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NTY SIGNAe Center ol the Great Fruft Belt of Montana.

Y. OCTOBER 18, 1911.NUMBER 9WORLD NEU NOM

SINT IMOHAILY MEI HISPANIC,MIMI PAST ER

Review of Rappeiniap in loth Rataern sad Werra Rearphiliel Daringthe Past Week-Eational, Ristrical,Political stud Personal Broads Told InMort Paragraphs.

Liebon.-The minister of war, Gen-eral Plumate Castro, has resigned.

Seattle.-The steamer Jefferson hasarrived from Skagway bringing half amillion dollars' worth of gold.

Seattle.-Governor Walter E. Clarkof Alsaka,, has arrived from the northto (eater with President Taft.Judged by appearances, woman suf-

frage seems to be the prominent issueof the election held throughout Cali-fornia, Tuesday.

H. B. Walton, an ad writer of SanFrancisco, committed suicide today byjumping from a window on the fifthdoor of the Chronicle building.Seattle.-With • million dollars in

treasure, the output of several goldmines in the Seward peninsula district,the steamship Senator arrived fromNome.

With $2,379,151 in bank deposits and.126,727,224 in estimated propertyvalues, Shoshone county, Idaho, with its13,963 people, claims to be one of therichest communities for its size in thenation.

Portland, Ore.-Sixty strike-breakerswere smuggled into the Harriman shopsla this city from Seattle and wereshunted into the shop yards from thestockade near where the pickets wereon guard.

New York.-Returas to the steel com-panies indicate that the trade partialweird' of September was more se-vere than anticipated, and the keeneregeepritioa for business brought out

lee H. liLsrtin, a resident of Bed-City, for the last 40 years, was

gives a eoldier's burial recently by the401 post of the G. A. IL Ife servedia`Ylaliffitessota InimiltiVrtingers durtag the Cavil War.

Chicago.-It is decreed by the Cus-tom Cutters' association in conventionhere, that the wardrobes of welt-dress-ed men shall be devoid of garments fitfor the "vaudeville stage, gamblinghouse and college campus."St. Louis-Hugh Robinson, in ahydro aeroplane, made a spectacularlight on the Mississippi river Sunday,

startiag front the Water Ire times,leading six time., and carrying UnitedSettee mail from lliaeouri to Illisois.The supreme eatirt of the United

States convened Monday of this weekafter a four month's recess. It willremain in session until the last of Mayand consider as many of the 800 camenow on thstelleaket as the eoaditions willpermit.

Saar Zen, Cal.-Peter C. Rai, aged64 741011100 an Fraser:cc president ofhe Itallito-fierise Colony Wineries sons-paay, and a director of the ItalianAmerican bank of that city, was almostitudhntly killed here when Ito wasthrown from • buggy.

At a tosferenee hekl in Portland,leceotly representstivne of the commit-oral bodies of Seattle, Tacoma andPortlasid. agreed that, with the cornmeetrial organisations of other Paddlecoast cities, they would endeavor tomore free tolls through the Panamacavil for vessels sailing soda theAmerican Sag.

NATIONAL 001/1011111Y

LITZ CONGRESS

Will Meet in Speksits. Nerelaber ItIn 11111.

Fifteen prominent men in variousparts of the United States lave beeninvited to berate truster of the Na-tional Country Life congress, to meetIn Spokes*, November 84 to 29, underthe auspices of the Country Li/e com-mittee of the Spokane chamber of cars-merce and the Country Life commis-sions of Washington, Oregon, Idaho andMontana. They are:Charles S. Barrett, Union City, Oa.,president Farmers' Educational and Co-operative union; J. H. Worst, North Da-kota, president National Dry Farmingcongress; Dr. Henry Waller, DeeMoines, president National Coeserva-ties J. Ward, Madi-son, chief of Civic and Social CenterDevelopment, University of Wisconsin;Whitman H. Jordon, Geneva, N. Y.,president American Associatioa ofAgricultural Colleges; W. H. Hoard,Fort Atkinson, Wis., editor Hoard'sDairyman.F. D. Coburn, Topeka, secretary Kan-

sas State Baud of Agriculture; JamesJ. Hill, It. Paul, chairman board ofdirsetors Great Northern Railway com-pany; Liberty Hyde Bailey, 'theta, N.Y., president College of Agriculture,Cereal); 0. Harold Powell, Los Angeles,manager Citrus Protective league; Dr-y. W. Gunsaulus, president Armor In-stitute Chicago; Walter Ii. Page, NewYork, editor The World's Work; JosephChapman, Minneapolis, chairman agri-cultural committee, Minnesota StateBankers' associatioe; J. J. Brkelder,Concord, N. Ii., master National Grangeand R. L. Butterleld, Amherst, presi-dent Massachusetts Agricultural college.

