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DOIHBS OFTHE WEEK
Current Events cf Interest Gathered
From tbo World at Larga.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
Cholera cases in New York are on
the increase.
Systematic expulsion of the monks
from Portugal is now under way.
A Tacoma policeman had his pockets
picked and lost nearly a month's pay.
A German sailor sold a Stradivarius
violin to a Tacoma pawn broker for $1.
It is now held at $2,500.
Richard Diener, a gardener near San
Francisco, has developed a geranium
bloom six inches in diameter.
Aviator Hoxsey in a Wright biplane,
flew from Springfield, 111., to St.
Louis, a distance of 104 miles, making
a new American record lor a smgie
flight
Tugs have failed to pull the big
tramp steamer Damara off the rocks at
the entrance to the Golden bate, ban
Francisco, and it is feared the vessel
will be a total loss.
An explosion in the coal mine of the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company at
Starkville has entombed over 50 min
ers and there is little hope that any
will be found alive.
Two convicts at the Santa Ana peni
tentiarv in California at the close of
religious services took the jailer and a
missionary by surprise, threw them
into a cell and escaped, well armed.
Spain refuses to recognize the Port
uguese Revolutionists.
A business block in the heart of Chi
cago sold for $6,500,000.
Many provinces of Portugal are still
loyal to the king and further trouble is
likely.
The strike of thousands of bricklay
ers and kindred workers in the East
has been amicably settled.
Six farmers of Eureka Flat, Wash.,
have pooled their wheat, amounting
to 150 carloads, and are holding for a
big price.
Judge Hand, of the United States
court in New York, declares he will
not again let smugglers escape with a
fine, but will sentence them to jail.
Indoor gymnasium work has been
discontinued at Fort Stevems, Ore.,
and the soldiers will hereafter take
their exercise in the open air, regard
less of weather.
SOVEREIGNS' FLIGHT PATHETIC
Nineteen members of a dinner party
given at Pendleton, and also the hotel
proprietor, may be indicted under the
local option law because wine was
served at the feast.
A laborer attempted to cross Sno
qualmie river in a row boat, but lost
one of his oars and was carried, over
Snoqualmie falls and dashed to pieces
on the rocks 300 feet below.
An educated Chinaman was arrested
at San Francisco just as he was draw
ine a revolver to fire on Prince Tsai
Hsun. uncle of the emperor of China
who is visiting in this country.
King Manuel, of Portugal, the Queen
Mother, the Dowager Queen and Duke
of Oporto, arrived at Gibraltar on the
royal yacht Amelie and were soon
Quartered at the summer residence of
the British governor.
Illinois Suffragettes are making sub
stantial gains.
New York clearing house records for
the past year broke all records.
The owner of Beverly, 1 alt's sum
mer home, refuses to renew the lease
for another year.
Two men were suffocated and several
firemen overcome by smoke in a Port
land lodging house fire.
By the collapse of a reviewing stand
at the Kansas City carnival, three per
son were badly injured and 40 others
hurt.
Joseph Nolan, a prominent Illinois
editor, was shot and fatally wounded
while "playing Indian" with his 8-
year-old son.
An electric washing machine at
Brigham City, Utah, got short-circuit
ed with a high-tension power wire and
two persons were killed and a third
shocked into insensibility.
Associate Justice William H. Moody,
of the United Sates Supreme court,
has resigned on account of ill health,
and Governor Charles E. Hughes, of
New York, has been appointed to the
place.
The Sultan of Sulu bought a fine
phonograph and 100 blank records to
take home with him. The experiences
of himself and party on their tour will
be recorded and repeated to all his
people.
Queen. Mother Bids Sad Farewell
to Faithful Followers.
Lisbon Authentic reports of the
flight of the sovereigns show that the
Queen mother, Amelie, who was at the
palace of Cintra, followed, through
telephone communication with the Ne-
cessidades palace, the tumultuous
course of the revolt. Her anxiety in
creased until she was informed that
King Manuel had left by automobile
for Mafra.
