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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Briet General Relume o f Important Event* Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Colonel Roosevelt has finished his Western tour. Roosevelt compliments Pittsburg for putting the “ higher-ups” in jail. The total attendance at the L ive stock show in Portland was 46,000. Mrs. Seligman, w ife o f a prominent New York merchant, will sing in grand opera. Admiral Eavns, endorses San Fran cisco as the place for the Panama ex position o f 1915. Nine men were killed by falling rock in an open cut which the Erie railroad is making at Jersey City, N. J. The Eucharist congress which has just adjourned at Montreal chose V i enna as its next meeting place. H ILL T O T A P C O A ST . Road Will Be Pushed Through Los Angeles, Is Rumor. to Los Angeles— Well-informed rail road men believe that to all intents and purposes Jame J. Hill has, or is about to force a way through to this Coast for his trains. Hill has for some time controlled a line to Benson, Ariz., within 50 miles of this city. He is master of the Bur lington, reaching with its main line to Denver, and the Colorado A Southern from Denver to Fort Worth. Handing the reins o f the latter line to Hill was one of the biggest mistakes ever made by the late E. H. Harri- man, because at Dallas the Colorado A Southern crosses the Rock Island, which operate* over the Phelps-Dodge road, the El Paso Southwestern, to El Paso, whence trains come over the Southern Pacific. The Phelps-Dodge line continues, however, to Benson, and its owners have arranged to build to Phoenix. These interests are at war with the Southern Pacific, and it is understood they have a track-right arrangement with the Santa Fe, which will be high ly advantageous to the latter when the new link is built. There is every reason to expect, au thorities declare, from that connection Hill, through his „ Phelps-Dodge influ ence, w ill operate to this coast over the Santa Fe via the Parker cutoff. MAN E ATS GRASS T O LIVE. A prominent St. Louis man, a de scendant of a wealthy family, will Alaskan'Prospector Saved From Star write a book exposing St. Louis so vation on Yukon Island. ciety. Seattle— A special dispatch from Lorimer has resigned his member Fairbanks, Alaska, says that one of ship in the Hamilton club, o f Chicago, the deckhands o f the steamer Monarch and a great loss of membership is has an acute appreciation o f what it scheduled to follow. means to be stranded on a desert isle. On the last trip o f the Monarch Gold bars to the value o f $57,500 disappeared in transit from Fairbanks, down the Tanana river, some one no Alaska, to Seattle, and lead bars were ticed that a flag was being waved from a little island in the river. Cap found in their place. tain Blair stopped his boat and sent The mother of Alfonso, of Spain, back to investigate. There he found threatens to abandon the country per an unfortunate man who had been manently, on account o f the tactics of wrecked on the island, lost all o f his Premier Canalejas in the religious con outfit and was reduced to the necessity troversy. o f eating grass. As the man had been three days Oscar Hammerstein w ill build the without food, he was weak, but he ac world's finest opera house in London. cepted a job as a deckhand on the Mon Pope Pius X takes extra precautions arch, where good meals revived him. against the growth of modernism in the church. PETRIFIED FISH ARE FOUND. The servants o f the shah’s palace at ----------- Teheran, Persia, have gone on a strike California Miners Discover T w o Pre- for wages due. historic Monsters o f the Sea. An American'diplomat declares this San Andreas, Cal.— Word waa country may be forced to occupy or brought here from Railroad Flat that annex tha Panama canal country. in the tunnel of the Bouvoir mine, near A Jap at Chehalia, Wash., paid a the Calaveras river, 15 miles East of fine of $525 to avoid going to the peni Mokelumne Hill, two immense petri fied fish were found a few days ago, tentiary for an attempted burglary. one 37 feet long and the other 15. Three men are known to be killed, The longest one was lengthwise of several injured and many missing as the tunnel and the miners had blasted the result o f an oil explosion on the into it some distance before they de battleship North Dakota. termined what it was. Then it was An Alaskan miner was overtaken too late to preserve it, large portions and devoured by wolves. Another having been blown to pieces. The oth man was pursued by them for two er one was crosswise and the tunnel weeks, but finally reached a settlement. was put through it. The fish were