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NEWS OF THE WEEK General Resume of Important Events Throughout the World. Ja p a n has accepted, in principle B ryan’s plan for universal peace. A fight betw een bears in the P ort land zoo resulted in the death of one of them . Indications are th a t the 1913 hop crop o f Oregon may not equal th a t of last year. The senate finance com m ittee has proposed to take m eats and flour from the free list. General Joseph B. Leake, one of the youngest brigadier generals of the civil war, is dead. B arbers and bootblacks of Boston are on strik e and many non-union shops have been stoned. OSLER THEORY IS REVERSED Watchman Under 43 Years Old Dis charged From Service. W ashington, D. C. — The Osier theory is being reversed by the quar te rm a ste rs’ bureau of the W ar depart ment, through an order, now rigidly enforced, which provides th a t no man shall be appointed a w atchm an in the W ar departm ent service unless he has passed the age of 45 years. T his fact came to light recently when the W ar departm ent ordered the discharge of Benjam in Shaffer, watchm an a t Fort Lawton, because he was not y e t 45 years old. Shaffer had served in the regular arm y and lost a leg in the service. T his brought about his dis charge from the service, but as soon as he was able to leave the hospital he was appointed to the w atchm an’s job. Shaffer had not long been on the pay roll as w atchm an before it was discovered th a t he was under 45 and im m ediately th is was reported to W ashington, his discharge was or dered. H is previous m ilita ry service and the fa c t th a t he had lost a leg while serving in the arm y counted for naught in his favor. It rem ained for R epresentative H um phrey, of the S eattle d istric t, to appeal personally to S ecretary G ar rison, in order to have Shaffer re tained. The secretary was readily convinced th a t this was a case w here the rule m ight properly be waived, and thanks to the intervention, Shaffer will con tinue as watchm an a t F o rt Lawton. irobklei of- OREGON STATE NEWS IN GENERAL (Iddi Industrial and Educational Items of Interest To Oregonians LONG CREEK ROAD USABLE WRONG CROPS ARE GROWN Expense of Construction of 30 Miles Sheep, Hogs and Corn Are Natural Estimated at $30,000. Oregon Products. P ra irie City The prelim inary su r vey made by W illiam N arkus and E. C. Jones, under direction of th e c iti zens of this place, for a new road e x tending through the m ountains in a northw esterly direction to Long Creek, a distance o f 30-odd m iles, was completed Saturday. The view ers pronounce the project of building this road entirely feasible a t a reasonable cost. The object in building th is new road is to open up to P ra irie C ity trade the e n tire N orthw est section of G rant county, a trade th a t has hitherto gone out by way of A ustin by m eans o f a much longer haul. W ork on the road will begin a t once and be rapidly pushed to completion. The expense of construction, about $50,000, will be borne in large p a rt by the county. I t is reported th a t the Sum pter Valley R ailw ay people will aid the enterprise in every possible way. ________ E ugene—-Declaring th a t farm ers in the W illam ette valley can produce b u tte r 50 per cent cheaper than can be made in New England, and th a t a pound o f pork can be raised for the m ark e t fo r less than it can be raised for in the corn regions of the Middle W est, Professor Thomas Shaw, a g ri cultural expert of the Hill railroad system , told the U niversity students th a t W illam ette valley farm ers are grow ing the wrong kinds of crops. The W illam ette valley, he said, is the one place in the U nited S tates w here sheep can be grown to equal those o f England. But instead of raisin g sheep, pork and dairy cattle, the farm s of this d istrict, he said, are raising hay, which can not be cut, o ft en, because of rain. He advocated the cause of dry fa rm ing; declaring th a t the g re at barren areas of E astern Oregon can by this system be farm able, and that, w ith dry farm in g as it is now being prac ticed in Montana, 30,000,000 acres in 14 sta te s th a t are now barren may be m ade to raise enormous quan tities of w heat. By dry farm ing, he declared, M ontana has increased its w heat crop from 250 carloads to 20,000 carloads. U nless th is land is pressed into this use, the U nited