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DOINGS OF THE WEEK Current Events of Interest Gathered From the World at large. General Relume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Strikers and police had a pitched battle in the streets o f Berlin. Two German torpedo boats ashore during practice evolutions. ran Western roads are charged with con tinued violations of the anti-rebate laws. The Republication organization of South Carolina continues under control o f colored men. Mayor Gaynor o f New York, says he is not a candidate for nomination for governor o f New York. Before a mass meeting at Pueblo, Colo., Bryan declared that the Roose velt policies were preached oy himself 14 years ago. It has been learned that Captain Longan, of West Point, was “ si lenced” by the cadets for questioning their veracity. T aft was too busy to see the Sultan of Sulu upon his arrival at Washing ton, and an audience was arranged to take place later. GRAND ARM Y CONSERVATIVE. Postpones Action on Lee Statu#— Would Increase Pensions. Atlantic City, N. J.— A fte r a warm debate of more than three hours, the national encampment Grand Army of the Republic, at its final session here, indefinitely postponed action on the controversy over the placing of the statue of Robert E. Lee in Statuary Hall. The vote was 133 to 102, a small total compared with the vote of 887 cast for commander-in-chief. The encampment rejected the prop osition recommending that congress be asked to grant each Union veteran a pension of $1 a day for life, but in dorsed the McCumber bill now pending relating to widows' pensions. It was recommended that the pen sions for veterans 66 years old be in creased from $12 to $16 a month; 70 years old from $15 to $20, and 75 years of age from $20 to $25 a month. The question of the Grand Arm y’s attitude on the Lee statue matter was one of the most important the encamp ment has to deal with in years. The conservative element controlled the encampment and won the day on the argument that the bitterness engend ered in the Civil war was disappearing and that sectional hatred should not be revived; that action adverse to the Lee statue would do more|harm than good, especially to the Grand Army of the Republic, and last, but not least, that the state of Virginia, under the act of congress in 1864, had the right to place in Statuary Hall the image of any man from that state whose mem ory it chose to perpetuate. SIXTEEN DEAD IN WRECK. Rock Island Train Runs Into Wash Casper S. Crowinshield, American out in Kansas. consul at Naples, is dead. He was prominent in relief work at the Mes Denver— Fifteen persons lost their sina earthquake. lives and 11 others sustained more or An Alaskan miner has returned to less severe injuries in the wreck, two his former home at Montesano, Wash., miles oast of Clayton, Kan., of west just in time to Bave two valuable tim bound Rock Island passenger train No. ber claims from tax sale, as he was 27, which was due in Denver at 8 :25 Saturday morning from Kansas City. supposed to be dead. The wreck was the result of a cloud- Chavez, who crossed the Alps in an burts which carried out 1,000 feet of a aeroplane and was then badly injured fill at what is normally almost a dry in trying to make a landing, is very bed, turning the latter into a torrent low and physicians give very little many yards wide and 20 feet deep. hope for his recovery. The train was proceeding on a Evidently Nine trunks belonging to Mrs. N. straight stretch of track. H. Slater, a wealthy woman of Read the first intimation that the engineer ville, Mass., were held by customs had of any danger came when he real officials at New York. Mrs. Sb ter ized that the forward portion of the said she could not remember exactly train was running in water which had how many fine gowns she brought with Bpread out over the tracks near the fill. Reversing the engine, the speed o f the her. train was checked, but not enough to Three large railroad companies are prevent the engine, baggage car and negotiating for the purchase of rein smoker going over into the depression. forced concrete ties in vast quantities The rear end of the smoker remained from a California company which has tilted on the earth bank and the chair perfected the new ties so that they car ripped its way into the smoker, have stood many months of the hardest smashing it to pieces and killing or in kind of service. juring many of the passengers. As near as can be learned here all Petitions have been drafted for the of the passengers killed were occupants recall of Mayor Gill, of Seattle. o f the smoker. Six were killed