Estacada progress., July 29, 1909, Image 2

The Estacada Progress
B T ACADA
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RESUME OF THE
WEEK S DOINGS
G eneral Review o f Im portant Hap'
penings P resen ted in a B rief and
C om prehensive M anner fo r Busy
R eaders—National, Political, His­
torical and Com m ercial.
Canada is seriously considering the
advisability of building a navy.
A general strik e is on a t Barcelona,
Spain, a g ain st the w ar in Morocco.
H aw aiian sugar planters propose to
im port R ussian laborers to displace
the Japs.
The battlesh ip Michigan, the speed­
iest of her class, will go into commis­
sion in A ugust.
ROADBED CRUM BLES.
Train G oes Into River and Six People
Killed and 36 H urt.
K ansas City, Ju ly 27.—Six lives
were lost and 36 persons were injured
three perhaps fatally, in the wreck of
W abash passenger train No. 4. when
it plunged into the Missouri riv er 30
m iles east of here.
The strain left Kansas City a t 9
o’clock Saturday night, and was due in
St. Louis ten hours later. O f the eight
cars th a t made up the train, five and
the engine are now in the river w ith
the w ater covering all of them except
one end of the lies Moines sleeper.
A deadhead I’ullman, a mailcar,
baggage car, a day coach and a sleeper
followed the engine into the stream .
The chair car and two I’ullm ans re­
mained on the track.
For days flooded w aters have been
underm ining the roadbed, which p aral­
lels the river.
Three hours before
the w reck a freig h t train of 45 loaded
cars passed the point safely. Three
hours late r No. 4 start« d across the
same b it of track and 50 fe et of the
roadbed suddenly collapsed.
The train was running 14 miles an
hour, and the forward cars telescoped,
allowing the rear cars to stop so gradu­
ally th eir occupants were hardly shaken,
The chances seem good th a t Thaw
will be declared sane and released
from the asylum.
MARK TWAIN AS PILOT.
European pressure may y e t cause
China to refuse Am ericans i share in F orm er S team boat Man Will C onver
the railw ay loan.
P resident Down M ississippi.
The a ssista n t cashier of a Tipton,
St. Louis, Mo., July 27.— When
Ind., bank, robbed it of $60,000 and 1’resident T aft takes his trip down the
le ft for parts unknown.
M ississippi river from St. Louis to New
H ubert Latham damged his airship O rleans, Mark Twain, the hum orist,
during a trial flight before attem p tin g will act as pilot on the boat carrying
the country’s chief executive.
to cross the E nglish channel,
The president’s riv er itinerary has
The B ritish cabinet has announced been completed and includes stops a t
th a t four more battleships of the Cape G irardeau, C aruthersville, in the
D readnaught type will be built.
M issouri; Cairo, III., Memphis, Tenn.,
The ex-shah of Persia has been offer­ and Vicksburg, Miss.
When a president of the United
ed an annual pension of $25,000 on con
S tates takes a river trip, Mr. Clemens
dition th a t he leave the country.
alw ays has been invited by the com­
Japan has adopted a vigorous policy
m ittee in charge to pilot the boat. The
ag ain st Corean insurgents.
usual invitation was extended to Mr.
The death roll of the recent Gulf Clemens on this occasion, and his
storm has been increased to 41.
friends, who say he has a high personal
A train struck an autom obile a t Me' regard for Mr. T aft, declare he will
nominee, Mich., killing an e n tire fam agree to pilot Mr. T a ft safely down
river.
ily of three.
NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
FROM THE STATE OF OREGON
ELECTRIC LINE ASSURED.
FINE WHEAT ON DRY LANCS.
A rticles ot Incorporation of F arm ers'
Line Filed at Pendleton.
Pendleton— A rticles of incorporation
have been filed for the F a rm ers’ R ail­
way & N avigation company, which
proposes to build and operate an elec­
trical railroad system in U m atilla
county. The first unit will be a road
between the towns of U m atilla, on the
Columbia, and Milton, in the h e art of
the fru it and g rain belt of the e ast end
of the county.
The company behind
the scheme is incorporated for $250,-
000, and it is announced th a t surveyors
are already in the field prep ired to lo­
cate the rig h t of way.
The county
court has also been asked for franchises
over ce. tain roads of the county. This
organization is the result of electric
road construction by the F a rm ers’ un
ions of the county. A com m ittee has
been in v estigating the m atter for sever
al weeks. One of the men understood
to be behind the developm ent scheme
is Dr. W. R. Campbell, one of the
prom inent w heat growers c f the coun­
ty, and sta te organizer for the F arm ­
e rs’ union. The incorporators of the
scheme a re : Charles A. Hill, R. O.
Earnh a rt, A. A. Cole.
The capital
stock of the F a rm ers’ Railroad & Nav­
igation company is divided into 2,500
shares of $100 each.
