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The Aurora Boreali VOL. I. AUKORA, OREGON, TUURSDAY, SEPTEMBEIt 24, 1008. NO. 22. BRIEF NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK Condensed Dispatches from All Pans of the Two Hemispheres. Intonating Events from Outside th'iw" sir"es nave within the past Stat. Pres.nt.d in a Mannar to' ,Tnths ccn a,,.owcd to beco Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader 'l b,,at.of or8a"'d and aggres- Matter of National, Historical and Commercial Importance. A forest fire threatens to burn the house at Ballston, N. Y., where Grant died. Forest fires in Pennsylvania have already burned over 30,000 acres, and are still burning. A New York lawyer has just been arrested for defrauding a woman many years ago. VV. B. McAllister, of Omaha, has been appointed land agent for the Southern Pacific. Four out of a party of seven lost their lives when a launch was wrecked on the Long Island sound. The students of the Missouri school for the blind have taken to roller skating, and make quite a success of it. Long dry spells have dried up many rivers in the - East, and forest fires cover the whole Atlantic coast with smoke. The trans-Atlantic liner Mauretania lost a propeller blade in a storm, and for hours lay helpless. There was a panic among the passengers. Zia Bey, head of the Turkish secret police under the old regime, has had to flee the capital for hi life, and pays he is coming to Oregon to live. The battleship fleet'has sailed from Albany, Australia, for Manila. Von Buelow declares Germany is in favor of peace and arbitration. A retired steel magnate of New Jersey was shot and killed by his con fidential clerk. Orville Wright was bidly hurt and his companion killed while making a trip in his aeroplane. A Swedish explorer has just reached Simla, India, after nearly a year spent in the interior of Thibet. Colonel Stewart has been ordered back to his lonely post at Fort Grant, without taking the riding test. Mexican and Japanese sailors fought desperately on a wrecked ship to escape from drowning, but all were finally saved. Letters have been made public which seem to prove that Senator J. B. Foraker is in the pay of the Standard Oil company. It is said alarming cholera reports have been sent out from certain cities in China in order to get contributions from superstitious Chinese. J. J. Hill says the day of cheap wheat is over, that the food problem is a serious one. and that the govern ment should be building schools of agriculture as well as warships. Taft will make three big campaign tours. Chicago's population is placed at 1,024,060 by the recent school census. Seattle banks will sell the bonds of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition A Minnesota woman walked 350 miles to visit the grave of her hus band near Chicago. French troops routed a strong tribe ot congo natives wno iraae in con traband arms and slaves. A ncsTO was lynched for shooting a white man in Louisiana, though the latter was not seriously hurt A Baptist moderator in Kentucky died of heart failure when his son was arrested for selling liquor. The French press is irritated by the German criticism of the tranco Spanish note regarding Morocco. Chicae-o healh officials found fish that had been stored 10 months in the warehouse of the Booth company that failed recently. Four crooked bankers arraigned in Tudire Dunne's court in San Fran cisco broke down and wept, and plead for a reduction of bail. A commission appointed to inver tigate New York's high buildings has decided that they cannot be limited as to height, but restrictions provid ing for light and air can be enforced. Evelyn Thaw, reduced to poverty, will return to the stage. A Southern woman led a mob of lynchers against the assailant of her daughter. A Canadian Pacific strikebreaker at Winnipeg nearly caused a riot by hooting one of the strikers. A practical joker at Windsor, Mo, touchrd off a ear of powder, killing seven persons and injuring 30. The president of the Chicago schxl the best board favors spanking as , , ' .. ... -i method ot overcoming the frat evil Stockholders and directors of the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- road are coming to the Pacific coast, NEGLECTS GRAND CANAL. China Laying Up TroubU for Futurt, Says Critic. Shanghai, Sept. 21. A writer in the North China Herald protests against the ruin which is being allowed to overtake the great triumph of engi neering, the Grand Canal of China. The government, he