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VOL. I.
AUHOItA, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1008.
NX). 23.
The
At
BRIEF NEWS OF
THE PAST WEEK
Condensed Dispatches from All Pans
- of the Two Hemispheres.
Interesting Events from Outside the
State Presented in Manner to
v Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader
Matters of National, Historical
nd Commercial Importance.
The Indiana legislature ha fined a
local option law.
A steamer has arrived at San Fran
cisco with a case of cholera.
Turkey Is arr-nging for its first elec
tion when a pa:. lament will be selected.
The Amprif-n battleships Maine and
Atlanta hare left Naples on their way
home.
English authorities declare the sav
ing banks in schools of London have
proven a failure.
The Canadian Pacific is said to have
bought the White Pass railroad, which
runs from Skngway to Whitekorso.
Home of the railroads are almost short
on rolling stock after months when
there were idle cars on every sidetrack.
The coroner's jury hold the freight
crew to blame for the wreck on tha
Northern Pacific at Youngs Point, Mon
tana. The first word from Peary has been
received by the Pcry Arctic club. He
left North Greenland for the north Au
gust 17.
Miss Katherine Klkins, of West Vir
ginia, will marry an Italian duke. On
their way home the couple will be es
corted by several Italian warships.
Leslie Carter, one-time capitalist
and promoter of Chicago, is dead.
Cholera in Manila will prevent the
reception to the fleet as planned.
Fire at Oakland, Cal., destroyed al
most an entire block, entailing a loss
of $100,000.
The wind has died down and dan
ger from the Eureka, Cal., forest fires
has greatly abated.
J. E. VV. Clark, an Alaskan, is on a
visit to Pacific coast cities and has
just seen his first trolley car.
The epidemic of cholera at Manila
seems to be under control. The daily
average of new cases has fallen be
low 30.
Roosevelt has refused to grant a
petition to stop Sunday baseball in the
army, declaring that the game is fine
exercise for the men.
A combination has been formed by
Pacific and Atlantic steamship com
panies to secure European trade in
competition with the transcontinental
railroads.
Representatives from the principal
cities of the Pacific coast have started
on a trin to Japan to cultivate the
friendly relations of the brown bus
iness men and offset anti-Japanese
sentiment. ""
Thaw has been summoned to ruts
burg for contempt in connection with
hi. KinWruntcv proceedings. This is
said to be a part of the scheme to
liberate him.
Charges of bribery are being made
in Indiana s local option ngni
Rockefeller had a narrow escape
from injury in an automobile acci
dent. Eastern Oregon has had its first
snow. Only a flurry lastiog a few
minutes fell.
Fortland is to close up its red light
district, and extra police have been
provided for the purpose.
A fire believed to be of incendiary
origin destroyed $100,000 worth of
property at Redding, Cal.
Wu Ting Fang. Chinese minister
to the United States, is to be replaced
in November. Chung Men Yew is to
be his successor.
The French bark Vendee, from
PrtrtUnrl for the United Kingdom.
kit crnne ashore off the California
coast, and may be a total loss,
carried wheat.
She
r.mrat - Rell. while in the Yellow
stone park, rode 300 miles on horse
back, averaging 100 miles a day, thu
proving his fitness, according to th-:
Roosevelt test.
As special officers were about to
raid a counterfeiter's den near Seattle
the building took fire and burned
One man was caught with bar metal
on his person.
By the explosion of a gun at Tou
lon 13 French sailors were killed and
a cruiser badly damaged.
Hearst may run for governor o
New York on the Independent ticket
Authorities believe that the vigor
on, methods employed have checked
the spread of cho'era in the Phil-p
pines.
Fire destroyed the plant of the
Portland Mill Fixture company at
Portland, entailing a loss of $33 000
The legislative halls of Indian
w the scene of a small riot rtni'
police interferred. Local option wa
the trouble. -
RUSSIA BEGRUDGES MONEY.
)
Bureaucracy Weight Dollars Heavier
Than Human Life,
Ft. Petersburg, Sept. 28 The bu
reaucracy of St. Petersburg is weighing
dollars against human life, and as a re
suit Russia is today threatened with
one of the gravest cholera scourges in
the history of the empire.
Premier Stolypin. into whose hand
the work of enforcing imperative sani
tary reforms was recently placed, is
meeting with discouragement from those
in authority on every hand. They are
protesting vigorously against the enor
motis expense involved in cleaning up
the city, and as a result of their oppo
sition the work will probably be only
half done.
