EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
FINDS JAPAN FRIENDLY.
WAR 18 UNAVOIDABLE.
Japanese Writer Say* Day of
oning ■ » Coming,
Reck
Victorio- That war tietween Amer-
ica and Japan cannot be avoided is the
theme of a special article in the Osaka
Msinichi received by the Empress of
China. The Japanese writer says:
“It is now being anticipated in di
plomatic circles In general that in
General Return« of Important Event» future, when the relations between
Japan and America become more
Presented In Condensed Form
strained — which will certainly result
for Our Busy Readers.
from a continued collision of Interest
the ministry will have to accomplish
A general strike has t>cen ordered the painful duty of informing the other
by the National Railroaders’ union of country's government that the result of
Erance.
such a collision will be an outbreak of
Great secrecy over a conference In war.
the house of Ionia has alarmed British
“It will be pitiful indeed, if, even
Liberals.
on that occasion. Japan adheres to di
President Taft has emphatically de plomatic compliments and stat«*» that
cl ar <tl that he will take no part in no collision will take place. Why do
state politics.
the Ja|kancse not boldly and openly say
Sixty carloads of heavy steel rails that there will lie a collision. If they
passed through Portland for the Pacific think that the Americans will believe
the Japanese assertions that a collision
& Eastern road at Midford. Ore.
will never take place, they will only
Taft has started a movement to re deceive themselves certainly not the
store the Colorado river to its original Americans.”
bed in the Imperial valley of California.
The writer contributes a
very
Speaker Cannon, of the house of rep lengthy article, in which he credits
resentatives, was overcome by heat American sympathy with Japan during
while speaking before the Chautauqua » the war with Russia to a desire to cur
ry favor with the Jewish clement of
assembly at Winfield, Kansas.
America, and after detailing American
Despite the wrecking of the first naval progress he urges rapid develop
regular train on the new monorail aye- ment of the Japanese navy.
tern in New York, the damage will be
retired and the service resumed.
Doings of the World at Urge
Told in Brief.
MONORAIL TRAIN WRECKED.
Flames starting from a surveyora'
camp have ruined thousands of acres N-w Interurban Service Proves Fail
of timber and many settlers’ homes on
ure on First Trip.
Kellogg Peak near Wallace, Idaho.
New York Twenty persona were in
Three of England’s most prominent
jured, only one seriously, in the first
“suffragettes" will visit America in
commercial trip of the new monorail
the interest of womsn suffrage, and
service between City Island and Bar-
will probably come to the Pacific coast.
low, in the suburbs of The Bronx.
Five Republican, one Democrat, one
Howard Tunis, the inventor, who
Prohibitionist and one Socialist are en was motorman, broke a rib and one
gaged in a lively race for the nomina passenger broke a leg. The latter was
tion for governor of California under llie only one of the injured to go to a
the new primary law of that state.
h<«pital.
Although described as a monorail,
Canada and United States will con
the
only car the compare
fer on the establishment of through
■ l< |x r d for the stability on agyr<*co|>e.
freight rales.
For support and traction it ran on a
Many banks are making application single rail, but twin guide rails over
to lie appointed depositories for the head hung between pillars and lateral
postal savings banks.
braces on either side of the right of
Secretary Ballinger will tour Rai way held it in balance.
While the car was running 80 miles
nier national park to see what im
an hour one of thee« guide rails worked
provements can be made.
loose aid the car tilted 40 degrees,
The section of Nicaragua controlled piling the frightened passengers in the
by Madrit.is violently hostile to all lower angle. The pillasi at cither side
foreigners, especially Americans.
of the car prevented it from toppling
A company of S|>okane men have ar entirely.
ranged to spend I2,IKMI,O<M) on an ir
AMERICAN HELD PRISONER
rigation project in Rogue river valley,
Oregon.
Great Rritain would like to come to Madriz Forces Compel Texas Physi
cian to Treat Wounded.
a friendly understanding with Ger
many, so she could reduce her naval
Washington
On the strength of
armament.
press reports the State de|>artment
In the parade at the Elks’ conven telegraphed American Consul Moffatt
tion at Detroit, fully 20,00(1 men were at Bluefield» to ascertain whether Dr.
of
Houston.
in line, and 300 were temporarily over Lawrence Burgheim,
Texas, is held a prisoner by the Madrix
come by the heat.
forces.
