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GAMBOA DYKE GOES UP WITH BIG ROAR

Multitude Proclaims Success of Greatest Engineering FeatEver Attempted by American Government

Washington, D. C., October 10.—Promptly at 2p. m. today, Easterntime, President Wilson touched thebutton that sent an electric flash to thegreat charge of dynamite buried inGamboa dyke, the last obstruction inthe Panama canal between the Atlan-tic and Pacific oceans. With a roarthe great dyke was sent flying, andthe waters of the two oceans rushedover the debris and met^with a greatBwirl- j ..,,

Almost every man, woman and childin the canal zone had gathered on thebanks and surrounding hills to witnessthe ceremony, and as the smokecleared slowly, away they shoutedthemselves hoarse in the ecstasies oftheir enthusiasm.

The work of the immense blastseemed to be all that {could be desired,although careful soundings only canshow the exact condition of the bot-tom of the canal. The big dredgeswillbe the first vessels to pass thelocks at either end and enter the cen-tral portion of the canal to beginoperations in widening and deepeningthe waterway for the free passage ofships of any size. It is expected thatsmaller vessels will be able to passfreely through the canal within amonth or six weeks, and as the dredg-ing continues larger vessels willbe ac-commodated until the entire commercebetween the Pacific and Atlanticoceans willbe passing freely throughthe greatest artificial waterway ofmodern times.

BIPLANE KILLS SPECTATOR

Experienced Aviator Loses Controland Hits Party on Roof.

Rochester, N. V.—Miss Ruth Hild-reth, daughter of W. E. Hildretb, ofNew York City, was killed and hersister, Dorothy Hildreth, was perhapsfatally injured Thursday afternoon inHammondsport, when Lincoln Beacheylost control of a 100-horse power aero-plane and it swept a number of spec-tators off a roof from which they werewatching the exhibition. Ruth Hild-reth fell upon an automobile. Herskull was fractured. Among thoseslightly hurt were Lieutenants Rich-ardson and Bellinger, of the UnitedStates navy aviation corps, andBeachey.

The accident occurred near the headof Lake Keuka, where Beachey is saidto have planned to execute a somer-sault in the air. A crowd had gath-ered for the exhibition. To gain agood view the Misses Hildreth and the, navy officers climbed to the top of asmall building used as headquarters bynaval aviators.

Beachey recognized the party anddipped his machine in salute. Theywaved. The aeroplane went to theend of the field, turned and cameback. When it was over the heads ofthe Hildreth party the machine wasseen to dip. The aeroplane came soclose to the party as to sweep all tothe ground. The aeroplane careenedwildly and plunged to the earth, un-seating the aviator and wrecking themachine.

Ruth Hildreth was unconscious whenspectators reached her and blood wasgushing from a gaping wound in herhead. Her sister also was uncon-scious, but Lieutenants Bellinger andRichardson were able to rise. Dor-othy Hildreth sustained a broken armand leg and may have internal in-juries. Her condition is said to becritical.

Beachey sprained an arm and ankle.Beachey said that as he reached apoint directly over the naval buildinghe momentarily lost control of themachine because his foot slipped fromone of the controls.

. Fanny B. Ward Mourned.

FIRST ROAD PRIMER IS DUE

Lane County, Oregon, Judge WouldInstruct Children.

Eugene, Or.—A road primer, thefirst of its kind, is to be issued byCounty Judge Thompson, who for along time has been studying the prob-lem of securing some method of teach-ing properly the principles of road-building at the country schools. Thebook is to be written by Hollis W.Libby, county surveyor, and be pub-lished by the county judge. Althoughintended to be used as a means of in-struction primarily in this county, thebook willbe available for schools allover Oregon. It is believed it willmeet a general demand.

"We're blazing a trail in this line,just as Lane county has blazed a trailin some other lines of road construc-tion," said Judge Thompson. "Thisbook, so far as I know, willbe thefirst of the kind, but it will be ofgreat value in the schools. Itwillnotonly teach the children, the futuregeneration, the elements of road con-struction, but it will bring this phaseof education home to the parents.

"Atpresent we need a book of thiskind in the schools of the Siuslaw dis-trict, where Miss Vanßiber has al-ready introduced road-building androad-construction as a course, andwhere she has offered prizes for thebest road. The ordinary teacher can-not teach such a subject as this, and aroad primer, or textbook of some kind,is necessary."

