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EVENTS OFTHE DAY
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Less Impartant but Not Less Inter*
es ting Happenings from Points
Outside the State.
Rossis w ill build four new battle
ships.
Weakness o f the government ham
pers the relief work at Adana.
Ten Austrians
have chartered s
2, 400-ton steamer for an Arctic hunting
expedition.
A canoe and the bodies of two young
m es were found on the beech near Van
couver, B. C,
A Peruvian mummy at least 1,000
years old baa been found wearing a
gold-embroidered Masonic apron.
The Peruvian government has can
celled the exequatur o f the Swedish
consul for giving shelter to revolution
ists.
Boxes containing 144 pints o f whis
key and labeled “ Gloss Starch ," and
“ Tom atoes," have been seised at El
Reno, Oklahoma.
Eight American cruisers are now in
the Great Lakes, and Canada considers
it a violation o f an alleged^ interna
tional agreem ent
A butcher at Somerville, Mass., went
suddenly insane and slashed five men
with his killing knife. Three o f them
are not expected to live.
N iagara Falls, N .‘ Y .; June 8.—
Aaron Cohen, o f Buffalo, N . Y ., as
his young w ife leap into the swirling
river between Second and Third Sisters
islands today, only 150 feet above the
brink o f the cataract.
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Without a moment’s hesitation, he
followed her, caught her hand, and
struggled desperately to save her.
Mrs. Cohen probably died in her bus-
band’s arms.
Before it was possible to bring effl
cient help an boor had passed. A ll this
time Cohen was making frantic a t
tempts to reach the shore. But the
struggle against the current— at this
point it is shout 20 miles an hourr-was
beyond his power.
Fortune aided him, however. W ith
his w ife tightly clasped to him, he
bumked into a tree stump, and an this
he got a grip with his one free band.
There be stayed and shouted for help.
Finally word w as carried to the res
ervation police, and Policeman James
Martin and three other men with ropes
hurried to the scene. Three times they
threw s rope before it fell within
Cohen’s grasp*. When he did catch it,
be was too weak to tie it about his own
or his w ife ’s waist.
The two were 20 feet away from
shore, and it was extremely difficult,
owing to the precarious nature o f the
footing, to make a good cast. Pinned
against the tree by the terrific rush of
water, all the strength had gone out of
Cohen, and he had been unable to keep
his w ife ’s face above water.
Once Cohen had hold o f the rope, the
men ashore began to poll.
Martin,
who was in front, slipped and fell into
the stream, but quickly regained his
footing. When within 15 feet o f the
shore, Cohen lost his grip on his w ife ’s
body, and it was carried down stream
and w as lost to view.
BIG A R C T IC H U N T P L A N N E D .
The departure o f Rear Adm iral H a r Ten Austrians Charter a 2400-Ton
bin's squadron
from Honolulu for
Steamer fo r Expedition.
Manila has been delayed by the discov
Seattle,
June 8.— Dr, Hans von R a
ery that about $1,000 worth o f brass
dish
and
Leo
Mahler, o f Vienna, left
and engine room fittings have been
here tonight for Vancouver to prepare
stolen.
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the steamer Transit, which has been
Rockefeller says g o lf beats finance. chartered by Rudolph R. von Guttman.
An immense stock boom is on in a wealthy coal operator o f Vienna, for
a four-month hunting expedition to
W a ll street
Alaska and Siberia. The party will
Roosevelt made a speech to Am eri leave for the North July 1. The other
can missionaries in Africa.
members o f the party, which w ill con
The first o f this seaon’s wheat has tain ten people, are still in Vienna.
The- purpose o f the expedition is to
been sold in Texas at $1.35.
secure new specimens fo r H err von
Senator Aldrich w ill kill the income
Guttman’s trophy room.
Whenever
tax amendment at all hazards.
duplicates are secured they w ill be
A San Diego, Cal., woman, her given to the Smithsonian Institute,
daughter and two sons w ill be married and i f a third specimen is secured it
w ill be given to the N e w York Zoologi
at the same time.
cal society. The Transit is a 2400-ton
Leaders o f the alleged Mexican N a
steamer. ___________________
tional lottery have been arrested in
N e w York
and a gigantic fraud
BRUTES TORTURE W O M EN.
broken up.
