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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK LAND SWINDLE ALLEGED. Government Issues Circular Warning Against Fake Real Estate Men. Washington— The Iuterior department I has issued the following circular, warn ing homeseekers to beware of an al leged swindling band now operating in the Indian reservation lands: “ What probably is an organized band of swindlers, posing as real estate men, has been operating throughout the couu try, advertising in all leading papers, of the opening of 1,000,000 acres or more General Resume o f Important Events of government laud in the Yakima In dian reservation. Presented In Condensed Form “ They make statements that the fo r Our Busy Readers. reclamation service has practically sur veyed all reservations with a view of placing the land under water at th© earliest possible date. The water, they Mayor Gaynor is still improving. assert, may bo put upon the land for Germany will build four dread about $30 per acre, and that the bring noughts. ing of the water to this land will create Forest fires still continue in Montana, in the neighborhood of 7000 new homes. Pictures are being distributed purport Idaho and Washington. ing to be grain fields and orchards with Four hundred Punjab« and Hindus in the same section as the reservation, have sailed for San Francisco. comparing the lands included in the A California tennis player won the alleged opening to the famous Nob Hill region lands near North Yakima, where national meet at Newport, R. I. Thieves are pillaging the ruins of apples, peaches and other fruit culture the Belgian exposition, which recently has attained a high degree of perfec tion. burned. “ The facts are that the government Nine persons were hurt, in a trolley does not contemplate any opening on car collision on the edge of the Niagara the Yakima reservation at this time, whirlpool. and perhaps not for some time. There John Lind still refuses to be the is not anything like 1,000,000 acres to democratic candidate for governor of l>e opened, and none of the land to be opened on entry is likely to be irrigable Minnesota. or suitable for any purpose whatever, Governor Harmon has ordered the except grazing. state troops back to Columbus, Ohio, to “ It is not probable that there is a quell the rioters. quarter of a section on the reservation, The notorious burglar, “ Pink Horn-* outside of what will be included in the ino,“ was killed at Sacramento while Indian allotments upon which no person could make a living by farming. fleeing from an officer. “ It is rumored that these swindlers Kx President John Mitchell, of the are offering to locate soldiers’ claims United Mine Workers, did not indorse for $25 each.” the Illinois strike, as was expected. Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE OREGON SHEEP IMPROVE. position LIGHT LAND WHEAT FOUND. Dr. Lyle Declares Campaign Against Dell McCarty Believes Galgallus is Best .fo r Sem i-Ar'd Section. “ Scabies” Has Been o f Benefit. Pendleton— Dell McCarty, a former Portland—Oregon sheep are consid ered to be generally in a most health University o f Oregon athlete and grad ful condition, according to Dr. W. H. uate o f that institution, who is now Lytle, deputy state stock inspector for engaged in farming on his father’s Eastern Oregon. ranch in the light-land section, west of “ The greatest trouble we have had with sheep in Oregon has been in re Pendleton, believes that he has found gard to the ’ scabies,’ a disease that the wheat best adapted to the light soil was prevalent in nearly all the flocks and semi-arid portions o f Eastern Ore four years ago,’ ’ said Dr. Lytle. “ At gon. It is called Galgallus, and while first it was very difficult to get the sheepmen to see our way in the proper it is not an entirely new variety, it is care of the sheep and they disliked the I believed that Mr. McCarty is the only new methods we introduced. How farmer in Eastern Oregon who Yias ever, they soon discovered that two given it a fair trial. He says that for milling purposes it healthy sheep were much better than is second only to bluestem, and that 20 sick ones. “ In order to eradicate the ’ scabies,’ its ability to withstand droughty con it was necessary that every sheep rais ditions makes it a better producer in er should dip all his sheep thoroughly light-land sections than either Dale of once and sometimes twice a year. | club. This work required considerable time I Galgallus is a variety o f wheat prop and extra expense o f the sheepmen. agated by the department of agricul Frequently we had to compel some ture at Washington, and he secured flocks to be re-dipped, as some stock- his first sample from the department three years