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T h e Quest of Betty Lancey B y MA. G DA. r. WBST Copyritht. 1909, by W. 0. Cbxpman. Copyright In Great Britain J G tz | soft. lie stooped and picked It »p. and gingerly spread It out to the light. | It was a woman’s shirtwaist of white linen with a little blue stripe, and the monogram “ B. L.” heavily embroidered on the sleeve. "B etty I^incey’s waist,” cried Soth ern. "W here Is Betty?” " I ’m going to find out," retorted I a r - ry. Together they all strode In to Har- court’s door. It was open and from within sounded the angered tones of a woman’s decidedly nasal voice. "A re you sure you wasn’ t dreaming?" came the words, “ what could have be come of the girl? If she was here, how did she get away so quick? Espe cially If she was sick !” “ She wasn’t sick," replied Harcourt. “She must have been a thief, trying to Impose herself on my w ife’s confidence. Well, as she’s gone now, my good woman, you can go, too. There’s noth ing here for you to do.” "N o,” burst In Larry, whose worry over Betty was now at fever heat, “ but there’s something here for you to do. That girl Is a friend of mine, and If there’s any harm come to her, you’ll suffer for It. Here Is her shirtwaist— It’s been torn off her body— do you see that—and where’s she? Look at that blood! She started out half an hour ago to come over here and speak to your wife, and she hasn’t been seen since, but we And this garment of hers, blood-stained and kicked Into the cor ner at the foot of the corridor. What have you done with Its wearer?” Mrs. Harcourt, still In the sllker negligee and the diamonds, flung hei hands wearily behind her head, bent like an overweighted reed, and passed beyond Into her dressing room. "This Is an outrage, an outrage," stormed Harcourt. "A t this hour of the morning to Interrupt a guest of the house In this wanton fashion! You’ll pay for these Insults!” "Perhaps," said Larry Morris, "and In the meanwhile If you or your wife attempt to leave this hotel till we have found Betty Lancey, you’ll And your self face to face with a warrant that will land you In Jail, charging you with either her murder or her abduc tion. Do you understand me, Mr. H ar court ?” "Oh, say, Larry,” hinted Hank Smith, "don’t you think you’re going too far? A man has his rights, you know.” "Indeed I know,” said I^arry, "and that's why I’ m going to And Betty. This matter doesn’t look straight to me. W here’s Frankel gone, anyway?” "Don’t know. Nothing more doing to-night for me," announced Hartley. “ I’m going home and to bed, boys. Good-by.” "Here, too,” chimed In a chorus. But I«arry Morris was silent. He left the boys at the corner, then sought out and dug from their slumbers an official or two whom he knew well, and swore cut a warrant against the Harcourts, charging them with abduction of Betty l^ancey with Intent to kill! "Don’t care If I go down the road for It,” he told himself. "You can’t tell me something hasn’t happened to Betty. 1 can seem to feel her calling to me, there’s an instinct tells me she's In fearful trouble. Hello, what’s this —another extra. So that beast got out, did It? Wonder where It wenf to !” (T o be continued.) CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume o f Important Events Presented in Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. Eastern senators disagree with Hey- burn’s statement that “ water competi about. A quart of milk and a small tion is a Action.” •‘That’» what I ’m tryin * to do,** re bottle of cream had been left on the plied Johnny. T m attem p t!** to find back steps, and a morning paper blown Havemeyer, the sugar king, is be out how that man got in. Here it is. by the wind rotated between the porch lieved to be implicated in the Friar and the back walk. Bee?" land deal in the Philippines. "U xtry, Uxtry,’’ shrieked a newsboy H i* finger had touched the spring, The Panama canal commission has for the baseboard, which was at least on the sidewalk. There was the scrape built and launched a barge made of two feet high, suddenly spilt and of opening windows along the street concrete, for use on the canal. swung discordantly back, revealing a from adjacent houses and many a tou square hole and a clumsily constructed sled head and nlghtrobed figure cau Emperor William o f Germany warm panel opening directly Into the house tiously shielding Its deficiencies of cos ly welcomed Roosevelt and party at balanced window next door! This building was lower tumes by deftly the entrance to the imperial palace. than the Desterle home, for while tho shades and draperies bid In the smelly hole In the baseboard ran from the sheets as the gamin added hls th rill Forest Ares in Wisconsin and North floor In the Desterle house, It was ing climax. ern