The Yamhill County reporter., May 10, 1901, Image 3

TO REMODEL
BATTLESHIPS.
CLAIM AGAINST CHINA.
________
Propoicd to
Change the
Oregon
and
Two
Amount of
Indemnity
Has
Been
Fixed
at I
Other*.
$273.000.006.
Corn for the Sihs
There is a popular notion that the
ensilaging of corn adds sou’ethlng to
its value which is not contained In the
original material. This notion fs wrong
and the greater the feed value of the
product put Into the silo the greater
will be the value of the ensilage. C'ru
should be planted for the silo but little
if any thicker on the ground thun it
should be planted where the object Is
to produce grain. Corn is distinctively
a sun plant, and If it is so thickly seed­
ed that the s in cannot reach all parts
of the growing plant there is produced
a product which is lacking in digesti­
bility and which is not relished by
farm stock.
A few years ago some experiments
were conducted by the Cornell experi­
ment station, the object being to de­
termine what method of planting corn
produced greatest food value. Certain
plats were drilled in thickly so that no
ears would develop, other plats were
planted with the rows 40 inches apart
and with the plants close together in
the row, and other plats were planted
in hills from 3 to 3M) feet apart. While
a larger quantity of produce was ob­
tained per acre where the corn was
CORN PLANTED FOR
THE SILO
drilled In thickly, yet It contained a
higher per cent of moisture and was de­
ficient in protein and in fat.
While the money value of the broad­
casted corn la not very different from
the value of that grown on the other
plat, tills estimate does not take Into
account the digestibility of the various
products,—Country Gentleman.
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Washington, May 2.-—A scheme is
on foot to remodel the battle ships
Paris, May 3.—The foreigh office
Oregon, Indiana and Massachusetts, The Great Buffalo Fair Is Now has received a dispatch from Pekin Noonday Fire and Strong Wind
which are all of one class. The idea
announcing that M. Pichon, French
Ready for Visitors.
Ran Wild For Hours.
more bunches, and at third pulling, seems to lie that superimposed turrets
minister, presented today the report
three days later, there was 17M j per .-hall la* placed on these ships, which
of the committee on indemnity. The
cent more, after which they produced will put them in the same class as the FORMAL OPENING CEREMONY POSTPONED amount China has to pay has been
A PROPERTY LOSS OF FIFTEEN MILLIONS
about equal atnouuts. The greatest Kentucky and Kearsarge. Of course ;
fixed at 1.365,000 francs ($273,000,-
gain per acre by use of nitrate was these ships carry 13-inch guns, and ,
J<X)0). How it is priqiosed that the in­
where they used seven hundred pounds the 13-inch guns have been discarded, !
demnity la» distributed among the Several Uvea Reported Loit-Many of City’
per acre. $27.10 more than where ni­ as it is held that the weight of the Rain Kept Many Visitors Away —First Ticket ¡towers is not set forth.
Sold for $5.000—Many Exhibits Not Yet
trate was not used- Tills was due to guns is more than enough to com­
Finest Buildings Destroyed—Slight Accj.
There was much disappointment
the higher price obtained for the earlier pensate for the weight of metal which
In Place—President's Congratulations.
dent to Machinery Started the Fire.
over the fact that the United States is
pullings, and amounted to about $3 for they throw, and hereafter 12-inch |
supporting England against an in­
every dollar the nitrate cost.
guns are to be the largest used by the
crease in the customs.
This is at­
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__ _____ __ o..._____________ ______ Buffalo, May 2.—The beautiful
Note* for Heekeeper*
Because a man is working for wages
■on a farm or anywhere else It is not
necessary to make him feel that he is
a menial or a mere machine to be
wound up every day to run for so many
Jiours. I never worked as a farm­
hand, but during some ten years or
more in business houses in the city I
■only had one employer who gave me
to understand that I was nothing but
a machine to run ten hours a day. I
only stayed with him a year; another
year would have killed me. Every
man In whose employ I was, this one
excepted, made me feel that I had
some responsibility outside of the gen­
eral routine of my work. These men
would discuss methods and ask advice,
and it was no unusual thing for me to
be left In full charge of the business
for weeks, and In one Instance several
months. In every day 1 was made to
feel that the success of the business
somewhat depended upon me. I was
not only to do a certain amount of
work, but was expected to have eyes
and ears open and be ever on the alert
to further the Interests of the firm, aud
that I succeeded in so doing Is one of
the happy memories of life.
