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REBELS VICT
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TEACHERS' STRIKE
SAY "WHEN" EARLY
MERC! UNHEEDED
OF POISONING GIRL
ON LAND AND SEA
BEST II HIST
TUTORS OP X1GHT TRADES
CLASSES SEEK MORE PAY.
DALLAS WOMEN' TO TAKE HAND
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10,000 Bales Go on
Coast at Big Price.
TOTAL OF DEALS $800,000
Intense Excitement Prevails
as 40 Cents Is Offered.
DEALERS CROWD FIELDS
Only 11.000 Bales tft In Oregon
After Whirlwind Market Some
Ge 40 l- and 41 for Yield.
Advance Is Predicted.
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Testerdsy was a record-breaking day
for the Oregon hop market. The vol
ume of business dona on the Cotrt was
the largest tor a single day In the hit
try of tha world's hop trade. Pur
chases of mora than 10.0O bales were
made In the three states, and mora than
half of these were mad In Oregon. The
day's sales amounted to StOO.OOA.
HopniVn have no recollection of a
time when the excitement was so in
tense aa It was yesterday. It spread
to the growers, and. contrary to the
usual coarse of thins;, they were as
ready to meet the buyers aa the latter
were to care hops. This was prob
ably because fhe market reached the
figure at which so many of the farmers
had decided to sell.
It waa a 48-cent market from the
opening of business to the close. For
a few lota WH cents waa paid and on
or two crops were taken at 41 cents,
bat the going price wss 40. and the
matter of qusiltjr did not enter much ln
the trading.
Almost every dealer of Portland and
Patera was In the game. The offices In
both cities were deserted, except for
the principals, as the buyers, agents.
Inspectors and other employes had been
hurried Into the country by the earliest
trains or by antos.
Heavy Bayiag Ceatlaea.
The buying. In fart, started Thurs
day night and was kept up without In
terruption. Herman Klaher remained
In his Portland office all night, busy
with the telrphone directing his lieu
tenants or dealing direct with growers
at their homes In the country.
Although 40no hales or more were
purchased in Oregon, it Is safe to say
tha unfilled orders were twice as many
as those enecuted. While many grow
ers were glad to gt 40 cents for their
hops, there were more who held out
for SO cents or better. When It Is con
sidered that hops cost ( to 10 rents a
pound to produce It can be seen that
the sales at yesterday's prices netted
the hop plantera handsome returns.
The buying made a big hole In the
available supply of hops on the
Coast, it was estimated last night
that there are unsold in Oregon
now only about 13.000 bales, and
only a few thousand bales are
left In Washington. California has
probably Jo. 000 bales to dispose of.
Elsewhere In the world, growers stocks
are exhausted. Never before In the his
tory of the trade has the supply been
so reduced at this early period of the
season.
A I,ondoa cable received yesterday
said the entire English crop had been
sold out and that the market had ad.
vaneed to 340 shillings a hundred
weight. This is equal to 11.41 cents a
pound. The crop of continental Europe
la almost out of first hands and the
New Tork crop ss well. That Is why
the buyers turned their attention to the
Pacific Coast.
F.aa-lUa salaaaemta latendeel.
Of the hops bought In Oregon. Wash
ington and California yesterday, fully
TS per cent were taken for shipment to
England. From the viewpoint of the
man who has not yet sold, this Is tha
strongest factor of the market. Since
the 0rst of the month the export buying
ha been continuous. It assures the
shipment out of the United ftatee of
a great quantity of bops In a year
when the American brewers cannot
afford to see a pound of hops go
abroad. Tha question naturally arises,
where will the I'nlted Ftates brewer go
for his hope. He will be . forced, of
coarse to fill his large wants aa best
he can from the small stock left on
this Coast, ana he will pay dearly for
bis delay.
This Is what has happened In Fng
land. The English brewers allowed a
great many b-lea cf English .bops to
be shipped to Oermany. where there
waa a partial crop failure, and now.
realising the shortage, the brewers of
tCwsTledaa ea fas a 12.)
Two Smaller Bodies Are Old Frlenda
but Others Are Strangers.
One- Visible at Dosk.
SAN FRAXCTSCO. Oct. 20, (Spe
cial.) According to reports from Licit
Observatory. University of California,
the sun la holding a twrt of social levea
during the present week., fix comets,
two of them bright enough to be aeen
with the naked eye. are now in the
neighborhood of the sun.'. .
