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The Jeffries Mandón Wat Besieged by Callera. MûmDaAïïnvE m iRfltnrDSdDTOâaïïAMoutra T hidd degree ^CHARLES KLEIN v y A rthur “ horn blow ILLUSTRATIONS BY RAY WALTERS CPVrRlCNT, 1909, o r C.W. Oil LINC H Afl COMAAMf SYNOPSIS. Howard Jrffrlrs, banker's son. under the evil Influence of Robert Underwood, fellow-student at Yalo, leads a life of dis sipation. marries the daughter of a gam bler who died In prison, and Is disowned by hts father. He Is out of work and In desperate straits. Underwood, who had finis been engaged to Howard's step mother. Alicia. Is apparently In prosper mia circumstances. Taking advantage of his Intimacy wtth Alicia, he becomes a sort of social highwayman Idacovertng his true character. Alicia denies him the house He sends her a note threatening suicide Art dealers for whom he acted as commissioner, demand an accounting He cannot make good. Howard calls at tils apartments In an Intoxicated condi tion to request a lonn of $2.iOO to enable him to take up a business proposition. Underwood tells him he Is In debt up to his eyes. Howard drinks himself Into a maudlin condition, and goes to sleep on a divan, A caller Is announced and under wood draws a screen nround the drunken sleeper. Alicia enters. Hhe demands a promise from Underwood that he will not lake his life. He refuses unless she will renew her patronage. This she refuses, and takes her leave. Underwood kills himself. The report of the pistol aw a kens Howard, lie finds Underwood dead. Realizing his predicament he attempts to flee and is met by Underwood's valet. Howard is turned over to the police, ('apt. Clinton, notorious for hts brutal treatment of prisoners, puts Howard through the third degree, and finally gets an allege 1 1 confession from the hifl'assed man. Annie, Howard's wife, declares her relief in her husband's Innocence. CHAPTER XI.—Continued. "N ot this lady,” said the boy. “ The other lady. I think she said Jeffries, or Jenkins, or something llko that.” The captain waved his hand toward the door. "That's all right—go. We’ll find her all right.” The boy went out and the captain turned round to Annie. "It'll be rather a pity If It Isn't you," he said, with a suggestive smile. "How so?" she demanded. The captain laughed. “ Well, you Bee, a woman always gets the Jury mixed up. Nothing fools a man like a pretty face, and 12 times 1 Is 12. You see If they quarreled about you—your husband would stand some chance." Patronlilngly he added, "Come, Mrs. Jeffries, you'd bet ter tell the truth and I can advise you who to go to.” Annie drew herself up. and with dignity said: "Thanks, I'm going to the best law yer I can get. Not one of thoee court room politicians recommended by a police captain. 1 am going to Richard Rrewster. He's the man. He'll soon get my husband out of the Tombs.' Reflectively she added: " If my father had had Judge Rrewster to defend him Instead of a legal shark, he'd never have been railroaded to jail. He'd be alive today." Capt. Clinton guffawed loudly. The Idea of ex-Judgo Rrewster taking the case seemed to amuse him hugely. '■Rrewster?'' he laughed boisterous ly. "You'd never be able to get Rrewster. Firstly, he's too expensive. Secondly, he's old man Jeffries' law yer. He wouldn't touch your case with a ten-foot pole. Resides," he added In a tone of contempt, "firew ater's no good In a case of this kind. He's a constitution lawyer—one of them International fellers. He don't know nothing—" "He's the only lawyer I want,” she retorted determinedly. Then she went on: "Howard’s folks must come to bit rescue. They must stand by him— they must—” The captain grinned. "Frofn what I hear,” he said, "old man Jeffries won't raise a finger to save hlg scapegrace son from going to the chair. He's done with him for good and all." Chuckling aloud and talking to him •elf rather than to bta vis-a-vla, he muttered: "That alone will convince the Jury. They'll argue that the boy can't be much good If hla own go back on him." Annie's eye flashed “ Precisely!" she exclaimed. "But bis own won't go back on him. Ml tee to It that they don't.” Rising and turning toward the door, she naked: V "Have you anything more to say to me, captain?" "No," replied the captain hesitat ingly. "You can go. Of course you'll be called later for the trial. You can see your husband In the Tombs when you wish." No man Is so bard that he has cot a soft spot somewhere. At heart Capt. Clinton was not an unkind man. Long service in the police force and a mistaken notion of the proper method of procedure In treating his prisoners had hardened him and made him brutal. Secretly he felt sorry for this plucky, energetic little woman who had such unbounded faith In her good-for-nothing husband, and was ready to fight all alone In his defense Kyelng her with renewed Interest, he demanded: "W hat are you going to do now?" Annie reached the