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I OOIRGSOFTHEWEEK fo * e s t fibes gkip ■ S l i t DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE TOWN OF WALLACE Current Events oí Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form f o r O ur Busy R eeders. M ayor Gaynor o f N ew im proving rapidly. York C ity is The steamer F. A . K ilbu m was de stroyed by fire at her dock in San Fran cisco. Thirty-three soldiers were prostrated by heat durnig practice marches in Kansas. Steady rains are fa llin g in Chehalis county, Wash., extinguishing the fo r est fires there. W allace, Idaho, is reported to have had a population o f exactly 3,000 when the census was taken in A p ril. F. August Heinze, one o f the wealth iest m ining men o f this country, will be married September 1 to an actress. The British cruiser Bedford went ashore on the Corean coast and w ill be a total loss. Eighteen men were drowned. P R U N E CROP GOOD. j F ifty are reported dead in and ; around W allace, Idaho, where the \ property loss is $1,000,000. The Are ♦ has not enlarged on the area burn- j ed Saturday night. : Mullan is probably safe but fires l threaten. : Elk C ity is reported still unburn- t ed. I Four or more are dead in fires i near New port, Wash. One hun- j dred and eigh ty men in the forestry ♦ service are surrounded in the St. Joe j country, j T a ft and St. R egis, Mont, have ♦ been burned. Saltese is surrounded ♦ by fire. Deborgia is seriously ♦ threatened. Haughan, Mont., is re- j ported destroyed. ♦ There is a solid line o f fire from ♦ Thompson Falls, Mont., fo r 50’ miles j to the Idaho line, with portions o f ♦ Belknap, W hite Pine, Hoxon and I Heron burning. j Conflagrations rage in the Galla j tin forest, Montana. Thompson ♦ Falls is in peril. ♦ Ym ir, B. C., is in danger from ♦ fires which are burning in the bush. } Other fires are gaining headway in ♦ that region and the situation is ser- i ious. i A very, Idaho, is destroyed, the 1 people fleeing to Tekoa. M A N Y B U IL D IN G S B U RNE D . Senator Warner, o f Missouri, an nounces that on account o f old age he Women and Children Flee on Train w ill not again be a candidate for re- — Skeletons Found. election. He is 71 years old. Missoula, Mont. — The forest fire A national bank o f Spokane, Wash., situation on both sides o f the Idaho- is issuing bank notes which are sup Montana line is more serious than at posed to be antiseptic. They are any tim e this season. signed with ink composed largely o f Flames are sweeping over an in carbolic acid. creasing area, destroying small settle Oakland, Cal., gave rousing welcome ments and w iping out o f existence to the first railroad train to reach that millions o f dollars’ worth o f property. c ity over the new Western Pacific, It The loss o f life w ill be large, which is a d irect trans-continental grows hourly, and the number o f in ocean-to-ocean line. jured is constantly increasing. In and around W allace it is estimated T w o lads fishing from a skiff at here the death list is at least 50. N ew port, Ore., were caught by a In addition to at least 25 otherwise strong ebb tide and were being carried hurt, it is said that ten persons have out to sea when they w ere rescued by been made blind. the life-savin g crew. Indications in W allace, however, I t is said the com ing political cam are that hearly half o f the city w ill be paign w ill be one o f the bitterest on saved. Communications with Wallace lecord in many o f the political centers, to the west has been possible at inter as many old politicians w ill be making vals, but eastward it is entirely cut off a fight for their political lives. and it is known that the entire east T w o desperadoes attempted to cap h alf o f the town, above Seventh street, ture a steamer just outside San Fran has been burned. W est o f that a hard cisco. They killed the captain, but fight is being made and with improve a fte r a desperate fight with the crew ment in the w ater supply there is more one o f them leaped overboard and the chance that the flames may be driven back. other was captured. In W allace the dead include: John President T a ft and ex-President Boyd, pioneer o f the district and fo r R oosevelt are again fellow-w orkers in 16 years general agent o f the Northern the same political field. The threat Pacific railroad here, suffocated in his that they m ight pull apart has been home in Pearl street while tryin g to forefended by a fu ll explanation on one rescue the fam ily parrot. side and an unreserved acceptance on Tw o unknown, whose skeletons were the other. found in the ruins o f the Michigan P olitica l g r a ft hunters in N e w York house. Unknown man, burned to death in have failed to find any gra ft. the Coeur d’ Alene house. A plot has been discovered to over Backfiring, in which the