Minnesota are destroying vast “ A ll about tho escape of the dread merely eighteen Inches or less below areas of Ane timber and threaten many the celling of the room Into which the ful monster, the man-aperilla, from Its towns. excited group was gazing. W ell fur cage in the park.” Gorin leaped the fence and made for nished. lined with books, and Illumi The Oregon State grange is begin nated by a green shaded reading lamp tho lad. The extra was principally a ning to think the initiatiative and refer on a low table, the room apparently matter of headlines glaring and lnk- endum is dangerous to the best inter served as a library. Portraits of high- sinutted, chronicling the escape of the ests of the people. chokered, uncomfortable - looking unknown beast, appended to the news Roosevelt’s French disappointed his statesmen filled the niches between the stories that had gone through tho ear book cases, and on the floor beneath lier editions. hearers at his public speech in Paris, the trap door rested a bronze plaque, "W h e w !” whistled Goftin, “ this looks and Germans are wondering if he very significantly the size of the trap pretty bad! Nice men, I must say.” speaks their language any better. door. Two unconscious men were found in "W hat do you know about that?” C H A P T E R VII. the car o f a wrecked dirigible balloon Frankel and Sothern went down the asked Johnny, narrating the appear in Kentucky. They had started from ance and disappearance of the stran hall from Betty Lancey’* room after Quincy, 111., to make a long distance the clerk and his companion, who was ger. Because he was the smallest of them so excitedly seeking the papers that record. all, Johnny was delegated to creep had blown out of the window and a An electric lineman near Colfax, through the hole and investigate the couple of bell boys. Wash., got 1,600 volts, and was rend adjoining house. The others divided "W e ’ll go right down through the ered unconscious for three hours, but Into relays and began another branch bar, it’s the quickest," they overheard his fellow workmen brought him to the clerk say as the couple passed to of the disquisition. and he will recover. "Bay, Farley, go telephone my paper await the elevator. The two newspa about this, will you?" begged Johnny per men ran down to the next floor, A Federal judge in Iowa ^upheld the In a whisper. "T h ey’ re long on e x caught the car at the second landing pure food laws by dismissing the com tras up there, you know, and they and rode to the first floor with the plaint of milling companies who tried might want to get one out on this. clerk and hls plainly excited compan to enjoin the authorities from seizing Honest, boys, I can’t say I--------much ion. shipments o f bleached Aour. In for making this tw elve-foot desper The bar was closed and while one ado dive for life before bt, but I guess clerk procured the keys for entrance A Socialist has been elected mayor It's so long. Put the panel back; 1 Frankel covertly watched the man, o f Coquille, Oregon. think you’d better," and he swung and Sothern nonchalantly strolled over down through the trapdoor. to the clerk behind the desk. Forest Ares are destroying much val Meanwhile the first relay went out "W ho is that man?” he queried. “ I uable timber in Western Washington. side to reconnolter. The block was don’t mean the little Jew, but the dark, An Astoria girl caught a 5-pound a crowded one with the houses stand handsomo fellow there7 He has such trout 28 inches long with a light rod ing shoulder to shoulder, as closely as a beautiful wife, looks Ilka a woman I and Ay. masons might put them. Midway In knew In Paris once.” the block the name of the street chang "S o?” naked the clerk. “They have A forest ranger in Colorado was at ed from Ramlkln terrace to Briar- been here at frequent intervals this tacked by an eagle and forced to take sweet place. The Desterle house was last year or two. Don't know much refuge in a thicket. 86 Ramlkln terrace, and the house In about them, except that hls name Is to which Johnny had disappeared was H&rcourt— Harold Harcourt—and they Dynamite is being used to uncover •4 Brlarsweet place. Tw enty years always register from India. They’ve bodies from the ruins o f the earth previous the street had been a fash got cash to burn." quake in Cartago, Costo Rica. ionable thoroughfare, but It had grad "W h at’s the matter with him now?” ually become relegated to the second questioned Sothern. The clerk laugh A professional ball player in Califor best, with respectable boarding houses ed. nia is laid up with blood poisoning in o f the variety usually catalogued as "Oh, I don't know,” he answered. his arm, caused by a mosquito bite. "shabby genteel." Some of the old "H e came bustling down hero