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CURRENT EVENTS. OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume o f Im portant Event! Presented in Condensed Form fo r O u r Busy Readers. There have been 850 deaths days from cholera in Turkey. in two A $750,000 smelting plant at N el son, B. C., was fired by an incendiary and totally destroyed. Women will be well represented on the delegation to welcome President T a ft to Olympia, Wash. A party o f naturalists returning from Alaska, report that codfish ton gues, fried like oysters, are a choice delicacy. Statistics show that 'there are many more small stockholders [in the large corporations o f the country than a few years ago. Thirteen new steamers have been engaged for the Pacific Coast trade, three o f them to run from Washington and Oregon ports. Arthur Sifton, premier o f Alberta, is campaigning for reciprocity, while his brother, ex-minister o f the in terior for Canada, is energetically op posing it. JEERS D R IV E MAN TO Aviator Tries to M ake Good abled Aeroplane. DEA TH in Dis ENGLISH OFFICER WHOSE VISIT TO FRANCO-GERMAN FRONTIER HAS INCENSED GERMANS. Norton, Kan. — J. F. Fisbie, the Cutiss aviator, was killed by a fall at the Norton County fair. Frisbie met with an accident and only went into the air again when driven to do so by the taunts and jeers o f the crowd. Frisbie fell 125 feet and the engine o f his machinejfell upon him, crushing his left side and chest. He died an hour later. Frisbie had been’ giving exhibitions at Elmwood park for several days. His machine acted badly, and he fell 40 feet, but beyond a few bruises was not injured. * He was skeptical about the ability o f his machine to stand another flight and announced that he would not take chances again until the machine was repaired. When this statement was communicated to the crowd there was an angry demonstration. The specta tors hooted and shouted " fa k e ,” and refused to listen to explanations. Finally Frisbie announced that rather than have the big crowd go away with the impression that he was not willing to do his best, he would attempt a (light. He ascended from the track without difficulty, and at tained a height o f 125 feet, but when he [attempted to make a turn the planes tipped and he lost control. As he came crashing to earth the specta tors could see the aviator trying to right the machine, but as it approach ed the ground one o f the wings struck a barn and the machine glanced off and Btruck the earth, with Frisbie underneath. General Reyes, candidate for the Ashland, Or.— Five heavily armed presidency o f Mexico in opposition to General Madero, was stoned and and thickly masked men held up the robbed in the principal street o f M exi California express, Southern Pacific co City while trying to address a train No. 15, on a siding at Gibson, crowd o f his constituents. Cal., while it was waiting to let the While boating on the Willamette Shasta Limited pass at 9:50 o ’clock rivur near Portland Mrs. J. C. Austin Saturday night. The robbers looted lost a diamond ring in about 15 feet o f water. Next morning her [husband the strong box in the express car and recovered the ring [by dipping with a escaped with the booty. A brakeman bucket at the end o f a long pole. on the train saw five men leap into an Officers o f freight and passenger automobile, which headed for Duns- steamers o f the Pacific Coast protest muir. This is believed to increase against the towing o f huge log rafts the chance o f capturing the robbers. The express messengers were eat at sea, saying that three o f these rafts are now adrift in the course of ing their supper and the side doors o f As the coasting vessels and likely to cause the express car were open. train waited, three robbers crawled up serious wrecks. from the brush by the si/ling, covered Francisco I. Madero has been regu the messengers with their guns, and larly nominated for president of scrambled into the car, ordering Mexico. “ hands up.” The express messengers were told A glacier on the side o f Mt. Adams to stand with their faces to the wall, took a slide o f 50 feet in about 5 and the robbers then blew both safes minutes. in the express car, rilled them and es General Grant declares that soldiers cape/!, accompanied by two other rob