OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
PROJECT HELD UP.
Land Opening by Deschutes Irrigation
Company Must Wait.
Salem After listening to an extend
ed argument by C. fc. b. Wood, repre
senting A. M. Drake, of Bend, the des
ert land board decided to hold up the
application of the Deschutes Irrigation
& Power company for the opening to
sale of 2,320 acres of land, embraced
in its latest Carey act project on the
Deschutes until the board can find time
personally to inspect the project at its
forthcoming visit to Eastern Oregon,
within a month.
Wood made an exhaustive argument,
charging that the Deschutes Irrigation
& Power company is not complying
with the plans and specifications for
the reclamation of the arid lands under
its Carey land contracts with the state;
that it is wrongfully diverting the
water taken from the Deschutes for
the reclamation of one segregation for
the temporary reclamation of lands
listed under another contract so it can
place the land on the market; that the
company is heavily burdened with fi
nancial difficulties and has mortgaged
the settlers rights to cover its defi
ciencies; that it can never insure the
settler a perpetual water right under
the circumstances which now exist and
are in prospect; and charging the des
ert land board with open violation of
its obligations to the state and the set
tler under the provisions of the Carey
act and the irrigation laws of the state
in granting the irrigation company in
creases of lien and other privileges.
DALLAS-SALEM ROAD.
Good Progress Being Made in Con
struction Work on New Line.
Dallas The Salem, Falls City &
Western railway company will have
completed the work of track! ay ing on
its new line from Dallas to Salem by
the middle of August, and regular
freight and passenger service will be
established within a month from that
time.
The grading work is practically com
pleted, having been carried to within
two miles of the West Salem terminal.
Steel has been laid as far as the Pierce
Riggs farm near Eola, a distance of
about nine miles from Dallas. Only
about six miles of track remain to be
laid.
The new track contains few bridges,
the most important being the Brunk
bridge over the Rickreall river at Eola.
No bridge will be built acrosB the Wil
lamette river, the road terminating on
the Polk county side, in West Salem.
Communication with the Marion coun
ty side will be carried on by means of
a launch service, which has already
been established.
The company will install for its pas
senger service on the new line, one of
the new gasoline cars similar to those
which the Southern Pacific plans to
put in use on some of its Oregon lines.
Chautauqua Grounds Improved.
Oregon City The work of improve
ment of the Chautauqua grounds at
Gladstone is being pushed. Fourteen
hundred feet of fence is being built on
the front side of the park. A good
pump and an adequate water system
are being installed. The Ladies' aid,
of the Christian church of Gladstone
will have charge of the restaurant on
the grounds. Rev. W. H. Selleck,
pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal
church or Salem, will respond to Con
gressman Hawiey's address of welcome,
Ashland Wants Mountain.
Ashland The Ashland Commercial
club will petition Governor Benson's
recently appointed state board of geo
graphers to change the name of Ash
land butte, the source of Ashland's
water supply and one of the chief scen
ic attractions of this vicinity, from
Siskiyou peak, which is said to have
been applied to it by some of the gov
ernment publications, to Mount Ash'
land. A resolution to this effect was
passed at a recent meeting of the club.
Open Land Near Burns.
Burns The local United States land
office has been notified that the Harney
Valley Improvement company segrega
tion, known as the famous Carey
lands, has been canceled ; and these
lands, 69,000 acres of which are locat
ed close to Burns, will be opened at
once to public entry. It is thought
that every acre of this land will be
taken in a very short time.
Six-Inch Guns Arrive.
Salem The two big six inch guns
from the battleshio Oregon promised
the city of Salem, have arrived and
will be one of the attractions of the
cherry fair. The guns will be mounted
on the state house lawn after the fair.
They were procurred through the Ore
gon delegation at Washington and cost
the city of Salem only the freight
Monmouth Normal Opens.
Monmouth The enrollment of the
summer normal school is very satisfac
tory, there being between 80 and 100
enrolled the first day. Next week
Professor L. R. Travers' course begins
and from SO to 60 additional students
are expected. Prospects are for the
most successful summer normal ever
held at this place.
Big Prices for Farms.
