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The Estacada Progress King Unable to Control Labor Situa tion in Sweden. iM u ed Each Thursday E ST A C A D A ............. OREGON RESUME OF THE ~~ WEEK'S DOINGS General Review o f Important Hap penings Presented in a Brief and Comprehensive Manner for Busy Readers— National, Political, His torical and Commercial. Orvilie W right says he can fly 1,000 miles in his aeroplane. The first signs o f a break Swedish strike are appearing. C A N N O T S T O P STRIKE. in the China has yielded to Japan in the Antung-Mukden railway affair. Count Zeppelin, the German aero naut, has undregone an operation for abscess. The Milwaukee road will soon estab lish through service from St. Paul to the coast. Greece refuses to renounce her claim to Crete and Austria warns Turkey against war. Cannon intends spending the time until the regular session o f congress taking a rest. Stockholm, Aug. 10. The tie-up of the business of the country as a result of the strike is so serious that King Gustav intervened in an endeavor to secure a compromise. The king to day sent a message to the parties at conflict, exhorting them to agree at the earliest moment possible and ad vising arbitration. It was after King Gustav's message had been approved at a cabinet meet ing Saturday that he summoned to a conference at the palace the two lead ers o f the warring factions— Director Sedow, of the employers, and Senator Lindquist, president of the federation of trades unions. The result of the conference has not yet transpired, but apparently the king’s efforts for a peaceful solution of the trouble were without result. Tonight it was ir nounced the printers would strike tomorrow, and the N'a tional labor union has issued a procla mation that, beginning tomorrow morn ing, every drag wagon whose driver is not wearing a union badge will be stopped by strikers. No exception, it was stated, will be made for owners driving their wagons. The union further declares it will try to frustrate the attempt o f the Stockholm streetcar company to start its cars on the surface lines. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., likes the COREA SORE S P O T AGAIN. air and will apply for a pilot’s license to go ballooning. Many Clashes Occur Between Japs Harriman is to merge the Illinois and Chinese. Central and New York Central with Victoria, B. C., Aug. 10.— Passen the Union Pacific. gers arriving on the steamer Monteagle Mrs. Harry Thaw wants $500,000 from the Orient today in discussing the from the Thaw family purse, but the situation between Japan and China, price is considered too high. A Los Angeles inventor is looking for say conditions at Cbeintao, on the a w ife with money enough to back him Corean border, are more likely to cause serious trouble between the two na in building a flying machine. The Forty-third National encamp tions than the dispute over the Antung- ment of the G. A. R. is in session at Mukden railway. Salt Lake. Fully 50,000 are in attend When the Monteagle sailed reports ance. had been received that the Chinese had Mobile, Alabama, is now in the list massed 3,000 soldiers at Cheintao o f “ dry” towns. and collisions between them and Spain explains the Barcelona out the Japanese police were frequent. Seoul dispatches received before sail break as a local affair. A granddaughter of General Corbin ing state that, following the arrest of a party of Coreans by the Japanese at is to marry a Japanese. Cheintao, the Chinese troops attacked Great Britain is not greatly alarmed the Japanese and rescued the prisoners, at the Japanese threats on China. several of the Japanese being wounded. Jerome says Thaw is still crazy and A boycott has been declared against the Japanese by the Chinese and Cor should be kept in an insane, asylum. eans of the dBitrict. Japan has commenced work on the Autung railroad in dealince of China. MAY AVERT STR IK E . California gardeners at Basadena have passed resolutions declaring Bur Chicago Labor Controversy Appears bank a fakir. to Be Near End. A California couple returning from Chicago, Aug. 10.