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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
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INDEPENDENCE AND
MONMOUTH RAILWAY
From Independence to Dallas
Train No. C4 leaves Independence
'aily at 6:00 a. m. and Monmouth at
6:15 a. m. and arrives at Dallas at
6:40 a. m.
Train No. 68 leaves Independence
daily at 10:50 a. m. and Monmouth at
11:05 a. m., and arrives at Dallas at
11 :30 a. m.
Train No. 70 leaves Independence
daily at 6:15 p. m. and Monmouth at
6:30 p. m., and arrives at Dallas at
6:55 p. m.
From Independence to Airlie.
Train No. 61 leaves Independence
daily at 7 :00 a. m. and Monmouth at
7:15 a. m., and arrives at Airlie at
7:50 a. m.
Train No. 73 leaves Independence
daily at 2:20 p. m. and Monmouth
2:50 p. m., and arrives at Airlie at
3 :25 p. m.
From Dalles to Independence.
Train No. 65 leaves Dallas daily at
8:30 a. m. and Monmouth at 8:55 a.
m., and arrives at Independence at
9:15 a. m
Train No. 69 leaves Dallas daily at
1 :00 p. m. and Monmouth at 1 :35 p.
m. and arrives at Independence at
1 :40 p. m. (This train connects at
Monmouth for Airlie.)
Train No. 71 leaves Dallas daily at
8 :00 p. m. and Monmouth at 8 :25 p.
m., and arrives at Independence at
8:40 p. m.
From Airlie to Independence
Train No. 62 leaves Airlie daily at
8 :15 a. m. and Monmouth at 8 :50 a.
m., and arrives at Independence at
9:10. a. m.
Train No. 72 leaves Airlie daily at
4 :05 p. m. and Monmouth at 4 :40 p.
m., and arrives at Independence at
4:50 p. m.
AUTOMOBILE TIME CARD
Leaving Independence at 7 :30 a.
m. arrives at the McNary crossing in
time to catch the east bound train.
Leaving Independence in the even
ing at 3 :30 p. m. and arriving at the
crossing in time to make connection
with trains going both ways, and re
turn at 4 :49.
Fare 50 cents for each trip.
INTERNATIONAL CORRE-
SPONDENCE SCHOOL
Scran ton, Pa.
H. V. REED, - Representative
233 Alder Street.;'
Portland, Oregon.
Will be in Independence every month.
C W. H INKLE
Funeral Director and Licensed
Embalm r.
Lady assistant if desired.
Calls attended day or night.
Independence, Oregon.
' W. R. ALLIN, D. D. S.
Dentist
Both phones.
Cooper Bldg. Independence, Oregon.
B. F. SWOPE
Attorney at Law and Notary Public
Will practice in all courts of the
State. Probate matters and collec
tions given prompt attention.
Office, Cooper Bldg.
Independence, Oregon.
THE ELDRIDGE
C. E. Van Allen, Proprietor
Large sunny rooms en suite or sin
gle. Electric lights, bath and piano.
European Plan.
248 N. Commercial St., Salem, Ore.
Cba$. IK Smiley
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Independence, Oregon
Plats and Speclficaticns Cheerful
fly Submitted.
Bell Phone. Farmer 624
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INDEPENDENCE SHOE SHOP
O. FLOYD, Prop. .
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All kinds of repairing done wltJi
neatness and dispatch.
Shop on Main Street.
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FOR
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Produce
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CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume of Important Events
Presented in Condensed Form
for Our Busy Readers.
The senate has voted for campaign
publicity and a limit on election ex
penses. A rival of Lumberman Hines says
the latter boasted that he personally
elected Senator Lorimer.
Canada is threatened with a coal fam
ine, owing to the strike of miners at
the Crows Nest collieries.
Louisiana sugar planters declare the
free importation of sugar would mean
the death of that industry in the
South.
Every boy and girl in Portland un
der 10 years of age will be given a
free auto ride by the Portland auto
club on July 26.
It is asserted that the alleged Con
troller Bay coal land scandal in Alaska
is purely a conception of two or three
professional muckrakers.
Tacoma city officers have neglected
to collect about $35,000 in city liquor
licenses, besides $3 each from the 82
drug stores who deal in ice cream, etc.
Portland citizens are prohibited
from using city water for irrigation
except for three hours each morn
ing, owing to a shortage in the sup
ply. For the week beginning Aug. 15,
New York women will abstain from
ice cream, fancy cooling drinks, roof
garden parties, etc., and turn over all
the money saved to the suffragettes of
California.
