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yj DOINGS OFTHEWEEK RAILROADS M U ST PAY TAXES Millions o f Acres Granted to Roads to Be Surveyed. Current Events oi Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Relume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Twenty were killed and nine injured in a train wreck in Ohio. Ballinger promises that Oregon shall have full share of the 120,000,000 rec lamation fund. M elville W. Fuller chief justice of the Supreme court o f the United States, is dead. Receipts from the sale of seats at the Reno fight are estimated to have been not less than $250,000. Only nine fatalities are reported as the result of the Fourth throughout the country as against 45 last year. The standing army of Greece is in chaos owing to many dismissals of old men to make room for younger ones. New York City will have permanent public exhibit ot insects which spread disease and menace health and com fort. Lumber for 10,000 cars has been or dered by the Hairrman lines from the Booth-Kelley Lumber company at Eu gene, Oregon. A new world’s record for distance was made at Indianapolis July 4, when Hearne drove a Benz racing auto 20 miles in 14:06.72. Exultation of negroes over the vic tory o f Johnson in the great fight at Reno, have caused many race riots and no less than nine negroes are reported killed and many injured in various cities throughout the country. Bryan says he doesn’ t know whether he will ever again run for the presi dency or not. Harvard university beat Yale in the great annual boat race, before an aud ience of 20,000. Roosevelt says the story that he wants Hughes to run again for gover nor of New York is a huge fake. Roosevelt called on T aft at Beverly and a long visit followed, in which the greatest cordiality was shown between the two. Jacob Schiff, the New York banker, with a party of friends, sailed from Seattle for Alaska on a five week’s trip. The Socialist governmnet of Mil waukee, Wis., has denied licenses to 104 saloons that had not been conduct ed properly. The Cobb direct nomination bill was beaten in the New York assembly. This was the bill that was supported by Roosevelt. Washington— More than 12,000,000 acres of land, the unsurveyed and un patented residue of enormous grants made in times past to various rail road companies, will be surveyed un der the provisions of a law enacted in the closing days o f the late session of congress, and as soon as surveyed will become subject to taxation. Just how soon these surveys can be made is problematical, but within a year or 18 months, this great acreage, scattered through ten states and terri tories, may begin paying taxes. The bill was recommended by Secre tary Ballinger in his report last fall. It provides that any railroad corpora tion required by law to pay the costs of surveying, selecting or conveying any lands granted by congress, shall, with in 90 days from demand of the secre tary of the interior, deposit in a Unit ed States depository to the credit of the United States a sum sufficient to pay the cost of surveying and convey ing any part of the unsurveyed lands of its grant. Any railroad company which fails to come forward with the money called for by the secretary of the interior within the time specified snail forfeit to the United States its unsurveyed and unpatented land, the forfeiture to be brought about through legal pro ceedings instituted by the attorney general. A ll granted lands surveyed under this new law are declared by congress to become subject to taxation by the states and municipal authorities upon the completion o f survey. JEFFRIES IS WHIPPED BY COLORED CHAMPION Reno, Nevada- James J. Jeffries was knocked out in the fifteenth round by Jack Johnson, colored, who now becomes the world’s champion. Jeffries could not come back. This was plain when the champion, the man who was once considered all powerful and with none to dispute his right to the title, sank down before Jack John son, the most wonderful big man that the prize ring has ever seen. It was in the fifteenth round of a contest as unequal as any ever seen, a fight in which there was but one win ner from start to finish, that Johnson put on the finishing touches, and after knocking the helpless Jeffries down three times, settled most decisviely the question that brought some 14,000 spectators into Reno. It was pitiful in a way, this van quishing of the hope of the white race, the effort of a man to drag himself back into athletic condition in order to wrest back to his own race the title that he had relinquished. It was piti ful, but the round after round of fight ing in which Johnson handled the burly Jeffries as he pleased, the