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.
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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
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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 .