imbedded in cement The Texas legislature has instructed gravel, and had no doubt been there its congressmen to work for the repeal many centuries, since gravel filled o f the Fourteenth amendment, which what must have been in the remote confers the right of franchise upon past an immense inland sea. negroes. C LAR A M ORRIS IN P LIG H T. Escaped convicts from a road camp near Lyle, Wash., set fire to the tim ber to prevent pursuit by bloodhounds, Aged Actress, Destitute, May Lose and serious forest fires have started as Her Home. a resulL N ew York— Blind, feeble from ill The county treasurer at Tacoma, ness, deserted by those whose friend Wash., is selling $163,526 worth of she was when they were needy, Clara delinquent tax certificates against the Morris, 20 years ago the idol o f ap property of the Weyerhauser Lumber plauding audiences, w ill be turned company. from under her roof unless $20,000 can Investigation shows that graft be raised to lift the mortgage on her Headed money was paid to New York legisla home on Riverdale avenue. tors through brokers, who gave the by a man who hail never seen Clara recipients generous opportunities to Morris off the stage, a company known as the Clara Morris Holding company, speculate. has been organized to save her house Roosevelt refused to sit at the table for her and has raised $15,000 towards with Senator Lorimer, o f Illinois, at a liftin g the mortgage o f $30,000 on the banquet at Chicago. Lorimer is ac homa o f the once famous tragedienne. cused and practically convicted of ex But unless the remaining $15,000, to tensive bribing in the state legisla gether with an additional $5,000 to meet ture. Roosevelt also thoroughly interest, taxes and assessments for grilled the legislature in a speech be some years to come is secured, Clara fore the Hamilton club. Morris may be thrown on charity for The International Harvester com support. pany has been declared a trust by the Many Preachers to Quit. Missouri courts. Charles City, la .— When the Upper I t is believed Secretary Ballinger w ill be vindicated by the conservation Iowa Methodist conference convenes in Charles City next week, it will find investigating committee. itself face to face with a decided short Governor Crothers, o f Maryland, age in the number o f preachers neces promises some startling disclosures in sary for the district, and 57 charges in connection with the cocaine business in the conference will have to be filled Baltimore. from a source not known at present. A brilliant meteor passed over Fifty-seven men, the greater part of Northwestern Oregon Sunday, and re them in the prime o f life, a number of ports are that pieces of it were picked them only a few years out o f the uni versity and seminary, will quit the up near Woodburn. ministry at this time and take up sec California legislators cheered at the ular work. reading o f a constitutional amendment to allow the state to raise money for Babe It Born With Teeth. the San Francisco fair. Tacoma, Wash. — Born with teeth, A lone robber shot a flagman and like Richard III, o f England, was the then robbed the passengers in a Pull little daughter o f Mrs. W. A. Miller, man car while the train waa passing of Mineral, Wash. The child was born through the yards in St. Louis. at the home of Mrs. Fred Carrol, a Two men were drowned in the SL sister o f Mrs. Miller, at 4010 East G Lawrence river by the overturning of street. The baby weighed eight pounds their motor boat, while their wives and on the lower jaw were two fully stood helpless on shore but a few feet developed incisors. Physicians regard away. the fact that the teeth are fully devel oped as remarkable. Often small The Catholic bishop o f Detroit, points which are mistaken for teeth Mich., protests against the reading of appear, but fully developed teeth in a the bibie in the public schools, claim newly-born infant are extremely rare. ing that only churches have a right to teach religion. Expense Exceeds Salary. Atlanta, Ga. — For the Democratic nomination for governor o f Georgia, Hoke Smith, successful candidate in the recent primary election, paid $17,696.10, according to an itemised account filed by him with the comp Mayor Gaynor took a six-mile walk troller o f the etate. O f thie amount and was not the least injured by i t friends contributed to his campaign fund $7,097.47. Governor Joseph M. The Portland Fair and Livestock Brown spent $3,950.75. The office of •how opened with an attendance of 11,- governor pays a salary o f $3,000 an 000 nually. Portland’s Labor Dsy parade hed 3,- Convicts to Be Whipped. 