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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1910)
DOINGS DRUE W B P IN C H O T IT E S GROW DESPERATE Friends Will Have Favorable Whether or No. Current Events of interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. The Chicago grain market is flooded with orders to buy corn. Official census returns give Oklaho ma City a population of 64,205. Saskatchewan, Manitoba, expects to harvest a wheat crop of 60,000,000 bushels. Rock Springs, Wyoming, was ser iously jarred by several shocks of earthquake. The Indiana National guard is held in readiness for action in the Grand Trunk strike situation in Indiana. A gale reaching 60 miles an hour did much damage in St. Louis and put the street cars and telephones out of busi ness. A shortage in the accounts of Irwin Wilder, assistant cashier of the Russo- Chinese bank of New York City, amounts to $600,000. Three occupants of an automobile were instantly killed and the other two badly injured while racing with a rail road train for a crossing. Much graft evidence is expected to develop at the inquest over the body of Ira G. Rawn, late president of the great Monon railway lines. Crops in Kaneas, Missouri, Oklaho ma and Arkansas are shriveling under a burning sun. Corn, cotton and peaches especially, are being injured. By the giving way of a window screen a 4-year-old child was thrown from a window 35 feet to the ground at Los Angeles, but was picked up laughing and apparently unhurt. The president’s yacht, with T aft on board, was forced by fog to put to sea instead of making a landing, as no shore lights could be sighted. They remained at sea all night. Hot winds are destroying Oklahoma. crops in President T a ft received a sprained ankle while playing golf. Logged-off lands are being exten sively used by Coast farmers for graz ing purposes. A carload o f immigrants about to start West were held up at the landing at Weehawken, N. J. King George, o f England, seeks to establish and maintain peace among the different political parties. Verdict A bitter fued between John D. Rockefeller and his brother Frank, of many years standing, has been amic ably settled. A diamond weighing 191 carats and worth $150,000 in the rough has been found in the famous Premier mine, in South Africa. A Chicago man made his w ife crawl several blocks to church on her knees and confess that she was to blame for their domestic troubles. A French scientist declares that within a few years many surgical oper ations will be performed by electricity instead of by the surgeon’s knife and saw. The |K)stmaster o f Tropic, Utah, who has been a fugitive from justice since May 15, when a shortage o f $2,300 was discovered in his accounts, was found dead within a few miles of his home. Owing to the scarcity of railway laborer? Canada has decided to admit without restriction from all countries except Asia, all construction laborers who are mentally, morally and physic ally fit, and who are guaranteed em ployment. A negro has been appointed collector of customs at Washington, D. C. Stock is reported to be dying on Montana ranges on account of drouth. Fire destroyed a North Yakima, Wash,, clothing store, causing $18,500 damage. The Forty-seventh annual convention of the Ancient Order of Hibernians is in session in Portland. The First National convention o f the Ancient Order o f Hibernians, Board o f Erin, is in session in New York City. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE Washington — The Pinchot-Garfield press agents, who are also press agents EXPECT GUSHER A T O N TARIO . o f the insurgent leaders of the Repub lican party, have served notice on Expert Says That Oil Reservoir Will Be Tapped by Drill. the Pinchot-Ballinger investigating Ontario—That oil will be struck very committee that they must return a ver , u , . ... soon in the Ontario oil well is the opin- dtet unfavorable to the secretary of^the ¡un 0f r m Eames, the greatest oil interior, and favorable to Messrs Pin expert in the Northwest, after a thor chot, Garfield, Glavis, Newell, et al., ough investigation. This investiga or there will be a renewal of hostilities tion was carried over a period of a day and a revival of last summer’s scandal. and a half, during which time Mr. Eames exhaustively examined the In other words, nothing short of a bailings from the well. The well is vindication of Pinchot and his parti- j down more than 3,900 feet. The sans can prevent the active injection equipment used is the finest and most of the Pinchot-Ballinger case into the complete in the entire Northwest. The Ontario Oil & Gas