CURRENT EVENTS
OF THE WEEK
PEACE IN MEXICO DOUBTFUL.
WORKS ON CANAL BILL.
Believed General Orozco Will Resist
Senate Puts In Day Arranging Rates
Overtures.
of Toll.
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AND
I
PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE
Mexico City.—Official Mexico ap
Washington, D. C.—Agreement was
pears to regard with much pessimism
the outlook for peace. Attemps prob reached by the senate late Friday to
DALLAS FAIR BIGGER ONE.
WEST HAS NEW PLAN.
Doings of the World at Large ably will be made to reopen negotia take a final vote on the Panama canal
tions with General Orozco, but it is administration bill and all amend Second Annual Harvest Festival to Be
Told in Brief.
Legislature Will Be Asked to Name
Held in October.
generally believed the rebel leader in ments to it.
Special Board.
the North will resist overtures by the
Further important concessions to ! Dallas—The second annual Harvest
Salem—Consolidation of all of the
government. He was reported in a American shipping were made by the Festival and School Fair will be held
General Resume of Important Eventi
special telegram to El Diario as hav senate through amendments to the here on Thursday, Friday ad Saturday, state institutions under the manage-
ment of one board is a recommenda-
Presented in Condensed Form
ing refused to meet General Huerta at
canal bill. The toll-free provision for October 3, 4 and 5. This was decided tion which Governor West will make
for Our Busy Readers.
a point south of Juarez and there sur
American coastwise ships as supple upon at a meeting of the Dallas Com to the next session of the legislature,
render, adding that he would lead his
mercial Club held in this city recently, according to a statement made by the
forces into the capital itself within a mented by a qualified toll-free pro- and a committee on preliminary ar chief executive.
vision for American vessels engaged
At the present time the state board,
rangements was appointed. Last year
Seven murderers were electrocuted month.
in
the
foreign
trade.
which
includes the governor, secretary
An
echo
to
the
charge
by
the
Mexi-
in Sing Sing prison within an hour’s
this fair was given during the hop
A still more important amendment
of state and state treasurer, has con
can government that Senator Fall was
time.
responsible for the failure of Minister adopted by the senate bolds out an in picking season, and this fact injured trol of the two asylums, the state
China is preparing to establish a Hernandez to bring about an agree vitation to foreign-built ships owned its success. However, it is believed school for the feeble minded and the
fleet of commercial ships for foreign ment between the government and by Americans to hoist the American this year that this festival will be one state training school.
The governor
Orozco was contained in a special dis- flag and register as American vessels. of the best events of the season. It has practically exclusive control over
trade.
patch from El Paso. In that it was
This amendment, offered by Senator will be larger and better than last the state penitentiary and at the sol
Two trunks containing $22,000 charged that an American in El Paso Williams and adopted by a large vote,
diers’ heme at Roseburg.
The state
worth of opium were seized by officers had negotiated with the rebels, not would authorize American owners of year and will be advertised much more. school for the deaf and the state
tor the purpose of preventing Orozco
It is planned to have a Salem and
at Los Angeles.
from entering the United States ter foreign built ships, now compelled to Portland day, and to have a special school for the blind are controlled by
sail
under
foreign
flags,
to
bring
their
Girl plunges 800 feet off Mount ritory, but to keep the war going. It
train run from Portland to accommo the state board of education, while
Rainier to death, breaking every bone was charged that he represented a vessels under American registry pro date the Portland visitors. Upon this the tuberculosis sanatoiium is under
group of American bankers whose in vided they engaged only in foreign day the Chamber of Commerce of Port the control of a special board, of
in her body.
terests, it was alleged, would be fav trade.
land and the Salem Board oY Trade which the governor is a member ex-
ored
by the continuance of hostilities.
The senate worked for some time on will be invited to furnish some speak officio and the balance are appointees
China has offered the post of adviser
ln this paper it was asserted that the railroad control feature of the bill. ers for exercises to be held. It is be from various parts of the state.
to the government to William Rock
the American Government had served Senator Bristow opposed the plan for lieved that the Portland Chamber of
hill, an'American.
‘‘Useless waste has been discovered
notice on Mexico that peace must be governing railroad controlled vessels Commerce will be interested in this,
in connection with the many institu
restored
at
an
early
date.
