DOINGS 0F THE WEEK
Onrent Events of Interest Gathered
From the World at Large.
General Resume o f Im portant Events
P resen ted In C ondensed Form
fo r O ur Busy R eaders.
Six persons have lost th eir lives in
forest fires about Spokane.
Continued reports of crop failure
keep the price of w heat going up.
A long drouth in Nevada was broken
by a cloudburst, in which one person
was drowned.
The W ashington Coast artillerv re­
serves made perfect scores a t practice
w ith 10 and 12 inch guns.
All conductors and trainm en on the
Grand Trunk railroad of Canada, have
gone on a strik e for advanced wages.
Two men arrested as horsethieves in
Sacram ento, Cal., have been identified
as men who held up a Southern Pacific
tra in last April.
WAR IS UNAVOIDABLE.
Ja p a n ese W riter Says Day o f R eck­
oning is Coming.
V ictoria—T hat w ar between Am er­
ica and J apan cannot be avoided is the
them e of a special article in the Osaka
Mainichi received by the Em press of
China. The Japanese w riter says:
“ I t is now being anticipated in di­
plomatic circles in general th a t in
future, when the relations between
Japan and Am erica become more
strained — which will certainly result
from a continued collision of interest
— the m inistry will have to accomplish
the painful duty of inform ing the other
country’s governm ent th a t the result of
such a collision will be an outbreak of
w ar.
“ I t will be pitiful indeed, if, even
on th a t occasion. Japan adheres to di­
plomatic com pliments and sta te s th at
no collision will take place. Why do
the Japanese not boldly and openly say
th a t there will be a collision. If they
think th a t the Am ericans will believe
the Japanese assertions th a t a collision
will never take place, they will only
deceive them selves—certainly not the
A m ericans.”
The w rite r contributes a very
lengthy article, in which he credits
Am erican sym pathy with Japan during
the w ar w ith Russia to a desire to cur­
ry favor w ith the Jew ish elem ent of
Am erica, and a fte r detailing American
naval progress he urges rapid develop­
m ent of the Japanese navy.
Robbers attem pted to hold up 40
men of a construction train in Ohio,
on pay day but were put to flight by a
fusillade of bullets.
An Am erican actress w a s found m ur­
dered in London, and her husband has
disappeared and is believed to be en-
route to New York.
F orest fires in Idaho are again be­
yond control.
Millions of dollars
worth of tim ber is being destroyed by
fires in W ashington, Idaho, and Mon­
tana.
S uits which will bring penalties ag­
g re g atin g $42,000 have been begun
against Missouri railroads for over­
working th eir trainm en.
FRU IT YIELD LARGE.
Rogue River Valley .P ro m ises Record
Breaking C rop.
Medford—Shippers believe th a t the
coming season will be the banner fru it
year for the Rogue R iver valley.
The apple, pear and peach crop is
very heavy. I t is estim ated th a t the
Medford d istric t will ship from 400 to
600 cars of apples and 100 to 300 cars
o f pears. Moat of the peaches will go
by express. The several apricot or­
chards in the valley have not a very
good crop this year.
However, about
1,500 crates will be shipped.
The
apricot harvest has begun.
Most of
the shipm ents are going to Portland.
The pear harvest will open with
picking of the B a rtle tts about August
10. During the two or three weeks of
the B a rtle tt pear harvest from 10 to
15 cars will be shipped from Medford
daily. A fter the B artletts, the How­
ells, d ’Anjou, Comice and W inter Nel­
lis will come in quick succession.
From 150 to 200 packers will be en­
gaged in the pear and apple harvest
in the Rogue R iver valley this season.
Besides the packers, several hundred
men will be kept busy in the orchards
picking the fru it.
The pickers each
year are, many of them, of the m igra­
tory class who come into the valley
during the fru it harvests and are off
to warm er clim ates in the w inter.
The apples and pears of the Rogue
River valley will, as usual, be sent to
MONORAIL TRAIN WRECKED.
E astern and foreign m arkets.
The
pears will not be sold before shipm ent
New Interurban Service Proves Fail­ but will go to the auction block in
E astern m arkets.
ure on First Trip.
In a speech a t Em poria, K ansas
“ Uncle Jo e ” Cannon says the muck-
rak ers can’t m ake him w ithdraw from
the race fo r speaker.
Employers of labor in Stockton, Cal.,
have declared war to the finish upon
the closed shop principle. All build
ing is a t a standstill.
A broken trolley w ire fell upon a bi­
New Y ork—Twenty persons were in­
cycle rider on Morrison stre e t bridge,
in Portland, but his rubber tires saved jured, only one seriously, in the first
commercial trip of the new monorail
him from electrocution.
service between City Island and Bar-
The W right B rothers have been sued low, in the suburbs of The Bronx.
for $40,000 dam ages for breach of con
Howard Tunis, the inventor, who
tra c t in connection w ith the aviation was motorman, broke a rib and one
m eet a t Toronto, ju st closed.
passenger broke a leg. The latter v, as
A Chinaman arrested in S eattle for the only one of the injured to go to a
having opium in his possession was hospital.
