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J* doings ( ra ra Current Events of Interest Gathered From the World at Large. General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. The senate has voted for campaign publicity and a lim it on election ex penses. A rival o f Lumberman Hines says the latter boasted that he personally elected Senator Lorimer. Canada is threatened with a coal fam ine, owing to the strike o f miners at the-Crows Nest collieries. Louisiana sugar planters declare the free importation of sugar would mean the death of that industry in the South. Every boy and girl in Portland un der 10 years o f age will be given a free auto ride by the Portland auto club on July 26. It is asserted that the alleged Con troller Bay coal land scandal in Alaska is purely a conception of two or three professional muckrakers. FRANCE C E M E N TS TIES. Compliments Exchanged o f St. Die. at Fetes St. Die, France, July 18.— The Franco-American fetes in honor of the naming o f America continued to day. The United States Ambassador, Robert Bacon, and M. LeBrun, the French minister o f colonies, after an automobile trip through the pictur esque outskirts o f the town, proceeded to the city hall, where the municpality gave a banquet in honor o f the dis tinguished gueits. Mr. LeBrun proposed the health of the American ambassador. He spoke in English, saying the French govern ment was glad to take part in the fetes because it afforded France an op- pounity of responding to the expres sions of sympathy for France in America, which were especially nu merous this year, and o f deducting from this sentiment a certain guaran tee that no material difficulty could affect the bonds of confidence and friendship which united the two coun tries. Ambassador Bacon said in reply that his presence at the fetes as a rep resentative o f his government proved that the United States had forgotten neither her baptism nor the sword which France threw into the scale for her independence. The celebration closed with an aviation exhibition at the aerodrome. Twenty thousand per sons saw brilliant flights by Fommer and Nieuport. H UN T LO ST BONANZA. Tacoma city officers have neglected to collect about $35,000 in city liquor 8,500 Acres Will Be Searched ¡Care licenses, besides $3 each from the 82 fully With Pick and Shovel. drug stores who deal in ice cream, etc. Reno, Nev. With the filing, Satur Portland citizens are prohibited day, of papers granting a 10-year lease from using city water for irrigation from the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lum except for three hours each morn ber company to Colonel W. S. Proskey ing, owing to a shortage in the sup and associates, covering 8,500 acres, partly in Washoe county, is promised ply. For the week beginning Aug. 15, the second chapter in the famous tra New York women will abstain from dition o f the hidden bonanza that for ice cream, fancy cooling drinks, roof years has been the vain hope o f count With the prosecu garden parties, etc.,*and turn over all less prospectors. the money saved to the suffragettes of tion o f a thorough search over the entire estate during the next ten years California. is linked the extreme probability that It is said the Hamburg-American a mine will be found again that has in Steamship company is negotiating for the past promised wonderful native the purchase o f a large tract o f land copper and gold— free gold in ore at Portland, including 2,000 feet of worth $100,000 to the ton. water frontage, for the purpose o f es The mine to be sought is the old tablishing a great trans-Paeilic Barclay mine that for fifty years has been talk o f miners in the West. The steamer service. estate is a part o f the Hobart estate Wholesale lumber dealers are to be and the lease is the final triumph of investigated by the government. men who were successful with the Ho bart estate managers. Mining mag Forest fires in Northern Ontario are nates, senators and financiers, after reported under control, with at least years o f effort, gave up before the 400 dead. blunt refusal o f the land owners. Sufficient financial backing is ap Railroads are placing big orders for parent and already five experienced cars and locomotives. prospectors are laying ouf the tract in A Salem, Or., minister has married sections, each o f which will be gone members of three generations of the over, literally with the point of a same family. pick, before the ten years of searching A potato price war occurred at Spo are up, unless the discovery is made kane, and the tubers retailed at 30 before then. One man knows the location of the pounds for 25 cents. ! mine and he won’ t tell. It is possible A San Francisco policeman died that the same men who in the face of from the effects o f being struck on a history o f defeat secured the first the head by a baseball. lease from the Hobart estate, may be Governor Deneen, o f Illinois, em able to secure from him the map he phatically denies that he helped Lari has jealously guarded for 40 years. m er’s election to the senate. PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. Wheat—Track prices: Bluestem. 