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Bohemia Nugget tlohrmla Nun rt Puhlithlnt Co. COTTAGE GROVE OREGON NEWS OFJHE WEEK In a Condensed Term for Ocr Busy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important but Not Lets Interesting Events of the Psst Week. King Ieopold may offer to fell Congo to Fiance. CoM weather in Texas has gieatly damaged early fruit. The order of Native Sons of Califor nia have ousted Kuef. War has been renewed in Central America and an aimy sent into Hon duras. Fire partly destroyed the largest BhiprarU at Genoa, Italy. The loss is placed at $500,000. Seveial prominent Ohio lumber deal era have been indicted fur violating the anti-ttust laws of that state. A Chicago boy 1" yeais old has dis appeared with $7,000 which he was tc take to a hank for his employers. The Minnesota senate has tabled a resolution passed by the he use which hendorses Roosevelt in his stand against Harriman. Fire swept over 100 acres of Manila, the loss amounting to $200,000. The greatest pait of the destroyed section was composed of native houses. A discharged employe of the New Yoik, New Haven & Hartford railway has been arrested for attemptng to wreck a passenger tiain on that road. A St. Louis couple will be married eoon at the ages of 101 and 100. Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York have been visited by a snowstorm. Early fiuit in Tennessee i9 reported to be severely damaged by cold weather. A slight"earthquake shock at Charles ton, S. C, threw the people into a panic. There is no cliance for the election of a senator from Rhode Island the present session of the legislature. Chinese famine sufferers are dying by hundreds and there is difficulty in securing the dead suitable burial. The Austrian premier declares every eclony of the various nations should be made an independent government. President Roosevelt has about made op his mind that the best way out of the national campaign trouble is for the government to pay the legitimate ex penses of all candidates. San Francisco street railway employ es are receiving back pay. The arbitra tion board granted the men an increase from the time the trouoie Degan lasi fall and now $415,000 is being distrib uted. Dr. Kennard, an American agent in Russia, says the suffedring there trom famine is aDoalline. Not less than 20,000,000 aie dependent on aid until another harvest, tpidemics oi disease add to the suffering. Heaist is said to be building up a third party. There is a deadlock in the Wisconsin senatorial contest. Jerome is investigating a charge of tampering with a Thaw juror. The vice president of the New York Central railroad favors government control. The British budget DroDOses a pen sion for old age and increased taxes on the rich. Southern cotton manugacturtrs com plain of rate discrimination by the i ail roads. Captain George Curry has been in augurated governor of ew Mexico in place of F. C. Hagerman, who resigned The thief who stole $25,000 from the Noithern Pacific Express company at St. Paul has been captured and the money recovered. The Ililnois Supreme court has de cided the municipal ownership law in valid and Chicago will not be able to own her own street railway system. Regis II. Post has been inaugurated governor OI rort-o kico in succession oi Beekman Winthrop, who resigned to become assistant secretary of the treas ury at Washington. The Hermann trial is approaching the end. Coal mineia at Coleman, Alberta, have struck for an increase of 10 per cent in wages. The Chicago & Allton railroad has been fined $00,000 for granting rebates in meat shipments. Portland piolce have captured the "pink domino," a bold burglar who has terrorized the Nob Hill district for several weeks. San Francisco street car employes may Btrike for 8 hours and $3 a day. Spain has outlined a program for a new navy which calls for an appropria tion of $64,000,000. Robbers held up the Northern Pacific Express company's office at St. Paul and secured $25,000. Snow storms and freezing weather prevail from Wisconsin down intc Kan sas. In places trains are delayed on account of the snow. i DEEP SNOW ON PRAIRIES. Six Inches Ruins Fruit Prospect, But Benefits Wheat. Omaha, April 19. Five ' inches of snow fell dnilnir the night, and the stoitn continued liming the foienoon. The fall was general over Fastern Ne braska, and is the heaviest km w n in Apiil for many years. The extent of damage is not known. Opinion as to the storm's effect upon fruit and early vegetables varies. In some counties along the southern and central belts cherries, peaches, plums, and hetriee are said by some authorities to have lieen ruined almost entirely, while other growcis repcrt that fruit was not far enough advancd to become seiiously endangered. In