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. U The Estacada News taw w d Each T hu rsda y ESTACAD A OREGON NEWS OF THE WEEK ta i Condensed Form for Our Basy Readers. A Resume o f tho L o t* Important but Not Laaa In tara» ting Evams o f tha Past Waak. Kansas banks remain open but pay all demands by check. The Western Union has opened number of its branch officers in Cbi cago. Oklahoma has proclaimed a public holiday that runs on banks may be pre ▼anted. A tight money market has suspended work on the new Dupont Powder woiks at Tacoma. Secretary Taft has had another close call in the Philippines. This time an automobile ran away with him. Many Seattle people condemn the mayor for asking Federal aid in pre venting a spread of bubonic plague. The steamer Finland from New York for Dover, England, struck near that port and is supposed to be badly dam aged. The national president of the W . C T . U . predicts that prohibition will rule throughout the Sonth within five years. Conditions have greatly improved in New York, but throughout the Middle West there Is a stringency amounting almost to a panic. WONDERFUL CHANGE P A C K A G E S IN R U R AL M A 'L . ISSU ES P R O C L A M A T IO N . Postmastar General to Maks Recom- mendations in Report. Praaidant Sat* Apart Novambar 28 aa Day o f Thank* giving. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 29.— Post master General von L. Meyer, at a din ner at the Union League club last night, made an addrei-s in which he called attention to recommendations which he purposes making in his an nual report for the consideration of the next congress. On the question of par cels post he said: “ 1 shall recommend the same rate, 12 cents a pound, and the same limit of weight lor parcels, whether intended for points in this country or abroad, which means a reduction of four cents a pound and increase in the maximum weight to eleven pounds." Taking up the rural parcels post ques tion he said: ‘ ‘ I shall recommend a parcels post system on the rural delivery routes, a special rate to he charged on packages for delivery from the distributing offices of the rural route, or if mailed by s patron of any rural route lor delivery to a patron on the same route cr at the distributing office of said route. The rate would be five cents for the first pound and two rents for each additional pound, up to eleven pounds. This would Ire a great boon for the farmers.” Regarding postal savings banks, the postmaster general said: “ As an evidence that it is not the de sire erf the government to compete with the private savings banks in obtaining deposits of the people, 1 shall advocate a rate of interest of 2 per cent per an num, or I per cent semi-annually and a limit of $500, not more tnan $250 to be deposited in any one year. My own belief is that far from its being a detri ment to tire established banks, it would be In the end an advantage. Now, In order to get this money track into the channels of trade, I purpose to ask con gress for authority to place the Bavings in the National banks." Washington, Oct. 28.— The presi dent’s annual Thanksgiving proclama tion. issued Saturday, selecting Thurs day, November 28, for the people to as semble to pray that they may be given strength so to order their lives as to de serve a continuation of the manifold blessings of the past year, triumphant ly declares that nowhere in the world is there such an opportunity for a free people to develop to the fullest extent all powers of body, mind and character. “ During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war,” it declares. “ Our natural re sources are at least as great as those of any nation. Much has been given us Irom on high and much w ill rightly be expected of us in return. Into our care the 10 talents have been entrusted, and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them, nor yet if we tid e them in a napkin. “ W e should earnestly pray that the spirit of righteousness may grow great er in the hearts of all and that our souls may be inclined even more toward the virtues that tell of gentleness, for lov ing kindness and forebearance one with another, for without these qualities neither nation nor individual can rise to the level of greatness." D E VE LO PS A NEW GRAPE. Taft is visiting the principal towns California Scientist Believes He Has of the Philippiines. Variety 8urpossiug the Tokay. Rumor again has It that Harriman Stockton, Cel., Oct. 29.