CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEB
“1 am ready,” be signified.
The Mercury camp waa a seen* of
ao'mated preparation, twenty minute*
American
Endurance
Hydroplane
later, when Floyd emerged from the
Flight Record Is Made.
dense press of arriving spectators and
Annapolis, Md.— A new American
gained the tnclosure. The assistant
record for an endurance flight was
manager almost received him in hla
L IN N T IM B E R A LL SA FE .
840 A C R E S S E L L S350.000.
made here in a hydro-aeroplane by
arms, the rest of the force clustered
John H. Towers, a lieutenant o f the
around.
Gay,
blithe,
triumphant,
No Forest Fire* Occurred in County Large Tract at M edford Bought By
Navy aviation corps. He was contin
here, If it wasn’t for you,” he de
This
8ummer.
Oakland, Cal., Company.
uously in the air for 6 hours, 10 min
clared, once.
utes and 35 seconds. The best pre
Albany— For the first time in more
" I ’m awfully bright,” Floyd agreed,
Medford — The largest real estate
vious American record, made by Paul than a quarter o f a century Linn
but he did not smile.
transaction o f 1912 was consummated
Peck, was 4 hours 23 minutes 38 sec
The machines were preparing to go
county has passed through a summer here when A. A. Davis this week
General Return* o f Important Eventa onds.
' o f l¡o G am eandtie Candle to their stations for the start, Stan
without
a
forest
fire.
sold
to
the
M.
T.
Minnie
Realty
com
Presented In Condensed Form
The distance covered by Lieutenant
ton was In his seat at the wheel, when
The Flym ^ M ertiuj etc.
1
Though this was partially due to pany, of Oakland, Cal., 840 acres of
Towers was approximately 389 miles
Floyd came over, and leaning against
fo r O ur Busy Reader*.
with six miles to a lap.
When the heavy rains the system of protection land for $360,000. Two hundred acres
the car, looked up Into the driver's
face.
best previous record was made, Peck
established by the new fire patrol of the land adjoins the Medford city
(len»<<«a4r
covered 176 miles.
The course just
"W hat have I done?" he asked elm
Philadelphia’s registration is 17,208 covered was not a measured one, bow association is credited also for this limits on the East, and until recently
^
rest after what you put him through ply.
less than four years ago.
This association was formed was used as a golf course by the Med
ever, and Towers’ distance record i record.
Both men were still unmasked, their
8YNOPSIS,
*
out west, he asked me not to tell you
The balance is
privacy of speech was secured by the
last spring by the owners o f timber ford Country club.
about It, Hello— 454— ”
Turks continue
active
prepara not official.
A
t
the
beginning
o
f
g
rea
t
autom
obile
The flight was quietly arranged by land in Linn county and established a orchard property five miles northeast
tions for war with the Balkan states.
Stanton paused for a moment, dumb, uproar around them. Stanton looked
the m echanician or the M ercu ry,
of Medford on the Pacific & Eastern race
the American Aero club.
Towers
Stanton*« m achine, drops dead. Strange then turned on his heel and went out grimly back.
California women suffragists held rose from the water in front of the complete patrol system.
Railroad, 430 acres being in young youth, Jesse F loyd, volunteers, and la a c He was so stunned and bitterly an
"Lied to me. Tou were not kept
the first prlitical convention ever held aviation field, across from Annapolis,
John Marrs, chief fire warden, had apple and pear orchard from two to cepted. In the rest du ring the tw en ty -
four hour race Stanton m eet« a stranger. gered that little red flecks danced be away from New York by work with
exclusively by women.
Mlaa C arlisle, w ho Introduces herself. Th e
at 6:05 a .m ., and did not touch the 21 patrolmen and lookouts and a aye* five years of age.
Green, or any other work, for the last
M ercury w ins
rate.
Stanton
receives fore his vision. Floyd had lied to him,
The new owners will plant the bal flowers
A revenue cutter in San Francisco water again until 35 seconds after 1 tern of telephone lines connecting all
from Miss C arlisle, which he Ig systematically deceived him; In order two weeks."
bay fired upon a smuggling launch, p. m. There was only a glassfull of of the lookout stations with his head ance to orchard, subdivide and sell it nores. Stanton m eets Mlaa C arlisle on a to escape from his too pressing friend
A tinge of scarlet streaked Floyd's
train. T h e y a ligh t to tak e
walk, and
Besides main in small tracts.
but was unable to stop or overtake her. fuel in the tank when he alighted. quarters at Lacomb.
