CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
RAIN QUENCHES FIRES.
Light Showers Soak Tree Tops and
Aid Fire Fighters.
GROWTH BIGGEST
IN SMALL CITIES
Sherman p la y & Co.
Local showers in Portland and vicin
ity Sunday, Aug. 28, put an end to one
ESTABLISHED 40 YEARS
o f the longest dry spells in the history
SIXTH, AT MORRISON ST., PORTLAND, OR.
o f Oregon and at the same time
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brought relief to the firefighters en
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gaged in the endeavor to overcome
our expense because—
conflagrations in the districts between
At the end o f thirty days the Piano
(tonerai Resume o f Important Events Sandy and Mount Hood.
n S E L F will convince you o f the following
Average Record Not Up to 1900—
The showers extended as far south in
facts:
Presented In Condensed Form
Many Places in West Report
the
Willamette
valley
as
Eugene,
but
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the dry spell is still unbroken at Rose-
It’s MUSICALLY and MECHANICALLY
burg. South o f that place and east o f
right!
Washington— Careful, though unoffi
Medford
a
light
shower
fell
in
the
Cra
The stork again hovers near the roy
We know there is so much real value in
ter forest district, where the worst cial, analysis o f the returns from the
al house o f Russia.
this Wellington Piano—w e’re selling for $275— on easy payments— that
thirteenth
census
on
cities
thus
far
Colonel Roosevelt enjoyed a 30-mile fires in the state prevail.
we’re willing to let it be IT'S OWN SALESMAN.
There were light showers at some announced reveals that the increased
ride across the Wyoming plains on a
It will tell it's own story to you—in your home—if you’ ll send us the
cow pony.
parts east o f the Cascades, notably at rate o f urban growth for the last de
coupon.
cade over that o f 1890 to 1900 has
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The kaiser’s outburst on his “ divine Walla Walla, where a 75-day drouth
right to rule” is attributed to irrita was broken. The sky is overcast and been confined largely to places having
a population o f less than 50,000.
tion at the Socilists.
more rain is expected.
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While universally there has been a
It has been 96 days since a real
Official announcement has been re
ceived at Washington o f the annexa shower fell in Portland.
August 15 healthy increase, in a large majority
tion o f Corea by Japan.
witnessed a mist which served to clear o f cities exceeding 50,000, the rate of
It is estimated that the new north the atmosphere. Eight one-hundredths the previous decade has not been main
jetty at the mouth o f the Columbia riv o f an inch fell during the intermittent tained. In no instance so far has an
er will cost $1,205,000.
Have your teeth out and plate and bridge work
actual loss o f population been shown
storms o f Sunday.
done. For out-of-tow n patrons we hniah pUu
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tvnrk in
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Mayor Gaynor, o f New York, has
and bridge
one day
necessary.
The rain fell in about the same quan and present comparisons are only on
left the hospital and will soon take up tities in the Mount Hood fire district
PRICES;
the rate o f growth.
MnV Crown___$ 5.00
his official duties again.
and will enable the members of the
It 22 k Bridge Teel, $ 3.50
The population o f 63 cities o f more
The Federal census shows that the state militia and citizens now on the
CoktFilliw........ $ 1 ,
than 25,000 has been officially announ
smaller cities made the largest per firing line to prevent the further
Fnonwl FiUinrr., $ 1.00
spread o f the flames. It is well known ced. These are somewhat more than
s a «r Fffins, .. 50 c «
centage of gain in population.
Coed Rttbiwr Rile, $ 5.00
that fires run through the crowns only one-fourth o f the estimated total ni
Ray Thomas, 23 years old, o f Oswe when the atmosphere is dry, and the
Bnf Rod Rubber *
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ber
o
f
such
cities
in
the
country.
go, Or., was struck and instantly killed humidity o f the past few days is ex
Pimlou Eilrartion 50 s
by lightning during a thunder storm.