and 12 injured in a trolley car wreck at Tipton, Ind. The Sultan of Sulu has arrived in New York to study American customs. Bobby Lynch, o f Niagara Falls, Ont., successfully ran the rapids in a barrel. Forester Pinchot captured a giant swordfish at Avalon, off the California coast. The village o f Flippin, Ky., was wiped off the map by a terrific wind and rain storm. A strike has been begun in New York City which will affect 125,000 bricklayers and workers in kindred trades. A woman claiming to be the legal widow o f “ Lucky” Baldwin. has brought suit to break the will of the deceased millionaire. A French countess has arrived in New York to bestow an estate of many millions upon her American grand daughter, whom she has just discover ed living in Pittsburg. A veteran o f the Boer war, unable to support his w ife and baby, attempt ed suicide with the same revolver which had saved his life in battle, but the bullets failed to make a mortal wound. It is said the Illinois Republican convention will endorse T aft and ig nore Lorimer. AEROPLANE CROSSES ALPS BUT PRIZE IS LOST. Domodossola, Italy— The great feat of crossing the snow-capped Alpine barrier between Switzerland and Italy in a heavier-than-air machine was ac complished by Georges Chavez, the young Peruvian aviator. The plucky hero of the exploit, how ever, lies in the Domodossola hospital, badly injured as the result of an acci dent that happened just as he had com pleted the most arduous and nerve- racking portion of the task. Both his legs are broken, his le ft thigh is frac tured and his body is badly contused, but physicians are o f the opinion that these hurts will not prove fatal. The accident happened as Chavez was trying to make a landing here. The Alps had been crossed successfully and the aviator was descending with the power o f has machine shut off. When about 30 feet above the ground a sudden gust o f wind seemed to catch the monoplane, which turned over and fell. When the crowds that had been watching the descent ran up, they found Chavez lying bleeding and un conscious beneath the twisted wreck age. Willing hands lifted the aviator from the ground and bore him to the hospital. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT GF TRE STATE DROUTH BROKEN IN T IL L A M O C K FIRES DESTRO YED *633,160. First Rain Since Early in June; Rail Damage Done in Crater Lake Forest Summarized by Supervisor. road Soon to Tillamook. Tillamook— Rain fell throughout T il lamook county last week in a steady downpour. It began Friday morning There was one hard shower, lasting 15 minutes, after which the storm contin ued unceasingly into the following night. Except for a light shower about a week ago, this rain is the first on the coast since early in June, and marks the termination of the longest drouth on record. So heavy was the rain that at least a dozen local automo- bilists attending the state fair at Sal em were marooned in the Willamette valley, and as many more outside auto parties were held up here. A l though the roads leading to the inter ior from this city across the Coast mountains have been greatly improved this summer, there is enough mud in places to bar further automobile travel until several days after the rain ceases. Likewise, the stage route from here up Wilson river, across the range to For est Grove will soon be compelled to tie up its stages for the season, though a few more trips will be made at ir regular intervals. Tillamook people arc jubilating in the knowledge that the coming winter will mark the end of the era of being bottled up during the wet period. All but six miles of track on the Portland Railway & Navigation company’s new railroad has been completed, the unfin ished portions consisting of the more difficult pieces o f construction, such as rock cuts, tunneling and trestle work. This railroad will be in opera tion by next May or June, and it is equally certain that the Hill electric extension from Forest Grove will be built next year. DEAN OF WOMEN NAMED. Mrs. Anna Z. Crayne Called to Im portant Post at O. A. C. Corvallis— Mrs. Anna Z. Crayne has been elected dean of women at the Oergon Agricultural college for the year which opens September 23, and has arrived at Corvallis to take up her residence at Waldo hall, the women’ s dormitory, of which she will be pre ceptress. She will also hold the posi tion of instructor in English. Both training and experience have fitted Mrs. Crayne admirably for her present position of responsibility as director o f the activities o f the women students in a large educational institu tion. Upon completion of her college course at the University