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DOINGS OF THE WEEK Current Events or Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Im po rtant Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r O u r Busy Readers. Railroads are boosting freight rates on sugar and coffee. The department of justice iB hunting for an alleged lumber trust. Eighteen persons were hurt in wreck on the Southern railway in V ir ginia. President T aft has signed a proc lamation reducing the Idaho forest re serves by 100,000 acres. A man convicted of sugar frauds and pardoned has returned voluntarily tc testify against the sugar trust. Louis W. Hill and party have com pleted their 1,500-mile tour through Oregon and say that no state contains greater possibilities. The American Aeronautical associa tion has been organized. I t will be entirely independent of the Wright Brothers' Aero Club of America. A Marshfield, Oregon, man has raised his own tea supply for several years. He says the Pacific Coast can raise tea just as good as Japan China. D O M A IN IS G IV E N B A C K . Thousands o f A cres Are M ade Avail able In W estern States. Washington, May 23.— Temporary withdrawals from the public domain for power sites were made by Secre tary Ballinger today of approximately 3,440 acres along the John Day river, in Oregon; 5,547 acres along the Wind river in Wyoming; 8,620 acres along the Price river, in Utah; and 606 acres along the Blue river, in Colo rado. Large tracts of land in Montana and New Mexico were designated for settlement under the enlarged home stead act. About 69,130 acres in the former state were placed within the terms of that act and approximately 57,236 acres in the latter were so designated as not being susceptible of successful irrigation at a reasonable cost from any known source o f water supply. An aggregate of nearly 100,000 acres have been thrown out of national forests in Oregon and added to the un reserved public domain by the latest proclamations issued by the president in carrying out the plan recently adopt ed for rearranging the forest boundary lines. The folowing shows the total elimin ations from each of four national for ests in that state: Malheur, 4,485 acres; Whitman, 61,756 acres; De schutes, 16,152 acres, and Umatilla, 69,518 acres. The total eliminations in the en tire country amount to 721,714 acres, and the total additions to national for ests aggregate 199,003 acres. DUE TO SURRENDER. An anarchist threw a bomb at the monument erected to victims of the at tempt against King Alfonso on his wed N ica ra g u a n Rebels S u rro u n d e d and S u p p lie s C a p tu re d . ding day. No one was injured but the anarchist himself, who then committed Bluefields, Nicaragua, May 23.— suicide. “ Have enemy completely surrounded In order to win a $4 wager to buy and cut off from ammunition and pro Expect surrender at any groceries, an Arkansas man leaped visions. from a 50-foot bridge into the creek time.” This was the message that came to below and started to swim ashore, but was drowned. The wager was given General Juan Estrada, leader of the insurgent forces, from General Mena to his family. today. The sugar trust admits it is in The Estrada forces, under Mena, ac tal fear of the cartoonists. cording to the plan which had been de A severe wind storm did much dam cided upon, executed their first move yesterday afternoon at Rama. age in Clay county, Kansas. General Almena allowed General Army engineers approved the plan Chavarías, of the Madriz forces, to for free government locks at Oregon close upon Rama, when he moved a City. small body of his forces in a feint to Jewish families to the number of attack Chavarías’ forces. A t the same 980 have been expelled from several time General Moneado, at the head of an insurgent detatchment, made large cities in Russia. forced march from Muelle de Bueys, A hundred-million dollar combine of distance of 40 ftiiles west of Rama, and Chicago street car lines and terminal attacked Chavarías' ammunition and companies is proposed. provision train. I t is said the death of of King Ed The entire train, with 200,000 rounds ward leaves Kaiser Wilhelm in a much of ammunition and a large amount of more prominent light than formerly provisions, was captured, and General General Chava- George Sontag, ex-train robber, des Chavarías’ supplies. perado and convict, will lecture on the ruis now holds a position facing Rama, uselessness and folly of a life o f crime. with General Almena close behind him. C O O L H E A D S A V E R T P A N IC . Count Jacques de Lesseps crossed the English channel in a Blériot mono plane. He intends to return by the Blaze D e vo u rs C irc u s T e n t, But 15 ,- same method. OOO P eople a re U n h u rt. Socialists at their national congress Schenectady. N. Y., May 23.