CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Brief.
General Relume o f Important Eventa
Presented in Condensed Form
fo r Our Busy Readers.
Turkey and Italy are reported to
have signed preliminary articles of
peace.
The steamer Senator arrived at Se
attle from Nome with $1,200,000 in
gold dust and a large cargo o f fura.
A noted Chicago artist has been ar
rested charged with circulating num
erous hand-painted counterfeit $10
bills.
Jules Vedrine, a French aviator,
won the world’s speed championship
at Chicago by a flight averaging 106.6
miles per hour.
MAINE GOES REPUBLICAN.
Haines Leads for Governor By 4000
— Local Issues Rule.
Portland, Me.— Maine turned back
to the Republican party in the state
election, William T. Haines, o f Wa-
terville, being elected governor over
Governor Plaisted, his Democratic op
ponent, who sought a second term,
while the Republicans regained one of
the two congressional districts lost to
the Democrats two years ago.
The new legislature is expected to
have a smail Republican majority, al
though returns before midnight were
not sufficient to show whether Edwin
C. Burleigh,
ex-prepresentative in
congress. Republican,
or Senator
Gardner, Democrat, will be chosen to
the United States senate.
Returns for governor from all but
37 small towns g iv e : Haines, Repub
lican, 69,616;
Plaisted, Democrat,
66,162. The missing towns in 1910
gave: Republicans, 1167; Democrat,
994. Haines’ plurality is estimated
at 3840.
These returns show a Republican
gain of 9 per cent and a Democratic
loss o f 8 per cent.
Blistering heat continues from the
C O LO RAD O VO TE LIG H T.
Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic.
Cows refuse to eat and the milk sup Democrats Outnumber Republicans,
ply is almost cut off.
But None Show Interest.
A Norwegian explorer declares he
Denver, Colo.— Returns from O lo -
has found the descendentB o f the rado’s first state-wide primary at a
Norsemen who were lost in the Arctic late hour were meager.
The Demo
regions 600 years ago.
cratic returns received outnumbered
Masked and armed robbers held up the Republican three to one.
Rough estimates show only one-third
the stage between Fort Bidwell and
New Pine Creek, Or., relieving the o f the registered vote in the state was
cast. In Denver the percentage is es
pissengers o f about $160.
timated at only one-fifth.
Secretary Knox and suite arrived in
Results so far as known indicate
Japan as special envoys to the funeral
that E. M. Ammon is leading for the
o f the late emperor MutBuhito, and re
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
ceived a cordial welcome.
Clifford C. Parks, regular Republi
James J. Hill has organized a trust can, is leading Phillip B. Stewart,
company with a capital o f $2,000,000 Roosevelt Progressive Republican, for
and it is believed he intends to em the head o f the Republican ticket.
bark in the steel business.
Governor Shafroth is leading Alva
New born monkeys at Baltimore are AdamB and T. J. O’ Donnell for the
to be raised as nearly like human ba Democratic long-term senatorial nomi
bies as possible, in an effort to learn nation, while Merl D. Vincent, Roose
to what extent the Darwinian theory velt Progressive Republican, heads
Clyde C. Dawson, regular Republican.
will hold.
Charles S. Stone is unopposed for the
Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, former Democratic nomination for the short
ly Miss Jennie Crocker, o f San Fran term in the United States senate.
cisco, arrived in New York with her
James H. Brown is leading C. W.
husband and $00,000 worth o f pet Waterman for the Republican Bhort
dogs.
term in the United States senate.
The light vote in the rural districts
The city museum o f Portland, Or.,
has been presented with a copy o f the was due to the fact that farmers took
Boston Gazette o f March 12, 1770, in advantage o f the clear weather to har
Few women
which is an editorial urging colonists vest their heavy crops.
voted, some explaining the fact that
to refuse to buy tea from England.
the ballot seemed so complicated they
Indications are that the apple crop were afraid o f losing their vote and
will not be up to expectations, and so, paradoxically, they stayed away
prices are advancing.
from the polls.
