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(ONE PROCLAIMER IONB OREOON EVENTS OF THE DAY Newsy Items Gathered from All Parts oi the World. LHI impornni out rwi mm tine Happening from Points Outside the SUM. Heat in Tutu i causing much suf fering. Two umti bava boon mad in Chi cago fo bomb throwing. W. D. Conner will try to secure La Folette's Mat in too senate. Immigration official! are at El Paso, Tex., inquiring into Cbineaa smuggling. Mrs. Theodora Roosevelt and three childran are at Naples, on their way to Rome. E. E. Calvin, the Southern' Pacific officer, is not yet out of danger, bat is doing well. ' Bryan says the time la at hand for all states to act in the ratification of the income tax. A Detroit woman has confessed mis deeds in order to save bar husband from the gallows. Canadian officials say the report is false that the bars are to be let down to Cbineaa immigration. Flood oondltiona along the Missouri and Kansas rivers have Improved but little and much apprebenson is felt. , M. Sakao, president of the Japanese sugar company, committed suicide when convicted of grafting by the gov ernment. The Austro-Hungsrian union is again menaced. Hundreds of new cases of cholera are appearing daily In St. Petersburg. Prlnos Miguel, son of the Portuguese pretender, is to marry an American woman. English Suffragettes have succeeded In reaching Premier Asquitta with their petition. Ambassador Raid has given a dinner and dance to the king and queen of England. Bolivians hare mobbed the Argen tine legation at La Pas. because of an adverse arbitration raking. There is an Immense building in crease in Chicago. At the present rate 1009 will ahow a gain of 00 per cent 1908. A vigilance committee at Los Ange les prevented the elopement of a white woman with a negro. The colored man was horsewhipped. John D. Rockefeller has given an other $10,000,000 to the General Edu cation board. The board now has an endowment of $62,000,000. A severs earthquake shock ie re ported in India. The Colombian revolution has control of the chief port. English suffragettes have gained an audlenea with the king. Persian rebels are near Teheran and the shah has prepared to floe. An association baa bee formed at Los Angeles to reform auto spssd man- Cat boon has been refused a change of venue and the second trial a ast for July It. Atlantis in 4 days, lfl hours and 86 minutes. The Missouri floods have begun to fall, leaving death and ruin in their wake. Fully S.000 people are homeless and the property damage will rasa 00,000. The only bank oonoocted by Indiana la at Fort Lapwal, Idaho,. It has a capital stock of $10,000 and ovar 146, 000 deposits. The affairs of the bank ara ooodoeted by three Indiana. Miseourl erops neve suffered greatly from the heavy raise, Nino men wars killed by an explosion of gas is a eoal mine near Trinidad, CotO. , K The mission etoemer Abler is miss ing in the Arctic oosan with 1$ per- The Americaa Soger Refining oa paoy says it is not guilty of violating the an It-treat laws. Wheat he been damaged to Nevada by the extreme oM weather. les formed ta many ytaosa, niMM frees rare. Is ISlHMted from Many paints to Nebraeka. At Omaha part of tee streetcar system to eat of Railroad blockades to vartea parte f Cetera, owe to heavy rams have daisy ed mora torn l.O0 asisgatea to ovattoaa to th West CHlNEctK PRETENDER KILLED Government Troops top Advance) of ' ' Insurgent Army. . Pekin, July IS. A tmnarkabto story of-tbe tragi fata of a youthful pre tender to the Dragon thron and a large number of his followers comes through missionary channels from dis tant Yunnan province. Under the influence of Taoist priests a prosperous member of the country gentry named Cfau conceived tho. eon vietion that be himself was ft descend ant of too Chua' Ming emperors, and bis aon, aged IS yean, tbo rightful occupant of the throne. "' . He rallied the clansmen and his neighbor to the number of upward of 2.000 men. vsriouslv armed with old guns, bows and spears. With the pre tender at their bead, uhs insurgent army marched upon Yunnan