260 people In line and reached 32 Austin, Texas— The last official art blocks. o f the fourth special session o f the I t ie said Mayor Gaynor weald ac Texas legislature was the signing by cept the candidacy for governor of lieutenant-governor and speaker of the house of the law making radical N ew York. changes in the conduct o f the state A Brazilian steamer collided with a penitentiary. Whipping in the cases schooner at sea, and waa badly dam of convicts in whst is known ss the aged. The schooner disappeared in third or incorrigible class, was re stored. the fog and has not been heard from. Louis Sherry and John B. Martin, leading restaurant men of New York, and aleo Martin's wife, were arrested for smuggling valuable wearing ap parel at New York. . CAR FERRY SINKS; INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS 30 PERSONS PERISH PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST ATTRACTIONS FOR ROUND UP. m any Number of Cheyenne Features to Be Fish Brought to Pendleton. eggs saved . Warden Clanton Reports W ork o f Hatcheries. on Pendleton — That thousands o f people w h o are not able to attend the first annual round-up w ill still be able to see what a w ild west show is lik e was assured when the Tournam ent Film Com pany, the largest m oving picture com pany doin g business in Am erica, applied fo r and was grunted the exclusive m oving picture concession fo r Pendleton's inaugural fro n tie r e x hibition. The contract has just been signed by Mark Moorhouse, son o f M ajor Lee Moorhouse, o f Indian fame, representing the fr o n tie r exh ibition association, and li. E. Smith, president und general m anager o f the film com pany. Moorhouse returned recently from Cheyenne, w h ere he had been to line up some o f the leading at tractions fo r the local show , and he carried, as a result, in his pocket a contract w h ich insures the ap pearance at the round-up o f B u f falo Vernon, the man w h o catches and throws a vicious steer w ith his hands and holds him dow n w ith his teeth. Vernon is the on ly man in the w o rld w h o e ver w restled barehanded w ith a bull, the feat having been p erform ed in old M ex ic o not many months ago. He still bears the scars o f that encounter. “ Steamboat” and “ T h eod o re R oosevelt,” the tw o greatest buck ing horses the w o rld has e ver seen, w ill also p robably be brought to Pendleton as a result o f M oorhouse’s visit. Clayton Danks, last y ea r’s cham pion rider, and Sam S coville, this yea r’s cham pion, assured M oor house o f th eir w illingn ess to com e and b rin g these tw o animals. F or years “ Steamboat” has been con sidered the hardest bucker ever produced by a western range, but in the opin ion o f the Pendleton man “ T h eod o re R oosevelt” is his superior. G oldie St. C lair, the cham pion wom an broncho buster, also sign i fie d a desire to attend the round up, and it is m ore than probable that she w ill be one o f the attrac tions w h ich the management w ill have to o ffe r . Salem— Master Fish Warden Clanton in hia report thia month gives a com plete statement o f hatchery work throughout the state. He calls atten tion to'the fact that the fall closed sea son went into effect on the Columbia river August 25 and says no attempts have so far been made to violate the law. Four deputy wardens patrol the riv er constantly in launches, but the at titude o f most o f the fishermen, ac cording to Mr. Clanton, seems to be to uphold the law and allow the salmon to pass up the rivers to the hatcheries and natural spawning grounds. A t the Bonneville hatchery, work on the retaining ponds, funds for which were subscribed by the cannerymen and packers along the Columbia river, is progressing rapidly. The hatchery building, troughs and baskets have also been thoroughly overhauled. A t the McKenzie river hatchery, the egg-taking season is at its height, and 339,000 Chinook eggs have been se cured. Although the prospects for a large take are not as encouraging as they were last Beason, owing to the low stage o f water, Mr. Clanton says he is confident that it will compare fa vorably with that of former years be fore the last Balmon has been spawned. The Wallowa river hatchery, like the McKenzie, is feeling the effects of the long dry spell. The hatchery work o f the Salmon river station has been interfered with somewhat by forest fires, but no dam age has been done to the state’s prop erty. Superintendent Holcomb reports that 250,190 early Chinook eggs have been taken there. Improvements have been made to the hatchery on the Trask and repairs have been made to the permanent trap and rack at the Yaquina hatchery, which was washed away in freshets last year. The Alsea river hatchery station is merely an ex perimental station and