S tates has reached its lim it in w heat production, he said. The grow ing of sw eet clover and rape he advocated as profitable crops for Oregon, in the production of sheep, hogs and cattle. Pedi e F l e t c h e r R o b in s o n Co-SJuJ/ios < ( '/ / / ; /¡.ComnÙoy/e a / 7J>e Jluuud(//Ae is Ccp/r.yA/ óy HZ' (k THE VANISHED MILLIONAIRE ease. He stood there- tall figure of all the respectabilities. "The Inspector here wishes you to go to London, Jackson,” said th s m an ager. "H e will explain the details. There Is a fast train from Camdon at eleven." "Certainly, sir. Do I re tu rn tonight?” "No, Jackson," said Peace. “It will take a day or two." The man took a couple of steps to wards the door, hesitated, and then re turned to his form er place. "I beg your pardon, sir," he began, addressing Ransom. "B ut I would rath er rem ain at Meudon under pres ent circum stances." "W hat on earth do you m ean?" thun dered the m anager. "Well, sir, I was the Last to see Mr. Ford. T here Is, at it were, a suspicion upon me. I should like to be present while the search continues, both for his sake—and my own.” “Very kind of you, I'm sure,” growled Ransom. "But you e ith e r do what I tell you, Jackson, or you pack your boxes and clear out. So be quick and make up your mind.” “I think you are treating me most unfairly, sir. But I cannot be per suaded out of what I know to be my duty.” “You Im pertinent ra sca l!" began the furious m anager. But Peace was already on his feet with a hand out stretched. “Perhaps, a fte r all, I can m ake oth er arrangem ents, Mr. Ransom ,” he said. "It Is natural th a t Jackson should consider his own reputation In this affair. T hat Is all, Jackson you may go now.” It was half an hour afterw ards, when the end of breakfast had dis persed the party, that I spoke to Peace about it, offering to go to London my self and do my best to carry out his Instructions. "I had bad luck In my call for vol unteers," he said. "I should have thought they would have been glad enough to get the chance of work. They can find no particular am usem ent in loafing about the place all day." "D oubtless they all had excellent reasons,” he said with a smile. "But anyway, you cannot be spared, Mr. Phillips.” "You flatter me.” *T w ant you to stay In your bed room. W rite, read, do w hat you like, but keep your door ajar. If anyone passes down th e corridor, see where he goes, only don't let him know that you are w atching him If you can help It. I will tak e my turn a t half past one. I don't m ean to starve you.” I obeyed. A fter all. It was, In a m anner, prom otion th at the Inspector had given m e; yet it was a tedious, anxious tim e. No one cam e my way, barring a sour looking housemaid. I (Continued.) 1 woke with a sta rt th at left me sit ting up In bed, with my h eart thum p ing In my riba like a piston-rod. 1 ain not generally a light sleeper, but th at night, even while I snored, my nerves were active. Some one had tapped at my door—th at was my Impression. I listened with the uncertain fear th a t comes to the newly waked. Then A freshm an a t Yale university died I heard it again—on the wall n ear ray from an injury to the spine, caused by head this time. A board creaked. a baseball several years ago. Some one was proping bis way down An accident to T acom a’s w ater sys the dark corridor without. P resently tem le ft the higher portions of the he stopped, and a faint line of illu city w ithout w ater for several days. m ination sprang out under my door. It CUTWORMS BECOME EPIDEMIC winked, and then grew btill. He had Senators defend the actions of tariff lit a candle. lobbyists, saying they know nothing Condon Merchant Looks for Little A ssurance came with the streak of of the alleged “ insiduous” methods. BOY DOES KNOTTY PROBLEM light. W hat was ho doing, groping In Effect From Austrian Beef. E arly returns of P o rtlan d ’s city elec the dark, If he had a candle with him ? Portland—The late spring has caus tion give Albee a safe lead for m ayor Mathematical Prodigy Startles Pro I crept over to the door, opened It, and ed an epidem ic o f cutw orm s in the under the commission form of govern stared cautiously out. fessors With Solution. w heat fields of E astern Oregon, ac m ent. About a score feet away a man was P hiladelphia—This city harbors a cording to 'L este r Wade, a young m er standing—a striking figure against the The W