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8YNOPSIS.
A t the brcln n ln f o f creat automobile
rare the methuntclan o f ihe Mercury,
■tanton's machine, drops dead. Strange
youth, Jesse Floyd, volunteers, and Is ac­
cepted. In the rest during the twenty-
four hour race Stanton meets a stranger.
Miss Carlisle, who Introduces herself.
CHAPTER II.— (Continued.)
“ My father Is president of a tire
company," she Idly remarked. "His
tires are being used on some of the
cars, the Mercury for one, I believe,
and he wanted to watch their testing
under use. So, after a dinner engage­
ment we could not escape, we mo­
tored down here from the city. You
see I have not viewed much of the
race. I admit this does not look very
perilous and I am a bit disappointed.
I," again her short crystal laugh, “ I
shall hope better things of the famous
Stanton; I want to admire him very
much. But I am detaining you. and
you were leaving! Every thanks for
your patience."
"Hardly leaving, since the twenty-
four hour race is not six hours old,"
he corrected briefly. "1 am glad to
have been of any use to you."
She returned his salute; then, upon
the cool Impulse of one accustomed to
doing as she chose, put her question
directly:
"Ah— I am Miss Carlisle; I would
like to know who has been good
enough to aid me in my ignorance.”
"My name is Stanton," he complied,
and went on.
From the shelter of the obscurity he
looked back. She had taken a step
forward Into the light and her veil
had slipped aside as she gazed after
him with an expression of acute and
eager interest. She could not have
been older than twenty-four or five,
with a finely cut, beautiful face
framed In waves of fair hair.
Floyd was sitting on a camp-stool
outside the tent, chatting with a
group of men, when Stanton returned.
The rest had brought back the mech­
anician's color and animation; In fact,
he looked ridiculously young and Ir­
responsible. But he sprang up read­
ily at the driver's nod.
“ Time?" he asked, his gray eyes
Uke burnished steel.
“ Yes,” Stanton confirmed. And to
the nearest man: "Bring in the car."
There was an obedient commotion.
Several men ran to flag the other
driver; Floyd caught up goggles and
cap, and knelt to tighten a legging
atrap. As Stanton made his own prep­
arations, Mr. Green bustled up to blm.
"W e're leading," he reminded su­
perfluously. “ There Isn’t, really, any
need for extra fast work, Stanton."
Stanton snapped a buckle, saying
nothing.
“ I telephoned to the office and told
Rupert he needn’t come. I told him
that you had a new man.”
"W e llt”
“ He said, 'Poor mut.’ *
The driver straightened to his full
height, his firm dark face locking to
bronze Inflexibility.
"You had better report his sympa­
thy to Floyd, whom lt’B meant for," he
advised hardly. "I'm not Interested.
If the company doesn't like the way I
drive, let them get some one In my
plaoe; but while I do drive the car, I
drive, and not Rupert or Floyd, or—
any one else. I'll neither take risks
nor shirk them to order.”
The
assistant manager choked,
speechless. He had no way of know­
ing why Stanton flashed a sullen
glance toward the row of automobiles
before the grand stand, or who was
meant by that "any one else." Mean­
while, be was Intractable, he was In­
subordinate. and he was obstinate—
but he was Stanton.
The Mercury rolled In, the two men
climbed from their seats, and there
was a momentary delay for tank fill­
ing. Stanton took his place, experi­
mentally speeding and retarding his
motor while he waited for the work­
men to finish.
"Stop a minute while I fix the car­
buretor,” requested Floyd, from be­
side the machine. “ It's colder late
at night like this.
Walt, you’ve
dropped your glove."
Stanton silenced the engine. Some­
thing in the fresh voice, the boyish
grace of the slight figure, the ready
courtesy of the act. stirred him with a
strange sensation and pricking shame
at his own brutality. "Poor mut,” a
whisper repeated to his Inner ear.
When Floyd offered the gauntlet, the
other dropped a hand upon his shoul­
der.