Hurriedly getting together a few of
her personal effects the Queen mother
fled to Mafra and joined her sop. In
the meantime, according to arrange
ments made by the revolutionists,
Prince Alfonso had embarked on the
imperial yacht Amelie of Cascaes.
The Amelie sailed for Ericeira, where
it arrived a few days later.
Presently automobiles occupied by
King Manuel and the Queen mother
dashed up to the beach and were es
corted by a squadron of cavalry and
accompanied by the Queen's ladies of
honor, who were dressed in deep black.
The Queen and her ladies entered one
rowboat, into which fishermen also
placed two small trunks. King Man
uel, who was wearing a suit of cheviot
and green hat, took his place in the
second boat. He appeared downcast,
As he turned his eyes from the shore
he waved his band and said Blowly :
"Adieux forever."
A heavy sea was running when the
little craft put out and one of the fish
ermen made bold to suggest that the
Queen mother should not lean upon the
gunwale, as it was dirty. Amelie re
plied indifferently:
"That is of no consequence."
Her last words to the faithful who
had gathered on the beach were :
"It is an infamy. Aurevoir!"
The group on shore replied :
"We will await your return."
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
FRIARS BATTLE WITH REBELS
BEE CULTURE PROFITS.
MILLIONS NOT ENOUGH.
Caution Preached in Face of. $20.
425,784 Profit.
Chicago Unsettled economic con
ditions" chiefly in regard to the pend
ing ruling of the Interstate commerce
commission on the petition of Western
railroads on an increase of freight
rates, will make it necessary for the
directors of the Santa Fe to "proceed
with caution" for the remainder of the
year, according to the 15th annual i
port of that road.
Mr. Ripley, the president, precedes
this statement however, with the as
surance that the property is in excel
lent condition physically, and has made
ample provision for its present finan
cial needs.
The income statement shows that
while the total income increased $12,-
119,158 since the previous report, yet
because of increased expense, the net
income was only $7,794 greater.
lhe total operating income is given
for the year as $104,993,194.67, the
total income from all sources as $107,
543,250.16 and the total operating ex
penses $751,33,314.54. Fixed charges
amounting to $11,984,151.36 added to
the operating expenses bringing the
net income down to $20,425,784.26.
MANY ENTOMBED IN MINE.
Lost
Sigmund Frank, president of the
Meier & Frank company, of Portland,
is dead.
Roseburg, Ore., a prohibition strong
hold, has elected five "wet" council
men and one "dry."
A hJge meteor, as bright as a naval
searchlight at 50 yards, fell near Jo
banes burg, South Africa.
Nat C Goodwin is believed to be an
active partner in a big firm of fake
mining broken in New York City.
More than Fifty Lives Believed
in Colorado Horror.
Starkville, Colo. At least 52 men
are entombed in the Starkville mine
of the Colorado Fuel & Iron company,
while, in the approaches to the mine,
hundreds of their fellows with oxygen
helmenta, movable rotary fans and
picks and shovels are striving simul
taneously to open the living tomb and
to draw from it the poisonous gases
with which it is at least partly filled.
The men have been imprisoned and
the rescuing parties have toiled since
10:50 Saturday, when an explosion,
porbably caused by coal dust, shook the
earth for a radius of seven miles, de
stroying the main entrance to the mine
and sealed the hapless toilers witin it.
Because of the vast ramifications of
the mine and its connections with
other mine-workings it is hoped that
perhaps half the men may be rescued.
An attempt will be made to open up
the sealed passages.
Naples Scored by Doctor.
Chicago A blistering criticism of
the authorities who have permitted
passenger steamships to enter the port
of Naples while Asiatic cholera raged
in that city and vicinity is given by
Dr. C. Hugh McKenna, of the surgical
department of Northwestern Univer
sity and St. Joseph's hospital, who has
just returned from a tour of European
cities. Dr. McKenna declared that the
lives of hundreds of American visitors
have been endangered by the laxity of
those entrusted with the task of guard
ing against contagious diseases.
