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About Estacada progress. (Estacada, Or.) 1908-1916 | View Entire Issue (April 13, 1911)
DOINGS OF THE WEEK General Reeume e f Important Eventi Presented In Cendensed Form for Our Busy Readers. WORK ON MAINE PROGRESSES. Caissons Around Battleship Corr- plated Successfully. Havana, A pril 11.— In the driving of the last few interlocking steel piles of the 20 caissons form ing the inclos ing wail of the huge basin or coffer dam surrounding the wreck of the b at tleship Maine, the first stage in the work of removing the shattered re mains of the w arship has been brought to a successful conclusion. The work was accomplished with rapidity, and its progress was un marked by a single mishap or hitch until the introduction of the final pile, which failed to interlock properly w ith those on either side. This gave rise to a rum or that the stability of the caisson was endanger ed, but exam ini.t on showed the trou ble resulted from the piles being slightly deformed by an accidental blow from the iron bucket of a dredge w orking alongside. The extraction and replacing of three piles served to repair the damage. The second stage of the work, th at of filling the cais sons, as fast as completed, with the mud, clay and rock dredged from the harbor bottom, has been going on for some tim e, and, now th at the ring is completed, is being pushed forward w ith the utm ost rapidity. The steam dredge Norman Davis, lent to the gov ernm ent by the Huston-Trumbo Dredg ing company, and the United States arm y dredge Barnard are dumping hundreds of tons of m aterial into the caissons. It is expected th at the filling of the caissons will be completed by the end of A pril, and afte r th at the most in teresting stage of the work— that of pumping out the great basin and leav ing the hull of the battleship in pre cisely the condition she was on the morning a fte r her destruction 13 years ago - will begin. As a guaranty of the security of the retaining wall around the basin, it is probable th at riprap will be dumped around the exterior of the ellipse of caissons before the pumping begins. The wreck itself will have to be carefully watched as the w ater level falls, there being some danger that, as the support of the w ater and the mud in which it rests is w ithdrawn, the hull may careen, ju st as ships have been known to do in drydock when in sufficiently secured. As soon as the wreck is fully ex posed, the work of exploration in search of human bodies will take pre cedence. It is practically certain th at when this stage of the work is reached, a United States man-of-war will be ordered to H avanna and will lie close to the wreck to receive the bodies as fast as they are recovered, and transport them to their final rest ing place. A fter th at will come an exhausting scrutiny of the shattered wreck by experts, who, in the opinion of engineer officers, will be able to determ ine beyond all question precise ly the character of agency by which the destruction of the Maine was ef fected. I’robably many months will elapse before the final stage of the work - the extraction and disposition of the wreck. It is known th at the forward part of the ship, about one-third of her length, is practically detached from the rest, and it is so shattered it will have to be extracted piecemeal. When the afte r part has been strip ped, so fa r as possible, of all heavy weights, including the two turrets, w eighing w ith their pairs of ten-inch guns about 200 tons each, it will be possible to build a bulkhead across the shattered end and float the hulk out of the basin, to be sunk in all probability hundreds of fathom s deep in the straits of Florida. Finally will come the extraction of the thousands of steel piles composing the 20 caissons and the dredging of the m aterial w ith which they were filled. This may not be completed be fore the end of the year. Tom L. Johnson, famous reform m ayor of Cleveland, Ohio, is dead. Roosevelt visited Sand|»int, Idaho, where he worked as a cowboy 25 years ago. Mexican rebels tried to take Zaca tecas, but were repulsed in a desperate street tight. A serious Republican outbreak oc curred in Spain and occupation of Portugal also is threatened. About 1,000 Portland carpenters have gone on strike for the closed shop and $4 per day for 8 hours work. A S. P. train struck a three-ton boulder on the track in Nevada and narrowly escaped being thrown into Donner lake. Remains of prehistoric giant men and anim als are being unearthed in a cave in California. The bones are bedded in a stratum of sandstone. A Seattle brickmason was killed and many others badly shocked by a 30,000^volt w ire coming in contact w ith the