EVENTS OF THE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from AH
Farts ol the World.
PREPARED FOR THE BUSY READER
Less Important but Not Less Inter
e sting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.
Naples has made great preparations
to welcome Roosevelt.
Portland's new city directoy places
the population at 255,000.
There is a Civil war veteran living
in Missouri who is 110 years old.
Fire at Dallas, Tex., destroyed
property worth $250,000, nearly all
residences.
A bie Chicago grain brokerage com
pany has failed because of the advanc
ing wheat market.
Canadian miners on strike believe
the fuel shortage will force the mine
owners to give in.
Students of Ruskin college, Oxford,
England, have struck against the re
moval of the principal.
Admiral Cervera, one of the Spanish
naval commanders during the war
with the United States, is dead.
There is a report that Fairbanks has
been offered the ambassadorship to
Great Britain, but he refuses to discuss
the proposition.
Philip Caine, a cousin of the novel
ist, is dead. He had existed for years
bv selling shoe laces, ignorant of the
fact that he was heir to $60,000.
Roosevelt and party have arrived
' at Gibraltar.
A contest is imminent on the estate
of "Lucky" Baldwin.
Roosevelt denies that an attempt was
made on his life while crossing the
ocean.
The leader of a Chicago Black Hand
society has been trapped and informed
on his confederates.
. A New York broker has been arrest
ed for swindling investors out of $150,-
000 in mining stocks.
The French government may make
formal protest against some of the pro
visions of the tariff bill.
It is said Harriman will make chang
es in the Union Pacific line and invade
the Burlington's territory.
President Eliot, of Harvard univers
ity, has declined the appointment of
ambassador to Gceat Britain.
Every coal mine in Western Canada,
except the Crows Nest collieries, are
tied up by a strike of the miners.
One hundred and fifty thousand Chi
cago women have signed a petition
protesting against higher duties on
gloves.
King Victor will meet Roosevelt on
an Italian warship.
Thousands of men are going to the
newly discovered gold fields near Phoe
nix, Ariz.
Professional gamblers are giving
officers of the trans-Atlantic liners
great trouble.
A Baltimore clerk, only 26 years of
age, has been arrested for embezzling
$100,000 from the city.
Harriman says the government
should set the states an example by
repealing repressive railroad laws.
Most of the oil wells in Oklahoma
will shut down for four months on ac
count of overproduction and adverse
state laws.
General Kuroki, commander of the
first Japanese army in the field against
Russia, has retired, owing to the ex
piration of his military term,
Statistics show that convictions for
drunkenness have increased 164 per
cent throughout the Dominion of Can
ada during the past 10 years,
, Paris students, who had been sent to
prison for misdemeanor, took revenge
on the convicting officer by sending
400 wagon loads of merchandise to his
home.
Only two men are needed to complete
the Calhoun jury.
Indians in revolt In Mexico are
spreading terror.
French manufacturers are alarmed at
the Payne tariff bill.
A great mass meeting in London
called for a big navy.
Russia is retiring the older generals
to promote young men,
It is reported that Castro will go to
Colon instead of Venezuela.
The Panhandle district of Texas has
just had the worst storm of the winter.
Ex-Secretary of State Owen, of In
diana, has been arrested for gigantic
frauds.
The government is worried about the
reception that will be accorded the Jap
warships at San Francisco.
A Union Pacific passenger train hit
a alide near Ogden and two trainmen
lost their lives and five ears were burn
ed. Not a passenger was injured.
Fear that the stroke of "piano play-
era' cramp" may disable him for life,
Paderewski has cancelled all engage
ments in this country and
Europe.
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VETERANS AT A.-Y.-P.
Various Organizations Planning for
Big Time-This Summer.
The nation's war veterans, and the
sons and wives and daughters of them,
are carrying out big plana for represen
tation at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacihc ex
position. The military order of the
Loyal Legion has preempted a five acre
tract on the exposition grounds and is
establishing upon it patriotic head
quarters. The Grand Army of the Re
public will be represented and so will
the Sons of Veterans, the Ladies of the
G. A. R. and the Women's Relief Corps.
Early in the year the Loyal Legion
entered into correspondence with the
War department at Washington with
the result that it has secured a splendid
equipment and has already established
headquarters tents and a model head
quarters encampment generally.
Around the camp the government's out
door exhibit will be placed. It consists
of big and little ordnance, of today and
the other dayB, Civil war relics and
relics of the unpleasantness with Spain,
so that the visitor to headquarters will
be confronted by big modern 12-inch
rifles as well as cannonades of the
Eighteenth 'century, picked up on the
beach in Manila bay.