awhile T H E E SK IM O S P IP E . A halibut Ashing schooner was houses had been remodeled Into flats, ago shouting about some documents wrecked near Seattle, the crew o f four and In only a few were the owners that had blown out of his window and S m a l l l l o w l * w i t h S t e m * o f W a l men having a narrow escape in the now residing. O f these the major part lit on the Are escape opposite. He Tu ak lln n d «o m v ly Carved. were those sentimental women who, wanted somebody to go up and help The pipes used by the Eskimos are small boat. long after their families are married him get out on the fire escape. Tore quite different from those of any other Partial returns from elections in and gone away, still cling to the old around as If he was afire.” North American race, and In the shape Spain show that the Liberals are in home that welcomed them in their days “ Ho was crazy, too,” supplemented of bridal Joys and happy youth, or of one of tho bell boys. "Old lady In E22 of the bowl more resemble the opium the majority, though Republicans and the conservative set now pushed out where he went to get out of the win pipes used by the Chinese than any Socialists rule in Madrid. of the lead of the procession of fash dow wouldn’t unlock the door to let us thing else. The old pipes were very Speaking at the opening o f the ionable society by the influx of the at the fire escape. Don’t blame her, small In the amount of tobacco that Actors' fair in New York, President newer and faster Ideas of llfo and liv but her hubby made her come to the they would hold, for In former days T aft declared a good play was very ing. scratch and let us In, and she was tho tobacco was extremely scarce and In restful and had often been o f great Such a fam ily had long tenanted 94 tlckledest when the papers were gone. Brlarsweet place. The owner, Mark They’* going down In the court now, to Its use was most carefully husbanded. bencAt to him. There was therefore a wide flaring B. Flanders, was one of tho few old- hunt them up.” A Salvation Army officer who was style lawyers who are fortunate to Frankel by now hnd Joined the margin to the pipe to catch any grains attacked by a mob at Los Angeles, have husbanded their acquired compe clerk at the door of the bar and was of tobacco that m ight be spilled In used his bible as a club, flooring half tence before the lean years of ago and enjoying that functionary’s attempts lining It, then there was a hollow a dozen and holding the rest at bay un Oalerlzatlon have descended upon them. to make the key yield in tho lock. which would hold a pinch of tobacco til the police arrived. One of the first settlors In the town, "W h at’s on?” he usked, carelessly, "a half as large as an ordinary pea and the Flanders residence had at one time riot or a raid?” The bodies o f two men, both stabbed passing down been the admiration and the eye- "Nothing at all, sir, private busi a rather wide hole to death, were found a short distance through the base of the bowl which wldener of the country over, but of ness, private business only,” Interrupt apart near the railroad track in Siski late, and «specially since the death of ed Harcourt, with tho air of giving fitted Into the pipe stem. The bowl you county, Cal. They had evidently Flanders’ wife, both the old mansion Frankel bis conge. of the pipe was of Ivory, stone, brass fought a duel to the death with and tho old lawyer had been reckoned Frankel, however, refused to accept or copper. knives. among the hopeless by the ultra-smart such a gratuity and followed the two The pipe stem was curved and had a men, and the several bell boys, one set. The death o f King Edward will mouthpiece. It Is said that the small Flanders had always borne a repu with a pocket light and the others make great changes in the political sit hole running down through the base tation for the highest Integrity and with various boxes of matches through uation in England. greatest personal honor. He had even the darkened barroom. Tho glasses of the bowl and Into the pipe stem was usually plugged with caribou hair to A season o f 20 weeks of grand opera managed to keep his record while and mirrors and decanters gleamed serving his city two terms as Mayor. dully In the half-light and tho tiled save any grains of tobacco that might in New York cost the managers $1,- That the bricks and stone o f the sup floors were slippery with recent scrub otherwise have passed down through 100,000, yet they made money. posedly well-bred Flanders mansion bing. The door that opened upon the this aperture and so be lost. Tho John A. Benson, who had served should have opened up surreptitious court was heavily chained, barred and smoking of such a pipe would not lost time for land frauds in California, bolted, but