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MINING NOTES

1t is reported that a complete pur-
chase of the Lone Pine-Surprise-Pear
group Of mines at Republic is ex-
pected this week.
A Spokane syndicate has purchased
the property of the Indian Springs
Mining company, consisting of six
claims in the Ida district of Es-
maralda county, Nevada, for 100000.
Nine claims in the Copeland, Idaho,
district owned by A. j. Kent, S. e.
Henry, 1. j. Brant and William Brant
were bonded on July 3 to John S.
Clark Of Riverside, CAL, for $4,000.
If the French Complex Ore Reduc-
ton company can secure the neces-
sary electrical machinery it should be
turning out refined zinc at it's Mel
SOL, B. c., plant within two months.
Thomas French, manager, has an
nounced that the $4,000 worth of
bonds which had been guaranteed by
the provincial government to aid in
the establishment of the industry,
have been sold.
DR.. w. H.. Wilson, Barney Crilley,
H. Y. Anderson and Thomas Cough,
lessees of the Granite-P oorman mine
at Nelson, B. c., have completed their
cleanup at the mill, and the property
is now ready to be taken over, mill
and mine, by the Spokane and Butte
capitalists who recently bonded it
and who already have paid $4,000
down on the six-figure deal. The
bonders of the mine are John McGin-
mis- of Butte, w. e. Cullen and r. A..
Carnochan of Spokane.
New York Metal Market.
Copper dull; electrolytic, $25@29;
iron steady and unchanged; tin, quiet;
spot, $3s@39.
Lead, $3.50 asked. Spelter, dull;
spot, East st. Louis delivery, SO asked.
Bar silver, 62Mc.
Mexican dollars, 4SMc.
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FL0ODSDOWNSOUTH
COST FIFTEEN LIVES
OVERLOOKING RIVERS CARRY
RUIN IN STATES OF CARROLL.
MAS AND VIRGINIA.
RUINS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
Hurricane Along the Coast Is Follow
ed by Downpour, Swelling Streams
-Rescuers Drowned While
Taking Refugees Food.

Atlanta, Ga.-Serious floods in
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia Sunday caused five known
deaths, rendered hundreds homeless,
damaged property and crops to the
extent of $1O,OOOOOO, according to
first estimates, and demoralized rail-
way, telegraph and telephone COM
munication. Following the hurricane
that struck the south Atlantic coast
Thursday, unprecedented rains have
fallen, driving rivers and smaller
streams from their banks and imper-
Hing many lives
Swept to Death.
At Biltmore three persons, Captain
G.. G. Lipe, Miss Nellie Lipe and Mrs.
Leo Mulholland, were drowned when
the Lipe house was flooded.
/ Swift streams are flowing down
some of the streets of lower Ashe-
vile.
Throughout western North Carroll
ma the situation is reported serious.
Two dams at Hendersonville collaps-
ed, releasing hundreds of tons Of wa
ter and fears are felt for the big
dam at Lake Toxaway.
Workmen Submerged.
The Southern railway bridge over
the Catawba river at Belmont, N. c.,
has been washed away, carrying 10
or IL workmen into the river The
Seaboard Air Line bridge over the
Catawba river at Mount Holly, N.
c., has collapsed, as has that over
the Catawba on the Salisbury-Ashe-
vile line.
Practically all railway traffic in
southwest Virginia and eastern West
Virginia was tied up, telephone and
telegraph wires were down and heavy
crop damage has been reported. Crops
in some sections of South Carolina
also suffered heavily.
Almost all of the town of Biltmore,
laid out rs years ago by the late
George w. Vanderbilt, is under wa
ter ranging in depth from three to
five feet. The town is cut off from
Asheville by water a mile wide.
The property losses of lumber and
industrial plants throughout the Sec
ton will be heavy.
10 Men Missing.
Charlotte, N. C.-Eighteen men, IA
construction officials and employees
OF the Southern railway and four
linemen of the Western Union Tele-
graph company, are missing and are
believed to be either drowned or ma
er, about IL miles from Charlotte.
The river is rapidly rising.
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SUMMARY OF THE
WORLDS EVENTS
IMPORTANT NEWS OF BOTH HEM.
SPHERES BOILED DOWN TO
LAST ANALYSIS.
ARRANGED FOR BUSY READERS
Brief Notes Covering Happenings In
This Country and Abroad That
Are Of Legitimate Interest
to All the People.