— An entirely is to be deposed as king of the rail new kind of grape is being developed at roads. the government experimental station A man has jnst been arrested in Eng near Lodi, and Professor H. C. Hus- land who threatened to kill King Ed mann is of the opinion that it will re ward. sult in a grape that will excel the Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi famous Flame Tokay, which has given aays Bryan w ill be elected our next Lodi so much fame. The new variety is somewhat similar to the Tokay in president. texture and color, but is impervious to There has been a marked slump in the rain, is much firmer and can be the consumption of liquors in Kansas shipped longer distances without dam the past year. age. It apears to be a cross between a Seattle has appealed to Governor Tokay and Farerra and is o fa n im Mead for funds with which to fight the proved Havor. f f properly developed it is expected to become a most profitable bubonic plague. M ilitia has been called ont to quell variety. Professor Hus maun is due to arrive disturbances growinsg out of the cav in Lodi this week and he intends to set strike at Yonkers, N. Y . out about 30 varieties of grapes, five Letters of the late Queen Victoria different kinds of each variety, for ex covering 24 years of her life have just perimental purposes. Already 130 va been published in book form. rleties of grapes are being grown at the The Pettibone trial for complicity in station, and it is believed that the the murder of ex-Governor Steunenberg vineyard will receive great benefits has been postponed until November 18 from the experiments being made at the station. Additional apparatus is to The North Bank railroad from Pasco be installed at the plant in the way of to Vancouver, Wash., w ill be in opera thermometers and records of tempera tlon by January 1, and the bridges tures w ill be made so as to make com across the Columbia and W illam ette by parisons with grape growing points in the middle of the summer. France, Spain, Italy and South Africa. A few more small banks in New York have closed, but the big ones stand IM PRO VE MARE ISLAND. G O VERNO R A I0 8 . R E PO R TS. Chamberlain Notifies War Department Nat Income o f Road Nearly Six Mil o f Act o f Leglislaluro. itant— Accidents o f September. Salem— Governor Chamberlain has sent letters to the secretary of war at Washington, D. C., saying: “ The legislature of this stats at its last session passed a bill appropriating $300.000 to be paid to the United Slates for the purpose of assisting the United Htates in acquiring by condem nation or construction of a boat canal and locks around the falls of the W il lamette river at Oregon City, Oregon The present and only canal and locks around these falls is owned by a pri vate corporation which has the power and does impose a tax of 50 cents per ton on every ton of freight that passes from the upper to the lower river or from the lower to the upper river. This tax as the state grows is an annually increasing burden and the people for a number of years past have been stren uously demanding government owner ship and control of the locks at the fills of the Willamette to the end t ie river may be opened to free navigation its entire length. The delegation from Oregon to the congrees of the United Htates intend to bring this matter to the attention of oongreas and urge upon that body the importance to-our people of an open waterway through the heart of the Willamette valley, and I am taking the liberty of enclosing you herewith a copy of the a it of the Ore gon legislature bearing upon the subect in order that your department may be fully advised in the premises.” Feed Cattle at Klamath. Klamath Falls— Within the last 10 lays there have been brought in over 9,000 head of beef cattle, which w ill be fed on the large feeding grounds bor dering Lost river, between Klamath Kails and Merrill. The largest buyers of alfalfa hay this year have been C Hwanston & Co., of Bacramento, Louis Gerber of this place, and the Oakland Meat company. They have bought over 6.000 tons and paid on an average $6.60 a ton. The cattle drive for the season w ill probably be nearly 20,000 head. Polk’ s Prune Crop. Dallas— From information given by prune growers in Polk county it is esti mated that the prune crop this year will aggregate 1,675,000 pounds, or a gain of 625,000 pounds over the crop of 1906. Most of the growers have disposed of their output at 5 cents a pound, which makes the total amount received for this year’s prune crop reach the hand some aggregate of $837,500. The larger portion of the prune crop of Polk coun ty is grown and dried in the immediate vicinity of Dallas, the town being sur rounded on all sides by orchards, large and small. Salem— The O. R. & N. has filed its report. It shows the following: Total cost of construction and equipment to June 30, 1907, $54,523,984.2; cost per mile, $621,295.92; grosB earnings from operation the past year, $12,942,- 816.49; operating expenses, $6,969,- 821.56; income from operation, $5,- 972,815.93; income