V o l . I . N o . 15
PO RTLAN D , OREGON, J A N U A R Y 27, 1912
WEEK'S NEWS DOINGS FLASHED
FROM ALL POINTS OF THE COMPASS
EAST, WEST, NORTH AND SOUTH
Price 5 Cents
AGITATORS THREATEN MAYOR,
COUNCIL AND CITY COMMERCIAL
BODIES UNLESS JOBS ARE GIVEN
January 18.
B E R L IN ,
Germany.— Supple
A base and contemptible plan pattern their lives upon the long-
N E W H A V E N , Conn.— Presi mentary elections fo r candidates
was worked upon the City Free ago exploded assumption that the
dent Taft in a speech states he has for tlie Reichstag held in 77 elec
Employment Bureau during the world owes every man a living
no fear o f Socialism. Declares he toral districts. Socialists fail to
past week. The Bureau is endea (which it dot's not nor never did)
has too much confidence in the win.
voring. with all sincerity and one member o f the bunch took a
good sense o f the American people,
L A W R E N C E , Mass.— M ilitary
earnestn ch . to provide
employ threatening attitude.
Mouthing
not agreeing with the view taken and police authorities consider
ment for worthy and needy ap his words In' asserted that unless
by Senator Bailey that there lies the discovery o f three lots o f d y
plicants.
Among the jobs o f jobs were furnished, there would
a growing menace in Socialism.
namite with fuses and caps, and
fered were those o f grubbing, he a delegation o f unemployed
MEDFORD. Ore.— The sales of the arrest o f suspects, as proof o f
wood cutting, general farm work, men that would wait upon the
orchards in Medford in six weeks a plan to destroy mill property in
etc. There were 225 men offered City Council. Furthermore that
reaches a total o f $427,000.
connection with the textile work
these positions, hut not more than the Commercial Club and the
N E W Y O R K .— Edward A. Sto- ers strike.
25 accepted.
Chamber o f Commerce would he
tesbury, millionaire banker and
H A V A N A .— Intervention in Cu
The reason why this is so. it I besieged.
partner o f J. I’ ierpont Morgan, ban affairs by United States will
has been learned, is due to the fact
who gave his bride a $4,000,000 not be necessary, the crisis having
Up to Inst accounts we have not
that they fell under the baneful
present, copyrights her photo passed.
influence o f local Socialist or 1. learned that Mayor Rushlight had
graphs sent to newspapers, to pre
January 21.
W. W. agitators, who prevailed fled fo r safety to Scappoose.
vent promiscuous publication.
Neither has “ Three C ” Chapman
W A S H IN G T O N , D. C.— It is re
upon them not to accept work.
N E W Y O R K .— A suspicion is ported that President Taft has as
Monday afternoon E. ,T. Lewis, and the Board o f Governors o f the
growing that the name o f W illiam surances that Theodore Roosevelt
Tom Lewis. Julius Knispel, M. E. Commercial Club barricaded the
Club
Randolph llearst w ill appear as a w ill not become a candidate for
Dorfman and ( ’ . B. Ellis, repre doors o f the Commercial
factor in the election o f the Demo the presidency.
senting the local Socialists, called Building. W ord has not gone
cratic candidate fo r president, and
FLO RENCE. Italy.— It is pub
upon M ayor Rushlight.
They forth, either, that the genial sec
that as a dark horse ho is now in licly announced that the w ill o f
stated that there were 14.(Hill idle retary o f tlie Chamber o f Com
tlie grooming.
the late H enry Labouchere, the |
men in Portland. They demanded merce or his able assistant have
W A S H IN G T O N , D. C.— House London editor who died in Flor- 1
that work be furnished these men. either one o f them ordered a eoat-
committee investigating charges cnee January 16. shows an estate J
to which the Mayor replied that of-mail.
against 1). H arvey W. W iley, chief o f $4.000.000, to he eventually di
Day by day agitators are be
the city had already done all it
o f the chemistry bureau o f the De vided among his nephews and
was possible to do for the unem coming more and more a menace
partment o f Agriculture report in nieces. His daughter, the M ar
ployed; that it had provided work to public safety. “ An ounce of
liis favor, and urge that he be g iv chioness di Rudizi w ill receive a
prevention is worth a pound o f
and the jobs were waiting.
en free rein in enforcement o f pure large yearly income.
To show the unreasonableness cure,” and the authorities should
food and drug law.
C E N TR A L I A, Iii.— By a rear-
of this class, who do not really de at once proceed to curb them at
end collision at Kinmundy, 111.. J.
January 19.
sire honest employment, but who any cost.
N E W Y O R K .— On account of T. Ilarahan, Sr., form er president
the exhorbitant prices charged for o f the Illinois Central, and F. O.
butter, Housewives’ League ap Melcher. second vice-president of
peals to women o f New Y o rk not the Rock Island, are killed.
