CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
(fonerai R esu m e o f Im p o rta n t Events
P re s e n te d in C o n d e n s e d F o rm
fo r O u r Busy R e a d e rs .
C hicago observers report tour com
ets h o v e rin g near the sun.
A hurricane at Medford, Or., de
stroyed fruit and did much damage
to buildings.
Total gross earnings of railroads
show an increase over the corre
spending week of laxt year.
Henry Dalton, asseseor of Oakland
Cal., was sentenced to eight years'
imprisonment for bribe-taking.
A fast passenger launch plying on
Tillamook bay was destroyed by an
explosion and tire about tier engine.
F IG H T
FO REST
F IR E 8 .
N ew
W in d S preads Flam e s N e a r E stacada,
O regon.
Estacada.— Fire
that
has
been
burning iu the East Creek district,
five miles southeast of here, for sev
eral days, Is spreading rapidly aud
villages near the burned area and
farm homes are endangered.
The
flames, fanned by a high wind, have
gone beyond control of the men fight-1
ing the blaze and 200 men left Es
tacada to aid In checking the fire.
The Superintendent of the Forestry I
Service recruited 100 men In Port
laud and they were brought to this
city on the Portland Railway, Light
& Power Company line.
Hugh Mendenhall, Chief Forest
Ranger for this district, took charge
of the men upou their arrival and
in a short time pack horses and
wagons, laden with bedding and
food, were supplied the men and
the small army started for the Are,
prepared to remain until they have
It under control.
A similar expedition under the di
rection of E. E. Block ley, construc
tion engineer fur the Portland Light
&
Power Company, started from the
construction ramp, situated on the
,Clackamas river above Cazadero, and
will work in conjunction with the
men sent out under Mendenhall.
Thus far the loss han been con
fined to the wooded districts, hut
unless the force of men sent out is
able to check its progress the fire
will soon reach the villages and
valuable farm properties in the re-
Ion.
The area burned over
thus
far covers almost an entire town
ship.
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Monday, July 24, wan the hottest
day recorded In Portland for four
years, the temperature making 99.3
Ex President Castro, of Venezuela,
is searching for u friendly spot on
which to land lu his native country
again.
Premier Asquith was hooted per
sistently for three-quarters of an
houh In the British house of com
moon.
Striking miners at Glendale, Penn
W IR E T H U S T M E N F IN E D .
sylvania, started a riot, in which
five officers and many miners were
injured.
F o rty D efe n d an ts C hange P leas
and
A re Sentenced.
An Atlantic liner sailing for New
York left 700 passengers at Naples,
New York.— Forty defendants rr
Italy, on account of the cholera scare
cently Indicted In the Government's
In New York.
Two yachts were wrecked and one prosecution of the alleged wire trust
Is missing on Duke Michigan as the withdrew their pleas of not guilty
result of a sudden gale while the and entered pleas of "nolo conten
boats were racing.
dere.”
Many forest fires are burning in
United States District Attorney
various parts of the Northwest, and Wise opposed the acceptance of ouch
doing much damage to timber and
pleas, but Judge Arnold, who
was
crope In adjoining iields.
proceeding In the United States Clr
Men and teams for harvesting in cult Court, accepted It.
Central Washington are exceedingly
When the pleas of the men had
scarce.
been recorded and It came to pass
Owing to drouth, there is a shortage Ing sentence, District Attorney Wise
o f 1,000,000 pounds in the honey crop urged thut there were nine distinct
violations charged against all of the
in Ontario.
defendant« and that, In his opinion.
A girl 11 years old spoke Esperanto Instead of the Imiiusitlon of a tine
fluently at the convention o f Euperan- of $iuiMi analst each of the defend
ants, the fines might he $1000 apiece
tista in Portland.
for each of the violations.
The house o f lords passed the veto
Judge Archbold replied that he
bill with hut brief debate and practi could not bring himself to see It
that
way and in the cases of the
cally no opposition.
rubber-covered wire association mem
Schwarzchild & Sulzberger will bers he Imposed a fine of $1000 for
erect a $600,000 packing plant on the the first violation and $100 for each
peninsula near Portland.
of the other violations.
The cases of the other defendants
An American girl tourist ascended who had changed their pleas were
two peaks o f the Peruvian volcano taken up and other tines of $1000
were imposed.
Coropuna to a height o f 20,000 feet.