Ogden, Mat -A sable/ram receivedin Ogden by Fred J. Riese', a localwhMesele merchant who presented Ad-miral bat Togo with the Pereheroastallion Togo while the admiral VOA•raftillle this countrpria few weeks age,says' that the admiral in tarn has presee the stallion to. the emperor ofJa who the sit%

Illainitio UMW ?lamaThe exiseutive eommittee of tho

Northwood Live iltosit aseeetatiota helda emoting at Sporn* rearstly for thepurpose of discussing pleas for, the fatsteá show which is to he hold at Lewtarot December 13, 13 and- 14. TheNorthwest Live Steak aseasiaties iscompared of stoek-growing farmers isWathisgre, Closes, Idaho, Meisterand CaliTtresta, Mid it, purpose is topromote the stook-miles( industry inthe northwest.

Mymn Sib aodIstaber-

TAFT TRAIN II MAGNIFIVENT.

Trip Costa $114,400-Are U Mon inParty-Nowspepor Most Pay

Owe "MiaowThe president's special is ese of thefinest trains ever east west. It is a

Pullman equipment, but belongs to theNew Yotk Calked & Hudson RiverRailraid company. It consists of thepresident's private car, two 10-com-liprtment drawing room sleepers, adiner, day eoaeli sad baggage ear.The train left Boston on September

15 and will return to Washington, D.C., on November 1. During that timeit will have traveled 12,901 miles, ofwhich 979 miles will be over the North-ern Pries, 344 miles over-tho-',maintain - bolaroad & NIcompany's lines, 1009 miles over theOregon Short Lir and 136 miles of theGreat Northern railroad.The aewepapor moo and others pres-ent pay the regular fare and pay theirows • expenses, which materially re-

cluses the cost of the trip to the presi-dent. The total eat of the tour wasoriginally estimated at $35,000, butCharles E. Coiriay of Ube 9918•011Albany road, who has personal sergeof the train, believes that this maybe reduced to $30,000. The presidedis allowed 06,000 per year Irse travel-ing expenses, so that the sal of thistrip to him will use up more thrum oneyear's allowance.There are 21 people in the preeiden

Ilia] party, including sine nowspapermen, who are making the cities trip.A number of sewspapers have hadcorreepondents with the train, but thenine have been with it from the startand will be with it to the finish.

Tarrytown, N. Y.-The erogreptiosel the Pin* VININIpt ehurtli lora, whichAbu Orill.1111111113.attoada, kaa *rodthe esiMed les-agrporrit sr the byre,"Braitiful Isle of flemewliere," whichRevarnor 1Fesdrow Willer of New

=meetly declared was too "am.ml sensealeal" to retails •

plied in the hymn hook. The emogrogathe. voted is veleta the hymn in the1'411 re did Mr. Roeicefollor.

r Mrs. Soltadler Shotogrleed, Cal. - Mrs. ifereeles

IllehNifor of thie eiW wee shot andOroblibly LZiortid elrordied by Mn.Mel I.

e of J. W. Lerida,

• egetredillar: -111111ellog. was theeshallnatisa of tioarlial .allenitise oftile lefties, la which Me, "'halerhaw tend.

"F81611AN NEAT"UWVITIEMUNI ERNIE III TIE

IIIITITIEST.Anti-liatat Amociattea Permed to 'ind-icate Poet - lizporiamata to BeMade to Try and Locate Came andTreatitont-Oonvantioia at GrowersBrought Out Ported Ressialta.

