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CURRENT
EVENTS
GRIP
OF THE
WEEK ¡FOREST FIRES
"ES GRIP
TOWN
CHOAS RULES IN
OF WALLACE MADRIZ CAPITAL
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Fifty are reported dead in and
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• around Wallace,
Idaho, where »L-
the
: property leas ia 11,000,000. The fire
(haa not enlarged on the area burn
ed Saturday night.
Mullan ia probably safe but Area
General Resume of Important Events :
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■ threaten.
Presented In Condensed Form
Elk City ia reported atill unburn-
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
Government is Tottering and
People Panic-Stricken
for Our Busy Readers.
Estrada Army Approaches and Lives
and Property o1 Americans
Are in Peril.
L Four or more are dead In fires
One hun-
• near Newport, Wash.
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!| ; dred and eighty men in the forestry
Polltlcal graft hunters in New York
service are surrounded in the St. Joe
have failed to find any grafL
Í country.
Taft and St. Regie, Mont, have
A plot has l«een discovered to i over-
• been burned.
Sáltese ia surrounded
throw th« Portugese guvernmenL
:
by fire.
Deborgia is
seriously
:
Madrix has fled from Managua, N le
threatened. Haug han. M<>nt., is re
aragua.
Estrada's forces are ap- Î ported destroyed.
proaching the city.
There is a solid line of fire from
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Thorn ¡»on Falls. MonL, for 50’milcs
A Pennsylvania man sent out 5,000
to the Idaho line, with portions of
sermuns on gaaip to critics of his
Belknap, White Pine, Hogon and
matrimonial affairs.
Heron burning.
Japan haa completed the annexation
Conflagrations rage in the Galla
of Corea, l>ut the Korean people have •1 tin forest, Montana.
Thum,«on
been kept in ignorance of the move.
Falls is in peril.
•
Ymir, B. (',, is in danger from
A sbeepherdt-r was found dying of :
rabies ¿on an Eastern Washington : fires which are burning in the bush.
; Other fires arc gaining headway in
range, where he had been bitten by a :
that region and the situation ia ser
coyote.
:
ious,
It ia rumored that Mias Catherine
Avery, Idaho, is destroyed, the
Elkina, who ia to wed the Duke
people fleeing to Tekoa.
d'Abruixi, will eventually be queen of Iwwws••••«•••« eews• see••••• see e«s
se se • see»»
Greece.
MANY BUILDINGS BURNED.
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PARKER DENOUNCES COOK.
Photographs Behoved to Be Those
of Smaller Peaks Nearby.
Seward, Alaska — The
Parker-
Browne Mount McKinley cX|xxiition
paasrd through Seward, sailing on the
steamship Portland for Seattle.
The
party waa unsuccessful in its efforts to
scale the peak. Members of the expe
dition aaaert that they have conclusive
evidence that Dr. Cook did not reach
the summit
Th« mcnitx-rs of the Parker Browne
[■arty corroborate the statements made
by C. E. Rusk, who recently led an un
successful exfiedition, that the peak
climbed by Dr. (xx>k and used in hie
[■holographs as Mount M-Finley lea
smaller peak, easy of access and 10
miles away from the real summit
Professor Herschel Parker, who is at
the head of the «-X[xr«lition that just re-
turrxl, took pbotografvhs of the lower
peak. He says ths-ee will prove that
Dr. Cook's statement that he climbed
Mount McKinley are not true.
Professor Parker places no credence
in the statement made by 1<>m Lloyd,
of Fairbanks, and hia luuux-iatcs that
they climbed the mountain from the
Fairbanks side.
Those in the party which returned
are: Profewaor Hetadwl Parker, of
Columbia
University;
Belmore
Browne, of Tsromz; Profeaaor J. IL
Cuntx, of Stevens Institute, Hoboken,
N. J., Herman L. Tucker, of Newton,
Maae.; Waldemar Graaaie, of Columbia
University, and Merle Leroy, an Alas
kan packer.