Man Sells "Strad" for SI.
Tacoma Two small merchants here
are bemoaning their ignorance. A
German sailor, who was "down and
out," sold a Stradivairus violin to a
pawnbroker for $1, who in turn thought
be was doing a good stroke of busi
ness, when he passed it on to a cob
bler for $10. The cobbler was playing
on the instrument the same evening
that he bought it, when a prominent
music dealer entered his shop and at
once gave him $500 for it.
Apiarists Find Rich Field on Hermis
ton Project,
Hermis ton One of the best paying
industries in the Northwest is rapidly
coming to the front at Hermiston,
This is bee-raising on a large scale,
In order to make honey of a good qual
ity these little workers must have
plenty of flowers on which to work
They.are.well supplied on the Umatilla
government irrigation project, by the
many acres of alfalfa. The bloom of
this plant is pronounced by experts to
be one of the best known. Sagebrush
bloom also makes an excellent quality
of honey, but this plant is rapidly dis
appearing as the project settles up, be
ing cleared off to make room for the
more profitable alfalfa.
One of the mam points in this indus
try is that the bees need but little care
as compared with any other line giving
equal returns.
R. E. and J. M. Thorn are the pio
neer apiarists of this section. They
have something over 60 stands and will
this year have between five and Bix
tons of honey to dispose of. The num
ber of stands is being increased each
year and they have no trouble in find
ing a market at a good price.
C. H. Crandall is another who has
had a great deal of experience along
this line. He has 28 stands.
George A. Cressy is a Wisconsin
man who came to the project this
spring, bringing his bees with bim,
He has followed this business for years
in the East and is thoroughly posted.
He had not expected to get a great
deal of honey this season on account of
moving the bees. A few days .ago he
discovered that he' had 3.000 pounds,
This result has encouraged him, so he
will increase the number of stands as
fast as possible. He now has 40,
Speaking of the quantity per stand
produced here, Mr. Cressy said he
could ship from here to the same East
ern markets he formerly had and make
more money per stand than he could
when but a few miles from the market,
FRUIT PICKERS SCARCE.
De-
ROADS FOR CRATER LAKE.
Engineers Lay Out Highways on Big
National Resort.
Meaxora united states engineers,
under the direction of Major I. J. Mor
row, chief of the engineering corps.
are at work in the Crater Lake national
park, laying plans for a complete sys
tem of roads and trails. There are
three parties in the field making the
surveys. If, is the intention to make
one of the most complete systems of
highways that has ever been laid out
in a national park.
Last year congress appropriated $10,
000 for the making of a survey of the
park, the result of the work being the
basis on which future appropriations
for the improvement of the park will
be made.
The United States geological survey
has just completed a topographic and
contour map of Crater Lake park,
which shows all of the points of inter
est, as well as the roads and trails
through the park. This map will be
published the first of next year.
It is the intention to make the park
one of the greatest summer resorts in
the world. It will not only be made a
summer resort, but a tourist resort as
well, end the improvements outlined
by the engineers will make Crater
Lake park equal to the Yellowstone in
attractiveness.
Standard Oil Sued.
Topeka Three suits for damage for
alleged violation of the anti-trust laws
of the state of Kansas were filed sim
ultaneously against the Standard Oil
company in Montgomery, Wilson and
Saline counties by Attomev-General
S. Jackson. The suits ask damages
aggregating $162,800 and interest
thereon, or $100 per day for the viola
tions, which are alleged to have ex
tended over a period of 544 days.
Apple Growing Given Big Boost.
Portland W. L. Crissey, chief of
the inquiry bureau of the Portland
commercial club, has returned from
Albany where he was one of the guests
of the Albany commercial culb on an
automobile trip up the Calapooia val
ley. Mr. Crissey speaks very enthus
iastically of the country through which
the party passed on the way to Holly,
at the head of the valley, and back to
Albany, a.distance of about 80 miles.