94(q)95c; club, 81c; Russian, 80c; valley, 81c; 40-fold, 81c. M illstuffs— Bran, $24.60(//25 per ton; middlings, $31; shorts, $25.50 (0,26 ; rolled barley, $29fo 30. Barley -Choice feed, $25.50(d 26 per ton. Oats- No. 1 white, $26(0)27 per ton. Hay—Timothy, new, $160/19; old, $18(o 21; alfalfa, new, $12.50; clover, new, $8.50(</9; grain hay, new, $11. Fresh fruits Cherries, 3((</9c per pound; apricots, $1.25(01.50 per crate; cantaloupes, $2.50 per crate; peaches, 85c(o$1.25 per crate; water melons,. 2ro 21c per pound; plums, $1.50 per crate; raspberries, $1(//1.65 per crate; loganberries, $10/1.35 per crate; blackcaps, $1.500/1.65; plums, $1.50(0/ 1.75 per box; prunes, $1.50 Oi 1.75 per box ; blackberries, $1.500/ 1.65; currants, 10c per pound; goose berries, 7c; new apples, $ 1.750/2 per box. Vegetables — Asparagus, 750/'85c per dozen ; beans, 50/10c perjH>und; cabbage, $20/2.25 per hundred weight; com, 400/50c per dozen; cu cumbers, $10/ 1.26 per box ; eggplant. 16c per |)ound ; garlic, 100/12c per pound; lettuce, 300/35c per dozen; hothouse lettuce, $1.250/1.75 per box; peas, 4o/5c per pound; peppers, 12A 01 l6c per pound ; radishes, 12(c per dozen; rhubarb, 2(0/ 3c per jK>und; to matoes, $1.75o/2 per box ; new car rots, $2 per sack ; turnips, $2; beets. FRU IT SU PP LIE S SH O R T. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF TOE STATE FARMERS GO IN A U TO S . Annual Convention of Union County San Francisco Firm Acquires Entire Display at Salem Fair. it Held in Elgin. Salem — That Oregon cherries for Elgin— The annual convention of the Farmers’ Union o f Union county, fancy purposes are the finest in the was held here Saturday. Many ot world is the declaration o f Arthur C. them coming in autos, the farmers be Rass, o f E. G. Lyons & Rasa, San gan to assemble as early as 8 o’clock, Francisco, the largest maraschino and and by 11 the streets were filled with fruit syrup dealers on the Coast. Rass cars driven in by members o f other is here for two weeks securing cher He local unions at Summerville, La ries for the maraschino trade. expects tb take over 50 tons from Sa Grande, Cove and Union. A long table o f 63 plates was spread lem this year and will take more cher in Eagle hall, covered with dainties] ries i f he can secure them. Among prepared by the farmers’ wives. This; other acquisitions Rass secured the table was served four times before all 1 entire display o f the Salem Cherry had eaten. A t 2 o ’clock the conven Fair through the Salem Fruit Union. “ I f the elements are favorable here, tion programme began. Oregon cherries cannot be equalled in Among the principal speakers were the world,” he said. “ Eastern John Couch, o f Wallowa; Mr. Mc- houses secure cherries from Italy at Millian, o f Alicel, and Mr. Moore, o f | rockbottom prices. There the cher North Powder. Following the ad-! ries cost 4 cent or J o f a cent a pound. dresses there was a discussion o f mat We can buy those cherries in Italy, ship them to San Francisco, and put ters of general interest to the union, them up for 4( cents a pound. That the principal feature o f which was the is what we pay originally for Oregon adoption o f a resolution to compel the cherries. Oregon cherries in maras Home Independent Telephone company chino go 60 to a bottle. The cherries to allow the farmers better rates. secured in the East go 175 to a bottle The farmers propose to furnish their in maraschino. That is some differ We can’t equal own phone and pay the company $10 a ence in cherries. year for them, and demand 10 free Oregon cherries in California. They calls monthly through any two cen can’t be grown there, nor anywhere trals within the boundaries o f Union else, to touch the cherries o f this county, with the privilege of more at state. Given good weather conditions the usual rate, the company to keep and Oregon leads the world in cherries as well as in many other fru its.” phone and line in order. I f the company does not accept these terms, members of the union LANE PREPARES FOR FAIR. throughout Union county will cut out their phones on August 1, organize