THE QUICKENING !
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Copyright, 1906, by Franc!» Lyndo
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
was edging him past the others on ms
bench and out Into the aisle with the
mourners who were crowding the space
in front of the pulpit platform. At the
turn he heard hls mother's low-mur
mured "I thank Thee, O God!” and
saw the grim, set smile on hls fath
er's face. Then he fell on hls knee»
on the rough-hewn floor, with the tall
countalneer called William Layne on
hls right, and on hls left a young girl
from the choir who was sobbing softly
in her handkerchief.
To hls new young life after that *f
seemed but a step to June, the queen
of the months In the valleys of Ten Jeneral Resume o f Important Events
nessee. The revival converts of Little
Presented in Condensed Form
Zoar had the pick and choice of all
the Sundays of the year for the day
fo r Our Busy Readers.
of their baptizing.
,
The font was of great nature’s own
providing, us was the mighty temple
housing it—a clear pool In the creek,
Encouraging weather reports indi
with the green-walled aisles In the cate that crops will be better than had
June forest leading down to it, and been expected.
the blue arch of the flawless June sky
President T a ft receives visitors three
for a dome resplendent.
All Paradise was there to see and days a week only, reserving the others
hear and bear witness, as a matter of for recreation and rest.
course; and there were not wanting
United States has protested against
farm-wagon loads from the great val
ley and from the Pine Knob high injury to American property in Nicara
lands. Major Dabney was among the gua by Madriz soldiers.
onlookers, sitting hls clean-limbed
The famous Best & Belcher mine,
Hambletonian, and twisting his huge
white moustaches until they stood out one o f the famous Comstock group, of
like strange and flerce-looking horns. Nevada, was destroyed by fire.
Also, In the outer ranks of skepticism,
Trouble between the Catholic church
Major Dabney’s foreman and horse-
and Spanish government has been tem
trader, Japheth Pettlgrass, found a
place. On the opposite bank of the porarily averted and permanent peace
stream were the few negroes owning overtures are being made.
Major Dabney now as “ Majah Boss,”
Officers o f a Jap warship in the har
as some of them—most of them, in bor o f Shimidz, Japan, refused to aid
fact—had once owned him as "Maws-
tuh Majah” ; and mingling freely with an American steamer in distress, and
them were the laborers, white and who had asked for assistance.
black, from the Gordon iron-furnace.
A San Francisco man paid $2,065
Thomas Jefferson brought up mem for a special car from New York to
ories from that solemn rite administer
San Francisco in order that his pet dog
ed so simply and yet so impresslelv
under the June sky, with the many- might ride with him instead of in the
pointing forest spires to lift the soul to baggage car.
heights ecstatic. One was the singing
Over 40,000 Knights Templar were
of the choir, minimized and made ce in the parade of that order in Chicago.
lestially sweet by the lack of bounding
walls and roof. Another was the sight One was caught between street cars
of hls father’s face, with the grim and killed, and another badly injured
smile gone, and the steadfast eyes by being thrown and dragged by his
gravely tolerant as he—Thomas Jeffer horse.
son—was going down Into the water.
A 150-pound sturgeon in Niagara
A third—and this might easily become
the most lasting of all—was the mem river leaped at the headlight of a mo
ory of how his mother clasped him in tor boat and landed in the boat, where
her arms as he came up out of the his struggles disabled the engine, and
water, all wet and dripping as he was, the launch narrowly escaped going
and sobbed over him as if her heart over the falls.
would break.
Spain fears the Carlists and Cleri
(T o be continued.)
cals are working together.
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S T O R Y of vast scope and power, begin
ning with the weird experience of a strug
gling soul among the working classes of the
moonshiners and the old aristocracy of the
reconstructed South— this is the locale of
the wonderful serial now presented.
“ The Quickening” is truly a remarkable
literary production.
Its main motive is in
touch and sympathy with those complex
questions of sectional prejudices and new industrial prog
ress which are interesting every thinker in the country.
It will be a life like experience to the reader to trace
the career of Thomas Jefferson Gordon, the hero, from an
humble beginning through the grades of mental develop
ment to a point where all the sentient elements of his na
ture are called upon to meet a climax such as tries the
souls of great men.