Jacksonville William Stewart this
week sold to some Wisconsin parties
his 170 acre farm and orchard two miles
north of Jacksonville for (85,000, an
average of $500 per acre. Another
tract of 213 acres near the Stewart
farm was sold this week for 180,000.
BIG COLONIZATION SCHEME.
Vast Tract in Northern Morrow to Be
Cut Into Small Tracts.
Pendleton More than 18,000 acres
of wheat land in the northern part of
Morrow county are to be colonized by
thrifty German and Hungarian fam
ilies, according to J. G. Crawford, of
Heppner.
He Bays that the J. E. Woolery es
tate, consisting of this acreage of
practically level land, has been taken
over by a Portland real estate firm,
which has already made arrangements
to put 1,000 families on the tract, and
that the colonization will be complete
by fall.
This is probably the largest tract of
farming land in Morrow county and
offers an ideal opportunity for a colo
nization scheme of this kind.
It is said that the heads of many of
these families are men of means and
that the immigrants will prove a valu
able addition to the county.
Mr. Crawford is also authority for
the statement that the crops of Mor
row county are to be much better this
season than was expected a few weeks
ago. Then it was considered that a
total failure was inevitable, but now
it is believed almost an average crop
will be harvested.
The unusual season of cool weather
which has prevailed over Eastern Ore
gon this Bpring and summer has turned
out to be a blessing for the farmers,
for with the customary amount of hot
weather this season's crops would have
been burned up, as the precipitation
has been practically nothing.
Fine Imposed on Road.
Salem Attorney General Crawford
has commenced action against the Cor
vallis & Eastern railroad for the collec
tion of the penalty for the alleged fail
ure of the railroad company to comply
with the railroad commission act.
Some time ago the commission, after
an investigation of a complaint of in
adequate depot facilities at Lyons, or
dered the railroad company to build a
new depot. The company hauled in a
couple of old freight cars and rigged
them up as an evasion of the law, and
the attorney general was requested to
commence action to collect the fine of
$10,000 provided by the law.
Huge Private Water Project.
Prineville County Surveyor Fred A.
Rice has just completed the survey of
a private irrigation project on the
Ochoce east of this place. It will be
one of the largest private irrigation
projects in the county. The lands
effected are owned by T. H. Lafollette,
E. T. Slayton and J. S. Watkins, the
entire acreage comprising more than
2,000 acres. The canal will bold 1,200
inches of water and will be six miles
long. The cost will be about $5,000.
Construction work will begin aa soon
as the plats of the survey are approved
Dy the state desert land board.
Two Plants In Prospect.
Milwaukie At an adjourned meeting
oi the Milwaukie council a 20 year
franchise was granted J. L. Johnson &
Co. to construct and operate a water
works plant east of the Southern Paci
fic railroad. The ordinance granting
me irancniBe was passed as drawn up
without amendment. It obligates the
company to provide water free for fire
protection. The plant is under con
struction. Milwaukie will then have
two water companies.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Bluestem milling, $1.30;
ciud, si.ih((S1.Zu; valley. S1.17.
Corn Whole, $35 per ton ; cracked,
tab per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $41 per ton.
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley,
$17(3:20 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $20
CfiL's; mixed, $1620.
Fruits Apples, $1(32.50 per box;
strawberries, $1.60(i12 per crate; cher
ries, 37c per pound ; gooseberries.
5c per pound; currants, 8c per pound;
loganberries, $1.252 per crate; rasp-
Derries, 9zo$z.zd per crate.
Potatoes $lftl. 50 per hundred.
Vegetables Asparagus. 75(ri90c per
dozen; lettuce, head, Z5c; onions, 12$
(u i be; peas. 34c per pound; radishes.
loc per aozen: rnuDarb. secsKe ner
pound.
Butter City creamery, extraa, 26)tfc
per pound; fancy outside creamery,
25(?26&c; store, 18c. Butter fat
prices average 1 Xc per pound under
regular butter prices.
kgg Oregon ranch, candled. 23 X
24c per dozen.
Poultry Hens, 12rtM2Jtfc per pound:
springs, 16Ke17c; roosters. 8ai9c:
ducks, young, 12C13c; geese, young,
9(iT10c; turkeys, 18c; squabs, $22. 25
per dozen.
Pork Fancy, 10c per pound.