The fire department o f Victoria, B.
Put Lighted Candles on Soles o f Feet
C., is using its chemical engines to ex
in Effort to G et Money.
terminate the caterpillar put on the
trees o f the city.
Pittsburg, June 8.— The work* of
robbers today at Belmont, Pa., near
Secretary Ballinger has approved
this city, has so aroused the community
the regulations for opening the surplus
that a lynching is threatened i f the
lands o f the Coear d’Alene, Spokane
men are captured.
and Flathead reser vations.
Five men, all masked, broke into the
Encamación Dias, leader in the con home o f Mrs. Minnie Ashe, 90 years
spiracy to invade Mexico ana overthrow old, and ransacked the place. With
President Dias, who was pardoned by the aged woman were her daughter,
President Taft, left the federal prison Mrs. Mary Ober, 60 years old, and her
a t Leavenworth, Kan., Friday.
granddaughter, Mias Minnie Ober, 23
So-W ah-Ta, a fullblooded Oneida years o f age.
The men found only $8.50 in the
Indian, stalked into the license bureau
o f the police department in Chicago, house, and, believing there was more,
and made formal application in excel bound the three women and tortured
lent English for a state permit to run them. They used picture wire in fas
tening the women to chairs. Then they
an automobile.
held lighted candles to their bare feet.
B y bolding a piece o f down-town
Chicago property 24 years, W illiam K.
Ancient. Apron Is Found.
Lobenstein, of N e w York city, has
Seattle, June 8.— A valuable gold-
made a clear profit o f more than $760,-
000. This is at the rate o f more than embroidered Mason’s apron, at least
1,000 years old, w as found on a mummy
$80,000 a year.
which Captain E. W . Sprague, o f the
Bryan is out with his 1912 slogan, American schooner Columbia, picked
“ Be U p and D o in g ."
up on his last trip to Csiloa, for a few
Northwest rivers are rising rapidly dollars. The apron is hand-embroid
ered in real gold thread.
Captain
and high water is looked for.
Sprague bought the apron from a con
For the first time in history wheat is tractor who had unwittingly purchased
being shipped west from N ew York.
a mummy, and was anxious to get rid
It is reported that oil has been found of the thing. Many high Masons have
in Arisons, and great excitement pre attempted to decipher the sympols, but
no one bas yet been able to read them.
vails.
An auto jumped a bridge in Seattle,
killing the driver and injuring his two
passengers.
Martial law is in force at RcCloud,
Cal., and the soldiers have scattered
the strikers.
The Omaha train robbers have been
fully identified and their headquarters
shown to be in Spokane.
Many inhabitants o f Molokai are
found to be free o f leprosy, but do not
wish to leave their friends on the
T w o Drown From Canoe.
Vancouver, B. C., June 8.— The bod
ies o f two young men, aged about 18
and 25, and s canoe were found about
11 o ’clock today washed up on the
shore half a mile west o f tlie Point
Gray wireless station. An invoice, ren
dered to Frank Stendth, was found in
the pocket of the eldest victim. There
was also a watch, which had stopped
at 8:80. It is believed, judging from
the condition o f the bodies, that the ac
cident occurred today.
J. J. H ill was subpoenaed to appear
Defends American Colleges.
before the grand jury in aa embezzle
Ithaca, N. Y ., June 8.— W arm ly de
ment ease. He accepted the service of fending American colleges and univer
the paper and agreed to appear.
sities from the severe criticisms of
President Woodrow Wilson and other
A .-Y .-P . exposition opens with at
N ew England university presidents,
tendance o f 89,286 on first day.
who charge that the intellectual life o f
The prosecution has almost com American universities is decaying,
pleted its case against Patrick Cal President J. G. Schurmsn, o f Gornell,
poured a broadside into the system of
houn.
education at the older universities in
The Portland water board w ill im his farewell address to the senior class
mediately lay a third pipe line from today.
Bull
Whiskey In Tom ato Boxes.