In addition to
the main line of electric road from the
Columbia to the center of the w heat
belt, articles of incorjioration also per
m it branch lines, the m aintenance of
a fleet of steam ers on the Columbia,
and construction of telegraph and tele
phone lines. T his railroad project will
be in com petition w ith one for which
articles of incoproration w here filed a
week ago by Dr. C. J . Sm ith, A. R.
T urner and Douglas Belts, and which
proposes to construct a netw ork of elec­
tric roads throughout U m atilla county,
beginning a t P ilot Rock and passing
through the new irrigation districts.
O ntario F arm ers Get Excellent Re­
sults From E xperim ents.
O n ta rio - W heat on the dry farm s
near O ntario is in excellent condition
this year and is expected to m ake a
record crop. While Malheur county
farm ers do not give much a ttention to
w heatgrow ing as a general crop, nearly
every farm er has a small field, and the
p a it few years dry farm ing has come
mure and more into favor on the
beiches, where w heat is one of the
good crops.
T his y ta r the w heat is full, healthy
and clean. Most of it will average, it
is estim ated, from 36 to 40 bushels to
the acre, and the grain stands four to
five fe e t high. On fields which have
been cultivated for the first tim e this
year it is not quite so thick as on older
fields, but the entire average is good.
There will be more w heat harvested
near O ntario this year than ever be­
fore.
2 7 5 C a rs From Rogue River.
Medford — The pear crop of the
Rogue riv er valley lo r the season of
1969 is estim ated a t 275 ears, which
will represent a value of over $300,-
000. The crop is an exceptionally
good one, and will bring the highest
prices. Very little second grade fru it
will be am ong th a t going forward.
The work of gath erin g the B a rtle tts
will s ta rt w ithin the next two weeks
Local fru it men are doing considerable
w orrying over the fa ct th a t they may
experience a car famine, such as is the
case in C alifornia a t the present tim e.
The apple crop also prom ises to be an
exceptionally heavy one.
County Must Repair B ridge.
Salem —County Judge Bushey and
Commissioner Beckwith have returned
from Stayton, where they held a con
ference w ith County Judge Duncan, of
Linn county, in regard to the capers of
the Santiam river near Stayton, which
is causing some trouble by leaving its
form er course and going around the big
bridge owned jointly by Marion and
Linn :ounties. It was decided th a t
Marion county should build a w ing
dam perhaps 260 feet long to force
the riv er back into its course under
the bridge.
Dufur H arvest Begins.
D ufur. -H arvest is now in full blast
here and the yield both in quality and
quantity is much b e tte r than was ex
pected. U ntil a week or so ago there
had been no rain here since the middle
of February. The yield of both w heat
and barley will be better than an aver­
age crop. The good yield is a ttrib u te d
to the fact th a t there have been no hot
winds to dry the ground and the
w eather has been rem arkably cool and
pleasant all spring and summer.
One man saved his life in the recent
M oors G ather In Force.
Galveston storm by using his cork legs
Madrid, July 27.—Official dispatches
to keep him afloat.
concerning the bom bardm ent yesterday
Spain is on the verge of a verolution around Melilla sta te th a t this m tasure
C h e rrie s for Chicago M arket.
because of E nglish and clerical influ­ was taken to prevent the erem y from
Union The first large consignm ent
m
assing.
The
gunboat
M
artin
Alonzo
ence over the king.
of cherries will go forward from Cove
Pinzon assisted in the bom bardm ent,
this week when the Cove M ercantile
A S eattle woman has secured a di­ a fte r which she chased, but did not
company will ship a stra ig h t car of
vorce because her husband has been catch, two steam ers suspected of c arry ­
Bings to the Chicago m arket. The
too tired to work for 12 years.
ing contraband arm s.
The bombard­
en tire car will consist of fancy packed
L ightning struck a residence a t m ent w as resumed today. The Moors
10-pound boxes, and it is figured the
Am erican Forks, U tah, four tim es are g ath e rin g in g re a t force in the Riff
cherries will bring $1.50 per box at
One woman was killed and four other region. I t is estim ated th a t they now
auction in Chicago, a t which price the
num ber 20,000, and are preparing f o ra
persons hurt.
shippers will realize $1 per box.
concentrated attack.
D uring a balloon race a t Newton,
School H eads to Meet June 28.
III., tw o of the big gas bags collided
Salary Increase in Union.
Thieves Use W ireless.
Salem — The annual convention of
2,000 feet in the air. One m an’s leg
Salem —A verage salary paid male
county
school
superintendents
has
been
Los
Angeles,
Ju
ly
27.—
When
the
w as badly crushed.
police arrested four boys, whose ages called by J . H. A ikerm an, superin­ teachers in Union county the past year
Raphael Manco, who served in the ranged from 14 to 17 years, in a de­ tendent of public instruction, to m eet was $72 a g ain st $70 the year before,
Crimean war, la te r served w ith " C h i­ serted shack, they discovered th is gang in his office Monday, June 28. Among according to th* annual report of Su­
nese” General Gordon and then saw had been operating the most modern the topics to be considered are school perintendent E. E. B ragg filed in the
service in the Civil war, is dead.