Farmers in the Calapooia valley
and in the Santiam country are awake
to the advantages of organization;"
said Mr. Crissey. "This summer the
fruit growers association was revived
with the result that 30 carloads of ap
ples have already been shipped. And
they do grow elegant apples down
there. A striking object lesson was
taught at the Albany commercial club
banquet, where apples from orchards
well cared for and the same variety of
apples from a neglected orchard across
the road from the other were served.
The cultivated apples were the finest I
have ever seen. That part of the
state offers many inducements to the
homeseeker."
Tramps Are Plentiful But They
cline to Go to Work.
Grants Pass The local markets are
this week receiving their first ship
ment of the justly celebrated Tokay
grapes from the Carson vineyard in the
Applegate valley, nine miles from
Grants Pass.
The grapes from this famous vine
yard are known the whole Pacific Coast
over for their excellent flavor, size and
shipping quality. Thirty acres of
Tokays, Rose of Perue and Malaga
grapes for European varieties are pro
ducing about 3,000 crates, which find
a ready sale in all the markets of the
Pacific Northwest at a higher figure
than those grown in any other section
of the Pacific Coast. While the croD
is light this year, prices are good and
Tokays are selling in the Coast mar
kets at $1.35 a crate, Rose of Perue at
$1.85, and Malaga at $1.10, while the
same varieties are selling from $1.25
to $1.75 in the Grants Pass market,
fancy pack. These grapes are grown
entirely without irrigation.
It is conservatively estimated that
over 5,000 acres of land have been
planted to Tokays during the past year.
Mr. Carson s crop is always reliable
and nets in favorable years from $300
to $600 an acre.
OREGON GRAPES PAY WELL.
When Troops Storm Monastery They
Find Occupants Gone.
Lisbon Following their policy of
extreme vigilance, authorities of the
provisional government sent a force
to search the monastery at Grace and
arrest the friars. On arriving they
found the doors barricaded. The sold
iers and members of the populace fired
several volleys into the building,
whereupon the friars returned the at
tack, their bullets striking the road
way and adjacent buildings. The at
tackers then withdrew for consulta
tion. Shortly they returned to the attack,
assailing the heavy doors of the con
vent with battering rams. When the
doors yielded, the soldiers and the peo
ple rushed in and searched every cor
ner of the edifice, but -not a friar was
to be found.. It is surmised they made
their escape by underground passages.
On account of reports that some
troops in the provinces have not yet
declared their adherence to the repub
lic, the provisional government has
posted 39 heavy guns and 10 Maxims
in trenches on the heights of the city.
and are ready to check any attempted
invasion of Lisbon. Up to the pres
ent, however, the government has re
ceived no advices of risings in favor of
the monarch.
The most interesting man in Portu
gal is the new president, Theophile
Braga, who may be said without exag
geration to be the father, not only
this revolution, but of that in Brazil,
having, by his standing as a professoi
of his philosophy, paved the way for
both movements.
fl
ES
PERISH
Forest Fires Overwhelm Settlers
Without Warning.
Four Towns Wiped Out By Onrush
ing Blaze Hundreds Escape on
Special Trains.
Applegate Valley Crop Commands
Highest Price on Coast.
Medf ord Scarcity of labor is caus
ing the frutgrowers of the Rogue Riv
er valley much anxiety. The saloons,
street corners and the city park contain
many loafers, but few can be persuad
ed to venture into orchards on the sur
rounding farms. One night the police
arrested 10 drunken hoboes. When
brought before the justice of the peace
next morning they preferred to leave
town rather than go to work.
The rain has delayed the harvesting
of the winter Nellis pears and the
Spitzenberg and Newtown apples,
which has created a demand for larger
crews than ordinarily.
RELIEF FUND GROWS.
