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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 10, 1911)
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume of Important Event! Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Government officers are investigat ing an alleged corner in wheat. Kyrle Bellew, once famous actor died of pneumonia at Salt Lake City. Excesses by victorious Chinese troops have temporarily checked peace overtures. Temperance union workers have started an anti-cigarette crusade in Milwaukee. Roosevelt says the wars now in pro gress show the folly of peace treaties on vital questions. Five of the unidentified girl victims of the Chehalis powder explosion were buried in one grave. A striking machinist at Portland was shot and killed in a street fight by a machine shop proprietor. Aviator Rodgers ran out of gasoline and was forced to land at a lonely sid ing in the Arizona desert, where the only inhabitant was a telegraph oper ator. A special train brought him a new supply from Yuma, 60 miles west. A jury investigated the Chehalis powder mill fire and reports that they were unable to determine the cause of the fire, but held the company blameless, as every precaution was taken and all rules of safety fully complied with. ELK THRIVING ON RANCH. Plan Made to Save Species from Extermination. Santa Barbara, Cal. A herd of elk, now numbering nine, is the nucleus of a game preserve started on Santa Rosa island, under the management of Frank Pepper, superintendent of the big ranch across the channel. Pepper secured two elk from the Sierras about two years ago and transported them to the island, where they have become acclimated and have thrived, the number increasing each year. It is an ideal range for them and Pepper looks forward to the day when the island will be well stocked with elk, which are now becoming extinct in other portions of the continent. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Export basis: Bluestem, 84ro,85c; club, 80(i81c; red Russian, 79c; valley, 81c; forty-fold, 82c. Millstuffs Bran, $23.50 per ton; middlings, S31; shorts, (24.50; rolled barley, $343 35. Corn Whole, $33; cracked. $34 ton. Oats No. 1 white, $30.5031 ton. Hay No. 1 Eastern Oregon, timo thy, $17rti,18; clover. No. 1 valley, tlota 16; alfalfa, $13 a 14; clover, $11 12; grain hay, $11(12. Barley Feed, $31 per ton; brew ing, nominal. Fresh Fruits Peaches, 35tfi 65c per box; pears, 75cfrr$1.75 per box; grapes, 75(f90c per box; apples. $1.15 (q 2.25 per box; cranberries, $9.25fy 9.50 per barrel ; casabas 1.75''Z per doz. ; huckleberries, &i 7c per pound, Potatoes Oregon, lie per pound; sweet potatoes, 2c per pound. Onions Oregon, $1.25 per hundred. Vegetables Artichokes, 75c per dozen; beans, SftilOc; cabbages, i" c per pound; cauliflower, 50fr75c per dozen ; corn, 2hoi 30c per dozen ; cu cumbers, $1V1.25 per sack; egg plant, 5v8c per pound; garlic, 10oil2c per pound ; lettuce, 40('i 85c per dozen ; hot house lettuce, $1 per box; pep pers, hoi 6c per pound; pumpkins, (i lie; radishes, 12Jc dozen; sprouts, 8c per pound; squash, liljc per pound; tomatoes, 50C$1 per box; carrots, $1.25 per sack ;' turnips, $1 ; beets, $1.75; parsnips, $1.25. Poultry Hens, HOine; springs, 13(V 13Jc; ducks, young, 16'al6c; geese, 11 lr 12c; turkeys, alive, 20c; dressed, choice, 26c. Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, 35f" 36c per dozen. Pork Fancy, 9 10c per pound. Veal Fancy, 131, 13 Jc per pound. Hops 1911 crop, 41ift,42c; olds, nominal. Wool tan tern Uregon, yrn,lGc per pound, according to shrinkage; val ley, 15Vil7e per pound; mohair, choice, 35(U37c. Cattle Choice steers, $5.40 5.75; good, $5.25ftf 5.40; fair, $51.5.25; medium, $4.75fti5; poor, $3. Toi 1.50; choice cows, $I.50'4.75; fair, $l'i 4.25; common, $2.50r3.60; extra choice spayed heifers, $4.7.W5; choice heifers, $4.50o7.4.60; choice bulls, $3.603.75; good, $2.753; common, $2w2.60; choice calves, $7.25r7.50; good, $7f,7.15; common, $4'i6; choice stags, $4.60fii,4.75; good, $4.251,4.60. Hogs Choice ligght hogs, $7.35w 7.40; good to choice, $7r7.25; fir, $6. 75ft 7; common, $6ft6.50. Sheep Choice yearling wethers, coarse wool, $3. 