DURANGO SACKKD BY REBELS
Refugees Tell of Narrow Escape
From Mexican Town.
San Francisco - Details of the occu-
pation of Durango by Mexican rebels
are told by refugees who arrived here
on the Pacific Mail steamer City of
Sydney, whose passenger list, like
those of all vessels arriving here from
Mexican ports, was made up largely
Mt. Tamalpais Parka and Summer of people who fled the disordered coun­
Residences Doomed Cities
try. Of those who arrived, one party
, of 81 persons traveled across the des­
In Imminent Danger.
ort afoot and on mules from Durango
to the coast, a distance of 160 miles,
San Francisco, Thursday Five men closely pursued by bandits.
are re|s>rted to have been burned to
When the opposing forces met at
death on the Larkspur aide of Mount Durango, say members of the party,
Tamalpais.
A correspondent of the 4200 rebels commanded by General
Associated Press talked with men who Toma I'rbino, and 800 Federals, 600
said they saw the five carried away on state troops and 600 volunteers com­
stretchers toward Mill Valley.
manded by General Escadero Aneya
The report that the Mount Tamal- > participated. Both sides had guns.
When the rebels entered the city,
pais Are hail swept Into the big red- |
wood grove, Muir Woods, was con­ the refugees say, they freed 400 pris­
firmed here at midnight.
Immediate­ oners from the jails, robbed the banks
ly a train wax assembled and hundreds ' of 9600,000 In gold and sacked the
of fire fighters were dispatched to join city, Colonel Hernandez, of the Fed-
those now striving to eave the big eral army, was placed against a wall
trees. The great grove is one of the and shot.
noted show places of the state.
K. W. Stepp, a civil engineer, who
The women ami children of Mill was one of the passengers, was shot
Valley are standing in terrorized through both legs in the Durango bat­
groups in the street, clutching a few tle. Mrs. Thomas Matthews said just
of their most precious belongings, and as she was leaving her home in Dur­
watching the approach down Blythe­ ango a band of the rebels threw dyna­
dale Canyon of the Mount Tamalpais mite into the house and demolished it.
fire. The husbands and fathers, aided
Other members of the party told of
by 2000 men from the army and navy, the murder of Oliver Palmer, a tele­
are battling bravely to check the graph operator who had refused to
flames. At another point 800 civilians open h safe in his office, and of the
are fighting flames.
robbery of Theodore O. Hamm, Amer­
The fire, which had been considered ican consul at Durango.
no longer dangerous early in the day, 1
was whipped into action by the after­ KIND PLOT TO KILL HUERTA
noon breezes from the sea, and it
raged down the cunyon, leaping the
Zapatistas Manufacture Bombs
burned-out path of the backfire, until
und Practice Throwing.
at 9 o’clock it was reported a mile and
three-quarters of a mile from the j
Mexico City—A plot to assassinate
town. The wind slackened towards President Huerta, General Felix Diaz
night, which gave some hope, but and General Bianquet, the war minis­
dwellers in the canyon were ordered to ter, has been frustrated by the arrest
abandon their homes.
of one deputy and 10 others of no
Residents of the whole district spent great importance. It is said that the
a long day of extreme
anxiety. intention was to use bombs at some
Among the
noteworthy properties opportune time when these officials
threatened wax the country estate of were driving through the streets.
Ralston ixivell White, known as tbe
Documents were found on the pris­
"Garden of Allah,” which is valued at ’ oners identifying them as supporters
$1,000,000. Th«- estate Is in charge of Zapata and netting forth an outline
of Mrs. William Tierney, a young wo­ of the plot. Several of the prisoners
man whose husband is with the fire­ have confessed. In a building some­
fighters. She refused to leave her du­ what remotely located, they had prac­
ties as caretaker.
ticed throwing bombs, studying the
Three automobiles in the garage effect.