Four
announcements
cover
crities
of
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They are W ASH IN G '«TEN TH STS., P O R T L A N D
The city o f Bogota,Colombia, has on the fires as a good soaking. The more than 400,000 people.
work is ordered. Consultation Free. You cannot
se t better painless work anywhere, no mutter
bought the street car lines from the men on the ground can set their fire St. Louis, with 687,029, or an increase
how much you pay.
American owners to avoid complica breaks and drive the flames back.
o f 19.4 per cent as compared with an
A ll W o rk f u lly G u a ra n te e d fo r fifte e n Years
tions resulting from recent riots.
Albany received her first soaking in increase o f 27.3 per cent as shown by
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67
days,
the
longest
dry
spell
ever
re
the
census
o
f
1900;
Pittsburg,
with
A wealthy woman tourist returning
from Europe was caught trying to corded there. The last rain fell June 533,905, or an increase o f 18.2 per E Y E R E M E D Y Te. wm uk. it
342J Washington St.,
smuggle in a $6,000 pearl necklace and 22. Reports from Albany are that cent, as against an increase in 1900 of Liquid Form, 25c, 60c. Salve Tubes, 26c, (1.00-
31.3 per cent; Buffalo, with 423,715,
a spun-gold purse, purchased in Switz the rainfall equaled that in Portland
P o r t la n d , O reg o n
A light shower was experienced at an increase o f 20.2 per cent, as com
erland.
Take car at depot and transfer to Washington SL
Eugene about noon, but is believed pared with 37.8 in 1900, and Detroit,
T r a v e lin g on a T im e L im it.
Ivy Baldwin, expert aviator and ex that heavy rains fell in the mountains with 465,766, an increase o f 63.0 per
A woman having with her a husky
signal man o f the U. S. army, fell 50 east o f that city. Following the rain cent, as compared with 38.3 per cent looking boy recently boarded a street
D a in t y D e s s e r t .
feet when his aeroplane struck a tele- the atmosphere cleared o f the smoke ten years ago.
Place two tablespoonfuls of apricot
car on a line that exacts full fare for
pone pole at San Francisco.
He was which has been hanging over the city
Jam In dessert glasses and heap over
A decidedly better average is shown children over 10 years of age.
uninjured but the machine was consid and the fires burning in the Cascades for the nine cities whose population
When she tendered the conductor It the whites of an egg beaten stiff, to
erably damaged.
were visible at times. Eugene secured ranges between 200,000 and 400,000. the change for one full and one-half which has been added one-half dozen
A California train was derailed telephone communication with Flor These are;
fare he looked at the boy suspiciously maccaroons cut fine, one tablespoon
ful powdered sugar and vanilla to
Denver, 213,381; St. Paul, 214,744; and Inquired:
twice in one day by striking cows on ence for the first time since the fires
broke out two weeks ago,
taste. Whipped cream may be sub
Providence, 224,326; Kansas City,
the'track.
How old Is that boy, madam?"
stituted for the beaten egg If a richer
248,381; Jersey City, 267,779; Wash
Well,”
replied
the
mother,
"he
will
Conservatives in Nicaragua oppose
dessert is desired.
Newark, 347,469;
ROOSEVELT RIDES ON PLAINS. ington, 331,068;
be 10 years old today, but he wasn’t
elevation o f General Estrada to thç
Cincinnati, 364,646; and Milwaukee,
born until
In the afternoon.”—
unUl late Jn
presidency.
373,857. For this group the average
Takes 30-Mile Jaunt With Cowboys growth amounted to 33.8, as compared New York Times.
A big cyclone and rain storm did
in Wyoming.
with an increase o f 26 per cent in the
O w n U p Now .
much damage to crops and buildings
1890-1900 epoch. But this high aver
Cheyenne,
Wyoming,
Aug.
