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C LASHES W ITH GOVERNM ENT The Estacada Progress National Troops May Be Called To Settle Georgia Trouble. iMucd Each Thursday E ST A C A D A OREGON BRIEF NEWS OE THE PAST WEEK Interesting Events from Outside the State Presented in a Manner to Catch the Eye o f the Busy Reader — Matters o f National, Historical and Commercial Importance. More earthquakes are predicted for Sicily. Spanish troops have burned many Moorish villages. A French aviator has established a new record in Germany. A Boston bride weighs 210 pounds and stands 6 feet one high. Six children were badly injured in a school fire at Jersey City, N. J. Harvard university has a Chinese athlete who is looking for honors. A San Francisco highwayman has been sentenced to 50 years in the peni tentiary. The twelfth annual convention of the American mining congress is in session at Goldfield, Nev. Mayor Galvin, of Cincinnati, has es tablished a “ kicking day,“ when all complaints are to be heard by the city officials. George F. Baer, o f the Reading com pany, says there is no combine among the anthracite coal companis of Penn sylvania. Three miners were buried by a cave- in in a Goldfield, Nev., mine. The physicians attending Judge W il liams are hopeful of his recovery. A big fight is on in Missouri between the breweries and prohibitionists. A French army dirigible balloon ex ploded in the air and four aviators were killed. The Omaha streetccacr company will make concessions to its men and a set tlement is likely. Disease is breaking out in the dis trict denueded by the hurricane along the Louisiana coast and more deaths are expected. Reports from Morocco say the tribes men have inflicted a terrible defeat upon the Spanish, driving them back and killing 7,000. An American company will be awarded the contract^over a British concern for furnishing the machinery for constructing a small arms factory in Australia. Hunger among the Moors has led to overtures for peace. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 28.— Lawyers and judges of the state are intensely interested in the serious clash now on between the state and the Federal au horities in the case o f Charles E. Steg gall, in jail at Trenton, Ga., for con tempt of court by order of Judge A W. Fite, of the Dade county Superior court. Steggall refused to testify be fore the grand jury in reference to an alleged distillery. Over Steagall the bitterest legal fight in the history of the state has been precipitated, with both sides con fident and standing pat. Should the State court persist in its attitude of defiance to the mandate of the Federal court, the chances are that most interesting developments will come to pass this week, which will suit in the arrest of several other offi cials. It is believed here that the Fed eral court will carry its point, even if obliged to make a direct appeal to the United States government to enforce its orders. Therefore, in the settle ment of this dispute, national troops may have to be used. The acute situation in Dade county arose over an effort to Becure evidence in an alleged blind-tiger case. The people of Dale county, near Rising Fawn, have believed a distillery has been located in that neighborhoi d for some time, and that it has paid the government license to secure immunity from Federal raids. In order to get the necessary evidence, the grand jury summoned before that body Charles Steggall, storekeeper and government gauger. Steggall then communicated with the collector of interna! revenue, H. A. Rucker, asking him what he should do in the matter. Rucker wired him that under the government rules, he would have to keep quiet. This is the outcome of government statute, under the revised laws, by which government employes are liable to loss of position, fine and imprisonment, if they divulge informa tion secured in their official capacity. Steggall promptly informed the grand jury that he could not answer the questions put to him, and gave the gov ernment rules as his reason. His re fusal brought the matter to the atten tion of Judge Fite, who ordered him to answer. Three times he was sent for, and three times refused to answer, and then he was sent to jail. He made appeal to the Federal au thorities in Atlanta for protection. As the government cannot afford to allow its employes to be kept in prison for obedience to government rules, the Federal officials determined to stand by Steggall. Before they could take action, how ever, Judge Fite held that Rucker had interferred with the conduct of his court by ordering Steggall not to speak, and so he sent Sheriff Thurman, of Dade, to Atlanta, to serve summons on Rucker to appear in his court. CANADA W ANTS ASIATICS. A Colorado man 78 years old is to Railroad Contractors Facing Serious Labor Famine. remarry the w ife he divorced 50 years ago. Ottawa, Out., Sept. 28.