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About The news=record. (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Or.) 1907-1910 | View Entire Issue (July 14, 1909)
EVENTS OF THE DAY Newsy Items Gathered from All Farts of tbe World. PREPARED FOR THE BUSY CHADER Less Important but Not Less Inter esting Happenings from Points Outside the State. Heat in Texas is causing much suf fering. Two arreBts have been made in Chi cago for bomb throwing. W. D. Conner will try to secure La Folette's seat in the senate. Immigration officials are at El Paso, Tex., inquiring into Chinese smuggling. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and three children are at Naples, on their way to Rome. E. E. Calvin, the Southern Pacific officer, is not yet out of danger, but is doing well. Bryan says the time is at hand for all states to act in the ratification of the income tax. A Detroit woman has confessed mis deeds in order to save her husband from the gallows. Canadian officials say the report is false that the bars are to be let down to Chinese immigration. Flood conditions along the Missouri and Kansas rivers have improved but little and much apprehenson is felt. M. Sakao, president of the Japanese sugar company, committed suicide when convicted of grafting by the gov ernment. The Austro-Hungarian union is again menaced. Hundreds of new cases of cholera are appearing daily in St. Petersburg. Prince Miguel, son of the Portuguese pretender, is Ito marry an American woman. English suffragettes have succeeded in reaching Premier Asquith with their petition. Ambassador'Reid has given a dinner and dance to the king and queen of England. Bolivians have mobbed the Argon tine legation at La Paz, because of an adverse arbitration ruling. There is an immense building in crease in Chicago. At the present rate 1909 will show a gain of 60 per cent over 1908. A vigilance committee at Los Ange les prevented the elopement of a white woman with a negro. The colored man was horsewhipped. John D. Rockefeller has given an' other $10,000,000 to the General Edu cation board. The board now has an endowment of $52,000,000. A severe earthquake shock is re ported in India. The Colombian revolution has control of the chief port. English'suffragettea have gained an audience with the king. Persian rebels are near Teheran and the shah has prepared to flee. An association has been formed at Los Angeles to reform auto Bpeed man iacs. Calhoun has been refused a change of venue and the second trial is set for July 19. The Bteamer Mauretania crossed the Atlantic in 4 days. IB hours and 86 minutes. ( The Missouri floods have begun to fall, leaving death and ruin in their wake. Fully 2,000 people are homeless and the property damage will reah $1, 500,000. The only bank conducted by Indians is at Fart Lapwai, Idaho,. It has capital stock of $10,000 and over $45, 000 deposits. The affairs of the bank are conducted by three Indians. Missouri crops have suffered greatly from the heavy rains. Nine men were killed by an explosion of gas in a coal mine near Trinidad. Colo. The mission steamer Abler is miss ing in the Arctic ocean with 19 per sons. The American Sugar Refining com- pany says it is not guilty of violating the anti-trust laws. Wheat has been damaged in Nevada by the extreme cold weather. Iec formed in many places. Damage from rain is reported from many points in Nebraska. At Omaha part of the streetcar system is out of commission. Railroad blockades in various parts of Colorado, due to heavy rains, have delayed more than 1,000 delegates to conventions in the West. Latest reports of accidents due to Fourth of July celebrations show 76 dead and 2,774 injured. This is one- half leas than last year's record. After seven years of legal delays, John A. Benson, convicted at San Fran cisco of conspiring to defraud the gov ernment of land, has been sent to pris- on to serve his sentence of one year. A California boy ropes of a balloon harmed. tarried up in the came down un WILL DEPOSE SHAH. Revolutionists in Persia Gaining on Government Forces. St. Petersburg, July 12. The Rus sian expedition from Baku which land ed at Enzell, a Persian seaport on the Caspian yesterday, is made up of 1,000 Russian and 800 Cossack cavalry, with eight field guns and eight machine guns. Despite the correct attitude maintained by the Russians, the natives are demonstrating their unfriendliness. The unopposed advance of Siphidar, the leader of the revolutionists, and Sardarasad, the chief of the Bakhtiari tribesmen, towards Teheran, is taken here to mean that General LiakhofF, the governor of Teheran, considers bis force inadequate to engage in a general battle, and that he has decided to em ploy his Cossack brigade merely as a guard