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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. G eneral Resume o f Im p ortan t Events Presented in Condensed F orm fo r O u r Busy Readers. The senate has voted for campaign publicity and a limit on election ex penses. A rival o f Lumberman Hines says the latter boasted that he personally elected Senator Lorimer. Canada is threatened with a coal fam ine, owing to the Btrike o f miners at the Crows Nest collieries. I^ouisiana sugar planters declare the free importation o f sugar would mean the death o f that industry in the South. Every boy and girl in Portland un- der 10 years o f age will be given free auto ride by the Portland auto club on July 26. It is asserted that the alleged Con troller Bay coal land scandal in Alaska is purely a conception o f two or three professional muckrakers. B A T T L E S H IP M A IN E EXPOSED. Bottom ot C r a ft Is Bent U p w a r d - Hull Deep in M ud. Havana, July 19.— The process o f removing the water surrounding the wreck o f the Maine was virtually completed this afternoon, when the water in the cofferdam was lowered, leaving the wreck surrounded by is lets o f mud and slime. The depth at no place is greater than four feet. The engineers are now confronted with the serious problem o f removing the mud in which the remains o f the battleship are embedded from a min imum o f 37 feet to a depth that can only be conjectured. Although the water is now only two feet lower than in previous pumping operations, revelations regarding the shattered hulk have been vastly en larged by the outspreading o f the dis torted frames and plating, especially in the forward section where the ex plosion was most felt. The structure o f the bow as far aft as frame 18 is now exposed, permit ting an analysis o f the plates, beams, ribs, etc., and it has been shown con clusively that they originally belonged to the structure o f the double bottom, which fs now elevated to a height o f about 40 feet above the normal posi tion, apparently givin g confirmatory evidence o f a tremendous exterior ex plosion. To this view, however, the en gineers decline to commit themselves, merely admitting the identification o f parts off the bottom o f the ship. GO LD SEC R ETS T O LD . Tacoma city officers have neglected to collect about $35,000 in city liquor licenses, besides $3 each from the 82 Mining drug stores who deal in ice cream, etc. Portland citizens are prohibited from using city water for irrigation except for three hours each morn ing, owing to a shortage in the sup ply. For the week beginning Aug. 15, New York women will abstain from ice cream, fancy cooling drinks, roof garden parties, etc., and turn over all the money saved to the suffragettes o f California. It is said the Hamburg-American Steamship company is negotiating for the purchase o f a large tract o f land at Portland, including | 2,000 feet o f water frontage, for the purpose o f es tablishing a great trans-Pacitic steamer service. Wholesale lumber dealers are to be investigated by the government. Forest fires in Northern Ontario are reported under control, with at least 400 dead. Railroads are placing big orders for cars and locomotives. A Salem, Or., minister has married members o f three generations o f the same family. A potato price war occurred at Spo kane, and the tubers retailed at 30 pounds for 26 cents. M en In Big Convention at G rants Pass. Grants Pass, Or., July 19. — This city is filled today with mining dele gates and representative mining men from Northern California and South ern Oregon counties. The largest body o f mining men that has gathered for one purpose in years ¡ b now here to disseminate mining knowledge and stimulate interest through a course o f lectures that are inviting and instruc tive. The big meeting was called to order by O. S. Blanchard, who gave an ad dress o f welcome. It was responded to by President Young, o f the miners’ association, who presided over the afternoon exercises. The principal lecture work fell upon W. S. Bacon, o f Kerby; Dr. J. F. Reddy, o f Med ford; George C. Bennett, o f Horn- brook, and L. D. Mahone, o f Portland. The exercises will continue tonight in the opera house. Hundreds o f persons today passed through the exhibit room and saw what is probably the largest collection o f minerals ever put on display in Oregon. Gold and copper mining men say that the wealth o f Southern Oregon and Northern California is here shown for the first time, as it should have been shown years ago. CHO LERA HARD T O DETECT. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE C A L L FOR A P P L E S F IR M . N o rth w e s t F ru it E x p e rt Sees Dem and in East. O R E G O N C H E R R IE S IN L E A D . G reat San Francisco F irm Acquires Display at Salem F air. Hood R iver — "Over-production shouldn’ t worry the Northwestern ap- plegrower," said C. R. Greisen, assis tant editor o f Better Fruit, who has just returned from a tour that carried him to all o f the larger cities o f the United States. "T h e problem to be worked out is that o f distribution. Out o f the 53 cities that I visited, in an anstonish- ingly large number I found few ap ples on sale. In such places as Oma ha, Denver, Kansas City and Des Moines the few apples that were on the market were selling at prices ranging from $2.75 to $4 a box. Practically the same conditions were found in every city except New York and Chicago. "These cities are crowded with box apples. Any amount o f apples could be bought on the streets o f Chicago for $1.25 a box. Chicago has storage in transit privileges and a hardship is worked on cities o f the surrounding territory, which should be able to dis tribute fruit to adjacent territory far better than it can be distributed from the one point. For that reason, St. I,ouis, which should be equally as good a distributing point as Chicago, js handling practically no box apples. " I t was certainly a pleasure for me to behold the wonderful apples on the streets in New York. The Hood R iv er Newtowns looked as handsome as any Newtowns Hood River has ever placed on exhibit. However, Hood River must keep up the splendid pack that has made it famous, for all the sections o f the Northwest are putting up a good pack." Mr. Griesen said that red apples will meet with a far better demand than the yellow varieties. The de mand will be better both in this coun try and abroad, he said, and he ad vises growers to set more orchards to red apples. E X P E R IM E N T L A N D F IX E D . 2 0 0 A cres F o r F arm School Chosen N e a r Burns. Burns- The Harney county commis sioners’ court has selected a tract o f land embracing 200 acres six miles east o f Burns, as a site for the agri cultural experiment station. It is situated in a road section, now owned by the Oregon & Western Colonization company on the north side o f the main county road leading from Burns to Lawen, Harriean and the eastern part o f the valley. It is dry, sagebrush soil o f a charac ter similar to the prevailing land of Harney valley, and the experiments there demonstrated will be a guide for farmers in nearly all parts o f the sur rounding country. President David son, o f the Colonization company, has writter to the court giving that body free rein to set its own price on the land, expressing his appreciation of the great value the experiment station will be to the country in general and, therefore, to the company. A representative o f the State agri cultural college is expected here in a short time to superintend the construc tion o f huildings and other improve ments on the property, for which the county court will make provisions at once. For the sub-stations which w ill be established later, there are free offers o f land in various parts o f the county, as the settlers are fully sensible of the great benefit to be derived. A San Francisco policeman died Disease Does N o t Develop fo r Days, from the effects o f being struck on M akin g Fight Difficult. the head by a baseball. New York, July 19.— How difficult Governor Deneen, o f Illinois, em it is to exclude cholera was brought phatically denies that he helped Lori- out in testimony heard today at the mer’s election to the senate. investigation o f Dr. Doty’s adminis tration. Emil Lederer, in charge of PO RTLAND M ARKETS. the steerage department o f the Ham Wheat— Track prices: Bluestem, burg-American line, testified that the 94(<i)96c; club, h lc; Russian, 80c; first case o f cholera on board the valley, 81c; 40-fold, 81c. Moltke did not develop until 22 days M illstuffs— Bran, $24.500/25 per after the passengers had first been ton; middlings, $31; shorts, $25.50 quarantined in Italy. (<u26; rolled barley, $29(//)30. All the immigrants at Genoa, Pa Barley— Choice feed, $25.500/ 26 per lermo and Naples, where cholera is ton. now epidemic, had been held five days Oats -No. 1 white, $260/27 per ton. in quarantine before they were em Hay— Timothy, new, $160/ 19; old, barked and there was no sign o f chol $180/)21; alfalfa, new, $12.50; clover, era among them when the ship sailed. T IM B E R L A N D S T A P P E D . new, $8.60(o 9; grain hay, new, $11. Dr. Doty said tonight that the situ Fresh fruits- -Cherries. 3}0/9c per ation in this port was encouraging and pound; apricots, $1.25(0 1.60 per fears o f a cholera invasion are being T o le d o -to -S ile tz Line to Be Built crate; cantaloupes, $2.50 per crate; allayed. W ithin a Y e a r. peaches, 86c(o$1.25 per crate; water Toledo— A contract has been signed melons,. 