The report was that Dr.
Robbers attempted to hold up 40 Burgheim had been compelled to treat
men of a construction train in Ohio, the wounded at Bluefield» Bluff.
on pay day but were put to flight by a
Evidences of the condition of unrest
fusillade of bullets.
prevalent in Managua were received at
An American actress was found mur the State department through the
dered in London, and her husband has translation of public orders issued by
disappeared and is believed to be en the military governor in the month of
June. One of these orders prohibited
route to New York.
individuals from leaving the city with
Suita which will bring penalties ag out written permits from the author
gregating 142,000 have l>cen begun ities. Persons disobeying this order
against Missouri railroads for over were classed as revolutionists.
working their trainmen.
Another order prohibited gathering*
Forest fires in Idaho are again l>e- in private houses and in public estab
yond control.
Millions of dollars lishments after 9 o’clock in the even
worth of timber is being destroyed by ing except by permission of the author
fires in Washington, Idaho, and Mon- ities.
tana.
American Secretary I* Royally Enter
tained In Tokio.
FROM ALFALFA
Tok io—” Unhappily, forces for evil
for unknown but sinister parpeaaa con
stantly are endeavoring by false re
ports or other method* to create condi
tions of III will or distrust between
two neighboring peoples.
"Their relation« are toe firmly es
tablished and their interests are too
distinct to admit of the poaeibibly of
any question arising between Japan
and the United State*, which will not
yield readily to the ordinary proceaa of
diplomacy. The increased and more
intimate exchange of view* between
the taro governments dispels all appre
hension* on that score."
This utterance was made by Foreign
Minister Count Komura in toasting J.
M. Dickinson, the American secretary
of war, at a banquet given by Count
Komura in honor of the American cab
inet officer.
Mr. Dickinson and hi»
party arrived at Yokohama on board
the steamer Siberia. and after an in
formal reception at the American con
sulate, came on to Tokio.
Th<- dinner was a brilliant affair.
Eighty person» sat down to the table,
including Marquis Katsura, the Japan
ese prime minister, and five memtwr*
of the cabinet; admirals, generals and
officer* and their ladies. After toast»
to President Taft ami the emperor had ,
been proposed, respectively by Count
Komura and Thomas J. O'Brie -•, the
American ambassador. Count Komura.
in pnqxjemg the health of Mr. Dickin
son, referred to previous visits to Ja- '
pan of President Taft.
’’These visit« 1 recall." aai<l th«-
foreign minister, "not only because his
ficraonality endeartd him to all, but
tiecause his insight and calm judgment
enabled him to appreciate the true
value of the sentiments entertained by
Japan for America.”
Los Angeles Doctor Condenses
Juice Into Healing Element.
Makes a Medicine Which Cure» De
lirium Tremens, and Drives
Away the Tired Feeling.
Loe Angeles Alfalfa, hitherto bold
er of a plcbian place in the food
scheme, is destined to become a com
prehensive medicative and remedial
element that will |>ut all others in the
shade, according to Dr. Marian N.
Clark, who announces the discovery of
remarkable curative properties in the
plant and bloasoma.
Her idea, already carried out on a
small scale and suggested by the men
thol industry, is to electrolyte the al
falfa and condense its healing ele
ments to vest pocket site a haystack
of medicine in a tablet.
Dr. Clark pridcfully recounts many
instances of curing with the condensed
alfalfa juice many nervous ailments,
from delirium tremens to “that tired
g."
One of these was the aggravated
case of a Reno B|nrt, who bet on Jeff
ries and drowned his sorrows in so
many tall ones that the cobras came to
get him. .The condensed hay expert
beat ’em to it and cured the victim so
effectively that now he shudders at the
sight of even a dog, if the dog is a
growler.
Tobacco chewing, gloomy thoughts
of sujeide. insomnia ami a host of oth
er undesirable things fade away like
the mists of the morning under the
soothing influence of a few forkfula of
alfalfa done up in a tablet.