compare well with other walks o f life bers who had been riding on the roof for sobriety. o f the car. No one was hurt. The Premier Sifton, at Lethbridge. A l value o f the robbers’ booty was not berta, declared reciprocity would help learned. both nations. The painting of “ Mona I.Isa,” stol en from the Louvre in Puris, ¡ h be lieved to be in the possession o f an American connoiBeur en route to New York. An educated Eskimo visiting in Se attle, after looking at price marks on women’s clothing in the dry goods window, decided he did not want a white wife. A German immigrant girl who was refused a landing at New York slashed her arm badly with a sharp knife which she carried, declaring she would rather die than be deported. PORTLAND M ARKETS, Wheat — Track prices: Bluestem, 83«/84c; club, 79c; red Russian, 77c; valley, 79c. M illstuffs— Bran, $24.60«/25 per ton; middlings, $32; shorta, $25.50«/ 26; rolled barley, $32«/33. Corn— Whole, $33; cracked, $34 ton. Barley New Feed, $31«/32 per ton, brewing, $36«/37. Oats New white, $25«/26 ton. Hay No. 1 Eastern Oregon tim othy, $15«/16; No. 1 valley, $14; alfalfa, $12; clover, $8.60; grain hay, $9«/ 11. Poultry— Hens, 15J«/16c; springs, 15«/15ic; ducks, young, 16«/: 16c; geese, 11c; turkeys, 18«/19c. Butter — Oregon creamery, solid pack, 31c; prints, extra. Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, 26c per dozen. Pork— Fancy, 104«/Tlc. Veal — Fancy, 13J«z 14Jc. Fresh Fruits— Cantaloupes, $1«/1.75 per crate; peaches, 40c«/$1 per Isix ; watermelons, l i e per pound; plums, $1 per crate; prunes, $1 per box; new apples, $lft/2.25 per box; blackber ries, $1.50«i 1.76; pears, $1.25«/1.50 per box ; casabas, $2.25«/ 2.60 per doz; grapes, $1«/ 1.50 per box. Vegetables— Beans, 5«z)10c; cab bages, $2 per hundred; corn, 26«/ 30c per dozen; cucumbers, $ 1«/; 1.25 per sack; eggplant, 6«i 8c per pound; gar lic, 10«/12c; lettuce, 30«i 35c per doz; hothouse lettuce, $1.25«/ 1.75 per box; peppers, 8«/ 10c per pound; radishes. 12Jc per dozen; tomatoes, 90c«/$l.26 per box; new carrots, $1.75 per Back; turnips, $1.25; beets, $1.75. Potatoes — Oregon, 1 Jc per pound; sweet potatoes, 3c per pound. Onions—California, $1.50 per cwt. Hops — 1911 contracts, nominal; 1910 crop, nominal; 1909 crop, 27c; olds, 17c. Wool — Eastern Oregon, 9«/16c; valley, 6«/17c; mohair, choice, 36«/ 37»c. Cattle Extra choice steers,. $5.50 «/ 6.7$; good, 6.25«/6.60; choice cows, $4.50 « 4.76; good. $4.26«/ 4.60; good, average 1060 pounds, $4«/4.25; com mon, $2.75«/3; choice heifers, $4.90 «/5; choice bulls, $3.50/zi3.75; choice calves, 200 pounds and under, $7.26«/ 7.36; good, $5.50/« 6; common, $4«/5; choice stags, $4.50«/ 4.76; good. $4.26 ft/ 4.50. Hogs- Extra choice light, $8.25/« 8.36; choice heavy, $7*17.25; heavy rough, $6.25ft/6 60. Sheep Choice yearlings, wethers, $3.2V«3.50; choice two and threes, $.’(«/3.15; choice mountain lambs, $4.60/« 4.80; choice valley lambs, $4 r«4 16; choice killing ewes, $2.25«; 2. 60. Southern Pacific Dispense* M uch E xtra Help. With San Francisco— When the Southern Pacific offices closed for the day Au gust 31,|several hundred employes sev- ered^their connections with the com pany. The retrenchment forder, re cently made, affects all departments except the operating department. The biggest cut to be made is in the number o f train auditors employed on the Pacific system. Seventy-five per cent o f these have been dismissed, and fully 150 auditors will cease taking tickets on the trains lea/ing this city. For many years ticket collecting was left to conductors, but the rail road decided that they should give their entire attention to operating trains. A large force o f auditors was employed and they supplanted the con ductors insofar as dealing directly with passengers was concerned. When the necessity for economy was felt, however, the railroad com pany decided that auditors were some thing o f a luxury and so they were cut off, as are several persons work ing in the auditing department. Railroad officials contend that busi ness is not so rushing that it requires a large force to keep track o f its in come. There will be no reduction o f train crews or equipment for the pres ent. S T A N D A R D IS D IS S O L V E D . “ T ru s t” Six miners were killed at Butte, Mont., by some long drills