2 ( 0 ) 2Jc per pound; plums, Convicts C atch C onvict. here by a group o f citizens o f this $1.60 per crate; raspberries, $10/1.65 Reno, Nev. — When Jim Antone, county to build and operate a railroad per crate; loganberries, $l(o 1.35 per crate; blackcaps, $1.50(o 1.66; plums, embezzler, escaped from the road gang from Toledo into the Siletz timber o f convicts near ('arson Wednesday country. Under this agreement the $1.S0* « j :1 .75 per box; prunes, $1.50 afternoon, W. A. Wilson, serving 20 local promoters agree to furnish right (dll.75 per box ; blackberries, $1.50(0 years for murder, A. B. Nelson, serv- o f wny and depot grounds at Toledo 1.66; currants, 10c per pound; goose iug eight years for horse stealing, and and Siletz. berries, 7c; new apples, $1.75(o2 per James Lyle, serving 10 years for man It is announced that work will begin box. slaughter, headed a | k > ssc and captured in 60 days and that the road be com Vegetables — Asparagus, 760/85c him in the mountains. Antone, when pleted in one year. This road will per dozen; beans, 5(o 10c per pound; cabbage, $2(0-2.25 per hundred captured, was roundly abused by the open up one o f the heaviest timber others for breaking his word not to es belts in Oregon and its promotion has w eight; corn, 40(o 50c per dozen; cu cumbers, $1(0.1.25 per box; eggplant, cape. The convicts swore a month ago only waited the assurance o f deep 16c per pound; garlic, lOfo 12c per that they would capture the next man water from Toledo to the ocean. who escaped. pound; lettuce, 30(o 35c per dozen; Coal Ledge Discovered. hothouse lettuce, $1.25(0 1.75 per box; Island Revolt It Halted Oregon City— A ledge o f coal three peas, 4oi5c per pound; peppers, 12} New York, July 19.— Uncle Sam’s feet thick, and which is believe«! to OD 16c per pound; radishes, 12}c per dozen; rhubarb, 2}(o3c per pound; to first official "discourager o f revolu extend through a large hill, has been The matoes, $1.76(0 2 per box; new car tions” landed here today to report a found on a farm near Molalla. rots, $2 per sack; turnips, $2; beets. successful mission in Porto Rico. He finder brought several samples o f the is Joseph R. Darling, special agent of coal to the office o f Clyde McCrea in » 2 . Potatoes- New Oregon. 2}(o 2}c per the department o f justice, and he has this city, but asked that his name be just told o f having held for trial Gen withheld until he is certain that he pound; new California, 2|(o3c. Onions— Red, $1.76; white, $2 per eral Carlos F. Morales, ex-president o f will derive the benefit from his dis the Santo Domingo republic, and covery. There is little lustre to the hundred. Poultry Hens, 15(ol5}c; springs. General Maurice Jiminez, ex-vice coal, but it is considered as go«>d, if They are charged with not Ix'tter than much o f that mined in 18(u.'20c; ducks, young, 14}(ol6c; president. geese, 11c; turkeys, 20c; dressed, violating the neutrality laws in at- Washington and w ill’ undoubtetlly tempting to organize a military expe- make a practical fuel. choice, 25c. Eggs Oregon ranch, candled, 24(o dition against their country. Sixty Bushels to Acre P redicted. 26c per dozen. Bells W o rk e rs ’ Signal. Elgin Preparations are in order Butter— City creamery extra, 1 and San Diego, Cal., July 19.— Senor for the caring for the immense grain 2 pound prints, in boxes, 26c per pound; less than box lots, cartons and Jcae De Garcia Cruz, for 50 years crop o f this section, new outfits being bellringer at San Juan Capistrano mis unloadtxl every few days for threshing. delivery extra. sion, at midnight rang the bells in the Among others, Sam Boothe and Ed Pork- -Fancy 9(o 10c per pound. mission welcome arch at the Santa Fe Thompson have purchased a fine new Veal— Fancy, lift/ 12c per pound. Cattle— Prime hay-fed steers, $6«/ station here, thus officially opening outfit with which to thresh their large 6.26; choice, $5.75(uf>; fair to good, the ground-breaking celebration o f the C«>ntracts. It is predicted that Elgin John and vicinity will set a new yield rec $5.26(d 5.50; common, $5o/5.26; Panama-California exposition. prime cows, $5.26o/ 5.50; good to Barrett, director o f the Pan American ord along the grain line this year, choice, $4.75((»5; fair, $4.500/4.76; union, arrived in this city at n«>on to many farmers claiming as much as 65 choice heifers, $5(1(5.50; choice bulls, day in his capacity as the personal bushels per acre for fall wheat. $4 .26(04.76; choice light claves, $7(u representative o f President Taft. C latsop Gets Fire W a rd e n . 