If our farmer community would ele­
vate the position of the farmhand by
the same kind of treatment that the
successful business man of to-day em­
ploys toward those In bls service there
would soon be a lietter class of help in
the field, a brainy, thinking, seeing
man about the farm in place of the
careless, shiftless, ne’er-do-well farm­
hand of bygone days.—New York Trib­
une.
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navy. The reason given for remodel-1
ing the Oregon and her class is that electrical display last
night was the
tributed to the influence of the Amer­
Jacksonville, Fla.. May 4.—Fifteen
Drones do not live so long as work- when in battle, if the four 13-inch eubninating event of the iqa-ning day ican community in China. It is be million dollars' worth of property
lieved that England, if alone, would gone up in smoke and 10,000 jieople
era.
guns are all lieing fired from one side of tbe Pan-American exposition. The
Bees can endure dry cold, but not of the ship, it will cause her to list to attendance in the morning was small, yield, but fears are entertained that made homeless is the result of a bit
England’s scheme is to prolong nego­ of wire accidentally getting into a
dampness.
that side and raise the opposite side•owing to the weather, which kept
Good vinegar may be made from so that the armor belt is out of the | many away from nearby towns. tiations until her hands are free in shredding machine of the American
Souh Africa, when she would show a Fibre Compapy yesterday at the cor­
boms'.
water, and that if a shot from that Later in the day, however, when the
ner of Davis and Union streets. The
More bees are lost in wintering than side should strike her below the sun broke though the gray clouds, stronger policy in Chinese affairs.
Official advises received here from fire started between the hours of 12
by disease.
the
crowd
began
to
assume
the
pro
­
armor belt the entire machinery
Pekin say the ministers are divided and 1 o’clock in the afternoon and
Lack of ventilation Is the cause of would be endangered.
portions of an exposition throng, and nto two parties in the discussion to owing to this fact the loss of life will
dampness in many hives.
While it may be true that if the last evening thousands passed through decide how China is to raise the in­ be comparatively small.
The fibre
Combs cost tbe bees about ten pounds long muzzles of the four 13-itioh guns the trunstiles.
demnity. France, Germany, Russia factory was a wooden shell, full of in­
of honey for every pound of comb.
The
gates
were
opened
yesterday
of the Oregon should be pointed in
flammable material.
The life of the bee depends on the one direction, the ship would list without ceremony, the opening and Japan agree in favor of raising
the customs duties, which can l>e re-
The wind, which was already blow­
work It does.
When It labors most about three feet, making it necessary day ceremonies having I teen post­
j lied upon to produce a great part of ing strong from
the southwest,
To secure tbe best results in bee to raise the muzzles of the guns to poned until May 20, when they will
the requisite sum, anil the imposition
keeping good movable '.lives should be bring them to bear upon the enemy, lie combined with dedication day of a duty on junks, which will con­ seemed to be possessed with a sudden
fury and soon was carrying destruc­
used.
The change in the date, stitute a tax on internal navigation
there is nothing to prevent the rais­ exercises.
tive embers all through the city, the
Its life Is shortest.
ing of the muzzles so that the guns however, did not cause a relaxation and taking over of some of the likin fairest portion of which lay right in
It is a serious tnts'nke to let a colony can be used if al' U were turned in in the efforts being put forth by | (provincial transit duties). On the
the course of the wind.
Some delay
everyone connected with the exposi­ other hand the United Statesand
of bees become overstocked with one direction.
was experienced in sounding an alarm
drones.
On the other hand, it may be said tion to have everything as nearly | Great Britain decline to agree to an and the engine at the water works
Guides for the brood fiâmes and that if the Oregon was fighting an ready as possible for yesterday’s open­ | increase of the customs duties, but suffered a mishap and nothing more
boxes need not be more than an Inch enemy, or in any conflict where a ship ing. The appearance of the buildings they do not appear to have presented than ordinary pressure could be ob­
in width.
was on either side, it is not at all like­ and grounds in the morning bore am­ ' a counter ¡inquisition. The fact that tained. By this time the flatties had
Bees should not be moved during the ly that her big guns would all be ple evidence of their efforts. Storm the United States and Great Britain swept to the Boston, a huge furni­
winter, nor should they be disturbed tained on one ship, leaving her ex­ and the inevitable delays incident have joined hands on this issue has ture factory.
It leaped across Davis
posed on the other side to the other to an undertaking of such magni­ caused surprised here.
or molested in any way.