over the life of the shah. Persons well informed here regard the entrance of the revolutionists into Teheran as a foregone conclusion, while the deposition of the shah, which sev eral times has been mooted, will now arouse no surprise. ESKIMO WILL SEEK POLE. Boy Brought Here by Peary Will Try for Arctic Honors. New York, July 12. Separated from his native home for 13 years, Mene Wallace, an Eskimo boy brought to this country with five of his people by Commander Peary from the Polar regions, sailed today on the Red Cross ine steamship Rosalind, for St. Johns, F whence he will be conveyed to his home in Greenland. Before Mene sailed, the Arctic club extracted from him a written agree ment that he would not again return to this country and that while in Green land he would not bears arms against the Peary expedition. This was due, it is believed, to the fact that Mene, angered at the attitude of Peary and the Arctic club in refusing to take him back to Greenland, once safe in his native home, might seek revenge for the treatment he received while in this country. Mene said he would organize an ex pedition of Eskimos to find the North pole. PRESENT WRITING TABOOED. Uniform Method to Be Used in Phila delphia Schools. Philadelphia, July 12. Both vertical and Spencerian handwriting have been tabooed in the public schools of this city, and after this a uniform method of penmanship will be adopted. Numerous complaints have been re ceived from business men who can't decipher the writing of their clerks and applicants for jobs who have learned their peculiar style of chirography in the public schools. For some time Superintendent Brum' baugh has been at work on a plan to unify and improve the writing, and this plan was adopted at a meeting of the elementary schools committee. A free, legible style of writing, slightly slanting to the right, will be taught. Students, no matter how ad vanced they may think their flourishes. will have to begin again with pot hooks and ciphers. According to the new code, writing will be taught like calisthenics or manual exercise. The teacher will clap her hands and count, and the en tire class will make letters with hooks and tails and crosses simultaneously, The exercise is intended to give a free mechanical movement to the arm and increase the speed. Earthquakes in France. Marseilles, July 12. Earth shocks occurred last night throughout the same region which suffered seiBmic disturb- ances in June. The shocks lasted four or five seconds, and were in a direction from east to west. The inhabitants of Rogues, Lamboseo and St. Cannat and other communes in the Aix district were panic stricken and rushed from their dwellings. They are now camp ing in the open. At Marseilles the patients in La Conception hospital were greatly alarmed , out they were reassured by the surgeons. Teachers' Occupation is Gone. San Juan, Porto Rico, July 12. The steamer Carolina has sailed from here for New York, having on board all the American school teachers who taught in Porto Kico last year under contract. The failure of the United States senate to pass the Olmstead bill, which was designed to remedy the deadlock exist ing between the executive council and the house of delegates, leaves the is land without money to begin the fiscal year, since the legislature has made no appropriation. Judgeship for Hughes. Chicago, July 12. A Washington special to the lribune today says There is a strong impression in New York and Vermont that President Taft will offer Governor Hughes the first vacancy that occurs in the United States Supreme court. The tender of the appointment is regarded as conting ent upon the coming of a vacancy at time when the New York governor can accept it Many friends of Governor Hughes no not think he would accept. Troops Rush to Morocco. Madrid, July 12. The First brind of Cazadors, composed of six battalions of infantry, three batteries of artillery and a squadron of cavalrv, aa well ma the cruiser Numacia and the transport Admiral Lobo, have been ordered to Melilla, Morocco, where yesterday four Spanish workmen were killed by natives I OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST I OREGON MEN TO SPOKANE. Strong Delegation to Attend National Irrigation Congress. Salem Governor Frank W. Benson has appointed the delegates who will attend the National Irrigation congress in Spokane representative of the state of Oregon. In a few days five more will be appointed by C. N. McArthur, speaker of the late house, and five more will be appointed by Jay Bower man, president of the late senate. Fol lowing are the delegates named by Gov ernor Benson : Professor P. L. Campbell, of Eu gene, president or the university of Oregon; D. W. J. Kerr, of Corvallis, president