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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK BAD QUAKE IN ITALY. Large Area Badly Shaken Dead Num ber About 60. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE 60,000 COME WEST. Spring Colonist Travel Breaks Previous Records. All Chicago, June 6. During the brief period between March 1 and April 15, this spring, between 40.000 and 5Q,000 colonists. according to th«- various rail- Farmers Near Redmond Install Pump Hawley's Measure Adopted in House road managers, found new home« In the ing Plant in Deep Canyon. Wilt Nest Go to Senate. Pacific Northwest, in California, Idaho, Redmond — Pumping water from Washington Repr«*s«*ntative Haw Montana. Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Crooked river to the table lands 600 ley has sut'ceede«! in passing through Wyoming. The spring movement of «-oloniata la f«*et above the river is an experiment the house his bill directing the patent General Resume of Important Events ing of a considerable number of home regard«-«! as having broken th«- reconi Disappearance ot Prospective Ton being tricii here. M. M. Daven|>ort stead entries in the Siletz reservation. of the spring of 1909 by from 15 to 20 Presented in Condensed Form nage Stirs Roads to Action and Neil Christenson have just com As passed by the house, Hawley's bill per cent. With the exception of fig «I« Incrsa*» In Valu««. for Our Busy Readers. pleted a pumping plant which raises provide»: “That all pending home ures which were prepared by th«- man water by means of an overshot w ater stead entries heretofore made within agement of the Harriman line«, all fig the former Siletz Indian reservation, wheel and supplies their homesteads on upon which proofs were tna*ie prior to ures of the colonist movement into Portland, Ore., Juno 7. Realizing th«- Northwest «re estimates. The fig Coreans are planning a revolt against the peninsula. that with the burning of every thou- December 31, shall be passed to patent urea presented by thu llurriman lines Japanese land-grabbing. The project is a remarkable under in all case» where it shall ap|>ear to ■and fuel of standing timlier I hero is a may be regarded as conservative und L. K. Bernard prophesies that in taking. The Deschutes river an«l its th«* satisfaction of th«* secretary of! loss of lnl>or amounting to $x, that two years flying will be as common as tributary. Crooked river, lie in gorges the interior that the entry was made us being ch>se to the actual movement. 1 stumpag«- values duercasc $2, and th«* Curre«|M>nding figures over th«- Bur motorcycling. 500 to 1,000 feet deep, the walls being for the exclusive use and benefit railroads see the vanishing of tonnage nearly perpendicular. At the point of the entryman, ami that th«* entry- I lington, th«* Northern Pacific and th«- which cannot I k * replaced for many A consoldiated band of 112 pieces Northern could not la- obtained, Great where the Davenport-Christenson pump man built a house* on the land, . year«, the necessity of udopting safety formed one of the attractions at the is installed it is necessary to raise the entered aiui otherwise improved the ■ us no detuiled account is mm!«* of such measures for the prevention of the re Portland Rose Festival. movement. Th«- figures of th«- liar water 600 feet over four perpendicular same anil actually entered into occu ritnan lines show that during the six petition of the tires of l*J(>2 has led to R«*osevelt made a speech in r histor ledges, the highest of w hich is 75 feet. pation thereof, and cultivated a por- weeks of th«* spring movement a total the organization of several cooperative ic hall at Oxford, England, and ex The undertaking, when commenced lion of said land for the period re«|uired of 16,542 )><*r»ona found home« in th«* nsHpciat ions. pressed optimism as to the world’s fu last fall, looked like a mammoth job. Oregon and Washington in 1902 by law. and that no part of th«* land various stat«*» ijik I territories mon ture. The hardest part was to get th«- neces helplessly watched th«- gigantic confla entered has l*een aol«i or convey«*«! or tioned. During the same |>erio<l of sary materials to the place where the Seattle citizens are arouse«! against to be sold or conveyed by 19(»9 only 13.947 colonists moved grations which wiped tail a large wheel was to be install«.-«!. All the contract«*«! the colored regiment of U. S. troops th«* entryman, and wh«*re no contest or through the various gateways fe«l by amount of the visible assets of the material was lowered from the plains states, and also resulted in the destruc stationed at Fort Lawton, and will re 600 feet above to the water’s edge. A other adverse proceedings was com- th«* Harriman road«. This is an in- tion of two towns, Springwater, Or., quest their removal to Alaska. menced against the entryman, am! no- crease for th«* six weeks of 2,595 «-<>1- wheel seven feet in diameter and two tice ther«*uf serv«*«l upon th«* entry man, on iota, or approximately 16 |s*r cent, mid Brush Prairie, Wash., more than A Milwaukee judge says Sunday feet eight inches across the fae«- was prior to the dat«.