CURRENT ÉVENTS
OF THE WEEK
R O O SE VE LT IN NEW YO RK .
City Wild With Enthusiasm—Heavy
Storm Holds Off.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
ELEVEN B ILLIO N MESSAGES.
Estimated Number Given in Census
Bureau's Report for 1907,
WIRELESS GRAFT
meQLECTED W E A L T H .
S la n r
S o u rce«
lii (l i e
o f I 'r o S I S o t I t t l l a o *
U u l l e i l M u l l '» .
^
Modern science is showing how to
utilize almost everything and take ad
Washington, D. C. — There were
New York—Theodore Rooeevelt set
vantage of nature's prodigality. Yet
more than 11 billion messages, or
T A F T O PE N S BIG T R A C T .
ROAD E X TE N SIO N LIK E LY .
foot on home shores Saturday, June 18,
to-day In the United States there is
"ta lk s ,” over the telephone in the
for the lin t time in nearly 15 months,
almost Incalculable waste in certain
United States in 1907, an increast of
203,635 Acres Eliminated From Wal Harriman Officials Will Look Over
directions. Though we are the great
and received a rousing welcome.
124.3 per cent over the approximately
lowa Forest Reserve.
Route at Condon.
est coal producers In the world, yet ws
5 billion
similar conversations re
He bore with his usual buoyancy a
make only an infinitesimal amount of
Washington— The president has sign
Condon— Members of the committee, ported in 1902, according to estimates
day o f heavy fatigues, public duties
the coal tar derivatives used In medi
ed a proclamation eliminating 203,635 representing the people o f Southern presented in the Census bureau's report,
and private emotions commingled, and
cine; sutipyrlne, and pheuacetlae, to
acres from the Wallowa national for Gilliam and Wheeler counties in their now on the press, on the census o f the
equipment, service,
and Postal Inspector Says Officials ot mention only two, are Imported,
Sanerai Resume o f Important Event* at 4 :40 o'clock in the afternoon, after est, in Oregon. The elimination is the campaign for improved transportation physical
mostly
from Germany, but they
a family reunion at the home of result o f a careful examination made facilities, has returned from Portland, financial operations of the commercial,
Company Sold Stock fo r Thous
Presented In Condeneed Form
are made from American crude waste
Theron Butler, grandfather o f his pros by the United States department of bringing the assurance that their ap mutual, and independent rural tele
and Times Its Value.
fo r Our Busy Readers.
materials sent from America, writes
pective daughter-in-law. Miss Eleanor agriculture during the past summer, peal w ill be considered by the officials phone lines for 1907.
Other large increases are conspicu
which disclosed the fact that the areas of the Harriman system.
Madison Peters.
Butler Alexander, left the city he sur now eliminated were either open grass
In 1907 the total
The committee held a conference ously apparent.
Our artificial alizarine, aniline, and
New
York,
N.
Y
.
—
United
States
veyed the same morning from afloat, land with very little timber, or tim with General Manager O’ Brien and number of systems and lines waa 22,-
Blmilar dyes, the Importation of which
Eleven persons have been killed by
reviewed in parade ashore and greeted bered areas so largely alienated that other officials o f the Harriman inter 971, as compared with 9,136 in 1902, postoffice inspectors raided the hand amounts annually to more than $2,-
heat in Chicago this season.
The some Broadway offices o f the United 000,000, are prepared from anthracene
by explicit word o f mouth, to be wel further administration by the forest ests and submitted data showing the an increase o f 151.4 per cent.
Corea has been taxed $4,000,000 an
service was considered impracticable. large volume o f freight and passenger miles o f wire in 1907 were 12,999,369, Wireless Telegraph company today and paste, rhe annual production ot which
comed
more
intimately
by
his
lifelong
nually to support the Japanese army.
The lands released are not needed for business which would become immedi an increase of 165.3 per cent over 4,-
caused the arrest o f Christopher C. amounts to upward of 4,000 tons, yet
neighbors at Oyster Bay, L. I.
As a watershed protection, and are not con ately available through the requested 900,451 in 1902.
The salaried era-
not one ton Is manufactured here. In
Roosevelt says he is ready and eager
Wilson, president o f the company;
to take hold and help solve the nation’s private citizen he was the same- out sidered to be chiefly valuable for na extension of the Condon branch o f the ployees in 1907 numbered 25,298, as Samuel S. Bogart, first vice-president, •many cases the crude products of coni
O. R. £ N. from this city to Fossil, a compared with 14,142 in 1902, the per
spoken, vigorous man o f words and tional forest purposes.
I tar are sent abroad to be manufac
problems.