— Bar refused to vote at elections where their num & Bailey's “ big top,” the main car.d; iates have been eliminated from tent o f the circuis, caught fire here the ticket through the commission today from a cigar stump and burned form of city governments. like an overturned hot air balloon. Fifteen thousand people, who filled The World’s Sunday School conven tion at Washington elected President the seats to overflowing, filed out like Taft, Colonel Roosevelt, King George school childern at drill. Spectators first smelled the smoke, of England, President Diaz of Mexico, and discovering the fire, began to beat and W. J. Bryan as life members. it with their coats. The blaze leaped A partly wrecked areoplane was the above their heads and the next effort only accident that marred the aviation to conquer it came from circus employ meet at Sutherlin, Ore. es, who began to tear out huge patches Firemen on the Deleware, Lack- of canvas. Their efforts met with no auwanna & Western have been given better success, for the fire, eating up ward, soon worked its way to the top an increase of 12 per cent ifi wages. most peak. A Greeley, Colo., man paid up all Energetic men and cool women in his old debts so he might die with a the crowd, aided the employes, as clear conscience when the comet came. sumed direction o f the audience and Thieves stole a package containing orderly files were soon moving steadily $32,024 from the express office at Oil from the exits. When a woman faint City, Pa., while the agent wasn’ t look ed or a child shrieked, shouts of reas ing. surance rose and strong arms were in A woman in San Ana, Cal., went in stantly ready for support. Not a soul was hurt, not an animal sane and another tried to commit suicide through fear o f the coming of the injured. The total damage is esti mated at $10,000. comet. George Pepoon, of Northport, G ia n t M e rg e r f o r Chicago. Wash., was found guilty of murder in Chicago, May 23.— Railway inter the first degree for poisoning his wife ests of Chicago are considering the ad last August. visability of organizing a $100,000,000 corporation for the purpose o f consoli J. Voliva, former overseer on the dating under one ownership and under Dowie farm near Chicago, has begun suit to recover control o f the property, one management all of the belt rail roads, all of the switching railroads, value»! at $1,000,000. and all of the so-called terminal rail Many farmers in Wisconsin removed roads in and about Chicago. This giganic financial undertaking, the lightning rods from their buildings as a precautionary measure against in which undoubtedly would effect for Chi cago an annual economy aggregating jury from the effects of the comet. many millions, is in its first stages— Twenty-eight bodies have been re that of careful study and consideration. covered from the ruins o f the barracks at Pinar del Rio, Cuba, which were de A e ro p la n e F lyin g P e rfe c te d . stroyed by an accidental explosion of Stratford, Conn., May 23.— Stanley dynamite. Y. Beach, a New York inventor, has George Westinghouse has invented constructed the first aeroplane in the an air-spring for vehicles which will do ; world with a gyroscope attachment for away with pneumatic rubber tires, stability. A t its testing grounds here and reduce the cost of automobiles Mr. Beach has been long at work on about one-half. the machine, which is a monoplane like the one used by Blériot in crossing the Prohibition was defeated in Denver English channel. He has made several city elections. test flights, but has been hampered by Within Henry Watterson says “ yellow jour the weight of the machine. nalism” is causing the press to lose its two weeks he expects to install a light er motor and looks for immediate hold upon public opinion. success. A pair o f scales, exact duplicate of those used in weighing sugar at the N ew G old S trik e is M ade. custom houses, were exhibited in the Weaverville, Cal., May 23.—Gold in sugar fraud trial in New York, and it large quantities has been reported in was plainly shown how they were the Jewel Creek canyon near Miners- made to weigh nine pounds short on vilie and all the ground in the immedi less than a thousand. ate vicinity of the little stream has been staked out by prospectors. Char Two dogs at Condon, Ore., were so les Heath, who had been prospecting badly injured in a fight with a porcu on Jewel creek for some time, struck a pine that they had to he killed. pocket which yielded $6,000 in seven A Tacoma man, his w ife and daugh days. Some of the pans he washed ter, are critically ill from eating what gave him as high as $100. Many have gone to the scene of the strike. they supposed were mushrooms. Millions of dollars were secured S trik e r s R etu rn M o nday. from cotton buyers all over the world New York, May 23. All the strik by swindlers who used bogus bills of ing employes of the International Pa lading. per company returned to work this A lieutenant and eight men from the morning. Terms of ageement were regular army will spend the summer entered into between officers o f the making maps o f the coast about Sea- ■ company and the officers o f the pulp ■ide, Oregon. • makers’ and paper makers’ unions. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE W illam ette Forest F ire Association Plans to Fight Forest Fires. Portland — The Willamette Valley Forest Fire association has been organ ized by a number o f large timber own era o f Multnomah, Clackamas, Linn and Marion counties. The timber own ers of Linn and Lincoln counties are getting together for protection against forest fires during the coming summer. The district organizations now being formed will be subsidiary to the Ore gon Forest Fire association, organized in this city some time ago along plans similar to those adopted by the state associations in Washington, Idaho and Montana. The Willamette association adopted articles o f organization and then pro ceeded to elect five directors as fol lows : F. C. Knapp, E. S. Collins, C. G. Briggs, R. S. Shaw and C. A. Mann. The board of directors then elected C. G. Briggs, of Holland, Briggs & Avery, president; R. S. Shaw, of the Curtis Lumber company, vice presi dent, and Waldo Avery, Jr., o f Hol land, Briggs & Avery, secretary. The association w ill at once begin enrolling membership of all timber owners in the state and in the near fu ture plans for patrolling and guarding the timber will be carried into effect. C. G. Briggs, as president o f the subsidiary organization, will have a seat at the meetings o f the state asso ciation. This will be the first time in the history of the state that the timber owners have gotten together in a sys tematic way for the purpose of guard ing against the fire danger. It is ex pected that excellent results will be obtained. In years past thousands of dollars’ worth of timber has been de stroyed annually by flames that have spread from camp fires or other causes, but with well organized patrols cover ing the various districts, it is believed that ravages by fire can be reduced to insignificance. H A W K E Y E T O BE W O R K E D . Railroad Extension Brings Activity Mining Industry. in Prairie City — The mines in the Quartzburg district, which will be opened by the extension of the railroad to Prairie City, are beginning to lay plans for operation. The Hawkeye group will be worked this summer; also the Dixie Meadows, together with the Prosser, which has been in opera tion all spring, but is shut down tem porarily to install pumps. The Hawkeye is said to contain some of the best mineral veins in the district, containing the big veins which have been worked upon by the Copperopolis mine, which has an ex tension of the ledges due to faulting. O. Hochman, secretary of the Iowa Copper Mining company, is on the ground making ready for the summer’s work. Walter Canning, an expert mining engineer, is preparing a report upon the mine, and development work will be begun as soon as the company has acted upon the report. L ittle development work has been donejupon the Hawkeye group,Ibut four men are working and have found some good ore by sinking in a tunnel. The men, after going down 50 feet, will crosscut the ledge in two directions. There are.three large parallel ledges, and it is the plan of the company to run a tunnel crosscutting all o f them. Assays taken from the ledge croppings run in the neighborhood of $6 a ton. From one tunnel 200 feet long ore has been taken out running as high as $71, and from another tunnel 20 feet long $17 ore was taken out. SW EEPS QKLAHO M A One Killed, Many In jured, and Many Tow ns Devastated. Pauls Valley, Okla., May 21.— Tor nadoes and hail and rain storms trav ersed sections of Garvin, McClain and Election to Be Held fo r $ 7 0 ,0 0 0 Im Pontotoc counties last night, killing one person, seriously injuring several provem ent Bonds. others and partially devastating a large Vale— An election will be held this rural area. week in this city for the pur- The village o f McCarty, 11 miles pose of voting on the issuance o f bonds southwest of here, was literally wiped in the amount of $70,000 to provide out, stores, a school house and resi- funds for the installation of complete dences being ripped into splinters. water works and a sewage system to Mrs. George Dewberry, w ife o f a covei the entire townsite. Water will minister, was injured