is located about two miles above the head o f tide on DREDGE N E A R L Y READY. Bear creek. Everett E. Cook has been Dipper Dredge No. 1 to Begin Opera placed in charge as superintendent. tions on Clatskanle Next Week. P ortla n d —B y the end o f this w eek it is expected that repairs to D ipper Dredge No. 1, belon gin g to the United States engineerin g d e partment, w ill be com pleted, and she w ill be ready to begin op era tions either on the Clatskanie riv e r o r on the I.ew is rive r. T h e dredge has been at the governm ent m oor ings fo r several weeks, undergoing repairs p rep aratory to taking up the w o rk o f im provem ents on sev eral o f the tributaries o f the Colum bia. She has had a n ew boom, buckets and new spuds installed, and her engines have been o v e r hauled. She w ill be sent out as soon as the repairs are com pleted. It has not been decid ed w h eth er she w ill proceed first to the L ew is riv e r or to the Clatskanie, but it is thought probable that she w ill w ork in the channel o f the lat ter riv e r first. T h is yea r’s a p p ro p riation fo r the w o rk on that riv e r amounts to $5200, and the dredge has about six weeks’ w o rk ahead o f her there, as she w ill w o rk on the channel from the tow n o f Clatska nie to the d ra w b rid ge o f the A. A C. ra ilw ay, a distance o f about a m ile. She w ill rem ove about 20,- 000 cubic yards o f m aterial from the channel. T h e approp riation fo r the L e w is riv e r was $2500 fo r maintenance. N o w ork w ill be done this year on the C ow litz rive r, as both the engineers and the people o f K elso are o f the opin ion that it w ill be better to aw ait the next a p p ro p ria tion, w h ich , added to the present one, w ill allo w better w o rk to be done in the w a y o f im p ro v in g the channel. Wallowa Fires Under Control. W allowa— The many destructive for est fires that have raged on the na tional forest are now under controL The slight showers o f the past week have dampened the dry grass and leaves and checked the spread o f the fires. The troop; that were at the head o f the Imnaha have returned to Halfway, the troops at Medical Springs w ill remain several days. Supervisor Harris, who has been at the Minam fires, w ill return soon. In all more than 600 men have been employed fighting fires on the Wallowa forest. More Delegates Appointed. Salem— Acting Governor Bowerman has named the following additional del egates to the Farmers’ National con gress to be held at Lincoln, Nebraska, commencing October 6: C. T. Losey, Ironside; H. J. Ward, Vale; Arthur S. King, Ontario; Sid Knight, Sheville; J. H. Seward, Ontario; J. M. Butler, Ontario; D. F. Murphy, Beulah; W il liam Jones, Juntura; Arthur A. Der rick, Brogan; A. E. Wade, Owyhee; John H. Vance, McDermit. Ludington, Mich, Sept. 10.— Thirty ENGINEERS W ILL BUILD. lives were lost today when Pere Mar quette ferry No. 18, bound from Lud Canal Builders Will Also Erect Forti ington to Milwaukee, went to the bot fications at Panama. tom o f Lake Michigan. The dead in Washington — The construction of clude Captain Peter K ilty, Of Luding ton; S. F. Sezepanek, o f Chicago, the fortifications along the Panama purser and wireless operator, whose canal ia to be done by the same en signals o f distress brought assistance gineering organization which iz build Such a decision to the sinking steamer, and two mem ing the canal itself. bers o f the crew of car ferry No. 17, has been reached by President Taft, who lost their lives in an effort to res Major General Leonard Wood, chief of staff of the army, and other officials cue the crew o f No. 18. Ely Colbean, o f Saginaw, Mich., a interested. In commenting on the de member o f the crew o f No. 18 , would cision, General Wood said it waa de- make the 31st victim, but it is believ ! sired to avoid duplicate organizations ed he was not on board when No. 18 o f engineers in the same territory. foundered. A reduction o f several millions of The steamship company issued a list o f 46 names of survivors o f the wreck, dollars in the total estimates for ap all ¡.members of the crew, most of propriations for the military estab whom were brought here tonight on lishments, including rivers and harbors Pcrc Marquette No. 17. Eight bodies expenditures, as compared with the es were recovered. Today’ s disaster is one o f the worst timates of last year, has been deter in the history o f navigation on Lake mined on by the War department. Michigan. The car ferry Pere Mar Major General Wood laid the final quette No. 18 was the flagship o f a draft of the estimate before President fleet o f six steel car ferries owned and T a ft at Beverly last week. General