« WOULD PUT END TO SPECULATION OREGON STATE ITEMS OF INTEREST the wind had risen and «ras un plea» antly cold. He sat down at the reading table and looked through a number of peri odicals. There he found pictures of almost all the monarch* and also a Juneau, Alaska—Thirty-three pas General News of the Industrial and Educational Development very good picture of Count von Wer sengers and seven members of the and Progress of Rural Communities, Public Institutions, Etc. crew of the Pacific Coast Steamship denstein. Just below this picture waa company’s iron steamship State of an article that did not speak very Secretary Lane Seeks to Aid California perished at half past 8 WARNING GIVEN SETTLERS RAISE PRICE FOR PRINTING highly of this genius. The paper waa o’clock Sunday morning in Gambier ultra-soclallstlcally Inclined, and the Bona Fide Settler. Bay, 90 miles Bouth of Juneau, when article pointed out the futility of the Entries in O. & C. Grant New State Printer Plan« to Adopt the vessel struck an uncharted rock No Land Will militarism of which the count was the Be Recognized. Portland Wage Scale. advocate. sank in three minutes, with many Says Speculation is Bane of West- and passengers imprisoned in their state Portland — United States District Salem—That the flat salary bill pro The chevalier took out hia little note Cannot Be Discovered Un Attorney Keames has made public the viding for the state printing, which rooms. book and wrote the name of the au The steamship left Seattle Wednes text of a letter received from Ernest thor there. The paper was edited in til Too Late. effective at the death of State day night for Skagway and way Knabel, assistant to the attorney gen became Berlin and be did not anticipate much Printer Duniway, will not mean a sav points. Travel to the north is un eral, commending him for calling the ing trouble In finding Paul Kalmar through to the state, as was argued by its usually heavy on account of 'the stam attention of the attorney general to the editorial office. v o n h o r i Portland, Qr.r—“ We ought to make became evident when State to the Shushanna gold field. The the fact that frauds are being perpe promoters, The aero-train was half an hour late it just as easy as [possible for a man pede Printer Harris insisted that he had no purser lost all of his records, and it is trated on innocent persons by those intention of receding from his plan to on account of the high wind, but flnalp to get a home, and just as hard as pos not possible to give a complete list of who profess that they car. locate set pay his men the union scale of Port COPYRIGHT. 1913 "BY VYG-GHAPMAN IHTMt UNITED SIATES AND GREAT BRITAIN ly arrived. sible for a speculator to get hold of the missing. on lands in the Oregon & Cali land, which is $1.50 more a week than 4 The traveler took a taxicab and at ered himself quickly. “How foolish, the public land and hold up the man A great hole was torn in the bottom tlers 8YNOPSI8. fornia land grant, comprising 2,360,- the Salem scale paid by Mr. Duniway. random told the chauffeur to drive to I have nearly spilt my coffee. Yes, who wants to get a home.” the State of California. Fifty-four 1 000 acres in Oregon. Metropole Hotel. It was one ot That is the conservation policy of of the continent of N orth Werdenstein; I remember the name the Mr. Duniway said a few days before Am F or erica fifty hah years “ Every effort should be made not passengers sailed from Seattle on the the old-fashioned places left over from been Isolated from the rest the Wilson administration, as enun death that his profits had never of the world by the use of Z-rays, a w on now.” of California and were booked only to prosecute those guilty of his the nineteenth century, but it was ex ciated by Franklin K. Lane, secretary State "He Is our Bismarck, Moltke and derful Invention of H annibal Prudent. been more than $7500 a year. The for Juneau and Skagway and pre-1 frauds, but also to inform fully the proposed increase in wages by State The Invention had saved the country Edison, in one person.” cellently equipped with all modern im of the interior, who is inspecting the sumably on the ship when she public,” says Mr. Knabel. from foreign invasion, and the oontlnent provements. proposed reclamation enterprises of struck the were The young man stared at the host had been united under one governm ent Printer Harris, will cost the state rock. Twenty-two passen "By the act of congress of August about $5000 a year. Mr. Harris’ sal w ith P rudent as