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Newspaper Page TextThe Aurora Boreal! VOL. I. AURORA, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1908. NO. 24. BRIEF NEWS OF THE PAST WEEK SPOKANE NEYT YEAR. Whshington City Secures Meeting of Irrigation Congress. Albuquerque, N. M., Oct. 5 Spokano was selected as the meeting place for the seventeenth national irrigation eou- Condensed Dispatches from All Parts gress, at the clone of the sixteenth con- grew Saturday. Pueblo withdrew at the last moment, and the vote was made unanimous. The new governing board of the con- NEWS NOTES GATHERED FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF OREGON CAR JUMPS TRACK. LAND FOR HUNDREDS. of the Two Hemispheres. barney and Malheur Acres Removed from Predatory Ownership. Hums The stork companies which have been fenoinir government land will gress, created by this meeting, was have to tear down their fences and al- elected Saturday at a meeting of the! low homeseckers to file on the land. Interesting Events from Outside the State Presented in Manner to Catch the Eye of the Busy Reader executive committee. This board haslKeecntly the government has been ae- Matters of National, Historic! full power, to manage the affairs of t,vf ey and Malneur counties, nrl Commercial Imnortinr. the congress and to continue its work preuaiory lauu mieresi. nay- and Commercial importance. I v .,., ...... tv, I received their ult matuin as the result. President. O. II. Uarstow, of Texas; Th "Iliam "anley company, which ecretary, B. A. Fowler, of Arizona; I knight tne holdings or tne t rench Ulenn W. A. Heard, nf California chairman Livestock company, has about 300,000 of the executive committee, and Fre.l acre' of .land PetieHy under one J. Kiesel, of Utah; Dr. W. J. McOee, of fonce hch starts near Malheur Lake Washington. V. C: John Dixon. 0f r,,,,B ,n v wu,u v"'"v " u,Bl"uco Ul Montana, and one other member, who is to be selected by the board. The cloning session was made inter esting by a strong address by Congress man Joseph K. Kansdell, of Louisiana. president of the national rivers and harbors congress, who urged co opera New cases of cholera are very few at Manila. Evelyn Xesbit Thaw says her hus band is incurable. Chicago has started a movement to systematically care for its hungry. Official reports show that the num ber of cholera cases in Russia are decreasing. Test. f submarine, boat are binffhion between his organization and the .nn.iu,i Kv h Dnv.rnmn. . national irrigation congress riort II I That an international congress will ' I be held at some one of the South Amer The lumber rate case heard at San ican capitals in 1910 is now fairly as j-rancisco iias ueen reierrea 10 me su preme court. The state land commissioner of Min nesota says none of the best timber has been burned. For the first time in a number of months the Burlington shops are run ning on full time. 60 miles. Most of the land in Dimond and Happy valleys, besides a part of Steins mountain, is fenced. About 100,000 acres of this large tract is owned by the government. Scversl fine homesteads have been taken in these fields lately, which were formerly sup posed to be owned by the stock com pany. The Tacific Livestock company, which is the largest livestock company on the coast, also had large tracts sured, although the matter will not be ffBce. J Harney and Malheur counties Chinese steamship companies are en deavoring to seeure a portion of the Pacific coast business. So far cost of prosecution of Thaw for the shooting of Stanford White is said to have been $54,837. Taxicab drivers of New York have gone on strike for better pay. Many strikebreakers are said to be available, determined until the congress meets in 1U09. The industrial exposition will con tinue until October 10. Between $15,- 000 and $20,000 in trophies and prizes will be awarded at the close of the ex position. RUNS ON TIES. One field containing 40,000 acres, 15 miles south of Burns, has been found to contain several hundred acres of gov eminent land, and several homesteads have been taken in the past few months. Fast Passenger Makes Mile a Minute Without Rails. TEN ACRES, $10,00. Record PriceltPaid for Hood River Orchard Land. now estimated at 50,000 A son of Admiral Evans must stand court-martial on several charges Longworth proposes that Roosevelt run for president eight years from I an hour. accuse of at- now. San Francisco saloonmen one of the police captains tempted extortion. Six persons were injured at Los An