One of Premier Stotypin's proposals
is a complete new system of sewerage,
the estimated cost of which is $40,000.
000. ' '
It i being pleaded that the advent
of cold weather will put an end to the
cholera spread, whereas the history of
an ruoiera plagues has been that cold
weather is but a temporary check, being
followed in the ensuing spring by a re
currence of the scourge.
Had as conditions are In St. Peters
burg, they are hardly to be compared
with the menacing aspect of the dis
ease in other parts of the empire. In
scores of towns the wretched poverty of
the people, covered with the Ignorance
and superstition against remedial meas
ures, makes the work of guarding
against the fearful outbreak in the
spring an utter impossibility.
Doctors are appalled at the prospect
and say that whatever the outcome in
8t. Petersburg, there is no hope of im
provement elsewhere.
It is estimated that throughout Rus
sia there have already been 18,000
deaths from cholera. In many towns
"S per cent of the cases have terminated
fatally,
ABOLISH COLONIST RATES.
Plan Almost Unanimously Approved
by Western Railroads.
Chicago, Sept. 28 The colonization
of the western country is going to be
materially retarded if railroads be
tween Chicago and the Pacific Coast
carry out a plan which has been ad
vanced by executive officials. A prop
osition has received the approval of
nearly every railroad in the Western
Passenger association to abolish all low
or reduced rates after Jnnuary 1. 1909.
I ins tlutermmation has been reached
because of the alarm felt over the re
duction in net passenger revenues of
western roads. This reduction is laid at
the door of reduced rates, and genuine
alarm is felt for the future. Railroad
officials declare that with the 2 cent
rate generally there can be no reduced
rate without passing the margin of
profit.
It is estimated that western roads
have lost this season several millions
of dollars in passenger revenues, com
pared with what hey would have en
iovel had they maintained a minimum
2-cent rate west of Chicago. This con
clusion is based upon careful statistics
prepared by the Alton and other rail
roads, which show that railroads have
carried more passengers than ever, but
at a less net revenue than accrued from
a smaller movement. This can mean
only one thing, it Is said, and that is
the return of a minimum 2 cent rate
everywhere.
It is not expected that this change
can be brought about until the first of
the year, but it now seems certain that,
if the public desires reduced rates, they
can be had only by a return to the
3 cent basis.
CHINESE AVOID HEAD TAX.
Hundreds Admitted Into Canada on
False Statement.
Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 23. A scheme has
hist been laid bare by the controller of
Chinese immigration at Ottawa, which
is believed to be the most elaborately
conceived fraudulent device for effect
ing the Chinese "invasion" of Canada
ever perpetrated.
By means of this device hundreds of
voung Celestials have been flocking in
st the eastern ports of the Dominion
and escaping the $S00 head tax by
nassing themselves off as merchants or
other privileged classes. Canada has
thus been victimised through honoring
certificates of the charge d'affaires ad
'nterim and consul general at the im
nerial Chinese legation in Mexico.
Statistics in the trade and commerce
lepartment here show that 280 Chinese
immigrants were admitted into Canada
recently at the ports of Montreal an
Halifax alone, without paying the hea
tax and that not more than 15 Chinese
should have been so favored.
Land Grab Thwarted.
San Francisco, Sept. 28. State Min
eralogist Anbury after a long fight La
compelled II. II. Yard k Co., speculators
associated with the Western Parifl-
release their hold on 13,000 acres of rich
mineral land in riumas and Butte coon
ties. This land was located by lard
nd his associates some years ago. Later
Anburr filed an action in the land o
fice on the ground that while it had
beon taken as mineral land and wa
known to toataia minerals, the land
was desired for railroad purposes. Th
land office has now cancelled the lilin
Work for Young Teddy.
Hartford, Com- Sept. 23. Theodore
Roosevelt. Jr- Is to begin service wit
the Hartford Carpet Works at Thorn
nnville todar. It is thought he will
enter the operating department.
NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM
VARIOUS
SURVEYORS ARE BUSY.
Alturas-Midland Line Now Believed to
Be Assured.
