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NEWS NOTES OF CURRENT WEEK A PEW OF THE ARISTOCRATS WHO OPENED THE EYES OF VISITORS AT THE ANNUAL POULTRY AND PET STOCK SHOW IN PORTLAND. by EnjIAW dHJS Rfl. O N tiH B & fl Resume of World’s Important Events Told in Brief. the new firffl ia acting.” Bailey pulled out a handkerchief and rubbed hie brow. "Excuse me. it’s warm. Yea, he wants me to strengthen a knuckle — he’s spoken considerable about It I guess he’s right; better too much than too little.” “I do not see that followa. I should Imagine that you understood building chassis better than this racing driver. You had best consult outside «.xperts In construction before making a change.” "Uncle! ” Emily cried. "There’s a twenty-four hour race starts tomorrow night,” Bailey sug gested uneasily. Hit's easy fixed, and we might be wrong.” “We have always mads them this way?" "Yea. but—" “Consult experts, then. I do not like your m anager's tone; he Is too as suming. Now let me eee those pa pers.” Emily's parasol slipped to the floor with a sharp crash as she stood up, quite pale and shaken. "Uncle, Mr. Lestrange knows.” she appealed. “You heard him say what would happen—please, please let It be fixed.” Amazed, Mr. Ffrench looked at her, his face setting. "You forget your dignity,” he re torted In displeasure. “This 1 b mere childishness, Emily. Men will be con sulted more competent to decide than this Lestrange. That will do.” From one to the other she gazed, then turned away. “I will wait out In the cart," the said. “I—I would rather be outdoors.” Dick Ffrench was up-stairs, stand ing with Lestrange In one of the nar row aisles between lines of grimly ef ficient machines that bit or cut their way through the steel and aluminum fed to them, when Rupert came to him with a folded visiting card. "Miss Ffrench sent It.” was the ex planation. “She’s sitting out In her horse-motor car, and she called me off the track to ask me to demean myself by acting like a messenger boy. All right?" "All right.” said Dick, running an astonished eye over the card. "No answer?" “No answer." "Then I’ll hurry back to my em broidery. I’m several laps behind In my work already.” “See here. I-estrange,” Dick began, as the mechanician departed, sitting down on a railing beside a machine steadily engaged In notching steel disks Into gear-wheels. "Don’t do th at!" Lestrange exclaim ed sharply. “Get up, Ffrench.” "It’s safe enough." "It’s nothing of the kind. The least slip—” “Oh. well." he reluctantly rose, “If you're going to get fussy. Read what Emily sent up.” Lestrange accepted the card with a faint flicker of expression. "Dick, uncle Is making the steering- knuckle wait for expert opinion,” the legend ran. In pencil. “Have Mr. Bai ley strengthen Mr. Lestrange's car, anyhow. Do not let him race so.” Near them two men were engaged In babbitting bearings, passing ladle- AUTHOR OF THC GAMF AND THE CANDLE; President-elect Wilson declines to make any more speaking engagements. Roosevelt urges successful third- copy/?/&yr /9 /0 s r o o m z - m *# //.*. ca party legislators to work hard to carry % dismissing the boy who had ushered 8 Y N O P S IS . out party pledges. them In "Sit down. Emily; Bailey Austria is assembling her entire war T h » »torjr ©pen» on Long Island, near will return directly, no doubt.” fleet at Pola, the chief naval station N ew York city, w here M iss Em ily But Emily had already sat down, for F french, a relative of E th an Ffrench, of Austro-Hungary. m an u fa ctu re r of the celebrated “ M er she knew the voice speaking beyond cu ry ” autom obile, lose» her way. The the half-open door, and that the long- Butter advanced two cents a pound car haa »topped and her cousin. Dick in Portland, Or., markets, on account F french, Is too m uddled w ith drink to prevented meeting was now Immi direct It aright. T hey m eet an o th er car of scarcity of the supply. w hich Is run by a professional racer nent. nam ed L estrange. The la tte r fixes up “It will not do,” Lestrange was stat The money trust investigating com the F french car and directs