THE QUICKENING
F R A N C IS L Y N D E
Copyright. 1906. by Presets Lynds
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CHAPTER X X II.— (Continued).
U t t r in th« day, Tom crossed the such things to me, Tom. Consider
/Iks to the oak-shingled office of the what I havs endured— what you have
Chlawassee Consolidated. His father made me endure. People said I wag
was deep in the new wage scale sub standing by you, condoning a sin that
mitted by the miners' union, but Ito no right-minded young woman should
sat up and pushed the papers away condone. I bore It because I thought,
I believed, you were sorry. And et
when his son entered.
“ Have you seen this morning Trib that very time you were deceiving me
une?" asked Tom, taking the paper —deceiving every one. You have drag
ged me in the very dust of shame!"
irom his pocket.
"There is no shame save what we
"No; I don’t make out to find much
time for it before I get home o’ nights,” make for ourselves,” he retorted. "One
day, according to your creed, we shall
said Caleb. "Anything doin’ ?"
"Yes; they are having a hot time in stand naked before your Ood, and be
Chicago and Pullman. The strike is fore each other. In that day you will
spreading all over the country on sym know what you have done to me to
night. No, don't speak, please; let me
pathy lines."
"Reckon it’ll get down to us in any finish. The last time we were together
you gave me a strong word, and—and
way?" queried the Iron-master.
"You can’t tell. I ’d be a little easy you kissed me. For the sake of that
with Ludlow and his outfit on that word and that kiss I went out Into the
wage scale. If I were you. We don’t world a different man. For the little
want a row on our hands Just now. fragment of your love that you gave
Farley might make capital out of it." me then, I havs lived a different man
Tom took an electric car for the foot from that day to this. Now you shall
of Lebanon on tho line connecting with see what I shall be without It."
Before he had finished she had turn
the Inclined railway running up the
mountain to Crestcllffe Inn. He had ed from him gasping, choking, strang
ling
In the grip of a mighty passion,
not seen Ardea since the midwinter
night of soul-awakenings; and Alecto’s new-born and yet not new. With tho
finger was still pressing on the wound suddenness of a revealing flash of
inflicted by the closed doors of Moun lightning she understood; knew that
tain View avenue and his father’s (11s- she loved him, that she had been lov
ing him from childhood, not because,
dlrected sympathy.
He found Major Dabney on the hotel but in spite of everything, as he had
veranda, and his welcome was not once defined love. It was terrible,
She
scanted here, at least The moment heartbreaking, soul-destroying.
being auspicious, Tom sounded the called on shame for help, but shame
master of the Deer Trace coal lands on had fled. She was cold with a horrible
the reorganization scheme, and found fear lest he should find out and she
nothing but complaisance. Whatever should be forever lost in the bottomless
rearrangement commended Itself to pit of humiliation.
It was the sight of the little orange-
Tom and his father, and to Colonel
Duxbury Farley, would be acceptable colored spot glowing and growing be
yond the Chlawassee chimneys that
to the Major.
*
"I reckon I can trust you, Tom, and saved her.
’.’Look!” she cried. "Isn’t that a fire
my ve’y good friend, youh fatheh, to
watch out for Ardea's little fo’tune," down In the valley Just across the pike
was the way he put it. "I had planned fiom the furnace? It Is a fire!”
He made a field-glass of his hands
to give her a little suhprlse on her
wedding-day; suppose you have tho and looked long and steadily.
"You are quite right,” he said, cool
lawyehs make out that block of new
stock to Mistress Vincent Farley in ly. "It’s my foundry. Can you get
back
to the hotel alone? If you can,
stead of to me?"
“Of course, Major Dabney, If you say I’ll take the short cut down through
so. But wouldn’t it be more prudent the woods. Good-night, and—good-
to make It over In trust for her and by.” And before she could reply, he
her children before she becomes Mrs. had lowered himself over the cliff’s
edge and was crashing through the un
Farley?”
"Tell me, Tom, have you had youh derbrush on the slopes below.
suspicions in that qua’teh, too? I’m
speaking In confidence to a family
C H A P T E R XXTTI.
friend, suh."
If Thomas Gordon, opening his eyes
"It is Just as well to be on the safe to consciousness on the mid-week
Side," said Tom, evasively. There was morning, felt the surprise which might
enough of the uplift left to make him naturally grow out of the sight of A r
reluctant to strike his enemy in the dea sitting In a low rocker at his bed
dark.
side, he did not evince It, possibly be
"No, suh, that isn’t what I mean. cause there were other and more per
You've had youh suspicions aroused. plexing things for the tired brain to
Tell me, suh, what they are."
grapple with first.
