geese, 103llc;
turkeys, live, 18(5j20c; dressed, 2.2
25c; squabs, $3 per dozen.
Pork Fancy, 12(3jl2c per pound,
Veal Fancy, 10(S!llc per pound.
Lambs Choice, ll(311Mc pound,
Benefit French Working Girls.
Paris The decree of the ministrv of
labor prohibiting night work on the
part of seamstresses, milliners and
other working girls, which became
effective July 1, marks a great for
ward step in the movement for the
amelioration of the condition of the
women workers of France. For manv
years the sweating system has been
greatly abused in France, and especial
ly in Paris, where the employes in
many fashionable dressmaking and mil
linery establishments have often been
compelled to work until midnight dur
ing the busy season.
Car Upsets; Driver Safe.
Eighteen I Cases of Rebating Cost
$18,000 on Pleas of Guilty.
San Francisco Pleas of guilty were
entered by the Southern Pacific Rail
road company to 18 counts of the in
dictments charging rebating and dis
crimination in rates found by the Fed
eral grand jury on information gath
ered by the Interstate Commerce com
mission, and fines aggregating $18,
000 were imposed by United States
Circuit Judge Van Fleet.
The defendants were fined $9,000 for
rebating on shipments of matting from
Kobe, Japan, to points in the United
States through this city, in connection
with the Pacific Mail Steamship com
pany. On the charge of having given
rebates to the California Pine Box &
Lumber company on shipments from
Verdi, Nev., to Sacramento valley
poinst, a fine of $8,000 was imposed,
and for concessions made in the ship
ment of wool by Miller & Lux, the fine
was $1,000.
The settlement of these cases waa
Indianapolis Louis Chevrolet, the AssiBtont Att, n 1 tr "A
noted automobile racing driver, had a who instmH TTni ct,. a.'
narrow escape from death on the In- Devlin to ,, tn f t, 1
..w V. A. f J J J VIt
dianapolis speedway, when his car
overturned while going more than a
mile a minute. He was making one of
the turns of the course, when the giant
Buick he was driving struck another
racer, loitering along the track. Chev
rolet lost control of his machine and
car ploughed into the soft earth on the
edge of the track. For 200 yards it
careened along, and then turned com
pletely over.
each of the 18 counts, distributed
among the various indictments.
Green Fruits Apples, Oregon New-
aouu an cre tor Haw Land. town. z per box: cherries. 5(oil0c per
Hood River The highest price ever pound; apricots, $1.25(3,1.35 per box
paid for raw land in Hood River valley peaches, 75c(3$1.25; plums, $1(31.50
was paid the latter part of the wppIt gooseberries, 5(3j6e per pound; cur
when E. G. Stanton, of Oklahoma City, rants, $2(3:2.25 per box; raspberries,
Oklahoma, paid $500 an acre for 12 $1-25(31.50 per crate; loganberries,
acres of the Sears & Porter pronertv 75c(3$1.50; blackcaps, $1.65(3)1.75,
Mr. Stanton has been in the employ of Vegetables Artichokes, 6075c per
the Rock Island railroad for the past 18 dozen, asparagus, $1.252 per box
years. He will move his family to beans, 8(rt,iuc per pound; cabbage, 'iyx
W,iic; cauiuiower, peraozen; head
lettuce, 5060c; green onions, 15c;
peas, 45c per pound; radishes, 15
UOc per dozen; spinach, 8(4 10c per
pound; carrots, 85c(3$l per sack;
beets, $1.50; parsnips, 75c(3$l.
Potatoes Uld uregon, bWaj&c per
hundred; new, 2c per pound
Onions California red, $2.50(3 2.75
per sack.
-Cattle Beef steers, good to choice,
$5.40(35.60; fair to rr.edium, $4.25(3,
4.75; cows and heifers, good to choice,
$4. 50(34. 75; fair to medium, $3.75(3;
4.25; bulls, $3(34; stags. $3.50(35;
calves, light $5.75(36.75; heavy, $4
(36.
Hogs Top, $9.60(310; fair to med
ium, $8.50(39.50.
