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
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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
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PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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