Judge Archhold explained that he
John 1). ’s attorneys claim the as had imposed these light sentences
sessment on his Cleveland estate is on the distinct understanding that
all efforts to control the output would
400 per cent above its taxable value.
be abandoned.
Senator Aldrich states that it was
well understood that the election o f
A C C ID E N T B R IN G $92,747.65.
Lorimer would nut be objectionable
to Taft.
M a n H as C heck fo r F o rtu n e From
CLERK
SCENES IN IT A L IA N DISTRICTS W H E N C E CHOLERA CASES ARE
SENT TO U NITED STATES.
Y o rk
SHOT
DEAD.
T h ie v e s
Escape
$5,000 Gems.
W ith
New York.— Three armed thieves
invaded' the heart of the Tenderloin
at its gayest hour Saturday night,
smashed a Sixth-avenue Jeweler's
window, shot his clerk dead, seized
$5000 worth of diamond rings, and
escaped in a taxicab, pursued by
scores of persons who had witnessed
the murder and robbery.
A woman, who the police believe
was a confederate, entered the store
o f Jacob Jacoby a few minutes prior
to the shooting and asked Mr. Ja
coby to test her eyes for glasses.
While she engaged him. the window
glass was smashed and Adolph E.
Stern, a clerk, rushed to the street.
A small man with a revolver
j blocked him at the door. Stern tried
to brush past him to g ft at a man
| who had poked his hand through
! the broken window and grauped a
tray of diamond rings. The small
' man shot twice, aud Stern fell dead.
Passersby saw the man at the
| window withdraw the tray of rings,
tuck It under his coat and dart
across the street
He disappeared
through the open door of a red tour
ing car and was gone, with halt a
hundred men following.
These he
outdistanced, but not until the first
three numbers had been caught.
The man who shot Stern ran In
the opposite direction, unseen by
anyone.
REYES
M a d e ro 't
IS
D IS T R U S T E D .
F o llo w e rs F e a r
O ld R eg im e.
R e tu rn
of
Mexico City.— Despite the breaking
of the agreement that General Ber
nardino Reyes should be made Min
ister of War iu tile cabinet of Fran
cisco 1. Mudero, and, notwithstand
ing Madero's assurances that Reyes
was free to enter the presidential
race, the General intdsts he will not
be a candidate.
Supporters of Mudero shrug their
shoulders aud express their disbelief
in Reyes' statement. Reyes said he
offered to release Madero from the
promises relative to making him
Minister of War solely because the
growing opposition In the ranks of
the Maderistas and expressed by the
antl-Reyesitas clubs.
Madero was
prompt lu answering him. He said
he would not release tfie General
from the agreement, but that he
assured him he was at liberty to
become a presidential candidate re
gardless of any promises.
In opposing the appointment of
the General to a cabinet post, antl-
t l i o v t : , V III.K IM I C O W IV V T ItK H T O F N A I 'I .F S t ( 1 1 : 1 0 0 , K T IIW S T S C K .V K
Reyesitas offeied the argument that
l\ U K V Z A V O .
he represented the old regime, but
It alian flltti Is responsible f o r the cases of cholera recently developed were more specific In their warning
at N e w York, and which have caused the most str in ge n t precautionary meas that he would use the Army, once
ures to lie taken. T he cholera cases were brought to New York from Naples or he was lu power, to seize the presi
developed front contagion brought from that city. Neapolitans are notorious dency.
ly filth y, and It Is In the dirt of their city that cholera Is bred for export,
o t h e r cities around Naples ure e qu ally filth y, and even in the north, where
g r e a t e r cleanliness prevails there are many d irty streets In tlie smaller towns,
and sanitary regulations are closely observed only in the g re at cities. These
photographs show how li f e goes on in dirty Naples and in the sm all e r suburbs
o f Koine.
CHO LERA
Ita lia n
C L A IM S
WOMAN
V IC T IM .
S ailo rs S pread In fe c tio n
B oard ing House.
in R eal
OF
111
FO UND.
D a u g h te r of R ev o lu tio n
in S qu alid C ab in .
L ives
NEW
R E B E L L IO N
LO W ERS.
D isaffected F a ctio n s in M e x ic o
C ausing D a ily D iso rd ers.
A re
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
G IN S E N G
Proceeds
of
RETURNS
$22,000 an
R ealized .
B IG .
A c re
E L K S W I L L H A V E B IQ D A Y .
