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M E N T EVENTS OF THE WEEK duties; but Meta Win sleep here on a pallet by your side. Good-night Be unafraid.” 8he stooped low and kissed Betty’s hand, and Betty could have sworn a tear fell upon it. Tyoga spoke truly. Meta brought the milk as deliciously warm and fra grant as If roses had been steeped within its limpid depths. The cool linen garment the slave wrapped around Betty rested her fevered skin, and the pillows were magic wings that bore her away to Forgetfulness Band. Sleep came, Just sleep, no dreams, and 2 »y M j K C D Æ r. W E S T the sun was topping the heavens when ieneral Resume o f Important Events blue-eyed Betty awakened. Tyoga was not yet returned, but Meta, faith Presented in Condensed Form Oopyrifht. 190«. by W. 0. Chapman. Copyiifht ia Great Brltala ful and silent, stood by the couch gen fo r Our Busy Readers. tly waving a huge palm branch. “A modern Cleopatra; but where is my Antony?” smiled Betty to herself, Charles H. Treat, ex-treasurer o f the snuggling comfortably back into her Jnited States, died of apoplexy. nest. She stretched her feet luxuri ously back and forth under the silken Wayne murder mystery. Betty, self CHAPTER XI.— (Continued.) Four principal British colonies in Tyo*a hesitated. Then, “ Alrlffht." reliant Betty, weakened by the first se coverlids, then roused to full conscious iouth A frica have formed a union. ness with a start. vere illness she bad ever known; Bet She said shortly, and led the way down “A sorry newspaper woman, I,” she A tidal wave swept the Oregon coast the hatchway to the laboratory when ty, stripped of the practical routine Betty had regained consciousness that idjuncts of the daily life to which she scolded, mentally; “ here am I with a it Tillamook, damaging the tramway first remembered morning. Since then was accustomed; Betty, who had open whole live mystery between my thumb •f the life-saving station. Betty had never been there. She had ly flouted at poetry and romanticism, and forefinger and doing never a thing Hudson Maxim, the great gun in- a doll-baby suite of rooms well for ¿his same Betty plunged into a fire of to solve it! Ah, Betty, Betty!” entor and manufacturer, predicts She rose hurriedly, in pantomime ward, hardly tenaL'.te for one so tall mystery, murder and death, convalesc and athletic as Betty. While most of ing from a malignant attack of brain beseeching Meta to hasten with her .erial warfare within 100 years. her time, even in stormy weather, was fever, was beginning to discover that a garments. For the shoes Betty had Twenty-five Western railroads were spent on deck, still many of her meals woman is a weakling after all, and that kicked off and left on the floor of the njoined from putting into force on were served In the tiny sitting room, when she needs a strong arm to lean Directory Hotel the night of her Ill- une 1, a general advance in freight all gay with blue and gold—blue the on, she wants It sadly. And in the fated visit to the Harcourt apartments color of Betty’s eyes, and gold like the mist and mirage of the life from which Tyoga hid substituted a quaint pair ates. she had so suddenly been taken away, of high-heeled slippers, as unlike Bet ■ un in June weather. Spokane police have arrested four Betty stumbled along the unfamiliar it was Barry Morris, his face, his fig ty’s usual substantial footgear as a >oys, the oldest aged 18, who have passageway. Tyoga knocked twice at ure and his personality that Betty’s rose is like a radish. And in place of robbed 25 houses and tents in the sub- a bolted door and after a little wait the heart and soul reached out for vainly. her strictly tailored waist Betty was irbs during the past month. If she could have found an empty now wearing soft draperies of vari portal swung inward and fyoga thrust boyje anywhere she would have colored silk. What had become of her A band of 48 Eastern Oregon cay- Betty within. “She wanted to see you,” she an chanced that old pastime of the mari clothes she didn’t know, and Tyoga ises en route to Tillamook stampeded nounced, brusquely. “ I’ve got to get ner and last refuge of the shipwreck had successfully resisted all Importun n Portland and spread terror in down- ed—a note in a bottle. But bottles ing that might tell Betty the why and own streets fgor several hours. dinner.” Be Malheureux bowed low. “I’m glad there were none, nor anything else fea wherefore of her present Incarnation A rich New York Chinaman, about (To bs continued.) of your company,” he said. “I have sible, and Betty plunged into despair. o embark for China, was arrested in a lonely life, and such an interruption With returning health, however, came ian Francisco for the murder o f an- a renewed interest in life. She had is a pleasant one.” PERFECT A R T IS T ’S MODEL. ither Chinaman in Sacramento four “ Well, if