Mosier Bulletin
Says He W as N ever Out o f
Land in N orth,
Iw n d Each friday
its weight la gold.”
Sight o f
N ew Y ork, Sept. 8.— The follow in g
dispatch was received here early today:
‘ ‘ Indian Harbor, Labrador, by w ire
less, via Cape Ray, Sept. 8.— M elville
E. Stone, Associated P ress:
“ I have nailed the Stars and Stripes
to the North Pole. This is authorita
tiv e and correct.
“ Cook’B story should not he taken
too seriously. The tw o Eskimos who
accompanied Cook say he went no dis
tance north and not out o f sigh t o f land.
Less Im portant but N o t Less Inter Other members o f the tribe corroborate
their story.
(Signed)
esting Happenings fro m Points
‘ Commander Robert E. P e a ry .”
Outside the State.
The Pirate o f
OREGON
M O SIE R..
EVENTS OFTHE DAY
Newsy Items Gathered from All
Parts of the World.
The Southern Pacific is to enter the
transcontinental speed contest.
The volcano o f Akutan, Aleutian
islands, Alaska, is in violent eruption.
Lord N orth cliffe says Germany is
a ctively preparing fo r w ar w ith Great
Britain.
Harrim an is reported to have had
tw o relapses and his condition causes
alarm.
W ealthy
rested fo r
oming.
each paper worth many thousand time«
PEARY D O U BTS C O O K.
capitalists have been ar
coal land frauds ir W y
Tom Johnson has been nominated
fo r mayor o f Cleveland, Ohio, by the
Democrats.
I t is said President T a ft w ill sus
tain Secretary B allinger and that Pin-
chot w ill have to go.
O ffers fo r Cook’ s lectures and bookB
have been doubled by the controversy
over who was first at the pole.
Senator M itch ell’s heirs have won
the suit to escape paying the fine
against him by the governm ent just
before his death.
The first test o f the direct primary
in Cincinnati ended in d efeat for T a f t ’ s
brother-in-law, W . C. Herron, candi
date fo r vice mayor.
A n agitation is on in Japan for naval
expansion.
Clyde Fitch,
w righ t, is dead.
the
Am erican
play
Another sligh t earthquake shock haB
been fe lt in M exico.
Actors in Chicago
strike fo r better pay.
have
gone on
The power o f the B ritish house o f
lords is at stake on the tax bill.
Harrim an has sufTered a relapse and
his condition is the cause o f alarm.
An aeronaut fe ll 1,000 fe e t at Chi
cago and though badly injured, still
lives.
r Japan and China have signed a treaty
fo r the settelem ent o f the Manchurian
dispute.
A n Eastern woman has just had a
hat made from the s k im o f eigh t rat
tlesnakes.
The Pressed Steel Car company, o f
Pittsburg, has granted the demands o f
its strikin g employes.
E stim ates o f the population o f the
United States vary greatly, but the
aerage seems about 95,000,000.
Russia now wants a share in the Chi
nese railw ay loan.
The deficit o f the German imperial
governm ent for 1908 is said to amount
to $80,600,000.
T w o colored men have been hanged
by a mob at Malcolm, A la ., fo r mur
dering the Bherilf.
E xplorer Cook says he has data to
convince the most skeptical that he was
actually at the N orth Pole.
Jap grape pickers in C aliforn ia have
demanded an increase in wages and
may be replaced by Hindus.
The fire was first discovered by P o
liceman J. J. Manion.
By the tim e
the fire fighters had arrived the flames
w ere eatin g their w ay through the
first floor o f the building. A t the risk
o f th eir lives a squad o f policemen
went into the hotel and succeeded in
arouBing the sleeping occupants and
leading them to safety.
When the guests w ere awakened
many o f them became panic stricken
and refused to go down the stairway,
up which grent rolls o f black oil smoke
belched from the burning tanks in the
basement. As a result the firemen and
policemen w ere compelled to carry a
number o f women down extension lad
ders raised to the windows o f the sec
ond, third and fourth floors.
M eanwhile the hosemen worked their
way into the basement o f the hotel and
fought the oil fire.
Several were
overcome but none were injured.
I t is believed the fire was caused by
an explosion o f gas which accumulated
in the oil tanks in the basement.
R o o s e v e lt'to Dig Canal.
N ew Orleans,
Sept.
8.— Former
President Roosevelt is to take charge
o f the work o f pushing the Panama
canal to completion, according to a re
port current in official circles in Pan
ama. This statem ent was made here
today by T . W. Harrison, o f Columbus.
Harrison is attached to the engineer
ing departm ent o f the canal, and has
just arrived here.
H e declared that
President T a ft was not dissatisfied
w ith the present canal administration,
hut bad already arranged for Colonel
Roosevelt to take charge o f the work
when he returns from his hunting trip
in A fric a .
An Indiana man has just died at the
Topeka, Kan., SepL 8.- This city is
age o f 96. He leaves 88 children and flooded today as the result o f the heav
had outlived four wives.
iest rain e ver recorded in this vicinity.