It will be a pleasing revelation to study the destiny of
the peerless Ardea, the heroine of this sterling romance,
whose love is the guiding star of “ the Young Captain of
Industry. ”
There are scenes of strife, plotting and peril thnt are
more than interesting— they are thrilling in their details and
educational as demonstrating the power and fervor of men
fighting for principle and right.
Not many recent stories have even approximated the
intense interest, the inherent merit of theme and purpose
shown in “T h e Quickening.”
DIAMONDS AND PROSPERITY.
CH APTER i.
The revival In Paradise Valley, con
ducted by the Reverend Silas Crafts,
of South Tredegar, was In the middle
of Its second week, and the field to
use Brother Crafts' own word—was
white to the harvest.
Little Zoar, the square, weather-
tinged wooden church at the head of
the valley, built upon land donated to
the denomination in times long past
by an Impenitent but generous Major
Dabney, stood a little way back from
the pike In a grove of young pines.
By half-past six of the June evening
the revivalist’s congregation had begun
to assemble.
Those who came farthest were first
on the ground; and by the tlmo 12-
year-old Thomas Jefferson, spatting
barefooted up the dusty pike, had
reached the church-house with the key,
there was a goodly sprinkling of un
hitched teams in the grove, the horses
champing their feed noisily In the wag
on-boxes, and the people gathering In
little neighborhood knots to discuss
gravely the one topic uppermost In all
minds—the present outpouring of grace
on Paradise Valley and the region
roundabout.
"D'ye reckon the Elder’ll make It this
time with his brother-in-law?” asked a
tall, flat-chested mountaineer from the
Pine Knob uplands.
"Samantha Parkins, she allows that
Caleb has done sinned away his day
o' grace,” said another Pine Knobber,
"but I ain't goln’ that far. Caleb’s a
sight like the Iron he makes in that
old furnace o’ his’n—honest and even-
grained, and Just as good for plow-
potnts and the like as It Is for soap-
kitties. But hot 'r cold, It’s just the
sume, ye cay n’t change hit, and ye
cayn’t change him.”
"That’s about right,” said a third.
**It looks to me like Caleb done sot his
stakes where he’s goln’ to run the fur
row. If livin’ a dozen years and mo*
with such a sancterfled woman as Mar
tha (Jordon won’t make out to toll a
man up to the pearly gates. I allow
the’ ain’t no preacher goln’ to do It.”
“ Well, now; maybe that’s the rea
son,” drawled Japheth Pettlgrass, the
only unmarried man In the small cir
cle of listeners; but he waa promptly
put down by the tall mountaineer.
"Hold on thar, Japhe Pettlgrass! I
allow' th’ ain’t no dyed-ln-the-wool
hawsH-trader like you goln’ to stand
up and say anything ag’inst Marthy
Gordon while I’m a-listenin’. I’m rec
ollectin’ right now the time when she
sot up day and night for more ’n a
week with my Malviny.”
Thomas Jefferson had opened the
church-house doors and windows and
was out among the unhitched teams
looking for Scrap Pendry, who had
been one of a score to go forward for
prayers the night before. So It hap
pened that he overheard the flat-chest-
sd mountaineer’s tribute to his moth
er. It warmed him generously; but
there was a boyish scowl for Japheth
Pettlgrass. What had the horse-trader
been saying to make It needful for Bill
Layne to speak up as his mother’s de
fender? Thomas Jefferson recorded a
black mark «gainst Pettlgrass’ name,
and went on to search for Scrap.
“ What you hbllng for?” he deinand-
td. when the newly-made convert was
discovered skulking In the dusky shad
ows of the pines beyond the farthest
outlying wagon.
"I ain’t hidin’," was the half-deflatu
answer.
"Come on out where the folks are,
urged Thomas Jeffrrson. "Slni Can
trell and the other fellows are allowin’
you’re afeard.”
"I ain’t afeard,” denied the convert.
"No; but you’re sort o’ ’shamed, and
that’s about the same thing, I reckon.
Come on out; I’ll go ’long with you.”
Then spake the new-born love In the
heart of the big, rough, country boy.