A re
Medford.—That $22,000 an acre can
be realized from ginseng In the
Rogue River Valley Is the statement
of E. F. Graham, of Prospect, who
has been experimenting with the
plant for years.
On a homestead
of 160 acres Mr. Graham began his
experiments aud he now has one-
eighth of an acre producing the val
uable plant.
Three-year-old glngseng roots have
a market value of from $6 to $8 a
pound and roots from 8 to 12 yearn
old will net as high as $20 a pound.
After three years of work attending
to one-eight of an acre of the root,
Mr. Graham has received $3000 for
the product of his area. The cost
of starting In the business is very
great and it is for this reaxon that
no more land was set out.
The ginseng root is marketable
only In China, where the light yel
low roots are used by the Chinese
for every conceivable domestic pur
pose. Specimens of peculiar shape
demand, almost, their weight in gold,
because of their suppose occult pow
ers. By replanting the roots freaks
are produced.
Government Investigation of the
plant discloses the fact that there is
no species of insect nor any fungus
growth that bothers the plant, but
there Is a law to the effect that the
plants must be Inspected each year
by a Government Inspector. Profes
sor P. J. Ogata, ex-Government path
ologist and now employed by the
Jackson County Fruit Association,
who has just returned from Inspect
ing Mr. Graham's place, is Inclined
to believe that this valley in one
of the few place* in the world where
glngseng may be successfully raised.
DALLAS
San
IS
PRUNE
CENTER.
Fran cisco C om pany L ik e ly
B uild P acking P la n t T h e re .
to
Dallas.—The Armsby Packing Com
pany, of San Francisco, has been
inspecting ueveral Willamette Val
ley cities with a view to locating
a branch packing plant lu one of
them, where It can get prunes in
large quantities.
Scott Swetland
representing the company, said that
the company favored Dallas, and
that a plant would without doubt be
located here.
The late William
Brown, a pioneer of this county and
city, and probably the wealthiest
man in this county, before his death
deeded a tract of land in trust to
the first packing and canning plant
built here.
The Armxby Company
is favorably Impressed with this
tract. The Dallas Commercial Club
has offered to tap the land with a
sewer at its own expense, and place
it in readiness for the building of
the plant.
Dallas Is the prune center of Ore
gon, shipping more prunes than any
other city in the state, unless it be
Portland. Not only does Dallas ship
many carloads of prunes each year,
but apples, peaches, pears, grapes,
cherries, strawberries and all other
kinds of fruits raised in the valley
are raised here in abundance. Thou
sands of acres have been set out in
apples, and these orchards will be
bearing in a year or so.
Mexico City.—That the period of
reconstruction soon may be succeed
ed by another revolution Is the fear
expressed frankly in many quarters
of the capital. Reports of disorders
assuming in a few cases the magni
tore of battles are not uncommon
and almost dally the authorities are
Informed of the frustration of plots
against Madero or the constituted
government.
The mustering out of the revolu
tlonary forces is not proving easy.
In practically all cases bands of for
mer rebels have refused to give up
their arms or have demanded more
pay for past services. So anxious is
the government to accomplish its
purposes, however, that except in a
H O O D R IV E R
LA N D LEASED.
few Instances these demands have
been met. To complicate conditions
further, the feeling in the ranks C. L. Rogers Gets 350 A cres A d ap ted
fo r F r u it G ro w in g .
of the Maderists is not brotherly
Boston.— Asiatic cholera has reach
Atlanta. Ga.— Mrs. Mary Trawlck
ed Boston and caused one death, ac
cording tu a statement given out by ¡Procter, 111 years old, a real daugh
Chuirman Dtirgln, o( the Boston ter of Ihe American Revolution, has
Board of Health.
The cholera victim was Mrs. Tam- ¡just been discovered in an humble
asslno Mustrodenico, who died at old cabin in Barlow county, Georgia.
the detention hospital
on Callups Her only companions are her daugh*
Island, Thursday. Mrs. Mastrodenico ter, Mies Mary Proctor, 90 years old,
took into her home as lodgers a
few weeks ago two sailors who were and two great grandchildren, de
members of the crew of a steamer scendants of another daughter.
S o u th e rn P acific.
A Klamath logger safely run the
sit|)|)08ed to have sailed from an
Mrs. Proctor was born in Wake
rapids o f the Klamath river on u
Han Francisco.— It Is only a small Italian
port. The xailors subse
plank, the fall being about 100 feet piece of paper, but excessive care quently were taken ill and disap county, N. C., April 30, 1800. When
in half a mile.