No
confir
Three hundred ironworkers in San
for the members who visited Dallas
“This is
mation of this assertion could be se suggested by the senate and urged the during the Winter with the business tions,” said the governor.
Francisco, went on strike, demanding cured.
adoption of the plan passed by the
not because the members of the vari
men
’
s
excursion
were
favorably
im
$1 per day increase in wages.
house, which would give the Inter
ous boards are wasteful, or desire to
pressed with this city.
state
Commerce commission jurisdic
FRUIT
BILL
IS
PASSED.
be. They are unable to be otherwise
Two chained convicts leaped from a
The
Commercial
Clubs
of
Independ
tion.
ence and Falls City will be asked to under the system. The same thing is
Northern Pacific train at Whitehall,
One important restriction was lend their aid this year to make this true at the penitentiary, an institution
Provision Aims to Protect Growers
Mont., and made good their escape.
placed upon the Williams free ship the biggest affair ever held in Polk for which I am solely responsible.
From Importation of Pests.
amendment adopted.
This provided
Thirty-six soldiers and 20 passen
“Could the board have charge of the
Washington, D. C.—The Simmons that no foreign-built ship admitted to county. I he County Court has appro
priated a liberal amount of money for P’ ison along with the other institutions
gers were slaughtered by Zapatistas
when a train was attacked from am fruit quarantine bill, of great value to American registry should be allowed it, and the Dallas Commercial Club has there would be unanimity of opinion
every fruitgrower and horticulturist to participate in mail-carrying con authorized an expenditure of $1,000 to as to the control of these institutions
bush.
on the Pacific Coast, has passed the tracts unless it was constructed with make it a success.
which could not fail to work for their
President^Taft will likely appoint
House. The bill has been demanded particular reference to speedy and
benefit.
Colonel William V. Judson, a United
AGATE CARNIVAL IS HELD.
economical conversion into an auxi
by
Coast
fruitgrowers
for
a
long
time,
“A unity of management is essen
States army engineer, as governor of
tial to gain the greatest good and effi
it provides a rigid Federal quarantine liary naval cruiser.
Panama.
Curry
County
Has
Largest
Attendance
A somewhat similar restriction was
ciency from the institutions for the
in the United States against fruit,
on Record.
made
upon the granting of the toll-
The youngest mother recorded in seeds, bulbs and nursery stock from
taxpayers of the state and I intend to
free privilege to American vessels en
Port Orford—Port Orford’s second put the plan strongly up to the next
medical history is an 11-year-old girl
other countries which may be infected gaged in foreign trade.
The pro annual agate carnival was closed with legislative assembly.”
near Davenport, Iowa, who gave birth
with insect pests of any kind.
vision adopted by the senate specified
to an 8J pound child.
The bill primarily was drawn to that owners of vessels engaged in a fine display of fireworks and a re
production of the famous Indian battle
PENDLETON HUSTLING.
A mother bear stole into the Taft protect fruitgrowers against the Medi foreign trade must agree to sell their of Battle Rock on a larger scale than
terranean
fly
and
the
Malolos
orange
children’s camp at Yellowstone Park
ships to the United States in time of last year. The largest attendance was
at night and took her cub that had worm, the latter coming across the war or other emergencies in order to ^athered in the history of
coun- This Year’s Round-Up to Excel All
— * Curry
waxaj VUUU"
Mexican border and having created
been captured by the party.
be
exempt
from
the
payment
of
tolls
-----------
--
ty.
over
30
automobiles
came
from
Former Exhibitions.
havoc in Southern California. Here
Coos and neighboring counties.
when passing through the canal.
tofore
the
California
state
horticultur
Pendleton
—The task of building the
The Equitable Life Insurance com
Mrs. Robert McKenzie won the lov
Lower tolls for ships passing
pany of New York will build a 36- ists bad to fight these pests unas- through the canal “in ballast” were ing cup offered by Frank B. Tichenor bleachers in order to increase the
story home on the site of the building,
of seating capacity 3000, as well as an
The bill appropriates $25,000 for proposed by Senator Johnston, of Ala of Portland, for the best display
J
which was destoryed by fire last win- । 1 he first year, and becomes effective bama, and an amendment was adopted | agates.
armex at each end of the grandstand
ter.
i October 1. After the first year the
Mr. Tichenor suggested the idea of which will accommodate 2000 more
to authorize such reduction in rates.
an agate carnival to the Commercial than heretofore, was commenced this
Another fight developed against the t lub here last year which was adopted
An explosion of black damp and agricultural appropriation bill will
week at Roud-Up Park by Gibson &
carry
an
annual
appropriation
to
en
coal dust in a mine at Gerth, Ger force the quarantine. Representatives senate committee’s amendment to ex and will be made an annual feature Cole, contractors.
