r t REVIEWOF All the Principal Events of the Week Bciefly Sketched for the Edification of Journal Readers Foreign, Eastern, .Political and Congressional News Notes to Be Pre served for Reference; Congressional THE Borah bill, directing that patents hall lsius to homesteaders on gov eminent irrigation projects as soon ,aa they comply with the requirements Of the homestead law. has passed the bouse. The bill gives tttle after three ljrar -Instead- of -wa4ting 10 and 15 years, as under the present law. The 'efforts of President Taft In behalf of this bill aided materially in its passage. Judge Archbald of the commerce court was arraigned In the senate Monday and denied in detail the 13 articles of Im peachment against him. It is thought his trial will not be undertaken before fall. The wool, sugar and excise fax b'Hjy as nassed bv the senate came up in thn house Tuesday, and each in turn was defeated and forred back uon the sen ate, with none of the amendments ac cepted. A bill reported favorably by the house commerce committee Tuesday makes it Illegal to sell any drug under the name Cf some other article; makes compul aory the printing of the proportion of alcohol.' morphine or other narcotics in drugs offered for Sale, and prohibits the printing on labels of false curatives and therapeutic claim. The Canadian reciprocity act 1 still a law, the house having refused to ac cept the senate amendment abolishing it. . For the first time since President Taft'e Inauguration, a veto was over ridden Wednesday when the senate by a vote of 2 to I7, passed over his veto a bill to reimburse those who furnished labor and supplies to contractors on the Shoshone. Wyoming, Irrigation project. The house bill framed to give author ity to the money trust investigating committee to probe various financial in stitutions has been adversely reported by the senate committee. The bill was designed to give congressional commit tees equal rights with the comptroller of the currency in the investigation of na tional banks. Two more Judges face impeachment proceedings by congress. Charges have teen filed with Speaker Clark against Justice Wright of the District of Co lumbia supreme court because of his re eent decision in which he sentenced fiamuel GomDers and other labor lead- are to Imprisonment, and tboussade ef people-are signing a petition asking con- gTss to investigate cnargea maun against unltea fSiaies juage opeer ui Georgia, who It Is said Is using his Ju- The aentlment in ravor or more Dar tleshlps Is gaining strength in congrees dally, and It now seems certain that at least one new battleship will be author Ised. After having voted In caucus last jweek: against the battleship program, Democratic leaders, In, the house have been forced to caira second caucus on I the naval bill to be held next Tuesday Wint. M t Congress has not yet passed the ap propriation bills, and the government found ItseW again bankrupt Thursday, when an emergency measure was rushed through carrying forward the appro iprlationa aa they existed In July until August 16, It Is said that $30,000,000 Is needed to, meet pension claims of old aoldtera. By a vote of 14S to 109 the house disagreed to the senate amendment con tinuing the present tariff board In of fice for another year By an almost unanimous vote the aenate on Friday adopted the Lodge resolution defining the attitude of the Unlt4Haif'' disapproval of the ac quietflon "by foreign Interests of any territory on the western hemisphere. The cotton tariff revision bill passed the house Friday. The measure Is Identical with the one vetoed by Presi dent Taft. The conference committee reported an agreement on the wool tariff bill, and an agreement was also reported on the steel bill. . Executive GOVERNOR WEST has completed his famous horseback ride across the state of Oregon,and arrived In Boise last Monday, accompanied by Governor Hawley, who met the Oregon executive at the state llnd Governor West was enthusiastically received all along the line and made many addresses. The con ference of western governors opened in Boise Thursday. Secretary Knox has again notified Mexico that attacks on Amerlcaii Sftl aena must stop and that Mexico will be held responsible for loss of life and damage to. property of citizens of this country. Orozco replies that he has authorised the disarmament of all Americana, but will afford protection to . all foreigners and their families. President xan nas commuxea xne prison sentences of A. W. Hedderly and lUchard Mynes, convicted at Portland of complicity in land frauds. Physicians had testified that the men would die If longer Imprisoned. The resignation of. United States , Judged. H. Hanford has not been ac ' cepted; and it Is the belief In Washing ' Joa that President Tart plana to maka THE - THE WORLD'S NEWS PRESENTED PICT.ORI ALLY AND f , ;. .. rimy y-imwml f . i tha Hanford im an umpa; Uluitrat- WlV'T'X VX ULV 'T' V.' '-v'l 1 1- ? 