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SOME LOCAL RESULTS OF CELIERÀ TUNG THE FOURTH.
T R A D E O F U N IT E D S T A T E S .
Foreign Com m erce is Greatest With
European Countries.
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W ashington, June 26.— A n analysis
of tbe foreign commerce of th e United
States, contained
NEWS OF THE WEEK
I l I CnfcDStd t a n lor Our
B u y Readers.
A R m u m o f th* L m i Important but
Not Lasa Intaroating Evanta
o f tha Past W eek.
Jamaa Wlckersham w ill
pointed judge in Alaska.
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Tha Bosalan government la (earful of
an nprating in iba army.
A plot to kill tba king and qaean of
Italy baa baan discovered.
Bockafallar’a monay baa been refused
by tba National Juvenile Improvement
association.
Governor Chamberlain baa declared
all laws ratified by tbe June election to
ba in effect.
Barrator Tillman declares that Stand
ard O il interests have been at work on
tba rate bill.
Ban Francisco earthquake sufferers
complain bitterly of tbe sale ot flour by
General Qraely.
The trial of George Mitchell for tbe
killing of “ Holy Roller” Creffield has
commenced at Seattle.
Prseldent Booeevelt has signed a bill
autboriling St. Louis to erect and
maintain a bridge across tbe Miseissip-
pi at that city.
in a bu lletin issued
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by tbe department of Commerce and
Labor, says that in the fiscal year
1906, 48 per cent of tbe imports into
tbe United Statee was drawn from Eu
rope, 20 per cent from North Am erica,
13 per cent from South Am erica, 14 per
cent from A sia.
Of tbe exports from
tbe United States in the rame year, 67
per cent went to Europe, 17 per cent
to North Am erica, 4 per cent to South
Am erica, 8 per cent to Asia, 2 per cent
to Oceanica and 1 per cent to Africa.
A comparison with th e figures for
earlier years shows a gradual decline
in the share o f our imports supplied by
Europe and in tbe share Europe takes
of our expots. T h is is due largely to
the enlargement of our trade w ith the
O rient.
Im ports from Europe have grown
from $384,000,000 in 1896 to $641,-
000,000 in 1906; from North A m er
ica, $134 000,000 in 1896 to $227,000,-
000 in 1906; from S iuth Am erica, from
$112,000,000 to $161,000,000, but the
bulletin adds that in 1906 they w ill fall
about $14,000,000 below those of 1906,
chiefly on account o f a reduction o f the
quantity of coffee and In dia rubber im
ported. From Asia the imports have
grown from $78,000,000 to $163,000,-
000 in 1906.
Exports to Europe have grown from
$628.000,000 in 1896 to $1,021,000,000
in 1905; to North Am ercia, from $108,-
600,000 to $260.500 000;
to Ssutb
America, from $33,000,000 to $60 000,-
000, and to Asia from $17,330.000 to
$128,600,000.
The Osrcaa revolt is spreading.
Japan pleas te moaopoluee tbe trade
o l the Orient.
A number of Bosnian newspapers
hare bean suppressed far printing news
Of the Blalyoloh mesas ere.
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Track Cast Into Swam p.
Salt Lake, June IA .— A rang of 100
men in the em ploy of the Oregon Short
Line picked 60 feet o f R io Grande
Western track at 3:30 this morning
and threw it into a swamp.
Ignoring
a deputy sheriff who attem pied to serve
a w rit o f injunction from the District
court, the men put down Short Line
•teel and ran a train of flat cars on
the new track. T h e contested tig h t of
Cardón Farmera Ptaaaed.
way is in the northern part o f the city
Garitón— The fine weather of the peet
and gives access to a factory.
lew da y* has startad tbe farmera to
baytng. The prospecte are good fot an
G ovam or Harrte IN.
abandant yield.
Clover and veteh are
Chicago, June 16 — A special to the eepecially good, and it la espertad that
Record-Harald from Cleveland eaya: the yield will be tb* heaviest la jeera.