iron cornice of the wall on which they were at work. The small wooden steam er Iroquois, plying along the coast of Vancouver island, was capsized by a squall and at least 20 of the passengers and crew drowned w ithin a mile of shore and in plain view of many who were unable to render assistance Rival factions of striking team sters fought a battle w ith revolvers in the streets of Chicago, but no casualties are reported. Streetcars filled w ith passengers were in the battle zone, and one man stood behind a car while he em ptied his revolver at the enemy. Stephen Crawford, candidate for m ayor of Alton, 111., has deposited $2,400 in an Alton bank as a pledge of good faith in case of election to the office If he fails to close the saloons on Sunday, Ralph Sm ith, a Canadian Liberal, approves the reciprocity treaty. More artillery will be sent to strengthen the defenses of Hawaii. Mexican rebel chiefs are unanimous in their demand th at Diaz m ust resign. In a speech at Seattle Roosevelt made a strong plea for the opening of Alaska. C raig I.ippincott, head of the great publishing house of Lippincott & Co., com m itted suicide by shooting him self. The lighthouse tender M anzanita has arrived at F ort Stevens to begin mine planting in the mouth of the Co lum bia river. One man has been fatally wounded and several others seriously injured in rioting Ijy striking miners at Prince R upert. B. C. PORTLAND MARKETS. W heat — Track prices: Bluestem, 86c; club, 82c; red Russian, 81c; val ley, 82c; 40-fold, 93c. Barley—Choice feed, $26.50(</ 27 ton. M illstuffs— Bran, $21 per ton; mid dlings, $29(0 30; shorts, $22.50; rolled barley, $28(//29. Corn— Whole, $28; cracked, $280/ 28.50 per ton. Hay — Tim othy, Eastern Oregon, Sandhogs Unearth Relic. No. 1, $210/21.50; mixed, $160/18; Portland— As the sinking of the alfalfa, $120/12.50. first caisson of the Broadway bridge Apples Fancy, $20/2.75 per box, continues, “ sandhogs" of the Union choice, $10/2; common, 60c0/$l. & Construction company are Vegetables—Asparagus, 60/7c per w Bridge th at in medieval tim es there pound; green onions, 20c per dozen; agering a sawm ill on the w aterfront, for hothouse lettuce, $1.25 per box; rad was in their excavating operations there ishes, 300/ 35c per dozen; rhubarb, have been unearthed quantities of $1.250/1.60 per box; sprouts, 9c per slabwood th at appears as if it had pound; carrots, 85c0/$l per hundred; been whip-sawed out of logs instead parsnips, 85c0/$l; turnips, 85c0/$l; of being cut by modem steam saws. beets, 90c0/$l. Besides, it is found at a great dis Potatoes — Oregon buying price, tance below the river bed, where the $1 .350/1.60 per hundred. Onions— Buying price, $20/2.10 per m aterial is hardened more than silt. hundred. Find Body o f Lost Hunter. Hops— 1910 crop, 17i«/18c; 1909 Boise. Idaho Jam es Ross, who was crop, 120/.13c; contracts, 16Jr. in the wilds of Eastern Idaho last Wool Eastern Oregon, nominal, 10 lost cooked his buckskin gloves Oil 14c per pound; valley, 150/17c; mo to December, off starvation and, finding hair, choice, 32c per pound delivered that ward last chance meal repulsive, blew Portland. his brains. Ross’ body, leaning Poultry—Hens, 21c; broilers, 30c; out a tree, and a tin cup contain turkeys, 21c; ducks, 200/23e; geese, against his gloves on a pile of ashes, were 120/ 14c; dressed turkeys, choice, 230/ ing found Friday. A gaping hole in the 25c. skull and a rifle containing an explod Eggs -Oregon ranch, 20oz21c dozen. ed cartridge by the 1/ody told how B utter—City cream ery, extra, 1 and Ross, in despair, had taken his life to 2-pound prints, in boxes, 31c per esca|H‘ the pangs of starvation and pound; less than boxes, cartons and exposure. delivery extra. Pork Fancy, 100/ lOJc per pound. Fort Astor to Be Built. Veal Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 12 A storia, Or. The Centennial com (d;12Jc per pound. C attle Prim e steers, $6.250/6.75; m ittee has selected Wednesday, April choice, $60/6.25; good to choice. 12, the the 100th anniversary of the $5.500/5.75; fair to good, $40/5; naming of A storia, as the date on common. $40/5; prim e cows. $4.750/ which to break ground in the city 5; good to choice, $4.500/4.75; fair park for the construction of a repro to good. $4.250/4.50; poor, 4.250/ duction of old Fort Astor. A special 4.50; choice heifers, $50/5.25; choic« program of exercises has been a r bulls, $4.500/4.75; good to choice. rangisi for the occasion and the mayor $4.250/4.50; fair to good. $3.750/4; has been requested to declare a half common, $3o/.3.50; choice light cal holiday. The contract for building ves, $7.750/8; good to choice, $7.5r the fort has been awarded for $2,800. 