"Clean Wheat" is the slogan ofgrowers, millers and shippers in theIsland Empire, where an anti-smut ere-sad. sow is under way, with everypromise that the problem will besolved. The proventio• of strut willmean from 83,000,000 to 87,000,060 ayear to the farmers in assters Wash-ington and Oregon, northern Idaho andwestern Montana, where the yield for1911 la estimated at 67,000,000 bushelsof spring sad winter wheat. StateSenator R. C. McCroskey of Garfield,president of the Anti-Smut assoration,is at the head of the movement andhas associated with him the heads ofagricultural colleges and rural schoolsto the district.The campaign against the smut pestshad its inception at the convention ofgrowers is Pullman,' Wash., recently,When President MoCrookey, J. N.Klemgard of Pullman and Professor R.W. Thatcher of the experiment stationat the State of Washington collegewere selected to arrange for a Wienof co-operative experiments with aview to locating the caws, and ascer-taining the proper treatment. Thestate experiment station will co-operatewith the growers in this work. Theplan is to treat seed wheat at the sta-tion, under the direction of Dr. Hum-phreys, and send it to certain growerswho will keep • record of elisnatlealand soil conditions at the time of plant-ing and the pereentarn of smut ob-tained. This data will be tabulated toafford • working beats in eradicatingthe eviL

Theories dealing with tar spread ofthe scourge were austorsas at the erevolition. Several weaken declared Itwas dia probably to Goo auhigitatbiatal-mmirglata • iroo' oiling whale,though it was admitted there were la-stances of mut is spring wheat. Meetof the delegates favored tier treatmentof red wheat with a solution ofvitriol. It was intimated that it mightbe economically profitable to treat theseed grain with the stronger solutionof vitriol, event if it kMed a certainpercentage of the seed, provided theremaining portion was marred smutproof without affecting the vitality.

BOW= OAEDIET OROSEN

Governor Ownwal Gives Anal:oval toPremier.

Ottawa.-Promier Robert L. Bordenhas presented the mamas of his eabinetto the governor general and receivedIii. approval. The new goverumeatwas sworn is Tuesday.Mr. Borden is premier, and, like Sir

Wilfrid Laurier, will set as presidestof the rostraThe only *ter representative from

the maritime provinces is PremierHasse of New Brunswick, who will beminister of marine sad lehertes.

cjisebee will have four representativeswith portfolios and one without, andOntario seven.The northwest is given four places.

Dr. Roche of Marquette, will repre-sent Manitoba, and is to be secretaryof state. Robert Rogers, sow mister.M public works Is Masitoba, is to berarer of the Premier and win oh torPrime Albert, 111 easkaterwea, thenewly Wetted mosiber retiring in hisfoyer

Alberta will be represented by Simistar Longboat, who will sot bars aportfolio, while the British Columbiarepresentative will be Martin Berrillof Grand Forks, a prosainest horticul-turist.The membership of tho gortirsomaat

follows:Nova Ineotia-R. I.. Hordes, premier.New Brunswick-fl. J. Haremtiemboe-L. P. Pelletier, P. B. Moult,George Pettey, C. J. Deberty.outerie - Prank Coalmine, W. T.

Whits, Giorgi E. Fostor, John Reid,Samuel Hughes.

Manitoba -W. J. Roche.Saakatehowasr-Robert Snare.Alberta-John Longboat.British Celsoibia--Martis Burrill.

1/1111 hirpteitia.W heel, ag, W. Va.---Tbe Oatholie

Home of the Good Stophord at Ragestee, afar hers, was ostirely destreyelby It. leader. Oso of the 11110 girlinmates of the lasso awoke and Amtotted emi else of smoke. Oho IfIlinsedash of the Mater, la sharp, ant thealiildros were IN free the twainbuilding to a *why WHEW. Noeswas injured, but may wore Is Otaniattire. Lose WASS to 430,040.

Other growers assorted that an exactformula "Nand be bettor.

