4vallft , tAcS a SANDERS Printed in the Irftereat of Sanders ••••••••••••••••••••••••....••••••••• VOLUME V. CAMAS, MONTANA, FR NTY SIGNA e Center ol the Great Fruft Belt of Montana. Y. OCTOBER 18, 1911. NUMBER 9 WORLD NEU NOM SINT IMO HAILY MEI HISPANIC, MIMI PAST ER Review of Rappeiniap in loth Rata ern sad Werra Rearphiliel Daring the Past Week-Eational, Ristrical, Political stud Personal Broads Told In Mort Paragraphs. Liebon.-The minister of war, Gen- eral Plumate Castro, has resigned. Seattle. -The steamer Jefferson has arrived from Skagway bringing half a million dollars' worth of gold. Seattle. -Governor Walter E. Clark of Alsaka,, has arrived from the north to (eater with President Taft. Judged by appearances, woman suf- frage seems to be the prominent issue of the election held throughout Cali- fornia, Tuesday. H. B. Walton, an ad writer of San Francisco, committed suicide today by jumping from a window on the fifth door of the Chronicle building. Seattle. -With • million dollars in treasure, the output of several gold mines in the Seward peninsula district, the steamship Senator arrived from Nome. With $2,379,151 in bank deposits and . 126,727,224 in estimated property values, Shoshone county, Idaho, with its 13,963 people, claims to be one of the richest communities for its size in the nation. Portland, Ore.-Sixty strike-breakers were smuggled into the Harriman shops la this city from Seattle and were shunted into the shop yards from the stockade near where the pickets were on guard. New York.-Returas to the steel com- panies indicate that the trade partial weird' of September was more se- vere than anticipated, and the keener egeepritioa 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 the 401 post of the G. A. IL Ife served ia`Ylaliffitessota InimiltiVrtingers dur tag the Cavil War. Chicago. -It is decreed by the Cus- tom Cutters' association in convention here, that the wardrobes of welt -dress- ed men shall be devoid of garments fit for the "vaudeville stage, gambling house and college campus." St. Louis -Hugh Robinson, in a hydro aeroplane, made a spectacular light on the Mississippi river Sunday, startiag front the Water Ire times, leading six time., and carrying United Settee mail from lliaeouri to Illisois. The supreme eatirt of the United States convened Monday of this week after a four month's recess. It will remain in session until the last of May and consider as many of the 800 came now on thstelleaket as the eoaditions will permit. Saar Zen, Cal. -Peter C. Rai, aged 64 741011100 an Fraser:cc president of he Itallito-fierise Colony Wineries sons- paay, and a director of the Italian American bank of that city, was almost itudhntly killed here when Ito was thrown from • buggy. At a tosferenee hekl in Portland, leceotly representstivne of the commit- oral bodies of Seattle, Tacoma and Portlasid. agreed that, with the corn meetrial organisations of other Paddle coast cities, they would endeavor to more free tolls through the Panama cavil for vessels sailing soda the American Sag. NATIONAL 001/1011111Y LITZ CONGRESS Will Meet in Speksits. Nerelaber It In 11111. Fifteen prominent men in various parts of the United States lave been invited to berate truster of the Na- tional Country Life congress, to meet In Spokes*, November 84 to 29, under the 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 and Montana. They are: Charles S. Barrett, Union City, Oa., president Farmers' Educational and Co- operative union; J. H. Worst, North Da- kota, president National Dry Farming congress; Dr. Henry Waller, Dee Moines, president National Coeserva- ties J. Ward, Madi- son, chief of Civic and Social Center Development, University of Wisconsin; Whitman H. Jordon, Geneva, N. Y., president American Associatioa of Agricultural Colleges; W. H. Hoard, Fort Atkinson, Wis., editor Hoard's Dairyman. F. D. Coburn, Topeka, secretary Kan- sas State Baud of Agriculture; James J. Hill, It. Paul, chairman board of dirsetors 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, New York, editor The World's Work; Joseph Chapman, Minneapolis, chairman agri- cultural committee, Minnesota State Bankers' associatioe; J. J. Brkelder, Concord, N. Ii., master National Grange and R. L. Butterleld, Amherst, presi- dent Massachusetts Agricultural college. Ogden, Mat -A sable/ram received in Ogden by Fred J. Riese', a local whMesele merchant who presented Ad- miral bat Togo with the Pereheroa stallion Togo while the admiral VOA •raftillle