0/7.76; fa ir to medium, $70/7.50; Few Filipinos Go North. choice heavy, $5.250/5.50; g/xid ti choice. $50/5.25; fa ir to medium. San Francisco Most of the Filipino $4.750/5; choice stags, $5.250/5.50 laborers who arrived here from Haw good to choice, $4.500/.5; fair to m e aii on the steam er Korea and who brought their contracts to work in the dium, $40/ 4.50. Hogs — Choice, $7.750/8; good t/ Alaska canneries have decided to re choice, $7.500/7.75; choice heavy main in this state, hoping to secure $7.250/ 7.50; good to choice. $70/7.25 mployment in the interior. A fe« common, $6.500/7; stock hogs, $8oz >f them, however, left for the nortl in the Continental and Oriental of thi 8.25. Sheep Choice yearling w ethers Alaska Packers’ fleet. grain fed, $4.500/5.10; old w ethers Rebel* Besiege Canton. $4(z/4.25; choice ewes, grain fed $4o/:4.25; fair to medium ewes, $30/ Iondon A special dispatch to th< 3.50; spring lambs, extra quality. Daily Express from Hongkong says $10; choice lambs, grain fed, wool that a //erious uprising is reported ti $5.500/5.75; choice lambs, grain fed have occurred at Canton. It is said sheared, $5.250/ 5.50; good to choict the T artar general commanding thi lambs, grain fed, $50/5.25; fa ir b troops has been m urdered ami that food lambs, grain fed, $4.750/5. ither troops have been hurried to thi city, which is in a state of siege. calls. $2.500/3 50. 'INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE FIRE DANGER TOLD. STATE CAN’T STOP EXCHANGE State Official Takes First Step to Save Oregon Timber. Salem — Inaugurating the fight against forest fires in Oregon the state forester issued has first ultim a tum which he hopes will be reprinted in every newspaper in the state. B. W. E lliott is assisting the state for ester until a deputy is selected. Offices were opened at the capitol and the first move taken was toward w arning the people against the danger of startin g forest fires. In his letter to the people of Oregon the forester says: “ Forest fires, one of the greatest sources of destruction to the most val uable resources of the state, will soon be restricted and their terrors largely reduced if the people will co-operate w ith the state forester in the adminis tration of the new forestry law enact ed by the last legislature, which will be ready for distribution in pam phlet form in the near future. “ One of the most im portant provis ions of the law is th at m aking a closed season for burning from June 1 to Oc tober 1, during which period out-door fires of all kinds are prohibited except under most stringent regulations and the probability of heavy penalties. “ In this connection the state for ester urges upon everyone the neces sity of doing all possible burning be fore the close season begins and thus save the trouble and risk of doing it by permission in the season of greatest danger when fires spread so easily and rapidly. The state for ester desires the assistance and co operation of everyone in the protec tion of property from forest, grass or brush fires, and to this end invites suggestions and inform ation calculat ed to assist in any m anner in the per formance of his most im portant du ties. Copies of the law will be fu r nished prom ptly to all who desire them. Requests and communications should be addressed ‘F. A. Elliott, S tate Forester, Capitol, Salem ,’ and will receive prom pt and appreciative atten tio n ." “ As the dry season approaches, tim ber owners in Oregon are m aking pre parations for more effective work than ever before in preventing dam age by forest fires,” said C. S. Chapman, secretary and m anager of the Oregon F ire association. “ One way in which many owners are preparing for the danger period is by burning, during this spell of dry w eather, slashings, fern patches and places where fires can easily be sta rt ed a little later. “ N othing can be more im portant than th at such work be taken up while heavy rains can be counted on coming to extinguish any smoldering logs or snags before the dry sum m er months arrive. W ith these places elim inated and good patrols m aintained, the state should, next summer, m ake an en viable record.” Land Reverts to Government if Irriga tion is Not Carried Out. Salem— Having been unable through state legislation to accomplish the ob ject, W ellington G. Ih p ^ ll & Go., during the closing hours of the late congress, succeeded in having a law enacted by which this company is per m itted to exchange 8,793 acres of tim ber land that it had acquired in a school section at present lying w ithin a national forest reserve for about 9.560 acres of land th at had been re served from entry by the United States governm ent and which was awarded to a Portland company under contract