DOINGS OF THE WEEK
NEW TRIBE FO U N D .
Eskimo* Who Ressmble Europeans
See First White Man.
Edmonton, Alberta — After spend
ing three and one-half years on the
Arctic trails of the wilds of the far
North, J. C. Melville has returned to
civilisation. One of the tribes of Es-
kimos that he visited had never seen
a white man before.
General Resume o f Important Events
These people show many traits com
¿iirrent Events of Interest Gathered
From the World at Large.
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
Spokane high school girls will limit
cost of graduating gowns to $10 each.
The timber ouptut of Washington
for the past year is estimated to be
worth $54,750,000.
Representative Underwood, of Al
abama, has declared against the in
itiative and referendum.
A free ship bill in congress may de
feat the combine against an Atlantic-
Pacific steamer line via the Panama
canal.
John D. denies that he took any un
due advantage of the Merritt brothers
in securing title to vast mineral de
sits in Michigan.
gigantic smuggling plot has been
ed whereby hundreds of Chinese
h%dtoeen brought to Chicago and
New % rk from Canada.
mon to the European races. They
probably are actual descendants of
survivors of Sir John Franklin’s two
ships that were lost in these regions
in thq middle of the 19th Jcentury and
never heard of again.
Another theory is that they are the
descendants of the. Scandinavian set
tlers of Greenland, who in the middle
ages had to move from that conutry
and proceeded along the Northern
coast of the American continent and
finally settled among the tribes some
where in the vicinity of where they
were found by the travelers.
So great is the struggle for exist
ence within the Arctic Circle, that the
female infants are destroyed lest they
prove too great a strain on the slender
resources of the tribe. A mother will
bring up one girl, and only one. If
any other girl baby is born, it is ex
posed to the cold to kill it. Boys, on
the other hand, are regarded as an
asset to the tribe.
They can work
and hunt and fish and forage for them
selves.
One result of this savage, though
from their point of view, necessary
slaughter of the females is that the
men far outnumber the women and
many of the former have no wives.
He confessed that there are days in
the Northern winter when he and the
other white men of the party could
not venture outside for any length of
time owing to the severity of the
weather, although the hardy Eskimos
and Northern Indians pursued their
hunting trips with apparently little or
no discomfort from the bitter weather.
f GovernJWWest, of Oregon, has com
muted the ^fctence of another murder,
and asserts n ^ ^ ill not allow capital
punishment so\gng as he remains in
/office.
ers at Aberdeen,
Wash., attempted^ft rescue some of
their number from jail, but were
routed by streams of water from the
fire hose.
A Portland justice court decided
that a willow plume is a necessity of
life for a woman, and a dry goods
house in that city is unable to enforce
T R U N K S ARE H E L D .
payment for the ornament.
A French newspaper correspondent Customs Officers to Question Los
with the Turks at Tripoli says that
Angeles People.
city is in a state of seige, and that the
New York—Customs men of this
Italians have not made any material
port seized several trunks with valu
progress since the war started.
able furs, laces, gowns and trinkets,
Los Angeles women hold the balance which Miss Louisa Bradbury, a mid
of power in the politics of that city.
dle-aged woman, fashionably dressed,
and said to be member of a prominent
Persia begs the powers to interfere Los Angeles family, brought into this
and prevent the aggressions of Russia. country on the steamship Lusitania.
Miss Bradbury wept bitterly over the
Alarm and distress increase in Seat
She is not charged with at
tle as the water supply rapidly disap affair.
tempting to smuggle in goods, but she
pears.
frankly said she purposed to make no
James J. Hill extolls the wonders of declaration as to their value. She
the Pacific Northwest at the Chicago and her niece, Marion Winston, of
Los Angeles, were questioned as to
Land show.
why they had defied the customs au
Millions will change hands in Los thorities.
Angeles at the coming election If the
After the hearing, deputy surveyor
Socialists are defeated.
of the Port Smythe said that Miss
Bradbury had given the excuse that
PO RTLAND M AR KETS’
many of her frends had brought fore
ign goods back from Europe without
Wheat — Export basis: Bluestem, paying duty.
She refused to give
83c; club, 80c; red Russian, 78c; val their names, but some other source
ley, 80c; forty-fold, 81c.
named several Los Angeles people
Corn— Whole, $37; cracked, $38 who, Smythe said, will be summoned
ton.
before the customs officials there.
Millstuffs—Bran, $23 per ton; mid
The customs officials estimate that
dlings, $31; shorts, $24; rolled bar Miss Bradbury’s goods are worth $4,-
ley, $35@36.