Miss F french ing definitely. “It should be rein how to proceed hom ew ard. E than mittee listened to a strong defense of F french has disinherited his »on, who forced.” the clearing house system. ha» disappeared. H e Inform s Em ily “It’s always been strong enough,” plainly th a t he would like to have her Train robbers got a shipment of m arry Dick, who Is a good-natured but Bailey's slower tones objected. “For Irresponsible fellow. It appears th a t a years. It’s not a thing likely to $20,000 in gold that was being sent to p a rtn e r of E th an Ffrench w anting an ex the First National bank of Taft, Cal., p ert to race w ith the “ M ercury” a t auto break." event», has engeged Lest range, and at from Bakersfield. "Not likely to break? Look at last the F french factory Em ily encounters the young m an. T hey refer pleasantly to year’s record, Mr. Bailey, and tell me Great Britain has presented in writ ing w ing a vigorous protest against the ex recognizes the young racer. Dick likes that. A broken steering-knuckle killed the w ay L estran g e Ignores th eir first Brook In Indiana, another sent Little emption of American coast-wise ship m eeting when he appeared to a disad ping from Panama canal tolls. vantage. L estrange tells Em ily th a t he to the hospital In Massachusetts, the will try to educate her Indifferent cousin same thing wrecked the leader at the as an autom obile expert. The Com Products company of New last Beach race and dashed him York is accused by dealers of making through the fence. Do you know what fcHAPTER V. written contracts for rebates in viola It means to the driver of a machine tion of the Sherman anti-trust law. hurling Itself along the narrow verge There was a change In the Ffrench of when the steering- General Maus, commander of the affairs, a lightening of the atmos wheel destruction, turns useless In his department of the Columbia, has rec phere. a vague quickening and stir of grasp? suddenly you feel the sick helpless ommended to the War department the healthful cheer In the days that fol ness, the Can confronting of death, the fortification of Grays harbor and lowed The somber m aster of the compressed second before Willapa harbor. house met It In Bailey's undisguised Is It worth while to risk It the for crash? a bit elation and pride when they discussed of costless steel?" By sending large quantities of rice the successful business now taxing the to the Philippine markets to be sold at The clear realism of the picture factory's resources, met It yet again forced reasonable prices, the government a pause, filled by the dull roar In Emily’s pretty gaiety and content and foiled the game of rice speculators and throb through the machinery- But most strikingly was he confronted crowded prevented a rice famine. building. with an alteration In Dick. were not our cars that broke, A 14-inch gun exploded while being Fourth Annual Exhibit It was only a week after his first any "They of them," Bailey Insisted. tested at the Sandy Hook naval prov morning ride with Lestrange, that “Not cars, no. But the steering- ing grounds, but did not cause a Dick electrified the company at din knuckle our Successful of Any' of my own machine broke un scratch to anyone, though explosions ner, by turning down the glass at his 1.—F irst Prize. Single-Comb Buff Leghorn Hen. 2.-—"Cal-O r-W a." B arred Plym outh Rock Hen. der my hands last March, on the road, of smaller guns have taken many owned by B. F. Keeney. Fugene. O r.: aa indicate,I by name, w inner last year in California. Oregon plate. and If I had been on a curve Instead and W ashington. 3.—F irat Prize Single-Comb Buff le g h o rn Cock. 4.—Gulden Penciled H am burg lives. ‘T ve cut out claret, and that sort of Crick, (iwned by J . F. Forbes. 6.—Golden Penciled H am burg Hen. owned by J. F. Forbes. 6.