— According to the a honeymoon abroad have been arrested outlook tonight there will be no strike for undervaluing goods brought home. of the streetcar employes of Chicago, Turkey has renewed her threat to and a settlement is likely to be reached send an armed force into Greece if that country does not withdraw her troops by tomorrow night. It is said an offer of a wage increase, from Crete. The Swedish general strike contin based on employes' length o f service, ues and leaders claim more men are to will be made by President Mitten, of be called out. Two regiments of sol the Chicago City Railway company. diers have mutinied. John M. Roach, president of the Chi Japan has sent China an ultimatum cago Railways company, has had his on the railroad situation in Manchuria. auditors at work figuring out a method of advancing wages, and it is said his Cleveland, Ohio, officers are having first offer to a committee o f his em a row over the Whitla kidnaping re ployes tomorrow will be on the same ward. general basis as that of Mr. Mitten. The controversy probably will be ad Lord Kitchener is to be field mar shal and organize the British colonial justed without resort to outside arbi tration. The employes say they are forces. decidedly opposed to arbitration, and Marriages of pretty cashiers has rather than submit to it will accept any caused Los Angeles hotel men to em reasonable compromise coming from ploy men. the companies direct. The Moors are again showing activ Seattle Fair Half Over. ity and another clash with Spanish troops is expected. Seattle, Aug. 10.— With the closing The murder of a Mexican girl by a o f the gates Sunday, the first half of Chinaman has caused an outbreak at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition was ended. Figures compiled by the Zapotlan, Mexico. exposition management show the at Venezuela is about to bring to a tendance for the first half o f the fair close the disputes with foreign powers to be 1,744,861. Basing their esti dating from Castro’s regime. mates upon the percentage of increase A case of Bubonic plague has been for August and September over the preceding months at previous exposi found in Sacramento county, Cal. The tions, the officials estimate that the situation is not regarded alarming. total attendance at the close of the Se The Chinese government has made attle exposition October 16 will be arrangements to install a telephone more than 4,600,000. plant in Pekin with a capacity of 200,- 000 lines. The instruments are to be Europe Is Anxious. American make. London, Aug. 10.— The acute stage Heat ¡ b claiming more victims at reached in the dispute between Turkey Chicago. and Greece over Crete is causing anx Striking bakers at Montreal, Canada, iety in the European capitals, such as always accompanies any diplomatic have caused a bread famine. difficulty in that quarter. However, The Japs have called off their strike as M. Iswolsky, the Russian foreign on Hawaiian sugar plantations. minister, said at Cowes last Tuesday, The Stockholm strike is causing a if there is any awkward development famine and is spreading throughout in the situation, Europe will see that no mischevious effects results there Sweden. from. There is no idea that hostilities An Oregon woman has been arrested will result. On the contrary, there is at Oakland for swindling railroads by every belief for successful settlement. fake injury claims. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OF OREGON U M A T ILLA FARMERS ANGRY. CO O S ROUTE FEASIBLE. Resent Increased Charges o f Ware Proposed Line From Boise Shorter Than Present Roads to Coast. housemen; Promise Retaliation. Pendleton Grain growers of Uma tilla county are up in arms over the in creased storage charges recently an nounced by the warehouse companies. An indignation meeting was held here last week and if its decision is any criterion, the amount of wheat stored in the warehouses this season will be much less than usual. The farmers declare they will stack their wheat in the fields and sell it from there. Temporary platforms will also prob ably be built at different points along the railroads. Having been led to believe that the storage charges this year would be 50 cents per ton up until January 1, in stead o f 75 cents as heretofore, they are naturally greatly put out to be in formed that the reduction in charges is only to be good for 30 days and that an additional charge of in cents is to be made for each month thereafter, thus bringing the total charge to 90 cents up to the first o f the year. A t this meeting it was also decided that steps be immediately taken toward securing co-operative warehouses to handle next year's crop. Roseburg— H. G. Hurlburt, one of the engineers who helped to locate the Southern I ’acific through this portion of Oregon about 30 years ago, while in this city recently said he believes one or more railroads into the Coos bay re gion connecting with Eastern trunk lines are sure to be built soon. From personal examination he knows the Umpqua route over the Cascade moun tains to be one o f the very best, and believes it will not remain unoccupied much longer. He says this route is 200 miles short er from