Local G. A. R. posts are expecting a
heavy attendance at the exposition
from among the nation's old time fight
ing men, for the reason that the grand
encampment takes place in Salt Lake
City early in August and the railroads
have announced lower rates than ever
before from Eastern points to the ex
position. Under the tickets offered by
the transcontinental roads it will be
possible for the veteran to take passage
through to Seattle and stop off for the
encampment without extra cost, and
that thousands will do so is already
made evident by letters received by
officers of the Grand Army and Loyal
Legion in this city.
It will be open house at Grand Army
and Loyal Legion headquarters through'
out the fair and several special days
and events have been arranged in their
honor. The state encampment of the
G. A. R. takes place in Tacoma in June
and June 24 has been set as state (j,
A. R. day. August 16 has been named
as National G. A. R. day and it will be
made the occasion of one of the biggest
and most brilliant of the Bpecial cele
brations at the exposition.
FIRE AT FT. WORTH.
Laree Section of 1 exas City Burned
and Thousands Homeless.
Fort Worth. Tex.. April 6. Start-
inn1 in a barn, presumably from a care-
lesslv thrown ciearette. fire Saturday
afternoon destroyed property in the
southern portion of Fort Worth conser
vatively valued at $2,500,000, caused
the death of one person, J. J. Newton,
of Krum. Tex., and rendered several
thousand persons homeless.
The fire originated at Jennings aven
ue and Peter Smith street, in the cen
ter of a fashionable residence district,
and. fanned by a stiff wind, was be
yond control in 15 minutes. Spreading
to the Bouth, it burned its way tnrougn
32 blocks and continued until it had
Bwept through the yards of the Texas
& Pacific railroad, burning the railroad
buildings and a large amount of rolling
stock, where the fire practically burned
itself out.
Three church buildings, the Broad
way Baptist and Presbyterian and the
Swedish chapel, were among the build
ings burned, as was the Presbyterian
sanitarium. The patients of the latter
institution were all removed in safety.
The Texas & Pacific railroad suffered
the largeet individual loss. Fourteen
locomotives were reduced to twisted
masses of steel and iron and several
hundred boxcars, besides ' the round
house and other buildings of the road
were destroyed.
The Texas & Pacific estimates the
loss to the road at $160,000, while the
damage to the church property is esti
mated at $200,000.
The fire swept area was patrolled by
armed guards to prevent looting, while
the owners of the burned buildings
gathered what they could of their
househbld effects and sought shelter
for the night wherever it could be
found. The livestock building and au
ditorium at the fair grounds provided a
temporary, abode for many, while
others slept In vacant houses or accept
ed the hospitality of Dallas and nearby
cities.
Watches United States
London, April 6. trance as it may
naya, incre88e( conducted with aston-
ishing success in all parts of this coun
try, is based secondarily upon the con
clusions drawn from the Washington
protrram. In the Navy League's circu
lar it Is pointed out that the "united
States has six Dreadnaughta building
and two projected, a total of eight,"
and this, together with the German
program, "gives 21 large armored
ships for the United States and Ger
many, with 22 lor Great Britain."
' Loses Much Coal Land.
Helena, Mont, April 6. In the
United States court today Judge Hunt
declared null and void the title of the
Northern Pacific railroad to 1.200 acres
of coal land in Carbon county, valued
at $2,600 an acre. The government
instituted suit to recover the lands be-
I cause of their mineral character. Judge
Hunt in his decision held that, though
cl assified as non-mineral, it was well
known that they contained coal before
they were entered upon.
Reyes Faces Revolution.
Willemstad, April 6. Rumors have
reached here of a revolutionary out
break against the administration of
President Reves. of Columbia, in the
vicinity of Rio Hacha, a seaport on the
Carribean.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
BIG IRRIGATION CONTRACT.
New York Capitalists to Water Large
Tract in Baker County.'
Salem The state land board has
made the most advantageous contract
looking to the reclamation of arid land
in the history of the state. . The con
tract was executed with O. P. Sinklen
burg, representing Evans, Almirall
& Co., New York, and unless there' is
some hitch in the proceedings will lead
to the reclamation of from 30.000 to
50,000 acres of arid land in the lower
Powder river valley near Baker City.
Whether the contract is carried
through to fruition or not, there is no
chance for the state to lose. The New
York concern agrees to make topo
graphic maps of land in the Powder
river valley to locate all necessary
canal lines and prepare plans and spe
cifications and estimates of cost of con
structing a great irrigation system in
volving storage in the Thief valley res
ervoir site.