4 ' V M ! f V " ' v 1 - ' ill " ' Political X reply to the administration's defense of the proceedings at Chicago last month. Colonel Roosevelt gave out a statement this week that compared the renomlnatlon of President Taft to the election of William Lorimer to the United States senate. The two classes, he declared, stand on the same moral plane. In a letter to Governor Wilson this week, William J. Bryan enclosed a check for 11000 as his contribution to the Democratic campaign fund. A canvass of the members of congress shows only five men who intend to quit the Republican party and follow Roose velt Into the third party. They are Sen ators Dixon, Poindexter ahd Clapp and Representatives Curry and Lafferty. Several other Republican members may support Roosevelt, but are opposed to the organization of a new party. All details are completed for the third party convention which meets In Chi cago at noon tomorrow. Ex-Senator Beverldge of Indiana is to be temporary chairman and deliver the keystone 6peech; John Parker, a new Orleans Democrat, has been selected for perma nent chairman; Comptroller William A. Prondergast of New York will nominate Colonel Roosevelt, the seconding speeches to be made by Governor Joihn son. Judge Ben Llndsey and former Governor Garvin of Rhode Island, and Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, is to be a delegate representing the woman suffrage advocates. Judge E. B. Dillon of Columbus, Re publican nominee for governor of Ohio, has announced his withdrawal from he race. Inability to reconcile the factions of the Republican party in the state is given as the reason. At the request' of Governor Wilson, Herman Rldder will be retained as treasurer of the Democratic irational committee. The vote at the Idaho primaries Tues day for the Republican gubernatorial nomination was so close between John M- Haines and Paul Clagstone that it may .require the official count to de clde. although at last reports Haines was leading by 600 votes, with Gladstone steadily gaining. Governor Hawley Is the Democratic nominee. United 6tates Senator Borah had no opposition on either "the Democratic or Republican tickets. Congressman French was re nominated and Addison T. Smith, Sen ator Heyburn's private secretary and a standpatter, was named for Idaho's new seat In congress. The action of the Kansas state courts in refusing to order the names of eight Roosevelt candidates for ' presidential electors strleken from the Republican primary ballot was partly reversed Thursday night by Justices Vandevanter and Pitney of the United States u preme court. The decision, however, la not a final victory for the Tafy forces, as, the full bench will act On the mat ter when it meets In October. It was an Interesting event at the White House Thursday when President Taft was formally notified that he had been renominated at Chicago. Benator Root told the President that his title to the nomination was clear and unim peachable, and the president replied, ac cepting the nomination, assailing those responsible for "popular unrest," and denying that the tariff Is responsible for the high cost of living. Commercial and Industrial DUN'S semi-annual review of business conditions In Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Alaska, Just Issued, is de cidedly optimistic. Vast gains are shown In all lines of Industry. The vis ible cereal production,, s estimated at 120,300,000 bushels; the hop crop at 130, 000 bales; wool and mohair, $8,362,000; fruit, $19,970,000. Jn lumber there has been an Increase in demand of 10 to 15 per tent, while railroads 'have plSNti contracts amounting to $25,000,000. Something over $6,000,000 has been spent In railroad construction in the past half year, and new construction and Improvements are outlined that will de mand 1 8,000,000, more. Directors of the Port of Boston and members of the chamber of oommerce have planned a line of fast freight and