w ith the state of Oregon to reclaim under the Carey act. The interests of the Portland com pany were afterw ards purchased by W ellington G. Howell & Co. The 9.560 acres that are to be exchanged for the school lands lie in the M alheur valley, about 20 miles south and east of Burns and about 10 miles from Lake Malheur. The W ellington in terests acquired the school base, which they exchanged for the arid lands in M alheur county, through purchase, not gettin g it directly, from the state. For it they paid from $1.25 to $2.50 an acre. There are various estim ates as to the value of the M alheur valley tract, though it is the opinion of S tate Engineer Lewis that it cannot success fully be irigated. It was the plan of the Portland company to irrig ate by sinking wells, but no work w as ever done by that company. FRUIT PEST SQUAD STARTS. Many Important Points to Have O. A. C. Stations. Oregon A gricultural College, Cor vallis—A general siege against fruit pests of every description is now be ing arranged by the experts of this college. W ithin the next week or two six men will be employed to go to various sections of the state and take up this work. This general fight against the pests of fru it crops was authorized by the last legislature at the investigation of the fruitgrow ers of the state. It will be carried on entirely under the di rection of the departm ents of plant pathology, entomology and horticul ture of this institution. H eadquartjrs will be established in the various fruit sections of the state. It has already been decided to establish one at Salem, and others will probably be located at Roseburg, Portland, Eugene and possibly Milton. The work, however, will all be directed from the college. The details have not been deter mined upon, but are now being care fully worked out. The plans will probably be completed w ithin the next week or two. Professors Cordley, Lewis and Jackson, who have general charge of the work, are confident th at it will result in saving many thou sands of dollars to the fru it growers. Vale Reads Riot Act. Vale— Much perturbed over delays and various complications in the new w ater system being constructed at an expense of slightly over $100,000 and begun nine months ago, the Vale city officials have given the American L ight & W ater company, of Kansas City, until May 1 to put the system in w orking shape. The firm is under $100,000 bonds. A telegram has been sent City Engineer W. P. Bullock at Kansas City to send all maps, plans and contracts of the system . Bullock is draw ing pay for supervising the work, but has not been here since it started and the council is debating w hether to dispense w ith his services. When Engineer Oakes was appointed by the council a few weeks ago to look over the system and locate the source of trouble, no maps, plans or contracts could be found. Since then the bonds of the contractors have been located but other valuable papers are still missing. COLLIERY FIRE KILLS FIFTY. Men Cut Off Lika Rats In Blind Tunnel. Scranton, P a.— F ifty men ¡and boys are believed to have perished w ithout a m om ent's w arning Saturday in a mine fire in the Pancoast colliery at Throop, three m iles from here. Some estim ates place the num ber of dead at 60. Three bodies have been recov ered. John Evans, head of the United States rescue car, died from suffoca tion resulting from a defective rescue helmet. Three men protected by helm ets and oxygen tanks pushed past the point where the flames w ere first discovered at 5 o'clock in the afternoon and stum bled over the bodies of two men and a boy, who had evidenty fallen while groping th eir way to safety. A m ajority of the m issing men and boys are foreigners, but two Am eri cans— Foreman W alter K night and F ire Boss Alfred Dawe—are thought to have perished. The fire started in an engine house at the opening of a slope leading from the Diamond vein, 750 feet from the surface. There w ere 400 men in the mine, about 60 of them a t work in a “ blind” tunnel a t the end of the slope. Escape was competely blocked by fire, smoke and the generated gases. The other men, scattered in other workings, got out. Jam es Vickers, a fire boss, who was near the engine house when the fire broke out, gave the alarm , and tried to g et to the tunnel where he knew a body of men was at work. He could go only a short distance before he was forced to turn back. He was so ex hausted th at he had to be carried to the surface. He gave it as his opinion th at no man could live five m inutes in the tunnel. TUBERCULOSIS CURED BY TAHITIAN HERB EXTRACT San Francisco— H aving spent four years in T ahiti as chief surgeon in the colonial arm y, Dr. L. Bellonne was a passenger on the steam er Mariposa which arrived here Saturday. As a bacteriologist. Dr. Bellonne said he made im portant discoveries which will be of g reat moment to the medical world when they are disclosed by his report to the French governm ent at Paris. W hile unw illing to discuss in detail his im portant medical discov ery, he intim ated th at he had found a cure for tuberculosis in the form of a compound from a herb found only on the island of Tahiti. ALL SAVED GROM LINER. ROOSEVELT IS GUEST Oregonians Throng Portland Streets to Meet Noted Visitor. Distinguished American Greeted With Affectionate Familiarity By Waiting Thousands. Portland, April^fi.