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BUSINESS CRIPPLED
Sweden in Throes b! a Gigantic
Labor Straggle.
PEOPLE ARE BUYING FIREARMS
Though Workmen Organize Forco to
Keep Order, Means of Protec
tion Are Being Adopted.
Stockholm, Aug. 6, With the street
car Hnca tied up and all cabdrlYera re
futing to work, tho labor difficulties
here glvo promise of soon becoming
acute Tho general atrlko called for
today has not yet become thoroughly
effective, though the ranks of the
strikers havo been considerably aug
mented. Many affiliated organizations,
while sympathizing with tho strike
movement, are t till withdrawing their
ctire support, preferring to lot others
take tho lead in tho present crisis.
The Strlko is by no means general in
the provincial towns and industrial
centers of Sweden. In most places tho
streetcars aro running and the city em
ployes are at work as usual. No dis
turbances havo been reported. The
loading of ships at Gothenburg, where
10,000 men are on strlko, is being done
by troops.
Tho fact that troops are protecting
the gas works and tho electric light
plant has incensed the workmen, whoee
leaders threaten to call out all the men
unless the soldiers aro withdrawn.
A corps of workmen, some thousand
stroncr. aro belne organized with the
object of maintaining order, and
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people generally, bankers, merchants,
etc., are arming themselves for self
protection.
The gunshops of the city aro practi
cally denuded of revolvers and Bmall
arms. All tourists have left tho city
and the number of visitors now in tho
city Is smaller than at this season for
many years.
FORMOSA TO PRODUCE SUGAR
Will Soon Lead World Japan's
Plsn
to Kill Head Hunters.
Victoria, B. a, Aug. 6. Paul Bell,
an engineer of the Honolulu Iron
works, returned on the Tango Mara to
day from Formosa, where he has been
establishing sugar mills for the Japan
ese Sugar company, and states that
Formosa will, by next year, be the
greatest sugar-producing country in I
the world. Five new mills were erect-1
ed this year and five more are to be
built next summer, all equipped with'
the latest machinery. The output this
year was 90,000 tons, all of which I
went to Japan.
The Japanese are adopting a cruel '
method of dealing with the rebels of ,
Formosa, bead hunters. They have
strectched troehas of barbed wire across
districts, heavily charged with elec
tricity. BEE STINGS CURE.
California Man Crippled With
Rheu-
matlim Now Wfcll.
Redding, Cal., Aug. 5. Tortured by
rheumatic pains, from which be has
suffered for months, James R. Holt,
head of a local contracting firm, sub
mitted himself to the stings of 39 honey
bees yesterday, and today walked to
his office for the first time in many
days, declaring that his joints were as
limber as those of a boy.
Mr. Holt has been so crippled with
the disease that for months be was
compelled to use a carriage to go from
his home to'bis office, three blocks
away.
Ten or a dozen bees wore applied to
each aching joint, while the patient
writhed in agony. After It was over
be became nauseated and a chill lasting
two hours followed. He retired for
the night and finally fell asleep. When
he awoke this morning be was surpris
ed to feel no ache in bis joints.
Barcelona Is Quiet.
Barcelona, Aug. 6. The situation in
Barcelona today Is tranquil. The only
evidences of the terrible nlghtmres
through which the city passed last week
are the ruins of the convents and
churches, and the tcrn-up pavements,
tho stones of which were usod for the
erection of barricades. There Is, how
ever, considerable apprehension for the
future. Tho terrible repressive meas
ures of the military authorities have
left a deep undercurrent of resentment
among the masses, and it is thought
that he rebellion may flare up again.
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Turkey to Invade Crete.
Cologne, .Aug. 6. The Cologne Ga
zette's Salonica correspondent cables
that the Turkish government has or
dered out 40,000 redifs in tho territory
of the Second army corps at Smyrna,
and has contracted with three steam
ship companies for the transportation
of troops and munitions of war to
Crete. He says great excitement pre
vails everywhere.
ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
Registration for , Government
Land
Reaches 274,020,
Spokane, Aug. C Breaking nil rec
ords in tho history of tho United
States for registration for government
land openings, registration for land on
the three reservations, Flathead, in
Montana. Spokane, in Washington, and
Cocur d'Alene, In Idaho, closed at mid
night last night with n grand total of
274,629 applications received at tho
central ofllco of James W. Wlttcn, at
Cocur d'Alene. Those in tho letters
will bring tho total to 290,000, exceed
ing tho famous Oklahoma reservation
rush, tho greatest known.