"Suppose you tell me yours, Major,"
For the moment he did not stir or
smiled the younger man.
try to speak. There was a long dream
Major Dabney became reflectively somewhere In the past In which he had
reminiscent. “I don’t know, Tom, and tjeen lost In the darkness, stumbling
that’s the plain fact
Looking buck and groping and culling her
to
oveh oub acquaintance, thah’s nothing come and lead him out to life and
in that young man for me to put a fln- light. It must have been a dream, he
geh on; but, Tom, I tell you in confi argued, and perhaps this was only a
dence, suh. I’d give five yeahs of my continuation of It. Yes. no; she was
old life, If the good Lord has that many there in visible presence, bending over
mo’ in His book for me, if the blood a tiny embroidery frame; and they
of the Dabneys didn’t have to be—uh— a ere alone together.
mingled with that of these heaft Yan
"Ardea!" ho said, tremulously.
kees. I would, for a fact, suh."
She looked up. and her eyes were
"Then you’ll let me place your third like cooling wellsprings to quench the
of the new stock In trust for her and fever fires In his.
"You are better," she said, rising.
her children?" he said. "That will bo
best, on all accounts. By tho way, 'T il go and call your mother."
"W alt a minute," he pleaded; then
where shall I find Miss Ardea?"
"She’s about the place, somewhahs," his hand found the bandage on his
was the reply; and Tom passed on to forehead. "What happened to me?"
"Don’t you remember? Two men
the electrlc-llghted lobby to send his
tried to rob you last Saturday evening
card In search of her.
Chance saved him the trouble. Some as you were coming home. Ope of
one was playing In the music-room an I them struck you."
"Saturday? And this Is-----*•
he recognized her touch and turned
"This Is Wednesday.”
aside to stand under the loopod por
The
cool preciseness of her replies
tieres. She was alone, and again, as
Bi&ny times before, it came on him with cut him to the heart. He did not need
the sense of discovery that she wan to ask her why she had cotne. It was
radiantly beautiful—that for him she mere nelghborllness, and not for him,
had no peer among women. There hut for his mother. He remembered
was no greeting, no welcoming light In the Saturday evening quite clearly
ths slate-blue eyes; and she did not now: Jnpheth's shout; the two men
seem to see when he came nearer and springing on him; tho instant Just pro-
ceding the crash of the blow when he
offered to shuke hands.
had recognized one of his assailants
T v s been talking to your grandfath
sr for an hour or more," he began, “and and guessed the Identity of tho other.
"It was no more than right that you
I was Just going to send my card after
you. Haven’t you a word of welcom* should come,” he said, bitterly. "It
was the least you could do, since your
for me, Ardea?"
“Do you think you deserve a welcom <
She was moving toward the door, and
from any self-respecting woman?" sh«
his ungrateful outburst had the effect
asked, In low tones.
"Why shouldn't I?” he demanded of stopping her. But she did not go
•What have I done to make ever> back to him.
"I owe your mother anything she
woman 1 meet look at me as if I were
likes to ask," she affirmed. In the same
a leper?”
colorless
tone.
•You know very well what you havs
"And you owe me nothing at all, you
done," she said evenly. "If you had a
■park of manhood left In you, you would say. I might controvert that.
would know what a dastardly thing you But no matter; we have passed the
are doing now In coming here to see Saturday and have come to the Wed
nesday. Where Is Norman? Hasn't
ms.”
"Well, I don’t." he returned, dogged he been here?"
"He has been with you almost con
ly. "And another thing: I’m not to he
put off with hard words I ask you stantly from the first. He was here
again what has happened? Who hai less than an hour ago."
"Where Is he now?"
been lying about me this time?”
She hesitated. "There Is urgency of
"You were Intending to walk down >o
some
kind In your business affairs.
the valley?” she asked.
Your father spent the night In South
He nodded.
"I will walk with you to the cliff Tredegar; and a little while ago he
telephoned for Mr. Norman from the
edge."
It was a short hundred yards, and Iron-worka, I think." She had moved
there were many abroad In the grsv- Away again, and her hand was on the
•led walks: lovers In pairs, and groups door-knob.
“ You are In a desperate hurry,
of young people pensive or ehsttertng.
00 It was not until they stood on the aren't you?” he gritted; though the
vary battlements of the western cliff teeth grinding was from the pain It
cost him to move. "Would you mind
that they were measurably alone.
"Has no on* told you what happen handing me that desk telephone before
ed last March on the day of the lc* you go?"
“ If you wish to speak to some one,
storm?" she asked, coldly.
perhaps I oould do It for you.” she sug
"No."
"I used to think I knew you," she gested. quite In the trained nurse tone.