of Virginia she studied at the St. Louis Medical college, and for a number of years practiced with her husband in this at state, in the vicinity o f Pendleton, and in Washington, near Walla Walla. Whitman college made her dean of wo men and instructor in English, and for six years she held this position, having charge of the women’s dormitory as well. She subsequently filled a similar position at the Eastern Oregon State Normal at Weston. Miss Annie Pettingell, of Sarania, Ontario, has been named as the new housekeeper for Waldo Hall for the coming year. For the past three years Miss Pettingell has had charge of the dietetics and other catering in a large Massachusetts hospital. Previously she had completed a course at Simmons college, Boston; at Miss Farmer’ s School o f Cookery, Boston, and at the Ontario Agricultural college at Guelph. ALFALFA IS PR OFITABLE. Average Yield in Klamath Country Is Worth $23.65 an Acre. Klamath Falls— Statistics compiled by the reclamation Bervice officials show that during the current year 4,994 acres of irrigated land were used for the production of alfalfa. The av erage yield was 3.65 tons per acre. Considering that much of the land was poorly farmed and the season has not been the most favorable the yield is considered good. Many of the well attended farms produced from 4)4 to 6 tons to the acre. The average valua tion o f the alfalfa crop is $23.65 an acre. The cost of producing alfalfa and harvesting the crop is light. It will show by the government figures that the Klamath country is well adapted to the production o f alfalfa. This year the government furnished water for 18,471 acres. The major portion o f the area was seeded to grain. Barley averaged about 28 bushels, but under favorable circum stances will yield 60 bushels to the acre. The average yield for oats was 52.1 bushels, also a short crop. John F. Gilman w h s elected com “ Black Hand” Indicated. mander-in-chief of the Grand Army for Spokane— Murder, bearing the marks the ensuing year. o f a Black Hand mystery, was commit Roosevelt predicts a complete rout ted near Fourteenth and Wall streets o f the "O ld Guard” at the Republican at 8:55 Saturday morning. Following the sound of three revolver shots the state convention at Saratoga, N. Y. body of an unknown, well-dressed Aus During the recent forest fires in trian was found lying face downwards Washington a photograpeh was picked in a clump o f trees. The slayer had up by the wind and carried six miles. disappeared, but the prints o f his hob An International Conciliation board nailed shoes were traced for more than has been organized in San Francisco a block. No papers could be found on and in future it will decide all labor the body bearing the man’s name, but Laundry Building May Cost $10,000 differences. the discovery of $4 precludes the idea Vale—The changing o f the plans of of robbery. John B. Ryan, a New York multi the $250,000 sanatorium means the millionaire, offers to build at his own erection of another brick building on Is Dr. Cook in Munich? expense a fleet of 1,000 aeroplanes for the sanatorium site this month. The New York— Dr. Frederick A. Cook, war purposes. big bath house, besides the plunge the vanished explorer, has been sight 30x58 feet, and a number of private The steamer Olson & Mahoney and ed in a Munich hotel under the name the bark McLaurin collided off Point of Mr. Coleman and family, so Michael baths and dressing rooms, is practical Arena, and the bark was badly dam M. Ryan, of Bridgeport, Conn., has in ly completed. The big plunge in the bath house, as well as the baths, are aged. The steamer towed her into formed the New York Times. " I ar supplied with natural hot water, 214 port at San Francisco. rived in Munich August 31,” said Mr. degrees Fahrenheit, which boils out Exporters are again buying wheat Ryan, “ and on entering the dining from the mountain side, just across the room o f my hotel I was amazed to sec for shipment from Coast ports. river from Vale. This water has been Dr. Cook and his wife, son and daugh pronounced the best in the country. Statewide prohibition will be the ter sitting at a table. There was no slogan o f the Idaho Republicans. attempt at disguise. He wore his Three Story Brick for Storage. The steamer Marama, en route from mustache, little side whiskers and Klamath Falls — Cofer Bros., have Australia to Vancouver, B. C., re looked just like his phtotograph. ” begun the erection of a three-story ceived messages by wireless from an brick and concrete building for the Alaska station 2,500 miles distant. Must Dig for Water. Klamath Valley Warehouse & For Testimony