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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE The Quest o f Betty Lancey 9 y M A C C A A #*. W E S T OtTTlfkt. 1909, Vy W. O. Cbspsus. CHAPTER X IV .— (Continued.) There Johnny had chill* and fever, and Harry fell Into the dumps, while Benonl tended Johnny like a woman, with such skill and technique that Larry was moved to ask If the black had ever studied medicine. "Yes, I took my degree at Heidel berg.” Benonl replied, somewhat gruf fly. "They don’t balk at an African prince In Germany.” "W hy do you hate America, for you do, you know?” said Harry. "Because It was an American, the father of the woman you know as Cerlsse Wayne, who brought untold misery upon my father and hi* ancient African house,” blurted Benonl, forcing Johnny to drink a tea he hud steeped for him. The cave was coarsely fur nished with skins, some crude pottery and cooking utensils. To Larry It looked like a secluded hunting lodge or the some-time retreat of a spasmodic hermit. "Then you know about this mystery, Just as I’ ve thought,” said Larry. “And Into what mess you're taking Johnny and me. I'd like to know!” “I’m trying to take you to Miss I«an- cey,” responded Benonl. ”1 don’t know, of course, but I’m pretty certain she’s alive. That pigeon confirmed my be lief of that. But as to telling you— Morris, the tale will unfold Itself, and If It doesn't— ” he shrugged his shoul ders and put down the cup. After that, even In the long watches of the night, when Johnny lay still and quiet, fighting a long, Blow battle with his malady, Benonl forbore to discuss any aspect of the Wayne murder mys tery. This tantalized Larry all the more. Benonl would speuk, though, of his travels, and Larry listened to the narrations as spellbound as If to the master of all story-tellers. For the black had a marvelous power of lan guage. Ono morning the rain ceased to fall. Johnny was up now and walking around the cave, trying to laugh at the Illness that had laid him so low. Larry had lost his watch when the punt over turned, also his notes of his African travels that he had conscientiously been making. Whether It was noon, night or dinner time, Larry never knew any more, and It might have been Christmas or Decoration Day for aught he might tell to the contrary. He tried Robinson Crusoe's notch-on-a-cross experiment In time keeping on a rock by the cave door, but had given up this calendar attempt as altogether too crude and too much of a near-Water- bu ry. “W e’re going to move on to-day, boys,” said Benonl, “as soon as break fast’s over.” "Now see here,” objected Larry. "If I'm going to die I'd Just as soon die right here as die of curiosity on the road, and that's what I'm going to do If you don't drop this swathing of mystery, Benonl, and tell us where we are going, and all about It. What’s the mutter with you, anywuy? Why don't you take us Into your confidence a bit? Supposing you'd die? Where would be be then?” "Better off If you knew nothing of what I know,” Benonl responded. "Besides, I'm not going to die. Then, too, lack of knowledge means want of worry You will need all your strength. I don't want It depleted by anxiety. Better trust In me quietly. I've not fulled you yet. And I'm trying to pay you a debt of gratitude. In taking you where we are Journeying I'm risking the lives of others I hold dear. Remem ber that!” "W ell, where are we going?” In sisted Jtflinny. “I don’t want to take any more of your launch rides If you're going to serve them up with Jungle sauce, as you did before. I don’t like the taste of ths drinks!" "W e won't have any more of that ready?” Rehelllously, mutinously, Johnny and Larry followed the glam African. The country all around was a waste of water, where the prodigal river had burst her bands. Afar to the south rose a dull granite mountain. Towurd this Benonl bent his steps. They climbed the top of the hillock above the cave and by dextrous Jumps and shrewd calculation reached an elevated plateau with but a nominal wetting Thick gras* carpeted this pluteau, beat down to the earth, and Interwoven by the pounding of the rains It made a slippery matting for them to walk up on. Far to the north rose the moun tain, and to the west lumbered the nauseous river that skirted the cave. For hours they walked until they en tered a thicket, through whose mazes Benonl found a labyrinthine path, which they threaded In silence. “Won