IONE PROCLAIMER
KVIB.. CRJBOON
EVENTS JFJBE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
farts of ttie World. "
Lota Important but Not Lmi
estfng Happenings from Points
Outside the Stat.
All records for attendance wo being
broken at tho Seattle fair.,
Mooriih tribesmen make almost sod
taut attacks on tbo Spanish forts.
Tb uncertainty of tho wboat market
will causa storage of much of too Call
foci lis oropi
There Is serious difference between
Great Britain and her colonies 00 the
navel policy, '
The Rock Island railroad has placed
an order for 6,000 freight cars and
locomotives.
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The powers will send a fleet to Crete
to fores the removal of the Greek flag
and prevent a Turkish attack.
A storm in Chicago caused three
deaths by drowning and a number of
injuries. The property loos is heavy,
An explosion on a Russian submarine
boat caused injury to 14 men. one fa
tally. The Teasel was American built
Millionaire Bradbury, of San Rafael,
Cel., sentenced to serve a term in the
penitentiary for perjury, has received
a reprieve, bput will have to serve 80
days in the county jail.
The shah of Persia is married. He
to 11 years old.
There are rumblings of a revolution
In Northern Mexico.
A hot wave in London has been the
eause of many rlxiths.
Wholesale - executions and figfatng
nave been renewed at Barcelona.
Thaw has been given a few days'
. respite before returning to the mesne
asylum.
. Almost the entire town of Milton.
Del., has been destroyed by flea. The
toes will reach 1100,000.
Jdknson Porter says there b
long the Deschutes for two railroads,
. sash having double tracks.
Ureoee will ask the advise of the
powers before answering the last note
of Turkey ea the Crete affair.
Mrs. Parkbtrrst, the English suffrag
ette leader, will soon visit the United
States and deliver a ereiee of lectures.
Rioting has occurred at Stockholm,
Sweden, In connection with the strike.
Dynamite aas mob aero to wow op
treat oars.
Wfllian E. Payne., ton of the boose
leader, has been appointed deputy aasis-
tant attorney general at a salary of
6,000 a year. . ..
Minster Wa, of China, has been re
called.
. The earnings of (he Northern Pacific
how aa inariasa of $160,000 over ta
as s, venerea, ill., tailor has had a
diamond set ta the aaU of his little
Anger.
A New York girl Is the Bret Ameri-
oan woman to own her own ballooa for
we as a
Porter limbers are farther eMstng
Haitfmen contractors, troebie hi tho
Descbates by hiring their men.
la S battle between dock laborers
and polios as Port William, OntM
sen won injured, three fatally.
Tbseourt has decided that Thaw is
still insane and moat be returned to
the asylum. Aa appeal will bo taken.
rtftoea people wore awreer lees ss
toasly injured by an electric car ron-
uj mi a avwgs aw Vancouver, n. u.
. Chiaa has sent a note to Japan to
which tho Mikado's policy regarding
tho railroad rights is soiled anjuetified
aggrossina.
Richard Carl in, who eeofeoaes to
having been a aarglar for seven years,
has told the New York police that there
Is 00 profit hi the anainasa.
Colonel Albert A. Pope. ft
Mm memiectorere, is dead.
The towa of Menttoslla, N. T., was
oneaaisssat mmptetely dssUajiJ by
are.
Taft has est Madiaoa. Wto. frees hta
HlwMary hi ardor to avast anil tog La
Polletot . v .f..
of ate ere lei St.
Leokt are euaeoetodef
frees Senses. .
to shtaaksa are ones at needing,
IV, beeaaee they were attended only
ay wis electors, -
faaseas Ktolaa
HILL BACKS ROAD.'
Construction of Oregon Trunk Up the
- Ooachutos to Be ftuehedv
Portland, Aug. 17. Uncertainty as
to tho actoal force behind the Oregon
Trunk was removed whoa John F.
Stevens made the announce ment that
be had acquired a controlling Interest
la the project, which, to its execution.
is to be financed by J. J. Bill, per
ally.- Tbe acquisition of this property
by Mr. Stevens and tile associates and
tho Identification of Mr. Hill with it
are of major importance to tho railroad
situation hi this state. - It to regarded
as the Initial step by Hill to btato-
ion of Contra) Oregon and tbe
eventual build Ins; of a railroad to San
Pranciscoo. Subsequent developments
resulting from Hill's invasion of Ore
gon are expected materially to alter
the railroad map of the state. .
