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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK FIERCE BATTLE IS FOUGHT. Rsbels Control Most of Juarez. Federal« Do Not Give Up. TWO PROMINENT FIGURES IN WORLD’S PEACE MOVEMENT. AND PROGRESS OF OUR HOME STATE El Paro. Tex., May 10. What RAINBOW MINE -PURCHASED. PROTECTING OUR FORE8T8. perhaps the fi«*reest battle of th«* Mex ican revolution was fought at Juarez, Doings of the World at Large across the Rio Grande. Oregon's Four Hundred Bdlion Feet Big Eastern Company Pays 8760,« 000 tor Property. of Timber Worth Saving. claim the town tonight, The rebels Told in Brief. It» U. W >*Mvy, l*mf>" -ur irf F«.r«alrr. «> A < ’ . Baker By the terms of a tramiae- and actually control the more terri- i By th«- pussag,- of a carefully pre tion announced here one of the biggest tory, but the position of the Federal pared forestry law. backed by an ade mining ,l«-ala in rerent years in Oregon Qvntral Resume of Important Event forres is extremely well fortified. quate appropriation. the last legisla goes on record. Th«* United Stutes Tonight both Federal« and insurg ture of On-gon took the first affec Presented in Condensed Form Smelting company has purchased the ents are resting on their arms ready to tive step for the preservation of one for Our Busy Readers. of th«* state's largest natural re Rainlxiw mine. In the Mormon Basin resume at daybreak. sources. According to the old saw, district, from the Commercial mining At least five persons have been "it is th«- wise man who locks th«- sta <*<>mpany. for a consideration of $760.- killed on the American side of the line ble be for,- the horses are stolen." It President Taft says he will stanii bv is <|uit«> evident from the great losses 000. The initial payment was $200,- reciprocity, even at the cost of votes. since the skirmishing began yester of the past few years that Oregon 000, The closing of thia deal la the Diaz’ promise to resign as soon as day, and about 15 wounded, while the cannot claim credit for having act<si greatest boost the Eastern Oregon peace is restored is having little effect loss on the battlefield is variously tu the fullest <l,-gre«- the part of the mines hav«* «-ver recrivt-d. The com on the people. estimate«! at from 30 to 60 d«*a«l on wise mun in th«- mutter of guanling ing of th«* United {Rates company A San Francisco laborer has a fam both sides and about 75 to 100 wound her timber, y«H there is still some ily of nine children, the oldest being ed. Fifteen of the insurrecto wounded stock in the stable which is well worth means the greateat acllvity in the mining industry the state has over less than nine years. protecting. already have been brought to the Seen. A conservativ«- estimate places the Arm«*«! sluggers are active in the American side, but more are believed The Rainbow property was diacov- timber resource» of Oregon at 400 bil Chicago machinists’ strike, and police to be lying far within the town. «•re«l about nine years ago un«l waa lion feet board measure of merchant a are unable to stop th«- disturbances. General Navarro at 7 o’clock agreed i ble timber. About one third of this developed from a proapect mainly It is decid«-d that a strike of rail to stop the firing while the insurrecto amount is within the national forests. through th«, efforts of W. E. King, way mail clerks would be punishable wounded were being removed. The The remaining two-lhirda is in private of Hood River. Th«, other principnl the same as any case of obstructing Federáis have adequate medical facil hohlinga. The state holds practically, mines in the district are th«- llumlsddt ities and are caring for their wounded the mails. no stumpage, having sold nearly all of and Cleveland, but there are also within the town. its grant lands. Figured on the basis many properties in the immotiate It is predict««! that the Hill rail All day long the battle raged, with of $1.50 per thousand feet board tii'ighboihood that are in greater or roads will be extend««! south from the insurrectos swarming through the The measure th«- stumpage of the state li-aa atagcH of development. Oregon to Los Angeles, and thence streets of Juarez ami nu*eting the transaction means more than anything represents a