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THE QUICKENING g i m FRANCIS LYNDE Conmikl. 190t.br Francis Lynda m s m your chance. Cast-Iron water-pipe Is like bread, or sugar ,or butcher's meat — It’s a necessity, In good times or bad. I f that machine la practicable, you can make pipe for less than half the pres ent cost.' Then we talked ways and means. Money la tighter than a shut fist—up East as well as everywhere else. But men with money to Invest will still bet on a sure thing. Mr. Clarkson advised me to try our own banks first. Falling with them, he au thorized me to call on him. Now you know where I ’m digging my sand.” The old Iron-master sat back In hls chair with hls hands locked over one knee, once more taking the measure of this new creation calling Itself Tom Gordon and purporting to be hls son. "Say, Buddy," he said at length, "are there many more like you out yonder In the big road?—young fellows that can walk right out o’ school and tell their daddies how to run things?” Tom ’s laugh was boyishly hearty. "P len ty of ’em, pappy; lots of ’em! The old world Is moving right along; It would be a pity If It didn’t, don’t you think? But about this pipe business: I want you to make over those patents to me." "T h ey ’re yours now, Tom ; everything I ’ve got will be yours In a little while," said the father; but hls voice betrayed the depth of that thrust Was the new Tom beglnlng so soon to grasp and reach out avariciously for the fruit of the old tree? "You ought to know that I don’t mean It that way," said Tom, frowning a little. "But here Is the way It sizes up. There Is money In this pipe-mak ing; some money now .and big money later on. Farley has refused to go Into It unless you make It a company prop osition; ns president and a controlling stockholder you can’t very well go Into It unless you muke It a company prop osition; as president and a controlling stockholder you can’t very well go Into It now without making It some sort of a company proposition. But you can transfer the patents to me, and I can contract with Chlawussee Consolidated to make pipe for me.” “ That would certainly be glvln’ Colo nel Dubbury a dose of hls own medi cine; but I don’t like It, Tom . It looks as If we were taking advantage of him.” "No. I ’d make the proposition to him, personally, If he were here, and the boss; and he’d be a fool If he didn’ t Just Jump at It,” said Tom, earnestly. "B ut there Is more to It than that. If we make a go of this, and don’t protect ourselves, the two Farleys will come back and put tho whole thing In their pockets. I won’t go In on any such terms. When they do come back, I’m going to have money to fight them with, and this Is our one little ghost of a chance. Bing up Judge Bates and got him to come over here and make a lo- gnl transfer of these patents to me." The experiences of tho summer were all hardening. He plunged Into tho world of business. Into u panic-time competition which wus Irt grim reality a fight for life, and there seemed to be little to choose between trampling or being trampled. By early autumn the Iron Industries of the country were gasping, and thu stacks of pig in the C’hlawassee yards, kept down a little during the aummor by a few meager orders, grew and spread until they cov ered acres. As long us money could bo hud, the Iron was bonded us fnst ns It was made, and the proceeds were turn ed Into wages to muke moro. But whon money was no longer obtainable from this source, the pipe venture was tho only hope. W ith the entire foundry force at the ( ’ hi iwassee making pipe, Tom hud gone Into tho market with hls low-priced product. But tho commercial side of the struggle was flro-pcw to him, and he found himself matched against mon who knew buying and sellng as he knew smelting and cnstlng. They rout ed him, easily at first, with Increasing difficulty as ho learned the new trade, but always with certainty. It was N or man, the correspondence man, trans formed now Into a sales ngont, who gave hint hls first hint of the Inward ness. "W e ’re too straight, Mr. Gordon; that’s at the bottom o f It," he said to Tom, over a grill-room luncheon at tho Mnriboro one day. “ It takes money to make money. Four times out of five we have to sell to a municipal com mittee, and the other time we have to monkey with the purchasing agent of a corporation. In either case It takes inoney--othcr money besides the differ ence In price." Tom was In town that day for tho purpose of taking a train to Iurulsvlllo, where ho was to meet the officials of an Indiana city forced, despite the hard limes, to relay many miles of worn- out watsr-malns. He mndo a pencil computation on the back of an envel ope. The contract was a largo one. and hls bid. which he wns confident was