Veal Extras, 8(tf8)c per pound:
ordinary, 7c; heavy, 6c
Hops 1909 contracts. 16c per
pound; 1908 crop, 11c; 1907 crop, 6c;
isub crop, sc.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 166i23c oer
pound; valley, fine, 23c; coarse,
21 mohair, choice, 24((?25c
Cattle Steers, top. $4. 60614. 60:
fair to good, $4.25(4.40; common,
$4(4.15; cows, top, $3.503.66; fair
to good, $3.25((C3.50; common, to me
dium, $2.75(i3; calves, top, $55.60;
heavy, $3.60(4; bulls and stags, $2.75
3.25; common, 2fi!2.60.
Hogs Best, $8(88.15; fair to good,
$7.50(o;7.75; Blockers, $6(86.60; China
fats, $6.75fi:7.
Sheep Top wethers, $4; fair to
good, $3.60(1(3.75; ewes, c loss on
all grades; yearlings, best, $4.16; fair
to good, $3.76(g4; spring lambs, $4.75
5.25.
RAISES ITS PRICES.
Beef Trust Says Cattle Are Scarce
and Corn High.
New York, July 5. The beef trust
has again ordered the price of its pro
duct raised. Fourteen cents a pound
xor pot roast to zs cento for porter-
nouse ana sirloin steaks is the price,
Thirty cents will be demanded for the
latter cuts in a few days, while aver
age beef will cost the dealer 10 cents
a pound, as against the hitherto pre
vailing price oi 10 cents.
mi 1. a
ine nign price oi corn ana the scar
city of cattle are the reasons assigned
Dy tne trust lor the increase in prices.
As to why cattle should be any scarcer
now than at any other time no answer
is forthcoming.
Retail butchers explain that the
working people are too poor to buy
beef; that there is a lessening in the
demand and consequently a raisins in
the price. It is pointed out that Pat
ten's corner in wheat has increased the
demand for corn as an article of human
consumption, and that therefore the
price of that grain has bo increased
that it is no longer profitable to raise
corn-led cattle.
The officers of the beef trust in the
East are very reticent in discussine
tne condition of the beef market
TT f I . .
wnen an expression or opinion was
sought from the representatives of the
big leaders in the trust, such aa Ar
mour b ana swut s, the inquirer was
referred from one official to another,
Finally a vague statement was made
to the effect that the market was nor
mal and that existing prices were due
to natural trade conditions.
BODIES IN RUINS.
Work Suspended at Messina on Ac
count of Hot Weather.
Rome, July 5. Thousands of bodieB
of the victims of the December earth
quake that devastated Messina are
still in the ruins of that city and will
not be dug out to receive burial until
winter. In an effort to convince King
Victor that it is doing every possible
thing toward the ends desired in Mes
sma, the Interior department todav
submitted its first comprehensive re
port It is understood tonight that the
king, though not doubting the honesty
of the officials, was angry that there
bad been so much delay, and had de
manded speedier work.
in repiy to tne accusation that no
excavation had been made in the ruins.
tne interior department declares it has
been found necessary to suspend all
work of this nature during the warm
weather. Up to that time 30,000 bod
ies had been recovered. An averacre
oi 300 bodies were removed daily in
April and 900 bodies were awaiting
Dunai lor lack or grave diggers.
GOLD ORE AS BALLAST.
Santa Fe Road Bed Rich in Precious
Metal.
Chicago, July 5. Officials of the
Santa Fe road are inclined to believe
that through the accidental discovery
oi gold ana copper in the ballast used
on the Belen cut-off a new rich mining
;.;A4 : i i u j i j .
uiDuiui. win uo ueveiuptfu in ine man-
zano mountains in Torrance county,
New Mexico.
A fact that adds romantic interest
to the gold discovery is that the region
is adjacent to the deserted city, which
is supposed to have been Spanish and
which is known as Gran Qui vera.
There are legendary stories of old Span
ish mines which' are supposed .to have
been productive hundreds of years ago,
but which were abandoned. Now that
gold has been discovered in the region
these stories are being revived and
many are flocking into the mountains
and are staking out claims everywhere.