Efforts ure being made to 19 years old, she was married to
Is being taken that It does not get peared.
Hiram Proctor, a veteran of the Rev
flint them.
lost, strayed, put In the fire or blown
The children of Mrs. Mastrodenico olution and the War of 1812. She
PORTLAND
M ARKETS,
Into the hay. . It Is worth $92,747.65. are under observation at the quaran has lived under the administrations
It comes from the coffers of the tine station, and the board has be- of 26 Presidents, Including John
Wheat — Track prices:
Bluestem,
98c; club, 81c; Russian, 80c; valley, Southern Pacific Company to puy for gun examining the many persons Adams and William H. Tatt.
FO UR C O M E TS H O V E R N E A R SUN
who may have come In contact with
On a bedding of straw, constitut
81c; 40-fold, 81c.
two arms and a leg. By the slip of the woman. Her house. In the con
ing
a
mattress
so
thin
that
the
MillstufTs— Bran, $24.50(<(25 per paper, Issued by the railroad com gested Italian district, will be thor
rough plank slats can be seen, this S tra n g e V is ito rs , In v is ib le to U n a id ed
ton; middlings, $81; shorts, $25.50«! pany. the Injured man, Willard K oughly fumigated and all precautions
E ye, P e rfo rm A n tics.
daughter of the revolution lies, her
26; rolled barley, $29(<(30.
Zihhcll, of Fresno, Is placed beyond taken to protect the 25 families. In form emaciated, skin wrinkled, and
Chicago.—
Four comete—every one
the
reach
of
want
for
the
balance
Corn — Whole, $91.60; cracked,
eluding half a hundred children, who almost a skeleton. Her aged daugh
of the bashful variety which refuses
of his life and Is compensated, In live In the building.
$32.60 per ton.
ter ministers to the wants and ne to be seen by the unaided eye— are
the opinion of the court, for the suf
The delay in determining definitely cessities of the household, and tills
Barley— Choice feed, $25.600( 26.
fi ring and toes of earning capacity that the woman died from cholera the soil In a small cotton and garden hovering around the earth, dodging
Oats— No. 1 white, $260( 27 ton.
behind the sun and Jierformlng other
brought about through a railroad ac was due to difficulty in recovering patch nearby.
The meager profits
Ilay— Timothy, new, $16oil9; al cident.
the germs of the disease from the derived from this labor she adds to antics which are keeping astronomers
falfa, new, $11; clover, new, $8.60oi
The company's first offer to the cultures, the diagnosis being made Ihe $12 a month which Mrs. Proctor busy. Two of the four are brand new
9; grain hay, new, $10.
Injured man was $500. The suit was possible only yesterday by the re receives for the services of her hus visitors and are more eagerly watched
on that account. The two others are
Poultry — Hens, 140015c; springs, contested over the original judgment. ceipts from Washington of a supply
band rendered in the War of 1812.
19oo20c; ducks, young, 14c; geese, The Jury at Fresno which tried the of anti-cholera serum with which A movement has been started In periodicals.
One of the visiting comete has
nominal;
turkeys,
20c;
dressed, case at llrst placed the amount at texts were made. Mrs. Mastrodenico Atlanta to raise funds sufficient to
proved a distinct disappointment.
$1110.HIM), Imt fearing this would lie slept with a girl before the discov
choice, 26c.
provide for the two old women the This is the Kiess comet, which was
Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, eundled, held excessive by the higher courts. ery of her disease. The girl is de rest o f their lives.
discovered about July 7 by the Lick
Zihhcll himself consented to a re tained and will he closely watched.
26c
Observatory, and wi s later picked up
duction to $70.000. The amount thus
A thorough examination of all the
Butter — City creamery, extra, 1 represents $70.000 dames and 22,- tenants of the building where Mrs.
by the Yerkes’ Observatory at W ill
M id d le W e s t Is Soaked.
and 2-pound prints, in boxeB, 26c; 745.65 Interest and costs
iams Bay, Win. Observations made
Mustrodenico lived will he made by
Topeka,
Kan.—Topeka
and
this
this morning at Williams Bay showed
less than box lots, curtons and deliv
l)r. John Long ami Dr. Allan Mc
ery extra.