der what the time Is?” volunteered Johnny. "About noon, I think," answered Be nonl. "W e'd stop to eat, but I want to reach the castle before the ruin begins again.” “The castle?" queried Johnny. "W hose? W hew -ee!” They had stopped abruptly. The path had come out upon a wonderful gar den. exquisitely laid out. though bat tered from the onslaughts of the rain Ahead of them was a granite castle, and close to Its uncouth entrance a girl was dancing. As they looked they sa jv that she was tall and fair, and that though there was a huge lion beside her. though her hair fell tn braids down her back, and though her garb was that of a woman of ancient Greece, that she was unmistakably the long sought Betty! CHAPTER XV City Editor Burton and Betty were walking tn the garden The garden was wet as a sponge, and Betty, shoes and stockings off. was Joying In the rush of ths water and the feel of the tepid ooze beneath her feet. It was the first time In days that the rain had not been falling A haze still over spread the desert and the air seemed full enough of rain to have dripped If you had squeezed It. But Betty- didn't ears. Her long brown hair, still dull and satiny as a pecan-shell, despite il the havoc of fever, sea wind and south- srn aun, dangled below her waiat In SgNt thick braids, and was parted with Copyrltht Is Oreit Brttala % never a sign of a ripple over her broad white forehead. Betty’s hair under no provocation had ever been known to curl. It was nice, straightforward hair. Her gown was a prolongation of Meta's tunic, and skirt of fine white linen, low of neck, devoid of sleeve and clasped at the shoulder with two flash ing diamond buckles that Meta picked up somewhere around the castle. It was fastened at the belt by a wide gir dle of cut und uncut diamonds curi ously and Indiscriminately mixed. Bet ty had long since ceased to take any interest in diamonds, for she had had more of flashing pins and gee-gaws thrust on her by the admiring Meta during her stop in the castle than she had ever dreamed of owning. Betty's skirt, though much longer than Meta’s, was very well above her ankles and with City Editor Burton as an appre ciative uudience Betty was practicing a barefoot dance as she had seen an ultra-fashionable exponent of barefoot dancing prance upon a very esthetic stage. “Just watch, City Editor Burton,” she laughed. "Just watch! Here is where I am expressing Joy! Note the glow of the drapery, Burton, my boy, and the marvelous way In which the dancer sticks her toes Into the ooze— Oh, there's a thorn. Now, City Editor Burton, I'm about to he captured and cast away on a desert isle— watch me —see this gesture In grief— City Editor mine— I send a message— see— I wel come a pigeon—see. there, City Editor Burton, It brings me a message from— from—oh, Meta, Meta— Meta— Larry— Johnny------ ” Burton bayed a prodigious roar, Meta tumbled from the house with a small rifle In her hand as Betty, barefooted, dishevelled, sprang Into the arms of Larry Morris, and let him hold her very tightly and kiss her forehead again and again, whllo red-headed Johnny Johnson grabbed her hands a l ternately nnd danced around so reck lessly that City Editor Burton howled louder than a simoon. Betty and fgirry were too rapt for words. Not so the Incorrigible Johnny. “Get on to the Isadora Duncan rig,” he chortled, "and this animal here— your lap-dog, Betty? What do you call him?” "City Editor Burton,” mumbled Bet ty, extricating herself from Larry's arms, und both the men roared. ‘ Wouldn't I like to see old Burt's face if we could only ship him the brute,” said Johnny. "It would be worth getting hung for!” Meta, when she had recognized Lar ry as the original of the portrait In Betty's locket, lowered the little revol ver, which till this moment Betty had not known she possessed. As Meta turned to go Into the house Betty call ed her back, and putting her arm around the black girl's waist, she said: "Larry, dear, she has been good to me; this Is Meta.” Larry put out his hand and the black girl, half abashed, took It silently. "Meta,” echoed Johnny. "Where's Benonl? Is she his?” Johnny whistled, and a man came through the brake—he came like a whirlwind, and when he saw the black girl by Betty's side a savage yell of triumph, mingled with the grief thnt 1s born of Joy, rang out from both their throats. "Ills wife," said Larry, quietly. "He brought us here. He and the