Although described as a monorail,
found to have $150,000 in gold, bills
and certificates of deposit stowed in the only car the company owns did not
two heavy wooden chests in his room. depend for the stab ility on a gyroscope.
For support and traction it ran on a
A general strik e has been ordered
single rail, but twin guide rails over­
by the N ational R ailroaders' union of
head hung between pillars and lateral
France.
braces on e ith e r side of the rig h t of
G reat secrecy over a conference in way held it in balance.
the house of lords has alarm ed B ritish
W hile the car was running 30 miles
Liberals.
an hour one of these guide rails worked
P resident T aft has em phatically de­ loose and the car tilted 40 degrees,
clared th a t he will tak e no p a rt in piling the frightened passengers in the
lower angle. The pillars a t either side
sta te politics.
of the car prevented it from toppling
S ixty carloads of heavy steel rails entirely.
passed through Portland for the Pacific
A E astern road a t Medford. Ore.
AMERICAN HELD PRISONER.
T a ft has started a movem ent to re­
store the Colorado riv er to its original Madriz Forces Com pel T exas Physi­
bed in the Im perial valley of California.
cian to T reat Wounded.
Speaker Cannon, of the house of rep­
W ashington — On the strength of
resentatives, was overcome by heat press reports the S ta te departm ent
while speaking before the Chautauqua telegraphed Am erican Consul Moffatt
assembly a t Winfield, Kansas.
a t Bluefields to ascertain w hether Dr,
D espite the w recking of the first Law rence Burgheim, of Houston,
regu lar train on the new monorail sys­ Texas, is held a prisoner by the Madriz
The report was th a t Dr.
tem in New York, the dam age will be forces.
Burgheim had been compelled to tre a t
repaired and the service resumed.
the wounded a t Bluefields Bluff.
Flam es sta rtin g from a surveyors’
Evidences of the condition of unrest
camp have ruined thousands of acres prevalent in Managua were received a t
of tim ber and many se ttle rs’ homes on the S ta te departm ent through the
Kellogg Peak near W allace, Idaho.
translation of public orders issued by
Three of E ngland's m ost prom inent the m ilitary governor in the month of
“ su ffrag ettes” will v isit A m erica in June. One of these orders prohibited
the in te rest of woman suffrage, and individuals from leaving the city w ith­
will probably come to the Pacific coast. out w ritten perm its from the author­
ities. Persons disobeying this order
Five Republican, one Dem ocrat, one were classed as revolutionists.
P rohibitionist and one Socialist are en­
A nother order prohibited gatherings
gaged in a lively race for the nomina­ in private houses and in public estab­
tion for governor of California under lishm ents a fte r 9 o’clock in the even­
the new prim ary law of th a t state.
ing except by permission of the author­
Canada and U nited S ta te s will con­ ities.
fe r on the establishm ent of through
W recking C rew Held Up.
fre ig h t rates.
Albany, N. Y.— A wrecking train on
Many banks are m aking application
to be appointed depositories for the the Boston & Maine railroad, which
was sent out from Mechanicsville early
poatal savings banks.
to clear up a freight wreck near U sher
Secretary B allinger will tour R ai­ was flagged by Italian s before it
n ier national park to see w hat im­ reached the wreckage.
As the train
provem ents can be made.
slowed down, two Italians pointed rifles
The section of N icaragua controlled a t the engineer and fireman and re­
by Madriz is violently hostile to all fused to let the w reckers proceed. The
train carried about 40 Italian laborers,
foreigners, especially Americans.
who found them selves facing an armed
A company of Spokane men have ar crowd. The train returned to Mechan­
ranged to spend $2,000,000 on an ir­ icsville.
rigation project in Rogue river valley,
Oregon.
N egroes Visit Roosevelt.
G reat B ritain would like to come to
a friendly understanding w ith G er­
many, so she could reduce her naval
arm am ent.
In the parade a t the E lk s’ conven­
tion a t D etroit, fully 20,000 men were
in line, and 300 were tem porarily over­
come by the heat.
IM U IS H DEVELOPMENT OF THE »
NO NEW CA SES DEVELOP.
G rande Epidemic Still Proves
Puzzle to Physicians.
La Grande — Though this city has
suffered g reatly already from the
strange malady, known as anterior
polio m yelitis, through the deaths of
two young men, no new cases have de­
veloped w ithin the past few days.
The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lam
bert, who is still in a serious condition,
may not recover.
The daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Bennett, however, is be­
lieved to have passed the crisis and may
live. The disease, which has really
reached the epidem ic stage, is still
puzzling the doctors of the community.