“ Are you riding with me because
you want the money badly enough to
chance anything." Stanton demanded
harshly, "or because you are willing
to trust my driving f”
Taken by surprise, open astonish­
ment crossed the younger man's face,
but bis eyes did not flinch from the
•aes behind the goggles
" I think you're the beet driver os
the track," came the steady answer.
"And I'd rather trust myself to your
recklessness than to some one else'a
mistakes. If you want to know. I
guess you can steer straight enough
for both of os."
Stanton's hand relaxed Its hold.
"Go fix your carburetor. Yes, I can
steer— straight."
Again the blue-black eyes flashed
sneering defiance toward the grand­
stand; for the moment. Miss Car­
lisle's hope of witnessing desperate
feats by the Mercury car seemed far
from realization.
But the Mercury had not circled the
mile oval fohr times when the Duplex,
Its choked feed-pipe cleared at last,
burst from the paddock with Its mas­
ter driver at the wheel and bent on
the recovery of lost time. The Mer­
cury was on the back stretch of
track, running casually near sixty
miles at the moment.
“ Car cornin',” Floyd cautioned sud­
denly.
Stanton raised bis bead, alert a frac­
tional second too late, and bis closest
rival shot past blm, roaring down the
white path. It was too much; Floyd
and Miss Carlisle sank out of memory
together, as Stanton reached for
throttle and spark.
The Mercury
snarled and leaped like a startled cat.
The dull period was over.
The Mercury car was slightly the
faster, but the Duplex neld the Inside
line, and the difference between the
drivers was not In skill so much as In
daredevlltry. Slower machines kept
conservatively out of the way as the
dangerous rivals fought out their
speed-battle.
Three times Stanton
hunted the Duplex around the track,
gaining on each lap, until the last cir­
cuit was made with the cars side by
side, a flaming team. The spectators,
scanty at this hour before dawn, rose,
applauding and cheering, as the two
passed again, still clinging together.
But gradually It became evident
that Stanton, who held the outside,
was steadily crowding the Duplex
toward the paddock fence. Nor could
the Duplex defend Itself from the ma­
neuver which must ultimately force It
to fall behind at one of the turns or
accept destruction by collision. The
machines were so close that a swerve
on the part of either, the blow-out of
a tire or a catch in the ruts cut In
the track at certain points, meant un­
gentle death. Mercilessly, gradually,
Stanton pressed his perilous advan­
tage. And at the crucial moment he
heard a low, exultant laugh.
“ Cut him closer!” urged his mech­
anician's eager, excited accents at his
ear. "W e ’ll get him on this turn—
he’B weakenin’— Cut him close!”
The comrade triumph came to Stan­
ton as an unaccustomed cordial. They
were passing the grand stand. Just
ahead lay the worst curve.
>
It was partly reputation which won.
If the Duplex had held firm, the Mer­
cury must In self-preservation have
yielded room. But the driver knew
Stanton, guessed him capable of
wrecking both by obstinate persist­
ence in attack, and dared not meet
the issue. There came the gun-like
reports of a shut-off motor, the Du­
plex slackened Its furious pace, and
Stanton hurtled past him on the turn
itself, lurching across the ruts, and
led the way down the track.
The witnesses In stands and pad-
dock went frantic. Floyd pumped oil.
Stanton snatched a glance at the min­
iature watch strapped on his wrist,
over his glove, and slightly reduced
speed. The maneuver had been suc­
cessful, but the driver knew that It
might have called down upon him the
judges' just censure and have sent him
from the track, disqualified.
The number of laps steadily grew
"F or Mr. 8tanton," the Boy Insisted.
on the bulletin register. A faint, dull
light overspread the sky, the fore­
runner of the early summer dawn. At
four o'clock the Mercury unexpected­
ly blew out a tire, reeling across to
the fence line from the shock and the
jar of sharply applied brakes. Stanton
said something, and sent his car limp­
ing cautiously around to the camp
where Its repairers Btood ready.