J. M. Klmagard of Pullen's, saidafter declaring that the pest is spread-ing:"Jf you desire to know whether you

are losing money on street of mastgo out into your Sete, aid where theheads are ere together reach outand pther 100 of them la a broth.Then count the smutty heads. If youcan find I. such heads in your hun-dred that moans II per moat of yourcrop. This fall you could have marvel,secured any beneh of 100 heads withless thee dye smutted one., and fromthat op to 25 -that is, from I per matto one fourth of the crop was dam-aged by smut Them, if you Agueswhat 6 per cent of your crop or 115 perfront of it is worth in mosey, you willNorio to am that it meets money to✓aise mot."Dr. Rork A. Bryan', presider of the

Sint* Collor of Waskingtea, predictedthat the pretties will he solved as • re-salt of the occupation of the farmersand the seitiatista.H. U. McLean of Walla Walla,Wash., who his 31 years' expertise*

I. Waskleeton, Oregon and severalraters states, espreeeed the opiatesthat if vitriol were used is the properway ft would kill the smut. Hs saidho avoided exphltsioss of threshingmmehines by the liberal use of ftibrieet-lag oil sad eare la kelpie' the °stiltI. perfect roenise order. Hs declaredthere is so danger so e.g as the bear-ing boxes &IV seed and would sot hesi-tate to pall his sesehlse ines say Seld.Mark W. Whitlow, who operates an

ostesoiv• wheat ranch ia the Palms@coquetry, said:"This year I treated with IS pomade

of vitriol Is uS'Asko& of wheat, sadan let the vain oisiik for 10 miaates.Saw portions of the Said were easthellWI ON% and I satiood that the WINOmat is if the riehor amid Marks loadwhere the straw was rualiere-indraws, for iartasec. I seeded at alltimes, begissisg la September and MrWhims In November. la any last sewlag, whist was in stubble, titers woosot nook eitut."

Protases. 0. L. Waller, vie* presi-dest of the Mato millogs, and PrefessorR. W. Thatcher, threetor of the sapori-meet stables, atm spoke at length. Thislatter mil there is the g000tios as tohew imag,mout will remota virile inthe resat sot is oestrous with thewheat kernai, and wholhor it will pewI. 'the pound. If se, what wake& ofMime are romposillilo tow the stoetleaof the mat TIMati is the gliastios, alas,of how lime a emit yore may resealsI. the amok In the air, to webersiv the esoistry, is a vireo tem."In other words," be a4461, "if we

raid doterselao that the east wouldnot Eve write ere maim, then we staidearls* rotatios system whisk wielddootroy the lefettioa."

HELD DEBI

Active CI I elate Public Set-riot

Olympia, W Harry A. Fairchild,'hairier of the Wnahisglsn public oar-via" rausissioa,,As deed at his resi-dence here of aplexy. For weeks behad been seerkintaight and clay on im-portant matters Reims the otommissioa,and a week ago- Raturday collared athis desk. He rdeovered after • fewboars and rsaoraing heand before ahe bermeMr. Fairehild

his duties. Sundayed of a severe pain,could be summoned

'lit.

I prominent attor-way, whoa la 1100 he was appointedchairman of thaticwly treated staterailroad emaiabottia He individuallyis eredited with y accomplishmentsef that which in its physi-cal valuation o railroad propertiesand other revaidered one ofHe personallylaw under widaatpowers werelater, to stoverMr. Fairchild

ye erasures is eye-bolt in the country.most of the new

e old commission'sd by the last legis-

public utilities.roe a widow andOne son, alie weretat his bedside whenthe end came Owen 0. Calderhead,rate expert of the,tomeniseion, who hasbeen with It sine, the railroad com-mission drat organised, is mentioned asexcellent timber for Mr. Fairchild's*floc calderkeed is admirably equip-ped, because of his direct knowledge ofimportant matters now pending, to fillthe vacancy. He has been ChairmanFairchild 'a right-band man in the work.

MARKLE NAVY YARDS SYSTEM

Su:rotary Moyer 1/111 Import OM inthe By the

Washington.--Casting aside all scien-tific system of navy yard managementadvocated in this toiletry because hebelieved they involved too much detailand required eerie*. cbasgeo in thecivil service rules ef employment, Sec-retary of the Navy Meyer will importfrom England the system of manage-ment used by Vickers Limited at theBarrow-in-Purnise ship, engine andordnance works. This was officiallyaamonaced. The Norfolk navy yardwill be the first toiRtel the chases.The sew system *vides for the tentralisation of work add allows the tom -=indent of • yis being done onout having toOwes having thes'large. It aSordemetre sod the'Mr. Moyer says that with the sow sys-tem Ds has not in contemplation anychanges in organisatioa. Captains A.B. Williams and E. Theirs, U. S.' N.,hav• been sent to England to study thedetails of the Vickers system. Theywill be gone about • month.

know jest whatpiarticalar job with•iafermation from

under theirslag anddeferia.