grain circles it is Indieved the snow will kill all the green bugs thitt have been threatening the winter wheat ciop and spreading over the ccntial portion of the state. A Norfolk dispatch says Northern Nebraska, Southern South Dakota, Northeastern Wyoming and the Black Hills ate covered with a blanket of snow six inches deep upon the level, which is still falling. At Northwestern railioad headquarters here it was said the stoitn was practically over the en tire system west of the Missouii river. DEATH LIST GROWING. Mexican Earthquake Proves to Have Been Most Disastrous. City of Mexico, April 10. Today the Associated Press was in direct commu nication with a number of towns in the district a fleeted by Sunday's earth quake. From the telegrams received it is certain that the death list will ex ceed 100. There are a number of small towns yet to be heard from, but up to date the average number of fatalities at these places has ranged from 0 to 12 and the number of injured from 30 to 40. In Chilapa 33 persons were injured and 779 buildings destroyed. Nobody was killed, as reported yesterday. After the fiist great shock the air was filled for manv miles with a thick, sickening, sulphurous odor. This caused great distress to the survivors. There are many speculations as to the cause of the peculiar fieak of nature and some consider it a proof that the earthquake had its origin in some sub terranean exploeion. FIRST ANNIVERSARY. San Francisco Remembers Earthquake Year Ago. San Francisco, April 19. While there was no general cessation of the work of rehabilitation, the first anni versary of the earthquake and the fire which left this city a mass of ruins was observed yesterday by appropriate re ligious services and commemoiative ex ercises by the Building Trades Council and other organizations. The crowning event of the day was the banquet of the Merchants' associa tion at the Hotel Fairmount, at which the material and civic regeneration of the city was amply discussed and faith expressed in a new and greater San Francisco. The principal business streets weie decorated with bunting and incandescent lights. Flags were flying eveiywhere and the dome of the city hall, still in a partly wiecked con dition, was illuminated as on gala occa sions "before the fire." WILL GO FOR SIX-BITTERS Frisco Policy Holders Bring 1,800 Suits for Payment. San Francisco, April 19. More than 100 suits against insurance companies for the payment of policies held during the great fire a year aao were filed to day at the county clerk's office, bring ing the total well over 1,800. At 5 o'clock, when the office closed, there was a long line of attorneys, clerks and messengers waiting, and it took three clerks nearly an hour to dispose of the overflow. Today was practically the last day for the filing of such suits, although in some cases the year allowed will not expire until tomorrow. During the past two days the county clerk's office has taken in nearly $3,000 in fees on these cases alone. After Men With Guns. New York, April 19. While squads of detectives are scouring the foreign quarters, woiking under the direct or ders of Police Commissioner Bingham, arresting all the armed men they find, the judicial officeis are showing evidence of their intention toco-operate with the police in breaking up the practice of carrying deadly weapons. District At torney Jerome has prepared 50 cases against men charged with carrying con cealed weapons, and will present them to the giand jury tomorrow. In all, 215 men have been locked up. Proposition Is Withdrawn. Paris, April 19. The announcement of the withdrawal of Italy's compromise proposition on the discussion ofl imita tion of armaments at The Hague peace conference, owing to Austria and Ger many's decided attitude in opposition to it, was made public today. It does not greatly affect France's position rel ative to the limitation of armaments. Authorative circles declare that France, as a mattei of principle, regards favor ably all efforts to advance the idea. Volcano Erupts in Andes. Valparaiso, Chile, April 19. News has reached here that the Renihue vol cano, in the province of Valdlvia, is in violent eruption. The eruptions are accompanied by awful subterranean rumblings, earthquakes, intense dark neess, electrical displays, ashes and boiling water. The flowing lava has set Are to the surrounding forests, and the inhabitants are fleeing in terror. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST SAYS ESTIMATE IS TOO HIGH U'Ren Compiles Cost of Submitting Legislation to People. Oregon City William S. I'MJen, the father of the initiative and referendum, takes issue with the statements that I ave !een published regarding the cost of voting tinder that law. Mr. l"l!en has carefully compiled the cost of initi ating and roferiiiig legislative measures to the people under the net of 1007, which tcpcalcd the act of 1;0:S. He admits that the postage expense In sending printed matter all over the state to 100.000 voters will be $3,000, tut he says that the cost of pi inting would be $3,030 for 120 pages of meas ures, figuring on 100,000 copies, which is one-third more than have ever been printed. He says, the binding will cost $3,000 and the paper $1,503 The experience of Mr. I" Ken stands him in good stead in figuring on this matter. He bases the cost of address ing and tilling 100,000 envelope at $4 per thousand, totaling $400. The en velcpos can be supplied and print d for $5 icr thousand, or $500, and he le lieves that the cost of scenring the names and jxistolhce addresses of 100, 000 votets will not exceed $1,500. The publication of proclamations is not loquirod by the new law ofl 907, and the item of $5,000 for that pur pose must lie eliminated from the cost. Mr. U'Ren Is-lievcs that his es timate is conservative. Marion Fruit Prospects. Salem Fruitgrowers of this section of the Willamette valley are looking forward to splendid crops in all varie ties of fruits, especially in quality, and in consequence of the destruction being wrought to the crops in parts of the Fast by the recent severe frosts and other detrimental conditions of weath er, there is also a tine prospect for good prices for Oregon fruits, lioth gieenand evaporated. Although the spurs on the prune trees are not so thickly set as last year, growers are pleased lie caused what is lacking in quantity will be more than made up in quality and the price basis will be increased in pro port ion Adopt Interstate Regulations. Salem With the exception that the period of posting notices is fixed at ten days instead of 30, the Railroad com mission has adopted the rules of the Interstate Commerce commission bod ily, regulating the serving of notice upon thacommission and posting of same in waiting rcoms of railway sta tions when it is proiosei tc make a change In the regular schedule of rates, mileage, commutation, patty, excursion and round-trip rates. Notice of tho adoption of this rule has been forward ed to all railroad companies in the state. The Dalles Fruit Possibilities. The Dalles This place is waking up to the fact that the soil and climatic conditions are perfectly fitted for the production of first class fruits, and es pecially for the raising of cherries and peaches. Men every day are tinning their attention to the fruitraising in dustry, many investing in tracts of land varying in size from five to 40 acres, upon which they have planted orchards, with the prospect of splendid results. Nowhere can finer cherries and peaches be raised, and this season bids fair to be an exceptional one for a fruit crop. Expects Big Gathering. Hood River Members of Hood River valley's grange societies are preparing to make arrangements for entertaining their fellow members from other partts of the state, who will meet here in con vention May 24. Letters received in dicate that between 600 and 800 mem bers will be present, as societies from several districts have already signified their intention of sending large delega tions. Multnomah county is expected to be represented by 150 to 200. Medford Road Buys Option. Medford Right of way agents of the of Butte Falls & Western railway are purchasing options on land through which the contemplated survey will pass. The incorporators of the Butte Falls & Western have large timbn hold ings in the vicinity of Butte Falls, and contracts for the delivery of $1,800,000 worth of sawed timlier to the California Box company, which must be partially filled within the current jear. More Interest in Farming, Prairie City The upper part of the John Day valley, in which Prairie City is situated, is fast corning to the front as an agricultural district. It is usual ly considered and spoken of as a stock couniiy, but of late years grain and fruit rawing have given it the char acter of a farming section. Citizens have come to understand this, and are systematically taking up the various farming features. To Bridge McKenzie River. Eugene The county court has decid ed to build a good biidge across the McKenzie river at Hendricks Ferry. For years the cost of maintaining the ferry at this point has been considera ble of an expense to the county, and the high water has often put the ferry temporarily out of commission. Buy Timber Tract. Eugene The Armstrong timber tract has jutt been conveyed to the Monrce Mill company. The land consists of 1,443 acres in the Lake creek district and the price paid, according to the deed, was $27,500 or about $19 an acre. The land is in township 17, ranges 7 and 8. I INSPECTION