company, in fall campaign. this well, struck gas at 900 feet, then Ever since the investigation closed, again at 1,000 feet, and ag*iin at 2,200 it has been well understood that a ma- feet, at which depth the gas pressure jority of the invc*stigating committee wa8 450 pounds to the square inch. So was convinced no case had been made strong was this pressure that it blew out against the secretary of the inter out the 2,200 feet of water in the ior, and the general belief has been well and shot it 130 feet above the that the report of the majority would ground. sustain the secretary and probably con Five thousand dollars have been demn the men who instigated and pro spent in this well to date. Ontario moted the attack upon him, and over people all have profound faith this will his head attacked the president. Sena be a paying well, and they are libleral tor Nelson, chairman of the committee, supporters of this company. Five has made no concealment of his disgust thousand feet of new inch cable are with the tactics of the Pinchot-Glavis being used. The big derrick has been crowd, and Senators Root, Flint and greatly strengthened. A cement Sutherland are as readily counted with foundation has been made under the the majority, as are Representatives Samson post and main sills. A new McCall, Denbpy and Olmsted. 35-horsepower engine has been ordered from Pittsburg and is expected within HEAVY FIGHTING IS REPORTED a week. When it is installed this well will be so equipped that it can be put Success o f Revolution May Depend down 5,200 feet or more, if such a thing is necessary. on Battle Now in Progress. POWER P LA N T SOLD. Bluefields, Nicaragua — Advices re ceived at the insurgent headquarters from General Mena state the latter’s Columbia Company Secures Big belief that the success of the revolu White River Property. tion in the interior hinges upon the Portland — A deal has been just outcome of fighting now in progress closed here whereby the power plant north of Acoyapa. An insurgent vic on White River, of the Wasco Ware tory is reported. house & M illing company, was sold to General Moncado is now at Juigalpa the Columbia Light & Power company. at the head of 600 insurgents. Upon The properties were turned over to the receipt of advices that the govern the new owners. No official state ment forces were advancing upon him ment can be obtained regarding the on either side, Moncado divided his price, which is understood to approxi forces, sending one column to engage mate $300,000. General Castrilla, while with the other This purchase is in line with a num he led an attack on General Vasquez ber of others made in the Columbia the commander-in-chief of the govern valley by the Columbia concern. ment forces, and General Garrida at Eventually, the properties will be turn Comolpa. ed over to the Pacific Power & Light A fte r 10 hours’ fighting, Garrida company, which was recently organiz with his 500 men retreated in disorder, ed by the American Power & Light leaving many dead and wounded on the company, of New York. Guy W. Tal field. Moncado captured 200 rifles, a bot, of Portland, is vice president of large amount of ammunition and 100 the American company. pack mules with camp equipment. It is the intention, eventually, of the Among the prisoners is Salvador Man Pacific company to have transmission tilla. lines extended over the entire Colum The other insurgent division is sup bia River valley. A t present their posed to be engaging General Castrilla. lines make a network from Walla Wal la to Pendleton and from Pendleton to GRAIN O U T P U T IS CRUX. North Yakima. In addition their lines will run down both banks o f the Co Patton, Done With Gambling, Says lumbia. Good Times Depend on Crops. ASSE M BLY NAMES T IC K E T . Forest fires rage around the town of New York— Reiterating his declara Rainy River, Ontario, and there is tion that he never would again re-enter little hope of saving the town. the speculative arena and declaring A delirious typhoid fever patient in that in his opinion the crux of the fin a Spokane hospital leaped from a ancial situation lay with the grain fourth-story window and was instant crops, particularly corn, James A. Pat ten, the erstwhile “ cotton k in g ," ly killed. sailed for Europe on the steamer It is now believed that President Kroonland. He was accompanied by Rawn, of the «Monon railway, com his partner, William H. Bartlett, of mitted suicide to escape gigantic graft Chicago, and William S. Clough, of exposures which he knew would soon Boston. occur. “ It seems the crux of the financial August Ropke, bookkeeper o f the situation this fall