* of submission of the This comparison, however, docs not 26 lives being halt. closing in that city cannot be enforced, built. The machinery an«i flume were That tire occurred In a dry season in proof thereon, or within two years tell th«* whole story, as the movement because an overwhelming majority of arrang«-«! anil securely fastened to Un the mountains, and was only one of thereafter, provided, that nothing «luring 19 ’ >9 continue«! 14 days longer public sentiment is against it. rocks to prevent them from being the many which rag«-d along the Caa- therein contained shall prevent or fore washed away by high water. Eleven stall any adverse proceedings against than th«- present movement. Reduced catles and adjucent ranges. It is said A steeplejack at El Paso, Texas, fell hundred and sixty feet of pipe are used any entry upon any charge of fraud, rates were in effect last year from by timber cruisers and millmen from 75 feet from a smokestack which he in making the raise of 625 feet. T«-sts and provided further, that any entry March 1 to April 30. For «ome reason the up|a-r waters of th< rivers of the was painting and escaped with a dis of the plant have proved highly suc man who may make* application for unexplaim-d the railroads decided this two states that the year 1910 is thus located wrist and a broken rib. year to reduce the colonist ¡a-rio<l from cessful. patent under the* provisions of this act two months to six w«-eks. According far a duplicate of the conditions which Madriz is warned that if he fires a shall as an additional condition prece ly, comparison can be made only be made |as«sibie the losses of that sea single shot at any vessel carrying the Lumber Camps Can’t Get Men. dent to the* issuance of such pate*nt, 1* tween the entire period this year and son. American flag, his forces will be anni WORK IS ORDERED RESUMED. Anticipating the danger which ia Hood River—The strawberry grow required to pay to the Unit«*«! States the corresponding six weeks of the hilated by United States gunboats. aur«- to exist, an effectiv«- system of pa New York Central President Much ers are not the only employer« of labor $2.50 |>er acre for land so applied for." eight weeks’ period of 1909. The in William D. Crum, colored, of Char who are having their troubles these |Pleased With Settlement. crease in the total movement of the trol ia being placed In o|>eration, the leston. S. C., has been appointed min days. The Oregon Lumber company Oil Well Reaches 3.730 Feet. entire |>eriod this year was not suffi railroads, timber owners, state and Washington, June 8. — President has almost been forced to close its mil! county organizations joining with the ister to Liberia.. He has held the Ontario—The oil well is down to a cient, however, to make th«- move forest service in an cruleavor to pre office of collector of the port at Char Brown, of the New York Central, was at Dee on account of the scarcity of la depth of 3,730 feet. The drill is work ment greater than that of last year. vent the occurrence of fires and to con leston. so pleased at the way in which Presi bor. Manager Charles T. Early says ing in a harder shale than has been trol those which may la* started. A department of public health and dent Taft treated the railroads in the they use three crews—“one coming, found in the well and the color of the FARMERS GUIDED IN LOVE. Many of th«- large railroads on th«* fewer medical colleges were the chief present controversy over rates that he one working and one going.” The la shale is darker than the blue which has Coast have begun clearing their rights borers do not seem to stick long at any points urged in the opening address of been in evidence so long. This is the Dr. William H. Welch, of Baltimore, said tonight he would order the re job and while the yard workers are- sort of cap rock usually found just be Kansas Professor Issues Bulletin on of w ay of all inflammable material for n distanc«- of 10(1 feel on either «id«- of Matrimonial Reform. president of the American Medical sumption of all work on the Central getting $2,50 a day they will not stay fore entering a sand. It ia gem-rally th«- center of th«- truck,¡«-«juipping their which he ordered suspended last Fri with their jobs. One morning re-cently believetl that a sand will soon la- association, at St. Louis. To|>eka, Kan., June 6.