Until Monday tho forro in Judge
Wltten'a office will be preparing to
send out tho lucky notices to thoso
drawing for lands. The high platform
from which tho drawings will I made
Is complete, and tho 60 steel cans
which contain tho applications aro
guarded by armed men until August 9,
the opening day.
During tho period of application,
certificates of authority to ai minister
tho oath have been withdrawn from live
notaries in Spokane by Judge Wltten.
The offenses consisted of altering the
namo of tho agent in a soldier's power
of attorney and in leaving signed and
stamped application blanks with clerks
to bo tilled out when tho authorized
notary was absent.
On Monday, August 9, Miss Helen
Hamilton, tho pretty niece of Mayor
Boyd Hamilton, of Cocur d'Alene, will
pick the winning list of 1,600 numbers
on tho Cocur d'Alene reservation. On
Tuesday, August 10, tho littlo Miss
wUl will continuo drawing a substitute
list of numbers up to 3,000, this latter
list to bo used in case thoso first drawn
do not appear to file on the land.
On Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
August 12. 13 and 14, Miss Elizabeth
Don! in, daughter of E. K. Donlin, of
I Missoula, will draw the winning num-
pen on uio rmioeau reservauun up iu
6,000 and on Monday, August 16, Miss
Harriot Tost, daughter of Frank T.
Post, of Spokane, will select the lucky
slips for the Spokane reservation.
CONTEST SPOKANE DECISION.
Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Will
Lead In Fight.
San Francisco, Aug. 6. After ten
days of discussion the froight agents
of the Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe
and other transcontinental railroads
announced today that they had decided
to fight the affirmation of the Spokane
decision and its application toother
intermediate points.
George W. Luce, general freight
agent of the Southern Pacific company,
said that when the matter is taken up
at Spokane next October his company
and the Santa Fe will contest the atti
tude of the Northern railroads, which
favors the granting of terminal rates
to intermediate point. A battle royal
is expected at that meeting.
Luce declared that bis company took
the position that Intermediate points
aro not entitled to terminal rates; that
to grant them such rates would bo to
open a vast field to the manufacturers
of the Middle West heretofore reserved
for Western enterprise.
lie said that in view of the water
competition on the Coast, tho present
policy of forcing intermediate points
to pay rates to the Coast plus the local
freight back, was considered fair and
reasonable by the Southern Pacific and
Santa Fe, whereas the Northern roads
favored a proposal to limit the distri
buting area on the Coast to a narrow
strip paralleling the shore line.
CRETAN TROUBLE BREWING.
Mussulmans In Macedonia Threaten
Invasion of Greece.
Constantinople, Aug. 6. Serious
agitation has broken out in Albania
against the attempt of Grceco to annex
Crete. Forty thousand Albanians as
sembled at Monastir today and sent
Imperious messages to the government,
threatening that unless effective meas
ures were adopted tho entire Mussul
man population of Macedonia would
march against Greece.
The. grand vizier, on receiving the
message, hurriedly left the council of
ministers, went personally to the tele
graph office and replied that the gov
ernment was taking active steps to
prevent the annexation of Creto by
Greece.
Pirates Loot and Kill.
Victoria, B. C, Aug. C Advices by
the Tango Maru today note remarkable
recrudescence of piracy in South China
waters, tho most desperate band of out
laws having headquarters apparently in
tho vicinity of Macao, where the com
munities are so terrorized ns to lend
the piratcB active as well as pasiivo
assistance, fearing summary vengeance
otherwise. Near Sbantuk the water
pirates, united with a local band of
robbers, made a foray inland and took
by storm the castle like home of a lo
cal merchant and financier.
Epidemic Killing Cattle.
Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 6. Advices
received here today at the headquar
ters of the Texas Cattle Raisers' asso
ciation, say that cattle are dying by
the thousand around Midland as the
result of an epidemic.
f OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST
SHEEP PROSPECTS GOOD.
Prices Are High and Eastern Oregon
Range Excellent
Pendleton Tho rnnge In this section
is of tho very best nnd sheep prospects
scro never so bright. Sheep of all
kinds aro commanding high prices and
tho prosccts aro that wool will bo na
high or higher next spring than It was
last. These facts coupled with the ex
cellent rango gives shecmen cause for
much gratification. '
Tho reason for tho uood tango Is at
tributed to tho peculiar weather condi
tions which havo prevailed during tho
spring nnd early summer months, aa
well as during last winter. The heavy
fall of snow which remained on the
ground so long soaked to n groat depth.