of the Oregon Agricultural college; C. W. Fulton, former United States senator; J. N. Teal, F. S. Stan ley, E. B. Piper, John T. Whistler, Tom Richardson, R. M. Brereton, C. B. Merrick, Joseph B. Knapp, all of Port land; Jay Bowerman, Condon; John Lewis, Salem; H. L. Ho! gate, Bo nanza; Francis JV1. Saxton, A. V. Swift, John L. Rand, Baker City; W. Furnish, Gilbert W. Phelps, Pendle ton; S. D. Peterson, Milton; Walter Pierce, W. J. Snodgrass, La Grande ; Clyde T. Hockett, Enterprise ; Malcolm A. Moody, The Dalles; E. T. Early, Hood River; F. H. Hokpins, Central Point; J. D. Heard, Jackson ville; Dan P. Ras, Jacksonville; H. A. Brattain, Paisley; A. T. Buxton, W. A. Williams, Forest Grove; H. V, Gates, Dallas; H. A. Rands, Oregon City; Drew Barnum, Moro; Will R, King, Ontario; R. N. Donnelly, Rich mond; John Ellis, Frank White, Kla math Falls; H. C. Levens, Burns; F, Waite, Sutherlin, and George E, Davis, Canyon Ciy. The list of delegates probably pre- sents the strongest selection ever made in this state by a chief executive to attend any convention It is composed of leading men in all walks of life and all of them take a keen interest in the science of irrigation. Every one of them has promised to attend the congress. MUCH WHEAT SHIPPED. Portland Ships More Than the Puget bound Ports. Portland During the cereal year. ending June 30, Portland shipped in the neighborhood of 3,UU0,U00 more bushels of wheat than was sent from Puget sound, while from there not quite 1,000,000 more barrels of flour was sent out. The wheat shipments to Europe from here were 6,182,778 bushels, y'Ji those from Puget sound were 4,151,.1 bushels: to the orient, South America and Africa, Portland shipped no wheat, Puget sound sending out 315,285 bush els. California wheat shipments from here were 2,932,861 bushels and f-fTgi the sound 2,032,492 bushels were ship ped. Wheat from Portland to Mexico was 165,257 bushels and from Puget sound to Mexico it was 203,578 bushels. During the year just completed Port land shipped the following amount of flour: To the orient and Hawaii, 542,- 193 barrels; Europe, 15,000 barrels California, 295,716 barrels. In the same order are the shipments of flour from Puget sound ports : Orient, 909, 613 barrels; South America, 109,847 barrels; Europe, 23,681 barrels; Call forma, 278,556 barrels, and to Mexico, 8,500 barrels. The grand total for the season, 1908-1909, being 26,811,259 bushels of wheat from here and the sound. The Portland barley shipments for this season are 822,509 bushels. New Buildings for Indians. Klamath Falls Superintendent H G. Wilson, of the Klamath Indian res ervation, is making preparations to enter upon a campaign of improve ments. During the past week several contractors have visited the agency tcH look over the ground for the purpose of filing bids for the construction of the large modern school building which will be erected during the summer. The bids will be forwarded to Washing ton and will not be opened for several weeks. Work is to be begun shortly on a large gymnasium. Mr. Wilson believes that the Indians should be giv en all the exercise possible and with this end in view he will endeavor to have the gymnasium roomy and equip ped with a view to making it attract ive. Tbe school grounds are to be lm proved and many of the old buildings renovated. ' Dam Has No Fish Ladder. Mills City Anglers and others resid ing in this vicinity complain that thous anas oi saimon in the santiam river are unable to reach the natural spawn ing ground above this city because the Curtis Lumber company maintains dam without a fish ladder. As nearlv every one in the vicinity is connected in some way with the lumber company no xormai complaint has ever been made. The condition, however, is de plorable. Baker Courthouse t)one. Baker City The County court has accepted the new courthouse from C. A. Gray & Son, of Portland, who were contractors for the interior work. The building is now completed and awaits the arrival of the new office furniture. It has cost Baker county less than the $120,000 appropriated Asylum Improvements Awarded. Salem The asylum board has award ed the contract for improvements at the asylum farm to Dennison & Mc Laren, of Salem, for $6,790. Anew amusement hall will be built, the kit chen enlarged, the main building re roofed and the dining room repaired. BUILD TO SIUSLAW. Holding Company Will Back Eugene & Western in New Road. Eugene The Eugene-SiuBlaw rail road, which has long been talked of, appears now to soon be a reality. Tbe proposition to build the road has reached a point where the promoters of thb enterprise feel that the building of the line is a certainty. The Lane County Asset company, which was or ganized in Eugene last winter for the