—The Cana Moro pirates are thought to have dian railways are face to face with i captured an American cutter and mur labor famine, and unless a plan can be devised whereby Asiatic labor may be dered the crew. imported for construction work, much Police of Omaha are busy in their of their railroad building will have to efforts to prevent riots in connection be abandoned. This is the opinion ex with the streetcar strike. pressed b> Col I ing wood Schrieber, con Several English suffragettes in jail suiting engineer of the department of in London have refused to eat and had railways. On the Western prairies the demand to be fed with a stomach pump. for farm laborers has temporarily de Eastern railroads establ'shed cheap moralized the railway construction excursion rates from the Middle West gangs, the Grand Trunk Pacific road to the Atlantic this summer with good being especially hard hit. This road results. has been able to retain only a small Clarence H. Mackay says the report percentage o f its laborers employed on that the Postal Telegraph company is construction work, the farmers in that about ot absorb the Western Union is section having offered as high as $4 a day for men while the railroa 1 company unfounded. pays but $3. The Wright brothers are to start a In the next two years, four new con fight against several flying machines tracts are to be let for construction which they consider infringements on work, and 25,000 men will be needed. their patents. Sir Charles Rivers Wilson, president The late Governor Johnsono, of Min of the Grand Trunk system, has been nesota left no will, but it was his wish here consulting Sir Wilfred Laurier that his w ife should have all his prop upon a proposal to employ Asiatic labor erty, worth about $18,000 in building new lines. It is proposed General Solicitor Loomis, of the to bring the Asiatics to Canada and re Union Pacific, with headquarters at turn them to their native countries Omaha, is to go to New York to be after the work has been completed. come head of the legal department of the Harriman lines. French inventors have several new aeroplanes. The death loss in the Gulf storm is now placed at 100. Peary says his indictment of Cook w ill contain 30 counts. Religious riots at Castro, Spain, re sulted in the death o f a priest. An Iowa grand jury has indicted 85 men for a gigantic bunco game. A young Chinese at San Francisco has invented an aeroplane which has made several successful flights. Thousands of pounds of supplies are being sent from Monterey, Mexico, to the flood sufferers. Pack mules are used. The recent flood fatalities in North ern Mexico have reached the appalling total of 3,000. The property loss will reach into the millions. The steel trust has secured a foot hold among rich districts of China. High winds have fanned California forest fires until they are again assum ing dangerous proportions. A conductor on the Southern Pacific tried to lock a car door near Reno, but could not insert the key. Examina tion revealed a diamond worth $275. t is thought to have been hidden there by some thief who intended to secure it later. Peary has arrived at Sydney, N. S., on his way home. Damage to crops by the Southern storm will reach $1,000,000. Government troops of Paraguay have been repulsed by revolutionists. Dr. Cook has reached New York and received a tremendous ovation on land ing. Maxine Elliott, the actress, says King Edward is “ charmingly delight fu l.“ The trial of Patrick Calhoun has been continued until September 27. NEWS ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST FROM THE STATE OE OREGON COVE'S APPLE C RO P. W ILL WATER PRO JECT. Estimate Place* Output at 300,000 Private Company Will Taka Up Mal heur Irrigation. Boxes. Ontario— The second turning down of Cove—A conservative estimate of the fruit crop near Cove is 12 care of the Malheur project by the government early mixed fruita, 30 care of prunes has not materially atTected businesa Such action had been antici and five care of late mixed fruits 30 here. care of prunes and live care of late pated. The Boise-Owyhee High Line com mixed and 300,000 boxes of winter shipping apples, although there is pany is willing to extend its canal to only a 60 or 60 per cent crop this year. the Malheur river, providing land own There is a full crop of plums, pears ers will sign contracts. Another pri and prunes, but the late rains have cut vate company ia making preparations to water 30,(100 acers above Vale by down the yield in other fruits. All of the