a County Society Will Erect Booths and stock company and install a telephone Rent Stalls to Concessionaries. system of their own throughout the Eugene- Enlargement o f the pavil Grand Ronde valley. This was the largest convention of ion on the grounds o f the Lane County the Farmers’ Union ever held in this Agriclutural society for the better ac commodation of the Lane County Fair part o f the state. this fall was authorizes! at the meet ing o f the board of directors, and the NEW STRAW BERRY FIELD. painting o f all the buildings was also directed. This year the board, in Weston Mountain, Umatilla County. stead o f renting ground for conces sions, will erect a number o f uniform Sends Fine Shipment. booths on the grounds, and rent the Portland— A crate o f strawberries stalls to the concessionaires. from Umatilla county has been re More attention will be given this ceived and placed on exhibition by the year than last to the stock exhibit, Portland Commercial club. The ber and a committee has been appointed ries were sent by the Weston Com for the purpose o f interesting every mercial club and were grown in the owner o f registered stock in Lane Weston mountain district just east of county to bring this stock to the coun Weston. ty fair. “ Our country is destined to be one The different granges o f the county of the greatest strawberry sections in have taken the matter up and already the world,’ ’ said ex-Senator P. W. are preparing collective exhibits. Proebstel, a hardware and implement The county court has signified its in dealer o f Weston. “ The raising of tention o f repeating its donation of fruit is a new industry but already last year to the fair, the money to be is making a wonderful showing. One used exclusively in premiums. man sold over $400 worth o f berries Difficulty over the location o f the from a half acre last year, besides district fair for Lane, Douglas and using all he wanted. The country is Coos counties arose several years ago, also a fine apple district. Weston’s and since then Lane county has been fruit commands high prices on account holding a fair of its own, each year o f its shipping qualities and excellent somewhat better than the previous flavor. Land is held at $60 to $70 one, until now good grounds and track an acre at present, as the raising of have been secured, and very credit fruit is in its infancy and the people able exhibits made. The fair this do not realize its real value. The year will be held September 20 to 24. people o f that country are all prosper ous. CHERRY YIELD IS HEAVY. “ Engineers have reported that 10,- California Shipments Show Deficiency 000 acres of the land can be irrigated o f 1160 Cars. at a cost of $65 an acre and plans are Sacramento, Cal. — Manager Mc- being made for the conservation dam Kevitt, o f the California Fruit Dis on Pine creek to be 150 feet high. tributors, says that shipments of Local capital will finance the project.” fruit from this state so far this season have been disappointingly small. On PEAK SENDS O U T SM OKE. July 14, 1910, the total shipments amounted to 2,460 cars. On the same Mountain West o f Bend Is at It Again day this year the total had reached After Long Inactivity. only 1198f. Allowing for 100 more cars owing to the increase of the min imum weight per car from 24,000 to 26,000 pounds, would give a total of 1,300 as compared with 2,460 last year, or little more than half. Owing to this considerable shortage there has not been enough fruit to go around, practically every market re questing supplies which were impossi ble to furnish. A fte r this week an increase in shipments should begin to cut down this great difference. Lorimer Legislator Dies. St. Louis, Juy 18.— Joseph Clark; of Vandalia, 111., ex-representative in the Illinois legislature from Fayette* county, died here today in the Re- hekah hospital, following an operation Friday for cancer. Mr. Clark was a Democrat. As a member of the legis lature Ije cast his vote for William Lorimer for United States senator. It was said that when he was removed to the hospital he had been expect ing a summons to testify before the $ 2 . senate committee in Washington in Potatoes New Oregon, 2j0/2(c per vestigating Lorim er’s election. pound; new California, 2j(//3c. Onions Red, $1.75; white, $2 per Aeronaut Drops in Sea. hundred. Asbury Park, N. J.