purpose of promoting the line, will be the holding company for tbe Eugene & Western Railway company, which was incorporated a few weeks ago to build the road. Offices have been opened here and operations will be directed by the asset company. It is the intention to offer for sale to the people of Eugene and vicinity at east $150,00Q of the stock of the Lane County Asset company, the funds to be used in building the first section of 20 miles of the road. When this has been accomplished it is proposed to turn all the assets over to the Eugene & West ern Railway company, issuing stock holders the same amount of stock in the railroad company as they have paid for in the asset company and to issue and sell the bonds of the railway company for the purpose of completing the road to Florence. Calf Costs Ten Thousand. KlamatlvFalls It took the jury just 25 minutes to find a verdict for the de fendant in the Kelley-Arant damage suit, last of the cases resulting from the criminal prosecution of Jay Arant, who was indicted for the larceny of a calf more than two years ago. Arant was twice tried on a charge of larceny, the first trial resulting in a disagree ment, while the second acquitted him Three cases resulted over the ownership of the calf. The calf involved in the litigation was worth approximately $10. The money expended in litigation will aggregate close to $10,000, and of this amount the taxpayers of the coun ty will be forced to pay not less than $6,000. Summer School at Albany. Albany The Albany college summer school began with an enrollment of 43 pupils. President H. M. Crooks and County Superintendent Jackson are in charge of the work, . assisted by Pro fessor L. A. Wiley, of Portland, and Professor Torbet, of Albany college, All branches of public school work, as well as teachers' review - and Bible study are being taught. President Crooks reports that the attendance will reach the 100 mark. Surveyinf for New Road. Marshfield Chief Engineer Haines, of the Coos Bay, Oregon & Idaho rail road, who has been making preliminary surveys, reports that in a few days the first 12 miles will have been surveyed, The preliminary work of finding grade through the mountains has been carried on in a thorough manner, and the engineer is pleased with the result so far. It is hoped to finish the survey work before fall. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Bluestem, milling, $1.30 club, $1.181.20; valley, $1.17. Corn Whole, $35 per ton ; cracked, $36 per ton. uata jno. l white, :hu40.d0 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $26.50 per ton middlings, $33; shorts, $2932; chop, $2430; rolled barley, $3435. Hay Timothy, Willamette valley, $1720 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $20 23; mixed, $1620. Grain Bags 5c each. Fruits Apples, $12.50 per box strawberries, $1.752 per crate; cher ries, S10c per pound; gooseberries, 45c; apricots, $1.251.60 per box currants, 7 Jc per pound; loganberries, $1.25 per crate; raspberries, $1.50 black caps, $1.752. Potatoes $l(n)1.75 per hundred new, 24C(f2sC per pound. Vegetables Asparagus, 75c90c per dozen ; beans, 8c ; lettuce, head. 25c per dozen; onions, 1215c peas, 45c per pound; radishes, 15c per dozen. Butter Citycreamery,extras,26)c fancy outside creamery, 2526Kc store, 18c. Butter fat prices average lcper pound under regular butter prices. Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 25c per dozen. rouitry liens, JZ(a'iac; springs, 16Jc18c; roosters, 89c; ducks, young, 12(?18e; geese, young, 910c turkeys, iec; squaos, $z(g;z.Z5 per dozen. Pork Fancy, 10c per pound. Veal Extras, 88&c per pound ordinary, 7c; heavy, 6c Hops 1909 conracts, 16c per pound 1908 crop, ll12c; 1907 crop. 7c 1906 crop, 4c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 1623c per pound; valley, fine, Z3c; coarse, 21 Xc mohair, choice, 24225c Cattle Steers, top, $4.504.60; fair to good, ?4(4.25; common, $3.75(5:4 cows, top, $3.60; fair to good, $36? 3.25; common to medium, $2.50(2.75 calves, top, $55.60: heavy, $3.6004 bulls and stags, $2.75(33.25; common, $2(Z.50. Hogs Best, $88;.15; fair to good, J7.6U c0 7.7a; stockers, $6 6.60 tjhlna fata. B 76((i7. Sheep Top wethers, $4; fair to good, $3.50ff3.75; ewes, Xc less on all grades; yearlings, beet, $4.15; fair to pool, $3.754; spring lambs, g4.75 b.ZD. YIELD NEAR RECORD. Northwest Wheat Crop Now Placed at 65,000,000 Bushels. Portland, July 9. Estimates com piled from data received from more than 350 of the principal wheat sta tions of Oregon, Washington and Ida ho, indicate the 1909 wheat yield for the three states to be approximately 65,000,000 bushels, compared with 40, 000,000 bushels last year, 60,000,000 bushels in 1907, and a five-year aver age of 48,500,000. Of the