THREE BATTLESHIPS POLICY

Secretary Wants "More MoneyAfloat, Less Ashore."

Washington, D. C. —Three new bat-tleships and a proportionate numberof submarines and torpedo boat de-stroyers is the aim of the Wilson ad-ministration in shaping its naval pol-icy for the December session of con-gress.

It became known Wednesday thatin all probability Secretary Daniels,of the Navy department, would put in-to effect his principle of "less moneyashore and more afloat" and advocateusing the greater part of an appropri-ation of $148,000,000 to build threepowerful warships—one more thanthe usual annual quota—though onlya single battleship was obtained aftera stormy fight in the last congress.

With the addition of three first-class battleships, naval officials hopethe United States will resume itsplace next to Great Britain in navalfighting strength, passing Germany,which took second place when theUnited States dropped to third.

What particularly encourages navalofficials to believe three battleshipswillbe forthcoming is in a report inmaking up its estimates of govern-ment expenditures. The framers ofthe tariff billcalculated on $148,000,---000 for naval construction, an increaseof about $8,000,000 over the last ap-propriation.

Washington, D. Funeral ' serv-ices Were 1 held Wednesday for Mrs.Fanny B. Ward, writer and lecturer,• who died at the home of her daughterhere. The body was taken to IRaven-na, 0., where it was committed to thefamilyburial? plot. Mrs. Ward, whowas 70 years old, was well known as anewspaper writer more than three de-cades ago. She was among the firstAmerican a correspondents r -to \u25a0:)

enterCuba in ;1898, and was in Havanawhen the battleship Maine was de-stroyed. "'. \u25a0- - -; " • .- v

Pendleton Rain Hardest. :V Pendleton, Or. — The heaviest rainPendleton has experienced at any time

since May 30, 1906, visited this city; Monday night. The precipitation forthe 18 hours the storm lasted was 1.54i?S3 k

c rain WM neatly;apprerciated by the growers of grain. ;<

Glenesslin Sold for $560.Astoria, Or.—The British ship Glen-

esslin, that was stranded a few daysago on the rocks at the foot of Necar-nie Mountain, has been purchased byAlex Bremner and John Caarnen, ofthis city, for $560, their bid being thehighest of the four submitted. Caar-nen left immediately to take charge ofthe propetry. The purchasers do notplan to do anything with the hull, butwillsalvage the stores, tackle, appareland furniture. Captain Williams,master of the ship, and his crew leftWednesday morning for Portland.

Negro Troopers Praised.Washington, D. C.—Major General

Leonard Wood, chief of the army,commended the Tenth United Statescavalry as being as brave and efficientas any regiment in the American armyin an address here at a reception ten-dered the troopers by the colored citi-zens of this city. General Woodspoke of the great responsibility rest-ing upon the Tenth cavalry as the rep-resentatives of the colored race.

Pellagra to Be Studied.Colon—A study of the disease of

pellagra in the West Indies is to bemade by the British expert, Dr. LouisW. Sambon, of the London School ofTropical Medicine, who left here forTrinidad, accompanied by CaptainJoseph P. Siler, XL S. A., medicalcorps, and A. H. Jennings, chief ofthe bureau of entomology at Washing-ton.

WASHINGT#STATENMB^

GATHERING APPLE EXHIBITS

Officers of Apple Slow Visit North-west Producers.

Spokane—Every apple district inthe Pacific Northwest will receive oneor more visits from representatives ofthe Sixth National Apple Show andFruit Products congress between nowand the opening of the exhibition inSpokane on November 17.

W. P. Romans started on a tour ofthe districts early this week, goingfirst to North Yakima. While therehe willmeet the growers in the Yak-ima valley and will make arrangements for placing their entries at theshow. After a few days there Mr.Romans will visit Wenatchee, IfoodRiver, Rogue River, Walla Walla,Moscow, Lewiston and other Northernfdaho districts, also Western Mon-tana. Another representative may goout soon, according £0 ChairmanJames S. Ramage, of the apple showtrustees.

A. E. Smith, manager in Washing-ton and Oregon for the Pacific CoastPacker, is getting a 300-box exhibitof first class apples together from alldistricts in the Pacific Northwest fordisplay at the show.