ago, upon the recommend men failed to do the work properly. “ Another matter that we had to | ation that it was a good drouth-resist They have grown the watch closely was the shipping o f i ing variety. sheep out o f the state. While this | wheat for each o f the past three years, was within the province o f the Federal and have found it all that the depart inspectors, we were desirous o f pro- j ment claimed. It has always yielded tecting the industry o f our own state better than Dale or club under the For instance, this and co-operated with the government same conditions. year they had Dale wheat and Galgal inspectors in every way possible. “ It has taken several seasons of lus in the same field, seeded under the strenuous work on the part o f the in-1 same conditions. The Dale turned out specters to carry on the campaign for 20 bushels per acre and the Galgallus better and cleaner sheep, and we feel j 26. that we have now succeeded in our pur | McCarty is therefore well satisfied pose. I believe that the sheep in Ore - 1 with his experimnts, especially since it gon, on the whole, are in as fine c o n -! is said that the mills will pay bleustem dition as those in any of the states. prices for the new variety. The quality of wool has also shown a j PEAR C R O P IS 2 6 0 CARS. marked improvement during the past | year or tw o.” Rogue River Fruit Association Re ports Prices G ood. GREYHOUND JOINS C O Y O TES. Medford— Three cars of pears are Otto Schultz, of Los Angeles, has con HUNDREDS DIE IN FLOODS. fessed to murdering Mrs. Frieda Schultz Castine and burying the body on her Japanese Capital Inundated, Tens of ranch, where a dog dug her out. Thousands Starving. San Francisco mint is working over Tokio— At 6 o ’clock Monday morning time to handle the large amount of gold which is pouring in from the Orient, it was reported the flood was subsiding. Phe casualties reported up to date are Mexico, Alaska and this country. 385 dead and 500 missing. The damage With her bare hands, Miss Maud to property is enormous. Barbour, a young woman of Washing Tens o f thousands of persons are — ton, D. strangled a large dog, ap homeless anil starving. One of the Tame Pet Hears Call o f Wild and parently mad, which attacked her. three embankments guarding Tokio has Responds to It. A 16-year-old boy at Stockton, Cal-, broken. Should the second and third Sandy - - A once tame greyhound, dikes break, half the capital would be killed four bears. owned by Martin Smith, of Sandy, has submerged. A cotton famine is prevalent in the The threatened embankments are now become wild and now consorts with the New England mills. being guarded by troops. Owing to coyotes it formerly chased in the sur Tokio is facing a famine as a result the inundation of the buildings, the rounding hills. It has been three years Fukugawa gas and electric lights are since this greyhound heard and re o f disastrous floods. failing. Thousands of homeless people The sixth attempt at suicide of Mrs. are being sheltered in the temples. The sponded to the call o f the wild, and it Mary McArdle, in Chicago, proved suc victims of the flood are wholly depend has never ventured back to his old cessful. ent on public relief. Thousands have home in Sandy except to come to the Regular troops are ordered to fight been unable to find shelter, and are ex outskirts to steal chickens from hen roosts. forest fires in the Washington and Idaho posed to rain and hunger. The companion of this greyhound is The question of feeding the stricken districts. a coyote, and they have frequently J. Poyntz Spencer, fifth Earl of Spen people is causing apprehension. The cer, died in London Saturday. Ho was vegetable and fish supplies are failing, been seen together running through and the stock of biscuits already is the outskirts o f the town. Several born in 1835. nearly exhausted. persons have tried to get photographs The British cruiser Duke o f Edin The water of the Sumida River is o f the strange couple, but have failed. burgh went ashore in a dense fog on a almost washing the bottoms of the The greyhound has lost all desire to rocky ledge off Cowes. bridges. return to his former home, and has be There is the part of come even more wild than his compan AMERICAN MEN PLEASE POLAIRE the recede from the ion. The animal has quite a history, it has taken in Spain. having been raised from a puppy in Women Dress Horribly—They Lifted the neighborhood. But one day he A 6-year old boy swallowed a torpedo July 4 at Madison, Wis., and nearly Skirts to See Her Legs. disappeared from hi9 home, and several lost his life by poison. weeks afterwards was seen with the Paris— Polaire, back in Paris once Smiling club has been organized in more, does not bear the slightest