The di9covery of gold is largely due
to one of the engineers of the com
pany, who is located at the general
offices in Chicago. Not along ago this
engineer was walking track between
Belen and Willard and while in a deep
cut he picked up a chunk of ballast
which had a chemical stain upon it.
The stone was brought to Chicago, and
it was found to be highly infused with
gold. Some of the ballast which was
being used on the Belen cutoff was then
sent for and was found to assay about
$3 worth of gold to the ton.
Four Killed in Cyclone.
Winnipeg, Man., July 5. Reports
received tonight from Southern Sas
katchewan show that four persons were
killed and more than 50 hurt, and that
immense damage was done by the cy
clone which swept that district late
last night and early this morning. In
1L .,.
tne uainsDoro district three persons
were Killed and nearly 50 injured, while
a child was killed near Carrievale. The
cyclone struck first at Redvers, turned
south toward Carrievale and Gains-
boro, and then went east to Pearson.
Manitoba.
Educator Says Nothing is Right. C
Denver, July 6. Charging that the
whole present day school svstem is
radically wrong and that American
homes and society are directly respon
sible for elements in the schools which
corrupt morals and make for crime and
criminals, J. C. McNeill, superintend
ent of schools at Memphis. Saturday
dropped a bomb into the camp of the
National Educational association's con
vention at the council meeting prepar
atory to tne opening of the convention.
Trust in No Danger.
New York, July 5. There is little
probability that there will be any prose
cution of the sugar trust until August,
when United States Distrcit Attorney
Wise, who sailed Saturday for Europe,
returns to New York. The failure of
the Federal grand jury to file indict
ments in its investigation of the Amer
ican Sugar Refining company adds to
this impression.
The
Main
Chance
BY
Meredith NichoUtm
CortllOBi 1W3
Thi Bobm-Mkmill Com taut
HIS is an hon
est, straight
forward p i c
ture of the life
oi to-day in a
wide awake
western town.
It gives the
reader a pleas
ant impression
of a type of people and a phase of
life well worth a closer acquaint
ance.
It is a crisp, forceful delineation
of the career of William Parker,
a prosperous Danker and pro
moter, whose beautiful daughter,
Evelyn, is the heroine of the
story. John Saxton, an enter
prising isostonian, is sent west
to close up some ranch and other
investments for a Massachusetts
trust company. This brings him
in contact with varied types of
humanity all of whom play an
interesting part in a plot involv
ing the manipulation of a traction
line, the kidnaping of the banker's
tuuu ana oiner events wnich m
to make up an intensely graphic
narrative.
a he ivlain chance is a ro
T IT r .
mance of youth, of love, and of
success honestly won. It
buoyant, yet full of pathos,
i 1 . .
wnoiesome numory convincing
realism, admirable diction and
bright sayings. Added to this is
rare, common sense touch that
shows the practical side of real
western life.
CHAPTER I.
"Well, sir, they say I'm crooked !"
William Forter, president of tht Clark-
on National Bank, tipped back his swivel
chair and watched the effect of his dec
laration on the young man who sat talk-
in; to turn.
I IT-1 . . ' . a .
xuais gam or every successful man
nowadays, Isn't It?" asked John Saxton
Ihey say I m crooked, ' repeated Por
ter, witu a narrowing of the eyes, "but
they don t say it very loud, and I guess
they don't any of them want to have to
prove it. I'm afraid those Boston friends
of yours have given us up as a bad lot
and they've sent you out her to get their
money, and 1 don't blame them. Well.
sir; that money's got to com out in
time, but it' going to take time and
money to get It"
1 believe they sent me because I had
plenty of time," said Saxton, smiling.
wen, we want to you you win ont."
returned rorter. "And now what run
do to start yon off? I warn you solemn
ly against tne hotels In this town; but
wave got a fairly decent cluh nn h.r.
and you'd better stay there till vn ...
acquainted. Just look over the paper
till I get rid of these letter and I'll b
tre."
Forter turned to his desk. Ther was
an air of great alertness In hi. .m.n
lean ugure as ne pusned button to sum
mon varions members of the clerical fnm.
and rapidly dictated terse telegrams and
letter to a stenographer. Sax ton ...
inpresscd by the banker's nerfect mnfl.
dence and ease.