lower than nny competitor could mnko, would still stand a cut and leuve a margin of profit. Before he took the train he went to the bank. and. when he reached the Kentucky metropolis, hls first caro was to assure the "wheel- horse” member of the municipal pur chasing board that he wus ready to talk business on a modern business ba sis. Notw ithstanding, he Inst the contract Other people were growing desperate, too. It appeared, and hls bribe was not great enough. One member of the committee stood by him and gave him the facts. A check had been passed, and It was a bigger chock than Tom could draw without trenching on the balance left In tho Iron City National to meet the month's pay-roll at Gor don ta. "Y ou sent a boy to mill." said the loyal one. "And now It's all over I don't mind telling you that you sent him to the wrong mill, at th at Hullln- ger'e a hog.” "I'd like to do him up,” said Tom. vindictively. "W ell, that might be done, too. But It would cost you something." Tom did not take the hint; he was not buying vengeance. Hut on the way home he grew bitterer with every sub He could meet one more "There Is a market." said Tom. hope tracted mile and fully. ”1 got a pointer on that before pay-day, and possibly another; then the end would come. This one t left Boston. Did I tell you I had a little talk with Mr. Clarkson ths day I contract would have saved the day. and It was lo s t came away?” The homing train, rushing around "N o.” "W ell, I did. I told him ths condi the boundary hills of raradlse, set him tions and asked hls advice. Among down at Gordonla late In the afternoon. •ther things, I spoke of this pipe pit of There was no one at the station to fours, and he said at ones. T h e re Is meet him. but there wae bad newe In C H A P T E R X V.— (Continued.) It « H Ludlow, hammering clamor- oualy for (Hence on the «hell of the bl* orane ladle, who acted ae spokes- man when the uproar wae quelled. "You're all right, Tom Gordon—you and your daddy. But you've hit us plum' ’twlxt dinner and supper. I f you two wae the company----- ’’ "W e are the company. W hile Mr. Farley Is away we're the bosses; what we say. goes.” -A ll right," Ludlow went on. "That’s a little better. But we’ve got a kick or two cornin'. Is this half-pay goln' to be In orders on the company's atoref" " 1 said cash," said Tom, briefly. “Good enough. But I « ’pose we'd have to spend It at the company's store, Jest the same, 'r get flred." " N o !" — emphatically. " I ’m not even sure that we should reopen the store. W e shall not reopen It unless you men want It. I f you do want It, we’ll make It strictly co-operative, dividing the profits with every employe according to his purchases." “ Well, that's white, anyway," com mented one of the coke burners. "Be a m ighty col' day In July when old man Parley'd talk as straight as th a t” "A g in ," said Ludlow, “ what's this half-pay to be figured on— the reg’lar scale T" "O f course.” "And what security do we have that t'other half ’ll be paid, some time?" "M y father’s word, and mine.” Ludlow turned to the miners. "W hat d'ye say, boys? Fish or cut bait? Hands up!" There was a good showing o f hands among the white miners and the coke burners, but the negro foundrymen did not vote. Patty, the mulatto foreman who was Ilelgeraon's second, explain ed the reason. "You ain’t said unttln' 'bout de foun dry, Boas Tom. W -w -w -w -w e -a ll boys been wukkln’ short tl-tl-tlm e, and m- m-makln’ pig ain’t gwlne give we-all n-n-nuttln’ ter do." Patty had a pain ful Impediment In his speech, and tho •train of the public occasion doubled It. "W e are going to run the foundry, too, Patty, and on full time. There will be work for all of you on the terms I have named.” Caleb Gordon closed his eyes and put his face In hla hands. For weeks be fore the shut-down the foundry had been run on short time, because thore was no market for Its miscellaneous output Surely Tom must be losing hla mlndl But the negro foundrymen wore tak ing his word for It, as the miners had. "Pup-pup-put up yo’ hands. boys!” •«Id Patty, and again the ayes had It. Tom looked vastly relieved. “ Well, that was a short horse soon curried,” he said, bruskly. The power goes on to-morrow morning, and we’ll blow In as soon as the furnacos are rellned. Ludlow, you come to tho o f fice at 5 o'clock and I'll list the shifts With you. Patty, you report to Mr Helgerson, and you and the pattern maker show up at half-past 6. I want to talk over some new work with you Anybody else got anything to say? Jl not, we’ll adjourn.” Caleb followed his son out and across the yard to the old log homestead which served as the superintendent’s •nice and laboratory. When the door Was shut he dropped heavily Into a chair. “ Son," he said, brokenly, "you’re— you're