resent coyote which has been his constant London, which pledges its members to ment toward Americans for advertising companion ever since. smile instead of swearing. her as the ugliest woman in the world. James Radley, the English aviator, She said: MEDFORD SHIPPING PEARS. “ American women are charming, but flew one mil© in 47 2-5 second on a Blériot monoplane. This is a w orld’s they certainly have a sense of modesty that is purely their own. Would you Rogue River Fruit Leaves for East record for speed. believe, they even pulled up my skirts in Carload Lots. A warrant has been issued for the to see my legs. arrest of W. J. Burns, the noted detec Medford— The Bartlett pear harvest “ No American man would have al tivo employed by the government in the lowed himself to do that. I like Amer o f the Rogue River valley has begun. land fraud cases. He is charged with ican men immensely. They are always The Rogue River Valley Fruit and Pro subornation of perjury. well groomed, smart and elegant. duce association has already dispatched Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, Everything about him suggests he has six carloads for Eastern markets. it is reported, is scheduled to bo retired a daily bath. In dealing with women Later in the week harvesting w ill be from President T a ft’s cabinet, also A t he may not have a Frenchman’s esprit, well under way with three cars o f torney-General Wickersham and Secre charm and delicate little ways, but he pears being shipped from Medfordjeach tary of State Knox. Speaker Cannon is is all right. day. also to be relegated to the has beens. “ The American woman is too slack All the pears are being packed by in her appearance. She does not make The first gun in the contemplated :is good mi impression as the American packers who have received certificates Nearly 250 sugar war between members of the man, and dresses horribly. She sticks from the association. Spreckels family was fired Saturday :in immense hat on her head, without packers attended the recent session o f with the arrival at San Francisco of th< knowing whether it will suit her or the packing school in'Medford and now, well known American ship Lyra from not. It is a fine hat, she thinks, so armed with certificates and little rub Yonkers, N. Y., bringing to the Federal long as it is adorned with immense ber stamps, are ready to wade through Sugar Refining company sugar amount feathers They are mad for feathers this season’ s pear crop. Each box is ing to 10,000,000 pounds. over there. If they were not afraid of marked by the packer with his number stepping on them they would have them by the rubber stamps provided by the The Pacific Coast fisheries will start swing to their feet. association. a seal farm. Denver gets the next convention o f Road Caves In, One Dead. Gravel Company Builds Bunker. the Knights Templars. Albany- The Albany Sand & Gravel Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyo.— When Oregon troops in camp at American company, which recently incorporated Lake helped to fight forest fires near the last coach Saturday passed through Silver Gate, about three miles from and bought the dock property as well Colville, Wash. as lots adjoining on the east, is erect Health authorities in Berlin fear here, the road caved in and the coach ing a substantial gravel bunker. The with its load of people sank 10 feet. the invasion o f cholera and are taking cement foundation is in and the heavy Daniel Mackay, o f New York, who, precautions against it. timbers for the bunker, which will be with his wife, was touring the park, Federal grand jury in Chicago brings was killed. Mrs. Mackay received in 30 feet high, are being put in place. charges against Thomas G. Lee, Ar juries, but her condition is not reported The bunker will have a storage capa as serious. Others who were bruised city for 360 tons o f gravel. The bun mour & C o.’ s manager. or suffered from the shock of the acci ker will be surmounted by a modern Election returns in Alaska give dent are: J. L. Louchienier, New separator and washing apparatus for delegate to congress, James W icker York; Miss Mueller, Chicago, and W. grading and washing the gravel as it sham, a plurality o f 2,000. I'. Almon, of Helena, Mont is placed in the various bins. Aviator Le Blnac in a 488 mile race Detaining Cholera Suspects. Build T w o Churches. in France made the remarkable speed Ontario— The contract for the build o f 100 miles in one hour and 55 min Washington— Rigorous measures have utes. been taken by United States represen ing o f the Catholic church has been Mrs. Della Totten shoots and instant tatives abroad to prevent the introduc awarded to Wm. Raver and the edifice ly kills James E. Sutton in a dispute tion into