60ft 3.85; choice yearling wethers, east of mountains, $3.25Y3.40; choice twos and threes, $3.15ft3.2o; choice lambs, $4ft4.35; good to choice, $4.4.15; valley lambs, $3.75(34; culls, $33.60 MEN WILL NOT YIELD. Shop Employes of Railroads Will Continue Struggle. San Francisco At the end of the first month of the strike of the shop employes of the Harriman lines, both sides in the Pacific Coast division are declaring their forces unimpaired and that they are ready to continue the fight. Officials of the railroad point to the fact that traffic has continued uninterrupted and that the shops at Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dunsmuir, Oakland and San Francisco have been kept in operation with almost full forces at work. Leaders among the strikers point to the fact that there has been almost an entire absence of violence and declare it is their intention to continue the strike peaceably. E. L. Reguin, pres ident of the San Francisco local of the Shop Employes' Federation, is hopeful of a victory for the strikers. "We were prepared for the strike when we began," he said, "and we are prepared to continue it. We knew it would be a long, hard fight, and test all our resources, but we have something to fight for and we will fight it out. Our men have refrained from violence and I am sure will con tinue to do so." Officials of the Southern Pacific"road would make no statement other than that the strike has not seriously inter fered with the business of the board and that the shops will be kept in operation. Rumors of elaborate pre paration against attack by strikers in the building of stockades and the em ployment of hundreds of private watch men were denied. PIONEER AVIATOR KILLED. California Air Expert Victim of Acci dent With Glider. San Jose, Cal. Professor John J. Montgomery, of Santa Clara college. is dead from the effects of a terrible fall from an aeroplane glider he was experimenting with in the foothills about two miles east of Evergreen. He apparently lost control of the machine, according to eye witnesses, and fell 20 feet, sustaining injuries to the back and base of the brain, which resulted in death a little more than an hour and a half after he was brought back to Santa Clara in the automobile of Dr. J. L. Beattie, who was summoned immediately. Professor Montgomery had been an authority on aerial navigation ever since the first elements of the science developed into practical result. He won international fame as the in ventor of an electrical rectifier and of several patent appliances to facilitate aerial navigation. Recently he sold for 1,700,000 his rights to certain aeroplane improve ments, the payment of this sum being contingent on the winning of a suit against the Wright Brothers for al leged infringement. His electrical rectifier was the subject of extensive litigation for two or three years, which resulted in the complete vindi cation of his right to the exclusive title. AVIATOR WHO HAS COMPLETED FIRST CROSS CONTINENT r LIGHT EVER MADE. ' t Via' : -l ..." v ' f 4 vA l; fry, ijj. ' OCEAN TO OCEAN FLIGHT IS ENDED Aviator Rodgers Lands at Pas adena Safe and Sound. Almost Mobbed by Enthusiastic Spec tatorsDeclares Mechanism Must Be Revolutionized, Statistics of Rodgers' Flight. j Total distance traveled, 4,231 miles. i Actual flying time, 4,924 min- j utes, or 3 days, 10 hours, 4 minutes. Elapsed time of journey, 49 days, j Average speed when flying, 51.72 miles an hour. JAPS BATTLE RUSSIANS. One Slain When Czar's Patrol Cruiser Traps Poacher. Victoria, B. C. News of a fatal sealing raid at the Copper islands by Japanese sealers has been received here. The Japanese schooners Boso Mara, Chitose Maru and Toyei Maru anchored off the seal rookeries in a mist. The Russian patrol cruiser ar rived and they all weighed anchor and ran, leaving their small boats. There were five boat crews ashore from the three ships and when the Russian guards came to arrest them some of the raiders opened fire on the Russians with rifles. The sealers took shelter behind rocks and endeavored to keep ofT the guards. One Russian was killed and several wounded. Fifteen Japanese were captured. The captives were taken to Vladi vostok and members of the crew of the schooner Boso Maru, which has returned to Japan, say that one of the number is expected to be sentenced to death. Post Cards Are Censored. Chicago Censors will be appointed in every Chicago sub-postal station, the superintendents of which Postmas ter Daniel