He remembered that pallor, be bent his head.
train leaves. Stanton and M iss C arlisle ship, no doubt.
taining
this
system,
35
miles
o
f
new
The orchard property which brought fo llo w In auto. Accident by which S tan the mechanician had always shrunk
He had 42 gallons when he started.
"Yes, I lied to you,” he admitted.
trails were built this year, and 50 $400 an acre consists of a square mile ton la hurt la m ysterious. F loyd, at lunch
President Taft and party on a vaca
Stanton’s gauntleted hand closed on
from his personal advances and only
with Stanton, tells o f his boyhood. Stan
miles of telephone lines were estab of land, bisected by the railroad. The ton again m eets Miss C arlisle and they
tion through Vermont were enter
his wheel.
(
yielded
to
them
under
compulsion.
lished through the timber. They also entire tract is under water. It is ® k e tog eth erv Stanton com es to track
tained by a son of Abraham Lincoln.
“There was no need. Your time waa
sick, but m akes race. T h e v h ave acci Now he understood the letter which
repaired 100 miles of old telephone ideally located for orchard purposes. dent F lo y d hurt, hut not seriously. At
Prosecutions in the dynamite cases
he had received the previous night your own, Floyd; I claimed no control
lines. All of this work has been done The land ¡ b well drained.
Included dinner F lo y d tells 9tanton o f his twin from Green, and Mr. Bailey’s confused over you. I don’t know why you did It,
charge that it was at one time planned
sister. Jessica. Stnnton becom es v e rv 111
in
addition
to
that
accomplished
by
are the buildings at Davis and the and loses consciousness. On rec ove ry at answer to his question about Floyd to be rid of me for a while, I suppose,
New York— Postoffice inspectors of
to blow up the locks on the Panama
townsite. The Minnie company will his hotel Stanton receives Invitation and He had been put oft to be amused by but the reason doesn’t matter. Last
two countries, secret service men and the government forest service.
canal.
visits Jessica. T h e y go to th ea ter togeth
This protection cost the timber own carry out Mr
Davis’ original inten er and meet Miss Carlisle. Stanton and
the W . J. Burns detective agency are
Jessica, until Floyd was again ready night I thought a good many wild
A t the capture of Leon, Nicargua,
m eet again and talk buslneas
investigating the mysterious disap era 3 cents an acre. Heretofore each tion of subdividing and selling in T F h loyd
to use him In the plan sjor the Comet things about you, and your sister, but
ey
agree
to
operate
autom
obile
fa
cto
ry
by Americans, 3 were killed and
pearance o f a registered mail package timber company or owner o f large small tracts. The property is laid out «a partners. F lo vd becom es suspicious o f factory.
Jessica!
Stanton stopped this morning I’ve got my grip again.
wounded, while the rebel loss was
M iss C arlisle. Stanton again vlalta Jes
containing $200,000, consigned from holdings has maintained his own rang with roadways for division into five, sica,
Had Jessica No doubt you had all you could stand
and they becom e fast friends. Stan short In the dark hall.
over 50.
era
and
there
was
no
definite
Bystem
seven
and
ten-acre
tracts.
Mr.
Davis
Havana to the National Park bank, of
ton becomes suspicions o f M iss C arlisle
also deceived him? W as she too play of me, I’m not precisely lovable and
o
f
co-operation.
With
all
united
the
Just
b
efore
Im
portant
race
tires
needed
purchased
the
property
five
years
ago
Postal inspectors have found part this city.
ing a part In order to keep him In a I would have understood If you had
fo r Stan ton’s c a r are delayed.
o f the $200,000 stolen from a regis
The loss was discovered last Wed fire protection has been placed on an at a fraction of its present value, but
good humor? He struck his clenched Just told me so. But I will have no
efficient
system.
asserts he can do the same thing over
tered mail sack en route from Havana nesday or Thursday, when a regis
hand violently against the wall beside friend I can’t trust all the way. Get
C H A P T E R XI— (Continued).
again and probably will.
to New York.
tered mail pouch from Havana wag
In— we will finish this race, and p a rt”
him.
The assistant manager stared In
VALE P R O J E C T O N S O O N .
opened in the New York postoffice.