hite Lum ber company, of m athem atical prodigy and perhaps a chant of Condon, who was in Portland light he carried. His back was to Pendleton, Or., whose p lant was burned rival of Sidis, of H arvard fame, if his for several days on a business trip . wards me, but I could see th a t his recently, will rebuild im m ediately on solution of the trisection of an angle, The same reason is responsible for a hand was shading the candle from his a much larg er scale. a m athem atical problem which has shortness of range grass and the feed eyes while he stared into the shad puzzled the ages, m eets w ith the ap ing of cattle, he says, is progressing F'ish Obstructions May Go. ow i th at clung about the further end The International Bible S tu d e n ts’ proval of several m athem atical socie slowly. In spite of these draw backs, A storia— Deputy Fish W arden L ar of the corridor. association declares th a t hell and hell- ties, including the U niversities of however, Mr. W ade is o p tim istic th a t Presently he began to move forward. fire are but m yths, and requests m inis Pennsylvania and Columbia, as well as the sum m er will be successful from an son retu rn ed last evening from a trip to the U pper Lewis and Clark river, The picture gallery and the body of ters to cease using the “ offending a num ber of m athem aticians of n a agricultural standpoint. w here he went to inspect some dams the house lay behind me. The corri w ords.” Mr. Wade, who conducts a re ta il th a t are obstructions to fish in w ork dor In which he stood term inated in a tional repute to whom the solution has been subm itted. The boy is Sydney store in Condon, is also an extensive ing th e ir way to the natural spaw ning window, set deep into the stone of the R epresentative McCormick, N ation al Progressive leader, served notice on H. Gross, and he is a student a t the feeder of c a ttle a t his ranch. He grounds in the upper reaches of the old walls. The man walked slowly, Central H igh School. looks for little m ate ria l effect from stream . Governor Dunne, of Illinois, th a t he throw ing the light to right and left. The boy m athem atician sta rtle d the the im portation of A u stralian and would a tte m p t to hold up all the ad He found two such dams, one locat His a ttitu d e was of nervous expecta faculty of this high school the other Mexican c a ttle for beef, declaring the m inistration m easures until the wo ed about e ig h t m iles above Stavebolt tion—that of a man who looked for m an ’s suffrage bill is put to a vote in day when he told one of the instruc native anim als fa r superior for the L anding and the other four m iles fu r som ething th at he feared to see. tors th a t he had evolved a solution for fancy trade a t least. the house, w here it is on third read th er up. Each is an old splash dam At the window he stopped, staring ; the trisection of an angle. The facul put in by the loggers long ago, and about him and listening. He exam ined ing. ty was so im pressed w ith the solution ORENCO SCHOOL IDEA NOVEL they have not been in use for several the fastenings, and then tried n door Senators and representatives are th a t they im m ediately subm itted a years. Mr. Larson found th a t the ob on his right. It was locked against tired of repeated allegations th a t they model of the experim ent to Professor structions entirely block the progress hire new spaper men to w rite th e ir M. J . Bobb, president of the Philadel Children Have Elaborate Flower of the fish, as they are 21 fe et high him. As he did so I caught his pro file against the light. It was Harbord, speeches and correct th e ir spelling, phia section of the Middle S ta te s and Gardens on Vacant Blocks. and th ere is not a sufficient flow of the secretary. From w here I stood he and an old-fashioned spelling bee is to | M aryland M athem atical association. Orenco— Most c ities and towns are w ater over them to perm it the fish to was not m ore than forty feet away. be held betw een them. The learned professor lectured on the satisfied when they have prepared jum p them . In the numerous ponds T here was no possibility of a m istake. R epresentative Johnson, of Ken model to his classes a t the U niversity school gardens for th e ir children, but below the dams he saw large num bers As he turned to come back I re tre a t tucky, a fte r being unanimously elec of Pennsylvania. not