on the H O L D U P S. P. T R A IN . cage on which the men were riding becoming loose and catching on the Express Safes Blown But Passengers timbers o f the shaft. N ot M olested. T R A IN A U D IT O R S G O . U K X K IIA I. N ili JO H N F R E N C H . FRANCE AND GERMANY GROW L Naval Fleets Ready to r Action viewed By Rulers. Re 'Berlin-—Germany is willing to con cede to France full political freedom o f action in Morocco, providing France takes over corresponding political ob ligations, according to an apparently inspired article printed in the Ix>kal Anzeiger. The paper declares that these obligations include the protec tion o f the lives and property o f Ger man subjects. Germany will insist that the abnor mal status by which the French au thorities take shelter behind the local authorities whenever German rights are infringed be ended. France is welcome to a free hand in Morocco, but she must assume the accompany ing re«|K)nsibilty. Germany then will look to France for redress and not to the irresponsible Moroccan govern ment if Germans suffer. The Anzeiger says that France is not haggling over the question o f ter ritorial compensation, but places her demand that she be left free in Moroc co at the head o f the list. Notwithstanding the absence o f a conference between the representa tives of the two countries, there is no disguising the fact that the people of Germany feel upprehension. This is felt in business everywhere, and it is accentuated by the happening just now o f the naval reviews o f the two powers first involved. The German fleet is making a formidable showing at K iel; the French president and his cabinet reviewed the fleet o f their country at Toulon. The announce ment that the German ships were in such shape that they could go into bat tle at a moment’s notice if necessary, is regarded as a sinister aspect. ILLINOIS CENTRAL SENDS ULTIMATUM TO UNION N on-Existent; S to ck Distributed. to Be New York— The Standard Oil com pany o f New Jersey, parent o f all the Standard Oil companies, has ceased to exist as the holding company o f the vast interests that in the past it has managed as a trust. The books closed August 31, and the stock in the subsid iary companies will be distributed among the stockholders pro rata. It will take at least three months to per form the clerical work o f distribution. Standard Oil was traded in a the last day at about $625 a share, transactions being restricted to cash dealings. A bid o f $310 a share for Standard Oil “ ex-subsidiaries,” or without rights to participation in the distribution of subsidiaries, was made by a venture some trader on the “ curb,” but as no intelligent appraisal can yet be made o f the worth o f the stock when divest ed o f its outside holdings, the offer was not accepted. Chicago — President Markham, of the Illinois Central, railroad, ended the hope o f an immediate settlement o f the labor difficulties o f the road by directing a letter to W. F. Kramer, secretary o f the International Black smith’s union, refusing to meet repre sentatives o f the Federated Shop Em ployes. The letter from the representatives o f the nine international unions in volved, to which Mr. Markham’s com munication was a reply, was consid M E L O N S E E D K IL L S C H IL D . ered by the labor men to be in the nature o f an ultimatm. Case Diagnosed as D iphtheria Proves 7 D IE , 14 H U R T IN HOTEL M ost ‘ Beautiful H a lf-B re ed [Alaska Killed. F IR E G irl in M o rta l. Logansport, Ind.— While th§ par ents, who had diagnosed the case as diphtheria, administered anti-toxin, pending the arrival o f physicians, Dorothy Vickers, 6 years old, died from strangulation, which proved to have been caused by a watermelon seed. The little girl attended a children’s party at a neighbor’s house, and among other refreshments watermel ons were served. When the little girl returned home she complained o f a soreness in her throat. Her mother made an examination and the inflamed condition o f the chrild’s throat led the mother to believe that she had con tracted a heavy cold. The child was very ill next morning and physicians were hurriedly sum moned, and pending their arrival anti toxin was ordered from a drugstore and administered. A post mortem examination was held land it was lound that a small