points out .is al lowing the canal to go to decay. The ...vi 11.113, n IIVJ mic llliu ICJI1I (launches and plunder passenger boats and cargo boats indiscriminately. In the upper regions of the canal there is, on the other hand, a constant shortage of water, or so much that it cannot be utilized. A more perfect provision by nature of vast natural dams in the great lakes of southwest Shantung and northern Kaingsu it would be difficult to find anywhere, but they are either unused or mis used. The writer goes on to allude to the silting-up of the erratic Yellow river, which is now in many places as much above the level of all the surrounding country as the second story of a house above the ground. Those who know best, he says, predict another tre mendous calamity from this source in the not distant future. Then there will be exclamations of surprise that it did not come sooner, and howls for funds for "relief." Millions of Chi nese will be impoverished, hundreds of thosands of them will be rendered homeless, and tens of thousands of them drowned and starved. IOWA SYSTEM NOT LEGAL. Federal Court Strikes at Evasion of Prohibition Law. Davenport, la.; Sept. 21. According to a decision rendered Saturday by Judge Smith McPherson, of the United States circuit court, the Iowa mulct law system, under which ? loons are now operating, is illegal. Judge McFherson further declares the Iowa mulct law is no license system and that there has been no license system in Iowa for the last quarter of a century, and for that time there has never been a lawful sale of liquor a beverage within the state of Iowa. He further holds that no per son under any circumstances, can lawfully sell liquor as a beverage in Iowa. The decision was made in a suit of the United Breweries Com panies of Chicago vs. the Civic Fed eration of Davenport. The complain ants charged the federation with a conspiracy, and sought to enioin them from abating property on which a sa loon had been closed. Judge McPher son denied the application for a writ of injunction. Under "the mulct law Iowa saloonkeepers have been paying $600 annually as a tax, with the un derstanding that it legalized their sale of intoxicating liquors and gave them relief from the old prohibitionary law, which is still on the statute books. BIG GUNS ROAR IN PARIS. Sleep Almost Impossible to Citizens During Military Maneuvers. Paris, Sept, 21. Sleep in Paris has been almost out of the question these last nights, and Parisians and their American and 'other foreign visitors are getting a very good idea of what it feels like to be in a besieged city The French military maneuvers this year are on a larger scale than ever before, more than 100,00!) men taking part in them, and every effort has been made to keep the conditions as nearly as possible to those of actual warfare. A supposed German army is endeavoring to repeat what the Prussians did in 1870-71, while French ariny is defending the city with bulldog-like tenacity. This is why you drink your absinthe amidst the thunder of guns which roar and belch fire from every fort in the triple line of defenses which sur rounds Paris like a wall of steel, and fond though the French are of mili tary display and the smell of powder, they begin to wish it was all over, that they might eat and sleep in peace. Plan Present for Kaiser. Berlin, Sept. 21. The rumors pre vailing regarding the existence of profitable diamond fields in German Southwest and Southeast Africa ire about to receive confirmation. Th colonial secretary, Herr von Dern burg, will on his return from Africa present the kaiser with a golden cas ket full of rough diamonds from the German colonies. The casket, which has been manufactured by a .Cape Town jeweler, is five inches long and two inches wide. The lid of the box is inset with seven lage diamonds Heads Off Hill's Road. Winnipeg, Sept. 21. By the pur chase of the Alberta Irrigation com pany's line in South Alberta for 120, i000 000, the Canadian Pacific railroad intends mmng inr v-r-iw .