members o f throw the Portugese government. the city fire department, a company o f M adriz has fled from Managua, N ic the T w enty-fifth infantry and many aragua. Estrada’ s forces are ap volunteers joined, prevented new fires west and south. proaching the city. The loss to the city is estimated at A Pennsylvania man sent out 5,000 close to $1,000,000. Some o f the prin sermons on gossip to critics o f his cipal losers are: matrim onial affairs. Coeur d ’ Alene Hardware company, Japan has completed the annexation warehouse and stock, $150,000. Sunset brewery, $80,000. o f Corea, but the Korean people have Providence hospital and the b ig mills been kept in ignorance o f the move. o f the Federal M ining company were A sheepherder was found dying o f the only buildings in the East End that rabies , on an Eastern Washington were saved. range, where he had been bitten by a Forest Supervisor George W . W ei coyote. gel reports that the region between I t is rumored that Miss Catherine W allace and the St. John riv e r is Elkins, who is to wed the Duke swept practically clean, with enormous d ’ Abru zzi, w ill eventually be queen of loss. Fires between Burke and Mullan Greece. threaten both towns and many women Troops have been rushed to Crater and children have been sent out. Lak e forest reserve to fight fires. Men A t W ar E agle tunnel six were found are fa llin g exhausted from exertion dead and two badly burned. F iv e o f and heat. the dead were in the tunnel, where The Duke Franz Josef, o f Barvaria, they had sought refuge. They lay face v is itin g at Newport, R. I., was badly down in water, covered with w et rags shaken up in an auto collision with a and blankets. car driven by Vincent Astor. Some had died from the fire and some from suffocation by smoke. The in The latest census gives the popula jured were taken to Providence hospi tion o f Canada as 7,489,781. tal in Wallace. A Pennsylvaia boy died from lock T w elve dead were recovered at B ig ja w resulting from a bee sting. Creek. There were three injured and W hitm an made a trip from New three others were com pletely blinded. One fire fighter was found dead near York to San Francisco by auto in 10,** Mullan, and 16 are injured at that days. place. There are at Pine Creek three Canada objects to the Am erican dead, five blinded and five others in campaign to induce settlers to leave jured. the dominion. Blue Mountains All Ablaze. The ruling regent o f China has se cretly ordered all anti-foreign ag ita Dayton, Wash. —A dense pall o f tion suppressed. smoke hangs over Southeastern Wash ington obscuring the Blue mountains A party o f Mazamas have discovered and indicating that devastating fires ten glaciers on the slope o f the Three are again ragin g in the Wenaha re Sisters mountains. serve on the Oregon side, 30 miles The Danish A rctic expedition which east o f here. Judging from the den sailed in June, 1909, has been wrecked sity o f the smoke, the fires now burn ing are the most appalling this sum on the coast o f Greenland. mer. M eager details received from California insurgents have eletced the burned district tell o f the location, nine-tenths o f the convention delegates which is in the heavy pine and fir and w ill control both houses o f the leg tim ber near the headwaters o f the islature. Asotin river near T e a l’ s camp. An areoplanist, tryin g for an a lti Breathing Made Difficult. tude record, saw a balloonist in trouble Klamath Falls, O re.— Smoke is so and hovered near him till he was safe dense in the Clover Creek d istrict that ly landed. Reports o f a breach between Roose breathing is difficult. The heat during v elt and T a ft are discredited at Bever the day is terrific, and at night the lurid ly and little credence is given them flames may be seen shooting 150 fe e t elsewhere. above the horizon. Canada has purchased from England The fire is leaving only an ashen the cruiser Rainbow, to form the nu waste behind. The crashing o f the cleus o f the Canadian navy. England blazing trees as they fa ll every few also lends her colony a number o f na minutes makes a scene that baffles des val instructors. cription. The rising wind is sweeping the flames up the mountain and they A number o f innovations are being are also heading for Jennie creek. introduced in the Chinese goverm ent by American-educated officials. Farmhouses Destroyed. Another car shortage seems inevit Grants Pass, Ore.