Adjournment Of congress not later
than August 20 has been tentatively
agreed upon.
The sinking Of an Italian destroyer
by an Austro- Hungarian submarine
was announced Sunday.
Sir Edward Grey, secretary for for.
e1gn affairs, has been created an earl
by King George of England.
Record temperatures for the year
were reported over Kansas and Mis-
souri, Saturday, about SO degrees.
The admiralty announces that on
July II German submarines sank a
British auxiliary cruiser and three
patrol boats.
President Wilson has nominated
Judge John H. Clarke, of Cleveland,
Ohio, to succeed Justice Hughes on
the supreme court bench.
The official figures on the number
Of persons who took part in Satur-
days preparedness parade at Mil
waukee was given out as 10000.
The entire business section of
Newhall, Is miles west of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently. The loss was estimated at
$4,000.
Lloyd's shipping agency announced
Saturday that the British steamer
Antigua, of 2876 tons gross, is report
ed to have been sunk. The steamer
was unarmed.
Paul Smith, aged %, vice president
and sales manager of the Chalmers
Motor company, killed himself by
jumping from the tenth floor Of the
Biltmore hotel, in New York, Satur-
day.
President Wilson has nominated
representative James Hay of Madi-
son, Va, chairman Of the house mill
itary affairs committee, for Judge of
the United States court of claims, OF
succeed Judge George w. Atkinson,
who retired for age.
Laurence Ginnell, Irish member of
parliament who addressed many ques-
tions in the house of commons to
ministers during the Irish rebellion
and invariably alleged that his coun-
trymen who had been arrested were
mistreated, was himself arrested Sum
day.
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MOVE NO MORE TROOPS
UNTIL BETTER EQUIPPED
War Department Stops Transports
ton Of Guardsmen to the Mex
lean Border.

Washington.-The war department
has sent orders to all department
commanders to delay transportation
to the border of national guard or
CARNATIONS now mobilizing until they
are thoroughly equipped and organ
lied. The effect will be to revoke
ruling issued when the Mexican
situation was acute waiving certain
requirements. The order affects about
$4,000 men still held in the camps.
The latest information Of the de-
pattment is that about 100000 ma
tional guardsmen now are at the Dor
der. With the $4,000 regulars there
and 5000 additional men called from
the reserves officials estimate that
there are sufficient forces to cope
with any present emergency.
Reports that national guard units
are being supplied poor and insult
ficient food are not borne out in pre-
liminary telegraphic reports received.
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PACIFIC COAST NEWS

A large number of Oregon and
Washington lumber mills which have
been idle for from two to three weeks
are about to resume.
The sale of liquor in the railroad
town of Anchorage, Alaska, is forbid
den by stipulation in the deeds to
town lots sold by the government.
The naval collier Saturn is ex-
pected at Seward, Alaska, this week
with men and equipment to estab-
lish a naval wireless station there.
Unusually heavy rains for so late
in the season have fallen over west
ern Oregon lately. In the Willamette
valley, where thousands of tons Of
hay are in the fields, considerable
damage was reported
Thirty-three Of about so enlisted
members of the machine gun com
pany, Third Oregon infantry, now on
the border, resent the attempts of
their parents to bring them home,
ostensibly to finish their education
or for other reasons.
Fifty-five more refugees, including
many employees of the Southern Pa
cific railroad Of Mexico, arrived in
San Diego Saturday on the naval COL
lier Nanshan from Guaymas and La
Paz. With those who arrived the day
before on the steamer Centralia, a
total of 80 have reached this port
from Mexican points in two days.
An order prohibiting the shipment
of Intoxicating liquor consigned to
dealers over the United States rail-
road was issued recently by the Alas
ka engineering commission. The COM
mission announcement said no ship
ments of liquor would be accepted
except small amounts from persons
not engaged in the liquor business
and consigned to individuals for their
personal consumption.
The freight steamer Burlington will
sail from Seattle July Is with 5000
tons of rails and other steel for the
Alaska government railroad, to be
delivered at st. Michael, near the
mouth of the Yukon, and thence con-
veyed up the Yukon and Tanana riv-
ers to Nenana. The liner Victoria
will sail for ST. Michael the same day
with supplies to be similarly shipped
from st. Michael to Nenana.
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STATE PRESS
ASSN. ELECTS OFFICERS
Next Year to Meet at
ChehaIis.