pro|a-rty valued at $«>00,- east to Denver. heavy fire of the Federáis with equally 000.000. Estimated on th«- basis of a else to th« mining industry of Eastern Alaska <x>al miners and others who vigorous volleys of musketry. A. I’. Antlerson anil H 8. manufactured value of $12 [s-r thous Oregon. The rebels are scattered. In battle need coal are planning to work the and feet, the timber in th«- state has a Lee, the englnevra of the United formation they probably could storm vast deposits there in defiance of the States Smelting A Refining company, value e«|Ual to $4,800,000,000. the Federal strongholds, as they appar United States government. are now in charge. They have begun When it is understood that th«- tim ently consist of just six places the ber supply of other parts of the coun their arrangements for men and added Mexican rebels become mutinous barracks, the church, the theater, the try is being rapidly exhaust«-«! and equipment an«l atnti* that they will over delays in the fighting and attack sch<xflhouse, a hotel and the custom that as a result there will toon be begin operations on a large seal«* as Juarez, many bullets falling in Amer house. But the insurrectos suspect vastly greater demands made U|»n the soon as possible. ican territory and five American spec that a detachment of nearly 300 Finie timber suppy of the Northwest it is tators being killed by stray shots. rais with a machine gun is concealed very certain that the figures quot--d CHANCE GIVFN CONVICTS. somewhere in town and they are hesi A rancher near Eugene, Or., un- above do not fully repr, sent th«- eco earthe«! an ancient Indian bowl made tating to advance too close for fear of nomic im|»rtance of the forest cr«>p to Governor West Plans Employment in of blue flint and used by the Indians a rear or flank attack. the state. State Institutions The rebels forced th«- fighting today for grinding corn and roots. It is To any one who has seen a forest in the face of a deadly fire from Fed well carved and weighs about 50 Salem Another new prison policy fir«- in action it is very dear’ that tin- eral machine guns. They dared not pound* is announced by Governor West. Con individual is powerless against it. gather in too great numbers because Organised effort is necessary in order victs are being sent gradually to th«- The Steel trust has purchased the the artillerymen of General Navarro to combat it successfully. This or various state institutions to net an em Risdon Iron works of San Francisco. many times demonstrat«d the accur- ganisation should be in the hands of ployes. In thia capacity they will bo I acy of their range, while they shelicl I Camigie has given Cornell univer the state. It is true that many or unguarded and will have virtually the sity $60,300 for a new chemistry I adobe houses behind which the insur- Í Taft Denies Ambition to Ex ganizations for preventing an<! fight same privileges that arc extended to I rectos had sought protection a half building. ing forest fires exist among the «»un th«' other employes. They will prob mile from Juarez while skulking along tend Domain. ties and the timber owners of the ably bo paid 25 cents a day as spend A scheme has been presented to the I the river front. General Navarro also state, but at th«* sam<- time a central ing money or to be placed to their British parliament for state insurance I is said to have mined most of the organization is necessary to give a credit against the time of their re for working men and women. I houses in Juarez, and the insurgents hea<i to the whole system. That Is lease. Allusion is to Mexico — Says V/e Know Seismographs at Santa Clara. Cali., are naturally reluctant to occupy any "If 1 (Mi men at th«- prison can l»e just what th«- forestry law passed by What War Means—Want of them in force. recorded an earthquake in the Pacific plnc--d at some employment which will the last legislature does. It binds to None of It. Many feats of bravery on the part ocean of one and one-half hour’s dur- gether all agencies within the stat«- be of value* to the state, a great sav of the insurrectos were plainly visible ation. negie and more than a dozen leaders for eiT«-ctively preventing and fighting ing can be* made," said the governor. from the American side of the line in the movement for world peace sat forest fires. It makes it certain that “Estimating th«- labor of these men as and in street figting they more than PORTLAND MARKETS. Baltimore, May 4.