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NORTHWEST STATES WASHINGTON, IDAHO, MONTANA, AND OREGON NEWS ITEMS. A Few Interesting Item* Gathered From Our Exchangee of the Sur rounding Country—Numerous Acci dents and Personal Events Take Place —Outlook Is Bright. WASHINGTON NOTES. Preparations for harvest work are being made and many machines begin the season's run this week. Horticulturists of Stevens county re port that the orchards are growing an abundant yield of late fruß. From the school census nearly com pleted, Ballard figures out a popula tion of 2,000, or more than double what it was five years ago. Operations are progressing rapidly on the Northern Pacific's new turn table at the Spokane roundhouse. The new turntable complete will cost $0000. Thomas Warren, a pioneer, who crossed the plains from Kansas before railroads were thought of west of the Missouri river, died recently at North port. The members of the state board of health are reported as fearing an epi demic of typhoid fever in certain sec tions of the state where the disease has been prevalent for several weeks. Gus Deluge, a truckman employed by the Grimmer Truck company, at Spokane, was instantly killed in the basement of the Rookery building Sat urday afternoon by a boiler rolling on him. Archie R. Cannon of Spokane sus tained a compound fracture of the right arm and other injuries by being caught in the belting of a threshing machine recently. That early estimates of damage done by the hot wave were exagger ated is now conceded by many of the best posted farmers and grain men who have been examining the grain and crop conditions. The announcement is made that J. O'B. Scobey, receiver of the Olympia land office and a politician of stat3 wide reputation, would soon resign his position and remove to Portland to enter the land law practice. More than 20 experienced telegraph operators have been employed by the Northern Pacific railway for duty on the line between Tacoma and Port land within the past two weeks, neces sitated by the installation of a com plete block signal service on the south end. Nearly four score mountain climb ers, men and women of the Mazama club, with the added forces of the Sierra club of California and the Ap palachian club of the east, have spent two weeks in Paradise, and have ac complished the feat of climbing the great Rainier-Tacoma peak. Lester Richardson, of Seattle, 19 years of age and son of respectable parents, was arrested recently for bur glary and confessed that in the last two months he has looted 20 rooms in various betels in the city, securing money and jewelry, which he lavished on his friends. From one room Rich ardson stole $520 that he spent in two weeks. Just across the Columbia river north of Wenatchee lies a flat of land con taining nearly 6000 acres, which at the present time is only dotted here and there by an occasional shack of the homesteader. This land is known as Columbia valley, and it is now a settled fact that at least 3000 acres will be irrigated. A sudden drop in temperature, bring ing with it a severe hail storm, accom panied with thunder, swept suddenly over the Dalles Sunday afternoon. The storm was entirely unexpected and after the drop in temperature had oc curred. the thermometer again took a jump and the heat was almost as op pressive as before. A hail storm fol lowed of a peculiar nature. Small ir regular chunks of ice, differing entire ly from the regular stones, poured from the clouds. OREGON NEWS ITEMS. The time for filing a motion for a new trial by the O. R. & N. company in its suit against Umatilla county has passed and $40,000 taxes which have been in litigation two years will be paid. Ex-Judge Del Stuart, a prominent at torney of Portland, member of the Masons, Knights of Pythias and other orders, ex-district judge of lowa and ex-mayor of Osceola, lowa, died re cently at Portland as the result of an operation. Bird fanciers on the Pacific coast are much interested in the forthcom ing poultry exhibition at the Lewis and Clark exposition from October 5 to October 12. More than $14,000 will be awarded as prizes at the show for fancy poultry. The entry list will close September 10. The annual saloon license at Dallas has been increased from $400 to $600. Judge Frazer of the state circuit court has granted a preliminary in junction restraining the management of the Lewis and Clark Centennial ex position from interfering with the Sun day operation of concessions on "The Trail," at the exposition. Golden J. Exile, supposedly a bull of high grade, took prizes at the live stock shows at Salem, Walla Walla and North Yakima, and was sold bv the