It swung wide at last and entrances to the plebeian boarding house next door seemed Incredible, es Harcourt clutching the pocket light long, and we may presume that a very dropped dead from heart disease. from the grasp of its bearer flared It few draws would exhaust It. The pecially In connection with a murder. Roosevelt w ill not be entertained at Liberal usages of telephones and di Into every corner and crevice of the smoke was of course taken Into the the German emperor’ s palace, as that rectories elicited the Information that clean cemented rectangle. lungs. government is in mourning for King "N oth ing here, sir, nothing here," Flanders had sailed quietly and unher The Eskimos are known to be ex alded for Europe a week previously. commented the clerk. "W hat was the tremely skillful In the representation Edward. Gorin got Dunwlddy, Flanders’ partner, nature of the papers. If you please?” Spectators caught betting on the ball llurcourt's face was livid. He rum of scenes and objects, while the In on the wire and asked him about It. games at Los Angeles are ejected from Dunwlddy was out of sorts at tho call. pled hls thick hair nervously with hls dians of Queen Charlotte’s sound and The manager believes The clock showed 4:30 a. m. and Dun long white fingers, oblivious of all hls generally all the natives of the north the grounds. wlddy was In the most delectable di surroundings. At the third repetition west coast of America are famous for the game would be demoralized. o f the Interrogation he roused from their carving In wood and lu a black vision of his early morning snooze. King George V, who now ascends the "Yes. yes.” he shouted over the tele hls stupor and remarked: slate. Handsomely carved Eskimo throne o f England, made ' a good im "A picture o f my wife, a very valu phone, “ this Is Thomas Dunwlddy, pipes of walrus Ivory from northwest pression by his brief speech upon tak Flanders’ partner. Who are you and able hand-mnde print, one I prize for what do you want at this disgraceful Its associations as much as for Its In ern Alaska have on each side of the ing the oath, and his people express hour of the morning? An Associated trinsic worth, and some extremely Im pipe, that Is to say on four more or great confldence in him. Press m an! Well, you’ ve got Impu portant passports. I would not have less long flat surfaces, scenes from the A compromise has been reached on dence to get a man up At this hour of lost them for half a million dollars." dally life of the Eskimo. Of these the The bell boys poked around In a de two sides on the right hand of the the exposition question between San the morning! Flanders may be Impli The former cated In the Wayne murder? N on sultory fashion Into Imaginary c rev pipe, as it Is held in position for Diego and San Francisco. will hold an industrial exposition and sense! Wrhere Is Flanders? Minding ices that did not exist. The clerk led smoking, appear to represent the pe the latter a world’s fair. his own business, where you ought to the way back to the office and Har be. I don’t know anything about him. court absently met the claims of the riod of cold weather, later autumn, winter and early spring while those An Illinois grand juror says if they He sailed for Europe the 16th and I buttons upon hls pockets. "Excuse me, Mr. Harcourt," said a on the left hand side of the pipe rep want to paint the state black, he will hope he’s there by now. A panel cut through between the closet and his boy at his elbow, "but I guess you'd resent the summer life of the Eskimo help all he can, and has no doubt it can house? Dear me, that Is unfortunate. better hurry back upstairs to your — Forest and Stream. be done, as legislative bribery scandals Come to recall It now. Mr. Flanders let wife. She Just sent a call down that are growing all the time. hls house for the season Just before he a strange young woman had run In D octor* V ersa* l. « o « r r « . left. I did not see the tenant, but have there and said she was sick, and that A Philadelphia policeman rescued the leases on flle. I think the man’s we’d better send someone up to take Most lawyers take a keen delight three children from death under the namo Is Hamley Hackleye, and I don't care of her." tryin g to confuse medic*! experts In i hoofs of the horses in a chariot race at Harcourt thanked the boy and made the witness box In murder trials, and j a circus, but was himself fatally in know anything about him except that he Is an Englishman who hAS lived In for the elevator with all speed. Soth often they get paid bnck In their own jured and died soon after. the tropics. Now. my dear sir, I beg of ern and Frankel Instinctively flashed A ease Is recalled where the you to keep the Flanders name out of to each