PARALYTIC LAD WALKS.
"HIGHER UPS" ARE WANTED.
Immunity to Be Granted Suoordmates
In Beef Trust Probe.
‘ Church of God Follower* Think Mir
acle I* Performed.
Chicago
Fifty subpoenas will be
served immediately on officer* and em
ployes of meat concern* to appear be
fore the Federal grand jury in the beef
trust investigation.
Official* of the
National Packing company will 1« vis ,
ited first.
Despite the lid that has tiecn clamp
ed tight on all matter* relating to the
inquiry, it leaked out that the govern
ment plana to extend immunity to a
numtier of packing officials in exchange
for the evidence they may be able to
give to the grand jury.
Who these
officials will be was not mail« public.
It is known that subpoenas have Iren
issued for officials of the National
Tacking company.
In summoning these official* it is
shown that the government iloes not
care for conviction* unless those gather
ci in the net arc the men “higher up"
in the companies.
Judge Landis in
his instructions to the jury asserted
that only the real malefator«, if such
exist, sbolud be dealt with.
ADVICE GIVEN SETTLERS.
Kansas City, Mo.- Eugene Bell and
hia wife, of this city, believe a miracle
has been performed upon their eon
Paul, Si years old.
Paul has been helpless for a week
with infantile paralysis.
Hi» father,
an unordained minister of the Church
of God, and other members of that
church, have been trying the prayer
cure on the boy. They were praying
at the bedaide at daybreak one morning
when Paul awoke.
At 7 o’clock the
patient arose from his bed and walked
to the breakfast table and ate.
He
could raise his arms almost as freely a.»
lie fore the attack. Hi* right leg, use
leas for a week, supported him. The
family believes him cured in answer to
their prayer*.
WAY TO APOLOGY SOUGHT.
Mediators Concerned With Adjusting
Peru-Ecuador Dispute.
Washington How twat to arrange
for Peru and Ecuador to apologize U>
one another for the atoning of their re
spective legation* and consulate* a* a
result of the boundary dispute* last
spring i* one of the early problems
that has called the representatives of
three mediating nations, the United
State*. Brazil and Argentine Republic,
into conference a Washington.
So much was learned on the second
day of the conference, July 16.
The carrying out of the first condi
tions of the mediation, the withdrawal
of the force* from the frontier and a
cessation of warlike
preparations,
prompt demobilization and the return
to a normal peace basis also are
sought.
SIX DEAD IN
FOREST FIRES
Stubborn Rant her Sarts .Slash
ing in Spite of Warnings
Schoolteacher and Niece in Lonely
Homestead Cabin Fall Victim*
All Effort* Fad to Save.
Spokane, Wash. — Six lives have *
been lost in fire* which arc raging in
the district around Spokane. For hun-
<lr«ila of miles in every direction is a
caldron of flame, a M-cthing furnace
which is taking its toll of life and
property.
It the Coeur d'Alene», all
©ver the Idaho Panhandle, in the Col
ville district, north around Nelson and
Kaslo. far westward, extending clear
to the coast, the fire fiend is king.
No real estimate can be placed upon
property loss from the fires. Great
tracts of timber have been burned. In
the Coeur d'Alene* some of the finest
standing timber of the entire district
has been wiped nut
For miles in
every direction the mountains ap|iear
as huge bonfires.
North, east, west
and south of this city the same condi
tion exists and every day the loss of
property is growing greater and the
death list is bi-ing add*d to.
A forest fire driven by a sweeping
gale through the dry pine forest on
Mill Creek, 18 miles northeast of Col
ville, surrounded the homestead cabin
of Miss Pearl B re wen, aged 22, a
teacher in school district No. 156. Be
fore assistance could reach her she and
her little niece, 1 year old, daughter of
Hon. J. S. Wyman, of Plains, Mont.,
were burned to death.
Dozens of de
termined men vainly sought to reach
the cabin, l>ut were driven back.
