NEWS OF THE WEEK EXPLOSION WRECKS TOWN. ITINERARY OF EVAN'S FLEET. Indans, Scans and Wreckage. Schedule nt Stupa Mapped Out fur Trip tu th« Pactic. Fontanet, of Blood OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST Washington, tK’t. 16—According to Fontanet, Ind., Oct. 16.— By the ex- the itinerary, th* sproial service squad­ I plosion of the DapOSt powder works ron will pnxecl direct to Trinidad. A yesterday between 25 and 50 persons FRUIT LAND IN DEMAND, MAKES BIO REDUCTION. stop of four days will lie made at that were killed, 600 injured, and Fontanet, a city of 1,000 people, was wipad cut. Many Sales Of Rogue River Valley Blue Mountain Reserve to Have 7 Par poet, when the squadron will aail lur Where stood a thriving and busy town Riu Janeiro, where It ie due November Orchards. Cent Lees Hhesp. there is ruin and scattered wreckage *. A stop ol seven .lays will tw made Ashland — Things have been doing In Fendletou — As a result of the delib ­ The dead and more seriously injured have been taken away. Five hundred Rogue river valley oteliard lands re- erations of the sheepmen's advisory al the Brazilian capital,after which the inhabitants. all mote or lew wounded, .■ently as never la fore and numerous board with A. F. Potter, head of the Squadrou will proceed to Moutovldeo, gtaaing department of the forestry bu- where it is due on the 13th proximo. A Resume of th* Loss Important but remain to gather scattered household sales have been made in every portion lean, he lias agreed to reduce the num­ Haven days will also be spent at that goods and sleep under tents, guard«d by Not Lea* Interesting Events ot the valley at prices that a few yeais ber ot cheep allowed the eastern divi­ soldiers of the state? port. The next stopping place will be of the Past Week. Without warning the powder mills, ago would have been counted fabulous, sion of the Blue mountain reserve to al Bunts Arenas, ue«r the entiamv to seven in number, blew up at 9 15 yea- but which in reality are demonstrated the extent of 28,000. This means a the Magellan alraita. There tbe ves­ teday morning. They employed 3tk’ to be only fair values wheu the returns reduction of over 7 i*r cent in the sels will remain thiee days Iwfore pro­ number allowed last summer. No fur­ Emperor Francis Joseph's condition men, and of these 75 were at work iretn them and the possibilities ol tbe ther cut will be nlttical Denver to capture the Republican na­ and face from his own wounds or those belonging to the ccmpsny along the Beet Harvest Is On. future ot the Philippines is ex|wcted of people who had required aid. The river are placing more timber in the tional convention. La Grande—The La Grande Amalga­ to lw determined largely by the opin­ mills were located one mile south of river daily. mated Sugar company has started for Popular subscriptions are being tak­ town. With the first explosion tbe ions ex pressed by Secretary Taft In hla the fall ran and will ba in operation address opening the session. en in Sweden to raise funds to build a employee ran fo.- safety, but most of This is Medford's New Record. during the winter months. The field challenger for the America's cup. the view held by Filipinos aa well a« them were killed or wounded by tbe Medford—The first carload of Beurre superintendent has lord a crew of over Nelson Morris, the packing house quickly following explosions in tbe Bose pearms ever shipped to New York 100 Jaj>e at work near here pulling Americana. The latter are generally in man, left a fortune of 130,000,000. All other mills. When the heat from the from Oregon has sold there at auction, beets during the (suit few weeks. favor of a specific pronouncement in burning mills exploded the giant pow- grossing (2,335, or an average on. all Nearly 100 Indians from the Umatilla Philippine policy. The course of legis­ but *75,000 is given to his family. der magazines 90 minutes later, de­ sizes ot *4.10 per box. J. W. Perkins reservation near Pendleton are also at lative action will de|>end mainly on Vincent St. John and other Federa­ stroying the town by the concuasion, is the grower. This ie the record price work in the fields. The crop ie large tbe result of the tight of the Gomes tion men under arrest for murder at many of those engaged in rescue work for fruit of this variety. Nearly every and ar least six weeks' work ie expec t­ Radicals tor continuance of the Nation­ Goldfield, Nev., have been released for al party. were badly injured and several killed. ear shipped from Medford this year has ed. lack of evidence. The Nationalists, when united, exer­ Fronts, roofs, sides and even founda­ broken existing records All pear re­ * cise controlling intlnencr' but their in­ The telegraph companies claim that tions of many' buildings have been cords