I t seems to be an acute inflammation
of the spinal cord, and causes intense
suffering to the victims.
La
New Mill Begins C utting Logs.
Bandon — The new mill of the
George W. Moore Lum ber company,
recently completed, is one of the best
plants of the kind on the coasL It
w as form erly known as the Cody mill
and was burned in August, 1909.
It
is owned by the George W. Moore
Lum ber company. The Cody Lumber
company does the logging end of the
business.
The m achinery is all first class and
several of the devices are of the spe­
cial design of Mr. Logan.
Among
these is an arrangem ent for the so rt­
ing table which effects g re a t economy
of labor. The mill has a first class
steam plant equipped differently from
any mill on the Coast. The mill s ta r t­
ed cutting 80,000 feet of lum ber a
day. The full capacity w ill be 125,000
feet. The mill and the logging camp
together m ake a big item in the pay
roll of Bandon. The steam schooners
Fifield and Bandon are engaged in car­
rying the output of the company to
San F ran cisco .________
Union Will M arket Apples.
Toledo—The board of directors of
the Lincoln county F ru it Grow ers un­
ion m et in Toledo and made a rran g e­
m ents for the handling of the apple
crop this fall. J . F. S tew art, who has
packed and shipped apples for a num­
ber of years, was engaged as business
m anager for the union. He w ill have
full charge of the grading, packing and
shipping and selling of the en tire crop.
The association will establish w are­
houses a t Eddyville, Elk City and To­
ledo. It is estim ated th a t the associa­
tion will ship betw een 25 and 50 cars
of choice apples. This is the first year
th a t i he union has attem pted to m ar­
k e t the crops of its mem bers, and the
experim ent is being closely watched by
the people of th is county.
O yster Bay — Four negroes visited
ex-President Roosevelt Saturday, July
16. They were Giles B. Jackson, of
Richmond, Va., John Dany, of Salis­
bury, N. C., Dr. Wm. D. Crum, of
Charleston, S C., and H arry S. Cum­
m ings, of Baltimore. The visitors re­
quested Mr. Roosevelt to speak a t the
negro sta te fa ir in V irginia in October
on his views of the conditions in A f­
rica. A fter a half hour's talk w ith
Mr. Roosevelt the negroes returned to
New York. Each of them held a chip
as a souvenir.
Texan W ants O regon Prim ary Law.
Salem —In a le tte r to the secretary
of sta te from F. W. Mack, of the Sul­
phur Springs, Texas, commerical club,
is outlined a Texas view of the O rego .1
law for election of candidates. The
w riter says th a t he understands in Ore­
gon all th a t is necessary is for the
candidate to file his declaration with
the cam paign com m ittee and th a t com­
m ittee takes up his fight, the candidate
returning to his own business and pay­
ing no more atten tio n to the election.
He desires a copy of the law so th a t it
may be inaugurated in Texas.
S trike Now Abandoned
S eattle—The M achinists' Union of
E verett. W ash., has voted to perm it its
m em bers in the G reat Northern shops
there to accept the com pany's offer of
2 rents an hour and a nine-hour day.
This will m ake the wagsc 44 cents an
hour.
The men had demanded an
eight hour day.
According to the
U nited Metal Trades association, this
action will result in abandonment of
the strike begun Ju n e 1 all over the
N orthw est for the eight-hour day.
Oil Drillers Hopeful.
A storia—R eports received from Ne-
halem Bay are th a t the company v/hich
is drilling for o il’there has sunk a hole
to a depth of 650 w ithout m eeting
w ith any serious mishap. The indica-1
tions thus far are encouraging, as a
slight scum of oil cemes up as the wa­
te r is pumped from the well.
I t is
the intention, however, to bore to a
depth of 1,500 feet unless a good
flow of oil is struck before th at
tim e.
W illiam P ittm an, the Am erican cap­
Yellow Fever F eared.
tured by the Madriz forces in N icar­
agua was found in a filthy prison cell,
B luefields—Am erican Consul Thos.
dying of starvation.
The American P. Moffatt has issued instructions to
consul forced Madriz to give him better the American naval commanders here
accommodations.
to observe the stric te st precautions
th a t no personal communication be held
Roosevelt will press the fight for w ith Bluefields Bluff, on account of
direct nominations.
fears th a t yellow fever is prevalent
The congress of American republics there. It is reported th a t yellow fever
has reached the camps of the Madriz
is in session a t Buenos Ayres.
arm y.
All pupils in the Chicago public
Auto S u p e rse d es Piano.
schools will be taught to swim.
New York Another count has been
A Hungarian aviator com m itted sui­
added to the indictm ent against the
cide because of a series of mishaps.
automobile. Benjam in Lesser, a tto r­
Germany denies any intention of an­ ney for several creditors who have filed
tagonizing the United S tates in N ica­ a petition in bankruptcy against a local
raguan m atters.
corporation which m anufactures pianos,
I t is reported th a t the huge glacier says in explanation of the case: “ The
in Rainy Hollow, near Haines, Alaska, corporation could not realize on it*
is moving 12 fe et per day.