Ellensburg.-W. B. Jessup, editor
of the Bremerton Searchlight, was
elected president; ]. G. Kaynor, edi-
tor of the Ellensburg Evening Rec
ord, first vice president; Edward Con-
nor of the South Bend Pilot, second
vice president, and N. Russell Hill
of the Davenport Times, secretary
and treasurer, of the Washington
State Press association Saturday.
The election was held on the shores
Of Lake Gle Elum, where 200 dele
gates to the convention were taken
in automobiles by residents of Ell
lensburg for picnic lunch.
Resolutions were passed thanking
the people of Ellensburg and Roslyn
for the excellent entertainment, Pres
ident Patton and the retiring officers
for able administration for the last
year, and e. e. Beard, Frank Kane
and ]. G. Kaynor, the advertising
committee, for work in arranging for
the convention.
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NOTED PERSONS DIE

Chicago.-Norman w. Harris, age
SO, banker and philanthropist.
Norfolk, va.-Rear Admiral Chas.
Henry Eldred, U. S. NJ, retired, age
rs.
st. Paul, Minn-George S. Lotus,
age AZ, sales manager of grain
company.
Washington. -Representative Hun
ter Holmes Moss of the Fourth West
Virginia district.
Denver, Col-Robert S. Ruble, as
sistant general passenger agent Of
the Union Pacific railroad.
Parls-Duke de Rohan, member Of
the chamber of deputies from the de-
partment of Morbihan.
Venice, Cal.-Judge Thomas Boyle
of Butte, Mont, of heart failure. He
was 70 years old and civil war vet
eran.
Captain Christian BRAND of the
Twelfth cavalry committed suicide at
Hachita, N. NJ, shooting himself in
the head.
New York.-First Lieutenant Will
liam e. Winant, age so, U. S. ~, re-
tired, inventor of the Winant ammu-
milton conveyor.
San Francisco.-Captain William
Collier, retired capitalist and for
mer superintendent of the United
States Indian service, in the south.
Milwaukee, Wisdom j. White
more, age sc, for the last 60 years
connected with the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railroad as civil en-
gineer, chief engineer, and finally as
consulting engineer.
years old, who was known a genera
ton ago as song writer, victim
Of apoplexy. Barton, a successful
contractor, took up song writing as
hobby. "The Wild Man of Bor-
neo" was one of his productions
Paris.-Professor Ellie Metchnikoff
the famous bacteriologist. Professor
Metchnikoff was world-famous as an
exponent of theories for the prolon-
cation of human life. He was most
popularity known as the great advo-
cate, of the "sour milk cure" for old
age, believing that the principal agent
in senile decay was the continuous
administration of the body through
the putrefaction of matter in the
large intestines and that the bac-
terra which caused such putrefaction
could be effectively combated by pre-
parations Of milk soured by cultures
of selected Tactic acid bacilli. Later
Professor Metchnikoff went so far as
to declare that the large intestine
was as useless in the human body as
is the appendix, and prophesied that
the day would come when it would be
a commonplace operation to remove
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XIII Man-Eatinq Shark.

New York.-Reports Of sharks XIII
ed. captured and seen came from
many points Sunday. Two OF the
man-eating species we're caught alive,
one being hooked in Princess bay,
Staten Island, and the other taken
in net at Atlantic Highlands, N. j.
Schools of sharks were reported in
Long Island sound. Near Stepping
Stone lighthouse one was killed that
measured IN feet long. Residents
of Mattawan, N. j., continued their
hunt for the sharks that killed Les.
ter Stillwell, small boy. and Stan.
ley Fisher, grown man.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21
0RPETMURDERCASE
ENDS|NF REE|NGH|M
NOTORIOUS TRIAL OF WIN. Or
PET FOR DEATH OF
MARION LAMBERT.
BIG MONEY HELPED THE MOST
His Lawyer so Pleased That He Cried
Says Young Man Proved In
nocent-WiII Take a Rest
for a Few Months.