OFFERS BOUNTIES FOR DEER

Animals So Numerous They AreDestroying Crops.

Spokane—W. Johnson, owner of afarm near lone, Wash., a town on thePend d'Oreille river north of Spokane,has posted an offer of $1 reward forevery deer killed in the 'vicinity of hisplace during the present open huntingseason, which opened September 1 andcontinues until November 1. Thismost unique offer was made to W. G.Murray, county game warden, towhom Johnson complained that deerwere so numerous and bold in hisneighborhood that they were destroy-ing his fruit trees and were invadinghis garden to eat late vegetables.Sportsmen are having good successhunting deer and fowl in all parts ofthe Spokane country this season, butit is something entirely new to hearthat deer, now so well protected toprevent extermination, are in placesso numerous as to be destructive ofproperty.

Turkey Red Wheat Arrives.Pomeroy — Turkey red wheat im-

ported from the farm of Count Lieden-frost, a seed specialist of Budapest,Bulgaria, has been received by Dr.Clark Black, and willbe planted thisfall on one of his farms near Pomeroy.

While at Budapest last spring Dr.Black, then touring Europe as one ofthe members of the Washington com-mission investigating rural credit sys-tems, visited the Liedenfrost farm andpurchased 100 pounds of Turkey redwheat. The wheat arrived in Pome-roy, together with four ten-poundpackages of other wheats, all of theTurkey red variety, which were sentfree of charge.

Rural Credits Are Discussed.Olympia—Senator Metcalf and Dr.

Clark G. Black, Washington's dele-gates on the American Rural Creditscommission that toured Europe hissummer, held a long *conference withGovernor Lister and Agricultural Com-missioner Perkins.

"Whatever is done here in the wayof establishing rural credit associa-tions modeled after those of Europemust be done by the farmers them-selves," the conferees said after theirsession, adding that the Americanfarmer was too independent to acceptgovernment direction and control ofhis own institution, although in conti-nental Europe the "helping hand ofthe nobility" had inaugurated the-system.

Survey Nearly Finished.Chehalis—Engineer Osgood, who is

in charge of the survey and right-of-way for the Olympia Southern's ex-tension from Maytown through Che-halis to Willapa Harbor, says thethree surveying parties in the fieldbetween Doty and Maytown are ex-pected to finish their work this week.Several big contractors inspected theroute from Maytown to Doty andneighborhood, to secure data on whichto base their bids.

The company is taking up all of itsoptions in this district, and closing allof its right-of-way deals out of court.

SETTLERS GAIN BIG POINT

Much Lewis County Land to BeRestored to Entry.

Chehalis — News dispatches fromWashington that within a short time

24 000 acres of lands in the Big Bofctom country in Eastern Lewis county,

will be opened to entry under the lot-tery system attracted great interest in

this section. For several years pastthe contest between forest rangersand the settlers in the Big Bottomcountry, has been heated. Recently

this culminated in. > suit against theBig Bottom Telephone company, anorganization of farmers of the Upper

Cowlitz valley, for trespassing, thesuit being brought by agents of theForestry department.

The rangers are alleged to havetaken the attitude of opposing BigBottom residents, who for some timepast have been making an effort to

get all available lands in their section,suitable for agricultural purposes,opened to settlement.

A year ago United States SenatorJones made ',& personal trip throughthe Big Bottom country, crossing theCowlitz pass through the mountainsand spending two or three dayrwiththe people in the Handle neighborhoodto acquaint himself with the actualcondition of affairs. Representativein Congress Johnson also took a per-sonal interest in the request of theBig Bottom people. The result wasthat some weeks ago, when ForesterGraves was in the West, he made atrip to the Upper Cowlitz and satisfiedhimself that there were many acres oflands that could properly be opened tosettlement'and the news that 24,000acres- are to be opened to entry is theresult.

NEW LINE TO BEGIN SOON

Milwaukee WillRush Constructionon Olympia & Southern.

Centralia —It is reported here thatwithin two weeks there will be 500men and teams in Centralia to beginwork on the first lap of the Olympia &Southern, a branch of the Milwaukee,from Maytown to Centralia. May-town is located about three milessouth of Rainier on the present mainline of the Milwaukee. The loggingroads of the Johnson Creek Lumbercompany and the Blumaer Lumbercompany, of Tenino, will be utilizedas part of the extension.