Boise, Idaho, to the coast than that of any present railroad line reach ing the l ’acific. Coos bay is 300 miles nearer to Panama than is Portland, thus making a difference of 500 miles in favor of the Coos bay route. With immense traffic awaiting the building o f a railroad from Coos bay to Boise, there is reason to believe some strong company will take up the matter and put the road through in the next two or three years. Experiment With Willow. Portland— Not content with already having opened up several new fields for Oregon lumbermen, the natibnal forest service has now started on an investi gation of the adaptability of Oregon to willow growing. Willow raising for the manufacture of baskets and other willow ware has a large standing in the East and Middle West, but as yet none in Oregon. It is highly profitable in that acreages not used or too poor in soil quality, can be utilized for the growing of the willow, it growing in almost any locality. School Earnings Increased. Salem— With the earnings of the common school fund greater than ever before in- the history of the state and the school population likewise greater than ever, the annual apportionment of school moneys made by State Treas urer Steel is a notable one. The total amount apportioned was $308,300.65, which is about $50,000 greater than any previous apportionment. The total number of children of school age in the stute as found in the annual reports of Steel Bridge Across Rogue. the superintendent of public instruc Grants Pass— The new steel bridge tion is 166,649. All those are includ ed between the ages of 4 and 20 years. across Rogue river at Grants Pass has been completed and opened to traffic. The new structure is one of the finest Pnrchase Big Sheep Range. Wallowa—Charles G. Holmes and in Southern Oregon. The contracting Gecrge S. Craig have entered into company were at a loss in building it, partnership and will go into the sheep owing to the carrying away of piers by business extensively. They have pur fr< shets during tl e winter. The bridge chased the Knapp & Jennings range on was to have been completed January 1, the Snake river and have bought 3,000 according to the original contract, but coarse wool lambs to stock it. Henry the court granted an extension o f time Fletcher, who was in partnership with to the builders. E. B. Knapp, has sold out the last of New Dairy Bulletin. his holdings when he disposed of 3,000 Prof. J. H. Frandson, of the dairy ewes and lambs to E. R. Bowlby and William Hanron. Knapp has already department of the University of Idaho, sold his two bands, in which Fletcher has in press Bulletin 67 on the subject of “ Better Dairy Methods.” This bul had an interest, to Fred Falconer. letin contains much that will be o f in terest to all directly or indirectly inter School Heads to Meet June 28. ested in dairying; much that should Salem— The annual convention of help to make dairying more profitable county school superintendents has been and desirable as a business. This bul called by J. H. Ackerman, superin letin will be sent free to all requesting tendent of public instruction, to meet it. Address Department of Dairying, in his office Monday, June 28. Among University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho. the topics to be considered are school supervision, how it may be made more Clatskanie Sawmill Burns. effective; school libraries, how to use Ulatskanie— The Kratz & Anderson them; annual institutes, most import shingle mill at Hazel Grove, one and a ant subject to emphasize for all insti half miles from here, was burned to tutes this year; school sanitation, what the ground while the manager'and crew has been done, what should be done; were attending the Clatskanie celebra school board cjnvention, value of, how tion. A spark from the sawdust pile, to conduct. which was supposed to be safely out, is thought to have caused the damage. Weston Land Valuable. The mill was constructed only last Weston— Joseph H. Key, a large winter and gave employment to a crew farmer north of Weston, has added to of ten men. his holdings by the purchase of 160 Water Again on Deschutes Land. acres from Donald McKimmon, adjoin Prineville— Water has again been ing his place on the south. He paid $18,000. or over $112 an acre, for the turned into the big flume at the head land, which is well improved and has o f the D. I & P. company’s irrigation been farmed for many years. Not system and soon all parts of the segre long ago the heirs o f the W. M. Steen gation will again have an ample supply estate paid $45,000 t/ O. C. and Otis after a famine lasting about two Turner for 409 acres adjoining the weeks. The break in the big flume, estate. The farmhouse and large barn which cime without warning, left all were recently moved from the Turner the settlers on the land, aggregating place to the Steen place on Dry creek. 