Waukegan, Ill.-William Orpet, the
university student charged with muir
dering Marion Lambert, high school
girl, and his former sweetheart, was
found not guilty Saturday by jury
in Judge Donnelly's court after five
hours elaboration.
Orpet was silent through excess OF
emotion. He was barely able to re,
turn the handclasps of his attorneys
He accepted the hand of reporter
but muttered a scarcely perceptible
please don't"
He made his way to the jurors and
shook their hands one by one, smil-
ing wanly, but saying nothing.
His Lawyer Pleased.
James H. Wilkerson, chief Of coun-
sci for the defense, was unable to
keep back the tears and they trickled
from his eyes while he with his as
seciates, Ralph F. Potter and Leslie
P. Hanna, were receiving congrat-
ulations.
Mr.. Wilkerson stated that in his
opinion Orpet had been more than
declared not guilty.
He was proved innocent" said Mr..
Wilkerson. "He is going home with
into the country for a much needed
rest after the nerve-racking expert
ence brought on him by a remark
able, if not unprecedented, series of
circumstances. Then he will come
back home and make a man of him
self"
At the close of the prosecutors ar
gument, Judge Donnelly delivered his
instructions to the jury
Counsel for the defense considered
Judge Donnelly's instructions favor
able to the defendant.
Trial of the case, including selec-
tion of jury, occupied the better
part of two months. There appeared
in evidence "A letters written by Or
pet to Marion over period of a
year; bottles and boxes containing
cyanide from the Mccormick estate
from the Deerfield high school lab
oratory, from Kraft's drug store at
Lake Forest and white powder scrap
ed from Marion's hand and from spots
on her cloak; the girls garments; a
use of cyanide as fumigator in
greenhouses; the chemistry text
books used respectively by the high
school girl and the college student
a copy Of the Wisconsin statute deal
ing with the sale of poisons, and a
bottle of molasses and water.
Witnesses Of Many Kinds.
Five chemists, all Of whom were
specialists in toxicology, one alienist
two surveyors, druggists. streetcar
men, an undertaken school teachers
police officers, reporters and friends
Of the Orpets and Lamberts were
among the long array of witnesses
who testified.
Ralph w. Dady, states attorney OF
Lake county; David r. Joslyn, states
attorney Of McHenry county, and Eu.
gene M. Runyard appeared as coun,
sci for the prosecution, and James H
Wilkerson, former United States dis
trict attorney at Chicago; Ralph r
Potter, his law partner, and Leslie
P. Hanna of Waukegan, for the de
Tense. More than thousand venire.
men were examined before jury,
said by counsel upon its selection to
be above the average in intelligence
and character, was chosen. Judge G.
H. Donnelly presided.
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Kitchener Left ss5o.ooo Estate,

London.-The will of Field Marshal
Earl Kitchener, the British secretary
of war, who lost his life in the sink
ing of the cruiser Hampshire off the
Orkneys June 5, was admitted to pro-
bate recently. 1t shows that he left
an estate valued at approximately
$S5O,O00, mostly to relatives.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21
This Girl is a Good Sleeper.

Denver, Col.-Mrs. Wess Harvey, 90
years old, who on June % suddenly
lapsed into deep slumber, still slept
this week without having responded
to efforts of physicians to awaken
her. Aside from breathing deeply,
the woman appears to be normally
healthy Nourishment has been ad-
ministered in liquid form.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21
FREE CHECK CLEARING BEGINS
Federal Reserve Banks Put System
Into Operation.

westinghouse check collecting
and clearing system became opera
tive July Is in the banks of the fed
eral reserve system. Although no
reports had been received by the
board most of the banks are known
to be confident that the system will
meet with favor at once by both
bankers and business houses.
Banks have been asked to make
a report Of the business transacted
during the first few days and as to
the general reception of the new
scheme by the public.
The system provides that every
federal reserve bank shall receive at
par from it's members or from other
federal reserve bank checks drawn
on members of any district and the
checks upon nonmember banks which
can be collected at par
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Methodist Missionaries Murdered

Tokio.-The Rev. w. A. F. Camp
bell an dhis wife, Methodist mission
aries from Canada, were stabbed to
death by burglar recently in their
summer cottage at Karuizawa. The
weapon used was Japanese short
sword. Karuizawa, which is an Am
erican missionary summer center, has
been greatly excited by the murder.
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prsnara Germany for Peace.