— F ire that origin able. ated along the Murphy road and burned into Fruitdale, three miles south of An Ottawa, Ont., scientist turns cop town, is still ragin g in the upper part per into iron. o f the valley and threatening the Truck farming in Alaska is said to Breitm ayer home. Residents o f that be a lucrative business. district are exhausted from work. A patrol from town has assisted, but the Japan has 500,000 sufferers on ac fire is running in dry grass and under count o f the recent floods. brush. So intense was the heat on the Cholera is raging in Russia, and ehil county road that it was impassable dren le ft orphans are starving. Severaljhundred trees have been burned. E A S T TO W E S T C O U N TY ROAD. PARKER D E NO UNCES C O O K . Photographs Believed to Be Those o f Sm aller Peaks Nearby. Seward, Alaska — The Parker- Browne Mount M cK in ley expedition passed through Seward, sailin g on the W ill Enable Eastern Stockmen to Drive steamship Portland fo r Seattle. The Cattle to Portland. party was unsuccessful in its efforts to Salem— A fte r traveling 1000 miles by Portland— The highway to connect scale the peak. Members o f the expe automobile ami visiting every prune dis Eastern and Western Oregon, enabling stockmen to drive cattle into Portland, dition assert that they hsve conclusive trict in Oregon, W. C. Tiiisou, of this is being constructed. This auuouuce- evidence that Dr. Cook did not reach city, returns with the opinion that the ment made by County Commissioner prune acreage in the state could be Goddard, was by far the most important the summit. The members o f the Parker-Browne aoubled with uo danger of overstocking outcome of the Oregon Good Roads A s sociation meeting held in the Commer tiie market. In addition, he declares cial Club. County .fudge Cleeton sup party corroborate the statements made mat the difference in price between Or plemeuted the announcement by declar by C. E. Rusk, who recently led an un egon and California prunes is gradually ing that the work would be pushed for successful expedition, that the peak ward as rapidly by himself and Com climbed by Dr. Cook and used in his ueing overcome. missioner Goddard as the county road “ A t present,** he said, “ California building funds would permit. photographs as Mount M cK in ley is prunes command about half a cent Judge Webster asked that the people smaller peak, easy o f access and 10 uigher thau Oregon prunes, but this intelligently grasp the importance of miles away from the real summit. couuitiou is wrong. The time is not good roads to the general prosperity, Professor Herschel Parker, who is at and asserted his belief iu adopting the tar distant when tiie basis for Oregous constitutional amendment which enables the head o f the expedition that just re- will be the same as the basis fo r Cali- couuties to pledge their credit in re turnd, took photographs o f the lower tornias, as the prunes in this state are turn for modern highways if they so desire. That, he said, was the keystone poak. He says these w ill prove that coming into their own. o f all good roads plans. Judge W eb Dr. Cook’s statem ent that he climbed “ The prune crop the state over is ster then proceeded to outline a plan Mount M cK in ley are not true. oadly damaged by the long continued for givin g state wide publicity to the Professor Parker places no credence uot, dry weather, and the trees are movement, which met with general ap in the statem ent made by Tom Lloyd, proval. ¿nedding. Consequently there will be a o f Fairbanks, and his associates that County Judge Cleeton, during a brief .esseued output, which will be iu many address, declared: they climbed the mountain from the “ Our road building laws are Fairbanks side. .-.eetJous a material oue, if the dry Those in the purty which returned weather continues. The sizes, as a rule, wretched, but before we can have roads we must have road building sentiment. a re: Professor Herschel Parker, of will also be smaller. The disposition o f myself and Com U n iversity; Belmore “ A splendid lesson to prune growers missioner Goddard is to create in M ult Columbia *s lound in tiie conditions this year. nomah County road building sentiment Browne, o f Tacoma; Professor J. H Where the prune trees have beeu care and assist in spreading good roads Cuntz, o f Stevens Institute, Hoboken, N. J .; Herman L. Tucker, o f Newton, fully cultivated the crop is much more sentiment all over the state.** Mass.; W aldem ar Grassie, o f Columbia satisiuctory, and where the orchards aavo been neglected the trees are shed U n iversity, and M erle L ero y, an Alas Free Road Across Reservation. ding practicany all of their fruit. This kan packer. Pendleton— A fte r several years* fight cjjipuusizes tiie fact that prune-growing the stockmen o f Umatilla County, as > aunot be carried on successfully with A C C U S E D M EN P R O M IN E N T , out the most careful care and cultiva sisted by the county court and the busi ness men o f this community, have se cion. M akes Political “ In addition, the orchards that are cured free roads across the Umatilla System o f G raft uot cultivated show that a large per Indian reservation, according to an or C ro o k ed W ork Look Pale. der just received by M ajor Swartz- centage o f the trees are dying, wuile, on Chicago—T h e first blow in the $5, iho other hand, iu the well-cultivated lander, the local agent, from the depart orchards the foliage is green and the ment of Indian affairs at Washington. 