crazy—plum' crazy. Don’t you know you can’t do the first one o’ these things you've been promisin’ ?” Tom was already busy at the desk, emptying tho pigeonholes one after an other and rapidly «cunning their con- ten ta " I f I believed thnt. I'd bo taking to the high grass and the tall timber. But don’ t you worry, pappy; we're g o ing to do them—all of them." "But, Buddy, you can’t sell a found of foundry product! W e mny be able to make pig chenper than some oth ers, but when It comes to the foundry floor, South Tredegar can choke us off In less’ n a week.” "W alt.” said Tom, still rummaging "There Is one thing we can make and •ell.” " I ’d like tolerable well to know what It Is,” was the hopeless rejoinder. "You ought to know, better than nny one else. It’s cast-iron pipe— water- pipe. Where are the plana of thnt In vention of yours that Farley wouldn’ t let you Install?” Caleb found the blue-prints, and hls hands were trembling. The Invention, a pit muchlne process for molding and casting water- and gas-pipe at n cost that would put all other mnkers of the commodity out of the field, had been wrought out and perfected In Tom ’s second Boston year. It was Caleb’s one ewe lamb, and he had nursed It by hand through a long preparatory period. Tom took the blue-prints and spread them on the desk, absorbing the details ss hls father leaned over him and pointed them out He saw clearly that the Invention would revolutionise pipe making The accepted method wus to cast each piece separately In a floor flask made In two parts, rammed by hand, once for the drag and again for the cope, with reversing«, crane-hand lings and all the manipulations neces sary for the molding of any heavy cast ing But the new process substituted machinery. A clatern-llke pit; a c ir cular table pivoted over It, with a hun dred or more Iron flasks suspended up right from Its edges, a huge ernne car rying a mechanical ram. these were the main points of the machine which, with a small gang of men, would do the work of an entire foundry floor. "It's grea t!” said Tom. enthusiasti cally. "I got your Idea pretty wed from your letters, but you’ve Improved on It since them. I wonder Farley didn’t snap at It." "H e was willin’ to," said Caleb, grim ly. “Only he WAnted me to transfer the patents to the company; In other words, to make him a present of the controlling Interest. I bucked at that, and we come near havin’ a fall-out. If there was any market for pipe now fthe air yvhlch needed no hernia to poo- iclaim It Though It atlll wanted half !an hour o f quitting time, the big plant wae silent and deserted. Tom walked out the pike and found hla father on tbq Wood lawn porch. *ou needn’t say It, son," was hls low greeting, when Tom had flung him self Into a chair. "It was In the South Tredegar papers this morning.' ’ "W hat was In the papers T" "About our losln' the Indlany con tract I reckon It was what did the business for us, though there were a- plenty of black looks and a storm brewtq' when we missed the pay-day yesterday.” "Missed the pay-day? Why, I left money In hank for It when I went tc L ou isville!” "Yee, I know you did. W hen Dyck- man didn’t come out with the pay rolls yesterday evening I telephoned him. He.said Vint Farley, as treasur er of the company, had made a draft on him and taken It alL” "And the men?" "T h e miners went out at 10 o’clock this morning. The blacks would have stood by ue. but Ludlow's men drove 'em out— made ’em q u it W e're done Buddy.? Tom dashed hls hat on the floor ,and the Gordon rage, slow to Are and fierce to scorch and burn when once It wai aflame, made for a moment a yelling maniac of him. In the midst of It he turned, and the tempest of Imprecation spent Itself In a gasp of dismay. H li mother was standing In the doorway, thin, frail, with the sorrow In her eyes that had been there since the long night of chastenlngs three years agone As he looked he saw the growing pallor In her face, the growing speech less horror In her gaze. Then she put out her hands as one groping In dark ness and fell before he could reach her It was her stalwart son who carrlej Martha Oordon to her room and laid her gently on the bed, with the hus band to follow helplessly behind. Also, It was Tom, tender and loving now as a woman, who sat upon the edge o f the bed, chafing the bloodless hands and striving as he could to revive her. "I'm afraid you've killed her for surs. this time, son !" groaned the man. But Tom saw the pale Ups move and bent low to catch their whisperings. What he heard was only the echo of the despairing cry of the broken heart: "W ould God I had died for thee, O A b salom, my sonl” (T o be continued.) THE LION’S ROAR. CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief! General