—"Roy thing.” he announced. “It’s bad for of a straight atretch there would Poultry, Guinea Pigs, Pigeons, Bel alty ." Corniah Indian Game Cock, recently brought from K entucky by Philip Beck. of/Portland, have been a wreck. As It was. I The common towel was ordered Hares, Ktc., Make Most the nerves." brought her to a stop In the ditch. abolished from railroad cars, vessels, gian Interesting His three companions looked up In Variety. larger this season, and the grade of NEW ROAD MEASURE URGED complete astonishment. It was Satur There Is no other thing that may not all other interstate vehicles and from a fighting chance after It breaks birds on the whole higher; there were stations, by Secretary MacVeagh in an night and by ancient custom Bal leave but this leaves absolutely none. I fewer birds of inferior appearance, Lane County Grange Will Work day amendment to the interstate quaran lsy was dining at the house. know, that the steer tine regulations. Class ! That is the word. The and competition was very keen and "W hat has happened to youT Have know, you Is both for Road Patrol. the only weapon In the you been attending a revival meet ing-wheel American resident is Smyrna fear Fourth Annual Poultry show of the close. Attendance was very good, and a Springfield At the last meeting of ing?" the young man's uncle Inquired driver’s grasp. If it falls him, be the vanquished Turks will wreak ven- Oregon Poultry and Pet Stock associa notable goes out and his mechanician with influx of school children is one Pomona grange of Lane county a with sarcasm. gence upon them. tion, held in Portland, December 9-14, of the most encouraging signs the the him.” resolution to be presented to ^the “It’s bad for the nerves.” repeated One of the Italian Camorrists who was the best yet. It was the most in management has observed. The edu county commissioners, asking them to Dick. “There Isn't any reason why I Emily paled, shrinking. She re was sentenced to 30 years’ imprison teresting and most successful ever held cational value of poultry exhibitions take under advisement the suggestion shouldn't like to do anything other membered the road under the maples in the state. was considerable from an intensely of a county road patrol, was unani fellows do. Lea—that Is, none of the and Leatrange’s laughing face as be ment became violently insane. The entries were very large. About practical standpoint. adopted and a committee ap men who drive cars ever touch that leaned breathless across his useless Senator Poindexter, of Washington, 1600 birds were shown, and nearly 250 The accommodations were excellent, mously wheel. That was what It had meant, pointed to present it to the court. stuff, and look at their nerve.” declares Taft should be impeached for individual had birds for and the room at East First and Morri The resolution then, the lightly treated episode! says “ that experi Mr. Ffrench contemplated him with improper use of Federal patronage. scoring and exhibitors prizes. Beisdes chickens, son streets was large and well venti ence in several American states dem the Irritation usually produced by the "You’d better fix It like he wants Greece refused to sign the peace which were shown in 33 classes, there lated. that a systematic road pa display of ostentatious virtue, but It," advised Dick's disturbed tones protocol with Turkey, and it is be were some fancy stock, Guinea pigs, Twenty-five silver cups, as well as onstrates trol, by sections, repair work found no comment. Emily gazed at “Remember, he’s got to drive the car lieved she may continue the war alone. pigeons, Belgian hares, etc. The ap the Page trophy and many articles of wherever needed at for the road time it is the table, her red mouth curving In Friday and Saturday, Bailey, not us.” pliances exhibits were also exceptional beauty and value, were given as needed and when it can be when “It’s not alone for my racer I'm done most spite of all effort at seriousnesa. Vancouver, Wash., is overrun with ly good and a study of them was well special premiums and sweepstkes. speaking, but for every car that leaves economically, is the only satisfactory “You’re right, Mr. Dick,” said Bai worth while to poultrymen and those Following is a partial list list of method of keeping roads in usable con ley deyly. "Stick to It.” tramps and beggars. the shop,” Lestrange caught him