Four Methodist ministers at Elgin,
El Reno, Ok I a., June 8.— Boxes la
the recovery of s
111., are praying for thi
belled "tom atoes" and "g lo ss starch,"
horse dying o f lockjaw.
but containing instead ok) bourbon
Rockefeller says he is satisfied with whiskey, were seised here today at the
a big increase nmde in U m
d reetion o f the United States district
i o f his country residence.
attorney. John Embry, because o f false
labels. There were 144 pints o f whis
Heavy rains and
key in the consignment, which
Dalles did
shipped from Kansas City.
h ut did aa
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Inventor Drives Damaged Craft
Earth and Slides Down Rope.
Man All But Dies in KfTort to Save
Suicide W ife.
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D R O W N S IN N IA G A R A .
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East S t Louis, III., June 7.— A cast
8 K E L E T O N 8 REVEAL G O LD «
T rapper Stumbles Onto Remains o f
Prospectors In Tunnel
Portland— Two skeletons,
supposed
to be the remains of pioneer English
prospectors, were found last week in
an old mine tunnel situated in the Cas
cade forest reserve, at a point about
60 miles from Boring and 60 miles
from the Sandy river. N ear the akel
etons were a shovel, pickax, frying
pan and two rock drills. The finding
o f the bones led to the discovery o f the
existence o f a rich vein o f gold and
silver ore.
The bones were located by Peter
Stone, a hunter and trapper, who acci
dentally stumbled into the old tunnel,
the entrance to which w as overgrown
by brush and small trees. The tunnel
has a 45-foot face and a crosscut ex
tending back 60 feet.
Old settlers in the vicinity say that
the remains are probably those of
Englishmen who were prospecting in
that vicinity and who were last seen in
1858. That the remains have been in
the tunnel about 60 years was indicat
ed by the presence of a tree 18 inches
thick directly over the entrance. There
was nothing to indicate the manner of
the deaths, whether violent or from
natural causes.
The old mine is close by a deep,
narrow valley and a waterfall, and has
been given the appropriate name of
"L o s t M in e ." Ralph Treau, an es
sayist located in Portland, went to the
place, and returned with the report
that a vein rich in gold, silver, lead
and galena was tapped by the old tun
nel. The lode has a 10-foot face and
extends three miles. The ground has
been taken possession o f and w ill be
worked.
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O R E G O N O F F IC E 8 G A IN .
Following Advance in Postmasters'
Salaries Begin July I.
Washington— The salaries o f presi
dential postmasters in Oregon will be
increased according to the receipts of
respective offices July 1. Am ong the
important sd van aces a re :
Corvallis, $2300 to $2400; Eugene,
$2600 to $2700; Hillsboro, $1700 to
$1800; Hood River, $2800 to $2400;
Medford, the same; Pendleton, $2600
to $2600 1 Roseburg, $2800 to $2400;
Salem, $3000 to $3100; The Dalles,
$2400 to $2500.
The following Oregon offices were
increased $100:
Ashland, Bandon,
Bend, Brownsville. Dallas, Falls City,
Forest Grove, Freewater, Gresham,
Joseph, Klamath
Falls, Lakeview,
Mount Angel, Myrtle Point, N ew berg,
Northport, Sheridan, Vale.
The following offices were raised
$200: Arista, Enterprise, Lents, Mc
Minnville, Newport, Ontario, Seaside,
Wasco.
Heppner drops from $1600 to $1600;
Sumpter drops from $1400 to $1300;
Huntington drops from $1300[to $1200;
Arlington drops from $1200 to $1000;
Dray drops from $1200 to $1000.
The following Northwest offices also
received increases: Vancouver, Wash.,
$2600 to $2600; Kslsm s, Wash., $1800
to $1400; Tacoma, Wash , $3500 to
$3600; W alla W alla, Wash., $2900 to
$8000; Boise, Idaho, $2100 to $3200.
Surveying C o os Bey Road.
Marshfield— Surveying the Coos Bay,
Oregon A Idaho railroad bas begun.
F. A . Haines, chief enigneer,, left
here with a corps o f about 20 men. He
will start somewhere in the mountains,
but the routes to be followed in mak
ing the surveys w ill not for the pres
ent be made known. Sufficient stock
has been subscribed in the project to
warrant sending out the survey and
further subscriptions will be taken.