so w ith Orenco. In addition to of steelheads playing about, and it is ed Into my room, closed the door. The A search through m athem atical l it having school gardens o f early and said in the fall hundreds of silversides fellow was in a sta te of great a g ita ted chairm an of the Democratic con gressional com m ittee, sprang a su r eratu re has failed to reveal a solution late vegetables a t th e ir homes the ascend th e stream . tion, and I could hear him m uttering prise by asking unanim ous consent to sim ilar to the one subm itted by the children have sta rte d an elaborate Mr. Larseon has forwarded a report to him self as be walked. When he had w ithdraw his name, which was g ra n t youth. flower garden on a v acant block. to the fisheries departm ent, which is passed by I peeped out to see him and ed. Plans for this garden w ere prepared expected to take steps to have the ob h li light dwindle, reach the corner by CLUBS GUARD SUFFRAGETTES free of charge by Charles P. Mac- structions removed. the picture gallery, and fade Into a re The house is puzzled over the prob Dougall, a landscape arch ite c t of flection—a darkness. lem of equalizing the duty on cattle, Disciplined Defenders With Cudjels Portland. W inding walks are laid off I took care to turn the key before I Bad Hill Being Flanked. w heat, oats, and th e ir products. betw een the beds of flowers w ith bor Awe London Mobs. C herryville— Nearly all the plank got back Into bed. ders of tall grow ing flowers around the I woke again at seven, and, h u rry London— D efying the police order The Union Pacific board of directors A lthough the e n tire ing on th e Cherryville hill has been ing on my clothes, set off to tell Peace has offered two new plans for the un closing Hyde P ark to th e ir m eetings, o u ter edges. completed and w ith a few days more school has only about 100 pupils of all all about It. I took him to the place, the W om en's Social and Political m erging of the W estern railroads. Union sent speakers Sunday, who held grades, about 75 are engaged in th 's of good w eather the work will be fin and together we exam ined the corri ished. This hill has been considered dor. There were only two rooms be- A postoffice in v estigating com m ittee forth there for a long tim e under the flower garden work. Along the front o f the block in let- one of the most difficult points on the yond mIne The on0 on th8 le{t was a tta ck s ex-P ostm aster General H itch protection of m ale sym pathizers armed , ters 10 feet in height, and extending autom obile road to Mount Hood. cock's adm inistration as one of false w ith clubs. an unoccupied bedroom ; th at on the The hotels have prepared to take right was a large storeroom , th e door economy. When the com paratively peaceful 250 feet parallel w ith the Oregon The new of which was locked. The housekeep E lectric line are laid out in flowers care of the sum m er travel. R esidents of Copperfield, Ore., non-m ilitant organizations which are hotel a t Governm ent Gap was finished er kept the key,* we lea rn t upon In “ Orenco School G ardens.” worked all night to subdue a fire which still perm itted to use the park finished up last week. It has 38 rooms and a quiry. Whom had H arbord followed? did $30,000 dam age to the business th eir custom ary small dem onstrations, dining-room for 125 persons. E. Coal The problem was beyond me. Ae for Cherry Fair Dates Set. flags of the W omen’s Social and P olit p a rt of the town. Salem A m ovem ent was in au g u ra t man will be the Mount Hood guide, as Inspector Peace, he did not Indulge In ical Union were raised a t 12 different verbal speculations. The senate has ordered an inquiry points and as m any speakers h a r - ! ed a t a big m ass m eeting under the in form er years. auspices of the Board of T rade and III- It was In the cen tral ball th a t we rangued the crowds. into W ilson’s tariff lobby charges. Cascade Locks Closed. encountered the secretary on his way Mobs of men and boys sta rte d to ihee Club, to have the m ost elaborate Many w itnesses testified as to rush the speakers, but much to th eir cherry fa ir this y e ar ever held in Sa Hood R iver—Hood R iver and points to the breakfast room. The man R oosevelt’s sobriety during his hunt am azem ent, found them selves menaced lem. The fa ir will he Ju ly 4 and 5, above Cascade Locks are w ithout river looked nervous and