door, and draw ing herself up to her full height, turned and said: “ I'm going to undo all you have done, Capt. Clinton. I'm going to free my husband and prove his innocence before the whole world. I don't know how I'm going to do It, but I'll do It. I’ll fight you, captain, to the last ditch, and I'll rescue my poor husband from your clutches If It takes everything I possess In the world." Quickly she opened the door and disappeared. CHAPTER XII. The American dearly loves a sen sation, and the bigger and more blood curdling It Is the better. Nothing Is more gratifying on arising In the morning and sitting down to partake of a daintily served breakfast than to glance hurriedly over the front page of one’s favorite newspaper and see It covered with startling headlines. It matters little what has happened dur ing the night to shock the community, so long ss It satisfies one's nppetlte for sensational news. It can be a fatal conflagration, a fearful railroad wreck, a gigantic bank robbery, n hor rlble murder, or even a scandalous divorce case. All one asks Is that It be something big. with column after column of harrowing details. The newspapers are fully alive to what Is expected of them, but It Is not always easy to supply the demand. There are times when the metropolis lan guishes for nows of any description. There are no disastrous fires, trains run without mishap, burglars go on a vacation, society leaders act with de corum—In a word the city la deadly dull. Further consideration of the tariff remains the most thrilling topic the newspapers can find to write about The murder at the aristocratic As- trurta. therefore, was hailed by the editors as an unmtxed Journalistic blessing, and they proceeded to play It up for all It was worth. All the features of a first class sensation were present. The victim, Robert Under wood, was well known In society and a prominent art connoisseur The place where the crime was committed was one of the most fashionable of New York's hostelrles. The presumed assassin was a college man and the son of one of the most wealthy and Influential of New York's citizens. True, this Howard Jeffries, the son, was a black sheep He had been mixed up In all kinds of scandals be fore His own father had turned him out of doors, and he was married to a woman whose father died In prison. Could a better combination of cir cumstances for a newspaper be con ceived? The crime was discovered too late for the morning papers to make mention of It. but the afternoon papers fired a brand side that shook the town All the evening papers had big scare heads stretching across the entire front page, with pictures of the principals Involved and long Inter views with the coroner and Capt. Clinton. There seemed to be no doubt that the police had arrested tha right man. and In all quarters of the etty there was unlvursal sympathy for Mr. Howard Jeffries, Sr. It was terrible to think that this aplendld, upright man, whose whole career waa without a single stain, who had served his country gallantly through the civil wer, should have such disgrace brought upon him in his old age. Everything pointed to a speedy trial and quick conviction. Public tndlgna tlon was aroused almost to a frenzy, and a loud clamor went up against the law's delay. Too many crimes of this nature, screamed the yellow press, had been allowed to sully the good name of the city. A fearful ex ample must be made, no matter what the standing and Influence of the pris oner’s family. Thus goaded on, the courts acted wtth promptness. Taken before a magistrate, Howard was at once committed to the Tomba to await trial, and the district attorney set to work Impaneling a Jury. Justice, he promised, would be Bwtftly done. One newspaper stated positively that the family would not Interfere, but would abandon the scapegrace son to bl9 richly deserved fate. Judge Brewster, the famous lawyer. It was said, bad al ready been approached by the prison er's wife, but had declined to take the case. Ranker Jeffries also was quoted ss saying that the man under arrest was no longer a son of hl9. As one paper pointed out. It seemed a farce and a waste of money to have any trial at all. The assassin bad not only been caught rod-handed, but had actually confessed. Why waste time over a trial? True, one paper timidly suggested that It might have been a case of suicide. Robert Underwood's financial affairs, It went on to say. were In a critical condition, and the theory of suicide was borne out to some extent by an Interview with Dr. Bernstein, professor of psychology at one of the universities, who stated that he was by no means convinced of the prisoner's guilt, end hinted that the alleged confession might have been forced from him by the police, while In a hypnotic state. This the ory. belittling as It did their pet sen sation, did not suit the policy of the yellow press, so the learned profes sor