It is now generally conceded thatboth the passenger and freight depotsof the new road will be located onWest Main street, on a site recentlypurchased by the road.

It has been asserted by those in aposition to know that Milwaukeetrains willbe running into Centraliafrom the north by January 1.

The vast area to the East of Cen-tralia is still unopened to railroad fa-cilities, and by running » line acrossthe Northern end of Lewis county toconnect with the Tacoma & Eastern,another Milwaukee branch, the bigsystem would hold undisputed sway inone of the richest districts of thestate.

Is Seeking More Delegates.Oylmpia—Hot competition among

Eastern states holding celebrations ofthe 50th anniversary of the signing ofthe emancipation proclamation hasforced Governor Lister against a diffi-cult issue. He can't get enough dele-gates to supply the demand.

While the Governor was out of thestate, Pennsylvania sent notice of itsanniversary celebration, and ActingGovernor Louis F. Hart appointed acolored pastor and a woman of therace as delegates. When' GovernorLister returned he found notice of acelebration of New Jersey, and a re-quest for delegates. Before he haddecided on any one there were noticesof other celebrations and requests fordelegates, and now the executive an-nounces he will appoint anyone whowants to go. The condition is thatdelegates must bear their own ex-penses.

Randle Crops Are Good.Handle—Crops in this section of the

Big Bottom country have been unusu-ally good this year. J. J. McCallthreshed an average of 113 bushels ofwheat an acre on 5J acres of land.Ludwig Schuffenhauer threshed an av-erage of 109 bushels of oats an acrefrom 27 acres. Bridges willbe builtat once across Kiona and Hall creeks,near here. Oliver and Burton creeksprobably will be bridged later. Sev-eral residents of Randle crossed Cow-litz Pass on horseback to attend thestate fair at North Yakima.

Prize-Winning Apples to Go East.Spokane — Negotiations to secure

the use of display windows on some ofthe famous corners in New York, Chi-cago, Philadelphia and a score or morebig Eastern cities for the exhibitionof the Pacific Northwest's prize-win-ing apples are being carried on byManager Gordon C. Corbaley, of theSixth National Apple Show and FruitProducts congress. Such locations asState and Washington in Chicago andHerald Square, in:New York City, areunder consideration. This display isa feature never before attempted.

Students Work as Domestics.Spokane — Housewives at Pullman,

Wash., have no servant problemMany of the young men attending theWashington State college at that placehave hired out as domestics anddurin*their spare hours each day they Washdishes, clothes and floors in the homesSome of the more versatile boys ar*cooking, also. Usually they get theirroom and board in return for theirlabor.

Pensions Granted Mothers.Walla Walla —Mercy B. Garey,

whose husband, Alfred Garey, was ar-rested at Pasco on a charge of murder-ing Banker Christensen and freedwithout trial, was granted a mothers'pension. She willget $20 a month.She has two children. Clara Maurer,with three children, gets $20; OpaneYancey, two children, $15; BlancheB. Neimer, two children, $10; andIda Hammer, twochildren, $10.

Fruit Spray Is to Blame.Bellingham — An unusually large

number of deaths of children here, ifis believed, i have been caused from.poisoned fruit. Physicians at firstwere of the opinion that an epidemicofcholera infantum had developed butft Is now thought that the deaths canBe traced to fruit which had been;sprayed with anenate of lead. ]

WILSON REVIEWS CAVALRY

President Sees First Great CaVal-cade in Action.

Washington, D. C—On the broadgreen meadows that stretch along thePotomac, a great cavalcade of UncleSam's fighting troopers, their headsbent close to the mane and their aa-ben flashing aloft, charged by thePresident of the United States, at fullgallop in battle formation.

It was the biggest cavalry reviewthat had been held in the Nationalcapital since the marching hosts, re-turned after the Civil war.

President Wilson, members of hiscabinet, supreme court justices, thediplomatic corps and the military af-fairs committees of congress sat inthe reviewing stand while the Tenthcavalry, a negro regiment; the Elev-enth and two squadrons of the Fif-teenth demonstrated the results of aSummer's training at Winchester,Va., in the latest cavalry tactics pro-mulgated by American militaryex-perts.

It was a pretty picture, in which theAutumn-tinted landscape harmonizedwith the army olive and drab. Thecavalrymen executed their maneuverson the silent-signal system and as theydrew their mobile columns far acrossthe parade ground a mighty shout ofapplause went up from the crowd thatfringed the scene in a great circle.