Floyd raised his head and gave to
reproach touched with hysteria. His
“What’s that?” cried tho affrighted
Enrique Maza, a Cuban newspaper When and where the package disap
collar was wilted, his eye-glasses dan Mr. Green, within the room. “Who— ” the stern scrutiny hla candid gray
E L E C T R IC LINE PR O M IS IN G .
man, who recently assaulted Hugh S. peared, whether in Havana, aboard Bully Creek Irrigation
Work Has
gled by their cord.
I ran against the wall. In the dark,” eyes.
Gibson, the American Charge d’A f- ship or the train which brought it or
Sufficient Funds.
Stanton, trust me all the way now,”
called, his voice a little
“Buy them? Buy enough racing Stanton
Grand Ronde Citizens Pleased Over
faires, wan sentenced to two and
thereafter, no one has been able to
tires fitting tho Mercury to last you hoarse, but evenly controlled. “Good he appealed. “Can you do that? Can
V ale— Word has just been received
Prospects
Now,
half years’ imprisonment.
discover.
you take my word that your friendship
here that available funds have been
for a three hundred mile road race, night.”
Postoffice authorities are working secured from Eastern concerns suffi
La Grande— Grand Rondo citizens and get them hore by to-morrow morn
Good night.
W e ’ll fix things all Is the only thing In the world I want?
Instead of going to church last Sun
W hat’s the matter with you, right, Stanton; you take a good sleep.” If I deceived you. It was so. I could be
day the neighbors of Mrs. Marguerite zealously on the case in the two re cient to construct the Bully Creek ir are much pleased over the prospects ing?
here to race with you to-day. I will
"1 shall,” promised the driver.
Field, a noted writer of Los Angeles, publics, as a matter of course, while rigation project, which has been hang for an electric line which is to girdle Stanton?”
tell you afterward, I can’t now.”
Much talk has been going
This the valley.
He did not.
gathered and built her a new house, private detectives have been set to ing fire for several months.
“Well, since thero Is nothing to do
“You mean— ’’
At seven o’clock, the next morning,
to replace the one destroyed by fire a work by the shipper, whose name is news comes from D. M. Brogan, who the rounds the past few years of the but eat, come to dinner, Floyd,” said
Floyd held out his hand.
not revealed.
The
National Park s now in the East and to whose un feasibility of such a line and several the other.
Mr. Green burst Into the hotel dining
week before.
*
bank has no more than a normal in tiring efforts this project ha« been parties of capitalists have had the
‘T v e got everything badly mixed up,
“It isn’t dinner, It’s supper,” cor room where Stanton was at breakfast.
The clerk of the Cleveland Juvenile terest in the case, as by no possibility made possible. Mr. Rigby, of this matter under consideration, though rected his mechanician. “This is the
He’s got them! They’re coming,” but It’s clean to offer you, Stanton."
As swiftly Impulsive as hla condem
can the loss fall upon it.
and Insolvency court will summon
place, who is connected with Mr. Bro nothing of moment has been done un country and you had your dinner at he rejoiced
maniacally. “The car
jury composed entirely o f ball-players
gan in this enterprise, left for Boise til lately. A survey extending from noon. But I’ll come, anyhow.”
wasn’t at Brighton, but he located It nation was Stanton's movement as be
M RS. S A G E B U Y S BIRD ISLE.
bent to give the clasp.
to serve during the winter, saying
to let the contract to parties there. La Grande to Cove, thence to Imbler
At the table In the course of the .ten miles farther over, on a siding.
All right,” he said curtly. “Get In;
and back via Alicel and Island City meal, a small tea-pot was set before And he raised such a disturbance
they are trained to think and act
Work will begin as soon as possible.
without hesitation and should make Refuge for Migratory Flocks in Gulf
around the express people’s ears that I ought to have given you a chance."
This bit of news, while the details having just been completed.
Stanton.
Purchased for S I60,000.
The surveying party worked with
good jurymen.
they unloaded the tires then and there, And as the other obeyed: "I didn't
are not yet fully known, has caused
"Chocolate, sir," he was apprised.
and rushed out two motor trucks to mean to meet you as I did. an hour
New York— Announcement is made much interest here. The (lam will be the utmost secrecy, and no definite in
“Why, you had none at luncheon!”
The first farm survey ever attempt
ago, anyhow; it slipped me."
formation could be gained. Rumors,
constructed
in
the
canyon
about
two
that
Mrs.