at once became the target for edi torial attack. The sensation grew tn Importance as the day for the trial approached All New York was agog with excite ment. The handsome Jeffries man sion on Riverside drive was besieged by callers. The guides on the sight seeing coaches shouted through their megaphones: "That’s the house where the mur derer of Robert Underwood lived.” The Immediate vicinity of the house the day that the crime was made pub lic was thronged with curious peo ple. The blinds of the house were drawn down us If to shield the In mates from observation, but there were several cabs tn front of tha main entrance and passers by stopped on the sidewalk, pointing at the house. A number of newspaper men stood In a group, gathering fresh material for the next edition. A reporter ap proached rapidly from Broadway and Joined his colleagues. "W ell, boys," he said cheerily. "Any thing doing? Say, my paper Is going to have a bully story to-morrow! Com plete account by Underwood's valet. He tells how he caught the murderer just as he was escaping from the apartment. W e’ll have pictures and everything. It's fine. Anything do ing here?" he demanded. “ Naw,” grunted the others In dis gruntled tones. “ Wo saw the butler," eald one re porter, "and tried to get a story from him, but he flatly refused to talk. All he would soy was that Howard Jef fries was nothing to the family, that his father didn't care a straw what became of him.” 'T h at’s pretty tough!” exelalmod another reporter. "He's his son, aft er oil." "Oh, you don't know old Jeffries,” chimed In a third. "When once he makes up his mind you might as well try to move a house." The afternoon was getting on; If their papers were to print anything more that day they must hasten down town. "Let's make one moro attempt to get a talk out of the old man," sug gested one enterprising scribe. "AH right,” cried the others In chorus. "You go ahead. W e'll fol low In a body and back you up." Passing through the front gato, they rang the bell, and after a brief par ley were ndmltted to the house. They had hardly disappeared when a cab drove hurriedly up and stopped at the curb. A young woman, heavily veiled, descended, paid the driver, and walked quickly through the gates toward the house. Annie tried to feel brave, but her heart misgave her when she bbw this splendid home with all Its evidence of wealth, culture and refinement It waa the first time she had ever entered Rs gates, although, In a measure, she waa entitled to look upon It ae her own home. Perbapa never eo much ae now ehe realized what a deep gulf lay between her husband's family and herself. This was a world ehe had never known—a world of opulence and luxury. She did not knew how ehe had Bummoned up courage enough to come. Yet there was no time to be lost. Immediate action was neces sary. Howard must have the best lawyors that money could procure. Judge Brewster had been deaf to her entreaties. He had declined to take the case. She had no money. How ard's father must come to hts assist ance. She would plead with him and Insist that It was hts duty to stand by hts son. She wondered how he would receive her. If he would put her out or be rude to her. He might tell the servants to shut the door tn her face. Timidly she rang the bell. The butler opened the door, and sum moning up all her courage, she usked: "Is Mr. Jeffries In?" To her utter amazement the butler offered no objection to her entering. Mistaking her for a woman reporter, several of whom had already called that morning, he said: "Go right In the library, madam; the other newspaper folk are thore.” She passed through the splendid re ception hall, marveling Inwardly at the beautiful statuary and pictures, no little Intimidated at finding her self amid such splendid surroundings. On the left there was a door draped with handsome tapestry. "Right In there, miss," said the butler. She went In, and found herself In a room of noble proportions, the walls of which were lined with bookshelves filled with tomes In rich bindings. The light that entered through the stained- glass windows cast a subdued half- light, warm and rich In color, on the crimson plush furnishings. Near the heavy flat desk In the center of the room a tall, distinguished man waa standing listening deprccatlngly to the half dozen reporters who were bombarding him with questions. As Annie entered the room she caught the words of his reply: "The young man who has Inherited my name has chosen his own path In life. I am grieved to say that his con duct at college, hts marriage, has completely separated him from hla family, and I have quite made up my mind that tn no way or manner can his family become identified with any steps he may take to escape the pen alty of hts mad act. I am bis father, and 1 suppose, under the circum stances, I ought to say something. Rut I have decided not to. I don't wish to give the American