from other sources, $1.204,362.13; total income, $7,177,- 356.25; deductioon, rents, taxes, in terest, etc., $1,883,572.04; net income, $5,793,784.20; dividend 4 per cent on preferred stock, $440,000; surplus for the yearj $636,3784.20; total surplus entry general balance sheet, $28,930,- 400.03. y The following is a summary of the results of accidents within the state for the month of Heptember prepared by the railroad commission from the re ports of the various lines: Collisions of passenger trains, 1; freight trains, estimated damage to property of the railroad companies, $5,160; killed pas songers, none, trainmen, none, other f ix e s s a il in g d a t e . employes, 5, other persons, 2; injured passengers, none, trainmen, 2, other employee, 6, other persons, 6. Total All Plans Complete fo r Fleet to Sail fo r Pacific December 10. 7 killed and 13 injured. Washington, Oct. 28. — Secretary Metcalf today announced that it was Hill Buys in Astoria. Astoria— The announcement recent definitely settled that the Atlantic fleet ly made at the annual meeting of the will leave Hampton Roads on December Union Pacific at Halt Lake that the 16 for its cruise to the Pacific coast company had purchased water frontage This announcement, followed a confer and terminals here is now supplement ence held at the W hite House, to ed by authentic infosmation that the which the president summoned Secre H ill interests have not been idle. A tary Metcalf, Rear Admiral Evans, who B. Hammond, who owns large tracts of will command the fleet on its cruise to water frontage between Warrenton and the Pacific, and Rear Admiral Brown- Fort Btevens, has stated as a positive son, chief of the bureau of navigation fact that the H ill interests purchased of the Navy department. The confer 2,200 acres in that vicinity at the time ence was called to continue more in de President H ill visited in the vicinity tail the cabinet meeting dir-cusaion of The property includes 1,800 acreB naval affairs. The discussion related owned by the Flave) land company, as particularly to details of the Atlantic well as the personal holdings of Ham fleet’s craise to the Pacific. It is understood that matters' were in mond. The purchase price is said to such shape that the president was thor be $800,000. oughly informed on all important items in the itinerary. Admiral Evans, who Much Fall Grain In Linn. Albany— W ith ideal seeding condi has been confined to his apartments on tions for the past few weeks’, Linn account of an indisposition, looked and county farmers have been planting declared himself to be much improved The bureau of insular hundreds cf acres in fall grain. From in health. present indications the acreage of fall affairs today received a cablegam from grain this year w ill far exceed that Governor General Smith, of the Philip planted last ft)II. This is due to the pines, asking that the Atlantic fleet be fact that last year continued rains permitted to visit Manila during the made the seeding season unfavorable week beginning February 10, in order while thie year a good rain came early to attend to pre-Lenten festivities. The fact that the fleet will not have to moisten the ground and since then it has been good weather for work arrived in Pacific waters by that time Rain is beginning to be needed now precludes this. Mr. Metcalf stated that the question however. of allowing newspaper correspondents to accompany the fleet was discussed Big Lumber Company Admitted. Halem— The Miami Lumber company and the conclusion reached not to allow of San Francisco has filed papeis with newspapermen aboard, but that otficers of the fleet wonld be designated to send the secretary of state for permission to such news as might be thought desir do business in this state. This is able to make public. $500,000 concern. The Oregon agent is W . L. Ducy, of Hobeonville, Tills T W O -C E N T FARE P R O FIT A B LE mook county. The Looee Card Book company, to have its place of business at Portland, was also incorporated with T w o Roada In Missouri Make Money Under New Law. a capital stock of $50,000. The incor porators are T. W . Thomas, C. H Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 28.