"If you could stretch your good-will
said, faltering, "but I don’t. Why don't
you despise hypocrisy and double-deal to— to my mother that far," he sail.
T lea se call my office—number flve-
ing as you used to?"
twenty-elx-G and ask for Mr. Nor
"I do; more heartily than ever."
"Tom. It Is a terrible thing to say - man.’’
She complied, but with only a strange
•nd your punishment will be terrible.
young woman stenographer at the oth
But you must m»rry Nancy!"
er
end of the wire, a word of explana
He was standing on the brink of the
cliff. looking down on Panidtse Valiev, tion was necessary. "This la Mies
spread like a silver-etched may far I'abney. at Wood I awn. Mr. Gordon Is
below In the moonlight The flare and better, and he wishes to say—what did
sough of the furnace at the Iron-works you want to aay ?" she asked, turning
came and went with regular Intermlt- tc him.
"Just ask what'a going on; If it’s
tency; and Just beyond the group of
Chlswassee stacks s tiny orange spot Norman you’ve got. he’ll know," aaid
appeared and disappeared tike a will- Tom, sinking back on ths pillows.
o’ -the-wisp lie a as staring down at
Whst the stenographer had to aay
ths curious spot when he said;
took some little time, and Ardea'e col
"If I say that I have no duty toward or came and went In hot flashes and
Nan. you will believe it is a lie—as | her eyes grew large and thoughtful as
you did once before. Have you ever j she lletened. When she put the ear-
reflected that It Is possible to trample . pteoe down and apoke to the tick man.
on love until It dies even such lov# as her tens wsa kinder.
1 boar you?*
"T. ere Is an Important business
meeting going on over at ths rurqpce
office, and Mr. Norman is there with
your father," she said. “The stenog
rapher wants me to ask you about
some papers Mr. Norman thinks you
m iv havs, and----- ”
She stopped In deference to the yel
low pallor that was creeping like a cu
rious mask over the face of the mart
In the bed. Through all the strain of
the last twenty hours she had held her
self well In hand, doing for him only
what she might have done for a sick
and suffering stranger. But there were
limits beyond which love refused to be
driven.
"Tom !" she gasped, rising quickly to
go to him.
"Walt," he muttered; "let me pull
myself together. I— I'm weaker than a
girl," he whispered. "Vince— I mean
the thug, hit me a lot harder than he
needed to. What was I saying?—oh.
yes;
ths papers. W ill you—will you
j
j go over there In the corner by the door
and look behind the mopboard? You
will find a piece of it sawed so It will
come out in the wall behind it there
ought to be a package."
She found It readily—a thick packet
securely tied with heavy twine and a
little charred at the corners.
“That’s I t ” he said, weakly. "Now
one more last favor; please send Aunt
’Phrony up as you go down. Tell her
I want my clothes."
“ You are not going to get up?" she
said.
"Yes, I must; I’m due this minute at
that meeting down yonder."
"Indeed, you shall do no such Insane
thing!" she cried. "What are you
thinking o f!"
"Listen!" he commanded. "My fath
er has worked hard all his life, and he’s
right old now, Ardea. If I should fail
him—but I'm not going to. Please send
Aunt ’Phrony."
She consented finally, and as she was
leaving him, she said:
"I hope your mother is still asleep.
She was here with you all night, and
Mr. Norman and I made her go to bed
at daybreak. If you must go, get out
of the house as quietly as you can, and
I'll have Pete and the buggy waiting
for you at the gate.”
(T o be continued.)
COST OF OCEAN GREYHOUNDS.
W ill
llrln ff A b ou t
New
Tendency
In T r a n s - A t l a n t i c S e rv ice .
One of the modt striking features In
connection with the North Atlantic
shipping trade during the last ten or
twelve years has been the great In
crease In the cost of fast steamships,
says the London Times. In 1899 th<e
Augusta Victoria cost about £200,000.
The Deutschland of the Hamburg-
American Company cost £560,000 and
the Kalserln Augusta Victoria nearly
£700,000. The Mauretania and^Lusl-
tania cannot ha^ve cost much less than
£1,400,000 eacn, and the two new
giant vessels which are being built
for the White Star Line service be
tween Southampton and New York
will probably cost nearly as much.
It la somewhat curious In connection
with this point that the Hamburg-
Amerlcan company should be able to
obtain consistently better results than
the Norddeutscher Lloyd, and perhaps
one explanation of this Is to be found
In the fact that the fleet of the Ham-
burg-Amerlcan company consists main
ly of the Intermediate type, whereas
the fleet of the North German Lloyd,
like that of the Cunard company, con
tains a high percentage of vessels of
the express type. The theory used
to be held that the larger the steamer
the greater the profit, but there ap
pears to be a limitation to the appli
cation of this theory In the case of
the large fast vessels which have been
recently Introduced. It Is not Incon
ceivable that the general tendency of
the trade will In future lie In the di
rection of Improving the accomoda
tion offered the steerage passengers,
who, after all, are ths backbone of the
business
Jlm n on
J u ice.