"I cayn’t onderstand how you can hold
out, Tom-Jeff. I’ve eobe thoo’, praise
the I^ord! but I Jest natchelly got to
have stars for my crown. You say
you'll go 'long with me, Tom-Jeff: say
It ag’ln, and mean I t ”
It was admitted on all sides that
Brother Crafts was a powerful preach
er. Other men had wrestled mightily
In Zoar, but none to such heart-shak
ing purpose. When he expatiated in
the ineffable glories of Heaven and
the Joys of the redeemed, which was
not too often, the reflection of the ce
lestial effulgences could be seen rip
pling like sunshine on the sea of faces
spreading away from the shore of fh*
pulpit steps. When he spoke of hell
and Its terrors, which was frequently
and with thrilling descriptive, even so
hardened a scoffer as Japheth I ’ettl
grass was wont to declare that you
could hear the crackling of the flam-ts
and the cries of the doomed.
The hush that remained unbroken till
he announced his text in a voice that
rang like an alarm-bell pealed in the
dead of night. There are voices and
voices, but only now and then one
which Is pitched In the key of the
spheral harmonies. When the Rever
end Silas hurled out the Baptist’»
words, Repent ye: for the kingdom of
heaven is at hand! the responsive thrill
from the packed benches was like the
sympathetic vibration of harpstrings
answering a trumpet blast.
He passed from pleading to denun
ciation. The sotting of The Great
White Throne and the awf j ! terrors of
the Judgment Day were depleted In
words that fell from the thin lips like
t!.e sentence of an Inexorable Judge.
" ’Depart from me, ye cursed. Into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil
and his angels!’ ” he thundered, and a
shudder run through
the crowded
church as If an earthquake had shaken
the valley. "There Is your end, Impeni
tent soul; and. alas! for you, it Is only
the beginning of a fearful eternity!
I'liink of It, you who have time to
think of everything but the salvation
of your souls, your sins, and the awful
doom which Is awaiting you! Think
of It, you who nre throwing your lives
away in the pleasures of this world;
you who have broken God’s commands;
you who have stolen when you thought
no eye was on you; you who have so
often committed murder In your hating
hearts! Think not that you will be
suffered to escape! Every servant • f
the most high God who has ever de-
clured His message to you will he there
to denounce you: I, Silas Crafts, will
meet you at the judgment-seat of
Christ to bear my witness ugulnst
you!”
A man. red-faced and with the de
mon of the cup of trembling peering
from under his shaggy eyebrows, rose
unsteadily from his seat on the bench
nearest the door.
*” Sh! he’s fetched Tike Bryerson!”
flew the whisper from lip to ear; hut
the man with the trembling madness
In his eyes was hacking toward the
door. Suddenly ho stooped and rose
again with a backwoodsman’s rifle In
his hands, and his voice sheared the
breathless silence like the snarl of a
wild beast at bay.
“ No, by Jai'ks, ye won’t witness
ag’inst me, Silus Crafts;
ye’ll
be
dead!”
The crack of the rifle went with the
words, and at the flash of the piece the
man sprang backward through the
doorway and was gone. Happily, he
hail been too drunk or too tremulous to
shoot straight. The preacher was un
hurt, and he was quick to quell the
rising tumult and to turn the Incident
to good account.
“There went the arrow of conviction
quivering to the heart of a murderer!”
he cried, dominating the commotion
with hls marvelous voice. “ Come back
here, Japheth Pettlgrass; and you,
William Layne: God Almighty will deal
with that poor sinner In Hls own way.
For him, for every Impenitent soul here
to-night, the hour has struck. ‘Now Is
the accepted time; now is the day of
salvation.’ While we are singing, ‘Just
as I am, without one plea,’ let the
doors of divine mercy stand opened
wide, and let every hard heart be soft
ened. Come, ye disconsolate;
coin«
forward to the mercy-seat as we sing."
The old. soul-moving, revival hymn
was lifted In a triumphant burst of
sound, and Thomas Jefferson’s heart
began to pound like a trip-hammer.
Was this hls call—hls one last chance
to enter the nrk of safety? Just there
was the pinch. A saying of Japheth
Pettlgrass’, overheard In Hargis' store
on the first day of the meetings, flick
ed Into hls mind and stuck there:
lilt’s scare, first, last, and all the time,
with Brother Silas. He knows mighty
well that a good hunch o’ hickories,
that'll bring the blood every cut, beats
a augur kittle out o' sight when It
comes to fillin’ the anxious seat” Was
it really hls call? Or was he only
scared?