The principal eliminations occur in distance o f 20 miles.
I cent o f increase being 79.1. The sal- and William W. Tompkins, president tured into colors and returned to us at
o
f
the
New
York
selling
agency,
Mrs. Longworth has laid off her wed deeds the city o f his birth has known townships 1 and 2 south, range 47 east;
As a result o f this conference. Gen | aries in 1907 amounted to $19,298,432
| a high cost.
ding ring and suffragettes take it as a for 30 years as assemblyman, police townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 45, 46, eral Manager O ’Brien, accompanied by as against $9,885,886 in 1902; a gain which, officers o f the wireless company
The United States grows annually
commissioner,
assistant
secretary
o
f
say,
was
formerly
their
fiscal
agent,
sign that she strongly favors their
8,000.000 tons of llax straw, which
the navy, colonel o f the Rough Riders, 47 and 48 east; township 3 north, R. B. Miller, traffic manager, and W. o f 95.2 per cenL The average number but has ceased to represent them.
cause.
W.
Cotton,
general
counsel,
w
ill
come
o
f
wage
earners
in
1907
was
118,971,
range
42
east;
township
4
north,
42
governor o f the state, vice president
Chief Inspector Mayer subsequently should produce 2,000,000 tons of fin
The entire population of Oyster Bay and president o f the nation, and more and 43 east; townships 5 and 6 north, to this city shortly and look this sec as against 6,628 in 1902, an increase
gave out a statement, in which he ished llax fiber, which, If manufac
welcomed Roosevelt to his home town. latterly, ambassador to the jungle and range 46 east, and township 6 north, tion o f the state over wit.i a view to o f 83.9 per cent. The wages paid in
charges that, although the company tured into linens, would add millions
He has absolutely nothing to say .about monitor to those who sit in the seats range 47 east. In addition, a strip of determining the feasibility of the ex 1907 amounted to $48,980,704, as com
has been running at a loss, the price of of dollars every yeur to the commer
tension that has been asked.
land
from
one-half
mile
to
three
miles
pared
with
$26,369,735
in
1902;
a
gain
politics.
o f the mighty.
its shares have advanced by manipula cial value of the United States. This
wide
is
eliminated
along
the
southern
of
85.7
per
cent.
The
capital
stock
He had an expansive smile for every
Two revivalist preachers near Lex
tion to fictitious values and that indi fiber Is burned ; we have not one dol
26 AC R ES BRING $45,000.
and
funded
debt
outstanding
in
1907
boundary
o
f
the
forest,
in
ranges
42
to
lar Invested in linen manufacturing
ington, K y., fought a duel with knives body, a cheery word for “ the boys,” 47 east. Section 6 and the west half
was $814,616,004 while in 1902 it was vidual officers of the company have sold
in the pulpit during services and one his old friends, the newspapermen, pal o f section 5, township 4 north, range
out their stock to the general public at from American flax, and Import up
$348,031,058,
an
increase
o
f
134.1
per
New
York
Capitalist
Invests
in
Hood
anecdotes for the politicians, greetings
ward of $118,000,000 of linen fabrics
was killed.
cenL The income in 1907 was $184,- a profit estimated in one instance at
River Orchard Land.
o f affection for his old command, the 42 east, is transferred from the W al
I per annum.
461,747 as compared with $86,825,536 between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000.
Arizona and New Mexico are wild Rough Riders, and a quick eye for lowa to the Wenaha forest, the area
Hood R iver— Hood River orchard
The amount of waste la our forests
Wilson waa released on $25,000 bail
having been isolated from the Wallowa
in 1902; a gain o f 112.5 per cent. The
with joy over the passage o f the state absolutely everything.
land to the amount of $59,000 was dis
and Bogart on $10,000 bail for appear is incalculable In the wood, bark and
operating
expenses
and
fixed
charges,
hood bill, and many enthusiastic cele
by
the
large
eliminations.
Lyman Abbott he called “ partner,”
posed of by the Hood R iver Realty
sawdust that we uselessly burn. A
except interest on funded debt, in ance on July 12, when a further hear
brations are being held.
Jacob Riis was plain "J a k e;” Assem
company to Eastern purchasers this
ing w ill be held before a Federal com specialist In Industrial chemistry has
1907,
amounted
to
$128,486,196,
as
L
IV
E
S
T
O
C
K
FAIR
IN
FALL.
blyman
"Paradise”
Jimmy
Oliver
was
Surffagettes are trying to prevent
week, one o f whom was R. Eliot, a
told us that sawdust can be mixed
against $61,652,823 in 1902; an in missioner.