The capital stock o f the railroad com
pany is $26,000 and it is estimated
that $10,000 w ill be needed to make
surveys. It is stated by officers of the
corporation that if the engineer can
find s one per cent grade between Coos
Bay and Roseburg outside railroad men
will take up the project
Hood River Calls fo r Aid.
Hood R iver— Berries ripening am
no pickers is still the story at Hood
River. Growers are anxiously meeting
each train and boat in the hope of get
ting help for the rush o f berry picking
which is near at hand.
Showers have been succeeded by
warmer weather, and it is said by
strawberry men that the fruit w il
come on with a rush. Dispatches are
being sent to towns in the eastern part
o f the state asking that notices bs
posted informing residents of the
need o f help, and towns in the W il
lamette valley are also being notified.
Many claim that berries w ill have to
go unpicked i f help does not arrive.
Grain Makes Good Stand.
Union— The wheat fields have not
been so promising for many years.
Fall wheat is well advanced and prom
ises an excellent crop. -The stand is
good and the grain thrifty. There is
an increase of at least SO per cent over
the acreage o f last year in this portion
of the Grand Ronde valley.
Rain baa
been falling for the past 24 hours and
still continues.
With the exception of
peaches and early cherries, the fruit
yield will be good. Gardens are doing
nicely in spite o f the cold dry spring.
Industry Will Revive.
Gold Beach— Representatives
of
Guggenhsim, who has large fishing in
terests in Alaska, are here looking over
the cannery property o f the late R. D.
Hume, and there is little doubt that be
will take over the plant together with
the large holdings o f timber and farm
ing lands. Tw o companies are on the
ground to take and ship salmon "m ild
cured" and the fishermen expect to
make good money when those compan
ies got ready to handle the salmon.
The run of salmon has hardly begun.
Elgin N o w Sure o f C rop.
Elgin— Three inches o f rain have
fallen the last week and crops are
looking fine. They will make full yields
without more rain and the farmer’s
smile is growing. T. W . Weather-
spoon has finished draining his lake,
People for miles around aided him in
caring for the immense amount of carp
and catfish, each taking a liberal por
tion.
M r .. Weatherspoon will have
the lake prepared, and will stock it
with rainbow trout.
Athletic Instructor Resigns.
Oregon Agricultural College, -Cor
vallis -R o y E. Heaten, well known
throughout the Northwest as an ath
lete of ability, has resigned his position
as instructor in physical education at
this college to enter into business in
this city. Mr. Heaten has purchased
the business o f M. M. Long, dealer in
athletic and sporting goods.
Dentists to Pay License.
Salem— Hereafter all practitioners
o f dentistry in Oregon must pay an
examination fee o f $25, and an annual
license fee o f $1.60. The money shall
be paid to the secretary of the state
board o f debtal examiners, who shall
keep a record o f his accounts and givs
bond for the faithful performance of
his duties.
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Hermlston Picks Berries.
Hermiston— Strawberries are now at
their best, and large pickings are be
ing made. Hermiston
w ill observe
Strawberry day June 1. The first new
potatoes are now being dug.
PO R T LAN D M ARKETS.
Wheat— Track prices:
Blues tem
milling, $13.0@1.85; club,
$1.20<g)
1 2 2 * ; valley, $1.17.
Corn— Whole, $35 per ton; cracked,
$86 per ton.
Barley— Feed, $25 per ton .'
Oats— No. 1 white, $40.60@41 per
ton.
Hay— Timothy, Willamette v£]'«v,
$14(8)18 per ton; Eastern Oregon, $ lf
@ 2 1 ; clover, $11@12; alfalfa, $13®
14; cheat, $14@14.60; vetch, $14®
14.50.
Fresh Fruits— App es, $1(8:2.50 per
box. Strawberries, Oregon, $2@4 per
crate; cherries, $i@1.25 per box;
gooseberries, 6@6c per pound; logan-
brrides, $1 and 1.26 per crate; cur
High Prices for Butter Fat.
rants, 12)4e per pou-d.
