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
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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.
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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
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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.