Big Orchard is Planned. i
Albany The Linn County Orchard
company has been organized to plant
and develop a big orchard. The com
pany has secured 2,600 acres northeast
of Lebanon, adjoining the Linnhaven
Orchard company's tract on the south
and east The directors are: H. L.
Sumption, of St Paul, Minn., presi
dent; Dr. W. R. Shinn, of Albany,
vice president; C. W. Tebault, Albany,
secretary and manager; William Bain,
Albany, and S. C. Carrow, of Illinois.
Making Ready for Show.
Prineville The sixth annual Central
Oregon fair will be held at the grounds
of the association near Prineville.
opening October 18. The erounds and
buildings are being improved and ar
rangements made to care for much
larger exhibits than were received last
year.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
$30,000 Already Donated for. Times
Explosion Victims.
Los Angeles Funds for the relief
of families left dependent by the
Times explosion may soon equal the
amounts appropriated for the capture
and conviction of the conspirators,
Hanks have joined with the newspa
pers in collecting funds, and it is an
nounced that the total so far collected
is more than $30,000.
This will be divided among the I am
ilies of 21 Times employes. It is prob
able that when the subscription lists
are closed, there will be more than
$2,000 available for each family.
Only 17 bodies of the men who lost
their lives in the explosion and fire
have been recovered. It is believed
that either the force of the exposion
or the. intense heat of the flames
which instantly formed, disintegrated
the bodies of those still missing, and
that the'cinder fragments were hauled
away with the rest of the debris.
Only 18 of the 23 supposed to have
been killed have been accounted for.
A general .funeral for the victims
will be held. General Otis has arrang
ed tior .the interment .in a plot in
Hollywood . cemetery, which will be
marked by a shaft to be erected to
their memory.
A great throng is expected to attend
the funeral, and though the city is
quiet, with no undercurrent of feeling
apparent, the auditorium where the
services are to be held, will be heavily
guarded.
GROWERS HOLDING APPLES.
Cement Block at Grants Pass.
Grants Pass The Claus Schmidt
building on Sixth street, will be one of
the finest structures in Southern Ore
gon, lhe building is 30x100 feet, two
stories in height, built of cement with
n elaborate steel front The first
floor will be occupied by Mr. Schmidt's
grocery store, while the upper rooms
will be for rent The new high school
building, which when completed will
have cost $45,000, is progressing as fast
as men and material can be secured.
Wilful Waste of Waters.
New York Sun.
The Grand Young Man was making
a speech at the St Paul congress. He
began to "pay a tribute" to the Hon.
Gifford Pinchot GifFord. an easy
weeper, wept; Jimmy Garfield wept;
Beveridge wept; the delegates wept;
the audience wept; everybody wept
A strange way of conserving water
sites.
Green Fruits Apples, new. 60c(al
$1.50 per box; pears, $12; peaches.
4065c per crate; grapes, 50c$1.25
per box, 15c per basket; cranberries,
$8.109.50 per barrel; huckleberries,
78c per pound; watermelons, $1 per
hundred; cantaloupes, $1(3.1.50 per
crate; casabas, S3. 50 per dozen.
vegetables Beans, 3(3!5c per pound;
cabbage, lj2c; cauliflower, 50c
$1.25 per dozen; celery, 7590c; corn,
1215c; cucumbers, 2540c per box;
eggplant, $11.25 per crate garlic,
810c per pound; green onions, 15c
per dozen; peppers, 6c; per pound;
pumpkins, radishes, 1520c
per dozen; sprouts, 78c; squash, H
l)c per pound; tomatoes, 1525c
per box; carrots, $11.25 per sack;
beets, $1.50; parsnips, $11.25; tur
nips, $1.
Potatoes Oregon, $1.25 hundred.
Onions Oregon, buying price, $1.10
per hundred.
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
887?89c; club, 83c; red Russian, 81c;
valley, 86c; 40-fold, 85c; Turkey red,
82(3.88c.