president. For half a for a second. "Quite a remarkable The Chevalier di Leon did not stay the Deschutes country. were taken on board at Prince 20, 1912,” the letter continues, “ it century peace and prosperity reigned in man.” long in his rooms, but after a short “ The trouble is that it is hard to gers is $4000 a year. The secretary of with this p a rt of the world. The story opens Rupert, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Wran was expressly declared that none of ary consultation with the clerk left the President P rudent critically 111. His distinguish the homemaker,” contin gell the state printing board—a position death is hastened by the receipt of a "Indeed, sir, he was selected as hotel and other 'points, and these also the lands reverting to the United and mingled with the crowds on ued Mr. Lane, speaking to the group were on the boat at the time of the States by virtue of any right of for created by the law—receives $2000 a m essage from Count von W erdenstein of commander in chief by the Interna the street. G erm any th at he has at last succeeded In of local Democrats who, with a num disaster, year. Tbe state, under the law, must tional Federation, for the war against making a total of 76 passen feiture shall be or become subject to purchase a printing plant which will penetrating the rays. Dying, he w arns The beautifully decorated store« ber of persons interested in the public gers. Forty-three his daughter A stra th at this m eans a for America." were entry under any of the public land cost about $20,000. It is estimated eign showed Christmas splendors and lux Invasion. He tells her *o h u rry to land policy, welcomed him at his rescued and taken to passengers “I am sure it is a very happy selec uries. The Juneau by the laws of the United States or to the in that the annual depreciation in the the ancient beauty of the Island of Clrynlth, but dies before he headquarters at the Oregon hotel. tell the location of the place. A stra tion.” Jefferson, leaving 33 who itiation of any right whatever under value of a printing plant is about 10 Is can nom town impressed him. At one end ot inated for the presidency by the “ We do want to weed out the specu steamship “Well, sir, he is a great man Indeed, have perished. Seven of the crew are any of the public land laws.” the park stood a magnificent eques continental party. Napoleon Ddisen calls lator, the man who is hired by the big dead, cent of the original outlay. The pll on A stra, Inform s her th at he was a pu but I do wish, and I am sure many trian monument of colossal size. Tha the total dead forty. Mr. Knabel says all those who have per of her fath er’s, and promises to help timber companies to locate the land The making interest on $20,000 at 6 per cent is her. He gives her a ring made of a new others wish so too, that instead of horse was bounding forward; the face, of the number of pas applied to the attorney general for in $1200. and then relinquish, and all' others sengers figures substance which, he says, militarism, he would devote his ener with upturned mustache and fierce eys are given by the Pacific Coast formation regarding the lands have solve the problem of flying. who are not bona fide settlers,” said Steamship company. They cannot be been advised that no one can safely These figures total $14,200 a year, ly will discovered glee to the betterment of the people.” was familiar. All the muses of art Mr. Lane. as against Mr. Duniway’s profits of "To industrial, agricultural and finan and science were gathered about th« verified by the purser, who lost all his make any contract with the railroad $7500 CHAPTER IV. “ It is jthe same with reclamation records. a year, and if Mr. Harris suc cial developments; Is that what you base in a fantastic but expressive man barely possible that company, now in possession of the ceeds in having the Portland scale put projects as it is with the administra some of the It 54 is passengers mean?” booked to lands, and that no department of the into operation the department will ner—but, in front of them, holding the Europe. tion of the homestead laws,” he as Seattle changed their minds government has any authority to cost “Yes, sir, and above all else, to lift most prominent position, was Mars I The Zugspltze Is the highest peak serted. “ We find that we have the at sail the from the state, under the new law, In Germany; It belongs to the Alps ing the burdens from the citizens. You The moment. make any disposition of the lands. chevalier shrugged