The
12-year-o’d brain grappled
hardily with the problem which has
thrown many an older wreatler. This
he knew: that while he had been lis
tening with outward ears to the rest
less champing and stamping of the
horses among the pines, but with his
inmost soul to the burning words cf
hls uncle, the preacher, a great fear
had laid hold of him—a fear mightier
than desire or shame, or love or ha
tred, or any spring of action known to
him. It was lifting him to hls feot; It
Phenom enon o f K n l.ln n P ric e ,
n n I in i i e r l N h n b l c P r o d u c t .
toi
Among the most Important of the
world’s diamond mines are those ol
the Premier Diamond Company in the
Pretoria district of the Transvaal. A
comparison of the sales of that com
pany is not a bad guide to the world’s
prosperity, in 1U00 the diamonds sold
realized £1,277,739. In 1907 there was
a drop of nearly 17 per cent in the
sales to £1,064,595. There was some
recovery in the following year, but in
the year ended Oct. 30, 1909, the saiet
had risen to £1,412,928. No doubt wt
were the buyers of a good many oi
these ornaments, the Wall Street Jour
nal says, but there seems to have been
a fairly world wide demand.
The figures show how instantly the
luxury market felt the crisis and alsc
how little disposed we are to save,
even with so recent a lesson In mind
The figures before us give not the
slightest indication of any desire to
curb extravagance. The diamond pro
ducers are selling us more of their
preposterously useless product than
they were in the boom year 1906. The
diamond is the actor’s strongbox, the
bookmaker’s savings bank. It is a
channel for Investment as well as
adornment, as most people acquainted
with the seamy side of life are well
aware. A good deaf of value can be
stored In a very small compass and a
taHte which Is Intellectually not eisen
tlally higher than the Zulu bead ban
gle or the Papuan nosering has some
sort of excuse.
It will be remembered that In 1907
we saw some Important failures in
Malden lane; but even these arose not
from Insolvency so much as from in
ability to realize stock for which the
market had suddenly become very con
traded. The market for diamonds Is
one of the miracles of human affairs
The price Is sustained In defiance ol
all the reasoning of the economist
People who bought diamonds ten years
ago, mocking the counsel of the wise,
have a demoralizing profit on their in
vestment. And apparently nothing
produced could have a market position
more unsound. The diamonds offer
ed for sale nre not only competing
with the rest of the current year's out
put, but with all the dinmonds that
have ever been found. They are Im
perishable, and. strictly speaking,
there Is no consumption.
It is Impossible to estimate how
long an apparently Impossible condi
tion can last. It Is rendered doubly
absurd from the fact that the output
of the mines Is strictly limited by
agreement between the diamond com
panies. while the quantity of diamond
elay In sight seems tlllmttable. All
these considerations nnd more would
make a conservative man feel that If
the diamond Itself were Imperishable
Its value might crumble away In a
night. Apparently our people do not
think so, for there Is no Indication so
far that 1910 will see any reduction I d
the demand.
A
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Speech.
T a ft has ordered a vigorous fight to
reclaim title to valuable Indian lands.
It is said that T a ft and Roosevelt
are in perfect accord on the question of
direct primaries.
Over 30 society men and women
were arrested in a raid on a gambling
house at Narragansett Pier.
A second venire o f 100 men has been
exhausted in the Lorimer bribery case
without securing a single jurior.
Thirteen were killed and many in
jured in a head-on collision between a
fast passenger and a work train in
California.
A deer swimming the Columbia river
was lassoed from a launch and captur
ed, and w ill be presented to the Port
land city park.
Stevedores, cleaners and painters o f
the Hamburg-American steamship line
will go on strike. Eight thousand me
chanics o f the company are already out.
John D. Rockefeller was summoned
to appear in a police court for speeding
his auto. A fte r accepting service of
the warrant he sent the constable home
in a carriage.
A horse fell hind feet first into a
large manhole of an underground con
duit in Cincinnati, and his struggles
short-circuited electric wires to such
an extent as to stop down-town traffic.
The captain of a lumber schooner in
the Everglades swamps in Florida was
forced to leave his vessel to escape the
swarms o f mosquitoes. His negro crew
did not mind them and staid by the
boat.
Cuba faces a crisis in her political
affairs.
Chinese and Portuguese forces have
captured the pirate city of Colowan,
island of Macao.
Mine “ tailings” worth $1 to the
ton in gold have been used to lay ce
ment walks in Jacksonville, Ore.
A Missouri convict says he can solve
all numerical equations by logarithms,
and demands a pardon for his discov
ery.
