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tQ r CHAPTER X III.— (Continued.) "Your name?” asked Morris. “ Bc- Jionl,” answered the black. “Just Be- nonl.” “American?” asked Larry. “I’ve lived there,” volunteered Be- nonl. “ Where are we going now?” “Anywhere to get away from them,” replied Johnny. “Then don’t go so far to tho right. Turn at the next crossing—there—now turn to your left again—see? Beyond those hills we’ll find a snug defile! Here w* are!” The motor wheezed and grunted and turned awkwardly Into the debouch ment of the mountain side. “ How’d you come to get in such n scrape?” asked Barry. “ Ever see that woman before? Do you know her at all? What was her animus?” Benoni nodded. “Yes, I gave her passage money to go back to Maine to her family once, and she gambled it away. Then she came to me again, and wanted some more money and I refused to give It to her, and she’s hated me ever since, I guess. I hadn’t seen her for years.” “Bike a woman,” commented John ny. I^arry smoked in silence, till Benoni asked: "Exploring? Or just touring?” "How long since you’ve been in the States?” usked Johnny. “Just came from there a week ago,’’ replied Benoni. “ Then you heard of tho Wayne mur der mystery, of course? Well, we’re hunting for the abducted Miss Ban- cey. We think she’s In Africa here.” Benoni raised his woolly eyebrows. “You’re a nice hunt,” he observed. “ Have you any trace of where she might be? Africa is very large, larger even than your vaunted State of Texas.” “I know,” responded Barry, curtly. “ But if a man’s heart’s in the hunt he doesn’t stop to reckon the length of the chase.” Benoni smiled. “ You are related to Miss Baneey?” “ Not yet,” said Johnny. “ He’s Just hoping that way.” Benoni sprung out of the car. He paced by its side nervously for a few seconds, and then stopped beside Bar ry. “I am black, as you see,” spoke Benoni, "but I own the blood of kings and my mind has been subjected to a thorough course of education In Euro pean universities. I am in Africa now on an errand similar to yours. I am seeking my wife, Meta. Unlike you, I have an Inkling ns to where T may find her. Perhaps the woman you are hunting for is not far away from Meta. Will you Join forces with me? 1 am single handed, and I may need foreign aid—men I can trust!” Barry and Johnson grasped at the Straw. It was something tangible any way, in this great wanton waste of sun and sky, desert and barbarians. And far more likely of result than the neatly red-taped government assist ance that had been proffered them. So they made a compact with Be noni. It was taking a long chance with a stranger, but the boys had learned that long shots frequently won when the short arc failed altogether. The three were to meet at the defile on the morrow—early—before the sun waxed unbearably hot. Benoni told them to leave behind all luggage; that he would attend to all of that, and to take with them but a nominal sum of money, if any at all. “ You can both ride?” he questioned. “ Well, I’m not much at it,” confess ed Johnny. The black surveyed the small red headed man half contemptuously. “I know what you're thinking,” blurted out the American. “You’re thinking that barring the color of the skin and head that you’ve got me beat on being a man. Perhaps you have. Anyway, I don’t grudge you anything, and you needn’t me!” They rumbled into town ns the false dawn broke. Benoni left them at the corner of an obscure street, and Barry and Johnson took Sulveler back his auto. Sulveler was not yet home, s»» they went to the cafe, where they had left him early in the evening, and found him there drowsing. “ What a shame,” groaned Johnny “ How can a man with a mind do such things us this?” “ You never did,” said Harry, quietly “ Here, let’s take him home. Come, Sulveler, come on, we’ve got something *o tell you.” CH APTER XIV. Benoni was waiting at the defile. With him was a small Arabian serv ant. Benoni himself was astride % magnificent black hgpg<>, and smaller mounts were saddled for the two Americans. The little Arab rode a wizened but sturdy beast and led the pack horse by a short tether. The black was still more of the physically perfect by daylight than in* had been under the lamplight and the later gleam of the moon. He was even yet more taciturn. l»arry and Johnson Jogged along side by side. Benoni paced them, at times making far excursions ahead, returning with foaming horse and flushed face. At noon they stopped beside a scant little creek for rest. The sun was un endurable and despite their vlsoi^d and veiled helmets, Johnny und latrry were suffering terribly from sunburn and their hands were blistered from the reins. The little Arab spread their lunch eon for them and went over to rest with the horses, slaked