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THE INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE, INDEPENDENCE, OREGON.
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MAIN STREET, INDEPENDENCE, ORE. .
Pearl Fisheries Opened.
San Diego, Cal. David Zarate,
mayor of Ensenda, estimates that
5000 persons, residents of Lower Cal
ifornia, will obtain employment as a
result of the reDorted revolution nf
the pearl and other fishing concessions
aiong tne Lower California and Gulf
coasts. Aureliaa Randnvnl i
of the Sandoval interests of Los An
geles, has controlled the pearl fishing
and other concessions as far south as
Magdalena. his firm havi nor fipM n
monopoly. The privilege now is open
to all Mexican- citizens.
NEW NORTHWEST
LINE BUILDING
Direct Route Los Angeles
Spokane Is Project.
to
BIG GUNS SMASH TARGETS.
Fort
Distance Only IOO Miles More Than
From 8n Francisco Offset
By Better Grades.
Log Angeles A new railroad, bind
ing the great Northwest and South
land, making possible the settlement
nd development of hundreds of thous
ands of acres heretofore far removed
from avenues of traffic, is to link Los
Angeles and Spokane. It will reduce
the distance between them several
hundred miles and bring this city
nearly aa close to Spokane as is San
Francisco.
The surveys have been completed.
and the new trans-state line will be
finished within three years, or by the
time the Panama traffic is well devel
oped.
Advices received from towns which
will be on the new line are that the
plans have so far progressed that the
actual work of construction is under
way at two points, and before long
the flirt will be. flying at several oth
en.
The new railroad is a Dart of the
Harriman system, and in working out
the right of way, several hundred
miles of existing line are to be used,
plus approximately 50 miles of con
struction flung across rugged moun
tains and about 150 miles of narrow
gauge reconstructed to meet the new
requirements.
The distance from Los Angeles to
Spokane over the shortest existing
line is 1550 miles. By way of the
new road it will be reduced to about
1176 miles. It is now 1075 miles from
San Francisco - to Spokane, and this
light difference in favor of San Fran
cisco will be more than offset by the
elimination or material reduction of
many heavy grades.
UNPRECEDENTED RAINS
RUIN FRUIT AND HOPS
San Francisco For the first time in
25 years, this early in September, rain
fell Friday and Saturday. Up to noon
nearly half an inch was the record
established for the two days.
From the great interior valleys of
the state come wails from orchard-
is to, vineyardists and hopgrowers that
the greater part of their crops have
been ruined. A report from Fresno
says that from one-half to two-thirds
of the entire table and shipping grape
crops have been ruined by the rains,
Hundreds of carloads of drying fruit
spread on racks in orchards could not
be stacked and covered in time to pre'
vent loss, the rain came so suddenly
in the middle of the night.
In the great Sonoma valley thou
sands of boppickers bave suffered
three days and nights of severe hard
ship, as they have never been asccus-
tomed to go to the fields provided
with tents or other other protection
from rain. The storm found these
thousands sleeping unprotected in the
fields. A . dispatch from Santa Rosa
reports more than 1200 acres of hops,
together with supporting poles, were
collapsed and on the ground as a re
Bult of the storm. It is feared that
when full reports from the entire state
are received the amount of damage
will reach an enormous figure.
Oil Lands Held For Navy.
Washington, D. C. Thirty-seven
thousand acres of oil lands in the Elk
hills, California, adjacent to the Mid
way and McKitrick oil fields, have
been withdrawn from entry by the
president and will be held for develop
ment and use by the United States
navy. It is the intention of the Navy
department to sink wells on this area
and use the oil on naval vessels equip
ped with oil burners. In the opinion
of many officers, the time Is coming
when oil will be universally used on
all warships. '
Mabel Kelso Loses Job.
San Francisco Miss Mabel Kelso,
who has occupied the unique position
of being; the only woman wireless
telegraph operator in service aboard a
Pacific liner, is out of a job. For the
past two months she has sat at the
key on the steamer Mariposa, which
plies between Seattle and Alaskan
points. The company for which she
worked released her recently with the
explanation that the Federal depart
ment of commerce and labor objected
to the employmet of women as wire
less operators at sea.
Stevens Sends 6-Inch Shells
Home at 6-Mile Range.
Fort Stevens The third $1800 sea-
going battleship target is a mass of
splintered wreckage as a result of the
most sensational target practice ever
held at Fort Stevens. The last target
was demolished by the Thirty-fourth
company with a six-incb shell. Im
mediately 70 men under Lieutenant
Norton, and ordnance officer, were
placed at work putting together an
other target Working for eight
hours without ceasing they accom
pi i shed what ordinarily requires fully
a week's effort.