A 5-year-old boy in Chicago was
badly injured by a thoroughbred game
rooster.
He was unconscious when
rescued.
Nine persons were injured, two of
them perhaps fatally, in a runaway of
a picnic wagon near Oswego, Ore.
A P P L E S $ 1 0 0 .0 0 0 .0 0 0 A YE A R .
W estern M en M ake Big Predictions
fo r N orthw est C ountry.
Chicago— “ While apples are not yet
the principal products of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho and Montana, those who
are familiar with the unrivaled cli
matic and soil and other conditions
believe the time is near when the
apple yields o f the four states will be
worth $100,000,000 a year and the cul
ture of the king o f fruit w ill be the
chief industry.”
H. L. Moody, a member o f the cham
her o f commerce and other organiza
tions in Spokane, Wash., said this in
an address on “ Apple Culture and Irri
gation in the Northwest,” at the first
meeting o f the Chicago Irrigation
association at the La Salle hotel in
Chicago the evening o f July 28. Judge
Charles F. Fishback was toastmaster.
Mr. Moody added, among other things:
“ Federal and state engineers say in
reports to their respective departments
there are approximately 200,000,000
“ The speech of that departing sen
ator Is said to have been unique, al
A noted Japanese historian predicts
most unparalleled In the annals of the war with America as absolutely cer
senate.”
tain.
” 1 heard it," remarked Senator Wom
A pleasure yacht at Santa Crux, Cal.,
bat. "It was unique. He didn’t want
is missing with 20 young people on
anything."— Pittsburg Poet.
board.
N o T i m e to Spnre.
Government agents find evidence of
"Yes. I do most of my work at night wholesale liquor traffic with Indians on
now.“
Jelitx reservation.
"What's the reason?”
Ex-President Zelaya, o f Nicaragua,
"Why, I'm a Wlleylte and cook m>
food four hours, and being a Fletcher is held to be an active supporter o f the
tte It takes me three hours to eat."— revolutionary movement.
Senator Gore o f Oklahoma, claims
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
he was offered $25,000 to $50,000 to
A patent has been granted a Minns put certain legislation through con-
sota man on a sleigh provided with gTess.
wheels that can be lowered so as to
The Japanese expedition to the
rslse the runners from the ground South Foie, which was to have started
should Its driver find a road bare of this moQth, has been postponed for
snow.
tack of funda.
A Montana stage driver is under ar
Me who knows mankind humors
them: he who has not that knowledge rest for horse stealing and his w ife is
thwarts them: It Is wise to humor and driving :n his place, so as not to de
lay the mails.
not thwart mankind.—Scuder*.
M U C H IN S U R A N C E .W R IT T E N .
N O S M U T IN A T H E N A W H E A T
Report Show s Phenomenal G row th
o f Insurance Business.
U m atilla G rain Yield Averages 3 5 to
6 0 Bushels to A cre.
Salem— S. A. Kozer, insurance com-
missionler has completed his first com
prehensive report o f all the insurance
companies doing busineesss in Oregon
It is the annual report o f the depart
ment arid covers the period between
March 1, 1909, and when the office was
created, to December 31, 1909. It
shows a phenomenal increase o f legiti
mate insurance business in Oregon
since the enactment o f the law in 1909
creating the office o f insurance com
missioner.
The report contains a statement of
the total risks written, gross premiums
received, premiums returned, losses
paid and net premiums for taxation of
all authorized companies and associa
tions, both domestic and foreign, for
the year ending December 31. It con
tains a statement showing the aggre
gate insurance business transacted
within the state since 1896 and the
amount of taxes and license fees. It
also contains a synopsis o f the general
annual statements of all companies au
thorized to transact business in this
state.
The total fire risks written last year
in Oregon, according to this report,
equaled $202,897,923, o f which $177,-
192,856 were written by stock com
panies and $25,705,067 by mutual com
panies. There were during the period
82 stock fire insurance companies
writing risks in Oregon and 12 mutual
companies.
Athena— Harvest in this vicinity is
progressing very rapidly, and with 60
combines and 10 stationary outfits at
work in the county, in two more weeks
the greater part of the grain will be in
the sack.
The yield here this year
ranges from 35 to 60 bushels per acre.
Some wheat is being hauled already
into the various warehouses, and ac
cording to B. B. Richards, local agent
for the Puget Sound warehouse com
pany, the wheat is testing from 60 to
62, and less smut in it than in any
previous year.