— Having Thomas and W . B. Palmer. found the two-cent fare profitable, two of the railroads operating in Missouri have decided to give the new law an Record Price In Barley. Weston— A fecord price of $26 per other month’s trial. Herbert S. Hadley, attorney genera) ton has just been paid for barley at Weston, where a great deal of this of Missouri, said this morning that he cereal is grown, and where the acreage had Information from a reliable source is annually increasing. This was that two of the railroads operating in paid by H. A. Barns, of the Pacific Missouri had found the 2-cent fare to Coast Elevator company, who purchas be profittable. “ The auditors of two of the railroads ed 18,000 bushels from five Weston say the 2-cent rate has proved profit growers who former! a pool. able, while others take a different view of it,” said Mr. Hadley. Naw Asylum Superintendant. "T h e faci that the railroads can’ t Salem— In accordance with an un derstanding. which has existed for agree on the proposition caused them some time, the board of trustees of the to decide tc give it another month’s state insane asylum have elected Dr. R. trial before going into court again. I E. L. Steiner to succeed Dr. J. F. Cal- shall not take any further steps in the breath as superintendent of that insti matter unless the railroads make a move. I shall be satisfied if they de tution. cide to continue the 2-ceut rate indefi n itely ." P O R T L A N D M A R K E TS . Surveyors Cross Cascades. Albany— The surveying party of the Corvallis & Eastern that has been working eastward irom Detroit has come out. They have made arrange mente to crosB the mountains by the old Willamette Valley & Mountain wagon road, commonly known as the old military road, and take up the work on the opposite side of the mountains film . eastward_toward Prineville,. I t is the There have been 48 cases of bubonic Works o f Extension Planned to Cost plan to make a complete survey from plague at Han Francisco which proved Several Million Dollars. the eastern terminus of the road, at fatal. Han Francisco, Oct. 29.— Represent Detroit, across the Cascades into the An armed man held up a freight ative Joseph R. Knowland visited Mare Eastern Oregon country. train near Los Angeles and robbed the Island navy yard today and had an ex Portrait o f First President. train crew. tended conference with Commandant University of Oregon, Eugene— The The Commercial Telegraphers’ union Phelps and C ivil Flngineer Rockwell. has decided to ask terms of the tele Plans and estimates were given Know announcement has been made that the land for the improvements deBired at university will soon be presented with graph companies. Mare Island, which call fer the expend a portrait of President Johnson, the The Vancouver, B. C., city council iture of several million dollars to make first president. The Alumni associa has appealed to the government to ex this station the finest naval establish tion and Rev. Herbert Johnson, son of elude all Asiatiea. ment in the world. The spur dikes, President Johnson, will make the gift, The Japanese at Vancouver, B. C., which were designed by H. H. Rosseau, which w ill be valued at $500. R. Le- are making exorbitant claims for dam now of the Panama Canal commission, Barr Goodwin, of New York City, lias and have proved such a success in deep been engaged to make the portrait. Mr ages sustained during the riots. ening the channel to the yard, w ill be Goodwin is a portrait painter of con There are rumors that the Ute In greatly extended at a cost of several siderable renown dians on the Cheyenne river reserva hundred thousand dollars. The stone tion are about ready for an outbreak. Big Timber Deal in Clataop. quay wall, to which vessels under re Astoria— A deed has been filed for Representative Burton is likely to re pair are tied, will also l>e extended in tin ohairman of the rivers and har- about a mile southward toward the record here whereby J. L. Washburn, brrs oommittee during the next session magazine. At present the quay wall Is of St. Louis, sells a tract of 4,715 Wheat— Club, 87c; blnestem, 89c; so crowded that many of the ships acres of timber land lccated on Upper valley, 87o; red, 85c. O' congress. have to lie in midstream or at a point Young's river, about six miles from OatB — No. 1 white, $29.50; gray Thirty-three suits against the Houth- Olney, to the Youngs’ River company, $29.50. below the lighthouse. ern Pacific have been filed at the re Minnesota corporation. The consid Barley— Feed, $28.50 per ton; brew quest of the attorney general fur viola eration named ie $50,000. The tract ing, $30; rolled, $30031. Georgia N egro Lynched. tion of the 28-hour law. is heavily timbered and the price is un Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33. Macon, Ga., Oct. 29.— Passengers cn derstood to have been considerably in Kansas City is working for the Re Hay— Valley, timothy, No. 1, $170 the Central Georgia train coming from excess of the amount named. publican national convention. 