He
b u rg lars’ club” ever found in the supervision, how it may be made more office of the superintendent of public
The salary of fem ale
had lived a t Los Angeles for the past city, w ith a w ireless telegraph as one effective; school libraries, how to use instruction.
25 years.
of its features.
A rth u r Sm ith, 17 them ; annual in stitu tes, m ost im port­ teachers has increased during the same
tim e from $30 to $53.75.
P rem ier Briand has formed a new years old, appeared to be the ruling a n t subject to emphasize for all in sti­
sp irit of the gang, and he also was the tutes this y e a r; school sanitation, w hat
French cabinet.
operator of the chief wireless station. has been done, w hat should be done;
E ditor G ets No-W ork Jo b .
Roosevelt is being proposed for m ay­ Four o ther stations were operated, and school board c invention, value of, how
Salem —Colonel E. H ofer will hold
or of New York.
the gang was kept informe«l of one an­ to conduct.
his job as a m em ber of the board of
A big fo rest Are is raging in the o th er’s movements by w ireless.
regents of normal schools for six years
T urns Down Good O ffer.
m ountains near San Bernardino, Cal.
more, notw ithstanding the fa ct th a t
Trolley W reck Is Fatal.
M adras— H enry Windom, one of the | the board’s active labors are a t an end,
A cloudburst in Colorado killed two
Los
Angeles,
July
27.—One
person
progressive farm ers in the Culver Governor Benson having reappointed
persons and did much damage to prop­
was killed and several were injured, country, has recently refused an offer the Salem new spaper man to the posi-
erty.
some of them seriously, tonight, when of 90 cents per bushel for his 1909 tion he has held for several years past.
P rem ier A squith says B ritain should a heavy trolley car on the Monrovia- crop of w heat. He was tw ice offered
be warned a g ain st tariff by Am erican Los Angeles division of the Pacific th a t figure in Prineville for his entire
Pupils D ecrease in W heeler.
and German experiences.
Electric line crashed into the rear end crop this season, but refused it, as he
Salem —According to the report of
of
a
car
on
the
Pasadena
Short
Line,
on
believes
th
a
t
w
heat
will
reach
a
higher
In an autom obile race a t Grand
The figure before the season has far ad­ County School S uperintendent H. J.
Rapids, Mich., 50 miles was made in a curve near E ast Lake park.
| Simmons, both the attendance and
Short
Line
car
was
partially
telescoped.
vanced. He says th a t he does n et ex­
51 m inutes and 22 seconds.
The tw o cars were running not more pect to see w heat open th a t high, but school population of W heeler county
The attendance
The serious condition of K ing P eter than 300 yards ap art, according to the believes th a t conditions w a rran t the are on the decrease.
last year in W heeler county was 651,
of Servia is arousing anxiety. His statem en ts of passengers.
belief th a t prices will reach $1 per
this year it was 626. The population
death would cause no surprise.
bushel or b etter.
a year ago was 888, th is year 875.
B
lenot
Awakens
English,
A Vancouver, B. C., police m agis­
S
um
m
er
School
C
row
ded.
tra te fined him self $5 and costs for
London, July 27.—The London morn­
PORTLAND MARKETS.
U niversity of Oregon, E ugene—The
exceeding the speed lim it w ith his a u ­ ing new spapers publish editorials on
tomobile.
B leriot's feat. A new point brought enrollm ent in the sum m er school of the
U niversity of Oregon is more than
W heat—Bluestem , nom inal; club,
A Los Angeles judge in denying a out is its strik in g appeal to the im agi­
tw ice th a t of any previous year.
The $1.15; valley, $1.15. New crop—blue-
divorce in which the p laintiffs’ m other nation of Englishm en th a t G reat B rit­
reg
istratio
n
includes
teachers
from
all
atem,«$1.05; club, $1; Russian, 98c;
was involved said no house was big a in ’s insular strength is no longer un­
over the state, as well as a num ber of valley, 97c.
enough for a m arried couple and a challenged, th a t the aeroplane is not a
students
who
wish
to
lighten
th
e
ir
|
toy, but a possible instrum ent of w ar
Corn—Whole, $35 per to n ; cracked,
m other-in-law.
A num ber ! $36.
fare which m ust be taken into account work for the coming year.
The final count of dead in the T exas by soldiers and statesm en and th a t it of special lectures have been engaged ; O ats—No. 1 w hite, $42 per ton.
storm shows a loss of 25 lives. Com­ was the one thing needed to wake up from outside the sta te . Dr. S tu a rt, of
Hay—Tim othy, W illam ette valley,
m unication has been established w ith the E nglish people to the importance Leland Sand university, having charge $206/22 per to n ; E astern Oregon, $21
all points and the property dam age of the science of aviation.
of the departm ent of English lite ratu re. ' (if 23; mixed, $ 166/)20; alfalfa, $14.
will be over $1,060,000.
Grain bags—5 5Bc each.