7.60; good, $6.76d/7; choice heavy Public D rinking C u p Unlaw ful. calves $5o/l5.50; choice stags, $5(d Astoria -In response to a petition 6.60; good, $4.75(0 5. Lansing, Mich. — Dr. Robert L. from a large number o f timber own Hogs — Choice, $7(o7.26; good, Dixon, secretary o f the state hoard of ers, the county court has appointed railroads, Charles Osg«>od as county 1 fire wanlen $6.70(0.7; choice to heavy, $6.35(0 6.60; health, has notified all common, $5(o6; stock hogs, $6.75(0 steamship lines and other companies at a salary o f $100 a month and nect's- The ap in Michigan which have for their sary traveling expenses. 7.60. Sheep -Choice spring lambs, $5(o6; purpose the conveyance o f the public, pointment is for two fhonths an«I Mr. choice yearlings, $3.75(0 4; good, that they must discontinue the use of Osg«x)d will work under the supervis $3.76(o3.7&; fair, $3(u3.50; choice public drinking cups in their convey ion o f the state deputy warden in pre venting forest fires in this county. ewes, $2.76(0 3; good, $2.50(0 2.75; ances or places o f business. fair, $2.26(o 2.60; good to choice N ew C o m e t Being T ra c e d . Rainfall D am ag e* C h e rry C ro p . heavy wethers, $3.50(o3.76; old heavy wethers, $3(o3.60; mixed lots, $4io5. Chicago Nightly observations o f Eugene— Heavy rainfall during the Hops- -1911 contracts, 25c pound; the latest "celestial tram p," known thunder storm recently caused some 1910 crop, 26c; 1909 cwp, 15o/.19c; as Kiess’ comet, are being taken at damage to the cherries o f this county, elds. 8(o 10c. the Yerkes observatory by Professor the bulk o f which are now dead ripe. Wool— Eastern Oregon, 9<a 16c per Edwin B. Frost and Professor Sher Hay was uninjured by the rain, as it The new comet was was generally well cured, although pound, according to shrinkage; valley, burne Burnham. 166zl7c per pound; mohair, choice, picked up by the observatory at W il nearly the whole county crop is still in liams Bay. July 8. the field. $6<(t37}c per pound. Entire Salem — That Oregon cherries for fancy purposes are the finest in the world is the declaration o f Arthur C. Rass, o f E. G. Lyons & Rasa, San Francisco, the largest maraschino and fruit syrup dealers on the Coast. Raas is here for two weeks securing cher ries for the maraschino trade. He expects to take over 50 tons from Sa lem this year and will take more cher ries if he can secure them. Among other acquisitions Rass secured the entire display o f the Salem Cherry Fair through the Salem Fruit Union. “ I f the elements are favorable here, Oregon cherries cannot be equalled in the world,” he said. "Eastern houses secure cherries from Italy at rockbottom prices. There the cher ries cost 1 cent or j o f a cent a pound. We can buy those cherries in Italy, ship them to San Francisco, and put them up for 4 } cents a pound. That is what we pay originally for Oregon cherries. Oregon cherries in maras chino go 60 to a bottle. The cherries secured in the East go 175 to a bottle in maraschino. That is some differ ence in cherries. We can’t equal Oregon cherries in California. They can’t be grown there, nor anywhere else, to touch the cherries o f this state. Given good weather conditions and Oregon leads the world in cherries as well as in many other fru its ." L A N E P R E P A R E S F O R F A IR . County Society W ill Erect Booths and Rent Stalls to C o ncetsio nariea. Eugene— Enlargement o f the pavil ion on the grounds o f the Lane County Agriclutural society for the better ac commodation o f the Lane County Fair this fall was authorized at the meet ing o f the board o f directors, and the painting o f all the buildings was also directed. This year the board, in stead o f renting ground for conces sions, will erect a number o f uniform booths on the grounds, and rent the stalls to the concessionaires. More attention will be given this year than last to the stock exhibit, and a committee has been appointed for the purpose o f interesting every owner o f registered stock in Lane county to bring this stock to the coun ty fair. The different granges o f the county have taken the matter up and already are preparing collective exhibits. The county court has signified its in tention o f repeating its donation o f last year to the fair, the money to be used exclusively in premiums. Difficulty over the location o f the district fair for Lane, Douglas and Coos counties arose several years ago, and since then Lane county has been holding a fair o f its own, each year somewhat better than the previous one, until now good grounds and track have been secured, and very credit able exhibits made. The fair this year will be held September 20 to 24. C H E R R Y Y IE L D IS HEAVY. Hood River Valley C ro p Being ped to All P arts N o w . S h ip F IR S T Q U E R Y : " W H O W IN S ? ” Fans in F a r O ff P ribylo ff Island* Get W ireless Luxury. San Francisco, July 15.