a few* rods dis tant Benoni produced healing salve and showed his two companions how to relieve the worst of their distress The tropical nooning sped in heat, si lence and half-slumber. At 6 o'clock Benoni roused the little caravan, and after a hasty supper, told them to make ready for a long, hard ride All night they Journeyed Through desert wastes and over rocky fastnesses, up steep mountains and across half-stag nant. shallow rivers And even when the dawn came there was no resting The horses. Jaded and covered with * coating of dust and sweat, stuck their fast wvariedly Into the sand or clun listlessly to the hilly slopes. Barry was weak as a woman, and Johnny too worn to talk. The sun centered the sky when Benoni let them halt. They were Just past a strip of desert waste, and near a tiny oasis of parched grass and scrawny palms. A murky pool of water mocked them with resemblances of Apolllnaris, seltzers, Ice-flushed lemonudes and carbonated beverages to be quaffed In the blessed land at home. Johnny, exhausted, had dropped from his horse and was trying to drag him self towards the muddy pool. Benoni was as unshaken as the palm tree standing motionless In the desert «'aim. He pulled Johnny up, bolstered him along with a draught from his flask, and set him to rights generally. “How are you, Morris?” he asked. “Oh, fair,” replied Barry. This gaunt American found it hard to admit phy sical inferiority to the black. “ We can rest but an hour or two,” volunteered Benoni, curtly. “Then we must go on.” “ But where?” asked Barry. “I con fess I wanted to go Into darkest A fri ca, but this affair Is growing too shad owy for me. I don’t care about being handled like a packinghouse cow!” Benoni turned a reproachful eye upon him. "I have promised to help you find the girl you seek, can you not rely upon me? I know my Africa, I am trusting you, and trying to repay you for aiding me to escape from that cafe mob— that corral filled with worse than the beasts of the Jungle—drunken, Infuriated swine that once were men.” “Hello, what’s this?” asked Johnny. “ I’m always finding things—now ain’t I? Book at this, and in the desert, too!” He held up to view a plump pigeon. Apparently It had been hurt In a fight with some heavier denizen of the air. For It was quite dead, and Its head was severed almost from its body. Benoni reached out his hand for the bird. “ Doves like that nest In but one place In all this continent,” he remark ed, and his face became ashen gray as he noted the odd markings of purple and brown on Its snowy breast. "Only one place,’’ he repeated. Johnny had been turning the bird over und over, rumpling up the help less wings. Something caught his ey-% and he held the dead dove out with up raised wing for the others to see. Scratched on its wing in rude letters they read: "Betty Baneey, A frica!” “Betty!” cried Barry. Then he seiz ed Benoni by the wrist. “If doves like that nest In but one place on this con tinent, take us there, take us at once. What place Is it? Where? Would she be safe? Or In tho hands of savages?” “That Is where we have been trav eling to, my friend,’’ answered Benoni. “I had suspected, but I had not cer tainly known. We will not even rest for the hour, if you wish.” “I must,” answered Johnny. “Safety razors! I’m beat out. I’m not a camel In the legs, If I can go without a drink for six months!” “ Tell me, tell me something,” plead ed Barry. But the sands were not more silent. Benoni made but one reply. “ I dare not. It might destroy all hope!” Day after day, clinked off this ardu ous travel. Once they met a caravan and Benoni bargained for fresh horses. The erstwhile novelty was succeeded by a feverish unrest. Both Americans were dead with fatigue, the little Arab stood the Journey well, and Benoni was In the pink of condition. Ten days later they found a second pigeon. This one was alive and fluttered to their very luncheon table. Barry cov ered It with his hat. and bent Its wings back fiercely only to find a bitter dis appointment. for there was no message traced upon the wing. Two days later they reached n native village, hanging tassel-like upon the borders of an Immense Jungle. Benoni hired beaters to break the way for them, and for a week they journeyed in a setting of tropic grass and dusky skins One morning Barry awoke to find the camp deserted of all but Be noni and Johnny. The horses were gone and even the little Arab had dls appeared. "What! are we lost in this Jungle? Betrayed and deserted?" questioned Burry. “ No. Indeed, I sent them away. We cannot leave here till nightfall, so sleep axnln or louriKo till I return,** re plied Benoni. *‘I will be bark In a few hours.” Divesting himself of his garments, Benoni swathed his loins with a girdle of