Thomas
women appearing on any parades or greeted by his nickname;
Tompkins was arrested at his farm with coal slag, spent dye wood, turf,
Big Guarantee Fund Has Been Raised N ew York capitalist. He bought the crease o f 108.4 per cent. The inter
Grady,
his
old
antagonist
in
state
pol
floats in Chicago on July 4, and men
J. M. Vannier place on the East Side,
by Portland Association.
est on the funded debt in 1907 amount near Mahop Falls, Pa., and brought and peat, and compressed into bricks
itics, he greeted jovially, and so it
may have to take their places.
for which he paid $45,000.
The or
here. He could not find $10,000 and of artificial stone, it will yield gas,
Portland— A t a meeting held by the chard consists o f 25 acres, 20 o f which ed to $12,316,109 as compared with spent the night in the Tombs.
went down the line.
wood alcohol, and acetic acid, this lat
A quartermaster’s sergeant from
"Rooaeelt good luck” still followed officers o f the Portland Fair & Live is in eight-year-old Spitzenberg and $3,511,48 in 1902, the per cent o f in
The specified instance o f alleged ter Industry being now a flourishing
Fort Stevens, Ore., has been missing
crease being 250,7.
him.
Though hot and sultry, the stock association it was announced that Newtown trees.
for ten days and is believed to have
Between 1902 and 1907 there was an fraudulent use o f the mails is given as one In the western part of New York
weather held fair until the marine the $25,000, guarantee had been sub
The other sale was made to Mrs.
the mailing o f a letter on March 3, Stote.
met with foul play in Portland.
parade, the exercises at the Battery scribed and that a race meet and live Mary Lamonte, a wealthy New York addition o f 8,098,918 miles o f wire for
High explosives and various kinds
1910, to Michael O’Brien, o f Water-
New York City was swept by a and the march up Broadway and F ifth stock show, the greatest in the city’s woman who bought a ten-acre or the use o f the telephone systems o f the burg, Conn.
of gunpowder can be made from saw
country, as compared with an increase
frightful wind and rain storm just avenue to Central Park had been car history, w ill be held this fall in Port chard
from R.
Jarvis,
in
the
“ There are 28,000 shareholders o f dust. Creosote Is also obtained from
of 25,611 in the mileage o f owned and
after the welcoming of Roosevelt was ried through with punctuality and pre land.
Oak Grove district, for $14,000. Mrs.
the company throughout the [country,” beech wood, and many sawdust com
over. Several persons were killed by cision— and then it rained great guns.
A few weeks ago there was talk of Lamonte recently bought a winter leased wire for the use of commercial
said Inspector Mayer, in his statement, binations have been used In making
lightning and wreckage and great
It cleared again shortly before 6 dissolving the association and disposing home in Los Angeles, and bought the telegraph systems.
“ many o f whom have placed their sav ] Imitation marbles, sidewalks, and,
damage done.
o’clock in plenty o f time to give his o f its large holdings on the east side Hood River property for a summer res
ings in the stock o f the company | among other things, dinner plates.
C H IC AG O M ERC URY M O U N TS .
Census figures show a most amazing eager fellow citizens o f Long Island known as the country club, but the idence. She said that before leaving
through false representations made by And these are Just a fow of the sources
ample
chance
to
see
him
standing
on
talk
has
resulted
in
a
stronger
organ
N ew York she had shipped a carload of
its officers.
increase in the use of telephones.
of profit now neglected in the United
the rear platform o f his special train ization, with a more ambitious pur furniture here, although she had not People Die, Dogs Go Mad, Horses
“ The real assets o f the company, States.
A cloudburst in Hungary destroyed as he waved them a welcome.
pose than ever.
Fall
in
the
Streets,
purchased, but was determined to buy
consisting o f land stations, patents,
several villages and killed nearly 300
Within a generation the nation re
E. L. Thompson, who was one of an apple orchard at Hood R iver if
t'lio n t h e I*o n .
Chicago.— Seven persons dead, a manufacturing plants and real estate
persons.
members three great welcomes before the committee to raise the guaratee money would obtain it.
score prostrated in hospitals, dogs go o f all kinds, appear to be worth, at a
The best pun in the English lan-
the
one
of
Saturday—
to
General
Grant
fund,
stated
that
the
forthcoming
race
A Los Angeles attorney is charged
ing mad in the streets and horses drop conservative estimate, $400,000, or an j guage is Tom Hood’s;
Trout fo r Umatilla Streams.
with being an extensive operator in in San Francisco after his triumphal meet will be something that will draw
ping from exhaustion and a tempera actual worth o f 2 cents a share.”