29.—
On
Eleanor, uged six, had been going
in Michigan.
tough,
wiry cow ponies, Theodore age ¡ b due in large measure to the ex
Get a
The government has forbidden the Roosevelt rode 30 miles across the ceptional showing made by Denver to school only a lew weeks. She had
25-cent
learned to raise her hand If she want
burning o f any more money on funeral plains o f Wyoming yesterday.
and
Kansas
City,
two
o
f
the
smallest
He
vial.
ed anything. One day she put this
pyres by Yuma Indians.
Denver scored a Into effect when she was sent to the
If it
wanted to get back once more among cities o f the class.
fails to
Mayor Gaynor, o f New York City, is the cowboys in their own country and growth o f almost 60 per cent, as com chicken house to get some eggs.
cure
so far recovered that he is planning to mingle with them as he did in the old pared with a little more than 25 per
Just as she reached the chicken
I will
days, 27 years ago, when the lure of cent for the previous 10 years, and house door her mother heard her say:
take up his official duties soon.
refund
the West brought him out here, a Kansas City, almost 52 per cent, as
your
All you chickens that have laid an
Ex-President Castro, o f Venezuela, young man, from the East. He visit against less than 24 per cent in the
money.
egg, raise your hands.”—The Delinea
is beleived to be at the bottom o f a re ed the sheep ranch o f Senator Warren previous decade.
Munyoa
tor.
cently-discovered plot against Presi and returned to Cheyenne tonight,
The mean for the 10 cities of be
dent Gomez,
more enthusiastic than ever about the tween 100,000 and 200,000 is favora
ble to the 1890-1900 period, to the ex
Eight are known to be dead and wonders o f the West.
Colonel Roosevelt began the day by tent of almost 4 per cent, the average
many badly injured in a train wreck
A S T H M A A N D H A Y FEVER
Congregational for 1900 being 35.7 per cent, and that
near Durand, Michigan. Several more going to the First
are quickly relieved by Wyatt's Asthma
for
1900-1910,
32
per
cent.
But
not
church.
Early
in
the
afternoon,
he
N
ew.
Handsome,
Instructive,
Up-to-D
ate,
are missing.
Remedy. Guaranteed or money refund
describing
mounted his horse. He had a relay o f withstanding this general falling off,
ed.
Ask your druggist or send six
A 16-year-old girl is dead from three mounts and he rode them like a the rate o f growth was more evenly
cents postage for Free Sample to
starvation at Los Angeles.
She is cavalryman. When the ride was over maintained in this than in any other
FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES,
J. C. WYATT, Druggist.
the second one o f a party of Holly Rol he said he had enjoyed every mile o f it class. There were not so many ex
SHRUBS, VINES,
VA N C O U VER.
WASHINGTON
lers to die as a result of religious and was not a bit stiff or sore.
tremes.
The
advantage
also
was
with
Lieu
ROSES, BERRY PUNTS, ETC.
fanaticism.
1900
in
*he
21
places
o
f
from
50,000
tenant Thompkins, of Fort D. A. Rus
Free on request. W rite now. mentioning
Customs officers held up the 12 sell; R. S. Van Tassle, who owns a to 100,000, the average gain being
this paper.
trunks o f Mrs. Nat Goodwin, wife o f ranch near Cheyenne, and Nat Baker, 41.6 per cent, as against 39.1 in 1900.
It is a sure stopper,
opper, promptly
.
re-
It should be explained, however,
the famous actor, at New York City, a ranchman, accompanied him.
J. B. PILKINGTON, Nurseryman
lieves Bronchitis, Whooping Cough,
that
Oklahoma
City
and
Schenectady
not being willing to take her word as
They cantered across the prairie,
Portland. Oregon
Cough
and especially thoaa
ugh Croup,
'
stopping now and then while the col have been excluded from this calcula
to what they contained.
_
also moat
harsh, hacking coughs,
onel talked with some cowpuncher, tion on account o f the abnormal in
useful for lung diseases.
For sals
About 40 men who had labor liens
by all dealers; 25c a bottle.
___ _
asking him how things are nowadays crease in both.
against the North Bank Lumber com
From the 25,000 to 50,000 grade,
in
the
cattle
country.