watermelon seed had lodged in the child’s throat and had slowly strangled her to death. Juneau, Alaska— Seven lives lost, 14 persons injured, two o f whom are not expected to live, and the Juneau hotel and the McGrath building in ashes are the result o f a fire which started in the hotel late Monday night and was subdued only after the Doug las fire department had sent men and engines to assist the local fire fighters. J O H N D. C U N N IN G AS B O Y . Six bodies have been recovered from the ruins and five more are believed to be buried in the debris. Coup M o re Than H a lf C entury Ago W ill Morrison, who was a native o f Put Future M agnate on T op . Wisconsin, and who came to Juneau Cleveland, O.— That John I). Rocke from Portland, was killed when he feller displaying the same cunning in jumped from the third story. Selina Dowling, who is known to have per his lx>yhood days that has made him ished, was reputed to be the most the richest man in America, won a beautiful half-breed maiden in Alaska. hickory-nut light between sch/xdhoys She was recently acquitted of a charge years ago is shown by an old newspa o f murdering her mother. The loss is estimated at $50,000, per discovered by A. L. Bartholomew, with no insurance. The hotel, a large president o f the First National bank three-story structure, was crowded at Preston, la. F ire is Beyond C o ntro l. The light, which occurred more than F L O O D D R O W N S T H O U S A N D S . and the entire building was ablaze be fore the alarm was given. The flames half a century ago, was between the Grass Valley, Cal. — Fire which hoys o f Prospect school and Cleveland China Sw ept By M ost Disastrous C a spread rapidly and soon destroyed the started on a Placer county ranch four McGrath building, which adjoined the miles from Auburn, is now beyond High school. While his comrades ta s tro p h e -C ro p s Gone. hotel. were waging the fight with all their control. Fanned by high winds, it Pekin— The great flood which is brute strength, ¡Rockefeller, a Pros has jumped the Bear river and swept A V IA T O R IS C R E M A T E D . pect boy, shrewdly made a reconnoi- devastating a part o f the Chinese em into Nevada county, threatening brid tering trip and captured a load of am pire extends from lchian, in the pro ges, destroying timber belts and munition from the High school boys. vince o f Hupeh, to Shanghai, on the Falls U r d e r M achine, [Engine Sets sweeping homesteads from the clear coast, a distance of about 700 miles. This coup turned the tide o f battle. F ire to W re c k . ings. Other l>oys line/i up with the Prospects The banks of the Yangtse-Kiang have Millions o f feet o f pine and many Huelva, Spain.— M. I.e Jarristier, a been obliterated, except in the high who have since become famous were The fire is French aviator, while flying here, fell farms are in its path. lands and around the walled cities and William McKinley, Thomas A. Edi 250 feet and was killed. The motor thought to have started from an aban towns. son, Mark Hanna and Calvin Brice. doned camp fire. So far the loss o f life can only be exploded, setting tire to the aeroplane. Mark Hanna wa i commander in chief The aviator was incinerated. estimated, but it is believed that of the Prospects. Vessel Burns. C re w Gone. A fte r circling out over the ocean, thousands of persons have been New York— Wireless reports re the aviator returned and wheeled in drowned. Farmhouses and brush Em ployers Are Liable. huts have been submerged throughout front o f the gaily bedecked stands ceived here Friday from the steamer San Francisco- The employers’ lia the entire district, or are floating when one wing o f his machine was Oklahoma, bound from New York to bility law, enacted by the last legis down the river. The loss to foreign seen to snap and the car turned over Port Arthur, Tex., tell o f the burning lature and designed for the relief o f property is extensive. and over as it was hurled to the earth. of an unidentified schooner at sea. injured employes, went into effect Shanghai trade has been seriously The engine of the machine pinned I.e Only the mizzenmast o f the schooner Sept. 1. Heretofore the luw limited affected and the cotton and rice crops Jarristier down and the flames charred was standing when the Oklahoma the liability