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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 17, 1911)
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Return of Important Events Presented in Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. Italy accuses Turks and Arabs of violating the rules of war. Lincoln's birthplace has been ac- cepted by President Taft as a national preserve. Railroad men are gloomy because of the burdens imposed by the employers liability law. An extension of the O.-W. R. &. N. is projected from North Yakima to the Sound. Great hostility was shown in the German reichstag against the pro posed Morocco-Congo deal. Enormous deposits of rock phos phates have been discovered in Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyoming. A voting school has been established in Los Anlges for the intsruction of women in the mysteries of politics and voting. The foreign legation at Pekin and the guards of the "forbidden city," where China's royal family reside. re preparing for a seige. A Seattle judge decided that a dog has a right to bite a man who steps on his tail, and a suit for damages from this cause was decided against the plaintiff. A bill of preachers for holding ser vices at the state insane asylum of Oregon was paid from the "amuse ment" fund, there being no other fund provided for the purpose. The court of commerce granted temporary injunction against the In terstate Commerce commission's or der reducing freight rates in what i; known as the "Spokane rate case." The city pound of Portland will sup ply the doctors with unclaimed dogs for use in medical research at the same rate that the dogs are restored to their masters, it being understood that the dogs are to be chloroformed before being dissected. Francisco I. Madero formally takes office as president of Mexico. With censorship removed, Chinese papers score the Imperialists for need less massacres. Pekin has fallen Into the hands of the revolutionists and the royal family of China has fled and cannot be found. A second package of bank bills was found near the scene of the robbery of the Bank of Montreal at New West minister, B. C. Turkish trooos recaptured the city of Deroa, after killing 500 Italians and capturing the rest of the garrison in a terriffic battle. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat Export basis: Bluestem, 83 H8ic; club, 7980c; red Russian, 77 &78c; valley, 79ra80c; forty-fold. 80c. Corn Whole, $36; cracked, 137 ton. Oats No 1 white, $3Ud 31.50 ton. Millstuffs Bran, $23 per ton; mid dlings, $31; shorts, $24; rolled bar ley, $3435. ' Hay No. 1 Eastern Oregon, tim othy, $170118; No. 1 valley, $15?i;l6; alfalfa, $13,14; clover, $1112; grain, $11(?12. Barley Feed, 31 per ton; brewing, nominal. Fresh Fruits Pears, 75tfi$1.75 per box; grapes, 75ctf$1.25 per box; ap ples, $K2.25; cranberries, 4"ft5c per pound. Potatoes Oregon, 'ljc per pound; sweet potatoes, $2,156 2.25 per crate. Onions Oregon, $1.25 per hundred. Vegetables Artichokes, 75c per dozen; beans, 56 10c per pound; cab bage, irtjfc; cauliflower, 60Cri$l per dozen; garlic, 10rU2c per pound; hot house lettuce, $1.25 per box; pump kins, ltfiljc per pound; sprouts, 8C'( 9c; squash, Italic; tomatoes, 50c $1 per box; carrots, $1 per sack; tur nips, $1; beets, $1; parsnips, $1. Butter Oregon creamery, solid pack, 32 Jc; prints, extra; butter fat, lc less than solid pack. Poultry Hens, 14c; springs, 13c; ducks, young, 16fal6Jc; geese, XCtt, 12c; turkeys, alive, 20c; dressed, choice, 25ri,26c. Eggs Fresh Oregon ranch, candled, 40tfi42ic Pork Fancy, 9rS,9Je. Veal Fancy, 13rf4l3c. Hops 1911 crop, 42i43ic; olds, nominal. Wool Eastern Oregon, 9f16c pel pound; valley, 1517c; mohair, choice, 35a37c Cattle Choice steers, $5.605.95; good, $5.255.50; fair, $565.25; poor, $3,7564.50; choice cows, $4.60 6.5.15; fair, $4.4.25; common, $2,6063.50; extra choice spayed heif ers, $4.755; choice heifers, $4.606j 4.60; choice bulls, $3,7564; good, $3.256(,3.60; common, $262.60; choice calves, $7,606. 7.75; good, $7.25(3.7.60; common, $466; choice tags, $4.5014.76; good, $4,256 4.60. Hogs Choice light. $6,9567; good to choice hogs, $6,7566.95; fair, $6,6066.75; common, $.V6.60. Sheep Choice yearling wethers, east of mountains, $3,2563.40; choice twos and threes, $3. 