Fa, the provincial capital, preaching an antl Manchu crusade. Nr Vnanan Fn a detachment of the vicarov'a modern trooDB overtook. attacked and routed the insurgents. Several hundred of them ara nporwa killed end wounded. All the members nt the Cha familv were oromntls slaughtered by the viceroy's orders. The youthful claimant, whose neaa was so lately adorned by the halo of the Son of Heaven, was after his axeco tion, being paraded through the prov ince 1n a cage as an exhibit and warn ins to all questioners of authority in Mancbu. RIOTING IN BOLIVIA. Mobs at La Pai Engage av Pillaging and Looting. La Pas, Bolivia, July 18. La Pas is givsn ovar tonight to riot. The people swarmed into the streets end did much damage. The electric light wires war cut and pillaging was be gun on all skies. Shots war board In every direction. The situation for for eigners, especially Peruvian and Ar gentine residents, is extremely serious. The guards protecting too rsruvtan and Argentina legations were suddenly withdrawn last evening for some un known reason. When this became known, street mobs renewed their at tacks. Benor Fossae and bis wire hsd a narrow escape. They mad their way out of the legation and ran eight blocks, finally seeking protection in the homo of the president of Bolivia. Manifestations nave bean numerous In public places, and at a meeting held Saturday a portrait of Pigora Aleorta, president of Argentina, was held down ward on a pole and stoned to pieces. It ie reported here that considerable excitement prevails st Lima and Bue nos Ayr, and the Argentine govern ment's silence in the face of Bolivian protests, is regarded as ominous. TWO-CENT FARE COSTLY. Roads Los Heavily Because of Re duction In Chargea. Chicago, July 1$. Tho claim of Illi nois railroads that the i-eent rate, while stimulating travel to a marked degree, bad reduced the' revenoee of road from passenger traffic almost to th ruination point, is born out by a comprehensive investigation by tbo Santo Fe road. The Illinois railroad commission in sists the law has bea beneficial to the road. Th latter say they have been compelled to employ much additional equipment and more help to handle th Increased travel, which did not, by a large sum, compensate them for the extra expense. The Santo Fe worked under th operation of a similar law to Kansas, wee re a careful record was kept for th first year. Th Santa F carried aki acta mo than it did th year luusly under the g-ccnt aw. Meanwhile rereouee xrom nes- senarer traffic for the asm period do- miMd f 207. 000. U Railwav men sav this doss not begin to toll th real was, which mud found In the great xpeoee for equip ment and additional emnior. ine re vision schedules and wear and tear of property do to ipor oonataot use. Upper Air to Be Studied. Ban Francisco, July 18. A meteer- oloHieal and astronomical observatory at an altltwJ of about 14,000 feet i to he erected on Mount Whitney by the Smithsonian tnetitutien. The work of preparing th trail op th mountain over which th materiel will ba trans ported by pack mo ie is already ander way. It la expected the station, which will be temporary, will ba completed by September , whew Professor W. W. Campbell and Professor Abbott, of th Lick observatory, will ga to Mount Whitney to make abservatiosm ' Prog Drtfte Stop) Tram. Uttco, R T., July 11. A milage from Qouveraeer tonight states that to a heavy wind and rata storm there thousands of assail frogs Ml. ewvortng the sidewalk to such an extMrt that walking waa difficult The rails or a railroad for half mite war covered and rsadirid a slippery the spied of th teas waa materially TAFT TO TOUR WEST Plans for Extensive Trip to Pa- clflc Coast This FalL - GOING DIRECT TO SEATTLE FAIR Executive Wig Visit Portland and Go on South to California and -. ' Gulf States. Washington. July 10. President Taft today gave an outline of th ten tative plana for bis trip tnroogk tb West and South this fall. Th wssldent has abandoned all Idea of visiting Alsaks this year, largely because Mrs. Taft will not be ante to go with him. Upon his