A. Campbell has given 30 days in which to stamp out the dis tribution of objectionable postcards. The superintendents' salaries will be reduced and they will ultimately be discharged if objectionable cards pass through their offices. The chief pic tures ordered barred from distribution are those of men and women fondling each other, women in abbreviated cos tumes and animal pictures. Nature Numbers Peak. Husum, Wash. Mount Adams has a number of its own standing out in bold figures. The number 167 is clearly discernible on the southeast ern slope near the top of the moun tain, by ranchers living in the Camas Prairie and Glenwwod sections. The figures, which appeared thil fall for the first time, are open ground or rocky spots on the mountain side, where melting snow has left a stamp ed number for the famous peak. Pasadena In a flying machine that held together only through the good will of Providence. Calbraith P. Rcxl- gers, the transcontinental aviator, glimpsed the Pacific ocean Saturday, as he soared over the gray top of Mount Wilson and settled down in Tournament Park, amidst a clamorous multitude, waiting to welcome him at what was virtually the finish of his flight from Sheepshead Bay. N. Y. Rodgers landed at 4:10 o clock in the afternoon. Rodgers appeared on the sky line shortly after 3 o'clock, a few moments after he had risen at Pomona, 20 miles away. He was sighted first by telescopes levelled at him from the solar observatory on Mount Wilson, and word flashed down the mountain by telephone caused a swarming of 20,000 people to Tournament Park. The aviator, flying at a height of 5,000 feet, hovered over the city for a few minutes, then warping the planes that previously had been as motionless as the spreading pinions of a soaring eagle, he sailed in a wide spiral and volplaned down to the greensward In the middle of the park. Rodgers literally was mobbed. He was borne hither and thither by the surging crowd. Eager hands clutched and scratched him, but his leather clothing was strong enough to resist attack, although afterwards the avia tor declared his ribs would surely manifest black and blue marks of an over-enthusiastic greeting. Rodgers started on the last dash of his flight from Banning, a little town out in the desert, where his arrival had interrupted the only diversion of the year the funeral dance of the Mojave Indians. The aviator saw a squaw, 101 years old, who had danced all night and day, fall in a swoon. Then he took the air at noon. EMPEROR MUST ABDICATE. Glacial Ice Uncovered. Klamath Falls, Or. While William McCully was digging gravel in Bul- lard'a canyon recently he was sur- Rebels Insist on Absolute Surrender of Manchus. Shanghai The central machine of the revolutionary government does not trust the throne, nor does it agree with the throne's terms. It is, there fore, proceeding to arrange to control the nation's affairs in expectation of the sucess which it rcg.irds as certain. The retirement of the machine dynasty will be demanded. The official list drawn up includes Dr. Wu Ting Fang, at one time minis ter at Washington, who has accepted the post of socretury of foreign af fairs; Wen Tsong Yao, at one time Chinese resident in Thibet, to whom the post of under secretary has been offered; Ehr Tang, atone time direc tor of the American council of Canton, who has accepted the military gover norship of Che Kiang and Kiang Su provinces; I.i Ping Shui, head of the Shanghai gentry, who has accepted the civil governorship of those provinces, and Yu Ya Ching, a leading merchant, who has accepted the mayoralty of Shanghai. The Chinese chamber of commerce has declared for the rebels and urged the consular body to prevent the im perial fleet from entering the Whang Po river. The populace fear a repeti tion of the Hankow brutalities. Perfect order was maintained in Shanghai and the outlying districts the first night after the capitulation of the city to the revolutionists. I.i Ping Shui, responsible head of the new administration in the native city and suburbs, is completing his organisation. He informed the cor respondent that he recognized only the republic and would guarantee onler. The only disorderly elements now in China, he said, are the ex-ofliciuls, their supporters and the Manchu troops, who never again would be per mitted to control. There