It is said the Hamburg-American
Steamship company ia negotiating for
the purchase of a large tract of land
at Portland, including 2,000 feet of
water frontage, for the purpose of es
tablishing a great trans-Pacific
steamer service.
Wholesale lumber dealers are to be
investigated by the government.
Forest fires in Northern Ontario are
reported under control, with at least
400 dead.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Track prices: Bluestem,
94(3 95c; club, 81c; Russian, 80c;
valley, 81c; 40-fold, 81c.
Millstuffs Bran, $24.50(325 per
ton; middlings, $31; shorts, $25.50
(526; rolled barley, $29(3 30.
Barley Choice feed, $25.50(326 per
ton.
Oats No. 1 white, $26(327 per ton.
Hay Timothy, new, $16(3,19; old,
$18(3,21; alfalfa, new, $12.50; clover,
new, $8.50(39; grain hay, new, $11.
Fresh fruits Cherries, 3J(39c per
pound; apricots, $1.25(31.50 per
crate; cantaloupes, $2.50 per crate;
peaches, 85c(3$1.25 per crate; water
melons,. 2S2ic per pound; plums,
$1.50 per crate; raspberries, $1(31.65
per crate; loganberries, $1(31.35 per
irate; blackcaps, $1.501.65; plums,
$1.50J(3 1.75 per box; prunes, $1.50
(3,1.75 per box; blackberries, $1.50(3;
1.65; currants, 10c per pound; goose
berries, 7c; new apples, $1.75(32 per
box.
Vegetables Asparagus, 75(3 85c
per dozen; beans, 510c per pound;
cabbage, $2(3 2.25 per hundred
weight; corn, 40(3,50c per dozen; cu
cumbers, $11.25 per box; eggplant,
15c per pound; garlic, 103,12c per
pound; lettuce, 30(3)35c per dozen;
hothouse lettuce, $1.25(3,1.75 per box;
peas, 45c per pound; peppers, 12J
(315c per pound; radishes, 12Jc per
dozen; rhubarb, 2J(3,3c per pound; to
matoes, $1.75(3 2 per box; new car
rots, $2 per sack; turnips, $2; beets,
$2.
Potatoes New Oregon, 21(3,2c per
pound; new California, 2f(3,3c.
Onions Red, $1.75; white, $2 per
hundred. .
Poultry Hens, 15(3,15Jc; springs,
18(?J20c; ducks, young, 14j(3;i5c;
geese, 11c; turkeys, 20c; dressed,
choice, 25c.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 24(3;
25c per dozen.
Butter City creamery extra, 1 and
2 pound prints, in boxes, 26c per
pound ; less than box lots, cartons and
delivery extra.
Pork Fancy 9(3, 10c per pound.
Veal Fancy, ll(3,12c per pound.
Cattle Prime hay-fed steers, $6(3,
6.25; choice, $5.75(3,6; fair to good,
$5.255.50; common, $5(3:5.25;
prime cows, $5.25(3,5.50; good to
choice, $4.75(3,5; fair, $4.50(34.75;
choice heifers, $5(35.50; choice bulls,
$4.254.75; choice light claves, $7(3j
7.50; good, $6.75(3(7; choice heavy
calves $5(35.50; choice stags, $5(3,
5.50; good, $4.75(3j5.
Hogs Choice, $7(37.25; good,
$6.70(3i7; choice to heavy, $6.35(36.50;
common, $5(5j6; stock hogs, $6.75(3;
7.50.
Sheep Choice spring lambs, $5(3 6;
choice yearlings, $3.75(3,4; good,
$3.75(5j3.75; fair, $3(33.50; choice
ewes, $2.75(33; good, $2.50(32.75;
fair, $2.25(3;2.50; good to choice
heavy wethers, $3.50(33.75; old heavy
wethers, $3(33.50; mixed lots, $4(35.
Hops 1911 contracts, 25c pound;
1910 crop, 25c; 1909 crop, 15(3jl9c;
olds, 8(3jl0c.
Wool Eastern Oregon, 916c per
pound, according to shrinkage; valley,
15(317c per pound; mohair, choice,
3637ic per pound.. i
BATTLESHIP MAINE EXPOSED.
Bottom ot Craft 'it Bent Upward
Hull Deep In Mid
Havana, July 19. The process of
removing the water surrounding the
wreck of the MaineNwas virtually
completed this afternoon, when the
water in the cofferdam was lowered,
leaving the wreck surrounded by is
lets of mud and slime. The depth at
no place ia greater than four feet.