The maps, specifications and esti
mates are to be submitted to State
Engineer Lewis inside of six months,
One thousand dollars in cash has been
deposited with the state board pending
the execution and delivery to the state
Within SO days of a $5,000 bond.
Upon completion of the estimates the
board agrees to consider the application
of the Powder river lands under the
Carey act. If the demands of the com
pany are reasonable, the board will en
ter into a contract with the concern
which will be required to put up a bond
of 5 per cent of the lien allowed to
guarantee the completion of the con'
tract. Reasonableness with respect to
the lien is defined to be a profit of not
to exceed $20 per acre, above the esti
mated cost as approved by the state
engineer, and in no event to exceed
$61 per acre.
BUY FRUIT FARM.
Minneapolis Capitalists to Plat
Doug-
las County Ranch.
Roseburg One of the biggest deals
ever made in Douglas county was clos
ed at Roseburg recently, when the Cobb
Real Estate company sold the Round
prairie ranch to a company of Minne
apolis capitalists and bankers, the con'
sideration being $54,000 ' cash. The
Round paririe ranch is a part of the
James Burnett donation land claim, and
comprises several hundred acres. It
is situated on the South Umpqua river,
eight or 10 miles south of RoBeburg,
and on account of its freedom from cold
winds and the quality of the soil, ranks
with the best fruit land in the country,
Last year the land was platted and
placed on the market. It is the inten
tion of the purchasers to adopt this
plat for their own use and to continue
the sale of lots from their offices at
Minneapolis. They will first select
from the entire tract 20 sites for sum
mer homes for their own families,
These homes will be built before the
end of two years. By that time, they
predict, they will have 20 other fami
lies on the place. The buyers figure
on a new city, the name of which has
not yet been decided.
Wants Gun From Battleship.
Pendleton The city, the commercial
organization and the local organizations
of the G. A. R. and Spanish War vet
erans are co-operating in an effort to
secure for this city one of the cannon
being removed from the battleship Ore
gon. A telegram signed by the heads
of these organizations was sent to the
Oregon delegation and formal apphca
tion will also be made to the War de
partment. The cost of transporting
the gun, if secured, from the navy yard
to this city will be borne by public
subscription.
Carries Long Petition.
Ontario Walter Griffiths will leave
for Washington in a day or two to put
the 'petition of the landholders under
the Malheur project before the Re
clamation department. He will take
with him petitions of over 90 per cent
of landholders under the project or ap
proximately involving 160,000 acres
of land. With the signing up of the
land companies the success of Mr.
Urittith s mission seems almost as
sured.
"Varmints" Going Rapidly
Roseburg The records in the office
of the Douglas county clerk show that
the wild animals, such as cougar, pan
ther, coyotes, wolves and wild cats,
are being exterminated at a rapid rate
in this county. Numerous trappers
have been spending the winter at
Peel, and other mountain towns, catch
ing the animals, and in most cases the
trappers have made a good thing fin an
cially of their winter's work besides
killing the animals.
School Funds Apportioned.
Albany Superintendent Jackson, of
Linn county, has. completed the appor
tionment of school funds for April,
The Albany district receives $5,444,
the largest amount of any district
the county. Lebanon comes next, re
ceiving $1,993. The per capita is
$4.40 for each child, and $5 for each
teacher attending the annual institute.
Seventeen Year Case Settled.
Albany The final account in the es
tate of Richard C Finley has just been
probated her. The case has been run
ning for the past 17 years and could not
be settled until the death of Mrs. Fin
ley. The estate comprises several
thousand acres of land, located in this
county; also some realty in Crawfords-
v"".
BIG FUND FOR UMATILLA. '
Plan to Raise $50,000 for Publicity
is Adopted.
Pendleton Business men from all
parts of the county, with the excep
tion of the east end, met in Pendleton
recently to form a county publicity
bureau and partake of a banquet pre
pared by the Pendleton Commercial
association. Arrangements were made
for raising $50,000 to carry on the
work of the bureau for a year. This
is to include the salary of a secretary,
who is to conduct a press bureau simi
lar to those used in exploiting exposi
tions. .
Half of this sum is to be raised in
Pendleton and half in the county out
side. A certain portion is to be allot
ted to each section, and committees
were appointed to see that the asses-
men ts are raised.
