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Bohemia Nugget OOTTAGI GROVH. . . OREGON. NEWS OF THE WEEK; i i In a Condensed Form lor Oar Busy Readers. A Resume of the Lest Important but Not Lets Interesting Events of the Past Week. John D. Rockefeller is missing from his Forest Hill home. The etesmer Mongolia has started for Ban Francisco, leaking tadly. The CuMn situation adds many com plications to Mr. Roosevelt's already strenuous job. The Rns3ian government is now tak irg final action towards the distribution of land to peaants. Bernard Shaw says the new spelling reform is not much of a reform, con sisting mostly cf abbrev a ions. The r. cent report of the killing of 26 United States soldiers by Cuban insur gents is declared absolutely nntrue. The total nurrber of deaths from the recent Gnlf storm is n w placed at 125, and many points are yet to be 1 eird frcm. The report of Pension Commie ioner Warner shows a decrease of $12,470. There were 43,300 deaths of pentioaers dnring the year. Indications now arj that st the corr irg session of congress the senate will throw many obstructions in the way of Roosevelt's policy towards Cuoa. General Thomas Hailfy Harris, . i ii.- tt: orieaaier general id iue l uiuu mu; daring the rebellion, is dead, aged 93 ! years. At Appomatox lie is tail 10 have silenced the last battery ever "placed in action by General Lee. Still another plot to assassinate the czar has been discovered. A tew outbreak of Jewbaiting has occurred at Odessa, Russia. A sister of Mrs. Howard Gould has mairied a Chinese coolie in San Fran cisco. Taft will not use troops in Cuba if he can poesibly get along with marines and bluejackets. All preparations are complete for the inquiry into the doings of the lumber trust at San Francisco. The Hill lines are said to have sold vast deposits of iron ore to the United States Steel corporation. The Navy departmect has issued or ders to prepare the receiving Bhip Hun cock for use as a transport. Governor Toole, of Montana, has an nounced himself a candidate frr the United States senate to succeed W. A. Clark. A Japanese steamer is accused of re fusing aid to the American steamer Mongolia, which went aehere at Mid way island. The expenses of the San Francisco re lief committee for September were $121,57.6 Thelulget for October is recti ed to $49,507. Teddy Roosevelt, Jr., and three chums at Harvard have been arrested for beating up a policeman in "the col lege town. They have been released. Roosevelt does not expect a crisis in the Cuban affair. The United States navy is extremely short of marines. Russian terrorists have offered a re ward for the assassination of the czar. Outlawry in Leyte and Samar, Phil ippine islands, may force miliary rule. The hurricane which has swept the Southern states will greatly damage the cotton crop. Taft opposes the plan for a provis ional government and may proclaim himself governor. Mexican rebels captured the town of Jimincz, but after a sharp fight they were driven out by troops. San Jaan, Porto Rico, experienced a series of severe earthquakes. Buildings were badly damaged and the people were panic stricken. General Stoessel has resigned from the army and it has been accept d to prevent his stirring up a scandal over the surrender of Port Arthur. In the hearings of the ;oal land fraud in Wyoming by the Intestiate Commerce commission testimony was offered that a justiec of the Supreme court of Wyoming helped the Union Pacific to secure government coal land. The government will prosecute the sugar trust. A plot to blow up the czar's yacht has just been discovered, ident Roosevelt has ordered six more warships and 1,000 marine to Havana. Twenty have been killed in the rae war at Atlanta. Troops are now in control and quiet reigns. United States marines have been or dered to guard the British railroad in Santa Clara province, Cuba. The American legation at Stockholm bad a narrow escape from being blown up by Finnish refugee revolutionists. Ruesian authorities have secured evi dence that General Trepoff was poison ed. A doctor has een arrested for complicity in the crime. TROOPS OFF FOR CUBA. Mobilisation of Force at Newport Newt Where Transports Are Ready. Washington. Oct. 1. Aim rlcnn troops are now moving toward Culm Mobllliatlon of the forces will be at ewport News. Va., for the most part. although a part of the expeditionary force to Culm will be Kent from New York and Tampa. Kla. Advices re ceived at the departments of the mili tary today Indicate that all Is quiet In Cuba and that the Insurgents Intend to lay down their arms. The probability is the 1'nltcd States forces In the island will be landed only as a precautionary measure. So far as officials are advised no trouble of a serious kind Is anticipated, but in ac cordance with instructions from Pres ident Hooscvelt