were left to their fate for lack of any-
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The
American ___________
ambassador ________
’s note of
one to drive them to safety. The val- protest to the foreign office against
uable paintings, tapestry and some of permitting an anti-American demon-
the furniture, were removed. Much atration has had certain indirect re
of the prize poultry had to be aban- suits, although the government did not
done«!.
absolutely forbid the holding of what
The Are in Baltimore Canyon also is officials style "a popular manifesta-
reported to have leaped a trench dug tion of patriotism."
to halt it. It is said that about 800
A demonstration took place in the
civilians are making a desperate stand capitHl but not more than 400 persons
against this tire, which threatens the participated. There were no speeches
towns of Corte Madera and Larkspur. and few cries against Americans. The
An entirely distinct fire has started line of march was through the princi­
down Redwood Canyon and is charg­ pal streets and the manifestants halt­
ing on the Muir forest of Sequoias. ed in front of a big Japanese store
Cottages near Muir Woods are burn­ crying vivas for Japan.
Small silk
ing.
Japanese flags were carried with the
Mexican colors. A detachment of po­
Homestead Bill Is Reported.
lice accompanied the procession and
Washington, D. C.—Senator Cham- the minister of war, General Bianquet,
berlain, chairman of the public lands followed in an automobile,
committee, laid before his committee
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Senator Borah's bill amending the HAS ADOPTED 300 CHILDREN
three-year homestead law, and after a
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brief discussion the bill wax unani- okuhoma Millionaire Would In-
mously favorably reported.
crease Number to 1000.
This bill seeks to make the three-
Tulsa, Okla__ Charles Page,
year law a real benefit to homestead-
_ reputed
era by providing that in lieu of culti- to be worth 15,000,000, has adopted
vating 20 acres of land during the 300 poor children and hopes to swell
third year of residence, homesteaders the number to a thousand. He has
may show good faith and satisfy the provided that at his death the bulk of
law by making improvements on their , his estate will go toward helping poor
land amounting to $1.60 for each acre children and maintaining a home he
entered.
has established at Sand Springs, a
The merit of the bill was quickly suburb of Tulsa,
recognized by members of the commit-
Page has financed a streetcar line
tee and no opposition wax made to it. which runs from the village to the
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home, and each day the poor children
San Francisco Pleasure Resort
Swept By Flames.
Polar Explorers in Nome.
wh° do
! at the
arv
ered up and taken out there, where
t^Cy aro taught in one of the best
schools of the Btate.
He has also provided that any boy
or girl who may wish a college educa-
tion after completing the course in his
school can select the institution that
he wishes to attend. Page will defray
all expenses.
Connected with the home he runs a
farm and canning factory, where the
boys and girls can work in off hours,
and every branch of manual training
and domestic science is taught by
i skilled teachers.
Page takes a great interest in his
Daniels to Visit Northwest.
adopted children and when able to
Washington, D. C._ Secretary of get BW«y from his office enjoys noth-
thc Navy Daniels will visit Portland in* better than a romp with them.
July 20, on his way from the Puget
Five Scholarships Offered.
Sound navy yard to San Francisco, and
will return to Portland July 28 on his
Washington, D. C.—The Guatemal-
way to Spokane.
~‘l! Rn government, through Minister Men-
be at Seattle July 16 to 18 and will
inspect the Bremerton navy yard. 1 H« dez, has offered the United States five
..
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_.
Nome, Alaska The ( anadian 1 olar
exploration ship Karluk haa arrived
here from Victoria, B ,C., with 12 of
the scientists who will go with Vilh-
jalmer Stefan.sson into the Arctic. A
few hours later the steamship Victoria
arrived with Stefansson, Dr. R. M.
Anderson, hin lieutenant, and James
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__ oceanographer.
_ _
While here
Murray,
supplies will be transferred to the
auxiliary boat Alaskan, which will
take the Southern party, under Dr.
Anderson, from Nome to Victorialand
for scientific research work.
29 in Spokane.
Hail as targe as Walnuts.