three states, Idaho has the best crop, with Washington showing up exceedingly well, while Oregon, es pecially in tbe river counties, sunerea from dry weather to such an extent that the damage could not all be re paired by the late rains. Some of the poor yields in uregon have been offset in the totals by an increased acreage in new territory. The most noticeable increase of this nature is along the Wallowa extension of the O. R. & N. Another locality in which new acre age will aid in swelling tne totals is the Haystack and Bakeoven country, where there is an increase of about 20 per cent in the acreage, with the yield about 10 per cent better than last year, Sherman county is somewhat spot ted, and early in the season the outlook was poor. Rains in the latter part of June helped, however, and there will be a material increase over last year's output. Conditions in Wasco are sim ilar to those in Sherman county. Umatilla, the banner wheat county of the state, is not coming up to its usual standard. The light lands suf fered by the dry weather early in the season, and the showers that came later were not general throughout the county. Along the Arlington branch of the R. & N. the crop is light until Con don is reached. Around Condon, how ever, the outlook is far from gloomy. With the exception of about 20,000 acres, which have been taken by weeds, there will be a pretty fair yield. Morrow county is not quite so good as Gilliam, but there, as elsewhere in the river counties, some very short stalks of wheat are turning out well filled heads. Union county has an excellent crop and 40-bushel yields will not be uncom mon around Elgin and Summerville, The Willamette valley has ceased to be a figure in the export wheat mar ket, but the yield is an important fac tor in the milling business. Washington reports are uniformly good. Walla Walla, with its never- failing foothill land, promises an out put of 4,500,000 bushels. Barley also turning out well in this county, and has made some inroads on the wheat acreage. Columbia and Garfield counties are both expected to tum off record yields of wheat and barley. This region was favored with rain at a time when the river counties in Oregon were missed, Whitman, the banner wheat county of all the Northwest, gives excellent promise of breaking records. The acre age is large and the crop conditions are far above the average. Estimates run from 9,000,000 to 12.000,000 bushels, the latter being generally regarded as too high, while 9,000,000.buBhels is re garded as conservative. Lincoln county, which in ' light land" years has come very close to Whitman's yield, has suffered this year by dry weather. Adams county is still in the uncer tain class, as the crop is late in that region and even the winter wheat is not out of the woods. At the best the crop will be only fair, except down in the southeastern part of the county. Douglas county lost the greater part of its wheat territory when the new county of Grant was carved out this year, and Grant, which has an in creased acreage as well as a fair yield. gives promise of about 3,000,000 bush els. Some new wheat land in the northern part of Douglas county will make the yield for the old county in excess of 500,000 bushels. Spokane county was in the moisture belt with Whitman, and as a result has a fine crop in prospect. Franklin county is somewhat behind its neighbors in yield, and in the vicin ity of Connell the crop will be smaller than that of last year. Farther east the outlook is more favorable. Klickitat county, which has always been in Portland territory, gives prom ise of a very good yield, with some in crease in acreage. The Horse Heaven country, lying just across the Columbia from the river counties in Oregon, suffered from the dry weather that cut down the Oregon yield. Spring wheat in this district is almost a total failure, but some of the winter wheat will make fair crop. Asotin county was also in the rain L. .9 . en ana promises to turn ott a crop that may break recordB. The crop for the entire state of Washington will approximate 35,0000, uuu bushels. Idaho has the best crop on record There is not very much increase in acreage, and there is a big crop of bar ley and oats, so that the wheat yield may not quite reach that of 1907, Latah county will probably harvest nearly 1,000,000 bushels of wheat and Nei Perce and Idaho counties will have from 6,000,000 to 6,000,000 bushels, Save Trees From Flames. San Diego, Cal., July 9. The Jolla crrove of Torrev ninpn uiH tn the only grove of thoe trees in South era laiitornia, bad a narrow escape from destruction by fire today. Occu pants of a passing automobile noticed wt uw unaeroruBn in tne grove burning and hastened to La Jolla was for neip. A party