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PIN«INDORSED Irrigation Congress Upholds His Forestry Policies. IS C0NCESH3N TO HIS CRITICS Work of Government Bureau* De* veluplng Wait Approved Timber and Slone Law Indorsed. Albuquerque, N. M , Oct. I.—The alruggle in the National Irrigation Cong re»» between the supporter» and opponents of the present government forestry policy resulted in a sweeping victory for the friends of Chief For ester INnchot yesterday. With a few recommendations for change in the f<irg»t regulations the congress adopt ed resolutions indorsing the forest service as well as other government bureaus conceived in the work of de velopment amt reclamation. It also t<a>k advanced ground in favor of conservation of natural, resources in general. ‘I be resolution* give sweeping in dotsement tn the work of the reel* ■nation service, the forest service and the geological survey and Uige on congress continued support and in creased appropriations for all of these bureaus, urge the repeal of the tim ber and stone act. "to the end that tile accumulation of the public land» in the hands of a few great corpora tions may be arrested"; urge the speedy creation of the southern Ap palachian and White mountain na tional forests; ask congress for an adequate appropriation for the use of rhe hydrographical division of the geologual survey to determine by ex periment and measurement and obser vation the practical effects of grazing and lumbering on the supply of water for irrigation and on the erosion of the soil and that such investigation extend over the various watersheds, both hi and out of the national forests and that such investigation be prose cuted simultaneously throughout all the states and territories of the arid and semi-arid weal “ A strong resolution against free »Ogar is included also resolutions for the creation of immigration bureaus by the western states and territories; requesting co operation with the na- liuual conservation cumiuissiun, a conservation committee of the irrig* tion congress being authorized; urg ing that the Carey act be made ap plicable to the territories; indorsing the movement to hold a session of the congress in Washington in 1910, to be known as an international congress -on irrigation, and asking appropria tions from the state and the federal governments for this congress; and authorizing the present congress to anpoint a committee of five, to be known as the congressional commit tee, charged with the duty of urging j the Wconunendations of the irrigation | congress_____________ __ PERMIT NO SHORE LEAVE. Admiral Sparry Decides to Run No Risk of Cholera Infection. Manila, Oct 3 — Rear-Admiral Sperry has finally decided not to land any men hrre and to maintain a prac tical quarantine of the ships during their stay Admiral Sperry discussed the question with Governor-General Smith this morning, and the above artion was detrrmined upon. There arc still several new cases of chidera daily, and it was decided that it would be safest and best not to take anv chances of its spreading tn the fleet. The officers will be allowed brief shore liberty under close restric tions. I‘<>rtv steamers and launches, gaily decorated, paraded today around the outer lines in which the fleet is an chored Governor General Smith and Brigadier-General A 1. Mills, uccom fianird bv their staff, and Ir.mk Strong, chairman of the general re ception committee, boarded the flag ship Connecticut and spent a half hour with Rear-Admiral Sperry Rear Ad miral Sperry returned their call later in the day. Harriman Orders New Car*. Chicago, Oct 3.—It was announced here yesterday that the Pullman Car company will begin delivering an or der for 330 steel passenger cars for the Harriman lines within r>n days. The order is but a starter of orders that are to be placed for steel cars bv all the big railroad lines, it js stated The adoption of the steel ears was de cided upon after a long series of ex periments conducted by the Harriman lines The cars are to be steel shells with but very little wood in their con struction. Order* Mammoth Painting. New York. Oct. 3.—A prominent firm of scenic artists has received an order from the United States govern ment for the execution of an enor mous cyclorama for the Alaska- Yukon-Pacific exhibition at Seattle The contract calls for a picture on 30,. turn square feet of canvas, represent ing mountain scenery of Alaska There will be besides, minor views of Crater fake, Or. studies from the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and Yellowstone Park.________ , Hola Inch Deep Burned. San Francisco, Oct. 3.—While sit ting at the receiving instrument of the wireless telegraph station on Rus sian Hill yesterday. I,. T. Crow, an operator, received a shock of electric ity that burned a hole an inch deep in the marble top of the table on which the instrument was resting. Crow es caped with slight injury, and esti mated that 30,000 volts passed throngh hi* body. SPOKANE NEYT YEAR. CAR JUMPS TRACK. Washington City Secures Meeting ot Irrigation Conge***. Albuquerque, N. M , Oct. fl__ Hpukane | wa* selin-ted aa the meeting place for * the aevenlxeutk aatioual irrigation eon APPEALS GUARANTEE CASE. great, al the close of the sixteenth eou gresa Saturday. I’uidlo withdrew at Oklahoma Bank Will Teat Validity in the Inst moment, and the vote *>* nude Highest Court. unaninmn*. Washington, Oct. 3.