IONE PROCLAIMED
10NE ... f. OREGON
EVENTS OFJHE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
farttet the World. ...
Less Important but Not Lm Inter
tins Happenings from Points
Outside the State. -
Japan has adopted a vigorous policy
against Cora an Insnrgenta.
The death roll of tfaa recent Golf
storm baa been Ineraaiad to 41.
A train atruck an automobila at Me
nominee, Mich., killing an antira fam
ily of three.
Ona man saved bia Ufa in tha raeant
Galveston atorn by using hia cork laga
to kaap him afloat.
Spain la on the verge of a verolotlon
because of English and clarieal influ
anca ovar tha king.
A Seattle woman has sscarad a di
vorce because her husband baa been
too tired to work for 12 years.
Lightning struck a residence at
American Forks, Utah, four times.
One woman was killed and four other
persons hurt."
During a balloon race at Newton,
111., two of the big gas bags collided
1,000 feet in the air. One man's leg
was badly crashed,
Raphael Manco, who served In the
Crimean war, later served with "Chi
nese" General Gordon and than saw
service In tha Civil war, is dead. He
had lived at Los Angeles for toe past
26 years.
Premier Brland has formed a new
French cabinet.
Roosevelt Is being proposed for may
or of New York.
A big forest Are is raging in the
mountain! near San Bernardino, Cel.
A cloudburst In Colorado killed two
persons and did much damage to prop
erty. Premier Aaqolth says Britain should
he warned against tariff by American
and German experiences.
In an automobile raee at Grand
Rapids, Mich., BO miles was Bade in
SI minutes and 22 seoonds.
The serious condition of King Peter
of Servla is arousing anxiety. . His
death would causa no surprise.
A Vancouver, B. C, police - magis
trate flnsd himself 15 and costs for
exceeding the speed limit with his au
tomobile. A Los Angeles judge m denying a
divorce In which the plaintiffs' mother
waa involved said no house was big
enough for a married couple and a
mother-in-law.
Tha final count of dead In toe Texas
storm shows a loss of 26 lives. Com
munication has been established with
all points and toe property damage
Will be over 11,000,000.
A Utah man has Just committed sal
side at the age of 80.
Bolivia and Peru have agreed to ar
bitrate the boundary dispute instead of
fighting.
The Six Companies have forbid mak
ing San Francisco's Chinatown a show
place for tow lets.
The Italian press m greatly excited
by reports that Italians In the Boath
orn states are practically slaves.
Spanish troops have protested
against going to Morocco. There have
also been several rioca among tha peo
ple, y . "
The Chicago health aommlsslos) has
decided that pasteurisation of milk m
ineffective and use lees, if not danger
eua. y
A company la being organised to In
vest 910,000,000 la steel vessels to ply
an the Lease-to-Gulf waterway, which
the promoters eoncidcr secured.
The steamer Verdi has sailed from
New York far Beanos Ayree-wita SS,
000,000 M gold, the heaviest single
ehipasent ever saado to a South Asaeri-
. VtanLtM mi eh. ' aa at
aim, Wis,, have gone aa strike far
higher wages. Trouble Is feared and
state troops have been sailed eat.
Three mm have beea woaadid. -
has beea destroyed by fire.
Cetoiade wwseaa will ran a wisiis
far ecanrreea two years hen as.
Aiwoattaa has l a In it the BolMoa
tomietor sad Bolivia si
Tan Dalaa rwstts has osaf
took to avesa to wish with she
' I
eat It
I. HOI has
aeeaed sad will ha seat to '.
the Issltto fair,
ROADBED CRUMBLES.
Train Qoee Into River and Six People
Killed and 30 Hurt. ,
Kanaaa City, July 27.-Six lives
were lost and 86 persons were injured,
three rarhsps fatally, In toe wreck of
Wabash passenger train No. 4. whan
it plunged into the Missouri river 80
milea east of bare. -
The train left Kansas City at 9
o'clock Saturday night, and was due In
St. Louis ten hours later. UI the eigne
cars that made up the train, five and
the engine are now in the river with
the water covering all of tbem except
one end of the Des Moines sleeper.
A deadhead Pullman, a mallear, a
baggage ear, a day coach and a sleeper
followed toe engine Into the stream.