The street cars have been put out o f
Lenm ark believes Cook’ s story o f
commission. The w ater in the streets
the discovery o f the N orth Pole and
is from three inches to three fe e t in
w ill g iv e him a royal welcome.
depth. The rain began late yesterday
A serious epidem ic is feared in the and continued throughout last night
flood stricken districts o f Mexico.
and today. A t 10 o ’clock this morning
A ttorn ey General Wiokeraham says the official rain gauge showed that 8.7
i f the polar continent is worth holding inches had fallen. A ll the streams in
this section are swollen.
this governm ent w ill annex iL
Buys Subtreasury Site.
Dispatches from Java say the vol
cano Smern is in active eruption, esus-
San Franrisco, Sept. 8. — The United
ing great havoc. There has also been States governm ent is now the owner
an earthquake with hundreds o f fa ta l o f a plot o f ground on the southwest
ities.
corner o f Pine and Sanaome streets,
where the subtreasury building w ill be
Revolutionary cocked hats are to be erected.
Yesterday afternoon the g o v
worn by women next season.
ernment officials turned over to the
W ilbur W rig h t has suggested that representatives o f V irgin ia Vanderbilt
cities appoint an inspector o f balloons. a d ra ft fo r $375,000 in payment for
the corner. A t present the subtreas-
A tornado devastated D ialville, a
ury is situated on Commercial street.
■mall town in Texas. Several persons
w ere injured.
Bradbury Handlirg Jute.
Mrs. Florence Vandervort, a m illion
aire w idow o f Loe Angeles, has mar
ried a poor man.
N o liv e s were lost in the Nevada
cloudburst and the property damage is
placed at $100,900.
San R afael, Cal., Sept. 7.— W illiam
B. Bradbury, the Corte Madre capital
ist, who began yesterday a y ea r’s in
carceration in the penitentiary at San
Quentin, commenced work today in the
jute mill, a fte r an attem pt to ««ra p e
it on the plea o f illneas.
He slept last
night in a cell room w ith 2(8) other
convicts, including a number o f mur
derers and other desperate criminals.
STARTS
PH EASANT
IN D U S T R Y .
Yield Is L arge and Prices High and Lebanon Fancier Succeeds in an Un
G ro w e rs Satisfied.
usual Undertaking.
Portland— The Oregon wool season
o f 1909, which has now been brought
to a close, has been one o f the most
successful in the history o f the Btate.
The yield was large and the price high,
and the growers are entirely satisfied
with the result. I t has also been a
profitable year, so far as it has gone,
for the dealers.
Peary Has Added Nothing.
The wool clip o f Oregon thiB year
Christiana, Sept. 8.— Captain Roald
netted the farm ers o f the state about
Amundsen, discoverer o f the N orthwest
$4,000,000. They have also received
passage, said today:
very good prices fo r th eir mutton,
‘ ‘ It is quite evident that Peary dis
sheep and lambs, and are altogether in
covered no trace o f Cook in the contin
as prosperous a condition as the farm
ually d riftin g ice. Peary probably. aB
ers in other parts o f the state who
he planned, made his dash from a more
heav devoted th eir energies to raising
eastern point than Dr. Cook, but many
grain.
circumstances may have arisen to cause
I t has been an ideal year for the Ore
a change.”
gon sheep men w ith the weather righ t
‘ ‘ Do you think that Peary obtained
at every season to produce the best re
more valuable scientific results than
sults. As a consequence, the output
Cook?” Captain Amundsen was atked.
wbb larger than it has been in recent
“ Probably not,” he replied. “ They
years and the quality was better.
At
were equally equipped with only abso
the same tim e there was a sharper de
lutely necessary instruments.
Geo
mand from buyers and prices were
graphically, their achievements are ot
higher.
g re a t importance, and it is very im
The quality o f the wool was excel
portant alBo that the tw o reports be
lent. I t was o f better staple than last
compared.”
year, though o f heavier shrinkage, ow
ing to the dry spring.
The average
P O L IC E M E N S A V E L IV E S .
w eigh t o f the fleeces was placed at 9>£
pounds, the heaviest average
ever
Heroism Displayed at Hotel Fire in known in the state. The wool sheared
San Francisco.
fu lly one pound to the fleece more than
San Francisco, Sept. 8.— More than it did last year.
The highest price paid during the
60 persons w ere saved from death by
patrolmen yesterday when a fire that season in Eastern Oregon was 23 cents,
broke out in the Vendome hotel on P a which was realized on a part o f one
The larger part o f
cific and M ontgomery avenues in the clip at Shaniko.
Barbery
coast district, practically the best grades sold between 20 and 22
gutted the structure, doing damage cent». Some scouring wools went at
estim ated at $60,000.