Columbus, O.—A terrific rain and
hail storm swept parts of Columbus
and vicinity Thursday afternoon, do­
ing great damage in the city and coun­
try. Hailstones ax large as walnuts
were shoveled up after the storm,
which lasted less than ten minutes.
Fruit trees were stripped bare and
truck farms were shorn of the grow­
ing crops.____ ____________
Price of Coffee Fallifig.
New York There was a break of
fully a half cent In coffee Thursday,
the culmination of heavy selling which
haa been in progress for several
months, and which has caused a de­
I
boys and girls desirious of pursuing
courses in .Guatemalan institutions of
learning. These scholarships include
Imard, lodgings, uniforms and wash­
ing. and are good for courses either in
military, academic or technical insti­
tutions. In throwing Guatemalan in­
stitutions open Senor Manuez writes:
"My government is animated by the
ardent spirit of Pan-Americanism.”
Aeroplane Rights Itself.
New York — Christopher J. Lake,
one of the inventory of the "even
keel" submarine boat used in the
United States navy, has reported to
the Aero Club of America that he and
his son, Simon Lake, have evolved a
type of aeroplane, which tested by
being inverted at an altitude of 60
feet, easily recovered its balance and
cline of 6 cents a pound in coffee since
made a safe and easy descent
last October.
DECLARES WAR ON BULGARIA
FARM »° ORCHARD
Not— and ¡mtruction» from Agricultural Collcg— and Experiment Station»
of Oregon and Wathlngton. Specially Suitable to Pacific Coati Condition»
Burning Spoiled Hay Waste.
Great Possibilities of Truck Farm­
ing in Frames.
Roumania Starts to Collect Prom*
ixed Payment for Neutrality.
London—The king of Roumania haa
declared war on Bulgaria.
The Rou­
manian minister at Sofia has been re­
called.
The Sofia correspondent of
the Times sends this announcement
early Saturday morning.
It is expected that Roumania’s first
step will be tbe occupation of the 2600
square miles of territory which she
claims from Bulgaria as compensation
for her neutrality in the late war.
This strip extends from Turtukai to
Baltcbik, on the Black Sea, and in­
cludes the city of Silistra.
The Bulgarians' plan to drive a
wedge between the Greek and Servian
armies in the neighborhood of Guevg-
heli has failed completely.
The last
reports of the fighting received from
Athens show that the Servians and
Greeks at this point are combining
their forces, while the Roumanian
army is beginning a>. invasion of Bul­
garia.
The latter fact doubtless was the
deciding factor in the Bulgarian ap­
peal to the powers for peace. How far
Bulgaria’s defeat is due to dissensions
in high military quarters, which re­
sulted in the resignation of General
Savoff, and how far to the fact that
tbe Bulgarian troops, which bore the
brunt of the hard fighting in the last
campaign, were more exhausted than
the Greeks and Servian forces, will
probably never be known.
Nothing can be predicted at the mo­
ment as to how events will shape
themselves, the Roumanian invasion
of Bulgaria having brought an entirely
new factor into the problem. Russia
and France are devoting their efforta
to persuading the allies to adopt a
moderate attitude in order to facili- j
tate a peaceful set’lement.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor­
vallis. — "Every ton of this spoiled
Intensive truck farming under sash
hay contains as much plant food as is or cloth covers is becoming one of the
taken away from the farm in 30 bush­ , most popular and profitable lines of
els of wheat, or 66 bushels of oats, or outdoor work, three acres being all the
200 bushels of potatoes, or 600 bushels ground required to produce a very
of apples, or one ton of fat hogs, or ; comfortable living. It is, of course,
four tons of milk, or ten tons of but­ necessary that a good market for the
ter.