—No such greet ing has Portland ever given any in dividual as th at which was extended by the populace to Theodore Roosevelt yesterday. Once before Portland welcomed him when he came here as president of the U nited States. Then he was received w ith all due pomp, ceremony, dignity and enthusiasm . But there was a delightful inform al ity, a spontaniety, about the Roosevelt reception yesterday th at leaves the oc casion altogether unique and w ithout precedent. Portland, for the most part, took an afternoon and evening off and joined in a series of informal dem onstrations which m ust have served to m ake it clear to Colonel Roosevelt th at he is held in high regard by everybody here abouts. It was not the m ere cheering and applause th at revealed the public mind and heart, but the evidences of intim ate regard th at w ere m anifested on every hand. It was “ Hello, Teddy” and “ H urrah for Teddy” everyw here along the crowded streets where he appeared. None thought of shouting “ Hurrah for Roosevelt.” And to have the pop ulace calling one by his first name un restrainedly is significant in itself. “ Teddy in 1912!” shouted hundreds of his adm irers, as he was taken through the crowded streets in a big automobile, attended by m embers of the reception com m ittee. To this significant exclam ation he gave no fuller acknowledgm ent than to the other greetings th at came from the crowds. There was a nod and a baring of teeth in th at irresistible Roosevelt smile for everyone. The only ones who received especial atten tion w ere women w ith children, vet erans of the Civil or Spanish-Ameri- can w ars and groups of workingmen outdoors for a few moments from th eir toil to see him pass. It was a strenuous day—not ar duous, or fatigueing, or w earing, or vigorous—but strenuous. The over worked Roosevelt adjective alone ap plies. Into the nine hours th at he spent in Portland there was crowded event npon event w ith but little inter val for rest. The hour and a half of respite from public dem onstrations th at the com m ittee provided was spent not in rest, but in attending to private m atters. Seemingly th at famed reservoir of re serve energy is as rem ote from dim in ution as ever. E xacting as were the demands made upon his tim e, the genial colonel en joyed it all immensely. He said as much before leaving the city late last night and his m anner was more ex pressive than his words. In at least one event he was presented w ith a fea ture altogether new in his experience, and he said he will alw ays rem em ber it as a special event in his travels. It was the jungle dinner given early in the evening in his honor at the Commercial club. H ere the large banquet hall was made over into the replica of an A frican jungle. It was intensely realistic, w ith an array of grinning A fricans in jungle- town full dress, monkeys climbing about in the rank jungle foliage, lions roaring, hunting horns sounding and all the atm osphere o f a Roosevelt hunting camp in the land of the rhino- ceri. “ It is the first tim e in my exper ience th at I have been provided with real entertainm ent rath er than being left to furnish the entertainm ent my self,” the colonel said delightedly. Cabin Passengers Given Precedence to Steerage Folk. Lone H ill, L. I., L ife Saving S ta tion—The 1,720 cabin and steerage passengers on the stranded North Ger man Lloyd liner Prim es* Irene were transferred to the deck of the Prinz Friedrich W ilhelm in five hours and ONTARIO SCENTS LINE, ten m inutes Saturday afternoon and one hour a fte r nightfall they were on Condemnation Suits Pointed to as th eir way to New York. The feat is Oregon-Eastern Move. unparalleled in the history of m arine O ntario—T hat work is to be com disasters. menced on the extension of the Oregon N ot a life was lost, not a case of E astern Railroad, known as the H ar- panic was reported. The first pas rim an line, through the M alheur Can senger off was a woman and the sec yon to Central Oregon, is evidenced ond a baby. The cabin passengers, by the commencement of condemna m asters