you appreciate my coming good food, the weather was fine, and so much, show your appreciation, ’ sug Betty a splendid sailor. She possessed M la a A m e l i a l i o a e , W h o a e A r t l a t l * ears ago. gested Betty, “ do tell me why I am the exuberance of youth and all of a l*oa ea C i r c l e t h e G l o b e . Dirt from the excavation for a bank newspaper woman’s curiosity for the here, and who you are?” To be able to see a picture of a “ I will do neither,” answered Be what is to happen next. Be Malheu statue of oneself in almost any city milding in Placerville, Cal., yields $1 o the pan. A t that rate enough gold Malheureux. “Do not ask me. I dis reux, though extremely repulsive, was like to be compelled to be so discour also decidedly Interesting, and their of tbe United States or Europe would ould be taken from the excavation to teous as to refuse you, but I must. conversations and intimacy grew with be an unusual experience for any one. >ay for the building. Yet should Miss Amelia Rose visit any You have been very ill, but health is the voyage. An effort is being made to bring Be Malheureux was well read, cour large city, from the imperial gardens returning to you, and when you re turn home you will think of this Jour teous, a polished gentleman, gracious, in Rekin, China, to Canton, Ohio, she ibout a conference o f representatives ney only as a pleasant dream. You and a delightful companion when he so is always able to And a representation if the United States, Great Britain, have had no cause to complain of your chose. But he never saw her for more of herself. For Miss Rose, a pretty, fapan and Russia with a view o f agree- than an hour a day, and was reticent ng on the terms of a treaty for the treatment here, save you?” dark-haired Russian girl, has been a “No,” fultered Betty. “Only I’m ac about himself and his people. Betty >rotection of fur seals in the North model for probably all of the greatest customed to knowing why and where gathered that he had long lived In A f Pacific ocean. rica, though he had been educated in painters, sculptors and photographers fore, that’s all.” The thermometer reached 90 degrees By of the present day, and stands as one “ ‘That’s all,’ you say,” said Be Mal England, France and Germany. heureux. “ Don’t you know that Why s education he was a physician, by for of the four women picked as having it San Francisco and three persons and ‘wherefore’s’ are the sum total of tune Independent, and by occupation a a perfect form, the Buffalo News says. vere prostrated in one day. existence? Don’t ask me about them. research worker in the extensive fields Maude Odell, Annette Kellerman and It is alleged that only a beginning of electro-therapy. But there were Ask me anything else!” Ray Beveridge are three women who s made in the legislative scandal in “Then I shall promulgate a who,’ ” three things he never did—he never are known the country over as models Illinois and the big sensations are yet chanced Betty, desperately. “Tell me, removed or shifted any of his somber do you know who murdered Cerisse drapings, his hands were always glov of physical perfection. Miss Rose, how .o come. ed, and the thick veil of full green was ever, has been declared by such ex Wayne?” The body o f Alma Kellner, aged 8 perts as Mucha and Carl Blenner to /ears, who disappeared at SL Louis She was unprepared for the reply, never lifted from his face. yet intuitively knew that it was what be "the perfect model.” She is much ast December, was found buried in CHAPTER XII. ■he had anticipated. At the close of a long, hot day, the smaller than either of the other wom he bottom of an unused cistern. “ Yes,” assented Be Malheureux. en, but Is said to be much more deli About 75 Woodmen gathered in Ta “What Is more,” he continued, watch enchanted yacht sighted land—a blur cately molded, with each portion of ing a swift question form on Betty’s of gray and green to the left. As the coma on Memorial Day and built a her body in perfect proportion. lips, “I saw the deed whan it was night deepened this verged Into a louse for the widow o f one o f their splash of tropic green, washed with a The story of Miss Rose reads like a members. They nearly finished the done!” Betty shrunk from him with eyes spendthrift moon. Betty begged to be hit of strange Action. Coming to Amer louse in one day. allowed to stop on deck to watch this ica from Russia, a wee, pale-faced girl, dilated, mouth agape. dawning beauty, and Tyoga, muffled In she Arst secured a position In a de A Wisconsin man who has served “Then you-----” she began. “I did not,” promptly retorted Be a long white cloak, stood beside her. partment store at $3 a week. There two years in prison for being implicat Malheureux. “ I did not kill her. I As they approached the harbor, Betty she studied English. She was noticed ed in the robbery of a bank