18 per ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, Byron, Ua., brought an account of the $23; clover, $13; cheat, $13; grain More than 20 persons were Injured lynching of a negro named John Wilkes Umatilla Dams Kill Salmon. hsy, $13014; alfalfa, $13014 n a street car collision at Chicago. at that place laat night. The negro Pendleton— One hundred and fifty Fruits— Apples, $102.50 per box; It is said Roosevelt w ill try for robbed two small hoys of 75 cents. residents of Pendleton have signer! a cantaloupes, $1(91.60 per crate, P latt’s seat in the senate if a president When Marshal Johnson made an effort petition to the state game warden pro peaches, 60c(9$l per crate; water to arreBt him the negro attempted to testing against the dams in the Uma to his liking is elected. shoot the nttioer. Quick work prevent tilla river and the dam of the Maxwell melons, lo per pound; pears, $1@1.75 There have lieen four deaths in Be er! this. At a late hour unknown per land A Irrigation company in particu per box; grapes, 75c0$l.<5 per crate; attie In which the symptoms were very sons dragged the prisoner from the jail lar, as fatal to the salmon which are casaha, $2.25 perdosen; quinces, $10 similar to boubonic plague. and after carrying him a short distance said to tie dying by the thousands 1.25 per box; hnckleberrice, 708c per $10010.60 per the body was riddled with bullet«. It through a failure to provide proper fish pound; cranberries, barrel. Harriman may distribute the stocks was then burned upon a log fire. ladders and means of passage. of other roads held by the Union Paci Vegetables— Tnrnips, $1.25 per sack; fic among the stockholders of the latter carrots, $1.25 per rack; bests, $1.25 Selling Cattle by Thousands. Harriman an Optimist. road. _ ___ I.akeview— The last drive of ____ cattle to per sack; cabbage, l © l ) j [ c per ponnd; New York, Oct. 29.— "T h is is the the railroad lias commenced. When it canliflower, 25c0$l per dosen; celery, The trans-Atlantic liner Lusitania time for the man with a little money Is finished there w ill have been several ! P*r dosen; corn, 85c0$l per has crossed from New York to Queens to invest it in good securities. The thousand head of cattle shipped from : cucumber*, $1 per n e k ; onions, town in 4 days, 22 honrs and 46 min opportunity is fleeting and I doubt if it lak e county, brtaging into the county 1&02O-S per dosen; parsley, 20c per will ever knock at hie door again." utes. approximately $250,000. The nnusti- dosen; peppers, 8@17c per pound So said Edward H. Harriman last 10*1 per ponnd; rad 0 i* * c per A big prairie fire has swept the Sioux evening to a reporter who asked him to ally high prices paid for beef cattle pumpkins, 1 Indian reservation near Valentine, eipresa an opinion on the financial sit this year has caused an increase in the ishes, 20c per dozen ; spinach, 6c per pound; squash, 101 li c per pound;to- Neb. uation and the outlook. “ It would lie number sold. tomace, 2506FC per box selfish of me,” said the financier, “ to Run. Mill Makes Good Onions— $2.0002.25 per sack. The Alton and Burlington roads in remain silent at this time, if any word Elgin— The most successful run made tend to cut the passenger schedule from Potatoes— Delivered Portland, 8Oc0 from me would tend to aid in clearing by any sawmill in the history of Elgin $1 per hnndred; sweet potatoes, 2 l«e Chicago to Kansas City and Denver. up present conditions and in helping has just been brought to * close when per ponnd. Other roads are expected to follow suit. the anxious depositors.” Galloway Brothers finished a tun last Butter— Fancy creamery, 30035c per United Railroads employes and the ing 137 days, dnring which time they pound. Man Going Back to tha Kaya. police clashed again in Kan Francisco cut 4,300,000 feet of lumber. This is Veal— 75 to 125 pounds, 8 0 8 tic; with the reenlt that a conductor was Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 29.— It was considered exceptional for a small mill, 125 to 150, 7)%c; 150 to 200, 607c. shot and an officer beaten and three announced last night that a large ma and averaged about 31,640 feet per day. Pork— Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 8 0 arrets made. jority of the telegraphers who have been Mothers' Congrasa Delegate Wanted 8>%c; packers, 71%0 8 c . cn strike in Birmingham since Angnat Poultry — Average old hens, 12S O The panic in ttie East occasioned by Halem— A letter has been received at 11 will resume work today. They will 13c per pound; mixed chickens, 120 W all street operations is about over. the governor's office asking him to ap go bark to both tha Western Union and point a delegate to represent the state 1 2tic; spring chickens, 12012)%c; old Chicago clubs have started a war Postal companies under practically the at the Mothers’ congress to be held at roosters, 809c; dressed chicken*, 13(9 same conditions they were working un s p in e t tipping. 