is reason to believe that the revolutionary sentiment throughout the South strongly favors the uncon ditional abdication of the emperor and the establishment of an entirely new regime. Colored Oranges Barred. San Bernardino, Cal. Because th artificial coloring of oranges is no lon ger permitted, by order of the bureau of food and drug inspection. Eastern tables this Thanksgiving will he without oranges as far as Southern California is concerned. Prominent orange shippers estimate that this sea son s crop i ue irom two to lour weeks late because of the order. Heretofore, by use of the coloring de vice, the first of the crop have been in New York in time for the country's annual least day. Fowler Decends Suddenly, El Paso, Tex. R. G. Fowler, eastbound coast-to-coast aviator. the ar orised to encounter a laree body of rived here at 3 :10 Monday afternoon glacial ice several feet below the sur- on an '-l r,8 bouthwestern passen face of the gravel bed. He took ; "Bin, unnuri arier an accident . . i. : ..u ii i l : . .. i i , t some of the cakes into the town or , which t""ireiicj mm w leave nis oi- Merrill, where it was judged to be of P'n8 on mil '""n Mastodon, N. M., good quality. Thirteen years ago bout 14 miles west of El Paso, what is supposed to be the same body Fowler had made 400 miles since leav- of ice was uncovered, but it became i UouglM, Ariz., in the morning, covered and not until the late dis covery was it supposed to be still in existence. in the when one of the sparkers on his en gine failed to work. Witnesses Confirm Atrocities, Malta Steamer passengers arriv ing irom iripou describe the scene as a reign of terror. Strong military Turksy Grows for Taft. Newport, R. I. Horace Vose, the Westerly turkey fancier, is preparing his annual Thanksgiving gift for the patrols are continually conducting rig- president's table. The Taft turkey, orous house-to-house searches and on this year is a fine bronze gobbler, j the smallest pretext summary punish which is gaining weight every minute mcnt is meted out. Many victims on a diet of chestnuts, which produces have been shot in their own houses, a fine quality of white meat. "I shall In the absence of any attempt to send President Taft the finest tur-, discriminate between friend and foe key I ever gave to any President since the one I sent to President Grant," says Vose. Dowager May Be in Flight. San Francisco The Chinese news paper Sal Dai Yat Po, of this city, re ceived a dispatch from Pekin saying that Lung Yu, the dowager empress, had fled from the capital, taking with her the young emperor, and that all trace of them had been lost. Trans-Atlantic Dirigible Fails. Atlantic City. N. J. Lack of suffi cient gas to keep the big dirigible in the air brought to a sudden end the trial flight of the airship Akron, which is scheduled to make an at tempt to cross the Atlantic ocean from this city some time this month. A propeller blade broken and a guy wire snapped were the only parts dam aged in the landing, and these can be "repaired easily. many foreigners have taken refuge in their respective consulates. Taft Off for Cincinnati. Hot Springs, Va. After three days' rest here, President Taft left for Cin cinnati, accompanied by Mrs. Taft, Miss Helen Taft and Mrs. Thomas M.' Laughlin, of Pittsburg. Secretary Hilles and Major Thomas L. Rhodes, the president's physician, will meet him in Cincinnati. President Taft expects to appear before the election board in Cincinnati and qualify so he can vote at the city and county election. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATi WATER TO FLOW FAR. Gigantic Irrigation Scheme Proposed for Lake County. Lakeview A gigsntic irrigation project to over aU.ut 400,000 acres and to reclaim two of the largest val leys in Northern Luke county is ex pected here from a group of Minneap olis capitalists. It is asserted on reliable authority that $ltf,000:000 will bo spent by a company close in touch with Hill in terests to tuke water from I ake Odell and convey it through canals a dis tance of from no to Mi miles into Christmas and Silver Lake valleys. Owing to the character of the soil this main canal will traverse there is little doubt that many miles will have to be cement lined to prevent exces sive seepage. The magnitude of the undertaking is made evident in the fact