Russel
Sage
has
purchased
The pompadoured waitress giggled. cart them across to us. They’ll be
ed west o f the Rocky mountains is in
They’re signaling," warned Mr.
however, have it that the company
here
by
eight
and
the
race
starts
at
miles
above
the
town
of
W
estfall,
and
Marsh
Island,
off
the
coast
of
Louis
"No, sir. But the gentleman Bent a
progress
in the Waldo hills and
Green, hurrying over. "A re you ready?
which owns the Boise and Idaho Inter-
nine.
I
have
been
up
all
night—
an
the
reservoir,
when
completed,
will
iana,
and
will
make
of
it
a
bird
refuge
boy after some and came down and
Howell prairie section of the Wiliam
Both of you?”
for all migratory birds. It is Mrs. furnish water for about 40,000 acres urban lines is the one interested in saw the cook, and cook’s that fond of hour ago it looked as If you would
ette valley, Oregon.
From his place beside Stanton,
this
new
project.
The
route
as
pro
o
f
now
arid
land,
all
of
which
is
in
Sage’s intention to dedicate the island
nonsense, and she fifty-four next De have to be withdrawn from the con Floyd turned a face of Incarnate sun
test for lack of a few sets of rubber
immediate vicinity
o f Vale. jected covers only the level portion cember— ”
Aviator Walsh was killed while at in perpetuity to this purpose. The the
tires. That fool tire company!” He shine to the assistant manager, a face
acres have been of the valley. However, it is under
tempting the ‘‘spiral g lid e " at Tren plans o f administration have not yet Twenty thousand
Stanton looked across Into Floyd’s
wiped his forehead. “Don’t you want so changed In Its color and glow and
ton, N. J.
been made.
Mrs. Sage will place the signed up for water. This enterprise, stood that Summerville, lying in the mirthful gray eyes.
to come out to the course, after you warmth that all who saw drew breath
control in whatever hands seem best. n connection with the railroad work, extreme north end of the level valley,
"I hadn't anything better to do.”
In sheer wonder.
One was killed and 55 injured when
It has not been decided yet whether will make Vale one of the busiest and Elgin, lying a little further north was the malicious explanation. "And finish here? Floyd Is due on the train
" W e ’re ready,” his lilting tones as
a runaway streetcar in Pittsburg jump
across a small range o f hills, will bid
which arrives In fifteen minutes. If he
these hands will be those o f the Fed centers in Eastern Oregon.
I was ¿ifrald your nerves would go to Isn’t smothered by the crowd. I never sured. “Don’t worry."
ed the track and struck a telephone
for
the
line
to
be
extended
to
their
eral government, the State o f Louis
pieces If you didn’t get your usual saw Buch a mob of people; they have
Stanton laughed with him, fastening
pole.
towns.
L O G G IN G ROAD- NEAR READY.
iana or some association organized for
drug and then you’d wreck us to-mor been coming since dawn; all night, In on the mask, and sent the Mercury
the purpose.
row.”
Eight were killed and many injured
rolling forward. The world waa right
fact, and they’re still coming.”
P R O J E C T U N IT U N D E R W AY .
The island cost Mrs. Sage about Rail Line for Crosselt Timber Com
in a train-wreck in Connecticut.
"He'd coax a bird off a tree, sir,”
Yes,” acquiesced the other un once more, and life sane.
$150,000. It is in the gu lf some 200
pany Presages Activity.
tittered the departing maid.
It was an exquisite morning; wind
emotionally. His dark face gave an
Railroads count on a much heavier miles southeast o f New Orleans. Its
Reclamation in Lost River Country to
less, cool, with happy little effect» of
"Give me your cup and have some,”
Astoria— C. L. Houston., who has
colonist travel to the Coast this year length is about 18 miles and the
Start Immediately.
snowy cloud against a cobalt-blue
Stanton briefly commanded.
than last.
width nine miles at the broadest part. the contract for building about five
sky. The October air was a aummer-
“Going to throw it at me. like you
Klamath Falls— The contract for
miles
o
f
railroad
for
the
B
ig
Creek
75,000
Mine owners at Ely, Nev., have de The area is approximately
dlstilled cordial, an ethereal Intoxi
Logging company, leading from tide the second unit of the United States did that Jug of water on the first night
cided to close the mines for the winter acres. The birds will be given abso water to Knappa to the Crossett Tim reclamation work on this project has we raced together?” teased his com
cant. The racers had no time to no
lute
protection
from
poachers
of
every
on account o f the strike.
tice It, yet the effect was there. The
ber company’s holdings, expects to been let. The bids were opened A u panion, obeying.
description.
speed made on the first laps was reo-
Stanton's head lifted slightly, the re
have the road completed in about two gust 20, and forwarded to W ashing
Bulgarian troops have crossed the
ord-breaklng
weeks. The company has established ton, D. C., and the contract has now gard In which he enveloped Floyd was
Turkish frontier and a battle is re
ICE IN V A S IO N P R E D IC T E D .