It was hoped street and took a course right through
tude
made
impossible
the
realization
All empty frames of combs should re ship, Those who are seeking to have
that the United States would stand a section on which block after block
well taken care of during the winter the change made in the Oregon point of the hope that this might la' the with Fiance nnd Russia.
The result of frame buildings had been erected.
out that in case a fort was on one side first of the great expositions to be j will be to greatly protract the nego­
when not In use.
Here is where the fire department
The worst enemy to empty combs In and a hostile ship on the other, the completed on its often ing day. But tiations.
ost control, as simultaneously in half
so
much
more
already
has
l>een
winter is mice; if.allowed access to listing of the ship would expose one
a dozen places, some of them six
side. But others who are experts in wrought than was deemed possible
them they will destroy them.
blocks from the main fire, roofs were
TWO ROBBERS CAUGHT.
Successful wintering of bees depends naval warfare say that if the Oregon at the inception of the project that
seen to burst out in flames. The
all
are
satisfied
with
the
extent
and
or
any
other
ship
of
her
type
was
to a great extent on the right kind of
wind, rising higher and higher, set
fighting a fort and a battle ship at beauty of the fair as it appeared
fall management.
Arrest of Men Who Broke Into the American on fire whole rows of buildings and
If colonies are found short of pro­ one time, she would probably have yesterday morning, carried through
I attracted at first a crowd of curious
Express Office at Paris.
visions during the winter they may be two of her big guns trained on the the beginning by the citizens of
sightseers who seemed to be fasci-
Buffalo
without
state
or
federal
aid.
fort
and
two
on
the
battle
ship,
which
supplied with food In the shape of
Paris,
May
3.
—
Tlie
principal
auth
­
!
nated by the sight until they learned
William
Hamlin
was
permitted
by
would make her ride even.
candy.
permission to purchase the first or of the robbery of the American Ex­ that their residences too were in dan­
The entrance to the hives should be
ticket, having offered some time ago press Co.’s office in Paris the night of ger of total destruction. It took just
contracted during the winter, Three
SENDING US CRIMINALS.
to pay $5,000 for the privilege.
The April 26, when three masked burglars four hours for that resistless mass of
inches long and three-eighths wide Is
escaped with 30,000 francs, has been flames to consume every building in
ticket
was
sent
to
him
yesterday.
sufficient.
arrested. His name is George Miler. its wake for a space of six to eight
Victims of Italian Brigands Voluntarily Pay
At
noon
the
paid
admissions
aggre
­
Bees seldom. If ever, take a fly while
For some time he has lived in Paris blocks wide from Davis street, near
gated
to
about
$1,000,
the
majority
of
Their
Way
to
America.
there is much snow on the ground. If
under the name of James Samuel, be­ where it started, to the Hogan street
the
visitors
being
employes
or
others
they are in a proper condition they will
New York, May 2.—The Herald entering on passes.
ing employed in a barber shop. Some viaduct, a distance of over one and a
not fly at all.—St. Ixmls Republic.
says: “Italy is making of the United
days before the burglary the detectives half miles, and then, not satisfied
The Hare Cr.txe.
Treatment of the Hired Man.
Ä DM (III NH
The Belgian hare craze reminds me
of the carp craze of twenty years ago,
when every man with a poud could
raise his own meat. But where are the
carp and the carp ponds now? Gone
glimmering. A hundred farmers in the
country where I live had carp ponds.
There Is not a carp pond here now, nnd
the carp Is execrated, cussed. Three
years ago more than 400 persons In the
country kept Belgian hares. Now not
half a dozen keep them, and those who
did keep them could not be persuaded
to try them again. I write this as mat­
ter of history. When foolish hare
breeders tell about the hares being bet­
ter and more profitable than fowls,
they are digging their own financial
graves. The people can be fooled some
of the time, but not all the time.—J. II.
Davis, in Practical Poultryman.
I States a dumping
_ _ „ ground for her
| criminals and paupers. This fact has
I been forcibly called to the attention
! of the local authorities by the arrival
| in this port of three Italian brigands,
whose depredations made them a
scourges to the provinces in which
they were reared. Despairing of be-
ing relieved in any other manner, the
merchants upon whom they had prey-
j ed made up a liberal purse with which
the three were sent to America, arriv­
ing here with money enough in their
pockets to enable them to land un­
questioned.