The target, made of 10x10 timbers,
with three steel masts enmeshed in
netting, was towed out from the Co
lumbia river to sea by the steamer
Fornanca.
Getting on its course 9000 yards
from the battery, the Fornance
steamed full speed ahead with the
ocean spray dashing over the target.
The gunners sprang to their .positions,
the huge 625-pound shell was rammed
home, the breecb-block slammed shut,
the 36-ton steel barrel arose above the
cement breastworks, seemingly pois
ing itself like the striking head of a
serpent.
A minor correction by the gun-
pointer, the command to fire, and the
projectile, propelled by 175 pounds of
high explosive, was on its way toward
the target.
As it traveled through the air to
wards its ' destination, a second shell
was hurled from another rifle. The
first shell struck, scattering the wood
en framework in all directions ; almost
instantly afterward the second projec
tile buried itself amongst the tangled
wreckage of the $1800 target.
The largest British dreadnaught
planned is 700 feet long. These tar
gets are 60 feet long; therefore such
an enemy would represent a striking
place for shells 12 times the size of
the target used for representing battle
conditions.
MOTORCYCLE KILLS TWELVE
Hour
Racer Going 90 Miles an
Crashes Into Crowd.
Newark, N. J. Eddie Hash a. of
Waco, Tex., holder of several world's
records for motorcycle racing, plunged
over the rail of the course of the New
ark motordrome, into a crowd, caus
ing the death of six persons, including
himself, while six are dying and 13
are bady injured.
I be only three ol the six dead posi
tively indentified up to a late hour
were Hasha, Johnny Albright, a Den
ver motorcyclist who was riding third
in the race, and Mward t ischer, a 17
year-old boy of this city. The other
three dead were boys and young men
among the spectators. Two of the
probably fatally injured are Edward
Rolle and Frank J. Amburg, each 17
years old.
Five thousand spectators were wit
nessing the finish of a four-mile free-
for-all race when the- daring young
rider, doing 90 miles an hour, took his
fateful plunge. He was pitched head
first 50 feet into the air. His body
was shapeless when it was picked up,
almost at the feet of his wife, seated
in the bleachers.
Albright was thrown head first in
the other direction into the enclosure
of the track, when the champion's
wheel came sliding down the steep
bank and struck him. He was picked
up for dead, but be lived in an uncon
scious state more than two hours.
TIME LIMIT IS
GIVEN MADERO
Must Protect Americans and
Property or Resign.
Failure to Meet Ultimatum of United
States Will Be Followed By
Immediate Intervention.
Aviator Up 16,240 Feet.
Houlgate, France Roland G. Gar
ros, the aviator, eclipsed the old
world s record for altitude by about
2461 feet. Ascending in a mono
plane, Garros went up 16,240 feet.
At this height the rarified atmosphere
caused hia engine to stop and the av
iator had to volplane to the ground.
The previous record of 18,779 feet
was made at Vienna, June 29, by the
Austrian aviator, Czakay. In this
flight he carried a passenger.
Canadian Immigration Heavy.
Ottawa, Ont. During the four
months from April 1 to August 1,
2 09,642 immigrants arrived in Canada.
Of this number 143,742 arrived at
ocean ports and 65,900 from the Unit
ed btate8. These figures show an in
crease of 15 per cent as com Dared
with those of the correspondinElraonths
of the last fiscal year. I
Queen Is Learning Golf.
Aberdeen, Scotland Queen Mary is
learning to play golf at Balmoral in
emulation of her daughter, who has
recently been playing daily there. Her
Majesty has often expressed amaze'
ment over the infatuation for the
game by ardent golfers. At the con
clusion oi ner nrst lesson she ex
pressed the opinion that the game was
very bracing but tiring." Her
daughter, Princess Mary, is quoted as
saying of the queens playing
jwotner s driving is strong, Dut oc
casionally wide."
'Mobilization Is Indicated.
Douglas, Ariz. Movements of Mex
ican rebels below this point indicate a
mobilization. Rafael and Emilio
Campa, two rebel chiefs, have joined
their forces 20 miles south of Agua
I'rieta, the Mexican town which ad
joins Douglas. Salazar's avowed in
tention of moving west along the bor
der and attacking Cananea would in
dicate a general mobilization of all
rebel forces, numbering 1000 men,
and superior to federal commands.'
Salazar Makes Apology.
Hachita, N. M. Conferences be
tween United States army officers sta
tioned here and the Mexican rebel
leader Inez Salazar, took place on the
border about 50 miles southwest of
here. Major Sedgwick Rice rode to
the boundary to talk with the rebel
leader. Salazar apologized to the
American officers for the incident a
few days ago, when Mexican rebels of
his command crossed the line and fired
on American soldiers on patrol duty.
