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AH the Principal 'Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for
the Information of the Busy Reader Foreign, Eastern,
Political and Congressional News Notes to Be Preserved
for Reference.
Congressional News
RiSPRESENTATIVE SINNOTT haa in
troducea a bill appropriating 0,
flOO for th Pendleton, Or., post
offloe, th treaaury department having
' reported this amount as necessary to
: complete the building according to the
- original plans.
The tobacco schedule of the tariff bill
:-mm approved Tuesday In the senate
" without amendment. The metal sched
ule was completed with the exception
of few paragraphs, and the sugar
- schedule was passed over because of
the Illness of Senator Ransdell of
talslana ,
A large delegation of Ohio makers of
spurious wines arrived at Washington
Monday to protest to congress against
the Poraerene amendment, under which
- (heir product Is taxed 25 cents a gallon.
The senate Thursday adopted the
' Xtomooratlo amendment putting wheat
on the free list and striking out the
' 10 cents a bushel duty fixed by the
. house. A motion by Senator Gronna to
, 'place a duty of six cents a bushel on
"'Wheat nt one-eighth of a cent a pound
'On wheat flour was beaten, 37 to 81.
-Jf'urtaer proposals by Senator Gronna
. lor duties on eggs, milk, cream, cheese
. end other products were also voted
4own.
; . A delegation from the National Coun
. oil Tof Women Voters appeared Thursday
' before the votes committee of the house
and pleaded that a house committee on
: woman suffrage be named, to which bills
: ! relating to this subject could be re
ferred. Their cause was advocated by
I Dr. Harvey W. Wiley and other speakers.
Executive and Political
OVERNOR WILLIAM 8ULZEB of
I w New York was Impeached by the
state assembly and state senate at
-'Albany, after a hard fight. The vote
In the assembly against the governor
as 78 to 45, after a. night's session
. lasting-seven hours. Mrs. Sulzer has
; ake"n the blame of the governor's lm
..v ;peaehment upon herself, saying that the
-stock market speculations with which
",',1ie was charged were really her own
transactions.
V President Wilson has expressed him
, self as In favor of "a complete and ade
quate system of credits," saying that
.: legislation with this in view had not
, , been attached to the currency bill for
7 "tbo reason that there had been no time
. In which to prepare a plan. Continuing,
he said: "There has been too little fed
; oral legislation framed to scy-ve the far
mer directly and with deliberate adjust
. meet to his real needs."
John Llnd. the personal emissary of
i President Wilson, arrived in safety Sun
day night at the Mexican capital, and
lias since had a comparatively unevent
ful experience. Quiet reigns, and it is
believed that the Mexican crisis his
been averted.
' Dr. D, A. Ramsey, chief of inspection
of the United States bureau of unimni
( Industry, says that the United States
faces a famine of dome'stls meat, and
the. the stringent rules against importa
tion may bar the meatind cattle from
ot her countries required to fill the need.
THo said that the drouth in the west
and southwest had hastened this crisis,
. which had been approaching for years,
y; Secretary Lane has announced that he
Intends putting the Flathead Indians to
work on their reservation in Montana.
Ho sayi that he will try f he experiment
of having them cultivate their lands un
der irrigation. -
Representatives of the National Coun
. cil of Women, which comprises 4,000,000
women voters, began three day con
vention at Washington Wednesday to
fornrulate plans f or presenting- ah equal
suffrage resolution 'to congress at Us
regular seoslon In December.
It is reported at Washington that Hen
ry Morgenthau Is likely to- be named as
amntssador to Turkey. Morgenthau was
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chairman of the finance committee dur
ing President Wilson's campaign.
In an address at a Catholic harvest
festival at Durand, 111., William Lori
mer hinted that he might make another
campaign for the senatorial toga.
Municipal and Legislative
TIB authorities of Pendleton, Or.,
have arranged to purity that city's
water supply with hypochlorite of
lime. There have been but few cases
of typhoid fever in Pendleton this sum
mer, but It was deemed beat to take
measures of prevention until the grav
ity waterworks system Is completed.
Recall petitions have been circulated
at Salem, Or., against three councllmen,
the chief of police and city recorder,
and it Is reported that a recall petition
will soon be put out against Mayor
Stevens. It is alleged that the official
have not been faithful to the city's best
interests.
The town of Kosska, Idaho, has been
bonded for $10,600, and the town of Voll
mer, Idaho, for $H,000. The former will
build a modern water system and the
latter a new achoolhouse.
"Women Protective Officers" Is the
official name chosen for San Francisco's
new policewomen, although they are
slanglngly termed the "copettes." The
lady officers must bo citizens of ths
United States, not less than 21 nor more
than 3B years old.
