NEWS OF THE WEEK In a Condensed Form lor Our Busy Readers. HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS A Resume of the Les» Important but Not Leas Interesting Events of the Past Wees. Castro accuses Holland of barbarism and savagery. Bronson Howard, wright, is dead. the great play­ Harriman hsa started for th«' Pacific coast, still talking of higher freight rates. One hundred sheep were killeti by a single bolt of lightning near Bridge­ port, Cal. Railroad presidents will confer w ith shippers on rates. The meeting will be held aat Chicago. The kaiser has rewarded a soldier who did not recognize him with pro­ motion for strict attention to duty. A number of earthquake shocks have occurred in Algeria, doing much dam- agejto property and causing some loss of life. A Connecticut man murdered his wife and grandchild, but was killed by his son before going further with his butchery. A strike of machinists on the Cana­ dian Pacific is on and it is expected other men will be affected and the road tied up. A German inventor has a dirigible balloon in which he made a successful flight of 24 hours, returning to the starting point. The great Paris strike has ended in a failure. Wheat is booming in Chicago and has gone above the $1 mark. Employes of all the paper trust's mills have gone on a strike. f A man has been killed in Nevada by a friend who mistook him for a deer. Great preparations are being made for the reception of the battleship fleet at Auckland. Governor Hughes, of New York, is preparing for a more vigorous fight against betting men. MANY FAMILIES SEPARATED. SENATOR ALLISON DIES. Property Death Comes as Shock, as Fsw< Wers Aware of Illness. Dubuque, lows. Aug. 5. Senat«>r William Boyd Allison di«‘«i in his l.o- cust strxxit home at 1:33 o'clock yes­ terday aftertwxm. With him at diaso- ’ lution wen1 memb»’rs of his household and a physician. In a bulletin an- txxincing his death Ikx-tors Hamxx-r and Lewis gave heart failur«' as the cause. The announcement of th«' sen­ ator's death came as a sh«x-k to his neighbors, as few were aware of his illness. Though for the past two years Senator Allison had lx«en in declining health. an«i though h«' suffer«J th«' loss of much vitality during th«' present summer, no new s bad gone out from his horn«' indicating the gravity of his illness. Senator Allison suffered from th«' worst form of prostatic enlargement and a kidney affection mad«' relief even mon-difficult to afford. As is usual in such cases, th«' senator suffer­ ed frequently from peruxis of faint­ ness and weakness. These s|x-lls hav«> frequently «x-curred of late. The last of them had its beginning on Friday and finally result«*! in the patient's death. GOOD ROADS MEET Every County in State Will be Repre­ Fruit Inspsctor Will Sea That Laws sented This Year. Are Strictly Enforced. Portland Nearly every county in Oregon w ill lx« rvprvM-ntixl at the gtxxl roads conference to lx« held in Port­ land. August 11. Among th«' most distant will be Bake county. which will send delegates to counsel with the men from Eastern ami Western Oregon on th«- b«'st remedies for existing road ’ conditions. County Judge B. Daly, of latkeview. has written to the Portland Commer­ cial club, assuring th«« management that his county will lx- represented. i He said: "W«- have not b«-en saying much, but we hav«- been up and doing until w< now have 300 miles of as good loads in Lake county as can be found in any «•ounty in Oregon. l.ak«- county, w ith its 5.000 sen s of land to «-very voter, has already a per capita income of over $250 ¡x-r man from th«« livestock in- j dustry alone. When we get railroad facilities to ship to the markets the CLOUDBURST IN ARIZONA. splendid products of our orchards, farms, mines and forests, then watch Bisbee Sutters to Extent of 5100,000 1 I.ak«- county grow.” From Water. Homesteaders Ruled Off. Bisbee, Aril., Aug. 5. A cloudburst Klamath Falls Decisions hair this afternoon did about $100.000 dam­ age in. Bisbee. One side of Main been handed down by the United States land office at I akeview. in ret street, including the postotfice, in less erence to several contest