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TROUBLE BREWS
IN MANCHURIA
SAILS OVER MOUNTAIN.
Hoxsey Clears Mt. Wilson Observa
tory in Heavy Biplane.
Aviation Field, Loe Angeles—Add
ing to the laurels he has already won
at the present meet, Arch Hoxsey,
holder of the present worlds’ altitude
record of 11,474 feet, flew over Mount
Wilson, the highest peak of the moun
----------------------
tain range which rima the valley in
Coolies and Coreans Clash—Chinese which Los Angeles, Pasadena and the
Spies Watch Every Move of
towns of the orange belt lie.
Under
Japanese Troops.
ideal weather conditions he soared 10,-
005 feet into the sky and cleared the
crest of Mount Wilson with 4,200 feet
Victoria, B. C.—Disquieting condi
tions wmch may give rise to serious ■ to spare.
trouble between Japan and China, if] Lieutenant Vernon Boiler and sev
not between Russia and China, also, eral other army officers here were
are reported by the Tokio Kokumin, ac quick to observe in Hoxsey’s perform
cording to advices received by the ance a new way of transporting armies
steamer Tacoma Maru. The Kokumin
says the growing intimacy between across mountain ranges. Lieutenant
Russians and Japanese in Manchuria is Boiler, who came here from Fort
having a serious effect upon the Chi Whipple, Arizona, said that 1,000 bi
nese, and anti-Japanese and anti-Rus- planes could transport an army of 10,-
sian sentiment is increasing. The
slightest movements of Japanese 000 men across mountains as high as
troops in Manchuria cause great sus the Alps in a day.
Hoxsey used a heavy stock Wright
picion, and large numbers of Chinese
spies are constantly reconnoitering.
biplane, equipped for passenger ser
When the maneuvers of the Japansee vice and he made the journey to a
troops in Manchuria were arranged in point beyond the mountains in one
November, the Chinese military offi hour, 28 minutes.
The distance trav
cials sent a large focre of Chinese eled is estimated at 34 miles.
troops to the scene, and only by tact
He was out of sight of the crowd be
fulness on the part of the Japanese fore he made the attempt at toppping
officials was this force withdrawn be the peak, but before starting he had
fore any untoward incident occurred. announced his intention to do so.
Since then Chinese troops %pd police
The news of his success was flashed
have been greatly augmented along the to the aviation field by telephones from
Antung-Mukden railway.
the Carnegie Solar observatory on
They have instigated Chinese coolies Mount Wilson and directly above
to intimidate Corean laborers, with the which the aviator soared.
result that for three days a thousand
“It was fearfully cold,” said Hox-
Chinese and Coreans engaged in fight sey, “and when I got to a point just
ing. The Chinese police supplied the , above the summit I found that the
coolies arms and there were several haze, which obscured the mountains
casualties.
from the aviation field, was a heavy
The Kokumin concludes a long ar pall of vapor filled with fine ice par
ticle by asserting that if Japanese ticles that stung my face.
guards are augmented to suppress the
“I am certain that if I had had a
trouble further fighting will follow.
recording thermometer with me, it
would have shown the temperature of
the upper altitude to be far below
AVIATORS MEET DEATH.
zero. However, hurdling mountains is
much easier than climbing 11,000 feet
Frenchmen Meet Disaster Trying for over a valley or the sea. The earth
does not seem so far away.”
$20,000 Prize.
China Worried Over Friendship
of Japs and Russians.
Paris — Marquis Marie Paulla and
Alexander Laffon, chief pilot of the
Antoinette school of aviation, were
crushed to death under their aeroplane,
just after they had taken the air for a
speed flight from Paris to Brussels and
return.
Laffon’s wife was standing only a
few feet away when the machine
struck the ground. The aviators fell
200 feet and the aeroplane fell upon
them, crushing and mangling both
shockingly. Laffon’s head was crushed
and his right leg, twisted upward
against his body, was driven into his
chest.
Laffon and Marquis Paulla were in
Laffon’s machine. They were trying
for a prize of $20,000 offered for the
fastest passenger flight over the Paris-
Brussels course.
The machine had left the ground
easily and had once circled the grounds
ready to start on its long flight. Just
as it passed over Laffon’s hangar and
seemed about to shoot away on the
Brussels course, it lurched violently.