—The appeal of The new governing board of the son gresa, created by this meeting, was the Noble Slate llauk of Oklahoma elected Hnturday at a meeting of the from the decision of the supreme «Iveutive cuiamittoe. This board has court of that state in the proceeding full powers to manage the affair* ut of the bank, which wa* instituted to the congress and to continue its work test the Constitutionality of the Okla homa bank guarantee law. ha* been between sessions. The members are: 1‘residsnt, U. H, Barstow, of Texas; docketed in the supreme court of the ssaretarv, B. A. Fowler, of Arixona; United State*. Governor Haskell, as W. A. Beard, of California, chairman chairman of the state banking board, of the executive eoinmlttee, and Fred J. Kissel, of Utah; l»r W. J. McGee, of is made the principal defendant. The Washington, D. C; John Dixon, of Case originated in the I.ogan county Montana, and one other member, who district court, of Oklahoma, which is to be selected by the board. court sustained a demurrer and re The closing session was made inter eatiug by a strong address by Congress fused to grant the injunction asked for man Joseph E Knusdcll, of Louisiana, by the hank The case was appealed president of the national rivers and to the supreme court of the state, harbors congress, who urged coopers where the decision of the county tion between bis organisation and the court was affirmed. The stale su nat seal irrigation congress. That an International congress will preme court held that the law was be held at some one of the Mouth Amer I contrary neither to the federal nor lean capital* in 191» is now fairly as the «tale constitution. sured, sitbough the matter will not be The court will be asked to advance determined uutil the congress meets in the case to the docket, but it is doubt 190$. ful if it can be heard before the No The industrial exposition will eon veuiber election. tinue until October 1U. Between *15, Ihm nod $20,0110 in trophies and prises ROADS BROKE PROMISE. will he awarded at the close of the ex position. Commission Surprised "by ^.Injunction Suit at St: Paul. RUNS ON TIES. Washington, Oet. 0.—Considerable Fast Passenger Makqa1 Mile a Minute surprise wa* expressed at the interstate Without Had*. I e.ommeree commission today when news Chicago, Oct 3. Passenger* on the - wa* received that the Hill aad llarri I.ukc Snore Twentieth Century Lim man railroads hail gone into the eireuit ited thought they were taking break court at Mt. Paul and asked that the fast m a wreck a* the tender trucks of the giant locomotive hauling the commission I m - enjoined from enforcing fast tram left the track« a half mile its near rates on lumber shipped from west of Gary at a A. M yesterday Oregon and Washington to territory east For a mile the wheel* of the tender of the Rocky mountains. The rates bumped over the tie*, while the en gineer »ought to halt the flyer, speed fixed by the commission wore toohave ing to Chicago at the rate of SO miles gone into effect in August, but late in an hour The dining car and the July the railroad* asked for an exton smoker also left the rail* sion of time, declaring it to be imp«» For what seemed to the passenger* slide to prepare and publish new ached three or (our minutes the train dashed ahead, hut with slackening speed Af ulcs by the time stipulated. They promiaed. if the extenaion was ter about a mile it was brought to a stop and it was found that no one was granted, to accept the commission'a injured At the point Where the ac I rates and put them into effect on Oeto cident occurred the track* of the Lake I er 15; and, furthermore, promised that Shore are elevated *o that an embank if thia extenaion was granted they ment of eight or ten feet descending would not g<> into Court and undertake on either side promised a dangerous to have rate* enjoined. It la reported unofficially, however, piling* if the bouncing car* left the that these roads, contrary to their prom rail*. The airbrake on the diner, loosened ise, have appealed to the eireuit court from it* fastenings, fell to the ground for the eighth eireuit at Mt Paul for This derailed the diner, the smoker an injunction against the commission, an<l the tender. An angle-bar of the and there is no poeaibilitv of a decision track was uprooted and tore through lefore the date when the compromise the floor of the diner, causing a panic rates were to have gone intv effect. among the passenger* at breakfast. New Quartermaster at Portland. Washington, Oet. 1.