Permanent shed
empt
from
tolls
American
vessels
in
He has also suggested the building of room 660 feet in length, will also be
many, caused the death of 103 miners irom the Coast have urged this bill be
and 27 escaped with injuries.
fore the agricultural committee sev foreign trade whose owners agreed to an agate palace to include hall of the provided and the corrals will be con
eral
times, and it is due to their ef- turn them over to the government in same, material for Oregon Sons, and siderably larger than formerly.
Mrs. May Arkwright Hutton, a
1 this has been unanimously adopted bv
torts
that the measure was favorably time of war.
In the neighborhood of 240,000 feet
prominent suffragist of Washington,
he Commercial Club. It will be built
^'Ported and has passed the House.
of lumber and 100,000 shingles will be
will be a candidate for state represen
m
time
for
the
next,
or
third
annual
•his bill will soon pass the Senate, 1 RISE IN MEAT PRICES SOON
agate carnival.
used m malting the necessary changes
tative on the Democratic ticket.
where it is unopposed.
I ort Orford has the best agate at the Round Up grounds, and when
Spokane has let contracts for the
DUE FOR PACIFIC COAST I beaches on the Pacific Coast, but owing ^P,eted the grandstand will seat
macveagh orders probe
erection of a new $300,000 city hall,
to the inaccessibility heretofore the 6000 and the bleachers 15,000. or a
and Eastern bond buyers have refused
»u Sa" Francisc°—In an address before outside world has not known it. This total of 21,000. The bleachers will be
Largely
Increased
Customs
Revenues
to purchase the bonds issued to pay
the Home Industry league F L year the ball game, foot races, horse ¿1 rows deep, instead of 12 as at pres
for the work.
Expected as Result
Washburn, of the Western Meat com races and athletic events created great
Washington, D. C.-Plan8 for a pany, predicted that the Pacific Coast enthusiasm and all agree that this was ent, and will be the same slant as the
tbe biggest and best celebration ever grandstand, with footrests. An addi
I
PORTLAND MARKETS ] sweeping Investigation of the methods soon must pay more for its table held
tional row of boxes will be erected in
in Curry county.
of appraising importations into the meats.
i
fr°nt of the grandstand also.
|lnrred
WhlCh 18 eXP*Cted to
Wheat Truck prices; New: flub, 76 increase the revenues of the govern
‘Prices here,” he said, “are 30 per
The official Round-Up buttons have
PORTERS ACQUIRE TIMBER.
fu 77c; bluestem. 18i»80c; fortyfold.
cent lower than in Chicago for the
arrived
and are being distributed; the
ment
by
millions
of
dollars
annually
7Xc; Valley, 78,179c; old wheat, nom
ha ve been completed by Secretary ¿f choice cuts and from 10 to 15 per cent HUI Line Man in $257,0C0 Deal on ^ground is white, lettering black,
inal.
lower than in Seattle, Tacoma and
Siuelaw.
buekaroo’.” scarlet shirt to
MHlstufTs — Bran. $25 per ton; shorts 'ho Treasury MacVeagh. and a com-
Portland, but it won’t last. The re
t
“
e
Muir?.
bWn
ai,p
®
,n
te
d
make
h f \ UP’
Th'" year’8 P*n '■ con
$28; middlings, $32; rolled barley, $29.
Astoria
—
D.
M.
stu
art.
of
Portland,
tailer here has cut his profits to the i
ceded to be more neat and effective
Hay Eastern Oregon timothy, $15-
who
was
in
the
city
recently
reports
Revelations of the sugar and other lowest possible point in the effort to
'alley timothy. $12(^13; alfalfa $ 11 il*
that the Stuart & Ferguson Timber Snd ?ry R°und-uP souvenir of its
That is Company, a number of stockholders of kind yet used.