"On being asked several days ago If
I had any interest In the Oregon Trunk
or if I represented any railroad that
were interested, I said no, and tbe
latter statement still holds good," said
Mr. Stevens.
"Since then, however, I have ac
quired a controlling Interest to tbe
project, have all necessary financial ar
rangements eompletedV and tho road
will be built as fast as It can bo reas
onably done with men and money.
The matter hi a personal one, and I
have no objection to saying that J, J.
Hill, as an individual. Is financially in
terestd to any extent necessary to ear
ry tbe road tnrougn to soeciesful com
pletion. - ...
"Plans-to detail era net folly devel
oped, but will become apparent from
time to time, as conditions may seem
to require. It may bo said, however,
that tbe Oregon Trunk proposes to
provide as ouicklv as oracticablo
northern outlet for Central 6regon, re
gardless of tho designs of any other
transportation company.'' -.
Having made this announcement,
Mr. Stevens refused to badge an Inch.
FHJHT TO BE KEPT UFV'
Bellinger and Pirvchet to
Moot Again
h Denveri
Denver. Aug. 17. Every subject
that in any way sen bo connected with
the commercial, industrial and agricul
tural growth of the West, from tho
Panama eaeal to scientific dry farm
ing, will be disco seed in Denver this
week at cessions of tho 12th annual
tion of the Traas-Missleeippi
Commercial congress
Between 6,000 and 7,000 delegates
oxpocloa. The sen grass began its
ions yesterday, although the real
work will not be taken up until today.
una ox too features of tbe congress
probably will be tbo renewal of the
struggle between Secretary of tbe In
terior Bellinger end Chief Forester
Pinchot, begun publicly at Spokane
last week. These two own and 800
delegates from the National Irrigation
congress at Spokane are expected tt
day. , - .
Among the multitude of subjects to
bo discussed are rmilroeds and trans
portation j commercial preclemveloeer
relations with aootbcm republics, with
special reference to tho Panama oanal ;
national defease, with special refer
ence to tho Pacific coast and Hawaii,
which wUI aead delegates; eonserva
tioaof national recourses, irrigation
and reclamation; good roads; beet and
case sugar industry! reform of the
tar service; dramage of sob-1
merged leads, and separate statehood
for Ariaona and New Mexico.
Among tho accredited delegates will
be five women, two from Denver, two
from Ariaona and one from Texas,
The government will take advantage
of tan congress to give illustrated lee
tarra every night explaining what red-
oral authorities are doing in the way
of public works. Including tho Panama
r w ta Be Bum.
Victoria. B. C Aug. 17. There was
laosh military activity both in Jaoan
and Manchuria whoa the xtoipressof
India toft Japan, to eoaeeoMuceof
Japan's determination to rebuild the
AataorMakdea railroad. Meae while.
farther oauee of trouble bos devor-
to emtaemesnes of China bavins-
CMurminea to aula a rival line through
maacaurta to eonneet Ooroa via Caien
tao, the inland to tbe To men fsemrdins?
whose ownership China and Japan are
scut asvMvea. with linn, on the Chhv
oas section of the Msnchuriaa railroad.
Concrete BuMmg Pall.
Winnipeg, Aug. IT. A
span meat block known at the BrodsJ-
ben, being erected here, collapsed 84-
arday evening. rJeevy rains
moistened the sonsrsts so that the steel
girders gava way. Fewr sm
and were eruahed. two 00 severely they
were taken top bus ail to:ate7tog
Z VvMwtVl'fJ RVVJafs'ltat FVwtaa
Art Win torn. Out., A eg. IT.Ths
strtkiag oek labsrirs of the fawnillaa
Paclfie railway will return to work to-
us 1 car. A sssns saaotkeg of tan atriu
avo and sheer ft lauds, eem suing Lot
was sil l d today by Meyer pettier.
SESSION IS FINISHED
Irrigation Congress Closes Very
- - Successful Meeting.
PWCHOTJ VOKK GIVEN PRAISE
Resolutions Commend Forestry and
Reclaim ton Bureaus To Meet
' - Next at Pueblo, Colorado.
Spokane. Aug. 14. With the elec
tion of officeri, the selection 01 rvoblo,
Col., as tho next meeting place, the
passage of resolutions commending
both tho efforts of Pinchot and Nswell
in tbe forestry and reclamation bureaus,
asking a $10,000,04)0 irrigation fund
from nwisioas and commending tbe
Mississippi deep waterway, the 17th
National Irrigation congress came to s
practical adjournment yesterday.