Mexican rebels are reported to have
VO TE LIG H T IN ARIZO NA.
sacked and burned the town o f Ahuah-
uetilan, cremating one merchant in
Hardly 10 Per Cent o f Registered
his store.
Voters at Phoenix Go to Polls.
Hundreds o f horses have died in
Phoenix, A riz.— Early returns in
Kansas from an epidemic o f spinal dicate that the vote cast at the A r i
meningitis.
zona state primaries was exceedingly
A sack o f gold containing $10,000 light. Hardly 10 per cent o f the reg
is mysteriously misBing from the office istered vote in Maricopa county, in
o f the treasurer o f Mercer county, which Phoenix is situated, was cast.
Returns from Douglas showed that,
California.
only 30 per cent o f the registered vot
The German army is to have a new
ers had cast their ballots there. The
dirigible balloon capable o f a sustain
figures so far reported from that city
ed flight o f 00 hours and a speed o f 60
gave:
Democrats, 142; Roosevelt
miles an hour.
Progressives, 139; Republicans, 21,
Oppressive heat brings misery to and Socialists, 11.
Chicago and the Middle West.
Two
The total vote for the Progressives
persons died o f sunstroke and 26 reported from Prescott was 67. In
were bitten by rabid dogs.
the same section W. E. Jones, E. A.
Arizona cowboys have organized a Torrea and George Babbitt, electoral
military company and declare they candidates, were leading the Demo
will invade Mexico and rescue im cratic vote there by a strong majority.
perilled Americans in Señora.
Engineer Modjeski reports that the
proposed wagon bridge across the Co
lumbia at Vancouver will cost $1,987,-
200, with $600,000
additional for
rights o f way for approaches.
The State department is making
every effort to get arms and ammuni
tion to Americana in Cananca, Mex
ico, that they may protect themselves
against the rebels who infest that dis
trict.
PORTLAND MARKETS
Wheat— Track prices: Club, 80c;
bluestem, 82«i)83c; forty-fold, 81c;
valley, 81c.
Barley—[Feed, $26.60«i 20.60 ton;
brewing, $28.60(x.'29 per ton; Miil-
stuffa— Bran, $23.60 ton; shorts, $26;
middlings, $32; rolled barley, $28.
Corn — Whole, $38.60; cracked,
$39.60 ton.
Hay— Eastern Oregon timothy, $16;
valley timothy, $12«ul3; clover, $10;
oats and vetch, $10(<$11; grain hay,
$10(0111.
Oats— Spot, $29(ii!30 ton.
Fresh Fruits— Apples, 60c(/£$1.60
per box;
peaches,
36(«65c box;
plums, l(u lc pound; pears, 2c; grapes,
$1(31.60 box;
blackberries,
60c«i!
$1.36 crate.
Onions— Walla Walla, 76«t85c sack.
Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur
banks, 60«i’65c hundred.
Vegetables — Artichokes, 65«(76c
dozen; cabbage, lfti 14 c pound; cauli
flower, $1(0)1.26 dozen; celery, 60«i:
76c; corn. 16«/25c; cucumbers, 60c
box; head lettuce, 20n26c dozen;
peppers, 6«(6c pound; tomatoes. 60«/
60c box; garlic, 8«i)10c pound; carrots,
$1.60 sack; turnips, $1.26; beets,
$1.60.
Eggs— Case count, 22«/23c; can-
died, 26«/.26c; extras, 28«/29c.
Butter — Oregon creamery, cubes,
33c pound; prints, 84«£34)c.
Pork— Fancy, lli« £ l2 c pound.
Veal— Fancy, 14 i«tl6 c pound.
Poultry — Hens,
13ic; broilers,
14|<&16e; ducks, young, 10c; geese.
K tl2 c ; turkeys, live, 22c; dressed,
25e.
Cattle — Choice steers, $7(<i)7.26;
good. $0.26<<t6.76; medium, $6«/6.25;
choice eaws, $6«i6 25; good, $6.6(Yr£
6.76; medium. $5«/6.26; choice cal
ves, $7(96.60; good heavy calves,
$6.25(37; bulls, $3(34.60; stags. $5
«16.75.