Governor Andrew L Harri*, of Ohio, Iu * i*w oealltlea tb * wbeat was dem-
i* ill at bi* home In Eaton, Prahl* aged bv tb* aphle, but generaUy the
county. H * le snffering from exhau*- crop 1* good. Fall oats wer* demaged
tion and acut* Indigestion and lt 1* slightly by tb* coid lata rain*, hat
douhtfnl If ha will b* abl* to retnra to spring oate aro fino, and tb* yield wtll
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IM P O R T E D Y E L L O W FE V E R .
Insurance companies have refused to
Rebels Gaining Ground.
pay a dollar of ineuranceat Santa Koea,
M exico C ity, June 26.— Several trav
California, claiming the earthquake
ruined tbe city.
The state insurance elers from Salva lor arrived here to
night. They report that th e Guate
commissions bas pledged bis support.
malan ports o f Chaminperico and San
A grand jury at Portland bas indict Jove are w ell fortified and provided
ed I t men for connection with frauds with the best a rtille ry .
They state
in tbe recent state election.
More in that the revolution has by no means
dictments will probably be made.
ended, and that the revolutionary lead
T be peasant revolt Is growing in ers are popular in Guatemala. T h e de
feat suffered at Manguay by th e revolu
Southern Russia.
tionists bas not discouraged them .
It
English woman suffragists have been has brought about reorganisation of
arrested for rioting.
their forews and they have received ad
Bryan says bis kind of conservatism ditional a rtillery.
were be preeident would be to destroy
Secret Convent Found.
tbe trusts utterly.
M exico C ity, June 26.— A building
T be psssage of the lock canal bill by
the senate la considered a personal vic on Moscas -treet bas been raided and
discovered to he a convent existin g in
tory for Bocsevelt.
violation o f the laws o f reform .
Tbe
Idaho Is asking or information re place had many cells, a chapel, a re
garding tbe insurance companies which fectory, and other features of convent
refuse to pay their San Francisco losses life. The inmates wore the garb of
Carmelites with face veils.
I.egal pro
in full.
ceeding* w ill be taken against tb e nuns
Fresh mutinies have occurred in sev
in the court o f the First d istrict. It !•
eral big Russian garrisons.
long since a convent has been discover
A bulletin just issued by the census ed and raided here.
P eligiou e order*
bureau shows that there are 83 manu engaged in teaching and works o f chari
facturing concerns in Alaska with a ty have not been interefered w ith .
capitalisation of $10,000,000.
T be United Statee baa e lower death
rate than any country in Europe except
Norway and Swsden, according to a
bulletin issued by the Census bureau.
Oeasumptiou is far in tbe lead as the
cause of death, but this disease has
ffiiswu a decrees» of nearly 40 per cent
hi the p a il six yean
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M A R IN E S ARE R E A D Y .
A t a meeting of tbe board of super
Single C ase Is R ep orted at M issis
visors of Ban Francirco city and county
sippi Quarantine.
tbe tax levy was fixed at $1.322 per
New Orleans, June 26.— One case of
$100. Tbe new levy is 16 cents and 2
yellow fever was reported today at the
m ills higher than last year
Mississippi river quarantine station, 95
K ing Haakon and Queen Maud have
miles below New Orleans. T his Is the
been formally crowned as rulers cf
first case of yellow fever reported in
Norway.
Louisiana this year by the state board
T be Busaian douma blames the gov of health.
T h e patient is a Cuban
ernment for tbe recent massacres and sailor who arrived at quarantine June
sails on the cabinet to resign.
18 on the steamer Holstein from H a
Experiments ars being conducted In vana. T h e Hulstein is still detained at
Kansas to aseertain the result of meat quarantine, having been disinfected.
No other cases of elevated temperature
preservatives. Dogs are tbe subjects.
have yet appeared on tb e Holstein.