his shoulders: speculator to contend with. Every The last which was proclaimed by its promo vessel and cargo, mail and ex “ The question of the prosecution of ters as a money-saving proposition, and a panorama can be seen from the know what we have to suffer under “It does seem that monarchism cannot reclamation project, virtually, comes press, are a total loss. The ship was those responsible for frauds has been exist without the sword." snow-covered summit that this terrible military rule.” to the government as a bankrupt prop a year more than under the Is perpetually at $400,000. A number of taken up with the other departments $6700 "I am a stranger, my dear host; I The palace guard marched by, 8 worth while. At the foot of this osition. Reclamation bonds are a valued Duniway regime. Mr, Duniway, in for use on the Shushanna trail interested,” says Mr. Knabel. from where the coffee and slen company of the 221st Infantry regl- is the town of Partenkirchen, a came drug on the market. Investors have horses the law, said this would be giant were on the vessel. The steamship District Attorney Reames and Louis opposing der palms so I don’t know much ment. Their helmets glittered, they great place for tourlste, but since the bit and been bitten, and they want no Jefferson but Mr. Harris, who virtually Isolation of the American continent about the grow, of the Alaska Steamship L. Sharp, chief of the field division of true, happenings around here. wore grayish cuirasses, and carried more of them. So when the govern company, Bouthbound, framed the law, and waged an unsuc j tho number of visitors has dimin However, I am interested the wire the attorney general’s department, are cessful and pray clumsy looking rifles; they had no ment takes hold of a project it. finds less call of the sinking heard fight on the late state printer, steamship and busy collecting evidence against those that you tell me more.” but short pistols In their ished somewhat. that a part of the land, or much of it, The figures, however, speak One crisp December morning a tall The good host of the Red Star was bayonets, back to rescue the survivors, who have been engaging in the busi denied. belts. The music boomed In warlike often 40 to BO per cent, is privately turned for themselves. who had taken to small boats and life ness of locating people on the lands, So far as is known not a member of j young man on skiis slid down from happy to find some one who was glad tones and the uniformed men marched owned. rafts. Ten of the passengers had which will be in controversy for at the state printing board favors the i one of the snow-covered side hills of to listen to his talk; this stranger in stiff, unnaturally long steps. The . “ The speculator participates in the suffered severely from exposure least two years. even took his notebook out and dashed chevalier shook his head again, and Zugspltze. He wore an Alpine cos- some benefits of the project, and then boosts that it was so necessary Harris plan of putting into effect the j the take them to There can be no settlement until the Portland turned sadly Into a side street. details into it. tume and carried on his back the the price of his land to. $100 or $200 a hospital in Juneau to for scale in the state printing usual eatchel of the mountain climber. Later interesting treatment. case involving the title to the lands office. One At the editorial rooms of the Freue on he found a queer little an acre. How to eliminate him is our Miss Lilian Ward died after called attention ( The sack evidently was heavy, yet he newspaper, the Koelnische Zeitung, Gedanken being has gone through the Circuit Court of to the fact member he gave his card to an at great problem. We don’t want him taken off a life raft. The uninjured that the work had been at San Francisco and the Su done satisfactorily by Mr. Duniway’s carried It easily. and read the news section with much tendant and aeked to see Herr Paul at all, but we can’t tell who he is until survivors of the crew and passengers Appeals preme Court of the United States on force under the Salem union scale. The early sportsman stopped for a interest. Kalmar. "Are you a poet?” the boy we have him on our hands. We would from the decision of Judge He said he could not understand why second or two Just about the Tirolean The same morning he inquired for asked inquisitively. have to look«into,a .man’s very soul to were taken to Seattle on the Jefferson. appeal Wolverton, of the United States Dis Harris wished to put into operation a and Bavarian border. After a short tho best tailor In town and Herr "No, Indeed, not even an author.’