15W3.25; choice mountain lambs, $4,256; 4.75; good to choice lambs, $464.15; valley lambs, $3,7564; culls, $363.60. i BOTH DYNAMITE AND GAS. McNamara Prosecutors May Try to Prove Double Explosion, Los Angeles Masses of twisted iron and photographs of great girders will play an important part in the Mc Namara murder trial in determining the cause of the explosion and Are which wrecked the Los Angeles Times building year ago. Whether James B. McNamara by the use of dynamite brought about these deaths will be largely a question of expert testimony submitted to the common sense of jourors. The defense, it became known, will seek to show that the big steel plates were twisted out of shape by a fire, and fire alone. Dynamite, it is contended, would bend and not warp the beams, providing the charge was large enough to do .material dam age anywhere. The position of the state in this, as in other questions, is being guarded carefully, but it is said that the theory that a moderate explosion of dynamite ignited a store of gas liber ated by an purposely broken pipe, causing the great disaster, may be followed. Officials of the state attorney's office declined to discuss reports from Cincinnati of the finding of a cache of dynamite by George Eckpoff. NEW PRISON INDUSTRY. California Warden Would Havat Ex pert Cracksmen Build Safes. San Quentin, Cal. Warden Hoyle, of the state penitentiary, is planning what he believes will be the most pe culiar prison industry on earth. It is nothing more or less than the manu facture commercially of safes by skilled workmen who are now serving sentences in the penitentiary for bank robberies, safe-blowing and similar violations of the law. That the industry will be profitable Warden Hoyle is convinced. In test ing his plan before advancing it be yond the tentative stage, he has se cured results, as proof of which he displays a vault and a safe in the office of the prison clerk, Mark E. Noon, which have been virtually re constructed from old outworn articles by a prisoner under sentence of ten years for robbing a safe at Monvorvia. This man, who is a skilled mechan ic, will have charge of the division of the machine shop where the manufac ture of safes will be carried on, if Warden Hoyle's plans do not go awry. There are in the penitentiary many mechanics who are conversant with the manufacture of safes, and Warden Hoyle is confident he can build up an a lie warking force. RICHES BRING ONLY STING. Man Aged, Dying, Told of Bequest, Cries Out in Sorrow. Waterville, Kan. No joy came to Peter Odell when he learned that he was heir to a quarter of a million dol lars. He is 81 years old and is dying from an incurable disease. All his life he has lived in poverty, earning his daily bread by fishing and doing odd jobs. The thought of sudden riches brought terror to him. When he was told that his brother, A. H. Odell, had been found dead in Los Angeles, leaving a fortune of $500,000 to two brothers, the aged fisherman cried out: "My God! Why could he not live to enjoy it and not leave it to me? I do not know what to do with it. I am afraid of so much money." Hemlock Used for Paper. Wausaw, Wis. The problem wheth er a commercial grade of paper can be made from native woods, other than spruce, tor the solution oi wnicn tne United States government has estab lished a laboratory here, has been partly solved, according to announce ment made by J. 11. Thickens, who is in charge of the experimental work. Experiments have been going on for more than a year. Tests of pulp man ufactured at the laboratory have just been concluded and are reported high ly satisfactory. Packers On Trial. Chicago After more than' nine years investigation by the govern ment, the first criminal prosecution of individual meat packers under the Sherman anti-trust act has begun here before Judge Carpenter, in the United States District court. Ten Chicago packers will be placed on trial, charged with monopolizing and restraining in terstate trade in fresh meats. The penalty which may be inflicted if they be found guilty is fine of $500 or a sentence of one year in the county jail, or both. Women Launch Widespread Campaign New York Following the victory of the East in the national convention of the woman suffragists, it is an nounced that campaign is to be in augurated here that will have for ita chief purpose the spreading of the propaganda of the suffrage among the wage-earning women of this part of the country. The campaign will place emphasis upon the economic phase of the issue. A force of several thous and wage-earning women will be or ganized. Free Paper Is Demanded. New York The American Publish ers' association, through John Norris, chairman of its committee on paper, has sent letter to President Taft urging that the government observe good faith in the observance of the favored-nation clause of 28 treaties with respect to the free importa tion of pulp and paper when made from unrestricted wood. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE APPLE PROSPERITY TOLD. Hood River Grower Find Exhibits Unneccessary to Sales, Hood River C. L. Smith, a pioneer horticulturist of Kiesling, Wash., has been here endeavoring to secure an exhibit of local applet at the Spokane National Apple show. "When 1 approached your growers and your commercial club," said the Washington fruit man, "I found feeling of indifference toward the great fair. The fruit from your val ley has been winning first prizes year after year. In the many years that 1 have been connected with the differ ent horticultural and agricultural in stitutions of the Northwest I have al ways found that such an indifference as I find here is a plain criterion of prosperity." The former exhibits of Hood River fruit have been made through the commercial club. The carload exhib its of last year were very expensive, and the funds of the club were so de pleted that it was decided not to re peat the exhibit this season. It is the sentiment of many of the promi nent growers that funds spent on the opening of markets where the apples are not known will be mure beneficial than to spend the money on apple show exhibits. Mr. Smith was formerly of Oregon, where he was connected with the O. W. R. & N. Co., in ita agricultural demonstration department. t NEW APPLE HAS ORIGIN. Gold Hill, Oregon, Men Develop Un known Species of Fruit, Gold Hill W. G. Myers and W. T. Ward think that thoy have developed a new and distinct variety of apple on their Sums valley fruit ranch, and one that combines the best qualities of both the Newtown and Spitzenberg. The new apple is obtained from seedling top-graftings on old trees, all the cuttings being made from a single thrifty seedling tree. It has the Spitzenberg shape and the Newtown coloring, with a tendency to develop a red cheek that is more marked the present season than at any time since he graftings began to bear. As yet nameless, the new apple is a handsome fruit, rivaling the Newtown for keeping qualities but having no water core such as is often found in that variety. The skin is heavy and tough and the meat firm, which will insure its shipping qualities. The flavor is tart, and while slightly re sembling that the of the Y inter Ban ana, is distinctive. Having shown the new apple to many experienced fruit men, and hav ing found none who could tell what it is or had ever seen anything like it, Messrs. Myers and Ward consider they are warranted in the belief that they have originated a new variety. SOLDIER IS GOOD FARMER. Fort Stevens Sergeant Make S650 in Eight Monhts on Hog. Fort Stevens Fort Sotvens soldiers have demonstrated in a very practical manner to all Lower Columbia resi dents the vast profit there is in rais ing hogs and in the handling of a vege table garden. Beginning with eight hogs this spring, valued at approximately $200, tyuarterm aster Sergeant Hocking, of the Ninety-third company, has on hand at the present time 35 fat speci mens, the average value of which ex ceeds $30 apiece. In a period not ex ceeding eight months, he has in creased his assets to $1,050. Of this sum less than $50 was spent in provid ing feed additional to that obtained from table scraps, so that a conserva tive estimate places the profits to the company at 600 per cent in less than one year. Recently one of the older hogs was killed and found to weigh more than 600 pounds. At 12J cents a pound, the present price for dressed pork, this hog was worth $75. ESTABLISH NEW DEPARTMENT Klamath Gets Sawmill. Klamath Falls The Algoma Lum ber company has finished its contract at Pokegama and the plant has been loaded on 18 cars and snipped to Klam ath Falls. The company has pur chased the sawmill and timber hold ings of I). B. Campbell at Rattlesnake Point. It is expected to enlarge the Campbell plant, however, and to re move to this city box factory the company operates at Montague. The Algoma plant is expected to give em ployment to 200 men both at the mill and in the woods. O. A. Dallas Plant for Growth, Dallas According to present con ditions, Dallas is soon to have large machine shop, new depot and other railroad facilities, it being practically assured that a new railroad is toon to enter here, and this is to be the loca tion of a union depot and car shopt. Not only this, but arrangement are now on foot to erect large woolen mills in this city. Dallas it in need of such an industry and otters an ideal location for the same. C. Regents Inaugurate Useful Service for People. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis An extension division has just been organized at the Oregon Agri cultural college by the regent at their monthly meeting, and Prof. R. D. Hetzel has been made director. The plan is to conduct an organized cam paign of service to all parts of the state for the benefit of those unable to come to the college for the regular courses. The constantly increasing demand upon the college to solve problems for the people in the remote districts of tho state has grown to such propor tion that it became necessary to form this new division in order to fulfill satisfactorily this duty of the institu tion. The new department will include all such work as the farmers' institutes, domestic science demonstration meet ings, itinerute schools, demonstration trains, correspondence courses, exten sion lectures, tho organization of ju venile clubs, and like educational work. Every district of the state will be served through this medium, and men, women and children alike will thus be given an opportunity to receive in struction in any branch of the college work in which they are interested, without leaving their homes. The ex perts in agronomy, horticulture, gar dening, poultry raising, animal hus bandry, dairying, bee keeping, crop pests, business methods, cooking and sewing, flower growing, forestry, me chanical engineering electrical and civ il engineering, good road work, mining and other branches of instrution will direct personally these extension cou rses. Both the number and scope of the farmers institutes will be greatly in creased under this new plan. Travel ing schools with lalxratory ami staffs of from five to twelve experts will he sent to hold regular sessions of a week or mure in different sections of the state. Correspondence courses ami study clubs will supplement the in struction of these schools, and practi cal application of the methods tauirht will be made on the fiumi, ranches, and orchards of the students of such courses, bulletins giving in popular language the valuable practical in formation will also be distributed by the extentsion division. An informa tion bureau will be conducted in the same connection to relieve the various departments from the overwhelming flood of letters of inquiry, 84,000 of which were received last year. Other valuable educational work is also planned fur the division at the college. TUBERS OPEN EYES. Redmond Potato Fair Is Revelation to All Who Attend. Redmond Redmond's first annuaH potato show, held November 2, the date the O.-W. It. & N. demonstration train was here, was a success, and far exceeded the expectations of the Red mond commercial club, which promot ed the project. The idea of holding a potato show in Redmond was advanced by F. W. Graham, western industrial and immi gration agent of the Great Northern road, when he was here Railroad day. After seeing some of the exhibits of potatoes he said : "You folks have without doubt the best lot of potatoes grown in the United States, and it would be the best kind of advertising for you to hold an annual potato show, and make a specialty of that kind of crop. It would attract attention from all over the United States." The idea advanced by Mr. Graham was taken up by the Commercial club and the papers here, and though the time was limited in which to get up exhibits, the showing made was be yond the expectations of all. PKES1DKNT TAFT NAMES DAY OF THANKSGIVING Chicago-President Taft issued hi annual Thanksgiving proclamation, calling upon citizens of the United States to celebrate Thursday. Novem ber 30. a duy of thanksgiving and prayer. The proclamation read a follows: "The Hopl f 1", nvinK h long sanction and practice set apart toward tho close of each year a day on which to cease from their lubors and assemble for the purpose of giving praise to Him who is the author of the blessings they have enjoyed, it I my duty as chief executive to designate at this time tbe day for this devout purpose. "Our country has been signally fa vored in many ways. The round of the seasons has brought rich harvests. Our Industries have thrived far be yond our domestic needs, the produc tion of our labor are daily finding en larged markets abroad. We have been free from the curse of pesti lence, of (amino and of war. Our na tional councils have furthered the cause of peace in other lands, and tho spirit of benevolence has brought us into close touch with other peoples, to tho strengthening of the bond of fel lowship nd good will that link us to our comrades in