Laughlin. of Washington, who came «eotlon of the state received the that the comet was getting away
O rie n ta l G am es Stopped.
from the earth.
Pork— Fancy, 9(u 10c.
Honolulu. Because of rioting at here two days ago, when the pres heaviest rain recorded here in two
ence of cholera was suxpected.
Veal— Fancy, Uo(12c.
years,
the
rainfall
measuring
2.83
the baseball games the police de
In addition, four Inspectors of the
B re a d m a k e rs in T ru s t.
Fresh fruits ('berries, 3o( 13c |>er
Many other points In the
partment has stopped the series of Health Department here have been Inches.
New York.— The journeymen bak
slati' report from an Inch to two and
pound; apricots, $1.26 per crate; can
watching
In
the
North
End
districts
games
scheduled
to
he
played
here
one-half Inches. Today’s rain will be ers in New York. New Jeroey and
taloupes, $3.260(4 pec crate; peaches,
for four ibi.vs for any appearance
Connecticut have taken up their cud
76c0($1.10 per crate; watermelons, by the Kelo University, Japan, and of thi‘ disease among the relative» of Immense benefit to ull crops and
gels against control of the bread bus
pastures.
2(a'2|c per pound; plums, $1.60 per a local team composed o f Chinese, of tin' Mastrodenlca family.
iness In New York city by any one
Minneapolis.—1
T
he
proverbial
"mll-
crate; prunes, $1.500(1.76 per box; Sheriff Jarrett said thut bloodshed
Dele
llou-dollar rain,” soaked Minnesota corporation or combination.
new apples, $1.760(2; raspberries, would be sure to follow another at
and the Dakotas today. From points gates from 56 locals of the Rakers'
M exica n s P an S trik e .
$1.600(1.76;
loganberries,
$1.65o( tempt to play. The Kelo team won
iu every state In the wheat belt Union are organizing the tri-state
anti bread trust conference, which
the llrst game played and quit In
1.76
Juarez,
Mexico.—According
to came reports of rain.
purposes to fight an alleged attempt
Vegetables — Beuns, 60( 10c; cab the second game because of a de Juarez railroad officials, a big strike 1
to control the trade and drive hun
bages, $1.600(2 per hundredweight; Clihiu of the umpire, the score stand Is planned lo cover tIn* entire Na-1
dreds of email Independent bakers
tlonal Railways lines of Mexico, ami
Prince in D octor’s C are.
corn, 300( 40c per dozen; cucumbers, Ing 5 to 2 In favor of the Chinese.
the present arrangement is that It
Frltsirg, Switzerland—Queen Vic out of business. The Department of
$101.1.25 per box; eggplant, 16c |>er
Justice has its eye on the proposed
will he Inaugurated on August 5
toria of Spain, and Prince Jaime, ar bread trust.
pound; garlic, 100(12c; lettuce, 30o(
In d ia n s to P lead Cause.
The strike will he Instituted by the
36c per dozen;
hothouse lettuce,
rived
here
and
drove
to
the
laryn-
brakemen
and
firemen,
hut
will
lie
Tucson. Arlz. Eleven Yuqnl chiefs,
$1 .25oil.76 box; peas, 4(<(5c pound;
««logical clinic, where the Prince
headed
by Grand Chieftain Mori, quickly followed by an anti-American was placed In the care of the physi
Bom b W re c k s M ilk V a n .
peppers, 124«l16c pound; radishes,
protest, as It Is asserted the engi
124c per dozen;
rhubarb, 240( 3c have arrived here from Herntosillo, tieers and conductors on the system, cians for treatment for an affection
New York.— Police patrol boats and
Prince
pound; tomatoes, $1.75 per box; new en route to Mexico City, where they who are principally Americans, are of the throat ami nose.
fire tugs were sent speeding up the
carrots, $2 per sack; turnips, $2; will plead with Provisional President being paid more than the standard Jaime will he required to unuergo North River by the explosion of a
long treatment hut nothing yet has
for
such
services
In
the
United
De
lu
Itnrra
to
restore
the
lands
beets, $2.
been der ided in regard to the opera "black hand" bomb on board the
States.
Potatoes New Oregon, . 110( 2c per taken from them during the regime
tion, which 1» not considered dan ferryboat Netherland, which was on
of Diaz
They will also ask that
pound; new California, 24c.
gerous.
its way to the Lackawanna station
the hand reds of their brethren cap
P o rtu g a l Is Im p a tie n t.