* tell.” ' * A cyclone practically demolished the trict court, declaring the lands for This seemed to please the boy, who meditation, he started forward, and Schulz, the host, telephoned for him. hurried "Why not extend the time of pay village of Douglas, N. D., without kil feited to the government by reason of scale which was not asked. away; he soon came back with When the little tailor arrived he took i with the agility of a master of the ment for reclamation benefits to bona ling anyone. “Third door to the right.” measurements, showed fashion plates a smile. fide land-users, and decrease the time The senate has put wheat on the violation of tbe terms of the grant. HARVEST REPORT IS GIVEN Bport elld downward, Jumping down and goods, but the chevalier left the The next moment Chevalier di Leon steep slopes, and soon landed In the for those who do not use the land, but stood before Herr Paul Kalmar, who selection to him, stipulating that all Invited merely pay fpr the water to hold the free list, but refuses to put duty on LAND SUITS ARE BEING FILED Grain and Fruit Conditions Along valley. He took a peculiar field glass he him to \>e seated. The ultra? wanted was the latest in every from his knapsack and directed it land for speculation?” asked J. W. eggs and milk. socialist was a mild, calm giant with O.-W. R. & N. Are Good. toward the great peak, moving It un- thing. Brewer, of Redmond, vice president of The free municipal streetcar line of . A. Hyde and Associates Accused light brown hair, but his green the Central Oregon Development St. Louis will begin charging the reg Grain and fruit conditions at points \ ^ *ound a spot that looked to the The tailor touched the cloth the very of Taking 30,000 Acres. ish eyes held sparks of courage and chevalier’s Alpine coat was made of 1 eague. ular fare for rides. along the line of the O.-W. R. & N. unaided eye like a red dot on the Salem—Seven complaints to recover Co. are shown in the weekly crop re- mountain side. It was the deserted and examined it closely with an air dogged determination. “ A very good idea, ” remarked Sec wind storm amounting to almost about The tall chevalier seemed to im acres of school land al compiled by the railroad for the castle of the great Prince Luipold, of surprise. "This is something new press retary Lane, asking Mr. Brewer to a A cyclone swept Winnipeg, Man., do leged to 30,000 have been obtained by fraud, port him favorably, and he listened past week. once reigning prince of the kingdom to me,” he said at last. “I never saw outline it further. *v ing immense damage. are being filed in various counties by Near La Grande, Or., harvesting is of Bavaria. with a quiet air. a weave like this." He looked ques- “ I think proof of cultivation should General Cawford. The land reported in full blast, with fall grain When he had focused the glass, he tioningly at the chevalier, but he “I have come from afar to see you, be required every year,” said Mr. Kansas and Missouri still swelter, Attorney at several million dollars. Herr Kalmar. I read your article to be busy with the fashion about Brewer, “ that the period-of payments though local showers have relieved the valued about.25 bushels to the acre saw a round, ruddy cheeked man rub seemed F. A. Hyde, of the firm of Benson averaging Count von Werdenstein, and as plates and did not answer. However, bing hie hands vigorously. should be extended to 15 yeat-B, with situation in some places. so far. No spring wheat, oats or bar I have an idea that probably will in Hyde, who operated in Oregon and ley has yet been threshed. at the tailor’s request, he removed his the first five years free, and that the A delegation of women appeared be & "It must be somewhat cool there,” fluence the count to preach peace In other states on the Pacific Coast, is Rain has stopped harvesting about smiled the sportsman. coat and that little man looked search- stead water benefits should be withheld af the votes committee of the house the principal defendant. The com Elgin. of war, I wish you would kindly ingly at the lining,"hoping to find the ter the land haH not been cultivated to fore plead He drew a red handkerchief and If the weather clears, the for a universal suffrage law. plaints charge that Hyde obtained the liBten to me and give me-your advice." maker’s name. His eyes grew large made some circular movements In the for three years.” damage will be