owner, Dave Looney, for a fancy price. Looney also owned what was known as the Miller bull, ami Miss Lou Miller has identified Golden J. Exile as the latter. The animal was bred by her father and she had ta tooed the letters "C. M." in its ear with India ink. IDAHO NEWS. All of the churches of Weiser will hold union services in the open air Sunday evenings during the summer. The log cut around St. Maries will be large this summer. Contracts are under consideration for about 50,000,- 000 feet. Andrew Carnegie has donated $1200 to be applied toward the purchase of a pipe organ for the Presbyterian church at Boise. The 32d annual session of the Co lumbia River conference of the Meth odist Episcopal church will convene in Moscow August 23. The badly decomposed body of Frank G. Marrin was found recently in a cattle shed at the fairgrounds at Blackfoot. He had been missing for five weeks. Tom Wheeler carries the record as champion sheep shearer in Idaho. He is now at his ranch near Hayburn. Mr. Wheeler also won a round trip ticket to the Portland exposition for the rapidity and neatness of his work. Governor Gooding has requested the cooperation of the different towns of the state in the organization of a state band, which will make a trip to the Portland exhibition and participate in the observances on Idaho day, Sep tember 4. Miles S. Johnson of Lewiston, for four years prosecuting attorney of Nez Perce county, has been appointed assistant United States attorney for North Idaho and assumed the position on August 1. Lewiston has been desig nated as his official residence. After being a fugitive from justice for over eight years, Theodore Foust, who was indicted for robbery by the grand jury of Shoshone county early in IS9S, was arrested by Sheriff Suth erland and Officer Quinn, who found him walking the streets of Wallace. Information has reached Boise of a fatal dynamite explosion which occur red a few days ago at Meadows. A man named Barnum was killed and three other men were injured. A box of dynamite at Carl Brown's camp on Big creek caught fire while a number of people were sitting near it, and ex ploded before they could get away. A contracting firm of San Francisco has been awarded the contract for constructing the O. R. & N.-Northern Pacific connection between Riparia and Lewiston. The line will be start ed immediately and according to the terms of the contract is to be in shape for operation April 1, 1906. The esti mated cost is between $1,700,000 and $2,000,000. Professor H. T. French, in charge of the agricultural college and experi ment station, is planning for the most extensive series of farmers' institutes throughout the state this fall that have ever been held in Idaho. In all there will be 15 or 20 institutes, ex tending from the panhandle to the southern extremity of the state. Good roads will be a leading subject of the programs. Mrs. Caddie M. Shupe was convicted at Paris of the crime of voluntary manslaughter, in the murder of Arthur Douglas. The crime was committed at Montpelier July 1. Douglas had been living with the woman for two years, but determined to leave her. He visited her and gave a final answer to her pleadings that he do not forsake her, declaring he would not yield. She then shot him. There will be launched at the Cramps' shipbuilding yards in Phila delphia next fall a battleship which will be one of the most effective in the world. The battleship will be the Idaho, and belongs to what is known as the Mississippi class. The Idaho will be a ship of 13,000 tons, with a waterline of 375 feet, 77 feet wide, and have a coal bunker capacity of 1750 tons and 17 knots speed. Her mean gross draft will be 27 feet. When com pleted she will have cost nearly $6,- 000,000. MONTANA ITEMS. The Flathead Indian agency in Mon tana has received instructions that people will be permitted to fish on the reservation as in the past, but in ad dition to receiving a permit from the Indian agent, as has been the custom in the past, they will be required to have a state license. So far as Malta is concerned, the wool season is closed. Edna Fisher, aged 19; Lillian Zeig ler, aged 28 and May Ziegler, aged 18, were drowned in the Columbia river, off Government island, near Vancou ver, Thursday. Thomas Conklin. a pioneer Coetir d'Alene school teacher, was instantly killed recently by falling 30 feet from his building in Mullan, which had been damaged by fire and which he was re pairing. Trains were delayed last Saturday on account of the wreck near Forsyth in which four men lost their lives and in which a number were injured, as a result of tiie recent washout there. A teachers' institute