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Merchant* Throughout Country Find Qood Times Prevail. New York, 8ept. 3.— Remarkable for their optimism are the replies from more than 3,000 retail merchants, job bers and bankers regarding the business outlook of tbe country, which are print ed today in the Dry Goods Economist They show that there is no evidecce cf basinets depression, that on the whole the retailers are purchasing as heavily as they did last year, and that all are looking for a continuation of proeperity. There is not the slightest evidence of the pessimism that Iras pervaded W all street. Where there la a trade depres sion, it is due to loeel conditions, as, for instance, in Ban Franciaco, where on account of the labcr troubles, the merchants have not purchased as heav ily as heretofore, in other places the merchants for the most part state that It Is became prices are so high that they look for a lower level and are pur chasing for the immediate demand only. Five questions were asked by the Economist of its subscribers in making the canvass of the business conditions. They are: “ What are the crop conditions of your section? "H o w are the farmers fixed finan ACADA NEWS OFTHE WEEK l i i Condensed Form tor Onr B uy Readers. A RMUtnt o f tho L e t* Importent but N ot L e t* Interetting Evam l o f the Rett Week. Traffic on Texas roads It tied np by without*. The Japanese authorities are exclud ing Chinese coolies. A Franco-Canadlan reciprocity treaty has been almost concluded. Begging letter* are making life mis erable for Mr. Bussell Sage. President Roosevelt w ill aim next blow at the lumber trust. his Two men were killed at Denver In an auto race during Labor day celebra tion. China has ordeted Japanese troops to withdraw from the Northerly part of Corea. Republican leaders prefer not to tin ker with the tariff until after the 1908 cially? “ Is labor well employed or otherwise eleotion. Striking telegraph operators in Chi in yonr city and vicinity? “ Do you observe any condition which cago have a plan which they think is aure to win the tight for them. would cause you seriously to apprehend One and a third fare is announced any decline from present prosperity? “ Have you bought as freely as last over the railroads to the next session of the Trans-Mississippi congress which year st this tim e?" In classifying the replies, the states meets at Muskogee, 1. T ., November 24. and territories were placed in five The Courier-Journal building la great divisions. In all of these on the Louisville, K y., has been destroyed by whole the prospects for good crops are Are. bright and, where the crops are lighter Several railroads in the West are said than heretofore, the higher prices more to be violating the Elkins law by giving than compensate. In all sections there appears to be a scarcity of available rebates. labor, while unusually high prices are Roosevelt has given up the idea of being paid. Joint statehood between Arixona and “ AH ’* w ell,” is the summary which New Mexico. the Economist makes of the situation A Kansas City striking telegraph op in the entire country. erator has been fined $500 for assault ing a man he mistook for a strikebreak NEW ELE CTR IC POWER. er. A rumor has been circulated that Italian Inventor Promises to Rsvolu Roosevelt has purchased the New York tlonize the World. Tribune, but the story lacks confirma New York, Sept. 3.— Confident that tion. he ia tbe discoverer of an electrical de Taooma commercial bodies are busy with an nddeavor to have the Atlantic vise that is to revolutionise the world fleet of battleships visit that city while Industrially and economically, Raffle in the Pacific. Bovs, an electrical engimer, has come France will demand of Morooco ex from Carincia, Italy, for the purpose of penses for the present m ilitary and na- demonstrating before America's beet ▼al action. She will he supported by experts what his invention w ill do. Oermany and Great Britain. It consists of a small battery and A number of telegraph operators have transforming apparatus, which, he returned to their places in Bt. Louis packing houses. They will receive the says, w ill run the laigest dynamos old scale pending an adjustment of the without the uso of steam or other en Strike. ergy. He says it may be applied to A Chicago labor leader is accused of locomotives, steamships, lighting and grafting. heating plants or anything where elec Central Americans welcome Rooae- trical energy is employed. He calls velt and Diet as peacemakers. hia invention the "auto vibro electrics The government may ask for a receiv sorgente.” In a