214,000 acres, without water. Chrysanthemum Show at Albany. Albany— Albany ladies will hold a chrysanthemum show in conjunction with the annual Apple Fair in this city during November. Mesdames L. E Hamilton, E. W. Cooper and C. H. Stewart have been apointed a commit tee to devise means for the raising of the money needed, as well as to make other arrangements. A large number of women are raising chryanthemums, and the event gives promise of being the best of its kind held in this state. Wallowa Yields Heavy. Enterprise Harvest is about to be gin on the largest grain crops ever raised in Wallowa county, by far the largest in acreage and equal to any previous year in yield per acre. Condi tions, both weather and soil, have been unusually favorable ever since the fall wheat was sown, and the advent of the railroad encouraged a larger planting than was ever known before. Huckleberries Big Crop. Seaside— Huckleberries are so plen tiful in the hills about Seaside that everyone who takes the trouble to go after them comes home with buckets full. The berries are of great size and many gallons will remain on the bushes for lack o f people to gather them. Wild blackberries are just ripening and will be a big crop. Opium Cause o f Revolt. Bernard J. Mullaney has declined Mayor Busse’s offer to be chief of po Victoria, B. C., Aug. 10.— Further lice in Chicago. particulars brought by the steamer One of the four surviving wives of Monteag'e concerning the Mohamme the Mormon leader Brigham Young, is dan uprising in Shensi and Kansu dis tricts state the revolt was due to the dead. She was 88 years old. severe methods taken by the Chinese Three wealthy Los Angeles men local magistrate to suppress the opium have received demands for money with habit. He seized one o f the local gen lone Region Is Not Hurt. death as the penalty for refusal. try who was an opium smoker, and had lone- Harvesting was arrested two Mayor Eby, o f Burkeville, Pa., has his eyes gouged out and his arms days by rainfall throughout the lone been arrested for threatening to dyna taken off. The people then rose in re region. There was no damage to tie bellion and attacked the magistrate. gram, and the farmers took advantage mite Pennsylvania Railroad trains. of the layoff to get in supplies. There The Illinois board of arbitration is Bolivian Revolt Likely. is much rejoicing at the absence of at work at Chicago and hopes to he Lapaz. Bolivia, Aug. 10.— It is stated smut this year, and that nearly all the able to settle the streetcar trouble that, although the inauguration o f Dr. wheat is grading No. 1. without a strike. Don Elidoro Villazon as president of Lumber Company Complains. The direct primary law was the the republic has been set for next Thursday, there are many persons here Salem— The Bridal Veil Lumber com cause of a riot at Indianapolis. who doubt that this program will be pany has complained to the state rail A bronze bust of James J. Hill has consummated because o f his friendli road commission that the rates on lum been unveiled at the Seattle fair. ness toward Argentina. The situation ber on the Mount Hood railroad are too in Bolivia never has been more serious, high. The Bridal Veil Lumber com The asylum superintendent and two experts agree that Thaw is still insane. and sensational events are expected pany also claims that the Oregon Lum shortly. ber company is owned by the railioad In a referendum election 3-cent and that this company gets a much street car fares was beaten in Cincin China Gives Her Consent. lower rate than other shippers. nati. Tokio, Aug. 8. It is believed that Sheep Shearing Completed. Spanish soldiers at Melilla are said the Chinese minister to Japan has re Gold Beach -Shearing is about over ceived instructions from Pekin in to have trapped the Moors and routed The clip is of good which the objections o f the Chinese in Curry county them. government to the reconstruction of quality though hardly up to its average Germany is now the only nation o p -' the Antung Mukden railroad and its weight. Most of it has been disposed posed to giving Americans a share in conversion into a standard guage line of at prices ranging from 24 to 26 cents. are completely withdrawn,' the Chinese railway loan. $8,900 Loaned on Land. Salem— The state land board has ap proved loans aggregating $8,900. P O R TLA N D M ARKETS. Fruits— Apples, new, $1012.25 per box; cherries, 6(iil2c per pound; peach