00113EILIUS BLEIMI IS DEAD

Long Preannest NaUcesal and NowTest Politica.

Now York.--Cornellus Newton Bliss,for years or of the leading figures isnational republican polities, and wellknowa as a mershant and a member ofthe dry good• Ira of Bliss, Fabyan &Co., died hers Tuesday of heart failure.The end was not sae:petted, LS Mr.Bliss had been ill for • year, and hisfamily had noted for some time that hewas fast failing. Mr. Elise was 78years old, levies been born in FailRiver, Mass., i• 1533.The death of Mr. Riles removes fromthe politiesl geld of this country an-other of the coterie of republisen lead-ers who have boon la the forefroat ofthe party's affairs for • generation ormore. He was treasurer of the repub-

sational committee from 1892 to1904, sad prior to thin had been chair-mas of the New Yolk state repeblieanseassalttee. He twice refried to be.raise • redidate for governor of New`fork, but following the National ems-paiga ie 1554, ia width William Mc-Kinley was elected president, he bememo eserotary of Gm interior in thelifeLialey cabinet. Twit)* be refusedthe mayoralty nomisaties of New

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Name Oro Toot Stweemful.Norma, Alaska.--The brat test of ore

is the enemas stamp mill bought bykr/ "merchants to assertais if quartsproperties on Seward prinsola areworth developing was nada, the oreruining $70 a toe Prospectors aregreat/7 pleased with the result of thetaut and believe the quarts propertieswill rejuvenate the goad mining is&nary ia the Nom* diarist.

Padilla NortinreM Whist.Tacoma, Week.-Milliag blur/sten,

Us; slob, 81e; fortyfold, Sir. Exportla5seetion,14e; dub, ilese fertyfoid, no;rot liesalim,Pottiest, Ore-Trash pride.: Club,79e; blnantem, 100113e; fortyfold, 7941

00e; red Reran, 711(4177e; valley, 710Me.

lileys Dim is a Wreck.Heckling, Mo.-A Brinlisgteu freight

train was wreaked half • mile east ofLlage, Woos county, mad is boys ofNa. Casibria sail Beeler, Mo., are reported Is have boom kali They werestealing a ride.

FLOOD IN WISCONSINGREAT DAMAGE AT BLACK

RIVER FALLS AND MANYMEI PLACES.

Many Families Homolosa and PropertyLost Estimated at $1,900.000 at MeekRiver Fans-Another Darn GemsAway at Weems, Doing GroatDamage-Water Highest on Record.

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Lacrosse, Wis.-Fifteen families arehomelese, • property loss of 11,300,000has been wrought and the city of BlackRiver Falls is laboring under the dis-tressing handicap of the loss of itsbusiness district as the result of floods.The summarizes the situation inMack River Fails, disclosed at the endof an exhaustive canvass.Leading citizens say they are nowable to cope with the situation withoutoutside assistance, although they areaccepting gratefully all proffers ofhelp.A serious problem is lack of storesand loss of stock and provisions. Onlyone grocery remains. Neat and gro-ceries will have to be shipped in forthe present to supply the population.In many Casa lots, as well as build-ings, have been destroyed, the landbeing carried olf by the river.The defective construction of thepower plant at. Black River Falls ishold by engineers to be partly re-sponsible for the disaster.Whatever trouble from now on theload causes will be at Lacroese andthe villages of the low lands north.The Black and Mississippi rivers areboth rising rapidly.

riaiwy UM Awing Palm glomOilseed, (hl..Oeell Bright was 'hotsee probably fatally wounded by Sam-

sel Ideates, Ids opposest is a pokercame Mesita' backed through • wile-d°. end oimepod.