Hogs—Light, $8.76«/9.26; heavy,
Yuma, A riz.— The vote here at the
primaries was light.
In Yuma and
two outside precincts, the Democratic
ticket received nine votes ; the Roose
velt Progressive, 72: the Socialist, 20
and the Republican 12.
Ureat Highway Proposed.
Indianapolis, Ind. — A macadam
roadway to extend from New York to
San Francisco, a distance o f 3340
miles, and to cost $25,000,000, was
proposed here at a banquet o f 300 In
diana automobile manufacturers and
dealers, who subscribed $300,000 to
start the campaign in this state. The
plan is to furnish material, at a cost
o f about $12,000,000, free to the
counties through which the road will
pass, the counties to pay only the coat
o f construction, which is to be under
government supervision.
Italians Resant Being Given Away.
Chiasso, Switzerland — Feeling is
running high in Italy regarding the
ultimate disposition o f the Aegean Isl
ands, which have been occupied by
Italian troops in the war with Turkey.
The agitation was initiated by dele
gates from the islands and by Greek
emissaries and is receiving the sup
port o f the Socialists and other ex
tremists.
The agitators maintain
that it would be dishonorable in Italy
to conclude peace by giving up the
Aegean islands on grounds that Italy
wants the l.abya region o f Africa.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
BiGGER FAIR URGED.
KOAD NEARS END.
J. H. Booth Proposes State Show to Grading Is Finished and Rails Laid
Cost SI.OOO.OOO.
Most o f W .y to Friend.
Salem— A $1,000,000 state fair is
the plan that J. H. Booth, o f Rose-
burg, president o f the Oregon State
Board o f Agriculture, hopes to see
worked out. He believes that at least
$1,000,000 should be appropriated by
the legislature, not all at once, how
ever, and that some definite plan be
adopted for the permanent upbuilding
o f the fair.
“ The university and agricultural
college and other state institutions are
given appropriations almost without
stin t," said Mr. Booth. “ While prob
ably they need the money and deserve
it, 1 believe that there is no greater
educational factor in the state than
the state fair. This is essentially an
agricultural state.
Any move which
tends toward developing the state’s
agricultural interests to the highest
point o f efficiency is, financially and
in every other way, an upbuilding
factor in the state’s progress.
‘ By setting out a definite plan for
the state fair grounds and obtaining
stated amounts biennially to be used
toward working out that plan, the
state fair could be developed into one
o f the most magnificent features of
the state, that would repay the money
expended in many ways.
“ Upon the nucleus which we have
we could build up tc the final attain
ment of the scheme for a great fair.
Every improvement which is put in
the grounds should be a permanent
one.
“ There should be good walks, good
buildings, a cattle judging arena elec
trically lighted, so that judging could
be done at night.
The difficulties
that we have encountered this year
with the rains should be obviated by
all permanent
covered
buildings.
We hope to have a permanent pavilion
constructed with the $50,000 which
the last legislature appropriated, and
which, we trust, will be given us by
the next legislature overriding the
governor’s veto.
“ The fair should be placed in a po
sition where it will be able to handle
the crowds whether the weather is
wet or dry, a place provided where
agricultural lectures can be given
daily for the farmers, and the entire
show given over to the agricultural
interests. The agricultural and stock
displays at the fair I place first, and
the amusements last.
The fair is for
educational purposes, and it is toward
that end we are constantly strivin g."
COVE CHERRIES S T IL L RIPE.
C. M.
Stackland Thinks Oregon la
Ideally Located.
Portland— Although the bulk o f the
cherry crop in Cove district has long
since been gathered and marketed,
cherries are still ripe in that section.
C. M. Stackland, of Cove, was in Port
land, Saturday, and brought to the
Commercial club samples o f Bing and
Royal Anne cherries he had picked
from his own orchard, which are in
perfect condition.
Mr. Stackland is
a member o f the firm o f Stackland
Bros., one o f the largest fruitgrowing
concerns of the Cove district.
Mr. Stackland had some interesting
figures to offer concerning this year’s
cherry crop. From 227 trees, growing
on two acres, he sold 13 tons of Royal
Anne
cherries to a cannery for
$ 1000 .