es, 45cfu$l per box; cantaloupes, $20i 2.60 per crate; plums, 75c(//$1.25 per box; raspberries, $1.400/1.50 per crate; watermelons, lfzz 1 >4c per pound; blackberries, $1.40 per crate; wild blackberries, 8Of 10c per pound. Potatoes— Oregon, 75cOf$l per sack. Vegetables— Beans, 5c per pound; cabbage, lk jC d T ^ c; celery, 90cfr/$l per dozen; cucumbers, 150/25c; onions, 12>4<i/15c; peas, 7<W8c per pound; rad ishes, 15c per dozen; tomatoes, 40cCn $1.25 per box. Wheat— New crop, bluestem, $1; club, 95c; red Russian, 93c; valley, 97c; Turkey red, 95c; 40-fold, 96>4c. Barley New, $26,500/27 per ton. Hay— New crop— Timothy, Willam ette valley, $120/16 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $17(8)18; mixed, $15,500/ 16.50; alfalfa, $13.50; clover, 110/13; cheat, $130il4.50. Grain bags— 6>4c each. Butter— City creamery, extras, 30 .^c per pound; fancy outside creamery, 27 L, ft; 30 >4 c: store, 21ft/22c. Butter fat prices average 1 toe per pound un der regular butter prices. Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 27oi. 28c per dozen. Poultry— Hens, 14> 40 / 15c per pound; springs, 14>*o/15c; roosters, 9oz 10c; ducks, young, 12M @ 13'vc; geese, young, 90/10c; turkeys, 20c; squabs, $1,750/ 2 per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 110fll>t|c per pound. Veal — Extras, 9>410c per pound; or dinary, 70z8c; heavy, 7c. Hops— 1909 contracts, 2l0/22c per pound; 1908 crop, 16c; 1907 crop, 12c; 1906 crop. 8c. Wool Eastern Oregon, 16o/ 23c per pound; valley, 230/25c; mohair, choice, 240/25c. Cattle Steers, top, $4.60; fair to good, $4o/4.25; common, $3,750/4; cows, top, $3.50; fair to good, $3ot 3.25; common to medium, $2,500/ 2.75; calves, top, $50/5.50; heavy, $3,500/4; bulls and stags. $2.75///3.75. Sheep— Top wethers, $4.25; fair to good, $3.60oz3.75; ewes, **c lesson all grades; yearlings, beat, $4; fair to go d, $3,500/3.76; spring lambs, 5.26 <8 5.50. Hogs Best, 90f9.26; fair to good. 80/8.50; stockers, 6o;5; China fats, 6.75<g7. A L L RECORDS BROKEN. Registration for Government Reaches 274,529. Land SCORES TOO LATE TO TRY FOR LAND Spokane, Aug. 6.— Breaking all rec ords in the history of the United States for registration for government land openings, registration for land on Belated Applicants^ Continue to Arrive the three reservations, Flathead, in Montana, Spokane, in Washington, and at Spokane. Coeur d’ Alene, in Idaho, closed at mid night last night with a grand total of 274,529 applications received at the central office of James W. Witten, at Registration Has Now Reached 286,- Coeur d’ Alene. Those in the letters 623, and More in Mails—Fifty- will bring the total to 290,090, exceed Three Steel Cans Hold the Lucky ing the famous Oklahoma reservation Numbers, Which Weigh 2,660 rush, the greatest known. Pounds—Sixty Clerks Busy. Until Monday the force in Judge W itten’s office wiil be preparing to send out tho lucky notices to those drawing for lands. The high platform Spokane, Wash., Aug. 7.— Total ap from which the drawings will be made plications for Indian reservation lands is complete, and the 50 steel cans received at Judge James M. W itten’s which contain the applications are office at Coeur d’Alene yesterday were guarded by armed men until August 9, reported officially last night as follows: the opening day. Coeur d’Alene 1,120, total for whole During the period o f application, registration period, 105,536; Spokane certificates of authority to a minister 2,707, total 99,628; Missoula 6,534, the oath have been withdrawn from five Kalispell 733, total for Flathead lands, notaries in Spokane by Judge Witten. 80,559. Grand total thus far received The offenses consisted of altering the for all land 285,623. name o f the agent in a soldier’s power Judge W itten’s force has been busy of attorney and in leaving signed and turning away scores of belated appli stamped application blanks with clerks cants for Indian lands, the midnight to be filled out when the authorized hour Thursday night having closed the notary was absent. official registration. Applications are On Monday, August 9, Miss Helen still in the mails and will be received Hamilton, the pretty niece of Mayor for several days Boyd Hamilton, of Coeur d’ Alene, will Coeur d’Al< n > booths, stands and pick the winning list o f 1,500 numbers platforms used by notaries and lunch on the Coeur d’Alene reservation. On venders are tein g torn down and the Tuesday, August 10, the little Miss whole city presents a remodeling will will continue drawing a substitute aspect. A t the land office 60 clerks list of numbers up to 3,000, this latter have been placed for the drawings, and list to be used in