statement he says: ership for the Harriman roads. “ In building a fire one first must A railroad is projected from the have a match. I have discovered the northern part of Nebraska to the gulf. match of electricity, and with it start the fire that continues to burn. In Senator Warren, of Wyoming, says other words, with a auletance that may the W est wants to renominate Roose bo obtained anywhere for a few cents I velt. originate the force that seta the dynamo A ll railroads In the Northwest are in motion and continues it in action. granting a nine-hour day in machine I am not relying upon theory, but have made many teats in Italy through shops. which I increased the ordinary force A greater rush of homeseekers to the manifold without the aid of steam or Northwest is predicted for September any other power except what I obtained than ever before. from my small lottery. I am using Elevator companies In Minnesota the electricity which exists in all of owned by farmers are to be merged for nature’s elements and which has hith mutual protection. erto been wasted." Tho government w ill need 125,000 tons of coal to carry the battleship fleet into Pacific waters. Prince W ilhelm , heir to the 8wedish throne, is thoroughly enjoying his visit to the United States. The kaiser it anxious to have his only daughter wed Prince Leopold, son of Prinoe Henry, of Battenberg. Portland commercial bodies and the Oregon representatives in congress are working to have the battleship fleet visit Portland. The new sultan of Morocco ia mak ing many changes in his foreign minis ters. A Urge number of prisoners have also been liberated. Los Angeles counci Imen are consider ing a measure which would provide against the invasion cf Indigent tuber cular patients shipped from outside points in hopeless condition. Nelson Marrlt, millionaire packer of Chicago, la dead. Four girls were burned to death In a Are at Oklahoma City. The Moor* have again attacked French, but were defeated. the Costa Rica has established a quaran tine against all vessels from Cuban ports. Mulay H tflg It leading a greet army of M oon against the French. Cannon says that he it not a candi date for preeldent; that he has more important work to do. Many battleships of the Atlantic fleet caanot enter Puget Bound because the water la too deep to anchor in. In an address i t Los Angeles K. Ishii, of the Japanese foreign office, aald talk of war between Japan and the United State* is ridiculous. The Welle-Fargo Express company is moving into its new 12-etory building at Portland. Them ia no sign of yielding In tbe telegraphers' strike. Reports say many of the strike breakers are a boot to desert and oin the men already out. A German has perfected a new air ship which gives good sucoasa. Venesoela Is defiant against America and Roosevelt may call on congress to aet. An American judge in China takes Chinamen'• word extinct that of Amer- JA PA N W IL L N O T FIG H T. O R T IM IS M PRC D O M IN ATE S. The Estacada News Mooney i* Reinstated. Bin Franciaco, Sept. 3.— One of the first acta of the Taylor Ixiard of police commi-aioners was to reinstate Captain of Police Mooney. Captain Mooney was dismissed by the Bchmitr hoard for criticising the method of ex-Chief Di- nan and the then board of commission ers. Mr. Mooney addressed his com pany on the necessity for greater alert ness in the suppression of vice. He warned tbe men that the friendship of chief of police and police commission ers would not save those that he found derelict in any matter of duty. Only a One-Man Panic. New York. Sept. 3.— John D. Rocke feller a short time sgo predicted a financial crash, but his prophecy at tracted but little notice in W all street. There has been a crash, however, and John D. la the principal sufferer. For the first time In many years Btandard Oil sold today below a railroad stork. Btandard Oil was quoted on the curb at $445 to $450, while Delaware, A Lacka wanna A Western railway was posted at $460. In 1905, Delaware, Lacka wanna A Western was listed at $498 while Btandard OH was selling at $703. Leader o f Mutiny Hanged. Odessa, Sept. 3.— Matushenko, the Russian noncommissioned officer who led the mutiny on the hottlsehlp Knias Potemkin and commanded the vessel in the sensational cruise ahont the Black ses in the summer of 1906, was hanged last night at Bevastopol. After abandoning the vessel he fled to New York, worked there two years Inen iron foundry, became homesick, returned here, was detected, arrested, rourtroar- tialed and sentenced to death. Great Church in Danger. London, Sept. 3.