big prune growers in the conserving the flood waters of Bully valley are scouring the country for creek. This company, claimed to be help and are finding it very hard to se Washington capitalists, has purchased cure enough pickers. This is the first the L. J. Seevey and O. Johnson year for seven years that all of the ranches on Bully creek for a reservoir prune crop has been packed fi r fresh site. This almost natural reservoir shipment; in previous years a large can he made complete by putt'ng in a part of the crop has been dried. From dam 100 feet high, or higher if neces 250 to 300 people are required here to sary. The canyon here is not much pick the prunes and the growers have over 100 feet wide and ore and rock been forced to bring in about half of for the dams can be drawn from the these from the outside. In a few days hillsides. There is considerable talk o f organ the Italian prune crop will be ready for picking and this will last about izing an irrigation district for the pur pose of watering lands in the vicinity three weeks. With such a crop as this and with a of Ontario and Vale not already under quality of fruit that is unequaled. canals, and the Upper Dead Ox fiat, Union county and Cove should be cele while landowners of the Lower Dead Ox flat are arranging to secure water brated for the fruit grown here. from the Snake river by means of pumping plants. Umpqua Pears Have Record. Koseburg— With a banner 25 feet Elmore Buys More Land. long, bearing the words “ Umpqua Val Astoria— Negotiations are in pro ley Pears shipped by the W. C. Hard ing Land company,” a carload of gress and will probably be consum D’Anjou and Clargeau pears left Rose- mated soon for the purchase of 50 feet burg a few days ago for New York of valua le water frontage in this city. city. The fruit was raised by Dr. Samuel Elmore is the purchaser, and George A. Bradburn, on his Edenbower the property extends from the Astoria orchard. The shipment comprised 660 Iron works to the property o f F. L. boxes, for which Mr. Bradburn receiv Parker, now occupied by the Astoria With this ed $1,485, or $2.25 per box. So far Wood & Fuel company. as known this is the highest price ever purchase Mr. Elmore will own the paid the grower for Umpqua valley frontage from the Astoria Iron works pears, and higher than Rogue river to the cold storage plant o f S. Schmidt valley is said to have received so far & Co., except the Parker 50-foot strip. With his other waterfront holdings, this season. including his control of the property of the Columbia River Packers’ associa Feed Fat Cattle at Haines. tion, he will control more Astoria water Baker City— Indications are that frontage than any individual or corpo Haines, eight mileB north of Baker ration. City, will be the feeding point for the Swartzchild & Sulzberger Packing com Ranch Sells for S I3,900. pany. That concern has just arranged Athena—J. P. Leach has sold his to procure winter pasture and also to ranch on Weston mountain to Albin contract all the hay that can be pur Burell, of North Yakima, for $13,900. chased in the valley. Stock will be The ranch contains 200 acres of th-- shipped from Idaho points and probably most desirable land on the mountain some will be drriven in from the inte and has been owned by Mr. Leach since rior. Cattle will be held at Haines 1875. The tract is in a high state of on feed until the plant at Portland de cultivation. A large part o f it this sires to consume the stock. Hay prices year was in barley, producing a heavy have made a marked advance since yield, and parts of it produce alfalfa buyers for the packing plant entered and timothy. Mr. Leach and family the field. will leave at once for Walla Walla, where they w ill make their home in the Stockmen After Alfalfa. future. Newbridge— About all the hay in Eagle and Pine valleys has been bought Railroad Must Rebuild Highway. up by stockmen, the price for alfalfa Hood River — The committee ap being from $6 to $7 per ton. A fter pointed by the Hood River Commercial cutting three crops of alfalfa each club to devise means to construct a year the farmers sell their meadows to highway from Hood River to Portland cattlemen for pasture, the price in a j finds that the railroad company is few instances being as high as $5 per specially bound to replace and repair acre. Under the present reserve sys all portions of the wagon road destroy tem stockmen must have their stock ed in the construction o f the railroad off the range by a certain time each through Wasco county. It is expected fall, hence the green alfalfa fields are that the company will be called upon in good demand for early fall pastur ; to make good by Wasco and what is age. now Hood River