arrival hers today the president received word irom Beverly that sirs. - Taft was rapidly imDrovins: in health. He feels, how ever, that ah is hardly strong enough to take th long Western trip this fall, which will occupy shout two months. As soon as the tariff bill is out oi tns wsy the president will leave Washing ton for Beverly, to remain until Sep tember 17, bis B2d birthday when b hopes to begin his Western trip. The preeident will go directly to Seattle, stopping for brief visits n rout t Denver, Salt Lake and Spoxane. After visiting th Alaska- rukon- Pacifle exposition, the president will swing down to the Southwest, stopping for a time at Portland, Or., where he will b th guest of Senator Jonathan Bourne, and proceeding thence to San Francisco. Leavine? San Francisco, tho president will go to Los Angeles, where be will top for several days with his sister. From Los Angeles the president will go to San Diego and then into Arisona and Mew Mexico If the weather is pleasant and hit arrangements permit, Mr. Tat hopes to visit the Yoaemito valley before going to Los Angeles. Coming out of Mexico, the president will stop for a time at 1 Paso, where be expect to meet President Diss, of Mexico. After hi stop at El Paao th preei dent will visit San Antonio, where he will inspect Fort Sam Houston, -which ba wa instrumental in building up. After visiting Austin and Dallas, the preeident expects to spend several days on tho ranch of his brother, C P. Taft, at Corpus Christi, Tex. Continuing tost, tho president will stop at Houstos and go to Nsw Orleans to attend tba meeting of urn ueep Waterways convention. After attend ing the convention, Mr. Taft wants to stop for a time to to Bayou Teen country of Louisiana, the land of Evan geline and Arcadia. From there toe president will pro ceed to Jackson, Miss., thence to Mont gomery, Birmingham and Macon. From Mscon th president will go to Augusta. LeaTing Augusta the preeident goes to Savannah and thence begins his northwsrd trip to Washington, stop ping st Wilmington, N. C and Rich mond, Vs. DAM' THREATENS VALLEY. Qrsat Pathfinder Btruotar Bald to Be in Portion Shop. Cheyenne, Wyo., July 10. Reports received her tonight indicate that con ditions at toe Pathfinder dam at Alcove, said to be the largest to th world, ara most serious. The dam ia held only by a temporary dike bailt on gravel foun dations. Seventy men are working day and night to trengtbo th dike. The govemssoBt geological survey has a fores of man scattered slong tns river for more than 100 miles above the dam. taking measurement's of th river's flow to giv indication of any sudden rise In tbo stream. Preparations have beea mad to dy namite the dam if th water carries away the temporary dike. Arrange ments have also bora made toward warning th peopto living ia taw valley below in ease f danger. i - J- , Man Convicted bv Proxy. San Francis. July 10. Aa extra dition case with uneeual features saass up for bearing this atorn) barer United Rtetu AiHaiiaiiaMr Hancock. Mosys don AmareL arrested on a 8 tale ideDartment warrant, waa ee eased or murder committed ea saw of to islands, and aWairh be bad ned f the country, was tried and eoavieted, a , man appointed by to I'uiiagueee coon 1 mmmiIm kJe at the trtoL Moaeat- ly he was raptored at Saw Lei Ohtopo to this state, and new to reemttag toe attempt of sxwoditten. Ta Ouaro Weaken Boeder I IC1 P. T- Jslv le DawtelJ. Keefe, commissi oa or general of tananV ratkm. - bv F. W. Berk shire, chief inspiuii: for Texas, ad thai it SnrfM en a tear f s ties of tbo .tits Bi Grande harder. preliminary to frees Me WILL DEPOSE SHAH. Revolutionist In Persia Gaining aw Government Forces. . St Potereburg, July It. Tb Rus sian expedition from Baku which land ed at Easel, a Persian seaport on the Caspian yesterday, is mads up od 1,000 Russian and 800 Cow irk cavalry, with eight field gun and sight machine guns. Despite th correct attitude maintained by tba Russians, th natives are demonstrating their unfriendliness. To unopposed advance of Biphidar, tba leader of to, revolutionists, and