The engineers are now confronted
with the serious problem of removing
the mud in which the remains of the
battleship are embedded from a min
imum of 37 feet to a depth that can
only be conjectured.
Although the water is now only two
feet lower than in previous pumping
operations, revelations regarding the
shattered hulk have been vastly en
larged by the outspreading of the dis
torted frames and plating, especially
in the forward seetionivhere the ex
plosion was most felt.
The structure of the bow as far aft
as frame 18 is now exposed, permit
ting an analysis of the plates, beams,
ribs, etc., and it has been shown con
clusively that they originally belonged
to the structure of the double bottom,
which is now elevated to a height of
about 40 feet above the normal posi
tion, apparently giving confirmatory
evidence of a tremendous exterior ex
plosion. To this view, however, the en
gineers decline to commit themselves,
merely admitting the identification of
parts oil the bottom of the ship.
GOLD SECRETS TOLD.
Mining Men in Big Convention at
Grants Pass.
Grants Pass, Or., July 19. This
city is filled today with mining dele
gates and representative mining men
from Northern California and South
ern Oregon counties. The largest
body of mining men that has gathered
for one purpose in years is now here
to disseminate mining knowledge and
stimulate interest through a course of
lectures that are inviting and instruc
tive. The big meeting was called to order
by O. S. Blanchard, who gave an ad
dress of welcome. It was responded
to by President Young, of the miners'
association, who presided over the
afternoon exercises. The principal
lecture work fell upon W. S. Bacon,
of Kerby; Dr. J. F. Reddy, of Med
ford; George C. Bennett, of Horn
brook, and L. D. Mahone, of Portland.
The exercises will continue tonight in
the opera house.
Hundreds of persons today passed
through the exhibit room and saw
what is probably the largest collection
of minerals ever put on display in
Oregon.
Gold and copper mining men say
that the wealth of Southern Oregon
and Northern California is here shown
for the first time, as it should have
been shown years ago.
CHOLERA HARD TO DETECT.
Disease Does Not Develop for Days,
Making Fight Difficult.
New York, July 19. How difficult
it is to exclude cholera was brought
out in testimony heard today at the
investigation of Dr. Doty's adminis
tration. Emil Lederer, in charge of
the steerage department of the Hamburg-American
line, testified that the
first case of cholera on board the
Moltke did not develop until 22 days
after the passengers had first been
quarantined in Italy.
All the immigrants at Genoa, Pa
lermo and Naples, where cholera is
now epidemic, had been held five days
in quarantine before they were em
barked and there was no sign of chol
era among them when the ship sailed.
Dr., Doty said tonight that the situ
ation in this port was encouraging and
fears of a cholera invasion are being
allayed.
Convicts Catch Convict.
Reno, Nev. When Jim Antone,
embezzler, escaped from the road gang
of convicts near Carson Wednesday
afternoon, W. A. Wilson, serving 20
years for murder, A. B. Nelson, serv
ing eight years for horse stealing, and
James Lyle, serving 10 years for man
slaughter, headed a posse and captured
him in the mountains. Antone, when
captured, was roundly abused by the
others for breaking his word not to es
cape. The convicts swore a month ago
that they would capture the next man
who escaped.
Bells Workers' Signal.
San Diego, Cal., July 19. Senor
Jose De Garcia Cruz, for 50 years
bellringer at San Juan Capistrano mis
sion, at midnight rang the bells in the
mission welcome arch at the Santa Fe
station here, thus officially opening
the ground-breaking celebration of the
Panama-California exposition. Johi
Barrett, director of the Pan-American
union, arrived in this city at noon to
day in his capacity as the personal
representative of President Taft.
Public Qrinking Cup Unlawful.
Lansing, Mich. Dr. Robert L.
Dixon, secretary of the state board of
health, has notified all railroads,
steamship lines and other companies
in Michigan which have for their
purpose the conveyance of the public,
that they must discontinue the use of
public drinking cups in their convey
ances or places of business.
New Comet Being Traced.
Chicago--Nightly observations of
the later,;, "celestial tramp," known
as Kicss' comet, are being taken at
the Yerkes observatory by Professor
Edwin B. Frost and Professor Sher
burne Burnham. The new comet was
picked up by the observatory at Wil
liams Bay, July 8.
FOREIGN TRADE
UP IN BILLIONS
Fiscal Year Just Completed
Breaks All Records.
Balance In Favor of Home Product!