Floyd slid out of his hard, narrow
seat rather stiffly. The cold grayness
was bright enough now to show the
streaks of grimy dust and oil wher­
ever the masks had failed to protect
the men's faces, and the effects of fa­
tigue and strain of watching. Stanton
looked for the inevitable pitcher of
Water, but found himself confronted
Instead with a grinning, admiringly
awed messenger boy who held out a
cluster of heavy purple flowers.
"W hat?" marveled the disgusted
driver. "W hat idiotic trick— ”
"F or Mr. Stanton, sir," deferential­
ly Instated the boy; who would have
addressed the president as "bo," and
gibed at the czar.
Stanton caugbt the blossoms rough­
ly, anticipating a practical joke from
some fun-loving fellow-competitor, and
saw a white card dangling by a bit
of ribbon.
“ Thank you.” he read In careless
penciling. "I have no laurel wreaths
here, go send the vietor of the hour
LO RIM ER FIG H T8 BACK.
my corsage bouquet."
She had had the Imprudence, or the Makes Vigorous Attack Upon Enemies
cool disregard of comment, to use one
Before Senate.
of her own cards. Valerie Atherton
Washington, D. C.— Senator Lori-
Carlisle, the name was engraved
across the heavy pasteboard.
mer Friday began his speech defend­
She had thought that wild duel with ing his right to his seat. He followed
the Duplex was an exhibition given
Senator Keed o f Missouri, who had
for her, that at her wanton whim he had made a bitter attack upon aim and his
Jeopardized four lives, one his own.
election by the Illinois legislature.
With a strong exclamation of con­
The senate chamber filled up slowly
tempt Stanton moved to fling the flow­
under the call for a quorum, but only
ers aside to the path before the Mer­ SB senators answered to their names.
cury's wheels, then checked himself,
The senate galleries were not half
remembering appearances.
The or­
filled.
chids curled limply around his warm
As Senator Lorimer began his
fingers; suddenly the magnificent ar­ speech, he read from manuscript and
rogance of this girl struck him with
his voice was for the first few sen­
angry humor, and he laughed shortly. tences somewhat indistinct.
He de­
"Throw them In the tent, Blake," he clared that he proposed to g ive the
requested, tosslug the bouquet to one senate an insight into the character o f
of the men. "T h ey’ll wither fast the men who, he said, had tried to
enough."
ruin him.
The new tire was on. As Stanton
" I t is true that the senate has tbe
turned to his machine, after tearing right to deny me a seat in this body,’ ’
the card to unreadable fragments, he he began, “ on the flimsiest pretext or
saw Floyd watching him with curious on no pretext at all. I intend to show
Intentness.
that no vote cast for me was influ­
A raw, wet mist had commenced to enced by fraud.
roll In from the near-by ocean. The
“ Mr. President,” he said in meas­
promise of dawn was recalled, a dull ured tones, “ this is no joke.
This is
obscurity dosed over the motordrome, a solemn and serious question. I f the
leaving even the search-lighted path senate decides to follow the views o f
dim. The cars rushed on steadily.
the minority o f this investigating
The night had been singularly free committee, it w ill be travesty on civ­
from accidents.
Only one machine ilized jurisprudence, a mockery o f jus­
had been actually wrecked, although tice. It w ill be a declaration that the
three had been withdrawn from the senate has decided to follow the red
contest. The officials lu the Judges' flag; that it has become the advocate
stand were congratulating one an­ of anarchy; has adopted the doctrine
other. at the moment when the second o f the recall as advocated by its arch
disaster occurred.
champion.”
The mist had grown thicker. In the
Senator Lorimer departed from
lights a dazzling silver curtain before his manuscript for a moment to refer
men's eyes, and the track had been to the Chicago newspapers.