Then showers hnvo visited nearly
every section of tho mountains at In
tervals, to that tho grass is both tall
and green and there is every Indication
that it will remain so throughout the
summer.
For this reason tho sheep will como
out of tho mountains this fall in tho
best of condition, nnd will bo nble to
como through tho winter In good shape,
even though there should be no early
fall rains to put tho winter range In
shspe. The fine summer rango will
make it possible to keep tho sheep in
the mountains longer than usual.
MANY MEN WANTED.
Southern Pacific Will Ruth Work on
Natron Cut-OfT.
Eugene Good news la contained In
the statement of A. O. Wattls, of the
Utah Construction company, who, while
In Eugene recently, stated thnt his
company wouid want 2,000 men to go
to work on the extension of the South
ern Pacific's new railroad to be built
from Natron to Klamath Falls.
Mr. Watts said that a tralnload of
construction material and supplies had
been shipped here from Oroville and
Reno, Nov., for tho railroad work, and
they will arrive in a few days. "We
expect to have a large forco of men at
work beyond Natron In a very short
time, and we will use 2,000 men If we
can get them," said Mr. Wattls, who
drove on to Natron.
The party consisted of A. O. Wattls,
his brother, L. R. Wattis, N. J. Swee
ney, W. B. Hunt, W. II. Messinger,
W. W. Hunt, G. W. Dye, John Gar-
riion. Ralph Smart, W. A. Bechtell
and G. S. Colley.
Troutdale Shippers Complain.
Salem The Troutdale Produce and
Fruit Growers' association, through Its
secretary, Miss M. Dewey, has bled a
complaint with the railroad commis
sion against the Pacific Express com
pany in which it Is alleged higher
rates are charged for shipping fruit
East from Troutdale than from Port
land. The Fruit Growers' association
alleges it Is charged 40 cents a crato
for shipping fruit to Wasco, while the
Portland produce men are charged only
36 cents. A scale Is presented show
ing numerous similar alleged discrim
inations against Troutdale shippers
practiced by the Pacific Express com
pany, which operates on the Oregon
Railroad & Navigation company line.
New Dairy Bulletin.
Prof. J. H. Frandson, of the dairy
department of the University of Idaho,
has In press Bulletin 07 on the subject
of "Better Dairy Methods." This bul
letin contains much that will be of in
terest to all directly or indirectly In
terested In dairying; much that should
help to maku dairying more profitable
and desirable as a business. This bul
letin will be sent free to all requesting
it. Address Department of Dairying,
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
Tillamook Line Surveyed.
Tillamook The surveying crew
which has been working over the moun
tains down the Wilson river has reach
ed this city, thus completing the sur
vey for the United Railways' line into
Tillamook county. It Is supposed this
Is tho road which wlllgive the county
first railroad connections with Portland.
Regatta Fund Is S8,000.
Astoria Tho regatta committee an
nounce that it has raised subscriptions
amounting to f 8,000 for the coming re
gatta and this amount was apportioned
among the subcommittees having
charge of the various features. Tho
queen is to bo selected by popular vote
and tho balloting has begun.
First Wheat Reaches Albany.
Albany The first 1909 wheat
brought to A)bany was received at the
Red Crown mill from the farm of
George Parsons, five miles east of Al
bany. Tho wheat on Parsons' farm
ran 20 buthel to the aero, Indicating a
fair yield of fall wheat in this part of
the state.
Moves To 8alom.
Salem Master Fish Warden II. E.
McAllister is making preparations to
move to Salem, Hereafter ho will
maintain his office at the state cspltol
with tho other state officers.
PREMIUM LIST OU l
Stale Board Promises Best Fair In
Slate's History.
Salem Premium lists ami Instruc
tions to exhibitor just issued by the
state board of agriculture having in
charge tho state fair promise for Ore
gon this fall thu best and Inrcest state
show In tho history of the state,
When the fair otienn nt Salem Sep
tember 13, to continue until Septombcr
18, $ 16,000 in premiums for livestock,
agricultural and manufactured product
will bo offered. i Numerous additional
classes have been added to tho premium
list this year, mnda possible by n re
cent legislative appropriation of $6,
000. Among thu now classes will bu tho
educational department where students
in tho common schools tuny exhibit
thoir work. Money prizes will be
offered.