000 here and she will have to pay this
Oats—No. 1 white, $31®32 ton.
plus the possible penalty of $1,-
Hay—No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim sum,
000, to recover her baggage.
othy, $18@19; No. 1 valley, $15@17;
alfalfa, $13® 14; clover, $11@12;
P L U M B IN G T R U S T G IV E S U P.
grain, $11@12.
Barley—Feed, $32.50®33 per ton;
Government Evidence Against C om
brewing, nominal.
bine on Coast Strong.
Fresh Fruits—Pears, $1.25@1.60
per box; grapes, 50c®$l; cranber
Washington, D. C. — The “ plumb
ries, $11.50@12 per barrel.
ing trust,” which government officials
Apples—Jonathans, $1.60®2.25 per say controls the sale of plumbers’ sup
box; Spitzenbergs, $1®2.50; Bald plies in most of the Rocky Mountain
win, 75c@$1.50; Red Cheek Pippin, and Pacific Coast regions, has cap
$1.25@1.75; Northern Spy, $1.25® itulated to the department of justice
1.75; Winter Banana, $2@3; Bell and is seeking to avoid court proceed
flower, $1@1.25.
ings.
Potatoes — Buying prices: Bur
Representatives of the trust will
banks, $90c®1.20 per hundred.
present their ideas of dissolution at a
Onions—Buying prices, $1.15 sack. conference to be held later in the
Vegetables—Artichokes, 75c dozen; week.
beans, 6@10c; cabbage, l@ lic per
The evidence against the combina
pound; cauliflower, 50c@$l per dozen; tion, it was said, is strong. United
California, $4 per crate; garlic, 10® States District Attorney McCormick,
2c per pound; lettuce, 75e®:80c per of Los Angeles, who is familiar with
tsen; hothouse lettuce, $1.25 per the workings of the combination, has
x; pumpkins, l@ lic per pound; been ordered to Washington by Mr.
routs, 8@9c; squash, l}@ lic per Wickersham to be present at the con
irnd; tomatoes, 50c®$l per box; ference.
Tots, $1 per sack; turnips, $1;
be^s, $1; parsnips, $1.
Pirates Threaten Liners.
Butter — Oregon creamery butter,
Hongkong — The West river is
solid pack, 37c; prints, extra; but
ter fat. lc less than solid pack price. swarming with pirates and traffic to
Poultry—Hens, 10® 12c; springs, Wuchoo and Kwangsi province is ser
10® 12c; 'ducks, young, 16@17c; iously imperiled. The steamships are
geese. H i® 12c; turkeys, live, 18® greatly alarmed and are considering
the suspension of service. They are
1 20c; dressed, choice, 22}® 24c.
Eggs—Fresh Oregon ranch, 50c per continuing for the present with an
armed crew. Much indignation has
dozen.
been arosed by the attack by pirates
Pork—Fancy, 8}®9c per pound.
on the British steamship Shiuon a few
Veal—Fancy, 12}@13c per pound.
Hops—1911 crop, 44®45c; olds, days ago, when Chief Officer Nichol
son was murdered.
The people are
nominal.
Wool —Eastern Oregon, 9® 16c per becoming clamorous for intervention
pound; valley, 15@17c;
mohair, to put down the lawlessness.
choice, 35®37c.
I
Cattle—Choice steers, $5.45®5.85;
good, $5.30®4.45; fair, $5.15®5.30;
choice cows, $4.50® 4.85; fair, $4®
4.25; common, $2.50® 3.50; extra
choice spayed heifers, $4.50®4.60;
choice bulls, $4.26®4.50; good, $4®
4.25; common, $2®2.50; choice cal
ves, $7.25@7.50; good, $7®7.25;
common, $4® 6; choice stags, $4.50®
4.75; good, $4.26®4.50.
Hogs—Choice light hogs, $6.75®
6.85; good to choice hogs, $5.60®
6.75; fair, $6.25®6.50; common, 5®
6.25.
Sheep— Choice yearling wethers,
coarse wool, $4®5; choice yearling
wethers, east of mountains, $3.40®
8.60; choice twos and threes, $3.20®
3.35; choice lambs, $4.60® 4.75;
good, $4®4.25; valley lambs, $3.75®
4; culls, $3®3.50.
Yuan Now Against Rebels?
J S H DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE
CARE OF P A TIE N TS FREE.
T O TEACH RURAL HYG IENE.