“ That the community may well en
courage the fruitgrow er,” says Mr.
Stackland, “ is indicated in the wages
paid to workers in the Cove cherry or
chards. My brother and I picked 16,-
000 gallons o f cherries from eight
acres, and the picking and packing
cost $997.03. This means that $126
an acre was paid for labor in harvest
ing the crop, which shows that the re
turns from the cherry crop are widely
distributed throuhout the country.
“ Although Cove is one o f the best-
known cherry districts in the state, I
believe that there are great areas in
Oregon, now lying idle, thnt could be
cultivated and made to produce fruit
just as good."
Steel Bridges in Umatilla.
Pendleton — Umatilla county has
more steel bridges than any other
county in Oregon, according to C. II.
Martin, the civil engineer employed
by the county recently to construct
permanent
highways
and bridges
throughout the county. Every bridge
built in the county during the last six
years has been o f steel and at the
present time 12 o f these structures
are in course o f construction. Two of
the new bridges are to replace wooden
ones carried out by the Butter creek
cloudburst.
Hops at Eugene Are Prime,
Eugene— Hoppicking began in a
number o f yards near Eugene and
Springfield, the growers taking ad
vantage o f the slack o f rain to get in
as much work as possible while the
clusters are in prime condition, fear
ing more rain.
Yards about Irving
began picking also.
As yet the rains
have not done much damage to the
hops in Lane county, and the quality,
according to J. W. Seavey, is prime.
No lice have appeared and growers
have sprayed their hops, so that there
is little chance o f mold.
Idaho Women Plan Bolt.
Boise, Idaho—A Republican ticket,
made up entirely o f women candi
dates, w ill be placed in the field in
Idaho this fall against the regular
Republican and Progressive tickets.
The women members o f the Republi
can party in Idaho announced that
Rain Saves Loss From Fire.
they hnd become disgusted with the
wrangling in the party and decided to
Medford — Favorable climatic con
place a ticket o f their own before the ditions and efficient fire protection
people. The women will hold their have saved Jackson county more than
a million dollars this season. Accord
convention here this week.
ing to M. I,. Erickson, supervisor o f
Subway Plans Complete.
the Forest service, there will be no
Chicago— Plans for Chicago’s pro more forest fires in 1912. the recent
posed subway system were completed rains having eliminated the possibil
and presented by a sub-committee to ity, the season o f 1912 will establish a
the city council committee on sub record in the history o f forest fires in
ways. The plans provide for four Southern Oregon.
main lines traversing the city.
The
Trout Stream Fished Out
estimate for construction is $96,257,-
000, and for equipment $34,884,000.
Dufur— A petition requesting that
The system would have a capacity o f Fifteen-M ile creek be stocked with
187,000 passengers an hour.
trout has recently been filed with the
state fish and game commission. At
Ismay Resigns,
one time Fifteen-M ile creek teemed
New York — J. Bruce Ismay. who with trout, but at the present time
$8<u 8.60.
figured in the news a few months ago this creek is practically fished out. and
Sheep — Yearlings,
$3.50«/4.66; by being among the Titanic survivors, unless it be storked at an early date it
wethers, $4«/4.60; ewes. $2.86(33.76; is to resign as president o f the Inter will be next to impossible to locate a
lambs, $ 6 ( 3 6 .CO.
national Mercantile Marine company. fish in this creek.
I
They spent a long time over tbe slm
pie meal, enjoying themselves com
pletely. But at last they sank into ;
thoughtful silence, which Stanton w&i
the first to break.
" I saw that Miss Floyd's arm was
hurt, the other evening. I hope It li
better.”
Floyd raised his head, starting so
violently as to overturn the goblet ol
water beside him.
“ What do you mean?" he exclaimed
sharply. "What do you mean? Her
arm?”
The shattering of glass and the con
sequent flood brought their waiter on
a run, but Floyd did not even glance
down at the wreck, his eyes upon
Stanton; who returned the gaxa in ut
ter amazement
"What do I mean? I say that your
sister's bracelet slipped off and
scratched her arm, the night we went
to the play, and I asked you If she
were well. What Is the matter with
you?”