Washington The provisional gov
ernment of Nicaragua is tottering to
its fal), the Madrix army is demoral
ised, consternation reigns in Managua
ami Dr. Madrix, his general in-chief,
Toledo, and general Iriaa, are prepar
ing to flee the country,*
This, in effect, is th« news received
by the State department from United
States Consul Olivares at Managua,
and these advices are confirmed by die-
l>atchoa from Mr. Johnson, United
States consul at# at Corin to.
The panic in the capital is threaten
ing the lives and property of Ameri
cana. Crowds are reported traversing
the streets crying. “Death to the
Americana.”
While the cruisers Vicksburg and
Yorktown are at Corinto and in close
touch with the situation, the legation
and consulates in Managua are under
heavy police guard and preparatiuna
have been mad« to meet attacks on
American lives and property.
The situation grew out of the victory
won Thursday by the revolutionisla.
ACCUSED MEN PROMINENT.
who defeated a strong column of gov
ernment troops and crossed the Tipi System ot Graft
Makes
Political
taps river.
Crooked Work Look Psi«.
Th«- removal of the government army
Chicago The first blow in the $5,-
seems complete. Mr. Oliver«-« rejx-rts
that General Tolcd-■, who w as in com > >.!•,('i-.i III.!,.. « <<!tral graft s- andal
mand of the Madrix truq«. arrived boa fallen, and three <-fficialn of the
in Managua following hia di-fcst and
road were landed in jail, although but
announced that his force had been
seised with panic and tied when at for a few minutes. It waa a full con-
tacked. Soldiers made their csca|x- to fexaion from an official of the Blue
Grenada while others continued their Island Car A F-quipment company, de
flight to the capital.
ciare«! to involve not only theac, but
Grenada appear* to be at the mercy
of an undiciplm«<d mob of soldiers, who numerous other of the road's former
are reported to be pillaging the h< u»<-a officials, that finally reaultcd in the ar
there.
rreta.
It is added that the Mt rad an force
The men arrested were:
Frank H.
is already at the gates of the city and
Harriman, former general manager of
is preparing to take the place by as
«suit. From the evident demoralised the Illinois Central, relcaat-d on bond
condition of the Madrix forces, observ of $4<>,000; John M. Taylor, former
ers believe that Granada will be taken general storekeeper at Bumside, re-
by Estrada with little trouble and the leaaed on bond of $40,000; Charles L.
way to the capital thua practically will
Ewing, former general superintendent
be clear.
It seems the unanimous opinion in of the Illinois Central lines north of
Managua, Mr, Olivares reports, that the Ohio river.
the power of Madrix ia steadily weak
In each case the prisoner waa charg
ening and that his overthrow may be
ed with conspiracy to commit an illegal
momentarily expected.
The revolu
act aixl obtaining money by means of s
tionary army ia only 211 miles from the
confidence game. In each instance the
capital and the capture of Managua is
prisoner stoutly maintained his inno
looked upon aa inevitable.
cence and declared that if a conspiracy
cxiated it waa on the part of the road
to prtaMrcute them The warrants were
BURBANK S LATEST A PEACH.
sworn to by President Harahan, of the
railroad concerned.
Juice and Color of Crawfo-d Sur-
Trtxq» hava been rush«! to Crater
Lake firoat reserve to fight fires. Mm
Women and Children Flee on Trains
arc falling exhausted from exertion
— Skeletons Found.
and heat
Missoula,
MonL
The forest fire
The Duke Frans Josef, of Barvarla.
visiting at Newport. R. I., was badly situation on both aides of the Idaho-
shaken up in an auto collision with a Montana line is more serious than at
any time thia season.
car driven by Vincent Astor.
Flames are sweeping over an in
The latest census gives the [xtpula- creasing area, destroying small settle
lion of Canada as 7,489,781.
ments and wipiitf out <>f existence
A Pcnneylvaia boy died from lock millions of dollars* worth of property,
The loss of life will lx- large.
It
jaw resulting from a lx-e sting.
grows hourly, and the number of in
Whitman made a trip from New jured la constantly increasing.
In
York to San Francisco by auto in 10t. and around Wallace It is estimated
daya.
' < r. t! . death lint is al least 50.
In addition to at least 25 otherwise
Canada objects to the Amcricsn
campaign to induce settlers to leave hurt, it is said that ten persona have
l>een made blind.
the dominion.