Every acre of this spoiled hay produce be within easy reach, a mar-
that is applied to the land will permit j ket that is willing to pay top prices
the raising of three 30-bushel wheat for extra fancy and early vegetables,
crops, or five 40-buahel oat crops or for the sash farmer’s cucumbers, snap
three 200-buahel potato crops, or three ; beans, etc., rank in the vegetable
600-bushel apple crops, without any market about the same as hot house
depreciation in the fertility of the grapes in the fruit stores.
soil, and where applied to lands not
Naturally, a considerably larger
now giving a maximum crop will I capital is required than in ordinary
bring a greatly Increased yield and truck farming, but the original outlay
still leave the soil enriched.”
for frames and sash is an interest-pay­
This remarkable statement was ing investment. Roughly, it will cost
made by Professor H. D. Scudder, 10 cents per square foot to equip a
head of the department of agronomy, garden with sash protection, and, with
at the Oregon Agricultural college in reasonable care, these sash should
answering the question of what to do give 10 to 12 years’ service, says a
with the spoiled hay now engaging the Farm and Home expert.
farmers’ serious attention.
In many localities there is an abun­
"The question has come to us what dance of sunshine at all seasons of the
to do with this spoiled hay, which is year and an absence of extremes of
valueless for feed," said Professor temperature. In these regions a very
Scudder. "Many farmers are leaving slight covering or the application of a
it on the ground and it is killing out small amount of heat will carry plants
the gruwth underneath the cocks or through the winter in good condition.
windrows, so that when it is removed These conditions prevail in North Car­
the weeds will! spring up and injure olina and tide-water Virginia, and
the second cutting.
Other farmers large areas are devoted to frame­
are rolling it up and burning it. Tbe trucking, using, not glass, but cloth
folly of this can be seen at a glance. coverings.
Vegetables
grown in
It should be hauled to the barnyard frame are shipped in carload lots from
and thrown in deep piles. It other these sections. Naturally, the cloth-
words, it should be composted or al­ covered frames are less expensive
lowed to rot. If it inclines to ’fire­ than sash, the cost being from 35 to
SUFFRAGETTE ADMITS ARSON
fang’ it should be wet down a little. 50 cents a running foot for a bed 14
In many canes it may be hauled off feet wide. In most sections the glass
Also Claims She B’ew Up Cotton
and spread at once on the Stubblefield covering is necessary.
or paxture that is to lie plowed thia
Exchange in London.
While three acres is a good sized
fall. Before plowing it should be sash farm, a somewhat larger area
Liverpool—Mrs. Edith Rigby, mili­
thoroughly disked
and
thoroughly should be available in order that the tant suffragette who has already been
mixed with the surface soil.
frames may be moved once in three arrested and released on various oc­
"Every ton of this damaged hay is years to guard ’against disease.
The casions
after undergoing
hunger
equal approximately to four tons of type of frames varies in different lo­ strikes, voluntarily gave herself up to
fresh manure in plant food value. Ap­ calities. but generally they are no the police and confessed dramatically
plied to ground which is -to be put in more elaborate or expensive than is in court to incendiarism.
potatoes, barley or corn next year, a' absolutely necessary. The usual type
Mrs. Rigby told of having burned
very marked effect will be seen.”
has for its sides two lines of 12 inch Sir William H. Lever s $100,000 coun­
It was also pointed out by Professor boards set on edge and held in place try residence at Rivington, near Hor-
Scudder that the farmer who has dam­ by stakes driven into the ground, the wich, Lancashire, as a "beacon lighted
aged hay in the field and will make bed being 6 feet wide, and as long as for the king and the country to see
use of it as a fertilizer will suffer lit­ may be desired.—Farm and Home.
women suffering an insupportable
tle or no loss of the value he would
grievance. ”
She also confessed to
have received for it as marketable
being the perpetrator of the dynamite
Borrowing
Money
on
Land.
hay.' The principle governing here is
Swiss farmers find it comparatively outrage at the Liverpool Cotton Ex­
the same as that which requires that
change July 5.
hay be not sold at all, but be fed to easy to borrow money of the mortgage
"I placed the explosive in the stock
banks
which
exist
in
many
of
the
can-
;
livestock on the farm, for when thus
exchange to show how easy it is to
tons.