passenger steamers between Boston and Los Angeles by way of the Panama canal'. Seven steamships will provide weekly sailings, the trip to Los A b gelea to be made ln15 days. The financial statement of the United States Steel corporation for the second qtnirterefll'howe earnings totaMng $25,102,2(6, after deducting all expenses Incident to operation, and net Income of $18,429,294. With the completion of a piece of track about HO miles long, between Orin Junction and Powder River, Wyoming, James J. Hill wilt have a direct rail line between Portland and Galveston. Texas, over whlchhla lieutenant bf - of the proceeding, at Chicago laat 1 &l . XJ2WJ L . iUl J ' V vl fl "U V , ll " OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL' PORTLAND, SUNDAY : 1 George W. Perkins of New York, prominent figure In Bull Moose convention organization, who states that Roosevelt'g campaign will not be hampered for the lack of funds. rr" 2 Miss Margaret Andrews, 17-year-old daughter of Mr. -and Mrs. Paul Andrews of New York and Newport, whose engagement to Vincent Astor is rumored. 3 Eugene H. '""j Grace of Atlanta, Ga., who asserts that his wife, Mrs. Daisy Oplo Grace (No. 4 In the group) shot him In splte.of the fact that she was acquitted of the charge on Friday. '. 5 Colonel George, W. jGoethals, whose efforts to complete the Panama canal at the earliest possible moment may be checked by congressional delay In granting approprla tlons. 6 Former United States Senator Beverldge of Indiana, who Is to be temporary chairman of the Bull Moose convention In Chicago Monday. 7 Senator Root of" Now York, who formally notified President Taft-of hla nomination for thQ presidency. ' , Ueve, he will be able to haul freight as cheaply as it is possible to transport it from Portland through tho canal and to the gulf by water. Work is being rushed and this last link will be com pleted before the first of the year. From Galveston "tha Hill Interests will oper ate a line of steamers to New York. Articles of incorporation of the United Cigar Stores Company of America, with an authorised capital of $35,000,000, were filed at Trenton, N. J Wednesday. The capital stock of the Standard OH company of California was increased from $25,000,000 to $50,000,000, at a special meeting of the stockholders In San Francisco this week. During the hearing of th9 governs ment's suit at San Francisco to dissolve the American Sugar company the fact was brought out that the ownership of one-half the common Htock of the Spreckels concern had netted the Have mcyer interests In the past 21 years $12,950,000 on an investment that repre sented only $500,000. For every dol lar the Havemeyers and their associates got, the Spreckels and their associates got a dollar. The price of meats in Chicago retail markets went up another notch thta week and1 (itiotatloria range now from 15 cents for the poorer cuts to 35 cents for choice steaks. Packers give as rea sons the scarcity of oattle and the In crease in population and hold out no hope for a decrease. A report filed in the transfer office of the surrogate court In New York this week shows the net estate "of the late Edward Hawley to aggregate $5,283,287. 90. At .the death of the railroad mag nate It "was thought his estate would reach $60,000,000. Sociological M ISS ANNE MORGAN, daughter of J. Pierpont Morgan, has suspendod her artistic receptions at Paris to open a campaign of Christianity and clean living at Montinartre. Last Sun day she delivered the opening sermon of her mission under the auspices of the British-American Young Women's Chris tian Association. Miss Morgan says she prefers to preach the gospel to tho lowly thun to' engage in the small talk with society people who make up the artistic receptions at Versailles. Joseph Hlnchman, a bachelor who lives on a farm at Merchantville, N. J., has adopted and reared 26 children. Hlnchman la now 87 . years old and adopted his first child when he was 26. after becoming associated with a woman who was doing much work among the poor. Two-thirds of Mr. Hlnchman's children are now in business for them selves, and all are good citizens. For the erection of buildings at the camp of the Y. M. C. A. conference at Fort Collins, Col. JTohn D. Rockefeller has donated. $15,00fl, A. H. He of Kansas City $15,000 and C. P. Dodge of Colorado Springs $6000. In the hope of alleviating conditions among the Peru Indians In the Putu mayo rubber country, the