Enthusiasm prevailed and there is no
doubt the desired amounts will be
raised in the 10 days allowed. It was
practically decided to discontinue the
promiscuous sending out of pamphlets
and to spend more money in newspaper
advertising' and the expenses of a pub
licity agent, who will take care of in
quiries, sending information and per
sonal letters when requested.
Frank L. Merrick, of Portland, who
has been connected with the publicity
departments of the Portland and Seat
tle fairs, is being considered' for pub
licity agent. He was present at the
meeting. "
Uncle Sam to Aid Crater Road,
Mediord According to letters re
ceived by Will G. Steel, the Crater
Lake road enthusiast, the government
will send as soon as the Crater Lake
road commission is appointed by the
governor, engineers from the Depart
ment of Agriculture to take charge of
the construction of the boulevard to the
lake. These men will be in the employ
or tne united btates, the only expense
to the commission being the livery
service to enable the men to be in the
field. Their other expenses will be
paid by the department as well as their
salaries.
High Cattle Prices.
Burns Large cattle sales are report
ed daily. Buyers, local as well as out-
Bide people, are buying all grades of
cattle and paying better prices than
have been paid for a long time. Many
stockmen are selling their entire herds,
The Pacific Livestock company is buy
ing for home range and for outside peo
ple to ship to other feeding grounds.
interior uregon is experiencing an era
of prosperity, the like of which has
never been before. Horses, sheep and
cattle are at top prices and growers
are jubilant.
Strawberry Outlook Good.
Roseburg The Douglas county fruit
growers are making a special effort
this season to break all previous re
cords for early strawberries. There is
great rivalry between this section and
the growers of Riddle, and several of
the most enthusiastic growers are go
ing to make an extra effort this season
to see who can have the first shipment
of ripe strawberries to the Portland
markets. Prospects for big crops are
good.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.22k
(ft 1.25; club, $1.10; red Russian,
$1.08; bluestem, shipping, $1.17J$;
valley, $1.10.
Oats No. 1 white, $3940.
Barley Feed, $31 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$136115; Eastern Oregon, $1618;
clover, $1213; alfalfa, $14.6015;
grain hay, $1314; cheat $13.50
14.50; vetch, $13.5014.50.
Apples 65c$2.50 per box.
Potatoes $1.401.50 per hundred;
sweet potatoes, 22$c per pound,
Vegetables Turnips, $1 per sack;
carrots, 90c; parsnips, $1.50; beets,
$1.75; horseradish, 10c per pound; ar
tichokes, .7590c per dozen; aspara
gus, 8(?12c per pound; beans, 25c;
cabbage, 86?4c;. cauliflower, $2.50;
celery, $4.75 per crate; lettuce, head,
ooc per dozen; onions, 4U)50c per
dozen ; parsley, 35c per dozen ; peas,
15c per pound ; radishes, 35c per dozen ;
rhubarb, $1.75612 per box; spinach,
$1611.10.
Onions Oregon, $1.75 per hundred.
Butter City creamery, extras, 32c;
fancy outside creamery, 3032c;
store, 1820c Butter fat prices aver
age 1 H cents per pound under regular
butter price.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 2021c.
Poultry Hens, 1616)tfc; broilers,
246825c; fryers, 1820c; roosters, old,
10((llc; young, 1415c; ducks, 206J
22c; geese, 10c; turkeys, 1819c;
squabs, $2.503.
Veal Extras, 106111c; ordinary, 7
8c; heavy, 6c.
Pork Fancy, 9K10c; large, 8
8Xc
Hops 1909 contracts, xl06110Kc;
1908 crop, 7(ci7Xe; 1907 crop, 84c;
1906 crop, l6i2c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, contracts, 16
6118c; valley, 166117c; mohair, chioce,
236?23 Kc
Cattle Top steers, $1.25 6.50;
fair to good, $4.755; common to me
dium, $3.25614.60; cows, top. $4.25;
fair to good, $3.504; common to me
dium, $2.50(53.50; calves, top, $5
5.50; heavy, $3.50(a4; bulls and stags,
fat $3613.60; common, $26(2.75.
Hogs Best $7.25(7.50; fair to
good, $6.75617; stackers, $5.50(6.60;
China fats, $6.75.
Sheep Top wethers, $55.75 ; fair
to good, $4.60614.75; ewes. c less on
all grades; lambs, top, $6,606X6.75;
I fair to good, $6y,'6.50.
FOR CHILD PROTECTION.
Great Britain Puts Law Into Force to
Correct Many Evils.