that the United States reclamation service withdrew thousands of acres from all forms of entry, including the lake which is the natural reservoir, but after finding that the cost would be greater than could be sent by the government on any one project within the state at this time, the land wus restored to entry. A lurge, corps of men has been mak ing surveys and estimates recently of the cost of constructing such a plant and it is now believed that the data is in such form that there will be little delay in handling the project. Ten million dollars sitent on this water will develop one of the best val leys in the state lying in one county and will pay the capitalists large divi dends and make a reasonable rate mt acre for water placed on the land; water power for lighting und manu facturing purpose will be developed, and as the surveys pass through some of the finest timber lands in Klamath and Lake counties and are close to the Oregon Eastern and Oregon Trunk surveys, the ultimate me of other millions in manufacturing. New towns will be founded and Northern Lake county will become a large fac tor in the growth of the state. ; FRUIT FUMIGATION L. FARM LAND SALES BRISK. Tract of 410 Acres Near Springfield Is Sold to Promoter. Springfield - One of the largest real estate deals ever made in Springlield was consummated this week when Clark & Washburn sold a large traet, known as Douglas Gardens, consisting of 4 10 acres of fine farming land ad joining the city on the east, to F. E. McCroskey, of Washington, and II. W. Cousins of San Francisco. The con sideration is not given out. Clark & Washburn paid over $o,0i)0 for the tract a year ago and it is known that they made a good profit on the deal. Clark & Washburn, after they pur chased the tract, sub divided it into five and 10-acre tracts ami at least 2" houses have been built on it since. The Southern Pacific Natron exten sion, which will in time become the main line between Oregon and Cali fornia, passes through the renter of the traet and a passenger and freight depot is promised. The new owners say they will irri gate the entire tract by a system of pumps. The plant they intend to in stall will have a capacity to irrigate from K00 to 1,000 acres of land, which means that they intend to add to their holdings in that vicinity. CATTLE PRICES SOARING. Buyers $30 county inspector Desires Our..J Kl.ll.n. r. l.it.. . " IHarsttllelJ io install fmit gating room at the dilT-rent fe. of the county is the lastest plan , ni. nan iwii, county irmi imp. Mr. Hall lwit has been mking , on the sale ami trans.rtuton of eased fruit, and he has apphc (. '' state fruit commissioner, t-kin. l to designate Mamhtleld aa the n", tine station for this section and I .1 1' III. ...I n..- " bj mm, volume iiu uijrue lulntug, stations. The plan is to have the fumlne, """I- -,.,.-. "inr---4 ITUIl : fumigated so that the scale or oil., oiseasrn win noi on narmtul and & not he transmitted to other fruit i Hail Lewis has asked to lie m,H . thority to appoint quarantine wink who will receive & cent a boi for piea wmt-fi io) iuiiuaieii. Tl... I.... L iiu iwuui iiinK!ruir nSS (tgfc. many arrests of person Woo broken the law reKiinling ti-L aiei iraii"iriaiion. ui uiscane - The result has been the n!fVrin much trtgner grade. I'ntil th jJ lew years nine aiieniion w f-a apple in i oos county, nhmittj discovered mat me (iravrtultiM tins locality were or a line yratte that they commanded a good pro the interest in applp growinr stirred and new orchard htb plan till. Fruitgrower' amwii!, in both sections of the county to taken charge of the marketing f crop oi many or the growers, ;COAL DISCOVERY STIRS, Sams Valley District Product Com! Grade of Black Ligniu.' (.old Hill -That thn entire Sr valley and Meadows districts ud tervening territory are umiri with coal is indicated by th iter toM ty ohl residents since thtrto discovery of black lignite in Scjt! ley at a point seven mile from place. It seems highly prubtbl tt a belt of country over 30 nil i length, extending from I'pper Mt ows to Koxy Ann mountain, tttt i Medford, where true bituminog si just been found, is cotlbrariat A big vein of black lignite il opni the Cpper Meadows district, mdn been worked desultorily for jrn-v The ncent discovery on the Sbip-f Miller place shows the continuity the belt under