pigeons. Betty, dear, It was so like you to think of tho pigeons!” “Oh, then my messages did some good; those blessed birds, those bless ed birds!" exclulmed Betty. "I never knew what became of them. How did you And the way?" “ We followed Benonl; he knew the way best,” answered latrry. “ Ills wife,” said Betty, aghast. “And she never told!" Johnson and Lnrry both laughed. “If that Isn't the woman of It. You'll hold that up agulnst her all her life, I sup pose.” "W ell, I don't care," said Betty. "Anyway, I’ll bet I know one thing you boys don’ t. I know who killed Cerlsse Wayne.” "W h o?” asked both boys. In a breath. "W ell, then. It was the man who loved her best," replied Betty. "Oh, what's his name?" asked John ny. "I don't know,” said Betty, "but It must have been her husband, jf course.” "Fell down on your assignment,” sneered Lnrry. "N o story’s any good without names!" The lion stretched his shrunken gums over his rickety teeih and yawn ed slightly. "Mademoiselle,” said Meta, ap proaching, "you had better come In out of the wet—It Is going to rain again! Look at the sky." "Meta, do you apeak English?" re proached Betty, with a mental resume of the weary days that she had spent without Intercourse of coherent speech since Tyoga's absence. "Oh, forgive me," cried Meta, falling at her feet "Yea. I went to a convent In London, Mllmll. but they made me promise 1 would not let you know I knew your tongue They were nfrald I would tell- too much. But It has hurl me so much, Mlladl; I felt at times that I would choke ir I did not speak with you." "Now I know why you couldn't learn English,” laughed Betty. "But I know these boys are hungry Let's get them some dinner and then we can ta lk " "W e must depart It* all haste front here," warned Benonl. "T o stop long Is very dangerous.” "Benonl speaks truly.” added his wife. "But In all this rain that’s to come?*' expostulated Betty, and we can't leave City Editor Burton." "We're not going to.” said Johnny. "That's too good a Joke” CHAPTER XVI. In vain did the police and the re porters dig and pry Into the house at 94 Itrlarsweet place In hope of finding some trace of llamley Hackleys. Mr llackleye was not about. Ills London bankers could give no definite information about him. For thirty year* he had been accustomed to g* and come when he pleased. He nad for a long while maintained a comfort able home at Khartoum and another at Cairo, but he visited these only at In tervals, and sometimes was not seen In them for a year at a time. Ho was O REG O N G ET S H ER CASH . known to possess great estates located In Central Africa, but none knew posi tively where. He kept a retinue of W o r k W ill S t a r t Im m ediately on O r e servants at each establishment and a g o n R iv e r s and H a r b o r s . suave major-domo In each was accus Now that the president has signed tomed to being the nominal head of the household. Neither of them men, how the rivers and harbors bill, engineer ever, could give any of the wished for officers of the Oregon districts are explicit Information about thhlr mas making active preparations to carry on ter. Each home contained the usual accumulation of furniture, bric-a-brac, the work made possible by the appro and the olla podrlda of civilization that priations allotted to these districts by aggregates In every wealthy home, but congress. In ail the appropriations nothing at all mysterious or In any way smacking of the criminal. They made for these districts amount to were the homes of a gentleman of $2,373,800 for maintenance and im wealth and culture. Any connection provements. The list of appropriations between the African laws and penal is as follows: Improvements at Coos Bay, $400,- ties of Mr. Hackleye and the Indian home of the Harcourts, It was Impossi 000; improvement of Tillamook bay ble to discover. The Harcourt menage and bar, $5,000; improvement of Clats- was located In the hill country. In a kanie river, $5,200; improvement of most beautiful spot. Harcourt had Coos river, $3,000; improvement of come there about seven years pre Siuslaw river, $50,000; improvement viously, at the time of his marriage to of Willamette river in regard to buying Narcisse De L'Enclos, the widow. ■» | present locks or building new ones, Madame Marie De L'Enclos, whose ($300,000; improvement of Willamette husband, Captain Raoul De L'Enclos, and Yamhill rivers, $60,000; improve- an honorably discharged officer In the