— The Uni ted States government employes on the Pribyloff islands are rejoicing to day because they have been connected with the outside world by means of the wireless telegraph. And the first news that they asked to be flashed over the waves was: “ Get us the standing o f the clubs in the big lea gues." This report was quickly followed by another one o f the same kind, as they had been without baseball gossip so long they could not get enough o f the fddder on which so many thousands of fans feast every day. Not until the operator at Honolulu had exhausted his supply o f baseball knowledge did the men on the island o f St. Paul per mit him to inform them of the import ant happenings in the political and commercial worlds. Navy electricians and wireless ex perts had been sent north by the gov ernment on board the United States ship Buffalo to install a wireless sta tion on the island o f St. Paul. With the aid o f the wireless station the fans on these lonely islands will now be able to keep tab on their favorite club in the race for the pennant. E IG H T Y -B U S H E L W H E A T FOUND G overnm ent C om pletes T hreehing 4 0 0 V arieties o f G rain . Chico, Cal.— The threshing o f 400 varieties o f grain has been completed at the government’s big plant intro duction gardens at this place, says Superintendent Beagles. Some va rieties o f wheat yielded at the rate of 80 bushels to the acre. This is about twice the average yield o f common wheat throughout California’s grain growing districts. The varieties pro ducing especially heavily are Frietes and Chul wheats. H. F. Blanchard is the expert in charge o f experiments in this department. The propagation and budding o f de ciduous fruits are now being followed. Corn breeding is also under way The distribution o f plants is on. The pistachio nut, which is largely used by confectioners, is being shipped to Newman, Fresno and other plants. G R A IN B A G S R U N S H O R T . Price o f F ew on Hand S o a r*, F a rm e r* A re W o rrie d . and Walla Walla, Wash., July 15.— W ith grain bags at 8 cents and hard to get at that price, farmers fear they will have a shortage here this year that may cause damage before it ends. There are few sacks now in the city and the penitentiary output is con tracted for a month in advance. Ix>cal dealers yesterday shoved the price to 8 cents and the state board of control notified the penitentiary offi cials soon afterwards that the price at that place should be raised. This makes the fourth raise in price this year, and it is expected that others will follow. C arn egie Fund F in d* Use. New York July 15.— The custodian o f the $10,000,000 Carnegie Peace Foundation announced today a cam paign of popular education to'establish friendlier relations between the Uni ted States and Japan. The division o f intercourse and education has ar ranged an exchange " t o give to each people better knownledge o f the other and to help build up a public opinion in both countries that w ill resist all attempts to arouse antagonism." Under this plan. Dr. Inazo Nitobi, president o f the first high college of Tokio, and one o f Japan’s foremost educators, w ill be brought here early in October to spend about six weeks each at Brown University, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and the Universities of Virginia, Illinois and Minnesota, lec turing on Japanese history and cur rent problems. The following year " a distinguished Am erican" will be sent to Japan on a similar errand. Hood River— Although the small amount o f cherries grown in the Hood River valley was cut short severely in a great portion o f the community, the crop is yielding very heavily in some districts, and the Apple Growers’ union has made a large number o f small shipments. A branch 16 inches in length, cut from a tree in the Max- welton orchards on the West Side, contained 103 large-sized cherries. The branch, which was taken from a Bing tree, weighed a little over two pounds. Although but few orchardists make a specialty o f growing small fruits, such as strawberries, those who do so F o res t Fires Still M enace. have met with great success this year. Boston, July 15.