First in the new double-line forma-tion, then in a column of platoons atfull gallop, the uniform lines of horse-men passed the reviewing stand, whilecavalry bands played martial music.

Regimental drills and an exhibitionof fighting tactics were given withprecision and smoothness for nearlytwo hours. Foreign military attachesin uniform galloped about observingthe drill from different points of vant-age, President Wilson, who had firstview of a big force of cavalry, compli-mented the troops, through Colonel C.D. Murray, their commanding officer.

TORNADO TEARS NEBRASKA

October Twister Wrecks Buildingsand Injures Many.

Broken Bow, Neb. —An October tor-nado tore its way through Custercounty Thursday, striking BrokenBow, the county seat, a glancing blowand doing only minor damage here butwrecking many buildings and injuringseveral persons in the country dis-tricts. So far as reported, no onewas killed. In the McCaslin home,eight miles north of Broken Bow, twomembers of the family were injured.Several members of Arthur Beving-ton's family near the town of Sargentwere hurt, how seriously is not known.

Reports indicate that the storm de-veloped near Lodi shortly before 6o'clock and cut across the countryfrom the southwest to the northeast ina path varying from a quarter mile to amile wide. Ithad all the character-istics of a tornado, being a whirlingwind of great force.

The town of Sargent is reported tohave been in the direct path of thestorm and badly damaged, but nothingdefinite has come from there.

Near Lodi many houses and barnswere destroyed, but it is believedthere was no loss of life nor seriouscasualty. "'"",

"HUNGER STRIKES" IN VAIN

Serious Offenders to Be Fed Forci-bly, as Heretofore.

London—The belief of the militantincendiaries that under the "cat andmouse" act they were assured speedyrelease from prison by hunger strikingand could then repeat their offensesreceived a rude shock by the announce-ment of the home secretary that MissMary Richardson, who has been inprison since October 1 on the chargeof arson and who has been refusingfood since her arrest, would not obtainher freedom.

The prison authorities have been in-structed to resort to forcible feeding,if necessary.

The home secretary says that actwillcontinue to be applied, as hereto-fore, to minor suffragette offenders.

Town Is Wiped Off Map.

NEWSNOTKOTCURRENT^

Besme of World's fanorb*Events Told in Brief

The much-talked-of $90,000 (ton r,ion Pacific "melon-cuttin^'h?^indefinitely postponed.

James J. Hillpredicts that the *.posed currency bill, if pagJj!;cause financial depression. "

A woman voter aged 103 registerat Eugene, Or., and says Bhe eZ*to vote for many years to come.Criticisms of the bankers' con*tion have only serv Pd to solidifTJ

Democratic ranks on the currency bjAn attempt was made to assassinYuan Shi Kai, recently elected 'I*

dent of China, during his in«ZSceremony. 8^

Postmaster General Burleson ink: jannual report, openly favors L?Zment ownership of telegraph and tSphone lines.

The governor of California has mtrequisition papers to Minnesota formautomobile driver who ran over andkilled a man in San Fraacisco in I9uLos Angeles has placed such restrie.tions upon the borrowing of money onsalaries that it ip believed the loeasharks will be practically driven outof business

The town of Las Vacaa, Mex., acrouthe Rio Grande river from Del Rj0Tex., is practically deserted, over twothousand persons having fled to theAmerican side.

Herbert Thomas, in jail at Mobile,Ala., on a minor charge, claims to beone of the men who held up an Ala-bama Great Southern train recently,but says he got only $20,000 of theloot.

It is reported that Mexican federaltroops at Torreon mutinied and mur-dered their officers and many civilians,and later joined the insurgents, whotook charge of the city and restoredorder.

Two Massachusetts fishing schoonerslanded 650,000 pounds of fish and paida duty of about $5,000, while if theyhad waited outside the harbor anotherday the new tariff billwould have beenin effect and the cargo could havebeen landed free.

*A woman has been elected citytreasurer of Roseburg, Ore.

A Galeaburg, 111., woman has left$435,000 of her $500,000 estate tocharity.

Senator Lane urges upon congressthe importance of taking up the CeliloFalls power project.

The bankers's convention in sessionat Boston expressed great dissatis-faction with the national banking re-form as proposed in the Glass bill.