flexible grass, and strodo away In to the fastnesses of the thleket. Larry roused the sleeping Johnny rudely. “ Plrehead. get up. and tell me what you think of It," he commanded. Johnny, roughly disturbed from dreams of home, kicked viciously In lairry's grasp. "Can’t you let a fellow sleep when lie's having a pleasant dream?” he de manded. "Ycu'rc worse than an alarm clock!” "Look around and go dream again,” growled lairry. Johnny aat up. "Safety razors!” he cried. "What's become of them?" "What's going to become of us?” grunted lairry. "Benoni suld he*d be back.” "Then I think he will,” allowed Johnny. "Did he lenve us anything to e a t? " "There's some dates, that confound ed meal cake they make In this coun try and some llgs," Itemised Larry, and, say, Johnny, these look like hen’s eggs!” "Well, you ran sample them, I won’t!" declared Johnny, with visions of the stomachic Illness that had be set him early on the route, thanks ro an overly curious appetite. "I'll stick to the viands that have come the least near to killing me during our African peregrination. Were we fools to come. I-arry, or not?" "Oh. I don't know, quit your kick- In».” oald Isarry. "I suppose tf Ite- non! don'tt rome back we might stay her* all n “ I m k on we will," added Johnny. grimly. For the want of a better occupation. thelr meal finished, they fell to play ing mumble-peg in the clearing where camp had been struck. Mumble-peg falling as a time-killer, they tried roll ing marbles out of the soft clay, and had put up a very passable game of "Mlbs” when they heard a rustling and crackling In the brush and foliage around them. „ “Bets on a lion,” said Johnny. "Oh, make It a cannibal king or a boa constrictor," suggested Larry. "Something novel!" Benoni appeared at the edge of the clearing. "Larry wins," was Johnny’s greet ing. "I bet on a lion—he said 'twas a cannibal king approaching.” "I'm neither," answered Benoni. “ I want to sleep. I worked all night while you fellows rested. Will you keep watch for me? Wake me at the slightest sound. And If I’m not up I y starlight, call me then. Don't forget." Long before that hour, though, the great black was up and ready. All of their luggage he stacked In a great heap and set Are to It. They waited till the pile gave signs of thorough ig nltlon, then led by Benoni the trio set out through the jungle. The walk was a fight for breath There were briars that pricked, gnats that stung, knotted vines that trapped unwary feet. Sometimes the foot stepped upon a sodden snake, causing the reptile to coll around the ankle In a horrifying snarl. But Benoni paused for nothing. With one arm plunged forward, with the other he grasped hold of Larry and bade him pull John ny in their wake. This nightmare struggle lasted not longer than a quar ter of an hour, but when they had come out of the jungle Larry was shaking like a leaf in the wind and Johnny was too far gone for words. A tramp over an arid plain brought them to a loathsome, turgid stream. From a small cove In the bank Benoni punted out a flat-bottomed scow with small sail. He leaped into It and bads the others follow. Then began a pull to which the struggle through the Jun gle was as child’s play. The days and the nights hud all the furies’ tortures far outdone. And through It all they lived! This was the wonder that came to Larry afterward. For they fought hand to hand battles with snakes and hideous water reptiles, fat crocodiles leered at them and more than once sent them scurrying high on the bank. Once the punt overturned and Benoni stood breast high In water, a black, slimy ooze that reached to Harry’s chin and almost overflowed Into his mouth, Poor Johnny, the shortest of the three, was carried off his feet and almost drowned, but they got ashore somehow, but all their food except two tins of biscuits In waterproof canisters were soaked. This happened their third day on the river, and they had yet anoth er day's travel ahead of them. The next day tho rains commenced and the river teemed with the floods. Benoni moored the punt at the mouth of a cuve that yawned from a little hillock on what had once been tho river's bank. (T o be continued.) J A P A N ’S ANCESTRAL GODS. CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume of Important Events Presented In Condensed Form for O u r Busy Readers. Oklahoma has attacked the Pullman Car company to obtain lower rates. The government has been asked to intervene in the Nicaraguan revolution. A fire destroyed the business section o f Paterson, N. J., causing a loss of $500,000. A Missouri court has fined a tele phone company $175,000 for violation o f the anti-trust laws. Preident T a ft promises to do all in his power to hasten the irrigation pro jects authorized by congress. Ten