hardly noticeable. through confederates who were Showers near Baker and hard winds air with the fluttering linen, always when he saw a small tag bearing the "I also am a máñ who wants peace, Despite the fact that he had a wife land smull sums to make the entries. Chevalier di Leonr’ahd I will be glad of a Chicago manufacturer. reported to have damaged the watching through his glaBB. Then, name HARRY THAW MAKES ESCAPE and young baby, a Portland man was paid An appropriation was made at the re are to discuss that theme with you; If you Three days later the new clothes with a satisfied expression, he placed grain. Spring grain is reported fine. ordered to jail for 5 days for auto cent will give me a few minutes’ time I will session of the legislature for the were ready; the Chevalier dl Leon the gla«« and kerchief In their respec The timothy crop, about all in stack, Murderer Eludes Officer and 60- speeding. take you to -the Cafe American and prosecution of the cases. paid for them in gold. It did not mat tive place« and started toward the runs 2J to 3 tons per acre. we can talk and eat at the same time.” attorney general believes he From the sections about Heppner, town. Horse Auto Takes Him. ter that the mint stamp was quite old; Danish explorers in the Arctic tell has The ”1 am sure It will please me very a good case against the defendants Indeed, some were of the nineteenth of hardships suffered when boats and The narrow, winding streets were Matteawan.'N. Y.—Harry K. Thaw, supplies areloatand the party lives on and that most of the land will be re reports are to the effect that previous much.” century, and none of the pieces were almost deserted and he used his skiis predictions as to the wheat yield will the slayer of Stanford White, escaped dog and hour later they were on covered for the state. The statute of hold good. The fruit crop is in good •vei. through the town. later than 1919. The curious little the Half meat. from the hospital for [the criminal in limitations probably will prevent shape. balcony of the famous Cafe Amer tailor noticed this fact, also; he shook There were several hotels around sane here at 7:45 o’clock Monday President Wilson publicly repri criminal ican in a cosy corner among th« prosecutions. head again, but kept quiet. That palms In the Walla Walla district farmers the square; the Golden Eagle and the his morning. A dart for liberty through manded Mexican Ambassador Wilson and vines. quality was still golden. Red Star were the most promising an open gate, a dash into the open for an attack on the British foreign are pleased with their crops. Already Welfare Talks Attra. The big German ordered an epicu The same evening the stranger left rean looking, and he selected the latter. door of a powerful automobile that office, and apologized to Great Britain. Ashland 40,000 bushels of wheat have been or lunch with Mosel wine; he list — Grand Army hall was the slow local train for Munich, stood quivering outside, and a flight shipped from points between Unfastening the straps of the sklle, by attentively and ate with a relish. thronged at the closing sessions of the dered that old art center. He selected a ened he cast them over his shoulder and Walla Walla and Pendleton. like a rocket for the Connecticut state Democratic senators declare they General chevalier's words seemed to meet school, under the promising hotel and was soon settled The entered the famous old hotel. line, 30 miles away, accomplished his will keep congress in session until the auspices of Welfare with his approval. the Oregon Agricultural for the night. At the sound of the stranger's foot escape. Bee Man to Play With Swarm. if necessary, to finish the college. The attendance of women "To prove my good will, to win his In the hall a big, white-aproned Upon his inquiry for the quickest Influence, At nightfall he was still at large snow flies, tariff and currency legisla during the demonstrations in domestic Salem—Locked in a cage and play steps I am willing to give him th« man, whose head was covered with a route to Berlin the Aero-Electric Line and the ¡hospital authorities felt cer proposed with a swarm of bees will be the Turkish fez, appeared in the dootway was suggested. It made the trip In secret of gold science and addresses respecting pure ing tain he was outside the state. Once tion. of entertainment for the State at the end of the hall; in his right six hours. "It Is quite Ingenious,” These words manufacturing.” wero said so enthusias food and adulterated