It is believed a stay of one of the
wings gave way and that the aeroplane
at once became unmanageable. From
ground Laffon’s efforts to right the
machine were plainly visible.
The effort was for only a few mo
ments, for with another lurch the ma
chine ducked toward the earth, at the
same time turning over. The aviators
stuck to their places for the first turn,
but were thrown out when the ma
chine again swirled around and turned
completely over a second time. They
struck the earth a fraction of a second
before the machine with its heavy en
gines, fell upon them.
The little crowd that had gathered to
watch the beginning of the fight rush
ed forward and lifted the wrecked ma
chine off the bodies of the victims.
The marquis was placed in an ambu
lance, but died before reaching a hos
pital. Laffon lived a few minutes
longer. Both were unconscious when
the crowd reached them.
Rebels Make Big Gains.
El Paso, Tex. — Fortified in the
mountains and able to repel an attack
by a greatly superior force, a large
band of rebels are in control of the
Big Bend country and are making that
the base of the rebel suppp.es, accord
ing to a report sent here by a field
representative of the El Paso Herald.
The rebels, according to the corres
pondent, are in absolute control of the
country from Marfa to Alpine. Hun
dreds of revolutionists are reported
to be joining the rebels in the field
near Chihuahua.
Prosperity for 1911.
New York — Unusual prosperity is
predicted for 1911 by Orion Howard
Cheney, state superintendent of banks.
Cheney bases his prediction on the gen
eral financial conditions at present pre
vailing throughout New York state.
Cheney is preparing his annual report
on the state banks. It will show, he
says, that the banks are paying well,
with the prospect that this state of
affairs will continue. Where banking
business is good, other lines prosper.
Canadian Bank Badly Busted.
Toronto — Hundreds of American
shareholders and depositors were
caught in the failure of the Farmers’
bank of Canada.
The losses will'be
far in excess of what they were orig
inally expected to be, it is said. With
shareholders paying double their liabil
ities, the bank will be able to pay only
25 cento on the dollar.
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT NEWS
NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST
MANAGEMENT BERATED.
POPULATION GROWS DENSE.
Higher Standards of Efficiency Need Rhode Island Leads; Washington Has
ed on Railroads.
Largest Growth.
Washington — Higher standards of
efficiency, not increased freight rates,
are the paramount needs today of
American railroads. This proposition
is the essence of the brief filed with
the Interstate Commerce commission
by Louis Brandeis, of Boston, counsel
for the traffic commission of commer
cial organizations of the Atlantic sea
board in the investigation of the com
mission in the proposed advance in
freight rates in the official classifica
tion territory—that part of the coun
try east of the Mississippi and north
of the Ohio and Potomac rivers.
Railroad managers, Mr. Brandeis
contends, in an effort to meet existing
needs should not look without, but
within.
“If their net income is insufficient,”
he says, “the proper remedy is not
higher rates, resulting in higher cost
and lessened business, but scientific
management resulting in lower costs,
higher wages and increased business.
“If their credit is impaired, the
proper remedy is not to apply the de
lusive stimulant of higher rates but to
strengthen their organizations by in
troducing advanced methods and elim-
inting questionable practices. Thus
they will maintain credit by deserving
it.”
The proposed advances by the lines
in official classification territory would
affect' only the class.
The total
freight tonnage of the lines for the
calendar year 1909 was 626,321,975.
Less than 8 per cent of this moved un
der class rates, yet of the_freight rev
enue of these railways for 1909 nearly
22 per cent ($103,271,823) was derived
from class rates.
Washington — Rhode Island has
508.5 persons to the square mile, thus,
according to census bureau figures,
leading the list of states in the matter
of density>>f population.
Nevada, with only seven-tenths of a
person to the mile, finds a place at the
lower end of the table giving these
facto.
Second in the density list, Massa
chusetts supports 418.8 persons to the
square mile; New Jersey, 337.7; Con
necticut, 231.3, and New York 191.2.
The other states possessing more than
100 to the mile are:
Pennsylvania, 171; Maryland, 130.3;
Ohio, 1)7; Delaware, 103, and Illinois,
100.7.