geles by the collision of a switch en gine and an electric car. The Turkish army is moving toward the Bulgarian frontier and Bulgaria is preparing for war. smoker also left the rails. For what seemed to the passengers three or four minutes the train dashed ahead, but with slackening speed. Af ter about a mile it was brought to a stop and it was found that no one was injured. At the point where the ac cident occurred the tracks of the Lake Shore are elevated so that an embank ment of erRht or ten feet descending on either side promised a dangerous nlnnce if the bouncing cars left the ine Congo independent aiaie up-1 rails. holds King Leopold's rule and denies I jne airbrake on the diner, loosened that cruelties have been practicea. I from jts fastenings, fell to the ground lean Dunsmuir. Canada's richest I This derailed the diner, the woman, is dead, iter son was one time lieutenant-governor of the prov ince. t..,i . among me pa uian ucmocnu nave aciccicu j. William Knight as their candidate for governor. I lis father was first ottered the nomination, Government inspectors are investi catintr the wreck of the Star of Ben gal. The ship's officers will testify that the vessel could have been saved together with the lit lives had the tugs not abandoned her. Hood River. Sixteen thousand dol lars for a loacre fruit farm was the price paid here a few days ago by. I rank h. Deem, an Illinois roan, The tract bought by Mr. Deem has no buildings on it and the price is there; fore a straight one of $1,600 per acre This is the highest price by $300 per acre that orchard land has ever sold r . II u : .1 .:j t... kimn,l . U tUm. IllT Ul IIUUII IMVCI, IIU 13 WU IU UV 1Tl"r :" '"Y TV,'.. the highest ever paid in the state ?.necr s"UK,n w m i nycr, speru- The "hard j, in 7.year-old Spitzen iu viucano ai inc raic 01 ou nines . . .r--. lhat h a The dining-car and the I , .- . l., Chicago. Oct. 3. Fassengers on the Lake Shore Twentieth Century Lim ited thought they were taking break fast in a wreck as the tender trucks of the giant locomotive hauling the Deaths from the flood in India are fast train left the tracks a half mile west of Gary at 8 A. M. yesterday. ror a mile the wheels of the tender Six Men Killed and Six Others Injured Near Scappoose. Portland, Oct. 2 Six men killed and six injured. That was the toll claimed by a sudden shower of rain which wet the tracks on a steep spur of the Portland & Southwestern Log ging railway, just as a construction train was nearing the summit of a hill at a point eight miles north and BIQ PROFIT IN HOGS. Yamhill Farmer Gets Over S570 in Cash from 67 Porkers. Xfffrinnvi1lA Amnn Yamhill a iti- versities hogs follow dairying pretty west of Scappoose, early yesterday closely in point of profit. James Keid I atternoon. living a short distance east of town, I - sold a bunch of 57 bogs lately, fattened hn.d crew w"eon ,the locomotive. at a cash outlav of $42, receiving fori csi-v-cu. .wcivv intu ntit ., them the sum of $616.87, or a profit of the one Rravel car which was being $574.87. I pushed uphill oy tne locomotive wnen Besides gi vu g the porkers 1H tons of Mne runaway occurrcu. r.oi one oi millfeed at $28 a ton, Mr. Keid allowed these men got away unhurt. They them to have the run of a 100 acre clung to the car as it swept back down field of clover early in the season. lle h lH "d rack then let them have a 3 acre clover field, ,arP curve. i nree oi incm were then an 8 acre field of wheat and later kll,cd outright, two more died while s 4-acre patch of peas. The 100-acre DC'"8 scappoose. ana in- rield or clover was mowed for seed, tbe"'"" pasturing being a benefit rather than a GoJ Samaritan hospital at Portland detriment I xsone ot tne unfortunate i naci Thus, the hogs used only the product "Miy to xunderstand their frotn 13 acres, giving a profit of a aan?cr u"1!1 l"e,r naa ifapea tne littu th.n n in track and death and destruction were interest on land at a valuation of' $400 in thci,r midst- The locomotive went n ,i.itin. i, . I iround the curve easily. The car fol- . ' . I K.i it, it .a i nrr m j ting in the crop. The hogs did all the ""."