State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Will O. A. C Plans New Work for Farm
Start Publicity Campaign,
ers’ Short Course.
Salem—That physicians and people
throughout the state generally are not
informed as to the scope of usefulness
and purposes of the State sanatorium
for tuberculosis, was one of the conclu
sions of the board having that institu
tion in charge at a meeting held there,
and as a result a campaign of public
ity will be inaugurated, that informa
tion along these general lines may be
disseminated.
The sanatorium is an institution for
the tubercular poor, and the cost of
caring for this class of patients there
is nothing. Members of the board are
convinced that lack of knowledge has
resulted in many poor families keep
ing cases of tuberculosis on their
hands because they believe that they
can illy affored to place the invalid in
a sanatorium.
The entrance requirements for a pa
tient into the state home are few and
simple. The attending physicain vis
its the county judge, and a certificate
is issued that the patient is suffering
from tuberculosis. The patient is
then admitted to the sanatorium with
out cost and is cared for there until a
cure is effected.
“ Oregon’s sanatorium for tubercu
losis, although comparatively new,
stands high among the sanatoria of
the various states in the number of its
cures and in its efficiency as an insti
tution of this class,” said George F.
Rodgers, a member of the board.
“ We are satisfied that a lack of
knowledge of the uses of the institu
tion has resulted in numerous cases
being neglected, and possibly in
deaths, because people without means
have thought that the cost of caring
for the patients at a sanatorium of
this nature would be too great for
slender purses to bear.
The cost is
absolutely nothing, the aim and object
of this sanatorium being for the tu
bercular poor and to blot out as far as
possible this disease among that
class.”
The board found a large force of
convicts at work completing the laun
dry building, heating plant and roads
and drives about the town.
O R E G O N H EN IS C H A M P IO N .
Agricultural College
Chicken
2 5 9 Eggs in Y ear.
Lays
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis—A course in rural hygiene is to
be inaugurated this winter at the Ore
gon Agricultural college during the
short course. A popular course of lec
tures will be given on the factors fa
vorable and otherwise to health in ru
ral communities. Prof. T. D. Beck
with, head of the bacteriology depart
ment, will give these lectures.
“ The farmer ordinarily gives far
more attention to the health of his
stock than to that of himself and fam
ily,” said Prof. Beckwith, speaking of
the proposed lectures.
“ The point
that the health of the people may be
reckoned in dollars and cents to the
community escapes the average citi
zen in his mad scramble for more evi
dent wealth. For example, it is com
puted that the annual loss to the
United States through human tubercu
losis amounts to $600,000,000, which
is approximately three-fourths the val
ue of the entire wheat crop of the
country. This immense annual loss,
about 75 per cent of which is prevent
able, is due solely to carelessness and
ignorance of the most rudimentary
rules of life and health. Of vastly
greater importance than the money
loss is the pain and suffering, most of
which can be prevented by a little
care and knowledge.”
The short course lectures, which
will be illustrated with stereopticon
views, will cover such subjects as
water supply (especially from wells),
their location and construction as to
health; sanitary methods of sewage
disposal, the use and abuse of ceptic
tanks; transmission of disease, such
as tuberculosis and typhoid; flies and
germ carrying; cause of colds and
grippe and other epidemics.
T O H A V E P U M P IN G S Y S T E M
Electric Pow er to Be Used
gating Arid Land.
in
Ir r i
Suffragette
Leader Defiant
Sentenced to Prison.
When
London—The public sitting in Bow
Street police court hissed openly and
vigorously when the magistrate sen
tenced Mrs. Pethick Lawrence to 30
days in jail for her part in the suffra
gette .riots.
Mrs. Lawrence was
charged with assulting .the police and
obstructing them in the performance
of their duty.
The testimony was
that Mrs. Lawrence struck a police
man in the face twice and struggled
for 15 minutes before she was over
powered and carried away.
Mrs. Lawrence declared that she
struck the policeman because he was
choking one of ther comrades.
Mrs. Lawrence made a statement in
court, with reference to a poster pro
duced in court, calling on women to
assemble and “ see fair play and pro
tect women from being brutally vic
timized by the police in uniform and
plain clothes, as they were on Black
Friday, 1910, as the result of ill
usage, one woman died and many were
seriously injured.
“ Iam gald to state,” she said,
"that as the police in my vicinity
were concerned, there was no repeti
tion of the brutal usuage of women.
I am inclined to think that what hap
pened on the former occasion was
done on the instructions of the govern
ment.”