Looking toward the comfort of the
visitors, laruer and mom commodious
quarters have beon built and other
changes made. Chief among tho Im
provements will bu thu Increase in res
taurant fncllitlns.
Printed announcement is made In the
premium list and catalogue by M. 1).
Wisdom, vice president, and F. A.
WcK'lt, secretary of the fair associa
tion, concerning new features of the
fair. Every assurance la given the
public that the forth eighth annual
show will be thu largest and best In
the history of the state.
Tho premiums this year are divided
up among a number of different depart
ments. 1 hoy aro: Agricultural pro
ducts, iirt, bees and honey, boys' de
partment, cattle, cereal foot), county
exhibits, dairy division, educational,
floral, goats, horses, horticulture, In
dustrial, ladles' textile department,
mlsaen department, plgoens, poultry,
Scotch collies, sheep, swine, vegetables
and woolen goods.
The speed program contains some
good events. The prizes range from
1600 to 16,000.
Power Plant for Deschutes.
Prlnevlllo Tho Crook County Light
& Power company, with headquarters
at Redmond, has begun the erection of
a 26 foot dam on Its project about one
mile above Cllne falls on the Deschutes,
whoro It is proposed to raise the waters
of the entire stresm 20 fecL Water
will bo diverted Into a flume six feet In
depth, 20 feet wide on the bottom nnd
one mllo long. The power plant will
bo situated just opposite Cllno falls
on tho plateau. The company expects
to generate' 16,000 horsepower, nnd
will usu tho electricity for lighting
several of tho towns In the Deschutes
valley and later may provide power for
trolley lines.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Fruitfl Apples, new, $10(2.26 per
box; cherries, 7 (t 12c per pound;
peaches, 76c0(ll per box; cantaloupe.
$22.60pr crate; plums, 7EcU($1.26
per box; raspberries, xi.DQ(l,40 per
crate; watermelons, IrMkepcrttound;
blackberries, $1.40 per crato; wild
blackberries, 9Jl0c per pound.
Potatoes New, Kftl'-jc or pound.
Vegetables Beans, 6c per pound;
cabbage, IKffSOlHc; celery, 00c(tf$l
perozen; cucumbers, 16(j26c; onions,
12Hf((lCc; peas, 7ft8c per pound; rad
ishes, 16c por dozen; tomatces, 4Oc0
1.26 per box.
Wheat Blucstcm, $1; club. 96c;
red Russian, 03c; vnllry, 9Ce; Turkey
red, 96c; 40-fold, 00 Jc
Barley New, $20.60Si27 por ton.
Hay New crop Timothy, Willam
ette valley, i26f,6 per ton; Eastern
Oregon, $17018; mixed, $16.60(10
10.60; alfalfa, $13.60; clover, $11(3)
13; cheat, $I3 14.60.
Grain bags 6jc each.
Butter City creamery, extras, 30)c
por pound; fancy outside creamery,
MKGWOHc; store, 20c. Butter fat
prices avurago 1 Me per pound under
regular butter prices.
Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 270
Re per dozon.
Poultry Hens, 1i)W)lGc per pound;
springs, 14X6tl6c; roosters, 90lOc;
ducks, young, 12)013c; geese, young,
9010c; turkeys, 20c; squabs, $1,76(3
2 per dozon.
Pork Fancy, 110HXc per pound;
Veal Extras, UJ01Oc por pound;
ordinary, 708c; heavy, 7c.
Hops 1009 contracts, 21022c por
pound; 1908 crop, 16c; 1907 crop,
12c; 1006 crop, 8c.
Wool hastem Oregon, 16023c por
pound; valley,
choice, 24(72 26c.
Cuttlo Stcors,
2325c; mohnlr,
top, $4,60: fair to
good, $104.25; common, $.1.7504;
cows, top, $3,60; fair to good, $364
3.26; common to medium, $2.5002.76;
calves, top, $506.50; heavy, $3,60
4; bulls and stags, $2.7603.76.
Sheep Top wethers, $4,26; fair to
good, $3.6003.76; owes, 'c less on
all grados; yearlings, best, $4: fair to
good, $3,60(g3.76; spring lambs, $6.26
(05.60.
Hogs Best, $9(39,25 ; fair to good,
$8(18.60; stockers, $607; China fats.
$0.7607.
SWEDEN FEARS REVOLT.