MAY BE CHEAP. State Sheep Commission Inclined to Make Burden Ltht as Possible. ' Salem One of thw most serious prob Inns the Oregon Shccpcommlssioit will have to solve Is thi schedule of rates to be charged by county inspectors for the inspect ion of (locks for scab or other contagious infect Inns disease. It is ' probable the solution determined mn will It to turn the duly of iiispetcion over to the government insinvtois, es pcvlally east of the Cascades, - and con t tine the duties of tho deputy state In spectors to supervise the dipping, with their compensation fixed on the lusis ! of $5 per dav ami cxiicnses. In order to miike the exvonseas light as possible upon the sheepmen the com mission first decided upon a minimum 'charge of 25 cents and a maximum of 1 cent ter head per flock, when the number dil not exectd l.tXH) head , 1 lien it was thought a maxamum charge of $1 per Hock would be sulli cient. inasmuch as there was not much work connected with the inspection, which consists principally of taking birdseye view of the llook and looking for outward symptoms of scab and ticks, and requites only a few minutes' work. Must Put Up Time Tables. One of the rules of the state railroad commission is that bulletins giving the hours of the arrival and departuie of all trains, Ih poded in every station Practically all stations havo for years lieen supplied with these bulletin Uiarda but Uvause of the carelessness or indif ference of agents, time cards have not Uvn posted for t lie information of the pulill'. Newly iuin1od bulletin Isntnls are being sent tc station agents for the O. II. it N. and the Southern Paciti iK-eoinpanied y a letter from the office of Oeneral Manager J. P. O linen, in which the attention of agents is called to the posting of bulletins. Train Service Bad. Members of the state railroad com mission have addressed a letter to Wil liam McMnrray general uisaeiig-r agent for the O. R. t N., informing him that the local train service In tween Biggs and Pendleton is Inade quate. In the absence of a necessary local service Is-twoon these points, the commission argues that the heavy transcontinental trains have turn obliged to look after this tiallic with the result that these tiains are fre quently several hours late reaching Portland. Commission House Changes Hands 1& Grande An important real estate deal was consummated this week w hen L. W. Damon and Dr. M. K. Hall pur chased the fruit and commisHoii busi ness formerly owned by the Parr-Sim mons company. The present owners will enlarge the facilities for handling business and will proUthly add a cold storage plant during the summer. Mr. Damon will be the active manager The price paid for the business was $16,000. Grain Crop Will Be Large. Elgin There is every prospect of a bumper grain ciop in Union county this season, a large snowfall together will unusually large rainfalls the past few weeks, insures sufficient moisture for a largo ciop. Thousands of acres were sown to fall grain lust fall and unless unknown conditions arise the crop w ill in all probabilities be a record breaker. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 75c j bluestem, valley, 72c; red, 74c. 77c; Oats No. 1 white, $29.50; gray, $28 &29. Rye 11.45(1.50 per cwt. Barley Feed, $22.50 per ton; brew ing, $25; rolled, $23.60(i24.5O. Corn Whole, $25; cracked, $20 per ton. Hay Valley timothy, No. 1, $15T,10 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $17 (V,18; clover, $9; cheat, $9; grain hay, $9fel0. , Apples Common, 75c($1.25 per box; choice, $1.50(2. Vegetables Turnips, $1(1.25 per sack; carrots, $1(1.25; beets, $1,256) 1.50; horseradish, 7(?,8c per pound; cauliflower, 75(ti$l .25 per dozen; let tuce, head, 35(o)45c per dozen; onions, 1012c per dozen; radishes 20c per dozen; asparagus 15c per pound; rhu baib 4(5c per pound. Onions Oregon $3.50(;4 per cwt. Potatoes Oregon Burbanks fancy $1.401.G5; extia fancy, $1.75($2; No. 1 choice, $1.25(1.40. Butter Fancy creamery, 25 27 Ko per pound. Butter Fat First grade cream 20c per pound; second grade cream 2u less per pound. Poultry A vera go old liens, 15(lflc per pound; mixed chickens, 1515c; spring fryers and hrollers, TlyQozim; old roosters, 1012c; dressed chick ens, 10 7c; turkeys, live, 3($15c; turkeys, dressed, choice, 8)jji20c; geese live, 8c; ducks, 1018c. Eggs 19c per dozen. Veal Dressed, 6(i$8!c per'pound. licef Dressed bullB, 33c per pound; cows, 60c; country slews, 67c. Mutton Dressed, fancy, 1010c per pound; ordinary, 80c; spring lambs, with pelt, 1213c. Pork Dressed, 0(2dio per pound. Hops 710c per pound, according to quality. Wool Eastern Oregon average best, 1318o per pound, according to ehrink age; valley, 2022u according to fine ness; mohair, choice, 2929c. i WILL FIGHT HENEY. Big Corporations