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Newspaper Page TextTHE HEFPNER TIMES PbVihrJ Every Thanday. HIS Lire ENDS. HEPPNER OREGON WEEK'Sj)OINGS general Review of Important Happen peniga Prcacatcd In a Brief and Condense Eerm Brit- Sir William Harconrt, a noted ish politician, is dead. A third attempt has been made to wreck the battleship Connecticut. Tiinidad. Colo., reports that it can relieve all distress caused by the flood, The September receipt ot the St Lonis fair amounted to about $2,500,' 000, The Russians have temporarily checked the Japanese advance east of Mukden. The czar may block the plan for the immediate reoiaanization of the Rus sian army. Pottmaster General Payne continues in a dangerous condition. His life hangs in the b ilan e. Russians made a raid on junks car- rvina supplies to Oyauia and deS' t roved a number of them. It is reported that General Basilio Mu o, leader of the Uruguayan revo lutionists, hag been shot by his former followers. Cnuderable loss o! life ana prop erty was occassioned by fire in the ar tillerv and ammunition magazines at Sevastopol, Rutsii. The Japanese have begun a general advance on Mukden. The condition of Postmaster Geneial Payne is very serious. Mobile, Alabam, is having the warm est weather in its history for the time of year. The Japanese have adopted, tactics intended to prevent the return of the main Russian force to Mukden. The Russian squadron at Port Ai thur has made another attempt to es cape, bnt were driven back. Another aally is expected. Kuropatkin nowieal'xee that be can not go on to Harbin and the problem of wintering his troops Is a serious one The hope of the Russians is to defeat the Japanese at Mukden. Souvenir Lewis and Clark dollars have been sent to President Roosevelt and member of congress who were in tru mental in securing the appiopna- tion to the Portland exposition A mail car from Paris to Havre, con taining about 100 pouches of American mail, was broken into and 91 pouches opened and rifled of such valuables as they may have contained. There is no record of their contends or of the valu ables abstracted. W. J. Bryan is a grandfather. Disease ia claiming many Japanese soldiers. The battleshiap Connecticut has been successfully launched. The Russian cruiser Orel broke a cylinder on tier trial trip and will be dlayd six months. The main Russian army hs retreat ed from Mukden, leaving only a small force to guard the rear. The Japanese army has captured Da pass. Practically no resistance was offered by the Ruseians. A Puget sound tug just in from Alas ka, reports having sighted a Russian gunboat at Unimak paes. A dispatch from Cons'antinople says that the village of Ramsa, Armenia, was the scene of a massacre of Armen ians by Kurds. Details are lacking. Hops have advanced two and turee centa throughout the Willamette val ley and at North Yakima. Independ ence erowers have receied as high as 30 cents. Heavy rains have caused serious damage to railroads in Western Texas, New Mexico and Northern Mexico. Several washouts are reported on ihe Santa Fe in New Mexico and on all roads trains are delayed. Unofficial estimates by Japanese offl cers place the number of their sick and wounded soldiers at 45,000. , A Massachusetts justice fined an at tache of the British embassy and later found he had exceeded his authority He has apologized. Two more of the Billing, Mont, jail breakers have been captured. United States custom officials at I'oitland believe that neaily 20 per cent of the Chinese population of that city are in this country illegally. The Vancouver, B. C, police think they have in custody the leadei of the three men who held up the Canadian Pacific tiain near Mission recently. The Philippine islands will not be able to exhibit at the Lewis and Clark fair unless aid is given. Too heavy Jan expense at St. Ipuis is given as the reason. A passenger train on the St. Louis & Iron Mountain railway was derailed 125 miles from St. Louis and injured 85 persons, a number of whom are so badly nurt it ii believed they will die. Reports received from near Shang )iai say that the Boxers are openly dis tributing pamphlets couched in the ratne language as those circulated be fore the rising of 1900. October 17 is fixed as the date for the extermination of all forelgnes. I'nltcd States Senator Hoar Passes from Earth. Worcester, Masa., Oct. 1. George Frisbie Hoar, senior United States senator from Massachusetts, died at ! his home in this city at 1:85 o'clock yesterday morning. The end followed a period of unconsciousness that had lasted since early Tuesday, ana came so gently that only the attending phy sicians weie awaie of the exact moment of hia ending. The attending physicians despairea of the senator's l:fe six weeks ago, but such