up interested in the business. Modern prizes awarded: “I’m not flinching; I’ve driven the car dition, and the county court would And Dick stuck, without as much Canada proposes to build three bat up to date feeding apparatus S. C. White Leghorns Cockerels, seem, under the law, to have full as a single lapse. Ffrenchwood saw tleships, at an aggregate cost of $36,- coops, and all sorts of foods and remedies first, Industrial Poultry Plant, Rich power to adopt and put in practice a little of him, as time 000,000, as an adjunct to the British were shown. field, Wash.; second, H. S. Carter, patrol system, sectioning the road comparatively went on. the and factory navy. The Plymouth Rocks were most nu Salem, Or.; third, R. J. Raney, Van therefor and placing in charge of each much. He lost village some weight, Several groups of Mexican rebels merous of any single class. In the couver, Wash.; fourth, W. B. Brown, section some person, whether super quired a coat of reddish tan. and ac have joined forces, making an army of Rock section there was a really remark Sellwood, Or.; fifth, J. P. Hall, New- visor or other employe, whose duty it Emily watched and admired In si 1000 men under command of General able collection of cockerels—the larg berg, Or. be to inspect his section of road lence. She had not seen Lestrange est and best ever gathered in the Brown Leghorns Cocks, first, War shall Orozco. at frequent intervals and make repairs again, but It seemed to her that his west, and the birds were particularly ren Gray, Jefferson, Or.; second, W. overlay all the life of both Aeroplanes used by the Bulgarian Entries were made from every F. Lethim, Hillsboro, Or. Cockerels, which may be called for at any time.” Influence bouse and factory. Sometimes this forces are said to have been an im fine. part of Oregon and Washington wus first and second, Wurren Gray; third,] showed so plainly that she believed mense help in her operations against well represented. Birds from Idaho fourth ami fifth, Joe Saunders, Hills-: INDUSTRIAL BODY IS RICH Mr. Ffrench must see, must feel the Turkey. were also present, and California, boro, Or. Pullets, first Joe Saunders; silent force at work. But either he ¡had representatives. Following second and third, Warren Gray; Washington Commission Report did The National League of Democratic too, not see or chose to ignore. And the Rocks, the Wyandottes were per fourth, Joe Saunders; fifth, Sorenson j clubs does not favor holding the inaug haps next in number. Then came Bros., Gresham, Or. Dick was incautious. Shows $316,000 in Treasury. ural parade at a later date than the the Leghorns, and then the Rhode White Wayndottes Cocks, first, J. Oympia Since the state industrial 'I’m going to buy one of our road actual taking of oath of office. myself,” he stated one day. "Can Island Reds and Orpingtons. The A. Griffin, Eugene, Or.; second, R. law went into operation in October of sters I have It at cost?” After two days of discussion, the showing of games was not as heavy as J. Hamilton, Metzger, Or.; third, C. last year, there have been 228 acci Mr. Ffrench peace treaty between Turkey and in some past but the represen H. Chrisman, Portland; fourth, D. N. ; dental deaths in hazardous occupations "You? Why felt do for you his not pince-nez. use the Italy, concluded at Lausanne, was ap tatives of both years, pit games and the big Lash, Portland; fifth, Harry V. Marx, | limousine?" proved by the French chamber of dep Cornish birds was fair. There covered by the act. In 133 cases pen was not Portland. Cockerels, first, A. J. I don't want to go around uties. a large representation of Minorcas Longtine, Portland; second, R. J. sions were awarded to dependents. In "Because a box driven by a chauffeur. I want Colonel Archibald Gracie, of Wash cither, but excellent birds, both black Hamilton; third, 1). W. Kelley, Port One hundred and four men were killed a classy car to run I’ve been ington, D. C., died in New York. He and white were on exhibition. A/nong land; fourth and fifth, Harry V. Marx. in lumbering and milling, and employ driving some of the myself. stripped cars, was one of he last persons to leave the the Mediterranean group the Ancones Black Minorcas Cocks, first, L. H. and I like It.” steamer Titanic, and with one other and Andaluians were ers have automatically paid $403,000 lately, noted. A good Baker, Portland; second, A. W. 