The news=record., July 21, 1909, Wednesday Edition, Image 2

EVENTS JFTHE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Farts of the World.
PREPARED FOR THE BUSY SEADER
Less Important but Not Less Inter
esting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.
Prince I to says Japan will help China
to become a modern nation.
Mexico is preparing for an outbreak
that is expected in the south.
More earthquakes have occurred in
Greece and the people are panic Btrick
en. Despite the assertion of officials, the
streetcar strike at Pittsburg, is far
from settled.
Professor Matteucci, director of the
observatory on Mount Vesuvius, died
while at his work.
An Italian laborer on a railroad in
Colorado became enraged and fatally
shot three of his countrymen.
James J. Hill says if the people
would pay less attention to the new
tariff the country would be better off.
Count Boni says he is to marry
Marjorie Gould, daughter of George
Gould and neice of the count's former
wife.
British Columbian officials are
charged with dis riminating against
American halibut fishermen and favor
ing the Japanese.
The government is to issue bonds for
the entire cost of the Panama canal.
A slight earthquake was felt at San
at Barbara, Cal., but no damage done.
An American is sure he recognized
Leon Ling, murderer of Elsie Sigel, in
London.
A strike may be declared by all em
ployes of the American Smelting &
Refining company.
Mrs. Eddy, founder and leader of the
Christian Science deomiatfon, has just
passed her 88th birthday.
All miners in England may go on a
strike in support of the Scotch miners
who are fighting a reduction in wages.
Eight anarchists arrested at Stock
holm on the charge of having con
spired to assassinate the czar of Rus
sia, have been exiled.
The Japanese government has not
yet decided whether or not Ambassador
Takahira will be continued as ambas
sador to the United States.
The Union Pacific railroad has claim'
ed a 200 foot strip of land through the
town of Brighton, Col., which is now
covered wih store buildings.
A son has been born to the Priness
de Sagan.
The shah of Persia has fled to Russia
for protection.
Uver 14,000 ccoal miners are on
strike at Pittsburg, Kan.
Hanover, Germany, police have
started a war on long hatpins.
Anarchy rules in Morocco and Spain
will send 8,000 more troops in an effort
to restore peace.
The Interstate Commerce commis
sion has ruled that express rates in the
West are exorbitant and has ordered
sweeping reductions.
Unless rains come soon farmers of
the New England states will face dis
aster. There has not been enough
water for the crops and they are said
to be burning up.
Immense quantities of BBphaltum
have been found on the Shoshone In
dian reservation in Colorado and
stampede to stake out claims and se
cure land is taking place.
In the hearing for the release of
Thaw from the insane asylum on the
ground that he is now sane, Mrs. Thaw
testified that he threatened to kill her
and fears his deadly enmity.
A California couple was married in
an automobile in an effort to find some
novel way.
The English house of lords does not
favor the conscription plan of increas
ing the army.
Nationalists are in full control of
Teheran and have summoned the Per
sian parliiment
Following Roosevelt's policy, Taft
has withdrawn a number of water sites
on public domain in the West.
Secretary Ballinger denies that he
has quarreled with Secretary Wilson
and says their relations are the best
The commanders of Adana are to be
court martialled for alleged complicity
in the Armenian massacres of last
April.
Two trunks, said to contain the books
of Heinze and the United Copper com
pany, have been seised by government
officials.
Heat in the East is again claiming
children as its victims.
A man has been sentenced to serve
even years at San Quentin for his
many marriages. He admits having
been united to about 20 women during
too past three years.
Floois arouni Kansas City have de
layed mails.
Taft and congress leaders have
agreed to reduce the corporatio tax
from Z per cent to 1 per cent.
EXILES GET FREE.
Siberian Convicts Land in Alaska but
Are.NotWanted.
Cordova, Alaska, July 19. The St
Croix has brought here 100 Russians,
part of the 300 landed at Nome by the
Russian steamer Vaarg and held up as
the result of a Nome mass meeting,
but finally landed when it was found
they had the necessary amount of
money. Cordova objects to their land
ing and they may be taken to Seattle.
Among the party are reveral who
are believed to De menu era oi me
band of political convicts who escaped
from a penal colony in the interior of
Siberia several months ago and who on
June 20, were reported to be working
their way toward East cape, on the ex
treme Eastern coast of Siberia in an
effort to cross the Behring straits and
reach America.