—"Farmer« engines with spark arresters an«i In with the aid of Marshal Lewis, Mr. reach«-«! and the oil development of this day. know much more of a specific and re Two San Jose women were found This work, it was said at that time, Early rounded up 20 men in th«- jung section will be past the experimental liable nature about preparing their structing train crews and employ«-« in dead beneath their over-turned auto. tire fighting. Sparks from railroad en would require an expenditure of about les and managed to persuade 13 of them stage and be a permanent reality. hogs for the livestock market than gines have proved the greatest cause The International Horse Show is $5,000,000. It had to do with the im to take the train for Dee and go to they do about preparing their non« and of fire«, and are followed by donkey en open in London, and King Edward is proving of stations, building new ones, work. Eleven were put to work in the Ship 60 Cars Strawberries. daughter« for the matrimonial market. gines, hunters' and campers' fires, mill yard and two others sent on to the laying additional tracks, making yard badly missed. Hood River Fifty cars of straw All the«e important matters are left to smokestacks anil lightnirg. On«- of th«* and roadbed improvements. The Cen timber camp. At noon the Dee office Maya Indians in Yucatan have re tral also will permit the Pressed Steel called up and told Mr. Early they were berries have been shipped from Hood chance and accident tiecauw we have destructive fires of the ('<■«« Bay re River, a record for early shipments. been laboring under the foolish delu belled against Mexico and sacked the Car company. Standard Steel Car com ready for another round-up, as the 11 A good many growers in the lower val sion that love is blind arul not to be in gion was caused by a settler knocking town of Valladolid. the ashen from his pipe among the dry pany and American Steel Car company, men from the yard were beating it ley should clean up their patches dur fluenced by instruction or reaaon.” leaven and twigs beside a log on which Fortunately these ing the coming week. Railroads have agreed to withdraw all of Pittsburg, to go ahead with or down the track. Berries from Thia is the text of an official “score all proposed rate increases, pending a ders given them some time ago for loafers do not stick long in Hood Riv the Crapper and other district«, how card on matrimony,” is»ue«i by W. A. he was resting. An effort will la- made to keep in general conference. 3,000 new freight cars which he esti er, as they ’get thirsty and have to ever, are commencing to come in and a McKeever, professor of philosophy at touch with slash burnings made by move along to The Dalles or Portland. few are also arriving from Mount Congress has authorized Oregon and mated would coet about $1,000 each. the Kansas State Agricultural college, settlers and to warn all persona enter Hood. Washington to fix the boundaries be The orders for these cars were can in a bulletin just issued to farmers of ing the forests of this state of the ne celled Friday also. k Last Horse Cars Vanish. I the state. tween the two states. cessity of exercising care in handling Marcola Mill Start*. Commenting on the agreement reach- ■ Klamath Falls — The horsecar has As a foundation for matrimonial re Chairman Nelson, of the Ballinger- ed with the administration ttxiay. Pres vanished from Klamath Falla. The Eugene—Th«* Southern Pacific com form which Professor McK«-ever will fire. The for«-st land« are now plaster- Pinchot investigatin commission, says ident Brown said: “It was just as electric car is to replace the ancient pany has started one of its sawmills at inaugurate in Kansas, the qualifica ed with warning signs. In this manner it ia hop«-d to save conservation has run riot. good an arrangement as could have means of transportation, The track is Mareola in operation afte- a shutdown tions of the young man and young wo the tremendouua values which arc be been made. ” of three years. The other two mills The Illinois Central railroad has to be removed the entire length of man who apply for marriage licenses coming available with the development been bilked about $2,000,000 by crook Main street and this means that the owne«l by the company in that vicin should be passed Upon by the probata of railroads. Timber m-ctiona which JAPAN AFTER SOUTH POLE. ed officials and big shippers in col city will be without streetcar service ity will be started up as soon as th«*y judge of each county, he says. This at one time «old in Oregon for $500 are in readiness, which will be inside official, he contend», should be empow for two or three months. lusion. of a few weeks. These mills, when ered by state law to hold an examina- have recently changed handa for as The company has applied for a new Expedition Hurries ^to Goal of Ant- Lightning struck the spectators at a operating to their full capacity, em tian and inquire Into th«- fitness of men much as $160,000. On that basis the franchise for Main street. With the 1 arctic Exploration. prevention of forest fires becomes n ball game in Pony, Montana, badly in granting of this the system will be ploy 300 or 400 men. aid women »«-«-king marriage. juring many and tearing off one wo matter of stern business. Victoria, June 8.