public any ex cuse to think that I am palliating or condoning hts crime. Gentlemen, I wish you good-day." Annie, who had been listening In tently, at once saw her opportunity. Mr. Jeffries had taken no notice of her presence, believing her to be a newspaper writer like the others. As the reporters took their departure and filed out of the room, she re mained behind. As the last-one disap peared she turned to the banker and said: "May I speak to you a moment?" He turned quickly and looked at her In surprise. For the first time he was conscious of her presence. Bow ing courteously, he shook his head: "I am afraid I can do nothing for you madam—as I’ve Just explained to your confreres of the press." Annie looked up at him, and said boldly: "I am not a reporter, Mr. Jeffries. I am your son's wife." The banker started back In amaze ment. This woman, whom he had taken for a newspaper reporter, was an Interloper, an Imposter, the very last woman In the world whom he would have permitted to be admitted to hts house. He considered that she, as much as anybody else, had con tributed to his son’s ruin. Yet what could he do? She was there, and he was too much of a gentleman to have her turned out bodily. Wondering st his silence, she repeated softly: “ I'm your son's wife, Mr. Jeffries." The banker looked at her a mo ment, ns If taking her In from head to foot. Then he said coldly: "Madam, I have no s o x " He hesi tated, and added: "I don't recognize— ’’ She looked at him pleadingly. "But 1 want to speak to you, sir." Mr. Jeffries shook his head, and moved toward the door. “ I repeat, I have nothing to say." Annie planted herself directly In hla path. He could not reach the door unless he removed her forcibly. “ Mr. Jeffries,” she said earnestly, "please don't refuse to hear me— please—” (T O R E C O N T IN U E D .) •- «----- FAN NY C R O S B Y HAPPY A T 82. Birthday Find! Blind Writer of Hymns Astir Bright and Early. Bridgeport, Conn.— Fanny Crosby, the blind hymn writer, was up bright and early Sunday to greet the ninety- second anniversary o f her birth. No schoolgirl rejoicing on her sixteenth birthday was in gayer spirits than Miss Crosby. "R ig h t thinking” is the panacea Miss Crosby prescribed to her callers for reaching a happy old age. The home o f her devoted niece, Mrs. Henry I). Booth, with whom Mias Crosby lives, was deluged with beau tiful floral remembrances, while many letters and telegrams came to remind Miss Crosby o f absent friends. “ Right thinking," said Miss Cros by, ‘ ‘ that’s what keeps people young. You ofttn hear doctors and physical culture faddists say that the mind cannot be healthy without a healthy body. Did you ever stop to think that the reverse may be equally true?” During her long lifetim e Miss Cros by has had the friendship of many great men in American history, such as President Polk and Henry Clay. D R A S TIC A C T IO N IS NEAR. British Government Holding Troops in Readiness. APPLE D EC AY S TO P P E D , Tests C H IN E S E W O M EN BIDDEN. Orient Asked to Turn Missionary Tables in United States. New Orleans— The Era club o f New Orleans, whose membership includes many prominent advocates o f woman suffrage has adopted resolutions con gratulating the women o f China on having received the right o f suffrage and also extending congratulations to the men o f China on being “ the first to establish a real republic.” The resolutions which will be for warded to the Chinese ambassador at Washington with a request that they be sent to his home land after extend ing congratulations to the women of China said: "T h e women o f China are requested to send political missionaries to the United States to teach the principles of true democracy to American men.” Man Flies to Girl at Sea. San Diego, Cal.— In a biplane A v i ator H. F. Kearney accompanied the steamer Yale three miles out to sea and bid farewell to Miss Elsie Berlin and her brother, C. H. Berlin, the latter an aeroplane pilot, who is on his way to Centralia, Wash. A t times Kearney flew high above the steamer, only to descend and skim the sea alongside the vessel. From aloft the aviator dropped bonbons to the Y a le ’s deck and also seven letters, one for each day o f the trip, the missives be ing inclosed in a metal tube. Mighty River is Raising. St. Louis— Heavy snow in the sur rounding territory has aggravated flood conditions along the Missouri, Mississippi and Ohio rivers. The gauge at Cairo, III., registers 48 feet, a rise o f 1.1 feet in 21 hours. The swollen Ohio is expected to bring the stage to 50 feet before the flood crest passes Cairo. The levee at Cairo can withstand 55 or 56 feet, but the low lands o f Illinois, Missouri and Ken tucky are under several feet o f water. The Mississippi below Cairo is 40 miles wide in some places. Poppies to Garnish City. San Francisco— Hundreds o f men, women and children, burdened by shovels, rakes and hoes, attacked