These three outlaws,
who encountered no obstacles to bar
them from entering this country, are
I now in Kansas City,
Warning
? » Mo.
has been sent out by Police Coinitns-
sioner Murphy to the Kansas City
police ofticifals, who now Jiave the
Italians under strict police aurveil-
ance. ”
Poor Bntter Versus Fn’te-tne.
At noon the government building
was thrown open and General Brig­
ham made an address. The president
sent a message of congratulation to
the citizens of Buffalo upon the aus­
picious opening of the fair.
At 2 o’clock in the afternoon a sa­
lute of 4.5 aerial bombs was fired and
simultaneously hundreds of flags were
raised on the buildings and grounds.
FROM
VENEZUELA.
Satisfactory Explanation of
the
Arrest
of
Consul Biaz.
Washington, May 3.—The state de­
partment has received from the gov­
ernment of Venezuela a satisfactory
explanation of the
circumstances
under which Ignacio Biaz, United
States consul agent at Barcelona,
came to be arrested and mulcted of
a heavy fine.
While no details are
furnished, it is stated that the action
of the Venezuela government in the
matter is all that could he desired,
and that Biaz, who has recovered,
or wiF recover, the money extorted
front him, will not be further mo­
lested.
The state department’s information
regarding the legal proceedings in
Venezuela in connection with the
asphalt controversy indicates that it
will lie many months before the issue
will come to trial in the Venezuela
high court. As there is no disposi­
tion exhibited to dispossess the Amer­
ican concessionaries who are in pos­
session, ¡lending the termination of
the legal proceedings, the state de­
partment is entirely satisfied with
the status quo as to this case. There
are, however, other issues which may
change the aspect of Ameircan affairs
in Venezuela.
The official mail received today
from Venezuela continues to show a
specific and agreeable tone towiyd the
United States.
Farmers, their wives, sons and daugh­
BAD TRAIN WRECK.
ters and those helpers on the farms
must decide whether butteriue shall
have the preference to butter on the D.O. Mills and Party in a Wreck in Call
fornia.
tables of citizens of cities. Butteriue
now has the preference to much of the » Emigrant Gap., Cal., May 2—Tn
butter which Is put on the market.
the darkness of the smoke of the
A good, even quality of butter can snowsheds a Raymond excursion train
be produced on every farm every week ran into the rear end of limited train
in the year if pains lie taken with the No. 2, at Yuba Pass, four miles east
cows, the feed, the milking, the milk, of here, last night. The private car
the cream, the churn, the churning and of D. O. Mills was on the rear end of
keeping the butter after it is churned. the limited, and was badly damaged.
Much of the spoiled butter Is sjiolled
The fireman on the excursion train
after churning by being placed where was instantly killed and several pas­
It can take up the odors from vegeta­ sengers and men of the train crews
bles. meats or the tobacco smoke from were slightly injured.
the pipes of men who sit and smoke
The limited had struck a rock in
their tobacco in the kitchen while the the sheds and was delayed until the
crock of butter sits in the pantry or second section caught up.
Money In F rs * wn I Ponltry.
According to the report of the United cupboard near'by.»—H. W. Phelps.
States Commission of Agriculture. New
“Black Jack” Nearly Eicaped.
Ripening Cream.
York State consumes as many eggs as
Santa Fe, N. M., May 2.—It devel­
It is desirable that the ripening of
England, lioth disposing of JlS.OOti,- cream either naturally or artificially oped today at the hearing of William
000 worth of hen fruit annually. The ; should be at a temperature not exceed- Wilson, charged with furnishing
United States yearly consumes $500.- I Ing 65 degrees, and after tile ripening Convict George Stevenson with the
000,000 worth of eggs and poultry. ' lias been completed
that is, when the revolver used by him in the recent at­
Canada exports $30.000,000 worth of 1 lactic acid has been well developed it tempted delivery at the penitentiary,
eggs annually. The egg Industry Is should be reduced still lower before that the plan was to secure the release
German Claim Agaimt England.
worth $150.000,000 more than all the churning, say not to be aliove 50 de­ of Tom Ketchum, who was executed
dairy products of this nation. The grees, and some of the best blitter Ims lastFriday, and “Broncho Bill" Car­
Berlin, May 3.—A representative of
poultry products of this country aggre­
Wilson ' the government has informed the
been made at 47 degrees. Cheese also ver, a member of his gang.