depressed; he nod ing trip in A frica. by disciplined body guards w ielding and a Fourth of Ju ly celebration will boat transportation, all the Columbia ded to us. and was passing on, when The steam ers having been caught on the Peace stopped him. Judge Gary, chairm an of the Steel stout clubs. The crowds had to con be held in connection w ith it. the C hautauqua, lower river with the stream running corporation, says he believes the cor te n t them selves w ith hooting and sing m anagem ent of “Good morning, Mr. H arbord,” he poration has se t a good exam ple for ing, while the police looked on w ithout which s ta rts June 3, also will co-oper so high a t the locks th a t the officials said. ’’Can I have a word with you?’’ a te w ith the fa ir m anagem ent. "Certainly, inspector. W hat is It?" attem pting to check the speakers. the business world. there dare not open them to allow the Fred S. Bynon was nam ed presi steam ers to come in. "I have a favor to ask. My a ssist I f the w ater Two g irls aged 18 and 20 are w alk d e n t; Joseph B aum gartner, secretary, continues to rise and reaches a point ant and m yself have our hands full Wilson’s Cousin Locates. ing from D etriot, Mich., to San F ra n W ahkiacus, W ash.—Jam es C. W il and H arley W hite, trea su re r, of the four or five feet higher than a t pres here. If necessary could you help us cisco, “ for the fun it o f i t . ” One fa ir organization. ent the vessels can m ake the rapids a t by running up to London, and—’’ man has b et $500 they will be m arried son and fam ily have located a t this "For the day?” he Interrupted. the locks. All of the lowlands north before they g et back. place. Mr. Wilson, who says he is a “No. It may be an affair of th ree or of the city have been flooled, and the Rate Fight Is Planned. cousin of the President o f the U nited four days.” A storia -Dr. A lfred Kinney, presi w ater is higher than for five years. States, expects to engage in business "Then I m ust refuse. I am sorry, PORTLAND MARKETS a t W ahkiacus. He is firm in the be dent o f the com m ittee o f direction of but—” Brookings to Have Bank. "Don't apologize, Mr. H arbord," said W heat T rack prices: Club, 94c lie f th a t his cousin Woodrow will go the P o rt of A storia, has announced the Gold B e a c h - A rticles o f incorpora per bushel; bluestem , $10/1.02; fo rty down in history as one of the g re atest appointm ent of the executive board of tion of the Brookings S ta te bank have the little man, cheerfully. ”1 shall have fold, 95(n96c; red Russian, 92c; val Presidents of the U nited States. Mr. 21 m em bers, w hich will have direct been forwarded to the secretary of to find some one else—th a t Is all.” Wilson is a native son o f Oregon and charge of the energetic cam paign for sta te by George D. Wood, cashier of We walked Into the breakfast room, ley, 94c. The and a few m inutes later Ransom ap O ats — No. 1 w hite, $32 per ton; ) for 40 years lived a t N orth Yamhill. equitable rail fre ig h t betw een th is the Curry County bank here. He is the owner of an extensive w heat port and interior points. The com $30,000 capital stock was all sub peared with a great bundle of letters stained and off grade, less. When Mr. Wood came to and telegram s In his hand. Corn — Whole, $28.50; cracked, farm on High P rairie, near H artland, m itte e will also direct the efforts for scribed. the im m ediate dredging of a 40-foot Gold Beach three years ago to organ . which he has leased. Ransom said not a word to any of $29.50 per ton. channel to the sea, and the erection of ize a bank, he received little encour us, but dropped Into a chair, tearing M illstuffs — Bran, $24.50(0 25 per HIS ATTITUDE WAS OF m odern port-owned docks, for the con Aviators Driven to Sea. agem ent and could hardly g et enough open the envelopes and glancing at ton; shorts, $26.60(//27; m iddlings, NERVOUS EXPECTATION San Francisco Caught in a choppy struction o f which $800,000 in bonds assistance to form a board of direc th eir contents. His face grew darker $31. ns be read, and once he thum ped his B arley —Feed, $20.50 per ton; brew sea and gusty wind off the U nited are to be issued. tors. hand upon the table with a crash th a t S tates tran sp o rt docks and his hydro ing, nom inal; rolled, $28.50(029. Land Case Is Important. Oregon's Attraction Felt. set the china Jingling. H ay — E astern Oregon tim