000,000 Illin ois Central g r a ft scandal trees are healthy and th riity. In these Tho order specifies that the roads shall has fallen, and three officials o f the orchards the result of effort is entirely be taken over by the county court, •Natisfactory to the grower. People who maintained as county roads, and that road w ere landed in ja il, although but will not cultivate tneir orchards would stockmen shall give bonds not to con fo r a fe w minutes. It was a full con sume more than a certain length o f much better quit the business. fession from an official o f the Blue “ The prune industry, 1 find is now time in drivin g their stock across the Island Car & Equipment company, de reservation, and to be held responsible well estaolished, and no branch o f the uorticuiturai industry is better paid for any damage inflicted by their stock. d ared to involve not only these, but 1‘he market is widening and the product As the county court and stockmen have numerous other o f the road's form er is stable, the sale being nearly as sure already expressed a willingness to com officials, that finally resulted in the ar as that o f any green fru it crop. Un ply with these demands, the roads are rests. like the green fruit, which must be assured. Salem Man Makes Encouraging Repow A fte r Tour. shipped at certain seasons or it is lost, prunes can be carried over any reason tble length of time and shipped to any jart of the world without freezing or decay. “ I found in many portions o f Oregon Jiat apples, pears and kindred fruits nave au increasing acreage. These are ^rown in all sections of the world, but che area suitable to the production ol prunes is limited. It is possible to over stock the market with the other class o f fruit, but not so with prunes.’ * Model D airy at Langlois. Langlois— One o f the biggest dairy projects in this part of the state will be conducted by Catterlin Bros., from Tillamook County, who have taken a ten-year lease on the Star ranch, in Curry County, near Langlois. W. E. Catterlin, one o f the brothers, was fo r merly deputy dairy and food commis sioner for Western Oregon, and is an expert dairyman. The ranch consists of 1,080 acres , o f fine land, and it is the intention to milk not less than 300 head of cows. The large tract w ill be Mosier Raises B ig Fund. divided up into a number o f different Mosier— That every landowner, busi places o f equal size. A large cheese ness man and wage-earner of the Mosier factory will be erected. Valley pay at least $1 a month to the Mosier Commercial Club advertising Artesian F low at North Powder. mnd was the sense of a big booster North Powder — Toy Young has meeting at Mosier recently. The boost rs present backed up their dictum by brought in another artesian well. A t subscribing the dollar apiece, $2400 be a depth o f 225 feet the drill struck ng raised as the neucleus o f an adver a large flow o f water. In the morning ising fund. The boosters are going out when the men commenced work a small into town and country and raise the stream was running over the casing, ualance. Many individual subscriptions and after drilling a few feet it poured out in abundance. A piece o f six-inch as high as $10 were offered. The meeting was n great demonstra casing 10 feet long waa attached to the tion o f confidence in the Mosier hills casing, which was driven in the well is one o f the leading fru it districts of over the top o f which the water flowed the Coast. I t was held under the aus freely. This well is fully as strong as pices of the Portland Commercial Club, that of Henry Pearson, which has been with C, C. Chapman present as the priu- considered the best artesian well in North Powder. ipal speaker. B ig M ill Sold. Portland— Henry Oerlich, son o f a Minnesota lumber and timber operator, losed a deal for the purchase o f the Jerome Smith sawmill, located near Lebanon, Or., and 15,000,000 feet of landing timber adjacent to the mill. l’ ke consideration involved was $20,000. Mr. Gerlicli w ill extend a spur from the Southern Pacific line and convert the mill, which has heretofore cut for the Lebanon market, into a shipping propo sition. II. M. L e ffr r t sold to C lifford F. Reid, o f the Northwest Trust Company, a house and lot located at Fifteenth and ’ollege streets, Portland Heights, for $8000. 