this countrpria few weeks age, says' that the admiral in tarn has pre see the stallion to. the emperor of Ja who the sit % Illainitio UMW ?lama The exiseutive eommittee of tho Northwood Live iltosit aseeetatiota held a emoting at Sporn* rearstly for the purpose of discussing pleas for, the fat steá show which is to he hold at Lew tarot December 13, 13 and- 14. The Northwest Live Steak aseasiaties is compared of stoek-growing farmers is Wathisgre, Closes, Idaho, Meister and CaliTtresta, Mid it, purpose is to promote the stook -miles( industry in the northwest. Mymn Sib aodIstaber- TAFT TRAIN II MAGNIFIVENT. Trip Costa $114,400 -Are U Mon in Party-Nowspepor Most Pay Owe "Miaow The president's special is ese of the finest trains ever east west. It is a Pullman equipment, but belongs to the New Yotk Calked & Hudson River Railraid company. It consists of the president's private car, two 10-com- liprtment drawing room sleepers, a diner, day eoaeli sad baggage ear. The train left Boston on September 15 and will return to Washington, D. C., on November 1. During that time it will have traveled 12,901 miles, of which 979 miles will be over the North- ern Pries, 344 miles over-tho- ',maintain - bolaroad & NI company's lines, 1009 miles over the Oregon Short Lir and 136 miles of the Great Northern railroad. The aewepapor moo and others pres- ent pay the regular fare and pay their ows • expenses, which materially re- cluses the cost of the trip to the presi- dent. The total eat of the tour was originally estimated at $35,000, but Charles E. Coiriay of Ube 9918•011 Albany road, who has personal serge of the train, believes that this may be reduced to $30,000. The presided is allowed 06,000 per year Irse travel- ing expenses, so that the sal of this trip to him will use up more thrum one year's allowance. There are 21 people in the preeiden Ilia] party, including sine nowspaper men, who are making the cities trip. A number of sewspapers have had correepondents with the train, but the nine have been with it from the start and will be with it to the finish. Tarrytown, N. Y. -The erogreptios el the Pin* VININIpt ehurtli lora, which Abu Orill.1111111113. attoada, kaa *rod the esiMed les-agrporrit sr the byre, "Braitiful Isle of flemewliere," which Revarnor 1Fesdrow Willer of New = meetly declared was too "am .ml sensealeal" to retails • plied in the hymn hook. The emogroga the. voted is veleta the hymn in the 1'411 re did Mr. Roeicefollor. r Mrs. Soltadler Shot ogrleed, Cal. - Mrs. ifereeles IllehNifor of thie eiW wee shot and Oroblibly L Zi o r tid e l rordied by Mn. Mel I. e of J. W. Lerida, • egetredillar: - 111111ellog . was the eshallnatisa of tioarlial .allenitise of tile lefties, la which Me, "'haler haw tend. "F81611AN NEAT" UWVITIE MUNI ERNIE III TIE IIIITITIEST. Anti-liatat Amociattea Permed to 'ind- icate Poet - lizporiamata to Be Made to Try and Locate Came and Treatitont-Oonvantioia at Growers Brought Out Ported Ressialta. "Clean Wheat" is the slogan of growers, millers and shippers in the Island Empire, where an anti -smut ere- sad. sow is under way, with every promise that the problem will be solved. The proventio• of strut will mean from 83,000,000 to 87,000,060 a year to the farmers in assters Wash- ington and Oregon, northern Idaho and western Montana, where the yield for 1911 la estimated at 67,000,000 bushels of spring sad winter wheat. State Senator R. C. McCroskey of Garfield, president of the Anti -Smut assoration, is at the head of the movement and has associated with him the heads of agricultural colleges and rural schools to the district. The campaign against the smut pests had its inception at the convention of growers is Pullman,' Wash., recently, When President MoCrookey, J. N. Klemgard of Pullman and Professor R. W. Thatcher of the experiment station at the State of Washington college were selected to arrange for a Wien of co-operative experiments with a view to locating the caws, and ascer- taining the proper treatment. The state experiment station will co-operate with the growers in this work. The plan is to treat seed wheat at the sta- tion, under the direction of Dr. Hum- phreys, and send it to certain growers who will keep • record of elisnatleal and soil conditions at the time of plant- ing and the pereentarn of smut ob- tained. This data will be tabulated to afford • working beats in eradicating the eviL Theories dealing with tar spread of the scourge were austorsas at the ere volition. Several weaken declared It was dia probably to Goo auhigitatbia tal-mmirglata • iroo' oiling whale, though it was admitted there were la- stances of mut is spring wheat. Meet of the delegates favored tier treatment of red wheat with a solution of vitriol. It was intimated that it might be economically profitable to treat the seed grain with the stronger solution of vitriol, event if it kMed a certain percentage of the seed, provided the remaining portion was marred smut proof without affecting the vitality. BOW= OAEDIET OROSEN Governor Ownwal Gives Anal:oval to Premier. Ottawa.