othy, aeroplane com pletely wrecked, Roy "Well, Inspector?” he said a t last. Lakeview — Testim ony was taken Francis, one of the best-known young Salem —A visit to Oregon five years choice, $18(®19; a lfa lfa , $13(//14. T hs little detective’s head shook out tried to argue out the case, but the San Francisco aviators, and Charles here this week in w hat prom ises to be ago by Mrs. Zella Nicholls, then of Onions—Oregon, $1.25 per sack. deeper I got the more conflicting grew V egetables — A rtichokes, 75c per H. Craig, of the W estern Pacific ra il a series of the m ost im portant land Knox, Ind., has resulted in her becom a negative. "P erhaps you require an Incentive," my theories. I was never m ore glad dozen; asparagus, Oregon, 75c(//$1.25 road, a passenger, were sw ept by a cases ever trie d in Oregon. It is the ing a perm anent resident o f this city. per dozen; beans, 10(/z 12c per pound; strong ebb tide for more than a mile case o f the governm ent vs. O. E. Mrs. Nicholls declares th a t a fte r re he sneered. "Is It a m atter of a re to see a friendly face than when the little m an cam e In upon me. cabbage, 2J(//3c pound; cauliflower, out in the open sea before being res Hoefllcr, of A storia, whose desert turning home from her first v isit to ward ?’’ "No, Mr. Ransom ; but It Is becom The short w inter’s afternoon crept $2 per c ra te ; head lettuce, $2.50 per cued by the crew of the U nited S tates claim in the C hristm as Lake country Oregon she was no longer satisfied Both men were has been contested on the ground th a t elsew here and began m aking plans to ing one of my personal reputation.” on, the Inspector and I taking turn and c ra te ; peas, 7c per pound; peppers, steam er H artley. “Then, by thunder! you are In dan turn about In our sentry duty. Dinner 35(z/40c; radishes, 10(012c dozen; badly numbed by the chill w aters of Mr. Hoefller has not complied w ith the move to Salem, 'but it took her longer requirem ents of the de se rt land law. to dispose of her property in te rests in ger of losing It. Why don’t you and tim e cam e and went. I had been off rhubarb, l(//2c pound; spinach, 75c the bay. your friend hustle, Instead of loitering duty from nine, but at ten-thirty I It will be contended th a t instead of Indiana than she had expected. per box; garlic, 7(</8c per pound. around as If you w ere paid by the poured out a whisky and soda and clearing and a tte m p tin g to irrig a te “Canned” Talk Demanded. P otatoes Burbanks, 40o/50c per day? I tell you, man, there are thou went back to Join him. He was sit Port Harrow In Use Soon. hundred; new, 2J(//2Jc pound. Greenville, Cal. — The “ canned" the claim, Mr. Hoefller m erely burned Green F ru it — Apples, nom inal; message of the g re at w hite fa th e r at the fallen tim ber from the land. A storia—The castings for the big sands—hundreds of thousands—m elt ting In the m iddle o t the room sm ok straw berries, Oregon, $3.50(//4; F lor W ashington is much in demand among disc harrow being b u ilt for the P ort of ing. slipping through your fingers, ing a pipe In g reat apparent satisfac Pure Seed and Disease Laws. in, $1.75 per c ra te ; cherries, $1.50 the redskins o f the G reenville Indian A storia commission to be used in im every hour, every hour.” tion. He sprang from his seat and started per box; bulk, 12Jc per pound; goose reservation. Oregon A gricultural College, Cor proving the channel across the shoal Since the inform ation “Bed tim e. Isn't It?” I grumbled, berries, 5c. has been received th a t P resident W il vallis—The new law s on pure seed and a t the mouth of the riv er are nearly h it walk again—up and down, up and sniffing at his strong tobacco. Poultry—Hens, 15c; broilers, 25c; son has spoken his m essage to the on contagious diseases in Oregon are completed and the harrow will be down, as we had first Been him. “Oh, no," he said. "The fact Is, we "Shall you be retu rn in g to Ixm don?” are going to sit up all night.” turkeys, live, 19f«i 20c; dressed, ahoriginee in talk in g m achines, local the subjects o f im p o rtan t articles in ready for use in a w eek o r ten days. At the question the m anager halted choice, 25c; ducks, old, 16J(r/18c; m usic stores have been bothered by the new issue of the Oregon C ountry It is to be V-shaped w ith a spread of I threw m yself on a couch by the young, 240/25c; geese, young, 14(/z 16c. Indians who w ant to