before the Interstate Denver- That every drop of surface warding company on the new spur Commerce commission elicited the in water capable of being turned to irri which the Southern Pacific is laying. formation that the Northwest exten gation is already appropriated is the This building will be fitted up for the sion o f the Milwaukee mad earned $9, opinion of practically all experts who business in a modern way and will be 000,000 the first eighteen months. read papers at a conference on irriga equipped with scales, elevator and tion here. The conference was ar- The Southern Pacific has advanced ranged^by the department of agricul other conveniences for the handling and storage of goods of all kinds. It the rate on lumber to San Francisco. ture. Supplies from other sources will be entirely fireproof. The Electric Bond & Share corpora than running streams must be looked to for future use, the experts say, and tion has absorbed the Hartford Irriga New Star Route. tion A Power company of Washington, in the meantime new reclamation pro Washington — The poetoffice depart and now owns property of this kind in jects should be held in abeyance. ment has contracted for star route ser the Northwest amounting to $35,000,- 'Quake Felt In Arizona. vice from Cottage Grove to Bohemia. 000 . Phoenix, Arizona— Private dispatch The service will be three times a week, A cat perched in a tree waiting for es from Winslow, Arizona, report a and a box delivery and collection serv birds at Des Monies, pounced upon a severe earthquake in that section of ice will not be "required between Cot No details were given. tage Grove and Red Bridge station. chanticleer hat worn by a woman who Arizona. passed underneath. The woman's face Message from Williams say the shock The contract has been let to Friend W. was hadly lacerated by the cat before was felt there, but no one was hurt, Lewis, o f Bohemia for $1.475 from September 12, 1910, to June 30, 1914. nor was there any damage. be discovered his mistake. Medford Timber valued at $633,150 was destroyed by fire during the last month, according to the figures con tained in the report o f M. L. Erickson, supervisor of the Crater national for est, to the Forestry bureau at Wash ington. Two hundred and thirteen million, eight hundred and twenty thousand feet of timber was ruined, of which 138,- 200.000 feet was within the national forest. Mr. Erickson figures thi t $303,850 worth o f reproductive timber was destroyed and that the total loss to both young and old timber within the national forest amounted to $451,- 701. The forest fires, which numbered 41, burned over 110,115 aces. O f this area 83,715 acres was inside the na tional forest and 26,400 acres was privately owned. A ll but a few of the 41 forest fires started between August 20 and September 10. Twenty of the fires burned over 1,000 acres. The largest area covered by one fire was 30.000 acres. This one was around the base o f Mt. McLaughlin. Eighty per cent of the region burned by this fire, however, was an old burn which contained no marketable timber. Only 10 per cent was valuable first class forest, the other 10 per cent being sec ond rate timber. The most destructive fire was the one on the South fork of Rogue river, east o f Prospect, which covered 14,000 acres. Sawmills Resume Work. Falls City— The Falls City Lumber company’s sawmills, which suspended operations a month ago, are again run ning with a full force o f hands and hundreds o f men are given emloymenL The plant has been increased threefold in the last three years, and further ex tensions are planned and the logging road is to be built into the Siletz basin. In the basin a new hotel is to be erect ed to replace that of Cobb & Mitchell, the timber owners of Cadillac, Mich., lost by fire three weeks ago. Build Road to Seven Devils. Copperfield— To give the people bet ter outlet to the Seven Devils country for the transportation of the ores of that section, and for heavy hauling generally, especially lumber from the timber, the people o f Copperfield have undertaken a road enterprise that when completed will be of inestimable benefit. The road starts opposite Cop- perficld on the Idaho side o f Snake riv er and goes up Indian creek to connect with the Kleinschmidt grade at the Huntley sawmill, a distance o f eight and one-half miles. Has Irrigation Plant. Hermiston— R. E. Thom, who has one of the largest apiaries in Ore gon, has just installed a pumping plant to irrigate his tract near town. The plant will supply sufficient water for the entire premises. An 8-foot wind mill and a 2,000-gallon tank was in stalled and is extended to the house and other places. It makes a most convenient water system and the pres sure is such that it can be successfully used in case of fire. PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS. W h eat— Track prices: Blusetem, 90(5.91'.