acres o f tide [lands at Tacoma, occupied by sawmills, boat houses, etc., were swept by fire; loss $85,000. Parliament has altered the corona tion oath o f the king of England, so as not to be offensive to the Catholic church. Seven men supposed to have been lost in a gale on Cook’s Inlet, Alaska, have been found alive, though suffer ing greatly. Railroads of the United States are to adopt a uniform code of signals, so that employes o f different roads can work together. To offset bad crop prospects, farmers from the Northern wheat states are buying heavily in the Minneapolis wheat markets and the price is stead ily rising. The suit of Rudolph Francke against Commander Peary for extorting $10,- 000 worth o f valuble furs from Dr. Cook for bringing him back to civiliza tion has been begun in a German court. Roosevelt w ill undergo an operation for throat trouble. Many congressional inquiries will be made during the summer. Crops in the dry farming sections o f Montana are unusually good. Robbers held up an O. R. & N. train just leaving Ogden, Utah, but got lit tle. A variety actress in Cleveland, Ohio, has gone insane over the coming Jef- frics-Johnson prizefight. Jacob Schiff, one of the most prom inent of New York bankers, says the financial stringency is paat. M E TH O D ISTS INVADE ZIO N. Dedicate Chapel in Voliva's City and Latter Declares War. Zion City, 111.— “ We will fight this invasion to the death,” ia the state ment attributed to General Overseer Glenn H. Voliva, of Zion City, referr ing to an invasion o f the sacred pre cincts of Zion by the Methodists, who recently dedicated a modest chapel in side the city. Bishop McDowell and a long list of Methodist dignitaries assisted in the ceremonies, and they say they are in Zion to stay and grow. I f so they will probably prove an extremely large thorn in the flesh o f Overseer Voliva, for the excellent reason that his own camp is badly divided. The independ ents in Zion hailed the advent o f the Methodists warmly and sent a delega tion o f elders to the dedication o f the chapel. The new church w ill have the back ing o f business interests outside and Overseer Voliva has the battle o f his life cut out if he undertakes to exter minate the invader. The Methodists dedicated their church in the forenoon, and in the af ternoon Voliva, speaking at the taber nacle, hurled his defiance. This draws the lines o f battle clearly and some in teresting developments may be expect ed. The Methodists will seek out the suffering in the city and not permit them to die without attention. The recent case o f an aged elder being suffered to expire of a rattlesnake bite, while Voliva refused aid aside from the customary prayers is a case in point. Voliva, it is understood, had just realized his dream of securing control of a majority of the land holdings, in which case he would have become a dictator more powerful even than was John Alexander Dowie, founder o f the city. At present there is strife between the aldermen, two sct3 claiming elec tion. A fter the death o f Dowie and the subsequent failure, the advent of a receiver tore down much o f the Chin ese wall surrounding the city. The followers o f Dowie broke up into nu merous factions, which warred upon each other. Voliva has succeeded in aligning several of these factions with his cause, but the opposition still is very strong. SUM M ER SC H O O L OPENS. 30,000 MINERS WILL RETURN TO WORK TH IN G S HUM IN SO U TH . Sixth Annual Session Begins at O re Grants Pass Man Tells of Project to Water 40,000 Acres. gon University. University o f Oregon, Eugene— The sixth annual summer session o f the university o f Oregon, now open under the direction of Professor H. D. Shel don, is expected to be the most suc cessful and best attended since the summer school was started. It will last six weeks, closing Friday even ing, August 5. Plans are being made for at least 150 students. About fifty of these will be regular students taking extra work so as to graduate in less than the re quired four years, and the rest w ill be students who have no time to study in the winter. Courses are given during the summer session in botany, chemistry, educa tion, English composition and litera ture, French, Spanish, German, his tory, mathematics and physics. With the exception of English composition and literature, all the courses will be under the regular heads of the depart ments. Professor Henry David Gray, of Leland Stanford university, will have change of the English department. In addition to Professor Gray, other well known educators w ill give lec ture work in the educational depart ment. The course they are grouped under will comprise a series of thirty lectures on the various phases o f school organization and