Big F our C ra sh H urts 4 2 .
Honey Ready to G ather.
F ru its -C h e rrie s , 56/1 l e per pound;
Bolivia and Peru have agreed to a r­
Indianapolis, July 27.—Forty-tw o
O ntario—W. H. Pennington, the gooseberries, 6c; peaches, 75c6/$1.25
b itra te the boundary dispute instead of
persons were injured today in the honey grow er of O ntario, has com­ per box; apricots, $1.256/1.50; cur­
fighting.
wreck of a southbound Big Four pas­ menced e x tra ctin g this week the honey rants, 8c per pound; loganberries,
The Six Companies have forbid m ak­ senger tra in a t Zionsville, Ind., and all stored in his 260 beehives.
Mr. Pen­ $1.250)1.50 c ra te ; raspberries, $ 1 OT
ing San F rancisco's Chinatown a show but 76 passengers who were brought to n ington’s honey is famed all over the
1.15; black caps, $1.50; w aterm elons,
place for tourists.
hospitals in this city were able to con­ N orthw est, as he ships extensively of 80c(u$l hundred; blackberries, 96/ 10c
tinue
to
th
e
ir
destinations.
The
bag­
th a t commodity, and it is made of the [ per pound,
The Italian press is g reatly excited
~
Potatoes
— $U<t)1.75 per hundred;
by reports th a t Italian s in the South­ gage r a r and the coaches behind it left finest a lfa lfa syrup, gathered in the
the
track
while
the
train
was
running
immense fields surrounding O ntario new, 2(ii 2 *qc per pound.
ern sta te s are practically slaves.
50 m iles an hour.
L ast year Mr. Pennington shipped
V egetables—Beans, 6c; cabbage,
more than three carloads from this 1 '4)111 }»c per pound; cauliflower, $1
Spanish
troops
have
protested
N
ebraska
Pays
Notes.
ag ain st going to Morocco. T here have
place.
per dozen; lettuce, head, 25c; onions,
Omaha, N eb., July 27.—I t is evident
also been several riots among the peo­
~
~ ~
.
12 S,i(/ 15c; peas, 56i7c per pound; rad-
ple.
th at the people of N ebraska did not
Dufur Is To A dvertise.
ishes, 15c per dozen.
mind the recent panic, tor during the
D ufur The officers of the D ufur j B u tter—C ity cream ery, extras, 29c;
The Chicago health commission has year 1908 there w ere 17,990 farm Valley Developm ent league are b e g in -1 fancy outside cream ery. 27® 28c; store.
decided th a t pasteurization of milk is m ortgages paid off and cancelled, rep­ ning an advertising cam paign for
20c. B utter fa t prices average 1 '*c
ineffective and useless, if not d anger­ resenting a value of $126,377,791, and hom eseekers.
A booklet, now in the per pound under reg u lar b u tte r prices.
ous.
16,668 new farm m ortgages were re ­ hands of the p rin te r, will consist of
E g g s- Oregon ranch; candled, 27®
A U tah man has ju st com m itted sui­ corded, rep resen tin g a value of $36,- 40 pages, and will be profusely illus­ 28c per dozen.
432,657,
leaving
a
tidy
balance
of
trated by photograph» of the valley.
Poultry— Hens, 1 4 ® 1 4 ^ c ; springs,
cide a t the age of 80.
about $90,000 to the credit of the This is the first of a series of booklets. 18’.,6119c; roosters, 96) 10 c ; ducks,
property.
The steam er Verdi has sailed from
There is as good straw berry and fru it toung, 116/12c; geese, young, 9® 10c;
New York for Buenos Ayres w ith $8,-
land here as anyw here in the sta te , it turkeys, 18c; squabs, $26/2.25 per
S
peed
T
est
S
e
ts
R
ecord,
000,000 in gold, the heaviest single
is said, and th is is to be advertised.
dozen.
Philadelphia, Ju ly 27.—The b a ttle ­
shipm ent ever made to a South A m eri­
P ork—Fancy, lO f/illc per pound
C latskanie Sawmill Burns.
can port.
ship M ichigan, which returned today
Veal— E xtras, 9c per pound; ordin­
from her tria l trip , is reported to have
C latskanie- The K ratz & Anderson ary, 7618c; heavy, 7c.
Employes of the tanneries a t Keno­ broken all speed records for a vessel of shingle mill a t Hazel Grove, one and a
Hups—1909 contracts, 156il6c per
sha, W is., have gone on strik e for the battlesh ip type. The Michigan is half m iles from here, was burned to
higher wages. Trouble is feared and said to have ma«le a fraction over 19 the ground w hile the m anager and crew pound: 1908 crop, ll® 1 2 c ; 1907 crop,
sta te troops have been called out. knots an hour. Her s|«eed requirem ent were attending the Ctats'-.anie celebra­ 7c: 1906 crop, 4c.
Wool - E astern Oregon, 166/23c per
T hree men have been wounded.
was 17 ls knots.
tion. A spark from the saw dust pile, pound;
valley,
23® 25c; mohair.
which was supposed to be safely out, is choice. 246/25c.