was the vitality exhibited by their distinguished patient that even they were surprised, and the public was at times led to cherish faith in an ulti mate recovery. On Sunday last, however, all hope was abndoned after a last unsuccessful attempt to administer medicine ana nourishment. Brief lucid intervals were followed bv Ioniser durations of unconsciousness until Tuesday morning, when the venerable statesman sank iuto a state of coma, from which all efforts to rouse him proved futile, lniring the last houts there was not a move ment of the body, and only a scarcely nerrentible pulse evidenced the final i i - . strnesle. There were present at the pedside when death came the senator s son Rock wood Hoar, hie daugther, Mary Hoar, and P. Warren R. Gilman, who for weeks has been in almost constant attendance upon the eentor. LOSS ISHEAVY Flood Works Ruin in Colo rado and New Mexico. ALL RAILROAD ARC TIED UP Thirty Blocks In Trinidad are Un der Two to rour Teet of Water Loss Will 5c Very Heavy. PAYNE VERY ILL. BLOCKADE TIillTENIN(j. Heart Disease Develops In Marked form In Postmaster Washington, Oct. 1. Postmaster General Heniy C. Payne is seriously ill at his apartments at the Hotel Arlinaton here. Marked symptoms heart trouble have developed, and bis condition becane so serious during the day as to cause grave concern. Mr. Pavne returned recently irom trip to the West ana appearea mucn improved, though his htaltn nas oeen poor for a long time. Ha went to the White House to attend the meeting oi the cabinet last Tuesday and that night was very restless. He was at his desk at the postoffice department during the forenoon yesterday, altnougn ieenng very badly, and did not return to the department after luncheon, remaining in Lis room. He became very in lasi night, and has been confined to his bed ever since. Dr. Magrndei, who was his physician during his severe illness ot some months ago, has been attending mm, and Dr. Rixei , the surgeon general of the navy, also has been all "d. During the evening President and Mrs. Roose velt called at the hotel and made in quiries regarding the postmaster gen- eral s condition. Dr. Magruder on leavinir Mr. Pavne's room later tonight gave out a statement which admitted the serious nature ot Mr. Payne's con dition, but said the patient was resting easier then. STUDENTS GO ON STRIKE. Trinidad, Colo., Oct., S. A ten irk flood struck the city of Trinidad and the whole valley along the las Animas river, today, devastating a wide section and causing a money loes which at present cannot be estimated, hut which mav reach several hundred thousands of dollars. Everv bridge in the city of Trinidad is out, the Santa Fe station ia demol ished, all of the railroads are tied up, and the telephone aud telegraph services completely suspended. More than SO citv blocks iu the residence and busi ness sections were two to four feet under water along the rvier So far as known at noon no lives were lost, but there were many narrow escapes. The flood was caused by the heavy rain which has been falling for two davs. At 8 o'clock last night the storm assumed cloudburst proportions and at 2 o'clock this morning the Las Animas river went over its banks. At 3:30 it was impossible to get within a block of the river bed at any point, and Commercial street was flood ed for three blocks in the heart of the business district. Meantime the elee trie light and gas plants had been flood ed, and the city was in complete dark nees. Hundreds ot citizens thronged (lie streets on the edge of the submerged district carrying lanterns and doing their best to provide those diiven from their homes with shelter. Warning of the flood was given when the river left its banks by revolver shots and the ringing of the fire alarm, fol lowed by the blowing of all the loco motive and Bhop whistles in town Citizens upon rafts made of sections of sidewalks paddled through the streets rescuing families who were in danger The new Bacca hotel, a two story structure iust reaching completion at a cost of 120,000 on the river bank was destroyed. The water then ate its way throueh 60 feet of the ground to the Santa Fe depot, which was carried away. The city is divided by the Las Animas river, which is spanned by six wagon bridges. All of the bridgei were washed out and many residents were unable to reach their homes or to communicate with their families, the telephone system being wrecked. TO SETTLE WATER SUIT. Absence of News from Port Arthur Alarms the Slavs. St. Petersburg, Sept. 2U. The entire absence ot news from Port Arthur, it is feared, indiiatoe a closer blockade there. Hitherto, dispatches from General Stoessel have Wen coming through seml-weealy. The admiralty has not received any details of the re ported sea fight off