the universal brother hood of nations. Strong in the sense of our own right and inspired by as strong a sense of the rink' of others, we live in peace and harmony with the world. Rich in the priceless pos session and abundant resource where with the unstinted bounty of God hat endowed us, we are unselfishly glad when other people pass onward to prosperity and pence. That the great privileges we enjoy may see our coun try more firmly established in the re gard and esteem of our fellow rations is the prayer that should arise in every thankful heart. "Wherefore, I. William Howard Tsft, President of the United State of America, designate Thursday, the 3(lth of November next, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, and I ear nestly call upon my countrymen ami upon all that dwell under the flag of our beloved country then to meet in their accustomed places of worship to join in offering priyer to Almighty God and devout thanks for the loving mercies He has given to us. " In witness whereof, I have here unto set my hand and caused the seal of United State to be affixed. "Done at the city of Chicago, this 30th day of October, in the year of our Iird one thousand nine hundred and eleven and of the independence of the United State of America the one hundred and thirysixth. "MY THE PRESIDENT. "P. C. KNOX. "Secretary of State." New Precinct Created. Springfield The county court ha created two new voting precincts here, making four now. This is in accord ance with the expressed determina tion of the county court to limit the number of voters in each precinct in the county in order that the ballot cast at the state and county elections may be counted before midnight on the same day of the election. In some of the larger precincts during the past rew year tne work or counting was not finished till well along during the next day after the election. Paisley Realty Improvement On. Paisley A number of new buildings are being erected here. The moat prominent of them la the new iraraire of A. Hartlerode. C. E. Camnhell I. building a residence, Clark Johnson a dwelling and 8. P. Moss, the ranch man, it remodelling a town property he recently purchased to use as a home when not on his farm. George Ranney ha put up a building next to the blacksmith shop and other build ing in the town have been improved. Tallman Depot Reopened. Lebanon Tallman, which has been closed for some time a a railroad sta tion, was reopened by order of the railroad commission. While there is not much business at Tallman, in the freight line, and few tickets are sold, ' the school fund is loaned on real nrot. it is considered by the commission of , erty and alxmt $1,000,000 on school sufficient importance to be kept open board bonds. A few of the loans on on account of the transfer busine ral property are being recalled or ad from the ISrownsville and Springfield , ditional security demanded where the trains. j security is not deemed sufficient. School Loan Examined Salem Land Agent Rinehart has just returned from Eastern Oregon, where he has been investigating the nature of the securties for state loans and finds that as a rule the loans are well secured. About $5,000,000 of PRICES RECOUP FARMER. Better Market Balm for Dcresed Crops of 1911. Washington, D. C The decreased production in crop this year, as com pared with last year, is being compen sated to the farmers of the country by the larger prices they are receiving as shown by figures given out by the Department of agriculture. Tho aggregate production of crops in 1'Jll, it is estimated, is approxi mately 7.9 per cent less than the crops or 1910 and about four-tenths of I per cent less than the aveiago production for the preceding five years. Corn was worth 12. 1 cents more a bushel on November 1 than on the same date last year; wheat 1 cent; oats K. 9 rents; barley, 2'J.6 cents; rye, 11.5 cents; buckwehat, 7.1 cents, anil potatoes, 20.6 cents, while the value of hay was greater by $2. CO a ton. Blackberry Minus Thorn. Santa Rosa, Cal. Luther Iturbank has developed a blackberry that is . : . l. , , . . oiuiun um morns. uurbaiiK lias been at work for 10 years on this plant and as a result he has secured a bush which has banrche as smooth and free from thorn as a cherry tree. Several semi-thornlos blackberries have been brought out by other exper imenters, but this Iturbank berry is said to be the first that is really free from thorns. The plant wizard has many specimens of the new plant growing in his big garden here. Poindextar Like Step. Spokane "I am delighted to see that Secretary