John Saxton had been sent to Clarkinn
by the Neponset Trut Company of Bos
ton to represent the Interests of a group
of client who'had mad rash investment
in several or the Tran-MIasouri State.
Foreclosure had, 4n many instance, re
sulted in ids iransier . to themselves of
mucn town ana rancti property which
was, in the condition existing in the
early DO, an exceedingly stow asset. It
wa necessary that some on on the
ground should car for these interest
Th Clarkson National Bank had been
exercising a general supervision, but, as
on of th Investor told hi fellow suf
ferer In Boston, they should have an
agent whom they cou.d call home and
abuse, and her waa Saxton, a conscien
tious and teady fellow, who had some
knowledge of the country, and who, more
over, needed something to do. Saxton'
acquaintance with th West had been
;alned by a bitter experience of ranching
in Wyoming. A blisxard had destroyed
hi cattle, and the subsequent depression
in land value in the neighborhood of his
ranch had left him encumbered with a
lroperty for which there was no market.
HI friends had been correct in the as
ramptlon that he needed employment, and
ha was, moreover, glad of th chance to
jet away from home, where th impres
iou was making headway that h had
tailed at something In th vague, non-interest-payiug
West
"Now," aid Porter, presently, scrutln
ling a telegram carefully before signing
t, "I'll take yoii up to th office we've
en keeping for your people, and show
ou what it looks like."
The room proved to be a small on at
he ti'p of the building. On the ground
On door was inscribed "The Interstate
irrigvtion Company." The room con
tained a safe, a flat-top desk and a few
chairs. Several map bung on th wall
engineer' charts of ranch lands and Irri
gation ditches.
"It ain't pretty," said Portr, critical
ly, "but If you don't like It you can mov
when you get ready. The bank I your
landlord, and we don't charge you much
for it You've doubtless got your inven
tory of stuff with you, and here in the
safe you'll find the accounts of these com
panies, copies of publlo racord relating
to them, and so on. You're going up
gainst a pretty tough proposition, young
ian. You 11 hear a hard luck story
wherever you go out here just now; peo
ple who owe your friends money will be
mighty sorry they can't pay. Many of
the ranch lands your people own will be
worth something after a while. That
Colorado irrigation scheme ought to pan
out In time, and I believe it will; but
you've got to nurse all these things. Make
your principals let you alone. Those
fallow get in a hurry at the wrong time
that my experience with eastern In
vestors. Tell them to go to Europe get
rid of them for a while, and' make them
give you a chance to work for them,
They're not the only pebbles. I'll send
th combination of th safe up by the
boy, and you can get a blrd'i-ey view of
the situation before lunch. Mr. Wheaton,
our cashier, Is away to-day, but he's fa
miliar with thes matters and will be
glad to help you when he get home.
When you get stuck call on us. And drop
down about 12 :80 and go up to the club
for lunch. Take It easy ; you can't do it
all In on day."
"I hope I shan't be a nuisance to you,"
said th younger man. "I'm going to
fight It out on the best lines I know how
if It take several summers."
"Well, It'll take thm all right," said
Forter, sententioualy.
Left to himself Saxton examined hi
new quarters, found a feather duster
hanging In a corner and brushed the rirt
from th scanty furniture. This don h
tat down by th open window, through
which th breex came cool out of the
great valley; and her h could see, far
over the roof and spires of th town,
th bluffs that marked th broad bed of
the tawny Missouri. Be was not as
Iniovnnt as his last worqs to th banker
implied. Her he waa, he reflected, a
man of good education, aa such things
go, who had lost his patrimony In a sin
gle ventuie. II bad been sent, partly
out of compassion, he felt, to take charge
of investments that were admitted to be
almost hopelessly bad. The salary prom
ise! would provide tor him comfortably,
and that vs about all; anything fur
ther would depend upon himself, the sec
retary of the Neponset Trust Company
had told him; it would, he felt, depend
much more particularly on the making
ovei by benign power of the consider
able part of the earth' surface In which
bia principals' money lay hidden. As his
eyes wandered to one of the office walls,
the black train of a great transcontinen
tal railroad caught and held his attention,
On one of Its northern prongs lay the re
gion (f hi first defeat.