Aniva, at the south eastern extremity ot Sahaliu. The Vladivostok tqtiadion, It is understood, is still in the harbor. The cannoned lug at Aniva was probably a Japanese attack on blockade runners. A telegram received here from Bat' oum repotting that reserves aie being transported along the Caucasian coast brings the first Intimation that troops am heimi mobilized there. There are only two army corps in the Caucasus, and one of them has apparently beeu ordered to the Fai Fast. Prince Sviatopolk-Mirsky was n- ceived in audience yesterday by the emiH'ror. The prince will assume barge of the ministry of the interior today. The latest developments In the situ ation at the front is the definite estab lishment of the fact that Field Marshal Ovama has now begun to move up his lelt. General Kuropatkin s report shows that the Japanese have reached Davan, on the west bank of the I.iao liver. A considerable concentration of Japanese is observed at Sianehan, on the Hun river, 35 miles southwest oi Mukden, and Japanese tavalry is mass ing in the vicinity ot the Pu river. The latter is a tributary ot the Hun river, which crosses the line of railway midway between Tie pass and Mukdeu. and may furnish a natural line ot ad vance from the west. Ovama's armies now apparently cov er a front of 60 miles for enveloping movements. His wings are extended to the northeast aud west of Mukden. Thus far the Kussians have found little strength of pressure from the Japanese center. Ojama seems to be moving with treat delilieiation, probably gath erina strength for a rapid advance of loth wmss when an attempt is made to close the net. Although the imaginary line connect ing the extreme Japanese advance and west of Mukden still passes ten miles below that city, it is evident that the fate of Mukden cannot long be delayed. If General Kuropatkin intends to try to hold the citv fltrbt iiiir on his flanks will begin almost immediately. '"HI OREGON NEWS OF INTEREST ALEXIEfP TO COME HOME. His Chicago School Children Wrongly Believe Negress Is to Teach. Chicago, Sept. 30. Fifty boy pickets stationed about the McAllister public school here prevented pupils from en tering today None of the pickets was more than 15 years old. Outside the picket cordon, a crowd of 700 boys and girls hooted and yelled at the teachers looking from windows. Everv infant striker wore a badge to show that be or she belonged to a union." Some of the badges were merely scraps of paper with the word union scrawled across it. Others wore union buttons which their fathers had worn. Many of the strikers car ried clubs. They threatened violence against any child daring to enter the school yard. The picketing was the result of a "strike" which was caused by a mis taken belief of the children that an as sis'ant kindergarten teacher was colored. After a detail of six policemen had been sent to the school to preserve or der, the "strike" was "settled." A committee appointed by the youthful strikers learned that the rumor of a colored teacher having been employed in the school was false. About 80 per cent of the strikers went back to their classes. Truant officers began a search for the absentees. Effort Is Being Made to Annex Part of Kansas to Colorado. Pueblo, Colo., Oct. 3. An effort at a solution of the Kansas-Colorado water suit is in pr igress, and if the efforts of those most interested in the case are suceeslul a strip of the western portion, of Kansas, about 150 miles wide, will be annexed to the state of Colorado, and the litigation now be fore the supreme court at Washington wi.l be thrown out. Politicians in both Kansas and Colo rado are working for the passage ol a bill through the legislatures of both states whereby the western portion of Kansas can be taken into Colorado. This, it is thought by those who have uiven the irrigation question much study,will solve the difficulty, and both states will be benefitted to a great ex tent. L. P. Worten, of Syracuse, Kas., and C. C. Kennison, of Garden City, Kas., a candidate for representa tive from that county are in Tueblo in the interest of the plan. "It would settle the water question in Western Kansas forever and the suit now in the courts would be dropped as there would no longer be any reason for continuing it" said Mr. Wordrn to day. Both Mr. Worden and Mr. Kennison appeared before the government com mission when it was in session here, and are thoroughly familial with the situation. They say they , are supported bv practically every resident of West ern Kansas. it ASYLUM NEEDS AN ADDITION. Steady Increase of liuane Is Crowd ing Building's Capacity. Salem The steady liureaae in the number ot patients at the state Insane asyum will make necessary the con tiuclion ot a new cottage next year, with room tor 100 patients. Suth