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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.
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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.
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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.