case those first drawn tables and platforms arranged. There do not appear to file on the land. are now 63 steel cans in the office con On Thursday, Friday and Saturday, taining the applications, divided as August 12, 13 and 14, Miss Elizabeth follows: Spokane, 19; Coeur d’Alene, Donlin, daughter o f E. R. Ilonlin, of 20; Flathead 13. The applications Missoula, will draw the winning num weigh 2,650 pounds without the cans. bers on the Flathead reservation up to 6,000 and on Monday, August 16, Miss C A R L IS TS T O HELP. Harriet 1’ ost, daughter o f Frank T. Rost, o f Spokane, will select the lucky Don Jaime Will O ffer Spain 100,000 slips for the Spokane reservation. Men and His Services. C O N T E S T SPO K AN E DECISION. Cerbere, France, Aug. 7.— The Car- list leaders will hold a meeting shortly Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Will at a French frontier town to decide upon their attitude in view o f recent Lead in Fight. events, it was said today. Afterwards, San Francisco, Aug. 6.— A fter tan it is understood, Don Jaime, the Span days o f discussion the freight agents ish pretender, will issue a manifesto of the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe declaring that he has no intention to and other transcontinental railrords profit by the misfortunes o f his coun announced today that they had decided try, but that, i f the present govern to tight the affirmation of the Spokane ment is powerless to save the honor of decision and its application to other the nation he will act. intermediate points. The Carlists say that they are in a George W. Luce, general freight position to arm and place in the field agent o f the Southern Pacific company, quickly 100,000 supporters, burning said that when the matter iB taken up with zeal. at Spokane next October his company Coupled with this announcement anil the Santa Fe will contest the atti comes the news that affairs at Barce tude of the Northern railroads, which lona are far from satisfactory. While favors the granting of terminal rates quiet reignB in the city at present, as to intermediate points. A battle royal tar as actual revolt goes, the police are is expected at that meeting. still busy arresting people whom they Luce declared that his company took allege were implicated in the recent the position that intermediate points outbreak, and public feeling is grow are not entitled to terminal rates; that ing resentful o f their activity. to grant them such rates would be to It is also reported that prisoners held open a vast field to the manufacturers in the Mont Juish fortress have been of the Middle West heretofore reserved executed, and prominent revolutionists for Western enterprise. made the threat yesterday that i f such He said that in view of the water action were taken another outbreak competition on the Coast, the present would follow. policy o f forcing intermedia'e points to pay rates to the Coast plus the local STR IKE M AY SOON DIE O U T . freight back, was considered fair and reasonable by the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe, whereas the Northern roads Dissension Breaks Out Among the favored a proposal to lim it the distri Workmen at Stockholm. buting area on the Coast to a narrow Stockholm, Aug. 7.— The tense situ strip paralleling the shore line. ation arising from the general strike C RE TAN TRO UBLE BREWING. Mussulmans in Macedonia Threaten Invasion o f Greece. Constantinople, Aug. 6. — Serious agitation has broken out in Albania against the attempt o f Greece to annex Crete. Forty thousand Albanians as sembled at Monastir today and sent imperious messages to the government, threatening that unless effective meas ures were adopted the entire Mussul man population of Macedonia would march against Greece. The grand vizier, on receiving the message, hurriedly left the council of ministers, went personally to the tele graph office and replied that the gov ernment was taking active steps to prevent the annexation of Crete by Greece. Pirates Loot and Kill. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 6.— Advices by the Tango Maru today note remarkable recrudescence of piracy in South China waters, the most desperate band of out laws having headquarters apparen1 ly in the vicinity o f Macao, where the com munities are so terrorized as to lend the pirates active as well as passive assistance, fearing summary vengeance otherwise. Near Shantuk the water pirates, united with a local band o f robbers, made a foray inland and took by storm the castle like home o f a lo cal merchant and financier. Famine Causes Rebellion. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 6.