General Strike Gives Excuse for Re
volution by Socialists,
Stockholm, Aug. 4, Not only has
tho strike of 100,000 workmen largely
paralyzed Industry nnd traffic, hut It
threatens to develop into n revolution
ary movement under the leadership of
tho Young Socialist party nnd to In
volve every Industry, thus making the
pnralvsla complete. The king litis sum-
moneil a stieclul session of parliament
and tho entire army is kept re inly for
immediate action.
Forewarned of the purioso of tho
Young Socialists to givo the strike a
revolutionary turn, the government has
decided nt the first sign of Insurrection
to declare Stockholm in n state of siege
nnd has quartered soldiers In various
sections of the city nnd suburbs.
A civil corps guard is being organis
ed for the protection of property nnd
the banks nre closed nnd guarded.
All tho ferries ruunnlng out of Stock
holm have censed operation nnd the
largest steamers engaged In carry big
visitors nnd residents to the seaside re
sorts In the nrchlpclngo havo suddenly
stopped running, discharged their crews
and laid up for the winter. The sum
mer traffic Is usually continued until
October,
It Is expected.thnt the present total
nf nbout 100,000 Idle workmen will be
largely Increased by tomorrow. It Is
anticipated also that the streetcar ser
vice In Stockholm will stop, nnd ar
rangements are being made to run the
waterworks and the electrlo light
plants by utldler.
WAR MENACES CHICAQO.
Traction Companies Make Carbarns
Camps lor Strikebreakers.
Chicago, Aug. 4. Active prepara
tions to meet a strike nre being made
by officials of the streot railway lines of
this city. Old power houses are being
fitted up ns nloeptng quarter for
strikebreakers.
E. L. Reed, who organized the Em
ployers' Teaming company, which
broke thu teamsters' strike In 1906
has charue of the hiring of nonunion
men. He stated that he had on call
6,000 men competent to handle street
car and that 160 men Here available
In Boston and 100 In Kansas City. Ar
rangements have been madowllhea
tcrers to feed the nonunion men In tho
barna and power houses.
Tho companies aim to prevent a
complete tie up on any of their lines
nnd It Is said csrs will be kept run
ning, no matter what the present em
ployes determine to do.
Special notice were sent out by tho
secretaries of the two principal unions
to the various barns with Instruction
that tho men be urged to cast their
veto on thu strike referendum Thurs
day.
Member of tho Illinois stntn board
of arbitration have started for Chicago
to sea If they can avert the trouble,
Ily reason of the qussl-partnershlp
of this city In the surface traction
lines, Mayor Buase, Acting Chief of
Police 3chuettler and M. II. Merely.
tho municipal traction expert, held a
conference today on the aubject of the
threatened strlko.
POLIOE GUARD DOUBLED.
New Outbreak of 8trlklng Japs In
Hawaii Is Feared
Honolulu, Aug. 4. A a result of a
story published In a local paper that T.
Mori, who today attempted to kilt 8.
Sheba, editor of thu Japanese conserv
ative paper Shlppo, had been chosen by
lot to assassinate Sheba because of his
opposition to tho strike of the planta
tion laborers, the police are working
on tho theiry that the deed was planned
at n meeting of strikers held here yes
terday. No evidence, however, has
been found by the authorities to Indi
cate that there is any truth In the
story.
Mori freoly admit that It was bis
Intention to kill Sheba, declaring that
tho Japunese editor Is an etneny to his
race nnd that ho Intended to punish
him for his opposition to thu strlko for
higher wages, Invontlgatlon by the
police developed thnt Mori bought tho
knife and had It sharpened preparatory
to his annex.
Soldiers Not Mob Then.
Son Francisco, Aug. 4. In sustain
ing a domurrer to a damage In the
Superior court today, Su(Kirkr Judge
I-rank G. Mornsky hold that thu sol
dlcrs who destroyed stores of liquor
wbllo Han I-ranclsco wan burning, in
April, 1906, wore not a mob in tho
legal sonso of tho word, and that tho
city was, thoreforo, not liable to n
claim for $1,074. Suit for that sum
was brought by Conrad Huber, a sa
loonkeeper, who charged that his sup
ply of liquor was confiscated. Another
action was decided in tho same way.
Liabilities of Over 80,000,000.
Now York, Aug. 4, Liabilities of
$0,668,348 nnd assets of $8,396,028
aro shown In tho schedules of Shopard
& Co., tho bond brokerage houso which
failed April last, filed today. All but
a few thousand dollar of the claims
aro unsneurod. The firm was heavily
Interested In railroad project and In
dustrial enterprises In Now Moxlco,
MANY ARE TOO LATE
Scores Arrive at Snokano Alter
Registration Is Closed.