14c; turkeys, live, o'd, 16c; yonng, der when called out. Local managers Washington, D. C., next March. Pres 18c; geese, live, 9010c; dneka, 14c; Ex-President Hmall is continuing his of the companies state that tha man ident Roosevelt la named aa one of the pigeons, $101.50; squab«, $203. fight and may split the telegraphers' will he re employed as individuals as directors of the congrees. Eggs— Freah ranch, oandled, 27)%# anion. they apply.______ ___ Bert Will Paint Asylum. 30c per dosen. Halem—Jhe contract for painting the Hope— 1907, 7)%810 b per ponnd; In a speech at Nashville, Roosevelt Incraasa Railway Rates interior walla of the state insane asy olds, 4 <95c. dsclard he would not change his policy Mexico City, Oct. 29.— It was au- lum ha* been awarded to Charles Borl, Wool— Eastern Oregon avenge best, oa account of W all street. thoritatively stated today that a gene of Salem, at $3,388. The oontract for 16022c per ponnd, according to shrink The fight between Harriman and ral Increase in the railway rates ol the snpplying the paint was at the same age; valley, 20029c, according to fine Pish for control of the Illinois Central country would go into effect in tha time awarded to Fisher, Thoraen A Co., ness; mohair, choice, 29030a par may be settled ont of court. of Portland. naar future. ponnd. S en ator Owen fo r Suffrage. Muskogee, I . T., Oct. 28.— The ad vocates of women suffrage w ill find a powerful ally in Robert L. Owen, sen ator elect from Oklahoma. Senator Owen has long held strong ideas rela tive to the rights of women to the bal lot. Last fail when the constitutional convention was in session in Guthrie, he openly espoused the canse and as sisted in every way he could to get a favorable clause in the constitution. ColonellOwen is also a “ white ribbon- er,” ana never touches liquor in any form. Brain Wnrth Six Millions. New York, Oct. 28.— It was learned today that Morris Rosenthal, the Standard O il’ s $1,000 a day lawyer, is originator of the unique defense to bo made by the $100,000,000 corporation the government suit to dissolve it It was bis conception of the defense that caused the Standard to employ him at the unprecedented salary which began last spring. Estimating Rosen thal’s salary to represent a return of 8 per cent in property value, his friends here fignre that the actual market value of bis brain exceeds $6,000,000. Indicted fo r Grafting. Indianapolis, Oct. 28.— The Marion county grand jnry has returned indict ments against Henry Marshall, of La fayette, president of the Western Con struction company, and formerly speak er of the Indiana house of representa tive*. George W . Baxter, cashier of the company, was indicted also. The company h is ontract* with the city of Indianapolis for repairing asphalt atreeta. Harry Bmnangh, agent of the company, has been brought back. Considers Suez Routs. Rome, Oct. 28.— The United States eoninls at Naples, Palermo and Meeei- have received instruction* from Washington to ascertain what amount of ooal and provisions tbe three cities supply on abort notice. The in quiry is believed here to imply that the United State« Navy department contem plates sending part of tbe Atlantic bat tleship eqaadron to the Pacific by way of tb* Sues canal. Great Structures Stand Where Earthquake Left Waste. SAN FRANCISCO HOLDS RECORD Since the Great Fire 18 Months Ago Buildings Have Been Begun to Coat 8100,000,000. San Francisco, Oct. 28.— It ia 18 month« ago that San Franc'aco was swept by fire and earthquake. Since then she has been atUic‘«d with indus trial strife, civic corruption and bu bonic plague. It is no opportune mo ment to take stock. It does not require an optimist to write the rosy story of the revival. The facts and the figures tel) their own atory and they are here for everyone to see. Great buildings with their rigid frames lacing across the sky, commercial avenues crowded with pedestrians and a vast industrial army tell a tale that even the casual observer must note. The San Franciscan may be in trnth pardoned if he shows a disposition to place his thumbs in his vest and boast of what he has done. Bat he haen' much time for boasting. The terrible pace begun when the first frame »true ture was started lias not abated. The point has been reached where results are beginning to show, and with this has come a new zest for the vast work Since the fire buildings have been begun to cost $100,000,000— five times as much as in any similar period time before the fire. They range all the way from the small structure to skyscrapers 14 or 15 stories high, is aa though a building were began every day to coet $180,000. There is no sign of a decrease, although it is expected that there will be a natural falling off over the winter months. The remarkable feature of the matter, however, is the stability of the savings accounts. Predictions were freely made