Resume o f Important Events Presented In Condensed Form fo r Our Busy Readers. The Federal deficit fo r the past year was $16,000,000 less than the previous year. Two jurors in a New York murder trial have been indicted for soliciting a bribe. A Medford, Ore., man received 20,- 000 volts from a live electric wire, but was not seriously injured. Striking express drivers in New York City received strong reinforce ments, and the strike is spreading. Fifteen babies have been born at Fort Stevens, Ore., during one week. There are not over 100 families in the town. An Illinois farmer aged 82 years eloped with a woman o f 48. The farm er’s son, aged 60, objected to the mar riage. S O C IE T Y AIDS S TR IK E R S . Police Arrest Alleged Rioters, But Make Bad Mistake. Chicago— Well known club and soci ety women dumbfounded the police de partment through interference in the strike o f the garment workers. Mounted police had charged threaten- ing mobs o f strikers and made numer ous arrests in three sections of the city, only to he completely nonplussed when met by obdurate groups o f the elite of Chicago’s women who produced engraved calling cards at police sta tions in lieu of bailbonds. It waa a new experience fo r the po lice and plainly confused them. A score o f these women champions of the garment workers, who faced the rioting, were taken into custody. They were immediately released, how ever, when their identity became known to the police. One o f them was injured when struck by a policeman’s club, but her name did not become known, as she was hur riedly placed in an automobile and tak en to her home. Most o f the women o f prominence involved in the demonstrations were garbed as working girls, and for this reason the police could not distinguish them from strikers until after arrests had been made. “ I will take oath that we were doing absolutely nothing beyond the law,” Seattle food inspectors have con demned several tons o f turkeys, crabs, lobsters and smelt which were being kept in cold storage for the holiday trade. The chief signal officer of the Unit ed States has asked the War depart ment for 20 military aeroplanes to be used in practice and instruction of troops. Many pitched battles were fought between prospective Bettlers at the opening of the Coeur d’ Alene reser vation in Idaho, but no fatalities were reported. A kerosene lamp in a shack occu pied by the family of Y . Yamamoto in the Interbay district o f Seattle, ex ploded and two children were burned to death in their bed. MISS M A R Y ID E L L IDE A Los Angeles woman used up near Colville, Washington, who will be Queen o f the ly a whole stick o f dynamite in her O f National Apple Show at Spokane, Nov. 14 to 19. Just why the lion should be called washtub, thinking it was some new the king of beauts few have ever kind of soap. It did no damage, but said Miss Ellen Varer, one of the club Btopped to Inquire. Hls habits, says she was disappointed in the results. women who has become a strike picket. A. Hadclyffe Dugmore, w riting In E v General Jose Valledares, ex-gover ‘ ‘ The only persons who were violating erybody's Magazine, are not kingly. nor o f Amalpa, Honduras, who was the law were the policemen, who treat He Is a shameless scavenger. He may deposed from office by PresidenCDavila ed us roughly and hurt dreadfully with be a cannibal. There 1 b a story of a and recalled to Tegucigalpa, haB re their clubs some o f the poor boys who contest between a lion and a lioness turned to Amalpa in order to hand over were walking peacefully past the over a carcass which ended in the male his command to his successor and has shops. I f there had been a real riot killing and then devouring hls mate. openly declared himself against the it would have been incited altogether In days before the aclvent o f modern government. It is also rumored that by the police.” hlgh-power arms the Hon may have he has attacked the American consular stood as a symbol of fearlessness and agency and has committed other ex SEV EN SH A N G H A I B A N K S FAIL. daring, but tim e has changed all that. cesses. He Is now neither so fierce nor yet so Dr. Cook has sent a message o f con formidable as he Is painted. The chase gratulation to Walter Wellman. of the lion Is becoming less and less Roosevelt has made nine speeches in dangerous. “ N ot a lion has done Its duty,” said Mr. Koosevslt, emerging Manhattan in the political campaign. from the East African Jungles. Bank robbers blew the safe of a Besides, opinion of any brute's na bank at Palestine, Texas, and escaped ture seems to depend largely on the with $8,000. experience of the observer. I f the Officials "of the Rock Island road hunter chanced to have a close call with a lion, he assumes the Hon to be complain