— The committee of architects appointed to inquire Into St. Paul’s cathedral haa issued a report which declare* that, while the cathed ral is in no Immediate danger, elaborate ir era ut ions are neceesary to preaerve it rom disaster. f Cholera Slaying Chinea» Shanghai, Sept. 3 — The epidemic of cholera among Chinese in lower Yang- Tee porta ia spreading. About 200 persona died In the atreeta of Cuba, In the province of Ngan-Hwei and Kio- Kiang, province of Kiangsl. OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST BIG C R O P IN LANE. T O PROM OTE DAIRY IN D U S T R Y Fruits o f All Kind* Promise Well— Special Interest In Mild Production Hop Outlook Bright. Evldsncod on Coos Bay. Marshfield— The chamber of com Eugene — Report* from over tbe county give a much letter account of merce of Marshfield will on September the grain crop than the estimate given 10 and 11 hold a big meeting for the some time ago. On the whole, the advancement of the dairy and horticul tural interests of Coos county. Those crop w ill be above the average. The work in tbe hop yards has com who have accepted invittations to de liver addresses on this occasion are menced and the yield w ill be good. I f President J. W . Kerr. Professor 0. I. pickers can be secured to get in the Lewis and Dr. James Withycombe, of hops during the good weather a splen the State Agricultural college at Cor did showing w ill be made— a full aver vallis; Mrs. Waldo, State Grange lec turer, of Portland, and William Bchul- age crop of splendid quality, with less merick, of Washington county. They had effect from lice than usual. w ill talk on dairying and horticulture, In potatoes and late vegteables the and Dr. Kerr w ill also speak on some yield will be large. The recent rain educational theme. I t is expected that was worth hundreds of dollars to pota Congressman W . C. Hawley will also to raisers, who w ill get a bumper crop be present on this occasion. and a good price for it. There has been a lively lntereet in Grapes will be better this year than the dairy and creamery business in Coos for many seasons. There aie not many county since State Food and Dairy In vineyards here, but those who have spector Bailey's recent visit here. He careiully looked after this fruit have pronounced Coos county an ideal place found it a most satisfactory crop to for the dairying business and expressed raise. Peachee are a good orop; the the belief of possibilities of great in same is true of pears, but the apple crease in that line. Addresses to the crop is a little light. resident of the rural district were made The question of help to do the har by Mr. Bailey and he appointed Mr. vesting may lessen the profit of the j Yoakum, owner of a dairy farm, to act farmer of Lane county, but nothing else as deputy dairy inspector for the threatens his return this year. The county. whole county Is experiencing a prosper | Apple culture is also receiving more ity it has never before known, and the attention than formerly. P. Duffy, an merchant who ia watching the condi ' apple buyer, of Sydney, Australia, is tions is looking toward the largest and 'on Coos Bay looking over the orchards. best trade from the farmer in the his He has bought for shipment all of the tory of the county. Gravenstein apples procurable and the fact that outside buyers are coming in to this territory has given new interest W H A T ONE RAILRO AD EARNS. to the culture of apples. Salem, Fall* City & Western Makes Danger in Using Stamping Machines Report to State Com m lition. Albany— By a most peculiar injury Salem— The Salem, Falls City A to his hand, growing from continued Western railroad, owning a railroad use of a stamping machine, County from Falls City to Dallas and operating Recorder Grant Frohman has been confined to his home for more than a trains on the Southern Pacific lines week and w ill not be able to use his from Dallas to Newberg, is the first hand for some time. He was indexing railroad to file an annual report, as re- instruments and using a stamp, the quired by law. Its report shows a paid ' handle of which he struck with the capital stock of $100,000 and a funded ^palm of his right hand, for several days debt of $17,000. The road and equii- twoweeksago. Though t he work caused ment cost $306,808.80, or an average no pain, the palm of the hand suddenly of $23,600 per mile. The gross earn-1 grow very sore and hia entire hand inga for the year were $74,844.75, and swelled up. II has already been neces- the operating expenses $47,612.14, sary to lance the hand three times, leaving net earnings from operation Local physicians have characterised tbe $26,872.61. From this is deducted injury as catarrh of the hand. .