the slopes and summit o f Telegraph Hill, and when their labors were finished many pounds o f California poppy seeds had been planted. The poppy planting movement was inaugurated by the California club, an organiza tion o f women, and was the first move in a city beautiful campaign intended to create fields of poppies on the hills of San Francisco. Potato Famine Feared. O R E G O N MAY GROW FLAX. on Cold Storage Fruit Reveal Move On Foot To Revive Industry in Marion County, Fungus Remedy. Hood River— The discovery by Prof. W. H. Lawrence and U. H. Pratt, of the pomologies! department o f the United States department o f agricul ture, that the decay o f apples in cold storage is due for the most part to the attack o f the spores of anthracnose, and that the remedy to use is spray ing with Bordeaux mixture, will mean the saving o f many hundreds of dol lars to the fruitgrowers o f Western Washington and Oregon. Prof. Law rence, county fruit inspector and local orchard expert, began his investiga tions along this line several years ago and continued the work throughout the term o f his office as expert and direc tor o f the Hood River Fellowship as sociation. During last autumn Mr. Pratt be gan for the government service a ser ies o f experiments at Portland. He and Prof. Lawrence announced last week that the experiments had proved that the greater part o f the rot was caused by the attack o f the anthrac nose fungus. A single spore striking an apple will penetrate it and cause it to rot. Prof. Lawrence has been testing the anthracnose in his laboratory here. Apples that had decayed prematurely were used in the experiments. The disease has been known to orchard- ists for many years. The apples will not suffer from the pest. However, wind may blow spores from adjoining infected orchards. In the experiments o f the experts it was found that apples taken from an orchard uninfested showed only one apple out o f several boxes that displayed a rot caused by anthracnose. Until a remedy was found for the disease several years ago, the orchardists used to destroy their infected trees. In 1910 Grants Pass was so badly affected that it was decided to chop down the trees. An expert, however, visited it and cured the diseased trees, which soon after produced a crop o f apples which sold for $17,000. ________ London— As significant o f the inten tion o f the government to use drastic measures in case the striking coal miners refuse to accept the minimum wage bill at the conference between them and the mine owners, the Ninety-third Highlanders, who, owing to the strike, have been detained for more than a week at Glasgow, have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness to go anywhere at a mo ment’ s notice. It is believed that similar orders have been given to many regiments stationed in various parts o f the king dom. The strike o f coal miners at Wal- denburg, Lower Silesia, has been called off. The striking coal miners of Denain, DEER SEEN IN PARK SO O N . France,, will resume work, an agree ment with the mine owhers having Warm Weather in Crater Lake Coun been effected. try Promises to Bring Herds Out. Los Angeles— Southern California faces a most serious potato famine. It is known that there is less than a month's supply in sight, and the new Atlantan the Possessor of Silver Dol leans men, who offered him various crop is weeks late. The best tubers lar with Two Heads— Its • premiums the highest being $10, all of are selling for $3.25, the cheapest at History. $2.75 per 100 pounds. There is pros which he refused. Shipments The story tn connection with this pect of 5 cents a pound. Hansel W. Compton has Just re coin Is as follows: An employe In from Oregon, Washington and Idaho turned from New Orleans, La., where the New Orleans mint, whose duty are slow coming. People already are he went upon a business trip, bring It was to run the silver coin through resorting to substitutes and may have ing with him the only genuine silver the dies to have the head stamped up two months without “ spuds.” dollar with heads stamped on both on It substituted a current silver dol Hydro-Aeroplane Upsets. sides ever seen In Atlanta. And there lar for the coin Immediately after by hangs a tale, relates the Atlantlo Monte Carlo— The international hy the head had been stamped upon It, Constitution. with the other side unstamped and dro-aeroplane meeting began here Mr. Compton got this stiver dollar perfectly slick. This was In 190«. Monday. The American, Hugh Rob In change and did not notice the un Three years later he ran the coin inson, and the French aviator, Paul- usual fact about It at the time. Some through the stamper for the reverie han. gave fine exhibitions, rising from time later he was matching a friend The side. Impressing another head and and alighting in a rough sea. for car fare, happening to use this , 1909 upon It. The fact that a coin