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.