Two of the smaller bodies are paying
regular visits' In the course of their
ordinary orbits. The other four are
strangers, dropping In now unan
nounced, and for the first time so far
as the astronomers know of. '
The brightest comet Is visible Just
after sunset. Just north of the sunset
point. It has a bright head and a tail
about-seven degrees long. .It will re
main visible for several days.
The second comet Is said to be
brighter than Halley's It was discov
ered by Dr. Brooks last uly. It had
last night a tall 20 degrees In length.
It should be looked for In the morning
Just before t o'clock northwest of
Venus, the morning star.
SHOT PEPPERS NEIGHBOR
Altoona Man Mistake Friend for
Marauder of Henroost.
ASTORIA. Or., Oct. 20. (Special.)
William Helner, a resident of Altoona.
on the north side of the Columbia, was
brought to the hospital here early this
morning, suffering from a gunshot
wound Inflicted by a neighbor.
Helner and H. L, Miller, who live
in adjoining houses, have been bothered
by chicken thieves. Last night both
heard their chickens squawking and
rushed out to frighten the supposed
thieves away. Helner fired his revolver
into the air, while Miller, thinking the
hen-roost robber was shooting at him,
fired his shotgun at the flash of the
pistol, filling Helner- breast full of
bird shot.
On being brought here, many shot
were removed from Helner'a breast, but
none of them had penetrated sufficient
ly deep to make any serious trouble.
MISS HELEN G00DE TO WED
Portland Cilrl Is Engaged to Young
Italian Nobleman.
Rumors of another international ro
mance hare come to this city with tha
news that Miss Helen Goode, daughter
of Mrs. Edith F. Goode. was engaged
and soon to be married to Teno de
Morltxl. a young nobleman of an old
Italian family. The engagement has
not been officially announced as yet.
but Mrs. Ooode, who Is In New York, is
soon expected to make It.
Miss Ooode became acquainted with
the young nobleman on board the
steamer while on the way to Europe.
The courtship followed and now comes
the news of the engagement.
Teno de Morltxl was educated In this
country, and received his degree from
Tale University a short time ego.
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Loyal Chinese Army
Driven From Camp.
GUNBOATS FORCED TO RETIRE
Imperialists So Hotly Pursued
They Abandon Baggage.
ENEMY "WELL INTRENCHED
Advance Conducted With ' Caution,
Hundred of Huts Being Burned
to Prevent Ambush Rein
forcements Are Obtained.
. REAK-ADMIRAL MrRDOfK TO BE
NEAR BfKNR OF HOSTILITIES.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Rear-Ad-mlral
Murdock. commander-in-chief
of the Asiatic fleet, cabled to tha
Navy Department today that hs was
leaving Manila tor PpanxhaJ. to be
nsarer tha scene of tha Chinese dis
turbances. Hs announced that he was leaving
on the Rainbow and that his fli
shlp. the Saratoga, would follow him.
IIAJTKOW, China, Oct. 20. The rebel
army has won a victory on sea and
land, after two days' fighting. The
Imperialist army has been forced to
retreat and wait for reinforcements
and -the loyal gunboats have been
driven down the river. The govern
ment foroea are now encamped at Bev-en-Mlle
Creek. The reoel army is well
entrenched three miles from the city
and it Is believed here that the ad
vantage already gained will be fol
lowed np without unnecessary delay.
"When the fighting ceased Wednes
day night the revolutionists took up
a strong position. Reinforcements for
the rebels arrived during the night and
early this morning a force fully 8000
strong began advance on the Imperial
encampment.
The advance waa conducted cautiously.-
On the march the rebels
burned hundreds of huts, fearing am
bush. The loyalists' infantry made a
faint show of resistance. When the
rebel scouts reached the imperial
camp they found It deserted, and the
main body entered, waving banners
and shouting.
NEWS OF REVERSE WITHHELD
Fugitive Imperialists Likely to De
moralize Whole Army.
FEKIN', Oct. 20. It Is apparent here
tonight that the Imperial government
Concluded on Pase (S.)
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Town. Council Prepares Official
Blacklist for Those Who Can't
Carry Their "Wkker" Well.
DALLAS,, Or, Oct. JO. (Special.)