men . of Columbia and lower Willam French army, had brought his bride there Immediately after his marriage. ette rivers, $175,000; impovement of The captain had died a year after the Columbia river, $1,200,000, including birth of his daughter, and Madame De repairs and operation of dredge; for L'Enclos and the little girl Narcisse gauging waters of Columbia river and had lived In secluded magnificence, till measuring tidal and river volume, improvement of Columbia, one season on a trip to Calcutta, they $1,000; had met Harold Harcourt, the younger Washington, $10,000; improvement of son of an English nobleman, who was Columbia at Cascade, $5,000; improve then visiting a cousin In the Indian ment of Columbia and tributaries city. After a brief acquaintance the above Celilo falls to the mouth of the young girl, then only 18, and Harcourt Snake river, Oregon and Washington, were married. The young pair went $90,000; improvement of Snake river, back to the hill country palace and the Oregon, Washington and Idaho, $25,- mother left for a continental voyage 000; improvement of Cowlitz and Lew from which she never returned, though is rivers, Washington, $34,100; and It was given out that she had died while abroad. Then the Harcourt baby improvement of Grays river, Washing came—a boy—and when he was two ton, $500. It is expected these amounts will years old he met a tragic death. There had never been anything to give rise to carry on the government work at the suspicion about the Harcourt home, places designated for the fiscal year any more than at the Hackleye es beginning July 1. tates, nor was any seeming connection between the two families Instituted ex S A L M O N T H E O R IE S U P S E T . cept that both were accredited with possessing large diamond Interests in Africa, and the peculiar likeness be F is h M a r k e d S ix Y e a r s A g o A re tween the two women, and the similar C a u g h t in T r a p s . ity in handwriting and In the euphony Astoria—Several of the well-estab of the names of the two men. Portraits of Harcourt on the walls of his Indian lished theories regarding the habits of home were photographed and sent to salmon are being upset by facts which America and were an exact tally for have come to light during the present the man held In Jail In Chicago. season. It has always been supposed that salmon returned to the river the fourth year after being hatched, but this sea son no less than 15 marked salmon, which were turned out at the Chinook hatchery six years ago, have been caught in the Bakers bay traps. Re ports from other points on the river also are that Ave female salmon which had spawned have been caught in the traps, although it has always been sup posed that the female fish perish im mediately after having spawned. These salmon were in fairly good condition, so that they could not have ascended to the upper reaches o f the river and returned, and they are be lieved to have been salmon which had spawned, perhaps prematurely, in some of the tributaries o f the Lower Colum bia. (To be continued.) TOBACCO LORE. M o la s s e s I/s e il to K e e p M o is t . th e S to e k "Plug tobacco,” said the tobacconist, "is simply leaf glued together with molasses and then pressed Into a block. If you'll take a plug of smok ing and put it in a damp place out side somewhere and then come back after a week or two to look at It you'll see a pile of square cut leaves, perhaps live br six Inches high. This is because the tobacco will have lost Its molasses glue, not from the mo lasses having been washed off the leaf, but from Its having fermented Into vinegar. "The film of molasses keeps the leaf moist and pliable. This Is because of the sugar crystals in it. If you’ve ever C o v e P o w e r C o m p a n y F o rm e d . noticed salt In wet weather you often Prineville — A company o f Prine- have seen how It gathered the wet. ville’s strongest capitalists have filed The sugar crystals act exactly like the articles of incorporation with the coun crystals of salt, but to a less degree. ty clerk here for the Cove Power com “ When you fellows that smoke pipes pany. The purposes as set forth in say that tobacco burns your tongue the articles of incorporation are the you're away off. The tobacco hasn’t generation of electric and water power; a thing to do with It, and your tongue to buy, sell and lease real estate and Isn't being burnt, It’s being scalded.” personal