-Promier Robert L. Borden has presented the mamas of his eabinet to the governor general and received Iii. approval. The new goverumeat was sworn is Tuesday. Mr. Borden is premier, and, like Sir Wilfrid Laurier, will set as presidest of the rostra The only *ter representative from the maritime provinces is Premier Hasse of New Brunswick, who will be minister of marine sad lehertes. cjisebee will have four representatives with portfolios and one without, and Ontario seven. The northwest is given four places. Dr. Roche of Marquette, will repre- sent Manitoba, and is to be secretary of state. Robert Rogers, sow mister. M public works Is Masitoba, is to be rarer of the Premier and win oh tor Prime Albert, 111 easkaterwea, the newly Wetted mosiber retiring in his foyer Alberta will be represented by Simi star Longboat, who will sot bars a portfolio, while the British Columbia representative will be Martin Berrill of Grand Forks, a prosainest horticul- turist. The membership of tho gortirsomaat follows: Nova Ineotia-R. I.. Hordes, premier. New Brunswick-fl. J. Harem tiemboe-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 Rages tee, afar hers, was ostirely destreyel by It. leader. Oso of the 11110 girl inmates of the lasso awoke and Am totted emi else of smoke. Oho IfIlinsed ash of the Mater, la sharp, ant the aliildros were IN free the twain building to a *why WHEW. Noes was injured, but may wore Is Otani attire. Lose WASS to 430,040. Other growers assorted that an exact formula "Nand be bettor. J. M. Klmagard of Pullen's, said after declaring that the pest is spread- ing: "Jf you desire to know whether you are losing money on street of mast go out into your Sete, aid where the heads are ere together reach out and pther 100 of them la a broth. Then count the smutty heads. If you can find I. such heads in your hun- dred that moans II per moat of your crop. This fall you could have marvel, secured any beneh of 100 heads with less thee dye smutted one., and from that op to 25 -that is, from I per mat to one fourth of the crop was dam- aged by smut Them, if you Agues what 6 per cent of your crop or 115 per front of it is worth in mosey, you will Norio to am that it meets money to ✓ aise mot." Dr. Rork A. Bryan', presider of the Sint* Collor of Waskingtea, predicted that the pretties will he solved as • re - salt of the occupation of the farmers and the seitiatista. H. U. McLean of Walla Walla, Wash., who his 31 years' expertise* I. Waskleeton, Oregon and several raters states, espreeeed the opiates that if vitriol were used is the proper way ft would kill the smut. Hs said ho avoided exphltsioss of threshing mmehines by the liberal use of ftibrieet- lag oil sad eare la kelpie' the °stilt I. perfect roenise order. Hs declared there 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, sad an let the vain oisiik for 10 miaates. Saw portions of the Said were easthell WI ON% and I satiood that the WINO mat is if the riehor amid Marks load where the straw was rualiere-in draws, for iartasec. I seeded at all times, begissisg la September and Mr Whims In November. la any last sew lag, whist was in stubble, titers woo sot nook eitut." Protases. 0. L. Waller, vie* presi- dest of the Mato millogs, and Prefessor R. W. Thatcher, threetor of the sapori- meet stables, atm spoke at length. This latter mil there is the g000tios as to hew imag,mout will remota virile in the resat sot is oestrous with the wheat kernai, and wholhor it will pew I. 