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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.