The followinr office re in addition to
the election of B. A. Fowler, of
Phoenix, Arts., president, and Arthur
Hooker, of Spokane, secretary, were
electro unanimously :
First vice president, Ralph Twitch-
ell, of New Meixco; 08004x1 vice presi
dent, K. W. Young, of Utah; third
vice president, L. N. Newman, of
Montana; fourth vice president, W. F.
Fleming, of New Mexico; fifth vice
president,- E. J. Watson, of Sooth
Carolina, a
An annual appropriation of $10,000,-
000 for a period of five years to aid in
irrigation work is asked of congress in
resolutions by tbe National Irrigation
congress. This is perhaps tbe most
important recommendation in tbe re
lotions adopted, of which tbe following
is a synopsis :
'inat nomeateeders under a govern
ment project snail not be required to
establish a residence before the gov
ernment to prepared to furnish them
with water.
That tho government take measures
to drain swamp lands in aid of land re
clamation and of public health. -
That tho Irrigation eonsrees aid.
with other conservation organisations.
to brine; about waterway improve
ments, reforestation. drainan and
other Ilka projects.
That there be brought about am
ana estimates of reclamation of sob-
eel Unas where the work M tater-
natwnal hi character. (This refers to
Northern Idabo more specifically.)
rest tne reclamation 'act be, ex
tended to Hawaii.
That tbe states pass laws re ru latins-
cutting of public and private timber.
That there ebooM be no nolitieal
lines witb reference to tbe use of water
for irrigation.
That tbe UiojIssiDDi deeo water
be developed.
Tbe committee turned down the res.
olution asking a $6,000,000,000 bond
issue, after a debate In wbich some of
tho Washington delegation upheld the
measure.
HOLD UP BANK.
Oregon Boys Secure B7.O00 ButAro
Soon Captured. .
Sea Franctoeo. Aug. 14. Two Ore
gon youths, neither one much over 18
years of age, walked Into the Valley
oang or Santa Clara saortly after 10
o'clock yesterday saorning, and lining
up tbe three clerks at tho measles of
revolvers, push id one of the men for
ward and told him to ptaes $7,000 to a
bag and givs It to them." "
"And be quick about ft, too," ask)
one of the aoM-una, "and if it to shv
I'll blow the top of your Aead eel."
While tbe clerk was obeying the
youths, the others and a good ehsnee
to study their feeoo, as aoithor of the
amateurish 'desperadoes was masked.
Cashier Birge placed the feauired asm
to a sack sad gave to the two invad
ers, who at once tort tbe aank, wont a
half a block, aad jumped into a wait
ing automobile. There one of
placed a revolver at the etaCoor'a
and commanded him to "lot her
out for all she's worth. The casf ear
complied and tan heavy
in a cloud of dank
Y Some miles out of towa, however, the
faeachtoo broke down or the driver dis
abled It and has robbers took to the
fields. Their direction
and shortly afterwards they were over
taken by Sheriff Langtord aad Deputy
SneriS V. Lowell aa the uanha of
Moody creek.
Sheriff Lana-tord made every effort
to dmeover the fctaatity of the nrtoea-
era, bat hsyond eartog they
Oregon they weald toll nothing of thelr
bistory. .
MOO Cent Pur BIO Ftoev
Baa Frsnnisis. Aug. 14. A gold
piece, vetoed by w uente at $00, wee
paid into too pelves esnrt tods far a
910 fine, and Is e to fee one or six
freak nieces eoaat to 1R47 from whtoh
reran. "la W Wo Trast"
oaHttod bv sail Jiit These six
. CANKER ATTACKS THUS. .
f
Orchsrdisto find It Host Trouble
some Peat to Northwest. -
Black spot canker Is one of the most
troublesome fruit pests of the North
west and one which fruit growers moat
understand and be able to recognise if
they expect to make headway against it
During the fall the spores or "seeds"
are lodged ontbe apples, being distrib
uted by tbe wind or other agencies.
Later, whoa the apples -are sttered to
cellars where there is aa abandonee of
moisture "sweating" occurs, a condi
tion very favorable for tbe germination
of spores.
Black spot canker I roaponsipls for
tho great part of fruit rotting that
occurs. The most effective treatment
is a thorough spraying witb bordeaux
mixture in November, when the spores
or si sos are floating in tho orchard.