—President Taft on the platform with the president. the small timber owner and the value«! at $2 a day, it would mean a held their own. Wheat—Track prices: Bluestem, rancher will each receive the same saving of nearly $200,000 annually in his speech at the opening of th«* The sun was hot and late in the day 92c; club, 86(«x87c; red Russian, 85c; "I am now working on plans where consideration from the state as does LA8OR WAR RAGES. a fire started by the insurrectos filled Third National Peace conference here valley 87c; 40-fold, 87c. by I ho|H- to accomplish just this th«- larger timber holder. the streets with clouds of suffocating today, said the United States would Barley—Choice feed, $28 per ton. Under the provisions of th«- forestry thing and place at least 100 men at Millstuffs — Bran, $246/24.50 per smoke. Tonight flashes of light from keep hands off and not seek to extend Chicago Workers Forcsd to Flee for law the stat«- forester is empowered to work. A new contract with the lx>w- Lives—Strike Spreads. ton; middings, $31; shorts, $25.506/ the ruins gave the rebels an occasional its domain or to acquire foreign terri-1 require timber owners to burn slash enberg A Going company will make view of the church where the Federáis 26; rolled barley, $29.5061.30.50. Chicago, May 4. Professional slug or debris whenever, in his judgment it such a move ¡sissiblc ami 1 believe it Corn—Whole, $29; cracked, 130 are cooped up. and the cracking of tory. He made no mention of Mex- [ gers and hire«i "gun men” ran riot in is n menace to adjoining prop/erty. can be nccomplisht-d. ico, but to those who h«*ard him it was rifles followed each such glimpse. per ton. "In the meantime aw many men an evident that he referred to the south- i the city tixlay, while governm«*nt and Fire wardens will be ap|M>int«d who 1 can possibly find room for will l-e Oats—No. 1 white. $296x29.50 ton. will b«- [M-ace officers, with power to state officials, architects, building Later—Fire threatens to wipe out ern republic. Hay — Timothy, Eastern Oregon, plac-sl at the institutions ami have de "One of the difficulties the Unites! contractors and international lalx-r un arrest for any violation of the forest cent lat-or to perform. I am satisfi««! No. 1, $21.506x22.50; light mixed, the city of Juarez, and the rebels have ion officials worke«) in an effort to re laws. renewed their attack upon the Feder States finds is the natural suspicions $17,506/ $196x20; heavy, mixed, store harmony in the industrial field. The periori between June 1st and under th«- conditions they will ne<-d clover, áis, who are still barricad«?d in that the countries engaged have of the 18.50; alfalfa, $146x15; Late tonight all negotiations be October 1st is declared to be a closed no guard ami will he on a quicker mad $12.506/13.50; grain hay, $13,506/ churches, the custom house and other motives the United States has in ten tween the freight handlers ami the season, «luring which it is unlawful to to reform than under the former sys buildings. dering its go«xi office««,” continued the 14.50. tem." The Mexican Northwestern freight president. "Asseveration of good; railroads were declared off and a set out fire in any slashing, woo«lan<l. Fresh Fruit—Strawberries, Florin, strike will probably be called tomor or brush land without written permis depot, the Mexican Centra) passenger faith h«4ps but little where suspicion Rain Helps Hopgrowsrs. $2.256/2.50 per crate; Los Angeles, row. This will involve th«* territory sion from a fire warden. This provis Forest Grove, Hopgrowers in this $1.756x1.85; apples, fancy, $26/2.50; depot and the city market place are is the rule, an«l yet I like to avail my- ih an area from th«' Canadian bonier ion «if th«- law does not xpply to burn choice, $16/1.50; commons, 75c6/$l burning. The whole town of Juarez Helf of an op[x?rtunity in such pres-1 to New Orleans and the Pennsylvania ing brush h«-n|>A, log pile* or stumps section are hailing the occasional seems to be in flames. ence as this to assert that there is not per