In addition to 13 cents, and other coarse grades mov
For the
the destruction o f the hotel several ed at prices up to 17 cents.
places
adjoining
w ere
damaged 1 clip, as a whole, the average price was
abpout 19;1., cents.
slightly.
Threaten Lite o f President.
A small tempest was caused by an
Chicago, Sept. 8.- - The police have
Itatlian warship stopping while the A t
in their possession today tw o letters
lantic fleet was at ta rg et practice.
threatening the life o f President T a ft
A sword fish has been caught off the when he vis its Chicago on his Western
Catalina islands, C al., which weighed trip.
Extraordinary precautions are
141 pounds and measured eigh t fe e t in being taken. Captain Porter, o f the
length.
secret service, takes little stock in the
M ore explosives have been found in letters. H e said: “ These letters are
the bunkers o f B ritish w ar vessels and from cranks and we are not even con
Despite
members o f the adm iralty are in a state sidering them seriously.”
this statem ent it is known that the
o f ferm ent.
Chicago |>olice intend to take unusual
The latest creation in the m illinery precautions in guarding the president
line is to be known as the Cook hat, in during his stay in the city.
honor o f the explorer. I t is tw o fe e t
high covered w ith black fur, while a
M o re Floods in M exico.
w h ite a ig re tte representing the pole
Me
xico
C ity, Sept. 8 .- Scores o f
bristles from the top.
persons are believed to have lost their
China is planning the improvement lives as the result o f a second flood
o f her army.
which descended upon Tula yesterday
Count Zeppelin w ill continue prepar just as it was slowly recovering from
the effects o f the first deluge.
Many
ations to fiy to the North Pole.
rich plantations are in ruins and the
President T a ft says he w ill prob property loss w ill run into the thou
ably v is it Alaska next summer.
sands. The food supply is also running
German scientists say the finding o f low and conditions are becoming des
the North Pole is o f secondary im port perate. The exact number who met
death in the second flood cannot be
ance.
ascertained at this tim e, but it is
The Am erican Locom otive company
f 'arc'd that the total w ill be heavy.
says it is rushed w ith order fo r new
equipment.
Deluge in Kansas Capital.
Supplies are being sent to Monterey,
M ex., and the general condition is
much improved.
W O O L SEASON GOOD.
Lebanon — R. F . Simpson, residing
here, is preparing to ship a carload o f
ringneck pheasants to the gam e w ar
den o f Idaho, the birds to be used for
breeding purposes. Simpson is said to
be the only man in Am erica who could
fill such a large order fo r the much
prized game bird.
Mr. Simson embarked in this in-,
dustry last year.
A person unac
quainted with the increase o f this
feathered fam ily would say that he had
m et w ith fa ir ly good success fo r an
amateur, but the gentleman declares
he has learned some tricks which w ill
m aterially aid him in the future.
T o commence with, Mr. Simpson had
212 hens and five roosters.
A t this
tim e he has over 200 young ones, rang
ing in size from three days old to half
grown birds o f this season’s rearing,
and the hens are still laying.
W h ite bantan hens are used for hatch
ing purposes, they having been found
to be more careful and painstaking
with the young than the other o f the
feathered tribe by Mr. Simpson.
Experience has taught that hens o f
larger breed are apt to become restless
and move about on the nest more than
the bantam, thus causing the death o f
many o f the young im m ediately a fte r
leavin g the shell.
Mr. Simpson is raising tw o kinds o f
pheasants— the ringneck and the gold
en, the latter being from the northern
part o f China.
e ^ A ^ ^ T Alastair
H O LLAN D
Author of “ The Count » t Harvard,’* ate.
Copyright, 190S. by J. B. Lippincott Company.
All rights reserved.
"W hy,” said Islip, “ what kind of se
en ritics were those?”
“ See how I tru«t you,” returned the
other. "W e hid the box in the ground
bark in the woods, between two roots of
a hemlock, one pointing south by the
compass, the other west. The hemlock
is ten paces west of a scarred 8r that was
stripped of its sea branches by lightning."
“ I know the tree,’’ said I.
Rodney rubbed his hands joyfully. "Y e
gods and little fishes, think of I t ! Ever
since I was a boy I've wanted to have
my hand In a buried treasure. We used
to hide tin cans in the back yard, just
to dig them up again. And now to think
thut I ’ve come across a real treasure!
What would those other boys say !”
“ Here's one of them now,” I put in. " I
used to do the very same thing myself.”
Duponceau was smiling ngsir,. "You
can both take It lightly,” he aaid, “ be
cause you do not know. Many men, aye,
many governments, would give
almost
anything for a chance at that box out
there.’’
“ Better and better.
The higher the
Interest, the more sport for us,”
said
Rodney. " I ’ ve always wanted to be mixed
up In an International affray. I ’m more
than ever glad I decided to come to the
Penguin, for more reasons than one;”
and he looked across slyly at me.
I could not help liking him. even if be
was in love with Barl>ara; he was so
open and frank about everythring.