— N. J. Roberts, Poultry Hens, 15o/ 15(c; springs, 18(u 20c ; ducks, young, 14(0/ 16c; an aeronaut who started in a dirigible geese, 11c; turkeys, 20c; dressed, balloon to go from New York to Phil adelphia, was found unconscious near choice, 25c. When revived he said Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 240/ Deal, N. J. that in the night he was forced to pull 25c per dozen. Butter -C ity creamery extra, 1 and the rip cord o f his gas bag when his 2 pound prints, in boxes, 26c per gasoline gave out and he found he pound; less than box lots, cartons and was being carried out to sea. He dropped into the ocean half a mile delivery extra. from shore and by the aid of a plank Pork- Fancy 90/ 10c per pound. swam and floated ashore. Roberts had Veal -Fancy, 110/ 12c per pound. Cattle Prime hay-fed steers, $60/ made a landing 15 miles from New 6.25; choice, $5.750/6; fair to good. York and lost control in a squall. $5.250/5.50; common, $5(05.25; Spendthrift Found Dead, prime cows, $5.25o/5.50; good to Redding, Cal. The body o f Jack choice, $4.750/5; fair, $4.600/4.75; choice heifers, $50(5.50; choice bulls, Conant. a prospector, whose life trag $4 .250/4.75; choice light claves, $7o/ edy is known in nearly every mining 7.60; good, $6.750/7; choice heavy :amp and town in the West, was calves $5o/5.50; choice stags, $50/ found on Salt creek, near Shasta. Conant more than 20 years ago located 6.50 ; good, $4.750/ 5. Hogs — Choice, $7o/7.25; good. the Uncle Sam gold mine in Shasta He $6.700/7; choice to heavy. $6.350/6.50 county and sold it for $360.000. common, $50/6; stock hogs, $6.750/ «pent this amount at the rate o f $120.- D00 a year, and ever since had wand 7.50. Death Sheep Choice spring lambs, $50/6; ered about, poverty-stricken. choice yearlings, $3.750/4; good. >ccurred at least three weeks ago. $3.75(//3.75; fair, $3o/3.60; choic* 3.600 Peso* Avert Raid. ewes, $2.750/ 3 ; good, $2.500/ 2.75 Juarez., Mex.— A raid on the cus fair, $2.250/2.50; good «to choic* heavy wethers, $3.500/3.75; old heavj toms house by former insurrectos U re t money for the maintenance o f the wethers, $3o/3.50; mixed lots, $4o/5 nilitary hospital was averted by th< Hops- 1911 contracts, 25c pound •eceipt o f 3,500 pesos telegraphed frorr 1910 crop, 25c; 1909 crop, 150/ 19c Mexico City. Judge Felipe* Seijas. olds, 80/ 10c. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 90/ 16c pei •f this city has announce*d his candi lacy for governor o f Chihuahur pound, according to shrinkage; valley igainst the present incumbent, Abra 150/ 17c per pound; mohair, choice ham Gonzales. 360137(c per pound. OREGON CHERRIES IN LEAD. Hood River Valley Crop Being Ship ped to All Parts Now. | I Hood River— Although the small amount of cherries grown in the Hood River valley was cut short severely in a great portion o f the community, the crop is yielding very heavily in some districts, and the Apple Growers’ union has made a large number of small shipments. A branch 16 inches Bend Coming on the heels o f the in length, cut from a tree in the Max- recent seismic disturbances in Cali welton orchards on |he West Side, fornia, the discovery th # smoke is contained 103 large-sized cherries. issuing from the old crater o f Broken The branch, which was taken from a Top mountain, in the Cascade range, Bing tree, weighed a little over two some 30 miles west o f Bend, has cre pounds. ated no little supposition regarding Although but few orchardiats make the possible connection. Not for sev a specialty of growing small fruits, eral years has Broken Top been seen ] such as strawberries, those who do so to smoke. So active is it now, how have met with great success this year. ever, that prospectors returning from The local market is supplied and the trips about its base report that a col union finds a ready market for the umn o f steam rises often for many gratifying surplus. hours at a time from its long-cold crater. It is a well known geological O. A. C. Building to Be Ready. fact that this locality is reckoned the! Oregon Agricultural College, Cor scene o f the most recent volcanic dis-1 vallis By the opening o f the college turbances in the northwest. year, September 22, the new mechanic arts building, which will contain the Round-Up Sign 300 Feet Long foundry, plumbing arid wood working Pendleton The Round-up sign, shops, will be completed and the which adorns the back o f the new j equipment ready for use. These three grandstand, Pendleton, is now the laboratories will virtually double the largest painted sign on the Pacific] capacity of the present shops, and will coast, according to the firm whose make it possible for the college to artists have just completed the job. make for itself much o f the furniture The sign is 300 feet long and 20 feet j and equipment necessary for the vari high, thus spreading it over 6,000 | ous buildings. ______ % square