this country of cholera. At will be erected at once. The founda tion has been built for some time. The over a line fence, near Wenatchee, the instance of the public health serv foundation for the new Presbyterian Wash. ice at Washington, the United States church will be put in next week and An explosion o f dynamite in an ex consular officers at Hamburg, Bremen, the contract for the building, which cavation in New York City injures 20 Antwerp and Rotterdam and other con will be o f white pressed brick, will be persons and causes a panic in the tinental and British ports, are working under cabled instructions which re awarded soon. The brick work is pro neighborhood. quire them to detain steerage pas gressing on the five-story hotel and Senator Aldrich denies profiting by sengers from cholera infected districts brick buildings on Main street. the tariff on rubber through hts in in Russia and to disinfect baggage prior Vale Depot Inquiry On. vestments in concerns interested in the to embarking for the United States. rubber industry. Salem— To determine what improve Raid Made; Charity Wins. ments should be made in station facil The forces o f General Lee Christ Cleveland— Acting under peremptory ities at the Oregon Short Line depot at mas, supporing the Bonilla movement Vale, the railroad commission has set in Honduras, are approaching the city instructions from Gov. Harmon, the September 9 as a day for a hearing to county authorities clamped the “ lid ” o f Celiba rapidly. carry on the investigation, the hearing on the betting ring at North Randall Pensions for Alaskan dogs who have track, three hours before the closing of to take place at Vale. It is said by served their time in the harness is pro the Grand circuit race meet. As a re the commissioners that the road has posed by Marion P. Maus, commander suit it is predicted the track may be made two promises during the past o f the department o f the Colu. bia. closed permanently. Sheriff Hirstiu* year that improvements would be made tetired from the raid with his pockets, and on the strength o f these promises The Illinois Central railroad com his hat and the fullness of his shirt the commission has allowed the matter pany, by order o f the corut, will re stuffed with currency, and a swarm of to drag along. cover losses from the Memphis Car bettors are looking for the bookmakers. company which defrauded that road of Trees to Be Enumerated. Honduran Insurgents Fill Jails. thousands o f dollars in car repairing. Medford—Professor O'Gara, chief New Orleans—It is reported here that o f the corps o f expert inspectors of Encouraging weather reports indi cate that crops will be better than had scores of prisoners have been thrown Jackson county, who has just returned into Honduras prisons following their from the East, announced an active been expected. alleged complicity in recent uprisings campaign for the coming fall. He in President Taft receives visitors three there. Rumors here are that President tends to enlist volunteer inspectors in days a week only, reserving the others Davila has issued a statement declaring that insurrectionary movements have the work o f carefully enumerating the for recreation and rest. been completely quelled. Wholesale ar bearing fruit trees o f the county. His United States has protested against rests of alleged leaders in the movement i plan includes a careful recording o f the injury to American property in Nicara against the government are being made, i condition o f trees in every orchard in it is said. gua by Madrii soldiers. the county. no intention on Vatican to | j j being shipped daily by the Rogue R iv er Valley Fruit & Produce association. This does not include all the pears that are being shipped from Rogue River valley points, as some o f the large growers are shipping independ ! ently. The pear harvest now in full swing is coming up to expectations, the qual ity of the fruit good and uniform and the prospect o f good prices pleases the growers. Estimates vary as to the pear output this year. C. R. Wilmeroth, manager o f the association, estimates that the valley will ship 250 cars o f peras this year. Some o f the growers and others posted on the crop output make higher estimates. There is no shortage of help for picking and for packing. RAILW AY GRAFTERS MISSING. Car Repair Company Officials in Europe or Whereabouts Unknown. Western Men Make Big Predictions for Northwest Country. Chicago — Following the startling charges filed in the Chancery court at Memphis, implicating seven former of fleers o f the Illinois Central Railway iu the $1,500,000 graft frauds on x;ar re pairs, the inquiry brought out the fact that but one of the men mentioned is available for an expression of opiniou