—Captain Ira L. WRIGHT'S LATEST WONDER. Fredeahall. quartermaster, will proceed to Portland. Or . and assume charge of Best* World"» Record With Passenger the office of disbursing quartermaster on Board. at that place, and will also report to Lc Mane. Oct. 4 W’lthur Wright, the the commanding general, department of American aeroplanist, who hold* the the Columbia, for duty aa assistant to world ’» record for an aeroplane flight, the chief quartermaster of that depart established another world's record yee ment, relieving Captain Henry Clark. terday afternoon for the time and die Captain Clark upon lieing relieved will tanee with a passenger. With a French proceed to Fort Ward, Washington, and journalist by hi* side, ht> remained in assume charge of construction work at the nir for 53 minutes and 37 seconds, that post. circling the field 24 times and covering Resume Silver Coinage. n distance estimated at 53 kilometers, or about 36 miles. His best previous Washington, Oct 3—Director of flight with a passenger was 11 minutes the Mint l.each has announced that 35 2 5 seconds. the government will resume the pur Bv his font Mr. Wright practically chase of silver for subsidiary coin fulfills the conditions of n contract age thia week The announcement sgned bv him and Lazaro Weiller, who says that 125.UOO ounces will be pur represents a syndicate, whereby Mr. chased each week for an indefinite Wright receives »100,00(1, and the svn period The director of the mint ex dicate takes in return the patent rights pect* a strong demand for dollars and of the Wright machine for France and smaller coins as soon a« the cotton the colonies, with the privilege of man cron begin* to move and is prepar ufneturing aeroplanes on this model. ing for it. The sun was setting "When Mr. Wright and his passenger started, and the Legillation Against Opium. flight was completed in the moonlight. Washington. Oet. 7.— Renewed efforts When they alighted, the French jour nalist in his enthusiasm threw his arms are tn be made at the coming session around Mr. Wright's neck, ami the of congress, which will receive the great crowd of spectators was hardly hearty indorsement of the administra less demonstrative in its manifestations tion, to secure legislation to restrict of delight. tho 'importation of opium into the United State*. Dr. Hamilton Wright, Sun for Timber Value. one of the American commissioners to San Francisco, Oct. 5. Suit for the tho International Opium convention at Shanghai next January, left Washing recovery of $8174.87, said to ba the ton yesterday for the’ West, prepara value of timber cut from the govern tory to sailing to China, October 20. ment lands allotted to the Indians of the Klaninth tribe and sold by the In Cholera Case* in Manila. diana t<> the defendant corporation was Washington, Oct. 2. -0ovornor-0*n: filed hv the government attorneys hero oral Smith, of the Philippines. Ims tele Saturday against the Klamath Mill A graphed the war department that there Tran»|>ortation company. In a similar wore 14 new cases of cholera during suit some years ago United States Pls the 24 hours ending nt 8 o’clock Tues trie! Judge DeHaven held that the Tn lav morning and 12 cases for the 24 dians had no right to sell timber off hours ended nt 8 a. m. Wednesday. their allotments unless the proceeds of From 8 o'clock Wednesday morning un such sale went to the government. til 5 p. m. there were sevon case*. Miner* Accept Old Scale. Wheeling, W. Va., Oct. 5. President Thomas L. Lewis, of the United Mine Workers of America, stated yesterday that tho operators and miners of Mon tana and Wyoming have signed an agreement for wages on tho basis of last year's eeale. ami that 12,000 men, who have been idle sinee September 1, will now return to work. He says a meeting of operators and miner* will be hold next Tuesday at Seattle, Wash., to agree upon a scale for that state. Central America Sand* Gold. Snn Francisco, Oct. fl__ The mines of Salvador and Mexico have contributed »108,508.70 to the wealth of thia conn try in tho form of gold and silver bul lion. It came up in the treasure vault of the Paeifie Mail steamship Newport. Half comes from the Rutters gold mine In Salvador, the remainder from widely known mines baek of Mazatlan. It la thi largest amount of treasure brought from the southern coast in one consign ment in month*. Six Men Killetfan^ Six Other* Injured Near Scappoose. Portland, Oct.’ 3 —Six men killed . and six injured. ■ ‘that wa* th* toil claimed by a sudden shower of rain which wet the track* on a sleep »pur War Department Expact* Powder Will of the Portland St Southwestern Log- gmg railway, just a* a construction Revolutionize Warfare. train wa* nearing the summit of a Washington, Oct. 1—The war depart bill at a point eight miles north and ment i* demonstrating at Handy Hook i west of Scappoose, early yesterday ! afternoon. proving grounds, New York, with a eom Five men. in charge of the train lunation of powder and projective that 1 and crew, were on the locomotive. promises an effective fighting range of I These escaped. Twelve men were on from 50 to 75 per eent greater than any the one gravel car which was being liflshed uphill by the locomotive when at the command of any other army of the runaway occurred. Not one of tho world. The powder used io the ex these men got away unhurt. They periments in dunnite, an