products espe form beyond its boundaries, Thaw is prac Under the “ lazy husband” law a cially Fair patrons furnished by James hand he held a murderous looking thought tho chevalier. Four tremen tically that a beautifully dressed wom was noticeable. tically free. Only long, perhaps Spokane man has been convicted and Illustrated Davis, a bee expert. Mr. Davis has object lessons, the signed an agreement with Frank Mere knife and In the left a fork. He dous cigar-shaped aluminum balloons an who sat at the neighboring table years, of litigation can bring him a woman trustee appointed to receive hidden dangers by in filthy markets, un dith, secretary of the fair board, to greeted the newcomer with great re were attached to each other; the looked up from her plate and gazed back, and then only in one event—that his earnings and use them for the clean bakeries, cheap restaurants the bright-eyed chevalier. and spect; it was surprising to see a guest whole aerial train was at least 500 at "Not he be adjudged insane in the state to benefit of his family. “ demonstrations” daily. so loud, my dear man, not so dirty dairies were discussed. On the give yards long. The first and the last bal- at this time of the year. The man of which he has fled. The bees don’t bother me,” Davis the skiis leaned his knapsack and the loons had very high powered dynamos, loud; even the walls have ears." other hand harmless germs were re is “ quoted Five confederates manned the car in as saying. “ I let them The advice came somewhat late, for vealed also, and a powerful microscope skiis against the wall and said, “Guten which Thaw escaped and a big black PORTLAND MARKETS crawl all over me, and even go under the woman already had noted the in the bacteriological department was morgen, Herr Wirth!’’ limousine which trailed it past the shirt. They never sting. They The big German threw fork and chevalier’s words, and now sh« center of much interest in connec my asylum gate. The police have their Wheat—Track prices: Club, 78(d) the know I am their friend. My move watched them from beneath her long, with the practical application of ments are such the bees are not an knife on a table and rubbing his hands license number and the names under 79c; bluestem, 83c; forty-fold, 79(<i tion silky eyelashes, but it was in vain; sh« the instrument to the question under gered. on his apron to remove the grease, which they registered at a local hotel, 80c; red Russian, 76c; fife, 77c; val discussion. A man who understands bees took the stranger's sack and carried could not hear another word. ley, 80c. and are seeking them. is never in danger of being stung.” It Into the office. There he put a long, After the long lunch Herr Kalmar The hospital authorities believe Oats—No. 1 white, $27 per ton; Friends of the bee expert, however, official blank of reporting paper be and the chevalier entered a taxicab. Vetch Ripens and Shatters. Thaw has fled to the shore of I-ong new, $24.50. he is often stung, but he has such fore him, together with pen and ink. “To the palace of the honorabla Island Sound and boarded a yacht, Corn—Whole, $34; cracked, $35 ton. Airlie—Vetch in this vicinity rip say fine control of himself the audience chancellor, Count von Werdenstein," It took a long time for the stranger waiting with steam up to rush him to MillstutTs Bran, $24.50 per ton; ened [excessively and is shattering never knows it. thundered Kalmar in the ear of th« shorts, $26.50; middlings, $31. to fill out all the somewhat Imperti Europe. badly. Many binders have been busy taxi driver. nent questions, but at last It was done. Hay Fancy Idaho timothy, $17 (n cutting the crop during the past few Broom Factory Expands. Mr. Kalmar seemed to know how to South Norwalk, Conn.—It was learn 18; fancy Eastern Oregon timothy, On the last line he wrote in large, and before all could be taken Ashland—The reach his excellency, the iron-handed [Ashland Broom fac- round characters the name: ed late Monday night that for two $15(<i 16; timothy and alfalfa $13(<(14; days, of, the ripe heads were heard tory was organized formally and will "Chevalier Sonapo E dl Leon.” chancellor, as a gorgeously liveried hours in the afternoon a large steam timothy and clover, $14(<(16; alfalfa, care A fair yield is expected attendant soon conducted them into yacht was anchored opposite Roton $12.50; clover, $8.50(1(10; oat and bursting. "What can I do for you, chevalier?" enlarge its scope of operations at once. and the growers think the price again the presence of