The best o f wheat weather has pre
vailed in Umatilla county throughout
this season. The combine seems to be
the favorite reaper.
Almost every
farmer either has interest in a com
bine or has one o f his own. A ll the
wheatgrowers say they find it saves 50
per cent over the header and thresher.
POW ER DEAL A B O U T C L O S E D
H. L. MOODY.
acres o f undeveloped arable lands in
the United States west o f the 98th
meridian, and men versed in agricul
ture'assert that under proper cultiva
tion this area could be made to produce
between 4,000,000,000 and 4,500,000,-
000 bushels of wheat yearly, or other
crops in proportion. The settlement
of these lands would mean homes for
not less than 20,000,000 population and
a source o f added food supply, and, as
consequence, permanent prosperity.
"Th e four Northwestern states con
tain 253,894,760 acres.
Less than 5
per cent o f this land is occupied by
farms and the total population is not
more than 3,000,000, in an area of
397,700 square miles. More than 50,-
000,000 acres o f this land is adapted to
irrigation.
Planted to apples and
properly watered the minimum crop at
maturity would be a matter of 20,000,-
000,000 bushels, or about 40 per cent
of the total crop o f the United States
in 1909, when less than 23,000,000 bar
rels of apples were harvested.
‘ I mention these facts merely to
show the possibilities o f the country
as proof that, as gold was the strong
magnet which sent the first American
across the continent to the California
coast in 1849, so today the apple is at
tracting thousands upon
thousands
more people from Eastern,
Middle
Western and Southern states to the
great orchard belts of the Northwest.
“ The apple is king throughout the
vast Northwestern domain, and it is
conceded by pomological experts that
no district in America stands higher in
fruit production.
With
increased
transportation facilities and the steady
influx of settlers, the early attempts in
the valleys and uplands have become
more pretentious and systematic. Irri
gation plants have been established by
private individuals and corporations,
and the United States government is
expending enormous sums in reclaim
ing the volcanic wastes which are so
wonderfully rich and fertile and so pe
culiarly adapted to raising unblem
ished fruits.
Apples grown in Washington, Ore
gon, Idaho and Montana are in demand
in the Eastern and Middle Western
states and in Europe and Australia, and
the markets are being extended year
by year. Experts in the East who
have studied conditions in the North
west frequently refer to these states
as ‘ the world’s fruit basket,’ adding
there has been established in a com
paratively short time a domain where
the first foot o f soil, properly cultivat
ed and irrigated, is worth more than
all the mines from Alaska to Mexico
and all the forests from the United
States boundary to the Arctic sea.”
The royal family of Italy has con
Italy is A fte r C h arlto n .
sented to the marriage o f the Duke of
New York— Porter Charlton will not
Abruzzi to Miss Catherine Elkins,
escape returning to Italy to answer for
daugher o f Senator Elkins.
the confessed murder o f his wife.
A spontaneous explosion in a corn
Mary Scott Castle Charlton, at Lake
products manufacturing plant at Gran
Como, without a legal battle.
This
ite City, III., wrecked the building and
was made plain by Gustav Dirosa, the
killed two men and badly injured seven
Italian vice consul, who told Prosecutor
others.
Garvin in Jersey City, where Charl
The lighthouse keeper at a point ton is in prison, that his government
above Vancouver, B. C., by making was “ going to get Charlton.”
“ He
three trips in his lifeboat, saved the shall not escape trial in Italy if we can
passengers and crew of a small excur help it .”
The vice consul inquired
sion boat which went on the rocks in whether the prosecutor intended to
a fog.
have alienists examine Charlton.
The American Federation of Labor
has endorsed the platform o f Socialism
at a meeting held in Chicago.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
California Gets Tw o Fairs.
San Diego, Cal.— California is as
sured o f two exposition? to celebrate
the opening of the Panama canal in
1915. Voters o f San Diego, at a mu
nicipal election Aguust 9, decided to
issue $1,000,000 in bonds for improve
ment o f the city park, already selected
as the exposition site, and for the con
struction of permanent buildings to
constitute the nucleus o f the fair.
This is regarded as a ratification o f the
agreement reached by representative?
of San Francisco and San Diego in con
ference at Washington last May.
Death Comes With Riches.
Salmon City, Idaho — Crushed to
death by a fall o f rock, the body of
John Doyle was found by a party of
prospectors northwest o f this city.