Klamath Falls. -Engineer B. F.
nowlton, of the Southern Pacific
company, is establishing a large sur-
ey camp near Merrill, and is buying
orscs and supplies on an' extensive
ale. The survey is supposed to be
line from Alturas to connect with
he California Northeastern railway
it Midland, eight miles below Klam-
th Falls. Incorporation papers were
iled some weeks ago for the Modoc
Xorthcrn railway, and Engineer
Knowlton's surveying party is be-
eved to be here for the purpose ol
etcrmining' the location of this road
"rom northern California into southe
rn Oregon.
A railroad construction camp has
so been established two and a half
iles south of this city, where a sub
contractor of l.ricson and Peterson
as a contract for a mile and a half
f grade, to connect with the grade
ready completed through the marsh.
WALNUTS IN HIGH FAVOR.
Hundreds of Acres to Be Planted in
Yamhill County.
McMinnville. The planting of Eng-
sh walnuts in this county will be
one on a grand scale during the
coming season. This year over 1000
Kres were planted. A tract of 1000
acres has been platted near Amity and
old to be planted to walnuts. The
Oak Hill farm, near North Yamhill.
recently sold, has 40 or 50 acres in
rees, a good portion of them bearing.
nd the remainder of the 1016 acres
ill be planted to trees. The Jacobs-
Stine company, of Portland, has late-
acquired title to the Riverside or-
hards tract lying east of this city,
nd comprising 500 acres, which is
platted to sell to walnut planters.
business and professional men and
the neighboring farmers have set
apart at least louo acres for immediate
walnut planting in the vicinity of
McMinnville, whose name, the "Wal
nut Lity, is no empty one, since it
ill soon have 1500 acres of walnuts
n its vicinity.
Democrats File Nominations.
Salem. The Democratic party filed
s nominations for presidential elect
ors with the secretary ot state Sep-
cmbcr'18. It was the last day for
ling. The names of electors are as
follows: E. S. I. McAllister. Port
and; Samuel White, Baker City; Au
gust Huckenstein. Salem, and O. D
Coshow, - Roseburg. The Democrats
were last to file their nominations.
The Socialists filed their nominations
rst on July 29, the Republicans and
Prohibitionists together on Septem
ber 10. and the Independents followed
on September 1.
Spring Wheat Goes .40 Bushels.
Hillsboro. E. W. Dant, who
hreshed out of Reedville for 29 sea-
ons. states that he recently turned
wt 3000 bushels of wheat raised on
he Hare ranch, a mile south of Hills
boro, that produced 40 bushels to the
icre. This has not been uncommon
this county this season for wintei
wheat, but this grain was sown this
pnng. Spring oats, however, are re
ported as light all over the county.
Wallowa to Have Courthouse.
Enterprise. The eounty court has
accepted plana for a courthouse, to eost
30,000. Bids for foundation and base;
ment will be advertised for immediate'
y in order that the foundtttlon at least
mar be put in this fall. Wallowa eon
ty has been set apart from Union eoun
ty 20 years, and tots will be the first
courthouse erected in the eounty.
Multnomah's Good Showiug.
Portland. That only 1 per cent of
the taxes imposed in Multnomah
county will be delinquent on the first
Monday in October is the showing ex
pected from figures now available in
the tax collection department of the
sheriffs office. -The estimated de
linquency is $32.209 12. on a tax roll
that totals $3,226,584.25.
La Grande Faces Coal Famine,
La Grande. Unless the coal strike
;n Montana comes to an abrupt end
La Grande will experience a coal
'trrtne. In fact, there is only suf
ficient coal on hand with the local
Iralert to fill passenger orders, and
no more can be had. The coal sites
tion is grave.
Athena Wheat Nearly 8old.
Athena. Nearly all of the wheat in
this section has not only been sold,
hut has been delivered and shipped
This is contrary to the osual order
of things, inasmuch as the shipping
season heretofore has lasted for sev
eral months.
PARTS OF OREGON
HORSES FOR HAWAII.
Island Planter Has Buyer In Klamath
Falls Country.
Klamath Falls. John T. Baker, a
large land owner and influential man
of affairs of the Hawaiian islands, has
been hunting in Klamath county the
past two weeks, and has just ordered
a carload of Klamath county horses
shipped to his ranch in the islands.
Mr. Baker came to the United States
with Prince David and a party, ex
pecting to hunt in the wilds of Ore
gon, Washington and Alaska. On ac
count of the death of Prince David
in San Francisco all plans were
changed, and Mr. Baker went back
to Honolulu with the body. On his
return to San Francisco the Klamath
country was recommended to him as
excellent hunting grounds near Ait
hand. He was delighted with his
hunt, and expects to come back next
year with a party of friends.