an intervrmr. in range of hills into Sams vallry. lb discovery is In the northern end of little valley, and that coal eiiiti the southern section, several mileib tnnt, and perhaps underlying tbt br of line farming land between, ii iti ratisl by a discovery m'l in 17J. I well went dry on the McClendonplm and in deejM-ning it a two-ioca w was cut at a deiit from the surfw 1H feet. This coal ws of MteL' quality, being termed "cmila at the time, because a mnsll pit i it when lighted would bum wilt clear, steady flame until nothing n left but a light ash residue. AITCHISON 13 FEARF0X. Danger Seen In Curtailment of Stt Powers By Supreme Court. Salem Crave possibilities rtfeH seen by t Ivde Aitchison. chirm the state railroad comniiin, the U.S. suiireme court uphold tbeS' Isirn decision in the Minnesota. H iron, et al.. rate cases, which sr w fore that tribunal, coupled with decision given recently in the & em railway case, when the fouft 4 rided that the Interstato Comm' commission has control of Wf Plisnces on nurrlv intrastate rosoM Well m InlerMtwtrt mails. "What may be contained in uV cussion of the oninion I do not comment upon until 1 have had " nortunitv to see tho opinion," i Chairman Atitchison. "It il wrW that the opinion will invalidate W of the Inspection laws in W states, although Oregon hs no " laws" V.klll n.lkarl Exhibit McMinnvllle Through the efforti the McMinnville Commercial o' Yamhill county la to be rrprew .t Ik. T .-.I A f..l,..ti.n imiliti - v in, i, nun at. hi inn,.",, --r I.. K..I.I . M.,ii.n Sonars Gin Now VnrL nu In November. I! nlna mrl.llu nf Drains have be . . . . " .u. 1011 WW semniea. nampiee oi croD are belnir nrepared by Cooper. A laree exhibit of sppW ' at Pendleton Offering Head for Yearlings. Tendleton -- With CHttle buyers offering $:ti) a head for "yearlings" and with stockmen refusing to sell even at this record price, the predict ed beef famine seems in a fair way to nerome a reality. "it looks like I will be compelled to go to rortiand to buy my 'feeders,' " declared I!. I). Sherry, a local grower. "I can buy that class of cattle cheaper at the Portland stockyards than I can on the ranges of Eastern Oregon. Stock cattle actually are higher here now than beeves." While admitting he had never received $30 for a year ling, Mr. Sherry said he refused that price Saturday. He explained that the few yearlings he possessed were not for sale at any price, for the reas on that they could not be replaced. Settlers tor Malheur Lands, Vale Plans for Hhe colonization of 200,000 acres of rich arid Innd in the Malheur valley are under wav bv Colonel II. K. IVarce and If W ti.... man of Caldwell, Idaho, who are said to have an option on this land, which at present is owned by the Oregon Washington Colonization company' of St. Paul. Promoters nf this mi'nt hnv li.-. n in Vi i , . . " inn inn i. week seeking the stuns. rt f -;.!,... now located in nnd around Vule. The new corn pan v is to I in LlW.l.r.i .. .. . I. Vale-Oregon Land company. Vouchers Tell Growth. Salem -Growth of the m gon is indicated by the fact that 1.700 vouchers will have been r-...l I l... tho secretary of .t-i..'. .. i 1 the month of October closes, the hiih watermark In the history of the state, liefore Secretary file.. ...... ,i(t- "Kin inio Ollico the avermrn ,,...i.... . was 1,000 and th. r . i " for one month. JuIw L I " "7"L ,7 Institute iiMiiiiiiT ! t7lrfrltn fill Oi .Hi3 tlli. ill T rnur hoi l it i .... i . mr.Hl, .U.. . "l llllS ....v., inerc will be that. be made, and numerous pho" 1 -I Yamhill county pastoral scene" 1 - . l. . I..... ttmrtUCW a'fomnny lim vriiu e' forwarded to the exposition. Trees for Big Orchard. Full. riiuTro.. are srrivinR for the Kalis City Orchard com p' bo planted on tho 60 sere fv , miles from this city. A . 10 T H.! iiipa. It, 000 tree. Vnn Zanah, : it 1.- ui Will I" ,h, i ...miimT OlH genera. ...o..- I iw ' concern. Is actively engsg' intending tneir rem""' j farm. C. A. Snyder will b- P'K . . i ..i,.niinaT aim general charge or ine p" - id men and al learns will be emP .J once to tiretinre tho land fr P'n r i Bed" Salem -Kighteen teams have work on the boulevard bw" asylum farm and the peniw '-' f. 300 more than r..ui ii.l i u. iiilnvsnl w I, alate I Convicts ami asylum PtT'J J Ik. ,,..1, Th. ni-aaont ill) will be about three miles in