British gov ernment has concluded to aid tha ex tension of the Roman Catholic church in that section. The Board of Estimate of New York hair st"hfriert eft appropriation f $76r 000 to purchase an 840 acre farm near Goshen, upon which will be erected a home for inebriates. Habitual drunk ards, Instead of being sent to prison, will be sent to the farm and taught use ful occupations in addition to receiving treatment for the drink habit The citizens : of Nllas, Ohio, have wised nearly-$109,009 for tha roUo of a memorial to William McKinley. "Nlles Is the birthplace of the martyr president. According to the census Just com pleted through the office pf the super intendent of public instruction tfiereare 189,506 school children In Oregon', Nul on Thursday there was divided among the counties of the state $352,481.16 by the stats treasurer. for school purposes. Legal and Criminal IN his trial at Los Angeles for al ,lfa4,,Jprlhary Clarence Darrow this week ' took tho witness stand in his own defense and denied In detail the tes timony of Bert Franklin, On account of I the continued Illness of Juror Leavitt, he was discharged and A. M. Blakesley, tha 13th Juror was substituted, being the first time in the history of the country that an alternate Juror was used. A verdict of $200,000 was awarded the Hammond Lumber company by a jury at t-alem In condemnation proceedings brought byhe Willamette Power com pany to Secure power and water rights on tho Breltenbush and Santlam rlvrs. The company had asked $970,000. After an Investigation lasting over a year, the W. J. McCahan Sugar Refining company and the Franklin Sugar com pany have effected a settlement with the government for alleged frauds at the port of Philadelphia. Tho McCahan company paid $100,000 and the Franklin company $124,386. Suits for dumages totaling $300,000 have been filed at San Francisco against the Pacific Coast Steamship company by paBsengers aboard the steamer Santa Rosa, which went on the rocks off the Santa Cruz coast a year ago. In his investigation of the Rosenthal murder in New York. District Attorney ' '"' " "V "e tho country. He has in his hands. sworn statements tending to show that the annual praft collated by high polieo of ficials In New York from fcambllng- and other lliettnl resorts amounted In the, last year to $2,400,000. Hollo officials and gambU-rs are becoming desperate. A second murder occurred TueBday night when Jamb Verella, proprietor of a cofe, was shot in his resort In revenue for his betrayal of one of. the Rosenthal mur derers. In consequence of confessions of those participating in the Rosenthal killing, Police Lieutenant Charles Becker has been indicted for murder In the first degree. Arthur F. Schmldler, assistant cashier of a Uniontown, Wash., bank, pleaded guilty to grand larceny at Colfax and was sentenced to from six months to 16 years in prison. Schmldler had stolen $8500 from the bank and lost It in play ing the races. After' executing a daring Jallbreak at Craig, Colo., William Sartelle, Charles Franzer ahd Andrew Comstock, leaders of the notorious "Hole-in-the-Wall" gang of desperadoes, were, met with "worses at the outskirts of, the town by 12 other members of the gang and struck out for their rendezvous, pursued by a posse of 100 heavily armed , citi zens. Franzer was wounded and cap tured, but tho others succeeded In get Una away . Word Is received from Australia of the arrest of "Sir" Harry Westwood Cooper, alleged bigamist, forger and former convict, whose operations have extended over both continents. His lat est exploit was the marrying f Miss Anna Mllbralth of Oakland, Cat.,, under the name of Dr. MUton Abraham, hnr rewiar-flaOO-froA tb-Ui'a parenta, - MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1912. attempting to cash a forgnd draft of $lu,000 on an Oakland bank, and then fleeing tha c6untry. In the trial at Atlanta, Ga:, of Mrs. Daisy Ople Grace for the shooting cf her husband, Mrs. Grace testified that Grace shot himself during a violent quarrel between the two and while Grace Awas attempting to kill hla wife, iho told of otvier occasions in which Grace had tried to take her llfs- The Jury brought In a verdict of not guilty. For deserting- his wife and child and falling to supply them with the neces saries of life, Hrny A. Johnston of -Spokane has been sentenced to from one to three years in the penitentiary. " ouaf mrra 'n; a 1 L iiu , tJ 1 uiauppeui