The chemist who will extract the
bleaching principle irom the common
Jlmson weed and place It within reach
of family and laundry use has a for
tune In store. It Is a well known fact
that there Is no better way of bleach
ing the family linen during washing
than by putting a few leaves of Jlm-
sou In the boiler; but there Is an ob
jection to thla practice, as a very un
pleasant odor Is the result. This can
be removed, however, by placing thj
clothes In cold water and boiling
them, or by repeated rinsings, but all
this Is troublesome, and therefore
many who know the value of the
leaves do not use them.— Eternal
Progress.
nml
D u o d ecim a l..
Herbert Spencer offered a character
istically original system of reckoning.
He clung to the duodecimal system,
mainly because twelve can be divided
by three and four as ten cannot. But
he suggested that all the advanatnges
of both systems might be combined by
making twelve the basis of calculation.
Inventing two new digits to take th*
places of ten and eleven and making
twelve times twelve the hundred.
Spencer scornfully remarked that the
decimal system rests solely on the fact
that man has ten fingers and ten toes.
I f he had had twelve “ there never
would have been any difficulty."
A
q u a in t
E p ita p h .
Here Is an epitaph which may be
road In an English churchyard at
tached to Leamington church:
"Here lies the body of Lady OT,oo-
ney, grandniece of nurke. commonly
called the sublime. She was Bland.
Passionate and Deeply Religious; also
she painted In water colors and sent
several pictures to the exhibition Shy
was the Intimate friend of Lady Jones.
And of such Is the kingdom of
Heaven."______________
G ood
K illin g .
"Strange how some fellows look st
things“
"How now?"
"Wall, there’s young Gately, waiting
for dead men's shoes; he never can
All tlism In the world.”
"But he expects they will be Huffed
out with gilt edged bonds."— Boston
Herald.
_
_____
I 'l M M l .
Bacon- What in the world la that
rooster «rowing so aboutT
Hfebsrt— Why. he’s Just discovered
an egg that's never been In cold M cr
ag* Yookem Statesman
M a t u r e * , o r * n Mr*». . . . ,
He— Do you use pasteurised m llkf
She- I suppose to. It comes from a
past u retted
row.
anyway.— Boston
Evening Transcript
CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Joings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Resume o f Important Events
Presented In Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
Floods in Northern Italy are becom
ing serious and many villages are iso
lated.
Aldrich and Lodge intimate that
they are willing to revise the tariff
piecemeal.
Representative Tawney, o f Minne
sota, may succeed Ballinger as secre
tary of the interior.
Roosevelt announces he is in favor
o f a radical program o f reform, to be
enacted by conservatives.
Mexican rebels were routed in a
stubborn fight in which they loBt 70
men, while the government loss was
14, including two officers.
Dr. George Edgar Vincent, o f the
University o f Chicago, has been elect
ed president o f the University o f Min
nesota, at a salary o f $10,000 a year.
The Aero club o f New York has
challenged the Royal Aero club of Eng
land to an all-round contest for the
aeroplane championship of the world.
Six men were drowned by the capsiz
ing of a launch on the Snohomish riv
er, Washington. The boat was being
rocked by three drunken loggers on top
o f the cabin.
RO O SE VE LT SPEAKS.
Addresses Chamber o f Commerce
on Radical Reforms.
New Haven, Conn.— In the first pub
lic address he has delivered since the
recent election. Colonel Roosevelt de
clared at the annual banquet of the
chamebr of commerce here that he was
a radical who ‘ ‘ most earenstly desired
to see a radical program carried out by
conservatives.”
He wanted to see great reforms car
ried out not by the men who will profit
by them, but by the men who will lose
by them, he said. He wanted men to
have a fair start in the race, he de
clared, another time; he did not want
the slow man to win.
Colonel Roosevelt was greeted cor
dially by a gathering o f 600 represen
tatives o f the business and commercial
interests and the professions o f the
state
The banquet had more than ordinary
significance through the presence of
the guest, who recently was in contro
versy with Judge Simeon E. Baldwin,
governor-elect, who had been invited
to attend. Judge Baldwin was not
present and the place assigned to him
at the guests' table bore mute evi
dence o f his absence.
Colonel Roosevelt was escorted from
New York by a committee of the
chamber, and upon his arrival at the
station a large and enthusiastic crowd
was waiting.
