T h e Quest of
Betty Lancey
B y MA. G DA. r. WBST
Copyritht. 1909, by W. 0. Cbxpman. Copyright In Great Britain
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| 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.