that the roads are injured by too many commissions. the most dangerous o f beasts. In A f rica, mnny hold the wild buffalo to be In order to bring about one-cent let far more fierce than the Hon, for this ter postage sooner, it is proposed to in one pertinent reason. Or some fel crease magazine postage. low has had a brush with an elephant The New York express drivers Btrike and nearly lost h l s jlf e ; therefore he threatens to tie up all transportation considers the elephant to be the most except railroads and streetcars. dangerous of all animals. Personally, Rebellious tribes in the Philippines I'd rather face a herd of Hons In the open than a herd of buffalo bent on have killed eight Americans, and are on the warpath against all foreigners. mischief. But once In the Hon country, you Witnesses differ widely as to wheth learn the real reason why he Is termed er the explosion in the Los Angeles the king of beasts. He looks It. Be Times office was caused by escaping sides, there Is the terror he casts over gas. all the brute creation about him. And Miss Hortense Harder, returning to as for terror, there Is one feature of America from school [at Paris, failed Ufe In East A frica that the traveler to declare seven o f her French gowns never forgets- the lion's roaring. to the customs officres, and.her father T o me, no other sound In nature Is was obliged to pay not only the regular more awe Inspiring, more appalling, es duty but the full value of the gowns in pecially If heard at really close range, addition. or among hills, where the echo re The Carnegie Hero commission has sounds In Its rolling double bass. Contrary to the common Idea, Hons awarded 30 silver medals, 28 bronze do not coniine their thunderous colls medals and $40,205 in cash to life- to the night only; frequently In the savers, or their families where death open daylight one may be startled by occurred. In 23 other cases where have been a sudden outburst. They nre a noisy death ensued pensions lot, too. At night I have heard a band awarded to dependents. keep up the dire chorus for hours at Minneapolis census returns show con a time, a blood-curdling concert that siderable padding. brings to mind every tale, fanciful or Explosion o f a gasoline tank caused true, of their daring, of their fierce rapacity and might. It seems, still a $35,000 fire at Salem, Or. further, to have an added dreadfulness The patent office at Washington is when one Is lying within the frail swamped with inventions of appliances walls o f a tent, with only Its canvas for aerial navigation. between one and tho formidable mu sician. A resident of Southwest China de Listen now! There goes one boom clares the empire is ripe for rebellion, ing In the dlstange, a roaring obligato and only a spark is needed to start it. that breaks Into from six to a dozen The New Elms hotel at Excelsior calls! From the first to the fourth the volume usually Increases; then It Springs, Mo., built a year ago at a dies down. At very close quarters cost of $150,000, was entirely destroy one hears the roar melt gradually Into ed by fire. a purr, Itself dim inishing to a grow l The printing pressmen of Denver ing. discontented mumble that lasts are on strike and all allied printing for about half a minute. Or there Is trades unions have pledged them their the other sound, equally menacing— a | full support. soft and suggestive crunching noise, Ex-Secretary of the Interior Garfield as If the beast had already settled to is charged with having shielded the a gruesome meal. The lion's voice Is m ighty, as m ighty Union Pacific Railway company in its as hls strength. Forget hls habits, coal land frauds in Wyoming. hts love of carrion, and hls daylight Five men suspected o f the Loe An turn of cowardice, and you have the geles Times dynamite outrage were Impression o f a king of beasts— a real arrested at Acapulco, Mexico, upon royalty among the brute creation. their arrival there in a gasoline launch. M a n g lin g th e W ords. Mark T w ain w ill llml an exam ple of English as she Is spoke, or written, when he visits a certain city In Italy where the authorities o f s charitable Institution h ere posed s notice print ed In all languages. T h e Information for English people rends ss follows; “ The little fathers o f the poor o f 8L Francis harbor all kinds o f disease, and have no respect for religion.” S o tn ls g th e P roeeee. Rankin— How did you manage to get the til will of Scragsles? Fyle— You know he's been borrowing small sums of me from time to time for the last ten yeare? Well, a few weeks age I shut down on lending to him mm4 began borrewlag from him Change of Taotais Causes Panic, Par alyzing Industry, Victoria, B. C.