feet. The new grandstand, Cherry Packing i$ Studied. which the Wild West association has ] constructed, is one of the largest in ! Eugene— T. A. Seufert, o f The the northwest. Besides the grand Dalles, an extensive cherry grower, is stand, bleachers, which will seat 6,000 in Eugene to investigate the manner additional spectators, have been built. in which I.ane county cherries are pre pared for the confectionery trade. He Lumber Industry Brisk. has contracts covering large acreage Marshfield— The C. A. Smith Lum near The Dalles, and this year will ber & Manufacturing company is turn have 4,000 cases o f the fruit to dis ing out a large amount o f lumber and pose o f as against a usual crop of in one day shipped from Coos Bay a I 40,000 cases. He hopes next year to total o f 3,000,000, feet. This is the “ process" his cherries, and ship them most lumber that ever before left t ’lis East in barrels as is done here. The port in a single day. It was all bound Eugene plant is handling three car for California and was carried on the loads a day. Nann Smith, the San Pedro and the Newberg. Some record shipments Eagle Point Patronizes New Bank, have also been lately from Bandon. as Eagle Point--The First State bank the mills are running full force now. opened its doors in Eagle Point the first o f the week and at the close of Postal Bank Averages SIOO a Day. the first day $8,000 had been depos Grants Pass The postal savings ited. Eagle Point is a town o f 400 hank at Grants Pass has averaged people and the First State is the only A new two-story brick M00 a day in deposits since it was bank in it. >penod. A t first patrons were slow building, costing $4,000, was con in coming in. but now deposits are structed for its occupation and the example caused two similar buildings coming in fast. to go up in a previously “ brickless" 20 Acres Bought for Specialty. town. Grants Pass E. J. and William Coos to Hava Fair Exhibit. Winter o f Walla Wralia, have bought Marshfield — Coos county is to be 20 acres o f the Charles Ferdine ran<Jh near the city limits on the upper river represented with a fine exhibit at the Here road. The purchasers will specialize State Fair at Salem this year. tofore Coos has only been represented with grapes and berries on the tract. by individual entries in the dairy pro Developing Lime Deposit. ducts. The chamber o f commerce will Metolius- The lime deposits east of pay the expenses o f a representative town is being developed by L. G. Sav- from this city to look after the exhibit ige. Fifteen men are employed in and will start at once gathering pro ducts of all kinds. the work. j FIRST QUERY "W H O WINS'»" | Fans in Far O ff Pribyloff Islands Get Wireless Luxury. | San Francisco, July 15.— The Uni-I ted States government employes on the Pribyloff islands are rejoicing to- day because they have been connected with the outside world by means of the wireless telegraph. And the first news that they asked to be Hashed over the waves was: “ Get us the standing o f the clubs in the big lea gues. ’ ’ This report was quickly followed by another one o f the same kind, as they had been without baseball gossip so long they could not get enough o f the fodder on which so many thousands of fans feast every day. Not until the operator at Honolulu had exhausted his supply o f baseball knowledge did the men on the island o f St. Paul per mit him to inform them of the import ant happenings in the political and commercial worlds. Navy electricians and wireless ex perts had been sent north by the gov ernment on board the United States ship Buffalo to install a wireless sta tion on the island o f St. Paul. With the aid o f the wireless station the fans on these lonely islands will now be able to keep tab on their favorite club in the race for the pennant. J EIG H TY-BUSH EL W HEAT FOUND Government Completes Threshing 400 Varieties o f Grain. Chico, Cal.— The threshing of 400 varieties of grain has been completed a t the government’s big plant intro duction gardens at this place, says Superintendent Beagles. Some va rieties of wheat yielded at the rate of 80 bushels to the acre. This is about twice the average yield o f common wheat throughout California’s grain growing districts. The varieties pro ducing especially heavily are Frietes and Chul wheats. H. F. Blanchard is the expert in charge o f experiments in this department. The propagation and budding o f de ciduous fruits are now being.followed. Corn breeding is also under way. The distribution o f plants is on. The pistachio nut, which is largely used by confectioners, is being shipped to Newman, Fresno and other plants. GRAIN BAGS RUN SH O R T. Price o f Few on Hand Soars, and Farmers Are Worried. Walla Walla, Wash., July 15.