other with their eye* the one coin. A brother o f Dr. Cook says he is a lawyer, after exercising *11 hls tan ! any affiliation with this unfortunate w ord: physical wreck, and is living near a gllng tactics without effect, looked [ affair. If you possibly can. You under "B e tty !” sanitarium, under the care o f its phy stand me, of course. Yes. 1 suppose "Think I’ll go up and see If Betty qulixtcally nt the doctor who was tes sicians, but has never been in South you may see the leases, but you must needs any help,” suggested Sothern; tlfytng and said: America, as was reported. bo careful what moves you make. In “ you’d better stay down here, Frankel. “ You must adn.lt that doctors some ternational complications, you know, and seo what you can skirmish up.” King Edward is seriously ill with times make mistakes, won't you?” and all th at Good-by.” Sothern made hls way back to the "Oh, yea. the same as lawyers," was bronchitis. Gorin whistled as he hung up the "E** floor cautiously. He went to B et receiver, and repeated over and over ty’* room and knocked on the door. It he cool reply. It is estimated that 80 per cent of "A n d doctors' mistakes are burled again the name "Ham ley Hackley*** flew quietly ajar and he was greeted the shingle mills of the Northwest are "Humph," he said, and dropped an with a chorus of: six feet under ground," was the law idle. other nickel In the telephone slo t as "W h at’d you get, Betty?" yer's triumphant reply. he gave the call, to direct hls office to "*T lsn ’t Betty," grinned Sothern; “ Y et." he replied, "and the lawyers' James J. H ill has announced defln- cable London and And out If they could "Isn’t she here?" mistakes often swing In the air.” — itely that a new passenger depot will discover anything about Mr. Hackleye. "No, haven't seen anything of her be built in Portland for his line». A very careful external examination since you left but her shoes, that she’s Philadelphia Ledger. o f the premises at 94 Brlarsweet Place kicked off there," said Hank Smith. An explosion in No. S coal mine at X m S I m , t . W o rry * was made There was a small book "She must have found a vein," add yard, grass laid, and neat and digni ed Larry Morris. Mr». Newlywed (a t the ta b le)— My | Palo«, Alabama, entombed about 200 fied, with a few tullpe a-bloom along "M ost likely a vein found her," add gracious! You are spilling the gravy men. Bodies are being recovered. the path that led to the primly latticed ed Sothern, narrating the experiences on the carpet, Jane. Four hundred striking miners at beck gate The shades all over the of below stairs. "L e t’s walk around Jan* (captured wild on Ellis Island) Pittsburg, Kansaa. wrecked several house were doeely drawn and there that way and see." was no Indication o f Johnny nor any At the bend In the corridor lo r r y ’ s — T here’s plenty more In the kitchen, coal mines and drove away the men who were at work. aav other sign of life an/ place at all feet entangled themselves In something | ma'am.— Brooklyn Life CHAPTER VI.— (Continued.) W INTER W HEAT IMPROVES. Crop Reports Show Pacific west Grain Better. North Washington, May 11.— According to May estimates o f the department of agriculture, the winter wheat crop of the Paciffc Northwest was in better condition May 1, 1910, than May 1, 1909, in Washington and Idaho the condition being above the 10-year av erage. Reports show that 6 per cent o f the winter wheat acreage in Oregon has been abandoned, leaving 476,000 acres to be harvested. The condition o f this crop is reported at 95, as compared with 93 last year. The 10-year aver age for Oregon is 96. Eight and two-tenths per cent of the Washington acreage has been aban doned, leaving 676,000 acres to be har vested, the condition of the crop on May 1 is 95, being 2 per cent above that o f last year and 3 per cent above the 10-year average. In Idaho 4 per cent o f the acreage nas been abandoned, leaving 345,000 acres to be harvested. The condition o f the Idaho winter wheat on May 1 was 98, against 93 o f last year, and 95 on the 10-year average. SOCIALISTS BACK UP THEORIES WITH CASH. Milwaukee, Wis., May 11.— It is an nounced by city officials that Milwau kee municipal bonds w ill not go beg ging under a Social Democratic admin istration. A t a meeting in Chicago the execu tive board o f the International Bakers’ union decided to buy Milwaukee bonds to the extent o f $200,000, should the need for such action arise. The bak ers have in their treasury $200,000 ¡in United States bonds and these they have decided to sell, giving them that amount of money for Milwaukee bonds should there be any move by Eastern bankers to hamper the Social Demo cratic administration. The International Bakers’ union re quested all other unions to take similar action. It is said the brewery work ers’ organization, holding nearly $1,- 000,000 in United States bonds, will fall in line on the proposition. MINERS RESUME CRUSADE. Further Disorders Result in Pittsburg District in Kanras. Pittsburg, Kansas, May IT.