—The forest fire The local market is supplied and the union finds a ready market for the situation (in New England continues gratifyin g surplus. serious. In the Moosehead lake re gion o f Maine many thousands of O . A. C . Building to Be Ready. acres o f timber have been destroyed Oregon Agricultural College, Cor by the fires. Some sportsmen's camps vallis- -B y the opening o f the college are threatened but few people or year, September 22, the new mechanic buildings are in danger. In the neigh arts building, which will contain the borhood o f York Beach, Me., more foundry, plumbing and wood working than 1,000 acres o f timber have been shops, will be completed and the burned over and the fire is advancing e«iuipment ready for use. These three in a northerly direction. The fires in laboratories will virtually double the the vicinity o f Concord, N. H., and capacity o f the present shops, and will Hope, R. I., are under control. make it possible for the college to make for itself much o f the furniture Aeronaut Drops in Sea. and equipment necessary for the vari Asbury Park. N. J.— N. J. Roberts, ous buildings. an aeronaut who started in a dirigible balloon to go from New York to Phil C h e rry Packing i* Studied. adelphia, was found unconscious near When revived he said Eugene— T. A. Seufert, o f The Deal, N. J. Dulles, an extensive cherry grower, is that in the night he was forced to pull in Eugene to investigate the manner the rip cord o f his gas bag when his in which Lane county cherries are pre gasoline gave out and he found he pared for the confectionery trade. He was being carried out to sea. He has contracts covering large acreage dropped into the ocean half a mile near The Dalles, and this year will from shore and by the aid o f a plank have 4.000 cases o f the fruit to dis swam and floated ashore. Roberts had pose o f as against a usual crop o f made a landing 15 miles from New 40,000 cases. He hopes next year to York and lost control in a squall. "process” his cherries, and ship them T w a in Estate 3 4 7 1 ,1 3 6 . East in barrels as is done here. The Eugene plant is handling three car New York— Mark Twain (Samuel loads a day. Clemens) le ft actual property worth $471,136. An appraisal o f his estate Eagle Point P a tro n ize * New Bank, places this value on securities and real Eagle Point— The First State bank estate bequeathed to his only surviv opened its doors in Eagle Point the ing child, Mrs. Gabrilowitch. when he first o f the week and at the close o f died, on April 21, 1910. Clemens the first day $8.000 had been depos left no real estate in New York. The ited. Eagle Point is a town o f 400 value o f his personal estate here was people and the First State is the only $296,746. This does not include a bank in it. A new two-story brick trunkful o f manuscripts, the value o f building, costing $4,000, was con which is not specified in ttjg appraisal. structed for its occupation and the Luzon S w ep t By Typhoon. example caused two similar buildings to go up in a previously "b rick less" Manila. July 15.— Northern Luzon town. has been swept by a typhoon. A ll the wires are down and the observers be C oos to Have F a ir Exhibit. lieve it is the worst experienced in Marshfield — Coos county i* to be years. Details, because o f the lack represented with a fine exhibit at the o f communication, have not been re State Fair at Salem this year. Here ceived. tofore Coos has only been represented France Is in T re a ty M ood. by individual entries in the dairy pro ducts. The chamber o f commerce will Washington. D. C.— France, it is pay the expenses o f a representative announced, is virtually ready to sign from this city to look after the exhibit a general arbitration treaty with the and will start at once gathering pro United States, similar to the one with ducts o f all kinds. Great Britain. HUNDREDS DIE IN FOREST FIRE Property Loss Reaches Millions In Ontario, Canada. Roads S tre w n W ith Bodies o f Those O vercom e by H eat and S m oke — M in e rs T ra p p e d . F R A N C E C E M E N T S T IE S . C om plim ents E x c h arg s d o f S t. D ie. at Fetes St. Die, France, July 18.— The Franco-American fetes in honor of the naming o f America continued to day. The United States Ambassador, Robert Bacon, and M. LeBrun, the French minister o f colonies, after an automobile trip through the pictur esque outskirts o f the town, proceeded to the city hall, where the municpality gave a banquet in honor o f the dis tinguished guests. Mr. LeBrun proposed the health o f the American ambassador. He spoke in English, saying the French govern ment was glad to take part in the fetes because it afforded France an op- pounity o f responding to the expres sions o f sympathy for France in America, which were especially nu merous this year, and o f deducting from this sentiment a certain guaran tee that no material difficulty could affect the bonds o f confidence and friendship which united the two coun tries. Ambassador Bacon said in reply that his presence at the fetes as a rep resentative o f his government proved that the United States had forgotten neither her baptism nor the sword which France threw into the scale for her independence. The celebration closed with an aviation exhibition at the aerodrome. Twenty thousand per sons saw brilliant flights by Fommer and Nieuport. Toronto, July 13.