The
chief
advantage
secured
by
fed 80 per cent of this fertility is re­
procure them and to place them in
turned to the soil while the finished the farmer in placing a mortgage with public buildings,” she said. "I might
product sold, such as pork, beef, or the cantonal or state mortgage banks just as easily have blown up the Nel­
mutton brings a fancier price than, is that he escapes the necessity of re­ son monument.
"I chose the Liver­
the raw material from which it was paying the principal of his mortgage pool Cotton Exchange because the cot­
made. When clover is manufactured in a single payment, and he is prac­ ton industry has been built largely by
into butter almost the entire fertility tically relieved from the danger of women’s labor.
The merchants are
content is retained upon the farm, for foreclosure according to Farm and willing to get power and wealth out of
Home.
the ton of clover hay contains $8.60
labor of women while the women
The interest rate charged by the
worth of plant food, while a ton of
themselves are denied the vote and
butter contains 50 cents’ worth of cantonal mortgage banks is about the citizenship. This is the first knock at
plant food.
The farmer gets $10 a same as that collected by other banks. the door. Under the ‘cat and mouse’
ton for the clover hay, while for the For instance, a farmer wishes to raise act one of the greatest women in the
finished goods, butter, he gets $600 a a loan of $10,000 on his property. He land is going to be done to death. If
ton. His advice to the farmer is this: secures the money from the cantonal the government is going to kill that
He could prob­
“Don’t burn the hay, for the bulk of; bank at 4 J per cent.
woman, this is a warning.”
its fertility content, nitrogen, goes up ably do as well for himself if he went
Mrs. Rigby has been a member of
in smoke. Or don’t leave it lying on to private sources, but here is where the Women’s Social and Political
the field, for then it destroys the the cantonal banks help him out. If Union, the militant suffragette organ­
meadows and brings in weeds. Cer­ he went to a private bank to borrow ization, for many years, and has taken
tainly there should be no question as money at 4| per cent for a stated num­ a great part in public movements to
to what should be done with the ber of years, he would be required to promote the welfare of women. She
pay that bank hie interest each year,
spoiled hay."
is the wife of a physician at Preston.
and the full amount at the end of the
Watering Hogs in Winter.
term.
Research Fund Is Started.
The bog will drink too little water
Now, with the cantonal bank he is
in the winter time if some way is not required to pay each year, in addition
Kansas City—A resolution provid­
devised to coax him to drink copiously. to his 4 J per cent, 1 per cent as amor­ ing a commission of 25 members to
Warming the water and mixing with a tization. After the first payment he take charge of raising by subscription
little mill feed, meat meal, tankage or owes the bank $10,000 less 1 per cent. a $1,000,000 endowment for a national
ground corn is an excellent way to get Naturally, the second year he must research and scientific foundation fund
a maximum of water info the pig’s pay interest, not on the $10,000, but for dentists was adopted at Saturday’s
stomach. I believe that it is practi­ on $9,900. However, his actual pay­ session here of the annual convention
cally impossible to get a hog to drink ment is still 5i per cent of the $10,000. of the National Dental association.
too much water in the winter time.
The object of the fund is to enable
Each year, however, a larger propor­
Do not spare the bedding.
I have tion of this 5J per cent goes to liqui­ dentists to leave their practice and en­
observed in countless instances that date the loan. In this way the farmer gage in research work.
More than
cold, poorly bedded houses were large­ ultimately pays back the entire loan $15,000 has been subscribed toward
ly responsible for unprofitable gains. without having been burdened with the fund at the convention here.
The hog suffers as much from the cold one big payment in any year, as he
Rochester, N. Y., was chosen as the
of winter as he does from the heat of ordinarily would have been.
