THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR
Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County
Oregon, on Friday.
Entered as Second CIa Matter August 1, 1912 at the Post Office at Inde
pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act ol March 3, 1879.
D. C. BOVD. Business Manager CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor
SuDScription Rates: One Year $1.50 Strictly in Advance
Independence, Oregon, Friday, June 12, 1914
The way to coax T. R. back into the republican arty is
to give him the nomination for president. This will bring
him.
Thirteen is Judge AJcNury b lucky num her. toalem
Statesman. Th Judge ia enf ringing on the prior rights
of Wood row Wilson,
BLOCKADE OF PORT
ORDEREOBY HUERTA
Sends Two Gunboats to Tam
pico to Head off Munitions
for Mexican Rebels.
Lend A Hand, the newnpaper published in the Oregon
penitentiary by convicts, should have a larger circulation
Every itbue ii a warning against the folly of wrong doing
Numerous paprs are complaining that it costs too much
to be a candidate under the primary syBtem. As long as
tht) cost doesn't decrease the number of candidates the
country will continue to be saved.
It is true, as Mr. Taft remarks, that Mexico is an "inter
national nuisance." Hut identifying a nuisance doesn't
abate it. What is Mr. Taft's recipe? McMinnville Tele
phone-Kegi3ter. Mr. laft handled the 'nuisance very
well while he was president.
Wilson and Bryan's friendship for Carranza and Villa
has been evident for some time, audit is probable that
they are depending on the Constitutionalist leaders to
settle the Mexican problem. Ktigent Register. Give Villa
plenty of powder and tthot and he will shoot his way to
peace and take care of the remains.
Joth friends nnd enemies of Theodore Roosevelt hope
that he will be the progreHtdve candidate for governor of
New York this fall. His trieuds predict that he would be
triumphantly elected making bin nomination for the presi
dency in l'JIG Hvne. Ilia enemies declare that he would
be budly beaten thus removing him as a political factor
for all time. It is hardly thought that ltoosevelt will risk
a test of his popularity bo eurly in the political game.
The Shop
Opposite
Pr F. A. MITCI IEL
Tlie ho) opixiflio," imia Mm. Smith
to her biislm ml one morning while
they were d reunion, "has bvou at taut
taken. Tim Iku To IV liim dlsap
DoareJ."
"Um!" iinmt-l Mr. Smith, who wim
tylmc Ills cm vnt hrfore the mirror.
"Tim alioi h.nIIi lias been ii'inil
as incut ami vcuelablc umiki-t,"
alil Jlrx, Smith to lior hiiHlmuil n fov
mornliiKK lutor lill lio was bniNliiiij!
bin hair,
"ITuil" wild Mr. Hmltti ukmIii.
"IK jrmi know, ilwir." wild Mm.
Pmlth on u tli In) (Hviihtou, "Unit tin
hop oiHmite U kept by n very pretty,
ladylike wunmu? ulio Iiiih men a tul
facw.
"Why do yon tuk m much Interest
In the gimp opposite?" naked Mr.
Smith.
"I admit (lint at Hint it win
rsuroiy, my ilcnr, you were nttm
when you aniil your motive wns inter
est, not curiosity," mild Air. Smith Iron
Ically.
"I ahull not my anything more to
you Hlmiit tluit shop, but you'll Dud
out,"
"I am quite content to awnlt devel
opmonu." Two day after tills niinouncemcnt
Mrs. Smith Haiti to her liuahniul:
"I vug look ln out tli window yes-
tenlMy noil hmw that pule fared lioy
coining out with ho ninny bundles ho
couldn't carry them. He dropped one
or them ou the sidewalk, the paper
broke, nnd w hat do you Biippose cauio
out on tho Hubs?"
"What?"
"Oh, I foiKt. I wnsu't to say any
tlihiK more about tho aliop opposite,
wa ij"
"I Biiip(Mo It wag flour."
"No, It wiiHti't"
"SuKiir?"