— The loss o f life in the Porcupine district, Northern Ontario, from yesterday’s forest fires is known to be several hundred, and the property loss w ill reach several millions o f dollars. Only three o f the 83 employes o f the West Dome mine have been accounted for, and 200 miners, muckers, etc., in the Dome mine have been suffocated. The mines burned include the Dome, North Dome, Preston East Dome, Vi- pond, Foley O’ Brien, Philadelphia, United Porcupine, El Dorado Porcu pine, Standard, Imperial, West Dome and Success. Among the dead are Robert E. Weiss, manager o f the West Dome, and his w ife and child. The Philadelphia mine’s loss is H U N T LO S T BONANZA. about $50,000; United Porcupine, $20,- 000; Eldorado Porcupine, all build ings destroyed; Standard, about $40,- 8 ,6 0 0 Acres W ill Be S earched ¡C a r e 000; Imperial, about $35,000; Suc fully W ith Pick and Shovel. cess, probably destroyed; West Dome, Reno, Nev.— W ith the filing, Satur about $75,000. day, o f papers granting a 10-year lease In four short hours, beginning yes from the Sierra Nevada Wood & Lum terday noon, the fire swept from the ber company to Colonel W. S. Proskey Standard mine to the shores o f Por and associates, covering 8,600 acres, cupine lake, where it destroyed South partly in Washoe county, is promised Porcupine, Pottsville and part o f Glen the second chapter in the famous tra City, as well as many small buildings dition o f the hidden bonanza that for along the lake fiont. years has been the vain hope o f count The greatest havoc was wrought less prospectors. With the prosecu around the main mines, notably the tion o f a thorough search over the West Dome and Big Dome. There the entire estate during the next ten years entrapped miners, cut off from es is linked the extreme probability that cape, were forced to take to the a mine will be found again that has in shafts, and, penned in by flames, per the past promised wonderful native ished. This was notably true at copper and gold— free gold in ore Dome and West Dome. worth $100,000 to the ton. The streets o f South Porcupine are The mine to be sought is the old strewn with dead persons, horses, Barclay mine that for fifty years has dogs and cattle. Along the mine been talk o f miners in the West. The roads are the bodies o f those overcome estate is a part o f the Hobart estate while trying to escape. and the lease is the final triumph o f Along the highway between East men who were successful with the Ho Dome and South Porcupine, over a bart estate managers. Mining mag comparatively open section, were nates, senators and financiers, after found six charred bodies. In the years o f effort, gave up before the ruins o f South Porcupine were found blunt refusal o f the land owners. the bodies o f William Gohr and his Sufficient financial backing is ap clerk. Captain George Runbar and parent and already five experienced Tom Geddes. prospectors are laying out the tract in The miners saw dense clouds o f sections, each o f which w ill be gone smoke yesterday to the southwest, over, literally with the point o f a where the fires were raging. They pick, before the ten years o f searching gave little heed. A small blaze started are up, unless the discovery is made in good view o f the Porcupine town- before then. site, but it passed almost unnoticed One man knows the location o f the because o f the recent frequency of mine and he won’t tell. It is possible bush fires. that the same men who in the face o f It was not until noon that the a history o f defeat secured the first dense smoke clouds began to roll over lease from the Hobart estate, may be the Porcupine district. Then the able to secure from him the map he miners became alarmed and camps has jealously guarded for 40 years. took on unusual activities. Messengers were sent out and soon F R U IT S U P P L IE S S H O R T . returned with warnings that the fire was traveling through the forests at rapid speed and was licking up many C alifo rn ia Shipm ents S h o w Deficiency o f 1160 C a rs . townships. Shortly after noon the fire had cov Sacramento, Cal. — Manager Mc- ered an area o f 25 miles in length and K evitt, o f the California Fruit Dis two miles in width. In half an hour tributors, says that shipments o f the flames were raging on the spot. fruit from this state so far this season Hundreds fled before the flames, have been disappointingly small. On but dense clouds o f smoke hung low July 14, 1910, the total shipments and made progress difficult. Many amounted to 2,460 cars. On the same fell exhausted before the fire as it day this year the total had reached swept over South Porcupine. The only 1198f. Allow ing for 100 more frame buildings burned fiercely. cars owing to the increase o f the min Two minutes after the flames struck imum weight per car from 24,000 to the outskirts the town was in ruins. 