depends on good “ The oat Fidelity Trust company, of Louisville, crops,’ ’ said Mr. Patten. Ky., is believed to have embezzled the crop is short, wheat is short and hay entire surplus o f the corporation, is short. Now, if corn fails, the coun try might have a period of dull times. amounting to $1,400,000. A great deal depends on the drouth. A salmon was caught at Astoria, The entire corn belt has had a serious Ore., with a fish hook of foreign make deficiency of moisture since March 22. embedded in its mouth. It is believed to have come from the Southern Cali Fortune is $71,053,737. fornia or Mexico coast, as no hooks of New York— Edwin H. Harriman was this kind are made or used in this worth $71,000.000 at the time of his country. death. The records of the state con Flour will soon advance 20 cents a troller’s office, into which the inherit barrel. ance tax is paid, show that Charles A. Rainfall has checked the forest fires Peabody, president o f the Mutual L ife in many localities on the Pacific Coast. Insurance company, who has acted as Harriman's adviser since her Norway’s recognition of the Madriz Mrs. blockade has aroused indignation at husband’s death, paid on March 5 last $81 1,000» tin- amount to which the Washington. state is entitled under the transfer tax Eleven men were killed in a prema laws. A little arithemetic shows that ture explosion of a 12-inch gun at the estate on which this tax was paid Fortress Monroe, Virginia. was valued at $71,053,737. I t is said false reports of gold strike at Iditarod, Alaska, have filled that camp with hundreds of destitute men. I Cyclone Sweeps Italy. Milan, Italy— A terrific cyclone swept over the district west of Milan, doing great damage to the towns of Saronno, Rovellasoa and Lanote Pozzolo. I t is estimated that 25 persons were killecf and wounded. A t Buste, Arizona, 19 miles from Milan, a factory collapsed, burying most of the workmen. Ten dead and many seriously injured were taken from the ruins. A t another v il lage the collapse of the roof of a build ing resulted in the death of 14. Republicans Select Full List o f State Officers. Thé following state officers were named by the Republican assembly Representatives in congress -First district, W. C. Hawley, of Salem; Sec ond district, W. R. Ellis, ot Pendleton. Governor—Jay Bowerman, Condon. Secretary of state— Frank W. Ben son, of Roseburg. State treasurer—Ralph W. Hoyt, of Portland. Superintendent of public instruction — L. R. Alderman, of Eugene. State printer— William J. Clarke, of Gervais. Attorney general—J. N. Hart, of Baker City. Justices Supreme court — Six-year term, F. A. Moore, of Columbia, pres ent incumbent; four-year term, Wal lace McCamant, of Multnomah; Thos. A. McBride, Clackamas, present in cumbent. Railroad commissioner at large — Frank J. Miller, o f Linn. State Engineer—John H. Lewis, of Multnomah, present incumbent. Commissioner of labor statistics— O. P. Hoff, of Multnomah, present incum bent. Schools Show Increase. Salem — Reports received from the county school superintendents continue to show increases in most branches of school work. In Columbia county an increase of 186 is shown in the school census over 1909. Enrollment has in creased 97, 10 additional teachers have been employed and three school houses built. The average monthly salary has increased $6 and for women teach ers $7.47. In Lane county an increase o f 699 is shown in the census and 876 in enrollment. Twenty-six new teach ers were employed during the year. Baldwin Wins Timber. Albany — Title to 17,360 acres of some o f the best timber land in Oregon was finally vested in the estate of George Baldwin, a former Wisconsin millionaire, by a decree entered in the State circuit court here. It marks the end of a contest over the land between Baldwin and S. A. D. Puter. The land involved was all Oregon school land, situated in sections 16 and 36 of vari ous townships in five leading Oregon counties. Dakota Wheat is Burned. Ellensburg, Wash.