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About Beaver State herald. (Gresham and Montavilla, Multnomah Co., Or.) 190?-1914 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1912)
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume of Important Eventa Presented in Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Philadelphia's registration is 17,208 les« than four years ago. Turks continue active prepara tions for war with the Balkan states. California women suffragists held tbe first pilitical convention ever held exclusively by women. A revenue cutter in San Francisco bay fired upon a smuggling launch, but was unable to stop or overtake her. President Taft and party on a vaca tion through Vermont were enter tained by a son of Abraham Lincoln. Prosecutions in the dynamite cases charge that it was at one time p lanned to blow up the locks on the Panama canal. At the capture of Leon, Nicargua, by Americans, 3 were killed and 4 wounded, while the rebel loss was over 50. AVIATOR SETS MARK. Hydroplane American Fnduranc* Flight Record la Made INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE Annapolis, Md.—A new American record for an endurance flight was linn timber all safe . made here in a hydro «en plane by John H. Towers, a lieutenant of the No Forsst Fir- s Occurred in Cou dy Navy aviation corp*. He was contin This Cummer, uously in the air for 6 hours, 10 min ute* and - 35 -- second*. . _. Albany -For the firat time in more The . best . pre- vious American record, made b.v Paul thHn s quarter of a century Linn Peck, was 4 hours 23 minutes minute* 38 aec- sec county has passed through a summer onds. The distance covered by Lieutenant without a forest tire. Towers was approximately 389 mile*, I Though this was partially due to with six miles to a l«p. V" When the heavy rain* the system of protection best previous record was made. Peck established by the new fire patrol covered 176 miles. The course just association is credited also for this covered was not a measured one. how This association was formed ever. and Towers' distance record i* record. la«t spring by the cwner* of timber not official. The flight was quietly arranged by land in Linn county and established a the American Aero club. Towers •r in rose from the water in rront front or of me the |comPleU‘ l-‘rol Annapolis. I John Marrs, chief fire warden, had aviation field, across • from 1 ■ • . .. 1 •> 1 »a » s».xl unil Isvsl V 011 t *1 Ullil M aVi:. at 6:05 a. in., and did not touch the 21 patrolmen and lookouts and a syr- water again until 35 seconds after 1 tem of telephone lines connecting all p. m. There was only a glassfull of of the lookout stations with his head Besides main fuel in the tank when he alighted. quarters at Lacomb. taining thia system, 35 miles of new He had 42 gallons when he started. trails were built this year, and 50 miles of telephone lines were estab lished through the timber. They also repaired 100 miles of old telephone I lines. All of this work has been done in addition to that accomplished by New York—Postoffice inspectors of the government forest service. two countries, secret service men and This protection cost the timber own the W. J. Burns detective agency are ers 3 cents an acre. Heretofore each investigating the mysterious disap timber company or owner of large pearance of a registered mail package holdings has maintained his own rang containing $200 000, consigned from Havana to the National Park bank, of ers and there was no definite system of co-operation. With all united the this city. fire protection has been placed on an The loss was discovered last Wed efficient system. nesday or Thursday, when a regis $200,000 PACKAGE DISAP PEARS FROM MAIL POLCH Postal inspectors have found part of the $200,000 stolen from a regis tered mail sack en route from Havana tered mail pouch from Havana was to New York. opened in the New York postoflfice. Enrique Maza, a Cuban newspaper When and where the package disap man, who recently assaulted Hugh S. peared, whether in Havana, aboard Gibson, the American Charge d’Af ship or the train which brought it or faires. was sentenced to two and a thereafter, no one has been able to half years’ imprisonment. discover. Postoffice authorities are working Instead of going to church last Sun zealously op the case in the two re- day the neighbors of Mrs. Marguerite Field, a noted writer of Los Angeles, publics, as a matter of course, while gathered and built her a new house, private detectives have been set to to replace the one destroyed by fire a work by the shipper, whose name is not revealed. The National Park week before. bank has no more than a normal in The clerk of the Cleveland Juvenile terest in the ease, as by no