-"". "v harvestincr I momentum sloughed it aside. The in which held it to the locomotive snaoped and the bin engine continued Fishways Uncovered. I ts mad flight on the tracks to the Klamath Falls. Old Indian rock I bottom of the grade, where it stopped fishways have been uncovered in Link Ion an uphill stretch. river, the second time they have been seen in 24 years. On account of the unusual low water this season two fishways are now visible. The oldest Indians claim no knowledge of the building of these dams, indicating that they were constructed many years ago. ihey are built in runways, with PEARY OFF FOR POLAR SEA. Steamer ?Erik Returns With Latest News of Explorer. St. Johns, N. F., Oct. 2. Having -K. aiicy nreuuui in runways, wn f I transferred a large supply of Plat forma on either side, evidently I f h p ArKct,c mtt where the Indians stood, to spear the R t EuhWest Greenland, salmon as they made their way up the swift current in the runways. For the last quarter of a century the river has been higher than in the early days and the Indians have learned to fish as the white man docs. Lana County Is Short. Eugene The prune crop in Lane county this fall is thought to be about he auxiliary steamer Erik has ar rived back in this port The Roosevelt left Etah on August is, bound north through Kane Li&:n Kennedy channel and Robeson strait It is the explorers plan either to en ter the Folar sea or to reach a point rrom which he can easily get to Cape Columbia by February next. Then he will make a dash across the ice tloes fine crop last' year and also have a good yield this year. The purchase is part of a 50-acre orchard of young trees owned by M M. Hill, a former Iowa man, who came here a few years ago and set it out and is located on the east side,of the valley near the Mt. Hood railroad. While the price is the highest that has ever been received here, orchard men say that Hood River bearing orchards have not yet reached their top prices Fine Sized Italians. Monroe. A careful estimate of the smoker prune crop, based upon the yield as al one-half what it was last year, when I toward the pole, nnn of th Lost rron. In thn hi.torv of I The Roosevelt has on board thre thn muni v was rivt. Thi vear the I Americans beside Commander Feary late frosts largely affected the crop and the regular crew of the steamer, 25 n some exposed places in the county I Kskimos and 350 dogs. The Lskimos there is scarcely a prune in some of the I Captain Bartlett said, are eager t orchards. This condition prevails to I issist the explorer. om extent in the prairia country west The Lnk started on her return Knirpno. whem tiem are. nn nroteet- I voyage IO oi. jonns on rtup u o woods o kenn off th heavy frosts. I In Davis strait the link struck an but along the river bottoms, especially 'ccberg. which battered her bow rth of Eugene, the crop is heavy, and move me water i nt. ant mwt m some orchards it is said to be asinarDor ai jmukowik, uvrauur, m civ and the tender. An ang e-oar o. m 7 " AV '""r V7hu f8i l- . track was uprooted and tore tnrougn luc.u""" " . ' the floor of the diner, causing a panic this section. The petites are "bowing a I a p I i..lnflw tsk Hw raafflP than llHlial ttiPV ssengers at breaniasi. iuurui7 ""- WRIGHT'S LATEST WONDER. were taken from the trays in some in stances within 18 hours from vthe time they were put on to dry, and from those . . . . . rm il.i ill already lasen on it seemo ! mt prune will be of excellent quality this season. On account of the poor crop this year some orchards will not pay eavy as it was last year. Boom at Tillamook. Tillamook. Tillamook is taxed to its tmost to find sufficient rooms to ae- mmodnte parties wishing to rent them. Since the announcement that ork would start on the railroad people have been flocking here from all direc tions and many people are kept away wing to the fact that every available Tillamook house la rented. Beats World's Record With Passenger on Board. Le Mans. Oct. 4 Wilbur Weight, the picking expenses, but a yield of from American aeronlanist. who holds the one third to one hail will be taaen irom world's record for an aeroplane flight, I a few. aaf a.1il,A.I nnttior wnrlil ' rpcnrd ves I The American fleet has arrived at I ..