that San Francieco could be built only upon the savings of its citizens. A1 though $100,000,000 in buddings are under way or completed, the savings accounts in the local banks have shown but a small decrease and still stand at the comfortable figure of $157,000,000. I t has been pointed out that it re quired two years for Baltimore to erect buildings to cost $50,000,000 after its fire, but San Franciscc has done four times as well in six months less time Baltimcre’s achievement was comment ed upon at the time as marvelous. Burlington Is After Coal. Helena, Mont., Oct.’26— A special to the Record from Bridger says that Chief Engineer Ensign, the superin tendent of right of way of the -Burling ton, and George Crosby have arrived there and make the positive announce ment that the Burlington has accepted the survey of a proposed route from Frannie, Wyo.. to Fromherg, Mont., and that construction work will begin at once. This will give the Burling ton access to the rich coal fields of Southern Montana, as well as tapping splendid agricultural and horticul tural section. The road will follow the Clark’ s Fork river. Graftara Tell Stories. San Francisco, Oct. 26.— Ex-Super visors P. McGusing, James K elly and E. I . Walsh yesterday morning testi fied at the Tirey L. Ford bribery trial. Each retold the story of his bribery in the interest of the United Railroads trolley franchise. Their cross exam ination elicited nothing of importance Ex-8upervisora Char lea Boxton, Fred P. Nichols and C. J. Harrington also testified before the noon recess, their evidence being eubstantially the eame as was given at the former trial of Ford, k few discrepancies, however, were developed on cross examination. Chinese Attack British Tara, San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 26.— A dis patch to the Express from 8anta Crnz says: Because 200 of their countrymen were detained on board by the eanitary inspectors of this port, 400 Chinese who had just been landed made a mur derous assault last night on the English ship Woolwich and her crew. Many men were seriously injured in the affair and five may die from their wonnds. The Chinese would have ewept all be fore them but for the timely aid brought by a large force of Federal troope and gendarmes. --- --- --------------------- Cleaning Oriental Quarter. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 26.— Dr. A. S. Oliver, appointed special medical in spsetor of the city on the bnbonic plague preventative work, started ont with a force of eight snb-inspectors to clean up the Oriental district yester day. More men w ill be added to the force if the demand arises. The leading Japanese and Chineee met the board of health and gave every assurance of their support to tbe work of the board. Notices in Chinese and Japanese will he circulated explaining the measures necessary in the Oreiutal quarter. JURY IS C O M P L E T F . Second Trial o f Ford fo r Bribirg Frisco Sup rvl ora On. Hen Francisco, Oct. 23.— The jury to try ex-Attorney General Tirey L. Ford, chief counsel of the United railrcuda, accused of bribing Hupervisor Jennings J. Phillips in the sum of $4,000 to vote for the trolley franchise was completed shortly before the nocn hour yesterday. The proeecution exhausted all five of its peremptory challenges in the selec tion of the jury. The defense us d only five of lta ten. A t 2:10 p. m. Mr. Heney began hie opening address. After stating that the indictment charged Patrick Cal houn, Tirey L. Ford, Thornwell Mul- lally and W illiam M. Abbott jointly with the bricing of Hupervisor Jennings J. Phillips in the sum of $4,000 to vote in favor of the United Railroads trolley franchise, Mr. Heney sketohed in out line the facts he expects to prove in asking for a conviction of Ford. H e followed closely the lines of the open ing statement made by him to the jm y in the first trial of Ford, in which the jury disagreed. The only marked difference lay in the fact that throughout his statement yesterday Mr. Heney Intimated that he wonld prove these allegation i without the testimony of Rnef. The general belief is that Ruef is holding out for a contract with complete immunity. Notwithstanding hig submission of himself to the bribery graft prosecu tion, Mr. Heney and his associates have repeatedly declared that it is their in tention to send Ruef to jail when they are through with him. The aurpi ise of the day was the seem ing recalcitrancy of Jennings J. P h il lips, the second witness called. He declared himself unable to remember whether Hupervisor James J. Galla gher, allegedly acting in tehalf of the United Railroads and by direction of Ruef, had puid him the first half of the $4,000 bribe before or not until after the passage of the franchise; and Mr. Heney had great difficulty in getting him to admit that “ to the best of his recollection” the offer of money was made in the period that elapsed be tween its introduction and its passage. S T R IK E OVER IN N O R T H W E S T . Union Calls It O ff at Helena, Big Re lay Point. Helena, Oct. 23.