Tillamook— Unusually high prices
Potatoes— $1.76-@1.90 per hundred;
prevailed for butter f s t ^ t the eo oper new California, 4)4c@ 5)4 per lb .;
ative cheese factories for A p ril— the sweet potatoes, 4)4c per pound.
highest in fact, in the history of the
Vegetables— Turnips,*$1.25 per sack;
county for that month. Maple L eaf carrots, $1.26; parsnips. $1.60; beets,
paid 40e; Tillamook creamery, 40c; $1.76; horseradish, $10c per pound;
Fairview Dairy association, 38)4c; artichokes, 60@60c dos.; asparagus,
South Prairie, 41c; Clover Leaf (R iv- 7 )4 @ 12c per pound; beans, 10@12)4c;
erdsle), 42.2c; Three Rivers, 37e; cabbage, 2c per lb .; cauliflower, $3
Ocean Park, 38.8c; Meds Co-operative, per crate; cucumbers, 60c@$12.6 per
39c; Elwood (Donaldson’s),
42.2e; doz.; lettuce, botbouse, $1(8)1.50 per
East Beaver, 40e; Pleasant Valley, box; lettuce.head, 26c per doz.; onions,
39.8c; Jackson A Baling, 87c; Ne- 12)4c@16c per doz.; parsley, 35c per
tarts, 40c.
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d o s.; peas, 7c per lb .; radishes, 15c
per doz.; rhubarb, S@ 8)4e per lb.;
Many Pioneers Gather.
spinach, 5c par lb .; squash, 76c@$1.26
„ Weston— M. O ’Hara, secretary o f per box; tomatoes, Mexican, $2@2.50
the Pioneers’ association, reported 150 per crate.
enrolled members attended the annual
Butter— City
creamery,
extras,
reunion May 28-29, and that 19 new 26)4c; fancy outside creamery, 25@
members were registered. The two 26)4e par lb .; store, 18c. (Butter
oldest pioneer women present were fa t prices average 1 )4 cents per pound
Nancy A . Jacobs, o f Portland, who under regular butter prices.)
was born in 1840, immigrated in 1846,1 Eggs—Oregon ranch, 23®24c per
and is a survivor of the Whitman m ae-'
sscre, having crawled under the floor;
Poultry— Hens, 15c; springs, 2 2 )4 ®
and Mrs. Polly Purcell, o f Weston, who 26c; roosters, 10c; ducks, 14@16c;
was born in 1842, immigrated in 1846 gesss, 10(8)1 lc ; turkeys, 20c; squabs,
$2.60@8 per dos.
Rain Benefits Lane Crops.
Pork— Faney, 10c per lb.
Veal— Extras, 8 ® 8 )fc per lb .; ordi
Eugene— The rain means thousands
o f dollars to the farmers of this sec nary. 7e; heavy, 6c.
Hops— 1909 contracts, 12c per lb. ;
tion. The light ruins of the week have
beneficial and the cool weather 1908 crop, 9®10c; 1907 crop, 4 ® 5c.
prevented considerable loss that 1906 crop, I * @ 2 c .
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 17@22J4c
would have resulted with much sun
shine. It is believed that the rain Is per lb .; valley, fine, 26® 26 ftc; med
ium, 28c; coarse, 21c; mohair, choice,
ever the country, and
to do groat good.
24®26c oar lb.
away in the akisc through tbp breaking
o f his guide rope, which formed his
only connection with the earth, and
later an areonaut on the ground, with
his ship floating away through space,
pursued on the ground by an automo
bile, Claude M. Zellers, a one-legged
inventor, tonight
contributed new
pages to the history of aeronautics.
In a machine o f no tpye known to
aeronautics,
invented
by William
Smith, a cattle-dealer, and described
as the largest aeroplane in the world,
Zellers flew from East S L Louis this
afternoon at 5 :30 o’clock. When 100
feet up the guide rope became en
tangled in an apple tree and snapped,
leaving the aviator a castaway. He
sailed 40 miles in a zigzag course and
succeeded ih making a hazardous land
ing at Belleville, 20 miles from where
he started.