of the situation and the lang tion suits against owners of the Cas uage, generously gave precedence to cade wagon road grant, for right of the more timorous steerage pas way through its lands. The cases sengers. will come up in the April term of As for the liner on the bar, night court, when it is expected th at a set fall showed her hard and fast in the tlem ent will be made. girp of the sands, and Captain God Surveys on the south side of the dard, of the Lone Hill Life Saving Snake river from the Oregon Short station, estim ates she will be held Line tracks to Homedale show th at prisoner at least a week, perhaps a the new track will strike the Short fortnight. Line near Arcadia, about seven miles In the 36 hours since she struck she south of Ontario. It is believed that has been favored by com paratively a double track will be laid to the pres light w eather, but a stiff blow from ent line used by the branch road run the southw est m ight open her plates, ning to Brogan, thus m aking a double Farmers Plant Big Orchards, in her bulkheads and wrench track from its connection w ith the Hermiston—The country about Her- crush Short Line to Ontario, which will un miston on both sides of the river is ap art her stout steel fram e. doubtedly become the division point. being rapidly set to fruit. Trees are Germ Not Disease Cause. A coal shute is being built a t On received by freight in small and Pendleton, O r.—All theories of Oyster Bay Goes Democratic. tario large enough to hold several cars being shipments. Others are coming modem m edicine w ere contradicted New York— Following up th eir vic of coal. It will be operated by hy large by express. On the w est side of the Friday night by Rev. Mr. Vande- tory of last fall, when M artin W. L it draulic machinery. river the acreage set this spring will w alker, and a retired physician, here, tleton, Democrat, defeated for con be almost 300 acres. On the east who asserted th at germ s and bacteria gress W. W. Cocks, Republican, the Water Bailiff Begins Duties side the new acreage will reach 600 if not the cause of disease, but Democrats in Nassau county, Long Is A storia—Fred Oberg has begun his not over. Of this vast area set to w w ere rath er the product. This state land, the home of Theodore Roosevelt, duties as w ater baliff on the Lower fruit this spring nearly all is being m ere made at the regular m eet were successful in two of three bien Columbia. Angus Gor, who has been given to apples. The W inesap leads ing ent of was Pendleton City and County nial township elections. In North promoted to the position of deputy with more of th at variety than all oth Medical the society. Despite the in ter Hem pstead the D em ocratic ticket warden, will have charge of the sur ers together. esting m anner in which Dr. Vande- rolled up a plurality of about 3,300, veying the route of the w ater pipe w alker elaborated his theories for dis and in O yster Bay township it was line at the Clatskanine river hatchery Prepare for New Railroad. the physicians present did not about 165. In Hempstead the Repub site, as well as other work at that Nyssa The unloading of several cussion, licans apparently have won by a nar place. It is expected th at he will be carloads of m aterial at Nyssa the past indorse his views. row m argin of about 50 votes. transferred to the W illam ette river week by the Oregon Short Line indi Travels in Box. about the middle of the month, when cates that no tim e is to be lost in the Kansas Youth Woman of 70 Saves Babe. C ity - W hen the Golden Gate the order recenty issued by the state building of the Nyssa Homedale ex lim ited train on the Rock Islannd rail Fruitvale, C al.—Alone w ith her board closing th at stream to fishing, tension. The m aterial consisted road arrived here from the W est S at two-year-old granddaughter in a burn goes into effect. mostly of lum ber for the erection of urday a knocking was heard in one of ing house w ith all escape cut off by the headquarters for the engineer and his storage boxes underneath a Pull flames from an exploded oil stove, Madras Gets Wool Depot. crew. Engineer Ashton has been to the The box was opened and Mrs. M. Haag, 70 years old, displayed Madras A rticles of incorporation Nyssa several tim es the past week to man car. Ruhno, 16 years old, was found rare courage and presence of mind have been filed by a local company start the crews on the surveys. Con Carl inside. The boy said he had intended when she seized the child and rolled it w ith capital of $15,000 for the pur tracts will be let this month. to remain there for a ride of 50 miles. in a pile of blankets and threw it from pose of building a wool warehouse at However, a trainm an locked the