Wyoming, boasting
persons to
the mile, more than doubles Nevada,
while Arizona, with 1.8, stands third
from the bottom.
Montana, New
Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Oregon, South
Dakota, Colorado and North Dakota,
all have fewer population than 10 to
the square mile.
Of the states of large population,
Washington takes the lead in the
growth of density, having advanced
from 7.8 to 17.1 per square mile in the
last 10 years, thus taking a place be
tween Kansas, with 10.5, and Nebras
ka. with 15.5.
Washington exceeds
her neighbor, Oregon, with seven per
sons to the mile, by more than 10, and
even surpasses California, with 15.2.
Idaho increased from 1.9 to 3.9, and
Oklahoma from 11.4 to 23.9.
The figures for other states are:
Indiana, 75.3; Kentucky, 57.0; Ten
nessee, 52.4; Virginia, 51.2; West
Virginia, 50.8; South Carolina, 49.7;
Michigan, 48.9; Missouri, 47.9; New
Hampshire, 47.7; North Carolina,
45.3; Georgia, 44.4; Wisconsin, 42.2;
Alabama, 41.7; Iowa, 40; Vermont
39; Mississippi, 38.8; Louisana, 36.5;
SUPREME COURT BENCH FULL Arkansas, 30; Minnesota, 25.7; Maine,
24.8. Texas, 14.8; Florida, 13.7.
Frobably more women come to grief at them. Set the pots in saucers and
over their ferneries each winter than keep the soil wet to counteract ex
over any other kind of Indoor plants. cessive evaporation.
Boston ferns can be stood with
It is discouraging to pay several dol
lars to a florist to fill the fern dish other foliage plants on the porch, as
only to have it turn yellow, If not die, they are much less delicate. One
bi a few weeks.
woman who has a number the same
The trouble lies in two things, first size plunges the pots In porch boxes,
the kind of ferns attempted to be on a semi-shady side of the house,
grown, next in not growing them un where they make an effective show
ing and thrive well until time to
der proper conditions.
If you attempt to raise most of the bring indoors in the fall.
Ferns can be grown in any old pan
maiden hairs indoors you are doomed
to disappointment The hardy ferns or dish painted a rich green or dull
that thrive in shady corners of the red. Bore hole in the sides and bot
woods do not take well to transplant tom to give air. For fern dishes for
ing into hot houses, however much table use, it is wiser to have an inner
pan for the planting. This can some
you may read to the contrary.
There are enough varieties of ferns, times be set in a pan of water when
however, to have a fine display in it shows signs of drying out.
The l'ern grower who likes to ex
your living rooms. In maiden hair
ferns, or adlantums, the variety that periment with more delicate species
will stand heat and dryness best is can do bo with a Wardian case. This
A. croweanum. Another good one in has a wood base about six inches
doors is A. caplllus veneris, while A. deep lined with zinc or Is sometimes
Justice Van Devanter and Lamar
oaudatum, a creeping variety of of earthenware. There are glass sides
Gunboat at Amapala,
Take Oath of Office.
maiden hair, has been grown success and top, the latter hinged.
Washington—The gunboat Yorktown fully in a hanging basket IndoorB.
The top must be lifted an inch
Washington—The two vacancies on has arrived at Amapala, Honduras.
Professionals will tell you that every few days to keep the glass free
the bench of the Supreme court of the
The warship was sent to investi adiantum farleyense, which is the from moisture, otherwise no ventila
SUN SOLVES MYSTERY.
United States were filled Wednesday gate conditions and protect American flnest of all the maiden hairs, cannot tion is necessary.
when Judge Willis Van Devanter, of interests in Honduras.
Delicate ferns when grown in this
be grown but of a green house. It is
Rays Illuminate Crevasse and Musher Wyoming, and Judge Joseph R. Lamar,
Two thousand rebel soldiers, who tender, but I have seen it raised in a way get almost the atmosphere to
Sees Burros in Deptns.
of Georgia, took the oath of office as have been gathered during the past family living room and flourish finely. which they are accustomed in their
few months, are reported ready for an
Seattle — A special from Valdez, associate justices and began immedi attack on Tegucigalpa. According io It cannot stand intense heat or native haunts and do well even in a
ately the performance of their duties.
hothouse.
changes of temperature. t
Alaska, says:
For the first time in 19 months the Federal officials, the revolution, which
Among the most satisfactory ferns
has been threatened for months, is for indoors either in fern dishes or
Five hundred feet down a crevasse bench was complete.