"Three year of life, are np there," be
meditated, "and all my good dollar are
scattered along the right of way." Many
things came back to him vividly how
the wind used to howl around th little
ranch house, and how he rod through the
now among hi dying cattle In the great
storm that had been hi undoing. With
his eyes still resting on the map, he re
enrred to his early school days and to
his four years at Harvard. There was
a burden of heartache In these recollec
tion. None of the profession had ap
pealed to him, and he had not heeded
hi father' wish that he enter the law,
The elder Saxton, who waa himself a
lawyer of moderate success, died before
John' graduation ; he had lost his moth
er In his youth, and his only remaining
relative was a sister who married before
be left college.
A review of these brief and discouraa-
Ing annals did not hearten him ;- but he
fell back upon the better mood with
which he had begun th morning ; he had
a new chance, and he proposed to make
the best of It. He put aside hi coat and
bat, and opened hi desk. The banker
had sent up th combination of th safe
and Saxton began inspecting It contents
and putting his office in order.
Th book and paper began to Inter
est him, and he was soon classifying
th properties that had fallen to his
care. He was so deeply occupied that
ha did not mark the flight of time and
waa surprised when a boy came with a
message from Forter that he waa ready
to go to luncheon.
"You mustn't overdo the thing,' young
man," laid th banker, amiably, a he
closed hi desk. "Don't you adopt our
Western method of working all th hours
tnera are. i do it now because mv n.iirh.
bora and customer would talk about me
it l didn-t, ana say tbat I had lost my
grip in my old age."
The Clarkson Club stood at the .ripe
oi in commercial district, and its brick
wall rose hot and staring In th Julv
un as Porter and Saxton approached.
"Her w are,' said Porter, leadlne
in way into in win nail. "We'll ar
range about your business relations later.
There' a very bad lunch ready upstair
A Ml M . I . .V. . c . . '
uu wv ii su .gmu.l mil orst.
There wer only a few men in the din
ing-room, seated at a round table. Par.
ter exchanged salutation with them as
o passed on to a small table at the end
of th room. Those who were of hi
own age called Porter, "Billy," and he
Included them all in th careless nod nt
old acquaintance.
They went from the table for an In.
pectlon of th club, and arranged with
in cier in ue omc for a room on th
third floor. They (topped In th.
Ing room, where th men from th round
tab! wer now talking or looking at
newspapers. Porter introduced Saxton
to all of them. Several of the man who
hook hands with Saxton were nli.
officials, but nearly every line of bud-
nesa was represented, v
"If you're going with me." uM p
ter, "you'd better get a move on n "
The whole group went out together, Por
ter leaving Saxton to th others, with
iu connaence m numan friendline
which la peculiar to th social lm.m,n
of men. They made him feel their honest
wish to consider him on of themselves,
making a point of saying to him. ),..
dropped out one by on, that they hoped
to ese htm often. Porter led th way
back down Varney tret, carrying hi
hat In his hand. He said at th bank
door: "Now yd make them give yon
what yon want at th dub. Tv got a
hone np her on Varney stmt com
urn tut diaaer to-morrow night asf ws'U
see If w cant rait a "brvexe for yon.
It's hotter than Sues here, and you'd bet
ter take my advice about starting in
low."
Ha went into the bank and Saxton
took the elevator for his own office.
CHAPTER II.
Saxton was not over-sensitive, but th
stiffness and hardness of the ,club boos
were not without their disagreeable im
pression on him as he sat at dinner to
ward the close of his first day in Clark
son. Two of the men to whom Porter
had introduced him at noon proved to be
fellow lodgers, and they exchanged greet
ings with him from the table where they
sat together. Tbey unsociably read their
evening papers as they ate, and left be
fore he finished. He. was watching th
fading color of a brilliant sunset when
a young man 'appeared at the door, and
after a brief inspection of Saxton'a back
walked over to him.
"Aren't you Mr. Saxton? I thought
you must be he. My name la Raridan.
Don't let me break .in on your medita
tions," be added, taking the chair which
the waiter drew out for him. "I met Mr.
Porter a while ago, and he adjured m
to be good to you. I don't know whether
this Is obeying orders" be broke off in
a laugh "that depends on th point of
view."
"You are guilty of a very Christian
act," Saxton said. "I was just wonder
ing whether, after the sun had gone down
behind that ridge over there, the world
would still be going round."