by flying tim be supplied from deep wells. It is bers. She died in a few hsurs. A proposed to build a reservoir on top of little girl living two and a half miles the hill near town with a capacity of from Pauls Valley, who had sought re- 1,000,000 gallons. fuge in a storm cave, was seriously in- A new feature is to be installed in | jured by timbers which penetrated the the construction o f the reservoir, in roof of the cave. The 13-year-old that it will be funnel shape, with auto- daughter of Robert Clark, living in the matic drain carrying off all deposit and j same neighborhood, was injured in a sediment, leaving the supply always similar manner. fresh and pure. The town of Maysville was reported Vale will soon be the center of oper- to have been blown away, but commit- ations for several large irrigation pro- nication with that point cannot be es- jects, among which may be mentioned tablished tonight and the report is un- the Willow river, work on which is confirmed. progressing; the Owyhee, Malheur, | Considerable damage was done at Bully creek, Cottonwood and several Paoli, seven miles north o f Pauls Val- smaller ones. The Willow River Land ley, and an unconfirmed rumor says the & Irrigation company has purchased town was blown away, about 20,000 acres of land in the Wil- Another report from Madill that one low river valley, which is watered by man was killed and several houses means o f a most complete reservoir | wrecked is denied, system. The McCarty tornado destroyed It is the intention of the company practically everything on 1,000 acres, to have the project completed and ; It originiated three miles east o f the water ready for delivery by the spring village, traveled in a northeasterly di- of 1911. In all upwards o f 20,000 rection and spent its force near Pauls acres will be reclaimed. Valley. Practically all o f this land is fine for Houses and barns were wrecked, fruit as has been demonstrated on the 1 fences blown away, many cattle and old ranches in the vicinity that have j horses killed and crops were beaten in- been under cultivation for a number of j to the earth by rain and hail, years. In the vicinity of Brogan | Nearly all the physicians o f Pauls about 250 acres were planted to fruit I Valley have been called to the stricken last year and it is safe to say th at! district. Until they return and until double this amount has been, and will ^ the country is surveyed tomorrow, be, planted this spring; of this, about the actual extent o f the damage and one half is apples, the balance pears, the number o f injured will not be peaches, etc. Cherries and small fruits known. do well and will be one o f the staple The latest news from Elmore is products. that the town of Paoli was blown en tirely away. W IL L B U IL D W A T E R T IM B E R O W N E R S O R G A N IZ E . !TO RNADO COMET’S TAIL PAST SYSTEM . Gold in Gold H ill’s S treets. Gold H ill— Rock in which free gold KING EDWARD IS BURIED. shows plainly has been picked up on the streets here by several people the past few days. The “ discovery” came Greatest Throngs Ever Known Watch Funeral Pageant. after a shower, when the rock was washed clean o f dust, and in a few London, May 21.—Sovereigns and hours many tine specimens had been representatives of the powers o f all the secured. The ore was hauled here for world paid their last tribute yesterday to paving purposes from abandoned i England’ s great monarch, Edward VII, dump at the Braden mine, a mile j whose body now rests in St. George’s southeast of town, and experienced chapel at Windsor castle, where the miners say that the specimens that bones o f Edward IV , the sixth and have been found will assay several eighth Henrys, Charles I, the third thousand dollars to the ton. j and fourth Georges and William IV I are entombed. Find Valuable Gold Vein. Bright sunshine followed a night of Cottage Grove— While men were en- j thunder storms that swept the city gaged in quarrying rock at the city's and soaked the funeral,decorations that quarry, one mile north o f town, for hung along the line o f march. They street paving purposes, a quartz-bear- had no deterrent effect on the thous- ing vein was discovered, the miners ands who from midnight until dawn claim it will show an assay of at least sought points of vantage from which $25 per ton. The vein is six inches to watch the passing cortege. London’s millions filled the streets wide and the gold is free milling. A small lead was found last week, but it and open places as they have never was but two inches wide on the surface been filled before at either tuneral or and dwindled away in a few feet, noth festival. The pageantry that marked the bur ing was thought of it. ial of Victoria was as