¿c; club, 83(t(84c; red Russian, 81c; valley, 88c; 40-fold, 86<5)86c; Turkey red, 82(5 88; Barley— Feed, $22 ton; brewing, $23. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il lamette valley, $19(5)20 per ton; East ern Oregon, $21(5 22; alfalfa, new, $15 <(£16; grain hay, $14. Corn— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 per ton. Millstuffs— Bran, $24 per ton; mid dlings, $33; shorts, $26; rolled barley, $24.50(5 25.50. Oats— White, $27.50 per ton. Green Fruits — Apples, new, 50c@ $1.50 per box; plums, 4<k5)75c; pears, 75c(5$1.25; peaches, 50(5 75c; grapes, 50c(5$1.25; lugs, $1.35(51.40; 20c per basket; cranberries, $8.50(59.50 per barrel; watermelons, $1 per hundred; cantaloupes, $ 1 (5 2 per crate; casabas, $3.50 per dozen. Vegetables- Beans, 3(5>5c per pound; cabbage, 2c; cauliflower, 50(5'$1.25; cucumbers, 25(540c per box; corn, 12 <5 15c; eggplant, 6c per pound; garlic, 8(o)10c; green onions, 15c per dozen; sprouts, 8c; squash, 40e per crate; to matoes, 30(5'50c per box; carrots, $1(5) 1.25 per sack; beets, $1.50; parsnips, $1<S'1.25; turnips, $1, Potatoes — Oregon, $1.15(51.25 per hundred; sweet potatoes, 2 \ c per pound. Onions— New, $1.25(5)1.50 per sack. Poultry — Hens, 17(517 J^c; geese, 11(512'-.jc; springs, 17(517^c; ducks, white, turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 22'..(5 25c; squabs, $2 per dozen. Butter— City creamery, solid pack, 36c per pound; prints, 37(537.t*c; out side creamery, 35(5.36c; butter fat, 36c; country store butter, 24(525c. Eggs- Oregon, candled, 34(5 35c per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 13c per pound. Veal — Good, average, ll(5)12c per pound. Hops— 1910 crop, 13(5?14c; 1909, 10 (5)1 lc ; olds, nominal. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 13@17c per pound; valley, 17(519e; mohair, choice, 32<533c. Hides — Salted hides, 7(57 J^c per pound; salted calf, 13c; salted kip, 8c; salted stags, 6c; green hides, lc less; dry hides, 16Si(517c: dry calf, 17(5) 18c; dry stags, ll(512c. Pelts— Dry, 10 (,c ; salted, butchers’ take-off, 40(a75c; spring tambe, 25(5 45c. Cattle Beef steers, good to choice, $5.50(i) 5.75; fair to medium, $4.50(5 5; choice spayed heifers, $4.50(54.75; good to choice beef cows, $4.50(54.75; medium to good beef cows, $2(5)3 75; bulls. $3(53.50; stags, good to choice, $4(54.25; calves, light, $6.755i7; heavy, $3.75(55. Hogs - Top, $10.505(10.76; fair to medium, $105(10.25. Sheep,— Best Mt. Adams wethers, $45(4.25; best valley wethers, $3.255£ 3.50; fair to good wethers, $3'./3.25; best valley, ewes, $35/3.50; lambs, choice Mt. Adams, $5.255/5.50; choice valley, $5(5 5.25. REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES WHO WON AT PRIMARIES Governor, Jay Bowerman. Representatives in Congress, First district, W. C. Hawley; Second district, A. W. Lafferty. Judges of the Supreme court, four- year term, H. J. Bean, and T. A. McBride; six-year term, G. H. Bur nett and F. A. Moore. Secretary of State, F. W. Benaon. State Treasurer, T. B. Kay. Attorney General, A. M. Craw ford. School Superintendent, L. R. A l derman. State Printer, W. S. Duniway. Labor Commissioner, O. P. Hoff. Railroad Commissioner Frank J. Miller. State Engineer, John H. Lewis. Water Superintendent, division 1, J. T. Chinnock. CH O LERA SPREADS. Victims Taken From Crowded —Fifty Deaths. Train Naples, Italy— The epidemic o f chol era here has attained most alarming proportions, and energetic measures are to be taken by government health officials to combat the disease. More than 100 new cases were reported to the authorities Sunday. F ifty deaths occurred within 24 hours. The government, which up to the present has persistently declined to recognize the existence of the cholera, has now admitted that the disease which has caused such havoc within the last two weeks is cholera o f the violent Asiatic type. An official tele gram was sent to Rome stating that a shoemaker named Ernesto Vigilante was suffering from that disease. Many other cases are described by the health officials as gaatro-enteritis, but this diagnosis is not generally ac cepted. Two persons, a stonemason and a sailor, were taken from the train on its way from Naples to Caser- to and Nettune. They are believed to be suffering from cholera and were sent to a lazaretto. CHINESE IN EVENING DRESS Pekin Banquet to Secretary o f War is Notable. Pekin— The visit o f Jacob