12; clover. $10; oats and vetch, $lO(ft rauds convinced Secretary MacVeagh meet before-the-fire prices.
withetha8 "om7b1« radically wrong the explanation of the purely local whirh reside in Astoria, has closed
11; grain hay, $1O«?11.
with the appraising system
He be difference up and down the coast.
Oats- New, 126 per ton.
onna f°r ’ »e sa,e of aPProximatelv
TROUT ARE PLANTED.
Fresh Fruits Apples, new. 90c(7? lieves an incalculable sum is being lost . 7^ ®8Ic«ncerna
general mar S aCrD8. °f yell0w flr tin’her in the
every year by careless and antiquated
$2.25 per box;
ket, the California and Nevada ranges Siuslaw River district to Johnson P
box; plums, 75c(t$l,10 per box; pears, methods. The committee Is charged soon will be able to supply the de-1 • ort*r of Portland, a member of the Ashland District Waters Aided By
’
’
»'
‘
'onimeml
revisions
and
improve
$1.20<i I . 0 per box; apricots. $1.25 per
Bonneville Hatchery.
mand. Not enough pork is raised ^ni ,o.i.Porter Bros., who are the con-
•’O’: grapes. $V(/2 per crate: black- ments to stop all loopholes.
' n ™ntractors of the Hill lines
west of the Rockies
to supply ine
the Io-
lo-
Ashland—Under the auspices of the
vnivn iu
berries, 75cm $1.25 per crate.
' Sut
I‘■«‘• market, yet barley-fed ham is the The consideration paid is $257.000
liners in collision .
?od u^b60 cans of y°>w
Melons Cantaloupes. 75cifî$L50 per
'
feet
nr
e
»i
B
L
08
’
?
wn
about
tOOO.OOO.'oOO
[best
and
California
is
the
greatest
of
crate; watermelons. $ I ft I 15 per hun-
trout,
40
of
rainbow and 10 of Eastern
n '7 Sin8law di«teict.
Frankfort and Barmen Returning to barley states. There is monev in it X we l
dred.
brook, reached this city from the state
as
well
as
a
sawmill
near
the
mouth
Potatoes lobbing price; Burbanks,
Port With 1200 Immigrants.
for the farmer who will raise hogs for of that stream, and this purchase is b 77’?.at Bonneville to be dis-
hew, 60m'90o per hundred
the market. ”
!™P’yadd,n* *° ,he,r »'¿dve e
Xinkv 'tnh8trearn8 "nd lakea in thi8
Amsterdam,
Netherlands.
—
The
North
\ eget aides Artichokes,
per • erman Lloyd steamship Frankfurt,
sive holdings. The Stuart * Ferguson vicinity the appcrtionment being 10
dozen; beans, 2c; cabbage,
per bound for (’anada from Bremen with
Rebels Take Haytian City.
t *7?% ^’“P®11^ a1^ owns another emk °five
brr0k in Ashland
pound; can litio wer, $Uq 1 »5 p(
of
fir heFe Conta,nln« 304.000.000 feet creek, five cans of rainbow and a like
1200
emigrants
on
board,
collided
with
Washington,
D.
C.
—
Hajabon.
Santo
en, m lery, 75m S5o per dozen: corn.
luT..
8l®«mer Barmen, from Domingo, has been captured by rebels
waU^o^F8™ Variefy in the head*
1 Dm 25c per dozen: cucumbers, 5
nr Rotterdam for Bremen, while off the from Haytian territory, according tc
W8ter3 of Emigrant and Neil creek-
c per pound; head
•
| Hook of Holland lightship. and Js now
Medford Pears Abroad.
lettuce
btate
department
advices
from
Port
- •<• per dozen; peas,
E'
Ve y and 30 C8n3 fn Lake °f the
1 Proceeding to the hook under tow.
pound; peppers, sr<i iot<
Medford—Because of the great in
Au Prince.