box. It will also in small quantities and under close showers with delight, While the ruin Re<! Cross physicians have returned in the whole length an«i breadth of the line to Western Iowa, has interfered with th«- work in the Vegetables—Asparagus, 90c6/$1.75 bring in the teamsters in all affected supervision. However, if fir«- should yards the grow«*rs believe that the per crate; cabbage, new, $2 per hun from the insurrecto stronghold, having United States among its p«/ople any cities. get away when burning of this char showers came at an opportune - time tu dred; cauliflower, $1.506/ 1.75 per been informed that the battle woulil (desire for territorial aggrandizement and A new element of discord was in acter is done without permission, i dozen; celery. Caifornia. 756,90c per be renewed. Five physicians of this j and that its people as a whole will not jected into the troubled building damage results, the one setting the give the growing plants the moisture dozen; cucumbers, $1.506/2.25; egg city have telegraphed President Taft [>ermit its government, if it would, trades situation when th«- Otis Eleva fire is regarded as guilty under this necessary for growth, Throughout asking for an appropriation to estab ! to take any steps in respect to foreign plant, 15c per pound; garlic, 106112; tor company hir«-d elevator construc act, an<i is subject to a fine of not this section much work has been in lettuce, 50c; hothouse lettuce, $1.50 lish a Red Cross hospital for the insur- [>eopl«*s, looking to a forcible exten- tors to take th«- place of the ma more than $.r>0<) or to imprisonment for progress in the yards, in the way of "suckering” and training the vines. 6/2 per box; peas, 76/8c per pound; I recto and Federal wounded soldiers, i sion of our political power.’ “We have had wars and we know chinists who have been doing the a term not to exceed three months. Hopyarda in the Gaston an«l Banks peppers, 306/,35c; radishes. 15c dozen; | also to take care of people who have The same penalty applies to those work for two years. Sluggers work been hurt by bullets from the other what they are. We know what re neighborhiHsls look exceptionally well. rhubarb, 2j6/3c per pound; sprouts, ing for the machinists who were ous who build camp tires without clear sponsibilities th«?y entail, the burdens 9c; tomatoes, $26/3.25; carrots. $1.25 side of the international border. and losses and horrors, and we would ted by th»- company raided a number ing th«- grouml prrqierly or who h ave Coos to Cruise All Timber. 6/1.50 per sack; parsnips, $1.256/ Holy Land Thefts Denied. have none of them. We hav«* a mag of buildings an«l attacked the elevator camp fires burning or unwatch«'«! und 1.50; turnips, $1.256/1.50; beets, Marshfield Th«- commissioners of constructors, with th«- result that one who permit camp fires to spread, London—In an interview here one nificent domain of our own in which man is in the Alexander Brothers’ During th«- closed season all engines Coos county have np|sdnted Dennis $1.50. Potatoes—Oregon, jobbing price, of the leaders of the British expedi- we are attempting to work out an«i hospital an«i a number of others are of whatever character, which are Met arthy head cruiser for the county. $2.50 per hundred; new, 76}7|c per tion which has been making excava show to the world success in popular seriously injured. operated in th«- vicinity of forests. Assistants will be namisl later. The tions at Jerusalem, emphatically de I government, and we nee«l no more pound. In the plumbers and steamfitters’ must be equipped with effective spark purjrise is to cruise all of th«- timber territory in which to show this. But Onions—Jobbing prices: Oregon, nied charges of theft of ancient treas in th«- county with a view to making war, international association steam arresters. $3.50 per hundred; Australian, $3.50; ures. “All the relics we found,” he we have attained great prosperity and fitters were driven at th«- [mints of re a more equitable assessment. Mr. These are Home of th«* general pro We have become a Texas. $2.25 per crate; California, $2. said, “have been left in the hands of i great power. McCarthy was employed for the past visions of the law. The complete act volvers from two school buildings Poultry—Hens, 16jc; broilers, 30c; the Turkish government»” One result ■ powerful member of th«* community where they Were employed. can be had by writing to the state year in this work, but there is n large turkeys 20c; ducks, 226x27c; geese, of the excavations, he said, was the of nations in which we live an«l there forester at Salem. The who!