TAC O M A. Wash..— T. B. Neff,
to use any butter fo r a period of
110 days, in order to teach the mer a rancher, who accidentally shot
chants a needed lesson. League his little niece, commits suicide.
CHICAGO.— Chicago Federa
passes resolutions unanimously to
T H O M A S J. O’ B RI E N. AMERI CAN AMBASS ADO R T O ROME.
boycott the commodity
fo r a tion of Labor attacks Governor
IN D IA N A P O L IS . — Attorney-
NVoodrow Wilson o f N ew Jersey,
month.
General Thomas Honan, o f Indi
BOULDER, Colo.— Frank Syl
MBASSADOR O’ B RIE N has bad a varied diplomatic experience
NEW
HAVEN,
Conn.— Fire Democratic candidate for presi
ana. and Prosecutor Frank P. Bak
«ince be was appointed minister to Denmark In 1005. A fter two
breaks out in a dorm itory o f Yale dent. as “ an avowed enemy of or
er, o f Marion County, were asked vester, a non-union miner, was
^ years’ service ut Copenhagen be was named to the Important
University, just as chapel bells ganized labor.”
Tuesday by the Central Labor Un shot and seriously wounded soon
post o f ambassador to Japan. He remained for four years at
W A S H IN G T O N . D. C.— Duke
begun ringing.
Firemen with
ion o f this city to assist in appeal after leaving the railroad station
Tokyo and was then appointed to the embassy at Home, one of the
chemicals subdued the flames with and Duchess o f Connaught, and
ing the habeas corpus suit by at Lafayette January 21. Hi* said
most important In tlie diplomatic sendee. Mr. O’ Brien Is a lawyer and
their
daughter.
Princess
Patricia,
only nominal damages resulting.
which William J. Burns was freed
had
been
In
successful
practice
In
Grand
Rapids,
Mich.,
for
thlrty-fonr
N E W Y O R K .— In a sale of being entertained by Ambassador
of the kidnaping indictment by the bullet was fired by one o f three
years when he was called upon to represent his country abroad.
union pickets, who accosted him
Am erigo Vespucci’s works, belong Reid in New York, will not omit
Federal Judge Anderson.
ing to the Hoe estate, W alter M. the visit o f courtesy to President
Resolutons sharply condemning and two other non-union men with
Hill, o f Chicago, outbid others, Taft, as had been previously an
Judge Anderson and asking that whom lie was returning from a
nounced.
giving $17,500 fo r four items.
Congress inquire* into his action trip to Denver. Sylvester said he
January 22.
S A N FR AN CISC O .— San Fran
I with a view to removing him. wer *
and his friends started to run and
W A S H IN G TO N , D. C.— Reduc
cisco Chamber o f Commerce be
offered at a meeting o f the labor
tion
is
made
in
the
Democratic
gins active campaign to inaugur
.body and referred to the resolu the strangers opened (in*. Strikers
bill on the tariff of from 30 to
at Lafayette said picketing was
ate a steamship line to Alaska.
tions committee.
G U A Y A Q IT ILL, Ecuador. — 50 per cent on steel.
The re-.oiulion further set, out abolished several months ago and
N E W Y O R K .— January 20. the
General Leonidas and supporters
that the Federal Judge “ obtain- had not been resumed.
o f General A lfa ro engage in a anniversary o f the late President i
i >1 by fo r e ” document* regarding
fight in which the forces of the McKinley, w ill be marked by the
the alleged dynamite conspiracy
placing on sale throughout the
former are defeated.
then in the hands o f the Criminal
P E K IN .— Tt is reported that the country o f M cKinley seals, similar
Court o f the county.
abdication o f the Manchudynasty to Red Cross seals. It is proposed
to raise in this manner $7.000.000
is an accomplished fart.
It is reported that Dr. Sun 5 at for a M cKinley Memorial Hospit
Sen, president o f the new Chinese al in New York and to tight tuber
culosis.
republic is w illing to resign
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i m r*i,,
LOS
A N G E LE S .— Rutherford
favor
o t f v Yaun
Shi Kai. T The
Chung
Sai Yat Po. a Chinese paper, is Page, aged 24. fails 150 feet from
Coillieilliiilll Sehmeer iiled with
an airship to the earth and is in
authority fo r the statement.
the City Auditor yesterday after-
Another report is current that stantly killed.
IN D IA N A P O L IS . Purchases of nooti niif o f a seriös o f lueasures,
the Manchu princes, as a last act
January 23.
alarm clocks made by Orti** E. Me deelaring the traek o f the Port
o f desperation, would bring all
A L B A N Y . Ore.— Oregon Elec
I .M anigai. the confessed dynamiter,
China to min. follow ing their re tric plans to build a branch line
laml Kailway, Light &
Power
at Rochester. N. Y.. and at other
linquishment o f the throne.
the coining summer from the Al-
places, were investigated by the Company, o i i East Water, froni
N E W YO R K . — Presbyterian hany-Eugene line to Corvallis.