-tii fce main ,ine0 he Pacific eOM to head off the Great ftortftern. wnicn; road, it is said, has been trying to get .control of this railway lor years. NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS BENTON COUNTY WINS. Great Variety of Splendid Prqduc'S Takes First Prize. Salem. Benton county has won first place in the county exhibit com petition, and can now claim to be the banner agricultural county of the state. The awards were made by the three judges, Charles ClevclatyJ, oj uresnam; r. it. acrioner, ot wiscon- m, and K. L. Swaggert, of Umatilla county. Lane county was given sec ond place, 'Yamhill third, Multnomah fourth. Polk fifth. Columbia sixth and Clatsop seventh. Kenton s victory was won by a plendid display put up by Frank Groves, of Corvallis, who evidently spared no effort to make the exhibit complete. While his commercial ap ple pack is not so large nor so at tractive as that from Yamhill, he cov- red a wider range of products, and xcelled in other particulars. Neither Benton nor Lane made a particularly strong feature of any one line of products, and the general public had difficulty in deciding which county made the better exhibit. Marion county had an exhibit which would have been a strong rival for' first place, but this county is barred under the rules, because the fair is held here, and Marion wchild have an dvantage in that respect. Benton a display comprises about every product mat can be grown in Oregon. The peaches, apples, plums, prunes, grapes, garden vegetables, seeds, grains, grasses, dairy products, . etc., are all represented by specimens of surpass ing excellence. ONE TRUANT OFFICER BEST. County School Superintendents Make Recommendations. Salem. Twenty-eight county su perintendents were in attendanc at the conference of superintendents here. A general informal discussion was had and a number of resolutions were adopted proposing changes in the plan of school management. Among other things it was recom mended that there be one truant of ficer for each county instead of sev eral, as at present; that the county court be authorized to pay tuition in high schools for children who have no . high school opportunities in their own districts; that county institutes be held for four days instead of three, and that teachers receive pay for five days instead of three; that the holding of the eighth grade examinations be again placed in the hands of the teach ers, but with uniform questions, as at present. Infected Orchard Razed. Grants Tass. The first instance of the real enforcement of the fruit in specting law to a letter was exampled n the destruction of the orchard on the Cass place, just south of town. The fruit trees on this place have stood for several years without any care, because the estate was in liti gation in the courts. The authorities had notified the owners and parties interested, but no heed was taken. Finally the county fruit inspector or dered the trees all grubbed up, as they were deemed a public danger and nuisance. Complaint Against Rates. Salem. Another complaint relative to excessive tariffs on grain from east ern Oregon to Portland has been filed by George FeeMer of Pendleton la the office of the railroad commission. The complaint covers virtually the same points as wre eovered by the investi gation of the railroad commission, for which hearings were ordered to be held the latter part of the month, both at Wasco and Pendleton. Contract for Hatchery Let. Tillamook. Master Fish Warden Mc Allister has let a contract to F. A. Erix- of Salem to build the Trask fish hatchery, the contract price being $l,8s2. work to commence immediately. No bids were received from1 Tillamook. Superintendent Sprague will be re tained at the Trask hatchery. II is at present placing the Walla Walla hatch ery in working order. Milk Factory for Eugene. Eugene. It is practically assured that Eugene will have a milk-con densing plant that will handle 20,000 nounds of milk daily, and which will be in operation withn half a year Some days ago C. E. Rogers was here looking over the situation tor his as sociatcs. It is stated positively that the project will be pushed to comple tion at an early date. Wallowa to Have Courthouse. Enterprise. The eouaty court has reept,ed plane for a eoorthonse, to cost 130.000. Bids for foundation and tase ment win te adverted for immediate ly in order that the foundation at least nrmy i pu in mis imu. nuiowi cuu ty has ben set aprt from Union conn ty 20 years, and thie will be the first courthouse erected la tbe county. Notaries Commissioned. Salem. Commissions a notaries hve been issued to L. F. Fa!kentein North uenn; i, v. nuenger. y Moser and Edwin G. Amme, I ort- jland. PARTS OF OREGON TREE YIELDS S25 IN NUTS. Unn County Soil Is Well Adapted for English Walnuts. Albany. A big walnut tree in the yard of the residence of L. E. Blain, in this city, shows the possibilities of walnut culture in this part of the state. Though it stands on the poor est kind of land for