50 Men Fight Fires in Southern Oregon. M edford— More than 50 men are fighting the forest fires in the moun tains a few miles south o f this city. Property loss is estimated at not less than $100,000, the largest portion of which will fa ll upon the Ashland Man ufacturing Company, as the fires are in the timber o f this company. The fires started a few days ago from neglected camp fire, and spread rapidly. Two small lumber mills were consumed and one or two homesteaders saved their property Pear Crop Is H eavy. Hood R iver— The Hood R iver Apple Growers’ Union and the Davidson Fruit Company are packing Bartlett pears Condenser Plans Move. for N ew York shipment. The Hood Forest Grove— The Pacific Coast Con- R iver pear crop is very heavy this year, and the growers are securing $40 per lensed M ilk Company, which operates ton for the stock. ondensers here and at Hillsboro, has ts eyes on the Tillamook country. P. PO RTLAND M ARKETS. 0. Kinzer, manager o f the local plant, Wheat— Bluestem, 96(7798c; club, 86(77 has recently returned from Tillamook, having gone there with a view of estab 88c; red Russian, 84(7785c; valley, 92c forty fold, 87(8)88e; Turkey red, 90t\ fishing a condensed milk factory. The Barley— Feed and Brewing, $24.50(?7 factory, it is said, would employ some 150 employes, both as condenser hands $25 per ton. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il and haulers o f milk. The establishing f the Tillamook jdant would mean the lamette Valley. $18(7719 per ton; East ern Oregon, $20(7721; alfalfa, new, $13 losing down o f either the Forest Grove (o)14; grain hay, $13(7714. or the Hillsboro plant. Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 per ton. Teachers A re Examined. Millstuffs— Bran, $20 per ton; mid Pendleton— Um atilla County teachers dlings, *30; shorts, $21(7722; rolled bar -real and prospective— are gathered in ley, $25(7726. Oats— New. $29(7? 29.50 per ton. Pendleton this week to undergo the or- Green Fruits— Apples, new. 5077 $1.50 leal o f the regular August examinations. per box; apricots. 75c(771; plums, 75o(77 O f this number but two are men. There $1; pears. $1.25(771.50; peaches, 40(7775c: tiro two married women and one widow. grapes, 75c(771.25; blackberries, $1.50(77 Most o f the rest are young girls, under 1.75 per crate; loganberries, $1.25(771.50. 3 years. The number taking the ex Melons— Watermelons, $1(771. 25 per minations at this time is comparatively hundred; cantaloupes, $1.50(77$3.00 per mall, but it is understood that many crate. Vegetables— Beans. 3(775c per pound; manuscripts are to be sent in from other cabbage. 21A(7?3c; cauliflower, $1.50 per counties, to be graded by the board. dozen; celery, 90c: corn, 25c; cucum bers, 25(7?40e per box; eggplant. fl'o'Sc Redmond Crops Promising. Redmond, Or.— Extreme warm weath per pound: garlic, 8(7710e; green onions. er has prevailed in this section for the 15c per dozen; peppers, 50c per box; last month, with no rain since July 4. radishes, 15(7? 20c per dozen; squash. 40c It has been the best growing weather per crate: tomatoes. 30(7760e per box: for all kinds o f grain and hay crops, carrots, $1(771.25 per sack; beets, $1.50; the ranchers are getting a good parsnips. $1(771.25; turnips, $1. Potatoes— New. $1.25(771.40 per hun ¡eld from their hay fields. Some of dred: sweet potatoes. 4e per pound. hem have cut their second crop of al- Onions— W alla Walla. $2.50 per sack: ilfa , and it has gone fully ns good as Oregon. $2(772.25 per sack. he first cutting, and the third cutting Eggs— Oregon, candled, 28(77290 per omises to equal the other crops. All dozen. nds o f grain is coming along nicely, B utter- Citv creamery, solid pack. nd the fruit crop is looking exceeding 34c per pound: butter fat, 34c.; country y well, and a large yield is promised store butter. 24c. Ponltrv— TTens. 17(7718c; springs. 17(77 Clatsop Needs Rain. 19c: ducks. 12^7?14c: geese. 10(7712U>c; Astoria— Clatsop Connty is now experi turkeys, live. 20c; dressed 224^(7725e; ncing the most dry season ever known, squabs, $3 per dozen. no rain having fallen for nearly six Pork— Fancy. 13c per pound. weeks. The grazing land, as well as Veal— Fancv. 12%(7713r per pound. late crops, is showing the effects o f the Hops— 1909 crop. SiTPl2,<»ff. according ilronth. Unless rain comes soon the to qualify; olds, nominal; 1910 con lairy industries will certainly suffer. tracts. 13U*e. At or near Warrenton, the dikes are be W ool— Eastern Oregon. 13(7717c per ng opened for the purpose o f irrigation, pound; valley. 1 S'T^Oe per pound. Mo nd extraordinary efforts are being put hair— Choice. 