M. Dick inson, the American secretary of war; Brigadier General Clarence H. Ed wards, chief of the bureau o f insular affairs, and party to Pekin will end Tuesday. It has been marked by a round of entertainments and a display of Western innovations never before known in China. The prince regent, on learning that neither Secretary Dickinson nor Gen eral Edwards was able to accept decor ations, sent to Mrs. Dickinson a pair o f cloisonne vases o f the Chien Tung period. The regent also sent a pair of red lacquer boxes, of similar antiquity, to Mrs. Dickinson and Mrs. Edwards. A banquet was given in honor o f the secretray and the other visitors by Chinese students who bave returned from America. Many ladies were present and a con siderable number o f Chinese appeared without queues and in evening clothes, to which they had apparently been ac customed while residing in the United States. MINE CAVES UNDER C IT Y . Lead, S. D., Boarding House Hangs Over Edge o f Abyss. Deadwood, S. D.— The firing of a blast at the 300-foot level o f the Homestake mine at Lead, S. D., start ed a cave-in which continued to the surface, making a hole in the heart of the city 15 feet wide and 40 feet long. When the duSt had »cleared away the Bertolero boarding house was seen hanging over the edge o f the crevasse, and the Campbell hotel’s back steps lead into iL Fright among the residents of Lead, most o f whom live above similar cav erns, was allayed somewhat by assur ance from mining officials that there was no danger o f further caving. America Held in Right. Paris— The Temps admits the right of the United States to fortify the Panama canal. A fter pointing out that the treaty o f 1903 reaffirmed the article in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty of 1901 to facilitate the construction of the canal, guaranteeing that the canal shall be free and open and that no act of hostility be committed within it. The Temps draws attention to the sig nificant ommission from the treaty of the words, “ The canal remaining open in time of war, even to ships of the belligerents.” Funny Story Kills Man. Fresno, Cal.— N. C. Shapbazian, a popular member o f the Armenian col ony here, lies dead at his home at 221 M street as the result o f a funny story told two days ago. Shapbazian, had a reputation for his genial nature. A friend was narrating his experiences on a hunting trip when Shapbazian was so pleased with the story that he began to laugh heartily. His friends were terrified when he tumbled over unconsious. He lingered two days without recovering consciousness. A bloodvessel had burst in his brain. Earthquake Routs Laborers Flagstaff, A riz.—Seven members of a construction gang arrived here with the story that they had been driven away from their work near the base o f an extinct volcano in the Coconino forest, 45 miles north of here by a series of 52 violent earthquakes. Last Friday night, when slight quakes were felt in northern Arizona towns, the shocks were so violent and rumblings within the dead volcano so terrifying that the men left camp in a panic. Gaynor Loses Fine Barn. S t James, L. I. — Mayor Gaynor stood by Sunday and watched his hand some and practically new main bam with its crops go up in smoke. The loss is estimated at $10,000. The fire is believed to have started through spontaneous combustion. RATES NOT TOO HIGH Railroad’s Expenses Increase When Traffic Grows. Labor Is Blamed for Increased Cost o f Operation—Regulation Can not Change Conditions. Chicago— William Ellis, interstate commerce attorney for the St. Paul road, presented a formidable array of figures in the freight rate hearing be fore the Interstate Commerce commis sion. Mr. Ellis had columns o f figures, the bulk of which almost staggered the representatives of the shippers, which showed that for the past 10 years the cost of conducting transportation, apart from the administration cost, had steadily increased in a proportion out of line with the increase in net revenue. In other words, the cost of furnishing a given unit o f service to the people had steadily risen instead of decreasing, as it should, with an in crease in the volume of traffic. “ There is a gradual growing cost of operation that is getting worse each year, and is worse the more business a railroad does,” he said. To illustrate this cost, Mr. Ellis took as his unit o f service 1,000 tons of freight moved one mile. Tht\cost of moving this in 1901 was $2.20 on the SL Paul road, and the cost of making the same movement in 1910 had risen to $2.96, which meant an increase of more than $4,000,000 to the St. Paul road. Showing how the consumer