The new waterworks system of Can
yon City,-Or., is now in successful op
eration, supplying the town with n
abundance of pure mountain water from
the upper reaches of Canyon creek.
The contract has been let at Cottage
Grove, Or., for a new high school build
ing to cost $31,000.
The last three days of tho annual
county fair at Walla Walla-, Wash., Sep
tember 22 to 271,will"be devoted to a
frontier day-eeTebration.
Commercial and Industrial
WHEAT crops of 4 to 45 bushels
per acre reported, from the Wil
lamette valley near Hillsboro, Or.,
and but few crops run below 80 bushels.
Winter oats are averaging 50 to 80 bush
els per acre.
It is expected that the Dead Ox Flat
irrigation project near Welser, Idaho,
will be completed within 30 days. It
embraces 3000 acres of good land, most
of which is already under cultivation by
dry farming methods.
M. J. Lozelle, the dairy expert from
Corvallls, has opened an office at Her
mlston. Or., under Joint auspices of the
government and the Oregon Agricultural
college. Cooperative dairy extension work
is to be carried out under his direction
in a region embracing 150,000 acres al
ready under irrigation or soorfr to be.'
The long delayed run of salmon is
qn in Alaskan waters, and the canneries
around Cook's inlet are so rushed with
work that thousands of fish are being
refused. Single traps "huve caught as
many as 120,000 Alaska reds in three
days. - -
By a vote of 6397 to 804. Clarke coun
ty, Wash., has voted $500,000 bonds to
pay its sharo of the cost of a . bridge
across the Columbia river connecting
Portland and Vancouver. The total
cost of the bridge is estimated at $1,200,-
000, leaving the balance of $700,000 to
be provided by Multnomah conty, Or.
A large gasoline tractor of the cater
pillar type will be put to use in ore haul
ing by the management of the Ben
Harrison Mines company near Sumpter,
Or. It Is expected that the cost of haul
ing Its ores to the Sumnter Vallev rail
road, 2l miles distant, which now reaches
ISO per day, will be largely reduced.
Surprisingly large yields of wheat afe
being obtained from trie fields near Mil
ton, Or., running In aonje instances to
THE . OREGON SUNDAV JOURNAL,', PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. AUGUST' 17,
50 bushels per acre. Barley is yielding
between 70 and 80 bushels per acre.
R. C. and H. T. McCormlck of the
St. Helens Timber company have bought
2440 acres of fine fir and cedar timber
on Crooked creek. Or., of Gerber & Kern
py, at a price of about $2 per thousand
feet.
The managers of the syndicate organ
ized to dispose of the $88,000,000 of
Southern Pacific stock owned by the
Union' Pacific has announced at New
York that the .entire amount was more
than twice subscribed for. Considerable
demand was noted from Kurope.
Two bonanza farms In North Dakota,
the Adams farm in Richland county and
the Keystone farm at Matador, have
been disposed of in a deal Involving
$1,000,000. They aggregate 15,360 acres,
and will be broken up Into small tracts,
upon which 100 families or more will
reside.
William Scheble of Ashland, Or., has
sold his Griffin creek ranch to Califor
nia buyers for $50,000. It consists of
240 acres of fine alfalfa and dairying
land.
The Aberdeen Woolen Mills company
Is being organized at Aberdeen, Wash.,
and la expected to begin operations with
in 80 days. The company will employ
about 60 workers, and its yearly product
will amount to about $100,000. Orders
are said to be on hand already for a
year's output.
Legal and Criminal
LADYSM1TH, B. C. was in the hnds
Wednesday of a mob of striking coal
miners, who patrolled up and down
the streets, attacking non-union miners
and smashing windows In their homes.
The Ladysraith police being insufficient
to handle the mob, Mayor Hllller asked
for military assistance. Several hun
dred soldiers are now on the scene. Fif
ty imperial policemen sent to Nanalmo
were driven out by striking miners, and
were compelled to return to Vancouver.
Seven meat market proprietors have
ben arrested at Tacoma, Wash., and are
each liable to a fine, of $100, for the
alleged use of "freez'um" in meats. The
city chemist asserts that - one of tho
samples examined, contained live mag
gots, It had lain so long.
A search of the cellar of John Grady
y Chicago police resulted in the dis
covery of some . charred bones, supposed
by the officers to be the remains of his
wife, who disappeared .two years ago.
Gray. was then placed under arrest. Tho
bones were later examined' by an expert,
who said that they were remnants of a
roast pork dinner.
Frank B. Alexander, 74 years old, is
In jail at Baker, Qf., charged with the
slaying-' of his son-in-law,- William - An
derson, aged 64, near Halfway. Filled
with grief and remorse, Alexander is
said to be a pathetic figure.