After a time Duponceau went below
for a two hours’ nap, and Islip and I sat
on deck, smoking and chatting.
About
midnight the air grew colder, and we
walked to warm ourselves.
“ Do you think,” said Rodney, finally,
"that we might go on a hunt for that
tree? My eyes are fairly Itching to fol
low that trail, and we might reconnoitre
We
the enemy’s position you know.
could make tracks back to the Ship If
there was any need."
“ Walt till Duponceau comes up, and
we’ll ask him,” I suggested.
In time, at the end of his midnight nap,
Duponceau came on deck, ami gave us
permission to take a survey of the shore.
" I f I need you," he said, " I ’ll make the
call of the osprey— listen ;" and he sent
forth a long, quavering cry that was
echoed back to us, from cliff and beach.
Armed with revolvers, Rodney and I
slipped out of the Ship, forded the lake,
and, keeping as cloae as we could to th«
rocks, for the night was bright with stars,
headed towards the pines.
We said not a word, but tip-toe, I lead
ing. he following, we skirted the woods
until we came to the scarred fir. There
I turned to look back; the beach lay a
bright silver field sloping to the sea,
which rippled like quicksilver beneath th«
stars. The beauh was empty as rfie des
ert. and still, save for the lapping waves.
“ Ten paces to the east,”
whispered
Rodney, and, with Infinite caution, w«
tiptoed through the pines. The trees are
very thick there; we felt as if ploughing
into an unknown screen. W e came to
the hemlock, and crouched on the sea sids
of it, some instinct telling us that thers
was need of caution.
On hands aud
knees I crawled a foot farther, and beheld
a white tent. Its guide-ropes running to
the hemlock’s roots. Islip pulled himself
up beside me.
(T o be continued.)
I was beside her, had his hand on her arm.
C H A P T E R X I.
It was of the firat importance that j “ You will either go with us, miss, or he
Monsieur Duponceau should keep himself gives us a chance to search that boat.”
I could
scarcely
keep
Duponceau
well hid, and to thi» end he spent his days
in the cabin of the Ship, coming out only crouching longer; I could feel that his
when night had fallen, and then most cir fingers were itching for one of his re
cumspectly. There were not the same rea volvers.
“ Stop!” called a voice from the cliff,
sons for concealment in my case, however,
so I boarded the Ship soon after I left and I saw Itodney Islip standing there,
Barbara that day and set up my easel as lie took in at a flash that Barbara tvas
an excuse in case any chance observers in trouble, and came leaping to her aid.
should look across the beach and see me. “ What the devil’s this? Take your hand
This also gave me the ahance to keep a away !” and he raised his walking-stick ifl
the man’s face. The latter, startled at
careful lookout.
It was perhaps 4 o'clock when, as 1 ¡slip's violence, dropped Barbara's arm
sat on the gunwale of the Ship, sunning and fell back.
“ Now, what do you fellows want here?”
myself and leisurely smoking a pipe, I
saw Charles approaching with a pitcher demanded Islip. “ I ’ ve a mind to thrash
you both for touching a lady.”
and glasses.
“ We’re going on board that boat,” said
‘The afternoon being so warm, I
thought that you and the other gentleman the man; then he hesitated. “ Od we’ll
might be wanting something cool to drink, take the l&dy with us.”
“ Oh, you will?” aaid Islip.
sir," he explained, when he had come
“ Yes,” said the leader, his confidence
on hoard ; ‘‘so I made a pitcher of claret
returned; “ and I don’t think you’ll stop
cup.”
“ Much obliged to you, Charles. Take It us.”
Rodney and he squared. The fight
down to the cabin, where it’ll keep cooj
would be two to one; Barbara was trem
until we want it.’
Charles disappeared with the clinking bling.
“ Now,” I cried, and looked along my
pitcher. When he returned I spoke again.
“ What is Monsieur Duponceau doing?” leveled pistol, “ if it’s come to fighting,
“ He Is lying in one of the bunks, sir, we’ll all be in the fight. Islip, bring
Prune Packers at W ork .
Miss Graham on the boat. There’s a bul
Eugene The Eugene F ruit G rowers’ with his eyes wide open, and when he
let waiting for the man who stops you.”
association has begun packing fresh seee me, he says, sort of pleasant-like,
The men fell back, hesitating, and seiz
‘You’re trying to make me think I ’m back
prunes for shipment.
The association
In Paree, but unfortunately the setting ing advantage of the moment, Rodney
expects to ship a carload o f prunes to
took Barbara's hand and led her over
Isn't the same!"
the East every other day fo r tw o weeks
“ I don't expect to be much at Home for the causeway. They came up the ladder
or more. Contracts have been made some time, Charlea. I ’m going to help and on board.
fo r over six carloads. The crop in the Monsieur Duponceau here. We may need
“ That's a ll!” I cried to the men on
vicin ity o f Eugene this year, while you suddenly, so keep an eye on the f&ore. “ You can g o !”