and mur- would have saved her if I could. But saw It was the Jettying mouth of a one day by an artist and soon became ler o f one o f the directors, is now It was impossible. The tragedy was river, the banks lined with mosshung found to be innocent. inevitable, It was foreordained and it palms, springing from a matted a famous model. A fire sale in a big department store Her poses In painting and sculpture had to happen. Nobody can ever growth of reeds, entwined vines, rush clinch with Destiny. The first few es and lush grass. Straight up the circle the globe. One of the most noted in Chicago ended in a riot, several river they wont in the moonlight, days you were aboard this boat you is Hubert Vos’ "W ater Nymph,” which women being knocked down and in tried It, my dear Miss Bancey. The through a current so slow that the is owned by the empress of China and jured, the windows o f the store smash stream appeared stagnant. No sign of result? You nearly had a second at Is the only bit of sculpture by a for ed and the interior wrecked. tack of fever and nervous prostration. habitation met the eye, and the Jun eigner in the royal gardens. Henry Edwin Gould Jr., grandson o f the gles to either side were still as death When you resigned yourself to events Mosler has done many Ideal heads for late Jay Gould, ran away from school, as they course, you commenced to feel save for the occasional roar of a lion, her, especially his "Mermaid” of last lived on 15-cent meals, spent a night better, as you must admit. To dis or snarl of some angered panther. The river verged into a lake, black year. Haskell Coffin’s "Poster Girls” >n a board at the station house and miss the unattainable, and to welcome what may come, is the right doctrine and forbidding, wlthm bleak beaches of and his “ Bohemian Girl” are all well was finally returned to his home by of living. Why do you worry with yellow sand, and from there they rush known. Miss Rose has been posed by the police. ed into another river roofed with en what you cannot affect?” Louis More, for Charles Dana Gibson, Rabies among coyotes in Central “ I don’t dare to think,” said Betty. tangled trees through which filtered a Howard Chandler Christy, Harrison Idaho is causing great alarm. The blood-red sunrise. All day they fol “ But since you, whoever you are, have Fisher and Frank and J. C. Lyen- animals come into the towns and at hauled me off in this high-handed lowed this river, pimpled at Intervals fashion, I consider there’s some largess with lakes, small or large, and clear decker. Carl Blenner termed her "The tack dogs and live stock, as well as coming to me. If you knew who mur or muddled. The white heron and the Perfect Model.” Sarony, Burr McIn people, and seem to have no fear. Sev A tosh, Matsene, Mareeau and other eral persons have been bitten. dered Cerisse Wayne, why don’t you atom watched them unheeding. tell me? That is, unless you’re In duty crocodile or two sidled after them, and great photographers have all sought Arguments have been concluded in bound to protect the murderer! Come, at Intervals some huge snake, untwin her. the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy. ing from a long hanging bough, would tell me, do.” stretch Its slimy length across the S h o t I l i a O h h H e n ii . Trouble is brewing over German in “ What benefit would that be to you?” snowy deck. Twice they passed a herd Two neighbors kept hens and quar vasion of the financial field in Persia. questioned Be Malheureux. of elephants coming down to drink, and “ You forget I’m a newspaper worn- often sent an affrighted lioness hurry reled because they scratched each oth British politicians are much worked mu," argued Betty, “and I draw salary ing back from the water's edge to her er’s potato rows up. One sold his for gathering the news and turning it mewing kittens. The purple lotus hens unknown to the other, who made up over proposed changes in the cor onation oath. In to my city editor.” spread itself despairingly over some of “ Some distance from your city editor the slimiest pools as if to patch up a large run and fastened his hens up, The bond issue to build the Lake now. aren’t you?” suggested Be Mal black hldeodsness with perfect * bloom. saying: Washington canal at Seattle has been "Now, the Arst hen I see In my gar heureux. All this tropical splendor finally wear- declared invalid. “ Well, couldn't I send my paper a led even Betty’s rapt eyes, and she den I shall shoot.” A great grand-daughter o f the great Next day he saw a hen scratching wireless?” flashed Betty. "You’ve an clung gratefully to Tyoga’s arm as the instrument there!” negress said: "W e are at our Journey’s ns usual, so he got the gun and shot Kentucky hunter, Daniel Boone, died “ Ho, ho!” laughed Be Malheureux. end.” And with It had come the night. it and then threw it over his neigh at