The others accused, almost without
exception, took their sentences with
indifference, choosing jail in preference
to the payment of the fines.
C O A L IS R E Q U IR E D .
Navy Finds O th e r Fuel on
Insufficient.!
Coast Is
Washington, D. C.—In his annual
report, the secretary of the navy will
say:
“ During the past year the depart
ment has continued its efforts to as
certain whether there are steaming
coals obtainable from mines on the
Pacific Coast suitable for naval use,
but so far efforts to obtain suitable
coal have not met with success. Act
ual steaming tests aboard two armor
ed cruisers of the same class have
been made of six representative coals
mined in the State of Washington and
three kinds of coal mined in British
Columbia. The coals tested were the
best obtainable and were selected after
an exhaustive inquiry regarding the
kinds of coal most probably suited for
naval needs.
“ The department has directed a
further test of Western coast coals, to
be conducted when suitable supplies
are available, and the work of select
ing representative coals mined in Brit
ish Columbia, Utah, Colorado, Wyom
ing and New Mexico is now being
prosecuted.
“ The department understands that
the analyses of coals mined in Alaska
indicate that coal exists there equal to
the best coal mined. When Alaska is
developed it is hoped that this coal
may be available for use on the Pa
cific Coast.”
La Grande—Another plan of reclam
ation of the areas of arid and semi-
arid land in Grande Ronde valley, one
heretofore deemed impracticable on so
large a scale, will be given a tryout
here this winter and next summer.
The Eastern Oregon Light and Power
company, having operating stations
all over Eastern Oregon, will carry on
the experiments on 1,600 acres of land
which the company controls in the
heart of the few patches of land that
are dependent on artificial water dur
ing the summer.
Mining engineers are on the ground
ready to commence digging and dril
ling the first well. A distance of 50
feet downward, or where the water
raises automatically, the diggers will
construct a slum—an underground res
T U R K S H E M IN T R IP O L I.
ervoir run at right angles to the shaft
and extending 50 feet in each direc
tion. This reservoir, or slum, will Tables Turned on Italians, Who Are
fill with water and act as a reserve
Now Beseiged.
pond when the drain from the pumps
Paris—That
the town of Tripoli is
on the well is heavy. Electricity is
virtually beseiged by Turks and that
to be used as power for pumping.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis—-Professor Dryden, of the 'poul
try department of the Oregon Agri
cultural college, announced at the
close of a year’s test that the college
has captured the world’s champion
ship for maximum number of eggs
laid in one year by a hen, the total
number of eggs laid being 259.
The test just completed shows an
odd coincidence. A full-blooded Ply
mouth Rock and a Leghorn have tied
for the world’s record. The former
shows a maxiumm of 27 eggs laid in
October, while the lattqr does not run
so high for any single month, but falls
below 20 eggs a month only in March.
The former record of 251 eggs was
held by a hen raised at the Maine ex
periment station several years ago.
Prof. Dryden says in regard to this
method: “ This is a matter of breed
T IM B E R O W N E R S F IG H T T A X .
ing, feeding and care. For example,
in the same pen with the record Ply
mouth Rock hen we had another Ply- Forest Assessments in Coos Bay De
clared to Be Too High.
month which laid but six eggs dur
ing the year. She received the same
Marshfield —■ The county judge has
care and feed.”
been notified that the Menasha Wood-
enware company and the Field Timber
DRY LANDS TO G E T W ATER.
company will appeal from the findings
of the county board of equalization in
White Lake District Likely to Get the assessment of timber .lands. It is
Needed Irrigation.
said that other timber companies will
Klamath Falls—Prospects for se probably join in the movement.
Representatives of several timber
curing irrigation :n the district known
as White lake, and across the Califor owners appealed to the county board
nia line in the valley lying along the for a lowering of the assessment of
Eastern edge of Lower Klamath lake, timber lands generally throughout the
seem very bright just now, as the Van county. While some changes were
Brimmer Ditch company has made an made in individual cases, the board
agreement to permit J. H. Wise and refused a general lowering of the as
others to use water from the com sessment.
It was alleged by the timber owners
pany’s canal.