Sarderasad, th chief of the Bakhtiari tribesmen, towards Teheran, is taken bar to mean that General Liakhoff, tb governor of Teheran, considers his fore inadequate to engage in a general battle, and that be has decided to em ploy hi Cossack brigade merely as a guard over the lif of tb abac. Persons well Informed here regard th entrance of the revolutionists into Teheran as a foregoo conclusion, wbils tbo deposition of the stash, which sev eral times has been mooted, will now arouse no surprise. ESKIMO WILL SEEK POLE. Boy Brought Here by Peary Will Try for Arctic Honors. New York, July It, Separated from his nativ home for IS years, Man Wallace, an Eskimo boy brought to this country with ftv of his people by Commander Pary from .tb Polar rwgiona, sailed today on tb Bed Cross tins steamship Rosalind, for St. Johns, N. F., whence h will b conveyed to hi bom in Greenland. Before Men sailed, the Arctic dub extracted from him a written agree ment that be would not sgain return to this country and that while to Green land be would not bears arms against the Peary expedition. This was do; It 1 believed, to the fact that Mono, angered at the attitude of Peary and the Arctic club in refusing to take him back to Greenland, ones saf to his nativ bom, might seek revenge for the treatment ba received while in this eouatry. Men said be would organise an ex pedition of Eskimos to And th North polo. PRESENT WRITING TABOOED. Uniform. Method to B Used In Phila delphia Schools. . Philadelphia. July IX. Both vertical and Speneertan handwriting have been tabooed In the public schools of this city, and after this a uniform method of penmanship will be adopted. Numerous complaints have been re ceived from business men who can't decipher tba writing of their clerks and applicants for jobs who have learned their peculiar styl of chirography in the public schools. For some tints Superintendent Brum- bsusrh has been at work on s plan to unify and improve the writing, and this plan was adopted at a meeting l tb elementary schools committee. A free, legible style of writing. slightly slanting to the right, will be taught. Students, no matter bow ad vanced they may think their nourishes, will have to begin again with pot hooks and ciphers. According to the now code, writing will be taught like caliathenics or a manual excrete. The teacher will clap her band and count, and tb en tire class will make letters with books and toils and crosses simultaneously. Tb exercise Is intended to'give a free mechanical movement to the arm and increase tho speed. Earthquakes in Franc Marseilles, July IS. Earth shocks! occurred last night throughout the same region which suffered aeiew ie dhrforb ancea in June. The shocks mated four or Ave seconds, and were in a direction from aaat to west. Too inhabitants of Rogues, Lamboaeo and St. Cannat and other eommune ta th Aix district were panic stricken and rushed from their dwellings. They are now camp ing to th open. At Marseilles the patients fa La Conception hospital were greatly alarmed , but they were reassured by tb surgeons. Tea oners' Occupation la Gone. San Jean, Porto Rico, Jury 1ft. Tb sti am it Carolina has sailed from here for New York, having on board all the American echool teachers who taught ia Porto Rtos last year under contract. ' Va failure of the United States a tepees the CHmeteed bill, which de cerned to remedy th deadlock exiet- mar kv twaaa the executive eaaneil and the beat1 of delegates, leaves the to la without ssaney to begia th fiscal year, atoea the legialature has Tlaex)fB AlMwl OV awlOwCateV Madrid. Jury IS. The First brigade of Cesadera, composed of six battelwas of tofaatry, three batteries of artillery and a suusdron of cavalry, a well aa the erataer Nusnaeto and the transport Admiral Loho, here hWIUm, Btereeee. wh Bsemtoa wmfcrno Iliad ay mUrvoa (BIG PROPERTY LOSS waBieH t Six-Fooi Wall of Water iushw Don Grand Urer. SEYM BEAD AND EIGHT HISS1M Heavy Rama and Melting Snow In Mountain Turn Missouri Va ay Into Vast Sea. '-v Kanses City, July 8. Swollen by- unprecedented rain and by