Because the fungus gives such slight
!LrifiiTmM i bf onoe in its piece, tbe ItalJinger baUto
the fall, and because so apparent theJPOT- l--. uJT.,
spring, many orebardista make the mis
take of attempting to combat it in tbe
spring after it baa already gotten to
tbo bark. Such treatment to ineffect
ual, however. Tbe spore must be
killed before H has germinated. -
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DEPOSIT TO BE MINED.
Nohalsm
Beeswax" Has Boon Found
r . to Be Qiocerlte. y-sX .'.-
That the product found In tbe sand at
tbe mouth of the Nehalem river, pop
ularly believed to be beeswax from a
wrecked Spanish galleon, is valuable
substance known to chemistry as oso-
eertte, wss tho statement mads bv J.
J. Walter, president of- tho Neeaney
City Hyrdoearboa Oil company, a cor
poration organised to exploit the pro
duct. For years visitors to that const
have picked up the wax-like tamps tost
nave strewn tneT beach there. Tbe
gonoral opinion baa prevailed that it
was beeswax brought from Manila for
one of tbe Spanish settlements to Cali
fornia and that tho ship was wrecked
there. Tbe disco verv was made as
rly as 1811 by tbe Indiana.
Kit Carson, tbo fsmous scout, now
employed as an aseaver bv tbe ewe
ment, visited tbo place and announced
that the supposed beeswax was none
other than caeerite, a prod act of hydro
carbon oil, found only to South Amer
ica and to small quantities to Northern
tfurops. -
kNAfONS tNVITEDC.
Ofnetal Car, le leeued for Paurth Dry
farming Congress,
Billings, Mont. Secretary John T.
Bums has issued the official call f a.
losrtn annual session of the Dr Pmrn.
ing congress, to bo. held at Billings,
moot, uetober 26-27-28. 1900. Th
can is addreosed to the president of the
uuimu eiatee. wjo QID omatle mim.
01 ioretgn nations, ministers
and secretaries of agrisultute of all
countries, governors of atataa. ml
vwmm w asmeniurai eel (mm mtmtm
hwu ouarua, statu, engineers, state
benrds of agriculture, rational, stato
ana county agricultural associations.
or srmore loairei. 1
twns, nortteultaral societies, county
commissioners, mavon oi itUm
d4n,ta f towns, all oMnmereial bodies.
rmurvmu ana immigration companies
Hu uwnipin oz dm ury Farming 000-
u nouitioa as tneas the satt Is
t to about $0,000 todividnal h.
fV""0 tatorsatod to agriculture
w toe wees.
og Washington Project -'SI',
Keooewkk That
have been made for a big irrigation
project, which will water thmsands of
f sagebruah land in Grant
eoanty are under way. to tan faf oranv
tion given out by J. M. Spencer of
Pistes, Moat, Mr. Spencer, who aas
targe lend interests to tho Crab creak
oouetry, says that the farmers to that
section have begun active nrsparstiona
to plans 160,000 scree ende irrigation
by means of a pipe lino to be built
front the Columbia river to the Grab
crock valley in Grant county.
It will ecot $6,000,009 to compute
this gigantto mdettakmg, whtoh will
tonetgrarity ryatoms
a the world. Tee pipe too wUI ran
nora then 100 miles before it reaches
tbe Meres lead to be watered and the
furthest no win ho the Cnkrmbto
oa the ma I ham h.i w
Cvjtarnl Oregon BsllSna. Urn!
Pains Nolaltbstamtmg heavy Im
misrratkn sad ShUlement the neet f
years, were are yet ta Harney eoanto
ovnr , 000,900 acres of gerernment
mno snoteet to entry, hifilislins Ha..
srwnasA mineral and aartoBitural
Isnd, sgreator area atom aha awtb.
stato af He lereav. e4 e. . 11 1 1
e area of the whose of nSeeeseneOa.
Up to a Uhert than swn. the.
aossaia wee Oevotod entente to ate
raiatne hie herds ef cattle, ssmm
rseofeeetog ever the HlmaitoMe
aring tho gi sslsi part of th.
wauo largo ojanatittoa of her
iiTl mw amn no Trews nf Bene. -
ilTil ZZZJOin Ji CnrnCetowy. Ang, It.
fT'. ."? toongntauniiiiai nf Tan BrMtoh ereieer Pert reonwaej
fsaTua I aaj rhWBT -T-" 1 III if l L
BALUNGER IS FLAYED
Secretary b Accused el Pfylnj&
Into Hands of liter Itost
TURNEnBUollSTOBJSDEfOi5E
En-Oovernor Pardon Roundly Scorea
t OMnf Away of Power Sites
-V Wants Boaasvslt Pollclee. v
Spokane, Aug. llWith tbo stag
carefully set, the actors prepared in
royal burst upon the National Irriga
tion congress yeoterdav afternoon.