E arth­ stock of pianos on hand.
People are
quake disturbances are believed to not buying pianos any more; they are
buying autom obiles.”
have accelerated its speed.
M alheur County to Hold Fair.
Vale — Several months ago plans
were made to organize a county fa ir
for Malheur county, w ith headquarters
| a t Ontario. A board of directors was
elected at th a t tim e and subscriptions
obtained from business men from all
over the county.
The court was pe­
titioned early last week for an appro­
priation and ordered $1,000 for the
fair. The first session will be held
th is fall
Realty M arket Reviving.
Springfield—The real e state situ a ­
tion, which for the p ast few months
has been quiet here ami all over the
valley, is rapidly reviving and it is
thought by real e state dealers th a t this
fall the m arket will be heavier than
ever before. Already a large number
of inquiries have been coming in to the
local offices. I t is thought th a t fru it
lands will be in special demand.
WOOLMEN SECU RE ARMORY.
Spacious Building Will H ouse C on­
vention Next January.
Portland —The armory has been se­
cured for the sessions uf the N ational
Wool grow ers' association, which will
be held here January 4, 5, 6 and 7,
1911. A rrangem ents were made by
the following com m ittee, representing
the wool grow ers:
S. P. Connell, D.
O. Lively, C. D. Minton and C. C.
Chapman. A conference was held by
this com m ittee and Colonel T. N. Dun­
bar, of the Oregon N ational guard, and
the use of the building was assured.
The ground floor of the arm ory will
be used to house the big sheep show
th a t will be an interesting feature of
the convention.
Many v arieties of
blue blooded baa-baas will be penned
on the m ain floor, giving a chance for
a fine com petitive exhibit.
The convention will hold its sessions
on the floor upstairs. The m ain corri­
dor down sta irs will lie taken up w ith
boothB, housing many a ttra c tiv e exhib­
its to the woolgrower, such as various
patent appliances the sheep raiser
needs in his business, shearing m a­
chines, model pens, improved foods,
sheep dip, medicines, etc.
VALE DIGGER ST R IK E S GAS.
FINDS JAPAN FRIENDLY.
Am erican S ecretary Is Royally E nter­
tained In Tokio.
Tokio—“ U nhappily, forces for evil
for unknown but sin ister purposes con­
stantly are endeavoring by false re­
ports or other methods to create condi­
tions of ill will or d istru st between
two neighboring peoples.
" T h e ir relations are too firmly es­
tablished and th eir in te rests are too
d istin ct to adm it of the possibility of
any question arising between Japan
and the U nited S tates, which will not
yield readily to the ordinary process of
diplomacy. The increased and more
in tim ate exchange of view s between
the two governm ents dispels all appre­
hensions on th a t score.”
This utterance was made by Foreign
M inister Count Kom ura in toasting J .
M. Dickinson, the Am erican secretary
of war, a t a banquet given by Count
Komura in honor of the Am erican cab­
inet officer.
Mr. Dickinson and his
party arrived a t Yokohama on board
the steam er Siberia, and a fte r an in­
form al reception a t the Am erican con­
sulate, came on to Tokio.
The dinner was a brillian t affair.
E ighty persons sa t down to the table,
including Marquis K atsura, the Ja p a n ­
ese prime m inister, and five m em bers
of the cabinet; adm irals, generals and
officers and th eir ladies. A fte r toasts
to President T aft and the em peror had
been proposed, respectively by Count
Komura and Thomas J . O ’Brien, the
Am erican am bassador, Count Komura,
in proposing the health of Mr. D ickin­
son, referred to previous v isits to J a ­
pan of P resident T aft.
“ These v isits I re ca ll,” said the
foreign m inister, “ not only because his
personality endeared him to all, but
because his insight and calm judgm ent
enabled him to appreciate the true
value of the sentim ents entertained by
Jap an for A m erica.”
At Depth o f 2 4 0 Feet Flow Is S truck
—T est to Be Made.
Vale— R. W. Eamos, who is in te r­
ested in the oil fields here, has been
drilling deep cold w ater wells in Vale
on his residence property.
He has
two wells, one completed this week,
and a t a depth of 240 fe e t he found a
flow of gas, which arises w ith the wa­
ter.
He has not tested the flow to ascer­
tain if it is of quantity sufficient for
any purpose, but being about the same
as th a t discovered a t O ntario a t the
PARALYTIC LAD WALKS.
shallow depths there, causes the opin­
ion th a t the gas is distributed general­ C hurch o f God Follow ers Think Mir­
ly over this p a rt of the county.
acle Is P erform ed.
Night Shift at Box Factory.