With a wave o f his
hand the colonel acknowledged their
greeting, and with a hearty laugh and
happy remark to those who reached
forth to shake his hand he edged his
way through the crowd to an automo
bile. Colonel Roosevelt was driven to
the home of Colonel I. M. Ullraan,
president of the chamber of commerce,
where friends were waiting to greet
him. From there, later, he went to
the banquet hall.
84 SLAIN IN BATTLE .
By an imperial order the ban against
Jews in Moscow, Russia, has been re Mexican Rebels Beaten With Loss o f
Seventy Men.
moved.
Laredo, Tex.— Seventy Mexican rev
The deficit in the Postal department
has dwindled $11,000,000 during the olutionists were killed and a small
number wounded in battle with Feder
past year.
al troops in Cerro Prieto, state of
A Missouri man has established his
Chihuahua, according to a telegram re
claim to a $10,000 estate by a. peculi
ceived here by Michael de Ibold, M exi
arity in his voice.
can consul stationed at Nueva Laredo,
It is announced that the Klamath from Enrique Creel, Mexican minister
cut-off of the Southern Pacific will be o f foreign affairs.
The Federals are-said to have lost
finished by June, 1911.
14 men. including two officers.
Four members o f one family near
For some time a small body of al
Silverton, Or., died o f black smallpox,
leged revolutionists have been operat
and three others are seriously ill.
ing in the Chihuahua district.
They
Moorehcad, Minn., reports a temper have caused the government no alarm,
ature o f 16 below zero, and a cold wave however, and the present advices re
grips the Mississippi valley and the ceived from an official source in the
East.
capital in all probability means the
Many settlers in Western states government has suppressed the roving
have been granted leave o f absence bands that have been causing minor
from their homesteads, owing to fail disturbances.
ure o f crops.
The Federal court at Greensboro, N.
C., has decided that the ‘ ‘ white slave”
law is unconstitutional, as it interferes
with state rights.
It is rumored that Carnegie is about
to give $10,000,000 to some interna
tional organiziation, possibly the Uni
versal Peace society.
The sub committee of the senate in
vestigating committee has reported
Senator Lorimer entirely innocent of
the bribery charges againBt him.
Mexican government forces have ar
rested a prominent woman revolution
ist, who is said to be the only woman
in Mexico who knows the whereabouts
of Madero.
PEARY D E PO SITS
MEDALS.
Discoverer Puts Trophies in United
States Natural Museum.
Washington — Captain Robert E.
Peary, discoverer o f the North Pole,
has turned over to the United States
Natural Museum 16 gold and two sil
ver medals that have been awarded
him. Among these are the gold med
al presented to him by the National
Geographical society o f Washington,
for his discovery o f the North Pole,
and the gold medal of the Royal Geo
graphical society o f London, presented
to him for “ Arctic explorations 1886-
1909.” This medal was designed by
Mrs. Scott, w ife o f the leader o f the
British South Polar expeditions.
Captain Peary also deposited in the
natural museum the flag of his college
fraternity, presented to him by his
brothers o f the Delta Kappa Epsilon
and the peace flag given him by the
Society o f the Daughters of the Am er
ican Revolution. He carried both of
these with him to the North Pole.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
THRESHERM EN
TO
PO R TLAN D .
S T A T E T O USE ONE SCH O O L.
Good Roads One o f Important T op Three o f the Four Normals Will Re
ics o f Convention.
main Cloeed.
La Grande— The selection o f Port
There will probably be no state nor
land as the next meeting place, hear mal school next year except at Mon
ing a message from Judge Webster mouth, the institution provided by an
pertaining to a good roads provision initiative measure at the recent elec
tion. This is the opinion of W. B.
to be brought before the legislature,
Ayer, a member of the board of regents
and framing a law which will be placed for the state normal schools.
The
before the legislature regulating the schools at Drain, Ashland and Weston
transportation o f traction engines, con will remain idle unless the legislature
stituted the principal features o f the makes provision for their mainte
nance, which is regarded as unlikely
State Threshermen’s convention. A by those close to the situation.
bill is being drafted for introduction to
The board of regents is composed of
the next legislature by the central the governor, secretary o f state, super
board State Good reads association, intendent o f public instruction; E. E.
containing four salient features, was Bragg, o f Union county; C. E. Spence,
read and explained by Judge Webster. head o f the State Grange; Stephen
The threshermen gave unqualified sup Newell, o f Grants Pass; Henry J.
port to it later. It embodies the ap Maier, of The Dalles; E. Hofer, of
pointment of three men to name a Salem, and C. L. Starr, o f Salem.
highway commissioner for the state, The governor is chairman o f the board.
who shall direct expenditure of moneys A meeting will probably not be called
appropriated by counties and state to until the latter part o f January, when
the amount of $20,000 from each coun incoming officers who will have charge
ty Hnd $5,000 from the state for earh of the schools may be present.