32(7733c. forth to save the pasture lands. Cascara Bark— 4*4|C per pound. The men arrested w e re : Frank H Harriman, form er general manager o f the Illinois Central, released on bond o f $40,000; John M. T aylor, form er general storekeeper at Burnside, re leased on bond o f $40,000; Charles L, Ewing, form er general superintendent o f the Illin ois Central lines north o f the Ohio river. In each case the prisoner was charg ed w ith conspiracy to com mit an illegal act and obtaining money by means o f a confidence game. In each instance the prisoner stoutly maintained his inno cence and declared that i f a conspiracy existed it was on the part o f the road to prosecute them. The warrants were sworn to by President Harahan, o f the railroad concerned. OFFICIALS HAMPER STATE FOOD FIGHT Washington— Assertin g that he had been hampered in every possible way in his efforts to uphold the laws o f his state against the sale o f food contain ing benzoate o f soda and announcing that he would appeal to President Taft, Attorney General Bingham, o f Indiana, denounced the department o f agricul ture officials. The scoring occurred in the hearing held here in connection with the case o f W illiam s Brothers and others against the board o f health o f Indiana. Dr. H arvey W . W iley , c h ie f o f the bureau o f chemistry, and a sworn en emy o f benzoate o f soda as a food pre servative, was under cross-examina tion at the time. Scram ble to r Plates On. 'C h ic a g o — Although invitations to the Ham ilton club banquet to Theodore Roosevelt on September 8 have been out only 24 hours and plates are quoted at $7.50 each, 400 reseravtions have been made and the entertainment com m itteee began figuring oh la rger quar ters for the event, as the present quar ters accommodate only 575 guests. I t was before the Ham ilton club that the “ strenuous li f e ” was launched and the " b i g stick ” became a symbol o f the R oosevelt policies. Green R iver Hotel Burns. S eattle— Flames spreading from fo r est fires have to tally destroyed the Green R iv e r H ot Springs hotel and plant, causing a hss estimated at $35,- 000, with insurance o f approxim ately $10,000. Forest fires have been ra g ing in the valley o f Green R iv e r for several days. Green R iv e r Hot Springs until last Monday had been un der the proprietorship o f Dr. J. S. Klo- ber. On that day he turned over the plant to North Y akim a interests for a consideration o f $145,000. N o lives were lost. FLIES OVER CHANNEL Feat Performed By Daring Young Chicago Architect Pilot Was Ignorant o f Geography o f C ourse— T rip Made in Thirty- Seven Minutes. Deal, England— I t has been reserved for au American citizen to perform one o f the most daring feats in the history of aviation. John B. Moissant, o f Chicago, flew across the English Channel from Calais to Tilinanstoue Wednesday with a pas senger, and by this achievement far surpasses the feats of Blériot, DeLes- seps and the English aviator, Rolls, who afterward met his death at Bourne mouth. The two-man flight from France to England was the more astonishing in that it was ouly a mouth ago that Moissant learned to fly, und was so little known among tho air men that not even his nationality was disclosed. He was reputed to be a Spaniard, and it was ouly when he landed in England that it was revealed that he is a young Chicago architect. To make the fea t still more surpris ing, Moissant was totally ignorant of the geography o f his course. He had uever beeu iu England and was obliged to rely entirely on the compass while crossing the channel in the teeth of a strong easterly wind. The channel flight was an incident in the aerial voyage from Paris to Lon don. Moissant le ft Issy Tuesday with Hubert Latham aud reached Amiens in two hours. Latham ’s aeroplane was wrecked, and Moissant, leaving Amiens at an early hour, headed for Calais. His mechanician, Albert Fileux, who Had accompanied him across the coun try, took his place in the machine when the motor had been set in motion for the dash across the channel. Thousands who had gathered to watch the daring aviator were amazed and urged him not to make the at tempt in the face o f the half gale that was blowing. Moissant cared nothing for the warn ings o f the people, and even the fact that there was no torpedo-boat to fo l low in his wake, but only a slow-mov- iug tug, did not deter him. He made the trip in 37 minutes. When he de scended his eyes were bloodshot and greatly inflamed as a result o f the heavy rain storm into which he drove on approaching the Englsh coast. The high wind beat the rain into the faces o f the men like hail, and almost blinded them. An average height of between 300 and 400 feet was main tained over the water. The cold was intense, and both Moissant and his mechanician were benumbed. When he revived sufficiently he laughed and said to an interviewer: “ This is my first visit to England. This is only my sixth flight in an aero plane. I did not know the way from Paris to Calais when I started, and I do not know the way to London. I shall have to rely on tho compass. I would like to land in Hyde Park if [ can find i t . " W E S T W A N T S IT S OW N. Western Idea o f Conservation Is Urged by Idaho's Governor. Boise, Idaho— Governor Brady was asked for au