$7,633.53, paiil as interest and taxes leaving a net income of $19,239.08. Change o f Hatchery Sits No dividend was paid, but a deficit of Roseburg— T. H . H ill, deputy state over $3,000 from previous year’s opera fish wardden, who personally superin tion was paid and the remainder car tends the salmon -hatchery on the ried as a surplus. North Umpqua river above Glide, was in this city last week and took out a Lively Bidding for Land. brand new outfit for the hatchery, Salem — Indications are that there which he has moved from several miles will be lively bidding for the 10,000 above Glide down to within four miles acres of lieu land which the state land of Glide on the north fork of the limp- board has advertised for sale to the 1 qua. He has three men besides him- highest bidder. Sealed bids w ill be 1 self employed at the new hatchery and received up to September 8. The lands ' with new equipment and being closer were selected about 10 years ago by to town, they expect to do much better State Land Agent T . W. Davenport, work, and have Ireen withheld from Bale un til this time. The lands are located Appsal to Rtats Com m lition. in various parte of the state and are be- Salem— The Jacobson A DeHaven lieved to be of considerable value. The company, of McMinnville, has filed Many with the Oregon Railroad commission a minimum price is $5 an acre inquiries have been reeeived. complaint alleging that the company had a carload of sulphur shipped from C art Still Scarce. Albany on August 16, and so far have Eugene— The scarcity of cars on the been unable to get delivery of the same. Southern Pacific company’s lines for After spending $1 telephoning, the learned that --------- the car --- was ...... still lumber shipments at*II continues in this p company ,™ .r —v ------ -- ------ vicinity, sni\ some of the mills are cloe- in Albany on the date of complaint, ing down for an indefinite period. The ■ August 24. The railroad commission big m ill of the Booth-Kelly company at w ill investigate. Wendling closed down last week and Beat Quality Ever Produced. Geo. H. Kelly, general manager of the W allowa— The wheat crop in this company, says the m ill at Saginaw will The be closed on October 1. The mills at valley is just being threshed. 8pringlleld and Coburg are now running ' quality is the best ever produced here, a day thift, and will probably continue and the yield is the largest for several years, being from 30 to 60 bushels per 1n operation deepite the car shortage. acre for fall sown whdfft and from 25 to 35 bushels per acre for spring_sown First Brick Kdn In C oes Bay. Marshfield— J. W . Utter, formerly of i w*'e*t. The barley and oat crope are Idaho, has just completed the firs t, A” 0''6 ihe average in quality and brick plant of any sixe on Cooe bay. It is located on Isthmus inlet, one of the tributary rivers, and a kiln of 75,000 brick has been completed for the mar ket. This is the first really successful attempt at brick making in the vicinity of Coos bay and that the material can he produced here at a reasonable cost promises to revolutionise the building, as brick shipped here sell at a practi cally prohibitive price. y leld- P O R I LAND M A R K E TS Wheat — (New crop) — Clnb, 82c; bluestem, 83c; Valley, 80c; red, 79c. Oats— (N ew crop) No. 1 white, $23.50; gray, $23. Barley— (N ew crop)— Feed, $22.50® 23 per ton; brewing, $24(5)24.60; roll ed, $24.50@26. Corn— Whole, $28 per ton; cracked, $29. Reduction is Appreciated. Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17® Eugene— The recent action of the Southern Pacific in lowering the ship 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $11; ping rates on fruit in and out of Eu- , $19® 20; clover, $11; cheat, gene is generally appreciated here. The grain hay, $11®12; alfalfa, $12®I3. change not only lienefits the canning I Butter— Fancy creamery, 32)*®36c and packing company, but Indirectly per pound. the man engaged in raising any kind of 1 Poultry— Average old hena, 13c per fruit. Heretofore the cannery haa lim- pound; mixed chickens, 12c; tpring ited its entput to certain varieties of chicken», 13c; old rooaten, 899c; fruit that would also be in demand on dressed chickens, 16®17c; turkeys, the market. Since the change of rates live, 16®10c; geese, live, 8910c; the cannery wanta all kinds of fruit. .ducks, 10c. ----------- | Eggs— Fresh ranch, candled, 26®27c Will Rebuild Shipyard*. P *r doxen. Bandon-The Price shipyards, which I V eal-D reesed e * # « * c p w ponnd. were destroyed several weeks ago b y 1 P ork -B lo ck , 75 to 160 pounds, 8® fire, are in the course of