The pink, elephant, tha apotted tiger
with the wooly neck, the friendly co
bra, the dark-brown taste and other
gentle housebroken pets and coaw--ItanU
of the morning after have -.n
doomed and cast out of Dallas forever.
This by virtue of an ordinance passed
by the Dallas City Council last night,
which makes.it harder for the merry
inebriate to get the dram his soul
craves than for an honest man to pass
Into a pay-aa-you-enter car without a
nickel. v
The ordinance puts control of the
thirst problem for the convlvlally in
clined largely Into the hands of the
women of the family, though It is not
limited to them. The feature of the
law Is an official "blacklist of habit
ual drunkards'" . or other persons , in
the habit of becoming intoxicated, as
the city fathers naively added.
Any father, mother, wife. son,
daughter, sister, brother or guardian
of any such person has the right to
have his name placed upon this
"blacklist." So has the County Judge,
the .Sheriff or Constable, the City
Marshal or City Attorney. The "black
list" Is to be posted conspicuously In
pktces where liquor is 'sold Including
drugstores, the ordinance says, and
any licensed bartender who sells a
drink to anyone on the list Is liable
to a fine of 150 to $100, and revoca
tion of his license.
But that Isn't all. Any person not a
bartender who takes pity on the plight
of the one deprived of his Hlkker"
makes himself liable to a fine of $25
to 1100 or Imprisonment up to 40 days
in the City JalL
Dallas folk are hopeful that this
ordinance will decrease the number
of habitual drinkers in the city.
AGAIN PORTLAND LEADS
Seattle Is Outdlstancd In Bank
Clearing for Week.
Bank clearings-for the week showed
substantial Increases In nearly all Pa
cific Coast cities. Portland's totals
were $14,848,000, a gain of 19.4 per
cent over the clearings for the corresponding-week
of last year. The total
clearings at Beattle were 114.406,000. or
$448,000 less than at Portland.
Both Ls Angeles and San Francisco
made good showings. San Francisco's
clearings amounted to I66.14V.OOO and
the totals at Los Angeles were $24.
$70,000. Spokane made a gain of 191
per cent, the clearings of that city
being $5,672,000. Tacoma had a loss
of per cent, the total clearings being
less than those at Spokane.
Thomas W. Lawson Acquitted.
PLYMOUTH. Oct. 20. Thomas W.
Luwson. the Boston financier, was. or
dered acquitted on a charge of dispos
ing of property by a lottery. In . the Su
perior Court here. The complaint was
made by the Watch and Ward Society
of Boston, after Lawson had presented
a horse and carriage to the holder of
a numbered ticket to the annual fair
of the Marshfield Fair Association.
REBEL VICTORY AFTER TERRIFIC BATTLE.
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Taft Says Law Must
Be Enforced.
POLICY WILL BE VIGOROUS
Wyoming Hears Declaration in
Strongest Terms.
ADDRESS MADE IN SNOW
Blizzard Seems Imminent as Train
Speeds on, and Buffalo Robes
Are Comfortable on Drlve
at Fort 3IcKenzle. -
NEWCASTLE. Wyo Oct. 20. Presi
dent Taft again made 't clear in a
speech here tonight that It was his in
tention to enforce the Sherman anti
trust act, no matter how much offend
ing combinations squealed for mercy.
"The Supremo Court," said Mr. Taft.
"has rendered two decisions one
against the Standard Oil Company, or
dering it to be broken up and disin
tegrated Into parts, and the other
against the American Tobacco Com
pany. There are other companies that
are charged in the same way; some of
them are coming Involuntarily to di
vide themselves up. And just as we are
about to reach a proper and successful
administration of the law we begin to
find that there are some people that
object to the Administration because of
the fact that we are prosecuting those
trusts and enforcing the law.
Doty Will Be Done.
"It Is a case where the Administra
tion is In the situation of being damned
If it does, and damned if It doesn't.
But our understanding in the Adminis
tration la that when the President lifted
his hand and swore to defend the Con
stitution and enforce the law it meant
something: and when there was a law
upon the statute books for 20 years to
suppress these combinations against in
terstate trade, to monopolize and to In
terfere with trade and to control prices,
it waa his business and the business of
all under him to enforce the law, and
that Is what we are doing.
"And that is what we propose to do,
no matter whether we be damned or
not. The prosecution of these ' great
combinations that have been engaged in
tryfng to prevent competition must go
on until either the law Is repealed or
the law Is enforced that no combina
tions shall exist which shall be able to
prevent competition and establish a
monopoly; and that is the policy which
the Administration has adopted and in
tends to carry through."