"He went and told the sexton,
perhaps
fully
as
many
people
as
the
tour
of
the
world,
following
the
expir
stolen horses.
Pendleton— Followers o f Isaac W al ture o f 90 degrees were the featuteB o f
Two million shares have been issued
And the sexton tolled the bell.’*
ation of his two terms as president; to Rose Festival, especially with the live ton in Um atilla county are rejoicing
at
a
par
value
o
f
$10,
but
the
stock
the
second
day
o
f
the
hot
wave
which
Governor Hadley o f Missouri, be Admiral Dewey on his return from the stock thrown in for good measure.
The worst pun Is that of the man
over the information just received by is wilting Chicago.
has recently been put up to $50 a who fell Into a ditch and rose with
lieves Roosevelt will be ready to an Philippines, and to William Jennings
“ We w ill have some o f the best Secretary Cranston o f the local anglers’
share.
Starting
at
71
degrees
in
the
morn
nounce a Republican platform imme Bryan, also after a tour o f the world. horses in the country and there will
the remark: "How very dltch-tress-
association that 20,000 young trout ing, the mercury climbed rapidly and
"T h u s,” argues the inspector in his ln g !”
diately upon his arrival in N ew York.
The welcome to Grant was the most be other attractions that w ill be bound will soon be sent to this place for
death and suffering followed. A t noon statement, “ by taking the last amount
Dr. Johnson said that the pun was
The stores will planting in various streams throughout
An O. R. £ N. freight train hit a tumultuous; that to Dewey was the to draw and please.
the teperature had reached 88 and at quoted ($400,000 o f actual assets) at the lowest order of wit, but to this
boulder on the track near Alrington, most elaborate and stately, but the close one week day during the life of the county. They are o f the Eastern 2 o’ clock it touched the 90 mark.
$50 a share, the stock is really worth : Goldsmith replied;
"The pun. In
Ore., derailing and wrecking almost welcome to Roosevelt was shot through the show, and that will give everybody brook variety. The trout w ill be dis
Dogs afflicted by the heat attacked as $4000,000 is to $1,000,000,000, or other words. Is the foundation of wit,
the entire train, and badly injuring with a dramatic expectancy which long a chance to attend.
tributed as follows:
Birch creek, seven persons, who w ill be treated at $0.0004 a share.”
eh?”
ago found popular expression in the
3,000; Camas bridge and Cable creeks, the Pasteur institute to guard against
four men.
The inspector says the company was
Every Latin master likes to tell his
typical phrase:
"T h e return from Dam on Deschutes Half Completed 7,000; Um atilla river, 3,000; Mea-
originally
incorporated
as
the
Am
alga
rabies.
In
tenement
districts
women
A crank armed with a loaded revol Elba.”
boys two puns. Tbe first Is a punning
Bend — Work on the power dam cham creek, 3,000; McKay creek, 2,-
mated
Wireless
Sureties
company
in
and
children
sought
in
vain
for
refuge
ver called at the White House and in
derivation of restaurant.
"Res, a
Grant on his return was still a polit across the Deschutes has made great
from the stifling heat.
In many dis 1904. In 1906 it took over the assets thing; taurus, a bull; a bully thing.”
sisted on seeing President Taft.
He ical possibility, but as events proved, progress during the last few weeks, 000; Bear creek, 2,000.
and
business
o
f
the
defunct
Am
eri
tricts
children
ran
about
almost
nude.
was immediately placed under arrest foredoomed to defeat. Admiral Dew the final filling of rock being about
The other Is a derivation of virgin;
Indian Lands Change Hands.
Thousands flocked to the lake and can De Forest Wireless Telegraph I “ Vir, a man; gin, a trap; a man trap.”
and is believed to be insane.
ey was a hero, not a national leader. half completed. The course o f the riv
company, which was then running at a
Pendleton— Another 120 acres o f In parks.
______
Among newspaper humorists the
Eleven hundred machinists on the Bryan, prominent as his part had been er has been almost entirely diverted dian land has passed from the hands of
loss, exchanging therefor its own se
pun is dying out. In the old days, the
Detaulter Returns Voluntarily.
Missouri Pacific-Iron Mountain rail before the people, had never been en from the main channel into the spill the red men into the possession o f the
curities on a ten for one basis.
good old days, the Burlington Hawk-
road systems refused the proposition trusted by them with executive re way.