reconstruction, 8 t»c ; packers, 7t%98c Fruits— Apples, $ 1® 1.75 per box; and will be within the city lim it! In crate; atead of two miles up the river as for cantal rupee, 75c® $1.50 per merly. The new location ia adjoining peachee, 40985c per crate; blackber the Ccdy mills, which are nearly com ries, 4®5c per pound; prunes, 50®76c watermelons, l® | t$ c pleted and which w ill have a daily out par crate; r pound; plums, 26®75o per put of 100 000 feet of lumber, thereby x; pears, 76c ®$1.25 per box; making ship Umber available at little grapes, 75c®$1.60 par box. cost. Vegetables— Turnips, $1.75 per sack; carrots, $2 per sack; beets, $2 per Mck; Eugene Immigration Scheme. asparagus, 10 per pound; beans, 3 9 Eugene— At a banquet given by the 6c; cabbage, 2.t{; celery, $1.26 per Eugene real estate brokers it was decid doten; corn, 25935c per doaen; on- ed to keep a man In Portland during cumbers, 10916c per doaen; lettnoe, September and October to divert East head, 25c per iloaen; onions, 15®20c ern emigrants to Eugene and Lane per doaen; peas, 4®6c per pound; ronnty. Support was pledget) from the pumpkins, l ) * 9 2 r per pound; rad Merchants' Protective association and ishes, 20c per doaen; rhabarb, 3V^o the Commercial club. Two hundred per ponnd; squash, 60o®$l per crate; dollar* a month has been subscribed for tomatoes, 40950c per orate; sweet po that purpose. tatoes, 4c per pound. Onions— $2.259 2.50 per hundred. Supreme Court Rule* Published. Potatoes— New, $1®1.25 per hun Salem— The new n le s of the Supreme dred. court have been published In pamphlet Hope— 4®6c per pound, according to form and Clerk J. C. Moreland ha* quality. sent a large number of them to lawyer* Wool— Eastern Oregon, average beet, in various parts of the state. I f any 16®22c per pound according to shrink lawyers who desire copies have been age; valley, 20®22c, according te flne- overlooked, they w ill be (applied upon nsas; mohair, choice, application to Mr. Moreland. pound. C Luka Wright Says Bhs Has No Monay lo r Gigantic War. Seattle, Wash,. Aug. 30.— Luke E. Wright, ex-ambassador to Japan and prior to that governor of the Philip pines. returned to this country today on the steamer Minnesota. Speaking of Japanese condition*, Mr. Wright said: “ There will be no war between this country and Japan. In the first place I do not believe that Japan ia able financially to wage such s war as a con flict with America would invelve. Be sides, it is a fact that the Japanese gov ernment is sincerely in favor of peace and w ill bend every effort to keep the relations between the two governments amicable. “ I hope nothing w ill happen that would induce this government to con sider giving up possession of the Ph ilip pines. W e muBt retain thoae islands and develop them as they are capable of being developed. Furthermore, we need them to strengthen onr trade rela tions with the Orient.” IT O 'S REFORM P L A N . Would Get Greater Revenue From Corea Out o f Land. Tokio, Aug. 29.— Au important state council which was to have been held today has been postponed until Friday, owing to the fact that toms of the min isters and elder statesmen from out of town have been detained on account of the recent flood and consequent damages to the railways. The council has been specially called to consider Marquis Ito's plan of Corean policy, necessitated by the new relations established by the last convention between Corea and Japan. The details of Marquis Ito’ s planB are unknown, but the fundamental points are believed to consist in effecting a thorough reform in the land system, which ig now in a chaotic condition, and also the establishing of a new sys tem of judiciary and police on the Jap anese plan. Theee measures will naturally be considerable of a drain on the Japanese treasury. It is thought that Marquis Ito plans to ask an extra annual outlay of a little over 1,000,000 yeD for a period of five years. 8carsd Foreigners Flee. Pittsburg, Aug. 30. — W ith their houses slipping and creaking and win dows breaking, several hundred for eigners have deserted their homes at Port Vue, a suburb, fearing death in a landslide which threatens to bury Scott street and 25 dwellings. The tronble is caused by the digging of a new rail road cut 100 yard? below. The earth between the cut and the hillside where the houses stand is underlaid by a aoft shale soapstone, and the whole rnase is slowly moving towards the cat. The past 24 hours 100 yards of Scott street dropped 30 feet below its original level. BRIDGE COLLAPSES Scores of Workmen Thrown Into Sf. Lawrence River. DEATHS IEACH AT LEAST SIXTY Structure Near Quebec W at Mila and H alf Long, and H alf o f It Fall Without Warning. Quebec, Aug. 31.