fruit growing, and ha never received scientific culture. the tree this year produced $23 worth of nuts. This shows the immense profit of an acre of similar trees. The nuts have not yet been nicked. but it is conservatively estimated that the tree contains at least 1U0 pounds. Mr. Blain never seels the nuts, keeping them for his own use, but this week he relused an offer of 25 cents a pound for the entire product of his tree. This tree is 14 years old. and stands 30 feet high. It is a French walnut of the Mayette variety. Mr. Blain believes that had it been properly trimmed when young and placed in good soil, like that of the Santiam bottoms, in tins county, it would have attained its present growth and bear ing qualities in seven or eight years xoung trees now growing under these conditions give evidence of verifying that belief. Walnut culture has received a bia impetus in Linn county in the past Year, and many small orchards are being planted. The acreage was ap proximately doubled during the past year, and there are now about 500 acres devoted to commercial walnut growing in this county. All of these trees were planted in the last three or four years, however, and are not yet bearing for the market, but in a few years the walnuf output of Linn county will be notable. New Mill Soon Ready. Waldport. The new ahlnsrle mil building is nearing completion and wil, soon be in operation. Tho company has purchased 500 cords of shingle bolts from William Brooks and will begin naming next week. Mr. Daly of Port land has the contract for the hauling and will put on a number of logging teams. The bolts will be hauled from he Brooks farm, four miles below Wald Iport, acroM to WalJport slough and brought down by scow. The company nas made extensive plans for the manu facture of shingles and a large number ox men will be given employment. Japs Get Big Tract. The Dalles. The Columbia Land & Produce company, a corporation of Jap aneso which was incorporated some few weeks ago, has purchased about 1,000 acres of land on Eight Mile, to be pro pared at once for planting to fruits and garden truck. The produce raised on the place will be principally marketed in Portland. If the growing of produce is given as much scientific attention as the purchase of tbe land, Portland mar kets will receive some excellent pro duce next year. To Continue Publicity Work. Marshfield. The Marshfiefd cham ber of commerce will keep open for another year. The annual subscrip tions have expired, but. more money has been subscribed, and the publicity work will be continued. It was de cided to retain Walter Lyons as sec retary for the next year. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Club, 88c per bushel; forty- fold, 90c; turkey red, 00c; fife, 88c; bluestem, 02c; valley, 88c. Barley Feed. $25 per ton; rolled. $27.50(i28; brewing. $26 50. Oats No. 1 white, $28.50(29 per ton; gray. $27.5028. Hay Timothy. Willamette 'Valley. $14 per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi nary, til; Eastern Oregon, $16.50; mixed, $13; clover, $9; alfalfa, til; al falfa meal. $20. Fruit Apples, new, 50c(7i$1.25 box: peaches, 25firi.65c per box; pears, 20(1$ 60c per box; plums, 50c(u.$l per box; grapes, 75c( $1.50 per crate; figs, $1 per box. Potatoes 80c(7i$100 per hundred; sweet potatoes, 2c per pound. Melons Cantaloupes, 75c('i$l per crate; watermelons, l(n; pound; ca sabas, $22.50 per dozen. Vegetables lurnips, $1.50 per sack; carrots. $1.75; parsnips. $1.75; beets, $1.50; artichokes, 65c per doz ; beans, 5c per pound; cabbage, 2c per pound; cauliflower, $1.25 dozen; cel ery, 75cfa$l per dozen; corn, 12ic per dozen; cucumbers, ZOfiliOc per box; egg plant, $1.25 per crate; lettuce, head, 15c per dozen; parsley. 15c vet dozen; peas, 6c per pound; peppers, SlftlOc per pound; pumpkins. Ifailjc per pound; radishes, 12jc per dozen; spinach. 2c per pound; sprouts, 10c per pound; squash, 40c per dozen; tomatoes, 3.y40c. Buter Extras, Stic per lb.; fancy, 27c; choice, 25c; store, 18c. Eggs Oregon extras, 2829c; firsts, 25'fl2flc; seconds, 22'fi23c; thirds. 1520c; Eastern, 25&27C per dozen. Poultry Mixed chickens, llftlllc pound; fancy hens. 12Ktl3c; roost ers, 10c; spring. Ullc; ducks, old, I2r'il2jc; spring. 14Hl5c; geese, old 8c; young, ioc; turkeys, old, 17Sl8c; young. 2oc. Veal Extra, 8!c per pound; or dinary. 