-.i-- -frnoon for the time and dial John Dav Proiect Manila and was received amid great tance wjth a passenger. With a French Eock Creek For some weeks past it rejoicing. ' I journalist by his side, he remained in ha. y,p.n rumored that the government English trainmen threaten to strike the air for 55 minutes and a seconds I wouM immediately install a large elee for better pay and fully soo.ooo wouid i cirriin inc v.. tric pUmp,ng piani on me i.ummu out Wages range from $5 peris aisiance esumaieu m ""n. riVer between Arlington and umaun k for signalmen to $1 for the or about 36 miles. His best previous for UM on the John j)aT irrigation pro; week Conductors get $8 per best engineers, week. France will back Russia in a move to make Bulgaria give Turkey a dis puted line of railroad. Richard Croker, ex-Tammany lead er, will visit New York. Roosevelt has declined an invita tion to visit Australia. A freight train collided with an ex cursion near loledo. u., ana six per sons were lulled and a number in jured. proj flight with a passenger was 11 minutes . t an)i ultimately for auxiliary use. in 35 2 5 seconds. I filling ths reservoirs. It has just been By his fest.Mr. Wright practically parne(i through Irrigation Eipert fulfills the conditions of a contract 1 8tover that tne j,pa na,i been tempo siirned bv him and Lazare Weiller, who -ar:t abandoned. 11 is not definitely represents a syndicate, wnereny r. iKnwn jimt exactly what amount the Wright receives $100,000, and the syn -1 ntate of Oregon has to her credit in the dicato takes in return the patent rights rpcianiation fund, but it is estimsted nf the Wright machine for ranee and tbat tn( j0hn Dav project complete will tne eoionies, wun inn ynyin-Ko m ! i co,j fO.OOO.OUU. ufActuring aeroplanes on this model. ! i if. : . ine SUn was selling wnm .ir. minm nd his rasseneer started, and th! flizht was completed in the moonlight When they alighted, the rrencn jour oalist in his enthusiasm threw his arms around Mr. Wright's neck, and the Th. fir lid-test case at rortiana was won by the defendant, a ' bill ard frowJ of uu hall proprietor who kept his place d(,mon,trative ia its open on sunaay. iof deuKht The Northern Facific. Great North ern and Union Facific railroads are to start suits to prevent the new lumber rate to the east being put into effect. Cholera at St. Petersburg is re ported to be at a standstill. Operations Resumed. Eugene The Eugene excelsior fse tory, one of the leading manufacturing nst tutions of this city, employing about 30 men, has resumed operations after a shutdown of about three months manifestations " ,s operating wun iuu i cay ana mirm ami ui ururri cuu in iay and night and has orders enough anead for its product to aeep u m nnAriilnn for an indefinite neriod. Be Sue for Timber value. iJo the men employed in the factory San Franciwo, Oct. 5. Suit for thela )sra number are kept busy in the recovery of $5174.7, said to be the value of timber cut from the govern ment lands allotted to the Indians of Whole pages from the city dc-tne Klamath tribe and sold by the In tory were copied at Los Angeles in nrenarinir a petition for a popular vote nn a new ordinance. Prosecu tions will follow. The American battlestip fleet will visit China in November. woods, felling trees and cutting them up into suitable lengths for the manufae ture of excelsior. Buys Milking Machines HilUboro. Ex-Sheriff John W Connell has bought two milking ma liana to the defendant corporation was filed by the government attorneys here Saturday against the Klamath Mill chines for his dairy ranch four mile Transportation company, in a similar i r,u r,t r- These are tn suit some years ago United States Pis-1 frsf milking machines ever brough trict Judge Dellaven held that the In diana had no right to sell timber off John D. Rockefeller hss assumed I their allotment unless the proceeds of active charge of Standard Oil bosmess I such sale went to the government. since the breakdown of ll. u. KOgern. into the county. Washington count mi'Vs more cows than any other sec tinn of like ares in the Pacific north wet. and rairvmen are striving t oet the cost of furnishing milk t condensers reduced as much as pos than 500 vessels. Central America Sends Gold. San Francisco. Oct. S. The mines oflsible. C.l..l- ...I f.,;. I,... nntritmt I I itna maTA ..tth f this conn I wsnowa io nv vwnnwii. ry in the form of gold and silver bul-1 Enterprise 1 n county eonn lion V r.ifi Vail atoamahin ewro ii. w frnm h Ttutlera cold mine I ment wl'l le advertised for ImmMiSt Salvalor, the remainder from widely ly In order tnat tn r-?5B.iaii.n least Ilerbert Knox Smith, eommlssieaer f corporations, has married a dangh ter of ex Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska. .. . - . IL. r.." -Vu. '-r" v' th Pae fie Ma steamship Newport. $30.nnn. Mi.is ror rounaation hi lis . . . i... i.... Wlr nf MiMtlu. It it I may le nut ia this fall. Wsllowa eon bJn washed away and there U been the largest ..mount of trea.nre brought ty hss been set -pert from Union eoon rn!t loll If Tif S X.di by flood from th. souther, eos.t in one consign- ty 20 years, and this will be th. first meat in months. I