— A section of the new bridge across tbe Bt. Lawrence river, five miles below this oily, col lapsed late yesterday, carrying scorea of bridge workmen and mechanic* into the water. I t is estimated that the loea of life U at least 60, and may exceed that number by 20. The bridge was about a mile and half long and half of it, from the south shore to midstresjn, crumpled up and dropped into the water. Ninety men were at work on this section of tbe structure,'and the whistle had blown ai 5:30 for tliem to quit work for the day, when there came a sudden grinding sound from tire bridge midstream. The men turned to see what had hap pened, and an instant later the cry went up: “ The bridge is falling.” The men made a rush shoreward, but the diatanoe was too great for them to escape. The falling section of the bridge dragged others after it. The snapping girders and cables boomed like a crash of artillery. Terror lent fleetness to the feet cf the frightened workmen as they sped shoreward, bat only a few of them reached safety before the lost piece of iron work on the south shore was dragged into the river. Near tire shore the wreckage of the bridge did not go below the surface cf tbe water and eight workmen who re mained above water were rescued and taken to the hospital at Levis. The steamer Glenmont had just cleared the bridge when the first sec tion fe ll. The water thrown up by the debris came clear over the bridge of the steamer. The captain at once ordered out all the small boats. They plied backward and forward for half an hoar, but there was no sign of life. The Quebec bridge was begun abont seven years ago, and was to have been finished in 1909. Subsidies hod been granted by the Federal and Provincial governments and the city of Quebec, and the estimated cost for work was $10,000,000. The Phoenlxville Bridge company, of Pennsylvania, had the contract for the construction of the bridge. S T R A W C O M P A N Y FORM ED. Anarchy Rules French Navy. Paris, Aug. 30.— A full report of the senatorial commission on the explosion March 12 at Toulon, which destroyed the battleship lena, just published, charges that the disaster is directly traceable to irresponsibility, general indifference and lack of harmoy pre vailing in the navy. The report de mands the inauguration cf several re forms, and says that the var lous branch es of the naval service are divided by jealousy and there is no superior au thority. Kach branch works apart, re sulting in a state of anarchy. Want American Education. Seattle, Wash., Aug. 30.— Tsctai Wan, a mandarin of the second rank, came to Seattle today on the H ill liner Minnesota in charge of a party of ten young men and six young women, pick ed by the Chinese government for edu cation in this country. The girls will be taken by the mandarin to Wellesley for a five year course of training and the young men are to enter Yale and Columbia universities. Some w ill be graduated as engineers and the others given a preliminary training for diplo matic missions. 8trict Patrol on Straits Port Townsend, Wash., Aug. 30.— Day and night patrol of the Straits of Juan de Fuca was Instituted today, to preclude the possibility of any vessel running past a strict quarantine recent ly declared against San Francisco as a result of the discovery of bubonic lagne. The day patrol w ill be done y the quarantine launch Cascade, while the night work w ill be done by the revenue cutter Areata. The quar antine embraces inspection of passen gers and the crews of steamers and fu migation of sail packets. S Criticise th* President. Boston, Aug. 3 0 — The 100th anni versary of the abolition of the slave trade was observed by representative colored citisens of the country who were attending the annual meeting of the Nicaragua Movement society. A t the evening meeting an address was adopted calling upon colored voter* to oppose any candidate for president endorsed by Roosevelt. The address severely criti cised the president and the governor of Georgia. Oppose Anti-Japanese Agitation. Boston, Aug. 30.— Tbe Boston cham ber of commerce today adopted resolu tions deprecating agitation as tending to call forth all feelings between the United States and Japan. It declared opposition to any legialation intended to discriminate against Japan or her citisens. __________________ Will Trap Hostile M oors. Casa Blanca, Aug.30.— General Drnde has decided to dtsparh a portion of the French force five miles south to endeav or tojtrap the Moors. Tbe preliminary trials of 50 prisoners charged with as sassination, pillage and connivance with hostile Moors has begun. Sultan May Ba Kilted. London, Aug. 30.