London-The German national COM
mission which recently was organic
ed under the presidency Of Prince
Won Webel for the purpose of pre-
pairing the minds of the German peo
pie for ian honorable peace" will
soon begin it's labors with series
Of meetings In various towns In Ger.
many.
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Would Hold Congress- for Jews.

New York.-After much heated de.
bate, resolutions we're adopted at a
meeting here of representative Jews
favoring the holding Of congress of
Jews Of America Ito assure full rights
for the Jews of all lands and the alb.
rogation of all laws discriminating
against them"
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21
URGES PRoGREssIvEs TO
TO REVIVE PARTY NOW
Roosevelt Leaders Failed to Meet
Acid Test, Says John M. Parker,
Presidential Candidate.

New Orleans.-A statement and
call to "the patriotic men and wom-
en- of America" to hold new nation
al convention Of the progressive par
ty in Chicago on August and nom
mate candidates for president and
vice president and continue the par
tvs existence as distinct political
organization was issued Saturday by
John M. Parker, vice presidential
nominee of the progressive conven-
ton held in Chicago last June. He
urges the progressives to externally
bury" the bull moose, which, he as
serts, lied his loyal followers into
the Wilderness" and to adopt in its
place the American Eagle as the en-
blem of the party.
Passes Up Roosevelt.
Mr.. Parker does not mention Col
onel Roosevelt or any other progress
sive leaders or any candidates by
name. He declares, however, that the
progressives had as supposed lead
ers "red-blooded Americans, who
promised with their life blood to
stay with the party to the finish"
but that the party had been desert
ed by a large part of its officers,
who could not stand the acid test.
He charges that the leaders for
steam roller reasons have elected to
be steam rolled" and that the time
has come when every party working
for human welfare and the future Of
America should unite against both
dominant parties. In connection with
the republican party the statement
Indirectly refers to Charles E. Hughes
republican candidate for president,
las a splendid man." selected by the
republicans "as mask behind which
they hope again to secure control of
state and nation"
Is Willing to Withdraw.
Mr.. Parker declares he does not
want office, and states his willing
ness to withdraw as the progressive
candidate for vice president and la
Dor in the ranks and on the stump
to prove his loyalty to progressive
principles. His inclusion Of women
in the call is taken to mean that the
party is to be unreservedly pledged
for woman suffrage, and that the
women voters in the suffrage states
are invited to join the progressive
party and work for it's success in the
coming election.
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italy Breaks With Germany.

Rome.-The agreement that has
been in effect between Italy and
Germany, providing for the mutual re-
spect by the two nations for rights
Of each others subjects, has been
renowned by Italy, owing to the hos
tile attitude by Germany.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21

Paris.-Thirty-two persons lost their
lives in the fire at Tatoi forest that
destroyed the chateaus of King Con-
stantine of Greece and the crown
prince, says a Havas dispatch from
Athens. Twenty-eight of the victims
were members Of the Royal guards.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21

Economy is very elastic word, for
what would be economy for one person
might be lavish extravaganza on the
part of another. Each person must de-
eide where his curtailments must begin.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21

iron the sustained heavy foreign de-
mand tends to Offset the contraction
in strictly domestic business. Fur,
Their price recessions have occurred
in the metal markets and in some
other quarters. Weekly bank clear
ings, $4,o1s,091, $50.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21
British Advance Four Miles.

London.-British forces now have
man defenses north of the Somme
and have advanced four miles since
the beginning of the offensive July /.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21

Teacher = Who can tell me the
meaning of "round robin?
Bright Boy-Please, miss, it's what
that burglar was dom last night
when they nabbed him.-Boston Tran
script.
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Is Willing to Withdraw.

Mrs. Casey (belligerently)
Phware's yer weeks wages, an the
rint comm due termorrer?
Casey-Be aisy, now, woman! OF
lost it troo hole.
Mrs. Casey-In yer pocket?
Casey-Naw; it slipped troo hole
in me face.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21
Family Lost in Brooklyn Fire.

Family Lost IN Brooklyn Fire.
New York-Arthur Miller, his wife
and three young daughters, were
burned to death in a tenement house
fire in Brooklyn Sunday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21

Villa was reported found dead again
Monday.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1916-07-21

Two columns Of British troops op-
Grating on the eastern shore of the
gulf Of Suez have raided 60 miles Of
difficult territory held by the Turks,
according to an announcement made
by the secretary of the British war
office.