naught compared T o H old Odd Fellows' Fair. with the magnificence o f the day’ s Oakland— The Odd Fellows’ new ceremony, which was splendidin its ac temple will be dedicatd June 2, on companiments of gilded coaches, bril which date a fair will be opened, to liant uniforms and decorations, far sur run three days. An Odd Fellows’ Fair passing the ceremony attending the re- association has been organized to carry movai of the king’s body from Buck on the work o f arranging the fair, the ingham palace to Westminster hall. profits from sales on this occasion to The procession included nine sover be devoted to paying off the debt on eigns; an ex-president of the United the new building. States, Theodore Roosevelt, who alone was not in uniform, the heirs to sever Oakland to C elebrate. al thrones; the members of the royal Oakland— An organization has been families; the officers o f the households perfected to arrange for a big celebra- | the officials o f the governments; field tion on July 4. Preparations are being marshai8, generals and admirals; de- made for the accommodation of a large tachments o f troops o f all the British crowd, and it is expected that people arms; representatives o f foreign arm from all over the county will be in at ies and navies in variegated uniforms tendance. — a solid phalanx o f glittering colors. The lines of redcoated soldiers were Easterner Buys Orchard. Hood River — E. L. McClain, of drawn up as on that other great occas Greenfield, Ohio, has bought 19% acres ion of England’s mourning, nine years o f orchard on the east side for $36,000. ago, wth arms reversed and regimental This orchard, which contains five and flags dipped to the ground. seven-year old trees about evenly di vided, is one o f the finest in the valley. Long Jum p Brings Death. Nothing Unusual Rewards Millions WHo Watched for Phenomena No III Effects N o r Electrical D istu r bances A pparent— Many Sun Spots In Evidence. Portland, May 19.— The comet came, the comet went, and this old earth is no worse and no better, and thus far very little wiser. There waa no collision, as the super stitious and the ignorant feared, and now that the comet is headed away from us, there will be no recurrence of the manifestations o f terror that were recorded from all parts o f the world. The earth did pass through the tail o f the comet, but nobody suffered from the deadly cyanogen gas. To the naked eye, the tail of the comet was indeed the “ veriest approach to nothing set in the midst o f naughL” In fact, the phenomena of the day light hours of yesterday were far the more interesting. During the after noon sunspots were observed in vary ing numbers from five Western observ atories at the same hour, but the as tronomers who recorded them were al most unanimous in the belief that these disturbances had nothing to do with the approach o f the comet. Two were seen from San Jose, with 13 Bmaller spots; three “ considerably accentuat ed” spots from Chicago; three connect ed spots from Vallejo, Cal., and two from Portlam), Oregon. None o f the Eastern observatories had anything o f note to report, either during the day or the night. Near Chicago, at Williams Bay, Wis., where is the great Yerkes telescope, the con ditions for observations seemed the best and the astronomers there were confident that the negative as well as the positive results o f their examina tion would be o f lasting scientific value. The whole performance took little more than five hours. Observers dif- ered as to the exact time at which the earth began to pass through the comet’ s tail, but the opinion averages a moment between 10 and 11 o’clock at night. Eastern time. The combined speed o f the tail and the earth was estimated at slightly more than 46 mites a second, and the breadth o f the tail at about 1,000,000 miles. Friday the comet will become visible again, headed away from us, with the tail sticking straight up out o f the western sky a little above the spot where the sun sinks. There will then be no light from the rising sun to dim the glory o f the spectacle and it is likely to be far more majestic than in the stages o f the approach. A t the end of this month, good-bye for another 75 years. CO M ETS IM M A T U R E PLANETS. P ro fessor See Advances Th eo ry te r Y ears o f Research. A f TO PRO TECT W O RKM EN. National M anufacturers Association C onsiders Safety Appliances. New York, May 18.