I had the drop on them, and their
C L E A R IN G U P L A N D T IT L E S .
light, is o f excellent quality and w ill broken mast, and if you see a lamp or a
bring the highest price in the Eastern flag come over at once«. Otherwise, keep hands did not even seek their pockets as
they turned and went into the woods.
Besides the prunes to be mum.’*
Special Agents Making Visit to K la markets.
shipped by the F ru it G rowers’ assecia-
“ Yes, Mr. Felix. I ’ve been pestered all But I knew that they were as sure of
math County.
tion, there w ill be several carloads day with some of them skulking fellows Duponceau’s presence as If they had seen
Klam ath Falls— H. P. Jones, a spe sent out by the Allen F ru it company, that wants to know my business. May I him on board.
“ Wall,” said Islip, as he saw the
cial agent o f the general land office, which operates an evaporator and can land ’em one if they interfere?”
strange figure of the Frenchman hidden
and Peter Ogden Applegate, state land nery here.
“ You man land ’em one whenever you
behind the bulwark, “ here’s a pretty ket
agent, have arrived from Salem to in
feel like i t ; only, land so hard that there
tle of fish ! So there Is a mystery, aud
spect some lands about the lakes the
won’t be any come-back.”
Railroad N ears Com pletion.
we're carrying guns.”
“ Yes, I will, s ir;” and Charles made
titles o f which are in question between
Hood R iv e r — The six miles exten
“ My dear lady,” said Duponceau, ris
so bold as to grin. I could see that the
the state and the United States.
sion o f the Mount Hood railroad, under
ing, “ I shall never forgive myself for
The greater part o f the lands in this construction fo r several months past, spirit of light was taking hold of him causing you such distress.”
also.
section have long since been classified is nearing completion.
But Barbara was not distressed; in
The line has
I went back to my pipe and my drowsy
either as governm ent or as belonging been extended in a southerly direction
stead, she looked very much pleased.
to the state under the swamp land from the present, terminus, Dee, and survey of the sea. There was little wind,
I motioned Duponceau to go below to
and the oily rollers swept calmly in with
grant o f March 12, 1860, but there are w ill tap one o f the richest orchard sec
a curiously machine-like rhythm. Far the cabin, and the others followed him
some odds and ends still undetermined. tions o f Hood R iv e r valley, consisting out the funnel of a south-bound steamer there. I sat at the top of the steps,
The classificat on o f these becomes o f approxim ately 10,000 acres.
The sent a black ribbon across the sky; to the where I could both join in the conversa
very important, since the Klamath gradin g o f the new line is completed west of the Shifting Shoal a sloop was tion and watch the shore.
Barbara placed her package on the ta
basin is now com ing into its own and and the ties are being laid rapidly. lying to, waiting for the evening breezes.
the rich alluvial lands about the lakes A s soon as the new line is completed I half dozed, thinking what a peaceful ble. “ I thought I was only bringing you
provisions,” said she, “ but instead I ’ve
w ill soon be in great demand.
BY OCEAN TO WINNIPEG!.
the company expects to run two trains scene it was.
brought you a recruit. Mr. Islip, this is
Messrs. A p p legate and Junes went daily.
H alf an hour later I heard Duponceau Monsieur Duponceau,” and she added
(en gin eer's D is c o v e r y M a y C h a n g e
up the Klam ath lake by launch to be
call my name from the cabin stairs.
lightly, “ the pirate of Alastair.”
R o u t e f o r D r a i n Tra in* *.
gin their exam ination o f the low lands
“ It’s getting intolerably warm down
K o ze r Returns from East.
Islip shook hands. “ So you’re in on
In regard to transportation from the
at the head o f the lake and w ill prob
here; might It not be possible for me to this, too, are you, Seldcn?” he called up
Salem — Insurance Commissioner S.
come on deck if I kept in the shadow of to me. “ All arrayed against the blood West by way o f Hudson Bay, the to
ably spend several days in th eir inves
A . K ozer has returned home from his
the gunwale?”
tigations.
hounds, I take it? Well, whatever the tally unexpected discovery has been
trio o f investigation in the East. W h ile
I looked the situation over, end decid game is, count me in on It. I ’ll feel more made that It 1» perfectly feasible to
F orest G rove M akes Improvements. in San Francisco Mr. K ozer spent sev ed that no one could possibly see a man as though I were back in little old New make Winnipeg a terminal port for
eral days w ith Governor Benson, who, who hid at the side of the ship, keeping
York.”
Forest G rove— F iv e modern brick
ocean-going steamers. John Armstrong,
he reports, is in b etter health than for low down by the rail. I advised Dupon
buildings, tw o o f which w ill be three
“ Good!” cried Barbara. “ Now you’ ve chief engineer o f railw ays and canals,
some tim e.
W h ile in the East Mr. ceau of this, and then told him the mo
story structures, are being rushed to
K ozer attended the national convention ment, the beach being clear, he might dart four men to man the Ship, counting has sent In a preliminary report on
completion here.