a cottage, to be constructed at the asy lum farm, will cont about $25,000 and the legislatuie will be akaed to appro priate money for that purpose. The growing population will also necessi tate the construction ol a new dining room at a cost of 13,000, the new ad dition to be 40x40 feet and two stories high. The last legislatuie appropriated money for the expense ol replacing a number of wornout lavatories ami that work has been attended to. Other old lavatoilcs and sewer connec tions have become faulty with age and must be replaied. To put these In ood condition will require an appro priation of $15,000. The asylum building nas noi oeen painted for many years and Weause of that fact It is rapidly showing the effects of time and storm. Superin tendent Calbieath will recommend In his hi. mial report that the main building be repainted throughout. This will cost about 112,000. All the permanent Improvements needed at that inftltutiton will coet hi the neigh borhood of 155,000. At the reform school, mute school and blind school only minor repairs and improvements will be necessary and not very heavy appropriations will be needed for them. At the state pris on many Improvements have leen made In the past year without definite apropriation and not much in the way of large improvements will lie needed at that institution next year, the las: legislature passed an act providing that the proceeds of convict latmr shall con tltute a Iwttermeiit fund, which may be expended for repairs ami improve uients under the direction of the gover nor. By virtue of this act money has I teen expanded from time to time and the prison property has been put In good condition. CATTLE WILL STARVE. anil ELECTORIAL TICKETS TILED. Position Will Be That of An Advisor to the Emperor. St. Petersburg, Sept. 29. AUbougti an official announcement to the effect is not expected immediately, since will require some little time to get Hut sia't second army in the fluid, the des ignation of Grand I Hike Nicholas Sicholaevitch, the inspector general, of cavalry, as commander in chief is re garded as practically settled. The sit nation at the front, with two, and per haps ultimately three, big armies, is considered to demand, above all else, that the supreme commander be of such personal authority as to be be yond jealonsiei and the possibility of intrigue On t le part of subordinates, and such a man the emperor now rea lizes can only be supplied by a member of the imperial family. Grand Duke Nicholas is regarded as extremely well fitted for this great responsibility. Grand Duke Nicholas will not rely upon a single adviser, but on a stuff comprising the ablest strategists of the genera' staff, who in reality will con stiuie a board ot direction ot military operations. - . . . . Viceroy Alexiefl is regarded as al most cei tain to return here. The re port that he may become chancellor of the empire, however, is exploded. He more likely to retain his title and ... r. . 1 -- II 1 come to ei. reiersnurg, nominally in the capacity of adviser to the emperor, and will thus efface himself as a factor of the military situation in the far East. Republicans, Democrats, Prohibit lonlsts and Socialists Take Step. Salem The presidential elector ial tickets of four politclal parties have lene filed in the office of Secretary of State Dunbar. The parties represtnt ed are Republican, lvmorretic, l'rohi bition and Socialist, and it is under stood that the Populists w ill also file petitions nominating an elcctorlal tick et. John II. Simth, one of the imiiiiii ees on the Democtatic tiiket, resigned and his place was filled by the appoint nient of W . K. Hamilton by the state central committee. The electorial tickets filed are as follows: Republican i. B. Dimick, James A. Fee, J. N. Hart, A. C. Hough. Democratic Thomas II. Crawford, John A. Jeffrey, W. if. Dllard, W. ft. Hamilton. Prohibition Leslie Butler, I. II. Amos, W. P. F.lmore, T. n. McDaniel. Socialist S. II Holt, William Beard, W. Bargee, J. C. Herrington. farmers Did Not Rotate Crops, arc Short of Teed. Selo'ii "The unfortunate situation in which Willamette valley faunera Hud themselves this year because of a shortage of feed for their stock is a cause foi regret, epeclally since It U entirely unnecessary. When J. K. Seats said In an interview a lew day ago that cattle will starve In the valley this winder (or want of feed he told the plain truth It Is a truth we dislike to acknowledge, but It should teach U a lesson." This Is an asertlon made by Director James WlthycoVlio, of the Oregon ex perimental station, at Corvallis, while he was attend lug the state fair. "I don't mean that any large proptii. tlon of valley livestock wi.l starve, or that they will die Watimi of the eu- tire absence ot feed. What 1 