Bellingham, Wash.— H. J. W elty,
‘ A t this tim e,” says the inspector’s
white man and will go toward increas
eye man and the Norristown Herald
The dam, a solid rock fill, is 250 feet
o f the company to settle the strike, sponsibility.
ing the tax roll o f Umatilla county. formerly president o f the Home Secur statement, “ when officers o f the De
man and the Arkansaw Traveler man
Roosevelt had been something o f all in length and 18 feet high, and will
which has been in progress since May
Eighty acres has just been sold to John ities bank o f Bellingham, who disap Forest company were secretly conniv
these things— statesman, and “ soldier raise the water 14 feet when the spill
would pun at each other like this.
S.
Crow at $76 per acre and 40 acres to peared two days before the bank closed ing to abandon it and leave the stock
and sailor, too.” Born in the East, he ways are closed.
"W e
don’t care a straw what
The spillway con
This last February and for whose arrest holders a mass o f worthless securities,
A t Indianapolis the motor of a had made an especial friend o f the struction consists of a rock-filled crib L. L. Mann for $55 per acre.
Shakespeare said—a rose by any other
Wright bi-plane became clogged and West. His welcome brought men from with 12x12 inch timbers, bolted to was heirship land. Two other tracts in connection with the wrecking o f the its stock had been forced to an alleged name would not smell as wheat.— Ar
comprising 200 acres o f land and lying institution a reward o f $1,000 had been value o f $12.50 a share, or $2.53 above
stopped while the machine was 800 all parts of the country.
I t was na solid rock foundation, and is 250 feet
kansaw Traveler.
near Athena, will soon be offered for offered, has notified Prosecuting A t par.
feet in the air, but the aviator calmly tional.
long. F ive gates have been installed
"W e have made an oat of the abovo.
torney Livesley through
business
‘ Another item in the statement sent
sale by the Indian agent.
glided to the ground and alighted in an
The first zest o f public curiosity hav in the spillway, two o f which will be
friends that he is on his way ton Bel out to stockholders was patents and — Burlington Hawkeye.”
open field.
ing been satisfied, speculation now connected by a flume with a 50-inch
“ Such puns are barley tolerable;
Malheur Fair Dates Set.
lingham, where he w ill surrender and patent rights, $5,520,233. The affairs
The Russian senate granted the ap turns on what share Roosevelt will turbine wheel with 210-horse power
September 20, 21, 22 and 23 have plead guilty to the charges and assist o f the company were recently audited they amalze us, they arouse our right
peal of the Jewish pharmacists at Mos take in an acute political situation capacity, which will be employed for been set as the dates for the Malheur in straightening out the tangle in the by a firm o f licensed accountants, who eous corn, and they turn the public
cow, who are subject to expulsion from within his own party, of which he had generating electricity until the rail county fair. September 19 w ill be en bank’ s affairs.
The reward offered placed the-book value o f all patents at taste a-rye.— Norristown Herald.”
the city on the ground that they are already been advised abroad by old road’s advent makes practicable the try day, when all exhibits will be w ill be withdrawn.
$220,233.
not practicing actively their profes associates who had carried him tidings. completion o f the big permanent power placed in the buildings. The grounds
W ill* M on ey for P et C at*.
The prosecutor and receiver o f the
’ The officers o f the company have
sion, and ordered the repeal of the But on that score, speculation must rest plant.
About $100 a year for the mainten
bank declined to give W e lty ’s where sold to the public thousands o f shares,
are located near Ontario.
ministerial circular dated July 23, unsatisfied. The Colonel had positive
abouts beyond saying he has been be claiming all the while that they were ance of a cat is a large amount, and
Tourists to Crater Lake.
1909, under the authority o f which the ly declared his intentions by wireless
New Line to Baker City.
yond extradition.
W elty is charged holding their own shares and putting there are many others in our crowded
provincial authorities recently began the night before.
Klamath Falls — The steamer Kla
Union— The Pacific States Telephone with using bank funds fto finance var- the money received from the public cities who would be happy If such an
“ I shall have nothing to say what math has been launched.
to act.
The boat company has a force o f men working ioug land company enterprises.
into the plants o f the company.
One amount of money were alloted them
ever in the immediate future about has been on the ways for two weeks on the lines at Union, stringing two
o f the officers is believed to have on every baby. Despite the need of
Mark Tw ain’s niece won the first
politics,” and he kept his word.
undergoing
repairs.
The
boat
hag
been
new
lines
from
Baker
C
ity
to
Walla
cleaned up $5,000,000 and possibly the poor, however, an old maid who
Loss o f Life Frightful.
prize in English composition at Cornell
Therefore, there was nothing in the taken to Shippington, where new tubes Walla.
_____
university.
Vienna.— The destruction o f life and $10,000,000 at prices ranging from $10 recently died In London has bequeath
only speech he made here that could be w ill be placed in the boiler and the en
ed the greater part of a fortune of
property by floods throughout Hungary to $50.