Zellers was unable to stop his ma
chinery, but pointed the nose o f his
craft toward the ground and allowed it
to shoot down like a meteor until the
end of the broken rope trailed on the
ground. Just as Zellers slid down the
rope, a distance of 70 feet, it broke
and the dirigible, its engines going
full speed, soared into the sky without
a pilot.
Zellers pursued the bsg'for a time in
an automobile, but could not keep up
with iL
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GREAT STRIKE ENDS
Philadelphia Street Car Hen Gala
Important Points.
CONCESSIONS FROM BOTH SIDES
Employes Get 92 Gents an Hour, T e n -
Hour Day, and Buy Uniforms
In Open Marker.
Philadelphia, June 5.— "T h e strike
has been settled. Tbs men w ill re
ceive 22 cents an hour beginning to
morrow morning, and 10 hours w ill
constitute a day’s w o rk ."
This statement tonight from C. O.
Pratt, chairman of the executive com
mittee o f the Amalgamated Association,
of Street Railway Employes, followed
by the deportation of the 460 non
union workmen, marked the end o f the
strike ot employes o f the Philadelphia
Rapid Transit company. The trouble
began last Saturday.
The settlement was brought about,
primarily by State! Senator James P.
McNichol, republican leader o f this
T R A IN G O E S T H R O U G H T R E S T L E . city, at conferences yesterday with the
traction officials and labor representa
Plucky Engineer and Firemen Minim
tives. These conferences were fol
ize Disaster.
lowed by others today.
Cottage Grove, Or., June 6.— When
A fter being in session nearly all day
on the middle o f Kern bridge, span
the
men agreed to accept 22 cento an
ning Row river, on the Oregon A
hour.
The old "s w in g system " baa-
Southeastern, a mixed train crashed
through and fell, all but the engine, 40 been abolished, 10 boors will consti
feet into the stream below at 4 :80 tute a day’s work, all employes w ill be-
o’clock yesterday afternoon.
Seven permitted to purchase their uniforms
teen passengers were hurt, all of them in the open markeL all future difficul
more or lesa seriously. A ll the avail ties ary to be adjusted between the
able surgeons from Cottage Grove were company and a grievance committee
rushed to the scene of the accident by chosen by the employes«
special train and the report from the
A fter a conference in City hall which
wreck is that, while all the passengers lasted until early today, Mayor Ray
are still alive, it is believed several burn made public a letter addressed t o
John B. Parsons, president of the tran
are fatally hurt.
John Coates, the fireman, went down sit company, in which be offered the
with the train, fell in the river,, swam terms for a settlement o f the strike.
out, hurried to the nearest telephone He suggested among other things the
and phoned for assistance and all the following:
available doctors. The work train had
" A l l former employes w ill be re
just arrived and having steam up, a stored to their former positions.
relief train was hurried to the scene.
"Y o u r employes to form a represen
The wrecked train was due here at 5 tative body which shall from time to
o’clock, and the engine had just cleared time be accorded full opportunity in
the bridge when the center span gave take up with the proper officers o f the
way. Tbs activity of Engineer W il company any and all questions affect
liam Ostrander saved the engine from ing the righto o f employes.
piling on top of the other c a n in the
"T h e rate o f wages beginning July
ravine. Ostrander set the brakes and 1., 1909, to be 22 cento an hour.
the train parted at the tender, twisting
"These conditions to continue f o r
the rods and the engineer was seriously one, two or three years, as may b e
injured by the reversing lever. The agreed upon.”
tender now rests on top the coach, 12
President Parsons made an immed
feej of which is under water.
iate reply accepting the suggestions.