mean, and what Mi. Scaia evidently meant, was that teed Is so scarce that many farmers will put their stock on very short rations, with the result that they will become emaciated and will die from disease or exposure. Call it what you will, it is starvation. "Now I refer to this only he use I want to ssy and prove that it Is a con dition that is as unnecemry as It Is un fortunate. This has len a very dry season, such as Willamette valley farmers had no reason to expect, bill ' this does not excuse their being unpre pared for it. Our experience at the agricultural college farm shows that it crops weie rotated as they should lie. the yield of hay would not have been light, and spring-sown grain won 1.1 have produced well, uotwithstading the lack of lain." Ashland foundry Burned. Ashlsnd The Ashland Iron works. foundry and machine shops have burn ed involving a loss which may reach 1 10 000. By hard work the detached pattern shop building was saved, but the molding, machine shop and (jflSce buildings, in ah lib were much valua ble machinery, were badly gutted. The tire started htdweeu th foundry and the machine shop looms, from a cause unknown. The company carried; insurance amounting to $0,500. The plant was kept busy with orders, and emplo)ed a good sized force. Slate Telr Has Batantc. . Salem While not all the year'e business of the state bboard of agricul ture has teen com hide I, Secretary Wylle A. MM res limls from his record that I be state fair this year .came out 2,r00 to the gomt. The tout wetpte were f lit), 000 of which $10,000 limn from the state appropriation for sgrl cultural premiums. The lair hoard paid premiums to the amount of $10, 500, the additional $MI0 Mug taken from iu i sci ligneous receipts. Would Tr to Reach Arctic. Christiana, Norway, Oct. .1. The Duke of Orleans has asked permission of the government to have the Arctic steamer Frarn, in which Dr. Nansen made his voyage to the Arctic regions, for the purpose of an arctic expedition in 1905. It is understood that the ad miralty v. ill require that the Captain Otto Sverdrup, the former commander of the Fram, shall command the vessel, if the go.ernment agrees to the propo sition of the duke. The plan of the expedition has been submitted lor the approval of the authorities. Russia Orders Warships. Paris, Oct. 1. A dispatch from Toulon Btates that the Russian govern ment has just ordered from the Com paunie des Forg el Chantiers de la Mediterraneo 11 torpedo boat doetroy era of the latest pattern, the construc tion of which is to be bogun at once. Four will be built in the dockyards at Havre, four in the Norman d'xkyaida and three at I.aseyne. They will take 15 months to build. Russia has also ordered four cruisers of the Bayan type. Wills City $250,000. Boston, Oct. 1. Public bequests ag gregating over $1,000,000, the largest being a gift ot $250,600 to the :ity of New lied ford, are contained in the will ot the late Mrs. Sarah Potter, of Bos ton, which was filed for probate this afternoon. Inventor Dies a Charity Patient New York, Oct. 3. Once wealthy and with a host of friends among prom inent and wta'tby men in the coun try, Charles Y. Yeaton, the inventor, is dead at the home of incuiables, charity patient. Paralysis, from which lie had suffered two years, caused his death. Yeaton invented a number of rriai bines, among which was a type setting machine, the find, ever offered for sal j. lie enjoyed an intimate ac qimintarie with President Andrew Johnson, who offered him a diplo matic pout at St. Petersburg. Aldermen Indicted for Crafting. Buffalo. Oct. 3. As the result of District Attorney Coatsworth's invest! sgtion of charges of alleged "grafting' on the part of city officials, three pres ent aldermen and four foimer aldermen have been indicted. They are: John Thomas Harp. Henry Moest and Orrin V. Pierce, Aldermen, and Edward C Beiser, Louis O. Reeded, Henry G Schneider and John G. Bosch, former aldermen. All the Indicted men were arraigned today and pleaded not guilty British Steamer Stopped. Cliefoo Oct. 3. The British steamer Yik Sang, trading in China saes, ar rived today and reports she was stopped by a Japanese torpedo boat destroye outside of the harbor of Cliefoo. After her papers had been examined, the Yik Sang was allowed to proceed. Attempt to Ruin Warships. New York, Sept. 20. With the in tention of ruining the hull of the battle ship Connecticut, whick will be launched today, an obstruction was placed on the ways. When it was placed there, or by whom Is not known, as it was not discovered until divers were sent down to make an in vestigation. Tins Investigation was made as a matter of precaution and the naval officers then learned that an oh st rue! ion had been placed on trie ways that would have destroyed the