8chool Luncheons.
For the first time since the organiza about to break out, and the first battle separate pots, are the various Boston
in the great Valdez glacier have been
The following suggestions for
discovered the bodies of six burros tion of the court, nearly a century and a is expected early in January. Prepar ferns. Among the newer varieties of
quarter ago, one president had com ations to repel an attack on the city this fern, which is known as nephro- school lunch baskets for a week may
making up the pack train of a party of
missioned within a single year five are being made and Federal troops are lepis Bostoniensis, is the feathery prove a help to perplexed mothers:
Eastern prospectors who started for men who sat on the bench.
being mobilizedd at Tegucigalpa.
Monday—Two devilled eggs and let
Whltmani and the dwarf Scotti, which
The revolutionary army has been is especially good for windows or tuce
sandwiches, using
Graham
the Copper River country from this
The
ceremonies attending the
bread; Bartlet pear; slice of sponge
elevation of the two judges to the su drilling at a point about 20 miles from ferneries.
point 13 years ago and were lost.
Cape Gracias.
Lee Christmas, an
Various of the pterin ferns are suit cake.
W. H. Crary, a musher who was preme bench were, as usual, simple American adventurer, who has played
Tuesday—Two sandwiches made of
throughout. Chief Justice White ad
able
for house culture. One of the
traveling over the glacier, made the ministered the oath of allegiance.
an important part in the revolutionary
bread, filled with two tablespoonfuls
loveliest
is
pterls
Victoriae,
with
sil
discovery. The depths of the crevasse
Justice Van Devanter, having been movement and has led armies in Hon very variegated leaves. Somewhat of devilled ham mixed with chopped
were illuminated by the sun as Mr. named first by the president to take duras and Nicaragua, will share the hardier is pterls Wilsonl, which has olives; two apple turnovers; nuts and
command of the revolutionists with
raisins.
Crary crossed it and he caught sight of the oath, was escorted by the marshal former President Bonilla.
odd crested fronds.
Wednesday—Two minced chicken
to the chair on the extreme right of
A
fine
fern
for
Indoors
is
the
holly
the burros. , With the aid of his
the chief justice. Justice Lamar after
fern, or eyrtomium falcatum, which and white bread sandwiches; sand
binoculars he ascertained that the bur
,
Marine
Disasters
Few.
tarts; olives; a banana.
ros were in a perfect state of preser he had subscribed to the oath, was
Washington—Only 53 out of 6,661 has broad, glossy foliage quite unlike
Thursday—Boston brown
bread
shown
to
his
seat,
which
was
at
the
the
ordinary
ferns.
vation and equipped with saddles and
persons involved in 1,464 disasters to
sandwiches, filled with chopped nuts
left.
A
good
fem
for
hanging
is
platy-
packs. He could not discover any hu
A distinguished gathering witnessed vessels of all classes within the scope cerium alcicorne, or stag horn fern. and cream cheese; bunch of grapes
man bodies, but it is believed the own
the
ceremonies.
Precedents in the of the United States life saving serv These roots feed on air and when and an orange; piece of molasses
ers of the pack train perished with it
court
were
broken
by the first lady of ice lost their lives, and but 74 vessels planted should be hung in a warm candy.
in the crevasse, and an attempt will be
the
land,
Mrs.
Taft,
being given a seat were destroyed during the fical year room and kept wet. They can be
Friday—Sandwiches of bread light
made as soon as the weather moderates
within
the
bar
along
wil-i Charles P. ended June 30 last, according to the grown in baskets or shallow pans and ly toasted, with crisp fried bacon fill
to descend into the fissure. The cre
report of S. I. Kimball, general super
do best when potted in rough peat ing; gingerbread; two peaches.
vasse is far from the old Copper River Taft and Horace Taft, brothels of the intendent of the service.
president.
Mrs.