— The beginning of a new era in the safeguarding o f the country's vast industrial army will be witnessed at the 15th annual conven tion uf the National Association of Manufacturers, now in session. The absolutely vital necessity o f pre venting accidents in industrial estab lishments has forcibly been brought home to the 3,000 manufacturers form ing the association by the fact that 600,000 persons suffer from accidents each year in the United States. Two hundred and fifty million dollars is the estimated economic loss annually, in this country, due to accidents. A t least half the accidents are considered preventable. A comprehensive report of a com mittee appointed some time ago by John Kirby, Jr., president of the na tional association, w ill be made, and the convention will be addressed by Professor Frederick Remsen Hutten, of the American Museum o f Safety; Miles M. Dawson, who has studied ac cident prevention abroad for the Rus sell Sage Foundation, and by other eminent speakers. President Kirby said on the Bubject: "T h e question of appliances for pre venting accidents to workmen, and acci dent indemnity, are at present receiv ing more attention than any other is sues which attract public interest in the field o f industry. They are live questions o f vital importance to mem bers from an economic as well as hu manitarian standpoint. “ In preparing its report, the com mittee has communicated with 25,000 employers in all parts of the United States, as well as 250 national, state and local organizations o f employers. Every state legislator o f every state in the Union was also written to. Spe cial correspondence was carried on with America/i and Europea/i experts. “ A little more than 10,000 replies to the various communications have been received. There were only three pro testing, even in a mild manner, against taking up the questions o f em ployers’ liability and workmen’s in demnity. It was disclosed that 99 per cent of the membership of the associa tion favors a constructive, progressive policy o f dealing with this difficult question.” S E V E N B O IL E R S B L O W U P . Instant D eath to 13 M en and to T h irty M o re . Injuries Canton, Ohio, May 18.— Quick death to 13 men, serious injury to 30 other employes of the plant, and damage to the buildings amounting to many thou sands o f dollars— these are the results of the explosion of a battery o f seven boilers this afternoon at the American Sheet & Tin Plate company. Among the injured are half a dozen who prob ably will die before morning. The force o f the explosion was ter rific. The big plant is practically a total loss. A mere shell of the build ing is left. Identification o f the men was diffi cult. Arms were blown front bodies, and fragments of the bodies were blown blocks away. Bits of human flesh have been picked up on porches and roofs o f houses and in trees. One hundred men were at work in the plant at the time o f the accident. Only a dozen or so escaped some in jury, and these worked heroically to rescue their fellow workmen from the burning ruins. The body o f one man was blown through a house 700 feet from the plant. The body entered the house from the east side and continued in a straight line through a bedroom and out the west side. The torso of another man was found in a garden 500 feet away. One in jured man begged to be killed. He had an arm torn off and a great hole gaped in his side. The plant had five mills. A ll the employes working at mills 1, 2, 3 and 4 were either killed or injured, while the men in mill No. 5, farthest from the boilers, escaped serious injury. Mare Island, Cal., May 19.— Profes sor T. J. J. See, astronomer in charge o f the United States naval observatory at Mare Island, announced today as the outcome o f years of research in cos- mical evolution, a theory on the origin o f comets, which, he said, were some of the primitive masses once forming the solar nebula and could be popularly described as immature, undevelo|>cd planets. ‘ In course o f researches made at Mare Island during the past two years on the origin o f the solar system,” W E T 4 0 ,0 0 0 A C R E S . said Professor See, “ I have proved that comets are really survivals o f the outer shell o f ancient nebula, from Eastern C apital Plans to S to re W ater which our system was developed. All in Rich Fruit Section. the inner parts of the nebula have been Grants Pass— F. J. Blakeley of Rose- cleared away in producing planets and burg is backed by large Eastern capital satellites, but many small masses still Navy N ext to B ritain’s. in a project to build a storage reservoir survive in the outer shell o f the old at the head o f the Applegate river to Washington, May 18.-—The United San Francisco, May 21.—Jumping nebula. These are the comets.” PO RTLAND M A R K ETS. irrigate the valley in the vicinity of States leads the world in the total dis from the cupola o f the Call building at Grants Pass by a gravity system. Mr. placement o f completed warships, with Wheat— Track prices: Bluestem, 87 11 o’clock yesterday morning, Nichol Ball o f Radium is Theory. Blakeley has taken the preliminary 6/89c; club, 836184c; red Russian, 80 as Lichkaskis struck the sidewalk amid the single exception o f Great Britain, Portland, May 19.