o f employers to such cases in the Yangtse-Kiang valley have been his body before rescuers could ap passed her 15 miles southeast o f Fry- of injury as were caused by the fault destroy««!. ingpan shoals. The consequent famine proach the wreck. of the employer or agent, allowing doubtless will be more severe even The Oklahoma tried vainly to make For half an hour the birdman had contributory negligence on the part o f than that o f last year. thrilled the spectators by daring out the name o f the vessel and search the workman to be charged in the de Three weeks ed the rough seas in the vicinity in an The Liao river in Manchuria is also glides and "to w ers.” fense. The new law abolishes the “ fel flooded. Many have been drowned ago he married a daughter o f one of equally vain endeavor to locate the low servant” and "contributory negli and a serious famine in that region is the wealthy merchants o f Huelva. His crew. gence” defense and holds the employer bride saw the accident and was borne certain. liable for any injury to employes. from the field in a critical condition. Tuneful Foghorns N ear, Plane Hits L o rlm e r’s H at. San Francisco — The time when a Boy Seasoned T ra v e le r. Tuberculosis W ar Begun, ship will be welcomed 12 miles at sea Chicago United States Senator I os Angeles— “ Some traveler,” said Lorimer, o f Illinois, narrowly escaped Sacramento, Cal.— The state board by the hooting o f national airs, popu the clerks o f the Alexandria, when W. death Wednesday when an aeroplane o f health has made its preliminary step lar tunes and phonographic records A. Raymond, a 12-year-old boy from driven by August Kuzick knocked off in the investigation o f tuberculosis in bellowed from gigantic foghorns seems Pleased with the his hat at High Lake, near West Chi the state by appointing an executive not far distant. Portalnd, Or., registered, ordered a cago. The senator was ready to make board o f five members who will direct harmonious tooting o f electric auto fine room with a bath, and acted as a speech to a crowd when Kuzick the work o f the proposed tuberculosis mobile horns, Lieutenant Commander nonchalently as a drummer o f many startl'd to tty. The aviator lost con commission The members are to Moffett, lighthouse inspector, has summers. Young Raymond is the son trol of his machine, which took a dan serve without salary, but there will made inquiry as to the possibility o f o f a grain dealer, o f Portland, who is gerous tilt to one side and swooped 1 be a fund o f about $4.000 at their dis making a like horn for lighthouse ser at present in San Diego, and it is to down over the crowd. The senatorial | posal to carry on their investigations. vice. He learns that one can be made meet his father that he is traveling headgear was struck by the plane and The board o f health also will name an which will be heard at the Farallone alone. Before coming here he went sent whirling out over the ¡crowd. advisory board o f about 40 persons islands, 23 miles out to Catalina and for two weeks enjoyed Then the machine hit a tree and fell. from different sections o f the state, a visit to the islands. Woman Cures Snakebite. who will assist in the crusade. G erm an Fleet AH Ready. Pierre, S. D.— When Myrtle Olson, T o rre o n Still Restive. Pool S to ck is Destroyed. a 9-year-old girl, was bitten by a Kiel, Germany The great German Washington, D. C. Torreon is now naval fleet was reviewed by Emperor Vinson. Okla.— Cheering and sing rattlesnake her mother, after tying a the only place in Mexico where condi William in the harbor here, thousands ing hymns, the members o f the ligature about the wound, slashed tions are unsatisfactory, according to o f spectator* observing the fleet a* it Christian church here applied the with a table knife the place where the advices received by the State depart could take to sea in a day, if neces- torch to the furniture and fixtures of fangs had entered and washed out the ment. It was here that the great saVy, ready for action. The three new the only town pool hall after these ar cut with kerosene. Later she covered Chinese massacre occurred in the revo est battleship* o f the Ostfriesland ticles had been piled in the main the wound with salt, then waited for a lution. and local agitators still appear type did not join the fleet, as techni street and saturated with oil. Instead physician. As a result o f this treat imbued with an anti-foreign disposi cally they are still undergoing trials. o f trying to close up the resort, the ment there was little swelling from tion. With the coming o f disturb Though fully completed, these three church people bought it. Immediately the bite, and the child was walking ances in other parts o f the republic. 