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About Dayton tribune. (Dayton, Oregon) 1912-2006 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1912)
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK BIG GUNS SMASH TARGETS. Fort Stevens Sends 6-lnch Shells Home at 5-Mile Range. NEW NORTHWEST LINE BUILDING FIGURING ON CANAL TOLLS. Special Agent Is Studying Financial Aspect of Waterway. REBELS PREVENT SENDING ARMS Fort Stevens—The third $1800 sea Washington, D. C.—The letter of going battleship target is a mass of Sir Ewdard Grey, the British foreign splintered wreckage as a result of the secretary, to the Gateshead Chamber Doings of the World at Large most sensational target practice ever Direct Route Los Angeles to of commerce regarding the British at Told in Brief, titude towards the Panama canal act, Americans in Mexico Cut Off by held at Fort Stevens. The last target is regarded here as an indication that Spokane Is Project. was demolished by the Thirty-fourth Insurrecto Band. the negotiations between the two company with a six-inch shell. Im countries are to have a financial basis, General Resume of Important Eventa mediately 70 men under Lieutenant the foreign secretary’s argument be Presented in Condensed Form Norton, and ordnance officer, were I Trains Derailed, Bridges Burned, ing that British shipping is to be bur Distance Only 100 Miles More Than Passengers Sent Back—Cana dened with an undue proportion of the for Our Busy Readers. placed at work putting together an-1 From San Francisco —Offset nea Believed in Peril. charges for the maintenance of the other target. Working for eight! By Better Grades. canal through complete exemption hours without ceasing they accom from tolls of American coastwise Turkey and Italy are reported to plished what ordinarily requires fully shipping. Cheyenne, Wyo. — One detachment have signed preliminary articles of a week’s effort. In view of this, importance attaches i Los Angeles—A new railroad, bind- of the Ninth cavalry, under orders for peace. 7^ °i10X10 Mexican to an inquiry now being conducted on , ing the great Northwest and South left here at 6 :30 the isthmus by Professor Emory R. land, making possible the settlement The steamer Senator arrived at Se with three steel masts enmeshed in | Sunday night “ leave shortly. Other detachments Johnson, special commissioner on Pan and development of hundreds of thous attle from Nome with $1,200,000 in netting, was towed out from the Co-1 will lumbia river to sea by the steamer gold dust and a large cargo of furs. ama traffic and tolls. Professor John ands of acres heretofore far removed Fornance. son already has compiled statistics from avenues of traffic, is to link Los Getting on It. course 9000 »«rd. I direetl'n'g \hT ThS A noted Chicago artist has been ar bearing character and probable Angeles and Spokane. It will reduce rested charged with circulating num from the battery, the Forn.eee | proceeds the Me. “.„boXLr“ amount upon of -traffic will pass the distance between them several erous hand-painted counterfeit $10 steamed full speed ahead with the received Sunday by Colonel Charles through the Panama that canal. He now hundred miles and bring this city bills. Th Hn 8pray ‘^asl1lng over the target. , nameiu, the regiment. is engaged in a study of the financial nearly as close to Spokane as is San Hatfield, commander of of the 1000 1 men, and aspect of the result, so that the tolls Francisco. Jules Vedrine, a French aviator, I he gunners sprang to their positions, The regiment, nearly , ----- The surveys have been completed, won the world’s speed championship the huge 625-pound shell was rammed a * machine gun platoon, will leave may be adjusted to the needs of the at Chicago by a flight averaging 105.5 home, the breech-block slammed shut, Fort Riley in a few days for El Paso. canal on a strictly scientific basis, and and the new trans-state line will be the 36-ton steel barrel arose above the miles per hour. he is expected in Washington soon finished within three years, or by the cement breastworks, seemingly pois time the Panama traffic is well devel with this information. Naco, Ariz. — Mexican rebels have Blistering heat continues from the ing itself like the striking head of a oped. cut all traffic and communication be Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic. serpent. Advices received from towns which here and Cananea, Sonora GREAT ORGAN STIRS VETS. Cows refuse to eat and the milk sup A minor correction by the gun tween will be on the new line are that the Mexico, where about 500 Americans ply is almost cut off. pointer, the command to fire, and the plans have so far progressed that the reside. a passen Grand Army Joins Chorus In Lrain Shortly arrlv _ afterward Salt actual work of construction is under A Norwegian explorer declares he projectile, propelled by 175 pounds of , ger train arrived here carrying 500 explosive, was on its way toward rifles and and 150,000 150 non rounds a ~ — Lake Tabernacle. has found the descendents of the high way at two points, and before long the