Tualatin, Oregon. “ So that’s why you wanted to come The yacht had swung through an bor's fence, saying: A jealous dog in San Francisco near into n»y laboratory, is It? You heard archway, and shot into a roofed pas ' Take your hen!" ly killed his mistress when he saw her the clicking, recognized it, and thought sage, water dripping from the stones The hen was picked up, taken in petting a sick chicken. if you dared enough you might com and moss above them, and a raven municate with your friends. A great cawed as they stopped at a stubby and cooked. A Newport, Ore., man committed The following days the same thing suicide by allowing the tide to carry Idea, that! And 1 must confess you wharf, from which led up a dizzy filght happened. Still the nelghhor took him out to sea on a small raft. are a plucky girl. Miss Betty, but I of dimly lighted granite steps. warn you, If you tamper with these The stairs ended in a vaulted corri them up and said nothing till the sev Chinese are protesting against the instruments In here, you’ll tamper with dor hung with a f e w antique brass enth came over and hit him on the eternity, and I’d advise you to let these lamps. Placed ut Intervals along the head. Then he picked it up and threw acceptance of foreign railway loans by apparatuses alone.” communications written in their own sides we re low stone couches covered It back at his neighbor, saying: “ Bah! I’in not afraid,” sneered Bet with leopard skins. blood. “ Eat your own old hens! We are To one of these Tyoga motioned Bet ty. About 250 persons in Fort Collins, tired of eating them and prefer a lit “ Neither has any troublemaker ever ty. and then pursing her thick black Wyoming, were made sick by ptomaine been afraid of the trouble she started lips she emitted a peculiar whistle. In tle pheasant. I sold my hens over a poisoning from eating ice cream at a till It’s too late to stop it. You’re a stantly there darted forward from one month since!”— Pearson’s Weekly. banquet. woman, and of course you’ll do as you of the dusk-hung niches a comely please, but” —he shrugged himself young negro girl, her glistening body, W h y He O lrd . Business men in Georgia offer to pay satiny as ebony, nude save for a kilt of again—“ you’d better be warned.” The sympathetic neighbor asked. "Is the president’s traveling expenses on *T!1 promise not to meddle If you’ll striped silk, and a short tunic of gauze. your little brother 111 this morning. his Southern trip, over which congress She bowed low before Tyoga, who tell me one thing.” persisted Betty. Johnnie. I heard him crying in the is wrangling. “You should have been a corpora addressed to her a few half audible re most heartrending manner.’ tion lobbyist,” responded Be Malheur marks In a strange dialect. State Senator D. W. • Holtslaw, of "No, not exactly,” Johnnie replied, Illinois, has confessed that Senator The girl nodded her head In the a f eux; “still 1 shall be generous! But firmative, stealing occasional surrep but W illi« pulled down n Jug of mo Broderick paid him $2,500 to vote for what is It?” titious glances at Betty, and then tak lasses on himself In the pantry, and “ Who «lid kill Cerisse Wayne?” Lorimer for U. S. senator. “ A man who loved her,” replied Be ing up one of the smoking brass lamps mother has been trying to comb his Malheureux, laconically. "Come here she led the way toward the end of the James A. Patton lost about $1,200,- hair.” and see what I have done to this ger long hall. Here more steps, two (lights 000 in one day speculating in wheat. anium leaf. It is magnified and remag- of them, of time-harried stone, moss- A S rit fa n « « of Intern pern nee. Census figures show the average sal nlfied. Book how its eyes have re grown in the corners, greeted them. Hyperbole Is the source of much ary o f ministers to be about $663 per sponded to the influence of these con There were more corridors and more vergent ray»—a new ray I have dis stairs In a dizzying never-ending se fun. If not of much wit. A young year. In Harper’s covered myself. I have found the eyes quence, till them came upon a hall cadet, says a writer A Colorado cowboy carried his of plants and their souls! Borne day I longer, lighter and lower than the rest. Weekly, was complaining of ths tight wounded partner 37 miles on horseback •hall uncover the human soul itself, A hundred archways with tapestry At of his uniform. to receive medical attention. not only the physically corporate, but hangings opened upon this hallway "Why, father,” he declared, "the those that ride, as Omar says, ‘naked and In the center arch the slave gtrl collar presses my Adam's apple so Thieves have stolen the Minnesota on the air of heaven.'” bowed low again and, pushing aside hard that I can taste cider!” coat o f arms from the noted Hill stat Betty looked Into the globe he held the draperies, stood apart for them to