The chair ear and two Pullmans re
mained on the track.
Vnr Have floated waters have been
undermining the roadbed, which paral
lels the river. Three nours oeiore
the wreck a freight train of 46 loaded
cars psssed the point safely. Three
hours later No. 4 started across the
same bit of track and 60 feet of the
roadbed suddenly collapsed.
Tha train waa rannins? 14 miles an
boor, and the forward ears telescoped,
allowing the rear ears to stop so gradu
ally their occupants were hardly shaken.
MARK TWAIN AS PILOT.
Former Steamboat Man Will Conver
President Down Mississippi,
flt. Louis. Mo.. Jnlv 27. When
President Taft takes his trip down the
Mississippi river from St. Louie to New
Orleans. Mark Twain, the bomorisL
will act aa pilot on the boat carrying
the country's chief executive.
Tha nnaident'a river itinerary has
been completed and includes stops at
Caps Girardeau, Carutharsville, In the
Missoori; Cairo, III., Memphis, Teno
and Vieksburg, Miss.
When a nraeident of the United
Ststea takes a river trip, Mr. Clemens
always has been invited by the com
mittee in charge to pilot tha boat. The
usual Invitation was extended to Mr.
Clemens on this occasion, and bis
friends, who aav he has ahiah Dersonal
regard for Mr. Taft, declare he will
agree to pilot Mr. Taft safely down
river.
Moors Gather In Force.
Madrid. Jnlv 27. Official dispatches
concerning the bombardment yesterday
around Me ill la state that this measure
was taken to prevent the enemy from
massing. The gunboat Martin Aleoao
Pinion assisted in the bombardment.
after which she chased, but did not
catch, two steamers sospeeted of carry
ing contraband arms. The bombard
ment was resumed today. The Moors
are gathering in great fores in tha Riff
region. It is estimated that they now
number 20.000. and are preparing for a
concentrated attack.
Btsriot Awakens Cnglth. .
London, Joly 27. The London morn
ing newspapers publish editorials on
Bleriot's feat. A new Doint brought
out is its striking appeal to the imagi
nation of Englishmen that Ureet Brit
ain's Insular atrenrth Is no Ion ire r on
challenged, that the aeroplane is not a
toy, but a' possible instrument of war
fare which must be token into account
b soldiers and statesmen and that It
waa tha fine thine' Beaded to Wake BD
the English people to tha Importance
of the science of aviation.
Big Pour Crash Hurts 49.
Indianapolis, July 17. Forty two
persona were Injured today m the
wreck of a southbound Big Poor pas
ernger train at Zionaville, Ind., and sll
but 76 passengers who were brought to
hospitals la this city were able to con
tinue to their destinations. The bag
gage oar and tha eoacbee behind It left
the track while the traia was running
60 miles an hour. -,
Nebraska Pave Notes.
Omaha, Neb... July 17. It to evident
that the people of Nebraska did not
mind the recant panic, tor during the
year 190S there were 17,99ft farm
mortgagee para on and eaneelleo, rep
resenting a valua of fl2M77.T91, and
10.668 aew farm snortgages aere re
corded, representing a -value of 636,
412.667, leaving a tidy balance ef
aboat 190,000 to the aradil of the
property I
Speed Teat Sets Record,
PV!aderpaia, Jaly 17. Tha battle
ship Michigan, which returned today
from bar trial trip, la reported to have
broken all speed reosrde far a vessel of
tha setOeeaip typo. The Michigan la
said to have saado a traction aver 19
kaato an hear. Her speed requirement
waa 11
" Throe Uvea Last to Ourf.
Peneaeoia, Fie., July 17. With her
rigging ismsgirt and her sails tors si
meet to eareda, the fleam ssaorasr
Mtaaie W. arrived today aad reported
the toss at three ef her erew la the
Gatf aautusas af tost Wedaeasay, aad
at two
Owtoew. FIL. Jehr It. lean
Boeder, who died SeAarday at the as
af laB years, was bartos today. Dor-
toa? she eattie af Wstertae Boeder set
jed oa osdariy toQsasral Blast .