Henry Straw, a local horse dealer,
has charge of the buying of a carload
of horses for Mr. Baker, and is to de
liver them at the ranch in Hawaii.
Send Eugeue Apples East.
Eugene. The Lane County Fruit
and Vegetable Growers' association
will ship from 20 to 30 carloads of ap
ples to Eastern and Southern States
this fall, with the purpose of estab
lishing the reputation of this section
of the Willamette Valley as an apple
country. All apples that arc shipped
will be of good quality and well
packed. Some fine apples are grown
about Engcr.e, and the country has
suffered a good deal by the careless
orcharist, who did not care what went
out of the country. ' But this year the
association is in control, and nothing
hut the best apples will go to make
Lane county's reputation.
Rare Ones on Beach.
Valdpoti. George W. Blodgctt, a
lapidist of Portland, is camped with
a party of Portland people on the
beach south of Waldport. Mr. Blod
gctt has found some very beautiful
and valuable stones while here, one
in particular being a large, clear agate
containing pyrites of iron on fernlike
forms. The stone is large enough to
be cut into seven smaller stones about
an inch long. Just such a stone is
not described in geology. Mr. Thomas
the veteran lapidist at Newport, says
the small pieces are worth $100 each
Will Rebuild Sawmill.
Tillamook. Several Tillamook cit
izens have made arrangements to re
build the sawmill of the Tillamook
Lumbering company, which was
burned down last October, and have
incorporated the Tillamook Lumber
Manufacturing company for that pur
pose, with a capital stock placed at
$10,000.
portlaio'markets,
Barley Feed, $25 per ton; rolled,
$27.50Ca28.50: brewing, $20 50.
Oats No. 1 white, $30 per ton;
gray, $29.
Wheat Club. 89c per bushel; forty
fold, 92c; turkey red, 92c; fife, 89c;
bluestem, 93c; valley, 91c.
May limothy, Willamette Valley,
$14 per ton; Willamette Valley, ordi
nary, $11; hastcrn Oregon, $18.50
mixed, ft; clover, $9; alfalfa, $11
alfalfa meat. $20.
Fruit Apples, new, 60cw$1.25 per
box: peaches. 40(ii75c per box; pears
s;tc(ri$l per box; plums, 60c(4$l per
box: grapes, 40c(i $1 23 per crate
Wordens, 206i25c per basket; huckle
berries, Sfrijioc per pound; quinces
$1251.50 per box; ground cherries
75c per box
Potatoes 83tfi90c per hundred
sweet potatoes, 2c per pound.
Melons Cantaloupes, 50(a75c per
crate; watermelons, icalc per pound
casabas. $1.75 per dozen.
Vegetables Turnips, $1.50 per sack
carrots. $1.75; parsnips, $1.73; beets
$1.50; artichokes, A5c per doz.; beans
3(0. 4c per pound; cabbage, 2c per ID
cauliflower, fj ?.i dozen; celery, iscuti
$1 per dozen; corn, 75c(i$l per sack
cucumbers, 301. 40c per box; egg
plant. 50c6I$125 per crate; lettuce
head. 15c per dozen; parsley, 15c per
dozen; peas, 6c per pound; peppers
valOc per pound; pumpkins. Kail
per pound: radishes. 12ic per dozen
sptnacn, 2c per pound; sprouts, loc
per pound; squash, lie per pound
tomatoes. 17K25c.
Butter Extras, 34c per pound
fancy, 321c; choice. 30c; store. lc.
Eggs Oregon extras, 29vi30c
firsts, 27fft2c; seconds, 23&26c
Eastern, 26 (it 27c per dozen
Poultry Fancy hens. 13lc; spring,
141c; ducks, old, ISCalZie; spring, 1
ftlSc; geese, old, c; young, 10&llc
turkeys, old 17(alc: your.f. 20c
Veal Extra, anisic per pound; or
dinary. 7f'7tc: heavy. 5c
Tork Fancy, Sjc per pound; ord
narv. 6c: large. $c
Hops Oregon. li), 7 Be per lb.;
1907. 2l4c; 1908, llMC.
Wool F.atern Oregon,
averase
best
loilc per pound, according
to shrinkage;, valley, lJlSic. Mo-
hair, choice, 18l8c per pound.
STEAMER ON ROCKS.