The men believed to be the escaped
convicts are wearing old Cossack uni
forms. These men have been keeping
their own counsel, refusing to com
municate even with the other Russians
who came down from the North with
them.
The party reached Nome from Si
beria on the Russian steamer Vaarg.
After arriving in Nome the men re
embarked on the steamer St. Croix, and
came to this port, where they asked
for work in the construction camps of
the Copper River & Northwestern rail
road. The uniforms worn by the men sup
posed to be the escaped political exiles
show very hard usage. It is believed
the clothes were taken from the guards
killed in the battle at Chupotosk, near
the Arctic circle last March, when the
convicts defeated a company of pursu
ing Cossacks.
The Russians who came from Nome
on the same vessel with the suspected
men profess to know nothing of their
identity, and share the belief that they
are the survivors of the band of exiles
who were fighting their way across 1,
500 miles of Siberian waste.
50,000 WANT LAND.
Rush of Applicants for Indian Lands
Beginning to Slacken.
Spokane, Wash., July 19. The num
er of applications for reservation lands
Saturday was somewhat smaller than
on the preceding days, not only here,
but in Coeur d'Alene, Missoula and
Kalispell. In Spokane, about 5.500
applications were filed; in "Coeur
d'Alene, 5,500; in Missoula, 2,300, and
Kalispell, 1,500.
The total for three days in Spokane
and Coeur d'Alene is a little over 23,
000 each. The crowds at the hotels
are easing off and it appears that many
who have come West to file are passing
through to Seattle to see the exposition
nrBt and are planning to apply on their
way back.
At Coeur d Alene, where serious
trouble among the notaries was threat
ening, an agreement has been reached
whereby all will get together, banish
competition and pool receipts.
Notaries here say that about one out
oi every iu applicants is a woman, in
almost all cases from the East seeking
a home in the West. Many of the men
who apply look upon it as a huge gam
Die. xne women, however, are in
earnest. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illi
nois and Iowa are the outside states
most largely represented.
The grand total for three days of
registration is about 56,000.
CHINA MAKING PROGRESS.
Rockhill Says Boycott on American
Products Has Ceased.
San Francisco, July 19. William
W. Rockhill, recently American minis
ter to China, who has been promoted
to the position of ambassador to Rus
sia, arrived here today on the steamer
Tenyo Maru, accompanied by Mrs.
Rockhill. After a short stay in Wash
ington he will proceed to his new post
of duty at St. Petersburg.
Referring to present conditions in the
Orient, Mr. Rockhill said that China
was making great progress in every di
rection. Political quiet prevailed, and
the industries of the country were
flourishing. There was no longer any
boycott or prejudice against American
products, and trade relations with this
country were of the most satisfactory
character.
Narsen Ready for Arctic.
Christiana, Norway, July 19. Dr.
Fridtjof Nansen is ready to start on a
new expedition into Arctic waters in
his private yacht Veslemoy, which has
been furnished with ice-sheathing and
otherwise specially equipped for the
voyage. He will continue his oceano
graphic investigations, paying special
attention to currents and the warmth
of the water at the surface and at great
depth. TheBe currents; it has been
proved, have a decided effect on the
climate and fisheries of Norway. His
trip will be to Iceland and Greenland.
Radium $5 70,000 an Ounce.
London, July 19. An ascertained
commercial value of $20 per milli
gramme (equivalent to $570,000 an
ounce) has been placed upon radium by
a contract just entered into between the
British Metalliferous mines and Vis
count Iveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel for
the supply of seven and a half grammes
of pure radium bromide. This is the
largest order ever given for radium.
and it will come from the Cornish pitch
oienae mine.
110,000 Barrels of Oil Bum.
Bartlettvsille, Okla., July 19. A
serious oil fire raged here today,
After two tanks each containing 65.
000 barrels of crude oil belonging to
the Prairie Oil & Gas company, had
been destroyed, cannon was used all
day in an endeavor to check the flames.
OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
WATER UMATILLA LAND.
Government Considering Huge Irri
gation Project.
Pendleton Official confirmation of
the investigation of the large govern
ment irrigation project to reclaim 60,
000 acres of arid land in Western Uma
tilla county came from Chief Engineer
of Reclamation Service A. P. Davis
and D. C. Henny, supervising engineer
of the Northwest. These men were
seen as they were passing through this
city recently and both admitted that
the government had ordered teBts and
complete investigation of the prospect
ive project.
The project, they said, was one of
about a dozen now under investigation
in Oregon by the reclamation service.