Indications in Wallace, however,
The ruling regent of China has se arc that hcarly half of the city will be
cretly ordered ill anti-foreign agita saved. Communications with Wallace
tion suppressed.
to the west has been ,xawible at inter
A party of Masamas have discovered vals, but eastward it is- entirely cut iff
ten glaciers on the slope of the Three ■nd it is known that the entire east
half of the town, above Seventh street,
Sisters mountains.
haa been burned. West of that a hand
The Danish Arctic expedition which
fight Ia being made and with improve
sailed in June, 1909, haa been wrecked
ment in the water supply there is more
on the coast of Greenland.
chance that the flames may be driven
A number of innovations are being back.
introduced in the Chinese guverment
In Wallace the dead include: John
by American-educated officials.
Boyd, pioneer of the district and for
California insurgents have eletced 16 years general agent of the Northern
nine-tenths of the convention delegate« Pacific railroad here, suffocated in his
and will control both houses of the leg home in I’carl street while trying to
rescue the family parroL
islature.
Two unknown, whose skeletons were
An areoplaniat, trying for an alti found in the ruins of the Michigan
tude record, saw a balloonist in trouble house.
and hovered near him till he was safe
Unknown man, burned to death in
ly landed.
the Coeur d'Alene house.
Backfiring, in which the member* of
Reports of a breach between Roose
velt and Taft are discredited at Bever the city fire department, a company of
round Small Colorless Pit.
ly and little credence is given them tho Twenty-fifth infantry and many
Santa
R>wa — Horticulturists anti
volunteers joined, prevented new fires
elsewhere.
fruitgrowers arc united in their praise
west and south.
Canada has [sirchased from Englaixl
The loss to the city is estimated at of the two new varitiee of peaches and
the cruiser Rainbow, to form the nu close to $1,000,000. Some of the prin one of plums producted by Ixither Bur
bank, the plant wizard. Croeaes of
cleus of the Canadian navy.
England cipal losers are:
also lends her colony a number of na
Coeur d'Alene Hardware company, the Crawford and Muir species have
resulted in a fruit of greater commer
val instructors.
warehouse and stock, $150,000.
cial value. The Bartlett plum seed
Sunset brewery, $80,000,
Another ear shortage itemi Inerii
Providence hospital and the big mills ling is also a betterment in shape, col
able.
of the Federal Mining company were or and preponderance of flesh over pit.
M<>et of the juiciness and high color
An Ottawa, Ont., scientist turns cop the only buildings in the East End that
of the Crawford peach haa been trans
per into iron.
were saved.
Forest Supervisor George W. Wei ferred by Burbank to the smaller and
Truck farming in Alaska Is said to
gel reports that the region between firmer pit of the Muir. The color-free
be a lucrative business.
pit of the Muir is also retained. The
Japan has 500,000 sufferers on as Wallace and the St John river is vigor and ability of the new trees to
swept
practically
clean,
with
enormous
count of tho recent floods.
resist diseases is still another recom
loss.
Cholera Is raging in Russia, and chil
Fires between Burke and Mullan mendation of tho Burbank creations.
dren left orphans are starving.
E. J. Wickson. dean of the college of
threaten both towns and many women
agriculture of the University of Cali
Shipyards in Germany are idle, owing and children have been sent out.
to tho walkout of 35,000 men.
At War Eagle tunnel aix were found fornia, pronounces the new variety '•a
Five of peach.”
Aviator Le Plane won the *20,000 dead and two badly burned.
the
dead
were
in
the
tunnel,
where
prise in the 4S5 mile rare at Paris.
Private Timber Protected.
they had sought refuge. They lay face
Colliding with a black bear in the
down
in
water,
covered
with
wet
rags
Clover
Creek, Ore.—The forvat fire
highway in Maine, an auto waa over
and blankets.
which has been raging here for the
turned.
Some had died from the fire and some past week ia still spreading and the
Tho award list of the Belgian fal* from suffocation by smoke.
The in soldiers promised have not yet arrived,
was not lost in tho fire, and the pritet
jured were taken to Providence hospi and there are not men enough to con
will be given out.
tal in Wallace.
trol the flames.