gate more In a year than any single
confessed his guilt, and said Carver’s reichstag committee on petitions that
ripens best at a low temperature,
crop. Of all the country's Industries experiment stations have sniff The sister offered him $.500 to smuggle the Germany had demanded £5,000,000
that
the poultry Industry fs most generally
T1 e from Great Britain on account of cer­
cheese ripened at 65 degrees was bet revolver in to the prisoner.
pursued. Last year the poultry earn­ ■ter than that which wns allowed to plans were so carefully laid that but tain Transvaal expulsions, and Great
ings of the United States amounted to
(or the bravery and good marksman­ Britain had refused the demand on
over $300,000.000, being a greater value stand In a higher temperature nnd th.it ship of the prison officials “Black the ground that she did not wish to
ripened at 55 degrees was much supe­
by $52.000,000 than our entire wheat
Jack’’ and a score of other desperate establish a precedent, but was investi­
crop. $105.000.000 greater than our rior to that nt 65 degrees.
characters would have regained their gating the whole subject.
“The
rwlne brought us. $30.000,000 more
liberty.
number of expelled persons,” said a
Marketing Farm Product».
than our cotton crop, more than three
Selling gralr. and hay from the farm
foreign office representative, “is ISO,
times as grea' a« all the Interest paid In bulk reduces the profit In two ways.
iof whom 60 have already been indent-
Oklahoma Bank Robbed.
on mortgages during the year. $112.- It Is expensive to handle and haul,
1 nified. A ¡»art of the remainder have
Kingfisher, O. T., May 2.—The no right to a claim of indemnity,
000.000 more than we spend for schools, and It takes away elements of fertility
and yet there are people who think the that should be saved and returned to Blaine county bank at Watonga was because they fought against England
ben “small potatoes.”
the soil. Feed hogs, sheep and cattle robbed last night of $1,800, the vault ; or liecause of other ¡latent reasons.
and so market your product In the being blown open with dynamite The sound claims, however, are lieing
Growing Table Be el*.
( vigorously championed.”
most condensed form and In the east The robbers escaped.
Upon a sandy loam land which had est way. on the hoof, anil keep up the
been for ten years heavily manured and land while yon are cropping It.
Five Men Were Killed.
Naw Telephone Line.
cropped with table beets and celery, it
Horsea Cnminj Back.
8outh McAlester, I. T. May 2 — I Colfax, Wash., May 3.—Construc­
was found by the New Jersey station
Horses are again coming back In the An explosion of gas occurred in the tion work on a private telephone line
that the use of nitrate of soda In
A big concern In Chicago mine of the McAlester coal company connecting the villages of Dusty and
•mounts varying from four hundred I harness.
to seven hundred pounds per acre, in which Invested heavily In all kinds of this morning by which five men lost Endicott and the Popular Grove
three equal applications, hastened the horseless vehicles to do tbelr transpor­ their lives and seven were injured, creamery west of Colfax, has begun.
It The line will be about 20 miles in
maturing of the crop. At the first pull­ tation have abandoned them and gone and another is reported missing.
ing and making of two-pound bunches, back to the horse. What with keeping is believed the explosion was caused length, and will connect with the
there was «13 per cent, more on nitrated them in repair and the charges for by the firing by some of the men of a long distance system at Endicott,
plots than on those without the nitrate. electricity, they found that the new defective blast left by the regular shot The stock has *11 been au boeri tied by
At a seco .id pulling, fonr days later, method cost twice as much as the old firing crew. All the dead were as­ Ithe residents of the two towns and
phyxiated.
the nitrated plots gar« 135 per erst method.
farmers along the line.
/
noticed three mqn of English appear­
ance whose behavior was very mysteri­
ous.
These persons entered banks
without doing any business, and in­
spected buildings.
The detectives
maintained n careful watch at the
railway stations for persons who
might possibly have been connected
with tin1 robbery, and their patience
was awarded when they apprehended
Miler.
Miler was the bearer of n
large number of stolen cheeks to the
amount of 6,000 francs in a box in a
leather handbag. He had also in this
bag dynamite cartridges, jimmies, a
metal saw and drills of the finest
steel.
I
Another one of the thieves has been
arrested nt Amiens, his baggage being
seized at the railway station. Other
arrests arc imminent.