General Greely says at least 60,000
Dr. 0 . H . Iron , president of the state
people In Ban Francisco are still de board o f health, said to the inspecting
pendent on tbe supply camps for food.
party that he does not b elieve yellow
Formal announcement has been made fever is epidem ic in New Orleans or in
T h e existence o f yellow
by Attorney General Moody that he Louisiana.
w ill prosecute tbe Standard Oil for ac fever at R io Janeiro and also of two
cases of bubonic plague at that port
cepting rebates.
were reported to the state board by off)
T be
Transcontinental
Insurance
cers of the steamer Sallust, arrivin g
company is reported to have only assets
here today.
T h e Sallauat was disin
sufficient to pay 10 per cent of its San
fected at quarantine.
Francisco losses.
Los Angeles physicians have just re
moved tbe heart of a man and after
washing It replseed tbe organ. Tbs
patient’s chances of recovery are good.
In an accident tbe prong of a wooden
rake pierced the man’s breast, carrying
la dirt which lodged on the heart.
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T be secretary of the interior rejected May Be Called U pon to Q u e ll In cip
the bids recently opened in P n t'sn d
ient Revolution at Panama.
for cement for tbe Um atilla and Okan
Panama, June 26.— T b e adm inistra
ogan irrigation projects. T b e price was
tion of President Am ador has been per
too high.
petuated as the rresult of the elections
Five Ice men at Toledo, Ohio, have here today, but tb e conditions are now
been found guilty of com bining for the such on the isthmus that were it not
purpose of raising tbe price of ice and for the presence here of a large body of
sentenced to one year in tbe workhouse American marines, w ell armed and
and to pay a fine of $6,000.
equipped, and several ga tlin g guns
General Greely bae reorganised tbe mounted along tbe canal strip, a revo
lution would already be in progress. As
relief work in San Francisco.
matters stand there is a feeling of sul
T b e friendship of Bustle and Great len discontent among the more progres
Britain bas been cooled by the Jewish sive of the Inhabitants o f the Panama
maaeacres.
republic, which may yet break out in
The sultan of Morocco has signed tbe open revolution.
Threats of assassination are freely
treaty promulgated by the Algeclrae
made and it is openly asserted by ’.he
convention.
Liberals that Dr. Am ador w ill hardly
Political signs in tbe East point to live much longer.
Booeevelt as the candidate to run
T oday’ s election, w h ile
on ly for
against Bryan.
members of tbe M unicipal council, was
Cross Creek, a small Pennsylvania admitted to be a test, and upon its out
town, baa been wiped out by fire come depended the result of the gene
ral elections to be held later.
caused by an electric storm.
I t is rumored that a large number
The strike of bituminous cost miners
of Guatemalans are on the way here for
in Michigan bas been endedfby tbe men
the purpose of aid in g in an attem pt to
accepting tbe 1003 wage scale.
overthrow the Am ador adm inistration.
T b e preeident w ill likely visit tbe Color is lent to this report by tbe pres
canal sone next fall and see for himself ence on the outskirts of the city of a
the progress being made on tbe canal.
detachment of 300 Am erican marines
Canada proposes laws which will stop with gatling guns. They were sent by
Governor Magoon, who has so far de
business of every kind on Sunday, even
railway trains. No games or perform clined to explain th eir pretence.
ances w ill be allowed where an admis
sion is charged.
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STAR 8P A N G LE D
BANNER.
O say, can you see, by tbe dawn's early
light.
What so proudly we ball’d at the tw i
light’s last gleaming—
Whose broad stripes and bright stars,
through the clouds of the night,
At the ramperts we watched were so gal
lantly streaming!
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs burst
ing In air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag
was still there ;
O ! say, does that star-spangled banner yet
O'er the land o f the free, and the home of
the brave?
On that shore dimly seen through the mlsta
of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host In dread si
lence reposes,
What la that which the breeze, o’er the
towering steep,
As It fitfully blows, now conceals, now
discloses?
Now It catches the gleam o f the morning s
first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the
stream ;
’Tia the star-spangled banner; O long may
lt wara
O'er the land o f the free, and the home of
the b ra ve!