at all varieties now held by Med­ Exit Wells-Fargo Exprsss. ternal divisions give the Progressive men are now flocking to them in great blown to pieces. Great holes are torn ford growers having been wrested away Astoria—W. E. Carpenter, traveling Inde|iendent« the baiauce of power. numbers asking for their old places. in tbe ground, fences have vanished from California within the past two In the West, however, ¡nearly every and household goods from the ruined years, up to which time California had auditor of the Wells-Fargo Express union voted to stay out. homes are in confused heaps of debris taken and held all pear records. Five company, has been engaged during the WAR DANGER BLOffS OVER. past week in closing up the company 's hundred acres of Beurre Bose pears affairs at the express offices along the Australia has adopted a protective in all directions. A Big finr railroad freight train on will come into bearing here next year. line of the Astoria A Columbia rivr r Count Okuma Believes Immigration tariff against Great Britain. tbe Bwitch leading to the mills was Rtailrosui and turning the business The army will ask an appropriation practically destroyed by the explosion Question Will Be Settled Tests of Douglas Fir. over to the Northern Pacific Express from congress for war balloons. and the wreckage caught fire. Tok io, Oct. 15.—Count Okuma, who University of Oregon, Eugene—The company, which will conduct the ex­ Three school buildings were destroy­ An Italian chemist will turn several in the first rtagee of immigration press business on this line in the fu ­ tests of Douglas fir which were being animals to stone to show scientific men ed at Fontanet and Coal Bluff, two made by the government timber teeting ture. troubles In America strongly disap­ miles away. All were filled with what he can do. Mr. proved of the government’s pacific atti­ scholars and everv one of them was station have been completed. John Philip Sousa recently celebrated more or less injured by the collapse of Knapp, who is at the head of the sta­ Bright Prospects for Weston. tude, now practically jplmita that the tion, has left far Washington, D. C., the fifteenth anniveraav of the organi­ tbe buildings. A four room school Weeton—Prospects for a good school rad ical utteranc.-a of both sidea were sation of his band. building was torn to pieces and not one where he will prepare the notes for year at the Weeton normal were never publlration. The notes are very ex ­ largely prompted by politics. In til better than they are now, notwithstand ­ of the 200 children escaped unhurt, al ­ Free import duty on bops has almost haustive and will be of great import­ ing the crowded oondition of the school interview fishy Count okuma «aid tliat though none were fatally hurt. A two killed out that industry in England ac­ room school building at Coal Bluff wa.* ance and benefit to the lumbermen of rooms and living quarters. The regis­ Americans misiindenitisal the Japanee«., cording to growers there. turne-i over and collapsed. The teach­ tbe northwest. It has taken two years tration in the normal department ie who are astounded at pie utterance« ol A young Loe Angeles woman has re­ er and 90 pupils were more or lees in­ to complete them, and every possible now 155 student*, with prospects of 2(>0 American newrpa;x.ni. Report» of the ceived five infernal machines through jured. test has been made. They will be pub­ by Christmas. In the training depart­ possibility of war, he «aid have always the mail. A negro is under arrest but ment there are about 100 young pupils. emanated from the United Sratra and Tbe force of the exploeion destroyed lished by the government. very naturally are copied by the news­ denies hie guilt. all telephone communication with out­ papers of J»|ian. While he believe* Two Hundred in Line. Yields Big Clover Crop. Sir William Laarier, premier of Can- side towns, and it was with great diffi­ Klamath Fails—Report« come from Amity—E E. Robbins, of this place, that tlie Americans ar* over wnaitive a>la. says be lias not yet formed an culty that aid was summoned. Terre or the subject of Japanese immigra­ opinion as to the beet course to pursue Haute and Brazil sent physicians and Lakeview to the effect that 200 people has threshed 1,089 pounds of No. 1 tion. he holds the opinion that the are now in line at the Lakeview land clover seed from 2 1-5 acres on his in tbe^exclusion question. curses with supplies in carriages and office awaiting the date of filing, Octo­ farm, making 495 pounds, or 8J^ bush­ whole disc'.i«eion is largely due to the automobiles, while sjecial trains were During the first six months of 1907 ber 28, on the lands recently opened to els, per acre. At 22 cents a pound, fact that the United State« is to have u dishonest employee embezzled *5,482 • made up and ran on tbe Big Four rail­ entry. County Treasurer Lewis and this makes a return of *107.80 per acre. presidential campaign next year. It is road for tbe care of the injured. 