the man they sought. Point, about a half mile off shore. vetch, $100(11; valley grain hay, will be good this season. Polk coun About 150 acres are planted to broom asked the hotel-keeper, who had used Chevalier di Leon stopped for a mo* She steamed east late in the after $ 100011 . the time to remove his apron and put com throughout the valley, which will ty's large area of clover is showing up ment when he beheld the man whoso noon. Poultry—Hens, 14o(14Ic; springs, well, but reports from all sections say yield 50 tons of raw product. Six on a clean coat. face he had seen only in print; ha 18c; turkeys, live, 18(<(20c; dressed, "First of all, I want some break the seed is not filling sufficiently, grades of brooms are manufactured, fast, stopped with a trace of caution is hia Old Tree Changes Fruit. choice, 24(<(25c; ducks, 12(<(13c; that then a room, as I would like to which may cause some fields to be cut including whisks. Besides supplying spend a few days here.” manner. Colfax, Wash.—A remarkable freak geese, young, 111c. the home market, the factory has been for hay. (TO BE CONTINUED.» Oregon ranch, case count, face shone with pleasure filling orders in territory extending and The he host’s in fruit was brought to Colfax Monday 22c Eggs per dozen; fresh ranch, candled, led bis guest Into the small from Southern Washington points to from the S. S. Miller ranch, 12 miles Tillamook Fame Spreads. St. Edmund's Chapel. 29c. Central California. To meet increased dining-room. south of here. The fruit appears to 28(n Butter Antiquaries will hear with pleasure Portland Because of the insistent — Oregon creamery butter | The chevalier’* eyes wandered demands the factory will install over be a cherry, but is not quite the shape of the decision of local enthuslaete to from Eastern people for es $1000 worth of new machinery. 32c per pound; butter fat, de inquiries around searchlngly; they seemed to or color of a Bing cherry, which it cubes, protest the poor remains on the high pecial information about the Tilla livered, 32c. penetrate Into every nook and corner. strongly resembles. Growing on the Pork—Fancy, 116(11ic per pound. mook country, the fame of which as est point of Hunstanton cliff of 8t. The host returned, followed by a Ashland Market Opened. same limb with the fruit, which is Veal Fancy, 14(d)15c per pound. an unexcelled dairy region has gone Edmund's Chapel. Here, according to girl, who put a snow-white cover on dark red In color, are Green Gage Onions Walla Walla, $1.50 sack. «11 over the United States, Mrs. L. M. Ashland—The Ashland public mar on* of the tablet, then steaming hot A Tall Young Man on 8klit Slid legand. the fourteen-year-old King Ed plums. The tree is 30 years old. The Vegetables- Beans, 3(<(4c pound; P. Reid, of the Southern Pacific lec- ket was launched Saturday under per- roll* were brought In with coffee, but Down From One of the Snow-Cov mund landed on Christmas day. over leaves are plum leaves and the tree cabbage, 2(.(2Ic; cauliflower, $2 ture bureau, with headquarters in New feet weather conditions, and a large ter, honey and some eggs. ered Side HIM*. one thousand years ago, from Saxony. has always borne Green Gage plums. crate; corn, 10(<( 15c dozen; cucum York City, has just come all the way , attendance of purchasers. The event The ___ chevalier ate heartily; the early and both were connected with some In Near the churchyard is a huge mound, This year it is covered with the freak bers, 20(<(40c box; eggplant, 6(i(8c across the continent to get new pic- j partook of the nature of a gala occas- mo*raTnV*”exemlse had given him a genious device to the rail that was believed to be a barrow. Hunstanton fruit, and also many regular plums. pound; head lettuce, 35(i(40c dozen; tures and to see for herself the re- ¡on. There was music by the band splendid appetite. When he had fin supported on tall iron columns. St. Edmund's, however, r.s we know It, sources and wonders of the section, and an address by the mayor, who ished, the host offered him some ci "Not a bad Idea,” thought the chev is of modern growth, born with the peas, 5(«:7c pound. the button which set the am Farmers Harvest at Night. fifty years ago. One of the Potatoes New, 75coi $1 25 hundred. She arrived in Portland Wednesday pressed but he smilingly refused, assur alier as he mounted the Aero-Electro railway ple supply of fruit, vegetables and gars. most striking links with tha past lie« Grand Forks, N. D.