possibility and Insolvency court will summon a can the loss fall upon it. jury composed entirely of ball-players MRS. SAGE BUYS BIRD ISLE. to serve during the winter, saying they are trained to think and act without hesitation arid should make Refuge for Migratory Flocks in Gulf Purchased for $150,000 good jurymen. New York—Announcement is made The first farm survey ever attempt ed west of the Rocky mountains is in that Mrs. Russel Sage has purchased progress in the Waldo hills and Marsh Island, off the coast of Louis Howell prairie section of the Willam iana, and will make of it a bird refuge for all migratory birds. It is Mrs. ette valley, Oregon. Sage’s intention to dedicate the island Aviator Walsh was killed while at in perpetuity to this purpose. The tempting the “spiral glide” at Tren plans of administration have not yet ton, N. J. been made. Mrs. Sage will place the control in whatever hands seem best. One was killed and 55 injured when It has not been decided yet whether a runaway streetcar in Pittsburg jump these hands will be those of the Fed ed tbe track and struck a telephone eral government, the State of Louis pole. iana or some association organized for the purpose. Eight were killed and many injured The island cost Mrs. Sage about in a train-wreck in Connecticut. $150,000. It is in the gulf some 200 Railroads count on a much heavier miles southeast of New Orleans. Its colonist travel to the Coast this year length is about 18 miles and the than last. width nine miles at the broadest part. Mine owners at Ely. Nev., have de- The area is approximately 75.000 cided to close the mines for the winter' acres. The birds will be given abso lute protection from poachers of every on account of the strike. description. Bulgarian troops have crossed the ICE INVASION PREDICTED. Turkish frontier and a battle is re ported in which 400 were killed. The board of health of Vancouver, Scientist Fays All Human Skill Will Be Neeoed to Fight Glaciers Wash., has aboslihed public drinking cups and glasses of every description. Ithaca, N. Y.—"1 have no doubt that we are now in an inter-glacial period s milar to those which have PORTLAND MARKETS already existed, and in future the hu man race will have to use all its Wheat—Track prices: Club. 766j knowledge in another fight for its life 77c; bluestem, 80c; forty-fold, 75c; against the encroaching ice,” said valley, 77c. Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, of the Millstuffs — Bran, $21 ton; Bhorts, history department at Cornell. $23; middlings, $29. Speaking of the ice age. he added: Hay—Timothy, choice, $176/18; “I wish to cal) attention to recent No. 1, $16; oat and vetch, $12; alfal discoveries in Switzerland of four dis fa, $12; clover, $10; straw, $66/,7. tinct periods of glaciation, and to the Oats—White. $24.506/25 ton; gray, fact that Professor Winchell, of Min nesota, has been able to produce feed, $24; gray milling, $25.506/26. Fresh fruits—Apples, 60c<&$1.50 definite proofs that Kansas has gone box; peaches, 500160c; pears, 75c6z, through the same four periods. This $1.50; grapes, 756/90c; cranberries, is important, because it proves the contemporaneousness of the glacial $9.50 barrel. ages in both hemispheres.” Melons — Cantaloupes, $1.756/2 crate; watermelons. $1 hundred; cas Uniform Changes Anger. abas $1.256/1.50 dozen. Washington, D. C.—Naval officers Onions—Oregon, $1.10 sack. Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur- are up in arms against the latest or banks, 606175c hundred; sweet pota- der of the department making changes in their uniforms. Each officer will toes, 1)67 2c pound. Vegetables — Artichokes, 756t.85c have to spend $300 to $500 for new un Tbe doz.; beans, 5c; cabbage, ICal }c iforms and changing old ones. pound; cauliflower, 50c6/$1 doz.; cel order, say the officers, imposes finan A num ery, 856i75c; corn, 75c6z;$l sack; cu cial hardship on every one. cumbers, 50c box; eggplant, $1.256/ ber of officers here, tired of continual 1.50 box; head lettuce, 20<S25c doz ; ly having their uniforms altered at peppers, 66i8c pound; radishes, 156/ the whims of bureau chiefs, will try 20c doz.; tomatoes, 506/, 75c box; gar to get a bill through congress forbid 1125 ding changes in naval uniforms with lic, 5616c pound; carrots, sack; turnips, $1; beets, $1.10; par- out express authority from congress. snips, $1.25. Fairbanks to Get Service. Eggs — Oregon extras, 38c doz. ; candled, 36c; case count, 35c. Seattle—President Dickeaon, of the Butter—Oregon creamery, cubes, White Pass & Yukon railway, an- nounces that the Yukon River steam 35}c pound; prints, 36}c. Pork—Fancy, llrtxl l}c pound. ship service of the company, which Veal—Fancy, 13}6/ 14c pound. now extends between White Horse Poultry—Hens, ll}6/12c; broilers, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, will be ll}6/12c; ducks, young, 126/12}c; continued next year to Fairbanks, geese, 11c; turkeys, live, 186z22c; Alaska. 