A company is being organized to in­
T
hree
Lives
L
ost
in
Gulf.
thought to have caused the dam age.
vest $10,600,000 in steel vessels to ply
t a t t l e —S teers, top, $4.50; fa ir to
Pensacola, Fla., Ju ly 27.— W ith her The mill was constructed only last good, 46/4.25; common, $3.76® 4;
on the Lakes-to-Gulf waterw ay, which
rigging
dam
aged
and
her
sails
torn
a
l­
the prom oters consider assured.
w inter and gave employm ent to a crew cows, top, $3.50; fa ir to good. $3®
most to shreds, the fishing schorner
3.25; common to medium, $2.506/2.75;
The en tire town of Rrowndel, T ex., Minnie W. arrived today and reported of ten men.
calves, top, $56/5.50; heavy, $3.50® 4;
has been destroyed by fire.
L um ber C om pany Com plains.
the loss of three of her crew in the
hulls and stags, $2.756/3.25; common,
Colorado women will run a woman Gulf hurricane of last Wednesday, and
S alem --T he B ridai Veil Lum ber com­ $ 26 / 2 . 60 .
for congress tw o years hence.
the narrow escape of two others.
pany has complained to the sta te ra il­
Hogs - Best, $8.256/8.50 fa ir to
road commission th a t the ra te s on lum ­ good, $7.756/8; Stockers, $66/6.50;
A rgentina has dismissed the Bolivian
B lucher’s O rderly Dies.
ber on the Mount Hood railroad are too China fats, $6.76®7.
m in ister and B olivia is preparing for
Quincy, III., Ju ly 27.—John Leonsrd high. The Bridal Veil Lumber com­
Sheep—Top w ethers. $4; fa ir to
war.
Boeder, who died Saturday a t the age pany also claim s th a t the Oregon Lum good, $3.506/3.76; ewes. H e less on
The Union Pacific has sold S anta Fe of 108 years, was buried today. D u r-, ber company is owned by the railload all grades: yearlings, best, $4, fa ir to
stock to avoid trouble w ith the govern­ _ ing the b a ttle of W aterloo Roeder act and th a t th is company g ets a much good, $3.506/3.75; spring lambs, $5.25
m ent.
j ed as orderly to General Blucher.
lower ra te than o ther shippers.
® 5.35.
EQ U IPM EN T G O ES IN.
R uth O rd e rs Given for Railroad C on­
struction on D eschutes.
The Dalles, July 26.—All yesterday
four horse team s, hauling wagons piled
high w ith railw ay camp equipm ent,
have trekked out of The Dalles, bound
for the DeBchutes river. B eginning a t
7 o ’clock in the m orning it was not
until 5 in the afternoon th a t the last of
the 40 wagons shipped here by Porter
Bros., railroad contractors, who are
supposed to be working fur the Hill
railways, wended its way to the south-
easL
Indications are alm ost conclusive
th a t Porter Bros., intend to establish
not two, but five or six camps, as if
preparing to cover the entire ground of
the Oregon T runk line surveys. They
them selves did not know, was the re­
ply given by representatives of the
Oregon T runk to inquiries as to the
num ber of cam ps and places of location.
Every indication is th a t men and
equipm ent were secured hastily, and it
is believed here to be tru e th a t the
contractors only know in a general way
where the cam ps will be established.
E ither a sudden dec.sion to contest
w ith H arrim an for the traffic of Cen­
tral Oregon or the sudden acquisition
of knowledge th a t the Oregon Trunk
would be down and out very soon unless
it began construction is believed to be
the cause of the rushing of men into
the D eschutes country.
E ither alte rn a tiv e raises conjecture
as to w hether P orter Bros, are playing
a hold up gam e on H arrim an or are
backed by Jam es J. Hill or actually in­
tend to build a railroad them selves.
WAR OF RAILWAYS
ON IN DESCHUTES
Construction Work Begins on Rival
to Harriman Road.
G rading Equipm ent R ushed to The
Dalles by P o rte r B ro th ers, Build­
e rs of N orth Bank Road Hill May
Be Behind C entral O regon Line- -
Surely Is Not H arrim an,
The Dalles, Or., Ju ly 24.—Railroad
grading equipm ent, consigned to Porter
Bros., contractors, was unloaded here
today, and preparations have been made
to begin in the m orning tran sferrin g
the m aterial to S h e ra r’s bridge, on the
Deschutes river.
W ork on a railroad through the Dea
chutes canyon into C entral Oregon will
begin im m ediately, and this road will
not be H arritnan’s, according to the
contractors.
T his is regarded here as the first
move in a T itanic stru g g le betw een
H arrim an and Hill for control of the
D eschutes grade into In terio r Oregon.
Johnson P orter, m em ber of the firm
of P o rte r Bros., contractors, is in the
city and superintended the unloading
of the grading equipm ent. Mr. P o rte r
will not adm it thBt his company is
w orking for Mr. Hill, but insists he
is not in the employ of Mr. H arrim an.