machine piloted by the Frenchman, silver dollar, when he noticed that the \ had been put In, at the first Instance, Cunne, was capsized by a big wave, coin fell 'heads' every time. He to replace the half-coined dollar, pre but Cunne was not injured. looked closer and saw that there was vented detection. In this manner. It a head on each side of the dollar. Un Ice Gorge* Dynamited. Is explained, the sliver dollar came to der one head were the figures "190«," have tta two heads. Omaha— Much anxiety is felt over the date of the Initial stamping, and the probability of floods in the Mis under the other "1909,“ the date of souri river watershed. Railroads are The First Necessity. the second stamping Integrity without knowledge la weak expecting trouble. Dynamite with He showed It to several New Or-1 , and useless —Raley. which to break up possible ice gorges has been distributed to various places. Coin Something of a Freak INDUSTRIAL O E IE LO H OF IKE SUTE Salem— Possibility o f the develop ment of 2,000 acres o f Willamette Valley land and the inauguration o f the first gigantic step toward placing the flax industry on a firm basis in this section o f the valley is presaged by the visit here o f Western Manager Smith, o f the American Linseed Oil company, and H. A. Brewer. With Secretary Olcott and State Treasurer Kay the visitors were taken to the home o f Eugene Bosse, the pioneer flax grower o f the Pacific Coast. Smith made a proposition to Bosse to make arrangements for the development o f 2,U00 acres of land, to be sown to flax and to do it immedi ately. The American Linseed Oil company has established a branch industry in Portland. It is now necessary to send a large quantity o f the flux from Michigan, but the representatives here declared that the Oregon flax surpasses the world in quality and that great quantities o f it cun be used by the company. F E R TIL IZ IN G Y A M H ILL PRUNES. College Experimenting in Improving Quality and Production. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis— F ertility experiments in the prune orchards o f Yamhill county are being run by the division of horticul ture o f the Oregon Agricultural col lege, covering both the bottom land orchards and hill orchards. The ex periments ii cl ide not only the use of fertilizers, but also various methods o f tillage, the thinning o f the fruit, pruning and like matters, to see if the general outlook and quality o f the prune can be improved. An elaborate set o f experiments is also being conducted in this connec tion as to prune evaporation. In the fertilizing work, for example, it is desired to ascertain not only i f the size o f the fruit can be increased by this means and the quality improved, but what relation fertilization will bear to the evaporation o f the fruit. The relation o f various cultural and Klamath Falls— I f open weather orchard management methods have to continues the droves o f deer which are the evaporation of the prune will be one o f the greatest attractions o f Cra closely studied. ter Lake National Park probably will Apple Growers Get Busy. enter the park a month earlier than Albany— Forty members o f the A l usual. The park is the warm weather season resort for the monarchs o f the bany Apple Growers association met forest. In the winter they seek the here in the Commercial club rooms to foothills, where there is less snow and discuss matters important to the fruit The meet a milder cold seaoBn than on the sum industry o f Linn county. mit o f the monutain9. A strange ing was presided over by H. Bryant, thing is that the blacktail and mule- president o f the association, and talks tail deer never mingle nor trespass on o f interest relative to the protection o f fruit trees from codlin moth and each other’s preserves. The blacktails, which predominate San Jose scale were made by various by a large majority, always stay on members. The annual Albany Apple Fair, the west side o f Crater lake, and dur ing the cold months seek the west side which will be held in November, was o f the Cascades, while the muletails discussed at length and efforts will be pass the summer to the east of the made to make this year’s event the lake and winter on the lower lands biggest in the history o f Linn county. The president was authorized to ap east o f the mountains. The lake does not divde the entire park, and either point a committee from the associa variety o f brute could get on the other tion to work in conjunction with a similar committee from the Commer side without trouble. cial club toward making it a success. Line to Sea is Planned. Loganberries, which are fast be Gold H ill— From Medford to Cres coming a profitable small fruit, was cent City via Jacksonville, up W illow the subject o f considerable discussion, creek and across Blackwell hills to and as a result, many acres will be Kane’ s creek, at a point two and a planted this