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
g<xxl in urousing the enthusiasm of
dairy cow owners.
Hold tor 80-Cent Whr.it.
IVndleton Many larg«- wheat cro|i»
have already passed into th«- hands «if
the buyrrs, t ut in most instances th«-
growers are holding for Sit cents. If
that pro-«- is reached it is generally lx--
lieved that th«- bulk of th«- cn p in this
,-ountry will be sold or contract«-«! for
within a very few «lays. From n |x>rts
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«-ighlxirh<xxi of 30 bushels
completed this week, with the excep to th - acre. This is ulxiut ten bushels
tion of oat hay.
The weather h.-w ; short of last year's crop.
been fine the past two weeks for hay
Teachers* Institute Dates.
making, but previous to that the heavy
fogs at night made curing somewhat
Salem
The toll <w tic «bite, for ,11
slow. Another bunip-r hay crop is in nird t- a-her«' institute« h-t«.- been set •
the bams, and the large dairy herds in « <■ ■« «•■ un’y. Mirt'e P- int, An,-ii«t 1«.
Tillamixik county are well provided for I '.l. 20 :t u I .11;
ill t .v « ■ l-' i . 1 lit IT
for the next winter, and as the mead prise. Atigust 26, 2" tin-l 2*; W:*.e i
ows are green and will remain so all county. The Dall«*«, October 6. 7 an 1 .1:
summer with abundnace of green pas i t iinili.-i eixmtv, R.tinier, Oc.-d'-r i' 7
ture, the cheese factories are receiving n n I «; \\ i« a in.-tun e ' i ' v o.-bit er 12
a much larger amount of milk than in 13 and It. Polk e-iuntv. Iltla«. O in
I er 14. 15 mil 16; Klamath e <nnty
previous years.
Klamath Falls, O- t.der 21. 22, 23 and
Smut Eats Up Machines.
Pendleton Smut has cauM 1 the de
PORTLAND MARKETS.
struction of two threshing machines in
Umatilla county during the past w- ek,
and another was burned, but the origin
of the fire in the third instance is un
certain. Those who lost machines are:
Isaac Christopher. Frank Brotherton
and J. Hudeman. The Christopher ami
Hudeman machines wi re blown up by
the explosion of smut dust, a fire fol
lowing in each instance. The other
machine burned while being moved
from my f. Id to another.
Hop Crop Worth Poking.
Salem Salem hopmen do not agree
with Joseph Harris that the hup crop
will be larger than the demand anil
that the crop will not all be picked.
Dealers interviewed estimate the crop
at from 90,000 to 120,000 bales, and
indicate their belief that there will be
few, if any, growers who will not pick
their hops. The dealers agree that the
crop will be good if the weather contin
Respond to Japan's Call.
ues favorable. No one will venture an
San Francisco, Aug. 5. The cham estimate as to price.
ber of commerce at a meeting today-
B indon Booklets Oat Soon.
considered the invitation received from
the Tolcio chamber
of commerce,
Bandon The booklets and other lit
which was sent with the sanction of erature ordered by the Bandon Com
the Japanese government, for the com mercial club will be ready for delivery
mercial bodies of this ard other cities about August 20.
('. H. Warren,
to visit Japan with a view of improv manager of th«- Warren Publicity com
ing the trade between the two coun pany, of Portland, was asked to help
tries.
It developed that many inquir raise the necessary funds.
Mr. War
ies hail been received by the local ren and the committee succeidi-d in
chamber from Eastern citites, and a raising more than was needed ar. I the
committee was appointed to ascertain Commercial club has decided to double
how many desired to make the trip.
the order to 10,000 booklets.
Edison Will Do What He Likes.
Dismissals of consuls may cau<e a
New York. Aug. 5. To gratify a
quarrel between the United States and
life-long wish, Thomas A. Edison, the
Honduras.
gnat inventor, has decided to quit
Reports are being received at temporarily his laboratory and go on a
I-
of babies roving commission to the Pacific coast,
named after Taft.
where he will engage in scientific re
Gould has got money from Harri search free from all commercialism.
man to pay his railroad debts, and lost Th- change does not mean that he will
c« ase work at all, but that he will de
control of the Wheeling road.
Vito himiwlf purely to science.
Edi
Hot weather set fire to a great coal son, accompanied by his wife, will leave
pile at Reno. Nev.
late in August for the journey.
M. R Preston will not accept the
Socialist nomination for president,
Monument of Great Quake.
and August Gillhaus has been named
San Franciico. Aug. 6.
5. The new
Panama is afraid the United States Relief Home for th«- aged and infirm,
wants to annex the country and erect,-d at a cost of $150,000 from the
Roosevelt has sent a reassuring mes- surplus rroney contributed for the re
lief of sufferers by the earthquake ard
•age.
fire of April 18, 1906, was formally de
Eastern railroads have begun an at
tack on a law passed by the last con dicated today and turned over to the
gress limiting the hours of continuous city. It is located on the Almshouse
i tract south of the Goldfn Gate.
service of employes.
CAN'I SELL WORMY APPLES.
Will Drain Union Lands.