Memento for the President
Seattle, May 3.—The Snoqualmie
Fall Power Co., is preparing a beauti­
ful souvenir to be presented to Presi­
dent McKinley on the occasion of his
visit to Seattle. It will l>e a solid
tablet of silver some eight inches by
six inches in size, with an outline of
Snoqualmie Falls, and the surround­
ing rocks and trees embossed in purest
gold. In the lower corner will lie an
attached leaf, bearing on its uppet
surface a suitable inscription and
showing underneath a plan of the
company’s work room cut into solid
rock of Snoqualmie.
Rate War to Alaska Towns.
Seattle, May 3.—Heavy slashing is
the order in the Alaska steamship
rate war. Fares first and second class
to Lynn canal are cut to half of the
old rates. First class tickets arc s. ll-
itig for $10, anil second class for $5.
A week ago they were worth $25 and
$16.
Corresponding reductions in
freight rates are also reported.
Great Fire at San Juan.
San Juan, Porto Rico, May 3.—The
new $150,000 ¡>ier caught fire this
afternoon and was destroyed in half
an hour. A large stock of sugar and
rum was lost in the fire.
The fire
continues to rage and the flames
threaten to spread to the store« of the
custom house.
Vetoed liuurance Tex Bill.
Denver, May 3.—This was the last
day for the consideration by Governor
Orman of bills passed by the recent
legislature. He vetoed the bill in­
creasing the tax on Insurance com­
panies from 2 to 3 per cent of their
gross receipts, but permitted the bill
restoring capital punishment to be-
come a law without his signature.
with eating out the heart of the resi­
dential portion of the city, it doubled
back and came roaring tip the princi­
pal thoroughfare of trade, destroying
everything in what was the original
incorporation of Jacksonville.
From the humble homes of the poor
to the elegant residences of the well
to do was but a short journey for the
flames.
It seemed that wherever
there happened to be a shingle roof
the flying embers found lodgment.
Blocks away from the mailt fire other
fires would break out.
Right into
the heart of the tifwn the flames
swept.
As the viaduct leading over
the marshes of Hogan's creek to East
Jacksonville wns reached, it was plain
that the limit of the progress of the
flames westward had come. As far as
the money value of the damage was
concerned the worst was yet to come.
Just as the material for the flames
was apparently consumed, a shift in
the wind sent a roaring sea of flan ee
southward toward the river. Then it
was la'ginning to dawn on the minds
of the unfortunates who had sought
refuge at the river side, that they
were in danger of being cut off and
being suffocated. A rush was made
for the South Jacksonville ferry and
hundreds were carried over to the
other side.
Then came the most thrilling scene
of the entire day. The flames caught
tho freight warehouses on the Atlan­
tic, Valdosta A Western Railroad and
tiegan from there on their march
backward in the teeth of the wind.
Slowly but surely the fire ate its way
against the wind, taking either side
of Bay street until it reached Jones’
boatyard.
While the flames failed
to cross the open space known as
Jones’ boat yard, a new danger threat­
ened.
The flames swept down in the
rear of the United States hotel and
that, with the Law Exchange, was
doomed. Meantime the county court
bouse caught fire and another splen­
did edifice was soon a total wreck.
From the United States hotel the
flames jumped across the street and
the work of destruction continued,
only to lie checked when the last
building near McCoy and Hogan’s
creek hud ls»en destroyed.
Storm in Utah.
Halt Lake, May 6.—Reports re­
ceived nt the government weather
bureau in this city show that the
prevailing storm extends almost over
the entire U<s.»ky mountain district.
Nearly two anil three quarters inches
of rain have fallen in Salt Lake dur­
ing the last 36 hours, the heaviest
precipitation ever recorded here and
the weather officials state the total
rainfall w ill reach three inches or over
before the storm «eases.
Swollen
streams and flooded flat lands are
reported from many places.
Large Grain Crop Sure.
Eugene, Or., May 3.—Crops in this
section are looking much better since
the rains of a few days ago. Farmers
say it is impossible to estimate the
gisxl done by the showers.
Large
grain crops are more than assured.
Crop prospects were never brighter in
Lane county.
A special agent of the United States
department of agriculture reports that
beyond doubt grain can be matured
anywhere in Alaska.
Japanese Cabinet Crisis.
Yokohama, May 6. — In conse­
quence of the continued postpone­
ment by the Japanese minister of
finance, Viscount Watanabe, of the
carrying out of the expected public
works the cabinet crisis has reached a
climax, and Marquis Ito, the premier,
after the last cabinet meeting, pro­
ceeded to the palace and tendered his
resignation to the mikado, All the
other members of the cabinet did
likewise, with the exception of one