20,000-ton warships remained at an after the conflagration the town coun about next day. It is believ/d that the government will chor and saluted the empeior. cil met and passed an ordinance for France Feels Suspense. soon quell disturbances there. bidding pool halls in the city limits. Sinaloa Remains Loyal. Paris— France remains in a state o f Depth o f Hail Six Feet. Electric Lines M erg e d . suspense over the outcome o f the ne Culiacan, Mexico- Early returns of Cheyenne. Wyo. - Horse Creek re gotiations between France and Ger Sacramento — The Pacific Electric Wednesday's election indicate a sweep While in Railway company, o f I«os Angeles, ing victory for Jose Renteria over ports a storm which left hail four feet many relative to Morocco. capitalized at $100,000,000, filed arti Governor Banderas for the governor deep over a wide area o f country. At official circles the attitude is main cles of incorporation with the secre ship o f Sinaloa. The result is taken the foot o f Round Top mountain it is tained that the negotiations to be re- Crops are sum «l shortly will lead to a satisfac tary o f state here. A filing fee of to indicate that the populace doe* not said to be six feet deep. more than $10,000 was paid. The new approve o f Governor Banderas' threats destroyed for a radius o f 20 miles and tory settlement, there is a certain concern comprises eight electric rail to declare Sinaloa's independence of stock killed by the scores, while the anxiety among the people because o f damage from the wind is enormous. the possibility o f a rupture. ways radiating from Los Angeles. Mexico. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATI P R O J E C T T O BE R E V IV E D . F O R E S T E R S G A IN O N F IR E S . Laidlaw Reclamation Plan Is Consid Balieves Flames Will Be U n d e r C o n ered by Board. trol in Few Days. Salem— As a final resort, as told in a letter being sent to r the Jholders of Forest S ervice Adds $ 2 0 ,0 0 0 to { rights under the old Columbia South Fight O regon Fires. ern project near Laidlaw, an effort is Washington, D. C.— On account ; being made to reorganize the com pany by the Oregon, Washington & o f the danger o f a serious forest fire j in Oregon, the season having been j Idaho Finance company, o f Portland. George W. Hinshaw, o f Marion, a i particularly dry, the forest service i holder under the company, has been • has added $20,000 to the appropri- j in conference * with Secretary Olcott • ation made this year to the state j Already j and members o f the state board, and 1 Forest Fire association. the letter containing the new proposi i the $25,000 appropraited early in j tion to finance the scheme was exhib 1 the season and $20,000 given later, j | have been used, as much outside j ited. This project, which includes about j help has been necessary to keep j 27,000 acres under the Carey act, has | down incipient fires. had troublous times for several years. It was originally known as the Three Sisters project, when later its mime Albany — In a final effort to check was changed to the Columbia South the forest fire on Seven-Mile moun ern Irrigation company, and again to tain, the government forest service is the Columbia Southern Irrigating com sending more men to the fire. In a pany. report to the forest service headquar The plan has embraced an idea to ters here Forest Ranger Stahlman, construct a [reservoir and store the who is in charge o f the fight against waters o f Tumalo creek, from which this fire, said that while the fire is not creek the water now on the project is yet under control he believes that it furnished. Mr. Hinshaw says that can be checked within a dayj or two now there are a sufficient number o f and desperate efforts w ill be made to ditches dug to water the entire pro hold it within line o f defense now es ject if the ditches were in