W. S. Wiley, formerly attorney for in their original petition that the tim
the Klamath project of the reclama ber was not assessed fairly as com
tion service, represents the new com pared to the ranch land of the county.
pany formed to use the ditch water
Has Novel Fish Screen.
supply, which proposes to take about
50 cubic feet of water a second from
Gold Hill—Charles Kell, local black
White lake through the Adams cut to smith, has secured a patent on his fish
a point where it will be lifted by a
pumping plant and then spread over screen for power and irrigation ditch
the lands through two ditches. The es. The invention consists of a screen
lands to be improved lie in township cylinder, rotated by paddles hung on
As the
41 south, range 10 east, W. M., Klam the axis inside the screen.
cylinder
revolves
it
carries
trash
and
ath county, and townships 47 and 48,
range 3 east, M. D. M., Siskiyou drift over and down stream, prevent
ing the passage of fish up the ditch.
county, California.
The invention is the result of the
screening law, on the statutes of all
G rant County Optomistic.
western states, requiring all power
John Day—John Day and Grant and irrigation ditches to be effectually
county are enjoying a revival of com screened against the passage of fish.
mercial activity. The Sumpter Val
Law Will Be Enforced in Future.
ley railroad is expected to extend its
lines to this point the coming summer,
Salem—The corporation department
and many other improvements are pro of the secretary of state’s office has
jected. The promised railroad activ declared that the law will be enforced
ity has stimulated activity at all the in reference to the filing of annual re
towns. Within the past few weeks ports of corporations. A fine of $100
several farms have changed hands, a is provided for in the law on failure to
restaurant has opened in this city, two file such reports. There are numerous
livery stabels. a hotel and two meat companies that are from one to three
markets have been sold, several build years behind with such reports, and
ings have been erected.
the department intends to clean them
Paris—The Pekin correspondent to
the Temps says that Yuan Shi Kai has
again changed his attitude and has or
dered a resumption of hostilities at
Nanking, whither reinforcements have
been sent It is understood that he is
again strongly ssupporting the dy
nasty. The change is attributed to
the rally in Shan-tung, and it is also
Armory Nearly Ready.
probable that Yuan can more easily
obtain the financial support he wants
Dallas—The new armory building
by breaking with the rebels.
is nearing completion and the con
tractors say that it will be ready to
Japanese Reinforce Guards,
turn over by December 1. The official
Tokio—A statement issued by the dedication will not take place until
foreign office says the Japanese troops the latter part of January, for ar
at Pekin and Tien-tsin will be rein rangements are making to bring the
forced immediately. Such reinforce annual meeting of the National guard
ments are limited to one battalion of association of Oregon to this city
then.
infranty and machine guns.
JA IL S EN TEN C E H ISSED.
Homs is in no better situation is the
opinion of the correspondent of the
Temps, who has succeeded in joining
the Ottoman forces near Zouagher.
He telegraphs regarding the Turkish
side of the war, under date of Novem
ber 12, and says:
“ It is certain that after a month
and a half of war, after large expend
itures and serious losses, the Italians
are no farther advanced than on the
day following their disembarkation.
If the Turkish forces are inferior in
number to the Italians, they make up
in confidence. I expected to find dis
order and discouragement.
On the
contrary, everywhere I met order, dis
cipline and contentment.
“ Patient and ready for everything,
the Turk is accepting all without com
plaint. If he suffers he knows it is
for the empire of Islam, while the
Arab knows that if he dies, Paradise
and Mohammed will be his.”
The correspondent is unable to di
vulge the number or plans of the
Turks, merely saying that their mili
tary attacks must await observation.
Rich Babe Seeks Home,
Los Angeles—To find a healthful
spot in which to build a home for their
$200,000,000 baby, heir to the com
bined wealth of John R. McLean,
owner of the Washington Post, and
the late John R. Walsh, of Colorado,
Mr. and Mrs. Edward McLean arrived
here Saturday in their private car
and left soon afterward for San Diego.
The important baby is delicate and
the parents hope that somewhere on
the sunny slopes of California a place
may be arranged suitable for the tiny
baby.
Packers' Stay Referred.
Washington, D. C.—Chief Justice
White refused to grant a stay in the
trail of the Chicago beef packers, but
referred the attorneys making the ap
plication to the entire bench, declar
ing that the question was of too
much importance for him to pass on
individually.
Attorney Miller an
up. All of the companies so delin nounced that such an application to
the entire court would be made at the
quent are being notified.
first sitting December 4. The appli
Lower Columbia Poultry 8how.
cation will be for a “ supersedeas.”
Astoria—The members of the Lower
Monarchist Attack Fails.
Columbia River Poultry association
are busily engaged in making prepara
Lisbon—Advices from Montenegro
tions for their annual poultry show, says that a small group of monarch
which is to be held here from Decem ists, beleived to be the vanguard of
ber 19 to 21 inclusive. The associa the main body, has crossed the fron
tion will accommodate 400 contest tier and tried to capture that town but
ants.
was repulsed.