— W. H. Wilson, assistant to the third vice president of the Northern Pacific, who is here on an inspection trip, says that Montana and Dakota wheat is burned up and the farmers will harvest only a tenth of their crop. He finds business condi tions good in spite of crop failures and says that conditions as far as crops and business is concerned were never Land Soon to Be Sold. better. Adverse railroad legislation Albany—The company that recently will not interfere with the Northern purchased the land embraced in the Pacific policy of expansion. old Oregon wagon road grant is about to put its holding west of the Cascades Long Labor War Ends. St. Louis -Formal announcement on the market. The property belong is made by J. T. Templeton, sec ing to this company in Eastern Oregon Many acres of retary of the Buck Stove & is already being sold. Range company, of the end of the this original grant are in Linn county. fight with organized labor. The em The holdings begin about 12 miles from ployes of the plant are to be organized. Albany, near Plainview, and extend The announcement says in part: “ The across the mountains. present management is, and always has Vale Lets Contracts. been, friendly to organized labor. We Vale—The contract for the construc believe labor has a right to organize tion of the Vale water and sewer sys for its protection and advancement.” tems has been let to the American Light A Water company, of Kansas Squids Puzzle Spokane. City, for $63,490. The city has been Spokane. Wash. Two well develop bonded for $75,000. Work must be ed devil fish, or giant squids, measur completed in four months. ing over three feet from tip to tip, Newport Builds Walk to Beach. were dragged from the Spokane river Newport — A wide board walkjhas just hack o f the city hall. One was still alive when captured. Their pres been built from Main street, Newport, ence here, hundreds of miles from wa- to the ocean beach, passing the United ter and above the falls, is a puzzle not States life saving boathouse and the new bath house. yet solved. HEN N ESTS UP IN TREE. Broody Brown Leghorn Finds Com fort in Isolation. Albany— A brown leghorn hen which builds her nest in a big maple tree, 30 feet above the ground, is a curiosity on the farm of E. D. Jones, three-fourths o f a mile northwest of the town of Shelburn, Linn county. This hen has hatched two broods of young chickens in her aerial nest thus far this season, and is now laying eggs for a third hatching. The tree stands on bottom land ad joining the North Santiam river. It is close t® a bank 20 feet high, and from the top of this bank the hen flies only two feet to reach the limbs of the tree. She then walks along the limb to the center o f the tree and reaches her nest, 10 feet above the top of the bank. The nest rests in a natural moss-filled hol low formed by four limbs. She has added more moss and leaves. Though the hen can reach the tree easily from the top of the high bank, the limbs on which she alights are too smali to permit egg-hunters to fol low her by that route, and to disturb her nest a person must climb the big tree, the lowest limb o f which is 15 feet above the ground. It would re- qu ire so much labor to gather the eggs regularly when they are fresh that the old hen is not disturbed and is allowed to hatch out her offspring in peace. When the young chickens became big enough to crowd the nest they fell out and were picked up on the ground be low and given to another hen to raise. The height of the nest, as well as the fact that there are rocks beneath the tree, makes it remarkable that the young chicks live after their fall to the ground. Work on Water System Rushed. Cottage Grove — Work on Cottage Grove’s new water system and pipe line from Layng creek is being rushed by the contractors and several miles of ditch have been excavated at the Layng creek end o f the line. Two carloads o f pipe have arrived and is being taken to the scene o f operations. The reser voir w ill be constructed by the time the pipe line is completed to the city. The whole system will be completed this year and will assure Cottage Grove an abundant supply of the best water for all purposes. Union Makes Improvements. Union — Union will soon have ce ment sidewalks in the business district. The election on the charter amendment to permit a bonded indebtedness of $125,000 carried almost unanimously with only nine opposing votes. The electric light and power plant and the improvement of the city water system will be voted on soon. The city coun cil is now opening up a new street connected with the new Catherine creek wagon road. Good Roads Movement Helped. Jacksonville— The good roads move ment has received another impetus in Jackson county. The county court has contracted with the Jackson County Abstract company to furnish a “ road book’ ’ which will show the beginning and ending of all county roads, with all the dips, spurs and angles. This will necessitate a resurvey of all coun ty roads. Present records are very in accurate. Wire Service to Be Extended. Ontario— For building a telegraph line from Ontario to Vale and possibly to Brogan, the Oregon Short Line is shipping material and unloading it at this point. The poles are square and are being stored at the stockyards