Delbert Sams, a rancher living near
Walla Walla, Wash., is under arrest,
charged with mauling a horse with a
chain for more than a half hour while
trying to force the animal to drink.
In a' fit of ungovernable temper and
Insane Jealousy, D. L. Cartwrlght shot
and killed, his brother's wife near Rye
Valley, Or., and dangerously wounded
his nephew, David PoweH, who may not
survive. Cartwrlght. then killed him
self. Although himself a married man,
Cartwrlght is said to havo beaa" jealous
of his sister-in-law, who was a woman
of estimable character,
.The Jury returned a vyerdlct of mur-
der in the second degree in the case of
Louis Davis, tried at Dallas," Or., for
killing his mother-in-law, Mrs. Stewart;
at Ballston, June 29. He was tried on
a charge of first degree murder.
The hotel at Shipherd's Hot Springs
near Carson, Wash., was raided Satur
day night by Sheriff Gray and his dep
uties, and its stock of liquor confiscated.
E. L. Shipherd, the proprietor was
placed nnder arrest for violating the lo
cal option law in a dry unit.
Seven youths whose ages range from
16 to 19. years were arrested Monday
at Los Angeles. They are belteved to be
the automobile bandits who have stolen
equipment from 800 automobiles, held up
eight men and women and collected re
wards from 21 men from whom they
had stolen cars.
L. R. Andrews, former s'tate senator,
has been released at Columbus, Ohio, af
ter serving nine months for accepting a
briber He was one of four Ohio legis
lators trapped in bribe taking by means
of the dictagraph, and the first to be
released.
In an opinion rendered Wednesday at
Salem, Attorney General Crawford de
clared that It would be unconstitutional
for the new state printer, R, A. Harris,
to operate the state printing office as a
closed shop, under contract with the
Typographical union.
Four alleged horse thieves are in jail
at El Centro, Cal., after a battle with
Sheriff Meadows and his posse, who
came upon and attacked the desperadoes
on the Colorado river, where they were
fortified behind a sand dune. One of
the prisoners, Bob Monroe, was shot
through the neck. Seven horses were
recovered by the sheriff.
When a special policeman waved an
American flag In the face of an I. W.
W. orator at Salt Lake City, his fellow
members of that organization began
shooting. Seven bystanders were wound
ed, three of them seriously. Several
Industrial Workers were placed under
arrest, and will be charged with at
tempted murder.
Alexander McKlnnon. was fatally in
jured, his arm being torn off, when his
home at Ladysmith, B.. C, was wrecked
by dynamite. McKlnnon was a non
union man, and a stick of dynamite was
thrown through one of the. windows of
his house by striking miners.
. The supreme court at Olympia, Wash.,
has affirmed the conviction of Linda
Burfleld Hazzard, tho fast cure doctor
of Seattle and she must serve from
two to 20 years In the penitentiary at
Walla Walla.
Leon Lepasller, a business man of Los
Angeles, was arrested and Jailed Wed
nesday through the instrumentality of
his 17 year old daughter. The girl
feared that her father intended to flee
the city In order to evade bis creditors.
J 1 Foreign -
AUGUST FERDINAND BEBEL. prob
ably tho best knownf among the So
cialist leaders of Germany, died
Wednesday at Zurich, 'at the ago of 7$.
Since the formation of the German par
liament In 1871 he had been almost con
tinuously a member.
'; Rumors, are current at London to tho
effect that Lord Francis Hope may ro
wed his former wife. May Yohe. He
recently visited tlva London opera bouse,
where she Is appearing with consider
able success, and is said to have been
touched by her singing.
Reports from, Shanghai say tha the
Wu Sang forts have surrendered to the
government troops. They were for some
time In the possession of the rebels, who
are said to have received $75,000 as an
inducement to give them up. The south
erners at Nanking have for the third
time proclaimed their Independence of
the Pekln government, and rebel, flags
are again flying outside the governor's
official residence.
Seventeen militant suffragettes were
sentenced at London Tuesday to terms
ranging from a week to two months,
following the attempt to storm Premier
Asquith's official residence in Down
ing street.
Professor Edwin Goldman, who held
the chair of surgery at Freburg uni
versity, is dead at Berlin, Germany, of
cancer of the liver. Goldman had de
voted all his life to the study of cancer.
Reports Wednesday from Berlin say
that the German government may yet
decide 'to make an exhibit at the Panama-Pacific
exposition. Leading Berlin
newspapers are contending that it Is
politically and economically necessary
for Germany to participate, and their
campaign is having its effect.
Writing to the London Times in favor
of British participation in the Panama
Pacific exposition. Sir Thomas Lipton
said: "I will be among the exhibitors,
with or without government support."