“ Undoubtedly the normal school at
county.
It includes a bill providing
for bonding state and counties to that Monmouth w ill be the only one main
effect; it provides for maintenance, tained next year,” said Mr. Ayer, “ as
state prison labor on roads and for the the legislature made no appropriation
working o f prisoners in incorporated for other schools. The board o f re
gents has no power to dispose o f nor
cities and county roads.
The plan was explained in detail, and mal school property, and I suppose the
adopted.
The Iowa traction engine schools at Drain, Ashland and Weston
law, said to be a model o f its kind, will tremain idle. The meeting of the
will be copied in the bill to be pre board is subject to call of the chair
sented by the Oregon threshermen. It man. I do not think it would be ad
provides for the blowing o f whilstes at visable to call a meeting until some
stated times, stopping the engine time in JanuaryL when all the mem
when passing teams, and above all, bers, who will have direct supervision
repeals all present laws and substitutes of the normal schools, will be present.
“ A meeting in January would also
this one. The chief point in the new
bill is that after December 1, 1911, be to advantage, as the legislature will
bridges shall be built so securely that then be in session, and the board would
no bridges will have to he planked go before that body with matter per
while engines are crossing. This gives taining to the various institutions.”
the county courts over a year to per
fect their bridges.
Until that date,
Tax Exemption is Void.
bridges must be planked as now.
Salem — In response to an inquiry
The Portland meeting will be held on from C. P. Strain, county ussessor at
Friday and Saturday preceding the Pendleton, Attorney General Crawford
Rose Festival.
has submitted an opinion in which he
states that the householders’ exemp
LARGE PURCHASE OF HOPS.
tion o f $300, included in the assess
ment law o f 1907, is not valid, since
Grants Pass
Cleaned
Up— Klaber the taxation amendment to the consti
tution has become law. The attorney
Takes Over 1,800 Bales.
Portland— A ll the hops in the Grants general states that the exemption pro
Pass section o f Oregon
were
pur vision was declared unconstitutional
chased by the buyers.
A ll the lots prior to the enactment of 1907 and that
a law unconstitutional at the time o f
were taken by one firm with the ex
its enactment is void.
ception o f a lot o f 224 bales that went
to another party.
Oxford Accepts Papers.
The big blocks were taken by K la
University o f Oregon, Eugene —
ber, W olf & Netter and the single lot
by McNeff Bros.
The purchases by Word has come from Oxford uni
the Klaber firm consisted o f the Flani versity, Oxford, England, that the ex
gan & Cornell lot o f 376 bales, C. E. aminers’ board was satisfied with the
Weston, 91 bales, Horace Moses, 90 Cecil Rhodes scholarship examination
bales and several small lota that ag papers presented by Dean Collins and
gregated 28 bales. Besides these pur William E. S. John, o f the University
chases Klaber, W olf & Netter pur o f Oregon, and Henry R. Bowler and
chased 81 bales from Antone Cone at Carroll H. Wooddy, o f McMinnville
Aurora and 84 bales from Crisell Bros, college. The examinations were held
in Eugene in October and included Lat
at the same place.
McNeff Bros, purchased the DeAr- in, arithmetic and higher mathematics.
mond lot of 22 bales at Grants Pass.
Four Postmasters Named.
Klaber took 126 bales from William
Washington— Postmasters were ap
Weston at Forest Grove and 550 bales
Barlow, Clacka
in the Yakima district besides perhaps pointed as follows:
mas county, James M. Erickson; Cove,
500 bales from other local dealers.
The purchases made by Klaber are Union county, Helen M. Ramsdell;
therefore the greatest for one day in New Pine Creek. Lake county, Henry
the local hop market by a single firm. Nendt, Jr.; Willamina, Yamhill coun
The deals indicate that brewers are ty, Ora GodBey.
getting rather short o f supplies and
PO R TLA N D M AR K E TS.
are preparing for the next year's brew.
A ll told, it is now emstimated that
Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem,
there are 5,200 bales of hops remain
84c; club, 82c; red Russian, 80c; val
ing in the hands o f Oregon growers of
ley, 82c; forty-fold, 83c.
A rich Kansas woman, her son and
the 1910 crop, 6,727 o f the 1909 crop,
Barley— Feed, $22 per ton; brewing,
two hired men were beaten to death by
426 o f the 1908, 1,192 o f 1907. and 1,-
$23.
robbers.
844 of 1906, a grand total o f all
Millstuffs— Bran, $24(925 per ton;
growth in growers’ hands here of 15,-
A New York hotel keeper died of
middlings, $29(9 31; shorts, $26.50@26;
389 bales.
fright resulting from being held up by
rolled barley, $24.60(925.50.