property; to own and operate "From the moisture In the tobac grist mills and buy and sell grain and all kinds of feed stuffs. co?" asked the customer. The main office of the corporation "Partly," said the tobacconist, "but mostly from the moisture you’d not will be located at Prineville. The cap think was In the tobacco. There's a ital stock is fixed at $50,000, and is great deal of water In the little sugar divided into 500 shares of equal value, the majority of the stock will be taken crystals over and above what you'd by Prineville capital. The officers of expect they might collect from the the corporation are W. A. Booth, pres air. ident; Warren Brown, secretary treas “ When you melt this sugar In your urer and D. F. Stewart and G. M. Cor pipe each crystal dissolves first in a nett are on the board of directors with little pool of water, and makes ma the president and secretary. terial for steam, in addition to the free water in the tobacco that you can In sp e c t Irrig a tio n P ro je c ts. feel with your Angers. Salem—State Engineer Lewis will “This hot steam makes a regular make complete examination of various steam-heating system between the bowl projects which are being developed un of your pipe and your tongue, and der the Carey act. He will be accom- while you think your tongue Is being paned a» far as Bend by Attorney Gen 'burnt' you're actually getting it par eral A. M. Crawford. At Bend further boiled.” steps will be taken toward reviving “ Has all tobacco molasses in It?” the old Columbia Southern project. the customer asked. From there the state engineer will go "N o ," said the tobacconist. "The south to examine the work o f the Des very cheap tobacco smoked by the chutes Land company project, which He will then natives of Cuba. Porto Rico, Mexico, includes 30,000 acres. and those countries. In the form of leave to make an examination of the cigarettes, hasn't any molasses In It. i Paisley project of 12,000 seres. Molasses Isn't needed once the manu facturers have their leaf made up in ' Life S a v in g S ta tio n at P o r t O r f o r d the form of cigarettes, because they use a very heavy paper cylinder, with the ends tucked In. This keeps ths leaf from falling out, even If It's crushed a little through the thick pa per. "You'll get 25 of those cigarettes for about 2 cents. The workingmen smoke them all the time because they're too lazy even to roll their own cigarettes. The coolest pipe smoke you ever had will be yours if you'll only go to the bother of buying a few bunches of those cigarettes and emi> tying the tobacco Into a Jar.” She W a s W e lc o m e . "Can you give me any references from your last place?" "No, ma'am. The last woman I work ed for was Mrs. Llppy, that used to live next door to you. She an' 1 couldn't get along at all. You don't know bow mean she la I could teij you ever so many-------” "You may come." A Had A ctor. ” 1 see that a scientist has provea that many horses have unsound minds " "The one 1 bet on yesterday ought to have bad a commission In lunacy appointed forty years ago, when hf was a yearling."—Cleveland leader. M rong H abit. "That fellow made money, but ha certainly Is a faker.” "Indeed he Is Why. the habit was so strong, that's why he built his new housa on a bluff."— Baltimore Arnett ' Marshfield— It is quite likely now that the government will establish a life saving station at Port Orford, to better protect the Curry county coast, and it is reported that negotiations are on foot for the purchase of a suitable site and that work on the station will begin this fall. Under the present ar rangement the life saving station and crew at Bandon is supposed to look af ter everything south of that point to the Curry county coast. This terri tory is of course too great for one sta tion to cover satisfactorily. L e b a n o n -C ra b t re e W o r k P r o g r e s s in g Lebanon— The grading and laying of the track on the Lebanon-Crabtree branch of the Southern Pacific cutoff has been completed and the first train has gone over the line. For the pres ent all the trains running over this now piece o f road are work trains, but it is thought that regular trains will be running by July 10. The bridge over the Santiam river is not completed, but the track is laid on piling. A large force of men is at work ballasting. C ra b tre e B r a n c h Read y. Lebanon - A work train and crew is ballasting the road just across the river on