— With grain bags at 8 cents and hard to get at that price, farmers fear they will have a shortage here this year that may cause damage before it ends. There are few sacks now in the city and the penitentiary output is con tracted for a month in advance. Local dealers yesterday shoved the price to 8 cents and the state board of control notified the penitentiary offi cials soon afterwards that the price at that place should be raised. This makes the fourth raise in price this year, and it is expected that others will follow. Carnegie Fund Finds Use. New York July 15.— The custodian of the $10,000,000 Carnegie Peace Foundation announced today a cam paign of popular education to establish friendlier relations between the Uni ted States and Japan. The division o f intercourse and education has ar ranged an exchange “ to give to each people better knownledge of the other and to help build up a public opinion in both countries that will resist all attempts to arouse antagonism.” Under this plan, Dr. Inazo Nitobi, president o f the first high college of Tokio, and one o f Japan’s foremost educators, will be brought here early in October to spend about six weeks each at Brown University, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and the Universities of Virginia, Illinois and Minnesota, lec turing on Japanese history and cur rent problems. The following year " a distinguished American” will be sent to Japan on a similar errand. Airship Visits White Hhoue. Washington, July 15. — President T a ft received his first aerial visitor shortly before 3 o ’clock today. The president stood on the rear portico of the White House as Aviator Harry N. Atwood, o f Boston, after circling the Washington monument, Hew directly into the White House grounds and landed on the grassy lawn, a short distance from the portion. Alighting from the machine, Atwood walked to where the president stood and was pesented by him with a gold medal from the Aero Club o f Washington. FOREST FIRES RAGE Hundreds Peristi and Property Loss Reaches Millions. Roads Strewn With Bodies o f Those Overcome by Heat and Smoke — Miners Trapped. Toronto, July 13.— The loss o f life in the Porcupine district, Northern Ontario, from yesterday’s forest fires is known to be several hundred, and the property loss will reach several millions o f dollars. Only three o f the 83 employes o f the West Dome mine have been accounted for, and 200 miners, muckers, etc., in the Dome mine have been suffocated. The mines burned include the Dome, North Dome, Preston East Dome, Vi- pond, Foley O ’ Brien, Philadelphia, United Porcupine, El Dorado Porcu pine, Standard, Imperial, West Dome and Success. Among the dead are Robert E. Weiss, manager o f the West Dome, and his w ife and child. The Philadelphia mine's loss is about $50,000; United Porcupine, $20,- 000; Eldorado Porcupine, all build ings destroyed; Standard, about $40,- 000; Imperial, about $35,000; Suc cess, probably destroyed; West Dome, about $75,000. In four short hours, beginning yes terday noon, the fire swept from the Standard mine to the shores o f Por cupine lake, where it destroyed South Porcupine, Pottsville and part o f Glen City, as well as many small buildings along the lake fiont. The greatest havoc was wrought around the main mines, notably the West Dome and Big Dome. There the entrapped miners, cut off from es cape, were forced to take to the shafts, and, penned in by dames, per ished. This was notably true at Dome and West Dome. The streets o f South Porcupine are strewn with dead persons, horses, dogs and cattle. Along the mine roads are the bodies o f those overcome while trying to escape. Along the highway between East Dome and South Porcupine, over a comparatively open section, were found six charred bodies. In the ruins o f South Porcupine were' found the bodies of William Gohr and his clerk, Captain George Runbar and Tom Geddes. The miners saw dense clouds of smoke yesterday to the southwest, where the fires were raging. They gave little heed. A small blaze started in good view o f the Porcupine town- site, but it passed almost unnoticed because o f the recent frequency of bush fires. It was not until noon that the dense smoke clouds began to roll over the Porcupine district. Then the miners became alarmed and camps took on unusual activities. Messengers were sent out and soon returned with warnings that the fire was traveling through the forests at rapid speed and was licking up many townships. Shortly after noon the fire had cov