style in which he blocked every punch that the grizzly bear attempted to land, had prepared the crowd for the ending that was bound to follow. INDIANS GO ON WAR PATH. A man in Boulder, Colo., target shooting with a 22-caliber revolver, Visitors to German World Fair Hang Fast to Dimes. fired at-the side of a warehouse con taining dynamite. A terrific explosion Brussels, Germany— H alf the Am eri followed, in which four persons were can attractions at the Brussels exposi killed and several injured. tion are not making expenses, as the With her entire family of 21 full- Belgians, French and Germans do not blooded Cherokee Indian children, Mrs. part easily with their dimes. The ‘ ‘ Wild W est" show has been a Mary Lehan, who says her home is everywhere, has arrived in North Y ak failure, and the English syndicate re ima and presented at police headquar sponsible for it was unable to pay the ters credentials from state and city au Indians, who then became greatly ex thorities from every section of the cited. Frank C. Goings, who was in Union. Mrs. Lehan goes about the charge o f the Red men, appealed to country selling charms and telling American Consul General Ethelbert fortunes for the support of her Hoose- Watts, who by prompt and energetic action restored the confidence of the veltian family. Indians. John W. Daniel, senior senator from Numerous conferences were held at Virginia, is dead. the American consulate by Consul Roosevelt gives his word in favor of Watts, Mr. Goings, Red Shirt, Chief White Rear and M. De Laval, legal a direct primary law. adviser of the consulate. Mr. Watts Seven were drowned and many are finally decided to cable Robert G. Val missing as the result of a cloudburst entine, commissioner of Indian affairs in Kentucky. in Washington, to arrange transporta Archibishop Ireland justifies the ac tion for the Indians back to their res tion of the Vatican in the Roosevelt in ervation in America. As a result 37 cident at Rome. Indians and eight children will be sent Congress will be petitioned to order home at the expense of the American wireless telegraph installed on all government. ocean-going vessels that carry passen gers. Several towns in Ontario, Canada, are menaced by forest fires, and men, women and children are fighting the flames. A San Francisco firm has secured the job of repairing the government trans port Thomas. The work will cost about $500,000. The Interstate Commercce commis sion has ordered sweeping reductions in both class and commodity rates on the Pacific coast. Theodore Roosevelt will be the guest o f the Milwaukee Press club, Septem ber 7, the occasion being the celebra tion o f the club’s silver jubilee. A dead wren was found by a Wood- bum, Oregon, man, on his farm, hav ing around its leg a silver band on which was engraved “ The Auk, New York, 3429.“ Near Cliffs. Wash., is an immense Black Republican cherry tree, loaded with fruit, which the Indians say has borne fruit for about 100 years. The government has been asked to Intervene in the Nicaraguan revolution. A fire destroyed the business section o f Paterson, N. J., causing a loss of »500,000. A Missouri court has fined a tele phone company $175,000 for violation o f the anti-trust laws. Preident T aft promises to do all in his power to hasten the irrigation pro jects authorized by congress. Ten acres of tide (lands at Tacoma, occupied by sawmills, boat houses, etc., were swept by fire; loss $85,000. Parliament has altered the corona tion oath o f the king of England, so as not to be offensive to the Catholic church. Seven men supposed to have been lost in a gale on Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, have been found alive, though suffer ing greatly. Elephants Run Amuck. Greeley, Colo.— Angered at being separated from two small elephants for which they have a great affection, two big elephants belonging to a circus charged wildly down the main street in pursuit of a baker’s wagon. The driver o f the wagon, after a mad gal lop, which scattered bread and pies for blocks, escaped. The elephants, which were chained together, crashed through a fence into the front yard o f a resi dence, tearing up the lawn and shrub bery. They were stopped by a stout maple tree. NDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE BUILD SPUR IN TO USE FOR B U R N T TREES. TIM BER BELT 86 M il. Contract Let on Natron-Vale Railroad to Give Burnt Cedar o f Coos County Trial as Piling. Branch Line. Creacent— Railroad activity, which was temporarily suspended recently by reason o f the order holding up con struction on the south 70 miles of the Oregon Trunk line, gives promise of renewal in the awarding of 85 miles of