here. The wire and other necessary equipment has arrived, and work will begin on the arrival o f workmen. Fire Destroys Logs. Astoria—A fire which started in 1 clearing at the Portland Lumber com pany’s logging camp in the Grays river district, damaged about $2,000 worth o f logs belonging to the company. PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. LABOR WAR IS ENDED. Long Fight Against Buck Stove Com pany Declared Off. Cincinnati — A peace agreement of great importance to organized labor was made here between officers of the American Federation o f Labor and members of the Stove Founders’ Na tional Defense association. The effect of the agreement is to end the bitter warfare between the federation of labor and the Buck Stove A Range company of St. Louis. The association and the stove company, through its representatives here, an nounced their withdrawal from the prosecutions against President Gom- pers, Vice President Mitchell and Sec retary Morrison, of the federation of labor, in the contempt case now pend ing against them. While the prosecutions hanging over Messrs. Gompers, Mitchell and Mor rison, of the federation o f labor, have passed out of the hands o f the stove company which instituted them, and are now pending in the United States Supreme court at Washington, repre sentatives of the stove company and of the National Defense association, by the articles signed, agree to with draw their attorneys from the case. Whether the appeal o f the three men from jail sentences imposed upon them for alleged violation o f an injunction shall be fought to a finish in the Su preme court is said to rest now with Attorney General Wickereham. The five articles of the agreement are as follows: First— A conference to be held by officers o f the labor organizations in volved and Mr. Van Cleave, of the stove company, at St. Louis. Second— The agreement in regard to the wages, hours and conditions of em ployment shall take effect within 90 days, based on wages and conditions existing in shops o f competitors in the city of St. Louis, operating union shops. Third— The labor unions will make known that the differences between the two organizations have been satisfac torily adjusted. Fourth— The Buck Stove & Range company will withdraw all suits now pending against the labor organiza tions. F ifth — A copy of this agreement will be published in the journals^of the labor organizations and displayed in the labor departments of the stove company. BEHEAD AMERICANS ; Alarming Threats Against U. S. Citizens in Nicaragua. S T IL L PERSECUTE JEWS. Russians Expel Them From But Many Return. Kiev, Kiev, Russia— The expulsion of Jews from K iev continues at the rate of 45 a day. From July 4 to July 15, 497 were expelled by what is known as the second method— that is, they were forced to actually leave town. During the same period 1,121 were expelled by the first method, which, in effect, is a warning for their departure, but per mits them time for a settlement of pri vate affairs. In the majority of cases the latter method proved ineffective, as the Jews in that category are prone to return to Kiev after temporary absence. Since May 24, when the imperial edict ordering that all JewB who could not establish a legal right o f residence elsewhere should be returned within the pale of the restricted district o f the Polish provinces and the Ukraine, be came effective, there have been ex pelled from this city, Solemnka and Dmieffka suburbs, 3,011 persons by the second method and 3,641 by the first method. NEW ENGLAND IS AFFECTED. 700 Miles o f Railroad Are Made Idle by Grand Trunk Srrike. Boston—Some 700 miles of railroad In the New England states were made practically idle by the strike o f con ductors and trainmen declared through out the entire Grand Trunk railroad system. About 450 trainmen in New England are involved in the strike. The strike in New England affects 166 miles of the main line of the Grand Trunk road. The railroad shops at St. Albans, Vermont, where 850 men are employ ed. have been closed. The shop em ployes adopted resolutions condemning the strike of the trainmen. Freight traffic is tied up. Intense Feeling Against Taft and Hi» Policies in Nicaragua—Madriz Bold and Boastful. Washington— Fear exists that Ed win F. Trimmer, United States consul at Cape Gracias, Nicaragua, may be assaulted or possibly even assassina ted, and it has been decided to send the cruiser Tacoma to that port to in vestigate. I f conditions demand it, marines will be landed to protect American lives and property. This was the report made to the State department by Thomas P. Mof- fatt, United