Twelve dead were recovered at Big
Roosevelt lamia the South and *P
The smoke is heavy and the beat is
firoves of tho statute of Genera) l.cc Creek. There were three injured and something awful. Tne fire ia running
n the halls of congress.
three others were completely blinded. to the north and east on the govern
One fire fighter »»« found dead near ment land and to the south on the pri-
A Eugene farmer, jilted by a
It ia being held in
he sent to Norway for, has brought rdt Mullan, and 16 are injured at that rate holdings.
in the circuit eourt to recover $3,213 place. There arc al Pins Creek three check on the west by tireñgnter*.
dead, five blinded and five others in- There are between 50 and 60 men
damages.
fighting fire for the lumber companies.
A newly wed eouple of Philadelphia jured.
were caught by the customs officers
Blue Mountains All Ablare.
Open Shop Mill Wrecked.
when returning from abroad trying to
smuggle.
Dayton, Wash. A denar pall of
San Francisco For the fourth time
v.;.;/.. two
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yeara
the mill
Pacific
Jack Cudahy, the millionaire meat smoke hangs over Southeastern Waah- within
packer of Kenans City, is to sue his ington obscuring the Blue mountains Cxiaat Mill A Lumber company, in Oak-
wife for divorce and custody of the and indicating that devastating fires land, waa wrecked Saturday night by
are again raging in the Wenaha re exploding dynamite. Two years ago
four children.
serve on the Oregon side. 30 miles the company had a a trike of hernia and
Thirty two passengrs and seven ef east of here. Judging from the den-
declared for the open shop, end since
the crew of the Spanish steamer Mor
sity of the sm<>ke, the fires now burn- then they have defied the labor unions.
toe were drowned Tuesdav when the
shin sank near Tarifa Point, after a ing are the moat appalling thia sum- Thia latest dynamiting was done by
collision with the German steamer Elsa mcr. Meager details received from men who knew juat where the moat
The
Heavy fog enshrouded the vessel, ea-i* the burned district tell of the location, valuable machinery waa located.
Ing the accident, and preventing the which ia in the heavy pine and fir explosive waa placed under this ma-
crew of the Elsa from saving many of timber near the headwater* of the, chinery and it waa alnxwt completely
ths Mortos' passengers or crew.
I Aaotin river near Teal's camp.
wreck«L
OlFICIALS HAMPER
STATE FOOD FIGHT
Washington Asserting that he had
been hampered in every p<iaaible way
in his efforts to uphold the laws of his
state against the sale of food contain
ing benxoete of soda and announcing
that he would appeal to President Taft,
Attorney General Bingham, of Indiana,
denounced the department of agricul-
ture officials.
The sroring occurred in the hearing
held here in connection with the case
of Williams Brothers and
others
against the board of health of Indiana.
Dr. Hatvey W. Wiley, chief of the
bureau of chemistry, and a sworn en
emy of benxoate of soda aa a f<xd pre-
servative, waa under cross-examina
tion at the time.
Scramble tor Plates On.
^Chicago
Although invitations to
the Hamilton club banquet to Theodore
Roosevelt on September 8 have been
out only 24 hours and plates are quoted
at $7.50 each. 400 reoeravtiona have
been mail«- end the entertainment com-
mittroe liegan figuring on larger quar
ters for the event, aa the percent quar
ters accommodate only 575 guests.
It waa before the Hamilton club
that
the
”streftnsns
life”
wax
launched and the “big stick” became a
symbol of the Rtmaevelt policies.
Young Chicagoan Hero of World-
Stirring Feat.
Pilot Was Ignorant of Geography^of
Course Trip Made in Thirty-
Seven Minutes.
Deal, England—It haa been reserved
for an American citixen to jx-rform one
t
mm during feats la the history
..f av lation.
-
John B. Moissant, of Chicago, flew
aero«« the Engb«h Channel from Calais
to Tilmaustonc Wednesday with a paa
»eager, and bjr thia achievement far
surpasses the feats of Blériot, Del.ee-
■ ■ I • au<l the English aviator, Rolls, who
afterward met his death at Bourne
mouth.
rhe two man flight from France to
England was the more astonishing in
Dial it waa only a month ago that
Moissant learned to fly, an<l was so
little known among the air men that
not even hia nationality win disclosed.