Morgan Would Buy Ruins.
Rome Newspapers here say that J.
P. Morgan has submitted "to the Ital
ian government a plan for completing
the excavations of Pompeii and Her
culaneum. It is said that Mr. Morgan
is willing to bear the entire cost of
uncovering Herculaneum.
Airship Falls; Four Killed.
Gray, France An aeroplane got
out of hand at an aviation meeting
here and swept to the ground, crush
ing a score of spectators, four of
whom were killed outright.
Washington, D. C President Taft
has given President Madero 30 days in
which to protect American property
and lives in Mexico. If Madero fails
to do tbis the United States will re
quire that he resign immediately. If
Madero should refuse to resign inter
vention will follow speedily.
This statement was made here
Thursday by a high official of the De
partment of State to Juan Pedro Di-
dapp, representative of the Mexican
revolution in Washington.
The name of the official is withheld,
but full credence is given the state
ment here, in view of recent events in
the Mexican situation.
Don Manuel Calero, Mexican am
bassador here, hurriedly left Washing
ton last week for Mexico City, bear
ing a personal message from President
Taft to President Madero. It is be
lieved the message he took from the
administration to Madero was of the
tenor described. Diplomats say that
Calero would not have made a person
al trip from Washington all the way
to Mexico City unless the issue was
extraordinarily urgent.
Developments this week showing
the strong exertions of the Madero
administration to get troops to North
ern Mexico to protect American in
terests, which quickly followed Cal'
ero's arrival in Mexico City, also lend
weight to the reported threat of the
United States.
Officials at the State department
were reticent when questioned con
cerning this development in the Mex
ican situation. It was intimated that
the administration intends to force
Madero to protect foreign interests in
the republic, but none would discuss
the report that this government plans
to compel the Mexican president to re
sign if he fails to get a better grasp
on affairs along the Rio Grande.
EMERGENCY VESSEL READY,
Three Troopships at Fort Mason
Have Steamed Up for Rush Trip.
San Francisco For the past few
days there has been unusual activity
on board the army transports Crook
and Buford, which, with the troopship
Sheridan, are tied up at the transport
docks at Fort Mason. There is steam
up in all three 'ships and they would
be ready for sea in an hour, should the
Mexican situation require the sending
of troops South.
While the authorities in charge of
the transports deny any authorization
to arrange for movements of troops
toward the Mexican border, the fact
remains that the transports are ready
for any emergency.
Nitrate Supply Limited.
New York There will be no ammu
nition for British guns in time of war
should Great Britain's enemy cut off
her supply of nitrates from Chile, ac
cording to a declaration made by Colo
nel Samuel Eyde, of Christiana, Nor
way, before the eighth international
chemical congress at Columbia Uni
versity "Nitrate of ammonia pro
duced from atmospherice nitrogen is
pure, and according to the experience
of the British navy has a great bear
ing upon the life of the guns, the pur
ity of the product reducing the heat."
Bombs SetlBy Black Hand.
New York "Black Hand" agents
made three attempts to blow up as
many buildings in the city Sunday,
.the tenements in which the bombs
were placed housing more than 75
families. Two of the infernal ma
chines were discovered in time to pre
vent them from exploding, while the
third shattered windows and doors on
two floors of a building in West
Thirty-fifth street in which it had
been placed. No one was injured.
Auto Freight Protested.
Washington, D. C. The existing
freight rate of $7 a hundred pounds on
automobiles, in less than carloads,
from New York and other Eastern
points to Pacific Coast terminals was
attacked before the Interstate Com
merce commission. The charge for
other self-propelling vehicles, less
than carloads, is $4.50 a hundred.
Demand is made that the roads reduce
the rate on automobiles to $4.50.
Butterfly Farm Pays.
Truckee, Cal. Miss Ximena Mc-
Glashan, of Truckee, is a butterfly
farmer and is making money at it. In
the past six weeks she has propagated
and sold 6200 mounted butterflies, for
which she received $310, or 5 cents
apiece, which amounts to more than
$50 a week.
Great French Army Out. .
Paris The most imposing and ex
tensive French army maneuvers in
years opened in Touraine and Poitu,
when 120,000 soldiers and 50 aero
planes and two dirigible balloons took
the field for a week of mimic warfare.
Horse Plague Spreading.
Council Bluffs The horse plague
has crossed the Missouri river and
several animals have died near Shan
andoah, Clarinda and Pacific Junction,
in Page and Mills counties, Iowa.