Mr. P orter is the contractor m ilita n t
BLÉRIOT C R O S S E S CHANNEL.
who b u ilt the N orth Bank for Mr. Hill
in the face of H arim an's active and
French A eronaut M akes the 22 Miles
som etim es forcible opposition.
in 2 3 Minutes.
In this city the supposition is th a t
Dover, Ju ly 26.—Louis B lériot, the P o rte r Bros, are the construction
French aviator, accomplished the re­ agents of Mr. Hill.
m arkable fe a t of flying across the E ng­
lish channel S aturday in 23 m inutes.
CHICAGO GRAFT E X PO SE D .
The distance from his s ta rtin g point,
near Calais, to Dover, is about 22 Indicted Detective Collected $ 9 ,0 0 0
miles, and he therefore traveled a t the
a Month for P rotection.
ra te of nearly a mile a m inute.
Chicago,
July 24.—S tories of g ra ft,
The aviator le ft the French Bhore at
4 :30 and w ithin a few m inutes sighted astounding in e x te n t and detail and
the w hite cliffs of the E nglish coast. revealing conditions beyond belief,
He descended gracefully in the North were told to the grand jury today and
Fall meadow, behind Dover C astle, a t were followed by the im m ediate indict­
m ent of D etective S ergeant Jerem iah
4 :53 a. m.
M. B lériot looked little the worse for Griffin, of the D esplaines stre e t police
his hazardous trip , although his foot station, known as Inspector Edward
was burned by petrol. T his gave him M cCann's "m an F rid a y .”
He is charged w ith dem anding and
some trouble, and he had to be assisted
to an autom obile which was w aiting. accepting bribes from dive keepers,
He drove to the Lord W arden hospital, gam blers, cocaine sellers and disrep­
where he was greeted enthusiastically. utable women of the W est Side levee.
T here are 25 counts in the true bill
A French torpedo boat destroyer
followed the aeroplane, but so sw ift voted again st the sergeant, each se t­
was the speed of the m achine th a t the tin g forth a separate offense. Upward
destroyer was soon le ft fa r behind. of $9,000 a month w as collected by
Although the s ta r t was made in calm him from dw ellers of the under world,
w eather, the wind soon rose and a according to the indictm ent, and more
strong breeze w as blowing a t the tim e than $150,000 in all is said to have
of the descent, m aking the perform ­ been delivered to the Desplaines stre e t
police excutives.
ance all the more notew orthy.
The more sta rtlin g phase of the in­
The French torpedo boat destroyer
arrived a t Dover a t 6:50 w ith B leriot’s vestigation lies in the fa ct th a t the
trail has been rapidly followed to the
w ife and a p a rty of friends on board.
By his achievem ent Blériot wins the city hall, and it iB now said th a t Mayor
special prize of $5,000 offered by the Busse’s confidence in some of his most
tru sted advisers has been sadly be­
London Daily Mail.
trayed.
S im ilar conditions are said to e x ist
M O ORS FIG H T SPANIARDS.
in h alf a dozen o ther police precincts.
T ribesm en Put Up D esperate Fight
Against T rained S oldiers.
M alaga, Spain, Ju ly 26.—The steam ­
er Menorquin, w ith 80 wounded aboard,
arrived here today from M elilla, where
the hospitals are overcrowded.
Pas­
sengers on the steam er declare th a t the
residents of Melilla are panic-stricken,
the successes of the Moors giving rise
to the belief th a t they will swoop down
on the city itself. F rid ay ’s b a ttle was
sanguinary, there being much hand-to-
hand fighting.
The Moorish trib e s now gathered
close to General M arina’s camp are es­
tim ated a t 16,000. T heir recent losses
are said to have been nearly 1.000.
The Spanish forces lost not less than
3,000 men.
When the b a ttle became general, the
Spaniards endeavored to tra p the Moors
between two lines of fire. The trib e s­
men, however, w ere too w ary and
fought desperately.
They re tre ate d
only^when they were literally hurled
back ,at the points of Spanish bayonet.
A t dusk there was a lull in the fighting.
Victory for A m ericans.
re k in , July 21.—On account of the
failure of the negotaitions a t the re­
cent m eeting of bankers in London
and Paris, an a tte m p t is being made a t
Pekin to close quickly the Hankow
railw ay loan by increasing the am ount
bo as to give A m ericans equal p a rtici­
pation and not reduce the original allot­
m ents to the other three pow ers—G reat
B ritain, France and Germ any. This
arrangem ent w as agreed to by the
Chinese foreign hoard Saturday and
the four days’ negotiations ended w ith
the consultations of foreign bankers.
Man H igher Up Indicted.