An Italian engineer named Ullvl, ac
cording to reports from Paris, France,
claims to have discovered a method of
causing the explosion of torpedoes, sub
marine mines and other death dealing
devices at distances of H and 15 miles,
"Infra-red rays," transmitted wirelessly,
are used in his experiments.
During a street battle at Canton,
China, 1200 persons were killed. -At least
half the government troops are said
to have joined the rebels, and together
they engaged in looting which the local
authorities were powerless toacheck. All
traffic on the Hankow railroad has treen
abandoned. -
The Turkish government has com
plained to representatives of the powers
at Constantinople of Bulgarian atro
cities in Thrace, and threatens to declare
war if the powers do not put a stop to
these alleged cruelties. Turkish troops
have surrounded and imprisoned 85 Bul
garians at Koushetavak, and have im
prisoned three Bulgarian officers at'
Adrianople on charges of . spying.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst and five other
women, with five male adherents to tho
suffragette, cause, were arrested and
Jailed Sunday at London, after tho us
ual weekly riot. Led by Miss Pankhurst.
the militants, made another attempt to
capture the , home of Premier Asqulth.
and the police allowed them to enter
Downing street before closing in upon
them. Miss Pankhurst was released lat
er, after a hunger and thirst strike.
It was reported Monday from Rome
that ail tho troops in tho city are under
arms, fearing an uprising as tho result
of a general strike. Tho Quirlnal and
tho Vatican were both heavily guarded.
Tho peace pact between tho Balkan
states wag signed Sunday at Bucharest,
Roumania, and was followed by an elab
orate celebration. Tho Bulgarian, Greek
and Servian armies are to evacuate Bul
garia, and it was agreed that any future
dispute over the delimitation of the new
frontier shall bo submitted to either Bel
gium,. Holland or Switzerland for ar
bitration. , ' '
Thousands of people were drowned in
India and i thousands , more rendered
homeless and destitute when their homes
1913,
1 Thirteen-year-old Jeanette Guttman of New York, who, after an at
tack of epileptic convulsions, lay for over two weeks In a state of
coma. r
2 C. Marvin Wood, aviator, who successfully raced a special passenger
train from Garden City, L. I., to Baltimore.
3 Argentina's new dreadnaught, "The Rtvadavla," the world's largest
battleship, in dry dock at the Brooklyn navy yard.
4 Miss Frances Leighton of California, who, unaccompanied, la pros
pecting In the Sierra Madre mountains In search of a gold mine
which she believes her grandfather, a forty-niner, discovered but
never made known.
5 John Borden, wealthy Chlcagoan, at the wheel of the whaling
schooner "Adventuress," on which he and three companions recent
ly sailed from San Francisco Tor a hunting trip In Arctic seas.
6 Harold McCormlck, seated, and Qlen Curtlss in the - flying boat
"Edith," about to start on a trlp over Lake Michigan, McCormlck
uses a hydroplane regularly to get from his home In Lake Forest
to his business In Chicago.
7 R. F. Del Valle, who was sent to Mexico as a representative of
President Wilson, and his daughter, Miss Lucretta Del Vallev
were Swept away by floods which fol
lowed the collapse of the embankments
of the Damado river near Burdwan.
Labor Event
THE fishermen of Tillamook bay near
Bay City, Or., have organized to
sell their own fish, being dissatls
fiod with the prices offered by local
canneries. They will seek markets in
the east, and have decided to build a
salting and cold storage plant to handle
the season's catch.
A strike of laborers Tuesday at Pitts
burg, Pa tied up work on three large
buildings. Master builders threaten a
lockout, which If carried into effect
would suspend operations on structures
valued at $67,000,000 and throw between
30,000 and .40,000 men out of employ
ment. The laborers demanded 28
cents per hour.
George WS W. Hangar, national arbi
tration commissioner, is in Ban Fran
Built by Expert Cabinet Makers in Nine
Large Factories. Sold on Easy Terms
, Inspection and Comparison Invited
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The Brunswick- Balhe-Col lender Co.
Oilice and Salesrooms, 46-48 5th St., Portland
cisco with a view to,. settling tho dif
ferences between the Southern Paclflo
railway and its employes. He is said to
be making good progress, and the main
strike issues may be cleared in adyance
ef a conference.
The financial loss to workmen and
employers from the general strike which
lately ended in Italy amounted to sever
al millions of dollars. Three men were
killed, 165 were wounded and 2478 ar
rests were made during the strike's
progress.
Machinists of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific, who had threatened to
strike for $4.60 pay for an eight hour
day, have reached an agreement with
the companies, according to advices
from St. Paul. -A modification of the
working' schedule was granted by tho
railroad, and the threatened trouble
averted,
Nine miners were killed ' in tho Cor-'
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