the Lebanon-Crabtree branch. It is said this train will continue the work daily until the entire road from here to Crabtree ia ballasted and put in order for regular train «entice. Track laying has been completed, thus closing the gap between Lebanon and Crabtree, allowing work trains to pasa over the road. Aa soon as bal lasting is finished, a regular train ser vice will be inaugurated. O R E G O N W IL L G E T S H A R E . B a llin g e r D e c id e s Sta te Entitled Irrig a tio n M o n e y . to Washington — Secretary Ballinger after giving careful consideration to appeals made to him by Representa tives Ellis and Hawley before they left for Oregon, has come to the con clusion that Oregon is entitled to share in the distribution of the $20,000,000 irrigation fund made available by con gress just before adjournment, and it now seems quite likely that extension of the Umatilla project westward with a view to irrigating 60,000 acres more, will be authorized, and that part of this fund will be allotted to begin con struction. Secretary Ballinger points out repeal of section nine o f the reclamation act, which was permitted without protest from Senators Bourne and Chamber- lain, relieves both the president and himself of any obligation to apportion further funds to Oregon at this time, but personally the secretary believes Oregon should be shown consideration, particularly as it is the second heaviest contributor to the reclamation fund, and has never been given a square deal by previous secretaries of the in terior. There are but two projects in Ore gon to which funds can be allotted, and it is certain Klamath can receive noth ing. ______ C U R T IS S S A IL S O V E R SE A . M is h a p on F ir s t T ria l N e a rly A v ia to r in O c e a n . Dum ps Atlantic City, N. J.—Glenn H. Cur tiss made an eight-minute flight direct ly over the ocean at 6:23 Tuesday evening. The trip included a flight along the entire front of the city, about a mile off shore, and 1,500 feet above the ocean. The successful flight was the second one attempted, the first resulting in a mishap that nearly sent Curtiss into the ocean. While he was making an attempt to turn from the beach to go to sea, an air eddy caught the plane and dropped it within ten feet of the water. Curtiss made a quick turn and drove his machine on the beach with such force that a wood standard along side his seat was snapped. The drop in the air and the jar as he struck the beach unseated Curtiss, and might have thrown him out but for a new brace built across his shoulders and lashed to the machine. MANY DYING IN CHICAGO HEAT Water In Lake Too Warm to Afford Relief. B u ild in g s A r e H eated T h r o u g h and T h ro u g h — W heat D am aged 3 0 to 5 0 P e r C ent, Chicago— With the mercury up to 90 and no air stirring, Chicago became a great bakeoven. Five persons were killed by the heat Saturday and a score prostrated. Dogs were driven mad in the streets and bit a number o f per sons. There ia no prospect for cooler weather for two days. Fire escapes and roofs are crowded with sufferers seeking a breath of air. The parks, W h e a t R e ad y to H arve st. Athena— Wheat hay harvest is now on in full blast. Nearly ail the farm ers in this section find the combined harvester the most economical machine for the harvesting of their crop. In order to enter the field with the har vester it is necessary to cut a strip around the field so the machine will not crush the grain at the outer edge. The wheat cut for this purpose is used for hay. The farmers are highly pleased with the outlook for crops this year, as they are finding out that their crops are a great deal better than reported. F o re s t F ire D a m a g e s. Marshfield— A fire in the camp of the Cody Lumber company on the Co- quille river has done considerable dam age. The fire was brought under con trol but the logs which are now being taken out show the damage the fire did. There have been several forest lies this year but this one was the most damaging. It is believed by the lum bermen and timber owners that the county association which was formed will do much to protect the timber. Try for Artesian Water.J Merrill—The beginning of a big pro ject for developing the Sand Hollow dry land country has been started in the transfer of E. G. Wilson’s traction engine to that section, to be used in drilling for artesian water. It is be lieved that a good supply of water can be had at a moderate depth in that sec tion, and if secured it means a big de velopment for that locality. MELVILLE W. FULLER Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, who died July 4, 1910, aged 77 years. bathing beaches and every open spot contain sweltering humanity. Resi M o v e m e n t S t a r t s in B o s t o n to Put dences have now become so thoroughly Preserve 90 Tons o f Cherries.