administration. Horse Breeder Files Complaint. Salem --A. C. Ruby, who breeds fine horses and has headquarters at Port land, has filed a complaint with the railroad commission against what he alleges unfair treatment by the South ern Pacific company and the Oregon Railroad & Navagation company. The railroads, according to Mr. Ruby, are universally slow in deliver ing stock after it arrives, the service is poor and the freight charges exor bitant. Mr. Ruby says all stallions and jacks are billed at 3,000 pounds, regardless o f their actual weigth, and some weigh less than one third that figure. The men who accompany horses are compelled to pay full first class T A F T 'S TIE FLAM ING RED. passenger fare to ride in a box car with the animals. The cost is there President, Going on Vacation, Hopes fore very high. Recently it cost Mr. Ruby $137 to to See Newspapermen in Fall. ship four head from Pendleton to On Washington — President T a ft has tario. It costs about $100 to ship a gone to spend the next three or four horse from Klamath Falls to Portland. months at Beverly, Mass., the summer capital of the United States. The Remodel Map o f Oregon. president’ s air of gaiety over his de Salem— Though initiative petitions parture was accentuated by a vivid red have already been presented at the offi necktie. ce o f the secretary of state which pro With the president went Secretary pose by direct enactment to create five Norton and Assistant Secretary For new Oregon counties next November, ester; Captain Archibald Butt, his mil petitions are still being circulated in itary aide; Dr. Barker, his physician; different parts of the state asking the several stenographers, and two mes electorate to create two additional sengers. On the same train, although ones, making the list o f new counties not in the president’s car, was Secre to be created by the people at the next tary Nagel, o f the department o f com general election a total o f seven. Four merce and labor. o f these new counties are to be located Before leaving the White House the in Eastern Oregon and three in West president called into his office all the ern Orgeon. I f they all carry, the newspaper men who have been writing map o f Oregon will be so badly muti for their associations or papers o f the lated the state’s own sons will be un daily doings about the executive offices able to recognize it. and wished them a pleasant summer, expressing the hope that he would see Landmarks Give Way to Progress. them again in the fall. Burns— The work o f tearing down the old buildings occupied by the Young grocery and meat market to make way for the new two story Ma sonic building is going on rapidly. The old corner building is one of the St. Louis— Thomas L. Lewis, presi early landmarks and is surrounded by unpleasant memories. It was there, dent of the United Mineworkers of in a saloon which then occupied it, America, says 30,000 mineworkers o f that a double tragedy occurred in which America, who have been on a strike since April 1, w ill return to work in two prominent families were involved, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas, Oklaho one o f each being shot to death by each ma and Texas, July 5. The union will other, the tale of which is still told with be conceded the 5.55 per cent increase horror by those who witnessed it. An American boat won the jubilee prize in the races at Kiel, Germany. One of the most marvelous mani The emperor’s boat was beaten. festations of patriotic and religious An imperial decree iesued by the rul enthusiasm In modern Japan was oc ing regent in China refuses the de casioned recently by the transference mand of the people for a national par of the Imperial shrines at Ise to their liament. new tablernaelcs just completed, the A Chinese tong war broke out in 1-ondon Standard says. This remark able Shinto festival may be witnessed New York City and three Chinamen only every twenty-one years, when the were killed and about 40 shots fired in less than two minutes. temples of the ancestral gods are re Diaz is re-elected president o f Mex constructed and the sacred objects are removed to their new abode. The Ise ico for six years, and Ramon Corral It is believed that temples have been thus renewed every vice president. score of years since A. D. 890 at least Corral will succeed Diaz at the end of and for how long before that no one that time. knows, the present occasion being the It is reported that labor conditions fifty-seventh rebuilding on record. at the Bethlehem Steel works in Penn The men Such a periodic reconstruction will sylvania are disgraceful. appear quite necessary when it is rec work 12 hours per day, 7 days a week, ollected that on these shrined no mor and do not get enough pay to enable