'the pound. If se, what wake& of Mime are romposillilo tow the stoetlea of the mat TIMati is the gliastios, alas, of how lime a emit yore may reseals I. the amok In the air, to webers iv the esoistry, is a vireo tem. "In other words," be a4461, "if we raid doterselao that the east would not Eve write ere maim, then we staid earls* rotatios system whisk wield dootroy 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 be had been seerkintaight and clay on im- portant matters Reims the otommissioa, and a week ago- Raturday collared at his desk. He rdeovered after • few boars and r saoraing he and before a he berme Mr. Fairehild his duties. Sunday ed of a severe pain, could be summoned 'lit. I prominent attor- way, whoa la 1100 he was appointed chairman of thaticwly treated state railroad emaiabottia He individually is eredited with y accomplishments ef that which in its physi- cal valuation o railroad properties and other rev aidered one of He personally law under widaat powers were later, to stover Mr. Fairchild ye erasures is eye- bolt in the country. most of the new e old commission's d by the last legis- public utilities. roe a widow and One son, alie weretat his bedside when the end came Owen 0. Calderhead, rate expert of the,tomeniseion, who has been with It sine, the railroad com- mission drat organised, is mentioned as excellent timber for Mr. Fairchild's *floc calderkeed is admirably equip- ped, because of his direct knowledge of important matters now pending, to fill the vacancy. He has been Chairman Fairchild 'a right -band man in the work. MARKLE NAVY YARDS SYSTEM Su:rotary Moyer 1/111 Import OM in the By the Washington. --Casting aside all scien- tific system of navy yard management advocated in this toiletry because he believed they involved too much detail and required eerie*. cbasgeo in the civil service rules ef employment, Sec- retary of the Navy Meyer will import from England the system of manage- ment used by Vickers Limited at the Barrow-in-Purnise ship, engine and ordnance works. This was officially aamonaced. The Norfolk navy yard will be the first toiRtel the chases. The sew system *vides for the ten tralisation of work add allows the tom - =indent of • y is being done on out having to Owes having thes 'large. It aSorde metre sod the' Mr. Moyer says that with the sow sys- tem Ds has not in contemplation any changes in organisatioa. Captains A. B. Williams and E. Theirs, U. S.' N., hav• been sent to England to study the details of the Vickers system. They will be gone about • month. know jest what piarticalar job with• iafermation from under their slag and deferia. 00113EILIUS BLEIMI IS DEAD Long Preannest NaUcesal and Now Test Politica. Now York.--Cornellus Newton Bliss, for years or of the leading figures is national republican polities, and well knowa as a mershant and a member of the 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 his family had noted for some time that he was fast failing. Mr. Elise was 78 years old, levies been born in Fail River, Mass., i• 1533. The death of Mr. Riles removes from the politiesl geld of this country an- other of the coterie of republisen lead- ers who have boon la the forefroat of the party's affairs for • generation or more. He was treasurer of the repub- sational committee from 1892 to 1904, sad prior to thin had been chair- mas of the New Yolk state repebliean seassalttee. 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 be memo eserotary of Gm interior in the lifeLialey cabinet. Twit)* be refused the mayoralty nomisaties of New ' Name Oro Toot Stweemful. Norma, Alaska. --The brat test of ore is the enemas stamp mill bought by kr/ "merchants to assertais if quarts properties on Seward prinsola are worth developing was nada, the ore ruining $70 a toe Prospectors are great/7 pleased with the result of the taut and believe the quarts properties will rejuvenate the goad mining is &nary ia the Nom* diarist. Padilla NortinreM Whist. Tacoma, Week.-Milliag blur/sten, Us; slob, 81e; fortyfold, Sir. Export la 5 seetion,14e; dub, ilese fertyfoid, no; rot liesalim, Pottiest, Ore -Trash pride.: Club, 79e; blnantem, 100113e; fortyfold, 7941 00e; red Reran, 711(4177e; valley, 710 Me. lileys Dim is a Wreck. Heckling, Mo.-A Brinlisgteu freight train was wreaked half • mile east of Llage, Woos county, mad is boys of Na. Casibria sail Beeler, Mo., are re ported Is have boom kali They were stealing a ride. FLOOD IN WISCONSIN GREAT DAMAGE AT BLACK RIVER FALLS AND MANY MEI PLACES. Many Families Homolosa and Property Lost Estimated at $1,900.000 at Meek River Fans -Another Darn Gems Away at Weems, Doing Groat Damage -Water Highest on Record. Sb Lacrosse, Wis.