States consul at Blue- fields. Two officers and 45 men were ordered to Cape Gracias on the Taco ma, he says, ufter a conference be tween himself and Commander Hinea, of the Dubuque. An article in La Naccion, an official Madriz organ published at Managua, indicates the feeling in Nicaragua against Americans. In part it reads as follows: “ We Nicaraguans have some limited means to which we may resort as a fin al recourse i f it comes to the point that the Yankee tries to carry out his threat. Let us lay hands on all the North Americans residing in Nicara gua and let us say to Mr. T a ft: ‘ For each shot you hurl against us, the head of one of your countrymen shall roll on the ground.’ “ Another of the means to which we may resort in revenge for so great an injury and for this I do not believe we are less able than the Young Turks— let us organize in the form of a power ful coalition, to the end that in all the Latin-American countries no goods shall be purchased from the United States; making our people under tand that this is the most ecffiacious method of combatting the common enemy of our race, so proud on account o f its power, so insolent on account of its pride, and so detestable on account of its insolence.” DIE FIGHTING FLAMES. Three Men Trapped by Forest Fires Near Albany, Oregon, Albany, Or.— Three men were burn ed to death in a forest fire along the North Santiam river, opposite Hoov er’s sawmill, at the terminus of the Corvallis & Eastern railway, four miles east of Detroit. The bodies were not recovered until the following day. The dead are Philip Richmond, o f Salem; Jay M. Brooks, o f Craw- fordsville, Or., and Frank McGoey, of Clearfield, Pa. Acting against the advice of their foreman, the men went to death in an effort to get their tools. Fire had started from the sparks o f a donkey engine at Hoover’s. The three men, with other workmen, had gone to the camp. An hour later, after a vain effort to save the camp outfit from the flames, these three men started to go to a point 400 yards up a steep hillside to get their tools, where they had left them when the fire started. The wind was then blowing eastward, sending the fire that way, so the trip up the south hillside west of the fire looked safe. The men had about reached their tools when the wind suddenly changed, sweeping the fire with wonderful rap idity directly up the timber-covered hill where the men were. In a few minutes the flames had swept the en tire face o f the hill, turning the forest into a furnace. Falling burning trees made it impos sible to ascend this hill until after noon the following day. A rescue party then went up, hoping against belief that the men had reached the summit and had escaped the fire. A ll three bodies were found, however, burned badly, but not beyond recognition. Two bodies were found together, one 100 yards further up the hilL FAM OUS PIC TU R E STO LE N . One o f World's Great Paintings Now In New York City. Paris— The Cri de Paris says that Leonardo de Vinci’s masterpiece, the “ Mona Lisa’ ’ portrait, was stolen from the galleries of the Louvre one night about a month ago through the complicity of a high official of the mu seum. A copy of the painting waa put in the frame in place of the orig inal. The paper asserts that the genuine painting is now in New York. It says that a New York millionaire collector, whose initials are J. K. W. W., has the original. None of the important dealers or art collectors on this side of the water could shed any light upon the possible identity of “ J. K. W. W .’ ’ The can- vuss of art collectors who might come under the category of “ New York mil lionaires,’ ’ failed to reveal one whose initials even remotely correspond with the ones mentioned in the dispatch from Paris. Leonardo de Vinci’s portrait o f “ Mona Liaa,” also called “ La Jo- conde,’ ’ or “ La Gioconda," is one of the world’s famous paintings. In Eu ropean art circles it is considered to rank second in value only to the Sis- tine Madonna, by Raphael. Both are priceless. It is a matter o f gossip, though no official verification can be had of the rumor, that the British governmet offered £1,000,000 for “ La Joconde,” and that the offer was refused. The most striking feature of the portrait is the mysterious smile that lurks in the eyes and lipa. TIM BER W ORTH $600,000 GONE Large Crews Fighting Fires in Wis consin ¿Districts. Wausau, Wis.