And where la that band who so vauntingly
swore
That the havoc o f war and the battle’s
confusion
A home and a country should leave us no
more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul
footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and
slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of
the g r a v e ;
And the star-spangled banner In triumph
doth wave
O’er the land o f the free, and the home of
the brave.
his little master said, and now and then
when W illie would give bis head an extra
hard pat by way of emphasis Nero would
bark and set his tail going harder than
ever. That tall always wagged when
Nero waa pleased.
Sometimes W illie’s
mother would allow the dog to come Into
the sitting room, but one day the tail
knocked a handsome vase off of the ta
ble and broke it, and after thar Nero had
to lie down very quietly if h i got into
the house.
Two days before the Fourth W illie
bought his fireworks; there were five
packages of firecrackers and five of tor
pedoes, four rockets, four Roman candles,
two wheels and a long piece of punk.
Nero went with W illie to the «tore to buy
them, but he had to wait outride while
W illie went In, and so as soon as they
reached home W illie opened the package
and showed Nero everything It contained.
“ Now, we’ll fire off a few crackers,”
said W illie to Nero, “ but we’ll have to
save the mogrt of them till the Fourth,
b’cause us boys are going to have our
crackers an’ torpedoes together
Won’t
we have a fine time, marching to the
commons, with our drums beating and
horns blowing and flags flyin g!
But
there’s one trouble about you, Nero, an’
that Is, you can’ t march with us. b’cause
the boys decided that nobody can march
without they have one of our flags, an’
there’s just ten flags an’ ten boys. I ’m
to give out the flags an’ if there was any
boy that was sick you could have his
place, If you could only wave a flag.”
Nero dropped his head and looked very
sad. W illie thought It w as because Nero
and then turned a double sometaault, and
came up shouting, “ Hurrah! hurrah l You
shall march with us. I know 1 can do
it
At last the Fourth came, end at 10
o’clock all the boys except Ed were gath
ered in W illie’s yard and W illie was talk
ing to them.
“ Now, boys,” he was saying, “ you left
it to me to put some one In Bid’s place,
an’ I have selected some one that you
all know an’ like. He has his share of
crackers an’ will wave his flag fine. W ill
you promise to give him a rousing wel
come when he comes, so’s he won’t feel
hurt at being asked to march with us at
the last minute?”
They all promised, and then while they
were asking who it was Willie ran Into
the house. A few moments lacer he came
out, and who should come trotting by hia
side but Nero, carrying in his mouth the
handle of a basket that was Ailed with
firecrackers and wagging his tall, to which
was tied a little flag, pole and all 1
The boys all gave a great shout when
they saw Nero, and then they formed in
double column and started for the com
mons, Nero walking by W illie’s side, the
proudest dog that ever waved a Fourth of
July flag.
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P a r lo r
F lr e v r o r lt a .
Among the newest fireworks are the
parlor variety, which a child oaD handle
with safety and which can be set off in
the house without danger of fire. This
pattern includes diamond
raiD sticks,
roman candles and cartwheels. The Are
and sparks from these designs are harm-
O ! thus be lt ever, when freemen shall
stand
Between their loved homes and the war’s
desolation !
Blest with victory and peace, may the
heav’n-rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and
preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause lt
Is Just,
And this be our motto— “ In God Is our
trust
And the star-spangled banner In triumph
shall wave
O’er the land of the free, and the home of
the brave.
•—Francis Scott Key.
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Californian Buy* Rogue River Farm.
S Ashland— A hit land sal* was nego
tiated in Ashland this weak when 8. G.
Simon, from Northern California, bar
gained h r tbe purrhase of a 280-acre
farm «even mile* northwest of this city,
from J. Hartley, known as tb* Jack
Anderann place and comprising one of
tb* choice farms of tb* Rogue river
valley. The eoi sideration of tb* sal*
was $22,000. M r. Simons will engage
in stork growing and fruit raising in
this valley.
W illie Perkins was 8 years old and
Nero was only 4, but when Nero walked
on all fours he was nearly as tall as
W illi«, and when he lifted Ills gieat shag
gy dogship upon his hind legs he could
lay hia forepaws on somebody’s shoul
ders, and that somebody was W illie’s
father.
