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Principal" Events 'fif the Week
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Congressional News
v mUK house mustered 'a quorum Wed
J neaday after searching: the cloak
.rooms and by the close vote of 10 1
to ',102 authorised a special house lobby
Investigating committee to employ spec
ial counsel to lnvettsate the charges
of Martin 11. Mulhall.' Its earlier ac
tion was thus reversed.
I. Aw. Smith, president of tlia Georgia
farmers' union, testified Wednesday
before t n senate lobby eub-commlttev
that a meeting of state - heads of the
union was captured by" the cotton man
ufacturers and sugar refiners. It was
called for the ostensible purpose of de
vising a. plan to Increase the consump
tion of cotton, he aald. but was ter-
auaded to adopt resolutions denouncing
the tariff bill.
. The house committee on territories
has begun hearings 'with regard to a
government built railroad in Alaska.
Plana are being considered which were
proposed In bills Introduced by Repre
sentative Xafferty of Oregon and Del
egate Wlckwsham of Alaska,
s At a meeting of the entire house
banking and currency committee, the
kepubllcnn proposal for non-partisan
consideration of the currency bill was
defeated by a strict party vote. Open
and public committee meetings will be
held, however.
The senate has passed a bill which
revokes the requirement of continuous
residence on public lands entered by
homesteaders, when sufficient water for
domestic purposes does not exist. It
has also passed the Borah law, whi(jh
authorises specific improvements on
homestead entries in lieu of cultivation
of a certain, acage annually.
, By 'unanimous" consent the' innate
Thursday passed a bill making Oregon
lands which had been withdrawn or
classified as oil lands subject to entry
under the homestead or desert land
laws.
Senator Smoot predicted Thursday at
Washington that there would be no cur.
rency legislation until the winter ses
sion of congress.
William Whitman, a millionaire tex
tile ' manufacturer, testified Thursday
before the senate lobby committee that
he had lobbied actively since 1875 In
favor of a tariff on wool. He said that
at every session of congress dealing
with the tariff for" to years the Na
tional Association of Wool Manufact
urers had endeavored actively to shape
the wool schedules.
A delegation of woman suffragists
headed by Mrs. Helen Gardner visited
Washington Thursday and were re
' ceivel by Chairman Henry of the house
. committee on rules. He Informed them
that they would be given a hearing next
December on the question of adding a
committee on woman suffrage to the
vtandlng committees of the house.
The senste has passed a resolution
providing for an investigation of the
. financial operations of the New York
Ventral lines by the Interstate Cqm
...mefce oommlssion.
Kenator Chamberlain's bill authorizing
,,the state of Oregon to exchange 40,000
aci s -f school land in forest reserves
for a compact hody of land in the fian-
;i tlam reserve, not to exceed 40,000 acres,
, passed tho senate Thursday, it is pro-
jMsed that the Santlam tract shall con
stitute a permanent state reserve.
Executive and Political
.-iREDEItICfC PENFIELD of Pennsyl
j M'j-vania ..was nominated Monday by
s"y the president to be American am
bassador to Austria.
, i It .was annourioed Monday rfrom Wash
ington that Secretary Lane is agitating
a revision of the law governing th
manufacture of denatured alcohol, in
.order that farmers may convert wants
products into alcohol without prohibl-
tlvfi charges for Inspection. He asserts
hat Standard Oil profits by the pres.
-nt regulations.
Returning to his . home at Taioma,
"Wash., from Washington City, Hugh C.
'Wallace said: "President Wilson 1a
proving what we claimed', in the cam
jialgn, that he Is the best equipped man
t -1n the I'oitcd States for the presidency,
. Jle knows what legislation' the country
needs and '. has s Uie courage ' to Insist
!upon its enactment. He selected the
-best cabinet the country has seen for
.'a generation Mr. Wallace was a Clark
-msn. at the Baltimore convention.
. It Is ' reported from Klamath Falls,
Or,, that W. IT.'Arant alill "holds the
, yorf a superintendent of Crater Iake
..National para, aitnougn-ne lias been
JiUfled toy Hie secretary of the interior
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1 A. P. Wilding of New Zealand, who retained his title as international lawn tennis champion by defeat
ing Maurice E. McLougblln.Hhe American champion, and challenger for Wilding's title. The play
wag at Wimbledon, England. , I V '
2 Francis Bowers Sayre, whose engagement to Miss Jessie Wilson, second daughter of the president. Is
announced. The wedding will take place next November. Mr. Sayre is 28 years old, and Is an attorney.