PO R TLAND M A R K E TS .
Blsckmail w ill be the defense of construed as applying specifically to tire woodwork will be repainted and
$90,000 for the care o f her pet cats
exceeds all records.
The number of
Senator Lorimer, o f Illinois, on trial this or that phase o f immediate state renovated. A dining room will be fit
and her horses. She was Evelyn
Wheat — Track prices;
Bluestem, deaths has not been ascertained, but it
Water Route to Be Used.
for bribe-giving.
or national issues.
ted up for the accommodation o f tour
83(384c; club, 77@78c; red Russian, is believed they w ill aggregate 1,000.
North Yakima, Wash. — Tw o of Frances Van Wart, granddaughter .of
ists who will go to Crater lake this 76c; valley, 82c.
A 10-year old boy living near Eu
The damage done to crops and property the large
department
stores
of Marshall O. Roberts, of New York.
New
Mexico
Will
Celebrate.
summer,
as
the
steamer
w
ill
be
used
gene, Or., killed a bear with a 32-
Barley— Feed and brewing, $19(320 w ill amount to several million kronen. Kennewick will order their fall stocks Concerning her cats and horses, she
between
the
Upper
lake
wharf
and
the
Albuquerque,
N.
M.—
News
o
f
the
calibre Winchester rifle.
per ton.
The entire harvest is threatened with o f goods shipped from New York by said In her w ill;
passage o f the statehood bill was re Agency landing, where it will be met
" I direct my executors to make pro
Com— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton. destruction. In the Kronstadt district water to the isthmus o f Panama, via
A Chicago theater w ill employ girls
ceived here with wild rejoicing.
A by automobiles for a direct run.
Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il 300 bodies have been recovered. In railroad to the Pacific, and up the Col vision for the care of my pet cats and
instead of men to take tickets, believ big celebration has been planned for
I authorize them to pay $100 a year
lamette valley $20(321 per ton; East the Moldava district 100 persons per
ing they will not become grafters.
next Monday night, when speeches w ill Recent Rain Great Help to Forests ern Oregon, $22(u24; alfalfa, $15(316; ished as the result o f the sudden col umbia river. This is nearly an "a ll for the care and keep of each cat dur
water route.” A considerable saving
The Hearst-Agnew anti-betting law be made around a bonfire by Republi
Portland — District Forester Chap grain hay, $17@18.
lapse o f houses, and in the Temesvar in freight rates can be made in this ing Its lifetime, and I beg of them to
o f New York has been declared valid. can and Democratic leaders. This will man states that the recent rainfall is
Oats— No. 1 white, $25(326 per ton. district 180 persons have been drowned. way. The first large shipment over see that they are eared for properly
be the first step towards a non-partisan o f immense value in temporarily re
I t will stop betting at Coney Island.
Fresh Fruits—Strawberries, $1.50(3
this route was made this spring, when I direct my executors to see that my
constitutional convention. Mayor Les ducing the fire hazard to the forests of 2.25 per crate; apples, $1.50<H3 per
The International Harvester company
Prince's Train in Fire.
the entire shearings o f the Coffin horses shall be provided for or merci
Western Oregon and Washington. The box; cherries, Oregon, 3(310c pound;
ter
has
requested
all
merchants
and
avers that it deals in 21 different lines
St. Paul.— The Oriental Limited, the Bros.’ sheep were consigned to Boston fully destroyed as they may think fit,
private citizens to display flags on their unusually dry weather preceding this gooseberries, 5(3 6c; apricots, $1131.50
but I do not wish them sold for any
o f business, and therefore is not a
buildings as soon as the statehood bill rain had made the fire danger much per box; blackberries, 76<3$1 per crate; fast Burlintgon train fiom Chicago to by water.
harder work than that to which they
trust.
is signed by the president and beaomes greater than is ordinarily the case at raspberries, $2.75 per crate, loganber St. Paul, carrying Prince Fushima,
have been accustomed while In my
cousin of the emperor o f Japan, and
Rough Riders Gathering.
Thirty Japanese driven from the a reality.
this season. Mr. Chapman states that ries, $1.75(32 per crate.
Princess Fushima, sped out onto the
town o f Darrington, Wash., will return
N ew York. — From
all points possession.”
the various agencies for the suppres
Potatoes— Old Oregon, 60@76c per
Germany Will Raise Ban.
Rough
R i
to work in the mills there under pro
sion o f forest fires are closely co hundred; new California, 13t(32c per bridge which spans the Wisconsin river o f the compass the
A S e c r e t.
while the structure was burning. The ders are assembling to act as escort of
tection of officers.