— The Tangier cor respondent of the Tribune telegraph* under reserve that there is a rnroor that Saltan Abdnl Axis has been assassinat ed in th* palace at Fee. Maxagen Acclaims N ew Sultan. Tangier, A a* 30.— It is announced that the sultan’a brother has been ac claimed sultan by the entire population of “ EVIDENCE PILES UP. San Francisco Superv'sort Bribed by Telephone Company. Ban Francieco, Aug. 28.— Secretary Treasurer F. W. Katou, of the Pacific State* Telephone A Telegraph oomptny, wo* called to the stand yesterday by tiie prosecution in the case of the Gloia bribery trial. He testified again to the drawing by him of abont $50,000 worth of check* in Febtuary of 190tt for which no voucher* were turned in. 11* did not know who ordered tbe check* drawn or who signed them. The re- coid* thereof were destroyed in the fire. Cashier W illiam J. Kennedy was called. He testified to the drawing of $10,000 and $5,000 check* in February, and told of the subsequent return to the company of $7,000 or $7,600 in- ferentially comprising the bribe mon eys telurned by several supervisors on demand of Halsey, after the granting of the Home Telephone company’s fran chise application, according to tbe claim of the prosecution. Mr. Heney introduced memoranda from five local banka showing the with drawal of approximately $50,000 In February, corresponding to the total amounf alleged to have been paid to the supervisors at that time. Thomas E. Bherwin, formerly traveling auditor e f the telephone company, testified to a similar $50,000 entry on the books of the corporation, which he was auditing when they were destroyed in the file. JUDGES FOR HAGUE C O Û R T . United Steta» Proposes the Allotment Among Nations. The Hague, Aug. 28.— The United States delegation announces its willing ness for all countries on the American continent, including the United State», to have four judges of the new Interna tional court appointed for the 21 coun tries of this continent, on the under standing that th ii reduces the number of judges to 16. It is understood that the Americans hepe Asia w ill be allot ted two judges and Eurone nine. The examining committee has com pleted the first reading of the revised version of th* American permanent tri bunal 'proposition. Mr. Choate ex plained some doubtful jurisdictional point*. The Mexican delegation an nounced that it opposed the court be cause it ia impossible to secure equality for all countries in the appointment of judges. Ruy Barboso, of Braxil, made a long speech in which he protested against tbe appointment of judges as projected in the American proposition. He in sisted that this question must be settled in a manner which fully recognised the equality of the powers. The meeting was then adjourned until September 2. T R E E LE S S IN TEN YE A R S. Secretary Wilton Predicts Future Un less Forests A re Saved. Chicago, Aug. 28.— Secretary of Agri Organized by Pacific States Concern culture James WilBCn, who was In Chi cago today on his way to Washington to Keep Out Rivsl. after inspecting the government foreet San Francisco, Aug. 30.— The task of preeervee in the West, declared that if showing that the Pacific States Tele better care, more general propagation phone A Telegraph company in 1905 and a fostering of conditions are not ob sought to prevent the entrance into served, the forests of the country w ill Oakland of the Home Telephone com practically be wiped out in ten years. pany by organising a "straw ” Home “ Forest fires,” he said, “ should be Telephone company and obtaining for guarded against, and for that prelection it a franchise was resumed at the con the government haa employed thous tinuation of the Glass bribery trial ands of men to watch for fires. A per yesterday. W illiam A . Beasly, an at son can ride for miles through Michi torney of San Jose, testified that he gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota and see had bid in the franchise and famished barren sections where formerly grew a surety kond of $2,500 to the Oakland great pine forests. Fires have wiped council, and then had signed and de out millions and millions of dollars' livered through H alley all of his stock worth of the beet of hardwood. holdings In the “ straw” company to “ President Roosevelt has done mnch E. J. Zimmer who at that time was for the preservation of the forests. He auditor of the Pacific States Telephone has added more than 150,000,000 acres A Telegraph company. Subsequently to the forestry reserves and would have the scheme was abandoned and Zimmer made more had not the last congress went to tbe clerk of the Oakland coun cut him down. He appreciates more cil and oauaed the franchise to he for than many private citisens the great feited and the bond released. He re worth of our forests. The East is de ceived for his services $100 a month pendent entirely upon our Western for and about $11,000 for expenses. ests for its best timber.” Del mas elictod from the witness the statement that the legal papers con Bomb Bent to Cortelyou. nected with the attempts of the tele Philadelphia,, Aug. 28.