-Fifteen families are homelese, • property loss of 11,300,000 has been wrought and the city of Black River Falls is laboring under the dis- tressing handicap of the loss of its business district as the result of floods. The summarizes the situation in Mack River Fails, disclosed at the end of an exhaustive canvass. Leading citizens say they are now able to cope with the situation without outside assistance, although they are accepting gratefully all proffers of help. A serious problem is lack of stores and loss of stock and provisions. Only one grocery remains. Neat and gro- ceries will have to be shipped in for the present to supply the population. In many Casa lots, as well as build- ings, have been destroyed, the land being carried olf by the river. The defective construction of the power plant at. Black River Falls is hold by engineers to be partly re- sponsible for the disaster. Whatever trouble from now on the load causes will be at Lacroese and the villages of the low lands north. The Black and Mississippi rivers are both rising rapidly. riaiwy UM Awing Palm glom Oilseed, (hl..Oeell Bright was 'hot see probably fatally wounded by Sam- sel Ideates, Ids opposest is a poker came Mesita' backed through • wile- d°. end oimepod. Axes Ned Trois Rea Ilateel, Cal. -.-Kr.. Charles Boo mart eif Ail city la deed sad her boo bead probably frail, *lured as the "rot of a collision lietWOMB Boisoart's automobile and aa beds two Another Dam Som. Waren, Wis.-The water of Lake Wausau broke through the embank- ments of both ends of the Rothschild dam, tarrying away tons of earth and doing damage amounting to several thousand dollars. Dynamite blasting was resorted to at the west end for a greater channel to draw away the water from the east end, where it is flowing in the streets, for fear it will undermine several °Godly buildings. The government river gage ,in this city shows that the -11gmen4n river has reached eight and one-half feet above the normal, which is the equal of the record of 1881, the highest so far known. The water, however, has been receding. Train service on the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul road on this division is at a standstill. Reports from Orasit• Heights, 'eight miles north, is that two or three miles of track are amidst water. Residents of Melrose, 18 miles north of here On the Black river, found die river had risen 20 feet during the night. The town is cut off from outside com- munication, but it is situated on high ground and the danger of being de- stroyed is not great. OCTOBER CROP REPORT U. S. Department of Agriculture Shows Condition of Products. p . Washineton.-The October crop re port of the crop reporting board of the United States department of agrieul- tufo, just issued, shows the condition on October 1, or at time of harvest, the yield per acre as Indicated by the con• ditioa on that date and preliminary estimates of the total production of the principal farm crop* of the country, as follows: Potatoes -Condition, 62.3 per cent of a 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 year and 96.9 bushels, the five-year average. Winter wheat---Proliminary estimate of production, 455,149,3000 bushels, compared with 464,044,000 bushels in 1910 and 430,119,600 bushel', the five year average. Yield per acre, 14.6 bushels compered with 11.0 bushels in 1910 and 15.5 Wehrle, the ilve-year oversee. All wheat--Prebiniaary estimate of production, 655,516,000 bushel*, romper ed with 595,443,000 bushels last year and 6113,316,400 bushels, the firm. year average. WASHINGTON BUTZ NIWII The 18th Spokane Interstate fair last week was visited by 120,894 persons. The warehouses at Leerier have taken In 189,000 sacks of wheat this fall. Fire destroyed one of the big stables at the interstate fairgrounds Saturday. Loss $2000. Joseph Chambers, a pioneer, who died in Cheney recently, was born Oc- tober 4, 1830, in Monroe county, In- diana.. During the lait week 100 carloads of apple. have been shipped out of the Wenatchee valley to every part of the globe. Frank Market, • carpenter, aged 25 years, was run over and killed by an eastbound mail train on the Great Northern near Blueetem recently. Sunday morning concluded the three days' session of the nineteenth anaual meeting of the Columbia river -branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary so- ciety at North Yakima. Mrs. Becker, wife of a raseher south of Irby, was found dead at the foot of the cellar steps by her children. It is supposed she missed her footing. She leaves • baby nine days old and other children. Complete tabulation of values of Lincoln county shows that taxes for the coming year will be paid on a basis of • valuation for all property of $24,- 676,704, a slight decreese over that of last year, when the rolls showed $24,- 704,622. The 2-year-old son of Mike Arndt at Sprague fell into a bucket of boiling water and severely scalded its bar and hips. In removing the child's clothes after the accident the greater portion of the skin was taken off and the little fellow is in a very serious condition. Tacoma Boma Denis Tacoma, Waeh.