7fi.7c; heavy, c iorn rincy. bic per pouna; ordi- stay in japan until early in Novem-ion his wild dash to the :ii!s and di$ nary, 6c; large, Sc. . ber. appeared. DRAINS OUT CRATER. Wonder Performed by Earthquake in Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu, Sept. 8, via San Fran cisco, Sept. 1G. A slight earthquake was felt on the island of Hawaii Fri day night, September 4, and at mid night the molten lava in the pit of the volcano of Kilauea suddenly ceased rising and immediately began to run out below, the surface looking like the water in a bathtub from which the plug had been pulled. Ihe molten lava ran rapidly away, towering the level instantly and continuously until by Saturday morn ing, or in something like seven or eight hours, the 000 feet depth of lava in the pit had all run out, and, except for the cooling sides of the pit, there was no fire seen or heat elt. As the lava lowered in the nit the walls scaled off in great masses, Jropping into the molten lava below them. The few who were fortunate enough to see this wonderful phe nomena describe it as most awe-inspiring. Ihe lava in the pit. then about 000 or looo feet deep, began to rise nearly ihree years ago, and had been rising jrauuany since, until it was within ibout 100 feet of the top of the pit it is supposed that the earUiquaks pened some fissure below by which he lava flowed out. DCrhan under the sea. On Saturday night another slight earthquake was felt, and at midninht Saturday it was observed that activ- ty in the pit had begun again, molten lava being thrown uo in fountains nore than 100 feet high, and at latest ccounts the lava had strain risen ana icci in me pit. DIE IN FOREST FIRES. Flames Oveicome White Man and Six Indians In Minnesota. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 10. Grand Ma rais is girdled by roaring mountains f fire and smoke, and it is believed hat a man named Monker and six ndians, cut off from town by fire in heir efforts to save homesteaders at Nestor, have perished in the flames. This is the news brought in at noon today by Adjutant-General Wood ind officers of the Minnesota naval nilitia, who arrived on the Gopher 'rom the north shore. They say the langer is not yet over by any means. Lutzen, a small settlement near jrand Marais, is in the greatest dan rer, say the naval militiamen. It is urrounded by fire, and everything here seems doomed to destruction, ilthough it is not thought that any oss of life will occur. At Colville, six miles from Grand Marais everything went, says Gen era i vvoou. "The situation looks very bad at 'I. ! n ii tmc,Ko iay, saiu commander Eaton, "and some nconle wanted u '.o declare martial law there, but we lid not deem it necessary. How ever, we left ten men from the shin here. I'orty men from the boat were eft to fight the fire at Lutzen. and JO more were left at Grand Marais." The officers of the Goohcr declare hat the gravity of the situation on the north shore has not been exag gerated in tne least. SUBMITS TO TERMS. Mulal Hafid Agrees to Be Bound by Aigeclras Act. Paris, Sept. 15 The Franco-Span- :sh note on the subject of the recog nition of Mulal Hafid as sultan of Morocco was yesterday transmitted to the powers signatory to the Al- ?eciras convention. Mulai Hafid's letter to the diplo matic corps at Tangier reached Paris yesterday. He announces his proc 'amation as sultan, which, he says, ibliges him to execute the engage ments of the Algeciras act. Mulai Hafid agrees to recognize the treaties concluded bv his orede- lessors, notably that of the Altrerlra act, which he considers the basis of he prosperity and progress of the empire froi both the political and economic standpoints, since it Guar antees independence for the country nd provides useful reforms. Mulai Hafid concludes with expressions of hope that the powers on an equal footing will aid him in the elaboration ind execution of the proposed re forms. Fire In Tunnel Kills Two. Detroit, Sept. 16 It is believed to day that more bodies may be recov ered from the new tunnel under the river here, in which a fire last night s known to have cost two lives. More than 200 workmen were in the tunnel when the fire broke out, and several were overcome. Had the accident not occurred just at midnight, while ibout one-third of the force was at lunch, the list of fatalities would nrobab'y huve been much greater. The fire, which is still burning, de stroyed all of the work on the Can adian side of the tunnel. Merchants to Visit Japan. San Francisco, Sept. 16 The dele- gation of Pacific coast merchants who will visit Japan this fall wilt sail September 25, on .the Tengo Maru, riding through the streets of Pagosa for