hurried preparations are being made for the sending of an expeditionary force of the army to Cuba. The first American troops will be landed at Havana next Saturday. Meantime the marines and bluejackets from the Aimriean fleet in Cuban waters will protect American Interests and support Secretary Taft. the Pro visional Governor of Cuba, in the preservation of order and the protec tion of life and property. In official circles litre American in tervention was regarded as Inevitable. How long it may continue it is im possible to foretell. The nature of the intervention and the preparations for it indicate a supervision of Cuban af fairs on the part of the American gov ernment for an indefinite period. Ar rangements have been concluded not onlv fur the expeditionary force to Cuba of about 5. Mil men. but for a second force of equal numbers. No orders for the mobilization of the second force, of course, have been is- sued, tint r trie men are noem i an .... arrangements have been completed for hurying them to Cuba at the earliest possible moment. Wheth. r more troops than are included in the first expedi tion will be sent to Cuba will depend upon the developments in the island during the next tt n days. It is certain, however, that a suffi cient force of American troops will be maintained in Cuba to support the provisional government and to insure security to life and property pending the establishment of a stable govern ment by the Cubans. WIRELESS CONVENTION. Delegates From Thirty-one Countries Meet at Berlin. Berlin. Oct. 1. Delegates represent ing 31 governments will assemble hero October 3, by invitation of the German government, with the object of Teach ing a common agreement for the ex change of messages by the use of var ious wirelfss telegraph systems, and to define the basis on which private wire less telegraph companies may operate with the consent of the governments. The conference is a result or ttie Marconi Company having refused to allow its stations to do business with persons using other than Marconi ap paratus. This controversy began soon after the Marconi Company, in 1001. set up stations for public telegraph purposes. The refusal of these sta tions to take messages sent in by the Slabv-Arco (German I apparatus brought about the international wire ess telegraph conference, also by the invitation of Germany, in 1003. Eight governments took part, as follows: The United States, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Russia and Austro-Hungary. The delegates of six governments agreed in the final protocol to a series of recommendations looking toward the co-operation of all users of wire less. The delegates of Great Britain and Italy, because their governments had contracts with the Marconi, did not sign the recommendations. Little has come of these recommendations. The Marconi Company has continued to set up stations and to refuse the messages of rival systems. The most, important act in the com troversy in the conference was that of the United States In 1004 directing the Marconi Company to remove its apparatus from the lightship Nan tucket. Germany will propose to the confer ence that an international bureau shall be established for the control of wire less telegraphing; that each wireless station must be connected with the ordinary telegraphs by special lines; Troops From Fort Sheridan. Chicago, Oct. 1. Brigadier-General w i;' f'ater. commander of the Depart ment of the Lakes, received orders from Washington today, directing two battalions of the Twenty-seventh In fantry and the Fourteenth United States Field Battery, at Fort Sheridan, to proceed immediately to Newport News, where they will embark for Cuba. Colonel W. I.. Pitcher, In com mand of Fort Sheridan, ordered two special trains of 12 cars each for Tuesday morning, and it is expected the troops will leave for Newport News Railroads to Be Sued. Washington, Oct. 1. Attorney Gen eral Moody has directed that suits be brought against a large number of railroad companies to recover penal tl. s for violation of the safety appli ance law through failure to keep their equipment in proper condition. The largest number of violations uttriuuieu to any road is that of 61, against the Delaware & Hudson Company. The total number of violations la 181. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST IRRIGATION ASSOCIATION. Annual Meeting at Hood River Octo ber II and 12 Promises Well. The fourth annual meeting ol the Oreeon Irrigation association will be held at Hood River in connection with the Howl River Valley Fruit fair, Oc tober 11 and 12, 1S00, and all who are interested in furthering the irrigation movement which at this time means so much to the development of the state, are invited to tie present and part id pate in the work of this organisation. The appointment of delegates will be as follows: All state olhcials, includ mg members of the legislative assem bly, senators and members of congress, including mem tie re of congress elect and senators nominated, the mayor of all cities, the presidents of the state university, state agricultural college and state normal schools, shall be con sidered ex-oflieio members of the asso ciation, and delegates shall be appoint ed as follows: Fifteen by the governor of the state, ten by the mayor of the city of Portland, five by the mayor of each other city in the state, live by the county judge of each county and five by each chamber of commerce, board of trade or other commercial body or reg ularly organised irriation, agricultural, horticultural or engineering society within the etate. It is respectfully urged that in the appointment of delegates, persons shall be selected who are sincerely interested in the subject and who are likely to at tend the convention, and that appoint ments shall be made as early as possible. The appointing powers will please have the full name and postottice ad dress of their appointees mailed to t tie secretary, A. King Wilson, at his ollice in the Chamber of Commerce building, Portland, immediately upon appoint ment bcinsc made. Information of every character rela tive to this meeting will be furnished by the secretary. A partial program has already been arranged as follows: "Irrigation Under the Caiey Act in the Deschutes Valley," Jesse Steams, attorney for D. I. A P. Co.; "Need of Legislation in Oregon on the Subject of Waters," John H. Lewis, state engineer; "Irrigation for Humid Regions," (Oct. 12) Prof. F. L. Kent, dairy instructor, O. A. C. ; "Irrigation Conditions in Malheur County, Oreaon." F. W. Met calf, manager famous Arcadia farm: "Fruit Growing on Irrigated Lands," Judd Geer, of Cove, Oregon; "Some Legal Phases of Irrigation," John II. Lawrey, attorney, Pendleton; "Irriga tion in the Willamette Valley," Grant 3. Dimick, county judge, Clackamas county; "Irrigation m the Kogue Kiver Valley," J. W. Perkins, member legislature, Jackson county. of Working Old Hammersley Mine. Grants Pass The old Hammers!)' mine, in the Jump Off Joe district, is again the scene of active mining opera tions, after lying id'e for a number of vears. R. G. Smith, of this city, has a force of men at work, and the (tamps of the old mill are again uropping on good ore. The old pile of tailings, of which there are in the neighborhood of 350 tons, is being run through a cyan ide p'ant which has been erected. The tailings, according to assay-i, carry $11 in gold, and as the exense of working them is small, a handeome profit will be realized. O. A. C. Starts Well. Corvallis In spite of the fact that the O. A. C. opened early this year, the first two days showed the largest enrollment for a similar time in the history of the institution, 498 being en rolled and many are still coming. This enrollment is an "increase of 56 over last year. At this rate an enrollment of more than 000 will be reached thi( year. With an expectation of this four new professors and assistant professors have been added to the faculty. Veiy noticeable among the new students is the increase in the number of high school students, several coming from the Portland high school. Teach Spanish in University, Eugene The University of Oregon has established a new department, that of romance languages, which will be under the charge of Dr. Timothy Clo ran, who has just returned from a year's travel in France and Spain. Heretofore the university has offered courses in French, with the instructor under the direction of Professor F. G. G. Schmidt, professor of modern lan guages and literatures. But with the coming of Dr. Cloran Spanish will be added to the university curriculum, and there will be opportunity for broad er work in the department of Germanic language and literature under Professor Schmidt. Chittam Bark in Demand. Eugene Chittam bark is going up in price rapidly. All the past winter Knipna dealers have been uaviriK 3Vo and 4 cents for the bark, but at present the price ottered is O cents. Jigni petti for the past two seasons is given as the cause for the rise. jvunu a:turera- stocks are running low. There are about seven carloads of the bark in Eu gene warehouses, some of which was purchased two and three years ago at a price about the same as la now onereu. Offers Big Ranch for Sale. Athena J. J. Rauistone has placed sis large ranch on the market. He has 1,100 acres of the very best wheat lands in Umatilla county, has farmed it for rosnv veara and reaped a fortune. The price asked ia $75 an acre. COBALT IN GRANT. It To Be Found In No Other Section of United States. Salem According to the statist leal Information furnished 'jl.abor Comiiie- sioner Men, by the I'niteo Maws geo logical survey bureau, at