and he refused to be called to the tele phone or to receive reporters. The list, so far as known, is as follows: Ira G. Ruwn, ex-vice-president and later president o f the Monon Railway, dead; Frank B. liurrimun, formerly general manager, Illinois Central, ah sent on long automobile tour, where abouts unknown; William Renshaw, ex superintendent of machinery, in Europe with Mrs. Renshaw, expected home iu three weeks; Joseph E. Buker, ex as sistant superintendent of machinery, on vacation, whereabouts unknown, ex pected back in two weeks; John M. Taylor, ex storekeeper at Burnside shops, iu Chicago, but will not be seen; O. 8. Keith, ex-superintendent of trails portation, out o f the city, return is iu definite; H. McCourt, ex general super intendent, Illinois Central Southern lines, said to be in Europe; W. S. King, ex-general superintendent Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad and Memphis terminals, said to be in Eu- lope; Henry C. Ostermann, president of the Memphis Car Company, where abouts unknown. Grand jury investigation, with prison iu the background, is the next act iu the graft cases. Now that settlements have been made by individuals and companies with the Illinois Central, whereby it has recovered a large por tion or the money, and protected its stockholders, the conspirators are said to be iu the utmost danger of indict ment. Attorney William Barry, represent ing the estate o f Ira G. Rawn, declared that he did not believe the Illinois Con tral officials would sue the estate for uny portion of the money the company asserts to be lost through the car repair frauds. He also intimated that before long a counter move would be made by the Hawn interests provided the “ bom bardment” was kept up. Chicago— “ While apples are not yet the principal products o f Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, those who are familiar with the unrivaled cli matic and soil and other conditions believe the time is near when the apple yields o f the four states will be worth $100,000,000 a year and the cul ture o f the king o f fruit will be the chief industry.” H. L. Moody, a member o f the cham ber o f commerce and other organiza tions in Spokane, Wash., said this in an address on “ Apple Culture and Irri gation in the Northwest,’ ’ at the first meeting o f the Chicago Irrigation association at the La Salle hotel in Chicago the evening o f July 28. Judge Charles F. Fishback was toastmaster. Mr. Moody added, among other thing«: “ Federal and state engineers say in reportB to their respective departments there are approximately 200,000,000 ALASKA VOLCANO ERUPTS. Mount Shish&ldin Scatters Ashes on Distant Ship. Seward, Alaska— The steamer Corwin arrived from New York with the re port that Mount Shishaldin, the highest volcanic peak in the Unimak Islands, is again in eruption. Early in July Shishaldin was very active, but after a short time the eruption ceased. Officers of the Corwin say that when they passed the island a few days ago the volcano was more active than iu the former eruption. A great column of fire shot high into the air and vast volumes of smoke poured from the crater. The snow, which at the time of the previous eruption had not melt ed far from the crater, has entirely dis appeared from the sides o f the moun tain. Long before the Corwin approached the island sue was covered with white volcanic ash that had been thrown out by the eruption, and was carried along in the heavy clouds of smoke. The men on the Corwin say the sight pro sented by Mount Shishaldin was the most awe inspiring they have ever seen. M edford Orchards Sold. Medford— Within the past few days there have been three sales near Med ford o f orchard land to Eastern buyers. A 60-acre tract with several acres in young Spitzenburgs and pears was sold by W. R. Byron to H. W. B* Dunlap, o f Ilinois. The Macdonald place, 78 acres extent, a part o f the old Risley donation claim, was sold to H. E. Carl ton for $18,000. This tract has no CARLISTS ARE BLAMED. fruit trees except a small family or chard. Forty-five acres on Griffin Creek were sold by B. F. Riddle for Spanish Premier Charges Rich o f Order $12,500. With Directing Move. Paris—The Paris Times prints a long sensational interview with Jose Canal ejaay Mendez, the Spanish prime min ister, covering the events which culmi nated in the severance of diplomatic relations between the Spanish govern ment and the Holy See, as well as his future programme. The *paper says that the premier dictated the interview. Premier Canalejas begins by assert ing that the movement in the north of Spain is directed by rich Carlista, and affirms that he possesses knowledge that the committee behind the move ment spent $80,000 in giving the mani festants o f July 10, meal tickets, be sides their railroad fares. PORTLAND MARKETS. “ After the failure o f the manifesta Wheat Bluestem, 96(3 98c; club, 88 tion,” Señor Canalejas says, “ the agi organized juntas, o f which— and dt 90c; red Russian, 88c; valley, 92c; tators l announce this publicly for the first fortyfold, 92c; Turkey red, 92(393c. time— village priests are the leaders.” Barley— Feed and brewing, $24.50 per ton. Mayor Gaynor Doing Well. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il New York— With the passage o f an lamette valley, $18(3)19 per ton; East ern Oregon, $20(</22; alfalfa, new, $13 other day Mayor Gaynor, shot in the (3)14. neck on Tuesday by James J. Gallagher, Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton. shows no symptoms of blood poisoning. Oats— No. 1 white, $29(3)30 per ton. He continues to rest well at intervals, Green Fruits — Apples, new, 50c@ $1.50 per box; apricots, 30c(3$l; to take nourishment when desired, and plums, 75cft/l; pears, $2.25; peaches, if the bulletins his surgeons are issuing 65c(3 $1.35; blackberries, $1.50 per disguise nothing, his condition is fa vorable toward ultimate recovery. The crate; watermelons, 90c(3)$1.25 per bugbear of septicaemia is not yet hundred; cantaloupes, $1(3)2.25 per passed, nor is the possibility an artery crate. or a blood vessel has been scraped by Vegetables — Artichokes, 60(3)75c the bullet. With these possibilities ever per dozen; beans, 3(3>5c per pound; present, he still is in the danger zone. cabbage, 2 ‘ .|ft/2l*c; cauliflower, $1.50 per dozen; celery, 90c; corn, 25c; cu Bristow Answers Aldrich. cumbers, 50c per box; egg plant, 12% c Milwaukee— Senator Joseph L. Bris per pound; green onions, 15c per doz tow, of Kansas, replied to Senator Ald en; peas, 5c per pound; peppers, 50c rich’s letter defending his action with per box; radishes, 15ft/20c per dozen; reference to the rubber schedule iu the tomatoes, 65cft/$l per box; carrots, $1 tariff law. Senator Bristow declared ft/1.25 per sack; beets, $1.50; parsnips, that Aldrich did profit by the increased price of rubber, that the companies in $1(3)1.25; turnips, $1. Potatoes New, $1.15(3)1.25 per hun which he was interested sought to con trol the w orld’ s market, and that the dred; sweet potatoes, 5c per pound. »rganization of subsidiaries was part Onions— Wlla Walla, $2.50 per sack; of a plan of monopoly similar to that Oregon, $2ft/2.25 per sack. under which Standard Oil first became Butter— City creamery, solid pack active. 34c per pound; butter fat, 34c; coun try store butter, 24c. Junean in Coal Famine. E ggs—Oregon candled, 26*^(3)27c Juneau, Alaska— With millions of per dozen. tons of coal lying untouched in the Poultry— Hens, 17c; springs, 17c; Katalla coal fields, Juneau is in the ducks, 14ft/15c; geese, lO ft/llc; tur grip o f a coal famine. The steamship keys, live, 18ft/ 20c; dressed, 22x^0 t companies have completely exhausted their retail supply, and the situation 25c; squabs, $3 per dozen. ¡9 becoming acute. The city has a Pork— Fancy, 13c per pound. small supply, and is selling small Veal— Fancy, 1 2 ^ c per pound. Hops— 1909 crop, 8(3* 12c; olds, nom amounts to those who are in greatest need. inal; 1910 contracts, 13(3 1 3 c^ . W ool- Eastern Oregon, lS @ 17c per Population Will Exceed 90,000,000. pound; valley, 16ftfl8c; mohair, Washington.— Census officials esfci choice, 32ft/33c. mate that the population figures will Cattle— B eef steers, good to choice, exceed 90,000,000 when the thirteenth $5.25(05.75; fair to medium, $4.25(3) census count is completed. Although 4.75; cows and heifers, good to choice, 300 clerks are wbrking at top speed on $4 25ft/4.65; fair to medium, $3.50(3 4; the statistics, the totals will not be bulls, $3(33.75; stags, $2.50(3 4.50; given out officially until October. calves, light, $5.75(36.75; heavy, Four Cents a Hundred for File«. $3.50(35. Washington.— Determined to extermi Hogs— Top, $10(310.25; fair to nate the typhoid breeding housefly, a medium, $8.60ft/9.75. bounty of 4 cents per 100 insects has Sheep— Best wethers, $3.75ft/4.35; been offered by a sanitary society of fair to good, $3(33.50; best ewes, $3 women. In particular the offer is made (33.50; lamhs, choice, $5.50(36; to small boys, who are alreadr gleefully Iambs, fair, $4.75fo6.25. committing numerous insecticides. Bids for Road T o o High. Salem — Deciding that $16,000 a mile is too high for rock road, the Marion county court rejected the bids that have been submitted for a portion o f the Silverton-Marquam road and advertised for another set. Two bids were originally submitted and each o f them were well above the $64,000 mark for four miles and one-third of road to a point where the Silverton- Marquam highway