Mr. Perkins called W illie and Nero
“ the chums,” and it was indeed seldom
that the two were apart, except at school
times and meal times, and when the sand
man had paid W illie a visit; even at
those times they were not far
apart.
When W illie went to school Nero trot
ted along by his side, and, like the good
fellow that he was, when they came to
the door and W illie said, “ Now, old boy,
you wait for me right here in the yard
and be sure not to frighten any of the
children as they come in. Tell me good-
by now and be a good fellow,” Nero would
wag his tail very hard, lick the hand that
had been patting his heal so lovingly all
the time W illie was talking to him, and
then. He down and watch hia master dis-
appsar through the great door of the
school house.
By and by Nero would get tired of ly
ing «till and would go for a walk around
tbs building. The aly fello w ! He well
knew that the janitor's w’ fs would have
a little heap of bones hidden off in one
corner of the yard for him, and when
he enjoyed his feast he would look up
to see her watching him from the base
ment door. Then again that great tail
would wag as If he said: “Thank you ao
much for those nice, meaty bones.” When
winter came on there was a large box that
the janitor's wife and W illie taught him
to go Into when he was cold and wanted
to lie down, and so his school day* were
not at all dreary ones.
But the happiest time for “ the chums”
was when W illie put his hooks away for
the long summer vacation and he and
Nero had the whole day 'ogether. Even
when W illie had cut the kindHng It waa
Nero who carried lt to the house In a
basket held tightly by hia stiong teeth,
while W illie carried a bucketful of coal.
By and by W illie began to ted Nero
• f a great day that waa coming, when all
the bays would hare firecrackers and Ro
wan candles and torpedoes, and there
would he flags flying and bands playing
tad everybody would have a goad time.
Mara always listened ta every ward that
was so badly disappoints*!, but perhaps it less and may be permitted to fall upon
was because the faithful fellow saw that the flimsiest kind of material without lg-
his friend was troubled.
As they sat nit'ng It. In the larger designs for out
there, Nero looking so sad and Willie door use the newest is the Gatling can
with his elbows resting on his knees and dle, which consists of a bundle o f roman
his chin buried in ms hands, they heard candles arranged around a centerpiece
some one whistle and, looking up, saw like # gatling gun. The effect ia very
Tom Evans coming toward them.
pretty.
“ Heard the news?” Tom asied.
A n O v e rs ig h t.
“ No.
What is It?” answered Willie,
“ Drat the luck !’’ exclaimed Noah, as ha
forgetting for a moment his t-ouble over
sat on tba forward dack of tho ark perus
Nero.
“ Ed Bishop's going with hie folks to ing a patent mediicne almanac
“ What’s the matter, pa?” queried Mrs.
the city for the Fourth, an’ so you’ll have
to find some one else to take his place in Noah.
“ M atter!” echoed the famous naviga
our procession.”
W illie gave Nero s quick look. “ Oh, I tor. “ Why, this is the Fourth of July,
and. shiver my timbers If I didn’ t forget
wish you had hands!”
“ Who’ll you get?” asked Tim, after to bring a pair of toy pistols on board.”
waiting a moment for W iilla to speak.
F o u rth o f J u ly P a s s io .
“ Dunno y e t; I'll have to think about
it first. See here. I ’ve got lets of things.
Twice as much as we have to hava.”
“ I should say you have! Y ui'rs lucky.
All the other boys say they had a hard
tlms to get what they had to. How’d
you manage It?”
“ I earned the money, getting coal and
kindling,” W iilla explained.
“ Well, you ought to hava the right to
give out the flags. W e’ll all meat here
at 10 sharp,” and Tom sauntered on.
Whan ha waa gone, W illie began to
talk to Nero again.
“ Now, thers it la. I have firecrackers
sn’ torpedoes enough for yon an’ me,
too, an* yon helped me earn 'em, carry
ing kindling. didn” t you?
Oh, why
haven't yon some hands ta carry a flag
w lt h r
W illis was excited now, and up jump
ed Nero, waving hie tall aa hard as ha
Find tha boy who really threw the tap
eenld. W illie looked at him tor a minute cracker*