Floyd pushed back his chair to per
mit the waiter's ministrations, his
lashes falling.
“ You gave me a turn,” he exclaimed,
with hurried tightness. “ I wondered
if Jessica had hurt herself and not
told me. W e’ve only got each other,
and we are twins—I suppose we are
silly about each other, in fact I re
member, now, that she did have a
scratch on her arm; I blamed it on the
kitten.”
He was still pale, and paid the
check without looking at his compan
ion.
“ Your nerves are out,” Stanton
frankly
commented, contemplating
him with curiosity. “ One would think
it was you who were Just over the ar
rest You’ll have to get In form be
fore we strike a race-track.”
“ Don't you worry," besought Floyd,
bis gaiety and color rushing back to
gether. “ I ’ll take some smelling-salti
with me In case I feel faint when yoq
commence to speed up.”
Outside the two paused. Floyd look
ing at his watch.
“ I’ve got to go over to the office,”
he said. "Shall I see you agalu be
fore we leave?”
"When is that?”
"Nine o'clock from the Grand Cen
tral. We always start a few days'
ahead of you, of course.”
“ Better shake hands, then,” advised
Stanton.
They did so, and separated.
At five minutes past nine, that even
lng, the Chicago special pulled out ol
New York. Ten minutes later a hand
was laid on Floyd’s shoulder, as he
sat gazing out the window at the fly
ing darkness and brightness that waa
the outskirts of the city.
"Do you want to talk, or shall I go
back to my own section in the next
car?” Stanton inquired.
His mechanician turned swiftly. In
credulously.
"Stanton? Really you?”
"Since you had to start to-night, I
saw no reason why I should not da
likewise. I hate train travel; we’ll
get it over. You haven’t answered my
question yet.”
“ I didn’t know that I bad to,” smil
ed Floyd.
And Indeed there had been no pos
sible mistaking of the welcome and
pleasure in his cry, or in his truthful
Du fur— The work o f extending the
Great Southern railroad from this city
to Friend, about ten miles distant, is
nearing completion, and it is expected
that regular trains will be in opera
tion to Friend within a month.
Rails are being laid on the last two
miles o f the work, the grading being
11
commented the lawbreaker.
all finished and the rails laid up to
8YN O PSIS.
“ You do it like a veteran." Floyd
mused with mock suspicion.
within about two miles o f the pro
A t the beginning o f g rea t autom obile
At tbe office they left the car, but
posed terminus, and work trains are j race the m echanician o f the M ercu ry.
! Ktanton's machine, drops dead. Strange not each other.
There was growing
being operated over the new road for youth. Jesse Floyd, volunteers, and Is a c
cepted.
In the rest du rin g the tw e n ty - upon Stanton more and more the de
this distance.
fo u r hour race Stanton m eets a stran ger. sire for Jesse Floyd’s companionship,
C arlisle, w ho Introduces herself. Th e
Sixty-pound rails are being used Mies
M ercu ry wins
race.
Stanton
receives a final rebellion of nature against bis
and the roadbed and bridges are being flow ers from M iss C arlisle, which he Ig lonely existence.
nores. Stanton m eets Miss C a rlisle on a
"Do you have to stay here?" he de
constructed in the best possible man t™ n- , T h e y a ligh t to tak e w alk, and
train leaves
Stanton and Miss C arlisle manded.
upon concluding arrange
ner so that the heaviest kind o f traffic fo llo w In auto. A ccid en t by which Stan ments at the office.
ton 1» hurt Is m ysterious. Floyd, at lunch
can be run over the road when com with Stanton, tells o f his boyhood. Stan
"No," Floyd replied.
ton again m eets Miss C arlisle and they
pleted.
“ Come to dinner with me, then.”
dine together.
Stan ton comes to track
The mechanician shook his bronze-
A fte r the completion o f this exten sick, but m akes race. T h ey h a ve accl-
F lo y d hurt, but not seriously. At
sion the line from here to The Dalles dinner F lo y d tells Stanton o f his twin curled head In laughing refusal.