cases be than ten minutes was changed from tween homesteader- and tho-e plat­ 200 yards of stores, costly saloons and ing timber and stone filings In each business houses to a mass of wreckage case the homesteaders have lost. In by rocks, water and mud that came the case of l> It Newton vs Nel tumbling down off the mountain side. H -vd Vaden, homestead entry was re Postmaster M. E. Cassidy and Sheriff fused, oil account of the land being Jack White, who were in the post­ hr.ivih timbered and residence tn" In this case filing had master’s office, narrowly escaped with maintained their lives, as did the force of IS girls been made five tears ago. and the land had been lived upon by claimant and employed in the postoffice. wh< n the commutation made, but the patent inrush of water, almost w ithout warn­ had never been issued. ing. struck the building. Huge boulders and tons of dirt slid Railroad Accidents in June. into the first floor of the postotfice Salem Acording to reports re where the force was at work. Consid­ ceived .it the ofl-ce of the railroad erable mail was washed away or dam­ commission it Salem, four person« aged by mud and water. Miss Clara were killed by the railroad« during Larsen, of Chicago, was rescued ¡from the month of June in this state N five feet of water into which she had -i.issenger- or employes were in the •lim ber Thirteen passenger« were in fallen by Miss Barr, another clerk. Thousands of tons of rock and dirt Hired. one trainman. <«ne yardman, tw- other employes, and one other per were washed down the mountain side into the streets, where it was piled up - n. Ore " "«• tiit«■ r tram was ileraile.l -wo freight trains were deraile«! from five to 20 feet high. There was one collision between pas «eager train and one collision Ix-twre- !i. «.'«-nger train and i freight train TWENTY LOGGERS MlSSiNG. The summary of accidents for June is comparatively low. Mill Men M.iy Have Perished in Fire About Hosmer. tSig Hay Crop in Tillamook, Eastern politicians say Hearst's In­ Vancouver. B. C., Aug. 5. Up to dependence party has less chance of this evening 1H bodies had tx-en found winning than the Socialists. in the ruins caused by the fire at Fer- The United States and Great Britain nie. are to unite and bring pressure to bear The logging crew of th«- Elk Lumlx-r company, consisting of about 20 men. ! on Belgium for reforms in Congo. George A. Pettibone, leader of the is still missing. They were at work Western Federation of Labor, died in a on the mountain north of Hosmer an«l Denver hospital as a result of an oper­ nothing has yet been heard from them. Some believe that the entire party has ation for cancer. perished in the flames. Detective Bums, employed on the The only possible way of escape open San Francisco graft cases, ids securing to them was to cross the mountain a salary of $625 a month and his 26 a¿- range. If they succeeded it will be 1 sistants $159 each. several days yet before they could pos­ Harriman says there should be an in- sibly reach Femie by a circuitous route. No human being would under­ crease in freight rates in order to cure good service. He favors a read rt. take to reach them across the burned justment rather than a general in­ ar« a at the present time. crease. The pope will create ten new car­ dinals next fall. The French government is relent­ less in its fight against labor n «ters An immense p««ver has been gained by Harriman thr ugh his alliance with G« luid. Roosevelt has reinstated a number of West Point hazers to be disciplined by the faculty. The sultan has appeared on the streets unattended for the first time during his reign. Castro has dismissed all Dutch ron- su's and vice-consuls in Venezuela I and demands apology for insults. F. D. Spaulding, a wealthy auto- tr.