Yokohama.. They will represent Junction at breakneck speed, shot Seattle, Portland. San Francisco, Eu-jand killed Amee Baker, the 4 year-old reka, Fresno, Los Angeles. San daughter of James Baker, a member Diego and Other cities. They will; of the lite irllm Th A rnnCnn.J PUTS $4,000,000 AT EACH PLATE Pittsburg Steel King Gives a Novel Dinner Party. W. H. Singer Celebrates JHis Golden Wedding by Fulfilling . Promises Made Years Ago, to "Distribute) Wealth Among Youngsters In Tlm to Oo Them Some Good. rittsburar. Ta.. Sent: 17 A t, golden wedding supper recently given by him and his wife. W. H. Sinar one of the Pittsburg steel magnates, distributed $16,ooo.ooo among his four children, each child getting $4,000,000. m rung n me nung of certain papers in the Allegheny county courthouse yesterday this fact came out. and was la" admitted by the Singer family, . . " ? une l ,ne and oldest in Pittsburir. The millir.nir. ;nu;..i his children to assist in celebrating his golden wedding anniversary on May 27. The children were the only guests, and each found by his or her plate a small "dinner favor," consist ing of checks, bonds and deeds amounting to $4,000,000. The Singer children who received t4.ooo.ooo each are: William Henry Singer, Jr., land scape painter, now in Norway. George Singer, iron manufacturer. Pittsburg, now in the White moun tains on his vacation. MTm William Ko Troctor, wife of a 1 hiladelphm architect. Marguerite Singer, youngest daugh ter. now Jiving with her parents. Mr. Singer made his fortune in Iron as a member of the famous iron firm of Singer. Nimick & Co. He also is connected with many banking insti tutions in Pittsburg, and is considered one of the very rich men of the coun try, his remaining fortune, after giv '" "' children their share, being Mrs. Mnger, who has a fortune of her own, made through investments by her husband, received several pieces of valuable real estate as her golden wedding present. A peculiar feature of the case was made known late yesterday. William Henry SHiger, the son, who chose an arh.iic career rather than the iron business as his life's work, will scarce ly be able to enjoy his millions in America, owing to the great fear his wife bears for the "Black Hand." She received a threatening letter at her home in Sewickley, and it frightened her into hysterics. Her husband was finally compelled to take her abroad. It is said they will remain permanent ly in Norway, as Mr. Singer expects, in spite of his wealth, to spend all his time in painting. Mr, Singer is following the policy bid down by his life-long friend, Charles Lockhart, of the Standard Oil company, who some years before his death, invited all his children to a dinner party, at which, under each plate, was found $ 1,000,000. Lock hart and Singer many years ago prom ised each other that they would be gin to distribute their wealth among their children "in time to do the youngsters some good." GETS ANOTHER ROAD. Union Pacific Secures Control of Chi , cago & Northwestern. Chicago, Sept. 16 A report from Wall street of a traffic agreement be tween the Union Pacific and the Chi cago & Northwestern, amounting to complete control of the latter road by the former, gained strength yes terday in financial circles on the re fusal of Marvin Hughitt, president of the Northwestern, to discuss state ments made in the Wall Street Sum mary under the head of "Harriman Properties." The report is that the Harriman In. terests have absorbed the Chicago & Northwestern by the simple device of a guarantee on the stocks of the latter company. It is pointed out in the article, which appears to be inspired, that the strateiretic nosition of the Chicago & Northwestern is such that it will not come within the meaning of the law that prohibits merging or single control of parallel competing railways. Lightning Slays Birds. Sn Francisco. Sept. 17. The Pa cific Mail liner City of Para, which arrived yesterday from Panama and way ports two days ahead of time, was struck by lightning during a he;vy electrical storm encountered Muni st 30, when steaming from Aca jutla to San Jose de Guatemala. The vessel was struck several times. The only damage sustained by the liner was the loss of the foretopmast, which was shattered into splinters. In the morning after the storm had passed, thousands of ded birds were gathered up on the bridge, awnings snd decks. Indian Murders Recklessly. Denver, Colo., Sept. 17. Frank Howe, a 15-year-old Indian boy, got I possession of revolver tnA- mA