$620,000,000 Half of Imports
Enter Free ot Duty,
Washington, July 17. All foreign
business records of the United States
were broken during the fiscal year
ended June 30. Figures of the bureau
of statistics issued today show that
the volume of foreign business
amounted to the enormous sum of
more than $3,500,000,000, which ex
ceeded the record year of 1907 by
more than $263,000,000.
The country's exports for the first
time cxeeded the $2,000,000,000 mark,
while the imports were second only to
last year's. The year closed with a
balance of trade of more than $520,
000,000 in favor of American business.
This is $332,000,000 more than last
year's balance, but was exceeded by
the record years of 1908 and 1901 and
1900 and 1899.
Fifty per cent of the imports enter
ed the country free of duty, being
greater than at any time in the his
tory of the trade, except in 1892-93-94,
when sugar was being imported
free under the McKinley taritf law.
The total value of merchandise en
tering free, however, was larger than
in any year heretofore.
NORTHWEST HAS HOTTEST
DAY IN PAST FOUR YEARS
Portland, July 17. Portland was not
the hottest place in the Pacific North
west yesterday, though for two hours
in the afternoon, while perspiring
folk stampeded for shade and coolness,
the thermometer stood at 97 degrees
and Brother Heals, the genial weather
man, registered the hottest consecu
tive 120 minutes since 1907. Hut
that 97 degrees ' was as the gentle
warmth of a day in spring, compared
to the heat in other towns in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho.
In 11 cities that had been heard
from last night, the thermometer
stood above 100 degrees. Eltopia, a
little water tank station in Central
Washington, near Pasco, was perhaps
the hottest place in the United States,
the mercury climbing to 110 degrees.
Following were the maximum tem
peratures Sunday in Pacific Northwest
cities: Portland 97; Albany 102;
Salem 102; Roseburg 105; The Dalles
104; Bend 98; Seattle 92; Vancouver
99; Walla Walla 108 ; Ashland 104 ;
Baker 96; Boise 98; Marshfield 70;
North Yakima 106; Tacoma 88; Gold
endale 106; Pullman 100; Lewiston
106; Eltopia 110; Spokane 99.
SHELL 400,000 YEARS OLD.
Tortoise Fossil Preserves Color
Through Ages.
Los Angeles, Cal. Throe thousand
feet above z" lev! on the slopes of
Mount Baldy, and 50 miles from the
coast in Orange county, Thomas Don
Ion picked up the perfect fossil of a
huge sea tortoise, which Hector Al
liot, curator of the Southwest mus
eum, pronounces the most important
discovery of the kind ever made in
Southern California.
Donlon has a bee ranch and was
seeking a rock to hold down the lid of
a hive when he saw the shell protrud
ing from the ground. The stone
weighs 100 pounds and shows the ex
act markings and some of the original
color on the back and yellow bottom.
The specimen is nearly 30 inches in
Alliot estimates that it is 400,000
years old, the most ancient specimen
ever picked up on the Western hemis
phere. The tortoise swam in these
seas, he says, when California and all
the territory this side of the Rocky
mountains was still a mile or two un
der water.
Madero to Disband Army
Puebla, Mex. Professing surprise
at. the many Maderistas he finds yet
bearing arms, and realizing the dan
ger of maintaining an undisciplined
army in time of peace, Francisco I.
Madero has determined upon a policy
of immediate disarmament. He said
the work of mustering out revolution
ary forces would be started at 'once
and would be prosecuted vigorously
until Mexico has but one army. It is
believed that the battle in Puebla was
started by young men of the town fir
ing on the barracks of both armies.
Wealth Due to Wife.
Cleveland, O. John D. Rockefeller
says that it was a woman, and that
woman hia wife, who made him the
richest man in the world. To her as
sistance in his financial ventures and
her good advice at crucial periods he
admits he owes his fortune. From ear
ly days, when the business had its be
ginning, she has known the details of
every transaction of the trust, Mr.
Rockefeller stated in an interview on
the subject.
Monitor Survivor Dies,
Sawtell, Cal. Michael Mooney,
said to be one of the three survivors
of the crew which manned the "Moni
tor," when it fought and vanquished
the Confederate ram "Merrimac,"
died Saturday night aged 74, at the
National Soldiers' Home. On the
anniversary of the battle, Mooney sent
a letter recalling the events of the day
to another survivor, who lives in Phil
adelphia. 1
FRANCE CEMENTS TIES.