« b le manufacturer of San Fran­ cisco. perished in the Yuma desert. Suit has been commenced agains- the Cleveland Traction company for violating its charter granted by the city. Samuel F. Moffat, an editorial writer on Collier's magazine, is dead He was a nephew of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain). One miner was killed and two fa­ tally injured in an explosion of gas in a coal mine near Scranton. Pa. A number of men were «lightly hurt. Bryan is busy on his speech of ac­ ceptance. Officials of the Philippine railroad are making arrangements to ex- tend it. Fire Devours Michel. Vancouver. B. C„ Aug. 5. For three «lays the people of Michel have fought for their homes with death at the door. This afternoon they were beaten at the game. The city, the second in size in the devastated district of East Kootenay, started to bum in real ear­ nest at dusk this evening. Nothing can save it from lying a heap of ruins even more complete than Femie by tomorrow morning. The background of Femie in every direc­ tion, except the openings up and down the valley, is a mountain. There is one main street running through th«- center of the town and the railway runs down the center of th«- street. Two rows of houses on each side have their back yards abutting against th«- mountain. Salem County Fruit Inspector Arm strong states that the stalo law pro hibiting the marketing of wormy and scaly apples, pears and other fruits, which was not enforced last year on account of the light yield of fruit in some sections, will be rigidly «■nforceil this year. The yield is abundant and there i* no reason, declares the ins|H-clor, for any grower to bring bad fruit to mar­ ket. Mr Armstrong states that the movement will be state wide, under tl\e direction of the state horticultur ist, W. K. Newell, of Portland, and the district commissioners. Open Bids at Klamath. Klamath Fulls Buis w«re o|x-n«xl recently for extension of th«- South I Branch canal of the Klamath project, i This work comprises seven miles of main canal, which will connect the present canal with th«- Adams ditch in the vicinity of Merrill. Two blds wen- r«-ceiv«sl for th«- entire contract, and other bids were receive«! on schedule covering portions of th«- work. Th«- Ixiani of engin«*ers will dvcid«- upon awarding the contract in a few days. All of th«- bidder« are prepared to rush work ss six>n as the contract is let, and m all probability water for the Adnnis system w ill be carried through th«- main canal next year. Dairying Exhibit to be Feature. Portland An immense dairying óx hibit will be the feature of the coming Oregon state fa r in Septemlwr. if plans of the Dairy araoeiatiun officers are carried out. These plans now promise to be mor«- than fulfilled. Mrs. S. A. Yoakum, vic«- president of the association, who has been touring the Willamette valley in the interest of the exhibit, cum«- to Portland from Salem ami departed for Tillarmxik county. She is said to be doing much grts received up to date, it is evident that ihe average yield for th«- county will Tillamixik The hay harvest w ill In­ be in th«- n«-ighlxirhtat4c per pound addition­ al; casabas, $2.756,3 per dozen. Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack ; carrots. $1.75; bei-to. $1.50; lienns, 7c per |x>un,.r ¡x-r pound; or­ dinary, 7o,7'..c; heavy, 5c. Pork Fancy, 7c per pound; ordi­ nary, 6c; large, 5c. Mutton Fancy, Ho, 9c. Hops 1907, prmie- and choice, 4’, 6t5c per pound; olds, 20,2!>c; con­ tracts, 9o, 10c. Woknne, Wash.. Aug. I. A special from Fertile. It. I'., to the S|x,k< xinan- Review, saye. It is feartxl that th«- loss of life will reach tx-yond 100, but there are so many living ¡xxipl«- without homes or shelter nr fotxl to lie hxikisi after that up to the present no effort has been made to ascertain the nuinlx'r of tlios«- who lost their lives. In th«* district «w<-pt by the flames there is estimated to hav«« liven some 7,000 ¡Hxiple. Two thousaiul of these ptxiple hsve been sent west to t'ran- brook and Elko, some 1,500 t!<-d from the flames to the northwaril and reach ek all th«- p«x«ple it could carry up tin- line, fighting it.