London, April 2. What' is termed
the "children's charter" became effect
ive in Great Britain today. The law
is a source of keen satisfaction to all
classes of society. "Baby farming"
is subjected to strict supervision, and
no child may be kept on premises that
are overcrowded, dangerous or unsani
tary. Foster parents found to be neg
ligent, ignorant, drunken, immoral or
criminal will be deprived of their
charges.
Insurance companies are forbidden
to insure the life of a nursing child,
and any person convicted of cruelty re
sulting in the death of a child in which
the person is financially interested may
be fined 200 pounds ($1,000) with five
years penal servitude. Severe punish
ment is provided for death by overly
ing while the parents are under the in
fluence of drink.
Children under 7 years may not be
left in a room containing an open fire
insufficiently protected. Begging or
receiving alms on the streets and luve
nile smoking are suppressed. Police
men must confiscate cigarettes and
cigarette papers found in the posses
sion of persons under 16 years of age,
and tobacconists selling such property
to them are liable to a fine.
Throughout the country the author
ties are busy arranging to enforce the
law.
CONVICTS SEE DAYLIGHT.
Georgia Abolishes Lease System, to
Their Joy.
Atlanta, Ga., April 2. At sunrise
today Georgia shook off the last rag of
her convict lease system. The 1,600
human beings were led from the mines,
choking kilns and damp factories into
the sunlight, from the control of harsh
and often brutal taskmasters into the
service of the state. Georgia has no
state penitentiary. For years her con
victs have been sold to those who
would buy.
The prisoners, most of them negroes,
now will work on the public roads.
Though shackled and ironed, the con'
victs greeted the change ' with shouts
of joy. Negro preachers were at most
of the stockades and led the blacks in
the impromptu praise services. Some
convicts wept at leaving scenes which
had been a part of their daily life for
years.
The new system, it is believed, will
not only improve the health of the con'
victs, but will assure Georgia the finest
turnpikes in the South.
AHEAD OF STEEL TRUST.
Independent Steel Men Pay $60,000,
for Coal Land.
Pittsburg,. April 2. Anticipating
the United States Steel corporation.
which, it is said, had been intending
to procure the property, a deal was
closed today by independent steel con
cerns for 100,000 acres of Pittsburg
coking coal land lying in Greene, Fay
ette and Washington counties, Penn
sylvania, at a cost of $50,000,000,
The property was held by J. V. Thomp
son, of Union town, Pa., and associ
ates.
The sale was made to a holding com
pany, representing, it is said,' every
important independent steel company
in the country except Jones & Laugh'
lins, of Pittsburg, who are said not to
be Interested in the deal. Charles M,
Schwab, of the Bethlehem Steel com
pany, is said to be at the head of the
new concern and it is rumored that
John W. Gates was behind the deal.
C. P. R. Officials Adamant.
Winnipeg, April 2. Officials of the
Canadian Pacific railroad told the
road's mechanics at a conference today
that they would insist on a separate
schedule for the east and west divis
ions of the road. The firemen joined
the mechanics at the conference. Talk
of the possibility of a strike is heard
on all sides. It is expected that the
miners will quit tomorrow. Today all
all the miners had a holiday celebrat
ing their eight-hour day anniversary,
it is expected that l.UUu men will
eo
out at Lethbridge,
Alberta, in the
morning.
Kokovseff to Make Tour.
St Petersburg. April 2. Finance
Minister Kokovseff will make an ex
tended tour through the Far East this
spring to investigate trade conditions
and to look into the construction of the
Amur railroad and the operations
the existing Manchurian lines which
are showing large deficits annually,
His report will serve as a basis for
Kussia's answer to the Chinese pro
posal to purchase these lines before
the expiration of the contract period
rHl ;l I at t . . .
iDia win do uie nrst time in vears
tnat a minister naa visited Siberia.
American Rule All Over.
Havana, April 2. The last emblem
of American domination over Cuba d
apiieaTCu t nwn touay wnen tne ear-
rision flag at Camp Columbia fluttered
down the pole and was replaced a mo
ment later by the lone star red banner
of the Cuban republic. The ceremon
ies took place in the presence of th
garrison of Camp Columbia, consisting
of two battalions of the Twenty-seventh
infantry and three companies of
engineers and one battalion of Cubans.
Texas Negro Lynched.
Waco, Tex., April 2. Because ha
was accused of writing an insulting
letter to the wife of a young farmer
near wawson, Joe Keddy, a negro 20
years of age, was hanged yesterday by
IUUU Ul ow mQ
TRUCE IS EXPECTED
greement Probable Among All
Northwestern Railroads.