Federal tirami Jury January 24 Ifaw tliom e avoinie to East Oak
Board o f Foreign Missions cables
E L PASO. Tex.— General B. J.
Several jewelers, said to have sold street. to be a eoiiiinon-user. In a
for $1.000.000 in gold to relieve Viljeon. Boer war hero, has re-
clocks to J. J. McNamara’s “ d y short time, measurcs deelaring
2. 500.000 persons from starvation noirhced his American citizenship
namiting crew .” were questioned cnmrnori-iiHors on the lim* o f the
land received naturalization as a
in China.
in the Government ’s efforts to find
W A S H IN G TO N . D C.— Ilev- itizen of Mexico.
out who. besides Ortie McMsniiral. Southern Pacific on East Seeond
burn sub-committee makes report j N E W Y O R K .— Petition for d's-
paid for the docks used in time street. front Hawthomc avcniu* to
and clears away charges reflecting solution o f the American Tele-
bombs, and which led detectives East Kumsidc street. and on East
upon the honesty o f the election phone & Telegraph Company, on
to believe that explosions on thej Third, between the same points,
o f Senator Stephenson o f W iscon- grounds that it is a monopoly and
Pacific Coast and those in Peoria will lie presented for considera
sin.
I in violation o f the Sherman trust
LIN C O LN . Neb. — Democrats i ]aw. js presented to
Attorney-
were (lone by the same persons.
tion o f the Council. A measure
Parts o f tin* docks destroyed in
place name o f W oodrow Wilson on General Wickersham in order that
explosions were taken before the by Councilman Joy. applying the
presidential ticket.
bp may institute suit.
jurv. MeManigal said McNamara common-user on the main lines of
CO LG ATE.
Okla.— President
January 20.
called the docks “ a new inven i the Southern Paeifb o i i East First
five Taft is indorsed for renomination
SAN F R A N C IS C O — In
tion.M
months the school savings bank I by the Fourth Congressional Dis-
street, now is before the Council.
ostahlishcd in San Francisco shows trict Republican Convention after
As outlined by Councilman
$35.000 in deposits, making it take Roosevelt supporters had trier) to
Sehmeer and Joy ami Dan Kolia
the Icari of all similar institutions stamperie the ((invention.
JU N EA U . Alaska.— The Navy
As a stimulus to the spirit of
her, president o f the East. Side
thrift among pupils this is an ex- Department has ordered the dis
Business Men's Club, these mens
continuance o f the United States
eellent example.
C H A R L E S P A G E B R Y A N , A ME RI CA N AMBASS ADO R TO JAPAN
tires
portend actions likely to rev
N E W Y O R K — Mrs. O P. H. Bel Marine Barracks at Sitka as -an
olutionize
the freight traffic
in
unnecessary
expense
to
the
Gov
mont has under w ay plans for a
HE ambassador to Japan tiaa had a Ions diplomatic career. In the
Portland
They are calculated to
daily newspaper to be managed by ernment. They have been main
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Wash..
Several
course o f which be baa served as minister to Chinn, Hraxll,
women and conducted in the in tained for 30 vpars.
members o f the Industrial W ork open up the entire waterfront dis
Switzerland, 1 ‘urtuaal and helfftum. lie la a native of Chicago,
SPO K A N E . Wash — City Com
terests o f women. She believes wo
ers o f the World were invited to trict. where millions o f tons of
the son a t one of the early Cook county settlers. He received
men do not have fa ir representa missioners order the City Board
hit education at the University of Virginia and In the law department leave Centralis Friday night by
freight are dispatched every year,
o f Colombian university. Washington
He made two tours of Europe (In
tion in the news o f the day and o f Charities to appropriate what
the local police. 'They were on
and to give all competitors an op
1801 and l “»2 i In the Interests o f the World’s Columbian exposition,
should come to the front editor ever sum may be necessary to
their way to San Francisco from
and has served several terms In the Illinois legislature.
(■Continued on page 4.)
Aberdeen. The men were loaded portunity to enter the field for
ially.
business.
on a freight train.
CENTRAL LABOR
NON-UNION MINER
UNION WANTS TO
SHOT BY UNION
HOLD W. J. BURNS
MINING PICKETS
A
j
ALARM CLOCKS
FOR M ÑAMARA
BLOWUPSTRACED
CENTRALIA FIRES
AN UNDESIRABLE
I. W. W. SQUAD
T
MEASURE TO
MAKE TROLLEY
RAILS PUBLIC