ered an area o f 25 miles in length and two miles in width. In half an hour the flames were raging on the spot. Hundreds fled before the flames, but dense clouds o f smoke hung low and made progress difficult. Many fell exhausted before the fire as it swept over South Porcupine. The frame buildings burned fiercely. Two minutes after the flames struck the outskirts the town was in ruins. All who escaped made for the water where all sorts o f water craft— launches, canoes and skiffs — were pressed into service. Women and children were first hur ried into small boats and started off for Pottsville and Golden City, where they were temporarily safe from the flames. Many miners lost their lives in efforts to save others. Each Must Own License. Hoquiam, Wash.— I f an ordinance proposed to the city council here, and to be introduced regularly at the next meeting by Councilman Bridges, should become a law, every person in Ho quiam who takes a drink o f spiritous refreshments will have to own a li cense, which he will present to the bartender before he is served. Mr. Bridges proposes to make it a misde Forest Fires Still Menace. meanor for a saloonkeeper to sell Boston, July ^ 5 .— The forest fire liquor to anyone, or for anyone to buy situation jin New England continues it, who does not hold such a license. serious. In the Moosehead lake re gion o f Maine many thousands of Gaynor Orders Ice Probe. acres of timber have been destroyed New York— Mayor Gaynor has tak by the fires. Some sportsmen’s camps en a hand in the ice famine. The are threatened but few people or mayor directed that policemen be sent buildings are in danger. »In the neigh out to ascertain whether the Knicker borhood o f York Beach, Me., more bocker Ice company is restricting the than 1,000 acres of timber have been amount o f ice it brings to the city burned over and the fire is advancing daily, in order to enhance prices. in a northerlv direction. The fires in Prices have risen from 200 to 300 per the vicinity o f Concord, N. H., and cent in the course o f the hot spell. Hope, R. I., are under control. One hundred men and women stormed the office o f the Foster-Seott company Twain Estate S47I.I36. yelling: “ Ice, give us ice.” Many New York— Mark Twain (Samuel had sick children, dying for want of Clemens) le ft actual property worth ice. $471,136. An appraisal o f his estate places this value on securities and real Company Assumes Loss. estate bequeathed to his only surviv Minneapollia, Minn.— According to ing child, Mrs. Gabrilowitch, when he F. P. Wells, vice president of the com died, on April 21, 1910. Clemens pany, F. H. Peavey & Company will left no real estate in New York. The assume the liabilities o f the Peavey value o f his personal estate here was Grain company, o f Chicago, which $296,746. This does not include a suspended operations recently when a trunkful o f manuscripts, the value of shortage o f $1.200,000 was discovered which is not specified in the appraisal. after the sudden death o f its presi dent, James Pettit. Mr.' Wells said Luzon Swept By Typhoon. that the assets o f F. H. Peavey & Manila, July 15.— Northern Luzon Company amount to two and a half has been swept by a typhoon. All the times its liabilities. wires are down and the observers be Grain Rate is Slashed. lieve it is the worst experienced in years. Details, because o f the lack Seattle — The Great Northern has o f communication, have not been re announced a permanent reduction in ceived. freight tariffs on all grain shipments from points in Central and Eastern France Is in Treaty Mood. Washington to Puget Sound terminals. Washington. D. C.- France, it is The reduction is from a half cent to 2 announced, is virtually ready to sign cents a hundred pounds. The new a general arbitration treaty with the rates become effective August 16, United States, similar to the one with when the grain in Central Waahing- Great Britain. ton will start moving. s SIX PERSONS KILLED IN WRECK ON OREGON TRUNK The Dalles, Or., July 12;— That Engineer Thomas Myles, o f the Ore gon Trunk south-bound train No. 11)2, wrecked near The Dalles Monday, will be held respqnsible by ayoroner’s jury for the wreck that has claimed the lives o f six persons, was given out here tonight. A. S. McCurdy, road- master of the Oregon Trunk line, tes tified before the jury at the scene of the wreck yesterday afternoon that he believed the train was running at least 50 miles an hour when the accident occurred, and that the engineer had received orders to run not more than 10 miles an hour around the “ Shoo F ly ” curve, where the train le ft the track. The six-months old daughter o f J. W. Rasmus, the sixth victim o f the wreck, died tonight. Mrs. L. J. Ris ing, o f Warm Springs, Or.; Mrs. J. W. Rasmus, o f Ellsworth, W is .; Mrs. C. H. Baker, Sheridan, Or., and S.