3 Mrs. John Boldt, prominent suffragette, and first aid of "General'.' Rosalie Jones, shown wearing the
type of trousers she would have women adopt in the place of skirts. Mrs. Boldt says they are more
modest "than the slit skirts, with the limbs exposed to the knees, or transparent underclothing."
I).ayM..'JLamwyth testifying, bef pre the United
States lobby. investigating committee. .
B Left to right Miss Elizabeth Gurley Plynn and Miss Jessie Ashley. Miss Flynn has been in the courts
because of her activities in the' strike of 26,000 silk workers at Paterson, N. J. Miss Ashley is a
noted suffragette attorney and advisory counsel to Miss Flynn.
the new appointee, is on the grounds,
and some uncertainty exists as to who
is "running things."
Representatives of railroads ana
trainmen's brotherhoods will meet with
President Wilson, next Monday at the
White House. They have asked his aid
In averting the threatened, strlkd of
1.00,000 employes of eastern railroads by
advocating certain pending amendments
rto the Erdman act. Responding to their
request, the. Interview was arranged for
by Secretary Wilson of the department
of labor.
It is announced from Washington that
Josephus Daniels, secretary of the navy,
will visit Portland July 20 while on his
way from the Puget sound navy yard
to San Franolsco.
Municipal and Legislative
HENRY H. ROSE was jnauguratea
Monday as mayor of Los Angeles.
He has declared In favor of a lib
eral administration, but denies reports
that he will permit a return to an "open
town."
According to a report made by San
Francisco's chief of police, .it requires
44 men and an expense of f 1,505, 020 to
guard each year the lives and property
of that city.
A. law firm at Centralla. Wash., has
been instructed to draw up the paperB
for a diking district to Include 800 acres
of bottom land of the city of Kelso, and
the valley adjoining. It Is regarded as
practically certain that the district Will
be formed, and that the diking Improve
ment, to cost about M0 an acre, will
be paid for by long-time bonds. .
soliciting committee has-been ap
pointed at JLewlston, Idaho, to secure
Mooo to defray the expenses of the
Lewiston-Clark.iton fair; to be held In
that city September 2 to October 4-
North Yakima. Wash. has refused to
issue 240,000 in new 'bonds, for the
construction of a new sewer and sew
age plant. The vote against the prop,
osltton stood 923 to 401. ' '
According to a statement made at
Salem by Governor West,, 16 cents a day
for three meals, or a '.little over five
centn a meal, is the average dally. cost
to the state of Oregon lor feeding its
employes and prisoners at, the peniten
tiary. At this small 'dost, he says, an
abundance of food' of a good qualltyMs
provided. .
More than 12,000 signatures to peti
tions, it Isntald have been obtained at
Los Angeles and 8an Francisco alone
for holding up California's "blue sky
law," untll it ran be passed upon by the
ptoplc at a referendum election. The
California association - of . Investment
ctmiwiiles, wlilcb baa bcea fifiUUng the
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measure, asserts that the requisite num
ber of signers haa now been secured.
Ten police women have been ap
pointed at Chicago, and assigned to the
parks and bathing beaches,
Acting upon a petlUon from represen
tatives of the CentraT Labor council at
Spokane, Superior Judge Huneke has
signed a mandate commanding the city
council to call an election for the re
call of Mayor Hlndley and Commis
sioner Falrley for July 21, or to show
cause why such election should not be
called.
At a meeting of the city council of
Silver Lake, Or., it was decided to In
stall a complete fire and water system.
City bonds will be Issued In the sum of
$2600, to run S years at ( per cent.
Commercial and Industrial
THE First-Second National Bank of
Pittsburg, Pa., the second largest
banking institution in that city,
was closed Monday by order of the as
sistant comptroller of the currency, fol
lowing a three weeks' examination- De
posits aggregating $80,000,000 were
tied up by the order, and much excite
ment was caused. Representative's Of
the Kuhn interests at Pittsburg an
nounced that a receiver would be ap
pointed for the American Waterworks'
company, a t24. 000,000 concern operat
ing in many cities, '. ;
One of the gates of the dam burst
open Monday at the tflant d the North
western Electric Light company at Hood
River, Or., and the machinery ran wild
for some time, causing damage to the
extent of $C000. J. M. Davis and his
oiler stood bravely at their posts, and
finally succeeded In shutting the dam.
The revolutions of the 10,000 horse
power dynamo Increased from Stio' to
1000.