l-u i ruin puKUiie a ago. was found Thursday near the Great Northern track .a mile west of Fort George Wright. Indications pointed to a brutal murder, the body and head being horribly gashed and his pockets relieved of all papers ahd money. Foreign j MUTSUIIITO, emptror of Japan, dld ! last Monday after an illness of several months from Brlght's dis ease. He was the 121st emperor of Japan and had been on the throne 45 years, his reign being marked by great advancement of lUs eteople and country. The north fort of Hodejda, one of the principal seaports of Arabia on tho Red Sea, was bombarded and destroyed this week by a squadron of Italian warships. Americans in Mexico are being perse cuted, threatened and harassed, accord ing to tales of refuges who are arriving at El Paso in large numbers. ' It Is stated that more than 4000 Americans aro in grave danger. Rebels In tho Casas Grandcs district have disarmed all AmeiieanH and threaten to exter minate the Mormon colonies. Women and children aro being hurried out of tho country, the men remaining, dis armed und helpless. Unless tho govern ment at Washington affords protection, grave consequences are feared. It is fald tho action of the insurgents is to force Intervention by ttw United States. It was announced inline chamber of deputies at Constantinople Wednesday that the Turkish government is-willing to hu-fr liUo peace negotiations with Italy if they are conducted in a manner compatible with Turkey's honor and dig nity and her rights. aro adequately safe gun rded. 1 The continued prosperity of New South Wales Is Illustrated by the re markable growth of Sydney In the last fiscal year, when 773 4 buildings were erected at a cost of $22,500, OuO. The flnst defeat suffered by the Mex ican federal troops for some tlm oc curred when the rebels under General Salnzar drove General Blanco's 1500 men into the mountains after a two day's battle In Ojlto Pass, The battle began Sunday and continued until the federals finally fled, with heavy losses. The rebels numbered about 1000. Announcement is made that Japan Is, constructing three battleships, each of 28,000 tons. They are to be mounted with 14-lnch . guns manufactured in Japan. Dr. Sun Tat Sen and Huan Sing, for esee m I n i s U -oX .w aj, hu.m. compiaU4 rangementa to establish a bank at Shanghai, starting with a capital of $86,000,000. - The chief purpose. Dr.- Sun explained, la to finance the government and avoid the necessity of borrowing jnoneiy abroad. Word la received from Mexico City that two Americans were hanged near Caaeaaa, goaora, thelf hodiwi . feclag IN SHORT PARAGRAPHS found Thursday. President Madero has oivlered an investigation. He believes the two men were executed by. rebels in order to precipitate American in tervention. Despite the vigorous military cam paign the government has been waging for weeks to restore order in northwest ern China, outlawry has been gaining rather than losing ground lately. At present organized robber bands are lu practically complete control of most of the country, nearly as far south and east as Honan Fu, and there are vio lent disorders in Mongolia and Thibet At Munich Wednesday, Fischer, the noted German aviator, and a meohanlo -meV--Ktttfter wr-tnaiHiy-k4Me4lt(iar" wnen an aeroplane in wnicn they were flying fell from a height of 1000 feet. Sir Edward Gray, British secretary of state for foreign affairs, denies the. re port that Ambassador Bryce will not return to Washington and states that Mr. Bryj will resume his duties as British ambassador early fh September. During the three months ending July 31, 224 deaths from bubonic plague and 73 dcatha from cholera were reported to tha authorities of Amoy, China. The recent trial of the Camorrlsts at Vltefbo, which lasted more than 18 months, cost the Italian government $800,000. Labor Notes CONDUCTORS and motormen of the Boston Elevated Railway company returned to work this week after feglng out S3 days. They won their main contentions, but the open shop policy of the company was recognized by both sides of tho controversy. It Is esti mated that the strike coat, $1,028,000. Differences that forjS" years have kept the American Flint jSffes Workers' union and the Glass, Blowers' associa tion apart have ended by an agreement reached between representatives of both organizations. Notwithstanding tho strike was called off by the leaders and the men ordered to return to work, ull the unions