operated by the Pere Marquette Rail Wood, said that the president had ap road company. The boat was valued at $400,000, proved of the estimates, with a few and the cargo, which included 29 load changes, and that they were now ready ed cars, at $100,000 to $150,000. The for submission to congress through the total loss will exceed $500,000, which secretary o f the treasury. One fea ia fully covered by insurance in Lloyd’s ture o f the estimates calls for the con in England. "F e r r y No. 18 sinking. H elp !” was struction o f permanent buildings in the the wireless message that brought Philippines for the use of the army, the first news of the disaster to this rather than temporary structures, such city about 5 o’ clock this morning. The flash was repeated continually for as have been the rule. nearly an hour, but was unsigned. The cause o f the disaster is a mys tery. Among the survivors the con clusion seems to be that the car ferry ’ s after water compartment filled through an open or broken deadlight, which was followed at the last minute by a burst ing o f bulkheads. Leaving Ludington at 11:30 o'clock last night with a fair, but stiff, wind, and carrying 29 loaded cars, the ferry made good weather for five hours on its course to Milwaukee. A t 4 :30 o’clock word was sent to Captain K ilty that his boat was rapid ly making water aft and that the pumps were unable to keep even with the inflow. K ilty headed his ship with all speed toward Sheboygan on the Wisconsin shore, and as the water gained nine cars were dropped off the stem o f the ferry to lighten her, but this gave the vessel only slight and temporary relief. A t 7 :30'a. m. the boat’s buoyancy could no longer sus tain it, and she plunged beneath the water. SE EKS RATE CASE IDEAS. Commissioner Prouty to Hear C ri ticism at Spokane. Washington, D. C. — A ll parties having criticisms or suggestions to offer with reference to thte tentative decision o f the Interstate Commerce commission in the Spokane rate case and the Portland-Puget Sound back haul case w ill have full opportunity to be heard before Commissioner Prouty. Beginning September 13, Commis sioner Prouty w ill conduct hearings open to shippers, railroad officials, commercial organizations and anyone else interested in these two big rate cases and hearings will be continued until all who desire have been heard pro and con. It ¡may require a week or more to dispose o f these hearings. Commissioner Prouty says it is his purpose to collect all new evidence, protests and complaint8 relative to these two decisions, so that when the commission takes up these cases next winter for final decision it will have a AC CU SE D BRIBER CLEARED. full and complete record before it and will understand the attitude o f all in Weeps With Joy at Verdict and Em terested parties. braces Lawyers. Chicago — Attorney Lee O ’ N eil Browne, o f Ottawa, 111., legislative minority leader, charged with bribery in connection with the election o f W il liam Lorimer, o f Chicago, to the Uni ted States senate, was acquitted by a jury in Judge Kersten’ s division o f the criminal court. The jury, which took eight ballots, was out 21 hours. On the first ballot the jury stood eight to four for acquittal. The final juror standing out for conviction was won over to sign the verdict o f acquittal at 2:35 in the afternoon. The verdict was returned in open court a few minutes before 3 o’clock. Immediately the courtroom was in an uproar. I t was ten minutes before bailiffs stopped the cheering. Carnival for Hood River. Hood River— The Hood River cornet band is planning to g ive a three days’ street carnival in Hood R iver during the month o f October. Arnold’s shows, “ Hush” Fund Discovered. o f Portland, will probably be engaged New Y ork— The charge that thou and a number o f other attractions sands o f dollars had been deposited to added. his credit by representatives o f street- railway interests was made before the PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS. investigation committee o f the legisla ture against ex-Senator Goodsell, of Extracts from the Wheat— Track prices export basis: Orange county. Bluestem, 93c; club, 86c; red Rsusian, books o f the brokerage firm of Elling- IN D IA N S TO IM PRO VE CATTLE. 83c; valley, 90c; 40-foid, 88c; Turkey wood A Cunningham showed that in less than five years $24,800 was placed red, 86@90c. Barley— Feed and brewing, $21.50@ to the credit of the ex-senator and that Government Makes Second Shipment of at lea§t $13,300 o f this amount had 22.50 per ton. Thoroughbred Stock. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il been furnished by officials o f street Klamath F alls—Indian Agent E d - lamette valley, $18@19 per ton; East railway companies. son Weston is here to rec e iv e 100 ern Orgeon, $20@21; alfalfa, new, $14 Aviator Hat Bad Smash, head o f fin e p u re-b lo od H e re fo rd @15; grain hay, $13@14. and Shorthorn bulls, w h ich arc to Boston— In the Harvard-Boston aero Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33. be issued to the Klam atlis b y the Millstuffs— Bran, $20 per ton; mid meet here, Claude Graham-White, of governm ent. dlings, $30; shorts, $21@22; rolled England, ended an hour’s flight by T h e cattle w ere purchased in N e barley, $25@26. landing sidewise in his Farman bi braska and shipped from South plane, crumpling up the right Bide of Oats— New, $28@28.50. Omaha, and are to be distributed Eggs— Oregon current receipts, 30@ the lower plane and damaging the chas over the Klam ath Indian reserve bv sis. White was unhurt. In the dura Agent W atson, w h ere they are most 31c; candled, 32c. in a Butter— City creamery, solid pack, tion flight Ralph Johnstone, needed h v the Indians in raising the standard o f th eir stock. These 35@36c per pound; prints, 37c; butter Wright biplane, was eventually com bulls w ill he issued fre e to the In fa t 36c; country store butter, 24@25c. pelled to come down on account of White ex dians, but they cannot dispose o f Cheese— Full cream, twins, 17@18c trouble with his motor. ceeded Johnstone’s duration mark by them. per pound; Young America, 18@19c. T h is is the second consignm ent White had also Poultry— Hens, 16@ 16){c; springs, nearly four minutes. o f fin e blooded cattle issued to the 16 @ 16!4c; ducks, white, 16@17c; taken the honors in distance. Indians here b v U n cle Sam. T w o geese, 23@25c; turkeys, live, 20c; years ago 40(10 head o f young h e if New Policy is Adopted. dressed, 21@25c; squabs, $3 per dozen. ers w ere issued these Indians, and Pork— Fancy, 13c per pound. Washington — Railroad companies, w ith these the breed o f cattle has Veal— Good, up to 140 pounds, 11c particularly those in the far West, will been con siderably raised from what be prevented from securing lands to th ev w ere previou sly. W ith the ad per pound. Green Fruits— Apples, new, 60c@ which they have no right by a new dition o f the n ew bunch o f mates it is the intention o f the g ov e rn $1.25 per box; plums, 40@75c- pears, policy inaugurated by Commissioner ment to have the rattle on this r e 75crti$1.25; peaches, boxes, 30@50c; Dennett, of the general land office. serve equal that o f anv o f the better lugs, $1.10@1.26; grapes, 50c@$l per This policy consists in having a min class o f cattle raised b y the w h iles. box, 20@25c per basket; watermelons, eral expert accompany parties engaged $Ua $1.25 per hundred; canteloupes, in surveying lands within the limits of railroad grants to determine whether $1.05012 per crate. New School Building. Vegetables— Beans, 3@6c per pound; the lands contain minerals. I f they do Grants Pass—T h e M erlin d istrict cabbage, 2 ^ c ; cauliflower, $1.50 per the railroads have no title to them. Is constructing a fou r room school dozen; celery, 90c; corn, 12@16c; cu b u ild in g to cost $10,000, to meet the cumbers, 25@40c per box; eggplant, 6c Honor Given to Stork. needs o f its greater population. per pound; garlic, 80S 10c per pound; Tulsa, Olahoma— Official recogni Bonds have been voted b v the ta x green onions, 15c per dozen; peppers, tion o f the anti-race suicide tendency payers fr the district to p ro v id e 6c per pound; radishes, I5@20c per o f the people o f Tulsa county, where m oney fo r the im provem ent. W o lf dozen; squash, 40c per crate; toma the birth rate since statehood was es Creek w ill build a less expensive toes, 30@60c per box; carrots, $1@ tablished has overwhelmingly exceed though a v e ry m odern and substan 1.25; per sack; beets, $1.60; parsnips, ed the death rate, was taken when the tial building, fo r w h ich bonds to $1@1.25; turnips, $1. county commissioners adopted the the amount o f 35000 have been Potatoes — New, $1.25@1.60 per stork as the emblematic bird o f the voted. T h e bu ild in g w ill p robably hundred. county. A heroic statue o f the Rooae- be ready fo r oecu p an ry at the b e veitian bird will adorn the facade of Onions— New, $1.75 per sack. ginnin g o f the sp rin g term. which ia to Livestock - B eef steers, good to the new courthouse, W ill Dredge Locks. choice, $5@5.50; fa ir to medium, $44} be built at once. W o rk o f d red gin g out the upper 4.60; cows and heifers, good to choice, Balloon Goat 285 Miles. entrance to the Cascade Lonks w ill $3.75qi4.75; fair to medium, $3.25@ Topeka. Kan., SepL 10.