NEW RAILROAD WAR
Harrimai to Have Active Oppo-
jltloa Along Deschotet
RIVAL CONTRACTORS ON GROUND
Porter Brothen, Builders of North
' Bank, Start Construction ta,
Central Oregon.
4
The Dalles, Or.; Joly 24. Railroad
grading equipment, consigned to Porter
Bros., eon trsctorfl, was unloaded here
today, and preparations have been made
to begin la the jnorniog transferring
the material to Sharer's bridge, on tha
Deschutes river.
Work on a railroad through the Des
ehutes canyon into Central Oregon will
begin immeoistely, and this road will
not be Harrimsn's, according -4o the
contractors. -
This is regarded here as the first
move In a Titanic struggle between
Harriman and Hill for control of the
Deschutes grade into Interior Oregon.
Johnson Porter, member of the Arm
of Porter Bros., contractors, is in the
city and superintended the unloading
of the grading equipment. Mr. Porter
will not admit that bis company is
working for Mr. Hill, but insists he
Is not in the employ of Mr. Harriman.
Mr. Porter is the contractor militant
who built tha North Bank for Mr. Hill
in tha face of Hsriman'a active and
sometimes forcible opposition.
In this city the supposition is that
Porter Bros, are the coos traction
agents af Mr. Hill.
' CHICAGO GRAFT EXPOSED.
Indicted Detective Collected S9.000
a Month for Protection.
Chicago, July 24. Stories of graft,
astounding In extent and detail and
revealing conditions beyond belief,
were told to the grand jury today and
were followed by the immediate indict
moot of Detective Sergeant Jeremiah
Grifflo, of the Despleinee street police
station, known ss Inspector Edward
McCann's "mas Friday."
Ha is charged with demanding and
accepting bribes from dive keepers,
gamblers, cocaine sellers and disrep
utable women of tha West 8 Ida levee.
There are 26 counts in the true bill
voted agaimt ma sergeant, each set
ting forth s separate offense. Upward
of 29,000 s month was collected by
htm from dwellers of the under world,
acaording to the indictment, and more
than 9160,000 la all is said to have
been delfvired to the Deaplaines street
Boiloe natives.
The mom startling phase of the Iri
veetigaties lies In the fact that the
trail has been rapidly followed to the
city hall, and it is now said that Mayor
Busse's confidence In some of his most
trusted advisers has been sadly be
trayed. 8imilar conditions ars said to exist
la half a doxen other police precincts.
. JAPAN GROWS RESTIVE.
Wants Equal Terr Rates With Other
Naaans.
Washington. Joly 24. Japan nn
doubtekly is becoming restive aader
trade eonditiona Imposed in bar treaty
with the United States. -This recently
was made evident when she proposed
to this go vera moot that negotiations
for a new treaty ha begua at once, not
withstanding the feet that the present
treaty doss not expire for two years.
Our trade Intoreato hi Japan, however,
are not offering and for this and other
reasons this government did not ass its
way clear to discuss tha eaeotiono in
volved before the expiration afoor
treaty in 1911.
Under tha saoat nvarsd nation eJsoss
of the treaty, Japan extends to the
United States all tha conventional
rates which M has granted to Great
Britain, Germany and Frame, On the
other hand, aeae of tha redwood rates
authorised to asettoa 1 of the Dmgiey
set, whkh were granted by tha United
States to esrtala foreign eoua tries, are
extended to J spaa.
Uniform Laws Propessel.
BelUngbnas, Jary 24 A special from
New Westminster, sayat Professor
David Starr Jordan aad Professor Ed
ward It avian, sawn actively Amirllsn
and Canadtoa sirs af the joint
nebsries aommaalea, are new engaged
to examieteg Freest flahirlie. Profee
ssr Jordan asm to aa totorvtow that
whoa the raswtottoas af the aoaaato-
atoa sre sabmitted they will
for a aniiorm atoond season ta
and the Uaitod States watsrs. Tea
extant Wake stoasd mine he weald
aat state
aWBewfOf
Lktooa, Jary 24. Aa
af radtaee has beea
Gaerdn, which easterns
radtom to every toa af
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NORTHWEST APPLES BEST.
Bring Higher Price Than Those Prom
Any Other estate.