Washington, D. C, there are 2.170 mines of differ ent kinds in the state of Oregon, under Innment. the ereatei number of which are gold and copper, while in nniM txirtions of the etate deposits of some kinds of mineral are found which do not exist elsewhere in the United States. Notable among these latter are thH rob It mines of Grant county, raid to be the only discovery of this valua hie mineral to have lccn found in tin conntrv. Cobalt is nsrd extensively and is of great value for coloring purposes and in the arts. It is found in combination with copper, carrying a large per cent of gold. In his forthcomii g biennial report. Ijibor Commissioner Huff will comment upon this statistical data as follows: "A large number of the mines given in the table are not operated, some having been abandoned, andinany are in the first stages of development, on account of the lark of capital to carry on the work. Considerable harm has been done the mining inferesst of the state by unscrupulous promoters who, by 'wildcatting, have succeeded in swindling many unsuspecting investors and are responsible for retarding the development ol the industry generally. "The principal mining counties in the order of the number of miners em ployed are: Ilaker, Josephine, Jack fon, Grant, Lane, Douglas and Cos. Other counties have extensive mining interests, and ttie im'intry. already of some magnitude, will continue to grow. At present there are alout min ers in the state who draw an average wage of $ t per day. Estimating that they work, on mi averHge, two-thirds of the time, the amount paid them annually in wages is $2,022,000." Siuslaw is Full of Salmon. Eugene Repirts from the Siuslaw river state that the present run of chi nook salmon is the higgent in a num ber of years, and the pack of the two canneries and the co'd storage, plant at Florence will be a record breaker. The canneries are ownfd and. operated by O. W. Kurd-and William Kle A Sons, respectively, and the cold storage plant by the latter. The silversidrs are just now beginning to run, ard they, too, promise to be very plentiful. Farmers Catch Salmon. Arlington The ,'ohn Day river, a few miles west of Arlington, is simply alive with tine big salmon, and farmers aie catching them there each day by the wagon load. It is expected tnat at leaet 10,000 of these flih will be cap tured in that stream within the nest two weeks. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, fl4M.rc; bluestem, (17 (r8c; valley, 67(.tH8c; red, iUr.i(i2c. Oats No. 1 white, $24m 24 50; gray, $22m23 per tin. Barley Fee l, $2021 per ton; brew ing, $21 50c 22, rolled, $22. Rve $ I Mb per cwt. Corn Whole, $27; cracked, $2S per tori. HayValley timothy, No. 1, $10 ot 11 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $12((14, clover, $7rr7.60; cheat, $7ff 7.50; grain hay, $7; alfalfa, $10; vetch hay, $7W.60. Fruits Apples, common to choice, 25(76c per box; choice to fancy, 75c (ft $1.25; grapes, Oregon, 60 76c per crate; peaches, 76cm.$1; pears, 75c w $1.25; crah apples, $1(U.25 per box; prunes, 25( ")0c per box Melons Cantaloupes, $101.25 per crate; watermelons (c tc per pound ; casabas, $2.50 per crate. Vegetables IJeans, 5w7c; cabbage, lj.j("2cper pound; cauliflower, $1(' 1.26 per dozen; celery, GOoe 0u per dozen; cucumbers, 15c per dozen; egg plant, 10c per pound; lettuce, head, 20cperdozan; onions, 10(l2J.je per dczen; peas, 4r5c; hell peppers, 5c; pumpkins, 1?4C per pound; spinach, 4("5c per pound; tomatoes, 40 Uv 50c per box; parsley, 1 Oof 1 5c ; sprouts, 8c per pound; squash, 1 .'40 per pound ; turnips, U0c('$l per sack; carrots, $l 1 .25 per sack; beets, $ 1.25m 1.60 per sack; horseradish, 10c per pound. Onions Oregon, $l(fl.25 per hun dred. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, deliv ered, KOrnOOc; in carlots f. o. ) coun try, 75fH0c; sweet potatoes, 2J4C per pound. Butter Fancy creamery, 27J.j('C30c per pound. Eggs Oregon ranch, 23c per dozen. Poultry Average old hens, 14( 1 4 c per pound; mixed chickens, 13 !.j (tjl4c; spring, 15c; old roosters, fto 10c; dressed chickens, 1 4 ( 1 5 c ; tur keys, live, lfi((21c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 21('22,,liC; geese, live, 0(t?10c; ducks, 14((tjl5. Hops 1000, 15(Sl7c per pound; 1005, nominal; 1004, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1510o per pound, according to shrink age, valley, 20 (422c, according to fineness. Mohair Choice. 2'!(30c per pound. Veal Dressed, 6j.j('i8c per pound. lieef Dressed bulls, So per pound; cows, 4) $5tfC; country steers, 5(j0c. Mutton Dressed fancy, 7(8o per Pundj ordinary, 66c; lambs, fancy, 88c. Pork Dressed, 78Jc per found. HURRICANE IN SOUTH, Millions of Dollars Damnge Done and Probable Loss ol Life. Louisville, Ky., Sept. 2.