—By transfer Green Fruit—Apples, new, 90c(it and left soon after for Tillamook. ing him that he never used them. the next morning. “It is in some way provisions in motion. For the present the ownership of the ground, which ring the headlights from their automo $2.25 box; apricots. 75co($1.25; are real Saharan, chevalier.” similar to the old electric car system; In the market will be an open-air institu “They Norwegian Colony Coming. ia held by the same family of L« biles to their binders, farmers of the cantaloupes, $1.25( k :2 crate; peaches, "Saharan? Is that a new brand?” economize on the rails and the Strange tion. Market dates have been set for "Not exactly; we have had It for they which owned it at the Norman Red River valley are conducting har 25«i 90c box; watermelons, $2 per Eugene Twenty Norwegian famil Tuesday. but let me see—the gas? conquest.—London Chronicle. vesting operations through the night cwt.; plums, 75c<<($1.25 box; pears, ies will settle on a tract on the Ore each week. Thursday and Saturday of ten yean, ever since the successful lr- roadbed, Yes, it pay*, after all, and It la and lying idle during the day. This $2(<i2.25 box. gon Electric a short distance north of rigatlon of the desert. I understand quicker.” To Teat Air In Room. owing to the intense heat, more than Hopa—1912 crop, 15(<tl8c pound, Eugene, according to plans announced that It Is even batter than the once The chevalier «elected a place where A elmple way to tell whether your Many Go to Mountains. a hundred horses having died from 1913 contracts, 20c. here. J. F. Adrianson, of Moscow, Havana.” he waa able to aee both aidee of the room Is properly ventilated ia to place prostration during the past week, ac Wool — Eastern Oregon, 116£16c Idaho, and M. G. Hansen, of Cottage Hood River—Parties of people pass famous The stranger looked at the host train, and took out hia field glass. It a wide necked bottle of water, cording to reports that have reached pound; valley, 18«(19c; mohair, 1913 Grove, are at the head of the coloniza through the city daily en route to thoughtfully, then with some hesita waa cold on the upper deck, but he which yon have put half an onne« into of here. One automobile dealer said tion scheme and have secured 250 Cloud Cap inn. The absence of forest tion he asked: 31c. not pay much attention to that; he lime water. In the room, letting It re that he had supplied more than 20 ' clip, Grain bags — Selling price, lOJc acres for the use of the newcomers. fires this year has caused the atmos "What la the name of the engineer did too busy watching the country be main uncovered over night. If In th« farmers with headlights within the Portland. phere to be especially clear, and moun who planned that project? I have was low. morning th« lime water la milk th« past few days. Many Seals Enter River. tain parties have enjoyed splendid quite forgotten.” Cattle — Choice steers, $7.75<d8.50; He saw many Interesting things ventilation the lim« water medium, $7'n7.50; choice cows, $7(rt Astoria— Large numbers of seals views of the surrounding country. "You are not a German, chevalier, with hit extremely powerful glass, but becomes milk la on bad. your If covering bot Showers kelieve Kansas. ' 7.25; ivwlium, $6a(7.75; medium, are entering the river at present, and The wonderful flora of this district ia otherwise you would know the man almost every town that they passed tle mouth with your hand and th« shak Kansas City.—Heavy showers Mon calves. $6,750(7.76: bulls. $4(.i6.75. every day hundreds of them can be now at its beat, and guests at the itin whom all the German-speaking nations at observed military maneuvers, not ing the vessel the ventilation la not day over most of the eastern half of Hogs — Light, $8.75ei9.60; heavy, seen on the sands above Tongue Point. are enjoying the strolls among the regard with hope; hit name la Count he withstanding the cold and deep snow. sufficiently good. If the lima watar Kansas added to the relief that came $8o(8.60. Deputy Warden Ankeny ia shooting dwarf pines at the snowline as much von Werdenstein.” what a waste!" he thought, then remain« dear the air of that room 1« with the rains of Sunday, and it is be Sheep Wethers $3.25<<(4.26; ewes, seals there, and ia reported to be ; as the trips among the crevasses of The young man startsd, but raeov- "Oh, retired Into the large saloon, because para. lieved the drouth is now broken. the glaciers. meeting with good success. I $2.50({iS.50; lambs, $6.25«t6. ALASKA STEAMER HITS ROCK Sinks in Three Minute«—40 People Are Lost. ^ I s o la t e d DEAN HOARD iB