Rebels Swarm On Hills On III
Sides oí Nanking.
Shells Com * From All Directions—
Defending General Killed—Jap
Consulate Only Remairs.
Shanghai—It is reported that a des
perate fight has taken place between
the revolutionists and bandits in Hwa
Yuan, Anhwei Brovince, and that 1,-
000 robbers were killed.
Nanking — After more than half a
century of silence, the hills overlook
ing the walled city of Nanking, the
ancient capital of China, swarm with
rebellious forces eager for its occupa
tion and determined to overthrow the
last stronghold of the Manchus south
of the Yangste.
From the Tiger Hill fort for several
hours Sunday morning big guns spoke
repeatedly, while farther up along the
northeastern range, from the top of
Purple mountain, for a 15-mile semi
circle westward to the Yangste, smal
ler forts scattered shells into every
section of the city. So far as known
the casualty list is not large. General
Wong, second in command of the de
fenders, is among the killed.
In the earlier part of the day the
imperialists attempted a sortie against
the attacking forces, with a view to
recapturing their positions, but were
driven back inside the walls with con
siderable loss. The Tiger Hill batter
ies meanwhile were pounding shells
into Lion Hill.
They succeeded in
silencing the Manchu batteries there.
The object of the first seizure of the
Tiger Hill was shown by the early ap
pearance of four rebel cruisers and
later in the day of other warships.
At night a dozen torpedo boat destroy
ers and cruisers were lying near the
city. Doubtless they will reduce the
lower sections quickly and drive the
defenders to the South.
The viceroy of Nanking and the
Tartar general, in fear of General
Chang, the imperialist commander,
have taken refuge in the Japanese
consulate, in which only the consul re
mains. He is the sole official repre
sentative of foreign interests now in
Nanking.
The consulate is well
guarded by marines.
AM ERICANS CAUSE RAID.
John Hays Hammond Tells “ Inside’’
o f Boer War.
Boston—Released by time from an
oath not to talk on South African
affairs nor reveal any of the "inside”
as to the events leading up to the Boer
war, for a period of years, John Hays
Hammond, who was conspicuous in that
war, broke his silence for the first
time at a dinner of the clover club.
Mr. Hammond said the Jameson
raid was the result of the activities
of a reform association formed at Jo
hannesburg, consisting largely of
Americans.
“ I want especially,” said Mr. Ham
mond, “ to correct a misunderstanding.
It is said we jwere acting under the
British flag. It is false.
“ Much sympathy has been wasted
on ‘Oom Paul’ Kruger. He was op
posed to progress, believing ¡.that the
world is flat. His impositions were
such as no man of the Anglo-Saxon
race would have tolerated.
“ The reform movement against
Kruger was not an English movement.
Jameson came into the fight against
our wishes and against the wishes of
the British high commissioner.
Kru
ger in a conference demanded that no
contract should be accepted with a
Catholic or a Jew. This we flatly re
fused.
“ Kruger broke all his promises and
after he had secured the arms in Jo
hannesburg he arrested the reform
committee. He gave the men to un
derstand that if they pleaded guilty
they would be let off with a fine. In
stead, they were sentenced to be hang
ed within 24 hours.
“ An emphatic dispatch from Secre
tary Olney caused President Kruger
and the Boer council to commute the
sentence to life imprisonment.”
Aviator Off to Aid Rebels.
Albion, Mich.—Roy Wilcox, with a
contract to furnish and maintain aero
planes for the provisional government
of China, Is now on his way to San
Francisco, whence he expects to sail
in a few days. His wife accompanies
him. The young man who lives near
Albion, has been building and 4xperi-
menting with aeroplanes for the last
year or more, and some time ago made
the acquaintance of several Chinese
youths, one of whom is now said to be
prominent in the present rebel
lion.
Famous Actress Dead.
New York—Cable advices received
by theatrical men here announce the
death in Germany of Ottillie Genee,
one of Germany’s famous actresses.
She was 77 year* old. In 1869 Frau
Genee undertook a tour through Amer
ica, ending at San Francisco, where
she founded the first German theater.
She managed this theater for 15 years
with great success until recalled to
Berlin in 1884 by the emperor, who
desired her in the Royal theater.
City Voted Dry By Women.
Santa Ana, Cal. — Women voted
Tuesday in the liquor election at FuU
lerton and the city was carried 1-
prohibition by a vote of 640 to 194^