K ansas City, Mo.— Eugene Bell and
La G rande—The demand for fru it his wife, of this city, believe a m iracle
boxes necessitates the running of the has been perform ed upon th e ir son
Palm er mill box factory day and night. Paul, 9 years old.
Paul has been helpless for a week
The night sh ift works 11 hours a
His fath er,
night, except Saturday night, when w ith infantile paralysis.
an unordained m inister of the Church
they work but five hours.
Palm er boxes are in g re at demand. of God, and other m em bers of th a t
Orders come from all parts of this val­ church, have been try in g the prayer
ley, Idaho and all p a rts of E astern cure on the boy. They were praying
Oregon. The company would have no a t the bedside a t daybreak one m orning
A t 7 o ’clock the
trouble g e ttin g large orders, for boxes when Paul awoke.
from the fru it grow ers of W ashington p a tie n t arose from his bed and walked
He
if freig h t ra te s were not prohibitive. to the breakfast table and ate.
W ith freig h t ra te s as they are a t pres­ could raise his arm s alm ost as freely as
before
the
attack
.
H
is
rig
h
t
leg,
use­
ent boxes can be shipped to Kansas as
cheaply as they can be sent to points less for a week, supported him. The
fam ily believes him cured in answ er to
in W ashington.
th e ir prayers.
Stanfield C ut-O ff S ure.
WAY TO APOLOGY SO U G H T.
Stanfield—Jam es B. Eddy, ag en t for
the H arrim an system in the W est, is
in Stanfield securing rig h t of way M ediators C oncerned With Adjusting
deeds for the new Stanfield-Coyote cut­
P eru-E cuador Dispute.
off. The building of this cut-off will
W ashington—How best to arrange
shorten the distance betw een Stanfield
and The Dalles by seven and a half for Peru and Ecuador to apelogize to
m iles. Mr. Eddy has already secured one another for the stoning of th e ir re ­
the necessary titles for more than half spective legations and consulates as a
the distance and expects in a short tim e resu lt of the boundary disputes last
to secure enough more to enable the spring is one of the early problem s
engineering corps to s ta rt the work. th a t has called the rep resentatives of
H arvest in th is section is in full three m ediating nations, the U nited
States, Brazil and A rgentine Republic,
sw ing. Labor is scarce.
into conference a W ashington.
So much was learned on the second
School Buys Rich Farm .
day of the conference, July 16.
Salem —H e;rs of Judge R. P. Boise
The carrying p u t of the first condi­
have transferred to the U nited S tates
tions of the m ediation, the w ithdraw al
gorvenm ent the Boise farm near Che-
mawa, to be used by the Chemawa In ­ of the forces from the fro n tie r and a
preparations,
dian T raining school. The farm con­ cessation of w arlike
prom pt dem obilization and the return
tains 100 acres and the consideration is
$20,048. The farm is principally bea- to a normal peace basis also are
sought.
ver-dam land, which is especially ex­
cellent for gardening purposes.
The
More Land to Be O pened.
school has started a cam paign to edu
Spokane—Two rem aining Indian re
cate its Indian pupils in gardening and
the farm will be used for this purpose. servations in this sta te , the Y akim a
and Colville, are expected to be opened
to settlem ent w ithin the next year, ac­
Hot Days Make W heat Ripen.
A thena — The record tem perature cording to Judge Jam es W. W itten,
was made here Sunday when the th e r­ superintendent of land draw ings for the
m om eter reached 103 in the shade. Interior departm ent. Judge W itten is
These hot days are causing the w heat en route to Coeur d'A lene, Idaho,
to ripen very fast, and a few more of where the draw ings for lots in Plum ­
them will bring on the harvest.
Sev­ m er and other tow nsites on the Coeur
eral m achines are expected to s ta rt in d ’Alene reserve will be held. All the
lands th a t can be irrig ated on the
a few days.
Y akim a reserve will be awarded to the
PORTLAND M ARKETS.
Indians, leaving only grazing lands.
W heat—Bluestem , 87(®88c; club,
83(u 84c; red Russian, 80c; valley, 84c.
B arely—Feed and brew ing, $19(u)20
per ton.
Corn—Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton.
O ats -N o . 1 w hite, $26(i/ 27 per ton
B u tter—City cream ery, ex tras, 30c;
fancy outside cream ery, 29((t30c per
pound; store, 23c.
B utter fa t prices average l tyc per
pound under regular prices.
E ggs—Oregon candled, 27c per doz­
en; E astern, 25c.
Poultry—Hens, 20c; springs, 22*¿4ffi
23c; ducks, 14(iil5c; geese, 10(fiT2c;
turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 2 2 's (ii25c;
squabs, $3 per dozen.
Pork—Fancy, 12%(d)13c per pound.
Veal Fancy, l l d i l l t ^ c per pound.