ute in the exposition grounds at Se eut before her. Within she saw a enter. A r it h m e t ic a lly llen aon atm ted. attle. pulpy green substance, throwing out The room was furnished In skins, "A man should slsep at least eight dosena of the most minute of antennae. ivory, ebony and gold. The couch of These writhed and fluttered most ebony had no springs, but to Betty’s hours a day.” A French submarine was accidentally weirdly. •It can’t be done,” answered the sunk by colliding with a warship and later surprise the down cushions and “Oh, I can’t stand this,” she declar skins piled upon It made it the softest weary-looklng dtlsen; "not when one her entire crew o f 27 men were ed, "nor the air in here. Tyoga! Tyo- bed she had ever rested upon. There of your neighbors runs a phonograph drowned. ga'come and take me upstairs.” were stone stools, chairs of oddly twist till midnight and another keepa a When the old negress had led her ed tropic woods, and a great mirror of Deposed Alaska officials claim their rooster that crows at & a. m.” back to her shady seat on deck Betty ebony. Ivory and gold, studded with removal was due to the Guggenheim Lancey sat and scanned the offing for n hundreds of precious stones. Swing interests, because of activity in prose Lark. •all, and wondered how she could get ing from the ceiling was an ornate "Does you believe It's lucky to see cuting grafters. word to I-arry Morris where she was lamp of filigree and Jewels, and this tnd how In the world she could send burned low and dull. de new moon over yoh right shoul Two young women have gone into the news she had to the “Inquirer” o f “ You will be glad to rest. I know.” der r fice. said Tyoga. “ Meta there will bring Sho I does.” replied Mr. Erastus camp near Middletown, Cal., and be Somehow her hunger for Barry was you a glass of warm milk, and then Pinkney. "Deee here stormy days you's gun peeling tan hark. They do nearly far worse than her desire to satisfy you must rest. Rest the sweetest you as much work as the men and say it ia the newspaper appetite of delivering have ev«r done, my lady. To-night I lucky to see any kind of a moon any better than idleness. way.” — Wasblncton Star. fear portion of the solution to the shall not be »U li y o u ; 1 have other T h e Quest Betty Lancey )oings of the World at Large Told in Brief. F L Y T H O U U A N D S O F M IL E S . P rize a O ffe re d fo r L o n g D ista n ce F lig h t s in U nited Sta te s. I New York, June 1.— Aerial flights from New York to St. Louis and from New York to Chicago will next be at- temped, substantial money prizes for the accomplishments o f both feats hav ing been offered. A prize o f $30,000 was offered to night by the New York World and St. Louis Post-Dispatch to the first aviator who flies an aeroplane from New York City to St. Louis or from St. Louis to New York. The New York Times announced that it had arranged with J. C. Shaffer, of the Chicago Evening Post for an offer of $25,000 for an aeroplane race be tween Chicago and New York. Mayor Gay nor announced the prize for the New York-St. Louis flight at the Hotel Astor tonight, where Glenn H. Curtiss, who on Sunday wrote a new chapter in the history o f aviation by making a flight from Albany to Governor’s Island, was the guest of the New York World, whose $10,000 award he won. Conditions governing the flight will be announced after a conference with aeronautic experts. A distinguished company gathered to meet the young aviator tonight. A t the table the modest Curtiss sat be tween the mayor and Brigadier Gene ral Howe, U. S. A., in command o f the department o f the East. A flood o f congratulatory cable grams and telegrams was read. Among them were messages from Blériot, the French aviator; the Aero Club of France; Count Jacques de Lesseps, who recently flew across the English channel; Hart 0. Berg, the “ father of aviation,” and Hubert Latham, the French aviator. Hudson Maxim, one of the speakers o f the evening, said: “ As the warless era, o f which we catch glimpses in our dreams o f a dis tant future, is unquestionably yet far away, we must in our prediction look to the flying machines in war as well as sport and commerce. “ We shall not have to wait 100 years for the staunch, wind-defying machine, with automatic equilibriation. Very soon automobiling of the air will be as safe as.automobiling upon the earth now is. Neither shall we have to wait 100 years for that spectacular eventu- ation— a fight between aerial navies, for these are bound to come.” Curtiss was enthusiastic over the new offer, but, in the absence o f de tails as to stops allowed and other con ditions, he would not say definitely whether he would enter the contest. Charles K. Hamilton quickly an nounced, however, that he would be a contestant. He had planned to enter the New York-Albany race, but Curtiss was too quick for him. The announcement o f the prize offer ed for the New York-Chicago flight was issued from the Times office late tonight as follows; “ The New York Times announces that it has arranged with J. C. Shaffer, of the Chicago Evening Post, for an offer o f $25,000 for an aeroplane race between Chicago and New York, the details o f which will be announced later.” A IR S H IP W A R T E S T PLANNED A v ia to r H am ilton to T a k e E x p lo siv e s Into A ir W ith H im . New York, June 1.