The most feasible will be undertaken
as soon as money is available. While
they would not say that the Umatilla
project was most feasible, there are
known to be many conditions in its fa
vor. The new project would be prac
tically an extension of the Umatillia
project centering about Hermiston.
The water for the new project would
be secured by building a giant reservoir
to collect the surplus waters of Butter
creek and Umatilla river. It is esti
mated that 60,000 acres would be re
claimed.
EXHIBIT TO BE SAVED.
Plans Made to Preserve Oregon
Dis-
play at A.-Y.-P. Fair.
Seattle Practically the entire ex
hibit of the state of Oregon at the A.-
Y.-P. exposition, with whole sections
of the interior decorations of the build
ing,- will be removed to Salem, Or.,
and made a permanent part of the Ore
gon state fair, according to plans dis
cussed by the Oregon commissioners
during the visit of Governor Benson to
the exposition.
Governor Benson will probably sug
gest to the next Oregon legislature the
idea of taking the Seattle display to
Salem. The cost has been figured
about $10,000 and for this expense
two-thirds of the $100,000 display in
the Oregon building could be preserved.
The elaborate decorations and pano
rama worked in Oregon grains, the
handsome wood panel ings and other
decorative features of the interior of
the Oregon building will be moved in
tact, if the plan is carried out.
It is believed at the close of the ex
position the Oregon building will be
presented to the state university.
Form New Phone Company. .
Ontario At a called meeting of On
tario citizens an independent telepohone
company was organized. It will be in
corporated for $10,000. The Bell com
pany recently removed its toll station
from here to Payette, Idaho, and the
citizens, desiring better sevice, sub
scribed several thousand dollars for a
new company in. which the membes of
the Boise Independent company will be
stockholders. Nearly every citizen of
Ontario is a stockholder in the new
company. Officers and directors were
elected, also a committee on bylaws to
file incorporation papers.
Trolley Line for Rogue.
Jacksonville The Jackson County
Light & Power company has been
granted a franchise over the roads of
Jackson county by the County court of
Jackson county. The company in its
petition asks for the right to erect
electric light poles along the highways
in certain townships for conducting
light, heat and motive power. It is
the intention of the company to begin
at once the construction of an electric
railway to traverse the Rogue river
valley.
Sumpter Extension Work Announced.
Salem Official announcement has
been received by the railroad commis
sion that actual operations have start
ed toward construction of the extension
of the Sumpter Valley railroad from
Austin to Prairie City, and that the
work would be rushed. Following the
recommendations of the commission,
the Sumpter Valley has issued a new
tariff by which flour, salt and sugar
may be carried in mixed cars, with a
minimum weight of 30,000 pounds,
Wa'er Suits Stir Echo.
Echo Joe Ramos, whose alfalfa
fieldB are one mile up the river from
E ho, is defendant in an injunction
suit brought by the Henrietta Milling
company, of Echo, to prevent Ramos
from placing a dam across the river
just above the company's headeates
There is much litigation to be threshed
out before determining the rights of
water users from the Umatilla river at
this place.
Mill Will Remove to Kalama.
Rainier The big plant of the Wil-
lard Case Lumber company has closed.
and as soon as a small lot of planing is
finished, the task of moving the plant
to Kaiama will begin. The companv
had intended to finish cutting out their
timber at this place, but owing to some
legal tangle with local parties, have
concluded to raft their logs from here
to Kalama.
Dufur Farmers Organize.
The Dalles Articles of incorporation
of the Farmers' Union Warehouse com
pany, of Dufur, have been filed with
the county clerk by Theodore Buskuhl
and Lester D. Kelly, of Kingsley, and
Alex Strachan, of Dufur. The canital
stock is $4,000, divided into 800 shares
(or the par value of $5 each. The head-
quarters oi uie company will be at
1 Dufur.
BLIGHT IN DOUGLAS.
Pear Orchards Are in Danger From
a New Pest.
Roseburg A 4eadly blight on the
pear orcnaras oi mis county mac win
require for its eradication more atten
tion than one man could possibly give,
has caused the county court, at the
suggestion of District Horticultural
Commissioner A. H. Carson, of Grants
Pass, to appoint two fruit inspectors
for Douglas county. The appointments
fall to F. A. McFall, of this city, and
E. F. Whitney, of Oakland, both of
whom were recommended by Mr. Car
son, who appeared before the -court in
person.