Chicago, Ju ly 26.—Police Insp ito r
Edward C. McCann was indicted today
charged w ith m alfeasance in office in
the collection of “ protection” money
from illegal establishm ents of the W est
Side " te n d e rlo in .” McCann’s predica­
m ent was foreshadowed Saturday, when
an indictm ent was returned again st
D etective S ergeant Jerem iah Griffin,
alleged to have been the collection
agent working out of McCann’s office.
Inspector McCreann was arrested a fte r
the grand ju ry ’s action and soon a fte r
gave bonds for $220,000.
E xport A rgentina W heat.
Buenos Ayres, Ju ly 21.— D uring the
first five m onths of this year the ex­
portations of w heat amounted to 77,-
700,000 bushels.
A decree has been
published m odifying the law prohibit­
ing the im portation of c attle from cer­
tain countries, so th a t those countries
may send c attle to the exposition of
1910. The governm ent has also sent
instructions to our m inister in W ash­
ington to agree w ith the bureau of
Am erican republics on a program .
L ightnirg H itt S cientist.
C hristiana, N or., Ju ly 26.— Captain
Englestad, of the Norwegian navy, was
killed by lightning today.
He was
taking meteorological observations dur­
ing a thunder storm . Captain E ngle­
stad was to have commanded the polar
expedition ship Fram on the rom ing
Amundsen polar expedition.
JA PA N GROW S RESTIVE.
W ants Equal T ariff R ates With O th e r
Nations.
W ashington, Ju ly 24. — Jap an un-
doubteldy is becoming restive under
trade conditions imposed in her tre a ty
with the U nited S tates. T his recently
was made evident when she proposed
to th is governm ent th a t negotiations
for a new treaty be begun a t once, not­
w ithstanding the fa ct th a t the p re stn t
tre a ty does not expire for two years.
Our trade interests in Japan, however,
are not suffering and for this and other
reasons this governm ent did not see its
way clear to discuss the questions in­
volved before the expiration of our
tre a ty in 1911.
U nder the most favored nation clause
of the treaty , Japan extends to the
U nited S ta te s all the conventional
ra te s which it has granted to G reat
B ritain, Germ any and France. On the
o ther hand, none of the reduced ra te s
authorized in section 3 of the Dingley
act, which were granted by the U nited
S ta te s to certain foreign countries, are
extended to Japan.
Uniform Law s P ro p o sed .
Bellingham , July 24.—A special from
New W estm inster says:
Professor
David S ta rr Jordan and Professor Ed­
ward E. Prince, respectively Am erican
and Canadian m em bers of the jo in t
fisheries commission, are now engaged
in exam ining F ra se r fisheries. Profes­
sor Jordan said in an interview th a t
when the regulations of the commis­
sion are subm itted they will provide
for a uniform closed season in Canada
and the U nited S ta te s w aters. The
e x te n t of the closed season he would
n it sta te .
Ship Brings Gold C argo.
S eattle, July 24.—Tne steam er St.
Croix arrived from Nome today w ith
$500,000 in gold dust and bars.
On
the way down the St. Croix stopped a t
Cordova and the passengers were taken
up the Copper river on a special train
40 m iles, to the camp w here a $3,000,-
000 cantilever bridge is under construc­
tion across the river. The structure is
1,550 fe e t long and will be completed
in a year and a half. The bridge cross­
es the riv e r betw een two large glaciers,
the Miles and Childs, the la tte r having
an imm ense river frontage.
B riand Is F rench P rem ier.
P aris, Ju ly 24 — M. A ristide Briand,
a Socialist deputy, m in ister of justice
and worship, was appointed prem ier
today. M. Briand announced th a t he
would m ake few, if any, changes in
the cabinet as organized by P rem ier
Clemenceau who resigned two days
ago, a fte r being defeated in a heated
argum ent w ith M. Delcasse in the
cham ber of deputies. Form er P rem ier
Clem enceau announced today th a t he
would s ta r t next Saturday for A ustria.
Big Body o f Radium Found.
Lisbon, Ju ly 24.—An extensive vein
of radium has been discovered in
Guards, which contains 800 pounds of
radium to every ton of ore. The mine
has been acquired by an E nglish syndi­
cate.
LEAVES DEATH AND RUINS.
M eager R eports From Gulf S torm
Show G reat D estruction.
Houston, Tex., Ju ly 23.—The W est
India hurricane th a t sw ept from one
end of the Texas coast to the other
Wednesday brought death tu 12 outside
of Galveston, fatally injured four and
seriously wounded 16,
Whole towns
were devastated and the damuge will
reach to hundreds of thousands of dol­
lars.
A t Bay City half the business sec­
tion was damaged, including the opera-
house, one I an I , the court house, high
school and the city jail.
Every building in Velasco was un­
roofed or partly demolished and th at
town tonight was under four feet of
w ater. People escaped in boats on
the Colorado river, one m ile away.
Reports from the special train on
which General M anager W. G. Van
Vleck, of the Southern Pacific, left
Houston today, indicate th a t the Low­
er Coast country suffered greatly.
B ut few houses a t E agle Lake es­
caped. The same situation is reported
from LisBie, N ow atta and E ast Ber­
nard.