Berlin— The stringent regulations, operating to reduce the season's loss. pound.
“ The venerable Countess of Cardi
fire was not discovered until too late to honor to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt on
now
preventing
thousands
of
Germans
A serious forest fire is raging in the
Vegetables— Artichokes, 60(3)75c per stop and the engineer then kept on
Sheep Shearing In Wallowa.
Saturday, and from the moment the gan, the author, you know, of that
timber north and east o f Fort W il living abroad from visiting the Father-
dozen; asparagus, $1.25(32 per box; steam until his train had run the
ex-president puts his feet on his native wicked book of memoirs, thinks tihe
Wallowa—
Forty-two
cars
o
f
sheep
land,
may
be
abrogated
if
the
govern
liams, Ontario.
One town is com
cabbage, 2 14(3 2 'sc per pound; cauli gauntlet. Then he applied the brakes
soil at the Battery until he takes 'the modern girl Is too athletic and hoy-
ment
approves
a
plan
that
it
is
consid
were
shipped
from
this
county
by
Ox-
pletely surrounded.
flower, $2 per dozen; head lettuce, 50
ering. The proposal, which is to lift man, o f Durkee. He w ill also drive (3 60c per dozen; hothouse lettuce, 50(8) and members o f the train crew put out train for Oyster Bay he w ill be sur denlsh," said an English visitor to
’
the fire. The train arrived in St. Paul rounded by the men who helped in the New York.
Governor Haskell, o f Oklahoma, was the ban against a former German sub about 4,500 over the mountains, mak
"T h e Countess of Cardigan often
served with papers by a Federal court ject who emigrated without performing ing a total o f 17,000 sheep, for which $1 per box; green onions, 15c per doz two hours late.
charge up San Juan H ill. A t least 400
officerc for removing the capital of military service, emanated from Ger he will pay Wallowa county growers en; peas, 4(85c; radishes, 15(320c per
o f the hard-riding cavalrymen are ex tells of a young man who was drink
dozen; spinach, 8(310e per pound; rut
Brookins Flies Highest.
that state to Oklahoma City.
pected to be on hand to greet their old ing tea with a beautiful gtrLwhen her
The price paid abagas, $1.25(31.50 per sack; carrots,
man circles in the United States and more than $105,000.
Indianapolis— W alter Brookins, in a commander, and their presence is to be little brother slipped Into the room.
per head for ewes and 85c(3$l; beets, $1.50; parsnips, 75c
Senator Heybum declared that there took the form In a petition recently was $4.50
" ‘Mr. Mannerlng,' the boy asked,
W right biplane, broke the world’s one o f the many features.
wethers. <3$1.
is enouugh power in the falls of the framed by Professor Ernest Richard, $2.75 and $3 for young
'can you stand on your head?’
aeroplane record for altitude here when
Onions— Bermuda, $1.50(31.75 per he soared to a height o f 4,503 feet, ac
Potomac river to run all the machinery of Columbia university. N ew York, on Sheep shearing has been in progress
“ ’No,' said the visitor, laughing; ‘I
Playground Bride's Gitt.
in the District of Columbia, and ad behalf of the leading German societies. for about a week in the upper valley, crate; red, $2(o2.25 per sack.
cording to the measurements of the al
Chicago,
— A
municipal play don't believe I can.'
end w ill continue until about July 1.
Butter— City creamery, extras, 29c;
vised the conservationists to look after
“ ’ Well, 1 can,' said the boy. ‘Look
timeter. His motor stopped as he was ground, (named as a wedding pres
Women Aiding Clericals.
fancy outside creamery 28(3 29c per
the East, and allow the West to care for
descending and he made a glide o f two ent, is the unique “ keepsake” that has here.’
Novel Heating System.
Madrid — The Clerical party has
pound; store, 20(323c.
Butter fat
its own resources.
‘‘And he stood on his head very neat
Klamath Falls — Paul Johnson is prices average 1 14 c per pound under miles, landing easily in a wheat field. been given by Miss Alice A. Christo
opened it» campaign against the min
American horses are winning many
Brookins started at the Indianapolis pher, o f Evanston, who this evening ly In the corner.
istry of Premier Canalejas. Cardinal building a $6,000 residence in Hot regular butter prices.
lses at the annual hone show in
speedway and, flying in wide circles, became the bride o f Gerry Edward
" ‘Ha, ha!' laughed Mr. Mannerlng.