«* intent amount of timber in th«- county anil nominal; dressed turkeys, choice, 25c. dis«/overy of absolute proof that the is, therefore, thrust upon us necessar of th«* law is to protect a resource half a dozen men with McCarthy as Woman Mayor "Meets" Alone. Eggs—Oregon ranch, candle«!, 206/ ancient City of David was not on ily a care and respx/nsibility for the v/hich is of immense value to all the general din-ctor will be put to work. peace of the w«>rld in our neighbor Mount Sinai but on Mount Orphel. He Hunnewell, Kan.- Hunnewell’a ne PW people of the state. 21c per dozen; case count, 19Jc. Hood River Borries Aided. Butter—City creamery extra, 1 an«i said the work had been carried on hood, and a burden of helping those mayor, Mrs. Ella Wilson, has clashed nations that cannot help/ themselves, with the city council. On M th . Wil 2 pound prints, in boxes, 24c per with the consent of the government. Hoo<! River -The warm spring rain County Fair Arranged. if we may do that p/eacefully and son's motion the council vot»-«l last pound; less than boxes, cartons and City Arrangements are be has been a great boon to the berry effectively.” Trouble Threatening Turkey. week to meet in a local hotel. The ing Oregon delivery extra. Th«, warm showers will made for coming county fair farmers. The president spoke to several five councilmen went to the hotel to an«l from all the Pork—Fancy, 106/10jc per pound. Constantinople Popular feeling hasten the maturity of the crop. H. P. indications this year's Veal—Fancy, 85 to 125 pound, 10J against the Turkish government on ac thousand p/ersons in the Lyric theater. hold their meeting, but Mrs. Wilson fair will be one of th«' most successful Coburn, a rancher who lives about two 6/ 11c per pound. count of the Jerusalem incident is so Cardinal Gibbons, Secretary of War "met” in a feed store. She had the ever held by the Clackamas county as miles from th«* city, said that h<* prob Hops—1910 crop, last sale at 20Jc; strong that the ministry may be forced Dickinson, Senator Gore, of Okla clerk’s journal and other papers, but sociation. There will be a prize of ably would have to begin the first 1909 crop. 15c; 1911 contracts, 20c. from office. In the chamber of dep homa, C«>unt Leo Tolstoi, Andrew Car* as she alone was not a quorum, neither $10 for the best exhibit. Clairmont, picking of his two and one-half acres session transacted any business. Wool—Eastern Oregon, nominal, 12 uties the minister of the interior ad- by May 10. He and his neighbors Letter Brings Fortune. Meanwhile two women who were to Gladsone, Barlow, Maple I.an<* grange count on a big yield. 6/14c per pound; valley, 126/15c; mo mitte«! that the Englishmen alleged and Warner grange have already ap hair, choice. 37|c. Leipsic, Saxony At an autograph have been appointed city clerk and plied for space in the big aixlitorium. to have profan««! the mosque of Omar Rain Helps Wheat Crop. Cattle — Prime grain-fed steers, in their search for sacre«i relics be sale here a letter written by Martin marshal, still lack their commissions. On«* of the advantages of this fair will $6.756/7; hay-feed steers, $6. $06/, neath its foundations op>erated wifliin Luther to Emperor Charles V was Pendleton — More timely showers be the installation of electric lights. Rainfall Insures Crop. 6.80; choice, $6.256/6.55; the mosque through th«/ connivance bought by a Florence dealer for $25,- fell on Umatilla county wheat fields $5.756/6; fair, $5.506/5.75; common, of its guardians. 500. The purchase is said to have Spokane — Another rainfall wot Albany Egg Biggest Yet. thia week, adding many thousands of been made for J. P. Morgan. The | down the Palouse and North Idaho re- $4.756/5; prime cows. $5.506/6; good, Albany—An Albany hen has broken dollars to the value of the developing Colonel Higginson Dies. letter, which is in Latin, was written I gions and it was sufficient to satisfy all the recorils for big eggs b<>ast«*d of crop. Farmers say the weather which $56x5.25; fair, $4.756x5; poor, $4.50 6/4.75; choice heifers, $5.506/5.75; Cambridge, Mass., May 10.