'I will give you a car, If you want man clung all night to any empty showing of Hamburgs, too, was noted. Parks, Portland. Cockerels, third, into the state fund. Claims have been one,” his uncle, quite kind crate. For the first time in a Portland show Sorenson Bros. Pullets, first and sec paid to injured lumber workers and ly. “Go answered any you p n fer.” the Sicillian Buttercups have been ond, L. H. Baker. Hens, first, L. H. dependents of $289,000, and there has 'Thank select you," Dick sat up. beaming entered. This is a new breed. The Baker. “But I’ll have my turn, we’ve been set aside in reserves $114,000 to PORTLAND MARKETS combs are cupped, and supposed to re White Minorcas Hens, first, Co meet jamsions. The next greatest orders ahead to now. wait Lestrange says the flower for which the birds lumbia Poultry Yards, Portland. Wheat---Track prices: Club, 78c; semble loss was in the coal mining in I've no right to come In and make named. These birds are Mediter White-Faced Black Spanish — All death bluestem, 816/82c; red Russian, 76c; are some other fellow wait.” with 21 fatalities. raneans, and appear to be larger than awards to E. J. Hufford, St. Johns, i dustry, valley, 80c. Mr. Ffrench slowly stiffened. In all, the commission has collected most of this group. They are of gold Or. „ Barley—Feed, $24 ton; brewing, en plumage with a peculiar dark mot Silver Spangled Hamburgs Cocks, $1,200,000, has paid out in claims “We do not require lessons In ethics nominal; rolled, $276(28. from this was the cold re $600,000,’ has set aside reserves on tling,. Their owners claim a heavier first, Walter Roswurm, Forest Grove, claims already approved of $284,000 buke. “I Lestrange," Com Whole, $36; cracked, $37 ton. bird, a better meat and quicker growth Or.; shall telephone Bailey to Mrs. E. C. Fety, Port and has a cash balance of $316,000. Millstuffs - Bran, $23 ton; shorts, than any other fowl in the group, and land. second, send up your car at once.” Walter Roswurm took first, $25; middlings, $30. Rupert brought the slxty-horse-pow- large egg production. They second and third for cockerels, hens Hay Timothy, choice, $176(18 ton; a are very attracting er roadster to the door, three hours no little attention and pullets. School Children's Fair Organized. mixed Kastern Oregon timothy, $126/ among the lovers of new breeds, and Blue Andalusians Cockerels, sec And Emily appreciated that Le 15; oat and vetch, $12; alfalfa, $12; they are handsome in bearing and ond, Sorenson Bros., who also took Orenco- B. W. Barnes, county su later. strange was discreet as well as com clover, $10; straw, $66(7. S. S. Duncan, su pelting, when she found the black- plumage. first for hens and pullets. E. M. perintendent-elect; Oats—No. 1 white, $26 ton. young mechanician was detailed perintendent of Yamhill county; W. eyed H. H. Collier, of Tacoma, has the Hurd, of Portland, took second for T. Maeey, president of Yamhill Fresh Fruits — Apples, 50c(<i$1.50 scoring to accompany Dick's maiden trips; county of the American breeds, in pullets. box; pears, 76c6i $1.50; grapes, cluding the duty was fulfilled. Incidentally, school fair association, and M. Mc which Wyandottes, Rhode $1.60; Malagas, $8 per barrel; cran Island Reels, Rocks, the fine tact of a Richelieu. Donald, president of the Oregon Nur with etc. berries, $11.60 barrel. Rain and Snow Aid Wheat. In May there was a still greater ac sery coumpany, were the speakers at Judge Miller Purvis, of Windle, Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur Davenport, Wash. November, as an enthusiastic meeting here recently cession of work at the factory In ad scores the Mediterranean birds. observed banks, 606/.66c per hundred; sweet po Idaho, the first of June was to open the station at Davenport, to organize