will be held in Missoula commencing October 30th to November 2 inclusive. The Montana Press association, at their recent session at Billings, elect ed the following officers: Sam Gor don of Miles City, president; T. E. Butler of Missoula, first vice presi dent; E. H. Becker of Billings, second vice president; I. N. Wild of Harlem, third vice president; Walter Aitken of Livingston, secretary and treasurer. At St. Ann's cathedral in Great Falls, last Sunday a class of about 100 children were confirmed by Bishop Lenihan. An unusual feature of the confirmation was the taking by each member of the class of a pledge to ab stain from the use of intoxicants until 25 years of age. BRITISH FAVORJAPS WHATEVER THE PEACE TERMS JAHNNY BULL WILL APPROVE. _ British Government Refuses to Render Assistance to Washington in Its Ef fort to Obtain an Armistice, Al though It Has Their Full Sympathy —Thinks Terms Will Be Reasonable. Washington, Aug. 1. —Japan comes to the Washington conference assured that whatever her peace terms, they will have the sympathetic approval of Great Britain. Several sr-;gestions from Washington to London that the cause of peace would be served by an explanation to Japan from her ally favoring moderation in her demands upon Russia have not availed to change the British government in its apparently unalterable determination to stand by Japan, however severe she makes her conditions of peace. Nor has the British government seen its way clear to render assist ance to Washington in the efforts which this government is making to obtain an armistice. Advices reaching here show that London is opposed to an armistice until Japan has been sat isfied that Russia's plenipotentiaries are prepared to do more than discuss means for ending the war; if Russia is ready to conclude peace and has so empowered her plenipotentiaries, Great Britain, it is believed, might fa vor an armistice, but even in this event, it is said, she would not be willing to offer Japan advice on the suuject. As understood in Washington, Lord Lansdowne's position is that, as the loyal ally of Japan. Great Britain can afford to take no steps nor assume any attitude that would in the remotest de gree redound to the advantage of Ja pan's enemy. However much London may wish for humane reasons, her loyalty to Japan, whose pledged any she is, prevents her even from in directly bringing pressure to bear by suggestions, advice or otherwise at Tokio regarding negotiations, the ef fect of which might serve to moderate Japan's peace conditions or hasten a truce. When Japan asks her ally for advice, the London government, it is said, is prepared immediately to give it, but this advice will be based on Japan's interest as a primary consider ation. Nor is this attitude on the part of the London government misinterpret ed in Washington as indicating that its officials do not share in the wish of the neutral powers for peace. It has made plain that the activity of the president has the full sympathy of the British people, although their first thought, it is declared, must be in the interest of their ally. Terms Not Unreasonable. At the same time the London gov ernment, in its exchanges with the American embassy in London, has not hesitated to declare its confidence that Japan's terms wnl not be unreason able, viewed in the light of the re sults of the war. Believing, as official Washington does, that Japan will not insist on the uismantlement of Vladivostok should Russia fail to agree to it in return for ine neutra.ization of Port Arthur, the cession of which, it is under stood, will ue among the essential con ditions, will, the officials here believe, prove the most serious obstacle to peace in the far east. Sakhalin had not been captured when the president initiated his efforts to bring the bel ligerents together. The fact that up to that time Japan had not taken a foot of Russian territory simplified, in the opinion of Washington and Berlin, the problem of bringing about peace ne gotiations. Keen interest is felt here in the ne gotiations which, it is understood, are making substantial headway between Japan and England looking to the re newal of the Anglo-Japanese alliance. The scope of the alliance, it is known, will considerably exceed the present convention, though to what extent neither Europe nor Washington has been able to learn. The announcement of the main points of the new alliance soon after the conclusion of the Wash ington conference would not surprise diplomatic circles here. CALLED ROCKEFELLER NAMES. Gov. La Follette's Scoring of Standard Oil Magnate. Springfield. 