courthouse erected ia the county. VORK OF PINCHOT AGAIN INDORSED ncnles fail to Sustain Chords et Irrigation Congress. she effected temporary repairs, then proceeded. The remainder of the voyage was without incident. EMBEZZLED TEN MILLIONS. Oanish Minister of Justice Sold Titles and Decorations. Copenhagen, Oct. 8 Having fixed the amount of his actual thefts at from $9,000,000 to $10,000,000. the Danish government Is attempting to i-. ...t, .... ii,. i.i.,,tt. Leavss for Washington. . fl..r ,::,,-, 0f Justice. Alberti. SalemRailroad Comnss!oner Clyde I profited by the sale of titles and dec Aitcheson has left for Washington, oratjor5 Jn which he is asserted to C, where he will represent the Ore hav. Hnne a wholesale business for gon railroad commission at the meeting! ,4 years. The inquiry promises to be ui mo aiiuiiat ANmcmuon oi ivanway t'ommissioners, which will be assembled at Washington from October 6 to 10. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Bluestem, Mcs club, 88c: fife, 8c; red Russian, 86c; 40 fold, 91e; val- y, 0e. Barley Feed, $2fl per ton: rolled, 27.50fa28.50; briVing, $2fl.r)0. Oats No. 1 white, $3131.S0 per ton; gray, $.10(?T30.50. Hay Timothy. Willamette valley. 14 per ton; Willamette valley, or- inary, $11: eastern Oregon, $16.50; mixed, $13; clover, $9; alfalfa, $11; al falfa meal, $20. Fruit Apples, new, 60c(ii$l.o0 per box; peaches, 40(80 per box; pears Wok of Government Bureaus D.v.U o i ig West Approved Timber and Ston. Law Indorsed Interna tional Congress Called for In 1910 Create New Reserves. Albuquerque, N. M., Oct. 3. The struggle in the National Irrigation Congress between the supporters and opponents of the present government forestry policy resulted in a sweeping victory for the friends of (Jhief For ester Pinchot yesterday. With a few recommendations for change in the forest regulations the congress adopt , ed resolutions indorsing the forest service as well as other government bureaus conceived in the work of de velopment and reclamation. It also took advanced ground in favor of conservation of natural resources in general. The resolutions give sweeping in dorsement to the work of the recla mation service, the forest service and the geological survey, and urge on congress continued support and in creased appropriations tor all of these bureaus', urge lac repeal of the tim ber and stone act, "to the end that the accumulation of the public lands in the hands of a few great corpora tions may be arrested"; urge the speedy creation of the southern Ap palachian and White mountain na tional forests; ask congress for an adequate appropriation for the use of the hydrographical division ot the geological survey to determine by ex periment and measurement and obser vation the practical effects of grazing and lumbering on the supply of water for irrigation and on the erosion of the soil and that such investigation extend over the various watersheds, both iu and out of the national forests and that such investigation be prose cuted simultaneously throughout a l the states and territories of the arid and semi-arid west." A strong resolution against free sugar is included, also resolutions for the creation of immigration bureaus hy the western states and territories; requesting co-operation with the na tional conservation commission, a conservation committee of the irnga- ion congress being authorized; urg ing that the Carey act be made ap plicable to the territories; indorsing the movement to hold a session of the congress in Washington in 1910, to be known as an international congress on irrigation, and asking appropria tions from the state and the federal governments for this congress; and authorizing the present congress to ippoint a committee of five, to be known as the congressional commit tee, charged with the duty of urging the recommendations of the irrigation congress. PERMIT NO SHORE LEAVE. ntenscly embarrassing to scores of prominent men whose elevation to the aristocracy Alberti is said to have secured on payment of heavy sums, which he afterward lost, along with his stealings, in unlucky speculation The skill with which the fallen minis ter covered up these transactions if seriously handicapping the -investigators. From Alberti himself they ire getting little assistance, the cul prit havrfg utterly collapsed since his surrender to the police. Physicians say there is no pretense concerning the partial loss of his memory, and it :s the general opinion that he will not live to be punished. I ailurcs growing out ot his opera tions continue to be of almost daily occurrence. Of the former minister's u.ft. akmit ts nnn nnn were from 5c(a$1.00 per box- plums. 