"No. You needn't nsk nnv mora.
aim II not Rriitlfy your curiosity."
i merest, you menu." And Mr.
Smith left lila wife ivlih a glkbt show
or impatience.
One inonilnw Mm. Smith not out of
tied nnd, jr,iitr to the window, uttered
Washington. A new crisis In the
Mexican gituatlon wag brought about
by Preniilent Hunrta ordering gut
boats to blockade the port of Tampico
and to suize a cargo of ammunition
en route there for rebels aboard the
Antilla, from New York, flying th
Cuban flag. Hiinrta notified the pow
ers of hln intention to blockade th
port and that he proposed to seize
the cargo consigned to the belliger
ents against hi sovereignty a con
traband of war.
The purpose of the United States
to suppress the attempt to blockade
and prevent interference with the An
tllla was indicated when Secretary
Daniels lHSued an official statement
announcing that while no new orders
had been given Admiral Badger, there
had been no change In the policy of
the government In reference to the
desire that the port of Tarnplco shall
be open to all commerce.
That an attempt to carry out the
Huerta blockade decree w ill be made
was verified by Admiral Badger in a
report to th navy department from
Vera Cm. He advised that the Mex
lean gunboats Zaragoia and ISravo,
which left Puerto Mexico had passed
Vera Crui and were steaming toward
Tampico.
NEWS FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Administration Trust Program
Bills Passed, Are Now Up
to Senate.
Husrta Orders Blockade of Tampico,
Mexico City. The foreign office
aont a note to the legations notifying
them that the port of Tampico had
been blockaded by order of President
Huerta. The United States govern
ment wag also notified through the
Spanish minister at Washington.
VERA CRUZ PRICES SOAR
Funston May Open Army Food Mar
ket to Restore Normal Costs.
Vera Cruz. llrlgndlcr-General Fun
ston announced that he contemplated
appointing a commission of Mexican
residents and American army officers
to Investigate the Increased cost of
living in Vera Cruz since the occupation.
Complaints have reached the gen
eral that wholesale dealers and Im
porters have been squeezing the retail
dealers and hotelkeepers. Several im
porters are known to have considera
ble stocks on hand, but they are forc
ing up the prices.
It Is said General Funston may seek
permission to sell army subsistence
to restore normal prices.
Deputies Guard John D,
Tarrytown, N. V. To guard against
molestation of John I). Rockefeller
and his son nt 1'ornntlco Hills,
thought to be posHlble due to strike
developments in Colorado, 16 deputies
from the White 1'lnins county jail
were jiluced on the Rockefeller estate.
through l'lmiMtloii of surprise.
CUi luiJtj, bui now it m iroiii a liilterent -i:it la It, ..oar?" u.-iJ hoi- lius-
motive. TM km, I f,....i v.. ,,,i i .1.. iiauil
llift a very k'0 business. 8li Is well- "TI shop opposite Is closed, nnd a
lhR much cheaper than the ot her H'.-rmau is standing N-foro the door."
tores, but delivers no iro.uk Even I "Well'"
purclinwer must curry home what tie I "' rto '"'I'"
has boiiKliL"
"X tlou't yet see the motive you
poke of."
"1 haven't rt to It yet. What iws
les mo In that, though there n
many pimlmc, (here are few buyer.
1 have been aide to count only seven
persons kuIiiit Into tho store today,
but dome of t beiii Imve pone In et?;Iit
ten times.
"Viti ,!...'. ...II .I.- I. . .i.
ww mvu tun iiwi i.-iiiiesiiy, tie
yonT"
"No,"
"What Is It r
"Interest."
"Vui!" wild Mr. Smith, end h went
dowuHtulin to tiivnkiiist
That win itie txi;liiulnjf of what be
fame, to Mid. Smith, n uijstery, tu
tu wtiicli Mr. uillh took no lnter.-st
Whatever If his Bile t-ld linn tbat
one little pale f:uvd ! tm.k out
twenty pat knes diirlna Hie day he
lmily reumi ko,l tti.it the shopwom;ui
had probably liiied bllu to make dellv-li-.