Ba Grande. Th*- board of regents of
th* Oregon Agricultural college I eld a
meeting nt Inion last week, und steps
were taken to introduce seii-ntifi ■ drain
ing in this vril ev. where the biwl-tnds
are now worthies«, due to ex- x of
rainfall. Estimates will l.<- invited on
draining and tiling Pio acres located
nt the experiment form, near I'ninn,
and will ti.us introduce into this valley
the fir“t attempt at draining wet lands
on scientific plans.
Gobbling Up New Wheat.
Pendleton Wheat haa advanced an
other two cent« in the Pendleton mark
et, with the result that probably 200,-
000 bushels have changed hands within
the past two day*.
The purchases are
being made on a basis of 75 cents, and
it is not recalled when the prices were
so good and so much wheat changing
hands so early in the season.
Wheat Club, 87c per bu- hei; forty-
foki, H«c; red Russian, 85c; blui-stcm,
90c; valley. 87c.
Barley Feed, $23.50 per ton; roll-
led, $256126; hr« wing. $26.
Ont
No« 1 wh.ii. $24. M pirton;
gray, $26.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$14 per ton; Wilian.ettc valley, ordi
nary, $11; Eu-t'-rn, Oregon, $16.50;
mixed, $13; alfalfa, $11; alfalfa meal,
$20.
Fruits
Apples,
new California,
$1.2.’"i 1.75 [x-r box; cherri«-s, 36,10c
per pound; peaches, 4<x-6i$l ¡x-rlxix;
prunes, $1 per crate; Bartlett [xarx,
$1.75 [x r box; plums, 406,50c [s-r
box ; grajx-s, $1.5<'«t 1.75 per crate.
Berries Raspberries, $1 per crate;
loganli«-rs,«-“.
$1 [x-r crat«-; black
berries, 6bc6, $1.
Potatoes New, $16,1.15 [x-r hun-
dre-d; old. Oregon, 75c ¡x-r hundred;
sweet |x>tat<x-“, 6'.,c |x-r [xiund.
J M« Ions Cantaloupes, $26,2.75 |x r
crat«-; watermelons, 9<’< 6,$1.25 [x-r loo
loose-; crated. >4c 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<l; cabbage, 2c [x-r [siund;
corn, 256,30c,x-r dozen; cucumbers,
$1 per bog; eggplant, 10c per pound;
lettuce, head, 15c [x-r dozen; parsb-y,
15c [x-r dozen; peas, 4c per ¡xnind:
pep,e, i, 86» 10c
r pound, rarli he ,
12per dozen; spinach, 23c |x-r
pound; tomatix ■, 75c6,$1 ,x-r crate;
celery, $1.25 per dozen; artichoke«,
75c per dozen.
Butter Extras, 27*-»c ¡x-r pound;
fancy. 25c; choice, 20c; store, 18c.
Eggs Oregon extras, 25c per dozen,
first-, 2-36,21<-; seconds, 226,22' c;
third , 156, <0<-; El “tern, 2:'.o/'J4r.
Poultry Mixed chickens, lie per
pound; fancy h«-ns, 12c; roosb-ra, 9e;
spring, l ie; ducks, old, He; spring, 12
6,12' c; geese, old, 8c; gorlings, 10
6» lie; turkeys, old, 1 HO, 19c; young,
206,24c.
Veal Extra, 86,H >,.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.
W<xd Eastern Oregon averag«- best,
106,16'.zc ¡x-r pound, according to
shrinkage; valley, 15o, |5,'ac;
mo
hair, choice, 186,18,'-¿c.
Loss at Fertile Not
Than *2.500.000.
Less
S|>oknne, 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
e<i Hosmer and other places along the
line.
The Great Northern train t«x>k 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<l be orgunize«!
bail ente red th«- town.
Japanese Navy Hill Hu (iruilly
Increased by l(llI.
MANY NEW SHIPS AKI BlllUIINü
German Navy League D iicovtt » Largo
Addition to Program
Soon
Have 21 UattleBh^pe.
B«*rhn, Aug. I. Thr Jopunrim navy
v* ill (ak«> thinl plau«« tn 11*11, according
to the bulletin iiim <I«* by thr German
Navy la agu«« in ita Auguxt rrpoit.
“ Not withfdHtuhng thr hum « rt ioiiH of
Japan*« bad tlnancial ¡kiaitkm/’ th»*
article Haya, "thr ao-calh*»l program of
HH>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 an<!
"E” and ”F, ” han approprint«*d money
for four additional battlenhipH, unch
of 12,HOU tone, and for Hv»* armor»**!
cruiHvra of IH.600 tone.
Through th» H<< mcr« hm » m Japan will
push forwnrtl in 1910*11*11 to third
pin*’«* in th»* world’* nnvu n, Japan’*
|M>aition withjgr« at nhipn now b«*ing
R<-a<ly, 11 buttlrnhipH with a tonnagn
of I91.100, and 12 larg«* cruiimni with
a tonnag»* of 11.3,000; building, thr« «»
battlcahipH with a tonnag«* of 60,M0o.
and four cruiaem with a tonnage of
66,900, to which rnuat br added thoa«»
v « hh «*I h umbraced in thr latratjofurma
tion, namely, four bnttlrnhipH with a
total of b.3,200 and and flvr cruiarrn
w ith a tonnage of 92,5ou. ”
HEAT RECORD SMASHED.