— Seven banks in Shanghai, including several large ones, have failed, and a financial panic has resulted. The steamship Titan, which brought this news, left Yokohama Oc tober 15. Following the failure of the banks, the Chinese chamber o f com merce telegraphed to the prince regent that unless aid was given at once many manufactures would cease operations and over 300,000 men would be made idle. The prince regent telegraphed 700,000 taels, and is being urged to send $5,000,000 more. One of the closed banks has liabili ties o f 20,000,000 taels and has 22 branches throughout the empire. It has on deposit $4,000,000 o f customs revenue and $3,000,000 o f Shanghai funds, none of which is secured. Jap anese bankers state that among the failed banks are three o f China’s lar gest. __________________ Finest Apple Show Opens. Vancouver, B. C. — Without doubt the first Canadian Apple show, opened here Nov. 1, is the best in point o f arrangement, size and amount of premiums offered, of any ever held anywhere. Lieutenant Governor Pat erson made the formal opening ad dress, while Attorney General Bowser and Premier McBride, of British Co lumbia, and Mayor Taylor, o f Vancou ver, gave the ceremonies added dig nity. The show has 3,424 exhibits, including 194 varieties of apples and representing 287 exhibitors. War Raises Prices High. Palo Alto, Cal.— “ The high cost of living which we are feeling now is due partly to the outcome o f the Russian- Japanese W ar,” declared David Starr Jordan, president o f the Leiand Stan ford university, in a speech on “ Inter national Peace.” “ The whole world helps to pay the penalties o f any war,” he added. “ Governments are now ruled hy their capitalists. The drain o f war in life and blood has lowered the quality o f the race and placed the nations under bonds to the wealth o f wealth that can never be paid.’’ INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE P O R TA G E N EA R LY READY. Completion of Road By End of No Central Oregon Irrigation Co. Es capes Tax— T o Make Contracts vember Expected. Salem— With the filing of articles of incorporation for the Central Oregon Irrigation company, to succeed and take over the work of the Deschutes Power & Irrigation company, and with the state land board acquiescing in the recent decree of the Federal court, confirming the sale, further steps were taken in Salem toward reorganization of the old company. The state land board split on the question o f acquiescing in the order of the Federal court. State Engineer John H. Lewis wishing to hold up such ac quiescence until it is possible to make some new contracts and receive further assurances from the company. One plan which the state engineer has in mind is a tax o f 50 cents an acre to come from the settlers to place in the state treasury for the reclama tion funds. He contended that the state has advanced considerable money for the workings o f this project and he wishes to receive assurance that the state will get some o f it back. Roscoe Howard and Jesse Stearns, who were here representing the new company, said that in all probability they would be w illing at some future convenient time to make thiB conces sion o f 50 cents an acre by raising the price o f the lands, but that they desire time to think it over. The state en gineer wished to make this a consider ation for acquiescing in the Federal court order, but the board finally al lowed the order over the protest o f the state engineer. Attorney General Crawford said that it must be under stood in acquiescing that the board merely considered itself as ceasing to FISH LA D D ER S N EED REPAIR. do business with the old company and Salmon Have Difficulty Ascending Ce starting to do business with the new. Articles of incorporation for the new lilo and Oregon City Falls. company Bhow a capitalization o f $1,- Astoria— Secretary Lorntsen, o f the 500,000. Columbia R iver Fishermen’s Protec tive union, has received a letter from Park Road Work Beging. State Fish Warden Clanton, in which Medford— Work has been started on Mr. Lorntsen is invited to go with the the new Crater lake road. Contractor fish warden and make an investigation Natwick has 30 men and several teams relative to the fishways needed at the at work on the right o f way. The Oregon City falls and at Celilo. force w ill be doubled when the work A fish- way w s b constructed some requires it,. This new road will run years ago at Oregon City, but it does from Medford to Crater Lake national not appear to give satisfaction in its park, a distance of 75 miles. The con present condition, and on a recent visit tract calls for completion of the road there Mr. Lorntsen counted 40 salmon by the first o f next April. The road which had perished while trying to get will be macadamized its entire length, over the falls. However, it