box a window 15 feet above the ground in Work Begins on Bridge. this place, construction to begin at the station a few miles away and to a bank of soft clay and followed it once. This means th at Madras will Madras — Work has commenced on at the boy remained a prisoner 29 hours, a second later by leaping. Thanks to hereafter be the pooling point of the the foundations for the big H arrim an the tim e the train takes to travel from the blankets, the baby escaped w ith wool for interior Oregon, anil that the bridge across W illow creek gorge on out the slightest injury. Mrs. Haag annual sales will be held here. Much the w estern edge of town. Large El Paso to Kansas City. escaped w ith severe bum s. of the wool th at has heretofore gone quantities of m aterials cem ent, etc., Tunnel Bill Is Passed. to Shaniko will now be delivered and a concrete m ixer, donkey engine and Denver—The house, by a vote of 35 Levee Breaks; Grain Destroyed. sold at this place. equipment sre already on the ground, ayes to 30 nays passed tun Colusa, Cal.—The levee of reclam a while the excavation for the concrete nel bill. The m easure the now Moffat goes to tion d istrict No. 108, south of Colusa, Government Pays # 4 ,0 0 0 for Spring bases for the four steel towers that the senate. The bill authorizes broke near the Yolo county line and Oregon C ity E. P. Dedman of are to support the bridge is being state to issue bonds to the am ount the of the d istrict is filling w ith w ater from done. _________ Clackamas, has ju st sold to the U ni $4,000,000 to be used in the construc the Colusa Basin. A heavy wind ted States six acres known as the Wheat Helped By Snow. tion of a tunnel through the Rocky caused waves which battered away Cranfield Spring on which is located Condon — Condon was visited by a Mountain range a t Jam es peak. The the em bankm Twenty-five thou the hatchery belonging to the govern snow of about two inches Monday tunnell will be used by the Denver, sand acres of ent. growing grain that ment. This spm ig has been owned by night and people w ere jubilant over it N orthw estern & Pacific. The road would have made a heavy yield be Mr. Dedman since 1881. It has been because of the big benefit to the farm is to put up a bond guaranteeing the ruined. Probably not more will than leased for the past six years by the who have grain sown. Not enough state against loss. 1.000 acres will remain out of w ater. governm ent for hatchery purposes, ers Dredgers are trying to stop the flood. can be said o f the benefits derived ind is considered to be valuable. The from snow falling this tim e of the Unions Fight Guard Laws. price paid for the spring was $4,000. year on ground th at is planted to Helena, Mont. — Labor unions of Japan Cuts Duties for Britain. Montana will begin Monday to circu London—The new Anglo-Japanese grain, as it receives nearly every bit Wallowa Plans Stock Show. late petitions calling for a referendum commercial trreaty which was ratified of m oisture in th at form. election to determine whether the m il at Tokio provides for large reductions W allowa -Efforts are being made Will Irrigate 1.000 Acres. itary law enacted at the last session in the rates of the new Japanese to hold a livestock and poultry show in W allowa this spring. W ith it will O ntario The O ntario Tow nsite com shall remain on the statute books. tariff on the chief British textile and be an auction day for the exchange of pany has ordered the m achinery, mo The law puts the national guard on metal imports in Japan. Specialities livestock and farm products and a tors and pumps, costing over $8,000, the footing required by the Federal in Japanese manufacture will continue general m arket day may resulL May- to irrigate 1.000 acres of land adjoin authorities. It will be the first time to be admitted to the United Kingdom >r Morelock promises to m ake definite ing town. The work will be com the referendum has been invoked since duty free. T ie treaty will remain in it was made four years ago. pleted this spring. force 12 years. announcem ents w ithin a few days. WAR WOULD BE FOLLY. For Japan to Attack United Stats* Would Bs Suicide. San Francisco— In an address hefnre the Commonwealth club, Baron de Estournalles de Constant, the d istin guished French scholar who has been advocating the cause of international conciliation during ¡an extended tour of this country, declared th at “ war w ith Japan would be not only a crim e, but folly, w ith no end, no re sult, except revolution and ru in .” The tex t of his address was “ W ar or Peace W ith Jap an .’” “ L et us suppose," he said, “ th a t, the United States, following an un fortunate inspiration, attack Japan and are victorious; this