construction work by the Southern Pa cific to Erickson & Peterson, contract ors. I t is understood the work is to be done on the Natron-Vale branch of the new road now building toward Cres cent from Eugene. A camp at Hazel Dell just across the range has been connected with the Hoey ranch, 12 miles west, where a force o f Southern Pacific men is employed building a wagon road so that freight and sup plies may be taken to the camps. A l though no official announcement has been made, it is asserted on good au thority that a construction camp will be established this side of the summit, within 30 miles of Crescent, within 30 days. The preliminary survey of the Na tron-Vale line runs about a mile south of Crescent, but negotiations are now- on foot for the purchase of the right of way through the town and the railroad has secured from the Interior depart ment permission to change its survey through the forest reserve, with the intention, it is stated, of bringing the line into Crescent. A depot will likely be put in here. General Manager O’Brien o f the 0. R. & N. visited here recently and made a tour of the valley to the south o f here, looking over the work on the line from Klamath Falls, building in the direction of Crescent. The Oregon Trunk line has purchased right of way for a spur to the Weyer- hauser properties in the timber belt along the Deschutes river, which passes through the townsite holdings. The lumber company plans a large mill at this point as soon as the railroad reach es here. DAIRY EXPERT COMING. Danish Authority to Spend Days In Oregon. Three Bernard Boeggild, of the Royal Dan ish Agricultural college of Copenhagen, who has become known throughout the civilized world for his work in the de velopment of the dairy industry, has accepted an invitation to spend three days in Portland and some of the large towns o f the Willamette valley. He will be here July 18, 19 and 20, and while here is expected to deliver one or more lectures. Professor Boeggild is making a tour o f the United States, under the aus pices of the Danish-American associa tlon. It has been arranged to take Profes sor Boeggild for a two days’ trip up the Willamette valley, including visits to Salem, Albany and CorvalliB. Professor Boeggild is credited with causing the wonderful development in the dairy industray in his country within recent years, and for his ser vices in this way he has been knighted by the Danish government and has re ceived several decorations from other countries. Petroleum on Lower Columbia. Astoria— There is ¡on exhibition in this city two ancient-looking little vials containing liquids that may mean immense business to the lower Colum bia river district. One vial is full of a thick, white liquid that was procured in the Nasel district, and the other was originally the same, but the latter being subjected to a high heat curries on the surface nearly one quarter of crude petroleum. The process of separ ating this was crude, but shows the )>ossibilities of oil-bearing land and it was only taken frun drainage. Canals Employ 300 Men. Lakeview Three hundred men are employed on the Oregon Land com pany's irrigation canals in Drews Creek canyon. In a short time a part of the crew will be transferred to the south canal. That canal will be about 12 miles in length, and will have an average width of 15 feet on the bot tom. Superintendent Hansen is push ing work, and as there were 42 miles of main canal built last season he ex pects to complete the work this year. Normal School Petition Grows. Ashland Signatures to the initia tive petitions for maintenance for the Southern Oregon State Normal school, to be submitted at the November elec tion, are rolling in from all sections of the state. It looks as though the petition will be a most formidable one when it is presented to the secretary of state for Mrs. Vanderbilt Goes Flying. filing, with thousands o f names to New York— Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt spare to insure its place upon the hal- went up with Clifford B. Harmon in loL his aeroplane at Mineola. The flight was cut short because the spectators American Workers Few. got in the way. Both the aviator and Oregon City— The Willamette Pulp Mrs. Vanderbilt were jarred somewhat & Paper company, in a communication in alighting, but otherwise uninjured. to the publicity bureau o f the Oregon The shock loosened several bolts in the City Commercial club makes plain its machine and slightly damaged the rud attitude on the question o f foreign lab der. Mrs. Vanderbilt, thrilled by the or, that has been agitating the public experience, walked smilingly back mind for several years. There are across the field. probably 100 Austrians and Greeks em ployed in the paper mills, and the com Giant Warship Launched. pany says the only reason this condi Danzig. Prussia— The Oldenburg, the tion exists this because it has been great battleship which is to be added unable to obtain the services of Amer to the German navy, was launched icans. here. The Oldenburg is a sister ship Quarters for Land Office Rented. of the Ostfricsland, and has a displace ment o f 20,00fl tons. Her length is Washington — The Interior depart 490 feet and her beam 90 feet. Her ment has completed arrangements for armament consists o f 12 12-inch guns, opening the new Vale land offiee. 