—Col in 1521 during the reformer’s return 1 everyone. In the Big Bend and Cen in various parts of Oregon and has prevailed has been ideal for the choice bulls, $4.756/5, good, $4.506/ onel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, journey from Worms, describing the tral Washington regions, however, the Washington in the last two weeks. A wheat and worth as much as the 4.75; choice light calves, $7.756/8; historian and author, minister and sol proceedings and defending his attitude rainfall has not been heavy. Water hen belonging to A. 8. Hart, of this showers. Heavier rains have fallen on good. $7.506/,7.75; fair, $76/.7.50; dier, and one of the last of the famous before the diet. The epistle was en ville reports enough moisture in the city, has laid an egg which mt-anures the mountain ranges, where it was choice heavy calves, $5.506/.6; good, scholars and abolitionists of a half trusted to an imperial herald, who ground from winter snows to insure a 10 inches around one way and is eight needed even more than on the wheat. $56/5.50; choice stags, $5.256/5.75; century ago, died here tonight aged 87 gave Luther safe conduct-through the bumper crop for Douglas county. inches in circumference, It weighs good, $4.506/5. Athena'« Dry Spall Broken. years. Colonel Higginson had been Thuringian forest. I (>rant^ Adams, Lincoln ami Chelan seven ounces. The egg has a soft Hogs—Good to choice light, $6.756/ ill 10 days. A general breakdown due county wheat fields need rain, which shell with an unusually large hard- Athena Th«* long dry "spell hns Indianapolis Waxes Indignant, 7; choice heavy, $6.256/6.50; good, to old age was apparent, but he was is promise«! by heavy clouds. been broken by heavy showers anil the shell«.*«! egg inside of it. $56/6; common, $56/6; stock, $7.50 not considered seriously ill until today. Indianapolis The Merchants’ asso ground is wet down several inches. 6/7.75. Frenchwomgp is Spy? Halibut Caught at Astoria. ciation of Indianapolis passed resolu The rain came at a very opportune Rain Extinguishes Fires. Sheep — Grain-fed wethers, heavy, tions “unequivocally demanding that a Cologne, Germany Mme. Thirion, Astoria A peculiar feature of this time for the wheat needed water bad $4.506(5; choice yearling wethers, St. Paul, May 10.- Reports from most thorough investigation be made an attractive Parisian resident here, season’s fishing was that a 50-pound ly. althoug the grouml had plenty of grain-fed, $56*5.50; old wethers, $4/«/ , those sections of the Northwest where into the recent charges which connect was arrest«*«! charg«*«l with being a spy halibut was caught in a gill-net that moisture to kqep the grain growing. 4.50; good shorn wethers, $4.256/ I forest fires have been burning for sev- Indianapolis with th«.* many dynamit and obtaining the secret mobilization was drifting in the main channel op 4.50; choice ewes, grain-fed, $4.506/ i era! days and threatening towns and ing outrages which have taken place plans of th«« German army from an |»isite the city front. These Drilling for Water. Thcr.c fish "1 sel 4.75; fair ewes, $3.756/4; goo«! shorn 'much valuable property, say the dan- throughout the country in the last two army officer. The prisoner offers the dom enter the Columbia river, but as Vale Ranchers in the Cow rval1ey ewes, $3.756/4; choice wool lambs, I ger is mostly over. Heavy rains years.” The association also offers romantic defense that she had asked the tides are high and there is no neighborhixxl arc sinking a number of grain-fed, $5.506/5.75; good, $5.256/. . throughout the Canadian Northwest its support to city and state officials in for the plans in order to test the honor freshet,the water in the bay is brackish wells with heavy drilling outfits. In 6.50; good, $56/5.25; fair, $4.756/ 1 and Northern Minnesota have put the all legitimate efforts to discover and of the officer, who was a suitor for her and this attracts the deep-sea fish In most cases plenty of go«x! water ¿has 6.25; culls, $2.506/3.50. « fires out. punish the guilty parties. hand. side. been tapptxl.