— The fires at Gallo way, which have caused disastrous losses in that vicinity, are reported to be fairly under control. The flames are still extending for five miles east of Eldron to Pike lake village, and large crews of men are fighting the fires throughout the standing timber portion in that district. The loss in standing timber and logs, according to a conservative estimate, was $500,000. The Jacob Mortensen Lumber com pany, which owns a large tract o f standing timber near Galloway, has a large crew of men fighting the fire. The Hatton Lumber company are protecting their timber. I f the wind keeps down, it is expected the flames will soon be under control In addition to the fire at Galloway numerous small fires have started in the southeastern portion of Marathon county, the western part of Shawnee county, and northeastern portion of Portage county. Conditions now are reported favorable. The towns of Irma, Gleason and Bloomville are still safe, but the fires are still raging around them. GRASSH O PPERS ON WAY. Swarms ot Black Insects are Devour ing Crops in Manitoba. Gretna, Manitoba—The black grass hopper, or black locust, the greatest pest that has ever attacked the crops of Manitoba and the Northern states, has arrived in swarms, and the injur ious insects are headed north, having come from Dakota, where they have already done great damage to the grain crops and the gardens. The black grasshoppers are to be seen in great numbers and are attack ing gardens, showing a special fond ness for cabbage. Where they do not find sncculent garden forage, they at tack the standing grain and strip the straw bare in an incredibly short time. “ Tim ” O’ Brien, the veteran customs collector at Neche, N. D., recalls that in the years 1871 to 1874 the black grasshopper was a terrible pest, strip ping the whole country bare, and eating the bark off the poplar trees when they had cleaned everything else green off the face of the earth. They came suddenly after a long dry spell in 1871 and at times were in such swarms that their flight obscured the light of the sun. In 1874, after doing tremendous damage, they disappeared as suddenly as they had come. Wheat — Bluestem, 91(492c; club, 84c; red Russian, 81c; valley, 86c. Volcano is Cooling Off. Diver Jumps to Death. Barley— Feed and brewing, $23(424 Juneau, Alaska— Mount Shishaldin, , West Palm Beach, Fla.— Death in an per ton. Santa Hurries to Arctic. almost unheard-of form waited for the volcanic peak on Unimak island, Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il Seattle— Santa Claus is reported to Laurence S. Baker, a 11-year old Jack which was recently reported as emit lamette valley, $18(419 per ton; East ern Oregon, $20(422; alfalfa, new, make his home in the Arctic Circle, sonville lad, when he dived from a boat ting a great sheet o f fire, is now only but the pupils and teachers o f the gov while swimming in Lake Worth. A smoking, and the sides o f the mountain $13(414. Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton. ernment schools of Northern Alaska stingaree, a huge flat-bodied and grue are covered with snow, indicating that Oats— No. 1 white, $28(428.50 ton. would have fared ill next Christmas if some species of warm-water fish, was there is no great heat within, accord Butter—City creamery, extras, 31c; presents, food, clothing and fuel had lurking just under the boat. One of ing to Captain W ill Gregory, of the fancy outside creamery, 30(4’31c per not been shipped on the steamer St. the barbed spines which this fish car lighthouse tender Armeria, which ar Helens, which sailed for Nome and ries on its whip-like tail pierced the rived here direct from Unimak. The pound; store, 23c; butter fat, 31c. keepers o f the Scotch Cap light house, Eggs — Oregon candled, 26J^(427c other Arctic porta as far north as Point boy’ s neck, cutting the>jugular vein. Hope. Congress was so late this year He rose to the surface crying for help on Unimak island, almost in the shad per dozen; Eastern, 2i0i 25 ^ c. death within four ow of the smoking volcano, express no Poultry — Hens, 17<418e; springs, that it was impossible to send the and bled to alarm. 20c; ducks, 15c; geese. 10(4llc; tur school supplies on a sailing vessel and minutes. keys, live, 18(<i20c; dressed, 22 ^ (4 there was danger that some remote schools might get no supplies at all. Tw o Towns are Drowned. Zeppelin’ s Gas Plant Explodes. 25c; squabs, $3 per dozen. Los Angeles— Messages received here Friedrichshafen, Germany—The hy Pork— Fancy, 12^@13c per pound. Work on Railroad Begins. drogen gas plant o f the Zeppelin bal conveyed the report that Bisbee and Veal— Fancy, 12(a, 12 1-*, c per pound. Redding, Cal.