Temperature in Chicago Register*
Highntt in tight Year«.
Chicago, Aug. 1. Augunt heat rv-
cordn for th«* pant right yearn wrr«»
Hinaahrd nt Io a. in. today, when lh<*
mercury rrurhrd th«* 94 drgrt*«* mark,
which it hail not attained »incr AuguMt
r». 1900. Having reached thia murk,
th«* liquid m«*tnl rent«**! for a time, be
ing at th«* nain«* mark nt 2 p. m , but
Mtnrt«*<l up th«* tub«* later, determined
t«> break nil rrcordr« for th«* year 96
<l«*gr«*rH, made July 23 th« huttrat «lay
Mince July 21, l'JuI, when n mark of
103 degree* wtm a«-1. In »pit«* of th«*
high mark reached by th«* mercury,
there w nn leaa auffering in th«* city
than thrr«* wan on aomvof the day* ln.**t
wv«*k w hen the t«*m|M*rntureH w«*r<* in
the 80a,
Then, however, there wan
great humidity. Today it wna dry und
a 15 mil«* wind uin blowing from th««
nouthw« Nt. Thin kept th«* number of
death* and prontrattun.* down.
Four denth* and 26 aerioun c « n «* h of
prostration had b« vn re|x»rtrd up to l'>
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 n<piadron
formation. It had reduc«*d itn npvrd
to nine knot*. Th«* weather in line,
though hot. Th«* collier Ajax arrived
at Suvia to«lay._____________
Denver, Colo., Aug. 4. A *« nsation
wan crrnt«’«l in th«* F«*dernl court today
when Judge I.«*win, in throwing out
half a doza*n naturalization cir . . held
that n foreign born ¡HTMon raint Npenk
th«* English Inngung«* befor«* he can
secure citizenship.
•*l cannot allow final papers to I»«»
giv« n,** said the r«»urt, "when* th«»
party *«*« king th«* same is unable to
npi nk th»* Englisli langunge.
II«* can
not understand th«* laws of th « coun
try, itn constitution «»r any of th«’ acts
that go to pr«»v«’ his citizenship.
II«»
may hav«* hom«**t«-iu!e<j upon limit, but.
h«* miiHt read nr <1 writ«* English l»efor«»
he ran nerur«* his final pn|M*rs and com«»
before th«’ court with a tialiv<*citiz«*n
w ho can swear he hus known thr sub
ject for a |»«*riod of five yearn."
Standard's Fo«» in Europe.
Basle, Switzerland, Aug. 4. |{««-
|M»rts r«*c»*ive«| her«’ today from r«*pri*
nentativen of th«* International (hl
Myndicat«*, which pro|M>s«*.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<*n<l«*nt nt
Whit«* Finh, .Mont., that 65 car* of
coal and coke anti thr« «* bridgen belong
ing to the company hav«* been destroy
«•d by th«* forest fires at F«*mi<*. Th«-
big bridge junt want of the depot at
Fernie and No. 3 and No. I bridge*
acron* the Elk river b«*tw«*« n Hosmer
an»! Michel have been wip«*d out.
Th«*
Canadian Pacific han lost two d«*pot*, a
Conservatives Win in Cuba.
water tank and all of its car* at Fer
Havana, Aug. 4. Election returns
nie. A hurricane in blowing.
throughout Cuba indicate a general
victory for th«’ conM*rvatives, who
Forced to Run Gauntlet.
hav»* carried moat of th«’ imj ortant
w Deadwood, S. D., Aug. 4. AcruM«*«! Citi« *.
Th«* liberiils «*1« ct«‘d Azbert
of wife I»« itingon the public Ntreetn, governor «»f th«* province of Hnvnna,
George Corey, of Terry, nnmnll mining hut the conservatives w«»r«* victorious
camp near h» re, almost lost his lif«* tn in th«* city of Ha\Rmi.
Th«’ lib« rain
d *y at th«* hands of a mob. Con*y had showi’fl th»’ir great«* t strength in East
b *«*n arr«**f«’d and placed in jail.
A «•rn Cuba. So far no reports hav«» b<« n
mob quirkly formed and broke into th«* irreived her«’ of serious troubli* nt the
jail. The man was taken to th«* high I oils.
way, wh«*r«* h«* was forced to run a
gauntlet of men wit!) blacknnnk«* whip*, j
Robbers’ Swag Fifty Thousand.
Many m«*n were in favor, of lynching i
Chicago, Aug. 4. Terrorizing th«»
him, but th«* worn«*n prevented this.
postmaster^of North«*rn .Michigan for
ten year* and ntealing mor«’ than $5(1,-
tie of Heat in Mins.
000 from th«* government, George Rons
Virginia City, Nev., Aug. 4. Half and Frank R«>nch 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.