14 5.9-inch guns and 20 4.1-inch guns. Three rooms on the second floor of the The battleship will have a complement building at the northwest corner of of 950 men and is designed to show a A and Main streets, belonging to T. T. speed o f 19.5 knots an hour. Nelson, were rented for $660 yearly. A fireproof vault will be installed and new furniture for the office will be sent Plunger Patton Retires. Chicago,—James A. Patten, "k in g from here. One clerk will be appoint of the wheat pit,” has retired from ed. the stock market. A firm o f operators Wheat Earlier than Usual. that will include H. J. Patten, young est brother of the famous manipulaor, Springfield The local flour mill re will succeed James A. Patten. It is ports that wheat this year will be said by old memliera of the (ward of much earlier than usual and that it trade that Patten feels that he has experts to be milling fall wheat by the been misjudged ami misinterpreted. middle of AuguaL Marshfield- A. F. Estabrook & Co., of San Francisco, which firm operates at Bandon, in Coos county, has under taken an experiment which, i f success ful, may prove a big thing in the way of a lumber industry. The company has an order from the Santa Fe* rail road for 1,200 cedar piling as a trial order. These piling are to be made from the burnt cedar which is on the ground in cut-over districts throughout the timber where there have been fires. It is now presumably useless and a waste, but i f the piling suits the pur poses o f the railroad they will be or dered on a large scale and the industry o f working the cedar logs on the ground in this way will add greatly to the ¿lumber industry of, the Coquille valley. The piling will all be shipped out o f Bandon. The Estabrook com pany has also taken the contract for furnishing a large amount of telephone and telegraph poles. The company has bought the timber on 900 acres of land belonging to the Doe estate and located near Bandon and a force of men is at work turning out the poles which are being shipped. There is also a large amount of matchwood now going out of Bandon. SS GO O U T; SH O U LD COME IN Crook Buys Strawberries That Could be Raised at Home Prineville Central Oregon is devel oping in population much faster than in the exploiting of its various agricul tural resources. On an average 15 crates o f strawberries have been ship ped daily over the 65 miles o f stage road to Prineville, where they retail at $4.50 a crate. The cost of the express shipment from Shaniko to Prineville is $1 a crate, and many crates are injured or ruined in transit. A careful investigation shows there are Bmall patches of strawberries in many different locations, and that the quality is excellent, and the yield good; but no one cares to make a consistent effort to grow them. There are many different varieties and no crop failures. Examination of the Central Oregon market shows that no less than $10,000 will be paid by Crook county this year for strawber ries, and a crop can be grown at home far superior to that which is shipped in. Red Snappers are Caught. Astoria— Sportsmen who were fish ing for black bass in the Walluski river this week report securing seve ral fine specimens o f red snapper, similar to those caught in the John Day river some weeks ago. It is sup posed these fish are the descendants of those transplanted in the Columbia several years ago from the Gulf of Mexico. The species is very game and an excellent food fish, if caught soon after coming in from the sea. REAL REFORM FOR CONGO. M E TH O D ISTS INVADE ZION. Plans o f Many Organizations o f World Go Into Effect. Dedicate Chapel in Voliva's City and Latter Declares War. Brussels—Congo reform, for which the governments, churches, missionary societies and other organizations throughout the large part o f the civil ized world have been working for be came an accomplised fact July 1, when the plans formulated by the Belgian ministry o f the colonies and approved by King Albert became effective. Simultaneously a large area o f the Congo region is