the Orenco School Chil dition. Many fine birds were entered in the hail a mean by temperature tatoes, 2Jc pound. with a twenty-four hour race at Beach dren’s Fair association. Fifty adults of 36.9 de show a year ago, and it is a matter of Onions—Oregon, 90c(u$l per sack. doubt track, and [.estrange was entered for have already joined and 80 of the grees, which is five and a half degrees if this year shows any finer Vegetables—Beans, 12c; cabbage, birds from it. Excitement was In Dick children. All are enthusiastic came In the house only the to air; individual standpoint ; warmer than the mean for the same school lc pound; cauliflower, $1.75 crate; but, on the an eat and and a splendid fair next year will no month in 1911. Rain nr light snow other hand, the entries were celery, $3.50; cucumbers, 50<ii60c doz sleep. M e t 1* Y e t A g a in In E m i l y 's P r e t t y G a ie ty a n d C o n te n t. fall on 13 days of the month netted doubt be the result. en; eggplant, 10c pound; head let The day before the race, Mr 2.42 inches of water, every particle of tuce, 50cC(5$ 1 crate; peas, 12|c pound; Ffrench walked Into the room where Bandon Women Vlan Club. before and I will again. It may hold fuls of molten metal carelessly bach went into the ground and aided Wenatchee Apples, $2,500,000. his niece was reading peppers, 10c; radishes, 166/20c dozen; Bandon, Or. At a well-attended which for ever, that but I’ve tested It and forth, and splashing hissing drops greatly in bolstering the winter wheat sprouts, 8c; tomatoes, $1.50 box; meeting of the women of Bandon it already sprouted. In November of Wenatchee Two and a half million “I want to see Bailey,” be said and It'* a weak part, point—take the floor; at them Lestrange will lie the minimum net return briefly. "Do you wish to drive me ing for what It's worth.” the warn over garlic, 56i.6o pound; pumpkins. Im gazed In silence, after reading, the 1911 the rainfall was 1.8 inches, dollars to growers of the Wenatchee district pound; turnips, 75c sack; carrots, was decided to form a woman's aux brought to the factory, or shall I have There was a movement as If he card still In his hand on by the heavy snows of from the apple crop of 1912. This es down iliary to the Bandon Commercial club. that month. 75c; beets, 75c; parsnips, 75c. Anderson bring around the limou rose with the last word Emily laid (TO B E CO N TIN U ED .) Mrs. L. P. Sorenson read to the meet timate is based on the actual cash ad sine?” Egg» -Fresh locals, candled, 42Jc ing an article from the Oregonian on her hand on the arm of the chair Servant. vances of such conservative dealers as “Please let us drive," she exclaimed turning her excited dark eyes on her j A woman In Wise dozen; Eastern, 22$6/27ic. TreDton, N. J.. who haa Farmers Want New Line. clubs for women, which Conrad Rose and on the achievements rising Butter — Oregon creamery butter, commerçai alacrity "I have not been uncle Surely If ever Mr Ffrench was been having a lot of trouble with her cubes, 37ie pound; prints, 38i6/'39c. reading did much to enthuse those Colfax, Wash. Representatives of the association, the union and the to the with to meet hia manager, this was the mo domestic help, was obliged recently for months." to present. A box factory is being built from the Northern Pacific, Oregon- Wenatchee-Columbia Emit company “Very factory Pork—Fancy, 9Jc pound;. You are looking well. ment: when Lestrange’s ringing argu accept the temporary service of a raw near hero by George Geisendorfer. The Washington Railroad A Navigation this year. Sales made to date and the Emily, of good. Veal—Fancy, 13^6/14c pound. ment was still In their ears, his splen late ” recruit in the shape of an Irish girt Poultry—Hens, 13c; broilers. 