The supervising architect of the
treasury department has notified Sen
ator Chamberlain that he has selected
five Portland, Or,, architects to com
pote fori the Portland postoffice , plans,
Charles S. Mellen resigned Tuesday
from the presidency of the Boston s
Maine ra'ilroaqY at a meeting of the di
rectors held at Boston.'
It Is reported from Boise, Idaho, that
J. 8. and W. 8. Kuhn, whose bank failed
recently at Pittsburg, Pa, invested mil
lions of dollars In Irrigation and power
enterprises In' Idaho within the past
five years. ' Their holdings In the Twin
Falls section are estimated at 125,000,
000. ,
Dr. Retnhart Hoppe of Oakland, Cel.,
Is reported to have located one of the
best coal areas in western Canada on
the. Sudbury river in northern Alberta.
jCxperls say' that the deposits arc an
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thractte, and superior to Pennsylvania
hard coal.
Fear is expressed at Seward, Alaska,
that the salmon run .this year will be
far below normal, following - reports
from western Alaska canneries that the
pack so far is less than half that of
last year. Tears of unrestricted fish
ing has greatly depleted the salmon sup
ply. A mortgage of $800,000 has been
filed at Eugene, Or., which covers nearly
82,000 acres of timber along the Natron
extension. - It was given by the Penn
Timber company of Warren, Pa., to the
Detroit Trust company, and is taken
to Indicate the early construction of a
large sawmill.
A Cleveland, Ohio, trust company has
paid a premium of 1526 on an issue of
$26,000 paving bonds, bearing 6 per cent,
made by the city of Eugene, Or.
Edward Baker and H. - E. Gordon,
sheepralsers of Malheur county, have
returned home to Vale, Or., with $49,000
of eastern money. They sold 10,000
head of sheep at an average price of
$490.
It is reported at Centralla, Wash.,
that the Olympia A Southern railway
will start construction work before the
end of the summer. It is thought that
the Milwaukee Is behind' the new road,
and that the big system Is planning to
build a line from Puget sound to tht
Columbia.
Legal and Criminal
ARRESTED for passing worthless
checks at Los Angeles, Simon P.
Helfenstlne has confessed to sev
eral murders which the police are in.
vestlgattng. He said that one of his
victims was Pearl Bryant, whose brutal
murder at Cincinnati 16 years ago
aroused the nation.
Mrs, Frank Hartman, wife of a far
mer in the Sherlock district hear Olym
pia, Wash., drowned her 9-months-old
baby and then attempted to commit
suicide with a butcher knife. She Is be
lleved to be Insane. .
Charles Wright, , a pioneer barber of
Oregon. City, Or., tried to kill Elsie
Utikor, a 20-year-old girl, at Oak Grove
Tuesday. He . ambushed 'the young
woman, but missed two shots at her.
He was then arrested, and a note taken
from hie pocket indicated his Intentlou
later to take his own lift.
- James liades Howe, millionaire hobo,
was arrested at Philadelphia when he
attempted to address the hoboes in
Franklin Square without ''asking pr
mission, lie was' released after, spend
Ing 18 hours In Jail.-, .
E. B. Erwln, telegraph operator at
Grand Junction, Idaho, 13 miles east of
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Spokane, was found . dead Wednesday
morning: by a train crew. He was lying
amid the wrecked furniture of the depot
office, with two bullet wounds through
his head. The safe had been robbed and
the entire office ' ransacked.
An unknown robber plundered the
State Bank' of Rigby, Idaho, Tuesday
evening, and escaped with 13800. The
cashier and his assltant were still at
work on the books when the desper
ado cnterM, and he locked them in the
vault. An alarm was given by the cash
ier's little son. '
Dr. Prank M. Madison committed sui
cide Wednesday at his cell in the city
Jail at San 1 Francisco . by strangling
himself with his necktie and handker
chief. He was held for arson, and but
for a mere accident the fire which he
started would have cost 60 lives. He
had made partial confession of a num
ber of crimes, including the murder of
Mrs. Lydla Burns, a widow, for her
life insurance. '
Mrs. James Yates, the wife of a far
mer, confessed : Thursday at Nashville,
Tenn., to the drowning of her two young
step-children In t pool to which ahe
lured -them-- Her le-y ear-old , daughtei
by another marriage Is also under ar
rest, on the charge that she dragged
back to the pool one of the children who
attempted to escape.