Millstuffs Bran, $25 per ton; mid
dlings, $33; shorts, $27; rolled barley,
$24.5025.50.
Oats White, $2728 per ton; Cali
fornia red, $2527.
Hay Track prices : Timothy, Wil
lamette valley, $19(320 per ton; East
ern Oregon, $21(S22; alfalfa, new, $15
16; grain hay, $14. .
Poultry Hens, 16c; springs, 16c;
ducks, white, 1717cgc; geese, ll(3j
12c; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 22
25c; squabs, $2 per dozen.
Butter City creamery, solid pack,
36c per pound; prints, 37(337c; out
side creamery, 3536c; butter fat 3fc
per pound;
25c.
Eggs Oregon,
Eastern, 26332c.
Pork Fancy, 15c per pound.
Veal Good, average, 10(3 11c per
pound.
Cattle Beef steers, good to choice,
$5(35.60; fair to medium, $4.50(35;
choice spayed heifers $4.50(34.75; good
ta choice beef cows, $4.25(34.60; me
dium to good beef cows, $3.50(34;
common beef cows, $2(33.50; bulls,
$3.50(34; stags, good to choice, $4(3
4.50; calves, light $77.50; heavy,
$3.755.
Hogs Top, $10(310.25; fair to me
dium, $9.25(0,10.
Sheep Best valley wethers, $3.25
(3,3.60; fair to good wethers, $3(33.25;
best Mt Adams wethers, $4(34.25;
best valley ewes, $3(a3.50; lambs,
choice Mt Adams, $5.255.50; choice
valley, $5g5.25.
Buyers Threaten to Go to Middle
West for Fruit in Barrels.
Walla Walla, Wash. Less than 25
per cent of the apple crop of the North
west has been sold, according to esti
mates of local commission men. Orch
ardists are holding their fruit at pres
ent about 15 to 25 cents a box higher
than the buyers are willing to pay,
and as a result little trading is being
done.
If this state of affairs continues,
say buyers from the East they will be
forced. to buy the crops of the Middle
West now ready in barrels in Colorado
and East to the -Ohio river. They ex
pect to see W alia Walla valley apples
placed on the market in large quanti
ties, however, within the next few
days.
Apples here are ready this year fully
ten days ahead of the usual schedule.
Weather conditions have been such
that the fruit has ripened early and
the fruitgrowers have been active in
boxing the fruit as soon as it was
ready. .
Aviator Falls To Death.
St. Petersburg Captain Macievich,
the Kussian military aviator, was
killed in a fall from a Voisin- biplane,
The accident occurred during an alti
tude competition, which was won by
Captain Macievich, who reached
height of 3,933 feet Macievich had
risen to that height when he decided
to descend. At a height of 1,640 feet
his machine upset and the aviator was
thrown out He came down like
plummet reaching the ground before
the biplane. Every bone in bis body
was broken except one arm.
country store butter, 24
candled, 3435c;
Leper's Family Shunned.
Stockton, Cal. Dr. R. B. Knight,
health officer, received official notifica
tion from Dr. Martin Regensberger,
president of the state board of health,
that E. D. Fickert, of this city, now
confined in the Veterans' ' home m
Yountsville, has been pronounced a
leper. It is thought Fickert contracted
the disease in the Philippines in the
Spanish-American war. Mrs. Fickert
and three children, who reside here,
show no symptoms of the disease.
Cotton Prices Advance.
New York There was an active de
mand in the cotton market this week,
with prices making a new high record
for the season on the strong showing
of the English market following the
settlement of the Lancashire labor
troubles and reports that many South
ern planters were holding cotton for 15
cents.
Warroad, Minn., Oct 10. Death's
toll from forest fires new sweeping?
Northern Minnesota in the Rainy River
district may reach 400. General Su
perintendent Cameron of the Canadian
Pacific railway, says this estimate will
be larger.
Four towns have been wiped out by
the flames.
Hundreds of settlers are missing and
the death list grows hourly. Bodies of
98 dead have already been gathered.