Consul General Robert P. Skinner,
writing from Hamburg, Germany, de
tails facts relating to the apple indus
try of this country aa reflected in the
prices received there, and shows that
Oregon' and Washington apples bring
more than those from any other states,
the seals being In comparison with the
California product as follows:
State Par 1-buahel eass
Oregon. Washington .... 2.lftS.67
California 1.60(3)2.61
As to the possibilities of the exten
sion of the apple trade With Germany,
the report snows that in 1908 Germany
imported 164,421 tons of apples, of
which tha United States supplied only
10,602 tons: in 1907 Germany import
ed 181,467 tons, ths United States
sending 9,229 tons.
Germany enforces rigidly mrpeetion
for, the Ban Jose aeale, and this pest
baa bean found on a number of ship
ments from the Pacific coast. Mr.
Skinner says, however, that as a rule
American apples reach Germany in
good condition. He urges that care be
exercised by all apple nippers to free
their orchards from scale and all other
pests, sod, then exercise constant super
vision of their employes to insure that
the fruit shall be packed so as to'make
it plsasing to the eye as well aa protect
it against braising while being trans
ported.
Hamburg is tha great apple receiv
ing port. There, writes the consul,
honest and impartial rules of sale are
observed and the seller always receives
what is his due, the market regulations
and government inspection having been
developed la a manner to mska It cer
tain that always there shall bo no
crooked work, or unjust rejection of
shipments.
German fruit buyers have for years
been sending their representatives to
America to look "over orchards and
packing booses, and keep informed on
the conditions of the Industry in all
important local I ties where considerable
quantities of fruit are produced. These
agents often go without making known
their Identity, and thus obtain infor
mation which might otherwise be
harder to secure.
The report of Consul General Skinner
agrees with previous reports which
have been sent to tha government from
abroad that Pacific coast apples now
lead this country la all European
marts. It likewiss emphasises the
necessity of maintaining the present
high standard, in order that tha high
prices now obtained may be main
tained and tha apple industry reap the
large profit which has been made in
ths psat years. - - -i-
.. CROP A RECORD BREAKER.
Prospects In Pacific Northwest Never
Better Than Now.
According to Information received
during tha past week the Pacific
Northwest will produce almost four
times aa many oars of potatoes as a
year ago.
This mewses Is startling, even
though the comparison with the pro
duction of a year ago la not exactly a
correct ahowing, for the 1908 crop was
just about half of what was produced
the previous season.
During the present season ths sere
age of potatoes in the Pacific North
west, hut mora especially in Oregon,
shows the greatest to ere ass for one
year over noted here. While a largo
per eant of this increase was la tha
Willamette valley, moat of the addi
tional acreage was planted to Ksstsrn
Oregon.
Eastern Washington and Idaho Hke
wiss have a vary heavy potato acreage
increase and the production there Will
be much greater than during any pre
vious year. Western Washington bad
a greater ecreegs of potatoes than a
year ago, but the difference to favor of
this season is not great so far as tha
additional planting Is concerned.
Potato crop prospects could scarcely
be improved over what they sre in
Oregon. Washington and Idaho this
ssaaan, and the same Is stated to be
tha case la California. In Eastern
Oregon, where soma of the panrist
showings were mads la grain preduo-
ttoa thai seaeon. tha crop af potatoes
never looked bettor. .
In the Willamette valley, potatoes
will show bettor quality this year than
ever before end tteameo will ha Jaat
that which gained for tale socttoa the
reputation af gre-wtng the vea
potatoes to the eotire Uaitod States.
In ss aeons pjravtoas to the present
ana, tha potato acreage and production
af Beaters Oregon, Washiagtoa sad
Idaho had tittle, if anything, to do
with prices at Portland or San
ctoea, bat this aaaasa each of these
tactions will be a Strang factor la the
amrkat aad aaleso all signs fail prices
witt reach a tower agora tana Bar sssas
aa htoh
Pacific Soaot to recent years
aaa eosuely coma to
totosa will apato be
Witt sash a heavy
plies will as fully as great as any eV
yaatxfy, sad
sat ef Itoevatoas will
Potato
ales-ma
that the
taiak that
to effect,
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UAuCaiUlULUUULII
Tea People Dead and Property
Loss Will Reach $100,000. .