expression bearing on the interview given out by Governor Nor ris, o f Moutaua, iu which the Montana executive stated in effect that there was a movement to secure control o f the national conservation congress in St. Paul us against the Northwestern idea o f conservation, which advocates not ouly the preservation o f the forests aud the fullest protection of the water power, but also their fullest possible use o f general development and yet without monopolistic control. Governor Brady stated that ho would leave fo r Salt Lake to atteud the pre liminary conservation conference of the governors o f the Northwest to be held there. He added that he expected to attend the national conservation con gress at St. Paul, aud that Senator Gorah would also attend both meet ings, at his request, as special repre sentative of Idaho. Continuing, tho governor said: “ The policy o f conservation is important to every citizen o f tho United States, but it is absolutely vital to every resideut of the Northwestern States. We are lighting for the right to develop a new country without au extra handicap be ing placed upon us. We are struggling lor equality of opportunity for the right to develop our new states under ap proximately as fa ir a chance as the older states of the East have had. “ W e are in favor o f the policy o f conserving the natural resources, there is no difference o f opiuion on that. But we think that the methods o f adminis tering the policy o f conservation should be changed so that the development and progress o f the states should not be held back, and we are appealing ot the fair-minded people o f the East who be lieve in right and justice to come to our aid; they outnumber us in the senate aud house o f representatives, and wo must have their assistance. “ I am hoping that we shall get an equitable consideration o f our point of view at St. Paul. I f it occurs that wo do not, I am in favor o f a thorough organization o f the Western States in order that tho people o f tho East may thoroughly comprehend our position and give us relief. T U R N S CO PPE R IN T O IRO N. R. L. Keogh, o f Ottawa Makes Discovery. Institute, Ottawa— R. L. Keogh, o f the Ottawa Collegiate Institute staff, has inado a discovery o f great scientific and possi bly financial importance. A fte r years of labor and investigation, he has suc ceeded in transmuting copper into iron. This, ho says, has never been before accomplished, and demonstrates the fact that tho transmutation o f tho met als is possible. Mr. Keogh states that the new ele ment obtained from his experiments with copper answers the tests usually applied to the identification of iron. In support o f his contentions he ex plains that he is w illin g at any time to allow competent judges to undertake the work o f v erifyin g his results. “ I do not think that the discovery I have made is at present o f any finan cial significance,” said Mr. Keogh, “ but it ¡8 possible at a later date some thing o f more importance will follow. I have been greatly handicapped in the work that I have been carrying on, E X P R E S S C O M P A N IE S TO A ID . owing to tho lack o f apparatus. Later something o f greater importance may New Railroad Rate Law Becomes E f follow from the results that have al ready obtained. I intend to continue fective. my researches on the transmutation o f Washington— The new railroad law elements. ** has become effective. Immediately upon the passage o f the act 60 days F A R M E R S S E L L O W N CROPS. ago, sections o f tho law relating to the suspension o f rates went into e f Field-to-Consumer Idea is Growing in fect. Since that time the interstate Indiana— Build Warehouses. commerce commission has been operat- Indianapolis— W ithin tho next 30 ng under the law. In a conference held by the commis days the most comprehensive efforts sion with the representatives o f the that have ever been made to organize telephone and telegraph companies, the Indiana farmers into devoted self-inter companies expressed a desire to do all est will be inaugurated and paid organ in their power to facilitate the work of izers w ill be at work in all parte of the the commission. Hereafter the tele state. Steps have already been taken to graph and telephone companies must file reports with the commission con raise a fund for the disposal o f millions o f dollars’ worth o f grain from a cen cerning their business, just as railroads tral depot in this city, and elevators do now. The officers were also informed that and other buildings are to be erected no franks could be legally used, except from which agents o f the farmers are to as governed by the pass provision of sell their products direct to shippers the Hepburn act, which is comprehen and consumers. The plan is much the same as that adopted by tho big brew sively exclusive. ers