-TI. trop leal hurricane which for the pat 24 hours has been churning the waters of the Gulf o! Mexico and doing much damage en the coast and far Inland, Is whipping through North Alabama In a northeasterly direction at a velocity but slightly lens thin that cf 45 to () miles an hour, reconlo.l In New Or leans during the dy. lOpoils re ceived by the Associated PreM do not Indicate any loss of life, but the dam age to propertty over the letrlmry touched by the storm Is something enormous. All wire communication I" seriously disarranged and in some. Instances has resulted in rutting of! cities complete ly, Mobile not having bene heard from in nearly 24 hours. Numerous washouts have occurred, the Interruotion from this cause In.one case eif.iding for HO miles. Pensacola, where the maximum ve locity of wind was probably felt earlv this morning, reports a property loss of $3,0011,000 in the city alone, and sends rumors of loss of lile, which it ll Im possible to confirm. The dan age to railroads Is very heavv. Reports to the olllcisls of the Lotii-viTe .V Nashville road from the superintendent of the Mohlile and Montgomery divisions Indicate that the loss approxin Bt-s $1,000,000. The tracks between Flomatoii, Ala., and IVusacola, Fla., are obstructed in many places and In some places badly torn up by falling trees. At Pensacola. the lmisville A Nash ville gram elevator has been destroyed and the ei.tire traiksgn to K'cumbia bay is ruinel. The railroad haif at iVnsacola is reported to be a total loss and Hit cars of coal ol the company was wahed into the bay. Ililoxi, Miss., and Moss Point. Miss., have not been heard from for 24 hours. Moss Point reported the water live feet il.ep in the streets of the little town at 10 o'clock Wednesday night. There win a heavy rain and high win. I at Montgomery, Ala., during the day, but no serious daiimge was done. A gale is blowing at itirmiiighnin to 1 ight after a day of steady rain, which bus t een continuous for .Hi hours. VIATKA IN GENERAL REVOLT. Peasants Resist Army Enrollment, Kill and Disarm Police. St. Petersburg, Sept. 28. Grave agrarian disorder have broken out in the province of Viatka, the center of the disturbance being the important district of Malmuish, with a popula tion of over 100,000, where the inhab itants of more or less villages have joined in the uprising have disarmed and expelled the police and are pillag ing and dostioying the residences of the landowners and devastating the coun try. It is rumored at Viatka that the administrative police chiefs in tbe Malruuisli district and eight of their subordinates have been killed. Tbe excesses began September 20, with a riot over the enrollment ot army reserve men for the automobile seivice. At the village Oi Mulnami a body of peasants attacked tbe enrollment sta tion, killed a sergeant and six rural po licemen, mortally wounded ttie assist ant police chief of the district and de stroyed the list of reserve men. Toe Viborg manlfefto is thought to be more directly responsible for the disorders than anything else. It had a wide circulation in Viatka province, and its exhortation to the peasants to refuse to do military seivice wui spread by the nif mbers of the outlawed parlia ment from Viatka. Make Final Effort. Havana, Sept. 28. The Modetate party last night decided to make a final effort to perpetuate the authority of the Palma administration by deter mining to reject the resignation of the president when presented to congress today. When this decision was reach ed, Secretary of War Taft and Assist, ant Secretary of State Bacon, the Amer ican commissioners, had already con cluded to intervene, but they agreed to await tcday's developments, as they are anxious to afford the Cubans eveiy opportunity to woik out their own sal vation. Salt Trust Raises Price. New York, Sept. 28. The Interna tional Siilt company yesterday raised is prices on all grades of salt approxi mately 00 cents per ton. This is said to be the third raise within a period of three months. Tho reasons given are that the shutting down of two of the largest producing plants in the Utica district has caused a shortage in the supply, that the demand is unprece- dentedly large and that much difficulty has been experienced recently in se curing care in which to transport the product. Typhoon in North Luzon. Manila, Sept. 28 The Cagayan val ley, in the northern part of the Island ol 'juzon, was devaKtated by a typhoon September 18. Barrios, Gallaran and Ltguiian were totally destroyed and four tnwiiH were badly damaged. Chk- ayan is the principal tobacco section of the island, and thp crops were practi cally destroyed. No estimate has been nieiH oi ttid aoiouiit of damage done, but tbe !