800 miles northwest of Daw son. The people of Fairbanks have dressed, 25c. Hops—1912 crop, prime and choice, appealed -to President Taft and Secre tary of the Treasury MacVeagh to 176119c pound. Cattle—Choice steers, $6.756/6 90; open Fairbanks as a sub-port of entry. good, $6.256/6.65; medium, $66/6 25, Grapefruit Crop Large choice cows, $6</6.25; medium, $56/ Washington, D. C.—Reports on the 5,.25; riv'icf calves, $76/8.50; good heavy calves, $6.256/7; bulls, $361.5; Florida citrus fruit crop say that 7,000,000 boxes, more than half of stags, $4.75615.25. Hogs—Light, $8.25@8.60; heavy, which will be grapefruit, will be shipped out of the state. The citrus 176/7.75. Rheep — Yearlings, 54.256/4.75; season has begun Twenty-three wethers, 13.60(^,4.30; ewes, $2.75@4; thousand cars will be required to move the crop. lambs, $3.85. 840 ACRES SELL »350,000. Large Tract at Madford Bought 8» Oakland, Cal., Company Medford — The largest real estate transaction of 1912 was consummated here when A. A. Davia this week sold to the M. T. Minnie Realty com pany, of Oakland, Cal., 840 acre* of land for $350,000. Two hundred acre* of the land adjoin* the Medford city limits on the East, and until recently was used as a golf course by the Med ford Country club. The balance ia orchard property five mile* northeast of Medford on the Pacific & Eastern Railroad. 430 acre* being in young apple and pear orchard from two to five years of age. The new owners will plant the bal ance to orchard, subdivide and sell it in small tracts. The orchard property which brought $400 an acre consists of a square mile of land, bisected by the railroad. The entire tract is under water. It is ideally located for orchard purposes. included The land is well drained. are the buildings at Davis and the townaite. The Minnie company will carry out Mr Davis’ original inten- tion of subdividing and sailing in small tracts. The property is laid out with roadways for division into five, seven and ten-acre tracts. Mr. Davia purchased the property five year* ago at a fraction of it* present value, but asserts he can do the same thing over again and probably will. VALE PROJECT ON SOON. Bu'ly Creek Irrigaiion Work Sufficient Fu^ds. Has Vale —Word has just been received here that available funds have been secured from Eastern concerns tuffi cient to construct the Bully Creek ir rigation project, which has been hang ing fire for several months. This news comes from D. M. Brogan, who is now in the East and to whose un tiring efforts this project ha« been made possible. Mr. Rigby, of this place, who is connected with Mr. Bro gan in this enterprise, left for Boise to let the contract to parties there. Work will begin as soon as possible. This bit of news, while the details are not yet fully known, has caused muen interest here. The dam will be constructed in the canyon about two miles above the town of Westfall, and the reservoir, when completed, will furnish water for about 40,000 acre« | of now arid land, all of which is in of Vale, I the immediate vicinity acres have been Twenty thousand signed up for water, This enterprise, in connection with the railroad work, ! will make Vale one of the busiest j centers in Eastern Oregon. LOGG'NG ROAO NEAR READY. Rail Line for Crossett Timber Com pany Presages Activity. Astoria—C L. Houston., who has the contract for building about five miles of railroad for the Big Creek Logging company, leading from tide water to Knappa to the Crossett Tim ber company’s holdings, expects to have the road completed in about two weeks. The company has established its camps and has a force of men at work felling and cutting timber so that it will be ready to commence hauling logs in about another month. The Big Creek Logging company is a subsidiary of the Crossett company, and the latter owns approximately 2,500,000,000 feet of standing timber in that district, sufficient to keep its camp running for 50 years and still take out 50,000,000 feet of logs an nually. This timber tract is among the largest and most valuable individ ual holdings of the kind in the state. ELECTRIC LINE PROVIDING. Grand Rond* Citizen* Pleated Over Prospect* Now. La Grande—Grand Rondo citizens are much pleased over the prospects for an electric line which is to girdle the valley.' Much talk has been going the rounds the past few year* of the feasibility of such a line and several parties of capitalists have had the matter under consideration, though nothing of moment has been done un til lately. A survey extending from La Grande to Cove, thence