This blight, a species oi lungus tnat
emits a gum like substance, has prac
tically destroyed the greater part of the
fruitgrowing industry in the Eastern
and Middle Western states and has giv
en the Pacific coast orchardists a hard
battle. California pear growers tri
umphed over it after having once given
up. Then the blight reached the fam
ous Rogue river valley in Oregon. The
orchardists there promptly secured the
services of two government experts,
O Gara and White, and these two men
are now in that valley aiding the fruit
growers to stamp out the pest.
Several months ago the blight began
to be noticeable in the Umpqua valley,
particularly around Roseburg and
Winston. Then orchards in other lo
calities became affected, until the pres
ent day sees the pear industry in this
county threatened with damage unless
the growers take action under proper
instruction at once. Mr. Carson ex
plained to the court that the blight can
neither be prevented nor killed by
spraying.
What causes it is not known, and
there is only one way to get rid of it,
and that is by burning the affected tree
or branch immediately upon discovery
of the blight This has already been
done in a number of instances.
Delegates to Irrigation Congress
Vale C. O. Thomas, president of
the Vale Commercial club, and J. P.
Dunniway, cashier of the First Na
tional bank, of Vale, have been chosen
by Vale as delegates to the irrigation
congress at Spokane this month. They
will further the interests of the Mal
heur irrigation project The project
has been before the people of Malheur
county pending Secretary of the Inter
ior Ballinger s choice between the pri
vate companies and the government
Cross Ties for Panama Road.
Portland Oregon lumbermen have
the opportunity of aiding in the con
struction of the Panama railroad. E.
C. Giltner, secretary of the chamber of
commerce, has received from the rail
road commission requests for bids on
150,000 cross ties for delivery at Colin
or the Port of Ancon. Indicating that
construction work is to proceed rapidly.
it was urged that bids be submitted as
soon as possible.
Wallowa Fruit Inspector Named
Wallowa Ford C. Potter has been
appointed fruit inspector for this coun
ty by the County court. Mr. Potter
has had wide experience in fruit and
berry culture and is thoroghly convers
ant with the various fruit pests. His
services will be of great value to the
fruit raisers of this valley.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Bluestem, nominal ; club,
$1.17; valley, $1.17.
Corn Whole, $37 per ton: cracked.
$38 per ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $4042 per ton,
Hay Timothy, Willamette valley.
$2022 per ton ; Eastern Oregon, $21
23; mixed, $1620; alfalfa, $14.
Grain bags hc each.
f ruits strawberries, $2.26 per
crate; cherries, 2(g8c per pound
gooseberries, 45c; apricots, $1.75
per box ; currants, 8c pec pound ; lo
ganberries, $1.40 per crate; raspber
ries, $1.251.40; black caps, $2
blackberries, $2.
Potatoes $11.75 per hundred
new, 2)itfT2c per pound.
Vegetables Beans, 6c per pound
lettuce, head, 25c per dozen ; onions,
12s15c; parsley, 36c; peas, 67c
per pound; radishes, 15c per dozen.
Butter City creamery, extras, 28c
per pound; fancy outside creamery.
26627c; store, 18c. Butter fat
prices average lc per pound under
regular butter prices.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 28c
per dozen.
Poultry Hens, 1415c per pound
springs, 19c; roosters, 89c; ducks,
young, 12(t'3c; geese, young, 910c
turkeys, isc; squabs, $Z(gz.Z5 per
dozen.
. Pork Fancy, 10c per pound.
Veal Extras, 886c per pound
ordinary, 7c; heavy, 6c
Hops 1909 contracts, 16c per pound
1908 crop, ll12c; 1907 crop, 7c
1906 crop, 4c
Wool Eastern Oregon, 1623c per
pound; valley, 2325c; mohair, 24
ZoC
Cattle Steers, top, $4.60; fair to
good,
$44.25; common, $3.75(4
cows, top, $4.50; lair to good, $3
3.25; common to medium, $2.50(32.75
calves, top, $55.50; heavy, $3.60
4; bulls and stags, $2.753.25; com
mon, $22.60. .
Hogs Best $8.26(38.50: fair
good, $7.75(u8; stackers, $66.60
China fats, $6.757.
Sheep Top wethers, $4; fair
mod. J3.50rffi3.75: ewes.
Xe less
all grades; yearlings, best $4; fair to
good, S3.506iS.75: spring lambs. $5(3
16.25.
HOT CONTEST ASSURED.