I'rob.il.lv nhe would M up a
w uini aftir awhile
"I tell jim. dear." mild Mm, Smith
one uioiuiiii!, xv lien the hop opptite
had U'ou runuuii: e-eral weeks,
"thife'a noin.-llitan ptvullur about tbat
biiHliHKs never see any of the
BeiiihtHirs da Hhk there. I've wntoti.il
the persons tu go In there and th.-y
are nearly all uinier twenty rear of
ace. I iiow- rverv one of them
that Kior woman Iinsn't
trot Into trouble."
'l'tieie was u brief slleiu-e. after which
Mr. Suilih Hsk.nl bin wife t lon i,nl
what hail count out of the bundle that
hud ttroppod on the sidewalk.
"lli't," she said.
"Olrtr
"Yes. nolliliiK hut dirt"
Mr. Hinlih arose, dnwsetl and Tveut
down to breakfast. Hi wif t,etj:el
hliu to serosa (lie trvt nnd ask
Uie iHdlceinaii what hud bnppened, hut
be Ill-lined to go till after he had
brenk fasted. Then he millled forth.
tniketi awhile with the o nicer ami re
turned.
"VellT" asked Ida wife.
"Your Intercut In the shop opposite
had it foundation after ,tn. You know
the Jnll l on the oilier street, and It
tun ks up imainst tlieslH. Last ul:ht
prlscner escaied lhrou:h ft tunnel
k'.'iiUna from the shop to his cell. Ills
wife kept the vhop. Ills oMeat son du:
the tunnel, ami hi ehiutien cnrrleil
way theeuili in par t-ai;."
'I'.Thaps." iv IUh1 lr-i Suitth, "when
I tell you hereafter that xmiiothliiK Is
piliiK on In the neighborhood you'll be
lleve ii ,e.
"I don't see why they kep (heee ste
pld men on tht police f.u-ve when they
'ail x'ot women. tne w.,m:ui for suv'h
S Kervhe Is worth a huml ed men."
"Mr deir." said Mrs Smith year
Inter, the man w tin en-u i vd throuuh
PRESIDENT BELITTLES
HASTY WAR SPIRIT
Annapolis, Md. President Wilson
aroused Bpeclal Interest In closing his
address to the naval academy grad
uutliiK class by his declaration that
the young men of the navy should be
ready to fight for the public welfare,
"aud not merely on the drop of a hat
or upon aoiuo Blight punctilio." In
view of the "flag Incident" at Vera
Crux unil Its subsequent disappear
ance from the discussion of Mexican
ufi'iilr. this reference to punctilio bb
fnliiiiK short of being a casus belli
wus noted with gmlles and knowing
iioiIh.
'II, o president also told the young
mill-, .'dpinen that the boys down at
Vein t'"ru would leave as their most
lasthiK Impression on the people of
Mux. 10 the fnot of their self control,
not tho way they fought.
A smut crowd of 6000 persons, of
floem, cadets and relatives and
(Honda of the graduates, filled the
armory.
na . ., , ,, , . we lunuei i innocent l tie real crlu)
ahere . . you ,1K tellow .bout el-a. Uul
a irt aUiut
Indlotmsntg Found Against Plumbers.
Ds Moines. Indli'tuieuts were re
turned against 84 officials and mem
tn of the National Association of
Sdaatcr Plumbers and officials of state
Orgauliatlous in Ulluols, Wisconsin,
Utohlsran, Minnesota, Missouri, Neb
riinXa and Iowa by the federal grand
Jury. The Indictments charge con
Iplracy In restraiut of trade In viola
tion of the Sherman antitrust law.
tt ! spsclflcally alleged that the Na
tional Association of Master Plumbers
has been operating in violation of luw
ever since Its oriiuutEutluu lu 1684.