year. half miles south o f Gold Hill, on to Orchard Bulletin Almost Gone. the great Blue Ledge copper mine and through heavy timber all the way Oregon Agricultural College, Cor from Kane’s creek to the sea, is the vallis— The issue o f Prof. C. I. Lewis' route o f a proposed railroad, surveys bulletin No. I l l on orchard manage for which are reported to have been ment, published in 20,000 copies, by made and rumors o f which are rife the Oregon Agricultural College Ex here. periment station, is now rapidly being It is understood that the line as pro exhausted, in spite o f the fact that posed touches no town in the Rogue the Oregonian published the matter River valley except'Medford and Jack entire, in an edition o f 30,000 copies. sonville, between which points the The pressure o f present calls for the present Barnum line will be used. bulletin w ill probably be relieved somewhat when the magazine “ Better Will Fight Codling Moth. Fruit” prints it also in an edition o f Oregon Agricultural College, Cor 15,000 copies. vallis— In order to find out just what Treatise on Walnut Culture Out. is the best time to make the second spray for the control o f the codling Portland— The second o f the circu moth. Prof. H. F. Wilson o f the en lars by the chamber o f commerce illus tomology department o f the Oregon Agricultural college will make a tour trating the possibilities o f different o f Southern Oregon and other points industries in Oregon is out. It is a the coming summer. About two treatise on walnut culture containing weeks after the calyx spray o f the a symposium o f facts and information apple trees he plans to visit consecu about the growth and methods of this tively Roseburg, Medford, Ashland, branch o f horticulture in Oregon, Portland, Hood River, Union, Ontario, written by prominent and successful walnut growers. The first bulletin and then Astoria and Coos Bay. contained a narrative o f “ What One Hundred Dollars Did in Oregon.” tel Saving Currants and Goosberries ling o f the personal experiences o f one Oregon Agricultural College, Cor family in clearing a wooded tract. vallis— In an effort to save the currant Elks to Build Home. and gooseberry industry, now almost a complete failure in some parts o f the Oregon City — One o f the finest state because o f a fly infesting the homes belonging to the Order o f Elks bushes, A. L. Lovett o f the crop pest in the state will be erected by B. P. staff will experiment this summer O. E. No. 1189, o f Oregon City, the with a spray which has proven effec contract for the building having been tive in killing the Mediterranean fruit awarded to Simmons & Co. Although fly in South Africa. For three years the local order is only two years old, Prof. Hally has experimented with it is in a flourishing condition and the this spray in Cape Colony, and says members are lookihg eagerly forward that the fly eats it readily. Prof. Lov to the dedication o f their new home, ett will experiment all summer. which will probably be about July 15. The building site is located between Coos County Feeds Salmon. Sixth and Seventh streets overlooking Marshfield— Frank Smith, in charge the Willamette river. o f the fish hatcheries o f Coos county, Pear Growing In America. is feeding a large number o f salmon which were recently hatched. A t the Oregon Agricultural College, Cor Coos River hatchery there are about vallis—-Prof. C. I. Lewis, chief o f the 4,000,000 small salmon which will be division o f horticulture at the Oregon fed and released in the fall and a large Agricultural college, is the author of number are also being cared for at the a 100-page brochure containing 50 fine Coquille river hatchery. The hatches illustrations, many o f them photo o f salmon at the Coos county govern graphs taken in Oregon, which is to ment hatcheries have been large dur be issued shortly by the International ing the past few years, and the results, Correspondence schools as a course on have shown in the runs o f the full “ Pear Growing in Am erica.” Prof. grown salmon. Lewis has spent several years in spe cial study on this subject. Extension Work in Bee Raising. Corvallie—Dr. E. F. Phillips o f the U. S. bureau o f entomology has given the department o f agriculture at the Oregon Agricultural college 200 copies of Farmers' bulletin No. 447, publish ed by the U. S. department o f agricul ture. to be used in extension work. It is a valuable work,« givin g briefly, with illustrations, the information needed by persons engaged in keep ing bees. Gresham Fair Dates Fixed. Gresham—-At a meeting o f the board o f directors o f the Multnomah County Fair association, the dates for the fair this year were definitely fixed for October 2-5. So far as known these dates will not conflict with those of any other fair or festival to be held this year, and it is believed that the agricultural displays will be at their best about that time.