"There has been enough of that, Mr.
will be repaired, both roadbed and 9 a T ' -les9lca - Stanton becom es v e ry 1M
and loses consciousness. On recovery , at Stanton; you come to dinner with me.”
bridges, and put in first-class shape.
hi* hotel Stanton receives in v ita tio n and
"A t your home?” escaped Stanton
The extension o f the terminus wiK visits Jessica. T h ey go to th eater te g e 'h -
er. and m eet M iss C arlisle.
Involuntarily. He had a sudden vision
probably necessitate the moving of the
of Jes and Jessica together, a pre
trainmen and their families to Friend.
C H A P T E R V I I I — (Continued).
monition of mental bewilderment be
The officers o f the Great Southern
‘‘Don’t see or hear too much, and
company are seriously considering the don’t tell me If you do,” advised Stan fore the spectacle of their incredible
likeness.
advisability o f purchasing some so/t ton suddenly, and leaned forward.
“ I would like that, but you know we
of a motor car to add to their passen
The Mercury uttered a vibrant roar live up town, and I have got to be
ger service.
It is yet undecided that cleared the Parkway for a quarter
back here in an hour. Mr. Green
whether they will purchase a gasoline of a mile ahead, and leaped.
wants me.”
motor or a car propelled by an electric
Floyd kept his eyes upon the road In
“ Oh, anywhere you say. See here,
storage battery.
However, as soon front, carefully avoiding view of the
as the business warrants the addi hubbub left In their wake. He had a why can’t you wait and come on the
tional service, it will be made as sug fleeting glimpse of one scandalized offi train with me to Indianapolis? We
might make the trip less monotonous
gested.
cer struggling with his rearing horse,
The addition o f a motor car will cut as they thundered past, and he enter for each other."
Taken by surprise, Floyd hesitated.
the running time to The Dalles and tained no doubt of the number in their
" I— you are good to think of It—
return nearly half, and be o f great rear.
but Mr. Green would never consent.
convenience to the people along the
“ She steers a"llttle_stiff,” Stanton ob- He has arranged for me to go on to
line.
served, twisting between a limousine night.”
The Great Southern expects a large
and two carriages. "But, we can fix
"W hy shouldn't he consent? You
freight business, both in grain and in
that at the track. What?’’
would be there In plenty of time.”
fruit, this fall, and is making prepar
Floyd turned his mischievous gray
“ Two motor cycle policemen are Just
ations for handling this traffic.
behind,’’ communicated Floyd, devour eyes to the other man’s, guarding si
lence. But Stanton halted In the mid
ed by silent mirth. "Had enough?"
MEDFORD W ILL BUILD ROAD
“ I haven’t seen them yet. I can’t let dle of the sidewalk, his face locking
out the machine here, of course, but— In his steel-hard anger and determina
tion.
Citizens Determined to Have Rail was that a dog?”
“ I know what you mean, Floyd. And,
“ Poodle."
Line to Seaport.
speak openly, do you believe that you
"But It seems all right.”
Medford— Medford is to have a rail
Around a curve ahead darted a blue- would be unable to stand forty-eight
road to the coast. Tired o f promises uniformed figure on a motor-cycle, one hours of me without leaving the com
pany?"
by railroad companies and outsiders, arm raised. Stanton Instantly checked
“ No.”
prominent Medford business men have bis car, Floyd throwing out his hand
“ No?”
decided to do the job themselves. In warning to those behind. There was
“ No. I am very certain that I could
Papers were filed for the incorporation a mad series of explosions from the
stand much more of you than I am
abruptly
halted
motor-cycles
In
pursuit.
o f the Medford & Crescent City Rail
"You're under arrest!" shouted ever likely to get, Ralph Stanton. We
way company, and the preliminary
are blocking traffic here, aren’t we?”
capitalization has been placed at $60,- three voices at once, as the Mercury
For one passing moment he had
slid to a standstill.
000.