687, according to figures given out by D. G. Brown, of Fort Klamath, in their In addition, the land furnished the not likely that the immigration ques­ Governor Hanley ordered the Terre the bond companies of New York. tion will 1« seriously discusaed or ever Haute company of militia to patrol tbe search for claims went to an out-of-tbe- best of green pasture during the spring become an issue in the coming session Harriman has ordered expenses cut ruined district and to protect life and say place, south of Silver creek, where and early summer. of the diet. The Japanese government on all of hie lines. property. The governor arrived last they supposed no one would be, but believes that the entire question will found the woo la full of people, and PORTLAND MARKETS. Rockefeller has given *600,000 more evening He brought with him 700 came home without trying to locate. he solved by the «present discourage­ tents and cots for tbe care of the home- to Chicago university. ment of immigration and the strict ob­ The general belief is that everyone will lees. Wheat—Club, 89090c; blnestem. servance of the laws. Reporsts received at Washington in­ secure at least a contest case. 91092c; valley. 8909Oc; red, 87088c. dicate that tbe Moorish rebellion is Few Injured Will Survive. Oats—No. 1 white, *28; gray, *27. nearing a collapse. Too Much Business. Freight Via Weed and Bray. Terre Haute, Ind , Oct. 16.—Of the Barley—Feed, *25.50 per ton; brew­ Salt lake City, Oct. 15—Daniel Klamath Falls—A petition h being The Russian council of ministers has 50 victims of tbe disaster cared for at ing, (96.60027; rolled, *26. Guggenheim, brad of the American appropriated *9,500,000 for coloniza­ St. Anthony’s hoepitai, 14 were in a circulated among Klamath Falls busi­ Corn—Whole, *31 ; cracked, *32. Smelting A Refining company, arrived critical condition when brought here. ness men addressed to the Southern Pa­ tion purposes in Siberia. Hay—Valley Timothy, No. 1, *17@ in Salt Lake City yesterday. Mr Five of them have died and little hope cific company, asking that all freight 18 per ton. Eastern Oregon timothy, Coal mines In Montana have been is entertained for tbe recovery of nine and passenger business I* routed via Guggenheim is on a tour of Inspection 19020; clover, *11; cheat, *11; grain closed in order ’o give the railrcads a others. The remainder are expected to Weed and Bray over the California ot the plants of the West, lie rays hay, *11012 alfalfa. *12013. chance to clear the blockaded tracks. that the recent curtailment of cop|H-r survive. One of the seriously injured Northeastern. The petition cites the Fruits—Apples, (I® 1.75 per box; The railroads of the country have de­ is Miss Susan Biehop, a schoolteacher, difficulties encountered on the Pokegama cantaloupes, 75c 0*1.25 per crate; output was a natural outgrowth of the cided to stand a strike rather thin who was caught in tbe collapse of the route during the winter, especially peaches, 6Oc0*l per crate; prunes, 50c fact that the world Is doing about 5 per cent too much bueim-ss for the money make more concessions to labor unions. school house. She sustained a fracture with freight, «nd the high rate for the per crate; watermelons, 1 '4 1 per it has. He says he does not anticipate of tbe skull and at first it was thought hauling to this city. Tbe company is pound; pears, *101.75 per box; grapes. Commander John D. Briggs, of the she could not recover. Attendants say aksed to route via the new road at the serious hard time*. He says their 3500*1.50 per crate; casaba, *2.25 per plants throughout the West will soon United States navy, is going insane. ehe appears to be improving. earileet possible moment dozen; quinces, *101.25 per box; He was in command of the cruiser Bal­ increase their capacity huckleberries, 708c per pound; cran­ timore when that vessel went ashore in Swamp Land Problem. Shark's Tooth In Benton. berries, *8<39 per barrel. the Philippines in 1904. Watches Rivals Closely. Washington, Oct. 15.—With the evi­ Albany—J. G. Crawford, of this c'ty, Vegetables—Turnips, *1.25 per sack; The O. R. 4 N. company has started dent intention ot supporting the na­ while inveetigating the gravel beds on New York, Oct. 16.