counties. Trees to Protect Canals. Hermiston— To protect as well as beautify the banks of the distribution ditches on the Umatilla project the government, through the local reclam ation office, is making negotiations for the placing of an order for a car of locust trees. These will be planted early this fall along the various canals which traverse the project. Lrcust trees are especially adapted to this purpose, owing to the excellent wind breaks they make within a short time and are also ready conveyors of nitro gen to the soil. Berkshire Hogs Shipped. Hermiston— A carload o f fine hogs, the third in two weeks, has been ship ped by J. F. McNaught, of the Max well Land & Irrigation company. For more than a year Mr. McNaught has kept registered Berkshire stock which won laurels at the county fair. An other two carload shipment will be made in a few days. P O R TLA N D M ARKETS. THE C EN SU S P O SIT IO N S. Appointment Clerk Pindell Explains Method ot Application. Washington, Sept. 24. — Appoint ment Clerk Pindell, o f the U. S. Cen bus bureau, states on the subject of the census examination, October 23d, that the distinction between the perm anent census force and the additional temporary employes provided by the Thirteenth Census act is quite import ant and should be remembered. As vacancies occur on the permanent cen aua they w ill be filled, as heretofore, by transfers from elsewhere in the service, or by selections from the ex isting registers of the civil service commission.* Persons now on the registers of the commission are, therefore, eligible for appointment to vacancies on the perm anent census roll, but there is no great er opportunity during the decennial pe riod for such appointments than there has been heretofore. The additional temporary positions, authorized by the Thirteenth Census act, except those above $1.200 per annum which will be filled largely by transfers from the permanent cen-us roll, will be given to those persons who pass the test eiam- ination on October 23rd. Those now on the registers o f the civil service commission, who desire appointment to these additionsl census places, should take the test examination as their pres ent eligibility availB them nothing in respect to appointments to these posi tions. The fact that a person is on the civil service register does not pre vent him from taking this test exam ination. Blank application forms and the cir cular of instructions were ready for distribution by September 10th. As soon as the applicant completes his ap plication in every respect, it should be addressed and forwarded to the U. S. Civil Service commission, Washington, D. C., and not to the census bureau Care should be taken that the enve lope containing the application is prop erly addressed and sufficient postage stamps are affixed. I f the application is satisfactory a card will be mailed the applicant and it will admit him to the examination. An application must be filed in sufficient time to arrange for the examination at the place selected No request will be granted for an ex animation otherwise than as scheduled for the cities and states on October 23rd. T A F T S T A R T S WATER. Opens Gates to Famous Gunnison Tunnel in Colorado. Montroce, Colo., Sept. 24.— Preei dent T aft spent yesterday on the west ern slope of the Rocky mountains amid a succession of magnificent scenes. In many respects his day was one o f the most interesting he has had since leav ing Boston. Late in the afternoon Mr. T aft stood on the brink of the deepest irrigation ditch in the West and far out in the foo hill of the mountains, with not a settlement in sight, made the elec trical connection that started a flow ol water through the Gunnison tunnel that will reclaim 140,000 acres o f arid land. The greatest irrigation project the United States government ever has undertaken was thus put in operation and the opening was the occasionl of a joyous celebration throughout the’ valley of the Uncompahgre. During his travels yesterday the President had ample opportunity to study the effect of irrigation. For a long time his train ran through stretch es o f country where as far as the eye could reach the only vegetation in sight consisted o f a few grease wood bushes or sagebrush. The i out of rocky canyon the train would suddenly come upon a veritable oasis, where fields of alfalfa and miles of orchards told of the miracle wrought by the touch of water. The tunnel has been hewn through six miles of a mounntain range and when the project is completed next spring it will d'vert the waters o f the Gunnison river, now flowing to the Gulf of California, to the valley on this side of the mountains, where minor private projects of irrigation already have told the wonders of the soil. Wheat—Blueatem, 95c: club, 86c; red Russian, 84>ic; valley, 89c; fife, I 86c; Turkey red, 86c; 40-fold, 88jic. Cow Creek's Big Peaches. Barley— Feed, $25.50(11,26; brewing, Glendale—Two peaches are on exhi $26 50ft/27 per ton. Oats— No. 1 white, $27(i?27.25 per bition at the Commercial club rooms that demonstrate that the Cow Creek 1 ton. Hay— Timothy, Willamette valley, valley is strong on peach culture. The fruit was raised by R. H. Springer, $15ft/16 per ton; Eastern Oregon, Austrian Capital for California and is of the Early Crawford variety. $17.600? 