— March ing miners resumed their crusade against the operations of the mines in this vicinity today and some disorder resulted. Forty-seven miners at Croburg at tempted to pull the fires in the mines there, but they were driven away by other miners seeking to prevent trouble. . A t Curransville, the marchers suc ceeded in putting out the Ares in the Breezy Hill mines and the men there were driven away. The fires under the boilers o f the coal company’s water works also were drawn, and the town is without water. The marchers later started for the mines near Mulberry. WAGES FURTHER INCREASE. Five Thousand Telegraphers Gain Concessions from Railroad. Philadelphia, May 11.— Several im portant concessions have been secured by the 5,000 telegraphers on the Penn sylvania railroad system east o f Pitts burg, following a meeting o f the gen eral committee representing the oper ators and General Manager Myers, of the company. In addition to the general 6 per cent increase in wages recently declared by the company, supplementary increases were granted to equalize wages with the amount o f work performed. Blow at Bleached Flour. Des Moines, Iowa, May 11.— Judge McPherson in the Federal court today upheld the national pure food law as regards bleached Aour when he dismis sed the complaint of the Shawnee M ill ing company, o f Kansas, and the Up dike Milling company, of Omaha, brought in behalf of the Western Mill ing company, asking that United States district attorney M. L. Temple, o f Iowa, be enjoined from seizing bleached Aour shipped into Iowa. The decision does does not state whether or not the bleached Aour is injurious. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE PO R TLA N D ROSE FESTIVAL. RAINS S PE LL BIG CROPS. All Sections o f State Will Be Repre Oregon Farmers See Healthy Har vests Ahead; Stockmen Profit. sented at Grand Fiesta. Madras— The increased demand for Portland— " I f the coming Rose Fes tival is not the greatest success we flour at this place has caused the Mad have ever had, it w ill not be because ras flouring mill to put on a night of lack of interest on the part o f resi force, the mill running each night un dents of the Willamette valley and Southern Oregon towns,” said Ralph W. Hoyt, o f the Rose Festival com mittee. Mr. Hoyt has just returned with a party o f business men who went on the southern trip, and is enthusiastic >ver the great amount of interest in the Rose Festival he found in the towns he visited. “ Indications are that the attendance this year will be enormous, and far be yond that o f former years,” said Mr. Hoyt. “ Officials o f all the towns we visited promised they would see to it that their towns are represented by floats or vehicles in the parades, and at least by large delegations o f citi zens. “ The commercial bodies o f the vari ous towns all promised to make all possible effort to meet Eastern visitors at the Festival and invite them to their towns. Everybody seems to un derstand that the Festival is as much an advertising feature for the country at large as it is a show. I think the Festival this year will be the means of inducing great numbers of desirable Eastern people to settle in the state.” til 10 p. m. The railroad construction in this vi- ciniy with the large number o f new residents in the town and homeseekers locating in this section have caused prices for all kinds o f produce to go soaring. Prospects for large crops were never better, and the farmers in this section should reap a rich harvest, because of the rapid increase o f population. A heavy rain, general throughout the greater portion of Central Oregon, fell during three days this week, and it means thousands of dollars to the farmers and stock raisers. The Dalles — Farmers throughout Wasco county have about finished sum mer fallowing, and some o f them are still sowing spring grain. Owing to the heavy rains the first o f the week, which wet the ground thoroughly, a good many farmers have concluded to seed to spring crops a considerable number o f acres which they had plowed for summer fallow. They say there is sufficient moisture to make a good spring crop if the summer season is at all favorable. CHINESE BUYS CLAIM S. T O O MUCH FOR LIGHTS. Experiments With Meter Shows Big Saving Over Flat Rate. Salem— Beginning June 1, the state o f Oregon will buy electricity for all state institutions by meter instead of on a flat rate as at present, which, it is believed will mean a saving to the state o f from $3,000 to $5,000. As an