He de­
worn to deep grooves at the turns. clared certain o f the newspaper own­
The Mercury was sweeping past the ers and publishers there would be in
grand stand, when one of the two prison i f the public prosecutors had
slower cars, being overtaken, slipped been active. Finally he discarded his
Its driver’s control, caught In a foot- manuscript and took a place in the
deep rut, and swerved crashing Into center aisle from which he could be
the machine next It. Twice over It heard on both sides o f the chamber.
rolled, splintering slckenlngly, but
Senator Lorimer charged that while
flinging both of its men clear of the the Tribune property was worth from
wreck. The car struck, plunged on $7,000,000 to $10,000,000, it paid
around the curve Into the mist, ap­ taxes on only $420,000.
He called
parently unhurt.
these newspapers “ robbers o f the pub­
Out across the damp dusk pierced lic treasury o f Chicago.”
He at­
the shriek of the klaxon, mingled with tacked Victor Lawson o f the News,
the cry of the people and the tinkle of and charged that the News occupied
the
hospital telephone.
Stanton, school land at a rental o f $1 a square
swinging wide to avoid the pitiful foot and paid no taxes, while less val­
wreckage, kept on his course.
uable land across the street rented for
“ Stop!" Floyd shouted Imperatively $3.50 a foot.
beside him. "Stop, Stanton, stop!”
Mr. Lorimer charged that Mr. Law-
Stanton sped on, disregarding what son had secured unlawful reductions in
he supposed was a novice's nervouB taxes upon his home and business
sympathy.
He could not aid the property and added that Mr. Lawson
stunned men lying on the track, and was trying to drive him out o f public
one glance had told him that they life.
could be safely passed; as Indeed they
Mr. Lorimer declared that erroneous
had been.
statements had been sent out to the
“ Stop!” the command rang again; world by the newspaper agencies.
and as Stanton merely shook
bis He referred to what he termed the
head with impatient annoyance, the control o f news sources by Victor
mechanician swiftly stooped forward. Lawson, M elville E. Stone and Frank
The motor slackened oddly. Before B. Noyes, who formerly ran the Rec­
the astounded driver had time to grasp ord-Herald for Mr. Lawson.
the situation, the power died from
Quoting Mr. T a ft ’s letter to Colonel
under his bands and the car was only Roosevelt in which the president ex­
carried forward by its own momen­ pressed the b elief that Lorimer should
tum. Automatically he Jammed down be ousted, Lorimer complained o f his
tbe brakes and turned in his seat to treatment by Mr. T aft.
confront his companion in a wrathful
“ I have no ill will or bitterness in
amazement choking speech.
Floyd my heart toward any senator who
faced him, even his lips white beneath voted against me in the last conrgess,
bis mask, but with steadfast eyes.
but it does hurt me that I should have
"I know,” he forestal'ed the tem­ been tried by the president or the e x ­
pest. "You've got the right to put president o f the United States, ” he
me off the car— I threw your switch. said bitterly.
I've got nothing to say. But the mist
lifted and I saw what lay ahead.”
What lay ahead? The klaxon was
shrieking madly, from all around the
track came the sound of halting cars.
The rising wind pushed along the fog
Washington, D. C.— The house o f
walls again, and they opened to reveal
the second machine of the late acci­ representatives, adpoted by a vote o f
dent, not twenty-five feet ahead, a 222 to 1, articles o f impeachment
tilted, motionless heap. After the against Judge Archbald, o f the United
Representa­
collision It had staggered this far, to States Commerce court.
go down with a broken rear axle and tive Farr, o f Pennsylvania, cast the
two lost rear wheels. Its men were single vote against the bill o f im ­
still In their seats unhurt.
peachment.
There was an Instant of silence. The
avoided disaster was no excuse for the
Library School Endowed. ‘
mechanician’s interference, nor did
Tacoma— Funds have been promised
Floyd offer It as such, well aware by a well-known financier for the en­
that his driver was perfectly justified
In any course he chose to take. There dowment o f a large library school in
the Northwest, probably at Portland,
can be but one pilot at any wheel.