Taft
was
accom
and
sphagnum.
trail and this leads to the conjecture
The report shows operations in the
In the care of ferns the chief thing
that the prospectors lost their way and panied also by Mrs. C. P. Taft and 13th district, embracing the coasts of
Dinner Gowns.
Miss Louise Taft.
perished.
Alaska, Washington, Oregon and Cal Is not too much dry hept. Keep the
Shot satins in pale colorings are'
room
at
a
moderate
temperature
and
ifornia, as follows: Vessels involved,
being used for some of the prettiest
ELECTRICAL TRUST SUED.
Japan Not Sending Spies.
136; vessels lost, 9; persons on board, on mild days give outside air by open of the new dinner gowns, designed on
670; lives lost, 37; persons succored at ing windows in an adjoining room. very simple lines, with long, trained
Washington—Publication of state
ments of Japanese activities in the Monopoly of Power Sites and Plants stations. 24; number of days’ succor Never let cold air blow directly on skirts and draped bodices. The skirts
To Be Shown.
Philippines has called forth from the
afforded, 29; value of vessels, $1,901,- ferns.
are left without any trimming, but
Many a fern dish is ruined by the for the adornment of the bodices
War department the assertion that no
.875;
value of cargoes, $238,690;. To
Washington—The suit of the gov
maid
opening
the
dining
room
window
information had been received there to ernment against the so-called electrical tal value of property involved, $1,330,-
bugle fringes are frequently employ
justify such statements.
565; value of property saved, $939,- ovpr them to air the room each ed, carried out in a mixture of clear
trust
will
rival
in
magnitude
the
pros
The officials insist it would be the
455; value of proeprty lost, $291,110. morning. It is little trouble to move crystal and the colorings which are
the pots into a warmer atmosphere.
duty of the governor general or Major ecutions of the Standard Oil company
seen in the shot satins. As the weath
Feins like a rich soil, one of good er grows colder, velvet dinner gowns
No Extensions for Irrigation.
Duvall, commander of the Philippine and the tobacco trust, according to at
loam
with
leaf
mould
and
sand
is
division, promptly to cable the depart taches of the department of justice,
Washington — General
Marshall,
will be more and more frequently
ment of the discovery of spies or of and it is predicted that the govern formerly chief of army engineers, but best. The pots must have drainage, seen, and will most undoubtedly play
any facts that threatened American
now consulting engineer for the Inter as soggy roots w.ill kill every time. a prominent part In the fashions of
sovereignity in the Philippines. No ment will win the case. The suit has ior department, in a statement relating Use pots large enough to keep the the immediate ’future. In style these
such reports have been received here. been brought under the Sherman anti to the assignment of the $20,000,000 ferns from getting root bound and also will be exceedingly simple, and
. ...............
trust law.
in certificates of indebtedness to rec quickly exhausting the nourishment will need little or nothing in tne way
In the soil.
The evidence which the government lamation projects, said:
Thefts Aid Anarchists.
Faults in watering is the chief dif of trimming, beyond a bertha or fichn
London—Some of the evening papers will lay before the courts, it is assert “The board of army engineers made
of fine real lace, and possibly a touch
assert that police investigations of the ed, shows startling price juggling. It no recommendation for the extension ficulty in fern care. They like plenty of fur.
at
the
rooto,
but
must
not
be
kept
is
alleged
that
the
General
Electric
of
the
Umatilla
project,
but
this
action
recent burglaries committed by Rus
sians show that London was the head company and the Westinghouse Elec was not discrimination against that soggy any more than they can be
Fur to Be Popular Trimming.
quarters of a gang which carried on tric company secured control of the project, because they made no recom allowed to dry out Do not spray the
extensive robberies to secure money to electrical business by buying up the mendation for the extension of any foliage, especially of maiden hairs, as
Fur Is undoubtedly the most popu
further an anarchistic propaganda. most valuable plants and by control other excepting possibly the Yuma pro It scorcheB them and turns them yel lar-trimming of the year for after
ject, for which they recommended the low.
Literature preaching anarchy has been ling most of the water power sites.
noon and evening dresses, for even
The suit will be filed early in Janu inclusion of certain Mesa lands. No
Unless your house is very hot the ing coats and afternoon coat suits.
discovered among the burglars' effects.