Only in meeting place of next year’s conven­
summer. Being thin coated, he is not very rare cases are the loans made by tion.
able to stand much cold weather unless these mortgage banks on farm proper­
very fat. It takes feed to supply this ties foreclosed.
Bulgarian Rout Reported.
extra energy to warm the hog kept in
Athens — Official dispatches report
a cold house. Shelter is cheaper than
that continued pursuit of the Bulgar­
Religion Shown by Sacrifice.
feed.—John M. Ervard, in Farm and
In every age a test of religion has ians and a desperate battle in the
Home.
been its power to call out sacrifice. passes of Mount Belissi and on the
The Best Rahbit’Dog.
The great temples of the past could be road from Deiran to Stramitza, result­
Most lads think they must have a built only by individual self-sacrifice. ed in complete victory for the Greeks.
hound to hunt rabbita, but as one of The direction of self-denial must be The capture of these passes was a dis­
the "old boys,” I prefer sharp-scented towards the noblest and most unselfish aster for the Bulgarians, as it enabled
cur dogs of medium size.
They are ends, putting the good of others in the the Greeks to attack the rear of the
better than any hound I ever tried. place of self-indulgence. — The Chris­ Bulgarian Fourth Army corps, which
had its front fortified against the Serv­
A hound depends altogether on scent tian Register.
ians. The Bulgarians fled headlong
and makes too much noise, which
from the furious assault of the Greek
Cruel Predictions Fulfilled.
frightens rabbita and they soon hole.
Hounds are always in the way around
The mother of Nero, when warned infantry, who captured nine guns.
the house and of very little worth ex­ by soothsayers that her son would be­
X-Ray Tube Inventor Dies.
cept for tracking.
A cur dog will come emperor and then put her to
Hartford, Conn.—Burton F. Baker,
look under brush, etc., and start game death, would not believe it; yet both
much quicker than a hound. They are events came to pass, for after depriv­ inventor of an X-ray tube, died at his
not so apt to hole game and are of ing her of all her honor and power he home here Friday. He was taken ill
much more worth on the farm than was terrified by the menaces she made last September, since which time no
hounds.—J. H. Andre, in Farm and and her high spirit] and commanded fewer than nine operations were made
by scientists in Philadelphia, New
Home.
that she be killed.
York and Hartford in a vain effort to
save his life.
He virtually was a
Made Sure of Suicide.
Hunts Hares With Auto.
victim of constant exposure to the X-
A machine gun to commit suicide
Sport in a new form now appeals to
rays.
was used by a private in a German a New Zealand farmer. Driving in a
Baker received only a common school
regirtfent at Cjraz (Germany), recent­ motor car with two powerful head­ education and became interested in
ly. The man placed himself before lights, he bags nightly between six science in hie early youth.
the gun and fired it by means of a and a dozen hares, the animals being
cord.
His breast wax riddled with so fascinated by the glare of the lamps
10,000 Elks in Parade.
bullets. The soldier had had differ­ that they become stationary targets.
Rochester, N. Y. — Ten thousand
ences with his superior officers.
Elks, it is estimated, participated in a
Daily Thought.
parade here in connection with the
Pessimism From Oscar Wilde.
Whether you be man or woman you 49th reunion of the grand lodge. They
The only way in which a woman can will never do anything in the world came from every city of size in this
reform a man is by boring him so com­ without courage. It is the greatest country, from Juneau, Alaska, and
pletely that he loses all possible inter­ quality of the mind next to honor.— Honolulu.
Even Manila had a lone
est in life.—Wilde.
James Lane Allen.
representative.
ARMY ORDERED
TO TAKE HAND
Demand Release of American
Prisoners by Mexicans.
Compliance Fully Expected-Mexi­
cans Join Americans in Form­
ing Vigilance Committees.
Washington, D. C.—Secretary Gar­
rison has ordered Colonel Edwin P.
Brewer, of the Fourteenth Cavalry at
Fort McIntosh, Tex., to demand the
release of five Americans, together
with 350 cattle and 30 horses, held by
Mexican revolutionists at Hidalgo,
Mexico.