*L. Arthur, Seattle, died today, and lxmis J. Rising, o f the Warm Springs In dian school, died a few minutes ufter the crash. THREE MICHIGAN TO W N S BURN Boats and Freight Trains Carry In habitants to Safety. Bay City, Mich.— Oscoda, 76 miles north o f Bay City, has been com pletely wiped out by fire; Au Sable, across the river, is now on fire, and the 1,860 inhabitants are being taken on board a steamer that arrived at Au Sable and on a train made up of freight cars picked up in the Au Sable and Oscada freight yards, while an other train is being sent from East Tawas to take away refugees. A lineman succeeded in getting around the fire and tapped the wires four miles south o f the town. He said there had been no loss o f life. The fire at Cheboygan caught from a pile o f sawdust which had been burning for weeks. It is not known whether there is danger to the city. Lewiston, Alger and Turner, all north o f here, are in danger from forest fires. The Alpena and Oscada fires were not due to forest fires, hut from fires originating in slab yards. Forty cars and two bridges on the Michigan Central near Grayling were burned. A disastrous fire broke out at A l pena in the logs on the bank o f Thun der Bay river, just west o f the Moanch tannery. A fierce west wind spread the flames to the bark piles of C. Moanch & Sons company. 'C A M O R R IS T S IN FRENZY. Leap at Bars o f Prisoners’ Like Wild Animals. Cage Viterbo, Italy,— A fte r Captain Fa- broni, o f the Carabiniers, o f Naples, had denounced the Camorra as the most despicable and dangerous crim inal association in the world, there ensued a scene in the courtroom here that made past disturbances in the Camorra trial tame in comparison. Erricone, chief among the prisoners to feel the sting o f Fabroni’s fearless testimony, leaped to his feet and dash ed to the bars o f the prisoners’ cage, shrieking incoherently, and a personal encounter between the Carabinier and Lawyer Bovio, for the defense, was prevented only by the interference of the court attaches. 12 Dead; 64 Hurt In Connecticut. Bridgeport, Conn.— Tw elve bodies in the morgue, 44 injured in the hos pital and a huge pile o f junk at the foot o f a 20-foot embankment at the western end o f the city, tell the tale of the worst wreck in 58 years' his tory of the New York, New Haven & Hartford railroad. Although the accident happened to the Federal express just before dawn, and the coroner’s office has been busy all day answering telephone and telegraph inquiries from all parts o f the country, four o f the dead, two men and two women, remain unidentified. Hail Storm Kills Stock. Miles City, Mont. — Arrivals from the Jordan country, about 160 miles north o f Yellowstone, report a terrific hail storm in that section. According to the report, 13 head o f “ 79” horses were killed, the roof was blown off of W. C. Henderson’s bam, Charles Kra mer’s house was unroofed, Joe Mc Donald lost many sheep killed by hail, windows were broken generally in Jor dan buildings and over a strip o f coun try four miles wide practically every growing thing was ruined by the fly ing balls o f ice. British Alter Alliance. Tokio — Revision o f the Anglo- Japanese alliance is regarded as the inevitable outcome o f the Anglo- American arbitration treaty. There is reason to believe that the negotia tions for such a revision have been going on for several weeks. It is reported that Great Britain proposed to modify the clause providing for mutual assistance in the event o f war, making the provision inapplicable in the event that either party to the alli ance is fighting a nation with whom the other has an arbitration treaty. Tars Not to Be Barred. Seattle— Mayor Dilling has directed Chief o f Police Claude Bannick to see that all sailors who are orderly are given proper treatment in all cafes and places o f amusement in the city. This order followed a complaint made to the mayor by R. L. Gbormley. flag lieutenant to Rear Admiral Souther land, that three sailors had been ex cluded from the Rathskellar last F ri day nighL The management dis claims responsibility for the trouble. 100-Story Building Next. ClevelarSl. Q.— Addressing the con vention o f the National Building Own ers and Managers here, George Morti mer, o f New York, said that plans for a 100-story building. 1,200 feet high, have been drawn and that such a structure is a probability o f the near future in New York.