Aguirro y Garcia, archbishop o f To Springs addition. One o f the unique
Eggs— Oregon candled, 27c dozen.
ndon.
reached his highest altitude 40 min Browne, an apple grower o f Spokane, And who taught you that?*
ledo, the head o f the Spanish Episco features of the place is to be a hot
Pork— Fancy, 12(312H e per pound.
"The urchin frowned.
utes later.
A cloud bunt in the Ahr valley in pate, has 'instructed the clergy to in water heating system served by plac
Washington. Dr. W alter S. Christo
Veal— Fancy, 10(31 lc per pound.
" ‘Sister,’ he said, ‘told me I must
the E fel district of France is reported spire meetings o f protest against the ing coils o f pipe in the “ hot ground”
pher, father o f the bridge, was for sev
Poultry— Hens, 18<3181ac; broilers,
Weston's Record Beaten.
to have killed 150 persons.
eral years a member of the board of never tell.” ’
government policy
concerning the section near by. No fire will be need 25(828c; ducks, 18(825c; geese, 12c;
Chicago.—"H o n est” John Ennis, education, and he le ft the impression
church and non-Catholic religious or ed for heating the house.
turkeys, live, 20 ( 3 22c; dressed, 25c;
A mob o f a 100 white men drove all ders. The women o f the aristocracy,
T o X I « It .
who hopes to lower Edward Payson o f his sterling personality upon it.
squabs, $3 per dozen.
the Japanese mill hands, about 30 in
Teacher—Can any little boy tell m i
Rebuild Burned Mill.
under the leadership o f the Marquise
Cattle— Beef steers, good to choice Weston's ocean-to-oeean record from
number, out o f Darrington, Wash.
what a pessimist is?
Great Gold Strike Made.
Comollas, have joined the movement.
Baker City — The Oregon Mill £ California, $5.75(86; good to choice, 105 to 100 days, delivered abetter from
Tommy— I kin, teacher. It’s a boy
Vancouver, B.
C. — Arrivals
Grain company’ s new mill is ready for Eastern Oregon and valley, $5.60(3' Mayor Gaynor, of New York, to Mayor
By a large majority the people of
Wlckersham May Visit Alaska.
active operations. I t has a capacity 5.75; fair to medium, $4.25(0 4.76; Busse, of this city, a day ahead of at Stewart, B. C., in the Queen Char what thinks that when anyone Is cart
Oklahoma have voted to move the cap
lotte islands, today sent dispatches to j ed away in an ambulance on his block
Washington, D. C.—Secretary N ag o f 280 barrels o f flour daily. Last fall cows and heifers, good to choice, $4.25 Weston’ s schedule.
ital o f the state from Guthrie to Okla
this city confirming the news o f the lt’U sure happen while he's In schooL
homa City, and the governor has al le, o f the department o f commerce and a mill was burned on the site o f the (35.50; fair to medium., $3.75(34.50;
Reclamation Engineers Drowned.
phenomenal strike o f free m illing (fold
bulls, $8(34; stags, $3.50(35; calves,
ready moved his office to the new cap labor, who will visit Alaska this sum present structure.
Helena, MonL— A. C. Gowney and in the Bitter Creek district, 15 miles
light, $5.753(6.75; heavy, $4(36.
M o re F it t in g .
ital, but the Guthrie citizens will go mer, has invited Attorney General
Brick Block at Willamina.
Wickeraham to accompany him on the
Hogs — Top, $9.60(39.60; fa ir to R. C. Soper, assistant engineers, Don inland, that is causing a stampede of
Ho— It looks to me as If McCrabba
to law to fight the move.
trip. The latter has not yet decided
Calkins and a laborer namedJSou! Wall, everyone from the entire Northern Intends to discharge the butler.
Willamina—J. B. Shetterly has be medium, $8.40(89.16.
The b rie f In the Ballinger-Pinchot whether he w ill be able to go.
Secre gun the erection of a brick building
Sheep— Best wethers, $4.60(34.76; connected with the reclamation ser country. A gold reef has been found
She— How much nicer It would be
case has been filed by the investigating tary Nagle w ill make the trip from 50x70 feet in the business center of fair to good, $ 4(3 4.26; best ewes, $4(8 vice, were drowned at Shoshone, W y and traced for 20 miles, with the end If the butler could discharge McCrabba.
committee, and
covers over 1,000 Seattle on the steamer Albatross. He Willamina.
This w ill be the first 4.50; lambs, choice, $5.50(86; fair, oming, as the result o f a pleasure not in sighL Samples o f the ore for — U '
3,000 feet assayed $49 a ton.
may go as far as the Seal islands.
boat capsizing.
pages.
brick structure in the town.
| $4.75(a5.25.
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
C
Leaders of United Concern Ar
rested by Federal Officers.