Star of Bengal Loses 110 of Crew and
Big Salmon Cargo.
Seattle, Wash, .Sept. 23. Advices
last night from Alaska by the United
States signal corps say that 110 men,
ncluding nine whites, were drowned
the wreck of the American bark
Star of Bengal, on Coronation island,
est of the Prince of Wales archi
pelago .
Twenty-seven of the vessel's crew
nd passengers were saved. The Star
Bengal belonged to the Alaski
Packers' association, and was on her
way to San Francisco with a cargo
f 54.000 cases of salmon.
In addition to her crew she carried
100 Chinese and Japanese who were
employed in the canneries of the
company and taken aboard at Fort
Wrangel.
The Star of Bengal took aboard
cargo at Fort Wrangel, consisting ot
canned salmon, and started down
Summer strait in tow of the tugv
attic Gage and Kayak. As the ves
sets neared the open sea, where the
sailing craft would have sea room to
ork off shore, the wind was stead-
ly freshening, blowing on shore. The
ugs struggled valiantly to keep the
nip cicar ot the rocks, but the wind
rov il down on the rocks lining the
hore of Coronation island, which lie
the mouth of Iphigema bay. and
to save themselves from destruction
the steam vessels were forced to cast
(f the lines and head out to sea.
The Star of Bengal went onto the
rocks in such a position that the tugs
could not get near enough to give any
ssistance, and the Oage headed for
ort Wrangel with news of the dis
ster.
RUSSIANS DIE BY HUNDREDS
Official Reports Don't Account for All
Cholera Victims.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 23. Up to
noon yesterday the municipal hos
pitals reported for the preceding 24
ours 417 cholera cases and 178 deaths.
There is a total of 1587 patients in
the various hospitals.
That the municipal statistics are in
complete is conclusively proved by
me numDcr. ot interments. At one
cemetery they aggregated 424 for the
ast three days, or within 20 of the
total number of deaths reported.
The cholera dead are being interred
t Prcobrazhcnskoe, which is about
one hour distance on the railroad. A
rain of several coaches, carrying the
mourners and a dozen freight cars
with the dead in rude coffins, goes
daily to the place. The scenes are
eart-rending in the chapel, where
service is conducted uninterruptedly
ight and day.
1 he scarcity of gravediggers has
caused a painful delay in the past few
days, 15; coffins ' containing bodies
now being stored in the adjoining
woodshed.. Some of the mourneri
ave been waiting their turn for sev-
ral days. ,
Pennsylvania Fires Checked.
rittsburg, Ta., Sept. 22. Reports
received yesterday from Ashtola, near
Johnston, where a forest firehas been
raging for several days, are to the ef
feet that the fire is now under con-
rol. At Ashtola 10.000,000 feet of
ogj were burned, and at Arrow, near
by, 6,000,000 feet were destroyed. Yes
terday heavy clouds of smoke hung
over Windber, Johnstown and inter
mediate points.
Late last night another fire started
n the Harden woods, near Oreens-
burg. Yesterday the names were
spreading rapidly.
In practically all the churches Sun
day special prayers were offered up
that the drouth in western Pennsyl
vania, eastern Ohio and West Vir
ginia might be ended.
Forgets Jungle Story.
Chicago, Sept. 23. For the first
time since the appearance of Upton
Sinclair's packing house expose, "The
Jungle,'' the British government yes
terday- contracted for an order of
American meat, closing a contract
with l.ibby. McNeil & Libhy, packers
for 5,000,000 pounds of fresh beef
According to the contract, which was
made through Thomas Arskine. Brit
ish consul at Chicago, the price to
be paid for the consignment of meat
is $300,000. Lrskine requested the
submission of bids for several million
pounds of canned meats
Adirondack Towns In Peril
New York. Sept. 23. Alarm is felt
in many sections of the state because
of the rapid spread of the b'g forest
fires that have been burning for many
days In the Adirondacks. According
to dispatches received by the Assoct
sted Press here last night, dangerous
fires are burning in some score of
places, and a number of small towns
and summer resorts are threatened
Cholera on Transport.
San Francisco. Sept. 23. Cable dis
patches from Manila report that
lc!se of eMiera broke out on the
trannort Sheridan shortly after her
departure from that port on Septem
her 15. The vessel put back to port
janrf is now in quarantine.
CHOLERA STRIKES
RUSSIA'S RULERS
High anJ Low Suffer h St. Peters
burg from Dread Disease.