13c; bulk of the boxes will be spruce. All company, and Inland Empire Electric present condition of the market insure Surprised, a soft color swept the did force of earnestness still vibrant Just landed In this country. modern machinery is being installed line, met with ihe Colfax Commercial an average return of $1 a box. This face she turned to him. turkeys, live, 20c; dressed, choice, 22 and In the atm osphere And suddenly she a preliminary survey of the the factory will be one of the most club and farmers of Western Whitman amount has been surpassed in many "I am well. Dear. I think we are all | wanted them to meet, passionately girl After 6/.23c; ducks, 12J6/ 14c; geese, 12J(<( up-to-date and a dejected sigh, the lady of on the Coast. 14c. county. The farmers are asking that settlements now completed. better this spring." wanted Ethan Ffrench's liking for this the house asked: a road be built through a district West Hops—1912 crop, prime and choice, "Perhaps," said Ethan Ffrench. His man. “W hat can you do?" of Colfax through a rich farming re 166(18 per pound. Railroad Money Coming. Rails for Eugcne-Coos Bay. bitter gray eyes passed deliberately “Uncle," she began "Uncle----- " “Shure. most anything at all, mum.” Wool — Eastern Oregon. 146/ 18c Grants Pass, Or. The Pacific Inter gion. where farmers are now hauling Eugene Material for the Willam over the large room With all Its traces But It was not Lestrange’s light responded ths newcomer. pound, according to shrinkage; valley, ior Railroad company is meeting with their grain 10 miles to the nearest ette-Pacific line from Eugene to Coos of a famtly life extending back to pro- step that halted on the threshold. The lady of the bouse glanced about market. The proposed railway would 21i(ri22ic; mohair, choice, 32c. Colonial times, but he said no more. Bay began to arrive this week, and al "Why. I didn't know—" exclaimed room. There was everything to Cattle—Choice steers, $6,850/ 7.30; success in getting subscriptions. Dr. extend 40 miles down Akli fiat and ready there are nine carloads of steel It was an exquisite morning, too vir Bailey. "Excuse me. Mr. Ffrench, the be done “Could you fill the lamps?” good, $6,506/7.25; medium, $6<r/6.25; J. F. Reddy, from Medford, is at Cres Union flat. for the bridge across the Long Tom ginal for June, too richly warm for they didn’t tell me you were down." she finally ventured to ask. choice cows, $66/6.25; good, $5,606/ cent City, where he is organizing that and for streams farther to the May. When the two exchanged the He glsnced over his shoulder; as “Shure. 1 kin fill the lam ps!” ex 5.75; medium, $4,506/5.25; choice end of the project. It is determined Signal System Nears Completion. river west. Track-laying, however, will sunny road for the f»ctory office, a he pulled shut the door Emily fancied claimed the enthusiastic Celt, as abe calves, $7.5061:8; good heavy calves, to begin laying rails at Crescent City. Centralia - The new block signal not begin until the weather becomes north room none too light. It was a she heard an echo, as If the two young grabbed ons and started o u t Then, $6*/7; bulls, $3(0 5; stags, $6(<t6. The Draper right of way, obtained system being installed between Taco settled. No rails will be laid at moment before their datzled eyes per men left the next room. Bitterly die with the air of one wishing above all Hogs -Light, $7.766i7.90; heavy, about six years ago, will be acquired. ma ami Portland by the Northern Pa present,” “ said W. R. Fountain, engi ceived no one was present. This was appointed, ia# sank back. to suit the possible caprice* of $6.76617.25. This will necessitate a bridge across cific will be ready for use between neer in charge, “ owing to the soft Bailey's private office, and Ita owner "That waa your manager with yon?” a things new employer, the paused to qutry: Sheep — Yearlings, $4,266/5.10; Rogue River within the city limits, Centralia and Little Falls by Saturday. condition of the grade, and we have had passed Into the room beyond. Ffrench frigidly Inquired. “An' It It gas or oii ro d b* wantin’ wethers. $3,606(4.76; ewes $36/4; which will be one of the expensive J The system between Centralia and not enough rails on hand to begin the ”1 will wait." conceded Mr. (Trench. Mr "Yes; he went up-stair* te see thtm filled with?” lambs, $46/6.30. items at the commencement. Tenino will be ready within ten days. work.” POULTRY SHOW DRAWS CROWD L