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Show j icZAIl C? 112 1.TUS. 1 A large Irrigation reservoir Is reported to have burst near Baker City, Or., flooding flood-ing much of the surrounding country. The Western Pacific Passenger association associa-tion has refused to make a rate of . one fare plus S3,' asked by the National Grange for its convention In Denver .next November. The decision was based on the fact that it would violate the one and one-third fare rule adopted generally for conventions. ... ..' Former Consul-General McWade at Canton, China, replies to charges made against him before the House Commutes on Foreign Affairs by showing the unreliable unreli-able . character of those bringing the charges. The naval appropriation bill, which carries car-ries nearly one hundred million dollars for naval establishment, has been taken up by the House. Mr. Tillman has K&ked a further postponement post-ponement of his resolution for the investigation inves-tigation of the Mrs. Minor Morris affair in the Senate. , It is reported that a landslide has occurred oc-curred at Clear .Lake, near Sacramento, Cal.,. that has made a dam across the valley,- threatening an overflow of the adjacent ad-jacent country. It is authoritatively stated that the Government Department of Justice will immediately begin an Investigation of the relations of the so-called oil trust and a number of railroads, with a view of ascertaining as-certaining whether there have been violations viola-tions of the anti-rebate law.- John Alexander Dowle is making little Krogreas in regaining a foothold among is former followers of Zlon City. Fred Erickson, a well-known Southern Pacific brakeman, was shot and -fatally Injured by an unknown burly negro at Humphreys, a small station in California. . . u C. E. Loss of C. E. Loss & Co., which was awarded the contract for constructing construct-ing a conduit system of railway for San Francisco, has decided that the conduit system Is not practical for San Francisco. The overhead trolley cars were able to run In a few days after the fire, while It will be months before the cable lines are started. All of the light, power and traction companies of the Willamette valley, Oregon, Ore-gon, including Portland, have been consolidated. con-solidated. A strange ' phenomenon of the earthquake earth-quake has been reported from Paraiso Hot Springs, in Monterey county. Since the shock the temperature of the water in the hot soda springs, which for many years has been growing steadily solder, has Increased from 100 to 122 degrees, making It Impossible for any one to bathe in the springs. Corwln H. Spencer, a leading grain trader, capitalist, vice-president cf the World's fair and former president of the Merchant's Exchange, collapsed while watching the stock quotation board at the Planters' hotel. St. Louis, and died soon afterward. Robert E. Montgomery, a well-known railroad man. who held a prominent position posi-tion in the main office of the Southern Pacific company In San Francisco, died in Sacr.imento at the railroad hospital, where he had been operated upon for cancer of the stomach. Deceased was a native of Jefferson City, Mo., aged 39 years. The estimated net losses of the Hartford Insurance companies in the recent San Francisco Are, as given out by the officials offi-cials of the companies today, are as follows: fol-lows: Aetna, $2,700,000; Hartford Fire, $5,730,000; National Fire, $1,600,000; Orient, $700,000; Phoenix. $1,500,000; Scottish Union & National, $1,000,000: total, $13,150,000. In the Reiehtag Herr Bebel, the Socialist Social-ist leader, nac'e the statement that during the disturbed period Russian fugitives deposited de-posited $187,500,000 In German banks. |