A $10,000 school
Charles, and a spy at the club to bring the surveys for the proposed Hudson
o f insurance commissioners and also from the hatchway, and scurry across to
you news and food.”
building is nearing completion and w ill
Bay Railway, o f the two alternative
looked into the methods employed by shelter. This he did, and, with a sigh
She caught sight of the pitcher of clar
be in readiness fo r the new school year.
of
thankfulness
at
having
reached
fresh
the insurance commissioners o f the
routes to F ort Churchill and Port N el
et
and
poured
out
four
glasses.
Then
The Christians are rem odeling their
outeir air, he stretched himself in the
M iddle Western states.
son. . These surveys so fa r indicate
she raised one to her lips.
church at Bn expense o f more than $4,-
shadow, and I sat opposite, facing him
“ I pledge myself in the defense of Mon that Port Nelson may be found the
000. The Catholics are preparing their
and
watching
the
shore.
Planing Mill fo r Pendleton.
sieur Duponceau, who came out of the better i>oint of the tw o as a terminus
recently purchased property at a cost
“ I ’ ve been sleeping,” Duponceau said,
sea and found the land inhospitable!” for the railw ay and the regular port
Pendleton— Pendleton is to have a
o f several thousands as a site for a
“ so that I could stand watch to-night. she cried. “ Drink with m e!”
new industry in the shape o f a planing
of arrival and departure for ocean-go
What a beautiful world! But it’s not
$10,000 edifice built on the C alifornia
We drained our glasses.
mill.
Ben H ill, manager o f the Pen like France; nothing is like France. And
ing steamers. A t the same time, the
mission order.
“
That’s
the
oath
of
fidelity,”
she
said,
dleton Lumber company, has made an to think I may not see it again I”
Information gathered by the various
looking
at
Islip
aud
me,
and
I
think
she
nouncement to that effect.
The com
“ Why?” I asked.
survey parties In the P ort Nelson sec
Supplies fo r Panama.
knew
she
could
trust
us
both
to
the
end
pany w ill put ahout $20,000 in equip
“ Because----- ” He hesitAted. “ Because
tion shows that it would he ¡tosslble to
Portland — Portland hay and feed ment and expects to install the plant as I have enemies who would shut me away of the adventure.
the Nelson R iver to Lake
The sun was dropping low. and Bar canalize
dealers are given opportunity to bid on soon as a suitable location can be found. from the sea and the sky and the sun,
what w ill amount to tw o full steamship The m ill when in operation w ill employ and so I have to come to some lonely cor bara prepared to leave the Ship. Islip Winnipeg fo r steamers o f 33 feet
started to join her.
draught.
From the lake to the Red
loads o f hay, oats and bran fo r the use about 30 men and w ill do both retail ner of the New World, and seek refuge.
“ No,” she said; “ I ’d rather go alone.
o f the governm ent forceB in the Pana and wholesale business.
Ah, this new world of yours! It is good No one will stop me now. You must stay R iver there already Is a natural chan
nel o f that depth, and by that channel
for the young, but not for those who here and watch during the night.”
ma canal zone.
Copies o f a request
have grown gray in the Old. There is
fo r bids on 1,600,000 pounds o f ha j
PO R TLA N D M ARKETS.
He bowed, but insisted upon escorting and the Red R iver the city o f W inni
only one world for them and one land her ashore and setting her on the path peg could be reached, and oecan-go-
1,400,000 pounds o f oats, ami 200,0> 0
pounds o f bran have been received by
thero
B utter—-City creamery, extras, 34c; for me— I love it as I might love a wom homeward. Then he came back to the lng steamers could he loaded
the chamber o f commerce from the fancy outside creamery, 30(o 34c; store, an.”
Ship.
with grain from the West for Europe,
Foreigners have the habit of sentiment;
W ar department. The supplies are to 2 l(u 22c. Butter fa t prices average
“ It’s curious,” he remarked to me as bringing hack return freight for the
be delivered by September 21 at the l> gc per pound under regular butter it did not seem strange to me to listen to we sat alone on deck, "but I don’t feel as West. Port Nelson Is open for navi
the thoughts of an exile spoken in a though I were living in the twentieth cen
Port o f Ancon on the Pacific side o f the prices.
voice that was musically
clear.
The tury any longer. It seems as if I ’d gone gation six months In the year, and Is
Isthmus o f Panama.
E g g s — Oregon ranch, candled, 30(d)
60 to 70 miles closer to Winnipeg than
frankness of the man cleared away all back to about the sixteenth.
I ’ m just
31c per dozen.
Fort Churchill. It is surrounded by n
barriers.
thirsting for a revolver and a chance to
Rem ove Governm ent D redge.