"Since I suppose you are not equal accoring to Franklin F. Hopper, city
to cranking a ninety Mercury, you librarian, who has just returned from
had better fix the spark and gas while the annual meeting o f the American
Sev­
I start It,” dryly suggested Stanton. Library association at Ottawa.
eral hundred thousand dollars are said
"And— never do that again."
to have been 'offered for the institu­
He stepped out and went to the
tion, which w ill train persons in all
front of his car, seizing the crank
branches o f library work.
Announce­
and starting the big motor with an ex­
ment that the school has been estab­
ertion of superb strength which would
lished will be forthcoming soon.
Indeed have been Impossible to the
slender Floyd. When he retook his
Slight Quake la Felt.
seat, the mechanician made his equal­
San Jose, Cal.— Professor Alb ert J.
ly laconic apology and acknowledg­
Newlin, o f the Santa Clara observa­
ment of error.
tory, reports a good seismograph rec­
"I never will,” Floyd gave his word.
ord o f an earthquake, a local affair, at
The wind shook the mist more
8 :06 p. m. Friday.
It was faintly
strongly, streamers of pink and gold
fe lt at Santa Clara.
The epicenter
trembled across the sky. The day had
was some distance away, perhaps 50
commenced.
miles.
The main shock, not very
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
severe, lasted about two minutes. It
was followed about six minutes later
Humor of Artemus Ward.
by another smaller shock, which,
Boms years ago the real scream In
though recorded, was not felt.
cachlnnatlon was Artemus Ward. Our
fathers were wont to read the witti­
Torrid Wave it Broken.
cisms of this great humorist and
N ew York, July IS.— “ A tendency
laugh till the tears ran down their
cheeks. As an example of how funny to cooler,” which the weather officials
Artemus could be when he tried, take promised, materialized tonight with a
this extract from his letter on Jeffer­ drop o f about 20 degreess from the
son Davis, president of the Confeder­ maximum o f the week’ s hot spell.
acy. alleged to have been written In A t seven o’clock tonight the thermom­
eter here registered 75.
Before the
Richmond:
"Jeff. Davis Is not popular here. relie f came the week’s list o f deaths
She la regarded as a southern sym­ in this city ascribed to tbe heat was
pathiser, A ylt I'm told be was kind increased by eight and the prostra­
to hts parents.
She ran away from tions by more than a score.
'em many years ago and has never bln
Last Escape is Denied.
back.
This was showln’ 'em a good
deal of consideration when we reflect
Washington, D. C.— Those who flee
what his conduck has been. Her cap- from justice in the United States will
tur In female apparel confooses me In hereafter find no place on the Western
regard to his sex. A you see I speak hemisphere safe from
extradition.
of him aa her and as frequent as other­ By signing an extradition treaty with
wise, A I gueas he feels so hisself."-
Honduras the State department closed
the last refuge.
JUDGE ARCHBALD OF COM­
MERCE COURT IMPEACHED.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
M ILL W ASTE T O BE USED.
C L E M E N T H ITS OREGON.
Coos Bay Wood Pulp Plant Will Be Lack o f Corporation Law Cause o f
“ Crookedness."
Completed Within Year,
Salem—That Oregon is the stamp­
Portland— Robert Nerdrum and Hy-
alte Nerdrum, young Norwegians who ing ground for crooked promoters
are interested in the Coos Bay Pulp & from other states, who make it a
Paper company, o f Marshfield, have practice to come here to organize fake
been at the Multnomah hotel for sev­ companies because the laws o f Oregon
eral days awaiting the arrival o f their do not give the state authority to look
into the affairs o f corporations is one
wives from Norway.
Hyalte Nerdrum, in speaking of o f the declarations made by E. C.
this new industry at Coos Bay, said : Clement, United States postoffice in­
“ It w ill be a year before we begin spector.
Among other things, he told of one
the manufacture of wood pulp, as it
takes that long to complete the build­ person alone who was fleeced o f $40,-
ings o f reinforced concrete, and in­ 000 by the Columbia R iver Orchards
stall the machinery.
The machinery company and the Oregon-Washington
will largely be manufactured in this Trust company, in which these com­
country but some parts will come panies deliberately led him into a trap
to secure the money and branding him
from Europe.