to Imbler and back via Alirel and Island City having ju*t been completed. The surveying party worked with the utmost secrecy, and no definite in formation could be gained. Rumors, however, have it that the company which owns the Boise and Idaho Inter- urban lines is the one interested in this new project. The route ax pro- jected covers only the level portion of the valley However, it ia under stood that Summerville, lying in the extreme north end of the level valley, and Elgin, lying a little further north across a small range of hills, will bid for the line to be extended to their towns. PROJECT UNIT UNDER WAY. Reclamation in Lost River Country to Start Immediately Klamath Falls—The contract for the second unit of the United States reclamation work on this project has been let. The bids were opened Au gust 20. and forwarded to Washing ton, D. C.. and the contract has now been completed by the secretary of the interior. It is believed that the season is so late that only enough work will be done this fall to comply with the terms of the contract, which requires 10 per cent of the whole excavation to be done by December 31, 1912. The work is divided into seven schedules and covers more than 300,- 000 cubic yards of excavation. The steel flume across Ix>«t river is being built by the Reclamation ser vice, as is the connecting canal from the end of the main canal on the first unit. The flume structure is done Line Wants Orders Modified Salem—The Sumpter Valley Rail and the steel on the ground. road company, which filed an injunc tion suit to restrain the railroad com OLD LAND’S YIELO LARGE. mission from enforcing its recent or der reducing the passenger and freight Tract Farmed Since 1850 Produces tariffs on its road, also filed with the II Bushels an Acre. state railroad commission a petition to Albany —The remarkable record of have the commission’s order modified. Where the commission ordered the use a yield of 11 bushels of clover seed an of the Spaulding scale in measuring acre on land which has been farmed lumber, the comoany asks for permis since 1850, was established this sea sion to use the Scribner scale, saying son by Ed Meeker, ex-county recorder this latter is the one in common use of Linn county, on his farm seven along its road. It also asks to have miles north of this city. He raised an the rate on logs fixed by weight in average of 11 bushels an acre on a field of 10} acres. The land on which stead of measurement. this clover was raised is part of the old donation land claim which John Many Fish Distributed. Meeker, the present owner's father, Oregon City—8. 8. Mohler, of this took up. city, who left here in May, and who has been distributing 110.000 fish in Linn County Apples Abundant. 90 different lakes, for the govern Albany — Linn county will market ment, returned to his home in this five or six times as many apples this city. Mr. Mohler’s trip wax very suc cessful, only a few of the fish having year ax in 1911. County Fruit In perished on the trip. One trip cov spector Rumbaugh estimates that the ered over 60 miles, and only five of total yield of marketable apples in the the fish were dead when the destina county will be close to 20,000 bushels. tion was reached. The work has been Last year’s crop was light and there very satisfactory to the government. is a good average yield this season. Although hardships were encountered, The prune crop in this County is light this year and Rumb^igh umbatigh estimates the trip was made without mishap. that the yield is or nly . *5 or 30 per cent of a normal crop. In some orch- Grange Defines Stand. La Grande—Indorsement of the so- ards half an average crop has been called majority amendment to the con harvested. stitution, to be voted on at the No Msgone Strawberries Marketed. vember election, was given by Blue Mountain Grange No. 345, at its last Oregon City—A. Splinter, of Maple meeting. The grange unanimously Lane, brought 17 boxes of delicious adopted the resolution, in which it Magone strawberries to Oregon City held that the present excessive use of recently that were raised on his half the initiative is its worst enemy and acre of land, which is in these plants expressed the belief that a remedy The other land on hie farm is under lies in the proposed measure, making cultivation, but is planted to other necessary a majority vote of all elec varieties of berries and fruit. The tors at any election to change the con price he received for his berries was stitution. 