experiment about a year ago meters were installed and as a result the change w ill be made at once. During 11 months, beginning June 1, 1909, and ending April 30, 1910, the state paid the Portland Railway, Light & Power company $12,048.31 at a flat rate for lights which would have been at meter rates ,$9,838.05, or a saving of $2,210.26. No effort was made to conserve the power for lights under the flat rate, while every super intendent o f the state institutions un der the meter system will be instructed not to burn lights not absolutely need ed, so Governor Benson and the new chief clerk, H. H. Corey, believe the saving will reach nearly $5,000 a year. The state also pays $123 per month, flat for power otherwise than that util ized for lights, or during the 11 months mentioned a total o f $1,353. Under the meter rates the bill for power would have been, for the same period, $ 4 2 9 . _________ Crop Prospects Not Dimmed. Pendleton— Still another week has gone by without in any way dimming the prospect o f Umatilla county farm ers for a record-breaking grain crop. Warm weather has prevailed during the greater part o f the week and one or two good showers have been inter spersed to further aid the growing grain. Both fall and spring sown grain is now well up out of the ground and the fields present a beautiful ap pearance with their verdant clothing. The early spring season has never shown such favorable indications for a bumper crop, and their predictions are having a decided effect upon the busi ness o f the city. Livestick Brings Over $17,000. St. Helens— A t a sale of livestock at the farm o f H. West, near Scappoose, Columbia county, 72 head of registered Jerseys, including 10 calves, sold for over $17,000. The herd is famous throughout the northwest, and has dis tanced all competitors in the prize ring. Over 500 people attended the sale from all parts o f the United States, California having a number of representatives and securing some of the best stock, including the grand champion bull Eminent X X IV , which sold for $1,000 and K ing Valet, $500. Grants Pass Mining District Good Moy Jin Munn. Looks Grants Pass — Moy Jin Munn, a wealthy Chinaman of San Francisco, who has been looking over the South ern Oregon mining field for the past two or three weeks, has just closed a deal whereby he becomes owner and manager o f the Brantner group o f placer mines of Southern Josephine county. The group o f claims consists o f 100 acres, much o f which is very rich diggings. The consideration is $175,000. Unlike other Chinese who have mined in this section, Moy Jin Munn is not contented with sluice washing and rocking. He will install modern hydraulic equipment on the Brantner mines, and by a system o f high line ditches, bring water from the Applegate river for the operation o f a battery o f two or more giants. Moy Jin Munn is an experienced placer miner and made his fortune in the diggings of Feather river, Cal. No Dogs Nor Firecrackers for Eugene Eugene— The Eugene city council at its last meeting unanimously passed an ordinance prohibiting dogs from run ning at large on the streets of the city, excepting those owned by farmers and transients, and these owners are allow ed only two days after their arrival here. They w ill have had time to ac quaint themselves with the ordinance by that time, is thought. The penalty is a fine o f from $2.50 to $10. The council also passed an ordinance pro hibiting firecrackers within the city limits. Drill for Oil in Coquille. Marshfield •— The Niocene Oil & Gas company has been organized to drill for oil in the Coquille valley. The company is composed of men living in that part o f the county. L. W. Deyoe o f Myrtle Point is one o f the head men in the company. The company has se cured oil leases on about 6,000 acres of land in Bear creek district. Machinery has been ordered and the work will start soon. Oil men have secured land options, but no drilling has been done. Cannery at Sutherlin. Sutherlin— The erection and opera tion of a canning plant in Sutherlin is now an assured fact. The preliminary work has gone on for the past five months. The plant will be ready for operation by the time vegetables are ripe in early autumn. PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. Alaska Fishermen Strike. Seattle, Wash., May 11.— Three hun dred Indian salmon fishermen at Ketch ikan, Alaska, have formed a union and struck against an attempt o f the fac tories to reduce the price o f fish from t> to 4 cents. The Ketchikan factories preserve salmon by a mila-cure pro cess and ship the product to Germany, where it is a favorite article o f food. Ore Find Draws Miners- Myrtle Creek— Excitement among miners has been caused by a recent find four miles above Canyonville, where a wide dike o f ore, carrying chalcopyrite yielding $14 to $26 to the ton, has been discovered. Seventeen locations were made and several more will be made immediately. Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, 88c; club, 85c; red Russian, 84c; val ley, 85c. Barley— Feed and brewing, $220723. Corn— Whole, $33; cracked, $34 ton. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il lamette valley, $200/21 per ton; East ern Oregon, $220725; alfalfa, $16.50 0/ $17.50; grain hay, $170718. Oats— No. 1 white, $26.500/27.50. Fresh Fruits— Strawberries, Oregon, $2.500/4 per crate; apples, $1.500»>3 per box. Potatoes — Carload buying prices: Oregon, 400/ 50c per hundred; new Cal ifornia, 2JO/3c per pound; sweet pota toes, 4c. Vegetables— Asparagus, $10/1.25 per box; celery, $3.500/4 rate; hothouse lettuce, 50c0/$l per box; green onions, 15c per dozen; rhubarb 20/2Jc per pound; spinach, 8(a;10c; rutabagas, $1.250/1.50 sack; carrots, 85c07$l; beets, $1.50; parsnips, 75c0/$l. Onions — Oregon, $2 per hundred; Bermuda, $1.50 per crate. »Butter— City creamery, extras, 27c per pound; fancy outside creamery, 260727c store, 20c. Butter fat prices average l j c per pound under regular butter prices. Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 230/ 24e per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 120/ 12Jc per pound. Veal— Fancy, 100/10ic per pound. Lambs— Fancy, 100/12c per pound. Poultry — Hens. 200/21c; broilers, 300/35c; ducks, 180/23c; geese, 12Jc; turkeys, live, 200/22c; dr.sstM, 25c! squabs, *3 per dozen. Cattle— Beef steers, hay fed, good to choice, $6o/6.50; fair to medium, $5oi 5.50; cows and heifers, good to choice, $60/5.50; fair to medium, $4.250»4.75; bulls, $3.500/4.25; stags, $50/5.50; calves, light, $6 gz 7; heavy, $4.600/. Rioters Destroy Mission. Changsha, China, May 11.— Word has reached here that riot» have oc curred at Yuen Chow, which is 225 miles from Changsha, and that the in land mission has been destroyed. No details are given, as the telegraph' wires have been cut. Drilling for Artesian Water. Stanfield— The well on Jesse V ore’s place has reached a depth o f 8oo feet. An effort is being made to reach a depth o f 1,000 feet, where artesian water is said to be obtainable. Water stands within a few feet o f the top o f the hole, and drilling progresses slow ly- H o gs— Top, $10.0/10.60; fair to medium, $9.500/9.75. Shee|>—Best wethers, $5.250» 5 75- best ewes. $4.750» 5.25; lambs, choice.' $70/8; fair, $6.50o»7. Hops— 1909 crop, 120716c; olds, nominal; 1910 contracLx, nominal. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 140/ 17c per pound; valley, 180/20c; mohair, choice. 32oi 33c. Land Taken O ff Market. Hood R iver — The Davidson Fruit company, which owns several acres of valuable orchards, has taken its hold ings off the market for this season. The company will have a large lot of apples and in view o f the fact that fruit will be very scarce in other sec tions this season and that the crop will be extra large here the company feels justified in retaining this year’s crop and reaping the profits before dispos ing of its holdings. Jap Sealers Lie in Wait. Juneau, Alaska, May 11.— Six Jap anese sealing schooners are lying in wait off Sitka to intercept the seal herds as they pass north to the breed ing grounds. In the crews o f the seal ers have been recognized many o f the Japanese who have served terms of imprisonment in Alaska for violation of the laws regulating pelagic sealing. Federal game wardens report that at Berries Ripe at Umatilla. least 50,000 deer have perished in Umatilla— The first strawberries o f Southeastern Alaska because o f the the season were put on the market here unusual severity o f the winter. Eighty early last week and came from the Mc dead deer were found in one ravine. Farland and EM wards ranches. The berries are a good size and much more Boat is Made o f Concrete. luscious than the California fruit. Washington, May 11.— It will puzzle Cherries are now beginning to ripen most people to know that a boat built and will be put on the market soon. o f concrete will not only fioat, but has a greater carrying capacity, is more New School at Creswell. durable, and even lighter than a Creswell— By a vote o f 57 to 9 the strongly constructed wooden boat. The Panama Canal commission has just Creswell school district authorized the launched on the banks o f the Panama ssuance o f bonds for $10,000, the pro canal a big barge built o f reinforced heeds to be used in erecting a school concrete, which weighs 60,000 pounds, bouse. The plan to remodel the old and two others will soon be finished. building had a few supporters at first, fut they dropped the proposition and These vessels are indestructible. favored erecting a new building.