—Japan is hurrying made thoroughly up-to-date in every man's corset and shoes. All Oregon Items Remain. an expedition under Lieutenant Shiri- particular. New lines will be built on MISS MORGAN OBSERVER SHIP BRAKE IS REJECTED. Washington—The rivers and heritors The corruption fund which defeated ase to leave this month in the hope of side streets and a belt line is to be the fisheries bill in the Illinois legisla anticipating the British expedition to built around the town to make a circle bill was signed by the conference com Daughter of Financier Mingles With ture has been traced to its source, and the South Pole, according to news from the Upper lake down through mittee with all Oregon items nailed Attachment Would Retard Vessel Also Aqueduct Laborers. down. There has been a hard fight it seems certain that the bribe-giver brought by the Weir steamer River Buena Vista addition. When Speed is Sought. New York, June 7.—To see with her will be convicted. A motor car will be put on th«- run against the Oregon items, but the sen Clyde, which reached port today. Washington, June 6. Although it Some Japanese professors are to ac- around town. This is to be a modern ate conferees, at Bourne's instance, in was demonstrated by trial on the bat- own eyes the «-onditiom« under which While swinging by his arm from sisted and finally overcame the house the men wh«* arc building the Catskill the limb of a tree, in Dillon, Mont., company the expedition, which will be passenger car, with a large carrying conferees’ opposition. tleship Italiana that what is known as aqiK-dui-t to New York City are work capacity, and thoroughly equipped. restricted to Japanese. The diet has Frank Harkness, aged 12, struck the the “ship brake” would undoubtedly ing. Mis» Anne Morgan, daughter of J. point of a pair of sheep shears, hung voted money for the enterprise, and stop a vessel in somewhat less time I*. Morgan, went 500 feet below the PORTLAND MARKETS. Transplant Eastern Oysters. on a nail in the tree with the blades when the River Clyde left. Lieutenant than where it was not emp>4y«*d, th«* Wheat Track prices: Bluestem. 84 device has been found unsuitable- for surface of Rondout valley bxlay and outwards, the steel piercing the boy’s Shiriase was at Sendai preparing for Astoria—Four hundred and twenty talked for hour« with gangs of Italian» the voyage to the Antartic. He said sacks of Eastern oysters for trans (085c; club, 80/«/81c; red Russian, 78c; naval usage. heart and instantly killing him. and n«-groes. he world plant the Rising Sun flag at planting at Tokeland for the Toke valley. 84c. The naval board which conducted the When George Cooke, paymaster for the South Pole before other explorers Accompanying her were Mi«» Fran Barley Feed an«l brewing, $19«<r2<» test holds that the brake, which re- Point Oyster company, have been re the Hans Rees Sons’ Tannery, Ashe could reach there. ces Keller, secretary of th«- State Im ton. ceived from Long Island sound. They semble« a bam door on cither side of ville, N. C., reached the company’s Corn—Whole. $32; erncke«!, $33 ton. th«- ship, would soon become clogged migration department, and Dr. David were not the little seedlings that have office, after drawing $5,000 out of the Hay Track prices: Timothy. Wil with barnacles unless constantly em Flynn, sanitary superintendent of th«* been used heretofore and which take Settlers Coming Back. bank to meet payrolls he found to his lamette valley, $206/21 p«-r ton; East ployed. It would also Increase the !«oar«i of water supply. Th«- trip wax about five years to mature sufficient for Washington, June 8. — An unusually utter astonishment that the money was ern Oregon, $226/25; alfalfa, $156/16; danger from torpedo attack, fa- a grav<- made as a result of a criticism publiah- the market, but about the size of an not in the suitcase where he had placed heavy movement of homeseekers this e«l by Miss Keller in a magazine ar grain hay, $ 17(0 18. menace in close evolutions and retard ticle. it. He believes he was a victim of a Spring into various parts of the arid Olympia oyster and will mature in two Oats -No. 1 white, $266/27 per ton. years. This is an experiment but the the speed of the ship. West is indicated by reports that have shrewd broad daylight robbery. Mis« Morgan had little to say of her Fresh fruits Strawberries, $1.2561 come to the reclamation service. Train oyster people believe it is feasible. observations, but »h«- praised th«- en It is believed that sentiment in the loads of settlers have been pouring into 1.50 per crate; appl«*s, $ 1.50c«/3 per Hair Cut From Corpses. gineers and lieg'ged them to “be kind South is turning against prohibition. box; cherritw, 75c6i$1.50 per box Farmers’ Union in Coos. Montana, Oregon and Washington and Victoria, B. C., June 6,- Women in to the poor fellow«.