victory would be of no use. Japan would rem ain in accessible and even stronger than be fore, standing upon her rights against an unjust aggression. She would be supported by the national feeling of her people and the exalted solidarity of A sia; no civilized nation could ab stain from approving her resistance. “ But, supposing now the reverse, and in a moment of complete folly th at Japan attacked the United States. This attack would be, for Japan, a suicide. “ Let us suppose, w ith the most pes sim istic alarm ist, th at Japan, startin g a policy of im perialism and megalo mania, would try to monopolize the Pacific ocean, claim ing Asia for the A siatic. It would be the beginning of her decadence and the end of her power. "A ctin g against the United S tates, taking by surprise or by force the Philippines, the Haw aiian islands, she would open, at the same time the era of a general revendication against Europe. She could not stop; she would threaten G reat B ritain, Siga- pore as well as Shanghai, France, Saigon, as well as Hanoi, Germany, N etherlands, Russia, A ustralia, too— th at is to say, all the world. It is very much to do for one nation. “ And where would she find money for experim enting in the Pacific this Napoleonic policy of a universal blockade? And w hat would become of her industry, of her agriculture, of her commerce, of her art, of her eco nomic leadership in China? It would be the m iserable collapse and not the trium ph of Japanese im perialism . “ Let us stop this alarm ist nonsense and these pessim istic appeals to new expenses for arm am ents and to em pty glory. “ The em pire of the sea exists no m ore; the Pacific ocean will belong to all, as well as the sky belongs to avia tion and not to one nation only. “ Let us be confident in the wisdom of the Japanese people and of the Jap anese governm ent.” SOCIALIST IS LOSER. Non-Partisan Is Elected Circuit Judge in Milwaukee. M ilwaukee, W is. — The Socialist- Democratic party in Milwaukee city and county was defeated in Tuesday’s judicial and school board election. Incom plete returns from the city show th at C ircuit Judge Halsey, non partisan, who was opposed by John K leist, Social-Democrat, has been elected by a purality estim ated a t 10,- 000 votes. The election was the first real test of the Socialists’ power in M ilwaukee since they swept everything in the city a year ago and carried several as sembly districts and selected a repre sentative in congress last fall. Women were perm itted to vote for school directors only and w ere handed separate ballots upon which to mark th eir selections. It is estim ated th at fully 5,000 women voted. In several towns outside of Mil waukee Socialists were successful. They captured two alderm anic posi tions and two county supervisors in Superior and one alderman and a jus tice of the peace in Racine. W ausau and Beloit w ent “ w et.” Fond du Lac and Janesville elected Democratic mayors and Oskosh elec ted a Republican. Roslyn Miners Resume. Spokane— The independent mines at Jone8ville, in the Roslyn coal m ining d istrict in Central W ashington, have resumed work, but the men form erly employed by the Northw estern Im provem ent company are still out and demand a closed shop. H earing th at the w orkers in the independent mines w ere to resume work, several hundred m iners marched from Roslyn to Jones- ville to force the independent em ployes to reconsider their action. A show of force by the deputies was sufficient to quiet the strikers. Balloon Race Arranged. New York—The next international balloon race will start from Kansas City October 9, under the direction of the Aero club of America. The na tional council o f aero clubs of A m er ica ratified articles of agreem ent by which “ the Aero Club of Am erica is conrfimed as the representative of Am erica in the Federation A eronau tique Internationale, and as such shall have the duty of representing the council in all international affairs.” The Aero club is granted a m ajority m em bership in the contest com m ittee. Woman Is Mayor of Hunnewelt. Hunnewell, Kan.,— Mrs. Eliza Wil son was elected mayor of Hunnewell at an election held here Tuesday. She was opposed by O. M. Akers, former postmaster. Mrs. George Osborn, candidate for police judge, ran close to Mrs. Wilson, but was defeated in the final count by only four votes. The women of the town are cele brating their victory. Mrs. Wilson declares there will be many reforms during her administration. Oregon Plan Rejected. Concord, N. H.—The state senate Tuesday killed by a vote of 12 to 10 the bill which recently passed the house, adopting the Oregon plan for instructing the legislature as to popu lar choice for United States senators.