* heated through by the long siege that B a n on P ic tu re s. no relief is to be obtained inside the Eugene— The Eugene Fruitgrowers’ Boston — Declaring that Independ houses. association has received another car A woman, while being taken to a load of barrels in which to store the ence Day was dishonored by a brutal preserved Royal Ann cherry crop. As prizeght, that the moral sense of the hospital suffering from sunstroke died each barrel will hold about 300 pounds nation was outraged, but that this in an Illinois trainshed while awaiting a train. Her body was taken to the of fruit, it will mean that they will handle about 180,000 pounds of cher harm- is nothing compared to that undertaker's instead of the hospital. which will be done by allowing chil -1 A man was stricken by the sun ries, or 90 tons. He fell to dren and women to view the reproduc- | while working on a roof. W a te r S y s t e m N e a r s C o m p le tio n . tion of the Jeffries-Johnson fight by the ground and died shortly after reaching a hospital. Newport — Water will be running moving pictures, William S. Shaw, ' Another ¡man was stricken by the into Newport in less than two weeks. Engineer Lee, who has installed the general secretary of the United Soci heat and fell down an elevator shaft system, made the announcement. A ety of Christian Endeavor, in a formal three stories. Of the many prostrated fully one- sewerage system will be installed im statement, announced a campaign half will die after illness o f more or mediately after the water is in use. against the exhibition of these pict less lingering degree. ures. N e w Ste e l B rid g e . For the first time the water in the Telegrams calling attention to the lake was too warm for comfort to bath Enterprise—The Troy steel bridge is nearly ready for use. Work will race riots that have followed the fight ers. This is the surf water, extend This strip begin on the approaches this week. were dispatched to Theodore Roosevelt, ing about 600 feet out. The bridge is 175 feet long and 16 feet Governor Hughes and Mayor Gaynor, of hot water nullifies the faint breezes of New York, asking their co-opera off the lake. wide, resting on concrete piers. tion in suppressing the pictures. The continued hot weather is parch Mayor Fitzgerald, of Boston, will ing the grain crops of the Middle West PORTLAND M ARKETS. be asked to prevent the exhibition in and the most conservative experts in Wheat—|Track prices: Bluestem, Boston. the fields admit that all grain is dam 83c; club, 79@80c; red Russian, 77c; Telegrams will be sent to the gover- \ aged between 30 and 50 per cent. valley, 81c. nors of all the states, making a similar Every day without rain will increase Barley—Feed and brewing, $196£20. request. this ratio at a much faster rate. Hay—Track prices: Timothy, Wil Wheat is being forced to ripen on lamette valley, $20(d!21 per ton; East L o n d o n ‘‘P la y s U p ” Fig ht. stalks no more than a foot high and ern Oregon, $220;24; alfalfa, $ 15@ 16; London -— The London newspapers the grain is badly shriveled at that. grain hay, $17@18. gave more space to the Reno prizefight Oats— No. 1 white, $25.50<(i26 ton. than they gave to the biggest battle T . R. to H e lp L o d g e L a te r. Green Fruits— Apples, Oregon New of the Boer war. The rounds were de Boston—The statement that Colonel town, $2 per box; cherries, 56£10c per scribed in detail, and the scenes at the Roosevelt will return to Massachusetts pound; apricots, $1.20601.35 per box; ringside fully pictured. Opinions of peaches, 75c6£$1.25; plums, $1601.50; the affair were quoted from both Bri in the fall and take part in the Repub gooseberries, 560 6 c per pound; cur tons and Americans and nearly every lican state convention is made by Sen rants, $2(</ 2.25' per box; raspberries, paper discussed the fight in long edi ator Henry Cabot Lodge. The senator said: '"Diere is no doubt that Colonel $1.35(011.50 per crate; loganberries, torials. Roosevelt will talk later and may have $16£1.50 per crate; blackcaps, $1.6560 The sporting world is less surprised 1.76 per box; cantaloupes, $1.75602.25 at the fact that the negro won than something important to say. I expect he will speak here in the campaign. per crate. that the whites at the ringside permit He is interested in my success and in Vegetables — Artichokes, 606£75c ted him to win. the success of Governor Draper as well. per dozen; beans, 86010c per pound; Colonel Roosevelt is a wonderful vote- cabbage, 2>-4((i;2 4 c ; cauliflower, $2 Biplane Falls 100 Feet. getter and his influence here is sure to per dozen; head lettuce, 60(<i60c; green Pittsburg, Kan.