Axes Ned TroisRea Ilateel, Cal.-.-Kr.. Charles Boo

mart eif Ail city la deed sad her boobead probably frail, *lured as the"rot of a collision lietWOMB Boisoart'sautomobile and aa beds two

Another Dam Som.Waren, Wis.-The water of LakeWausau broke through the embank-ments of both ends of the Rothschilddam, tarrying away tons of earth anddoing damage amounting to severalthousand dollars. Dynamite blastingwas resorted to at the west end for agreater channel to draw away thewater from the east end, where it isflowing in the streets, for fear it willundermine several °Godly buildings.The government river gage ,in thiscity shows that the -11gmen4n riverhas reached eight and one-half feetabove the normal, which is the equalof the record of 1881, the highest sofar known. The water, however, hasbeen receding.

Train service on the Chicago, Mil-waukee & St. Paul road on this divisionis at a standstill.Reports from Orasit• Heights, 'eightmiles north, is that two or three milesof track are amidst water.Residents of Melrose, 18 miles northof here On the Black river, found dieriver had risen 20 feet during the night.The town is cut off from outside com-munication, but it is situated on highground and the danger of being de-stroyed is not great.

OCTOBER CROP REPORT

U. S. Department of Agriculture ShowsCondition of Products.p.

Washineton.-The October crop report of the crop reporting board of theUnited States department of agrieul-tufo, just issued, shows the condition onOctober 1, or at time of harvest, theyield per acre as Indicated by the con•ditioa on that date and preliminaryestimates of the total production ofthe principal farm crop* of the country,as follows:Potatoes-Condition, 62.3 per cent ofa normal, compared with 59.3 per cant

Srptombor 1, 71.8 per seat last year,Iliad 75.3 pot sent, the 10 -roar average.ludiested yield pee aere, 79.7 bushels,compared with 94.4 beds& last yearand 96.9 bushels, the five-year average.Winter wheat---Proliminary estimateof production, 455,149,3000 bushels,compared with 464,044,000 bushels in1910 and 430,119,600 bushel', the fiveyear average. Yield per acre, 14.6bushels compered with 11.0 bushels in1910 and 15.5 Wehrle, the ilve-yearoversee.All wheat--Prebiniaary estimate ofproduction, 655,516,000 bushel*, romper

ed with 595,443,000 bushels last yearand 6113,316,400 bushels, the firm. yearaverage.

WASHINGTON BUTZ NIWIIThe 18th Spokane Interstate fair lastweek was visited by 120,894 persons.The warehouses at Leerier havetaken In 189,000 sacks of wheat thisfall.

Fire destroyed one of the big stablesat the interstate fairgrounds Saturday.Loss $2000.

Joseph Chambers, a pioneer, whodied in Cheney recently, was born Oc-tober 4, 1830, in Monroe county, In-diana..

During the lait week 100 carloads ofapple. have been shipped out of theWenatchee valley to every part of theglobe.

Frank Market, • carpenter, aged 25years, was run over and killed by aneastbound mail train on the GreatNorthern near Blueetem recently.Sunday morning concluded the threedays' session of the nineteenth anaualmeeting of the Columbia river-branchof the Woman's Foreign Missionary so-

ciety at North Yakima.

Mrs. Becker, wife of a raseher southof Irby, was found dead at the foot ofthe cellar steps by her children. It issupposed she missed her footing. Sheleaves • baby nine days old and otherchildren.

Complete tabulation of values ofLincoln county shows that taxes forthe coming year will be paid on a basisof • valuation for all property of $24,-676,704, a slight decreese over that oflast year, when the rolls showed $24,-704,622.

The 2-year-old son of Mike Arndtat Sprague fell into a bucket of boilingwater and severely scalded its bar andhips. In removing the child's clothesafter the accident the greater portionof the skin was taken off and the littlefellow is in a very serious condition.

Tacoma Boma DenisTacoma, Waeh.-'The beautiful borneof Horan, O. Sort, near Wapata lake,ia the porkers part of the city, was

destroyed by Are, with a loss of smarty11110,000, partially Insured. Mrs. Scott,▪ protnieent elob woman of the cityand state, went to the third Story,carrying an oil lamp, to three a smallwindow rattling is the wind. Shestumbled and dropped the lamp. 'Theoil spilled over the door and Ignited.Mrs. Scott tied down the stairway sadreeled against a post, fracturing hersollarbese. Mr. Made hasteseci to herassistaace, and awoke the two children,aged la sad II. Bat little was saved.