tal hand is ever permitted to execute them to live outside o f boarding repairs. After they are built the gods houses. of the nation take possession of them Secretary of War Dickinson says and thenceforward they are not touch Ballinger will be fully vindicated. ed till they go the way of all things. On advice o f Ballinger, President At all times Ise is the mecca of the Taft vetoed the Siletz settlers’ land in the wage scale which was the first Japanese patriot, hut on so notable difference between the miners and bill. an oeeaslon as this thousands flock operators. The Weyerhaeuser Timber company from all parts of the empire. is accused o f extensive timber land The work of rebuilding the sacred Second Parachute Fails. shrines begins almost as soon as the frauds in Idaho. New York— In trying to make the last reconstruction Is complete by the Senator Gore, the blind senator from “ double drop” from a height o f 1,000 appointment of an imperial commis Oklahoma, says there is much corrup feet George Tyler, a young Philadel sion Intrusted with the important en tion in his state. phia aeronaut, fell several hundred terprise. Every stage is marked by Secretary of W ar Dickinson refuses feet, hanging from a disabled para religious ceremonies, from the felling to remove the colored troops from Fort chute, and was found unconscious, but not fatally injured, at Belleville, N. J. of the trees to the driving of the last Lawton, near Seattle, Wash. The “ double drop” consisted o f two nail. The completion is emphasized The Postal Telegraph company and parachute descents, in the second of by a special festival of purification, after which the temples pass from the the Western Union and Bell companies which the first parachute is abandoned are in a big lawsuit over rights in New for a smaller one. The first parachute hands of the commissioners to the Mexico. behaved perfectly, but the second only priestly custodians of the imperial j I t is said Roosevelt vill urge Hughes partially opened and Taylor sank at shrines. Finally comes the great festival of to resign the Supreme court bench, to great speed. He struck on his feet. removing the ancestral gods and the which he was recently appointed, and Molten Iron Kills Three. sacred treasures and relics to the new run again for governor of N ew York. Chicago— Three men were probably “ holy of holies," which took place this Three robbers, after committing a month. It Is computed that no fewer robbery and double murder at Lynn, fatally burned and a score of others than 40.000 persons were present on ! Mass., were pursued by citizens in painfully injured as a result o f being splashed with molten metal pouring the night of the actual removal, j autos, one being killed, one captured, from a blast o f the furnace o f the Though the august spectacle takes j badly wounded, and the third forced to Gary, Ind., works o f the Illinois Steel place at night, the preparation for it commit suicide. company. The property loss is esti appears to go on for two or three A Mississippi river excursion boat, mated at $10,000. The injured were days previously, but the ceremonies taken to the company’s private hospit of the notable day itself are the most I with 1,500 persons on board, caught al. The furnace had just been opened interesting. The day opened with the j fire and was entirely destroyed. So and the string o f ladles was ready to far as known only three persons lost appearance before the new temple of their lives, though witnesses say many receive the hot metal when the tram a specially chosen virgin, who went leaped into the water and were not way gave way, and there was no way through a peculiar ceremony of bury to plug the furnace. rescued. ing in the ground before the shrine j a Jar containing offerings to the god j Railroad Suit Dismissed. A 7-year old boy at Louisville Ky., of earth. This observance is intend- ' found a railroad torpedo, and calling St. Louis— In accordance with the ed as an act of thanksgiving for the his mother to see the fun, hit it with agreement reached between railroad successful completion of the new abode a hammer. He was instantly killed by presidents and President Taft, United of the ancestral gods. States District Attorney Charles H. the explosion. Houts asked for the dismissal o f the I-Jtter In the day began a long pro The census bureau announces that it suit brought in the United States cir cession of priests In gorgeous robes of will soon begin giving out returns of cuit court bv the government against green and gold, chanting weird litanies the 1910 census. railroads composing the Western Trunk and motioning sutras to the strains Louis Alexander Robertson, noted line committee, to restrain the pro of arrhale Instruments. It Is