The brown or gray streak of road
its camps and has a force of men at been completed by the secretary of almost savage In Its leap of Intense
ported in which 400 were killed.
the interior.
ahead, the deadly turns, the treacher
and tenacious passion. Such a glance
work
felling
and
cutting
timber
so
The board o f health of Vancouver, Scientist Faye All Human Skill Will
It is believed that the season is so from man to woman would have been
ous smooth hill down which It was so
that it will be ready to commence
Be Needed to Fight Glaciers.
Wash., has aboslihed public drinking
easy to make speed and still more
hauling logs in about another month. late that only enough work will be a declaration, from man to man It was
cups and glasses of every description.
easy to meet disaster— for the first
Ithaca, N. Y .— “ I have no doubt
The Big Creek Logging company is done this fall to comply with the terms not a thing to be voiced. Floyd him
hour Stanton had no attention to spare
that we are now in an inter glacial a subsidiary of the Crossett company, of the contract, which requires 10 per self faltered before it, startled into
A Los Angeles court has decided
from these. Moreover, the spectator»
period similar to those which have and
the latter owns approximately cent of the whole excavation to be pallor.
that loan sharks cannot collect the
were massed over the course in many
already existed, and in future the hu 2,500,000,000 feet of standing timber done by December 81, 1912.
"You
can
throw
It
at
me.
If
you
like,
wage of a victim when his w ife and
The work is divided into seven and square up,” was all Stanton said,
places, recoiling Just enough to leave
man race will have to use all its in that district, sufficient to keep its
children need it.
a lane for each car’s passage, and s t
knowledge in another fight for its life camp running for 50 years and still schedules and covers more than 300,- and reached for the sugar-bowl with
Imposing another anxiety upon the
his customary nonchalance.
Thirty-four young married couples against the encroaching ic e ," said take out 50,000,000 feet of logs an 000 cubic yards of excavation.
The steel flume across Lost river is
drivers who knew the swerve of a foot
“Thanks; It’s boiling,
I guess I
returning from their honeymoon on an Professor Nathaniel Schmidt, of the nually. This timber tract is among
must bring death to some one.
the largest and most valuable individ being built by the Reclamation ser s’on’t,” Floyd acknowledged. But he
Atlantic liner, formed an “ A n ti-N a g " history department at Cornell.
vice, as is the connecting canal from did not look at the other, and his
"Car behind,” Floyd’s clear accent*
Speaking o f the ice age, he added:
ual holdings of the kind in the state.
league for the purpose of avoiding any
the end of the main canal on the first manner was troubled.
gave the familiar cautions, from tlms
“ I wish to call attention to recent
future family jars.
unit.
The flume structure is done
Lin* Wants O rders Modified.
discoveries in Switzerland of four dis
The meal was ended and the even
Played Billiards With Three of Hie to time. “He’s tryln’ to get us before
President Elliott, o f the Northern tinct periods o f glaciation, and to the
the turn. The Atalanta's head In th(
lng had commenced, when a telegram
Fellow Drivers.
Salem— The Sumpter Valley Rail and the steel on the ground.
Pacific will pay $10 per box for the fact that Professor Winchell, o f Min road company, which filed an injunc
dust."
came In from New York.
effect
of
bronzelike
Immobility,
his
best 10 boxes of apples exhibited at nesota, has been able to produce tion suit to restrain the railroad com
The pace maintained was the fastes*
"Car marked Ruby Co. consigned to
O L D L A N D ’S Y IE LD LARGE
the Northwestern Products exposition definite proofs that Kansas has gone mission from enforcing its recent or
at which the Mercury could be held te
Mercury Co. Coney Island, left here blue-black eyes held steel glints.'
W ell,” the assistant manager re the road. It was Stanton's way to gain
at Minneapolis Nov. 12 to 23.
last night.”
through the same four periods. This der reducing the passenger and freight
Tract Farmed Since I860 Produces
the lead first, when possible, thet
important, because it proves the tariffs on its road, also filed with the
Mr. Green uttered a howl and felt sumed, and paused.