"Is It possible?" Inquired the driver, looked Jessica herself; Stanton saw
That such a road will be o f incal
again the girl’s sorrowful face as she
culable benefit to Medford and the removing his goggles.
bent over the embroidery, and heard
Two more motor-cycle officers were
Rogue R iver valley cannot be gain
her answer "often” to his question of
coming
up,
three
mounted
on
horses
said. It will open up a virgin mineral
her loneliness. They were not alto
and timber region, will tap the fertile were arriving from side-paths. Sur gether sufficient for each other, then,
rounded
by
the
outraged
eight
and
all
but undeveloped Applegate valley, and
these twins? They might possibly ad
will bring a great reduction in freight the population In the neighborhood, mit a third? Stanton caught his
rates. With the construction o f the the Mercury stood quiescent.
breath; a slow strong pulse of vague
"W ill you follow to the police sta excitement began to beat In him, and
Panama canal, it will mean that fruit
and produce can be shipped by water tion, or will we have to take you?”
to Atlantic Coast ports, and incident came the crisp question. “ W e’ve got
ally a delightful summer resort will your number.”
be within easv distance o f this city.
“ I ’ll follow wherever you like,” en
gaged Stanton. "Lead the way.”
They started, preceded by one officer
OREGON NATIV E S GO EAST.
and followed by another, also by a
Albany
Couple
to Devote
Nine shabby young man on a bicycle. Into
the station they went, accompanied by
Months to Extensive Tour.
tbelr three attendants.
Albany— Robert L. Burkhart, one of
The charge was three fold: exceed
the best-known breeders o f Jersey ing the speed limit by some fifty miles
cattle on the Pacific Coast, has started an hour, resisting arrest, and violating
on a trip East, during which he will the smoke ordinance. That set forth,
inspect the leading Jersey herds of the usual Interrogatory was put, Stan
the country.
On May 20, last, Mr. ton replying with concise brevity.
Burkhart sold the Jersey herd which
"Name and age?"
he had been developing for several
“ Ralph Stanton, twenty-six.”
"Occupation?”
years for $17,000 at one o f the largest
public sales ever held in Oregon.
"Automobile driver."
Both Mr. and Mrs. Burkhart, who
"Name of car?”
“ Mercury.’’
are native Oregonians, have never
"Owner?”
visited the Atlantic Coast and they
“ The Mercury Company.”
will devote nine months to an exten
The shabby young man Interrupted
sive tour o f the East.
proceedings by a stifled gasp, grasping
the sleeve of Floyd, who stood looking
Big Hop Yard is Down.
on.
Grants Pass— Borne down with the
“ That’s Stanton? Stanton? And you
great crop o f hops, with the added
weight o f the rain on the dense fo li — who are you?”
“ Jes Floyd, bis mechanician," was
age, the entire Flanagan-Cornell hop-
yard o f 100 acres lies flat on the rain- the wondering response.
8tanton glanced that way, as Floyd
soaked ground, the supporting wires
having broken under the strain. Pick was drawn to the other side of the
ing had been in progress in the yard room by his excited captor, but turned
for several days, but two weeks’ work back to answer the remainder of the
examination. When the ceremony was
is yet to be done before the crop is all
in the bale. A force o f men is busy ended, be signaled to bis mechani
cian.
raising the vines to supports, and if
"Come: I've got to go before the
no further rain falls the quality o f the
magistrate
and
give
ball,”
be
hops will not be damaged.
The Mercury Uttered a Vibrant Roar and Leaped.
summoned Impatiently.
Floyd came rcross to him, shining- thereafter was never stilled until a day face. Stanton took the seat oppoelt«
First Box From Eugene.
eyed and eager.
when all bis world crashed into blank and pulled a folded newspaper from
Eugene— The first freight sent out
“ Stanton, that Is a reporter; he stillness.
his pocket, passing it across.
o f Eugene over the new Oregon Elec wants us to tell him about your doing
They went on to the quiet French
"I suppose you have seen that,” he
tric railway was shipped to Junction this. He needs a fresh story to make restaurant that Floyd had chosen; so Inferred.
City by the owners o f a local grocery good with his paper— can't we give It recovering tone on the way that they
"Race gossip?” questioned tbe other
and meat market. They sent to one to him?”
contrived to disagree over the merits taking the paper.
o f their customers a consignment of
"Court news,” was the correction.