Compliments Exchanged t Fetoi
of St. Die,
St. Die. Franco, July 18. The
Franco-American fetes in honor of
the naming of America continued to
day. Tho United States Ambassador,
Robert Bacon, and M. Lett run, the
French minister of colonies, after an
automobilo trip through the pictur
esque outskirts of the town, proceeded
to the city hull, where the muniepality
gave H banquet in honor , of the dis
tinguished gue its.
Mr. Lelirun proposed tho health of
the American ambassador, lie noko
in English, saying the French govern
ment was glad to take part in the
fetes because italTorded France an op
pounity of responding to the expre
sions of sympathy for Franco In
America, which were especially nu
merous this year, and of deducting
from this sentiment a certain guaran
tee that no material difficulty could
affect the bonds of confidence and
friendship which united tho two coun
tries. Ambassador Hacon said in reply
that his presence at the fetes us a rep
resentative of his government proved
that the United States hud forgotten
neither her baptism twr the sword
which France throw into the scale for
her independence. The celebration
closed with an aviation exhibition at
the aerodrome. Twenty thousand per
sons saw brilliant (lights by Fomincr
and Nieuport.
HUNT LOST BONANZA.
8,500 Acres Will Be Searched JCare
fully With Pick and Shovel.
Reno, Nev. With the filing, Satur
day, of papers granting a 10-year lease
from the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lum
ber company to Colonel W. S. Pros-key
and associates, covering 8,500 acres,
partly in Washoe county, is promised
the second chapter in the famous tra
dition of the hidden bonanza that for
years has been the vain hope of count
less prospectors. With the prosecu
tion of a thorough search over the
entire estate during the next ten years
is linked the extreme probability that
a mine will be found again that hus in
the past promised wonderful native
copper and gold- free gold in ore
worth $100,000 to the ton.
The mine to be sought is the old
Barclay mine that for fifty years has
been talk of miners in the West. The
tstate is a part of the Hohart estate
and the lease is the final triumph of
men who were successful with the Ilo
bart estate managers. Mining mag
nates, senators and financiers, after
years of effort, gave up before the
blunt refusal of the land owners.
Sufficient financial backing is ap
parent and already five experienced
prospectors are laying out the tract in
sections, each of which will be gone
over, literally with the point of a
pick, before the ten years of searching
are up, unless tho discovery ia made
before then.
One man knows the location of the
mine and he won't tell. It ia possible
that the same men who in the face of
a history of defeat secured the first
lease from the Hobart estate, may be
able to secure from him the map he
has jealously guarded for 40 years.
FRUIT SUPPLIES SHORT.
California Shipments Show Deficiency
of, 1160 Cars.
Sacramento, Cal. Manager Mc
Kevitt, of the California Fruit Dis
tributors, says that shipments of
fruit from this state so far this season
have been disappointingly small. On
July 14, 1910, the total shipments
amounted to 2,460 cars. On the same
day this year the total had reached
only 11982- Allowing for 100 more
cars owing to the increase of the min
imum weight per car from 24,000 to
2C.000 pounds, would give a total of
1,300 as compared with 2,460 last
year, or little more than half.
Owing to this considerable shortage
there has not been enough fruit to go
around, practically every market re
questing supplies which were impossi
ble to furnish. Aftoi this week an
increase in shipments should begin to
cut down this great difference.
Lorimer Legislator Dies.
St. Louis, Juy 18. Joseph Clark,
of.Vandalia, 111., ex-representative in
the Illinois legislature from Fayette
county, died here today in the Ite
hekah hospital, following an operation
Friday for cancer. Mr. Clark was a
Democrat. As a member of the legis
lature he cast his vote for William
Lorimer for United States senator.
It was said that when he was removed
to the hospital he had been expect
ing a summons to testify before the
senate committee in Washington in
vestigating Lorimer's election.
Spendthrift Found Dead,
Redding, Cal. The body of Jack
Conant, a prospector, whose life trag
edy is known in nearly every mining
camp and town in the West, was
found on Salt creek, near Shasta.
Conant more than 20 years ago located
the Uncle Sam gold mine in Shasta
county and sold it for $360,000. He
spent this amount at the rate of $120,
000 a year, and ever since had wand
ered about, poverty-stricken. Death
occurred at least three weeks ago.
3,500 Pesos Avert Raid,
Juarez., Mex. A raid on the cus
toms house by former insurrectos to
get money for the maintenance of the
military hospital was averted by the
receipt of 3,500 pesos telegraphed from
Mexico City. Judge Felipe Seijas,
of this city has announced his candi
dacy for governor of Chihuahua
against the present incumbent, Abra
ham Gonzales.