Fisher, with the ap proval of President Taft, has come out squarely In favor of a government coal mine in Alaska, wjth transporta tion by rail and water therefor," an nounces Senator Polndextor. "Secre tary Fisher' proposal i identical with what I and other have been contending for, and we are delighted with the prospect of obtaining this powerful support." Railway Merger Hinted. Chicago Rumors of a merger of all the New York Central line, under one great general financial and operating management attended ih visit to Chicago of William C. Ilrown, president of the lines and W K V. derbilt, Jr., Harold Vamlerbilt, W. N Newman, Marvin Hughitt, II. H Loc. VHrd, C. K. Daly and C. F. Schaelf. one or u. visitors would discu.u ih. report. DEATH FOLLOWS WAKE OF SI Cyclone and Blizzard $J I' 1 v . f' misery ana uostructioi Chicago Suffer Hot WW J CM -r 1 A ...... rw.iuwi, iurnln t, Snow and lc. Chicago Report tt 0f dri, Injury and extensive prup, 1 resuuuiK i rum cyclonic Itony J raged late Saturday in Souths r cousin, Illinois nd low and Great Lake. The storm foon unusually hot jieriod during wbi J eral persons Were prostrated. Many persons are knoti a dead, aeveral dying, ami acurti jured. Intense suffering (ma bitter cold, snow and slet J rended Upon the bonus ii renorl the wake of the storm. Southern Wisconsin waatlsiW hit. Near Orfordvllle tiling i . i . v. u . . - i , re'neia w uavv orcurrra, and K Um, a row mile awuy, U, seventh. In the village of Vlrik Springfield. III., neurly rrjptD nuiiuing waa osmsgeo. store, churches and city pnpj Many were injured in the rt:-J flying timber and some of UkmJ ably will die. 1 In Iowa a 60-degree drop aJ temperature turned th pourJ Into driving sleet ami eoais! covered the cities, stopping etJ electric ana siesm trsmc. Property loss mounted up rtf'4 the trail of the Wisconsin rfdont Late advices indicate that tin J in Rock county, W isronsin, ! j number at least 17. Two drift Milton. Wis., were reported i train dispatcher's office of Um Cd go, Milwaukee & St. Paul nu-f but the wire were blown JoaS;i storm before the rejsirt could bid fled. Severe weather condition mJ ported all the way from UI Mountain. At Chicagu Uw m a tsined a awrep of 44 mile un and in the Yellowstone Park m Helena, Mont., the thcrmoaiw the government weather burtta so tered H below zero. At the Sault St. Maritaa Michigan more than anicci' fell. John Mahoney, a freight hra Chicago, waa overcome by Um H while at work in an opr h warehouse. The guveromnt w mometer registered 74 drsTwa time. Thi was the hotteat ber day ine 1 KHH, and th p number of prostration oecurw any other November day on roi Later on, however, a dritit started. Vivid lightning andtel thunder accompanied the ouwupar KING Off FOR INDIA Briliah Ruler Sail for Scamsf onation in Ealt, London The richly eouippsl K dins, conveying King (Jwrpj tiueen Mary anil escorted by a M n.n of battleships, weighed J Portsmouth Monday fr tnts vovaire to India.'where their nH will be the chief figures in tht tr lion Durbar, December 12. The kinir and oueen left Lon4 tho morning. A this w thirj estie' last apperanre in th j for nrrlv three months, their ture was mado with much wrenwf A ivm nun ! liv the I'r' Wales and Princess Mary. nd I j ed by the Imperial Horse Gu4rJ drove in an oin-n carriage by a W about way to Victoria station. -J I I Ilk nantJl") streets were nneo "r-r-gave the royal party an nthui j . . . nenooii. j I. a While doubtless saddened &J J lh,ui.,M f a lonir ahsenr frowl land, the king and queen the highest spirit. tad Rot 1st to Los AH. Paris The Portuiruea SaH'ell i preparing an act designed to hK the monarchist and deprlft" the mean of finncing noth w inir. All absentee monrcbi owner or other Portuguea rS abroad for political reason turn to the country within J be named In the law or their will be forfeited to th J property or mose com-i-"-;; confiscated Immediately. Tn Ion to seize property will deponed king MnueL Hen FUunt Trl-Color. ... . p.tnot'1 Mountain View, '.4 4 to the ultimate degree I in a new breed of hen now flw the national color at the - po" "7 of Dr. I. O. Royte. of W Hrlght red of head, pur body, and Indigo blue f "6, fowl came into the world ago. There are aeverai ' J hued bird and Dr. RoybJ "TlJ their extraordinary plumg I .. . ..nlatlon. sun or long expuro""" Widow Pnion San Franclsco-Cluti womy - city are planning a system oir J ing' widow, with ch. rn. Jessica Pelxotto. or me w( California, urged the P'W meeting. The plan - dri state authorities set ashie . disbursed annually. " " .u.mrt tuggested to make the apP0"'"