A t Elcampo the electric lig h t plant
is wrecked, all elevators are badly
damaged and alm ost every church in
town is wrecked. In the oilfield around
M arkham derricks were blown down
and wells were stripped of m achinery.
A t Galveston Bay the situation is
not as bad bh it was first reported. No
p a rt of the railroad bridge which spans
the arm of the bay between the island
and V irginia point was washed away,
but 50 fe et of the stru ctu re was thrown
uul of alignm ent by a huge barge
Communication was established this
afternoon w ith Angleton, a town of
2,000 people on the G ulf coast south
of Galveston, Angleton reported th a t
nearly every house in the town had
been badly damaged as a result of yes­
terday’s hurricane.
Damage from the storm in the Texas
rice belt will reach $100,000. The
towns of Rosenberg, Randnn and E ast
Bernard suffered.
A dispatch from Sabine Pass says
the gale caused record-breaking tides
there, but no serious dam age was done.
The stre e ts were flooded, but the
w aters receded rapidly.
L O SS IS HEAVY IN LOUISIANA
G rave F ears for Satety ot People in
Small Tow ns E ntertained.
New Orleans, July 23.—T hat there
was g re ater loss of life in Southw est­
ern Louisiana than th a t reported up to
1 o'clock today is confidently believed.
Several hundred people have taken
refuge in the U nited S ta te s hiological
station a t Cameron, La. The w aters
of th» gulf last n ig h t covered a large
portion of the parish, risin g to a point
w ithin six inches of the high w ater
m ark made during the storm which
destroyed Galveston nine years ago.
Much stock has been destroyed.
The g ra v est fears are still being en­
tertained in connection w ith the fa te
of many persons a t coast towns. Be­
tween Calcasieu Pass, La., and Sabine
Pass, T ex., there are several hundred
people who have failed to g e t into com­
m unication w ith the outside world
since the hurricane
Heavy dam age
and possible loss of life is feared a t
Johnson’s Bayou, La.
R eports of dam age a t settlem ents
and towns as fa r south as Brownsville,
T ex., are coming in.
I t is reported th a t many houses were
wrecked in Brazora and A llenhurst.
A t Richmond, an interior town, 50
houses are reported to have been par­
tially wrecked.
On account of anxiety fe lt over the
fa te of 1,000 or more persons in a t­
tendance on the S ta te B ap tist Young
People’s encam pm ent a t Palacios, on
the coast of T exas, an effort is being
made to reach th a t point. All tele­
graph w ires are down as the re su lt of
a storm w hiih sw ept the e n tire coast.
F u rth e r loss of life is reported from
Cameron P arish, La.
Basile Dagg, a
fisherman, and his young son were
caught by the high tide which resulted
from the hurricane and were drowned.
Another son, 12 years old, managed to
escape.
The St. Louis-Brownaville Mexican
railw ay has been advised th a t the dam­
age a t Bay C ity, T ex., is $150,000,
w ith two dead and six seriously in­
jured, m any others being slightly
hurt.
T housands in P aris Accidents.
PariB, Ju ly 23.— Exactly 63,184 peo­
ple were killed and injured in stre e t
traffic accidents during 1908 in Paris.
Though the ex act figures cannot be
given today for the first h alf of 1909,
the prefect of police declares they will
vastly exceed those of the preceding*
year. O f the total, 8,800 accidents
were due to autom obiles; cabs and oth­
e r vehicles, 45,688; bicycles, 3,289;
tram w ays, 5,417.
Carelessness, the
prefect said, was the principal cause
o f accidents. Pedestrians crossing in
front of autos were in the m ajority.
Buffalo»* Reach C anada.
V ictoria, B. C., July 23.—Canada
is now in actual possession of the fam ­
ous San Pablo buffa'o herd, the last
contingent, num bering some 500 head,
having been rounded up on the Mon­
tan a hit’s and driven into the Csnadian
N ational park. The drive across the
international boundary line was most
try in g , 14 of the anim als dying on the
way. W ithin the confines of the Na­
tional park are now located the last
rem nant of the buffalo which once
roamed in thousands over the p rairie
lands of th is continent.
To Fortify Prince R upert.
V ictoria. B. C.. Ju ly 23.—The steam ­
e r Princess Royal, wh ch reached port
th is m orning, brought among her pas­
sengers General W. D. O tter, inspector
general of Canadian fortresses; G ener­
al R utherford, Captain H. T. Hughes,
royal engineers; L ieutenant Heycock,
of H. M. 8. S hearw ater, and C aptain
Hay, of the Canadian arm y, a p arty
sent to locate a chain of fortifications
to be established as defenses a t Prince
R u p e rt
P a ssen g e rs Stay By Ship.
Southam pton, Ju ly 23.- The North
German Lloyd steam er Derifflinger,
which grounded on S h'ngle bank yes­
terday, is still aground. H er passen­
gers, num bering 100, rem ain on board,
though she is gradually se ttlin g and
her position is dangerous.