was affected, the witness presented a table giving the increase in the cost to the shipper on many articles i f t(je new commodity rates should be permitted to go into effect. Mr. Ellis took the valuation made by several railroad commissions of the property of the St. Paul within their states and declared that the road is worth, according to that basis, at least $293,000,000. The capitalization of the property thus valued is little more than $286,000,000. The average net return since 1906 had been about 6 per cent. The remarkable financial returns of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad during the last ten yearrsjwere brought out by attorneys for the shippers. The witness for the road was W. A. Gardner, vice president in charge of operations and maintenance of that road. His testimony elicited on cross-ex amination by Attorney Frank Lyon for the commission, was, in short, that the company thought itself justified in raising freight charges, in spite of the fact that in ten years it had returned to its stockholders in direct dividends and in unappropriated surplus more than the amount of the capital stock. SUBURBAN CARS CRASH; FORTY-ONE ARE DEAD Fort Wayne, Ind.— Forty-one persons were killed and seven were seriously injured in a head-on collision between two traction cars on the Fort Wayne- Bluffton division o f the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley line. The wreck occurred one and one-half miles north o f Kingsland, at a sharp curve. The cars in collision were a northbound local, crowded to the steps, which left Bluffton at 11:15 o’clock and a southbound extra car from Fort Wayne. They met while both were running at high speed. T6e motormen of the two cars had no time to set the brakes when they sighted each other. Tbe heavily-load ed northbound car was crushed and the bodies of the dead and injured were strewn on either Bide o f the track amid the wreckage. The screams of the in jured men and women following the crash of the cars brought the neigh boring farmers to the scene. WOMEN IN HARD STRUGGLE. England’ s Chain-Makers Striving to Better Conditions. Birmingham, England — Just how hard the struggle is sometimes be tween capital and labor, is shown by the strike o f the women chainmakers o f Cradley Heath, England's most cry ing industrial scandal. When the Trades Boards act was passed last year to fix the rate of pay for such sweated trades as this, the employers got the women to contract out; that is, to sign away any benefits under the act, by presenting to them documents they did not understand. So still there are 500 women, mothers most of them, slaving at the hardest labor of forging chains, for not more than a dollar a week, made up of Bix 14-hour days. I t is an eye-opener to visit this ac cursed district, where women toil harder than men. Now they are struggling to gain five cents an hour, an increase of 150 per cenL It will bring them about $2.66 a week if they win. Sickly children are seen in numbers round these home forges, and even the mere tots are pressed into the labor. Many of the women are not trade un ionists, because they have never been able to afford even four cents a week us subscription to the union. Their fight for existence is one of the worst that has ever stained modern indus trialism. BRYAN B O LTS HIS T IC K E T. Refuses Support to Democrats on Account o f Option Law. Lincoln, Neb.— In a statement in which he declares that the crusade which he feels impelled to wage against the liquor interests of tne state and nation overshadows a personal and political friendship of 20 years, W il liam J. Bryan announced he had bolted the head of the Democratic state ticket in Nebraska and would not Bupport James C. Dahlman for governor Mr. Bryan says he regrets that he is compelled to take the stand he does— his first departure from political regu larity— but says he feels it his duty to do so because of the position taken by the Democratic nominee on the liquor question. The statement, which in a way is apologetic in tone, does not indicate that Mr. Bryan will support the candi date of any other party, but announces that he is a pronounced advocate o f county option and the early saloon closing law, both of which he insists are menaced by Mr. Dahlman’s can didacy. “ DOLLAR A DAY FOR LIFE.” Grand Army Men Begin New Pension Campaign. Atlantic City, N. J. — Veterans at tending the national encampment of the G. A. R. were formally welcomed to Atlantic City at a monster meeting on the Million Dollar pier. The big event is the parade Wednes day. Vice President Sherman will re view the veterans, with Commander