The fight whch resulted
Wlrelea. dispatches received at
pound :
River
0f
v
P
H
ar9
,
from
Ca
»fornli
Rog
ie
Seheveniugen from the Frankfurt say m the capture lasted 14 hours. The ins then’1!eV irUit Krowers are hold of Mb’ 9hipmt,nt is b«t a forerunner
Carrots,
of others soon to follow, it being the
an her passengers are on board and wounded numbered 200. The rebels,
sick; turnips. $i
the
F
as ,onR as Possible in water- heXh ’7^™" to hav* the
the Vessel Is in no danger. The timely it is said, crossed from Ounaminthe I van
$1 50 per sack
h°Thetha‘ better prtces wl" pre-
[anUal of two steamers calmed the Hayti.
The Dominican government
waters hereabouts well stocked.
The
Eggs Cast» count, 23c; candled
i
?.
a
"v.
nK
.
era
af
te
r
tee
collision
and
the
asserts
the
defeat
of
the
rebels,
with
extras. 2 7c per dozen.
^er°tbT
t,F? ,b,>Fe fi8h waB
great losses. Rights of foreigners and
Hutter — Oregon creamery butter. disabled vessel was taken in tow.
u
superintendence of H V
,re"
■' ''•« n"
cubes, 3
nations are being respected.
R'ebardson, an enthusiastic „gl„
per pound; prints. 32t*c
per pound.
and nimrod.
«»gier
Legends of Gold Lures
Fork—Fancy
28 Los Angeles Bsbies Die,
«711c per pound.
New York.—The legend of $30,000,-
Veal -Fancy. 14A4015c per pound.
Sacramento, Cak - Los Angeles’
New o. A. C. Catalogue Out.
1 >' ,1 13ijc: broilers, 000 gold hidden on Cocos Island In th. , deaths from infantile paralysis dur
va
¡7*°™
Agricuitural College, Cor-
is. young, 12c; geese Pacific Ocean ia the lure which ing July numbered 28. according to
valha—The new catalogue of the Ore
‘urk*ya. Hve. IS«120c/dressed brought Frederick Smodden from Cal- duplicate death certificates received
C°."ege’ of which «n
forward
it from th in? 9 Su.
«•ry. ( anada. to this city, whence he
'’ ’4
All the planned to P"
^m th^oSTor^
Hops Im- contracts.
ISHI ha. sailed for Central America. Smod- at the state board of health.
victims were children, ranging in ages
crop, nominal.
den said his knowledge of the treas
There have
announces the opening of £ 28th
Wool Eastern Oregon. 14.tlSc per ure a whereabouts was handed down from two to ten years.
pound according to shrinkage, Valley by < aptain Trevan. a sea dog of nrnnv been several hundred cases of the dis
the -8tate institation on Sept
2l‘v«i 22^c per pound.
ease in Southern California during the
Albany to Help Eugen. c.lebrate.
20, when registration and the exam^a
On
ia
back
’
plan
to
a
»'
a
rch
Cattle - Choice steers. $6. 75m 7.00; lliei *° d W° fru8,ra,ed hr «» fatal last several months.
!dm'"ion of students who do
good. $6
Th* Albany Commercial
med lu m. $V75„,«;
Club la inaugurating plan, alreX for UkeT.L ro
^hooD, will
choice co*« $5.7
Sood, $5.500
Explosion May Bs Accident.
take place. Recitations do not begin
medium. $5«-5 50; choice calve«.
Yiddish Paper to Start
Washington. D. C.—The Haytian
however, until Sept 24.
R ’
50: good heavy calve«. $$(£6 50'
■ San
. FVnnclMco A newspaper print minister to Washington. Solon Metos,
bulls. $3 50.15; stags. $4.75®«,
Hogs- • Jght, $8,(5; heavy, $6.250 ti,?? ’hH yMd,th ■•'»Kuage and de received from his government con-
T,n" "d "•"««'I-
voted entirely to the Interests of the
*®n ot th* I*l*co sxplosion and came here on July 4 to help ¡hkX
J***
,h
]• «o be established here the killing of tho president.
The ex
1 carlinga. $304.50; wethers,
the comP'*"on of the U» Hood
fis-«" I»
,ed,tor,*J guidance of Dr plosion was accidental and resulted
$3m 4.60; ewes. $3 0 3.75; lambs, $40
Allbougb U,.
L ^“o~n
of
Albany
$ 23.
» wldeljlknown from a fire in tho powder magaxin«
Jewish scholar.
bis advices say.
rewlv kill«! . a__“ ^IOC8
,„in,.£™;xse
;
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