— Word was be started to m o rrow b v the United 3.50; bulls, $3.50@4; stags, good to choice, $4@4.25; calves, light $6@ received by telephone tonight from E. States engineers, and the small 6.76; heavy, $3.75@6; hogs, top, $10 S. Cole that he and H. E. Honeywell, “ orange peel” dredge used fo r that @19.40; fair to medium. $9.25@9.75; who went up in a balloon here at dark purpose is now rea d v to begin o p e sheep, best ML Adams wethers, $4rtf last night, landed at 10 a. m. today ten rations. High w ater during the w in 4.15; beat valley wethers. $3.26«?3.60; miles north o f Panther, Oklahoma. ter and sprin g freshets deposits a large amount o f silt in the entrance fair to good wethers, $3rtf3.25; best The distance from here to Panther is to the locks and it is necessary fo r valley ewes, $3«?3.50; lambs, choice 265 miles. The trip was made at the the engineers to put a d red ge in Mt. Adams. $5.25@6.60; choice valley rate o f a fraction more thann 18 miles an hour. l lambs $6@5.25. there e v ery luraraer. FLATH EAD LAN D S OFFERED. Government Will Give Opportunity to Take Left O ver Claims. Kaiispell Mont. — Offices are being established by the reservation land locators and the holders of numbers first drawn have already put in their appearance here to be ready for the opening to special entry o f the last of the Flathead Indian reservation lands. The earliest arrivals have been fre quenting the land office and asking in formation, but their number is not large. Government officials do not ex pect a large proportion of those who have chancea to appear. O f the first 3,000 names called in June, only about 10 per cent came, and not all o f them accepted claims. Those fam iliar with the reservation persevere in their assertions that a great area of land as desirable as any that has been taken still remains to be had. Fire-Fighters Receive Aid. Washington— Brave firefighters who risked deatl) ind suffered injuries in protecting life and property in the Northwest, and whose small wages from the fight Btopped when they be came incapacitated in line o f duty, will receive funds for their immediate needs through the sympathy o f em ployes in the forest service here, who, from directors to messengers, almost to a man, contributed to give tem porary relief at leas*. District Forester J. B. Greeley, at Missoula, Mont., replying to a message said: “ Can use $150 in relief o f injured rangers and temporary employes and in sending bodies o f men killed to re latives.” Between $150 and $200 was tele graphed to Mr. Greeley. C O T T O N C R O P COM ES LATE. Falling O ff in Ginnert' Report* is Not Regarded at Serious. Washington— The number o f bales of cotton ginned to September 1, from the growth of 1910 was 356,824 bales, round bales counted as half bales, ac cording to the report of the census bureau just ¡made , public. The 190S total was 388,242 bales, the 1908, 402,229 bales and the 1907, 200,282. Statisticians of the census bureau do not consider the falling off in the fig ures of the first ginning report to East ern states as significant as they might appear. They attribute the decrease to the lateness of the crop rather than to any cause which in the end would affect its volume. Without having any other definite information, they expect a material improvement in the future reports. The season has been unusu ally good in Texas, which fact accounts for the prospective larger crop there. Purchases o f Egyptian cotton by American manufacturers for the first half o f the present year were only about half the amount taken during the corresponding period last year. The figures of the foreign trade o f Egypt, just received from Consul D. R. Birch, of Alexandria, show that the cotton exported to the United States aggre gated only $3,945,012, as compared with $7,208,732 for the first six months of 1909. The other important items of exports to this country all showed substantial increases. T A L K EXCITES PANAM A. Charge d'Affaires Replies to Anti- American Element. Panama — In an interview Richard 0. Marsh, charge d ’ affaires o f the American legation at Panama, inti mated that i f the Punainan govern ment should ignore the wishes o t Washington, the United States would be compelled to occupy or annex the Republic of Panama. Mr. Marsh’a statement was made as a consequence of the evident intention of the Liberal praty which has a ma jority in the assembly, to elect as the next vice-president, to fill the unex pired term o f the late President Obal- dia, an anti-American citizen. The assembly was recently occupied with a very heated discussion of the matter. Mr. Marsh made this statement: “ In view of all that the American government has done for Panama and its