"Th world never stops entirely here,"
returned Raridan, "but th motion some
time gets very slow. Mr. Porter tells
me that you're to be on of us. Let me
congratulate us and you I"
Warrick Raridan was, socially speak
ing, the most available man In th Clark
ton Blus Book. He wa a graduate In
law who did not practice, for he had,
unfortunately, been left alon - In th
wprld at 26, with an income that seemed
wholly adequate for his Immediate or fu
ture needs. He maintained . an office,
which was fairly well equipped with th
literature of hia profession, but this was
merely to take away the reproach of hit
busier fellow citizens. Raridan's office
was the rendezvou for a variety of com
mittees to which he wa appointed by
such unrelated bodies aa the Clarkson
Dramatic Club and th Diocesan Board
of Missions of the Episcopal Church. He
appeared every Sunday at the cathedral,
which was the fashionable church In
Clarkson, where he passed the plate foi
the aim and oblations of the well-dressed
congregation.
He was capable of quixotism of the
most whimsical sort, lie had, for a year,
taken his meals at a cheap boarding
house in order that be might maintain
two Indian boys In school. H wa not
st all aggrieved when, at the end of tht
first year, they ran away and resumed
tribal relations with their brethren. Ht
chaffed himself about it to hit friends.
It was not enough to say that Warry
Raridan could lead a german or tie an
Ascot tie better than any other man on
the Missouri River; for he was also tht
best mformcd man in that same strenu
ous valley concerning the traditions oi
th English stage, and was a ' fairly
good actor himself, as amateurs go. H
had a slight literary gift, which he cul
tivated for his own amusement. Hia hu
mor was fine and keen, and he occasion
ally wrote screeds for the local papers,
or mailed pleasant Jingles to his Intimate
friends.
"I'll wager that if you stay her a
year you'll never leave." -n!H Ri,M..
as they went downstairs together. "I'vt
ueeu aooui a good deal, and know that
we who live here min lnt r.r n.r..
- . w WU1 .VI I
and amusement which go aa a matter of
course in older towns. But there's a
roominess and
out here that I like, and I bellev most
men wno strike It early enough like It,
and are lonesome for it If they go away.
"I think I HnrierKtnnH .. I
about It," said Saxton. "There wer
time in Wvominr wh.n Want.., ut-
seemed pretty arid, but when I went
uc to coston l was homes ck for Chev.
enne."
(To be continued.)
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MODERN UNDER TAKING.
Method Thmt Have Greatly Slmpll.
neo tne Larinar for the Dead.
Modern methods of undertaking now
call for the highest possible skill in
embalming nnd arranging every detail
of burial.
From the old methods of nlachur a
body on Ice, with its attendant insani
tary conditions, the undertaker has
reached a high point of Derftyition in
embalming, the New York Sun says.
out not content with the advanced,
methods experiments are now tinder
way which will, it Is contended, make
unnecessary even to make any in
cision in a uoay when the mnhnimini
process is being performed.
One of the most advanced nnAn.v.
ers In this country savs that within
the next five years It will be possible to
embalm by placing the body in an air-
ugnt cnamber and by subjecting it to
a pressure of the gases of certain m.
balming materials to perform the work
which is now done by injecting fluids
into the veins.
Several firms In New York nnd nth
large cities have done much to relieve
families of the vrv tmnW
t " wMwwa4W TTViSk
which follows death In small houses,
Doaroing nouses or hotels bv fltttno- nn
chapels where bodies are taken nnfii
ready for burial. Embalming is done
in tne estaDiisnment, burial clothes are
furnished and watchers if required. '
Tneee Arms also hsve dera-vmon
perform services, lawyers to attend to
wills or Insurance papers.
Trrtm Rare;. ' -
The most disa&Teeable
Idc eras U the BDnttftrlno- tm
m "a Mjuif
of the hot fat This may be avoided
by sifting a little flour In the pan be
fore adding the eggs. This yon will
find to work like a charm
dally will the difference be noticed
where ther is a large family to sup.
ply..
The Stat of New Jerser lina fmnA pe
ed Ave stallions' from Greet Britain to
enable Its farmers to produce a blghef
tne of horse