« way through slux-ts of dames before reselling a place of safely. Scores of families were Separated, husbands not knowing whore their wives and ehildren were, and in some instance» it was nri'ertniiK-d this morn ing that members of the same family were in Cranbrook, Fernie and Hos­ mer, Th«- lowest estimates of the amount of th«- hiss is placixl at $2.500,000, and as nearly as can b«« ascertained the in surnnee carried will amount tn some thing lik<- $1,500,000. Of the 7,000 |ieopie who had been housed yesterday, 3,000 hav«- be« n taken awsy. It is es tiniatisi by the committee appointed that there will lx- 3,500 who will have to be furtiiahtsl with temporary shelter and frxxi. DEATH LIST GROWS. Seventy-Four Said to Have Perished in Destruction ot Fernie. Wmnip«-g. Manitoba, Aug 4. As a result of bush fires the tow n of Fernie, B. is wi|x-d off the map as a child cleans a alate. Michel, It miles dis­ tant, is m flames and th«- fut<- of Hos­ mer an«l Sparwtxxi, intervening towns, is in doubt, they Ix ing cut off from communication. Over loo lives are known to have Ix-en lost. 74 of them in Feniie. A territory of loo square miles is a seething mass of flan <-s. Through it are scattered hundreds of lumbermen and pro.«|x ctors. so that th«- actual loss of life will not lie known for days. Th«-|iro|H-rties of ihe t'anadian I'n citic an«l Grout Northern railways ar«- d«*stroy«si, the bridges nnd rolling st«x-k burn«-l so that It is impossible to enter or I. av<- the burning urea. There is no possibility of estimating the loss of life nn«l pr«-|x-rty which will result, fur th«- flames ar«- driven by a half gale, making it impoasild«* to put up a fight against thi-ir advance. The conflagration is th«- greatest which hie» ever reached Canada and ranks only with the San Francisco dis­ aster. Fdr the past month forest fires hav«« be«m raging in tin- mountains of Elk river valley country, but they hav«- nut Ix-en cxmstdrnxi serious. Saturday morning a heavy wind sprang up from th«- west and early tn the afternoon the flames appends! over the crest of the mountains to the west of Femie. This ran down the mountain side and before a fire guunl c»ul thinl plau«« tn 11*11, according to the bulletin iiim 7 ap|a«ara to provide for cone id« r able inorv cvnatruction than hiia b« • n rv|Mirt«*i| b’roin n fully u« ll informed (pmrti r it in alliriii«*d that Japan, I*«* Nidi H building the three battl«•-•»htpH. Aki, “A,” and “B,” and thr four ar niorrtl criUMrra, Kuraina, Ibuki anaition withjgr« at nhipn now b«*ing R<-a break nil rrcordr« for th«* year 96 o'clock. Tonight a cooling brvez«* came off th«* lake, which low«*red th«« t«*rn|MTntur«* to 87 degr<*< *. Th«* police killed 24 umnuzzh <1 «log*. LEARN LANGUAGE FIRST. FLEET PASSES 1UTUILIA Foreigners Ignorant of English Arn Denied Final Citizenship. Natives Gaze on Great B.ittlrships at Close Range. Suvia. Fiji InlnndM, Aug. 4. Th«* IJnit<*il State* Atlantic fleet nt 8 p. rn. Saturday wan in liititud«* 15:4.3 aouth, longitud«* 17:21 went, being distant from Auckland 1,5m) inilea. At 6:30 o’clock in the morning th«* fleet cluing «*<1 its formation from line of Hipnulron to aingl«* column, mid nt 7 o’clock pa.H.u«*d th«* end of «*n*t<*rn end of Tutu­ ilia iRlnnd, Samoa, and Htenmed c ) oh «* in along the count, giving th«* p«*oph* of th«* inland an excelhnt view of th«* ahipN. The Htation nhip Annapolis paa*4«d clone to th«* fleet off Pago Pngo. Th«* uaual honor* were rendered. At 9 o’clock th«* fleet r« Hiim«*d it* coura«* for Auckland in line of ns«*.s to buck th«» Standard (hl company all ov< r Europe, state that th«* <>utlook is bright and that the prisluct of th«* new conc«*rn will find a ready market a* soon ns an efTort is mad«* to push th** trade. Th«» syndicate munagvrn ar«* rapidly com­ pleting arrangements for an alliance with th«» great Runsian oil firms. Thes«» firms, it is understood, hav«* ex­ pressed a r«»ndinesa to sell out. Cars of Coal on Fire. St. Paul, .Minn., Aug. I. Th«* Great Northern official* hav«* receive»! won! from their division nup<*rint<*nnch nr«’ under arrest to­ a mile I enetth th«* nurfar«’ «»f th«* earth day. Th«* bandits w«*r«* captured by and 8,000 f«*«*t. from th«’ mouth of th«* Postal ln*|w*ct<>rs Frasier and (’lurk in Sutro tunnel, G. Pucillini wandiscovrr- a hut in th«’ w « mm I s near Escsnaba. «►d dead this afternoon with his four Wh« n they were captured Ross and mules, killed by th«’ heat in ths tun- 1 Roach ha«l $10,000 worth of Htamps nel's depths. and postal orders in their poMewion.