“ Marshificld — A local branch of the ff°2* e berries,5'</6c per pound. President Taft views the increase of large numbers have been seeking the the United States who purchase switch Potatoes -Old Oregon, 65c per hun- es of black hair will be interested to Socialism with considerable apprehen- milder climate of the Southwest. A Farmers’ Co-operative and Educa- Madriz Ready for Mediation. per cheering feature in connection with the tional union was formed in this city by “re'! new California, l\6/2c sion. know that a crusade has been begun by Bluefield«, Nic., Juno 7. General Charles A. Hill, the organizer, who P°' P°uj)d. Jn,l* .. .... ___ movement is said to be the return of against Estrada, leader of th«* provisional gov King George has called a conference Vegetables —Artichokes, 606/75c per the Chinese government has been working in this locality. - of party leaders to settle the house of thousands of American citizens from There are now four or five different ^oz,’ni asparagus, $1.2 •«’o2 per box; Chinese who supply human hair for ernment, has repeated the offer that he Canada, offsetting in a measure the shipment to America. It seems that lords dispute. branches of the union in the <*ountv 1 cubage, 2 116/2'._.c per pound; head a charitable institution of Canton made last March to Madriz lookidg t<> exodus of others to the Dominion. and they will all be brought together l<-’Huce, 506/60c per dozen; hothouse which buries large numbers of paupers the establishment of peace. An equestrian statue of General Cus The condition« of his pro|H>sal pro ter has been unveiled at Monroe, Mich under a county organization. An lettuce, 50c6/$l per box; garlic, 106/ whose relatives are unable to provide Marooned Miner Rescued. vid«* for the friendly 'mediation of the igan, Custer’s home. Seward, Alaska, June 8. — John effort will be ’made" to secure 1,000 12 -c I*r pound; ifeen onions. 15c per coffins found the hair dealers exhuming United States, that country to desig members in Coos county. dozen; radishes, 156/20c; rhubarb, 26/ James M. Lynch has been re-elected Schmitt, of Los Angeles, had a narrow ,3c per pound; spinach, $86/10c per corpees to recover the hair, and when nate the Nicaraguan whom it consider* escape from death late in May while president of the International Typo ; rutabagas, $1.256/ 1.50 per this action was reported to the author i moat fit to occupy the presidency pro- coming down the Susitna river from Creameries Pay Farmers $385,000 graphical union by 22,000 majority. , sack; carrots, 85c6/$l; beets, $1.50; ities action was taken against them. ! visionally, neither Dr. Madriz nor Gen Talkeetna station. His boat was cap Coquille—The dairy industry of Coos parsnips, 75c6/$l. eral Estraila being eligible; th«* pro A wealthy man of Ottawa, III., has sized by floating ice, but Schmitt man county last year yielded the farmers [ Butter—City creamery, extras, 29c Ecuador Recalls Army. visional president to convoke elect Iona bequeathed $50,000 to aid worthy aged to reach a log and made his way $385,000, and 405 tons of butter was 1 per pound; fancy outside creamery, 28 Washington, June 6. -The State de- for a constitutional preaident. young men, provided they do not study to a ledge of rock, where he was ma shipped out of the county. The Nor 6/29c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices partment is officially advised that the rooned without food until rescued by way creamery led in point of produc theology. Steamer Brings #000,000. average 1 ’-¿c per pound under regular movement of the Ecuadorean army the river steamer Alice. He was tion of butter, turning out over 100 from the Peruvian frontier began yes Dawson, Y. T., Jun«* 7. Th«* steam Mrs. Helen Flagg Young, superin nearly dead of starvation and exposure tons. In the same district 365 tons of butter prices. Eggs—Current receipts, 24c, ordi terday. President Alfaro, in his mes er Schwatka arrived from Fairbanks tendent of schools of Chicago, was when found. cheese was produced. sage to the Ecuadorean congress, called yesterday, th«* first boat of th«* year nary candled, 25c; extra, 266/27c. given a reception by five thousand in extraordinary session, statefl that from the lower Yukon. Th«* Schwiitka Pork- Fancy, 126/ i3c per pound. teachers of that city. Summtr Practice Cruise Begin». Marshfield Improves Waterfront. Ecuador warmly accepted the offer of brought $900,001» of Tanana gold for Veal—Fancy, 106/ 11c per pound. Annapolis, Md., June 8.