in Kentucky and other states, and farmers interested in it believe it will Vatican Makes Denials. be quite as successful. Rome— Tho Vatican is kept busy is suing denials o f statements given out Cholera Rages In Russia. by Prem ier Canalejas and his support St. Petersburg— The horrors o f the ers with reference tç the controversy cholera scourge in Russia, according to between the church and state. These Professor Pein, o f the Red Cross, who lenials take the form o f articles print- has been sent by the government to îd in the Vatican organs. The Ob Southern Russia to study measures o f servatoire Romano comments on a re combatting the disease, are steadily in cently published interview with a for* creasing. Children are starving in ner Spanish minister at Rome, who many instances, because their parents was quoted as saying that the papal and adult relatives have died, leaving lecretary o f state was not opposed to them unsupported. There is no indica the bill dealing with religious congre tion yet o f the epidemic diminishing, gâtions. and thousands o f new cases are being registered daily, according to reports, understating the full extent o f the dis Zion C ity Is Torn. ease. Zion City— N otice was served on 60 ndependent church officials, Sunday Judge Landis Fines Union. school teachers and business men o f Chicago— Judge Landis, who acted as iion City that i f they did not vacate umpire in the controversy between the premises they occupied as places members o f the Structural Bridge & f business they would be served with Iron Workers* Union and the contract writ o f injunction to be asked for by W. G. Voliva and his organization, the ing firm o f John G riffith s k Son, fined new owners o f Zion. It is charged that the union $200 for violatin g its agree ndependents are using residence prop ment. Twenty-nine members o f tho erty o f the Zion estate for business union who were working on an addition or other alleged improper purposes in to the Boston store went on a striko violation o f the old Dowie lease and three weeks ago. A fte r the arbitration agreement o f tenancy. board had failed to agree, tho matter was referred to Judge Landis. He or dered the men to return, declaring they Corean Annexation Real. Tokio— The long awaited annexation had violated their agreement. Iowa M ayor it Ousted. Des Moines, la .— Judge W. E. W il- cocksen, at Sigourney, handed down an opinion ousting Thomas J. Philips as mayor o f Ottumwa, la. A t the trial o f the mayor, held recently at Ottum f Corea by Japan is about to become Negroes Abandon Texas. wa, it was charged by Attorn ey Gen reality, according to special dis eral Cesson, who prosecuted the hear- El Paso, Tex.— A delegation o f 50 patches from Seoul, published by the ing, that Mayor Phillips was gu ilty o f negroes from the vicin ity o f Palestine, w ilfu l neglect o f duty in perm itting Tokio press. Tex., where 19 o f their race were re The dispatches announce that the resorts and the gam bling houses to nal negotiations for the annexation cently killed by mobs, passed through run, and also that the m ayor was in were begun by Lieutenant-General Vis- here Wednesday for the interior ot toxicated on A p ril 30. ount Tcrauchi, the .Tapaneso resident- Mexico. general in Corea. I t is believed the The negroes declared that they in- C astro Family is Ousted. negotiations will be concluded in two tended establishing a colony in Mexico Washington— The entire Castro fam or three days. and moving their families from the ily, apparently, has been ousted from United States. They asserted that the Venezuela. A dispatch to the State movement o f negroes to abandon East Peace Is Sought. department from the Am erican lega Columbus, O.— A fte r the Columbus ern Texas was widespread. tion at Caracas states that 36 relatives Railway k Ligh t Company’s rejection o f ex-President Castro have been e x o f the city council *s offer to act ns an V irgin ia Gives Statue. pelled from Venezuela and sailed for arbitration board in settling the **rike Paris— Colonel James Mann, chair Porto Rico. o f the street car men. Governor Har man o f the Virginian commission ap mon and Charles J. Pretzman. presdent pointed last winter b y the general as o f the chamber o f commerce, inaugu sembly o f the state to present to the D etroit Census 4 0 6 ,7 6 6 . rated new peace efforts. Mr. Pretzman Washington— The population o f De- will seek a formal offer from the com republic o f France a bronze eopv o f the Hondon statoe o f Washington, at Rich triot, Mich., is 465,766, an increase pany to reinstate its old men with an mond, arrived here, accompanied by o f 180,062 or 63 per cent, as compared advance in pay to 25 cents an hour State Senator Don P. Haysel and State w ith 285,704 in 1900. and with no recognition o f the union.1 Senator K ing.