Secretary Bryan requested
the action.
Secretary Bryan, who made public
tbe order to Colonel Brewer, declined
to discuss what would be done in the
event the revolutionists declined to
give up the Americans and their prop­
erty. It was regarded as certain at
the State department that Colonel
Brewer's demand would be complied
with promptly.
Hidalgo is on the Texas border
about 50 miles northwest of Fort Mc­
Intosh and it is expected that the col­
onel will execute his mission with
alacrity.
The attention of tbe State depart­
ment was called to the imprisonment
of the Americans and the seizure of
their property by Consul Garrett at
Neuvo Laredo, Mexico. When Consul
Garrett demanded the release of bis
countrymen the revolutionists told him
they must await orders from Piedras
Negras.
So great is the lawlessness around
Tampico that the better class of Mex­
icans have joined Americans in organ­
izing vigilantes under commission of
the Federal military governor of San
Luis Potosi. Already 14 bandits have
been hanged.
It is expected that a
military governor will take charge of
the state Temaulip. as has been done
in Vera Cruz and San Luis Potosi.
The consul at Mazatlan has reported
to the State department that many
destitute Americans are arriving at
that port and that he has already sent
24 refugees to San Francisco.
CALIFORNIA HAS HEAT WAVE
Desert "Slops Over” and Ocean
Breezes Fail.
San Francisco—At 1:30 o’clock Sat­
urday afternoon the temperature in
San Francisco, taken on top of the
Merchants* Exchange building, reach­
ed 89 degrees.
The temperature in
the streets was more than 95.
The day was by far the hottest of
the year, and much discomfort was ex­
perienced.
In spite of the high degree of heat,
with even the generally dependable
San Francisco breezes turning traitor
and blowing torridly, no prostrations
were reported.
No hope of early relief is held out
by the local weather bureau, and the
only sorry comfort that San Francis­
cans can derive from the general situ­
ation is the fact that other cities of
California are in harder lines.
One heat prostration was reported
from Oakland, making the second for
the week. Charles Harris, 38 years
old, was overcome while at work at
Fifteenth street and San Pablo av­
enue. He was hurried to the receiv­
ing hospital.
The unwelcome weather is escaping
from the direction of the Mojave de­
sert and spreading out.
The hottest previous day this year
in San Francisco was April 24, when
the mercury stopped at noon on the 85
mark.
Oleo Tax la Investigated.
Washington, D. C.—Commissioner
Osburn, of the Internal Revenue bu­
reau, has begun an investigation to
determine whether there is due to the
Federal treasury $900,000 in oleomar­
garine taxes from the manufacturers
in Chicago and elsewhere, as recently
reported by the Chicago grand jury.
The grand jury report, which is be­
fore the commissioner, criticised the
treasury officials of the previous ad­
ministration for compromising for
$100,000 a $1,000,000 oleomargarine
tax claim by the government and
found indication that $900,000 was
still due the ’government for taxes on
the products at periods other than the
dates covered by the compromise.
The question involves whether cotton
seed oil used in making the oleo was
colored or uncolored.
President Seeks Byways.
Cornish, N. H. — President Wilson
went exploriong in his automobile Sat­
urday. He took an unfrequented road,
and his big car picked its way slowly
and cautiously over a mountain side.
The machine negotiated the hills with
little difficulty, but frequently in the
descents the brakes were thrown on
tight.
The trip was made without
mishap and the view of the surround­
ing hills amply repaid the President
for the bumping he got, as both he
and Mrs. Wilson saw the Green Moun­
tains from unusual vantage points.
Governor Offers Trophy.
Olympia, Wash.—Governor Lister
has offered a handsome trophy cup to
the high school entering the best team
of three in a public competition in
carpentry, sewing and cooking at the
state industrial contest at Spokane
this fall. Any high school with an en­
rollment of more than 200 is eligible
to compete.