invention of clung to the car as it swept back down Lieutenant-Colonel Beverly Dunn. It the hill and jumped the track at a sharp curve Three of them were ha* ■■ explosive power IS per eent greater than that of any known powder, killed outright, two more died while including the Japanese shimose powder. bemif taken to Scappoose, and an other died after being brought to the The ordinary shell or projectile uaed Good Samaritan hospital at Portland. by tiie army has been elongated so ax None of the unfortunate 12 had to lessen the air resistance and other seemed really to understand their Wiw shaped to receive the full force of danger until their car had leaped the the powder explosion. track and death and destruction were The preliminary test* at Sandy Hook in their midst. The locomotive went have shown that the new projectiles around the curve easily. The car fol have an extreme range of from 50 to 60 lowed. but just as it swung clear the par cent more than the old projectiles. momentum slouched it aside. The In combination with the new powder pm which held it to the locomotive the now projectile has an extreme range snapped and the big engine continued of from SO to 75 per cent more than the its mad flight on the tracks to the old projectile*. bottom of the grade, where it stopped A* the extreme range of the projee on an uphill stretch. tile* heretofore used by the army has been as great a* that of any other army | PEARY OFF FOR POLAR SEA. in tho world, the now discovery give* to this country a fighting weapon effective at far greater range than that of any j 8taamer ¡Erik Return* With J Latest »thrr army. New* of Explorer. The extreme range of a shell is a mile St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 2.—Having to an inch. The fl inch shell has a range of fl miles, the 12 inch shell a safely transferred a large supply of rang» of 12 mile«. stores to the Peary Arctic steamer Roosevelt at Etah. West Greenland, the auxiliary steamer Erik has ar Cash for Reclamation. rived back in this port. Washington, Oet. 2.— Estimates given The Roosevelt left Etah on August out by the reclamation service show 18. bound north through Kane basin, that Oregon last year contributed ap Kennedy channel and Robeson strait proximately $1.387,413 to the reclame It is the explorer’s plan either to en tion fund, making her total contribu ter the Polar sea or to reach a point tion to June 30, 1908, $8.167,822. For from which he can easily get to Cape tho first time sinee the reclamation law Columbia by February next. Then he was passed, Oregon dropped from first will make a dash across the ice floes to second place on the list of contribu toward the pole lions, due to the unexpected boom in The Roosevelt has on board three lend sale* in North Dakota, enabling Americans beside Commander Peary, that state to take rank over Oregon the regular crew of the steamer. 25 with a lead of lea* than $200,000. Wash Eskimos and 350 dogs. The Eskimos, ington 'a contribution is estimated at Captain Bartlett said, are eager to ♦»43.762; her total, »5.089,05«; Idaho assist the explorer. last vesr contributed »490,625 or »3,- The Erik started on her return 553,050 in all. voyage to St. Johns on August 20. In Davis strait the Erik struck an Controller Roast* Examiner*. iceberg, which battered her bows Washington, Oct. 7—Lawrence O. above the water line. She made the Murray, comptroller of the currency, harbor at Mukowik. Labrador, where has declared that the common fault of she effected temporary repairs, then national bank examiners is that thev proceeded. The remainder of the delay too long in closing the banks voyage was without incident. intrusted to their care. He addressed EMBEZZLED TEN MILLIONS. sixteen examiner* yesterday at a meeting to which they had been sum monel. The conference will last a I Danish Minister of Justice Sold Title* week. Murray warned the examiners and Decoration*. against extravagances, carelessness and lack of judgment. The receiver Copenhagen. Oct. 2.—Having fixed ship of national bank* should be the amount of his actual thefts at placed on a square business basis, he from <9 000.000 to »10,000,000. the declared. Danish government is attempting to determine to what extent the default ing former minister of justice, Alberti, Barrett Off for Coastr Waahington, Oct. 1.