intersects the Mount Angel and Scotts Mills road. APPLES $ 1 0 0 ,0 0 0 ,0 0 0 A YEAR. I Carter, of Oklahoma, (Tells of Big Indian Land Scandal Liberal Offers Made to Congressmen to Push C rooked Deal— Thieves Fall Out. 1 McAlater, Oklahoma— The “ poor In dian” learned a few more things about the proposed sale o f $30,000,000 worth o f hia land in the hearing before the congressional investigating committee Thursday. Representative C. U. Car ter, o f the Fourth Oklahoma district, testified that in an interview at the home o f Richard C. Adams, an attor ney at Washington, Adams had aaid that he had an arrrangement by which he was to secure 5 per cent of the "p rofits” to be derived from the Me- Murray certificates. “ He also told me,” testified Mr. Carter, "th a t Congressman B. S. Mc Guire was in the deal and would get his share. He also told me tiiat Dr. Wright, a delegate for the Choctaw Indians at Washington, with a salary o f $6,000, was in on the deal. He also said: ‘ We got some others,’ but he did not mention any other names.” “ Did Adams say he was going to get 6 per cent o f all the money J. F. Me- Murray was to realize on the deal?” asked Chairman Charles N. Burke. “ Yes, he said he was going to make sure o f it, as McMurray had ‘ double- crossed’ him at other times, but this time he was going to fix it so he could not lose out, and when McMurray got his 10 per cent, or $3,000,000, or whatever it amounted to, he (Adams) was going to get 5 per cent o f the pro ceeds. “ I also met Jake L .” Hamon at Washington. He told me to go to that old man Gore and get him to withdraw that fool bill o f his against the McMurray contracts.” " D o you think a majority o f the In dians are in favor o f these contracts giving 10 per cent to McMurray?” "T h ere is no doubt that they are.” he replied. But there is also no doubt that in signing the contracts many were influenced to do so by persons who had an interest in them .” | Adams was descirbed as a Delaware Indian, who frequently has been men tioned as having called on President Taft in matters pertaining to Indian affairs. It was Adams to whom the Indians in this state were asked to ad dress their telegrams urging President Taft to approve the sale o f the lands. Before Carter left the stand Mc- Murray’ s attorneys obtained from him testimony tending to show that Mc Guire in previous Indian matters had supported measures in congress oppos ed to the interests o f McMurray. Carters’ appearance on the sta.id fol lowed another day o f lively testimony. H. L. MOODY. acres o f undeveloped arable lands in the United States west o f the 98th meridian, and men versed in agricul ture assert that under proper cultiva tion this area could be made to produce between 4,000,000,000 and 4,500,000,- 000 bushels o f wheat yearly, or other crops in proportion. The settlement o f these lands would mean homes for not less than 20,000,000 population and a source o f added food supply, and, as a consequence, permanent prosperity. “ The four Northwestern states con tain 253,894,760 acres. Less than 5 per cent o f this land is occupied by farms and the total population is not more than 3,000,000, in an area of 397,700 square miles. More than 50,- 000,000 acres o f this land is adapted to irrigation. Planted to apples and properly watered the minimum crop at I maturity would hé a matter o f 20,000,- 000,000 bushels, or about 40 per cent o f the total crop o f the United States in 1909, when less than 23,000,000 bar rels o f apples were harvested. " I mention these facts merely to show the possibilities o f the country as proof that, as gold was the strong magnet which sent the first American across the continent to the California New York, Aug. 10.— Mayer W. J. ceast in 1849, so today the apple is at Gaynor, o f New York, lies at St. tracting thousands upon thousands Marys hospital tonight with the seg more people from Eastern, Middle ments o f a split bullet fired yesterday Western and Southern states to the by James Gallagher, who sought to great orchard belts o f the Northwest. assassinate him, still buried in his “ The apple is king throughout the neck and mouth, but he haa shown not vast Northwestern domain, and it is one alarming symptom. It is beyond conceded by pomologieal experts that human power to say whether he will no district in America stands higher in recover, for not even the most re fruit production. With increased nowned specialist can say whether * transportation facilities and the steady blood poisoning will be the aftermath, influx o f settlers, the early attempts in but as yet the mayor’s temperature has the valleys and uplands have become given no cause for alarm. Every indi more pretentious and systematic. Irri cation is that the wound is healing sat gation plants have been established by isfactorily. private individuals and corporations, and the United States government is expending enormous sums in reclaim Five Crushed to Death. Cape May, N. J .