Sheep Best wethers, $4.25(34.50;
fair to good, $3.50(33.75; best ewes,
$3.75(34; Iambs, choice, $3.50(3:5.90;
fair, $4.655.15.
Hood ftiver and win clear and improve
nis property lor a home.
Colonize 400 Acres.
Cottage Grove Colonel John F.
Spray haa purchased 400 acres of bot
tom land in the Row river valley and
is constructing an irrigating ditch 1
distance of three miles to water the
tract which will be set out to orchards
and sold in five and ten-acre trart.
It is this purpose to colonize the
and with Easterners, five of whom
have already selected sites there. Not
more than ten acres will be sold to any
individual.
Wheat Earlier than Usual.
Springfield The local flour mill re
ports that wheat this year will be
much earlier than usual and that it
expect to be milling fall wheat by the
middle of August
Passengers Dance; Ship Burns.
Philadelphia While the
liner Grecian were engaged in a race
with death by fire in the oil-laden hold
of the Vessel, 80 passengers aboard the
vessel danced in the ship's saloon, ob
livious of the danger. The news of
the fire had been kept from the pass
engers, save only the plucky wife of
the captain, who volunteered to nlav
dance music for the passengers to pre
vent a panic. The fire was discovered at
midnight; the vessel arrived at dawn.
Biggest Battleship Yet.
London Chile has placed an order
with Armstrong, Wrhitworth & Co. for
the largest battleship in the world,
The vessel will be faster than any oth
er warship afloat She will have
tonnage of 32,000. Her iruns will fire
shells as heavy as those used by 110
ton guns of 30 years ago.
Build Bigger Ocean Liners.
London The largest !steamshin
in me wonu are soon to be bui It bv the
r. . .
uunara .steamship company. Work
will start on the first ship within
few weeks. The new liners will have
r.f lnn . -
uu.uuu uJiniiie, or io.uuu tons mnrp
than the White Star steamers Olympic
and Titanic, and 30,000 tons more
than the Lusitania and Mauretania.
Kaiser's Yacht Wins Race.
Kiel, Germany Emperor William'H
American built Meteor won the 49-milo
handicap race from Eckenfoerse to
Kiel. Harry Krupp Von Bohlen and
Halbach's Germania was second, the
Hamburg of the Nord!Deutsche reeatta
verein third, and the schooner yacht
westward, owned by Alexander
Sheehan, of New York, fourth.
T. R. to Help Lodge Later.
Boston The statement that
Roosevelt will return to Massachusetts
in the fall and take part in the Repub
lican state convention is made by Sen
ator Henry Cabot Lodge. The senator
said: "There is no doubt that Colonel
Roosevelt will talk later and may have
something important to say. I expect
he wHl speak here in the campaign.
He is interested in my success and in
the success of Governor Draper as well.
Colonel Roosevelt is a wonderful vote
getter and his influence here is sure to-
be he pful in the campaign."
Blow at U. S. Planned. '
Caracas, Venezuela A cable dis
patch received from Senor Rojas, Ven
ezuelan minister to the United States,
in which he reported that Venezuela'
delegates to the Pan-American confer
ence, which will begin at Buenos Ayres
July 9, had advocated in Chile a Latin
American alliance against the United
States, has caused great excitement
nere. foreign Minister Matos has sent
a cable message to the delegates ad
monishing them for their action.
Ontario Forests Swept.
Winnipeg, Manitoba Bush fires have
invaded the towns of Devlin and La
vallee, in the Rainy river district of
Ontario, although hundreds of settlers
and railway men tried to fight them
off.
At Devlin the- Canadian Nor) hprn
railroad station, the Ontario hotel.
Cook's sawmill, stores and hrm
destroyed.
Unless rain comes, the timber in thv
entire district will be burned.
Strikers Become Violent.
Greensburg. Pa. The WpHtmnrola
coal district which is in the throes of
miners strike, was the Scene of mnra
violence at Export, when the homes of
7 ,fore!En miners were dynamited.
Marching strikers fired intn th h.r.
racks of deputy sheriffs
S. property of the Fort Palmer mines.
I No one was injured.