Onions- Red, $1.75; white, $2 per tured and banished to Yucatan dur
in Hoboken.
The bomb had been
Lisbon.
Portugal The
Lisbon
hundred.
placed In a milk can which was part
Ing the past ten years he allowed to
Rebels Delay Attack.
The ehlefs newspapers print long articles com
of the cargo of a milk van on its
Hops 1911
contracts,
25c per return to their homes
pound; 1910 crop,
26( k 27 c ; 1909 declare that the exiled Indians are plaining that the powers, particular
Port An Prtm’e, llaytl.—The ex way front an Italian dairy company's
starving In Yucatan.
ly Great Britain. have not >et dell pected advance of the revolutionists depot on the lower East Side. The
Clop, 190(20e; olds, 8«( 10c.
side of the van was blown out. milk
nitel.v recognized the Republic.
It
Wool— Eastern Oregon, 9m 16c per
Is said, however, on the highest au on the capital has been delayed, the and fragments of the steel cans were
pound, according to shrinkage; val
Runs N ia g a ra in B a rre l.
thority, that the power« before giv Insurgents at Mlratmlnts, 18 miles scattered all over the boat.
ley, 16(<l.l 7c; mohair, choice, 36m
Niagara Falls.— Hobby Leach, IS. ing official recognition desire not to the mirth, apparently waiting for
374c.
only that the constitution he voted additional forces, which arc on their
Cattle Prime hay-fed steers, $6<n of Saranac Falls. Wednesday went on and a President elected, hut an wav from Cape Haytien
$25,000.000 C la im F ile d .
All the
6.26; choice, $5.76<ii6; fair, $6.25m over the Horseshoe Falls In a barrel, | amendment to the separation law government troops are concentrated
Philadelphia.—
A statement of a
and, though he wax severely liattered
6.60; common. $6m5.26; prime cows, In the drop of 168 feet over the whereby
the
rights
of
foreign here. The failure of the Insurgents claim to recover $23,000,000 damages
to
make
an
attack
upon
Port
an
$5m 5.26; good, $4.75m 5; fair, $4.50 brink of the cataract, he sustained churches will lie respected shall be
has been tiled in the United States
(<(4.76; poor, $4.26m 4.50; choice heif only superfleial injuries. This is the published and approved by the eon Prince, and the fact that there Is court here by the receiver of the
now a strong government force in
ers, $5«(5.60; choice bulls, $4.25m second time In the history of the «tltnent assembly.
Blueflelda
Steamship Company against
the capital have greatly encouraged
4.75; choice light calves, $7(<(7.60; river that the eataract has been suc
the United Fruit Company.
The
the president.
Mrs. Anna Ed
Blueflelds Company claims damage«
good, $6.75m 7; choice heavy calves. cessfully navigated
L ib e ra ls M enace Ju arez.
in this amount for alleged stifling of
$6m 6 .60; good to choice stags, $4.76 son Taylor, of this city, made the
Juarez, Mrx.—That there is a
G e rm a n y H o tte s t S ince 1904.
trip in a barrel on October 23, 1910.
competition and creating an alleged
(a 6.
force of Lllierals c.imped a few miles
Berlin—Germany Is suffering from monopoly In the sale of bananas In
Hogs Choice, $7m 7.60; good, $6.70 and came out alive.
The suit was brought
south of this city who threaten to the moat oppressive heat wave since this country
(<i7; choice heavy, $6.36m6.50; com
D eath L u rk s in Big W in d .
Some of the registering In under the Sherman anti trust law.
attack Juarez Is asserted by city 1904.
mon, $6(<i6; stock hogs, $6.75m7.60.
struments
recorded
104
degrees
Thousand Islnnd Park. N Y
Sev officials of Juarez.
Sheep—Choice spring lambs, $6m6;
There are ap Multitudes have gone to the sub-
Red S ta r W in s at A n tw e rp .
choice yearlings $3.76414; good. $3.60 eral live* arc believed to have been proximately 125 In the |iarty, all urhan lakes, but have experienced
Antwerp.— The Red Star Steamship
lost and thousands of dollars' worth
(<l3.76; fair, $3m3.60; choice ewes, of pr»|>erty destroyed by a terrific heavily armed, and It Is known that little relief. Temperatures along the I Company apparently has won Its
$2.76m 3; good, $2.60m 2.76; fair. wind storm which has been sweep another hand lx In the hills, south sea roast are equally High
Many 1 light against the strikers. One hun
$2.26m2.60; good to choice heavy Ing the St Iatwrenee river. A gale of El Paso smelter.