Translators are engaged on bundles of ary. W. S. Kenyon, assistant attorney extensions were recommended in Idaho, amount of water given to ferns can be It is a little harder to settle on any
letters discovered which make import general, is preparing the papers in the Washington, Oregon, Montana, Colo lessened from November to February one material that holds first plan»
case.
No criminal proceedings are rado, Utah, Nevada, North Dakota or as during these three winter months with the fickle public. Velvet and vel
ant revelations..
contemplated.
South Dakota. The United States has many fern» rest
vet striped and embossed chiffons are
No Strike Wanted.
undertaken all the work it can carry
Few ferns like hot sunlight, so keep among the latest arrivals, but/they
Haste
on
Treaty
Sought.
through with the resources at hand.”
slightly back from the window and are’ still too new to be general. Th»
Chicago—Managers of 61 Western
Washington—If a Canadian recipro
where the direct rays of the sun do brocades and laces are very lovely,
railroads and representatives of the
Civilians Not Allowed Arras.
not fall on them.
trainmen conductors,
baggagemen city treaty is to be concluded during
but they are too costly for most peo
The chief dangers to fern growth ple and for most purposes. The satins,
and flagmen on these lines are said to the present session all records in the
Washington—No instructions have
be making rapid and satisfactory pro matter of negotiation must be broken. gone forward from Washington to 's violent changes of temperature, chiffons, silk crepes and mousselines
gress in the settlement of wage de The incentive to haste lies in the real General Duvall or anyone in authority oggy, sour earth—from imperfect de sole are neither new nor original,
mands. Formal notice was handed the ization by the administration of the in Mnaila to conduct a search of the drainage—and wetting of the leaves. but they are good to look at, and per
In growing Boston ferns, cut off all haps have a wider and more durable
managers recently of the demands of diffiulty of framing any sort of a Re homes of the Japanese there. It is as
the men, which average about 15 per publican reciprocity treaty that can sumed that General Duvall is acting in the runners and allow only two or popularity than anything else.—Th»
cent increase.
The managers sent safely be steered through the next con conjunction with the civil authorities. three crowns to a plant, otherwise Delineator.
back their formal reply, which, it is gress with its Democratic house. The It is reported by secret service agents the pot will soon be filled with crown
understood, offers a scale increase of 8 house must be afforded an opportunity that stores of arms and ammunition and the foliage will suffer.
to deal with the subject.
Novel Tunic Effect.
have been collected and secret’d by
and 10 per cent.
The chief enemy of ferns Is mealy
A pretty idea for the finishing of a
civilians in the Philippines. No civil bug. Keep a close watch for this and
Bogota Buys Out Americans.
Everett Man Gets Plum.
ian is allowed to have these.
pick off with fingers and kill them. tunic, especially one of veiling or oth
Washington—The final payment by
Washington — Secretary Ballinger
Red spider and thrlps also attack er soft material. Is to slash the tunio
Japanese Assault Consul.
has awarded the contract to George C. the city of Bogota to the American
ferns, but can be fought by fumigat In front, like an overskirt, and knot
New York—A special dispatch to ing with tobacco smoke. This must It loosely at each side, drawing it
Clark, of Everett, Wash., for construc owners of its street railroad was made
tion of the Lost River diversion works, this week and the road now is the the Evening Telegram from Tokio, be carefully done, as too strong away so as to show a great part of
Klamath irrigation project. The work property of the municipality. This Japan, states that the American vice smoking will ruin the plants.
the underskirt up to the knees. Th»
consists of a concrete diversion dam, | terminates a source of constant trouble consul at Dalny, Manchuria, Adolph A.
Most professional gardeners to the knots are made about half-way from
culverts, bridges, etc., and involve«1 in Colombia between the United Williamson, was assaulted at a fish contrary, pots of maiden hair should th» ankles and th« tunic falls loosely
40,000 cubic yards of excavation and States-owned company, the govern market by several Japanese and Chi be stood outdoors In summer in some below them. Of course, it is caught
The I nese. It is said the affair will be re sheltered angle of the porch or in ■ with a few stitches in back, to keep
embankment. The contract price is ment and the natives of Bogota.
$98,556.
| city paid $800.000 for the property.
ported to the State department.
shady nook where wind does not get it in position.
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