Green F ru its—Apples, Oregon New­
town, $2 per box; new, $1.750712; cher­
ries, 5 0 /1 2 'ic per pound; apricots,
$1,250(1.50 per box; plums $10 t !1.25;
pears, new, $1.50002.50; peaches, 40c
0 1 $1.25;
raspberries, $1.25001.60 per
crate; loganberries, 75c0f$1.26; black­
berries, $1.750i'2.25 per box.
V egetables—A rtichokes, 600i’75c per
dozen; beans, 1013c per pound; cab­
bage, 2 > ,0 i2 ‘..c per pound: cauliflow­
er, $2 per dozen; celery, 90c; cucum­
bers, 800i90c per box; egg plant,
12L.C per pound; green onions, 15c per
dozen; peas, 2c per pound; radishes,
160(20c per dozen; carrots, 85c0i'$l
per sack; beets, $1.50; parsnips, 75c
<S$1.
Potatoes—Old Oregon, 76c0l$l per
hundred; new, l ^ c per pound.
Onions- W alla W alla, $2.50 per
sack.
C attle— Beef steers, good to choice,
$4.75015.25; fa ir to medium, $4(>14.50;
cows and heifers, good to choice, $4.25
(U'4.65; fa ir to medium,
$3,501(1.4;
bulls, $3iif4; stags, $3f(f4; calves,
light, $5.60f(i'6.76; heavy, $41(15.25.
Hogs—Top, $9.76(1110.25; fa ir to
medium, $8.50(119.50.
Sheep — Best
w ethers.
$4.25(11
4.50; fa ir to good, $3,501(13.76; best
ewes, $3,751(14; lambs, choice, $6.501(1
5.90; fa ir, $4,501(16.
ALFALFA A CURE-ALL
Wonderful Healing Potion Made
From Condensed Juices.
M akes a Medicine Which C ures De­
lirium T rem ens, and Drives
Away the T ired Feeling.
Los Angeles—A lfalfa, hitherto hold­
er of a plebian place in the food
scheme, is destined to become a com
prehensive m edicative and remedial
elem ent th a t will put all others in the
shade, according to Dr. M arian N.
Clark, who announces the discovery of
rem arkable curative properties in the
plant and blossoms.
Her idea, already carried out on a
small scale and suggested by the men­
thol industry, is to electrolyze the al­
fa lfa and condense its healing ele­
m ents to vest pocket size -a haystack
of m edicine in a tablet.
Dr. Clark pridefully recounts many
instances of curing w ith the condensed
a lfa lfa juice many nervous ailm ents,
from delirium trem ens to “ th a t tired
fe elin g .”
One of these was the aggravated
case of a Reno sport, who bet on Jeff­
ries and drowned his sorrows in so
many tall ones th a t the cobras came to
g e t him. .The condensed hay expert
beat ’em to it and cured the victim so
effectively th a t now he shudders a t the
sig h t of even a dog, if the dog is a
grow ler.
Tobacco chewing, gloomy thoughts
of suicide, insom nia and a host of oth­
e r undesirable things fade away like
the m ists of the m orning under the
soothing influence of a few forkfuls of
alfa lfa done up in a tablet.
"H IG H E R U P S ” ARE WANTED.
Immunity to Be G ranted S uoordinates
In Beef T ru st P robe.
Chicago — F ifty subpoenas will be
served im m ediately on officers and em
ployes of m eat concerns to appear be­
fore the Federal grand ju ry in the beef
tru st investigation.
Officials of the
N ational Packing company will be vis
ited first.
D espite the lid th a t has been clam p­
ed tig h t on all m atters relating to the
inquiry, it leaked out th a t the govern­
m ent plans to extend im m unity to a
num ber of packing officials in exchange
for the evidence they may be able to
give to the grand ju ry .
Who these
officials will be was not made public.
It is known th a t subpoenas have been
issued for officials of the N ational
Packing company.
In sum m oning these officials it is
shown th a t the governm ent does not
care for convictions unless those g a th e r­
ed in the n et are the men “ higher u p ”
in the companies.
Judge Landis in
his instructions to the jury asserted
th a t only the real m alefators, if such
exist, sholud be d ealt with.
AEROPLANE D RO PS "B O M B S .”
C urtis L ands O ranges Accurately on
W ar S hip's Deck.
A tlantic City, N. J . —Glenn H. Cur­
tiss tossed oranges as m im ic bomba
w ithin three fe et of the decks of the
yscht John E. M ehrer II, used in place
of a battleship during the sham battle
arranged to dem onstrate the u tility of
the aeroplane in coast defense.
The mock “ bombs” were dropped
from a Height of about 300 fe e t and
Curtiss purposely failed to strik e the
deck of the yacht for fe a r of in juring
the officials and passengers on her
decks.
E xperts agreed th a t the experim ents
ahowed th a t a fleet of aeroplanes armed
w ith bomba could wreck any w arship
before guns could be trained on them.