18 50; alfalfa, $14; clover, Japs Herded With Pigs. Los Angeles, Sept. 24.— Plans for inches in $14; cheat, $13@14.50; grain hay, Victoria, Sept 28.- Captured by the One peach measures 10 utilizing waters from the Colorado for | $ 15ft/16. Russian cruiser Shilka, in an attempt circumference, and theother 1 0 inch power, Butter— City creamery, extras, 36c; the generation o f electric to make a sealing raid on the Ski es. The Cow Creek valley produces as launched two years ago by Count Ap- fancy outside creamery, 33fti36c per island seal rookeries, three Japanese good fruit as grow? anywhere, yet the pound; store, 21(ri22c. Butter fat ponyi, an engineer of international rep seal hunters of the crew of the Japan fruit industry is in its infancy in this prices average 1 per pound under utation, who formerly held a colonel’ s ese sealing schooner Hosei Maru. have section. commission in the Austrian army, are regular butter prices. returned to Japan, being released ac Egga— Oregon ranch, candled, 32 3-sC being matured -apidly, according to Lane County Farm Sold. cording to information brought by the information given out by the count Cottage Grove— The Nelson farm of per dozen. steamer Empress of China, which ar today. Behind the project, he stated, Poultry— Hens, 16ft; 16 per pound; rived last night. The report is that 375 acres, on Row river, three miles is Count Lascio Szchenyi, who mar the arrested seal poachers were thrown from this place, was purchased last springs, 15 Sjft/ 16c: roosters, 9ft/;10c; ried Gladys Vanderbilt, and through into an outbuilding on Copper island, week by John Spray o f the Spray- ducks, young. 14(!$15c; geese, young. him the Rothschilds have been inter containing a number of cows and pigs, Wynne Hardware company of this 10ft/ 11c; turkeys, 20c; squabs, $1.76(0 ested. and were imprisoned there for 13 days. city, the purchase price being $16,00(1. 2 per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 9 ft/ 10c per pound. Mr. Spray will begin at once digging B:g Timber Deal. V ea l- Extra, 10ft/10 '„c per pound. a gravity irrigation ditch from the Few Changes in Minnesota. Vancouver, B. C., Sept 24.— A large Fruit»— Apples, lift/2.25 per box; Currin bridge, about a mile above the St. Paul, Sept 28. — Few changes pears, 50cft/$1.25; peaches, 75cft/$1.25 timber deal whereby A. B. Kurtz, of are liable to be made immediately in farm and intends irrigating the entire per crate; cantaloupes, 50cft/$ 1.25; New York, president of the American tract, which is very fertile. the administration of the affairs of the plums, 25ft/50c per box; watermelons, Financial Securities company, acquires state o f Minnesota. Governor Eber le p e r pound; grapes, 80cft/$1.25 per 54,000 acres of timber land in the Yield Over $2.500 Per Acre. tart says he will contniue to carry on crate; Concords, 25c per basket; casa- Cowichan lake country, was practical Dayton— From 30 trees in the or as far as possible the policies of the bas, $1.50ft?2 per crate; quincea, $1.50 ly consummated today. The purchase late Governor Johnson. Many of the chard of J. L. Dumas, near here, 517 per box. price was in the neighborhood o f $1,- boxes of apples were gathered last Democratic governor’s appointees were Pota'oea— 75cft?$l per sack; sweet 500,000, an. the new owners are to week. This is an average o f over 18 Republicans, and they may hold over. spend $500,000 more in the develop potatoes, 2c per pound. Some of the Johnson men have said boxes per tree. The receipts from the ment of the property by the erection Onions—$1.25 per sack. 547 boxes were $64.25. O f the total that they would resign. So far, how Vegetables - Beans, 4ft/5c per pound; o f a sawmill and the laying o f spur 472 boxes were sold for $1.50 per ever, Frank Day, Governor Johnson’s cabbage, lftzlk ic ; cauliflower, 75eftz tracks. The Canadian Pacific railroad private secretary, alone has made a box and 75 boxes at 75 cents per box. $1.25 per dozen , celery. 50ft/75c; com, will build a branch line to tidewater. This yield from an acre would be, 8213 definite announcement. 