W. W. C.ark, residing on the south
fork of Mill Creek, arrived at Colville
and reported to Prosecuting Attorney
H. G. Kirkpatrick the harrowing de
tail* of the schoolteacher's death. She
was in her lonely homestead cabin, her
niece spending the day with her. The
grewsomc tragedy was the result of a
forest fire set by W. A. Trowbridge, a
near neighbor, clearing a slashing.
Trowbridge has been arrested, with
i two other men, and he will be taken to
jail. The settlers are very angry, and
Sheriff Graham is prepared for emerg
encies. Million* of feet of timber have
been burned in tne last few day*.
Warden Hanson has arrived at Col
ville with Trowbridge in custody, and
Prosecuting Attorney Kirkpatrick, who
with Coroner A. B. Cook and Under
taker W. S. Prindlc, was just leaving
the court house for the acene of the
death of Miss Brewen, ordered the
prisoner to the custody of Sheriff W.
H. Graham.
Acconling to Mr. Clark. Trowbridge
had been warned personally not to set
fire, that it was contrary to law.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars'
worth of timber is being destroyed and
there is but little hope of checking the
flames until rain falls.
Men Die a* Heroes.
Nelson, ’B. C. Leaving safety to
look after others. Foreman Charles
Government Issues Pamphlet of In
Norman, of the Lucky Jim mine at
terest to Columbia Valley Folk.
Kaslo. lost his life in a bush fire
Washington New settler* in the
which, fanned by a high wind, swept
Columbia river valley, between The
over the mine. Four other men were
Dalle* ami Priest rapids, will be inter
suffocated and about 3(1 escaped.
ested in a pamphlet just issued by the
A party of prominent mining men,
department of agriculture, under the
including Finecane, Miller and Colonel
euphonious title, “Suggestions to Set
Davidson, from Spokane and Webster;
tlers on the Sandy Sofia of the Colum
Iz>|x-r ami Proctor, of Nelson, on com
bia River Valley.”
The report is
ing out of tunnel No. 6, noticed fire
written by Byron Hunter ami S. 0.
rapidly approaching.
They went to
Jayne, experts aent out by the depart
Whitewater and assisted to get the
ment to study the soil, climate, crops
women and children away.
Norman
and methods of irrigation.
went to the mine camp to warn the
Embodied in thia pamphlet is a vaat
Wrecking Crew Held Up.
men in the cabins. Otto Swanson led
More Land to Be Opened.
William Pittman, the American cap
amount of good advice and timely sug
the men to the back of tunnel No. 4.
Albany,
N.
Y.
A
wrecking
train
on
Spokane
Two
remaining
Indian
re
tured by the Matiris forces in Nicer
gestions; caution* as to the beat meth servations in this state, the Yakima Not being room there for all, several
the
Boston
A
Maine
railroad,
which
ague was found In a filthy prison cell,
ods to proceed. the manner of selecting
went to another part of the tunnel,
dying of starvation.
The American was sent out from Mechanicsville early best adapted crops, ami pointer* as to and Colville, are expected to be opened
where smoke was swept through the
to
clear
up
a
freight
wreck
near
Uahvr
to
settlement
within
the
next
year,
ac
consul forced Madriz to give him better
how to get the best results under the cording to Judge James W. Witten, ventilating chamber»,; suffocating Col.
waa
flagged
by
Italians
before
it
accommodat ions.
Dave
reached the wreckage.
As the train conditions peculiar to thia region. The superintendent of land drawing* for the« Peterson ami W. A. Chesney.
Roosevelt will press th« fight for slowed down, two Italians pointed rifles pamphlet, known as Bureau of Plant Interior department. Judge Witten is Peterson waa found suffocated at an
direct nominations.
at the engineer and fireman and re Industry circular No. 60, is to be had I <-n route to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, other point. Meanwhile Norman went
upon application to the department, or
The congress of American republic* fused to let the wreckers proceed The through senators and representatives. where the drawing* for lota in Plum to look for Ted Lucas, who i* still mis-
train carried about 40 Italian laborers,
mer and other townsites on the Coeur •ing. He was cut off by the flame*
is in session at Buenoa Ayres.
who found themselves facing an armed
d’Alene reserve will be held. All the and hi* body waa found at the entrance
All papite in the Chicago public crowd. The train returned to Mechan-
Shasta Route Blocked.
lands thst can be irrigated on the to the tunnel.
schools will I* taught to swim.