— Unusual inter est was manifested today in the an nouncement that government employes, who are planning on an airship flight test soon in Chickamauga Park, will carry with them explosives to be drop ped at dummy targets situated in the park. The test is to be given under the direction of Aviator Hamilton, and will be an attempt to prove the bene fits o f the airship in time o f war. The test w ill be watched with great inter est by government officials as well as the world in general. A ir s h ip T re a ty N o w U n d e r W ay. Washington, D. C., June 1.— Aerial navigation has made such rapid pro gress that Secretary o f State Knox and the government of Mexico are negoti ating an aviation treaty governing the passage o f airships across the border between the two countries. It will be the first treaty governing aviation be tween nations and is already on the road to completion. It is announced from the State department that Mr. Knox is only awaiting the test of Mex ico’s proposition in detail before tak ing final action on the terms. W a r In Iro n T r a d e s. Pittsburg, June 1.— In an attempt of the United States Steel corporation to drive the iron and steel jobbers out of business, a big war in the steel indus try has been precipitated. The sub sidiary companies o f the steel trust are waging battle against the inde pendents by establishing retail ware houses. One is in course o f erection in Pittsburg and another has been com pleted at Waverly, N. J. Behind the jobbers are several large iron and steel companies, including the Jones & Laughlin and the Republic company. C o m e t Still A ro u n d . Portland, June 1.— Halley’s comet, apparently weary o f coquetting with mother earth with uncertain and puz zling visions o f its dimensions, is showing itself nightly to all viewers with possibly more vividness than when it was closest to earth little more than a week ago. Any opinion that interest in the wanderer has waned is belied by the crowds that go each night to viewpoints to obtain what they ex pect to be their last sight of the visitor. C h in e s e F e a r O u tb re a k . Shanghai, June 1.— Chinese warships with troops have been dispatched to Nanking in anticipation of a native outbreak against foreigners. The lat ter have been warned. The Chinese soldiers now at Nanking will be re placed by the force from Shanghai, as they are not considered reliable in case o f need. “ J im C r o w ” N o t P a s s e d O n . Washington. June 1.— An attempt to have the Supreme court o f the United States pass upon the authority of common carriers engaged in interstate commercne to make “ jim crow” regu lations met with failure when the court dismissed the so-called Chile’s appeal from its dockeL INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE ROADS M O VEM ENT C O N V IC T S S O L V E P R O B L E M . PO PULAR. H u n d re d s o f M e n S e n t to Penitentiary M a n y C o o p e r a t e A ft e r P u b lic in W a s h in g to n W o r k on R o a d s. ' in in T h e D alles. M e et- That convict labor on Oregon roads The Dalles— Maurice W. Eldridge, will solve the problem o f building bet- good roads expert, sent out by the gov- ter highways throughout the state is ernment, and Judge Lionel R. Web- the conviction of A. L. Mills, president' ster, o f the State Good Roads associa- of the First National bank of Portland, tion, addressed a large audience here after seeing the kinds o f roads the j on the good roads movement o f Ore gon. Mr. Eldridge’s talk was illus- convicts in Washington are building. Mr. Mills was a member of a party trated by stereopticon views o f roads o f business men entertained by Sam ! past and present, in this and foreign uel Hill during an inspection of the countries, and o f highways taken be state roads being built from Vancouver fore and after being properly built. Judge Webster explained the good to Walla Walla. “ There were 80 convicts in the camp roads movement organized in Portland, we sa w ," said Mr. Mills. “ F ifty of and also his plan, by which counties them were serving 20-year sentences. by a legislative act may bond them But they were quiet and orderly, and selves for the building of permanent they were doing splendid work— better highways. A fter the meeting he invited those than free labor would or could. A ll were in charge of Major Bowlby. The present to sign an agreement associat discipline