— The ex phono company to suppress opposition plosion of what appears to have been e had been prepared by the legal depart large perension cap in a package ad ment of the company presided over by dressed to the secretary of the treaeury, Mr. Pillsbnry, who on the stand swore George Cortelyou, created excitement that this work hod been solely under in Nlcetown, a substation of the Phila the direction of Glass. delphia postoffice, today. The box, which was collected from a box in the Ona Trust 8eeks Peace. northern section of the city, was re Dallas, Tex., Aug. 31.— A new turn ceived by Mr. Roberts, a clerk, who was taken today in the onti-trnst suit says It was four inches long by two of the state of Texas against the Inter inches wide. W hat was inside the national Harvester company of Amer package, aside from the explosive, the ica for $1,000,000 penalties and to officials w ill not say. drive the company oat of Texas. E f forts were began to settle the case out Drowned by Wholesale, of conrt, and indications, it is said, are Tokio, Aug. 28.— Reports from the that the efforts w ill succeed. The terms inundated district continue to come in, of the agreement, if on* has been made, bringing with them the saddest picture have not been made pnblic. The at of houses washed away and the drown torneys on both sides have been in con ing of old and young. One village in ference today at Houston and something the Y&manashi prefecture was buried may develop. under mud and at least 500 were drown ed in that vicinity. In some pieces N ew Cell fo r Arbitration. it is difficult to obtain food. When Balt Lake City, Augaat 31. — The full reports are received it is expected Commercial clnb of Balt Lake City to that the loss of life will prove to be very day paseed end through its committee heavy. The supply of fish and vegeta on arbitration telegraphed to Preaident bles for the Tokio markets has been in- Roosevelt, the presidents of both the terruppted since Sunday. big telegraph companies, the president of the Commercial Telegraphers’ nnlon Ha* Columbia Nam* Plate. and over 50 commercial clnbs In various San Francieco, Aug. 28.— After loos P»rte of the country a resolution urging ing for weeks over m'les end mils* of that the differences between the com water, the shattered name plate of the panies and their striking operators be ill-fated Columbia has been picked np submitted to arbitration. The good on the ocean shore by the wife of an old offices of the local commercial clnb to sailor who cruised In the wrecked ves this end were tendered. sel when she was one ol a proud flee! on the Atlantic coast. It was Mrs. A l Say Strikebreakers Desert. Gibson whe recovered the broken name New York, Aug. 31.— In e circular plate c( the Columbia. Mr. and Mrs. sent out today by the officer* of the tel Gibson live at Edgemar on the ocean egraphers' union it was declared that shore near Mussel rock. the stiiker* would ignore any suggee- tion of a compromise end stand im Big Fire In Frisco. movable on all demandt. It wee also Ban Pranciscc, Aug. 28.— The book asserted that many strikebreakers had and printing establishment of John B. left the companies end wholesale de McNteholl, at 615 Ban so me street, woe sertions sre alleged to have taken place totally destroyed by fire lost night. The from the working foreet In the offices (Irma of Bacigalnpl Rossi A Co. and yesterday. The pnblic wot asked to use Main A Winchester, adjoining on Ban- mailt instead of the wire*. seme street, also suffered severely, as did Greenwood, Heiee A Co. and H. Enjoins New Rate* to Créa merit Rothenberg, on the Washington street Chicago. Ang. 31__ Judge Kohle side. The total lose Is eatmiated at In the Federal court, an complaint $60,000. 14 creamery concerns of th* Mid West, temporarily enjoined 14 W Européens Laava Capital. ern railroads and firs express comp Fex, Moroceo, Aug. 28.— Tbe Earo- >«* from establishing, Beptamber pean reaidenta of Fex, excepting th* new rate* tor transporting milk i Germant, left hâte yesterday for El batter. Aroiah. They were eacorted by troops.