The price paid by Klaber, as well as
Olympia Seems Doomed.
two negro highwaymen.
Hay— Track prices: Timothy, W il
Valdez, Alaska— The chance o f re McNeff, was not made public, but it is lamette valley, $20(922 per ton; East
Women voters in Washington are covering the cargo o f the steamship understood to be better _than 13 cents
ern Oregon, $23(924; alfalfa, $14(915;
now worried over the fact that they Olympia, or saving the ship, ¡ b ex — perhaps 13% cents.
grain hay, $14.50(915.50; clover, $13(9
are also subject to jury service.
ceedingly small, according to officers
14.
Claim
Brings
$20,000.
The Portland Gas company has or of the steamship Dora, which visited
Corn— Whole, $29; cracked, $30 ton.
Grants Pass— Considerable interest
dered about 13,COO tons of pipe to be the wreck and took off the perishable
Oats — No. 1 white, $27.50(9)28.60.
is being manifested in the mining dis
part
o
f
the
cargo,
including
meats.
used in extending its service the com
Poultry— Hens, 15c pound; springs,
tricts of thiB county. A big deal was
The
Dora
subsequently
called
at
Ella-
ing year.
14%c; ducks, white, 16(917c; geese,
closed
this
week
in
-which
a
Los
An
mar and took on board United States
An Oregon man claims that inhaling District Judge Edward E. Cushman, geles capitalist purchased a placer 12c; turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, 22(9
che fumes from an empty whiskey Mrs. Cushman and the other women claim for $20,000 from R. A. Dean 23c; squabs. $2 per dozen.
Eggs—Oregon ranch, candled, 45c
task has cured several cases o f con and children who were passengers and H. A. Corliss.
Considerable ma
per dozen; Eastern, Aprils, 32c; East
sumption.
on the Olympia, and brought them to chinery will be installed this winter ern fresh, 38c.
for operation purposes.
A fter an all-day artillery duel in Valdez.
Butter— City creamery, solid pack,
In the Waldo district, New York
which over 200 were killed, a mutinous
37c per pound; butter fat, 36(937c;
capitalists
have
¿entered
the
field
and
Garment
Strike
Still
On.
battalion o f the Brazilian navy was
Eastern, 31(934c.
Chicago— A plan for the settlement have succeeded in taking over the
subdued and captured.
Pork— Fancy, lO fjille per pound.
Deep
Gravel
and
the
Simmons
Camer
o f the garment workers’ strike, sub
Veal— Fancy, 85 to 125 pounds, 12%
A Chicago woman charges that
mitted by one o f the big firms and ap on mines. The new concern is incor <9 13%c per pound.
grand jury secrets were divulged to the
proved by the Chicago Federation of porated under the name o f the Waldo
Apples— King, 40(975c per box;
Brick trust by a division superintend
Labor, was not accepted by the strik Consolidated company, with a capital W olf river, 75c(</$l; Waxen, 75c(<i$l;
ent in the department of justic.
stock
of
$2,000,000,
half
o
f
which
was
ers. The arbitration plan was not sub
Baldwin, 75c(9$1.25; Northern Spy,
Large forces of Mexican government mitted to all the strikers as had been spent in purchasing mining interests 75c(9 $1.25; Snow, $1.25(9)1.60; Spitz-
and
improvements.
O.
A
.
Turner,
of
troops and revolutionists are camped planned, only a small portion voting.
enbergs, $1.25(9 2; Winter Banana,
about 40 miles apart, receiving rein
Members o f the Order o f Railroad Broadway N. Y., is at_the head o f the $1.75(9 3.50.
forcements and preparing for a battle. Telegraphers announce that the threat organization.
-J Green Fruits—Pears, $1.26(9)2 per
ened strike on the Philadelphia A Read
box; grapes, $1(9)1.35; cranberries,
The 4-year-old daughter o f Frank ing railroad has been declared off.
Portage Road Must Be Moved.
$10.50(911 per barrel.
Petillo, o f Red Bank, N. J., was re
Salem— According to J. P. Newell,
Vegetables — Beans, 10(911c per
turned to her home unharmed after
engineer for the state’s portage road pound; cabbage. $1(91.25 per hundred;
Mine Explosion is Fatal.
being held by kidnapers since October
Seattle— Two miners were killed and around Celilo rapids, the officials o f cauliflower, $2(</2.25 per crate; celery,
10 last.
three probably fatally injured by an the portage road have been notified by j California, $3(9.3.25 per crate; pump
The census bureau announces that explosion in the Northwestern Im the United States government that kins, 1(91 %c per pound; sprouts, 7
the United States flag now waves over provement company’ s mine at Ravens- , about three miles of the state’s track | (98c; squash, l(9 l% c ; tomatoes, $1.25
101,100,000 people, while the state of dele. The dead are Duncan Bale and bed is laid on the government’s right ; per box; carrots, $1(91.25 per hundred;
Washington has made the most rapid Louis Faurife. The injured are; Frank o f way, and will have to be moved. 1 parsnips, $1(91.25; turnips, $1; beets,
growth in the past ten years.