is stated and it will be made extra wide to ac that a small amount of work will place commodate the heavy automobile traf the fish way in condition to afford an fic that will start in the spring. easy passage way for the fish to the upper river. Hitchcock Grants Favor. A t Celilo the condition is much more Salem— Representative Hawley has complicated, and it may be necessary received personal assurance from Post to blast a fish way out o f the solid master General Hitchcock that a rural rock, so that a few at least of the early free delivery service w ill be establish salmon, which reach that point, may ed out o f Tillamook, be able to ascend to the natural The Postoffice department has been spawning grounds. holding up rural extensions all over the country, but the Postmaster general R E A L T Y D E A LS F R E Q U E N T . says he is allowing the Tillamook ex tension to slip through as the result o f Farm Land About Medford Brings the personal appeal made by Mr. Haw ley to the department. More than SI,OOO An Acre. The Dalles— Work has been begun by the State Portage commission on the inclines and bulkheads of the state portage road, which is to end at the foot o f Washington street in this city. The roadbed, which is built on the low-lying bank o f the river ,jrth of town, is being heavily riprapped for half a mile from the terminus, and this work is nearly finished. A pile- driver has been erected, and workmen have begun to put down the piling north o f the track. On this will be nailed heavy planking to prevent the high water and waves and ice o f the Columbia from tearing out the riprap- ping. The bridge across Five Mile at Seu- fe rt’s is nearly finished. The only thing now holding back the completion of the road to Big Eddy is the half bridge, about 100 feet in length, which is to be built at that point to connect with the road built some time ago from Celilo to Big Eddy. This work is waiting for the O. R. & N. company to shift from its old line to the new roadbed now being built. This probably will be done this week and the whole of the portage road w ill be completed by the end of November, so that freight will be moving over the whole length o f the line before January 1. Medford— City real estate in Med ford is moving lively. W. T. York & Co. report 13 sales of city lots and small tracts of land in the vicinity o f Medford in four days. Forty-one acres of orchard land in the W illow Springs district were sold for $45,000, Frank Tompkins purchasing the ranch from A. T. Reunells. W. A. Stone, of Vermont, bought 35.55 acres between Medford and Jacksonville for $18,000, and lot 12 o f the Midway tract sold for $3,300. Siskiyou Heights and Queen addi tion are being boosted vigorously by real estate firms with the result that many lots in both suburban districts have changed hands, most o f the lots being sold to newcomers who expect to build immediately. Twelve build ing permits for homes were taken out in one day. Rebuild Burned Town of Wendling. Wendling — Contracts for buildings to cost $15,000 have just been let. Sixteen small cottages, eight larger cottages and a public school building are included in the contracL W. B. Mummey was awarded the contract to build the 16 small cottages. Buley & Applewhite got the eight larger cottages and J. R. Chezem the public school building. Each o f the contractors will at once begin work and expect to have the buildings com pleted before the heavy rains set in. In addition to these buildings, there are in course of construction for the company six cottages that are still larger than any o f the others, costing $1,000 each, the lodging house costing about $6,000 and the eating house cost ing $3,200. These buildngs are all to replace those destroyed in the recent forest fire that swept the town. Canal Use to Be Barred. New York— Henry Frank Guggen heim, one o f the great smelting men, accompanied by his fiancee, Helen Rosenberg, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, obtained a marriage license at the city hall here. As he is but 20 years old, it was ne cessary for his parents to give their consent. Young Guggenheim gave his occupation as smelterman, and said he was living at the St. Regis hotel. Miss Rosenberg is 24 years old. Klamath Falls—That private land- owners located above the government canal will not be permitted to use sur plus water of the canal, if a surplus exists, unless they become part o f the project and pay their per capita o f the cost of the canal is the decision o f Sec retary Ballinger. Private installa tion o f pumps and the like would be so costly, it is believed, the landown ers above the canal will now drop the attempt to obtain access to the govern ment supply o f water and provide themselves with individaul systems. The entire police reserve o f New Indians Offered Bribes. York City, numbering about 9,000 Guthrie, Okla.