15ft/ 20c; cucumbers, 10ft?25c; onions, boxes and the gross receipts from the Reyes Goes to Europe. 12l»ftil5 c ; peas, 7c per pound; pep same would be $2,547.50. Handshakes Are Tabooed. Monterey, Mexico, Sept 27.— Fol pers, 4ft?5c; pumpkins, ft? 1 c ; Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 28. — Harry lowing the resignation of General Ber squash. 6c; tomatoes, 50c per box. Buys Milton Apples. M. Moffitt, chief of secret service on Hops -1909 Fuggles. 20ft/21c; clus nardo Reyes from the presidency o f the the Pacific c< ast, is in Sacramento con Milton- -William Gibaon, Sr . of the ters, 21ft/22c; 1908 crop, 17c; 1907 local casino, it is rumored here that sulting with Chief of Police Sullivan Gibson Fruit company, of Chicago, crop. 12c; 1906 crop, 8c. General Reyes is preparing to leave concerning the handling o f crowds was in the city recently and closed a Wool Eastern Oregon, 16ft/23c per Mexico and to take up his residence in when President T aft visits this city contract with the Milton Fruit Grow pound; valley, 23ft/25c; mohair, choice, Europe. Much color is lent to the re on October 4 and talks at Capitol park. ers’ union to take all the apples this 23ft/ 25c. ports due to the fact that the home of Moffitt says orders have been received season at $2 per box, f. o. b. Milton. Catt'e— Steers, top quality, $4 25ft? General Reyes, valued at $90,000, is from Cheif Wilkie that no public hand A few years ago Walia Walla valley 4.50; fair to good, $4; common, $3.50 for sale. It is not believed that Reyes shaking will be allowed here. Crowds apples were practically unknown in ft/3.75; cows, top. $3.50; fair to good, has intentions of leaving Mexico until will he kept at a safe dis'ance from Eastern markets, but since they are $3ft/3.25; common to medium, $2.50 after the elections. the nation's chief. receiving recognition it ia hard to sup ft/2.75; calves, top, $5(?|5.50; heavy, ply the demand. Frederick Grant for President $3.50(,/4; bulla, $2ft/2.25; stags, $2.50 Slvpwrecked Men Return. ft/3.50. Chicago, Sept. 24.— Major General Make Federal Building Larger. Victoria, B. C., Sept. 28.- Seven Hog»— Best, $8; fair to good, $7.76 Frederick Dent Grant, son of the fam survivors of the Japanese schooner Pendleton— Pendleton’s new Federal ft/7.85; stockera, $6ftf7; China fata, ous leader of the Union forces during Hykuman Maru. given up long ago as building is to be made large enough to $7.50ft? 8. the Civil war, is being boomed as the lost, returned to Hakodate shortly be house the Federal court and attaches, j She p— Top wethers, $4fti4.2R; fair presidential candidate o f the Prohibi fore the departure of the Empress of the Northwest headquarters of the Fed to good, $3.60ft?3.75; ewes, !^c less tion party in 1912, by members o f the China, which arrived here last nlghL j eral bureau o f animal industry, as well on all grades; yearlings, best, $4ftz organization who are assembling in Their schooner went ashore in the as the postoffice. This is the announce 4.25; fair to good, $3.50?/!3.75; spring this city to celebrate the fortieth anni lambs, $5.25(1/ 5.50. Kuril islands August 26, last year. ment that has just been made here. veraary of the birth o f the party. PREPARING FOR CONGRESS. BUTTE MINES ALL CLOSED BY STRIKE Display o f Dry Farming Products Ar- nvirg at Bdlirgs. Ten Thousand Men Quit Work and Leave Shafts. Smelters and Other Allied Industries May Be Forced lo Suspend--Po lice Protect Men Who Would Con tlnue W o rk —Sheriff Threatens to Shoot if Necessary. Butte, Mont., Sept. 25.— Every mine in Butte is shut down tonight and 10, 000 men are idle, with the prospect of 5,000 more being thrown out o f work II the suspension continues for five days the smelters and other allied in dustries will he forced to suspend. The trouble was caused by a major? ty of Engineers’ Union No. 83 having seceded from the Western F'ederation of Miners and organized a new union The Butte Miners’ union ordered its members not to go to work in mines employing members of the new engin eers’ union. The evening was ushered in with great excitement, when nearly 2,000 miners surrounded the shaft o f the Gagnon mine, apparently for the pur pose of mobbing 28 miners who defied the command of the union to stop work A detail o f 15 policemen with Captain Thomas Norton in command hurried to lhe scene, and reinforced by Sheriff John K. O’ Rourke, with every deputy of his office at his hack, succeeded in reaching the shaft mouth. Mounting a pile of timbers, the sher iff in plain language told the crowd that the officers proposed to protect the Gagnon miners and intimated that any attempt at violence oupon the part of the strikers would result in shooting. It is hardly likely that work will be resumed before a week, and the various smelters throughout the state may be compelled to suspend ooerations. WRECK A T S E A T T L E . Trolley Car Jumps Track and Crashes Into Corner Cafe. Seattle, Sept. 25.