J. Ir Ooolowly Breaks Rib..Raker, Ore.-J. W. Cookerly of

Walla Walla, ideated reddest of theNational Fusers) Directors' assoelativeat • recent rionventlen in Allantie City,wbile ea his way home, was *moonilyinjured on a presager train east ofWe sky. Palliag over a suitcase inthe aisle.? the Pullman, be was throwssealer a rot and several ribs werebroken, owe posoturiag his left lung,taring hemorrhages which neer redfrequently. Hs la is • serious saedangerous coedit ion.

ITALIANS TAKE FORTDEMAND SURRENDER (WEIRS

AT HIM BAY AND ABATTLE FOLLOWS.

Zomba Bay Is on Oosat of Tripoli, $310Miles Bad of Benghazi -Turk* Is aPew Eilles Further East-Italian Ad-miral Tolls of Attack on Tripoli-Americana Maintain Neutral.

Rome.--Olicial dispatches receivedhere say: "The ships of the first Italiansquadron entered the roadstead at Tor-buk, Bombs bay; where they footed noTurkish warships. They summoned thegarrison to surrender, but the Turksreplied with a fiat refusal sod hoistedthe Turkish flag."The battleship Vittoria Emmanuel°opened fire. The first shots carriedaway the flag and made a large breachin the fort. Rear Admiral Aubrey,commander in chief of the heel, the.landed several companies of marines,who, after a short struggle, overcamethe resistance of the small Turkishforce. The Italians occupied the fortand hoisted their deg. A few Turkishsoldiers with refused to surrender weremade prisoners."Bonita bay is on the coast of Tripoli,250 mile* east of Benghazi. Torbuk isa few miles further east.

Mrs. L. N. Powell of Dayton has ahen with a brood of chickens whomhistory has been brilliant. Last Marchthe hen was hatched. In July she com-menced laying. In September, leasthan 6 months old, the hen hatched abrood of chickens in time to go withthem to the fair.

Tacoma. - Mystery surrounds thedeath of T. 0. Bebree, a wealthy NewMexico rancher, whose body was foundin the water under a dock with a bullethole through the head. A diamond ringaad stickpin whir' flabsesoras kaawistd pounces are missing. A revolver wasfound on the clack.

The accident fund authorised by theworkmen's compensation act has al-ready reached the respectable total of$218,000, with every prospect that itwill pass the quarter of • million markby January. Almost without exceptionthe !Argilr employers of the state arecomplying with the deonauds of thelaw.

Smoke was seen to issue from the ex-tinct crater of Mount Baker Saturdayafternoon by residents of the towns ofGlacier and Maple Falls. As won asthe report spread stores of people withglasses took to the hills on the out-skirts of Bellingham and were ableplainly to see the dense pall of smokegathering about the snowy crest of thepeak.

•The first woman in the state to Ile

for a municipal office is Mrs. Edna W.Eldinmi, who has filed • certificate withthe city clerk at Olympia as candidateon the citizens' ticket for city treas-urer. She is the only candidate ODthat ticket for the office, as the incum-bent, W. H. Brackett, is the only candidat• for nomination of the republicanticket for treasurer.

The actual pack of canned sa/mon onPuget Sound up to September 20 was1,276,923 cases. This is the largestpack of salmon ever put up on a yearwhey the sockeyes have not run inlarge numbers. Thi peek of pinksalmon is more than twice the size ofShe newt largest peek on retort Nolees than 1,023,18e cases of this kindof ash have been peeked.

Olympia, Wash.--C. A. Pratt, of theindustrial insurance eornission, tadW. V. Tanner, attorney general ofWashington, have gone to Chicago toattend a conference on October 13 andIt or 111 or lb states and commieriosson the subjects of state and fedora:workmen's compensation, amendmentsto the interstate commerce law, uniformseetilent reports and maliegering of pa-taste under eompensation.