— “ I believe Hal- but iB behind five other countries in steps towards the organization of an fit 82c; valley, 87c. a crowd of passersby with such force ley’s comet is a ball o f radium, ’ de the number o f such vessels. irrigation district, petitions for that Reckon Barley— Feed and brewing, $2261)23. that his body bounced and fell in a dared Dr. Davidson Buchanan last ing the war vessels built and building, purpose being circulated and signed by Corn- Whole, $33; cracked, $34 ton. heap amid passing wagons and automo night, in his lecture before the maga America and Germany are running on a considerable number o f people. It Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il biles. That the leap o f 320 feet was is the claim of Mr. Blakeley and his lamette valley, $206/21 per ton; East long ago adopted by the man as the zine class at the Y. M. C. A. “ And I equal terms, but the former is leading think,” he continued, "th a t the proof in displacement when the ships provid associates that sufficient water can ern Oregon, $226i25; alfalfa, $16.506; means of committing suicide was be gathered at the head of the Apple- 17.60; grain hay, $176/118. tablished when a receipt for $75 from of this theory will be established by ed for in the pending naval appropria the results of observations o f scientific tion bills are added to the calculation. gate to cover 40,000 acres of land, and Fresh Fruits— Strawberries, Oregon, an undertaker to defray his funeral ex the topography of the country is such $1.756/2.50; perorate; California, 60c penses “ in case of death” was found in men now studying the comet. Like Great Britain, the United States and radium, the comet furnishes its own Germany remain the leading powers. as to make a large storage reservoir 6/$l; apples, $ 1.506/3 per box; cher a pocket of the dead man’s coat. luminosity and continues for years feasible and without any great engin ries, $1611.50 per box; gooseberries, without decreasing in weight.” Dr. eering difficulties. D enver W ill Remain W et. 66/ 7c per pound. Long Balloon Flight Fails. Buchanan said this at the close o f an The coming of irrigation from some Denver, May 18.— The anti-saloon Potatoes—Carload buying prices: Ionia, Mich., May 21.— The balloon interesting talk on comets in general. element was beaten in the elections source is as certain as the sunrise. The Oregon, 406/'50c per hundred; new Cal values of fruit lands are constantly be ifornia, 2%@3c per pound; sweet po Centennial, piloted by Captain H. E. yesterday by a majority o f from 5,000 Honeywell and his assistant, William ing advanced by demands o f newcom tatoes, 4c. F rig h t Is Soon Forgotten. to 10,000. The extension o f the fran F. Ashton which le ft St. Louis yester ers. Whatever plan of development El Paso, Tex., May 19.— Hundreds chise from the Denver Union Water Vegetables— Artichokes, 606675c per is adopted by the local irrigation com dozen; asparagus, $1661.25 per box; day in an attempt to capture, the o f Mexicans from the villages along company, and which was to run for 20 pany, if it goes through as projected, cabbage, 3 '-4c pound; celery, $3.506/4 I.ahm cup for long-distance flight, land the Mexican border gathered about years, was decisively beaten. It is it will mean much to the city and v i crate; green onions, 15c per dozen; ed today at the little town o f Shiloh, crosses erected on the hills tonight, claimed by the chairman o f the C iti cinity, for it will put a large amount peas, 36/4c; radishes, 156/20c per doz near Ionia. The balloon had been in awaiting the appearance o f the zens, party, which placed a ticket in of cash into circulation, to say nothing en; rhubarb, 26/2 %c per pound; spin the air 22 hours and had covered 450 fiery comet they believe is hurrying to the field against Republicans and Dem miles. This does not approach the rec of the appreciation of the land and the ach, 86/ lOc pound; rutabagas, $1.256/ destroy the world. For ten days the ocrats, that they have elected at least increased attractiveness of the region 1.50 sack; carrots, 85c66$l; beets, ord. Crossing Lake Michigan early superstitious Mexicans have sought to one o f their candidates for the election today, the balloonists made good time for investors. $1.50; parsnips, 75c66$l. at high altitude . They arrived here avert the impending catastrophe with commission, three o f the four super music, incantations and weird cere visors and nine o f the 15 aldermen. Onions— Oregon $2 per hundred; today and left tonight for St. Louis. Seattle After The Dalles Cherries. monies, and many have spent day and Bermuda, $1.50661.75 per crate; red, The Dalles—Robert Munro and Wal $1.75 per sack. night in prayer. Hundreds have sought Many Burned W ith Hotel. Socialists Change C onstitution. ter P. Wilkins, representing two lead refuge in caves and canyons in the Phoenix, Ariz., May 18.