ENTIRE GULF COAST IS SWEPT
Seawall Built After Pormsr Devasta
Baves City From Complete ,
Destruction.
Galveston, Tex., July 22. A hurri
cane equaling in violence the one that
devastated this city nine years ago,
swept in from the Gulf of Mexico yes
terday, did 1100,000 worth of damaga
in the city proper, cost tha Uvea of
about a dosen people, est off all rail
and telegraphic communication with
the mainland and then swept on inland,
leaving a wake of destruction and suf
fering behind.
Owing solely to th e warnings sent
out by the weather bureau that had
first detected the storm in the Carib
bean sea, the shipping at the port
here escaped damage, all vessels being
made snug before the fury of the gala
struck. The 17-foot seawall, built
two years after the former devastation
of toe city, kept the huge wavea from
eating away the land as they had dona
before, but this wall waa not sufficient
to keep the water from toe lower
streets, from whence It poured into
the warehouse cellars, damaging thou
sands of dollars' worth of goods.
Ten people were drowned In tbo
water that swept over a portion of
Tarpon pier, seven miles from tha
city. They were washed from tha
rock promontories Into the gulf and
toe bodies have not yet been leeovered.
During tbo height of the gals a
heavy dredge which was at work in
the ehannel behind tha Island, broke
from its moorings and was 'swept into
the steel railroad bridge that connects
Galveston with the mainland. Tha
impact of the blow at ones severed tel
ephone and telegraph wires, and for a
time fears were felt on the mainland
that a repetition of tbo disaster of
nine years ago bad occurred.
Sweeping westward, tha tropical
storm, which bad been central over
the gulf for 24 boors or more struck
Galveston shortly after 11 o'clock. Tbo
wind attained a velocity of 68 miles
an hour, and heaved tha waters of
Galveston bay aa against the island
and flooded the section that, bad aot
boon raised. Tbo water backed op
into the main streets. The nrinclnal
damage, however, was eonflned to tha
beach front, where bath booses and
pleasure piers were swept away, but
shipping was not disturbed,
A hurricane for East Texas was fore
casted early In the day, and when tha
storm broke, Galveston was prepared.
Tbo Inhabitants of the few scattered
houses sought safety, as did the ves
sels rfdipg at anchor in ths bay. Tha
fury of the storm soon abated and tha
anxiety of those who entertained fears
of another tidal wave were thus early
relieved. So short was the duration
of the. storm, that a Maliory lino
steamer, booked to start for New York
shortly after noon, left on time. '
VOLCANO BURSTS FORTH.
Sumatra Villages Are Devastated by
Eruption avd Floods.
Victoria, B. C., July 22. News was
brought by toe Norwegian steamer
Tricolor, which passed la today froav
Soorabaya, Java, of a disastrous earto
quako on the west coast of Sumatra,
the second largest island la ths Malay
archipelago. In mid-Juno.
According to the report received by
the Tricolor 200 lives wore tost. Tbo
earthquake followed an eruption af
Mount KermtjL a volcanic peak 12,400
feet high, and Inland 60 milea from
owwfNira. atonai aonniji aas long;
beea supposed to be extinct. Its crater.
having been filled with a large lake.
Following the eruption of tha vol
cano and ths earthquake there were
torrential rains, flooding ths rivers and)
ling additional
Cloudburst Wrecks Ouray.
Ouray, Coax, Joly 12.' Plfty fami
lies are home lees, seven business and
resideneo squares are taandetod and
property ban beea damaged to etas ex
tent af $80,000, aa tha result af a
cloudburst that. easM apoa this city
tew afternoon. Cascade and Pertlsad
creaks evwr flowed their banks and be
came ragiog torrents through s sae-tioa
ex ass sown. sMVaral aarae
assasd from tha wiadows af
by mea an horseback. It la
will
I ,000,000.
Dohrth. Mfaxsw Jar xX-Jmhta
was asoded agate tanigat, tha
ttoas witxdn 24 hoars. The
may reach 91,000,00. Nearly threw
inches ef rata fell to aa hoar and a
half. The waawaewred keteBbe Riiea