111., July 31—"John D. Rockefeller is the greatest criminal of the age." With these words Governor Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin denounced the richest man in the world in an ad dress delivered Sunuay afternoon at the state fair grounds before the Illi nois Baptist Chautauqua. The declara tion was greeted with cheers. Governor La Follette's address was a stern arraignment of corrupt politic ians. state and national, and monopo lies that control the industrial and commercial life of the United States. He scored the Armours and other large packers. Governor Deneen presented the Wisconsin executive to the assem blage and occupied a seat on the plat form. Later the two governors were driven to Camp Lincoln. Wife Shot, Husband Missing. Guthrie, Ky.—The dead body of Mrs. Percy J. Luster, wife of the manager of the telephone office here, was found in her home with a bullet wound in her side. TO COMMAND 300,000 MEN. •••*1 Grlpenberg Selected to Opar> ate with Karopatkin. tt. Gripenb?rg, who has been -ie" .ceted by the Czar to command th« swond Manciiurian Army, which la uow being organized to co-operate with Gen. Kuropatkin against the Japanese, ha* the reputation of being a skilled soldier and a daring le:uler of men. lie is 07 years old, little of figure and extremely active. lie is a Finn by birth, springing from a noble house in that duchy, and after rising to the rank of a lieutenant general in *lie Russian service was appointed governor of the department of Yiborg hi his native land. In this positkr he was destined to be one of the firs; suffer for his country when the pr*.. ent Czar determined to merge the na tionality of the Finns into that of Holy Russia, even to the suppression of their language for all official pur poses, whether of debate In their leg islative assemblies or of pleading In their courts of law. Gen. GriDenbers GENERAL GRII'ENBERQ. having, In his capaciay of governor, refused to carry out an arbitrary or der given by the governor general of Finland on his own initiative, which was directly contrary to the Finnish constitution as guaranteed by succes sive emperors of Russia, was summar ily dismissed from his post and sent into exile; and consequently had lately been traveling about Italy and Switz erland with his family pending the permission of the Czar to return to his own home and end his days In peace. Now in the critical d.-iys of th« Empire he has been called to an im portant command, which might well tax the strength of a much younger soldier. He has been welcomed by Kuropatkin In a leter of congratula tion. The two eoldiers saw service to gether and therefore understand each other's military methods. Part of the army which Gen. Gripenberg will command is now in the east. Whet his whole forces are assembled he will have under him 300,000 men. Gen. Kuropatkin will have an equal force and when these great bodies become actively engaged against the Japanese Manchurian soil will be copiously deluged in blood. Throw Rice at Brides. The rice storm still rattles gayly about the shoulders of the newly mar ried, in spite of the fact that rigor ous efforts have been made to sup press iL Statisticians have counted up the thousands of bushels yearly wast ed in the ceremony, and have urge/ that all this nutritious grain should be put into the mouths of the poor rather than down the backs of the opulent Physicians speak of the eye! that have been injured or made per manently blind by the flying particlcf Half the people present secretly U 6ent fie stinging hail, and the depart ing ccuple are compelled to amuse thb fcublir at large for the next few days by si adding rice with every move ment Oa must be young and excltefi thoro |hly enjoy the rice scrimnjage, yet 11 foes on year after year, a rowdy but a permanent adjunct to Lohea grin. Boston tried to substitute in offensive white flakes made of gels dne, but the public was not to be noved from its rice orgie. Then rov eaves were tried, but they, too, had >nly a temporary acceptance. And now the 6imple flinging of a handful is being changed for an elab orate mechanical distribution. At a recent Eastern wedding breakfast e bomb was arranged under the flower in the center of the table, and at this persslng of an electric button this blew up, scattering rice In every di rection. The next device will probably be a rice shower, arranged on the prin ciple of stage rain, and falling alike on the bridal couple and everybody else. A Hard Proposition. "There," said the author, as he wrste "Finis" upon the last page of hit mao oscript, "I think that's something which will be hailed with gladness by the automobilist, anyway." "What have you written about Sear?" his