Nothing has heat prostrations are reported from dred and twenty dockers have broken
wethers, $S.60m3.75; old, $3(<i3 60; of 70 miles an hour lx still blowing Ins'll heard from the 30 ruralea sent Stettin. Hamburg, Cologne and else away from the unkin and returned to
»here.
j work with the company.
uut from this city to Guadalupe.
A score of boats are missing.
mixed iota $4(ti 6.
Hood River.— D. C. Eccles, of Og
den, Utah, manager of the Oregon
Lumber Company, which operates a
large mill at Dee, has Just leased
to C. L. Rogers, of this county for
a number of years, 350 acres of
logged-off land under the ditch of
the Dee Irrigation & Power Com
pany. This tract Is the last of the
lands of the lumber company.
All of the tract, which Is located
between the Eaet and West Forks of
the Hood river at an elevation of
1200 feet and about two miles above
Dee, is particularly adapted to ap
ples, pears, and strawberries.
Japanese T r ie s S ilk
C u ltu re .
Portland.—That silkworm culture
may prove a success seems assured
through the demonstration made by
Mrs. M. Iwakoshi, a Japanese living
at Pleasant Home, on the Mount
Hood automobile road, who imported
silk worms last Spring from Japan
to ascertain If they could be raised
in this country. She has produced
several hundreds of cocoons from
which the butterflies are emerging.
Mrs. Iwakoshi has
reeled several
hundred yards of pure white silk
thread, which she proposes to show
at the Gresham Fair this Fall, as an
illustration of what may be done In
silk production in Oregon. The silk
thread she produced from the silk
worm« is pure white, and those who
have seen it say it as tine In texture,
and seems equal to that produced in
silk countries.
P rin c ip a l A ttra c tio n for T h r e e
a t A s to ria C e le b r a tio n .
D ays
Astoria— Astoria lodge o f Elks has
issued a special invitation to the
grand lodge o f Elks to attend the clam
bake which they are to give as a feat
ure o f the Astoria Centennial Pageant
on August 11, 12 and 13 next. E. C.
Judd, who is also chairman o f the Re
gatta committee o f the centennial, ex
tended the invitation to the members
o f the Grand Lodge o f Elks when they
were in session at Atlantic City, just
after they voted to hold the next con
vention at Portland.
According to the plans o f the clam
bake committee, Friday and Saturday,
Aug. 11 and 12, will be devoted to at
tendance at the Centennial festivities.
Friday there will be a concert by
Ellery’s band at the stadium, Indian
war dances at the stadium and a spec
tacular sham battle on Coxcomb hill.
Saturday, August 12, there will be
a program composed o f the Elks par
ade and Elks ceremonies at Centen
nial grounds, a grand military parade
o f U. S. infantry, artillery and Ore
gon National Guard, and maneuvers
and reunion at Centennial grounds, fo l
lowed at night by H itt’s pyrotechnical
production on the water front, destruc
tion of the ship “ Tonquin,” and cham
pionship wrestling matches and box
ing exhibitions in the auditorium.
Reduced rates are in effect for all
these days and the Astoria Elks are
looking for a 39,000 crowd for their
reunion.
COVE CHERRY CROW NED.
U n io n C o u n ty S h o w is A tte n d e d
3 , 0 0 0 P eo p le,
By
La Grande— Cove cherries that have
thrice carried away gold medals at
world’s fairs, at St. Louis, Portland
and Seattle, came into their own once
more when 3,000 people from Union,
and a few from Baker and Wallowa
counties, were guests at the first an
nual cherry show at Cove.
Baseball games, recitations, sing
ing, original poems by the poet laure
ate o f Grand Ronde valley, M. L.
Carter, a fiddling contest in which a
hoary-headed pioneer o f Union county
won with the “ Arkansaw Traveler, ”
were some o f the features o f the day.
Two tons o f cherries were distrib
uted to the guests and cherry pies
were on sale at very low prices. All
this led up to the cherry show proper,
when cherries were shown to more
people than Cove has ever seen. In
an address at the cherry show, the
speaker o f the house, Jerry P. Rusk,
o f La Grande, advocated the recall of
judges. He was the orator o f the day.