Stanton surveyed his companion, of rival speedometers and argued en
ergetically all through the dloner.
meat and vegetables, the shipment eyebrows lifted.
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
going in a box car drawn by the con
"Why should we? The newspapers
struction engine.
The track layers will get It. whatever we do. Come.”
have reached the business section o f
“ But he needs it; It would help
the city, but the crossing has not been ! him,” Floyd urged. "He. he's thin and
made at the intersection o f West Fifth j trayed out—Stanton, he looks hungry.”
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and Blair streets at the edge o f the
"Do you want to help him?” the Homing Instinct It Shown by Som#
the labele<* crustaceans bad been re
driver queried, astonished. “ Do you
city, where the P. & E. lines run.
Recent Experimente In
captured and full data tabulated.
rare about a man you do not know
England.
With regard to the Norfolk cram
and never see again?”
Hops Burn, L o tt $8000.
“ Don't you?" asked Floyd simply.
Forest Grove — The hophouse, in- j
Some remarkably Interesting de liberated in the places from whlck
eluding 18,000 pounds o f dried hops, i "I'm not from Paradise," dryly an tails regarding the movements and tne they were originally obtained, fifty
belonging to Robert B. Porter, which swered Stanton. “Tell him anything homing Instinct of the edible crab two were recaptured within one mil»
were presented to tbe Eastern Sea of their first borne, but out traveled
is located about three miles north- [ you like, but be quick.”
west o f this city, burned to the | He looked at tbe reporter again, Fisheries Committee.
During the as far as Flamborough Head, a dl»
ground, entailing a loss o f about with a new use of his eyes. Floyd past two years Fishery inspector H tance of ninety-eight statute miles
$8000.
The cause o f the fire is not was right; the man was threadbare Donnlson has been carrying out In Nearly three hundred had traveled
known, but it is believed to have and gaunt, and pathetically young. vestigations on behalt of the com only three or four miles from when
started from a defect in the heating Stanton bad a rebuked consciousness mittee. and the results of his work they were originally taken.— Londoi
system. Insurance amounted to $7000. of being strong and brutal In his cannot tall to be o( considerable use Standard.
About one-fourth o f the hops had been strength, successful and selfish In bis to those concerned in biological re
The Gloom of English Clubs.
picked, which amount was consumed. success.
search.
"You are an educating companion,”
The remainder o f the’ crop will be
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, at a din
In the course of an exhaustive re
dried in a neighboring hophouse.
be observed, as they w ent out with an port he stated that between July and ner In New York, was talking abou
officer.
September. 1*10. nearly two thousand English clubs.
“ W hy?" Floyd Inquired, puzzled.
crabs were captured, and after being
Dallas to Install Fountains.
“ There It something very triete
But Stanton would elucidate no ! labeled were again set tree along the very depressing." he said, "about tb«
Dallas— To accommodate the travel
Norfolk and Lincolnshire coasts. The really fashionable clubs of Pall Mall
ing public, the visiting farmers and further.
The ordeal before tbe magistrate was ! crabs kad recently cast their shells, S t James' street and Piccadilly. Tbt
the local citizens. Dallas is to have
four public drinking fountains in not long Stanton was held In a thou and new ones were then in process stiff dignity, tbe somber quietude o
these club», gets on an Ameiican'i
stalled on four o f the principal corners sand dollars ball for future trial, pro of hardening.
Rewards were paid to Pshermen nerves.
o f this city.
There is to be a large duced a surety company's bond, and In
"An American visitor to Whlte’i
fountain for horses at the Main street fifteen minutes was free and once upon returning the crabs when recap
intersection. An effort is to be made more In hie seat behind the Mercury’s tured. They were returned to the sea one« said that the air of the plan
at
varying
distances
from
the
shore,
to get the drinking fountains in be wheel.
seemed to him to suggest that tbi
"W e will reach tbe office on Urn*” aad on to the present 21 dot cent ot kin* lay dead upstairs.”
fore the Harvest Festival and School-
children's Fair, October 3, 4 and 6.
j
C ra b ’s W a lk o f 98 M iles