- of life is known to have been slight. Fstimatet of Loss at Hongkong, M nila, Sept. 28. Chimse newapa iera received heia today estimate the loss of life resulting from the typhoon t lluigkong, Heptember 18. at 10.000. md the loss of the fishing fleet end the lamage to properly at from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000. TAFT AS GOVERNOR Cuban Congress Gives Up and He Assumes Control. INTERVENTION WAS WELCOMED Majority of All Parties Refused to At. tend the Special Session ol Cuban Congress, Havana, Sept. 2 American inter volition In Cuba will he an at -rompim),. ed fact today. President Hoosevell's pace nintiia sioners, altht ugh clothed with the full, est authority Irom him to Ukn mn h m . tion whenever It became obvious that the securing id peace by hariiioiijr.iiig the waning Cubans was impoiooll. patiently withheld their handn from thus setting aside Cuban sovereignity until the last hope disappeared. Tins stage was readied at a late h..ur Uhl night, when a majority of all parties refused to attend the a siiouof coiirr, called to S. t Upon the resigns! ion nf members of the government and declar ed definitely that they would have nothing more to do Willi the gnvern un lit of Cuba. As was eipectel, there hits been Hindi rat Id ileuuiiciat loll of the cmirsn puiaiied by the American coiihihsmoii era, who, it haa been alleged, have act ed unfairly towards the government, hut the great mass nf the resident o Cuba, Cilbnns, Hpull'ards, Ainern an an. I all other foreigners, welcoi i.i r- ventioii as something for which they have longed throughout six wei-lt nf unrest, disorder and ill-feel. ng. Tue proclamation will be Issued dv day. It will be singid by Mi. Taft, by virtue o' the uilthorily vested 111 turn by Pusiden Kooievelt, It will cr.ate Mr. Taft provisional military governor of Cuba until he deems ll.e count ly sullifienlly padlled for civil guvern inent, whereupon he will call I'.eckham Witithrop, governor of Poito liiio, to act as civil governor. NAVY IS SHORT OF MARINES Urgently Needed at Cienfuegos, None Are Available. Washington, Sept. 20. An appeal for more men to assist in prottcing property at Cienfuegos, Cuba, was re ceived today by Acting Hecretary New berry, of the Navy department, from C-ommander Smith of thecruiscr Cleve land, which is now stationed at Cien fuexos, together with the guntioat Ma rietta. In addition to the regular comple ment of marines and bluejackets on the warships, 225 o h tr marines were sent to Cienfuegos to ass'st in looking after foreign interests (here, and at present the Navv department has no available men. Practically all the marines who can be spared from barracks in the United States ami from watships are preparing to go to Havana. It ia not believed by the Navy department that any of the men now at Havana or 011 Iheir way there can bo scared to hm-M at CieiifocgO!!. Work of the Hurricane. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 211. l'.etwten To and 100 llveB lost, fully two score ves sels driven ashore or wrecked in vari ous parts of the Gulf of Mexico, dam axe amounting to $4,500 000 in the citv of Mobile, and two millions more at outside points, is the record of the storm which swept Mobile Wednesday and Wednesday night. No accurate es timate of the casualties ran he made aa yet, and it ia doubt f 11! if exact figuree will be known for a week or more. Pensacola suffered aa much as Mo bile. The lose of life la known to be heavy and damage to property will reach $5,000,000. Tho smaller towns ami country throughout the district felt the hurricane equally as much as the two cities. Insured by Penny Paper. New York, Sept. 20. A apodal cable dispatch to the Times from London states that the heirs of one of the vic tims of the Granthan disaster have re vived $1,000 insurance, which was effected at a cost of 1 penny. The in sured was a regular subscriber to a Lon Ion penny weekly which Insures its readers against arccideuta ami death. Ilia bag, containing i current copy of the paper, duly atampiJ, wa at the hotel at Ketford. Within a few hours of his death the claim waa exam ined, allowed and settled. Cold Storage Chickens Condemned Chicago, Sept. 20. Two cars of cold storage chickens and over ten carloads of meat were condemned yesterday by Chief Food Inspector M irray and his assistants, to say nothing of 15 carcass es of diseased cattle and four calves. The condemnation of the chickens was due to private advices received by Mr. Murray from Canada. When he learn ed that the lot had escaped him and was on the way to New York, he noti fied the authorities there. Uncle Sam Owns Palma Island. Washlng'on, Sept. 20. It ia said at the State department that no doubt exists aa to the American ownership and control of Palma'a island, one of the small islands on the southeastern edge of the Philippines. About 18 months ago the War department re quested the dt partment nf State to de termine whether or not Palma'a Island was included in the Philippine group owned by the United States.