The show was arranged and man
aged by men who represent the larg
est cherry growers and was backed by
the surrounding orchardists, who made
great success o f the initial exhibition.
F IR E D A N G E R
GROW S.
D ry W e a th e r Is M e n a c e to
S ays E x p e rt.
F o re s ts ,
Portland— With the summer season
well advanced, only two forest fires,
both o f minor consequence, have oc
curred in Oregon this season. One o f
these tires was in Wasco county and
the other in Washington county, but
in both instances firefighters connect
ed with the forest service were
promptly dispatched, with the result
that both fires were under control be
fore extensive damage resulted.
“ Prior to the rains early in July
there were several small
slashing
fires,” said C. S, Chapman, o f the
Oregon Forest Fire association, “ but
they did little damage.
In the Coast
sections the timber is still pretty
damp as a result o f those showers.”
“ However, the forests are drying
out thoroughly and in another ten
days there will be constant danger o f
fires.”
BANDON TO
H A V E B IG F A IR .
B usiness M e n and R an ch e rs Raise
M o n e y f o r A ug ust C a rn iv a l.
Bandon — Bandon will have a big
carnival and agricultural fair in Au
gust.
The dates have not yet been
definitely decided upon, but will prob
ably be-August 24, 25 and 26. More
than $1,000 has already been subscrib
ed by business men and ranchers o f
Bandon and vicinity, and the subscrip
tions are still coming in, assuring the
financial suceess o f the fair.
In addition to the agricultural dis
play, which will consist o f the fruits
and grains o f Coos county, as well as
livestock, there will be many outside
attractions, and the committee in
charge intends to correspond with out
side companies that haye good carni
val attractions.
Several concessions
have already been booked.
E lg in P ro p e rty C hanges.
Elgin.— Ed Rumble has bought 40
acres of land of Lee Furgeson, two
miles from Elgin, for $100 an acre.
The land will be set to fruit trees
by the Springdale Nursery and cul
tivated by them until the trees are
4 years old. Five hundred and sev
enty acres of etump land near Elgin
have been bought by J. T. Conaway,
of Portland, from Plass Bros., at
$15 an acre. The land will be di
vided into smaller tracts and sold
for fruit land. The 200-acre ranch of
Charles Garrett was sold for $3000.
N in e
A cres
B rin g
$10.000.
Medford.—A nine-acre orchard of
pears and apples was sold to H. A.
Latta. of Two Rivers. Mich., for
$10.000. The land I* located north
east o f Central Point and is part of
a tract of 64 acres that cost W ill
iam Holmes, of Medford. $3000 In
1910.
Soon after he purchased It
for $3000. Mr Holmes sold five acres
of unplanted land to C. C. Hall for
$800.
The remarkable lncreaxe in
value of the land Is due to Improve
ments In the way of setting out
trees.
T w o Score A cres o f W h e a t D eetro yed
Pendleton.— Fire, starting from a
spark from a locomotive, caused the
season's most disaxtrous grain tire,
when 40 acres of wheat running 45
bushels to the acre was burned on
the ranch of O. D. lsaminger. near
My rick. The Wrheat was Insured to
the extent of 30 bushels to the
acre.
S h in g le M ill R unning A g a in ,
Port Orford — The shingle mill,
which was destroyed by fire last May,
has been rebuilt on a larger scale, and
is again turning out cedar singles for
local use and shipment. The machin
ery for the planer has also arrived.
Many visitors and prospective invest
ors are coming into this section every
week.
The prospective railroad to
Coos Bay is giving the residents o f
Curry county hope that this locality
will soon have a means o f transporta
tion to the outside world giving free
outlet for its many products.
C la s s e s M e e t on L a w n s .
University o f Oregon, Eugene- The
open air school idea was tried for the
first time at the University o f Oregon
recently when Dr. Joseph Schafer con
ducted his lecture courses in history
on the cool campus lawn west o f the
library, where long semi-circles o f
student arm chairs had been arranged.
Dr. Shafer, who is president o f the
Eugene Playground association, is a
strong supporter o f the open air school
and playground movement
Industrial Course it Planned.
Salem— In a course o f study which
i* now being prepared by superintend
ent Alderman for the work o f next
year will be included a complete in
dustrial course as well as a course 1n
hygiene. The complete course prob
ably will be finished next month.