work of months. Carshops are Closed. Chicago, Sept. 2!). The Chicago Rock Island & Pacific railroad company today practically closed down Its car arid locomotive shops here. The en forced idleness came unexpectedly The union boiler makers employed in the shops had made demands for high er wages a few days before the shut' down came. General Superintendent of Motive Power Reed, however, denied that the shutdown was in any way at tributable to these demands. Torpedoboat Lost. London. Sept. 29. The British tor nedo boat destroyer Chamois has liee lost off the island of Cephalonia, in the Mediterranean. All on board were laved. While going at full speed on trial yesterday, a screw blado came off pierced the button of the destroyer and he aank. Coming Events. Wallowa Fair association, Enterprise, Octoliel 3-8. Eastern Oregon District fair, The Dalles, October 3-8. Portland Presbytery, Fairview, October 10. Baker County fair, Baker City, October 11-15. Klamath County Agricultural asso ciation, Klamath Falls, Octohef 12-14. Oregon W. C. T. U. State conven tion, Portland, October 1H-27. Inland Empire Teachers association, Pendleton, October 10-21. Teachers are Scarce. Pendleton The Pendleton public scho'ds have opened with a large en- rollrnent in all the grades. Almost all the rooms are crowded and Superin tendent E. B. Conklin is looking for suit able houses to lelieve the congestion. Three new school houses will be ready for occupancy before the first of the year. At the present time scarcely one-half of the county schools have been supplied with teachers. County Superintendent of School Frank K. Welles Is being besiiged daily by di rectors asking for tern hers. Surveying for Trolley Line. Eugene Threo cicws of surveyors are making t tie preliminary surveys for the Willamette Valley Electric Rail way company, firm crew started from Corvallis and will work toward En gene. One is working in the direction of the Sinslaw and the third is work ing eastward up the McKcnzle river. It is stated by the malinger of the com pany that this preliminary work will be followed by permanent surveys and then the work of const tuition, Loss Is Remarkably Small. Salem "About two sections of good tiiuUii weie destroyed by forest Area this semm iu the Santinm country," says Manager John A. Shaw, of the Curtis Lumber company, of Mill City. "There were thousands of acres ot slashing burned over, hut fortunately the amount ot good timber destroyed was small in comparison with the quantity of danger of destruction. Th Curtis I.tiinlicr company lost about 040 acres of timber by fire," Work on MiKcnilc Road. Eugene Reports from the superin tendent of the work on the McKenzie road show rapid progress and Indicnto much good to come from the $i,00( expenditure, hall ol which was appro priated by the county and halt raised by subset iption. Already 15 miles of the worst part ol the road have been put in first-class shape, and the ciew will work about a month longer. Coquille Sawmill Sold. Rlverton A company has purchased the CHiillle saw mill and also Peart'a coal mine adjoining Coquille City. The company will make extensive im provements at once, it is said, in hoth the mill and the mine. It is under stood that the mill will start up at once for the purpose ot cutting tim bers for the new Im.iker which will lie at once const meted (or the mine. Coiilbiinkcr for Ulerton. Riverton The new coal hunker for the Riverton Mining it Development company is Hearing completion under the supelMsion of the Mel.eod liroa., who have the building contract. This bunker has a capacity of about M)0 tons, having an upper mid a lower com paitlrient for shipping mid local trads, reapocthely. Enrollment at Agricultural College Corvallis The registration of stir dents at the Oregon Agricultural col lege breaks all former records. The enrollment to date is 40(1, against 320 last year. The increase is RO, The freshman class is lurgey Increased, the number registered being 107, or, in cluding subfrcshimtrr, 201). Wheat Market. Portland Walla Willa, 8182c; blnestem, Kflp; valley, 85c. Tacoma liliieslem, 87c; club, He. Colfax Club,71c; bluestem, 70c. Shelves for Mate Library. Salem State Librarian J. B. nam has procured four new oak cares, with shelves on both shies, Imr a rapacity of 1,000 books to case. The rases cost $125 each. addition to the libraiy equipment Pu'. hook Tliis was made necessary by the accumulation of hooks which have been piled up on the floor, tables and shelves. Teachers Scarce In Linn County. Albany Schoolteachers area scare in Linn county and the probabilities are that some schools in the rural districts may have to remain closed during the year. Wages ranging from $30 to $55 are offered, hut competent teachers are not to be found at the price.