Doyle was working alone and the fall
of rock show that he had just struck
a rich lead o f gold-copper ore.
It i?
not known how long he had been lying
dead among his newly discovered rich
es, as it was by chance that his body
was found. Doyle had been prospect
ing in this district for many years.
J.
L.
Blaisdell Plans Im provem ents
on M yrtle C re e k Plant
Myrtle Creek— Negotiations for the
purchase o f the electric light and pow
er plant o f the Myrtle Creek Water,
Ligh t & Milling company by J. L.
Blaisdell, o f Portland, have been al
most completed.
Electricity w ill be
supplied to Myrtle Creek and Riddle.
This is the beginning o f the covering
o f the entire Umpqua valley with elec
tric transmission lines. Special atten
tion w ill be paid to the farmers if they
wish power for pumping water for ir
rigation. A 24-hour service will be
inaugurated.
This plant will be a temporary one,
and will be replaced by a transformer
substation. A ll the small gasoline,
steam and water power plants w ill be
eliminated and replaced by transformer
substations, which will be supplied by
a modern hydro-electric plant which
will be located on one o f the rivers in
the county.
The wires w ill be strung on high
steel towers placed from five to 10 to a
mile.
The transmission will be 100,000
volts at the beginning and 150,000
volts when conditions demand.
Steps
have already been taken towards se
curing a powersite on one o f the rivers.
Mr. Blaisdell was at Riddle recently
looking over the town.
Ask fo r W a te r Right.
Redmond — The Odin Falls Power
company at the last meeting of the
council, submitted an ordinance asking
for a franchise to furnish the city with
water, light and power. The company
proposes to generate its power at Odin
Falls, on the Deschutes river, and
transmit the power and pipe the water
to this city. The Crook County Water,
Ligh t & Power company o f this city,
has also asked for a franchise to put in
water works, light and power. This
company has a project at Cline Falls,
four miles from the city, that they are
developing.
W A L N U T IN D U S T R Y .
S ecretary o f M cM innville Club
M ak e Long Journey.
to
McMinnville— The walnut industry
o f Oregon is to be exploited by a ser
ies of lectures illustrated by about 60
stereopticon photo slides, by Colonel J.
C. Cooper, secretary o f the McMinn
ville Commercial club.
Mr. Cooper w ill deliver his first
illustrated lecture at Eugene, and
later in the week will start East under
the direction o f the Southern Pacific
advertising bureau, his first stop after
leaving Oregon being at Cheyenne,
Wyoming. He will be routed as far
East as Washington, D. C., and will
visit and lecture at as many o f the
government experimental stations as
can be reached along the course of his
travels, with a view to interesting
Eastern people with the rapidly grow
ing importance o f walnut culture in
this section o f the state.
Secretary at Umatilla Project,
Hermiston— Edward C. Finney, sec
retary to the secretary o f the interior,
was at Hermiston one day this week.
He looked over the Umatilla project
and conferred with the settlers. The
people wish to have the seepage ques
tion taken up, also they want the gov
ernment to give the city the 40 acres
west of Hermiston, which is a butte,
to be used for a reservoir site and also
a cemetery. Mr. Finney seemed well
pleased with the Umatilla project and
states that he can see where we w ill
soon have a fine country.
Yamhill Fair List Out.
McMinnville— The prize list for the
forthcoming Yamhill County School
fair, to be held September 20 to 25,
has been published by the directors,
and comprises liberal cash awards for
all classes o f agricultural and floral
products exhibited by the children, as
well as prizes for their mechanical
skill, and culinary products and sewing
and darning. Sharp competition is al
so invited between the school districts
for the best decorated booths.
Blast Away “ Troy Hill.”
Enterprise— The “ Troy hill,” rising
from the canyon in which Troy, of this
county, is situated, is being blasted
out to facilitate travel, the wagon road
originally was one o f the most difficult
of travel in the county.
The hill
around which the road winds is 1,500
feet high. The road was about three
miles in length up this incline, and so
narrow in places that teams could not
pass.
PO RTLAND
M ARKETS.
Wheat — Bluestem, 966698c; club,
886; 90c; red Russian, 88c; valley, 92c;
forty fold, 92c; Turkey red, 926; 93c.
Barley— Feed and brewing, $24.50
per ton.
Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il
lamette valley, $186619 per ton; East
ern Oregon, $20<V£22; alfalfa, new, $13
6614.
Com— Whole, $32; cracked, $33 ton.
Oats— No. 1 white, $296; 30 per ton.
Green Fruits— Apples, new, 50c66
$1.50 per box; apricots,
30c@$l;
plums, 75c@$l; pears, $2.25; peaches,
65c66$1.25; blackberries, $1.50 per
crate; watermelons, 9 0cf« $1.2 5 per
hundred; cantaloupes,
$1662.25 per
State T re a s u ry Richer.
crate.
Salem— Oregon’s state treasury will
Vegetables— Artichokes, 60<>; 75c per
be made $709.87 richer because Charles
Scheller died, leaving no heirs and no dozen; beans, 3665c per pound; cab
will. The state will also own a watch bage, 2,14<fi2>4c; cauliflower, $1.50 per
valued at $10, this being all the prop dozen; celery, 90c; com, 25c; cucum
erty left in the estate after the pay bers, 50c per box; egg plant, 12}£c per
ment o f expenses. Suit to declare the pound; green onions, 15c per dozen;
money and watch escheated to the peas, 5c per pound; peppers, 50c per
state was entered in the Circuit court box; radishes, 156; 20c per dozen; to
by District Attorney Cameron against matoes, 65c6;$l per box; carrots, $1(3!
R. R. Northrup, administrator. Schel 1.25 per sack; beets, $1.60; parsnips,
$161.1.25; turnips, $1.
ler died on September 1, 1909.
Potatoes— New, $1.15661.25 per hun
dred; sweet potatoes, 5c per pound.
N ew Industry at Beaverton.
Onions — Walla Walla, $2.50 per
Beaverton— The plant of the Beaver sack; Oregon, $2662.25.
ton Clay Manufacturing company has
Butter— City creamery, solid pack,
begun operations.
The erection of
34c per pound; butter fat, 34c; coun
buildings and the placing o f machinery try store, 24c.
has been in progress for several
Eggs— Oregon candled, 26^(327>ic
months. The manufacture o f tile will per dozen.
begin about the middle o f the month.
Poultry — Hens, 17c per pound;
A large force will be employed and the
springs, 17c; ducks, 146; 15c; geese,
new industry will mean much for
10(311 4 c; turkeys, live,
186f20c;
Beaverton.
dressed, 22>*<ff.25c; squabs, $3 per do*.
Pork— Fancy, 13c per pound.
Enterprise Fall G rain Heavy.
Veal— Fancy, 124c per pound.
Enterprise — Although the spring
Hops— 1909 crop, 86; 12c; olds, nom-
wheat in Wallowa county is light, ow- i inal; 1910 contracts, 13<3134c.
ing to the dry season, the fall grain,
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 136617c per
now being cut in many districts o f the pound; valley, 16;al8c; mohair, choice,
county, is good.
The Paradise and 326633c.
Flora districts, north o f here, it is es
Cattle— B eef steers, good to choice,
timated that fall wheat will go from 40 $5.25(3:5.75; fair to medium, $4.25(3
to 60 bushels an acre.
4.75; cows and heifers, good to choice,
$4.25(34.65; fair to medium, $3.50664;
bulls, $3663.75; stags. $2.50664.50;
Forests Burn N e a r G rants Pass
calves, light,
$5.756J6.75;
heavy,
Grants Pass— Forest fires hsve raged $3.50@5.
for several days in the mountains near
Hogs— Top, $10(310.25; fair to me
Grants Pass but without any serious dium, $8.60(39.75.
lamage to personal property, although
Sheep— Best wethers, $3.75664.36;
one or two ranchers would have lost fair to good, $36; 3 50; best ewes, $366
their homes had not neighbors given 3.50; lamSs, choice, $5.50(36; fair,
timely aid.
( $4.75(g5.25.
Big Planing M ill Ready.
Klamath Falls— The Savidge Broth
ers Lumber company has its big plan
ing mill almost completed. This will
be in operation within ten days and
will be one o f the finest mills in the
N orthw esL, This mill is being fitted
with twin boilers and the Myers auto
matic cutoff engine of 100 horse power.
This machinery is all set and the at
tachments are now being made to get
it in running order. The planner is one
o f the latest and best in the city. It
will handle lumber for any dimension
up to 14 inches thick and 30 wide.