— That a third great dam aeroes the Missouri river near here will be built immediately ia no longer a possibility, it is an assured fact. Ex- Governor 8. T. Hauser has just re turned from New York, and stated that the necessary $3,000,000 had been se cured before the great slump in etocka and tightening of money. The state ment is further borne out by the fact that the Capital City Power company today bought from the state of Montana ail of the remaining land which is to be flooded by the backwaters, and which lies on either side of the river. While a portion of the power gene rated will be utilized in the Butte mines and Anaconda smelter of the Amalgamated Copper company, no small amount w ill be used in the re clamation of arid lands in this immedi ate vicinity. Speaking on the subject, Governor Hauser said that the financial success of the first two dams was all the argument needed to enlist capital for the third. THIRD DAM O N M ISSO U R I. Capital Secured and Bottom Land* Bought for Undertaking. Helena, Oct. 23.— A t a meeting of the local Telegraphers’ union in this city last night the strike was formally declared off and 10 men have a9ked Manager Taylor, of the Western Union, or their old positions. Forty men walked out in this city when the strike was first inaugurated, and the firat break in the ranks came several days ago when one of the strikers atked for reinstatement and was sent to the St. Paul office. I t is believed that the action cf the local anion4iere will have the effect of breaking the backbone of the strike throughout the Northwest, as Helena, being a big relay point, is one of the moft important offices west of Chicago. Mr. Taylor believes that before to morrow night practically every operator who quit the service of the IVeetem Union here w ill ask for reinstatement. Stamping Out Plague. Seattle, Oct. 23.— Mayor Moore yes terday formally requested Governor Mead to request the surgeon general of the Public Health and Marine Hospital service to take charge of the prophy lactic measures that may be necessary to stamp out bnbonic plague in Seattle, and Governor Mead immediately wired the department at Washington. The city council has prepared an ordinance providing for a bounty on rate and the board of health has divided the city into sanitary districts for the purpose of cleaning up the city. Roosevelt I* Great Man. Nashville, Oct. 23.— President Roose velt and party arrived here yeeterday from Vicksburg. In an address the president arid th it the improvement of the Mississippi would be a benefit to all the people in the United States. Continuing he said: “ The policies of the administration will not hart busi ness. I turned on the light, bat I am not responsible for what the light has ahown. I cot ont the cancer and the [Mtient is likely to be sick for a while, Jnt if the career had not been re moved the patient wonld die.” Call Btrika O ff at Butt*. Helena, M on t. Oct. 26.— The Ana conda Telegrahera’ anion, with which Butte is affiliated, today decided to cal) the strike off and return to work to morrow. There are 16 operators in Bntte and Anaconda including the As sociated Prase operator», who have Driver Putt Up a Fight. asked for reinstatement. Tbe Western Helena, Mont., Oct. 23.— A letter Union opened its office in Great Fails today and, according to reports re from Lewiitown, Mont., saya that the ceived here tonight, Billings w il) open Musselshell stage was held up by two robbers, bat that the driver, named np tomorrow. Lannceford, pat np each a fight with one cf the robbers that the second man Strikers Go Back to Work. obliged to leave the horaee' heads Chicago, Oct. 26.— Twenty-six strik ing Western Union telegraph operators to wist his comrade in crime. W h ile reported bock for work yesterday and the fight was in progress the team ran were employed in the Western division. away, thus permitting the mails and Of tbeee 10 were employed at Helena, other matter to escape the hands of Mont., where tbe strike was called off. the robbers. Emperor I* Nearly Walt. Vienna, Oct. 26.— The physicians in attendance upon Emperor Francis Jos eph yesterday decided not to iasne any farther bulletins, as they consider that hi* convalescence Is progressing ratio- factor! ly. Emperor ie Much Improved. Vienna, Oct. 23 — Information ob tained from all sources indicate* that the condition of tbe emperor ie very much improved. Last night waa a good night for him and yesterday wag good day.