- Tbo man who, in ths language of
an: satbostonie Cutifbrnian. "rinn-t
things wide open" first was Dr. George ?
C. Pardee, ex-governor of California. W
Pardee attacked Richard A. Ballin-V
I". eeOTwry 01 iM interior, with a
fierceness only exceeded by that of
George Turner, ex-senator of Washing
ton, who took up tbo cudgels in defens
of Secretary Ballingor. Tneeer two
beeasno U principal actors to -ths lit
tle draoM which was enacted after ton
appearance or dm secretary,
Dr. Pardee told of tbo activities of
ex-Secretry Garfield. 'who. under the in.
struct ions of President Roosevelt, with
drew irom puniia entry many tracts of
land under tbo belief that these lands
should be held for tbe people. Now, ha
ssld. Secretary Bellinger has again put
up for entry these lands, and each tract
has to ito boundary a water-power site.
"I do not oppose private enterprise
in the development of these aitna.'-
said Dr. Pardee, "but I dp oppose giv
ing away immense rights to private
eorporations which to a few years will
hoW tbe same polities! oontrol over
cities and states that railways now hold
as a result of the masmiflcent -Htm.
made them when thev were sskine far
belp to construct. Wo do know tho
eon-option which has resulted from
railway control. Shall we nom bona
out to a new form of corporate power
an entirely new form of power over our
institutions 7? .
"Tbe thing to'do." esid tho fevaer
Callfbnria extvernor. "in to withdrew
ths water-power sites, as did Bnnsa
velt, and bold them for the people.
uu raxdee, when
nisnod technical deeer lotions of dam
sites which he said proved conclusively
that dam sites which have been taken
up under Secretary Bellinger could not
bsvo been taken un under Garfield.
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LAND OFFICE BUSY.' '
Lands In Flathead Rescrvetto to Bo
: - Allotted ta Fortunate, ; ,
Spokaoe, Aug. 12. Tbe drawing for.
government tends to the Flotbead res
ervation will bo bold at Coeur 'dAleno
today, beginning at 10 b'eloek to tho
morning and lastinsr for three dava.
A total of 6,000 names will eonstituto
tho list of winnlnai - ' and
these names will bo drawn at the rate
of 2,060 a day until Sunday. Tbe total
registration to tbe Flathead reserva
tion wea 80,89s.
Premptlj st 10 o'cieek ths M enan
esntatoiBg the spplicattons will be
opened to full view of tbe public anil
mmi win o rmaeo ever ay gov-
niMm wdcus aa at tbe Cseu
a'Aiene arawtng.
After tho letters are eroneile aiwi
Mwvmnffll UOOlan Will ntan la
uo arena and draw the first number.
After ths ftret number has been drawn
Miss Duntoa will be assisted to cboos
ng the aumbers by Mies Helen Bars
Iltoa and Miss Margaret Post. The
rermula of registering tho wia
and toforminr them will hm mA
as to tho draw in far th. rw
d"Alene reservatioa tonde.
Twenty overnmens iO.. m
baaily engaged to arranging the namea
of apolieanta for Cow i..
ms names did not smw ah.
wtontogltot. After tho names have
ansa oterod to alphaUticei order esx
ptoyes Will check thenameeer the erW
aers, wftk ths total avnnber legietered,
and if tt is found any f taVwtonora
twieo tbetr naaoea will bo
Ootonrato St. Lotas Oeiileiavlai
St Lento, Aug. 1L Preparations
rPT rogreariaafor tho coming
Mutonntol of thie eitv. and th.M.t in
rwaeiBg great intereet nsiouehout tho
aoantry, esnestolry to tho Middle Weds.
i pwiwm ns nwilnmitol ooto
brattoa, whtoh will he held here daring
tho week frees October tot ef thie
inn program for tan canteasitol
dredtk aaaiverssri of the lai
of Bt, Lento, baa heat h. i
Bnltooa, atreaip and snrosdaao rncoa,
ananr the auspaeas ef tan Anra eton ea
Hi. Lonto wiU be held.
received end thoff am
Uy e It m ant
of arbitration.
known wan pant too