—John Barrett, profited by the sale of titles and dec director of the bureau of American re orations. in which he is asserted to have done a wholesale business for publics, has gone to Albuquerque, where 14 years The inquiry promises to be he will address the-Irrigation Congress. intensely embarrassing to scores of He will also speak before the Trans prominent men whose elevation to Mississippi Congress at San Francisco, the aristocracy Alberti is said to have and then spend 10 dav* in Portland, Oe secured on payment of heavy sums, tober 12 to 21. On October 22 he will which he afterward lost, along with have a conference with the Seattle Ex his stealings, in unlucky speculation. position directors in regard to participa The skill with which the fallen minis tion of the bureau and the Latin Amer ter covered up these transactions is seriously handicapping the investi ican countries in the exposition. gators From Alberti himself they are getting little assistance, the cul Fish Resign* for Politic*. prit hav-ng utterly collapsed since his Washington, Oet. 7__ The resignation surrender to the police. Physicians of Hnniilton Fish, assistant treasurer say there is no pretense concerning of the United States at New York, was the partial loss of his memory, and it accepted yesterday by President is the general opinion that he will not Roosevelt. It was announced that live to be punished. Fish had resigned because he had been Failures growing out of his opera nominated for congress. This is in tions continue to be of almost daily accordance with the recent order given occurrence. Of the former minister's out I v President Roosevelt that no thefts about »5.000,000 were from employes of the government can par large banks and syndicates, and the ticipate in politics. balance from private individuals and commercial houses. No Urouble Over Morocco. Former Premier Christensen, who Washington, Oct. 7__ Ambassador though suspected of no personal dis Juaaerand, who has returned from his honesty. aided Alberti to raise money vacation in France, declared yestifr through public channels to such an day that there was not the slightest, extent that he was forced to resign, trouble between France and Germany has spent entire days under painful over the Moroccoan question. “Just cross-examination by the investi ________________ prior to my leaving home.” he said, gators. ”a most conciliatory note war re Hitch Caused by Open Shop. reived at the French foreign office from Germany. 1 see no good reason Winnipeg. Man.. Oct. 2.—A hitch why good feeling should not continue.*’ in the negotiations for the settlement of the Canadian Pacific mechanics' Sockeye Pack 338,000 Case*. strike has apparently ended hope of Washington. Oct. 7__ Consul-General settlement for some time. The differ West, of Vancouver, has reported that ence between the strikers and the of the total catch for the season of the ficials of the railroad occurred over sockeye salmon was 338,000 cases and the question of "open shop." The Ca the excess of tho pack for the year nadian Pacific refuses to discharge was largely confined to the canneries the strikebreakers .and the men refuse The strikers on the Fraser and Skeena rivers, there to work with them. being a noticeable falling off in the gave out a statement last night that nothing was likely to develop in the pack on Rivers inlet. way of a settlement of the strike for Office Seekers Must Resign. some time._______________ Washington, Oet. 1__ Consternation Let Stewart Rest. wns created here by tho announcement Washington. Oet. 2__ Tn accordance Japs Watch Maneuvers. that President Roosevelt had decided with Colonel William F. Stewart’s re Camp Atascadero, Cal., Oct. 2.— that nil government employes who wish quest that he be allowed to recuperate to tnkc an active part in polities must from hi* journey from Fort Grant to The presence of several Japanese here resign their positions with the- govern Washington before he appears before watching the maneuvers of the troops ment. and that there is no hope of their the medical members of the retiring has led to the rumor that they are regaining their positions after the cam board, the board has derided to post spies looking for information as to paign is over. pone the examination of the army offi American military activity. The Jap cer until next week. anese have been nere for several days Pension* In Northwest. watching the arrival of the troops and Printer* Get Raise. Washington. Oct 3.—According to the working of the artillery. Some the annual report of the commission Washington. Oct. 3.—The new reg soldiers declare they have noticed er of pensions, there are now T.863 ulation went into effect Thursday bv notebooks in the hands of the Jap pensioners in Oregon receiving II.- which the pay of the linotype and anese, but this has not been verified 198,004 annually in pensions; 10.751 monotype operators in the employ of in Washington, receiving II 851,313. the government printing office is in Chinas* Emperor Insane. and 3,333 in Idaho, receiving 3343,035. creased from 50 to 60 cents an hour Pekin. Oct 2.