Redding Fred W. Andree, conduc Yakima reserve will be swarded to the
larfk
tor. was killed. Charles J. Foley, Indian*, leaving only graxing land*.
Forest* Blaze Near Hoquiam.
A Hungarian aviator committed sui- j
Yellow Fever Feared.
brakeman, was bruised, and an engine
eide because of a series of mishaps.
Rbquiam, Wash. -A force of 1,000
Bluefield« American Consul Thus. and 12 freight car* were derailed in a
Murderers to Be Shot.
logger* i* engaged In patrolling the
Germany denies any intention of an
P. Moffatt has issued instructions to wreck on the Southern Pacific railroad
Salt Lake City Harry Thorne, 19 logging district* north of Hoquiam to
tagonising the United States in Nica
A broken , year* old, will tie shot to death at the prevent forest Are* from breaking out
the American naval commanders here a mile Maith of Gibson.
raguan matters.
to observe the strictest precautions flange on one of two cars which were ! state priMin Scptemlwr 9 next, for the anew. No damage has been done yet,
The house of commons passed the , that no |M>r*onal communication be held being pushed ahead of the locomotive murder of George Faasell. a grocer. with the exception of *5,000 worth of
woman suffrage bill to its second read- , with Bluefield* Bluff, on account of caused a derailment of the first ear and Sentence was pronounced by District timber destroyed Saturday.
Hot pre
ing, but it probably will not get any fears that yellow fvver is prevalent ; the engine and 11 remaining car* rap Judge Lewis.
James Riley, who was vailing weather haa a tendency to dry
idly
left
the
rail*.
Th«
wreck
occurred
further.
there. It is reported that yellow fever
Thorne’s accomplice in the crime, and out mosses and brush, making timber
in a deep cut, and when the engine and who also must pay the death penalty, easy prey to the flames. The territory
Cattle rustlers are said to have has reached the campe of the Madrix
car* piled upon one another traffic from ' according to the verdict, will be sen burned over is estimated at 4,000
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killed some of their Indian competitor» army.
both sides waa blocked.
tenced on July 23. Faasell waa killed acres. Forest Are* are raging in Little
in Southern Idaho, and considerable in
Auto Supersedes Piane.
the night of March 26 last, when North river country, located 16 mile*
dignation has been aroused.
Two
Drowned
In
Kentucky
Flood.
New York Another count has been
southeast of here.
After a long conference on Alaskan added to the indictment against the
Lexington, Ky.—Another disastrous Thorne Riley and an unknown man
held up hi* store.
affairs. President Taft has decided to automobile. Benjamin Leaser, attor rain storm accompanied by lightning
Big Mill Threatened by Fires.
send Attorney General Wickcrsham ney for several creditors who have filed swept over Central Kentucky, doing
Kmg Flies In Airship.
and Secretary Nagel to Alaska to make a petition In bankruptcy against a local heavy damage to the wheat, tobacco
Tacoma, Wash.-Forest fire* on the
Brussel* King Ferdinand of Bul McKenna branch of the Tacoma East
a personal investigation.
corporation which manufactures pianos, and corn crop* Telephone and tele
It is reported that the huge glacier says in explanation of the ease: “The graph wire* are down in-much of the garia established the record of being ern railroad threaten the Bryan saw
Near Blue Lick the first monarch to go aloft in a heav mill, according to reports received
in Rainy Hollow, near Haines, Alaska, corporation could not realise on its bluegrass section.
People are spring*. Henry Work and his grandson ier-than-air machine, when he went here. A lively fire ia raging and it ia
is moving 12 feet per day.
Earth stock of pianos on hand.
quake disturbances are believed to not buying pianos any more; they ar* were caught in the flood and the boy for a flight in a biplane with M. de la feared the force of men fighting the
I Minn« at the aerodrome at Kiewitt.
was drowned.
flames ia inadequate to save the mill.
buying automobile*.”
have accelerated its speed.
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