— A. J. Johnson and men, were ordered held in readiness to George Kispketon, two Indian inter answer riot calls on account of the ex preters, who are important witnesses press drivers' strike. for the government in the hearing to extradite to Mexico five men wanted Sarah Bernhardt York City for a long theatrical engage there for alleged Kickapoo land frauds, ment in this country. She was greeted testified that they had been offered by a delegation of suffragettes with $500 each to “ stay by” the defend hugs and kissea and her path was ants. They said they had already been paid small amounts by two of the de strewn with flowers. A special grand jury has begun an fendants and that they had turned over investigation o f the Log Angelea Timet the money to the prosecutor. Pure Water For Eugene, Eugene— The city o f Eugene will soon have water 99 per cent pure. This is the guarantee of the installers o f the large filtering plant, which will be in operation in a few weeks. The plant is similar to the Oregon City filt ering plant, which has given such good satisfaction. City and university authorities feel confident that with the new filtering plant in operation there can be no serious danger o f a typhoid epidemic, such as four years ago. dynamite outrage. A freshman at Cornell college died from injuries supposed to have been received in a football game. Rryan will enter the political cam paign at his own expense, his first speech being made at Lincoln, Neb. Oregon Chinese Gets Scholarship An ex-university o f Oregon student, Lee Sam, *13, a Chinaman, has just won a scholarship at Cornell univer sity, New York, by competitive exam ination. Sam is t civil engineering studen . Smelting King to Wed. France Births Gaining. Paris - During the first half o f the year 1910, it is officially announced, the births in France exceeded the deaths by 21,189. During the year 1909 the deaths exceeded the births by 28,203. LAN D BOARD AGREES. Packing Oregon Apples. Ontario— Adolph Gramse is packing apples from his orchard and has al ready shipped two carloads to Chicago. V. V. Hickox, manager of the McEI- downey ranch southeast of town, is getting ready some beautiful specimens of Malheur county fruit for the East ern market. Mr. Gramse expects to ship about six cars in all, or about 4,000 boxes. P O R TL A N D M A R K E TS . Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, 86c; club, 81(5)82c; red Russian, 80c.. valley, 85c; 40-foid, 84c. Barley— Feed, $21 per ton; brew- ing, $22. Millstuffs— Bra», $25 per ton; mid dlings, $33; shorts, $27; rolled barley, $24.50@$25.50. Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il lamette valley, $19@20 per ton; East ern Oregon, $21@22; alfalfa, new, $15 @16; grain hay, $14. Corn— Whole, $31; cracked, $32 ton. Oats— White, $27.50 per ton. Apples— King, 75c@$1.25 per box? Gravenstein, 75c@$1.25; W olf River, $1@1.25; Waxen, 85c@$].25; Bald win, $1.50; Northern Spy, $1.26@1.75; Snow. $1.75@2; Spitzenberg, $1.26@2; Winter Bananas, $1.76@3.50. Green Fruits— Pears, $1.25(5,2 per box; grapes, $1@1.35; 17,H e per bas ket; cranberries, $8(59 per barrel; quinces, 76c(5$l per box; huckleber ries, 6% @ 8% c per pound. Vegetables— Beans, 3@5c per pound; cabbage, l@ l> ^ c; cauliflower, 86c@91 per dozen; celery; 60@80c; peppers. 6c pound; pumpkins, lt^ c ; sprouts, T @8c; squash, l t j c ; tomatoes, 35@50e per box; carrots, $1(511.25 hundred; parsnips, $1@1.25; turnips, $1. Potatoes— Oregon, $1.25@1.35 per hundred. Onions— Oregon, buying price, $1.10 per hundred. Poultry— Hens, 16H@17c; springs. 15; ducks, white, 16@18c; geese, llo ; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 24@25c; squab« $2 per dozen. Butter— City creamery solid pack 36c per pound; prints 37@375<c; out side creamery 355i.36e; butter fat 36c; country store 24@25c. Pork— Fancy 13c per pound. Eggs— Oregon ranch 37(5.37 He. Veal— Fancy 85 to 125 pounds 13c per pound. Hop«— 1910 crop ll@ 1 5 c; 1909 nom inal; olds, nominal. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 13@17e per pound; valley, 17@ 19c.-'mohair, choice, 32(n 33c. Cattle— Beef steer«,’good to choice, $5@5.65; fair to medium, $4.50@6; choice spayed heifers, $4.50(54.75; good to choice beef cows, $4.25(54.70; medium to good beef cows, $ 3 . 50 ( 5 4 ; common beef cows, $2(5 3.50; bulls, $3.50@4; stags, good to choice, $4(5 4.50; calve«, light, $6.75(5?; heavy. $3.75(55. ’ ” H o g «—Top, $9.50(5 9.60; fair to me dium, $9.25(59.50. Sheep, best valley wethers, $3.25@ 3.50; fair to good wethers, $3@3.25; best M t Adams wethers. $4(54.25; best valley ewes, $3(5 3.50; choice ML Adams lamb«, $5(55.60; choice valley $4.75(55.