— Arch Hoxsey, in a be he pful in the campaign.” onions, 15c; spinach, 8<<£10c per pound; Wright biplane, dived almost straight carrots, 85c6l$l per sack; beets, $1.50; downward from a height of 100 feet parsnips, 75c60$I. C o tt o n M ills C u rta il H eavily. Potatoes—Old Oregon, 60(<i'.75c per here after his engine had gone dead. Boston— Many of the cotton mills hundred; new California, l\ @ 2 c per The machine was demolished, but Hox o f the United States are shut down sey crawled out from a mass of planes, pound; new Oregon, 2c. until July 11 for the purpose o f cur It was the Butter—City creamery, extras, 29c; wires and stays, unhurt. tailing production. The corporations last day of a four day’s aviation meet fancy outside creamery, 28(<029c; store, which closed employ about 100,000 here. Hoxsey was soaring at a height 23c. Butter fat prices average 1 per operatives, and include the majority o f of 1500 feet, when his motor stopped. pound under regular butter prices. the four-score mills in Fall River, the Eggs Oregon csndled, 26c per doz.; He tilted his planes and had floated 18 mills of the Amoskeag corporation gently within 100 feet o f the ground, Eastern, 24(<f25c. of Manchester, N. H., and numerous Poultry— Hens, 156016c; broilers, 18 when one o f the stays gave way, the s factories in North Carolina, South aeroplane crashed to the earth. (<021e; ducks, 121v6i20c; geese, 1060 Carolina and Georgia. The renewed 11c; turkeys, live, 18(<i.20c; dressed, curtailment agreed upon recently by F o r e s t F ir e s H e m T o w n . 22V,(i£25c: squabs, $3 per dozen. the cotton interests in this city will Duluth, M inn.— Cornucopia, Wis., affect about 150,000 operatives. Pork—Fancy. 12((£121yc. on the south side of lake Superior, is Veal—Fancy, 106011c. entirely surrounded by forest fires on Lambs— Choice, 116011 tyc. B lo w at U . S . Planned. Cattle- Beef steers, good to choice its land sides, and there is no way of Caracas, Venezuela — A cable dis California, $5.50(<£5.75; good to choice, getting out of the town, except by patch received from Senor Rojas. Ven Eastern Oregon and valley, $5.40f<i boat. The steamer Barker arrived at ezuelan minister to the United State«, 6.60; fair to medium, $4.25(<i4.75; Bayfield having on board 35 women in which he reported that Venezuela’s cows and heifers, good to choice, $4.50 and children from the village.^ When delegates to the Pan-American confer (®5; fair to medium, $3.75604.25; the boat left the village, all roads out ence, which will begin at Buenoe Ayres bulla, $3(-i4; stags, $3.50(<£6; calves, o f the town were cut off and the flames July 9, had advocated in Chile a Latin- were approaching, borne along by a light, $5.75(<06.75; heavy, $4606. American alliance against the United Hogs— Top, $9(<£10; fair to medium, strong wind. States, has caused great excitement $8.50«i 9.40. here. Foreign Minister Matos has sent W h e a t A d v a n c e s in N e w Y o r k . Sheep— Best wethers. $4.40614.60; a cable message to the delegates ad best ewes, $4(i£4.25; lambs, choice, New York—The local wheat pit was monishing them for their action. $3.50(.i6: fair, $4.76605.25. much excited over the absence of rain Hops— 1909 crop, 106012c, according in apring wheat states during the holi O n ta rio F o r e s t s Sw e p t. to quality; old«, nominal; 1910 con days, and prices advanced 3 3,c per Winnipeg, Manitoba— Bush fires have tracts. 13«il3 >ye nominal. bushel. September reached $1.07*6, invaded the towns of Devlin and La- Wool— Eastern Oregon, 14*017e per December sold at $1.08 S - Corn was valiee, in the Rainy river district o f pound; villey, 16«£18c; mohair, quiet and not much affected by the Ontario, although hundreds of settlers choice, S2h£S3c. I wheat advance. and railway men tried to fight them off. F IG H T F IL M S M E N A C E D .