affirmed that the service has In no respect poet, is dead. He did his best writ posed increase in freight rates. Judge been chnnged during the last thousand ing while suffering severely from lo Dyer, who signed the restraining order at Hannibal, ordered the suit dismissed. years. With the settling down of comotor ataxia. darkness came the groat function of One day's heat record in Chicago in Jews Ordered Out Fast. removal. A detachment of priests, led cludes six dead, nineteen prostrated by a princely representative of the Im and four bitten by rabid dogs. Kiev. Russia— From June 23 to June 25 inclusive, 46 Jews were expelled perial house, went Into the soon to be While running at high speed a Chi from Kiev, 37 from Salomenka and 37 abandoned shrines to examine the Twenty-seven were treasures and to measure the sacred cago A Alton train was derailed and from Demieffka. expelled from Kiev, 24 from Salo fabrics. As the latter arc reputed to turned turtle, badly injuring 17. menka and 17 from Demieffka in one be more than 330.000 feet In length, Nicaraguan rebels have 1,500 troops day. this was no small matter. ready to attack the town o f Bluefields. ! and all non-combatants have been g iv Town Treasurer in Cell. In en 12 hours notice to leave the city. “ You didn’t really need a wig." Cambridge. Mass___John B. Lom “ I was driven to It. Now the bar A Navajo Indian in Dakota shot and ! bard, ex-town treasureer of Farming- her won't try to sell me any tonics or killed a ranchman who accused him o f [ ham, who had confessed to forging hair restorer " — Louisville Courier cattle stealing, then rode 70 miles to town notes aggregating $300,000 has the agency to surrender to the officers. I begun serving a 10-year sentence. Journal tlun ln t C erem o n y P e r fo r m e d E v e r y X I Y e a r s s i n c e A . u. 000. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE Portland— “ Everybody is too busy in Southern Oregon to think of what the rest o f the world is doing,” said H. T. Norton, of Grants Pass. “ Things are humming down our way, many settlers are coming in und there will be remarkable development o f that part o f the state within the next few years. “ The Rogue River Irrigation & Power company has just let a contract for a project which will irrigate 30,- 000 acres, although 40,000 acres are contemplated in the entire scheme. The contract calls for water on the Grants Pass district, composed of about 15,000 acres, for the irrigation season o f 1911, and water on tho Mer lin district, containing about the same acreage, for the season o f 1912. “ The districts are being settled rap idly and the irrigation ditches mean a transformation of the entire country. In many places there is sufficient sub irrigation to insure good crops and the valleys are also productive without ir rigation. The new system will patch up the bare spots left by nature, mak ing the whole country a vast field of producing soil. Many of the ranchers who are raising good crops without ir rigation will take water to insure against a possible drouth and to in crease the productiveness o f the fer tile soil. “ Irrigation was not considered feas ible until a local company was organ ized and promoted a system last year. It was a pumping proposition. The contract for the pumping and water was let to the Golden D rift Mining company and last summer the water was run down the main street o f Grants Pass to show that irrigation was possible. Then high water came, one end of the mining company’ s dam was washed away, the stockholders o f the company became involved in liti gation among themselves, and no re pairs were made. The local irrigation company is now part of the Rogue River Irrigation & Power company and will carry the new project through.” Inheritance Tax Fortune. Salem— The state tresaurer’s office has received the inheritance tax from the estate o f the late Caroline Ladd, amounting to nearly $14,000. The net value o f the estate was $1,491,194.57. There were five children, each o f whom received $298,238.92, on which each paid to the state $2,932.39, a total o f $14,661.95. The law provides that a discount shall be given for payment o f inheri tance taxes within eight months. This was taken advantage of, the saving to the estate being $733.10, and leaving the net amount paid to the state treas ury $13,928.85._________ Rebuilding Telephone System. Burns— The Union Telephone & T el egraph company, owning the entire system south o f Canyon City through Harney county, is making substantial improvements, which will bring the lines up to the highest standard and give Burns the best exchange in East ern Oregon. This will include an en tire new equipment o f wires to switch boards. This, with an all night ser vice at central