60c$1.00 . c,,. . A ' -Pirate. ,,i the per box; grapes 40e$L25 per crate; b,,anC from private individuals and Concords. 20rti22e per basket; buckle-1 cmnmercial houses. uerries, bWic prr puunu; Su...cra, Former Prem er Christcnsen. who per pox; eranr.crriPs, iu per i.arrei. ,hOUHn guspected of no personal dis- 'j(jf..,c per hundred; sweet )mnc..v ai(lp(i Alberti to raise money Potatoes potatoes, 2e per pound. through public channels to such an Melons cantaloupes $1(1.00 per extent that he was forced to resign ate; watermelons, ?(u.ie per Iunhas spent enti crat casAbas, $1.75(' 2 per dozen Vegetables Turnips, $1.00 per ears; carrots, $1.75; . parsnips, $1.75; beets. $1.50; artichokes, 63e per dozen; beans, 5(510e per pound; eaMiage, lt per pound; cauliflower, 25ff75e dozen; el- pent entire days under paintui cross-examination by the investi gators. Tom Lawson Very Sick. Boston, Mass., Oct. 2 Thomas W j.,r, . r.r,rk ! iwmn. suthor of "Frenzied Fi- ner mck: eneumpers. lbOi "jue per dozen: I nance, is ir ij - egg plant, S0efc$1.25 per crste; lettuee, hi city. Iln private secretary an 75c(?i $l per box; parsley, 15e per dozen; nounced yesterday that the financier peas. 6c per pound; peppers, SfalOe per was suffering from grip, but It i pound; pumpkins. KriV,e per' pound; frcd the real trouble is the result radishes, 12M,e per dozeo; spinach, Ze H a general urc uun per pound; sprouts, 9c per pound; arduous work during the past few snuash, l'je r po"l tomatoes, 60e years. Il mi d at his office that -01 ' 1 ' ' he would be confined to his home for liutter City creamery, extras. 32,(?? I "evcrai nays, n is rumrr., 34c; fancy outside cresmery, 30S24e 'he brokers, however. that his condi per pound; store, le ion more serious than is admitted Kggs uregon exirss. a iu ,; i . "'y-" firsts. 27ffT30e; seconds, 23(526; east I t . ... -.7. o8. An Chinese Emperor Insane. I'oultry Fsney nens, jJfrM'; i renin, wci. prcunar mrm-i pring, 14415e; ducks, old, 12Cai24'; Iderangement from which the Chinese spring, 14ftl5e; geese, old. 9t; young I emperor is suffering has been pur in7, ii. i,.rWn old. 1721Se: vounff Irlin the attendants at the royal pal- on-' ' lace for some time and yesterday a v.t Tvtra Oe twr nr.nnd; ordinary. I consultation of the most eminent phy- Tfr?u.. k.r f.a I ic i.ms in China was called by the Tork Fancy, me per pound; or empress dowager to discuss the case dinary, 6c; Urge, 5e. lot tneir royai pauem Admiral Sparry Decides to Run No Risk of Cholera Infection. Manila, Oct. 3. Rcar-Admlral Sperry has finally decided not to land ny men here and to maintain a prac tical quarantine of the ships during their stay. Admiral Sperry discussed the question with Governor-General Smith this morning, and the above iction was determined upon. There are still several new case of cholera daily; and it was decided that it would be safest and best not to take inv chances of its spreading to the fleet. The officers will be allowed brief shore liberty under close restric- 'lons. Forty steamers and launches, gaily decorated, paraded today around the -niter lines in which the fleet is an chored. Governor-General Smith and nrigaTier-General A. I.. Mills, arcom--nnird by their staff, and Frank Strong, chairman of the general re "cptinn committee, boarded the flag ship Connecticut and spent a half hour with Rear-Admiral Sperry. Rear-Admiral Snerry returned their call later :n the day. Harrlman Orders New Cart. Chicago, Oct. 3. It was announced here yesterday that the Pullman Car company will begin delivering an or- Iti for 220 steel passenger cars for the Harriman lines within 0 days. The order is but a starter of orders that are to be placed for steel cars by all the big railroad lines, it is stated. The adoption of the steel cars was de cided upon after a long series of ex- rieriments conducted by the Harrlman ines. The cars sre to be steel shells with but very little wood in their construction. Hole Inch Doep Burned. San Francisco, Oct. 3 While sit ting st the receiving instrument of the wireless telegraph ststion on Rus sian Hill yesterday, I T. Crow, an operator, received a shock of electric ity that burned a hole an inch deep in the marble top of the table on which the instrument was resting. Crow es caped with slight Injury, and esti mated that 30,000 volts passed through his body. waters of the Musi river.