wife asked. "You can judge from the titfc, which is, 'How to Be Happy Though Going Less Than Thirty Miles as Hour,*v-jChicago Record-Herald. Serving the Baby's Meals. When the baby begins to eat foo<* 3f a more substantial nature that milk, do not let him outgrow the regu lar habits of eating observed when milk only was given at stated rale. Regularity Is Just as essential il etrly childhood as in infancy. We are in favor of a law providing Smt books may be sold only by cata logue and newspaper advertiswueai. JAPS TOOK RYKOFF RUSSIANS COMPELLED TO LEAVE CITY AFTER A HARD FIGHT. Japs Withdrew on Finding Conditions in the City Unfavorable to Its Occu pation—Japs Follow Russians Six Miles South, Killed 200 and Captur ed 500.—The Weather Is Very Hot. Tokio, July 31. —The following dis patch has been received from the Jap anese army headquarters: "Our independent cavalry, which en tered Rykoff (on Sakhalin island. 45 miles northeast of Port Due) July 27. withdrew on finding conditions in the city unfavorable to its occupation. Our cavalry, intending to crush the forces which retreated from the eminences west of Rykoff. commenced to advance at 3a.m. of July 2S. The van, to gether with an independent body of cavalry, advanced by forced marches, taking and dislodging the enemy hold ing the northern extremity of Rykoff and rushed into the town. Confused street fighting ensued, but the tow* was completely taken at 8:30 o'clock in the morning. "The enemy's main strength, which opposed our right column, fled in dis order southward, taking the short route leading to Pareonot. "On July 28, a detachment which was sent south in pursuit of the enemy met the enemy's infantry, some 800 strong, at a point six miles south of Rykoff and killed over 200 and cap tured 500. "The enemy's strength opposed to our right column was some 3000 in fantry and four guns and four machine guns, and that opposed to our left col umn some 2000 infantry and four guns. "The enemy's loss in trophies is un der investigation. "Our vanguard occupied Delbenskoe the same afternoon. While our caval ry entered Rykoff another detachment which was sent against the enemy at Nomiha and Ivovskoe, dislodged the enemy's force holding Videonicovsky and vicinity and immediately com menced pursuit. The enemy holding the latter place consisted of infantry with several guns. "The temperature is 103 degrees Fahrenheit." CHINESE BOYCOTT FELT. San Francisco Firm Cancelled Big Orders. Louis Getz, proprietor of Getz Bros. & Co., one of the big importing and exporting houses of San Francisco, has received a cable from Shanghai which reads as follows: "Cancel all orders. Boycott of Am erican trade effective among Chinese merchants. All business entirely sus pended." This cablegram came fron; R. H. Vansant, the manager of the Getz branch house in Shanghai, and means that none of the goods which the firm is now preparing for shipment to Chi na will be sent. It also means a tre mendous loss, for Getz Bros. & Co. must cancel orders to the value of many thousands of dollars. JAMES POPE CAPTURED AT LAST. He Eluded Detectives and Express Agents Over a Year. After eluding private detectives and express company secret service agents for over a year, James H. Pope, charg ed with the theft of a package of mon fey containing $8000 at New Salem, Pa., has been captured at Carlsbad, N. M. Pope was agent of the Adams Express company at New Salem, Pa., when the package, which was consigned to a New Salem bank, was lost on March 10, 1904, and he disappeared immedi ately afterward. FIFTY-SEVEN PLAGUE VICTIMS. Three More Deaths Added to New Orleans Record. New Orleans, July 31. —Following is the report of the health authorities on yellow fever up to 6 p. m. today: New cases, 27; cases to date, 283; deaths Sunday, 3; deaths to date, 57; new foci, 41. Deducting the number of deaths and the number of recoveries, it is be lieved that there are about 75 cases under treatment. Broken Axle Caused Wreck. Chicago, July 31. —A broken axle of the wheel of a smoking car caused the wrecking of the California special on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad at Lamont, when one man was killed outright, four persons fatal ly injured and a score of other pas sengers received injuries. Novelist Placed in Cell. Denver. —Locked in a narrow cell in the penitentiary and left there for hours by Warden White while a crazy man in an adjoining cell was yelling and cursing at the top of his voice, is Hamlin Garland's latest experience in gaining local color for his next work. "Scotty" in New York. The visit to New York city of Mr. Scott, the Death Valley miner, who is reputed to be the