Many Victims Found in the Schools-
Court Councilor Stricken While
fcntertaining GuestsDead Arrive
at Cemtteries Faster Than the
Sextons Can Bury Them.
St. , Petersburg, Sept. 24. Asiatic
cholera is spreading so rapidly that it
has invaded the families of the aris
tocracy and merchants, and one case
has been discovered in the palace of
t'nnce Alexander of Oldenburg, a "
cousin of the emperor. Schools have
become infected and the deaths are so
numerous that the sextons cannot bury
the bodies as fast as they arrive at the
cemeteries. v
Twenty-four cases have been reported
n the town of Pttcrhof. The imoerial '
family is expected to return soon to
1 rterhof palace from its cruise in Fin-
nish waters.
The disease has broken out among the
cadets at Pavlov sk military academy,
one of the most important higher mili
tary schools in the empire, rorty stu
dents have been sent to hospitals, and
two deaths already have tcen announced.
Several attendants at the academy also
have been stricken. The academy has
been closed and the remaining cadets
sent into camp at Krasnoe-Selo.
Among the cases reported in St. Pet.
ersburg yesterday was that of Court
Councillor Ncchinorenko. who was
stricken while entertaining a party of
guests. Two prominent merchants, sev
eral officials of the various ministries
ind other members of the better classes
in the capital are down with the disease.
A servant in the second militarv
school has developed the cholera, and
measures are being taken to prevent an
outbreak in this institution. The disease
was conveyed to these two schools in
the rations served to the students.
Ihe accumulation of corpses at the
graveyards continues. There were 93
unburied bodies at the Prcobrazhcnskoe
cemetery yesterday morning, and the
regular mortuary train' brought down
140 more. The sextons are able to in
ter only 120 bodies a day.
The report for the 24 hours ending
at noon yesterday shows 430 cases and
137 deaths in St. Petersburg, an increase
of 19 cases and a decrease of 18 deaths,
as compared with Tuesday's statistics.
TUGBOAT MEN CURYED.
Captain of Starjof Bengal Says Crew
- Could Have Been Saved.
Wrangel. Alaska. Sent. 24 One hun
dred and ten whites and Chinese were
wept to death when the cannery hark
Star of Bengal broke to pieces on Coro
nation island. Twenty-seven, including
Captain Wagner, were rescued, and are-
now here, physical and mental wrecks
from the terrible exposure and hard
ships which they underwent.
the seafaring annals of the Pacific
coast have no more horrid record than
the destruction of the ill-fated bark and
the deaths of the men who were carried
away while two tugs stood by.
"Those tugboat captains should be
sent to prison for cowardice," - gasped
Captain Wagner as he was brought
ao,..iv. vimiic n y HUM Willi VUI.
sunk to a hoarse whisper, the captain
f the wrecked bark cursed the masters
of the Haltie Gage and Kayak as cow-
rds, who, he said, stood by and saw
human being perish by the score when
hey could have saved every one of
them.
Sobbing like a child, the captain of
the Bengal told hot his vessel was al
lowed to drift on the rocks while these
tugs stood by without making an effort
to rescue her until she broke, into three
pieces.
They cut loose from us and ran like
he cowards they are and let us go te
certain death. We were in 10 fathoms
of water. The wind was not blowing
hard, and they could have held on to
as well as not. We were in plenty
of water for four hours while they were
standing by, and we hoped every min
ute that they would come alongside.
ror four long despairing hours we
burned blue lights, hoping against hope,
and those cowards hung off in fear and
saw good men swept away. We blew
upon the rocks and pounded to pieces.
Something hit me and when I came to
I was on ihe beach.
Kansas Warns Rail Magnates.
Topcka, Kan., Sept. 24. Alleging that
the Missouri Pacific tracks in this state
are in such poor condition that the line
is unsafe, the state railway commission
has notified George J. Gould and E. If.
Ifarriman that, repairs must be made
immediately. The commissioners remind
GotiM of promises to repair the road
which have been made in the past by his
company, and warn him that mere words
will not be acceptable in future. The
hoard threatens to send inspectors and
publish weekly reports of the defects
found.
Plague Again Raging.
Willemstad. Curacna. Sept. 24. Let
ters received here from Caracas an-
nounce a fresh outbreak of the bubonic
- plague in the Venezuelan capital Sev
eral deaths have occurred among people
(of the better class.