in Chief Van Sant and Lieutenant Gen eral Nelson A. Miles, U. S. A., re tired. One thing noticed at the various meetings was the definite shape the movement for increasing the pension» of veterans is taking. The cry waa “ A Dollar a Day for L ife .” The na tional encampment is expected to take up the matter. The National Association of Nava) Veterans believes it has a solution of the matter of placing a statue o f Gen eral Robert E. Lee in the capitol at Washington. The association at ita convention adopted resolutions in which it did not oppose the placing o f Lee’s statue in the capitol provided it appeared in civilian attire. The naval veterans elected William G. McEwen, Philadelphia, commodore. Fur Catch Unusually Big. Edmonton, Alberta— Edward Hagle, one of the largest independent fur dealers in the North country, who has passed half a lifetim e at the business, is authority for the statement that the fur catch of the past winter, which is now beginning to arrive from the North, will net the trappers more than $250,000. Mink and marten have been more plentiful this year, he says, but foxes and beaver were very scarce, sil ver foxes especially so. This year only 15 foxes were taken in the Mackenzie river district. $250,000 Graft Admitted. New York— The admission that the Metropolitan Street Railway company not only made contributions to the campaign funds of both the Republican and Democratic state organizations, but that its president had been called on repeatedly to take up stock accounts of $20,000 and $30,000 carried by cer Noiseless Gun Kills Man. tain individuals, inferentially legisla Los Angeles— While he was enjoy tors, was made by H. H. Vreeland. ex- president of the company. Mr. Vree ing the moving pictures in a roofless land thought he had taken up in this “ airdrome” here, Rudoplh Gastelum, fashion accounts aggregating $250,- a visitor from Calexico, was mortally wounded by a bullet fired by someone 000 . whom the police so far have been un able to find. Gastelum died on the Cancer Bequest Tied Up. way to the hospital. There was no New York— The right o f Columbia warning of the shooting until Gastelum college to property worth approxi toppled over in the aisle. There waa mately $1,000,000 bequeathed to it for much confusion in the darkness for a a cancer research fund by the late few seconds. One police theory is George Crocker, the California mil lionaire, who died in this city on De that the bullet was fired from one o f the new noiseless guns. cember 4, 1904, was attacked in the courts. Crocker’s stepchildren applied False Light Causes Wreck. to the Supreme court for an injunction Vancouver, B. C.— Mistaking a light to prevent the executors of the million aire’s will from selling the propertyor on shore for a light on a landing float, leasing it, pending the determination the small steamer Belrarra, Captain J. o f an action brought to establish their E. Fulton, owned by the Sechelt Steamship company, -dashed on the right to the property. rocks at Dempsey’s camp, Agamem ! non channel, Jarvis inlet, early Satur Catch Fish by the Ton. Los Angeles— The greatest yellow- day morning and is now a total loss in tail, halibut and mackerel run in the 65 fathoms of water. The |crew and a history o f Southern California is cre dozen passengers got off in safety, but ating excitement at Redondo Beach, all hope of saving the vessel was aban San Pedro, Long Beach and Port An doned. geles, and attracted several thousand anglers from the city. Fully 1,000 fish, aggregating about 12 tons’ weight, were caught off the warves Thursday, and the sport continued at night under electric light, hundreds more being taken. Japan Buying Cotton Again. Seattle— The steammship Minnesota, sailing for Japan, took in her cargo 550 bales of cotton, the first big ship ment in two years. This consignment is looked upon as the beginning of heavy shipments, the trade having been heavy before the business depres Back Dividends Are Pa d. New York— The Westinghouse Elec sion from which Japan is emerging. tric & Manufacturing company de Cleveland Has 560,663. clared a regular quarterly dividend of per cent on its first preferred Washington — The population o f stock, and back dividends o f 8 ’4 per Cleveland, O., is 560,663, an increase cent on the |Bame shares, payable as o f 178,895, or 46.9 per cent, as com follows: Three and one-half per cent pared with 381,768 in 1900. The pop with the regular dividend on October ulation of Joliet, III., is 34,670, an in 15; 3 per cent on January 15, and \ \ crease of 5,31V, or 18.1 per cent, as per cent on April 15 nexL compared with 29,353 in 1900.