opened to free com merce. The reforms include the suppression of polygamy, the substitution o f na tive for white officials, a reduction in the taxes, which will be collected in money, and not paid in labor, and the" restriction o f obligatory labor on the part o f adults to the works dedicated to the improvement o f their own con ditions. The most vital feature of the reform program is the provision for the sup pression o f forced labor, a situation which has rendered possible the terri- ble conditions which in the past have roused the horror of the civilized world. Under the Leopold regime the col lection o f taxes through labor instead of money, enabled that monarch to work his immense rubber trade free of expense. A quota o f so much rubber, in lieu of taxes, was demanded from each village, an amount which would require the labor o f every adult in the village virtually all of his or her time. Failure to produce the allotted portion at the required time was followed by immediate punishment at the hands of the black soldiers of the Congo govern ment, consisting too frequently of tortures, mutilation or death. Zion City, III.—“ We will fight this invasion to the death," is the state ment attributed to General Overseer Glenn H. Voliva, o f Zion City, referr ing to an invasion o f the sacred pre cincts o f Zion by the Methodists, who recently dedicated a modest chapel in side the city. Bishop McDowell and a long list of Methodist dignitaries assisted in the ceremonies, and they say they are in Zion to stay and grow. I f so they will probably prove an extremely large thorn in the flesh o f Overseer Voliva, for the excellent reason that his own camp is badly divided. The independ ents in Zion hailed the advent o f the Methodists warmly and sent a delega tion of elders to the dedication of the chapel. The new church w ill have the back ing of business interests outside and Overseer Voliva has the buttle of his life cut out i f he undertakes to exter minate the invader. The Methodists dedicated their church in the forenoon, and in the af ternoon Voliva, »(waking at the taber nacle, hurled his defiance. This draws the lines o f battle clearly and some in teresting developments may be expect ed. The Methodists w ill seek out the suffering in the city and not permit them to die without attention. The recent case o f an aged elder being suffered to expire of a rattlesnake bite, while Voliva refused aid aside from the customary prayers is a case in point. Voliva, it is understood, had just realized his dream o f securing control o f a majority of the land holdings, in which case he would have become a dictator more powerful even than was John Alexander Dowie, founder of the city. A t present there is strife between the aldermen, two sets claiming elec tion. A fte r the death of Dowie and the subsequent failure, the advent of a receiver tore down much o f the Chin ese wall surrounding the city. The followers o f Dowie broke up into nu merous factions, which warred upon each other. Voliva has succeeded in aligning several o f these factions with his cause, but the opposition still is very strong. BEVERLY IS SUM M ER C A P IT A L President Taft and Family Settled for Hot Weather. Beverly, Mass.— With the arrival of President T a ft this city became the “ summer capital” of the United States. The president plans to spend most o f the summer at the pretty homestead where members o f his fam ily have been installed for some time past. Few persons were at the station when the president’s train pulled in, and there was no demonstration. A f ter he had greeted Mrs. T aft and other members o f his family, who were there to meet him, the president drove to the summer White House. In observance o f B everly’s honor as the “ summer capital” o f the nation, American flags fluttered from all the public buildings in the city, and from many business blocks and private resi dences. This was the extent o f the observance, however, as it was at the specific request o f the president that citizens made no plans for a formal welcome. Benefit French Working Girls. Paris— The decree o f the ministry of labor prohibiting night work on the part o f seamstresses, milliners and other working girls, which became effective July 1, marks a great for ward step in the movement for the amelioration o f the condition o f the women workers of France. For many years the sweating system has been greatly abused in France, and especial ly in Paris, where the employes in many fashionable dressmaking and mil linery establishments have often been compelled to work until midnight dur ing the busy season. Clanton for Master Fish Warden. Salem— Edward Clanton, of Grants