“ The process o f separating the as a "sucker” in letters which passed
wood fiber in this country is known as back and forth between those inte­
the Boda process, while we are to use rested.
“ I am now on the trail o f certain
the sulphate o f soda process.
" W e are jointly interested in the men who did not dare organize in the
enterprise with the C. A. Smith Lum­ state where they live, but have come
ber company and our raw material to Oregon to file their papers and have
will consist o f the refuse from the already floated millions o f dollars of
mill o f that company, which is now worthless Btock all over the W est,”
he declared.
destroyed.
“ The Columbia River Orchards com­
“ Our ultimate plan is to operate a
paper mill at Coos Bay, but this will pany affairs furnishes a good illustra­
tion of the way in which grafters flock
not be attempted at preset.”
to this state to float their crooked en­
terprises. These people had to have a
NEW CH ERRY GROWN.
dummy corporation to act as a trus­
tee. They couldn’ t organize it under
Max Pracht, Jackson County, Devel­ the laws of Washington, so they came
ops Luscious Variety.
to Portland and organized the ¡Oregon-
Ashland— Since retiring from the Washington Trust company under the
This company was
government Bervice at Washington, laws o f Oregon.
Max Pracht, has developed into a supposed to hold $125 worth o f securi­
practical horticulturist
He resides ties for every $100 worth o f the obli­
near Ashland, Jackson county, where gation o f the Columbia River Or­
When the crash
he first came into prominence as a suc­ chards company.
cessful peach culturist. More recent­ came it developed that their alleged
ly he has produced a new variety of securities were absolutely worthless.
cherry, which is pronounced by ex­ Even the office furniture was not paid
perts to be one o f the best commercial for and the stenographer was cheated
The public was
varieties that is grown in the Pacific out o f her salary.
Northwest. This cherry in many re­ fleeced out o f about two and a quarter
spects resembles the Bing, being millions o f dollars on this graft, which
would not have been possible i f there
large, firm and o f exceptional flavor.
Mr. Pracht Bent a sample box o f the had been a state law providing for the
fruit, which he has christened the supervision o f corporations, such as
Pracht Imperial, to his friend, Phil the proposed blue-Bky law, which I
Metschan, proprietor o f the Imperial earnestly hope may be adopted. I do
hotel at Portland.
The demand for not know o f anything that would be of
“ just a taste” o f the cherries was so greater benefit to honest corporations
great that the supply proved insuffi­ than some such act to give the state
control o f crooked promoters and cor­
cient to go the rounds.
porations. ”
M ILL AID S E M PLO YE S.
T A R IF F S PLACED ON FILE.
Willamette Pulp & Paper Company Roads Named on Which Interchange­
to Build Model City.
able Books Are Good,
Oregon C ity— In order to aid its
Salem — Tariffs for the new inter­
employes and make them better satis­ changeable mileage books have been
fied with conditions the Willamette filed with the State Railroad commis­
Pulp & Paper company will found a sion, to become effective August 16.
The mileage books will be good at
little city for them on the West Side
near the school house.
The concern the rate o f one coupon a mile on the
has about 750 employes,
and at following roads:
Camas Prairie;
least half o f them w ill be benefitted Chicago, Milwaukee Puget Sound;
within a year. A tract of 56 acres Corvallis & Eastern; Idaho, Washing­
has been purchased which w ill be ton & Northern; Northern Pacific;
cleared immediately and platted this Oregon Electric; Oregon Trunk; O.-
summer. It is the company’s plan as W. R. & N . ; P. R. & N . ; Port Town­
outlined by Mr. McBain, mill manager, send Southern; Salem, Falls City &
to divide the
land into quarter- Western; Spokane & Inland; Spokane
acre tracts, lots 100 by 100 feet or 50 International; S. P. & S .; Southern
by 200 feet, aa desired, and to reserve Pacific in Oregon, including towns on
one block for park purposes.