Thousands of refugees fill Warroad.
The town is in great danger from
forest fires (which are gradually ap
proaching the town. Two special
trains left Winnipeg over the Cana
dian Northern railway with fire hose
and apparatus. Roosevelt is safe af
ter an all-day fight, but the town ia
crowded with refugees. .
The fire is spreading and is now only
seven miles from Sprague, Manitoba,
which is 20 miles Northwest of here.
A fire is also coming down from the
north of Sprague, where it has burned
the great quantities of cord wood, tel
ephone and telegraph poles awaiting
shipment The forest fire is the greatest since
the Hinckley, Minn., horror of 15
years ago. It is almost impossible to
estimate the number of missing, but
messages sent out by private individ
uals indicate that 100 relatives, most
ly from around Beaudette, have not reported.
General Superintendent Cameron, of
the Canadian Northern, places the
number of deaths at 400, but admits
that it may be larger.
The towns of Pitt, Spooner, Grace-
town and Beaudette were burned Fri
day night The.fire wasjheralded by a
shower of sparks and (burning brands,
which swept across the Beaudette riv
er, and the inhabitants barely had
time to reach the special train that
was waiting before both towns were
on fire.
' Sick people, apparently by the score,.
appeared and were carried or assisted
to points of safety. There were five-
patients in Carrigan's hospital who
had been burned.
A special train is waiting to
the people to some other point in
the fire should get a fresh start
town is not yet entirely free of
ger.
The buildings of the Shevlin-Math-
leu Lumber company are practically
the only structures standing in Spoon
er, not a tree, fence, nor a foot of side
walk being left There are not even
the heaps of debris that usually remain
after a fire.
The property loss in Rainy River,
Beaudette and Spooner alone, includ
ing the Rat Portage Lumber company's,
plant and yard at Rainy River and the
yard of Shevlin-Mathieu Lumber com
pany at Spooner, will total about $1,
500,000. It will be some time before
the loss of life is known even approxi
mately.
Wagon loads of human bodies are
being brought into the railway station
at Beaudette. It is reported that many
settlers, crazed with grief at the loss
of families and property, are roaming
the woods, and searching parties are
looking for the injured, the dead and
the demented. One family of nine,
one of seven and one of five are known
to have perished.
At 8 :30 p. m. Saturday a tornado
of fire struck Beaudette and Spooner
and within three minutes after the first
larm every building was ablaze.
Within half an hour they were but
heaps of ashes. The people of these
two towns had just enough time to get
out of their homes with what they had
on their backs. They were loaded on
a passenger train that was standing at
the depot and taken to Rainy River,
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Congress Talks of Logs.
Atlanta, Ga. At the Southern Con
servation congress J. B. White de
tailed the ravages of the last quarter
century on the forests. With a 20 per
cent waste of top logs left in the woods,
he said, 2,600,000,000 feet of lumber
annually was lost to the South alone.
In the nation, he said, 40,000,000,000,
feet of lumber was being cut annually,
and as a result of this "top waste"
alone $100,000,000 yearly was lost J. '
G. Peters told the conservationists that
the South today cuts practically half
the lumber in the United States.
Camp's Gold Yield Is Big.
Seattle The new gold diggings on
Squirrel creek, Alaska, 40 miles south
of the Arctic circle, have shipped
$300,000 in dust to Seattle this season.
Alfred Christopher, arrived from the
new camp with $25,000 as the result of
his summer's cleanup. The season
was unfavorable, being too wet. One
hundred miners are in the field and
Nome Is sending 100 more. It is esti
mated that Squirrel creek next year
should produce $2,000,000.
Ambergris Lump Found.
Seattle Gust Olson, a laborer of
Valdez, recently found on the beach
near that townj, a lump of ambergris
weighing 220 pounds and valued at
$4,400, according to advices received
by steamer. Whaling men say this is
the largest piece of the precious auh-
stance ever found.