— The steam er Tango Maru, from the Orient today, brought news o f a rebellion in the great Mohammedan province of Kansu, Chi na, following a famine. The killing of one o f the members o f an American exploring party sent out by R. S. Clark, o f New York, o f the American Geo graphical society, was an incident of this rebellion. Several walled cities, including Yulinfu. Yenanfu, Sitechou ani Mihusien, were besieged by the rebels, against whom imperial troops, foreign drilled, had been sent. Greeks to Stay in Crete. Constantinople, Aug. 6.— Greece to day replied to the Turkish note, prac tically demanding the recall of the Greek officers serv ing in Crete, saying the question is in the hands of the four protecting powers of Crete, with whose knowledge and consent the officers in question were sent to the islands. Tur key intimates that her friendly re quest to Greece will be followed, un less satisfaction is obtained, by s more energetic demand. Epidemic Killing Cattle. Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 6.— Advices received here today at the headquar ters of the Texas Cattle Raisers' asso ciation, say that cattle are dying by the thousands around Midland as the result o f an epidemie. SWEDEN FEARS REVO LT. General Strike Gives Excuse tor Re volution by Socialists. Stockholm, Aug. 4.— Not only has the strike of 100,000 workmen largely paralyzed industry and traffic, but it threatens to develop into a revolution ary movement under the leadership of the Young Socialist party and to in volve every industry, thus making the paralysis complete. The king has sum moned a special Bession of parliament and the entire army is kept ready for immediate action. Forewarned of the purpose of the Young Socialists to give the Btrike a revolutionary turn, the government has decided at the first sign of insurrection to declare Stockholm in a state of siege and has quartered soldiers in various sections o f the city and suburbs. A civil corps guard is being organiz ed for the protection of property and the banks are closed and guarded. A ll the ferries ruunning outof Stock holm huve ceased operation and the largest Bteamers engaged in carrying visitors and residents to the seaside re sorts in the archipelago have suddenly stopped running, discharged their crews and laid up for the winter. The sum mer traffic is usually continued until October. It is expected’ that the present total of about 100,000 idle workmen will he largely increased by tomorrow. It is anticipated also that tho streetcar ser vice in Stockholm will Btop, and ar rangements are being made to run the waterworks and the electric light plants by soldiers. WAR MENACES CHICAGO. Traction Companies Make Carbarns Camps tor Strikebreakers. Chicago, Aug. 4.— Active prepara tions to meet a strike are being made by officials of the street railway lines of this city. Old power houses are being fitted up as sleeping quarters for strikebreakers. E. L. Reed, who organized the Em ployers’ Teaming company, which broke the teamsters’ strike in 1905 has charge of the hiring of nonunion men. He stated that he had on call 6,000 men competent to handle street cars and that 150 men were available in Boston and 100 in Kansas City. A r rangements have been made with ca terers to feed the nonunion men in the barns and power houses. The companies aim to prevent a complete tieup on any o f their lines and it it said cars will be kept run ning, no matter what the present em ployes determine to do. S,ecial notices were sent out by the secretaries of the two principal unions to the various barns with instructions that the men be urged to cast their vote on the strike referendum Thurs day. Members o f the Illinois 9tate board of arbitration have started for Chicago to see i f they can avert the trouble. By reason of the quasi partnership of this city in the surface traction lines. Mayor Busse, Acting Chief of Police Schuettler and M. B. Herely, the municipal traction expert, held a conference today on the subject of the threatened strike. PO LIC E GUARD DOUBLED. New Outbreak o f Striking Japs in Hawaii is Feared Honolulu, Aug. 4.