target. "ru fines of t ' ammuni- Norsemen who were lost in the Arctic the Salt Lake — A spontaneous _ and ers. dirt will be flying at several oth As it traveled through the air to I™”’ rby United States gov- regions 500 years ago. touching tribute to the power of the wards its destination, a second shell Houston Sn Antonio^T Sam The new railroad is a part of the Masked and armed robbers held up was hurled from another rifle The th« a • A ,0’ Tex- to arm great tabernacle organ and the organ Harriman system, and in working out ist, Professor J. J. McClellan, was T^e "bei^ the stage between F'ort Bidwell and first shell struck, scattering the wood- the right of way, several hundred paid by Commander H. M. Trimble, of New Pine Creek, Or., relieving the en framework in all directions; almost tempt to Dreven miles of existing line are to be used, the Grand Army of the Republic, and passengers of about $150. instantly afterward the second projec- from reaching th ’hlpmentof ar™ plus approximately 50 miles of con- his party. As guests at a special at Ca- Secretary Knox and suite arrived in tile buried itself amongst the tangled nanTa S « h organ recital in their honor, the com- st ruction flung across rugged moun wreckage of the $1800 target be P as8en £ er train for Ca- Japan as special envoys to the funeral mander and personal staff sat in the tains and about 150 miles of narrow The largest British dreadnaught XTsouS oTto^i t^ of the late emperor Mutsuhito, and re body of the tabernacle here. Six gauge reconstructed to meet the new planned is 700 feet long These tar J? • " f ,ntemational line, ceived a cordial welcome. hundred other veterans, with their requirements. gets are 60 feet long; therefore such senVe^^li^to The distance from Los Angeles to families, who were traveling with James J. Hill has organized a trust an enemy would represent a striking Spokane over the shortest existing him, occupied the encircling gallery. United States on a passenger coach company with a capital of $2,000,000 place for shells 12 times the size of One of the selections was: “March line is 1550 miles. By way of the Six bridges ‘ were and it is believed he intends to em- the target used for representing battle down the grade. burned. ing Through Georgia.” As the earlier new road it will be reduced to about bark in the steel business. conditions. strains rolled through the building 1175 miles. It is now 1075 miles from Care had been taken to conceal the New born monkeys at Baltimore are identity of the shipment Jof arms, but Commander Trimble became restless, San Francisco to Spokane, and this to be raised as nearly like human ba motorcycle kills twelve news that the Americans of Cananea and when the vox humana stop, with slight difference in favor of San Fran bies as possible, in an effort to learn had requested Washington authorities its haunting suggestion of the well cisco will be more than offset by the to what extent the Darwinian theory Racer Going 90 Miles an Hour to send them arms for self-protection, known words, was added to the chorus, elimination or material reduction of will hold. Crashes Into Crowd. and that the request had been granted he sprang to his feet and with out- many heavy grades. Mrs. Malcolm D. Whitman, former Newark, N. J. — Eddie Hasha, of is believed to have become known stretched arms beat time to the music ly Miss Jennie Crocker, of San Fran Waco, Tex., holder of several world’s among the rebel chiefs operating in and began to sing. The hundreds in UNPRECEDENTED RAINS cisco, arrived in New York with her records for motorcycle racing, plunged this vicinity. the gallery took up the refrain.’ husband and $60,000 worth of pet over the rail of the course of the New “While we were marching through | Not only are American Jives be RUIN FRUIT AND HOPS dogs. ark motordrome, into a crowd, caus lieved to be in danger as a result of Georgia,” throbbed against the dome the vast building and a thousand San Francisco—For the first time in The city museum of Portland, Or., ing the death of six persons, including recent operations by the rebels, but of eyes were wet as the strains died 25 years, this early in September, rain himself, while six are dying and 13 the mines must close lor lack of fuel has been presented with a copy of the are bady injured. within a few days, mining engineers away. fell Friday and Saturday. Up to noon Boston Gazette of March 12, 1770, in state. After a brief stop in Salt Lake the nearly half an inch was the record I he only three of the six dead posi which is an editorial urging colonists tively indentified ,up to a late hour Cananea is one of the most exten- special Grand Army train took up its established for the two days. to refuse to buy tea from England. were Hasha, Johnny Albright, a Den sive copper mining centers in the journey to Los Angeles for the Na From the great interior valleys of Indications are that the apple crop yer motorcyclist who was riding third world, and the Cananea Copper com tional encampment. the state come wails from orchard- will not be up to expectations, and