Klamath Falls branch via Weed, Cal.;
Modem dwellings w ill be erected by Tacoma & Eastern, and Washington,
the company for the employes, to be Idaho & Montana.
paid for on monthly installments equal
The roads on which mileage from
to rent. No interest w ill be charged. mileage books will be accepted on the
This method o f home-building and basis of the local fare are aa follows:
buying, Mr. McBain declares, will Coeur d’Alene & St. Joe Transporta­
make it possible for every employe to tion company, Great Northern in B rit­
own his own home within a few years. ish Columbia on local lines. Pacific &
Eastern, Reid Transportation com­
Jews Take to Agriculture.
pany, and United Railways.
The Hebrew Agricultural associa­
tion otj Oregon came into corporate
Brook Trout Planted.
existence recently in the vestry rooms
Portland — The work o f stocking
o f the Hall street Synagogue, Port­ Oregon streams with brook trout is
land, with the appointment o f a com­
m ittee on constitution and by-laws, going forward rapidly. Ten cans o f
the securing o f a charter from the trout fry were taken down the river to
State o f Oregon and the election of be liberated In streams near Scap-
The work o f distributing
officers. The object o f thiB organiza­ poose.
tion is to encourage agriculture among these fish is being shared by members
the Jews. This organization will lend o f the Multnomah Anglers’ club.
money without interest and otherwise Cans o f fish áre being transported to
assist Jewish farmers in their voca­ various points in automobiles belong­
ing to club members.
Another ship­
tion.
ment o f Eastern trout is soon to be
Hood River Has Record Hay Yield taken into the mountains of the Cas­
Hood R iver—The Hood R iver valley cade range for liberation in the lakes.
will have one of the largest hay crops
this year in its history. The acreage
is unusually large and the continuous
rains have produced heavier crops than
in former years.
The first power
baler ever used in the valley was de­
livered here last week. In Odell dis­
trict, where a great deal o f hay is
raised, nearly every rancher w ill have
quantities o f feedstuffs to sell, where­
as in former years nearly every one is
a purchaser o f the product to tide over
the winter months.
Fair to Gat New Buildings.
Astoria — A t the meeting o f the
board o f directors o f the Lower Co­
lumbia Fair association, the bid o f
Fred E lliott & Son. o f Gearhart, for
the erection o f four o f the exhibit
buildings was accepted and President
G. L. Rees was authorized to enter
into a contract with them at once. The
buildings are to be completed by Sep­
tember 1. Mr. Rees was also appoint­
ed to arrange for the clearing o f the
grounds.
Road Builders at Ontario.
Ontario — Forty-nine cars loaded
with railroad construction material
have arrived here. In the lot were 17
cars o f steel. Nearly every train ar­
rivin g brings laborers contracted for
the grade work.
Bridge carpenters
also have arrived. A track foreman,
who has been laying track on the Ida­
ho Northern branch, is here and it is
understood the construction train will
follow in a few days'when the work of
laying the steel will begin.
' ‘ Business Form” is Lost.
Oregon C ity— The business form of
government proposed for Oregon City
in place o f the present councilmanic
form, was voted down at a special
election by a vote o f 342 to 66. Like­
wise the proposed bond issue to the
amount o f $17,000 to erect a munici­
pal elevator to take the place o f the
long stairsteps leading up to the resi­
dence section, was voted down by 222
to 175.
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Tillamook Factory Sits ¡Sought.
Tillamook— A site is being selected
here for the location o f a factory to
manufacture milk products, including
condensed whipped cream, cream of
rice, ready-prepared cocoa and choco­
late and other products requiring the
use o f large quantities o f milk. It is
proposed to expend $100,000 on a
plant, which will be opened some time
in the fall.
Hawley Secures New Route.
Salem— A fte r repeatedly having the
proposal to establish rural route No. 7
from Oregon City rejected. Represent­
ative Hawley
continued to collect
facts and arguments from the people
living along the Willam ette river on
the Clackamas county side, opposite
the town o f Willamette, and has at
last secured a favorable decision from
the department permitting the desired
service.