II Bushels an Acre,
The pompadoured
waitress was keep a steady average regardless of
for the telephone.
contemporaneousness of the glacial state railroad commission a petition to
PORTLAND MARKETS
Albany— The remarkable record of
ages in both hemispheres."
"They've shipped the car to Coney leaning between them, placing a tea his rivals’ spurts of speed; unless thf
have the commission’s order modified.
race were too short to permit such
yield of 11 bushels o f clover seed an Island instead of to Long Branch,” he pot on the table.
Where the commission ordered the use
Wheat— Track prices: Club, 76®
“Chocolate, sir,” she giggled.
tactics or the contest too close. Now
Uniform Changes Anger.
of the Spaulding scale in measuring acre on land which has been farmed raged. “The tires must be out at the
77c; bluestem, 80c; forty-fold, 75c;
Stanton pushed back his chair, then at the end of the Becond hour Floyd
Washington, D. C.— Naval officers lumber, the company asks for permis since I860, was established this sea Bench track, or near It."
valley, 77c.
made the desired announcement, ar
“Don't telephone; send some one checked himself as sharply.
sion to use the Scribner scale, saying son hv Ed Meeker, ex-county recorder
"No,” he stated, and set the pot they shot past the grand stand and the
MillstulTs— Bran, $21 ton; shorts, are up in arms against the latest or this latter is the one in common use
Linn county, on hi9 farm seven out there to get them,” advised Stan
der o f the department making changes
away from before him.
$23; middlings, $29.
bulletin boards.
along its road. It also asks to have miles north of this city. He raised an ton practically.
Each officer will
The movement was not violent, but
" W e ’re leadin'.. The tires have beep
"I've got to be here, and I can't get
H ay—Timothy, choice,
$ 17fr< 18 ; in their uniforms.
the rate on logs fixed by weight in average o f 11 bushels ait acre on a
there was In It so much poorly re holdln’ fine— look out for them this
field of 10J acres. The land on which our New York men In time, now.”
No. 1, $16; oat and vetch, $12; alfal have to spend $300 to $500 for new un stead of measurement.
iforms and changing old ones.
The
this clover was raised is part of the
"W ell, I’ll go, then. Coney island strained force that the china vessel round.”
fa, $12; clover, $10; straw, $6«r7.
order, say the officers, imposes finan
Stanton moved his head affirmative
old
donation
land
claim
which
John
has
got to be raked fine and the tires shattered upon striking the table and
Many
Fish
Distributed.
Oats— White, $24.50(<i25 ton; gray,
cial hardship on every one.
A num
Meeker,
the
present
owner’s
father,
brought
here as soon as they are all the fragrant brown liquid ran over ly. his narrowed eyes unswerving from
feed, $24; gray milling, $25.60(«;26.
Oregon
City—
S
S.
Mohler,
o
f
this
ber o f officers here, tired o f continual
the white cloth. The girl exclaimed In the line of course ahead. Heeding the
took up.
found.”
Fresh fruits — Apples, 60ct<i$l.60 ly having their uniforms altered at city, who left here in May, and who
“You? You? Traveling and wear dismay, Mr. Green stared; Stanton advice, he did take the turns more
box; peaches, 60(a60c; pears, TftedV the whims of bureau chiefs, will try has been distributing 110 000 fish in
Linn County Apples Abundant.
ing yourself out on the eve of a gruel only dropped a dollar bill beside his carefully.
$1.50; grapes, 75(ir:90c; cranberries, to get a bill through congress forbid 90 different lakes, for the govern
(T O B E C O N T I N U E D .)
ling race? No. Go to bed and get your plate and rose to go.
Albany
—
Linn
county
will
market
$9.60 barrel.
ding changes in naval uniforms with ment, returned to his home in this
rest please, gtanton. I’ll send some
five or six times as many apples this
Melons —• Cantaloupes,
$1.76(i('2 out express authority from congress.
city.
Mr. Mohler’s trip was very suc
one."
crate; watermelons, $1 hundred; cas
cessful, only a few of the fish having year as in 1911. County Fruit In
Stanton did not go to bed. but he
spector
Rumhaugh
estimates
that
the
abas $ 1 . 26 ( 0 ) 1.60 dozen.
Fire 8reakt Out Afresh
perished on the trip. One trip cov
went Into' the hotel room across the
Kellogg, Idaho— A fter apparently ered over 60 miles, and only five of total yield of marketable apples in the hall and played billiards with three
Onions— Oregon, $1.10 sack.