Pou ltry— Hens, 16(d)15%c; springs,
better country, capable of agricultural
Suddenly looking up, I caught sight of
Marshfield— Captain Peters, who has 16(<il6>fec; roosters, 9 (fil0 c ; ducks, Barbara coming towards us by the path get in a fight. I didn’t know I was really development. There Is one drawback,
so much of a savage.”
had charge o f the governm ent dredge young, 1 4 1...*.; geese, young, 10c, tur behind the cliff. She carried a package
“ Same he«re,” I answered. " I ’ ve al however; namely, that the approach to
Oregon at work in Coos bay, has re keys, 20c; squabs, $1.75((f2 per dozen. under her arm. As I watched her descend
ways longed to have a fight on this Ship. Port Nelson from the bay Is more shal
turned from Portland and announces
P ork — Fancy, 10(d lO j^c per pound.
carefully. I saw the two men that I had Then there's something about this man
low than thnt to F ort Churchill aud
met in the morning come out of the pines I can’t resist.”
that the dredge is to be removed in a
V e a l— Extra, 10&;10)t,c per pound.
would have to be deepened for a dis
week and taken to the Columbia river
W h eat— Bluestem, 94c; club, 84c; and approach her. As she saw them ap
When It fell dark we supped on the tance o f 10 miles, against a compara
fo r repairs.
The work started here is red Russian, 8 2 «sc; valley, 89c; fife, pear. Barbara involuntarily glanced over
to the Ship, and the men instantly turn food Barbara had brought, and then we tively short distance out from Church-
as y et uncompleted, but the efforts o f 84c; Turkey red, 84c; 40-fold, 86>^c.
divided up the watdh for the night.
111. The Churchill entrance, on the
the people to keep the dredge her#
B arley— Feed, $26.50 per to n ; brew ed their eyes in the same direction, and
so
caught
sight
of
me.
other hand. Is pretty nearly all rock,
w ere fruitless.
I t is quite lik ely now ing, $27.50.
“ 8it still and keep very low,” I whis
C H A T T E R X II.
whereas that to Nelson is sand of
that the port commissioners w ill build
ilB y— Tim othy, W illa m ette valley,
pered to Duponceau, under cover of my
We were not yet sufficiently good sail clay.
$1 3(ol5 per ton; Eastern
Oregon,
a dredge o f their own.
pipe.
ers to drop to sleep In the stuffy bunks
It hns, however, been announced by
$16.50(u 17.50; a lfa lfa , $14; clover,
Barbara took a step forward.
below when It was not our turn on watch. the government that it has decided not
Complains o f Late Trains.
$14; cheat, $13(>/14.50; grain hay, $15
“ Not so fast. Where are you going?”
Rodney tried it, but soon came up on to undertake any heavy expenditures
Salem— A . F. W ill, o f Aurora, has (u ) 1 6 .
demanded the surly faced chap.
deck, announcing that he never had felt
complained to the railroad commission
Grain B ags— 6 ' 4c each.
“ 1 am going— where I choose,” she an more wide awake In his life and believed on new public works during the pres
o f poor train service maintained by the
Fruits Apples, $1(02.25 per box; swered. and took another step.
he could last through the night without ent year. The total so fa r voted for
“ You’re not going out to that Ship,”
Southern Pacific at Aurora. The train pears, $1.25(01.50; peaches, 60c(O$1.10
wink. So we three busied ourselves Improvements o f existing canals and
due to arrive at 9:25 o ’ clock in the per crate ; cantaloupes, $ l(o 2.50; plums, he stated. “ There’s some one hiding here making the Ship snug, and Rodney in fo r new public works this year
we mean to find.”
morning is from tw o to four hours late 25>i75c per box; watermelons, 1(01
addition In vainly trying to interrogate amounts to more than $4,000,000.
I caught his words and jumped to my Duponceau.
regularly, says Mr. W ill, and that city per pound; grapes, 75c(u$1.25.
The Canadian Pacific Rallw'ay, which
feet.
had about as w ell not have an/ train ss
Potatoes $1 per sack; sw eet pota
There was no doubt but that In the has extended ¡he Ottawa Northern and
“ What’s the trouble?
Miss Graham,
far as it is an accommodation to pas toes, 2 ‘ 4e per pound.
direction of the beach we were practically Western to Manlwakl. Intends to con
won’t you come on board?”
sengers and shippers.
Onions— $1.2‘ per sack.