C urtiss was flying about 45 m iles an
hour when he dropped the “ bom bs”
and officials on the deck declared th a t
he was w ithin accurate distance of
rifle fire less than half a m inute. Col­
onel W illiam Allen Jones, retired,
form erly of the United S tates Engin­
eer corps, who is an advocate of aero­
planes for coast defense, stated a fte r
the tria ls his belief th a t the a ir m a­
chine has proved its efficacy.
“ The arm ored battleship is ap­
proaching its last days as an engine of
attack ag ain st a city or country guard­
ed by aeroplanes,” he said.
“ I believe a fleet of a score of air
machines would absolutely protect any
ro ast city. A nig h t flight by such a
fleet not only would probably demolish
an en tire fleet of battleships, but would
so dem oralize the crew of the attacked
vessels as to m ake them useless.”
C urtiss also dropped oranges over a
fortification marked out on the beach,
m aking practically every shot a “ h it,”
although the trajectory was som etim es
as g re at as 30 degrees, because of the
wind and his speed.
W alter Brookins’ flight here was
sensational, the adept driver gliding
his m achine toward the ocean until its
runners w ere subm erged in a breaker.
He arose safely and glided to the
beach.
JAPAN AND RUSSIA
SIGN CLOSE COMPACT
W ashington—Evidence th a t the en­
deavors of S ecretary Knox to bring
about a concert of action of the powers
to obtain the neutralization of the
Manchurian railroad and to fu rth e r the
construction of another railroad in
M anchuria and Mongolia had. in re al­
ity, the opposite effect of cem enting
relations betw een R ussia and Japan,
was m anifested when the te x t of the
M anchurian convention between those
two nations was received in W ashing­
ton.
The convention is a b rief document
—so short as to be rem arkable among
the im portant trea tie s of modern tim es
—but it tells the story of the com­
plete understanding of two nations only
recently a t war. D iplom atically, it is
a document w ith which m asters of in­
ternational law can find no faulL The
tre a ty will be objected to n either by
G reat B ritain, Germ any nor the U ni­
ted S tates.
ENGLISH AVIATOR KILLED.
ADVICE GIVEN SE T T L E R S.
G overnm ent Issues Pam phlet o f In­
te re s t to Colum bia Valley Folk.
W ashington—New se ttle rs in the
Columbia river valley, between The
D alles and P rie st rapids, will be in te r­
ested in a pam phlet ju st issued by the
departm ent of agriculture, under the
euphonious title, “ Suggestions to S e t­
tle rs on the Sandy Soils of the Colum­
bia R iver V alley.”
The report is
w ritten by Byron H unter and S. O.
Jayne, experts sent out by the d ep art­
m ent to study the soil, clim ate, crops
and m ethods of irrig atio n .
Embodied in this pam phlet is a vast
am ount of good advice and tim ely sug­
gestions; cautions as to the best m eth­
ods to proceed, the m anner of selecting
best adapted crops, and pointers as to
how to g e t the best results under the
conditions peculiar to th is region. The
pam phlet, known as Bureau of P lant
Industry circular No. 60, is to be had
upon application to the departm ent, or
through senators and representatives.
Trying to Land on M arked S pot, Ma­
chine C ollapses.
Bournemouth, England—In full view
of thousands of persons, Hon. Charles
S. Rolls, the daring young aviator,
whose fe a t of flying across the English
channel and back recently thrilled E ng­
land, fell 100 feet to his death when
the tailpiece of his W right biplane
suddenly snapped off, causing the ma­
chine to plunge w ith terrific speed to
the ground.
The tragedy could not have been
more dram atic.
The wrecked aero­
plane struck the earth directly in front
of the grandstand.
Rolls was dead
before the doctors could reach his side.
W rapped about by the tw isted and
tangled w reckage of the broken a ir­
ship, it was several m inutes before his
m angled body could be ex tricated from
the mass. The doctors found th a t he
had sustained a fractured skull.
If the fa llin g plane had struck a few
feet more to the side, i t would have
crashed directly into the grandstand.
S h asta Route Blocked.
Redding—Fred W. Andree, conduc­
tor, was killed, C harles J . Foley,
brakem an, was bruised, and an engine
and 12 fre ig h t cars were derailed in a
wreck on the Southern Pacific railroad
a m ile south of Gibson.
A broken
flange on one of two cars which were
being pushed ahead of the locomotive
caused a derailm ent of the first car and
the engine and 11 rem aining cars rap­
idly le ft the rails. The wreck occurred
in a deep cut, and when the engine and
cars piled upon one another traffic from
both sides was blocked.
Explosion is Felt A tar.
P ittsb u rg —A powder m agazine a t
Cabot, P a., exploded here killing one
person gnd injuring 20 others. The
m agazine was the property of the
Standard P la te Glass company, and
contained 1,000 pounds of dynam ite
and 5,000 pounds of blasting powder.