was perfect. As we passed ing themselves as the Wasco County the convicts were eating. All arose in branch o f the State Good Roads as their places and saluted with a defer sociation. About 150 availed themsel ves o f the opportunity. The ladies of ence that was exceedingly gratifying. “ Washington is building 1,100 miles the city were well represented at the ____ o f roads by ¿convict labor. Men are meeting. obtained from the prisons to perform a 80 0,0 0 0 A C R E S F O R M A R K E T . task that most other laborers turn away from. They are kept constantly under guard and prefer the life o f A g e n ts o f O r e g o n & W e ste rn C o lo n ization C o . G o to In sp e c t L a n d s work to the life of inaction in the pen itentiary. Every man of them looked V ale— W. P. Davidson o f the Oregon healthy. I shall be very glad to see & Western Colonization company, has the day when Oregon will use its con acquired 800,000 acres in interior Ore victs in building roads. I f there is gon, accompanied by Curtis L. Mosher one thing needed by Oregon above all and Frank L. Reider, o f Portland, other things it is roads that will make left Vale last week in an automobile the resource» o f the state accessible for Burns and interior Oregon. Cur and capable of development.” tis L. Mosher stated that they are on a trip across the state to classify the $ 1 , 6 0 0 P e r A c r e A p p le Lan d . land holdings for the market. Hood R iver— Ten acres on the east From Burns their way lies by the side near Van Horn station, known way o f Prineville, Lebanon, Albany as the Gleason place, one year ago and on to Portland, where they expect purchased by Dr. O. C. Snyder, of Chi to arrive within 30 days. Mr. Mosh cago, have been sold to Mr. J. C. How er, who is manager of the company’s land, o f Crown Point, Indiana. He publicity department, stated that he and his mother and Miss Smith, who had already taken 40 views in the accompanied them, w ill take possession Malheur valley, most of which are to immediately. This sold for $1,600 be used in the advertising campaign in per acre. It is in full bearing, and bringing settlers into Oregon. one o f the desirable places in the Pine Grove district. Mr. Howland will F o s s il P e o p le W ill H a v e R o a d . build him a new residence this summer Fossil— A second mass meeting o f to take the place o f the present home, those interested in the building o f a and will also erect an apple house to railroad from Condon via Mayviile to take care o f the heavy crop. Fossil was held in Fossil and there was F. J. Bauham, o f London, England, a large and enthusiastic attendance o f purchased the M. H. Maher 10-acre farmers and business men, who are ranch just west of the Valley Christian fully determined to have a railroad in church for $11,000. Mr. Bauham takes the near future, if they have to build possession at once and w ill harvest the it themselves. The reports o f the berry crop o f six acres. Mr. Maher committees appointed at the last meet will remain on the place until the ing to procure data showed that the berry season is over. This is one of proposed road in its first 15 miles out the attractive places in this neighbor o f Condon would pass through a grain hood and is nearly all in orchard, most belt producing 1,000,000 bushels a year. ly trees four years old. J O r e g o n E le c tric to C o o s Bay. Im p ro v e M e t h o d s at C an n e ry . Astoria— The Sanborn Cutting Pack ing company has installed a plant that will revolutionize the packing o f sal mon on the Columbia river and will eventually be adopted by all the can neries on the river, as well as on the entire Pacific coast. This cannery can pack 2,000 cases in 10 hours with less expense than it could formerly pack 800 cases, with out having a can touched by hand after it is first filled with salmon and in spected. The primary factor is the Johnson double seamer, which puts the top on|the can and by a series o f run ways the can passes through the test ing tanks to the retorts by a gravity system. But one cooking is required, the venting of|the can being eliminated altogether, and in this way much of the former loss of the oil is saved and the natural flavor of the fish preserved. The use o f tissue paper in packing around the cans has been done away with and there will simply be a band or label around the sides, the tops and bottoms being polished tin, allowing the can to be opened in the usual way. Eugene— H ill is preparing to extend the Oregon Electric railroad to the Coast by way o f Eugene, in the opinion o f E. C. Roberts, a prominent business man from Coos Bay. “ I was shown maps and plans for an extension from Eugene to Florence and from Florence to Coos Bay, by M. Svarvered, presi dent o f the Eugene Electric railway.” said Mr. Roberts. “ Svarvered told me the line was to connect with the Ore gon Electric