I mas careful to lean directly over Du impregnable. Invaders would first have tinue the line from that point to a
V e g e ta b le s —Beans, 4(o'5cper pound; ponceau, in order to shield him better.
to climb the rock« and then splash
shipping port on James Ray.the south
G overnor Benson Invited
cabbage, l(O l *4c ; cauliflower, 75c(0
“ W e’ll all three come,’’ announced the through the water, or. If they came by the ern extension o f Hudson Bay. This
causeway, pass the narrow defile at the
Salem — There has been received at $1.25 perdozen; celery. 50c(O $l; corn, man.
statement was made In the railway
the governor’ s office a copy o f the offi 15ui20c; cucumbers, 10 0 2 5 c; onions,
I was put ou t; it would be impossible hate of the cliff. In either case we would
cial call for the fourth annual session 1 2 S ..(il5 c; parsley, 35c; peas, 7c per for Duponceau to crawl from the shel have ample chance to defend ourselvee, committee o f the House o f Commons
o f the Dry F arm ing congress at B il n-oind: p ppers, 5(<£10c; pumpkins, 1 1, ter of the gunwale to the cabin now with- | and even If they eucceeded In reaching In connection with an application fo i
the Ship’« side we would have the advan- 1 the extension o f the charter o f the
lings, Mont., October 26, 27 and 28. A ( i l l ', c ; radishes, 15c per dozen; squash. out being seen. I temporised.
tage of being eix feet above them. I j last named company. — Ottawa D i»
feature o f the congress w ill be g o v - ! be per pound; tom atoes,40(060c per box. I “ Well,” said I, "suppose-----”
“ fom e on,” aaid the leader to Bar pulled in the rope ladder that still hung | patch to the New York Press.
en the eovernor
Hons 1909 contracts, 21c per pound ;
ernors’ day, when
governor o f a
Hops
over the side and stowed it away In a
number o f the Western states w ill be j 1908 crop, 15,o 15 H e ; 190 crop, 11(0 bara ; "you mere very anxious before.”
cupboard in the cabin.
When we had
He stepped forward.
present.
j 111 -• e ; 1906 crop, 8c.
F o x h o u n d * H u n t i n g Colllo*.
“ Hold up!” I cried, pretending to get done everything precaution could suggest, |
W ool Eastern Oregon, 16(,i23c per angry. “ I didn’t ssk you to come over we three gathered on the forward deck j
The Haydon foxhounds and also the
C oos Plans Own D redge.
pound; valley, 23(,i 25c; mohair, choice, here. It happens that I'm painting, and and eat with out back« to the sea, facing ! North Tyne pack have lately shown a
Marshfield N ow that p ositive an 24(i(25c.
the shore.
tendency to hunt farm ers’ collies. Th *
4on’t wish to be disturbed.”
nouncement has been made that the
C attle Steers, top. $4.50; fa ir to
The night was clear and cool; there [ first named pack ran a collie three
The other man laughed. “ We v m I
government dredge Oregon is to be re good, $ Kit 4.25; common. $3.75(0:4; hurt your painting. I ’ve never been over was little sound beyond the regular throb- I miles the other day in the Allendale
bing of the wave« on the beach and the
move,! from this harbor, the port com rows, top, $ 3.40,(3.66; fa ir to good that boat, and she looks interesting.”
d is tric t while the latter hounds put a
Puponoeau was still crouching low un occasional distant call of a bittern from
mission w ill probably at once begin $3(<i3.25; common to medium, $2.60(3!
collie up in the Healeyslde Woods, and
the
marshes
up-river.
Ae
I
listened
to
construction o f a larger and better 2.76; calves, top, $5(,t5.50; heavy, der me. It was time for me to be em
the talk of the other two, i realised that despite the huntsman's efforts to draw
dredge to be used permanently for im $3.50(,i4; bulls and stags, $2.75^i'3.25; phatic.
” Tbe Ship Is mine. I bought It when Rodney was slipping under that tame In them off they pursued the collie at S
provements on Coos bay.
I common, $2(u2.50.
five
m ile »
describable fascination of Dnponceau's as rattling pace for some
S h eep —Top wethers, $4; fa ir to l bought my cottage. I don't want you
readily aa I had dona
When the dog reached the shelter of
on
board,
and
If
you
try
to
come
on
I
O rchard Land Sells W ell.
good, $3.50(ii3.75; ewes, *yC less on,
“ But I say," put In Islip at last, "do his master's home he was only a few
•hall certainly keep yon off.”
Hood R iv er— J. E. Hall has sold 10 all grades: yearlings, b e s t $4; fa ir to
Now Barbara «poke up. “ I f all this yon mean to tell me that yon rama all the
acres o f his 2-year-old orchard in the good, $3.50(>f3.75; spring lambs, $5«i ’ contending la over me.’ she said. “ I l l fire way over here without any luggage, that yards ahead o f his Infuriated pursu
er*.— London Dally Mall.
Oak Grove d istrict to Francis Irw in, o f 5.25.
up my visit to-day. Fome other day frill I you let thoee chape land you Just aa you
Franklin, Pa., fo r $5,500. Mr. Irw in
l ogs - B e s t
$8.25di 8.75; fa ir to do aa well. Mr.
feeldon.
Good after- j were, without anything «lee?"
Centipedes are eaten In some parts
w ill take possession at once and become good, $7.76<fi8; Stockers, $6<(i7; China n o o n a n d she started away.
“ Without anything else eave a little
a resident o f the valley.
| fats, $7.50(48.
* “ Nat aa faetP The surly
box at papers"— Dupoocaaa railed— “ sad of South AmerlcA