the right tablished. place and were not too low. Thirty-three men in the government It will be necessary to construct the service are now fighting the fire near proposed reservoir, and for this pur Elk Lake, on the watershed between pose the new scheme is launched to the Santiam and Clackamas rivers in secure additional capital. The condi Marion county. This fire continues tions o f the affairs o f the project are to spread rapidy through an old burn such, according to the letter sent out and the firefighters are not attempting by the finance company, that the new to check it there, but are establishing plan is a last resort, and that if the lines to prevent it getting into green project is ever to be put on its feet it timber. must be done at once. The fire along the North Santiam river, just above Niagara, is checked G O O S E L A K E V A L L E Y .C O M IN G on the north side o f the river. Though it is still burning over a wide area it Future G re a t W itn Artesian W a ter is not spreading materially. On the south side o f the river the fire has to Be Used in Irrig a tio n . developed to dangerous proportions Lakeview— A plan that will mean and is still running rapidly. much to the future o f Goose lake val ley was started among the business DfcfcK G R O W S C A R C E . men o f this territory this week. They have secured the services of George Ede, a professional well dig Gam e W arden Finley M akes T o u r ot C u rry County. ger, who will make several drives for artesian water. » Port Orford— W illiam L. Finley, The reports o f the United States state game warden, passed a day in geological survey indicate that all of Port Orford with Governor W est’s Lake county is artesian basin, and it party. His address here was in the has long been believed by the resi interest o f the preservation o f game dents o f this section that artesian wa in this section. Mr. Finley pointed ter could be had at a depth not ex out that the preservation o f Curry ceeding 300 feet. county’s game would mean a large In addition to this is the possibility financial profit to the community. He that the big irrigation system o f the cited the State o f Maine as an ex Lakeview Irrigafiorr & Power com ample, a state which receives an in pany will have water ready for distri come running into millions annually bution by early spring next year for from the hunters o f Boston, New York about 40,000 acres. and other nearby cities. As Curry county probably has more game than any other county on the NEW A LFA LFA P E S T F O U N D . coast, if it is properly protected, it P rofessor O 'G a ra M akes Discovery will be a permanent source o f reve nue. Mr. Finley has been investigat in Southern O reg on . ing the conditions in Coos and Curry Medford— New crown gall, a disease counties, from Bandon to Gold Beach, that effects the roots and tops o f alfal as to violations o f game laws and fa, and which is unknown to the De making arrangements for setting partment o f agriculture at Washing aside several game reserves. ton, D. C., has been discovered by Pro He found a growing sentiment in fessor P. J. O’Gara, former govern favor o f game protection, and is get ment pathologist, now employed by ting the co-operation o f ihe forest Jackson county. The affected plants rangers here. He also arranged for show numerous galls which inhabit appointing several resident wardens the growth and which, if allowed to to advise and work with the people spread, will destroy the alfalfa crop for the better protection o f the game. o f an entire valley. A fte r months of study o f the disease H O P P IC K E R S P L E N T IF U L . and o f the records o f the department. Prof. O’Gara came to the conclusion M o re Apply Than A re Needed fo r that he had discovered a plant disease W o rk S ta rtin g . that was indeed new. A letter to V. Portland— Hop growers say they K. Charles, acting mycologist at Washington, brought a request for have never known a time, when pick Some o f the samples, and upon the examination ers were so plentiful. Mr. Charles also pronounced the dis larger growers, who opened employ ease new. He also asks for a large ment offices in this city, have been collection o f it for the mycological turning away pickers for several days. exchange . Professor O ’Gara is pre One Washington county grower had paring a bulletin on the subject which his list made up last Friday. Nearly every yard now has its quota o f har will be ready for publication soon. vest hand engaged. The smaller grow G O V E R N M E N T W A N T S M O N E Y . ers in the more distant sections are likewise having no difficulty in get -------a ting the help they need, according to Little Leniency to Be Show n to S et word brought to this city. tlers on Irrig ated Lands. It is remarked that the majority o f " Washingtono, D. C.