owner of a mine of fabulous wealth, has attracted more attention than the presence of any one man in the great metropolis in several years. Official figures show that only 20 persons in Great Britain have in comes exceeding $250,000 a year. HUNTING ALLIGATORS AT NIGM* It Is a Weird and Oftentimes Very DuiigerouH Sport. Night hunting for alligators is one of the weirdest forms of American sport. The canoe glides softly over coal-black water, with heavy trees hanging over the hanks and every thing lost In gloomy mystery. A lan tern with a strong leflector is car ried. The dazzle of it makes a drift ing or swimming alMgator hesitate just long enough to provide a good chance for a shot. Sometimes the lantern is atlixed to the bow of the boat. Some times it is allixed to the front of the sportsman's boat so that its beam of Mght shines straight in the direction of the line of aim. This method of night hunting Is known as "shining." If the 'gator Is asleep when the "shine" falls on him, ho will glare stupidly at it for a mo ment or two before he is awake fully enough to get away into the darkness. Then Is the time to shoot. The shot gun is most used for this kind of hunt ing, and the charge is sent Into the 10-I'OOT ALLIGATOR KILLED IN Fi OKIDA. Joints between the bead and shoul ders. One of the exciting stages of alli gator hunting Is after the beast has been hit. As a dead alligator sinks almost at once, it is necessary to get hold of him quickly. Sometimes it hap pens that the cieature has not died aa he should, and in that case there wilS be vast trouble, a great deal more in teresting to read about than to expe rience. A ten-foot alligator, hurt grievously and crazy mad, a canoe that remains right side up even under or dinary circumstances only because the occupants are lucky, a pitch dark bayou and black water full of various undesirable reptiles, from water moc casins to other alligators, makes a combination equal to a first-class night mare. Many alligator skin hunters In Flor* Ida and the Gulf States carry mark* that accrued to them because they made such a mistake about the "death of an alligator. "Stalking" an alligator with a rifle la a pretty sport, especially if the hunter Is a blue blood and willing to call It a fair daai oslf If b« shoots the reptile through the eye. An alli gator's eye Is not big. Jf the bullet even so much as grazes the bony eye socket, the chances are that It will glance off and the alligator will plunge away, unharmed except for astonish ment and anger at the unreasonable ness of man. GIRL WHO WENT FISHING. Bat Down on Her Captive and Then Efefl Screamed. I lifted with might and main. Tba whisk of a finned tail, a fleeting glimpse of dusky scales and scarlet speckles became suddenly corelated la my mind with the fact that one of my boots was full of water, and my line was swinging high In the air—the hook gone, the gut leader nipped off short; says Country Life In America. It was a small work to go to the tent for the other pole. One does not expect all luck to be good luck In fishing. Back on my stone perch I flung my line Into the air at random, and the bait struck the water Just below the little cat aract A tug, mighty as the first, and fully as prompt, nearly lost me my balance, but it steadied my nerve. One thought, one purpose filled my mind—l must got that fish to shore. The trees on shore began to move In a circle, of which I was the center* With Joy I saw my angry captive flasl» out of the water; then came an instan{ of despair. He was off—the curve on which he rose was complete, and he fell forward—right at me! The up. curve was a forlorn hope—the down curve was perfect assurance. I knew my fish would never escape me. By all the laws of dramatic unity and poetic Justice, he was mine. For in his gaping mouth I read a startling revelation. He was bringing back those two hooks! He struck the water in tliat lfttle basin Bhut In by the three Jutting rocks, and I gat down upon him! I did it calmly, and I trust W.th dignity, but without delay, it was the only thing to do. He was in a trap that needed but a lid. I was that lid. There I could answer my father's call, for the dazed fish had found a corner, and a groping thumb and finger had found the back of bl« neck. My repressed feelings broke forth In one long, ambiguous, feminine scream. The Unlucky Man's Idea. "What would be the first thing that you would do If you had Rocke feller's money?" "Wake up, probably."—New York Herald. More About Radium. Radium emits excessively minute corpuscles with such immense velocity that the energy of a single milligram of them represents about 3,500,000- Cooi totuL