of fire fighters was summoned quickly to the scene, several hours of hard work the were extinguished. After flames AFT TO TOUR WEST lans for Extensive Trip to Pa cific Coast Tbis Fall. OING DIRECT TO SEATTLE FAIR Executive Will Visit Portland and Go on South to California and Gulf States. Washington, July 10. President Taft today gave an outline of the ten tative plans for his trip through the West and South this fall. The president has abandoned all idea of visiting Alaska this year, largely because Mrs. Taft will not be able to go with him. Upon his arrival here today the president received word from Beverly that Mrs. Taft was rapidly improving in health. He feels, how ever, that she is hardly strong enough to take the long Western trip this fall, which will occupy about two months. As soon as the tariff bill is out of the way the president will leave Washing ton for Beverly, to remain until Sep tember 17, his 52d birthday when he hopes to begin his Western trip. The president will go directly to Seattle, stopping for brief visits en route at Denver, Salt Lake and Spokane. After visiting the Alaska-Yukon- Pacific exposition, the president will swing down to the Southwest, stopping for a time at Portland, Or., where he will be the guest of Senator Jonathan Bourne, and proceeding thence to San Francisco. Leaving San Francisco', the president will go to Los Angeles, where he will stop for several days with his sister. From Los Angeles the president will go to San Diego and then into Arizona and New Mexico. If the weather is pleasant and his arrangements permit, Mr. Taft hopes to viBit the Yosemite valley before going to Los Angeles. Coming out of Mexico, the president will stop for a time at El Paso, where he expects to meet President Diaz, of Mexico. After his stop at El Paso the presi dent will visit San Antonio, where he will inspect Fort Sam 'Houston, which he was instrumental in building up. After visiting Austin and Dallas, the president expects to spend several days . on the ranch of his brother, C. P. Taft, at Corpus Christi, Tex. Continuing East, the president will stop at Houston and go to New Orleans to attend the meeting of the Deep Waterways convention. After attend ing the convention, Mr. Taft wants to stop for a time in the Bayou Teche country of Louisiana, the land of Evan geline and Arcadia. From there the president will pro ceed to Jackson, Miss., thence to Mont gomery, Birmingham and Macon. From Macon the president will go to. Augusta. Leaving Augusta the president) goes to Savannah - and thence begins hia northward trip to Washington, stop ping at Wilmington, N.' C, and Rich mond, Va. DAM THREATENS VALLEY. Great Pathfinder Structure Said to Be in Perilous Shape. Cheyenne, Wyo., July 10. Reports received here tonight indicate that con ditions at the Pathfinder dam atAlcova, said to be the largest in the world, are most serious. The dam is held only by a temporary dike built on gravel foun dations. Seventy men are working day and night to strengthen the dike. The government geological survey has a force of men scattered along the river for more than 100 miles above the dam. taking measurement's of the river's flow to give indications of any sudden rise in the Btream. Preparations have been made to dy namite the dam if the water carries away the temporary dike. Arrange ments have also been made toward warning the people living in the valley below in case of danger. Man Convicted by Proxy. San Francisco, July 10. An extra dition case with unusual features came up for hearing this afternoon before United States Commissioner Hancock. Mosys don Amaral, arrested on a State department warrant, was accused of murder committed on one of the Azores islands, and though he had fled from the country, was tried and convicted, a man appointed by the Portuguese court representing him at the trial. Recent ly he was captured at San Luis Obispo in this state, and now is resisting the attempt of extradition. Chinese Honor Traveler. Pekin, July 10. Prince Chun, the regent of China, today received ' Tang Shao Yi, who has just returned to the capital from a tour of the world, which included in extended visit to the Unit ed States. An imperial edict was is sued today making Tang Shao Yi ex pectant vice president of one of the imperial boards, which is interpreted as meaning that his services are to be recognized by the Chinese govern ment. To Guard Mexican Border. , El Paso, Tex., July 10. Daniel J. Keefe, commissioner general of immi gration, accompanied by F. W. Berk shire, chief inspector for Texas, readi ed this ity today on a tour of inspec tion of the entire Ri j Grande border, preliminary to establishing stringent regulations to prevent smuggling of Chinese across from Mexico.