when it reached Eugene.” W a llo w a P o r k G o e s to Seattle. Enterprise— Five carloads o f hogs, weighing 112,000 pounds, were shipped from here to Seattle the other day. This was the largest single shipment o f the year. The hogs, 448 in number, were bought o f the following named farmers: Cote Brothers, W. B. For- dice, J. H. Fordice, E. B. Carter, G. M. Cannon, Martin & Shurman, and William Murrill. E x p r e s s C o m p a n y L o w e r s Rate Hood R iver— A fter a loss o f several hundred dollars in express shipments o f berries East that have gone from Hood R iver by way of the North Bank F e d e ra l D e lay Irk s o m e . line, the American Express company Klamath Falls— A movement is on has met the rate o f the North Bank foot among the large tulle land owners road and the berries are now going on the Lower Klamath and Ewauna forward from here direct. lakes and along the Klamath river, looking toward the early draining o f PO RTLAND M ARKETS. much o f their lands. These lands have been tied up with the govern Wheat— Track prices: Bluestem, 86 ment, the under the reclamation ser <a)87c; club, 82@83c; red Russian, 80 vice for the past five years. The (diSlc; valley, 85c. plan o f the reclamation service was to Barley— Feed and brewing, $21.50 blast out the ledge o f rock at Keno, @22.50 ton. where the rapids of the Klamath be Corn— Whole, $33; cracked, $34 ton. gins, and in this way lower the river, Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il draining thousands o f acres. lamette valley, $20*/21 per ton; East ern Oregon, $22@25; alfalfa, $16.50(r7 T o Irrig a te 1 ,0 0 0 A c re s. 17.50; grain hay, $17*7*18. Oats— No. 1 white, $26.50@27 ton. Cottage Grove— John F. Spray, who Fresh Fruits— Strawberries, $1.50@ owns a large tract o f land two miles east o f this city, is digging an irriga 2.25 per crate; apples, $1.50*7 3 per tion ditch two and a half miles in box; cherries, $1*71.50; gooseberries, length from Mendall Falls, and within 6*77c per pound. Potatoes — Carload buying prices: six weeks w ill have an abundance of water on a thousand acres o f the best Oregon, 40c per hundred; sweet pota- land in this section. The law allows j toes, 4c per pound, Vegetables— Artichokes, 60*?75c per one second foot for every 80 acres, and 13 second feet will be taken from the dozen; asparagus. $1.25*72 per box; Row river for irrigation purposes on head lettuce, 50*760c per dozen; hot this tract. The cost o f the work will house lettuce, 50c*/$1 per box; green be about $5,000. and the promoter fig onions. 15c per dozen; radishes, 15*7 ures that it will be well worth it. 20e; rhubarb, 2 1a*731,i c per pound; spinach, 8*710c; rutabagas, $1.25*7! B r ic k P lant Makes G o o d P ro d u c t 1.50 per sack; carrots. 85c*7$l; beets, Bend— The first lot o f brick made at $1.50; parsnips, 75c*7$l. Onions—Oregon, $2 per hundred; the local factory has just been taken from the kiln. The clay, which is in red, $1.75 per sack. Butter— City creamery, extras, 29c exhaustible in quantity, is o f high quality and makes an excellent pro per pound; fancy outside creamery, 28 Butter fat prices duce The backers o f the new enter *7 29c; store, 20c. prise declare that the further down average l '* c per pound under regular they go the better becomes the caly, butter prices. Eggs— Fresh Oregon ranch, 23*7 24c and that their machine made brick will be the equal o f those anywhere obtain per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 12*712'.,c per paund. able, and that a good permanent busi Veal— Fancy, 10fy*711e per pound. ness w ill be built up here. Lambs— Fancy, 9*/12c per pound. O a k la n d L iv e st o c k Sh ip p e d . Poutry— Hens, 18/019c; broilers, 27 Oakland— Livestock shipments from id30c; ducks, 18*725c; geese, 12^c; Oakland are well under way. Five turkeys, live, 20*/22c; dressed, 25c; cars o f lambs and wethers from here squabs. $3 per dozen. Cattle— Beef steers, hay fed, good to and two cars from Wilbur have gone forward to the Portland and Tacoma choice, $5.75*76; fair to medium, $5*7 markets. Total shipments o f wethers 5.50; cows and heifers, good to choice, and lambs for this season to date 8 $5*75.50; fair to medium, $4.25*74.76- cars. Cattle shipments will commence bulls, $3.50*74.25; stags, $4.50*75; in ten days. calves, light, $6*77; heavy, $4.50*7 5.50. D e p a rtm e n t S t o r e at Fall City. Hogs—Top, $10.25*710.50; fair to Falls City— N. Siegel, o f Myrtle medium. $9.25*79.55. Creek, is preparing to erect a store Sheep— Best wethers, $4*74.25; fair building 50x80 feet, two stories high. to good. $3.50*74; beat ewes, $3.25*7 Mr. Siegel w ill occupy the store room 3.50; lambs, choice. $6*/7- fair $5*76 with a general stock. The store will Wool— Eastern Oregon,' 14*7 i7e per Uke the place o f the one recently de- pound: valley, 16*tl8c; mohair, choice atroyed by fire. 32t«.33e.