—A peculiar mental derangement from which the Chinese Government Buys Silver. Political Riot in Cuba. emperor is suffering has been puz Washington. Oet. fi. -The treasury de Waahington. Oet. 1__ Dispatches re zling the attendants at the royal pal pertinent today purchased 12Ó.000 ceived at the war department from Pro ace for some time and yesterday a ounces of fine silver at SI.772 cent*. visional Governor Magnon show that consultation of the most eminent phy Seventy five thousand ounces of silver one man was shot and killed and eight sicians in China was called by the are for delivery at Philadephia, and the injured by esnes and fiat* aa a result of empress dowager to discuss the case rest at New Orleana. polities! disturbance* in Cuba. of their royal patient. SHIPPERS WIN OUT United States tourt Decides Har riman Lines In Wrong. LUMBER INTERESTS SUSTAINED Upholds Right of Commission to Fix Freight Rat**, Which Must Ba Equitabla Hereafter. San Francisco, Oet. 1—In sustaining a demurrer by the government to an application for an injunction filed by the Mouthrrn Paeifie company seeking to restrain the interstate commerce commission from establishing a rat* upon lumber between Oregon and Cali fornia, the United State» eireuit court of appeals yesterday rendered a de cision which uphold* the authority of the commission to fix freight charge* upon what it Considers a just and equitable basis, and sustains, in it* di rect application, the moat important clause of the rate law, namely, the right of the commission to relieve ship pers. when in it* judgment they are entitled to such relief. While the opinion of the court will probaldy not be available for several days, the victory of the government ap pear* to be a substantial me. Repre sentatives of the United Stae* district attorney’s office and the interstate commerce commission declared that this is the first instance since the enact ment of the rate law in which it was alleged that the commission had erred in a question of discretion and judg ment, and the first time that there had l-en placed squarely before a court of this jurisdiction the right of the com mission to male or correct rate* under such circumstance*. The action decided was instituted by the Southern Paeifie and the Oregon * California Railway after the announce ment of nn increase in the rate* on rough lumber from the Willamette val ley in Oregon to San Franeiaeo and other bay point*. The railroads. an nounced that the rate, which was »3.10 per 1,000 feet, was to be increased to »5. A protest was filed with the inter state commerce commission by the As sociated Lumber Dealers of the North west, and the commission, after investi gation, decided that »3.40 per 1,000 was a reasonable rate. The objection of the railways to thia decision took th* form of a suit for an injunction to set aside the order of the commission. DISEASE IS ABATING. Cholera in»St. Petersburg^Has Caused 2,168 Death*. St. Petersburg. Oet. 1.—Por the 24 hours ending at noon yesterday 223 new eases and 93 deaths from cholera have been reported by the municipal hospitals. Por the previous 24 hours the statistic* were 222 ease* and 99 deaths. One hundred and twenty seven recov eries were reported yesterday as enai- pared with 137 the 24 hours ending at noon the day previous. The total* since the beginning of th* epidemic are 5.655 cases, 2,168 death* and 1.651 recoveries. There has been published an official report of an outbreak of the cholera at the Pavlovsk military aeademy. Thia shows that the disease originated in the aeademy kitchen, where a cook was suffering from ineipient cholera and prepared the food for the cadets for several day*. The cook contracted the disease in the eholern hospital, where he was sent on a mistaken diagnosis. When the physician-discovered his error the cook was discharged and allowed to return to duty. This gross careless ness resulted in 58 of the cadets coming down with the disease. Five of these cases ended fatally. Aeroplane Deal Closed. Paris. Oct. 1__ With the consent of Wilbur Wright, the great American aviator, Lazare Weiller has ordered a French factory to manufacture 50 aero planes built on the same plan as Wright’s machine. Weiller is the head of the syndicate that is poing to pay Wright brothers »100,000 for the French rights to their machine, provid ing it meets with certain requirements, and it is believed that the order placed with the factory yesterday is antici patory of the signing of a contract be tween the Wright brothers and the Freneh syndicate. Forests Still Bumidg. San Jose. Cal.. Oct. 1.—Although the valley is completed filled with smoke, no definite details can be learned of the forest fire that has been raging east of Mission Ridge and between the Cala veras and Sunol creeks. It is evident, however, that the fire is still burning and doubtless spreading, as the density of the smoke completely hides the mountain range from view. Owing to defective wires, communication with Lick observatory has been cut off. Ship Arm* to Chinese. Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 1.—Arms and ammunition are being regularly smug gled from Vancouver to aid Chinese bandits and pirates on the western side of the Paeifie, according to a discovery recently made on board the steamer Empress of Japan at Hongkong. On the last visit of the steamer to that port a number of trunks with false bottoms were found, in which were several hun dred rounds of ammunition and mnny packages labeled ‘‘soap.” Fire* Revived in Adirondack*. Saranac Lake. N. Y„ Oct. l.- The forest fires in the Adirondack* which were temporarily checked by heavy rains are again springing into life io every direction. Fanned by a steady wind, the flames onee more are assum ing dangerous proportions. The war dens are rushing mea to Dannemora, where a ig fire is in progr***.