buy the records, man, ju st off the Oregon A gricultural 20 feet and will have e ig h t three-foot In his stride, starin g sharply down In window w ithout reply. Perhaps I was to the Inspector's bland countenance. Eggs — Oregon ranch, case count. and they are much disappointed to find College press. Dr. Jam es W ithycorabe revolving discs. not In the best of tem pers; certainly “No," he said; "I shall stay here, 1840/ 19c per dozen; candled, 20(</21c. they are not m ade for sale. designates the new livestock san itary Mr. Addington Peace, until such tim e I did not feel so. B u tte r—City cream ery cubes, 28c Temperature Near 100. law as one of the best efforts for con ‘You Instated on coming down with per pound; prints, 290/29Jc. stru c tiv e legislation enacted in this Ex-Senator Palmer Dies. Hood R iver — S aturday and Sunday ae you have som ething definite to tell me,” he suggested. me." P ork—Fancy, 1 10 /1 l |c per pound. sta te for some years. Prof. H. D. were the h o ttest days of the season D etroit E x-U nited S tates Senator “I know all about th at,” I told him. "I have an Inquiry to m ake which I Veal—Fancy, 13(i/14c per pound. Thomas Palm er, of D etroit, died Mon Scudder urges every fa rm e r to read here. In p a rts of the valley the tem I haven’t complained, have I? If you H ops— 1912 crop, 12Jo/14c pound; day a fte r a long illness. p eratu re hovered around the 100 m ark. would ra th e r place In the hands of w ant me to sh u t m yself up for a week He was the provisions of the new seed law. 1913 contracts, 12(0 13c. The warm w eather will tend to hasten soma one who has personal knowledge I'll do It; but I should prefer to hare elected to the U nited S ta te s senate in Wool— E astern Oregon, 10(// 16c per 1883, and a fte r serving one term was Price of Wool Descends. the ripening of straw b erries, and all of Mr. Ford. N either Mr. H arbord nor some Idea of the reason why.” pound; valley, 14o/ 16c.; mohair, 1913 appointed U nited S tates m in iste r to Pendleton— Sm ythe Bros, have dis of the pickers and packers th a t grow yourself desire to leave Meudon. Is “I don't wish to create m ysteries. th ere anyone else you can suggest?" clip, 30(i/33c per pound. Spain. On his return from Spain he posed of th e ir A rlington wool clip to ers can collect will be in demand dur "T here la Jackson—Ford's valet.” Mr. Phillips," he said kindly; "but, be C a ttle — Choice steers, $8.50(//9; was appointed president of the W orld’s J . P. Dufour, receiving 15J cents for ing the n e x t few weeks. said the m anager, a fte r a m om ent’s lieve me, th ere Is nothing to be gained good, $7.76(// 8.25; medium, $7.25Or Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago coarse wool and 128 cents for fine thought. "H e can go, If you think him tn vague discussions.” Cherry Fair Is launched. 7.75; choice cows, $7(//7.75; good, in 1893. _________________ wool. The total clip was 260,000 I knew th a t settled It aa far as ha $6.50(iil7; medium, $6(u6.50; choice Salem Plans will be m ade for ob bright enough. I’ll send for him.” pounds. This is one of the larg est in W hile the footman who answered was concerned, so I nodded my head calves, $8(<z 9; good heavy calves. Representative Koenig Die*. dividual clips in E astern Oregon. For tain in g subscriptions for the g re atest $6.50(ir7.50; bulls, $6.25«i6.50. Baltim ore R epresentative Koenig, a sim ilar clip last y ear Sm ythe Bros, cherry fa ir ever held in Salem a t the th e bell was gone upon his errand, we and filled a pipe. At eleven be walked H ogs—Light, $8.25(1/8.50; heavy, Dem ocrat, of the third M aryland dis received 18 cents for coarse and 13J next m eeting of the finance com m it waited In an uneasy silence. T here across th e room and sw itched off the $3.60(ri7.40. tric t, died of pneum onia a t his home for fine wool. T ariff a gitation is said tee. If the warm w eather continues was the shadow of au ugly m ystery light. "If nothing happens, you can take Sheep — W ethers, $5(</6; ewes. here S aturday afternoon. He was 57 to be the cause of general depression in the display o f cherries will be the te s t upon us all. Jackson, as he entered, waa the only one who teem ed a t his your turn In four hours from now,” be $6.85Co6. years old. the wool m arket. ever made. said "Tn the m eanw hile get to llesp . I will keep the first watch." I shut my eyes; but there was no rest