12} cents a box. I APPLE SHOW APPROACHES Many Important Question* to 8* Dis cussed at bpokana Mast. Spokane--"The four national apple •how* given thus far havu aided ma terially in placing northwest apple* on the map; now the chief function Is to ■olve the big problem* confronting the Industry," »aid H. Ç. Sampson, vice president and general manager of the Fifth National Apple »how. which will be held in Spokane, November 11 to 17 incluseive. “Great stress will be laid on the conference to be held during the show, in which growers, bankers, traffic uffi cial* and business men will partici pate,” added Mr Sampson. "Expert* in these line* will discus* these sub ject*: Choice of site, air drainage, water drainage, selection of stock, cultivation, pruning, »praying, pick ing, packing, financing, disposition of by-product*, transportation, and mar keting or distributing. Of these subject*. I consider the disposition of by-products and marketing the moat pressing question* demanding our at tention. “We want all the growers’ union* and organisation* to send representa tive* to this conference, and we need all the growers with u* in this move ment. When it i* suggesti-d that in a few years the Pacific Northwest will be shipping more carload* of apple*, which are perishable, than of wheat, the question of distribution become* of vital importance. “It is the intention of the hoard of governor* and board of trustee* to make the National apple show of the greatest |«>**ible service to growers, shippers, unions, common earlier*, in fact, to all classes connected with the industry. If we c*n thia year throw light on the vital problem*, we will feel amply repaid for the large outlay of time and money. From talk* I have had in a number of district* of the Pacific Northwest, I feel sure we can go a long way toward clarifying the apple situation." INDIANS REAL FARMERS. Sioux Make Remarkable Display at Firat Native Exhibit. Poplar, Mont.—Hocesan, an Assin- niboine, was awarded the highest hon ors as an Indian agriculturist at the Fort Peck reservation fair, the firat Indian county fair ever held in the United State*, with 33 varieties of grain* and vegetable* exhibited. He carried off the Ixiuis W. Hill ail- ver cup for the beat individual land products shown. Among the posiucts he raised is a cabbage weighing 52 pounds, one of the largest ever raised in the world, agricultural experts de clare. Hocesan’» farm is near Fra ser. Mont. He had, as com |>eti tors, Indian farmers representing a dozen tribe* of the Sioux nation. The fair is being watched with great interest by United States government agricul tural experts, in view of the fact that ■Mt vear acres of land in the reservation will tie thrown open to white settlers. The Indians who have taken to farming already have made a start which would make any white farmer envious in a new country. The amazing thing about their success is that they did litte or no cultivating. "It must be the soil," said Hoce- san. “for all I did was to plant the seeds. “ This statement on the part of the prize winner made the judge smile. A feature of the sport programme in connection with the fair was the vic tory of the Fort Peck football team over the Glacier Park eleven, 3 to 0. This gridiron contest between the Sioux and Piegan Indian nations wax of the brand of which Yale and liar vard would be proud. Prosecution Given Free Hand. Indianapolis — Not only evidence of the alleged illegal interstate shipment of dynamite and nitro-glycerine, but also evidence as to what wax done with the explosives, will be admitted at the trial of the 46 men accused of complicity in the "dynamiting plots.” Federal Judge Anderson has so ruled. Hix decision, thus opening to the prosecution the right to show a motive by going into the details of many explosions, including that which wrecked the I-os Angeles Times build ing, October 1, 1910, followed the im paneling of a jury and a severe ar raignment of the defendants in the opening statements by District Attor ney Miller. Consul Seizes Steamship. New York —The steamship Mace donia, scheduled to sail for Piraeus with 2000 passengers aboard, was com mandeered, just before sailing time, by the Greek consul-general at this port. Ail passengers, with their bag gage, were hurriedly sent ashore and the vessel prepared to sail at once for Philadelphia to take on a cargo of am munition. The Macedonia will return to New York, the consul-general said, for the reservists of Greece and the Balkan state who plan to sail on her to take part in the threatened war. TFrance Would Prevent War. Paris—France and Russia are in complete accord on all question* relat ing to the Balkan situation, but the programme they are to follow has not been divulged. The delicate conditon created by the presence of nearly 1,- 000,000 armed men face to face on the frontier is recognized here and the government is considering the best means of preventing a conflict. Re fusals of financier* to loan the Balkan states is