—Bound on mediation by the governments of the Seattle. The gold is being shipp«*d Marshfield — The Marshfield city A suit for $100,000 damages for Lambs Fancy, 9<u 12c per potin«j. false imprisonment has been begun by the annual summer practice cruise for council is planning to clear the water Poultry—Hens, 196/19'„c; broilers, United States, Brazil and Argentina, this year by express. Th«* next st. am " a Los Angeles man against the Bums the instruction of midshipmen, the front of all sh«*ds, boathouses and 286i30c; ducks, 186/25c; geese, 12'¿c; and that he had expressed his apprecia , er will bring $1,000,0(81 of Fairbanks battleships, Iowa, flagship; Indiana buildings, so that it will be possible I turkeys, live, 206/22c; dressed, 25c; tion to the mediating |>owerH. & Sheridan Detective agency. I dust. Th«« Schwatka sail« «! immedi 1 and Massachusetts, with _Captain to have a wide wharf extending the squabs, $3 per dozen. ately for th«* Iditarod, carrying 35 pas It is reported that Madriz has lost George R. Clark as squadron command full length of the business section. To First Nome Boat Arrives. I Cattle—Beef steers, good to choice, sengers to that point and 15 to other all his artillery and 400 prisoners. er, sailed this morning. The cruises do this it will be necessary to condemn $5.456/5.80; fair to medium, $4.456/ Nome, Alaska, June 6. The steam points. 4.80; cows, and heifers, good to ship Corwin, which left Seattle May A banker of Minneapolis has been thia year will include stops at many some of the buildings. choice, $4.506/5; fair to medium, $46/ 10, arrived yesterday after a hard bat fined $5,000 for smuggling two pearl foreign [x/rts. #35.50 Each Man’s Portion. Eugene to Celebrate Fourth. 4.75; bulls, $36/4; stags, $36/4.75; tle with the Behring Sea ice, in which, necklaces at Hoboktxu^N. J. Washington, June 7.—Treasury offi Pittston Strike to Be Settled. Eugene—Eugene will celebrate the light, $5.756/7; heavy, $46/ however, she sustained no serious dam cials figure that if nil the money in Taft would appoint Roosevelt chair- j Wilkesbarre, Pa., June 8.—An early Fourth of July in an elaborate style calves, 5.50. age. All were well onboard. The circulation in the United States were man of a commission to tour the world settlement of the strike of 12,000 this year, the Merchants’ Protective Hogs—Top, $9.606/9.80; fair to me usual demonHti ation was made, the en divided equally, every man, woman in the interest of uiversal peace. ' mineworkers in the Pittston district is association having taken up the matter dium, $8.506/9.50. tire population of the camp going to and child would have $35.59. The total A prisoner at San Quentin, Cal., looked for today. It is possible there after the Commercial club had decided Sheep— Best wethers, $4.506/ 4.75; the beach to greet the first boat. Nome amount in general circulation ia $319,- haunted by the face of his victim, has : may be an adjustment of grievances not to celebrate. An air ship and oth fair to good, $46/4.25; best ewes, has been cut off from direct communi 382,284, of which $298,076,537 was confessed to killing a man in a boxcar without the intercession of a concilia er big attractions will be secured tor $3.756/4; lambs, choice, $5.50(0.6; cation with the active*world since last held in the treasury ns assets of the j fair, $4.756/5.25. tion board. that day. fall. at Spokane. government. Doings of the World at I«arge Told in Brief. Rome, June 8. —Great apprehension has been cause«! again by seismic dis turbances showing that the son«- affect- e«i by the earthquake shocks today is a vast one, embracing practically the whole of Southern Italy, as well as a portion of Tuscany and Venitia to th«- north. Some reports estimate the number of dead at 50, ami of injure«! at several hundred. It is feared that many are burie«! in the ruins of buildings thrown down at Calitri. It is said that in this town half the buildings have been wrecked ami the number of dead is above 35. From many other towns and villages come stories of fallen homes, death and suffering. At San Sole, in the pn»- vince of Potensea, six persons were killed and five injured. The convicts in the prison at Bonavento became panic-stricken and tried to fore«- their way past the guards, but were over powered by troops. The district in which the most seri ous damage m*curred extends for only about 50 miles about Mount Vulture, in the province of Avellino. This region has suffered much in the past from earthquake shocks and in 1851 800 persons were killed. The government has taken holii of the situation with promptitude and al though the earthquake occurred during the night military and civil authorities were soon hard at work giving aid to the injured, preparing shelter for the homeless and bending their energies to the re-establishment of order. RAISE WATER 600 FEET. SILETZ BILL IS PASSED. Kailroads, Timbermen and Of ficials Co-operate. 9