-'The beautiful borne of Horan, O. Sort, near Wapata lake, ia the porkers part of the city, was destroyed by Are, with a loss of smarty 11110,000, partially Insured. Mrs. Scott, ▪ protnieent elob woman of the city and state, went to the third Story, carrying an oil lamp, to three a small window rattling is the wind. She stumbled and dropped the lamp. 'The oil spilled over the door and Ignited. Mrs. Scott tied down the stairway sad reeled against a post, fracturing her sollarbese. Mr. Made hasteseci to her assistaace, 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 the National Fusers) Directors' assoelative at • recent rionventlen in Allantie City, wbile ea his way home, was *moonily injured on a presager train east of We sky. Palliag over a suitcase in the aisle.? the Pullman, be was throws sealer a rot and several ribs were broken, owe posoturiag his left lung, taring hemorrhages which neer red frequently. Hs la is • serious sae dangerous coedit ion. ITALIANS TAKE FORT DEMAND SURRENDER (WEIRS AT HIM BAY AND A BATTLE FOLLOWS. Zomba Bay Is on Oosat of Tripoli, $310 Miles Bad of Benghazi -Turk* Is a Pew Eilles Further East -Italian Ad- miral Tolls of Attack on Tripoli - Americana Maintain Neutral. Rome.--Olicial dispatches received here say: "The ships of the first Italian squadron entered the roadstead at Tor- buk, Bombs bay; where they footed no Turkish warships. They summoned the garrison to surrender, but the Turks replied with a fiat refusal sod hoisted the Turkish flag. "The battleship Vittoria Emmanuel° opened fire. The first shots carried away the flag and made a large breach in the fort. Rear Admiral Aubrey, commander in chief of the heel, the. landed several companies of marines, who, after a short struggle, overcame the resistance of the small Turkish force. The Italians occupied the fort and hoisted their deg. A few Turkish soldiers with refused to surrender were made prisoners." Bonita bay is on the coast of Tripoli, 250 mile* east of Benghazi. Torbuk is a few miles further east. Mrs. L. N. Powell of Dayton has a hen with a brood of chickens whom history has been brilliant. Last March the hen was hatched. In July she com- menced laying. In September, leas than 6 months old, the hen hatched a brood of chickens in time to go with them to the fair. Tacoma. - Mystery surrounds the death of T. 0. Bebree, a wealthy New Mexico rancher, whose body was found in the water under a dock with a bullet hole through the head. A diamond ring aad stickpin whir' flabsesoras kaawis td pounces are missing. A revolver was found on the clack. The accident fund authorised by the workmen's compensation act has al- ready reached the respectable total of $218,000, with every prospect that it will pass the quarter of • million mark by January. Almost without exception the !Argilr employers of the state are complying with the deonauds of the law. Smoke was seen to issue from the ex- tinct crater of Mount Baker Saturday afternoon by residents of the towns of Glacier and Maple Falls. As won as the report spread stores of people with glasses took to the hills on the out- skirts of Bellingham and were able plainly to see the dense pall of smoke gathering about the snowy crest of the peak. • The first woman in the state to Ile for a municipal office is Mrs. Edna W. Eldinmi, who has filed • certificate with the city clerk at Olympia as candidate on the citizens' ticket for city treas- urer. She is the only candidate OD that ticket for the office, as the incum- bent, W. H. Brackett, is the only can didat• for nomination of the republican ticket for treasurer. The actual pack of canned sa/mon on Puget Sound up to September 20 was 1,276,923 cases. This is the largest pack of salmon ever put up on a year whey the sockeyes have not run in large numbers. Thi peek of pink salmon is more than twice the size of She newt largest peek on retort No lees than 1,023,18e cases of this kind of ash have been peeked. Olympia, Wash. --C. A. Pratt, of the industrial insurance eornission, tad W. V. Tanner, attorney general of Washington, have gone to Chicago to attend a conference on October 13 and It or 111 or lb