REGISTRATION IS NOW 285,023
Hfty-Threo Steel Boxes Hold the Ap
plications, Which Weigh 3,000
Pounds-Clerks Busy,
8M)knn, Wash., Aug. 7. Total np
pllcatlons for Indian reservation land
received nt Judge James M. Widen'
olllce at Coeur d'Alene yesterdny were
reported ulllclnlly Inst night ns follows:
Coeur d'Alene 1,120, total for wlioln
registration period, 105,6:1(1; Spokena
2.707, total U9,tl2H; Mlssouln 6,6:11,
Kalispell 73.1, total for Flnthcnd lands,
80,669. Grnnd total thus far received
for nil Innd 286,623.
Judgo Wltten'a force ha been busy
turning uway score of belated nppl.
cant fur Indian Innd, the tnldnlglit
hour Thursday night having closed tho
olllclnl registration. Applications am
still in the malls nnd will be rceived
for severnl day.
Coeur d'Alene booths, stands and
platforms used by notaries nnd lunch
vender nre being torn down nnd the
whole city present n remodeling
specL At the land olllce 00 clerks
hnvo been placed for the drawings, nnd
tables and platforms arranged. There
are now 63 steel cans In. the ofilce con
taining the applications, divided as
follows; Spoksne, 19; Coeur d'Alene.
20; Flsthead 13. The application
weigh 2,060 pound without the can.
CARLI8TS TO HELP.
Don Jaime Will Offer Spain 100,000
Men and His Ssrvlcea.
Cerbere. France. Aug. 7. The Car-
list leader will hold n meeting shortly
nt n French frontier town to decide
upon their nttltude In view of recent
event, It waa!d today. Afterward.
It Is understood, Don Jaime, the Span
Ish pretender, will Issue a manifesto
declaring that he has no Intention to
profit by the misfortunes of his coun
try, but that. If the present govern
ment la powerless to save the honor of
the nation he will acL
The Carllst ssy that they are In a
position to arm and place In 'the field
quickly 100,000 supporter, burning
with zeal.
Coupled with this announcement
comes the news thnt affair at Rarro
lona are far from satisfactory. While
qulot reigns In the city nt present, a
far ns actual revolt goes, the jtollce are
still busy arresting people whom they
nllrge were Implicated In the recent
outbreak, and public feeling Is grow
ing resentful of their activity.
It is nlso reported Hint prisoners held
In the Mont Julsh fortress havo bem
executed, nnd prominent revolutionist
made tho threat yesterday that If such
action were taken another outbreak
would follow.
STRIKE MAY 8DON DIE OUT.
Dliienslrn Breaks Out Among the
Workmen at Stockholm,
Stockholm, Aug. 7. Tho tense situ
ation arising from the general strlko
proclaimed a few days ago seemed to
be relaxing tonlghL The grave dinger
returned to work today nnd dissension
Is apparent In tho ranks of the other
strikers. Tho owner of some of tho
larcst plant In Stockholm announce
that their men will return to work
Monday.
M. von Sldow. president of the Em-
ployer' Federation, declared tonight
thnt Intervention by the government
would be without result, ns thu differ
ence wero too great to be settled In
such a manner. Tho National Lnbor
union published a stntoment disapprov
ing tho strlko of thu electric light nnd
gns workers, which bctran last nlcht.
Tho electric plant was kept In altera
tion by olllclals of the lighting depart
ment.
Ah the strikers havo been prevent
ing farmer from bringing provision
into the city, troops have been detailed
to pttrol tho country road.
China Replies to Russia,
Pekln, Aug. 7. China today sent In
hur mply to tho Russian noto of July
2, regurdlng the opening of tho Sun
gnrl nnd other rivers to International
trade. Sho montlon. tho Algun trenty
and the Russian treaties concerned,
and refers to Russia's right to tnko
part In framing tlio rulos to govern tho
navigation of these streams. Shu doe
not deny thnt tho treaties In quostlon
hnvo n certain validity, but avoid
specifying tho extent to which she con
sldor they hnvo boon modified by tho
Ruaso-Jnpuneso poaco treaty,
Mobs Cheer Prohibition,
Montgomery, Aug. 7,Amld street
scenes of wild enthusiasm, tho bill
making prohibition constitutional
passed the houso today.