Grant county emuntissioaer• have be-gun plans for the construction of •eras-country road, beginning at Trial-dad, on the west boundary line of therunty, and Wording easterly alongthe Great Northers as far as Addeoand then is • mertheasterly direetionto Coulee City nod Earths* mid on totie east line of the Geary. Hers theroad will *entree* with the main roadinto Spokane. When amplified thisroad will be the direct rest* from We-nateliee to Spokane and will beceptorby far the most feasible roar for theeonstroetios of state road No. 7.The road, as indicated In the reso-

lution of the erotralssioners, will gothrough Trinidad, Quirky, Winchester.,Naylor, Ephrata, Soap lake, Adrian,Coulee City, Berths*, and to is eastline of the county, and will Serve themost perilous portion of the 'musty.This road is being projected seder

the authority of the road laws passedby the 1911 legislature and will beknown as • "state aid road." A largesure will be available dada, the prossue year for the begirds' onastreeties of this thertroghlars, and it I. thepurpose of the atimailadoesito to pro-ceed at ogee with the yritialuary oar-

THZ CAPTURE OF TRIPOLIThe Torero, the Herald dispatch ves-sel arrived off Tripoli in time to rpmthe suagaaine• of tialtaine fort blown

up with a thunderous *rash, amid afountain of fire that swept over theadjoining palm grove.

Sults.iuti fort, situated at the west-ern extremity of this town, consisted ofthree fortIlled works and contained anenormous quantity of munitions of war.Fort Haraidie, at the east of the town,was raaed by the bombardment, whileSinie fort has an enormous breach madeby the powerful guns of the Italianwarships.A chain of stool has been drawnaround Tripoli. It is formed by the

battleships Benedetto Brim, EmanueleViliberto, Re Umberto, Sicilia, and esr-tiegsa. The aramereit mew CnottiA1-berth and this scout cruiser Coatit aroin port, with three destroyers and*even torpedo boats.

Tells of Bombardment.Vice Admiral Favarelli, commandosin chief of the Italian squadron, received me on the bridge of the Bene-detto Brim and personally told inis thestory of the bombardment and occupa-tion of the town."The bombardment," he said, "be-gaa at 3 o'clock on Tuesday. Weopened are at a range of 70:00 meters,but after a few shots from our 12-inchguns we drew nearer to the town andcontinued firing with our sight-inch andsix-inch guns."Fort llamidie wras bombarded bythe Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Varese and

the Francesco Ferrueelo; Slide fort bythe lionedtto Brie, the Emanuel Fill-beau and the Carl Alberto, and &ki-wi. fort by the Be Umberto, the Sar-degna and the Sicilia.The American aortal maintained a

pc.ition of perfect neutrality, but everyone Nero agrees that it is thanks to hieattitude that a rale did sot start isthe town when the approasking Worri-ment was ofilcially announced. TheTurkish authorities asked the consuls ifthey wished to leave the town. A fewwere for leaving, but the majority decided to remain.

Law Mewl.The Italian governor today took pee-session of Tripoli and its environs withsolemn ceremony in the preemies of

Herr Kitkovsky, the Austro-Hungarianmonad; W. P. Riley, the Dutch consul;Joke Wood, the Assiduities consul; .t.Dickson, the Brit's)/ ravel; Herr Al-fred ?Wier, the Oormas sossal, ant-ebrGreek, Swedish and Thwack imesalo.

President Taft °Moho Menistata.

Taeonia.-President Taft climbed upto the foot of the glaciers ira MountRainier Sroday, and narrowly escapedspending • night in the moustain fastneeses. The presidential party madethe assent la automobiles, and whennearing the highest point reached byOro roadway, most of the machines be-came mired is mud up to the bobs.After several bourn the narrow readwas completely blockowl. Forest rang-ers, with tamale of horses, finally clear-ed the way, but night had fallen anda storm tbreatesed as the presidentruled dews the decline. With rareh•lights biasing the way, the president'sear slowly crept along the edges ofprecipieee and at times the enter wheelswere within two feet of a sheer dropof 1000 feet or more. Mr. Taft re-turned safely to his train, which hadbeen takes to Ashford, sear the moos-tale, and pasted through here at midsight, el Mete to Belliapare.

?we At. maw in Wreck.1Rocheislier, Web -Two persons were

killed and 11 injured, aim peoloablyfatally, whin a Detroit United teihraywork ear rushed into the frost mid ofthe aorthhonad Detroit United Rail-way riot limited about • mile aerthof "cahoots,

Ethel liarrymere heavers.Chicago Barrymore, the set

roes, wit* was taboo vieloatly ill atSouth Boat, Is rorroveriug.