states and commierioss on the subjects of state and fedora: workmen's compensation, amendments to the interstate commerce law, uniform seetilent 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 the runty, and Wording easterly along the Great Northers as far as Addeo and then is • mertheasterly direetion to Coulee City nod Earths* mid on to tie east line of the Geary. Hers the road will *entree* with the main road into Spokane. When amplified this road will be the direct rest* from We- nateliee to Spokane and will beceptor by far the most feasible roar for the eonstroetios of state road No. 7. The road, as indicated In the reso- lution of the erotralssioners, will go through Trinidad, Quirky, Winchester., Naylor, Ephrata, Soap lake, Adrian, Coulee City, Berths*, and to is east line of the county, and will Serve the most perilous portion of the 'musty. This road is being projected seder the authority of the road laws passed by the 1911 legislature and will be known as • "state aid road." A large sure will be available dada, the pros sue year for the begirds' onastree ties of this thertroghlars, and it I. the purpose of the atimailadoesito to pro- ceed at ogee with the yritialuary oar- THZ CAPTURE OF TRIPOLI The Torero, the Herald dispatch ves- sel arrived off Tripoli in time to rpm the suagaaine• of tialtaine fort blown up with a thunderous *rash, amid a fountain of fire that swept over the adjoining palm grove. Sults.iuti fort, situated at the west- ern extremity of this town, consisted of three fortIlled works and contained an enormous quantity of munitions of war. Fort Haraidie, at the east of the town, was raaed by the bombardment, while Sinie fort has an enormous breach made by the powerful guns of the Italian warships. A chain of stool has been drawn around Tripoli. It is formed by the battleships Benedetto Brim, Emanuele Viliberto, Re Umberto, Sicilia, and esr- tiegsa. The aramereit mew CnottiA1- berth and this scout cruiser Coatit aro in port, with three destroyers and *even torpedo boats. Tells of Bombardment. Vice Admiral Favarelli, commandos in chief of the Italian squadron, re ceived me on the bridge of the Bene- detto Brim and personally told inis the story of the bombardment and occupa- tion of the town. "The bombardment," he said, "be- gaa at 3 o'clock on Tuesday. We opened are at a range of 70:00 meters, but after a few shots from our 12-inch guns we drew nearer to the town and continued firing with our sight-inch and six-inch guns. "Fort llamidie wras bombarded by the Giuseppe Garibaldi, the Varese and the Francesco Ferrueelo; Slide fort by the 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 every one Nero agrees that it is thanks to hie attitude that a rale did sot start is the town when the approasking Worri- ment was ofilcially announced. The Turkish authorities asked the consuls if they wished to leave the town. A few were for leaving, but the majority de cided to remain. Law Mewl. The Italian governor today took pee- session of Tripoli and its environs with solemn ceremony in the preemies of Herr Kitkovsky, the Austro-Hungarian monad; 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-ebr Greek, Swedish and Thwack imesalo. President Taft °Moho Menistata. Taeonia.-President Taft climbed up to the foot of the glaciers ira Mount Rainier Sroday, and narrowly escaped spending • night in the moustain fast neeses. The presidential party made the assent la automobiles, and when nearing the highest point reached by Oro roadway, most of the machines be- came mired is mud up to the bobs. After several bourn the narrow read was completely blockowl. Forest rang- ers, with tamale of horses, finally clear- ed the way, but night had fallen and a storm tbreatesed as the president ruled dews the decline. With rareh• lights biasing the way, the president's ear slowly crept along the edges of precipieee and at times the enter wheels were within two feet of a sheer drop of 1000 feet or more. Mr. Taft re- turned safely to his train, which had been takes to Ashford, sear the moos- tale, and pasted through here at mid sight, el Mete to Belliapare. ?we At. maw in Wreck. 1Rocheislier, Web -Two persons were killed and 11 injured, aim peoloably fatally, whin a Detroit United teihray work ear rushed into the frost mid of the aorthhonad Detroit United Rail- way riot limited about • mile aerth of "cahoots, Ethel liarrymere heavers. Chicago Barrymore, the set roes, wit* was taboo vieloatly ill at South Boat, Is rorroveriug.