WILL BE NO TERRITORY CONTEST
Harriman-Hill Interests Make Conces
sions and St. Paul Road Enters
Agreement With Harriman.
Chicago, April 3. There will be no
contest between the St Paul road and
the Harriman lines over territory to
be occupied by either interest in the
Pacific Northwest. This was decided'
during the brief visit of Edward H.
Harriman in Chicago Wednesday.
While in his private car, which stood
in the Park Row station of the Illinois
Central road, Mr, Harriman was visit- .
ed by President A. J. Earling, of the
St. Paul road, and arrangements were
completed for the joint use of certain
tracks by the St Paul and the Harri
man lines.
Although none of the officials inte- .
rested in the deal would say anything
concerning it, it is understood that the
tentative agreement will obviate the
necessity of Mr. Harriman's building a
line between Seattle and Tacoma, as
he contemplated doing as a part of his
ine from Portland to Seattle. The ,
two men had only a few moments' con
versation, but it was sufficient to
clinch an agreement regarding which
they had talked several times before.
In this connection also it is stated
that the conference between Mr. Harri
man and Louis W. Hill in San Fran
cisco is likely to result in a better un
derstanding between the Hill and Har
riman lines in the Pacific Northwest
It is stated that all three interests
realize the benefit which would come
should there be a truce among them -with
respect to territorial aggression
in the Northwest. As the price of
peace, however, Mr. Harriman is said
to insist upon the opening to his lines
of the Portland gateway, and it is
thought by many that concessions will
be made in this direction by the Hill
people.
m
FORT'S BASE IS SINKING.
Artillery Officers Alarmed at Condi
tions at Fort Stevens.
Fort Stevens. Or.. April 3. TWent.
surveys have made it apparent that
land adjoining Battery Russell, the
most modern and best equipped battery
at Fort Stevens, in fact, on this coast
is rapidly sinking. In places it is at
least one foot lower than formerly.
Various hypothesesere advanced to
account for this unusual
Some advance the theory that earth-
quaKes, so prevalent on this coast are
the active cauBe : others, that tha lnnH
on which this battery is located, being
oi Bucn a swampy nature, sinks from
tne enormous pressure exerted by such
unusual weieht The cost of thi hat.
tery approximates $1,500,000; hence
considerable interest and some alarm
are manifested as to the ultimata nut.
come of a most unusual condition.
FARM SELLS FOR $95,000.
Lafollette Orchard on Snake River
Sold to Lewiston Firm.
Spokane. Wash.. Anril 9 w T.
Lafollette, "the fruit king" of Wawa
wai, has given an option on his fruit
farm at Wawawai, 14 miles south of
. 1 n .
r unman, on tne anake river. The con
sideration is placed at $95,000. White
Bros. & Crum, of Lewiston, Idaho,
fruit buyers and shippers, are the pur
chasers. They have made a payment
to hold the option.
1 he land consists of nhnnt Qftn
of which 250 acres are in bearing fruit
This is the largest fruit orchard on
oimne river, and one or the largest in
the Inland Empire. Shipments from
this orchard run from 60 to 100 car-
loaas annually. , .
Money in 2-cent Fares. .
Jefferson. Citv. Mn.. A
cent fares have earned more money for
mo mnruuua man tne three-cent rates
did, according to a statement made by
Attorney General Elliott Major, of
Missouri, who is on record today ; as
favoring the lower figures. Major de
clared that if the railroad carried out
their announced nlnn nt nut;..,.
effect on April 10 the three-cent fare,
wo miBoouri legislature would receive,
on April 11, a bill compelling the cor
porations to publish itemized state
ments of their receipts. t
Run Trackless Trolley.
Santa Barbara, Cal., April 3. The
Pacific Improvement company petition
ed the city council tonight for the right
to construct a power line to the Hope
ranch, four miles west of the city. The
company announced its intention of in
stalling a "trackless trolley" system
on the ranch. This is a new Australian
invention, never before tried in Amer
ica. An overhead wire supplies power
to a motor, the same as with other
trolley cars, but the cars use no track.
Methuselah Dead at IOOQ.
New York, April 8.Methuselah
died here today at his home in the
Bronx zoo. He was 1,000 yeara old.
His death ia ascribed to ills incidental
to old age. Methuselah, also known
as Rameses II, was a toad which was
500 feet below the surface at Butte,
Mont, two years ago. His age was
carefully computed by the zoologist
and geologists.