Some dissatisfaction is expressed by
the strikers, who do not regard the ra te
•1 0 0,00 0 ,0 00 FOR S U B W A Y S .
of wages named as a concession. H ow
ever, the agreement gives them shorter
T h a fs What Complete System for
hours and concedes them the right t o
Chicago Will Cost.
purchase their uniforms from whom
Chicago, June 7.— A complete sys they pic
tem of subways for Chicago wil) cost
from $100,000,000 to $112,000,000, and
P O R K P R IC E G O E S 8 0 A R IN G .
be able to transport from 509,960 to
529,120 passengers hourly, with seats
Almost Highest Price Since Civil W a r
for a ll; and with the present surface
Is Recorded in Chicago.
and elevated lines will supply adequate
Chicago, June 5.— Pork for Septem
transportation until 1931 or 1950, ac
cording to plans adopted. These are ber delivery sold today at $20.07)4.
the conclusions of City Engineer Eric-
With the exception o f a brief period in
son and Subway. Engineer R. C. S L
John, submitted today to Commissioner 1906, when cash pork sold for one day
of Public Works Hanberg, in a supple
mental report on subways.
The report has four distinct plans
for construction, with two variations
of each, and with the exception o f col
lating engineering details practically
completes the city’s report on tunnels
for passenger traffic in down town
Chicago.
P ow er Plant W recked.
Trinidad, Col., June 7.— Virtually
every branch o f industry in this city
and neighboring towns is at a stand
still, as a result of the destruction o f
the new powerhouse of the Southern
Colorado Power company. An explo
sion in the transformer started a fire
which wiped out the plant, causing a
loss on building and machinery of more
than $300,000. The fire is nothing
short o f a calamity, as it cuts off the
power which operates the local and in-
terurban electric lines, lighting planL
newspaper plants, foundries, etc.
at $20 per barrel, this figure has not
been seen in this market since the
Codahy corner in 1893, when it sold a t
$28. It sold during the Armour cor
ner in 1887, at $24; and the highest
price on record in this market was dur
ing the civil war, when it sold at $43
per barrel.
With the exception o f the manipu
lated markets o f 1893 and 1887, there
fore, the price reached today was prac
tically the highest since the eivil w ar.
No manipulation of the provision mar
kets is now charged, but the high
prices are due to the disappointing re
ceipts of hogs during the month o f
May, and thus far during the present
month.
Record Made at Levrfston.
Lewiston, Idaho, June 6.— The SnaV
river recorded a rise of nearly a fo<
today, the mark at 6 o’clock this evei
ing being 18.9 feeL The Clearwati
came up about one and one-half fee
Both streams aro.falling tonight, bi
wind is prevailing and a further rise
expected tomorrow. Last night tt
guage stood at 17.8 feeL the highei
known for 15 years. Tonight that max
is passed. The railroad dykes are holt
ing and the city is thought not to be i
danger from flood, for the present, i
Blast Away Huge Hill.
Aberdeen, Wash., June 7.— Every
thing is in readiness for the firing of
the big blast that is expected to blow
away a hill a mile long on the Satsop
river, near Elma, on the grade of the
Grays Harbor branch of the Union Pa
cific. The dynamite and powder will I t M t e
all bs placed in caches that have been
made in a tunnel in the hill. A ll farm
Columbia Still Rises.
ers have been warned, and all roads
The Dalles, Or., June 6.— The Col
near the scene are guarded. About ombia river rose more than seven feet
100,000 yards o f earth will be loosened. at this point during the past 80 hours
and continues gradually to rise. The
Demand Freeman Resign.
beach is flooded up to the Um atilla
Orange, N . J., June 7.— Because he House and the Chinese truck gardens
invited Emma Goldman and Alexander are under water. The Open River and
Berkroan, anarchists, to a luncheon re Regulator lines wharf boats have been
cently given by the exclusive May moved on account o f the high w ater
flower Descendants’ Society, Alden and the ferryboat now lands at the foot
Freemen, of this piece, has been asked of Washington strseL two blocks from
to resign from the Orange chapter, to regular landing.
Sons of the American Revolution.
Taft Not to Visit West.
Peru Sends Swede Home.
Grand Junction, C o l, June 6.— Pres
Lima, Peru, June 7.— The Peruvian ident T aft will not attend the exer
government has canceled the exaqua- cises incident to the opening o f the
teur of the Swedish consul-general, Gunnison Irrigation turne) early in
Luis Lemoboke, in whose house on AugUsL and probably w ill not make
May 1 Carlos Pierloa and others im >is contemplated trip to the W est this
plicated in the rising against the gov summer, according to a telegram re
ceived today.
ernment took refuge.