10.000 Workmen Strike.
Pittsburg Ten thousand workmen
employed by the Westlnuhouse Inter
ests In tho Hunt of the Westtnghouse
Klectrlc Manufacturing company,
the Vestltii;hoiise Machine company
aud the Pittsburg Meter company,
a'ruck.
Washington All three bills on the
administration trust legislation pro
gramme passed the house and were
sent to the senate for action.
Opposition melted when the final
test came, and the voting went
through quickly. The Covington in
terstate trade commiRslon bill was
passed without a record vote: the
Clayton omnibus anti-trust measure
received 275 votes to E4 against It,
and the vote on the Rayburn railroad
capitalization bill was 352 to 12.
The Covington trade commission
bill would create a commission with
broad Inquisitorial powers over cor
porations engaged in interstate com
merce.
Bureau of Corporations Abolished.
After abollBhing; the bureau of cor
porations and the positions of com
missioner and assistant commissioner
of corporations, the bill would turn
over the organization and powers of
the bureau to the new commission. It
then provides that all corporations
with a capital of not less than $5,000,
000, except those now subject to the
Interstate commerce commission, shall
submit annual reports, "records of its
organization, bondholders and stock
holders and financial condition" to the
commission. The commission may
also designate corporations having a
capitalization of less than $5,000,000
from whom It desires reports. It may
call for special reports, In addition
to the regular annual statements re
quired by the bill, and would provide
a penalty of $100 a day for delay In
filing reports.
Senate May Segregate BUI.
The senate interstate commerce
committee voted to report out only
the trade commission measure of the
trust bills. The action was construed
by many as an Indication of limita
tion of the administration's pro
gramme at the present session of con
gress.
There wag no record vote. In a gen
eral discussion some senators opposed
the motion and others declared them
elves opposed to the bill at the pres
ent time. Chairman Newlands said
the committee later might take up
supplemental legislation and issued
this statement:
"The committee determined to seg
regate the trade commission from the
upplemental legislation and author
ized me to present an amendment in
the nature of a substitute for my orig
inal bill for a trade commission. The
committee concluded to name the
trade commission the federal trade
commission, Instead of the Interstate
trade commission, in order to clearly
distinguish it from the interstate com
merce commission.
Mellen'g Story of Sacrifice Denied,
Charles S. Mellen's recent testi
mony that he, as president of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail
road, allowed himself to be Indicted
In the Grand Trunk case to shield the
late J. Plerpont Morgan, was flatly
denied before the interstate commerce
commission by Lewis Cass Ledyard,
of New York, who was a director of
the New Haven at the time.
"I want to any in the moat unquali
fied torms," Mr. Ledyard asserted,
"that Mr. Mellen did not offer himself
as a vicarious sacrifice for Mr. Mor
gan."
There are Indications that the in
quiry into the affairs of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad by
the Interstate commerce commission
will be completed this week.
National Capital Brevities.
The house will be engaged this
week with the $107,000,000 sundry civ
il appropriation bill.
President Wilson requests that, for
sentimental reasons, the Lincoln mem
orial highway pass through Washing
ton.
Few senators expect debate on the
trade commission bill to end In less
than two months. At present the pros
pects for adjournment before the mid
die of August, or even later, are not
bright.
President Wilson went through the
evidence on which the Indianapolis
dynamiters were convicted. A million
laboring men have petitioned him to
extend executive clemencj'.
Narratives of the bravery of enlist
ed men of the navy and marine corps
during the fighting at Vera Crux on
April 21 and 22 were included in Rear-
Admiral Fletcher's report of the Mexi
can port's seizure, made public by
the navy department.
Two measures are to be pressed as
quickly as the appropriation bill ls
out of the way. They are the Moon
postoffice bill, providing for railway
mall pay readjustments and opening
up the assistant postmastershtps
throughout the country to competitive
examinations, and th general dam
bill, which is before the house for
action on a moment's notice.
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