As
it
began
to
pany’ s mill at Yacnlt, Wash., will
grow dusk they came to the ranch o f Muskogee, Okla., and Flint, Mich., are
probably lose their claims, since the
Senator Warren, where they stopped eliminated for the same reason that
mill is destroyed by forest fires.
for suppr.
Everybody turned out to Oklahoma City and Schenectady are
There was almost a riot at the inter welcome Colonel Roosevelt with a cow taken out o f the 50,000 to 100,000
fT c O F F E E l
national convention o f hotel stewards boy yell, and the colonel shook hands class. Because o f their high figures
TEA SPICES
at Pittsburg when both San Francisco all round. The cowboys and sheep- they would run the average up to an
No H ypoderm ic Injections.
B A K IN G POWDER
and New Orleans sought an indorse- ! herders were dressed in their Sunday unwonted extenL
You can take this treatment at the Institute
- EXTRACTS
But even without them, the showing
ment for the Panama exposition in best.
or your home, and your money will be returned
if a perfect cure is not affected. Investigate
J U S T RIGHT
is altogether in favor o f the last cen
1915.
this, it will only take a few moments to phone
-eii-m a im . i.'i’iia»-
sus. With Flint and Muskogee out,
us for information. Personal and financial
Three Killed in Baseball Riot.
Further revision o f the tariff will be
CL0SSET fi DEVOS
reference on application. For full inform a
the
mean
growth
is
almost
48
per
cent,
made the keynote o f the coming cam-
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Brooks, Ga.— A ball game between
tion. phone, write or call at the
while
the
increase
for
the
same
places
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paign.
negro clubs for the championship of
in 1890-1900 was 25 per cenL
Phone. Marshall 2 4 0 0
\ J S 4 Hall St
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It is estimated that the fire loss in Fayette county Sunday afternoon broke
up
in
a
riot
in
the
ninth
inning.
Three
the forests o f the Northwest will reach
Couple Dead on Ranch.
ball
players
are
dead,
three
probably
$10,000.000.
Great Falls, Mont.— Lying dead in
o f the.
*5 h£ l
fgtally injured and several less serious
yonr terfh
Official news has been received in ly hurt. Pistols, knives and ball bats their ranch home, several miles north
p l a t e s n t r im j
Work done.
Washington o f the death o f the Madriz were used in the riot, scores o f spec o f Shelby, the bodies o f P. J. Hazel-
of.town
OPIUM— TOBACCO
finish
government in Nicaragua.
tators taking sides.
The riot was berg and his wife were found by neigh
bridge work la on
n.hiu PontMvelv CuryA.
d»r if r'V«I.T7.
O n ljT M th criM dK aeley In-
Paria fashions decree that the “ hob caused by a close decision o f Umpire bors. They evidently had been dead
-pmiciw . . . «
litote
la
Oregon.
W
rite
Î
for
several
days.
The
bodies
were
ly
or iìlastr» tea circolar.
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ble skirt” for women shall be sup Smith in the ninth, which allowed the
m
an
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a.
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Brooks team to score the winning run. ing side by side and hand in hand with
planted by the “ tube skirt.”
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Although all the fighting raged about a bullet in the head o f each. The posi
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Southern delegates to the National the umpire, he escaped without injury tion o f the bodies and the surroundings
b w l IW l S
Coopers’ convention declare that prohi
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indicated that the husband first shot
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bition has not hurt their trade.
his w ife and then fixing the rifle with
Pl.t««
Six Are Victims o f Duel.
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a stick and a piece o f string, he lay
An O. R. & N. train was struck by a
put«»
' ’a
Lawton, Okla.— According to a re down beside his w ife ’s body and fired
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A 14-year-old girl while out rowing
the air.
Worshippers fled from the
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on Puget Sound was caught by the tide
New York—Official announcement is church and service was suspended. is t wodoliars earned. O ur original reliable Modern
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