Governor West, Secretary Olcottand Treasurer Kay, of Oregon, havebeen sued for alleged wrongful expen-diture of $16,000 of the penitentiaryrevolving fund.

Wolves, hyenas and lions whichescaped from a menagerie in Austriaare killing the stock of the farmersand shepherds* and the governmenthas sent an expedition to exterminatethem. ,

SEATTLE MARKETS? Wheat—Bluestem, 89c per bushel; jforty-fold, 81c; ;club, 80c; fife, 79c;

red Russian, 78c. ,#n iS Corn—Whole, $40ton; cracked,JMl- 1

Oats—Eastern Washington, $30<Pper ton; Puget Sound, $30@31; roll-ed,s3o@3l. ' •; \u25a0\u25a0•' £

Hay—Eastern Washington tmuWr$19@20 per ton; Puget Sound tim-

othy, $14; alfalfa, $13@14; straw, *$10; wheat hay, $14@15. - . fi^;

Eggs — Select ranch, 40@41c perdozen; pullet, 32c. . -3

Poultry-Live hens, 13@165jfpound; old roosters, 10c; springbw»*era, 18c; ducks, 10c; spring ™*lings, 10@12c; squabs, $2.28ggper dozen; geese, 12c per pound, .W.turkeys, 22@27c. : /

Ranch butter~23@24c per pound.Apples—Eastern Washington co» (

ing.7sc@sl.2sperbox; do. eato* ,$1.75@2. ,

ta * !Cantaloupes— per crate. \u25a0\u0084,

Cranberries-$8.76@9 per barrel.Grapes-M*lagas, %!•**£'&

Tokays, «1.15@1.25; Concords, V»

25c per 8-lb. basket; Muscats, •*

'^Peadies-^Eastern Washington, Wtf75c per box; clings, 75c. . .

Dressed Beef -Prime beei >.*&14c pr pound; cows, 13*c; heifer* »

Dressed Veal-15c per pound. ,Dressed Hogs - Whole, P**"

40@50c b*Beets-New, 75c@$l per sack^Brusselasproujcs-lOc per poow^,.Cabbage—Local, lie per ,P°^

rW2ic.MSP?#^e . ._ \u25a0:CauHoowers-$1.25 per dozen.

' Celery-Local, 50@75c P**^Cucumbers-Hothouse, 75@8* r

dozen. „. . aftCk.1 Green Corn-$1.25@1.50^^ ;

% Lettuce—Local, 80c@40 per *""hothouse, 76c@$l per dozen.

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*QA|wuirrG««n, 26@80c per *Jgjg^F", per, pound, *> I

i^PotaS^Hom^grown, JlB@20f• jton; Yakima Gems. $22@23. \

Squaab^llJiO^.7s p* W*^;

;• Nome, Alaska—The storm that dev-astated Nome wiped the town of Solo-mon entirely off the map. : Everybuilding was destroyed. It is report-ed that % all ; the f> 800 inhabitants - es-caped. The town of Solomon stood 40miles east of Nome, at the mouth ofthe Solomon river. -' *"* * ' ) "

Reports gsay that equipment of anumber of dredging concerns locatedthere were lost in the gale. , *

The littleschooner Flyer was theonly vessel left in the water near Sol-omon.

World's Trotting Record Broken.Lexington, Ky.—Uhlan, hitched to

a running <mate, lowered the world'srecord for a mile to 1:54). Uhlan setthe previous record at 1:58 last year.

Uhlan was driven by Charles Tannerand was favored with perfect" trackand beautiful weather conditions.Trotting inmagnificant form, \u25a0he madethe quarters in 28* i 57}, 1:25 and1:54|. Hone and driver were givenan ovation at the finish, when the au-dience realized that a new world'srecord had been made... \u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0 J- ":_'\u25a0•'-\u25a0\u25a0 \, • , I ...\u25a0," . 1.,-^),* \u25a0,-\u25a0..

Opium Monopoly Planned.Hongkong—The British government

had' decided to establish an opiummonopoly in Hongkong ,a^ the • expira-tion of the present agreement and it is?thought that Wftn the control lof thetraffic in the hands ofih* governmentits gradual suppression Will be easier.The staff and appliances of the farm-er. «re to bftjak«i#Ter in entirety.