Pass, for the last two years deputy fish warden for district No. 2, which em braces all of the territory south o f the Columbia river, was elected by the state fish commission to succeed Mas ter Fish Warden McAllister. Mr. Mc Allister has resigned and will assume the management of the Oregon Home Car Upsets; Driver Safe. Rule association, with headquarters at Indianapolis— Louis Chevrolet, the Portland. Henry O’ Malley, identified witht he noted automobile racing driver, had a United States department of fisher narrow escape from death on the In dianapolis speedway, when his car ies, was also strongly recommended. overturned while going more than a mile a minute. He was making one of S500 an Acre for Raw Land. Hood R iver— The highest price ever the turns o f the course, when the giant paid for raw land in Hood River valley Buick he was driving struck another was paid the latter part of the week, racer, loitering along the track. Chev when E. G. Stanton, o f Oklahoma City, rolet lost control o f his machine and Oklahoma, paid $500 an acre for 12 car ploughed into the soft earth on the For 200 yards it acres of the Sears & Porter property. edge of the track. Mr. Stanton has been in the employ of careened along, and then turned com the Rock Island railroad for the past 18 pletely over. Motor Fails and Zeppelin Craft Orifts About Helpless. Ship Lands on Tree Tops and Is Bad ly Damaged— Passengers Reach Ground on Rope Ladder. Düsseldorf, Germany— Count Zeppe lin’s passenger airship Deutschland, the greatest of all the famous aero naut’s models, lies in the Teutoburgian forest pierced by pine trees, a mass of deflated silk and twisted aluminum. The 33 passengers and crew aboard the airship when it struck the pines after a wild contest with a storm, escaped uninjured, climbing down from the wreck on a rope ladder Herr Colesmann, general manager of the new airship company; Chief En gineer Duers, of the Zeppelin ship, and Charles Wannenberg, who had charge o f the crew of 10, and 20 newspaper men sailed from Düsseldorf for a three hours’ excursion. In the high wind one of the motors refused to work and the other two did not give sufficient power to make any headway in the gale. The airship drifted, swaying in the violent gusts and sometimes leaning at an angle of 40 degrees. A ll the while the engine- men were at work repairing the dis abled motor. When this was done all four screws were driven at their full power. Un der normal conditions the engines were capable o f driving the airship at a speed o f 40 miles an hour, but the helmsman was unable to keep his course and the great craft was swung about at the mercy o f the winds. Colesmann did not dare to come about, for fear o f overturning, and de cided to drift with the gale toward Os nabrück, also a garrision. He then decided to continue on to Senne. Suddenly he perceived a whirlwind coming, and ascended to a height of nearly 4,000 feet to avoid the center of it. With the whirlwind came a heavy downpour o f rain. A fte r half an hour the Deutschland came down to permit observations and it was seen that the Teutoburgian for est lay below. The forward motor stopped again and Colesmann sent five of the correspondents to the aft gon dola to ballast the vessel. The Deutschland sank rapidly, hav ing lost much gas in the high altitude, and dragged along the top of the dense forest. A heavy branch o f a tree broke through the bottom of the cabin amidships, throwing two o f the guests to the floor. Other branches ripped through the gas compartments and the whole great structure settled down 30 or 40 feet from the ground. BUYING A U T O S AND LAND. Middle West People Securing Tracts for Homes Elsewhere. T A F T ’S TIE FLAM ING RED. President, Going on Vacation, ¡Hopes to See Newspapermen in Fall. Washington — President T aft has gone to spend the next three or four months at Beverly, Mass., the summer capital o f the United States. The president’s air of gaiety over his de parture was accentuated by a vivid red necktie. With the president went Secretary Norton and Assistant Secretary For ester; Captain Archibald Butt, his mil itary aide; Dr. Barker, his physician; several stenographers, and two m/s- sengers. On the same train, although not in the president’s car, was Secre tary Nagel, of the department of com merce and labor. Before leaving the White House the president called into his office all the newspaper men who have been writing for their associations or papers o f the daily doings about the executive offices and wished them a pleasant summer, expressing the hope that he would see them again in the fall. SL Joseph, Mo.