and good connections to the railroad on the north and on the east, will place Burns in good position for quick communication. Flowing Well for Railroad. Salem— A flowing well, sufficiently strong to supply from 70,000 to 80,000 gallons o f water daily, has been tap ped on the property of the Southern Pacific company nearly across the tracks from the depot. The well is 90 feet in depth and gives out a 20 pound pressure. Practically 3,000 gallons an hour is furnished. The company ex pects to use this water for its engine Stage Line to Coos Bay. Roseburg— C. P. Barnard has put supply hereafter. Nearly 100,000 gal on a stage line between this city and lons a day is used. Coos Bay. When the regular mail PO R TLA N D M ARKETS. schedule opens next motnh the Coos Wheat— |Track prices: Bluestem, Bay mail, intsead o f going by way of Myrtle Point and then by train to 83c; club, 79(380c; red Russian, 77c; Marshfield will go by way o f the old valley, 81c. Barley— Feed and brewing, $19(3)20. Coos Bay wagon road from this city Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il and will reach Marshfield early in the morning instead of at noon. Mr. Bar lamette valley, $20(3)21 per ton; East nard will also operate a stage line ern Oregon, $22(324; alfalfa, $15(5)16; grain hay, $17(3)18. from Roseburg to Myrtle Point. Oats— No. 1 wl Ite, $25.50(326 ton. Green Fruits— Apples, Oregon New Cool Weather Hepls Apples. town, $2 per box; cherries, 5(3:10c per Hood R iver— The cool weather in the pound; apricots, $1.20(3)1.35 per box; Hood River valley has aided the apple peaches, 75c(3$1.25; plums, $1@1.50; crop. Orchardists are propping the gooseberries, 5(36c per pound; cur trees, preparing for the heavy burden rants, $2(d 2.25 per box; raspberries, of fruit. Apples have never been so $1.35(31.50 per crate; loganberries, large. The box factories are running $1(3)1.50 per crate; blackcaps, $1.65(31 full crews making boxes to meet the 1.75 per box; cantaloupes, $1.75(3)2.25 demands. A large number o f the grow per crate. ers are increasing their orders for box Vegetables — Artichokes, 60(3)75c es as the season advances. Hood per dozen; beans, 8(310c per pound; River is expected to market 400,000 cabbage, 2 l J(a)2'4c; cauliflower, $2 boxes o f apples this year. per dozen; head lettuce, 50(3 60c; green onions, 15c; spinach, 8(310c per pound; State Gives 6.000 Acres. carrots, 85c(3$l per sack; beets, $1.50; Salem— The state has deeded to the parsnips, 75c(S$l. Federal government 6,000 acres of land Potatoes— Old Oregon, 60(3'75c per in Crook county, formerly embraced in hundred; new California, 1 ^ (5 2c per the Columbia Southern project. The pound; new Oregon, 2c. land was patented to the state on the Butter— City creamery, extras, 29c; strength o f certificates that the land fancy outside creamery, 28(<(29c; store, had been irrigated. 23c. Butter fa t prices average 1 '.¿c per When the government learned that pound under regular butter prices. the land had not been irrigated, suit to Eggs— Oregon candled, 26c per doz.; recover was threatened. To head off Eastern, 24(3 25c. the impending litigation, the state has Poultry— Hens, 15(3T6c; broilers, 18 reconveyed the land to the government. (321c; ducks, 12>^<320c; geese, 10(3) [ l i e ; turkeys, live, 18(320c; dressed, Big Crop o f Berries. 22'^(525c: squabs, $3 per dozen. Klamath Falls— F. J. Loufek has Pork— Fancy. 12(512 c. picked 250 gallons o f gooseberries Veal— Fancy, lOOtllc. from 37 bushes this year and has mar Lambs— Choice, 11(311 L,c. keted the entire amount at 25 cents a Cattle— Beef steers, good to choice gallon. Mr. Loufek says he has at California, $5,503(5.75; good to choice. least 200 gallons more still on the Eastern Oregon and valley, $5.40(3) bushes. When picking the berries 5.60; fair to medium, $4.25(3 4.75; many of them are lost as the pickers cows and heifers, good to choice, $4.50 put on gloves and just strip them down (3 5; fa ir to medium, $3.75(34.25; into a pan. bulls, $33(4; stags, $3.50(35; calves, light, $5 .753(6.75; heavy, $4(3 6. Cannery for Wheeler. Hogs— Top, $9(3,10; fa ir to medium, Wheeler— The Union Fishermen’ s $8.50(-! 9.40. cannery o f Astoria, Or., has been g iv Sheep— Best wethers. $4.40(34.60; en a site for a cannery at this town, best ewes, $4(34.25; Iambs, choice, and the company will »tart the « rection $3.50(36; fair, $4,753(5.25. o f the building so as to be ready for Hops— 1909 crop, 103il2e, according the fall pack. When the shingle mill to quality; olds, nominal; 1910 con is started here this town will lead all tracts. 139il3's c nominal. other towns in the county as a manu Wool— Eastern Oregon, 14(317c per facturing town and will have the larg pound; valley, 16(318c; mohair, est payroll. choice, 32(333c.