—If. M. Tilford, beets, *1.25 per sack; carrots, *1.25 proceedings to prevent the Washington tional drainage bill at the coming ses­ the Benton county side of the river, per sack; cabbage, 101 4gc per pound: president of the Standard oil company railroad commission from enforicng sion of congress, the department of Ag­ found a shark’s tooth and considers it cauliflower, 25e0*l per dozen; celery, of California, and of other subsidiary the joint wheat rate between its lines riculture has issued a pamphlet en­ as additional evidence that this was at 35c0*l per dozen; corn, *101.50 per companies of the oil compine, was and the Northern Pacific. titled “Swamp and Overflowed Lands one time an inland sea and the abode sack; cucumber«, 10015c per dozen; again a witness yesterday in a hearing The Arctic steamer Fritbjof has sunk in the United States,” in which some of marine life. Mr. Crawford is an onions 15020c per dozen ; parsley, 20c of the government’s suit for the disso­ with the crew of 16 off the coast of general facte are given in regard to the expert geologist and student of all forms per dozen; peppers, 8010c per pound; lution of the Standard Oil company of Iceland. areas of the United States which would of life and is gradually making a col­ pumpkins, 10) 'p- per pound; radish­ New Jersey. He said that reports of comiietitors in tbe field of the Conti­ be reclaimable should the bill become lection of evidences of prehistoric and The trial of John R. Walsh, former a law. While the publication is in­ ancient life of these lands. His col­ es, 20c per dozen; spinach, 6c per nental Oil company, a snlxiidiary of the president of the Chicago National bank, tended to strengthen the bill, still it lection is valued at a higa figure and pound; squash, 5f)c0*l per boz; to­ Standard, were furnished him ;>eriod- matoes, 35050c per box. hr.s been postponed until November 12. contains several statements that mav is highly interesting. ically and filed in the statistical de­ Onions—* I 5001 65 per sack. have the opposite effect. Potatoes—75085c per hundred, de­ partment. The Continental sells oil Leas than 500 men were at work in Eighty Par Cent 8old. livered Portland; sweet potatoes, 2'-4c in Colorado ami adjacent states, x the places of the 10,000 cotton handlers Curb the House of Lords. Athena—Eighty per cent of the per pound. « and loaders wbc are on strike at New Taft R-achss Manila London, Oct. 15 —The Liberal cam­ wheat crop, which is estimatd to be ♦Butter—Fancy creamery, 27>g035c Orleans. Manila, Oct. 16.—Secretary Taft ar­ paign for restriction of the power of the 500,000 bushels in the vicinity of per pound. The Austrian steamer Gnilia from house of lords to alter or reject bills Athena, has been sold. Bluestem has Veal—75 to 1—5 pounds, 8J$09c per rived at 4:30 p. rn. yesterday from Trieste to New York, took fire during proposed in the house of commons, been selling at 75 cents and club from pound; 125 to 150 pounds, 7)kc; 150 Hong Kong and received an enthusias­ tic welcome. Ilia reception la-gan with the passage and was only saved after which was inaugurated by Premier Sir 60 to 71 cents. The farmers are now to 200 pounds, 607c. heroic work. The vessel carried 763 Henry Campbell-Bannerman, 1s now arranging to do their fall seeding, most Pork—Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 80 a water parade, beade«l by Governor Smith, General Wood and Admiral passengers. in full swing. Memliers of the cabinet of the land having already been pre­ 8J4c per pound; ;>a< kers. 7>i08o. Poultry—Average old hens, 12nliii*lr* w«re doing. According to Mr. lane. Investiga­ tions, however, reliatiw were being paid iv* late u* September 34 of thi* )*ml«<«l President Hmall, tbe order intake «Reel Immediately. The notification adds that the axscutlve kwrd will berrà Iter direct the strike, and that II will ire "run by men with rwl bl««j«l." New York, Oct. 14.— Fbilirwed by a storm |wratora yesterday attarnoup Mr. Hmall at- leiii|H«'d to «■■plain Ills action in send­ ing out notices t< all lucal* Saturday night asking them to vote this city of labor t'omiiiissmii- er Nell, President Minali, of the Com­ mercial Telegraphers* union, Haturday afternoon took ueclsive sltqw to close the talegrapheia' strike, lie gent the following telegram to all the lea«l>iig Cities ill the emintry : "New York, Oct. 1J. 1607.—Prom- Invili New Yorkers ap|«alcl diaruss the quraiion in de­ tail or Indicate what actmn the Inter, state Commercr commission Is likely to take, for he has not yet had an o|qx>r- tiinity o! conferring with ina col leagues. Mr. lane «aid there would b« a fuel famine in the Northwest if there should increase of be a long, hard winter. manufactures and In. rrasni use of coal by tatIroada calle for more oral than the old markets have been ai;g bruise« caused by the cluba of tbe ;4>lice and tlie exterior of the laundry is a «reek The trouble was oceasiooed by J.eeph King, sn intoxlcatvvi logger, who crashed into the window of the laundry ndncted by T. Umkekeubo, at 43* Fell street. The proprietor slid 11. Oiuura rushed out and dragged Klug into a n-ar rvxiin. «her« he «aa