26,000 pounds, would give a total o f A ll who escaped made for the water 1,300 as compared with 2,460 last where all sorts o f water craft— year, or little more than half. launches, canoes and skiffs — were Owing to this considerable shortage pressed into service. there has not been enough fruit to go Women and children were first hur around, practically every market re ried into small boats and started off questing supplies which were impossi for Pottsville and Golden City, where ble to furnish. A fte r this week an they were temporarily safe from the increase in shipments should begin to flames. Many miners lost their lives cut down this great difference. in efforts to save others. Each M ust O w n License. Hoquiam, Wash.— I f an ordinance proposed to the city council here, and to be introduced regularly at the next meeting by Councilman Bridges, should become a law, every person in Ho quiam who takes a drink o f spiritous refreshments will have to own a li cense, which he w ill present to the bartender before he is served. Mr. Bridges proposes to make it a misde meanor for a saloonkeeper to sell liquor to anyone, or for anyone to buy it, who does not hold such a license. G aynor O rd e rs Ice P rob e. New York— Mayor Gaynor has tak en a hand in the ice famine. The mayor directed that policemen be sent out to ascertain whether the Knicker bocker Ice company is restricting the amount o f ice it brings to the city daily, in order to enhance prices. Prices have risen from 200 to 300 per cent in the course o f the hot spell. One hundred men and women stormed the office o f the Foster-Scott company yellin g: " Ic e , give us ice.” Many hdd sick children, dying for want o f ice. Com pany Assumes Loss. Minneapolis, Minn.— According to F. P. Wells, vice president o f the com pany. F. H. Peavey A Company w ill assume the liabilities o f the Peavey Grain company, o f Chicago, which suspended operations recently when a shortage o f $1.200.000 was discovered after the sudden death o f its presi dent, James Pettit. Mr. Wells said that the assets o f F. H. Peavey & Company amount to two and a half times its liabilities. L o rim e r Leg islato r Dies. St. Louis, Juy 18.— Joseph Clark, o f Vandalia, 111., ex-representative in the Illinois legislature from Fayette county, died here today in the Re- bekah hospital, following an operation Friday for cancer. Mr. Clark was a Democrat. As a member o f the legis lature he cast his vote for W illiam Lorimer for United States senator. It was said that when he was removed to the hospital he had been expect ing a summons to testify before the senate committee in Washington in vestigating Lorim er’s election. Airship Visits W hite H houe. Washington, July 16. — President T a ft received his first aerial visitor shortly before 3 o ’clock today. The president stood on the rear portico o f the White House as Aviator Harry N. Atwood, o f Boston, after circling the Washington monument, flew directly into the White House grounds and landed on the grassy lawn, a short distance from the portico. A lighting from the machine, Atwood walked to where the president stood and was pesented by him with a gold medal from the Aero Club o f Washington. S p e n d th rift Found D ead. Redding, Cal.— The body o f Jack Conant, a prospector, whose life trag edy is known in nearly every mining camp and town in the West, was found on Salt creek, near Shasta. Conant more than 20 years ago located the Uncle Sam gold mine in Shasta county and sold it for $360,000. He spent this amount at the rate o f $120.- 000 a year, and ever since had wand ered about, poverty-stricken. Death occurred at least three weeks ago. G rain Rata is Slashed. 3 ,6 0 0 Pesos A vert Raid. Seattle — The Great Northern has announced a permanent reduction in freight tariffs on all grain shipments from points in Central and Eastern Washington to Puget Sound terminals. The reduction is from a half cent to 2 cents a hundred pounds. The new rates become effective August 16, when the grain in Central Washing ton w ill start moving. Juarez., Mex.— A raid on the cus toms house by former insurrectos to get money for the maintenance o f the military hospital was averted by the receipt o f 3,500 pesos telegraphed from Mexico City. Judge Felipe Seijas, o f this city has announced his candi dacy for governor o f Chihuahua against the present incumbent, Abra ham Gonzales.