Have Banded To gether In San Francisco. Han Francisco, April 17. A conspir acy Which puts into tho t-hadu the $5, 000,000 affair that recently aroused the inmates of the While House has evolv ed from the graft proceedings In Sun Francisco, and, like the conspiracy In Washington, It has Its headquarters in Washington, Moreover, one of the lenders of the $5,000,000 conspiracy Is one of the chief actors in this latt st plot. In short, the big corporations, which have sighted the speetel of indictment, have handed together against the com mon foe. Combined they represent one of the most, powerful foices that America has know n, and they ate pre- m red ttxcnd a large shate of the un limited capital they eolitrol. The I'lilted Railroad, an $S0,0OO.(HH) cor poration; thi Pacific States Telephone V Telegraph company, the Home Tele phone company, and lastly the South ern Pacific company, have joined hands to fight dow n the graft prosi cut ion. The head and front of the plot are reputed to ls Patrick Calhoun and K. II. Harriman. It Is no secret that shovs all others It is the desire of Mr. Ileney to direct the fire of the piosccu tiou against Calhoun anil the men who otvupy the seats of the mighty in the councils of the Southern Pacific. Ilar- riman's representative on the Pacific, W. F. I (en in. is out of the chief b- jeets of Mt. Ileiiev's Investigation. Mr llerrin has. always refused to come into the open and even now, w ith public attention centered upon him, he r mains In the Imckground. MEXICAN SHOCKS CONTINUE Destruction Grows as Reports Come From Outlyteg Districts. City of Mexico, April 17. Heavy earthquake shocks continued on the wst coast until 4 o'clock this morning Jjito news of the earthquake shows that the devastation wrought was greater than at first supposed. Beside the de struction of Chilpuncingo and Chilapa, it is now said that Tixtla also was lev- elcd. Messengers reaching Chilpaucln go say the towns of Ayutla and OiuHv- pro havo l'ii wiped out. Tho populat ion of Avidia is small and It is thought the Iowh of lift) there will be insignificant. Omctepre is town of about 4,000 inhabitants and the lost of life probably is large. Tlapa, near the Ixudcr line of the state of Oaxaca, is also re nrtd to lie wiped out. A report from Chllanciii go savs tho whole of the west coast from Acwptilco south of Htilina Cm has been Imdly damaged. The damaged places are remote, and news from the stricken distrut ioiimo quently is incomplete. Only one wire is working to Chilpauclngo. Standard Dodges Taxes. Chicago, April 17. Taxing author! tii'H of Ijiko count v. Indiana, have in stigattd an action against the Standard Oil eomuiiy of v luting ua a result o investigations in charge of County As Hi-HMor William P.. Black and his assist ant, Towns Assessor Pert F.schcr, of 1 1 j ininond . 'I Lev have discovered, thev say, that tho company for four yea is has neqiuatcrcd millions or dollars worth of valuable property from tax duplicates, it, is esiimateii iy tne nUii-inla 1 1 mt, tho Standard Oil couiDlinv should be paying taxes on $ ID.OOo.Oilii worth ol property when u is assessed on the tax duplicates for only f.SdJUU, 000 worth. Will Test the 18-Hour Law. Butte, Mont., April 17. A Helena special to the Miner states that Attor nev General Albert J. Galen in an opinion rendered today Mates that he holds tho rocent anactment by the leg islature of the statute limiting tho hours of employment of railway em nloves to 16 bonis to be valid. Wil liam Wallace, Jr., counsel for the Northern Pacific, has served notice unon the board of railway commission era that the company will Ignore tho new statute. Mr. Galen has advised the commissioners to at once begin a test case against the lallways. Accused of Taking Bribe. Chicago, April 17. Perry I.. Hed riek, chief sanitaty Inspector of the city Health department, was arrested today on charges of soliciting and ac renting a bribe. It is alleged the $200 paid to him by George A. Beekway, an inventor, was found in his pocket when ho was arrested. Hedrick was released on $10,000 bonds. According to the charges made against Hedrick, he agreed with Beck way that on payment of the money he would recommend Beckway's invention to the Health de partment. Boston Has 8100,000 Fire. Boston, April 17. Millions of dol lars worth of property was endangered today by a fiie that broke out in a ten tral wharf warehouse, but owing to the fact that the wind wa blowing In the diiectiou of the harbor, the firemen were able to confine tho flames and pre vent theii spreading toward the city. The fire was staited in the oil refining plant of Howe, French & Co., and was a used by the explosion of an oil tank. The propei ty loss is placed bt $100,000. Wisconsin Central Is Guilty. WMinneaKilis, April 