melting snows from th Rocky mountains, the rivers of the Lower Missouri valley are out of their banks, causing damage in many part of Missouri and Kansas. The results of the flood op to a late hour tonight wr as follows: Train No. 6, of tns Atchison, Tope- ka A Santa Fe railway, which left , Kansas City at 9:86 a. m. for Denver, left the track at Pomona, Kan. Of the 10 coaches which made up the train, a baggage and three dsy coaches left th ' track snd slid into 18 feet of water. A telephone meeeag from Pomona, Kan., at midnight said the our-jeer- old daughter of Mrs. Carrie Rose, of Chicago, had been drowned in tho wreck. Three hundred other persons, who bad taken refuge on top of the un affected coach ea were rescued by boat and quartered at nearby farmhouses. Pomona is almost completely inun dated, the Mariaa des Cygnes river at that point being three miles wide. A. relief train wa sent from Ottawa to night with food and other supplies for the pea angers, who were aaid to have climbed on top of the coaches for refuge from the rising waters. In Kansas City th situation to threatening. Id th bottom in the- western section where are located the- stockyards, wholesale warehouses and manufacturing plants, the waters from the confluence of th Missouri and Kan- eaa rivers are lapping the danger lin. Fattens burg, a town in Missouri 60 miles north of Kansas City, ia ten feet under water, and it 1,600 inhabitants are In dire straits. Fifty rowboato. were put on a special train at Kansas City this morning and hurried to the aeon. Later reports say that tba ma rooned citizens were all removed to- higher ground without loss of life, but that the property damage will b tre. mendous. At Cbilicothe, Mo., on the Grand river, six men were swept from a bridge this afternoon and wore seen floating down the stream. - Whether they reached shore or not was not teamed. The bridge was carried out when a. great wall of water six feet high swept down both forks of tho Grand river and joined at Utiea, continuing after that aa one great flood. The water spread) out all over the bottom land and did great damage to farm and crops in its path. Tba water overwhelmed th railroad tracks, blocking traffic absolutely, and causing tba death of several people. Joe Willard and his wife were drowned two mile west of Cbilicothe as they were fleeing along the track a. William Chriatisn was also drowned and six sec tion hands are reported missing. The , agent st Gault Arthur Ftok, was ree- lvwi I mil um nwi ui uni pwinw a dose escape from tb flood. Tb Burlington bridge to the west of Cbilicothe has been abandoned. Body On Way Home. . Washington, July 8. The body of Representative Cuahman. accompanied by two representatives of the sergeant-at-arms of the bouse, left New York st 4:46 yesterday afternoon, and was met at Harriaburg by Robert Joyce, with whom Cuahman lived here, and by A. G. Hendricks, representing Senstor Pile. They will accompany the re maina to Taeoeaa. The body Ie expect ed to arrive there Sunday night In accordance, with Mrs. Cush man's wish no congressional party was desig nated to act a escort Congress will appropriate $7,600 for Mrs, Cuehman In accordance with tho custom of be- stowing upon tb family of deceased members an equivalent to one year'a salary. The bona will alee bear all funeral ox pence. Vytorvvnrn Men Maet at Yankton. Yankton, 8. D.. Jury S. On of most notable gatherings ever assemH bled to this part of too country in the interest of waterway beveloeeaent waa called to order today when the M issosri River Navigation congress met in sec ond anneal, eon van tion. Representa tives are present from Missouri, Kan sas. Iowa, South Dakota and other state in th Mctton tribpatary to the Missouri river. .Senators, representa tives, governors, captain; of ftoane and other high to crucial and eommer eti lif ara aehedatod as speakers. CeJyte t Doing Meet. Baa Franetoeo, J sty 8. Tee tonAV M -SSI? - J general mensgsr of the Scvtbera Paei. Be oseapsjry, srho ssKtenseat s opas tton for sppsndtoftto Besxtoy, to report d to h astarely i