placed in rbarg«' of a young J«|wne«e, who stood guard srmcl with a red Ion of gsrpipe, while tlie other Japanese bur rie.1 to sum moo the police to arrest King. Three intoxicated companions of King witnessed the inciileut and they planned to re»cue their friend. Othei whites a ere cal le«i on and there fol. lowed a rottzbinrel attack on tlie laun­ dry. The street nan aeon filled by s forge crowd, and a dozen Japanese on tbe inride sought to repel the irtvadera. Policeman Thomas Collier »*• s«Min CHINESE VERSUS JAPANESE. <>n the scene and altasked tlie crowd single liandi-d. A riot call which was Canada May Throw Down the Bare sounded I roiight reinforcements. Th« Against Mongols. police charged the crowd wllh c ub« Ottawa. Oct. 14 —At the apptraoh- and many were hit. King was found asleep in the rrar ing ••«■ion of l lie lkiin inion par I is men t, which opens next month, it is undet- roum, innocent of the trouble. »4>«»i that a move will be made to throw down the Iwrilers against Chinese tin- JUROR.H TO TRY FORD AGAIN. migration into Canada by afo'lialung Special Panel in "Court for Trial of the hrad tax on Chinese, which Is praclirally prohibitive. It is aM«>rtrd BriOa-Givars. that this step aould afford a solution San Francisco, Oct. 15.—The 300 ol tbs (irlental problem, »hleh fo now talesmen for the format ion of the regu­ assuming an m ute phase among llm lar jury panel, from which shall fo- se poipl« of I’ri iah Columbia, |>aitic8l«r- Ircted tbe juries to try various of the ly ill the «iszst cities. public service corporation officials It is po nted mit that, when the ( hl- charged with bribery and under ar­ near were allowed to enter the Isnnln- raignment in Judge lawlor's defart- Ion at a nominal tax rate, there waa meut of the Superior court, were very little trouble aith Japanese arriv­ brought into court yesterday by the als, and absolutely none from the Hin­ sheriff. The next of tbe bribery graft dus. If the head tax were al>ol>*heenl to a higher Court through s m -< mid trip she had made since being blunder of his attorney, Charles II. launched at l.orain, <> , on August 17 Fairall, and must go to tlie peniten­ last, the line steel freighter Cypress, tiary forthwith. Moreover, thecharge 44(1 feet long ami owned by the lacks- is made that sfler Mr. Fairnll dlaeov- waonria Trans;»>rt*Ton oompany, of ered his mistake, hn sought and pro- Cleveland, foundered foat night m lakn cure«! a change in the record of the Superior off Deer Park, taking down transcript of appeal to cover hie own with h«r 23 memhera of tliecrew. Bee- error. These changes in ink occur In ond Mat«- (’ J Pitt, washed ashore the printed volume. lashed to a life raft, is tlie only per­ son left alive rf the ship’s people. He Htandard Used Alias. was unconscious when found. Now York, Get. 15. —Hampton G. Westcott, vlca president <>f the Stand­ Prairie Fira In Montana. ard Oil company of Kentucky, bstitied Great Falls, Mont., oii*e grazing ground much of its product through coinpanh s already having I hvii burned nvi-r In the which the public believirl to he inde­ vicinity of Cull ertami. Htockmen are pendent. The practice ol selling making desperate «florta to stop the thrfaigh so-called independent coni pan- spread of the fire, bit tlie ffoniea fantu-d ies which were owned by the combin« by wind, have thus lur find little check «as discontinued two years ago, ac­ put up>n them. On the Fort f'e. k res­ cording to Mr. Westcott. ervation many honaea and building« belonging to tlie Indiana have been de­ Big Slide In Culabra. stroyed. Panama, Oct. 15.—The American engineers are having trouble with the Toothache Mak«a Hiatorv Cncburacha elide, at the south end of Berlin, Oct. 14 —A learned Egyptol­ the Culebra cot. This point of fond, ogist, who Ina atmlie«l Mineplitoh'a always a source of trouble to the French mummy, declares that, the plismon, when they trie«l to dig the canal, is who ruled w hi n the children of Ivrael »gain jn motion, and will proven were dellvenil from I nrptian Iximlage, hindrance all during the wet season. suffered exmiieforingly from tootha>'he. About half a million yards of dirt fo in I he acute agony hi- endured so angeretl motion. All of this dirt must ulti­ pharaoh, so "harderuil hla heart,’* aa mately lie removed, but tlie engineers the book of b zodus has it, that it was would rather get it. slowly. necessary to inflict the plagues on hie realm More he would consent to lei English Officers Arrsstad. Mose and the fornidlte hosts go. Berlin, Oct. 15.—A correspondent of the Tagebfott, at Emden, telegraphs Elevators and Coal Chutes Burn. that according to a dfo|«tch receive«! Madison, III,, Oct. 14.—The Clover from Borkum, a yacht with English U-af grain elevator, containing 26,(MM) naval officers on board had lieen