Radenski, burned, leg broken, injured Some o f the present track bed will . $1.25(91.50.
have to be moved one and one-half
Potatoes— Oregon, $1.25 hundred.
The secretary o f state has decided by inhaling flames; Mike Danshuk,
miles. M. Newell was in Salem re
Onions— Oregon, jobbing price, $1.40
that this country cannot protect a man burned and injured internally; Gus
cently
getting
maps
for
the
purpose
of
(91.50 per hundred.
from military duty in his native land, Manley, bruised and burned; Robert
laying out a new survey which will not
Cattle— Prime steers, $5.75(96; good
if he should return there, even though Burns, injured internally. It is sup
interfere with the government work.
to choice. $5.25(95.75; fair to good,
he may have taken out naturalization posed an old fire broke through a thin
wall and caused an explosion o f gas
$4.75(95.25; common, $4(04.50; choice
papers here.
Hear Good Roads Lecture.
and mine dust.
I to prime cows, $4.75(95;
good to
La Grande— Threshermen in conven choice, beef cows, $4.25(9 4.75; fair to
The foreman o f the scaffold gang on
Italy Floods Menacing,*.
tion here listened to a good roads lec good. $3.75(94.25; common to fair, $2
a Portland skyscraper waved a salute
to his brother, who was working on an
Rome—So serious have the floods ture by Lionel Webster, the Portland («3.50; good to choice heifers, $4.75(9
other skyscraper a block away, and the become, particularly in the Northern attorney. The line o f legislation which 5; fair to good, $4.50(94.75; common
next instant stepped backward off the part of Italy, through the increased the good roads people will present was to fair, $4(9 4.25; choice to good fat
scaffold and was hurled to death on the rains, that the king has expressed nis explained in detail, and it is believed bulls, $4(9 4.25: fa ir to good, $3 50(94;
pavement 120 feet below.
intention to visit the inundated dis the threshermen will support the line common. $2.50(9 3.50; good choice light
tricts and thereby give encouragement o f amendments which the state roads calves. $7(9 7.50; fair to good, $6.50*9
The Southern Pacific will install on to the inhabitants. Grave damage is ; people want. The legislative commit 7; good to choice heavy calves, $5.25(9
its passenger trains cars providing reported from all quarters. Many v il tee o f the threshermen went on record 6; fair to good, $4.75(>t5.25; common,
regular lunch counter service to trav lages are practically isolated ¿and pro as ¿opposed to the proposed bridge $3.75(94.75; good to choice stags,
visions are being carried to the people planking laws.
$4.50(96; fair to good. $4(94 50.
elers.
by boats. Hundreds o f soldiers and
Hogs — Choice. $7.75(98; good to
Grants Pass School to Be Modem choice, $7.60(97.75.
Marion W. Roberts, o f Salem. Or., • private citizens are engaged in the
Grants Pass— The board o f school
Sheep— Yearling wethers, grain fed,
died o f g rie f over the death o f his work o f aiding sufferers.
directors o f this city have decided to $4.75(96; old, grain fed. $4.25(94.50;
brother, who was murdered near that
Fire Engines Go 30 Miles.
equip the new high school building choice ewes, grain fed. 3.75(94; good
city some weeks ago.
The con to choice, grain fed. $3.25(93.76; feed
Louisville. K y .— Fire which started . with the best o f furniture.
An anonymous Japanese admiral, in the Radoliffe-Overstreet general j tract has been let to sn Eastern Arm ers. $2.25(93; choice lambs, grain fed,
store, at La Grange. Ky., 30 miles for 200 pupils' and ten teachers' desks. $5 .10(9 6; good to choice, grain fed,
writing for a Tokio newspaper, warns
1 from here, threatens to destroy an en- The assembly room w ill be provided $5. 75<96; poor lambs, $4.95(96.
his country to prepare for an inevita i tire block. Fire apparatus is being 1 with 100 solid oak extension-arm lec
Hay fed sheep and lambs 50c lower
ble war with the United States.
1 rushed to La Grange from Lou isville.1 ture chairs.
than grain fed.
A new $30,000 Presbyterian church
has just been completed at Corvallis,
Or.