ln b"lved In tho greadock 'workers "THm In London have ted by referendum to continue the struggle. Destitution and starvation are threatening the families' of tho strikers, and In desperation, many acts of violence accompanied by blood shed and death have occurred. Tho strike and lockout in a dozen cot ton mills In New Bedford, Mass., has entered its fourth week with no Indica tion of settlement. Thirteen thousand persons are out of work, 1,185,000 spin dles are idle and the effects of the strike are being felt in the cotton-market. . Martial law has been proclaimed and state troops are acattered throughout the mining district of West Virginia in an effort to put a stop to the rioting and bloodshed of the last few weeks due to the strike of miners. Eight men have been killed in the trouble zone in the last few days. Miscellaneous AT South Bend, Wash., Monday, I. A. A. Lucas of Lake, county, Cal., and were drowned and five others bad mir aculous escapes from death when a launch In which they were riding struck a. submerged piling. To prove her theories that physical endurance does not depend upon diet or muscle and that motor action ceases to be an effort "when it becomes a habit, jara.. CUra JXUchell has just completed 8 a " walk from New York to Chicago;--which she made aa a psychological ex' periment. . A- . The body of Miss Dorcaa I. Enodgraas, the young girl reported last weak aa having mysteriously disappeared from! New York, was found Monday in Du-' blis creek, near Catsklll, N. Y. Offlclala believe the girl waa a viotlm of foul Play. . -I C E. Trask of Ashland, who waa tour' lng California In an automobile for tha1 . benefit of his health, and who had mys terlously disappeared, waa found this week Jn a hotel at Sain Joaft,. whera he I had been placed by two strangers who found him wandering tha atresia In ' William D. Washburn, ex-United ! States senator from Minnesota and a leader In the upbuilding of the north-J west, died in Minneapolis Tuesday, aged 81. After passing 15 hours In tha air and: covering a distance of 925 mllee. Captain H. E. Honeywell of St. Louis landed tha balloon Uncle Sam at Manassas Va . from Kansas City, having defeated all' entries In-tha elimination-aco to da, . cids which balloon should take part Inj the International contest it Stuttgart,! Germany, next October. . ., Heavy rains weakening tha roadbed caused the wreck of a Rock Island pae-j . senger train near Pueblo, Colo. O. W. Swearengen, engineer, and J. M. Duncan,! ' porter, were killed and several paasea gers Injured. , The Judgment of the English Board of, Trade court of Inquiry Into the Tltanloi disaster states that the collision waa due to excessive speed; that a proper , watch was not kept; that tha ahlp' boats were not sufficiently manned;, that the track followed 'waa not unsafa 'J had proper vigilance been used, and that there was no discrimination against third-class passengers In the saving of life. Tho report exonerates J. Bruce ' Isruay and severely condemns the capi tals of the Callfornlan for failure to' respond to the Tltanlc'a slgnala of dla- tress. . ; In a row at a church social at Sulli van. Ind., which started over the pay- ment for a plate of Ice cream, mora than 100 shots were fired. Two men 1 ore dead, thre fatally. Injured and many others hadly hurt. , , , Both Colorado and Nevada Buffered " heavy loss this week from .(.excessive rains and cloudbursts. Several Uvea were lost, many towns inundated, cropa destroyed, railroad tracks washed away ' and telegraph and telephone lines put " out of commission. Following the lead of Governor West,' . Governor Johnson of California baa stated that If the petition now in clrcu . Iatlon to initiate a law for the abolish ment of capital punishment, received the necessary 30,000 signatures, ha would allow no more hangings to take place until after the declston-of tha mat ter in the November election. , . Los Angeles has a plague, of Infantlla paralysis, health authorities reporting 173 cases and 33 deaths in the last few days. The Portland postal savings bank has been In operation stnee SepUiribor 9 . last and now has a total balance to tha credit of depositors of $523,883. For use on. rivets "'euJeTfoTii " I tidal changes an Alabama engineer bus Invented a floating wharf which rm up and down upon a solid Incline I'll with ra(ta.v Tha foresta of tha Alaskan nt V ! about 27,000,000 board feet of J a ytwv;;,;,,,,;;,,;;,,,.-. '