Senate and House Will Each Hold
Out for Lumber Rate.
Washington, July 16. The make-up
of the committee on conference that is
now handling the tariff bill, endeavor
ing to compromise the differences be
tween the house and senate bills, is not
such as ' to inspire confidence in the
hearts of those senators and represent
atives who favor the senate duty on
rough lumber, $1.50 per 1,000 feet. It
may be that that rate will be re
tained, but there is only one Republi
can on the conference committee who
is directly interested in the lumber
schedule, and that man is handicapped
because he is a big lumberman.
Of the senate conferees, not one has
any direct interest in the tariff on lum
ber. : Aldrich, Rhode Island ; Burrows,
Michigan; Penrose, Pennsylvania;
Hale, Maine, and Cullom, Illinois, rep
resent states that care far more about
cheep lumber than they do about high
protection for the American lumber
man. A few years ago Burrows might
have been somewhat concerned, but
now his interest is secondary. On the
house Bide, Payne, New York ; Dalzell,
Pennsylvania; McCall, Massachusetts;
Boutell, Illinois; Calderhead, Kansas,
and Fordney, Michigan, are the confer
ees, and Fordney is the only enthusias
tic advocate of a high tariff on lumber,
for he owns fabulous quantities of
timber land and operates a numb -ar of
lumber mills.
It will be the contention of the
house members that the duty on rough
lumber must be reduced $1, the rate
fixed by the house in the Payne bill.
They will insist that the house will not
stand for $1,50, and will point to the
fact that it was only by a narrow mar
gin that the house rejected a free lum
ber amendment
COREA ACCEPTS CHANGE.
Transfer of Courts to Japan Quietly
Received.
Seoul, July 16. The news of the
new agreement between Japan and
Corea arranging for the transfer of
Corean judicial authority to Japan, is
being quietly accepted here, now that
its terms are fully understood
it was reared that some disturbance
might follow the public misapprehen
sion that the disbanding of the court
guards was included in the abolition of
the Corean war office. Now that it is
known generally that the guards are
not to be discharged, but merely are
to be placed under the command of the
emperor's aido-de-camp, the cause for
uneasiness has been removed.
It is believed that the convention be
tween the two countries relative to the
transfer was signed July 12. The pro
visions of the document besides the
changes mentioned, look to the control
of Corean prisons by the Japanese.
EARTHQUAKE IN GREECE.
Province of Elis Suffers Loss of Score
of Lives and IOO Injured.
Athens, Greece! July 16. An earth
quake has occurred in the provincre of
Elis, the capital of which is Pyrgos,
Several villages were destroyed and
many people perished. The loss is
heavy.
London, July 16. A dispatch to a
London news bureau from Athens says
that a violent earthquake has occurred
in Southern Greece, resulting in con
siderable loss of life and damage to
property.
Twenty person are reported dead and
100 injured at one village, and three
other villages Buffered heavily. The
dispatch adds that, when the details
are learned, it is likely that the casual
ties will be greatly increased.
Building Falls; 7 Dead.
Philadelphia. July 16. Seven men
were killed, one fatally injured and 24
seriously hurt today when a building at
the northwest corner of Eleventh and
Market streets collapsed. One man is
also missing. The building, a five
story brick structure in the heart of
the business section was being remod
eled, and it is supposed the removal of
one of the girders caused the entire
structure to weaken and crash to the
earth.
Convention Rates Open.
Chicago, July 16, Reduced passen
ger fares to Chicago, St Louis. Kan
sas City,. Omaha and St Joseph will
be available this summer from all
states west of the Missouri river, as a
result of a decision just announced by
a number or leading Western railroads,
which, competitive conditions will
make applicable to all roads. It has
been decided to open to the general
public rates of a fare and a half for
the round trip from points west of the
river which were granted on account of
the many conventions.
Cossacks Desert Shah.
Teheran, July 16. The Royalist
forces apparently have had enough of
ngnting and are prepared to admit the
supremacy of the Nationalists. The
secretary of the Russian legation here
submitted proposals for the surrender
of the Cossacks. He asked that the
Nationalists cease attacking the Cos
sacks, that the Cossacks be allowed to
continue service under the future Per
sian government and that their safety
oe guaranteed, wnicn was agreed to.
Prefer American Labor.
Butte, Mont, July 16. E. P. Mat
thewson. superintendent of the Washoe
smelter, has announced that the policv
of the company hereafter will be to
employ American labor before alien
labor. Mr. Matthewson also Btated
that the company store system has
been abandoned in Anaconda.