— Fifteen million dol lars spent for automobiles and more than $18,000,00 sent elsewhere for the purchase of land tells what the West is doing with some o f its money, accord ing to information compiled by Graham G. Lacey, a banker o f this city, who has obtained replies to a series of ques tions addressed to bankers in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa. Reports from 251 banks showed that approximately $18,000,000 had gone out o f their section for the purchase of lands in other states, and 234 banks St. Louis—Thomas L. Lewis, presi reported that a heavy amount had gone dent of the United Mineworkers of out of their sections for such purposes. America, says 30,000 mineworkers of For autos, 427 banks reported that a America, who have been on a strike total of $15,000,000 had been spent. since April 1, w ill return to work in Out of 639 replies received, 293 Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklaho stated that agricultural conditions were ma and Texas, July 5. The union will good, the remainder reported such con be conceded the 5.55 per cent increase ditions as only fair. A good wheat in the wage scale which was the first crop was reported by 20 per cent o f re difference between the miners and plies, fair by 38 per cent, and bad by operators. 42 per cenL Fifty-one per cent reported that the years. He will move his family to Molten Iron Kills Three. Packers Would Not Move. banks were carrying more real estate Hood River and will clear and improve Chicago—Three men were probably loans for their customers at this time Jefferson City, Mo.— Packers charg his property for a home. fatally burned and a score o f others ed with combination in restraint of than they were carrying a year ago. painfully injured as a result o f being PO R TLAND M ARKETS. trade in an ouster suit brought by A t splashed with molten metal pouring Genoa, Nev., Destroyed. Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, torney General Major, filed a demurrer from a blast of the furnace o f the asking that the proceednigs be dis Carson City, N ev.—Genoa, the coun Gary, Ind., works of the Illinois Steel 84c; duh, 80fi/81c; red Russian, 78c; missed. The demurrer alleges that the ty seat of DouglaB county, 211 miles company. The property loss is esti valley, 82. Barley Feed and brewing, $19ft/20. facts stated in the petition are not suf south o f this ¡city, was almost com mated at $10,000. The injured were ficient to form a cause for action. It pletely destroyed by fire . The loss is taken to the company’s private hospit Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il is contended that the alleged relations estimated at over $100,000. The court al. The furnace had just been opened between the parties to the suit, which house. Masonic Hall, and several other and the string of ladles was ready to lamette valley, $200f21 per ton; East structures were completely receive the hot metal when the tram ern Oregon, $220/ 24; alfalfa, $ 1 Ml' 16; form a part o f the cause o f action, are brick not properly stated in the petition. gutted by the flames. Firefighting ap way gave way, and there was no way grain hay, $170/18. The demurrer also contends that the paratus was forwarded by a Southern to plug the furnace. Oats- -No. 1 white, $250/26 ton. Pacific train from this city to the scene Butter City creamery, extras, 29c; supreme court has no jurisdiction. in the hope o f checking the flames, fancy outside creamery, 280/29c per Second Parachute Fails. Passengers Dance; Ship Burns. which threaten the surrounding farms. pound; store, 23c. Butter fat prices New York— In trying to make the Philadelphia— While the crew of the Genoa is the oldest town this side of average 1 Sic per pound under regular “ double drop” from a height o f 1,000 liner Grecian were engaged in a race the Sierra Nevada mountains. butter prices. feet George Ty.er, a young Philadel with death by fire in the oil-laden hold Eggs—Oregon candled, 260/27c. phia aeronaut, fell several hundred of the vessel, 80 passengers aboard the Ruef Appeals to Court. Poultry— Hens, 16c; broilers, 200/ feet, hanging from a disabled para vessel danced in the ship’s saloon, ob 22c; ducks, 12'¿(//20c; geese, 100/llc; San Francisco— Abraham Ruef has chute, and was found unconscious, but livious o f the danger. The news of turkeys, live, 180/20c; dressed, 22[.2(a. filed with the District Court o f Ap not fatally injured, at Belleville, N. J. the fire had been kept from the pass peals 'an appeal from his conviction 25c; squabs, $3 per dozen. The “ double drop” consisted of two engers, save only the plucky w ife of Pork— Fancy, 12o/12S.C per pound. and sentence for bribing ex-Supervisor parachute descents, in the second o f the