17. A Jury in he United Statea District court last night found the Wisconsin Central rail road and two of its officials guilty of rebating. Burton Johnson, general freight agent, and G. T. Huey, his assistant, were convicted on all the 17 counts named in the indictment. FIRE IN PIIILIITINESI Ho llo, Second Town In Islands, . Sutlers Heavy Loss. TYPHOON IN CAROLINE ISLANDS One-Fourth tho Population pf One of the Islands Dead and Hest Are Starving. Manila, April 20. liitesl leporla from lloilo say the fire has been checked. The native quarter of the city was dest roved. The propel I y loss Irt estimated at $100, tMH) gold. The busi ness stvtion of the city was untouched, it being saved by the military and con stabulary. Seven hundred houses were destroyed and H00 or 1,000 natives made In less. Adequate relief measures havo been taken. The houilci-ss have Im-cii housed In schools and other buildings, l'he province and t he city will prov'do for the refugees and no physical sufTei ing is feared . There was no loss of life by Un cart! quakes. The shock, while Urn most severe experienced in 1'ijeius, were not violent enough localise much lestruetii.ii. IMaatchcH from silnt in several provinces reMiil set em shirks but I it tie damage. The total damage caused by the earthquakes ill I he entire archipelago will not exceed $I0,IIU. Typhoon Sweeps Caroline Islands. Berlin, April 20. Colonial Director pernburg informed tho budget commit tee of t ho reichstag today that a cable message hud been n-ceived from the governor of the island of Yap, an nouncing that a disastrous typhoou swept over the Caroline islands on Ciood Friday, March 21, and that 2:10 f the HOO natives of tho l lulthl group were drowned, that tho c'oaiuit lr-es were dest roved, and that famine threat ens the surviving natives. Tin steamer Planet, of tin t lei man navy, which has U-cn engaged in g--detie work, and the steamer Ma'nl, ol the Jaluit company, pru-ccdcd to t'lul thi islands, taking food and help. It was pioN.nod to bring a- many of tho suffeiing natives as pih!n to the IV lew and Ijidmlie islands. Lets Than 100 Lives Lost. Mexico City, April 20. Communica tions have now I -cell opened with if J I the lmMiitanl points in the si-ct ion most affected by t lie eat thqua ke. Tin latest r-Hirts indicate that the loss of life will not reach UK), but many persons have been Injured and the protn-ity lo.s is very great. Vic 1'K siib iit Corral, in a commu nication puhlhhcd hem bsluy, ihvlarc that the whole of the state of (iticircro has Ix-cn devastated. Thousands of dollars are being sub scribed to the fund bring raised in thin city for the relief of the cart liqtiakci sufferers. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. Bryce Speculates on Result if Revolu tion Had Failed. Philadelphia, April 20. James. Bryce, ambassador from final Britain, in an address at the banquet of tho Trans-Atlantic society of America here tonight, declared that, if America had rt inainod as a colonial ward of F.ng land, President Koosevelt would not have been confronted with such world Important problems as he is now called to solve. Had the countries not U-cn serrat ed, Mr. Bryce paid, tho development of the United States would have been more gradual. Ho was of the opinion that slavery would not have endured sv long and would have gone, pcrhaiis, without bloodshed. There would havo la-en fewer railroads, less internal strifiv ami consequently fewer big economic problems to solve. Build Terminals at Oskland. San Francisco, April 20. Tho West em Pacific railroad has decided to com mence immediately the construction of its trans-bit) terminal along tho noith retaining wall of the Oakland estuary. This work will involve the filling in of a molo 1,000 feet in w idth and between 4,000 and 5,000 feet in length. Tho construction of the mole, together with the erection of a inodirn depot building and slip approaches at its western end, will take about 17 or 18 months, ami will involve a financial outlay of some thing like $2,500,000. Forgery by Mutual Life. New York, April 20. Abraham Ben edict, ot tho law film of Ouggciihoim, Untermeyer A Marshall, counsel to tho International Policyholders' commit tee, called on Acting District Attorney Smyth at tho district atonuy's ollico today and laid before Mr. Smvlb -er. tain evidence by which it is alleged forgery had been conmiitted In tho election held recently by tho Mutual Life Insurance company. Tho district attorney's office will investigate. Georgia Peaches Killed Atlanta, tla.. Anril 20 Ht.d Mn. tomologist Smith today received rejHirla. from tho various peach growing dis tricts of the state, a summarv of whlcb fchows that at least 76 per cent of tho crop has been killed by the recent eolJ weauicr. 0 4