— Settlers'under the pickers this year are new arrivals Western reclamation projects may ex in this section. They know nothing pect no undue leniency from Direc o f picking hops and few o f them know tor Newell as to deferred payments. what hops are like. On his return from the Northwest, the The usual attractions are being pro director made this significant state vided for the pickers at the big yards ment : this season. A t the Krebs yard near “ There is nothing paternalistic in Independence, where the largest num the government’s irrigation work.” ber will congregate, the offer is re Director Newell nearly always has newed o f a free marriage license, min argued against the extension o f pay ister s fee, etc., for every couple that ments when Western members could w ill be married on the farm. Krebs present the claims o f worthy settlers, also agrees to donate $50 to each and statements made since his return couple ot start them out in life. indicate no change in his opinions. Many Am usements fo r F air. Hill Surveyors Cause Excitem ent. Marshfield— Thirty H ill surveyors who have recently arrived at Gardi ner, on the Umpqua river, have cre ated a good deal o f railroad excite ment. The Southern Pacific also has a crew o f surveyors in the same neigh borhood, which led to the belief that perhaps both roads are to come into Coos Bay from that direction. In the meantime, the Coos Bay & Eastern railroad, has several crews o f survey ors in the field between this city and Roseburg, on the same route as the road promoted by Francis H. Clark. Salem— “ The Joy Street” at the Oregon State Fair will be occupied from September 11 to September 16 by the aggregation o f mirth-provoking shows under the Parker management. Included in the roster o f the organiza tion are the "B e lls .” the “ Jungle,” and the “ Whirlwind Russian Dan cers," who have set the Northest talk ing of their grace, endurance and art. The dancers are in native costume and not long from the domain o f the Czar, and all o f them have appeared at the Moscow court productions. Van Dyke Loses M o re Salary. N orm al School to Open. Salem— Discovery by the attorney- Monmouth— The outlook for the re -1 general's office that the oath taken by opening o f the normal is good, and Edward S. Van Dyke, as deputy dis from the present information received trict attorney, was sworn in May 25, at the president's office indications [ but not filed with the county clerk un are for a large number at the entrance til August 25, changes the status o f enrollment, which has been set for that officer’s salary in the First dis September 18. Several members o f j trict and the conclusion o f the attor the faculty are on the ground getting! ney-general has been changed so that familiar with the accommodations for, Van Dyke will be precluded from col their respective work. The faculty lecting his salary prior to August 25, and the citizens are arranging a public under the law passed last year. reception for the opening day. Salm on Quotations Advance. Convicts W o rk n Capitol. Astoria— The selling prices for the Salem— Now the striped-shirted con Alaska canned salmon were announced victs have penetrated as far as the here at the following prices: Reds, State capitol building, and two o f Gov $1.60; medium. $1.45; pink, $1. ernor W est’s honor men are being This is an advance o f $1 a case for used to assist George Dunsford. jani reds over the prices prevailing last tor. in cleaning out the basement of year. The rates for pinks were made the capitol. Many visitors were sur lower than was expected, but this is prised to see the convicts walk bark , accounted for by the big run o f hump and forth through the corridors clad in . backs that ia reported on Puget their prison garb. Sound.