In me that night. I lay listening to the silence of the old bouse with a dull speculation. Som ewhere far down In the lower floor a great gong like clock chimed the hours and quarters. I heard them every one from tw elve to one, from one to two. Peace had stopped smoking. He sat as silent as a cat at a mousehole. It m ust have been some fifteen min utes after two th a t I heard the faint, faint creak of a bourd In the corridor outside. I sat up, every nerve strung to a tense ulertness. And then th ere cam e a sound I knew well, the soft draw ing touch of a hand groping In the darkness as some one felt hlB way along the panelled walls. It passed us and was gone. Yet Peace never moved. Could he have fallen asleep? I whispered his name. "H ush! ” The answer cam e to me like a gen tie sigh. One minute, tw o m inutes more and th e room sprang Into sight under the glow of an electric hand-lamp. The in sp e c to r rose Iroui Ills Beat and Blld through th e door, w ith me upon his heels. The light he carried se a rc h e d th e clustered shadows; but th e corri d o r was empty, nor was there any place where a m an m ig h t hide. "You waited too long,” l w hispered Im patiently. ‘T h e man is no fool, Mr. Phillips Do you imagine th a t he was not listen ing and staring like a hunted beast. A noisy board, a stum ble, or a flash of light, and we should have wasted a tir ing day.” "N evertheless he has got clear away.” "I think not.” As we crept forward I saw th a t a strip of the oak flooring along the walls was gray with dust. If It had been In such a neglected sta te In the afternoon I should surely have noticed It. In some curiosity I stooped to ex am ine the phenomenon. "Flour," w hispered the little man, touching my shoulder. "F lour?” "Yes. I sprinkled It myself. Look— th ere Is the first resu lt.” He steadied his light as he spoke, pointing with Ills o ther hand. On the powdery surface was the half foot p rint of a man. The flour did not extend m ore th an a couple of feet from the walls, so th a t It was only here and there th a t we caught up the trail. W e had passed the bedroom on the left—yet the foot prin ts still went on; we were a t the store-room door, yet they still were visible before us. T here was no o ther egress from the corridor. The tall window at the end was, as I knew, a good twenty feet from the ground. Had this m an also vanished olf the e arth like Silas Ford? Suddenly the Inspector stopped, grasping my arm. The light he held fell upon two footprints set close to gether. They w ere at right angles to the passage. A pparently the man had passed Into the solid wall! “Peace, w hat does tills m ean?” ( C H R O N IC L E S TO BE C O N T IN U E D .) Good Conversation. I heard someone planning a lunch eon lately, and she said she'd selected her topics—what the people would talk about. She said she Intended to “keep the ball rolling.’’ Not a dull minute. E verything spicy and span kllng and bubbling, T alk about one thing and then about another, Ring the bell and change the course. Press the button beneath the table and bring on your spicy story, as the maid brings on the salad. Lord! Lord! w hat a luncheon th a t m ust have been! Who, alas, can be spicy to order? Or bubble or sparkle or be brilliant or even bright? T hese gifts are of the gods. Som etim es we are and some tim es we are not, but It’s a cinch th at none of us are brilliant when we try to be. Good conversation consists in talk spontaneous. It has its source In a full mind and a full {leart. Do I hear some one saying, "And In a full glass?" Ah, but even the full glass brings out In talk only the native w ealth or poverty of the talker. I’m sure th a t m ust have been an »awful luncheon.—New York Presa. Whan Murray T ackles Oedipus. Classical scholars have not exactly complained, but have pointed out th a t when Prof. G ilbert M urray trana- late s E uripides Into E nglish verse he slides th a t d ram atist over his rough spots by doing m ediocre E uripides Into gorgeous and splendid M urray It la b e tte r than Euripides, to be sure- but It Isn’t E uripides T hera will be no difficulty of thla kind In Professor M urray's new est task, the Oedipus Colonus. M urray a t his m urrayeat will have all he can do to keep up to the sustained elevation of Sophocles But th ere Is hardly a living hand w orthier of the task, and Joy be tha consequence—Boston T ra n s c rip t