—O f the 80 passen gers on a big Wallingford avenue car that was wrecked at the curve near the main gate of the World’s fair, shortly before noon yeBterday, not one escaped being cut or brused or sharply shaken but it is believed that none of the in jured will die. Frank Hull, o f Taco rna, aged 46, an Oddfellow attending the festivities accompanying the Sov ereign Grand lodge meeting, died an hour after being taken from the wreck. The car got beyond control of the motorman, attained a speed o f 30 miles an hour at the corner o f Fourteenth avenue, Northeast, and East Fortieth street, careened, left the track, and crashed into a one-story building at the southeast corner o f the crossing, de molishing the flimsy building, splitting and wrecking the car and hurling the passengers forward with frightful force Every pane of glass in the car was broken and the jagged pieces showered upon the passengers, who were tossed one upon another in indescribable con fusion. WRECKAGE LINES GULF. Southern Coast Strewn With Broken Ships and Launches. New Orleans, Sept 25.— With the list of dead from Monday’s tropical hurricane well above 100 tonight, every indication points to a much larger num ber of victims. Many small sloops and launches are lying wrecked on the Gulf shore of Louisiana and Mississip pi, and there is little doubt that some of their occupants are lost. Anxiety for the safety of steamers bound for New Orleans during the hur ricane period on the gulf, has been re lieved. Nearly all o f these vessels were many hours late, but finally ar rived at this port with the exception of the Utstein, which is four days over due from Puerto Cortes. She was re ported today to have gone aground off Seashore light near the mouth of the Mississippi, with no loss of life. Juarez Bomb Harmless. El Paso, Tex., Sept. 25.— It devel oped today that there was no plot con nected with the finding of a supposed bomb in Juarez, Mexico. The "bom b” proved to be a small pepper box, three inches long, an inch and a half in di ameter, and containing a substance like paraffine poured over the top. Even had it been exploded it would have done no harm. The police have arrested an American tramp who had been sleeping on the premises of Senor Arguelles and had been ordered away. He had made threats against Arguelles. Town Condemns Chinese. Jerome, Ariz., Sept. 25.— A vigor ous movement was inaugurated here today looking to the exclusion of Chin ese from the city. Reports that refuse meat has been used in Chinese restau rants, where many people of Jerome are accustomed to eat, precipitated the agitation. Investigation of the res taurants today revealed conditions far from sanitary, it is alleged. It is said that the Chinese may not only be driv en out, but that absolute prohibition against the entrance of any more Chin ese into the city may result. Spain Turned Back. Oudja, Sept. 25.— Native reports say that the Spanish advance toward Se- louan on September 20 was stopped and turned back by a strong body of Riffiana. Similar reports were current during ihe operations at Souk Beni Si- car, when a number o f the tribesmen^ fighting for the Spanish cause, were said to have deaerted to the enemy, forcing the Spanish troops to retire to Melilla. These reporta probably are the basis o f a rumored Spanish reverse. Hundreds Flee in Skiffs. Biloxi, Miss., Sept 25.— About 500 storm sufferers are homeless at Bayou la Manre, near the mouth o f the Mis sissippi river, and two lives were lost there. The water rose eight feet in the houses and tue people saved their lives by taking skiffs and rowing up the Mississippi river. Billing*. Mont., Sept. 22.— While farmers throughout the West are pre paring samples of their products for display at the International Dry Farm ing exposition which will he held here October 25-29 in connection with the F'ourth Dry Farming congress, the Montana board of control is rushing work on the exhibit hall where the re sults of dry farming operations will be exhibited in ocular demonstration of the success of intelligent application o f scientific principles in practical ag riculture. For the main division of the exposi tion, the local committee has secured the wool warehouse, one of the largest buildings in Billings. The building is 60 by 160 feet and is located along the railroad tracks in the center of the city. Its barn like interior is being trans formed from the unaesthetic crudities of warehouse architecture into an at tractive exposition hall by