He was reputed to be a Spaniard, and
it waa only when he landed in England
that it was revealed that he is a young
Chicago architect.
To make the feat still more surpris
ing, Moissant waa totally ignorant of
the geography of his course. He bad
never l>e«n in England and was obliged
to rely entirely on the compass while
crossing tho channel in the tooth of
a strong easterly wind.
The channel flight was an incident in
the aerial voyage from Paris to lx>n-
don. Moissant left lasy Tuesday with
llubert Latham and reached Amiens in
two hours. Latham's aeroplane waa
wrecked, and Moissant, leaving Amiens
at an early hour, headed for Calais.
His mechanician, Albert Fileux, who
had accompanied him across the conn,
try, took hi» place in the macbiue
■ to n the motor had been set in motion
for the dash acrosa the channel.
Thousards who had gathered to
watch the daring aviator were amazed
and urged bin sat to make the at
tempt in the face of the half gale that
was blowing.
Moissant cared nothing for the warn
ings of ihe ¡reople, and even the fact
that there waa no torpedo boat to fol
low in hrs wake, but only a alow mov
ing tug, did not deter him. He made
the trip in 37 minutes. When he de
scended his eyes were bloodshot and
greatly inflamed as a result of the
heavy ram storm into which he drove
on approaching the Englsh coast.
The high wind beat the rain into tho
faces of the men like bail, and almost
blinded them. An average height of
wren 300 and 400 feet was main
tained over the water. The cold wae
Intense, and both Moissant and his
mechanician were benumbed. When he
revived sufficiently he laughed and said
to an interviewer:
“This is my first visit to England.
This is only my sixth flight in an aero
plane. I did not know the way from
Paris to Calais when I started, and I
du not know the way to I«ondon. I
»hall have to rely on the compass. I
would like to land in Hyde Park if
EXPRESS COMPANIES TO AID.
New Railroad Rate Law Becomes Ef
fectlvs.
Waskingtoa—The new railmad law
has tvecome effective,
Immediately
upon the passage of the act <10
_ day*
ago, sect ion« of the law relating to
the suspension of rates went into ef
fect. Since that time the interstate
commerce commission has l>een operat
ing under the law.
In a conference held by the commis
sion with the representatives of the
telephone an.I telegraph companies, the
companies exprexsed a desire to do all
in their power to facilitate the work of
the rommission. Hereafter the tele
graph and telephono compauies most
flic r«qx>rta with the commission eon-
eerr. g il.eir buaine s. just as railroada
do now.
The officers were also informed that
no franks eonld be legally used, except
aa governed by the pass provis on of
the Hepburn act, which is comprehen
sively exclusive.
Vatican Makes Denials.
Rome—The Vatican is kept busy is
suing denials of statrmcats given out
by Premier Canalejas and his support
ers with reference to the controversy
between the church and state. These
denials take the form of articles print
ed in the Vatican organs. Tho Ob-
servatoire Romano comments «■ a re
cently published interview with a for
mer Spanish minister at Rome, who
was quoted as saying that the papal
secretary of state waa not opposed to
Castro Family ia Ousted.
the bill dealing with religions congre
Washington The entire Caatro fam gations.
ily, apparently, baa been ousted from
Veneauela. A dispatch to the State
Peace Is Sought
department from the American lega
Columbus, O.—After the Columbus
tion at Caracal states that 36 relatives Railway A Light Company's rejection
of ex-President Caatro have been ex- of the city council’s offer to act as aa
polled from Veneauela and vailed for arbitration board ia settling the strike
Porto Rico.
of the street ear men, Governor Har
mon and Charles J. Pretxaisn. president
of
the chamber of commerce, inaugu
|O*troit Census 465,768.
rated new peace efforts. Mr. Pretrman
■* Washington- -The population of De- will seek a formal offer from the com
triot, Mich., is 465,766. an increaa« pany to reinstate its old men with aa
of 180,062 or 63 per cent, aa compare«! advance In pay to 25 cents an hour
with 285,704 in 1900.
and with no recognition of tho union.
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