Snow Falls on Speakers.
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Institution Falls to Open Because
of Walkout, Instructors Asking
$40 Instead of. $30..
Seven men teachers and school
ma'ams of the night classes of the
School of Trades have "struck" for high
er' pay and the classes have not been
opened, due to the "walkout." The in
structors demand $40 a month Instead
of $30, as paid heretofore.
Though scheduled to open Monday
night, the Trade School has been dark
all week. Superintendent Rigler order
ing Principal Brandon not to open the
night classes when he learned that tho
teachers had refused to serve at the
salary fixed by the Board.
Superintendent Rigler declares he
understood that all the teachers but
one were satisfied to continue over the
night classes at the old pay and Mr.
Brandon says he reported that none
would serve for less than $40 a month.
The teachers are required to teach
three sessions of two hours each every
week. They declare the strain of
teaching .both night and day Is so great
that they feel Justified in demanding
$10 more.
Members of the School Board have
thus far refused to heed the demand for
more pay and it is possible that the
night trade classes will not be re
sumed, although 100 applications for
enrollment have been received.
'.The teachers will be summoned be
fore the teachers' committee of the
School Board to discuss the trouble, m
an endeavor to settle the subject ami
cably.
OREGON IN TRYOUT SPIN
Famous Battleship Uses Engines for
First Time in Six Years.
SEATTLE, Oct. 20. The battleship
Oregon, rebuilt and modernized, moved
under her own steam for the first time
in six years today and made a trial
spin from the Puget Sound Navy-Tard
across the Sound to Seattle, around the
Seattle harbor and back to her anchor
age at Bremerton.
Since she was laid up at the Navy-
Tard six years ago the Oregon has un
dergone extensive alterations. New bat
teries and machinery were installed
and the spin today was made to test
the engines preparatory to sailing Mon
day for Los Angeles, where the famous
old battleship will Join the Pacific
fleet for annual inspection.
The Oregon came Into the harbor at
full speed and her maneuvers were
watched by a throng that turned out
on the waterfront to get a look at the
old fighting craft under way.
WOMEN , VOTERS PLEASED
Miss, Appointed Deputy City Clerk,
Wins by Womanly Tact.
VANCOUVER, Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe
clal.) The problem of getting the wo
men voters of the city to register has
been solved by Vancouver. Hundreds
of women, who have steadfastly main
tained that they would never vote, are
to be seen at the City Hall registering.
The secret lies in the employment of
a young woman as deputy city clerk.
Miss Kathryn Clancy has been appoint
ed. Miss Clancy asks the questions in a
way that does not offend and women
do not mind telling her truths about
themselves that they would forever
keep frcm a man.
Now that the women are registering
in large numbers, the men are coming
out to register and often accompany
their -wives to the City Hall. It Is
popular among women to close an af
ternoon's meeting by going In a body
to the City Hall.
BEAR MAULS OLD HUNTER
Infuriated by Gunshot Wounds, AnU
. mal Attacks Defenseless Man.
EUGENE. Or., Oct. 20. (Special.)
Fearfully clawed and mauled by a huge
black bear which he had wounded, Lee
Whitmore. an old miner and hunter of
the Bohemian District, was brought
Into Cottage Grove this morning, almost
dead from loss of blood. His body was
badly mangled and his injuries may
prove fatal.
Whitmore was walking tHrough the
woods near the Champion mine when he
came upon the beast, which charged
him savagely. Whitmore stood his
ground, and fired two shots into the
infuriated animal, which exhausted his
magazine, as he had forgotten to fill it
before starting, and the bear was upon
him before he could run.
Miners found him somo time after
wards, and 10 feet away the dead body
of the bear, which was one of the larg
est ever seen in this country.
WASHOUGAL DEPOT ROBBED
Safe Resists Attempts Believed to
Be Work of Amateurs.
WASHOUGAL. Wash.. Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) The Washougal station was en
tered by robbers Jiere last night and
an attempt made tb open the safe. The
till was torn from its place and rifled.
It contained only a small amount of
money.
The office was left locked by L. H.
Freeland last night and when the lo
cal freight arrived two hours and a
half later the conductor found that the
office had been ransacked. Examina
tion showed the' Job to be the work of
amateurs.