— Only 71 Butter— City creamery, extras, 28c Chicago, May 21.— An important mountains. ing produce houses of Seattle, are here per pound; fancy outside creamery. out o f more than 100 patrons who were change was made in the constitution of negotiationg with The Dalles Fruit 266127c; store, 20c. Butter fat prices in the Hotel Adams, which was de the Soialist party in its congress today Trade it Brisk in Conjur Bags. growers’ association for the purchase average l% c per pound less than regu- stroyed by fire today, have been ac when the phrase in the pledge o f the of a large portion o f The Dalles cherry )ar butter prices. Atlanta, Ga., May 19.— Dealers in counted for tonight, and fears are ex party was changed from “ a political crop. They are also arranging to conjur” bags in the negro sections o f I pressed that many may have been Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 236/24c party distinct and opposed to all part- handle other fruits. They say The per dozen. the city carried on a thriving business | burned to death. The register o f the ies formed by the propertied cl Dalles cherries lead all others in ship yesterday, as the result o f the sched- [ hotel was destroyed by the flames, Pork-Fancy, 126/12%c per pound. I to read “ by the capitalist c l«»,. ping qualities and command a better V eal-F an cy, lOof 10>„c per pound. There was heated debate before the uled trip of the earth through Halley's which caused damage estimated at price in the Seattle market than those Lambs Fanoy, * (a 11c per pound. vote on t^e proposed change was taken comet. Meetings also were held in more than $275,000. but many whose in any other locality. Poultry ^Hens, 18(^20c per pound; but the word ««capitalist” won by 58 churches, thousands o f negroes refus names are remembered by the clerk ing to return to work until the passing are missing. The search continues. broilers, 276/30c; ducks, 186f 23c; to 38 S&OO F rom 6 0 by IOO Garden. o f the "com ic.” Cloudy weather j geese. 12 %e; turkeys, live, 206/22c; __________________ Political Riot is Fatal. throughout the South obscured the Gold H id—Joseph Stevens o f Tolo, dressed, 25c; squabs, $3 per dozen. j Fast Continued 21 Days. heavens and somewhat allayed the six miles from here on Rogue river, es Cattle— Beef steers, hay fed, good Madrid, May 18.— A collision be Butte, Mont., May 21.— Twenty-one fears of the superstitious. timates that he will net $500 on a to choice, $60/6.15; fair to medium tween Republicans and gendarmes is days without food, with the exception patch o f strawberries 50 by 100 feet. $56/5.50; cows and heifers, good to reported from Valencia, in connection of water and lemon and orange juice, Harvest o f Converts is Reaped. He picked the first berries on April choice, $5665.15; fair to medium, $4.25 with a manifestation in honor o f the is the record established by Henry 14, and the yield has been heavy, with 6/4.75; bulla, $3.50614.25; stags, $4.- Standford, Ky.. May 19.— Scores o f arrival there o f the Republican deputy, Roberts, of this city. Roberts is en many green berries still on the vines. 506/5; calves, light, $66/ 7; heavy, $4.- n e g ro « professed salvation at all- Senor Seriano. The gendarmes charged deavoring to correct stomach trouble. night sessions held in their churches and the Republicans used knives and Some o f the berries are four inches in 506/5.50. Hogs Top, $106/110.55; fair to med here last night, to prepare themselves stones. An officer was stabbed and diameter. As many as 20 are found on Six Inches Snow in Dakota. for whatever might happen when the killed and many persons were wound- a single spray. The plants, which are ium, $9.25619.55. Sheep— Best wethers, $4.50614.75; Lead, S. D., May 21— Six inches of earth passed through the comet’s tail. ed. F ifty arrests were made and or- of a variety new to this valley, were set out last spring, and began bearing fair to good, $46/ 4.50; best ewes. $2.- snfiw fell here between last midnight Fields are practically deserted by the der was finally restored after the man- This is the third farm hands, for negroes have refused ifestants had sought refuge at the Re- in the fall. The fruit sells readily 506/3; lambe, choice, $6617; fair, and noon today. | $5.506/6. 1 snow storm since the 1st of May. to work and are fleeing to town. I publican club. over all imported berries.