QUAKE CLAIMS 300
Property Damage jo Greece Will
Be Tremendous.
WATER IN SPRINGS TURNS HOT
Eerthquake Seems of Volcanic Na
. ture and Upheavals Reported
Near Village of Ponhloti.
London, July 17. Special dispatches
received here from Athena say that
300 persons were killed or injured by
the earthquake that occurred yesterday
in the province of Elis, in Southern
Greece. The damage to property also
was very great Hot water is flowing -today
from many of the springs in the
stricken district, while the water in
the rivers and brooks has turned a red
dish color.
The earthquake demolished 400
houses in the village of Havari, in Elia
province. Thirty persons lost their
lves at that point and a number were
njured. Neighboring villages suffered
greatly. All the houses of Amalaiva
were rendered uninhabitable. The
shocks were felt at Patras, Pyrgos,
Malamas and Tripoli, but outside of
Havari only a few deaths or injured
have been reported. A volcanic up
heaval is said to have occurred at the
village of Ponhjoti.
WARSHIPS ON THAMES.
British Admiralty Attempts to Allay
Fears of People.
London, July 17. One hundred and
forty-eight British warships dropped
anchor in the Thames tonight the ar
ray extending from the estuary at the
Bouth end of the river to Westiminster
bridge, in the heart of London. The
object of this extended and superb dis
play of Britain's fighting power is an
anti-panic show. Uneasiness prevails
in every quarter of Britain. Anxiety
in higher circles as to the condition of
the country's defenses has caused ap
prehension and pessimism throughout
the body politic.
Lord Roberts says the army is a
tragic joke. Admiral Beresford says
the navy is not what it has been con
sidered. And Germany is accused of
having aggressive designs against the
peace and liberty of the Britons. The
result of all this ferment is that the
country is in danger of "going off its
head." The mighty armada on the
Thame's is the admiralty's heroic seda
tive.
RICH WOMAN SMUGGLED.
Carried $50,000 Worth of Goods Un
der False Bottom of Trunk.
New York, July 17. An indictment
for smuggling was handed down today
by the Federal grand jury against Mrs.
Fremont Chesbro, owner of the Ches
bro Coastwise line of steamers running
out of Boston.
The case was placed in the hands of
the United States district attorney for
the district of New Jersey after the
discovery of a double bottom in one of
the trunks which Mrs. Chesbro brought
to this country with her on the Kaiser
Wilhelm II last May.
Wearing apparel appraised at $50,
000 was found in this hidden compart
ment, together with bills and invoices
indicating the purchase abroad of a
pearl necklace valued at $23,000. The
necklace was not found among Mrs.
Chesbro's effects, but was yesterday
turned over to the customs officials by
Mrs. Chesbro's attorney.
Big Muddy Rises Again.
St Louis, July 17. The Missouri
river last night rose so that the gauge
today registers 35.3 feet. Manufac
turing concerns across the river in Illi
nois are moving their stocks to higher
ground, fearing a storm will wash the
waves over the levees which-the citi
zens are counting on to protect them.
Citizens of Cahokia, 111., worked last
night strengthening the levees, which
will stand but a slight rise. Five
thousand acres of farm land were flood
ed early today by the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas embankment breaking.
Island Defenses Tested.
Honolulu, July 17. Under the direc
tion of Captain Piatt of the ordnance
department, the eight great mortars of
the Fort Ruger defenses, on Diamond
Head point were fired for the first
time today. The guns command the
only approach to Honolulu harbor and
are the first of the coast defenses to
be installed. The test was thorough y
satisfactory. Captain Piatt arrived
yesterday on the transport Thomas to
supervise the placing of other guns.
New Shah Rules Persia.
Tehern. July 17. Mohammed AH,
shah of Persia, was dethroned today
and the crown prince, Sultan Ahmed
Miraza, ws proclaimed shah by the
national assembly, composed of the
chief Mujtehids and the leaders of the
Nationalist forces, in the presence of
an immense crowdjin Parliamentsquare.
Mohammed Ali has taken refuge in the
Russian summer legation at Zerzende.
Kaiser Favors Football.
Bealin, July 17. The emperor has
directed that ftotball be included in
the military exercises. His majesty
is reported as saying that football as
played in the United States and Eng
land is fine training in temper, as well
as for the body.