— A large corps o f sur loon house exploded and a number of Douglas, Ariz., were again visited by Green Fruits— Apples, new, $1.25(4 2.25 per box; Lambert cherries, 12%c veyors under J. T. Lentell has taken employes were severely injured. The floods caused by mountain cloudbursts and that four persona had met death per pound; apricots, 50c(4$1.50 per the field to make permanent surveys house was practically deatroyed and in the former city. Efforts to procure box; plums, 50c(4$1.25; pears, $2.25 for the Humboldt A Eastern railroad, buildings nearby in which the work which will connect Eureka with Red men lived were badly wrecked. The forther information were balked by the per box; peaches, 50c(4$1.25; logan berries, $1(41.25 per crate; blackber Bluff or Redding. ThiB work was or cause of the explosion is not known. falling of the telegrabph wires con necting Arizona with the rest o f the ries, $1.50(41.76 per box; watermel dered immediately after the receipt of The gas exploded during the morning world. ons, 1 *4c per pound; cantalopes, $3.50 news from Washington that the secre when the workmen were about the big tary o f agriculture had consented to workshop in which Count Zeppelin is El Paso, Texas — A dispatch from (44.25 per crate. sell 1,000,000,000 feet of timber in the carrying on his experiments in aero Bisbee, Arizona, over railroad wires Vegetables— Artichokes, 60(475c per _ . . National forest at $1 50 a nautics. That some o f the workmen states that the city has been swept by dozen; beans, 3(45c per pound; cab- a destructive flood. bage, 2 lJ (i2 l) c; cauliflower, $1.50 per thousand. The new railroad will cut were not killed is remarkable. dozen; cucumbers 50c per box; eggj across Trinity county, which now has Governor Haskell on Trial. English Strike Serious. plant, 12'.jcper pound; garlic, 8(410c; not a single mile o f railway. St. Louis,— The taking o f deposi Newcastle, England— The situation horseradish, 12'..c; green onions, 15c Japan Buys Four Airships. surrounding the strike o f employes of tions to be used against Governor Has per dozen; peas, 5c; peppers, 10(3 | 1 2 c ; radishes, 15(420c per dozen;' Victoria, B. C.— News was brought the Northeastern Railroad was aggra kell, o f Oklahoma, and others associa carrots, $1(41.25 per sack; beets, by the steamship Suveric, which has vated by the failure of representatives ted in business with Governor Haskell, $1.50; parsnips, $1(41.25; turnips, $1 Just arrived from the Orient, that the of the railroad and the strikers to the Indianola Contracting company, of Potatoes—Old Oregon 75c((i $7' per J apancse government has ordered four reach a basis of understanding after a Muskogee, and other defendants to the — ¡n France. They four hours' conference. Thousands of government’ s suit, is now in progress hundred; new, 1' 4c per pound. military airships Onions — Walla Walla, $2.50 per «re to be built in accordance with coal miners are idle because of the rail here. Governor Haksell and others are sack; Hood River, $2.25. I French design, with certain alterations road company’s inability to run freight accused of having illegally Beized cer Cattle Beef steers, good to choice, I suKIfested by the Japanese airship in- traina. Ten thousand men quit work tain town lota in Muskogee belongng $6.20(45.60; fair to medium, $4.25(4 vestigation committee. They are ex- at the start, and every hour since has to Creek Indians and fraudulently con (4 4.75; cows and heifers, good to Perte<1 ^ delivered in Japan late in brought reports of further desertions. verting them to their own use. Negotiations are under way choice, $4.25oi 4.50; fair to medium, August. Chicago Over 2,000.000. $40.000 Stolen on Liner. $3.50oi4; bulls, $30i3.75; stags, $2.50 for more air craft. Chicago— The population of Chicago 014.50; calves, light, $6.75(46.75; Hamburg—It is reported here that Louisville & Nashville Gives More has passed the 2,000,000 mark, accord thieves on board the Hamburg-Ameri- heavy, $3.50(45. Louisville, Ky. — Four thousand ing to the 1910 school census just made can liner Amerika robbed Eva Strad- Hogs Top, $10(410.30; fair to me Louisville shop employes of the Louis- public. The total minor population of ford, of New Jersey, o f jewels valued dium, $8.50(4 9.75. Sheep— Best wethers. $3.76(44; fair ville A Nashville railroad wera given a the city is 814,115, an increase of 66,- at $40,000. The Hamburg police be to good, $3(ti3.50; best ewes, $3(4 surprise when they opened their pay 768 over the census of 1908. Based on lieve the thieves belong to an interna 3.50; lambs, choice, $5.50(4.6; fair, envelopes and found therein an unsolic- the minor count, the total population is tional band working on trans-Atlantic liners. $4.75(45.25. l itod increase o f 6 per cent. 2 , 100 , 000 .