HUNDREDS DIE
IN FOREST FIRE
Properly Loss Reaches Millions
In Ontario, Canada.
Roads Strewn With Bodies of Thoss
Overcome by Heat "d Smoks
Miner! Trapped.
Toronto, July 13. The loss of life
In tho Porcupine district, Northern
Ontario, from yesterday's forest lire
is known to bo Hoveral hundred, and
the property loss will reach several
millions of dollars.
Only three of the 83 employes of the
West Dome mine have been accounted
for, and 200 miners, muckers, etc., in
the Dome mine have been suffocated.
Tho mines burned include tho Dome,
North Dome, Preston Fust Dome, Vi
Hnd, Foley O'Brien, Philadelphia,
United Porcupine, El Dorado Porcu
pine, Standard, Imperial, West Dome
and Success,
Among the dead are Robert E. Weiss,
manager of tho West Dome, and his
wife ami child.
The Philadelphia mine's loss In
about $50,000; United Porcupine, $20,
(100; Eldorado Porcupine, nil build
ings destroyed ; Standard, about $10,
000; Imperial, about $115,000; Suc
cess, probably destroyed; West Dome,
about $75,000.
In four short hours, beginning yes
terday noon, the fire swept from the
Standard mine to the shores of Por
cupine lake, where it destroyed South
Porcupine, I'ottsville ami part of Glen
City, as well in many small buildings
along the lake fiont.
The greatest havoc win wrought
around the main mines, notably tho
West Dome and Big Dome. There the
entrapped miners, cut off front es
cape, were forced to take to the
shafts, and, penned in by flames, per
ished. This was notably true at
Dome and West Dome.
The streets of South Porcupine are
strewn with dead persons, horses,
dogs and cattle. Along the mine
roads are the bodies of those overcome
whije trying to escape.
Along the highway between East
Dome and South Porcupine, over a
comparatively open section, were
found six charred bodies. In the
ruins of South Porcupine were found
the bodies of William Gohr and his
clerk, Captain George Runbar and
Tom Geddes.
The miners saw dense clouds of
smoke yesterday to the southwest,
where the fires were raging. They
gave little heed. A small blaze started
in good view of the Porcupine town
site, but it passed almost unnoticed
because of the recent frequency of
bush fires.
It was not until noon that the
dense smoke clouds began to roll over
the Porcupine district. Then the
miners became alarmed and camps
took on unusual activities.
Messengers were sent out and soon
returned with warnings that the fire
was traveling through the forests lit
rapid speed and was licking up many
townships.
Shortly after noon the fire had cov
ered an area of 25 miles in length and
two miles in width. In half an hour
the flames were raging on the spot.
Hundreds fled before the flames,
but dense clouds of smoke hung low
and made progress difficult. Many
fell exhausted before the fire as it
swept over Southv Porcupine. The
frame buildings burned fiercely.
Two minutes after the flames struck
tho outskirts the town was in ruins.
All who escaped made for the water
where all sorts of water craft
launches, canoes, and skiffs were
pressed into service.
Women and children' were first hur
ried into small boats and started off
for Pottsville and Golden City, where
they were temporarily safe from the
flames. Many miners Inst their lives
in efforts to save others.
Each Must Own License.
Iloquiam, Wash. If an ordinance
proposed to the city council here, and
to be introduced regularly at the next
meeting by Councilman Bridges, should
become a law, every person in Ilo
quiam who takes a drink of spiritoim
refreshments will have to own a li
cense, which he will present to the
bartender before he is served. Mr.
Bridges proposes to make it a misde
meanor for a saloonkeeper to sell
liquor to anyone, or for anyone to buy
it, who does not hold such a license.
Company Assumes Loss.
Minneapollis, Minn. According to
F. P. Wells, vice president of the com
pany, F. H. Peavey & Company will
assume the liabilities of the Peavey
Grain company, of Chicago, which
suspended operations recently when a
shortage of $1,200,000 was discovered
after the sudden death of its presi
dent, James Pettit. Mr. Wells said
that the assets of F. II. Peavey &
Company amount to two and a half
times its liabilities.
Grain" Rate is Slashed.
Seattle The Great Northern has
announced a permanent reduction in
freight tariffs on all grain shipments
from points in Central and Eastern
Washington to Puget Sound terminals.
The reduction is from a half cent to 2
cents a hundred pounds. The new
rates become effective August '15,
when the grain in Central Washing
ton will start moving.