Potatoes — Jobbing prices:
Bur being conquered, the fire in the Bunk the fish were dead when the destina- county will be close to 20,000 bushels of his fellow drivers. He was less for Queer Requirements Made In France
the grrund of desertion. Since death
banks. 60(o 75c hundred; sweet pota er Hill A Sullivan mine broke nut tion was reached. The work has been Last year s crop was light and there bidding. less caustic of speech than
That Official Record* May Be
Is beyond dispute the most complete
is
a
good
average
yield
this
season.
afresh and now threatens to exceed very satisfactory to the government.
formerly
Floyd had taught him the
toes, lf(o 2 c pound.
Completed.
kind of desertion, the court of Mon-
Five helmet- Although hardships were encountered, The prune crop In this county is light art of companionship. Before the
Vegetables — Artichokes, 76(w85c its former proportions
treull decided that she could not be
this year and Rumbaugh estimates game ended, the four players found
do*. ; beans, 6c;
cabbage, lfo ljc ed rescuers were caught on the 1200- the trip was made without mishap.
In France, as In some other coun denied. So the widow Is recognized *a
that the yield is only 25 or 30 per themselves very good company and
ptiund; cauliflower, 60c(o$l do*. ; cel foot level, but by using their supply
tries, every citizen has an official bla- an Independent woman and apparently
cent o f a normal crop. In some orch drank a good night In ApollinaiTs, to
Melons Profitable Crop
ery. 35(o 75c; corn, 76c(o$l sack; cu of oxygen they managed to escape
tory. Not as varied and Interesting both the law and she er* satisfied. But
ards half an average crop has been the landlord's Bacchic disgust
cumbers, 60c box; eggplant, $1.25(d) through a side tunnel. They had been
at bis real history, jbut still Import you will observe thet the official his
Junction City — Robert Harper, a
About ten o’clock. Stanton looked ant From this there follow at times
1.60 box; head lettuce, 20(o 25c doz ; searching for the body of F. A. Bentz prosperous farmer who lives near this harvested.
tory mua. now record the wife of a
Into the apartment where Mr Green quaint consequences. If a woman Is
missing pumpman.
The fire was city, has raised a banner crop o f w a
poppers, 6oHc pound; radishes, 16(0)
dead man as a divorcee, which does
Indian
Demand*
School
Rights
set between the telegraph operator married, for example, a wife she re-
20c doz ; tomatoes. 60(0>75c box ; gar thought to be under control, but when termelons and cantaloupes this season.
not seem very creditable to official
Klamath Falla— W illiam Crawford, and the telephone.
lic,
6(u6c
pound; carrots,
$1.25 rescuers en’ered the mine looking for On one acre he cleared over $300. do
| mains officially though the husband history.
a
quarter-breed
Indian,
hag
asked
for
"Where
la
Floyd?”
he
casually
sack; turnips, $1; beets, $1.10; par Bentz, the flames broke out afresh.
may
be
missing.
ing little or no cultivation.
Last
snips, $1.25.
Consider the case of the painter
spring he planted a mixture of water a mandamus to be directed to the di wondered.
Glaciers Caused by Milky Way.
Fairbanks
to
Get
Service.
“Hello, hello—no, hold tho
wire. j who went fishing on Antble bay. He
Eggs — Oregon extras, 38c doi. ;
melons and muskmelons.
For the rectors of school district No. 7, at
Another
suggested cause of glacial
Fort
Klamath,
to
compel
them
to
ad
candled, 36c; case count, 35c.
What Is It? Floyd? Oh. he's gone to I has not since been seen. The body of
Seattle— President Dickeson, of the past ten days he has been selling these
periods la that they have been due t*
Island.
Hallo, yea— wrong | one man who w ent with him was
Rutter— Oregon creamery,
cubes, White Pass A Yukon railway, an melons.
The muskmelons average mit the children o f the complainant to Coney
the shifting of the milky way, such as
He cites that he number."
85Jc pound; prints, 36Jc.
washed ashore lifeless.
You would
nounces that the Yukon River sleam- nearly 25 salable melons to the hill, the public school.
“To Coney Island! You sent him?” call this tolerably convincing proof Is known to hava occurred.
Pork— Fancy, 11 (<i l 1Jc pound.
ihip service o f the company, which and a banner hill shows 47 melon*. lives in Fort Klamath, owns a hou«e
Assuming that much of the earth's
"Ho offered to go," Mr. Green that his wife had been made a widow.