Arrest is Made at Home
Of Fiancee.
DRUGGIST'S EYIDENGE VITAL
Sale of Deadly Cynaide to
'Kill Troublesome Dog' Told.
DETECTIVES LIE IN WAIT
After All-Nlght Vigil Around Barred
and Bolted House Where Sus
pect Stays, Officers Com
pel Surrender.
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BOSTON. Oct. 20. A narrow cell In
Charles Street Jail tonight holds the
Rev. Clarence Virgil Thompson Rlche
son, the young pastor of the Emman
uel Baptist Church, Cimbridge, who
was arrested today for tho alleged
murder of Avis Llnnell, of Hoyannis,
Mass., to whom he had been engaged.
His commitment to Jail this after
noon on a charge of first degree mur
der marked a temporary end to a chain
of circumstances which police detec
tives have followed since the death of
Miss Llnnell last Saturday by cyanida
of potassium poisoning.
Girl Is Found Dead.
Miss Llnnell, who was 19 years old
and a student at the Conservatory of .
Music, was found dead in the bathroom
of the Young Women's Christian As
sociation home here.
At first the police believed that she
had committed suicide but later de
velopments Indicated that she had un
knowingly taken cyanide of potassium
sent her by some other person. In the
belief that it would remedy her em
barrassing physical condition.
Officers Watch Houive.
For several days the police inquiry
made little progress but information re
ceived late yesterday that Mr. RIcheson
had bought cyanide of potassium at a
drugstore In Newton led the officials to
decide upon his arrest. A dozen offi
cers, headed by Superintendent Watts,
were forced, to maintain an all-night
vigil outside, the fashionable home in
Brookllne of Grant Edmands where the
clergyman had been staying during the
last week before RIcheson was taken
into custody.
Frequent pulls at the doorbells, rap
pings and shouts failed to bring any
response from those within the houso,'
and the police, who were without a
warrant, were unwilling to make a
forcible entrance.
Mr. Edmands is the father of Miss
Violet Edmands for whose marriage to
Mr. RIcheson, on October 31, cards had
been Issued. These Invitations wero
recalled today.
Druggist Faces Suspect.
The Edmands family, however, re
tains faith In Mr. RIcheson and the only
announcement in connection with the
withdrawals of the cards was that the
marriage had been postponed. Even
when faced by William Hahn. the New
ton druggist, who declares that RIche
son had purchased cyanide of potassium
from him, a week ago Tuesday the
minister was apparently unperturbed.
Hahn, who has known RIcheson for
several years, told how RIcheson
walked Into his store, Tuesday even
ing, October 10, and said:
"I've a dog at home that is creating
a disturbance. She-will be a nuisance .
unless I can kill her soon."
Preacher Hu Tto Don.
Hahn said that he responded to
RIcheson, "I never knew you had a
dog." and that Richeson replied that
he had kept it in his room.
Inquiry by the police where Mr,
RIcheson roomed developed the pres
ence only of a male dog owned by tha
landlord, who said Richeson had never
owned a dog during he eight months
he had lodged there. ,
Hahn said further that he suggested
chloroform to Mr. Richeson, but the
minister wanted "something that will
work quick." Cyanide of potassium was
mentioned as acting Instantly, and tho
druggist said he gave Richeson enough
to kill three dogs, but the minister
asked for more and the preparation
finally amounted to enough to poison
ten men.
Prisoner VadIstiirbL
In a statement regarding Richeson'" '
arrest. Superintendent Watts said he
found the man in bed but awake and
looking undisturbed. He asked if he
would be charged with the murder of
Miss Llnnell. He was allowed to talk
privately with Mr. Edmunds.
Miss Edmunds burst into tears wrien
he bade her goodWy and threw her arm
about him. He comforted her. saying.
"Don't cry. dear; don't cry. Everything
will be all right." .
According to some friends of Miss
Llnnell, at the Y. W. C. A. home here.
she had dinner in her apartments with
a man Sunday before her death. The
police are working on the theory that .
a paper with the poison was handed to
her at the time, but they have not de
termined that her companion at dinner
was the clergyman. !
Option Law Violation Charged.
EUGENE, Or., Oct. 20. (Special.)
Five Srrlngfield men were arrested by
deputies from the Sheriffs office yos-
terdav, cnargen witn violation oi m
local option law.
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