The man killed had gone to the m aga­
zine to g e t powder for quarries.
Shortly a fte r he was seen to en ter, the
explosion occurred and he was blown to
fragm ents, leaving no clew ss to how
the powder became ignited.
The in­
jured will all recover.
T ornado Injures Many.
Sedalia, Mo.—Several persons were
injured in a tornado th a t struck Cen­
tral and W estern Missouri, acompanied
by heavy rain.
Louis C arpenter, a
farm er near here, was struck by lig h t­
ning and rendered unconscious. Clyde
Evans and his w ife were dangerously
injured when a barn in which they
had sought refuge was wrecked. Six
mem bers of a fam ily were injured
when their house was wrecked. Mrs.
Ja p a n H onors Dickinson.
Jacob Ruch, who lived near Bevier,
Tokio — Jacob M. Dickinson, the
died from frig h t while the storm was
\m e rica n secretary of w ar, and party
raging.
have le ft this city for Kyoto. General
Count Oku, representing General Ter-
Drexel Flies 21 Miles.
Bournemouth, England — J . Arm ­ rauchi, the m inister of war, gave a
strong Drexel, a son of Anthony D rex­ luncheon in honor of the Am erican sec­
el, of Philadelphia and London, and retary, who, in responding to a toast,
the French aviator, Leon Morane, en­ said his reception by Ja p a n was an ad­
gaged in brillian t perform ances [of ditional m ark of friendship of this
over sea speed flights. The s ta r t was country for 'America, which he believ­
a t the aerodrome across the Solent in ed would rem ain unbroken. Secretary
the direction of the Isle of W ight, Dickinson will sail on the steam er S i­
thence round the Needles lighthouse beria for the Philippines on Tuesday,
and back, a distance of 21 miles. Ju ly 19.
The Frenchm an covered it in 25 m inu­
Pittm an B etter T reated.
tes and the Am erican in 34 m inutes.
M anagua, N icaragua — W illiam P.
Pittm an, the Am erican engineer, who
M u rd erers to Be Shot.
S a lt Lake City—H arry Thome, 19 was captured by the Madriz forces near
years old, will be shot to death a t the Bluefields and brought here, is now
sta te prison Septem ber 9 next, for the confined in a commodious cell. When
m urder of George Fassell, a grocer. P ittm an arrived under escort a few
Sentence was pronounced by D istrict days ago he was placed in a d irty cell,
Judge Lewis.
Jam es Riley, who was less than six feet square. Consul
T hom e’s accomplice in the crim e, and O livares entered a vigorous protest at
who also m ust pay the death penalty, the instance of the Am erican govern­
according to the verdict, will be sen­ m ent, and the prisoner was transferred
tenced on Ju ly 23. Fsssell was killed to b e tte r quarters.
the night of March 26 last, when
Two Drow ned In Kentucky Flood.
Thome, Riley and an unknown man
L exington, K y.— A nother disastrous
held up his store.
rain storm accompanied by lightning
sw ept over C entral Kentucky, doing
King Flies In Airship.
heavy dam age to the w heat, tobacco
Brussels— K ing Ferdinand of B ul­ and com crops Telephone and tele­
g aria established the record of being graph w ires are down in much of the
the first monarch to go aloft in a heav- bluegrass section.
N ear Blue Lick
ier-than-air m achine, when he w ent springs, H enry Work and his grandson
for a flight in a biplane w ith M. de la were caught in the flood and the boy
Minne a t the aerodrome a t K iew itt.
was drowned.
G unboat R ests on Beach.
Provincetown, M ass.— W ith only a
bent periscope tube and a tw isted rail­
ing around her conning tow er to show
as a re su lt of her collision, the sub­
m arine torpedo boat B onita proceeded
to the Charlestown navy yard, leaving
the gunboat Castine, which had to be
beached to prevent her from sinking
a fte r the B onita came upon her off
Cape Cod. The plates along the s ta r­
board side o f the C astine were opened
for a distance as g re at as the length of
the Bonita. The gunboat lies easy o
a soft bottom.
F rance May C hange Time.
P a ris—The cabinet has decided to
subm it a bill for the adoption of W est­
ern European tim e in France. D uring
the old days of enm ity toward England
the French steadily refused to accept
standard tim e, m aintaining the solar
tim e of P aris, which is nine m inutes
slower. The confusion resulting, es­
pecially in telephone comm unications
w ith England, as well as the change in
Franco-English relations, is lesponsi-
ble for the decision.
P a re n ts o f 13 H onored.
Pensacola, Florida— Mr. and Mrs.
Barberi, of this city, received from
Governor G ilchrist a handsome spoon
bearing the seal of the sta te of F lori­
da. The w ife is now only 37 years old,
but Mr. and Mrs. B arberi are the p a r­
ents of 13 children.
Governor Gil­
christ suggested th a t the legislature
pass an act allowing the parents a pen­
sion.