a force of carpenters and decorators. Two high partitions will divide the room into three compartments, or large aisles, with a total of 92,000 squure feet of wall space. A t the base of each parti tion and around the walls of the entire building, Bhelvesare being budt, which will give nearly 4,000 square feet of space, making a total of approximately 96,000 square feet of available exhibit space. The grains and grasses and other products which are to be displayed on the walls and threshed grains, roots, fruits and vegetables will be shown on the shelves. A false ceiling I b being put in 14 feet from the floor and deco rated with bunting and (lags. The walls will have a background o f black cloth. When the exhibits are in place, the gold and green of grains and grass es outlined against the black back ground and file red, white and blue of the national colors upon the ceiling and about the walls, will make a picture of striking artistic effectiveness. The floor space will be divided into 20 foot squareB and above the center of each square will pe an arc light. Exhibits are already beginning to arrive and are being placed in the ex position hall. FAVORS C O R PO R ATIO N TAX. President Taft Says It Is Better Than Income Tax. Denver, Sept. 22.— Making his way still further to the West, President T aft arrived in this city yesterday af ternoon, and last night, in the Denver auditorium, where a year ago William J. Bryan was nominated as his oppon ent in the presidential race, he faced a crowd of thousands that in its noisy welcome and continuous enthusiasm re called some of the scenes of convention week. President Taft, switching from his purpose to discuss the conservation of natural resources, last night took up the corporation tax and defended it against the proposition to impose a di rect ioncome tax, which he said seemed likely to pass the senate when the cor poration tax was devised as a compro mise. The president strorgly urged, however, that the states ratify the pro posed income tax amendment to the constitution in order to make such a tax available in time of necessity. The president declared that the cor poration tax was in itself the best form o f income tax that could be levied, and pointed out that it contai/ ed many of the best features of the income tax law of England. The president declared it would be possible so to amend the cor poration tax as to include within its scope every desired feature of an in come tax except the levy upon incomes erived from actual salary and profes sional services. * The president said he opposed direct income tax except in cases o f emerg ency and he believed it to be a prime fault in the Federal constitution that no provision is made for a direct levy to meet wartime or other extraordinary expenses. Massacre Report Denied St. Petersburg, Sept. 22.—The re port that anti-Jewish riots have oc curred at K iev is officially denied at the chancellory o f Premier Stolypin. The official news agency and newspa pers have no word of rioting and it is thought the report is based on an inci dent which occurred at Slobodka. A band o f 15 members of the Reactionary league appeared on the streets on that day and fell upon the promenading Jews with cries of “ here is quality for you,” and began to beat them. Police appeared and the Reactionaries fled. Hill Say» Leader I* Lost. St. Paul, Sept. 22.—James J. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great Northern Railway company, «a id today o f Governor Johnson: ” He possessed many of the qualities of a leader combined with kindly disposition and a pleasant appearance. His abili ty was illustrated by his career, com ing. as he did, from the lowest stratum of the social structure to the highest. And bis life ’s work with its results were not matters o f accident. They were due to his perseverance and abil ity .” Former Preacher Fills Job. St. Paul, Sept. 22.— Adolph C. Eber- hart, who, by the death o f Governor Johnson, becomes the chief executive o f the state, was bom in Sweden, 38 years ago, but came to Minnesota in 1881. He attended the public schools and was afterward graduated from Gustavus Adolphus college, at St. Peter, as a minister o f ihe Gospel. Soon after his graduation Mr. Eberhart abandoned church work and took op the study of law. Big Land Deal Recorded. Merced, Cal., Sept. 22 — One o f the largest land deals recorded in this sec tion o f California was completed to day, when the C. W. Wooster com pany, of San Francisco, took a bond on the Chowchilla ranch. 14 miles south o f Merced. The ranch contains 108,- 000 acres and the deal is said to have involved more than $1,000,000. The Wooster company plans to irrigate tha tract and colonize iL