— Five persons were ing the volcanic wastes which are so crushed to death when an express train wonderfully rich and fertile and so pe on the Pennsylvania railroad dashed culiarly adapted to raising unblem into an automobile at Mill Lane cross ished fruits. Apples grown in Washington, Ore ing on the West Jersey & Seashore railroad. The express train was hid gon, Idaho and Montana arc in demand den from view by a cornfield. As the in the Eastern and Middle Western automobile bore down toward the states and in Europe and Australia, and train, Mrs. Thomas McNeill, who lives the markets are being extended year near the crossing, saw the approaching by year. Experts in the East who express and waved her hand for the have studied conditions in the North auto driver to stop his car, but the man west frequently refer to these states either did not sec the danger signal or a s ‘ the world’ s fruit basket,’ adding thought he could cross before the train. therl has been established in a com paratively short time a domain where the first foot o f soil, properly cultivat Fish Business Grows. ed and irrigated, is worth more than Vancouver, B. C. — Evidently the Canadian Northern railway is seeking all the mines from Alaska to Mexico to control the deep-sea fisheries o f the and all the forests from the United States boundary to the Arctic sea.” North Pacific. Recently it obtained control o f the entire stock o f the Pa Italy is After Charlton. cific Whaling company, a deal involv New York— Porter Charlton will not ing over $1,000,000. Last spring the company also bought out the Queen escape returning to Italy to answer for Charlotte Whaling company, which the confessed murder o f his wife, owned exclusive whaling rights on the Mary Scott Castle Charlton, at Lake This west coast o f the Queen Charlotte Como, without a legal battle. islands, and installed at Rose Harbor a was made plain by Gustav Dirosa, the new station on July 26, which has made Italian vice consul, who told Prosecutor Garvin in Jersey City, where Chari] the phenomenal catch o f 18 whales. ton is in prison, that his government was "g o in g to get Charlton.” “ He Postal Banks in Small Cities. Beverly, Mass.— Postmaster General shall not escape trial in Italy if we can The vice consul inquired Hitchcock made a preliminary report help it .’ ’ to President Taft regarding the plans whether the prosecutor intended to for the early institution o f postal sav have alienists examine Charlton. ings banks in different parts o f the California Gets T w o Fairs. country. The experimental banks will San Diego, Cal.— California is as be located in smaller cities in order to perfect the system. It is hoped that sured o f two expositions to celebrate ihe experimental banks may be in the opening o f the Panama canal in operation by October 15. Mr. Hitch 1915. Voters o f San Diego, at a mu cock and the president, it is said, also nicipal election Aguust 9, decided to issue $1 ,000,000 in bonds for improve- talked o f the political situation. j ment o f the city park, already selected Aviator Badly Hurt. • as the exposition site, and for the con Johannistal. Germany — Aeroplanist struction o f permanent buMdings to Hiem was seriously hurt at the avia constitute the nucleus o f the fair. tion meet here. While he was flying 1 This is regarded as a ratification o f the in a Wright machine, at the height o f agreement reached by representatives about 225 feet, one o f the propellers o f San Francisco and San Diego in con broke. The other continued to run, ference at Washington last May. causing the craft to turn over several Death C om es With Riches. times. It fell with s crash and was completely demolished. Hiem was Salmon City, Idaho — Crushed to carried off the field unconscious. death by a fall o f rock, the body o f John Doyle was found by a party o f Twelve Die in W reck. prospectors northwest o f this city. Ignacio, Cal. — Disobedience o f or Doyle was working alone and the fail ders, according to the railroad officials, o f rock show that he had just struck on the part o f a conductor wss respon | a rich lead o f gold-copper ore. It is sible for a bead-on collision between a not known how long he had been lying passenger and m work train on the dead among his newly discovered rich Northweatern Pacific near here, that es, as it was by chance that his body took a known toll o f 12 lives and in was found. Doy'e had been prospect jured about 20. ing in this district for many years. MAYOR GAYNOR IMPROVES; INDICATIONS FAVORABLE