Veal — Fancy, 13$(<lt4c pound.
now extends between White Horse He raised 1200 w atermelon» and a to and lots and pays taxes on them, and
that the teacher. Miss Minnie Mr* jerkily Imparted, “riease go to bed, She thought to and In due time she heat comes from the stars. Dr. Rudoll
Poultry— Hens, lli(i£12c; broilers, and Dawson, Yukon Territory, will be tal of 6000 muskmelons on this acre.
Clure, acting under the orders of the j won’t you? Floyd can take care of sought to have It recorded In her of Spitaler finds that tha change of posi
ll}(iri!l2c; ducks,
young, 12(i£l2ic; continued next year to Fairbanks,
director», refused his daughters, Jua himself. I should th4nk. and he has ficial history that the was a widow. tion 1* relation to tha milky way
Grange Defi *ea Stand.
geese, 11c; turkeys, live, 18((t:22c; Alaska. 800 mile* northwest o f D aw
mlgkt have given a different dlstrlbw
dressed, 25c.
son. The people of Fairbanks have
La Grande—Indorsement of the so- nita and Naomi, admission to the had a two weeks' rest to get ready for W# are familiar with applications to
Hop*— 1912 crop, prime and choice, appealed to President Taft and Secre called majority amendment to the con school.
a court of Justice for leave to pre tlon of temperature from that existing
thla."
pound.
"W’hat do you mean? He haa been sume the death of persons who have at the present time. The «tar* ar*
tary of the Treasury MacVeagh to stitution, to be voted on at the No
Magene Strawberries Marketed.
Cattle— Choice steers, $6.75<>i 6 90; open Fairbanks as a sub-port of entry. vember election, was given by Blue
working at the factory or with you vanished. But the French Judge was not only crowded In the region of the
milky way but many of them are ol
good. $6.26((l6 65; medium, $6<ii6 25,
Mountain Grange No. 345, at its last
Oregon City— A. Splinter, of Maple ever since we came back from Indian not to be so easily persuaded as our
Grapefruit C rop Large.
choice cows, $6 a 6 26 ; medium, $5 oii
courts. The wife was In her official the hottest type.
meeting.
The grange unanimously Lane, brought 17 boxes o f delicious ( apolis. ’’
6 26; choice calves, $7(tt8.60; good
Washington, D. C .— Reports on the adopted the resolution, in which it Vagone strawberries to Oregon City ! In a nervous exasperation the assist history a wife and there was no certifi
Dream* * f Yeuth.
heavy calves, $6.26(0.7; bulls, $3(a6; Florida citrus fruit crop say that held that the present excessive use of recently that were raised on his half ant manager whirled his chair around. cate to justify her appellation being
Bon— Oh, father, I should Ilk* *
stags, $4.76(06.25.
"H e had a two weeks’ vacation,” he changed to widow. Without a certifi
,000,000 boxes, more than half of the initiative is its worst enemy and acre of land, which la in these plants
Hogs— Light, $8.26(08.60; heavy,
hich will be grapefruit, will b e 1 expressed the belief that a remedy The other land on hi* farm is under reiterated crossly. “ He told me that es.* or reasonable documentary evi Turkish bath.
$7«/ 7.76.
rather— Ah. my boy. when I waa
shipped out o f the state. The citrus lies in the proposed measure, making cultivation, but is planted to other he was going off by himself fft* a quiet dence no man obviously ought to die.
You don t heve to know every
Sheep — Yearlings,
$4.26(n 4.76; season has begun
There was a way round. The be young Ilk* you, I too, waa romaatl«.—
Twenty-three necessary a majority vote of all eler- varieties of berries and fr u it The rest
wethers, $3.60(04.30: ewes, $2.76(04; thousand cara will be required to move tors at any election to change the con- price he received for [his berries was thing. Stanton
I fancy be needed a reaved woman applied for a divorce oa London Opinion.
lambs, $3.86.
the crop.
stitution.
| 12^ cents a box.
I
A V IA T O R S E T S M ARK.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
/S.TAKTON
WINS
Doings of the World at Large
Told in Briet
ELEANOR M jT "
IN G R A M / ’
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FREDERIC 1T1ORNBURG0
$200,000 PACKAGE DISAP
PEARS FROM MAIL POUCH
&
2 Divorced From Dead Man