Jacob OppeDhelmer, known as the
"human tiger," was hanged Friday at
Folsom prison, Cal. "I am ready," he
aald, and met his death calmly;
Foreign
THE cellar of the stock exchange at
Liverpool was partially wrecked by
a bomb Monday. Suffragette lit
erature was found scattered about after,
the explosion. The Evening Standard
reports that a suffragette plot to burn
London has been discovered by Scot
land Yard. It was planned to have sev
eral French aviators fly across the Eng
lish channel and drop bomba on London
buildings, but the aviators refused, and
notlflod the English police.
The Bulgarian war office issued a
bulletin Monday at Sofia claiming that
80.000 Greeks commanded by King Con
stantino In person were ' easily - routed
fhrough the strategy of General I van
off, and that most of them were cap
turedi It is reported from London that
last week's fightingr In the Balkans re
sulted In a total loss of 40,000 men in
killed and wounded to Bulgaria, Greece
and Servla. ' . '
Queen Mary , of England Is the per
sistent foe of freak Xashiona In dress..
She lately notified the president of the
Bedford college for women that she
would not attend the college opening if
any woman member of the reception
committee, or any other who was. per
mitted to appear on the platform, wore
a dress cut more than an Inch below the
neck, or a skirt with a silt In it :
The sublime porta announced Tues
day at Constantinople that It was pre
pared to reoccupy the territory taken
from Turkey by the Balkan allies and
would move at once. Turkish troops are
said to be preparing to take the field.;
The 100 members or the American ag
ricultural commission who -have been
studying conditions In Europe? arrived
Tuesday at London from Paris. They
will make a brief tour of England and
Ireland before sailing for the United
States July 18. ,
Tuesday morning at Horwich, Eng
land, the residence of Sir W. H. Lever
on Rlvlngton Hill was destroyed by ar
sonettes. Rare pictures and tapestries
were destroyed, and the loss , exceeded
$100,000. . ,y
General Amarando RIva, chief of the
Cuban national police, was shot and
mortally wounded Monday night during
a pistol fight with the governor ana
others in the most crowded part of the
A Blessing to Victims ,
Of "Sore Foot" Agony
The following is aald to be the surest
and quickest cure known ' to sclencje
for ail foot ailments: "Dissolve two
tablespoonfuls of Caloclde compound in
a basin of warm waiter. Soak the feet
in this for fuilv fifteen minutes, gently
rubbing the sore parts." The effeot Is
really wonaerrui. ah sore-
ness goes. Instantly; tho feet
. feel delightful. ' Corns - and
. callouses can be peeled right
' off. It gives Immediate relief
' for... sore bunions, sweaty
smelly and aching feet A
! twenty-f lve cent box of Cal-
oolde is said to be sufficient
to cure the worst feet. It works through'
the pores and removes the cause of
the trouble.' Don't waste time On un
certain remedies.! ., Any druggist - has
Caloclde ' compound In,, stock or , he can
get it In a few hours from his whole
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Prado at Havana, , The shooting; was
the outcome of a raid made by orders
of tbechief upon the Asbert club, a
large number of whose members were
arrested and fined for gambling.
It is reported from London that ISng-
nsn society confidently expects an early
announcement of the betrothal of Prin
cess Patricia of Connaught and Prince
Adolf Frederloh, heir to the duchy of
Mecklenberg-Strellti. Princess "Pat" Is
27 years old, and Is among the most
popular young women of royal blood In
Europe. '
At Paris Wednesday an operation for
appendicitis was performed upon Wil
liam F. McCombs of New 'York, chair
man of the Demoeratio national com
mittee. " v ' ": ' . - '
A bomb exploded -Thursday in the
postofnee at-Dublin, Ireland, '.and sev
eral mail sorters' narrowly escaped In
Jury. It - was wrapped in suffragette
literature and ' addressed to William
Redmond, brother of John Redmond. At
Manchester, England, the police raided
suffragette headquarters and confiscated
many dooks ana papers.
Jack ..Johnson, his whits wife and
three negro servants have, registered at
the most expensive hotel In Parla John
son says that he will not return to
America. -
Mrs.' Edith Rlgby. the wife of a lead
ing physician at Liverpool, England,
confessed to burning the residence of
Sir William Lever, and to planting a
bomb in, the cellar of the Liverpool Ex
change.. .She .said .the. outrages .were
commuiea unaer instructions irom sui
fragette leaders. . '
Thursday's .dispatches' from Athens
say that the. Greeks have been victor
ious in recent battles, and that the Bul
gers are retreating, all along the line.
The Greeks accuse, the Bnlgars of pour
ing oil on wounded Greeks and burning!
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Kussian intervention in the Balkans la
sought by Bulgarian as King Ferdinand
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ne annual uriiien navai maneuvers
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