a factor in favor of peace. Fighting Begins London—An engagement has taken place south of Harmanli, a Bulgarian town 87 miles north of Adrianople, ac cording to a Constantinople dispatch. TURKS EAGER FOR STRUGGLE e Moslems Curse Slavs, Declaring They Are Not Afraid. Legatlone Are Attacks and Windows Broken - Troop* Called Out— Contempt tor Bulgarians. Constantinople—-Sentiment in favor of war is increasing In Turkey. Sev eral thousand persons held mu« meet ing In tbe mosque of Sultan Ahmed I, at Stamlxtul, at which all references to the Balkan states were greeted with cries of “cursed be Bulgaria, Servia, Greece and Montenegro. Several leaders of the Liberal party addressed the meeting, declaring that Turkey waa ready to face all her foes. Hilma Pasha and Munhir Pasha have been appointed cabinet ministers without portfolios. This step waa taken in view of the gravity of the situation. There were continued reports of skirmishes on the frontiers, but no definite news concerning them was re ceived. The Servian minister will depart from Constantinople immediately, leaving the legation in the hands of a charge d'affaires. Hostile demonstration« against the Italian embassy and the Bulgarian and other Balkan legations were re newed by the populace. They were more violent in form than those of the preceding day. Many window* were brffxen by shower* of bricks and stone* and the troop* were called to nssist in dispersing the rioter*. Contempt fur the military qualltie* of the Balkan fwuple is prominently shown in the word* and mien of Turk ish soldier* from the highest to the lowest. The feeling is obvious also among Turkish civilian* of high position, and If confidence In victory can win for the Moslems In the event of war with the Christian*, the triumph of Turk ish arms is aaaured. OUTLAWS ROB EXPRESS. Oyramit* Sat«« and Ransack E»press • nd Mail Car*. Westville, Okla. Four masked men held up Kansas City Southern passen ger train No 4. northbound, three and a half miles north of Poteau, ran sacked the mails, blew open the safe in the expre«» car and retreated into the wood-covered hills that skirt the railroad at that point. The men boarded the train a* it stopped at ■ crossing a short distance from Poteau. Crawling over the tender, two of them covered the en gineer an I fireman with revolvers, while the others robbed the mail and express cars. After wrecking the express car safe with nitro glycerine the robbers en tered the mail car and demanded all the “through” mail. Refusing to accept the clerks' word that there was none, they ransacked the pouches, get ting not more than a dozen letter«, that are believed to have contained little of value. The loot from the expresa car is estimated at $10.000. The bank at Heavener. Okla., is said tn have had $7000 on the train, The loot was carried away in a gunny sack. Turke and Italians Make Peace Ixindon —Peace between Italy and Turkey waa signed at Ouchy, Switzer land. according to a new agency dis patch received here from Paris. Constantinople — That the Turkish cabinet voted to accept Italy's late»t proposal for peace is the announce ment made from an authoritive source. The preliminary agreement* were to be signed upon the arrival at Ouchy of a special Turkish emissary, who left , Oinstantinople immediately after the cabinet meeting. Woman Strong on Ballot Sacramento Out of the 52 candi dates for presidential electors, 13 each from the Prohibition. Socialist, Demo cratic and Republican parties. 11 are women, ax shown bv the tentative sam ple ballot. The Prohibitionist* have three, Mrs. Annie E. K. Bidwell, Stella B. Irvine and Lucy 8. Blanchard. The Socialists have five, Jennie Ream, Rose Balker, Ida Kinney, Ethel Lynn and Mary Garbutt. The Democrats have two, Mary Bourn Tucker and Mary K. Foy. The Republican "Progressives“' have one, Mrs. Florence C. Porter. Miners To Return to Work. Butte. Mont.- President Donaghue, of the Montana Federation of Labor, who has just returned from Great Falls, said the miners affiliated with the United Mini-workers of America who laid down their tools In all Mon tana coal mines last Monday, pending the adoption of a new wage agree ment, would accept the proposed scale and that work would be resumed next week. Mr. Donaghue said there wax little oppoxition to the proponed scale. Russians Cheer Bulgarians. St. Petersburg—The departure from St. Petersburg for the front of the Bulgarian officers of the reserves was the occasion of a great Slav demon stration at the Varsay depot. M. Bashnakoff, editor of the Official Mes senger, who had been deputed by the Slavonic society, addressed an in formal meeting In the imperial wait ing room, assuring his brother Slavs that Russia would support them for weal or woo. 4