great interest present and future on the governmnet should resistently re fuse to accede to the clear wishes o f the American government, that gov ernment can only adopt such means as occuoation and annexation.” The foregoing has stirred up some thing o f a sensation. Question May Be Reopened. Washington — A substantial victory for Grt at Britain in perhaps the two- most important points, a consolatory triumph for the United States in the other five points, with a prospect o f another arbitration later at the in stance o f the United States govern ment, is the way the decision o f The- Hague tribunal in the Newfoundland fisherie case is viewed here. The decision eliminated the right o f the United States to share in the mak ing and enforcement of “ reasonable regulations” governing the fisheries in the disputed territory, and it is that qualification “ reasonable” that may permit this government to reopen the question. State Census Bulletins Soon. Washington—Census Director Dur and announced that the census bureau will begin about January next the is suance from time to time o f a sreies of bulletins, each giving certain popula tion statistics for a single state and its subdivisions. The form of these bul letins, which will later be bound up to constitute regular census volumes, marks a very distinct departure from the method of publishing census sta tistics ten years ago. It is one step in the carrying out of Director Durand’s aim to simplify and make more ac cessible the census data, so that they can readily used, not merely by expert students and statisticians, but by the average citizen. Permanent Road to Iditarod. Valdez, Alaska— A permanent road will be built by the government from Valdez to Iditarod, according to Major W. P. Richadrson, U. S. A ., who is here from Nome on an inspection tour. The commissioner denies the report that the Valdez-Fairbanks trail will be abandoned as the “ result o f the com pletion o f the Copper River railroad. During the summer the government has extended the trail from Fairbanks to a junction with the railroad, and More Coal Briquettes. will operate daily trains givin g a new Washington, D. C.— Coal briquetting entrance to the Tanana gold fields. is slowly increasing in the United States. The production in 1909, ac Navy Man’s Talk Costly. cording to a compilation by E. W. Washington— Because First Lieu Parker, o f the geological survey, tenant William L. Burchfield, o f the reached 139,661 short tons, valued at Marine Corps, flourished a revolver $452,697. The output in 1908 was and used threatening language to Pa 90,368 tons, worth $323,057 and in trolman H. K. Kaha, and several oth 1907 66,524 tons, worth $258,426. The ers at Honolulu, has been diciplined hy survey has an experimental briquetting the Navy departmenL “ You know plant at Pittsburg. The German press where my |dog is; i f you don’ t bring used turns out 2% to 3 tons an hour. my dog back I ’ll shoot you,” is the threat Burchfield is said to have made Englishmen Taking Notice. in pointing his revolver at the police London—-Theodore Roosevelt’s recent man. suggestion in a speech that the Panama canal should be fortified has caused Lakes-to-Gulf Plan Aided. almost ss much comment here as his Washington— The initial step to Guildhall utterance. I t is believed ward the co-operation with the state of that in diplomatic circles an effort will Illinois in the lake-to-the-gulf water be made to prevent the erection of any way project has been taken. The War fortifications. " I n the event o f a gen department has announced the appoint eral disagreement on the question of ment o f a board of distinguised en neutrality,” the Times suggests, gineers to pass upon the proposed es "th ere can be no doubt that America tablishment of navigation from Lock- would welcome the submission o f the port, III., to the mouth of the Illinois question to an international court of river. arbitration.” O rder Given to Kill Talk. Test Eastern and Western Coal. Washington — Instructions promptly Washington— With a view to test and quickly to repudiate the interview ing Western coal in comparison with he is alleged to have given at Panama, the Eastern article, the armored cruis were cabled to Richard O. Marsh, the ers Maryland and West Virginia, now American charge d'affaires, by Act at Mare Island, have been ordered tto ing Secretary of State Wilson. re-coal. One vessel will be provided with Western coal and the other with Portland Bank Would Be Repository Eastern. Should the Western coal Washington— The Security Savings prove good, a mine for naval use will A Trust company, o f Portland, has ap be sought. plied for postal savings bank funds.