in the race, and Edward Fischer, a 17- pany is the richest corporation of its ists, vineyardists and hopgrowers that year-old boy of this city. The other j k ln ^ exico - The railway destroy prices are advancing. , ALASKA RATES CUT AGAIN the greater part of their crops have three dead were boys and young men ed by rebels runs from a point on the been ruined. A report from Fresno Mexican rebels are reported to have among the spectators. Two of the American border to Cananea, and is a Shipping Interests in Fight for Busi says that from one-half to two-thirds sacked and burned the town of Ahuah- probably fatally injured are Edward part of the Southern Pacific of Mexico of the entire table and shipping grape ness— Tariff Lowest Yet. uetilan, cremating one merchant in Rolle and Frank J. Amburg, each 17 system. crops have been ruined by the rains his store. years old. Seattle, Wash. — Officials of the ■ Hundreds of carloads of drying fruit In Cananea are about 500 American U ive thousand spectators were wit men and about 50 American women. Alaska Steamship company announce spread on racks in orchards could not nessing the finish of a four-mile free- About 100 of these are American cow the second reduction in ten days in be stacked and covered in time to pre PORTLAND MARKETS for-all race when the daring young boys from surrounding ranches. Re freight rates from Seattle to South vent loss, the rain came so suddenly rider, doing 90 miles an hour, took his cent threats of rebel leaders to attack eastern Alaska ports, precipitating a in the middle of the night. Wheat—Track prices: Club, 80c; fateful plunge. He was pitched head Cananea now are now taken seriously rate war which is expected to be the -- - IMUSI V In the great Sonoma valley thou bluestem, 82«/83c; forty-fold, 81c; hrst 50 feet into the air. His body here, in view of the late develop most spirited in the history of Pacific sands of hoppickers have suffered Coast shipping. valley, 81c. was shapeless when it was picked up ments. three days and nights of severe hard Rates on general merchandise from ship, as they have never been asccus- Barley—¡Feed, $25.50«/26.50 ton almost at the feet of his wife, seated in the bleachers. Seattle to Ketchikan, Juneau, Skag tomed to go to the fields provided PLAGUE STOPS FARM WORK. brewing, $28.500/29 per ton; Mill way and all other ports of call in with tents or other other protection Albright was thrown head first in stuffs—Bran, $23.50 ton; shorts, $26; the other direction into the enclosure The storm found these Kants» Farmers Without Horses Can southeastern Alaska have been cut to from rain. middlings, $32; rolled barley, $28. $2 a ton, the lowest tariffs ever placed thousands sleeping unprotected in the of the track, when the champion’s not Get Fall Plowing Done, in effect by a steamship line operating fields. A dispatch from Santa Rosa Corn — Whole, $38.50; cracked, wheel came sliding down the steep bank and struck him. He was picked Topeka, Kan.—Farm work is going to the north. Southbound rates are reports more than 1200 acres of hops $39.50 ton. up for dead, but he lived in an uncon undone in Western Kansas for lack of unchanged, as are rates to Seward. together with supporting poles, were Hay—Eastern Oregon timothy, $15; scious state more than two hours. horses killed by the plague. Crops <- ordova, V aides and other ports of co lapsed and on the ground as a re- valley timothy, $12«/ 13; clover, $10; remain ungathered and fall plowing is call in Southwestern Alaska. sult of the storm. It is feared that Mobilization Is Indicated. weeks behind. On many farms all The first reduction, announced ten when full reports from the entire state oats and vetch, $10«/ 11; grain hay, Until experts days ago, ranged from $1 to $3 a ton. are received the amount of damage $10;./11. Douglas, Ariz.- Movements of Mex the horses have died. ascertain a remedy for the disease, ican rebels below this point indicate a will reach an enormous figure. Oat»—Spot, $29«i30 ton. Be rdw? Patrol Increased. mobilization. Rafael and Emilio farmers are unwilling to purchase Fresh Fruita—Apples. 5Oc(</$l.5O ( ampa, two rebel chiefs, have joined more horses. Washington, D. C.—The appearance Oil Lands Held For Navy. per box; poaches, 35.</65c box; their forces 20 miles south of Agua The disease is rapidly spreading of a large number of Mexican rebels plums, 1«/ 1c pound; pears, 2c; grapes, 1‘rieta, the Mexican town which ad eastward, according to reports receiv at Ojinaga has made it necessary to — — i . . seven $1<" 1.50 box; blackberries, 50c«/ joins Douglas. Salazar’s avowed in ed by J. H. Mercer, state livestock increase the American patrol force in thousand acres of oil lands in the Elk niils, California, adjacent to the Mid $1.35 crate. the Big Bend section, and troops are tention of moving west along the bor commissioner. way and McKitrick oil fields, have (Inions Walla Walla, 75«/ 85c sack. der and attacking Cananea would in Seven Mercer sent out a warning that being sent from Fort Clark. Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur dicate a general mobilization of all horses all over the state should be hundred federala are encamped ten been withdrawn from entry by the banks, 60(</65c hundred. rebel forces, numbering 1000 men, kept off pastures and given no water miles below Quitman and the rebel president and will be held for develop- by th« United States Vegetables -- Artichokes, 65(075c and superior to federal commands. except from wells. The streams and general. Salazar, with 1000 men, is in UXv dozen; cabbage. 1 ,/ l|c pound; cauli ponds are said by the experts to the Caputinan mountains west of Sa navy It i8 the intention of the Navy flower. $l«rl 25 dozen; celery. 50«i 9inkwpI>9on this area sunrrn with diplococci, a variety of binai Station on the Mexican North Salazar Makes Apology. and use the oil on naval vessels equip 75c; corn, 15«i25c; cucumbers, 50c which cause« meningitis. western railway. Neither side is Hachita. N. M. — Conferences be ped with oil burners. In the opinion box; head lettuce, 20<r25c dozen; moving to attack. of many officers, the time is coming peppers, fxu 6c pound ; tomatoes, 50«/ tween United States army officers sta Bombs Set By Black Hand. here and the Mexican rebel when oil will be universally used on 60c box; garlic, 8(u 10c ■ pound; carrots, tioned Mother» to Go to School. leader Inez Salazar, took place on the New York-“Black Hand” agents all warships. $1.50 sack; turnips. $1.25; beets. Kansas City — The high cost of liv bonier about 50 miles southwest of made three attempts to blow up as $1.50. here. Major Sedgwick Rice rode mJ« to k . buildings in the city Sunday, ing is in the greatest problem today Aviator Up 16.240 Feet. Egg» -Case count. ____ _ 22«i 23c ; can- the boundary to talk with the rebel many the tenements in which the bombs and its solution lies with the wives Houlgate, France—Roland G. Gar- die«!, 25d/26c; extras. 28(</29c. and mothers of the nation, in the leader. Salaxar apologized to the Rutter — Oregon creamery, cubes, American officers for the incident a were placed housing more than 75 opinion of the board of education of wnHH’l ec,ip9ed the old families. Iwo of the infernal ma 33c pound; prints, 34«l3Aic. altitude by about few days ago, when Mexican rebels of chines were discovered in time to pre Kansas City, Kan., which offers spe A’cendiD* « mono Pork Fancy, 11 |«i 12c pound. his command crossed the line and fired vent them from exploding, while the cial inducements to mothers to attend Diane ‘c Veal—Fancy, 14i«il5c pound. plane. Garros went up 16.240 feet, the night schools. These include a on American soldiers on patrol duty. third shattered window» and doors on iau^h^^h1-^* rarified «tmosphere Poultry — Hen», 13*c; broilers, two fl'ors 'of a building in West nursery and kindergarten for the chil ator^and the av 14J<il5c; ducks, young, 10c; geese Morgan Would Buy Ruin». dren of students and special courses 8(<i 12c; turkeys, live. 22c; dressed’ > Rom»—Newspapers here say that J. Thirty-fifth street in which it had in cooking and “how to make a $20 hat iator had to volplane to the ground been placed. No one was injured. 25c. for $2.” Three hundred have enrolled. The previous record of 13,779 feet P. Morgan has submitted *to the Iul Cattle —Choice steen, $7«/7.25; ian was made at Vienna. June 29, by the government a plan for completing Chines« Troops Revolt. Austrian aviator Czakay In thi« good. $6.25«/6.75; medium. $6<</6.25; the excavations of Pompeii and Her Measles’ Secret Found. flight he carried . passenger. th” Tientsin—A serious military upris choice cows, $6«/6.25; good. $5.5044 culaneum. It is said that Mr. Morgan Washinton. D. C.~ Dr. John F 5.75; medium. $5(d 5.25; choice cal Is willing to bear the entire cost of ing has taken place at Yunnan. The Anderson and Dr. Joseph Goldberg, of Canadian Immigration Heavy. governor general has left the town, ves. 17^8.50; good heavy calves, uncovering Herculaneum. but his designation is not known to the public health service, have suc $6 25«t7; bulla, $3«/4.50; stags, $5 Ottawa, OnL — During the four the public. Yunnan is the capital of ceeded in inoculating monkeys with «15.75. Airship Falls; Four Killed. measles, something said to be hitherto the province of the same name and is Roga—Light, $8.75«/9.25; heavy, (.ray. Franc»—An aeroplane got m Southwest China. The province unknown, and in course of their re 209.642 immigrants arrived in Canada. ku 8.50. searches have made discoveries which Of thia number 143.742 arrived at out of hand at an aviation meeting Sheep Yearlings, $3 50*14.65; here and swept to the ground, crush has 122,000 square miles and 12.300.- promise to make the malady less dan 6\9°° fr™ the Unit- wethers, $4^4.«0; ewe», $2 85<3.75: ing a score of spectators, four of 000 inhabitants. Yunnan, the eity gerous. The germ was found to be so X«at f 1 figure» show an in- has a population of 100.000. It is a minute that it passed through the whhH^L1/ lambs, $5« 16.60. C“t “ compared whom were killed outright. walled city. of the^ast thie Wrp*P0Bdi«»r month» pores of a porcelain filter. or tne last fiscal year