captain, who volunteered to play Veal Fancy, 100/llc per pound. Furey to vote for a trolley franchise which the first parachute is abandoned dance music for the passengers to pre for the United Railroads. It is one af Lambs Choice, 110/11 Sic pound. for a smaller one. The first parachute vent a panic. The fire was discovered at Green Fruits— Apples, Oregon N ew the longest statements ever presented behaved perfectly, but the second only midnight; the vessel arrived at dawn. town, $2 per box; cherries, 50/10c per to the court, containing over 12,000 partially opened and Taylor sank at pound; apricots, $1,250/1.35 per box; pages, included in 24 volumes. The great speed. He struck on his feet. Biggest Battleship Yet. peaches, 75c0/$1.25; plums, $10/1.50; entire trial is reviewed, and many al London— Chile has placed an order goose berries, 50/ 6c per pound; cur leged errors are presented as grounds Railroad Suit Dismissed. rants, $2o/2.25 per box; raspberries, with Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. for for a reversal o f judgment and a new SL Louis— In accordance with the the largest battleship in the world. $1,250/1.50 per crate; loganberries, trial. Ruef was sentenced to 14 years’ agreement reached between railroad The vessel w ill be faster than any oth imprisonment and now is out on bail. 75c0/ $1.50; blackcaps, $1.65081.75. presidents and President Taft, United er warship afloat. She will have a Vegetables—Artichokes, 600 /75c per States District Attorney Charles H. dozen, asparagus, $1,250/2 per box; tonnage of 32,000. Her guns will fire Louisiana Raps Suffrage. Houts asked for the dismissal o f the beans, 80 / 10c per pound; cabbage, 2 ‘ 4 shells as heavy as those used by 110- Baton Rouge, La.— The upper branch suit brought in the United States cir ton guns o f 30 years ago. 0/ 2 c; cauliflower, $2 per dozen; head of the Louisiana legislature went on cuit court by the government against lettuce, 500/60c; green onions, 15c; record as not only opposed to woman railroads composing the Western Trunk Build Bigger Ocean Liners. peas, 4Of5c per pound; radishes, 150/ suffrage, but refused to allow women line committee, to restrain the pro London— The largest ¡steamships to act as members of boards o f an ed posed increase in freight rates. Judge 20c per dozen; spinach, 80/;10c per pound; cr.rrots, 85co/$l per sack; in the world are soon to be built by the ucational or a charitable nature, even Dyer, who signed the restraining order Cunard Steamship company. Work though they be elected to such board beets. $1.50; parsnips. 75c6l$l. at Hannibal, ordered the suitdismissed. Potatoes—Old Oregon, 60o/75c per will start on the first ship within a by men. They came to this decision few weeks. The new liners will have when Senator Geuydon tried to have hundred; new. 2 '*c per pound. Jews Ordered Out Fast. Onions— California red, $2,500/2.75 60,000 tonnage, or 15,000 tons more passed his bill allowing women mem- j Kiev, Russia— From June 23 to June than the White Star steamers Olympic bership on educational and charitable per sack. 125 inclusive, 46 Jews were expelled Cattle -B ee f steers, good to choice, and Titanic, and 30,000 tons more boards. from Kiev, 37 from Salomenka and 37 $5,400/ 5.60; fair to medium, $4,250/ than the Lusitania and Mauretania. Chile Wind Wrecks Ships. | from Demieffka. Twenty-seven were 4.75; cows and heifers, good to choice, Kaiser’ s Yacht Wins Race. San Francisco— The Merchants’ Ex- expelled from Kiev, 24 from Salo $4,500/ 4.75; fair to medium, $3,750/ 4.25; bulls, $30/4; stags. $3,500/5; | Kiel, Germany— Emperor W illiam ’s change has received advices from Val menka and 17 from Demieffka in one calves, light, $5,750/6.76; heavy, $4 American built Meteor won the 49-mile paraiso, Chile, that the German steam day. handicap race from Eckenfoerse to er Irmingard is ashore off Corral and Of 6 . Town Treasurer in Cell. The Hogs—Top. $9.600il0; fair to med Kiel. Harrv Krupp Von Bohlen and is believed to be a total loss. Halbach’ s Germania was second, tbe crew was saved. Several other vessels ium, $8,500/9.50. Cambridge, Mass.—John B. Lom Sheep— Best wethers, $4,260/4.50; Hamburg o f the NordJDeutsche regatta the names of which are unknown, have bard. ex-town treasureer o f Farming- fair to good, $3,500/3.75; best ewes, verein third, and the schooner yacht been wrecked as the result o f the storm ham, who had confessed to forging $3,750/4; lambs, choice, $3,500/5.90; Westward, owned by Alexander S. which has raged several days on the town notes aggregating $300,000 has fair, $4,650/5.15. I Sheehan, of New York, fourth. coasL begun serving a 10-year sentence. 30,000 MINERS WILL RETURN TO WORK