— As a result of a story published in a local paper that T. Mori, who today attempted to kill S. Sheba, editor of the Japanese conserv ative paper Shippo, had been chosen by lot to assassinate Sheba because of his opposition to the strike of the planta tion laborers, the police are working on the the< ry that the deed was planned at a meeting of strikers held here yes terday. No evidence, however, has been found by the authorities to indi cate that there is any truth in the story. Mori freely admits that it was his intention to kill Sheba, declaring that the Japanese editor is an emeny to his race and that he intended to punish him for his opposition to the strike for higher wages. Investigation by the police developed that Mori bought the knife and had it sharpened preparatory to his attack. proclaimed a few days ago seemed to be relaxing tonight. The grave diggers returned to work today and dissension is apparent in the ranks o f the other strikers. The owners of some o f the larest plants in Stockholm announce that their men will return to work Monday. M. von Sidow, president o f the Em ployers’ Federation, declared tonight that intervention by the government would be without result, as the differ ences were too great to be settled in such a manner. The National Labor union published a statement disapprov ing the strike o f the electric light and gas workers, which began last night. The electric plant was kept in opera tion by officials o f the lighting depart ment. As the strikers have been prevent Soldiers Not Mob Then. ing farmers from bringing provisions San Francisco, Aug. 4.— In sustain into the city, troops have been detailed ing a demurrer to a damage in the to patrol the country roads. Superior court today, Superior Judge Frank G. Morasky held that the sol China Replies to Russia, diers who destroyed stores o f liquor Pekin, Aug. 7.— China today sent in while San Francisco was burning, in her reply to the Russian note o f July April, 1906, were not a mob in the 2, regarding the opening o f the Sun legal sense of the word, and that the gari and other rivers to international city was, therefore, not liable to a trade. She mentions the Aigun treaty claim for $1,074. Suit for that sum and the Russian treaties concerned, was brought by Conrad Huber, a sa and refers to Russia's right to take loonkeeper, who charged that his sup part in framing the rules to govern the ply o f liquor was confiscated. Another navigation of these streams. She does action was decided in the same way. not deny that the treaties in question have a certain validity, but avoids Buried Treasure Sought. specifying the extent to which she con Los Angeles. Aug. 4.— Public Ad siders they have been modified by the ministrator Bryson is quietly conduct Russo-Japanese peace treaty. ing a search for a quantity o f money supposed to have been buried by the Admiral Schley in Hospital. late Bartollo Ballerino, onetime known New York, Aug. 7.— Rear Admiral as “ K ing o f the Tenderloin,” in this Winfield Scott Schley, hero o f the na city, who left an estate valued at val battle of Santiago, today lies at $200,000 to Della Garrison Guien and St. Luke’s hospital, suffering from a cut off his w ife and nine children with severe attack o f bronchitis. Schley a pittance. The administrator believes was taken ill while visiting his daugh thBt Ballerino buried several thousand ter nt Mamaroneck about two weeks dollars in gold in some spot on one o f ago, and was removed to the hospital, his numerous properties in this city be when it became apparent that the at fore his death. tack was serious. I t was announced today that he was much improved. Unskilled Laborers Strike. Mrs. Schley and the admiral's son, Dr. Pittsburg, Aug. 4.— A strike of W. S. Schley, have been with him dur street laborers which has hitherto been ing his illness. considered a minor affair, has become widespread and gangs o f rren are pa Zeppelin Makes Long Flight. rading the streets. Steps have been Cologne, Aug. 7.— Count Zeppelin taken to form an organization among today sailed his “ Zeppelin I I , " the the 15,000 Italian workmen of A lle greatest air craft in the world, from gheny county and the police have Frankfort to this city, arriving in good leim ed o f an effort to organize the condition after a flight lasting 6 hours foreigners. A letter rece ved by May and 15 minutes. He apparently had or William Magee demands that the the ship under perfect control and strikers be allowed to drill. landed with the precision and ease o f a bird. Those who witnessed the arrival Liabilities o f Over S9.OOO,OOO. of the ship were gTeatly impressed by New York, Aug. 4.— Liabilities o f the control in which the count held the $9,558,348 and assets o f $8,395,928 air monster. are shown in the schedules of Shepard & Co., the bond brokerage house which Mobs Cheer Prohibition. failed April last, filed today. A ll but Montgomery, Aug. 7.— Amid street a few thousand dollars o f the claims scenes of wild enthusiasm, the bill are unsecured. The firm was heavily making prohibition constitutional interested in railroad projects and in parsed the house today. dustrial enterprises in New Mexico,